Spotted Toad argued if you did all the telecommuting, everyone would figure out how little work everyone is doing.

I think the problem is business runs things in this country, so until it’s clear the coronavirus is going to cost companies money there won’t be a quarantine. Everyone started paying attention after the market crashed.

This is the end for Bernie. My prediction is that Biden does better than Bernie, maybe not my much, but he does better. Even if Biden beats Bernie by 1% of the vote, the press will play it up. Cue the calls for unity, for the need to beat Trump above all else.

Bernie, being a wimp, will go along. Bernie supporters will be pissed, but eventually hold their nose and vote for Biden, or stay home. Biden will lose and we get four more years of Trump.

Regarding stock market behavior, the efficient market hypothesis as advanced by academic economists is bunk; if it weren’t, CANSLIM on individual stocks couldn’t be so effective. But index-level price action can be said to exhibit a kind of efficiency. Do you recall those long ago twilight conversations among neighbors on the front lawn and the little kids chasing each other, running around and then returning to hide behind their mother before venturing away again. Index price action is like that: price runs back and forth adventurously exploring a level and then recoiling to find a refuge at an earlier level. Then it does the same with other levels. This looks chaotic but to the extent that precedence among the levels can be revealed there is orderly price action. Efficiency theoretically exists, but is hard to come by.

DON’T – attach locations or ethnicity to the disease, this is not a “Wuhan Virus”, “Chinese Virus” or “Asian Virus”.

So, do we have to retire “Chinaman’s Lung”?

Lots of work is going as in people typing, talking on phone and sitting in meetings.

With telecommuting you’d figure out how little work you need to do to be productive.

The stock market is not backed by anything real such as increasing real profits or dividends as back in the day. It is a Ponzi scheme backed by the FED. However, if that’s the way to make money right now, or at least not lose it continuously via inflation and the artificially-low interest rates, why not?

You’ve got to remember that it’s just a game of psychology. When it started going up yesterday, people who were hoping and ready for this rise figured they’d better get in before it makes a full “correction” back up. Then the next people at noon time. Then lots more later in the day. It’s just gambling but with slightly better odds than the one-armed bandits*.

In China, people are doing REAL WORK, making stuff. Not all of that is as automated as it will be some day, so, no, the Chinamen better keep showing up if we want to find cheap sneakers made with 1-year glue on the shelves at Target.

As for those hilarious WHO tweets, that’s probably just the AA guy writing, who WHO had to find something constructive to do and likely doesn’t know squat-all about diseases or microbiology. Remember, Steve, it’s all WHO, WHOM these days.

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* Which, BTW, don’t even spit out change noisily anymore, just a slip of paper. That takes the last fun right out of it – may as well go to the gas station and scratch out some pieces of paper… FOR THE CHILDREN, of course …

Question: Will the epidemic reduce voting, and who gains if absentee voting is a bigger factor, in California?

As an American, I don’t have a Chinaman’s chance of getting Corona ….

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…except in 12 -oz bottles.

”But what kind of economic production are they getting in China these days?”.

Manufacturing. Anybody remember that industry?

This is why a lot of the focus has been on Apple and other places with major supply chains rooted in China. Nobody cares about the office workers.

On an anecdotal note, I have a friend’s wedding coming up where the flower girls’ dresses were ordered online (obviously manufactured/sewn) in China and there’s about a month delay on shipping, so far, do to this situation. It gets too much longer and they’ll just cancel the order and buy something domestic. Now multiple that transaction by a million (probably more like a billion) and you can see the potential something like this has to ripple out to the world economy.

Fortunately, it seems like just the one province was shut down and the worst is over. Also, there are claims of China using slave labor from their Muslim population, but that’s probably another story altogether.

Steve, as you know, the our world is collectively unable to see the things that are most obvious. In the case of Coronavirus, we cannot seem to see the overwhelming evidence before our eyes that viral respiratory infection outbreaks and death are tied to the dryness of the air.

Wuhan, China was cold and dry in January through mid February. Then in became warmer and very humid throughout Hubei province and things got much, much better.

You can track what conditions were in Wuhan day by day. Or any city.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/cn/wuhan/ZHHH/date/2020-2-16

The correlation between humidity and viral respiratory infection severity and mortality was clearly shown and explained last year by a team at Yale University Medical School:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31085641

That study showed humidity is sharply protective AFTER viral infection!

Now watch me tell the future:
The next evidence will be from France and the Seattle, WA area. There are outbreaks in both areas, and yet humid air has now arrived. Both areas should see a dramatic reduction in new cases and deaths. Tokyo conditions will improve for the same reason.

I have foretold the future! I have magic! Or else this is another, dramatic instance of humanity failing to see the obvious.

Even in the case of a scientific solution universally available to everyone to stop a viral epidemic dead in its tracks (all you need is a pot of boiling water to humidify your home) humanity cannot see the blindingly obvious. People will not see the very thing that will save their lives from viral pandemic! Do share this, Steve, if you would please. Check my work yourself, if you would like. Milan, Italy had not a drop of rain during the entire month of February if chart is correct:
https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/it/peschiera-borromeo/LIML/date/2020-2

I can’t believe the Dems would nominate an obvious loser like Biden. Of course, Bernie may be a big loser too, but at least it would make the race dramatic. And I like the idea of liberal billionaires being afraid of a commie in office.

Actually Sanders does well with LAtinos and People of Color. HE will kick rearend in Califronia and Texas and New York the only states that matter becasue of their diversity. No matter who wins the democrats will win the general IF everybody is allowed to vote. The average age of a Person of Color is 19 the average age of a white person is 55. Game over.

Also, Why isnt the virus affecting Africa? Is it because Black genes are super strong and ward off disease?

No wonder white girls are increasingly choosing to bear Children of Black Men.

They only want the best!

Increasingly the WHO is revealing itself to be the niche of Third World bureaucrats whose race and ethnicity trump actual public health administration experience. The American CDC still seems reasonably competent but in France the response to COVID-19 resembles the Keystone Cops try their hand at public health. None of this bodes when (not if, but when) a more lethal disease (e.g., tuberculosis that resists all known drug treatments) makes an appearance.

OT: there are a couple of stories of interest on the “Pulpit & Pen” site.

A Mississippi man was just charged for defrauding his insurance company after he claimed that “Racist Pro-Trump” graffiti had vandalized his car. It turns out, he did it himself.

https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/03/02/man-who-reported-racist-pro-trump-vandalism-did-it-himself/

Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the Democratic Primary tonight. What the press won’t be forthright about is *why*.

https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/03/02/black-liberals-and-not-white-evangelicals-put-a-stop-to-buttigiegs-gay-reign-of-terror/

Inevitably, and pretty soon, it will be March 31 or April 30, by one of these days we will look back and peak acquisition frequency and peak death frequency will be a thing in the rear view mirror getting further distant with each – perfectly normal day.

It’s true China shut down for a time – and maybe a good thing we should be thankful for, their shutdown is an air bubble that will work its way through the global economy – but the Zombie Apocalypse it is not.

Every time you see “6th US death”, “13th US death”- return to the CDC for perspective:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

I think of it as the Kung Flu.

I suspect you are correct. Biden will do better than expected today as the Democratic establishment is throwing all their weight behind Biden. Everything is now pointing to Biden winning the Democratic nomination. Warren stayed in the race because she takes votes away from Sanders, while all the others dropped out to support Biden.

The fear of word-triggered pogroms is palpable.

Viruskristallnacht? WHO knows!

Perhaps Covid-19 is a virus that opens a channel/pathway to infection by TB and or pneumonia since deaths are caused by TB/pneumonia symptoms. It appears that antibiotics have a positive effect, while antivirals do not. Children seem to be unaffected by Covid-19 which is also the case for TB.

Nobody seems to have much of a clue. The stock market didn’t notice the coronavirus until about 10 days ago, after which it dropped like a rock, until it went up 4.5% on Monday. This performance might raise questions about the Efficient Market Theory. It’s almost as if the stock market is made up of human beings who don’t actually have much of a clue about how best to deal with novel situations.

Riiiight, all those stock market people are in the bottom end of the bell curve; and either can’t read, don’t watch teevee, or simply don’t understand.

Between trading close on the 21st and Monday’s opening, there was one (→ 1 ←) significant change. Figure that one out and you win a first-class Duh! award. But yeah, that’ll affect the market. And if you don’t believe me, the proof is market close on the 28th and this Monday’s partial rally.

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Most of what I do in the office every day could easily be done from home, but the agency I work for has very draconian notions of security and will not allow me to access the VPN.

Furthermore, a lot of the “work” people do these days is either unnecessary or counterproductive and does nothing to help the big picture or to make anybody happy. People do it for the paycheck, and the paycheck is only a result of the distorted, pseudo-economic conditions of globalism. It will all be given up with a shrug as those conditions change.

And, Biden is still a senile joke. Is he really going to be less of one with more scrutiny?

Isn’t it unfair and hateful to refer to the newest member of our medically vibrant community as a “virus”?

Viruses are sort-of living things, and who are we to assume we have more right than they do to exist? It’s time to stop calling this thing Corona virus. That depersonalizes it and blames our problem on viruses. This can incite hate speech and hate crimes against viruses. Already people are trying to wipe it out!

Just call it Corona-chan.

And who are we to deny it entry into our country and communities, anyway!? Are we not a nation of immigrants?

I think the problem is business runs things in this country, so until it’s clear the coronavirus is going to cost companies money there won’t be a quarantine. Everyone started paying attention after the market crashed.

SFG, the general consensus now seems to be: better to loose ~.5% of the US population (majority will be older anyway) than to drastically slow the economy for a significant period. The reasoning is that more/younger people will suffer/die from the “economic disaster” that would result from an effort to contain the virus, than would from proceeding on with “business as usual” and losing the 1.5M “old folks”. Seems dystopian to me, but apparently that’s the decision.

Empty stadiums? Wait ’til there’s an outbreak in a pro locker room after a west coast road swing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/mar/03/super-tuesday-democrat-primaries-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-donald-trump-live-updates#img-1

So: “Photo ID required”

But not for real elections.

Someone’s opened an NSFW (some cartoon nudity) Tinder account

Corona-Chan, 19.

New in town, looking for some fun. From China. Travelling the world!

Swipe left if you’re a doctor/nurse. Swipe right and I’ll take your breath away and keep you in bed for days!

There is a lot of work, but how much of that is to use an overused term, “value add”, my general rule of thumb is <20%. If somehow you mandated that people need to clear 80% of their daily calendars, I bet end of the day the business that they are employed by would still function.

…how you used to tie an onion to your belt.

St David advised Welshmen to tie an onion to your hat, so you could be identified on the battlefield. Sunday was St David’s Day.

St Piran, whose feast is Thursday, advised Cornishmen to affix a pasty to their hats, which is why Cornwall today is a mere county, rather than a principality like Wales.

Scotland is a country because they threatened the English that if they didn’t get more autonomy, they’d lift their kilts. They don’t call it “going regimental” for nothing.

Steve, the thing I am really looking forward to is how the market reacts tomorrow to how Sanders does today? I really think the market started crashing on Monday after it realized that Sanders could win it all after his Saturday Nevada victory.

Today despite a huge fed rate cut, the market is still treading water.

In my company there’s a strong selection for extreme extroverts in management. I’ve been pushing to work from home but they’ve been resisting. I seriously think it’s because they need someone to talk to all day.

Also, if there’s a racial prevalence in this virus there might be unexpected effects. There’s a lot of small and medium sized businesses flying under the radar that are 100% Asian. I could see them folding in an outbreak, hopefully they aren’t industry linchpins.

Maybe going into the office is overblown? Are office workers working hard from home? Maybe the bright future where you can work from anywhere foretold during the Information Superhighway fad of 1993 is finally coming true?

In a non-manufacturing office, the typical worker averages only 2-3 hours high productivity.

Many companies could expand out-of-office work while keeping the same level of output.

Here’s a question: how big of a deal would it be to switch major sporting events — college basketball, NBA, NHL, and baseball — to Television Only for the duration?

Two problems:

(1) The economics will not work without tickets and concessions.

(2) Travelling teams, especially basketball, have a large amount of direct physical contact with opposing players. This could spread the disease quickly around the nation if a player is a “carrier” not showing symptoms.

PEACE 😇

The only cases in which companies might ever tolerate telecommuting would be if your compensation is somehow provided on a piecework basis. That is if you are paid based on a measurable delivery, for example, you are assembling clocks and being paid strictly per clock. Otherwise it is the nature of organizations that they want to physically see you in your spot, doing some sort of work, regardless of how much value it may or may not produce.
They will use rationalizations such as the idea that everyone needs to be in one place because of the value of interactive teamwork, but that is along the lines of the canard that you need diversity to be more effective. In reality “teams” consist of the exceptional leader who drives the enterprise and comes up with the winning idea and leads everyone to do their assigned tasks. That can be done just fine these days by video conferencing that saves the team members 10 hours a week wasted on commuting.

I like “Wuflu” myself.

How about the Yellow Virus?

The world is coming to an end.

A man was treated for a highly poisonous snake bite. In Dublin.

https://www.irishpost.com/news/dublin-man-falls-victim-first-recorded-venomous-snakebite-ireland-180658

Those of you who have lived in Hawaii know that pet snakes are highly illegal in that state. Pity Ireland doesn’t have the same laws.

Indeed. *Bernie will eventually endorse Biden. And all those talking about “the moderates splitting the party” will go along, as beating Trump is all that matters. It would be this way no matter which candidate would dominate – everyone will eventually go along, no matter what they say. Leftists always lie, of course.

They know that it doesn’t matter which Democrat is in the White House, as long as it is any of them.

Any Democrat means open borders, so that it’s game over for Republicans and Whites. It could be *Bloomberg, *Sanders, Biden, Warren, anyone.

And any Democrat will appoint leftist judges to the Supreme Court and other courts.

Funny how the The Right Stuff guys laughed and laughed in podcasts a year ago, saying Biden wouldn’t stand a chance if he entered the primaries, because he’s a White man.

“That’s not the Democrat Party now! It’s the woke party!”

Back in the real world, away from clever sound bites, it was obvious a veteran Democrat insider and the popular Obama’s vice president would have a very strong chance. When the donors stop playing with the flavor of the month, like O’Rourke or Buttigieg, they switch to Biden as the default position, so Buttigieg had to drop out.

The fact is, most Democrats want a successful, experienced White man as their candidate. Despite the enormous propaganda. So they want Biden or Bloomberg (“White”). But Bloomberg failed miserably in the debates, so Biden it is.

This is just like how people prefer watching a White hero in movies and TV shows. Surrounded by non-Whites and homosexual allies, of course. So the journalists can cry “racism” because he’s White. Well, despite all the propaganda, that’s what people prefer. Even non-Whites. Ask women of any race, they prefer to watch a White man instead of a man from any other race aside from, possibly, their own. (And Asian women prefer White men far more than their own, as seen in Yahoo dating site statistics.) White is the default position. Even when they aren’t “racist”.

Another Covid-19 article by Lance Welton

https://russia-insider.com/en/coronavirus-discriminates-race-ethnicity-italy-1st-eu-breakout-italians-were-disproportionally

“Efficiency theoretically exists, but is hard to come by.”

You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

Single data point:

AnotherMom talked yesterday to the gal who manufactures her product in China. She said everyone’s back to work and they are up and running.

But then she’s down south in Fujian–Xiamen–a good 500 miles from Corona central.

Still, i’d bet the China numbers are basically legit. They got went hard–in ways the US no longer can–on this thing and seem to have been able to–at great cost–quash the spread.

Trump’s pharma summit yesterday was a farce.

Anthony Fauci (supposedly straight shooting CDC guy who’s been there for 30 years) went along with corona virus vaccine myth!

This is medical Easter Bunny talk. It would require a quantum leap in medicine to create one that actually works. So like the Border Security Theater we will get Corona Virus Theater.

But at least Fauci did push back on Trump’s ludicrous “two month” timeline.

This is real Hector Dwayne Elizondo level stuff.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8067015/Donald-Trump-demands-coronavirus-vaccine-two-months-offers-pharma-chiefs-SEATTLE-trials.html

Maybe this all will inspire Italians to have Italian babies again. They got hammered and have had one of the lowest birthdates for a while. Tragedy can have that effect.

Here’s a question: how big of a deal would it be to switch major sporting events — college basketball, NBA, NHL, and baseball — to Television Only for the duration?

Hey, maybe this would be a great time to turn off that nonsense?

Trump could issue a ban gianormous public pow-wows, and urge people toward other safe recreational pursuits. A non-infected husband and wife enjoying each other’s company … zero risk!

OT: The Pritzger Architecture Prize (the “Nobel Prize of Architecture”) has just been awarded to two female Irish architects (founders of Grafton Architects), among whose award-winning buildings is the University of Engineering and Technology Campus in Lima, Peru, crowned in 2016 by the Royal Institute of British Architects as “the best new building in the world”:

Which candidates are most likely to catch CoronaVirus?

“In a typical week I do 15 minutes of real, actual work.” So no telecommuting, as others have said above.

Probably the right move for Klobouchar.

She didn’t seem to be getting traction as the Anybody-but-Sanders alternative if Biden just doddered off the stage. Seemed like the homo or mini-Mike were getting more attention.

But she’s not a ridiculous pick for Biden as VP–some sort of “diversity” without getting too nutty–though the BLM attack may prevent that. Then if Biden’s elected, eventually she’d be either the effective or official President. And if not elected, she’s positioned herself well for the next run.

PC makes you stupid and just might get you killed.

Burying the ethno-racial aspect of the contagion is a fucking crime against humanity.

All efforts and resources shoulda woulda coulda been concentrated like a laser on Chinese/Korean/Japan tourists and diaspora. A serious Sober USA could’ve stopped this thing cold and taken a relatively small financial hit.

Instead it’s Clown Car USA and we all have to go into the shit as instructed by our PC overlords.

Uh, they should have just let the snake bite victim win his Darwin Award.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Not sure what movies and tv shows you watch, but the ones I see often have Magic Negro heroes. And white people lap it up.

The fun thing is that Bloomberg will not like the idea of being a laughingstock for the remainder of his life. Right now he’s taking votes off Biden and not Sanders.

The only way I can see him salvaging anything at all is 1) being a kingmaker and throwing his support to Biden because “beating Trump is the most important thing in the world” [the low-risk option] or staying in and hoping for Deus ex Machina to save him. That’s obviously the high risk option because it’ll cost him another 500 million dollars and quite likely his reputation, such as it is.

Given how very old people in the USA 1) are expensive to maintain and 2) skew white, I can’t see how TPTB [not to mention public opinion] will act to save them.

Disparate Impact only counts when Approved Minorities are affected.

OT:
#PittieMommie

A British woman who ran a shelter for stray dogs in Egypt
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She had also recently taken in a pit bull terrier to save it from being euthanized after it attacked someone
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admitted in a frustrated Facebook post…that she had failed to raise enough money for dog food.

“So the dogs couldn’t be fed today,” she wrote

You wont BELIEVE what happens next…

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I too think Trump will win, but if worst comes to worst, it would be an interesting politburo-style experience to have an obviously senile leader of ‘the free world’ for a couple of years. (Just a couple? I assume he would croak prematurely under the strain.)

Don’t worry, the Deep State would of course keep operations running as smoothly as under Obama or as RBG on the Supreme Court.

Will Hillary be Biden’s running mate? Her predictit score is rising again. Would she settle for that or will Joe suddenly get coronavirus from all that hand shaking? He’s definitely old enough to die from it.

The primary season is probably over now, with both Pete and Amy (and even Beto) throwing their support to the Establishment Candidate. How are the Bernie Bros going to like this happening all over again?

Negroes have to be pretty stoked right about now. Just one win and their candidate is President. I always thought BRA was nonsense, a stand-in for JRA. But who knows? Corona may choose both the Dem candidate and the next president. CRA?

The COVID-19 pandemic is a false flag hoax.

As far as Super Tuesday, well, I’ll be voting for Bernie at my local Swellesley polling station here in Massachusetts. My wife refuses to go with me because I start speaking русский язык and then English with a thick Russian accent and then have trouble remembering my name when picking up my ballot (no voter ID). “Excuse mine, veetch vun is Feel like Bern?”

I didn’t start the Russian hoax but I do my little part to gaslight the shitlibs when possible.

The Curse of the Degenerate Half-Indian King.

Agree.

I personally think the best running mate for Biden would be a Midwesterner who has proven s/he can get swing and even some Republican voters.

My first choice would be Sherrod Brown. Brown is, sad to say, a white male. I can’t think of any notable Midwestern black politicians other than Obama, who is not eligible. That leaves women. Amy Klobuchar and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin have shown they can win the swing votes. Baldwin has less name recognition and is a lesbian, which may or may not work against her. Heck, the Howard Stern fans might vote for a lesbian.

DON’T – attach locations or ethnicity to the disease, this is not a “Wuhan Virus”, “Chinese Virus” or “Asian Virus”.

So, do we have to retire “Chinaman’s Lung”?

That clamorous cauldron of clicking cacophony you are hearing right about now is ten thousand tiger cubs pounding out their 2028 college admissions essays, each complete with their own lachrymose retelling of how Haven Snubnose or Becky Goodhair cruelly asked if grandma cooks them batwing soup in the garage.

“It was shown in 2011 that it is surprisingly easy to make flu viruses more virulent and transmissible”

“St David advised Welshmen to tie an onion to your hat”

Not an onion, it’s called a leek, hence the expression “just going to take a leek” 😉

Excellent in Welsh lamb stew aka cawl.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/welsh-cawl-recipe-435581

Biden’s Delaware is the ninthmost sexually-diseased state in the union. Bernie’s Vermont is dead last.

Mountainous lily-white states in New England, Appalachia, and the Rockies make up the bottom half-dozen. So much for hillbilly stereotypes.

Black states are tops,those with Asians or American Indians somewhere in the middle.

The most sexually diseased states in the United States – Vivid Maps

Is that an onion or a leek?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/onUEpe81YBn_eJ5LumvosyvizeDm-HPdI-AgNunlQ8GXwwGl8vK_K_yg_sMMtdjMhdKkUhDyRWsvdHMnF-arqYEG6jxOH_H74XWqmfJJDsbO0aD0Qb8yvUTfgjO2L0rATJWkyRIgs-M5dnc8JugqYA

Two brief good bits from NPR:
Remember how Israel “might” be about to cure Corona? Yesterday NPR’s priority of always explaining how the president is wrong about every single thing required them, when he said a cure was coming soon, to point out that “scientists” say a vaccine could take at least a year.
Really really good must-listen This American Life piece about a heroic Chinese lawyer who accidentally became a blogger/journalist, touching on many themes including Hong Kong, PRC dysfunction, Wuhan, and the reason we value freedom of speech.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/695/everyones-a-critic/act-two-8
Late add: because the idiot children at TAL don’t know how to journalize I had to search around and add later that the heroic lawyer’s mame is Chen Qiushi. His censored videos are reposted by fans.

Well that does it! I’m not even gonna wear green this St. Patrick’s Day. “We were led to believe there would be no snakes … ya lyin’ son of a hussy.”

Amy’s fits of rage (throwing things at staff) is VP-disqualifying, because as President, she would have the nuclear codes. I can’t think of a personality trait more incompatible with being President than having an anger-management problem.

They did this at great cost, as you say. Whether it was worth it or not, I’m unsure. Nonetheless, if it spreads back around to China from abroad, it most certainly won’t have been worth it.

I still have no idea if it is a racist virus, an easily killed by warm weather virus, a deadly virus or a particularly infectious one.

I am left suspecting that it isn’t really that bad.

Voted for Bernie in Memphis, TN today. The only candidate left standing who is not heavily funded by the members of the oligarchy. I like M4A and Student Debt wipe-out but not much more from Bernie. But I like nothing about Biden who is the only other contestant still standing.

It is clear to me that the Dems really do not actually care about beating Trump as they proclaim. If they actually cared, they would use the electoral college to their advantage for once. How about a real constitutional strategy to keep Trump from getting 270 EC votes?

At the convention they need to nominate two Democrats for President, but only put up one of them in each state, the one having the best chance beating Trump in that state. That is the best way to keep Trump from reaching 270 EC votes. Then the House of Representatives would pick the President from the three top EC vote getters. The senate would pick the VP from the top two. A number of Presidents were picked this way before the civil war.

Most likely that would result in a Democratic President and a Republican VP. And we would return the country to a Parliamentary style of government where the governmental representatives pick the leaders of the country.

But I really don’t think the Dems care about beating Trump. He could very well win the EC even if he loses the popular vote by 5%.

Leeks are a member of the onion family.

I predicted November 2016 that if the Democrats nominate a pale stale frail male, they know Trump is handily winning a second term. El Rushbo has finally embraced my ancient prophecy.

Heart Attack Bernie will dominate super tues.

Creepy quid pro Joe will stay in the race, hoping for a BJ Clinton-style comeback.

Legitimate Injun, the only candidate endowed with scientifically-verified Diversity privilege, will drop out.

Mini Mike will squander another $600 million on his hopeless vanity campaign.

The fakestream media will pray to Evolution that corona-chan causes a recession — which is the only way Trump loses.

As for those hilarious WHO tweets, that’s probably just the AA guy writing, who WHO had to find something constructive to do

Achmed, thank goodness somebody else noticed, and not just me.

Was there ever anything calculated to inspire LESS public confidence than when the World “Health” Organization trotted our some third-worlder as its front man? People of all races were united in looking at that guy and thinking: “We are gonna die!”

Also: WHO/Whom is very funny. Terrific meme potential.

This has been my expectation as well.
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A Nepali (!) anon on 4chan posted a scientific paper which says that there is no curing or recovery from The Yellow Peril, it hides from the immune system among neurons: it stays in your spine forever like chicken pox.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25728

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Quietly huge ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court today – the Court rules that state governments ARE permitted to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft. This reverses a 2017 decision that said that illegal immigrants could not be prosecuted for identity theft by state governments (even if they were clearly violating a state law) because this was part and parcel of immigration enforcement, and pre-empted by federal authority. Pursuant to today’s ruling, state governments CAN prosecute illegal immigrants for using false ID documents and SS numbers that are not theirs, if the state, in fact, has a law against it.

Hard to overstate the importance. As you can probably guess, the use of fake documents or someone else’s SSN pervades much of illegal immigrant life in the US. This is becoming more so every year, as employers, landlords, and car dealers increasingly refuse to deal with anyone who can’t present an ID and SSN.

Also puts liberal state governors and state legislatures in a bind. They want to be “welcoming to all, no person is illegal,” etc. But now they’ll be forced to really stand up and say “we won’t stop anyone from fraudulently using YOUR Social Security number when applying for a job.” A lot of vaguely woke but not-too-political voters would suddenly sit up and take issue with that.

So, anyway, score one for Trump.

I love this explanation, I wish I had seen this. Of course the market wasn’t reacting to the flu (although there was also that wierd set of top level resignations from big companies).

… find cheap sneakers made with 1-year glue on the shelves at Target.

I nearly spit out my coffee at this. I’ve had so many comfy “Coleman” sandals from Big 5 simply fall apart from glue failure in just one season of use. They were cheep though. You get what you pay for.

Biden doesn’t have a chance against Trump. Then again, if Barack Obama was his running mate? Yeah, he’d have a chance.

They will use rationalizations such as the idea that everyone needs to be in one place because of the value of interactive teamwork, but that is along the lines of the canard that you need diversity to be more effective. In reality… [working from home] saves the team members 10 hours a week wasted on commuting.

Did you know Netflix spends over $10 BILLION/year on original content now, including like a gazillion stand-up comedy shows? One of the more exceptional ones was Ali Wong’s BABY COBRA , HBD and GAME-licious on so many levels. In one joke she talked about mistakenly banging a white homeless man she mistook for a hipster, but now she’s married to a great Asian Harvard MBA she adores, yada yada…

Getting past the comedic hyperbole you realize- 1) she spent her prime nubile years banging out a random assortment of underachieving yet fun white dude slacker types (skateboarders, surfers, artisanal cheesemakers and other assorted hipster types) 2) upon suddenly sighting the wall as she entered her 30’s, an Asian beta provider husband started looking like not such a bad option 3) even then he had to be a super-beta with Harvard MBA and likely 1/2 million take-home income to make the deal worth it 4) despite saying how great he is, deep down she’s not really happy with it all (the old yet very wise HEARTISTE chestnut of getting past the surface of what a woman says and examining what she does or insinuates as indicative of her true feelings); she at one point doth protest too much of how great her hairless husband is in bed, actually comparing him to being with a dolphin

Anyway, lot of good stuff there, but more on-point is Ali’s observation later in the same show about how one of the perks, as the wife of a rich man who no longer has to come into the office now that she’s mostly a homemaker with some on-again/off-again comedy writer work, is she does not have to use shared bathrooms at the office. I have been telecommuting to my job for over a decade, and while I never thought of that as a major benefit, it is true that in addition the wasted hours driving to and from the office, there’s also the wasted time of walking back and forth from your desk to the restrooms (our offices were big, so that for me was like a least 1 minute each way), and then maybe even more wasted time once you discovered the clean ladies had gotten there before you, or that your stall-neighbor for the day had had a rich Mexican dinner the night before, and it was time to pick another floor, etc.

It’s slightly above average for brutalist garbage because it had plants and big windows.

The dumping stock market has caused a rally of Democrats to Biden. All those white upper-middle class liberals have just seen their retirement accounts tank–not because of Trump, but because of a virus nobody can control–and they’re frightened that any further chaos might affect themselves financially. They want a candidate who will pour oil on troubled waters and soothe the stock market, not a radical who wants to upend the system like Bernie.

Look at this way. If the candidates are Trump and Bernie, and the stock market is rock-bottom because of the virus, and the average voter’s net worth has plunged massively, and Bernie want to unleash economic chaos in the name of socialism, and nobody knows how that’s going to play out, the average voter–already scared of losing even more money in the name of a political experiment–is pushing the button for Trump. The market was doing great under Trump until the virus rattled investors.

Liberals only talk about how generous they are with their money, but when it’s really their money at risk, they’ll run away from radicalism.

Covid-19 also has played a part in making the DNC get tough with their candidates. They want a clear front-runner right now instead of chaos if most of their primary voters are too sick to get out and vote, and there are too many candidates to vote for. The Dems were looking at trouble anyway just because they had too much vote splitting.

The Democrats have had their Pearl Harbor moment with Covid-19 and the tanking market. The party elders realize it’s time to go to war and stop placating their stupid, spoiled, bratty little upper-middle white children, who are, after all, likely to survive Covid-19, and live long enough to see the stock market recover. Their elders, however, may be another story. They’re already signaled they’ve had enough of Bloomberg trying to play the spoiler. It’s Biden and nobody else. Bezos is going to be weeping into his protein powder when his chosen candidate tanks.

Maybe going into the office is overblown? Are office workers working hard from home? Maybe the bright future where you can work from anywhere foretold during the Information Superhighway fad of 1993 is finally coming true?

The struggle is real. I deal with boomer bosses who can’t use Microsoft Office proficiently and are an actual security risk. We can’t go fully “office-less” until they’re all phased out.

It is also sold in 7-oz. bottles. And in cans.

Ohs Trent…..

Still pining fo teh bnak P-nis.

the WHO messaging has been full of hypocrisy and doublespeak.

They’ve been telling countries not to impose travel bans.

But the only thing that’s worked is: travel bans which is what China did.

And what markedly DIDN’T work? Travel! esp pilgrimages to Iran which are what probably drove about half the nails in the coffin of containment…

Hm.

Biden chooses Hillary as VP. Biden gets Corona virus, Hillary winds up getting sworn in instead.

Interesting concept.

Or Biden barely makes it to inauguration day, fights with William Henry Harrison for the record.

And the Swedish/Norwegian word for onion is lök/løk.

Some thought about why people in hotter climates (China, Italy, Iran, South Korea) appear to be getting hit harder than those from more northerly climates (Great Britain, Scandinavia, US, Russia).

It’s known that hot weather slows the spread of viruses because it dries them out and exposes them to UV, which kills them. But, this may mean that hotter, sunnier climates, historically speaking, may have populations that have lower levels of immunity to common respiratory viruses such as the flu, pneumonia, etc., because these viruses have a much harder time spreading throughout these populations. Northern populations may have a higher antibody load against a whole class of respiratory viruses because more people get them over a long, cold, dry winter. That may account for the some of the infection pattern we’re seeing.

Therefore, what we may be seeing is an abnormal viral creep southward because of the season. If so, Covid-19 will weaken when the Northern Hemisphere enters spring and summer. However, it’ll start really going in those countries below the equator during that time because they’ll be starting their winter season during a pandemic.

I can’t decide if that woman is a more worthy of the Darwin Award than snakebite man in Dublin.

How do people like these feed themselves? Or put on pants in the morning?

This sort of thing makes me so happy the internet exists.

When I was a young man, I would see buildings like this, and find them incredibly ugly. And yet they won awards and architects fawned over them. And I never heard criticism of these buildings from intelligent laypeople, which I assumed signaled their concurrence with the Pritzkers of the world. So I assumed something was wrong with me.

The anonymous comment is so valuable: people don’t worry about status or the prevailing wisdom or any other social distortion. They write things they would only normally only say to themselves. Posting feels like talking into an empty room, so you fall back to primal desires. For a large portion of the population, the core desire is just to say something that they believe is true.

You can get a good handle on a person’s character and intelligence from a short written snippet so you know that these are people that you respect in real life. Now I know that it isn’t just me, lots of intelligent people find this stuff hideous.

It is much harder for the emperor to walk around naked in this era.

Ali Wong…

Is horrific for all the reasons you state.

How does Hollyweird have this uncanny ability to pick out the least attractive, least funny, and most stridently anti-white Asians?

It’s like they have a nose for this sort of thing.

Definitely Virus Monday, Iran is halfway to smoldering corpse pyramids:

BBC Publishes Leaked Iran Footage Showing Bagged Bodies Of Covid-19 Victims Piling Up

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/bbc-publishes-leaked-iran-footage-bagged-bodies-covid-19-victims-piling

More shocking leaked footage published by the BBC shows bodies piling up at a local morgue in Qom, said to be victims of the country’s spiraling coronavirus outbreak.

Why has no one mentioned Tulsi?

As in, Gabbard.

Because the Zionists ordered the MSM and the DNC to blackball her and thus she has no shot whatsoever of getting more than 5% of the vote anywhere.

OT

Is this the oldest and least familiar reference to the racism of “our culture” in the reference to Warner Oland in this article about the harm film characterizations and whitewashing of Asian maleness has done:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/andrew-kung-asian-american-men/index.html

I noticed the expected Mickey Rooney reference, a film that was cast 60 years ago. But Warner Oland I assumed had to be a new starlet sending shockwaves through the industry with his outdated stereotypes of Asians in the current year.

Turns out he DIED in 1938.

The dumping stock market has caused a rally of Democrats to Biden. All those white upper-middle class liberals have just seen their retirement accounts tank–not because of Trump, but because of a virus nobody can control . . . .

That is not a nice thing to call Bernie!

In 2 years earth shattering New England Journal of Medicine report that Coronvirus “community spread” was mostly by pharmacy checkout touchpads.

The San Francisco convention and hotel business is being hit hard. The big city owned convention center’s had every convention scheduled up to June cancelled. Doesn’t help that San Francisco airport is one of only 4 airports that still get flights direct from China.

I order little things now and then from China on ebay – the differences in price are enormous. For example, miniature car lamps (the little bulbs that light up your license plate or side markers) are 10 for $1 from China or 2 for $5.99 at your local auto parts store – the ones at the auto parts store are from China too. The one downside of ordering from China is that it can take months for the stuff to arrive so if you need that bulb tomorrow, fuggedaboutit. (Instead, order spares of all the bulbs on your car now, before you need them. You’ll spend less on a complete set of multiple spares than you will at the auto parts store the first time you urgently need 1 bulb. There’s a list of all the bulbs in the back of your owners manual. Keep the spares in your glove box and you’ll know where to find them when you need them.). Anyway, I’ve noticed that since this whole coronavirus thing, the stuff I order on ebay arrives FASTER than usual. I don’t know the explanation – empty space for air cargo vs. container ship?

Which is why I didn’t dive in with an immediate correction.

i was hoping for Yang/Gabbard for a while.

Nobody talks about her because her poll numbers are very low.

Basically check https://fivethirtyeight.com for what’s possible and what’s likely in US elections nowadays.

They’re themselves media lefties, BUT they take their work seriously and know math and modeling (afaict anyway) and they care a lot more about predicting accurately, and communicating the strength of the predictions, than anything else. They actually discuss when they were right vs wrong and why… it’s good stuff.

Negroes have to be pretty stoked right about now. Just one win and their candidate is President.

Uh, he’s not the President yet.

Biden has to know that picking Hillary as his running mate is akin to signing his own death warrant. Biden is not that smart but he’s not THAT dumb (I hope).

And I deal with Millennials who would rather watch a You Tube talking head for 25 minutes than spend 5 minutes reading the same information. Or OTOH type 20 text messages instead of making a 3 minute phone call.

What makes the WHO incompetent? Considering the perils faced you people should put aside repetitive criticism of PC rot for a moment. You can do that 99% of the time, but now is the time to focus on who is really screwing up.

Washington, the federal bureaucracy, and local governments are messing this up. There are still direct flights from Milan to JFK today. Why is the Trump administration not grounding very high risk flights?

There are an estimated several hundred cases spreading in Washington. We can’t confirm because of lack of testing infrastructure. The CDC had a decent amount of time to prepare and at first produced defective tests delaying the roll out of mass testing.

Why aren’t schools closed in Washington? The Seattle area is currently where Wuhan was in the first week of January. It got so bad in Wuhan that the city was locked down in the third week of January. Why not act decisively now before it gets that bad? Washington state has complete information clarity compared to what was known in the first week of January but act even more sluggishly than Wuhan bureaucrats.

Intentional transmission is literally a thing; the World of Warcraft experiment proved it.

Of course, most transmission is accidental, but all it takes is one bug chaser/purveyor.

Biden chooses Hillary as VP. Biden gets Corona virus, Hillary winds up getting sworn in instead.

Lol. “Corona virus”, or maybe he lays down on a railroad track for a nap, or decides to go to Fort Marcy park by himself in a moment of depression, etc. Dunno how the Secret Service would handle an attempt on the President by agents of the VP. Could be a little bit delicate.

But Hillary! isn’t in all that great health herself, what if she caught the job she’s been chasing and then stroked out? Well, I believe that makes Speaker To Boomers Pelosi move to the Oval Office, but she’s not doing so hot either in the health department. Who comes after that, Pompeo?

Whatever. It really is weird to look at all these 70-somethings vying for a job that could stress them to death in a matter of months.

New Boomer motto: “Don’t trust anyone under 60!” Kidding, just kidding. But not really.

Biden has to know that picking Hillary as his running mate is akin to signing his own death warrant. Biden is not that smart but he’s not THAT dumb (I hope).

At this age Biden probably just wants to cross the finish line in first! Actually being President……at 80……fuck that!

Plus she and Pete get to keep the campaign money.

“And I like the idea of liberal billionaires being afraid of a commie in office.”

Liberal billionaires are rapacious capitalists and cultural Marxists. The best of both worlds.

The best part of working from home is the nudity.

>>Furthermore, a lot of the “work” people do these days is either unnecessary or counterproductive and does nothing to help the big picture or to make anybody happy. People do it for the paycheck, and the paycheck is only a result of the distorted, pseudo-economic conditions of globalism. It will all be given up with a shrug as those conditions change.<<

While non productive work is a hallmark of the "government sector" and most government financed technically private non profits, very few private employers hand out paychecks out of goodwill. You obviously haven't studied the most basic economics or run a business.

People work for a "paycheck" (or self employed) because they aren't born rich. Even then, most born wealthy people end up working doing something, and getting paid.

Your hazy argument about "pseudo economic conditions of globalism" is mere bafflegab. People have always wanted to get paid. None wanted to work as slaves without pay. What "as those conditions change" are you talking about? Ice cream and lollipops falling from the sky, Marxist style? BernieWorld, where free stuff is given to you? The homeless zombies on the streets are nearly all getting government "disability" payments or something similar. Or are thieves, drug peddlers.

If you know of some kind of work-less Utopia, please clue us in. Even then, idle people who don't work often end up addicted to something and very unhappy. How much daytime TV can you stand?

>>Voted for Bernie in Memphis, TN today.<<

Next up, then, is that month long vacation in Venezuela. Make sure to bring plenty of toilet paper and everything else you'll need. Socialism ain't for the faint of heart.

It is so perfect that thousands and thousands of early voters voted for Steyer, Butt-man, and Klobo believing their campaigns would continue through Super Tuesday.

The Dems love to brag about how they don’t disenfranchise people–like those meany Republicans.

You can’t make up this stuff!

LOLski

“But she’s not a ridiculous pick for Biden as VP”

It won’t be Klobuchar. Valerie “Dr. Zira” Jarret declared today that Bernie or stumbling-mumbling Joe will have to choose a woman of color for a running mate. That means Stacey Abrams. The Beast. Joe won’t even know he’s been neutered. Heart-patient Bernie will cower when the Beast looms over him. The Black Lady Virus will reign supreme. Goodbye Earth.

Me too. Not just China, also HK, Thailand, Malaysia and Kazakstan.

eBay is the main source, but AliExpress is looking interesting too. Some Amazon sellers ship slowly from China too.

It all comes down to Texas. I have a hard time believing that endorsements from Buttkrieg, the Klobe, and Beta O’Rourke are going to swing Texas to Cotton-Brained Joe, but the mass media sure seems to think it’s happening. Maybe they can conjure it up out of sheer, mega-phonic will? Kinda doubt it though. Pretty sure Biden mania is Fake News (there just aren’t enough Black people in Texas, especially in light of Bernie’s edge among Hispanics).

I was just reflecting on my real terror of white collar environments (inb4 “you would never qualify,” I have done IT, secretarial and educational work). In the past the money and in some cases security was so good a guy would be an idiot to have my attitide. The money stopped being a sure thing a while back (except for certain jobs), and now there’s the cultural thing and the Apple product keeping you there 24 hours a day. However, the very things I fear are probably somebody’s cup of tea. Besides boomer technological illiteracy, there are probably people embracing office life because it’s an office.

[Slot machines], BTW, don’t even spit out change noisily anymore, just a slip of paper.

Even worse, they don’t even have handles anymore. You just push a button.

Thanks for that good news, MKP, and that’s a good point in your 2nd-to-last paragraph.

East coast polls should be closing in about 30 minutes so we should see the first states called for Joe Biden in about, oh, 32 minutes.

Bad analogy: in your example, the job is still getting done, and the person is young anyway. In his, the person has training and experience but is effectively abdicating a responsibility.

Liberals only talk about how generous they are with their money, but when it’s really their money at risk, they’ll run away from radicalism.

I’ve never really heard any “Liberals” speak about being generous with their money. I hear them talk about being generous with OUR money, if that’s what you mean.

Good comment, though.

Also LOL‘s to Mr. Tillman.

X’er here. I’m with you on the Millenials and texting. Now I like texting socially, but after about 2 work related texts from a guy out in the field, asking where to land the cable on Sheet 235, I just call them and clear it up in 30 seconds (and then wonder why they can’t read a damn schematic).

When it’s time to get the print package and program together, I could easily work from home. When it comes to building the Dyno, you gotta be able to head out to the floor and handle things.

It’s noteworthy that while Steyer dropped out, he hasn’t endorsed Biden, though he has tweeted warmly to Klobuchar and Buttigieg in the wake of both endorsing Biden. Expect that Bloomberg & Steyer are being told by Big Media to step back into the shadows and stop trying to conspicuously buy status & influence. It’s a bit too on the nose for Jewish Billionaires to be so explicit in grasping for power when they already have more power & influence per capita than any other group in the West.

if Covid-19 is so dangerous, and the stumbling, bumbling Trump Republicans are morons who are gonna get everybody killed…then why are the Democrats having a nationwide primary today? aren’t they the smart ones? shouldn’t they just push the primaries back a few months to be safe?

but they aren’t, because Democrat leaders don’t believe anything they’re saying about this stuff either. they know this is just hysteria, and they’re the ones mainly responsible for spreading the hysteria via their media control. it’s not the end of the world where millions of people are going to catch a disease and die, and Democrats won’t even take the extremely obvious precaution of moving back their primaries. their actions SHOW they don’t believe anything they’re saying about it. just like when they buy 10 million dollar houses right on the coast, after lecturing us for years that rising ocean levels are gonna kill us all.

The average age of a Person of Color is 19 the average age of a white person is 55.

Even more remarkable: many of both groups are grandparents.

Warren stayed in the race because she takes votes away from Sanders, while all the others dropped out to support Biden.

Sounds legit, unfortunately. I wonder what the inducement was? VP slot??

Tonight is a big night for a couple of Steve’s long-term ideas, the Democrats Are the Black Party, etc. Biden has the blacks, the upper-middle class whites, and seems to be picking up the Never Trump Republicans. Sanders has the multiculturals (ie, not black or white), the lower-middle class, and underemployed young college graduates. Warren has the feminists, and doesn’t have a chair to sit in when the music stops.

I have a simple but nice volt-ohm-ammeter made in China back in the Mao days. It is rugged and well built and was probably intended for the military. I’d like to buy a bunch of them and give them out as gifts if I could find a source for them. My guess is that if it was intended for the government or important internal customers, it’s probably well built.

In a serious country, would a person everyone knows full well is senile be a potential major party nominee?? The Rod had serious issues, but Biden is flat out senile, as in “not-allowed-out-of-the-fogey-farm” senile.

Hey, you’re that guy from Lost in Space, right?

Never even watched the show but I know that guy.

PS: 2028??

YEAH BABY, YEAH.
But seriously, we cannot allow Bernie Sanders to get that one millllion dollars.
https://postimg.cc/Yh7GtMS7

Spend time in our nation’s capital and you’ll meet lots of congressional staffers. The stories they tell will have you disqualifying all of Capitol Hill–that is, if you weren’t already so inclined.

The virus will quash urban poc turnout. Trumpy as ever playin 5th D chess.

If you showed this to people and asked them to guess when it was built, they would say 1972.

In a very real sense (that is to say, on television) Obama is his running mate. Because Biden’s commercials are pretty much all Obama.

Hey, Dad;

I suspect a lot of the athletic and other entertainments of the coming months will be rescheduled, played to empty houses for the viewers, or altogether canceled. The Chinese F1 Grand Prix, previously scheduled for mid-April, is already being “rescheduled”.

I used to watch some college basketball (growing up on Tobacco Road it’s mandatory), but when the NCAA boycotted the Old North State for her “bathroom bill” I commenced a reciprocal one. They, having emerged victorious from their front of World War T, dropped their boycott, but mine abides. I can’t say that I miss watching any form of stick & ball contests, not to the point of it noticeably impacting my life…which leaves open wheel motor racing as my sole vice, and the people running those varied goat rodeos are seemingly as intent on driving me away as are the corporate eunuchs of the NFL. Oh, for the long lost days “when racing was dangerous and sex was safe”.

Who knows what disruptions to the contraceptive supply chain, power outages, and the like might eventuate? Perhaps some good may come of this plague, maybe even a spike in the old stock total fertility rate.

Poor woman! Well, at least her heart is in the right place.

A pit bull’s belly.

I prefer the Kung Fu Grippe (apologies to Hasbro).

If Biden were elected, wouldn’t he have to immediately be impeached based on the Ukrainian quid pro pro he brags about on tape? I guess that would be a good way for the DNC to get the president it really wants, whoever is his VP.

Limbaugh occasionally has a perceptive insight. (Slightly edited)

The Democrat Party expects to lose, they expect to lose the presidency. They don’t want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee because they don’t want that kind of shellacking. They think they’re gonna lose with Biden anyway. And if there’s some shock and Biden wins, there’s somebody that’s gonna actually be president besides him. But the point is that this is all about the Democrat establishment, including media people, protecting themselves against a Democrat electoral defeat.

This is all about Chuck Todd and all the guys at ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN keeping their jobs and keeping their credibility. It’s all about Donna Brazile keeping her job at the DNC or whatever her job is. It’s all about the Democrat establishment not being swept aside like the Republican establishment was swept aside when Trump won.

The Democrats do not want that to happen to them. And if it means Joe Biden losing the presidency but they remain intact as the face, as the power structure of the Democrat Party, then that’s what will happen. And they fear, if Bernie Sanders gets the nomination, he’s gonna go down in a stinging defeat, and they don’t want to have to defend Bernie.

They don’t want to have to be on the Bernie side because they don’t think Bernie and his madcap left-wing radicalism is helpful to them in their positions at the think tanks, at the networks, at the newspapers, you name it.

He doesn’t do well with black voters at all ( who by your definition are persons of color ) because he is Jewish, take it to the bank td.

Nah,

Vote harvesting of “absentee” ballots will take care of that.

I think I remember that too. Thanks.

I am in Oregon and watching the situation in Seattle area; it does not inspire confidence. After 9 deaths and 100s of possible infections, they still don’t have enough test kits or supplies (same here in OR and also CA, NY). The state epidemiologists in both WA and OR are saying this virus has been around for at least 6 weeks (undetected) and 100s of infections are expected. They are finding infections in people in deep interior rural areas like Umatilla Indian Reservation and Wenatchee, WA where no one has a clue where China or Italy is on the globe. Just watched how China is tackling the problem with a military like precision (

). If this is what is needed to fight it, we have a big problem with our what appears to be a patchwork system.

With telecommuting you’d figure out how little work you need to do to be productive.

It’s also something that requires relatively high levels of employer trust (hopefully matched to high levels of employee honesty).

Otherwise you get the “Bob” problem (‘talented’ programmer outsources his work to Chinkieland, and spends his days on Reddit and ICanHasCheezburger… the latter is so 2013).

To be fair, “Bob” was
ⓐ supposedly meat-present in the office; and
ⓑ almost-certainly a fictional composite (just like Jesus). There are way too many details awry… e.g., “Bob” doing stupid shit that nobody would do IRL, like Fedexing an RSA keyfob to China instead of setting up a proxy. Even Michael Pascoe wasn’t fooled (and he’s a fuckwit), whereas CNN, the Guardian, El Reg, and a host of other fucktards swallowed the entire story and breathlessly regurgitated it like good little stenographers.

Looks like I might win on PredictIt after all! I never sold my Biden shares I got for 25-30, even when they hit 8. Now at 65.

American Samoa has the fattest AND smartest Democrats!

🤔 pic.twitter.com/dtV6Uv8tao

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 4, 2020

Tulsi won one delegate from American Samoa.

If they exist they’re probably on ebay too. But Jack and I are talking about cheap new items. Actually, you could send a photo of an obscure product to a Chinese power seller and ask if they can find it at a used good store.

Another important point is that who gets sick from Covid-19 during the primary voting season? Younger people get less sick than old people. That’s why the Democrats are suddenly desperate to kneecap Sanders. If the 50+ voters are all too sick to vote in the primary, and only the voters aged 49 and below show up, they’ll vote for Sanders instead of Biden. That’s why the Dem elites are suddenly piling on for Biden right now. They want Warren in the race to split the youth vote between Sanders and Warren, so Biden gets the bulk of the votes with the help of superdelegates.

I’m about to board a plane so can’t check this, but it seems doubtful. Symptoms of viral infections are related to the cells they infect. Example: shingles patterns follow nerve pathways. Also, other Coronavirus infections like SARS and MERS didn’t live on. (On the other hand, how do these things keep living in bats?) i think it’s more likely that “reinfection” happens when the virus is still in the lung but not in the upper airways, where the lab swabs are taken–ie, the infection was really cleared even though the tesrs were (-)

Something from back in the old days is going to be rare. If they were produced for the needs of the state, they probably didn’t make that many of them, and the # that leaked into the market is even smaller.

The kind of stuff that we are talking about is produced in vast quantities. Quality (and quality control) is not that good but when a light bulb sells for a dime (with free shipping from China – it seems impossible), how good does it have to be? I had some little Chinese halogen bulbs for a 12V cabinet light and maybe 5 of the 10 of them burned out after a few weeks, one after the other, but finally I came to a good one in the batch and that one has lasted for years now. I’m still way ahead of the game vs. spending $3 for one bulb in an American store (not counting my time in changing out all of the duds).

Like Epstein-Barr?

On the other hand, how do these things keep living in bats?

Apparently, bats have sort of unique immune systems due to the filthy conditions that they live in (caves that are knee deep in shit). Rather than fighting off viruses their immune system sort of calls a truce with them. Otherwise they would exhaust themselves in eternal battle.

Besides boomer technological illiteracy, there are probably people embracing office life because it’s an office.

I can understand that part. Trying to work at home with kids running around is difficult. It’s sometimes nice having a place that’s separate from family life. But sometimes your babysitting a boss who’s 30 years older than you. I kid you not, he turned off his computer’s security system to access YouTube. The previous IT guy granted him Admin privileges and he turned the whole thing off to bypass the prohibited website list he demanded and imposed on everyone else. (I would’ve been surprised if the stuff he was looking for was work related…)

Most of our “online security” meetings are tailored toward older people who are easy targets for phishing and social engineering type scams.

“So the dogs couldn’t be fed today,” she wrote”…well yes, they could. Why do so many air-heads wind up sheltering numerous animals? It is kind of sad…they love the dogs, but they do not come close to understanding them.

People who are experienced breeding and raising dogs would never take this kind of risk.

Absolutely. A Black VP will guarantee 92-95% of the Black vote.

Maybe Kamala Harris?

They want Warren in the race to split the youth vote between Sanders and Warren…

Funny, but Liz Warren is the one lady whose hair we don’t hear about. How real is it?

It doesn’t look 72.

It seems like it’s worse than China. Chinese coronavirus cases were highly concentrated in Hubei, in the US we’ve already got two main outbreaks in CA and WA, with others on the way.

Chinese also weren’t shy about imposing travel bans and lockdowns. Alot of that probably wouldn’t fly here. I hope I’m wrong.

every primary the Democrats don’t move back or cancel shows they’re full of it.

either the Democrat leadership is deliberately sending millions of their own voters out there every week to get exposed to a deadly virus that ‘should’ kill thousands and thousands of them, rendering them unable to vote against Trump in November…

or they don’t believe a thing they’re saying about Covid-19, and it’s strictly about hurting Trump.

most annoying for me is how sports events i actually care about are getting canceled because of the hysteria Democrats are spreading in their naked political pursuit.

She and Buttigieg (and Beto, remember him?)

Beto and Butto are now free to team up for the live-action Beavis and Butthead.

“Is it because Black genes are super strong and ward off disease?”

Disease–as in “malaria”, a scourge in the antebellum south, particularly in Lowland South Carolina and similar such environs.

Sho’ nuff– dat’s wha’ dey wuz all field hands, TD.

This is actually kind of sick:
A plebbitor claiming to be Bernie Sanders dropped by the BernieBot sub-plebbit tonight asking for one last donation.
https://postimg.cc/Xpf8WdRY
https://postimg.cc/zLcw7jg0

Twitter thread claiming to be from a physical therapist who attempted to get tested:
https://postimg.cc/PpdLmv62

“How many Americans does it take to change the light bulbs?”

– – Big, big joke going around in Chinese Q/A departments.

Poor St. Patrick is rolling over in his grave in Northern Ireland.

Here’s a question: how big of a deal would it be to switch major sporting events — college basketball, NBA, NHL, and baseball — to Television Only for the duration?

It would be quite disastrous in terms in income for those sports, plus season ticket holders would be demanding refunds, not to mention that the atmosphere at the games would be completely killed.

I guess they would not have to play the national anthem at football games, so that is something.

Also it would be the thin end of the wedge, creating the expectation every flu season that public sports events will be cancelled for reasons of public health, plus think of all the planet-destroying energy and pollution that would be saved if everyone was mandated to stay home.

I think I’ll get a good blogpost out of that one, Reg! It’ll somehow involve the Great Cornholio. Who might that be, in real life?

Before you can say Ho, Lee or Phuc, an essay is already online:

Jonathan Mok
Yesterday at 8:45 AM ·

The spread of coronavirus has resulted in panic across the world — with people debating as to the severity of the situation: is this a deadly virus that we should all be afraid of? Or is it just similar to the common flu? It is without doubt that the medical effects of the COVID-19 has taken the front stage in issues across the world (and rightfully so). However, when we have been focusing solely on the health effects of the coronavirus, we fail to see the social effects that has surfaced from the spread of this virus— where racism has found yet another excuse to rear its ugly head.

Racist assaults in the past few weeks have been on the rise, with videos and stories of Asian people being targeted — be it verbally or physically.* Personally, I have had experienced several racist statements directed to me in the past weeks, some involving references to the coronavirus. However, stories and videos of racially-motivated assaults always seem like they would never happen to you. After all, people might be racist and might say things, but surely, they wouldn’t dare attack you, especially on one of the busiest streets in London?

Last Monday, at roughly 9.15pm on Oxford Street in London, I walked past a group of young men, when I saw one of them look at me (just as he walked past me) and said something to me, which I could make out the word ‘coronavirus’. I was stunned and turned around to have a look at the man made the statement. He was still staring at me as he walked past and realised I was looking at him. He shouted ‘Don’t you dare look at me, you ____’ (I could not catch the last word because of the accent). Within 3 seconds, he was in my face, together with 3/4 other young men, and a young lady (all of whom seemed no older than 20 years old, but were all more than a head taller than me). I was shocked and angry because he directed a racist remark at me and had the audacity to shout at me like I had wronged him. All of a sudden, the first punch was swung at my face and took me by surprise. When I was still shocked by the first hit, the guy delivered the second sucker punch. By then, a few passers-by had stopped and one of them tried to reason with them that 4 on 1 was not fair. The attacker’s friend tried to swing a kick at me as I was explaining to the passer-by that I hadn’t done anything at all. I tried to react in self-defence but couldn’t do anything substantial because I was still recovering from a broken finger in my master hand. The guy who tried to kick me then said, ‘I don’t want your coronavirus in my country’, before swinging another sucker punch at me, which resulted in my face exploding with blood (from my nose), where the blood was splattered all across the pavement. Still in daze and shock, the group left promptly from the scene before the police arrived. Following the incident, I followed up with a visit to the A&E and I was told that I had suffered a few fractures in my face and might need to undergo reconstructive surgery to fix some of the bones.

For those of you who know me, I hate being in the spotlight and I never liked writing posts on Facebook or any social media platform— I only see it as a platform to share memes and hopefully, bring some joy to my friends on social media. However, I felt that this incident highlighted an important issue that needed to be brought into the spotlight. I’ve studied in London for the past 2 years and every year, I am subjected to racist remarks (whether innocent or made with malice). To those people who told me that London isn’t racist, think again.

I’ve always believed that racism was grounded in stupidity— that people who actually believed one’s ‘racial group’ or ‘nationality’ defines an individual must surely be so ignorant that they deserve my pity. Surely, an ethnic Chinese cannot be ‘British’ or a white-skinned person cannot be Chinese? What makes us ‘Chinese’, ‘Indian’, ‘Malay’ or some other race? Most of us have ancestors of different races. What should we make of a Singaporean who has an English father and a Chinese mother? Is she Chinese or English? What then, should we make of an individual with bloodlines tracing from many different places? How should we classify an individual who has ancestors hailing from Africa, China, England and Italy? Racists argue that people are a certain way because of their race. But how can this argument hold when we realise that race is such a malleable concept? I have believed for long that racism is grounded in stupidity, but I realise today that to say so, is not only being kind to racists, but also gives them an excuse.

Racism is not stupidity — racism is hate. Racists constantly find excuses to expound their hatred— and in this current backdrop of the coronavirus, they’ve found yet another excuse. From refusing service to a Chinese-looking person to racially-motivated hate crimes, every single one of these acts are based on racism. People dismiss racism with statements such as ‘it’s not all of us — only a minority are racists and this does not reflect on a city/country’. While factually true, not only it does not change the fact that this is an ugly problem that has plagued humanity for a very long time, but also it belittles this problem we have. Racism has changed it form and shape through the years and it is once again rearing its ugly head in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

People may ask me why did I not fight back? Or some might even say I shouldn’t even have turned when I heard the racist remark — but do any of these answer the question: why should anyone, simply because of the colour of their skin, be subjected to abuse, in any form, verbal or physical? Why should I keep quiet when someone makes a racist remark towards me?

To the group of guys who saw fit to attack me because of my skin colour: here’s something for you— I stood up to you because I wasn’t afraid, I’ve faced far more intimidating characters in my life. And if you think ganging up on someone who is sizeably smaller than you makes you a big man — it doesn’t. It only makes every single one of you a coward who doesn’t have the balls to take someone on 1 on 1. Grow a pair.

[To anyone who saw the incident on Monday night (24 Feb 2020) at Oxford Street (just opposite the Primark at Tottenham Court Road), or have any knowledge of or evidence to the incident, please contact me or the Met Police UK to provide evidence to identify the perpetrators!]

[To the kind lady who helped videotape the incident and call the police, if you read this, please contact me I would like to have a copy of the video! Thank you!]

*(See: https://edition.cnn.com/…/coronavirus-racist-at…/index.html…)

Disclaimer update:
– If anyone has noticed, I deliberately did not include the race of my attackers because it would be going against the very message I am trying to send. It would be ridiculous that the race or skin colour of my attackers should matter. Every single individual can be the subject of racism, and the converse holds true: every single individual can possibly be racist. I am not arguing against racism against Asians, I am merely highlighting that this time, Asians happen to be the target. I believe racism in any form is unacceptable. I’ve seen comments in my post that have made me truly upset, where people point fingers to certain races, be it to blame them for the attack or for the origin of the coronavirus. These comments, while some of them founded on well intentions, fail to see the message I am trying to send.

– This post is intended to bring people together and not divide us based on arbitrary things such as skin colour. Comments demonising a group of a certain skin colour (white or black etc) completely defeats the purpose! Even a Chinese can be racist towards a Chinese, and while it is confusing, the point remains that the demonising of a certain assumed race of my attackers only serve to further the message of the racists. It only seeks to divide us even further and it is unfair towards the billions of white/black-skinned people who are defined by their individuality- who are so much more than their skin colour! Demonising a certain group of people because of their skin colour is racist in itself and its completely unacceptable.

– Sure, attack me, say I deserve it, call me out for being fake news — it is your right to do so, and dialogue is important in today’s society. I appreciate people doubting the credibility of the post, some may intentionally try to hurt me, while others are merely suspicious. I do not blame you because I think it is absolutely necessary for us to be suspicious of everything we see on the Internet. This is my side of the story- I felt targeted because of my race, because of the words said to me, and if you doubt the veracity, I accept that it is your prerogative to do so.

– However, PLEASE, do not use this post as a platform to continue to propagate racist tendencies- humanity has suffered enough. People of any skin colour can and have suffered racism at some point in our lives and the main point is to realise this is an issue, try to BE THE CHANGE, instead of contributing to racism.

– On a lighter note, I am aware that the injury to my eye has caused much confusion. Just to clarify, the injury was to the right eye. One image was taken in the mirror and hence, the laterally inverted image. The image that seems so be much swollen was taken as a selfie– and the bruising only developed in the following day.

– I would like to thank everyone for their kind words. And even those with unkind things to say, thank you for playing your role in spreading this message. It’s been over a week since the incident and the superficial injuries have healed considerably quickly (due to the regular placing of ice packs on my eye).

– If you have reached here, thank you so much for reading till the end of this post. I just want to say I hope we can all work together to stamp out racism in this world (regardless of whom it is against) and build a better future!

Midget Mike: whatta maroon.

Tay-haas weed say here. Tay-haas… y-y-yor inna Cuban nayba hood

I feel like Mike really gets me as a Texan after watching this pic.twitter.com/uw9R60vQ3H

— Jessica O’Donnell 🏈 (@heckyessica) March 3, 2020

Biden has to know that picking Hillary as his running mate is akin to signing his own death warrant.

Rather in the same way that Julius Caesar regretted appointing Brutus as his VP.

G.I. Joe with Kung Fu Grip (1970s) – Classic TV Commercial

Maybe the bright future where you can work from anywhere foretold during the Information Superhighway fad of 1993 is finally coming true?

All the firms contorted into salarying dead-weight HR-DIE managers must be wondering about this. On the other hand there’s the Silicon Valley shibboleth (famously endorsed by Marissa Mayer) that routine permission for people to work from home is slacking/unclubbable/morally suspect– Joshua Fluke talks about this from time to time on his YouTube channel, so I guess that nostrum is not going anywhere. Cf. the American college industry

Good prediction.

OT: Fat Albert on the loose in Indy!

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect who abducted and sexually assaulted an underage girl. Police say he was driving an old tan SUV. https://t.co/FlnprAnQsu

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) March 3, 2020

Actually, her poll numbers are low because nobody talks about her–because she challenged our Zionist foreign policy, and was blackballed by the MSM and the DNC.

She’s the dream candidate on paper. But she dared pretend America isn’t a vassal state.

I hate young people so much. Imagine spending $150 on some seasonal crap in a video game, but oh it’s alright here take my money Mr Commie. I guess it’s better that he didn’t waste it on some female streamer or something else equally as ridiculous.

Well, she’s Samoan, so.

He (Obama) could really emerge now as The Hero Who Saved the Dems and Took Down Trump, if he steps up and energetically champions Biden on the campaign trail. And people as serious as Tucker Carlson have expressed fears that Michelle could hop in the race.

That’s quite the sketch. Apparently one place we haven’t made technological advancements is in the area of suspect drawings.

James Comey has endorsed Biden.

The prominence of Never-Trump Republicans in the media (on MSNBC in particular) and their aversion to Sanders has been really helpful to Biden.

Apparently, bats have sort of unique immune systems due to the filthy conditions that they live in (caves that are knee deep in shit). Rather than fighting off viruses their immune system sort of calls a truce with them. Otherwise they would exhaust themselves in eternal battle.

Maybe that’s why the Chinese eat bats – the same reason cannibals eat humans – to get their mana. Do you get a bat’s immune system from consuming bat soup? Or do you just end up in critical care from a coronavirus infection?

How about people experiencing Covid-19? People experiencing death?

Tulsi won one delegate from American Samoa

Finally, some good news.

This means they have to let her onto the next debate, unless they discover a new rule in the meantime to exclude her. (“Valid only in the continental United States. Does not apply to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or minor Pacific Island possessions.”)

Give this man (commenter Abe) an award.

Give this man (commenter Abe) an award.

Tulsi won one delegate from American Samoa.

She’s tied with William Weld!

Sad, because she’s the last sane (and non-senescent) one extant.

The market isn’t efficient — its corrupt and prone to cronyist shennanigans and nonsense….which is why wealth inequality continues to get worse….on top of the fact “they” aka the top 1% are doing and have done for the past 25 odd years to our industrial base what they did to Russia in the 1990s until Putin slowed but probably didn’t totally stop the 1% looting of Russia’s corporate and industrial base.

The Wall Street and finance type parasites do this here via Carl Icahn type corporate raids that destroy otherwise healthy companies, junk bond dumps like what Miliken or whatever his name is did back in the day and now the LBO takeovers of healthy companies like the grocery chain Winn Dixie that I used to work for — that’s now saddled with loads of unhealthy, unpayable debt and some private equity parasite is out there milking the company like a vampire as they slowly bleed them into nothingness. In my old home area before I moved they’ve shuttered 2 of the old Winn Dixie stores, leaving 3 left. There used to be I think like 12 in the 1990s….

I dunno….anyway Bernie as I’ve said before CAN’T win. Wall Street and the various zillionaires simply put will not allow it. Theres just too much market and labor market chaos that comes with a Bernie win. People go to college for free, student loan debt is written off instead of paid back to the creditor parasites who benefit from the deflationary negative rate environment we’re in now where cash becomes valued more and thus debt becomes valued more….

Imagine if the poor could go to college….that means they actually get to chase their dream careers again — whether that’s trade school or basketweaving 101. Screw flipping hamburgers at Wendy’s or stocking shelves at Walmart. Who needs that noise?

That means wages and benefits go up because of an artificial shortage of labor….and Wall Street & corporate America simply put cannot have that.

Even if Bernie slogs it out to the convention — there will be backdoor super delegate shennanigans that will make sure Biden has the nomination — and then he will lose to Trump. Probably in a landslide.

OT: This may be the stupidest article about Trump ever. Wired claims that the election of Trump messed up the sex ratio of babies born in Ontario.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/trump-canada-baby-sex-ratio?fbclid=IwAR0ieTgvcUylkTwylrjW0xuCWeWJ6qZHuVQ80a2Ei3msklyIjBjGGkSPDf8

Best tweet of the campaign:

Super Tuesday, baby! Yeah! pic.twitter.com/X3gdptfyEK

— Josh Holmes (@HolmesJosh) March 3, 2020

ugh… now THAT’s a depressing proposition.

Both Biden or Sanders could drop dead at any point. (i don’t mean this cruelly; just that they’re getting on in years)

President Stacey Abrams would be like listening to a BLM rally every morning and a MeToo rally every night. let’s hope it doesn’t come to pass.

The United States and its Armed Forces no longer exist:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/americans-will-soon-see-more-us-military-members-turbans-beards-hijabs

Americans could soon begin seeing the unusual sight of US military service members walking around in Islamic hijab and other religious garb like turbans.

This after the United States Air Force dramatically changed its dress code policy last month to allow airmen to wear religious apparel so long as it presents an overall “professional and well-groomed appearance.”

Folks, it’s over.

The California early results are not too bad for the right.

A giant statewide school spending bond is going down. Scott Sherman, an actual conservative Republican, may advance to the 2nd round of the open SD mayor race, which was expected to be yet another Corporate Dem Jewess v Gay Mexican race.

Bloomberg coming in 2nd in large parts of the state. Lots of GOP primary votes for Trump despite it not being competitive: 113,000 just in early votes just in San Diego.

A stupid hotel tax increase might pass here, currently it is only down by 2%. Unfortunately “tax the tourists!” can be an effective argument.

Here’s a question: how big of a deal would it be to switch major sporting events — college basketball, NBA, NHL, and baseball — to Television Only for the duration?

It looks like this has now happened for the Arnold Sports Festival scheduled for later this week.

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/ap/ap_region/governor-most-of-arnold-sports-festival-to-be-athletes-only/article_28c87372-6e96-5cbd-8498-e9969cf78db8.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8072127/Arnold-Schwarzeneggers-Sports-Festival-bans-spectators-cancels-expo-coronavirus-concerns.html

I don’t think morbidly obese, DMV-worker Stacey Abrams can win a national elective office. She’s too repulsive. The more electable POC is someone reasonably presentable like Kamala Harris.

Welcome to the Third World shithole USSA:

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1234977560926113792

Slow down. She will probably end up with 2 because the other candidates besides her and Bloomberg aren’t viable.

Bernie would probably do a better job painting a chicken coop than Joe would do baking blintzes.

Good news in the CA House primaries:

1. In the exurban LA district that elected Katie Hill, the bisexual thrupple relationship, tatted up, naked selfie taking, pothead over a GOP incumbent, (1) the stronger GOP candidate is headed to the next round and (2) the GOP candidates combined for 55% of the vote, despite the fact the big race is for president and only competitive at the Dem side.

Upshot: 80% chance the GOP retakes this US House seat (CA-25). Image search Katie Hill with safe mode off if you want to see who California elected in 2018, naked and hitting a bong! Or maybe don’t.

2. Hilarious looking Giant Mexican Lesbian Georgette Gomez is advancing to the general against stacked young billionairess Sara Jacobs for a Dem v Dem rematch.

3. Issa is Back, and will soon be my Congressman!

4. As with Katie Hill’s district, a couple of Dem 2018 pickups in OC show higher GOP turnout. These are all places that elected GOP candidates for a long time, then dumped them after Trump and the House GOP INCREASED their income taxes.

Why aren’t schools closed in Washington? The Seattle area is currently where Wuhan was in the first week of January. It got so bad in Wuhan that the city was locked down in the third week of January. Why not act decisively now before it gets that bad?

Because Racism, duh.

OT – Crabs rotting in Chesapeake Bay:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-life-or-death-us-marylands-seafood-industry-brink-crisis-amid-h-2b-visa-program-cap

“Blue crabs are an integral part of our state’s heritage and our economy,” said Secretary of Agriculture Joe Bartenfelder.

Actual Marylanders………………….not so much.

Kamala, who dated her married 60 year old boss when she was in her 20s, was rewarded with a no-show state job, has a dry barren womb, grew up in Canada, and has a ball-busting DMV supervisor personality?

I don’t see it happening.

In a very real sense (that is to say, on television) Obama is his running mate. Because Biden’s commercials are pretty much all Obama.

It’s nice that Joe Biden has found an IBF (Imaginary Black Friend).

Well, that’s 2 straight LA County elections that I have been disenfranchised from voting in. 11/19 the Black lady in Hawthorne more or less threw my ballot away because I’m a 60+ White male and today a 2-3 hour line at 7:30pm outside the Hawthorne Public Library that I wasn’t gonna stand in because they probably would have deleted my vote because I’m a 60+ White male.

To be precise, she is 5/16ths Samoan, 10/16ths NW European (primarily or wholly colonial-American and German, per paper-genealogy and corroborated by her 23andMe), 1/16th Other European.

I have commented here before that Gabbard is really of “US Military Ethnicity.” Maybe better expressed as “(fringe of the) US Empire Ethnicity.” Several of the generations involved in the racial mixing that led to Tulsi Gabbard involved cases of local women who met single white men who were flung to the far corners of the early US empire by the military or comparable ventures:

What’s most notable about Tulsi’s father is that he seems characteristic of what I have sometimes thought of as “the U.S. Military Ethnicity,” which one tends to come into contact with at the margins of the informal empire.

I would define these people as lacking strong ties to a rooted ethnocultural nation/people, who owe their existence to U.S. military deployments (often, to soldiers’ pairings with local women). The U.S. military and the empire offer such people a coherent identity, instead of having to say/think “I am mixed [such] and [such].”

Tulsi Gabbard’s father is the grandson of a U.S. sailor who married a Samoan while on shore leave after WWI, which is just one among several of the interracial unions in Tulsi’s dad’s background. I do think this partial, deep ‘military ethnicity’ paternal origin cannot but inform Tulsi’s personal identity [….] This could well explain her decision to join the U.S. military herself in the early 2000s, despite her essentially non-belligerent personality. She was embracing her roots.

(Tulsi’s reclusive husband is highly racially ambiguous, even moreso than Gabbard herself. If they have a child, it’ll be racially indeterminate in the extreme. But, then, it’s Hawaii…)

(As an intellectual exercise, what is the ethnonationalist option for Gabbard? It would be to find another part-white, part-Islander man; new ethnicities can and do form this way, but it would need a few generations of stability.)

So who’s winning? The American voting system is such a clusterfuck that I literally have no idea who might win until Presidential Election Night.

Oh dear God:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bernie-supporting-denver-councilwoman-encourages-people-infected-coronavirus-attend-maga

“How the hell do these people get in this country?”

She really does look like one of those 60s Planet of the Apes masks #justiceforRoseanne

This month’s Arnold Classic bodybuilding and strength sports show in Ohio (wonder where it got that name …) will be held without spectators except for the final round, all the preliminaries will be just competitors, judges, and officials. Its associated expo for fitness-related products will be cancelled completely.

Excuse, please. Honorable picture is required of famous detective from Honolulu Police Department.

Also Number One Son, Key Luke.

Stories date to the 1920’s. An East Asian protagonist / hero rather than antagonist was a welcome novelty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan

The story behind this story is interesting. It all started with the case of Goldman v. Weinberger, 475 U.S. 503 (1986) (a United States Supreme Court case in which S. Simcha Goldma, a Jewish Air Force officer, was denied the right to wear a yarmulke when in uniform on the grounds that the Free Exercise Clause applies less strictly to the military than to ordinary citizens). But then our cowardly Congress overruled the Supreme Court decision and passed it by attaching to the 1988 National Defense Authorization Act, and signed by (then senile) Reagan. It provides for a general rule that “a member of the armed forces may wear an item of religious apparel while wearing the uniform of the member’s armed force.”

As is the usual case with laws, the 1988 Congress (and President) didn’t think that allowing yarmulke’s will eventually lead to hijabs and turbans.

It is also the reason conservatives have to think carefully about “privatizing” education through vouchers and other state funding. Today they may want “values” based/quality education etc., but they can’t do anything when it will turn into state funded madrasas.

Last Monday, at roughly 9.15pm on Oxford Street in London, I walked past a group of young men, when I saw one of them look at me (just as he walked past me) and said something to me, which I could make out the word ‘coronavirus’. I was stunned and turned around to have a look

All of a sudden, the first punch was swung at my face and took me by surprise. When I was still shocked by the first hit, the guy delivered the second sucker punch.

If anyone has noticed, I deliberately did not include the race of my attackers because it would be going against the very message I am trying to send

Assuming anything close to this highly-suspect event happened, there is more than one way to interpret the “I deliberately did not include the race of my tormentors.”

It’s early in the countdown and have not looked at mail in ballots which favor democrats, but the numbers you listed are very encouraging, if Trump wins this year, we take back the house. Up north in CA 10, a quanetssential CA district in terms of demographics and income, long time incumbent rep Jeff Denham was defeated last year by a Silicon Valley planted kid Josh Harder, I see that he is trailing with <40% vote also.

Let’s separate the turbans from the hijabs. Turban (Sikh) guys have done a pretty damn good job of fighting for their host countries, wherever they reside. Not being tied to her home country helps them adopt a host country easily. That’s not the case with let’s say a Muslim or Hindu who will always have allegiance to the home country.

Bloomberg WINS Marin County AND Napa County, home of Napa Valley wine country.

Humboldt County, aka California Weed Country, Bernie wins 4-1 over Biden and 8-1 over Bloomie.

Steve’s pick for LA’s DA, incumbent semi-conservative black lady Jackie Lacey, crushes her Soros SJW/BLM challenger.

Yesterday her elderly husband chased BLM protesters off their lawn with a drawn pistol.

neither of them have to “win” on looks or charm if they get in as VP.

Then if Biden/Sanders is no longer fit to serve or if they start looking feeble when running for reelection…
It could put them in.

Biden himself is running on not much more “i was Obama’s VP” and you’ve been hearing my name for years!

(i don’t really like Harris, but she’s just powerhungry, not an ideologue (afaict).

Abrams strikes me as an oppression true believer with axes to grind)

Why aren’t schools closed in Washington? The Seattle area is currently where Wuhan was in the first week of January. It got so bad in Wuhan that the city was locked down in the third week of January. Why not act decisively now before it gets that bad?

This strange virus does not target children. Schools are not such a priority.

Otherwise Wuhan is not Washington on so many levels. This virus attacks the lungs and frankly Wuhan China in winter was maybe the most favorable location on earth for maximum impact.

Yes there was a catastrophe at the Washington critical care home. Very sad but not representative of the epidemic.

Some Americans are going to get very sick but don’t expect a mass die off in the USA.

Mass die off occurred in a very dense population of heavy smoking East Asians (unusual ACE2 cell receptor lung biology) living in the world’s worst air pollution along with poor medical hygiene conditions.

Will Hillary be Biden’s running mate? Her predictit score is rising again

PredictIt has been on a true roller coaster ride the past few days, which raises questions about its value as a data tool.

This was it for Feb. 20, two weeks ago:

From eight, suddenly now there are four (at above 1-cent buy-ins).

The four still standing now are:

– Tweetman,
– Grandpa Simpson,
– The Soviet Honeymooner, and
– Zombie-Hillary.

Back on Feb. 20, AnotherDad reacted to the PredictIt numbers by asking “Where’s Pence?”

AnotherDad says:
February 20, 2020 at 4:05 pm GMT • 100 Words

Where’s Pence?

Trump’s 73, turning 74 in a few months. Social security actuarial tables have chance of death for a year at 3%. Granted Trump seems like he’s in good health and he’ll have 1st class response … but there’s also assisination or “i’m tired of this bullshit, screw it.”

Pence should clock in at a couple percent. He’s got to be a better pick than Hillary. (Hillary? Seriously? Who are these people?)

A surprising development Tuesday evening is that Pence’s stock briefly jumped.

As vote totals came in and affected perceived outcome probabilities and thus PredictIt numbers, people began buying Pence. He shot up to 2 cents. He’s back down to 1 cent as of this writing, but he was at 2-cents a while; people were buying. (Other: Bloomberg dropped to 1 cent quickly after first polls closed. Hillary went up to 3 cents. Bernie went down to 10 cents, and has lost still further ground as of this writing., but that may be panic-selling.)

The situation about the middle of the 9pm hour EST, as I observed it (implied-probabilities to be elected president on Nov. 3, 2020, as I calculate them, reflecting immediate reaction by the market to Super Tuesday results):

– 51% Trump
– 33% Biden
– 10% Bernie
– 3% Hillary
– 2% Mike Pence
– 1% All Others

Apparently one place we haven’t made technological advancements is in the area of suspect drawings.

A police sketch artist once explained to me that standard computer facial files are never as varied as actual human faces, and that her department had tried and then abandoned a computer system. It wasn’t as flexible as a real artist, nor as fast. No idea how long it takes for a police sketch artist to burn out and quit, but the fact that they must keep some stuffed animals around for certain of their witnesses is suggestive.

yeah.. seems suspicious

“oh look, a guy i hate because he and people like him have a highly infectious disease! Let’s all go hit him with our fists and make fluids come out of him and all over us. That’ll show him! ”

not that street thugs are smart, but still

Clearly the best way to allay xenophobic fears of coronavirus is to physically contact and spread the bodily fluids of those you suspect of having it.

ACE2

We’re approaching one month (AFAIK) since this theory started to circulate.

I’ve tried looking into, looking for serious research it. Found a few Chinese medical researchers publishing on the theory, some for and some against.

From Western scholars, nothing.

In the West perhaps we can say there are indirect allusions to the ACE2 hypothesis embedded in the “Don’t discriminate against East Asians! Don’t pass on racist fake news about COVID19!” type of PSAs we are sometimes blasted with.

When will the ACE2 Truther Movement begin?

It’s early in the countdown and have not looked at mail in ballots which favor democrats, but the numbers you listed are very encouraging, if Trump wins this year, we take back the house. Up north in CA 10, a quanetssential CA district in terms of demographics and income, long time incumbent rep Jeff Denham was defeated last year by a Silicon Valley planted kid Josh Harder, I see that he is trailing with <40% vote also.

I think a lot of this is going to depend on the top of the ticket for the Dems. My guess is they will do much better if it’s Biden than if it’s Bernie (and of course it’s much more likely to be Biden after tonight).

This cycle is depending on personal beefs and timing issues more than any other. There’s still a lot of delegates to be won or lost and the next big issue is going to be the extent to which Bernie goes negative on Joe in the upcoming debates and ad buys.

If he does, whatever he tries is likely to stick since there’s lots of material available and Joe is not remotely well spoken. For the Establishment Dems this is the worst-case scenario, because Joe will be taking damage in the primary that could hurt him in the general election. Otoh, if Bernie goes same ol same ol, Joe just waltzes into the nomination, whereas if he turns negative it could be Bernie’s.

Also how motivated is Bloomberg going to be to continue funding Dem candidates, in particular will he hold a grudge against the party for humiliating him in his first debate?

There’s quite a few twists in the tail yet, and this doesn’t even include the general.

What happened? Joe Biden went to Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, then to F.A.M.E., and then to Twin Towers and he still lost to that dirty Commie Bernie Sanders who combs his hair with a Balloon!

Biden needs to give it up before he embarrasses himself even more. D’s need to maneuver Gay Pete as the candidate knowing he’ll lose in 2020, but have a better chance in 2024 when half of the country has switched their birth sex.

Unfortunately, it hasn’t occurred to anyone until the last month or so that there needs to be more research on ACE 2 receptors. We still don’t know anywhere near enough about the effect of viruses on them.

ACE 2 (the enzyme that is aimed at the ACE 2 receptor), appears to be something that is necessary for your heart and kidney function. There are ACE 2 receptors in the heart and kidneys. My suspicion is that some patients experience a tag-team effect with 2 viruses, Covid-19 and a common respiratory virus. The common virus gives the patient some lung damage via pneumonia or bronchitis, and Covid-19 takes advantage of this opening to penetrate to the heart along the oxygenated blood path that is being sent from the lungs to the heart muscle. Once Covid-19 attacks the ACE 2 receptors in the heart, it may stop the heart from beating. This may be what we’re seeing when people just collapse dead in the street. We know that people with heart conditions tend not to do well when they get Covid-19. This is only a theory, though.

I think a lot of this is going to depend on the top of the ticket for the Dems. My guess is they will do much better if it’s Biden than if it’s Bernie (and of course it’s much more likely to be Biden after tonight).

I think they’d be better with Bernie.

Biden really isn’t offering anything other than being not Trump. He also isn’t a moderate on guns or abortion.

I just don’t see independents caring enough to switch from Trump.

Bernie understands that the health care system needs big changes and I could see him pulling independents and even some Republicans.

TULSI WINS A DELEGATE IN AMERICAN SAMOA. She is back on the debate stage, unless the DNC changes the rules!

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 4, 2020

DNC wastes no time in announcing they will rig the next debates to exclude Tulsi https://t.co/7iLgaILb6e

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 4, 2020

It is clearly time for the role of the Irish in construction to revert to the digging of footings.

How Elizabeth Warren lost Massachusetts on Super Tuesday — and reached the nadir of her bid for the White House https://t.co/o72KWqav89

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 4, 2020

Alas the Paper Of Record doesn’t have a report, but as neither the Guardian nor Evening Standard are reporting the race of the attackers, I’m assuming they are black.

OT but Angry Lesbian news from Greece.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/we-left-fearing-for-our-lives-doctors-set-upon-by-mob-in-lesbos

A group of doctors who flew to Lesbos to volunteer at the island’s infamous Moria migrant camp have described how they were forced to flee after being set upon by a mob wielding nail-headed cudgels.

The attack was the the latest in a series of violent incidents targeting international aid workers, amid an increasingly hostile climate which has prompted several NGOs to withdraw from the Mediterranean island.

“We left fearing for our lives,” said Dr Victoria Bradley, an Irish GP who was among the medics. “It was very, very frightening.”

Her voice still cracking from “fear and exhaustion,” Bradley described how the eight-car convoy she and fellow doctors were travelling in was surrounded by an angry mob as they left Moria, the reception facility where over 22,000 men, women and children are holed up in deplorable conditions.

“When we finished the clinic we couldn’t take the main road because of blockades and so walked up through the olive groves where some cars came to collect us. Not long after, we were stopped by maybe 50 men with cudgels, large heavy sticks with nails in them. They smashed our windscreen and then one man, a huge man, literally thrust his foot through my [backseat] window and tried to kick my head,” said Bradley speaking from the airport in Mytilene, the island’s capital.

Bradley had been due to stay on the island for a week, but after the incident on Sunday, the medics decided to withdraw en masse the next day.

The violence has further exposed the explosive tensions on the island, long on the frontline of the refugee crisis – and now bracing for a potentially massive influx of asylum-seekers after Turkey’s abrupt decision to open its frontiers to “millions” of people hoping to reach Europe.

NGOs have been increasingly blamed for facilitating the arrival of migrants on Lesbos. Volunteers’ vehicles have been smashed as suspicion has spread that aid organisations have actively encouraged migratory flows.

On Tuesday authorities reported that an NGO-run warehouse, storing clothes and blankets, had gone up in flames on another Aegean island, Chios. The fire, whose cause remains unknown, broke out at 3.30am.

Police claim to have caught NGO workers red-handed “communicating with traffickers” on the Turkish coast.

Also OT, CNN vow to up their iSteve content generation.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/cnn-style-beauty-editors-note/index.html

Much has been done to break down the standards and norms that have marginalized so many people, but there’s a lot more to do. We hope the new beauty section will become a platform for a variety of voices to share their own lived experiences. For the launch, Chinese American photographer Andrew Kung wrote about the desexualization of Asian American men, and the writer, activist and artist Alok V. Menon contributed a powerful story about their own experience of beauty as a visibly gender-nonconforming person.