We had my union AGM via GoTo Meeting yesterday, and let me tell you – the Minneapolis riots were better organized. We started late, to make sure everyone got in; we constantly rewound, for people who got confused; and we repeated the same talking points about management.
Christ – what a waste.
I’ve been management, and the belief that we spend our days plotting against the employees is laughable. We were barely more prepared than they were. Most times, people end up talking their way into a grievance while trying to avoid some other scenario.
The exciting parts of the meeting were when they announced people for positions & people furiously unmuted their mics in order to decline the position. Half the table was left unfilled, which is about right.
I, of course, having been management, am Kaepernick’d from ever competing for one of those jobs because I was a turncoat to the movement. Which is fine with me. I gave up my union-bashing a long time ago – I see the need, but when they won’t reform themselves they become just as corrupt – so I just sit in the corner, doing my job & counting down to the pension. At least I enjoy what I do, and the antipathy people feel towards me means I don’t have to get deeply involved in the cause.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
Honest to God, I don’t know what to recommend.
- The only sports-related things are
- ESPN’s “30 for 30” on Lance Armstrong.
- Episode 2 is on at 9:00PM. (Also on TSN)
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – 7:00 PM | FS1 (Replay)
- The Food City/Supermarket Heroes 500 from Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.
- ESPN’s “30 for 30” on Lance Armstrong.
- ABC has their block of game show remakes, with Family Feud, Press Your Luck & Match Game, starting at 8:00PM.
- Food Network has their collection of weirdoes making edible food out of inedible ingredients.
- The Snowpiercer TV show is on TNT at 9:00.
- Killing Eve, which counts as Canadian content, is at 9:00 on AMC.
Or, you can keep watching the riots from various cities. Maybe someone you love will steal you a lovely dessert.
https://twitter.com/joefarrell86/status/1266912844194304000
Still hear a LOT of sirens outside
“The Little Hours.” Saw that at Sundance when it premiered. Allison Brie and Aubrey Plaza are both quite fetching in person.
Did it make Slamdance or Dance Pants? (Troy invented Dance Pants in 2019.)
Some of the ladies learned other thing during WWII……
But enough about what it’s like to have played for a single season in the NFL.
Just got back from the protest that started in Brookyln and made its way at least to Bryant Park in Manhattan.
The crowd was mostly just fed up with the bullshit. There were a couple of assholes. Including one drunk/high white guy that I thought was going to get his ass beat by fellow marchers.
The cops were suprisingly hands off for the most part. They also didn’t seem to be that organized themselves. They could have easily kept us from making to the Manhattan Bridge, but the fucked up and rather than block the entire road and sidewalk, they just formed a square.
It was only the first few blocks on the Manhattan side when they lined all of Bowery and a couple of blocks to keep us from going downtown to Police Plaza/Wall st that seemed to show any advanced thought of keeping us from going where we wanted.
Finally stopped us, at least temporarily by the main Library. A lot of people went home, but the group that kept going split into two and last I saw was heading towards Trump Tower. Don’t know how far they made it, but it was time for me to get out of Dodge at that point.
Also, the way home was my first time on the subway since early February.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkjmm5FHNk
Sounds like they did something different rather than just force violent confrontation like many other cities.
We don’t fix things or progress we just bury it with blame.
Now here is an escapist Jeep truck.
35 years ago, my dad and I restored a 1959 Willys FC-150. Customized the hell out of it, custom flat/stake bed, candy apple red with gold pinstripe flames. Original drivetrain was a dog, could not hit 55 mph on a downhill with a tailwind. Pops ended up selling it to some DMV lady in the Keys when he moved down there in the 90s. Wish he had kept it, but I don’t know why. Very cool but totally worthless.
Learned how to drive a “car” in my uncle’s 1949 Willys. Max. speed was about 50, but it would go anywhere and start when it was very cold.
I learned to drive in my dad’s 1970 Jeepster Commando made by Kaiser right before they sold Jeep to AMC. It had a 225 cubic inch Buick V6, 3-speed manual on the floor, no power features at all, no radio, no AC, rubber mats not carpet, no nothing. He traded his 1964 Corvette convertible in for it when he got assigned to Turkey. We drove that motherfucker all over Europe and Asia Minor and the US and Baja Mexico until he took it with him on his assignment to Iran in the late 70s. In 1978, he ended up selling it to some Iranian guy right before the revolution over there for $500 more than he paid for it new in 1970. It’s probably still being driven by some Revolutionary Guard cats that have removed the roof and mounted a 30 or 50 cal MG in the back. I failed my first driver’s test in it in 1975 in Redlands CA, but passed on the next try with my next door neighbor’s 1963 Galaxie 500 4-door with all options such as PS, PB, and AC.
My first driving experience wasn’t nearly that worldly; it was on a 1947 Ford tractor at the ranch, same place that the Jeep was.
I learned to drive in a 1984 Ford Ranger, five-speed stick.
The truck itself wasn’t anything special. The story that accompanies is that to teach me how to drive it he drove me to the local mall three miles from home, showed me a couple of times how to depress the clutch while hitting the gas, and then took the bus home.
It took me 90 minutes to get home, and I don’t think first gear was ever right again in that truck.
My dad was such a dick, he made my mom teach me how to drive that Jeepster. Actually, at age 83, he’s still kind of a dick. Although I did convince him to stop voting Republican back in 1990, he still has the elemental racism of anybody in their 80s.
If he didn’t want me to wreck that ride, he shouldn’t have left a rookie alone in an undriveable situation.
Maybe he hated that truck…..
HA! My gramps was very patient. I think he was in the mode of having his kids be free ranch labor and maybe regretted it a little and was patient with his grand kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Dm__ZSLc6Is&feature=emb_logo
I was waiting for this all weekend!
It’s a beauty way to go.
Dave?
In the early 1900s a man couldn’t afford proper dentures, so he made his own using melted down toothbrush handles and the teeth of a dead coyote.
Given the current circumstances, people need to start re-learning these simple but essential skills.
Someday I’ll actually publish this Hobo High Life series I’ve been musing about.
Last time I tried to do dental work on a coyote I was on peyote…….
Same mistake as always, social change doesn’t happen without a cohesive unified response.
I slept all afternoon and just got up.
What happened, did the Lakers win the championship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iqLhdInGrk
In all seriousness, I have been shocked that the rioting hasn’t featured more Kobe Bryant jerseys.
Chinese trade sanctions solved that problem. TRUMP IS WORKING!
No, but some would say the “takers” have won. Mostly on FOX News and OAN.
These mezcal old fashioneds are going to pair well with the big Lebowski and postponing existential dread
I’m about to move on from Chihuahuas to plain old Jack Daniels.
After being mostly shut in since mid December, I have figured out that I have become totally agoraphobic. I dread going anywhere, even the weekly grocery/package store runs. The wine bar re-opened, and I have no interesting in doing a cannonball back into the petri dish, playing covid Roullette. I have to go get blood drawn at Quest tomorrow for a bariatric surgery 18-month post-op appointment, and I am dreading the shit out of it.
I have a similar mindset as BBRichard below. Thinking suicide would be the easy way out. Unfortunately, I am a physical coward regarding pain, and more importantly think of how much I would be inconveniencing everyone if I took that option, especially who’s gonna feed and take care of the dogs. So, y’all are stuck with me.
Dogs are the best reason to stick around.
Got my four-year blood draw this week. After the hell that was my skin-removal recovery, it’ll be interesting to see how fucked my vitamin levels are.
As one of the bigger doomers around, as long as you minimize the amount of time you spend indoors, it’s not that big of a danger. Wear your mask, avoid anyone who isn’t, and you will hopefully be okay.
Please stick around, man.
Stay home people. You should be used to this by now.
Counterpoint: went to the beach this afternoon. Felt like a normal person for the first time in weeks.
Big trouble in Little China is on. Hooray!
My wife wondered when it was made…. 3 yrs after her birth. Ouch.
Does it still hold up?
…The movie, of course.
Fuck yeah it does.
An apple has like 50 calories while a similarly sized block of cheese has like 500; if those clowns in congress want to get my vote, they’ll do something about that!
You’re going to be suppressed, intimidated, and possibly assassinated by the Wisconsin delegation, you know. Suggest alliance with Washington State delegation.
Still applies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1dPKfxRhk0
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Hail Dolphin.
I’m a little slow to the take.
So, how and when does this all end? I think November is going to be insane.
Shit show.
Nothing changes.
If you saw the video of L.A. protesters chasing off the cops in that intersection with the burning cop car, my brother took this in the same place this morning:
Yeah, there are some good that isn’t being reported. Protesters helping to clean up what the looters destroyed. Cops kneeling in honor of the people killed by cops, or marching with the protesters.
Its giving me some hope to cling to.
The Cinci cops replaced the flag with a Blue Lives Matter flag? That doesn’t seem like a good idea.
They did that? You’re not bullshitting me?
That’s not only completely tone deaf, its also violates the damn Flag Code and pisses on the memory of everyone who fought or died died defending that flag. The real one, the American flag. The one my grandfathers, cousins and aunt fought for and the one my uncle died for.
I’d rather wipe my ass with the Blue Lives Matter flag, let alone raise it under the American flag, let alone replace it. And one week after Memory Day too!
Here ya go.
https://twitter.com/P0kes/status/1267230163521191936?s=19
I stand by my previous comment. I have nothing else I can say that doesn’t involve profanity.
The cops are the enemy. The entire institution of law enforcement needs to be torn down and replaced.
Whoa! I agree with you on this one 100%. (I’m not a pro athlete so I can’t go 110%)
Drink some Gatorade to get that extra edge!
The sugar crash took me down to maybe 22.74%
Wow, the new graphics to Grand Theft Auto look amazing. That Tanker being hijacked on the highway looks almost real.
Topical.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDLOes6akMU
Might take a stroll through Santa Monica tonight
Just had to reassure someone that no, he should not be panicking that “Antifa” is commanding murder squads to invade white neighborhoods tonight.
Not going ANYWHERE til my check from Soros clears.
Are we Purging again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfoxsfhi-kk
According to CNN we already are. Must’ve missed the siren.
(grabs Type-33 Needler and a Red Bull)
Let’s do this shit.
Anti-Fascists going out killing people. Isn’t that like a teetotaler going barhopping?
Now he’s gone to the Fuhrerbunker.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/rattled-trump-rushed-to-the-bunker-as-protesters-surrounded-the-white-house-reprot/
Hopefully it ends the same way.
Can we root for the full Mussolini/Hussein?
Asking for well me.
No. I want him to rot in prison for life and I want him to be screwed by Satan, not vice versa.
I agree. Big Mac related death is too good. Rotting away in prison is more satisfying.
In my mindcanon he pissed his pants.
My pantscannon has done that too.
The smell of farts from the McDonald he ate must be horrible.
Can someone explain to me why local businesses and stores are being looted and destroyed and public monuments are being graffitied, but yet all Trump properties are unmolested? This isn’t Legend of Zelda; you don’t need to find eight Triforce shards or free seven Sages. You can go straight to Death Mountain and f*** that pigface monster up!
It’s almost as if the looters aren’t actually part of any legitimate protest, and are just out to steal shit or stir up trouble. But a bunch of us tried to explain that yesterday, so not sure why you’re still trying to Vulcan Logic this shit.
That’s all we need…for that narcissistic motherfucker to be even MORE of a victim.
Whoa whoa whoa… it’s Barad-dûr. It’s a tower and everything.
Because the herd/ mob mentality doesn’t fucking work that way.
What we really need is for Trump to declare this National Brotherhood Week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY
Tom Lehrer should’ve been made Emperor For Life. He’s still around, so we’d be doing well right now.
I’m afraid this Lehrer scenario is more likely, given Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhZF66C1Dc
Of course, I wouldn’t rule this out, either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
What goes best with the end times? Manhattans or Remember the Maines?
Thematically, I like a nice Adios Motherfucker.
Mezcal Old Fashioneds it is
Fuck the fucking Maine (YMMV).
Tonkin Gulf is your friend.
Just got a text alert: LA has a 6 PM to 6 AM curfew.
Congrats people, you just got locked down again.
Stay home? Ok, as long as it’s only one night.
(one week ago)
“I wish the curfew would be reinstated.”
(Monkey’s Paw closes one finger)
The protests contain potassium benzoate
County wide
Here in the OC, I can stay out all night!!!
/discovers there’s nothing to do past 8:00
Well, I had enough guilt about not being with the protestors today that the chanting being audible from my apartment sounds about right
Got an earful when I voiced wanting to go out because of the whole having a special needs kid with an emergency medicine worker and all that, so I’ve just been dumping money into bail funds
My white guilt is donating its ass off
Sorry. I’m in a Christian worship mood, and with the world going to hell, this feels appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2XtRuPfaAU
Apparently Kirk Franklin and Fred Hammond had a gospel-off or something? Personally I’m a Hezekiah Walker man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuuZMg6NVeA
My favorite Christian band is that one fronted by an athesist:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/05/26/hawk-nelson-jon-steingard-doesnt-believe-god-bandmates-react/5264134002/
The beatings will continue until morale improves – Cop Logic
So, if “Antifa” is now considered a terrorist organization, as an excuse to pain anyone who is against fascism as part of it, we’re in the thoughtcrime stage. In which case:
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.
(The penalty for thoughtcrime is death.)
Both my grandfathers were Antifa back in World War II.
LIBRUL DEEP STATE TRAYTERS!!!
Ha ha ha ha! That is both hilarious and true.
When I was on a supply ship out of Yokosuka, Japan, we would always leave port a week or so after the the battle group pulled out of port, in order to give them some time to use shit up so we could then re-supply them. The day the Midway and escorts left port, the clubs were full of dependent wives from all those ships, looking for some strange for a change. A whole week of target-rich environment for the ‘tang hunters of the USS White Plains AFS-4.
Awesome.
If karma’s on our side, may all racist cops be fathers to chocolate babies in nine months.
I’m so fucking distraught that I actually WISH I was the type of person to commit suicide. Sadly, I’m stuck here with you goofballs.
Peaceful protest doesn’t work because the powers have learned that they can just ignore it.
Violent protest doesn’t work because the media can easily paint the protesters as the bad guys, and the powers know that they can just ignore these protests too and let them burn themselves out, and normalcy will return.
What does that leave us with, then? No peaceful protest and no violent protest. Someone way more creative than I am is going to have to create a new way to protest, or we have no chance to change a damn thing.
And once everything dies down, MPLS police WILL take revenge for burning down their precinct. Revenge will be brutal, it will be overkill, and it will absolutely be inevitable.
FML. Maybe I will get lucky and have a massive heart attack today.
I don’t know what to say other than that I am here, and I am listening.
I already lost one friend this month please don’t even think about making it two.
I’m not the type to do that. But thank you, and I’m sorry for your loss.
I should have said “we”.
Wish I could tell you “no, you’re wrong” but you’re among friends here at the very least.
Hoping against hope that public sentiment turns against authoritarianism just a little.
You are correct. The solution is more minorities getting involved in local politics.
Yes, but that’s a long slow road. The solution is for us (whoever “us” may be) to stop enabling cops as jackbooted assholes. Among many other things.
And you can only do that when you control their budgets. Too many people think short term and don’t bother with the long term solution that will actually work.
Yep, for sure. All those police have Avengers-level body armor and doctors don’t have face masks. Need to stop glorifying the wrong “heroes.”
Speaking from inside the hospital system, I am pretty fed up with all of the rotator cuff injuries from my colleagues jerking themselves off about how awesome they are and how hard it is for us when we are all in the cushy position of having actual jobs, the scientific knowledge to comprehend and mitigate risk, and an entire industry designed with catastrophic-level disaster contingencies in place to try to keep us safe.
I buy my ramen and lettuce from heroes.
Balls, I disagree. Places like Atlanta, Detroit and San Antonio have huge minority presences in local politics. Do you think the police forces in those cities are any less brutal than the police in much whiter American cities? I assure you that it is not the case.
I think Bulworth had it right for the solution:
“All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin’ everybody ’til they’re all the same color.”
That’s the Tiger Woods Plan.
I’m sorry, Richard. You’re among friends at least. It’s the best we got, unfortunately.
Don’t give in to hate and despair. This country didn’t get founded by defeating a king ordained by Divine Right and the most powerful empire in the world by having a more powerful army or making an ally of their enemy’s enemy. They did it by sticking together.
Also, we’ve had BLEERGH made a deal with Charon and Cerberus. You’re stuck with us until the end of the universe or until the Bengals win a playoff game, whichever comes first.
Corrupt authorities win not by sheer power, but by people being indifferent or feeling overwhelming resignation. Hell, that’s half of the colonialism playbook. Solidarity helps, it’s an act of dignity. You are not alone, man.
Philadelphia is different
Are we sure that isn’t Gritty in disguise?
I wasn’t in LA for the Rodney King riots, but I do remember racist assholes chortling about how “those animals” were so stupid that they destroyed their own neighborhoods instead of the ones where the white people lived.
Well, I guess “they” took your advice. (I don’t really think that — I think it’s further evidence that this is mostly opportunism rather than spontaneous rage.)
I was here and this feels comparable. We’ve got some organized shit going on right now directly in front of my house. Stay friendly folks.
It feels to me like the “Nature coming back” thing. The pandemic killing outdoor activity drastically changed the damage we do to the environment as a whole and it was a drop in a bucket compared to what it would take to make any meaningful change to our trajectory. Pressure on the police state to change feels immense right now, but we’re well within the margins of it being a big joke to authorities. To effect any meaningful change, you’d need the most MAGA of MAGA chuds to be willing to join in and support protest movements AND convince the vast majority of capital interests to pressure the system into police reform. We’re still at a point where a significant portion of the country would approve of tanks rolling over protestors, if they even care enough to pay attention to what’s going on.
I was here and it’s different. First off, Rodney King was from here. This is not really LA’s fight. The looting is pure opportunism.
That’s the sense that I get too.
My now-wife lived in Long Beach, and we hightailed it to Vegas for a few days. That was an awful time (again) due to awful people.