Oh no Bernie what is you doin baby https://t.co/OUasF5c46A
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NO BERNIE NO
WAL-MART FREAKS OF THE WEEK
Whew, it’s okay everyone. Bottom biscuits are still around in 2020.
Hiding in plain sight. Genius undercover move.
Looks like Flavor Flav’s flavor is Campbell’s.
Narcissists, Psychopaths, & Manipulators Are More Likely To Engage In “Virtuous Victim Signaling”, Study Finds
Authored by Elizabeth Nolan Brown via Reason.com,
New study links virtue signaling to “Dark Triad” traits. Being accused of “virtue signaling” might sound nice to the uninitiated, but spend much time on social media and you know that it’s actually an accusation of insincerity. Virtue signalers are, essentially, phonies and showoffs – folks who adopt opinions and postures solely to garner praise and sympathy or whose good deeds are tainted by their need for everyone to see just how good they are. Combined with a culture that says only victimhood confers a right to comment on certain issues, it’s a big factor in online pile-ons and one that certainly contributes to social media platforms being such a bummer sometimes.
RUFF NIGHT
Letter from Great Britain – 07-18-20
“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and now is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.”
NOTE – If anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: [email protected].
One website about the UK is always worth reading because the author, Dr Richard North, is an experienced health professional and provides useful information on a daily basis. http://eureferendum.com/
After a wonderful start to our ‘pub-opening season’ we are beginning to see just what has happened to our progress towards ‘normal’ – but is not such good news after all. Revellers are being urged to remember the importance of social distancing as pubs gear up for the second weekend of trade since the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures.
Crowds in London’s Soho the first Saturday night were described as being “out of control” and authorities are keen to avoid similar scenes. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has told people to “stay safe” and wear a face mask when “out and about”.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Senator Ted Kennedy drives car off bridge at Chappaquiddick Island – 1969
Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.
On the evening of July 18, 1969, while most Americans were home watching television reports on the progress of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, Kennedy and his cousin Joe Gargan were hosting a cookout and party at a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, an affluent island near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
CORPORATE CANCEL CULTURE
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Legally speaking, there are no such things as ‘public rights,’ as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as ‘the public.'”
Lysander Spooner
“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.”
James F. Cooper
“First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.”
Mark Twain
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Thomas Sowell
The One Thing that Can (Temporarily) Derail Gold’s Bull Market
From John Rubino
Bull markets are surprisingly stressful. Just as your favorite asset class takes off – when you should be basking in the glow of big capital gains – the chatter starts about an imminent top and how it’s time to start taking money off the table. After all, the last thing you want is to be round-tripped.
That’s the case now with gold as it approaches its all-time U.S. dollar high. So let’s consider what might derail the metal’s latest – and potentially greatest – bull market.
The main possibilities include:
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Leaving tire marks on the road is now a hate crime
Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Jail time in Colorado town for not wearing a mask
Englewood, Colorado, a major suburb of Denver, has made it a crime to leave your home without wearing a mask.
And ‘crime’ means crime. They’re not talking about a fine or slap on the wrist.
Anyone over six years old must wear a mask at all times, anywhere in public or in private businesses. And the punishment for breaking the law is up to a year in jail.
By comparison, Colorado sentencing guidelines provide similar penalties for felonies like illegal weapons possession, forgery, theft, and failing to register as a sex offender.
For authoritarians, any silly little law they can think of comes with a year in prison.
It’s like an automatic stamp, new law, BOOM– year in prison.
Just your weekly reminder that there is no crime so trivial that the government won’t throw you in a cage over.
Click here to read the full story.
Leaving tire marks on the road is now a hate crime
Canadian police are searching for a suspect in a Ford Mustang accused of a “gesture of hate.”
The car peeled out and left tire marks on a crosswalk.
But this wasn’t just any crosswalk. This was a gay pride rainbow crosswalk.
So now police are asking for information to locate the perp of this heinous crime.
Was this actually motivated by hate? Who knows!?
Maybe the guy just peeled out. Maybe it was a teenager who saw a freshly painted target on the street, and wanted to tarnish it.
Immature? Sure. A gesture of hate? We don’t know.
The point is, the media and public now have this knee-jerk reaction to anything that involves a special victim group.
It MUST be motivated by HATE! There can be no other explanation.
Click here to read the full story.
UK will fine parents for kids missing school next semester
The UK will force students back to school in the fall. And if parents are uncomfortable with that, too bad.
The Education Secretary said parents will be fined for keeping their children home from school.
Parents will not be allowed to take their own child’s health and safety into account and make the decision for themselves. The state will decide.
It is legal, however, to entirely homeschool your child in the UK, just like in the states.
And that is a freedom that feels more important every day.
Click here to read the full story.
Cops track fast food order to bust party violating lockdown
Ambulance workers eating at a KFC in Australia somehow caught wind of a large order coming in to the fast food establishment.
So naturally, instead of minding their own business, they called the police. That’s what you do in the time of Covid– snitch on your neighbors.
Police followed the delivery driver to the home that ordered the large amount of fried chicken. And sure enough, some horrible criminals were having a birthday party.
But don’t worry, the Australian police issued a total of A$26,000 (over $18,000 US) worth of fines to the partiers.
That will teach them to cower in fear at home instead of living their lives.
Covid-19 is all the excuse authorities need to go full-on police state.
Click here to read the full story.
Writer canceled for signing letter against cancel culture
Harper’s Weekly published an open letter warning against “cancel culture.”
It pointed out that the fear of saying the wrong thing at work or online is stifling free speech, killing open discussion, and chilling the exchange of ideas.
And this wasn’t some right-wing group. The letter was signed by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, and Gloria Steinem– all famous leftists.
A liberal writer from Vox, Matt Yglasias, assumed he was in good company when he also signed the letter.
But the letter was also signed by “anti-trans” people like the feminist author of Harry Potter, JK Rowling.
So a trans person, Emily VanDerWerff, who also works for Vox decided to report Matt for signing the letter. Emily also posted the letter to the Twitter thought police, but told her 70K followers that she totally wasn’t trying to get Matt in trouble.
Naturally it didn’t take long for the Twitter Inquisition to persecute Matt for his ‘hate speech’. He signed a letter that was also signed by an anti-trans person… which makes Matt anti-trans by association.
Since he was now the victim of the cancel-culture mob-attack, Matt apologized and denounced his signature on the letter.
He said he didn’t realize he was co-signing with anti-trans people.
In other words: I didn’t realize I was supporting free speech alongside some people who don’t think the exact same way as me!
Shame on You – Not CV
Guest Post by tr4head
Mask mandates across the Nation are seemingly being followed without rational thought by ignorant, obsequious people willing to do whatever a tyrannical government says. I see whole families with young children walking the streets of my town with masks donned in the heat of summer. Not to mention those people driving alone with masks on. I can’t imagine the media induced fear they must have. People don’t wear masks in their cars, alone, unless they are in a state of terror about their world, the things they touch and the air they breathe. If not fear, they are making a political statement for Marxism. In either case, it’s not good for America and Americans. The mainstream media thinks it’s nothing to wreck human lives that are in their path. Misery loves company.
Do This Before Politicians Make You Pay Your “Fair Share”
Bloated governments around the world are faced with worsening fiscal conditions. Strapped for cash, they continue to squeeze every drop of wealth that’s within their reach through money printing and higher taxes. Today, we ask Jeff Thomas to weigh in on how to ensure you don’t become collateral damage in the next crisis.
International Man: We see this trend playing out around the world in the US, across Europe and in third world countries. Desperate governments are always in need of more capital. What does that mean for people who earn money and want to keep it?
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Government & Media Induced Psychological Terrorism
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Anyone who ever took a class in psychology will recognize that what the media and government are doing is clear psychological terrorism, which appears to be directed at breaking the bonds of civilization right down to the core. Civilization is created by people coming together and bonding. This is the foundation of a civilization built upon a mutual benefit for all.
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FRIDAY FAIL
Covid Capitalism
Guest Post by The Zman
For most people, buying a car is not a pleasant experience. Getting a new car is always nice, even if you are not a car person, but the process of getting it is almost always a hassle due to how cars are sold in America. Getting a used car can eliminate the hassle of the dealership, but then you have to worry about getting hustled by someone trying to unload their lemon onto a sucker. The car market is extreme capitalism, where no one gives a sucker an even break or smartens up a chump.
Study Finds Connection Between Wearing A Mask And Being A Big Sissy
U.S.—Studies have shown that wearing masks can help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, but a new alarming study shows that wearing a mask has a downside: It greatly increases your chance of being a big sissy.
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