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J. Kb

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This virtue signal pisses me off

Mar 7, 2022 J. Kb 10 comments

 

The fuck guys?

There is an ammo shortage in the US, prices are sky high, and we’re giving a million rounds to Ukraine.

How about no.

I’m fine with given them Javlins because I can’t buy them but 5.56?

That shit stays here!

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Update on the FirstSpear issue

Mar 7, 2022 J. Kb 3 comments

FirstSpear issued a statement:

 

PSA: In April of 2020, a former employee used his FirstSpear email address to report another local business for violating covid policies. This employee was never in a leadership position and was never authorized to speak on behalf of FirstSpear, or use his FirstSpear email for his own personal agenda. We became aware of it in May 2020, only AFTER a local journalist posted the names and email addresses of individuals who submitted complaints to a government covid enforcement website. The FirstSpear employee who sent the unauthorized email was terminated prior to the end of May 2020.

Additionally, we reached out to the business that had been targeted by this rogue employee, apologized for any impact to their business, and assured them that the person who sent the unauthorized email was no longer with FirstSpear.

We are patriots who are passionate about supporting our military and first responders. Many employees throughout our organization served in the US military or worked in law enforcement.

As a designated essential business, we ran production non-stop throughout the pandemic, paid weekly bonuses to employees who could not do their work from home, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help reduce the spread of covid inside the factory and minimize disruptions to our customers.

Certainly, “ratting” out another business for violating covid policies is something we would never do or authorize.

 

The intrepid Mr. Floof has confirmed this:

https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1500611008456503301

 

I will retract my fatwa against FirstSpear.

I will say that business should be the first to sort through that list and blackball those people from employment.

In this case, the employee, by using his work email, did damage to his employer.

I apologize for my contribution to that damage before all information became available.

But reading those emails myself, many of those employees were ratting out their own bosses.  Clearly with the intention of getting their essential employer shut down so they could have a COVID stimulus paid vacation.

I’m big enough to admit that I made a mistake.

I would suggest to FirstSpear and other business, get out in front of shit like this and announce your firing of COVID Snitches before it harms your business.

I meant what I said, I do not want to return to normal with these people who shut us down and forced us to mask for two years.

I want vengeance.

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COVID was more than just engineered, it was IP theft as well

Mar 6, 2022 J. Kb 12 comments

This is from The Daily Mail:

Scientists claim Covid virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that ‘matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began’

Fresh suspicion that Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus’s spike protein.

They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to part of a gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic.

It

was discovered in SARS-CoV-2’s unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses.

The structure has been one of the focal points of debate about the virus’s origin, with some scientists claiming it could not have been acquired naturally.

It is the only coronavirus of its type to carry 12 unique letters that allow its spike protein to be activated by a common enzyme called furin, allowing it to spread between human cells with ease.

Analysis of the original Covid genome found the virus shares a sequence of 19 specific letters with a genetic section owned by Moderna, which has a total of 3,300 nucleotides.

SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid, carries all the information needed for it to spread in around 30,000 letters of genetic code, known as RNA.

But it is the only coronavirus of its type to carry 12 unique letters that allow it to be activated by a common enzyme called furin.

This in turn makes the virus better at invading neighbouring cells.

So it’s not just highly likely that COVID was bioengineered to be more infectious but that the gene sequence used to make it more infectious was stolen from a Moderna patent.

China doing China things, apparently.

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I hate him but he’s mostly right

Mar 6, 2022 J. Kb 1 comment

I never thought I’d agree with Trevor Noah on anything but he’s mostly right about this.

 

This was the topic of my post from last week British experts are just as dumb as American experts.

Now I’m not going to go as far as Noah as using this as a cudgel to bash white people as racists.

I will use this as a cudgel to bash reporters as being sine of the stupidest and most poorly educated people on TV.

As I mentioned before, there were wars in Europe within my lifetime, the Balkans and Northern Ireland to be specific.

The Cold War ended when I was a child, and until it did, US military units were on patrol in Germany preparing for the Soviets to roll tanks through Checkpoint Charlie into West Berlin.

It takes a supreme level of ignorance to think that the relative peace in Central Europe for the last 30 years is anything but an aberration in the history of Europe.

Our media has the memory of a goldfish.

What Noah left out is that the rest of the world that these morons assume is where war takes place have been every bit as violent, if not more so, than Europe.  The only difference is that they didn’t have thirty years of relative peace.

The RUF in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and African Brush Wars were fought through the 90s and into modern day.

The Sunny and Shia have been in a continuous state of war since 632 AD.

Personally, I believe that any reporter who says something I’ve this should be fired for their historical ignorance and put to work cleaning up vagrant shit on public streets with a toothbrush.

Also…

Because I feel dirty agreeing with Trevor Noah, I feel the need to be contrary to him.

 

I may be wrong but I don’t believe that the Ukrainian refugees are mostly unemployed military age men or that they will be stabbing the locals while shouting Allah Akbar, throwing hand grenades at police, grooming underage girls for sex, trafficking in child brides, or shitting on the streets.

Maybe the Bulgarian Prime Minister can say that part out loud too.

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We have two choices the Secession of West Virginia or the Partition of India

Mar 6, 2022 J. Kb 4 comments

This post sort of piggybacks on Miguel’s post And the real reason the Left does not want Campus Carry…

The important takeaway from. His post is just how savagely Conservatives are treated in Blue zones.

Now I present you will two articles:

The first from Politico.

Barbershop Confrontations, Profane Signs and Despair: Pro-Biden and Alone in Rural America

Barrels of ink have been spilled over the past seven years examining Donald Trump’s appeal in rural places like Clearfield County, an old timber and coal region situated along Interstate 80 on the western edge of central Pennsylvania. Blue-collar “diner stories” about disaffected Democrats and independents who crossed over to support Republicans are so common they’ve become their own media subgenre. And the reasons for that massive defection have become familiar from repetition—the erosion of manufacturing and energy jobs, the withdrawal of private-sector labor unions, an explosion of technology and expanding cultural divisions.

What those tales often leave out is the other side of the same coin. In these towns and counties, there remain thousands of Democrats like Fitzpatrick who are faithful to their party—and feel that they are paying an increasingly steep price for that loyalty. Nearly 30,000 people in Clearfield County voted for Trump in 2020, roughly three-quarters of the ballots cast. But the other 25 percent who voted for Joe Biden—9,673 people—find themselves in an unusual position: They supported the ultimate winner and yet a relentless and toxic campaign to delegitimize his victory and overturn the election makes them feel somehow as if they’re under siege.

Read that last part again from the perspective of a Trump supporter watching the media go on and on about Russian Collusion and Peepee Tapes and how every Trump supporter is a Nazi who should be exiled from polite society and probably killed.

Reluctant to provoke arguments, or worse, local Democrats say there’s little incentive for them to promote their positions and even less to try to persuade the people who are slipping to stick with the party. During the 2020 election, a friend stopped by after the Foulkrods defiantly stuck a Biden lawn sign near their house. “She had a Biden sign up,” too, Kathy says of the woman who visited them. “And she said, ‘I just came to tell you I had to take my Biden sign down because I was too afraid.’”

Companies in California were actively telling employees that of they were Trump supporters they should quit or would be fired.

People were being confronted in restaurants and on the street and being beaten up for wearing MAGA hats.

“Part of this is a failing of Democrats generally over the last year and a half,” says former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a red-state Democrat who has been sounding alarms over the party’s struggles to reach rural voters. “Where you are—presumably in rural Pennsylvania and in Montana, $65 billion for internet connectivity is significant. The infrastructure bill is significant. But that’s not what ends up talked about on the ground. And what people see is Washington fighting either over things that don’t matter directly to their daily lives or is [the legislation] going to be $3.5 trillion or $1.5 trillion, and not even the details of programs.”

That’s the most condescending sales pitch I’ve heard.

Look rural voter. The price of gas as may have tripled in a year.  Food has gone up 40%.  Your wages are worth less than they were in 2017.  Your job shut down for a year because it was deemed non essential and your kids not allowed to go to school for two years.  But you have better internet connectivity than ever before so you can learn to code and work from home.

I can’t see why that isn’t working.

For Carol Lieber, a Democrat in DuBois, the trends and accompanying social disruption make it tough not to despair. She and a close friend didn’t talk for more than a year. Neither had much to say to the other that they wanted to hear. She blames Trump for spreading misinformation and stoking animosity. She holds her neighbors responsible for allowing themselves to believe it all. It got to a point where people she’s known casually for decades and thought she respected no longer seem decent. Around town, “there is a lack of graciousness and kindness and consideration,” Lieber says. A virus that for nine months kept her from hanging out with her adult daughter who lives four houses down, combined with the politics around it, managed to ruin even small pleasures. Lieber decided to boycott her favorite cosmetics store because the owner was so belligerent online.

“Trump changed so much here,” she says. “He brought out the worst in people.”

Sure, but calling Trump supporters fascist, Nazis, white supremacists, and MAGAts is fine because they are deplorable and deserve it.

Carol is a paragon of virtue.

This article is an obscenity of a lack of self awareness.

Pity the poor Democrats in rural America who feel under attack for having to see “Let’s go Brandon” signs on their neighbors’ yards.

If only their conservative neighbors weren’t such awful people brainwashed by Trump and Fox News they would understand that Democrats are just better.

Then there is this article from Salon.

Dear Joe Biden: We don’t want “unity” with fascists — that’s why Democrats lose

Despite tremendous obstruction from the Republican fascists (and their “centrist” allies embedded within the Democratic Party) — a group of sadists determined to cause maximum harm to the American people as a way of obtaining, keeping and expanding political power — Biden has accomplished a great deal as president. This includes slowing down the coronavirus plague, resuscitating the economy, taking long-overdue steps to fix the country’s infrastructure and restoring America’s leadership role in the world.

In a moment of great crisis when Vladimir Putin and Russia are waging war on Ukraine, to know that America has a leader who, unlike his predecessor, is intelligent, experienced and patriotic, as well as mentally and emotionally stable, brings no small amount of relief. Moreover, one does not have to ask the obvious questions that circled around Trump like flies around manure on a summer’s day: “Is the president of the United States merely a useful idiot and stooge for Russia, or is he actually an agent and saboteur?”

Joe Biden is a career politician who is now the leader of the free world and arguably the most powerful person on the planet. And like all politicians, he is a disappointment. Biden is far too quick to seek “compromise” with the Republican fascists — which mostly means outright capitulation.

His State of the Union speech was one more example of that failure. In several key moments, Biden signaled that he is temperamentally unable to do what is necessary to stop the Republican fascists’ attempt(s) to end multiracial democracy.

Biden repeatedly spoke of the need to “unify” Democrats and Republicans. That means seeking “unity” with those who actively tried to nullify the 2020 election and supported a violent coup to prevent him from becoming president. Moreover, the Republican fascists have in no way ended their campaign to end American democracy and terminate Biden’s presidency.

Biden and too many other white liberals and moderates continue to believe that compromise with the Republicans is still possible, and that finding “common ground” can redeem this moment of democratic crisis. That kind of white racial innocence may well be America’s undoing.

This is so unmoored from reality and so unhinged that if it weren’t from a regular Salon writer it could be confused for a Poe’s Law parody.

See, all Republicans are fascists and Joe Biden’s biggest problem is treating them like fellow citizens to work with rather than crushing them under the boot heel of Progressive government.

I can’t stress enough that this sort of cultural divide cannot be bridged peacefully.

Show me a point in history where it has.

Progressives like the ones above are essentially practitioners of a secular political religion and history is full of religious wars.

The Secession of West Virginia from Virginia was relatively peaceful.

The Partition of India was not.

I think these are our options because the alternative I don’t think is feasible from history.

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My administration will seize the endowments

Mar 6, 2022 J. Kb 5 comments

 

This man graduated from Harvard Law, the top law school in the country.

Harvard has a $5 Billion endowment.

My administration will seize their endowment, their campus, and all their assets, and turn it into a vocational training institute and public library.

Something actually good and beneficial for America.

 

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Snitches get stiches

Mar 5, 2022 J. Kb 9 comments

 

The firearm community starts for, or should stand for, freedom.

When someone for our community turns out to be a Faucist collaborator they deserve the same fate as Belgian fascist collaborators.

These people need to be persona non grata in our community and go bankrupt.

Fuck ’em.