Dude. Really?
Yeah, I have no particular allegiance to Mickey Rourke as a performer or activist, but soiling his image by trying to conflate it with that of Marjorie Taylor Greene in any way is base and indefensible slander.
Doesn’t matter what level of debunking is done, the right wing believes it. I’ve heard this story at least a dozen times in the last couple of days. Being in the dog care industry certainly makes it more relevant, and my clients more apt to share.
People are more worked up about this than they were anything about COVID, masks, ivermectin, or even the “stolen” election.
Fauci was personally torturing puppies for fun, and nothing that you or I say about it will dissuade them from this belief.
All right. I hereby send my sincere apologies to Mickey Rourke. Unlike MTG, he deserves better.
In all of the innumerable video calls that Fauci made from (presumably) his home during lockdown, did you ever hear any barking ?
Exactly.
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Anyone willing to take a staple gun to the back for the sake of their art gets infinitely more respect from me than MTG.
Anyone in arms distance of MTG please don’t get any ideas.
Speaking of MTG…
Buy high. Sell low… Wait, what?
Well, at least we know she wasn’t doing insider trading. Which I guess means she’s an outsider, since it’s a safe bet she would cheat if she could.
The more interesting question is - was she stupid enough to honestly think this was a good investment, or was she knowingly throwing away good money as a show of loyalty to Trump?
This would be my take (the latter).
In her circles, it’s virtually an end run around campaign finance laws, and …
- If she makes money, she … makes money, but
- If she loses money, she both “bet on DJT” and can deduct the loss against other capital gains
Most Congress Critters are far more evil than stupid. I’m still not ready to make a judgment about MTG, though.
Lest you thought the San Francisco event was a fluke, In-n-Out has confirmed that it has joined forces with covid and is halting dine-in at all its locations in Contra Costa County rather than enforce the county’s vaccine mandate.
What an imbecilic take on it. Halting dine-in is exactly the right thing to do if they don’t want to enforce the mandate.
If you really want moronic breathless hyperbole, it’s all the restaurants that are continuing to serve dine-in that are joining forces with COVID, since even with vaccination there is still a transmission risk. Allowing dine-in at all is just a concession to restaurants, at the expense of some increased number of infections. All dine-in should be banned if we really wanted to minimize infections.
I almost stopped at an In N Out today, then I remembered this dickery.
So, just for some humor, given that Ohio is a state run by Rs, and this is pretty stupid, they stamped out a very large batch of new license plates commemorating the “Birthplace of Aviation” on a wavy banner attached to the empennage of the original Wright Flyer. Then some wiseguy observed that the empennage was canard-mounted on the front of the plane. Hilarity ensued.
I almost asked “has anyone told them that Kitty Hawk is in a different state?” but apparently Congress already decided that Dayton is the Birthplace of Aviation. It’s hard to be certain, but the North Carolina plates appear to have the Wright Flyer going in the right direction, given the way the grass is blowing.
Not wanting to enforce the mandate is the imbecilic part. I used to think In-n-Out was a good company, but apparently they just don’t care if their employees and customers get sick.
Kinda reminds me of this:
That makes zero sense. For one thing, the mandate includes employee vaccinations, something that they haven’t expressed any pushback for whatsoever. So there is zero evidence that they are somehow vaccine denialists or anything of the sort. The county does not appear to have any problem with their treatment of employees.
There is a cost to enforcing the mandate. Many restaurants feel that this cost is worth continuing dine-in. In-n-Out does not; it’s entirely their right. And it should be no surprise either, since it’s in their very fucking name that they are highly focused on drive-thru. They see the lost dine-in business as less than the cost of checking vaccination status at the door.
You would have reasonable criticism if they continued to violate the order well after being told not to. They did not. They complied with the order by not offering dine-in.
The net result is that their customers and employees are better off than a typical restaurant that is still offering dine-in, which carries unavoidable risks even with vaccine enforcement.
How much does it cost to say “Can I see your vaccine card?”
It’s been some time since I set foot in an In-n-Out, but when I did, every table in the place was taken. They’re shooting themselves in the foot over a nonsensical refusal to enforce common sense health measures. At this point I can’t have confidence that they don’t want to avoid the cost of regular handwashing and not handling raw meat with bare hands.
On the day Greene made the trade, Digital World Acquisition Corp. traded in a very wide range between $67.96 and $175. At best, the investment would be in the red slightly compared with current trading levels.
So she’s one of the RUBES, who was sucked in by the Pump n Dump scam. I can’t tell you how much this makes me laugh.
These people are so fucking stupid.
The cost of one employee that has to be posted at the door. Ordinary seated restaurants have a host that can perform this task. Fast food does not. Perhaps the county allows the people that take orders to perform this task, but if so the rule is stupid–the unvaccinated person has already been standing in line for a while in close proximity to others.
The one near me has greatly increased the efficiency of their drive-thru, breaking up the ordering and payment steps. All the employees use quality masks and take reasonable anti-spread measures like distancing, opt-in for paper receipts, and no-touch payments. It’s as safe as anything else I’ve seen (and generally more so).
The entire kitchen area is entirely covered by windows, so if you have any doubts about their general food safety measures, you can assuage them easily.
I highly doubt they’ll experience even a slight loss of business here. But even if they did, that’s just a business decision on their part that might have been wrong. They aren’t putting anyone’s safety at risk with this decision.