Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Davids Daily Dose - Tuesday November 16th

 Number 2 is a must watch....


1/. Inflation is back, but does it matter?
Photo: Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
Not since George H.W. Bush’s administration has your paycheck been pummeled by inflation like this. People are seeing, for the first time in years, a real breakdown in the economy — bare shelves in supermarkets, weeks-long waits for household goods to get delivered, pricier checks at restaurants.




2/. One of the mysteries that baffles me is how Trumpies, anti-vaxxers and Q-Anon people can believe the nonsense they have been fed.
This short video explains why......it's a must watch, a lot of what is puzzling you will become clear....

This story supplements the video.....

How did we get here?  How did we almost become a dictatorship? How did the GOP become the GQP? Why is a return of tRump to the White House still possible?

I met tRump long ago and let’s just say we didn’t get along.  When he became POTUS I honestly believed we had entered The Twilight Zone.  I started connecting the dots and, before the 2018 mid-terms, concluded that we were dealing with a cult; Trump's base mindset/cult and the Dunning-Kruger effect

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063350/-The-Theory-of-Stupidity-must-watch-short-video-explains-trumpers




3/. Here we go again....especially the anti-vax states like Floriduh....the fourth Covid wave is coming....
Good story from the Guardian....
I
t’s deja vu, yet again. The pandemic first hit Europe in March 2020, and Americans were in denial, thinking it wouldn’t happen here. Then, later in the year, the Alpha variant wave took hold in the United Kingdom and the United States was unprepared. This recurred with Delta in the summer of 2021. Now, in the fall of 2021, Europe is the outlier continent on the rise with Covid, with approximately 350 cases per 100,000 people and many countries are soaring to new records.




4/. Tom Tomorrow channels Madison Crawthorn....


5/. Since we don't really get any International news any more, this piece by the wonderful Heather Cox Richardson is especially interesting......
Russia again, and note the Trump section in the beginning....explains a lot....
And in case we go to war again, this is why!

Today, in a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. is "concerned by reports of unusual Russian military activity," which it is "monitoring very closely” out of concern that Russia might invade Ukraine again as it did in 2014.

Russia has been building up troops near the border, and Russian leaders have been talking more forcefully about asserting control over Ukraine.




6/. Bill Maher with "OK Zoomer".....he takes Gen Z and Millenials to task for their indifference to the future....six minutes...



7/. Excellent column from Thomas Friedman in the Times on the climate conference in Glasgow.....he's energised, and afraid.....
Note - great pictures in this article....

I spent last week talking to all sorts of people gathered for the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, and it left me with profoundly mixed emotions.

Having been to most of the climate summits since Bali in 2007, I can tell you this one had a very different feel.



8/. Seth Meyers with a good segment - he's on form, looking at Kellyanne Conway as the person he misses the least from the 
Trump years...11 amusing minutes...



9/. The Steele dossier is at risk of exposure as mostly lies and gossip.....interesting and depressing.....

Christopher Steele, the former MI6 spy who compiled the notorious dossier during the 2016 campaign alleging ties between Donald Trump and Russia, made a splash a few weeks back when he gave his first interview about it. 




10/. Nothing political.....unless a multi-billionaire vs mere millionaires is political......interesting story about New York real estate....
The proposed Norman Foster penthouse. Art: Foster + Partners
For a little over a decade, the billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman lived in a duplex apartment at the Beresford whose windows looked south, toward 6–16 West 77th Street. Perched on the roof of that 1927 apartment building was a relatively undistinguished structure — a pink stucco penthouse — that nevertheless commanded some of the most spectacular sight lines in Manhattan.



11/. Are Democrats too.....?



12/. Honest Trailers - Squid Game....if you have seen this brilliant but most disturbing series, you'll appreciate this. 
If you haven't, you won't....




13/. Did you know Apple has a new chip out that could revolutionise computing? 
Thought not....love the picture, remember 2001-A Space Odyssey?....

For decades, the chip-making giant Intel reigned as one of the most technically advanced companies in Silicon Valley.

It was Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore who famously predictedthat computer chips would keep getting unimaginably more powerful. 




14/. A SNL skit that has generated a lot of hate from Republican media was "Goober The Clown", where Cecily Strong played a 
clown talking about clown abortions. If you saw it and were a little confused, here's a story that will explain it.

SNL - "Goober The Clown" - three minutes....



15/. Umair with some advice for all of us .....maybe after 2022? 
Assuming the Dems lose the House and Senate....

Over the years, I’ve predicted America’s collapse into fascism, hate, and backwardness. Often with enough detail and precision to chill many of you. And in response, you often wondered, here in the comments, or in emails to me, “Should I leave?” I’ve left the question open. I’ll come back to why in just a moment. But now the time has to come to say it openly.

You should make exit plans from a collapsing America.




16/. If you haven't watched "Yellowstone" because it's been praised by right wing media [prestige TV for conservatives], read this story 
from Vanity Fair and maybe rethink it.....

There’s a TV show called Yellowstone from Taylor Sheridan that’s so wildly popular, it was last year’s most-watched cable series, beating out The Walking Dead for the distinction. It’s a sudsy contemporary Western about the Dutton family, the land they stole 150 years ago, their ruthless fight to fend off greedy developers, and the nearby Native Americans who intend to take it back. It stars Kevin Costner as patriarch John Dutton. It combines stunning cinematography with storylines reminiscent of Succession’s power grabs, The Godfather’s mob mentality, and Dallas’s bitchy in-fighting— except with cattle. Its first three seasons are streaming on Peacock; it launches its fourth season with a two-hour premiere Sunday night on the Paramount Network.

It’s also entirely possible you haven’t heard of it.



Today's video - an Audi R8 [600 hp] vs two superbikes on a Spanish? Brazilian? Interstate.....complete with audio and scared 
passenger......note the driver of the Audi is using the thumb shifts on the steering wheel.....



Today's parenting joke
As a woman passed her daughter's closed bedroom
door, she heard a strange buzzing noise coming from within. Opening the door, she observed her daughter with a vibrator.
Shocked, she asked: 'what in the world are you doing?'
The daughter replied: 'mom, I'm thirty-five years
Old, unmarried, and this thing is about as close as
I'll ever get to a husband. Please, go away and leave me alone.'
The next day, the girl's father heard the same buzz
coming from the other side of the closed bedroom
door. Upon entering the room, he observed his
daughter making passionate love to her vibrator.

To his query as to what she was doing, the daughter said: 

'Dad I'm thirty-five, unmarried, and this thing is about as close as I'll ever get to a
husband. Please, go away and leave me alone .'

A couple days later, the wife came home from a shopping trip, placed the groceries on the kitchen counter, and heard that buzzing noise 
coming from, of all places, the living room. She entered that area and observed her husband sitting on the couch,
downing a cold beer, and staring at the TV.

The vibrator was next to him on the couch, buzzing like crazy.

The wife asked: 'What the f@!* are you doing?'

The husband replied: 'I'm watching football with my son-in-law.'




Today's Cliven Bundy joke
A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas , and 
talked with an old rancher. 

He told the rancher, "I need to inspect your ranch 
for illegally grown drugs."

The rancher said, "Okay, but don't go in that field 
over there.....", as he pointed out a distant location.

The DEA officer verbally exploded, saying, " Mister, 
I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!"

Reaching into his rear pants pocket, he removed his badge 
and proudly displayed it to the rancher.
"See this badge?!  This badge means I am allowed to go 
wherever I wish.... on ANY land!! No questions asked 
or answers given!!  Have I made myself clear...... do you understand???"

The rancher nodded politely, apologized, and went about his chores.

A short time later, the old rancher heard loud screams, looked up 
and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by 
the rancher's enormous Santa Gertrudis bull......

With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, 
and it seemed likely that the officer would be gruesomely gored 
before he reached safety. 

The man was clearly terrified.

The rancher threw down his tools, ran to the fence and 
yelled at the top of his lungs.....

"Your badge........ 
show him your BADGE!!"



Today's Lawyer jokes...

Joke 1:

A lawyer dies and goes to Heaven. "There must be some mistake," the lawyer argues. "I'm too young to die. I'm only 55." "Fifty-five?" says Saint Peter. "No, according to our calculations, you're 82." "How'd you get that?" the lawyer asks. Answered St. Peter, "We added up your timesheets."

Joke 2:

What's the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer?

A bad lawyer can let a case drag out for several years. A good lawyer can make it last even long

Joke 3:

One day in Contract Law class, the professor asked one of his better students, "Now if you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it?"

The student replied, "Here's an orange."

The professor was livid. "No! No! Think like a lawyer!"

The student then recited, "Okay, I'd tell him, 'I hereby give and convey to you all and singular, my estate and interests, rights, claim, title, claim and advantages of and in, said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp, and seeds, and all rights and advantages with full power to bite, cut, freeze and otherwise eat, the same, or give the same away with and without the pulp, juice, rind and seeds, anything herein before or hereinafter or in any deed, or deeds, instruments of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding..."

Joke 4:

As the lawyer awoke from surgery, he asked, "Why are all the blinds drawn?" The nurse answered, "There's a fire across the street, and we didn't want you to think you had died."

Joke 5:

A woman and her little girl were visiting the grave of the little girl's grandmother. On their way through the cemetery back to the car, the little girl asked, "Mummy, do they ever bury two people in the same grave?"

"Of course not, dear," replied the mother, "Why would you think that?"

"The tombstone back there said... 'Here lies a lawyer and an honest man.'"

Joke 6:

Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, an honest lawyer and an old drunk are walking down the street together when they simultaneously spot a hundred dollar bill. Who gets it? The old drunk, of course, the other three are fantasy creatures.

Joke 7:

At a convention of biological scientists, one researcher remarked to another, "Did you know that in our lab we have switched from mice to lawyers for our experiments?" "Really?" the other replied, "Why did you switch?" "Well, for three reasons. First we found that lawyers are far more plentiful, second, the lab assistants don't get so attached to them, and thirdly there are some things even a rat won't do."

Joke 8:

What does a lawyer get when you give him Viagra?

Taller.

Joke 9:

The lawyer's son wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, so he went to law school and graduated with honors. Then he went home to join his father's firm.

At the end of his first day at work, he rushed into his father's office and said, "Father, father! In one day I broke the Smith case that you've been working on for so long!"

His father yelled, "You idiot! We've been living on the funding of that case for ten years!"

Joke 10:

How many lawyer jokes are in existence?

Only three. All the rest are true stories.

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