November 2021 Current Events

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Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Pictured - JFK Sr. greeting the true believers at Daley Plaza

# ¿ Nov 2, 2021 04:35

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 14:00

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Wonder how many state GOP party apparati are going to follow VAGOP's model of just not having a primary entirely and avoid the base picking yet another frothing MAGA lunatic as a candidate.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2021 03:05

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

This is just loving Conspiracy Mad Libs at this point.

Two weeks from now someone will spill the Wheel O' Names and they'll declare that Martin Short is... I dunno, RFK or something.

I mean, have *you* ever seen Martin Short and RFK together at the same time? :colbert:

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 23:05

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

This sounds depressingly plausible, although will be interesting to see how it interacts with the recent attempts by rural areas to tempt high wage WFH jobs to move out to the low cost of living corners of the country.

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1456355165699665935

# ¿ Nov 5, 2021 01:10

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Handsome Ralph posted:

Yeah I def. see it being plausible that some notable idiots are gonna start throwing this around on Fox News and what not, but a lot of companies are already looking at it from a "Wait, we can save how much?!?" by not having to maintain an office space for every single employee.

Current employer has all but said it's going to be a permanent fixture once our merger goes through, and a rather large financial org I just interviewed with was hiring specifically for people to WFH.

It's gonna be a thing the usual suspects whine about, but it's too late to cram the toothpaste back into the tube with this one. The only places forcing everyone to come in 9-5 for pure office work with no real client facing roles are going to end up having retention and recruiting issues. Yahoo got away with it in 2013 because it was the exception, not the norm. Not anymore.

It's definitely impossible at this point to turn back the clock on remote working but there's still going to be a drawn out rear guard action from the lobbies and interest groups that lose out from the move, notably office real estate landlords and the small business owner class that's dependent on office traffic. At the senior GOP levels they'll go along with whatever makes big business happy, but at the state and local level I could see push back to try and prop up the middle tier investors & business owners who are financially tied-to or otherwise impacted by keeping in-person work. Downtowns in particular are going to have to radically change if they're going to survive not having office workers return.

https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1455984994845872131

# ¿ Nov 5, 2021 04:50

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

facialimpediment posted:

Senate control for 2022 easily could've hinged upon NH Governor Sununu (popular Republican) knocking off current Democrat Hassan. Unfortunately for Republicans, Sununununununununu realizes how poo poo of a job being a Senator is and he's running for a 4th term as Governor instead. He would've been favored in the Senate race.

"You ever read that Dr. Seuss book Yertle the Turtle to your grandkids? Yeah, well, get elected and you'll get to be Turtle #51. Wait, where are you going?"

# ¿ Nov 9, 2021 16:04

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Not really glory, but one minor historical curiosity was that the Russian Atlantic and Pacific fleets spent 1863 harbored in New York City and San Francisco during the US Civil War. Short story was that Russia was friendly with the US due in part to the fact that the UK and France were not, and they were afraid an Anglo-Franco intervention in Poland might blockade their fleets in the Baltic so the czar sent them on an extended visit.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/r/the-russian-navy-visits-theunited-states.html

# ¿ Nov 10, 2021 05:06

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

A few weeks ago:

https://mobile.twitter.com/deangloster/status/1448158373170479105

Today:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1459252564420186116

Seriously don't wear red around Shatner.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2021 22:50

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

I'm sensing a great deal of qapla in this thread

# ¿ Nov 21, 2021 19:51

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/comm...red/8714041002/ posted:

Ashlee Coronado, a 12-year-old who attends Waukesha STEM Academy was at the parade with her mother.

"We were excited to see the truck with the fire and the hot air with it," she said. "We always get excited for it because it is cold that that warms us. Then right then, a red (vehicle) drove past me and my cousins. He was going very fast and hit a gentleman. At first I thought he was a part of the parade. And then I thought this is real. We were all screaming. We were not even two feet away."

Kimberlee Coronado said: �We grabbed our kids and got to our cars and got out of there. It was very scary."

https://twitter.com/SamKraemerTV/status/1462573019663118341

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Holy poo poo do not watch the top down view of the marching band.

This version cuts off before/as the truck enters the scene before hitting anyone - no desire to see the rest.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1462577882090385414

# ¿ Nov 22, 2021 01:42

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Never in a million years.

Did they ever do anything after ISIS wannabes started using rental trucks to run down crowds? ID checks maybe?

# ¿ Nov 22, 2021 02:08

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

My MegaCorp decided to award more contracts to minority or women owned businesses. Overnight many long term vendors run by white guys decided their wives should be considered the company owner now, while changing nothing else. The folks running our program were pleased a number went up to prove our commitment to social justice.

Had a Program Management course in grad school that pretty much amounted to how to triple word score the 'veteran/disabled/minority/disadvantaged/etc' bingo card for Federal contracts, as well as how to skim off the top through sub contracting.

Afterward found out the lecturer was banned from all Federal contracts after an incident where it was discovered that one of the subcontract suppliers he was using for aerospace grade fairing bolts was actually getting them from Lowes and counterfeiting the head markings. After the Feds took everything that wasn't nailed down, he landed a gig 'securing outside investment' for the university.

Definitely learned something from that course, just not what that guy thought he was teaching.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 00:28

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Also, apparently if they make it to UK soil they've got additional protections and avenues to apply for refugee status, similar to the situation in Australia. One possibility is the UK turning to Albania to serve as their Nauru.

The Economist posted:

Those migrants who make it to Britain�s shores have the right to seek asylum. As an EU member Britain could invoke the Dublin Convention, a deal struck in 2013 that requires claims to be made in the EU country of first arrival. In fact, returning those who moved on proved difficult. But in any case, Britain is no longer covered.

Many of the migrants who crossed the Channel this year are likely to qualify for asylum. According to the Refugee Council, a charity, arrivals by boat tend to originate in countries with high approval rates. Between January 2020 and May 2021, Iranians were the biggest group. Their approval rate before appeal is 67%, compared with 52% for all nationalities. For Syrians, the fourth-biggest group, it is 88%.

Ms Patel has considered using Britain�s border force to push boats back into French waters. But that may be illegal under maritime law. Another idea is to hold asylum-seekers offshore while their claims are processed. The Home Office says that it is in talks with Albania�s government�a claim its prime minister has denied.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2021 20:05

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

CommieGIR posted:

A bunch of confused Marines trying to figure out if they can draw dicks on the dicks.

If there's anyone who can solve recursive dicks...

# ¿ Nov 26, 2021 20:46

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Those cookie-cutter mass produced Confederate monuments they pumped out in the (19)20s but it's a guy in a MAGA hat and Gadsden shirt burning a mask.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2021 17:32

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 14:00

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Icon Of Sin posted:

Serious SCP energy on the last tweet.

Red trees are tacky, but I'd nope right out of this:

The Trumps weren't the first to go for unsettling Christmas photos at the White House though.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2021 22:17

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