California’s new employment law has boomeranged and is starting to crush freelancers
Jeremiah LaBrash, 36, works as a tech programmer for a telecom by day and as a freelance cartoonist for media companies on his time off. Sometimes he brings in half of his annual income from his freelance work.
That changed when Assembly Bill 5 passed in California and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law on Sept. 18. The law requires most companies to reclassify contract, freelance and contingent workers — the backbone of the gig economy —as full-time employees eligible for benefits, a guaranteed $12–$13 state minimum wage and protections under the state’s employment law.
LaBrash, based in Los Angeles, suddenly found potential projects drying up when he submitted onboarding paperwork to potential clients and they discovered he lived in California.
“I’ve had them hire me and then come back and say they’re no longer interested,” says LaBrash. “All of a sudden, someone I’ve never talked to says, ‘We’ve decided not to move forward.’ I’ve never had that happen before this year.”
LaBrash can’t be certain the reason is AB 5, though he believes it is. He has seen a 40% decline in his freelance income since the law passed in September. “My savings are stagnant,” says LaBrash. “I really can’t look into buying a house. The housing market here is hard already.”
Even if employers hire him for freelance work, he is limited to 35 annual submissions per client before they have to put him on payroll, he notes. It’s a limit under the law. That’s not a large amount for regular contributors to media companies. “You’re going to hit your quota and they won’t want to hire you,” he says.
Law created to destroy the gig economy is destroying the gig economy. Let’s all act surprised!
Intended Consequences Are Intended
Totally stable and normal Kayne West.
Quickly deleted, but hilarious none the less. She got to pretend to care about dead Jews and take a swipe at Trump. Too bad pesky reality had to intrude.
“Now I’m not really sure we were lovers
“Or if it was just some kind of car crash”
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“That changed when Assembly Bill 5 passed in California and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law on Sept. 18. The law requires most companies to reclassify contract, freelance and contingent workers — the backbone of the gig economy —as full-time employees eligible for benefits, a guaranteed $12–$13 state minimum wage and protections under the state’s employment law.”
What could possibly go wrong?
“What could possibly go wrong?”
1. Kulaks
2. Wreckers
3. Hoarders
4. Splitters
And the People’s Front of Judea.
Not to mention the Judean people’s front.
Splitter!
Nepmen
And Methodists
Oh and it’s all the fault of the Republicans in the CA state legislature.
Both of them?
There are two?
Well…one in each chamber of the Legislature, right?
Gotta have political balance…or something…
Paging Switzy…
Restaurants are bailing out in Mpls. Owners say the wage increase, high taxes and health insurance have driven up costs of business. What a surprise!
Buying a house in Cali, HAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!
Yeah, this guy works remotely so could be anywhere. Hell, buy a house in West Bumfuck, Notcalifornia and fly back to party every weekend or whatever. I bet he’s still come out ahead.
How do you know my address?
I bet the people most affected by this are the ones who voted for these politicians in the first place.
“She got to pretend to care about dead Jews …”
I think she cares very much about dead Jews….and the lack thereof.
Bazinga!
Our cat who normally won’t let me get anywhere near her chilled tonight and posed for me by the Christmas tree.
https://imgur.com/a/ivwJlb8
Brooksed that
She just wants to kill them herself? That makes sense, honestly.
Isn’t that racist against silver people?
Mediocre!
Silver huffers suck.
Gold spray paint face warrior guy will always be the undisputed champion of sparkly faced huffers.
The only people happier than this guy are toddlers when they’re having fun. Good on him.
I Live! I Die! I Live Again!
Ka mate, ka mate! ka ora! ka ora!
Ka mate! ka mate! ka ora! ka ora!
Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru
Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā
Ā, upane! ka upane!
Ā, upane, ka upane, whiti te ra!
Whoa!
I think it is supposed to be “Hi!” (sounds like “He”)
Indeed.
Pretty good song but they needed to put the keyboard player one or two roofs away.
Is it the porn stache?
The goofy hipster hat doesn’t help.
But he plays one handed with the one other held stylishly behind his back.
I bet he’s drowning in pussy.
Franz Nicolay
Left The Hold Steady in 2010, briefly reunited for a concert tour in 2016. Also tours with the leading band in transgender rock, Against Me!
Drowning in pussy, has a pussy, potato, potahto.
Not this?
If he did drown it would vastly improve the band’s sound.
Re: kanye, he’s probably high on spray paint
That guy looks like a lot of fun, provided you hide the sharp objects.
Fun fact:
Our mayor pro tem was arrested for laying in a gutter and huffing toluene.
Classy!
For laying in a gutter or lying in a gutter?
/ducking
Laying of course. Being a liar is expected of politicians.
+2000 tunes of airplane glue
tubes dammit.
Airplane Glue would be a fine band name.
Kyped it from Lenny Bruce.
This is on the front page of the Daily Mail:
“HUNTER’S ‘COKE HABIT”
“Donald Trump loyalist introduces impeachment amendment on live TV by bringing up Hunter Biden’s cocaine habit, the CRACK pipe found in his car and the ‘diamonds and scotch he took from the Chinese’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7785487/Democrats-start-hearing-dramatic-reading-two-articles-impeachment-against-Donald-J-Trump.html
Why can’t we have classy newspapers like that? I bet their editor has a poop knife.
I bet their editor has a poop knife.
And I bet it’s real silver with a walrus tusk handle.
Narwhal Tusk….
I hear narwhal tusks are dangerous
Why do they call it a coke problem when it’s a crack problem?
Because he’s rich and white?
Coke polls better?
It’s both, really. He was a coke fiend and only went on crack when the Ukraine money dried up.
And don’t forget about his totally classy sexlationship with his brother’s widow right after his death.
He cheated on his sister-in-law, knocked up a stripper and then secretly married a South African model no one in the family knew existed a month later. While married to her, he had the crack-binge in the DC strip club that reportedly involved stripper sex.
He truly is the Chosen One.
Should he not have done that?
nobody told him that it wasn’t allowed
Marty Brodeur slept with his sister-in-law, too.
Did Hunter know?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN OBSERVANT ONE. YES, “UNCLE DAD” FORGOT THE SECOND RULE….THE PENIS IS EVIL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Did he cheat on his sister-in-law? I thought he comforted her after her husband’s death, just like in the Old Testament.
That was only if she had not born any children of his brother.
While throupling with the stripper/baby-mama.
Classy-est!
Forget Yeezy, Hunter Biden is the one that ought to be running cult.
He had a relationship after he died? :-p
Cause he can handle his crack?
Lies! Everyone knows Bernie only wears one suit and it is only washed the annual communal wash day!
Which is why he was kicked out of the commune.
“Totally stable and normal Kayne West.”
Meh. Could fit in unnoticed in a Parliament-Funkadelic show.
Next to the guy in a wedding dress?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS WARDROBE COMMENTING CHOSEN ONE. IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Someone’s feeling jaunty today.
Re Kanye:
1. I think he’s obviously trying to start a cult.
2. Where do I sign up? It looks like a fucking blast.
Let’s just hope it’s nothing like R Kellys “cult”.
That really depends on who’s giving the showers.
You know who else thought it really depending on who is giving the showers?
Kids at Penn State?
Janet Leigh?
John the Baptist?
Countess Elizabeth Bathory
Bernard Jackson?
Most Germans ?
Sally Hemmings?
Willard Scott?
“EXCLUSIVE: Paul Manafort’s prison cellmate tells how Trump’s ex campaign manager was a heavy snorer, didn’t blink when gang bangers got in his face and got respect for not ‘snitching’ on the president’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7782669/Paul-Manafort-earned-respect-bars-not-snitching-Trump.html
Paul Manafort, Shot Caller
nobody likes a snitch.
Wait… I thought snitches get bitches.
Witches get hitches?
Wasn’t Manafort in the same prison as Epstein for a while?
MANAFORT ARRANGED THE HIT ON EPSTEIN!!!!!Purely coincidence, my good fellow.
*frantically searches for foil*
Delete this comment before they find it!
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!
*races to strike message out*
Nice knowing ya, Swissy.
You know, I never new I wanted a Will Ferral / John C Reilly movie about Paul Manafort and Trump, but damn now I do.
Will Ferral? Sounds like he bites.
He’s a wild man.
He’s the real Corn Pop.
I like the pictures that accompany the links, ’cause I ain’t real good at readin’.
/Hi-school graduit/
I dunno man, I thought they actually taught things back when you went to school?
Reading, riting, and rithmatic.
Yeah but all those things are obsolete now.
But that was at the beginning of the last century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9r5vV0L3AA
Law created to destroy the gig economy is destroying the gig economy. Let’s all act surprised!
But they meant well, and that’s all that really matters.
They protected the shit out of those workers.
They showed those dirty Uber and Lyft and their ilk!
Graham says he won’t call any impeachment witnesses in Senate committee: ‘It’s a crock’
You fool! Call Schiff and all the other scumbags! Get them under oath use this to destroy them!
It could be they only need to cross examine witnesses called by the Dems. Someone has to “make the case” for conviction. All you need to do is blow up this part of the process.
Get used to hearing “Objection : immaterial”
It depends on how John Roberts decides to play the game.
Questions must be phrased in the form of a penaltax?
Objection,your honor : immaterial
Don’t you even TV lawyer bro?
I don’t even own a TV, because I’m better than the rest of you.
Its OK, on the average we each have a TV
I have 3; I don’t watch anything but sports on them.
Just today I finally broke down and bought one of those ‘Smart Phones’ all the cool kids are talking about. I had to have my 75 year old mother show me how to use it.
Call the Bidens.
LaBrash, based in Los Angeles, suddenly found potential projects drying up when he submitted onboarding paperwork to potential clients and they discovered he lived in California.
“That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve.”
So if these gig workers are employees instead of contractors, does that mean that they have set hours that they have to work? If they don’t work on Christmas, can they be fired?
I’m sure California has some abysmal labor laws requiring fixed shifts and so on. If they’re regular employees, then they probably get forced to work whatever hours and days the employer sets. Paying by the hour instead of unit means the former gig employers will want to see an adequate amount of performance per unit of time. Have fun!
They will simply mandate a minimum number of rides per day each driver is required.
Or per hour. Once they become hourly employees, the employer has to track all time worked for payment, even if unauthorized, and make sure they pay overtime as required too. Goodbye work at your own pace.
I quote by the job. I’ve done my job long enough, I know about how long it will take me and the hourly is very high.
A long time ago, I had a potential client who asked me what my quote translated to per hour. I told him I wasn’t going to tell him. He insisted on knowing. I said, “I don’t think you and I can work together.”
And CA legislature is pretty saying, not an option.
Yeup, and I can’t help but wonder why more people aren’t leaving, unless they’re just stuck like we are/were.
“Casual fucking reminder that white race scientists invented fatphobia and the concept of obesity.
If you are EVER fatphobic or are on some ‘oh well fat is unhealthy uwu’ bullshit, I hope you fucking know that someone’s white ancestor is smiling in their grave.”
https://twitter.com/HappyShiiba/status/1204252623500533760
“white race scientists invented fatphobia and the concept of obesity”
Using tricknology?
Progressivism is just mad libs. You identify something you don’t like and then just add scary words that have no business being in the same sentence.
“Diabetes is an act of white genocide and high blood pressure is colonialism embodied”
Whites colonized fatness and stole our culture.
Gout is a tool of the patriarchy used to oppress marginalized feet.
Whites colonized fatness and stole our culture.
Sounds like cry for fiber in your diet.
cisgendered heteronormative transphobic speech
holy shit, you’re right.
This should help
https://www.lclark.edu/live/files/18474-abcs-of-social-justice
Department of Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement
Damn, and I remember when Lewis & Clark was a top notch school.
Of course, most famous alumni.
I do believe that Dean Cain is the most well-recognized alum of Lois and Clark.
My fucking alma mater *hangs head in shame*
It reads like a parody, only I don’t think it is.
Don’t forget, you also need to announce what year it is.
“Diabetes is an act of white genocide and high blood pressure is colonialism embodied. Its 2019 people. TWO THOUSAND AND NINETEEN and we still dealing with this shit!”
You forgot “I can’t believe”
Or “stop making me enact your labor”
“Do better.”
You forgot to toss in ‘destroy capitalism’.
Who knew whales could tweet?
No thumbs.
What does that even mean?
“I’M SMAHT AND U SUK”
Thank you. Somebody had to ask.
I recommend eating more nuts.
The nuts tend to be unhygienic and require more washing before you eat them.
Are you volunteering?
For my sanity, I’ll just assume it’s a satire account.
Sanity is overrated.
“Studying nutrition to fight capitalism”
*facepalm*
I guess we are lucky that useful idiots are idiots. Good lord. They just cant help themselves.
Today’s left summed up in three tweets.
7 more counties in VA have meetings tonight to vote on 2A sanctuary status. including Northumberland County where my English immigrant ancestor landed when it was Northumberland Colony of Virginia. after this batch, maybe 10-15 more and then the ball’s in Governor Northam’s court.
So when can we expect the 51st state of Olde Virginia?
Virginia splits into West Virginia, Olde Virginia, and The Special Washington Adjacent Prefecture
if progDem VA proposed a split, then the rest of the state would say we’ll help you pack! of course, the urban areas like Richmond would crap their drawers if that happened.
The whole point of winning complete control of the state government is lording it over the rubes who didn’t vote for you. The Dems would never propose such a thing.
Or the Washington Adjacent Special Prefecture.
I bet LaBrash votes Democrat.
If so…ZERO sympathy.
he really likes Bernie’s policies on health care and the middle class so he held his nose when voting for Hillary in the general election. but that fascist bigot Trump won b/c flyover hickville votes against its best interest and the Electoral College is undemocratic.
Or….voting Republican wouldn’t change anything! They’d do the same thing but different and more racist!
Tlaib is an idiot and a vile person. Ditto for people who vote for her.
They just want cake.
Thank you for placing the blame where it belongs.
This is my new initiative. Always place the blame on the people who put them in power.
Otherwise, we keep getting Maxine Waters and
They’re not deliberately trying to crush businesses and make everyone poorer, they’re just too fucking stupid to predict the entirely foreseeable consequences of the laws they pass.
Incompetence or malice, you decide.
Oh, it’s both, no doubt about it.
Malice.
File under case #2536449849558585 of unintended consequences.
Can’t find a link, but the bill drafters negotiated with the writers union to come up with the # of articles you can freelance in a year before this kicks in. It was exactly the impact they were going for you twit.
Some union. How do they benefit?
The union is only made up of full time salaried writers. The freelancers were engaging in destructive, dog-eat-dog competition, so they had to ask the benevolent hand of the state to protect them.
“I don’t believe legislators realized the impact this had”
And that’s why you’ll cry and then vote for them again. Cause I’m this story there’s only one person who is being naive and it’s you. The legislators got exactly what they wanted. They killed off competition for the unions that donate to them.
It was just an error, much like the ones the FBI makes.
Fat, Black, Agender, & Studying Nutrition to Fight Capitalism
Write when you find work.
She’s not agender, she just too fat to find her genitals.
SJ
WednesdayThursday: Our Long National Nightmare Is OverWho?
Feminfisting?
Am I supposed to have heard of them? That sounds like a stretch.
They’re pretty hardcore.
Let’s all give them a hand.
Or two.
They’re up to their elbows in hard work.
Eh. They’re just a bunch of knuckleheads.
Now THAT’S how you fist bump.
Otherwise known as the site that gave us Jessica Valenti
As far as I know, she started Feministing with her daddy’s money.
same breath as legendary feminist and progressive sites such as Jezebel, Feministe, Racialicious, Tiger Beatdown, Crunk Feminist Collective, Pandagon, Black Girl Dangerous, Angry Black Bitch, The Hairpin, The Toast, Bitch Media, Raw Story, Jacobin, Truthout, Talking Points Memo, and many more.
Teen Vogue has a sad.
They didn’t mention Everyday Feminism either.
“Crunk Feminist Collective” is a band Id expect to see at Lilith Fair.
L7 is better.
+1 Wargasm
Great song from an awesome album.
Which level of hell is that?
So, no one likes what your doing, and you need real jobs, if it’s so important do it for fr,……ohhhh
Go on their twitter and type LEARN TO CODE.
Im sure it will get a ton of laughs.
HEY YUFUS!
“we ultimately couldn’t build a long-term funding model in today’s media environment that would allow us to compensate our team fairly for their valuable work.”
and
“anti-capitalist feminist analysis”
hmmm….
“funding model” translates into no one on Earth would ever pay for the crap we spew so we need a Government grant. “couldn’t build a long term” translates into Evil Republicans wouldn’t give us a grant.
was it intentional to brand the company an amalgam of fisting and feminism?
Most likely yes, since there are a plethora of articles on things like “Becoming Cliterate”
Feminist sites depend on misogyny to survive. They, therefore, do everything possible to encourage misogyny. You don’t create misogyny by demonstrating that women are sane, intelligent and stable.
Hence why they expanded their brand over the last forty years to include racism, socialism, trans issues, fatphobia, etc……..
We are incredibly grateful to have shared the early Internet with so many pioneering bloggers and activists—women, people of color, trans folk—who paved the way for today’s digital media landscape.
The digital media landscape that just a paragraph ago you were lambasting because it had become corporatized?
Piss off.
Anti-capitalists can’t do a coherent business model, film at 11:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
Not Christmas music
My boots are made for working
Relevant
Whomever it was that turned me on to SOMAfm, I listen to it as background noise in the afternoon.
The other day I heard this gem.
While we became more financially sustainable over the years—in large part thanks to the support of readers like you!—we ultimately couldn’t build a long-term funding model in today’s media environment that would allow us to compensate our team fairly for their valuable work.
“We begged and we pleaded, but Steve Jobs’ bitch widow wouldn’t fund our hobby. The jig is up.”
I’m back. I know y’all are terribly disappointed. Month from Hell, and week from Ultra-Hell, is almost over.
BBC reporting that the first exit polls from the UK elections have the Conservatives winning with a majority of 86, and Labour losing 71 seats. I sure hope so. No love for the Tories but Labour is scarier than the US Democratic Party.
Who?
BBC.
You know, Big Black Cock.
Is that better than expected for the Tories or are they underperforming?
Think it’s better than expected.
Pound went from about $1.315 to $1.34 after the exit polls were released.
I think it’s better, a few days ago there were worries of a hung Parliament.
Hung Parliament was my nickname in highschool
You’re racist against George Clinton?
He spent too much time as Governor of New York.
Huh. Small world.
BBC says it’s 50 more seats than they won in the last election, so I’d say that’s a solid showing.
Tories are overperforming by a bit. Exit poll is usually pretty accurate. Tories were expected to win, but this margin is a bit larger than expected. Labour got decimated. Under 200 seats if exit poll is right.
BBC reporting that the first exit polls from the UK elections have the Conservatives winning with a majority of 86, and Labour losing 71 seats.
Nice. That will give them their best shot for Brexit. And having potentially 5 years of PM Johnson should be entertaining, if nothing else.
Trump hands Boris a comb…..
And a talking hat?
“MEGA”
Somewhere, SugarFree smiles…
The anti-semitism is absolutely shocking. It’s part of the party platform.
That must mean that Russian meddling is becoming even more effective, and that we must impeach Trump so he doesn’t cheat again!
I’m back. I know y’all are terribly disappointed. Month from Hell, and week from Ultra-Hell, is almost over.
Also, welcome back. Glad you’re almost out of hell.
Stonk market way up today! (money-bag-emoji)
Good tweet from Massie with a great pic!
@RepThomasMassie·
This week, we were given 19 hours to review the 3,488 page National Defense Authorization Act — a bill that authorizes $738 billion of spending in FY2020.
The bill passed. I voted no.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1205244775630327808?s=20
$738 billion not counting black programs. It’s over a trillion easy and could be slashed by fifty percent with few to no meaningful ill effects.
^doesn’t have Raytheon or Boeing in his portfolio.
Ha! What a loser!
JK 🙂
Always with the racist programs.
I’m thinking about building one of these for the kids’ school.
I have a projector and an X-box Kinect in the office closet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JXtTj0mzE&feature=youtu.be&t=115
Trippy.
Is this a “good” results for the Brits?
Exit polls predict a landslide victory in the #UKElection for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. Here are the projected results. 326 seats are needed for a majority.
Conservatives: 368
Labour: 191
SNP: 55
Liberal Democrats: 13
Others: 23
So an outright majority. How often does that happen?
Frequently, since the UK uses first-past-the-post single-seat constituencies (like the US House) and not proportional representation. A quick search indicates that the last time there was a majority was the 2015-2017 session, but the last time someone won this many seats was all the way back in 2005 when Labor was still run by the relatively reasonable Tony Blair.
Hopefully the exit polls are correct. Fingers crossed. I also hope the Eurocrats shit their beds in fear tonight. Assholes.
Not dead yet.
/Britain
If the projected results stand, it will be the best Conservative victory since Margaret Thatcher.
*schwing*
For twitter users, there is some serious CRYING going on with #UKElection right now. I peeped the hashtag and laughed and laughed and laughed.
Might have to do some drinking and serious salt mining tonight.
I’m having a drink for Boris right now.
This is hilarious.
Just checked it out. That is some good stuff.
No mention of the silly party?
That’s excellent news. Maybe after Brexit Britain can resubjugate Canada and bring them some sanity too.
When will the British markets recover??
~Krugman
UK Based bank stocks seem to be up on the news.
Relax its Barrons
So never, right?
Stock markets hate uncertainty. This election appears to be bringing some certainty.
Yes. GET ON WITH IT
It is time…
For the Holy Hand Grenade
Biggest landslide since Margaret Thatcher.
Torys aren’t great, but honestly the Borris – Trump comparisons aren’t too far off in one degree. Policy wise, they actually aren’t proposing anything that far outside the norm, but people need to hate them. The good thing is Brexit, which, not to go all purity test, but all libertarians should support.
Also both fat white guys with messy blonde hair.
Gary Busey 2024.
IIRC, the Tories purged all of the non-Brexiteers, so this should be good.
“Black Hebrew Israelite Boomhauer”
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1204875992776359936
“Damn aborigines be roamin’ the damn desert playing the damn digeridoo, man.”
It was not at all difficult to understand that.
Add in hoards of wasps lactating poison from their nipples and its almost an Agile Cyborg.
Indeed!
Then again, I can usually understand Boomhauer too.
I can’t help myself:
Agile Cyborg
September.5.2015 at 11:00 pm
Sir, I offer you my hand in travel. Mayheart the wists fall upon the particles and I may be ever so lovingly blessed by glutton gleans of star angel pussy farts blowing bubbles outside this fucking thing called earth, lover… I will FUCKING float a pussy fart bubble up to your goddamn fucking craft… but if that doesn’t work, my lover, I think I have a humongous cock under the best national park in the united states called the space cock. I bu8ilt the space cock with grizzly bear anger and wolf meanness and I used wolverine jizz to weld all the shit together, hyp baby, and elk. FIELDS of elk. I entrapped their will to survive and calculated their will to survive and turned it into an engone…. and the blizzards screech I decided to turn into a laser of hell ice…….
yea… bitch,… we can fly out o here…. I plan on FUCKING making the mountains our skin….
According to this page, where the BBC will be posting the UK election results, the UK actually has a Libertarian Party. They also have a “Monster Raving Loony Party”. I will be curious to see which one gets more votes.
The MRLP sounds like it’s probably the more serious choice
Obligatory Monty Python.
Obligatory Blackadder.
And Blackadder
https://youtu.be/h6mJw50OdZ4
Yes Minister explains why Britain SHOULD be in the EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYuoWyk8iU
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYqB0uTKlE
CNN: “Campaign plagued by fake news”
Surprisingly, evidence is not provided.
Also:
What a monster.
Politicians are finally learning how to win. Talk to the people, not the dirty smear merchants & globalists.
Just like Hillary roped off the the press and wouldn’t go on Fox news?
Founded by this guy:
Whoops. link didn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQInIrlNAeo
I hate that guy.
Oh man… The tears are delicious.
This comment from the Guardian is classic
“I don’t blame Corbyn – he is what he is and he follows what he believes in. I actually hope he doesn’t get too upset tonight because the last thing I wish him is to get ill. He is a thoroughly decent and principled man. Who I really blame is that nasal cretin Ed Miliband – he is the one who changed the voting system for the Labour leadership and removed the block vote, which prevented entryism and extremists from skewing a leadership election.”
I don’t blame the vicious anti-Semitic commie either.
Yeap
https://youtu.be/wkn17h9c3xU
He sticks to his principles.
“Predictions:
1. Owen Jones Pritt Sticks himself to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
2. Diane Abbot drinks a mohito the size of a train.
3. Antifa take to the streets and knock over some bins.
4. Corbyn blames (((them))).”
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1205264400514506752
On #4
That’s nuts if those fears are justified.
I have to imagine it is. 94% of British Jews were anti-Corbyn, and they were already being scapegoated.
Sorry, that’s just awful.
This response! LOL!
Replying to @CountDankulaTV
All I can hear is joyful noises and banging coming from my attic.
I need to explain to the lovely Jewish family living in there that this is just an exit poll and to not count their chickens.
Kind of in bad taste, but I’m too happy to care.
It’s shadenboneriffic.
I am so fucking stoked about the UK elections. Fuck that antisemitic dictator loving lover of Venezuelan socialism piece of shit Corbyn. Let him be relegated to the dustbin of history.
The Tories are idiots, but they were a danger to British Jews (and everyone else, but especially the Jews)
Er, but Labour was a danger.
Corbyn is a raving communist. At least Britain hasn’t completely drunk the Flavor-Aid yet.
Reading that this could be the biggest Conservative sweep in the UK since Thatcher.
You.
Just.
Hate.
To.
See.
It.
Haha!
I’m dying laughing. Good for the Brits. If only the Canucks could have got their shit together.
Twitter right now is only second to Trump in 2016, especially for pro-brexit duel citizens like me.
It’s funny though, the NHS is always going to die. It just needs more money and everything would be fine. Even more than it currently gets obviously.
Really, the NHS is the British version of US abortion. For some reason, its always about to go away based on the result of the next election. You HAVE TO vote for Labour/Democrats or else no more NHS/Abortion.
Did they think labor was going to pull it off?
Bernie Sanders story hour.
https://youtu.be/Pn8EA2-YYbQ
LOL
Labour up 2 to 1 early, but one flip for the Torirs.
That flip was Blyth Valley, which has never before gone Conservative. The constituency was founded in 1950.
SNP picked up all the seats they lost. Will be interesting if this is the thing that finally gets Scotland out of the UK.
The EU doesn’t seem that interested in just Scotland. Another interesting aspect is Spain. They might not want something like Scotland independence happening because of the potential Catalonia issues. Spain might go out of its way to say Scotland can’t join the EU in which case they’d probably stay and just bitch about the Brits, the status quo.
BBC had the exit poll guy and he cautioned that their polling is not as strong in Scotland, so it could be wrong where results are close.
Spain absolutely does not want Scotland in the EU for that reason.
Though they have said through official channels that they will not veto their admission if it came to that.
Man, I forgot what political programming looks like when it’s run by non-retards. Check out BBC Stream of election results while it’s up, especially Andrew “I slew Ben Shapiro and didn’t even mean to” Neil grilling various idiots.
That’s awesome. Not perfect, but I’m trying not to let the perfect be the enemy of Teh Awesome.
There it is.
https://twitter.com/DANKBEANS/status/1205273670903586816
This is bullshit.
But you’re still not quite the same as other Americans, as Samoa doesn’t have the responsibilities that each the 50 states do. If the American Samoan people feel that strongly, they can do the same as their Hawaiian brothers and apply for statehood. But asking for the benefits without any of the responsibilities is a dick move.
To be fair, it’s really strange that American Samoans aren’t US citizens while citizens of every other US territory are.
It’s strange, in that we passed a law granting citizenship to people born in every other US territory. AS could also have submitted a bill, as opposed to going through the back door of judicial activism. This is really stretching the intent of the 14th Amendment.
Next up, fucking those racist pseudo governments called Indian tribes in the ass with equal protection incorporation.
We should be simpler, like the EU
Man, those Samoans are a surly bunch.
If you were forced to wear a skirt, you’d be surly too.
Thicc.
Real men wear sarongs.
Especially when they drink.
And they stopped marketing their cookies. What’s up with that?
I prefer Thin Mints anyway.
+100 Bloom County
Citation: https://photos1.blogger.com/img/19/2627/640/bloom11.jpg
*High fives Tres*
I don’t know where I stashed my old ones, but I have my new one handy.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/0iWBzniWTK659nmFq6Bm_w.efcfSWFhCGRq8BuA8pbPnP
Don’t know if you meant to tee this up, but truly one of the legendary punk bands:
https://youtu.be/_igsAuZNJHM
Which US territory doesn’t like to whine about it? I’ve heard similar in the US Virgin Islands.
Funny that I never hear them complain about not having to pay Federal income tax.
Just need to use the ol’ penumbras and emanations pen to insert “West” before “Indians not taxed”.
We should cut them loose, Puerto Rico too – shameful colonial legacies. I would even support bailing Puerto Rico out, and leaving them free and clear.
According to the Consolidated Federal Funds Report compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, Puerto Rico has received more than $21 billion annually in federal aid from the United States. It pays out around $3.5 billion in federal taxes a year. On its face, it would be the smart financial move.
Wut
Go home, Matty, you’re drunk. Also stupid.
Drunk implies a certain amount of competence in imbibing alcohol.
Only stupid hicks vote non-commie.
Remember, he doesn’t want to dumb it down for non-Vox readers.
We’re not worthy.
Well, he might have to dumb it down a bit. I honestly cannot tell what he’s actually trying to say.
I’m just as happy that way.
I prefer not to understand retard.
More poll results. Real ones this time. Labour strongholds like Sunderland and Newcastle still red, but double digit drops in both. Honestly, looking like the exit polls might have under predicted the asskicking.
Dummies aren’t heeding Obama’s sage wisdom on Brexit
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the polls indicate that the UK elections were going to be dead even. Sounds familiar…
BBC News yesterday were predicting most likely was small Conservative majority. But they conceded it could be hung parliament or large Conservative majority. But, most of what I read and heard was Con majority.
I get the impression that the common voter had the attitude of “We already voted on this, and should respect that result, stop stalling.” Including a goodly number that initially voted Remain.
Keep in mind, too, that had Teresa May just run on “the economy is great and we’re going to do Brexit,” she probably would have got a landslide. Instead she fought some stupid culture war crap.
That and somehow, and I’m not actually sure how it’s even possible, Corbyn is an even worse candidate than Hillary.
He makes Hillary look like Scrooge McDuck.
4-1 now. Do they count faster in the Northeast?
Much like Iowa takes pride in being the first primary, the English Northeast takes pride in getting their results in first. No, it doesn’t make sense.
Detroit Conservative wants to Disenfranchise 194 year old man
I was told election fraud doesn’t exist.
I’ve been told a lot of things.
I’ve also heard a lot of lies.
Err.. 196 year old.
Math is hrd.
From the side bar:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/12/12/actor-patton-oswalt-if-you-voted-for-trump-youre-a-stupid-asshole-if-you-still-support-him-youre-a-stupid-asshole/
Shouldn’t that dude be stationing his post under a bridge?
Who?
Ratatouille.
Gesundheit.
Like so many, he was really funny until he opened his mouth about politics, and used his platform to run that mouth.
Yup. Shut up about politics and entertain me jester.
Grrrr…despite having thought my Xmas shopping was all wrapped up (no pun intended), several items still haven’t shipped yet.
This is crunch time you assholes! Ship my gifts.
We had a bunch get cancelled cause the seller couldn’t fill them.
I had one show up damaged. Amazon makes returns so easy. Thanks Bezos!
A bunch cancelled? Ouch. Way to turn off future shoppers.
Suckers IO did all my Xmas shopping over a year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavyw-dRgmc
How did you get Io to do your shopping? Isn’t she dead?
I almost always chat with Uber and Lyft drivers that drive me and they all have been very aware how shitty the new law is going to be when it kicks in.
Brooksed this way at the top.
Try again.
Our cat who normally won’t let me get anywhere near her chilled tonight and posed for me by the Christmas tree.
https://imgur.com/a/ivwJlb8
That cat is mesmerized by the tree.