Tuesday Afternoon Links

by | Apr 28, 2020 | Daily Links | 338 comments

Well, Glibs fans, it looks like I might have cockroached* around enough this month to survive without being laid off. I was sure I was gonna get the gate. If I’m being honest, I’m experiencing some survivors’ guilt after a happy hour last night with my former team (client and co-workers). I looked around and realized I was the only one who hadn’t lost a job or been asked to take a significant pay cut. Thanks to all the Glibs who reached out and offered support during my time of uncertainty. Tonight might be the first night I sleep soundly in six weeks. And my sincere sorrow to all the Glibs who weren’t so lucky. Please continue to ask for whatever help you need.

Sweden believes herd immunity a few weeks away. As best I can tell, the only factor that seems reliable in predicting spread of the virus have been population density. The US solution of isolation seems untenable. Florida had fewer than 6000 positive tests in the last 100,000. At this point, the only way out is through. Vaccines are a year away, and rate of infection as measured by testing (not hospitalization) is less than the open bed census.

Beaches in my area re-open Monday. The order was supposed to expire Friday, but I guess I can see them waiting until after the weekend.

My daily Kimspotting link.

The emergency continues to be such an emergency that the House… remains in recess. Good.

 

Hadn’t heard this one in a while.

 

*trying not to be seen and looking frenetically busy when the light hits you

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

338 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Wow, this thing is slow.

  2. Brochettaward

    I am the first man. The superior man. Bow before my works and despair or something like that.

    2nd!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *points and laughs*

      • Gustave Lytton

        He got his inline image that he was after at least.

      • Count Potato

        It looks like your avatar shrunk?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Apparently there’s something wonky in how they display. Maybe not auto cropping anymore?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Checked profile page and the correct thumbnail is there, but appears that WP is displaying the original file now not the thumbnail.

      • bacon-magic

        It’s like a widened gaze.

  3. Jarflax

    They are in recess but still passing stupid laws.

    • Bob Boberson

      Yeah, the precedent set by them remote-voting probably ain’t good

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Install the yay/nay button in my favorite brothel and I’ll run for office.

        I promise nay on everything.

      • Bob Boberson

        *disconnects yay wires just-in-case*

      • Mad Scientist

        Better, let’s connect the yay wires to the nay switch.

      • Don Escaped Sarcasm

        continuity FTW

      • Bobarian LMD

        I promise nay on everything.

        If you don’t take any of the upsells, you won’t be very popular in the brothel.

    • hayeksplosives

      Massie is pushing passage of something he’d already written regarding Intrastate meat processing and sales that should make it easier for sellers and buyers alike.

      • Bob Boberson

        Someone made the terrifying comment earlier today that all the outbreaks at meat processing plants might lead to rationing of animal flesh. You can have my steak when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

        Seriously, the thought of only being able to eat ribeye on special occasions fills me with dread and anger.

      • Incentives Matter

        Special occasions? You mean like the coming food riots if our asshole politicians don’t pull their fingers out and loosen their idiotic restrictions?

      • Bob Boberson

        I was referring to meat shortages specifically but yes, I agree that all this will have far reaching effects on all food supply if pushed too long into the near future.

  4. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    From the last thread

    Does it only apply to the one because of how they worded their complaint, or the judge had to admit it was overstepping, but didn’t want to allow others to open?

    The ruling was on motion for a temporary injunction until the final ruling is made.

    • Tonio

      Although less satisfying than a summary judgement, this is good news for the people in that area and very hopeful for the rest of us since you generally get an injunction only if you look likely to prevail.

  5. Count Potato

    “Please continue to ask for whatever help you need.”

    Right now the only thing I need, but can’t buy is N95 masks. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is anything anyone can do about it.

    • Florida Man

      Work issued respirators, aka painters mask. They issued guidelines saying the filters are good until you notice it’s harder to breath. IDK if you have/can find one of those. Supposedly they’re a better filter than N95.

    • R C Dean

      Why do you need an N95? If its for the COVID, I don’t think its really necessary unless you need to go full droplet precautions. And if you do need full precautions, its not sufficient.

    • Bob Boberson

      Landlord:

      “I’m sure the NHS will return the favor when I’m piling your shit on the curb”

      • invisible finger

        I would definitely clap for the landlord if he did that.

      • Bob Boberson

        Also, that lead me down the rabbit hole to this:

        https://imgur.com/gallery/2VHuIrA

        Which in-turn lead me to this beautiful comment:

        “Watch me paint shitty paintings from my expensive new York apartment and pretend I’m one with the common man”

    • SDF-7

      Hmmm… read that as “Everybody’s Favorite Tennant.

    • Mad Scientist

      The “you didn’t build that” tenet in action.

  6. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: I, Pencil Idiot

    Famines are never the result of an inability to grow food. It is always a systemic failure in distribution, and those failures are always due to malice on the part of those in power. Whether it’s the Capitalists refusing to allow distribution witḥout their share of the prọfits, or down-right eviḷ Fascists using their cọntrol of ḍistribution to weed ọut undesirables, faṃines ọnly ever aṛe class warfare.

    • Count Potato

      How historically ignorant are these assholes?

    • Bob Boberson

      faṃines ọnly ever aṛe class warfare.

      Then why are commies always the best at famining?

      • Drake

        Because they’re the best at class warfare?

      • Bob Boberson

        They’ve got what plants crave?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Capitalist, Fascists, What about the massive famines in Russia and China caused by the Communists? Never mind I know the answer.

      • Tonio

        I got this… “not real socialists.”

    • Brawndo

      Erm, no. The chicken/pork farmers out there are euthanizing their animals because the plants they normally sell to that process it down to readily consumable product are shut down and live animals keep eating, and they are past their marketable prime. I’m sure if you were to drive out to a farmer, and offer to buy a whole animal, he’d take you up on that offer. I foresee price increases on meat commodities because a lot of these farmers won’t survive not having anyone to sell to.

  7. Donation Not Taxation

    Although date of birth unknown, today anniversary baptism noted protector of people from plague William Mompesson

  8. Bobarian LMD

    Vaccines are a year away

    At least a year away. Turns out the cure for the ‘Rona is found in cold fusion.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So it’s right around the corner!

    • Gustave Lytton

      If ever.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Can we get the same shut downs when it is breathlessly reported that the corona vacc is just as ineffective as the flu vacc

      • Tres Cool

        That was kinda my thinking, when I read someplace about how rapidly this thing mutates. And some small percentage of common cold viruses are coronavirus; that certainly hasn’t been cured.

      • R C Dean

        And some small percentage of common cold viruses are coronavirus

        I want to say 20%, but can’t recall where I saw that.

      • Incentives Matter

        I read that percentage recently, too. I was surprised — I was under the impression that most incidences of the common cold were coronavirus and rhinovirus, and not much else.

    • Agent Cooper

      Oxford vaccine is off to a promising start.

  9. Drake

    When I saw the interview with the Swedish Foreign Minister a few days ago, what really struck me is when she said something to the effect of: “We’re Swedes. we trust each other.”
    Here’s the video and another interview:

    “We have managed to flatten the curve, and we think that our strategy is working,” she argued. “And we believe it’s much better for people to be outside and not locked in their home for the public health.”
    “We tried to work with four different goals in mind,” she pointed out. “Not to spread the virus, but also to mitigate the impact on jobs and businesses and to provide security for those who lose their jobs and also to tackle social problems.”

    Contrast that compassionate approach with this asshole:

    The governor said reopening golf courses is “on the list of things” his administration “look at regularly.” But his order stands… we’ve got to make sure that we do this right and that we don’t have people congregating inappropriately.”

    Thanks for making sure I don’t inappropriately congregate in a state forest.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      “ Thanks for making sure I don’t inappropriately congregate in a state forest.”

      One of the weirder restrictions. My state closed I think 90% of the state parks to day use. Even Virginia has its state parks open to day use!

      • Bob Boberson

        Social distancing isn’t just about stoping the spread of disease, it’s about making sure nobody experiences joy; its for the greater good.

    • Bobarian LMD

      When you shave (and photoshop) a hobbit, they clean up nice.

      • Bob Boberson

        “HOLD UP! …… Bitch you sure you not a hobbit?”

  10. wdalasio

    Maybe I’m missing something, but here’s my take on Coronavirus issue. The experts’ plan was to slow the spread, so that hospitals would not be overrun. When they made that plan, they weren’t under the delusion that they could somehow stop people from ever getting sick. I expect that, at some point, I will catch the virus. And there’s a good chance I’ll get sick. Even a small chance I’ll wind up very sick. I’m not delusional and I understand the risks. But, I also understand that cowering in my home for a few more months isn’t going to change those risks. The virus WILL make a comeback in the fall. It isn’t going away. The only alternative to living with these risks is pretending we can shut down civilization until there’s a vaccine – that’s a year and a half, MINIMUM. The consequence of that is the collapse of civilization. And the health risks to that vastly exceed those of the virus.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And the hospitals haven’t been overrun with COVID patients, in fact, they’re collapsing from a lack of business.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        It seems to me like my hospital will admit anyone that comes to the ED just to get some bodies/payments

      • R C Dean

        Pretty much business as usual, then.

        Yeah, we’re pretty much fucked. Nearly everybody is on a 30% furlough, although you are allowed to take one PTO day for every three furlough days. Essentially, we’ve made a big chunk of our staff part-time employees. High Lord Ducey, Ruler of the Deserts and the Mountains, has graciously allowed us to apply to resume elective surgeries, which should help if we grovel convincingly enough that He grants our petition. Of course, even when His Lordship ends the lockdown, we will be in a deep recession. The last deep recession damn near put us out of business.

        I, for one, am pondering moonlighting and trying to figure my pitch, my angle. Which is fucking ridiculous, but if I have three workdays out of ten where I am sitting around the house, I’ve got to figure out how to make some coin. Unfortunately, I am specialized as an insect, and I’m struggling to come up with anything other than signing up as an InstaCart runner. My plan to retire in a couple of years is pretty much a shambles now.

        I think we are well past the point where the net lives saved isn’t negative. Recessions and depressions are killers.

    • Drake

      Yes – after the “lockdown” they moved the goalposts about 50 miles down the road.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Unfortunately the whole stay home, save lives propaganda worked. Now the politicians don’t want to release restrictions thinking that the public will hold them responsible for any deaths even though as you pointed out that wasn’t the original rationale.

    • Don Escaped Sarcasm

      stop making sense, dewd

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The link states it pretty clearly that it is Jay Cutler’s wife (soon to be ex).

    • Drake

      A very successful gold-digger.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ??

      • Bobarian LMD

        Why would a successful gold digger marry Jay Cutler?

        Wouldn’t she marry a successful QB?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Sounds like Cutler was the successful gold digger. He managed to fuck over three NFL franchises to my recollection.

      • Ted S.

        He was good for the Packers. 😉

      • Drake

        The fans are always the bottoms.

      • Agent Cooper

        She was on TV in MTV’s The Hills Pre-Cutler.

      • Gdragon

        I think she comes from money herself, she started out on that “Laguna Beach” show on MTV and most of those kids’ parents were doing pretty well I think.

  11. DEG

    Brett, it’s good that you kept your job.

    From the article on the Swedes:

    Being centrally organized and steered (as part of a state-funded system) allows for greater flexibility in changing the health system.

    HAH!

    • grrizzly

      Who made the decision to cancel elective procedures in hospitals around the country? Was it done by the governors or by individual hospital groups? Was it a part of the federal guidelines? In this crisis the federal system in the US had a chance to set different policies in different states. But it didn’t happen with respect to hospitals. On the other hand, when the authorities make a good decision, it will be implemented faster if the system is centralized.

      In other words, Sweden is demonstrating advantages of centralization, the US is failing to show advantages of decentralization.

      • Tonio

        In Virginia it was Gov Northam [boo, hiss]

      • DEG

        Most or all of the elective procedure bans came from state governors.

      • R C Dean

        100% the governors. Its all on them. No legislators sullied their hands. And certainly not Trump, who was crystal clear it was up to them.

      • DrOtto

        I’m reasonably certain it was monkey see, monkees do, being the rationale behind all the Govs’ orders. Whitmer was the exception, she was practicing a “worst practices” policy.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Will he be worried enough to hide from the rest of humanity for a few more years?

      We can’t be that lucky.

    • Bob Boberson

      When do we get to the part where Fredo finally goes fishing?

    • R C Dean

      There’s only one thing to do, Chris.

      End it now. Its the only way to be sure the ‘Rona won’t get you.

      Christ, what a drama queen.

    • Spudalicious

      Antibodies didn’t save Fredo, so….

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I thought her fifteen minutes were already up.

    • Drake

      That’s what will bring the country together, a good scolding from a Chinese Ivy League Professor on how we shouldn’t be disobedient. The Bee article writes itself.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I thought that was a Bee article.

        I guess that was a little too over the top, though.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Speaking of The Bee: Men Demand End To Lockdown Before Wives Start Any More Home Improvement Projects

      • dontreadonme

        That was written about me. My hands have so many blisters, cuts and bruises it looks like I took on a gang of stabby assailants with my bare hands.

    • Bob Boberson

      “Like cigarette smoking, shooting rampages and reckless driving, “freedoms” that endanger lives and curtail others’ freedoms are not legitimate freedoms but a public health concern. People should fight for their legal rights. They should demand access to information as well as to expertise, and correct intervention. When experts call out abnormal signs, it is not a diagnosis but important information.”

      G. F. Y.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        In the interest of public health, put up signs declaring ‘shooting rampage free zone’ and ‘reckless driving free zone’. / sarc

      • Bob Boberson

        The conflation of smoking with murder, positive rights with negative rights, and the assertion that our ultimate right is to be ruled over, in four sentences no less, is pretty impressive.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Could be Derp of the Day

      • R C Dean

        not legitimate freedoms but a public health concern

        There it is, folks. The epitaph of freedom. If it is a “public health” issue, you are not free to do it.

        And of course, everything is a public health issue.

    • Florida Man

      You pay for Salon?

    • Q Continuum

      Fuck off slaver.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ooh, now do Bernie you hack quack.

      • Mad Scientist

        Or Antifa.

    • Count Potato

      Adblocked. I’ll just assume it’s retarded without reading it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s Salon, of course it’s retarded.

    • Tonio

      Word for the day! Thanks, Q.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Titty?

      • Q Continuum

        We Glibs are high brow with our degeneracy.

    • DEG

      A lot of RealDolls

    • SandMan

      12 is Potato’s fetish, correct?

    • Spudalicious

      16

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe I’m missing something, but here’s my take on Coronavirus issue. The experts’ plan was to slow the spread, so that hospitals would not be overrun.

    And that was based on projections which have proven to be complete and utter bullshit.

    • wdalasio

      True. But, I’m even willing to give the benefit of the doubt on that. The facts are now in, however. The answer now is to follow the logical implications of the policy, given what we know now.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, we actually have honest to god real world data now and should go forward using that.

      • R C Dean

        Don’t give the benefit of the doubt. It was obvious on day one the models were bullshit. The model that kicked this off was done by the Imperial College by someone with a long history of producing pandemic models that were off by an order of magnitude or more. Within a week, the Oxford Institute of Evidence Based Medicine published an article pointing out that early pandemic models are always, always, way overstated, and did the analysis to correct the model based on the historical pattern. Their conclusion: this is probably in the range of a bad, maybe a really bad, flu season.

        But wait, there’s more!

        Every pandemic follows a bell curve. The models all assumed that the first confirmed patient in the US was the first actual patient (an assumption that is shockingly bad, especially given the way the FDA and CDC screwed up early testing). That means they started their bell curves a month or two months late, meaning the peak was a month or two months late. In short, by the time the lockdowns were imposed, we were already near, or maybe past, the peak. And it should have been obvious to anyone who gave it five minutes thought.

        So, no, they don’t get the benefit of the doubt.

      • Don Escaped Sarcasm

        The models all assumed that the first confirmed patient in the US was the first actual patient

        The practice I’ve seen is to work from the 100th case to support bench-marking. But that can’t be done, of course, before there are 100 patients; before that, one is only guessing with what data he has.

  13. Donation Not Taxation

    Glad Brett L kept job and pay.

    For United States, according to Box Office Mojo:

    Domestic 2020 Week 16
    April 17-23, 2020
    #1 movie by box office Resistance (Boy Scouts and nuns rescue orphans WWII), Swallow (mentally ill woman swallows items most people not swallow), The Other Lamb (@ $265 box office for the week, male cult leader, otherwise all female cult)

    Domestic 2020 Weekend 17
    April 24-26, 2020
    True History of the Kelly Gang (Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities 1870s Australia), Resistance

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Thanks for making sure I don’t inappropriately congregate in a state forest.

    They closed Yellowstone. Because all those tourists who come to the park will poison the surrounding communities which largely subsist on tourist dollars. We had to destroy those villages to save them.

    • Tonio

      My people count on the picnic baskets and dumpster buffets for the Spring fattening. Will nobody think of the bears?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Titty?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Fucking squirrels are worse than bears.

    • SDF-7

      It is tough to social distance properly when stealing pic-a-nic baskets, Boo Boo…

      • Mad Scientist

        I saw that episode of Harvey Birdman. Boo Boo is really the Unibooboo, social distancing in his cave with his electric typewriter that has a mis-aligned “t.”

      • Gdragon

        Reducto was a great social distancer, it was all “Back off!!” and shrink gun with that guy 😉

    • Grosspatzer

      If it saves one bear…

  15. Tundra

    Congrats, Brett!

    I’m happy for you. Like you, I have survived so far, but many around me are not. God damn the pants-shitters to hell.

    At this point, the only way out is through.

    This. It is time to get back in the game.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Like cigarette smoking, shooting rampages and reckless driving, “freedoms” that endanger lives and curtail others’ freedoms are not legitimate freedoms but a public health concern.

    Is that you, Tulpa?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Is advocating for removing others’ freedoms a legitimate freedom because by her own standards she needs to shut the fuck up.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It sounds like a legitimate reason to send someone back to China. Even if she isn’t necessarily from there.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’d settle for her just getting fired because what she’s doing is unethical as hell but she will suffer no professional repercussions whatsoever.

      • R C Dean

        I doubt that. A promotion is a professional repercussion, after all.

  17. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘We are realizing that we are dependent on science and scientific evidence, and we need to listen to the experts and the scientific data’ — Greta Thunberg

    ‘Being patient and calm is the only thing we can do now. We have to wait and trust the experts until we can play football again. We are coping okay. We are obviously in the house trying to get fit and training however we can by doing some exercises in the house and the garden.’ — Juan Mata

    Anyone see Leftstream media ‘listen to’ or ‘trust’ economists other than former central bank, World Bank, IMF chairs about restarting economy?

    • RAHeinlein

      Science is not math. Math is hard, sexist and racist.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      His net worth is 55 million according to the interweb. That cocksucker can afford all the time in the world to be patient and calm and I’d imagine he has a damn nice place to do that too.

    • Bob Boberson

      The party of the #RESISTANCE and ‘stickin’ it to the man’ believes that ‘experts’ should run every aspect of our lives and that questioning them is not only unwise, it is profoundly dangerous.

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Apparently creating circumstances economy flourish not something Left thinks requires expertise.

  18. egould310

    Between assignments. Streaming state mandated “harassment training”, listening to Spin Age Blasters on WFMU, and sipping bourbon.

    • Tundra

      I’m pretty good at it. Let me know if I can give you any pointers.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Vargas Girl! Love it Tundra!

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      1. Be handsome
      2. Be attractive
      3. Don’t be unattractive

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I didn’t know that’s a thing. Can you use that it tube fed as well or do you have to use a detachable magazine?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Works fine in a Mossberg 500. No magazine required.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sorry, that was unclear, I meant the magazine fed pump shotgun.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Sorry I wasn’t clear, a Mossy 500 is a tube-fed pump shotgun.

        But you could also use this round with Mossberg 590M, as well which is magazine fed.

        The externals of the round are nothing special, and it’s meant to be fired from a smooth-bore.

        Only consideration might be an old gun with a variable choke (you’re not supposed to use steel shot thru those, so this might be questionable as well)

      • Tres Cool

        Today I learned……

        I dont know anything about this dealer, but for $100, looks fun

    • Tres Cool

      If I had a 500A for home defense, it would be kept loaded with alternating 00 and slug.

      Shame I dont have such a thing, and configured like that- lost it in the lake that one time.

  19. Count Potato

    “I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID.

    Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power.

    Earlier this week I watched a white high school classmate defending Trump on the disinfectant BS. And I realized again that for his supporters, realizing just how wrong they were about this man, and the depths of his idiocy and depravity, is akin to an existential crisis for them

    They are literally willing to die from this clusterfucked COVID response rather than admit that absolutely anybody other than him would have been a better president. And when whiteness has a death wish, we are all in for a serious problem.

    Black people did not vote for this dude in any appreciable numbers. (Black men voted for him at 15% and they are dying the most.) No Black person deserves this and Black women knew it would be absolutely awful for him to be president. And now we all live in daily fear.

    I am saying some obvious things this morning because as a country we are too good at skipping over the audience and we might as well say this to people as often as we can. Fuck each and every Trump supporter. You all absolutely did this. You are to blame.

    Black Lives Matter. Black Lives with hypertension, diabetes, and asthma matter. Fat Black Lives matter. All Black Lives matter.”

    https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk/status/1255116155599171589

    • Q Continuum

      blah blah blah racist shouts at sky yadda yadda yadda

    • Brochettaward

      All Black Lives matter.

      Not the ones who are aborted at a higher rate, however.

      • Bob Boberson

        /Margret Sanger hoarsely whispers “Shhhhh!”

    • Jarflax

      Magically Black people don’t suffer at all from great depressions. Just look how well they fared last time.

      • tarran

        That’s kind of the purpose.

        Most progressive policies were originally intended to prevent ethnic minorities and women from competing with white males for high paying jobs.

        The policies remain even if their proponents’ claimed intentions have done a 180℉ turn.

        It would be comical if it weren’t for the century of suffering those assholes have sanctimoniously caused for the weak and downtrodden.

    • Chipwooder

      “we all live in daily fear”? Speak for yourself, toots.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      I wonder if he considered the fact that the lockdowns mean blacks cannot see their doctors regarding things like diabetes, heart, and vascular disease that are occur in huge numbers in the black population.

      How many deaths are or will occur in the black community because they are not being seen by doctors, going to the ED or having surgeries postponed?

    • PBRstreetgang

      I don’t say this lightly, but Brittney Cooper is the stupidest person on the internet.

    • B.P.

      So white supremacists “literally willing to die” by pushing to reopen the country is their path to “massive winnowing of Black folks”.

      This totally not imbalanced person teaches university courses.

    • hayeksplosives

      Sad that she’s been so indoctrinated by this crap by the leftist “institutions” that she really believes that over half the country is filled with white supremacists trying to kill her and other people who identify as “of color” (barf).

    • Brawndo

      I’d be willing to bet that at least half of the BLM crowd don’t even know who Tamir Rice is.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    No link- TW: CNN video

    Vice President Pence, who leads the White House’s coronavirus task force, did not wear a mask while touring the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota despite being informed that wearing a mask is part of the clinic’s policy.
    Source: CNN

    Murder, or suicide? I can’t even tell, anymore.

    • R C Dean

      Dick move, Pence. You’re a guest, when in Rome, etc.

      More “rules are for the little people” from Our Masters.

      • Rhywun

        Dick move, Pence.

        ^this

        Plus more fodder for the apeshit media.

  21. tarran

    A question for the glibertariat:

    I want suggestions as to how to stonewall Census questions without looking like a swivel-eyed lunatic to the local cops.

    I filled out the online survey, declining to provide email address, phone number, and racial demographic data. The reason for the latter is that, bluntly, they have no legitimate reason to know, and I am concerned down the road should reparations become government policy that my ethnic background could be used to justify fining me as part of that scheme. I don’t want to make the mistake of Jews who innocently told the Reich about their religious affiliation in the 1920’s during their censi.

    I’m also in the process of revamping our home defense plans, and I will be shortly petitioning our local police department for permission to own a firearm (this is the people’s republic of MA).

    I got a paper form in the mail last week, which I binned. Then yesterday I got a postcard threatening to send someone out to “interview” me.

    I don’t want a confrontation. Don’t want to humiliate anyone. I just don’t want to talk to these people at all. If I can avoid it.

    In the end though, the need to get government permission for a fire-arm outweighs the need to keep quiet about my ethnicity.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Identify as Neanderthal.

      Also I thought you came from Turkey. Can’t you claim some swarthy heritage?

      • tarran

        Giving false answers is a crime punishable by a $500 fine. Staying silent, OTOH, is punishable by a max fine of $100.

      • Not Adahn

        We will find out. I put down “Other-Kekistani”

      • Fourscore

        The last time (10 years ago) I told them I was too busy to do an interview (true, ’cause I’m always too busy). The guy insisted it would only take a few minutes, I repeated that I was too busy, give me the forms and I’d fill them out when I had time. I’m still too busy.

        I haven’t been counted for about the last 3 or 4 times. I’ll be too busy again. I’ve been messaged a few times but being an old guy so I can plead I don’t understand telephones/computers and that’s mostly true. I would pay the $100 if necessary.

    • Bob Boberson

      Been having the same dilemma. I have no reason no other than “fuck you, don’t tell me what to do.” I looked up what happens if you don’t answer the kings summons; $100 fine. Now I’m left with the choice between bitchin’ out or flushing $100 down the toilet.

    • Q Continuum

      Unfortunately, you may have to knuckle under. If you’re concerned about the ethnicity… well let’s just say that we’re allowing people to choose their gender, why not their ethnicity? Do you feel black inside? You could also put “Native American” and that would be true in the strictest sense.

      • R C Dean

        Based on Bro Dean’s ancestry.com genetic screen, I was comfortable putting “mixed race”.

    • Mad Scientist

      I got the long form several months ago. We circular filed it and no one has said a thing about it to us.

      Let’s say they do send someone out to interview you after the postcard. “Oh, the people who live here are stuck in quarantine in California for the duration of this virus thing. I’m just watching their house for them until they get back.”

    • DEG

      I’m in NH, so things are a little different with respect to guns.

      I fill out the paper form stating how many people live where I do. I fill out nothing else. I mail that back in.

      I intend to do that again this year.

      For the 2000 Census, a Census worker showed up at my apartment. I told her one person lives here and refused to answer any other questions. I heard nothing else from the Census Bureau.

      For the 2010 Census, no Census workers showed up at my house that I know of. It’s possible they showed up but I wasn’t home as at that point I was away from home often. They asked my neighbors questions about me. I know because one neighbor told me. I told that neighbor, “They only need to how many people live here. One person lives in my house.” She said, “OK”, with a look on her face like I was crazy. I still talk with those neighbors despite that. I heard nothing else from the Census Bureau about the 2010 Census.

      We’ll see what 2020 brings.

    • kinnath

      The census doesn’t ask anything the government can’t get by asking the IRS and social media.

      • Fourscore

        The school district knows, the taxing authority knows, IRS, neighbors. You are probably the same ethnic group you were last census.

      • dbleagle

        Hey there! If I can choose my sex why not my ethnic group? Don’t be a hater. I identify as a Norse Aesir god. That should be good enough for the USG.

        If you go back far enough all Homo Sapien Sapien are from Africa.

  22. Count Potato

    “That’s not the fault of the cops. It’s the fault of the people putting these regulations in place, who all too often are caribou performing sexual acts on basketballs.”

    https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1254619225097818112

    what?

    • tarran

      Ah, the old Nuremburg defense. 🙄

    • Bob Boberson

      There ya go Benny, lick those boots.

      A quote from Higgs you’ve all read, I’m sure:

      “The Whole “Good/Bad Cop” Question Can Be Disposed Of Much More Decisively. We Need Not Enumerate What
      proportion Of Cops Appears To Be Good Or Listen To Someone’s Anecdote About His Uncle Charlie, An Allegedly Good Cop.
      We Need Only Consider The Following:
      (1) Every Cop Has Agreed As Part Of His Job To Enforce Laws, All Of Them
      (2) Many Of The Laws Are Manifestly Unjust, And Some Are Even Cruel & Wicked.
      (3) Therefore, Every Cop Has Agreed To Act As An Enforcer Of Laws That Are Manifestly Unjust, Or Even Cruel & Wicked

      Thus There Are No Good Cops”

      • Bob Boberson

        Sorry about the appearance, it was cut and posted without a second thought.

      • R C Dean

        Also:

        Cops watch other cops break the law and do nothing. Any cop who watches another cop break the law and does nothing is a bad cop.

      • Fourscore

        Serpico remembers…

    • Incentives Matter

      Sign me up. Best fries I’ve ever had? Calling it as a tie between Belgian and Dutch. In both cases, fried in horse fat, served with various mayos or pindasaus (peanut sauce). Yum.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Never had horse or anything cooked in horse fat, I always figured it would have an undertaste of glue.

      • Mad Scientist

        Or dog food.

      • kinnath

        Duck fat. It makes all the difference.

      • Not Adahn

        The best fried potatoes I’ve had have been made in duck fat. However, the only person I know who’s tried both says horse-fat fries are better.

      • Not Adahn

        I had totally forgotten that part.

        Now I want to watch a fourth one.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nay

      • dontreadonme

        I think you are missing the mane point of the argument.

      • Incentives Matter

        Also very good (but way more expensive for deep-frying than horse fat).

        And horse steaks, widely available in Europe, are quite good.

      • Mojeaux

        Fresh Belgian fries and homemade mayo from a street vendor #FTW!

    • Mad Scientist

      Which would be fine, except they’ll put mayo or some other horrible thing on them.

      • Tres Cool

        YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

        Mayo on fries is teh awesome.

      • Q Continuum

        I never pegged you for a Eurofag Tres.

      • Tres Cool

        Fuck you. Now this is stuck in my head.

        Full disclosure- I havent had fries or potato products since August 15, 2018

      • Drake

        I often go for BBQ sauce.

      • AlmightyJB

        Chili sauce is good as well.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Cholula

      • Aloysious

        This. Mixed with sour cream.

      • DrOtto

        Gravy

      • Incentives Matter

        You’re dead to me.

    • AlmightyJB

      I once had a concussion that caused meat to taste rank and other foods to taste horrible as well. The only thing I could eat were potatoes which I did everyway imaginable for several years before the condition went away. When my wife and I started living together she spent $100 on groceries. I was like all you need is a bag of potatoes, Crisco, ketchup, and butter!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s a new one.

      • AlmightyJB

        I know of it happening to a couple of other people as well.

    • AlmightyJB

      Legs all day.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I hate them both.

    • Gender Traitor

      So he CAN be pressured to back off. Time to keep pushing.

      Note that it apparently didn’t occur to anyone that masks help facilitate armed robbery. My credit union coworkers are understandably averse to serving masked customers. (Disclaimer: we’ve been operating under drive-thru only, and I don’t know when our lobbies will reopen as restrictions are loosened in OH.)

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Yep because us HC workers never faced danger before. It’s all been stress free. Patients always present with immediately clear illnesses. Patients and their families are never violent or threatening ?

      Look, the discounts are nice. Especially as the first responder BS was a little out of hand in some places. I saw one car company offered its first responder discount to corrections officers

      • Trials and Trippelations

        I this may be a PR thing. I think most HC think this hero worship is still, and recognize the stress or risk hasn’t changed much

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m appreciative but this hero worship bullshit has got to stop.

    • mikey

      It’s truly amazing how our Heroes in Scrubs are holding up in dealing with Montana’s 11 WuFlu patients.
      I wonder if the hospitals are fighting over who gets them.

      Max patient load was 19, I think.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Comic books are lame these days.

    • Donation Not Taxation

      (@TheDCUniverse) has drawings of costumed superheroes thanking ‘the real life heroes of the world’

    • AlmightyJB

      Ok Karen.

    • Drake

      So stay inside, it used to be a free country.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        June 12th, 1983

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        At 4:17pm

      • Dry_Gin_Wet_Farts

        1785.

      • mikey

        When we used to also say “Sound as the Dollar.”

        and

        “Don’t make a federal case out of it.”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sometime pre land bridge

      • Jarflax

        Long before you were born.

  23. kinnath

    More cover fire for Joe Grab’em by the Pussy Biden.

    The Witness Who Saw Nothing

    Reporting on sexual assault too often relies on testimony from people who weren’t there.

    Or maybe not.

    Some people who harass and rape are brazen in their abuse; their associates can’t help but witness it, and word of their misconduct gets around. Others are charismatic leaders, excellent bosses, devoted fathers, and caring boyfriends. Some commit just one act of sexual violence in a lifetime. An easily identifiable pattern and a slew of damning rumors might make for a cleaner narrative, but a lack thereof doesn’t make an allegation any less likely to be true.

    It takes really long legs to straddle that fence.

    • commodious spittoon

      But a woman who can’t put herself in the same zip code as the accused, or even attach a year to the incident, is credible because baby voice and two front doors and afraid to fly and

      Absurd, all of it.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yet destroying property, in the form of tearing down statues, got a complete pass.

  24. Donation Not Taxation

    US Navy releases official versions videos already public UFOs recorded November 2004 to January 2015 cameras on Navy jets.

    ‘Open government, Prime Minister. Freedom of information. We should always tell the press freely and frankly anything that they could easily find out some other way.’

  25. Chipping Pioneer

    Hey Brett. I think you’ve ranted about this before: agile methodologies incentivize doing things fast, but not doing things right.

    • Unreconstructed

      I gotta disagree. The idea behind agile methodologies is to involve the customer during the development phase rather than before and after. One way of doing that is to get a first version of the product up and running quickly, then iterate in short bursts to improve that first cut on every iteration until it becomes the product the customer needs. There’s no guarantee that this will result in faster development, but it should, in theory, result in the end product being what the customer actually wants.

  26. Hyperion

    Good afternoon, wokesters.

    Not sure if the IRS has worked out some of the bugs for the Trumpbux, but I went back to check again today and I finally go a ‘you are eligible for this payment’ and then was able to enter some return info and my bank account info and got a ‘check back to see when your check will be deposited’ message.

    $2400 is not much of a consolation to make up for the stock market losses, the at least temporary loss of 2 clients, and no chance this year of demanding another well deserved raise in compensation from my only currently remaining client. But I’ll take it since they’re throwing money out of planes. I’d rather see a tax cut, but we all know the democrats are having none of that, that’s their money.

    • kinnath

      It is better than nothing.

      • Hyperion

        Better would be the tossing of the media into some mulching devices.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      It could be worse. It could be Scheisseporn.

  27. Donation Not Taxation

    Trigger Warning: TOS

    Hawaiian Brewery Under Investigation for Hand Sanitizer Giveaway
    Absurd enforcement of liquor regulations harms public health efforts.

    Scott Shackford | 4.28.2020 7:30 AM

    • Hyperion

      Who could know how much sodium is in that illegal hand sanitizer? You want people to die!

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless
        Has The Mayor Totally Eaten Away At The Public’s Desire To Do Good?
        March 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm
        CBS New York

      • Donation Not Taxation

        NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!

        Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.

    • Donation Not Taxation

      ‘In other words: It’s against the law in Maui to give away hand sanitizer to people who buy liquor from you. And it’s also against the law to give liquor away to people who buy hand sanitizer from you.’

  28. Tundra

    Target shopping report:

    Everything looked pretty well stocked. Paper goods, too. There was even the luxurious Charmin!

    The mask thing is getting on my nerves. Again, it was mostly youngsters wearing them, but sweet Jesus, people! We’re gonna have to let this bitch run its course eventually.

    Besides, nearly everyone was wearing them wrong.

    • Hyperion

      “We’re gonna have to let this bitch run its course eventually.”

      We can have a conversation about that after orangebadman is gone.

  29. commodious spittoon

    Kim Jong Un’s uncle emerges as possible successor in North Korea

    It goes to show you how backwards America is that we’re not ready for the first female dictator of North Korea.

    • hayeksplosives

      Snort.

  30. LJW

    Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history

    I don’t know if this has already been posted, so if drugs fall out of my butt enjoy. Basically this summarizes what has been said on this site for the last few month.

    • Hyperion

      You ban from Youtube! Honorable dear leader Pooh Bear offended!

  31. R C Dean

    The Washington State Supreme Court voted down a request to release every single prisoner in the Washington prison system over the age of 50, so they wouldn’t get the ‘Rona.

    That would be 2/3s of the prisoners. Including such notables as the Green River serial killer, with a body count of at least 71.

    The vote was 5 – 4.

    • Hyperion

      Just don’t loose them mareequaner addicts on society.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Maybe they wanted to make room for the evil protesters

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      71? Was he building a house out of skulls? That’s a lot of people.

      • Suthenboy

        Hookers that no one cares about and corrupt/incompetent cops make for a hell of a cocktail. Alaska had one that they suspect killed hundreds….I don’t remember the number…perhaps 300 over several decades.

      • Bob Boberson

        I’d bet guys like Gary Ridgeway have/get more consideration from parole board than Ross Ulbricht ever will.

    • Suthenboy

      I am told that I am over the top or nuts because I posit that the left’s goal is to destroy western civilization, yet it is their stated goal and their actions bear it out. But I am the one that is nuts.

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Thanks for finding and posting that.

    • The Hyperbole

      From a link in the link that get’s to the actual story

      “We are asking the Court to find that the State has failed to meet its duty to take care of people in its custody. We have asked the Court to appoint a Special Master, a common practice in cases involving prison conditions, who would then clarify who should be released, under what timeline, and then monitor progress,” said Allen.

      Yeah, not exactly let everyone over 50 out. but let’s not let an outrage go to waste.

      From the linked article

      “While innocents are locked in their homes”

      OFFS

      • R C Dean

        OFFS

        Yeah, PJ Media. They can be quite tiresome.

        I obviously didn’t click through. Still, the fact that the Special Master’s scope would have allowed xim to release people convicted of violent crimes gives you a clue about how concerned they were about turning no-kidding criminals loose on the streets. If they had shown some restraint in their request (“no killers, no rapists, no armed robbers”), they might well have flipped that swing vote.

      • Rhywun

        NYC is releasing dangerous prisoners because that was the goal long before the ‘vid (social justice!) and of course some of them are back in pris now.

      • Ozymandias

        Columbia Legal Services is asking for the release of inmates over age 50, inmates with an underlying health issue including pregnancy, or inmates with 18 months or less remaining on their sentence.
        ….
        The Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys provided Q13 News a copy of the “Friend of the Court” brief, submitted to the state Supreme Court. Part of the document read, “The Petitioners demand that 2/3 of the prison population be released into the community, a number which includes serial killers and capital murderers.”

        The story says that’s exactly what they asked for. I don’t have my PACER account active any more to pull the cases, but the story certainly says what RC said.
        Never miss an opportunity to be a contrarian, even when there’s no reason to be, I guess, eh?

      • The Hyperbole

        Interesting, your “….” replaces the exact quote I pulled from that same article, the part that actually quotes what they are asking for as opposed to the summary provided by what the reporter says they are asking for.

  32. Tres Cool

    Hey SW Ohio Glibs that may be a veteran of the armed services!

    I just got a call that tomorrow @ the Dayton VA Medical Center from noon-3, they’re handing out ONE free washable face mask!

    Thats right- a department of the US gov’t with an annual budget of $243.3 BN (submitted for 2021) is giving out a diaper on a string!

    Act now!

  33. Gender Traitor

    Enabling sexual predators is OK until it isn’t.

    “I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I voted for her in the primary. I’m a lifelong Democrat. But yet, what I see now is someone enabling a sexual predator and it was my former boss, Joe Biden, who raped me,” Reade told Fox News. “Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct.

    ::checks year of alleged assault by Biden:: 1993

    ::checks year Reade voted for Hillary:: 2016

    ::sighs, goes in search of ibuprofen::

    • Jarflax

      I’m amused by the double standard on all of this, but I’m still skeptical about any allegation that comes more than a decade after the event.

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        #metoo

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If I was inclined to vote for Biden, which I’m not, I don’t think I’d let this story as it stands now keep me from voting for him for just that reason. I wouldn’t want him watching my kids though.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, yeah. There are many better reasons not to vote for Gropey Joe. Once you’re past those, this one is nothing.

    • Tres Cool

      “Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct.”

      Well, she was pals with Epstein and Weinstein. Math checks out.

      ‘sup briar

      • Gender Traitor

        Donato’s grand opening is today! Looked pretty busy when I passed it on the way home, but we’re planning to put in an order and cross our fingers. I’ll report back with results.

      • Tres Cool

        /alerts Jugsy

      • Tres Cool

        Her response took about 30 seconds. Pizza will be here in around an hour.

      • Suthenboy

        An awful lot of people can’t grasp the concept of principle, putting an ideal above their own personal interest, so many in fact that they have formed their own political party.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Disagree. Many voting boots own necks vote against ‘their own personal interest”. ‘personal interest’ contrary their victim status.

        Victim status used bullying others. Victim status used attempting attention social media.

    • Suthenboy

      That is pretty remarkable, isn’t it? I bet she voted Obama/Biden too.
      Talk about useful idiots…

    • R C Dean

      So, she knowingly voted for someone with “a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct”.

      I’m still skeptical about any allegation that comes more than a decade after the event

      #MeToo. That said, she has points in her favor. Not only is it easy to believe that a man who will try to feel up young girls on camera and has no compunction about laying his hands on and sniffing girls and women in public would try to feel someone up, but she also apparently told several people about it at the time.

      I mean, she wasn’t upset enough to name names, much less bring a formal complaint or criminal charges (probably smart, really – that’s how take two to the head in a “botched robbery”), but still.

      • Jarflax

        Men in positions of power have always used their position to get women. Women have always used sex to get access. I have no doubt some interaction occured, but the devil is in the details.

        While I am strongly opposed to Biden I am even more opposed to this whole #metoo debacle. Short of a criminal charge being brought after a complaint made in a timely fashion I don’t think this stuff is at all relevant to a person’s fitness for an office. It took thousands of years to build a legal system based on the principle that guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt and the end run around that principle that we are seeing is more destructive to our liberties than any individual politician.

  34. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector’ — Reuters

    ‘In this beautiful world, animals have as much right to live as human beings. In totality, the entire earth is a common property of all of us. It is our world and it is their world. Should humans have rights? Most of you would say yes. People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is ‘Yes!” — HuffPo

    • Tres Cool

      I knew a woman at UD that had the nickname “Meat Sector”

  35. Donation Not Taxation

    What Mark Steyn considers news today:

    SteynOnline: Getting Down to the Non-Essentials – Mark Steyn
    The Hill: Governors tiptoe toward reopening across the country
    NewsBusters: Reporter to Trump: Do You ‘Deserve’ Reelection Since More Died from Virus Than in Vietnam?
    Daily Caller: Olivia Nuzzi Defends Comparing Coronavirus Death Toll To Vietnam War Body Count
    HotAir: Is It Time To Worry About A Broken Food Supply Chain?
    AP: The US reopening is coming, but ‘normal’ is still a ways off
    AP: Companies seek to limit legal liability for virus infections
    Daily Wire: Democrat Senate Candidates Outraising Republican Incumbents, Say ‘Odds Have Improved’
    FOXNews: Barr tells federal prosecutors to ‘be on the lookout’ for overly restrictive coronavirus shutdown orders
    FOXNews: Trump suggests schools should open for a ‘short period of time’ before academic year ends
    Politico: Republican firefight kicks off as protesters target GOP govs over closures
    The Hill: State funding fight underscores Schumer-McConnell war
    New York Post: Gov. Cuomo says New York may need federal help to pay unemployment benefits
    Washington Post: Americans support state restrictions on businesses and halt to immigration during virus outbreak, Post-U. Md. poll finds
    FOXNews: Infectious disease expert slams study that panned hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment: ‘It’s a sham’
    Reuters: Millions of Americans locked out of unemployment system, survey finds
    Reuters: U.S. store visits jump to March levels as some states ease restrictions
    Washington Post: Will a child-care shortage prevent America’s reopening?
    Breitbart: IHME Model Increases Coronavirus Death Projections, with Biggest Jumps in States Not Yet Reopened
    HotAir: Is Texas Unveiling A Goldilocks Model We’ve Been Waiting To See?
    CNSNews: China Suggests WHO Could Help US Gov’t Respond to Americans’ Criticism of Trump’s Pandemic Response
    New York Post: Kim Jong Un’s uncle emerges as possible successor in North Korea
    Washington Free Beacon: Supreme Court Puts Government On the Hook for $12 Billion in Obamacare Payments
    Reuters: South Korea says North Korea’s absent Kim may be trying to avoid coronavirus
    Reuters: China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims, but virus origins still a mystery
    AP: European doctors warn rare kids’ syndrome may have virus tie
    Politico” ‘Republicans need to get serious’: 2020 vote-by-mail battle heats up
    AP: Report: Biden accuser spoke to neighbor of alleged assault
    AP: New chance for House Democrats to force McGahn’s testimony
    BizPacReview: Media Matters founder David Brock accused of illegally profiting from progressive nonprofit group
    BizPacReview: Dossier author Christopher Steele had previously undisclosed meetings with lawyers for DNC, Clinton campaign
    Daily Wire: Democrat Senate Candidates Outraising Republican Incumbents, Say ‘Odds Have Improved’
    New York Post: State lacked common sense in nursing homes coronavirus approach: Michael Goodwin
    Townhall: The Coronavirus Guessing Game – Derek Hunter
    National Review: Our ‘Corona Project’ – Victor Davis Hanson
    GatewayPundit: California Doctors Go on Ingraham Angle, Challenge Official COVID Policy. YouTube Takes Down Video

    • hayeksplosives

      Laura’s Links has an item in Tabletmag on how China and certain US politicians got in bed together.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Thanks.

    • R C Dean

      NewsBusters: Reporter to Trump: Do You ‘Deserve’ Reelection Since More Died from Virus Than in Vietnam?

      Would Obama have deserved re-election when more people died from the flu in 2017 than in Vietnam?

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘Trump falsely charged the Obama administration’s response to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak as a ‘full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.’ ‘ — Brian Naylor, ‘correspondent on the Washington Desk’, NPR, March 13, 2020 1:59 PM ET

      • Brochettaward

        What part of falsely do you not understand?

  36. Incentives Matter

    Hey Suthen!

    Do me a favour, willya? Can you re-post your oh-so-simple recipe for “Cowboy Stew”, or point me in the right direction? The ones I’m finding on the ‘Net are tantalizingly similar, but appear to vary in ways I don’t find interesting/enjoyable.

    Thankyoukindly.

    • Brochettaward

      “Cowboy Stew” sounds kind of gay.

      • Incentives Matter

        Sure.

    • Gender Traitor

      My grocery’s meat department doesn’t have any cowboy in stock. Something something supply chain. : (

      • Tundra

        Free range cowboys are better anyway.

        Get out there and harvest one yourself!

      • Gender Traitor
      • Tundra

        Winner.

      • Mojeaux

        Save a horse.

      • Incentives Matter

        My Costco is replete with cowboys.

        Still gotta catch ’em and grind ’em up, though.

      • Tres Cool

        Heh…Meijer today had NO chicken. Other than Koch Farms $3.99/lb breasts in bag….NO chicken. To be fair- they could be lax about not restocking.

        I think a couple more days (1st of the month with no meat) and people may learn the hard way about supply-side economics.

    • Suthenboy

      Sure.

      Brown 1lb beef with chopped onion and a crushed garlic clove
      Season with one of those packs of taco meat seasoning
      Add 1 can of Rotel tomatoes (I prefer the one with habanero, it’s hotter)
      Add 1-14.5oz can of diced tomatoes
      Add 1 can of sweet corn
      Add 1 can of Black beans (you may add inferior beans if you insist)
      Add 1 cube of beef bouillon

      Simple fast, delicious.
      I eat mine over corn chips with shredded sharp cheddar on top.

      • Incentives Matter

        Thanks mang!

  37. Ozymandias

    Good news? Or set up for a massive nutpunch when the Court keeps Qualified Immunity.
    I’m not sure, but it does look like the Court stacked up some of the worst and most flagrant violations to reconsider QI. I sure the fuck hope so.

    • Tundra

      Nut punch incoming.

      Roberts will bend over and I’m not convinced Kavanaugh is the Constitutional Savior he was purported to be.

      • Tres Cool

        /fingers crossed

        *now do asset forfeiture

      • Ozymandias

        I’m not sure. I mean, you’re likely right about Roberts, and even Kavanaugh, but as I do some tea leaf reading, this might wind up being one where there’s a majority to be made from disparate travelers. Thomas has signaled he’s no fan of this stuff. Gorsuch, you’d think, would get this right – and then some of the liberals may concur for the wrong reasons, but get the right outcome. You could wind up with one of those weird multiple majority opinions that cobble together a win for the good guys (in this case, the victims).

      • Tundra

        We’ll see. I think the wise Latina is only good on 4A, the rest are statists to the core.

        I would love to see it end. It’s a fucking travesty.

      • DrOtto

        I hope you’re right.

      • DrOtto

        *adjusts tinfoil cup*

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, Kav has been a disappointment. Like he was so traumatized by the #MeToo circus at his confirmation hearing that he’s afraid to stick his neck out on anything.

      • Jarflax

        He was always a standard issue establishment party guy Republican model.

    • Suthenboy

      *Squints and tugs on chin*

      Hmmmmmm….I wonder how they will rule….

    • Tres Cool

      Does SCOTUS have the cloak of ‘sovereign immunity’ ?

      • Ozymandias

        I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean are the justices immune from their decisions, like when they say people are property and then later go ‘whoops?’ If so, yes.

  38. quincy

    Parchment paper is awesome.

    • Tundra

      Sheet pan clean up is for amateurs.

    • Tres Cool

      Still haven’t gotten Charmin back on your shelves ?

  39. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘Man busted by police in Spain for taking pet fish for walk during lockdown’

    Cue snark about female masturbation