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by | Jun 18, 2020 | Daily Links | 420 comments

Fun times for me today.  Just listening to coworkers on Zoom hyperventilating over ZOMG MUH COVID SPIKES!  Which is par for the course I suppose, this is a health plan I work for, if anybody is going to go full retard over this, its these people.

 

Now on to the links!

Juan Orlando Hernandez, the President of Honduras, was hospitalized with Coronavirus.  Don’t know where Honduras is?  Don’t worry about it.  Don’t know who that is?  Nobody you really need to know, even Mexicans ignore him.

Coming soon to PornHub…Brazilians develop…”Hug Tunnels” that will allow you to hug your relatives through plastic sheeting.

Six American oil executives jailed in Caracas.  But don’t worry, Venezuelan law guarantees prisoners have the right to preventative health measures against COVID-19 or any other disease.

Surely, there must be something besides the plague in the news…Colombia delivers!

An interesting opinion piece against birthright citizenship.

A main argument against automatic birthright citizenship is that, the granting country gives up its sovereign right to decide who can become citizen. Birthright citizenship disempowers the existing citizenship.

A just government relies on a social contract freely entered into by free citizens. Thus, the scope and authority of that social contract extends only to those citizens that have agreed to be bound by the provisions of the contract. This is the essence of citizenship. So, as the argument goes, a social contract where anyone can join in defiance of the community of existing members is no social contract at all. Birthright citizenship is inherently self-contradictory.

 

Here’s some tunes.  Have a good afternoon.

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420 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Brazilians develop…”Hug Tunnels” that will allow you to hug your relatives through plastic sheeting.”

    But why?

      • Grumbletarian

        Now I’m trying to imagine a shrug tunnel.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      You know why

    • R C Dean

      You know what else you can do with a protective sheath?

      • bacon-magic

        Carry a sword?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Preserve blueprints?

    • bacon-magic

      Should’ve name it the love tunnel.

      • bacon-magic

        *named

    • Ted S.

      With a little bit of work and an X-acto knife, you can get a glory hole!

      • Count Potato

        Modern problems require modern solutions.

      • bacon-magic

        It’s an old solution for Ted.

      • grrizzly

        I think it’s important that the partition where a glory hole is not transparent.

      • DEG

        Rule 34.

    • Hyperion

      Because Brazilians like to hug a lot and retardation has taken over the world. There’s nothing more to know.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    A just government relies on a social contract freely entered into by free citizens.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • TARDIS

      It’s almost as sexy as Taxation is Theft.

    • hayeksplosives

      After recovering from snickering over that line, let’s poke at the author’s premise. By it, even if the person born and raised in the US wants to enter a social contract with that society, the government could say “no”.

      They couldn’t say no to anyone protected by the post Civil War amendments. But how about barring citizenship for people below a certain income level. Or for not speaking the language. Or even for Wrongthink or a low Social Credit score?

      I’m torn on birthright citizenship, but acting like a free social contract exists is oversimplified.

      • R C Dean

        acting like a free social contract exists is oversimplified

        I would have gone with “fallacious”. Maybe “delusional”.

      • Tonio

        Or for not speaking the language. Or even for Wrongthink or a low Social Credit score?

        And how many stripes and degrees of that is there? Who determines where the dividing line between US English and other languages are? That’s right, government. And once the principles are established it’s so easy to shift the goalposts over time.

  3. Drake

    Love the Cowboy Song! Wish I could have seen them live at their peak.

  4. leon

    The men have been jailed for over two years since officials under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro asked them to travel from the Houston-based CITGO headquarters for a meeting, when they were arrested.

    Huh. Note: When Socialist leader asks you to leave your country to visit his for a meeting, don’t go.

    • hayeksplosives

      Even in the 90s, Halliburton was accustomed to dealing with kidnappings of visiting US employees. Halliburton used their own drivers/bodyguards.

      What a place.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Citgo was/is owned by the Venezuelan government. It’s not completely unsurprising that execs would be called to a meeting there.

  5. leon

    In Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, all nations grant citizenship on some form of jus sanguinis protocols. In patriarchal societies the child’s citizenship may be determined through the father; in matriarchal societies through the mother; and some countries may require both parents to be citizens. For most of the world, where you were born is not the deciding factor for citizenship.

    Well that’s because over here in the Americas, we are racists.

    • The Other Kevin

      All we have to do is get Trump to talk about how great it is and how it’s a uniquely American tradition, and birthright citizenship will be gone in a week.

    • UnCivilServant

      Cycling without a safety light is dangerous, you could get killed. Worse, you could damage someone’s car!

      • leon

        I would have disagreed with you about being killed, but this article seems to provide the example case.

    • Drake

      Williams was previously convicted on drug and theft charges and authorities said police were in the process of obtaining an arrest warrant when he was stopped

      Why he ran and fought like hell.

  6. UnCivilServant

    It’s 87 out, 86 in my house. I’m retreating to the air conditioning.

    Later people.

    • hayeksplosives

      Where is the air conditioning, if not in your house?

      • bacon-magic

        He only a/c’s his dungeon.

      • TARDIS

        It is important to remove the odors of human and animal bodily fluids.

      • UnCivilServant

        The bedroom, I can only cool one room in the house.

    • Rhywun

      90s in Quebec. 74 here in NYC.

      Up is down again WTF

      • Not Adahn

        Les calicules are flipping miserable.

      • Rhywun

        Les quoi?

      • Toxteth O’Grady

        Les canicules?

  7. The Late P Brooks

    I was reading a Vox thing earlier (no linky 4 U) in which they DESTROY Pence’s WSJ editorial.

    tl, dr: Nuh-uhh!

    Not only are infections increasing, but the proportion of positives to overall tests is rising. It couldn’t be that they are testing known susceptible groups, could it? They’d tell us, wouldn’t they, Shirley?

    • Rhywun

      the proportion of positives to overall tests is rising

      Bullshit or it would be all over the news.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      I read a similar NYT article. It criticizes Pence for not giving full context because positive test rates are increasing in some areas. Of course the NYT always gives the full context, especially when reporting on the Administration. The article also had a lot of mind reading.

    • hayeksplosives

      Could be makeup and lighting.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Eh, that’s a facelift.

      Far be it for anyone on the left to criticize her for it when Pelosi has probably had about 25 of ’em.

      • bacon-magic

        Pelosi looks like the crypt keeper from Tales from the Crypt with makeup on. She should gavel all her plastic surgeons.

      • TARDIS

        You would think she could have grafted a way to have the taxpayers fund some top notch surgery for her.

      • Tres Cool

        Scruffy Nerfherder on June 18, 2020 at 3:32 pm

        Eh, that’s a facelift.

        Far be it for anyone on the left to criticize her for it when Pelosi has probably had about 25 of ’em.

        She’s either had a facelift or a vaginal rejuvenation.

      • SDF-7

        Shudder… posting “Pelosi” and “vaginal rejuvenation” that close together should only be done in Hat & Hair episodes…

  8. Yusef drives a Kia

    Great Tune Messy!
    Howdy!

    • blackjack

      Hard to argue with any Thin Lizzy tune.

  9. leon

    A just government relies on a social contract freely entered into by free citizens

    I don’t see how this is an argument for blood based citizenship. I’m no more willingly born in one country as i am to parents of a certain ethnicity.

  10. Fatty Bolger

    a social contract freely entered into by free citizens

    Oh, yes. Seems like it was just yesterday that I signed the contract. What a wonderful day that was.

  11. Drake

    Judge Napolitano has a more nuanced reaction to the DACA ruling.

    “So, there is a law called the Administrative Procedure Act which requires the executive branch – when it is promulgating rules – to jump through certain hoops before it promulgates those rules,” he continued. “The Supreme Court here said the Trump administration failed miserably to jump through those hoops.”

    So Trump could order the Administration go through all the bullshit hoops and do it all over again.

    • leon

      That won’t be done until He’s lost the election in November.

    • leon

      The Trump administration has argued that DACA, an executive order, was established through improper means to begin with, claiming it should have been done via legislation from Congress. They also believed that the decision to eliminate DACA does not fall under the purview of the APA because DACA itself was merely a decision not to enforce existing law against a certain group of people.

      The Supreme Court disagreed, noting that “DACA is not simply a non-enforcement policy” because it is an actual program where people apply to receive a benefit.

      Did the formation of the DACA that was not the non-enforcment policy go through APA?

    • Swiss Servator

      He was revoking a prior EO, right? Lousy decision, and it will only be applied selectively.

      • leon

        Isn’t that the beauty of law? there’s no case so similar that you cant come up with a reason why “this time is different”, so that you can get the “right” decision, every-time.

    • R C Dean

      Has the APA ever been applied to an executive order before?

      ‘agency” means each authority of the Government of the United States, whether or not it is within or subject to review by another agency,

      Congress and the courts are excluded, so I think there’s an argument that it applies to the President and not just executive branch agencies.

      ”rule” means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or describing the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of an agency and includes the approval or prescription for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefore or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing on any of the foregoing;

      Does that include executive orders? Arguably. Of course, let’s just go straight past the myriad pronouncements of government agencies that are “of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy” that don’t go through the APA process. CMS has massive manuals, thousands of pages, that meet that definition, and none of them have gone through the APA “notice and comment” process.

      But I note that no executive order ever goes through the APA “notice and comment” process. And many (most?) of them meet that broad definition of “rule”.

      In this case, an agency wallah actually wrote the implementation of the executive order, so the issue of whether it applies to executive orders isn’t really at issue. Of course, the original DACA order was also implemented via a memorandum from the DHS Secretary. It didn’t go through the APA process, as far as I know, so why isn’t it void ab initio?

      But the question of why the President can issue edicts which meet the definition of a “rule” without going through the APA process is one I’d like to see answered.

      • R C Dean

        One other thought:

        Reading that definition of “rule”, I’m not sure it actually would apply to revoking an existing regulation in its entirety.

      • Gustave Lytton

        There’s probably a decision, most likely from an enviro case, that repealing is a form of rule making.

    • SDF-7

      Except that as the Kavanaugh dissent pointed out, they ignored the memo where the administration *did* do it all over again and are basically requesting a repeat of said memo. It is nuts.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    When Socialist leader asks you to leave your country to visit his for a meeting, don’t go.

    “You promised!”

    *cell door slams*I

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s how you end up impaled on a spike.

    • Drake

      There are non-socialist leaders somewhere?

      • Chipwooder

        Somalia?

  13. Suthenboy

    “Six American oil executives jailed in Caracas.”

    They expected a different outcome?

    I think someone doesnt understand what America is vs the rest of the world.

    • hayeksplosives

      America is a racist, ignorant, backwater that denies people access to healthcare (government goons lie down on sidewalks to impede access), poisons Gaia, and worships Kardashians. You are more likely to be shot than to reach the age of 30.

      At least, that’s what I’d think if I only read foreign papers reporting on America.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Yeah, listening to Europeans bitch about America is always gets my hackles up.

        1. If you’ve ever been to a soccer match, you would know that Europeans are a thousand times more openly racist than Americans.

        2. WWI. Fuck you.

        3. WWII. Fuck you.

        4. Cold War. Fuck you.

      • R C Dean

        Communism. Fuck you.

        Fascism. Fuck you.

        Nazism. Fuck you.

        Socialism. Fuck you.

    • Suthenboy

      “And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you darned kids!”

      I am sure that is not it. It’s racist.

    • dbleagle

      That was a bad meme. Clearly she is Beetlejuice.

      • Drake

        This.

      • bacon-magic

        It’s from the Teacher’s Union…surprised there’s no spelling or grammatical errors.

    • Pan Zagloba

      Holy shit, that meme is actually on point.

      If unions can acquire competent memetic warriors, that’s the End of America.

      • bacon-magic

        $10 says one of the teacher’s pets did it.

    • Rhywun

      admitting that she had not yet seen the tweet itself but that it had been described to her

      Clown world.

    • Count Potato

      How the fuck is that racist?

      • SDF-7

        Secret decoder ring says: “Racist is anything I don’t like”.

      • Suthenboy

        It is Lightfoot, a one trick pony. She paints everything as racist.
        Ask her about the weather…she will tell you why that is racist.

      • bacon-magic

        “Why are there all these WHITE clouds?” – Lightbrain

    • DEG

      If you hear the dog whistle, you might just be the dog.

  14. Grosspatzer

    @RebelScum – WRT Brave/Pale Moon (from morning thread) I like PaleMoon a lot. It is a fork of the old firefox codebase, with nice privacy features. When it works, it’s great, but it occasionally will fail to render a website properly, has a much more limited set of add-ons than FF or Chrome (it’s incompatible with current FF extensions), and – the biggie – no Greasemonkey. So I use Brave in this den of thieves, and mostly PaleMoon elsewhere.

  15. Gustave Lytton

    I want a deet mister for outdoor use. Fucking bugs.

      • bacon-magic

        Ooooooh didn’t know about this. Thanks!

      • Suthenboy

        If we are going to bbq or sit and watch stars I will go around the yard and fog all of the bushes, under the porch etc then make a line of fog upwind of the yard and let it drift over the grassy part.
        It really cuts down on mosquitoes. Double up with DEET on your skin and clothes and you won’t get a single mosquito bit or a gnat stuck in your eye.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Do you use an insecticide with it like it says in the link or just run it for the propane exhaust?

      • Suthenboy

        I use the oil based ones with cypermethrin or/and tetramethrin. It kills the hell out of them.

      • bacon-magic

        The gnats are really bad here in Illinois.

      • Suthenboy

        Our gnats arent nearly as bad as yours. We have few biting gnats but plenty of pestering ones trying to get the salt out of your tears. When they are really bad in the spring you can end up with half of a dozen stuck underneath your eyelids. I keep some saline wash around.

        We will have a dozen or so mosquito species active at any given time, some much worse than others.
        I dont know their names but there is a big, black squishy one that congregates around cattle wallows in the fall. They are unbelievable. One or two hundred will come at you at once and they dont even try to dodge swats, they go right to your skin in a kamikaze attack. No matter how. you try they eat your ass up.

        Early to mid-summer there is a teeny tiny mosquito that you barely notice. They are silent and bite without any sensation at all. Then it sneaks away. After a minute or so you will start swelling and itching like mad. It makes a hell of a welt. It probably sticks it’s nose up a rat’s ass or something before it injects that into your skin. The tiniest mosquito;uito gives the worst bite.

        I cant tell you how much I love using that fogger knowing I am committing mosquito genocide.

      • bacon-magic

        The tiger striped mosquitoes are mean too.

      • Suthenboy

        Higher woodlands here are full of them. Of course they come out just as hunting season starts and stay until the first frost.

      • R C Dean

        In a bad year, with zero precautions, I will get three mosquito bites.

    • Tres Cool

      Assuming they’re top-heavy, they’ll be easy to knock over

    • Shpip

      I don’t think you’d need a statue of Dolly. A good-sized bust would be fine.

    • Tejicano

      “you would like to support:”

      I’m sure somebody here would lend a hand towards that effort.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Next wave

    The number of people sickened with Covid-19 across Texas’ hospitals hit a new high Wednesday, surging about 11% in a single day.

    There are 2,793 patients hospitalized with a coronavirus infection in the state, up from 2,518 patients reported Tuesday, according to updated data from the Texas Department of State Health Services. The total Wednesday marks the eighth new high in the state in less than two weeks. Texas coronavirus hospitalizations are now up more than 84% since Memorial Day as the state continues to reopen.

    ——-

    Coronavirus hospitalizations, like new cases and deaths, are considered a key measure of the outbreak because it helps scientists gauge how severe it may be. In recent weeks, some state and federal leaders have downplayed a recent rise in cases and hospitalizations across the U.S., tying it to an increase in testing.

    Now tell me how many of those hospitalizations and deaths are exclusively attributable to the virus. Because an 80 year old woman with emphysema who died while positive for the virus belongs in a different column than a thirty year old otherwise healthy woman who got the virus and suddenly died of pneumonia.

    • prolefeed

      Oooh, a jump of 275 people reported to be sick (not dead) … in a state with 29 million people. That’s about 1 out of every 100,000 people. Somewhat more than the 100 people who move to Austin every single day.

      Yes, let’s go back to warrantless house arrest for everyone and ruin the economy even harder!

      /Democrats

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Stats is apparently not a required subject anymore.

        The Left can’t Math.

      • Jarflax

        Stats? They struggle with the law of identity. A =

        1. A
        2. Racism
        3. Sexism
        4. Transphobia
        5. -A
        6. 2-5 inclusive

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Also, first verify that this isn’t just a quirk in how the numbers are reported. Maybe one week’s data is coming in all at once, for example.

    • Count Potato

      8 is angelina jolie?

    • Count Potato

      19 has a surprise for you

      • Chafed

        Is it a penis?

    • DEG

      I like #1’s style and her iChive page.

      #2 – hard pass because of the mask.

      I did a little digging into #8. She is not Angelina Jolie. #8’s instagram page.

      I like #14’s dress.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Not just another cowboy song

    • bacon-magic

      +2 reincarnation theories

    • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

      Bott Scaio seems really familiar.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Somebody hates trees

    “Several nooses found on trees around Lake Merritt were removed and will be investigated as hate crimes,” Schaaf said in a statement, “Symbols of racial violence have no place in Oakland and will not be tolerated.”

    Oh, the humanity!

    • SDF-7

      Riiiight… because all of those white supremacists in Oakland were just itching to plant nooses in trees. Someone wanted more attention.

      • Mad Scientist

        I was accused of being racist in Oakland back in the mid-90s. I was with friends at a Spaghetti Factory and we ran out of butter. They served it in two bowls: white for regular butter and dark blue for garlic butter. In the dimly lit room we thought the bowls were black and white, and asked for more of the butter in the black bowl. The next thing we know the manager is asking us to pay our bill and take our racist asses elsewhere.

      • Suthenboy

        My (black and from Peru) stepmother was accused of being racist my black co-workers from here because she hung her coat on one of those white, plastic coat hangers in her locker at work.

        After having lived here for 30 years she has developed a burning hatred for most American born blacks because of shit like that.

      • Sean

        I read that twice and still don’t understand their logic.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Wut?

    • Suthenboy

      A) Expressing opinions is protected. Can you show that these fall into the exception of threats?

      B) If you see a noose hanging in a tree in some kind of mouth-breathing attempt at ‘racism!’ it is a false flag. If they find the BLM folks responsible are they going to prosecute them?

    • Chipwooder

      If you see the picture of the “nooses”, they’re just the ropes used for TRX workouts, just two ropes with little triangular handles on the ends. Seriously.

    • Suthenboy

      And this time they are telling the truth!

      Arent they simultaneously screeching about a second wave?

      • Count Potato

        Of course.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Well, if your forbidden from asking if the person went to a protest, you won’t find any evidence that the protests spread the virus.

    • Naptown Bill

      Here’s a good litmus test for whether or not the person you’re talking to is awake (as opposed to woke) or redpilled. Ask them what is different from an epidemiological standpoint between a large crowd of densely-packed people shouting all day at police and a large crowd of people in a stadium shouting at athletes or a large crowd of people in a field shouting at a stage.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Warning! Warning! Low altitude!

    Americans are not happy. Just 14% say they’re very happy, according to a poll from NORC at the University of Chicago. That’s lowest since at least 1972.
    Why? It’s at least partially because they believe something is wrong with their country. That’s the key takeaway from the polling that has come out since the beginning of the anti-racist protests in late May.
    I’m not merely talking about voters’ reflexive partisan responses (e.g. Democrats dislike President Donald Trump). Nor am I talking about specific questions relating to views about race or the ongoing protests.
    I’m talking about something bigger than any of that.

    Start with the fact that a mere 21% of Americans think that the country is going in the right direction, according to the latest Monmouth University poll. The vast majority, 74%, said American was on the wrong track. A majority of Americans usually believe the country is on the wrong track, but it’s rarely this bad.

    Meaningless noise.

    If you ask 100 of those people why, specifically, they feel that way, you’ll get at least 100 different answers.

    • Suthenboy

      Let me guess…the only way out of this misery. is to destroy capitalism.

      What do I win?

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Personally, I’m pretty happy, but I also think something is going terribly wrong because so many people have lost their damn minds.

      • SandMan

        I have similar feelings. One question; is the number of insane people really that large, or is it artificially inflated by the media, social and otherwise?

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        I’m guessing it’s both, and one reinforces the other. When I listen to my coworkers, people who are otherwise mostly sane, talk about the virus I can only shake my head about how they’ve been taken in by the panic.

    • mrfamous

      Can’t leave the house, can’t see your parents, no sports, gotta wear a useless mask everywhere you go, gyms closed for months, bars still closed, riots all over the city complete with curfews…

      Gee, I can’t imagine why folks would be unhappy.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    asked for more of the butter in the black bowl. The next thing we know the manager is asking us to pay our bill and take our racist asses elsewhere.

    Once you go black, you never go back.

  21. Juvenile Bluster

    Rumor: Louisville courthouse being boarded up, employees told to go home, allegedly because it’s going to be announced that there will be no charges against the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor.

    This is gonna get uglier.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      JFC

      That case is much more cut and dry than the Brooks case.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah but that’s why they have to fight it. You can throw the cop under the bus when its an unplanned encounter. When its a no knock raid, that means that actual important people signed orders to conduct it.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        This reminds me of the Kathryn Johnston case, if any of you remember that.

        Happened in Atlanta in 2007. Cops on a no knock raid break in on a scared 90 year old woman, who greeted them with a gun. Cops shot her dead. Good shoot, until they figured out that the cops had been lying about the existence of a confidential informant telling them that drugs were being sold out of the house. Cops got some jail time, but they’re all out now.

        Similar here. Cops on a no-knock raid, had no evidence that it was the correct house, person defended themselves, cops shot and killed. But … they’re cops, and cops still have that privilege that the rest of us dont.

      • Chipwooder

        Gawd, that one was heartbreaking

      • Raven Nation

        Taylor was sleeping in a back room and was killed. The boyfriend who opened fire survived.

        I assume the claim will be that the boyfriend fired first and therefore the cops were defending themselves.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah what I am saying is, since there are police captains and judges with their signatures on documents, now they will all close ranks.

        If they had been arresting her boyfriend and shot her by accident, they would have thrown the cops under the bus. But since actual important people are on the hook, they will circle the wagons.

        Which, hey, I fucking hate cops. But there is a huge difference between a fluid encounter that goes wrong and a planned raid. The raid falls on the judge for signing off on it, and whoever the raid commander is for fucking up and getting the wrong house.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, wasn’t disagreeing, just adding more info.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        This. Defending oneself when shit goes sideways, Im more lenient. Ginning up the most adversarial encounter possible, and fucking people up because you want to treat some crackhead like an ISIS warlord? They can all rot for all I care.

    • Suthenboy

      Whatever position will foment more divisiveness, violence and property destruction you can bet your last dollar that is what they will do.

  22. KSuellington

    Tres Cool:

    “ She’s either had a facelift or a vaginal rejuvenation.”

    I believe the medical term is “apussatightemy”.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Plastic surgeon: “Another facelift? You see that dimple on your chin? That’s your navel. One more facelift and you’ll be sporting a Van Dyke.”

      • KSuellington

        Hehehe.

      • TARDIS

        So you can kiss a woman (not her) AND eat pussy at the same time?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    no charges against the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor.

    Something something no reasonable prosecutor…

  24. Juvenile Bluster

    I’m posting on a phone, having been on Zoom meetings basically nonstop for 9 hours. Not sure if it’s been discussed.

    The DACA decision is correct on the law. They didn’t say that he couldn’t overturn DACA. Fuck, the decision tells him exactly how to do it. He could do it again tomorrow if he wants. It’s just that there are rules and procedures for this kind of thing, and Trump and the people around him are so fucking stupid that they can’t be bothered to follow the very basic procedures.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I find it absurd that refusing to execute the law as written has fewer legal impediments than complying.

    • Viking1865

      Obama din’t follow those procedures to create DACA did he? The APA procedures, right?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        AFAIK, he eventually fixed that. Which is all Trump has to do here.

      • Viking1865

        So the Court allowed DACA to go into effect despite not passing APA?

      • DOOMco

        As far as I can tell yes.

        Which would tell me anything that ends it would’ve been ok.

    • creech

      I keep hearing that Obama didn’t follow the rules when EOing DACA. Didn’t someone go to court then to demand the “rules and procedures” be followed?

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        They probably didn’t have standing. It’s a heck of a legal trick.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Still, we’re talking about more than 20 million adults who are not at all proud. That’s not an insignificant number, and it’s grown a lot in a short period.

    The question is whether there’s anything that will stop Americans from being so upset about where their country is going. Hopefully, something will change.

    Yeah, hopefully something will change.

    “What could that be?” one wonders.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    It’s just that there are rules and procedures for this kind of thing, and Trump and the people around him are so fucking stupid that they can’t be bothered to follow the very basic procedures.

    I accept this as 100% correct, but I cannot help but wonder whether the staff attorneys who *should have* pointed this out (and maneuvered the executive order through the appropriate hoops) are more invested in seeing the administration fail than in doing their jobs.

  27. Tulip

    My company announced today that we have juneteenth off. Yay, three day weekend!

    All the talk of gnats and mosquitoes makes me long for the fireflies. I just love watching them around dusk.

    • Viking1865

      It’s gonna be hilarious watching the AFSCME scream for Juneteenth while quietly ensuring that its always actually observed on a Monday. Whats the point of a holiday if it doesn’t give you a 3 day weekend?

    • Rhywun

      Please use the day for reflection and repentance.

      • Tulip

        Nope! Shopping and yard work. Like all the other three day weekends.

      • Tulip

        Two do otherwise would be treating it differently.

    • Ted S.

      We don’t get Juneteenth off.

      But then, my company is owned by POC.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      One of my employees asked me if we would have it off (jokingly).

      I told him he could have the day off if he would streak his lily white ass in Richmond as a form of protest. Because that would make it worth it for me.

    • Mojeaux

      Mr. Mojeaux’s company told them they might want to take tomorrow off and if they didn’t, they should take a few minutes throughout the day to reflect on Juneteenth and its significance.

      I told him if he didn’t take it off, he’d be on a list.

      • Jarflax

        He’s a white, hopefully heterosexual Mormon. He is already on that list.

      • Sean

        You know who else had lists?

      • DEG

        /looks over gun inventory and “to buy” book list

        Me?

      • Sean

        I stopped keeping a gun inventory list in 07. ?,

        I might have a problem.

      • DEG

        For certain guns bought after I received my C&R, I have to.

        I ended up just keeping an inventory of everything.

      • Ted S.

        Hall and Oates?

      • Sean

        ?

      • Mojeaux

        What, no link?

      • Ted S.

        Who has the better mustache: John Oates or John Stossel?

      • Sean

        C – the correct answer is Hal Linden.

    • blackjack

      I fucking better have Juneteenth off next year, dammit. They already jacked us for 10% of our pay, which didn’t bother me when I thought it meant an extra day off. Turns out they cancelled our 9/80 schedule and put us on 5/40 so we get an hour off a day. Rat fuckers.

    • commodious spittoon

      who dis

      • TARDIS

        Woke Whore

      • Count Potato

        seriously?

      • commodious spittoon

        Srsly.

      • Chipwooder

        A younger Alyssa Milano

  28. DEG

    A care home for elderly people in southern Brazil has come up with a creative way to bring some love to its residents amid the coronavirus pandemic, by creating a “hug tunnel” that allows relatives to safely embrace them.

    FUCK! JUST FUCKING HUG YOUR DAMN RELATIVES!

    FUCK!

    /listens to Thin Lizzy song

    /feels better

    • TARDIS

      Love the song too, but all southern girls are not the same. Just sayin’. Also, Texas is is not the south. Texas is…Texas.

      • DEG

        I know Texas is not the in the South. That’s a mistake I have never, ever made.

      • TARDIS

        No offense; just commenting on the lyrics.

      • DEG

        I see.

        I really didn’t pay attention to the lyrics. I was zoning out forgetting about the Lil Rona Panic Bullshit.

      • Naptown Bill

        I think east Texans would argue that east Texas…sorry, East Texas…is the south. Or at least that if you’re from East Texas you are a southerner as well as a Texan.

    • Ted S.

      The Goys Are Back in Town?

  29. DEG

    MA man charged for car registration and voting fraud in NH

    A Massachusetts business owner registered dozens of his vehicles in New Hampshire to dodge Massachusetts’ higher registration fees and taxes, resulting in 70 charges against him, police say.

    “It’s been going on for a while,” Atkinson Police Chief Timothy Crowley said Wednesday.

    He said the discrepancy was first identified by Atkinson’s town clerk after Coleman P. McDonough of Newburyport, Mass., registered two vehicles back-to-back.

    When investigators checked the single-family residence McDonough listed as an address, they found a person who has lived there since 2006 who knew nothing of McDonough.

    “As far as we know, he’s never lived there,” Crowley said.

    He said most of the vehicles McDonough registered were for his company, CP Construction, which police believe is based in North Reading, Mass.

    The charges McDonough faces include 16 counts of title fraud, a Class B felony; 25 counts of unsworn falsification; 25 counts of tampering with public records; one count of false swearing; and driving after suspension, all misdemeanors.

    Crowley said McDonough, 65, also voted in a New Hampshire election at least once, in 2012. Police charged him with a misdemeanor for registering and a felony for voting.

    • DOOMco

      Just Move to my, my man.

      • DOOMco

        NH*

        Fuckin phone

      • Suthenboy

        Arent they shooting people at the border now? Or is just people with NY plates?

      • DOOMco

        It’s mostly the CT and ny plates that get looked at near me.

      • Suthenboy

        Louisiana was hit hard.
        Texas Troopers were stopping every LA plate and ordering 14 day quarantines. I am not sure how that is supposed to work but I didnt bother going over there to find out. I am not sure what they thought they were accomplishing, Houston and Dallas are national and international hubs. Texas was always going to end up where they are now.

      • DEG

        Rhode Island was officially hassling people with NY plates.

        NH asked, but did not mandate, out-of-staters quarantine for 14 days. There were a myriad of exemptions to this “asking”. On the other hand, I saw some reports on the NH subreddit (yeah, yeah, I know, take it with a grain of salt) about folks letting the air out of tires of cars with out-of-state-plates. I also saw lots of people on the NH subreddit bitching about out-of-staters coming to NH during the Lil Rona Panic.

        Maine required anyone, whether from Maine or not, entering Maine to quarantine for 14 days except for people on “essential business”. Now, NH and VT residents are exempt. Before the exemption for NH residents I made two trips to Maine. I ignored the quarantine order both times. Nothing else happened.

      • westernsloper

        Hawaii is actively deporting tourists who do not self quarantine is what I hear. Another power a state had that I was unaware of.

      • DEG

        Talk about a way to fuck that state over. Tourism is the biggest industry.

      • westernsloper

        Slightly unconstitutional as well but I guess that ship has sailed.

      • dbleagle

        Yep. People who I trust are saying it will take 7-10 years to get tourism back once they lift the bullshit. And right now the gov won’t commit to an opening date because there is no vaccine.

        This state is fucked.

    • Suthenboy

      He is trolling them and they are dumb enough to bite.

    • TARDIS

      May he tea-bag them all.

    • Tres Cool

      Im far too stupid to hack or set up bots, but really isnt the worst thing he did was challenge “do not flood my inbox” ?

  30. DOOMco

    The Constitution gives the fedgov the power for naturalization. Does it for immigration in general?

    And can someone help me with what the long term plan was for deferred action? Doesn’t that inherently mean it has an end?

  31. Suthenboy

    Good Lord I am tired. I can hardly lift my arms. I have been on the wagon for a week or so and that seriously disrupts my sleep. I haven’t had a wink in 48 hours.
    I was trying to write a bit for an article and all my exhausted brain can come up with is gibberish.

    I think I better get out of here and try taking an ambien.

    • AlmightyJB

      Melatonin works great for me.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Name brand Benadryl, not the generic.

      Take two and we’ll talk to you sometime tomorrow evening.

    • blackjack

      Advil PM. Two of those and I’m out in about a half an hour and gone for 8.

      • Hyperion

        That has Benadryl in it. That’s why it works.

        Melatonin will make me stay up all night, Benadryl works though.

        The best thing for sleep for me is don’t drink any alcohol.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, I don’t think Bill Cosby mixed it with alcohol either.

    • Florida Man

      Heroin. A couple milligrams of that and you’ll be out like a light.

      • Tres Cool

        But you wont shit for a couple days.

      • Sean

        Taco Bell waves hi.

    • Hyperion

      It only affects me for a couple of days and then I will sleep like a baby. What really disrupts your sleep, is alcohol.

  32. DOOMco

    Babydoom is ambivalent about sweet potatoes, but seems to like bananas.

    My kitchen is a lot messier now.

    • Hyperion

      My kids, I mean back in the stone age, would always make the most god awful baby face if you would give them those peas or sweet potato baby food in the jar, and then spit it out.

      I still hate sweet potatoes to this day, my parents must have made me eat that god awful shite. I like peas though, but not made into pudding.

      • Aloysious

        Canned and/or mushy peas are an abomination, and an affront against the natural order of things.

      • DOOMco

        We’re not doing the jar stuff thank heck.

    • Rhywun

      Smart cookie.

    • one true athena

      aw that picture is precious!

  33. blackjack

    Cowsongboy

    • Tres Cool

      Nice.

      Highly underrated band.

  34. Naptown Bill

    Birthright citizenship is linked to the state system, i.e. the link between the state and territorial boundaries. So, you’re an American because you’re born in America, and because America is run by the U.S. government from border to border (and nobody else) you’re subject to U.S. laws and receive U.S. citizenship. Eliminate that link, and birthright citizenship goes away.

    • Hyperion

      Racist!

  35. leon

    The news on Google is hitting hard on coronavirus spike. I really have a hard time thinking this has anything to do with actual concern and concern about the Trump rally.

    • Hyperion

      I’m now 100% convinced it’s all about politics, and nothing else.

      I don’t see then stopping the rallies at this point. Needz moar systemic racism.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I still don’t understand how the rona knows to only spread when Republicans gather in large groups.

      • Jarflax

        Those little projections on the ball form of the virus? Those are racism detectors.

    • Sean

      Oh, and fuck Tom Wolf and curse his family.

    • Hyperion

      “groups of no more than 250”

      Have you gotten the feeling yet, that they are pulling these numbers of their ass? Because I have this surety that they are pulling these numbers out of their ass.

      • Sean

        Offically, as a non-essential person living in a yellow zone, I’m not sure I’m allowed an opinion…

        Unofficially: *racks AK* “Fuck these assholes.”

    • DEG

      Heh.

      Hopefully the car show wins.

  36. Drake

    Tucker starts with another great monolouge.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I’ve really grown to like him. I had this thought of him as a bow tie wearing conservative but when i catch him lately i like what he says. Just sensible and fairly even handed

      • Jarflax

        He is very good when he is responding to the hard left, but he gets pretty bad when the issue is SoCon wish lists. Right now the left is absolutely the big problem so he is good.

      • westernsloper

        There are many of that flavor out there. My biggest grins had these days when I listen to the hate radio is that the Con Upper Crust’s have finally realized John Bolton is a piece of shit.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Yeah you nailed it

      • Festus

        He’s terrible on The War On Drugs but he nails the Left right in the nards over most of their pet issues. I like his stance on immigration and that makes me persona non grata to a few on these boards, including at least one of the Founders.

  37. TARDIS

    I’m going to go to my quiet space. I’m drunk now. (had to type this twice) MIss you all.
    /Thump

  38. blackjack

    Song by a cowboy.

    • Aloysious

      I had to walk away from my computer. That was repugnant.

  39. DEG

    Oxford, MA officials shut off power and water to gym which opened in defiance of Gauleiter’s orders

    The water and power supply to Prime Fitness in Oxford has been cut off after owner Dave Blondin repeatedly defied state orders to shutter during the coronavirus pandemic, WBZ reported.

    Mark Reich, a lawyer for the town of Oxford, confirmed the shut off in an email to WBZ Thursday morning, the station reported.

    A judge ordered Prime Fitness gym in Oxford to shut down after finding the owner, Blondin, violated the state’s restrictions ordering fitness centers to remain closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as other businesses gradually get the green light to reopen, according to court records.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You know what other Reich used the power of the State to enforce conformity with the leader’s decrees?

      • Chafed

        Robert?

  40. Sean

    You know who’s drunk? My gf. I had to tell her to use her inside voice.

    She’s on a rant on her phone. 35+ minutes so far.

    I’m trying to catch up on intoxicated level.

    • DEG

      I had two Smithwick’s at the Irish pub with dinner (I sat at the bar! YAY! had to wear a mask to walk in and out though). I am nursing a Maß of porter.

    • westernsloper

      35+ minutes so far.

      Impressive

      • Sean

        She’s still going and has taken it outside. Did I mention her Irish heritage?

        ?

      • Spudalicious

        Ah.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Msy the wind be always at her back.

      • blackjack

        Be grateful she has someone to argue with. Mine always gets worse on the way home when it’s just me.

    • Spudalicious

      How does she have time to drink?

      • Sean

        NJ school teacher (non union).

      • Spudalicious

        I meant during a 35 minute phone rant.

      • westernsloper

        Sean is feeding her drinks.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        My half assed part time gf is a NJ public school teacher and I was shocked the first time I saw how big her paycheck was. “Is this for a month?”

      • westernsloper

        My kingdom for a half assed part time gf with a big paycheck. You won the lottery!

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Haven’t seen her since the lockdown. It sucks. We’re both in states with Fascist Governors

      • Jarflax

        You get a big ass full time gf who takes half your paycheck and like it!

      • westernsloper

        Aaaaah, I see you have perused the dating apps using my zip code.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I’m outside of a dive bar drinking with the older brothers. We’re all kumbaya it’s kind of funny/cool. All agreeing that the current nonsense going on is stupid. It’s about white liberals signaling how woke they are and the brothers are mocking them.
      Makes me feel a little better about humanity

      • Tejicano

        Good to hear that this is the way things are going in the US – at least in your area.

        A little while back I was at a PX on one of the local US bases here and had a long conversation with another military retiree – black guy in this case – and we covered a lot of different topics including race relations in the US. It’s a little different in this case as we both spent at least a couple decades in uniform so it’s given that we had to have gotten over any racial bigotry (if either of us had any to start with) in working with people of all races often in close quarters.

        I guess that’s one factor to explain why I generally feel more comfortable around veterans – in most cases colorblindness is a given.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        I grew up in a Brooklyn neighborhood that was as diverse as you could imagine. Plus I’m half PR and half Jewish so I experienced both sides of those families.
        I never noticed racial differences until I hit high school. All of a sudden, like a switch, shit changed. I’d go on a bus and go to the back and the blacks would fuck with me. Things like telling me to give them my seat or trying to take my shoes. I don’t want to make this post too long so I’ll stop now but it was ugly

      • Mojeaux

        half PR and half Jewish

        Juan Epstein, is that you?!

      • Rhywun

        like a switch, shit changed

        #ditto

        I grew up in a Rust Belt “inner city”. Shrimpy white kid. I’ve heard it all. And I’ve about had enough from collectivist assholes who think they know me.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        I’m done with it. Just wish I had fuck you money

      • Gustave Lytton

        I had an interview board a couple years after for a gov job in a white bread town and one of the questions was about working with people of different races and such. Took me a half moment. Felt like saying “you see my app in front of me where it’s says infantryman? I had to work with anyone. Skin color was as irrelevant as how someone laced their boots.”

      • Ayn Random Variation

        The reality is that you are a racist if you don’t look at people as part of a race. It’s frustrating to a degree that I almost feel like I’m insane

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, it’s funny how some people seem to think the US military still has the same ethnic makeup as “Band of Brothers”.

  41. westernsloper

    Malta, India, New Zealand, Australia, France, and Ireland have all transitioned to jus sanguinis citizenship.

    All notoriously racist countries. (I typed that as a joke but it might be true)

    Constitution did not define national citizenship.

    Bullshit. A natural born citizen is one who does not have to go through a naturalization process such as an immigrant. The 14th amendment trying to overcome the hideous wrong of slavery did not grant any kid spit out the loins of whomever made by whomever’s the right to citizenship. If there is one fucking thing that should be canceled in these trying times of covid and cancelling it is Dredd Scott and anyfucking thing related to it. That would require moving on and apparently that is off the table.

    You want a kid to be a citizen of a certain country? Do the wild thing with a person of that country and make a baby.

  42. Mojeaux

    All y’all’s ‘stache lists include Tom Selleck, but do not include Burt Reynolds. Why is this? For shame. Oh, for SHAME.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Keith Hernandez. End of story

    • westernsloper

      The only list of mine Tom Selleck is on is the list concerning the proper length of men’s shorts. I hate long shorts.

      • Gender Traitor

        I hate long shorts.

        That’s one of the many things wrong with basketball these days.

    • Chafed

      Mojeaux wants a mustache ride!

    • Festus

      Festus has a luxurious ‘stache. This is Zoom known.

  43. DenverJ

    Hi. Didn’t read the article, didn’t read the comments. Windows 10 can go fuck itself right up the ass. Fuck it gonna do clean install of 7 maybe that’ll work.
    Thanks, peace

    • Mojeaux

      Good luck. I feel ya.

    • Gustave Lytton

      God bless! Forced to use it at work and I want to pc load letter it.

    • Hyperion

      “Windows 10”

      Best OS to date.

      • blackjack

        I got ten on my laptop, no issues. I do have an SSD drive, though, boots faster than I can blink.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have Windows 10 on an SSD – it takes two to five Minutes to boot. I don’t know where you guys are getting magic versions that don’t.

      • Chafed

        Are you serious UCS? My laptop has an SSD an boots in about 10 seconds. My desktop doesn’t. It takes 1-2 minutes.

      • UnCivilServant

        100%, I timed it several times because I wanted to be sure it wasn’t just impatience.

      • CPRM

        My new build doesn’t even have an SSD (SSD/Platter hybrid with something like 8GB flash and 2TB platter) and Windows 10 loads faster than that.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Holy fuck Windows 10 is killing me. 2 minutes to open up a Word doc, among other things. Fuckers!

      • Mojeaux

        I am also a very unhappy camper. I was in tears earlier today and I’m sure that’s not over with.

  44. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Knives Out is a middling knockoff of Agatha Christie. Meh…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That explains a lot.

    • mikey

      The clammoring to not get eaten is getting pretty loud.
      Some one will always be next in line – these fools are no exception.

    • Gustave Lytton

      A “defense” of Google’s actions

      Patrick Hedger
      @PatHedger18
      ·
      Jun 16
      Google literally has A.I. systems constantly moderating all aspects of YouTube, which lead to comments containing certain Chinese characters being taken down by mistake a few weeks ago.

      Talk about an own goal.

  45. Mojeaux

    Yanno, it’s one thing to be all about bread and circuses while the country not-so-quietly smoulders, but it’s another thing to take away the bread AND circuses, shit people up in their houses, take away their jobs, let shit go up in flames, and still expect people not to get pissy.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I always think a breaking point is coming but shit just keeps getting more ridiculous

      • Florida Man

        I’m at a breaking point. I’m tempted to sell everything I own, walk away from my job and buy some property in the middle of nowhere and stare at the wall until the world burns down.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        I don’t understand why anyone in a position to that won’t.
        It’s over. If you have the means to cash out and buy a ranch in Montana or move to Switzerland wtf are you waiting for.
        They are coming for your shit. Get the fuck out while you can

      • Florida Man

        The wife does not share my politics and the divorce would probably drain enough money so that ranch would be more of a hovel.

      • Mojeaux

        Live in a sod house and raise green beans.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I hated My Antonia.

      • commodious spittoon

        I read Entry Island. Eventually the English baron rousts you and your family and your community off his land and sends you to Canada. Nobody wants to live in Canada.

      • westernsloper

        A proper Florida Man would buy a boat and live in the mangroves.

      • Florida Man

        I’d be dead from malaria in a week.

      • westernsloper

        Baaahh, baloney. Think of all the tasty Sheepshead to grill.

      • Cy

        People don’t realize how in expensive some bay/gulf living can be with the right boat and the right attitude.

      • Cy

        Life’s pretty good where I’m at right now in Tejas! I hear about the stupid shit going on in other states and it just seems so far away.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        No disrespect but eat me

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m surprised there hasn’t been anyone saying “fuck it, if I’m going out, I’m taking some of these bastard with me”.

        What’s going on now scares the shit out of me. I think the genie is out of the bottle but the only question is how far out right now. I don’t see how this can be put back to a previous stage.

      • Florida Man

        The fires went out in 92, I’m sure they’ll go out again. I’m more pissed about every corporation dropping trough and bending over. Where the fuck were they with Kelly Thomas, Tony timpa, and Daniel shaver? But the police only kill minorities for sport and if you post these examples it’s just your white frailty, never mind the point isn’t that it’s okay what happened to Floyd, the point is the police aren’t held accountable and instead of making it racial it should be about real reform.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Bigot

      • Drake

        It’s the double standards – looters aren’t prosecuted but regular guys who try to protect their property or refuse to genuflect to the commies get slammed. One of them is going ambush a politician or prosecutor.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That’s what I’m afraid of.

      • Hyperion

        “I’m surprised there hasn’t been anyone saying “fuck it, if I’m going out, I’m taking some of these bastard with me”

        That’s coming soon if there’s no way to end the hard left’s complete control of education and the media.

      • Hyperion

        I remember my grandmother always saying stuff like this:

        “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience”

        I’m not a religious person, but damn, that sounds sort of relevant right now, in a very creepy sort of way.

        I need another beer…

      • Drake

        Sing along to some Viking music while you drink.

      • Hyperion

        Shit, I don’t know any, but if there are any Vikings willing to go on some pillage and plundering missions, I’m about ready to join them.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Shit. My grandmother would say callate and then have me rip off a branch to beat me with

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        The critical mass isn’t there yet and may never be. The stabilizing factor is “i hve a good thing going, why would I give it up? ”

        Either the good thing has to go away (economy gets much worse) or the reason for giving it up needs to threaten normal people’s way of life. Woke on parade isn’t there yet. Hell, its hard to tell how many people are actually sick of it and how many are eating it up.

      • Hyperion

        “the reason for giving it up needs to threaten normal people’s way of life”

        They’ve already done that and are winning, and they show no sign of giving up. I’m sorry to say it, but them giving up and letting people go back to normal life is not going to happen without extreme blow back and probably a lot of violence.

        The thought police are here and they’re in charge.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Thats the thing… Is there a critical mass to even fight back? Doctrinaire conservatives are pissed, but they’re not really doing much except tsk, tsking from the sideline. Libertarians can’t garner enough cultural force to do anything. Moderates, never trumpers, and establishment Republicans seem to be all in with the left on this shit.

        Culturally, we lost. The only question is what happens when it becomes clear that we’re not ever regaining the ground we lost.

      • Florida Man

        Knuckle under and say there are 4 or 5 lights, whichever it takes.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They’ll increase your gin ration from a pint per day to a half pint per day for that kind of cooperation.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Conservatives are either collaborators or wusses and getting libertarians to act is like trying to herd methed out cats and, let’s face it, there aren’t many of us. We’re screwed.

      • RAHeinlein

        Unfortunately, we are close to a critical mass of government tit-suckers on both sides.

  46. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Heh, the Chick-Fil-A CEO said white people need to shine black people’s shoes to atone for racism:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/GabeHoff/status/1273713403274702855

    Sweet Jesus, what a case of not knowing your audience as well as when to keep your damn mouth shut.

    • Hyperion

      I’ll shine my shoe on his face.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I was thinking the same thing. This shit’s getting old.

    • Don Escaped any Landslide

      I was told to eat the sandwich

    • Florida Man

      I’m starting to hate white people.

      • Florida Man

        That’s a hashtag I can get behind.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Maybe he can atone for racism by opening on Sundays?

    • Suthenboy

      He is trying to keep his stores from burning down.
      I doubt it will work.

  47. Raven Nation

    Looks like New Zealand might have to start thinking about gun control:

    Live updates: One of two police officers shot in West Auckland dies from injuries

    • Gustave Lytton

      The love of Kiwis for Jacinda Thugbitch is simply amazing. Do balls get removed at birth there?

      • grrizzly

        Sheep are the only inhabitants of New Zealand: some walk on four legs, a minority–on two.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I wish I could ship my commie US Rep to his NZ properties permanently.

      • Chafed

        It sure looks that way.

      • Toxteth O’Grady

        Apparently.

        “And New Zealanders, who were locked down more strenuously than almost any nation in the developed world, tend to be pretty easy to keep in political line. We’re not like the chaotic Americans or the go-your-own-way Brits. The philosopher Karl Popper once described us as the most ‘easily governed’ people in the world, and he didn’t mean it in an entirely complimentary way.”

        https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/18/the-sanctification-of-jacinda-ardern/

    • commodious spittoon

      Jackrabbits need loving too.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The first three are great but he can get bent on the rest.

      • Michael Bluth

        I just marvel that people can’t even fathom that someone does not agree with them. Like the minimum wage. Of my 9 employees, 2 earn more than $15/hr. I don’t have a bottomless pit of money that I can just magically pay more people out of.

      • blackjack

        One of my favorites is the new one, “If the economy was so good, why can’t these businesses survive three months of downtime?” Really? My shop wouldn’t have made it two weeks without earning money. I took about 4 day vacations three times a year and had to work overtime to compensate and that was before the great recession. Three months and I’d have had to close after one. Retards.

      • Raven Nation

        There was a sports reporter in the UK who declared that if a football club could not survive two months without income, then the club was not very well run.

        And he was talking about semi-pro clubs without TV games.

      • Gustave Lytton

        How many of those saying it could survive with no paycheck for three months either?

    • Cy

      The imgur community is just a toxic wasteland circle jerk of basement dwelling, grievance porn addicts. It was good about 4 years ago before the SJW neck beard crowd took over.

      • Michael Bluth

        But what is it about most online places that causes them to succumb to such idiocy? If only there were an Iron law or something…

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Has Wagner’s ring cycle been canceled yet?

  48. Gustave Lytton

    Cutty Sark Prohibition is more upper end Scotch tasting, well more than regular, but it misses the mark in both directions. I like the label and no shitty Facebook logo on the bottle.

    • straffinrun

      The bottle is cool. So is the name.

  49. straffinrun

    Resentment is winning and the prize is retribution.

  50. CPRM

    The window AC I used for the last 20 years died yesterday. Had to break down and buy a new unit. If I’m going back on third shift I can’t being trying to sleep in the hot day without AC. Good thing I had some money socked away. Can’t fit a window unit in my bedroom anymore since I replaced the window, so had to buy one of those ‘portable’ units. $300 just to not be hot while I sleep. It’s kind of cool if it works though, has a thermostat on the remote, so I can put that in the living room to keep it cool and keep my room extra chilled.

    • Caput Lupinum

      Did you get the PCI-e card sorted out?

      • CPRM

        No, I forgot to save the link for the Rosewill card we discusses, but it wasn’t going to be in stock until later this month anyway.

  51. KSuellington

    Looks like The Federalist removed their comment section.

    • salted earth

      that sucks. *puts on tinfoil hat* there seems to be a big push to get them shut down. I may need to go buy a t-shirt from them.

      • Gustave Lytton

        TOS, if they could be not irrelevant, would fold like a cheap suit if their precious ad revenue was threatened.

      • KSuellington

        If they are coming hard for The Federalist as a “far right” site that promotes hate, then any site they don’t like is fair game. I’m just still hoping that this power grab that the left has taken over the past months gets big pushback and a pendulum swing. At this point they are basically using all their power to swing an election and push through a bunch of terrible policy, they couldn’t bide their time and continue the slow takeover.

      • JD is in the United Karendom

        Good morning, GT, Festus, Stinky Wizzleteats, and a pre-emptive good morning to Sean, UCS, and anyone else in the early gang (well, not for me).

      • JD is in the United Karendom

        Oh well, my betters The Squirrels have decreed that this post should be a reply to Gustave. C’est la Glibs.

      • Gender Traitor

        Salutations back atcha, JD!

      • salted earth

        I’ll put an evelope filled with cash under the bench at the park.

      • Festus

        Ha!

      • KSuellington

        Damn, I have a passionate hatred for frivolous lawsuits as my parents were sued a few times for ridiculous reasons when I was young, and it put a ton of stress on the family. That would be tremendous to the TF prevail and get lawyers fees and damages from the plaintiff, but I know that’s unlikely.

    • JD is in the United Karendom

      The blue checkmarks and Twitter apparatchiks are spitting their pacifiers and filling their diapers over this one. MaNiPuLaTeD mEdIa!!!1111111111111111111111111

  52. Stinky Wizzleteats

    A good vid on the forced removal of The Federalists comment section and the possible repercussions via the FCC:

    https://youtu.be/Kxbl_Q8Eeg4

    TLDW, Google might be legally viewed as a publisher not a platform.

    • Gender Traitor

      Thanks! Very interesting indeed. It’s nice to see some pushback against one of the 2000-lb. gorillas of the Internet. I suppose the True Libertarian® position would be that Google can do what it pleases, but if so, they should accept the potential liability for doing so. They’re trying to have it both ways.

      • JD is in the United Karendom

        Google aren’t just a private enterprise – there is an overwhelmingly strong case to support the fact that they are a hugely powerful part of large progressive establishment that spans government, media, NGOs, and corporations such as themselves. Maybe it’s not True Libertarian(R) to cheer on using the power of the FCC to curtail Google’s crushing of dissent, but the True Libertarian(R) is an absolutist strawman anyway.

    • JD is in the United Karendom

      At least The Federalist has gained some free publicity out of this. I hardly ever check it any more. I remember a good piece by Liz Wolfe talking about the “ideological turing test”, which she framed in terms of the abortion debate (hence it appearing there rather than Reason?). Anyway that’s beside the point I s’pose – just one piece that stuck with me.

      Ajit Pai has been more or less one of the best appointments Trump has made.

  53. Festus

    Local girl that also hosts a show on the college radio station that amusingly has the call letters “CFUR”. I think she’s intriguing but what the heck do I know? Enjoy, shoot it down. Makes no nevermind to me but she seems like the real deal https://youtu.be/0QNXGueR_nI?list=PLzs2G_8rTzjSBqXNIe6wKCaGUOym66TGO

    • Gender Traitor

      Noice! Thanks! That reminds me – the boss is working from home today, and I don’t have much going on. I should fire up my portable satellite radio in its little dock on my desk and make it a Happy Friday party.

      • Festus

        I knew you’d like that one, GT! That’s why I played it. Was hoping to reel Suthen Boy in too. She’s probably as lefty as they come but she’s got chops. Something about Canadians and singer-songwriters… “Cup of Coffee” is a good tune too. I’d go watch her perform but I don’t do that.

      • Festus

        Sorry, the tune is “Stupid Things”. I am a stupid thing. Also, how did I never know about Shriekback? I had tons of musician friends back in the 80’s and they were all Eno fans. I guess he had so many fingers in so many pies back then that some of those gems just slipped through the floorboards. Maybe my fixation on Zappa and Beefheart and the Dregs and Gabriel kinda blinded me to some other stuff. It was a different world back then. Just fanzines, word of mouth and whatever the cool older brothers and sisters were playing. I missed so much cool stuff.

      • Festus

        Right? She’s a huge Nick Cave fan, too. Her radio show is eclectic. *fanboi squee*