Friday Afternoon Links

by | Jun 12, 2020 | Daily Links | 349 comments

Happy Friday, y’all. Today is my official last day of working as an employee. Monday I start my own gig, being my own boss, and probably having an asshole for a boss. As such, I’ll be leaving you guys in the care of other links providers for next week, and perhaps beyond depending on what sort of routine shakes out. I’m excited. And nervous.

Let’s start with Florida Man fighting off 13 foot gator to save his dog. Bruh. I’m not sure I love my kids that much. ‘Specially now that I’m about to have 2 spares to the heir.

Karen picks fight with Florida Man over going wrong way in store aisles.

More proof that the global anti-fascist movement is just another face of the International v. National Socialist fight. Juche vs. Soviet? None of the above.

And this wasn’t a policy before… why?

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.

349 Comments

  1. Idiot Boy

    Rock that Business Brett!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      First!

      • Chafed

        Brochettaward hardest hit.

    • Tonio

      Congrats, and good luck.

    • Florida Man

      Who is the Tulpa? Handle change or someone that should fuck off.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s me silly!

      • Florida Man

        Jesus, it’s hard to notice the little pictures on the phone. Fuck off for Friday anyways.

      • Pan Zagloba

        I ain’t buyin’ it, Tulpa.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If you have to ask, then you’re the Tulpae.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Smack!

      • Animal

        Tulpii?

    • Pan Zagloba

      Indeed, congratulations and best of luck! Takes some balls to fly solo in this stormy weather.

    • Chafed

      Good luck in your new business Brett. Being in your own business is both the best and worst of the working world. I hope things go well for you.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Great news on the new gig Brett! Best of luck.

      Remember next time you are pissed about some stupid corporate policy, the idiot who implemented it will be staring back from the mirror when you are brushing your teeth.

      After sitting through a talk today about how my dev team will be in a pilot to track time differently, I’m extra jelly of your freedom.

  2. Donation Not Taxation

    Covid-19 viruses are small.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Tundra, ‘A spoonful ‘of Covid-19 only ‘weighs a ton’ for sufficiently large spoons.

      • blackjack

        Check out how agro the bass player is!

  3. Count Potato

    “Today is my official last day of working as an employee. Monday I start my own gig, being my own boss, and probably having an asshole for a boss.”

    Congratulations on your own meth lab!

  4. Endless Mike

    If we tear down the first 3 posters, does that make me First?

    • Idiot Boy

      Sorry Mike, I know the Rules,
      Howdy!

      • Endless Mike

        Gaahhh the rules! I was sort of referencing something in the AM links (tearing down history)

        (Looks sorrowfully at my participation ribbon)

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Timing my Boy! Timing…

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Endless Mike, no, because comment not reference content Brett L’s post above.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Also: Second ‘Howdy!’

      • Idiot Boy

        What did you just say?

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘What did you just say?’

        Idiot Boy, seconded your ‘Howdy!’ to Endless Mike

    • Bobarian LMD

      Fourst!

  5. Mad Scientist

    I can’t even imagine being so upset about someone walking the “wrong” way down a store aisle that I felt compelled to start punching them. How mentally unbalanced do you have to be for that to seem like a wise move?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      COMPLY!

    • straffinrun

      Patience is in short supply lately. Ran out at the same time as the toilet paper.

    • Florida Man

      He was literally killing her by getting in her personal space, so she decided to get in his face and make lots of contact.

    • Suthenboy

      She has a neck tattoo and got into a fight in the Goodwill Store. I don’t know how. you can get saner or classier.

      Is she single?

      • Mad Scientist

        Based on her appearance, I’m going to guess she’s periodically single. It takes time to find a new boyfriend after dismembering the previous one.

      • Brett L

        There’s always some poor fool that will date a girl prettier than the craziest girl he ever dated before.

      • straffinrun

        The kind you’d find in a second hand store.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Looking for a purple banana?

      • Brett L

        She doesn’t seem like the type to walk in through the out door.

    • EvilSheldon

      Do either of these people look like they have even a passing familiarity with wisdom?

      • Surly Knott

        Or good will.

  6. Florida Man

    1. Id go to the mat for one of my dogs.

    2. The arrows are stupid but the real mistake is going into a goodwill

    3. I heard that is standard practice for all protest

    4. I agree with reducing police interaction. Use the armed officers strictly for crime, use unarmed agents for traffic control/accidents, issuing traffic tickets, etc.

    • Bobarian LMD

      4. Stop enforcing victimless crimes.

      • Florida Man

        100 percent agree, but you still need police reports for insurance claims, taking statements about crimes. No need for them to be armed.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Also agree, but think the first step is to eliminate the victimless crimes, which significantly reduces the requirement for either type of officer.

    • straffinrun

      The problem isn’t police interaction. It’s racism. We should all suffer equally under oppressive state actions.

      • Florida Man

        https://youtu.be/l71Pvvnp3oE

        This guy has some good points, but he must not follow the news too closely or he’d see the police kill rednecks too.

      • straffinrun

        He undermines his whole point with that.

    • Incentives Matter

      Or just go the UK bobby route. No lethal arms issued (they get stuff like batons and stun guns, IIRC), but if required, they can dispatch an ARU (Armed Response Unit).

      • EvilSheldon

        This is not a bad idea. Focus the limited training resources on the cops who are actually willing to train, and have the mindset to become professional combatants. The rest of the police force can be the meter maids and insurance clerks.

  7. Plinker762

    So no military grade weapons for SF popo. Will they have to cut off their hands and feet?

  8. straffinrun

    Got up at 4:30 just to make sure I wouldn’t miss Brett’s links. Good luck at the new gig.

    • Florida Man

      I too sometimes pass out by noon and have to be roused for dinner.

      • straffinrun

        Working from home ruined me. Just keep the beer off screen during Zoom meetings. Screwed that up once.

    • Ted S.

      Some people eat at 4:30.

      • straffinrun

        Because it comes so soon after 4:20

  9. R C Dean

    After the incident, the dog owner set a trap for the gator on his property with help from Florida Fish and Wildlife.

    “The trapper did not have any bait, so I grabbed one of my roosters and we used him as bait for the trap. We haven’t had any luck yet,”

    Perfect.

    • Pan Zagloba

      I wish I spoke Animal, because Rooster/Dog conversation that night must have been something.

    • Brett L

      You only need one to keep the operation going.

  10. Mad Scientist

    Monday I start my own gig

    Does this mean your Amazon delivery finally arrived?

    • Florida Man

      I cancelled Prime. I’m tired of the delayed deliveries and the woke banner pushed me over the edge.

    • straffinrun

      Was expecting this.

    • Ted S.

      I was expecting this.

  11. straffinrun

    Undeterred by endless mocking, Karen soldiers on.

    • Florida Man

      That ratio though…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL

      • Count Potato

        Awesome.

    • Grosspatzer

      “I’d like to report some people not living in fear”. LOL.
      Also did a double-take on the twit(terrer). TurdoTrudo.

      • straffinrun

        You guys… I don’t see how you weren’t persuaded by her logically sound “Come on”.

      • Mad Scientist

        That looks an awful lot like a photo of a television.

    • DEG

      The Clown Prince opened up state beaches on the 5th probably because ReopenNH had planned a protest on the beach on the 6th.

      That looks a little more crowded than on the 6th, but the weather is better here today than it was on the 6th.

  12. Nephilium

    Good luck on the new gig.

    I’m off to go to a bar/restaurant crawl and local art/craft show for the first time in five months. A brief grasp at normality in these upsetting times.

    • Tonio

      We on our own for Zoom tonight? If so, I’ll setup.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Zoom is ASSHOLE! CCP ASSHOLE!

      • Tonio

        Linky downthread.

      • KibbledKristen

        Thanks, T!

      • Nephilium

        I may be back to join in later. At a bar where no one is wearing a mask, people are chatting, and the only reminder of the dark times is stickers, posters and moveable dividers on the bar.

    • Tonio

      Also, have fun.

      • Surly Knott

        Yes, ^^this

    • DEG

      Excellent.

    • blackjack

      Yeah, good luck. I used to work twice as hard for half the pay too.

  13. Tonio

    RICHMOND (VA) – Developing: Armed confrontation at RE Lee statue on Monument Avenue. Presumed statue supporters flee police, one Antifa bicycle destroyed.

    Notice how long it took them to catch up to some of the suspects. The easiest way from Lee Circle to Huguenot is city streets.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Expect more of that.

      If the police aren’t going to protect anything other than the asshats tearing shit up, then people will start to do it themselves.

      • Drake

        And if the cops are obviously on the other side, they are the enemy.

      • Tonio

        Doesn’t look like they were very successful. They’d have to mount 24-hour (or at least overnight, which is when the mischief happens) armed guards, and ass you noted the police

        Antifa will doubtlessly see this as a rout, and become even more emboldened.

      • C. Anacreon

        There’s no such thing as Antifa, ABC News told us so. It’s just a fever dream by the President trying to divert attention from the real problem, white supremacist rioters and looters. Also, CHAZ is really nothing more than a Summer of Love festival.

        ….and a huge chunk of my Facebook feed will believe that’s the complete truth.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        That’s why this is inevitably ending in conflict. It’d be one thing if almost nobody was buying it. Instead we have 30% buying it, 15% actively rejecting it, 40% not paying close attention but sympathetic to the communists, and 15% other.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Around 12:55 a.m. Friday, officers in the area of the Robert E. Lee circle saw several pickup trucks approach a group who had dismounted their bicycles in the traffic lanes, said police spokeswoman Amy Vu in an email.

      “Words were exchanged between the individuals and the drivers of the pickup trucks,” she said. “One pickup truck sped off and then another pickup truck ran over a bicycle while fleeing the area.”

      A group of heavily armed and armored men, enough for several pick up trucks, fled from a group of presumably unarmed Antifa with bicycles? It seems like something is being left out.

      • grrizzly

        Yep, I got confused by this, too.

      • Chipwooder

        I believe they were fleeing from the cops, not the commies.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        If you and RC are correct about them fleeing from the cops (which makes sense, though you’d think they’d be prepared for that), it’s interesting the paper left that distinction out. It’s like the article was deliberately drafted to give the impression they fled from Antifa.

      • Chipwooder

        Which doesn’t surprise me.

        It also shows that the city government is all but officially supporting the mobs, since the cops aren’t chasing the mobs away but did chase these guys.

      • R C Dean

        I suspect the cops lit up lights-and-siren before the pickup trucks took off.

      • Tonio

        Agreed that something isn’t right. I’ll keep on this and post updates.

    • Chipwooder

      Not making me reconsider my vow to stay the hell out of the city

      • Tonio

        Indeed. I’m even routing around a short stretch of city street to get to one of my (non-city) shopping locations.

        Going to be a long time before I go there even in daylight.

        Not ordering delivery from city businesses. Not paying Mayor Stoney’s meals tax. While I am duly sympathetic to those restaurants and their employees, it’s time for them to GTFO to the counties, or suffer the consequences of staying.

      • Suthenboy

        Meal tax?

      • Viking1865

        Theres an extra tax on restaurant meals in Richmond City. FOR THE SKOOOLZZZZ of course.

  14. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘And this wasn’t a policy before… why?’ https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-mayor-police-stop-responding-non-criminal-calls

    So now they can focus on enforcing such as:

    ‘It shall be unlawful for any person to play at or participate in any game of ball on any public street or highway.’

    ‘dog walker can only walk up to eight dogs at one time.’

    ‘can only be naked in public if you have a parade permit.’

    ‘It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to carry, transport or convey, or to cause to be carried, transported or conveyed through the public streets in open baskets or exposed containers, or vehicles or otherwise, any bread, cakes, or pastry intended for human consumption.’

    ‘You are not allowed to store anything in your ‘public and private storage garages’ unless it’s an automobile.’

    using underwear to clean an automobile

    riding a horse drunk

    ‘don’t pile any horse manure higher than six feet on any street corner… or carry it through the streets.’ The law specifies horse, so human not included.

    leash law for elephants

    https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/san-francisco/crazy-laws-san-francisco/

    The law against ‘unsightly people from showing their faces in public’ was repealed.

    Even though a ban on employer cafterias ‘unanimously passed the three-person Land Use & Transportation Committee’, it failed to be passed into law. https://sf.curbed.com/2019/9/4/20848675/san-francisco-cafeteria-ban-safai-union-labor-negotiations-tech-google-twitter-dropbox

  15. The Other Kevin

    Good luck Brett! You got this!

  16. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Congrats Brett, and good luck!

    • mindyourbusiness

      Good on ya, Brett!

  17. robc

    Our company announced “return to normal” is tentatively planned for Sept, after Labor Day. Volunteer and certain teams can return to office (local rules depending) starting after July 4.

    I will probably switch to a couple of days per week in office in July/Aug.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      We’re doing phases in July. On the FAQ sheet, one of the questions was if the new COVID procedures have altered the fire evacuation plan.

      • db

        Maintain proper social distancing while scrambling past your slower colleagues, leaving them to asphyxiate and burn to a crisp.

  18. Donation Not Taxation

    Brett L, may your new venture be worthy of being looted. Brett L, may your new venture be overlooked by the looters.

  19. DEG

    Today is my official last day of working as an employee. Monday I start my own gig, being my own boss, and probably having an asshole for a boss.

    Best wishes to you!

    Tweddale, a former Army staff sergeant, said. “So I let go of the collar, and I got about knee-deep into the water and started pounding on the gator’s head until he eventually let go.”

    Good. Hopefully the dog makes a full recovery.

    As part of Goodwill Industries’s coronavirus safety measures, one-way aisles have been established to allow patrons to more easily maintain a six-foot distance from other individuals.

    Fuck Leper Length.

    San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday said police will no longer respond to non-criminal calls as part of a major reform of the department.

    I thought that already happened.

    • R C Dean

      They probably stopped responding to calls for theft, etc. long ago. Many big city PDs have, whether by policy or de facto.

      • Mad Scientist

        They certainly don’t do any investigation of theft.

  20. Jarflax

    Non criminal complaints include things like runaway kids. So I am not sure this is actually all that great.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Runaways make for great communist recruits.

      • Plinker762

        Or as orphan substitutes?

  21. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘John Cleese has laid into the “cowardly and gutless and contemptible” BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform.’

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53020335

  22. DEG

    NH Democratic controlled Executive Council rejects black Republican

    Governor Sununu’s latest appointee to be rejected by the partisan Democrat majority on the Executive Council (EC) is Ryan Terrell. Ryan is a young black man nominated by Gov. Sununu for the State School board. A body sorely in need of some diversity, according to at least one Democrat on the Council who voted no.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      From what I have heard, Ryan is a smart guy who is effective at articulating ideas. Very well-spoken.

      You’ve got to be kidding me…

      • grrizzly

        Why? The guy known for saying something like this is now leading in the presidential race, if you believe the polls.

    • DEG

      The middle of the video is Sowell vs. Biden.

  23. Rhywun

    As part of police reforms, San Francisco will also strengthen accountability policies, ban the use of military-grade weapons and divert funding to the African-American community, Breed said.

    Because why not?

    • R C Dean

      ban the use of military-grade weapons

      So no handguns?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Pointy sticks like the Olden days…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        What do you want to bet they manage to grasp the difference between auto and semi auto now? Semiauto ARs will still be allowed I’m thinking.

      • R C Dean

        So, semi-auto ARs (which I would bet anything are issue weapons somewhere in a military), but not handguns?

        They have SWAT, with snipers, I am sure. No sniper rifles?

        I bet they have shotguns, too. Also used by the military.

        Or, maybe this is more meaningless bullshit from people who are capable of little else.

  24. Mojeaux

    Congratulations on being your own boss!

    Condolences on being your own boss!

    • Incentives Matter

      ^^THIS.

      “Working for yourself is awesome. You only have to work half-days, and it doesn’t matter which twelve hours you pick.”

  25. Donation Not Taxation

    Enjoy Mark Steyn’s Jun 12, 2020 links:

    SteynOnline: The One-Sided Culture War
    New York Times: On the Future, Americans Can Agree: It Doesn’t Look Good
    AP: Downplaying virus risk, Trump gets back to business as usual
    The Hill: COVID-19 spikes, but most governors signal they’re staying the course
    Politico: Schiff won’t oppose Trump intel chief’s bid to declassify more of House GOP Russia report
    The Hill: Republicans start bracing for shutdown fight in run-up to election
    The Hill: Democrats warn Biden against releasing SCOTUS list
    BizPacReview: Biden shocks again: ‘Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did’
    New York Post: Corcoran realtor fired for using photo of NYPD van on fire to sell homes
    AP: Experts: Police ‘woefully undertrained’ in use of force
    Politico: Trump says he’s finalizing executive order on police reform
    Politico: Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to U.S. police until federal standards exist
    The Hill: Labor leaders under pressure to oust police unions
    Politico: The City That Actually Got Rid of the Police
    New York Times: Schools Move to Eliminate Campus Police Officers
    BizPacReview: DOJ files dozens of charges against Floyd rioters. Catherine Herridge got her hands on them.
    Politico: They had a huge opportunity’: People of color on Trump’s team reckon with a backlash
    AP: Republicans: Bill would ‘weed out bad actors’ in Ohio police
    BBC News – George Floyd: Trump told to back off Seattle’s Chaz police-free zone
    BizPacReview: Seattle police allowed back in precinct as anarchists begin infighting over boozy slackers
    The Hill: Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
    AP: Kentucky governor seeks vote to oust Davis bust from Capitol
    The Hill: Black lawmakers unveil bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol
    BizPacReview: McEnany explains why Trump won’t bend to Leftists demanding U.S. military installations be renamed
    AP: The Latest: Columbus statue taken down in Camden, New Jersey
    AP: Statues boarded up in London as more protests expected
    AP: Pulling down statues of racists? Africa’s done it for years
    AP: UCLA professor: No racism in refusing to cancel final
    AP: The Latest: Police prevent mass rally in Sydney
    AP: Aid groups ‘alarmed’ by little US coronavirus assistance
    The Hill: Trump administration seeks to use global aid for nuclear projects
    BBC News – Pastor jailed for trafficking African child ‘slaves’
    LA Times: I don’t like ‘Gone With the Wind,’ but I hate to see Hattie McDaniel canceled
    National Review: The Cancel Counter: Statue of Famed Revolutionary War General to Be Removed from Albany City Hall
    National Review: The Thoughtless Campaign against Western History
    Daily Wire: Anti-Trump Seattle Mayor Compares ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ To A ‘Block Party’
    HotAir: MAGA At The CHAZ? First The Walls Go Up — And Then The Forced Deportations
    Breitbart: Poll: 55% of Democrats Support ‘Defund the Police’; 64% of Americans Oppose
    Breitbart: Shelby Steele: The Left Is Exploiting America Acknowledging Its ‘Dark Background,’ ‘Dark History’
    NewsBusters: Protest-Obsessed TV Networks Barely Mention Violence Against Police
    Gateway Pundit: Judge Sullivan and Deep State Attorneys Argue Government Can Continue to Charge You, Hide Evidence, Fine You and Bankrupt You AFTER Charges are Dropped
    Townhall: The United College Campus Of America -Derek Hunter
    PJ Media: Investigation Reveals How Cuomo and De Blasio Made the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse
    PJ Media: Tom Cotton Eviscerates Cancel Culture in ‘Obelisk of Wokeness’ Speech
    Federalist: Abolitionist Monuments Defaced By ‘Anti-Racism’ Rioters Is What Teaching Fake History Gets America
    Ferderalist: How Corporations And Celebrities Can Kill Cancel Culture
    ZeroHedge: New Jersey Tax Collections Crater By A Record 29%, Warns Of More Pain As Stimulus Ends
    JustTheNews: Donations to Black Lives Matter are funneled through a Democratic fundraising group
    JustTheNews: Nine of 11 statues of Confederate leaders Pelosi wants removed from Capitol were Democrats

    • straffinrun

      Didn’t catch all of that.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        straffinrun, now you can. Read again when have time.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        no links there, I suppose I can just GO TO THE WEBSITE!
        /copypasta bs…..

      • straffinrun

        I’m on my PC now, so it’s not too big a deal, but if someone is on their phone then it really does take some annoying scrolling to get past.

  26. BakedPenguin

    Good luck, Brett. You got this.

    Also, don’t know which part of Florida you’re in, but we’re having a meetup in Winter Park tomorrow.

    • Mad Scientist

      “Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft.”

    • Brett L

      Pinellas County. I doubt I’ll get away, but you can send me details at brett_bolt -at- yahoo dot com. Maybe my wife will let me out to celebrate.

      • Florida Man

        Do it! Do it! Do it!

      • Incentives Matter

        Maybe my wife will let me out to celebrate.

        Yeah, don’t be counting on that, buck-o.  ;-)

    • Ted S.

      There is no winter in Florida, of course.

      • Florida Man

        Winter haven, winter park, winter fell. Florida is obsessed with winter.

      • Incentives Matter

        Florida is obsessed with winter.

        Well, more accurately, staying the Hell away from it, really.

    • Raven Nation

      Demons/Blues, 2:35am tomorrow. Melbourne 10 point favorites.

      • Rhywun

        *huff* Fox isn’t giving us that one.

      • BakedPenguin

        I saw that after you talked with Rhywun about the AFL starting again. Not sure why the Dees are favored by 10, they didn’t exactly start their season with a bang.

        Perth bastards.

      • Raven Nation

        Given the way Carlton have performed the last 4 or 5 years, they should be default underdogs in every game. Unless they’re playing the Suns.

  27. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘And this wasn’t a policy before… why?’ https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-mayor-police-stop-responding-non-criminal-calls

    So now they can focus on enforcing such as:

    ‘It shall be unlawful for any person to play at or participate in any game of ball on any public street or highway.’

    ‘dog walker can only walk up to eight dogs at one time.’

    ‘can only be naked in public if you have a parade permit.’

    ‘It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to carry, transport or convey, or to cause to be carried, transported or conveyed through the public streets in open baskets or exposed containers, or vehicles or otherwise, any bread, cakes, or pastry intended for human consumption.’

    ‘You are not allowed to store anything in your ‘public and private storage garages’ unless it’s an automobile.’

    using underwear to clean an automobile

    riding a horse drunk

    ‘don’t pile any horse manure higher than six feet on any street corner… or carry it through the streets.’ The law specifies horse, so human not included.

    leash law for elephants

    https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/san-francisco/crazy-laws-san-francisco/

  28. Drake

    After this past week I would like to send out some apologies.

    To Patrick Buchanan – you were right in 1988. Sorry. In my defense I voted for DuPont in the primary not that asshole Bush.

    The John Birchers – you called it. You were right.

    Joseph McCarthy – you were absolutely right, but you didn’t have to be such an asshole, but you called it.
    A warning:

    A systemic defect inseparable from the system requires wholesale replacement of the system. That’s the game with the systemic-racism canard. The goal isn’t civic equality or respect — both widely supported, both fully achievable in-system. The goal, as Matthew Peterson has noted, is regime change.

    This is why you see the aggressive delegitimization of state force, police and military alike. The capacity for violence that is properly the monopoly of any functioning state is stripped away through the closing of the necessary political space. You’re seeing it already: police won’t police, prosecutors won’t prosecute, the man in charge of the Army of the United States issues public apologies, the city fathers of Seattle abandon governance of their own urban core, even “Cops” is cancelled. The state writ large, the sole bearer of democratic legitimacy, is enervated and unsure. Solzhenitsyn would have recognized it: it looks like St Petersburg in 1917. The powerful abandon their duties of stewardship, having absorbed and believed their enemies’ critiques of themselves.

    When the regime changes, the people in charge will be the same ones conducting ideological purges and smashing statuary now. It will be rule by Americans with the aesthetic ethos of the Taliban and the social ethos of Mao’s China. We aren’t there yet — but we are a long way toward it. Events accelerate, and once everyone is on board — once the nice lady on CNN who worked on Capitol Hill as senior staff gets her wish of stripping you and me of George Washington and the whole Founding — then the network coalesces and they seize the reins. The existing superstructure is too attenuated to use the power at its disposal, neither for its own preservation nor for the protection of the people whom it is supposed to serve.

    • R C Dean

      The existing superstructure is too attenuated to use the power at its disposal

      Nah, its perfectly willing to use its power against deplorables and wrongthinkers. The real problem is too many members of the existing superstructure have “the aesthetic ethos of the Taliban and the social ethos of Mao’s China”.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        At the rate we’re going we’ll be to Year Zero before we know it.

    • Viking1865

      “The John Birchers – you called it. You were right.”

      Those 10 points were a literal prediction of the future.

  29. Tonio

    Okay Glibsters, here’s the invite linky for tonight’s Zoom social, hosted by your’s truly until I get sleepy. 19:00 hours Eastern. Be there, or be square.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012525115

    • Mojeaux

      Okay Boomer

    • Ted S.

      Or?

    • Florida Man

      How many people can zoom at a time?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        all of them, really

    • DEG

      Thank you for setting it up.

      I’m not sure if I’ll join tonight.

    • TARDIS

      Has the Glibnation dropped Discord in favor of making Progressive Insurance commercials?

      • Pan Zagloba

        Discord is for Zoomers, Zoom (ironically) for Boomers.

  30. Tundra

    Good luck to you, Brett!

    It’s an exciting and nerve wracking time. I expect that you will be wildly successful!

    • Suthenboy

      Of color is out and black is back in. Keep up.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Perfect! thanks,

    • Rhywun

      Black and Brown Sabbath

      • Pan Zagloba

        Black and Tan, please. They’re English.

      • Ownbestenemy

        A couple years back we were in a pub in Seattle on Post street. Nice little joint.

        Guy next to me ordered a black and tan and the bartender said, in a thick Irish accent “we don’t serve those, but you can have a haf n haf”

        Learned that day if you have true sons of Erin in the bar do not order a black and tan.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        If you’re looking for a good time, walk into an old Irish bar with your own set of darts that have British flag flights.

      • Jarflax

        Make sure to talk about how much you revere Cromwell, and always wear orange on Mar 17th. (this is relevant to the discussion about Australia and slavery below)

      • robc

        That was a nicer response than I expected.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This is the way to defeat these shitheads. Pound them into the ground using their own methods.

      • Drake

        They are guarding a perimeter with rifles, we probably moved past the Twitter war stage.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That only works for those for consider intellectual and moral consistency to be a virtue.

      • Drake

        This.

        You can spend your life on social media pointing out the hypocrisy of the Left. They do not care.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        WHATABOUTISM!!!!111

      • Viking1865

        Yeah look at how they viciously turned on Northam and Fairfax and drove them out of office.

        They will never be held to their own standards, because the people that enforce the standards refuse to do so.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I can dream ok?

        The alternative isn’t pretty.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah I think in the end its slavery or war.

        I mean, just look at how literally no one has called out fucking Northam for daring to try to run to the front of the BLM parade. If these people had even the slightest shred of decency they would have at least, at the very least, said “Hey Ralph, its cool you’re with us, but maybe go to the back of the line and do more listening less talking”

      • Mad Scientist

        Their only standard is getting rid of non-Marxists.

      • Count Potato

        I think we need to get MS-13 and antifa to fight each other.

      • Pan Zagloba

        They will.

        After they’re done with you.

      • Count Potato

        That’s not how the plan works.

      • Jarflax

        I no longer believe we can save the scraps of America, and all I care about now is maximizing the liberty left to me and mine in the aftermath of the collapse. I am no kidding, no exageration hoping for a Pinochet now. We have one party that are cowards and the other actively seeks marxist totalitarianism.

      • straffinrun

        We’ve got one side that is asking for stuff and the other side that is saying “no”. It only takes one time for the side asking for stuff to win. The end result was doomed once that paradigm was established.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        +1 deTocqueville

      • Ayn Random Variation

        They all shit their pants over a fucking tweet about sending in the military. If it actually happened….. need help finishing this thought.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m sure he’ll post a heartfelt apology on Twitter and then slink off into the sunset. LOL.

    • Rhywun

      Perfect.

    • Tonio

      Awww, that’s so cute. Sorry but the gays, particularly white, middle-class males, are getting thrown under the bus.

      All the “Pride” celebrations have been allowed to go on, but only if rebranded Pride+BLM.

      • Jarflax

        Despite all the BS parroted by Marxist academics in the west it was better to be gay in puritanical Victorian England than in the USSR. It was better to be black in 1875 Alabama than Soviet Russia. Identity politics are merely a tool, once the communists get control you get beaten, raped, tortured and ultimately killed because conformity to the paradigm that maximizes utility for the Party is the only metric for good in such a system.

      • Viking1865

        At the end of the day, the white male is the Jew of liberal fascism. Gay or straight.

      • Jarflax

        That is the propaganda. Once they establish communism you watch, there will be no one except white straight males running things. Totalitarians don’t tolerate minority empowerment, it disrupts the necessary unity of power.

  31. DEG

    Gauleiter Wolf wants State Supreme Court to rule immediately concerning legislature’s attempt to end cower-in-place

    Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday afternoon asked the state Supreme Court to jump directly into his fight with the Legislature over when to end his emergency declaration over the coronavirus pandemic.

    And he wants the state’s highest judicial body to rule that GOP-backed resolutions the Senate and House passed this week aimed at dissolving the COVID-19 declaration and its controversial restrictions without his consent are legally void.

    • Sean

      Fuck that penis with ears.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I keep telling people who are worried about Lockdown Part 2 Electric Boogalo – this shit is over. They can issue all the decrees they want but nobody will pay attention to it after the BS we all saw on TV during the 2 weeks of riots.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Even is super duper prog Philly, do you think all of these people who were ready to reopen their businesses 2 weeks ago and are now taking the boards off their store/restaurant/bar windows are just going to shut down again?
        Fuck that. Fuck Wolf and the fucking mayor whatever his name is.

      • creech

        Some proggie controlled towns like New Hope or West Chester may be able to enforce a Lockdown 2.0 but I doubt Philly cops are going to do shit at Mayor Kenney’s behest, and the suburban townships will tut tut but do nothing.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        It would be funny if the Dem Governors send in the National Guard to enforce another Lockdown. Applauded on by the usual suspects.

      • Sean

        Yikes. You think people are pissed off now? That would end badly for everyone.

        Right now there is a lot of contempt for government, more than I can recall in my lifetime. That shit would put people right over the edge.

  32. DEG

    PA Family nudist camp closes

    A family nudist campground in Beaver County announced that it will not reopen this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    White Thorn Lodge made the announcement on Facebook Monday night, stating “this very difficult decision was made with the safety of our members and visitors in mind.”

    • Fatty Bolger

      A family nudist campground in Beaver County

      ?

      • Rhywun

        the safety of our members

        ?

      • Incentives Matter

        BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

      • Incentives Matter

        Oh Christ, I’m such a child.

      • TARDIS

        All members matter.

    • creech

      Never been to one but a friend who has described a place where it shouldn’t be hard to stay at least 6′ away from the inhabitants. Q’s Quties they aren’t.

  33. DEG

    Carlisle, PA restaurant that opened in defiance of Gauleiter’s orders gets its license back

    The reinstatement was automatic, the state said, with Cumberland County’s entry into the green phase of the state’s phased reopening from stringent business closure and stay-at-home orders imposed this spring by Gov. Tom Wolf to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Once in green, all restaurants can reopen their public dining rooms as long as they only serve to 50 percent capacity and follow other safety precautions.

    Fay’s owner Vickie Holder has said she has always been operating “above and beyond” the green stage rules.

    Holder said last month she made the decision to break out of the governor’s pandemic rules and open early as a matter of financial survival. All other Carlisle restaurants are believed to have lived within the state’s program.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      What a real patriot looks like. Didn’t ask for a handout. Didn’t destroy other people’s property.

  34. DEG

    Bakery slammed over neighbor’s Trump sign

    Employees at the Pennsylvania Bakery in Camp Hill were creating and selling delicious treats last week when they started seeing messages pop up on their Facebook page calling them racists.

    “I was looking for a bakery to order a birthday cake from but I think I’ll use one that doesn’t hate black people,” one message said. “And isn’t associated with white supremacists.”

    Another message said: “I refuse to ever do business with a store that is affiliated with white supremacy. And you shouldn’t either.”

    The negative comments and reviews blindsided bakery managers who didn’t know what prompted them.

    Turns out, a woman had visited the bakery June 4 intending to order a cake but saw Trump campaign posters in the window of an attached building that has the same brick façade as the bakery. She took photos of the bakery and the neighbor’s window, cropped them side-by-side and blasted the message across Facebook, where it was widely shared.

    • Mad Scientist

      I’d really like someone to show me some sort of evidence for this Trump racism. I know they intend to just repeat it and repeat it no matter what, but is it actually based on anything?

      • Viking1865

        In terms of actual, concrete, real shit the best I have seen is discriminatory housing practices.

        Mostly its the bald faced lie about his remarks re: Charlottesville.

      • R C Dean

        Any detail on those housing practices?

      • Ownbestenemy

        So not DJT.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah that’s the only actual tangible thing they have. Every thing else is pretty much just direct lies about things he said on the record, anonymous sources attributing racist comments to him, or labeling non-leftist policies as de facto racist.

      • R C Dean

        “[The settlement] required the Trumps to place ads in newspapers saying that they welcomed black applicants,” Kranish says. “It said that the Trumps would familiarize themselves with the Fair Housing Act, which prohibited discrimination. So it also specifically said they don’t admit wrongdoing, but they did have to take several measures that the Trumps had fought for two years not to take.”

        The enforcers don’t settle for that unless they have a very weak case. That’s the boilerplate you skim past looking for the real penalty. I find it very, very hard to believe that those were the only measures the Trumps were fighting against.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I think it goes earlier than that. Mostly because being against illegal immigration is conflated with being racist.

        Now support for police is racist and the Charlottesville hoax as you mentioned.

      • R C Dean

        Out of context/heavily truncated quotes.

        That’s it.

        There’s a dog not barking, which is any claim by any of the people he worked with before becoming President that he ever did or said anything racist. At least, I haven’t heard anything. Evanescent claims if sexual harassment, sure. Accusations of racism? No.

      • Suthenboy

        After piss hookers, pussy grabbing, Stormy, Russia!…uh, I am forgetting a few others….you have to ask?

      • Raven Nation

        Meh, his comments about Mexican immigrants during the campaign and the “shithole countries” line early on weren’t exactly helpful.

      • Viking1865

        Well “shithole countries” was one of those CNN anonymous sources things. It was a closed meeting. No transcript. No video. Which doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

        I mean, I’m in favor of every closed door meeting being taped and the archives being opened to the public, for every POTUS. I’d love to hear what Obama and Holder had to say about Obamacare opponents in private conversations.

      • Rhywun

        (R)

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think your answer is the most accurate

      • Ayn Random Variation

        In Matthew McConaughey’s voice:

        “Now imagine if Joe Biden was a Republican”

      • KSuellington

        Up until he ran for President, Trump was constantly mentioned in a positive or at least neutral light by a large number of rap stars including Nas, Lil Wayne, Nelly, E 40 and Migos.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Just like Romney being an “arch-conservative.” Z

      • Ayn Random Variation

        “Central Park 5 comments” is burped up as part of the proof he’s a racist.

        Whatever it is he said about that 30 years ago, it suddenly became racist in 2016.

        I recall him calling them animals when asked for a quote. This has evolved into him calling for their death penalty even after they were “proven innocent”

    • straffinrun

      That story is all mixed up and is whipping everyone into a frenzy.

    • db

      Competing bakery

  35. KibbledKristen

    Congrats Brett!

  36. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    Good luck on the self-employment, Brett!

    Since I’m going to be working from home for the foreseeable future, I just got a sit-stand desk, a second 32″ monitor, a new office chair, and a laptop stand so that I can work at peak efficiency while at home. As soon as I find the power cable for my desk, it will be a fully operational battle workstation.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tha’ts the name of my Workstation!

  37. DEG

    I just noticed the use of the “I Am Lame” tag.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I think it’s there by default, and we remove/replace it, or not.

    • straffinrun

      Yes. For me it was a giant swing and a miss.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        I’ll still watch it. Had no idea.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      still working off of notes, not quite ready

    • commodious spittoon

      The pretense that this is solely or even mostly a cop-on-black issue loses me immediately.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It gets better, I swear

    • Ownbestenemy

      I don’t understand I followed all the steps on WikiHow!

    • Tonio

      What are we looking at, exactly? Someone whose garden was ruined? Antifa captive?

      • Ownbestenemy

        My thoughts was “we will start a garden and it should be easy with this YouTube video” or maybe some white supremacists trampled it…

      • R C Dean

        Nah, that’s the “garden” the CHAZzers were “planting”. I guess since the homeless people stole all their vegan food?

      • straffinrun

        Believe it’s an Antifastani garden.

      • Rhywun

        That’s the community garden in “CHAZ”.

    • blackjack

      The pot grew a lot easier?

    • Pope Jimbo

      How do those dumb rubes in flyover country do it?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Raz is going to fucking kill me if I don’t figure this out.

      • Rhywun

        LOL

    • Ownbestenemy

      Bloomberg Lied! Lettuce Died!

    • Mad Scientist

      “Why didn’t anyone tell me that agriculture was just a tool of the racist patriarchy for raping Gaia?”

    • Lady Z

      We need more Brawndo

    • KSuellington

      Plant Life Matters

    • Ayn Random Variation

      “Black dude approaches 3 potential baby mamas”

    • westernsloper

      “I kneel before thee mound of bagged dirt and stolen plants, please bagged dirt deliver us the nutrients to replace the food the homeless people stole, I beg of thee mound of dirt we need your bounty. We worship you mound of bagged dirt, may Marxism live forever amen.”

    • LemonGrenade

      This isn’t anything like Minecraft!

  38. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Walz turns up his racial pandering dial to 11.

    The parole board issued its first ever posthumous pardon to a black man lynched in Duluth 100 years ago. Not going to sugar coat it, the lynching in Duluth was horrific. The people who did that should be ashamed for all time.

    The board voted 3-0 to pardon Max Mason, one of several traveling circus workers accused in the case. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, a member of the board, called it “100 years overdue” and said Minnesota for too long believed that lynchings “happened (only) in the Southern states.”

    “There is a direct line between what happened with Max Mason … to what happened to George Floyd on the streets of Minneapolis,” Walz said, referring to the May 25 death of Floyd that has become a flashpoint in a national movement against police brutality and racism.

    Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is on the Board of Pardons, also reacted to the pardon Friday.

    “Justice delayed is justice denied. One hundred years late, justice has been done,” Ellison said. “The Duluth lynchings are a dark stain on our history. A century later, the last few weeks have shown us that in Minnesota, we still have a need for a better quality of justice. This pardon for Max Mason is another long-delayed step toward it.”

    What irritates me about this is that it is so transparently obvious that they are pandering.

    • Tulip

      In this case, I think it is important it be done. I just won’t give Walz credit. He should have done it sooner.

  39. Derpetologist

    This derp is rich and robust, with notes of oak and currant.

    https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/go-ahead-and-shrug

    ***
    Now, to answer Galt’s next question, it is not immoral to experience enjoyment. It is immoral to hoard enjoyment, to take more than you yourself need when there are others who have none at all. It is not “immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself.” It is immoral, once you have plenty, to keep accruing more.
    ***

    You heard it here first, folks. Feelings can be hoarded. Isn’t that just awful? In the words of Milhouse’s dad: Can I Borrow A Feeling?

    ***
    Rand imagines a dystopian world in which the government has hampered business with excessive regulation, leading to economic ruin and misery.
    ***

    Pfft, as if such a preposterous thing could ever happen….

    • Suthenboy

      I saw ‘Nathan J. Robinson’ and quit. I salute you for your noble effort but no way ini hell am I going to read that.

      • Pan Zagloba

        Do not disparage Derpy’s commie waifu!

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Don’t be happy. There are kids in Africa who are child soldiers and slaves.

    • The Other Kevin

      Another reason we shouldn’t interfere with CHAZ. Let’s give them a year and see how many technological and medical innovations they produce.

      • Sean

        LOL…a year…It will be Somalia by July.

      • TARDIS

        It will be Libertopia then?

      • db

        We’ll have Warp Drive by October 2020

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Rand imagines a dystopian world in which the government has hampered business with excessive regulation, leading to economic ruin and misery.

      Nate is one of the most willfully ignorant motherfuckers on the planet.

  40. Count Potato

    “Lady Antebellum is now “Lady A” — but so is a black blues singer who’s performed music under the name for 20 years. “For them to not even reach out is pure privilege,” says the woman with the original moniker”

    https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1271464052557000704

    Imagine the handle of a rake hitting a human face forever.

    • Raven Nation
    • robc

      I liked the reply “We know Melloncamp is code for cougar.”

    • AlmightyJB

      Lady Antebellum will now be known as Lady Anal from now on.

  41. Derpetologist

    Some satire ideas – feel free to reply with your own

    Pelosi to Model New Kente Pattern Adult Diaper

    Man In Iron Mask Surrounded by Armed Followers Denies Being a Warlord

    Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Woman Who Opposes Police Brutality and Looting

    Data From Brutal Dictatorship Taken At Face Value For Some Reason

    Freedom Fighters Liberate TVs, Shoes From Captors

    Ghost of MLK Getting Tired of Malcom X Saying ‘I Told You So’

    Ghosts of Confederate Generals Smile As Minneapolis Burns

    Democrat Mayors, Governors Vow to Continue Hitting Selves With Hammers Until Trump Resigns

    Toppling Statues May Not Lead to Utopia, Say Experts

    Housing Burned in Protest About Lack of Housing

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Tom Wolfe Celebrates Being Dead, Not Having To Attend BLM Parties

      • Derpetologist

        Oh, that is *good*!

    • Trigger Hippie

      Antifa Leadership Stumble Upon Philosophies of Unknown Political Prision Charles M., Declared a Visonary Decades Before His Time

    • R C Dean

      Democrat Leaders Selflessly Demand Statues of Democrat Leaders Be Torn Down

    • Grumbletarian

      Peaceful Demonstration Marred by Spontaneous Combustion of Cars and Businesses.

    • whiz

      OK, Derp, admit it, you’re with the BB and just trying out some ideas before posting them on the site.

      • Jarflax

        Does it allow me to release WMDS on specific sites?

      • AlmightyJB

        No surprises in Ohio.

  42. LJW

    Am I the only one that hears the “Get in the zone, AutoZone!” jingle whenever someone says Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well not anymore

    • Drake

      Appropriate – both are owned by George Soros.

  43. Ownbestenemy

    Australia is getting in on the derp apparently. Their PM just declared slavery never existed in Australia in a Trumpesque manner

    “And while slave ships continued to travel around the world, when Australia was established yes, sure, it was a pretty brutal settlement. My forefathers and foremothers were on the First and Second Fleets. It was a pretty brutal place, but there was no slavery in Australia.”

    He has since apologized after the deluge of aboriginals were photgraphed in chains with their slavemasters looking overthem.

    • Jarflax

      Hell, the transportees were treated worse and had fewer freedoms than any slave in the US. I know we are only supposed to care about black slaves these days, but being a wholly owned chattel who became free after 7 (or 14) years was in many ways worse, because the owner had no reason to keep you healthy.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Not real slavery.

  44. westernsloper

    Today is my official last day of working as an employee. Monday I start my own gig, being my own boss, and probably having an asshole for a boss.

    Good for you!

    Straff, saw your last comment last post and watched it. Chappelle made a point I hadn’t thought of comparing the over reaction (sending 400 officers) to kill the ex-cop in Black Bear (?) to the riots……”they (the victims of the murders) were one of them.” I am still not sure either overreaction is justified. He also groups the same well known police abuse cases some which are true abuses others imho were self defense and misses the whole point of why the fuck are they enforcing pointless laws that sometimes end in the death of a person who should not have been fucked with in the first place. Throw in the slavery angle and I got nothing there since my lineage is just poor white trash. I can do nothing but maybe feel some empathy toward those who went through it. That is all I got on it other than what the actual fuck is he wearing “dropped a load” droopy drawers pants? And he gets a +1 for smoking on stage!

    • straffinrun

      He certainly made a powerful and emotional case for why people were furious upon seeing the video.

      He also groups the same well known police abuse cases some which are true abuses others imho were self defense

      Man, when he talks about how Trayvon kicked the shit out of Zimmerman and yet still thinks Trayvon was a victim, it became nonsensical.

      • Viking1865

        That’s one of those things where if you sit down and go through the map with people, they come around to the truth, more or less. Because Martin was clear of Zimmerman, then chose to double back and confront him. It was not, as people seem to think, one encounter. Martin broke contact with Zimmerman, and was free and clear to his house. He chose to go back and fuck up the dude who was fucking with him. Dude was armed. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

      • westernsloper

        I get part of what he is saying that Zimmerman was following the kid because ……..blah blah blah. Truth is he didn’t know who the kid was and it ended tragically. Chappelle has never espoused any political narrative that I am aware of. He is probably my favorite comedian alive today. He seems unaware that a whole group of people of all colors have been screaming about police abuses for decades. And the whole NRA shpeel. Whatever. Then fuck the NRA, go with others, the things he could do with the likes of Maj Toure would be epic.

      • westernsloper

        Also…..the disregard for destruction of private property much of which was black owned businesses in the communities. The more I think about it, it was a shallow defense of rioting. I would have hoped better from Dave because I know he is not an idiot. I think the man is a comedic genius. Great now I am depressed again.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Douchebagopolis

    • Rhywun

      Pretentia

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Winner……

    • Rebel Scum

      Everything in the country would have to have a name change if we hold to these peoples delicate sensibilities. I guess we will have to name everything after on Barack Obama. Lord knows he never did anything wrong and has had a completely scandal-free existence.

    • TARDIS

      Shitstaninople

      • Rebel Scum

        Shitstalinople?

      • TARDIS

        better.

      • TARDIS

        Forgot the “t”.

        Also, Istanbullshit if you want to be more modern current.

      • Rhywun

        It’s nobody’s business but the Young Turks’.

  45. Trigger Hippie

    And now for something completely different:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/06/10/pentagon-documents-reveal-the-us-has-planned-for-a-bitcoin-rebellion/amp/

    ‘The Pentagon war game documents have been revealed after Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz called for the government to “freeze” the money of demonstrators after country-wide protests over the killing of George Floyd turned violent this month.’

    Something, something, boogeymen, something, wasted crises, something, power, something, something, retch.

  46. AlmightyJB

    Good luck Brett!

  47. The Bearded Hobbit

    Good luck Brett. We’re all counting on you.

  48. hayeksplosives

    I was reading an article about Minneapolis city council voting to abolish the MPLS police.

    Article says:

    The replacement is set to be a community-led public safety system that will redirect funds from the department and channel them into community services aimed at preventing crime

    I will bet you good money that the “community led” system will lead to different practices for different communities, by which they really mean common by ethnicity or national origin.

    Somalis will police Little Mogadishu, “urban” communities will want safety “officers” to “look like them”, to borrow Obama’s simplistic and racist phrase.

    I got out in time.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Maybe they should just allow people without violent felony convictions to purchase firearms, allow constitutional carry, and eliminate the duty to retreat. I’m just spitballing here but that’d help a lot I’d think. Otherwise they’re just diverting money from the fuzz and funneling it to their pet projects.

      • hayeksplosives

        Thing is, the police union is a big political donor. Who will step in to fill the campaign donations?

        It will be an organized “force” whether it’s a police force or this Community crap.

        If there are no consequences for bad policing, the excessive force will continue.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well most heroin addicts do drink water.

    • westernsloper

      Ya I saw that this morning. Apparently from 2013. The kid was selling water without a license. This is why I live where I live. I do not remember the last interaction with police outside of work that I have had. Wait, I do, I rolled a stop sign 15(?) years ago and the fucker gave me a ticket. 5 am no moving car in sight in a small town and the asshole was hiding in a city park parking lot watching that stop sign. Ya fuck him.

    • Suthenboy

      Let Minneapolis and SF defund the cops. Wait a month and run the poll again.

      • Rebel Scum

        Leave it to leftist to push me into more deference for police when I know better. Their lack of ability to nuance on the issue (or any issue for that matter…) is maddening.

        Law enforcement has a role. There are problems in law enforcement that will not be solved by racebaiting. To keep it short, police should be held to a very high standard because peoples rights matter.

    • Rhywun

      I’m not seeing enough recognition of the fact that the “protesters” and the “rioters” are two different groups with completely different objectives. Oh well.

  49. Gadfly

    With all the clamoring for tearing down statues and renaming things, I think there really ought to be a movement to rename the Democratic party. I hear that its founders owned slaves and its most celebrated president ran concentration camps.

    I hope the trolls get on that, it would be funny.

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Republicans founded NAACP. Republican president freed slaves. Elected Democrats opposed ‘the struggle’ 1960s.

      • Rebel Scum

        Republican president legislature freed slaves. ///13A

        The EP did not apply to any location under Union control at the time.

  50. The Bearded Hobbit

    “I Am Lame”

    Jeez, Brett, what did you do to piss off TPTB?

    • Spudalicious

      Have you read his bio?

  51. Count Potato

    “This is a critical milestone. Two therapeutic antibodies are now in the clinic with more on the way. These drugs can be available in time for Fall under an EUA. We must prioritize manufacturing these at scale needed to have sufficient supply for a Fall/Winter resurgence in Covid.”

    https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1271107392634224642

    The comments are bad for your health.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Retards to the left of me
      Retards to the right
      Here I am, sick in the middle with you

      I welcome HCQ being recognized and a viable vaccine. Fucking hell…

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Imagine the tasty tears if a vaccine comes out? These people might kill themselves.

      • westernsloper

        It will come out. Will you get it?

  52. Donation Not Taxation

    ‘John Cleese has laid into the “cowardly and gutless and contemptible” BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform.’

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53020335

  53. Rebel Scum

    Ben Shapiro Reacts to Seattle Protestor’s INSANE Demands

    I haven’t read the document, but listening it sounds like they want abolition of law enforcement AND the justice system while also wanting re-trials for current, previously convicted prisoners. Something here does not add up.

    • Count Potato

      Like how they are anarchists who set up a police state with closed borders?

      • Rebel Scum

        Isn’t it ironic…don’t you think?

  54. Count Potato

    “NYC tells people to have sex through glory holes to avoid coronavirus

    The city’s health department released a safe sex guide for those living in America’s Covid-19 epicenter that encourages New Yorkers to take all possible precautions during sexual encounters. Among the guidelines was a suggestion to ‘make it a little kinky. Be creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls that allow sexual contact while preventing close face to face contact.’”

    https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/10/health-bosses-tell-people-have-sex-glory-holes-avoid-coronavirus-12834082/

    • westernsloper

      I actually support this. How much does it cost?

  55. DOOMco

    Best of luck Brett!!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Cool

  56. LemonGrenade

    Best of luck, Brett! Hope you end up richer, happier, and freer as your own employee.

  57. db

    Brett, best of luck! May your dS/dt always be minimal, dV/dt be maximal, and dU/dt be optimal.