Jewsday Tuesday: Holier Than Thou

by | Jun 2, 2020 | Jews, Religion | 377 comments

This week’s sedrah is entitled “Naso” which coincidentally for those of us living out 2020 is the “take” part of “take a census.” It is the longest of all the sedrahs, and as expected from that, it meanders a bit. And as in so many parts of the book of Bamidbar (“Numbers” to you goyim), there’s a recitation of some census results. Yawwwwn. Let’s get to the fun stuff.

Amidst the begats and recitations of tribal stats, there is a very interesting section- how to tell if your wife is fucking around. And it’s foolproof! Who says religion isn’t useful?

Now bear with me as we go through the procedure, and please be assured that I am making nothing up here. It’s this weird.

OK, you suspect that slut (sotah) of sleeping around. But there’s no witnesses, and being as this is in the days before PornHub and iPhones, there’s no videos. What you do, Shmuley, is haul that sotah in front of a Kohen (priest). Being as it’s (((us))), you know there’s payment coming, and it begins with you handing over a tenth of an ephah (which works out to about a gallon, using Went To The Moon units of measure) of barley flour for the Kohen’s time. Now, because we’re fellow Yids, the Kohen won’t get extra oil or frankincense, just the barley. “For it is a meal offering of jealousies, a meal offering of remembrance, recalling iniquity,” which reminds me much of my last marriage. Still, you have it easy compared to your sotah.

The Kohen and his assistant Kohens first march that sotah bitch around for a while until she gets tired, then the real fun begins as she is dragged in front of the Sanhedrin. There, she is, ummm, persuaded to confess. The various Sanhedrinites play good cop/bad cop, telling her that if she confesses, it’ll be cool, they’ll give her a divorce and let her go. Then telling her that if she continues lying, bad shit’s going to happen. Really, really bad shit. If this doesn’t work, then the next step in the ritual begins, the Ordeal of the Bitter Water.

And this is my favorite part. The exhausted and brow-beaten sotah has her head uncovered and her hair exposed and let down (if it’s tied up). Then her blouse or tunic is torn open to free her titties. It’s not really necessary for the ritual to work, but it’s well known that old Jewish men like to look at titties, and coincidentally, the Sanhedrin was composed mostly of old Jewish men.

The sotah is then handed the gallon of barley flour to hold, then the Magic Potion is prepared. A clay pot is filled with Holy Water, then some dirt from the Temple floor is mixed in. The kohen takes the section of Torah with the description of the Ordeal (or scribes a new one on parchment), then drops it into the water/dirt mixture until the ink dissolves off. Mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo, then the sotah (sorry, alleged sotah) drinks it, while everyone stands back.

Why do we stand back? Because if she’s the cheating slut we think she is, magic is going to happen. Her belly swells up, her uterus explodes and falls out, and… well, it’s a gynecological version of the Mr. Creosote scene in The Meaning Of Life.

I’m unable to find records of a positive result here, so presumably, the Jew ladies of the time were a pretty faithful lot. But let’s not give up the opportunity to look at titties.

Once the Temple was gone, so was this delightful ceremony. And Jew ladies started to fuck around without fear of uterine explosions.

Now, there is a related Ordeal that exists in current times. If SP thinks I’m cheating, she has the Ordeal of the Rusty Tin Can Lids. But that’s a story for a different sedrah.

 

 

 

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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377 Comments

  1. SP

    How well you know me.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Hmm. You’re First. Hmmm. I wonder why. Hmmm.

      • Tres Cool

        SP is really Fist of Etiquette?

        Never mind. I withdrawal that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No, that’s Brottchetta,
        Tall Cans! no A/C!

      • Tres Cool

        Start-Run capacitor
        Contactor (what I call a relay)
        Check for 24V

        /things Ive learned from YUFUS

      • Tundra

        Call a professional.

        /things I’ve also learned from Yusef.

      • Tres Cool

        Pussy.

        I had a guy come and replace the start-run capacitor on Jugsy’s a/c. It took him 10 minutes and he charged $125 for a part that was $28 at Grainger. Add his labor it was $250.
        It wasnt an appointment- it wasn’t a service call cause he was a cousin of some maintenance guy she had at her property.

      • DrOtto

        Have you checked the thermostat?

  2. Spudalicious

    Iniquities? The grifter cheated too?

    • Tres Cool

      If you’ve never seen ‘The Grifters’ with John Cusak and Anjelica Huston, I recommend it.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Iniquities and (((Tiddies)))

      Reminds me of this.

    • C. Anacreon

      The den of iniquities arises from the din of inequities.

  3. Tres Cool

    Mr. Creosote- “find me a bucket for me ‘fro-up’

    • pistoffnick

      +1 “wafer thin mint”

    • C. Anacreon

      +1 “I’ll have the lot”.

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Sounds legit to me.

    Now where is my sotah of a wife?

    • Bobarian LMD

      Showing her titties down at the Temple, obviously.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Again?

        Dammit…

  5. Homple

    Lucky girls get a prophet for a lawyer.

    “A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the garden unless she agrees to have sex with them.

    She refuses to be blackmailed and is arrested and about to be put to death for promiscuity when the young Daniel interrupts the proceedings, shouting that the elders should be questioned to prevent the death of an innocent. After being separated, the two men are cross-examined about details of what they saw but disagree about the tree under which Susanna supposedly met her lover. In the Greek text, the names of the trees cited by the elders form puns with the sentence given by Daniel. The first says they were under a mastic tree (ὑπο σχίνον, hypo schinon), and Daniel says that an angel stands ready to cut (σχίσει, schisei) him in two. The second says they were under an evergreen oak tree (ὑπο πρίνον, hypo prinon), and Daniel says that an angel stands ready to saw (πρίσαι, prisai) him in two. The great difference in size between a mastic and an oak makes the elders’ lie plain to all the observers. The false accusers are put to death, and virtue triumphs.”

    A lawyer who can face down a den of lions no less.

    • Tres Cool

      I had no idea Ozy was that old.

      • Ozymandias

        I look good for a guy with a couple of millenia on the tires.

    • cyto

      I like the story of Daniel wanting to hook up with his buddy Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba. Being the king, he asks, she puts out. He has sent Uriah off to war, so when she gets knocked up he’s all worried that Uriah’s gonna find out. So he sends him orders to rush home. But Uriah is loyal to his troops and stays to fight on with them. So Daniel, being the good king that he is, Daniel sends word for the troops to abandon Uriah in battle, leaving him to be slaughtered. They do so… and Daniel is spared the embarrassment of having his buddy come home to discover that he knocked up his wife.

      But Danny is a good guy…. he takes her on as his 8th wife… so it’s all good.

      At least that’s what I remember. It’s been a while since I read that story.

      • grrizzly

        It was David not Daniel.

        /For a few years in my late teens I didn’t consider myself an atheist and read the Bible.

      • cyto

        Yeah… david.

        Never post about religion from the pot.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s King David.

        Daniel’s the one who got tossed into the lion’s den and didn’t get eaten.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Uriah does come back from the battle, gives David the AAR, but doesnt have the common courtesy to go home and sleep with his wife while on leave – because his fellow troops are still in the trenches. – that’s why david has to go and off him…..

        Also, Uriah was one of his SOF equivalents- in 2 Samuel 23 etc – he’s one of the 30 Mighty Men.

  6. Spudalicious

    “Why do we stand back? Because if she’s the cheating slut we think she is, magic is going to happen. Her belly swells up, her uterus explodes and falls out, and… well, it’s a gynecological version of the Mr. Creosote scene in The Meaning Of Life.”

    “Just one more thin dick.”

    • Old Man With Candy

      Waffer thin.

  7. Rhywun

    This reminds me of an excellent article in one of my last toilet versions of Reason about medieval punishments mostly being for show. Of course her hoo-hah isn’t going to fall out, but at least they went through the motions.

    • Tres Cool

      Id watch that for a dollar !

  8. Sean

    I miss this series. I wish you weren’t so stingy with them…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I see what you did there…

  9. Ted S.

    This week’s sedrah is entitled “Naso” which coincidentally for those of us living out 2020 is the “take” part of “take a census.”

    Not for (((your))) big noses?

    /ducking

  10. Lachowsky

    Square balers and joos are for fags and pussies.

    http://imgur.com/gallery/D0j3DM3

    How is yalls post civilization, disease plagued, riot central lives going. I miss yall. Been busy as a bee.

    • SP

      Hope you and the fam are well!

      • SP

        Awwwwww!

      • Tundra

        Awesome.

        Go through a lot of socks in the Lach house? 😉

      • Lachowsky

        Of course. Have you ever tried to make a kid wear shoes?

      • DEG

        🙂

      • blackjack

        That’s great! Kids are way better than humans!

      • Lachowsky

        Thats good stuff. I found some dozer porn on the internet a few months back. Ill see if i can find it again and share it.

  11. hayeksplosives

    I’m reading about the human genome and how mankind migrated around the world, the researchers were able to determine that Jewish wives were the most faithful mates, at least when procreation is involved.

    • Ted S.

      And Jewish husbands were the most faithful because they knew their wives would guilt them to death.

    • one true athena

      Well, now we know why! There are only so many shepherd boys hot enough to risk having to show your tits to old lechers, drinking gross water, and maybe your insides exploding.

  12. Aloysious

    I should convert. Any ritual with free titties is my kind of thing.

    • Drake

      The initiation is a bit much for this gentle.

      • Rhywun

        That cuts.

      • Ted S.

        You’re not gentle at all!

      • Aloysious

        I was born into a whacky fundamentalist family. The maiming has already occurred.

      • Rhywun

        I was born when it was SOP in American hospitals.

      • Tundra

        Same. My son was mutilated as well.

      • Tejicano

        My step-mother is Jewish. I often say that I made the cut but didn’t join the team.

  13. Sean

    Oh, I forgot to bitch about this…

    Today was PA’s primary voting today. GF and I lined up just shy of 7 am. This was to be the new paper ballot system voting here. About a 20 minute wait to find out the new system was broken. The scanners for the paper ballots kept rejecting them. Yay. Y’all fuckers broke voting. Congrats.

    We left, with the judge of elections assuring us they’d be counted. Uh huh.

    • Lachowsky

      If voting made any difference, they would never let us do it.

      Jus sayin.

  14. Ozymandias

    The sotah is then handed the gallon of barley flour to hold, then the Magic Potion is prepared. A clay pot is filled with Holy Water, then some dirt from the Temple floor is mixed in. The kohen takes the section of Torah with the description of the Ordeal (or scribes a new one on parchment), then drops it into the water/dirt mixture until the ink dissolves off. Mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo, then the sotah (sorry, alleged sotah) drinks it, while everyone stands back.

    Why do we stand back? Because if she’s the cheating slut we think she is, magic is going to happen. Her belly swells up, her uterus explodes and falls out, and… well, it’s a gynecological version of the Mr. Creosote scene in The Meaning Of Life.

    SCIENCE!! Seems about as legit as the lie detector or the “if she weighs as much as a duck” scene in the other Python movie.

    Nice article, OM! These are great at educating us goyim on how stuff really works. When (((they))) take control of everything, this kind of knowledge might just save me.

    • Old Man With Candy

      You’ll only be saved if you get the end of your dick cut off. Not sure if it’s worth it.

      • Ozymandias

        Already done! ✅
        I’m, like, halfway there, right?

      • Tres Cool

        What was the last thing Moses said to G_d?

        “so we’re the Chosen People, and you want us to chop the end of our what?”

  15. Tundra

    …but it’s well known that old Jewish men like to look at titties…

    Um, pretty much all old men. Sounds like some cultural appropriation is in order!

    Thanks, Old Man! This was a fun one.

  16. DEG

    It’s well known that old Jewish men like to look at titties,

    Fixed it for you.

  17. straffinrun

    No joke. 95% of what I know about Judaism comes from a self avowed pedo. 🙂

    • Chafed

      That’s alarming.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        It’s meshuggah, is what it is.

    • westernsloper

      Should have asked her for a show of extra solidarity by showing her tits. Apparently that is how you show faithfulness to the judges of morality.

    • AlmightyJB

      First I’ve heard that mentioned. I only knew about the asian cop. Hadn’t heard about the other two.

    • Lackadaisical

      My sister-in-law is convinced the US is super racist, she sent me a video of that black cop beating on Floyd in the police car… it ain’t racism lady.

      • Naptown Bill

        In my experience, and what I was referring to in the last post, it’s about perceived socio-economic status of the non-cop in the equation. Malia Obama is not going to have a problem with police harassment or authority in general the way that Brett Barrett of Dogholla Crick, MS is. Race is incidental; it’s more about power as manifested in social class.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think that is a factor for sure. I don’t doubt that racism can be a factor as well, it probably just isn’t as common a one as people make it out to be.

        The bigger deal is that they thought they could get away with it- you don’t murder someone in cold blood in broad daylight, on video, (in front of several cops) without some expectation of being insulated from the repercussions. But that discussion is not going to happen anytime soon because we’d rather make this about race, which will probably get things going approximately no where. But maybe I’m wrong.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, I doubt he rolled up and thought “thank god he’s black, now I can kill him!” He wanted to be the badass there. When the crowd started telling him what to do, he thought “whateva! I do what I want” Now, a guy’s dead and he, thankfully, is going to prison. He did not expect all that. He thought he was going to get high fives back at the station for beating down that punk. Unless he knew who it was and had problems with him in the past, which is possible. I don’t doubt that some of the random killings during the riots are going to be personal revenge stories.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Here’s the best “cop’s take” on this that I can give, based on what little I see and know of thes particular cops–

        A scrote is a scrote. Doesn’t really matter the skin color or ethnicity; although, scrotes can be found in higher numbers in certain groups. Scrotes lie about everything to avoid arrest, and you can damn well bet that they have done something recently. Since they always lie, it’s probably bullshit when they start crying that the cuffs are too tight, or, they can’t breathe–whatever. Plus, you give ’em an inch, they’ll take a mile. So, you gotta be tough so that they don’t even start thinking about getting one over on you. And, I’ll be damned if I’m not gonna go home safe at the end of my shift.

        That, alone, will give you insight to how a 8/9-minute neck press during an arrest happens. And, no–this isn’t my own sentiment, nor am I trying to defend it; just give an idea of how it happens prior to any “KKKops” aspect possibly being in play.

    • Tundra

      “Fuck off and get back to work.”

    • leon

      Oh why are you worried. It’s not like the Supreme Court has said your Basic Civil Rights could be abrogated and abridged at the advice of these people.

    • blackjack

      Lessee, CV19 AND flu AND pnuemonia combined killed about 105,000. White supremacy killed at least ???? many people. Serious stuff, but wait:

      According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

      Yeah, STFU!

      • Rhywun

        Jesus. I can’t wait for my upcoming surgery now.

      • Lackadaisical

        Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. What is the surgery for?

      • Rhywun

        Colon… “resection” (?). No date yet.

        Party in my colon Thursday.

      • Lackadaisical

        Sounds like fun. 😕

        FWIW I just got some testing done myself that wasn’t wholly positive- still need to see what the doc says about it though.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah it’s been… the worst month of my life, I think. Three days in the hospital about a month ago, including 12 hours in ER.

        My roommate was a guy who had just recovered from the ‘vid after 42 days in ICU. Some tales there. It’s been long enough now that I’m fairly sure I didn’t catch it myself.

      • RAHeinlein

        Very sorry to hear this Rhywun – I hope your surgery goes well and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

      • Rhywun

        Thanks!

      • Rhywun

        Good luck, Lack.

      • Florida Man

        Party in my colon Thursday.-

        HAWT!

        On a serious note, you’ll be fine, just be an advocate for yourself. Don’t be afraid to ask questions and ask for explanations.

      • Rhywun

        Will do. My doc/surgeon seems pretty cool, at least.

      • grrizzly

        That doesn’t sound pleasant. Was it delayed in any way as an elective procedure?

      • Rhywun

        Well… in retrospect, I should have sought help earlier. Not sure if the end result would have been any different. Also not sure if the ‘vid scared me off or just my general dislike of doctors/hospitals/etc.

      • Mojeaux

        Wait, what?!

        Good luck!

      • Rhywun

        Thx!

      • blackjack

        You’ll be fine. I know a couple of people who’ve had their guts rearranged and they’re all fine. Good luck, though.

      • Rhywun

        Good to hear. Thanks!

      • DEG

        Sorry. I hope it all goes well.

      • Rhywun

        Tks.

      • Chafed

        Sorry Rhywun. I hope your surgery goes well.

      • Rhywun

        Thanks!

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Rhywun,

        I had about 12 inches of bowel removed several years ago.

        On the downside I had complications which required a second surgery and a total of about a month in the hospital.

        On the upside it seems to have cured my IBS.

        I’m chalking it up as a win.

        Good luck.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Good luck Rhywun! At least your liver is ok. That’s the important one these days.

      • blackjack

        Don’t worry, it’s only twice as common as CV/flu/Pnuemonia, so it’s crazy rare.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Don’t worry, they’ll record your death as The Wuhan

      • Lackadaisical

        Died in NY?

        Corona what dun it.

      • C. Anacreon

        That number of “deaths due to medical mistakes

      • C. Anacreon

        ” comes from an extrapolation that makes the global warming models seem incredibly precise.

      • Tres Cool

        Can I even make a joke ?

        /I need a ruling

      • Tres Cool

        In all seriousness, I hope it works out. Wicked StepMother is (finally) getting the hip-replacement she’s been waiting months on, in pain tomorrow morning.

        So good luck- we’re all counting on you.

      • Rhywun

        Thanks. I guess I’m glad this shit went down now instead of a couple months earlier.

      • Sean

        Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

      • Chafed

        How many of this year’s suicides/overdoses/etc can we attribute to medical mistakes?

      • Tres Cool

        ITS ALL COVID!

  18. Juvenile Bluster

    It’s amazing how I, who went to a religious elementary school through sixth grade, Sunday Hebrew School from 7th-8th grade and “Hebrew High School” Monday nights from 9th-12th grades and I still learn new shit from OMWC’s columns.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Oh, and being a member of Hillel in undergrad.

      And Jewish youth groups like USY.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Did you get to see any sotah titties?

      • Tres Cool

        You didnt use ((( )))

        fuckin Tulpa!

    • Lackadaisical

      “this is literally a chappelle bit i think”

      Yeah, good job cops. /s

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      I’d prefer that kind of honesty to the usual mumbo jumbo.

  19. Yusef drives a Kia

    Oh, I’m fucked, no A/C, I have a PTAC, but it only cools where I sit, so it’s 96 in side, 102 outside.
    Landlord is working with me, and i am Buying this place!
    Repeat, Yusef is buying a house!

    • Count Potato

      Congrats?

    • UnCivilServant

      Yusef is buying a house… that has no AC?

      • Tejicano

        With everything else going on so far in 2020 why does this not sound surprising? I’m practically expecting Godzilla to pop up out of Tokyo bay or get trampled by herds of unicorns on the way to the train station.

      • Chafed

        Take a picture.

    • Mojeaux

      DON’T DO IT!!!

      • Florida Man

        As someone that just had another 5K plumbing repair, I heartily support this opinion.

      • Mojeaux

        I feel you. Ours drove us to … well. You know.

      • cyto

        5k…..

        Pbbbt. Piker

        I just got the first estimate on my new sliding glass doors. The cheap guy who will do it off-permit is gonna be 8 grand. And I wait 8 weeks for the doors. The broken set is a 2 panel door that is 144 inches wide – doors slide in both directions. Apparently that doesn’t exist any more.

        As Mojeaux would say, XY threw a temper tantrum and busted the door. Middle schoolers are hard to take.

        Now I have a huge air leak. When it was 90+ and sunny the AC couldn’t keep it below 80 in the house.

        But that’s not the expensive one. The house is settling and the back patio has some major cracks that formed after the last set of big storms. And the roof started leaking back there. It has an “I can’t afford that” feel to it.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh dude. Strap in for the ride. I will pray for you and there is zero snark/sarc in that.

      • Florida Man

        Can you sell the child to cover the repair bill?

      • cyto

        Well, he is a good looking kid…. I could probably get more renting him out by the hour.

        Oof…. don’t tell my wife I made that joke.

      • Florida Man

        Your secrets are safe with me…for a price.

      • Mojeaux

        I read this to my husband.

        “You hang out with some sick fucks, honey.”

      • Florida Man

        High five!

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        “You hang out with some sick fucks, honey.”

        Well….YEAH!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I have a sweet deal, my LL is totally with me, I will own a home, 56, first time

      • Tejicano

        At some point you kinda have to buy. We all eventually get to the point, if we live long enough, that we need to slow down on the daily grind if not retire completely. It makes it much more difficult to do if you are still renting.

        Buying a place with which the main problem is one which you are eminently and professionally capable of dealing with is a pretty good strategy.

    • Rhywun

      But it’s a dry heat.

      • Chipwooder

        I’ve lived in Arizona and I’ve lived in Florida. I’d take Arizona’s climate every day and twice on Sunday.

      • Florida Man

        You merely adopted the humidity. I was born in it. Molded by it!

      • cyto

        Yeah… the humidity here is a bizarre thing. The weirdest part to get used to is that 68 degrees is pretty damned chilly when it is 100% humidity. When I lived in Michigan, 42 degrees wasn’t all that cold. I’d say the humidity reduces the comfort range by a good 10 to 15 degrees.

    • DEG

      Sorry about the AC. The AC unit I had installed last year failed. A bad sensor if I remember correctly. The folks that installed it fixed it under warranty.

      I’m getting a new roof later this week.

      Congratulations on buying a house. Best wishes.

    • blackjack

      Mild spring in BHC? After the earthquake everyone’s predicting as the 3rd of the “comes in threes,” you’ll be beachfront, right?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Arizona Bay…

      • cyto

        On the house front… I’m sure someone told you this… but it is true.. You need to set aside 5% of the value of the house every year for repairs. The problem is… it goes nothing, nothing, nothing, $4k, nothing, nothing, nothing, $16k, nothing, $2k…..

      • Mojeaux

        Ours didn’t do that. It was constant.

        It broke us.

        At this point, once the kids are out of the house, I’m going to insist on an apartment, That is how gunshy and bitter I am.

      • UnCivilServant

        While on the topic, what’s a reasonable price range for a new roof on a house with 1100 sq ft of moderate pitch roof?

      • UnCivilServant

        *please note it’s not to the point where it has to be done, I’m just trying to make sure I’m ahead of any trouble.

      • cyto

        What I learned is that this is one area where prices are very local.

        We put a standing seam metal roof on a buddy’s ranch house – because it was cheap. The shingle roof was going to be 3 grand. We put it on in a day. Easy-peasy.

        So I get to florida. I have a smaller house. It has a tile roof. I ask about the Key West style standing seam roofs. Way, way more expensive. like 40 grand.

        I ended up putting on a barrel tile roof – as is the style here. $16k – by far the cheapest estimate. Another 7K for the two flat roof areas. That’s on less than 1,500 square feet.

        Sure, it is more than 20 years later.. .but there isn’t that much inflation in the world.

        A friend has a big house with a huge gabled roof. The tile roof on that sucker ran over $60k. For a roof. That’s an entire house where I come from.

      • DEG

        What I learned is that this is one area where prices are very local.

        And also what needs to be done.

        I’ve got some problems that need correcting as part of my roof job, so mine is going to be a bit more expensive.

      • UnCivilServant

        The only other thing that needs to be done is trimming back the tree that’s causing me my trouble.

      • CPRM

        If you’re talking paying roofers, I got no idea. We bought supplies and my brothers and my brother-in-law came over and we re-did 1/4 of my roof down to the rafters for some where around $1k.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh did I say my house needs a new roof and a new furnace?

        Thank heavens we are getting out of here.

    • westernsloper

      ?

    • Bobarian LMD

      I have a PTAC

      Is that anything like a UTI?

      Also, you’re in the desert. No swamp cooler?

    • dbleagle

      The 9th and 10th Cavalry were the Buffalo Soldiers. These must be their descendants.

    • blackjack

      That’s L.A. cops. If there wasn’t a riot about cops killing people literally happening before their eyes, they’d have shot them all dead. It’s only because they got a talking to this morning and were told to please not kill anybody, that they didn’t.

    • Chafed

      That’s insane. The Keystone Kops could have done better. The store owners would have been better off shooting the looters.

      • blackjack

        I could tell you stories, LOL. That is VERY typical. I’ve lived here since 1980.

  20. westernsloper

    A clay pot is filled with Holy Water, then some dirt from the Temple floor is mixed in.

    + sheep and goat shit and piss from your holy sandals. Ya, don’t mix your floor dirt with water and drink it. (((they))) are gross af.

    • westernsloper

      The titties though, down with that.

      • creech

        You’d probably cheer if Gal Gadot was dragged before the Sanhedrin, right?

    • westernsloper

      So she wanted to get people doxed that were defending their property with firearms but then states she will do the same if someone comes on her property? Seriously is that what she is saying?

      • Chipwooder

        Behold, Marxist logic!

      • Count Potato

        Yes.

      • Bob Boberson

        Reading down through that……..can we just break up already? Half the country hates the other and wants to see them humiliated, tortured and liquidated. I have no idea how this would flesh out geographically but this country is like a marriage that was over YEARS ago.

      • Chipwooder

        Problem is, how do you do it? There aren’t neat geographic divides.

      • Bob Boberson

        exactly…..there seems to be no clear exit strategy. I fear this will not end well.

      • Viking1865

        Federalism and localism is still the answer, but you have to persuade people that those are worthy goals, and we’re in the second century of indoctrination into the cult of centralization and regularity.

        Americans always disagreed about any number of things, but before that FDR-LBJ period the idea that the national government should have ONE BIG LAW for anything was simply not accepted fact. Take abortion. Abortion was regulated differently in every state. It’s not like they invented abortion in 1970 and the SCOTUS ruled on it three years later.

        The pre-Progressive era Constitution and body of case law would be a very good starting point for restoring a liberal republic. Shame we can’t do that.

      • Bob Boberson

        It’s been well documented that anyone who breaths the words federalism is a racist, you fascist racist.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Did we sign a pre-nup?

      • Winston

        Half the country hates the other and wants to see them humiliated, tortured and liquidated.

        It pains me to realize that is not really hyperbole…

    • Bobarian LMD

      That led me to this one

  21. Fourscore

    Apparently some black lives matter more than others. Those killed by the black perps must not have mattered as much since the news is a little lackadaisical about reporting those.

    • Lackadaisical

      Just to be clear, I have no connection to any news agency.

    • Naptown Bill

      Rubin Report interviewed Brandon Tatum, one of the founders of Blexit and a former cop. It’s a good interview, and at one point he goes off with genuine emotion about how all this fake outrage only happens when the media and the left thinks they can pull a race angle, but they don’t make a peep over black children dying in inner cities as a result of gang violence. Black lives matter but not if they’re at risk from other black lives, I guess.

  22. Chipwooder

    it’s well known that old Jewish men like to look at titties

    Wait, I didn’t think Q was that old….

  23. straffinrun

    How TF am I supposed to wear this mask all day inside this building without the A/C on? 2hours in and I’m already gagging.

    • Chipwooder

      I don’t apologize for things I haven’t done and I sure as shit don’t kneel to anyone. You want to have a discussion with me, glad to do it, but this bizarre self-flagellation performance art can fuck off.

    • Naptown Bill

      My mom’s half of the family is an Irish-American grandfather who came to PA in the 1700s and a Scottish grandmother who came over as a kid from Kilmarnock in 1914. Can I get a discount on those reparations? My dad’s side of the family are descended from slave-owning Southerners from the heart of the Confederacy, and I believe you’ll find that according to international law reparations can only be due from a state, not private citizenry, must be for illegal acts (slavery was legal in the USA and CSA for most of its history), and is not applicable in a situation where the winner of the war was the aggressor. Of course, if you believe the CSA was not a legitimate nation, then you must also logically conclude that the USA cannot pay reparations to itself.

      • Naptown Bill

        *whose family came

        My grandfather wasn’t *that* old.

      • Bob Boberson

        I can verify with as much certainty as one can have with the spotty historical record of the common folk, that not a one of my ancestors owned a slave from the time they arrived in the new world onward. Putting aside the barbaric blood guilt fallacy for a moment, do I get excused from the reparations?

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, AFAIK my ancestors all arrived in the 1880s or so.

        Sorry, I’m not playing.

      • Bobarian LMD

        My grand-parent’s grand-parents were all born in the old country. Most got here near the turn of the century.

      • whiz

        I can verify that my ancestors did own a slave — we have a copy of the document freeing him.

      • Chipwooder

        3/4 of my grandparents came from families that arrived post-Civil War, and in NYC, not the south. The fourth grandparent’s lineage traces back practically to the founding of Jamestown in one branch. As they all lived in the south, yes, I’ve found one or two that owned a slave, and a bunch fought for the Confederacy (reluctantly, after being conscripted, but that’s a different story).

        And none of that matters one fucking bit because there’s no such thing as blood guilt. I do not bear the blame for things done by ancestors who died almost a century before I was born. There’s no family fortune built on slave labor – my people were, mostly, dirt poor farmers, which is why I only found one or two who were slave owners. Hell, my great-grandfather was a sharecropper.

      • RAHeinlein

        I can verify that my ancestors raided Harpers Ferry with John Brown.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Actually acted to help free slaves?

        *Checks notes*

        Yeah, not enough. Will you be paying in cash or check?

      • RAHeinlein

        All electronic transfer when they seize my retirement accounts.

      • Bob Boberson

        I had a 4X great grand dad that was horribly disfigured at Reams Station, fighting for the Union. I’m sure somehow that justifies why I need to pay reparations.

    • Florida Man

      My ancestors killed the natives, enslaved the blacks and helped assassinate Lincoln. That has jack shit to do with me.

      • Winston

        What is up you and “Floridaman”? Is he Unreconstructed?

      • Mojeaux

        There’s always been Florida Man and floridaman here.

      • Florida Man

        The funny thing about that is we hardly ever interact. He’s around weekends and mornings and I’m day and night shift.

    • Naptown Bill

      METSMAN1786 actually has a respectful, useful reply. Basically, instead of Tweeting, maybe Barry should talk to the governors and mayors of the states and cities where these things are happening. Since they’re all Democrats, he’ll probably have some pull. He doesn’t have to wait for Trump or Congress if he actually is interested in being helpful.

      Which, of course, he’s not.

      • Viking1865

        Minneapolis has ranked preference voting. Of the 100,000 votes cast in 2017, for the 4 year term, 84,000 of them went to the DFL. Another 8,000 went to the Green Party. So that guy is the Minority Leader of himself. The other 12 seats are DFL. The mayor was elected in 2017, before that he was on the City Council. There were more votes for the Socialist Alternative candidates then for the Republican and Libertarian candidates COMBINED.

        But those white Trump voters in the suburbs are just sending their poisonous racism energy to a city which last elected a Republican mayor in 1957.

    • Chipwooder

      “Just shoot the knife outta the guy’s hand! Worked all the time for Chuck Connors and James Arness!”

    • Fourscore

      Actually he meant a person with no arms, wielding a knife or other weaponry, coming at you. You can’t shoot the knife from his hand since he is un-armed so the alternative is to go for the leg.

    • Chafed

      That’s gold.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        That’s Shotgun Joe.

    • AlmightyJB

      1 definitely looks like she’s in the tribe. Nice.

      • DEG

        She showed up in galleries of hot Indian women when I ran a Google image search. She also showed up in some generic hot women galleries.

    • DEG

      Top notch gallery. Orgy.

    • blackjack

      1989

    • Count Potato

      Sad.

    • Drake

      Is first-aid not a thing in the community?

      • CPRM

        You mean making a video isn’t as helpful as trying to stop the bleeding? OK Boomer.

  24. UnCivilServant

    Why do the lawyers in TV shows never make motions for mistrials when the other side performs evidentiary shenanigans and didn’t enter their surprise evidence at discovery?

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Because if they did it the real way, the audience would throw rotten fruit at the tv

      • UnCivilServant

        I know court procedure is boring, even though I was only a Criminal Justice Minor and not a Lawyer.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        “Your honor, may we recess for the day to prepare a motion on the inadmissability of defense exhibit 14-X-3?”

        *dramatic pan to judge*

        “Yes. Please have it to the clerk by 8am. We’ll reconvene at 10:30 after I clear some of my traffic court docket.”

        Dun Dun

    • Florida Man

      People watch TV because real life is boring.

      • Mojeaux

        ^^^^That.

      • cyto

        This is why they never made a TV drama about the accounting department.

      • UnCivilServant

        “There is a discrepency in these reports! We must find the source before the IRS does!”

      • Gender Traitor

        In the double-entry accounting system, the transactions are represented by two separate yet equally important entries: The debits, who record expenses, and the credits, who document revenue. These are their stories.

      • Don Escaped Australians

        Lenny Briscoe is my spirit animal

    • blackjack

      The good ones do whatever it takes to preserve issues on appeal. The bad ones think they’re going to win and never think about that.

      • blackjack

        Sorry, I missed the “tv” part.

  25. CPRM

    All the channels owned by Discovery blacked out for 10 mins this evening, showing a message how they are totes on #TheRightSideOfHistory with what’s going on with the protests. My 80 year old aunt called me because she was confused why her HGTV wasn’t on, ‘Do you think they were hacked?’. I’m almost ready to just go Galt, but I don’t have a hologram dome to put over my house.

    • Chafed

      How about a camo tarp?

  26. AlmightyJB

    How much is this going to cost us? Trump should tell those liberal mayors who encouraged the looting rioting to pound sand when they come begging.

    • Winston

      Everything?

  27. Winston

    Blood guilt and virtue signalling is making a comeback. Isn’t that rather collectivist? Taking the knee and apologizing for you skin color. Oh and you better accept reparations and losing your job.

    • Bob Boberson

      BLM and Anifa aren’t going to have to pretend their are violent racists around every bush anymore if they keep pushing this shit.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Reparations is a sure-fire way to engender massive social conflict. Hence, its appeal to the wokerati.

        It’s also a non-starter. Will never happen. At least not if there is any semblance of the American legal and justice systems left.

      • Winston

        It’s also a non-starter. Will never happen.

        Seems that is the goal of all these protests and riots. Not a good idea to be complacent.

        At least not if there is any semblance of the American legal and justice systems left.

        Well that is optimistic

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        True. It’s probably naive at this point to not think it will be on the agenda in a major way if the Progs can seize power.

      • Bob Boberson

        Scott Horton keeps talking like the real thing to fear is the reactionary right-wing movement that might rise up in the wake of the kulturekampf….it didn’t resonate with me much until now. After this week it seems like more of a possibility.

      • Winston

        It depends on how strong “the reactionary right-wing” is compared to the progs and if they have someone leading them willing to take over and get their hands dirty. I don’t think Trump isn’t that person but who comes next might be…

      • Winston

        *I don’t think Trump is that person *

      • Lachowsky

        He is probably not wrong.

        Nothing gets a hard right winger more riled up than co firmation that he is right.

  28. Winston

    There will be 4 nationally televised funeral services for Floyd. Better watch them you white supremacists….

    Oh and Big Tech and Big Business are all in on this woke tribalism.

      • dbleagle

        In California a sign language interpreter would set us back $750/hr plus pay travel both directions. I stopped hiring that virtue signal immediately once I was informed of the costs..

  29. Lachowsky

    Presidents have fuck all to do with the administration of city police departments.

    /shit i cant post on facebook.

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      That this is and has always been the case and nobody seems willing recognize it remains incredible to me.

      Hooray public school civics!

  30. Lachowsky

    People looking to the federal government to fix their own cities structural problems dont have a fucking clue about how federalsim works

    / shit i cant say on facebook.

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      If we bail out the Prog Dem strongholds with federal tax dollars I may pick up a torch and pitchfork myself.

      • Lachowsky

        That may be the tipping point for me as well. If Trump and the republican senate bail out the bankrupt blue states on my dime, then i may arm up and go marching.

        The coward ass R’s have already spent the economy into a hole there is no recovering from. Furthering the damage by bailing out the blue state’s government worker pensions will put me in the ” we live in a one party state” camp that is ready for a revolution.

  31. Lachowsky

    Private criminals looters and state sanctioned murders are both bad.

    / shit i cant say on facebook.

    • creech

      Philly’s d.a. just about came out and said that a mixed race crowd protecting their property in Fishtown are vigilante criminals and won’t be tolerated.Some had bats and yelled nasty words at the “peaceful protestors.” Philly D.A. is a far left type and a member of the same political party that hasn’t done squat about police brutality in Philly for the sixty years they’ve been in charge.

      • Chipwooder

        Philly’s DA is one of the ones whose campaign was bankrolled by George Soros. When is that malignant sonofabitch finally going to die?

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Ugh…I was in the comments of just one article over at the old site, and Cokey the Cock-knocker, is still doing his tired leftist shtick, saying that no one has any sort of proof that Soros is backing the baddies.

      • leon

        Philly’s d.a. just about came out and said that a mixed race crowd protecting their property in Fishtown are vigilante criminals and won’t be tolerated.

        Blood Boils. Lets follow the logic here:

        1. Cops kill people and DAs ( i know not this DA, but she’s part of the system) refuse to prosecute
        2. People protest and that is turned into a Riot.
        3. Cops refuse to protect property in the path of rioters
        4. People try to take matters into their own hands, having been abandoned by the state.
        5. DA decide they will prosecute those people.

        Like i said, what these politicians are doing is teaching people that obeying laws, and being good community members is for chumps.

      • Lachowsky

        Its the “tyranny of selective enforcement”

  32. CPRM

    I was surprised, had to replace the window in my bedroom with one too small to fit my AC for reasons. The only window where it will fit now is on the opposite kitty corner of the house. Got up past 90 today with high humidity and while not as cool as I’d like, my rooms temp has been under 70 with low humidity all day.

  33. The Bearded Hobbit

    I’ve had an article brewing for a while about The Thousand and One Nights. One thing that struck me was the status of women in the time period. True, they were always considered subservient to their men but there was a fair amount of power in their case.

    Marriage was a contract (as it should be). Divorce was as easy as saying, “I divorce you” three times in front of witnesses.

    One thing that caught my attention was that their version of a dowry strongly differs with the commonly accepted version. In the western world the dowry is roughly the ransom paid to take this daughter off your hands. In the ancient Muslim version the dowry belonged to the woman. it was her insurance if the marriage were to be dissolved, she would still have an income.

    I have no idea how close to reality this is but it struck me as a reasonable version for modern (stateless) marriage

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      Shaharazad (spelling?) tricking the sultan into not murdering her is a fun frame-story, as I recall.

      Need to read that book all the way through.

    • RAHeinlein

      I’m interested and look forward to reading.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        The book or the alleged article?

        I read the book (Burton’s translation) on my palm pilot and later on an e-reader on my phone. This last time (and, after three reads, this is the last time) took me three years to get through the ten volumes, not counting the four volumes of footnotes (which I never finished.)

        In order to do an article justice I would have to dive back into the books to gather quotes and the like and I guess I’m not quite ready to do that.

    • Viking1865

      “True, they were always considered subservient to their men but there was a fair amount of power in their case.”

      For the wives of powerful men, yes, absolutely. The wives of kings, lords, wealthy merchants, etc in the pre modern era always wielded subtle but real power.

      Premodern gender relations is very feudal. Women are passed from the control of their benevolent and capable fathers to the control of their benevolent and capable husbands. It’s a wonderful system, provided both fathers and husbands are both benevolent and capable. Both men and women’s roles are framed in the sense not of rights, but of obligations and duties.

      Communism also works great when you have a revolutionary vanguard completely dedicated to the best interests of the proletariat, and a proletariat equal to struggle and labor mightily for the Revolution.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        This is all taken in the context of my interpretation. My impression was that even the wives of merchants and laborers had a certain amount of freedom.

        Again, this is taken from a version that is designed to make the ancient Muslim world attractive.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah I mean, I have no doubt the vast majority of women would be absolutely ecstatic to be passed from the authority of one wise, kind, capable, sheltering provider to a second who embodied all those traits, and who would dedicate the rest of his days to providing her with a wonderful home, and would never mistreat her or leave her for another woman, who would make the right decisions for their household and send their daughters to wonderful husbands to continue the cycle.

        But that’s just a fantastic myth. It’s like the feudal myth of wise and pious clergy, bluff and diligent peasants, and brave and just lords all coming together to form a righteous Christendom. Social and political systems need to be based not on having people be good, but by incentivizing flawed people to do good things.

    • Festus

      This is why devout Hindu women wear so much bling.

  34. Lachowsky

    Dennis tuttle

    Duncan lemp

    Cody franklin

    Justine damond

    /other shit not to be muttered in polite company.

    • Rhywun

      Justine is the only name I’ve heard of.

      • CPRM

        I’ve seen all the names, but we read so many of these stories that piss us off that the jackwagons out burning shit never give a damn about that it becomes hard to recall all the specifics.

      • Chipwooder

        Dennis Tuttle was the guy murdered by Houston police in a no-knock drug raid last year. Was supposed to be some kind of heroin dealer but just was a disabled veteran with a little bit of weed.

        Duncan Lemp was murdered in a no-knock gun raid in Maryland a couple of months ago.

      • Viking1865

        Duncan Lemp was a FAR RIGHT 3 PERCENTER EXTREMIST akshually so he deserved to be shot to death in his sleep.

      • Chipwooder

        Next to his pregnant girlfriend, no less.

        For every black police murder victim, there is a white victim whose story is no.less appalling, but their stories don’t benefit the Democrats’ electoral chances so they get ignored as much as possible. Or hey, remember the Thai baby who was horribly burned when a flash grenade was tossed into his crib in a raid? He survived, but how the hell was THAT not a bigger story??

        Yes, race undoubtedly plays a role in a lot of these, but the ultimate problem is that there are a lot of vicious animals wearing badges who are rarely held to account.

      • blackjack

        For every black police murder victim, there is a white victim whose story is no.less appalling

        Statistically, there’s two. That doesn’t include the race unknown and hispanics. If we absolutely stopped all police killings of blacks ( about 225 a year) we’d be left with about 800 a year of others. That’s the thinking that makes me a racist. ( of course, some percentage of these are justifiable, but it’s a percentage and a small one)

      • BakedPenguin

        Rhy – read about your issues above, I hope it all goes well. I might have similar problems in the future, but more than that – gotta have someone laugh at me and Raven Nation for following sucky AFL teams.

  35. IntraveneousWoodChipper

    Anybody shocked (I’m not) about how little we are hearing right now about the Black Death: Part Deaux that necessitated shutting down our entire economy for months?

    It’s almost like it never happened now that there is a bigger cudgel for the Left to batter us into submission with.

  36. Lachowsky

    I think my biggest challenge to understanding your thinking is that from my perspective, you’re talking about your dreams of a world that I don’t think will ever come to be, and I’m trying to deal with the real one we’re in

    ________________________________________________________

    My perspective is pretty simple.

    I am anti-

    War
    State
    Agression
    Theft
    Fraud

    And pro-

    Trade
    Cooperation
    Market
    Voluntary association

    Dealing with the real world i live in, i believe that the less of the things im against we have have and the more of the things i am for we have the better off everyone will be.

    ________________________________________

    It just seems like being able to take that position is white privilege. Like because you don’t have to worry about race. And I think that’s the very reason we must.

    No shit actual snippet of conversation from this past weekend.

    • CPRM

      ‘It’s bad when cops kill anyone without due process.’
      ‘Dude, I didn’t know you were a white supremacist!?’

    • blackjack

      Three times this week, I’ve been called a racist specifically for caring about ALL the victims of police abuse. Twice, with the privilege bullshit. I want to just tell them my life story, but I know it won’t sink in no matter what. It has to be constantly harped on for twenty years by every left wing outlet and hinted at on the nightly news. I get this mostly from spoiled little rich girls. Fucking crazy.

      • Bob Boberson

        “I get this mostly from spoiled little rich girls.”

        If there is one class of people whom are utter astounding in both their moral certainty and staggering lack of self-awareness; it’s rich, white liberal women.

      • Chipwooder

        Sipping their vanilla soy frappuccinos

      • Chafed

        Why are you talking with said spoiled rich girls?

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        I mean, I can think of some reasons.

        They may not be Lach’s reasons…

    • Bob Boberson

      I had the same type of conversations once;

      “Libertarianism makes sense for you because you are a white male. Of course YOU could survive in a free world.”

      I’ve been ruminating on the leftist mindset a lot this week. I think we struggle with it so much because we, being autistic libertarians, try to understand it from the perspective of reason and logic. Progressivism has nothing to do with reason and logic. It is felt. I comes from a deep and mostly unconscious impulse that they are inferior.

      • Lachowsky

        This woman i argued with for way too long, tilold me that i was distracting from her point of my privilege by pointing out that war is worse than racism. I dont know how to talk to someone who can think that way.

      • Bob Boberson

        Racism is the cardinal sin to these people, they cannot conceptualize that there might be anything worse because the are insanely sheltered. George Floyd being killed, while indefensible and horrific, is nothing compared to an entire bus load of innocent civilians being murder-droned. But that is just an abstraction to these people. It is a byproduct of affluence, ease and decadence. Yet we are the un-empathetic ones.

      • Viking1865

        “is nothing compared to an entire bus load of innocent civilians being murder-droned”

        Well its very important which flavor of lizard ordered the drone strike.

        If it was Obama, it was a righteous, temperate, thoughtful, charismatic, humane, and peaceful drone strike. See, he probably really agonized over it. He probably did the thing where he leaned back in his chair, steepled his fingers, and really considered the decision carefully. But then he, in his wisdom and character, made the tough call. For all of us.

      • Bob Boberson

        Yeah, I loved how nearly the ENTIRE left (certainly the entire establishment and most of the far-left) completely quit giving a shit about being anti-war the second BHO was elected. Turns out they didn’t give a shit about soldiers or Iraqis. The black community should take notice of that.

      • CPRM

        You mean how like BHO was supposed to usher in a new age of inter-racial prosperity, but instead set race relations back 40 years?

      • Lachowsky

        Im thinking its more analogous to the catholic idea of original sin than a cardinal sin.

        Cardinal sins are forgivable with confession and pentance.

        Original sin is a stain that only the blood of a messiah and belief in that sacrifice can forgive, and can only be forgiven in death.

      • Bob Boberson

        Thanks for that.

        /Not catholic, learned something tonight

      • Bob Boberson

        On that note, what really pisses me off, (and I say this not to pat my own back but becauseI know it to be true) a year from now I’ll still remember George Floyd’s name. I’ll still be acutely aware that the mailed fist of the state can kill you at will, for whatever reason, and there will be no justice. And there will be dozens of new George Floyd’s by then.

        Meanwhile these asshats signaling their virtue on FB and Instagram will have moved on to tranny bathrooms or whatever the nonsense social issue of the day is with nary a thought given to the violence of the state or the issue they were passionate about for 5 seconds back in the spring of 2020.

        Fuck it, I’m getting a whisky.

      • Lachowsky

        No kidding.

        They dont remember tamir rice or eric garner.

        I do, but im the racist one.

      • C. Anacreon

        The biggest issue at Facebook right now is their employees are furious Zuckerberg won’t censor the President of the United States’ posts. For real.

      • Chafed

        WSJ covered it today. At some point these tech companies are going to find a large enough talent pool that they don’t have to put up with this shit.

  37. AlmightyJB

    Just started up police scanner. First thing In heard. Yeah, the store has been broken into and looted by the peaceful protesters. Didn’t hear original dispatch so not sure what store.

  38. Chipwooder

    One piece of good news – Steve King is done. Lost his primary.

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      Good.

    • straffinrun

      Yeah!

    • Chafed

      That is good news.

  39. Frosty

    A day or two ago, someone here asked if “the boogaloo” really was a group intent on a race war etc. I’m not a member of any such group, or a proponent of it, but from what I’ve seen they’re mostly people who hate taxes, infringements on the 2A, and the alphabet soup agencies that enforce them. The memes and rhetoric can be over the top, but I don’t think it rises above the woodchipper standard.

    • leon

      Boogaloo is a meme shared by many groups. I wouldn’t be surprised if some white supremacists have latched on to it. But like you said, a lot of 2A people have latched on to it as well. But it is a benefit to the leftist media to focus only on the smaller group.

      Like how the Ok sign being a white power symbol was clearly a joke, but the media will focus on that some white nationalists have taken it seriously.

  40. straffinrun

    “White people have to pay for the sins of their father because they know who their father is.”

    Comment I deleted before sending to a virtue signaling white FB friend.

    • Lachowsky

      Fuck it Straff, send it.

    • slumbrew

      Yikes.

      Yeah, probably best to have passed on that bon mot (but I, of course, laughed since I’m a libertarian shitlord).

  41. straffinrun

    If I could have do over, I would tell them exactly where the white women were.

  42. AlmightyJB

    Curfew started at 10. It’s now 1145. Hear on scanner. Large group of people heading southbound on Cleveland Ave which is the hood. We’ve been told to stand down and give them the street by the EOC. I hear another cop say Outstanding.

    • Tres Cool

      You have a scanner? Its digital? And does trunks?

      /bows down @ C-Bus

      • Gustave Lytton

        He is Almighty.

      • AlmightyJB

        I just go to Broadcastify.com:)

    • blackjack

      Fuck! Ours started at 6. Stores were a zoo at 4:30. AND they started the stupid lines to get in thing. AND they all had plywood over the windows. In Toluca Lake, LOL.

      • blackjack

        They had state mandated lines to minimize the amount of shoppers for Covid. Now they have them to avoid being overrun with looters. Fucking retard

  43. slumbrew

    I don’t follow Shapiro with any regularity – is he always this acerbic, or is this a little something extra?

    Ben Shapiro
    @benshapiro
    ·
    11h
    If anything happening in the last few years has given you the impression that we should hand more power to those who govern us, I am sorry you were dropped on your head as a child.

    • blackjack

      I listen on my way home from work sometimes ( or did back when it was legal to work) as long as he’s not on Abortion or how great the hero cops are, he’s actually pretty good. That’s representative of most of it. The cop sucking and religious stuff I turn off quickly.

      • slumbrew

        scanning through the rest of his posts, it is indeed a lot of “heroic cops” nonsense.

    • slumbrew

      That grifter is still around?

    • Akira

      [the_donald] subreddit, formed in 2015 as Donald Trump announced his presidential election campaign, has a lengthy history of playing host to conspiracy theories, as well as to a wide array of racist and misogynistic content.

      That’s how you smear somebody or something without technically saying anything false. Just mention them while only specifying some bad things about them, regardless of how common that stuff actually is.

  44. CPRM

    For you late nighters just coming out of your coffins, the cartoon was the mid-day article. Sorry, I thought it was going to be the night article.

    • CPRM

      If you just want to youtube it, here.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        I’ve been uslurped! Er, uh, usurped.

      • CPRM

        You can’t compete with the orgies. Fun Fact, the bill is the erogenous zone on a hat.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        the bill is the erogenous zone on a hat.

        THAT explains Amanda Wurlitzer’s ball cap!

      • Festus

        Chicks wearing ball caps is MY fetish! You assholes stand down.

    • Brochettaward

      What’s perhaps most frustrating to me about all of this is that the solutions are there. They’re obvious, even. But they’re things that are completely counter to progressivism and will never even be considered.

      • Akira

        The last thing “progressives” want is for people to start examining these pubsec labor unions. If they talk too much shit on police unions, people might make the (100% true) conclusion that similar stuff goes on with other pubsec unions.

        Race is a very convenient lightning rod for the anger.

    • CPRM

      Bureaucracy is the only way to solve the problems of bureaucracy!

  45. Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

    In case anyone missed it (who the hell am I kidding?): https://imgflip.com/i/43o9x3

    • CPRM
      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Fun Fact: Vin v Karl is both an excellent movie premise, and, a terrific court case.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I reposted in the morning links! Deserves to go viral.

  46. Gustave Lytton

    What a day. Driving 7 hours and the crappy hotel doesn’t have any decent beer. Not national brands and not actual local stuff. Like from the 10th largest craft brewery in the country that’s about 500 feet away.

    Saw protesters in front of the county courthouse in one of the midsize cities of the state of Jefferson. Looked like atleast two dozen. Probably peaceful, but took a turn to the side streets instead of driving by just in case. My, uh, friend may have carried today possibly in violation of an employer’s policy. Xer wasn’t expecting go over gods green earth. First time really pocket carrying all day instead of just errands. Felt like it was printing like the Federal Reserve, but no one seemed to notice. Or if they did, they didn’t tell xer.

    • Akira

      Felt like it was printing like the Federal Reserve, but no one seemed to notice. Or if they did, they didn’t tell xer.

      Hell, if I’m wearing a white dress shirt in sufficient light, you can kind of see a vague gun shape right through the fabric. But I think 99% of people are not going to scan your body for signs of a concealed weapon. As long as it’s not egregious and no parts of the gun are directly showing, I think you’re good.

      One time, I was doing a brief trial period of carrying my Ruger GP100. I put the holster on my belt and put my winter coat over it, and it looked perfectly. My pants must have sagged as I walked through Kroger because when I was getting back in my car, I realized that a good two inches of the holster were plainly visible right under my coat. Thankfully nobody freaked out and called the cops. I went back to carrying my CZ-75 Compact* in an IWB holster after that.

      * That fucking thing is scarcely smaller than most full-size 9mm handguns. A bit of a pain to carry, but I like the assurance of carrying 14+1 of Hornady Critical Defense.

    • Chafed

      Why didn’t you go to the brewery?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Closed (the tasting room/pub). Not sure if covidinsanity or just was too late. Was after 9 when I went by.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Almost as if Bernie Bros/Antifa are using the protests over that shithead cop scumbag to mask the plan…

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      This may sound a bit weird, but, I think it will take James Woods to play him as putridly as he really is. Because, I like JW, and he can really do the smarm/asshole/prick characters very well.

      • Chafed

        It takes one to know one.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        What–are you saying I should play the blastoma?

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Because, showing him to be the dreck that he is would be a dream come true.

  47. Trigger Hippie

    Not a single reference about a farcical aquatic ceremony?

    For shame, people. For shame.

    • Gender Traitor

      ??? I claim insufficient caffeination.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘Arthur: I am your king!
        Woman: Well I didn’t vote for you!
        Arthur: You don’t vote for kings.
        Woman: Well how’d you become king then?
        [Angelic music plays…]
        Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite
        held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine
        providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your
        king!
        Dennis interrupting: Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’
        swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power
        derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic
        ceremony!’

      • Gender Traitor

        Ah! Given the topic of the post, this scene seems a bit more apropos.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Knew it before I clicked it. 🙂

  48. Not an Economist

    This is funny if true.

    • Gender Traitor

      “It’s only property!” : )

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s just a writeup of something some guy considers cute but doesn’t have the nerve to do. Definitely not true.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Heh, I’m watching his latest download right now. That guy puts out the best history content on YouTube.

      • Festus

        He’s great. I dig Drachinifel(?) a lot, too. That spritely little Englishman is amusing, as well.

      • Festus

        The guy that resembles Ian Anderson and always wears tattered sweaters. Smells like soup.

  49. Sean

    I get to go to the dentist today for a cleaning/routine visit. Yay.

    Worse, it’s over the river. ?

    Upside is the usual hygienist is cute.

    I’m starting my day with this – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLBSCiEoas. ?

    • Gender Traitor

      Love mashups like that!

      Good luck at the dentist. I had an appointment that had to be cancelled ’cause of the Moo Goo Gai Panic. Guess I really should reschedule.

    • Festus

      Nice music! Too bad the cutey has to see you at your ugliest… I’ve developed a “thing” for the blonde girl.