Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Jun 11, 2020 | Daily Links | 373 comments

Happy Thursday. My kids survived the first swimming lesson of the season. Tomorrow I’ll use two bricks. They’ll either be very strong swimmers or water breathers in a couple of weeks. Kidding, kidding. Its amazing the difference between an almost 4 year old and an almost 5 year old in terms of coordination. My kids swim fine, but given the sheer number of places available for them to encounter water deeper than their head, we take it seriously. At eight, we start swimming them with small gators to keep it interesting.

Bald men at higher risk of severe COVID.

I’ll bet this bald Florida Man wishes he caught a severe ‘rona instead of a felony kiddie porn charge. Way to look the type.

This one’s for Q.

This seems like something that will find uses in teledildonics.

Here’s a little song that runs through my head every time I hear about the communards throwing up barricades.

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.

373 Comments

  1. Donation Not Taxation

    Covid-19 viruses are small.

    • Below Sea Level Hell Centro

      Almost microscopic.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Below Sea Level Hell Centro, almost ‘Almost microscopic’ as in actually what would be microscopic, except that ‘micro’ is probably triggering for ‘microaggression’ which is probably triggering for whatever the listener/reader finds to be aggressing.

      • Below Sea Level Hell Centro

        Do you work for CNN?

    • Donation Not Taxation

      First!

  2. Certified Public Asshat

    Bald men at higher risk of severe COVID.

    Yes, it’s bad for the elderly.

    • Agent Cooper

      Was this considered? If it wasn’t … that’s hilarious.

    • CPRM

      Communism summed up in 5 paragraphs.

    • leon

      “It was weird,” said one Antifa member. “We looked from our Antifa leaders to the government officials, and from the government officials back to the Antifa leaders, and already it was impossible to say which was which.”

      Fantastic Rand Allusion.

      • CPRM

        I love that part of Charlotte’s Web.

      • db

        Judy Blume was my favorite children’s author.

      • SDF-7

        Thought that was the end of Animal Farm.

      • Ted S.

        You might want to pick up the drugs that just fell out of your ass….

      • Not Adahn

        No, that’s when Dorothey realized she always was a cockroach.

  3. Q Continuum

    “This one’s for Q.”

    I’m interested in any great leaps forward in tit technology. Many thanks.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Oooh, Jaime Summers.

    • TARDIS

      Boobs are great, but what about bionic penises? Of course, your partner gets to keep the remote.

      “Stop turning it up to eleven, you prick! Give me that!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I always think of you a supporter of bionic boobs, Q

    • Rhywun

      I expect it to come from Japan, not China.

  4. CPRM

    Bald men at higher risk of severe COVID.

    So the Hair needs to stay firmly planted on Donald’s head?

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      The cure is obvious. Hair Club for Men.

  5. Cats

    Do I remember correctly that someone here has a Traeger smoker? I’m looking into pellet grills and would love to hear opinions.

    Also, rest assured that I have pre-fucked off.

    • bacon-magic

      ew

      • db

        Nah, it helps the meat relax during the cooking process

      • Pope Jimbo

        Now I know what a bone-in steak really is!

    • The Other Kevin

      Traegers are good but I hear a lot of good things about Rec-Tec too. I was checking out a Camp Chef one.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I’ve also heard good things about the rec-tec, but you pay a premium for them.

    • prolefeed

      I bought a CharGriller Akorn Kamado grill this weekend at Lowe’s, and did smoked pork ribs and corn on the cob on it yesterday. The ribs were seasoned with worchestershire sauce and then thirds of Salt Lick Dry Rub, Montreal Steak Seasoning, and my proprietary house blend of Jamaican jerk seasoning from Belize mixed with garam masala and curry and Texas BBQ and other spices.

      The Kamado is not technically a dedicated smoker, and uses metal construction rather than ceramic to keep the cost down, but I bought an accessory black ceramic bowl with holes slightly bigger than pellets, and filled it with blended hardwood pellets to generate great smoke. A learning curve on getting the heat around 225F to 250F without the fire going out. Had to light a second fire to restart, though the removable hole in the center of the grill makes that easy to do.

    • Deplorableme

      I’ve got the camp chef one, really like it. Only thing I wished it it had would be a built in WiFi wireless thermometer and an alarm if the flame goes out. Since some things take hours to cook, and it would be nice to be able to check on it anywhere. Of course, there are 3rd party thermometers, but haven’t found that is internet based which would allow me to be at the store/bar/etc and be able to monitor the cooking status. So far, I’ve only used Traeger’s mixed hardwood pellets that I get from our Costco and haven’t been disappointed.

      • Enough About Palin

        We’ve sure come a long way from clubbing mastodons.

    • JC

      i got a Pit-Boss on sale at the end of the season a couple years ago and have nothing but good luck. I already had a wifi thermometer so I didn’t need the fancy features. I have probably used it 60 times over the past two years with no issues. They are great in general, set the temp and don’t worry. I think it doesn’t get quite as much smoke as a wood burning one, but its sooo much easier.

  6. grrizzly

    With the exception of smoking, every other COVID-19 risk factor points to zero concern for me.

    • Rhywun

      I’m fat but at least I have all my hair.

  7. Donation Not Taxation

    The Bionic Woman originally aired 14 Jan 1976 – 13 May 1978. Reboot originally aired 26 Sep 2007 – 28 Nov. 2007. In both, fenmale protagonist had ‘bionic’ parts with superhuman ability.

    FTA (H/T Brett L): ‘But a bionic breast now under development could restore these important tactile sensations.’

    Bionic breast with superhuman ability…

    • Gustave Lytton

      Thanks for making me feel old. Lindsay Wagner made young me feel strange sensations.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Gustave Lytton, you are welcome. Also, watching pre-reboot Doctor Who on PBS.

      • Gustave Lytton

        How do you know so much about me??

      • Enough About Palin

        This is attractive to you?

        ebay.com/i/362505069319?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=362505069319&targetid=883027960686&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9019665&poi=&campaignid=9423618867&mkgroupid=95066753945&rlsatarget=pla-883027960686&abcId=1141016&merchantid=108481633&gclid=Cj0KCQjwrIf3BRD1ARIsAMuugNuuClgcyXH4OnfQQeas7w7TjKW99FEIDx5nKPOOG9VuNZyO9DvUmiAaAkF-EALw_wcB

      • blackjack

        Are you a linkrophiliac?

      • Suthenboy

        I cant read that

      • Spudalicious

        Somebody help this poor man. He spilled his link.

      • bacon-magic

        Looks a little SF’ee to me.

  8. Mad Scientist

    At eight, we start swimming them with small gators to keep it interesting.

    I had a buddy in college who was an amazing swimmer. He later went on to become a Navy Seal. We’d play waterpolo and this motherfucker could grab you and drag you to the bottom of the pool now matter how hard you tried to swim away. And not just me, but other buddies who were much bigger than I am and much better swimmers would be just as helpless. We used to joke that if he was just standing in a puddle he was stronger than anyone around.

    Breed children like that, Brett. Alligators should fear them.

    • bacon-magic

      Aquaman confirmed.

      • blackjack

        And his career went swimmingly?

      • Don Escaped any Landslide

        but died of a stroke ?

    • Pope Jimbo

      We had a family of kids in my home town that sent 3 boys and 2 girls to the state meet in swimming. The youngest son was a year younger than me and looked like a pear, but somehow he could swim like a mother fucker. Probably trying to keep up with his siblings at the lake all the time.

      His two older brothers both had the classic swimmer’s body with 1% body fat. They were both life guards at the city beach and worth knowing because of all the women they could introduce you to.

      • Chipwooder

        I was never a physical specimen, even when I was on active duty, but I was always a pretty good swimmer. Swam rec league swim team for several years. One of my fondest memories was beating the pants off a kid I was friendly with (didn’t know him well but we had been on the same Little League team several times) who was a terrific athlete, all-metro in several sports in high school……but he didn’t know that you can’t outmuscle the water. Stroke technique is everything.

      • Viking1865

        I was The Fat Kid growing up, but I could swim forever. I did a “swim laps for charity” fundraiser once. We swam for an hour, and this woman pledged 5 bucks a lap, and I did 38. She was not amused.

  9. Gustave Lytton

    SOURCE: CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CCDC)

    Any numbers or anything coming out of China has zero credibility until independently confirmed elsewhere. They’ve been caught again and again juking the stats and leaning on academic papers. There is no reason to breathless report any announced results from there.

    • Jarflax

      CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

      Canadian Center for Aggressive Rudeness
      Illinois Center for Government Ethics
      Australian Center for Cuddly Wildlife

      • db

        British Center for Dental Excellence

  10. Drake

    Guess who is now a Certified Professional Project Manager? Holy fuck I’m glad that’s over with. It’s good to be Bonafide.

    • Ted S.

      So before today you were just an Amateur Project Manager?

    • Tonio

      Congrats.

      • Drake

        Thanks!

    • Brett L

      **lays back ears and hisses**

      Sorry every time I see PM certification, I assume it means I’m going to have to sit in more meetings AND spend more time updating status.

      • Drake

        *evil laugh*

      • Lackadaisical

        correct, pmp it’s stupid and you should feel bad.

    • DEG

      Congratulations

    • Count Potato

      Congrats!

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Glibs now has a Certified Professional Project Manager (CPPM) plus a CPRM. Congrats!

    • Timeloose

      +1 PMBOK

      • Drake

        Ugh. Glad I don’t have to stare at that thing again for a while.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But are you bona fide?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dammit, I’m so ADD I didn’t even finish your statement….

      • Drake

        Now I have earn some serious cash and prep for the bugaloo or communist utopia – whichever.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Do you get a stamp on your ass for that?

  11. Juvenile Bluster

    NYPD Chief of Police:

    <Speaking live now, @NYPDShea
    "You turn on the TV and you hear 'reform, reform reform,' and nobody's mentioning that we've been reforming for six years."

    You’ve been reforming? Really? Because last I checked y’all weren’t doing anything and were pissed off that the cop that murdered Eric Garner was punished at all.

    (I think the first one of these was the case of Sal Culosi, which was about 15 years ago now. Some of you may remember that case coming up on Reason and his widow occasionally posting in the comments. One of those cases I learned about from Balko. He was a small time bookie that got talked into doing bigger bets by an undercover cop until one hit the threshold where they could arrest him. They sent in the SWAT team to arrest the dude and accidentally shot him. The evidence proved that it would’ve been impossible to accidentally shoot him in the way the cop claimed, but nobody cared. And nobody ever discussed it (dude was white). Anyways, the cop involved got something like a week of unpaid vacation. The union was FURIOUS, because they claimed the only punishment for an “accidental” shooting like that should be a written reprimand)

    • db

      Wasn’t Sal a dentist, too?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Optometrist.

      • Count Potato

        Too bad he couldn’t see it coming.

      • db

        I ground my teeth and held back making that joke.

    • EvilSheldon

      Talk to a few cops over a few beers, and you’ll quickly figure out that they’re mostly not faking the persecution complex. They really believe that they’re being crushed under the weight of crippling over-regulation, that the bureaucracy is aligned against them, and that they are in constant mortal danger from criminal violence.

      • db

        And they *love* to brag about when they got to use phyiscal force. Mostly. I knew one cop who was only a cop for a few years between industrial jobs and he left because he was at heart a gentle non-authoritarian.

  12. Not Adahn

    As many as 100,000 breast cancer patients have one or both breasts removed in mastectomies every year in the United States. This surgery frequently leads to loss of breast sensation, which is thought to contribute to the high rates of sexual dysfunction among breast cancer survivors. But a bionic breast now under development could restore these important tactile sensations.

    So… they could create erogenous zones anywhere on the body then?

    • Mad Scientist

      Can you imagine? I’d never get anything done.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m glad I read the Culture novels so I know that i’ll need to upgrade my cardiovascular system too.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Do you get anything done now?

    • db

      SugarFree has already been there.

  13. Donation Not Taxation

    FTA (H/T Brett L): ‘Researchers at Brigham Young University have recently carried out a study aimed at evaluating and comparing different methods for simultaneously controlling the stiffness and position of inflatable robots. Their paper, published in The International Journal of Robotics Research, introduces a model that represents stiffness as a state variable. This model could ultimately be used to control the stiffness and position of inflatable robots more efficiently.’

    Baymax?

    • R C Dean

      the stiffness and position of inflatable robots

      I suspect once they start licensing this to the sexbot industry, it will be a real earner for BYU.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        RC Dean, Brigham Young University is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brigham Young University, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii and LDS Business College apparently would rather not have Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act money than acquiesce to the conditions. What is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ position on certain acts by humans with robots?

  14. Juvenile Bluster

    So, how long until Ice Cube gets cancelled for his blatant antisemitis…. never mind, can’t make it through that sentence without laughing.

    • Not Adahn

      Please. Jooz <<< Blacks. Ilhan Omar proves that daily.

      And what's up the end of PoC? Blackfolx decide they doon't want to share the victim cred anymore?

      • leon

        Wait. I thought ((( was the symbol for the jews. I’m so confused now.

      • Tonio

        I think he was using that as a “less than” symbol, trebled for emphasis.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        He’s appropriating Jewish culture is what he’s doing. CANCEL ADAHN!

      • Not Adahn

        Yanno, if OMWC doesn’t get around to writing that kabbalah article soon…

      • R C Dean

        What fun is an intersectionality crab bucket if it doesn’t have dozens of crabs in it? POC is too inclusive; need to subdivide that to ramp up the identity conflicts.

      • Mad Scientist

        Wake me when they bother to subdivide it down to individuals.

    • Chipwooder

      Was there anyone that didn’t already know that Ice Cube is a big Farrakhan fan?

      • Rhywun

        *raises hand*

      • Drake

        #metoo

        Is he a different person than Iced-T?

      • Rhywun

        SHIT

        That is one I had in mind.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Ice T is the one on Law & Order SVU. He’s fine as far as I know.

        Ice Cube has always been weird, but never this blatant about it.

      • Lady Z
      • Agent Cooper

        Ice-T is a Republikkkan.

  15. R C Dean

    Of course, the kiddie porn guy is a pubsec.

    • leon

      The Richmond Police Memorial statue was removed from its spot in Byrd Park.

      Who is the Byrd in Byrd park?

      • Rebel Scum
      • Chipwooder

        Huh….I always assumed it was named for Harry

      • Tonio

        Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

        Yeah, it’s the colonial era Byrd, but it will probably get renamed sooner because of public confusion with Harry F. Byrd, Sr, the author of “massive resistance.”

    • Rebel Scum

      The Richmond Police Memorial statue was removed from its spot in Byrd Park. Images shared on social media showed work crews removing the statue Thursday morning.

      As someone with no love for the police even I have to ask “Why?”.

      The statue’s removal follows days of unrest, both in Richmond and nationwide, in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Four Minneapolis police officers have been charged in connection with Floyd’s death.

      Oh, so the “peaceful protesters” are rioting over peacefully protesting what exactly?

      • Tonio

        To protect it from vandalism, duh. Also as an ass-kiss to the RPD, and a fuck-you to the confederate heritage people.

        FWIW, it’s in an out-of-the way place, unlike the confederate memorials on Monument Avenue.

      • Suthenboy

        The are protesting not-communism.

    • Ted S.

      Shouldn’t it be the Thot Thursday Erogenous Zone?

    • DEG

      #3 looks slightly crazy but has a good iChive gallery. She’s into archery. Cool.

      #14 – normally I’d say, “Archery, cool!” but she looks a bit like a RealDoll.

      Yes to #18 and #20.

      #38 has been in other chive galleries. This is not her best picture.

      #54 looks fun.

      Nice view on #59.

      #69. Yes.

    • prolefeed

      45 looks like one of my wife’s nieces, if you straightened her hair and made her lighter skinned, about two-thirds European to one-third African ancestry.

  16. Tonio

    And speaking of autonomous zone, the border guards (or whatever the fuck they are calling their armed goons) are apparently checking ID for anyone who enters. Now, who is it that issues ID?

    • Ted S.

      Why are the outside authorities letting anyone enter?

      Oh, right, Seattle.

      • blackjack

        Seattle city government is practicing “deescalation” techniques by letting them win whatever they want. It’s a bold move.

      • BakedPenguin

        It’s a bold move.

        Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.

    • db

      Can’t wait to see TSA/ICE check the passports of anyone leaving. It’s a foreign sovereignty now, don’cha know?

    • PBRstreetgang

      The irony of the CHAZ using armed border guards to check people’s IDs on entry is staggering.

      • db

        Yeah, plus they’re trying to figure out how to let first responders in. Guess what, guys, you just signed up for the job.

      • PBRstreetgang

        Yep. You want to be an autonomous zone, then let’s treat you like an autonomous zone.

      • Rebel Scum

        Word.

    • leon

      No open borders? Libertarians everywhere are crushed.

      • Florida Man

        ICE is racist. Now respect muh borders!

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Did they ever get their delivery of vegan meals?

    • Drake

      So the store owners getting robbed and extorted – they should have a hell of a case against the city and state. I assume they can just stop paying any kind of taxes to anyone else now.

      How many rapes, assaults and other crimes are we going to hear about when this shit ends?

      • leon

        “When it’s communisim, it’s not Rape”
        – Bernie Sanders

      • blackjack

        The government is under no obligation to protect us. We are under the obligation to fund them, however.

      • bacon-magic

        I have been assured by countless sympathizers (who also say Antifa is not real, just a figment of right winger imagination) that it is more peaceful there and everyone in the zone agrees with them.

    • bacon-magic

      Hitler?

  17. Count Potato

    I just looked up Lindsay Wagner. They can go a bit bigger, but not for $6M.

  18. DEG

    At eight, we start swimming them with small gators to keep it interesting.

    A true Florida Man.

    The lead author of the key study behind the association, Professor Carlos Wambier of Brown University, told The Telegraph: “We really think that baldness is a perfect predictor of severity.”

    I couldn’t help but think of Spurious Correlations. Maybe there is something there, but I just couldn’t help but think of that site while reading this article.

    Detectives obtained a search warrant from the Sixth Judicial Circuit for Hannah’s Microsoft OneDrive account. Detectives say the account contained thousands of images and videos of child pornography, ranging in ages from infants to young teenagers, dating back to January 2000.

    A perfect place to store porn of any kind.

    The breasts are a very important sexual organ for women

    Women’s breasts are a very important sexual organ for men too.

    Most existing models for the control of stiffness and position of soft inflatable robots, however, are somewhat limited and typically achieve unsatisfactory results.

    Phrasing.

  19. Enough About Palin

    Right now, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) is saying that Trump needs to admit that there is systematicly institutionalized racism in America. Systematicly institutionalized. What a hollow, meaningless phrase. Were it not, he’d cite an actual example. The phrase is just as meaningless as “social justice”.

    • Ted S.

      Asking him to cite an example is systemic racism.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Let’s Stay Together, Rep. Green.

      • Ted S.

        He needs to put a little love in his heart.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Because Love is a Beautiful Thing.

      • PBRstreetgang

        Take him to the river.

    • leon

      Right now, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) is saying that Trump needs to admit that there is systematicly institutionalized racism in America.

      You know who else demand people admit to things?

      • WTF

        Trump should take him up on it and admit that Affirmative Action and diversity quotas exist.

    • Rebel Scum

      cite an actual example.

      Affirmative action.

      social justice

      “Not justice”.

    • Tonio

      And what, exactly did Obamessiah do to erase that that Trump has undone?

  20. Mojeaux

    I need to go to the art gallery for a much-needed Zen retreat, but it is not open. I would also like to go to the library. Alas, it is also not open.

    • Animal

      Our gun club is open. The trap stands are limited to every other position, but that’s close enough. My Black Diamond Winchester is coming out of the rack Saturday. That’s my Zen retreat.

      • DEG

        Did you bid on that Winchester at Amoskeag?

    • Chipwooder

      I’m sure all 24 black people who have heard of Lady Antebellum are relieved that their nightmare has ended.

    • leon

      1. I’ll say i always did think it was an odd Name.
      2. Should we just erase any reference to the US before the 13th Amendment? Should we call it “That Time that Must Not Me Mentioned?). Seems pretty disrespectful to ignore an entire part of history.

      • leon

        (Disrespectful to the slaves that suffered through it, by trying to make it so no one is comfortable talking about it).

      • Rebel Scum

        I’ll say i always did think it was an odd Name.

        It really is Ludicrous.

      • leon

        Really. And changing the name isn’t going to cause an erasure of all the hurt of the past 14 years.

      • Agent Cooper

        That’s Ludacris!

      • blackjack

        I would call mine, Bad Orange Band

    • Rebel Scum

      to Lady A

      And the “A” stands for?

      • leon

        OOOOH I know this one. Adultery.

      • Mojeaux

        Angel

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Acquiescent

      • TARDIS

        Winner!

        I submit Asinine as an alternate.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Antebell…wait.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Anal

      • bacon-magic

        Asshoe.

    • Drake

      Good luck with your next tour of the deep south.

    • Enough About Palin

      Fucking A.

    • Lady Z

      I find this offensive.

  21. Count Potato

    Stocks are back down again 🙁

    • Below Sea Level Hell Centro

      I had a bad feeling on Tuesday, so I transferred all of my 401k into a savings trust account. Hopefully I will be lucky enough to correctly time the market when I jump back in.

  22. grrizzly

    ‘I’m willing to go to jail,’ says owner of Oxford gym that continues to stay open, despite warnings from town officials

    Warnings from town officials and thousands of dollars of fines aren’t stopping Dave Blondin from operating his gym in Oxford.

    Blondin, 30, the owner of Prime Fitness and Nutrition in Oxford, has been fined more than $5,000 since he opened his gym ahead of schedule after keeping it closed for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    Under the state’s reopening plan, gyms and fitness studios aren’t allowed to reopen until Phase 3, which will start no sooner than June 29. But Blondin went ahead and opened his gym on May 18.

    Blondin said in an interview Thursday that the town ordered him to close the facility, but he refuses to do so. He said people need to be able to exercise and he’s committed to keeping his gym open, no matter what.

    “I’m willing to take this as far as I have to,” Blondin said. “I’m willing to go to jail.”

    • leon

      If he throws a few rocks through some windows, maybe the prosecutors will let him go free.

    • Ted S.

      Unfortunately, I can’t think of a good Clara Barton reference.

      • grrizzly

        I had no idea that Oxford, MA was famous for something or someone.

      • Ted S.

        My sister lived in Leicester, just north of Oxford, for over 20 years. The route to her house that involved getting off at exit 9 of the MassPike went through Oxford, so we always saw the “birthplace of Clara Barton” stuff.

    • Mad Scientist

      When am I going to get my freckled band-aids from these racists!?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Eh, SF’d the link, but you all know how to search.

    • Rebel Scum

      But what of a range of linking abilities?

    • db

      When they run out of white and you are accused of racial appropriate for using what you can find in the store…

    • blackjack

      Well we’re stuck on them, just like they’re stuck on us.

    • Agent Cooper

      This is why I just wear the poo emoji ones.

  23. DEG

    The Clown Prince graciously and magnanimously deigns to lift cower-in-place

    Gov. Chris Sununu is lifting the state’s stay-at-home order and allowing most businesses to reopen with restrictions by the end of the month, while still urging Granite Staters to wear masks and maintain social distancing during what he called New Hampshire’s new normal.

    The governor said Thursday he’s implementing a safer-at-home advisory in place of the stay-at-home order. The lifting of the order removes the 10-person limit on social gatherings and ends the distinction between essential and nonessential businesses.

    Later in the article:

    He said he expects the state to face a second wave of COVID-19 in the fall, when respiratory illnesses tend to spread more easily.

    Oh yeah. We’re going to do this again.

    Here’s a quick report on a “rally” this morning which I attended:

    ReopenNH had plans to hold a small rally at the entrance to the Whittemore Center on the UNH campus in Durham, NH this morning at 9 AM.

    Today the NH State House of Representatives meets for the first time since cower-in-place started. They meet at the Whittemore Center as a temporary location so they can keep Leper Length. Their session starts at 10 AM.

    Tuesday the NH State Senate meets. I think in the State House as the Senate is smaller and they can more easily keep Leper Length in the State House than the House of Representatives can.

    I arrived late and without a sign. The only protestors I saw were a group of “Fight for 15” people.

    I waited a bit. The Fight for 15 people left. I went to leave. I ran into a woman, whom I did not recognize, wearing one of the shirts for sale at the beach rally that I reported on earlier this week. She had a small ReopenNH sign.

    She and I went and stood next to where the legislators drive into a parking lot for the Whittemore Center. It was getting on to 10 AM, so basically no one except the police and the folks checking temperatures for those entering the Whittemore Center saw us.

    A woman I recognized from the beach rally came up. She said that candidates for office (she’s running for state representative, but I don’t know her name or where), received invitations to watch the session from the viewing gallery.

    A clock tower bell rang for 10. The newly arrived woman left to enter the Center.

    The other woman and I left.

    I saw after I got home that the legislators considered a measure to move emergency powers to the legislature. It failed. So, the Clown Prince gets to continue doing whatever he wants.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’m sure it’s not because Walmart has data showing what products are more likely to be shoplifted…

    • Rhywun

      That stuff should be free for Black and Brown people anyway.

      • Rebel Scum

        +1 female negro tax

        beauty products aimed at Black people LOCKED in cases

        Easy fix, stop stealing.

      • Rhywun

        Men’s anti-perspirants are behind a window that raises an alarm when I open it at my drugstore. I am outraged.

  24. Aloysious

    Bald men at higher risk…

    I’m doomed. Might as well have me some sex.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Hey, you try saying racism is bad and see how easy it is.

    • Mojeaux

      *claps hands over eyes and sings tra la la la la la i cant hear you tra la la la la la la la la*

    • Gustave Lytton

      CWAA

    • The Other Kevin

      Yep, let’s keep doing meaningless shit like this and not push for anything that might help. Like police reform legislation. Maybe we should sing another song.

    • Bobarian LMD
  25. Aloysious

    Good music choice. Love Mark, and Emmylou Harris gives me a priapism.

    • Rhywun

      lolsigh

    • leon

      What about the Transgender cops?

    • Bobarian LMD

      Boston Strong!

    • grrizzly

      The officials said members of the campus community have expressed anger, pain, and a feeling of betrayal because police were given access to the building, particularly because the concert hall is closed to students due to the coronavirus pandemic.

      “Allowing police officers into the space was in no way meant to undermine Berklee’s support for Black Lives Matter,” Brown, Hisey, and Ransom said in the statement.

      They said the officers should not have been allowed to use the restrooms, and that police would not be permitted to do so in the future.

      “We are deeply sorry for the impact this had on our community and for perpetuating feelings of oppression, silencing, and marginalization,” they said. “We will make a more concerted effort to consider the effects of our actions.”

      • Rhywun

        “Please don’t vandalize us.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      My brother lives in Boston and teaches at Harvard. He is a leftist but wants Scandanavian model. I wonder what he thinks of all this. I would probably know but he called me a baby killer when I signed up after 9-11 in the military.

      • Rebel Scum

        wants Scandanavian model

        Small, homogeneous population with low regulation and high-ish taxes supporting a larger welfare-state?

      • Agent Cooper

        “wants Scandanavian model”

        like an Elle Nordgren? Sure.

    • Rebel Scum

      I missed it while listening to hate radio on the way home because I was on an outloud, private rant about something else at the time, but is this also where some idiots said they felt “threatened” because a cop was in the building?

  26. Count Potato

    “This virus DOES discriminate — because our nation discriminates.

    We may be beginning to restart but we’re not repeating a broken status quo.”

    https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1271114913939894278

    This is best guy NYC could find for the job out of eight million people?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Im..its…fuck it.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      When’s the last time NYC had a decent mayor? Fiorello La Guardia?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        The first person to say Giuliani gets kicked in the nards.

      • Florida Man

        No love for Stop & Violate Your 4th Amendment Rights?

      • Rhywun

        La Guardia was as progressive as it got at the time. He got the ball rolling on “public housing”, IIRC.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        True. I always liked him because he was one of the few American politicians to see Hitler for what he was early in the game. Far back as 1937 he was saying there should be a special booth at the World’s Fair to take down “that brown shirted fanatic”, and unlike most American politicians, was working to take in Jewish refugees.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Who was the last Indian chief that ruled the place? I’m going to say that guy.

      • Count Potato

        I remember that Koch was at least funny.

      • Yusef _____ too much, insert verb here

        “Certificate of Merit”

      • Raven Nation

        Stuyvesant?

    • Florida Man

      All the replies are “Resign”. Lol. ?

      • Rhywun

        At least half of them because he isn’t “progressive” enough.

      • Florida Man

        ? ?

  27. Urthona

    The beauty of JK Rowling’s situation, which is funny to me today, is that she can’t be canceled for her beliefs on transgenderism. She has already finished all books and movies is obscenely wealthy. She’s maximally successful. It’s so funny to watch the frustrated left struggling with this one.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      I love the people who say “I’m throwing away my books!”

      Like… who cares? She already got your money.

      • The Other Kevin

        Does she get royalties when they show her movies? Maybe they should stop showing her movies, so she stops making money off them. Well, she and all the actors… bwahahaha!

      • Urthona

        She had at one point had a net worth of a billion — with a b. Although she’s done an excellent job of giving hundreds of millions away.

        I think that strategy may be a bit late

      • Juvenile Bluster

        I’m sure she does, but who cares? The last movie in the series came out nearly a decade ago. There’s the Fantastic Beasts movies, but those are failing by themselves thanks to Johnny Depp. Plus she’s already a billionaire.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s just the leftist equivalent of people burning their Nike’s. They could even continue to purchase her books secondhand without giving her money but I suppose that didn’t occur to them.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, imagine that – the delirious image of them burning her books.

      • Drake

        But can they force themselves to forget all about the books and how they enjoyed them?

      • Tejicano

        Throw away her books – contributing to the scarcity of those books, and driving some level of demand to newly printed books, thus channeling even more money into her pockets.

    • Q Continuum

      That’s called “bugger off £££”.

  28. Juvenile Bluster

    [TW: Vox]

    Remember that picture I posted a while back of the truck with the McCain/Romney/Johnson/Bloomberg bumper stickers and a hand-lettered Black Lives Matter flag? Vox interviewed him.

    https://www.vox.com/2020/6/11/21283836/protests-libertarian-dc-interview-truck

    He calls himself a libertarian. Not going to say I agree with everything this dude says (like, supporting nanny Bloomberg? Really?), I agree with this 100%

    You probably get this if you’ve been paying attention to right-wing stuff, but every libertarian agrees on two things: that there’s only one libertarian and it’s them.

    • Q Continuum

      I think supporting Bloomy means he has to turn in his libertarian card permanently.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The copious number of bumper stickers points to he’s a nutcase.

      • Gustave Lytton

        He’s young, directionless, and thought libertarianism was about libertinism that appeals to youth. He’s more interested in getting cocktail invites in DC. See: most of the staffers hired by Reason before they went off the deep end.

      • juris imprudent

        Being a nutcase can’t be a disqualification for the party that considered nominating McAfee as it’s presidential candidate.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        In fairness his sanity has degraded since back then when he was almost almost sane. The last four years haven’t been kind to him.

    • commodious spittoon

      You probably get this if you’ve been paying attention to right-wing stuff, but every libertarian agrees on two things: that there’s only one libertarian and it’s them him.

      Solid setup, ruined his punchline. I loathe this they/them pronoun horseshit.

      • juris imprudent

        Well given that there are no female libertarians…

    • Suthenboy

      Where is all this right-wing stuff I keep hearing about? Is it with the secret Nazi’s that are hiding everywhere?

      It looks like demoralization is complete and we are moving into the crisis stage. Scary stuff.

  29. Rebel Scum

    I think I will be leaving Nextdoor. It obviously serves no purpose.

    Neighbors,

    Let me say it unequivocally: Racism has no place on Nextdoor.

    First, I want to express my outrage and sadness for those who have been hurt by the legacy of racism in the United States. I am heartbroken for those experiencing loss and grief right now.

    Recent events have acutely exposed that some of the behavior we see on our platform is not at all in line with our values as a company. We’ve heard from many Black neighbors that they do not feel welcome and respected. For this, we are sorry. This, we must change.

    Systemic racism in our nation will not be solved overnight. Neighborhoods, we believe, must be part of the solution. Nextdoor connects neighbors, creating dialogues with people you may not have otherwise known. These conversations can spark understanding — and drive change.

    Nextdoor exists to foster these conversations in a civil, productive way. We are committed to building neighborhoods where everyone is empowered to participate. Our purpose at Nextdoor is to cultivate a kinder world where neighbors can rely on one another, where all feel welcome.

    While we have been working for years to create this civil forum for discussions, it is time to expand our plan for improvements to our platform and our company. With our employees, neighbors, partners, and advisors, we are taking action.

    We will better educate our neighbors on what is — and is not — allowed on our platform, drawing a firm line against racist behavior and removing comments and members who violate the rules. We will accelerate our plans to strengthen our community moderation. This will include improving the resources and support we provide to Neighborhood Leads who work to maintain civil and productive conversations on Nextdoor. We will also take deliberate steps to further increase diversity across our organization — and to make our team more reflective of the neighborhoods we want to serve.

    This is important work, and there is much more to come. We are committed to plotting a clear path forward, where Nextdoor becomes a destination for vital conversations and trusted connections.

    This change starts with sidewalk conversations and simple offers to help our neighbors in need. It will happen as we lean on each other through hurricanes and health crises, or when we come together at park cleanups and community cookouts. The important conversations start with these moments, at these intersections.

    Only when we really see each other, will we begin to resolve our differences. Together, we will create a Nextdoor where everybody belongs.

    This is only the beginning.

    • Mad Scientist

      Nextdoor’s only purpose is to enable a community Karens to get together and complain about people who don’t do things exactly they way they would.

      • juris imprudent

        Anti-social media FTW.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was poking fun at a neighborhood Karen on the HOA Facebook group today.

        So it can be entertaining when you don’t give a shit what they think about you.

    • Rhywun

      When are we going to get a promise from Glibs to do better? *taps foot*

    • blackjack

      They kicked me off for calling the act of demanding armed men enforce the mask dictates “Fascism.” They are liars.

      • Suthenboy

        Most of what you see now are lies. The problem with shitlords like you is that you refuse to be a coward and repeat the lies.

  30. Tres Cool

    Im smashed. I began drinking around noon when I was @ Kroger and saw they hat $0.99/cent double-deuce beers.
    Jusgsy wants to watch a movie (they always do) and I gave her the option of ‘The Grifters’ or “buffalo ’66”

    Discuss.

    • Rebel Scum
      • Translucent Chum

        Club dread has a fun opening scene..

    • Rhywun

      Buffalo ’66 is pretty good. Choose that one.

      • LemonGrenade

        I drive luxury cars! They shift themselves!

    • Mad Scientist

      The VelociPastor You’ll enjoy it even more if you’re drunk.

      • Spudalicious

        Heh.

      • westernsloper

        At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.

        Sold!

    • Yusef _____ too much, insert verb here

      I just got back from Cali so I’m behind,
      Tall Cans!

  31. KSuellington

    It’s time we joined together with these very serious celebrities and Take Responsibility.

    https://youtu.be/JjDebAl8Dgc

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      God do I hate the heartfelt statement flash from to person to person celebrity videos, and this one in pretentious black and white no less. Go fuck yourselves you bastards.

      • KSuellington

        It’s so over the top it is utterly ridiculous. I had to laugh at it.

      • blackjack

        I will take responsibility for continuing to purchase the products these retards put out. I have no idea the political leanings of my dentist, my gardeners, pretty much anybody else I deal with. These people are repulsive and I should never allow them to earn another penny from me, again.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Screw that, I just saved up enough to buy the Breaking Bad boxed set from Amazon.

    • Rebel Scum

      I take responsibility. No, wait. Scratch that. Reverse it. I do not take responsibility because I have done nothing wrong.

      And what is this horseshit about jokes and stereotypes? Stereotypes are funny ffs. And if you don’t allow them you are going to put many minority comedians out of work.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Comments are turned off for this video”

      Dammit

      • TARDIS

        Chicken poo….

    • Sean

      I hate 2020.

      My poor liver is taking a beating over it.

      • TARDIS

        +0.20

      • Tulip

        Yes

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Once again…

      “There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.” – Hoffer

    • JD is in the United Karendom
  32. juris imprudent

    I’m not sure how, but I know Republicans must be to blame.

    Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams says she has not heard from Joe Biden’s presidential campaign as it starts its vetting process to pick a nominee for vice president.

    • Rebel Scum

      She is awfully arrogant for a loser. Kindof like how John Oliver is awfully smug for someone who is always wrong about everything. She is the John Oliver of arrogance.

    • Rhywun

      Oh, hon….

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Then again maybe she’s just fibbing so they can give us all a happy surprise.

    • creech

      She must be really off the long list. You’d think Biden’s people would call her in just for appearance sake, like NFL and MLB teams called in black assistant left footed place kicker or home plate coaches for interviews when they were looking for the next manager to rebuild their team.

    • Suthenboy

      Is this her attempt to pressure him into picking her?

      • Hyperion

        She doesn’t look like a 1/64th Cherokee white woman to me, which is what they’ve already picked. She’s confused.

  33. LCDR_Fish

    FML. Raining again. It’s never gonna dry out enough for them to install my cable. This is nuts.

  34. Mojeaux

    I am moving into a new computer this weekend because my 8yo Asus is glitching in concerning ways. The new computer has Win10 on it. I’m skeert. Hold me.

    • TARDIS

      It’s not that bad. I am able to switch easily between work (Win7) and home.

      • Mojeaux

        Well, I’m really just dreading the process of getting acclimated and everything Just. So. You know? The first thing I have to do is make it look like Win 3.x. ?

      • TARDIS

        Maybe a high end 15″ CRT would help?

      • blackjack

        Upgrade the baud’s in your modem?

      • Mojeaux

        Both are on my shopping list.

      • Mojeaux

        MUST. HAVE.

      • Incentives Matter

        If you don’t have one already, get a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply, not The Company of The Big Brown Truck of Joy). Costco sells APC ones that are perfectly cromulent.

      • TARDIS

        Not the exact model I had, but close.

  35. Ayn Random Variation

    I get a weekly food delivery from “X”
    I just got an email from “X” telling me they support BLM. In the email are links to organizations that want money to do something about the lack of black farmers, and another to do something about food apartheid on in the US.
    Being that I can get off my ass and go to the store myself, I can and will do without this service.

    • creech

      Why do you hate the return of black sharecropping?

      • Fourscore

        Are there community gardens in Antifaland? To encourage sociology majors to go back to the land? I saw some private chicken coop pictures from Baltimore, they looked like high security prisons.

        I have garden fences myself, to keep the critters sort of out, although a gopher is testing me now. Are there toll gates in and out of a certain neighbor hood in Seattle? I can see that coming by the next freedom loving group.

      • Count Potato

        “Are there community gardens in Antifaland? ”

        They “planted” a vegetable garden in that “autonomous zone” but it just looks pathetic.

      • blackjack

        They need to find a way to force people to take up agriculture. Too bad history has never provided an example of just such a thing.

      • Jarflax

        You are supposed to plant the gardens BEFORE you declare your little inner city enclave an independent nation. People seem to struggle with the idea that crops take time.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Like someone said in Twitter:

        We’ll know it’s real communism when they starve to death.

      • straffinrun

        They need more corpses for fertilizer.

    • Rhywun

      You could write “X” back and tell them you don’t do business with Marxists and they shouldn’t either.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Pretty close. I sent this:

        I am cancelling my subscription. I use your service because I enjoy getting food deliveries. I do not enjoy doing business with Marxists, nor do I enjoy being preached to.

      • Rhywun

        Nice.

    • blackjack

      HAH! Chinese voting is like Democrats voting. It’s OK, but you have to do it again in about a half hour.

      • TARDIS

        “You really know me, don’t you babe?”

        Free winning lottery ticket for anyone that gets the reference.
        My wife and I used to say that to each other all the time.

      • blackjack

        My odds of winning that went way down when Google couldn’t even find those words in that order.

  36. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I don’t suppose anyone heard about Zoom suspending the accounts of some Chinese that held an online memorial for Tianamen last week?

  37. Count Potato

    “Here is the employee chart for ActBlue Charities— the company that receives every dollar raised via the Black Lives Matter website.

    The entire company is comprised of white left-wing political activists who you can research.

    They also run the ACTBLUE superpac.”

    https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1270897291038244864

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Huh, actual journalism.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Election year fundraising.

  38. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    Facebook announced today that it is elevating the authority and role of their “diversity officer” as a way to virtue signal to the mob of rioters and domestic terrorists plaguing our nation. This comes as advertisers pressured Facebook to censor the President of the United States of America and the social network faced heat from Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden who called for political ads to be “fact-checked.”

    Diversity officers aren’t ever concerned with or focused on diversity of thought, diversity of ideas, or diversity of beliefs. The success of people in these roles is measured by them filling job positions not based on merit or ability, but rather based on the color of someone’s skin. This is inherently racist and should be frowned upon by corporations and consumers alike. Instead it is endorsed, praised, and embraced.

    The Facebook Thought Police also determined that a page dedicated to celebrating “dead cops” doesn’t violate their Community Guidelines while at the same time deciding that the “500 Mom Strong” group, which advocated against Drag Queen Story Hour, had to be removed from the site.

    It would appear that all of the pandering Facebook does to appease the “woke” mob of lunatics isn’t helping them. Indeed, the mob appears to smell blood and has been pushing for even more censorship and control over the flow of information than ever before.

    At Gab we do not bend to mobs. We do not follow “woke” corporate trends like appointing racist diversity officiers. Instead, we lead. Which is why our community is growing so rapidly. Everyday people are tired of the cult of social justice infecting their social media feeds like a cancer. They are tired of being treated like children by technology platforms. Most of all they are tired of the hypocrisy and double standards.

    Gab doesn’t have a diversity officer and we never will.

    The color of someone’s skin doesn’t have anything to do with defending our mission of empowering everyone to speak freely online. Our mission unites people of every color, background, creed, and belief system. It enables and elevates the diversity of thought and the growth of new ideas.

    We welcome everyone to join us in bringing this vision to life and ending the woke tyranny of Silicon Valley elites.

    God bless,

    Andrew Torba
    CEO, Gab.com

    I don’t really care to use his service, but I may sign up for a pro account just to support the company. Every email I get from them could be an article here.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      How long until they are sued or legislated out of existence? 1 year?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Depends on the election.

        If Dems control everything, they will go full time totalitarian.

        I think they’ve made that clear.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        I have asked the reasonable lefties I know how they can vote for Democrat these days. I’m talking about people who think the lockdowns and riots are stupid and aren’t about to bend any knees or join any diversity committees.
        And it’s all about Trump. They hate him more than anything I’ve ever seen, and I remember the BushHitler years very well. I remember Reagan getting blamed for AIDS and crack.
        But this is a whole other level of hate.
        I don’t see how Trump can possibly win. They’ll just make it an all mail in election and have the NYT and CNN count the votes with the SPLC and ACLU overseeing things.

      • blackjack

        It’s incalculable how much they hate him. Equally, why they hate him. He hasn’t really been anywhere near outside the norm as Saint O was.

    • straffinrun

      It may just be me, but I don’t have reread things that are critical of the cult of social justice. They usually make a clear point whether I agree with them or not. The pro cultist writing makes me reread it over and over until I just pretend like I understand what they’re saying.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        It makes insecure people feel smart when they read confused/confusing stuff. That it’s all gobbledygook doesn’t really matter, as long as the words are big and the ideas are convoluted.

      • straffinrun

        My white privilege is preventing me from understanding gobbledygook.

      • blackjack

        Coming from a lawyer, no less.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s like modern art.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If it matters to you he believes pornography isn’t covered by the 1st Amendment and that it should be outlawed. There are better platforms to support IMHO, Bitchute for example.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Does he pull (legal) porn down when it’s posted on Gab?

        It’s not a hill I’m willing to die on, given that I align with him on the issue except for on the legal part of it. It would dampen my excitement for the rhetoric, though.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Im pretty sure yes but I’m not positive. This was a big blow up a year or two ago but I only heard about it secondhand via various talking heads on YouTube.

    • Hyperion

      Sadbeard looks even more sad with that mask.

    • Drake

      Honk honk

  39. Count Potato

    “A 28-year-old social democratic data scientist lost his job at @CivisAnalytics
    for tweeting an article by a biracial Princeton African-American studies scholar suggesting that riopting is politically counterproductive

    This is horrifying.”

    https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1271081772428689409

    “David Shor is a 28-year-old political data analyst and social democrat who worked for President Obama’s reelection campaign. On May 28, Shor tweeted out a short summary of a paper by Princeton professor Omar Wasow. The research compiled by Wasow analyzed public opinion in the 1960s, and found violent and nonviolent protest tactics had contradictory effects.

    It is easy to see why a specialist in public opinion whose professional mission is to help elect Democrats while moving the party leftward would take an interest in this research. But in certain quarters of the left — though not among Democratic elected officials — criticizing violent protest tactics is considered improper on the grounds that it distracts from deeper underlying injustice, and shifts the blame from police and other malefactors onto their victims.

    One universal fact of political life is that people tend not to enjoy highlighting faults committed by their own side, and often respond to others bringing up behavior they don’t want to defend outright by deflecting blame. Conservatives are united less by a zeal to affirm every one of Donald Trump’s actions than a reluctance to denounce them. Likewise, while few leftists go so far as to explicitly advocate violent or destructive acts, refraining from criticism of violent protests is, among parts of the far left, almost a social norm.”

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-tom-cotton-new-york-times-james-bennet.html

    • Jarflax

      How horrific! What kind of monster would make the snowflakes consider the possibility that they might be fallible? Is it time to start killing the left yet? Wake me up when that time comes.

      • juris imprudent

        Killing them? All you need is a harsh word to reduce them to quivering jelly barely only able to type 140 characters of twaddle. [This is why they react so intensely to Trump – he’s on their level.]

      • Jarflax

        They are toddlers in adult bodies. Yes they will completely lose their minds the second anyone tells them they can’t have candy for dinner, but their tantrums turn into riots and the death of the US.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What did you expect?

      Just look at what they did to Greenwald.

      • DOOMco

        Tim pool has basically been cast out as far as I know

    • straffinrun

      Waddabowtism!!!!

    • commodious spittoon

      STFU NEANDERTHALCUCK

      THEY FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE, IDIOT

    • Rhywun

      That’s so convoluted I can’t calculate how outraged I’m supposed to be.

    • Hyperion

      “A 28-year-old social democratic data scientist lost his job at @CivisAnalytics”

      Well, the world cannot possibly survive when ‘essential’ workers like this lose their job. I’ts all over now.

  40. westernsloper

    I went shopping today to finish my list. I purposely did not buy any frozen pizza or candy. I hate myself.

    • straffinrun

      Pineapple straight from the can, eh?

      • westernsloper

        Naaaa, I was just pondering dinner while feeling extremely lazy. I am going with fish tacos since I don’t have a Totinos to chuck in the oven.

      • Jarflax

        Hooker, it’s what’s for dinner?

      • straffinrun

        Careful with the question mark. Sloper thinks that means you asked a question. :p

      • AlmightyJB

        I just saw pineapple is now a White Claw favor. How many versions of sweaty gym sock water does one need?

  41. Tejicano

    After reading the discussion here about NYC-chauvinism I had a belated remembrance about a conversation I had with a European co-worker when I was on business in NYC. We were talking about big city life – contrasting NYC and Tokyo. He brought up the subject of New York summers during which the garbage is generally left to ferment in the streets. He told me the stench gets so bad his wife has been taking the kids back to her home country for the entire summer while they are out of school to get away from the smell.

    His wife is from Manila –

    • Hyperion

      Patience, man, Deblasio is bringing utopia, just a little bit more wokeness to go.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      When was he last in NYC, 1977?

      • Tejicano

        We were talking there in NYC were he was living at the time in 2018.

      • Rhywun

        Any garbage “fermenting in the streets” means people are illegally dumping their garbage on the sidewalk earlier than they are supposed to, which is the night before pickup day. Generally doesn’t happen where I am.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Don’t get me wrong, being in Manhattan on a hot, humid day sucks, but it’s no dirtier than any other big US city.

      • commodious spittoon

        I was walking down a street drenched in sweat after delivering a box to a UPS store. I was soaked. I’m a sweater. I passed some crazy asshole shouting some crazy asshole shit. A tourist lady asked, “Is he shouting at you??”

        That was my experience in NYC. I got super sweaty delivering my friend’s belongings into the care of UPS, and some lady thought I was personally being shouted at by one of your crazy dudes.

        Fuck NYC. Fuck your buildings, fuck your humidity, fuck your crazy people, fuck your tourists. My most pleasant memory there was the plane ride home, because I was leaving your shitty, horrible rathole warren. I was like Arthur when he gets bit by the swamp rat thing when he’s trying to find Earth, and realized that sad, pathetic existence isn’t it. Fuck New York City.

      • Tejicano

        I don’t know what part of the city he was living in – he was the head chef for a well known 5 star hotel on 5th avenue so I suppose he was making enough to live somewhere in an OK (maybe not the best but OK) part of the city. Maybe there was some kind of strike going on regularly but it made an impression as I have usually only personally experienced that kind of “garbage in the streets” in bona fide 3rd world countries.

        Doesn’t really matter to me what it is like in Manhattan if it smells like New Delhi where I live.

      • RAHeinlein

        I’ll personally attest to bullshit on this one – fake news.