Tuesday Afternoon Links

by | Jun 23, 2020 | Daily Links | 358 comments

Hey guys, how’s tricks? Didja miss me? I’ve been busy trying to figure out how to navigate an entirely new organization. And I have to say, its just SSDD on things like access and giving people tools to do their jobs. At least everybody at the new client is polite about telling me honestly that most of their cloud policies are more aspirational than actual at this point, and encouraging feedback. That will last until the first time I actually give critical feedback, so I’m saving my one shot for something special.

Which one of you was this? I would never. In a million years. Fight my way INTO a Walmart. Out, yes.

I’m not a fan of the cops, but even I don’t think its fair to blame them for this moron. Jailers are their own special breed of “too dumb to let off premises”

This is some crazy stuff right here. Have we covered Wirecard? Dude just forged $2B in false transactions, I guess to raise money? Not sure what the end game was there.

Earthquake in Mexico. 7.4 is pretty huge.

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.

358 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh, blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for a desire to be first. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why. My nightly firsting has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

    • leon

      Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why.

      This happens when you hit puberty.

    • bacon-magic

      Put the axe down and pick up the lithium.

      • BakedPenguin
      • bacon-magic

        Love that song.

      • Mojeaux

        I went on a wild and wacky trip just listening to that. No drugs necessary.

    • Fatty Bolger

      A nightly fisting is not conducive to rectal health, my friend.

      • Hyperion

        It sounds painful. Maybe that’s why he’s going insane?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Something horrible is happening inside of me…

        Maybe you should trim your nails?

      • Seguin

        Yeah but it’s great for constipation.

    • Chipwooder

      Let’s take a look at Paul Allen’s card

  2. Drake

    They are still doing the health safety theater in Florida?

    • Fatty Bolger

      There’s no mask mandate by the state. Walmart doesn’t mandate it either, though maybe individual stores or regions do.

      • DEG

        The article said the county mandated masks.

      • Brochettaward

        Oh look at big shot DEG here reading the articles.

      • commodious spittoon

        The what now

  3. Swiss Servator

    At least the initial article says the epicenter was away from Mexico City and other crowded areas, by a bit.

    • leon

      Reuters witnesses in Mexico City saw no initial signs of injuries or damage.

      That seems like nothing short of a miracle.

      Unless the guy just didn’t bother actually looking for signs of injuries or damage.

    • BakedPenguin

      The epicenter was in the ocean, right? That will ‘absorb’ a lot of the energy.

      In any case, good – as you said. IIRC, MX City has some 20MM people, and occasionally dicey architectural standards.

      • Gadfly

        Not to mention that Mexico City is built on the site of a former lake, making it rather not the firmest ground on which to build.

      • Hyperion

        It should be a little more stable now that they filled in the lake with all those torn down ruins and probably a million metric tons of whatever else by now.

      • R C Dean

        Fill is fill, and only becomes bedrock in geologic time. One reason San Francisco gets torn up by earthquakes is because part of it is built on fill, as well.

      • Gadfly

        And fill that is not properly compacted is one of the least stable soils there is.

    • leon

      Hmm the fact that it isn’t a criminal matter just shows you how systemic the racisim is in the west.

    • Not Adahn

      But Nazi pugs are?

      • UnCivilServant

        Of course. It might raise a paw at the wrong moment.

      • BakedPenguin

        I think I was laughing for 30 minutes when I first saw that video.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I still do every time I see it.

      • Gadfly

        I think the Nazi pug guy was from Scotland, which makes England look downright libertarian by comparison.

  4. Not Adahn

    Jailers are their own special breed of “too dumb to let off premises”

    Having worked closely with two Huntsville screws, I have to agree.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    7.4 is pretty huge. Maybe in Mexico

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Is that in the metric system?

  6. Raven Nation

    EPL update: still taking a knee before kickoff. But back to the players’ names on their kit.

  7. Hyperion

    “Earthquake in Mexico. 7.4 is pretty huge.”

    Trump? Global warming? Wuhan Flu? Combination?

      • Hyperion

        Volcanoes is racist., white tops and all that.

      • Jarflax

        But the Latin fire down below.

    • Hyperion

      What’s a Colion Noir? A wine?

      • Tres Cool

        For financial reasons.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        What’s a Colion Noir? A wine?

        I drink beer.

      • C. Anacreon

        His name translates as “The Night Colon”.

  8. Apples and Knives

    Saw a tweet from Ben Shapiro about Mount Rushmore being next on the cancellation list and it got me to thinking, how long will it really last? Two slave owners, two other presidents who are also having statues toppled, all carved into a mountain the Native Americans considered holy (I think). For real, will it be gone in my lifetime?

    • Brochettaward

      I can only hope a large number of Antifa die trying it.

    • Hyperion

      Nothing is off limits. If it’s part of Western culture (anything ever created or built, or conceived by western civilization), it’s an eventual target. So, everything in the country. And the more they destroy, the more the media cheers them on. It’s going to end very badly.

    • Tundra

      Kristi says no.

      I hate politicians as a rule, but damn, that woman…

      • BakedPenguin

        I can say this – for a state governor, 10/10.

      • Apples and Knives

        Would

      • Tundra
      • mikey

        Nice, but the brand new gloves ruin the effect.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I want to see them try.

    • Akira

      For real, will it be gone in my lifetime?

      I’m sure Leftists would write this off as a slippery slope fallacy… But on practically every issue today, the Left is espousing positions that, 10 years ago, they would have dismissed as a slippery slope fallacy.

      The Left has been gleefully speeding down the slippery slope that they swear does not exist.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Cue clip of media idiot gleefully laughing at Trump’s are Washington and Jefferson next comments.

      • Apples and Knives

        I’ve started to think I’ll live to see the repeal of the Constitution, unless I die in civil unrest before then.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      One of them will lose a nose like the sphinx.

  9. DEG

    The clip, which has been viewed 4 million times, shows the gray-haired man scuffling with an employee at the Orlando superstore Saturday — the same day face masks became mandatory in the county, WDBO-FM reported.

    The county officials felt left out because they don’t mandate gris-gris like all the cool kids?

    The former CEO of the German payments firm Wirecard was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of falsifying accounts, after the company disclosed a $2.1 billion financial hole and questioned whether trustees had actually held money on its behalf.

    $2 billion missing? That’s nothing. This guy should have worked for the US government.

    7.4 is pretty huge.

    I thought we settled this on the earlier thread?

  10. leon

    So…. I saw on twitter that their are a lot of people crying locally about how bad Covid is becoming here.

    But i look at the data and we have consistently had the lowest cumulative mortality rate, we have some of the lowest total deaths due to covid, and we have not seen an uptick in hospitalizations. The only thing we have had a spike in is in the number of positive test cases.

    • RBS

      That’s pretty much how it is here. It’s interesting listening to people I still beating the this will kill millions* drum when the real world says otherwise.

      *No statistics were researched in the preparation of this comment.

  11. Derpetologist

    Not peak derp, but definitely peak NPR

    https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881810671/white-house-defends-trumps-use-of-racist-term-to-describe-coronavirus

    White House Defends Trump’s Use Of Racist Term To Describe Coronavirus

    ***
    Trump’s racist description of the virus marks the most recent in a years-long history of offensive terminology aimed at racial minorities.

    As president, Trump has previously referred to African nations as “s***hole countries,” defended white supremacists and referred to immigrants from Mexico as “rapists” and criminals.

    Still, the president has denied harboring any racist motives, describing himself last year as “the least racist person anywhere in the world.”

    Last week, social media posts by Trump’s campaign were flagged and removed by Twitter and Facebook for using racist language and images.
    ***

    Why, I have half a mind to cancel my NPR subscription.

    In other news, I did many lunges with dumbbells yesterday and now it hurts to walk or go up stairs. Hopefully the lunges will improve my running.

    • Brochettaward

      You know what helps improve your running?

      …Running.

      • Derpetologist

        Yeah, but I thought there were other ways. Aren’t jumps supposed to be good for sprinting? Or at the very least, lower body strength training can reduce the chance of injury, so I read.

      • Tundra

        Sure, that will help. Big, compound lifts are always the answer.

        When I was a runner though, increasing my flexibility is what gave me the biggest increases in speed. That and less weight.

    • Ted S.

      They called it racist, without any evidence.

      • Hyperion

        “Trump has previously referred to African nations as “s***hole countries”

        I can’t see where he’s wrong to that point. The rest of it appears as NPR obfuscating or embellishing the truth. Imagine that.

      • C. Anacreon

        And even the shithole comment was hearsay. He never defended white supremacists. His reference to Mexican immigrants was “some”, not all.

        Who exactly directs NPR, wouldn’t they be under the Executive branch? Worst authoritarian ever to let his employees keep badmouthing him with lies, andthen calling him a liar.

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        It’s racist because they say it is. It should be banned like hate speech.

  12. Translucent Chum

    Twitter hides Trump tweet for threatening potential protesters

    https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/06/23/twitter-hides-trump-tweet-threatening-potential-protesters/3245120001/

    “There will never be an Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President,” Trump tweeted, referring to an area in Seattle occupied by protesters where police are not operating. “If they try they will be met with serious force!”

    Heh. I like the ‘potential’ protesters headline. What a clown show.

    • Grosspatzer

      occupied by protesters where police are not operating criminal gangs
      FTFY

      • Hyperion

        At least they have the long term success of CHOP to use as supportive evidence of why there should be autonomous zones. The NYT will take it from here.

  13. The Other Kevin

    Before I clicked that Walmart link I thought it might have been about my local Walmart. We were shopping this weekend, and as we left a very large black man and a very large white man got into a heated shouting match near the entrance. Something about racism. Thankfully we were leaving, I’d be pretty nervous if I were in the store with those two carrying on.

  14. Mojeaux

    Brett, I am sincerely happy for you. May you never regret unshackling from an employer.

  15. Not Adahn

    Having a telemeeting with my group re: returning to work. Someone actually asked if the HVAC spread the ‘vid.

    Having said that, some technical stuff for the HVAC junkies out there:

    From 06:00 to 18:00, 5 air changes/hour
    From 18:00 to 06:00, all fresh air purge, no recirc.

    Also, there are some people being really whiny coming back to work. That or they’re far dumber/panickier than the seem IRL.

    • Tres Cool

      Ages ago, when I was new in the environmental business, we were testing a thermal oxidizer. The plant people were trying to do some air balancing, and i was in our trailer, waiting. One of the guys came and mentioned make-up air. When he left, I asked my boss what that was. He said, “Oh, that’s what they blow into women’s restrooms”.

      I still think of that.

      • Not Adahn

        I wonder exactly how much more electricity we’re using without recirc. The main ballroom is 13.5MM cubic feet.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Fans are Cheap, and they use Economizers anyway, so same routine as before, it saves a lot of money,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        OK I laughed hard!

    • Not Adahn

      And a unicycle with legs is a pogo stick.

      • Derpetologist

        Why, the fax machine is nothing more that telephone with a waffle iron attached.

    • Grosspatzer

      Needs these:

    • Mojeaux

      Huh. I thought that was called a horse.

    • Incentives Matter

      See! Mechwarrior could TOTALLY BE A THING, D00D!

    • Derpetologist

      Oh, how I wish I could have been in the design meeting for the Imperial Walker. I suspect it was something like this:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

      “Hmm, yes. The perfect weapon is a very large, loud, slow moving object which can be seen and heard coming from miles away. Oh, and will be completely useless except on open, flat, level, hard ground- where it will be more easily seen and shot at.”

      • Derpetologist

        “Oh yeah, and all the weapons will be in the head so it will only be able to shoot at things directly in front of it.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I remember that sketch!

    • Hyperion

      OK. So, humans can already walk with all that annoying clanky sound. Where’s the utility of that contraption?

      • Derpetologist

        QUIET, YOU!

    • Suthenboy

      Link?

  16. Not Adahn

    Surplus Beretta 76s available. Was considering buying one for RFPI Steel Challenge, but don’t feel like buying $200 worth of extra magazines. It is a pretty gun though.

    • R C Dean

      Well, my pondering about a combat shotgun has gone from:

      Benelli M4: gas operated action, stupidly hard to find and eye-poppingly expensive on Gunbroker – no, I am not paying $3,000 for a shotgun. So, that’s out.
      Benelli M2: inertia action, hard to find and rather pricey on Gunbroker – I just might be willing to pay $1,800 for a NIB version with the extended mag, but dang.
      Beretta 1301: gas operated action, hanging on the wall at my local (or at least it was a couple hours ago), and well-priced – $1150, but I’ll have to get the extended mag, so add another $150. I like the feel in my hands, too – solid and quite maneuverable.

      Turns out Beretta owns Benelli, which I did not know.

      • DEG

        Benelli M4: gas operated action, stupidly hard to find and eye-poppingly expensive on Gunbroker – no, I am not paying $3,000 for a shotgun. So, that’s out.

        Wow. I got mine at an auction for $1350 or so. Total price including auction fees.

        I still haven’t shot it. I will hang my head in shame.

      • R C Dean

        Supply and demand, bro. Demand is apparently sky-high for the combat shotgun used by the Marines, for some reason.

        That seems a ballparky price for an NIB M4; you might get a used one for a little less.

        You wouldn’t be willing to sell yours for a modest markup on what you paid, I don’t suppose?

      • DEG

        You wouldn’t be willing to sell yours for a modest markup on what you paid, I don’t suppose?

        Sorry, I’m not interested in selling it.

      • R C Dean

        But you don’t even shoot it!

        j/k I know how it is. Suthen isn’t the only one with guns in his safe that he hasn’t shot in a long while, may never shoot again, but won’t sell.

      • Brochettaward

        But he doesn’t have a problem. No sir…perfectly reasonable.

      • Spudalicious

        I only have a couple I’ve never shot…

      • EvilSheldon

        Get the 1301. Seriously.

        Or I could sell you a beat-up-but-functional M2 Field for a very attractive price…

    • Suthenboy

      Dammit….wrong reply.

      Link?

    • The Other Kevin

      +1 COVID is especially devastating to minority communites.

    • Mad Scientist

      I’m Irish. What year cutoff are they using for being “white?”

      • Tundra

        Scottish and Italian.

        No mask for me, I guess.

      • bacon-magic

        Itsa no maska for youse, laddie.
        (don’t put haggis next to my pillow please, I’m Scott/Irish/German)

    • creech

      Identify as a colored person. Who is going to challenge you?

    • Brochettaward

      “This is in the larger context of black men fitting the description of a suspect who has a hood on, who has a face covering on,” Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University, told the outlet.

      Why the fuck are they quoting an economics professor on this?

      Also, blatantly unconstitutional.

    • Count Potato

      “The racial makeup of the county was 90.59% White”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So not about public health then, otherwise that would be irrelevant.

    • Grosspatzer

      *checks url*

      Why is the Post intruding on the Bee’s turf?

      • grrizzly

        I had the same reaction.

    • Hyperion

      Let’s say this virus is as deadly as they say it is, for which there is currently zero proof. But let’s play along.

      Is this the new Eugenics?

  17. Gadfly

    So apparently now orders to wear face masks are racist:

    Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.

    “For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” ReNika Moore, director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, told CNN.

    Things are crazy out there.

    • Gadfly

      Cross-post with Rhywun. Shoulda refreshed the page.

    • Translucent Chum

      How about drugs and asses?

      • R C Dean

        Nah. Too quick, and just the second time it was posted.

    • RBS

      For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public

      Umm, ok.

    • Spudalicious

      Missed it by thaaat much.

    • Brochettaward

      That’s some guys fetish.

      • Ted S.

        Don’t worry, we won’t kink-shame you.

    • Ted S.

      He finally got his red wings?

    • leon

      How many times does this happen that it doesn’t turn out to be a Hoax?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Never?

        The New York Shake Shack thing was the best. In like 12 hours we went from “Six cops were sent to the hospital! Boycott Shake Shack! Arrest those workers!” to “Um, we have no evidence” to “But bleach!” to “No, it might’ve been some soap. And oh yeah there were only three cops and none of them got sick.”

    • RBS

      So many assholes in that article.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      How much extra did that cost?

    • Juvenile Bluster

      The chances of this being true are about equal to the chances of me voting for Biden or Trump in November.

      Which would be zero, if that wasn’t obvious.

    • Mad Scientist

      “…after drinking half of it…”

      That seems pretty oblivious for a professional, trained observer.

    • Tres Cool

      Isnt that how vampires make tea ?

    • Suthenboy

      I am just gonna save some time and trouble and call bullshit right off of the bat.

  18. Juvenile Bluster

    This morning’s discussion of what a dickhead Roger Waters was reminded me of the song Lost for Words, a Pink Floyd song written years after he left the band. Was basically a giant middle finger to him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV7cWhmoG9w

    I was spending my time in the doldrums
    I was caught in a cauldron of hate
    I felt persecuted and paralysed
    I thought that everything else would just wait

    While you are wasting your time on your enemies
    Engulfed in a fever of spite
    Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
    Like shadows into the night

    To martyr yourself to caution
    Is not gonna help at all
    Because there’ll be no safety in numbers
    When the Right One walks out of the door

    Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
    Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
    Stuck in a world of isolation
    While the ivy grows over the door

    So I open my door to my enemies
    And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
    But they tell me to please go fuck myself
    You know you just can’t win

    • Spudalicious

      I like it. Roger Waters is a total dick.

      • Count Potato

        He put on a good show though.

    • Mad Scientist

      These lyrics are just more evidence that, no matter what an asshole Waters is, Pink Floyd sucks without him.

      • Tundra

        These lyrics are just more evidence that, no matter what an asshole Waters is, Pink Floyd sucks without him.

      • Mad Scientist

        Oh, no you di’n’t!

      • Tundra

        The Wall was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was 12 or 13. I didn’t know any better.

        I’m wiser now.

      • bacon-magic

        Booooooooooooooooooooo

      • RBS

        Whatever. Animals is still an all time favorite.

      • Mad Scientist

        The Wall is…..well, it has two decent tracks on it. Animals, Wish You Were Here, and Dark Side of the Moon are masterpieces.

      • C. Anacreon

        Not even Dark Side of the Moon, while stoned, while sitting between blasting Bose speakers?

        /half of college memories

      • DEG

        I had “The Wall”. I tried. I hated it. I got rid of that album.

        “Dark Side of the Moon” on the other hand is great.

      • Rhywun

        I had “The Wall”. I tried. I hated it. I got rid of that album.

        #metoo

        I like the occasional track from them. Can’t imagine listening to whole album.

      • Spudalicious

        I wore out the lp, cassette, and I’m on my second set of cds.

        All y’alls are dicks.

      • TARDIS

        Agreed. And Animals FTW.

    • Ted S.

      Clean and win don’t rhyme.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Damn fine lyrics, that tells a tale

    • Gustave Lytton

      I like The Division Bell. My favorite and I have most from Piper onward.

  19. Mojeaux

    Has this been shared?

    AOC: “It’s vital that Governors maintain restrictions on businesses until after the November Elections because economic recovery will help Trump be re-elected. A few business closures or job losses is a small price to pay to be free from his presidency. #KeepUsClosed”

    • Brochettaward

      That can’t be real, right? Even Gulag Barbie isn’t dumb enough to just blatantly spell out the Democratic strategy like that?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        er, mistyped. It doesn’t show up on ProPublica’s database, which COMPILES deleted tweets.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s one of those things that’s obviously true but politicians aren’t supposed to say and she’s just too stupid to keep her mouth shut.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Or, yeah, could be fake.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      She’s an idiot, but I doubt that she’s stupid enough to put it on her own Twitter feed.

    • Pan Zagloba

      $50 on a fake.

      She doesn’t talk like that and for all the sperging here and elsewhere, she’s about no more “stupid” than Trump is. She made Pelosi dance to her tune, she knows how to make the right screech and whine and she never, ever apologizes or engages in “muh factz and reeson” discussions.

      Had not My Favorite Fascist trashed his blog archive, I would post his estimate again and keep posting it till people accept she’s Trump Of The Left.

    • The Other Kevin

      Looks photoshopped.

      • Sean

        You can tell by the pixels.

    • Suthenboy

      #Paid for by the Re-elect Donald J. Trump fund.

    • Mojeaux

      *hangs head*

      I will go sit in the corner with my nose to the wall.

    • Brochettaward

      I have like 50 people on my Facebook, nearly all of them card-carrying, Trump-supporting deplorables and I wouldn’t even post that…publicly.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      It’s so racist that she didn’t even mention a race.

      And the name of the school is priceless: New Dorp High School.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yuck.

    • Incentives Matter

      Well, lice, most likely.

      Ew.

    • creech

      That’s one way to keep Biden away from you.

    • The Other Kevin

      Psst! Nobody tell her when quarantine ends.

    • Tres Cool

      Maybe she used Dry Shampoo ?

      • C. Anacreon

        Psssst!
        There’s something new.
        Psssst!
        Instant spray shampoo.
        Clairol freshens your hair, instantly!
        With P-S-S-S-S-T.

    • Mojeaux

      FYI, dirty hair is better for styling and getting to look gorgeous. Unless you’re Joe Biden, you probably aren’t going to be in sniffing range of a gorgeous hair-do.

    • Chipwooder

      If I don’t wash my hair every day, it looks absolutely disgusting and greasy.

      • Mad Scientist

        Italian, huh?

      • Chipwooder

        Partly, yup

        1 Italian grandpa
        1 backwoods Georgia grandma (English, mostly, her family has been here for hundreds of years)
        1 Irish grandma
        1 Irish/a bit German grandpa

      • Ted S.

        And it looks absolutely disgusting and greasy if you *do* wash it every day, amirite? :-p

      • Chipwooder

        Au contraire! It’s lush and glorious in that case

      • Rhywun

        If I washed mine every day I would look like Garfunkel.

      • Count Potato

        I thought you were bald.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, by choice. If I let it grow it’s extremely dry.

      • Tres Cool

        “bitch- yo’ ends so split, they need a divorce lawyer!”

    • one true athena

      The lesser Hemsworth got out just in time, I guess.

    • Sean

      I don’t think anyone here is surprised.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m sure all the talking heads will report on this now with the same earnest as they did the initial story.

      • The Other Kevin

        The retraction will be printed on page 11 of the Style section, in fine print.

      • Count Potato

        And only in one edition..,.

    • slumbrew

      You left off the best part:

      and that a pull rope fashioned like a noose had been on a garage door at Talladega since as early as last fall, NASCAR said Tuesday.

      Hilarious.

      • Brochettaward

        I don’t think they’re considering time traveling Nazis here.

      • straffinrun

        Nice.

      • Rhywun

        “Sorry, America,” NASCAR added.

        /JK

      • Mojeaux

        Mr. Mojeaux said the local sports DJs aren’t buying it.

        “Why would they? They’re invested in it being true.”

      • R C Dean

        Once again, the Glibs called it at least a day before Our Betters did.

      • Suthenboy

        There was some credulousness when this nonsense first began but we are quick learners. C’mon….poop swastikas? Who hangs nooses? No one, that’s who. Robed KKK democrats walking around in broad daylight? The only people thinking race race race their every waking moment are the progs stirring this shit up. No one else gives a damn.

        It is getting pretty tiresome. You are safe just calling bullshit right off of the bat every time you hear about something like this.

      • l0b0t

        I’ve mentioned this before but it bears repeating. The white power/ethnic determinism for white folk movement in the US really petered out in the early 1990s. And that was after being being, largely, combat ineffective for 30 some years. The KKK has been nothing but FedGov informants and agents trying to trick imbeciles into committing crimes since the 1970s. Apart from The Order knocking off armored cars, the murder of Denver radio DJ Alan Berg, and the band Day Of The Sword robbing banks, the most recent thing I can think of is retired Klansman and area asshole Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (notable for his appearance in the film Blood In The Face) shooting up a Jewish community center in Kansas in 2014.

      • Seguin

        I was in the Dallas punk scene in the late 90s…by then boneheads were incredibly rare and getting rarer. And people talk about them now more than they ever did then.

      • Breet Pharara

        So it wasn’t a noose. A noose is a very specific knot that is hard to mistake for anything else. It was a rope with a loop at the end. That is something completely different with many uses and, oh, you know, like 0 racial connotation to it.

      • pan fried wylie

        Knots are hereby cancelled for being demotivational.

    • grrizzly

      When I left a comment a few hours ago in a local newspaper that it wasn’t a noose, somebody replied
      “Why are you so focused on the details and not the big picture?”

      • Hyperion

        ‘That’s not a building, it’s a rock’

        ‘But it’s on the other side of the Moon, why are you focusing on details!’.

      • R C Dean

        “OK. The big picture is there was no racist “hate crime” against Bubba Wallace. Happy now?”

      • Mad Scientist

        It seems like the big picture is that those people screaming racism WANT racist acts to occur so they can keep screaming racism.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Validation is a hell of a drug

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *conversation started*

      • See Double You

        “The big picture is that the left is gaslighting the whole country in their pursuit to undermine basic human truths like reason, logic, and evidence.”

      • cyto

        Actually, the big picture is that a bunch of grown-ups looked at a loop tied in a rope and called it a noose and a hate crime.

        There is zero chance that an adult male who works in a garage does not know what a noose looks like. This is not an accident. It is a combination of willful deceit and fear. The initial person or persons who claim they saw a noose were full of crap and they knew it. Everyone else played along because they were too afraid to say anything different.

        I refuse to believe that you could find three adults who could look at a loop tide in a garage and door pull rope and not know the difference between that and a noose. It is utterly impossible.

        And the fact that the statement from the NASCAR officials and all of the Articles still call it the Rope fashioned into a noose just underlines how much deceit this is.

        Unless someone actually tied a noose knot in the end of a rope, everyone involved in this is full of crap and needs to be called out.

        And you know what? We did not see a picture of a rope tied in a noose. That tells me there is no rope tied in a noose.

      • R C Dean

        We did not see a picture of a rope tied in a noose.

        That was the big tell, to me. If there was an actual, no-kidding, hangman’s noose hanging in the garage, a pic of it would have been blasted out, because this was about OUTRAGE, and nothing stokes OUTRAGE like pictures.

        I’m pretty fucking pissed at NASCAR right now for gaslighting its fans and tacitly accusing them of being a bunch of racists. You are absolutely right there is no way this was reported by anyone in the garage or NASCAR as a noose in good faith.

        And I have to wonder if Bubba wasn’t in on it. The whole outbreak of “anti-racism” in this country has elevated the shit out of his profile, and I can’t believe he minds.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The whole field pushed his car in solidarity and he didn’t stop it to say “are we sure it was a noose fellas?”

      • Sean

        He was in on it, and you would have a hard time convincing me otherwise.

      • one true athena

        The claim that he never saw it is at least very… convenient. Especially for a guy that just this morning was blasting people for disbelieving it was real.

      • cyto

        Yeah, after he reported to work and was told that they found a noose but removed it before he got there, I really cannot believe that nobody pointed at the piece of rope hanging from the garage door and said that’s where it was right there on that rope right there.

        And at that moment no one has an excuse. All you have to do is look at it and go hey that looks like the rope that you use to pull the door down. And then all you have to do is look at all the other doors that all have loops tide in their ropes.

      • KSuellington

        Feelings not facts are what is most important.

    • Drake

      Just saw Bubba Wallace on TV. He’s dumber than a rock and NASCAR made him their poster boy. That should poison ticket sales for a long time.

  20. Rhywun

    OFFS the Tennis Channel newsheads are going apeshit over what happened in Serbia. TOO SOON! WE TOLD YOU SO!! Just STFU, contain your glee, and put some tennis on.

    • Brochettaward

      What happened in Serbia? A Serbian Film?

      • Rhywun

        Bunch of players caught the ‘vid. I guess they were sucking face at those after-parties or something.

      • Chipwooder

        Djokovic laughed off a lot of criticism of his continuing to hold his invitational despite the ‘rona, so there is a lot of outraged told-ya-sos

      • Rhywun

        Tennis is pretty safe. I’m sure they caught the plague while partying later (there is a video of a bunch of them drunk, “dancing”, etc.).

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        Drunk Serbs? Who’s ever heard of such a thing?

        #ItsOkToBeRacist

      • Ted S.

        Some of them were Croats, weren’t they? ?

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        Ugh, Croats. Don’t get me started on them with their Dalmatians, their hot women, their grilled calamari and their slivovica.

      • BakedPenguin

        A Serbian Film

        Heh heh.

      • Jarflax

        I watched it. It was fairly shocking but not as bad as The Bunny Game. That one messed with my head for a while.

  21. Count Potato

    So I made ranch. It tastes surprisingly strong of garlic.

    • Mad Scientist

      Every time I drive through Gilroy, CA I think having a garlic ranch would be pretty nice.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ahh, the 152………

      • l0b0t

        FUN FACT – When I was a young, desirable soldier stationed at Ord, I dated a young lady from Monterey who won the title of Gilroy Garlic Queen at the festival. The Salinas Valley and surrounding area has a lot of charm.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Do you live near Gilroy? Cause that how you get Garlic in everything,

    • Timeloose

      My wife’s recipe for ranch is very high in garlic. Its’s also delicious.

      • Timeloose

        2C Mayo
        1C Sour Cream
        1/2 tsp dill
        2 tbsp dried parsley
        1 tbsp chopped garlic
        2 tsp dried onion or 1tsp powder
        1 tbsp sugar
        Salt and pepper to taste. I go with 1-2 tsp of both.

        It works well as a veg dip.

      • Count Potato

        Mine was also 2:1 mayo:sour cream

        tastes like more sour cream would be better.

        garlic is way overpowering the dill, chives, parsely…

      • Suthenboy

        More sour cream is always better.

      • Chipwooder

        I want to beat the living shit out of anyone who uses the term “stans”….the song sucked and it was 20 years ago – why is this a thing now?

      • leon

        Afghans have a sad.

      • Ted S.

        So if I refer to Stan Laurel and Stan Wawrinka I can’t call them Stans?

      • Brochettaward

        No matter how empty my life is I can at least sleep easy knowing I’m not the mouth breathing moron who feels compelled to respond to #ItsOkayToBeRacist arguing back.

        I’d actually like to hear one of them articulate why it isn’t ok to be racist because I’m pretty sure most haven’t put any more thought into it beyond it’s NOT OK.

      • See Double You

        Well, with the left’s hatred of individualism, they have a hard time coming up with some principled, logical reason to hate racism.

    • Chipwooder

      It’s magic – stop dumping elderly WuFlu patients on nursing homes and the death rate plummets. Who knew, right Andy?

      • KSuellington

        I’m still holding out hope that as time goes by they will have a much harder time justifying the shutdowns. Of course the media is doing its part to keep the Fear going, but more and more people have to be seeing through the bullshit.

      • Mad Scientist

        This is fine by me. I WANT the general population to conclude that the government is full of shitheads and it’s perfectly OK to disregard what the government tells them to do.

      • R C Dean

        I wouldn’t count on it. The Gaslight Machine has moved on to “More confirmed cases’ and “Younger people are getting it now”.

        Not mentioned, of course, is that the death rate is on a steady downward trend.

        I did find out today that something like 80% of our ICU patients are transferred from out of town. That hasn’t stopped people from claiming that obviously the governor reopened the state too soon, even though the new patients in Tucson are from areas (including Mexico) that are just now getting their first (and, I predict, only) wave.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I think there will only be one wave. What bothers me is AZ should be topping out soon, and they will claim it was the mask mandates that made the cases drop.

        So next time there’s something out there we’ll get to do it again.

  22. leon

    #ItsOkToBeRacist is trending on twitter… and i don’t understand why.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Because Twitter is retarded

      • Mad Scientist

        Twitter is a sewer.

    • Lady Z

      Chicken Piccata without capers??? Heresy!

      • Suthenboy

        Capers. *spits*

        Deep fried chicken with bread crumb crust (crushed pork rinds if you are in to low carb) with a lemon sauce over (I haven’t decided yet) rice or spaghetti. Side salad and a soufflé desert if I can sneak that in.

        Women say it is the little things…but it is the big ones too. How many husbands cook like that 2 or 3 times per week?

      • Lady Z

        A very good point, hubby cooking dinner is a big deal. To be fair if I were served that dish I wouldn’t ask what happened to the capers. But I’m far more polite in meatspace.

      • Tres Cool

        I pretty much cook for Jugsy anytime she asks. Its not a huge deal

  23. Count Potato

    “Long overdue: 1/5
    There is a fine line between inspiration & taking everything someone wore/said & use it as your own. For the past 6 months I have watched my content, wardrobe, furniture, tweets, accessories, tattoos…being copy/pasted on someone else.”

    https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1275123258921291784

    “0:00 / 18:12
    The dark truth about my impersonator (+$1000 worth of my stuff, plagiarism,…)”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BvAd1G7mn4

    This is bizarre, she isn’t even that well-known.

    • Brochettaward

      Everyone has a Bizarro version of themselves out there somewhere. Her’s just also happens to be a vacuous Youtuber.

    • Suthenboy

      I am not going to listen to her talk about herself for 18 minutes. Fuck….

      • Mad Scientist

        Right? If I’m not fucking her, I’m not going to listen to some chick go on and on about whatever pointless bullshit is staggering through her head.

      • Count Potato

        It doesn’t seem like pointless bullshit.

  24. See Double You

    So, when is that fucking Lenin statue in Seattle going to be removed? When is Marx’s grave in England going to be defaced?

    • mrfamous

      There’s a statue of genocide enthusiast George Bernard Shaw in Niagara Falls

    • cyto

      Look, Lenin only killed 30 million Georgians. That is nothing compared to discovering the new world or writing the Declaration of Independence. Those are war crimes and hate crimes of global proportion.

    • Brochettaward

      In September 2017, Jeremy was accused of sexual assault by a woman in Washington State who claimed the 65-year-old performer grabbed her butt, groped her chest and touched her inappropriately below the belt. TMZ confirmed that the actor was cleared of the charges in March.,

      So…shit that goes on in any club/bar every night across America. And it goes both ways.

  25. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    The themes Aquinas wrote on in De Regno have been rattling around in my head as of late. What form of government sucks the least? They all suck.

  26. Brochettaward

    I’m just going to say it – some of ya’ll are way too into guns. You. Yea, I’m talking to you. You have a problem. Someone needs to stage an intervention with banners and shit.

    • Brochettaward

      Knives on the other hand? You can never have too many knives.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thanks….. my wallet thanks you,

      • AlmightyJB

        I actually have that one. Bought it years ago. It’s pretty nice. Came razor sharp..

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, I’ve browsed there. I have a few really nice knives and a bunch of cheap ones lying around.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My collection was Stolen, along with my guns and Naval Cutlass, more sentimental than monetary,

      • DEG

        Sorry.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m gonna say it, You are way too obsessed with being first, there, I said it, now go get your meds before the Counselors find you…..

    • Suthenboy

      One cannot be too much into guns. Someone has a problem alright, but it isn’t me.

    • AlmightyJB

      Yeah, we know:) I warn everyone who talks about buying their first gun. It’s like crack. There is always some cool new gun you have to have. There is always some cool vintage gun you have to have. I’ve been pretty good lately. I am getting a nice new scope this summer for my birthday though.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m so glad my addiction is cheape, 15 bucks a disc, I currently own 32, and gave away probably 20 more,
        Like Guns, everybody needs a disc or 30….

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, I need to get out and play some frisbee golf this summer. It’s fun.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        We aren’t allowed to call it Frisbee, it’s Disc Golf, ask the POS at Whammo, quite stupid, but I don’t make Law,

      • AlmightyJB

        Ah, did not know that. I only have a couple disc I keep in my trunk. I couldn’t tell you what kind they are:) lol. I think I bookmarked your article on disc types. I need to read that again.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I had one disc warp from leaving it in my car, keep them flat in the vehicle,
        and you can get Innova discs at Walmart, seems strange, but a good selection and competitive

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Where are you? I could use a roadtrip…

      • AlmightyJB

        Columbus. At least they’re still calling it that for now.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I might be up that way next month, we are thinking road tripping to the UP and golf/hang with friends all the way up,

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, let me know. I’d be up for a game or two and some tall cans!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Troll harder.

    • Spudalicious

      That’s nice.

  27. Count Potato

    “Gavin McInnes, the Canadian-British comedian and founder of Censored.TV, The Proud Boys, and Vice Magazine, has been kicked off of YouTube following “severe violations of [YouTube’s] Community Guidelines.”

    According to the video streaming giant, McInnes had posted content on YouTube “glorifying or inciting violence against another person or group of people.” McInnes is now banned from “accessing, possessing, or creating any other YouTube accounts.”

    A screenshot of the banning notification was posted to McInnes’ Telegram account, as he has already been banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-gavin-mcinnes-banned-from-youtube

    • Brochettaward

      I wonder if that is going to include guest appearances on other channels.

    • Tres Cool

      Since Britain owned (or owns- went over this in a zoom meeting and Im still not clear) Canada, is calling him Canadian-British like White-Hispanic ?

  28. straffinrun

    Was asleep when my meat appeared. Woke to find: the noose was BS and CarpeDonktum got booted from twitter. Assholes all around.

    • Spudalicious

      “Was asleep when my meat appeared.”

      So no more phrasing?

      • straffinrun

        Morning Glory still blooms at half a century.

  29. Shpip

    The comment that troubled [the progressive pastor making the complaint] the most was one in which Dugmore said, “please dont assume you know why a man kills another in this line of work. MOST die at the hands of cops because they deserved it.”

    Notwithstanding the truthiness of the deputy’s claim (I suspect the ratio of good/justified shoots to Duncan Lemp/Breonna Taylor/Daniel Shaver clusterfucks is pretty good), I’m not spotting the alleged racism here. Am I being obtuse, or is this just some activist crying wolf?

    • Tres Cool

      I need spud to weigh in, but that doesnt look like akshual blood.

      #ChangeMyMind

  30. Ownbestenemy

    Noose Theory – Part 2 OBE – I am thinking I hit it on the head that because the NASCAR base didn’t riot when they banned the flag and images of the Confederacy, that this was drummed up to create that controversy on purpose. What a damn shame about his garage being either purposefully obtuse or outright evil. To add it, I think it was in hopes that the fan base would intentionally BRING those flags and imagery in response to all this so they can point back and say “SEE! They are racist!”

    • RAHeinlein

      This theory seems to align with what I saw on ESPN.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Given that Bubba Smollet didn’t even see the noose in question, I’m guessing that he took the word of someone he trusted, and the other drivers fell in line. None of them wanted to be the dick who says, “Hold on, show me the noose.” The problem is with the person who first reported it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its just sad really. I mean, are you trying to burn all the possible bridges of building some support? 99.99% of the country watch in horror as a psychopath cop killed a dude and we were all ready to rise up against that….then they start burning and tearing down everything. Almost like they are thinking they have 100% support at this point so why not pile on?

        Or maybe it is heightened awareness and emotions that lead to it? Who knows but it just alienates the “cause” more and more

      • Naptown Bill

        BLM is a Marxist organization that couldn’t care less about black lives, racial harmony, or police brutality. They are fellow travelers with Antifa, and their ultimate goal is to stir up enough shit and chaos that they can create a vacuum into which they can step and create a Marxist society. If this sounds paranoid, take a look at their website and then just do some quick research on the founders. So, shit like this is a win-win for them; either the noose story is accepted at face value and they propel the narrative, or this happens and all of the accused racists start get pissed off about it. Either way, the tension ratchets up and people separate further into warring tribes.

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, the identity politics bullies on college campuses commandeered the BLM movement as soon as it began. It’s now just a militant Marxist wing of the DNC, completely devoid of it’s original purpose. As is Antifa who also got it’s start in college humanities departments.

      • Breet Pharara

        “I’m guessing that he took the word of someone he trusted”

        His PR guy?

      • R C Dean

        The problem is with the person who first reported it.

        And the team and NASCAR for playing along. Both of them should absolutely have said “Holy crap, you found a noose? Let’s see it.” Its reflexive. If they did and went ahead with the gaslighting they are scum. If they never followed up at all on it, and went ahead, as they did, as if it was confirmed, they are morons at best.

    • straffinrun

      How hard would it be to fake one of these “hate crimes”? And yet they get busted every time it seems.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nice dancing there NASCAR…pussies

    • R C Dean

      Fuck her. Posturing and signalling in response to bullshit are never a positive.

      And no, I don’t believe it was a rope “fashioned as a noose”. It was a rope with a loop tied in the end of it. That is not a noose. A noose is a slipknot, and nobody would tie a slipknot at the end of a rope as a handhold.

      If some bored garage monkey had actually tied it as a hangman’s noose instead of just a loop as a joke, that would be understandable, but then we would have been blasted with pictures of it.

      • Naptown Bill

        Fuck her, fuck NASCAR, fuck the useful idiots and cowards who kneeled or marched behind this guy, and fuck anyone who doesn’t stand up against this shit. This is the time for moral adults to take a stand. I swear, if I were a foreign intelligence organization trying to weaken the United States by conducting a lengthy series of operations to erode the social, moral, and political structures of the country in preparation for a soft coup, it would look like this. I am absolutely revolted by the corporate media and the people in the entertainment and political industries (intentional word choice) who are complicit in this.

      • Sean

        Don’t hold back, Bill. Tell us how you really feel.

      • Naptown Bill

        Have I mentioned how much this upsets me? I’m not sure I’ve been as open as I could be about this.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        NASCAR mechanics are awesome, but it’s doubtful many know hot to to a Bowline, much less a Slipknot, it’s not relevant at all,
        I call BullShit

      • Not an Economist

        I’m guessing the one big thing for me is I learned nobody at NASCAR knows knots anymore. What the various types look like or how to tie them, let alone what they are good for. I’m far from an outdoors man and even I know what a noose looks like.

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, sure, let’s all lie like a mother fucker, that’s going to bring us all closer together. This is the sort of fucked up shit that passes for a legitimate argument these days.

      • Breet Pharara

        If we pretended that Aliens were invading, we could get economic stimulus AND harmony as we all came together for a common cause.

        Why do you hate peace and prosperity Hyperion?

    • Rhywun

      Yes, the reaction has been all “tolerance and unity”. ?

      Idiot.

  31. Naptown Bill

    So, it turns out Jussie Smollet’s got a cousin in NASCAR! Ain’t that some shit?

    Seriously, I knew this was bullshit from the drop. Dude either genuinely believes there are racists hiding under his bed and ought to apologize for making some frankly bigoted assumptions about the drivers, crews, and fans in NASCAR or he saw an opportunity to win some social justice points and ought to be ridden out on a goddamned rail. Fuck this guy for “punching down” as the kids say by playing to shitty stereotypes about white rednecks.

    I think he should demonstrate his sincere regret by swapping his BLM paintjob to drive a replica of the General Lee for a season.

    • Hyperion

      They all cousins, cousins all over, ‘I dindunuthin, was my cousin! who done it’. OK.

    • straffinrun

      It’s fine to punch a Nazi even if he didn’t do the thing you thought he did. If you wanted people to take a second look at David Irving, this is what you’d do.

      • Naptown Bill

        My god that argument is infuriating. It’s like, “Well, no, there isn’t a campus rape epidemic, but the real tragedy is that the lack of a rape epidemic might make men less sensitive to the real danger of rape that women face. So if we have to ruin the lives of some young men and make the rest paranoid to be alone within a hundred yards of a woman, it’s worth it, because the end result is anti-rape culture. What, do you like rape culture or something?”

      • straffinrun

        Absolutely. Only thing I’d say is (and I’m guilty, too) is to look at things in a light that doesn’t infuriate you. Life’s a long game, so I try to zoom out and get the big view when I can. The minutia with drive you crazy.

      • Naptown Bill

        Well, the positive thing is that my immediate situation is stressful but pretty good. Two kids and a wife, everyone’s healthy, we’re in decent financial shape and pretty content most of the time. Mostly this stuff doesn’t work its way into my life aside from my wife obsessing over Trump scandals and watching MSNBC and CNN all the time. Even she’s starting to get tired of it, so hopefully some day she’ll just stick to Naked and Afraid.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s either a liar or an idiot and maybe both.

      • straffinrun

        If the noose had been real, then it would’ve been wrong to attack the Bubba’s character. Now, fuck that. Go after the prick.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You don’t know much about NASCAR, that was small potatoes compared to some fights from the past, get over the drama

      • straffinrun

        Don’t now anything about NASCAR. Bird vs Lambeer were some good fights, though. When the game is over, go get them next game. It’s petty to pull shit like that after it’s over.

      • Tres Cool

        Tony Stewart running that guy over @ Eldora was based af tho.

  32. mikey

    The reason these “nooses” get folks so excited is that there simply isn’t enough racism in this country to meet the demand and the demand for examples of racism is growing every day. It’s the free market at work creating product to meet market needs.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Manipulated market though. Honest reporters with even the curiosity of a sloth would at least ask some questions.

    • Jarflax

      Don’t worry eventually after enough riots there will be racism again.

      • Naptown Bill

        Frankly, I’ve reached the point where I no longer particularly care if someone calls me racist or sexist or whatever. Those words have been abused to the point where they have no real meaning. If I can be accused of being racist because I don’t care one way or another about a person’s race, I’m done playing the game.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        What conditions do you live in that people would call you said things? I would first say Fuck Off! then kick your ass, and I’m skinny as a rail,

      • Naptown Bill

        Nobody who knows me and whose opinion I value, thank God. Definitely strangers on the Internet, but that’s par for the course. I’m getting ready for the wokeness to hit me at work, though, and I can see it on the horizon. Just hoping to get out before it gets too bad.

      • Jarflax

        I’m there as well. What I am afraid of is that a lot of people out there with just a touch of prejudice in their mind, just a spot of “Well I know a bunch of black dudes that are pretty cool, but you hear so many stories about …”, who are likewise tired of being called racists over every divergence from SLW dogma, and who are watching the riots and people being dragged from cars and statues toppled and cemetaries vandalized, are going to end up radicalized. The further you push a pendulum the further it swings back. Much as I love the thought of antifa running into a few hundred armed veterans tired of seeing their beloved nation attacked, I am afraid we are just as likely to see Spartacists vs. Brownshirts.

      • Naptown Bill

        I think you’re right to be worried about that. This is one of those things where you’re going to get radicalized if you’re only getting your information from MSNBC et al. If you step away from the media, which is tough some times given how ubiquitous it is, it helps to recalibrate your view of humanity, or at least the people in your community.

    • Drake

      They are disappointed that they can’t find actual bogey men so they invent them. A fucking loop to close the garage door is racist.

  33. Ownbestenemy

    Grilled pork tenderloin, grilled chicken, or sweet sausage patties. Decisions are to be made for dinner.

    • Naptown Bill

      Tough choice, but I’ve never been unhappy with tenderloin.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am leaning that way too. Now to plan the sides after this beer or two.

    • AlmightyJB

      We had pork chops. They were good.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      or did the right thing without regard of being noticed,
      Good Job! Xer

    • Mojeaux

      We can’t care. We’ve got Boomers on one side of us and Millennials on the other and those are both WAY bigger cohorts than GenX.

    • Jarflax

      I care. I care deeply. I just disagree with them almost completely.

    • RAHeinlein

      I’m Gen X and I care very much.