Wednesday Afternoon Links

by | Jul 29, 2020 | Daily Links | 357 comments

Man am I tired. You know what I don’t need to do anymore is mix sugar, caffeine and alcohol at night. Next thing I know its early instead of late. I am getting too old for this shit. Slow news day. This is what I got.

Trump gives Harris kiss of death.

This seems obvious in retrospect. Of course a small drone’s flight is going to be oriented on the pilot.

Its good to see Los Doyers are assholes like their fans.

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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.

357 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    “Trump says Harris would be ‘fine choice’ as Biden running mate”

    The old reverse-psychology caprice!

    • Tres Cool

      And while I’m here- HIT THAT ISH !

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        HELL YES!!!!!
        Sup Tres!

      • Tres Cool

        HEY YUFUS!

        Just opened a Tall Can™.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        just now, Cheers!

      • TARDIS

        I completely forgot about her.

        From the comments:
        Lady Gaga can only dream of being this batshit crazy.
        Indeed.

        Tall Cans!
        Or in my case, Martini Glass!

  2. UnCivilServant

    Mornin’ Brett

    *falls asleep*

  3. Count Potato

    “You know what I don’t need to do anymore is mix sugar, caffeine and alcohol at night. ”

    “sugar”

      • juris imprudent
      • DEG

        Good song.

      • Incentives Matter

        Damn straight.

      • Gender Traitor

        Moar hunny – Dayton represents!

      • TARDIS

        Music to read Glibs by. ?

  4. The Late P Brooks

    “Trump says Harris would be ‘fine choice’ as Biden running mate”

    Whatever you do, don’t throw me in that briar patch.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Something about a tar-baby doesn’t feel quite right here.

      • R C Dean

        Especially after her recent round of skin- lightening.*

        *Unconfirmed, could have just been the lighting. But it showed up some other indicia of comsetic treatments, so who knows?

  5. Grosspatzer

    So says a team of Israeli researchers who have trained an AI drone-tracking algorithm to reveal the drone operator’s whereabouts, with a better than 80 per cent accuracy level

    So the police would only raid the wrong house ~20% of the time with this tech. Incremental improvement is better than nothing, I suppose.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      An optimist!

      • Grosspatzer

        Hey, I thought this was a family-friendly site! Enough with the name-calling.

      • Ted S.

        He’s just trying to get you better eyeglasses.

      • Grosspatzer

        Ah, he’s an optimician. Everybody’s in it for the money.

    • Mad Scientist

      The tech only works if the operator remains stationary. Seems easy enough to defeat at this point.

  6. Count Potato

    “So says a team of Israeli researchers who have trained an AI drone-tracking algorithm to reveal the drone operator’s whereabouts, with a better than 80 per cent accuracy level. They are now investigating whether the algorithm can also uncover the pilot’s level of expertise and even possibly their identity.”

    I think their identity might be a bit much.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      yet another way that science journalism sucks. identity is probably discernable if you train the models with flight characteristic training data keyed to identity. However, that’s not even slightly interesting, because we don’t have drone flight characteristic profiles on the general public.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yet

        I think a neural network algorithm would easily be able to find a drone operator if, and it’s a big if, the operator were not aware that their behavior was being analyzed. A randomized flight pattern could be programmed to defeat the algorithm without too much difficulty.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        answering the question of where is completely within the realm of reason. answering the question of who seems more science fiction than fact.

      • one true athena

        Depends how much intelligence you have on Hamas drone pilots. It might not be that hard for IDF.

    • Not Adahn

      “He always does barrel rolls to port in the bottom half of the hour.”

      • Overt

        + 1 Ping only.

  7. Rebel Scum

    Russia Russia Russia

    “I really am interested on this hydroxychloroquine,” McCaskill emphasized. “I’m interested to ask Jonathan Lemire, as he’s in the press room and as he’s working his sources and his news agency is working sources. I’m assuming there’s investigative types out there following the money on hydroxy, because it’s the only thing that makes sense, you know. You know, does Putin have a stake in hydroxy? You know, is the Deutsche Bank backing hydroxy?”

    She continued, “It is baffling to me that there is such a chorus within the Trump base and the Trump media outlets and Trump about this drug. It has to be money. Is somebody looking at that? Is there any hope that we’re going to find that there’s somebody who’s making real money off this?”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “Is there any hope that we’re going to find that there’s somebody who’s making real money off this?”
      You mean like Fauci did with AIDS vaccines?

      • Grosspatzer

        Progjection FTW.

    • Ted S.

      Doesn’t Fauci have an interest in one of the competing drugs?

      • blighted_non_millenial

        Exactly. Who is pushing the old off patent drug and who is pushing the new hotness. Pretty sure a whole course of hydroxychloroquine is less than a single dose of Remdsivir.

      • Incentives Matter

        Way less, if I’m not mistaken.

    • Drake

      Really? Follow the money on an eighty-year-old generic drug that costs a few cents a dose?

      Perhaps, Claire, there would a lot more money to be made if that cheap genetic stuff didn’t work.

    • The Other Kevin

      If there’s anyone trying to make money off this, it’s the companies with the $1000 COVID drugs, not the $1 drugs.

      A while back there was a story about how dental floss isn’t that effective. I have a dentist friend who posted on FB about people telling him he’s been making big money pushing dental floss this whole time. His response was, “Yes, I’m getting rich off a $1.29 product you buy once a month.”

    • Rhywun

      *SMDH*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s nice when Congresscritters demonstrate how stupid they are to everyone.

    • leon

      Well, whoever has a stake in it, i’m willing to do advertising for it.

      Hydroxyclean! It has the power to clean you on the inside!

      • Grosspatzer

        RIP Billy Mays

    • R C Dean

      Effing Christ. Hydroxy is a generic, which means, very low margin.

      Naturally, they are diverting from a real issue – who has an interest in Gilead and the other pharmas developing and selling high-margin COVID drugs? Those people have an interest in burying hydroxy, after all.

  8. Yusef drives a Kia

    My drones don’t use GPS, try to find me now,Coppers!

  9. The Late P Brooks

    My drones don’t use GPS, try to find me now,Coppers!

    Does your drone have an on board camera which you can use as your piloting viewscreen?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      No, I fly LOS only, no Gyros, no automatic anything, you can crash them, well not me but…….

  10. Ted S.

    Its good to see Los Doyers are assholes like their fans.

    I had the sports talk station on during my lunch break, and the idiots were whining about how could the players possibly antisocially distance in a bench-clearing brawl.

    • peachy rex

      Gosh, the Dodgers and Astros forfeiting two weeks of games as a precaution would just be such a tragedy.

  11. Count Potato

    “‘We can wear whatever we want’: Female doctor shares photos of herself in a bikini treating bloodied swimmer as she slams ‘sexist’ study that says medics look ‘unprofessional’ by sharing swimwear shots online

    The study, published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, sparked outrage when it was published this week. It concluded that ‘censored profanity’ such as swearing and ‘controversial social topics’ are unprofessional.

    It didn’t refer specifically to female medics but the outraged community have accused it of perpetuating ‘sexism’ in the profession.

    The hashtag #MedBikini began circulating on social media this week with doctors posting their swimsuit selfies in defiance of the controversial study. Dr Myhre showed herself working in one to save a patient.

    The offending study concluded that photos where doctors are wearing ‘inappropriate/offensive attire’ such as swimsuits, are holding or consuming alcohol or that include ‘controversial political comments’ are ‘potentially unprofessional’ and could impact whether patients choose them as doctors.

    The medical community hit back at the research, carried out by three men, slamming it as ‘sexist’ and ‘disturbing’ as calls mount for it to be retracted.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8573101/Female-doctor-shares-photos-bikini-treating-swimmer-slams-sexist-study.html

    It’s all so tiring.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Motorboating saved my life.

      • Sensei

        Nice.

    • Gustave Lytton

      #MedBikini is a bit disappointing tbh.

      • The Other Kevin

        You check your male gaze privilege! Or whatever they’re saying now.

      • Chafed

        More than a bit.

      • Tres Cool

        too small for my tastes anyhow.

        And in the second pic, how is she in (presumably) in the ER in her bikini, with a stethoscope? Is that part of her beach outfit? Borrow one ?

    • Chafed

      Let me get this straight. She’s wrong to post a photo where she is treating a patient in an emergency because she is in a bikini. That’s somehow unprofessional. The journal is wrong because they don’t want the profession to draw unneeded controversy. That’s somehow sexist. I hate everyone involved.

      • Not Adahn

        Does posting a photo of yourself treating a patient violate HIPAA?

      • pan fried wylie

        Obviously the lesson is never render aid outside the clininc/hospital.

  12. grrizzly

    https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1288234943479414786

    This survey explains so much about the public’s response to #Covid. 1,000 people in several countries were asked what percentage of their nation’s population had died of the virus. Answers ranged from 3% in Germany to 9% (30M people!)in the US. Congrats panic porners. You’ve won.

    In the US the actual percentage is two magnitudes lower: less than 0.05%.

    • leon

      Look, the public knows the truth, Trumps CDC is just hiding the numbers!

    • juris imprudent

      I have had numerous idiot friends on FB screech about the US leading the world in COVID death toll – sure, absolute numbers (half of which BTW come from 6 states), but just barely in the top 10 on population-adjusted.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And that’s if you believe the Chinese and Russian numbers.

      • R C Dean

        And that’s if you believe the Chinese and Russian anybody’s numbers.

    • Rebel Scum

      Moar

      Ryan Saavedra
      @RealSaavedra

      Democrats are panicking over the possibility that U.S. Attorney John Durham could release the results from his criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia probe before the election

      If a criminal conspiracy to take down Trump didn’t happen, why are they nervous?

      • leon

        If a criminal conspiracy to take down Trump didn’t happen, why are they nervous?

        If you’re innocent why are you afraid?

        I dunno cause the Feds have a long track record of screwing over innocent people who come under their cross-hairs.

      • Rebel Scum

        Barr: “Post hoc ergo propter hoc”

        Congresscritter: “Enough with your Latin.”

        Given the bitch a lesson in logical fallacies. Lol.

      • Ted S.

        Wait, she really said that?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        yes

      • Rebel Scum

        Finishing it… good lord what a dishonest, mendacious cunte.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        What a Bitch!

      • R C Dean

        I’m convinced we’re being played by Barr and Durham, and they will do no such thing. The public record alone has enough in it to charge at least one crime against a half dozen or more FBI/DOJ types. Yet . . . crickets.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The day Clapper and/or Brennan are brought up in charges for perjury I’m going to do something. Don’t know what, but something.

      • nw

        Party like it’s 1999?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Kabuki Theater

    • bacon-magic

      I RECLAIM MY TIME.

    • Sensei

      I feel for both the good people trying their best at the VA and the patients.

    • leon

      WASHINGTON — A veteran battling opioid withdrawal and suicidal thoughts begged to stay at the Washington veterans hospital one night in early 2019. Instead, a doctor had the veteran escorted out by police and said the patient could “go shoot [themself]. I do not care.”

      Livid. Like literally go string this man up from the nearest lampost levels of livid.

      • Ted S.

        Did they remove the word “himself” or “herself” so that we wouldn’t know whether the dead vet is a man or woman?

      • leon

        I think so.

    • Grosspatzer

      About seven percent. /McConnell

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There isn’t one.

      Conservatives lost the war when they gave up the pretense that they stood up for individual rights back in 2001.

    • kbolino

      Build your own. Stop going after Google, Facebook, and Twitter and start focusing on Cloudflare and the others who hold the keys to the kingdom.

      • Ted S.

        Until the payment processors won’t deal with them, for reasons that are acceptable in a way that not wanting to bake a cake isn’t.

      • Nephilium

        Consistency… something something… hobgoblins… something something…

        Do what we say!

      • kbolino

        Well that would be one of those “keys to kingdom”. Financial regulation is onerous and strongly pushes towards consolidation. That’s a good place to start unpacking things.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Absolutely.

        Obama had a hard-on for using the banking system to achieve his social goals by making it financially impossible to run certain businesses. (As did Bush) Unravelling that system would be a tremendous step towards freedom.

      • DEG

        Yes.

      • kbolino

        A lot of the current state of affairs traces back in one way or another to the anti-terrorism powers the government granted itself. That Obama weaponized them was predictable, but that they could be weaponized was hardly unforeseeable yet both parties passed them with little resistance (and still renew them to this day!).

      • Nephilium

        kbolino: The one that really pisses me off is “structuring” where you can get charged for a crime by making too many deposits that fall under the mandatory reporting amount. At least in the movie The Siege they had someone fake the evidence by throwing in extra money into the briefcase.

      • kbolino

        Hooray strict liability. How do we know you intended to commit a crime? Well you did it, so of course you intended to do it.* Circular reason for the win.

        * = Does not apply to violations of the Espionage Act if your name is Hillary Clinton

      • Nephilium

        kbolino:

        What’s a Mens Rea?

        Some kind of extinct bird?

      • Mojeaux

        kbolino: The one that really pisses me off is “structuring” where you can get charged for a crime by making too many deposits that fall under the mandatory reporting amount. At least in the movie The Siege they had someone fake the evidence by throwing in extra money into the briefcase.

        This is why my Lost Thing was not in the bank.

      • kbolino

        The long march through the institutions got quite a boost from the top cover Obama’s administration gave them.

    • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

      Nope. Peachy.

  13. peachy rex

    So – bets on when shit gets real in the eastern Med?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What’s up now? Egypt helping Libya? the pesky Palis acting up again?

      • peachy rex

        Erdogan throwing his weight around. Who gets the upper hand in Libya is a part of it; perhaps more important is who gets the biggest share of the eastern Med gas fields. There are some funky alliances in play, especially if you pull the focus out a bit – Egypt is now at daggers drawn with both Turkey and Ethiopia (over the Blue Nile.)

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Oh yeah, Greece is threatening Turkey over the gas fields, and Ethiopia might suffer a catastrophic Dam failure if they don’t figure something out, Egypt has Jets, U.S.Jets

      • Drake

        I’ll go with the Phoenicians and Assyrians.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    No, I fly LOS only, no Gyros, no automatic anything, you can crash them, well not me but…….

    I used to know a guy who was into rf airplanes. He said he could fly the hell out of it, going away, but he wrecked a lot on the way back. Something about ass backwards on the controls.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Many hours on a simulator, using your actual Transmitter, fixed that up, I haven’t crashed in years, I know I’m due for a big one soon

    • dontreadonme

      Quick fix is to turn away from the aircraft and fly looking over your shoulder.

  15. Chafed

    Its good to see Los Doyers are assholes like their fans.

    Playa Manhattan hardest hit?

    • Ted S.

      Ooh, a brawl between Playa and Sloopy?

    • Drake

      I hope Joe Kelly asked them if they caught that sign.

    • Sensei

      Now do Snake River Canyon!

    • Annoyed Nomad

      Looks like they removed that tweet. It’s “unavailable”

    • Nephilium

      It was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I really disliked the characterization of Dr. Manhattan, and Rorschach would have hated his “disciples” (but I could at least roll with that). The Klan having super science fits into the comic world alright.

      • Viking1865

        The best thing about Watchmen is how mad Alan Moore gets that the vast majority of people see Rorschach as the hero that he is.

      • Nephilium

        Meh. Rorschach was a psychopathic monster. The one thing that gives him redemption is that he won’t compromise, even at the cost of his own life. He really is a fantastic dark take on the Question and Batman.

      • Viking1865

        He only ever killed criminals, and I mean actual violent criminals. His first actual kill in the novel is the man who raped the little girl and fed her to his dogs. He kills a serial rapist and leaves him outside the police station. He kills the prisoner who attacks him in the cafeteria line. He kills Big Figure and his henchmen. He doesn’t kill any of the cops who arrest him, he doesn’t kill people for jaywalking or anything dumb like that.

        Then when God tells him not to speak the truth upon pain of death, he tells God to go fuck himself. Moore’s big way of making him the villain is the absurd premise that Veidt’s mass murder is the eggs that make the omelette. Which is nonsense, and Rohrsach knows it. He spits defiance into the polished, urbane, social engineer who’s murdering in the name of greater good. All he had to was kneel, and live but he wouldn’t. That’s heroic.

      • Nephilium

        He only ever killed criminals shown in the book. Which left out a large portion of his active time. I can easily see him being someone who killed someone who he thought committed crimes.

        But I’m on the side that calls his calling out the Doctor and Ozymandias at the end heroic. I don’t think I’d have that kind of courage.

      • Viking1865

        I mean, I’m just going with what’s in the actual comic. Personally, I think if Moore had really wanted to write him chopping up shoplifters to bits, I think he would have put it in there. But he didn’t. Instead, he has him murdering the shit out of genuinely bad people, all of whom have killed, raped, or are actively trying to kill him at the time.

        Of course, it does say something about Moore that he thinks the crazy rightwinger who killed dozens, perhaps hundreds of murderers and rapists is the villain for attempting to tell the truth about the intelligent, socially conscious progressive who murdered millions of innocent people.

        Like I said, the funny part is that deranged commie Alan Moore is actually upset that most people consider Rorschach the hero, and Ozymandias the villain, when he sees it the opposite. Like, it seems to blindingly obvious to the overwhelming majority of the readers that murdering millions is completely indefensible regardless of your cause, but since Moore is in fact a commie, he thinks the readers are the morons.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    GOTCHA!

    Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who has refused to wear a mask, tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday shortly before he was expected to travel with President Donald Trump to Texas.

    Gohmert, 66, tested positive during the routine screening at the White House prior to boarding Air Force One, multiple sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

    The Texas Republican attended Attorney General William Barr’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, sitting for hours in a hearing room with dozens of other lawmakers. Gohmert, along with other Republicans, was seen at times during the day without a mask.

    In an interview with a local Texas news station Wednesday morning after learning he was infected, Gohmert said it was “ironic” that he tested positive “because a lot of people have made a big deal out of my not wearing a mask a whole lot, but in the last week or two I have worn a mask more than I have in the whole last four months.”

    “I can’t help but wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place, if I might have put some germs, some of the virus on the mask and breathed it in,” he said.

    God’s vengeance on thee, sinner.

    Also- the mask which is supposed to trap the plague germs might have trapped some plague germs? Preposterous.

    • kbolino

      The mask does not protect the wearer. I realize the average idiot cannot understand this, but NBC News can’t even keep the narrative straight.

      • grrizzly

        The mask does not protect the wearer.

        People do not think that way at all. I’d argue that most wear it to “protect” themselves. People on the street with their masks under the chin routinely put them on when they pass by me–never wearing a mask–6 or 12 feet apart. I don’t look old or fat.

      • kbolino

        Well, I guess you could say the mask does protect you: from being issued a citation and having to appear (virtually!) in court.

      • mrfamous

        The mask does whatever the people in favor of it need it do at whatever particular time they need it to. If someone is beating their opponents with a cudgel, they’re not going to care what color the cudgel is. As long as it does its damage.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        There is no limit to the miracles that the talismask can perform.

        I’d say it’s similar to my tiger rock, except that I’ve never been attacked by a tiger while people with talimasks still somehow contract Covid.

      • Mad Scientist

        But only because they took the mask off at some point, thereby allowing the virus to penetrate their otherwise impenetrable shield.

    • juris imprudent

      Gawds, what a hoot it would be if they were just setting her up for a fall.

      Joe chooses someone else – “no hard feelings Kammie”.

    • Trolleric the Goth

      I think it’s trolling, but who knows

      • KibbledKristen

        I’m also pretty convinced it’s trolling

  17. DEG

    “I believe in Joe. I believe in Joe,” Harris said at the rally. “I know Joe. And that’s why I’m supporting him.”

    Are you spreading your legs for him too?

    At last the teams could no longer resist, and poured onto the field. No shoves or punches were seen, but there was plenty of arguing and shouting as dozens of players and coaches spilled onto the field.

    They wore their masks right? That’s all that matters.

    • Grosspatzer

      Are you spreading your legs for him too?

      *barf*

    • R C Dean

      Speculation that Harris might be Biden’s choice increased on Tuesday – after notes that Biden held in his hand during the news conference had Harris’ name scribbled across the top, as seen in a photo from the AP. The senator’s name was followed by five talking points: “Do not hold grudges.” “Campaigned with me & Jill.” “Talented.” “Great help to campaign.” “Great respect for her.”

      Those are also the things you’d say in a speech about the runners-up in a speech announcing somebody else.

      I’m hoping for the crazy fat black lady from Georgia, myself. But I think if its just gotta be a black chick, it’ll probably be Harris.

      • peachy rex

        Agreed. Those are “reasons I’ll still respect you in the morning”, not “reasons I want to marry you.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m holding out for a actual Black American to run for high office, that would be different,

      • leon

        That’s a good point. Even mentioning a possibility that there could have been a grudge would be out of place if she was the pick.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in response to the news on Gohmert that she was “so sorry” for the lawmaker. “But I’m also sorry for my members, who are concerned because he has been showing up at meetings without a mask and making a thing of it,” she said.

    When asked about Gohmert, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said he was “concerned about the irresponsible behavior of many of the Republicans who have chosen to consistently flout well-established public health guidance perhaps out of fealty to their boss, Donald Trump, who is the head of the anti-mask movement in America.”

    Well established paranoia.

    • kbolino

      well-established public health guidance

      Well established = repeated a lot.

    • Rebel Scum

      Heh

  19. DEG

    PA nursing home cited for using hydroxychloroquine

    “Based on facility documents, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents, facility record and staff interviews it was determined that the facility failed to obtain the necessary approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Health prior to administering a medication that is not a generally accepted practice in the medical community, is not a currently approved medication by the FDA for treatment of the COVID-19 virus outside of the hospital setting for an “Experimental Post Exposure Prophylaxis” treatment for 205 of 435 residents,” officials wrote.

    • KibbledKristen

      Sweet Meteor o’ Death, please come now!

    • Drake

      They were supposed to let them all die.

    • Timeloose

      I wonder what the death rate was compared to similar facilities that used no treatment.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Irrelevant

      • Timeloose

        Truth is no longer a goal, what was I thinking?

    • Grosspatzer

      Someone filed a complaint about this? There is a special circle of hell for that asshoe.

      • DEG

        Let’s see the consent form the plaintiff claims the facility asked her to sign.

        Until I see it, it sounds to me like the facility doctors prescribed HCQ and family members are hoping to hop on a gravy train.

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’re suing the state, not the facility or the doctors.

      • R C Dean

        Doctors can prescribe drugs “off-label” under some pretty flexible standards. If memory serves, they only have to be able to point to literature supporting their off-label use. Which can absolutely be done with HCQ and the ‘Vid.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sure. But administering as an experimental study is a bit different.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, there are all kinds of IRBs and informed consent for people who might not be mentally with it enough to consent and a bunch of other hoops they technically need to go through before participating in a study.

  20. B.P.

    The Russians are spreading virus disinformation!

    https://apnews.com/3acb089e6a333e051dbc4a465cb68ee1

    “The disclosure comes as the spread of disinformation, including by Russia, is an urgent concern heading into November’s presidential election as U.S. officials look to avoid a repeat of the 2016 contest, when a Russian troll farm launched a covert social media campaign to divide American public opinion and to favor then-candidate Donald Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.”

    ………………………….

    “Trump himself has come under scrutiny for sharing misinformation about a disproven drug for treating the coronavirus in videos that were taken down by Twitter and Facebook.”

    • leon

      “the 2016 contest, when a Russian troll farm launched a covert social media campaign to divide American public opinion and to favor then-candidate Donald Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton”

      Didn’t that troll farm also share anti Trump stuff?

      See how “not proven” becomes “disproven”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yes, they were all over the place with who they were supporting and the chloroquine stuff was certainly not misinformation either. Dear god do I hate the media.

  21. Certified Public Asshat

    Fucking pricks: Teachers Wary of Returning to Class, and Online Instruction Too

    Teachers in many districts are fighting for longer school closures, stronger safety requirements and limits on what they are required to do in virtual classrooms, while flooding social media and state capitols with their concerns and threatening to walk off their jobs if key demands are not met.

    • Grosspatzer

      I’m OK with these demands, as long as they are not getting paid. That’s part of the deal, right?

      • Mad Scientist

        And the lion’s share of our property taxes will be refunded since schools aren’t being used?

      • Grosspatzer

        Another optimist!

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I mean, Khan Academy is free…

      • Nephilium

        But doesn’t qualify as schooling. I mean, if you don’t have the proper paperwork, how will people know that you know something?

    • leon

      “threatening to walk off their jobs if key demands are not met.”

      Please do.

    • Rebel Scum

      Fire them all.

      • kbolino

        Where is Calvin Coolidge when we need him?

      • Ted S.

        Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

    • Idle Hands

      hahahahahahahahaha

    • R C Dean

      Teachers in many districts are fighting for longer school closures, stronger safety requirements and limits on what they are required to do in virtual classrooms full pay for part-time work

      Anecdotally, they are torching a lot of their goodwill with parents. I expect their next “Red for Ed” mo’ money campaign isn’t going to go well.

    • kbolino

      How does one walk off a job without first walking to it?

    • Grosspatzer

      Meanwhile, my 19-year old tax deduction is banking big $$ teaching online java classes for the summer. If the teachers keep up this shit, he will no longer be a tax deduction. Which is fine with me.

      • Ted S.

        So he can learn the joy of filing his own taxes.

      • Grosspatzer

        He has already taken note of the difference between his gross and net pay, and is developing a healthy skepticism of the state.

    • juris imprudent

      walk off their jobs

      Is that a threat or a promise?

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    I made my Walmart run today, place was packed, I walk in the Foyer and a kid says Sir, where’s your mask? and begins to hand me a new clean mask,
    I hold up my hand and say “no, I have a medical condition, I can’t wear one” He just said OK and left me be. I saw 2 other people without masks, but no social distancing at all.
    /I Will Not Comply

    • R C Dean

      Technically, I qualify for an exemption because I am hearing impaired.

      Which is completely backwards. Not wearing a mask doesn’t improve my hearing. Other people wearing masks absolutely makes them harder to understand.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I do have COPD, and I tried a mask, I honestly can’t breathe, so let’s play ADA!

      • mindyourbusiness

        R C, I’m more than a trifle deaf. Can you give me information on this piece of dipshittery? I’d love to stick a finger in the bureaucratic eye.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I have considered painting my face as a Juggalo, and declaring its against my religion.

  23. egould310

    I spent six hours in a reefer warehouse yesterday. Counted about 3 million pounds of frozen fruit, at 0 degrees Fahrenheit. As I was walking to get dinner, my big toe was throbbing. Wasn’t frostbite.

    It was very cold.

    • bacon-magic

      Reefer warehouse sounds very interesting.

      • KibbledKristen

        Yes. Yes it does

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Reefer? sure it was Fruit………………..
      / it’s Refer

    • Grosspatzer

      Careful, reefer madness is a thing.

    • creech

      Had to do that every month way back when, counting Oscar’s bacon and hams and such. Much better was an inventory I had to take in a roasted nut room and chocolate turtles factory.

      • Grosspatzer

        roasted nut room

        Some like it hot…

      • juris imprudent

        a roasted nut room and chocolate turtles factory

        Phrasing? Doesn’t anyone ever consider their goddam phrasing anymore?

  24. Scruffy Nerfherder

    College acquaintance who’s now a diversity administrator at a college just posted a link to a video of Angela Davis giving a talk on diversity.

    I couldn’t let that one go without comment. I expect to be unfriended.

    • KibbledKristen

      diversity administrator at a college

      Would have unfriended based on that alone

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He’s not quite as idiotic as the elementary school teachers I know.

      • Count Potato

        And he’s also better dressed than most homeless people?

  25. Idle Hands

    Joe Biden is fucking gone. jfc the video of him from the presser and him being walked to his car assisted are just insane. Elder abuse.

    • The Other Kevin

      How did he win the primary? Did he go downhill really fast since then?

      • Viking1865

        Black voters are conservative Democrats. They never wanted the atheist socialist, and the Democrats still won’t run an actual black American. So they went for Joe.

        In the Democratic Primary, if you win the black vote, you’re in really really good shape.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Between gun control and things like this they might lose a lot more votes going forward.

        We can hope. At least hoping we can get this material used accurately and efficiently.

      • mrfamous

        Yeah he did, actually. He wasn’t great but his decline has been rather rapid.

    • salted earth

      I have not seen the vid of him being walked to his car. Is it from this week?

      • salted earth

        Thanks. I’m guessing it is a better look to have someone on his arm than him getting lost on the way to the car.

      • one true athena

        With those coats? is this really from Feb?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Good catch, that’s not recent.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        It must be. No masks. No distancing. Heavy coats.

      • R C Dean

        Speaking of the ‘Vid, where’s his mask? And his minder’s mask?

  26. grrizzly

    The “National Correspondent” for Time magazine: We have been inside our one-bedroom apartment for 134 days.

    • DEG

      Fear is the mind killer.

      Oh.

      There’s no mind to kill.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What

      The

      Fuck

      • Grosspatzer

        I’ve seen this movie somewhere…

      • Gustave Lytton

        No, it was an infomercial.

        “I placed tiny little news articles in newspapers all across the country and made thousands of dollars a week. All from my one bedroom apartment.”

      • Grosspatzer

        “I placed tiny little news articles videos in newspapers all across the country on Chaturbate and made thousands of dollars a week. All from my one bedroom apartment.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        CWAB

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Behavioral economist”. The rest of her twitter blurb isn’t any better. It all screams huckster.

  27. tarran

    Reposted from the last thread:

    I have some very bad news. Some of you might recall that I’ve been very invested in the case of Dr Peter Ridd, formerly of James Cook University who (as I reported):

    Some of you might remember Dr Peter Ridd, who was fired from James Cook University for publicly disagreeing with a fellow professor, Dr Terry Hughes who makes a living from promoting the notion that the Great Barrier Reef is being destroyed by evil humans and that James Cook University needs lots of money from the government to keep that from happening.

    Because James Cook University cares for their reputation as an institution that produces good quality research, they investigated Dr Ridd’s claims and where they were warranted, improved their quality assurance procedures to correct the problems, and where they weren’t warranted publicized how their QA systems were already addressing his concerns they instituted disciplinary proceedings against Dr Ridd and ordered him to keep quiet about them including forbidding him from even discussing them with his wife (for a one month period).

    The whole fiasco ended up in front of a judge two weeks ago, and he just issued his judgement. He ruled that for Dr Ridd had been unfairly terminated and that every sanction against him violated his employment contract. It’s a brutal (but entirely deserved) judgement. It’s the judicial equivalent of a curb stomping

    The University appealed, and the appeal was heard last month. This week, the appeals court overturned the judgement, claiming that the university could rewrite its code of conduct to modify and circumscribe the tenure protections built into the school’s Enterprise Agreement (a sort of charter for the school) and that as defined by the code of conduct, Ridd’s comments about the university’s lack of quality control were personal opinions that were outside the sorts of statements that tenure was supposed to protect.

    Dr Ridd has decided to take his case to the Australian equivalent of the Supreme Court. He has reopened his gofundme page to cover his expenses. I’ve kicked in another $100; it’s in addition to the $200 I had kicked in to help fund his lawsuit and defense at the appelate lever.

    I ask you all to kick in some money. It’s not just saving the retirement of one deserving man. If the ngo/governmental/academic complex is able to destroy the wall of academic freedom in Australia, a major impediment to the silencing of speakers-of-truth-to-power in a major western nation will have been smashed flat.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Take your meds.

    Waters said, “First of all for the attorney general of the United States not to say that this president is going to abide by the Constitution of the United States of America if he is not reelected, he will leave office, he will concede rapidly. The transfer power is not a confrontational thing in the United States. For the president not to be able to answer that question or for Barr not to be able to answer that, it really does make you suspect about what they are planning.”

    She continued, “There are many folks who have said, and I have repeated that what going on in Portland, Oregon is practice for what could happen when the president —if he decides he is not going to step down that he is going to stay in the White House. All of this is unfortunate. Nothing that we ever expected to happen in this country. This president is a wanna-be dictator acting like a dictator. This use of the military where he is bringing out unarmed—not unarmed but unidentified persons who are dressed in certain camouflaged clothing that you can’t tell where they are coming from. They don’t have any badges. They have unmarked cars. That is dangerous and scary. The people of America had better be concerned.”

    • kbolino

      Chances Rep. Waters voted for most of the bills that enabled whatever the government is doing right now: >99%.

      • kbolino

        Hmm, maybe not. Her voting record is more mixed.

    • R C Dean

      First of all for the attorney general of the United States not to say that this president is going to abide by the Constitution of the United States of America if he is not reelected, he will leave office, he will concede rapidly

      What question was he asked, and what was his answer?

      Or does she just expect him to randomly blurt out that Trump will leave office if he loses the election?

    • B.P.

      “The transfer power is not a confrontational thing in the United States.”

      Says the person from the team that has been trying to undo an election for 3 and 1/2 years.

      • kbolino

        I guess taking all the W keys off the keyboard was more passive aggressive than confrontational.

  29. Nephilium

    Brewery number two in Cleveland to temporarily close. This one I expect will be able to survive through distribution.

    I will hopefully be stopping at three new (to me) breweries this weekend.

  30. Fourscore

    I got a letter today from the VA, to make an appointment if I feel like the virus got me. If the virus got me it came from the cabbage patch, ’cause that’s about as far as I’ve been.

    • salted earth

      It’s a trap!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Make an appointment with the VA. Okay so they will be able to make an appointment with your PACT Team in 2-3 weeks, if symptoms persist please go to the ED?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    About those “unmarked” vehicles being used by the Portland death squads: didn’t somebody post a video link here of what appeared to be dozens of burned out or otherwise heavily damaged cop cars from someplace? Maybe those guys just don’t want to get tipped over or firebombed on their way to work.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Better get you some shades so you can hide the contempt in your eyes and, yeah, fuck that shrimp. He didn’t seem to concerned about that shit when he was hanging out at the ballpark where other people weren’t allowed to be.

    • mrfamous

      Can’t imagine why the American public thinks this thing has killed 9% of the population already.

  32. Evan from Evansville

    And SiL went to the doc with contractions and almost immediately gave birth! No way she was there longer than 3 hours. Her last delivery was 36 hours. Yikes! Glad it went so smoothly and she and the baby are doing fantastic!

    I am now the uncle to three BOYS. (We know they wanted a girl but we never actively talked about it…but it was known.)

    I am still committed to never having children. That would be way too much for me, but great for them!

    • Nephilium

      Congrats on being an uncle. Feel free to tell your brother at this point on average, he’s just going to have boys. I’ve given a friend of mine shit since he’s got three daughters and wants a son.

      • Evan from Evansville

        It seems to be a family thing…or just interesting odds. My parents have me and my older brother, and my bro has three boys of his own.

        That seems to be genetic or simply an interesting mix of odds. If a boy and a girl are truly 50/50, that should be around a 3.15% or so chance. I am sure there are indeed genetics and I just did a simple in-head probability countdown, but that’s roughly where I’m at.

        Interesting.

      • Gadfly

        If a boy and a girl are truly 50/50

        Technically, the odds are actually 51/49 in favor of boys, so your brother just happened to roll with the odds three times in a row.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Kids will be born, so will Grandkids, all the fun, none of the responsibility!
      Cheers!

    • R C Dean

      No way she was there longer than 3 hours. Her last delivery was 36 hours.

      Well, let’s just say the path had been cleared for the second one.

      • Evan from Evansville

        The second was a lot easier, but both the first two were C-sections. This one just flew out. We’re all pretty surprised and I’m glad it was easy for her.

      • R C Dean

        A VBAC delivery? I’m glad it went so well. Those can go sideways if the scars don’t hold up under the pressure.

      • Count Potato

        As someone worked as an EMT, I can tell you that’s how it usually goes. If a woman has had several kids, you can just hold up a catcher’s mitt.

      • Ted S.

        They spit ’em out like a Pez dispenser.

      • one true athena

        My mom was eighth of eleven. We joke that grandma probably didn’t even stop to have the last few – they just fell out, she threw the baby in a sling, and kept walking.

    • KibbledKristen

      Congrats Uncle!!

      I hear tell that birthin babies is quicker after the first one

      • Ted S.

        You’ve triggered Mojeaux again….

    • Count Potato

      Congrats!

    • Grosspatzer

      Mazel tov! Being an uncle is cool. I tell the same stories to my nephews and my sons. The nephews love them, my kids just roll their eyes.

    • DEG

      Congratulations!

    • Gender Traitor

      w00t!! Yay Unca Evan! THREE boys, eh? You know the drill: wind ’em up & send ’em back home!

  33. The Late P Brooks

    “Masks Aren’t Enough: Dr. Fauci Says People Should “Probably Use Eye Shields” To Protect Against COVID-19″

    *puts bowl of Foochy Chow on sidewalk, carries anvil up to overhanging roof*

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Which is completely backwards. Not wearing a mask doesn’t improve my hearing. Other people wearing masks absolutely makes them harder to understand.

    MY brother says he never realized how much lip reading he does until people started wearing masks.

    Of course, he’s got a full blown case of TDS and thinks I’m crazy for objecting to the mandatory mask nonsense.

    • kinnath

      MY brother says he never realized how much lip reading he does until people started wearing masks.

      I have depended on lip reading to clarify what my ears are picking up for more than a decade.

      Masks are a disaster.

      • salted earth

        I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that, could you please repeat what you said?

      • kinnath

        Asking the indignant teenager mumbling wearing a mask behind the counter at McDonald’s is an exercise in futility.

      • salted earth

        I was trying for a joke 🙂
        I still forget to turn toward people when I talk with the mask on. I’m not the best at eye contact and looking directly at people when I talk with them, the mask makes it much worse. I’m am probably one of the mumblers.

      • kinnath

        I got the joke.

        I was just whining about having to ask the same fucking question so many times.

        It gets to the point where you want to tell the dude in the mask to just spit out the marbles.

      • salted earth

        Masks also tend to lead dry mouth. It’s like talking with a mouth full of cotton.

      • KibbledKristen

        Machines take our orders at my nearest McD’s. They mysteriously appeared right around the time minimum wage skyrocketed.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        so McChines take your order?

      • KibbledKristen

        High fiiiiiive!

        *narrows gaze*

      • Incentives Matter

        Same with the McD’s where I’ve lived. And yet minimum-wage fanatics never seem to make the connection.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’ve been Violated! I’m hearing impaired! the ADA will be speaking to you…….

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      My dad is very hard of hearing and this mask thing is a disaster for him when he goes to the doctor. Without the mask he can pick up most of what the doctor is saying. With the mask, forget about it. Luckily I’m with him to translate.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Will Trump leave, or won’t he? How many times has he refused to surrender possession of a property which has transferred out of his ownership for any reason?

    • salted earth

      He has walked away from two wives.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Walked away? I’m sure they are well compensated, and don’t have to listen to him anymore…..

  36. The Late P Brooks

    roasted nut room

    Is that like a Turkish Bath?

    • B.P.

      Mental health facility for stoners?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        LOL

  37. kinnath

    No blood for oil! No blood for oil! Nevermind.

    Trump’s Troop Tantrum

    There’s no strategy behind the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany. It’s about the president’s anger and ego.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They just reflexively oppose whatever he does at this point. There’s no reason to keep our troop level in Germany, especially when they’re welching on their end of the bargain and I don’t think the Russians are going to be driving their T-90s through the Fulda Gap anytime soon.

    • kbolino

      Oh, what we were doing up until this point was strategy? Could have fooled me.

    • Viking1865

      The quality of journalism is so low. Trump has repeatedly stated his foreign policy in Europe: That the other members of NATO, who combined have plenty of money and population to spend on defense, should spend more on defense, shoulder their own burden.

      That’s not a difficult position to understand. But it is a difficult one to argue against, so just deny he made it and insist hes lashing out of anger.

      • kbolino

        That happened more than 2 days ago, and so has been forgotten. Unless it’s useful for doxxing a wrongthinker, anyway.

      • Nikkodemus

        I have a few liberal friends, and they see this. In other areas (ROOOOSHANS!!!) they’ve totally succumbed to TDS. But on this subject, they see right through the media lies. Its so strange.

    • salted earth

      Federal agents in Portland = bad
      U.S. troops in Germany = good

      • kbolino

        The Federal Protective Service is Trump’s personal army, despite being full of civil servants, meanwhile the actual Army, to whom the President is Commander-in-Chief, answers only to… Congress, I guess?

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        We’re fighting them over there so we don’t fight them here. Or something like that.

      • TARDIS

        We’re not protecting them from the Russians. We’re saving them from this.

    • Rhywun

      Germany has been complaining about American troops for decades and all of a sudden we’re supposed to believe they want us there. ?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I think its sort of like their take on American tourists. They hate every minute we’re there, but they love our disposable income.

      • Rhywun

        NYC has the same position on American tourists.

    • one true athena

      Germany made itself vulnerable to Russia through their own stupid energy policies, and no amount of US troops changes that calculation.

      Also, last I checked Poland was in between, so maybe they’re the ones who should have the 20K troops if you’re so freaking scared of Russia.

      • Drake

        I think they are getting some. Sounds like 2 brigades are getting pulled and one will be doing “exercises in the Baltics”.

      • Gadfly

        I have heard that the long term strategy is to move more troops to Poland from Germany, since Poland is both cheaper and friendlier and it serves the same purpose as having them in Germany (now that the Germans are thoroughly neutered and no longer pose a potential threat on their own).

    • kbolino

      “Carrie Lam’s CCP masters” is 4 words, though.

    • Ted S.

      Zaftig?

    • TARDIS

      Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen?

  38. Timeloose

    I am being recruited by a direct competitor for the exact job I did for my present company 2 years ago. It would allow me to work from home, but I will need to travel 30% of the time.

    I have become frustrated by my current company’s wokeness, lack of agility, and lack of career growth.

    The problem I see is that this company’s margins are half to a 1/3 of my present company. This makes me nervous that the new opportunity could crash if the company can’t grow or improve margins.

    I’m considering an interview.

    • KibbledKristen

      Interviewing never hurts

      • KibbledKristen

        (unless you’re shit at interviews, I guess)

      • Timeloose

        I’m pretty good at interviews.

        I’m concerned because I’m actively making strategies against this company and they are loosing market share. They also have a very old technology that I could help them with, but it would be a tightrope with IP.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I would suss out if they know that and either are enticing you to mess with their competitor/competitor’s strategy or expect you bring over and use your knowledge of your current employer’s strategy and/or confidential information.

      • Hyperion

        “I’m pretty good at interviews.”

        Same, here, but in case someone isn’t, just include a few words like ‘diversity’ and ‘systemic racism’ and you’re in, won’t matter what else you say.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Unless you’re interviewing with MANAGER SMITH.

    • creech

      Sounds like you could help them, but demand some sort of golden parachute if the company goes down in flames.

      • Timeloose

        Good point. Thank you both for your advice.

      • R C Dean

        Sounds like your current company doesn’t have that great a future , either.

    • DEG

      I say give the interview a shot.

      Good luck!

    • Hyperion

      “I have become frustrated by my current company’s wokeness”

      Not sure where you can go, they’re all doing it. Maybe try a Musk company, he doesn’t seem too much into the woke shit and he must be one of the very very few.

    • Rhywun

      Prager gets censored all the time. Must be used to it by now.

  39. Yusef drives a Kia

    Here it is, 121 Degrees! 6% humidity! I can’t feel my eyes! the asphalt is melting! It Burns it BUUUUUURNS!!!!!!
    OTOH, Walmartrx.com has super cheap prices on Pet meds, like 1/3 the price I have seen elsewhere, Yippee!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Wear sunblock.

    • KibbledKristen

      I would say “that is my Hell”, but I think that’s everyone’s Hell, including Satan.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nahhh, I have a large River, it’s all good, I just dig watching the insane temps out here,
        and MS, Sun block is for Cancer victims, ask me how I know,

    • KibbledKristen

      Raging mask debate”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Hardly Boys! they really didn’t think this through, did they………….

      • Hyperion

        I knew ‘raging’ had to be in there somewhere…

    • Gustave Lytton

      Thank you. Now I’m permanently hearing it.

    • Sean

      ????

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Is that something like hands across America?

    • Hyperion

      I scrolled down and saw a masterbate between Hank Johnson and Deputy Dawg. There’s more stupid and sad dog face there than anywhere ever.

  40. Gustave Lytton

    Reading through the tweets from Time’s national correspondent, mentioned by grrizzly above

    https://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter?s=21

    This woman is seriously deranged. For the good of the public, cut off her internet and wall her in like Fortunato in the Cask of Amontillado.

    • This Machine

      FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!

      • Tres Cool

        “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. “

    • Hyperion

      I can’t even make sense out of anything she’s saying.

      “Prince Philip ‘looks several decades younger’ in latest snaps”

      GAH! WTF!? He looks like that old guy in one of the Poltergeist movies who’s saying ‘Somebody’s going to die!’. *shudder*

  41. TARDIS

    Not a detailed study, but

    • Gender Traitor

      …not a detailed comment either. ; )

  42. TARDIS

    …must remember to hit submit first.

  43. Count Potato

    “For weeks I’ve been hesitant to bring this up but I think the public should be aware of what type of journalists are going on @CNN
    , etc. & setting the narrative about the riots in Portland, Ore.”

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1288353927881056256

    • Drake

      “Even though Zielinski & I disagree on politics, I would never try to hurt her.”

      That’s where he went wrong. They play for keeps and want you dead.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Beware women with an axe to grind. They always enlist others to do what they wouldn’t dare do themselves. And they think it absolves them of responsibility.

      • Incentives Matter

        Sadly, those kind of women learn their stuff when they’re just teenagers, egging on the boys to get into fights and running away when there’s any chance that anything bad could happen to them. I’ve seen it far too many times in my life.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yup

      • Hyperion

        “They always enlist others to do what they wouldn’t dare do themselves. And they think it absolves them of responsibility.”

        Much woke, many brave.

        I remember someone posting that link about the guys climbing steel beams in the sky without harnesses or any safety equipment of any kind. Looked like some damn brave dudes to me.

        Now all you have to do to be the bravest around is to come out as one of the 23 imaginary genders and try to deny someone else’s right to free speech.

    • Hyperion

      Cleaveland430
      @cleaveland430
      ·
      17h
      Replying to
      @MrAndyNgo
      and
      @CNN
      Have you put in a formal complaint with FBI? The tide is turning, and we are entering a season of justice where stuff like this won’t be swept under the rug. Alex needs to be investigated for what’s she done.

      Geez, when did that happen. Was I sleeping?

  44. Hyperion

    “Trump gives Harris kiss of death.”

    Biden and White Squaw least hardest hit.