Saturday evening linkage

by | Aug 8, 2020 | Daily Links | 336 comments

This dog knows how to nap.

 

Seriously, mid 80s, light breeze. Links have taken forever because I fell asleep twice.

 

When did Falwell join the Libertarian Party?

 

Looks like Joe has the Najavo vote sewn up.

 

The self immolation of Shia LaBeouf continues unabated.

 

‘Murhica, fuck yeah.

 

They got OrangeManBad now! What do you mean there’s nothing new in it?

 

I’m pretty sure Dowd wasn’t wrong.

 

This evening a little old timey emo.

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

336 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    Biden says he opposes uranium mining around Grand Canyon, citing importance to tribes

    Hidin’ Biden opposes strategic resources.

    • Count Potato

      The Navajo are a nuclear power.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Well, they do have lots of Tomahawks.

  2. Rebel Scum

    The self immolation of Shia LaBeouf continues unabated.

    Culturally appropriating Mexican gangbangers is TIGHT.

    • TARDIS

      If it wasn’t for Megan Fox, no one would have heard of this turd.

      • UnCivilServant

        I only remember him from some sort of fever dream involving CGI ants and aliens.

        I don’t think it was an actual movie.

  3. Rebel Scum

    The mayor of Sturgis says there’s not much to do but encourage “personal responsibility,” set up sanitation stations and give out masks – though face coverings won’t be required.

    Half these people don’t wear helmets but I am sure they will put on a mask to pretend to protect against catching a cold.

    • hayeksplosives

      “ The mayor of Sturgis says there’s not much to do but encourage “personal responsibility””

      So pretty much the same approach they take to sex or any other adult activity.

      Carry on.

    • Rhywun

      I’m pretty sure they could “do something” to stop the event if the plague was the mortal danger they claim.

  4. Threedoor

    And all the medals go to Rebel.

  5. Rebel Scum

    What do you mean there’s nothing new in it?

    No one will read it anyway.

  6. Rebel Scum

    Either @TimKaine and I had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again.

    Finally she got rid of that cringe “vote” mask profile pic.

    • Grosspatzer

      TimKaine and I had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago

      Wasn’t that a Sugar Free story?

      • Threedoor

        I miss those.

  7. UnCivilServant

    The self immolation of Shia LaBeouf continues unabated.

    I honestly think the poor man has a genuine mental illness that’s going untreated. Not any of the trendy ones, but something genuinely wrong with his brain.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I’m just impressed that Spud could spell “immolation.”

      • Spudalicious

        Without auto correct.

    • The Hyperbole

      I’m not sure why the linked article is an example of Shia’s self-immoleting, a bunch of woke critics don’t like his latest film, Meh. It’ll probably kick ass, might even be as good as “Jaws” or at least not as bad as “Zardoz”.

      • UnCivilServant

        You expected me to read the link?

      • Rhywun

        I made it about halfway though.

        It’s mostly identity-politics whining.

      • hayeksplosives

        One critic likened watching it to having ones face dragged over asphalt for 2 hours.

      • Sean

        Hahaha.

      • LCDR_Fish

        “Dragged across concrete” was a dope-ass flick. SonnyBunch seems to think this one is a lot of fun too.

      • Crusty Juggler

        All the Cinestate films are pretty dope-ass. Sure, their producers have engaged in some questionable past behavior, but the art stands for itself!

    • hayeksplosives

      Untreated bipolar could manifest as some of the behavior we see in public.

      It’s sad how many new celebs get snatched up by “handlers” who don’t look after their interests at all ; keeping them drunk or drug addled, cut them off from good friends, and suck them dry.

      Yeah, Shia needs to be spirited off to a good quality psych hospital but his sycophants tell him he doesn’t need help.

    • Ted S.

      He and Kanye West need to get together.

      • Grosspatzer

        Now that’s a ticket I could get behind.

    • SP

      I honestly don’t know who that is.

      • UnCivilServant

        He started making movies around the time I stopped watching them.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Peanut Butter Falcon was a good movie even though it is gay af

      • mexican sharpshooter

        He is the kid from Holes

      • But Enough About My Prostate

        Which was actually a pretty good (if decidedly weird) movie.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I think he was scheduled to be cast as Indy’s son in the fourth Indiana Jones movie, but then everyone involved came to their senses and never made a fourth Indiana Jones movie.

    • Gender Traitor

      immolation of Shia LaBeouf

      That’s some fancy schmancy meat dish all y’all foodies cook flambe[insert accent aigu], innit?

    • Broswater

      Yeah sounds a bit like Bipolar to me. He’s got the grandiose part checked that’s for sure. Sad part is if it was under control, who would ever knew about Shia LaBeouf?

      As long as he continues milking money out of it and not taking it seriously, I shall continue making fun of him, while wondering where I will find the money to pay my phone bill this month. To each his own misery I guess.

      • C. Anacreon

        Perhaps they need to add lithium to his water supply.

  8. DEG

    On June 15, city council members voted 8 to 1 to forge ahead with the 80-year tradition, local news outlet NewsCenter 1 reported, albeit without the usual seating in a plaza.

    Good they are holding the bike rally.

  9. Aloysious

    Good eeevening, Spud.

    Shia le Boof continues to entertain.

    • Spudalicious

      Good evening sir. Enjoy today’s weather in Nampa?

      • Aloysious

        This morning was awesome. Working tonight, and the mask police are out in force. One dude had such a hissy fit, he got himself escorted from the premises. All over someone else not wearing a mask ‘properly’.

      • Spudalicious

        I wear a mask in the grocery story, that’s pretty much it. I keep it in my pocket just in case Karen comes along.

  10. DEG

    My paper copy of “The Underground History of American Education” arrived today. I purchased the paper copy through Amazon from a used bookstore in Florida. The kindle edition is still under review.

    According to the tracking information, the book took a round-about way to get here. It went through northern Vermont to get to southern New Hampshire.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Traveling the Underground Railroad of conservative writings.

    • Plinker762

      So it had a 50 mile detour? Lol.

      Moving out west really changed my idea of a long drive.

  11. But Enough About My Prostate

    This dog knows how to nap.

    Yeah, mine does the same. It’s so ladylike.

    • Spudalicious

      No one has ever accused him of being ladylike.

      • But Enough About My Prostate

        No one’s ever accused her of being ladylike, either.

      • Spudalicious

        She’s doing it for different reasons. ;P

  12. one true athena

    The best part of the NY column tweet/corrections is how perfectly it echoed the original claim by Entertainment Weekly or something like that: – “Captain Marvel– the First Female Led SUPERHERO MOVIE!!” — that then got reminded, no, there was Wonder Woman just a year ago. So then they tried to fix it “Captain Marvel the first MARVEL SUPERHEROINE”” and got schooled again that Elektra was actually a film, too. It was funny.

    It’s a combination of desperation to sell some kind of Social Justice First! and just plain ignorance.

    • Nephilium

      There were also Catwoman (2004), Sheena (1984), Red Sonja (1985 – depending on your definition of superhero film), and Supergirl (1984). It was like when they were trying to say Black Panther was the first black superhero film, ignoring Spawn, Meteor Man, Blade, etc.

      • UnCivilServant

        The people crying “First! First!” don’t actually like superheroes, let alone know anything about them.

      • The Hyperbole

        So they’re not nerds then?

      • Nephilium

        No, they’re appropriating our culture.

      • The Hyperbole

        “Our”? I haven’t bought a comic book since Frank Miller’s Daredevil “Born Again”, The single bestest coolest comic book arc ever. But I’m no Nerd!

      • UnCivilServant

        No matter how much you flagellate yourself, you will never be accepted by those who are not one of us.

        Rejoin the nerd herd.

      • Chafed

        His run with Daredevil was incredible.

      • Mojeaux

        I guess Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) doesn’t count?

        Or Kill Bill (2003)?

      • Nephilium

        Neither of those were based on comics, although Buffy did get one with the TV series.

    • Drake

      There was a long-running Wonder Woman series in the 70s. And Lynda Carter.

  13. Grosspatzer

    “American Bridge posts 1,043-page Trump oppo book online”

    Working title: Crime and Punishment. Then the ompeachment fell through.

    • Grosspatzer

      The impeachment, even.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The ompeachment. Are they after the Dali Lama?

      • Grosspatzer

        Hare Krishna, Atlanta chapter.

    • Rhywun

      Well, Trump is an ompa-lompa.

    • Not Adahn

      Omnipeachment.

  14. Mojeaux

    Wyatt and Billy are going to save this country.

  15. Count Potato

    “Ayer’s 2012 police thriller End of Watch, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, was also controversial. It was condemned by some critics for its depiction of almost exclusively black and Latino criminals.”

    So Breaking Bad and The Wired are cancelled?

  16. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Climate change is going to kill us all. Quick, what is the best no to low carbon emission form of power. Nuclear. Ban uranium mining. What the second best form. Natural gas. Ban fracking. What the third? Hydroelectric. Take down the environment destroying dams.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      They want us bastards to freeze in the dark.

      • Threedoor

        I have no qualms about burning their mansions to keep warm.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Just do it peacefully.

      • Threedoor

        Of course.

    • Ted S.

      And then drugs fell out of his ass.

      • Rebel Scum

        Happy Meals…

  17. Count Potato

    “Today is my 2,500th day in prison.

    If you believe I deserve to be freed and returned home, I ask that you please share my petition once more with your friends and family. I feel the love every time someone signs.”

    https://twitter.com/RealRossU/status/1290647089396015109

    • Rhywun

      No comment. Hi, Preet!

      • Tres Cool

        “Hi, Im Preet Bharara. You may know me from such internet podcasts as “government over-reach”, “disproportionate sentencing”, “wont leave my desk even tho I was fired”.
        I like long walks on the beach, the DOJ, and I cant stand wood-chippers”. HMU bae.

      • Rhywun

        ? Lowered Expectations… ?

  18. Nephilium

    As is tradition, I’ll kick off a Virtual Happy Hour at 20:00 Eastern. I will need to drop off before midnight, as I have to sit on a work conference call to do less then 30 minutes of work over 5 hours.

    • SP

      Thank you! At least one of us will be there. (Just warning everyone.)

      • Nephilium

        And here I sit… over half an hour on a call, waiting still. Last I heard, there’s not even anything I can do for another 45 minutes.

        I hate bad time management when it comes to shit like this.

    • Grosspatzer

      Come and get me.

      Fox said given the current composition of the Supreme Court, a federal vaccine requirement would likely be found unconstitutional.

      They think Roberts would have a problem with that requirement?

      • Rebel Scum

        Come and take stick it.

        No, wait. That sounds wrong.

      • Grosspatzer

        I thought it was the other way around.

    • Rhywun

      In 2019, New York City passed an ordinance that fined people who refused a measles vaccination.

      Yeah, and they backed off when it was pointed out that it was aimed at the Hasidic community.

      The more things change….

    • TARDIS

      I really need to practice with my new rifle….

      • Rebel Scum

        Me too, after I fish it out of the river, that is.

      • TARDIS

        And take a loan out for ammunition.

      • Threedoor

        Buy 50cal. It’s still cheap.

    • Grosspatzer

      Shia LeBoeuf’s next film.

  19. westernsloper

    He noted that the city will be expanding a program to deliver supplies to the homes of those worried about the virus. But there are no quarantine recommendations for bikers from hot spot states, the mayor said, and leaders are just “hoping people make the right choices.” Visitors have already been flocking to the Black Hills amid the pandemic, he said.

    The west is over ran with out of state plates from what I have seen. I think RV traffic is double this year compared to last. What’s another couple hundred thousand bikers.

  20. Q Continuum

    And so it was as dawn broke she declared “Make me great with child, for I am a sturdy vessel for your seed.”
    As it has been for time immemorial, the generative act commenced.
    And at the climax, the spasms of the womb eagerly welcomed the seed springing within.
    And lo, the new life took hold, preparing for an ever shifting future.

    TL;DR – Mrs. Q is knocked up like a 16 year old in a trailer park.

    • Grosspatzer

      Congrats! I think…

      • TARDIS

        The (18, 22, 24 2 6 ear) fuckin’ you get, for the fuckin’ you gave.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Congratulations.

    • westernsloper

      There is a Mrs Q?

      • DEG

        My thoughts too.

        Also, congratulations Q!

      • Q Continuum

        Unless I’ve been really drunk for several years…

      • westernsloper

        Congrats on both!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dammit! That was my first thought. Congratulations Q!

    • Sean

      Her boobs will get bigger. That was the point, right?

      • But Enough About My Prostate

        “Yes, they are getting bigger. No, you can’t touch them.”

        – from the book “What To Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding”

      • TARDIS

        Does it say they get perkier? They get perkier, right? No? Someone hates us all.

      • Q Continuum

        Already there.

    • pistoffnick

      Is this your first?

      “…preparing for an ever shifting future.”

      You don’t know the half of it.

      Congratudolences!

      • Q Continuum

        First q or q-ette.

      • pistoffnick

        Her focus is going to change from you to it (him or her or …). You should prepare yourself now. Try not to be bitter when it happens.

      • pistoffnick

        Still kind of bitter after 18 years….

      • Mojeaux

        Congratudolences

        Stealing.

    • Ted S.

      Congratulations to her and the father!

    • Count Potato

      Congratulations!

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Congratulations Q!!

    • Not Adahn

      Grats!

    • Mojeaux

      I’m happy and sad for you.

      • TARDIS

        “I wouldn’t take a million dollars for you to take either one of my kids, but I wouldn’t give you a dime for another one just like them.”

      • Mojeaux

        A million? I’ll pause and think about that for a couple of seconds.

      • TARDIS

        You can a take a minute or two, no one will judge you.

      • Tres Cool

        Quiet, Lazlo

        We’ve been over this.

      • Mojeaux

        Would you like to borrow my pajamas?

    • SP

      If you have a daughter, just remember that all those women you post all the time are also someone’s daughter. 😉

      Congratulations to you and the Mrs!

      • TARDIS

        You’re manners are excellent. I commend OMWC. Most teenagers are rude.

      • TARDIS

        *your* Sorry, I have an apostrophe fetish.

    • TARDIS

      Mrs. Q is knocked up like a 16 year old in a trailer park.

      I didn’t pay attention. You’re methheads?

      • Sean

        Cousins.

      • Playa Manhattan

        She managed to stay a virgin ’til marriage because she can outrun her father.

      • TARDIS

        “Git off me daddee, you’re crushing my cigarettes!”

      • Q Continuum

        Por que no los dos?

    • Playa Manhattan

      Aren’t you my age? You’re way too old to be having kids!

      • Q Continuum

        My sperm was too immature and needed to grow up.

    • Gender Traitor

      Mazel tov!

    • DrOtto

      Congrats!

    • Cancelled

      You knocked her up just to expand her boobs admit it!

      • Q Continuum

        Already on the move.

      • Cancelled

        And congratulations, on both the kid and the breat enhancement.

    • straffinrun

      That’s awesome.

    • C. Anacreon

      Congratulations! Get ready for the greatest journey of your life. The days will seem long but the years short. Seems like my son was just a toddler a couple years ago, but he’s 18 and leaving for college in two weeks. You will love the ride.

    • Deplorableme

      Congratulations! I like to say, sometimes they grow too fast, other times, not fast enough. You’ll have an amazing journey

    • Threedoor

      Yeah! Babies are awesome.

    • Tejicano

      Well, since this seems to still be going even as late as now I will add my congratulations – and stand by.

  21. Count Potato

    “I will not be able to attend the campaign rally tomorrow morning. I will be getting a rabies vaccine as a precaution after having been bitten by a bat near the start of this campaign tour! I have every intention of participating in the FLAME march and I will deliver remarks at…”

    https://twitter.com/Jorgensen4POTUS/status/1291889336422719488

    OZZY 2024

  22. leon

    Antifa shirts have been banned from T-spring

    • But Enough About My Prostate

      Or was it TeeFury? Seem to remember they told antifa to pound sand.

      • LCDR_Fish

        teespring

        pretty funny

      • Ted S.

        Ooh, TeeFurry.

  23. DrOtto

    While they haven’t all been great, I’ll watch any David Ayer penned or directed movie once.

  24. LCDR_Fish

    Hit up Total Wine last night to pick up some gifts and wound up restocking (and then bought 3 more 4 packs at Gourmeltz afterwards).

    So far this afternoon, I’ve worked through: (all pint cans)

    Lickinghole Creek Bear Bait
    Hardywood Tropic Sour
    Thin Man Minkey Boodle

    last one will be Troeg’s Nimble Giant – which I will probably regret as it is a Double IPA (didn’t see an IBU listing).

    Also picked up some Icelandic beers (several variations from the same brewery) – look forward to trying them out this week.

    • Sean

      Everyone of those sounds like porn titles. Perv.

      • DrOtto

        More specifically, gay porn, NTTAWWT.

    • Ted S.

      Are any of those wine?

      • LCDR_Fish

        No, but I bought some Italian Reds for a relative.

        I don’t generally like anything over 40 IBUs in terms of flavor/palate/drinkability – we’ll see.

      • C. Anacreon

        My wife is in the wine business, and years ago one of the wines she represented was a French producer which made a relatively inexpensive line named Fortant. I had a great idea for a marketing campaign for them…instead of the usual snooty approach, how about “Fortant, when it’s not important!” The boss canceled, and isn’t coming for dinner after all? Put away the expensive stuff, and break out the Fortant instead. You’ll be glad you did.

        Funny, she would never let me pass it on to her company. Sounded like an out of the box winner to me.

      • UnCivilServant

        Most wine producers want to be seen as upscale, when they don’t actually warrent it.

        Especially frogs.

      • Gender Traitor

        an out of the box winner

        Did it come in a box?

        “Would monsieur care to smell zee tap?”

    • Nephilium

      Nimble Giant is only 69 IBU. I’m really not a fan of the IBU as a measurement for hop presence, as it leaves out anything that was added from dry hopping.

    • Crusty Juggler

      I went to Beer World and snagged another twelver of the High Life.

      • Tres Cool

        “Champagne of Beers” !

  25. Not Adahn

    A wonderfully fun day at the club as we had another match to make up for some that we missed. Since we just had one two weeks ago the serious shooters stayed away which mean I shot up in the rankings — 6/38 overall, 3/18 in my division.

    There was a stage the encouraged shooting on the move and it was awesome.

    • Sean

      Congrats.

      • Not Adahn

        There was a guy in my squad running a 1911 in .45 that was drawing from an IWB holster. And he did really well.

        Not as good as the active-duty guy on leave running a Wilson Combat 1911, but still. One of the members brought his daughter out and introduced her to this sport. It was heartwarming.

    • UnCivilServant

      Already posted and less exciting than the headline suggests.

      • Count Potato

        Thank’s Ted

      • Ted S.

        Hateful.

    • Grosspatzer

      Those aren’t ants. These are ants!

      • Ted S.

        Santa Claus Conquers the Giant Ants.

      • C. Anacreon

        Followed the next year by “There Once was a Christmas that Almost Wasn’t.”

    • Chafed

      1 and done.

    • DEG

      Some very nice butts in there.

      I like that I can run Google image searches on archive pictures again. #6’s subreddit.

      I am intrigued by #11.

      #14 – yum.

      Very nice butts. Yes.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!

    • hayeksplosives

      Does he have to come out of his safe room if he hears gunshots?

  26. Crusty Juggler

    The Making of a Molotov Cocktail Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

    To be a lawyer is to agree to play by the rules, or at least to acknowledge that the rules exist, even as you seek to bend them. And it is this simplistic, romantic understanding of a lawyer’s job that is part of what has the government so provoked, as if going to law school is or should be a safeguard against breaking the law. “The conduct,” said U.S. District Court judge Margo Brodie in reference to this case, was “completely lawless.” At a recent bail hearing, one of the prosecutors argued similarly. “These were lawyers,” he said, “who had every reason to know what they were doing was wrong and knew the consequences. Committing this crime required a fundamental change in mind-set for them.”

    But to work within that system is to understand just how capricious and brutal criminal justice can be — the enormous latitude given to prosecutors, the deference extended to judges and juries, and the procedural protocols and professional ethics that often merely cover for the status quo. And when a president and his advisers seem to regard the law as an obstacle course; when an attorney general metes out favors, not justice; and when immigrant children are held in cages and men are killed on video by police, some lawyers may want to embrace a more flexible definition of “lawless.” As recently as a few years ago, even a progressive-minded lawyer might have regarded fervent, visible participation in a political protest as professionally unbecoming. Today, some of Mattis and Rahman’s friends may concede in private that throwing a Molotov cocktail represents a lapse in judgment, but none are willing to discuss the degree to which their friends may have been ethically, professionally, morally, or legally out of bounds. Instead, they emphasize that violence against government property, especially in the midst of political upheaval, is not the same as violence against a person; that the prosecution of their friends for an act of what amounted to political vandalism is far more extreme than the crime itself; that it amounts to a criminalization of dissent and reflects a broader right-wing crusade against people of color and the progressive left — and, as such, demonstrates precisely the horror of the system they were out in the streets that night to protest. There is a version of the Rahman and Mattis story in which they are civil-rights heroes, even martyrs, instead of professionals who crossed a line.

    These are people the least deserving of this kind of treatment, their friends say, people who are unfailingly kind, gentle, and decent. Rahman gave a piece of her apartment floor in Athens, Greece, where she was working during the migrant crisis, to a queer Syrian refugee in an abusive relationship; Mattis turned around on his way to vacation to sit by a friend’s hospital bed after she’d suffered a stillbirth. After college, Mattis worked for Teach for America in New Orleans and later won a prize for his pro bono work helping a single mother get child support. Rahman worked in Northern Ireland and on behalf of hill-tribe people in Thailand and was a student of South African apartheid. Over the past year, she started attending Friday-night meetings of an informal Sufi spiritual group and had recently given a short talk to a Muslim women’s group about the sacredness of every single life, including those of animals — which is why she tried to be a vegetarian although sometimes fell short. She joked that she was a “slackaterian” or “vegetrying.”

    They won me over! INNOCENT!

    • hayeksplosives

      I hope she has marketable skills, because that is a shit argument.

    • Rhywun

      There is a version of the Rahman and Mattis story in which they are civil-rights heroes, even martyrs, instead of professionals who crossed a line.

      “And we’re doing our damnedest to make that fantasy a reality.”

      The leftist media in current year twisting themselves into pretzels to support terrorism is something to behold.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        instead of professionals who crossed a line.

        Given all this bullshit about these “kids who crossed a line”, Timmy McVeigh would’ve been a misguided child in the press’s eye if he were a red.

    • But Enough About My Prostate

      The comments to the story still give me hope.

    • Spudalicious

      But, they still posted on time.

      • Count Potato

        You didn’t look at the link did you?

      • Spudalicious

        LOL! It’s California expats mosts likely sporting those signs.

  27. Mojeaux

    Shatner, aliens, and the Great Pyramids on the teevee. My life is made whole.

    • Rhywun

      Columbo.

      *drops mic*

      • UnCivilServant

        *picks up mic*

        …Just one more thing.

      • Mojeaux

        LOL

      • TARDIS

        ?

    • one true athena

      He’s been on a tear against wokesters all day. It’s really remarkable how a guy my dad’s age not only uses twitter like a pro, but has seen fandom crazies for so long he just gives no fucks about dishing out the truth. TOday it’s the fact that – “yes, Virginia, you’re using ‘cis’ as a slur against me. I don’t like the label, I don’t accept the label, and if you demand respect of your own chosen label, you must also respect that I reject the label you are forcing on me.” They don’t like that, at all.

      • Mojeaux

        *Runs to Twitter*

        I’m watching History Channel, UnXplained.

      • UnCivilServant

        Nooo, stay off Twitter, it’s toxic, go back to your TV binge.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh I luuuuuv twitter, although I don’t hang out there much anymore.

      • Mojeaux

        Hooooooooboy, what a show! The older I get, I appreciate him more and more.

      • Spudalicious

        The tweet is even better read in Shatner’s voice.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Damn! They can’t help themselves.

  28. Raven Nation

    I have no opinion either way on Shia LaBeof, but the chase starting from when he escapes from the FBI building is one of my favorites.

    Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peu8vmBqL0M

    • Raven Nation

      In Eagle Eye.

    • Playa Manhattan

      People are not please with his latest work.

      One of the reviews described watching it as like “having your face dragged on the pavement”

      • straffinrun

        His best role was in Constantine. Worthless character that dies for no reason.

      • Viking1865

        His character in I Robot is his best work.

      • Aloysious

        Straff gets it.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      All I could think of was that the CPD has gotten marginally better. They didn’t lose as many cars as in they did in the Blues Brothers.

    • westernsloper

      The chair is against the wall.

    • DEG

      HAH!

      I still haven’t shot my Ruger 57.

      I know. I’m a bad gun owner.

      • Count Potato

        Or just frugal.

    • Rebel Scum
    • DEG

      Yep.

      Note the BLM idiot with the pistol.

    • straffinrun

      Isn’t using a firearm in the commission of a crime kind of a big deal?

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        not when youre in the commie paramilitary, then it’s just “overexuberance” or “a rash decision”

      • Nephilium

        Ah… the boys will be boys defense!

  29. Mojeaux

    The only way 2020 can end is if the Yellowstone Cauldron blows. Anything less than that—Gaia’s just being lazy.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      SMOD or massive EMP wiping out all electronics just too tame for you?

    • Playa Manhattan

      Trump’s fault.

      • one true athena

        Don’t forget Climate Change Emergency!

  30. Rebel Scum

    But does she pass the DNC melanin test?

    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met with Joe Biden in Delaware this week as his search for a running mate comes down to the wire.

    The AP reported:

    Whitmer visited Biden Sunday, according to two high-ranking Michigan Democrats who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The first-term governor of the battleground state has long been on his short list of possible running mates.

    Flight records show a chartered plane left Lansing’s Capital Region International Airport for Delaware Coastal Airport at 5:33 p.m. and returned at 11:16 p.m.

    The development comes as Whitmer has been increasing mandates on Michiganders to blunt the spread of coronavirus, and said in an interview that she was spending “100 percent” of her energy on being governor.

    This week — after her session with Biden — Whitmer issued an executive order declaring racism in the state a “public health crisis” and mandated implicit bias training for all state government employees.

    • westernsloper

      The Wicked Witch of Covid for VP!

      • But Enough About My Prostate

        I fear for you, my American brothers and sisters.

    • TARDIS

      Translation: 3% of white women are on the fence. Without them, we lose our glorious communist tyranny. Pander, baby. Pander away.

      As far as government employees go, it must suck… to suck the woke cock eat the festering commie pussy to keep your taxpayer funded pension.

    • Gender Traitor

      But does she pass the DNC melanin test?

      I’m sure for the right price, 23andME can whip up something to get her at least to Warren-level POC status.

      • Count Potato

        So somewhere between Lawrence Welk and the Winter Olympics?

      • Threedoor

        They revised my at the same time Warren had her test. Took my injun away and gave it to her.

    • Rhywun

      Whitmer ordered individuals must self-isolate for 14 days if they are in contact for 15 minutes with a person who has a “fever, sore throat, a new uncontrolled cough that causes difficulty breathing, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, new onset of a severe headache, and new loss of taste or smell,” according to Michigan Capitol Confidential.

      O
      F
      F
      S

      • Count Potato

        “diarrhea”

        Do they have to shit their pants in front of you, or are you supposed to ask?

    • Gustave Lytton

      So Michigan lifted their stay home order?

    • DenverJ

      “…mandated implicit bias training for all state government employees.”
      I don’t see how that isn’t a blatent violation of the 1st Amendment.

  31. Rebel Scum

    If you are going to arguably violate executive authority at least use it to reduce my taxes.

    “If I am victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax,” he said.

    Trump added that he might even “terminate” the tax or make permanent changes. A group of supporters joined the president at his press conference announcing the news and cheered as the president signed the orders.

    “Biden probably won’t be doing that. You’ll have to ask him. I don’t think he knows what he’s doing,” he said, as his supporters chuckled.

    • mrfamous

      “Biden probably won’t be doing that. You’ll have to ask him. I don’t think he knows what he’s doing,”

      lol. He’s such an asshole

    • Viking1865

      If by some strange miracle I was elected POTUS, I’d basically spend my days pardoning people.

  32. Nikkodemus

    Watching “Deep Blue Sea 3” with the missus, we love shark movies (and yes, that includes Jaws!). The usual cast of moronic characters is here, but this time, the main character is the most insufferable woman I have ever seen in a movie. Shes an environmentalist (CLIMUT CHANGE WILL KILL UZ ALL!!!!!), a man hater (WE DONT NEED NO BIG STRONG MAN!!!), a dumbass bitch (she literally blows up the only avenue of escape from the sharks and no one calls her on it), and she’s one of the worst actresses I’ve ever seen. I’m rooting for the sharks.

    • Viking1865

      I think the original is a super fun movie, with a very cool setting and a pretty crazy cast. You got Samuel L Jackson, LL Cool J, Stellan Skarsgard, Thomas Jane all in one movie.

      • Nikkodemus

        Yeah we really dig the first one as well. Its even referenced in this one, though only in passing in one scene. Some of the shark deaths were cool, but that seems to be all they were really going for. Not much of that foreboding that made earlier shark movies great.

      • Rebel Scum

        I recall Deep Blue Sea being a fun movie. I didn’t know two more were made though.

      • Nikkodemus

        The 2 sequels are both “syfy originals” (think “Sharknado, but not as cheesy). DBS 2 was pretty bad, but I think this one was a tad better, despite the shrieking harpy they got for the main character.

  33. UnCivilServant

    I’ve only gotten about 1,700 words written today. 🙁

    I need to spend more time getting words on the page.

    • UnCivilServant

      1900 now.

      I should stop procrastinating.

    • DenverJ

      I used to play guitar. I guess I still do, but not for hrs practicing every day, right? Sometimes, I’d hit a wall, or a plateau, you know? So, I’d put the guitar down for a couple three days. And when I went back the damn had broken.

    • Rebel Scum

      Shapiro deep faked?

      Also, KK looks like some illiterate, amoral commie asshole I have had the displeasure of hearing speak before.

      • Count Potato

        I think that is actually him.

  34. Yusef drives a Kia

    good song, new job and catching up with other business is a bitch, better feast than Famine…………..

  35. straffinrun
    • Gustave Lytton

      “let me sniff your hair or the kid sings soprano for the rest of his life”

    • Nikkodemus

      “Those are some big balls you got there, kid.”

    • Agent Cooper

      Nah, that’s a perfectly normal way to help hold a kid.

  36. kinnath

    DNC delegates rally behind Karen Bass

    More than 300 DNC delegates have signed a statement urging presidential candidate Joe Biden to select Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, to be his running mate and join the ticket for Vice President.

    “We, delegates to the DNC for Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and others, believe Congresswoman Karen Bass is the best choice among Vice Presidential candidates under consideration to help unify our party and move our nation forward,” the statement, first reported by Politico on Friday, said. “We urge Vice President Biden to choose her to join the ticket.”

    • UnCivilServant

      “We don’t care about the Cuban vote in Florida. Our racist virtue-signalling is more important than strategic campaigning.”

      • kinnath

        Surely, there must be a black, Cuban, lesbian in office somewhere that can carry Joe to victory.

      • Sean

        Like, in a wheelbarrow?

    • Rhywun

      “Because we’re not commie enough yet.”

    • Rebel Scum

      DNC support for an overt commie. I’ll reiterate, Democrats are insane authoritarians and cannot be allowed to have power.

      • Drake

        If he picked Gabbard he’d win. But the are too far up the commies’ buttholes to do it.

    • kinnath

      Biden ‘can’t go home without a Black woman being VP’

      Rep. Maxine Waters expressed confidence that a Black woman would be on the Democratic ticket as vice president.

      In a Friday town hall with Essence, the California Democrat seemed certain Joe Biden would pick a Black woman as his running mate based on help he’s received from the Black community.

      “Let me guarantee you this, based on everything that I know and understand, and the help that [Biden] has already gotten from the Black community…he can’t go home without a Black woman being VP,” Waters said. “We’re going to have a Black woman VP.”

      • Rebel Scum

        So you are saying Senile Joe is going to pick Mad Maxine…

    • straffinrun

      The doc that did my butt check last week.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      and, that’s a problem?
      /Heat is relative

      • Gustave Lytton

        Considering that it’s closer to his feet than his offhand plus the way his slinging the molten rock around, I would have gone with leather boots.

      • Cancelled

        I think you have to balance immediate foot protection with ability to GTFO when something starts bubbling and steaming. It seems like every year or two the news has a shocked report about “Volcano Researchers Killed in Eruption” when the mountain burps while they are in the pit.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve been known to weld in sandals.

    • Rebel Scum

      Don’t drop the molten material.

  37. But Enough About My Prostate

    Well, I tried to remain in the Zoom Happy Hour, but something went very wrong…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      lemme guess who dropped in,

      • But Enough About My Prostate

        Bit light on the ground (only 8 participants or so), but honest to God, that Zoom software sucks major vack. Whoever wrote it oughta be keel-hauled, drawn and quartered.

    • Nephilium

      Can’t blame me… I’m wasting my evening working on a work Zoom call now.

      I even remembered to change my logins first… I call that a win.

      75 minutes in, and nothing for me to do yet. Looking at the timeline, I’m not expected to have any work to do for another 3 hours unless things go…

      /looks at the beer in the fridge longingly.

  38. Gender Traitor

    Unofficial (outdoor) Cat showed up early this evening to eat and flirt with Official (Tom)Cat. We’re a little concerned after I saw a fox run across the back of our yard this morning. So UC made it through the day…but later, as Tom T was putting the grill away, he says he heard a noise that was either a dog’s single yap or a cat in full battle mode.

    I hope I see UC in the morning.

    • But Enough About My Prostate

      Hmmmmmmm.

    • UnCivilServant

      That fox has likely always been in the neighborhood. It’s unlikely to go after an adult cat unless there’s a shortage of other food.

      Unrelated, I sent you some more stuff.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::checks e-mail:: Ooh! Thank you! Will read and respond.

        Tangentially related, Amazon order has not yet shipped. Original arrival estimate of “August 13-16” gets narrowed down to “Arriving August 16” when you Track Package. Of course, Amazon seems to be a bit confused (Bidenated?) It thinks I never received the copy of Huckleberry Finn I bought from a secondary vendor and received weeks ago.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, I’m not sure what their issue is.

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe their system is getting overwhelmed by increased volume over The Last Few Months.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, when you get a chance, I’d like your opinion on all the stuff I’ve sent.

      • Gender Traitor

        Happy to oblige.

    • Rebel Scum

      The Bee, as always, is prompt and on point.

  39. Gustave Lytton

    https://twitter.com/kyleiboshi/status/1292266489265831937?s=21

    Rheeeeeeeeeeee!

    That’s what I get from the comments.

    I’m not a very religious person but this notion that religion is some sort of recreational activity that is perfectly ok to restrict by the force of the state, despite very clear wording against both in the federal and (even more in) the state constitutions is just sickening. I’m sick of this world. I want off.

    • Rhywun

      I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon religions.

    • Chafed

      Looks like a peaceful protest to me.

    • Rhywun

      I got called “cracker” all the time when I was little. Somehow I survived.

    • Playa Manhattan

      Beautiful cinematography.

    • limey

      The ol’ bait and switch clickbait to disappoint the “wHiTe SuPrEmAcIsTs!” crazies. Remember when Dennis Nedry says “I’m gonna run you over when I come back down”? That didn’t end too well for him. I’m assuming she was eaten alive by the “peaceful protestors”.

  40. Rhywun

    Have some panic porn. Include random examples of humanity losing its shit worldwide.

    Travelers who violate the quarantine rule could face up to $10,000 in fines. There are currently 35 states plus Puerto Rico on the list.

    LOL holy fuck. Nice economy you have, shame if I had to destroy the fuck out of it.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Fucking Gestapo checkouts. It can’t happen here. Yeah right.

      Let’s ape the chicoms and just start welding people into their hotel rooms.

      • Akira

        What’s truly scary is how many people have totally bought into the government and corporate media’s panic porn and now believe that just about anything is justified because of the virus.

        I know the Left and Right both suck, but it just grinds my fucking gears to hear the Lefties in my life cheering this on while they were lambasting Bush after 9/11 for “trading freedom for an illusion of safety”.

    • Chafed

      I’m sure the ACLU will get right on those unconstitutional stops.

    • Rhywun

      Bilious fluff. Couldn’t get even halfway through that pile.

    • JD is in the United Karendom

      Sir, do you have a permit to retrieve that?

    • JD is in the United Karendom

      I actually had friends whom I had known for many many years who saw no problem with retroactively saying that Pantera were a nazi band because Phil Anselmo sieg-heiled some SJWs who had been goading him all night. I don’t recall whether or not this happened before or after Vinnie Paul’s death, but Dimebag was long dead, and of course, these gentleman are not able to defend themselves against accusations based on the independent actions of another man after they died. It was about that time that my social circle really began to shrink/I started social distancing before it was trendy.

      • Rhywun

        When are we going to do something about this Nazi.

      • Limey

        Well he wouldn’t be in any of this trouble if only he hadn’t mentioned the war.

      • Rhywun

        LOL instantly recognizable to every American of a certain age

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Maybe it’s because he’s cooperating? More likely they aren’t going aren’t going after the big fish though. If I was a midlevel employee with my signature on some relevant documents I’d be nervous.

      • Limey

        Maybe it’s because he’s cooperating?

        Perhaps, to a certain degree, but he’s a professional withholder, so between him and his lawyer knowing the entire playbook and every way around it every bit as well as , or better than Durham (?), what can the DOJ really get from him? Probably some sort of weak compromise, or Brennan is just too powerful, and that’s a thread they really don’t want to pull on.

      • Limey

        Oops, so yeah, what you said about big fish and mid-level fish.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s got to be one of two things really:

        1. It’s not a serious investigation and they’re not interested in the truth such as it is.
        or
        2. He’s flipped and he’s giving up names and information.

    • Grumbletarian

      Wasn’t Michael Flynn told the same thing?