Sunday Morning Relaxing Links

by | Aug 9, 2020 | Daily Links | 374 comments

As much fun as I’ve made of preppers over the years, we’ve done it anyway. And it just feels like things are going to get worse, much worse. I’m thankful that we can get to remote locations quickly, and doubly thankful that SP has my back. But, know what? It’s Sunday and I’m going to relax after having spent most of yesterday working, mowing the lawn, weeding, picking up dogshit…. Yes, that means drinking today.

But before I commence to heading in the blackout direction, let’s see who was born on this day: a fishing guy; a guy who has your number; a guy who was quite aromatic and neglected overlap; a guy who taught me everything I know; one of the stars of the dullest movie ever made; the only Mustache to ever rival P Brooks; a guy notorious for sinking ships; and a no-talent but big-named piece of shit holding a microphone because he’s not good enough for even a bit part in a Mafia film.

Now let’s relax with some headlines.

 

“I have a pen and a phone.” And absolutely zero regard for the constitution.

 

Cop-cam footage released. This is murder, straight up. Being that this is Maricopa County, aka Arpaio-land, chances of a significant prosecution are zero. Paid vacation, then retirement at full pension from PTSD.

 

I wonder what Corn Pop thinks.

 

As predicted.

 

Wait, isn’t he already home? That was the campaign strategy, right?

 

“We’re still total assholes.” End public education.

 

Old Guy Music today is Billy Strings, because nobody doesn’t like Billy Strings. It’s relaxing.

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

374 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “mowing the lawn”

    Grass grows there?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It even gets Cold too!

      • Tundra

        Lol.

        “cold”

    • Atanarjuat

      OMWC is not fond of places that grass grows, it is known.

      • DrOtto

        When I was a child, I asked my dad why women didn’t get hairy chests. His response “grass doesn’t grow on a playground.”

  2. Count Potato

    “Republicans pounce!” is just getting tired.

    • Sean

      White men can’t jump.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      tmite

      (I can’t even be bothered to capitalize the acronym this time, the take is such a cliché)

      • Count Potato

        tmite?

      • The Hyperbole

        Too Much Idiocy To Explain.

  3. Count Potato

    “In fact, domestic violence deaths in the city are up 180 percent compared to the same period last year, according to Phoenix Police.

    “In June of 2019 we had nine homicides related to domestic violence, in June of 2020, we had 17,” said Sgt. Fortune.”

    What’s “related to domestic violence” even mean?

    • Count Potato

      “n a 2017 study, the CDC found nearly 40 percent of people in our state had been a victim of domestic violence.”

      Oh, so it’s bullshit.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, that’s way high nonsense.

      • Ted S.

        Not if you count nagging as violence.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Words like violence
        Break the silence
        Come crashing in
        Into my little world
        Painful to me
        Pierce right through me
        Can’t you understand
        Oh my little girl

      • leon

        Precious and fragile things, need special handling.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Re Trump’s EO: Bad constitutionally but hellaciously good politically.

    • Rhywun

      Yep. Now we get to watch the Dems argue against policies they enthusiastically support. ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We have a Constitution?

      /Roberts

    • Fourscore

      Congress takes a vacation, the president never. One man rule! One man rule!

      Looks like we need telephones more than Congress.

      /Buy telecom stock

  5. The Late P Brooks

    After saying he had not, Biden added heatedly, “Come on, man. That’s like saying to you, before you got on this program if you had taken a test, were you taking cocaine or not? What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?”

    The awkwardness of the moment was compounded by the fact that Barnett is biracial, and slurs of drug use are often seen as a form of racial stereotyping.

    I have known some high-functioning dope fiends. I wouldn’t send Biden to the store fore a jug of milk.

    And, of course, they are compelled to blow the dog’s whistle.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      The awkwardness of the moment was compounded by the fact that Barnett is biracial, and slurs of drug use are often seen as a form of racial stereotyping.

      OMG, don’t make me start defending Biden now, too!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Like you say, it wasn’t racial, it was just stupid…really stupid.

      • Rhywun

        Turnabout is fair play.

    • Rhywun

      And, of course, they are compelled to blow the dog’s whistle.

      Yeah, that leapt out and knocked me upside the head too.

      FFS.

      • Plinker762

        The professional partisan hacks in the media can turn it on and off but the wokarians have a trigger with no safety.

  6. Ted S.

    one of the stars of the dullest movie ever made;

    Carol for Another Christmas is dull, isn’t it?

  7. Grumbletarian

    Cop-cam footage released. This is murder, straight up.

    The guy was a straight white male, so he had it coming.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If they want justice in this case it’ll probably have to be extralegal. Hopefully the cop’ll be charged but I’m not holding my breath on this one.

    • Rhywun

      We probably won’t even get worldwide convulsions of peaceful protests out of this.

    • juris imprudent

      The guy was a straight armed white male, so he had it coming.

      Definitely a white supremacist. Good shoot.

    • Brawndo

      Video games DO kill

      • UnCivilServant

        No, that’s the line you say after someone gets an original xbox dropped on their head.

    • Brawndo

      I saw this last night. A lot of people commenting “he had a gun on him, of course he’s gonna get shot.”

      These idiots think that the police always announce their presence, or that it’s impossible for someone to impersonate police in order to murder/burgle you.

  8. Crusty Juggler

    “The Taking of Pelham 123” is not a dull movie!

    • The Hyperbole

      He was talking about “Force Ten From Navarone”

    • Rhywun

      I’m glad I read further before commenting.

      • Ted S.

        Crusty and Hyperbole should have read further, too. 😉

      • Rhywun

        Meh, Crusty’s is better. I don’t know your obscurity.

      • leon

        Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, said that while Trump had said much worse than Biden in terms of “levels of offensiveness or levels of insensitivity or thoughtlessness,” the peril for the Democrat lay in a somewhat different area.

    “It is less clear that Biden is saying those things on purpose. In other words, there is this sense that he is not fully in command of what he is intending to say. … That’s where the potential problem begins to open up for him.”

    The Trump campaign this week pushed for an additional debate beyond the three already scheduled, believing one-on-one comparisons between the two men will play to the president’s advantage.

    He says things offensive to white liberals, anyway.

  10. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And good morning to the rest of you early-rising Glibs!

    Man, those are some brutal lynx. Donnie Two-Scoops fucking us a little harder. I mean sure, it’s an astute political move, but it’s a fucking nonetheless. Where does this shit end? I can only imagine the carnage among small businesses as this shit drags out. Bah.

    Excellent Old Man music today. Everyone loves Billy because he’s fucking amazing! This rolled up next. Christ, that kid can play. The only sad part about the video was that it was filmed in February, a few weeks before the Great Freakout. Looking at that crowd just makes me sad. Fucking ‘vid.

    Anyway, enjoy your day drinking. You earned it!

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Donnie Two-Scoops fucking us a little harder. I mean sure, it’s an astute political move, but it’s a fucking nonetheless.

      It’s a longshot, but I hope that this will influence the younger generation’s opinion of social security/medicare/medicaid after seeing their paychecks jump. It may be harder to restore those payroll deductions/theft, especially if Trump wins reelection, and we can finally dismantle this socialist travesty.

      Kidding of course, this shit will never go away. Just wishful thinking.

      • Fourscore

        Oh, it’ll go away, we don’t know when or the manner in which it will disappear but SS as we know it is doomed.

        Even the Post Office can’t figure out how to collect on Email and is hemorrhaging.

        OMWC is starting to prep, when he is concerned I’m flat assed scared.

        /Cuts another cord of firewood

      • Nephilium

        Why would their paychecks jump? The deferment is on the employer side of the withholding, not the employee side. So it’s a really good move for small businesses, but the average person is going to get confused by this.

    • juris imprudent

      I don’t even give it “astute political move”. Then again, I’m not a bleeting team sheep, so I am probably failing to understand politics.

      I will say that yes, it does follow the trajectory most recently pushed by the Obamessiah. But again, the sheep really seem to like that kind of thing.

      • Rhywun

        Oh, it’s terrible. I just always find the humor in things.

      • juris imprudent

        Bitter, bitter irony for Pelosi and Schumer; it will be fun to watch them gag on it.

  11. Grumbletarian

    With the Aug. 17 start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) nearing, a leading Biden adviser said the former vice president would use the next week or so to “spend some time” with the contenders on the shortlist.

    Best smelling hair wins!

    • Rhywun

      I guess we’ll find out for real whether white men can’t keep their hands off black lady hair.

      • Gender Traitor

        Heck, when I was a little red-haired girl in grade school, the black girls couldn’t keep their hands off MY hair. On more than one occasion, I emerged from the bleachers after all-school assemblies with braids I hadn’t walked into the gym with.

      • Rhywun

        LOL cultural appropriation!

      • Fourscore

        “black, lady hair”?

    • juris imprudent

      Should we start worrying about AOC as VP?

      SF needs Biden to get a sniff of the Hair – and like it.

      • Brawndo

        This year? No, AOC is too young I believe.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “Hats, caps, bandanas, hoods of any type, sweatbands, sunglasses, pajama pants, slippers, or shoes with wheels attached to the bottom shall not be worn,” the district’s school handbook already states — and that applies at home as well, officials said.

    Students also are banned from taking classes in bed and must have their computer cameras on and trained at themselves.

    So they know if you’re wearing a mask?

    • Ted S.

      or shoes with wheels attached to the bottom shall not be worn,

      Tootie has a sad

    • Agent Cooper

      What happens if you do not comply? Do they reach through the computer and smack you?

  13. Count Potato

    “And it just feels like things are going to get worse, much worse. ”

    I keep thinking about that, but I hope that doesn’t happen.

  14. Grumbletarian

    Trump’s record on racial matters includes talking about “very fine people on both sides” of racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.; reportedly branding nations in the Caribbean and Africa “shithole countries;” asserting that the four nonwhite Democratic congresswomen known as “the Squad” should “go back” to the “crime infested places” from which they “originally came,” despite all four being U.S. citizens; and tweeting, amid unrest following the death of George Floyd, that “when the looting starts the shooting starts.”

    Let’s see… False (again), True but not racist, True because their home districts in the US are crime-infested so not racist, and True but not racist.

    • Grumbletarian

      Impossible. I’ve been assured that Sweden is a desolate wasteland populated only by corpses and the crows that feed upon them.

      • The Last American Hero

        That’s just propaganda from those evil Norwegians.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, they left out the violent rapefugees.

    • Roland of Gilead

      Nope. More than ample.

  15. Crusty Juggler

    Why Sweden, pilloried by the whole world for refusing to lock down – with schools staying open and no face mask laws – may be having the last laugh as experts say Stockholm is close to achieving herd immunity

    To live in a democracy you need trust,’ said Morgan Olofsson, spokesman for Sweden’s Civil Contingency Agency, which is responsible for public safety, emergency management and civil defence.
    ‘The government must trust the people and the people must trust their government.’

    lolz wut ?

    So when I asked this thoughtful British expert if his host nation’s strategy was a success, he paused before replying carefully: ‘Sweden accidentally did not get a lot wrong.’

    Lockdown! No lockdown! Lockdown!

    • Rhywun

      “We should be more like Sweden.”

      /every Democrat before March 2020

      • SandMan

        That is a damn funny observation.

    • DEG

      That’s cool.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Assume a can opener

    On that score, Griffith’s modeling reaches two key conclusions.

    First, it is still possible to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions in line with a 1.5°C pathway. Specifically, it is possible to reduce US emissions 70 percent to 80 percent by 2035 (and to zero by 2050) through rapid electrification, relying on five already well-developed technologies: wind and solar power plants, rooftop solar, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and batteries.

    Think of those technologies as the infrastructure of 21st century life. If everyone uses carbon-free energy to heat their homes and get around, the bulk of the problem will be solved.

    Second, to decarbonize in time, substitution of clean-energy technologies for their fossil-fuel counterparts must ramp up to 100 percent as fast as possible, after a brief period of industrial mobilization. Every time a gas or diesel car is replaced, it must be replaced with an EV; every time an oil or gas furnace is replaced, it must be replaced with a heat pump; every time a coal or gas power plant goes offline, it must be replaced with renewable energy.

    “Electrify everything.”

    What a fucking hoax. We’ll all be free, once we’re lugging our groceries home on the back of an electric moped.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Think of those technologies as the infrastructure of 21st century life

      No.

    • leon

      No nuclear power? The guys a grifter.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      well-developed technologies: wind and solar power plants, rooftop solar, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and batteries

      I tapped out right there.

      • Rhywun

        Who doesn’t want to quadruple their power bill in hopes of funding technology that doesn’t exist yet?!

      • Nephilium

        Shit… we’ve got people at our local grocery stores trying to sell people on putting a windmill on their lot to save on their power bill. I live on a quarter acre lot with 3 maples, and 2 oaks. There is no place on the lot that you can put a windmill that will do anything except annoy the neighbors.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Sorry, but I don’t put up icons of other faiths on my territory.”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Heat Pumps? got the money for that? ever try them up north?
      Moron…..

    • Agent Cooper

      And the Midwest skies were thick with the miasma of burning coal …

  17. Count Potato

    “Trump supporters rally: Hundreds of MAGA fans march in Beverly Hills urging liberals to ‘walk away’, crowd in California blasts Gov. Newsom for not reopening the state and pro-police demonstrators gather in Austin

    President Trump has on several occasions labeled Black Lives Matter protesters as liberal ‘anarchists,’ but he was dubbed hypocritical in light of conservative citizens brandishing firearms during anti-lockdown demonstrations.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8608383/Hundreds-pro-Trump-supporters-march-villainization-police.html

    He should call them communists.

    • leon

      “in light of conservative citizens brandishing firearms during anti-lockdown demonstrations.”

      We’re they using them to aid in illegally detaining citizens on the road?

    • Rhywun

      “Brandishing”. Really?

      • Gender Traitor

        I have a concealed brandish permit!

    • Sean

      More white supremacists.

  18. Crusty Juggler

    Porn lies behind cuts and bruises of rough sex fad

    There was a time, and it wasn’t so long ago, when showing concern at the sight of a woman’s body covered in bruises inflicted by her boyfriend would have been considered normal and uncontroversial. Increasingly these days, however, the right to beat up your partner is not seen as an abomination, but the sign of a mutually beneficial (if a little risque) sexual relationship.

    In a new TikTok challenge, women are even sharing post-coital videos of their bruised and cut limbs, in an attempt to emulate the recent Netflix kidnap-porn film, 365 Days. These aren’t small wounds – sometimes bruises are larger than the women’s handspans, as well as cuts that definitely go beyond surface level. One such video went viral across social media last week, and has been viewed more than 33 million times with nearly six million likes.

    Why has this video resonated with so many people, or, at the very least, been considered entertaining enough to like? It’s merely the latest manifestation of a growing cultural feeling that ‘vanilla’ sex has passed its heyday, and that getting rough is the best way to curb boredom.

    There but for Grace of God go I…

    • Q Continuum

      “On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 0% based on 13 reviews.

      Jessica Kiang of Variety described the film as ‘a thoroughly terrible, politically objectionable, occasionally hilarious Polish humpathon’. The Guardian, after citing other media – ‘Variety called it ‘dumber-than-hair’. Cosmopolitan labelled it ‘the worst thing I’ve ever seen’ – highlights the film’s ‘dismal dialogue’, poor character development and unsexy sex scenes.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365_Days_(2020_film)

      • UnCivilServant

        What’s the audience score?

      • UnCivilServant

        Oof. I think it might be a bad movie.

    • DEG

      Why are they kink shaming woman that like rough sex?

  19. Tres Cool

    Ganesha H. Christ…..fuckin’ Zoom call.

    • Gender Traitor

      Wassamatta, homey? Outta pickle juice? ; )

      • Tres Cool

        Luckily, corona makes a lovely cover to stream it on LubeTube. Im streaming church for my aged neighbor on the porch. Ill send ya a pic
        Still doesnt make getting up easier.

        *no pickle juice. Jugsy got DoorDash Bob Evans

      • Gender Traitor

        hash browns > home fries…but you only do liquid carbs, don’tcha?

      • Roland of Gilead

        Mmmmmm hash browns

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Bob Evan’s Rocks!
        Sup Tres!

      • Nephilium

        So you didn’t beat the Hyperbole to the store to buy out his pickles? Figured you’d be rolling in the pickle juice after that score.

      • westernsloper

        There needs to be a government agency to make us get up early enough to hoard all the pickles otherwise the pickles will not be hoarded.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Aaaaand, here it comes:

    There’s no way to accomplish a rapid energy transition with market-based policies

    In his decarbonization “field manual” (written with colleagues, also on the Rewiring America site), Griffith is frank about what will be necessary to drive the MFT:

    A 100% adoption rate is only achieved by mandate. The invisible hand of markets is definitely not fast enough; it typically takes decades for a new technology to become dominant by market forces alone as it slowly increases its market share each year. A carbon tax isn’t fast enough, either. Market subsidies are not fast enough.

    Businesses and the market can and will help, he says, but “when Mother Nature arm–wrestles with the invisible hand, she will always win.”

    A MFT cannot be accomplished through the usual incremental tax tweaks. A three- to five-year industrial ramp-up, followed by a sustained period of 100 percent substitution, would require wartime mobilization, which entails government taking a direct hand in industry, working with it to hit specific production targets through some mix of incentives, penalties, and mandates. For the first three to five years, it would be something more like a command economy than Americans are used to.

    It is difficult to imagine such unity of purpose in today’s political circumstances (to say the least), but America has met big challenges with decisive government action before.

    There may be a brief period of disruption as the Ministry of Plenty assumes complete control of the means of production, but it will all be worth it, in the end, when we of the Inner Party are living it up in our fabulous cities in the clouds.

    • juris imprudent

      Five year plan for energy? WCPGW?

    • Tejicano

      I don’t need to wonder if he hasn’t done the numbers on how polluted China would be if they ramped up production of solar panels to meet the demand this fool is talking about. Those panels aren’t going to just magically pop out of some box somewhere.

      • juris imprudent

        What woke-environmentalist gives a shit about how polluted China is? Oh hey, racist/xenophobe much?

      • Tejicano

        Well, I did notice one of the names from that group of techno-gaia worshipers seemed to be of south Asian persuasion so it might just be that he does know how bad the outcome would be for China and he’s good with that.

      • juris imprudent

        Environmentally bad true, but China will make major economic bank on that, so not such a good trade-off.

      • Nephilium

        They’re perfectly clean, just like every other developing nation. Same as their electric car runs on electricity, you know, from the wall? Not coal, nuclear, or natural gas.

  21. Rhywun

    “Hats, caps, bandanas, hoods of any type, sweatbands, sunglasses, pajama pants, slippers, or shoes with wheels attached to the bottom shall not be worn,”

    There’s an incessant PSA now that goes something like “freedom… to wear hoodies… to breathe…” Over/under on how many days before race gets injected into this issue…?

    • Count Potato

      I’ll bet it will be in the papers on Monday.

  22. Q Continuum

    “‘We’re going to have a Black woman VP’ says Waters”

    Hasn’t Biden said this himself repeatedly? How is this news? I mean, aside from being horrifically racist and sexist.

    • Tundra

      I see from last night’s thread that congrats are in order!

      Well done!

      • Q Continuum

        Thankx dood.

      • Tundra

        Email the same? I may be in your neck of the woods next week.

      • Q Continuum

        Yeah, drop me a line if you like.

    • Tres Cool

      2nd-ed !

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Congratulations, you breeder

    • Fourscore

      Welcome to parenthood. In 18 years you too will be grey haired, earlier if it’s a girl.

      Joking, sort of, there are many happy adventures in your future, Q, and the years pass so quickly.

      Congrats to you and Mrs Q, if I may be so bold

      • Q Continuum

        Bold you may be. Find out of q is a hot dog or a taco probably sometime next week. Not sure which I’d prefer…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You get what you get. It’s the lottery of life. Hope for healthy and not crazy.

      • Tundra

        This. We have one of each and I am grateful every day that they are only moderately loony.

      • Q Continuum

        At least the Hooter Fairy has already visited.

      • Tundra

        Hallelujah!

      • Fourscore

        Metoo, though mine are much older and they still are a worry.

      • UnCivilServant

        Are you sure there’s only one child?

      • Q Continuum

        Pretty sure, but I suppose anything’s possible.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Girls are more fun, Boys aren’t quite as scary, just real stupid,
        Congrats Q!

      • Count Potato

        It depends on how you use the internet.

        If your connection is slow, either your son is downloading porn, or your daughter is uploading it.

      • Q Continuum

        I guess I’ll have to go with the one that makes money.

      • DEG

        Yep, if she’s working the stripper pole, she’s not on welfare.

        TIWTANFL.

        On a serious note, I hope for the best for you folks.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not necessarily true.

        Cash tips might not go on official paperwork, so the official amount of earnings could still be low enough to qualify for welfare.

    • Tundra

      *falls in love*

  23. Gender Traitor

    As much fun as I’ve made of preppers over the years, we’ve done it anyway.

    I’m not saying we went through the prepper phase. (Imma throw Tom T under the bus for this one….but I kinda went along.) All I’ll say is that our TP stash sure came in handy a few weeks ago.

    • Fourscore

      We aren’t really preppers but more like volume buyers ’cause we live away from the big box stores plus winter brings even more isolation. I like to think that’s it’s money in the bank, even with interest, as inflation ramps up.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    American households could have great things: solar on every roof, powering heat pumps in every building, and EVs in every garage, all communicating and coordinating, bringing stability to the grid. Homes could be more comfortable, cities could be quieter, the air could be cleaner, power could be more reliable, energy costs could be lower, and front-line communities could be free of the burden of living next to and suffering disproportionately from fossil fuel infrastructure.

    The US could be a more prosperous, healthier, and pleasant place to live.

    “For so long we’ve been sold the lie that we have to choose between a livable planet and a thriving, equitable economy,” says Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement. “The Rewiring America Plan puts that lie to rest once and for all. We can achieve a just transition to a better world out of the wreckage of this economic crisis.”

    That’s the story that needs to be told about tackling climate change. Not a story of privation or giving things up. Not a story of economic decline or inexorable ecological doom. A story about a better electrified future that is already on the way.

    We can muster the effort and investment over the next 10 to 15 years to accelerate it, to reach it in time to avert the worst of climate change. We can have clean air, clean energy, a prosperous economy, and a stable climate, all the things we want, if we’re just willing to do the work.

    Come, Citizen. Join us us in our glorious techno-fantasia. Freedom is overrated.

    • Rhywun

      power could be more reliable

      Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

      I’ll have what he’s having.

    • Fourscore

      “We had to destroy the economy to save it”

  25. westernsloper

    Cop-cam footage released. This is murder, straight up.

    Yep.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That one still isn’t as bad as the othet Arizona one…but yeah that shit is murder

    • Fourscore

      Maize mazes

      • Tundra

        Amaizeing.

      • Fourscore

        Maids make maize mazes maddening

    • prolefeed

      #4, because of the backside rather than her back

    • DEG

      #12 looks good.

      #15 – handlebars or pigtails? Yes. Her iChive gallery is new but shows promise.

      #16 – yes

      #18 is GlibFit.

      #25 – I think that’s Riley Reid based on the tattoos.

      #27 – good iChive gallery.

    • Old Man With Candy

      /looks at clock

      Astute observation there.

      • UnCivilServant

        I just woke up. As long as it’s not monday, it’s morning

    • Sean

      Guten morgen.

      • UnCivilServant

        Gluten Morgan, baker extraordinaire!

  26. Crusty Juggler

    Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind

    Sunstein and Thaler have described the political philosophy of such interventions as Libertarian Paternalism. It is “libertarian” because they do not impose mandates to narrow people’s choice, but merely frame choices or provide incentives that tend to make people “better off, as judged by themselves.” Their claim is that this form of influence, albeit often unconscious, is not manipulative or coercive because the possibility of a person choosing differently is not closed down. Lewis’s book ends with an uncomplicated celebration of this form of guided but purportedly free choice.

    The idea of Libertarian Paternalism, in which the tools of the new behavioral sciences remain in the hands of benign liberal mandarins, has come to seem hopelessly quaint. In a more combative and unstable environment there must clearly be greater concern about our capacity to regulate the uses of behavioral science, the robustness of the fundamental research, and the political or financial motivations of any behavioral initiatives to be employed or countered.

    Don Draper is behind TikTok!

    • Rhywun

      herpity-derpity-doo!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If that were in any way true, illicit drug usage would have died out a long time ago after all the kids raised on “This is your brain on drugs” came into adulthood.

      I don’t know if their governing philosophy is altogether stupid or just condescending.

      The choice is between the freedom to be wrong and totalitarianism, and I know which side of that equation Sunstein is going to fall on.

      • Agent Cooper

        If you read the book (it’s overrated) you’ll see that the Nudge phenomenon only works in very specific instances. It is in no way a panacea.

  27. Rufus the Monocled

    I know I should be careful with Rebel Media but I do rather enjoy when they bust slimy politicians like this. Today meet Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4F4Jqr0bE8

  28. The Late P Brooks

    You’re not gonna believe this

    Schools are reopening, amusement parks are welcoming back visitors, and outdoor dining is the new way to eat out. But despite the signs that life is returning back to normal, the coronavirus pandemic has gone nowhere.
    That’s why a group of researchers at Duke University created a simple technique to analyze the effectiveness of various types of masks which have become a critical component in stopping the spread of the virus.

    The quest began when a professor at Duke’s School of Medicine was assisting a local group buy masks in bulk to distribute to community members in need. The professor wanted to make sure the group purchased masks that were actually effective.
    In the study published Friday, researchers with Duke’s physics department demonstrated the use of a simple method that uses a laser beam and cell phone to evaluate the efficiency of masks by studying the transmission of respiratory droplets during regular speech.

    ——-

    Public health experts have spent months emphasizing that masks are one of the most effective tools to help fight the pandemic, and many US states have now introduced some kind of mask requirement.
    But when testing their effectiveness, researchers discovered that some masks are quite literally useless.

    No shit. Shirley?

    It has nothing to do with “effectiveness”.

    It’s an ostentatious declaration of fealty to the Greater Good. Proof of love for one’s fellow man.

    • Rhywun

      the coronavirus pandemic has gone nowhere

      Looks at the numbers in New York, disagrees.

      Oh, they mean the PANIC.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        The government opened a Pandora’s Box they will never be able to close. They traumatized people by locking down and putting them in masks. The problem with those idiotic strategies it tells and signals to people to be afraid and to rely on a vaccine. They’ve created a Stockholm Syndrome scenario and people won’t come out now. The government absolutely knew corona viruses never go away and they should have proceeded accordingly to prepare the population for that reality. You know, like Sweden did. Instead it was fear monger porn. Good luck getting them to adjust now unless you force them. I mean, you force stupid masks wearing so why not force them back into normalcy, right? idiots. Complete unwise and incompetent idiots rule over us.

        Look at the mentality in Nova Scotia. Go read the Tweets. This is what you get and those people squawk the loudest. The rest of us are ready to just get on with it but good luck with the rest of the people who only look at this through the ‘number of cases’ without context.

        The government is gonna have to come up with some ploy where they dangle some sort of treatment or faux-vaccine in their faces just to soother their fears and shut them up.

        Never mind that HCQ and RFL-100 DO work as treatments significantly reducing deaths. The government should be out there singing and dancing saying how even if there are increases or ‘waves’ they can handle it.

        But nope. Stay with the masks and be scared.

        May they all rot in hell.

      • Rhywun

        This is absolutely leading to forced vaccinations or whatever someone comes up with that they choose to call a vaccine. That’s when the real fun starts. Deblasio tried and failed to force measles vaccinations on the local Jews. This is gonna be a shit-show a million times more shit-showy.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I’m also going to say it won’t be forced. By the time it comes, there will be too much literature and data that point to coronavirus simply not being a virus to justify that. The truth and facts will eventually win the day.

        I understand the conspiracy theories out there (and they may even be true to some degree) about Big Pharma wanting its payoff and Bill Gates and all that shit. But I think this virus is not cooperating and they know it. So if there’s some kind of force keeping this panic going, it can’t go on.

        People have to now do their part. It’s NOW they have to start pushing back. They’ve been obedient so far but that’s enough.

        I have to be positive.

      • Tundra

        The vaccine thing will be the tipping point for a lot of people, I think.

        Thanks to Ozy’s Anthrax horror story, it will definitely be mine.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        yep, I Will Not Comply
        /looks at a paper version of Dales book in front of me,

      • Rufus the Monocled

        The thing is, they will force compliance in different way. Wanna travel? Show us your vaxx papers. Along those lines.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      That pant shitting doctor I mention here recently told me how he’s happy with how Covid relates to kids. He’s a paediatrician.

      No excuse for online education. None. They can barely teach in a normal setting. That will be a disaster. Teachers and parents who scream for this couldn’t care less about the quality of their kids education or their mental health. They’re selfishly thinking for themselves and are assholes.

      The end.

  29. Rufus the Monocled

    File under: Pandemic Panic must persist no matter what.

    “Nova Scotia Gov.
    @nsgov
    No New Cases of COVID-19, State of Emergency Renewed https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20200808001… Aucun nouveau cas de COVID-19, état d’urgence prolongé”

    No new cases but we’re still gonna push this as far as we can.

    Comment in response to saying NS is closed:

    “JC Electric torch
    @MJennyMac
    ·
    22h
    NS is open. You just need to quarantine for 14 days & wear a mask to protect our aging & vulnerable humans. This is the reason why our case numbers remain low & the cases we DO have are a result of TRAVELLERS. We have NO community spread ATM and would like to keep it that way”

    The stupidity is appalling. Yes. I’m gonna visit fricken Halifax and set two weeks to quarantine there. GTFOH.

    https://twitter.com/nsgov/status/1292094922129133568

    • Rhywun

      No new cases but we’re still gonna push this as far as we can.

      This seems to be the universal strategy. We’re panicking harder than we did when it was a thousand deaths a day.

      • Roland of Gilead

        I’ve pretty much convinced myself that this is an inentionally manufactured panic intended to hurt Trump in November. The thing is I don’t think it’s going that way right now. So I ask myself what is the big GOTCHA they have planned for late October? Or is this all they have? Just draw out the lockdown and scream Orangemanbad! He let people die!

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I know. It seems like we’re doubling down.

        I told my wife there are three ways they will play how the masks will be interpreted:

        -If the numbers go down. It won’t be ok. ‘Remove them’. It will be ‘great! Keep going!’.
        -If the numbers stay steady it will be it’s ‘See? It’s working and keeping things stable!’
        -if the numbers increase the narrative will be ‘It would be worse if we didn’t use them. So keep them on!’

        Everything we’re doing is the opposite of what should be done and our perception is also inverted as a result.

        If the numbers increase, to me, it would signify they don’t work. But honesty, I have no idea how they can possibly judge if they work or not. The science on their usage is already flawed to being with. And bureaucrats are arbitrarily setting rules at this point anyway. What a mess.

        And people are complete idiots for going along with it. IDIOTS.

      • Nephilium

        Hell, they keep talking about the total cases going up like it’s unexpected. FFS, if you keep adding new cases to the existing cases, the number can ONLY go up.

    • Rhywun

      Your aging & vulnerable humans can protect themselves, idiot.

      • Fourscore

        Thank you for your kind and accurate assessment, R.

      • Rhywun

        ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      protect our aging & vulnerable humans

      Lizard people control Nova Scotia confirmed.

      • Count Potato

        So that explains Nova Scotia lox?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    I sold one of my parts cars lawn ornaments yesterday. The Unburdening creeps slowly forward.

    • Fourscore

      Hopefully not to one of my neighbors, his outdoor art project is running out of room.

    • limey

      Dude, congrats. I hate selling cars. I’ve been putting one of mine back together after a long long story involving a shitty “specialist” and me having to put many things right, weld ‘er up and paint (I hate doing bodywork) and I just know from experience that any for sale advert will involve a deluge of messages from unscrupulous c*(&bags trying to browbeat me down to trash cash or just saying “WOTS BEST PRICE M8 WILL COME TODAY? [sic]”. Add to that there are two particular breakers widely known to anyone with these particular cars who are genuinely highly unpleasant people who tend to get what they want via intimidation, coming round with a gang of their compadres, who are pretty much guaranteed to try it on. I’m so over screwing about with cars. I think the only way I’d ever get back into it is if I had Ferrari money and a really decent home garage/workshop. I was, for some time, a “blight” on the neighborhood with cars on jackstands etc. #neveragain unless I lived out in the sticks in west Texas, where I think it would be weird not to, along with broken down warshers and refrigerators.

  31. Crusty Juggler

    New York State Police Issue 12,900 Tickets in Hudson Valley

    Those citations included 4,011 speeding violations, 577 seatbelt violations, 395 child restraint violations, 192 move over violations and 459 distracted violations, police say.

    During the month of July, troopers from Troop F also responded to two fatal crashes, 84 property damage automobile accidents and charged 209 motorists with Driving While Intoxicated.

    “The New York State Police encourage all drivers to slow down, wear your seatbelt and put down the cell phones,” New York State Police wrote in a press release.

    Defund us? How about we defund you!

    BLUE LIVES MATTER

    • Sean

      “192 move over violations”

      Is it wrong to applaud those?

      • Crusty Juggler

        Oh, Sean..

        The NY Move Over Law requires drivers to be extra cautious when approaching an emergency or hazard vehicle that is stopped on the side of the road with its emergency lights on. Drivers are expected to move one full lane away from the stopped vehicle. If it is not possible to do so safely, then the driver must reduce speed as it approaches the stopped vehicle.

        Specifically, the Move Over Law requires drivers to slow down and move over for police and emergency vehicles (including ambulance workers and firefighters), hazard vehicles like tow trucks that display amber lights, roadway construction crews, roadway maintenance crews, and sanitation vehicles.

        NYS VTL 1144-a (a) should not be confused with VTL 1144 (a) – Failure to yield to an emergency vehicle

      • Sean

        My bad. I thought it was for people failing to move right when not passing. Fucking slow ass left lane campers…

      • Crusty Juggler

        Not in the great state of New York! Here we are all about showing proper respect for authority.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck that noise.

        Proper respect is to organize a woodchipper parade.

      • Nephilium

        We’ve got the same law here in Ohio, it passed a couple years back.

    • Rhywun

      See? No problem with all the billionaires moving to Florida.

  32. Q Continuum

    The phony crowd noises on the empty stadia are distracting and stupid. Lifted from The Spectator (apologies for the long quote):

    “The graph of new cases in the UK roughly leveled off throughout July — but it has not plateaued at zero. The PM gives every indication that only zero will do. Thus as long as the coronavirus persists, the fearful prophylactic measures will continue. In trade for this valiant vigilance on our behalf, we merely have to sacrifice: our friends. Any new friends. All live performance — music, plays. Restaurants. All occasions, like proper weddings, funerals, birthdays and extended-family celebrations. Travel. Colleagues. Any search for love. Any moving communal experience, like festivals. Dentistry. A functional National Health Service. Oh, and the economy — and in case you need translation, that means the country, full stop[…]Boris’s ‘nuclear option’ of another total national lockdown remains on the table. Why on earth? The one constructive conclusion to draw from this debacle is that long, indiscriminate national lockdowns to suppress infectious disease are a catastrophe. Yet the most horrifying consequence of COVID-19 could be that lockdown — which once applied only to prisons — becomes officialdom’s established knee-jerk response to any new contagion.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We’re well into lunatic territory now. Even if you get the cases to zero, which I think is impossible. How are you going to prevent to reintroduction of the virus without collapsing the economy? Foreign tourism is going to go to zero. International business travel, zero…

      They’re going to set us back 150 years on global travel.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      That’s frightening. But not going to happen. Even sheep have a breaking point.

      • Q Continuum

        “Even sheep have a breaking point”

        I’m beginning to doubt this. The past 6 months have confirmed to me that a large majority of people really do prefer a comfortable prison to messy freedom.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I’M TRYING TO REMAIN POSITIVE.

        Floyd’s ‘Mother’ is the perfect pandemic song, n’est pas?

      • Nephilium

        It’s Blink-182, but… Quarantine.

      • CPRM

        Suggested video from same album : Blink-182 – Happy Days (Official Video) #stayhome

        Mark Hoppus is Bipolar.

      • westernsloper

        I’m beginning to doubt this.

        #metoo

    • Tejicano

      “In trade for this valiant vigilance on our behalf, we merely have to sacrifice…”

      And if you continue to go along with this you will be trading anything and everything of value until they have you living in a multi-family shared hovel, bland food packets rationed daily with the 1.28 gallons of potable water (the amount determined necessary by your government), and your daily 72 minute daily power surge to charge the devices you are allowed.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Merely sacrifice?

        HAVE THEY SEEN THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE LOCKDOWNS? The horrific outcomes are criminal.

        Does anyone in the government KNOW this? It makes no sense by now they haven’t been briefed or aware of the destruction under way due to this spectacularly incompetent line of thinking.

        It’s malice. Pure psychopathic malice if they mean it.

      • Q Continuum

        I think the “merely” was sarc.

      • Tejicano

        I’m pretty sure the average politician believes the economy can be stopped and started like their car. No big deal if you park it in the driveway for a couple days (weeks? months?). It will start up as good as new whenever you need to.

        Even if they stopped this game right now and told everybody to go back to normal – wear a mask if you want to – and businesses could try to start up again I doubt we would have a reasonable assessment of how fcuked we are as soon as 6 months from now. Huge swaths of the economy will be stuck and unable to function – some industries won’t be functional because some previously innocuous material or part hasn’t been produced for 7 months and we’ve gone through all there was in stock.

        This is really gonna suck.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I tried to explain that to friend who supports lockdowns. He’s all happy we’re back at work and in masks. It wouldn’t compute in his mind that this is a lagging indicator of sorts. We’re only going to see the fall outs in 2021 and beyond. THAT’S where the real fun begins.

        To them the economy is ‘just money’. Think about that for a second. They think we can just make it back at the snap of a finger.

        How do you digest over 50 million North American without work? That fact has yet to manifest itself.

        And the debt incurred for this?

      • Nephilium

        The tourist industry is essentially dead at this point, service industry is barely holding on, and it’s the asshole white collar workers who haven’t missed a paycheck saying we need to keep doing this. I can understand if there’s a class war that comes up in the next four years.

    • Rhywun

      I was watching Pittsburgh soccer last night – no fake crowd noise – their coach is notorious for the often obscenity-laden screaming at his players for ninety minutes straight. I’d rather hear that than the stupid laugh track.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Rufus (presses Applause button after goal).
        Producer: You’re applauding the wrong team!
        Rufus (grinning): Am I?

        I’d be looking for all sorts of past recoded laugh tracks from sitcoms if I were the sound guy.

        Anyway. How anyone can watch sports these days is beyond me. It’s so fricken depressing. Those card board cut outs remind me of that serial killer in the movie ‘Maniac’.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(1980_film)

      • Rhywun

        Even the lower leagues are saturated with woke shit now. I’ve just about had enough.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    The government is gonna have to come up with some ploy where they dangle some sort of treatment or faux-vaccine in their faces just to soother their fears and shut them up.

    Government certified Faith Healers; that’s what we need.

    Heaven forfend the media might report “350 million people did not die yesterday, and neither did you. Go out there and have a great day!”

    • Rhywun

      Government certified Faith Healers; that’s what we need.

      I think they’re called “contact tracers”.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Those panels aren’t going to just magically pop out of some box somewhere.

    It’s a hat, I tell you. They pull those solar panels (and everything else which miraculously appears on “store shelves”) out of a magic hat.

    • mindyourbusiness

      That’s the first time I’ve seen ‘hat’ spelled ey ess ess.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      shoot him out of a Cannon, Fucking Weasel,,,,,

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Gravitas

    To be sure, there is good reason for Biden — and all Americans — to be leery of the debates. As former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart wrote, “It’s a fool’s errand to enter the ring with someone who can’t follow the rules or the truth.”

    Given Trump’s track record with presidential debates, each encounter will likely turn into some mashup of professional wrestling, reality television and presidential politics. Biden will likely conduct himself in the way that candidates have since John F. Kennedy met Richard Nixon in 1960 — and attempt to outline key policy positions while embodying the gravitas of a president. But his efforts will inevitably be overshadowed by the chaos standing 6 feet or more away from him.

    Yup.

    • Rhywun

      To be sure, that’s some quality derp.

    • juris imprudent

      That’s pretty funny about Kennedy-Nixon, since those who listened to the debate on radio clearly saw it as a win for Nixon. It was Kennedy’s appearance on TV that made it a win for him.

    • The Last American Hero

      So the man has the wherewithal to have the top job in the world, go toe to toe to negotiate with other world leaders, rally the country in times of national tragedy, and convince Congress to get on board with his vision, but can’t handle an hour with Orangemanbad?

  36. limey

    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.

    GT, don’t worry about foxes and cats. There was always some scaredy Karens spreading stories about foxes tearing children to pieces etc but the only ones who ever got snarly and bitey were the ones said Karens/there husbands cornered with a broom. With regards to cats, I lived in a neighbourhod with many foxes, and many cats, and there was never a single instance of anything. My old girl (RIP, little lady) would just sit and watch them keenly as they gave her a wide berth, never taking their eyes off her. She was the fiercest cat on the block, though. Totally owned the place. They just used to stay out of each others’ way. Any time I’d here a cat growl or scream it was an inter-cat dispute, and mostly just for show without it coming to blows. One time my girl snuck up on nextdoor’s cat while she was sleeping in the flowers, and batted her on the head before springing back to a safe distance. Nextdoor’s cat woke up and I don’t think she immediately realised what happened. Cats definitely have a sense of humor. I’m off on cat stories now. I used to love watching her chase squirrels.

    • Urthona

      My neighbors are always telling me my cat (who refuses to be an indoor cat) is gonna get killed by the numerous neighborhood bobcats. My wife is rooting for that I think. It’s been 5 years. One time I went outside and saw both my cat and a bobcat relaxing not too far apart.

      I think the bobcat will just stick to rabbits.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think the bobcat will just stick to rabbits.

        Why not? It’s easier food.

      • limey

        Yeah, zactly. Why try eating something that will claw your face off when there are hoppy bunnies to gobble up? I like bobcats.

      • Q Continuum

        Coyotes routinely get cats and small dogs around here. It’s a bad idea to have them out at night.

      • limey

        Yes, coyotes/wolves are different.

      • Gender Traitor

        The greatest threat to an outdoor cat where we are is the busy main street just a couple of houses up from us. Happily, Official Cat shows no interest in going outside, even when we walk past him to put food out on the porch for his (girl?)friend. I think he may have been there/done that before landing at the Humane Society, so he’s not about to subject himself to that again.

      • Mojeaux

        We were training our kittens to the cat door when we had a coyote sighting. They’re both angry about being suddenly indoors-only cats.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh and that’s because they have no front claws.

      • Gender Traitor

        Sterling Snot MurderMouth RazorFingers [insert GT’s/TT’s surname] has a full set of well-honed claws. We are thrilled that he actually uses the scratching pad. Not that he won’t also sink his blades into the leg of my yoga pants when he wants me to pick him up.

      • Mojeaux

        We love cats but we don’t love torn-up furniture and curtains.

        They’ve done a number on our blinds and nothing says “white trash” like broken blinds.

      • Gender Traitor

        “Sterling” was the name the Humane Society bestowed upon him. “Snot” was the name Tom T. hung on him because when we first met the cat, he had two little bare (white) spots on either side of his nose. Those are long gone, but in Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, the feline can sneeze and propel prodigious amount of mucus.

      • UnCivilServant

        At the very least the kitteh is cute when sleeping.

        Good thing cats lounge a lot.

      • Gender Traitor

        He (the cat) routinely gets up in my face first thing in the morning and does his level best to prevent me from getting out of bed. Fortunately, I tend to sleep on my side, but he’s still between me and the edge of the bed, and he pulls the passive resistance thing in a manner that would’ve made Gandhi proud.

      • Rhywun

        Please don’t let them outside! They can’t defend themselves.

      • Mojeaux

        We don’t. That’s what I’m saying.

        After a coyote sighting, we closed off the cat door.

      • Rhywun

        Good. But it’s not just coyotes; I’m thinking about other cats.

        /recalls the vicious feral cat fights that took place in my back yard every night at my previous residence

      • Rhywun

        Smart kitty. IMHO the outdoors largely sucks for them. Yeah, once in a while they want out but it’s hard to beat free food and safety.

    • Gender Traitor

      Many thanks for the reassurance. So far the only critters observed this lovely morning here at Tranquility Base have been birds and squirrels.

      Cats definitely have a sense of humor.

      True. In one of his past lives, Tom T had a cat who would dangle a paw off the side of the bed to bait their otnay-ootay-ightbray Yorkie. When little Artie would come up to sniff the kitty’s paw, the cat would send him flying across the room.

      • limey

        ?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tulpa is a Cat Lady?

      • limey

        I’m a Tulpa! You’re a Tulpa! Everyone’s a Tulpa!

        Psst, Yufus ya doofus, you know who I am.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I know that Tulpa, go drink a pint for me……..

      • limey

        I’ve only got metric beer :\

      • Gender Traitor

        Please just promise me it’s not warm.

        Blecch! : P

      • limey

        Nope. Straight outta tha refrigerator.

  37. Mojeaux

    It appears XY has eaten all the Spam out of our 72-hour kits, so the extent of my prepping will be to refresh those and stock some water since he drank all of that too. I learned my lesson during the Great Mojo Prepper Panic of 2008 when I spent money in a panic and scattershot without knowing WTF I was doing or should do. Talk about information overload. I have a camping locker with basic stuff, but actually using it all may prove beyond our capabilities. I’m used to a full-size shovel and ax. This little fold-up do-hickey is … questionable.

    • UnCivilServant

      Mmm… spam.

      Hawaiians tell me it goes well with pineapple.

      • Mojeaux

        No accounting for taste.

      • UnCivilServant

        Ooo… spam, pineapple, and sweet pepper sauce on… starch of some sort.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        don’t forget the Seaweed wrap

      • Gender Traitor

        Deep-dish pizza crust?

      • UnCivilServant

        I was thinking fried rice.

      • Mojeaux

        Egg noodles.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have egg noodles.

        I also have leftover takeout rice.

        I might even have canned pineapple…

        I don’t have any spam.

      • PieInTheSky

        I don’t have any spam – what is your email?

      • Mojeaux

        The last time I had Spam I was a teenager on a canoe trip with my dad.

        I don’t mind it but it’s not my first choice. Actually, I’d rather have a high-calorie emergency bar.

      • Mojeaux

        And the only way I’ll eat rice is with sugar and milk, and even then only as a last resort. Rice does bad things to my insides.

      • UnCivilServant

        I admit, it doesn’t taste as good as it used to since they reduced the amount of salt in the formula.

      • Mojeaux

        It seems science ignores those of us who run salt-deficient.

      • Gender Traitor

        the only way I’ll eat rice is with sugar and milk

        Snap, crackle, pop.

      • Mojeaux

        Snap crackle pop isn’t worth eating unless it’s with marshmallows and butter,

        I got into a Rice Krispies treats jag one winter for something to put into the kids’ lunches when I didn’t feel like making proper cookies. I got those huge bags and marshmallows. One day, a lady behind me in the grocery line said, “Kids’ school lunches?” I don’t usually like people commenting on my groceries, bit that made me laugh. “And I feed them pumpkin pie for breakfast.”

      • Tejicano

        “It seems science ignores those of us who run salt-deficient.”

        And actually the nutrition nonsense about “too much salt” is pretty much science-deficient.

      • Mojeaux

        pretty much science-deficient

        See: all of nutrition “science”.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Yes! Hawaiin fried rice! Ham, pineapple, bell pepper. Sauce with soy, Sriracha and sesame oil. Top with spring onions.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        No eres lo que?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t understand what you just said, but soy sauce tastes awful.

      • Tejicano

        Hawaiians… any cuisine which historically featured long pork due to a relative lack of other protein sources is something to be avoided. Example; Filipino cuisine.

      • UnCivilServant

        So, no Aztec revival cuisine either?

      • Tejicano

        No, no. Aztecs only ate human flesh as part of their rituals and religion. And only from certain sacrificed individuals. They had plenty of other options (as well as a set of vegetarian sources that were almost a perfect amino acid mix) but chose to eat humans (well, certain parts of them) for non-nutritional reasons.

      • UnCivilServant

        I admit there were too many hops for that joke to work (there was no indicator that it was meant to be riffing on the folks who suggested human sacrifices was there to fill a protein deficiency)

      • UnCivilServant

        Besides, modern hawaiian cuisine rarely ever uses long pork. And you just need to select the right Philipino if you want to avoid the stringy meat and gamey flavor.

      • Tejicano

        That’s the problem with Filipino food. They’ve adapted to enjoy the stringy meat and gamey flavor.

      • limey

        Long pork comes from long pigs.

        /Ted’S

      • Rhywun

        Example; Filipino cuisine.

        Can confirm.

    • Count Potato

      Don’t use the questionable all-in-one do-hickey. They make a system of handles with interchangeable heads.

      • Mojeaux

        Ooooh, thank you! Linky?

      • Count Potato

        Inteletool makes the original, but they are very expensive. They are a bunch of them out there. Some of them are cheap crap. You might want to read reviews and shop around a bit.

    • SandMan

      Time to “refresh” the Spam, made me smile.

      • Mojeaux

        LOL the grocery list on the fridge has a normal list and then SPAM in huge letters off to the side.

      • BakedPenguin

        Insert Monty Python sketch here.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, all sales are final, keep your parrot.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Chuck Todd is outraged that President Cartoon Villain is “sidestepping” Congress. And why won’t those Republicans compromise with the Democrats and just give them everything they ask for?

    • Q Continuum

      Todd couldn’t be more of a clown if he tried.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Overly-dramatic assholes

      Another sign said read “one death is too many.”

      Life is going to be hard for these dipshits.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, it depends on who died.

    • Urthona

      Or just take a hiatus.

      • Rhywun

        There is no fucking way I’d pay full tuition for video-only college this year.

      • UnCivilServant

        There is no fucking way I’d pay full tuition for video-only college this year. ever again

        Made that mistake once already.

    • PieInTheSky

      I though the whole point of US college was getting laid. That is difficult not in person. I assume the girls just start their onlyfans and the dudes simp from afar. But what about the jocks? They need to bang

    • Rhywun

      Postsecondary institutions across the United States are watching their summer and fall enrollment plummet as they adapt to virtual learning.

      No shit?

    • Rufus the Monocled

      What’s the survival rate for that demographic again?

      And if I were a dean and saw one of professors engaging in this shit I’d see that as them being incompetent morons and fire them.

      Out!

  39. PieInTheSky

    So I skimmed through the jow rogan podcast with the two guys from the innocence project and at some moment one of them says something about trumps america, though all this shit has been going on long before, end for some reason I find it strange people cannot get past partisanship to get a message they care about to as many people. I am not American and random trump mention irked me. Dude stay on message.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Welcome to America

      We’ve lost our minds

    • Q Continuum

      Especially pathetic considering that Trump has actually done a few positive things for criminal justice reform as opposed to, well, pretty much everyone else.

      • PieInTheSky

        Well Joe Biden has a long record in politics. I can assume he has fought for criminal justice reform his entire career.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      It’s beyond the Bizarro and Twilight Zone now. Same thing in Canada now.

      I mean, if you think the pandemic result is ‘100% Trump’s fault’ there’s literally nothing to help you along.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Let’s compromise. The Democrats want three trillion, the Republicans want one trillion; let’s do five trillion and really juice the economy!

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Another sign said read “one death is too many.”

    You’re in for some major disappointment, sunflower.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    OMFG! The total number of “cases” keeps going UP! When will it go down?

    • UnCivilServant

      Either A: The parent has so emotionally abused the child that they actually think this, or

      B: the child is telling the parent what they know the parent wants to hear

      • Rhywun

        There’s also C: They’ve been fed a steady diet of terror from kindergarten on.

    • juris imprudent

      CP dips into sewer, amazed to discover shit!!

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Ooh, let’s talk about completely fictitious vaccines.

  44. Count Potato

    “#BlackLivesMatter
    protesters enter residential areas in Georgetown, Washington DC, just to wake up the “White, rich people” who are guilty of trying to sleep at night”

    https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1292302849184018432

    This has nothing to do with black lives.

    • Rhywun

      Commie larping looks so boring.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s the problem, society at large needs to make it a lot more interesting for them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What an asshole move and it won’t work out well at all in the long run. At best it’ll hurt support for their cause, at worst someone will get fed the fuck up and…well, you know.

      • Naptown Bill

        It’ll work in Georgetown. Shoot, I’m surprised Tacoma Park hasn’t just set itself on fire to atone for its white privilege, as left as that shithole is.

    • Naptown Bill

      What’s the quote? Something like, “Black Lives Matter is a way for middle class white women to use black people for social capital without being shamed for it.”

  45. Count Potato

    In other news, Twitter banned Bitchute links.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      THAT is fucking censorship, Jack Dorsey needs to shot out of a cannon!
      CWAA

      • Count Potato

        Huh, other people tried and it didn’t work at all, even with a link shortener.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They had flat out banned them but they revised it. Supposedly it was due to spam or some such and was resolved but who knows. When it comes to Twitter I just assume the worst motivations possible regardless of the reasons given.

      • Gender Traitor

        A talking hat and hair??? YOU’RE MISLEADING PEOPLE!!!!11

      • Lackadaisical

        No, it appears to be anti trump, the correct answer was that their fact checkers found it to be ‘ mostly true’. And hat and hair links are now being promoted I the platform.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Kneejerk hysteria

    The Big Sky appears to have joined other Division I conferences by canceling contests this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    The Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Council decided Thursday to call off conference football games, according to multiple reports. The Big Sky had not yet officially announced the news Thursday evening at presstime, so plans for other sports or possible postponements to the spring had not yet been publicized.

    The effects of this decision would leave a substantial impact on Montana State and its athletic department.

    No kidding.

  47. Lackadaisical

    “I wonder what Corn Pop thinks.”

    Literally ‘ republicans pounce ‘.

    Also, frock trump for thinking he can unilaterally spend.

  48. Stinky Wizzleteats

    A long (about 35 min) but good interview of Adam Corolla by the Epoch Times concerning cancel culture and The Chinese Lung Butter Flu:

    https://youtu.be/jCdQ7IKqFUE

    Adam’s an interesting autodidact who actually has something meaningful to say about this stuff.

    • CPRM

      Adam’s an interesting autodidact

      Ew! Fucking pervert!

  49. Count Potato

    “A mother is excited because her 4 year old child is trans. The child, a biological girl, still dresses feminine, refused to have their hair cut and refused a new male name, but the mother knows the child is a boy because the child prefers to play with other boys”

    https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1292025605697961984

    • Fatty Bolger

      That is sick.

    • Lackadaisical

      Slut shaming is wrong.

  50. UnCivilServant

    I contend that the proper term for a group of vassals is a hassle.

    – Me, discussing Crusader Kings

    • Gender Traitor

      Aw, shucks! I thought maybe someone had surreptitiously inadvertently recorded the chat.

  51. juris imprudent

    Oh, as to the cartoon, my one quasi-kosher, non-observant Jewish friend refers to bacon as land-salmon.

    • Gender Traitor

      Not “land-lox”?

      • Naptown Bill

        Or “Chinese food”?

    • Nephilium

      So… pre-Vatican II, Catholics were not supposed to eat meat on Fridays, fish was acceptable. This lead to a joke about a traveling priest who meets a protestant who wants to convert. The Catholic priest asks the man to kneel down, and puts his hands on the protestant’s head and says, “You are no longer a protestant, you are now a Catholic. You are no longer a protestant, you are now a Catholic.You are no longer a protestant, you are now a Catholic.” The protestant gets up and says, “That’s it?” The priest says, “Yes my son. You are now a Catholic.”

      Several months later, the priest is traveling through the area again and decides to stop at the convert’s house. It happened to be a Friday, and the convert was making dinner which happened to be a big pot of beef stew. The priest in a shocked tone says, “My son! You cannot eat that today, it’s Friday, you can’t eat meat, only fish!” So the convert puts his hands over the stew and says, “You are no longer beef, you are now fish. You are no longer beef, you are now fish. You are no longer beef, you are now fish.”

      • Rhywun

        I still remember Fish Fridays from the 70s and 80s. Even for school lunch.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Good little boys and girls only, please; or else

    As they struggle to salvage some semblance of a campus experience this fall, U.S. colleges are requiring promises from students to help contain the coronavirus — no keg parties, no long road trips and no outside guests on campus.

    No kidding. Administrators warn that failure to wear masks, practice social distancing and avoid mass gatherings could bring serious consequences, including getting booted from school.

    Critics question whether it’s realistic to demand that college students not act like typical college students. But the push illustrates the high stakes for universities planning to welcome at least some students back. Wide-scale COVID-19 testing, quarantines and plexiglass barriers in classrooms won’t work if too many students misbehave.

    “I think that the majority of students are going to be really respectful and wear their masks, social distance, keep gatherings small,” said incoming Tulane University senior Sanjali De Silva. “But I fear that there will be a distinct group of students that will decide not to do that. And it’ll be a big bummer.”

    Tulane students have already received a stark warning from the school in New Orleans, an early pandemic hot spot. After a summer weekend of large gatherings, Dean of Students Erica Woodley wrote to students, stressing her key point in bold, capital letters.

    “DO NOT HOST PARTIES OR GATHERINGS WITH MORE THAN 15 PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE HOST. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL FACE SUSPENSION OR EXPULSION FROM THE UNIVERSITY,” Woodley wrote, signing off with, “Do you really want to be the reason that Tulane and New Orleans have to shut down again?”

    The emphasis on student behavior is part of a broader effort to create safe bubbles on campus even if the virus surges elsewhere. The University of Texas at Austin is not allowing parties either on or off campus. In Massachusetts, Amherst College is prohibiting students from traveling off campus except in certain cases, such as medical appointments and family emergencies.

    We teach OBEDIENCE.

    • juris imprudent

      The university of delicate little flowers?

    • westernsloper

      From my experience keg parties with about 15 people were the best parties. I kind of remember one or two but I could be wrong.

      • Gender Traitor

        Shorter line for refills.

      • Urthona

        yeah i was just thinking 15 people is a decent number.

    • mrfamous

      Dean Wormer: “AT LAST! VINDICATION!”

    • limey

      Yeesh. You may as well just distance learn if they’re totally intent on sucking the life out of “the college experience”.

    • Rhywun

      safe bubbles on campus even if the virus surges elsewhere

      *face-palm*

  53. The Late P Brooks

    “I think that people will really keep each other in check. I know I will,” said Suhail Kumar, an incoming Syracuse sophomore. “If I see my roommates unmasked or not following protocol, I’m definitely going to let them know because I don’t want to jeopardize anything for myself.”

    Okay, Karen.

    You pathetic little dweeb.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s well on her way to a B.A. in Pussology I see. Good for her.

    • UnCivilServant

      Bars of soap in socks.

      Midnight ambush.

      Repeat until snitch stops being a cunte.

    • Lackadaisical

      What a baby, someone needs a swerlie.

      • limey

        I don’t want to know what that is.

      • Hyperion

        OK, millennial, get off my lawn!

    • Naptown Bill

      That six feet of social distancing will come in really handy the first time Suhail opts to mind someone else’s business for them who’s not a big fan of snitches.

  54. DEG

    I like today’s Old Guy Music.

    Trump moved to continue paying a supplemental federal unemployment benefit for millions of Americans out of work during the outbreak. However, his order called for up to $400 payments each week, one-third less than the $600 people had been receiving. How many people would receive the benefit and how long it might take to arrive were open questions.

    So he wants the Lil Rona panic to continue? Federal money, not just unemployment but also the Federal disaster money, is subsidizing this panic.

    Ryan Whitaker opened the door holding a gun in his right hand which is legal in Arizona but it made the cops fear for their lives.

    However, the cops never gave him a chance to put the gun down which he appeared to be trying to do when one cop shot him in the back three times.

    I had a dunphy flashback. Fuck him. Fuck those cops.

    The debate around Biden’s propensity for these kinds of slip-ups is a complicated one.

    I’m surprised anyone is covering a Democrat candidate’s slip-ups.

    Of those nearly 100 murders this year, a quarter come from domestic violence incidents.

    They’ll all be marked Lil Rona deaths.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m 100% certain the executive orders are all about making his political opponants own attempting to kill the giveaways.

    • Lackadaisical

      Shot in the back, feared for their lives. .. Okay.

      I’m amazed it’s only 25%. Imagine that some of these people are married to Karens.

      Also, old guy music was good, nice and relaxing.

    • Rhywun

      The debate around Biden’s propensity for these kinds of slip-ups is a complicated one.

      Only for the MSM. The rest of the country, not so much.

  55. Count Potato

    “more attractive individuals are more likely to identify as conservative and Republican than less physically attractive citizens…results are consistent across datasets and persist when controlling for socioeconomic status and demographics”

    https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1292156329805656068

    • Lackadaisical

      I mean, we didn’t really need a study to learn this.

      Shocking that low status people would support political systems and groups who advocate for removing hierarchy.

    • SDF-7

      Well crap… what in the world is my excuse then?

  56. Lackadaisical

    My son had spent the last 10 minutes playing by himself, it’s like heaven on earth. This is right next to naps on the list of reasons why. .. well you full in the blank.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Shocking that low status people would support political systems and groups who advocate for removing hierarchy.

    Government enforced “equality”. Diana Moon Glampers approves.

    • hayeksplosives

      Here, let me just tie this sandbag to your wrist…

  58. hayeksplosives

    Last time I went to church was the week before bans on crowds 50+. It was. Ack in March, so we were already sitting in little clusters of families with plenty of space (they opened overflow seating).

    It was important because we’ve gone to a few churches out here and are still learning and observing. COVID put an unnecessary halt to that.

    So we are trying an outdoor service today. We shall see…

    • limey

      I’m fascinated by the concept of “overflow seating” in a church. Well, not fascinated, but do they really keep some extra seating in reserve for really special occasions or something, like Mount Davis at the Oakland Coliseum?

  59. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of Sweden, here is a doctor’s view from Stockholm of how the Vid played out there. Unsurprisingly, not the view that you get if you pay attention to corporate media.

    Good read.

    thx

    • Rhywun

      I don’t even know the death count in New York State – about twice the population of Sweden – but I’m pretty sure it’s a fuck-ton more than 12,000.

      *googles*

      They’re claiming around 24,000 – includes 4,600 they pulled out of their ass with no testing.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    Oops, that’s New York City – with a smaller population than Sweden. Holy fuck.

    This is why Andrew Cuomo is the hero we need in the White House!

  61. Hyperion

    BTW, I was wondering if any ya’ll fine dudes have written a eulogy for Tulsi’s tits yet?