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  1. Count Potato

    Good morning, Banjos

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  2. PieInTheSky

    Trump says Supreme Court pick will most likely be a woman. – they should really find a trans woman to really kick the feminist civil war into high gear

    Good afternoon glibbies

    • banginglc1

      They should pick a white man who identifies as a black woman.

      • PieInTheSky

        Talcum X for the supreme court!

      • Rhywun

        That is how you troll.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Ted Cruz in lipstick and heels. President Trump, make this be!

      • AlexinCT

        Oh man, I would actually start a cult in his name if he does this to these fucking douchebags..

        Does Teddina need to wear anything under xer robes when xhe is working?

      • Not Adahn

        Assless chaps, of course.

      • UnCivilServant

        by definition, all chaps are assless. If they had asses, they’d be pants.

      • Cancelled

        Chaps belong to asses, they do not possess them.

    • Not Adahn

      Honestly, I’d be Ok with Blair White for SCOTUS.

      • Count Potato

        In a low-cut robe?

      • Festus' Mustache

        He’s kinda creepy but did buy a nice rack.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m still waiting for the Blair White/Shoe 0n Head sex tape.

      • Count Potato

        They have a video where they shoot guns together.

      • EvilSheldon

        Rawr!

      • Count Potato

        *cancels Festus*

  3. Count Potato

    I hope TH is OK.

    • Sir Digby Classic

      This!

      If anyone has any identifying info for him, esp name and relative location, I strongly suggest trying to contact the agency where you think he is and talk to someone there about doing a welfare check on him. What I read was definitely an outcry.

      It would require knowing his name, at least, and hopefully other info, such as DOB. If he was in Texas, I could possibly do some digging and make the call to whichever agency, but, I don’t think he is.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hyperbole?

      • Raven Nation

        Trigger Hippie I think. He had a long post on Saturday (?) that was concerning.

      • Cancelled

        I am concerned about TH as well, but I am shocked that someone here thinks calling the authorities to report him as suicidal is a good thing to do.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Wait. What?

      • Sensei

        I would concur.

        Also I believe he lives to the north in the 51st state.

      • Surly Knott

        Yes on both points.

      • Mojeaux

        He lives in Kansas City and I think I know the general neighborhood, but I don’t know his name or phone number or email address, so I can’t go check on him or I would’ve by now.

        Calling for a welfare check is a really bad idea considering what he uses for a sleep aid.

  4. robc

    Baseball birthdays: Woof.

    Moving on, KC Chiefs fans, you are welcome. And, yes, apparently I am taking personal credit for Harrison Butker based on him going to the same school as me 25 years later.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Bah! Sports…

    • Agent Cooper

      Dude is stone cold.

  5. PieInTheSky

    List of white leftists caught pretending to be black. – their brain morphology is black and that is what matters.

    • WTF

      Hey, if you identify as a thing, you actually are that thing, no? Isn’t that what the left has been insisting on for years now?
      Mornin’ Banjos.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Well I identify as a clever man so all y’all can cash me outside!

      • juris imprudent

        You uh, really think, that you can expect any kind of intellectual consistency from that sphere?

      • AlexinCT

        You can do that with everything except with race (for now)…

        Eventually, because of the cognitive dissonance around their thinking, they will have to switch things.

        But only for people that identify as good marxist slaves of the dnc.

      • Banjos

        Mornin’

    • Banjos

      Mornin’ UnCiv!

  6. PieInTheSky

    Judge halts Trump’s Admin attempt to ban an App.

    “Beijing maintains it does not engage in intellectual property theft.” – say what you will about the chicoms, they know how to tell a joke

    • UnCivilServant

      “It’s not theft, we simply don’t recognize property.”

      • PieInTheSky

        Unless it is those islands they are building in the ocean

      • juris imprudent

        Communist property is different from capitalist property.

      • Tejicano

        Communist property is different like a pimp’s love is different.

      • Cancelled

        Genosydd spelled with two d’s for a double dose of killin’

      • Rhywun

        “Was that wrong?”

    • banginglc1

      What’s everyone’s feelings on this? My gut reaction without looking into it in any way other than reading a couple headlines is I hate when anything gets banned. But I also hate the Chicoms and people who use Tik Tok, so my outrage is minimal.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m in favor of banning everything from communist china.

      • Rhywun

        I can only accept it if they can justify it as some sort of national security thingie.

      • Tundra

        Fuck censorship. If they are committing fraud, go after them. Publicize the hell out of the problems with the app and let people decide for themselves.

        Fuck, it’s not like we don’t hand over data to dozens of entities every day, anyway. Looking at you, NSA.

      • banginglc1

        That about sums up my default position, but like I said, I haven’t actually looked into this at all. Might have to do some reading today if work slows.

      • Not Adahn

        Banning stuff is bad. Preventing fraud is good.

        China’s response of “no you can’t see the source code, we’d rather destroy it than let you do that” makes me thing that the latter case might be going on here.

      • AlexinCT

        Everything China does is weaponized

  7. Pine_Tree

    Good morning Banjos. Thanks for getting these together.

    Y’all know how everyone’s (rightfully) pointing out that RBG should’ve had sense enough to retire during BHO’s time? Well, I hate to say it, but we’re looking at another potential/inverse version of it with Justice Thomas. As much as I like him, I sure hope he doesn’t put himself in a position for the same critique. Mixed bag, though, since I would like him there for any electoral shenanigans.

    • robc

      The difference being I am not sure anyone Trump picks would be as good as Thomas.

      Honestly, same could probably be said for Obama and RBG. As bad as she was, she was leaps better than the Obama nominees.

      • Pine_Tree

        Yeah. Just noodling over the short- and long-term wishes. And as long as I’m wishing, I’d also like a way to turn back time and get JRB for the next 30 years…

      • DWB

        One of Bush II’s greatest crimes was not putting JRB on the bench (Roberts being his worst)

      • Festus' Mustache

        He should go with the Cuban girl because that Amy sounds like she has some baggage from the cult.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The reality is that being a SCJ is not really that fucking hard.

        They make it difficult by forcing themselves to generate bullshit justifications for decisions that they pull out of their ass.

        If they would stick to the Constitution as written, being a SCJ would be pretty simple.

      • robc

        Also, look at the length of decisions. Even in early 20th, they were still primarily 1 or 2 pages. Now, the shortest are a small book.

      • WTF

        Because they need to use convoluted bullshit to help them back into their foregone political conclusion.

      • The Hyperbole

        Can’t find it now but I always liked Harry Browne’s qualifications for Justices “Can you read”, and “do you know what ‘No Law’ means” and one other I can’t remember.

      • Drake

        As long as he picks somebody who wasn’t in Epstein’s book, it’s better than Roberts.

    • invisible finger

      “Retire when The Party tells you to retire” is about as tyrannical as you can get.

      I’m not discounting RBG’s health-jeopardizing decision to stay on “for the good of The Party.” Stupid, yes, but not tyrannical. (And we can certainly find tyrannical decisions she made from the bench.)

      • robc

        My 18 year amendment plan is looking better and better.

        SCOTUS terms last 18 years. Each odd year a term starts, so a President gets to select 2 during his term in office (or 4 if reelected). You know its coming, you know when, and being in a non-election year, there generally isnt going to be a huge Senate fight.

        Its just something the FFs missed.

      • invisible finger

        Agreed

      • Cancelled

        Yeah, I’m going to pass on this. The problem with the Supreme Court is that the other two branches have accepted the silly idea that only the Court can defend the constitution from the other branches. As a result the Court, which is simply meant to decide cases and controversies individually becomes a super legislature and therefore highly political. Terms does nothing to solve that problem and ‘knowing it is coming’ is not going to reduce the politicization a bit; if it has any effect it will be to increase it.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

      • Agent Cooper

        She really fucked over the Dems, though. Retire at 80/81 and let Obama pick a replacement for the next 30-40 years.

    • Rhywun

      Is he on death’s door too?

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Hysterical idiocy

    The government’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, and Patrick Vallance, its chief scientific advisor, warned Monday that if the current trend in rising cases continued, doubling every seven days, and no action was taken, the country could expect to see almost 50,000 new cases per day in mid-October.

    “50,000 cases per day would be expected to lead … to 200-plus deaths a day,” by the middle of November, Vallance said in a press briefing. The warning from the advisors is widely seen as a precursor to the introduction of more nationwide restrictions, including a possible 10 p.m. curfew in London.

    It’s running rampant. Fire up the bulldozers and excavators. we’re gonna need a bigger mass grave.

    • PieInTheSky

      I just figured out the one good thing about Trump is that all this is blamed on Trump. When Trump will no longer be president, they will all go back to blaming the extreme libertarianism that controls Washington.

    • robc

      Based on current trends, the Dow Jones will hit zero in 2 months.

    • invisible finger

      Sounds like herd immunity.

    • invisible finger

      “200-plus deaths a day”

      So roughly 4 deaths per state per day. Or 10 per day in New York and California, and 0.3 per day in Wyoming and the Dakaotas.

      In other words, the typical cold and flu season.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Not even flu season, just colds.

      • Rhywun

        It’s Brittania, so adjust accordingly.

    • invisible finger

      “if the current trend in rising cases continued, doubling every seven days, and no action was taken, the country could expect to see almost 50,000 new cases per day in mid-October.”

      Why would that trend stop in mid-October? And the end of October everybody in the country would be positive.

      • invisible finger

        *End of December

    • Count Potato

      That’s 73,000 deaths.

      There are 2.8M deaths per year.

      Heart disease: 647,457

      So why don’t we teach CPR in schools? Put an AED in every public place?

      • EvilSheldon

        Check out this hyper-individualist over here atomizing society…

      • AlexinCT

        Because people are not as ignorant about the risk of this problem compared to what they have done with the Kung Flu in order to allow themselves to destroy the economy in order to help get rid of Trump?

        Seriously, these people are willing to burn it all down because they see Trump as an existential threat to their hold on power and their credentialed aristocratic elite status. Forcing a real meritocratic system on them is anathema to these inept cuntes.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        So why don’t we teach CPR in schools? Put an AED in every public place?

        Erm, I learned CPR at school, and I’m pretty sure there are AEDs most everywhere these days.

      • AlexinCT

        My company requires only people that present accreditation and keep their training up to speed to use them, however…

        If some unqualified bloke tries this, they disavow responsibility.

    • Suthenboy

      Be afraid. Be very afraid.

    • banginglc1

      I’m still waiting to know someone in meatspace who’s gotten it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I know several.

        All recovered without issue. One was completely asymptomatic.

        The virus is a joke for a healthy immune system.

      • WTF

        I also know a couple of people. They only knew they had Covid because their kids nagged them into getting tested when they had cold symptoms. They said Covid was milder than most common colds they’ve had.

      • Apples and Knives

        Both parents of one of my best friends got it, they’re in their ’70s but healthy as far as I know, another acquaintance’s husband got it, also in his ’70s and a cancer survivor who has some ongoing health issues, and then a very healthy soccer coach (was playing in MLS 10 years ago) in his early 40s. All were symptomatic, that’s why they got tested, but none were hospitalized, all have recovered. Also, no idea how many were real and how many were false positives while they actually had a cold or flu.

    • Hyperion

      “It’s running rampant.”

      Raging all around us. It’s like an anthrax hurricane.

      • Agent Cooper

        Anthrax Hurricane — album or band name?

  9. Count Potato

    “There was simply no equivalence between Midyear and Crossfire,” Strzok claimed in his new book, Compromised, referring to the Clinton emails investigation and the Trump-Russia investigation. “At its core, Midyear was a glorified (because it involved Hillary Clinton) mishandling case, the type that but for the celebrity subject rolls throng WFO on a weekly basis. Crossfire was a first-of-its-kind, enormous investigation into complex, ongoing attacks on our presidential elections and Russian interactions with members of one of the candidate’s campaigns. Of course, I had prioritized that.”

    CWAA

    • Suthenboy

      The only thing I remember about it is every single ‘ witness’ for the Democrats in the impeachment proceeding being asked if they had witnessed any crime committed by the president or had any first hand knowledge of evidence he had committed a crime and every single one of them reluctantly mumbled “No”.

      Why is this little fuckhead Strzok still breathing free air?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Because he is one of their creatures.

  10. robc

    Once again, despite her economics being horrible, I would have been okay with a President Tulsi.

    • PieInTheSky

      You only say this cause there’s 0 chance of that happening so it is safe to say.

    • Festus' Mustache

      She’s never gonna get with you 😉

    • Drake

      How crazy would it have been if Biden had picked her as a running mate?

    • invisible finger

      Because of her retarded economics, Tulsi seems like the kind of person that would develop a taste for armed conflict as commander-in-chief. Remember when Obama was a peacenik?

      • UnCivilServant

        Remember when Obama was a peacenik?

        No. Did he make deceptive noises in that direction?

      • invisible finger

        When he ran the first time, yes. He was all about getting out of the ME and Guantanamo. Instead we got a troop surge and shitloads of drone bombs. He took credit for troops leaving Iraq despite the fact that was agreed upon years earlier.

      • Tulip

        That’s not how I remember it. I remember him saying – on the campaign trail -that we should be bombing Pakistan.

      • Drake

        He said all kinds of shit nobody believed.

      • AlexinCT

        The media did a good job making sure everybody believed he had said whatever they had wanted him to have said, and a lot of people fell for it. I understood what he meant when he told us he was going to fundamentally transform the country and give us hope and change. Other idiots were led to believe he would transform things for the better and that he meant he would provide us with hope and change instead of having us hope he would leave us with some change in our pockets…

      • robc

        I think her experience in the ME would suggest otherwise. Obama’s problem is he never served.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Obama’s problem is that he never served anyone but himself.

    • DWB

      That streak of gray hair just … does something to me.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Cruella Deville kink?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Now you know my kink. Kinky!

      • Cancelled

        Loved JoBeth Williams’ steak as a youth

        Pedo cannibalism?

      • DWB

        Not enough coffee …

  11. Festus' Mustache

    October Surprise? Fuck that noise! Popcorn Surprise! Mornin’ Banjos!

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  12. Count Potato

    “Omaha bar owner who fatally shot protester in May and (after political pressure) was recently indicted, committed suicide.”

    Sad.

    • AlexinCT

      This is what they want..

      They want people to know that there will be a cost for fighting back against them and their threat they would rather burn it all down than let the other side run the country when the people vote for that…

  13. Rhywun

    Nice song pick! Almost makes me happy.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Come on Buddy, SMOD don’t happen very often. Take the good when it presents and let that other shit just flow away. Who gives a shit about those people downstream?

  14. Festus' Mustache

    Good tune, Banjos! I wonder if the “ricin” was just some “magic beans”, unprocessed castors.

    • Suthenboy

      You noticed that too….the story mentions ‘traces’ of ricin. I don’t know what that means.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Well there is plenty of stupid to go around, why not share the wealth?

  15. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    My advice to you all is to click the music first and have it playing while you read the lynx.

    It makes them much more bearable.

    Could we please shut the FBI down now?

    Man, that story about the bar owner is really brutal. You know damn well he could have crowd funded a helluva defense. Yeah, I know – the process is the punishment, but still. Where did I leave that woodchipper…

    I think it was kind of stupid for Two Scoops to suggest the nominee will be a chick, but I guess politically it makes sense. I still fucking hate that the SC has become the most powerful group of people on the planet. Well, at least it will be fun to watch the proggies try to torpedo a chick.

    In other news, Honey Harvest 2020 was a rousing success. Turnout was excellent, weather was perfect and the Pontiff of the Prairie was on his best behavior. Thanks again to Fourscore for hosting and to CPRM for the merch. I love my Gropin’ Joe stickers!

    I hope all of you have a fantastic day!

    • Fourscore

      HH was a national affair, with WI, Iowa, No Dak and of course the MN boys (and a girl) being represented.

      NoDak joke we heard yesterday

      NoDak 1 “How many MN guys does it take to change a light bulb”

      NoDak 2 “What’s a light bulb”

      Just kidding, they are well traveled and have seen light bulbs before.

      It was great time, Kinnath poured his mead lavishly among the crowd, the locals, used to MD, were clamoring for take home. Jimbo showed up with his wife’s special dumplings/wonton, which Mrs Fourscore hid in the back recesses of the freezer where I’m not allowed to go. CPRM gave me a a cherished virgin Hat and Hair cup. CPRM is still tucked in, in his motor home in the yard. It was the biggliest glib meetup in history with a picture to prove it, if Leapatthe wheel had enough pixels to cover the whole crowd. There were numerous wannabees hollering, Metoo, Metoo. ttryrant and friend found others they don’t want to be seen in public with so it was a really good time. Next year, 3rd Sunday in Sep, mark your calendars

      Complete list, Jimbo, Tundra, ttyrant, pissedoffnick (if you need some landscape work, invite PONick and leave some tools out), kinnath, leap, CPRM, MikeS,MatS, myself and my lurker bee partner, known only to SP by handle.

      There was some famial interest plus a couple others that expressed interest so maybe there are more shadows lurking. Anyway, a great time with the best folks. Jimbo was bragging, of course, as how he was the seniorist glib attending, having been to 3 straight. While I rated it somewhere between a brouhaha and a melee, tempers were raised but Jimbo was accurate in his assessment, for a change. Leap wins as most visits though,by a big margin.

      • Sean

        Complete list, Jimbo, Tundra, ttyrant, pissedoffnick (if you need some landscape work, invite PONick and leave some tools out), kinnath, leap, CPRM, MikeS,MatS, myself and my lurker bee partner, known only to SP by handle.

        That’s a lot of Glibs!

        How many firearms were lost in boating accidents?

      • Trials and Trippelations

        “ Next year, 3rd Sunday in Sep, mark your calendars”

        I will mark it down as one of my weekends off. Now that we have an RV should be a fun trip up and back.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My assessments are always right. I’m infallible! How many times do I have to keep telling you guys that?

        The highlight of HH for me this year was when I saw Tundra putting his face next to some fancy old car’s exhaust. I thought he was taking popular requests.

        Yes, it was another fantastic Honey Harvest. Best way to spend the third Saturday of September that I can think of. Glad to see all the new Glib faces.

        *I tried to tell Mrs. Fourscore that this year she had to share the mandu with Fourscore, but she just got a sly smile on her face and giggled, so I don’t have a lot of hope for him.

      • Tundra

        Context, Jimbo.

        It was a really nice 1949 Chevy Deluxe coupe with a split manifold and custom exhaust.

        Nothing quite like that sound and the smell of combusting dinosaurs!

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Leapatthe wheel had enough pixels to cover the whole crowd

        More fat jokes, huh?

        https://i.imgur.com/YOGeBps.jpg

      • Surly Knott

        Really sorry I couldn’t be there. Maybe next year!

    • Festus' Mustache

      I am legitimately happy for the Honey Harvest! Maybe one day when the DHS is disbanded I might get to attend to share hand-shakes, hugs and Covid-24 with my friends on this site. And fall into a vat of honey which will be the style at the time.

      • Not Adahn

        I am wanting to go. Hopefully next year I will have enough vacation time to do so.

      • Fourscore

        CPRM pulled out in his motor home, he’s a survivor.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        Are orphans allowed?

      • Trials and Trippelations

        Oops how did my reply get down here

      • Agent Cooper

        Honey Harvest sounds like another code-name for Epstein’s jet.

    • ttyrant

      Honey Harvest was a great time and well worth the trip. As a first-timer, I can attest to the fact that Fourscore didn’t even enact my labor — he left that to the orphans he presumably had hidden somewhere on his lot. Kinnath was kind enough to supply a bottle of mead to my girlfriend and I — I think there’s a fairly good chance we go through that tonight. It was a pleasure meeting all of you, and we’re hoping we can make it up again next year.

    • Banjos

      Mornin’ Tundra!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Sophisticated analysis

    In today’s capitalism, money is, for the most part, considered more important than workers: If moving jobs elsewhere, or using robots saves dollars, it’s done.

    Why can’t we just be one big generous, loving family? From each, according to his wealth, to each, according to his needs.

    • Rhywun

      If moving jobs elsewhere, or using robots saves dollars, it’s done.

      Gosh, that’s never been done before anywhere in history.

      ?‍♂️

    • DWB

      The same capitalism that, despite severe government interference and screw-ups and with major hoarding recovered back to almost normal within 2 months?

    • PieInTheSky

      Bring back the ox plow!

      • UnCivilServant

        Why would you want to plox oxen? You deviant!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Montanans nod their heads and then caress their sheep (aka Montana blonds)

      • AlexinCT

        Are they the ones that like to push their sheep up to a cliff while they are parked behind the sheep to take advantage of the animal not wanting to go off the cliff, or is that the Greeks?

  17. PieInTheSky

    I have seen that amy coney barrett person being refereed more and more as far right on the interwebs. Which definition of far right are we talking about here? Is the a literal Nazi? Worse?

    • Tundra

      In this case, ‘far right’ means not wanting to murder babies.

    • Drake

      Far right = read the Constitution and make decisions based off that thing old white men wrote.

    • Swiss Servator

      Worse that Hitler-Hitler.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Worse than Hitler cubed. So deplorable that we can’t even. Did you even see how hot girl Hitler looked in the twats yesterday?

      • WTF

        Don’t stick it in crazy.

    • Rhywun

      HANDMAIDENS! LIKE THAT BOOK!

      She’s some kind of super-Catholic. Even wikipedia couldn’t make it sound scary enough.

      • Drake

        She had a bunch of kids and adopted more – she’s a monster.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Gaia Murderer.

    • Suthenboy

      Nazi? You mean the National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany? Those right wing nuts?

      • AlexinCT

        retard: They were right wing!

        me: Cause they were right of Marx in their socialism?

        retard: THAT WAS NOT REAL SOCIALISM!

    • robc

      Good news on Barrett is she isnt Ivy League. Bad news is she is another Catholic. I have no general problem with Catholics on SCOTUS, but how many do we need? Aint there some good protestant judges out there somewhere?

      • Drake

        Given how far left the mainline protestant denominations are drifting, I can’t complain about the Papists. (even though they have a commie pope now)

      • robc

        True enough, but the evangelical denominations aren’t drifting left.

        There is a lawyer in my church small group, maybe he could do the job? I think his focus is malpractice (defending, not suing).

      • DWB

        Sadly too many seem of the David French mold — afraid of their own shadow

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Plus she taught at Notre Dame. You know, the place that mysteriously burned to the ground not too long ago.

        Think about it Sheeple!

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      Worse. Catholic.

    • Hyperion

      You’ll find out what type of Nazi she is as soon as the Senate hearing. I’m not sure which type Nazi she is, but it’s a really bad Nazi.

  18. Rufus the Monocled

    Imagine how sad and empty your life is that at 80 you can’t retire and just enjoy what’s left of lifei Instead of going around impeaching looking like an imbecile. Where does Pelosi find this energy?

    • UnCivilServant

      There are a lot of people who simply die when they retire. I suspect someone who’s dedicated their entire existence to collecting power would not survive giving it up.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Less because of a labor of love and more because….what the fuck am I going to do?

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

      • jacksprat

        Eat ice cream?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I wonder if it isn’t that she knows that if she gives up power, there are a lot of people looking for payback and she might not enjoy that retirement so much.

      • AlexinCT

        A problem a lot of people in positions of power have because of the abuses they perpetrated…

      • banginglc1

        But in the current climate, no one is punished anyways . . see the FBI, Comey, Clapper, Clinton, ect as examples

      • AlexinCT

        They are making sure that stays that way..

      • Pope Jimbo

        If Trump loses, I bet they still go after him for banking and insurance fraud. Just to really drive home the point that no one who doesn’t have the proper background is allowed to run for office.

      • Mojeaux

        My bestie’s mom was vibrant and energetic while she was working. When she retired, she became a blob until she was bedbound. My bestie asked her what happened. She said, “I just sat down and never got up again.”

    • banginglc1

      I don’t understand it either. I’m mentally ready to retire now . . . and I’m 36

      “Vote BLC 2020: I’ll govern like I’m already retired!”

    • Not Adahn

      Hurting people you don’t like while feeling righteous for doing so is a powerful drug.

      • Festus' Mustache

        This truth is an ugly truth and you slammed the nail on the head, NA.

    • Hyperion

      “Imagine how sad and empty your life is that at 80 you can’t retire and just enjoy what’s left of lifei Instead of going around impeaching looking like an imbecile.”

      Yeah, but as soon as you get done impeaching, you’re the only one in SanFran who can get your hair blowed out and then have a $50 scoop of ice cream, probably put your scoop in a big mug of vodka, most expensive vodka with a scoop of $50 ice dream.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Pie’s Out of the Box Idea for today: If Trumpy poo actually wins reelection and the Republicans keep the senate, they should pack the supreme court with more judges to anticipate the Democrats threat to do so.

    • UnCivilServant

      No.

      A consitutional amendment to fix the size of the court and prevent future packing.

      • robc

        Along with carefully spaced out appointment, not sure why you don’t like the idea?

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s something about your plan that strikes me as a bad idea.

      • robc

        Could be. What is it?

        The 18 year term is almost a lifetime appointment anyway, and with a limit of 1 term, it effectively is.

        It discourages the practice of going “young” to try to get in a 30 year pick.

        It gets the appointments on a regular schedule.

        There might be a negative, but I havent seen it yet.

      • UnCivilServant

        First off, I’m not seeing the positives in your bullet points.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Meh. He’ll go 11 and when they inevitably regain power it will become 17. There is no winning that war. He needs to tread carefully. Harry Reid thought that he was the smartest guy in the room just a few years back.

      • PieInTheSky

        11? Make it 51.

      • WTF

        Make it 50 by constitutional amendment and every state gets to appoint 1 justice.

      • juris imprudent

        Sure, and because 5-4 decisions are so divisive – imagine 26-25!

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I still fucking hate that the SC has become the most powerful group of people on the planet. Well, at least it will be fun to watch the proggies try to torpedo a chick.

    Thank goodness the Supreme Court is above politics.

    • juris imprudent

      Mythology aside, that is exactly what the Court has always been. The myth is intended to cloak the true political nature with some higher virtue.

      • WTF

        The SCOTUS has basically become an oligarchy, issuing diktats from the bench with little or no basis in the law or constitution. Which is why every opening has become a life and death fight, because it determines who will rule over us.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Yep. Hence the calls from the usual suspects to burn it down to the ground. I’m 55. I’ve never heard such rhetoric since I was a little boy and that was coming from the radical elements, not mainstream talking heads.

      • Homple

        “I cannot lay down my pen without recurring to one of the subjects of my former letter, for in truth there is no danger I apprehend so much as the consolidation of our government by the noiseless, and therefore unalarming instrumentality of the Supreme court.”

        …Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Johnson

  21. Rhywun

    I’d like to add a link before my first commute to the spare bedroom:

    Looks like details have emerged about yesterday’s train derailment in NYC. Looks like terrorism (of a sort) to me. Not random garbage as I had rather hoped.

    Harvard allegedly tried twice to chuck the metal debris onto the tracks Sunday morning, sources said.

    After he allegedly threw the material onto the tracks a first time, a good Samaritan went down and retrieved them, sources said.

    But he allegedly picked them up and hurled them back just as a train was pulling into the station, sources said.

    That is one determined asshole.

    • Count Potato

      So it was deliberate. Anyone know a motive?

      • Rhywun

        My money is on “mentally ill homeless person” because that’s what it always is.

      • Swiss Servator

        You look to probably be correct.

      • Swiss Servator

        “Harvard was previously arrested Sept. 5 on charges of criminal mischief for allegedly hurling a metal bench through a bus window on 8th Avenue and 22nd street, according to sources and records. He was released without bail in that case.”

      • Not Adahn

        Non-violent bus smashing is definitely less violent than manslaughter, which is considered a non-violent crime in NY for bail purposes.

      • robc

        Auburn grad?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Right-wing extremist committing pro-Trump violence, just like all the others.

  22. Rufus the Monocled

    “Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, former executive director of the Jewish General hospital and president and CEO of the Integrated Health and Social Services Network of the West-Central Montreal (CIUSSS) has just said that Covid-19 is similar to the flu virus in both danger and risk of transmission. He also mentioned that, while Covid-19 is particularly dangerous to the elderly with pre-existing conditions, the flu targets the very young as well as the very old. The Jewish General is the province’s primary Covid-19 treatment center.

    Curiously he recommends masks and distancing in the general public if there is a second wave. He didn’t stray too far from the official lines with that message. I wonder, when was the last time we enforced masks, shutdowns, confinement and social distancing during a flu season? Hmmm…. Right. Never.

    And how is it that I, along with hundreds of thousands of others like me, have been annoyingly repeating the very same thing since May (other than promoting the usefulness of masks and distancing) but it’s fallen on deaf ears or has been discredited as selfish, egotistical conspiracy theory? “It’s not the flu,” they said. But it’s just like the flu, only LESS dangerous to kids.
    Hindsight is 20/20, according to Dr. Rosenberg. Except that a large percentage of the population seems to have some pretty damn good hindsight vision.

    I say this while Montreal enters phase 3 lockdowns for a second time, despite no increase in deaths or hospitalisations.

    The government is contemplating ways of enforcing the law by entering your homes without a warrant. Fines for disobedience are increased. Police are raiding bars and restaurants.
    Testing of asymptomatic people is ramped up to 30,000 tests per day in Quebec. I wonder, how much do those tests cost the taxpayer?
    Kids are compelled or legally obligated to wear masks despite having no risks of illness or infectiousness.

    Are all of these authoritarian measures justified by the threat of a second wave of ASYMPTOMATIC FLU CASES?

    I always wondered how ordinary folks get duped by “Nigerian prince” scams, yet here I’m seeing the majority of my fellow Canadians being duped by a giant scamdemic, while the evidence is plain to see.

    If ever there was a time to wake up and take a stand, this is it, folks. Your future depends on it.”

    Quebec is run by complete imbeciles. And they’re not even original about it. They just copy/paste things from other places.

    They officially said a second wave has come. Without defining it. We went from a low of 77 cases in June to around 400 now. c. 1-3 deaths. Population 8.4 million.

    Apparently, once again it’s to avoid overwhelming the system because of the flu. But let’s finish off the economy to do it.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am beginning to think they really want to wreck the economy to make everyone government dependent.

      • Tundra

        It is the only thing that makes sense.

        I understand why we did it here – OMB. Anything to get rid of Two Scoops. But why everywhere else? Unless the evil fuck recognized that cratering peoples’ livlihoods makes them perfectly compliant.

        I’ve said it before, though: be really careful about taking too much away from a heavily armed population.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Call me naive but I’m not fully on board with this. I still cling on to the idea politicians have friends and family too. If this ‘new normal’ thing is a globalist plan, it would impact them and their family and friends in private life as well. A man can cling on to a dream no?

      • R C Dean

        Sociopaths don’t have family and friends. They have useful props and idiots.

    • invisible finger

      Prohibition will work THIS time!

    • Not Adahn

      So what’s the deal with that rally having no Canadian flags? Are they that taboo in MTL that you can fly a US and/or Trump 2020 as a fuck you, but only Quebec flags are permitted to show patriotism?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        It’s Quebec. A good chunk of protestors are separatists so you will see all kinds of flags except Canada. You can bring a Canuck flag it’s just that ‘les Patriotes’ like Trump because he puts the nation before anything else.

    • Homple

      “But let’s finish off the economy to do it.”

      …and finish off fundamental civil rights while they’re at it. The war on drugs that has some folks so wound up will be as nothing compared to the war on getting sick.

  23. PieInTheSky

    n the United States, there is a now second front against lockdowns, from the left. Together with fellow Harvard infectious disease epidemiologist @wkyih
    , I was interviewed by @NicoleAschoff
    in @jacobinmag
    , a progressive left magazine. Please RT.

    https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1307447373350797312

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Looks like uneasy alliances will have to be made to get back our lives.

      I’m willing to work with a socialist temporarily if it means blowing this casescamplandemic to smithereens.

      • Gdragon

        I feel dirty saying it but I am too Rufus. This has unfortunately become the more important “issue”.

  24. Count Potato

    “Vermont grocery store worker fired after apprehending purse snatcher

    Local attorney Pietro Lynn said Shedyak was likely fired so the store wouldn’t be sued.

    “It is not uncommon at all for employers to discourage employees from laying hands on customers,” Lynn told WCAX3. “There are many cases in Vermont where employers are held responsible for the wrongful acts of their employees,” Lynn said.

    Shedyak – who was quickly hired by another company, said, “Why should it make a difference that, hey, I’m clocked in now — he’s in trouble. If I wasn’t clocked in — oh, you did a good job.””

    https://nypost.com/2020/09/19/vt-grocery-store-worker-fired-after-apprehending-purse-snatcher/

    WTF?

    • PieInTheSky

      Vigilantism must be opposed.

      • AlexinCT

        People deciding they need to enforce the laws because the authorities won’t or cant is just not something the credentialed elite class wants to see happen…

    • Tundra

      Shedyak – who was quickly hired by another company,…

      There’s your answer right there.

      • Count Potato

        Still crazy he was fired in the first place.

    • Rhywun

      Most retail outlets just let thieves go now and “write it off”. The guy behind the counter with a baseball bat is only in movies.

      • Cancelled

        And Korean owned stores.

    • banginglc1

      You need to cower in fear until government approved agents show up . . . .and we need to defund those government agents . . . or something.

  25. Count Potato

    “A Wisconsin beachcomber got more than he bargained for after discovering what appears to be a brain that had washed ashore. Now, local authorities are trying to figure out who — or what — it came from.

    So he was understandably intrigued after happening upon a package wrapped in aluminum foil, fastened with a pink rubber band, while perusing Racine’s Samuel Myers Park Beach on Tuesday.

    “Curiosity got to me, so I popped it open and it looked like a chicken breast,” Senda told his local TV news outlet. “It took a little bit for it to really [register] of what was going on: It was a brain.” Also in the parcel were flowers and Chinese money, according to Senda.”

    https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/man-discovers-brain-washed-ashore-on-beach/

    • PieInTheSky

      How big is the average comb?

      About this big?

    • banginglc1

      I blame Tik Tok

    • The Other Kevin

      The name on it was Abbey something.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Robertson wrote a “Letter to Self” in late October after an Oct. 19, 2016, meeting, during which he implored Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Kramer of the Southern District of New York to push FBI leadership to look at the thousands of emails he had unearthed.

    “I have very deep misgivings about the institutional response of the FBI to the congressional investigation into the Hillary Clinton email matter … Put simply: I don’t believe the handling of the material I have by the FBI is ethically or morally right. But my lawyer’s advice — that I simply put my SSA on notice should cover me — is that I have completed CYA [Cover Your Ass], and I have done so,” Robertson wrote. “Further, I was told by [Kramer] that should I ‘whistleblow,’ I will be prosecuted.”

    Not political. Just a group of fine men nd women, selflessly devoted to the pursuit of truth and justice.

    • banginglc1

      Unless people start going to prison, expect more of the same.

      • Drake

        The FBI needs to be completely disbanded and burned to the ground. The same people who sent 15 agents to investigate a garage rope but swear that antifa is just an idea not an actual organization.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Antifa is a floor wax and a dessert topping.

      • invisible finger

        I wonder how many here besides me get that reference.

      • Sensei

        More than you think I’d guess.

      • juris imprudent

        Just ignore the kids on the short side of the generation divide.

      • SDF-7

        I’d tell you, but I’m busy prepping my Bass-o-matic and buying my wife a new bottle of Compulsion> by Calvin Kleen.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. VERY pert posterior.

  27. Rebel Scum

    Tulsi thinks voter fraud is a “serious threat”

    Be still my beating heart.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Trump says Supreme Court pick will most likely be a woman.

    Whoever it is, she dragged me into a room at a party and had her way with me. ///notcomplaining

    • WTF

      It’s a scandal over the NY Times 1619 project which uses falsifications and bullshit to claim that 1619, when the first slaves arrived, was the true founding of the US, and that the revolutionary war was fought to preserve slavery. In the face of pushback from serious historians, the author of the bullshit is trying to memory hole the things she actually said.

      • Drake

        Yes – it’s complete fiction but now lefties want to teach it as history in schools because it fits their narrative.

      • AlexinCT

        Too little, too late…

        How much more damage can it do than the Core stuff they teach today? Like with the nuclear overkill, do you care if you have 10 times the number of bombs needed to wipe life on earth (Core) vs. 20 times (this 1619 shit)? The world is dead anyway..

      • PieInTheSky

        But as the author thinks there is no such thing as objectivity, it does not matter what she said in the past only what she is saying now. The situation is fluid.

      • Drake

        The purpose of at a University was to use logic and objective standards and methods to establish the truth – in history, science, and math. Modern academics have destroyed all that. Now the purpose of the university is indoctrination and credentialing.

  29. Rebel Scum

    Pelosi Discusses Possibility Of Impeaching Trump To Stop SCOTUS Nomination

    *buys popcorn futures*

    This would be funny as hell. Go for it. Impeach the president for doing his literal, constitutional duty.

    • Drake

      President nominating SC Justice during election year = political

      Impeaching a President twice during an election = not political

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “Harvard was previously arrested Sept. 5 on charges of criminal mischief for allegedly hurling a metal bench through a bus window on 8th Avenue and 22nd street, according to sources and records. He was released without bail in that case.”

    No harm, no foul.

  31. UnCivilServant

    Here’s a question for you lot.

    Given A: Federal judicial appointments are for life, and B: the size and number of courts is merely legislatively defined, what happens if congress shrinks or deletes a court? ie “9th circus is too big” or “2nd circus needs to go away”.

    Alternatively, what happens if one congress decides to pack scotus but the next shrinks it back to nine?

    • PieInTheSky

      what happens if one congress decides to pack scotus but the next shrinks it back to nine? – Hopefully the judges fight to the death until the required number is reached. Or they draw straws.

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      A – Hasn’t happened since the Carter administration. IIRC, they set a growth rate of X seats per year or 2 years, starting with the next term, so it looked like expanding the court and not court packing.

      This is desperately needed (the 9th is so big it can’t actually sit en banc when it claims to sit en banc) byw, but neither party is willing to use the above method or suffer the blowback of expanding by a dozen seat and filling them all up right-here-right-now. I think its only a matter of time until we get the second option, but we’ll see.

      Alternatively – no one knows.

  32. Rebel Scum

    4 Voters Claiming NPR as Residence Turn Up in Search of California Voting Records

    C’mon, man. Voter fraud doesn’t exist despite all the evidence it exists.

    • AlexinCT

      That’s the big secret…

      Admitting it exists might prevent the people using it from using it, and will undermine the system, so they pretend it is not happening…

    • AlexinCT

      Eye-talian sausages!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I know Talk Like a Pirate Day just happened recently. Is there some new Talk Like Slow Joe Day movement?

      Maybe this is the new Dem plan. If everyone talks/acts like a senile old coot, then Joe looks normal. This is the “new normal” that everyone has been looking for.

      • AlexinCT

        You might be on to something here….

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        They tried, to limited success. Mark your calendars for Talk like, um uh, You Know, The Thing Day.

  33. Sean

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-high-school-students-college-scholarships-carrying-flags-football-field

    “Moving forward, Little Miami is returning the players to active status and this matter will be addressed as an Athletic Department Code of Conduct issue, with any potential consequences to be handled by coaching staff,” the board said in a statement.

    On Friday, a local non-profit group called “Holiday for Heroes” said it is awarding Williams and Bentley a scholarship for their statement, WJAC-TV reported.

    “Brady and Jarad are true PATRIOTS, they did something last Friday that showed they are far beyond their years,” the group said. “These men stood up for a cause they believe in. As they took the field with flags in hand it reminded us how we felt 19 years ago, heartbroken yet strong and united.”

  34. Tundra

    Pretty interesting take.

    Who killed George Floyd?

    The guy is a former prosecutor, so obviously has his biases, but as usual there is more to the story.

    Not that it will matter. Ellison overcharged, the cops will walk and the city will burn again.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The whole thing has been a shit show. From Ellison stealing the case away from local prosecutors, to over charging, to absolutely sticking their head’s in the sand in regards to the autopsy report.

      Unless you are really paying attention, you haven’t heard about the autopsy report and all the fetynl they found in his system. Regular people are going to be stunned when the cops walk free. They saw the video! Everyone agreed that the cop killed him! What happened?

      And like Tundra said, there will be huge riots. No one in Mpls govt is going to have the stones to deploy the National Guard and stamp the riots out before they can really start rolling.

      • AlexinCT

        I told my Minnesoda girl the day after I saw that horrible event where Floyd was killed that we were missing all the facts but that someone would fuck it up regardless, and the cops would end up walking. She called me a cynic.

    • Homple

      To borrow from dialogue in “The Sun Also Rises”.

      How did your city get burned down?

      Two ways, gradually then suddenly.

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      it is entirely possible that he died of “excited delirium”

      he said the magic word. Any time a screw uses the word “excited delirium” you can stop reading and discard anything the person is saying.

      This is not a medical condition. It is no more real than being possesses by demons, or being a witch. Its an excuse made up by medical examiners to excuse police killings and beatings.

      No doctor will diagnose you with excited delirium. No living person has ever experienced excited delirium. It only has been recorded contemporaneously with police beating, shooting, or asphyxiating someone, usually to death.

  35. Rebel Scum

    Obviously. More people are present at MAGA rallies than watch the emmy’s.

    Kimmel delivered his opening monologue to fake live audience consisting of reaction shots from past Emmy ceremonies, before he eventually revealed that he was speaking to an empty arena at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. When explaining the absence of a live audience, the comedian joked, “This isn’t a MAGA rally. This is the Emmys.”

    • UnCivilServant

      I thought they cancelled that years ago.

      • Not Adahn

        The emmys, or the “blackface/girls on trampolines” guy ?

      • UnCivilServant

        The emmys. It gets so few eyeballs on the screen it should be canned.

      • AlexinCT

        The hoi-pilloi might not watch it, but their betters love it because it is all about how cool they are, so it stays on despite abysmal ratings.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Kimmel is such a douche.

      • AlexinCT

        Sold out to get that pussy of his…

  36. cyto

    This morning NBC finally got around to an RBG memorial (rather than the “Trump is literally Hitler” coverage they had over the weekend). They had several people on to talk about how great RBG was.

    The theme?

    That RBG “paved the way” for women. She brought equality to women.

    WTF?

    All of the people discussing this were in their 50’s and older. Every one of them was around the whole time.

    Sandra Day O’Conner? Never heard of her?

    They made it sound like she was the first female judge in american history, not just the first female supreme court justice. (which she also was not).

    I’m all for speaking well of the dead…. but you don’t have to make stuff up.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      O’Connor didn’t hate the US Constitution so she doesn’t qualify.

      • Tejicano

        O’Connor also bowed out gracefully when she knew her senses would be compromised – maybe a bit early to give the conservative side a shot at replacing her.

        If she had decided to hang on to the bitter end, well, she’s still alive today…

    • robc

      If I recall correctly, there was a movie being made about the first female supreme court justice, then Reagan went and nuked their plotline by appointing O’Conner before it was released.

    • Not Adahn

      but you don’t have to make stuff up.

      *pats Cyto on head*

    • Gustave Lytton

      I think the kernel buried in there is her pre SCOTUS legal career where she worked on a number of equality cases.

    • Rebel Scum

      Truth > Facts

    • AlexinCT

      I can’t believe you are surprised that the left is acting like a bunch of deceptive cunts and that they are completely rewriting history in order to salvage their plan to use the SCOTOS to steal the election in November?

  37. Rebel Scum

    Everything you say is bullshit.

    Hillary Clinton says Senate Democrats “will have to use every single possible maneuver” to prevent Sen. McConnell from enacting “the greatest travesty” and “monumental hypocrisy” in attempting to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s U.S. Supreme Court seat.

  38. Drake

    I avoided the news this weekend for obvious reasons. For some reason, so did Joe Biden.

    The day after RGB died, Biden called it a day at 8:34am.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Well, I’m all tuckered out.”

      Though some have pointed out that with several forms of dementia, suffers will appear their most normal in the early morning and degrade in cognitive ability as the day goes on.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I would have paid top dollar to have seen the presser where the journalos tell Biden about RBG’s death and see his reaction in real time. I doubt it would have been as good as Trump’s reaction.

      Look Fat, I’m waiting to see what the magic typewriter tells me to say! Just hold your horses

      • Apples and Knives

        I like how obviously disappointed the press is by his decent answer. “I saw aides slipping him notes during his speech, he was obviously prepared.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        They don’t even say it was during this speech either

        I have seen White House aides pass the President notes while he is speaking at the podium.

      • Apples and Knives

        Ah, I misread the tweet. At first I thought she was implying that he was lying about not knowing RBG died.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I don’t think you did. I think she was trying to make that implication.

  39. Not Adahn

    So, the Environmental manager is of course completely focused on environmental initiatives, and is convinced that since some knucklehead made the acronym “EHS” that the environment is at least as important and probably more so than Health and Safety.

    So to save the environment and get down to zero waste we’re supposed to wear reusable masks. No motherfucker, if we’re going to perform this bit of theater, you need to provide the costumes.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Masks for covid or clean room?

      • Not Adahn

        Covid. Obviously salable product is more important than anything else.

    • Sean

      Yikes

    • Gustave Lytton

      This is why I buy my coffee already roasted.

    • Pope Jimbo

      S’more Day at work? Lucky dog!

    • Apples and Knives

      I see something like that, I start looking around for the Terminator.

    • cyto

      Is it supposed to do that?

      • Lachowsky

        Hydraulic line under 1500 psi had a pin hole leak that sprayed on the hot bar being rolled through the mill. Fluid ignited, and a fire ball ensued.

        Burned up a couple air line and hydraulic lines.

        Fire was out out and repairs were made. We had the mill back operating in 8 minutes because we are a bunch of grade A on top of shit men in the maintenance department here.

      • UnCivilServant

        Now all I’m wondering is if the pressure behind the oil coming out of that leak would be enough to injure someone by hitting them with the oil alone.

      • Sensei

        Hydraulic fluid can cause people to lose limbs or worse. You don’t realize you’ve been injected by it.

        I forget which additive it is that is that does it.

      • blackjack

        It’s the actual oil itself. It wouldn’t really matter what got injected, it’s all bad for you. It feels like a slight bug bite or maybe a minor pin prick. If you go straight to a hospital and tell them you got injected, you might be OK, it’s the waiting around and deciding that fucks you up. Slightest suspicion, haul ass to the meat repair plant and make it clear what you think happened. The further it flows from the point of injection, the more meat they’re going to have to remove. Scary stuff.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yes

        1500 psi isn’t even that much. 2500 psi is common on construction equipment.

        Direct injection of hydraulic fluid isn’t good for you.

      • Gustave Lytton

        If not by physical impact, the fluid is usually pretty warm. My equipment fears are being stuck in a Bobcat with a ruptured hydraulic line.

      • Lachowsky

        Unless you are right on the leak, likely not. The fluid rapidly loses its pressure when vented to atmosphere.

        That said, my uncle Chris was working on his tractor about 10 years ago, when a leaked developed right next to him. It was spraying him in the face from a foot or so away, so he instinctually put his hand up to block it. He hand got too close to the leak and fluid injucted into his thumb pad.

        He ended up having to have a lot of the meat cut away from his hand after that to stop the necrosis. That was a bad deal.

      • Suthenboy

        When I see hydraulic lines I immediately think “Why isn’t there a shield over that?”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Because they got ripped off ages ago by a shitty operator.

      • blackjack

        This is common among mechanics. We have to find leaks and touch/hold the hoses and lines. When we check for leaks, I use a white sheet of paper. My hand is still close, though. No type of glove is safe enough to comfortably prevent injection. A couple of thousand PSI will cut through just about anything.

        On the trash trucks, the hydraulic system is only pressurized when the pump is running. Kill the pump and wait a minute and there’s very little chance of finding any pressure. Most equipment holds pressure in various places even when shut off. I did find two ways to get sprayed on trash truck, though. The motor contains pressure between the vanes. Take it apart, and it sprays you in the face and almost knocks you off the ladder. The other way is installing a new cart ( the part that grabs the cans) When they rebuild them, they sometimes mix up the order of the hoses. The only way to know is when it won’t work. When you take it apart to fix it, blam!

      • PieInTheSky

        But is your department diverse enough?

      • Aloysious

        Sounds like toxic masculinity.

        /jk

    • Rebel Scum

      Dang.

      I am having a linetype generation issue in CAD today. That is less bad by comparison.

      • UnCivilServant

        I read that as linotype generation issue, and wondered what sort of job you’d need that in CAD for.

      • Walford

        Set all linetype variables to 1.

    • Sensei

      That’ll will buff right out!

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  40. LJW

    “Tulsi thinks voter fraud is a “serious threat””

    I feel like she’s steps away from being Libertarian red pulled.

    • LJW

      Red pilled*

      • cyto

        Seems like it.

    • robc

      We have tried washed up GOP pols, time to move to Dems?

    • Sensei

      That helps explain her untimely passing!

    • cyto

      SGU continues their slide into becoming political. This week they did Qanon.

      With great credulousness, they reported on the vast Qanon network.

      A big focus was the crazy pedo ring… Which was roundly lampooned. Just completely made up. No possible way there could be a group of people around the world….

      Nobody seemed to remember epstein.

      I remember the first go around and the talk to clinton being on the Lolita express 18 times. It got pretty hurried in the press, but after the second round, you would have to know that a bunch of rich and connected people were involved in whatever epstein was doing.

      I am starting to suspect that the crazy conspiracy theory types who claim that Qanon is a false flag operation might be on to something.

  41. Not Adahn

    Question for gun people:

    I had my first stoppage during a match yesterday. Since I was on the clock, I didn’t have time to completely confirm what the problem was but I strongly suspect that it was a jammed follower in the magazine the venue is somewhere between Tombstone and Arrakis when it comes to loose sand and dust on the ground.) I’ve noted it in my shooting log, but do magazine failures count against the gun’s reliability?

    • UnCivilServant

      yes. magazine failures count against the gun because they are part of the mechanism and it’s designed to work with them.

      Anything that stops it from going bang when needed or causes it to go bang when not wanted counts against it, even if it’s a third-party component.

      • Not Adahn

        Until you start shooting again you don’t count as a “gun person.”

        Anything that stops it from going bang when needed

        Obviously untrue, as PEBTAG errors such as failing to load the gun properly, riding the slide stop, or hitting the magazine release don’t count.

  42. KibbledKristen

    Good morning from my 3-hour CLT layover.

    By dog, they better have food & drink on my next flight. Momma needs a bloody mary.

    • Tundra

      They won’t. Get your bloody at the bar there and carry it on.

      • KibbledKristen

        I bet the flight attendants are loving it. On my way from DC, they got to sit for almost the whole flight!

        Looks like I can get booze “on request”. No food.

        The timing sucks, because I don’t think I’ll be able to get a Whopper before boarding

      • Gustave Lytton

        ?? No all day Whopper there?

      • KibbledKristen

        Dunno…thought they started serving burgers at, like 10:30

      • AlexinCT

        I was told this weekend when I flew Delta booze was no longer sold or allowed on the flights. They now allow you to bring your own meal & drinks, as long as you overpay for the crap at the airport, but no booze….

      • Raven Nation

        Unrelated: Tundra was it you who mentioned the name of an OTC for vertigo a week or two ago? If so, can you please remind me of its name.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not Tundra, but maybe meclizine aka Bonine and Dramamine All Day?

      • Tundra

        Yep. Meclizine. I take 50mg (two tablets) if I feel an episode incoming.

        Dramamine does nothing (Dimenhydrinate)

        Now, mine is related to an inner ear thing, so ymmv.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dramamine All Day is meclizine.

        I take it (or a generic) for motion sickness during flight.

      • Raven Nation

        Thanks all. My MIL suffers from it and I think it’s an inner-ear issue.

      • Tundra

        I’ll mention again that when I am strict low-carb and low or no-booze, the symptoms pretty much disappear.

    • PieInTheSky

      A google search reveals Cross-laminated timber (CLT). I assume it is not the case

      • PieInTheSky

        adding airport to the google search reveals Charlotte Douglas International Airport

        I don’t know who Charlotte Douglas was though.

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  43. Count Potato

    ““The Trump Century, How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever”. On sale tomorrow. A great book by an even greater author. Make Lou NUMBER ONE! Much better than the boring, no new info., Woodward book. Besides, Lou is much smarter and sharper than Bob, by a lot!”

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1308008758031904768

    LOL

    • AlexinCT

      This guy is a troll master…

    • Rebel Scum

      I recall that a wise man once said “Judge me not by the content of my character, but by the color of my skin.”

      Wait. Scratch that. Reverse it.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Judge me not by the content of my skin, but the color of my character”?

      • KibbledKristen

        +Gene Wilder

  44. The Late P Brooks

    The Trump Century

    He’s going to declare himself President for Life!!!!!!!

    *sets hair on fire, runs in circles, jumps out window*

  45. PieInTheSky

    Children of single women who had become mothers by choice were as psychologically adjusted as their peers.

    https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1306970786075475971

    small sample size plus only artificial fertilization… But over all over debates on personality and such, it is still strange to me that some oppose the notion that 2 parents are generally better than one. There are off course exceptions, like abuse and such. But overall, more people to do chores, have income, handle problems, take time off work etc…

    • Mojeaux

      I honestly couldn’t do the parent thing alone, even if I didn’t have to work. It’s all just too much, and my kids are 17 and 14.5.

    • Chipwooder

      In general, a woman who gets pregnant via assisted or artificial methods is going to be well-to-do. Those services are not cheap. So, we’re talking about wealthy women who can afford housekeepers, nannies, etc. Somehow I suspect the outcomes for a child of an 17 year old in a trailer park who drops out of school to work at Dairy Queen after she has her baby aren’t as good.

      • robc

        So, we’re talking about wealthy women who can afford housekeepers, nannies, etc.

        I wouldn’t go that far. My daughter was born via IVF, and it was expensive, but we can’t afford that stuff.

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      Let me guess, no adjustment for SES?

      • PieInTheSky

        it is hard to adjust a sample size of 44.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        They could have compared the treatment group to a control group that matches SES. But they didn’t. From a quick skim of the paper, they didn’t even address the issue (were they unable because their data didn’t report it, or did they not even try?)

        Erryone knows that as SES increases, the negative impact on single parenthood decreases but never disappears.

        Given that, the last line of the abstract, which the jouno is probably basing his take away on, is unsupported.

        Should be edited to:

        The findings suggest that the presence of two parents—or of a male parent—is not essential for children to flourish for families formed by women with means and desire to accessof donor-conceived children born to single mothers by choice, and add to the growing body of evidence that, for some families, family structure is less influential in children’s adjustment than the quality of family relationships. More research is required to determine if these results generalize to other family structures.

    • juris imprudent

      Hey, when the narrative demands that men are not essential to family life…

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Fire was out out and repairs were made. We had the mill back operating in 8 minutes because we are a bunch of grade A on top of shit men in the maintenance department here.

    Such toxic.

  47. DWB

    The spirit of Franco — still alive?

    “The regional chief of Madrid requested on Monday help from the army to fight the coronavirus surge in and around the Spanish capital where local authorities have ordered a partial lockdown of some poorer areas, prompting protests during the weekend.

    “We need help from the army for disinfection … and to strengthen local police and law enforcement,” Isabel Diaz Ayuso told a news briefing after meeting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in an attempt to reduce contagion in Spain’s worst-hit region.”

    • juris imprudent

      help from the army for disinfection

      Sounds like they’re looking for

      [dons sunglasses on large rocky head]

      a cleansing.

    • banginglc1

      We do need to find a way to get fat pigs back… lean pork sucks.

      • Tundra

        Let them forage and feed them food scraps instead of grains.

        Hell, in the old days they ate shit!

      • UnCivilServant

        If you really want fatter pigs, start raising then and breed for lard.

      • Count Potato

        That’s why they stopped. The lard market fell.

    • Drake

      What a crock – those are dairy cows in the Brit picture. I can drive over to a dairy farm on the other side of town and take a similar picture of cows grazing in a nice field with scenic hills in the background.

      • UnCivilServant

        I frequently pass dairy cows in fields when I get out of the city. They look a lot like the herd on the british hillside there.

      • Tundra

        It’s a load of shit pushed solely by the fucking vegan activists.

        Even the ‘feedlot’ cows here spend 90% + of their lives on pasture.

        Monocropping is far more destructive to the planet, but hey we can’t talk about that.

        I’ve recommended it before, but the book Sacred Cow is a really good deep dive into regenerative agriculture.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    White supremacist propaganda

    The 1776 Commission is a bad idea in the hands of a hyper-partisan President. By folding our education into the culture wars that the President hopes will get him reelected, Trump will turn the research and pedagogy of academia into more fodder in the partisan wars of Washington.

    President Cartoon Villain wants to destroy serious scholarship and prevent honest academics from seeking to better understand our world.

    • PieInTheSky

      something something projection.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      By folding our education into the culture wars

      Who in the fuck are we talking about here? That’s got to be the most self-unaware statement I’ve heard since… well since yesterday at least.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Plato literally spinnin in his grave right now, shaking his cane at all the down-tempo music we let our soldiers listen too.

      • Chipwooder

        It’s not a culture war when the left does it, silly man.

  49. PieInTheSky

    -People in their early 20s feel slightly older than their true age

    -30 year olds still feel in their mid-20s

    -40 year olds feel about 30

    -50 year olds feel like their in their late-30s

    -70 year olds feel like they’re about 50

    https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1307789903632175106

    Not me. I feel older than I am.

    • Lachowsky

      I’m 33 and still feel 23 most of the time.

      • PieInTheSky

        That is, as I told you before, because you have insufficient student debt. Buy a new Porsche or something to rack up some.

      • Lachowsky

        I bought a newish truck earlier this year, but I’m way rightside up on it.

    • Pine_Tree

      I’m 49 and feel like I’m about 24-25. Except that I’m a lot smarter than when I was actually that age.

      • EvilSheldon

        Pretty much this.

        We’ll reevaluate when I start going bald and my weiner stops working.

    • Mojeaux

      -50 year olds feel like their in their late-30s

      15 or 20, depending on how stupid I was that day.

    • Count Potato

      “Not me. I feel older than I am.”

      That’s because you’ve been the same age for hundreds of years.

  50. Mojeaux

    Mornin’, Banjos. Mormin’, Glibs.

    I am running an hour behind this morning. I thought I got up at 7:30, did my morning routine, got to my desk and saw a bazillion comments and went, “In 45 minutes?! Don’t they work?!” then realized it was an hour later than I thought. Thus, I am highly discombobulated and unregulated.

    Cobra Kai is GREAT.

    Tulip, could you email me? moriah at moriahjovan dot com. Thanks!

    • Tulip

      E-mailed. Subject line ‘hi mojo’

      • Mojeaux

        And back. Thanks!

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

    • Tulip

      I watched the first season of Cobra Kai, I don’t get the love. I watched the whole first season because so many of you seem to love it, and…it’s just not for me.

      • Mojeaux

        Mr. Mojeaux said, “This is painful to watch,” which is true because it speaks to anybody who feels down’n’out and like their classmates got so much farther, especially if you peaked in high school (I didn’t, but I went far away to college and my friends cut me off and then I ghosted them when they came looking for me years later).

        But I can see why it’s off-putting. Everybody’s an asshole and/or just have their weaknesses and they don’t communicate.

      • Tulip

        And Johnny was apparently frozen before this movie. He’s never heard of plantains, doesn’t know what Facebook is, can’t turn on a computer – yeesh!

      • banginglc1

        I called that out too . . .I mean I don’t know if there is anyone under 80 that can’t turn on a computer.

      • Tulip

        I could go on about other stuff that ruined it for me, but I don’t want to yuck someone’s yum. So, not for me.

      • Mojeaux

        Well, yeah, but I willingly suspended my disbelief for that.

      • Tulip

        And you get to do that, And I am glad you’re enjoying, but it’s not working for me. Not because it’s ‘uncomfortable’, but because I don’t think the the two men are actually acting like real people, etc. I thought the kids are well drawn, but I don’t care about teen drama these days.

    • Tundra

      I agree with the guy. Cuomo is lying.

      Why would you even own fake weights?

      Why would you get fake tits?

      Instagram, of course!

      • Count Potato

        Chris Cuomo has fake tits?

    • PieInTheSky

      Ask Jeff Cavalier that

    • Scruffy Nerfherder
      • PieInTheSky

        you need a jawzrsize to compensate for the dynamic inertia

    • Drake

      I’ve seen a few like this guy who are outrageously strong for their size. But I suspect Cuomo is a fake.

      • invisible finger

        Perhaps retard strength

    • juris imprudent

      So he’s just as strong as he is intelligent.

    • Tulip

      He’s dumb and insecure and wants everyone to think he’s just awesome (see him appearing naked behind his wife when she was being interviewed). Poor guy, we just think he’s dumb , insecure, and annoying.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Why would you even own fake weights?

      Because my wife won’t touch Shake Weights for some reason.

    • invisible finger

      At least Chicago is safe.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Baron von Munchausen, to the white courtesy phone

    A Connecticut Democrat announced on Sunday that she had been diagnosed with coronavirus.

    Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) tweeted that she would quarantine for two weeks after testing positive following several unsuccessful attempts to get tested.

    “This morning I received a positive COVID-19 test result and will be quarantined for the 14 days,” she wrote. “After going to 2 urgent care centers yesterday, I finally got an appointment at a 3rd site and was tested this morning.”

    “I have taken every possible precaution and still contracted coronavirus,” she added.

    Hayes said she was asymptomatic, other than some breathing issues, but said her experience and that of her staff “underscore the need for a nat’l testing strategy with a coherent way to receive speedy, accurate results. This level of anxiety and uncertainty is untenable.”

    Wish, fulfilled.

    Commence political grandstanding.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This level of anxiety and uncertainty is untenable

      Oh fuck off

      • prolefeed

        “We need to trample all over the Constitution because I am, at worst, mildly sick, and yet, despite the evidence, I am scared shitless that I’m gonna die!”

      • invisible finger

        I’m scared shitless that she isn’t going to die.

    • Sean

      I will not be tested under any circumstance. She can fuck off with that national testing bullshit.

    • cyto

      Funny, down here in Florida where we have a Republican governor anyone can simply drive to a testing center and get tested and get the results back that day. For free.

      It has been this way since last spring.

      of course, much of that time you had to get an appointment because there were so many people going for tests. That has not been the case for a month and a half.

    • Pope Jimbo

      pshaw. Local Minnesoda politician runs laps on your sob story.

      The moment he felt a slight itch in his throat, state Rep. Fue Lee worried he might have caught COVID-19.

      Days earlier, the Minneapolis Democrat had gathered with family to mourn his brother-in law, who had died of an undiagnosed heart condition. Lee and many relatives tried to take the proper precautions, wearing masks indoors and spreading out in a living room and garage to maintain space as they helped the grieving family process the death. But that Sunday, a small number of elders had dismissed the guidance, gathering around a table to talk and eat without face coverings.

      Hours after the scratchy throat appeared, a fever set in. With an August legislative session a day away, Lee sought a test. He brought along his elderly parents, who had both developed coughs. All three tested positive. They returned home to isolate, but it was too late. More than 20 members of his family, including a 9-month-old niece, would test positive in the days and weeks that followed.

      You really have to read between the lines to figure out that none of the infections led to death.

      • Pope Jimbo

        At the bottom of the story (way after the boilerplate on how this affects minorities way harder and it is totes racist to think of ending Gov Walz’s one man rule) are these details:

        Lee, who is 29, escaped the worst of the virus’ effects. After a few weeks of symptoms, he is on the mend. His partner, who also tested positive, recovered too, as did her child. And efforts to curb the spread within the family after the first positive diagnoses did seem to help. By wearing masks at home, his sister and her husband were able to protect their 4-year-old, who has a pre-existing condition that makes him more susceptible to a serious case.

        Some relatives did experience severe illnesses, leaving the family shaken. His parents were both hospitalized, with his 76-year-old father returning twice for medical care. A sister-in-law was readmitted after her symptoms worsened earlier this month, but she has since been released home. Another relative, who had brain cancer, died soon after the virus spread through the family. They still aren’t sure if the coronavirus contributed to her death. The uncertainty, including about the health of his young niece, and the inability to visit ailing family members in person at the hospital caused extreme stress.

      • cyto

        “partner”

        With the rampant PC it has become expected that everyone adopt this nomenclature.

        My wife is no longer my wife. She is my partner. Wife is becoming offensive.

        Normal people look at you like you are crazy if you don’t call your husband your husband. But that is unreasonable, I suppose.

      • PieInTheSky

        My wife is no longer my wife. She is my partner. – does this mean you can bring a junior partner in, expand the business?

      • cyto

        Pbbbt…. Those women in sports illustrated are not even attractive… In fact, I don’t even notice other women at all…

        What are you even talking about? The lovely woman in my life doesn’t even look fat in that tank top, no matter what size it is. How can you even suggest such a thing?

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        I like the way you think.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        My wife is no longer my wife. She is my partner. Wife is becoming offensive.

        Marriage is beyond just old fashioned. It’s evil now. Its a part of the coordinated campaign to eradicate the nuclear family. We cant have terms and institutions that legitimize the family as the foundational social unit. No, marriage must be degraded until it is just shacking up with additional paperwork.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        I’m not admitting anyone is my partner until the government meets its evidentiary burden in front of a jury.

    • invisible finger

      ““I have taken every possible precaution and still contracted coronavirus,” she added.”

      Perhaps the precautions are no good.

      Or perhaps she missed one of the precautions: shutting the fuck up.

  52. PieInTheSky

    “After subjecting more than 10,000 people to knowledge-based questions about the state of the world, Hans Rosling found that, on average, activists had a less accurate picture than the general public of the very issue to which their activism is devoted.”

    https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1307808768747397120

    • cyto

      This proves that all of those conservative a-holes are a bunch of Rush Limbaugh bots.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Activists are bone-crushingly stupid in general.

      They learn how to agitate, not form cogent arguments.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    “After subjecting more than 10,000 people to knowledge-based questions about the state of the world, Hans Rosling found that, on average, activists had a less accurate picture than the general public of the very issue to which their activism is devoted.”

    Impocerrous!

    • PieInTheSky

      Are you sure that is spelled with 2 r?

    • creech

      “What’s A Leppo?”

      • UnCivilServant

        “Ain’t those those people who shed body parts?”

  54. prolefeed

    “Beijing maintains it does not engage in intellectual property theft.” – say what you will about the chicoms, they know how to tell a joke

    They are international socialists. They believe that the entire world will eventually be run by them. They believe that all the people and all the property in the world belong to the CCP, and that there are some renegade areas, such as the U.S., where their rightful rule is being denied.

    So, they feel they can’t steal what is already theirs.

  55. Pope Jimbo

    I hear a lot of yapping around here about various pizza related things, but that is all it seems to be. Yapping. For people who seem to care soooooo much about the proper pizza I don’t see anyone doing anything about it.

    You want to see real pizza true believers? Look no further than these Minnesoda men:

    An argument over how to cook frozen pizza prompted a fight involving three men who had been drinking the early morning of Aug. 22.

    Jesse Ray Frey, 35, of Blue Earth, first threw a bottle at a man, tried to spit on him, then choked him, a court complaint alleges. Holden Kelly Tesch, 26, of Elmore, then allegedly punched Frey in the head and face multiple times.

    Frey had serious injuries, including a broken nose and broken eye socket.

    Broken eye sockets over frozen pizza. The bar has been set for you pine apple warriors.

    • UnCivilServant

      Look, the fact that it was a frozen pizza already tells us how little regard they have for pizza as an art.

      • AlexinCT

        I am angry nobody was killed for that frozen abomination!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Next time you are in Minnesoda, try Heggies. Pretty good for frozen pizza. Made in a town halfway between the Twin Cities and Fourscore’s compound.

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s tough to care about a bunch of bums fighting over half a bottle of Wild Eye. It’s also tough to care about this.

    • prolefeed

      The best pizza is made in Rome, using virtually anything except red tomato based sauce – potatoes, artichokes, ham, you name it, they make it – as a topping, and sold by weight.

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re even more wrong than the frozen pizza people.

      • robc

        Pizza is better the further you get from Rome.

        I have spoken.

      • PieInTheSky

        I disagree. Most pizza around here is not better and going further to Moldova or Ukraine does not improve it

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t worry, robc is often wrong.

      • UnCivilServant

        And? I don’t think what you want really weighs heavily on anyone.

      • Pope Jimbo

        What?!

        That’s an extra tithing for you UCS

      • UnCivilServant

        You haven’t paid any of the previous ones yet.

    • Chipwooder

      I’m at a loss – there’s another way to cook frozen pizza than putting it in the oven?

      • UnCivilServant

        Sous Vide.

        It may be hard to find the right cooking vessel and vacuum machine for it…

      • cyto

        Wow. That would be epic grossness.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Regular heat, or broiler?

        On a stone, on foil, or on a rack?

        Temp?

        Those are the only three questions I can think of.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, I know, one of them wanted to throw it on the grill, another complained that they over-grilled everything, and a third wanted them to remove the plastic before cooking.

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, Bethesda is known for bugs and crashes.

      They should fit in well with MicroSoft.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They are also known to release an unfinished game knowing the community will complete it for them via mods.

      • kbolino

        Nowadays, Microsoft has fewer bugs than they have stupid design decisions that you can’t work around easily. To this day, there is no consistent way to manage all settings in Windows. Some things are in the “new” UI from Windows 8, some things still live only in the classic Control Panel, and some things have either never lived in any easily accessible place, or been removed from such a place, and live only in Group Policy, the registry, or some obscure command line tool. And for whatever inarticulable reason, both lusrmgr.msc and editing ACLs in Windows Explorer are locked in “Home” editions of Windows, because apparently you need to be locked out of the things that let you solve the weird problems that occasionally arise so that your end experience is “easy”.

    • PieInTheSky

      I should have bought stock a few weeks ago but it does not seem to be publicly traded

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Christ

    • robc

      I looked up the location of the bar yesterday after hearing about it. It was not in a neighborhood I would have expected.

      • Drake

        That’s the idea.

  56. Gustave Lytton

    Scroll down two because Twitter is shite and won’t cough up a direct link to a reply in a thread.

    https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307902986492850178?s=20

    Allegedly threw a bottle. I’m skeptical. What isn’t allegedly is the paintball gun and spotlighting. Fuck it. I’m through with proportional response to these vermin. I’m ok with the resident shooting every one of these people, including the ones “who aren’t doing nothing”. Don’t like it, don’t associate with criminals.

    • cyto

      I thought throwing bottles was completely peaceful and did not justify a response?

      • Sean

        Someone’s been paying attention.

  57. AlexinCT

    Been ranting forever here about how the ivory credentialed but absolutely inept and vile aristocratic elite class hate Trump, primarily because he is an existential threat to their efforts to make this a hereditary aristocracy, and that the shit right now is because they want to make sure someone like him never threatens them again, but this is a great talk about it.

  58. creech

    “US farming is tasteless, toxic and cruel – ”
    You forgot, damaging the environment and supporting greedy capitalists. I’m “reliably” informed that it takes 95 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. Let’s see, 95 gallons of water weighs about 790 lbs., so not only is our precious water being stolen from mother earth, but some greedy beef processors are stealing 789 pounds of beef for every one pound they put on the supermarket shelf. I wonder how many gallons of water went in to raising Greta Thunberg?

    • cyto

      They should just put it all in a land bank

      • cyto

        For those who missed the reference, Biden was asked about the impact of regulations on farmers income in the CNN “town hall”

        His answer? Well, he’s going to guarantee farmers ways to make money, like putting land in a land bank where they will be paid to take the land out of production and make it into a natural area that everyone can enjoy. (Now, what does producing less food do for the economy and the world again?)

        He also talked about paying farmers to produce crops that take carbon out of the air (yes, said unironically) and something about turning manure into pellets.

        It was almost inscrutable because he lost his train of thought in the middle of sentences over and over again. But the overarching point was “I will mitigate the impact of regulations with the introduction of more regulations and subsidies”

        If anyone at all had been paying attention for the last 4 years (plus the last 30 before that), this election would be over with that one simple question.

    • Lachowsky

      Once water is consumed by a bovid, it is gone from the earth forever and will never again be recycled back into the environment. Bovid stomachs contain a portal to another dimension where the water is dumped.

      • creech

        I just knew there had to be some scientific explanation!

  59. Lachowsky

    Talking with a few guys at work today, and we are of the opinion that it will be at least February of 2021 before all the lawsuits from the coming election are settled and the Supreme Court decides who the next president is.

  60. juris imprudent

    This is pretty good – mastering Xi Jinping Thought!

    There is a fundamental incompatibility between these two goals: One cannot simultaneously have world-class universities and rigid ideological servitude. Nowhere is this contradiction more glaring than in this course on Xi Jinping Thought, which gives a global community of learners an unprecedented opportunity to observe the poverty of China’s state-enforced ideology. It comes across as a cash-rich North Korea.

    • kbolino

      a cash-rich North Korea

      Well, cash-rich described North Korea itself in the 1960s when it was flush with subsidies from the USSR and the PRC and it was rebuilding the completely devastated economy of half of Korea into an industrial behemoth. But the rigid ideological adherence left it unable to cope with the global economic changes that happened in the 1970s and, instead of adapting, they doubled down and turned into a cult of personality around Kim il-sung. China is richer today than North Korea was then, and who knows where the global economy will be in 20 years, but wherever it will be China will be out of step with it.

    • Hyperion

      But how else can we let stupid people pretend like they’re smart? Just explain that, mister!

  61. The Late P Brooks

    Once water is consumed by a bovid, it is gone from the earth forever and will never again be recycled back into the environment. Bovid stomachs contain a portal to another dimension where the water is dumped.

    *nominates Lachowsky for Nobel prize*

    • Hyperion

      I knew cows are evil, I can see it in there eyes.

  62. Tundra

    Lach, if you are still around, one of my fabricators told me this morning that steel lead times are stretching out. How far down the chain is the affecting? Are you guys keeping up?

  63. cyto

    Speaking of farming… There actually is a transformative event coming that will have a huge impact on our farmers. Genetic engineering is about to unlock some amazing improvements in plants. They are working on things like putting C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways together in the same plants, introducing regulatory pathways for stomata in dry adapted plants to crop plants, nitrogen fixation genes, a slew of others. The net result may be a doubling or tripling of the per-acre productivity of crops while simultaneously reducing the need for water and fertilizer.

    Should this actually come to pass, there will be a major impact on the market for farm products.

    We will need to make major changes… opening foreign markets to US produced bio-engineered food products, removing regulatory impediments to food exports, etc. Even with this, we may come to a point where farming profitably becomes more difficult, even as the cost of food production drops.

      • Hyperion

        If you think fracking triggers the progtards, wait until you tell them abou this.

    • Hyperion

      Franken Fruit! Oh noes! We gonna kill us all, ones left from the Trump virus, derpity derp blop blurp!