Monday Morning Links

by | Sep 28, 2020 | Daily Links | 386 comments

Good morning My Glibs and Gliberinas!  And what a beautiful morning it always is!

 

The late September surprised dropped and Trump is an even badder ass than we thought having managed to avoid paying taxes.

 

The NYT “Expose” reveals no Russian links, no illegality, and admits the left will be “unfulfilled” by the report.  Womp Womp.

 

Ilhan Omar allies caught in ballot harvesting operation.

 

Biden’s bid to oust Ukraine prosecutor followed by intense pressure by Burisma.

 

Graham teases major bombshell.

 

Trump’s former campaign manager hospitalized after having a mental breakdown.

 

Amy Coney Barret’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to start October 12th.

 

Good, now let’s make that streak permanent by leaving.

 

How long before this is implemented for the rest of CA?

 

That’s all I got for the day.  I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.

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Banjos

Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

386 Comments

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Growing up, my favorite checkout line candy was the Nestle Chunky.

    • Swiss Servator

      *squints suspiciously*

    • Sean

      Junior Mints. Fight me.

      • banginglc1

        Fun hunting trick. Buy some Junior Mints if you have new deer hunter in your group (works especially well with kids) and have someone put junior mints on the ground before you head out with the new hunter. Stop at them and point at the deer “scat.” Pick one up, put it in your mouth and start chewing. “Tastes like a buck, a large one. Probably a 10 point.” and have fun with the reaction.

      • UnCivilServant

        Until your ‘friend’ puts out some giraffee droppings instead.

      • straffinrun

        Chocolate covered toothpaste drops. Yummy.

      • Sean

        I also had a misguided Skor bar phase.

      • straffinrun

        Heath’s slutty sister.

      • Not Adahn

        Is that why Skor is so much better than Heath?

      • Sensei

        I LOL’d.

    • straffinrun

      Sounds like you had a battle with a Nestle Chunky last night. Turned out alright, I assume.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh I’m still wrasslin’ that kidney gumball.

      • straffinrun

        Let’s do a Glib’s gender reveal party for it when it comes.

      • Sean

        *mixes the Tannerite*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        What gender is hard and spiky?

      • UnCivilServant

        So you’re saying it’s a boy libertarian?

    • Agent Cooper

      MIne was “Mars’s Get Fat and Die Young”

  2. Ted S.

    That’s all I got for the day. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.

    So you’re going to have fun tonight?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Why does that song come with an “inappropriate for some viewers” tag?

      • Sean

        Odd.

      • Ted S.

        The topless girl at 1:18?

      • Rhywun

        I will forever not know. Can’t sign in.

  3. Sean

    Mornin’ Banjos.

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  4. banginglc1

    I really don’t understand the left’s fascination with Trump’s tax returns . . .I’ve known people who’ve been shrieking over it since before the last election. I don’t care. Unless the IRS finds some sort of fraud, I don’t need to know anything about any politicians taxes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I don’t either. Trump is not advocating to take more of your income, so why is it relevant how faithful a payer he is?

    • Sean

      It’s a distraction from all the crimes on the left. Somewhere it must have tested well in a focus group.

      • Ted S.

        Sure. Look how much of politics is “That person/business/group over there has a big pile of money, and that’s not fair!”

      • banginglc1

        Funny enough, the one’s I know that are most concerned with it are my rich friends. And when I say rich, I mean trust fund kids, not people who earned their own money.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s because trust fund kids are usually more concerned with social signaling than anything else.

      • Ted S.

        There’s the similar “Those people/businesses have a bunch of money so they don’t deserve constitutional rights”. Both are things the “news” media like to push and keep people panicked.

    • SDF-7

      I think they have it in their heads that “The right voted for him because he said he was a successful businessman (those who aren’t racist, sexist deplorables of course). So if we show he isn’t as rich as he says, no one will vote for him!”

      Maybe in the run up to 2016 it would have swayed somebody… but at this point, I wouldn’t expect it to mean anything on either side. The left already has their demented caricature fixed firmly in their collected mindset, Trump’s supporters already roll their eyes and what they see as harmless lies when he does/did lie, and most other folks have other reasons.

      But like Rooshia… they just can’t seem to let it go.

    • Rhywun

      I wonder who the wizards at the NYT have chosen to take the fall for this obviously illegal activity.

      • Pine_Tree

        I think they’re betting (see the Omar and Crossfire Hurricane things) that nobody is going to have to take any fall, regardless of the illegality of it. Why on earth would they expect the law to be enforced?

      • Rhywun

        Yep. They have reason to be supremely confident.

    • Lackadaisical

      Unless the IRS finds some sort of fraud, I don’t need to know anything about any politicians taxes.

      If they find fraudulent tax filings, then you know who to vote for?

    • Chipwooder

      A lot of them swore that, for unexplained reasons, his tax returns would show RUSSIA! involvement.

    • AlexinCT

      I really don’t understand the left’s fascination with Trump’s tax returns . .

      Orange man bad and must go. At any cost. So make up whatever reasons you can to lend your crusade the appearance of not being a witch hunt.

    • Tonio

      It’s the politics of resentment. He’s rich, he should be paying more; therefore he’s somehow cheating. When cornered on this the word “loopholes” will be duly dragged out. Then they get all spluttery if you suggest a flat tax in any form.

    • Charlie Suet

      Statism is a religion. Its adherents can’t acknowledge that the state might fail in any way. Their typical excuse when it does is that not enough money was spent, otherwise all would have worked as planned.

      By not paying as much tax as the left arbitrarily believes they should the rich are depriving the state of its due. Therefore the rich are clearly responsible for the failures of public schooling etc. To believe otherwise would be to acknowledge that the state is flawed. Does not compute.

      They’re not interested in the complexities behind the outcome. They won’t face up to the fact that the tax system isn’t designed to sting everybody for as much money as possible every year.

      Plus TDS obviously.

    • EvilSheldon

      The ‘we’re jealous of rich people’ interest group is an easy win.

      • AlexinCT

        They are jealous of SOME rich people…

        They seem to give the ones that give money to their causes and suck their dicks a pass all the time…

      • EvilSheldon

        Well, those people aren’t really rich…

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Guardian inadvertently finds truth

    There are also large chunks of Trump’s cult who pay little attention to the New York Times or Twitter as it is.

    “Trump’s cult”. Sure. But they’re 100% correct. Sane people don’t give a fuck about the New York Times editorial board’s opinion. Or Twitter.

    All their bleating about Trump and foreign influence is nothing more than a naked attempt by the Guardian to influence our elections. Maybe their news licence should be suspended.

      • Atanarjuat

        The paper printed some of them under the headline “Dear Limey assholes“:

        you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies

        lol

      • leon

        Lection Interference!!

    • banginglc1

      I’m glad Obama didn’t have a cult status at all.

    • Rhywun

      LOL sick burn

    • AlexinCT

      Sane people don’t give a fuck about the New York Times editorial board’s opinion.

      The only people who actually pay attention to the NYT anymore are members of the aristocratic-wannabe, absolutely inept, credentialed elite class. For them the NYT and CNN/MSNBC/PBS/NPR are the only sources of truth and justice, because these shitstains parrot the values they want to push. And they want to make sure the serfs who are getting uppity and pushing back on their malfeasance conform and stop actually ignoring their tantrums.

  6. SDF-7

    Morning, Banjos — re: Berkeley, normally I would have said about 2 years to wend through the CA legislature. But Newsom has apparently decided that’s just so passe… so probably a couple weeks then he’ll rule it by fiat.

    Long past time for Graham and the rest to put up or shut up. The level of corruption and manipulation of the FISA system should make it abundantly clear to anyone with a neuron who actually cared about this country and/or the Constitution that the senior (and almost certainly all mid-level) levels of the FBI are corrupt hacks, that FISA is a sham that doesn’t protect anything and the best thing to do with it it get rid of the whole thing and the surveillance state in general. Since the bureaucrats and intelligence “professionals” would never let that happen, I don’t expect much more than bloviating at this point.

    Watched the Veritas video last night (surprised YouTube hadn’t yanked it immediately). Not surprising in a first generation immigrant community (they touched on that), and I kept thinking “New Tammany Hall” the whole time. Not saying the Feds (because Ellison sure isn’t going to) shouldn’t come down on them like a ton of bricks… just saying it isn’t that surprising. And of course, CA led the way in that all that would be legal if they spun the cash payments to the seniors as “community outreach” or something.

    Ugh… now the vein in my forehead is throbbing. And YouTube is telling me “Dance Hall Days” may be age inappropriate? What? I don’t remember it being “Girls on Film” or anything…
    Not cheery — but I think this feels like my song for the day.

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Why does that song come with an “inappropriate for some viewers” tag?

    Sign in for age verification? I don’t even like that song.

  8. straffinrun

    Previously, the longest period between combat deaths was in 2016, according to Defense Manpower Data Center figures.

    I have an idea how to extend that streak. Also, it’s interesting that The Chaz had more murders of Americans than Afghanistan in that time period.

    • AlexinCT

      You should check out NYC, Chicago, L.A. and other urban warfare zones for numbers that give our wars a run for their money…

  9. Not Adahn

    Criticizing Ilhan Omar is racist hate speech, and everyone knows that Project Veritas is lying ultra-right Proud Boy Nazis.

    /any mainstream media that admits this story exists

  10. The Late P Brooks

    How many people in this country will list the IRS as one of the “1,000 best things bout America”?

    • straffinrun

      How many people work for the IRS?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        People? I think none.

        Now robotic automotons and lizards? I’m not sure.

    • prolefeed

      I’m gonna guess the IRS would fall somewhere on that list above the Commie Cough, but below nonpassable tranny hookers.

      NTTAWWT.

    • AlexinCT

      I list it as the scariest and most dangerous unaccountable entity on the planet.

  11. robc

    For the years in question, I was $750 better at tax avoision than Trump.

    • Trolleric the Goth

      “I don’t say evasion, I say avoision

      • mrfamous

        Is that like when Curly says “aversion”

  12. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    And thanks for all the lynx.

    That Project Veritas video is enraging. Not that they are so brazen about cheating, but that there is virtually zero chance of anything coming of it.

    Fuck.

    Graham teases major bombshell.

    The only ‘day of reckoning’ I’m interested in involves senior people in the O administration going to prison. Of course the odds of that are similar to Keith Ellision prosecuting Omar.

    Good, now let’s make that streak permanent by leaving.

    Amen to that.

    Great song choice! 80s were weird but now look so completely wholesome.

    Have a great day, people! Pretend that you are free and see what happens…

    • Banjos

      Mornin’ Tundra

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      Hello Tundra, I’ve been busy for a few days, and didn’t realize your house and Jimbo’s antics made the news.

      Hope you all had a productive conversation in my absence.

      • mikey

        From second link.
        “He drifted up the Mississippi…”

        How do you drift UP a river?

      • UnCivilServant

        You see, sometimes when the rising waters of the ocean exceeds the height of a river, it will reverse flow…

        Or he was a ‘drifter’ and simple moved in that direction.

      • db

        Climate change?

  13. prolefeed

    “It’s not a ban, it’s a nudge” said the Berkeley city council member about the ban, enforceable by law, on “junk food” in check out aisles.

    Next step: “The ‘nudge’ didn’t work because people are still making choices we disapprove of, buying ‘assault foods’, so unfortunately we’re going to have to ban junk food storewide. Here’s the list of food you’re allowed to sell … for now.”

    • leon

      Then: people are bringing the illegal junk food in from Nevada. We need a Nationwide ban.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        No, a junk food impact fee

      • AlexinCT

        Junk food from Nevada is what is killing Bezerkley kids on the streets!

      • leon

        People are using jawbreakers as blunt weapons?

      • Tonio

        Border checkpoints.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        And a black man gets choked and killed because he is incorrectly assumed to holding loosie Snickers bars.

        Social Justice!

    • Rhywun

      “It’s not a ban, it’s a nudge”

      Rage, building.

    • Breet Pharara

      You can also give people a nudge into a woodchipper. (In the abstract of course, not directed at anyone in particular, it’s a metaphor ect. ect.)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        SOW, Preet has a podcast (looks utterly uninteresting), as does DJT.

  14. The Late P Brooks
    • Ted S.

      Why would that suit Pie’s mood?

    • Ted S.

      I’d think something like this would be more up Pie’s alley.

  15. PBRstreetgang

    I’d swear I read some variation of “Graham teases major bombshell” weekly, and he never delivers.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That closet is hard to get out of.

  16. Rufus the Monocled

    Until I see a politician like Ilhan taken away in cuffs, meh.

    Same with officials who deny HCQ treatment which we know has led to deaths. Those people need a worse fate than just the handcuffs.

    • prolefeed

      I’d settle for handcuffs for the minions caught bragging on tape about ballot cheating.

      Because if nothing happens to them despite that evidence, they’ll get even more brazen about stealing elections.

    • Drake

      From Veritas:

      Paid Voter: “When We Sign The Voting Document and They Fill It Out Is When They Give Us The Money,”… “The Minute We Signed The Thing [Ballot] For The Election. That’s When We Get paid.”

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Shit man, this is my district. I need to figure out where to hang out to get this offer.

    • invisible finger

      George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich went to prison for less. But systemic racism.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Back to the Guardian:

    Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator, tweeted: “He knows better than anyone that there’s one set of rules for the wealthy and giant corporations and another for hardworking Americans – and instead of using his power to fix it, he’s taken advantage of it at every turn.”

    Golly, if only we knew where those dastardly rules came from, and how they came to be…

    *And, of course, the implication that the President has complete and incontestable power to write the tax code in its most minute detail.

    • robc

      I she implying I am not a hardworking American. I mean, she might be right, but its tacky for her to just say it.

      • EvilSheldon

        Particularly since the only thing that Warren has ever worked hard at is power seeking.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      In her defense, if she were President, she would definitely try to.

    • prolefeed

      Clearly, those rules were reinstated * after * Warren’s party repealed all such “loopholes” when they controlled the House, Senate, and White House.

    • Rhywun

      Yeah, do the Dems really want to trumpet how “unfair” the tax code that they’ve had a major hand in manipulating over the last hundred years is…?

      • banginglc1

        “We need to tax the rich more”

        “How dare you get rid of our SALT deduction!”

      • robc

        ^^^most hilarious moment in recent political history^^^

      • robc

        There is a problem with the SALT deduction limit, it added in a new marriage penalty. Both single and married have a $10k limit. If you want to keep the single limit at $10k, then married filing jointly limit should be $20k.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Alternatively, the SALT deduction could just be removed completely. That would be my preferred way to get rid of the marriage penalty.

      • robc

        I am fine with that too. Bump up the standard deduction even more and eliminate itemizing.

      • leon

        Counter, counter proposal. You don’t ever get taxed on money that has already been taxed.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Counter, counter proposal. You don’t ever get taxed on money that has already been taxed.

        Counter, counter, counter proposal. If we’re going down this road, my ultimate preference is that you don’t ever get taxed on money period. Government should be 100% funded through user-fees and perhaps a very small tariff that is constitutionally capped.

      • robc

        Also, they didn’t index it to inflation like with everything else. Same mistake that was made with AMT when it was created. You would think congress would have some of that stuff figured out by now and would stop making those mistakes.

      • Rhywun

        The amazing thing is you can point out that going back to the old rules only helps those who earn more than $125K and they don’t care. They just keep pushing it. I mean, they have their other bases that vote for them like 90% so why not??

      • leon

        Seeing the high tax jurisdictions beg for the wealthy to move back is also funny.

      • Rhywun

        While simultaneously telling them “good riddance”.

        It’s fucking amazing how they get away with that.

      • UnCivilServant

        “This just proves that the rich aren’t paying their ‘fair share’.”

        /dem

      • Breet Pharara

        “Fair Share” being defined as he should pay more than he currently is and I should pay less than I currently am.

  18. straffinrun
    • UnCivilServant

      “I hate these themed cafes.”

      • Sensei

        Have you ever been to straff’s favorite meidokisa?

        Oshiku nare!

      • UnCivilServant

        What’s that in English?

      • Sensei

        Become delicious.

        What some maids say when they bring your food.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Maid cafe. Kissatan = cafe/tearoom/coffee shop. Typical Asian conjunction of the first two syllables of successive words.

      • Not Adahn

        straff’s favorite meidokisa

        That’s the one with the mirrored floor, right?

    • Drake

      Pod people?

    • Tres Cool

      “Who used all the saran wrap?”

    • blighted_non_millenial

      Jesus wept.

      That’s my go to caption these days.

    • Sensei

      Life in the liberal bubble.

    • B.P.

      I’m sorry, the card says ‘Moops’.

      • Sensei

        I loved the very end where George pops the bubble accidentally.

  19. robc

    People criticizing the tax returns are people who have never started a business.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Also, whoever wrote the NYT article has never written before…what a mess. It’s such a slog to get through and it’s just jumping around forward and backwards in years. It works in that it fires up the left, but if you are trying to draw any conclusions about Trump’s income or wealth, good luck.

      • Rhywun

        what a mess

        That’s pretty standard across the MSM now. Your recent college graduates, America.

      • Atanarjuat

        I think it might have something to do with the newspapers having lost a bunch of revenue, too, so they can’t afford good talent. And in a feedback loop, as the quality declines, more subscribers will leave.

        Plus the whole hiring people who meet superficial diversity quotas and say the right buzzwords.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Within the first week of working at an undisclosed location:
        “If you ever write as poorly as a journalist, I’m going to fire you.”

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “It’s not a ban, it’s a nudge” said the Berkeley city council member about the ban, enforceable by law, on “junk food” in check out aisles.

    That’s what they said about masks, and social distancing, bometimes you just have to nudge really hard to get your preferred level of obedience.

    • prolefeed

      Sometimes the nudge is at bayonet point.

  21. straffinrun

    And Mornin’ Banjos.

    • Banjos

      Mornin’

    • Atanarjuat

      What are they fighting over?

      One of the tweets below that showed video of a drone getting a direct hit on a tank hidden behind an Earth been, with this comment:

      2 lessons learned from the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict:
      1) 2nd Generation armor has no place on the modern battlefield. Deathtraps.
      2) Large scale drone warfare has arrived and it’s highly effective.

      • Atanarjuat

        *berm

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not a tread head, but my understanding is that tanks are more protected from direct ground threats than aerial or indirect attack. Not sure if the footage is also the aiming point but looks like they’re keeping it centered on the engine compartment.

    • Swiss Servator

      The Great Twitter War.

    • db

      Since when has this been going on? What the hell is Armenia doing invading Azerbaijan? Why TF would Turkey get involved, other than to make their annual “Armenian genocide? what, little old us?” shtick look even more threadbare?

      • Chipwooder

        Yes. This is a conflict that goes back a long time. They fought a war over the region starting in 1988 when both were still in the Soviet Union.

      • Rhywun

        And the Azeris are like Turkish cousins, I think. Not to mention co-religionists. No surprise they’re dipping their toes in.

      • Lackadaisical

        ^this.

        I’m rooting for Armenia, but I expect them to lose badly.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      t-72’s? meh

      • db

        Took a bath on that deal.

      • robc

        That’s what I’m talking about, kid, we could be working together again, for God’s sake! You know, making big money, killing important people!

      • db

        Yeah, well, I’m out, so don’t pop me with your dirty guild.

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      You guys remember when it was totes ok to drone civilians because the US was the only country with drones and they’ll never target their own civilians so we are all like safe and stuff.

      Good Times…..

  22. The Late P Brooks

    When cornered on this the word “loopholes” will be duly dragged out. Then they get all spluttery if you suggest a flat tax in any form.

    Exactly. What we REALLY need is a panel, composed of Wise Men Human Entities, who will be tasked with looking deeply into your soul in order to assess your appropriate contribution to society.

    • leon

      It’s easy. If your still above the poverty line, then you still owe your fair share.

      Unless if you work for government.

    • Tejicano

      “Human Entities”

      There you go flaunting your cro-magnon privilege over us Neanderthals (one drop rule).

  23. Surly Knott

    Music theme for the year. Probably next year, too.

    • Rhywun

      “This Corrosion” works too but somebody played it last week.

      • Surly Knott

        I really like the line “love lost, fire at will, dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill” but the real impetus for this is ‘the death of empires’.
        Some scoffed when, early on, I described this as ‘watching a civilization commit suicide’ but I think we’re well underway.

  24. Certified Public Asshat

    Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children. They "civilized" these "savage" children in the "superior" ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. https://t.co/XBE9rRnoqq— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) September 26, 2020

    I’m sure this was discussed over the weekend, but holy shit.

    • leon

      The guy is a horrible person who advocates for racism. It would seem it shouldn’t be hard, but the left seems unable or unwilling to disown the part of the left that likes him.

    • Rhywun

      I expect nothing less from that POS. What a hateful person.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      NPR’s new favorite asshole. Ta-Nehisi Coates must be pissed someone took his title.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      CNN spokesperson Richard Spencer retweeted it in agreement (no shit). Ibram X needs to disavow.

      • Rhywun

        Birds of a feather….

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      JFC. One of my “black-and-brown” friends was literally found in a dumpster as an infant and adopted by a US white family through missionaries. She’s also a very very progressive voter. I wonder what her take on this is?

      • Lackadaisical

        I wouldn’t be surprised if she has turned against her parents, that is one of the hallmarks of a cult, right?

  25. Not Adahn

    Gun nuts “news”:

    I cannot emphasize enough how much I recommend everyone that is responsible enough to be a gun owner to get a handgun and find a practical shooting club. It’s just an absurd amount of fun. My main regret is that I didn’t start doing this decades ago.

    The other thing is I’ve gone too many years without learning something new and being able to demonstrate to myself that I’m getting better at it. Especially in such an objective way.

    Kayaderosseras had their biggest shoot ever yesterday, nudging up against the state-mandated limit of people on the property. Thy use IDPA scoring, IDPA gun divisions, and other rules that are based around making it easier for the shooter (your foot has to touch the ground completely out of bounds to be out, if you can’t determine which side of the perf a shot hits, score it to the shooter’s advantage, shoot throughs and deflections count for score, etc). My first couple of stages were really sloppy (fast but vast amounts of downs) but then a limited stage force me to chill tf out, and from that point I did well. Like actually won a stage well. Overall, SECOND in SSP, top 10% overall. I was in a non-competitive squad, so I didn’t know how well I was doing until the results got released. For UnCiv: I literally beat Josh . It was bound to happen given the infinite Monkey effect, but that is still a rush.

    The best part ego-wise, was stepping up to the line and realizing that all the chit-chatting had stopped. I don’t think I’ve ever inspired a “hush over the crowd” before.

    • Sean

      Congrats!

    • EvilSheldon

      Very cool. Congratulations on your podium finish!

      • Not Adahn

        I don’t know what happened to him, since he’s a high-B/low A and I’m a low C, but the stage I won I even had a raw time 2.5 seconds faster than him. This was the first time he’s shot iron sights in months, so that probably hurt him dropping the steel at distance.

      • EvilSheldon

        To butcher a classic quote, “On any given stage, any shooter can beat any other shooter.”

        Seriously, don’t talk yourself down by wondering what this Josh dude did wrong. Focus on what you did right.

    • db

      Nice!

    • UnCivilServant

      For UnCiv: I literally beat Josh

      Unpossible.

      • Not Adahn

        IKR? I’m assuming that he must have gotten his slide stop caught in the holster, disassembling the gun during the draw, and forcing him to run around and gather the pieces and reassemble his gun before shooting.

      • Not Adahn

        Oh, and I should clarify, I just beat him on that one stage. He won the overall match (and was competing in SSP ofc.)

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, I thought you’d ranked ahead of him overall.

        Everyone has a bad stage from time to time.

    • DEG

      Excellent!

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Last night I watched Jabberwocky which has just appeared on Prime.

    At one point, the Merchants’ Cartel are plotting to stop the king’s champion from killing the Jabberwock, because having all those terrorized people locked up in the city is good for business.

    It reminded me of something, but I can’t quite put my finger on it…

    • UnCivilServant

      What short term stupidity, they’ll run out of money and then the Marchants’ Cartel will be out of money, and out of business.

  27. leon

    I took a 2 week break from news. Not looking at it, not hearing about it, and not talking about what I did know.

    1. It was amazing. Life is not generally affected by that chicanery going on in DC.

    2. Even with RBGs death, nothing changes. All the same stuff: Trump bad, election etc. Taking a break from news helps you realize how much “being informed” is really just about being trapped in the ride that the corporate press wants to take you down to get who they want elected. It’s not that they are biased. Iam more convinced now that they are prime movers as much as the DNC in getting who they want in office elected.

    • Rhywun

      They are absolutely an arm of the DNC now.

      • Tejicano

        If not an arm I would entertain a discussion about ‘evil twin”

    • The Other Kevin

      I usually try to stay offline on weekends. It’s definitely a good idea.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        This place is my window into the news world. Well, here plus whatever memes my wife sends me plus whatever comes up at work.

        Still, it’s too much.

    • Mojeaux

      I stay away from the news and I’ve snoozed everybody on FB who posts political shit.

      I feel uninformed, that I can’t make a good argument for or against anyone and I want to correct people, but I don’t know if I’m right and I’m too weary and busy to go down rabbit holes like I did when I was younger and on Usenet where “call for references!” was an indictment of your stupidity.

      I also have a brand to protect.

      The raised blood pressure, the spike in adrenalin, the fight-or-flight response complete with nausea, is not my idea of a good time or seeking Zen. Also, I have too much emotional stuff going on that I just can’t spend energy on strangers or even ignorant family/friends. I won’t change their minds by either being calm and presenting facts, or screaming, and I am concentrating on learning how to feel contentedness and acknowledging what it is and being grateful for it.

      Also, I have the attention span of a gnat.

      IOW, except for this place, I don’t know what’s going on and I don’t care.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        The raised blood pressure, the spike in adrenalin, the fight-or-flight response complete with nausea, is not my idea of a good time or seeking Zen. Also, I have too much emotional stuff going on that I just can’t spend energy on strangers or even ignorant family/friends. I won’t change their minds by either being calm and presenting facts, or screaming, and I am concentrating on learning how to feel contentedness and acknowledging what it is and being grateful for it.

        Yep, this is pretty much where I’m at, too. I’m not in a position, mentally, where I need to be looking for a fight.

      • UnCivilServant

        I just calmed down after Tulip accused me of not reading her article just because I made my timeshare decision before points were a thing and didn’t mention that in my reply to someone else.

        I don’t want to deal with someone looking for a fight.

        (I exaggerate. I calmed down a lot sooner, and had a meeting to attend so I had to try to let it go, but I feel wronged.)

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I missed the timeshare article, and good thing because I have some pretty strong opinions about that shithole of an industry, points or no.

      • UnCivilServant

        I find anything that requires a hard sell is not worth it, and likely a scam.

      • Mojeaux

        Mr. Mojeaux likes to go to those seminars for the free stuff. I LOATHE the hard sell, but it’s also easier to say no when you really don’t have any money.

        I finally put the kibosh on going to any more of those because I hate it so much, and they’re always “come as a couple”.

        There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I did one of the seminars. They dropped us in a shitty hotel in Galveston, broke every promise they made, and had the nerve to ask me what I thought of their presentation. I responded with “would it matter if I told you what I actually thought?”

        “not really”

        “OK, I’ll save both of us the time. give me my gift card and I’ll leave”

      • UnCivilServant

        To be clear, I wasn’t saying tulip was looking for a fight, I should have put a more definitive separation between those statements.

      • grrizzly

        I’ve just read Tulip’s article. That was a very interesting review of how timeshares work. I’m familiar with hotel points, there’s some similarity. Good to know there are ways to take advantage of timeshares.

      • Lackadaisical

        I am concentrating on learning how to feel contentedness and acknowledging what it is and being grateful for it.

        Nice. I think being content, or chasing contentment is more meaningful and ends up leading to happiness, whereas chasing happiness leads to being malcontent (and consequently unhappy). Best of luck.

      • Mojeaux

        My therapist told me, “We don’t have problems. We have SITUATIONS.” So I was already on my way to consciously trying to feel content and that really hit home for me.

        I’m not going to lie, though. My medications are really helping me to do this, to NOTICE that I am content and to allow myself to FEEL content. Happiness isn’t the goal (or shouldn’t be). Contentedness is the goal, which paves the way to joy.

        Happiness isn’t on the path to joy. Happiness is a side-show carnival you get distracted by trying to attain.

        And moments of joy are few and far between–which is fine. You appreciate them more.

        I don’t know what I’m really trying to say, but I’m not saying it right. If I didn’t feel my contentedness and consciously be aware of my contentedness, I wouldn’t be able to effectively handle the situation.

        Also, contentedness tempers envy, although I’ve learned that my worst envy is just slight and mostly wistful/melancholy in nature.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I’m not going to lie, though. My medications are really helping me to do this, to NOTICE that I am content and to allow myself to FEEL content. Happiness isn’t the goal (or shouldn’t be). Contentedness is the goal, which paves the way to joy.

        One thing that I’ve really struggled with in adult life was taking the time to notice my contentment (thanks for providing the words that described the feeling, Mo!). Ironically, I have a much harder time doing that now (with an ostensibly lighter load) than I have in the past (when the heavier load necessitated dedicated down time).

        I’ve also noticed an inverse relation between boredom and contentment. The more generally bored I am, the harder it is to take the time to notice my contentment. I feel much more of a need to fill my time with mindless frivolity.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve also noticed an inverse relation between boredom and contentment. The more generally bored I am, the harder it is to take the time to notice my contentment. I feel much more of a need to fill my time with mindless frivolity.

        Well, for me, one thing that makes me notice and feel my contentedness is that now I CAN fill some time with mindless frivolity without guilt because I’ve got most of my ducks in a row. I feel grateful for being able to take the weekend off and play a few games of mah-jongg (solitaire) or do some stitching or watch some TV.

        I feel this is downtime is something I’ve earned, and I am mindful of it and feel grateful for it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hooray for Mojeaux! ?

        Would love to reach In-box Zero, so to speak. Sisyphus wept.

      • DEG

        Well, for me, one thing that makes me notice and feel my contentedness is that now I CAN fill some time with mindless frivolity without guilt because I’ve got most of my ducks in a row.

        Good!

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Would love to reach In-box Zero, so to speak.

        I’ve noticed my stress level correlating with my success at literal inbox zero. I wish it didn’t, but not much I can do about it. I handle uncertainty poorly.

      • Mojeaux

        Would love to reach In-box Zero, so to speak.

        I do that quite often; it’s essential to helping keep me steady about my business.

      • Mojeaux

        All of life’s in boxes.

        Honestly, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I got everything accomplished.

        In fact, that’s a concept I’m playing with with my middle-aged hausfrau vampire story. What do you do when you’ve done everything you can do when you can’t go out in the daytime and your whole family’s dead?

        My vampire works the night shift at QuikTrip, and volunteers at nursing homes.

      • Plisade

        Reminds me of this quote, from “Way of the Peaceful Warrior,”

        “There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It’s all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don’t worry, just be happy. You are already free!”

      • Plisade

        I like the story he tells. Thanks 🙂

      • Mojeaux

        You’re welcome. 🙂 I didn’t learn that stuff in karate. It was a little more Cobra Kai and a lot less Miyagi-do.

  28. Nikkodemus

    I saw this briefly mentioned in a previous thread, but wanted to ask directly….has anyone here seen the latest Biden commercial where he’s giving a speech? If so, did anything strike you as odd about it? The first time I saw it, alarm bells in my head started going off with one word…”deepfake”. It looks just like one. And it’s creepy.

    • Drake

      Tomorrow night should be interesting.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If Biden manages to win we’re going to end up with a Weekend at Bernie’s situation before it’s all over. He looks like death warmed over, so bad that I honestly feel bad for the guy.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, I had an odd reaction to it. I dunno about deepfake, but perhaps heavily edited and then digitally smoothed over? Something seemed a little off, hard to put my finger on.

      Or, confirmation bias.

    • Lackadaisical

      That is just his skin suit shifting slightly over his scales.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    DOOM AWAITS

    In political terms, Barrett is the dream candidate for conservative Republicans and the nightmare candidate for Democrats.

    For Republicans, the 48-year-old judge is a young and personally unassailable nominee.

    A devout Catholic, she is the mother of seven, including a child with Down syndrome and two children she and her husband, Jesse Barrett, adopted from Haiti. She is beloved in her community and by her students at Notre Dame Law School, where she taught for 15 years; she was voted best professor three times and still teaches part time at the school.

    ——-

    Nobody seriously disputes Barrett’s sparkling intellect and qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court. Rather, it is her work on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and her scholarly writing and commentary that have drawn such fervent opposition from the left and support from the right.

    It is the positions that she has taken over the years, from the anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage letter from Catholic women that she signed in 2015, to her judicial decisions since then.

    Barrett has criticized the Supreme Court’s 5-4 and 6-3 decisions upholding key sections of Obamacare. Both were written by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, but in a 2015 interview on NPR, Barrett opined that in her view “the dissenters had the better of the argument.”

    In a lecture at Jacksonville University in 2016 just days before the election, Barrett warned that if Hillary Clinton were elected, the court would experience a “sea change” in ideology. But as Nan Aron, president of the liberal Alliance for Justice puts it, it is Barrett’s ideology that now presents a potential sea change.

    ——-

    Barrett closely identifies with the justice she once clerked for, the late Antonin Scalia, who more than any other justice popularized the idea of originalism, meaning that the court should interpret the Constitution as it was originally intended by the Founders. But Scalia, at the same time, often referred to himself as a “faint-hearted originalist” because he also embraced one of the other building blocks of legal interpretation, namely, adhering to precedent, even when, in his view, some of those precedents conflicted with what the Founding Fathers thought when they ratified the Constitution.

    Judge Barrett’s views on precedent, however, appear to be closer to those of Justice Clarence Thomas, who has little regard for precedent and has urged overturning many long-established decisions.

    She’ll turn the clock back! She’ll put us back in chains. If she is confirmed, America will descend into a feudalist Hellscape.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Judge Barrett’s views on precedent, however, appear to be closer to those of Justice Clarence Thomas, who has little regard for precedent and has urged overturning many long-established decisions.

      If only this were as true as they fear it to be.

      • Nikkodemus

        Whenever I see the word “precedent” used in a political context, it makes me think of the morons at work who say, “Well, we’ve always done it this way!”. And they use it as a way to excuse their incompetence.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        “precdent” is code for abortion rights. Everyone recognizes that the justices just made that shit up out of thin air (including the justices writing Roe – they said it was defined in “penumbras”). So its a sacred blood-ritual super important normal human right that is only protected as long as the SC isn’t willing to actually read the constitution and instead rely on precedent that they know is, legally speaking, incorrect.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        ^^this.

        Why is abortion so important? Because it polls well in the Democrats’ base constituency… single women. If they can get single women to turn out at the election for fear of losing their ability to paint over the consequences of their sexual lifestyle in blood sacred bodily integrity, they have a massive advantage in national elections. If anything can be counted on in national politics, it’s the bloodlust fervent desire for equal rights of single women.

      • leon

        Certainly no longstanding decisions deserve to be overturned. I can’t think of any.

      • Rhywun

        Yep, they’re just making shit up. She’s on the record as being quite supportive of “precedent”.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yep. They’re engaging in the journalist circle jerk where they cite each other.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Yeah, a fed soc podcast dropped a few days ago where she talks about originalism, textualism, and precedent at length. She’s not Thomas.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I’m not sure if you saw the FedSoc call with Judge Albright in Waco this week, but it’s an interesting one if you like geeking out about venue specific trial rules and subject matter specific procedure.

    • UnCivilServant

      America will descend into a feudalist Hellscape.

      You mean I can become the Duke of New York and New England?

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      That’s the point. Its an ostentatious show.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Barrett’s critics, for instance, point to her judicial writing in a major gun case. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution guarantees the right to own a gun. But Justice Scalia, writing for the court, listed some exceptions, among them laws barring felons from owning guns. When one of those felon laws came before Judge Barrett, she dissented, maintaining that the Supreme Court didn’t really mean to exclude gun ownership for felons who aren’t dangerous.

    OH

    MY

    GOD!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Aren’t dangerous is an important consideration, to be sure.

    • Nikkodemus

      “…didn’t really mean…”

      Or maybe she just flat out thinks they were wrong? Nah….

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Well, if they’re referring to Heller, then any discussion of felons is non-binding dicta, so she had no obligation to follow any of it if she ran into a case involving a nonviolent felon. Dicta is not exactly known for its precision

    • Not Adahn

      There is some writer at TOS (Sullum? I don’t remember and can’t be arsed to look it up) that had a series of articles that came to the conclusion that ACB isn’t all that terrible.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Probably Damon Root, although I too, can’t be bothered to look.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Yeah, you can see a sharp ideological divide at TOS over her. There are those (e.g., ENB) who only know about ACB based on what our intellectual betters tell us about her. And there are a number of writers who have actually read what she’s written on, for example, denying QI to a shitbag cop, and are making thinking emojis.

  31. Drake

    Remington is getting chopped up and sold off in pieces. The good news is, all those pieces of the business will now be better managed.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s about time really. They’ve been churning out hit and miss product for a while now. Even the Marlin lever actions that have been produced in more or less the same form for over seventy years are junk.

    • Not Adahn

      I can only hope PSA will drop the prices of ammo as much as they’ve managed to drop the prices on ARs and AKs.

    • Not Adahn

      Ruger to make Marlins? WTF?

    • db

      I had no idea that Remington owned the DPMS and AAC brands.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I think they got them from Freedom Group.

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        And then promptly gutted them, discovered that laying off all the skilled people who made a brand work lead to the brand being unprofitable, and then discontinued the labels in short order.

        DPMS is a local brand here, and a lot of people are still pissed off about it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That’s pretty much what Freedom did with all of their brands.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        This kind of shit is why public corporations suck compared to closely held companies.

        Public corporations completely lack the ability to sell a decent product at a decent margin and be content with that.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Derp

    Can Face Masks Really Help You Gain Immunity To Covid-19 Coronavirus?

    ——-

    So the thinking here is that an ordinary face covering could do the variolation thing for the Covid-19 coronavirus. The face mask would allow a smaller dose of the virus to get up your nose or into your mouth. The smaller dose may not be enough virus to give you a more severe infection. Surviving a milder infection could then mean immunity to the Covid-19 coronavirus. Perhaps, possibly, maybe.

    So what evidence did Gandhi and Rutherford offer for this possibility? Not a whole lot. They brought up examples of SARS-CoV2 outbreaks that have occurred in settings where a large percentage of people were wearing face masks and pointed out that a much higher percentage of the SARS-CoV2 infections ended up being asymptomatic or mild. They also indicated that “countries that have adopted population-wide masking have fared better in terms of rates of severe Covid-related illnesses and death, which, in environments with limited testing, suggests a shift from symptomatic to asymptomatic infections.”

    ——-

    While the “variolation” theory for face masks is intriguing, the current evidence deserves a “C-minus,” as in wait and see. Gandhi and Rutherford did admit that more studies are needed before firmer conclusions can be drawn.

    In the meantime, there are still other good reasons to wear face coverings. Protecting others from you should be a good reason, assuming that you aren’t a vile person who hates everyone else. You could get some protection from face masks in the way that wearing underwear in a snowstorm is still better than wearing nothing at all.

    So SCIENCE!

    The Jabberwock’ll git you if you don’t watch out.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nothing makes me want to read more of a media company when they make such beautiful comments as “Protecting others from you should be a good reason, assuming that you aren’t a vile person who hates everyone else.”

      • Drake

        They’ve tossed Sandra Day O’Connor into the memory hole.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Reagan appointee at that. I ‘member.

      • Tejicano

        We went to the same high school (decades apart) so I can’t really ignore her.

  33. The Other Kevin

    I’ve been thinking about this whole RBG love fest that’s going on. I wonder how many people who post about her on Facebook can name one of her important decisions, or can even name one other person on the supreme court? People know her because she’s been on TV. She is a pop icon. But such is life in 2020.

    • Not Adahn

      Is it really any different than in the past though? Were people actually better educated or more informed than, or did they all just read from the same very limited set of “facts” and acceptable opinions?

    • Rhywun

      One could start with her admission that RvW was pulled out of their ass.

    • Nephilium

      Shit. Most of the people praising RBG think she was the first female supreme court justice.

      • The Other Kevin

        She wrote the Row v Wade decision.

      • Not Adahn

        That was the one about the best way to cross a shallow river, right?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        😉

    • Ownbestenemy

      Lets see…carry the 1, subtract the 10, and multiply that by 0. That should give you the answer.

    • CatchTheCarp

      She can’t be planted in the ground soon enough…..

    • db

      I was wondering about this, whether this means anything for Rep. Omar.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Scum of the Earth

    Ibram X. Kendi, an American author who became the new director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University in July, railed against Barrett on Twitter for adopting two Black children from Haiti, equating her and her husband to “White colonizers.”

    “Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children. They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity,” Kendi wrote Saturday.

    He was responding to a since-deleted tweet about White parents adopting Black children.

    “And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist,” Kendi continued.

    “I’m challenging the idea that White parents of kids of color are inherently ‘not racist’ and the bots completely change what I’m saying to ‘White parents of kids of color are inherently racist.’ These live and fake bots are good at their propaganda. Let’s not argue with them.”

    Anti-racist, you say?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Racist/Anti-Racist = The dialectic for race-baiting, collectivist assholes.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      White parents adopt white kid… racist
      White parents adopt black kid… racist
      White couple don’t adopt any kid… racist

      What’s the common denominator here?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        White couple = racist, obviously

      • Lackadaisical

        Correct.

        Also, dating/marrying outside your race? Racist.

    • Drake

      Abortion seems to have effectively cut off the supply of white infants for adoption. I had several white friends in school who had been adopted. Now that is rare. For a while people were adopting from Eastern Europe but that seems to have slowed to a trickle as they got their act together after communism.

      • The Other Kevin

        For babies, yes. We first tried to adopt an infant, but there is a lot of competition for them. We ended up adopting two older kids (ages 2 and 6). There are plenty, actually way too many, of those kids out there. Our third one was an infant, but that was a private adoption and we were picked by the birth mom. We didn’t go through an agency. That is also very rare.

      • Mojeaux

        A newlywed couple at church somehow managed to adopt 3 siblings, one an infant, who were very close in age to each other. The oldest was barely a toddler. I believe the children are Hispanic, as is the couple. But I think they were fostering them first.

        IRL, I know two white families who adopted 2 black kids each. One family’s adopted girls were cocaine babies, so also special needs. On the internet, I know one white family who has adopted 2 black girls. Hair care becomes an issue. Also on the internet, I know a family who adopted 2 boys from China, but they were both older and very sickly (they didn’t know that at adoption; it only became clear when they got home), which probably explains why Chinese BOYS were adoptable. All these people are from church.

        IRL also (not church), I know one single white woman who went to China and adopted a baby girl.

        White people are accused of having a savior complex, and I won’t downplay that, but what feeling human being DOESN’T have a savior complex of those weaker and less fortunate? It’s just that some of those feeling human beings have the means and will to actually do something.

      • The Other Kevin

        In Indiana, “special needs” kid are either 6 or older, and/or have some health issue. There are tons of those kids in the system. If they are not adopted, they have a much, much greater chance of ending up in jail. So what’s better for society? Keeping these kids out of jail, or sacrificing them for some sort of racial purity?

      • Mojeaux

        It’s not about what’s better for society. SJWs and lefties couldn’t care less what’s good for society.

        I can’t put my finger on it but a couple of years ago there was a rash of articles by black adults raised in middle- to upper-middle-class white families excoriating the experience and blaming their adoptive parents for not allowing them or providing for them an “authentic” black experience.

        Wasn’t Kaepernick adopted by a white couple?

      • Drake

        Yep.

      • Lackadaisical

        Correct. Many* have successfully been turned against their parents for the sin of being white.

        *At least the loud ones.

      • Tejicano

        While he wasn’t adopted I can think of a recent resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., WDC who was raised by white relatives. Would the current movement declare he was not an “authentic black” person?

      • Lackadaisical

        How many black people of means are adopting kids and no one can tell cause the skin color matches?

  35. Certified Public Asshat

    It’s is the amount (DUH) of $70k that is attracting attention NOT the principle of deducting hair styling expenses for a television personality— J Julian (@joejrye) September 28, 2020

    Alternate headline: Trump pays his hair-stylist a living wage.

    • Tejicano

      $70k is a living wage? What color is the sky in your NYC???

      • Rhywun

        $70K is absolutely a living wage in NYC. It is, in fact, roughly the median wage.

      • Tejicano

        People tell me that you can’t raise a family living in Manhattan if only one person is making $70k – but I was only visiting so I guess I can’t say.

      • Rhywun

        Well now you just added a couple qualifiers 🙂

        Not everyone has a family to support and the great majority of us do not live in Manhattan.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I was just using their words. I will use the flowbee on Trump for $70k a year.

    • UnCivilServant

      Then you shouldn’t call them ‘sconnies’, you should call them ‘Wiscies.’

      • Plisade

        Nice 🙂

    • Nephilium

      Ohio woman tries to pick up the slack.

    • PieInTheSky

      quantity over quality. Sad.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not if they’re happy drunks.

      • Nephilium

        Happy Drunk!

        /why yes, I can probably find a song for most common references.

      • Ownbestenemy
      • robc

        New Glarus is quality. Not Spotted Cow, cant stand it, but they make some damn fine beers.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    It seems today’s talking point is President Cartoon Villain’s vulnerability to foreign financial pressure.

    Them furriners own his ass. We need somebody like Honest Joe in the White House.

    • straffinrun

      “I owe money. I got an idea! How about I become President!”

      People are actually saying this out loud.

      • B.P.

        That’s been one of my favorite accusations during the whole Trump presidency — He’s in it for the money! As if his financial advisor sat him down and said, “You know what would really brighten up your balance sheet? If you ran an absurdly quixotic presidential campaign and somehow actually stumbled to victory.”

      • Surly Knott

        And donate your entire salary while you’re at it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        FACT CHECK: He still gets paid a $1 so we rate this as false.

  37. PieInTheSky

    Now I am not part of your elections but you Americans got yourselves in one weirdass situation. I mean seriously Trumpy vs Joey…

    • Sean

      I don’t plan on watching the debates live. I’m sure the greatest hits will be all over Twitter. I’ll probably just watch a couple of those.

      • UnCivilServant

        Stay away from twitter.

      • Nephilium

        The Indians are playing the Yankees at the same time. At least I can cheer for one side in that match up.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I plan on following on PJMedia Drunk Blogging…seems like the proper amount of snark

      • Rhywun

        I figure I’ll just drunk-follow it here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I can multitask. 😉

      • UnCivilServant

        If I bother to watch any of it, it’ll be after the fact in someone’s archived livestream.

    • Tejicano

      Why do the words from “Charge of the Light Brigade” keep coming up when I think of Biden debating Trump?

      • B.P.

        Contrary to what many think, I do not expect Biden to be a slobbering, gaffe-prone headcase spouting nonsequiturs tomorrow night. He will be fine. All he has to do is recite a bunch of empty, rehearsed, pablum slogans all evening, over and over. “Follow the science! Protect the middle class! 21st century jobs! Preserve health care! Respect abroad!” This will be lauded as bold leadership. Since media gatekeepers don’t let the public see Trump unfiltered, what could move the needle in some voters’ minds is if Trump manages to not be a raging asshole, and says some sensible-sounding things about his record in office that go unheard. It may trigger a, “Huh, that doesn’t sound insane”-type reaction in the minds of some.

        On the other hand, perhaps it doesn’t matter what either candidate says in a debate, as everyone’s already locked in with their vote. Any seemingly embarrassing utterance by one’s chosen candidate can be explained or wished away.

      • leon

        I’m with you. Biden’s team has been prepping him for this for months (i have to assume), so i think he will do _fine_. And if he gets by with just fine, it will be hailed as a fantastic achievment and Trump was a liar about Bidens mental stability.

        In other words, i think Trump et. al. went to deep on that tactic.

        But i could be wrong.

      • B.P.

        Agreed. If you want to make it seem like you’ve given someone a rhetorical thumping, don’t broadcast for months beforehand that your debate opponent is an idiot.

  38. Sean

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-haunted-house-shooting

    Responding deputies arrived to find a “chaotic” scene with multiple fights erupting among a crowd of about 1,000 people at the attraction, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

    “Deputies had to deal with multiple large and small groups of persons that were fighting each other, and there were some shots fired by persons at the event,” the news release said.

    Sounds like good wholesome family fun. ?

    • UnCivilServant

      Or holesome, if you’re in the way of the bullets.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why did you send me to that guy’s channel during the workday??!?! Now I’ll get nothing done

      • Sensei

        That guys channel on languages is a great way to kill hours.

        He has three or four videos on Japanese and it’s writing systems.

        Also any good otaku knows the late night anime schedule uses the 24 plus system!

    • Tejicano

      Yup. Very common to see a sign in a shop showing that they are open until 25 時 (“o’clock”), meaning 1 AM of the following day.

  39. PieInTheSky

    So because I had a few buck online for betting on the nba I decided to put one bet on your American lesser rugby. Never watched a game, don’t know anything, though I might get lucky. Multiple bet 7 games moneyline. Got 6 of 7. Stupid Vikings. So close.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Stop trying to make Demi Rose happen.

    • Ownbestenemy

      There they go again using the word pert.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Killer curves.

  40. Mojeaux

    I’m coming back to a comment I made a couple of days ago about someone on my FB timeline who said, in regard to ACB, that she was going to die with fewer rights than when she was born. I did say in my post that she was talking about abortion, although many Glibs pointed out that she was right.

    Yes, she was.

    However, proggy women only see one right when talking about SCOTUS. They flat do. not. care. about any other rights than abortion. That’s it.

    • Mojeaux

      Addendum: AND they’re scared to death that it’s going to be taken away just like that, AS IF IT COULD HAPPEN.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well, there are people that truly believe by next year you will all be in red overcoats under the coming Theocracy she will bring about.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t you know they revisit all active precedent on a change in justices?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Addendum: AND they’re scared to death that it’s going to be taken away just like that, AS IF IT COULD HAPPEN

        Ehh, it could. Easily.

        I do not have strong feelings with abortion… wouldn’t personally do it but do not object for legality up until a certain week… so it helps me to understand the perspective using gun rights. Gun grabbers absolutely would take away the bear to arms just like that and work very hard to make that happen. The same way I feel about gun grabbers is the way the pro-choice people feel about pro-life. And they aren’t wrong… pro-life people would take away abortions in a heartbeat if they saw a path do so.

        The right to bear arms is a constitutionally enshrined right with the direct language of “shall not be infringed”. Despite that, they are taking away this right in progressive states all over this country. Making abortion illegal is child’s play in comparison.

      • invisible finger

        I think it’s child’s death, not child’s play.

      • invisible finger

        Murder is okay or not depending on which tool is used.

    • Tejicano

      Pedant Warning – She akshully wrote “‘less rights” which really screws with my head because I understand that it really isn’t fewer rights – the quantity of rights she has won’t be reduced – but those rights (in her pea-brained view of how the world will unfold) will be diminished. I an intrigued to come up with the proper way of expressing what she wants to say but I lack the motivation to think it through because she is imagining events that I know won’t happen.

    • PieInTheSky

      there should be a pro-abortion libertarian deal with proggy women: you get abortion rights but you support gun rights.

    • robc

      Kelo, Raich. Two lost rights, guess which side RBG was on in both.

    • Akira

      However, proggy women only see one right when talking about SCOTUS. They flat do. not. care. about any other rights than abortion. That’s it.

      The part I find creepy is how they make out abortion to be the one and only right that applies to women, as if the essence and entirety of womanhood is the ability to kill your offspring.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. You said it better than I have.

        Kelo was bad.

        My sole point is that proggy women don’t know about other decisions and if they do, they do not care.

    • invisible finger

      I know three women who had abortions. Each one of them is a super-annoying virtue signaler. When they overdo their criticism of my lack of virtue, I remind them that there is absolutely nothing virtuous abut abortions.

    • mrfamous

      “she was going to die with fewer rights than when she was born”

      Well that’s true for virtually everybody, so…

  41. DEG

    Mornin’ Banjos.

    I had to sign in to youtube to watch that video? What in that video needs to be age restricted?

    HR manager sues for wrongful termination saying company fire her for exaggerating Lil Rona.

    An Exeter woman sued her former employer claiming she was fired as a human resources manager after sending an email about COVID-19 to employees and requiring two employees to stay home for one week after going on vacations to China and Malaysia in January.

    She claims company officials fired her after “exaggerating the ‘China Virus,’” according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Concord in June.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The footage of *gasp* a toddler without a shirt on would be my guess.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Toes were stepped on

    The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public.

    Dr. Robert Redfield, who leads the CDC, suggested in a conversation with a colleague Friday that Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the potential benefits of herd immunity.

    “Everything he says is false,” Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News.

    Redfield acknowledged after the flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., that he was speaking about Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or public health. Atlas was brought on to the White House task force in August.

    Redfield testified before Congress this month that he suspects that a face covering could protect him from Covid-19 better than any future vaccine. Most public health officials share the view that masks are essential to stop the spread of the virus. Still, Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on how useful wearing them may be.

    “If every one of us did it, this pandemic would be over in eight to 12 weeks,” Redfield said before offering a stark warning that contradicted the president’s assertion that the country is “rounding the corner” on the pandemic.

    Yeah, I trust YOU.

    • invisible finger

      “Most public health officials share the view”

      That makes up 0.0005% of health care professionals.

    • mrfamous

      “If every one of us did it, this pandemic would be over in eight to 12 weeks,”

      I wonder if he would care to back that up with an ounce of data. You know, like scientists do

    • leon

      Yes. Though the Clintons seem to have less power over those in power as, say, the Obamas. I would be shocked, but could see how the Obamas might be willing to feed her to the sharks to perserve their own power over the DNC.

    • DEG

      She’s 50? Wow.

    • Drake

      I’ve been finding her not attractive for a long time.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Only watched the first episode, but I liked Miss Sherlock. Seems like there’s been a slate of suicides of entertainment people in Japan recently. Yukiko Okada still holds the title to dedication, though.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    When Atlas was pressed about why Americans should listen to him instead of health experts’ sworn testimony, he told NBC News’ Peter Alexander: “You’re supposed to believe the science, and I’m telling you the science.”

    Wow. Nice journalisming, NBC.

    That Atlas guy, he’s just a random drunken asshole. Don’t listen to him!

    • Mojeaux

      Nice journalisming

      Aside: In the last 2 weeks of watching the news, I’ve identified at least 4 stories where I was left with unanswered questions that were never asked. The most recent one was about open-air carbon monoxide poisoning. They told the story of a mom who lost her son to it, but during the ENTIRE THING they barely mentioned the cause of death and even then, they didn’t say how it happened/happens. When they cut back to the anchor, she gave a little more information, but there was no clear, definitive, “This is how this was caused; this is what else causes it and what you can do about it/how to spot it/how to treat it.” At the very last was the only hint of how this kid got open-air carbon monoxide poisoning: “Don’t sit too near a boat engine for too long.”

      • pan fried wylie

        “Oh, DON’T suck on tailpipes *forehead smack*, I had to read the whole article for THAT?!”

    • DEG

      That’s not bad. Thanks!

    • Mojeaux

      Yes, good thread. Thanks.

    • Drake

      What a bunch of smug assholes. Perhaps the owner values freedom and / or work over handouts? Doesn’t want his job outsourced to cheap foreign labor? Isn’t “woke” and doesn’t want to be governed by people who are?

      • Tejicano

        ” Isn’t “woke” and doesn’t want to be governed by people who are?”

        Well! There’s your problem right there, son.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      yeehaw! ?

    • Gender Traitor

      Whyforcome he’s beleaguered?

      • Mojeaux

        His first wife died of uterine cancer, then his (step)daughter died of it, too. His son nearly died in a car crash. His production partner died. Robin Williams’s death really hit him hard.

        That’s not to mention his hard childhood and adolescence.

        Also, he likes zaftig women.

      • Gender Traitor

        And the last thing is why he’s good, not why he’s beleaguered, right? ; )

      • Mojeaux

        LOL Yes! Ha!

        At least his left side didn’t get burned in a fire that killed his family. 😉

      • leon

        I don’t know what a zaftig women is and i’ve learned not to google such things i find on Glibs.

      • Mojeaux

        Rubenesque.

      • UnCivilServant

        So thinner than thicc, but not svelte?

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s heavier than Rubenesque, too.

      • leon

        So thinner than thicc, but not svelte?

        Svelte?

        Now i know your just making words up.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s heavier than Rubenesque, too.

        I was being kind.

      • UnCivilServant

        I just have a drive to be precise, and am sort of compelled to sort the adjectives by size.

      • Rhywun

        Every time I hear “zaftig” I’m transported to the Great Gatsby, flappers, and speakeasies.

      • pan fried wylie

        As I’m not a native german speaker, was “zaftig” meant to sound like an inflatable conveyance?

      • pan fried wylie

        “HANS, you imbecile, tie down the mooring lines on the zaftig before she blows avay!”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Aw, that’s some Kelsey Grammer level bad luck. Had no idea.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Kelo, Raich. Two lost rights, guess which side RBG was on in both.

    The side of good intentions! They meant well, and that’s all that matters.

    * “they” = government, of course.

    • robc

      There were literally no good intentions involved in Raich.

      • leon

        I think the decision could be summarized as “LOL! GET FUCKED.”