Saturday Morning Jesus It’s Still Summer Links

by | Sep 5, 2020 | Daily Links | 202 comments

I’m tired of kvetching about the heat, and until it lets up, I won’t stop. And about my work hours, which mostly keeps me away from the site during the week. And about my emaciated bank account. And about how absolutely stupid my fellow citizens, who elect the jackboots, have become. And… fuck it, we had the Zozobra burning gloom last night.

But there are birthdays, many birthdays, including a guy who would be canceled today; a very literate bullshit artist; a guy whose death is remembered by four minutes and 33 seconds of silence; a piece of shit who embarrasses actual pieces of shit by what a piece of shit he was; a terrifically understated hilarious comedian; creator of the biggest and yet most forgotten scam in my lifetime; a guy who impregnated every one of my in-my-20s fantasy women; and one more guy who was not Batman.

Now for some news, one way or another.

 

I like how the headline assumes it’s true. But really, there’s a worse scandal.

 

This is why (((we))) can’t have nice things.

 

Not everything stupid and pointless is “Un-American.”

 

They don’t even pretend.

 

I think it’s antisemitism.

 

What the actual fuck????

 

Old Guy Music is… well, I promised I wouldn’t do Tool again, so in theory, I’m sticking to it. H/T to Warty.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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

202 Comments

  1. The Late P Brooks

    Moderna, one of the developers in the lead for a vaccine to prevent Covid-19, is slowing enrollment slightly in its large clinical trial to ensure it has sufficient representation of minorities most at risk for the disease, its chief executive said.

    The trial is designed to enroll 30,000 people in the U.S. to prove the vaccine’s safety and efficacy. As of Aug. 28, it had enrolled 17,458, 24% of whom are from communities of color. The company provides updates on enrollment numbers every Friday afternoon.

    They should “enroll” them by stealth. It worked in Tuskegee.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Don’t worry, plenty of minorities (and majorities) will be in the test animal boat when they roll out the rushed vaccine which I actually don’t have a problem with as long as it isn’t mandatory.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah; the press are deliberately conflating being opposed to a new, untested vaccine with being opposed to vaccines that have been around for decades.

      • CPRM

        Shut up anti-vaxxer!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        At some point the calculation to get it or not comes down to risk: if you’re old or obese or diabetic or various other cardiac/lung stuff it’s probably worth the risk, if you’re healthy it’s probably best to wait and see what happens to the people that did take it.

    • CPRM

      Hey! I wanted to make the syphilis joke!

      • juris imprudent

        Just wait it out for the tertiary opportunity.

    • R C Dean

      “24% of whom are from communities of color“

      What does that even mean? If I live in a bad neighborhood, does that mean I’m from a colorful community?

  2. The Late P Brooks

    “The Black community has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and that’s not biological but rather due to socioeconomic inequities resulting from racism,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It is particularly important to make sure that Black and Latinx participants are represented equitably in the trials and the vaccine shows protective efficacy in different populations of people.”

    So

    tiresome.

    • straffinrun

      And then it’ll be, “They using us a guinea pigs”.

      • Florida Man

        You mean like how we sent Frankenstein-food to experiment on Africans…that we had been eating for decades.

      • Old Man With Candy

        We’ve been eating Africans?

      • Florida Man

        Yeah, but now you have to get active consent.

      • straffinrun

        Can I put my balls on that lip plate?

      • Florida Man

        I always just though it was decorative, now it makes perfect sense.

        *The more you know gif*

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Is the black and hispanic immune system different from whites or are they delaying a vaccine unnecessarily during a pandemic? Serious question because if there are differences it actually makes sense.

      • straffinrun

        My guess is a much higher presence of co morbidities.

      • Drake

        Obesity and diabetes.

      • Rhywun

        Yes, deaths of color have long since been pinned to factors like wealth and class and living arrangements but we can’t talk about those so it must be racism duh.

      • Grosspatzer

        “Deaths of Color”. Good name for a heavy metal funk band.

      • Tundra

        The incidence of metabolic disease is spectacularly high in those communities. Poor immune response follows. This isn’t difficult to figure out.

        Of course they are delaying it unnecessarily.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Ah, diabetes and whatnot y’all are saying. That makes sense…

  3. Ted S.

    creator the biggest and yet most forgotten scam in my lifetime

    I was going to guess Konrad Kujau.

  4. Tonio

    Guess I shouldn’t tell OMWC that it’s the first Fall weather day here in the mid-atlantic. Overnight low upper sixties, clear, high eighty. Dog is going to get special long walk in park.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I hate you.

      • Tejicano

        We’re still seeing 90F+ and 90%+ humidity here so I feel your pain.

      • straffinrun

        Gonna get wetter soon. Batten the hatches.

      • Tejicano

        We had a pretty heavy rain just pass through here about 30 minutes ago.

      • Sensei

        My friend in Nagoya mentioned last night that her weather forecast is for a week of rain.

        Hope the folks to the south weather the typhoon ok.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yup, once I finish my tribute to John Cage, I’m getting on the bike.

    • Rhywun

      Yup. Lovely day so far.

    • KibbledKristen

      We’re getting there! Can’t wait for the first day where the high is under 70!

  5. The Late P Brooks

    According to my model, my model is correct

    IHME released three new projections based on different assumptions: a worst-case scenario, a best-case scenario and a most likely scenario. The most likely scenario estimates that Covid-19 will kill 410,450 people in the U.S. by Jan. 1. The worst-case scenario, which assumes that restrictions and mask directives will ease, projects up to 620,028 people in the U.S. will die by then and the best-case scenario, which assumes universal masking, predicts that 288,380 people in the U.S. will die from Covid-19 in 2020.

    Government policies and compliance among the public will largely determine how many people die of Covid-19 this fall and winter, Murray said. He added on a call that he believes there is a seasonal element to the virus, as with other coronaviruses, and that it will spread more easily in the colder Northern climates later in the year.

    Garbage in.

    Garbage out.

    Satisfaction guaranteed, or double your garbage back.

    • Rhywun

      You weren’t planning on leaving the house before summer solstice ’21 were you?

    • EvilSheldon

      I got twenty bucks that says the actual number of COVID-related deaths in the US doesn’t hit 250k.

  6. Gender Traitor

    a guy who impregnated every one of my in-my-20s fantasy women

    So Suzzy Roche was one of those? And whichever one of the McGarrigles was Mrs. Wainwright (off and on, IIRC)?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Bingo.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::fistbump:: Or whatever the kids are doing these days.

      • CPRM

        elbow bump, cuz elbows can’t carry the plague.

      • Florida Man

        You can’t lick your elbow.

      • Gender Traitor

        But I could lick yours.

      • Tundra

        Hawt.

      • Florida Man

        *Tugs at collar*

        Is it hot in here…

      • Rhywun

        You don’t know where my elbows have been.

  7. Fourscore

    While AZ sizzles I started a fire this morning in the parlor stove in the parlor. Not cold but clammy. Could have the first frost on Wed morning, I’ll be picking all the freezables on Tuesday, unless the forecast changes. Garden is winding down but still a lot of stuff there.

    • CPRM

      I broke out my coat already, working nights it’s been dropping to 50.

    • KibbledKristen

      But are the bees OK????

  8. The Late P Brooks

    The vaccine needs to be proven to work in “those greater than 65, minority groups, those with certain medical conditions like obesity, because those are the people who are going to get it first,” he said.

    Whether they want it or not.

  9. straffinrun

    OMB director Russell Vought, in a letter Friday to executive branch agencies, directed them to identify spending related to any training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” or any other material that teaches or suggests that the United States or any race or ethnicity is “inherently racist or evil.”

    Un American or not, it’s correct. This stuff needs to be dumped in the pile with all the other racist garbage that humans have concocted.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Reasonable people need to pin a medal on that Sandra National Labs guy who blew the whistle on this stuff. It’s a feel good story and sometimes one person just standing up can make a difference but I do agree that the unAmerican angle is silly.

      • R C Dean

        I, for one, kind of like calling toxic tribalism unAmerican.

        I mean, it is, isn’t it?

      • SandMan

        Abso-fucking-lutely that guy is a hero.

        Sandia, not Sandra, spell check keeps changing mine to SanDisk

    • Rhywun

      Yeah, it depends on what you consider “American”. A lot of this garbage is explicitly anti-capitalist in addition to racist. I’m not gonna fault Donald for claiming those things are contrary to what he wants to claim are American “ideals”. He’s a politician FFS.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I didn’t know this was going on at all. What took Trump so long?

      • Rhywun

        The guy has a lot of spinning plates to stay on top of, I would guess. With the country being attacked from all sides.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    To celebrate John Cage’s birthday, I’m going to talk a four minute and thirty three second dump.

    A pretentious postmodern dump at that.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Take, friggin phone

    • Old Man With Candy

      Insert Duchamp joke here.

      • Ted S.

        Scruffy naked and descending a staircase? 😉

    • Sensei

      I knew I liked you Scruffy.

  11. Old Man With Candy

    To be fair, it’s 5:30 am, sun is not yet up, so the temperature is down to a nice cool 90.

  12. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And good morning to the rest of my early-rising friends!

    Holy shit, what a cynical bunch of lynx. The Dems flop-sweat is getting worse. This new line of attack is even more embarrassing than the last.

    I’m ready for it to be over.

    But then I’m reminded that it will never be over. Case in point:

    “The Black community has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and that’s not biological but rather due to socioeconomic inequities resulting from racism,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It is particularly important to make sure that Black and Latinx participants are represented equitably in the trials and the vaccine shows protective efficacy in different populations of people.”

    Really? Obesity and Type 2 diabetes are the result of racism? Huh, and here I thought it was mostly sugar and starches. But then again, I’m just a humble yeti, not an esteemed virologist.

    Oh, and she’s a product of Smith and Columbia. There’s a shock.

    Fuck off, lady. Why not figure out a way to get these communities healthier, instead of flapping your gums about racism. Idiot.

    Well, it’s another spectacular Minnesota morning. We’ve had an incredible stretch of weather that suggests to me that we are being set up for a winter beat-down of epic proportions.

    Maybe some Dead Man Winter to set the mood.

    Ah, that’s the good stuff.

    I hope you all have a wonderful day.

    • straffinrun

      Morning, Tundra. And nice lynx, Old Fart with candy.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Compared to my wife’s links, I am only an egg.

        She’s fucking intimidating.

    • Florida Man

      It’s the white mans burden to tell minorities what to eat and how often to exercise.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Vaccine deserts.

  14. prolefeed

    What an actual reporter might have asked Biden: “Do you agree or disagree with Trump that renters should quit paying rent with a CDC permission slip, and is that EO Constitutional?”

    Sort of questions being asked Biden by “reporters”: “Are you concerned that voters are not being told often enough how objectively awful and unfit for office Trump is?”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Mr. Vice President, why are you so awesome while the President is such an asshole?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Mr. Corn Pop, how do you keep your teeth so pearly and healthy compared to Trump’s orange teeth?

  15. Rufus the Monocled

    “I would rather we have higher diverse participants and take one extra week,” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said. Diversity “matters more to us than speed.”

    I’m sure stakeholders are pleased.

    Even during a pandemic they play identity politics. Maybe they should look for a vaccine for that virus.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Could also be paving be the way for the submission. The FDA overlords can play identity politics with the best of them.

    • Urthona

      so dumb

  16. Rhywun

    What the actual fuck????

    “The Black community has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and that’s not biological but rather due to socioeconomic inequities resulting from racism,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

    Way to science the shit out of your vaccine, science-person.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      And we’re supposed to trust them?

      Yeh. No thanks.

    • CPRM

      Mailman School of Public Health

      So they teach you to deliver medicine late and in a damaged container?

    • Plinker762

      They are not different but they are different. Therefore we will delay testing because that will help the people that need the vaccine the most.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Or they’re disproportionately in cities and it’s related to population density. Do they consider living in large urban areas to be indicative of inequality or are they just talking out of their asses?

    • Rufus the Monocled

      What’s frightening about this is these people have power to guide our health policies.

      We’re sooooo fucked.

    • juris imprudent

      It’s the food deserts.

      I have some kale, swiss chard and spinach to make into a soup, and I damn near want to just throw it out rather than think I in some small way supporting these fucking busy-body pieces of shit.

      • Gender Traitor

        Try sauteing the kale in olive oil. It makes it easier to scrape out of the pan and into the garbage can.

    • Florida Man

      He did what?!? Whose?

      • straffinrun

        Freudian slippinrun.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Heh…he’s rubbing it in a bit there.

  17. Gender Traitor

    Duluth Trading keeps claiming that I’m going to get my latest order – which UPS is going to hand off to the USPS – tomorrow. On Sunday? Srsly? Have you MET the post office? (Especially the one for my ZIP. Our route is officially an afterthought, delivered after whichever carrier has finished their REAL route.)

    • R C Dean

      We get last mile delivery by USPS on Sunday.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      And they’re cocky and rude about it. ‘I didn’t come here to get a lecture’. Fricken smart-alec.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    It’s only money pieces of paper

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chided Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber on Thursday night as talks over another stimulus package continued to stall.

    The Democratic congresswoman accused Republicans of sitting on the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act passed in the House earlier this year as babies slept “on car floors” and others starved amid the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

    She also questioned whether Republican lawmakers were chasing a further bailout fund with “the needed urgency” to help some American households.

    ——-

    After a call with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said “serious differences” over the scale of the economic problem facing America still split the two sides.

    Democrats have rallied around the $3 trillion HEROES Act passed by the House in May, but Republicans favor a $500 billion bill—putting some $2.5 trillion of disagreement between the parties.

    Why can’t they compromise, and make it five trillion?

    • straffinrun

      I can’t wait to find out what comes after “trillion”.

      • Florida Man

        Quadrillion or probably more accurately starvation.

      • straffinrun

        Let’s call it a Zimbabwillion

      • Plinker762

        When they print bills with 10^x because there isn’t room for all of the zeros.

    • Rhywun

      I’m sure it’s just a minor oversight that the MSM keeps forgetting to mention all the social justice bullshit with which Nancy has larded up her bill.

    • Hyperion

      Doesn’t Gulag have to save some for the Green New Gun Grabbing Free Everything Deal?

    • Sean

      Hawt.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What’s the additional fee for the bathroom stuff, one crack rock maybe?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Getting an education, good and hard

    Eleven first-year students have been dismissed by Northeastern University after they were found violating its coronavirus-related public health protocols by meeting up in a Boston hotel room, according to the school.

    The gathering was discovered on Wednesday night by two university staff members who were making the rounds at the Westin Hotel, which is currently being used as a temporary dorm, the school said in a post on its website.

    The students, who were enrolled in a study-abroad experience, were given notice on Friday that they have 24 hours to vacate the property. They will no longer be allowed to continue their fall semester, though they have the right to contest their dismissal at an expedited hearing, according to the school.

    “Northeastern and its community of students, faculty, and staff take violations of health and safety protocols very seriously,” Madeleine Estabrook, senior vice chancellor for student affairs at Northeastern, said in a statement.

    The value of a college education is rapidly approaching zero.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If only they had donned BLM tshirts and tried to burn down the library they’d be golden.

    • Ted S.

      What the fuck is this doing in People magazine?

    • Grosspatzer

      Holy shit. Can’t say i’m surprised.

      Northeastern is one of the top destinations for graduates of little patzer’s HS, in no small measure due to its’ high scores on the wokeness scale. The parents who are shelling out $70K per year are likely some of the strongest supporters of lockdown. They are getting thwir money’s worth.

      • slumbrew

        I got a great education at Northeastern, due in large part to the co-op program (5 years, after 1st year it’s 6 months schooling, 6 months at a real, paid job).

        It went rapidly downhill after President Curry left, when the new president shifted the focus and got a hard-on to crack the US News Top 100.

        No doubt they wonder why they haven’t seen a dime from me since I graduated…

      • Grosspatzer

        Sounds like a good education, too bad things have gone south.

        It’s like the restaurant business, where a joint gets a great reputation because they have a great chef, wait staff, etc. 5 years later staff turns over and the joint sucks, but still has that reputation left over from the good times. Takes a while for people to catch on, but eventually they do.

    • Hyperion

      It’s actually negative, so below zero.

      Science is now the ability to make everything about race.

      New Dark Ages approaches rapidly.

    • Grosspatzer

      Covid is like a gun

      So all we need to do is pass a law banning Covid! Problem solved.

      • Gender Traitor

        But I have a right to keep and bear COVID!

      • Grosspatzer

        STEVE SMITH paid you a visit?

      • Sean

        *snicker*

    • CPRM

      Where else but America can luxury and poverty get so close together that, in essence, they become one?

      Where else indeed do people feel so privileged that they feel they shouldn’t need to sacrifice to feed themselves?

    • Rhywun

      NYT;DR

  20. PieInTheSky

    so many streamers still put “no politics discussion” in their rules and…as a public figure, your silence makes a statement. your silence creates a safe space for bigots, because they know they won’t be argued with! speak up ya’ll, call out and destroy a fascist when you see one

    https://twitter.com/hentaiphd/status/1301226114895863808

    That’s not how this works.

    That’s not how any of this works.

    You don’t get to tell me what I can and can’t do for and with my audience.

    https://twitter.com/MrRandem/status/1302214827310551040

    one of the things I hate about the collectivist mindset is that it is inherent in collectivism that everything in politics. In individualism you can just do your thing.

    • Sensei

      Twitter handle “hentaiphd” tells you all you need know.

      • straffinrun

        I was surprised how many anime people are out there that don’t buy into all this woke shit. I follow quite a few large accounts that are furries, anime, bi, etc and they are vicious against the woke brigade. Fucking Twitter actually opened a new world to me.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Hard for people who see no species to get worked up over race/breed differences?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “also like if you haven’t discussed the black lives matter protests and why they’re important with your community at this point… wtf????“

      Translation: Everything is political. Get fucked.

    • Hyperion

      Those people need help.

    • Rhywun

      More post-modernist “anti-racist” gibberish.

      • Hyperion

        ^this^

  21. Fatty Bolger

    Just got a notice that all meals at my kid’s school will be free through the end of the year, made possible by contributions from the USDA National School Lunch Program, and the involuntary support of taxpayers like you. Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch?

    • PieInTheSky

      Ask for a kosher vegan keto diet for your kid just to fuck with them (and with your kid for that matter)

      • Hyperion

        Salad with only leaves and no dressing.

    • l0b0t

      Here in NYC, the Board of Ed. decided several years ago that there is too much stigma attached to participating in the free & reduced price lunch program, so now the City provides (via our tax dollars) complimentary school breakfasts and lunches to any student who wants them… even during the Summer break.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Barbarians. Why aren’t they providing dinner and midnight snacks too?

      • creech

        Right on. After all, “we are the richest country on earth and it’s tragic we can’t give everyone everything their heart’s desire.”

  22. juris imprudent

    So I am happy to report a sporting event with no woke bullshit: UEFA Nations League match between Macedonia and Armenia – like either one of them are going to take a knee for someone else’s grievances.

    • Hyperion

      Did Macedonia use a Sarissa?

    • Rhywun

      US Open tennis is pretty woke-free if you have ESPN+ and stay away from ESPN itself.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Translation: Everything is political.

    “You’re either with us, or you’re against us.”

    • KibbledKristen

      Perfect excuse for when they come for your guns!

      “You see, ocifer, I was at this Trump boat rally…”

    • PieInTheSky

      I don’t have a boat.

  24. DrOtto

    In this world of 24/7 cameras and recording, Trump sure is lucky to never have his most incidinary comments caught on tape.

    • CPRM

      Just wait for those oval office tapes. Nixon was a Piker with ‘minutes’ missing, Trump’s whole first term will be missing!

  25. PieInTheSky

    hmmmm

    • Tundra

      hmmmm?

      • PieInTheSky

        exactly

  26. westernsloper

    Old Guy Music………?

    Trailer park mimosas for pre breakfast brunch beverage and I just did a flawless omelette pan hash brown flip.

    • l0b0t

      I love it when a flip is successful. Are you using shreds or chunks of taters? It took me many years to finally get the muscle memory for consistent omelets and I still can’t make a crepe to save my life.

      • westernsloper

        These are frozen hash browns. My go to are the dehydrated in a carton you have to add hot water to and wait but I am trying to make room in my freezer and wanted to get rid of these.

    • Gender Traitor

      Last week we made a tot waffle. Just lined up rows of tater tots all over the waffle iron and smushed ’em into a giant waffle fry. Tasty, but left the waffle iron pretty greasy. We may have to get another Black & Decker waffle iron with the removable/washable plates.

      • westernsloper

        That is genius!

      • Gender Traitor

        Can’t claim credit – Tom T saw it on them Intarwebz.

  27. Grosspatzer

    Woot! We’re back!

    • westernsloper

      I just figured OMWC broke the site and he had to wake up SP to fix it. Now he is bleeding out in the backyard from rusty tin can lid wounds.

      • Grosspatzer

        Nah, looks like Pie made the last comment before the site went down. Drives me batty.

      • Tundra

        Sucks, for sure.

      • westernsloper

        Ok, I am good with blaming Pie.

    • Hyperion

      This is just another reason to sleep in on Saturday morning.

  28. Hyperion

    “Moderna slows coronavirus vaccine trial enrollment to ensure minority representation”

    Eugenics is alive and well.

    • Grosspatzer

      Another vote for Biden.

  29. prolefeed

    Maths fail:

    Sign in our hotel elevator telling us what the masking risks are of becoming a COVID “case” if someone who is one of those cases steps in the elevator with you for even one floor of travel:

    Neither of you have a mask on: 100% chance!

    You have a mask on, they don’t: 70%

    They have a mask on, you don’t: 15%

    Both of you have a mask on: 0.15%

    No mention of what kind of mask, or how it is worn.

    First scenario: Really? An asymptomatic person with no cough is gonna infect you, guaranteed, not the slightest chance of escaping doom?

    Scenario 2: Soooo … these masks have a 70% failure rate if you wear them?

    Scenario 3: But if they wear the same mask, the failure rate drops dramatically?

    Scenario 4: Scenario 3, except modified where you don one of those masks that allegedly fail most of the time, but suddenly they stop 99% of the viruses that slipped through the other person’s mask?

    • Rhywun

      By this logic, everyone who doesn’t live alone is a walking infection. I wonder if that’s true.

      • Grosspatzer

        100% true. This is why humans have evolved defense mechanisms against diseases, which still would work if only they were permitted to.

      • Gender Traitor

        That’s why I don’t clean my house.

    • KSuellington

      Those are certainly some sciencey looking numbers they got there.

    • Hyperion

      But Semites are not people of color, so does that count?

    • Hyperion

      “In terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, [looting is] basically nonviolent. You’re mass shoplifting,” the activist said. “Most stores are insured; it’s just hurting insurance companies on some level. It’s just money. It’s just property. It’s not actually hurting any people.”

      She’s as stupid as AOC and that’s a difficult achievement.

    • westernsloper

      The drug Stacey Abrams out this morning to ensure us all that voter suppression is alive and well.

      • Hyperion

        What we need is oppression votes for minorities. So if a minority is in a political race, they get 10k or 50k, depending on how oppressed they are. So if it’s a black guy, like Kanye would only get 10k extra votes. But Abrams being black and a woman, plus being fat, ugly, and stupid, she gets the 50k extra votes.

        See if we have social justice, she would be gov now.

    • cyto

      Missed this discussion…

      But the NPR video of Biden says “Biden to hold town hall in Kenosha, site of recent police misconduct”

      That is where we are people.

      Now that the video and the 911 call and the warrants and the sexual assault complaint all auger against that version, just keep selling it.

  30. LJW

    In South Dakota for the weekend. Haven’t seen a single person wearing mask yet, bodies are piling in the streets but we have our freedom.

    • Tundra

      Groovy!

      Black Hills?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Is that skirt in earnest, I take it? Where does one buy such a thing (or its fabric)?

      • westernsloper

        Forget the skirt, and I am hardly considered a fashion plate but Rev Billy’s shoes are a crime against humanity.

      • Hyperion

        Before I read the link again, I thought that was Bill Clinton.

      • cyto

        Really…. running for mayor of a major american city… and wearing Mao on your skirt. Unironically.

        And with a good chance of winning?

        How is that at all possible?

        How did we cede a region of the country to the communists? Isn’t this area relatively prosperous? How can this idiotic ideology take root there?

    • Tundra

      You really need to split Oregon in two.

    • Rhywun

      Oh, Portland. You do you.

    • Rhywun

      *snort*

  31. The Late P Brooks

    WTFSRSLY?

    Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted last week at the “virtual” Jackson Hole symposium that the Fed has undershot its 2% annual inflation target consistently for the last several years.

    The Fed is tacitly admitting that its deflationary monetary policy has restrained growth and held down wages.

    Now the Fed is promising to aim higher in order to get more dollar liquidity into the economy.

    Powell’s 3,000-word address could have been summarized in just one sentence: “President Trump was right; we were wrong.”

    Powell has been exalted of late as a sage and some have even suggested that he should be Time Magazine’s Man of the Year.

    Deflationary monetary policy?

    Fire up the helicopters.

    • CPRM

      the Fed has undershot its 2% annual inflation target

      They failed at stealing enough wealth, how can we ever forgive them!?

      • Hyperion

        The way we can fix this is to elect a president who can’t even remember what his family’s names are, maybe not even his own on some days. Then because all the president is, is a drooling moron with a pen, you get every crazy person you can find into cabinet positions. Then you get Gulag Barbie as finance Czar and the rest of the squad into similar high positions. When money is no longer worth anything, we get utopia. No more need to worry about silly inflation and other right wing myths.

  32. limey

    When Toyota Highlanders crash into each other, one of them absorbs the power of the other, and this keeps happening until there is only one, and it has something like 33,000whp.

    I’ll show myself out.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There can be only pun!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *thinks about it for a sec*

      But what about the sequels?

      • CPRM

        Well, there was only one, until more aliens, uh, you knew this was about aliens right? Came on hoverboards. Then he was not the one because, uh, their was one frozen in ice, then Edge got the WWE to pay for a movie…

  33. KSuellington

    A week after Trump pulls one of the worst moves of his Presidency (directing CDC to somehow have the authority to halt evictions) he pulls one of the best moves by sending out that EO to stop critical race theory and white privilege struggle sessions. He should be making it a centerpiece of the campaign and forcing Bidenharris to support it. This is some of the most divisive and racist crap going on and has been steadily moving out from the universities, where it was dreamed up by some of the most privileged humans to ever exist, into the mainstream. Time to shine a bright spotlight on this sewage and let the normals get a nice good whiff of it.

    • Hyperion

      Yeah that shit has to stop now. They’ve already done incredible damage with that garbage.

      • KSuellington

        It is helping set back race relations decades in this country. And yes, I’d say it is “unAmerican” although “antiliberal” would be a better description. But as most Americans understand “liberal” as the opposite of “conservative” I think unAmerican works.

      • Hyperion

        There’s no way this is healed in a generation, even if we could stop it right now. And the woketards are relentless with pushing more and more crazier version of this shit every day, and now not only academia and the government are pushing it fast and hard.

        Maybe they’ll be happy when everyone hates everyone else.

      • KSuellington

        I think that is the idea. At this point I don’t think there is much doubt that is precisely what they are attempting. Yuri Bezmenov was a prophet.

      • Hyperion

        Divide and conquer. Only used to do it with warring tribes, now it’s every man xer against one another.

    • Hyperion

      You know where it leads to if they’re able to continue with this. It leads to the controversial article published by NPR upthread to being part of the democrats official platform. Degenerate assholes.

    • CPRM

      Haha, like Trump’s EOs, even the one’s that make sense and are constitutional ever get enforced, 9th circuit FTW!

      • KSuellington

        Yup, and this is about as Constitucional as an EO gets. He absolutely has authority as the Chief Exec to do this.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I gather he hadn’t heard of it, or at least that specific implementation, until Tucker Carlson’s guest on Wednesday.

    • Hyperion

      They need to learn from this guy, that went on way too long.

      Mama said knock you out!

  34. Scruffy Nerfherder

    And somehow, I’m back at the office because my desk is a disaster.

    But at least I got a ride in this morning.