Sunday Morning I Love 2020 Links

by | Oct 25, 2020 | Daily Links | 241 comments

 

A minor thing yesterday just summed up 2020 for me. SP and I are moderately frugal, mostly because we’re indifferent about stuff that other people spend money on- clothing, jewelry, cars… everything except food. And while we delight in the fancy and spendy cuisine found in places with stars, we’re just as delighted with an awesome hole-in-the-wall dim sum restaurant. So our one splurge was a nice dinner once a month. Unfortunately, the lockdowns drove some of our favorite places into closure, caused several of them only do take-out, and others to restrict seating, making getting a table nearly impossible. So this month, we decided to use our splurge money on a drone, since that seems to be a fun toy for geeks. SP whipped out her phone, found what looked like an excellent candidate, read consumer reviews, then ordered it. An hour later, it was on our front porch.

There’s 2020 in a nutshell. Wild stupidity and panic couple with amazing advances in usable technology and remarkable consumer convenience.

And we still celebrate birthdays, including a guy willing to die for the Republicans; RAHeinlein’s spirit animal; the one and true Mr. Waverly; the pride of the Catholic church; an eternal symbol of the Deep State’s corruption and amorality; Spudalicious’s doppelganger; and a guy whose face is on every iodine bottle.

That said, let’s get to the Links.

 

I love this. Love. This.

 

Shout-out to these guys. They are heroes and deserve our support.

 

These guys, on the other hand, are really shitty at trolling.

 

This kind of thing wouldn’t faze Tom.

 

The War Against the Jews moves from the Middle East to New York.

 

Wait, wasn’t this a scene in Spinal Tap?

 

Enjoy it now, President Biden will fuck this up royally.

 

Old Guy Music features a group who pioneered the whole Celtic rock thing and managed to remain the greatest bar band ever. Too bad so many people tried to imitate this and achieved more commercial success doing it less well (cough, cough Ian Anderson).

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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.

241 Comments

  1. Cy

    Gooood MRONING!

    • Old Man With Candy

      I can’t talk to you now that I’ve seen your tits.

      • Cy

        If that was the worst thing you saw last night, you weren’t paying attention.

      • db

        Guess I left early.

      • juris imprudent

        Moobin?

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Annus Horribilus.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Only after I’ve had Mexican food.

      • Rebel Scum

        Thai, for me.

    • Tres Cool

      “Incontinentia. Incontinetia Buttocks.”

      • Nephilium

        /thwows Twes woughly to the gwound.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has threatened to withhold public funding from Orthodox Jewish communities that do not enforce the Covid-19 rules at schools.

    “So hopefully that will motivate them,” said Cuomo in a phone interview. “Because nothing else I have done has motivated them.”

    “I guarantee if a yeshiva [school] gets closed down and they’re not going to get state funding, you will see compliance,” continued Cuomo.

    And when you’re hanging by your heels from a lamppost, it will be too late to repent your sins and beg forgiveness.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Are the leftist secular Jews applauding this I wonder? It’s something I never thought I’d see in America much less New York City.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Yes, by and large they are. See, the capos are “good Jews,” not like those ones who actually practice Judaism.

      • Fourscore

        Good morning, OM. I can’t keep up anymore. Seems like my internet provider is the USPS. The mask reviews were hilarious, I feel so threatened. Actually I think I know some of the folks.

        I used to worry that I wouldn’t be around when the SHTF but that was too pessimistic. We’re living it right now, incrementally. One more notch tightening (the election?) is all it may take.

        Thanks for the bright spot on the morning, now it’ll start going downhill.

      • Sensei

        It puts the left in an interesting conundrum. Many of the communities receive a disproportionate amount of social assistance.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    The depths of depravity

    If the White House and Senate are lost, a reactionary court would be Republicans’ bulwark against a Biden legislative agenda that could include reform to the court and the Senate.

    The court is due to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, on 10 November. Trump has said he wants the justices to bring the ACA down, thereby depriving millions of healthcare in a pandemic and kneecapping his own drive to defeat HIV.

    The Supreme Court will ban doctors!

  5. juris imprudent

    If only Kamala Harris wanted to play drums for Spinal Tap.

    • ElspethFlashman

      Better left unsolved.

      • Old Man With Candy

        You can’t dust for vomit.

      • ElspethFlashman

        The law of averages . . .

  6. Ted S.

    I love this. Love. This.

    I’m reminded of this review of the children’s book “Mr. Messy”.

    • Grumbletarian

      From the Current Affairs review:

      Stepping into his tomato garden, Fred observes that it would be wrong for a neighbor to take his tomatoes without asking, and then says it’s just as wrong for the government to take them and give them to the neighbor against Fred’s will, which is illustrated with a masked cop stealing a bag of produce for the poor, providing a valuable window into the feverish libertarian imagination. “Stealing is always wrong,” the kids write in their notebook, letting someone’s raised produce beds stand in for the tens of billions of dollars Mike Bloomberg hoards for vanity presidential campaigns while kids drink lead-tainted water in school and do KickStarters for their insulin.

      The author has a non-sequitur machine gun and knows the unlimited ammo cheat code.

    • Nephilium

      So… you’ve never heard the review of Ping the duck before?

  7. Gender Traitor

    So when are you going to post some drone video footage for us, Old Man? Either of the prez candidates holding a rally in your area before the election?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Trump has been in and out of here seemingly daily.

  8. PieInTheSky

    the links are early again goddamnit

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Shhh don’t say his name!

      • PieInTheSky

        look fucking up the routine is not good

      • PieInTheSky

        And I did not say J*****h

    • Gender Traitor

      Everything will be OK again next week, Pie. Tough it out.

    • PieInTheSky

      also Old Guy Music is usually good. weird day today

  9. Yusef drives a Kia

    Good morning all you screaming brats!, No rain today, maybe some golf after all,

    • PieInTheSky

      maybe some golf after all, – how bourgeois

      • ElspethFlashman

        The heir of the wasteland and I bowl every Saturday morning. That’s the sport of kings ! He’s an amazing bowler and got a 204 last Wednesday when he bowled with my mom. My average: not so good.

      • Timeloose

        I’m hitting the alleys this morning for my weekly series with my old man and his friends. I’m pushing a 150 average, but I have been very rusty.

        Summer time is not conducive to bowling. Winter in the NE is great bowling weather.

      • ElspethFlashman

        That’s a great average !
        We are on a league that’s Saturdays 10-12noon. Cheaper rates that way. From fall to spring.

      • Timeloose

        Mine is 9:00 am pre COViD but now 11:00 pm. Me and 24 grumpy old men. It’s entertaining that 23 guys 100lbs over weight, with bad hips, shoulders, and spines can beat me week after week.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Ours is a mixed – ability league. Special needs and families league, essentially. Some bowlers are elementary age, some are adults. There’s two guys who are 70+ who beat me every week. The tip they always tell me is “see how much better you did when your hand went all the way through?” (I’m like, yeah, I know.) Next week we wear costumes, I am looking forward to it. I bought a “Where’s waldo?” costume for $3 and a “barista” costume for the heir to wear.

      • Timeloose

        It’s a great game. Every old guy there is willing to help anyone. Sounds like fun EF.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I was tossed out of a league. Closed-minded assholes resented my success throwing overhand.

      • Nephilium

        The girlfriend is not a good bowler, and keeps thinking bowling once a year will get her better. I’ve failed so far to convince her that we should sign up for a league (there are several here that give you a ball or shoes at the end of the league).

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Yu! Pie, he means disc golf, so more hipster than bourgeois. ; )

      • Tulip

        Hipsters aren’t part of the bourgeoisie?

      • PieInTheSky

        at least their parents are

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s called Hippy golf by some, I see why, but I dress Pro, so you don’t notice my beer and weed as much,

  10. The Late P Brooks

    MUZZLE HIM!

    The development of a Covid-19 vaccine may not be enough to prevent the coronavirus from becoming endemic, infectious disease experts warn, suggesting a better way for people to proceed would be to learn to live with the virus.

    ——-

    Dr. David Heymann, who led the WHO’s infectious disease unit during the SARS epidemic in 2002-2003, believes some governments may be over-reliant on the development of a vaccine at a time when effective communication, diagnostic testing and outbreak containment activities are all critically important tools.

    “The difficulty right now is that in many countries, they are looking forward to a vaccine which may or may not come, which may or may not be effective in the short or long term, and they are looking at possible therapeutic (options) which could solve many of the problems,” Heymann said Wednesday during a webinar for think tank Chatham House.

    “But, that’s not a good way to proceed at present. … We have to learn to live with the pandemic.”

    ——-

    hen asked how people can learn to live with the pandemic, Heymann replied: “Individuals must know how to do their own risk assessments, as they do for sexually transmitted infections, as they do for tuberculosis, as they do for other infections.”

    “They must do their own risk assessments and understand what measures they can take to prevent themselves from becoming infected and to prevent others from becoming infected,” he said. “It’s all about people understanding that this virus, if it is destined to become endemic, will become endemic no matter what we do. But we can slow that to a certain level that causes less disruption in our societies and lesser death.”

    At least he didn’t mention herd immunity. That would be criminally insane.

  11. The Late P Brooks
    • PieInTheSky

      that’s not music

    • Fourscore

      Good music, Old Guys know…

  12. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Hey hey, a late night comedian who actually has the cajones to do a Biden joke. I like this guy:

    https://youtu.be/XGXRvDT2k8I

    • Chafed

      Part of Carson’s genius was making fun of everyone. It made it easy to laugh when your favored politician took a hit because it was funny, not malicious.

  13. leon

    No mention of the Biden phone call? I knew that glibs had sold out to the blamestream media!

    • Gender Traitor

      ??

      • PieInTheSky

        ???

      • Rhywun

        ????

      • Nephilium

        ??????

      • Sean

        I’m waiting for Crusty Juggler to review the videos.

      • prolefeed

        Transcript?

    • Fourscore

      Looks like there’s only 2 of us, Brooksie, that have enjoyed that life and the music. Willie will always be there for us, even as his contemporaries fall by the wayside.

  14. leon

    Clearly Trump is doing all this for the Jewish state because he’s trying to hide his Nazi ties.

    Also Andrew “send them to the camps” Cuomo will be a great AG for Biden.

    • Rhywun

      Now you’re making me want to vote for Biden. ?

      If it leads to Cuomo not so directly terrorizing my state, I’ll consider that a win.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        Of France and England, did this king succeed;
        Whose state so many had the managing.
        That they lost France and made his England bleed.

      • hayeksplosives

        ~sniff~

        I have a massive soft spot for Henry V.

      • juris imprudent

        You know, Californians said that about Earl Warren – sure put him on the Supreme Court, anything to get him out of this state.

      • l0b0t

        I can’t find the clip, but from King Of The Hill

        Peggy Hill – “Did a woman ruin the Supreme Court?”

        Hank Hill – “YES! And that woman’s name was Earl Warren.”

      • Rhywun

        LOL

      • Hyperion

        “If it leads to Cuomo not so directly terrorizing my state, I’ll consider that a win.”

        Don’t worry, the dems are all about equality. He’s going to terrorize all the states equally.

      • R C Dean

        No, you don’t get rid of your trash by throwing it over the fence onto the neighbor’s lawn.

      • Agent Cooper

        I’m sure his replacement will be peachy keen.

  15. Mustang

    Your Tuttle Twins link is appropriate. I’m sitting in the hospital waiting for the birth of my first child. Added the series to my wish list. Thanks OMWC!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Mazel tov! Are you allowed in the room?

      • Mustang

        Yup. No masks even. We can have visitors too except that Japan isn’t allowing any dirty infectious Americans in unless they’re military or essential business, so basically it’s just my wife and I while our families seeth at home. My parents would have been here weeks ago if they thought they could sneak in somehow.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Congrats as well, definitely a t
        Year of first children

      • Fourscore

        The joy of #1. You da man, Mustang.

    • Grosspatzer

      Congrats! BTW, if the staff should tell you that you should go get some rest because it’s going to be a while, do not take this suggestion. I’ve heard that this may lead to unfortunate consequences involving rusty tin cans. From a friend.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Can confirm. We thought it was going to be a few hours still to go when the doc came in to check on our most recent/last. I was heading out the door to grab a burger downstairs when I heard him yell this baby is coming now.

    • Sean

      Congrats on the tax deduction!

    • Hyperion

      Congrats on your first!

    • Tundra

      Congrats, Mustang!

      All the best to you and the family! What a cool time!

    • Mustang

      Thanks all, we are very excited!

      • Trials and Trippelations

        Awesome news. Hope the laboring and birth go great

    • hayeksplosives

      Congratulations!

      And one more to add to the tally of small l libertarian

    • Sensei

      Congrats!

    • Tejicano

      Congratulations!

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Congrats Mustang! Highly recommend the Tuttle Twins collection. We have em all for our kids.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Congratulations on your new pony!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    look fucking up the routine is not good

    Oh, no. Did you miss Wapner?

  17. leon

    Listened to Tom Woods talk about the Tuttle twins hit piece. Funny that is made it more well known.

  18. Rhywun

    I love this. Love. This.

    #metoo. Current Affairs, meet Barbra.

  19. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And a good morning to all of you liberty junkies!

    Fun lynx this morning. I hope the LP is paying attention to the Tuttle Twins story. We need more people, plain and simple. Teaching children seems like a reasonable way to do that, doesn’t it?

    I may buy one of those fishnet masks, just to show my support for their awesomeness. I absolutely love when companies share the hate they get. I used to see a company called Big Ass Fans at trade shows. One year, their booth graphics featured emails from people who were offended at the name of their company. Hilarious!

    Excellent Old Guy music today. Might go well with a little Wishbone Ash.

    I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday.

    • Hyperion

      Good morning, wokesters and libtard fake news!

    • Hyperion

      I forgot about Wishbone Ash! Way back when train is a rollin this morning!

      • Rhywun

        Good stuff.

      • Hyperion

        And that Flying V in the video. I had a 1968 Gibson Rosewood V back in those days. I wish I would have never sold that, sometimes I hate me.

    • Bob Boberson

      I hope the LP is paying attention to the Tuttle Twins story. We need more people, plain and simple. Teaching children seems like a reasonable way to do that, doesn’t it?

      *Checks twitter to see if ENB has called Conor Boyack a Nazi yet

  20. Hyperion

    “The War Against the Jews moves from the Middle East to New York.”

    WTF? How is he going to take away (((their))) money specifically People vote for this guy?

    You know who else took away (((their))) stuff?

    • Rhywun

      Easy. Target their zip codes. Any non-(((them))) caught in the net will know who to blame when the free shit ends.

      • Hyperion

        I’m pretty sure this is why they invented lampposts.

    • Tres Cool

      1-800-GOT-JUNK ?

  21. EvilSheldon

    Good morning Gliber-nam!

    It’s raining, which put a dent in my shooting plans. So instead, I made Eggs Benedict for breakfast, using the Hollandaise recipe I found on this site. Mmmmm…

    • Hyperion

      Raining here too, and a little chilly. It’s all down to shitposting and video games.

      • EvilSheldon

        Shitposting and video games sounds pretty good right about now.

        Maybe later I’ll take the trash out or something.

        I did throw down a bid on that Shadow 2. I don’t really need it, but fuck it – if Biden pulls off a win there aren’t gonna be many more chances to buy…

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Boo fucking hoo

    The scale of the Covid-19 pandemic is exposing the battle scars of the country’s most hardened public health officials.
    Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike began to cry and paused her remarks — her back to the podium — during a Friday briefing in which she reported new coronavirus deaths and thousands of additional cases.

    The scale of the Covid-19 pandemic is exposing the battle scars of the country’s most hardened public health officials.
    Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike began to cry and paused her remarks — her back to the podium — during a Friday briefing in which she reported new coronavirus deaths and thousands of additional cases.
    “Since yesterday, we lost an additional 31 lives — for a total of 9,418 deaths,” she said. “These are people who started with us in 2020 and won’t be with us at the Thanksgiving table.”
    Her voice shaky, she added, “To date, we are reporting 3,874 new cases, for a total of 364,033 confirmed cases, since the start of this pandemic. Excuse me, please.”

    She wiped a tear with her bare hand and turned away from the podium to compose herself. A man in a mask walked over with a box of tissues. She wiped her eyes and returned to the microphone.

    ——-

    An longtime Cook County internist and pediatrician, Ezike urged state residents to “fight the fatigue” brought on by the enormity of the health crisis.
    “If you’re talking about Covid fatigue from having to keep wearing a mask, think about the Covid fatigue for health care workers, respiratory therapists, who are going to have to go through this whole episode again, of trying to fight for people’s lives because we couldn’t figure out how to control this virus by doing some of the simple measures that have been prescribed,” she said.

    Stick it up your ass, you fucking quack.

    • Bob Boberson

      All you wreckers made a doctor cry. Wear the damn mask talisman.

    • Hyperion

      Wait until Ezekiel Emanuel in in charge of the new national healthcare system. There will be ovens, and they won’t be for baking bread.

    • EvilSheldon

      A few years ago, I got to have coffee with the guy who negotiated the cease-fire between the Colombian government and FARC, so that he and his team could go out into the hinterlands of Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru and do Polio vaccinations. He pretty much single-handedly wiped out Polio in South America.

      He got to call himself ‘battle-hardened’. You, Dr. Ezike, do not.

    • Gustave Lytton

      A fucking pædiatrician running the state health department? Could be worse I suppose. Could be the state epidemiologist like here. And he’s the highest ranking MD in the turd of a state agency.

      Everyone else including his new boss (diversity hire that has done a shit job at the largest county’s health department but she espouses the insane left’s public health ideology) is a non-medical political hack. The woman (who are far far over represented in state government leadership positions) in charge of the state mental hospitals is a a clinical dietician.

    • Hyperion

      The bigger deal is who cares? I don’t care if Hunter has a million cracktons of crack. I do care that him and pop are going to sell us all out to China. What language do those Uighurs speak in the gulags? I guess maybe we should start practicing.

      • hayeksplosives

        This is the big issue . Crack pipe scandals are actually helping deflect from the truth that they’re selling us out to the CCP.

      • Mustang

        Yup. There are actual hordes of commies taking to the streets and we are about to elect someone who is bought by the Chinese.

        In the book “The Hundred Year Marathon” they talk about the Chinese seeking an “assassin’s mace,” a weapon or advantage that when used would allow them to overtake the US as the dominant world power. I’m almost convinced COVID was it.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        China is important, but the crack cocaine is important too. Joe Biden is at least partly responsible for putting hundreds of thousands of lower income Americans in rape cages because of crack cocaine possession. It is important that law makers and their offspring be held to the standards that they force on everyone else. It all too rarely happens.

      • Hyperion

        Joe Biden is the jackass responsible for getting testosterone put on the list of illegal scheduled drugs. A hormone made by your own body, made illegal.

        He’s the biggest piece of shit on the planet.

      • Sensei

        Understandable. It made him required to get hair plugs.

    • leon

      I’m more interested in hearing/verifying Bidens phone call to the Ukrainians after Trump was elected.

  23. Hyperion

    “Harris also accidentally overstated the U.S. death toll of the coronavirus, saying it had killed “over 220 million” Americans instead of 224,000″

    Jeebus, after they already did that once? This is going to be our president? (according to all the polls?). God help us.

    • leon

      Mostly True. It’s a number and you should be mad. / Politifact

      • Hyperion

        Mad? If it were true, I’d have a hard time finding someone else alive, let alone any grocery stores open and people to stock the shelves. It would be like a real life Fallout 3.

      • Rhywun

        Don’t worry, we’ll get there sooner or later.

      • Cy

        I think the most disgusting part of the non-stop whoring of that number is that with the Dems in charge, at best, would’ve had an equal number of deaths.

        Realistically I think it would’ve been higher.

      • mrfamous

        You sure would hear about it a lot less though.

    • Don escaped Duopoly

      @JenniferJJacobs BREAKING: Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, has coronavirus, sources tell me.

      What would John Nance Garner think of a VP having a staff . . . having a chief of staff?

      • leon

        Well he needs someone to organize all his tie breaking votes

      • juris imprudent

        He can’t be a heartbeat away from the Presidency without understanding and practicing all of the trappings.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        All things are ready, if our mind be so.

    • Bob Boberson

      I don’t think it’s unintentional. The media and their base are perfectly comfortable with their lies. They have no shame and the glib retraction is well worth keeping up the momentum on the fear mongering.

      • Hyperion

        They had to do it, otherwise we’ll never usher in the new USSA of utopia.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    “Harris also accidentally overstated the U.S. death toll of the coronavirus, saying it had killed “over 220 million” Americans instead of 224,000″

    Wishful thinking.

    • Hyperion

      Stupid thinking. That would put her at somewhere around a 30% chance of still being alive right now. Her and Joe said the same thing. Good thing their voters are completely brainless as well. Public school worked.

    • creech

      You know, shit happens when you are speaking. I once said “Lincoln assassinated Booth” in the middle of a Civil War lecture I was giving. Didn’t even know it until some wiseass in the audience piped up.

    • Mustang

      I had one of those assholes chase me a half mile down a mountain here.

      On a different day, I was filling the gas tank when one flew straight at my face and stopped several inches in front of it. Murderous insect eyes locked on mine. I froze. It circled my car twice, hovered in front of my face again, then took off.

      Fuck those things.

      • Bob Boberson

        I had one fly into my house a while back. I didn’t know what it was but luckily I despise the noise of flies in the house and had my electric flyswatter handy. it took a couple zaps. I had to do a google image search to figure out what it was.

      • Hyperion

        Never seen one. But we have these huge black hornets. One got in the house a few months ago. I just walked out and got my badminton racket. They don’t survive that. They get knocked down and I just step on them.

      • Bob Boberson

        Get yourself one of these. They are crazy fun.

      • Gender Traitor

        We got one of those as a gift. It was my constant companion all through back porch season.

      • Bob Boberson

        Something about that SNAP! is so satisfying

      • Hyperion

        Do wasps and hornets get stuck in the mesh?

      • Bob Boberson

        Sometimes and they sizzle like hot cakes when they do. The current is controlled by a button on the handle so you can shake or, if necessary, pick them out without getting shocked.

      • Tundra

        Sub-zero temps take care of that shit.

      • Hyperion

        All time low recorded temp here is -7 in 1893. I’ve been here 12 years and never seen it below zero.

        Ultimate thing is find their nest after sundown and douse it with gasoline. Might want to be wearing body armor. I’ve done that with lesser hornets with 100% success rate.

      • Hyperion

        That’s why I have a badminton racket next to my grill and a big can of hornet spray on a shelf near the wall on my deck.

        I wonder if my state is a badminton racket carry state? MD, probably not.

  25. Sensei

    Update on Chez Sensei. The natural gas utility is converting lines from low pressure to high pressure.

    Day 1. Crew of 8 guys marks out utilities and service to about 12 houses. Takes 6 hours.

    Day 2 (yesterday). Same crew plus 1 cop who blocks the road, begin work. It takes them roughly 4 hours to switch over to the already existing high pressure line, replace my meter twice because of a screw up, vent the new meter outside the house from the new pressure release valve, get all my appliances working again (twice) including screwing with my boiler for an hour because of air in the line.

    I felt bad for the guys in the house because they were required to wear a fricking N95 RESPIRATOR the whole time they were in the house.

    NJ is giving utilities $325m for this which I can’t fathom covering the cost. They did a total of two houses on the street yesterday.

    • hayeksplosives

      Shovel ready?

      One problem with government (or any) bureaucracy is a decoupling of activities from their actual costs.

      • Rhywun

        Or actual need.

      • Sensei

        In this case the need is genuine, hardens gas lines and allows more capacity.

        The issue is the utilities should have been doing this all along gradually with new builds and repairs.

  26. Timeloose

    I’m thinking of starting an affinity group at work.

    Bowling for inclusion. Get the company to pay for a league with beer and wings once a week. Sell it as a way to build teamwork, make underrepresented minorities feel welcome in a harsh location, and encourage loud shirts.

    Make loud polyester great again and pay for my hobby.

    • leon

      Sounds like it could actually generate bonne-home and happiness. So i think HR squashes it.

      • Timeloose

        No doubt. I had a long conversation with someone I respect about affinity groups at the workplace. We debated in good faith but I kept coming back to my belief that softball, bowling, or any open voluntary social league does more to bring people together than a company HR driven group.

      • l0b0t

        In my Army experience, nothing ruined morale quicker than a mandatory family fun day. A perfectly good Saturday that I would have otherwise spent down in Carmel, eating really good food and browsing eclectic boutiques, is instead spent at a picnic table in Seaside, hanging out with my boss and his family, watching the thoroughly alcoholic 1st sgt. and platoon sgt. make spectacles of themselves.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah the squadron mandatory family day. Yeah..I dont miss those. Our first shirt was also an alcoholic. Must come with the 1st Sgt rank.

    • Nephilium

      Speaking of beer and wings, it’s almost time to walk up to the local to watch the Browns play.

      /hides closet full of bowling shirts

  27. hayeksplosives

    Rain in the forecast, but nothing on the radar. Color me skeptical.

    It occurred to me after reading from various doctors and medical “experts” about covid, immunity, vaccines, prognosis, mechanisms of action—all of which has differing opinions/—that doctors are just like meteorologists.

    They have access to cool scientific tools, and gave some education, but in the end they’re just making best guesses.

    And just like meteorologists, they’re never held to account; we accept that there’s a certain level of chance.

    So why the hell would we put either in charge of directing government power?

    • juris imprudent

      Rain before Santa Ana season? 2020 strikes again.

    • Suthenboy

      My father used to joke about meteorologists, economists and doctors by saying they should wear robes and hats covered with moons and stars until I pointed out to him that wizards mostly predicted seasons and they were always right. Time to plant, time to harvest etc.
      The weather channel on my phone is always wrong.

  28. westernsloper

    I love this. Love. This.

    #metoo

    Old guy music today. ?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Sherrod Brown was just on Meet the Press. The guy is a nonstop font of random assertions. Blah blah blah Trump bad, Biden good.

    Okay, whatever. Nobody is going to call him on any of it. Certainly not Chuck Todd.

    • Gender Traitor

      Oh, how I wish he were up for de-election this year. Almost as much as I wish DeWine were.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Chuck Todd says Qanon controls the Republican party agenda.

    There you go.

    • Rebel Scum

      Serious news by serious journalists for serious people.

      And if the Republican party agenda is to be opposed to pedophilia I don’t really see the problem.

    • Hyperion

      I thought the alt-right controlled the Republican party? I mean the Proud Boys. I can’t keep up.

  31. Rebel Scum

    Senile Harris?

    A hot mic caught Kamala Harris asking staff “are we in Cleveland?” before she spoke.

    • Hyperion

      Right before she said that 2/3 of the population of Cleveland have died of the vid?

  32. Q Continuum

    Before I crawl back in my hole, had to emerge to reiterate:

    Secular, leftist Jews treat Judaism as an affectation; an accessory like a tie or a purse that they can use to spice up conversations and occasionally use as a shield against charges of “White privilege”. Their true religion is leftism which is, and has always been, deeply anti-Semitic. Lefty Jews who ignore and dismiss Trump’s incredible achievements with MENA peace while simultaneously applauding Cuomo and de Blasio behaving like literal Nazis are shameful, disgraceful pond scum.

    Also this.

    https://archive.is/eMeU0

    • Sensei

      Can confirm. Observant Jews are far more open minded in my experience.

    • prolefeed

      Welcome back, Q!

    • Ownbestenemy

      The airframe was retired from offensive operations but still flies. I mentioned that a few days ago. They use it as a test platform.

  33. Rebel Scum

    MASK-HOLE COMMENTS

    Just makes me want to buy one.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Secular, leftist Jews treat Judaism as an affectation; an accessory like a tie or a purse that they can use to spice up conversations and occasionally use as a shield against charges of “White privilege”.

    Cafeteria Jews?

  35. Rebel Scum

    Current Affairs published the expletive-laden piece in its July/August print issue, calling libertarianism “one of the most disgraceful political tendencies in the world.”

    *Shoves the body count of socialism under the rug*

    • Bob Boberson

      I love the faux outrage over ‘indoctrinating kids’ too. They get kids from age 4-18 for 6+ hours a day and uncritically teach them every facet of statist ideology without critique or opposing view…..but oh the horror of a children’s book that promotes the idea that people should be free to choose.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Anything against their propaganda is a threat

  36. Timeloose

    Mrs. Time just made me a lemon poppyseed bunt cake. I’m really excited!

    I commented on why she never made a bunt cake earlier in the week. She indicated that she had no pan, so 1 day later I had one overnight in the mail.

    • ElspethFlashman

      Winning!

    • Mojeaux the Melancholy

      YUM!

      My family uses mini loaf pans.

      The last time I needed a bindt pan and didn’t have one, I used an angel food cake pan. Then I got a bundt pan at the thrift store, where I get most of my kitchenware.

  37. Rebel Scum

    Airplane banner warns of the potential superspreader event prior to Trump’s rally

    It’s going to spread anyway. You can’t stop it. Also, you are a cunte.

  38. Rebel Scum

    NY Gov. Cuomo: ‘If You Take Away The Money From Orthodox Jewish Community, They Will Comply’

    Indeed. Take the jew gold and they will have no choice. And Trump is the antisemite. . .

  39. Rebel Scum

    Enjoy it now, President Biden will fuck this up royally.

    C’mon man, ME peace is bad for the warfare state.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Winning hearts and minds.

    A crowd of protesters attacked and assaulted a Black man who claimed to be a veteran. During the disturbance that lasted nearly ten minutes, the crowd is seen assaulting the man multiple times and at one point they steal an American flag from him.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, no! Damn furriners are destroying the sanctity of your vote!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good Lord, talk about a transparent misreading of data…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If these experts can’t see that flu cases are being rolled into Covid they’re nuts.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Or we are counting all of influenza as COVID….which one is more likely?

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

    • Bob Boberson

      It’s almost like a pandemic based on hysteria keeps people from seeking medical treatment for other ailments. Sort of like incentivizing attributing deaths to said pandemic causes other deaths (from things like influenza) to be erroneously attributed to said pandemic.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Dr Groppelli adds: ‘Viruses are parasites. Once they enter a cell, they don’t want other viruses to compete with. So the virus already in the body will effectively kick the other parasite out.’

      I guess if they ever learn to work together, we’re screwed.

      • Bob Boberson

        Replace virus with ‘socialist’ and cell with ‘institution’ and that say something semi-profound.

    • Hyperion

      “Experts pose the intriguing question as influenza cases nosedive by 98% across the globe”

      Makes sense when 98% of the population are scared to go to the doctor now because they might get quarantined in a Covid ward for minor flu like symptoms.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Daily Fail so probably horribly wrong but take it at face value. What gets reported in the Southern Hemisphere? Australia, S America, Africa? South Africa and Australia have both hardcore lockdowns. Flu, like covid, doesn’t magically appear out of ether or via non-human vectors. It gets passed from person to person. Keep people from interacting and unsurprisingly, the vector isn’t there.

      Just need to weld everyone to weld themselves into their houses for a month or two to finally beat influenza!

      • Rhywun

        Whip Influenza Now has a nice ring to it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m sure there’s some buttons with that acronym still floating around.

  42. Count Potato

    “With the Hunter Biden Expose, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than The Actual Story

    Unprecedented efforts to squelch information about a New York Post story may prove to be more dangerous corruption than whatever Hunter Biden did with a crooked Ukrainian energy company

    The incredible decision by Twitter and Facebook to block access to a New York Post story about a cache of emails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter, with Twitter going so far as to lock the 200 year-old newspaper out of its own account for over a week, continues to be a major underreported scandal.

    The hypocrisy is mind-boggling. Imagine the reaction if that same set of facts involved the New York Times and any of its multitudinous unverifiable “exposes” from the last half-decade: from the similarly-leaked “black ledger” story implicating Paul Manafort, to its later-debunked “repeated contacts with Russian intelligence” story, to its mountain of articles about the far more dubious Steele dossier. Internet platforms for years have balked at intervening at many other sensational “unverified” stories, including ones called into question in very short order:

    The flow of information in the United States has become so politicized – bottlenecked by an increasingly brazen union of corporate press and tech platforms – that it’s become impossible for American audiences to see news about certain topics absent thickets of propagandistic contextualizing. Try to look up anything about Burisma, Joe Biden, or Hunter Biden in English, however, and you’re likely to be shown a pile of “fact-checks” and explainers ahead of the raw information:”

    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/with-the-hunter-biden-expose-suppression-136

    • Hyperion

      “continues to be a major underreported scandal”

      So, it worked exactly as planned.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Becomes? Politicians of previous years laugh at the naïveté while downing adderall.

    • Bob Boberson

      Matt Taibbi and Glen Greenwald……literally the only two honest progressive Journo’s in existence.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Aaron Mate is good too, there’s probably a couple of others out there as well.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The gatekeepers are dead; long live the gatekeepers.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Try to look up anything about Burisma, Joe Biden, or Hunter Biden in English, however, and you’re likely to be shown a pile of “fact-checks” and explainers ahead of the raw information:”

      Completely untrue. Why, just a short while ago I looked up the Biden Ukraine phone call Leon mentioned earlier, and the first link was this completely unbiased article from the AP.

      WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has retweeted an audio recording that U.S. intelligence officials have described as being part of a Russian campaign to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

      The leaked conversation, purportedly between Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, dates from Feb. 18, 2016. The excerpt of it retweeted by Trump centers on the ouster of Ukraine’s chief prosecutor, who had previously investigated the owner of a Ukraine energy company where Biden’s son, Hunter, once held a board seat.

      By amplifying the recording to his more than 85 million Twitter followers, Trump underscored the ease with which pro-Russian narratives can seep into American public discourse ahead of the 2020 election even after being flagged by intelligence officials as the product of a concerted Russian effort. Russia has also published disinformation under the guise of legitimate news stories, U.S. officials say, reflecting something of a shift in tactics from 2016, when Russia relied on a social media campaign to sow discord and orchestrated the release of stolen Democratic emails to boost Trump’s candidacy.

      See? Not a hint of favoritism.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Fuck those intelligence officials, just assume the opposite of what they assert and you should have a better handle on the truth.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ah, just like the DNC emails four years ago were a disinformation campaign. Never mind if they were true or not.

      • Rhywun

        And then hacks like Schiff cite AP as “proof” of Russia! Russia! Russia! and the circle is complete.

      • Count Potato

        “from 2016, when Russia relied on a social media campaign to sow discord and orchestrated the release of stolen Democratic emails to boost Trump’s candidacy”

        Which never happened.

      • Agent Cooper

        So that’s not Biden’s voice?

    • creech

      Q to the white courtesy phone.

    • Tres Cool

      Just search “HuCow” on the pr0nhub. The cited volume certainly seems high, but its a genre.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Heh…I knew it was a genre, I didn’t realize human cow were the keywords though.

      • Rhywun

        Piers Anthony even wrote a fun short story on the topic before he became a hack.

    • Sean

      Enthusiasm. ?

  43. Count Potato

    “Alleged Hunter Biden sex tapes are uploaded on Chinese video site linked to Steve Bannon

    Hunter Biden’s alleged sex tapes and images showing him using drugs and engaging in sexual acts with several women have been uploaded on a Chinese digital video platform linked to Steve Bannon Saturday evening.

    The videos and images appeared to be uploaded by a single user on GTV, which is a subsidiary of GTV Media Group, founded by former Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon and Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui in April 2020.

    It’s not clear if the footage came from Biden’s alleged ‘laptop from hell’, but some images appear to be from a third party laptop.

    One of the uploaded videos accused Joe Biden of being controlled by China saying: ‘U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden is 100% controlled by the Chinese Communist Party as one of the most successful political instances of the BGY program.’

    ‘He is also a target of the CCP’s 3F plan, which aims to “fall, fail, and fell,” to weaken, destroy and kill America!’ the clip says, according to the Washington Examiner.

    The footage has also been censored on Reddit. There does not appear to be any confirmation that the footage or images are legitimate.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8877221/Hunter-Biden-alleged-sex-tapes-uploaded-Chinese-video-site-linked-Steve-Bannon.html

    • Count Potato

      “Just saw Hunter Biden’s sex tape. DO NOT WATCH IT. It is basically a 50-year-old guy smoking crack getting a blowjob from someone who may or may not be underage. The issue isn’t Hunter. The issue is the father who made him sell his influence. Hunter is a victim.”

      https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1320116440444424197

    • Fatty Bolger

      HUNTER’S NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, TRUMPTARD!

      (Please ignore the likelihood that he acted as a bag man for the person who is.)

  44. KOVIDKristen

    The mask thing is fucking awesome! I’ve been tryna figure out ways to poke holes in mine so they’re not noticeable to, say, TSA goons & flight attendants.

    • db

      I didn’t read far enough to know if he was being serious or not. I can’t imagine so.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Wait is he saying that the rain is voter suppression? Did I miss something in that video?

    • Rebel Scum

      This is what voter suppression looks like. It’s a shameful attempt to deter Americans from exercising their fundamental right to have a say in our democracy.

      Standing in the rain?

      • l0b0t

        Thank you. I haven’t heard that in 30 years.

      • Ted S.

        I know I’ve posted it here before. 🙁

      • UnCivilServant

        Sure, Tulpa. You’ve posted here before.