Tuesday Morning Links of Anticipation

by | Oct 27, 2020 | Daily Links | 496 comments

 

Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.

What has already happened is birthdays, including a guy who had everything sewn up tightly; a piece of shit president who ushered in Progressivism; a guy who was a real comic; a guy with a crewcut you could set your watch by; a brilliant comic actor who has recently started saying a few intelligent things; a guy more honest than Trump or Biden; the greatest name in racing- or maybe anywhere; one of the fantasy women of my youth; and a very clever and funny writer who started huge, then suddenly ran out of gas.

News isn’t wonderful, but for the moment, it’s all we’ve got. But soon, soon.

 

I wish I knew more about her than the cartoon bullshit in the press. But whatever, here she is.

 

The important thing is what do (((we))) think. And mostly, (((we))) think very stupid things.

 

“But… but… but… it’s the POST OFFICE!”

 

This will not happen at most universities.

 

I have an alibi.

 

No, really, I have an alibi.

 

Old Guy Music was obligatory- Matt Lorenz doesn’t release new music frequently, but when he does…

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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.

496 Comments

  1. Sean

    Trump 2020.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Heh. I was wracking my brain for a Senator Nicely and it turns out that he’s a State Senator. He’s not entirely wrong but shouldn’t he not be putting on airs?

    • WTF

      People who vote Democrat already know Biden is corrupt and incompetent, they don’t care.

      • AlexinCT

        To them that is a feature/benefit. The dnc is a crime syndicate, and most of the people that follow that group like that shit.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    New numbers are showing a troubling trend. The murder rate in Phoenix is skyrocketing. Already this year, there have been 144 homicides according to Phoenix police. That’s a 44% increase from this time last year.

    All across the country, major cities are seeing a rise in homicides, but percentage-wise, only Chicago had a bigger jump.

    “When you have numbers like that, as the public you should be terrified,” Jeff Hynes, a professor at Glendale Community College and former Phoenix Police Department commander, said.

    People are angry?

    It’s unfathomable.

    • leon

      This is why we have to eliminate constitutional carry / Kelly

    • Rhywun

      you should be terrified

      No. I will not be “terrified”. I will keep my wits about me as usual when I’m out and about and otherwise I will live my life as normally as I can.

      • Sean

        I will live my life as normally as I can.

        Hey buddy, stop doing that.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Avatar and comment = people yelling at a suicide to jump. Festus approved!

      • Lord Humungus

        I’m not terrified. But I’m a big strapping ox of a man who is only afraid of wasps. /puffs out chest in the true Alpha male style.

      • Cancelled

        Be afraid

      • banginglc1

        True story. At my frat house we had one guy who was clearly thought of as probably the toughest guy in the house. Very masculine, strong, tough, etc. But, deathly afraid of bees. It was kind of funny watching a tough guy be so scared of something so small.
        One day we were sitting on the porch. A couple blocks away at the stop sign up the street, this “tough guy” starts screaming and we see him jump out of his car and run. He didn’t even put it in park, it just started rolling down the hill towards our house. It ran into the curb and got kinda stuck. So, we all went running down the street to see what the hell happened. There was a bee in his car. So he jumped out. What a pansy.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A Glib’s normal is very different from that of a square….

    • PBRstreetgang

      Philly is up 41%, which probably means between 3rd and 5th biggest increase. Plus, we’ll hit 400 sometime today, if we didn’t already overnight. Great work by Krasner and Kenney.

  3. leon

    Those University student governments always seemed stupid.

    • AlexinCT

      They were/are nothing more than marxist inculcation & indoctrination programs…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I was in student government in college. I proudly admit we proposed nothing, did nothing, and accomplished nothing.

      • leon

        Can I get your newsletter?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s got nothing in it.

      • banginglc1

        I remember one of the kids in one of my classes was running for president of the student body President (He was a Poli Sci major). He always described himself as a “small government conservative.” All of his proposals were nanny shit. Banning smoking on campus was the only one I remember in particular, but I remember being incensed about more than that. I also remember that this “small government Conservative” was pulling for Rudy Giuliani in the 08 Republican primary.

        People like him are the problem with the world

    • Swiss Servator

      I wonder what the Venn Diagram would look like with “Former Student Government Member” and “Current HOA Board Member”?

      • Festus' Mustache

        O

      • ElspethFlashman

        Whatever, Karen.

      • ElspethFlashman

        I mean – maybe they are all Karens? I was trying to be funny, not mean.

      • Swiss Servator

        That would be a third circle “Karens”

    • Pope Jimbo

      My study group in college was pretty much all returning students, so we all had some actual real life experience. There was one exception, a young kid who was the typical kid who had started college and moved up the ranks like you were supposed to.

      One fall he announced he was going to run for student government. The rest of us mercilessly mocked him for even wanting to join such a stupid group like the SGA. He ended up losing his race and we told him that was good because we wouldn’t need to kick his ass out of the group.

  4. robc

    One of Singer’s legacies not mentioned on his wikipedia page is the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. It was started by a foundation set up by his lawyer, who didnt spend his cut of the fortune.

    • Festus' Mustache

      We’ve got an old treadle Singer from the 20’s. It needs some work but apparently it can do heavy upholstery and even leather. It’s a beast.

      • Tonio

        Those things came with lifetime (of the original purchaser) warranties. It was a safe bet for the company.

      • pistoffnick

        We used to have one at work that was souped up with a 1.5 hp electric motor. I saw it sew 2 pieces of 1/4″ plywood together.

      • pistoffnick

        Our biggest sewing machine was an antique treadle (but modified) type. It was powerful and scary. As a demonstration of it’s power, I watched a guy sew two piece of plywood together.

      • Swiss Servator

        Jeebus – that is amazing!

      • ElspethFlashman

        I have my first Singer right now – borrowed from my sister. It’s got no reverse stitch but it’s a beast. The 301a. I’ve gone to estate sales to scout out a Singer “cranker” for my sisters and the machines are long gone by the time I get there.

      • l0b0t

        There is an old (late ’70s – early ’80s) radio commercial for a sewing machine store that touts the fact that they will take your old treadle (regardless of condition) as a trade in for credit on a new machine. I’m sure that store owner spent the 1990s and early aughts selling those treadles for a king’s ransom.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    However, the biggest key may be the trust between law enforcement and the community.

    “The relationship between your community and law enforcement is a direct connection to your crime rates,” Hynes said.

    How could this relationship have become poisonous? We may never know.

  6. leon

    I watched the vote to confirm ACB. No outbursts or duel challenges. Very sad.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      But the Hawaiian lady said hell no, such a badass queen.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Does that Hirono actually live in a Group Home?

      • AlexinCT

        I thought she lived in a haunted house considering how scary she is…

        That or a whore house…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yuck. Is there anything worse than a whore house ghost? Those, stiff, stiff, stiff sheets gross me the fuck out.

  7. PieInTheSky

    Something is going to happen. Something wonderful. – would you stop saying that?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Maybe the Reform Jews will drop the pretense and stop calling themselves Jewish.

      • Rhywun

        Either something’s brewing on Europa or TPTB have other designs on us.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Maybe this honey-pot of a site is finally going to be sprung and we’re all going to get visits from the Feds.

      • leon

        I hope we get to go to the same camp.

      • DrOtto

        The site is going woke.

      • Agent Cooper

        Jewish? Is that a selfish Jew?

        I kid, I kid.

    • Swiss Servator

      You realize the minute you complain like that we are all going to say “Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.”, right?

      • straffinrun

        I just had some bran flakes and some stale coffee. Something most certainly is coming.

      • AlexinCT

        Sounds like a Kommo-La rally…

    • Old Man With Candy

      Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.

      • Tundra

        I’m ready.

        The 2020 shitshow is showing no signs of letting up.

      • Overt

        Damn skippy. We spent all yesterday watching the Silverado Fire as the evacuation orders crept closer to us. As they closed the schools, all the parents walking to get their kids were just laughing and screaming “2020 Bitches!”

        Did it collectively break us? I don’t know. But I vastly prefer the morbid cynicism over cowering in your house.

    • Lord Humungus

      EVERY DAY WONDERFUL FOR STEVE SMITH.

  8. Sean

    A divided Supreme Court said Monday that mail-in ballots in Wisconsin could be counted only if they are received by Election Day.
    Democrats in the state had asked the court to allow the counting of ballots that arrive up to six days after Election Day if they were postmarked by November 3.

    So, why did they screw over PA?

    Unlike the Pennsylvania order last week, the Wisconsin order Monday concerned a ruling from a lower federal court, not a state court, and Chief Justice John Roberts said that made a difference.
    A federal district court in Wisconsin had sided with the Democrats to allow mail-in ballots to be received up to six days after Election Day, but an appeals court blocked that order and the Supreme Court upheld the block.

    That sounds pretty flimsy to me, but I’m a chump.

    • l0b0t

      Robert Barnes was opining (on the Viva Frei Sunday podcast IIRC) that a very recent Roberts decision indicated that the court would leave in place any election laws enacted by a state’s legislature , but would be willing to overturn those that were imposed by judicial fiat. No mention was made of a state/FedGov court difference.

      • R C Dean

        “the court would leave in place any election laws enacted by a state’s legislature”

        Well, unless it’s something icky like photo ID or requiring people to confirm they are still residents and not dead.

    • Drake

      Might be the last time the Roberts is relevant.

  9. UnCivilServant

    Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.

    I disagree.

    • Swiss Servator

      Fortunately, your opinion matters not.

      • UnCivilServant

        Quite contrary, my opinion is the only one that matters.

      • Swiss Servator

        Not to those running the website here. And that is the only one that matters.

      • leon

        And mine of course.

      • UnCivilServant

        So you’re the minister in charge of driving out contrary thought?

      • Cancelled

        OOOH, is it more puns? I love more puns!

      • Swiss Servator

        *preemptively narrows gaze*

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If it is a free t-shirt I’ll take a large please.

    • straffinrun

      That Sword of Damocles might fall and end up giving you a nice crew cut like Halderman.

      • Festus' Mustache

        sensible chuckle

  10. AlexinCT

    BTW, I enjoyed me some tears from the libtard crowd last night as they watched an accomplished woman that never bought the feminist lies about having to choose between career and family, or believing that patriarchy instead of victimhood mentality holds women back. This woman is now going to remind all the women that were told this was not an option that they were fools for believing the marxists. The left will not allow that to persist because it is destructive to their agenda. Amy might need to make sure she keeps an eye over her shoulder for any dnc operative looking to destroy her life. And now the left is sure to need to pack the courts to better their chances of fighting the will of the American people.

    • Festus' Mustache

      I honestly thought that Trump would pick the Cuban chick for political advantage but I must say that I was very impressed with the way that Barrett never even once rolled her eyes during her testimony. Holding up the note pad, even if a scripted moment, was masterful theater.

      • R C Dean

        Unless the Dems were in on it, the notepad was not scripted.

        And I don’t think the Dems were in on it.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I hate that I went from teen-aged cynic to lumpertarian for the ensuing decades to doubting every political motivation in just 12 short years. I want my innocence back. I WANT to believe.

  11. PieInTheSky

    The important thing is what do (((we))) think. And mostly, (((we))) think very stupid things. – I am non partisan being unAmerican, but those democrats of yours keep saying retarded shit. Why the fuck would RBG dying wish mean anything?

    • leon

      If you don’t Grant someone their dying wish, their souls are damned for eternity.

      • PieInTheSky

        if I decide my dying wish will be, when the time comes, to bang Emily Ratajkowski can I get it now? I promise I will not make another wish.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Damn Calvinists! Always pissing on the dream…

      • Tejicano

        Then you’d better be careful what you wish for.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Some has read “The Monkey’s Foot” by Margaret Atwood.

      • PieInTheSky

        ?

  12. Festus' Mustache

    SP finally allowing the purchase of that decoy Ice Cream van? Wonder Dog buried the collection of tin-can lids in the sand trap on thirteen? Spud is going to grow an inch? Kamala laughed herself into a conniption and her face is stuck that way forever like The Joker?

  13. leon

    “Justice Elena Kagan, joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, dissented from the court’s order.”

    You dont say.

    • Festus' Mustache

      It was a truly shocking turn of events unprecedented in recent Supreme Court rulings. “Whycome every decision not be 9-0 for the good and honest People?”

  14. AlexinCT

    Is anyone surprised that a publication that once was considered the premier entity in its field today has sold out? From publications like Scientific American to Playboy (which I read for the articles) we are now inundated with enemy propaganda. Queue The Economist shilling for China and not admitting they all but own it….

    • Festus' Mustache

      Playboy used to have great articles in the early 70’s and sometime around 1976 they became harder to peruse because the pages kept getting stuck together.

    • invisible finger

      SF’d the link

    • Tejicano

      I was in ROTC during high school in the early 70’s and one of the things we did was familiarize ourselves with the issue weapons of the day. We only had M-14’s to work with so we studied the Field Manuals (FM’s) for the other weapons – the M1911A1 being one of those. There was something about the hands holding the gun in the photos which seemed familiar but I had no idea why.

      40+ years later, talking with my dad one day (he had spent a career writing training programs and manuals for the Department of Defense) and for some reason the topic of the 1911 came up. He mentioned, for the first time in my life, that he had been given the project to re-write the FM for that pistol in the mid-1960’s and that the hands holding the gun in those photos (later editions used drawings based on the photos) were his.

      • Sean

        Cool.

      • Cancelled

        Doxing challenge declined. Amusing as I find researching things for utterly pointless projects I’m not going down that rabbit hole.

      • Tejicano

        His name doesn’t show up anywhere in the manual as he was assigned the project on the job. I don’t think there was even any reference to the department he worked for either. I would be highly interested if you could find out anything – I have no doubt he was telling the truth, it would be cool if I could prove that to others.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s not nice to remind retards that they’re retarded.

    • leon

      It’s the fault of those people over there that my party sucked and lost the election.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The hilarious part is that she claims to be Republican.

    • straffinrun

      I didn’t notice any “ramming” through of anything. Anna projecting?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Yeah, right? I clicked for the ramming part and it was nowhere to be seen. “I CALL SKINEMAX!”

    • R C Dean

      “To those who voted for Jill Stein or the pot-smoker from New Mexico, or wrote-in, “Mickey Mouse…congrats on your new SCOTUS Justice!”

      Thanks. I’m thinking she’ll be an upgrade.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Almost 52K likes for the Navarro tweet? Twitter is a fucking sewer and that broad is a flim flam artist if I’ve ever seen one.

      • straffinrun

        I had a woke co worker that I caught tweeting during a break. He was just scrolling and clicking “like” on everyone he followed w/o reading the tweets. I imagine that accounts for most of the “likes”.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        It’s not too hard to build a like farm for Twitter (at least, that was the case 10 years ago). Not that I don’t believe that there are 50k (or even 100x as many) idiots who would support anything she said, but Twitter likes is about as arbitrary as it gets.

      • Festus' Mustache

        If you catch someone “tweeting” on a break isn’t that a a problem for HR to tackle? That sounds positively masturbatory. I like it… I Like It… I LIKE IT!!!!!!!

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, over at the MSNBC business channel

    Not everyone in America is wearing masks, even now, when public health officials are strongly encouraging them to do so. Rallies to protest masks have popped up across the country, with many Americans pointing out that it’s a violation of their personal freedoms.

    But for others, who potentially represent a less vocal majority, it could become the new normal. Since the start of the pandemic, many people bought a handful of masks for the first time and have gotten used to wearing them in public. Doctors and public health experts believe that American culture could fundamentally shift to embrace new hygiene practices.

    “I think we do need a new culture of masks, at least any time not feeling well, and I think masks are in and handshakes out for the indefinite future,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, the former director of the C.D.C. during the Obama Administration and the president of global health initiative Resolve to Save Lives.

    ——-

    But Guthrie said his views have changed since the start of the pandemic. He would take greater precautions now if he felt under the weather. “Masks are not the slightest bit inconvenient for long periods of time if you find one that fits well,” he said.

    Others say they discovered unexpected benefits to wearing a mask. Hope King, a New York-based journalist, has found comfort in that moment on the street when people pull their mask up as they approach. She sees it as a sign of respect.

    ——-

    For some young Americans, wearing a mask just isn’t big deal. Gurdane Bhutani, 29, suspects that face coverings won’t be perceived as a “strange thing to do” in the future at times when people are packed together. He already refrains from eating peanuts on an airplane in case someone has an allergy. So a mask doesn’t seem any different.

    “It’s not hard to do, and it could make a difference for someone else,” he said. “I know people with autoimmune conditions are feeling really relieved that everyone is wearing masks now.”

    Und so weiter.

    Reject the American culture of toxic individualism. Stop pretending you can or should think for yourself, or manage risk on an individual level.
    Embrace the collective. Wear the swastika. Show the others how much you respect them.

    • Old Man With Candy

      “former director of the C.D.C. during the Obama Administration” Res ipsa loquitur

    • EvilSheldon

      “Show the others how much you respect them.”

      NOBODY wants that.

    • Spartacus

      I have to wear one on campus and have been doing so since May.
      I will NEVER get used to it. My colleagues feel the same way.
      We have been half-joking that as soon as the mask mandate is lifted, we are going to throw them all in a big pile and have a bonfire.

      • Apples and Knives

        Will it ever actually be lifted though?

    • Lord Humungus

      I hate wearing the mask. Unless the part of the nose is pinched just right, my glasses (NERD!!!) fog up.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I actually work too hard to wear the mask. I need my O2 and if they try to make me don one I’ll just hand whatever tool I’m using at the time to them and say “Good Luck in all your future endeavors!”

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I stopped wearing it over my nose for that exact reason. I’m not going to walk around in a blur just because Karen wants me to virtue signal right. Not that anybody has bothered me.

    • Pine_Tree

      Short version of my standard anti-mask rant:

      Masks provide zero potential benefit to you or to others. They are at best neutral and (if you do have any baddies in your respiratory tract) net negatives both for you and for your neighbors. Period. Wearing a mask is an open insult/threat to your neighbor.

      Why? Because believing in masks requires a suspension of the Law of Conservation of Mass. “Experts” who forward opinions requiring suspension of the fundamental laws of the universe are not experts. They’re just idiots.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “I would argue that not all opinions are equal, there are opinions and there are opinions that get people killed” student Senator Triet Ngo said.

    Said the pro-abortion activist.

    ps- FOX news web site is an annoying shitshow.

    • leon

      Having an opinion that some opinions are invalid and shouldn’t be allowed leads to cattle cars and democide. It’s too dangerous to allow.

    • Rhywun

      ps- FOX news web site is an annoying shitshow.

      Yeah, it’s been fucking with my browser for weeks. I don’t click those links any more.

      • Festus' Mustache

        “The Parties switched!’

  17. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    I wish Barrett luck. I hope she’s as good on guns as she appears. Soccer mom judge lady could be a breath of fresh air.

    Homicides here are way up as well. From talking to cop friends, it’s mostly shitheads settling old scores. So like a Harvesting Event.

    Nice Old Guy Music. The doomsday bunker was a nice touch!

    I hope you all have a great day. Fucking 17 degrees here this morning. Only 30 tiny degrees cooler than average…

  18. Rhywun

    Frieden, that quack? GTFO.

    • Rhywun

      Whoa… Gilmored Brooksie there.

  19. l0b0t

    He already refrains from eating peanuts on an airplane in case someone has an allergy. So a mask doesn’t seem any different.

    Way to harsh my buzz, Gurdane Bhutani. I think I’ll try my PB Montecristo idea today. Peanut butter and honey sammich, sealed up like a ravioli, eggwashed and coated in crushed pork rinds, deep-fat fried.

    • Swiss Servator

      So, at which State Fair will you be selling those?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The Coronary County Fall Festival

      • Sean

        State fairs have been cancelled.

        Put your mask on.

      • straffinrun

        “That’ll do pig. That’ll do.”

        I’d make a meme of that and put Kamala’s head on the pig, but my memes suck.

      • Sean

        heh

      • Festus' Mustache

        I liked it but I like you (no homo).

    • Festus' Mustache

      You did partake of the mushroom! Good on you for having an appetite, I never got hungry until a day later.

    • KOVIDKristen

      What time should I be there?

  20. leon

    “Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.”

    I know how that turned out for Tony.

    • Tundra

      Nice to have you back, silicone man!

      Old guy music

    • Overt

      #9 is proof that masks need to come off.

  21. Festus' Mustache

    Thanks for the links, Old Man. I’ll have to peruse the birthday ones later (grrrr) but it’s funny to me that you and Neil Young shared the same fetish re: Carrie. Thought she would be mite “mature” for your tastes. That music link guy is solid. Have a good one and bury the lids deeper while SP is watching her “cartoons shows” after school.

  22. straffinrun

    Autistic folk are America’s only hope in the upcoming civil war.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wasn’t that a Nicolas Cage film?

      • Nephilium

        Nah, Phillip K. Dick short story. Paranoid Schizophrenics were our defense in the Niven Known World books.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: We Just Need Total Control

    A lot of folks acting as if 2020 has just been a string of bewildering bad luck, rather than what it truly is: a concentration of widely and reliably predicted and interconnected disasters that advanced nations of the world could have mitigated or prevented but chose not to.

    • Gdragon

      I knew the responses would be mostly supportive/ridiculous but good lord there’s an awful lot of stupid in there.

    • R C Dean

      Once again, they aren’t wrong that much of this was avoidable, but completely wrong about what went wrong and why.

    • Tejicano

      Not clicking but let me guess – in the “what went wrong” column there’s no mention about what a freaking stupid idea it was for the Chinese to go cooking up a new virus when their containment protocols were dependent on poorly educated staff to keep it from infecting the world.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Junkie-nomics

    Traders in recent weeks have been piling into bets that a “blue wave” election, in which Democrats also seize the Senate, will produce an economy-juicing blast of fresh fiscal stimulus of $3 trillion or more that carries the U.S. past the coronavirus crisis and into a more normal environment for markets.

    Far from panicking at the prospect of a Biden win, Wall Street CEOs, traders and investment managers now mostly say they would be fine with a change in the White House that reduces the Trump noise, lowers the threat of further trade wars and ensures a continuation of the government spending they’ve seen in recent years.

    ——-

    “The market very much believes that Biden is going to win and the Senate is going to tip to Democrats,” said the CEO of one of the largest banks on Wall Street, speaking on the condition that he not be identified. “And the assumption is that we are going to have a very significant increase in stimulus very quickly and that’s very positive for markets. But the fact is there is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty around the outcome of the election and when stimulus might actually come, if it ever does.”

    Enthusiasm for the idea of a Democratic sweep and huge new federal spending — cited in recent reports from Goldman Sachs and other major banks — has helped the stock market weather months of head fakes and political posturing from Washington on when more stimulus money may come.

    Gimme another blast. I’ll get clean, one of these days. Honest. But right now, I could really use a boost.

    • leon

      “Enthusiasm for the idea of a Democratic sweep and huge new federal spending — cited in recent reports from Goldman Sachs and other major banks”

      If Goldman is saying this, is put my bets on Trump.

      Remember that a year ago Goldman said the economy was “near recession proof”

    • Rhywun

      speaking on the condition that he not be identified

      Yeah, because he doesn’t want to be laughed off the stage for that howler.

      • straffinrun

        Wall Street guys are known for giving honest tips for what they think is going to happen? I think we’re seeing a version of short selling here.

    • Raven Nation

      “that’s very positive for markets”

      If he means the stock market then he’s probably right. If he means free markets for trading of goods and services, probably not so much.

  25. Rebel Scum

    The Senate has voted 52-48 to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, just about a week before Election Day and 30 days after she was nominated by President Trump to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    The dark night of Christo-fascism falls on America.

    • Lord Humungus

      Invest in red robes and white hats ala Handmaiden’s Tale, now!

      • Festus' Mustache

        Invest? Shit… Wifey has a walk-in closet full of that garb as anyone who has done the Drinkin’ Zoom can attest! This is nearly the stupidest reaction that I’ve ever seen but I’m waiting for the East German’s numbers.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.

    SMOD is coming?

  27. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday:

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Tard Tuesday: My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”

      this is the worst fucking day

      i’m sorry, i don’t post much, like never, but today weighs heavy. I can’t seem to stop crying, and i assure you, that is not me.

      for what purpose is this ACB, it seems not to promote business, the gravy god of all R’s but simply to punish women. and gays. that’s the ship they want to go down on.

      hatred of women and gays.

      (I’ll be fine, but thanks for letting me vent and just get thru this day)

      • leon

        GOP hates both yeh women and yeh gays!

        Are they asexual?

      • Rhywun

        ??

      • straffinrun

        Why do some people insist on telling the world they’re crying. Curl up naked in the empty bathtub with a bottle of gin and take it like a man.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Because it means you’re in touch with your feelings. And everybody knows that being in touch with your feelings is a good thing, because that always leads to good decision making.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Crying like a little bitch only works well with a girl when you are equally upset and attractive.

      • AlexinCT

        Victimhood sells well these days… Have you not been paying attention?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Just wait till next week. The ALL CAPS Tard Tuesday is almost upon us.

    • Animal

      Indeed.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Loved your story yesterday, Animal! Brought back many memories, some fine, some not so good. God, that grilling on the front steps… I actually did an Animal House one night because she couldn’t hold her liquor. She wasn’t in a shopping cart but I did stand her up at the door, rang the bell and scarpered. Her chastity remained pure. One puke shirt was enough for this tired redneck.

      • Animal

        You just reminded me of a couple other incidents I should immortalize in the Chronicles.

  28. Rebel Scum

    “Jewish Dems see the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett for what it is – a partisan power grab by President Trump and Senate Republicans, which violates the will of the American people, Justice Ginsburg’s dying wish, and the standard Republicans set themselves for Supreme Court nominations in a presidential election year,” she said. “This confirmation will impact generations of Americans, and it’s a ‘shande’ – a shame to our democracy and judiciary.”

    So all of the retarded and irrelevant Dem talking points then.

  29. PieInTheSky

    Here is Rees-Mogg’s mate, Tory MP Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. He has a quadruple-barrelled name, lives in an enormous country house on an enormous estate in Dorset & also wears a top hat. A real man of the people. Voted against feeding hungry kids. Obviously.

    https://twitter.com/BrexitBuster/status/1320378385030389762

    sounds like a top chap really…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He has a weird name, a big house, and conservative politics. He must be destroyed.

  30. Timeloose

    “Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.”

    I predict that Web Dom and SP created a Glibs mobile app that will harvest our personal information and under ware for the betterment of all man kind…….or that SNP is back.

    • UnCivilServant

      I prdict that they have overhyped whatever is planned.

      • Not Adahn

        There is no overhyping. Only entertaining tall tales.

      • Cancelled

        You are so ungrateful. They worked very hard making you new commenting gloves.

      • Swiss Servator

        Way to value SP’s labor. You are a piece of work today aren’t you?

      • UnCivilServant

        Then why is it a secret?

      • Cancelled

        Because the people working hard on it want it to be a surprise?

      • UnCivilServant

        Here’s the thing. I was initially ambivalent, and my ‘i disagree’ was mere flippancy with no substance.

        Switzy has goaded me into actually having a disfavorable view of these actions.

      • Cancelled

        Switzy gets harsh sometimes. You get stubborn sometimes. I say he laces up his gazing gloves and you lace up your punning gloves and you meet at high noon!

      • Swiss Servator

        Thus, you devalue SP’s numerous hours of labor on this site, because spite.

        Why don’t you go take a day off and go beat up a pillow or such?

      • UnCivilServant

        You are inept at wielding guilt and too quick to take affront on other people’s behalf.

      • Swiss Servator

        UCS’ mindreading service. I couldn’t possibly care less if you feel guilt or not. Why would I?

      • Surly Knott

        Surprises aren’t, if they’re announced in advance.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Is leading me on.

    • Gender Traitor

      They’re going to harvest our underwear?? Pardon me if I decline the invitation to Thanksgiving dinner.

      • Festus' Mustache

        They’re just Gnomes. Wee things.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    More Politico:

    Some on Wall Street still fear that full Democratic control in Washington would lead to higher taxes and regulations that could crimp corporate profits and thus undermine stock prices beyond early next year. “Certain sectors, mainly natural resources, will see this as close to a disaster,” said Stephen Massocca, managing director at Wedbush Equity Management. “I believe this outcome leads to the worst market. The real fear will be if progressive policies get implemented.”

    That remains mostly a minority view, however. “The market is embracing the stimulus concept a blue wave would bring,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer and founding partner at Cresset Capital. “Perhaps investors are not fully assessing the impact of an incrementally higher corporate tax rate and increased taxes on foreign income.”

    Short term thinking? On Wall Street?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “The market is embracing the stimulus concept a blue wave would bring,”

      Crony capitalism for for the win!

    • EvilSheldon

      Long-term thinking is out, because there is no long term. We’ve moved into hospice care – give the patient a few more comfortable years before the systemic collapse.

    • Lord Humungus

      Is there any sign of a Blue Wave?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not even in deep blue albany.

      • Not Adahn

        You can’t have waves in a sealed chamber that is completely filled with water.

      • straffinrun

        Personally, I’d love to see Trump crushed even worse in the popular vote and squeak out an electoral college win.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why? That would only validate the tactics almost as much as a biden victory.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Because he can watch the US burn from a safe distance.

      • straffinrun

        Marshmallows on a very long stick.

      • Swiss Servator

        The Trans-Pacific S’more Line…

      • Festus' Mustache

        Actual chuckle

      • Breet Pharara

        According to polls in most MSM outlets, yes. It’s up to you if you buy those polls and I know there are independent polls out there which show a close election (or even a landslide for Trump).

  32. Tundra

    The Healthy Skeptic:

    The briefing today was another exercise in dystopian group therapy;

    He’s really good.

    Here is the essence, it is the same panicked crap as the spring. How about some honesty–try this– No one knows why or how this virus spreads so easily or what the pattern of spread is due to. We can try our best to minimize spread but we aren’t going to be very successful. We are really lucky that this isn’t that lethal a pathogen. And, as our Swedish brethren, and there are still lots of Swedish descendants in Minnesota, have taught us, controlling infection is one thing, but overall public health is more important. We have to keep kids in real school, we need to keep people getting health care, we can’t let businesses fail and jobs disappear. And most importantly, my friends, we can’t let ourselves succumb to hysteria and terror. We need to help each other as best we can, we need to be strong, we need to accept that we can’t control everything that happens in life. We will survive.

    I wonder what happens when we get an actual, no-shit lethal virus. This media-fueled mass hysteria event suggests nothing good.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I wonder what happens when we get an actual, no-shit lethal virus.

      That’s been my question. We’re not even within an order of magnitude in severity to the Spanish Flu.

  33. PieInTheSky

    Yes, my friend. As a former career homicide prosecutor I can tell you that Trump’s conduct fulfills all 3 legal elements of manslaughter. Evidence MUST be presented to a grand jury beginning in Jan. Indictments are sure to follow. For those lost & their families,

    https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1320786027750006787

    • UnCivilServant

      Untrue, but Cuomo and whitmer can be indicted for depraved indifference homicide.

    • EvilSheldon

      I would say, “Take your meds,” but there is zero chance this dude doesn’t have a well-used Xanax script…

    • Overt

      We are about 1 mile south of the latest evacuation line. The thing about Southern California wildfires is that the fire department is VERY good at preserving buildings. We aren’t talking about forests here- it is generally sage brush and grassland as you get close to houses. Up further in the hills, or down in canyons you will get thick oak trees and the like, and very fancy houses that will burn because they are intentionally in a more rustic, unprotectable area. But when a neighborhood is threatened in So Cal it will usually be protected. (Usually, because when those Santa Annas get going at 60 – 90 MPH, a fire can move faster than the fire fighters).

      • Timeloose

        Thanks for the insight. I hope you and yours stay safe.

  34. Drake

    Riots in Philly last night. Do we get riots every time a cop shots a black person regardless of how justified it was? You couldn’t pay me enough to be a cop in a city.

  35. Lord Humungus

    No, Really — Don’t Pay Attention to Early Voting Data

    By Sean Trende – RCP Staff
    October 26, 2020
    No, Really — Don’t Pay Attention to Early Voting Data
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    It’s that most wonderful time of year. After endless speculation, analysis, and hedging, we are tantalizingly close to having actual new election data to work with. Given this, it is a natural temptation for analysts to gravitate toward the one piece of hard data that we have in our possession: early voting numbers. Take, for example, this piece from Politico, claiming that the Democrats’ massive lead in early voting is a “warning flare.”

    I have given my response on this matter before: Don’t try to divine election results from early voting returns. I made this point in 2016, when people were making the exact same arguments about Democrats’ chances off of similar data.
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    The problem today is the same as it was back then. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ll summarize my basic argument from four years ago: Unless you somehow know what is going to happen on Election Day, this argument is useless. To take an extreme example: Democrats could turn out every one of their voters early, and Republicans could still win the election by turning out more on Election Day.

    Obviously, that isn’t going to happen. But we exist somewhere along that spectrum. Most, if not the overwhelming majority, of these early voters are people who would otherwise vote on Election Day. The fact that they decide to cast ballots early just isn’t all that interesting — except perhaps in a state like Nevada, where almost all of the votes are cast early. This is especially true in 2020, when fears of COVID-19 have (unfortunately) become a partisan issue, and where President Trump has been urging Republicans not to vote early. It would probably be unusual, in fact, if we did not see a partisan advantage for Democrats in early voting.

    We can add to this one other problem: human nature. Seeing patterns in clouds is a whimsical experience, one that often brings about nostalgia for childhood. It’s also a substantial cognitive problem, because you’re seeing things that aren’t there. Our brains evolved to make patterns out of seemingly disparate events, but we’ve probably over-evolved in this regard, to our detriment in predicting elections.

    More importantly, when we really want to see something, we have a tendency to make it so. We can look at the cloud that sort of/kind of looks like a seagull, except that it only has one wing and no beak and 13 tendrils instead of legs. But our brain will still somehow make a seagull out of it. (Don’t get me started on images of Elvis popping up everywhere.)
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    How does this relate to early voting? Because we don’t have a lengthy history of good research giving our brains guidance for how to interpret early returns, it’s very easy to see what you want to see. For example, we can look at North Carolina, and see that Democrats have a 10.5-percentage-point lead over Republicans in early voting. That seems great for Democrats.

    But we could also contextualize this by noting that at a similar point in 2016, Democrats had a 13.1-percentage-point lead there in early voting. In other words, Democrats are doing worse than they were at this point four years ago (and much worse than they were in 2012). Actually, with a week to go early voting is looking about the same as it did at the end of 2016 (when Democrats had a 9.8-percentage-point lead at the end), and that wasn’t a great year for them. For that matter, African American voters were 22% of the early electorate in 2016; at this point they are 20.5% of the electorate. That’s probably not what we would expect in a Democratic wave year when Republicans are being encouraged to vote on Election Day and Democrats are supposedly avoiding it.

    You can see similar stories developing in Florida and Nevada, where you can make a case that things look roughly the same as they did about a week out from Election Day in 2016.

    • Lord Humungus

      damn – didn’t mean to cut ‘n’ paste half the article, just the last three paragraphs.

      • AlexinCT

        Suuuuurrrrreeeeee……

      • Lord Humungus

        I’m not Mary Stack! Really!

      • Swiss Servator

        Kizone Kiprow, be that ye?

    • Breet Pharara

      The best way to think about it, most people who have already voted by mail would have voted on elections day. Only the timing has changed. Trump has been telling his base about the risks of vote by mail whereas the Dems have been saying it’s the only way to vote without getting the ‘Vid. Of course Dems would bank a lead at this point, but all that’s changed is the timing of the votes.

      There is no data out there that supports a massive increase in voter turnout.

    • Sean

      Coworker voted by mail. Apparently he got an email when the ballot was sent and a confirmation email that his mail in ballot was received back. I didn’t know that was a thing.

      • Surly Knott

        It is in Michigan. Insofar as such a thing is possible, they seem to be doing vote by mail right. They even told me my signature had been verified so my vote would, in fact, be counted on Election Day.

      • hayeksplosives

        I voted by mail (in San Diego) and got a text when the ballot was received at the post office and another saying it was received at the election center and would be counted.

        The “would be counted” is based on the outer envelope, with the actual ballot inside. Ideally once they determine its a good ballot, it’s just mixed in with the rest.

      • Tejicano

        I voted by e-mail. They snail-mailed a ballot to me which I printed out, filled out and signed. Then I scanned it and sent the soft copy as an attachment to the e-mail address indicated.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    For example, we can look at North Carolina, and see that Democrats have a 10.5-percentage-point lead over Republicans in early voting. That seems great for Democrats.

    They count the votes as they come in, and publish the running tallies?

    That seems… wrong.

    • hayeksplosives

      The Florida “recount” of 2000 was halted by the Supremes on the basis that not all ballots would be treated equally.

      The Wisconsin state supremes voted down the late postmark ballots for the same reason (I think).

      I’d argue that running tallies also treat the ballots differently, with some weighing more than others.

      • cyto

        Even counting by party gives an advantage. If you know you need 15,000 votes after the election (but before counting is over), a sufficiently organized machine could harvest or manufacture those votes.

    • Animal

      Democrat registration =/= Biden voter.

  37. The Other Kevin

    I’m very excited about that something wonderful. I’m guessing it’s a series of articles preparing us for life in Glibs Gulch, culminating with secret instructions on how to get there.

    A guy can dream, can’t he?

    • Cancelled

      SMITH GLIBS GULCH AWESOME PLACE! ALL PEOPLES WELCOME TO COME AND GAMBOL IN PRETTY WOODS, AND BY GAMBOL MEAN…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It amazes me that any politicians sit around and shoot the shit with people who aren’t fully vetted anymore. It’s just asking for trouble.

      • R C Dean

        It was an operative, not the actual candidate.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Then Nguyen tells the interviewer he is a libertarian socialist.

      Chomsky strikes again.

      • hayeksplosives

        Libertarian socialist.

        Huh. I’m gonna need a dictionary.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I believe the term actually predates the current usage of libertarian. Roughly speaking, it can be translated as “voluntary socialism.” Unfortunately, it’s proponents are never into the “voluntary” part.

      • Tejicano

        “You can voluntarily give up your 401K to the state or we shoot you and your family.” – THAT kind of voluntary socialism?

      • AlexinCT

        Liberterian socialists, like jumbo shrimp, are combination of words that basically makes a stupid unreal statement…

  38. Rebel Scum

    The University of Northern Iowa is reversing the student government’s controversial decision to bar recognition of an anti-abortion group that senators said was hateful.

    It is well known that hate speech is not free speech.

  39. Certified Public Asshat

    Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2020

    I’ve always thought that perhaps the democrats are too nice.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Once there’s an expansion of the court the nation is done, finished, and through.

      • R C Dean

        Its a matter of time. The Dems will do it if they win next week, because Barrett. They will do it if they lose next week, because Barrett and whoever else Big Orange appoints during the next four years.

        If they take the Senate and refuse to approve any Big Orange nominee, they will still do it whenever they can, because at that point the gloves are off, the masks are off, and its just the raw exercise of power unfiltered/undisguised by “norms” or “precedent”.

  40. Rebel Scum

    A divided Supreme Court said Monday that mail-in ballots in Wisconsin could be counted only if they are received by Election Day.

    I don’t see how election day is a difficult concept.

    • Sean

      It’s not.

      • hayeksplosives

        It’s dem rayciss maff again (/progtard)

  41. Drake

    If leftist lose, they riot. If leftist win… yeah they still riot.

    I expect riots next week. I also expect Chile’s descent from the most country in South America to be swift and ugly.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s a shame about Chile. When they turn into a long thin Venezuela where will they escape to?

      • juris imprudent

        That would actually be reverting to their historical norm.

        This seems to be a South American pattern – Argentina, Venezuela and now Chile. I’d figure Colombia might be next to develop and then just as it is successful, regress into a basket case.

      • Cancelled

        The societies are highly stratified and have limited social mobility. The ruling class is generally corrupt and very invested in cronyism. That is a recipe for socialist revolts.

      • Surly Knott

        Oddly enough, it’s also the outcome of socialist revolts.

    • juris imprudent

      Chile’s problem is their elite was even more protective of their status than our own. A new constitution won’t change that.

    • l0b0t

      I keep seeing articles about the constitution change, but none of them have explained what people’s gripes were with the old one. Does anyone know what is being changed and why?

      • juris imprudent

        There is a broad resentment to Pinochet and the constitution is his legacy. That’s one factor. As if not more importantly, as Chile prospered, the elite raised barriers to a middle class and UMC that would threaten their traditional status. That did not go un-noticed, and people with rising expectations became frustrated with it.

        There is no denying the success of Chile under the Pinochet constitution, just as there is no denying that it was not meeting emerging needs/expectations. The rigidity of both the elite and the constitution could not hold back the tide. Of course, tidal waves aren’t exactly constructive forces – so this is very, very unlikely to end well.

      • Drake

        Here is the old one. It has lots of problematic stuff that includes:

        – Persons are born free and equal in dignity and rights
        – Family is the fundamental unit of society
        – Chile is a democratic republic
        – The law protects the life of the unborn
        – Equality before the law
        – The right to associate without prior permission
        – The right of property in its diverse species of all kinds of tangible or intangible assets.

        That Pinochet was a real monster.

        Now the commies are going to write a new constitution that will be an absolute disaster.

      • juris imprudent

        There is real problematic stuff, and pretending there isn’t doesn’t burnish your credibility. The problem should be obvious that there are good parts and preserving them should be real important.

      • Drake

        And you think that is what is about to happen?

      • juris imprudent

        Oh no, I have no doubt this will be bad. But to pretend that there aren’t problems – that is denial.

      • Drake

        I hear you. Their biggest problem, and ours, isn’t the constitution, it’s the people.

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, I would criticize the Latin social hierarchy, but really, is ours any better?

      • Swiss Servator

        Yes, ours is better than LatAm.

      • Fatty Bolger

        There is real problematic stuff

        Such as?

  42. The Late P Brooks

    I wonder what happens when we get an actual, no-shit lethal virus.

    Everybody who has spent their every waking moment fastidiously avoiding “germs” and coddling their immune system will die.

    Dipsomaniacs and filthy bums will inherit the earth.

    • KSuellington

      Xenu comin’.

  43. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. We better get some of the usual hate for our Minnesoda man Norm Coleman for trying to keep using his old title of Senator. Dude, you were a hack who lost to Jesse Ventura and Al Franken! You are just a (((regular citizen))) like the rest of us now.

  44. juris imprudent

    Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.

    Yeah sure, in a week all of the political ads stop.

    • Not Adahn

      Oh, you sweet summer child.

      • juris imprudent

        I said “ads”, not stupidity.

    • Cancelled

      Pfft, the 2022 and 2024 ads are already being made.

      • juris imprudent

        Shhh! We have at least a few months respite.

      • commodious spittoon

        Why bother? By then the 16-seat SCOTUS will have outlawed hate speech as defined by the SPLC.

  45. Not Adahn

    Things That Irritate Me About NY And Can Probably Be Blamed On the Government, #N+1

    My water bill has a minimum charge. Obviously they are incentivizing me to use more water, since I’m more than a thousand gallons below what I’m paying for.

    But how? There are only so many showers a man can take in a day. Maybe wash my socks indivdually?

    • UnCivilServant

      Odd. My water bill is instead a flat fee plus usage instead. Probably raises more revenue on a per gallon basis.

    • creech

      Same with my government trash fees. We put out one bag per week, neighbors put out five or six. Same fee. Let’s incentivize filling up our landfills!

    • Cancelled

      If you leave all your faucets running all the time you never have to worry about the traps drying out!

    • Nephilium

      Take up homebrewing.

    • KSuellington

      Bottle that liquid gold up and sell it.

      Not Adahn Springs has a certain ring to it.

  46. PieInTheSky

    You think “socialism” is “evil” ? Ok, don’t collect Social Security checks, don’t go to public hospitals, don’t send your kids to public schools, don’t take the subway, don’t call the fire department when your house is burning down and don’t drive on roads and bridges.

    https://twitter.com/mhdksafa/status/1321035556516671489

    can you also opt out of all taxes? just asking

    • juris imprudent

      I got myself on Twitter so I could tell the world just how fucking stupid I am.

      What exactly is the attraction, for sane people?

      • Mojeaux the Meandering

        It USED to be a giant cocktail party. It was nice and fun.

      • leon

        cosmo confirmed

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve never been to one.

        …wait a minute.

        You don’t drink. Do you go just to watch the antics of drunk people?

      • Mojeaux the Meandering

        Nooooo, I go to perform and be ON. Lots of fawning attention for my brilliance and sparkling wit.

        And then I go home and recover for a week.

      • Not Adahn

        She likes wearing cocktail dresses.

    • leon

      Le Sigh. I like that they think they are so clever and smart, trotting out the same lines that anti-socialists have been hearing since Grade School. Oooh you got us there, i never thought about it until then. I mean the roads! I’m a fool.

      Why don’t you go tell me to move to Somalia too?

      • KSuellington

        It’s always fun to ask a “but roadz!!” believer what the percentage of government spending is that builds and maintains roads.

      • leon

        Yes. As a corollary, When people say “but if roads are private, you’d have to pay for them”, i like to remind them that they already do pay for roads.

  47. Rebel Scum

    This asshole didn’t go away after getting spanked last time?

    BREAKING: Senate candidate @ossoff keeps progressive values ‘low key’ to sway Georgia “rednecks”

    “On the surface portrays himself as left or moderate…deep down he’s a low key progressive”

    “Genuine to a certain point…but he can’t show true self 100% of the time”

    • Apples and Knives

      That made my morning.

      • pistoffnick

        That made my hole weak!

      • The Other Kevin

        STEVE SMITH APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!

    • AlexinCT

      Whomever patented this thing just wanted to make those assholes approve a product that would look like jerking off…

    • Lord Humungus

      I actually lol’d but I’m a ten year old at heart.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Dipsomaniacs, filthy bums, and sex addicts.

    • Not Adahn

      Yes, and?

    • pistoffnick

      I know I am, but what are you?

      Wait…

  49. Rebel Scum

    This Chucklefuck is a bit overdramatic.

    “Today, Monday, October 26, 2020, will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231-year history of the United States Senate.”

    • Cancelled

      As will every day that passes with him still in the chamber.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      *publishes press release about prog tear collection unit operating at 93% capacity*

      Headline: Prog Tear Collection Units pushed near the brink; Eye masks mandated

    • Lord Humungus

      yeah… amazingly how our “betters” have such little knowledge of history.

      • dbleagle

        I saw a Twatter reply from the House Judiciary GOP: “Amy Coney Barrett confirmed. Happy Birthday, @Hillary Clinton!

        That troll made my day.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    I keep seeing articles about the constitution change, but none of them have explained what people’s gripes were with the old one. Does anyone know what is being changed and why?

    NEEDZ MOAR SOSHUL JUSTICE

    and free shit

  51. The Other Kevin

    At what point to people look at all the hyperbole and finally realize none of it is true? They’re still trying to paint the Trump years as the worst in American history, yet the average person can’t think of one reason why their life is worse (outside COVID related stuff). Same thing with ACB. She’s portrayed as an extremist, but there’s no way she’s going to do things like single-handedly reversing Roe v Wade.

    I keep hoping that this is the “red pill” election, and a majority of people will finally reject all this panic.

    • leon

      At what point to people look at all the hyperbole and finally realize none of it is true?

      Its all very individual. some people will never see it. The types who hang out at Democratic Underground and such. For others, this may have been a tipping point where they see that it is all just hyperbolic.

    • Rebel Scum

      Heh…

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.

    The Mayan calendar has been recalculated, and 2020 is earth’s real expiration date?

  53. Rebel Scum

    “We can’t win by the rules so we have to change them.”

    Coons said, “[W]e’ve got to have a wide-open conversation about how do we rebalance our courts. Yes, the two Supreme Court [seats] that have been stolen through these processes that are just wildly hypocritical have been used to jam through partisan nominees. But we’ve got to look at our federal courts as a whole, Rachel. Because we’ve seen hundreds of conservative judges put on circuit courts and district courts all over this country in the last four years, in many cases, too young, too unqualified, and too far right to be allowed to sit peaceably without our re-examining the process, the results, and the consequences.”

    • leon

      they cant consistently claim that 2 seats were stolen. no seats were stolen, but the logic for saying gorsuch was stolen is the exact opposite of the logic saying ACB was stolen.

      • Apples and Knives

        Exactly. And I love the charge of hypocrisy, as if Democrats were pro-waiting in 2016.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t be silly, there’s no hypocracy, the Democrats have always been in favor of the democrats picking the justices, and have been entirely consistant on that point.

      • The Other Kevin

        These are the same people who say “elections have consequences” and “we won” as reasons for doing anything. There is absolutely no way they wouldn’t confirm 3 justices if Clinton had won. They remind me of a conversation I had with one of my kids when she was little, in which I found out that in her mind, the word “fair” meant “I get what I want”.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        I’m surprised more democrats don’t have aneurysms from the mental effort needed to maintain dissonant cognitive brain functions. Reid invoking the Nuclear option in 2013 is precisely why ACB was nominated yesterday.

    • hayeksplosives

      too far right to be allowed to sit peaceably

      There you see it, folks. Incitement to violence.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah this is a United States Senator advocating violence against federal judges because they’re “far right”.

        Such civility. Much norms.

    • Lord Humungus

      Jeezus that’s scary.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      General Flynn would like a to have a word with you.

      • leon

        The DOJ needs to investigate Judge Sullivan. Both because it is abundantly strange that it warrants an investigation into corruption, and as a counter punch to him not respecting the separation of powers.

      • Cancelled

        Would that be the DOJ that started the whole farce by spying on a presidential campaign, falsifying an interview report, blatantly coercing the defendant by using process to drain his defense funds and then threatening to go after his family on equally false charges, into pleading guilty, and then after years of this finally backed down and dropped the case? Or did you have a different DOJ in mind?

      • leon

        Let a guy have a dream man. Don’t kick me when i’m down.

      • Cancelled

        Sorry man :(. The Flynn thing really bothers me though. Not as a political issue, but because what was done to him was simply evil.

      • leon

        I totally agree, and you’re right it’s silly to think the same institution that railroaded this guy and has withheld brady evidence is going to do anything about stopping a corrupt judge.

      • juris imprudent

        What was done to him was a political issue.

      • Cancelled

        Obviously. My point is that I am not outraged by it because we did not get Flynn in office. I am outraged by it because it was evil. If the same thing was done to AOC it would be evil. When it is done to some dude who has never even voted by a spurned lover, or just a cop that is feeling vindictive because their authoritah was not respected it is evil.

    • leon

      “ELECTIONS SHOULDN’T HAVE CONSEQUENCES WHEN WE LOOSE!”

    • Chipwooder

      “Don’t these goobers know that the courts are supposed to belong to MY side????”

  54. Apples and Knives

    Are we ever going to find out what’s really on this damn laptop? The rumors keep getting wilder and wilder.

    • Not Adahn

      What happened with the interview that was going to happen yesterday?

      • Apples and Knives

        I’m not sure what interview that is. I’ve been trying to find real news about it, but all new stories are pretty much about the reporting rather than the actual laptop.

    • Drake

      The sale of foreign policy is coming out fairly quickly and the emails are being confirmed by the recipients. A lot of the photos and videos are basically porn and maybe kiddie porn, so you’ll have to look to the usual places if you want to see Hunter’s junk.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t know what those usual places would be, but I’ll pass, thanks.

      • Apples and Knives

        I don’t want to see it, but confirmation of it would be interesting, considering the FBI decided to drop the case.

      • R C Dean

        The FBI dropped it, reportedly, on the pretext of “chain of custody problems”. Which is bullshit, they actually had a good chain of custody, better than what they have for a lot of evidence. And if there was kiddie porn on the laptop, chain of custody is utterly irrelevant.

        It was dropped because People Who Matter don’t get prosecuted by the FBI, even when the FBI has a lock on a conviction.

    • Drake

      Tucker will be interviewing Bobulinski, Hunter’s business partner, tonight.

      • Apples and Knives

        Just saw that. I’ll be tuning in.

      • Not Adahn

        ^That interview. I thought it was last night.

      • AlexinCT

        Apparently there is a Biden call to him asking him to “pleazsuh, pleazuh, pleazuh, stop talking” that was taped and will also be shared…

      • leon

        I think it was a Biden operative, not a Biden himself.

      • AlexinCT

        DUH!

        The Don never does the dirty work himself. Shit even when Michael had to ice Fredo, he sent a crew to do that…

      • Chipwooder

        I can’t remember if it was Al Neri or Rocco Lampone who took Fredo out.

      • KOVIDKristen

        Al

      • leon

        The fact that Gulliani won’t release the laptop hard drive should raise skepticism.

      • Apples and Knives

        I agree.

      • Drake

        He doesn’t have it. Bannon does. Also the legal question of “can they?” if it contains child pornography.

      • R C Dean

        The child porn can be scrubbed so there is a legal version of the laptop. Easiest would be to just scrub all the pictures.

        Of course, then its been “tampered with”. Weirdly, it would appear to be the case that the best way to protect your data is to salt it with kiddie porn. If you are People Who Matter, that is.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That explains a lot.

    • leon

      All places with better weather than Britain

    • Apples and Knives

      Well, Britain isn’t a country, but okay. I was kinda shocked the US didn’t make the best or worst list.

    • Lord Humungus

      I’ll take “Places where the Inland Revenue Service can’t touch me when I’m retired” for $400?

    • straffinrun

      Kind of an asshole move to hate Libya after you helped destroy it.

      • Drake

        Well, they are getting to meet a lot more Libyans these days…

  55. straffinrun

    I’m on pins and needles waiting for this wonderful surprise. But I’m sitting on the sidewalk in SF, so…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      How are you avoiding the dungpiles?

      • straffinrun

        Pelosi and Newsome?

      • Festus' Mustache

        It’s like the hot lava game that you play as a child but worse.

    • PieInTheSky

      I just know I am going to be disappointed… Nothing good happens these days.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m thinking it’ll be the announcement of the Glibertarian Foundation, and the ability to set your smile purchases to it. I hear they specialize in getting H1Bs and green cards for skilled Mexican prostitutes and cannabis farmers.

      • R C Dean

        I wish Glibs qualified for BraveBux, or whatever they call them.

  56. PieInTheSky

    President Michael D Higgins is to call for a new approach to economics that incorporates the “radicalism” of climate activism.

    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/president-higgins-to-call-for-radical-economic-approach-to-fight-climate-change-39647155.html

    Mr Higgins will deliver the keynote address at the Engineers Ireland annual conference.

    He will say: “We cannot continue with the mere placing of a green lens on economic policies… policies that have failed manifestly and are continuing to cause damaging ecological impacts.”

    Mr Higgins will call for a new approach to economics, one that is based on a connection between ecology, economics and society.

    One that “combines the radicalism that is in the consciousness of climate activism, with the consciousness of egalitarianism and the programmes of inclusion activists”.

    It should be “framed around the three implicit goals of welfare states: redistribution, social consumption and social investment and characterised by gender equality, income redistribution, a reconfigured social consumption,” he will say.

    • Lord Humungus

      >>cannot continue with the mere placing of a green lens on economic policies

      because it worked out so well that we need moar power to do more stupid?

    • juris imprudent

      Ah, harkening back to the de Valera dream of bucolic, agricultural (19th century) Ireland.

      • Festus' Mustache

        The Irish have always been known as a Frolicking people. Gambolars, if you will.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I call a setup on this one and dad never was a going to vote a different way and this was his ‘last laugh with his kids’ for a video. Still shameful.

      • Apples and Knives

        Or, dad thinks to himself, “I’ve only got so much time with my daughters and I’m sick of arguing about politics. Maybe if I lie she’ll shut up for a minute and let me tell her how much I love her.”

      • Chipwooder

        Yahtzee!

    • Drake

      “Bring me my lawyer and my will, I have some changes to make.”

    • LJW

      Calling bullshit on it. Kind of sick that she would use her dying dad to push politics. Assuming her dad is really dying.

    • Apples and Knives

      And at the reading of the will, a video of dad marking Trump on his ballot and yelling, “Psych!” is played.

      • Festus' Mustache

        My three year-old Grandson saw him do it and started slow-clapping, nodding his gigantic head.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Constitution most certainly isn’t perfect. But their proposed replacements are going to be a paved road to Hell.

      • juris imprudent

        Paved road? Piker! We’re doing high speed rail!!!!

      • Surly Knott

        Oh, well, then we’ll never get there.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Newsletter. Subscribed.

      • juris imprudent

        You know it’s amusing that the Uighurs don’t get sent to the camps on the vaunted Chinese high-speed rail.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Yeah, they just get sent on the old rattle traps. Cattle cars are so last Century!

    • leon

      Getting rid of the US constitution is a subcurrent going on on the more leftist of sites. We’ll see if the DNC picks is up.

      I found this interesting:
      https://twitter.com/RedneckLeftist/status/1320901437489094658

      Hate and lies protected as Free Speech. Hate and lies protected as Freedom of Religion. Hate and lies protected as Freedom of The Press. Hate and lies protected as Free Assembly.

      It’s time to stop protecting hate and lies as ideologies you can freely hold in our society. Enough

      Without 1A the government could legally throw you in jail for saying this.

      The post was explaining what is wrong with the 1st, not that it should be totally gotten rid of.

      Yeah, well funny thing is if you don’t protect all speech, then no speech is safe.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its the line of thinking that if they get the speech they want banned that they will be safe in the future. These people really need to pick up a book or at least watch some documentaries on exactly how that plays out in history.

      • juris imprudent

        If they had studied any history, they wouldn’t be saying the stupid shit they do.

        No, we have our VISION, we don’t need history, or facts or any of that other patriarchal, truthy shit.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Say what you will about the old-timey radicals, most of them had lived and studied some History. The discipline is naught but a fart in a windstorm, currently.

      • commodious spittoon

        They needn’t even study history. They can watch former friends and allies cancel a colleague for some marginal trespass live on Twitter. Usually for something that until fifteen minutes ago wasn’t even remarkable.

      • Ownbestenemy

        -1 Star Lord

      • Festus' Mustache

        That sucked. I don’t know the dude and never will but he seems to enjoy his life which apparently is not allowed anymore. Fucking dirty Christian! How dare you be so lovably approachable?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We’re post-history dude. Everything is different now.

      • invisible finger

        “pick up a book”

        There you go with the white patriarchy again, shitlord.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Those books burn Brown fingers! This is known, Khalleessi!

      • commodious spittoon

        The Jacobins are kind and just and would never turn on a friend, not even an ally in need of correction, like a pack of wild dogs.

      • Cancelled

        They do not believe in correction. Correction implies a possibility of redemption or rehabilitation. They believe in punishment.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We just need to get rid of the hate speech, which has a totally well-known and restrained definition that is absolutely not political.

      • Nephilium

        The definition is very easy. Speech that I don’t agree with is hate speech.

      • invisible finger

        Better to have them protected as free speech than declared moral and truthful by fiat.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Always with the banning to “protect” people from unpopular ideas.

        If they had gotten their way back in the first progressive era, gay rights would not be a thing today. Anyone advocating for treating gay citizens would surely have been shut out of the public square.

        Instead with an open society, gay people were able to argue that their rights were being violated and it was wrong. And pretty much everyone now agrees with them. Persuasion did a better job for gay citizens than any government edict ever could have.

      • Chipwooder

        This is why I expect some kind of insurrection, if not outright war. The genie isn’t going back into the bottle. These fucks aren’t going to stop whether Biden wins or not. There’s a fairly significant chunk of the populace that is completely rejecting the Constitution.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I think a lot of people are in disbelief as to what’s happening. I remember the WSJ had an early editorial about rumors of Dem court packing being complete nonsense. That this was a nutjob conspiracy theory that would mean the end of our country and the Dems would never ever contemplate such a thing. Now they are running editorials warning court packing and adding states are on the docket if Biden wins.

        Same with insurrection. Normalcy bias is huge and a lot of the insurrection we’re already seeing in Portland has been hand-waved away as meaningless. I’m starting to see the same pattern with court packing (denial to gradual acceptance). The WSJ ran an op-ed today warning “The American Experiment Is on Life Support”. Now they’re starting to move towards acceptance that some truly bad shit may be coming.

      • Chipwooder

        I mean, I have trouble believing that a Communist insurrection somehow sprang up in the space of a few years, too. It’s unfathomable…..but it has happened.

        Gonna be a lot of killing before it’s over. I firmly believe that, despite how horrifying the prospect is. I would give anything for some kind of peaceful separation of the states but it would never happen.

      • AlexinCT

        It didn’t “just spring up” These fuckers have been around since the KGB set this shit up decades ago to influence people through the educational system and things related to culture (Hollywood) and when the USSR imploded the wheels just kept turning. What we are seeing is the people that fell for this shit now no longer wanting to play the long game because the finish line just got moved by decades (like the CCP in China now that their game has been drastically delayed by their recent faux pas) and deciding they will roll the dice. The good thing is that they are now in the open and they can’t accuse those calling them out on it for being McCarthyists.

      • R C Dean

        Normalcy bias is huge

        As I told a colleague yesterday. the idea that “it can’t happen here” is one of the biggest fallacies on the road to hell.

    • Rebel Scum

      the basis for running a society

      It isn’t. It defines the power of the government.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Someone needs to be taught about natural rights. Hopefully with a large stick.

    • Lord Humungus

      that old Calvin Coolidge quote comes to mind. It was about the Declaration but…

      About the Declaration, there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter.

      If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Strangely, Silent Cal is the one of the most forgotten of the Presidents. Feature that.

    • Charlie Suet

      I can’t wait to see which British army units get lodged in which Glibs’ houses. So glad to see people waking up to the tyranny of the third amendment.

      • LJW

        That’s awesome. Pretty sure the world could be on fire and the top search would still be porn.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why do you think politicians push early voting so hard?

      • Viking1865

        There’s a reason the Democrats got professionally printed VOTE EARLY FOR BIDEN HARRIS signs made up and put up on the roadsides. They wanted those votes in the bag before the debates and the corruption shit came out.

    • robc

      My current and previous state are top 2. Hmmmmm……

      Early senate voters?

  57. Drake

    I wonder if Biden even wants to win? If he loses, all the controversy around his family goes away and he gets to enjoy his retirement.

    If he wins, the whole reason the press has been covering it up for him is gone. The media may even have incentive to turn on him if they decide they really want Harris. By spring there will be a special prosecutor making his life a living hell. He’ll either croak or resign within a year.

    • Pope Jimbo

      It hasn’t been about what Joe wants for quite some time.

      First Lady in Waiting Dr. Jill Biden is the one who wants this so bad. She doesn’t care what Joe and the rest of the family needs to go through so that she can be the First Lady. Hunter getting locked up is probably a bonus for her.

      • Chipwooder

        Doctor Jill”….what a pretentious bitch. You’re not a fucking physician, no matter how many morons like Whoopi Goldberg believe that you are.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t recall what her doctorate is in, but the moment we got Doctor Kermit the Frog, the value of the PhD went down.

      • Chipwooder

        Education

      • Festus' Mustache

        “Doctor of Indoctrination” PHD Ed. Basically moon floss.

      • Festus' Mustache

        ^^^ This right here. I called it months ago. She wants the Big Chair. Did you see his aides shuffle him away yesterday? This guy couldn’t mop a floor without waxing himself into a corner. He’s toast but they hate Trump.

    • Gender Traitor

      Tom. T’s take is that Biden’s running to avoid/delay prosecution per Justice Dept policy against prosecuting candidates.

      • Festus' Mustache

        That is tin-foiley good!

    • Pine_Tree

      I don’t think the high-up D’s even want Harris. Irritating as can be, and nobody voted for her in the primary. I know they plan to fix the system so they’re never out of power again, but I bet that if she ended up as POTUS, they’d steamroll her.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I don’t share your optimism.

      • R C Dean

        She’s a crap candidate, but an expert apparatchik. Came up in a one-party state, knows how to one-party. The Dems have no problem with that, since their vision for the US is a one-party state.

      • KSuellington

        Harris is the perfect Team Blue player and the high ups very much know it even if the low ranks don’t much like her. She will do as told and be a good girl, never straying very far from what they want. She has proven this as she has been allowed to quickly move up the ranks. To boot, she has the right color skin and the right private parts that can shield her from whatever criticism that might come her way. There is a reason I was calling her the VP candidate for the Donks three years ago, she has all the qualities that the power brokers want.

  58. Festus' Mustache

    OT, too local but just as stupid. The grump that runs a section of the Plant gave me shit last night about how I was supposed to clean the floor. I had to patiently explain to him that if the rest of your cow-workers don’t cooperate their isn’t a fucking thing that I can do about it. If they don’t move the equipment out of my way I can’t do my job. He petulantly says “It’s only gonna get worse with winter and Xmas coming!” We’ve been having the same conversation for 8 years. I’d tear my hair out if there were any left.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Fake Satire!

  59. commodious spittoon

    Wooo, office is closed! SNOW DAY! Oh, we’re all working from home anyway.

  60. Rebel Scum

    Clever…

    6-3 doesn’t represent me.
    Flip states blue, stop the GOP.

    Cry me a river. And stop pretending that Roberts (and Kav for that matter) is a ‘right-wing’ justice.

    • EvilSheldon

      Oh, you’re not being represented in the Corridors Of Power? Welcome to the club!

    • leon

      Lots to unpack. Mostly the fact that Judges are Judges, not representatives.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Can we have the national divorce now? I have a hard time stomaching the fact that this idiot has the same say in how this country is run as I do.

  61. Not Adahn

    Jessica “Wax My Balls” Yanniv has filed a human rights complaint against… a beauty pageant.

    I guess she ran out of Muslimas to sue.

    • leon

      He seems like a… what do you call it? A nuisance litigator?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Malicious lunatic

      • Chipwooder

        Vexatious litigant is the legal term, I believe.

        The common use term is “piece of shit”.

      • R C Dean

        I’m surprised its corpse hasn’t been found in alley yet, to tell you the truth.

    • leon

      #SnakesArePeopleToo!

      Can’t believe she would kill snakes for a bikini.

      • juris imprudent

        Tiny brown snakes at that!

    • UnCivilServant

      Do you get a kickback for posting these articles?

      • UnCivilServant

        if not, you should.

        Never overlook monetization options.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Sometimes a clam is a good thing.

    • leon

      Maybe the cops shouldn’t block the streets if they don’t want to be run over.

  62. The Late P Brooks

    NPR wants you to know

    Before the ACA, “one of the essential business models for health insurance companies was to discourage risky people from buying into their plans and get as [many] healthy people as they could,” she explains. That way, “they could get the premium revenue and not have to pay out as much in medical claims.”

    ——-

    If the insurance market is made up of sick people who need lots of medical care, “premiums skyrocket into what’s known as a death spiral,” he says.

    So, the people who crafted the Affordable Care Act came up with incentives to get more healthy people into the insurance pool. “The ACA had a carrot and stick,” says Levitt. “The carrot was subsidies provided to low- and middle-income people that made insurance a good value, and the stick was the individual mandate.”

    We just need to force all the healthy young people to subsidize old sick people. That’s fair.

    • leon

      Well, According to Rawls, it is just “luck” that you were born a young healthy person rather than an old sick person. It’s only fair, and you would agree to this if you didn’t know which you were going to be.

      • commodious spittoon

        Old age is like pregnancy, just random happenstance you can do nothing to prepare for?

    • RAHeinlein

      And, they forced all the hard-core pre-existing conditions into a relatively small pool (sometimes miniscule on a state level). The party of science doesn’t understand math.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      The carrot was subsidies provided to low- and middle-income people that made insurance a good value

      *urge to rant rising*

    • juris imprudent

      Just as it will be unfair for you, citizen with bad health habits – ignoring expert advice, to continue in your ways, unabated. We will fix you.

  63. R C Dean

    As I understand it (not having delved into the depths), QAnon posits that there is a massive international pedophile conspiracy/ring, which Donald Trump is covertly battling.

    And that’s totally nuts.

    45 children recovered by U.S. Marshals during monthlong anti-human trafficking operation45 children recovered by U.S. Marshals during monthlong anti-human trafficking operation

    I don’t follow DemOp propaganda, but to the extent its unavoidable, I have seen no mention of this. Which seems odd, because doughty G-Men busting child trafficking would seem totally in their wheelhouse.

    At this point, there’s more evidence for QAnon than there is for Russia collusion, including v. 2.0 (Hunter’s laptop is a Russian plant).

    *mashes tinfoil chapeau onto head*

  64. Trigger Hippie

    Hello again, all. I apologize for my little meltdown here last month. Still alive, still kicking. Things…aren’t good. I’ll be by this afternoon to chat. I’m ashamed to admit or ask but, I may need some help. Anyway, we’ll get into that later. Have a good day everyone.

    • KOVIDKristen

      Wasn’t in on what happened, but glad you’re posting. I may be a loud mouth when I have a few drinks, but I’m on OK listener too.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Hey, TH, we all feel the shame and sit in the box from time to time. We’ll work it out. Welcome back!

    • R C Dean

      No prob. Everyone is getting ground down, and anyone can hit a bad patch.

    • RAHeinlein

      Happy to hear from you, TH.

    • l0b0t

      It’s very nice to see you TH; thanks for checking in.

    • Sean

      Welcome back.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      I’m glad you’re here! Don’t sweat it about asking friends for some help. Friends aren’t worth shit if they let their friends get chewed up and spit out by life without helping out.

    • Nephilium

      TH,

      If there’s anything I can do to help, even if it’s just someone to vent at/too, feel free to reach out to me at my handle at Google’s mail.

    • Cancelled

      Glad to see you!

  65. KOVIDKristen

    I am just starting to realize how much loin-girding I’m going to have to do to prepare for Biden. Mainly his minions coming in and ruining my workplace. If the Obama administration management is anything to go by, we’re in for a gigantic shitshow of dudebros, high-strung assholes, and micromanagers. I noticed one big project of mine seems to be on hold, as it has to do with Trump admin reorganization.

    • SugarFree

      Is now time for sacrifice, comrade.

      • Festus' Mustache

        She needs to revisit the Elder Scrolls.

    • R C Dean

      one big project of mine seems to be on hold, as it has to do with Trump admin reorganization

      #resist

      Usually, the end of a four year Presidential term sees a bolus of rulemaking and whatnot.

      Usually.

    • commodious spittoon

      I’m happy to by working for a small private firm. Even with government contracts on our books nothing ever trickles down into our world. Our single HR rep is a chilly old lady who’s worked for the company since its founding. We only hear from her if our time sheets are late.

  66. The Late P Brooks

    Still alive, still kicking

    Happy to hear it.

  67. PieInTheSky

    I think one of the places the left loses any chance of any support for me is the hate speech crap. It is one of the most evil things around.

  68. The Late P Brooks

    I think one of the places the left loses any chance of any support for me is the hate speech crap. It is one of the most evil things around.

    Sinners must be punished and cast out.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Yep. That’s what lost me about pretty much any sort of political movement, the laisse faire attitude toward Natural Rights. It can’t be a perfect world but by fuck I am going down, kicking and screaming. Good night all, I’m heading to bed to fight the demons.

      • PieInTheSky

        Good night. You are going to miss the next post though.

  69. Count Potato

    “A reminder of the pandemic’s impact on our economy:
    – 77.5% decline in the hotel tax
    – 49.5% decline in the amusement tax
    – Ground transportation tax down 47.8%
    – Parking taxes down 48%
    – Motor vehicle fuel tax down 48.5%
    – City share of the sales tax down 35%”

    https://twitter.com/chicagosmayor/status/1320765095924781078

    CWAA

    • PieInTheSky

      Country Women’s Association of Australia?

    • R C Dean

      A reminder of the pandemic’s my lockdown’s impact on our economy:

      Now, I expect the pandemic, if handled in a normal/sane fashion, would still have had some impact. But probably an order of magnitude less than what we are seeing.

      And nobody will learn anything, nobody responsible will face consequences, and we will next be treated to the very same people who committed this massive error telling us we must commit it again every year during the flu season.

    • UnCivilServant

      Now, if you cut those taxes by at least that much…

    • R C Dean

      Note, too, that she calls tax collections “our economy”. She cares nothing for anyone not feeding at the tax trough. The impact on people who see their income decline by those percentages is of no concern to her.

    • leon

      When the economy is literally just something to milk for tax money, this is how you will perceive an impact on our economy.

    • commodious spittoon

      It’s not just the obligation but the privilege of peasants to continue footing the bill for their political betters.

  70. ignoreLander

    “there are opinions and there are opinions that get people killed” student Senator Triet Ngo said” (while trying to “bar recognition of an anti-abortion group that senators said was hateful”.

    Why did my irony meter just explode?

    Also, hateful = disagrees with me.