Tuesday Non-Jewsday Newsday

by | Oct 13, 2020 | Daily Links | 479 comments

What should I do? Bitch about the heat? It’s 103 today. Being up at 5 am for this shit? Meh, have to go to work anyway. At 5 am. Notice that the lawn needs mowing? I’m too old for that shit. Way too old, and we have no kids left here. Observe that none of you have the slightest bit of sympathy, what with all your privilege? Shit, I do that daily. Take complaining away from a Jew and what you have is a very, very quiet Jew.

Speaking of not-quiet, there’s many interesting birthdays today, including a guy who is not well known today but was… interesting; one of our true spiritual fathers; the last of the skilled editorial cartoonists; the one true god of jazz piano; a comedian who was more notorious than actually, you know, funny; one of the pioneers of Langmuir-Blodgett films and one or two other things; the one true god of jazz bass; a pop singer who actually managed to make interesting music; the reincarnation of the mummy of Amenhotep; a prolific cookbook author whose dishes were at once earnest and remarkably bland; a woman whom I taught about oral sex; the finest wide receiver I ever saw- or am ever likely to see; a guy whom I can’t decide is more funny or tiresome; and a walking punchline and a doppelganger of Mr. Ed.

Now for the meat course. Oh wait, I don’t eat meat. So there’s nothing here for me. Just news.

 

One more thing I didn’t have on my 2020 checklist: Trump coming out as bi.

 

Man, I just cannot keep up.

 

Now, I admit, this is not a topping that SP and I had ever considered.

 

Adventures with Uber.

 

Silly Negroes don’t know what’s good for them. Thank god there are journalists around to enlighten them.

 

Not the Babylon Bee. This time.

 

Old Guy Music today features a birthday boy being, on the one hand, a bit out of character, and on the other, awesome. Gripping hand: it’s Art Fucking Tatum. He play what he want.

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Old Man With Candy

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479 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Notice that the lawn needs mowing? ”

    Grass actually grows at that temperature?

    • Count Potato

      “a woman whom I taught about oral sex”

      What?

    • Chipwooder

      If you water it all the time, sure.

      I don’t generally miss Arizona, but there are times when I wistfully imagine having a “yard” that was nothing but sand, rocks, and cacti, requiring no maintenance.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There is an attraction to that. Kind of like living on a boat.

      • Count Potato

        “If you water it all the time, sure.”

        So stop doing that?

    • Swiss Servator

      He said “lawn”, not grass…. I suspect it is all tiny cacti.

      • UnCivilServant

        But would you need to mow tiny cacti?

      • Nephilium

        To prevent them from becoming big cacti?

    • Cancelled

      So SP finally aged out huh?

      • Bobarian LMD

        *rimshot*

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Trump is bi?

    Sugarfree is going to have to do a rewrite before tomorrow.

    • SugarFree

      Scruffy shuddered with repressed lust as Donald’s hand lingered on his lower back.

      “Scruffy,” said the Billionaire Playboy President, “I would have you.”

      “Then take me, if you can,” Scruffy whispered and ran away.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Fifty Shades of Gay?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My Nerfy regions just got all tingly.

  3. UnCivilServant

    Not the Babylon Bee. This time.

    “I’m not nuking it to kill the wuhan, I’m trying to kill the communism.”

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Thank God the Indigenous People’s Day has passed. My Facederp feed was an endless stream of virtue signaling WASPs rushing to show how goodthinker and self-loathing they are.

    It was everything I could do to not pepper their posts with images of Aztec sacrifices and Mohawk cannibalism.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why hold back? Give them the truth.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I need some friends. Not sure why, but I do.

      • UnCivilServant

        I still find it funny that I live a stone’s throw away from the Cannibal River, and no one notices the name.

      • PieInTheSky

        start a petition

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s more important things than cannibal awareness month.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Everybody says that until they’re the one being gnawed on by some cannibal and her little rugrat.

      • Ted S.

        A kidney stone’s throw away?

      • Tundra

        Those aren’t friends. They would turn you over to the Stasi in a heartbeat.

      • Bobarian LMD

        For posting images of Aztec sacrifices and Mohawk cannibalism.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      I am only on Instagram for national and state parks and some full time RV families.

      Hot Springs NP actually had a very fair and well thought out message for yesterday. The other parks…not so much

      • Apples and Knives

        Hey, you were in my neck of the woods.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        Haven’t been to Hot Springs yet. Pretty much clicked follow for every national park

      • Apples and Knives

        Ah. Misunderstood. 🙂

      • UnCivilServant

        Why follow them? They tend to be stationary. I mean, unless you count continental drift, but they don’t move that fast.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Today is a day to honor the past and history of all peoples – to recognize both great achievements, and also the sometimes devastating impacts that can result. Take some time today to think about the thrill of discovery, the rich history, culture, and traditions of Indigenous people, and how those two impacted each other.

        And shop all the Columbus Day sales.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        The important things in life

      • C. Anacreon

        Hot Springs NP actually had a very fair and well thought out message

        Did it include a quote from FDR?

    • Apples and Knives

      Fun question I like to occasionally ask folks: If Native Americans have more right to this land than me, because their ancestors have been here longer than mine, doesn’t it stand to reason that I, being a 14th generation European American, also have more right to this land than some fresh of the boat dipshit whose mom was born in Germany? (Specifically, I like to ask this of my best fried whose mom was born in Germany.)

      • robc

        I think Mises handled this well, and I will be paraphrasing poorly, probably mangling his argument a bit:


        Might makes right is the reality of ownership. But, the fiction of property rights works. It makes for stable and growing society. So it is a useful fiction we need to adopt. However, as all long was taken by force, no one is the original owner, we need to pick a point and say “From this point forward, property rights exist.”

        The problem, of course, is that anyone from before the line is screwed over. But whatchagonnado? Personally , I think 99 years is the limit on claims. If you want to make a claim today, you can’t go back to anything before 1921. So, sucks for the Native Americans.

      • Apples and Knives

        I like it. The Israeli Palestinian conflict could be resolved in 26 years.

      • UnCivilServant

        But then how are we supposed to press the Italian claim on North Africa and Asia Minor?

      • Akira

        If Native Americans have more right to this land than me, because their ancestors have been here longer than mine

        Or, which Native American groups have a right to the land at all considering that tribes were conquering and invading each other’s land long before wypipo arrived?

        You run into similarly puzzling questions when you try to justify slavery reparations in the current year. This historical grievance accounting leads you down a bunny hole of absurdities.

  5. Count Potato

    “The customer had reportedly purchased a Portland Pizza Pie Dough and then later found an undisclosed number of razor blades inside the product, according to a statement by the Saco Police Department.”

    Pics or it didn’t happen. All those Halloween apple stories turned out to be bullshit.

    • DrOtto

      What would make the story better is if he’s an out of town Antifa agitator that flew to the wrong Portland.

      • Count Potato

        LOLOL

      • Brett L

        Opposite coast. Maine, not Oregon.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Which makes it even funnier.

  6. robc

    Baseball birthdays galore!!! Hall of Famers Eddie Matthews, Rube Waddell, and Trevor Hoffman. And also Eddie Yost just because. And also Fred McMullin, who almost shouldn’t count as one of the 8 men out, he was so worthless.

    • Gdragon

      Wasn’t “The Walking Man” named as John Kerry’s favourite Red Sox player even though he never played for Boston? I seem to recall that.

  7. robc

    The greatest wide receiver I ever saw in person was Calvin Johnson….except the only time I actually saw him in person was the 2006 ACCCG, which was canceled and totally never happened.

    • Tundra

      Randy Moss.

      • PBRstreetgang

        A friend of mine played HS football against Moss in WV. My friend who went on to play low-level DI football said “guarding” Moss was the most humiliating thing of his life. Completely unfair in every way

      • robc

        A friend of mine played against Shaun Alexander in HS. He was a DE, he said his job was to hold him in place until the LBs showed up, because he couldn’t tackle him alone.

        Alexander was a star, but at least you can gang tackle a RB. Guarding Moss as a high schooler is not even possible. And zone isn’t going to help any. On any deep ball, just commit PI and give up 15.

      • PBRstreetgang

        Yep, pretty much. Even very good athletes are helpless against elite athletes, and forget about Super Elites like Moss. Best athlete I ever saw up close was Iverson, both playing pickup and on his HS team. I can’t even imagine another human being quicker and faster while dribbling. He was truly like a cat out there.

      • Chipwooder

        A kid I knew in high school played against Iverson in AAU ball. Said it was a jaw-dropping experience even being on the court with him.

        Eddie George played against our high school, although he wasn’t supposed to. He did a postgrad year at Fork Union to academically qualify at Ohio State. FUMA used him on their undergrad team, I guess because they thought they could get away with it. He was 6’3″ 215 even then. This was the Prep League – not exactly a powerhouse football league. He was bigger at RB than some of the linemen he played against. Averaged like 350 yards a game until they were caught at the end of the season and all of their wins forfeited.

      • Chipwooder

        Oh, and for those who don’t know, Iverson was a sensational football player too. High school player of the year in both sports, was a QB and DB who led Bethel to a state championship. Probably would have been an NFL star if he had chosen that path instead.

  8. Count Potato

    ““We understand if, for the outgoing white envelope that you get that maybe the mail service carrier may have touched, you want to kind of hold that aside for 24 hours,” Bailey-Kanelos told the news station. “Everything inside the pink return envelope, the ballots themselves, they have been inserted by a machine weeks ago, so they are safe.””

    Is 24 hours enough? No one seems to know how long this virus lasts on things. Or how long it stays in the air. Or how many active cases there are. Or any kind of practical information.

    • Akira

      Is 24 hours enough? No one seems to know how long this virus lasts on things. Or how long it stays in the air. Or how many active cases there are. Or any kind of practical information.

      What most people are doing is hearing a study, then assuming the absolute worst from that (probably with some additional distortion provided by the corporate media).

      Some study shows that the virus can survive for up to 3 days on some kinds of surfaces under perfect laboratory conditions… Then everyone is going around saying “it lives for 3 days on surfaces!!” as though it will definitely be there for that entire timeframe and definitely infect anyone who touches that surface.

      Then a study says that the antibodies can last at least 3 months.
      The next day, everyone is saying “They only last 3 months at most!”

      • C. Anacreon

        I recently got a car wash where I had to pay a $5 surcharge if I wanted the interior vacuumed. Because they were supposedly doing an interior ultraviolet treatment to protect their employees from the virus hiding in the carpeting. Science!

  9. Rhywun

    a guy whom I can’t decide is more funny or tiresome

    It was funny at first but I went with “tiresome” long ago.

    • PieInTheSky

      I always though he can be funny but his shtick gets old quick. He had material for like 10 short sketches made a lot more.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This. His schtick wore out fast.

      He could have taken the approach of goring everyone’s ox, but he decided to give his comedy a political bent instead.

      • Nephilium

        But, no Lenny Bruce means a much lesser chance of George Carlin.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was referring to Cohen.

      • Nephilium

        My apologies, that’s what I get for making an off the cuff comment without confirming which comic that line was about.

    • db

      Super tiresome from the beginning.

    • Apples and Knives

      I have a hard time watching anything that involves pranking people, even when it’s good natured. When it’s done maliciously, I can’t stomach it at all. I tried to watch the Borat movie and made it about 2 minutes once he got to America.

      • robc

        I was watching a Jim Browning anti-scammer youtube video the other day, and I started feeling bad for the scumbag Indian scammer by the end of it.

      • Apples and Knives

        Yeah, I do that too. Investigative journalism with hidden cameras and then they confront the people, I always end up putting myself in the bad guy’s shoes and squirming.

      • AlexinCT
      • db

        That’s how I feel.

  10. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And good morning, all you nice people.

    I see the Daily Beast is continuing their top-notch journalism. What a pile of shit. Thanks for telling us about Trayvon and the efficacy of the Abbott test.

    Blah.

    30 more days of one-man tyranny here in the PRM. One bright spot is the number of dudes I saw at Cabelas yesterday without talismasks. Resistance is good.

    Nice Old Guy music this morning. Art can play a little bit, eh.

    Have a great day, people. The haters won’t know what hit ’em.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yet they leave in place the same edicts from executive agencies which should not exist.

      • db

        But new emergency orders that the Whitmer administration has issued through the state health department director — which replicate mask requirements, restrictions on gathering sizes and restaurant capacity, among other features — are not affected by the court’s ruling.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        So they get to look tough but they gave her enough time to circumvent their ruling and she gets to like to look tough too and not a damn thing changes in practice. That’s just pathetic.

    • Animal

      And good morning, all you nice people.

      What about the rest of us?

      • UnCivilServant

        He was hoping we’d overlook him.

    • pistoffnick

      “…all you nice people…”

      WHO ARE YOU CALLING “NICE”?!?!?

  11. Count Potato

    Front page of the Daily Mail:

    “TRUMP SPREADS THE LOVE”

    “Donald Trump throws masks into the crowd and says he wants to ‘kiss everyone’ now he’s ‘immune’ from COVID as he returns to campaign trail to tell Florida rally the pandemic has been a ‘lovefest’ the US has gone through together

    President Donald Trump marked his return to the campaign trail by throwing masks into the crowd, calling the coronavirus pandemic a ‘lovefest’ and proclaimed that he was newly ‘immune,’ threatening to kiss members of his Florida rally.

    ‘One thing with me, the nice part: I went through it, now they say I’m immune,’ Trump said Monday night at the Orlando Sanford International Airport. ‘I feel so powerful, I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women, everyone, I’ll just give you a big fat kiss.’

    The president was marking his official return to the campaign trail after his battle fighting the coronavirus, tossing masks out to the crowd as he walked onstage.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8832983/Trump-threatens-KISS-supporters-hes-immune-COVID-19.html

    He needs to bite the head of a pangolin.

    • Count Potato

      *off

    • Count Potato

      “‘Biden had a bad day,’ Trump said. ‘He forgot Mitt Romney’s name, he didn’t know what state he was in. And he said today he’s a proud Democrat running for the U.S. Senate.'”

      • leon

        Who doesn’t forget Romney’s name?

      • Cancelled

        George Romney. He was a portrait painter, probably most famous for painting Admiral Nelson’s mistress.

    • Tundra

      Lol.

      I’m sure they are quite nice, but come on…

    • Count Potato

      KN95 masks for $1.60 each isn’t bad though.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Trump Threatens to ‘Kiss the Guys and the Beautiful Women’ at First Campaign Rally Since COVID-19 Diagnosis

    0_o

      • Nephilium

        Media Sensation – The Interrupters.

        They’ll keep you suspended in fear
        Until your freedoms disappear
        I said it once, but you’re not hearing me
        You’re giving up liberty for security
        And that’s fine, the sheep are blind
        Shepherds indoctrinate the minds of the masses, poor and middle classes
        All parading like a bunch of fascists

    • db

      “graciously offers?”

    • PieInTheSky

      Much opprobrium being heaped upon political heads about this ad telling a ballet dancer that perhaps she should retrain into cybersecurity.

      https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/2020/10/well-actually-fatima-should-retrain-as-something-other-than-a-ballet-dancer/

      A government-backed advert that encouraged people working in the arts to reskill by turning to a career in cybersecurity has been scrapped after the culture secretary described it as “crass”.

      Charlotte Bence, from the Equity trade union, said: “Fatima doesn’t need to retrain – what Fatima needs is adequate state support as a freelance artist, support that so far she has been lacking. Freelance workers deserve better than patronising adverts telling them to go and work elsewhere.”

      • Ted S.

        Fatima needs to start an Onlyfans instead of making me subsidize her career.

      • Cancelled

        You beat me to it.

      • Cancelled

        Ballet dancers should stick with the traditional side work for dancers.

      • leon

        Assassin’s?

      • UnCivilServant

        Prostitution.

        Ballets are simply fancy brothels in most iterations.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that their “Learn to code” moment? Only instead of looking down on coal workers they are looking down on chicks that do ballet instead of twerking around a pole?

      • Surly Knott

        If she’s subsidized, she’s not freelance.
        Prostitution to the state is still prostitution. Pays pretty well too, if you’ve got the right connections.

      • PieInTheSky

        Prostitution to the state is still prostitution – I disagree. standard prostitution is hones work.

      • Surly Knott

        Fair enough, but I’d point to yesterday’s discussion about just who counts as a collaborator as a counterweight.

      • juris imprudent

        ^^^ THIS ^^^

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So you had to have a few people rationing the time and money for people they thought would make the best shows. It’s very much a “picking winners” approach, and historically necessary.

      Got news for you. Youtube intends to pick winners just as much as the BBC.

  13. UnCivilServant

    Unrelated, The next evolution of the vinegar soup has changed the recipe to –

    white vinegar
    red wine vinegar
    apple cider vinegar
    beef stock of equal volume to vinegar mix
    lotsa salt
    minced garlic
    sage
    basil
    parsley
    Beef, cubed
    Onion, diced
    Mushrooms, sliced
    Mini Gnocchi

    Brown the beef, cook onion and mushroom mixture until onions are at least translucent. Caramelization optional.

    Deglaze with vinegar mix and dissolve salt, add beef stock, garlic, and herbs. Cook until vinegar flavor is tempered to taste.

    Add gnocchi at last minute, cook until done. Gnocchi starch should help thicken soup.

    ****

    I’m going to see how this iteration turns out.

  14. Rebel Scum

    The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.

    How many months are we in to “2 weeks to flatten the curve and learn about the virus”?

    • PieInTheSky

      however many it takes

    • Nephilium

      This Friday marks 7 months here in Ohio.

  15. AlexinCT

    Take complaining away from a Jew and what you have is a very, very quiet Jew.

    I thought that was just the Yentas that did that…

  16. Count Potato

    “Gov. Andrew Cuomo placed the blame on cluster outbreaks in New York City.

    He announced Monday that there are currently 878 New Yorkers hospitalized with the virus, an increase of almost 60 patients since Sunday.

    There were 12 more deaths, in addition to 185 patients checked into the ICU and 86 intubated individuals.

    ‘The largest single identifiable addition is from the micro-clusters,’ Cuomo said during a press briefing.

    ‘Remember we were at 18,000 hospitalized so the hospitalization number to us is more relevant as an indicator for where people are, where the cases are coming from again, right?’

    The increase in cases last week led Cuomo to reinstate cluster containment zones and to shut down schools in parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

    He introduced a new ‘hotspot’ cluster zone map including portions of Rockland, Orange and Broome Counties also.

    Red, orange and yellow ‘zones’ were established in areas where positive infection rates are rising.

    Independently, the cluster zones have a combined 3.7 percent positivity rate compared to the statewide infection rate, which stands at 1.1 percent. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8832511/GRAPHIC-New-U-S-COVID-19-cases-rise-11-week-Midwest-hard-hit.html

    So you are closing shit because it went down from 18,000 to 878?

    • Rhywun

      Absent welding us into our homes, I don’t see how this accomplishes shit.

      • prolefeed

        I’m thinking it’ll accelerate the exodus of people who aren’t entirely mindless robots to authority.

  17. Drake

    Rhode Island highway blocked by an idea. My old team partner in the Marines is a Rhode Island Statie – I’m sure he would have liked a free hand clear this road block.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It should be a simple thing to round those asshats up and put them in prison for six months. But nooooo…..

    • Count Potato

      Shit is getting way out of hand.

    • db

      The title of the tweet says it was in Kentucky, but comments say I-95 in Rhode Island, can anyone get basic facts right these days?

      • Count Potato

        “can anyone get basic facts right these days?”

        No

      • Surly Knott

        What you did there, seen it was.

      • db

        Evidently my reading comprehension doesn’t kick in before 9 a.m.

      • Drake

        “As seen in Kentucky” I believe they were referencing the St. Louis riots where rental vans showed up with BLM / Antifa gear.

      • Drake

        St. Louis Louisville

        Hard to keep my riots straight in 2020.

      • robc

        I thought the rental vans were in Minneapolis. Or Wisconsin.

      • Cancelled

        The tweet says “as seen in Kentucky” which I take to mean it had previously been done the same way in Ky.

    • leon

      Hey at least they are learning to not make themselves the roadblock.

    • prolefeed

      If you’re trying to win hearts and minds, making drivers sit in traffic because of a roadblock you set up seems like it’ll win hearts and minds for your opponents.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Only 33.5% of Black households owned stocks in 2019, according to data released recently by the Federal Reserve. Among white households, the ownership rate is nearly 61%. Hispanic and other minority households also are less likely than white families to own stock.

    And?

    • db

      Sounds like more equity is needed.

      • Cancelled

        well played

      • AlexinCT

        I am gonna cringe when Biden proposes KFC & Popeyes now start offering stock options as dinning rewards…

      • robc

        At one time, all Waffle House employees were owners. I dont know if it is still the case.

      • robc

        And I cant verify that with a google search, although there was extensive employee ownership, at least at the store manager level.

    • Swiss Servator

      They MUST be given stock!

      • leon

        It’s imperative that people hold riskier assets than they want. For equality.

      • Cancelled

        Perhaps it is time for black America to take stock?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Actual no shit fascists should be placed in stocks? Yes, I agree.

    • Cliche Bandit

      This is quite the astounding analysis:

      “Black people “are shortchanging themselves by investing in more secure opportunities that yield less of a return,” she said.”

  19. Count Potato

    “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing backlash from some Democrats after she sharply rejected Trump’s $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief offer.

    President Donald Trump on Friday offered a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief package in talks with Pelosi after urging his team on Twitter to ‘go big’ – moving closer to Pelosi’s $2.2 trillion proposal. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8834297/Democrat-backlash-House-Speaker-rejects-Trumps-coronavirus-relief-offer.html

    That’s only a 400 Billion dollar difference.

    • PieInTheSky

      I’ll take 1% of that difference if they don’t know what to do with it

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Why so greedy? .01% for me.

    • Drake

      Maybe we should look a little deeper into why the U.S. economy needs a $trillion stimulus every couple of months and doing something about that?

      • Sean

        That’s just crazy talk.

      • Count Potato

        How much can the federal government do about state and local lockdowns?

      • Rebel Scum

        Enforce 1A, 4A, 5A.

      • Count Potato

        That’s usually done through the courts.

      • UnCivilServant

        It is a federal crime to deprive someone of their civil rights, so they can prosecute these infringers.

      • Count Potato

        Not a lawyer, but I think they need a specific law. And who are they going to arrest, the governors?

      • UnCivilServant

        There is a specific law, I don’t know the statute code off the top of my head.

        And yes, anyone issuing or enforcing unconstitutional orders should be in the dock for their crimes.

      • Count Potato

        Obviously, that law isn’t practiced, just by the 2A alone.

      • UnCivilServant

        Most crimes these people have committed go unpunished.

        Doesn’t mean we can’t start.

      • Cancelled

        I think it is too late to fix things. Hopefully when we go to Nubux we start out on the gold standard and stay there a while.

      • Nephilium

        Everything is fine!

        Well… until it isn’t.

    • leon

      If the GOP bails out the blue states, what’s the point of even having them, just let the Dems take power.

  20. Drake

    I’m sure the FBI, DOJ, and the Minnesota State Police are going to arrest these people any minute now.

    • AlexinCT

      Libs react to facts, logic, common sense, and reason the same way vampires react to garlic, sunlight, holy water, and holy symbols…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Facederp posts indicate that they’re freaking out about COVID reinfections today. I think they’ve confirmed a couple of cases..

        Meanwhile, influenza reinfection rates can be as high as 30%.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s amazing to me how much power the legacy media still retains to lead people around by the nose. Those are the same people that are always freaking out about whatever the media’s panic du jour is and I think they could convince a majority of them to literally walk off a cliff if they were so inclined.

      • AlexinCT

        Read my comment again, and you will have a good understanding of what drives these morons.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m skeptical of the reinfection stories vs they never actually fully cleared the virus.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In any case, it appears to be exceedingly rare.

        People are losing their minds over this.

      • AlexinCT

        ONE CASE IS ONE TOO MANY!!!1!!eleventy!!

        /progtard panic seller

      • Count Potato

        There are people with immune disorders.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Trump’s laser pointer.

    • leon

      “There is, to be sure, but district shaping is imposed by the majority in each state in which it appears, so naturally it can’t be voted down. It’s the very hallmark of antidemocratic GOP activity”

      This is a perfect example of: everything bad is caused be group X that I don’t like.

      • Swiss Servator

        Now they should do Illinois…

      • Nephilium

        Or Pennsylvania.

      • robc

        Dems controlled the Maryland House of Delegates 98-43 during the last redistricting. They controlled the MD Senate 35-12.

        it was clearly those dastardly republicans who were allowed to draw that district.

      • robc

        Meanwhile, this is what the GOP did in KY. Yeah, the 1st district is a little weird, but not totally crazy stuff.

      • robc

        okay, I missed that up and the link still works.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not for me. I got a 404 until I edited the URL.

      • robc

        You are correct, paging the edit fairy!

        *EDIT FAIRY BLESSES YOU*

      • UnCivilServant

        It looks like they stuck to county lines, and the 1st was actually “…And whatever’s left over.”

      • robc

        Basically, the state supreme court smacked down serious gerrymandering years ago and requires splitting of the “minimum” number of counties.

        The core of the 2nd is Daviess and Warren Counties, and to get those in the same district you don’t have much choice. Those Eastern counties in the 1st are all small population.

    • Drake

      There is outrage – my district was Gerrymandered a few years ago and we’ll have a Democrat Congressman until it’s fixed. NJ lost 2 or 3 Republican Reps in that process as they made sure to attach all the conservative western counties to more populated liberal eastern counties.

      That’s one reason the fight over Judges at both the state and federal level is so important.

      • robc

        The only way to “fix” that is one large at large district and single transferrable vote.

        There are 12 disticts in NJ — each party can put 12 names on the ballot, you can vote in preference order for as many candidates as you want. The top 12 vote getters (with transference once a candidate has enough to win) get elected.

        You end up with reasonable representation. GOP/Dem split will be about right. White/Black split too. In the larger states, the LP will even get representation. And the Greens. And, who knows, the communists probably. In CA, you would need under 2% to get a spot. In NJ, you would need 8.33%, in KY 16.67%.

      • robc

        You would also get geographic representation if Democrats tend to prefer the local D and republican prefer the local R.

      • DEG

        There are 12 disticts in NJ — each party can put 12 names on the ballot, you can vote in preference order for as many candidates as you want. The top 12 vote getters (with transference once a candidate has enough to win) get elected.

        Minus the transference, that is how some state house districts in NH work.

        The town I live in is one state house district represented by multiple people.

      • robc

        The transfer is needed to limit (not eliminate, Arrow proved that is impossible) strategic voting. You just have modified gerrymandering with multi-member districts.

  21. robc

    Another baseball thing…Okay, listen Death 2020, its the rule of three: not the rule of thirteen. You are supposed to take 3 in a group, you have gone overboard this year.

  22. PieInTheSky

    World’s greatest private collection of Roman statuary goes on show in Rome this week after being kept under wraps for decades by noble Torlonia family. Just been to press viewing and here are some pics..

    https://twitter.com/tomkington/status/1315652101901635584

    Is it just me or are some of those statues culturally appropriating hair styles?

    • leon

      Don’t let Antifa hear about this. Statues set them off.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        And they were slave owners too. Better smash them just to be sure.

    • Brett L

      These would be the manliest, most non-sexual kisses in the history of men kissing. The best man-kissing.

      • Count Potato

        The most heterosexual dancing to the Village People?

      • juris imprudent

        I’m surprised Brochettaward hasn’t been summoned by this.

      • Nephilium

        Maybe he’s in his bunk…

    • mrfamous

      Chemicals in the water. Alex Jones once again being proved correct after being mocked.

    • Gadfly

      Well, Trump loves having people love him, and that one poll came out saying that 45% of gay men would consider voting for him, so…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      1

      Snails are right out. I knew somebody who got a bad one and dropped dead.

      • PieInTheSky

        I got sick from an oyster once but I ate oysters recently and was fine

    • Old Man With Candy

      I scored higher (like 20), but eliminating dead animals and pus really ran up the score.

      • PieInTheSky

        see if you ate meat you would not be stuck in Arizona you could move to Alaska like the rest of the glibs.

    • Apples and Knives

      There’s nothing on there that I absolutely would not eat, but there are four things I really don’t like. They’re all pretty basic too.

      Ketchup
      Mayonnaise
      Milk
      Celery

      • prolefeed

        Ketchup aka BBQ sauce – yum for the latter

        Mayonnaise – TDC (The Devil’s Condiment)

        Milk – It’s in a lot of food as an ingredient

        Celery – Part of the trinity of both French and Cajun cooking

      • prolefeed

        If you draw a Venn diagram of BBQ sauce and ketchup, you get a lot of overlap.

        Most, though not all, BBQ sauces use ketchup as a base, to which you add molasses, brown sugar, spices, etc.

      • robc

        I live in South Carolina, I run into more vinegar based than ketchup based BBQ sauce now. Or at least close enough to an even split to not assume.

      • Apples and Knives

        I can take milk and celery as ingredients, but I can’t drink/eat them straight. If ketchup and mayonnaise are used in a recipe to the point that they no longer taste like ketchup or mayonnaise, I’m good with that too.

      • EvilSheldon

        Same. There’s nothing on there that I’d starve to avoid, but I don’t care for Bleu Cheese, Snails, Oysters, Tomatoes, Zucchini, or Beets. Cottage Cheese is on the line.

      • prolefeed

        I literally made a salad yesterday using half of those foods.

    • Count Potato

      Four, pork, and three due to chocolate.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      I got a zero, but I’ve never had escargot before, so I’d try it once before deciding. Liver’s not my favorite, but I’ll eat it, and most of the rest was fairly mundane stuff.

      • grrizzly

        Zero here, too. The list wisely omitted beef jerky.

    • Surly Knott

      9 for foods I truly won’t eat, 27 including foods I can’t eat. sigh

      • Count Potato

        That’s a lot you can’t eat.

      • Surly Knott

        Tell me about it. IBS is a cruel master. If it weren’t for protein & rice, I’d starve.

    • AlexinCT

      3 for me…

      And why no mention of eating ass? This thing seems biased against HM.

    • UnCivilServant

      14. And why so few controvertial ingredients? You’re leaving off most of the organs, periferal body parts, and preparation methods which render food inedible.

    • prolefeed

      I got a zero. I’m a very adventurous eater – go out of my way to try new stuff. Going to Denver soon and trying Rocky Mountain Oysters.

      Truly vile stuff – water chestnuts, durian fruit, bitter melon. That’s about all I can think of.

      • PieInTheSky

        It is not about adventurous. zucchini is not fit for human consumption.

        Now that I think about it cauliflower was one of my 4 because I was thinking how much I hate it cooked, but pickled cauliflower is among the best of things…

        I can go down to 3 I suppose and maaaybe 2 because while I don;t like it I can eat broccoli.

        But zucchini no and white chocolate I haven’t had in a long time and I assume I could it it but it is lying chocolate so o general principle is a no

      • Gustave Lytton

        Same for me, including the dislike of water chestnuts. Those and a couple of things on the list I don’t like, but I’ll still eat.

    • PieInTheSky

      The only way zucchini was palatable to me is when my grandmother made some patties out of grated zucchini mixed with grated cheese, breaded and fried.

      • db

        I hated zucchini until I was about 10, now I love it.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I don’t get the zucchini hate either. Sure, it has to be prepared right, but so does steak.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No zucchini bread for you?

      • Sean

        I make delicious keto zucchini muffins.

      • Aloysious

        If you make zucchini bread with dried fruit, soak the dried fruit in dark rum or brandy. Also a plus, bits of dark chocolate.

        You’ll never be the same.

    • db

      Fussy Eater

      “What’s this? Never mind, gimme a whole lot of it!”

      “That’s rat’s asshole, Don.”

      “Well, it sure makes a hell of a fondue!”

    • Chipwooder

      I’d say 2.5. Liver and snails definitely. Cooked fish – I only eat a few of them. Tuna steaks, swordfish, flounder, cod. That’s pretty much it.

    • SugarFree

      6, but 4 of them I am allergic to. I hate cucumbers unless pickled and canned tuna is cat food to me.

      • PieInTheSky

        Well how can you have tea without cucumber sandwiches?

        I am not allergic / intolerant to anything. Just some foods I dislike.

      • SugarFree

        Cucumbers make me burp and I taste them for hours. It might be another intolerance/allergy.

      • Count Potato

        There are “burpless” cucumbers.

      • Aloysious

        Remove skins and seeds. Another possibility is to buy English, or as the top hatted tuber calls them ‘burpless’ cucumbers.

        If that doesn’t work… well then. I guess we know.

  23. mikey

    This virus thing seems to be in the news a lot lately. You’d think someone would show a graph depicting #of “cases vs # of tests. I’m guessing there’s a correlation. Mebbe another one showing the age grouping of the positives.

    Nah, just keep showing the totals and wait for them to go down.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    This morning, the chick on Bloomberg said something to the effect of, “NOBODY is advocating for another lockdown. They just want to put more restrictions in place.”

    Well okay, then. That makes all the difference in the world. Can the pigeon superstitionists be any more disingenuous/

    • leon

      Nobody wants to take your guns away you crazy rednecks!!

      • AlexinCT

        They know their lemmings don’t. They will lap up whatever dogshit they are told to eat that day and forget that the day before they were made to eat different shit, and they will do so with pride in their allegiance to the cult.

      • prolefeed

        George Orwell says, “Hold my Victory Gin”:

        “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
        ― George Orwell, 1984

      • invisible finger

        High School English teachers only assign that book and Fahrenheit 451 when a Republican is in the White House.

      • Surly Knott

        We really need to go back to teaching The Lottery in sixth grade.

      • robc

        And probably black out the abortion rant in F451.

      • Nephilium

        Freshman year, Honors English we had Brave New World and 1984 assigned as part of our summer reading. Fahrenheit 451 was assigned in 7th or 8th grade IIRC.

        Both were Catholic schools (one Ursuline, the other Notre Dame).

      • AlexinCT

        These days they assign these books as How to” manuals to the brainwashed morons they inculcate marxist beliefs in.

      • leon

        Joe Biden was for another Lockdown before he was against it!

  25. PieInTheSky

    Q2. CRT shifts ways of knowing from the dominant emphasis on objectivity, neutrality, and ‘evidence-based’ (which fetishises science) to contextual, story telling and lived experiences; a different epistemology.

    How can we challenge the dominance of the former?

    https://twitter.com/ClearTheAirUK/status/1315363788871303169

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      How can we challenge the dominance of the former?

      “Its easier to get what you want when you wrap it in your unassailable ‘lived experience’ and scream whenever people try to ignore you”

    • juris imprudent

      Twitter living up to being the intellectual sewer of humankind.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Has anybody else seen the “Plague is totally different now than it was in March!” headline?

    • robc

      Yes, it is less deadly.

  27. The Other Kevin

    I’m happy to report my youngest has successfully completed her volleyball season. Some of her games were cancelled due to the other schools being on lockdown, but there were no major issues. In person school continues.

    • Count Potato

      #24 looks vaguely familiar

  28. Rebel Scum

    Do you agree with Justice Scalia that Roe was wrongly decided? – Difi

    I cannot comment on precedent or pending cases because I do not want to be seen as having an agenda or precommit to any decision on any case. – Barret

    Difi can’t accept that position.

    • AlexinCT

      The only people that are heroic when they make that stance are team blue hacks that invent constitutional rights. When team red people do that it is a travisty.

    • juris imprudent

      She should invoke the Biden standard – you’ll know after I’m elected (or in this case, confirmed).

      • AlexinCT

        You must give us the power to do it first first before we let you know that we will use it to ass rape you without even the benefit of a reach around to make it less humiliating…

        And you can keep your plan and doctor too!

  29. Rebel Scum

    There’s been a troubling spike in gun sales. – Difi

    Fuck off, you cunte.

    • Drake

      Troubling because your husband wasn’t dealing the guns?

    • Count Potato

      “There’s been a troubling spike in gun sales.”

      WTF does that even mean?

      • UnCivilServant

        “Our efforts to disarm the public and demonize arms have hit a speedbump.”

      • EvilSheldon

        It means that I can’t buy small pistol primers for love or money right now? That’s troubling to me.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        It means the gun that I almost bought (but thought was a touch overpriced) at $1250 in January is now selling for $1800.

      • prolefeed

        “Those meddlesome proles keep buying guns so they can shoot back if we get too tyrannical. This is obviously bad.”

    • juris imprudent

      Gosh Di, what troubles you about that?

    • Drake

      Meanwhile in Sweden

      • PieInTheSky

        But Finland has much lower death rates…

        I always find it funny when someone mentions Sweden pro lockdowners say what about other nordic countries but do not accept what about belgium as if those norther countries are identical

      • mikey

        Saw some stats that Sweden had a mild flu season last year compared to other Nordic countries-this meant Sweden had more “tinder “for the ‘vid this year.

      • Drake

        Still half the deaths of NJ with more people.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Also funny is touting Sweden as doing nothing when their restrictions were more like milder US states.

  30. PieInTheSky

    Germany’s Justice Ministry has sparked a spat over gender and language by drafting a bill that uses only feminine endings, giving some the impression that it applies only to women.

    Legal texts in Germany usually use the masculine version of words such as “employee” or “landlord” to cover both men and women.

    But campaigners have been arguing for years that using this language excludes women or gives the impression they are less important.

    The draft law on insolvency and restructuring exclusively uses terms such as “Arbeitnehmerinnen” (female employees) instead of the masculine “Arbeitnehmer”.

    “I think it is good that we are now discussing gender-equal language in legal texts and that a ball has been set rolling,” Katja Mast of the Social Democrats (SPD), the party of Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, told the ARD public broadcaster.

    But the Interior Ministry said Monday it had demanded a revision of the bill over concerns that it “might apply only to women… and would thus most likely be unconstitutional”.

    https://www.thelocal.de/20201013/row-breaks-out-over-draft-german-law-that-uses-only-feminine-titles

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What a load of scheisse.

  31. Count Potato

    “I’ve been unsympathetic to a lot of past complaints about voter suppression, but this is CLEAR voter suppression and it’s not even close.”

    https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1315709497743224832

    Because letting people line up to vote is suppression?

    • UnCivilServant

      I mean, they only have six weeks to get through that line.

    • AlexinCT

      Appeals to emotion are idiotic.

    • leon

      UNLESS YOU CAN CAST YOUR VOTE AT ANY TIME! AND NEVER HAVE TO WAIT! IT’S SUPPRESSION!

      This is so stupid.

      • AlexinCT

        Don’t forget casting your (and other people, including dead people)’s votes as well…

    • The Other Kevin

      If the people actually cast a vote when they get to the end of that line it’s not suppression.

      • leon

        It’s not like they have 30 more days to try.

    • prolefeed

      Hunh. Enthusiatic voter turnout, combined with 6 foot distancing to make the line seem long, is voter suppression?

    • Agent Cooper

      The six feet distancing makes lines seem a lot longer than they probably really are.

  32. Count Potato

    “175 doctors tell the partisan Commission on Presidential Debates that it is perfectly safe to hold a Second Debate

    But the Commission doesn’t care about science, only covering for @JoeBiden’s poor debate performance & hiding him from the American People!”

    https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1315750499958878213

    “175 doctors tell commission Biden-Trump debate in Miami can be held safely”

    https://nypost.com/2020/10/09/175-doctors-say-biden-trump-debate-in-miami-can-be-held-safely/

    • leon

      When we say listen to the science, we don’t mean those guys. They are all quacks.

  33. Count Potato

    “Ben Sasse asks, “What is court packing?”

    Answer: Republicans breaking all precedents in order to completely bias the Supreme Court to produce a legislative outcome—the destruction of healthcare for millions of Americans—that they couldn’t win in Congress.”

    https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1315680311917899779

    CWAA

    • leon

      That’s the story the Dems are sticking with, partly to cover for something unpopular, and to cover for Biden who won’t tell people his position. “We have to add seats to unpack the court of conservatives”.

      Which really distills the Only consistent Democratic Policy: Never shall conservatives be allowed to hold power of any kind.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Merkley is an genuine idiot.

      I disagreed with much of their stances, but I miss Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood.

    • Rebel Scum

      Republicans breaking all precedents

      Except they aren’t.

      in order to completely bias the Supreme Court to produce a legislative outcome … that they couldn’t win in Congress.

      That’s what Dems have stated is the point of their proposed actual court-packing.

      • Hyperion

        “Republicans breaking all precedents”

        Precedents are according to the new progtopia, you will deplorable.

    • Fatty Bolger

      I’m sure all those independent fact checkers out there are all over this latest nonsense from the Democrats. Right?

  34. Rebel Scum

    Let me ask you as a person…

    Irrelevant premise is irrelevant.

  35. DEG

    Caso then took out a gun and fired a round toward the ground, which ricocheted and hit one of the passengers in the lower leg, Gillett said. The passenger had minor injures and was treated at the scene by fire officials, Gillett said.

    Joe Biden’s advice was to shoot into the air!

  36. DEG

    Ghislaine Maxwell hasn’t committed suicide yet

    Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, will urge a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling she says jeopardizes her ability to defend against criminal charges she enabled Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls.

    The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a judge’s order to unseal sworn testimony related to Epstein, including a April 2016 deposition from Maxwell and a deposition by an Epstein accuser.

    Maxwell, 58, has said negative publicity from the disclosure of “intimate, sensitive, and personal” information from her deposition would violate her right against self-incrimination, and imperil a fair trial because jurors might hold it against her.

    The British socialite has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 years old to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid-1990s, and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement under oath.

    • juris imprudent

      and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement under oath.

      Erm, something, something about self incrimination?

  37. Rebel Scum

    Democrats fundamentally misunderstand what a judge is supposed to do – Grassley

    Word*.

    *Obvious caveat about preferring originalism (which is the only legitimate view basis).

    • leon

      Misunderstand? No they don’t misunderstand. They know exactly what they want a judge to do, and ACB will not do that.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        This.

        If there’s anything that is more frustrating than the right pretending that the left is good faith misguided, I don’t know what it is.

        THEY WILL SAY AND DO ANYTHING TO ACCUMULATE POWER! START TREATING THEM LIKE THE AUTHORITARIANS THEY ARE!

        Of course, the kicker is that the few on the right who arent hypocritical authoritarians themselves don’t have enough power to even get the message out, let alone do anything about it.

      • Urthona

        I actually like her and I don’t much care for religious right folks.

    • Hyperion

      “Democrats fundamentally misunderstand what a judge is supposed to do – Grassley”

      They’re sposed to prog and legislate from the bench!

      • juris imprudent

        What cannot be achieved politically must be done from the bench! /progs and so-cons

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I realize this is a dumb question, but what does “positive test percentage” have to do with anything? What possible reason is there to care?

    Depending on the pool of test subjects, it could be zero, or it could be 100. If you only test people in the morgue, not only is your positive test rate something approaching 100%, it is lethal in all cases.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The assumption is that it can be used as a trend to indicate the velocity of spread. But the assumption is wrong because it’s based on a number of fallacies- testing is based on random sampling rather than targeted testing, non-covid causes are static (allergies, other colds/flu/ILI, etc), acceptable positivity rate is non-arbitrary, and so on. GIGO.

    • Urthona

      To be fair, I’ve been saying this entire time… but every spike in covid has lead to at least a small spike in hospitalizations and deaths within a few weeks. So it does mean something.

      When I look at the graph though, it’s more of a plateau than a spike. Seems fairly acceptable to me.

      • R C Dean

        every spike in covid has lead to at least a small spike in hospitalizations and deaths within a few weeks.

        Well, not necessarily. The small “spike” in positive tests related to colleges reopening/the virus moving into non-vulnerable populations coexists with a decrease in the death rate, and I believe hospitalizations, in AZ. It has been weeks since we have had a ‘Vid patient in our ICU, and our hospitalized ‘Vid patients have stayed in the single digits.

      • Urthona

        I mean it makes sense that that would be the case. I just always say that, though, and am frequently wrong.

    • R C Dean

      It could be a valuable number, if we had a consistent program for testing. Since our testing fishtails wildly all over the road, its not very valuable at all. When the denominator varies, what the numerator is matters not much.

  39. Cliche Bandit

    Will anyone see me if I comment down here?

      • Cancelled

        What are you replying to?

      • UnCivilServant

        Do you hear the voices too?

        Maybe not.

      • Cliche Bandit

        Figures…Glad to see this place is still as loving and sensitive as I left it. With warm stories fro SF and no grump folks.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fuck off, absentee tulpa!

      • Cliche Bandit

        OUCH that is uncalled for.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Everyone, including prodigal commentators, gets the tulpa welcome.

        Btw, avatars got nuked in a word press upgrade a couple months back.

      • Cliche Bandit

        I don’t recall what mine was but will pick a new one soon. I expect to be commenting more frequently as life without Glibs sucks. However, I am NOT going to ready SF fanfic…I refuse to admit it in public anyway.

      • Cliche Bandit

        ALSO, I very occasionally peruse TOS comments and it is a hot mess.

      • Tejicano

        “…occasionally peruse TOS comments…”

        Eeewwww!

    • Mojeaux the Malevolent

      Are you a Tulpa? I can’t be arsed to check.

      If so, welcome!

      If not, I apologize for not remembering your moniker.

      • commodious spittoon

        I can’t be arsed to check.

        You’re keeping track? Did you name names?

      • Cancelled

        Well she does write fiction, so keeping track of her tulpas makes sense.

      • Cliche Bandit

        It has been…years. I got busy right after the exodus and was only able to hang here a short time before life intervened. I hope all are doing well. And aren’t we all Tulpa? Speaking of Tulpa, he really isn’t in here is he? seriously…that isn’t funny…he’s not on here right? Did John ever make the jump to here or is he still only fighting sock puppets on TOS? He is fun to set off.

      • Tejicano

        We are all Sparticu… I mean, Tulpa!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        He lasted only a few days IIRC. Can’t remember if he flounced out or was defenestrated.

    • The Other Kevin

      He’s bad at math, just like every other Democrat.

      • prolefeed

        3 seconds in: questioner mentions 56% of Americans

        21 seconds in: Biden refers to 54% of Americans

        26 seconds in: Biden says of the 56%, “Their memory is not very good, quite frankly.”

      • juris imprudent

        I will give Joe the benefit of the doubt when he talks about faulty memories.

    • leon

      CNN totally had a Trump Voter on who said she felt betrayed and conned, and that this isn’t the “Great” america she had voted for. Clearly Trump is bleeding support from his base.

      • db

        Needs moar NRA members for gun control.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Wut?

    Claire McCaskill
    @clairecmc

    This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote.

    • leon

      waiting in lines is oppression.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        But bread lines are equitable!

        /Bernie

      • Nephilium

        So if I have to wait in line at Cedar Point on Saturday, is that Coaster Oppression?

      • Mad Scientist

        Now do background checks and waiting periods for firearms.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Exactly
      Cause US has become a 3rd world country, guns are easy accessible but healthcare or education is not.
      Voter suppression happens in the open.”

      Says someone who hasn’t tried to buy guns or ammo lately.

      • Chipwooder

        Truth.

        In what was is education not easily accessible? Other than Dem teacher unions refusing to reopen schools, that is.

      • leon

        They say that like an effective means of self defense being easily accessible is bad.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long?

      Practice for when the commies finally take over.

    • prolefeed

      People voting in droves, and lines looking long because everyone is 6 feet apart = voter suppression?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Voting should be automatic with no effort. In fact, I think the government should just handle it for us so our voting rights are preserved.

  41. Rebel Scum

    Fuck off, Leahy. He wants her to commit to recusing from election related cases. The point is to have an odd number of justices so there won’t be a deadlocked court, you cunte.

    • Hyperion

      She should just politely refuse to do so, or not answer. Nothing they can do. Votes are in, now it’s just theatre of the absurd.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s the same for every set of questioning. She says correctly that she can’t give personal views or pre-determine a position on any particular case or discuss policy but that is all they (Dems) are asking about.

        And the lines of questioning are premised along the lines of wanting to get her to say she wants to exterminate gays, remove healthcare and create a Handmaids Tale dystopia. It’d be comical if not so stupid and sad.

      • The Other Kevin

        She has been impressive in the few clips I’ve seen. She’s saying that the SC just can’t make up policy, they have to wait for a case to wind its way through the system, and then make a decision based on that specific case.

      • Fatty Bolger

        What a concept!

    • R C Dean

      He wants her to commit to recusing from election related cases.

      On what basis? There are actually rules of ethics for judges (I’ll give you a moment to get off your fainting couch) that spell out when a judge should recuse.
      “Cases involving the administration that nominated you” is not on the list.

  42. Chipwooder

    Oh, this is going to be fun. The state govt computer systems all appear to be down in VA and today was the voter registration deadline. Talk about a mess.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Obviously it’s the GOP suppressing votes.

      • EvilSheldon

        I wish. The VA GOP couldn’t suppress an erection with a fistful of saltpeter and Hillary Clinton’s nude boudoir snaps…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *barf*

      • Chipwooder

        Are you ghostwriting for SF now?

      • juris imprudent

        The SF virus, we’re all infected, it just progresses differently – see Kinnath’s contribution last night for example.

      • kinnath

        Just a wee bit infected

      • EvilSheldon

        *blushes*

        Thanks, but I have a way to go yet…

    • Hyperion

      Can’t you just register on the spot if you vote early? Cuz you can here in MD. Otherwise today is the deadline.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Last I remember in TX, even if everything about your registration is fucked up, they’ll let you cast a provisional and fix everything later. Granted, provisionals are basically just ignored unless the race is so close that a handful of votes will sway it.

    • Hyperion

      Coffee

      • Rebel Scum

        Same. It still morning in the timezone that matters.

        Got a vitamin water for later and probably wine with dinner tonight.

    • Nephilium

      Iced tea. I didn’t even get a chance to make coffee this morning, got pulled into a conference call for an intermittent error that looks to be related to a DB server change three weeks ago. I’m just the phone system guy, so I get to be moral support on the call and showing that the company I work for is willing to try to go the extra mile to assist.

      /waves tiny flag

  43. Hyperion

    “Man, I just cannot keep up”

    It’s easy, does it agree with progs 100% of time?

    Agrees with progs all the time == SCIENCE!

    Does not agree with progs all the time != SCIENCE!

    • leon

      The answer is Freedom and lack of excessive inbreeding.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Under my rule, all dwellings will conform to my preferred aesthetic.

      • UnCivilServant

        I look at that picture and see small, cramped houses with garages that are difficult to get a vehicle in and out of.

      • EvilSheldon

        And streets that are miserable to actually drive on. Nice place to look at, but shit to live in.

      • The Other Kevin

        I see streets nearly impossible to navigate in a wheelchair.

    • The Other Kevin

      Technology.

    • Count Potato

      Different places have cultural differences. Shocking.

    • Chipwooder

      The fact that there is no demand for houses like those?

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh yes, an apartment-sized house with constricted access, probably in a designated ‘historic’ neighborhood that limits what you can do to the building, potentially outdated amenities, and neighbors practically living on top of you, despite being on separate properties.

        What’s not to desire?

    • grrizzly

      There are streets like this in America. They just look better.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Norks unveiling their deep fake abilities?

    • Count Potato

      “”Our people have placed trust, as high as sky and as deep as sea, on me, but I have failed to always live up to it satisfactorily,” Kim said, at one point appearing to choke up. “I am really sorry for that.””

      So he’s more humble than Obama?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *chuckle*

      • commodious spittoon

        We didn’t live up to Obama’s promise.

  44. Gustave Lytton

    Denver Post has posted all the frames their photographer apparently shot at the scene of the shooting.

    https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/12/denver-protest-shooting-photos-full-sequence/

    Bear spray guy clearly moves toward security guard and protectee in a hostile manner, but can’t determine why from just the pictures.

    In addition to the lack of a security guard license, guard would also not have a plain clothes endorsement and even if he did, seems to be lacking the required displayed identification. surprising that Pinkerton is that inept

    • Chipwooder

      The claim now is that the tv station called Pinkerton and Pinkerton subcontracted the job. Still doesn’t answer the question of who this guy worked for and how he ended up with this assignment, given his history of leftist activism.

      • EvilSheldon

        I find it very hard to believe that Pinkerton would have subbed out a personal protection gig to anyone, much less to this yahoo…

      • Gustave Lytton

        We now know that @9NEWS falsely claimed Dolloff was a Pinkerton employee when he was NOT

        Uh no, “we” don’t know that at all. Having dealt with contractors subbing out work, they often do not tell you.

        I tapped out halfway through. Malkin is a loon to start with.

    • Chipwooder

      Also, someone blew up the picture where the deceased smacks the “guard” – it looks like he was carrying on the left side under his vest, and it also looks like the “guard” was reaching for it and that drew the swipe.

      If you look at the ground and fencing from that frame to when he was shot, he was moving backwards before the guy shot him.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’ve seen that and the technical analysis looks correct. Conclusion that guard was reaching rather than just random hand placement is shaky. The lead up and context, particularly why bear spray guy approached the two with raised spray to begin with, is still missing.

    • R C Dean

      Looks like the dead guy slapped fake security guy, who had reached out and tried to grab him, and was backing off when fake security guy pulls his piece. I see no legitimate self-defense claim, regardless of how it started. Backing off is backing off. The still frames are less useful than the video in terms of capturing who was moving how at any given moment, but there’s no question fake security guy went for his piece pretty effing early, and shot when he was not at imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm.

      The TV station is at risk of liability here, as is the contractor and perhaps Pinkerton. On the contractor/Pinkerton side, putting an unlicensed guard out there is very, very bad. On the TV station side, well, they might have a defense that they relied on the contractor/Pinkerton, but its going to depend on what their contract for faek security guy actually says, I think.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Backing up a short distance and activating bear spray is not retreating nor is it non-hostile. May not be justifiable for lawful use of force but bear spray man isn’t some innocent that security guard just whacked out of the blue (like the Portland shooting)

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Yeah, I’d say shooting someone with bear spray is solid ground for lawful use of lethal force in response. The real question, in my mind, is if the security guard had a duty to retreat before engaging in lethal force. That’s based on individual state law, including if the security guard contributed to escalating the situation prior to being sprayed.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, and CO doesn’t have a duty to retreat.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Even if the shooter contributed to the escalation of the event? I don’t know that the security guard did. VA has stand your ground but it evaporates if both parties escalated and duty to retreat then comes into play.

      • Cliche Bandit

        Correct and we have that law tested somewhat regularly.

      • R C Dean

        Backing up a short distance and activating bear spray is not retreating nor is it non-hostile.

        Backing up is retreating. It looks pretty clear to me that the dead guy slaps fake security guy in order to disengage and retreat, after fake security guy reaches out and contacts him. The video is a little more clear.

        Fake security guy goes for his gun while the dead guy still has the bear spray by his side. Look at frame RALLY_871, Frame #: 2639. Things are moving very fast, I know; they basically both start raising their “weapons” very close to the same time.

        I’d say shooting someone with bear spray is solid ground for lawful use of lethal force in response.

        I struggle very much with the idea that you can gun down somebody who is threatening to hit you with pepper spray. I don’t think pepper spray crosses the line to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. It is non-lethal by definition, and doesn’t cause long-term injury.

      • db

        Serious question: someone looks like they’re going to hit you with bear spray. You are holding a gun. Even though the bear spray is “less than lethal,” at what point does the person armed with a lethal weapon legitimately concerned with what happens after being hit with bear spray? Depending on the circumstances, one might fear a debilitating (or even lethal) beating, having one’s weapon turned against oneself, etc.

      • db

        Or even having one’s weapon stolen and turned against others?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I struggle very much with the idea that you can gun down somebody who is threatening to hit you with pepper spray. I don’t think pepper spray crosses the line to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.

        The purpose of pepper spraying is to disable a person. If someone is trying to disable me, I’m assuming their intent for disabling me is nefarious and includes the threat of death or serious bodily harm. Someone attacking me doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt that they have good, altruistic motives for my health in disabling me.

        There’s no question what would happen if someone pepper sprayed a cop. The responding shots from the officer would be justifiably held up as a good shoot for the same reason.

      • R C Dean

        I hear you, but I think it will be hard to get over the line as an affirmative defense, burden on the shooter and all that. Remember, there is no question fake security committed some flavor of homicide/manslaughter here. Its up to him to prove it was justified. Not sure what the burden of proof is in CO; it can be preponderance of the evidence (“51%”), or clear and convincing evidence (call it, 70%).

        Of course, cops have different rules than Little People. They aren’t required to have a “reasonable” fear; their shoots are justified based on whether they are afraid, regardless of whether a reasonable person would have been afraid.

        If someone is trying to disable me, I’m assuming their intent for disabling me is nefarious

        That assumption could get you in serious trouble. The question will be, would a reasonable person make the assumption that they are disabling you in order to kill you or cause you serious bodily harm? Could their use of spray be justified as self defense on their part, such as if you were reaching for your gun while they were backing away?

        As ever, much turns on what led to the actual deployment and use of the weapons. Did fake security guy initiate the physical confrontation? I don’t think we really know, yet. But if so, he’s in real trouble.

      • Tejicano

        I have not seen a lot of the video feed out there but the point where it all breaks down to me is the fact that supposed security dude was in an altercation with somebody who was not a direct threat to his principal. I have run security details/organizations and the idea of engaging in some confrontation like that sounds totally alien to me. Either you draw back as it isn’t a threat or you take it down – if he isn’t presenting lethal force use less-than-lethal means. This verbal engagement – seemingly prodding for a reaction – is just wrong.

  45. PieInTheSky

    6yo at home: bugging his sisters, whining, bugging his sisters, fidgeting and making irritating noises, bugging his sisters.
    6yo at Grandmaman’s: so far today has gardened, dug up bulbs, dredged the pond, and currently learning to chop wood. Happy as a clam.
    We need an acreage.

    https://twitter.com/OneHeilanCoo/status/1315786163014172672

    I would think this is very dangerous, letting a child handle an ax. Is the US government not concerned at all with child welfare?

    • leon

      If you don’t let a few kids chop off their hands and legs, are you really living in a society that is worth it?

    • commodious spittoon

      We need an acreage ADHD meds and lectures about toxic masculinity.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      boys need time to play around and burn off energy outdoors? whoda thunk??

      • commodious spittoon

        Teachers unions HATE this one weird trick!

    • db

      As long as the kid doesn’t start shouting “First!” all the time, it should be OK.

  46. Mojeaux the Malevolent

    Finished The Boys last night. AOC really does have crazy eyes.

    • Urthona

      I loved the line “you’re one of the good ones” the instant it is revealed that she is not — in fact — one of the good ones.

      That show is great.

      • Urthona

        *before it is revealed

      • Mojeaux the Malevolent

        “You’re one of the good ones.” I totally groaned.

        They did a good job. I did not suspect she was the one ‘sploding heads.

        My question: Self-loathing or wanting to take over the world?

      • Drake

        Maybe she’s a Nazi too?

      • Urthona

        Oh she’s craving some power for sure. But her motives for that will be interesting.

    • kinnath

      I haven’t seen the last episode yet. Won’t get to it for a couple of days.

      I plead with y’all — no spoilers. 😉

      • kinnath

        I averted my eyes.

        But it was a close call. 😉

      • Urthona

        Oops. Too late on that.

    • Cancelled

      “The Once and Future VP” is lacking something.

    • AlexinCT

      After they win the coming election?

      • Cancelled

        He is the present VP. He cannot become the VP in this election; he can only remain the VP or cease to be the VP. I suppose he is the future VP in the same sense that I am the future Cancelled as long as I do not die, or change my handle this instant, but that would be odd diction.

    • Urthona

      Over a bit longer than a weekend, Biden revealed he is running for Senate and that he supports a $15 million minimum wage, He also took off his mask during a speech to cough into his hand.

      Why do I get the feeling that this gaffe will somehow be bigger news?

      • leon

        15 Million minimum wage? I mean, who wouldn’t vote for that?

      • Urthona

        I think I might not vote for it, because I have a feeling the $15 million would shortly be worth about a cent.

      • Tejicano

        Give us a Harris-Biden administration for a couple terms and that might just come to pass. But by that point it won’t be enough to buy a cup of coffee.

      • Urthona

        I’m absolutely floored that Biden is kicking Trump’s ass in the polls despite planning to raise taxes for every single American.

      • UnCivilServant

        If that’s true, you’ve forgotten all the traits of polls we’ve been pointing out for years.

        Public polls do not reveal public opinion, they seek to alter it.

      • Urthona

        Perhaps. Sounds a bit tin foil, but we’ll know in a few weeks. I, of course, hope you’re right.

      • Tejicano

        “Public polls do not reveal public opinion, they seek to alter it.”

        I suppose that we, like Lando Calrissian, should pray that they don’t alter it further.

      • Count Potato

        Well, because the media is covering for him.

      • Urthona

        Can’t Trump just run an ad showing this? I’ve seen multiple non-partisan news sources do a nice graph showing Biden’s proposed tax increases.

        His taxes on business are even worse.

        Raising your taxes, raising your employer’s taxes, and packing the Supreme Court with leftist nutjubs should be enough to scare some never-Trumpers into not defecting I personally think.

      • Nephilium

        Urthona:

        Trump has run ads (at least in my area) quoting Biden saying he was going to raise taxes and hammering home that taxes will go up under a Biden administration.

      • leon

        A lot of people _hate_ Trump.

    • The Other Kevin

      Looks like an old video, so at the time he would have been the future VP.

      • Count Potato

        I guess that makes sense in Trump speak.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Seemed pretty obvious to me.

  47. Count Potato

    How is Suthen doing? I know he is extremely well-prepared, but still.

    • Tejicano

      I am also concerned. I expect that he is in an area where the power is out so even if he is running his own generator it’s probable that he doesn’t have a working connection to the internet. I am hoping this is all it is and he and his family are otherwise OK.

  48. Count Potato

    “For the first time that I am aware of, @tedwheeler
    has stated antifa by name. In an OPB mayoral debate, he calls out @sarahforpdx
    for her support of the violent extremist movement & her early refusal to denounce arson attacks. In response, she says this will get her death threats”

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1315907132085198848

    Those threats will be mostly peaceful.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Portland is looking a lot like 1920’s Germany right now.

    • Cancelled

      That is impressive.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What’s with the good news?

      You’re going to ruin the vibe around here.

    • Count Potato

      Wow. What is that thing?

    • Tejicano

      Maybe I missed it but what was the treatment they applied?

      • PieInTheSky

        seemed like electric brain stimulation

      • Tejicano

        That’s what I was assuming but I wonder how invasive (or not) this is. I lost my dad to Parkinson’s and am told that I could possibly be facing the same fate (no actual diagnosis – just genetic possibility).

    • EvilSheldon

      Dude.

      Don’t tell me about the good old days. These *are* the good old days.

  49. Rebel Scum

    Dickhead Durbin said that ACB invented law by having the opinion that barring arms ownership should apply to violent felons only.

    Dickehead Durbin is, in fact, a dickhead.

    • UnCivilServant

      What’s literally who’s definition of ‘failing’? I suspect that it’s not the same as ours.

    • CPRM

      Huh, I wonder what that looks like with all 50 states…

    • Rebel Scum

      “cases”

      Irrelevant.

      • robc

        Also “June cutuff”.

        Cant show all the failing New England states.

      • leon

        Yup. This is all about cherry picking. It’s like when they pick Sep 12 2001 as the start point to count “Deaths by Terrorism” to show that it’s actually white supremacy that is the danger.

    • leon

      Because everyone got hit by the virus at the same time.

      I like this thread:

      https://twitter.com/csojinb/status/1316003967420248069

      Brianna Wu
      @BriannaWu
      ·
      16h
      This is astonishing. Almost every state that’s failing is Republican.
      From
      Tony Clark
      Tom sold Rey to protect Rey.
      @woozlindemon
      ·
      16h
      Why isn’t New York on here.?
      This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
      Spoopy Will (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
      @InHellSatan
      ·
      13h
      Except New York has been struggling since day one pretty much.
      Clara Bennett
      @csojinb
      Replying to
      @InHellSatan

      @BriannaWu
      and
      @woozlindemon
      Not true. NY was hit badly early but got a decent handle on it. Over the time period covered by this chart, NY has been one of the safest places to be virus-wise.

      Yeah, that’s the point, NY was hit bad early on and the point of this chart is to ignore that. It’s called cherry picking.

      • R C Dean

        NY was hit badly early but got a decent handle on it.

        Assumes declines after a peak are due to government action. Ignores decades of epidemiology where declines after the peak are just the way it works.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What’s are the death rates and the definition of failing? Also, from the graph, even taken at face value it seems to be a fairly even split.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Whoops, I didn’t let it play. Still, different states got hit and peaked at different times.

  50. Count Potato

    “The thing I find most notable about ACB’s answers today is that the GOP traded a hundred thousand American lives for her seat on the court, and there are thousands of Americans walking around healthy right now who will be sick and dead by year’s end.”

    https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1316021651796967425

    Que?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Oh noes, the Covid. It’s a damn shame Trump dropped the ball and we ended up being the only country that’s had cases and deaths.

    • EvilSheldon

      Shut the fuck up, you virtue-signaling little twat.

      I swear to Enkidu, if I ever had a thought that asinine, I would dig it out of my brain with an icepick.

    • Akira

      there are thousands of Americans walking around healthy right now who will be sick and dead by year’s end.”

      And that number would have been zero if Biden were president, right?

    • leon

      I had never heard her voice before. She sounds really young.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      No high school calendar?

      • Fatty Bolger

        “It’s actually my boofing schedule, Senator.”

    • R C Dean

      And why would anybody care if she was, or what notes she was taking?

      • Fatty Bolger

        Seriously. Who cares?

      • AlexinCT

        Because way too many people in that crowd would sound like complete imbeciles without their teleprompters.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Ah, already saw it used as a meme and wondered where it came from.

    • creech

      Some critic is sure to spin it as “she wasn’t prepared” or “is this how she will decide cases without reference to long established case law?”

  51. Mojeaux the Malevolent

    XX is learning how to drive. On the way to her last lesson, she had a pretty close call on the highway. She’s shaken up and in tears. Good thing we have a while until her appointment time. My heart’s still going a little faster than it should.

    • PieInTheSky

      the Saudis are right about women driving :).

      Glad XX is unharmed.

      • Mojeaux the Malevolent

        Oh she’s not by herself. I’m in the car too. She had an unexpected situation to deal with and I gave her confusing instructions.

    • UnCivilServant

      Glad to hear no contact was made.

      Can’t give an advice, close calls happen, and can leave you frazzled for a while. Strangely, I’ve been frazzled longer from close calls than actual collisions.

      • Mojeaux the Malevolent

        Yes. I told her that happens all the time, even experienced drivers. Had to get over at an entrance ramp and someone was in her blind spot. I should have told her to speed up instead of looking to see if she could get over. She went over without looking. That truck would’ve creamed us if he hadn’t been so alert.