Sunday Morning Links of Gratitude

by | Nov 8, 2020 | Daily Links | 328 comments

 

The temperatures here finally dropped to two digits. After reading some of the comments yesterday about spouses/SOs and their political incompatibility (a result of differences in axiomatic core values), I look at whom I’m married to. Boxes of ammo were delivered to our doorstep. We had pizza and great wine last night, and chatted with the usual delightful crowd.

For these things, I am grateful.

Birthdays are both for people that inspire gratitude and the opposite, like a guy who should have died at the age of 76; a guy who truly was Chairman of the Board; Pie’s true creator; a guy I would have loved to do some lines with; a blotchier version of Brad Pitt; someone who became famous as Florida Woman; a white guy who did more for integration than anyone else; a guy who could just scream; a woman who shattered glass better than a Jewish groom; a Second Amendment grifter; a musician who put on the single worst live show I’ve ever attended; the most calm and relaxed guy you’ll ever encounter in a professional kitchen; and a woman whose acting work keeps her a busy bee.

News next.

 

How stunning. How brave. How uniting. Fuck off, slaver.

 

If I’m elected, there will be massive celebration in Trabzon. At least as much celebration as when my family was driven out. Y’know, one fewer potato and we wouldn’t have a senile trainwreck forced on us as president.

 

More extraterrestrial weird molecule claims. I am skeptical.

 

Jesus fucking christ, give it up already.

 

Worry, worry, worry. And you can’t get through the Dakotas without stepping over the piles of bodies.

 

This is the kind of stuff I wish I were working on.

 

Old Guy Music is pretty much what SP and I have been feeling lately. After having worked for a couple years in Austria, the dialect is just delightful for me to hear. Clink your glasses, because we’ll never again be together this young.

 

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Old Man With Candy

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

328 Comments

  1. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “give it up already”

    Yeah, I’m going to have to disagree with you there.

    • Sean

      ⬆

    • Cy

      Tis but a flesh wound!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I get what you’re saying, that it’s fruitless and all, but there’s nothing wrong with protesting an election being stolen when an election’s being stolen.

      • Sean

        My tits are still calm, but the blatant stealing needs to be called out and brought to light. I’m not going to be satisfied until a recount/do over and criminal charges filed.

        They told us what they were going to do. They did it. They didn’t even really hide it.

      • Festus' Mustache Needs To Calm His Tits

        *gestures toward Sean’s avatar*

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Charges won’t be filed I don’t think but recounts just might happen depending on how the various lawsuits go. The fraud exists on its face and just rolling over and taking it means it’ll be SOP for ever and ever going forward. If people rightly don’t think their vote counts political remedies are sought in, uh, other ways and that’s very much not good.

      • Ted S.

        If Jill Stein could get a recount, there’s no reason Trump shouldn’t be able to get one.

      • juris imprudent

        Except they didn’t pull off the vaunted Blue Wave.

        If you’re going to steal an election, aren’t you going to steal all of it?

      • Cy

        Not if you’re in a hurry.

      • blackjack

        You never heard of pinching a lid?

      • Cy

        No one was anticipating a red wave in the state and federal legislatures.

      • rhywun

        Don’t forget there are still Senate seats up in the air.

      • Floridaman

        I don’t know why do people who steal from the cash register only take $50 or so rather than the entire tray.

      • DEG

        I can see recounts happening but no re-dos.

        No one will go after the big fraud.

      • Cy

        I thought it an apt and amusing reference. But, I still think the Don can pull it off. The numbers don’t make any sense. If our courts and citizens won’t take a stand against this than I may personally lose all hope in our system.

        Tim Pool did a pretty good episode last night talking about how the non-progs really did landslide this elections. Gaining a ton of ground in the states and holding their ground in the federal bodies. He made a good point about the state legislatures being able to do the districting for the house. While true, I’m not getting too much hope on it. He is correct though, this election did a lot to slow the virus of commies.

      • blackjack

        If they get away with this, nothing will ever slow them again. Our nation is doomed if one party is allowed to fix elections blatantly. There’s not one indicator anywhere that this outcome was expected or even real. Yeah, I know, The polls. They sucked last time and even worse this time. There only so much shady assed crap one can contribute to coincidence. This far exceeds any rational bullshitometer.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Thee polls were the palate cleanser for swallowing this fraudulent shit sandwich. They even telegraphed the red illusory win followed by the later blue tsunami.

      • Q Continuum

        Yeah. And nothing will happen. I know everyone’s going to tell me to fuck off and that I’m black-pilled or whatever, but nothing in my life experience indicates that there will be any significant consequences. Just like the ‘rona, the sheep will lap up the diarrhea that’s fed to them.

        Face it: we have a North Korean election system now. Better to accept that and plan your life accordingly.

        I post again from yesterday a quote that I think is particularly relevant:

        “Critics claim electoral fraud, with voter suppression and violence, was used when the political machine did not work and *elections were just a ritual to simulate the appearance of a democracy.* ” (Emphasis mine)

        That’s in reference to the PRI in Mexico, a party that ruled uninterrupted for 71 years. Get ready for the Dems to become the US’s PRI.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I disagree with your assessment of the hopelessness of the situation but there’s nothing wrong with being blackpilled, not after this. I’m not going to vote in national level elections anymore, I refuse to give them my implied consent and they can suck it.

    • Homple

      #metoo

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Soon we’ll be rid of President Cartoon Villain, and the peace and reconciliation can commence.

    Peace and harmony, at last.

    • Cy

      Hopey changey for ALL! *looks at list* Except those evil Nazis!

  3. Tres Cool

    “…became famous as Florida Woman.”

    OK, that was funny. Then again, Im a moron on his 3rd beer, and really tired from the overnight. Dont take much.

  4. Ted S.

    The temperatures here finally dropped to two digits

    Pie would argue they’ve always been two digits.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    With coronavirus cases running rampant in the Dakotas and elected leaders refusing to forcefully intervene, the burden of pushing people to take the virus seriously has increasingly been put on the families of those who have died.

    Joe will save us.

    Praise be unto him.

    • LJW

      I just looked at the numbers it’s running rampant everywhere lockdown or not.

      • DEG

        Which the usual suspects say means we have to lock down harder.

        I’ve seen some noise from people wanting a mask mandate in New Hampshire. Pointing out that Massachusetts has had a mask mandate for months and they have rising cases goes nowhere.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Send the feds into the Dakotas and LOCK THEM DOWN FOR THE GOOD OF THE REPUBLIC!

    • rhywun

      the burden of pushing people to take the virus seriously has increasingly been put on the families of those who have died

      Yeah, because they’re real rational right now.

      That person can shove their “forceful intervention” up their fucking ass.

  6. Sean

    There was no mention of electronic skin applications for the penis.

    • Old Man With Candy

      That’s because they don’t have me working on this.

    • prolefeed

      24. A bit chubby, with an extra helping of curves where it matters.

    • TARDis

      I usually don’t click on these links unless someone makes an interesting comment. You are correct about #30.

      Also,#4 looks like a young, stacked Kayleigh.

  7. Festus' Mustache Needs To Calm His Tits

    No comment.

  8. Sean

    你弽

  9. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And thanks for all the lynx.

    The Dakotas story is incredibly fucked up. They aren’t gonna stop beating that fucking drum, are they? Fucking anecdotes when we know for a fact that if your immune system fucking works, you aren’t gonna fucking die!

    I’m about Covid’d out. I don’t understand how people can stay so freaked out, when there is so much information out there.

    Nice Old Guy music today. That place reminds me of a bar we wandered into in Salzburg. Such nice people and great beer!

    Have a fantastic day, everyone! I’m grateful that there are people like you in this world!

    • Q Continuum

      “I’m about Covid’d out. I don’t understand how people can stay so freaked out, when there is so much information out there.”

      I hear ya. I have completely quit wearing a mask even where “required” unless someone threatens to throw me out.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yes. Thanks to everyone here.

      A glimmer of sanity in an insane world. Just a glimmer, but it’ll do.

    • Cy

      “I’m about Covid’d out.”

      Well don’t you worry, wait until you find out about the elections!

      /s

    • ElspethFlashman

      the Flashman/ Humungus contingent is back from our SC vacay. It was a lovely break from reality, except that darn election kept trying to interrupt my bubble.

      I finally figured out the ABC liquor stores (there are three that are within walking distance to the place we stay). That’s because the clerk explained to me: “Only wine, and spirits. No gum, no snacks, no mixers! You can get those at the place across the street.” *light slowly dawns on me* So it makes total sense from a 1779 mindset. But that led me to question the hard seltzers – which you can get at grocery stores. But not a spirits stores ? Michigan seems like some freedom -crazed liquor heaven in comparison.

      Once again, we did not see Bill Murray (he’s rumored to live on a dead end street off East Bay), nor did we see any ghosts on a “ghost tour” walk. We came back to a positive bank balance (amen) and two very happy dogs.

      • Tundra

        Awesome. My wife and I went out to Oregon for a few days of hiking and relaxing with our best friends.

        It’s good to pretend that things are normal.

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH SORRY HIM MISS YOU. NEXT TIME!

      • Tejicano

        Once upon a time I had a buddy who had lived most of his adult life in one of those east coast states where alcohol sales are heavily regulated. He came to visit me while I was in grad school in Arizona – and was blown away by the sight of hard liquor being sold off the shelf at a grocery store 24/7 like it was just another product (except for the age restriction).

    • rhywun

      Yes, fun song. I wonder WTF they’re saying cuz that ain’t anything I can understand. There are languages classified as distinct that are easier for each other’s speakers to understand (think Danish and Norwegian) than that garble is for a German.

    • rhywun

      I don’t understand how people can stay so freaked out, when there is so much information out there.

      I do.

      Most people don’t get any information beyond what the MSM is feeding them.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      “ I’m about Covid’d out. I don’t understand how people can stay so freaked out, when there is so much information out there.”

      Willful ignorance is a helluva drug. My eldest kid’s godmother left the church she is pastor of bc the congregants demanded indoor in person service. Bc she didnt want to die. She is 34 yrs old with no past medical history and was a healthy weight pre-lockdown ?.

      • Q Continuum

        Good riddance.

      • Viking1865

        was a healthy weight pre-lockdown ?.

        Man I fucking feel that caveat.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Thicc?

      • CPRM

        Wait, you kids grandmother is only 34? And a ‘pastor’? And people wonder why Catholics prefer celibate priests…. But, this ‘grandma’, is she available?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *hands CPRM his glasses*

  10. The Late P Brooks

    It had a death rate of roughly 29 people per 100,000 over the last 30 days, according to the Johns Hopkins data.

    At this rate, there will be no one left in 333 years!

  11. The Late P Brooks

    I’m about Covid’d out. I don’t understand how people can stay so freaked out, when there is so much information out there.

    Sex Fear sells.

  12. Toxteth O'Grady

    YouTube is eager for me to know this:

    The AP has called the Presidential race for Joe Biden.

    Robust safeguards help ensure the integrity of elections and results. Learn more

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Oops, premature. After Biden was “See more at Google.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They really are circling the wagons. It’s astounding. Even Fox News, which cancelled Judge Jeanine this weekend because she was going to criticize the election.

      • Sean

        The media is the enemy.

        Defund the media.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Canceled one show or her show period?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        One show as far as I know.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Huh…Fox has screwed themselves so badly that their shareholders should be complaining. The Murdoch whelps must be wanting to get out of the news business.

      • Count Potato

        That’s not a good sign.

      • blackjack

        Fox is dumb as a rock. They were number one forever, doing what they did. One day, they thought, ” I know! Let’s stop now and just do what all the losers are doing! Fucking brilliant!”

      • rhywun

        I understand Murdoch’s kids are slowly skin-suiting it. Same is happening at the NY Post.

      • Count Potato

        Sad.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Can’t be accepted in polite New York society if you don’t tow the lion.

    • Trigger Hippie

      YouTube has suddenly decided that I might be interested in America’s racism and the glories of socialism in contrast to dirty, evil, capitalism…despite my viewing history being comprised mostly of historical events and oddities, music, and whatever random weirdness you all submit here.

      The propaganda is sickening. Just about to tell YT to suck the high hard one all together.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Just thumb the videos down…and they’ll play them again regardless. I get the sneaking feeling their algorithm isn’t really an algorithm.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Oh, I noticed that as well over the last couple of weeks. Sometimes it takes a day or two, sometimes literally right after I just refresh the page. They relentlessly try to shove a veiwpoint down my throat and it’s irritating. So much so that I’d be lying if I said I’ve never sent them a profanity laced email or two about how much they suck.

      • prolefeed

        “Play The Narrative relentlessly no matter what they thumb up or down” IS an algorithm.

      • Q Continuum

        You can start by de-googling yourself.

      • rhywun

        This. I only watch music and Let’s Play videos on YT and the autoplay (which I used to be able to disable but they changed it recently) just goes to something you would expect.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I dunno, mine seem pretty well-tailored, with nothing but vote results being shoved down my throat.

        There’s Vimeo and Daily Motion.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Bitchute too, especially for political content, it works pretty well now.

    • kbolino

      Robust safeguards

      Sleight of hand. The states that had robust safeguards called it election night. The ones that were going heavily one way before midnight and suddenly switched by the time they resumed counting the next day, not so much.

  13. Scruffy Nerfherder

    My FB feed is full of giddy liberals.

    I’m just waiting for the inevitable “round up the Trump supporters” post. At which point, Scruffy is going to lose some friends.

    • Cy

      I purged yesterday. It bothers me how many of them deep down know what happened and they’re still trying to act as if this is just another election year.

      • Ted S.

        Into the porcelain throne?

      • Cy

        I’m more of an outdoorsey type. There are few things more alpha than purging in your backyard while having a stare down with your neighbor and his wife.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Do you give the wife a lecherous gaze?

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I just looked at the numbers it’s running rampant everywhere lockdown or not.

    To my un-SCIENCE-tific eye, it looks as if none of the witch doctors’ appeasement of the plague gods has made a goddam bit of difference.

    What would we do without computer models?

  15. The Late P Brooks

    They really are circling the wagons. It’s astounding. Even Fox News, which cancelled Judge Jeanine this weekend because she was going to criticize the election.

    #MOVEON

    • Cy

      Yeah! Capitulate! Looks how far that’s gotten us. Think of the children!

    • ruodberht

      His creative writing teacher will sure give him an A.

    • blackjack

      He should consider a career in politics. He’s a dick and a liar.

      • zwak

        This.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Last night I watched a movie called Crimson Tide. Holy shit, what a dumb movie.

    • Tres Cool

      Try “Black Dog” with Randy Travis and Patrick Swayze if you really want to lower your IQ by 10-20 points.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You’re not lying.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The submarine movie where they kept taking losing and retaking control of the submarine? Yeah, that sucked.

    • Cy

      Gene Hackman is 90.

      Denzel is…. 65!?!??!

      • Ted S.

        Well, he was in his late 20s when he made A Soldier’s Story.

      • hayeksplosives

        Denzel made some kind of pact with unearthly forces so that he aged 1 year between the ages of 30 and 60.

        He is an ageless wonder.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    It bothers me how many of them deep down know what happened and they’re still trying to act as if this is just another election year.

    The means justify the ends.

    Democracy is saved!

    • prolefeed

      One of my brothers in law I overheard saying several days “just go scorched earth” in doing whatever it took to oust OMB. So, yeah, plenty of Democrats are not just OK with the blatant cheating, they’re quietly applauding it while pretending it was all fair and aboveboard.

      And not asking what happens when Team Red decides to use the new playbook.

  18. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I need a crowd-sourced response to this. It’s so stupid I’m not sure what to say:

    The amount of taxes you pay or don’t pay is irrelevant in economics. You should look at markets, unemployment rates and interest rates to determine economic success.

    • ruodberht

      Whether you’re infected by a disease is irrelevant in medicine. You should look at nasal congestion, fever, and cough to determine sickness.

    • Q Continuum

      Just ask him if the economy would suffer if his taxes were raised to 100%.

      He’ll say: “Of course but that’s ridiculous! It would never happen!”

      Convince him that if there’s a point at which it starts matter, it matters. Doesn’t matter at what point, the point exists.

      I don’t expect him to understand or be convinced; it’s religious faith and you’re probably better off ignoring and blocking.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Does he understand the history behind “There’s one for you, nineteen for me”?

      • creech

        Sounds like a good technique we’ll all need to use soon when our local congressgrifters start in on $15 minimum wage. “Where does it start to hurt, $16?” “How about $25, does it hurt then?” “If not, then why aren’t you advocating for $25?” “If yes, please show me the studies that
        pinpoints where the tipping point is.”

      • Floridaman

        And none of them will care, any more than creationists care about evidence. The difference is the fundamentalists only try to push their religion on you one day a week, these lunatics push it 24/7

      • prolefeed

        Remind them that Kennedy did tax cuts because the federal marginal income tax rates of over 90% were fucking over the economy.

    • Sean

      *bang* *bang* *bang*

    • blackjack

      Tax money is wasted. It does not contribute to the market as useful wealth. Only money that is carefully spent as if it were earned helps the market. If someone steals a bunch of money and buys velvet Elvis paintings with it, that money is wasted. It doesn’t help the market figure out what we want or need.

      • blackjack

        Even worse, it reduces the amount of money which could be driving the useful adjustment to the supply/demand. People are careful with their money and the market takes care of them only because it knows what they want. Government is sloppy with it (our) money and it skews the market away from what we need/want.

    • Cy

      Spoken like a true trust fund baby.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Why the hell would I give a whit about the economy if I don’t have enough money to pay my bills, save for my future, and enjoy my life? Economics is only useful insofar as it correlates with individual financial success.

      • Floridaman

        Nein, everything within the state, nothing outside the state, and nothing against the state is these people’s motto.

    • KSuellington

      Switch from FB to MySpace Scruffy. You won’t see this type of thing there.

    • Aloysious

      The economy is people making choices. Saying taxes are irrelevant is like saying taking the ability to make choices away from people builds character.

      • CPRM

        People who aren’t allowed to make bad choices can’t be bad people, QED. Just think how this changes things! If we don’t allow people to murder, there will be no murders! So, lets make a law against murder already! It’s Current Year!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of legal challenges…

    Somebody else brought this up a few days ago, but I wonder if tranches of thousands of ballots for Joe and NONE for Bad Orange Dictator qualifies as the sort of statistical anomaly which could trigger an examination based on “disparate impact”.

    • hayeksplosives

      There the law as written and then there’s the issue of individuals executing the law. They can fast tract or slow roll anything they feel like, safe in their bureaucratic cocoons.

      They might see disparate impact, then look you right in the eye and say “So what?”

    • blackjack

      Twitter just reminded me that Joe Biden once led a merciless attack on Justice Thomas. Later in history, Camelass did even worse to both Kavanaugh AND Barrett. The people deciding this have no love for the side that is obviously cheating. Maybe that’ll matter, maybe not, but I can’t help but think it has to affect things somewhat.

  20. Gender Traitor

    Enjoying a warm, sunny morning on my back porch for what may be the last time this year – although it may still be warm, if not sunny, Wednesday, when I start a week-and-a half vacation. Maybe all this election crap will settle down once and for all during that stretch, and I can, among other things, figure out what’s the most prudent thing to do with my retirement savings.

    • Tres Cool

      Give it to me. Duh.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    The amount of taxes you pay or don’t pay is irrelevant in economics. You should look at markets, unemployment rates and interest rates to determine economic success.

    Yup. We’re fucked.

    That’s what he meant, right?

    • PieInTheSky

      The amount of taxes you pay or don’t pay is irrelevant in economics. – the amount you pay is irrelevant. The amount I pay is what counts.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    At this rate, there will be no one left in 333 years!

    Whoopsie. That’s 3333 years. Stupid fingers.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Doesn’t matter, we live in a post math world. Just avoid bridges and elevators and you might be OK.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    The severity of the situation in the Dakotas has concerned medical experts across the country, like Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown School of Public Health. He called the Dakotas a “cautionary tale” of the consequences of ignoring the science of the virus and public health initiatives.

    ——-

    Doctors are stunned that they are still struggling to persuade people to take precautions.

    “When I go out and I don’t see a significant number of people masking, that really worries me,” Dr. Jawad Nazir, a clinical professor at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, said. “This is not going away.”

    On a tour of Bismarck, North Dakota, on Oct. 26, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, shook her head at what she found, saying she saw less use of masks than anywhere else she’s been in the country.

    Monumentally stupid, or brazenly dishonest?

    I can’t even yell, anymore.

    • Q Continuum

      “shook her head at what she found, saying she saw less use of masks than anywhere else she’s been in the country”

      We’ve let the experts down again. We truly don’t deserve them and their brilliance.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.”

    • Ted S.

      Why not both?

    • rhywun

      “You do not need to wear a mask.”

      /message from every direction in April

  24. The Late P Brooks

    yell, tell… whatever.

    Stupid fingers.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters converged on the Arizona Capitol Saturday afternoon for a planned “Stop the Steal” rally. What the organizers could not have known is that by the time the rally started, the presidential race would have been called for former Vice President Joe Biden.

    That’s it, then. Give it up. You can’t fight CNN.

    • Q Continuum

      “the presidential race would have been called for former Vice President Joe Biden”

      LOL. I call the race for Rand Paul. Why is Biden even wasting his time? The race has been called.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The media’s self-annointment as kingmaker is fucking disgraceful. Their pronouncements don’t mean shit and now they’re trying to pressure the judiciary by giving Biden an air of inevitability and legitimacy.

      • Q Continuum

        It’s completely in keeping with the way they’ve behaved since at least Bush Jr. It steadily increased in volume through King Zero and reached a fever pitch during Cheeto Mussolini.

      • Count Potato

        “they’re trying to pressure the judiciary by giving Biden an air of inevitability and legitimacy”

        This.

    • creech

      She only has to put up with his small dick for a couple more years, then she gets to inherit all his bank loans and unpaid taxes that will be discovered by the NY weasels. So maybe she will be off. Maybe Steve Smith show her good time in Cascadia?

    • rhywun

      LOL

      If Omarosa said it, I totally believe it.

  26. PieInTheSky

    Boxes of ammo were delivered to our doorstep. – for some reason I thought OMWC and SP where the kind of libertarians not to own firearms.

    • Snowmad M55

      It’s mandatory in AZ,

    • Old Man With Candy

      Where in the world did that idea come from? We’re armed and we carry.

      Not a joke: all Jews (especially) should have guns.

      • Q Continuum

        “all Jews (especially) should have guns”

        QFT.

      • PieInTheSky

        dunno you seemed to me the urban cosmopolitan types . Chicago. Fine wines and such.

      • Snowmad M55

        so guns are for low class people only? What, are you European or something?

      • Cy

        He’s just never heard of Ed Brown.

      • PieInTheSky

        I have not

      • Cy

        Imagine an extremely functional and beautiful 1911. Ed brown makes better and they are not cheap. Truly gorgeous little packs of freedom.

        I’d link to them but I’m not really in a good position to do that right now.

        If I were to give a gift to a world leader in some military related capacity, it’d be a matching set of engraved Ed Browns.

  27. Snowmad M55

    We have one more day of good weather, hi near 70 and sunny, I’m going to play and stay out of the political madness,
    Fight the Power!

  28. PieInTheSky

    Honestly the election is settled. It is to late at this point. I wonder what % of repubs are secretly happy at this.

    Anyway this is the moment you should buy a new car

    • Q Continuum

      This election, and all future elections, are settled.

      FIFY.

    • Gender Traitor

      I like the car I have, and I’ve always been inclined to drive them until the wheels fall off. What I would like to have is a small RV of some type, just in case we have to “go boating.”

      Guess I’d better get a boat, too.

      • PieInTheSky

        I like the car I have, – that don’t enter into it. new car sales are down. I need them to be up.

      • Jarflax cancelled Cancelled

        I don’t think they sell Dacias here.

      • PieInTheSky

        I’d rather you buy a BMW. Or a Tesla.

    • Snowmad M55

      how about a mobile home? it still is a vehicle for tax purposes

      • Count Potato

        Actually, you can claim it as a second home on your federal income taxes.

      • blackjack

        Also, it’s considered a home for legal purposes. Requires a warrant, more so than a car. Can carry loaded weapons concealed or otherwise while inside, etc. At least, it WAS a while back and perhaps, only in Cali.

    • Sean

      I’ve only got 22k miles on the current car. I think it’s got a few years left in it.

    • Tundra

      Nice!

      I had this exact car!

      I got my October report from BaT the other day. A 1985 VW Cabriolet went for $70K!!

      The market is getting kind of crazy.

    • Tejicano

      “I haven’t figured out what makes it a “project.

      If the seller is calling it a project I would guess that it has a leak or two (or more), maybe some quirks in the electrical system which need to be fixed, maybe the carbs need to be rebuilt… It might run, just not reliably and possibly not optimally. From the description the plastic windows in the top probably need to be replaced.

    • PieInTheSky

      dude. focus on new cars.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Hullo, lady!

    • Snowmad M55

      Which one is the Dummy? they don’t look real…….

      • Tejicano

        Maybe you don’t recognize the dude because he isn’t in chain mail and isn’t brandishing a 25 lb broadsword…

    • Cy

      I feel bad for that guy. I imagine every piece of clothing has to be custom made. That’s got to be pretty damn annoying. Granted, if that’s his wife. I feel less bad for him.

      • PieInTheSky

        Brian Shaw once had a video where he tried to find a jacket off the rack at a big and tall shop and failed. His wife is also less hot.

      • Not an Economist

        There is a video of some of these strongmen trying to fit into a commercial airplane. They don’t.

      • rhywun

        I barely fit and I’m hardly a wide-load.

  29. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Lots of gloating from my prog acquaintances. I also don’t understand the stance of many silver-liners (including maybe some here) that President Kamela will be so horrible that the Dems will definitely lose in 2024. It’s doesn’t matter how horrible the Dems are if they have the election rigged. 2016 will have been the last election that even remotely resembles the preferences of the electorate.

    It’s not over until it’s over and we’ll see how it goes. I’m glad to see protests have broken out across the country last night so at least not everyone is taking this sitting down (like most of the GOP).

    Boxes of ammo were delivered to our doorstep. We had pizza and great wine last night, and chatted with the usual delightful crowd.

    I’m regretting not pulling the trigger on 600 rds of 5.56 for $400 when I had the chance a few days ago. Still am on the waitlist for a 1k case for $400 with shipping hopefully in Jan. I picked up my bricks from the local masonry company and am looking forward to building a wood-fired pizza oven today.

    • The Gunslinger

      I agree with you on the silver lining angle. I think anything bad to happen in the next 4 years will be successfully pinned on OMB.

    • Q Continuum

      “It’s doesn’t matter how horrible the Dems are if they have the election rigged”

      ^^^This.

    • Not an Economist

      This is interesting..

      In Bedford’s Law (from Wikipedia)

      “Benford’s law, or the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small.

      It has been used to check if numbers were naturally occurring, or were manufactured manually.

      In the places were Biden got the votes he needed to win the election, this law was violated. In other places of the country, Biden’s totals did not violate this law. The author did not find a case where Trump’s votes violated this law.

      • Q Continuum

        SHUT THE FUCK UP MATHTARD

      • The Last American Hero

        Mathtard is right. Benford doesn’t work like that. It works for stock prices and checks and all sorts of things. It makes zero sense to use on election return percentages.

        Mathtard needs to reach harder.

      • blackjack

        Is this reaching harder?

      • blackjack

        Here’s what it looks like visually.

      • Count Potato

        “It makes zero sense to use on election return percentages.”

        Why not? I read it was used to detect election fraud in other countries.

      • Not an Economist

        According to Wikipedia – yes not exactly the most unbiased source – Benford’s law is considered a simple although not foolproof, evidence of voting irregularities. And it has been used in analyzing elections — just not to actually overturn an election yet.

        To me it is more of an indicator of where to look than proof by itself. The evidence that only the areas where Biden got the votes he needed violated Benford’s Law is interesting and probably worthy of further study.

      • Fatty Bolger

        That’s fascinating.

  30. l0b0t

    Good morning to all you wonderful folk. I’m feeling proud as I was able to politely exit last night’s zoomie thingie rather than passing out and snoring my way through the meetup.
    Great birthdays to day; Parker Posie is lovely (Go watch Sleep With Me right now), Minnie Ripperton was truly a perfect angel and her daughter is one of the best SNL cast members ever (and spectacular in Idiocracy).

    Festus, I just saw your mention of the anniversary in the last thread. I, for one, am very happy you missed; the world would be a darker place without your presence. I love you Brother Festus, and hope Rota Fortuna takes an upswing.

    • Snowmad M55

      That’s Minnie Ripperton’s daughter? damn!

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      snoring my way through the meetup

      wha what? I don’t see the problem

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Anyway this is the moment you should buy a new car

    Yeah, no.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    I would guess that it has a leak or two (or more), maybe some quirks in the electrical system which need to be fixed, maybe the carbs need to be rebuilt… It might run, just not reliably and possibly not optimally.

    Soooo… It’s a Lotus.

  33. The Gunslinger

    Mornin’ OMWC. Is the Biden win going to net you enough dollars to have some fun or just a gentleman’s $1 bet?

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      I regret that I never got the Super Legal Online Interstate Glibs Presidential Pool 2020 set up.

      That said, I would say no money should change hands until the EC has voted.

  34. Pine_Tree

    Just for kicks, fantasize a bit about a Biden State of the Union speech.

    You could set up a bingo for stroke-induced unreal words, overt racism, obvious falsities, death, etc.

    On the positive side, it should be real short.

    • The Gunslinger

      Can you even visualize Biden standing in front of the press and answering questions like Trump did? I’m not sure he is physically capable of doing it.

      • Jarflax cancelled Cancelled

        “Mr. President, is it true that your touch cures scrofula Covid?”

        “Well toulimaricamagrabobone”

        Headline: President Biden and His All-Star Team Have Our Backs!

    • Cy

      I’m beginning to wonder if he’s going to make it that far. It is 2020.

    • Cy

      President-elect succession

      Scholars have noted that the national committees of the Democratic and Republican parties have adopted rules for selecting replacement candidates in the event of a nominee’s death, either before or after the general election. If the apparent winner of the general election dies before the Electoral College votes in December the electors would likely be expected to endorse whatever new nominee their national party selects as a replacement. The rules of both major parties stipulate that if the apparent winner dies under such circumstances and his or her running mate is still able to assume the presidency, then the running mate is to become the President-elect with the electors being directed to vote for the former Vice Presidential nominee for President. The party’s National Committee, in consultation with the new President-elect, would then select a replacement to receive the erstwhile Vice Presidential nominee’s electoral votes for Vice President.

      • Q Continuum

        I know the plan is likely to toss him on an ice floe around the midterms, but I’d be surprised if he makes it to the end of 2021 with how fast he’s declining.

      • l0b0t

        So that’s the path the Ruinous Powers have illuminated for Beloved Popular-Vote President Clinton to to tread that she may take her rightful place? Biden dies, elctors are instructed to vote for Harris, DNC picks Hillary as VP, after inauguration Harris gets the Ron Brown/Hale Boggs special, Clinton steps up.

  35. Grosspatzer

    Mornin all. Vid bullshit has caused major disruptions in the Patzer household. Mrs. Patzer is on 14 day quarantine after being “exposed to a co-worker who tested positive, three days after returning to in-office work. The youngest patzer is quarantined at his uni after his roomie had “symptoms”. Roomie has since tested negative but of course the quarantine continues just to be safe. I’m sure roomie’s symptoms had nothing to do with the flu shot he received shortly before getting the sniffles.

    When did people start to believe that immortality could be had if only they would do as they were told? As bad as the various state-imposed lockdowns have been, at least there was some measure of resistance at the federal (BOM) level; the election results are emboldening local Hitlers to dial it up to eleven. See NY, for example, where Cuomo has decreed that no passengers will be permitted to deplane without proof of a negative test. WTF??

    • l0b0t

      IKR? I caught an ear infection in AIT at Ft. Bliss – 103° fever, vomiting, loss of hearing from infected ear. The few of us going to sick call got to enjoy a 1/2 mile march down to the aid station, whereupon I was given a shot of antibiotics in the tuchus, a handful of Advil, a note excusing me from PT for 3 days, and I was sent back to my unit to continue training.

    • Homple

      “When did people start to believe that immortality could be had if only they would do as they were told?”

      Back when the first priest/seer/witch doctor showed up and got a following.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ^

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        but why isn’t the faith shattered after people keep dying

        if your priest or religion, for example, promises balanced budgets for fifty years and never delivers, why would you continue to believe and tithe?

      • Q Continuum

        Human design flaw.

        Call it what you want: zealotry, faith, religious impulse; the more counter-evidence such a person gets, the stronger their belief becomes. Their faith is being tested.

        See: Communists.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 Great Pumpkin ?

      • Fatty Bolger

        Because they’re peddling false hope, not cures.

      • kbolino

        I liked it better when the pretense of immortality was metaphorical rather than literal. That you will die and go to heaven is something that can be neither proven nor disproven; that you will live on Earth forever is definitely false. Even Great King Cnut knew better than modern man.

  36. Homple

    “But hey, that shit is basically over as well.”

    That shit might be over but the real shit is about to start.

  37. rhywun

    Ugh, I just had my first – unpleasant – experience with self checkout that weighs your shit. The idiot watching over the machines could have prevented my ire by telling me where to put my delicate items other than in my fucking bag. “No, I don’t want my potato chips at the bottom of the bag.” – “Whatever.”

    • l0b0t

      Interesting. Our scale functions have been disabled since the ‘vid brought pack the plastic bags that we abandoned by State fiat at the beginning of the year. I think I’m angrier about the bag mandate than about the prospect of Shotgun Joe as POTUS. Schlepping gallons of milk home in paper pokes is unpleasant.

      • rhywun

        Now that plastic is banned again we’re back to “every store does it differently” like in March. Some still give out plastic (careful!), some paper, and some try to sock you with “tote bags”.

      • l0b0t

        Our local liquor jobber charges a nickel for a paper bag, it’s optional but city law (perhaps state) mandates that all bottles be bagged when crossing the threshold of the store. I do not have any desire to carry shopping bags with me. I was a bike only person for many, many years and love my voluminous Timbuk2 bags, but my days of grocery portage are over.

  38. Tejicano

    Well, if it turns out that we have to suck it up and watch Biden get sworn in at least I can stop having to skip over the never ending exhibitions of TDS in the media 24/7. I will be referring to this as the “pre-Harris administration”.

    I’m wondering how they will choose to parade their faux-surprise when Harris decides it’s time to take over. (yeah, I understand she won’t actually be doing it without the blessing from the DNC)

    • Q Continuum

      All they’ll have to do is stop hiding Biden’s obvious and embarrassing cognitive decline.

      • Jerms

        Any mention of Bidens decline will be censored by big tech until further notice.

        Its kills me how these criminals with the medias help have out n out made anyone who disagrees with them into the bad guy–its literally like they win. Game set match.

      • Jerms

        Im sure big tech will censor any mention of Bidens decline. I wish that were as crazy sounding as it should be.

      • creech

        Isn’t it just as likely they will play it up big time so “everyone” is demanding the 25th amendment be used to install Commiela Harris in the White House? I think it may be the conservatives who start crying “There’s nothing wrong with Joe.”

    • rhywun

      I doubt the TDS will die down in four years let alone four months. Especially since half the country voted for him.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I can’t blame the talking heads there too much as they’re employees and are doing what they’re told. You should exercise your right to not watch it though, the network that was largely vapid garbage is now vapid turncoat garbage. I do have to admit, they did a good job with the timing of sinking the knife in.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      IDK, it’s a special event. Gutfeld was on last night.

    • Q Continuum

      This is the only way anything gets better IMO. The horse is already out of the barn on the Trump election; the way to curb this is to make it more costly for the Dems’ ground level operatives to commit fraud than not to. 10 years in the pokey is a good start to convince them that fraud isn’t worth it.

    • hayeksplosives

      “Sideshow Bob”

      Guffaw. That’s rich.

    • Tres Cool

      Rachel Dolezal’s brother ?

  39. Stinky Wizzleteats

    A nice vid on Meyer Lansky and the Jewish connections with La Cosa Nostra:

    https://youtu.be/xQnriVdx-Bw

    What strikes the most is how beaten with an ugly stick ugly a lot of those guys were compared to the actors that have played them over the years.

  40. TARDis

    My wife is finally shutting down her Zuckbook account. I will be following suit.

    I want to shut down all contact with the communist propaganda outlets I am connected to. I’ve been lazy about it, and it’s time to just do it.

    I have a general idea of what I need to do for most outlets, but I don’t know what to do about cell phone service. I hate Apple products, but fuck Google. I’m ready to go back to dumb phones, even though I’ll miss Android Auto.

    • hayeksplosives

      I want off Facebook too. I’m trying to find an easy way to copy my pix from FB. They have a way to export it as a lump but it’s proprietary.

      I noticed a new FB “terms and conditions” to sign yesterday. I don’t like the timing. I’m going to hit the eject button on FB.

      • l0b0t

        I walked away from DerpBook a few months ago and Twitter gave me the boot a few weeks ago. It’s been quite nice; losing the ability to snarkily respond to political team twaddle means I don’t even bother to read it any more.

      • TARDis

        I don’t understand. Don’t you have your pix elsewhere already? Or do you mean other people’s stuff.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m tied in with gmail services for my business. There’s no easy way out at the moment. But I will be switching to Apple hardware because at the very least, Apple doesn’t have a direct interest in tracking my every move like Google does.

      Google has declared war on conservatives. They’re not content to censor, now they’re actively pushing their politics to everyone as “education.” Fuck them. I don’t want nor need their political guidance, as written by 30 year old middle management Democratic diehards that think they know better than me. Their arrogance is infuriating.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    One of my brothers in law I overheard saying several days “just go scorched earth” in doing whatever it took to oust OMB. So, yeah, plenty of Democrats are not just OK with the blatant cheating, they’re quietly applauding it while pretending it was all fair and aboveboard.

    Once we finally shake off the fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s America, we can get ourselves back on the road to healing. Just as soon as we round up and purge the Republicans war criminals who aided and abetted him.

    • Lord Humungus

      So is the military going to charge into DC, oust Trump, and restore the Republic? /yeaaahh

  42. LJW

    So if Fox has gone left, who is going to be critical of Biden? The media is going to coddle Biden like a busty nurse feeding a bedridden old billionaire his daily applesauce.

    • hayeksplosives

      The only ones critical of Biden are openly non-leftist opinion writers/personallies.

      I don’t think any “balanced” or MSM outlet will be critical.

    • Jarflax cancelled Cancelled

      Those already on the right will get the criticism of Biden they want on Blaze or some other outlet which you can only find by deliberately seeking it out. The general punlic will then be shocked that these crazy people are talking about made up scandals because they will have heard nothing about them.

      • Q Continuum

        So, business as usual?

      • The Hyperbole

        which you can only find by deliberately seeking it out.

        CNN just pops into people’s heads?

      • blackjack

        Depends on how many fillings you have. Ask Lucille Ball.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        eh??

      • blackjack

        In case nobody’s heard of it. The particular radio station only just closed about 5 or 8 years ago.

      • CPRM

        Well, Dish Network receivers, I don’t know about other cable/satellite receivers, automatically turn on with ‘recommended’ channels. (If you navigate the settings you can tweak it, but not stop it). So my TV has turned on numerous times with CNN or Comedy Central on, even though I don’t watch either of them.

      • Jarflax cancelled Cancelled

        You don’t see a difference between major networks and cable channels which 1. come with every basic TV package, 2. Are constanlty running in most public spaces and 3. are constantly referenced by other major outlets and channels that are none of those things and in many cases only available online and not advertised? People who follow politics and are already right leaning know Blaze. People who don’t follow politics do not. But evrryone knows and sees CNN. Fox was the right leaning source that had broad exposure. I get that we tend to see things through our own prejudices and you try to point that out, but this is not one of those cases. There is absolutely a difference in availability between the two sides.

      • kbolino

        It is interesting. Everybody* knows of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, but nobody* actually watches them. Not even ABC, CBS, or NBC add up to much anymore either, though if you combined all television news (cable and broadcast) you might get viewership in the low tens of millions. Walter Cronkite got better numbers than the six of them combined back when the country was half as big. If you count YouTube and other online viewers, you might double their figures but that’s still putting it at about 40 million, and it’s not consistent. More than twice as many people watched the last episode of M*A*S*H, and over three times as many watch the average Super Bowl. Put somewhat tersely, there is no such thing as mainstream news. There is only a bunch of chattering monkeys on the TV, which up until social media decided they were authorities, were increasingly irrelevant.

        * = Both of these words are used hyperbolically here

      • The Hyperbole

        Sure there is a difference but no one is forced to watch any of it, these people that “only get there news from CNN/Facebook/Wherever” do so deliberately as well. Perhaps its my provincial existence but I just don’t see number 2, the public spaces I frequent are a couple of bars/restaurants and Krogers, none of them have any news channels constantly running, or at all, the bars may have ESPN on but it’s usually muted and the jukebox is playing and people are sitting around bullshitting not getting their daily dose of information.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Im sure big tech will censor any mention of Bidens decline. I wish that were as crazy sounding as it should be.

    See, also: FDR wheelchair

  44. hayeksplosives

    Yesterday was Comedy Club date, 2nd take (after spouse had mistakenly taken us out on Friday night, a day early).

    This time it was rained out. Well, it rained earlier so they canceled for that evening. Spouse didn’t check (tough I did ask) so we got down there to shuttered doors.

    I guess I’ll be doing all the planning from here out.

    Along the Main Street of that town was an embroidery shop. Their window was filled with pro-Trump hats and apparel, along with some pro 2nd amendment stuff. I will return some time when it’s open.

    • CPRM

      Why was a comedy club closed because of rain?….oh yeah, it’s 2020…Laughing spreads the virus! must be done outside!

    • rhywun

      As if more evidence were needed that the “protests” weren’t gonna stop in Biden’s America.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Of course not. The riots never were. They hate Biden and the Democrat establishment as well. Or at least the foot soldiers involved do. The only thing that will change (perhaps) is that local and state morons allowing those to continue won’t have Trump as their punching bag to back up their non action. Let’s see if the establishment can stuff the genie back into the bottle.

      • blackjack

        “We don’t want Biden! We want revenge!”

  45. Lord Humungus

    Gah. Well we had a fairly good run as a Republic but it’s been pretty damn rocky the past 50-something years. Or is that 100-something?

    Anyways – the only reason I see why Trump won Michigan in 2016 was because it had a Republican governor and SoS. I remember the 2012 election, Democratic Granholm, and how the Democrats did the same thing to Romney.

    • CPRM

      Odd that, in 2016 Wisconsin also had an R gov and SOS. Then some votes were ‘found’ in Milwaukee in 2018 and we got the guy who controlled the Teacher’s Union as governor…

  46. l0b0t

    Someone scratched my favorite Stones LP. My boss say that I’m a little slow. These people, places, and things aren’t going my way. Situations that I can’t control…

    https://youtu.be/0p4-kwF2Vjw

  47. Rebel Scum

    Now there are three kittens hanging out in my back yard. Idk where the third one was yesterday and it is good to see the one I thought might have perished did not. But they really need to get off my lawn.

    I am not going to make any assumptions about the legal happenings related to this faux election. But one thing we can be sure of is that Trump is not going quietly.

    “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor. In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media,” Trump said in a statement.

    “Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access,” Trump continued.

    • CPRM

      Just a written statement? Damn! If I had that as audio…

  48. Don escaped Two Corinthians

    @firstthingsmag Renewed federalism could produce a genuinely pluralist America.

    stop with the philosophy!

  49. Rebel Scum

    Newt it trying to trick me into liking him.

    If you want to see how much the fix is in, votes are still being counted, no recounts have started, challenges are ignored, 5 states are within one per cent but the media pack has declared Biden won.

    • blackjack

      Well, if it’s any consolation, the acceptance speech was to about 50 cars in a Safeway parking lot.

    • CPRM

      He wants his moon bases!

  50. Rebel Scum

    I very much hope you fail.

    Chuck Schumer at NYC celebration:

    “Now we take Georgia and then we change America”

    • CPRM

      Heh, he knew the cameras were on him, he asked Mr. DeMille for a second take.

  51. Lord Humungus

    I spent some of my vacation time doing synth – a song

    but we mostly spent it in a drunken haze. And yes the election did take up too much thought. We should have gotten a cabin up in the mountains, somewhere with no cell service. Of course that would increase the chance of a STEVE SMITH encounter.

    I’ve also been looking to sell my house but property/home values have gone up so much that getting what we want – more land for greyhounds – would mean a sideways move house-wise.

    I’ve become truly greyhound crazy; such gentle giants. Though having two female dogs has led to some pack ranking fights. That’s when the gentleness disappears and the aggression comes out.

  52. wdalasio

    My question – do you think they’ll cook up a war? It’d be the clever move. They can silence any dissent as unpatriotic. Hell, a good portion of the people who already know this election was fraudulent will rally ’round the flag and pResident Biden Harris.

    • CPRM

      Why ‘cook’ up a war when many of the ones we’ve been in for years can just get ‘hot’ again?

      “It’s more important now than ever to sacrifice our lives for the people of Iraq!”

      • wdalasio

        Nah! That has the stigma of being “Bush’s” war. And there’s a not a good pre-packaged New Hitler that we have to stop. My bet is something in Syria.

      • Plinker762

        I can see something with Syria happening.

    • PieInTheSky

      which side? Armenia or Azerbaijan

      • wdalasio

        I don’t know. Which side is Russia Russia Russia on?

      • Cy

        Hoe Biden’s.

      • Cy

        This guy gets it!

    • Fatty Bolger

      Well that depends, Does China want us fighting somebody?

      • kbolino

        War is expensive, it’s a deadweight economic loss (setting aside the benefits of achieving the objectives), and it would require a huge amount of raw materials and intermediate products which are produced in the PRC or by PRC-connected companies. As long as it’s not China itself or a PRC-aligned country, then yeah I’d say it’s to their benefit. Plus, they can turn around and propagandize about how warlike the U.S. is while crying all the way to the bank.

  53. CPRM

    I am pretty proud of this Twat. Pure Hat.

    • Gender Traitor

      Somebody hijacked my almost-never-used Twitter account. They changed the avatar, but I don’t see any activity past the last time I logged in. When I click on “Forgot my password” (which I didn’t really,) the e-mail associated with the account is NOT mine. So…you may want to block the Follower that looks like me. At the moment, I’m not motivated to create a new account, and pursuing the takeover further gives Google all my information.

      • CPRM

        Not like they can steal any info from me, that’s not how Twatter works, I’m interested to see if they send any propaganda my way. But thanks for letting me know. Now I’ll know all those sexy DMs AREN’T FROM YOU 😉

  54. Count Potato

    “Joe Biden plans ‘shock and awe’ repudiation of Donald Trump’s key policies as soon as he enters office with executive orders to end ‘Muslim ban,’ re-start dreamers program and rejoin WHO and Paris Climate Accord”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8926415/Biden-plans-repudiation-Trumps-policies-executive-orders-end-Muslim-ban-rejoin-WHO.html

    “Kamala Harris’ next goal – to become most Left-wing President in US history: How ‘woke’ former lawyer who fought to legalise cannabis, toughen gun control and even lists pronouns ‘she/her’ on Twitter hopes to succeed ageing Joe Biden in 2024”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8925981/Kamala-Harris-goal-Left-wing-President-history.html

    *sigh*

    • CPRM

      Kamala Harris…fought to legalise cannabis

      After she put how many people in prison for it? And, how, persay, did she ‘fight’ for it?

      • kbolino

        Look fat, she always meant to do it but was stymied by the racist system. Just like how Joe Biden went from this guy to pinko liberal arts college professor.

    • kbolino

      The biggest risk to the Democrats’ continued success is that they talk like they care about the common man but they govern only for the benefit of the overeducated professional class. They will win an election on one issue (economy in 2008, COVID-19 in 2020) then forget about it almost entirely and implement their wishlist instead.

      The problem, though, is that this has been obvious for awhile and yet it doesn’t really stop (enough) people from voting for them again; they may or may not have won by the margin of fraud, but the margin of fraud is a couple of percentage points — they have 40-45% solid support across the country.

      • Gustave Lytton

        ^^^ the large base of support for their insanity is the truly depressing part

      • kbolino

        If you add up direct and indirect government employees, you could probably get 20-25% of the country (Brookings says 15% of the workforce is directly employed by gov’t at all levels). Those people go overwhelmingly for Democrats, and of course their unions are great funnels of government money into local, state, and national Democratic Party coffers. Educated, professional, female, and/or minority all correlate with Democrats as well (with the correlation increasing with the number of factors involved). Add that to the approximately 70-80% of gov’t workers who support Dems and it probably gets them to 35-40%. That’s their base, the people whose opinions they actually care about. But that still leaves 10-20% who vote for Democrats, to borrow a phrase, “against their own interests”. Some proportion are social climbers (and of course, a good proportion of the “base” are social climbers as well) for whom Democratic affiliation is an expression of aspiration. But there’s a good share who vote for the Democrats (whether consistently or transiently) for historical legacy and/or perceived identity affinity. It is this latter group that gives the Democrats their feeling of moral superiority. They don’t have to care about minority votes, but they damn sure use them as (mostly metaphorical) human shields. The Republicans really do need to appeal to this group, but I can’t say I’ve got a great strategy for how to do it. School choice is a great wedge issue, but it’s probably not the only one.

    • Rebel Scum

      What “muslim ban”?

      • hayeksplosives

        There was a halt or delay for entry to the US from certain countries.

        It was never a “Muslim ban” but that won’t stop the spin.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        And I think it was temporary and already expired.

    • Rebel Scum

      Hunter put the crack pipe down long enough to do a public appearance.

    • blackjack

      He only knows them by the smell of their hair.

    • Rebel Scum

      Biden used his first national address as president-elect to vow to heal a deeply divided nation, declaring it was time to ‘let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end’ and reaching out to the millions of people who voted against him to say, ‘Let’s give each other a chance.’

      You have had nearly five decades of chances and you campaigned on violating the entire BoR and impoverishing me. Fuck off.

    • kbolino

      I’d say Conquest’s law has been violated, but really Fox News never was explicitly right wing. “Fair and balanced”, while always laughable, was their motto, after all.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Right wing only in comparison to other MSM.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      ‘This is the first time where I’ve really decided that I have a voice and I need to try to use it,’ said Kathryn, who has long quietly supported climate change causes after Al Gore convinced her the issue was urgent in a 2006 presentation.

      So she’s as dumb as a rock.

      • kbolino

        What’s Al Gore’s prediction batting average? It’s not .000, but I don’t think it cracks .500 either. And many of those are directly attributable to destructive human activity, like the Aral Sea.

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      Biden would be crazy not to ask Jared and Ivanka to stay on. Their educations, experience, depth in economics, their contributions on the international stage are singular. Frankly, we were really lucky to have them on the payroll these last few years.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Can’t tell if serious.

      • blackjack

        Very serious, and I concur.

    • hayeksplosives

      Isn’t Jared a Democrat?

      • CPRM

        I thought he was a pedo?! Wait, that’s the sammich guy.

      • Rebel Scum

        I thought he was a pedo

        So you are saying he is, in fact, a Democrat.

      • CPRM

        But Every Kiss Begins With Kay!!1111!!!!! JEWelery Boogaloo!1!!1!!

  55. Certified Public Asshat

    Biden and Kamala will ask the kids pronouns before caging them.— Tim Dillon (@TimJDillon) November 7, 2020

    • blackjack

      What were the pronouns of whomever built the cages, Joe?

  56. hayeksplosives

    It’ll be fun for Joe to “rejoin” the climate accords. Totally meaningless without a treaty ratified by the senate.

    We have to get this vote count stuff under control before the Dems stack the deck in the Senate.

    Otherwise vote fraud will destroy the republic.

    • CPRM

      Otherwise vote fraud will destroy the republic.

      That ship sailed round the world many times over by.

      • blackjack

        That’s just the way it is!

  57. DEG

    On Saturday, as CNN projected Biden’s White House win, Ballina residents came out to celebrate their distant kin’s success.

    Oh boy.

    Reading this story reminded me of a Scots woman I know who despised Americans of Scottish descent who claim to be Scottish. “YOUR ANCESTORS LEFT!”

    He has said more than once that he wants the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the outcome. But that might be easier said than done.

    I’m going out on a limb here, but I think that Roberts, regardless of the actual facts of the case, will find a way to rule that Biden won.

    With coronavirus cases running rampant in the Dakotas and elected leaders refusing to forcefully intervene, the burden of pushing people to take the virus seriously has increasingly been put on the families of those who have died.

    Fuck off. It’s past time to get back to normal.

    Old Guy Music is good. I even understood a word or two.

  58. blackjack

    Did Biden say it’s time to heal the country? Or it’s time to bring the country to heel?

  59. R C Dean

    Now discussing moving to TX or OK with Mrs. Dean, following Biden’s announcement that he will throw open the borders again.

    If we wanted to live in Mexico, we’d move to Mexico.