Wednesday Afternoon Sugarlinks – Ragemonster Edition

by | Nov 18, 2020 | Daily Links | 244 comments

Believer in nonsense upset at believers in different nonsense.

Marianne Williamson is FED UP With QAnon

New Age spiritual leader and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has a message for QAnon fans who think that Donald Trump is a light worker—please stop!

In an Instagram post, Williamson shared that it was “very disheartening to see how many people with phrases like ‘spiritual coaching’ after their name and lots of hearts and flowers all over their posts” now are “completely taken in by the right-wing authoritarian Trump/Q phenomenon.”

“I don’t know how it happened,” she continued, “but it’s supremely ironic that so many who never even bothered to take a deep look at anything political before have now been sucked into the darkest of dark holes and claim to have figured it all out at last.”


Fuck these fucking fucks right in their fucking faces.

Mad That Some People Might Get Their Student Debt Forgiven When You’ve Paid Yours Off? You May Be a Narc

A familiar debate over student loan forgiveness reignited on Monday when president-elect Joe Biden told reporters that the policy “figures into his plan” when he takes office.

Some people are against cancelling student debt because they’re conservatives who don’t believe in the government helping anyone, or because they’re cynical Democrats who consider such a policy “unrealistic.” But still there exists a type of naysayer I consider far more obnoxious than all the others: people who are opposed to student loan forgiveness because they’ve already paid theirs off.

These people typically emerge on Twitter whenever the progressive policy becomes a subject of discussion, solely for the purpose of reminding their peers that “going to college is a choice” and insisting that anyone can complete a decade’s worth of $1,000/month payments if they “hustle.” If you couldn’t get around accruing student debt, they helpfully suggest, why didn’t you work a part-time job to pay your way through school like they did?

“I think Dems are wildly underestimating the intensity of anger college loan cancelation is going to provoke,” Damon Linker, a senior correspondent at The Week, tweeted on Monday. “Those with college debt will be thrilled, of course. But lots and lots of people who didn’t go to college or who worked to pay off their debts? Gonna be bad.”


FLORIDA MAN!

Disney World visitor, 19, takes LSD and randomly attacks security guard in DinoLand USA before theme park guests drag him away – and later tells nurse: ‘I tried to kill someone’

A Florida man was in an LSD-induced rage when he allegedly attacked a Disney World security guard in October.

James Arvid, 19, was arrested on October 25 after the incident unfolded in Animal Kingdom’s DinoLand U.S.A.

The 41-year-old security guard was patrolling the area near DinoLand when Arvid tackled him from behind, according to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

Authorities said Arvid then put the victim in a headlock and held him down. During the assault, the guard managed to radio for help, police said.

Park visitors also noticed the incident and were able to pull Arvid off the guard.

The good Samaritans then ‘subdued’ Arvid until police arrived to the scene.

Arvid was restrained on a stretcher and transported to a local hospital, police said.

He later allegedly told a nurse that he ‘took LSD and tried to kill someone’.


Ivanka Trump ‘blamed a fart on her classmates when she was a bratty teenager’ and creepy Donald commented on her friends’ weight, former ‘best friend’ claims

She also alleges, among other things, that Ivanka was charming and precocious as a teenager which won over adults and made them think she’d shaken off her father’s crassness but was, in private, just as obsessed with money and struggled to hide it.

According to Lysandra, Ivanka responded: ‘Why would you tell me to read a book about f*****g poor people?’ after she recommended a novel about a diner manager.

How did this not come up in Ivanka’s Senate confirmation hearings? Does her yearbook contain references to the fart?

And where were you 5 years ago, bitch? You could have saved America with your brave revelation that a rich 14-year-old was a brat. This is some Gossip Girl shit right here. SCANDAL!


SCANDAL!

 

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244 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Now that I know Ivanka is a fart faker, Trump is dead to me.

      • wchipperdove

        A Mr. Show link about farts that isn’t Fartin’ Gary? You disappoint me.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The fact that petty stuff like this is all they could dig up after years of trying just proves that he’s a pretty straight shooter, and his kids are pretty OK for rich kids with famous parents.

      • Chafed

        Yup. It’s pretty incredible this is the best they could produce.

      • Rebel Scum

        I remain surprised that something didn’t come out of the Muller investigation that could at least be construed as shady dealing.

      • Chafed

        That’s a good point.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Why are we worried about Hunter’s laptop when Ivanka farted? Chemical warfare is a war crime!

  2. ruodberht

    So college is so expensive because the feds are giving out loans like candy. Solution? Forgive some loans.

    That definitely won’t increase the incentives for making college expensive.

    • wchipperdove

      ‘Forgive’ meaning buying them up with either taxpayer money or Fed money creation (which amount to the same thing). Yeah, the colleges should bear some of the cost.

  3. Trolleric the Goth

    lotta 504 errors today, just me or the site in general?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s just you man. Your aura is all harshed.

      *hits bong*

      • The Hyperbole

        Duuuuude…We weren’t supposed to tell him.

    • B.P.

      I experienced the same. Glibs is down!

      *rocks back and forth breathing into paper bag*

      • Trolleric the Goth

        that was my though, oh no, Preet got us for good this time ?

    • zwak

      I too got the evil 504 brand.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well 504 errors were thrown because your cache memory is now less than the amount of votes that Bush beat Gore by in 2000.

      – Joy Reid

    • SP

      Yes. We are hitting capacity for our database server on a daily basis. I am in the process of working on a solution. But I am also going to school basically full-time and working, and trying to keep OMWC, TPTB, and the Wonder Dog in line.

      Not enough hours in the day.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Is it the gets that are overwhelming the server or the posts?

  4. Certified Public Asshat

    “going to college is a choice”

    Why is that in quotes?

    • leon

      :Mandatory College Inbound: “If we can force 18 year olds to finish High school, why can’t we force them to go to college? And it will be such a boost to the economy”

  5. leon

    Some people are against cancelling student debt because they’re conservatives who don’t believe in the government helping anyone, or because they’re cynical Democrats who consider such a policy “unrealistic.” But still there exists a type of naysayer I consider far more obnoxious than all the others: people who are opposed to student loan forgiveness because they’ve already paid theirs off.

    :Looks at link:

    Oh Jezebel.

    Is it easier going through life with such fantastical belief in ones correctness and superiority?

    • ruodberht

      Ideological Turing test FAILED

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I think stupid people do tend to be happier.

      • Count Potato

        I think I need to be stupider.

    • The Hyperbole

      So she’s saying that conservative are libertarians after all.

      • leon

        It drives me insane that those Nancy Pelosi Far Leftists can’t be bothered to even draw distinctions. Libertarians => Don’t care about people, don’t want poor people to be helped; Conservatives => Want the government to make sure your wife is in the kitchen.

        Geeze.

      • Rebel Scum

        I believe I have heard her say that Republicans “don’t believe in government” just because they, at least ostensibly, want it to do/expand slightly less than what Democrats want. So yeah…

      • PBRstreetgang

        Authoritarians who don’t believe in government. Huh. That’s a tough needle to thread

      • pan fried wylie

        As long as you donate all your authoritarianism, it’s all good bro.

    • Agent Cooper

      “a decade’s worth of $1,000/month payments”

      What the fuck kind of financial arrangements are these people making?

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      I’m just pissed off that when I play by the rules and make responsible decisions, I end up being on the hook for subsidizing those who didn’t. Likewise, I get pissed off that my wife jumped through all the hoops to come here legally, when she could have just snuck in and waited for amnesty.

      • rhywun

        ↑ wingnut

    • Gadfly

      Is it easier going through life with such fantastical belief in ones correctness and superiority?

      Yes?

  6. leon

    Marianne has really let me down. Can’t believe she wants to protect Kiddie Diddlers.

  7. Tonio

    Student loan forgiveness loom large in this excellent article linked the other day by Rhywun.

    • leon

      Not only are they losing, they realize, but their good sportsmanship is being exploited. The players flouting the rules are the ones who get the trophy. Like that Iowa dad, the chumps of modern America feel that the life choices they’re most proud of—working hard, taking care of their families, being good citizens—aren’t just undervalued, but scorned.

      I’ve really started to understand the word “demoralizing” even more. It’s not about becoming depressed or sad, i.e losing Morale, its about creating a system where you are incentivized to do the wrong thing, where Virtue becomes Vice and Vice becomes virtue. Almost all progressive policies can be put into that category.

      • Chipwooder

        Yep. I should have just not paid my fucking loans and counted on Uncle Sugar to pay them off for me. Makes me a chump. It’s like back in the Bush-Obama recession, when I was out of work for a while and then underemployed, making 10 bucks an hour as a security guard. We broke our asses to make our mortgage payment every month. Eventually, our savings ran dry and it was becoming very onerous to keep making that payment. So we applied for the HUD mortgage modification program. They told us that, since we had never missed a payment, we weren’t eligible because obviously we could make the payments and thus weren’t “distressed”.

        The deadbeats got the money. The people like us who did everything in our power to honor our commitments got nothing.

      • leon

        Exactly. Doing the right thing is punished, and at this point by the rhetoric and the persistence in these policies, i can only assume it is because people setting policy _want_ you to do the wrong thing.

      • Agent Cooper

        But you’ll get punished for that as well depending on certain ‘attributes’ (political views being one of them)

      • wchipperdove

        Isn’t that a classic psychological torture technique? At first you punish the prisoner for doing the wrong thing, when later you start punishing him randomly, whether he does right or wrong. Pretty soon his mental state starts to break down as he gives up.

      • Suthenboy

        Bingo Leon

        Remember Pelosi’s speech where she challenged everyone to imagine what it would be like to stay home and finger paint all day instead of holding down a productive job?

      • B.P.

        Funemployment!

      • Chipwooder

        And cowboy poetry!

      • Pope Jimbo

        In the late ’90s I worked with a lot of Russian programmers who had recently immigrated. They were all crooks. All of them were shady as fuck and up to something. A lot of them came over under some program that was supposed to be saving ex-Soviet jews from persecution, but it was soon apparent that none of them were actually (((one of them))). They just claimed to be to take advantage of the fast track immigration program.

        When you talked with them you realized that they came from a place where if you didn’t steal something valuable the next guy would. Why let that bastard get the nice thing when you could have it?

        I agree that our govt seems hell bent on building the same low trust society here.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        As the saying went in the good old days of communism, if you aren’t stealing from your company, you are stealing from your family.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I get that a lot from the ADVChina videos – a certain generation – Boomer equivalent I guess – having grown up during the “great leap backward” absolutely has to take whatever they can – hence no toilet paper in public toilets, no soap, etc because someone will come take it. You can look up those vids of older folks swarming buffets or the first Costco opening in China – absolutely nuts.

      • Gadfly

        A lot of them came over under some program that was supposed to be saving ex-Soviet jews from persecution, but it was soon apparent that none of them were actually (((one of them))).

        Making the applicants to this program visit a Mohel before being approved would have sorted things out, I bet.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 Soviet jewelry /Emily Litella

  8. Stinky Wizzleteats

    I bet Ivanka’s farts smell like roses mixed with lemon scented furniture polish. It was a compliment being blamed if you ask me.

    • bacon-magic

      So you’re a wood?

    • Chafed

      Is it wrong wanting to know? Asking for a friend.

  9. wchipperdove

    Just learned that my niece cancelled Thanksgiving at her lakeside cabin, because of the Crovid. Her son/my nephew is coming in from college, where he’s been partying and not social distancing, and she’s afraid her 70+-year-old parents are too vulnerable. Now the rest of us are being balkanized into little groups of maybe 2 or 3 people, with half of us saying it isn’t worth cooking for that few people so why bother.

    This sucks.

    • Nephilium

      Right there with you man. I’m currently planning out a much smaller meal for just the girlfriend and me.

    • The Other Kevin

      Same here. My sis an her kids (along with a 1yo great nephew I haven’t met yet) are supposed to come in from Florida. My Mom and Dad are panicking and threatening to cancel everything. At the very least they want to just have a few smaller gatherings instead of having everyone over at once. (Which of course makes no sense).

    • Chipwooder

      Those of us in town here are all getting together for the meal, but no one’s coming from out of town this year, which is unusual.

    • Lazer

      Yep, has happened to my family as well.. Dad came from a family of 10, one aunt died this year, one in a nursing home. But for the last 45 years or so we always had a big family gathering. Not this year, just going to be my dad & stepmom, one aunt & husband, I think their offspring, me & wife, and my two kids.

      Kind of perplexed, but understand the older uncles/aunts are in the age range where the virus is more deadly.

  10. B.P.

    ““I don’t know how it happened,” she continued, “but it’s supremely ironic that so many who never even bothered to take a deep look at anything political before have now been sucked into the darkest of dark holes and claim to have figured it all out at last.””

    Yeah, sorta like how large swaths of apolitical people have bought into a tidal wave of woke horseshit on the premise that it’s “nice” and “tolerant” and “inclusive.”

  11. Agent Cooper

    I have pretty much abandoned Facebook. It’s all of my more progressive friends saying “we are so dumb” and “we are killing ourselves” attached to the cases going up graphs. They never show any other charts. I can’t fucking take it anymore.

    • leon

      Just think about this -> Global Warming people must be pissed that they couldn’t get this amount of people frothed up to this level of fear.

      • Pope Jimbo

        To be fair, the Rona has actually killed some people. If the Global Warmistas want some respect they have to plant some actual bodies in the ground. Not just tell us that we only have 4 years to act.

    • grrizzly

      Do they mean that we should be like Adelaide but not for six days but for six weeks?

      • Chafed

        Why stop then? The only way to truly be safe is to stay at home until the federal government tells us it’s safe to come out.

      • leon

        :Dr Ezekiel Nods:

      • Chafed

        *pushes 75+ year old Covid patients into nursing homes*

        *passes out from erection*

    • Plisade

      I canceled my account last week and don’t miss the idiocy.

    • Gadfly

      Some other charts, for the “we are killing ourselves” crowd to consider:

      COVID Death Count (CDC) – chart of weekly deaths towards the bottom of the page shows that, while trending upward, weekly deaths are still only 60% of what they were at the August peak and 30% of what they were at the April peak
      Excess Death Count (CDC) – chart of the estimated excess deaths, showing that the trend is going in the right direction (will soon be below excess deaths threshold if current trends continue)

  12. l0b0t

    NYC schools are closed until further notice. Everyone is a remote learner now.

    • Gender Traitor

      Dayton schools are out completely – no virtual learning, no athletics – starting Monday through January 3rd.

      • mikey

        Gee, how are the teachers going to manage – not gettin paid and all?

        I crave amusement.

    • rhywun

      Sigh.

      Hizzoner was hours late for his press conference so Gov. Cuomo went ahead and had his own. Cuomo insulted reporters, acted cagey, and said NYC schools could remain open as the positive rate was only 2.5%.

      He looked like a fool when, shortly after his press conference ended, the news hit that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza had informed principals that schools were indeed closing starting Thursday because NYC had, actually, hit the 3% rate.

      Clown world.

  13. Rebel Scum

    completely taken in by the right-wing authoritarian Trump/Q phenomenon

    Believing in a child sex-trafficking conspiracy and that it is a bad thing that should be stopped is “authoritarian”?

    • R C Dean

      How is wanting the government to stomp on people for their sexual preferences not authoritarian, hater?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        sexual preferences

        HATER!!!!!

  14. DEG

    Still, being relieved of even $10,000 in debt has the potential to transform the course of a life. If that idea makes you mad, I suggest trying to figure out how to care about other people.

    Having the government come in and cancel any amount of debt pisses me off. Go fuck yourself.

    • R C Dean

      I wonder how many people with student loans owe more than 10K on cars, credit cards, etc.?

      FORGIVE ALL THE DEBTS! JUBILEE!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Why not get together with all your other progressive friends and privately raise money to pay off those debts? You could get Soros to throw in a few million to get the ball rolling.

      If they actually tried this, it would be pretty amusing to see the payment committee meetings where they decided who “deserved” to have their loans forgiven.

    • Gadfly

      It’s not caring to take $10K from people who have behaved responsibly to give it to someone who has not. These people don’t seem to realize that “debt forgiveness” means paying off the debt with other people’s money. Or if they do, they are the furthest thing from caring people.

      • R C Dean

        Indeed. Debt forgiveness just means someone else foots the bill. Debts don’t just vanish in a cloud of rainbow-scented unicorn farts.

    • EvilSheldon

      Caring about other people just gets me exploited. So, other people can go fuck themselves.

  15. DEG

    This bit of news surprised me.

    Local school boards should “dig deep” and keep buildings open for classes through the holiday season despite rising cases of COVID-19 in New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Sununu said.

    On Tuesday, Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and Sununu reacted to the Manchester school board’s decision to return to all-remote classes starting next Monday and continuing until Jan. 19.

    Sununu said “about a dozen” clusters of COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state’s public schools. On Monday, Concord schools announced three cases involving one employee and two students.

    “We don’t have any official outbreaks in schools,” Sununu said on the Good Morning New Hampshire radio program with Jack Heath. “That is a success story, an amazing success story for public schools in New Hampshire.”

  16. Rebel Scum

    because they’re conservatives who don’t believe in the government helping anyone

    Leftists truly understand their opposition…

    But still there exists a type of naysayer I consider far more obnoxious than all the others: people who are opposed to student loan forgiveness because they’ve already paid theirs off.

    What ever happened to fairness in the proggie lexicon.

    • leon

      fairness is out equity is in.

      Equity means we all get the same outcome….. depending on some leftists judgment of “outcome” means. It is Equitable that everyone gets a college education.

      Don’t ask if it is equitable that some people saved, paid their own way or already paid off their debt, get the big :FU:. Equity means that is the right thing to do.

      • B.P.

        The right people still get to dine at French Laundry, though.

    • zwak

      “What ever happened to fairness in the proggie lexicon”

      Cant tell if joking?

    • R C Dean

      I about fell over laughing today. We’ve gotten a little taste of diversity and inclusion “equity” – which means dragging down white people and propping up minorities in varying degrees based on their relative collective (under)performance in Amerikkka.

      Today we learned that we are getting penalized by CMS on our patient satisfaction scores, because CMS adjusts the scores based on race. Hispanics tend to rate hospitals higher, so their scores are discounted. Asians tend to rate hospitals lower, so their scores are bumped up. We get penalized because we have a disproportionate number of Hispanic patients. This is precisely the same logic as the wokesters use for diversity and inclusion, but my CEO said that it was racist.

      I kept my mouth shut, barely.

      • leon

        D&I isn’t so fun when it hurts you does it Mr CEO?

  17. DEG

    Pointless virtue signalling

    Manchester aldermen voted Tuesday to support a “good faith” resolution requiring face masks be worn by people in indoor public settings, or outside if they can’t keep 6 feet apart.

    The resolution doesn’t carry any penalties, and contains language that “in no case shall there be a financial fine or penalty of any kind” or any civil penalties tied to enforcement efforts.

  18. DEG

    Camping at your courthouse

    Mayor Joyce Craig said the city does not support involuntarily removing the Hillsborough County courthouse to another encampment, while state officials are saying the removal will go forward.

    The contradictory messages came out Tuesday evening as the situation draws to a head at the courthouse lawn, where dozens of homeless are camping and protestors remain beside them.

    Both Craig and state officials have issued lengthy statements spelling out the situation with the homeless.

    State officials said all the campers have turned down opportunities for shelter, while Craig faults the state for not developing a statewide strategy to address homelessness.

    • Chafed

      Joyce Craig = Ted Wheeler

    • R C Dean

      removing the Hillsborough County courthouse

      They are talking about moving the courthouse, rather than the bums camped out around the courthouse? Why would they move it to another bum camp?

      • DEG

        I think the Union Leader needs a new editor.

        I noticed the mistake too, but said “meh, what do you expect?”

      • Chafed

        I noticed that too. The reporter should be embarrassed. The editor should be ashamed.

    • Urthona

      Note that the New York Times reported this as well, but included in the title “but you still need to wear one”.

      Apparently telling you want to do with information is an important part of their job.

      • leon

        Well they were depending on people reading between the lines, but after 2016, they know that the populace is too stupid to be trusted, so they now tell you how to think about what they have written.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        It’s Science!

    • Chafed

      I was wondering if the Danish mask study was going to be released. Now that it has, wow. Alex Berenson is going to have a field day.

  19. DEG

    Assholes fuck over businesses

    A bakery, bagel shop and pizza place each have been fined $500 after repeated complaints about staff not wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic.

    The attorney general’s office said Wednesday it has assessed penalties against Simply Delicious Baking Co. in Bedford, What a Bagel in Nashua, and Checkmate Pizza in Concord. Two other establishments — Game Changer Sports Bar and Grill in Londonderry and the Common Man Barn on the Pemi in Plymouth — were issued warnings.

    • Chipwooder

      I’m not a violent man, but I would totally support trying to determine who ratted them out and kicking their asses.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m not a violent man, but I would totally support trying to determine who ratted them out and kicking their asses. burning their houses down.

        What? It’s just property, and they’re probably insured anyway.

    • Jarflax

      Live Free or Die!

      • Heroic Mulatto

        If they fuck with the Common Man and their French Onion Soup, someone is going to die, yes.

      • Sensei

        Fanfare for the common man?

    • EvilSheldon

      $500?

      I would wipe my ass with a stack of $20s and drop them in an envelope.

    • limey

      $500? The on-the-spot fine for “breaking lockdown rules” in the UK is £10,000. You can go to court and start a process of having it reduced based on means testing, but even then it’s potentially life-destroying amounts of money taken because you were oh so many miles from your registered address or you went out three times for cigarettes. Well, they’ve temporarily stopped using those as of yesterday because it’s “not fair” that some people go to court and others don’t, or something. Still, it’s the principal of the thing. $500 or whatever, it’s all egregious.

      • Ted S.

        Still, it’s the principal of the thing.

        You being British, don’t you mean it’s the headmaster of the thing?

  20. The Other Kevin

    The student debt thing falls apart when you find out it’s not for poor people. Most big loans are for advanced degrees at name-brand schools. Nobody has $500,000 in loans from going to a community college for nursing.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The last serious proposal I looked at from the Dems, might have been in the Heroes act, excluded loans for graduate degrees and placed an income cap for eligibility.

      I accelerated payments on my wife’s undergrad student loans to pay off early (which we did, stupid us). I’ve paused payments on my own graduate loans and moved them to absolute last priority while we see how this shakes out. I’d rather the gov not do this but I wont refuse if offered. Doesn’t even come close to offsetting the massive transfer of wealth out of my paychecks every month to the elderly in the form of the Social Security.

    • Jarflax

      I knew a girl who entered law school with $200k in loan debt from her undergrad humanities degree. All it takes is a willingness to take 6 years, live in a luxury apartment in a high end neighborhood, eat out at sit down restaurants 7 days a week, drink heavily, take nice vacations, buy nice clothes, and never work. Now a lot of that was unsubsidized debt, but listening to her bitch about how hard her life was after law school, and make snide remarks because I didn’t understand her struggle makes me really hostile to the whole idea of forgiving student loans even though I still have a balance on my loans.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

        Ass, gas, or grass – no one learns for free.

    • R C Dean

      You think a big subsidy to well-off mostly white people is something the Dems will reject?

  21. Rebel Scum

    And where were you 5 years ago, bitch? You could have saved America with your brave revelation that a rich 14-year-old was a brat.

    Meanwhile, Hunter Biden, well I just can’t recall there ever being a scandal there. Move on, people.

    • DrOtto

      Taking money from unfriendly countries and kicking it up to the big guy just isn’t news when there is a stale fart we should be talking about as a country.

    • Jarflax

      Oddly Hunter’s scandals also involve 14 year old asses.

  22. Apples and Knives

    “But still there exists a type of naysayer I consider far more obnoxious than all the others: people who are opposed to student loan forgiveness because they’ve already paid theirs off.”

    That would be me. I paid the minimum for about 10 years, because that was about all I could afford and still manage to eat. After I got a good job, I bumped up my payments by 500% so I could finish it off in 3 years. Making the final payment was one of the best feelings I’v ever had. Really kids, taking the shortcut and never working for anything? You’re only fucking yourselves over. The author of that article will never in their life have a significant feeling of accomplishment. That’s just sad.

    • leon

      The shamelessness of it all is incredible. Not only do they brazenly demand that we pay off the money, they tell everyone else they should be sorry for being resentful for paying for their freeloading ass.

    • Chipwooder

      I did it in a less than ideal way – I paid for a while, got some of them paid off, struggled a bit with the higher interest ones, then re-fied the house and used the cashout to pay off my loans – but I paid them motherfuckers.

      • Chipwooder

        My remaining loans, that is. I think I started with about $40K and used the cashout for the last 14K or so.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’d much rather be a narc than a bum.

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        I might be a narc

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Are you expecting me to go without the latest iPhone and my Netflix account? What kind of monster are you?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I consider far more obnoxious than all the others
      A Jezzie finding personal responsibility obnoxious? Delicious.

      Heres the deal, Jezzie. My family sacrificed a lot to get those student loans paid down. We’ve dumped well over $100k of income that we could’ve used vacationing and buying nice cars and doing a shit ton of fun stuff like all our friends did into my loans. If you go and wipe away all of that hard work mere months after my family got through a damn hard season of life, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we are never put in that position again. I will never again trust that our hard work and sacrifice will be honored. I will structure our lives in a way that makes sure cretinous locusts like yourself never get a penny from me. You want to reward spendthrift behavior at the sacrifice of personal responsibility? Fine, I’ll start playing by a new set of rules.

      • pan fried wylie

        %TheRules

  23. R C Dean

    an LSD-induced rage

    Pretty sure that’s not a thing. I don’t have any idea what that dude took, but I seriously doubt it was LSD.

    • EvilSheldon

      Maybe if it had a shitload of glue in it…

  24. Fatty Bolger

    Researchers across U.K., Europe to create digital library of old European smells

    Thanks to innovative technology, researchers have gathered libraries of ancient tomes, museums of bygone artifacts, classical music treatises, and, in modern times, records of old photos and films that offer windows into the past.

    But can we have a library of old smells?

    That’s the question scientists, historians and experts in artificial intelligence across the U.K. and Europe will attempt to answer, as part a $4.9-million project to identify and catalogue the different aromas smelled by Europeans between the 16th and early 20th centuries.

    • leon

      Smells like shite

      • Chipwooder

        I remember reading a book about late Victorian London, where they talked about the particular smell of the place – a mixture of coal smoke, leather tanneries, and horse shit and piss. Less than pleasant, in any case.

    • wchipperdove

      “…And here’s an unwashed French peasant, ca. 1795.”

      • Fatty Bolger

        “Smells just like Grandpere!”

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Perfume, by Patrick Susskind. Nirvana’s Scentless Apprentice was based on it.

    • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

      The three dominant smells from my Mom’s childhood (she mostly grew up in rural Alberta during the 1930s), which she called the Three S’s: smoke, sweat and shit.

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Those dang Boogaloo bois are at it again! But this time the sheriff has them dead to rights because of icky social media posts.

    OK, I’ll admit that it does sound like this knucklehead was selling kits to convert semi-autos to fully automatic and was pretending that they were wall hangers. Still the govt’s case is stupid weak.

    * First off it shouldn’t be illegal to sell conversion kits (or to just buy a fully automatic rifle)
    * It seems like three customers misbehaved (one actually shot people the other two were typical victims of a FBI setup)
    * What kind of white supremacist group are the Boogaloo bois trying to be if the FBI sting victims were willing to go work for Hamas?
    * The other proof is:

    Prosecutors found cryptic comments on Watson’s social media accounts made by apparent sympathizers of the movement. One message between Watson’s wall hanger Instagram account and a user mentions dead “redcoats,” an anti-government reference, according to court documents.

    Prosecutors also said Watson was raising money for a Maryland man who the boogaloo movement depicts as a martyr after he was killed by police in a pre-dawn raid.

    • leon

      Raising money for Duncan Lemp as evidence of your wrongdoing.

      • limey

        F****** hell that’s a shitty way to spin that.

      • leon

        Prosecutors are a category of people….

        I shouldn’t say lest it be used against me in a future prosecution.

      • limey

        Poopy heads? Preet, if you are reading, verily thou art a big poopy head.

    • Trolleric the Goth

      wall hangers? huh?

    • Urthona

      And why can’t I see this irrefutable evidence?

      • Chipwooder

        Because it’s super top-secret!!!! Like Nixon’s plan for getting out of Vietnam.

      • leon

        Because if they show it then it won’t be super secret anymore.

      • Drake

        I agree with that. But there is a very fishy smell to things there.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^I get why they aren’t releasing evidence (assuming they have it). There is one chance to make the case with it, and they better make damn sure all their legal ducks are in a row and the evidence is completely documented before being released. Releasing piecemeal also gives the media a chance to coverup each item and drags it out. I don’t know that I agree with that approach, but I get it.

        Or Trump’s team is completely full of shit. We’ll find out soon.

      • DEG

        I expect it is the latter.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        To be fair, the last time they pulled this stunt, hunter’s laptop came out of nowhere.

        That said, this ain’t going nowhere. If they have a second rabbit in that hat, I’ll eat both the rabbit and the hat.

      • The Hyperbole

        He’s sending it to Tucker.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Copium.

  26. limey

    Not for nothin’ but “trump” is a slightly antiquated slang term for fart in the UK. I wouldn’t kick Ivanka out of bed for farting, but I would if she started on one of her speeches about a federal program for paid parental leave.

    • Chipwooder

      Kick her out? No, there are better ways to keep her from talking.

      • Jarflax

        She’s Jewish, you can’t stuff pork in her mouth you inquisitor!

      • Jarflax

        You are really torturing consent if you take a request to see it as an invitation to irrumatio.

      • DEG

        “Of course, it was memorable just because of the use of the lewd language and racist language,”

        Using “mulatto” is racist language? WTF?

      • Jarflax

        Well the Spanish do have a history of racism

      • Pope Jimbo

        Looks at HM…

        Ivanka: “Oh, it is like a mulatto penis, but smaller”

  27. Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

    Are there really that many people who follow QAnon and take it seriously, or is this just another media panic?

    • DEG

      Yes.

    • Jarflax

      Why do you doubt the irrefutable evidence of Pedo pizza?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Very few actually take it seriously but one in a thousand people being suckers adds up to a sizable group. It’s also not so much a media panic as a cynical manipulation of public opinion against an easy target for political gain.

  28. Derpetologist

    Found a welding school in Cheyenne. I’ve always wanted to learn how. Plus it gets me to Wyoming faster. And the course is only 16 weeks long.

    The nonchalance of the good people of the Dakotas in the face of the phony plague makes me want to live there or close by. I prefer neighbors with some steel in their spines.

    If I ever start to miss wearing the uniform, there’s always the guard and the reserve. My inner hippy longs for his beard and long hair.

    Something I’ve been working on, to the tune of One Tin Soldier:

    One Thin Margin

    Listen, voters, to a story
    About a country long ago
    With the proggies in the cities
    And the yokels out in the cold

    Now there came an orange showman
    Shouting proud his simple words
    And the proggies in the cities
    Laughed a lot and called him names

    Go ahead yell out “Nazi!”
    Go ahead and throw that brick
    Do it in the name of Team Blue
    The media will make it stick
    Y’all won’t be cheering come Election Day
    On the bloody morning after….
    One thing margin wins the day

    But then he won the nomination
    And the proggies were afraid
    That the silly, orange, bad man
    Just might beat the cankled snake

    And so on.

    • limey

      Do it. You’ll never be out of work as a welder*. I’m finally getting some formal training in MMA which I should have done long ago. Definitely a worthwhile skill to have.

      *It’s predicted that the UK will be short 20,000 welders within five years, but then we don’t have proper trade schools to feed industry like those in the USA.

      • pan fried wylie

        British martial arts? Pull the other one, bucko. Pull it manually.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Truth. I know a guy with a welding shop who has five employees. He can’t find more hires, even though he could double his welders and still be backlogged for a year.

      • Not Adahn

        The Warsaw Pact nations must be really desperate. They keep running ads looking for MIG welders.

  29. DEG

    “Rules for thee, not for me!” NH edition.

    Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess hosted a Senior Summit at the Nashua Senior Activity Center on November 16, 2020. Something here, in this picture, doesn’t seem right.

    The Nation and the World are “under the effects” of Covid-19 but at this Summit, no one is wearing a mask. No one is Social Distancing. The Mayor has a microphone. Everyone seems crowded to the front of the room. It’s obvious (to me) the room was packed.

    Seniors – they are the most vulnerable

    Didn’t Mayor Donchess contract Covid-19? YES, he did.

    Did Mayor Donchess sign a standing ordinance to wear face masks indoors in public places? YES, he did.

    Under a NEW Ordinance dated September 24, 2020 business owners could face up to a $1000 fine. What? about 2 months ago?

    It’s one thing to have memory issues. It’s another thing for his followers and others to think they’ll lead others down this unfortunate path, unchallenged.

    • EvilSheldon

      Remember, we’re all in this together!

  30. Count Potato

    Does anyone find it a little bit telling that all this “reset” talk started after they got Trump out of the way?

    • Hyperion

      What are we resetting? Is it a button?

      • mrfamous

        There’s a quote somewhere along the lines of “you’ll have no privacy and you will own nothing, but you’ll be much happier.” Not scary stuff at all.

        Klaus is in his 80s and, best as I can tell, has never held down a non-academic private sector job.

      • Jarflax

        I’ll be dead. So will some others.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, totally not Orwellian at all.

        These people are fucking insane and are going to get us all killed, including themselves.

      • Hyperion

        Ah, you mean a cashless society and mark of the beast and all that. Also known as the UN Agenda 2030, previously known as Agenda 2021.

        Let’s hope it soon becomes Agenda 2050 before we all die from bad science, like in the movies. Only for real.

      • Suthenboy

        Christ, what a bunch of nebulous bullshit and platitudes from the biggest collection of nutty shitbirds on the planet. Just go ahead and say it guys…international communism is what you want. You want to lord it over a world of new soviet men.

        Creeps.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      The talk started earlier, but Trump most likely was a barrier to its implementation.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What’s wrong with addressing income inequality, racism, and climate change? C’mon man!!!

      • Jarflax

        All we have to do is repudiate all debts, seize all real and personal property, suspend, pending review all licenses of any sort, and then appoint a diverse panel of genderqueers of color to redistribute it.

      • Surly Knott

        Address them? Do we even know their pronouns?

      • Jarflax

        They go by wood and chip

    • Plinker762

      So, the Great Reset Forward?

  31. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Photos of the party the Honourable Governor Gavin Newsome attended have been released:

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=391334

    Very little social distancing and mask wearing is evident I see, not that I give a damn but the hypocrisy is just…ahh, what’s the use?

    • Viking1865

      Supposedly some of the people in attendance are high public health officials and experts.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, members of a California health advisory council to the guv or some shit.

    • R C Dean

      In most states, its illegal for a lobbyist to provide any financial benefit to government officials. This dinner was organized by a lobbyist. From what I hear, its hard to get out of that restaurant for less than $500/head.

      So, did all those government officials pay out of their own pockets? Charge it to their government expense accounts? Let the lobbyist pick up the tab?

      Oddly, no one seems to be asking this question.

    • Gustave Lytton

      They all took the hypocritic oath.

  32. Hyperion

    “Marianne Williamson is FED UP With QAnon”

    Can’t she just use some crystals or something to put a hex on them?

    • limey

      She’s a white witch. Blessings only, no curses.

      • Count Potato

        Stevie Nicks 2024?

  33. Viking1865

    It’s interesting how things change. The main rightwing blog I read is Ace of Spades. Way back in 2008 or maybe it was 2012 I can’t remember he had a series of “Why Conservatives Should Back ________ In the Republican Primary”. A bunch of guest bloggers wrote different pieces about why Their Guy was the best guy. I wrote a very polite email saying “I know you don’t like Ron Paul at all, but I think you should let someone make the case for why he is the most conservative candidate in the race.” He responded with basically “Hell no, we got troops in the field, we need to win the GWOT, etc etc I’m not hosting Paul fans on my blog.”

    Fast forward to 2020, and he’s posting this

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=391321

    Better late than never I suppose.

    • Hyperion

      “If Donald Trump doesn�t take the Oath of Office on January 20, 2021, one principal but little-noted reason for this may be that he crossed one of the most powerful and least accountable forces in the nation: the military-industrial complex. ”

      Well, he’s not wrong abou that.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I mostly like that blog, he has some good rants too.

    • Chipwooder

      I’m a long time Ace reader too. Don’t agree with him about everything, but more often than not we’re at least in the same area code. I think my evolution away from interventionism has tracked along a similar path to his, although I started on that path several years earlier.

  34. Hyperion

    So, just for me bros in the PA, y’all wearing your mask right now? I mean, I’m just concerned.

    • Sean

      Nope.

      • Hyperion

        See you in the gulags, Sean.

      • Sean

        Not if I die of the Kung Flu first!

        So there!

      • Hyperion

        Good luck, I think you have about one in a trillion chance. SMOD is a better chance.

      • pan fried wylie

        SMOD may get him, but it’ll be impossible to tell as he’ll still be recorded as a covid casualty.

    • Timeloose

      Nope! Only when I go to my chosen place of employment as thems the rules to stay open.

      My mask nazi employee ended up catching the Vid from his daughter not from any of us minimally compliant co workers.

      This was after a rant about how he and his wear the face diaper in the home religiously to protect them.

    • limey

      Barry was on the tee vee earlier. He seems to be consulted on the news every day now, for his wisdom on how ORANGE MAN is BAD.

      • Timeloose

        It’s a shame he is so young. We will be dealing with his stuttering ass for generations to come.

  35. Count Potato

    “‘An American horror story’: Top JP Morgan investment strategist describes ‘nightmare scenario’ for the markets in the ‘remote’ event Trump overturns election results

    Though the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high this week on news of effective coronavirus vaccines, Cembalest warned that undermining the rule of law through ‘electoral illegitimacy’ would send stock markets into turmoil. ‘A modest decline in the rule of law…could result in a de-rating of US equities,’ he wrote.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8962855/Top-JP-Morgan-strategist-says-Trump-overturning-election-nightmare-markets.html

    Rule of law?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Electoral fraud is the new rule of law.

    • Hyperion

      If a modest decline in the rule of law could make the markets unstable, we’d have already had the greater great depression by 1995.

    • R C Dean

      Cembalest warned that undermining the rule of law through ‘electoral illegitimacy’ would send stock markets into turmoil.

      Naturally, a showing that there was massive voter fraud, but the courts declining to take action and Biden taking office, will have zero impact on the markets. I’m guessing his problem is less “electoral illegitimacy” than with Trump winning. Sounds like the typical DemOp “No Republican can be a legitimate President” line.

    • Agent Cooper

      Paul Krugman, call your office!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck off, you corrupt parasites. Everyone knows quite well that your only concern is the government either directly or indirectly thru the Fed providing you with loss coverage paid for by the taxpayers and savers.

    • Tulip

      Huh, funny how the stock market and economy did well while Trump was president, but this guy is convinced he will be bad for the economy.

      • Count Potato

        Or he could be lying.

    • limey

      #5 shows up a lot, which is nice. In the words of Fr. Ted Crilly, “all the girls have lovely bottoms”.

    • Chipwooder

      Big fan of #4, nice shape and size without being too big and wide, tight and toned.

  36. Hyperion

    This week in the Hyper News:

    I brought all of my peppers and some tomatoes in containers, inside tonight. It’s supposed to be 29 F tonight. The peppers I brought inside last week are already getting new growth where I pruned them back.

    The maters, most are indeterminate, and they have a lot of green tomatoes on them. The determinate ones are small and not finished, they’re mostly micro dwarfs.

    In Euro news:

    My DIL from Germany sent my wife a Whatsapp conversation between her and our Grand daughter earlier this week.

    It went like this.

    Mom: Are you picking up your toys before our walk to the park?

    GD: Mom, I just got out of my last meeting!

    Mom: Was it a good meeting?

    GD: Meh.

    LOL fucking L. She’s 3. I told my wife, her American is already better than yours and she’s never been to the USA and she’s 3!

  37. Count Potato

    “Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems. We use paper ballots counted by hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to count votes in our 100-year history.”

    https://twitter.com/ElectionsCan_E/status/1328449565096366083

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Stupid sexy Canadians…

    • pan fried wylie

      Dammit, Canada, I’m not falling for it.

    • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

      True in my own personal experience. You get a paper ballot, and you mark your choices with an “X” in pencil. When I worked as a scrutineer, we were allowed unlimited access to the counting, and there were scrutineers from every party that had candidates running in that riding. It was surprisingly collegial.

      To this day, when I vote in an election, I always ask the returning officers how to spoil a ballot. The poorly-trained ones have usually responded with “Is this some kind of a joke?” The well-trained ones had a perfect understanding of what a spoiled ballot actually signified, and were able to tell me a variety of ways that I could spoil my ballot and have it counted.

      • Count Potato

        I didn’t even know “scrutineer” was a word.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        We would’ve gone with “invigilator,” but the academics have that word all sewn up for purposes of checking on exam cheating in universities. (Yeah, I was an invigilator in University as well — monitored the little bastards taking Econ 101/102 exams…).

    • Drake

      He isn’t wrong.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Kind of the Trump equivalent of the crazy harpies screaming in cars.

  38. Yusef drives a Kia

    my kids are expensive, money I don’t have, but they need, yikes!

  39. Derpetologist

    Oh, how I laughed: Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls but the tune is It’s All I Want For Christmas Is You By Mariah Carey

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9w3GSkJBzU

    According to the Hallmark Channel, it has been Xmas since Labor Day.

    ***
    Hallmark has a total of 136 Christmas holiday-themed movies in their original library of films.
    ***

    Good lord, do broads love that Xmas crap!

    Read past Shelob’s Lair in LOTR. Shelob is a garbled way of saying she spider. Spider is a garbling of spinner. And the word weave is from the word web.

    Buibui (boo-ee-BOO-ee) is spider in Swahili. A spider web is mtandao buibui. Mtandao (mm-TAHN-dow) means web or network. It comes from the verb kutanda, which means to spread.

    ‘Ankibut is spider in Arabic. Al-shabkah al-‘ankibutiyah means the internet (literally, the spidery web). The word shabkah is from the word for window, shubaak. Traditionally, Arab windows were stone or metal grates for ventilation and visibility. The word window is a garbling of wind-eye.

    That ‘A stands for the Arabic letter ‘ayn, which looks like a backwards 3. It’s the first letter in the Arabic word for Arabic. In Somali orthography, the same sound is represented with the letter C. So they spell Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid as Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid.

    I took a web-based Somali course years ago. I have to say I do enjoy the Army’s online language courses. I’ve done all intro ones. I’ve done Chinese, Chavcano, Dari, Farsi, Hausa, Indonesian, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, and Turkish. Don’t remember a whole lot, but I had fun.

  40. Derpetologist

    The best time to be an American

    No cheap cars til 1920
    Booze illegal til 1933
    No rock n roll til 1960
    Had a draft til 1973
    USSR fell in 1991
    TSA came in 2001

    So the best time to be an American was about 1991 to 2000? Sound about right. I wonder if the panic we’re having now could have happened during the Cold War. I think not. There were too many other things to worry about, and besides, people wanted to have fun.

    Sowell’s response to those that mourn the retreat of freedom since 1913 was: it doesn’t seem that way to black people.

    My inner hippy wants to lie in bed, blow smoke rings from a clove cigarette, and listen to the first 3 minutes of this on a loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngViNw2pOo

    • Not Adahn

      No, the best time to be an American was between the end of the Vietnam war and the discovery of AIDS.

      • Derpetologist

        OK, I can see that. But video games! And cable TV! And free internet music!

      • Jarflax

        The 70s were horrible.

      • Derpetologist

        Oil embargo, fall of Saigon, Carter, hostage crisis, disco – the list goes on

      • Q Continuum

        Counterpoint: key parties.

      • Jarflax

        Actual high crime, not the BS manufactured stuff from 80s ‘crack’ epidemic, stagflation, yeah it goes on and on.

    • The Hyperbole

      Cars are cheap?
      Booze was legal until 1919
      “Rocket 88” was released in 1951
      Okay
      Okay
      Okay.

    • Not Adahn

      He’s gay.