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  1. Shpip

    A recently elected candidate for Congress says he and other newly elected representatives will form a “Freedom Force” to oppose the far-left “Squad” led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

    The House already has a Freedom Caucus. Join it.

    • Nephilium

      I doubt it’s intentional, but the Freedom Force name was used in a thematically appropriate way earlier…

      Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich

      It’s a sequel for a superhero world where you have to fight time traveling National Socialists.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *dons tights*

      I’m ready!

    • leon

      I trust AOC more than GOPers talking about freedom.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s a depressing thought (and likely reality).

      • leon

        Yeah, I don’t agree with her, but I think she’s earnest.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        The Importance of being Earnest and Having a Nice Rack.

      • robc

        She is generally honest in her evilness.

    • Drake

      The “Freedom Force” is all “people of color” – because the GOP follows the Dems everywhere they go, including identity politics.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        So it’s basically the Power Rangers but they wear white pointy hoods?

  2. Not Adahn

    If the “Freedom Force” doesn’t have a sentient-but-subservient-AI-driven armored vehicle, I will be disappointed.

    • Not Adahn

      Gundam suits and/or LAMs would also b acceptable.

      • UnCivilServant

        Seen, Unseen, or Reseen?

  3. Not Adahn

    2% isn’t significant. Definitely not evidence of widespread fraud, which is the ony fraud that matters.

    • Jerms

      In Az. 2% is about 55,000 votes. Kinda widespread no?

      • Brawndo

        2% of *duplicate* ballots, not all ballots.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        “Shush, You!”

  4. leon

    So under what reason would it make sense to tell people not to vote in the special election?

    • UnCivilServant

      If you want a democrat senate.

    • leon

      But it’s the LPs fault the GOP couldn’t avoid the runnoff.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, all of you non-voters didn’t vote for the candidate who is entitled to your votes, dontchaknow

      • juris imprudent

        The beauty of that is that either party gets to say it when they are the loser.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      From what I read, Powell and Lin were saying not to vote UNLESS the GOP takes action to prevent the widespread fraud we saw in the first one. It’s pressure on Kemp and the Rattenberg guy to do something both about the Nov vote and preventing this from happening again in Jan. What’s the point of participating if it’s a rigged process? Trump is still campaigning heavily for the GOP runoff candidates so it’s the dual carrot and stick approach.

      The strategy also appears to be working. Kemp just announced they are doing a signature audit in response to the fraud, and it seems like they could revoke certification.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Some good news for a welcome change. I hope that racist fuck gets crushed come January. I don’t know anything about the other Dem but I assume she is awful.

      • Drake

        This.

        Kemp could call the GA legislature into a special session and they could quickly tighten up rules, even mandate the state police are at trouble spots to ensure observers have access to the counts.

        So far Kemp has refused because everything went so great last month.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That is what Wood said and the way the media twisted his meaning is borderline libel/slander. In his intended context he’s 100 percent correct.

      • one true athena

        He dropped oppo on Loeffler. How is that not telling people to vote for her?

  5. Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

    I admire your pluck and resolve during this shit-storm, Banjos. It’s a nice reprieve from the doom and gloom. Thank You! I mean that most sincerely.

    • Surly Knott

      +1

    • Tonio

      Nice.

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      Are you me?

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Those boys didn’t lift.

    • Agent Cooper

      In my house, it’s a minimum of 9 strings of white lights on every bush (make your jokes below).

      I don’t do ladders or trees.

      We have a nice, big lit wreath as well.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        We just turn off the outdoor lights like Halloween and Judi visits family. #Notintoxmas

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        No, apathetic. Burned by xmas too many times. Refuse to play along. Fuck it! I’m old enough. Have your fun but it ain’t me, Babe.

      • WTF

        Okay, Festusneezer Scrooge.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        ^ gets it

      • Mojeaux

        I’m semi-sorta there with you, but a tiny part of it is that all my Christmas stuff is in storage. The major thing is That Which Was Lost. I did break down and buy a small Norfolk pine and decorated it. I allowed XY to do the house lights. The lights on my 300-light wreath all went out and I’m not restringing it. Well, I might. I do love that wreath. I didn’t put up the kids’ Advent Calendar this year, but they seem too old for it anyway and ignored it most of the time last year. So Christmas Eve, the stockings will get hung and maybe everybody will get some candy.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Even though I don’t participate, Daughter #1 always buys me a Big bag of tube socks every year. It’s a long standing tradition.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Masks will fix this

    Biden will take office at a crucial moment in the fight against drug addiction. Some states are contending with double-digit spikes in overdose deaths, sparse public health workforces are already stretched thin fighting the coronavirus and widening budget deficits brought on by the pandemic could force states to make painful cutbacks to public services.

    More than 76,000 people died of a drug overdose between April 2019 and April 2020, according to the most recent preliminary federal data, the most ever recorded during a 12-month period. Federal health officials say the drug crisis has only been amplified by months of social isolation, high unemployment and the diversion of resources to combat the virus.

    “Since the pandemic hit we have not been able to control the opioid epidemic,” said Nora Volkow, the long-serving director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in an interview. “Our vulnerabilities have just gotten worse.”

    ——-

    Earlier this year, there were hopeful signs in the nation’s long-running addiction struggle. In January, the Trump administration celebrated what looked like a turning point: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths in 2018 declined 4 percent that year, the first drop in nearly three decades.

    But months later, the public health agency reported preliminary 2019 data showing overdose deaths ticked up 5 percent, with a record 72,000 dead. About two-thirds of those deaths were related to opioids, but deaths from stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine have also been rising quickly.

    Just how much the pandemic has exacerbated the drug crisis this year is still coming into view.

    Ohio recorded 543 overdose deaths in May, the most ever in a single month. Overdose deaths in the state this year may even surpass a record 4,800 in 2017, said Dennis Cauchon, president of Harm Reduction Ohio.

    “I never thought we could top 2017 levels of death and I was wrong,” he said. “It’s a slaughter out there.”

    Oregon reported a 70 percent increase in the number of overdose deaths in April and May compared to the same two months in 2019. In Maine, overdose deaths during the first half of 2020 were up 27 percent from the previous year. Spikes have also been documented in Colorado, Kentucky and Louisiana.

    “While unacceptably high for far too long, prior to the pandemic, we were making good progress,” said Caleb Alexander, co-director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness. “There were many slivers of hope, and the pandemic has thrown a wrench into the wheel and really disrupted those efforts.”

    Put them down as plague deaths. The plague killed those people, not despair or hopelessness. Certainly not government ineptitude.

    • Not Adahn

      The plague killed those people, not despair or hopelessness. Certainly not government ineptitude.

      It is a plague of despair and hoplessness. And the government did everything right, it was those stupid disobedient tax cattle citizens not doing what they were told to do that is the problem.

    • Idle Hands

      that’s what the news media is doing we have over 100k excess deaths not covid related at all they are saying are because of the plague.

    • Rebel Scum

      More than 76,000 people died of a drug overdose between April 2019 and April 2020

      You mean 76,000 died of the commie-cough.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Republican officials in Arizona found that 2% of the duplicate ballots the party was allowed to examine were changed to take votes away from President Trump.

    “We got to examine 100 of them,” said Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward. “Guess what? We found two ballots that were changed: One was changed from Trump to Biden; one was just taken away from Trump — for no reason that we can find an explanation for.”

    Good enough for government work.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Now we’re starting to see some of the harder evidence come out. I know in my heart of hearts that this is all gonna be swept under the rug and nothing else will happen, but I’ll still feel a tinge of disappointment when that happens. This is one of those watershed moments in this country’s history, and TMITE and the DNC and the GOP will make sure that it’s good and dead before Biden is inaugurated.

      • Jerms

        Can you imagine if the election was legit, and Trump won and we were seeing this ballot stuffing and other anomolies we are seeing now–but that all went Trumps way? 24/7 coverage on every station.

      • UnCivilServant

        If we were seeing ballot stuffing the other way, the election still wouldn’t be legit.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Sure. We’d have mass mask burning parties. I could get behind that.

    • UnCivilServant

      The correct answer is to throw the “ethicist” into the trolley mechanism to gum up the works and save the innocent people they tied to the tracks.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        “You are correct, Sir!”

      • Tres Cool

        Id watch that for a dollar !

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Freedom Force, eh?

    “We’ll force freedom right up your ass!”

    *Your freedom may vary

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      *Side effects may involve anal leakage

    • juris imprudent

      Only the freedom to be good people as we see it. Wouldn’t want any of that messy kind of freedom where people do stupid shit to themselves. But this is ENTIRELY different from the freedom those despicable Democrats want to force on you.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Jesus, Mary and Joseph! What crawled up your back-side since 11/3? They are all asshoe. Everybody know. If you hate the climate move to one that more suits your mood. I’ve always respected your comments and opinions, juris but lately you are just acting like a fucking jackass.

      • juris imprudent

        Check your sarcasm detector.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        It’s just that you have nay-said any and all about election impropriety for weeks. I don’t have any dog in this fight but I do own a finely honed sense of “fairness” and “honor”. This election and the events leading up to it stink to high heaven. I’m sorry for being so fucking crass. Do the new video releases nudge your meter in one way or the other? I’m sincerely asking this question.

      • juris imprudent

        I have nay-said stories while waiting for facts. Yes, the video is exactly the kind of evidence that to this point has been lacking. That is entirely different from a guy driving a truck that *might* have contained boxes of ballots, or what someone said he heard was supposed to happen (but had no first hand knowledge that it did).

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Thanks for that. Still friends?

      • juris imprudent

        That depends, pineapple on pizza with Canadian bacon?

      • Agent Cooper

        I think it’s really the haughty avatar that puts people the wrong way … ; )

      • Jarflax

        Rumpole of the Bailey is pretty near the antithesis of haughty.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        I like Hawiian pizza. And deep dish.

      • Swiss Servator

        Don’t make me call STEVE SMITH in here…

  9. Jerms

    I went to CNN website to see if they mention anything about the Ga. video catching those cunts red handed—absolutely nothing.
    There is an article about the Trump childrens plans to profit off of their fathers fallen legacy.
    Still no mention of Hunter smoking meth with Asian teens tho. Surprising.

    • SDF-7

      Too local.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        ha ha

    • Rebel Scum

      “News” persons/networks used to be only biased. Now ones like CNN are part of the DNC apparatus. Grinds my gears that they still pretend to be anything but that.

    • UnCivilServant

      What a shitty situation.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Homelessness is porto the problem.

      • Red Pill Matt

        You know urinal lot of trouble when Portlanders fight back.

      • Rebel Scum

        That stretch smells of desperation.

    • rhywun

      They should cart all of them over to the mayor’s house and drop them there.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d chip in for a helicopter delivery.

    • Rebel Scum

      people experiencing homelessness

      *rolls eyes*

      Sinks and toilet paper dispensers have been stolen; units have been spray-painted, burned and tipped on their sides; objects have been thrown in toilets, making them unusable.

      Hafer said around 30 of the units had been declared a total loss.

      *shocked face*

      • Gustave Lytton

        I bet most of the damage was caused by bums.

      • rhywun

        Sorry – doesn’t fit the narrative.

  10. Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

    That Sowell link was beautiful.

    • Animal

      Thomas Sowell is one of my personal heroes. So was Walter Williams. The world is a poorer place without Dr. Williams, and it will be a sad, sad day when Dr. Sowell leaves us as well.

    • Fourscore

      We have lost 1/2 of the Dynamic Duo. I cut (some) of my baby libertarian teeth on the those two gentlemen. Both write in a way that newbies can understand. There may be others out there but not have emerged to be the successors of Tom and Walter. Still a few of their books I’ve not read, though, so I can still enjoy their writings.

      Thanks, Banjos, for the link.

      RIP Walter, can not be said often enough.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL

      Dude has a seriously nasty neckbeard. I hope those hookers were paid well.

    • Sean

      Ha!

    • Not Adahn

      anti-LGBT MEP

      Unpossible. Badthinkfullness is America-only.

      • juris imprudent

        pssst – every Muslim ruled country in the world.

      • Not Adahn

        You only think that because you’re an Islamophobe! Any apparent badthinkfullness by noble PoC is an illusion caused by colonializaiton and hte white cisheteropatriarchy!

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Just heard on the teevee:

    “The people I talk to think we’re going to come out of this okay.”

    How many of the people you talk to have missed a single paycheck this year, you odious fucking blockhead?

    • Idle Hands

      jfc. Gitmo.

      • juris imprudent

        Sure, take ’em to Gitmo – then throw them over the fence to their paradise.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        On this and many other questions, we can agree.

  12. Urthona

    I don’t get what a signature audit is gonna do. the signature envelopes should already be discarded.

    • juris imprudent

      Even if not discarded, are the ballots back inside them after counting?

  13. Rebel Scum

    Georgia voter fraud hearing shows security video of ballot stuffing.

    And yet the calm of my tits remains damaged because the GOP is a bunch of useless cucks that is more OP and less G. Powell/Wood have a point about R voters not supporting party candidates if the party does not support the president and de-facto party head that enjoys 95% support among party voters.

    Example: This faux conservative and carpetbagging cunte.

    Romney said, “Well, the attorney general has said there’s no there, there. The courts have all looked at the evidence and said there’s no evidence there. Now, of course, there will be circumstances where one or two, or a handful, maybe even 100 ballots were incorrectly sent in or counted, and those things get adjusted and get fixed, but the idea of widespread fraud is simply not been shown to us. And if that evidence does exist, please show it to us. At this stage, we don’t see it. So, for the president or anyone else to go out and allege widespread fraud and say the election is rigged, and the election was stolen, that obviously strikes at the very foundation of democracy here, and around the world for that matter. People watch America. If we can’t have a free and fair election, how can they have it in other nations of the world? This is critical for the whole cause of democracy. Russia and China have to be laughing, smiling from ear to ear. This is critical for the preservation of the very democracy and freedom that’s important for our country and for others.”

    Translation: Roll over and die so we can sell out the country to a leftist, globalist cabal.

    • juris imprudent

      …to a leftist, globalist cabal

      Davos – the ultimate cocktail party, amirite?

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

    • Jarflax

      I’d like to see Romney smiling from ear to ear, but I might mean something more permanent than a grin.

  14. DOOMco

    Who are you going to believe, the Dems or your lying eyes

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      I’ll believe whatever tall tale that your Gelfling babbles next! She’s friggen adorable!

    • Tundra

      DOOM!

      BabyDOOM is the cutest ever. I hope all of you are doing well!

      • DOOMco

        TUNDRA! We’re doing pretty well. We had a great Thanksgiving, and got to see half the family.
        The other half is mad we broke the rules by seeing another human being.

        A fortnight from her first birthday!

      • Tundra

        Good for you. Most of my family are Branch Covidians, so I feel your pain.

        Fuck ’em. You have a short time on this rock and wasting opportunities to be together is downright immoral.

      • DOOMco

        Ladydoom was saying “they’re going to kill themselves looking back and missing her first birthday and Christmas for no reason”

        It’s just sad. She changes so much every day.
        Some of them haven’t seen her since before she could sit.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “Look everybody, I’m being interviewed on teevee over the phone. Yesterday, I ordered some caviar from Amazon. We’re innovating our way out of this economic hiccup. Let the good times roll!”

  16. Rebel Scum

    The list of voter fraud accusations in Georgia.

    But before that I am calling a stop on the commenting. We have to stop for the morning for, um, reasons. *thinks* Uh…there was a pipe-burst or something. So yeah, we are done here until further notice.

    *drags box of undocumented ballots from under table*

    • Nephilium

      undocumented ballots

      Why are you using Mexican ballots?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        He would use Australian ballots, but they were all locked down.

      • Not Adahn

        They’re doing the voting that Americans won’t.

      • Rebel Scum

        Perhaps should of said “untraceable”.

      • Rebel Scum

        And “comments”, not ballots. Fucked up the entire joke. *gets coffee*

    • Urthona

      everybody at that polling place needs to be carefully interrogated.

    • Idle Hands

      in all honesty that video completely fits my cognitive biases to a degree that I’m suspicious of it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That totally explains why Fulton county was trying to (and partially successful at) wiping the voting machines. Nothing to hide at all.

      • Urthona

        Here’s a thing that sticks in my craw.

        Why does the word of officials constitute a “fact check”?

        Sure, run an article showing their side of the story but the word of officials is not to be automatically assumed as fact.

      • juris imprudent

        Fact checking is the process of making inconvenient facts conform to the narrative. Nothing must bring the narrative into question.

        This can cut both ways, as narratives are not the exclusive domain of the left.

      • Rebel Scum

        It doesn’t but most people don’t think.

        The officials are the ones that should be under investigation.

      • Tonio

        I want sworn statements from those people and blonde braids woman. Among other things.

      • robc

        Cross examination under oath, or them taking the 5th.

      • robc

        Yeah, me too. But I went to school in GA, the state is generally dumb enough to just brute force things in the dumbest way possible. Probably all uga grads.

      • SDF-7

        Hey now! Just because some of us went there after Reactor Physics (and the German speaking, unintelligible instructor for 2nd order DiffEqs) kicked out butt, doesn’t mean we’re less…. capable… than Tech …. um… I’ll just see myself out.

      • robc

        Congrats on making it as far as Diffy-Qs. Usually if you get that far, its downhill form there.

        Reactor Physics may have been my favorite class ever.

        Story time: my roommate was a math major, his senior year he was TAing freshman calculus. A friend of ours asked for requirements to get the job, my roommate said basically you needed straight As thru the calculus series. Our friend replied, “I was hoping having taken them all twice would be in favor.” He is an ME, he graduated with a GPA just barely above 2.0, but he made it through. His grades got dramatically better once he got to ME classes. He spent most of his first 3 years bouncing on and off of probation.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        You lie. I didn’t go to school in Georgia.

      • Pine_Tree

        My roomate in my Sophomore year was back after being probationed for being in the Square Root Club during his Freshman year.

      • Pine_Tree

        Agreeing with robc here.

        I’m a lifelong GA resident and quite the yokel, even when wearing my Engineer hat. I don’t know about other states, but to me it’s hard to imagine a state government more classically dumb/corrupt/forceful. And they all think it’s normal.

      • SDF-7

        Louisiana? At least historically….

        But on the county level, Fulton and Dekalb have been setting the benchmark for decades. If they’ve got their machine tuned enough to spin the state gov now, it isn’t surprising it is corrupt and laughably so — they’re not really used to being called on it often.

      • robc

        Dekalb seems even worse than Fulton to me. I think that is because of the large bulbs on the north and south of Fulton that kind of keep the center in check.

      • Swiss Servator

        Illinois snickers behind its hand.

  17. Nephilium

    I present to you the dumbest idea proposed through this entire shitshow of a year:

    To Save Lives, Let’s Move Christmas To July (TW: New woke Cracked).

    In local news, surprising no one, DeWine (Cunte – OH) vetoed the bill that would remove his authority to issue statewide orders. It currently looks like it’s on track for a veto override in the state Senate next week, but the state House needs a couple more votes (3 Republicans were not present at the last vote).

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      To Save Lives, Let’s Move Christmas To July (TW: New woke Cracked).

      LOL

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The good news? The COVID vaccine will start rolling out this month to select high-risk groups, and it looks like 100% of Americans who want it can have it by June. The ones who don’t want it will, presumably, receive an ass-beating instead.

      And then we all have a Merry Christmas.

    • Mojeaux

      Let’s move Christmas to July!

      Said every craft store ever.

    • Rebel Scum

      We had all the same bs restrictions this past July…

      This person is not serious. (or is seriously a mendacious, tyranny-enabling cunte.)

    • Hyperion

      If we’d just rename it ‘Winter Holiday’ so that no one is offended, then we could safely move it to July. Makes perfect sense, in a prog sort of way.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Jobs Report day:

    “Some people probably still have jobs, but we don’t really know how many.”

    • straffinrun

      Hey, Doom. Enjoy the kid!

    • Pope Jimbo

      This the first kid?

      Always amazing the horrifying spills they take as they learn to walk/run.

      The first kid is always scooped up and hugged/inspected after they wipe out and bonk their heads on the coffee table as they fall. The the third kid, you just yell at the kid for spilling the beer you had on the coffee table.

      If I had a toddler running around now, I would cringe just thinking of how long it would take me to recover if I wiped out like that. Amazing how much of a beating their little bodies can take.

      Also: Enjoy discovering that they will use their newfound mobility solely to find dangerous objects to play with. They will toddle right around all their nice safe toys just so they can go pull out drawers and climb up on the kitchen counter to get a knife. Bonus points if wife comes back from shopping to find her baby toddling around the living room with scissors while you nap on the couch.

      • DOOMco

        Yeah she’s number 1.

        She’s very fast and prefers things that will hurt.

        She also learned what an ear is.
        And then put her first in my mouth. Then gave me a wet willie.
        Then laughed.

        I live with a tyrant. L

      • Brett L

        All toddlers as asshole! Some grow out of that phase.

      • ron73440

        But a cute little tyrant.

  19. robc

    2,506 felons voted.
    66,248 underage registered.
    2,423 voted w/out registration.
    1,043 address a Post-Office.
    4,926 registered late.
    10,315 dead people.
    395 cast ballots in another state.
    15,700 filed national change of address.
    40,279 moved.
    100+ affidavits.

    According to juris, that isn’t real evidence.

    Now, on each of those lists, I bet 20% is BS. Probably only 8000 or so of the dead people are really dead, the others are legit voters with similar names/addresses or something. Like if I still lived with my Mom, I could end up on a list of dead voting because me Dad is dead.

    Of course, for every wrong person on the list, there are probably 3 that were missed.

    • DOOMco

      I’m just stuck on “biden is more popular than Obama, even though Trump gained share in almost every demographic”

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        2 ways to explain that

        1) suburban white women went for Biden, hard

        2) there were ballots unaccounted for in the exit polls

        I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to decide which is more likely.

      • Agent Cooper

        “1) suburban white women went for Biden, hard”

        Trump increased his share of white female votes from 2016.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        And he increased his share of the black vote and his share of the latino vote.

        I guess that leaves white men? It’s laughable that white men lost the election for Trump.

      • Not Adahn

        Even if he tripled his share among D voting blocks, an increased turnout still helps Biden more.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have trouble believing turnout was as high as indicated, or required. Especially in areas where the required turnout would need to be 90-120%. Gropey Joe couldn’t get people to show up for rallies, he’s not going to get record highest ever people to bother to vote.

        Also, an increase in turnout should be nationwide, not just in key strategic districts in key swing states.

        Apparently he only motivated voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.

      • UnCivilServant

        *and then only in select few areas of said states where othee questionable things went down.

      • Urthona

        I think that’s a myth. Turnout was never that high anywhere.

      • DOOMco

        This.

      • Not Adahn

        Apparently he only motivated voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.

        How is that not plausible? Unless you believe that campaign activites are nothing but placebos, You would expect increased results in areas with better resources and/or more competent people involved. Biden outspent Trump. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that his GOTV game was more effective than Trump’s in some places.

      • UnCivilServant

        So much more so than every previous and more active campaign had? With fewer ‘boots on the ground’ and no new strategies? So effective that in some places they got more people to vote than lived in the area?

      • Rebel Scum

        //Metoo

        It is complete bs.

    • juris imprudent

      If that’s just a set of numbers you made up – yeah not real. Not sure what link that is from.

      Again as for Biden, in PA his best performances (over Clinton and Obama) were not in Philly or Pittsburgh, it was in the Philly suburbs and the rest of the state. No, I don’t think people loved voting for Biden, but plenty loath Trump. It’s like people here can’t see that, which is weird because they know Trump is an asshole but then seem to think that just doesn’t matter.

      • juris imprudent

        I’ve dealt with the flip side of this on FB with my friends. I’ll point out something that Trump is doing (or at least attempting) and get them to agree that it is a good thing – and they still fall back on “but Trump”. So policy, economics, all of the stuff that is supposed to matter, doesn’t seem to really matter. I believe people voted that way, as stupid as it might seem (either their voting, or my belief).

      • robc

        I agree. About the only thing I liked about Trump was his attack on the “deep state”. The funniest think is he would have been a gawdawful president if Pelosi had been willing to work with him. He would have gone along with all kinds of things. But Rand Paul seemed like the only person who got it. He will make a “deal” on just about anything is you are willing to let him take credit for it and talk about what a great deal he made negotiating.

        Their hatred of him made him into a semi-decent President.

      • robc

        From a link above.

        I didn’t vote for Trump, I criticized on here those who said they were going to vote for Trump. I don’t care if Biden wins, but I think the statistics look wonky. I just want non-fraudulent elections…you probably saw my posts before the election pushing national change to the ME/NE plan. I was right, that would make any fraud that did occur much less effective.

      • straffinrun

        I just want non-fraudulent elections

        Good luck with that especially when you have 50 states running them.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe that’s the amendment we need – take away the state winner-take-all allocation, and make it by Congressional district with the statewide vote winner getting the other two EVs.

      • prolefeed

        So you want the federal government dictating, to the ostensibly autonomous states that ostensibly granted few and limited powers to the federal government, how to choose electors?

        Yeah, that’ll rein in the federal government.

      • R C Dean

        Of course, it would need to be a Constitutional amendment, so it wouldn’t be the feds dictating to the states.

        And for that very same reason, it will never happen.

      • robc

        You just need the 38 smallest states to support the idea.

        The big ones don’t want their power dilluted. CA and TX and FL and NY don’t want their vote split up.

        But the smaller states? It doesn’t matter as much to them, and as this election shows, it allows states like ME and NE to assign their electors more in line with the people. 1 Trump vote from ME, 1 Biden vote from NE.

      • robc

        Yes. The Amendment process specifically allows for that. Maybe we could pair it with getting rid of the direct election of Senators?

      • juris imprudent

        Now you’re talking.

      • robc

        That is exactly the Amendment I have been suggesting. For fraud protection. Since before the 2016 election. Maybe longer.

        Just think how much better America would be if people would listen to me?

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, if you didn’t advocate land taxes, you wouldn’t come off as crazy.

      • robc

        Oh no, I have plenty of ideas that make me sound crazy.

      • robc

        The Town Flake stood up to speak. He is an old and addled gentleman with hair in long, white tangles — WASP dreadlocks. He’s been making a complete and utter pest of himself at town meetings for over thirty years. He owns his own mimeograph machine and runs off reams of smudgy philippics accusing town government of incompetence and waste. He knows all the regulations in Robert’s Rules of Order and uses them until he has to be shushed by the moderator or shouted down by the townspeople. And he is always and invariably right on every issue. — PJ O’Rouke, from Parliament of Whores

  20. Idle Hands

    Look at these wideeyed optimists-
    https://www.axios.com/mayors-survey-covid-worries-dacfada2-0eeb-4707-8b71-d943c3d5b199.html
    This year, 45% of mayors foresee “dramatic” cuts to school budgets, while 38% expect big cuts to parks and recreation and 35% to mass transit.
    “Only around one-third expect small businesses that closed due to the COVID-19 economy will be quickly replaced by new ones,” according to a news release.
    The mayors paint a bleak outlook for city centers, with 60% anticipating a permanent reduction in in-person retail shopping and the same percent saying that downtown office buildings will become “less desirable.”

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, the company that was going to move into the space vacated by my shut-down creperie has backed out of the deal. Unfortunately, I am no longer plugged into the downtown merchants gossip loop, so I don’t know what’s going to happen now.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m surprised when anyone floats the idea of moving to or opening up in New York. It’s such a toxic business environment I’m surprised I don’t see more rows of abandoned commerical real estate than I already do.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL. I had a customer tell me that I should open a store up there. I actually laughed at him and had to apologize.

      • Idle Hands

        it’s pretty horrific. Noone wants to take an L either so you have clearly abandoned business’s noone wants to admit are closed forever on either the land lord or the business owners side. Like 2008 noone want’s to admit it’s over they’ll put off writing off the bad debt as long as they possibly can. It’s going to be very very ugly when the dust settles.

      • Nephilium

        Yeah… in the long ago, whenever there was a new brewery planning on opening, by default I would add 18 months to the estimated opening date (12 if it was their third location), even then I was usually undershooting the delay in getting up and running. Now, take people without the capital (because they lost their previous jobs, and had to burn through savings), and I’m expecting a huge number of empty store fronts.

        Not to mention, who’s going to want to open a sit down restaurant or bar when you now know for a fact that the government will change your hours and the rules on a fucking whim?

      • Not Adahn

        My falafel joint has closed until 2021 according to a sign in their window. I’m rapidly running out of reasons to go downtown.

      • Nephilium

        We’ve got some places that have closed until next Spring (outdoor seating on the shores of Lake Erie in winter doesn’t work too well) as they weren’t making enough in dine in/take out. Some places shifted just to take out/catering (no idea who the fuck they’re catering to). Some closing for a couple weeks at a time here and there. Some places permanently closed, never to return again (including at least one 100 year old business).

        It used to be the girlfriend and I would go to Tremont once a month, grab some drinks, and some food at one of the restaurants in the area. I think the last time we did that was back in June.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “Only around one-third expect small businesses that closed due to the COVID-19 economy will be quickly replaced by new ones,” according to a news release.
    The mayors paint a bleak outlook for city centers, with 60% anticipating a permanent reduction in in-person retail shopping and the same percent saying that downtown office buildings will become “less desirable.”

    But- Entrepreneurial Spirit!

    Nobody would ever look at the last six months, and the crypto-Stalinist phenomenon of random government functionaries declaring businesses to be non-essential based on nothing but whimsy and personal preference, and say, “I can’t justify the time, money and effort, in the face of that sort of risk.”

    Would they?

    • Idle Hands

      that was the one part of the poll that surprised me I figured that number would be much higher given how retarded are managerial class is.

  22. Brawndo

    Every single cunt GOP or Dem hack that concern trolls about disenfranchised voters having their ballots tossed need to remember that every fraudulent vote disenfranchised a real constituent, and that the dead and made up voters aren’t the ones that will be rioting with pitchforks.

    • R C Dean

      the dead and made up voters aren’t the ones that will be rioting with pitchforks.

      ‘Sokay. Neither will the live ones.

  23. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Both pistoffnick and I heartily approve of your musical selection. Thanks!

    Sowell’s tribute to WW is fantastic! So thanks for that as well.

    I have no real insight on the election stuff, other than I can’t see how this is sustainable. Whichever way this breaks, half the country (more?) sees the government as illegitimate. As a libertarian this fills my heart with joy. As a dude who has taken 53 trips around the sun, I am concerned about how the understandable anger manifests and what the powerful are willing to do to maintain. Interesting times.

    I hope all of you have a great day. I’m going to ponder what people will write about me after I drop and correct as necessary!

    • DOOMco

      I pray for peaceful divorce.
      I fear the worst.

    • Pope Jimbo

      As a dude who has taken 53 trips around the sun

      If he’d just stop and ask for directions!

      – Mrs. Tundra

    • straffinrun

      A good war oughtta be able to pull left and right together.

  24. Rebel Scum

    The state Republican Party is also putting forward a data scientist testifying to over 100,000 unique cases of illegal ballots.

    Sure, but where is your evidence?

    • Not Adahn

      Let’s be honest. My Sunday column is as good as the median data scientist.

  25. robc

    So what I am wondering about…federal law allows a fine and up to 5 years in jail for election fraud. Is that a one time charge, or can we stack them and charge someone per ballot?

    If you faked 10k ballots, could you get 50000 years in jail? Or still just 5 max?

    Honestly the way the law reads, I would think the latter, but the way prosecutors tend to charge in other cases, I would expect the former.

    • robc

      Having said that, I still think it would be one charge per race, so if you mucked about with both the presidency and the senate race, that would be two charges.

      • UnCivilServant

        Five years plus one day per faked ballot.

  26. Tonio

    The Biden/Harris administration will begin with one hundred days of universal atonement.

    One. Hundred. Days. Such a conveniently round number. Not bolstered by any evidence of why that number works so much better than 86 or 107. Just a vague assurance that this act of public penitence will cause “a significant reduction.”

    “On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask – not forever, just 100 days.”

    Where have we heard that before?

    • Tundra

      Seems like an appropriate place for this:

      Shut Up and Take It

    • Nephilium

      Local press has been running scare stories this whole fucking week (all of them requiring a subscription… so no):

      Should Gov. Mike DeWine close places of worship? We asked experts in law, public health and religion
      Should Gov. Mike DeWine shut down gyms? We asked three health experts
      Should Ohio close restaurants, bars to fight a coronavirus wave? We asked 3 medical experts

      EXPERTS! EXPERTS WILL SAVE US!

      • UnCivilServant

        “Should Governor DeWine recind all of his orders and commit appology seppuku?”

      • Idle Hands

        Enemy of the people.

    • Idle Hands

      This is not ever going to end without violence is it?

    • grrizzly

      People In Massachusetts have been wearing face masks everywhere, indoors and outdoors, non-stop for the last 200 days. And the cases/deaths are rising again. But I’m sure another 100 days will fix it.

      • Brawndo

        I’ll take the blame on Mass cases. I don’t wear a mask when I’m doing yardwork or driving by myself in the car

    • Agent Cooper

      Fuck off, slavers.

    • mrfamous

      Dear Joe,

      We’ve been wearing the fucking masks forever. They don’t fucking work. Go piss up a rope you addled hair sniffer.

    • prolefeed

      “ask” – if Biden were to actually ask, rather than order, I’d ask him to fuck off.

  27. Rebel Scum

    Prepare for the eventual currency crisis.

    With the runs on tp resuming I am going to need something with which to wipe my ass.

    • R C Dean

      If you lived in GA, you’d probably have enough junk mail ballots for the runoff to last awhile.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    every fraudulent vote disenfranchised a real constituent, and that the dead and made up voters aren’t the ones that will be rioting with pitchforks.

    Those voters were probably white. They deserve to be disenfranchised for their blood guilt.

  29. Rebel Scum

    IRS Sent $1,200 Stimulus Checks to Random European Citizens

    Not random, the people running the US election servers in Frankfurt. *adjusts tinfoil*

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The stimulus checks are still the least-worst part of CARES.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask – not forever, just 100 days.”

    And if that doesn’t work, we’ll make you wear them for another 100 days, and we’ll start executing anybody not wearing a mask.
    We’ll whip this virus one way or another.

    • leon

      I actually put a high probability that he asks and then the press and him pretend it worked magic as cases fall because the vaccine and coming out of winter.

      • DOOMco

        Someone screenshot this fuckin nostradamus

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Is he going to ask or “ask”? My firm belief is it’ll be the latter.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I need to start working on a way to stamp

    “DISPLAY ONLY”

    on a mask.

  32. Rebel Scum

    LA Mayor Bans Unnecessary Walking As Part Of New COVID-19 Restrictions //NotTheBee

    Good thing all of my walking is necessary.

    But this guy hardest hit.

      • KSuellington

        I believe there may be a gamboling exception

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Axially, I wonder how much custom stamps cost, these days.

    A long time ago, I had a friend who owned a body shop. He had a stamp with “BULLSHIT” in big block letters, just for correspondence with insurance adjusters.

      • R C Dean

        Too niche for me. I like the “Remain Terrified Question Nothing” mask, except I could do without the “Remain Asleep” at the end.

    • Jarflax

      Not much, you can get them for under $20

  34. DOOMco

    A real stimulus would be ending all licensing and red tape to these people who have lost everything.

    Make it almost free to get back to producing.

    • Idle Hands

      this a million times. It won’t happen though in fact I expect the opposite, the muni’s are going to do anything and everything possible to avoid the coming haircut which is enormous.

      • DOOMco

        Vermont just said they’re going to raise property taxes 9%

      • Idle Hands

        blood from a turnip. I hope they are happy with all the worthless property they are going to have to maintain in the coming years. That shit is actually insane though.

      • R C Dean

        the muni’s are going to do anything and everything possible to avoid the coming haircut

        Oh, pish. I think we all know the money printer will bail them out.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      You’re absolutely correct but we’ll only get that in the United States of Fantasyland.

  35. Rebel Scum

    Newly elected GOP politician vows ‘Freedom Force’ will form to counter AOC’s ‘Squad’

    Something like this?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Can the GOP outstupid The Squad? Stay tuned, same Freedom Force time same Freedom Force channel!

    • prolefeed

      #55 FTW

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re worse than Pravda.

    • Idle Hands

      If anything the past 8 months have shown Ayn was too charitable to her villains.

    • robc

      Repeating my joke:

      People criticize Rand for having 2D cardboard cutout villains. This is a fair criticism, because they have 1 less dimension in real life.

    • DOOMco

      Surprised they can type with a cock in their throat.

    • Plinker762

      Joe looks a little confused in that picture.

    • Q Continuum

      LOL

      Imagine being that pathetic.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Now now, let’s not go on arguing and bickering over who impeached who. This is a HAPPY occasion!”

  36. Timeloose

    My 78 year old dad is asking me about Bitcoin and Coinbase. Libertarian moment? He is very worried about inflation and I can’t blame him. I have to help him do basic stuff on his PC. I can’t imagine him loosing $10K because he didn’t remember what the website or password he used was. I’ll suggest he goes for Au or Ag coin instead.

    I’m WFH this week, but I’m getting by by having a soundtrack today. Love this song and this artist.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9vaZDS0u8

    • Tundra

      Oh, good choice.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Is he set on currency trading? Seems like a great way to lose or gain a lot of money. High risk, high reward.

    • leon

      Bitcoin has surged like 100% over the last month. I’ve really not seen anything to indicate that this is a permanent change in price level, rather than a speculative boom. I’d stay out of buying it for now.

      • Idle Hands

        The US gov has printed 26% of it’s total currency in the last 8 months so like bitcoin might be a decent investment.

      • Timeloose

        That’s what was driving me to look for some sort of stable non-Weimar republic type of wealth storage beyond stocks or bonds. My cash savings are for emergencies, if everyone has the same emergency, my bucks are worthless.

      • Timeloose

        I’m trying to keep my dad away from any risk these days. He ate a big shit sandwich after retiring in 1999 by keeping all of his retirement in stocks. He is not the most savvy when it comes to computers, the internet, or investing in general.

        Having some Au and Ag coins would be a better way to balance risk against the market. There is little one can invest in that will beat inflation today away from the volatile market. Precious metals are no way to grow your investment, but they will always have some value (barring alchemy or SMOD dropping Au rocks on us).

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        There is little one can invest in that will beat inflation today

        Assuming adequate storage space, but non-perishable goods that you know you’re gonna need in the future. With the impending inflation, those things are selling at a discount right now. If you can’t increase your income, decrease your expenses.

      • Nephilium

        On that note, I’ve noticed some non-perishable goods have been in short supply at the store recently. As an example, red beans have been gone from the local grocery store for the past month or so.

      • Count Potato

        Dominican invasion?

      • Idle Hands

        Precious metals are kind of scary because if/when hyperinflation crushes us they are just going to artificially set a ceiling on it’s value and buy it from you under the threat of a gun. See the Trading with the enemy act 1917 and Emergency Bank act of 1933

      • creech

        My gold? Oh, you mean the bags of gold coins that fell out of my boat into the lake last year.

      • juris imprudent

        but they will always have some value

        The value they have is not all that different from the value the dollar has. It is all about what people believe.

        In any normal circumstance, the dollar would already have devalued, but because it is the reserve currency of the world, everything else floats along with it. If the euro project had succeeded, we’d be in a lot more trouble, and no one in the right mind would jump to the yuan from the dollar. So here we are.

    • Mojeaux

      I advise against Bitcoin as a strategy for a 78yo. It’s too volatile.

  37. Rebel Scum

    Considering Kommiela’s naked ambition, what are the odds Joe even makes it to inauguration?

    • Tejicano

      If she can hold out for two years before pushing him aside she can run for two more terms after the first one where she takes his place. That just might be enough to stay her hand.

    • R C Dean

      The real power struggle will be between Jill Biden and Kamala Harris.

    • Q Continuum

      He strikes me as more on a salad tosser.

    • Pope Jimbo

      When will they go after Will Smith, Robin Williams and all the other straight actors who have played gay characters?

      He should have said “will you cocksuckers just give it a rest?”

  38. Jerms

    Facebook has taken down the video of ballot stuffing in GA. Citing “false information”
    Where is my shocked face?

    • Jerms

      Explanation—-
      Does security camera video show a Fulton County, Georgia, election supervisor suspiciously pulling suitcases filled with ballots from under a table after telling poll workers to leave the room? And did that election official continue to illegally count ballots without required monitors in a manner that calls into question Joe Biden’s narrow win over Donald Trump in Georgia? No, those claim are not true: Two high-level officials with the Georgia secretary of state’s office and a state elections board monitor each told Lead Stories that their investigations revealed nothing suspicious in the video. The officials said the ballots seen in the video were in regular ballot containers — not suitcases — and they had been removed from their envelopes and processed while news media and election observers for the Republican Party and Trump campaign were present. The media and party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night, but they apparently followed workers who left once their job of opening envelopes was completed, the chief investigator for the secretary of state told Lead Stories. The observers were free to return at anytime, she said. Georgia law allows observers, but does not require them to be there for ballots to be counted, she said.

      The claims made at a Georgia state senate hearing by a Trump lawyer appeared in a video posted on YouTube on December 3, 2020, BY Trump’s campaign titled “Video from GA shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table AFTER poll workers left” (archived here). The video description read:

      • Idle Hands

        The explanation is more damning than the video itself. lmao. good lord.

      • Urthona

        As I said above, this does sound plausible and deserves to be printed as news.

        However, i’m unclear how the word of any government official — especially an anonymous one — constitutes a fact check.

        A witness says they were sent home. An anonymous government official saying they weren’t is not a “fact check”.

        Those were legitimate boxes and not suitcases ? ok then. that should be easy to fact check for real. how does an official word count as that fact check?

        Why did every single news organization say they were closing the polling place and stopping counting? did they just simultaneously all decide to make that shit up? this is fishy.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I could be persuaded by the fact check if the journalo had gone to the GOP poll watchers and asked them – on the record – if they had left because they followed those other workers out or if they had been asked to leave.

        And yes, the officials providing the explanation should all be named.

        Election officials should also be pulling in each and every one of the people seen in that video and grilling them about what is shown. Were you told to leave? Were those actual official vote containers? And the testimony from those workers should all be public.

        * I thought I heard the lawyer on the clip explain that they wondered if pulling votes out from under the table was normal and had gone back to look at the rest of the day’s voting and that was the only time votes were “stored” under a table.

      • Rebel Scum

        the officials providing the explanation should all be named.

        Named / on record with the journo’s and have no problem signing sworn statements.

      • Q Continuum

        “without evidence”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was under the impression that poll watchers were told to leave because of a non-existent water leak.

      • Idle Hands

        no that was fake news they are going with something different now. We have always been counting without poll workers.

      • Idle Hands

        *watchers.

      • juris imprudent

        As noted, we haven’t always had them – the law allowing but not requiring. And of course if you should happen to be in Chicago, and not a trusted operative of the one party in power, well then, Chicago muscleLE would be happy to escort you from the premises.

        Election integrity (or in Chicago, et al, the lack thereof) was always a given.

      • Agent Cooper

        I believe the leak happened earlier in the evening.

        This was the “Hey, we’re shutting down to get some rest we will be back in the morning.” thing.

      • R C Dean

        I thought a leak never occurred. Somebody actually checked, and nobody was called to fix a leak, or something like that.

      • Surly Knott

        See this

      • prolefeed

        The official reaction, from unnamed officials because it’s too hard for journalists to ask the person spinning events what their name is, is that it didn’t mean what it looks like it means, and so our friends running social media are gonna label it as fake news or scrub it from your search feed entirely.

        Nothing to see here, move along.

      • Plinker762

        Well, the Russian collusion investigation ended when an unnamed White House official stated that it didn’t happen.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I just view FB banning a video or a statement as a “Fact Check: True but inconvenient” now anyway.

    • Plinker762

      I assume the videos are from fixed cameras. It should be easy enough to watch the table uninterrupted to see if the containers were placed under the table after the ballots were placed in them or if they magically appeared from under the table.

      • Nephilium

        The tapes just have a couple of failure points where nothing could have possible changed.

    • Rebel Scum

      Citing “false information”

      The video/cameras can be located, there is time/date information, etc. Wtf is Zuckerbot playing at? We are full Orwell at this point.

  39. Not Adahn

    Looks like the Gaston Glock Style webstore is shutting down, and their prices are ~75% off. Meaning they’ve gone from being stupidly expensive to just very pricey. However, if you’re looking for backpacks in moose or yak leather or knives made from scrapped Hun battleships it’s an option. I’m thinking of picking up some socks and/or boots.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ah man, that knife’s sweet.

    • Not Adahn

      Tee Hee. For $40 and this description, I’ll buy a pair:

      Creep up silently on your prey – in these light, comfortable stalking boots from Hanzel you’ll safely and quietly make your way through the terrain.

      Hunting ibex or marmot – in mountainous and difficult terrain, these boots provide a firm grip with their abrasion-resistant and profiled VIBRAM® sole.

      although I hunt neither ibex nor marmot.

      • Plinker762

        If I want to hunt marmots. I can shoot them from my office window. No need for fancy boots.

    • UnCivilServant

      If I’m going to pay that much for a knife, I’m going to find the craftsman and have it done custom to my specifications.

      I don’t care where the steel comes from as long as it’s quality and properly forged.

      • Not Adahn

        They have meteorite ones available too, if you need it to kill a particular supernatural creature.

      • UnCivilServant

        But the blade geometry of pretty much all their knives is not to my liking. Neither aesthetically nor functionally.

      • UnCivilServant

        The chef’s knives and the leopard steel bowie were the exceptions.

      • Not Adahn

        The one with the unicorn narwhal grip?

      • UnCivilServant

        Yes, but I’m not shelling out five grand for it.

        The grip shape should be a little more ergonomic at that price.

      • R C Dean

        I have a knife with that blade shape. I’ve field dressed several deer with it. Probably my best knife for that particular task.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d get arrested if I shot the whitetailed rats around here.

      • Not Adahn

        Gloves made from the finest velour reindeer leather, with a warm cashmere lining and processed in a way that is common for riders at the emperor’s riding school.

      • UnCivilServant

        They look like women’s gloves.

      • UnCivilServant

        And the same product page is linked from the women’s attire side too… Same picture, same price, same description.

    • Not Adahn

      Also available: goat leather underwear

      Not my fetish, but surely there are Welshmen lurking.

      • Not Adahn

        Sriously, how could you resist this ad copy?

        An old German family company manufactured since 1868, fine leather undershirt and underwear, tanned as it was 6000 years ago

        Old traditional German-tanned leather underwears have always been expensive, but a pleasure to wear. Unfortunately these are difficult to come by today.

        Thousand years ago, hunters made their own leather undershirts using this technique. Later on, as the manufacture of these products became rare, it was only the army commanders or submarine captains who could afford its comfort. Again today, we offer these indestructible, temperature regulating and extremely skin-friendly leather underwears in the same tradition, great for any outdoorsman.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I can already feel the goat caressing my balls.

      • juris imprudent

        GOAT or goat?

      • Not Adahn

        Dude, that underwear used to be exclusively the purview of submarine captains!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Goat ropers everywhere get as hard as Tirpitz steel thinking about this.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Moose leather backpack incoming because why the fuck not?

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Nice. All the feather Indians that I’ve ever known just chuck the remains into the nearest body of water. Gee, wonder why we have a endemic problem of tainted drinking water on reserves up here? It’s a riddle wrapped in a sausage casing.

  40. Count Potato

    “Noah Cyrus apologizes after Candace Owens calls her out for a racist term in a social media post defending Harry Styles after the conservative pundit’s call to ‘bring back manly men’

    Noah Cyrus said Thursday she was mortified after using a racist remark to defend Harry Styles after Candace Owens’ call to ‘bring back manly men.’

    The 20-year-old sister of Miley Cyrus was defending the Watermelon Sugar singer when she made the remark, presumably at the expense of conservative commentator Candace Owens.

    The Nashville native said in an Instagram Stories post that Styles looks ‘better than any of u nappy a*s heauxz’ in his dress.

    In response, Owens hit back saying: ‘Any one of woke liberals care to explain to me how @noahcyrus calling me a ‘nappy a*s hoe’ is not racist? I’m all ears. You guys love cancel culture. @mileycyrus come get your sister!’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9016525/Noah-Cyrus-apologizes-using-racist-remark-defend-Harry-Styles-amid-Candace-Owens-row.html

    heauxz??

    • juris imprudent

      Faux French makes it extra hip. And Noah, for a girl? WTF Billy Ray.

    • Tres Cool

      |She pulled me in to her and said, “You’ve always been the cousin I fancied.”

      …as opposed to the other cousins she banged ?

    • Drake

      Nice brag.

    • Idle Hands

      example #1000000239974 that british people are trashier than the worst peckerwoods in this country.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Well, it is an island nation. Expect some sort of cold sore about three days after visit.

      • Tres Cool

        C’mon man! I keep doing my best to uphold the best white-trash standards due SW Ohio. Sadly, I dont have any hot cousins or siblings.

      • juris imprudent

        Real white-trash doesn’t care if they’re hot – just as long as they’re available.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The stimulus checks are still the least-worst part of CARES.

    Yes. If the government is going to expressly forbid people to go to work, they bear a responsibility to them.

    • mrfamous

      I’m very much against this. Attempting to ameliorate government overreach will only lead to further overreach. The less “stimulus” being printed out, the quicker the torches and pitchforks come out, and the quicker they stop playing at public health saviors.

      Besides the government doesn’t have any money, it’s just taking from the left pocket of the public and putting it into the right pocket.

      • R C Dean

        Same here. Compounding authoritarianism with robbery (or forgery, depending on your view of freshly printed fiat currency) doesn’t really make things better.

      • Plinker762

        Come on man, I bought one round of 9mm with that check.

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      Just the tip. I promise!

      • Mojeaux

        I won’t come in your mouth!

        The check is in the mail!

      • Jarflax

        I am resolutely ignoring the prior comments in this conversation and am reading this as Mojeaux soliciting Festus for prostitution.

      • Mojeaux

        I could probably make more money with that. Rule 34 and all that.

      • Nephilium

        I stand with Jarflax!

      • Q Continuum

        “I won’t come in your mouth!”

        That’s when you educate her that taking a load in the mouth is preferable to taking one in the eye.

        She won’t complain after that.

    • Drake

      Did he send the order from a beach in Hawaii?

  42. LCDR_Fish

    Anyone seen/heard from Pan Z recently? Got some language questions I need to bounce off him.

  43. Idle Hands

    https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/528482-john-kerry-reveals-bidens-devotion-to-radical-great-reset-movement

    When asked by panel host Borge Brende whether the World Economic Forum and other Great Reset supporters are “expecting too much too soon from the new president, or is he going to deliver first day on this [sic] topics?,” Kerry responded, “The answer to your question is, no, you’re not expecting too much.”

    “And yes, it [the Great Reset] will happen,” Kerry continued. “And I think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine. In effect, the citizens of the United States have just done a Great Reset. We’ve done a Great Reset. And it was a record level of voting.”

    Kerry later argued that the Great Reset is necessary to slow the “climate crisis” and that “I know Joe Biden believes … it’s not enough just to rejoin Paris [the Paris Climate Accords] for the United States. It’s not enough for us to just do the minimum of what Paris requires.”

    For a conspiracy theory to be just a conspiracy they have to conspire in secret.

    • Count Potato

      That Biden said “climate change” is the fourth greatest problem faced by the U.S. is frighteningly stupid.

      • DOOMco

        He’s michael scott.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        No, he’s Creed.

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        How much you wanna bet that he keeps active mung beans in a drawer of the Resolute Desk?

      • rhywun

        I’ve heard him say “above all” in reference to “climate change” and his plans to fuck over America. I believe he actually thinks it’s the most important problem.

        In contrast to polls, which indicate that Americans largely don’t give a shit about it.

      • Idle Hands

        The only thing that makes me think the great reset is doomed to fail is if John Kerry is the brain behind the scenes all will be well.

      • Hyperion

        “That Biden said “climate change” is the fourth greatest problem faced by the U.S. is frighteningly stupid.”

        It was the most stupid until we learned what the first 3 are.

  44. robc

    I think it was linked here last week, but this covid study out of France is super-important, IMO.

    Read the main findings at the bottom.

    Also, Figure 6 is great for the math nerds.


    This analysis shows that higher Covid-19 mortality rates are mostly found in countries experiencing higher life expectancies and showing a recent slowdown of this progression. Most of these developed and aging societies are latitudinally located over the 25° parallel. They also have higher GDP and chronic diseases levels (e.g., CVD and cancer) associated with major metabolic risk factors (e.g., inactive lifestyle, sedentarity, and obesity).

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      So old doddering people die. Huh.

      • robc

        Old, rich, fat, in temperate climates.

      • Tres Cool

        Where do I sign up? Specially for the ‘rich’ part.

      • robc

        Its a world-wide standard, you qualify.

      • Jarflax

        I think it is more accurate to say:

        1. The virus kills old people in poor health (Full stop)
        2. Prosperity allows for increased life expectancy and better medical care, which will necessarily result in a larger percentage of the population reaching advanced age, and remaining alive despite poor health.
        Therefore:
        3. Wealthy nations will have a higher percentage of their population made up of those at risk of dying from the virus

        The temperate climate thing may have something to do with virus spread, but it is also likely to be a non-causally connected correlation as the temperate zone is generally the more prosperous portion of the world.

      • robc

        That last part is specifically mentioned in the article. Apparently research suggests that the temperate zone drives prosperity, there is a causal link.

        Also mentioned is it is worse in countries where the increase in life expectancy has stalled or declined, in other words, countries who have lots of old people but also lots of people with poor lifestyles, like obesity. Figure 6 shows the cross-correlations. Like one of the big inverse correlations with covid is infectious disease deaths. But that is even more strongly inverse correlated with life expectancy. Not dying of infectious disease while young leads to having a large old population.

      • Jarflax

        The temperate zone link to prosperity exists, and may possibly be causal, although it may not as it has not always been the case. It is a sensitive subject to discuss because it has a lot of history being used to dress up various racial theories of ability and prosperity. I have some skepticism about it and think it is likely based on two cultures that happened to arise in temperate regions being very successful. (Western European Enlightenment culture and Japanese Culture).

        If the link was directly to temperate climate it would be difficult to explain the earlier Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Egyptian cultures that were the wealthiest of their time, not to mention India, which has been wealthy for a very long time, and Persia (although I suppose parts of Iran are temperate). Nor does it match up with pre Columbian Americas, where the temperate cultures were little beyond neolithic, but the tropical cultures were wealthy and advanced.

      • Plinker762

        AKA the culling.

      • Jerms

        I keep checking over at TOS to see if theyve apologized for the ten articles calling the president crazy for claiming election fraud.
        Not there yet, i’ll keep you updated though.

      • DOOMco

        They really are doubling down.

    • Drake

      Places where people die young don’t have old people dying of a flu bug.

    • Claypoolsreservoir

      Thank you. This is super interesting.

  45. juris imprudent

    I really like Victor Davis Hanson. Young Mr. Larson’s butt is going to take a long time to heal from that beatdown.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Ouch

      Mr. Larson needs to occasionally lift something heavier than a computer mouse.

      https://stanford.edu/~mwlarson/index.html

      Bonus, he writes like a middle schooler:

      Aside from math and chess, I enjoy biking, reading, listening to podcasts, and talking about politics. I also love the musical Hamilton. Here is a letter I wrote to the editor of the New York Times. Some of my favorite writers are Karl Ove Knausgaard, Paul Krugman, and Leo Tolstoy.

    • kbolino

      The hardest question facing the students and staff at Stanford right now, do we skinsuit Hoover or just cancel it?

  46. C. Anacreon

    To add to all the other sad news, today I officially hit the point where I can never be considered young again. My life odometer now reads six-oh.

    • UnCivilServant

      Two months old and still commenting?

      Happy birthday, Tulpa

    • Mojeaux

      Happy birthday?

      I am happy and sad for you. –Lazlo Hollyfeld

    • Idle Hands

      I feel you I turned 30 7 days ago and my bones hurt.

      • Swiss Servator

        I started playing rugby just before you were born. I’d shake a fist at you, but it would probably hurt me to do so…

      • CPRM

        I was playing smear the queer (gets banned from life for saying a thing that was) when he was born, so close enough.

      • kinnath

        Starts to type “You ain’t close to being old yet . . . ”

        Remembers Fourscore, and decides to keep quiet.

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      Happy BD! I am four years and six days behind you. You would have been the cool guy that we all tried to emulate.

    • CPRM

      Sorry, now you’re Soilent Green gonna die of the Covid.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Soy, Lent, get it?

    • Tejicano

      Welcome to the club.

      There’s lots of things you can do to turn the clock back.

      • Q Continuum

        Castro swore that having sex with 18 year olds multiple times a day slowed aging.

        Someone needs to jump on that grenade and test it for SCIENCE.

    • Count Potato

      Happy Birthday!

      • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

        Hey Mojo, is that Nina Hagen?

      • Kwihn T. Senshel

        Her avatar? At risk of being a mansplainer, it’s Sia, from the cover of her Christmas album.

      • Mojeaux

        I believe it’s Sia. I just saw the image and liked it, so I didn’t know. But after a search, it appears to be a Christmas album by Sia.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Live Long and Prosper!
      I’m right behind you and ahead of Festus

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Congratulations, you old fart.

  47. UnCivilServant

    After all the work I’ve already done on the cockpit for the stormraven model, I realized that if I glued the canopy in place, most of it would be impossible to see.

    After thinking it through and looking at the model, I figured out I could still magnetize the canopy, allowing it to stay on but be removed when I want to show off the paint job.

    • CPRM
    • Yusef drives a Kia

      This please, that’s a lot of detail to hide under a canopy,

    • Mojeaux

      Ugh.

    • CPRM

      “Steve was working unsocial hours in the fire service and we just let that side of the relationship slide.”

    • Not Adahn

      She said: “We were both Redcoats and met when we were at Butlin’s in Minehead.

      Sufficiently advanced britspeak is indistinguishable from Madlibs.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “We worked together at a working-class holiday resort in the northwest of England.” (Ain’t you seen “Tommy”?)

  48. prolefeed

    Re: the suggestion that a Constitutional amendment change the electoral college to one elector per congressional district won, and two electors per state won – yes, it would change how candidates campaign, and how congressional districts were gerrymandered, but based on the provisional current House totals of 222 Ds and 213 Rs:

    Does math *

    Instead of Trump having to flip three states that were called for Biden, he’d have to … flip three states that were called for Biden.

    • robc

      You have to look at presidential vote, that doesn’t necessarily match exactly with House vote.

      Clinton would have been closer to Trump in 2016 with this in place. Romney would have won in 2012. Obama would have still beat McCain.

      Of course, campaigns are different with this rule, as you target swing districts instead of swing states.

    • Q Continuum

      Ridiculous stuff like this does nothing to help the argument.

      Focus on real shit like the sworn affidavits and the video.

      • CPRM

        Focus on real shit like the sworn affidavits and the video how the covid comes in the night, yet these counts went through the night, against covid restrictictions! They killed my dead grandmas!

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t know what’s plausible at this point. Tracing back Dominion ownership through the shell companies appears to place ownership of the ballot counting machines with the PRC and with heavy involvement of Soros.

        If China has infiltrated the election through the machines, why not through through the ballots too. The affidavits state that hundreds of thousands of ballots were hastily filled out while the count was shut down. It makes sense that those fake ballots wouldn’t be printed along with the real ballots. Easier to cover up and keep secret.

        I’m not saying this happened, but it’s not a exactly a great leap to make. Manipulating elections is an easy and much safer approach than outright war for China to weaken the United States. I’d be very surprised if outside actors weren’t trying to influence and undermine our elections.

      • Q Continuum

        The Press is sure an excellent ally of the CCP.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Somebody smack Roger for me please.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Places where people die young don’t have old people dying of a flu bug.

    Yes. Shrieking, “We have 4% of the world’s population and 20(?)% of the plague deaths!” is pointless. It just means we’re better at keeping old sick people around.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Cheating actually saves marriages.

    Surprise! Look, honey, I got you a new camera. Take some close-ups of Bob’s balls slapping my ass.

    • Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

      #ASSSLAPPERS

    • Tulip

      Chump lady disagrees.

  51. KOVIDKristen

    Thanks to Google Voice, YouTube, and range ear protection, I successfully sent my colleague to Whamhalla without having to kamikaze myself.

    https://www.whamageddon.com/

    • robc

      I dont think I have ever heard that song, despite all the talk about it. And I aint clicking a link to change that.

      • KOVIDKristen

        It wouldn’t be very sporting for them to put the song on the web site with the rules of the game

  52. PieInTheSky

    where is my goddamn 1200$ I ask you.

    • kinnath

      Same place as mine.

  53. PieInTheSky

    Also you people seem weirdly attached with these election things. Move on.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    I can’t help thinking a lot of people are going to look back on Trump’s America as the Good Old Days, in a year or less.

    For all the good it will do us.

    • CPRM

      Meh, the kids will grow up thinking Trump caused Nuclear Wars and beat women and minorities in the streets, just like Reagan did.

      • creech

        And Goldwater started the Vietnam War.

      • Plinker762

        I though he nuked the planet

      • creech

        Well, he would have but the glorious LBJ saved the world and put the blacks folks on the Democratic plantation where most of them reside to this day.

      • mrfamous

        They do this in the UK with Thatcher. The current teaching is that Thatcher wrecked the UK’s economy.

      • kbolino

        Thatcher wrecked the UK’s economy

        Man, she done wrecked it good. To replace thirty years of decline with forty plus years of growth is a form of wrecking heretofore unseen.

        Also, one wonders if the British Left ever suffers much cognitive dissonance over hating her for killing off the British coal industry while also pining for the Green Revolution that is supposed to kill off fossil fuels.

      • ron73440

        Don’t worry, in 10 years we will hear about how Trump’s “laissez faire” policies wrecked Obama’s economy.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      He’ll find a strange new respect when the GOP chooses it’s next candidate who will be the new Hitler.

  55. Festus' Mustache's tits keep calm and carry on.

    Whelp, cutting out for now. Judi has a final show before Xmas and she’ll need some help setting up. Good thoughts Bless you, each and every one!

  56. ron73440

    I got onto it with my mom about lock downs. She is 74, 5’5″, weighs about 280lbs and had chemo last year, so I understand her fear.

    She is so glad Biden will have a national plan and everything I say is met with “in your opinion.”

    She also has a friend on a ventilator so she will continue to”believe the science.”

    I offered to send her Tom Woods’s video to show her the effects of the lock downs and masks. (I didn’t mention him by name, though I doubt she knows who he is.)

    This is a direct quote” Nah…can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I’m pretty happy as is.”

    Luckily this was a text because I kind of lost it a little. I could not imagine sending that to anyone, I am more of a send it, let me see what I think, maybe I’m wrong, or maybe I can poke holes in whatever it is.

    Bottom line, she still doesn’t want us to go visit her in PA. If I go stay with my brothers, she won’t let them come visit either. She hasn’t hugged her Grand daughters since February because my brother is still working, they are 7 & 9.

    I don’t know, just ranting I guess.