Martes por la tarde. ¡Enlces mexicanos!

by | Dec 22, 2020 | Daily Links | 233 comments

Damnit.  I have to follow the year in review piece?

 

Okay…lets see what I can do.

Mexico will wait before it goes full retard on the Limey Virus.

Conflicting assessments on the hurricane damages in Honduras. I assume the government and the UN are both lying.  Speaking of which, Inara is on TV again on a show about disaster.

A politician held accountable for violating their own laws.  Should they have dealt with him in the traditional way?

I leave that to you.

Sure they are CNN…sure they are.

Canelo won a fight?  Who knew?

Chinese cell phone maker finds buyers.

 

Did you hear AC/DC was back?  No, seriously they released an album last month…

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233 Comments

  1. The Other Kevin

    “ Chinese Smartphone Makers Begin to Penetrate Latin American Markets”
    Know who else penetrated something Latin?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Hanibal?

    • Plisade

      Not I.

    • Ted S.

      Ernest Borgnine penetrated Katy Jurado.

      • juris imprudent

        Tariq ibn Ziyad?

    • leon

      70 odd senators on the Ides of March?

    • The Other Kevin

      ESTEBAN SMITH.

      • Count Potato

        psst… Tebo Herrera

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      The Goths? The Vandals?

    • slumbrew

      François-Henri Pinault?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The King of Bithynia?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Allegedly

  2. Rebel Scum

    ‘Greenland’ star Morena Baccarin: Hope ‘is something people need right now’

    I hope to see you scantily clad.

  3. Ted S.

    Did you hear AC/DC was back?

    I thought they were all dead.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      They hired Keith Richard to fill in for Malcom, things are great,

      • Bobarian LMD

        Undead.

  4. leon

    Chile has strict rules on mask wearing in all public places and violations are punishable with sanctions that include fines and even jail terms.
    Pinera apologized then turned himself in shortly after the selfie surfaced on social media in early December.

    Sounds like he got off easy.

    • Plisade

      You know who else got off easy?

      • Ted S.

        Ron Jeremy?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Every teenage boy everywhere?

      • mrfamous

        Jeffrey Toobin?

      • blackjack

        This girl I used to know?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        George Jefferson?

  5. Not Adahn

    I had no idea “Baccarin” was a Greenlandish name.

    • C. Anacreon

      Sure, just like the famous Greenlandic Baccarin Crystal.

  6. Count Potato

    “No, seriously they released an album last month…”

    So did BÖC

    • C. Anacreon

      BÖC doesn’t fear the reaper.

    • Agent Cooper

      Psychedelic Furs released an album this year — 29 years after their last one together.

      Spoiler alert: It’s good.

  7. rhywun

    I can’t even keep up with the Blighty Blight and the worldwide terror it’s causing. Is this the nonsense that it seems from afar? Or are we all about to die even quicker than before?

  8. Not Adahn

    Oh lordy, it’s after 4:00, time for everything to start breaking.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Scofflaws

    As Americans across the country cancel Christmas celebrations and rethink holiday plans, hundreds of young conservatives, many without masks, crammed into President Donald Trump’s South Florida resort to attend Turning Point USA’s Winter Gala.

    Despite the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 300,000 Americans, the popular, pro-Trump group favored by conservative college students held the sold-out event at the Mar-A-Lago during its third annual Student Action Summit.

    Attendees paid $2,000 each to hear such speakers as Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.

    Photos from the event show hundreds of attendees violating Palm Beach County’s COVID-19 rules as they posed for photos with notable GOP figures like White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Representative Matt Goetz, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Trump ally Roger Stone, who was granted clemency by the president earlier this year.

    As good as dead, they are. They should have listened to Birx and Foochy. Sad.

  10. kinnath

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-california-senate-alex-padilla-kamala-harris

    Newsom picks California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Harris’ Senate seat

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, selected California Secretary of State Alex Padilla for the Senate seat that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will vacate.

    “The son of Mexican immigrants — a cook and house cleaner — Alex Padilla worked his way from humble beginnings to the halls of MIT, the Los Angeles City Council and the State Senate, and has become a national defender of voting rights as California’s Secretary of State,” Newsom said in a statement on Tuesday. “Now, he will serve in the halls of our nation’s Capitol as California’s next United States Senator, the first Latino to hold this office.”

    • rhywun

      Thank goodness Gavin got him in before the voters had a chance to elect another fucking white guy.

      • juris imprudent

        The last white guy elected Senator from CA was a Republican. Ancient fucking history.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      “the first Latino to hold this office.”

      From California? or in the entire Senate. Because Rubio and Cruz would like to have a word.

      • Not Adahn

        Californians are so progressive that they refused to elect a latinx to the Senate. They needed a white savior to appoint one.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Californians are so progressive that they refused to elect a latinx to the Senate.

        True.

    • Not Adahn

      So he took a slot at MIT that could have gone to someone that contributed to society with it?

      • mrfamous

        I was gonna say, he goes to MIT and then uses that education to get into politics? Why?

    • Rebel Scum

      Has Kamaltoe resigned officially yet?

    • The Other Kevin

      One thing I’ve learned from the art world… just because you ask that much doesn’t mean someone will pay for it.

    • l0b0t

      After George died in 2013, his work really shot up in price. The painting upon which that particular print is based could easily go for $200K. His schtick was lucrative enough to inspire a rival gallery in the French Quarter ,The Red Cat.

    • Fourscore

      Looks about right, with a dog and all.

      • blackjack

        All the other dogs took his chips and he got 86’d out of the game.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Was Drumpfler what done it.

    “Well, we’ll make a judgment all the time about what the needs are. I think that when you see the surge and the Coronavirus, you know that we cannot just think it’s over or that we can ignore it. The denial, the delay, the distortion, the calling it a hoax has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, not all of them attributed to President Trump, but most of them that could have been avoided.”

    “So, this is a matter of life and death: the lives of the American people and the livelihood of our economy and their economic security,” she continued. “So we’ll make a judgment as we go forward as to what has changed and what — what may be for the better or may be for the worse as we go forward.”

    Wasn’t this cunte partying it up in Chinatown when news of the pandemic was first being known?

    • Count Potato

      “The denial, the delay, the distortion, the calling it a hoax has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, not all of them attributed to President Trump, but most of them that could have been avoided.”

      SCIENCE!!

      • rhywun

        And this titantic, disgusting whopper will elicit endless claps from nearly every media outlet in the country.

      • Ted S.

        Kind of like everything Shithead Cuomo says.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        He killed millions worldwide just as soon as if he’d shot ’em! On Fifth Avenue, natch.

      • C. Anacreon

        If it hadn’t been for Trump, we’d all have immortality.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      hundreds of thousands of deaths, not all of them attributed to President Trump

      Factcheck: False. ALL of the deaths are Drumpfy McOrangemanbad’s fault.

    • C. Anacreon

      And yet no one Pelosi knows can say how they would have done anything differently at each stage, knowing what was known at the time.

      When I point that out to people, asking what they think should have been done differently, they most often say ‘he should have taken it more seriously” “he should have worn a mask as an example to others” and “he should have told everyone early on how terrible it was going to be instead of hiding that”.

      All questionable ideas at best, but not one of which would have made one life difference in the totals.

      If I’d been in charge, I would have paid hospitals a premium if they could prove a death was NOT caused by the coronavirus (but it would have to be supported by evidence). I’m guessing if this was the case, we’d still be far from 100,000 deaths total in the country. Dying in a car accident and testing positive should not be considered a covid death, nor should anyone who had end-stage illness with not long to live, and covid just helped the end come more quickly.

      • rhywun

        what they think should have been done differently

        Anything but blocking travel from China.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Should they have dealt with him in the traditional way?

    Awarded him a medal?

  13. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Mmmm. Inara. I’ll be in my bunk.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I can’t even keep up with the Blighty Blight and the worldwide terror it’s causing.

    Do they even have anything which might be considered hard evidence? Or did they just make it up, to cover for the complete failure of lockdowns to make a dent in infections?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Remain* and/or Corbyn look like intriguing hypothetical alternatives now, to me. +1 Sliding Doors

      *I doubt they’d have voted to join in the first place in ’75, if they could see the future.

    • rhywun

      Who knows? It’s not like the MSM has shat out a credible piece of information in the last nine months.

    • rhywun

      It’s almost like he’s trying misdirection here. I wonder why.

      • juris imprudent

        something something best defense something offense

  15. The Late P Brooks

    While the coronavirus has been known to be more fatal in older adults and those with preexisting conditions, young people can still contract COVID-19 and the virus has had serious implications even among the young and relatively healthy.

    Congregations of young people have also been identified as key factors to the rising number of infections.

    They claimed, without evidence.

    • EvilSheldon

      Fuck that noise. Brutalist architecture is almost as awesome as Hawaiian pizza.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        e.g.?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Brutalism is the Lena Dunham of architecture.

      • juris imprudent

        You only enter when forced to?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Something few people really like, but it is pushed on the unwashed masses by the tastemakers. And what you said.

      • slumbrew

        Get outta here with that nonsense. “Let’s build a pile of concrete shit right in the middle of some of the oldest buildings in the entire country”.

      • Hyperion

        And then let’s topple it, because muh racism!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not the only ones putting up shit buildings in Boston during that time.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science_Center

        The Mother Church is truly beautiful, but the portico extension, the Administration Building, Colonnade Building, and the Sunday School Building are just awful and I can’t believe they got suckered into it. Thanks IM Pei! (Yes, I know he didn’t personally design it, but it was one of his firm’s architects)

      • mikey

        I knew that was coming,

      • Agent Cooper

        Looks like a fuse box for a 1977 Chrysler Fifth Avenue.

    • rhywun

      Can’t wait for Joe to reverse that one on Day One.

      Make Federal Architecture Ugly Again

      • Hyperion

        I think it’s time we go with the Soviet model.

      • rhywun

        Good god, that’s heinous.

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Good God.

      • zwak

        Gott in himmel!

  16. Shpip

    Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was slapped with a $3,500 fine on Friday after posing for a selfie on the beach with a bystander

    Did CNN point out that $3500 Chilean is about five bucks ($6.25 in loonies)?

  17. Count Potato

    “Google and Facebook set up a pact called ‘Blue Jedi’ to completely dominate the online advertising industry and plotted to work together if they were hit with an anti-trust lawsuit accusing them of being monpolies, a lawsuit claims.

    An unredacted version of a lawsuit filed last week alleges the Silicon Valley giants were involved in a quid-pro-quo scheme where Facebook agreed not to challenge Google’s advertising business if they were given special treatment in Google’s ad auctions, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Monday.

    Google’s code-name for the pact is ‘Jedi Blue’, an apparent reference to the fictional Jedi knights of the Star Wars film franchise. ‘Blue’ could be a reference to Facebook’s color scheme.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9079147/Google-Facebook-pact-work-dominate-online-ads-suit-claims.html

    • leon

      Do the prosecutors have any evidence.

      I despise Google, but i’m not going to take a Preet Baharas word for it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If they have the AGs have the documents, then I’d say Google/Facebook are fucked on that count.

      • limey

        I doubt it. They’re above the law. Anything like that they just sit in front of a hearing issuing the mea culpa with a smirk and a wink, and the subsequent legislation results in some cosmetic changes being made for Google and Fbook, and the barriers to entry for would be competitors are stacked yet higher. They really are above the law. The Democrats were above the law with all their state-level legislative manipulation, and the Rs were too notice, and too stupid to play that level of cynical chess. The progressive deep state coalition involving the quasi-governmental fbook-Google monopoly is more powerful than you know. The architecture of their power is global, legion, and unnacountable to anyone or anything. The algorithms can run the thing without any human input at this point. All the servers are backed up and mirrored in myriad locations and can replicate themselves quickly. There is no shortage of hardware. This is Skynet!!!!11111111111111111111111111oneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneeleventyonetwoexclamationpoint

  18. Count Potato

    “Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka was forced to cut off MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Newsmax for repeating debunked conspiracy theories on the presidential election.

    Gorka, who served as deputy assistant to the president in 2017, interviewed Lindell, a fellow Trump supporter, while filling in for Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly on Monday night.

    Lindell, who has publicly supported Trump’s claims that the election was ‘stolen’ by Democrats, was asked to weigh in on the president’s ongoing legal battle to overturn the results.

    The businessman, 59, however, was quickly shut down when he began repeating allegations that election technology company, Dominion Voting Systems had engaged in fraud to help Joe Biden win the presidential race.

    Newsmax and other networks including Fox News and One America News have had to roll back their election fraud claims because Dominion and software company Smartamatic have threatened to sue.

    Over the weekend, Fox News ran a package debunking their own hosts’ claims the election was ‘stolen’ from Trump in response to their claims they would launch legal action.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9079077/Sebastian-Gorka-cuts-MyPillow-CEO-Mike-Lindells-election-conspiracy-theory-Newsmax.html

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      That explains a lot. Outlawyered?

    • PBRstreetgang

      That’s DR. Gorka!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Ski areas impose completely illogical and ridiculous restrictions. Skiers go into back country, get caught in avalanches. “Experts” tut-tutt.

    Mark them down as victims of teh plague.

    • Hyperion

      “There Will Be Beer In Hell But Only IPAs”

      Makes sense, you can have beer, but it will all be bitter hipster juice swill made in plastic mop buckets in 90 degree heat.

      • Nephilium

        So not a fan of saisons either? Those yeast strains usually thrive at high temperatures.

        And if the mop buckets are food grade plastic, what’s the concern?

      • Hyperion

        I like heffes. And a lot of stouts and porters. I despise IPA, it’s just so bitter it all tastes the same. It’s just bad beer and they cover up the crappy taste with all the hops.

      • Nephilium

        You can showcase your hatred and ignorance of IPA, it’s alright.

        /currently sipping a White Rajah

        There are bad IPA’s out there, and far too many believe that the hops cover up mistakes, which they don’t.

      • Tulip

        I like hefes and ‘light’ IPAs that aren’t too bitter.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Not enough

    Just as Congress has finally eked out a $900 billion stimulus bill, President-elect Joe Biden and many Democrats are calling for more aid for the economy. And they have a point.

    After months of back-and-forth, Republicans and Democrats were finally able to strike a deal on a new Covid-19 relief package, which both houses of Congress passed on Monday. The bill is much less ambitious than many progressives and prominent Democrats believe is necessary to help people and get the economy back on track, and they’re already setting the stage to battle for more.

    The Washington Post reports that Biden sees this latest package as a “down payment” on what he plans to push for once he is inaugurated. “Immediately, starting in the new year, Congress will need to get to work on support for our COVID-19 plan, for support to struggling families, and investments in jobs and economic recovery,” Biden said in a statement on Sunday. “There will be no time to waste.”

    As the Post notes, the former vice president hasn’t been super specific on his follow-up asks, though rebuilding the economy is one of the four planks of his “build back better” plan. He has said he would like a next package to amount to “hundreds of billions of dollars” — some progressive economists argue that number should be much higher, with the House’s HEROES Act clocking in at $3 trillion — and has cited money for state and local governments and larger stimulus checks for low-income people as possible priorities.

    It’s a paltry pittance. An insult. No self-respecting President elect would even bend over to pick that kind of money up off the sidewalk.

    • Rebel Scum

      President-elect Joe Biden and many Democrats are calling for more aid for the economy. And they have a point.

      Maybe we could lock up governors that are violating multiple state and federal constitutional provisions and open up the country and get people back to work? Nah, jk. The Kennedy Center needs a few more million dolars.

      • l0b0t

        Going forward, I’m only voting for the Pitchforks & Tumbrel Carts Party.

  21. limey

    Yesterday I saw a trailer for some new Michael Bay disaster shitstorm movie about a “COVID 23” zombie dystopian apopalypse. It looked pretty awful.

    Also John McTiernan says Die Hard is an “anti-capitalist Christmas movie”. Yes, yes, the pharmaceuticals diaper was firmly secured before I clicked ‘POST COMMENT’, calm your tits.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “My hope at Christmas this year is that you will all remember that authoritarians are low-status, angry men who have gone to rich people and said, ‘If you give us power, we will make sure nobody takes your stuff.’ And their obsessions with guns and boots and uniforms and squad cars and all that stuff,” he noted. “And all those things you amass with power meant to scare us, meant to shut us up so we don’t kick them to the side of the road and decent people of the world get on with building a future.”

      Uh….ok…. coming from someone who got utterly fucked over raw by the big weenie of big government, he sure sounds like he’s still a fan. As long as the right sort of persons are doing the ass raping.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    From California? or in the entire Senate. Because Rubio and Cruz would like to have a word.

    Dem guys ain’t real hispanics.

  23. Count Potato

    Why did the U.S, give $700,000,000 to Sudan?

    • grrizzly

      For Sudan’s recognition of Israel?

    • Plisade

      That money’s not gonna launder itself.

    • Fourscore

      ‘Cause they wouldn’t take credit cards?

    • straffinrun

      Because $800m would be election meddling.

  24. Rebel Scum

    Never give up. Never surrender.

    “The Campaign’s petition seeks to reverse three decisions which eviscerated the Pennsylvania Legislature’s protections against mail ballot fraud,” Giuliani said in a statement. “The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements. The Campaign also moved for expedited consideration, asking the Supreme Court to order responses by December 23 and a reply by December 24 to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to rule before Congress meets on January 6 to consider the votes of the electoral college.”

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. “Until we get a vaccine” is the new “15 days to flatten the curve”. Worse they aren’t even bothering to come up with a new goalpost.

    The latest: Hack journalo for proggie Minnesoda website writes long article about how vaccines will change schooling here. The upside is that it may allow in person instruction again. Downside is that the journalo swallows claims about keeping schools closed for the children’s safety whole.

    Since children make up a large portion of the school population, the approach to protecting school communities will look different from the way it does for protecting long-term care facilities or other adult-based communities. As more and more adults in the greater community get vaccinated, though, school becomes safer for children. If you reduce ongoing community transmission and everyone benefits, including children.

    Additionally, educators will soon have the option to get vaccinated. It’s a game-changer, in terms of being able to staff for in-person learning. But it doesn’t cancel out the need to continue practicing all of the other safety measures — the social distancing, the sanitization, the face masks.

    Denise Specht, president of Education Minnesota, warns against throwing caution to the wind, once educators begin to receive the vaccine. “The vaccine is important; and I do hope a lot of people consider taking it. But it won’t do the trick right off the bat. We’re in this for a long time,” she said.

    There has been exactly 0 Rona death in the school age cohorts (5-19). Fucking children don’t need community transmission to be reduced to save their lives. And what is the rationalization for “a long time”?

    • limey

      If there is some way this could deal a crippling blow to, and totally dismantle the progressive indoctrination monopoly that is public schooling, that would be the ultimate silver lining, but for some reason, whatever doesn’t kill them just makes them stronger.

    • Hyperion

      “Worse they aren’t even bothering to come up with a new goalpost.”

      Sure they have. Because the virus will mutate, again and again, forever. That’s the only goalpost they ever need. There needs to be a new post, one they put lamps on and goes with trees, liberty, and water.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    As more and more adults in the greater community get vaccinated, though, school becomes safer for children.

    Wait, what?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      They’re rolling, just go with it.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      It’s science.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Exactly the line that I stumbled over.

      I don’t know how you can get safer than 0 deaths.

      • Plisade

        When the blood of children resurrects the covid dead?

      • Hyperion

        We cannot be sure until there are less than one deaths!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Cumulative deaths are finally decreasing!

  27. Count Potato

    “The latest financial report from Democrat Rita Hart, an Iowa candidate locked in one of the closest Congressional elections in decades, reveals Hart is on the payroll for two Chinese companies including one that is indirectly owned by the Chinese government.

    Hart is currently personally appealing to Nancy Pelosi to ignore the will of the voters and overturn the election results in her race.”

    https://www.aim.org/aim-column/iowa-china-payroll/

    • Hyperion

      Nothing to see here, move along comrades.

    • creech

      She will win as soon as the colored people in her district get to cast their second vote.

    • Hyperion

      “ignore the will of the voters and overturn the election results”

      It’s OK when they do it.

    • Grumbletarian

      How does a House rep from California overturn a state election in Iowa?

  28. Hyperion

    “Mexico will wait before it goes full retard on the Limey Virus.”

    The media is… well, I only have one word: TMITE

    A virus mutated! Oh noes that has never happened before! Oh, wait, it always happens, but this is different, because SCIENCE!

    Fuck right off, you authoritarian luddites.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The mortality rate will increase from 2% to 1.5%

      • Hyperion

        That is somehow worse, because muh math is not that racist math!

    • limey

      *books plane ticket*

      • straffinrun

        Space X?

  29. Count Potato

    ” Meet the People Getting Off on Covid-19 Nasal Swabs

    Inside the unexpected pleasures of hardcore ‘nussy’ stimulation

    As we wrap up the year and we inch closer and closer to a Covid-19 vaccine becoming widely available, certain ephemera of the 2020 pandemic year will be relegated to the margins of history: Plexiglass dividers, face shields that say “Face Shield,” the rise of outdoor dining in subzero temperatures. Which is why now is the ideal time to commemorate the meteoric rise and soon-to-be rapid descent of the “nussy,” the unsung hero of 2020.

    A portmanteau of “nose” and “pussy” (similar to “bussy,” a term popularized in the LGBTQ community to refer to the anus), the term “nussy” predates the pandemic — the earliest use of the term I could find on Twitter was a shitpost from 2018, with @cruel_genesis musing, “instead of ‘picking ur nose,’ how about ‘fingering that nussy.’” Yet aside from the occasional ENT doctor visit, Neti pot purchase, or glimpse during poorly shot POV porn, the actual body part has historically received little attention, to the degree that it doesn’t even have an Urban Dictionary definition.

    The rise of the Covid-19 nasal swab, however, has brought the nussy into the forefront, leading to millions of people sharing the novel experience of having an entirely new body part poked, prodded, and penetrated. As a result, it has become something of a meme on social media, with many sharing both the discomfort — and the unexpected pleasures — of hardcore nussy stimulation.”

    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-test-nasal-swabs-nussy-1105797/

    • slumbrew

      I feel certain that’s a “reporter” getting taken in by a 4Chat prank.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Back in the 50’s my father worked for the Wall St Journal as a reporter. He had an editor that said “One is a trend.” This kind of thing has been happening for a long time.

  30. l0b0t

    Apropos of nothing, I’ve gotten complete runs of Cheers, Alien Nation, & Rumpole Of The Bailey so I’ll be alternating those for a couple days. First season of Cheers is naught but an endless stream of sexual harassment, innuendo, and anti-intellectualism.

    • Hyperion

      I finally, at the suggestion from many here, starting watching Expanse. But I didn’t even make it halfway through the first episode of the first season, because work and I spend my spare time on the internet, gaming, and messing with anything technology I can find.

      • l0b0t

        Sigh, that’s another show that I skip past when it comes up in random rotation because I want to watch it in order. Similarly, I have a backlog of subtitled stuff to watch because I never have time to sit and read the TV.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Speed it up, L? Helped me with The Story of Women (JP not FR).

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Frasier beats Cheers any day.

      • straffinrun

        ^This everyday

      • rhywun

        Yeah, Cheers is an odd choice to dive into. I don’t think I’ve seen a single episode since it aired – or wanted to.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s basically a bunch of drunks sitting around, bitching about current goings on…. wait a sec….

      • Bill Door

        I really enjoy Cheers as a background choice, but yeah, Frasier is a much better show. I need to buy the series, because I refuse to watch it on Hulu with commercials.

      • straffinrun

        And for a spicy take:

        Munsters > Adams Family

      • Count Potato

        Even though Yvonne De Carlo like my third cousin twice removed or something, that’s just wrong.

      • straffinrun

        The Jeffersons > Good Times

      • l0b0t

        Here ya go. Link expires on 01 Jan 2021.

      • straffinrun

        Awesome

      • rhywun

        Our pusher.

      • Bill Door

        I’m sure the thread is dead, but you’re a scholar and a gentleman.

    • DEG

      “Alien Nation” had some good moments.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve got the show and movie on DVD. King of the Hill has been my background comfort show these past couple of weeks.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Good choice.

      • Tulip

        I think I’ll host a zoom tomorrow, and if demand, Thursday. Is that ok with you?

      • Nephilium

        Of course it is. I’m not in charge of them.

      • DEG

        Thanks for running them.

        I can join tomorrow. I’m not sure about Thursday.

      • l0b0t

        Thank you Tulip.

      • l0b0t

        HOLY MACKEREL! Episode 1 of Alien Nation pulls no punches – At a protest over kids mixing at school – “They’re bred to be slaves! Let them stay slaves!”

      • Nephilium

        Yep. Too bad people are so much more racist in %modern day% then they were in the past.

      • DEG

        That theme comes up more than a few times if I remember correctly.

        I haven’t seen the show in twenty years. I should go find some episodes.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Serious business

    President-elect Joe Biden will have to rebuild the official White House Twitter account’s social media following from scratch once he is sworn in after the company told his transition team it will not inherit the followers from the Trump administration.

    The move by Twitter, a departure from how the company handled the situation four years ago, has peeved some members of Biden’s team.

    “In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama’s Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse — at Team 44’s urging,” Biden Digital Director Rob Flaherty tweeted Monday. “In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero.”

    In a follow-up message, Flaherty tweeted that transition staff recently fought the idea having the follower count reset but “were told this was unequivocal.”

    Why would Biden want all those deplorables?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Oh the burdens he must bear. He’s truly a martyr.

    • Hyperion

      LOL. She’s right.

      Except for the Soy thing. Soy does not turn to estrogen, that is a myth. Getting woke and voting democrat is what leads to testosterone loss, not foods or plastic.

      • Chipwooder

        But I thought it was making the frogs gay?

      • Hyperion

        Soy is making the frogs gay? No, I’m pretty sure they were always gay and then they went commie.

      • mrfamous

        I looked that one up and it’s another one of those many things where Alex Jones was wrong, but in actuality not 100% wrong. Apparently a common herbicide was causing hermaphrodism (and other things) in frogs.

      • Chipwooder

        I mean, anyone who ever saw Jurassic Park knows that there are frogs that are, shall we say, non-binary.

      • mrfamous

        The soy bit is not true directly, but possibly true from a deficiency standpoint. Gaining muscle mass and increasing testosterone without meat and animal products is certainly possible. But it is a great deal harder to do. It just is. If you’re the sort of person that believes in it from a moral and philosophical standpoint and is willing to therefore put in the extra effort to not let it affect your ability to “make gainz,” you’ll be alright.

        But I’m guessing that’s the minority of the so called soy boys who develop low test and its various symptoms.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Funny how a chick who wears makeup like a freak show and talks in an abnormal monotone is complaining about how men act.

      • Count Potato

        She’s adorable.

  32. DEG

    The president explained he had been walking alone along the beach near his home in the posh Chilean seaside town of Cachagua when a woman recognized him and asked for a photo together.

    Sounds like a set-up. On the other hand, I can’t work up too much sympathy for him given his government issued the mask rules.

    According to market research firm Counterpoint Research and, Chinese smartphone brand Oppo entered the Latin American market for the first time in August by forging a partnership with America Movil, Mexico’s largest telecommunications company. Oppo is selling smartphones through Telcel, a telecommunications company affiliated with America Movil.

    Countdown to crazed “Oppo and Covid are linked” conspiracy theories like Covid and 5G?

    That AC/DC song is pretty good.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I was surprised. I assumed they’d make something dreadful like Rock or Bust again,

    • Hyperion

      Barr is as much as a swamp critter as it is possible to be. That being said, Durham reports directly to him. Now Barr is resigned, and we don’t have any idea who will replace him. But it won’t be anyone friendly to Trump, or the GOP.

      The time to have done something about that is over. Now, the GOP needs to use whatever the have to harass Biden within an inch of his life for as long as he is in office, and make plans already to take down Camela. She’s already horizontal, can’t be that hard.

    • Hyperion

      And that is great, just sent it to all my friends and relatives.

  33. straffinrun

    The only reason I comment here is because I forgot my other passwords.

  34. straffinrun

    *Orders Ice coffee and bagel*

    Clerk: That’ll be ¥1800 ($15)
    Me: I don’t think the price is correct.
    Clerk: You wanted cream cheese, right?

    *Sigh*

    • rhywun

      Fancy.

      • straffinrun

        It’s a cheap coffee shop. Should’ve been ¥530. Clerk has the *trainee* badge on. You’d think he’d notice that he accidentally just tried to triple charge me. Nope. And after I point it out? Nope. The other clerk came over and hit a few buttons and fixed it. Amazing how clueless some people are.

      • Q Continuum

        So solly!

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        “Clueless” doesn’t quite cover it. ”Actively dumbfucky” is more like it with some of them.
        You don’t know the general pricing for your own products? Are you an idiot?
        (Full disclosure: used to work in a place like that, where we had to know the pricing of what we offered.)

      • straffinrun

        Some people just aren’t built for this world. Idiot didn’t even apologize after being a dumbass. Looked at me like, “Why are you causing me trouble?”

    • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

      “It’s ¥1000 for cream cheese. We don’t normally do that white boy shit around here. Gotta make up for the inventory losses.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Those plastic bag fees have become downright punitive.

    • DEG

      I like sundresses.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Kkkapitalist kkkamel sticks nose inside tent

    The rich can get an excess of testing, but the poor can’t get enough. Rapid testing has become the new velvet rope. Some are paying for rapid COVID-19 tests to get into parties in the Hamptons. Others in Long Island, N.Y., are renting mansions without testing. At the White House, masks are encouraged but not required. Capitalism has found its way into medicine. Life-saving technology, and the privilege to make risky decisions, both favor the wealthy.

    Wealth shouldn’t determine testing availability. The federal government must step in to ensure all Americans are able to test; that’s as important as the vaccine.

    There’s no question that testing saves lives, so much so that COVID-19 testing is crucial to opening up our economy. A positive test is also vital so that others can isolate themselves if sick and reduce the possibility of infecting others.

    What would make things really equal is if nobody could get treated.

    And- “no question that testing saves lives”? How does that work, exactly? Could somebody please explain the thought process there?

    • Urthona

      Because people who test positive can isolate themselves.

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        But likely won’t. ’Cause assholes, and all.

      • Urthona

        I think most people will but you’ll have the occasional stories like of that dude who still went to his wedding and people will wag their fingers.

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Sure.
        However, as a counterpoint, I have acquaintances who work for the local health hotline; they’ve told us stories over the months since March about people phoning in to their hotline and admitting that (a) they were COVID-19 positive and (b) they nevertheless went shopping at (for example) West Edmonton Mall (1,200 stores!) because they just couldn’t deprive themselves of that fabulous shoe sale! They phoned in afterwards because they thought they were being a good person for warning others. It never occurred to them to not do it in the first place.
        Worse, according to the people I know, they tended to sound Asian over the phone. And they wouldn’t give their names and weren’t traceable, either. Funny that.
        **HEAVY SIGH**

        I’ve learned to hate people even more during this panicdemic

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Medicine was a pristine wonderland of abundance and generosity, untainted by kkkapitalism, until President Cartoon Villain came along.

    • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

      Yep, every health care worker lived in abject penury, ’cause they loved the rest of us so much.

    • Urthona

      I say Medicine needs way more capitalism in it. This vaccine development is a great example.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    The solution is simple; the incoming Biden administration invokes the Defense Production Act (DPA) for tests, not just personal protective equipment (PPE), as he’s promised. The current White House has yet to invoke the DPA in a meaningful way to impel industries to make enough tests to match the needs of the nation. The DPA has been used routinely and has mobilized sectors of the economy. If Biden is willing to initiate the DPA for PPE, he can do the same for tests.

    While we all may want to be able to buy whatever we want, this comes at a cost to others. Instead, the federal government must redistribute unused tests and force the production of new tests to increase our testing capacity. Large-scale proactive testing will allow us to suppress the virus and return to the new normal, allowing us to save lives.

    This pandemic is highlighting stark cracks that free-market pharmaceuticals will not fix. Instead, it’s time for the federal government to step in with a unified approach. The Biden administration must not only respond to this moment but act in a way that begins to dismantle the ability of corporations to profit off of our suffering and put health before profits.

    Totally not for socialized medicine. Honest.

    • Urthona

      1 out of 5 Americans will be substantially immune by the end of February.

      Fuck. This. Asshole.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We have more than enough tests.

      Were testing too many people and with too sensitive a test.

      • Urthona

        Yeah and it’s not like it’s not easy for anyone to get one now. Drive thru or drive in everywhere. One you take at home and mail in. Etc.

        They’re ubiquitous.

      • Count Potato

        If they tested the test it would fail.

      • Urthona

        It has less than a 2% error rate but that’s enough for 1000s upon 1000s of false positives. Still useful though.

      • Count Potato

        “It has less than a 2% error rate”

        How do they know?

      • Urthona

        Well obviously they inject you with COVID first for the purposes of science.

      • DEG

        Back when the New Hampshire government restricted testing to those with symptoms, the positivity rate was about 10%.

    • straffinrun

      “ the ability of corporations to profit off of our suffering and put health before profits”

      This guy is a bigger dipshit than my coffee clerk.

    • Raven Nation

      Another failure of the completely unfettered free market.

  38. Tulip

    So my mom was telling me she got a Christmas card from an old (seriously, he’s 103) neighbor, and he added a note at the bottom saying that it was too bad she had moved away because he would have asked her for a date now that she’s a widow (he’s a widower).

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cute

    • Count Potato

      Awww…

    • westernsloper

      Your Dad died?

      • Tulip

        A couple years ago.

      • westernsloper

        Ah, sorry. I missed that news as we all go in and out of here.

  39. blackjack

    Well, I tested negative for the vid. I still don’t really trust that result. I’ve never had a loss of senses of taste and smell before and it’s a known symptom of commie colds. Back to work tomorrow, where I’ll see if they make me pay for the time with sickpay. I couldn’t go in with symptoms, and I had/have symptoms. We’ll see.

    • rhywun

      Take sick time if you’re still sick. Your coworkers will thank you.

      • blackjack

        Risk management told me to come back, once the results came back negative. I’d rather stay out until after Xmas, personally.

    • westernsloper

      We have a blanket policy if you are feeling sick don’t go to work. It has always been there but now there is no stigma for actually doing it. Generous sick days and I am sure it is abused but I am a fan because I was pissed af when I got sick when some schlub came to work with the flu in the before times and then I got the flu and I would be in a fighting mood if someone came to work now if they where sick. In normal times flu you stayed home until feeling better. Now we have “weeks” out for this horse shit.

      • rhywun

        I like the trend toward combining “sick days” with “personal days” because now I don’t have to worry about my boss not believing that I’m actually sick. And I don’t have to pretend to be sick when really I just want a day off 🙂

      • westernsloper

        My boss asked me if I wanted to mix sick days and vacation days when I went hunting for a week. I was blown away.

  40. Hyperion

    Drink real beer and be a man!

    Not hispster juice