¡El diablo fue al Georgia para enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Daily Links | 340 comments

I’ll keep it brief because last time I had a Tuesday afternoon during the most consequential election of all time™…

…Okay nobody cares.

¡Biemvenidos!

If the Brits won’t extradite Assange out of fear he’ll get Epsteined, Mexico offers him asylum.

Obama the Pope expresses his personal disappointment in people that left town to celebrate the holidays.

Controversial Brazilian statue is vaginal.  Did I do that right?

Trump admin considers designating Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Legalize weed, they just switch to something else illegal.  Legalize everything the cartels will have to smuggle avocados.  I’d buy illicit avocados.

It WAS dormant…

 

Here are some tunes, make today count.

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340 Comments

  1. Swiss Servator

    If the island dwellers are lucky, they will have some fresh, new land when they come back! Of course, they may not have homes, etc…

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I admire your optimism.

      • Swiss Servator

        *Enters Carib real estate speculation bubble*

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      My grandfather said to buy land as they’re not making more of it. Apparently he was mistaken.

      • Gadfly

        On the other hand, sea levels have been rising for the past 20,000 years, so as Gaia gives she also takes away.

    • juris imprudent

      Pre-empting Ted’s bad musical choice.

      • Ted S.

        Even I’m not mean enough to pick Jimmy Buffett.

        I would have picked this.

      • Agent Cooper

        I like you Ted, but this isn’t that hard

  2. Shpip

    Mexico’s military and police forces seized an estimated 1.3 tons of the synthetic opioid this year, compared to 222 kilograms in 2019.

    What fraction is that of all the fentanyl smuggled into the US from Mexico annually? I’m going with <1%.

    • Not Adahn

      That just shows diversity in America’s supply chain, we’re not so reliant on direct transpacific shipments from China!

    • Bobarian LMD

      Pedant. 0%. None of that made it into the US.

    • db

      Yeah that’s just what they reported confiscating.

  3. Plisade

    Hmmm, Mexico. Covid-free oases, Assange friendly… /rethinks retirement locations

    • KSuellington

      I may be seeing you down there. Southern Baja on the Sea of Cortez is absolutely fantastic. Desert, mountains, warm sea, not many bugs, not many people, pretty darn safe. I’ll be taking the wife and kids there for the ninth time this coming June. Hopefully catch the tuna run.

      • Plisade

        I went to La Paz circa 1989 to water ski and snorkel. Beautiful water.

        I’ve been thinking Costa Rica cuz of a family tie there, but…

      • KSuellington

        I love the area just south of La Paz. I haven’t been north of there but it’s on the list. In winter there are large groups of huge whale sharks (up to 30 foot long) that bask in the surface waters just off the main beach of La Paz. Fantastic experience to swim with them.

      • Plisade

        Damn. I need to return.

      • Plisade

        Thanks! Cabo Pulmo is now on the list.

      • beer league keeper

        I was in La Paz two years after you were there, and agree with your take. Best fish tacos I ever had came from an abuela with a little cart near the waterfront. The harbor’s resident family of bottlenose dolphins got boring to watch.

        My understanding is that it’s been developed since then… is that the case?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        The way you keep talking about La Paz I might just have to visit.

      • KSuellington

        For the proximity to the Bay Area I don’t think it can be beat. We have three little kids so 3 hour flight time and one hour or so drive time is totally doable. I prefer it to Hawaii, especially with two hours less flight time. If you get serious about going lemme know and I’ll tell you all you need to know about it.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Where do you fly into?

      • KSuellington

        San Jose del Cabo. Lots of flights there from the Bay. You can rent sweet ass houses in or near Los Barriles, La Ribera, or Buena Vista. Fishing rocks years round but May to October is especially good. Winter can get windy there. Mid summer is super hot so beware.

      • KSuellington

        And if you want really detailed info lemme know and I will give it. At this point I know that whole area very well.

      • KSuellington

        If you go in mid June we can fish together. I’ll be there for 12 days.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Maybe. We’re trying to figure out what we’re going to do for vacation this year. There’s so much uncertainty about travel and quarantines it’s hard to plan.

      • DEG

        #metoo

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, if I had to pick a country in which to live in exile with at least somewhat of an officially protected status, Mexico would be a good choice.

      • KSuellington

        Yup there are far worse places to be. If you have some money life can be very very bueno there.

    • Gadfly

      Covid-free oases

      Mexico is in about the same situation as the US: 1,000 deaths/M compared to 1,100 deaths/M. And from what I’ve read their reaction has been about the same (resistant to do anything at the top and a hodge-podge of reactions down the chain).

      • Plisade

        I wasn’t clear, sorry. Covid Panic-free oases. I read an article (maybe posted here recently) detailing some cool places down there where it’s like covid doesn’t exist.

      • Gadfly

        Thanks for the clarification. COVID and COVID-Panic are two distinct diseases.

      • hayeksplosives

        COVID panic has a near 100% affliction rate (we’re all affected) and a death rate that is higher than that of the COVID-19 itself.

    • Hyperion

      I used go go down there all of the time. Yucantan area and up and down the coast there. When I first stated going, I’d just wonder around, alone, all over the place. Last couple of times I was there, I felt way less safe to point of not boing back. I started hearing a lot of bad things happening and the entire vibe just felt off compared to before.

      • KSuellington

        I feel the same way about all of Latin America. You should always be on the lookout, but mostly that is in or near cities. There are exceptions for sure, but most rural places are pretty chill. Tourist trap places also attract a fair amount of sleazy types. Giving those a wide hearth is a good idea.

      • Hyperion

        Geez, my spelling is abysmal this afternoon. Yucatan.

    • R C Dean

      And teetering on being a failed state. Its not on my list of expat locations.

  4. Swiss Servator

    “If the Brits won’t extradite Assange out of fear he’ll get Epsteined, Mexico offers him asylum.”

    …where he can get Trotsky’d.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      That was like, 1000 years ago….man.

      • zwak

        So, ten constitutions in the metric system?

    • Surly Knott

      Yeah, Mexico is a notoriously safe destination.
      Rolls eyes…

    • juris imprudent

      When a sociopath wants you dead, you’re probably going to die.

      • Swiss Servator

        So…Hillary can have Assange whacked then?

      • juris imprudent

        He probably does have more to fear from her than from the govt.

      • kbolino

        Lucky for him, he only managed to piss of a few dozen such people.

    • Agent Cooper

      Knock. Knock.

      Who’s there?

      Icepick.

      Icepick? Icepick who?

      Ow!

  5. Trigger Hippie

    ‘The artwork triggered a hot debate on social media, with more than 25,000 people commenting on Notari’s Facebook post — both supporters and critics.

    “With all due respect, I did not like it. Imagine me walking with my young daughters in this park and them asking … Daddy, what is this? What will I answer?” one commenter wrote.

    In response, a female poster wrote: “With all due respect, you can teach your daughters not to be ashamed of their own genitals.”’

    And I’m totally sure that same female would have absolutely no problems with a twenty-five foot tall cock and balls milk fountain within sight of the vagina sculpture.

    • Plisade

      “With all due respect, you can teach your daughters not to be ashamed of their own genitals.”

      Exactly this. That “art” screams of the artist’s insecurity, as if she’s having to convince herself that it’s ok to have a vagina.

    • Ozymandias

      TH, I have to admit that I had immediately considered the penis statue in response, but… I had not thought of “a twenty-five foot tall cock and balls milk fountain.”
      You, sir, are an order of magnitude of trolling beyond me.
      /tips cap

      • Trigger Hippie

        Ozy! Glad to see you back!

        And thank you.

      • Ozymandias

        Thank you, TH. I think I’m stable enough now to handle the fall of the empire, so I can read the links and comments here without stress.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Personally, I don’t think it should be “within sight of” the vag statue, but actually within it.

      • Plisade

        And custard. A custard fountain, inverted. Or should that be flan?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Nah, I think that would cause the landscaping crew to strike. Imagine the mess. 😉

      • Tonio

        Welcome back, Ozy.

      • Ozymandias

        Thank you, Tonio. Always good to see you here.

    • Gadfly

      And I’m totally sure that same female would have absolutely no problems with a twenty-five foot tall cock and balls milk fountain within sight of the vagina sculpture.

      Literally the next sentence in the article:

      Bolsonaro’s political guru, Olavo de Carvalho, took to Twitter to lambaste Notari’s work — seemingly proposing a giant penis sculpture as a way to challenge it.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Look man, I find my snarkbite, copypasta, then move on. Read the whole article?!

        Pfft.

      • Gadfly

        I’m not going to throw shade for skimming articles, as that’s my modus operandi as well. I mainly found it funny that your instinctual response was the same as that of an advisor to the president of Brazil.

      • Trigger Hippie

        /confirmed Alt-Right Nazi Rain Forest Rapist

  6. Rebel Scum

    Giant vagina sculpture fuels culture wars in Brazil

    Trying to fuck mother earth?

    • kinnath

      Still gonna be a tight fit.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Braggart.

    • Surly Knott

      It’s Brazil, it’s what they do.
      /ecowarrior

    • kbolino

      She got crazy eyes

    • grrizzly

      The sculpture is not that bad.

  7. Tundra

    I have a counterargument fake-Pope: fuck off, slaver.

    • hayeksplosives

      Francis was obviously going to be a social activist first, Pope a distant second. And since he’s a commie, he equates social Activism with Political Activism, then uses the Pope card to avoid being confronted or debated about his views.

      Aren’t Jesuits darned near secular nowadays?

  8. Rebel Scum

    with just three weeks left before President Donald Trump leaves office.

    But is it?

    • Plisade

      What’s your prediction for tomorrow?

      • Not Adahn

        Fox has already called GA for the Ds, right?

      • Plisade

        Isn’t Fox like the new CNN?

      • Trigger Hippie

        The sun rises, then more death and taxes.

        Heavy on the taxes.

      • Rebel Scum

        Idk. But Trump doesn’t do anything small so I expect some sort of fireworks. Maybe House/Senate R’s object, we get a massive info dump and Pence throws out the contested states, in turn throwing the election to the House where Trump is reelected. Or the same except Pence certifies Biden and the asterisk on his presidency gets even larger.

      • Plisade

        Pence at times has appeared to be an unknown, like the silent deadly type, though I know nothing about him. I hope he does throw it to the house. At the very least a Biden path to winning ought to be laden with mines.

      • Rebel Scum

        I see it as a way to override the fraud while still having the process be generally perceived as legitimate. It is the House of the people at the federal level after all, and each state delegation gets a single vote. So it maintains both sides of the equation wherein “the people” vote (in this case for representatives) and the states elect the president, similar to the function of the electoral college.

      • prolefeed

        I imagine that scenario would result in Democrats rioting and burning down cities – their own cities.

        But then, I don’t believe we should set the precedent that the side that is more willing to riot gets to rule, since it seems ridiculously dangerous to embolden further such behavior.

      • Rebel Scum

        They are going to riot anyway.

      • DEG

        Pence throws out the contested states,

        My reading of 3 USC Chapter 1 is that Pence can only throw out votes if a state turns in more than one set of Electoral College votes or if a challenge to a state’s Electoral College votes succeeds.

        Neither will happen.

  9. Yusef, Frozen

    Volcano go BOOM! it blew when I was younger, quite dramatic, Not St, Helens big, but hey, where ya gonna run on an island?

    • hayeksplosives

      My first wedding was on St Kitts. Nearby Montserrat was belching smoke and fumes, and an approaching hurricane made the waves choppy and wind gusty.

      As I walked down to the beach to say “I do” I was wondering if I was making a mistake, I probably should have looked around at the omens.

      Clinging to my flowers, struggling to stay upright in the wind, “Just any old sign, Lord. Nothing? Ok then…”

      • ron73440

        You almost got me with that one.

        I was in the middle of a drink and almost choked.

        Was that from All of Me, or Man with Two Brains?

      • hayeksplosives

        True story in my case. Doubt I said it out loud though.

      • Seguin

        “Until then, we’ll just put you back in the closet here…”

      • Mojeaux

        As I walked down to the beach to say “I do” I was wondering if I was making a mistake, I probably should have looked around at the omens.

        Clinging to my flowers, struggling to stay upright in the wind, “Just any old sign, Lord. Nothing? Ok then…”

        I LOLd.

        BTDT. It’s why I look at things so superstitiously. “Omen or not?”

      • Not Adahn

        As a member of Prognosticators Local #1113, I would like to thank you for keeping our memebers in business.

  10. Rebel Scum

    Oh, Tulsi.

    “It absolutely does the very opposite of that. And it’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women.”

    She later added, “When you look at why Title IX was created, it was created out of this recognition that there is a biological distinction between men and women and boys and girls. And it recognized that, because of that, there needs to be a level playing field for girls and women to be able to compete and play in sports. … [T]here are people who are trying to undermine the very reason why Title IX was put in place by denying my existence, denying the existence of biological women. It’s — it defies common sense. It defies basic, established science.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Going to war with the hardcore gender loons in the Democratic Party. I wish her luck, they do not play nice.

      • Rebel Scum

        I’ve got her back though…you know, if she needs/wants me behind her…

      • Agent Cooper

        I’ve got her front!

    • leon

      It’s so sad the the Dems even let a Nazi like Tulsi take the debate stage with them.

      • juris imprudent

        They know how to handle this, they did it to pro-life Dems.

      • leon

        So when do we see Cuomo tell All Biological Women that they have no place in New York?

      • juris imprudent

        When he steals the Health secretary from Pennsylvania.

      • Gadfly

        So, what, are a bunch of TERFS going to jump ship to the Reps? At the rate the Dems are purging they are going to end up making the Reps the party of diversity by default.

        The next Donald Trump is probably going to be a lesbian POC.

      • Trigger Hippie

        What’s even sadder: Unlike our soon to be First Female President, Tulsi actually won a delegate or two before bowing out. Samoa, I think.

    • Not Adahn

      Now now, women aren’t really real in the sense of having any kind of objective existence, they’re more of a state of mind.

      /Oberlin

    • db

      I was once a male member of a college women’s sports team–because of Title IX, we didn’t have a men’s rifle team, only a women’s rifle team. But they had to allow anyone to join. It was a club team, not NCAA.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        A male member in a women’s team? Oh, my.

      • Gustave Lytton

        This is my rifle, this is my gun…

    • Hyperion

      Look, state slave drones do not need any sex. That’s what got us into this mess to start with. All the slave drones need is the state, comrades!

    • Hyperion

      Well, Tulsi. When you choose to be a commie, this is what you get, commies.

    • The Gunslinger

      Never try to apply logic or common sense to the leftist agenda.

  11. Dr. Fronkensteen

    But the number of femicides – defined in Mexico as the killing of a woman because she is a woman – rose by 0.3%, something officials said was due to a greater pressure on prosecutors not classify such crimes as simple homicides

    But did the corpses identify as female?

    • KOVIDKristen

      Someone should tell those murderers that women don’t exist anymore.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      0.3%

      0.3%!!!!!!

  12. KOVIDKristen

    Hawaiians be like “Our volcano has been erupting for weeks, pussies!”*

    *(to head the pedants off at the pass, I understand the differences in the types of eruptions or possible eruptions.)

      • KOVIDKristen

        I’m….not sure I should click on that

      • Tundra

        You’ve known me for many years.

        And I’m not Jimbo.

        It’s safe.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Without looking, I’m assuming it’s a Van Halen link.

        You made the right call, KK.

        *sticks tongue out at Tundra, darts away*

      • KOVIDKristen

        What I know about 80’s music is Duran Duran. Hair bands & pop metal were…not in my wheelhouse.

      • Trigger Hippie

        There was a lot of good punk rock, if you’re into that sort of thing.

      • hayeksplosives

        Just go watch The Wedding Singer, one of Adam Sandler’s better works, containing tons of 80s pop culture references.

        It’s the first movie I saw that looked back on the 80s as a distant memory with a zeitgeist of its own.

        Gen X forever!

      • Agent Cooper

        To me, VH defies simple categorization. They totally have their own sound.

      • Not Adahn

        The 1980s: best decade, or most best decade?

      • Chipwooder

        If you’re not a pedant when it comes to your definition of a decade, I’d say 1985-95 was the best.

      • Trigger Hippie

        91-01 was a nice time.

        No Cold War, no War on Terror, the death of hair metal, Congress Critters with at least a hint of fiscal responsibility, a lot of original music and movies, not tired, rehashed, cynical garbage, my teenage years wedged in…

      • Gadfly

        Yeah, the 90s will probably go down in history as the golden age of the USA.

      • rhywun

        I think of the 90s as the last sane decade, that’s for sure.

      • DEG

        I think of the 90s as the last sane decade, that’s for sure.

        #metoo

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^ Agreed…great age for music, everyone didn’t care if you like rap/punk/hip-hop/grunge etc at a party, cliques were normal but mingled

      • Trigger Hippie

        Remember when the movie PCU was considered a silly exaggeration of what campus life was like?

        Now that’s many people’s work environment on any random day.

      • Ownbestenemy

        PCU…what a fun movie

      • db

        Most bestest.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Tundra…that is my son’s go-to lazy got nothing to do practice on his guitar. I hate him.

      • DEG

        Excellent.

  13. trshmnstr the terrible

    From the vag sculpture article comes a most relevant final paragraph:

    Months later, his culture secretary was fired after posting a video in which he appeared to copy a speech by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

    TMITE

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Did the leftists praise the speech from the culture secretary before they found out the source?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      When do we get to fire all the politicians whose political platforms appear to plagiarize the economic principles of the Nazi Party?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        As soon as your vote counts.

  14. Bobarian LMD

    I obviously can’t tell art from a hole in the ground.

    • Ozymandias

      Golf clap.
      Underrated comment.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Please, Bear Grylls would never knowingly put himself in danger. His shows are about as rigged as a pro-wrestling match.

      • leon

        I always like Survivor-man, “Les Stroud”

      • Trigger Hippie

        ^

        What impressed me the most about that guy was all the extra energy we would spend just to get a few good camera shots. The dude would walk away from his location to go halfway up a massive ridge line to get the shot, turn around, and then walk all the way back to gather up his camera gear. Then walk right back up that ridge to actually get to where he was going.

      • ron73440

        I watched his show often and that always amazed me as well.

        That dude would get HUNGRY doing his show, Bear Grylls never looked like he missed a meal.

        Side story on Bear:

        When I was a Marine Security Force Instructor, we had some Royal Marines we were doing cross training with.

        Somehow we got talking about Bear Grylls and one of the Royal Marines had this to say:

        ” ‘e’s a rubber dagger, that one!”
        “Looks the shit, but not worth a goddamn thing”

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yeah, it seems that ol’ Bear always had a crew on hand to set up an area as a ‘dangerous, exotic location” when in fact it was within a two minute walk from a town or busy highway and spent most evenings in a four star hotel.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Same here.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Other than the time he ate the caterpillars and got the extreme shits.

    • juris imprudent

      Did that underground railroad run to Jamaica?

      • Hyperion

        It was a misdirection trick where the slaves were fooled into going the wrong way and wound up in Jamaica at Commiela’s grandpappy’s slave plantation and trading post.

  15. KOVIDKristen

    My 1000 rds of Federal 9mm have shipped!! I may spare a couple hunnert rounds to go to the range.

    • Not Adahn

      Woot!

      • Not Adahn

        …and since it’ll be sundown before I get home, only reload drills for me tonight *sad gunface*

    • Swiss Servator

      For the low, low price of only $2500?!!

      • KOVIDKristen

        With shipping, ~25c/round

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Did you have to blow somebody for that price?

        Cuz I might be willing.

      • Sean

        Does seem oddly low for the current situation.

      • db

        That’s pretty good pricing these days.

        BTW, glad to hear the good news about your pup!

      • KOVIDKristen

        sorry .50c/round.

        I can math.

      • Ted S.

        Nitpick: that’s half a cent per round.

      • KOVIDKristen

        I’m still going to spare some for the range. Last time I got ammo from Cheaper Than Dirt, it was close to $1

      • Not Adahn

        These guys (who will actually ship to NY) are selling for $0.45/rd if you have a bot set up to order during the 300 ms or so that they’re restocked.

    • kinnath

      I haven’t seen federal available for couple of months.

      • KOVIDKristen

        I posted a link the day it was available 🙁

      • kinnath

        I must not have been around that day.

      • Not Adahn

        Federal has ammo for sale regularly, you just have to check their website.

        It does me no good, since they don’t ship to NY.

    • db

      These guys get stuff in intermittently now, but seem to be usually reasonable on price. Good source for belted ammo.

      • Not Adahn

        .380 for $0.92/round?

        But… wha… who…?

      • db

        The prices aren’t good for *everything*. But they have 7.62×39 for $0.40/rd

      • db

        Their inventory is a bit weak this week compared to the last time I looked.

      • db

        They were full up on .50 BMG last time I looked, now nothing. bummer.

      • Not Adahn

        .380 was alway more expensive than 9×19, because nobody actually shot it after the first box they bought for their pocket guns. I was really wondering who is actually shooting .380 at those proces.

      • Sean

        Nope. Nope. Nope.

  16. cyto

    So I don’t post for a week or more, and then I finally get on here and while I’m typing up an update, you post another article?

    Fine, then I’m committing a party foul and pulling my comment forward. I apparently spent ten minutes typing it, so I’m posting it!

    • cyto

      Speaking of Covid killing fewer people…..

      we got the covid.

      Sister in Law came over for Christmas and infected the entire family.

      For the “there is no testing” crowd, I’ve written this a few times, but I still have no idea where that narrative comes from. I hit the county health department website, had a choice of locations, and off we went. The entire family in tow, we got tested at a nearby park, walked up, no waiting and got the PCR test. Results were reported electronically immediately as the tests were done.

      Sister in Law had to go to the hospital for inpatient care – remdesivir, steroids, antibiotics, etc.

      I updated my inhaler prescription. Hopefully I don’t die a horrible death from suffocation.

      What I learned?

      The covid is weird. I expected the flu. It is not at all like the flu. We have had some low grade fevers intermittently, and some pretty hard core myalgia, but overall it has not been bad, 5 days in. If I didn’t know about the ‘vid, I definitely would have gone to work and infected everyone. I have symptoms, but they are not bad enough to stop me from working. And I’m an old fart.

      Then I read that the danger period is days 8-12. Dang.

      I get to spend the rest of the week wondering if I’m going to descend into a death spiral of lung disease. Or simply get better.

      Overall, what I’ve learned so far is that the descriptions of covid in the media are wildly inadequate. It is weird. Really, really weird. It has neurological effects… my first symptom was an intense case of carpel tunnel syndrome. My wrists were super-painful, and my hands were going numb. All of my joints were painful. I have had some odd tingly feelings and then there’s the muscle pain (myalgia).

      But there’s also the smell thing. The wife is losing her sense of taste. Says it is helping with her diet…

      The boy and I both are experiencing some bizarre enhancements of acid smells. Things like ketchup and pickles are unbearably acrid. The reason that this is important is that we went to Chik-fil-a and I ordered a number 1. The stupid pickle juice made the sandwich unbearable…. and the waffle fries are perfect for squirting the ketchup directly on the waffle…. except now I can’t put it under my face. So I ended up eating no-ketchup waffle fries for the last meal I’ve had. (covid makes me not feel much like eating and have a bit of a bad tummy)

      The wife has vertigo like symptoms. I have had night sweats without really having much of a fever.

      It is the oddest cold I have ever experienced.

      • juris imprudent

        Very seriously, get a pulse oximeter. If you’re not getting O2 in, that’s when things get bad.

      • db

        +1 on this. If you have trouble getting O2 from your doctor/med supply, there are ways to use welding oxygen (which is indistinguishable from “medical oxygen”).

      • The Other Kevin

        +another. My mother in law was in the hospital with the Covid for almost two weeks. The only reason they knew it was time to take her in was they had a pulse ox machine at home and tested her frequently. When her O2 levels dropped it was right to the hospital.

      • Tonio

        Also, used oxygen concentrator machines often available.

      • hayeksplosives

        -<>

      • hayeksplosives

        Sometimes when your lungs are getting plugged up and losing capacity, you can still manage a high 90s SpO2 through deep breathing, but you still aren’t breathing well and the SpO2 could be about to drop.

        The most thorough way to check your lungs in a quantitative way is to combine SpO2 checks with Peak Flowmeter tests. When that peak flow (measure of liters/min exhaled quickly) gets low, you better do some albuterol and be ready to scoot to urgent care or the ER.

      • db

        That sucks. Good luck to ya. I know a couple of people who have had it who described similar symptoms and pulled through. One woman’s whole family got it (this was before it was big in the media) and her teenage/20 something sons had milder symptoms than she and her husband. I don’t usually get colds, but when I do, they hit me hard with symptoms like you describe minus the anosmia.

      • Tonio

        Best wishes for a speedy recovery for all.

      • Drake

        Have you been prescribed anything? Taking extra Vit D or Zinc?

        I bought some of this stuff last year when they banned HCL. Supposedly has similar results.

      • Mojeaux

        Zinc will kill your smell and taste if you get too much.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Hope you and the family recover quickly.

      • Ownbestenemy

        When did you start to experience symptoms? I think our family is in the clear, as no one has exhibited any type of fever, low-grade or otherwise. Just normal you are a tax-slave aches and pains.

      • Count Potato

        Sorry to hear that 🙁

        I hope you and your family are better soon.

      • DEG

        I hope you all make a full recovery.

  17. Hyperion

    “Dormant Volcano in The Caribbean Just Came Back to Life, Causing Evacuation Warnings”

    Mama Gaia is very angry with us. If we’d only obey our great leaders harder. Next up, plagues of locusts and earthquakes, frogs, all that shit…

    • Rebel Scum

      Well, we already got the next convid. And we had the murder-hornets. Maybe the Yellowstone caldera erupts but ends up being mostly “meh”?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Gay frogs?

    • Trigger Hippie

      There was even an earthquake in Wichita last week! Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    No such thing as herd immunity without vaccines

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease specialist, has said that America will need to reach a target of administering at least one million vaccinations every day in order to return to some form of “normality.”

    Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC News on Sunday that a return to normal by fall is feasible but would require widespread herd immunity among the U.S. population. And achieving sufficient herd immunity would “totally” depend on the uptake of vaccines, he said.

    ——-

    “If from April, May, June, July and August, we do the kind of vaccine implementation that I’m talking about—at least a million people a day and maybe more—by the time we end the summer and get to the fall, we will have achieved that level of herd immunity that I think will get us back to some form of normality, and maybe quite normal.”

    STFU, you senile quack.

    • leon

      The best thing that ever happened to him was the coronavirus.

      • hayeksplosives

        Second only to AIDS. Fauci loves to play with us little chess pieces when a new disease emerges.

        People who hang on his every word need to realize he has no incentive for COVID to go away or be a minor inconvenience.

    • kbolino

      Which moves faster, the SR-71 or Fauci’s goalposts?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Trick question. The SR-71 moves through space. The goalposts materialize wherever Fauci transports them to.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Just waiting for the news that there are no more cases, but we have to stay locked down to prevent a reoccurrence.

    • Translucent Chum

      Serious question. If the immunity from the vaccines only last 14-60 days, how do you ever get to herd immunity if that’s only possible via vaccine?

      • db

        Is that for real? WTF point would it be? I think they’re stretching the definition of “immunity” if that’s really the case.

      • Hyperion

        I’ve already solved this. A biochip insert that administers more vaccine as you need it. Easy peasy. And it even contains other great features, such as a GPS tracker!

      • Gadfly

        If a vaccine only lasts for 60 days, can it really even be classified as a vaccine? The whole point of inoculation is to induce immunity, which shouldn’t be a transient thing.

    • EvilSheldon

      Or we could do, you know, nothing, and get the same result.

      • Hyperion

        Well, you obviously could not become a great leader, like Cuomo or Newsome!

      • EvilSheldon

        Oh, woe is me. How ever will I bear the shame of not being a scumfuck politician?

    • Ownbestenemy

      They have gotten to be masters at battle-space prep for use on the civilian populations. Start talking about how the vaccines aren’t the end of this, get the WHO to magically whisk away the science behind herd immunity, then lay it on the population that IT WILL NEVER END.

  19. Gadfly

    Controversial Brazilian statue is vaginal. Did I do that right?

    Just looks like a gash in the hillside to me.

    • kinnath

      Can we get the standing ovation gif here please?

  20. Rebel Scum

    The (maybe) future first offspring.

    Hunter Biden dropped off his laptop at a PC repairman more than a year ago for repairs. Hunter’s laptop eventually became the property of the PC repairman due to Hunter’s inability to return and pick up his computer. Per the agreement signed by Hunter and the repairman, if Hunter didn’t pick up his laptop, the laptop became the property of the PC repairman. Hunter never picked up his laptop.

    Over the past few months, experts have been analyzing Hunter’s laptop. Based on these reviews, we have reported various disgusting details of Hunter’s life and the Biden family by analyzing this data. Hunter kept a diary on the laptop. He also backed up his text messages and kept pictures and videos of himself and prostitutes and family members doing drugs and having sex. Hunter even uploaded some of these sex tapes onto the porn site PornHub:

    Hidden between tens of thousands of emails, IMs, documents, videos, sound recordings, and encrypted files is a collection of communications between Hunter Biden and one JiaQi.

    JiaQi, AKA JaiQi Bao, AKA Jiaqi Wang, AKA Jiaqi Wang Bao, AKA Wang Bao Jiaqi, AKA Qinping Bao, AKA TianTian Bo, was Ye Jianming’s US based assistant/advisor. If you don’t recall the cast of characters in this Chinese finger puzzle, Ye Jianming, was the chairman of the China Huaxin energy conglomerate and Hunter’s and Jim Biden’s business partner.

    Ye Jianming and his US based staff worked closely with Chinese intelligence which controlled large parts of the strategy, funding, and overseas operations of CEFC and another of the Biden’s Chinese joint ventures named Bohai Harvest RST (BHR).

    The blurred part of that image is likely far larger than it needs to be.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      She’s better looking than Swalwell’s honeypot.

    • leon

      Why are you teaching Joe’s son he should be ashamed of his own Genetalia?

    • Drake

      I’ve had the misfortune of seeing the unblurred photos on GAB. What God didn’t give him for judgement, morals, or self-control, He made up for elsewhere. In other words, the blurred area is about right.

      • The Other Kevin

        So he was born rich, connected, and well endowed. Asshole.

      • Drake

        He’s still all three four. The world isn’t fair.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Spoiler: They didn’t actually blur that. It’s just a smeared mess down there.

    • Gadfly

      So what I’ve learned this year is that the Russian spy efforts are more focused on computer hacking while the Chinese spy efforts are more focused on honey-pot schemes. No wonder why so many people are selling out to the Chinese – it’s more fun.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Insurance must pay for the child abuse.

    Just before the end of 2020, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an order stating that insurance companies cannot refuse to pay for a minor girl’s mastectomy just because she isn’t 18 yet. He reached this conclusion by defining the surgical removal of healthy breasts and the “creation of a male chest” as medically “necessary” for girls suffering from gender dysphoria (the painful sense of identifying with the gender opposite their biological sex) rather than “cosmetic.” This means that a gender dysphoric girl’s healthy chest would be considered “abnormal” if she identifies as male.

    “For far too long, individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria have had to battle a host of challenges to get access to gender-affirming care in order to be their true selves,” Commissioner Lara said in a statement. He suggested that requiring girls to be 18 before they surgically remove their breasts is an example of “outdated medical criteria” that “create barriers to necessary medical care.”

    Lara had his general counsel issue this order after the group Trans Family Support Services submitted a request to the California Department of Insurance asking whether it is legally permissible for insurance providers to deny transgender mastectomy coverage for girls under 18 due to their age. Lara ruled that “insurers may not deny coverage for a mastectomy and creation of a male chest (‘male chest reconstruction surgery’) for treating gender dysphoria in female-to-male patients based solely on the insured individual’s age.”

    • The Other Kevin

      We’ve talked to my kid’s therapist about gender dysphoria. Fortunately she is on the same page we are. Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, just like anorexia or depression, and as such giving them what they want won’t help any more than helping an anorexic teen starve herself or encouraging a depressed person to not take meds. The suicide rate for people with gender dysphoria is the same before and after surgery. Unfortunately popular society has decided it’s not a disorder, and the major psych association in the US is poised to stop designating it a “disorder”.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s not popular society. I guarantee that if you were to put it to a common vote, it would not come out the way the SJW’s want it to.

      • kbolino

        It’s a game of wording and presentation. “Would you be in favor of taking any steps necessary to keep your teenage child from committing suicide?” is how they’d phrase the question.

      • The Other Kevin

        Ok, let me rephrase that. It’s the people who decide what “popular culture” is. The news media, celebrities, people on Twitter, politicians, the “loud voices”. I was talking to Mrs. TOK about where our daughter was getting her ideas about this, and she was shocked to learn you could just go on CNN and see a story about Ellen Page deciding to become another gender. You don’t have to dig for it, it’s getting pushed on you.

      • kbolino

        It is of more value to them to signal their virtue and differentiate themselves from you, while perhaps converting some of your family and friends, than it is to give you what you want.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Body mutilation is not medical care.

      This is a cultural sickness.

    • kbolino

      Why is health care so expensive in the U.S. when any tinpot insurance commissioner can arbitrarily impose new costs on insurers?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        This is the sort of thing that sets my wife off when complain that we don’t have “free” health care like in Europe. Think they pay for your birth control there? No. Get sick when you’re old? Forget it. You are low priority. Want clean silverware in the hospital? Bring your own. Want that private room after giving birth? Forget it. You’ll share a room with three other women. Sure. It’s “free”, but it doesn’t cover what we do here.

      • Gadfly

        Sure. It’s “free”, but it doesn’t cover what we do here.

        Yeah, but we’re rich, so we can afford it all.

        For a while, at least. Being rich lets you be stupid longer, but not forever.

    • Homple

      “Pray the Gay Away” is a violation of human rights, but cutting the tits off an adolescent girl is medical care that must be covered by insurance.

      • kbolino

        A fact which has occurred to a number of gays as well.

        We are supposed to accept ourselves. Unless you want to be different from yourself. Then everybody else has to accept you. Unless you want to be some kind of regressive normal person. Then everybody else has to shun you.

      • Gadfly

        So does that imply that prayer is more effective than surgery?

      • Homple

        No, it just surprises me that saying words over somebody is a gross and horrific invasion of their humanity while cutting of somebody’s d*ck, gouging out a c*nt, grafting on some b**bs and pumping him full of hormones is considered sane and effective modern medical treatment

      • rhywun

        I wonder what cup size is medically indicated in individuals wrongly assigned male at birth in order to “be their true selves”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Depends…is Q the doctor?

    • B.P.

      A decade or so from now, teenagers who were encouraged to go through with surgery are going murder people, and not at random.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Definitely a finalist for the annual Thomas Parran Jr. Award for Public Health Excellence.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      The fire from burning cars and buildings will keep them warm.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    It has been decided..part of the brisket being smoked will be used for some grilled cheese brisket sandwiches tonight with some charred chilies and onion, with a side of sauteed portobello mushrooms and a light salad.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’d switch out the mushrooms with some grilled asparagus but aside from that, that sounds divine.

      Tonight’s dinner will probably come from a frozen box, then a cup of yogurt so I don’t wake up in the morning with the bubble-guts.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We have one non-mushroom eater in the family. They will just have to suffer a side. Though…grilled asparagus isn’t bad either, I just don’t have any.

        The upside is the market is 200 yards from my house. We are there probably…every other day? We grab our fresh foods to what we need to for 2-3 days at a time.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I can stand mushrooms in a dish, preferably a red sauce, but aside from morels, I don’t really like them as a stand alone side. Unfortunately, morels are seasonal.

        I think of them more as an ingredient than as a thing to be eaten on its own.

  23. prolefeed

    From the dead thread:

    cyto on January 5, 2021, 3:18 PM [+][Mute]

    Speaking of Covid killing fewer people…..

    we got the covid.

    Sister in Law came over for Christmas and infected the entire family.

    For the “there is no testing” crowd, I’ve written this a few times, but I still have no idea where that narrative comes from. I hit the county health department website, had a choice of locations, and off we went. The entire family in tow, we got tested at a nearby park, walked up, no waiting and got the PCR test. Results were reported electronically immediately as the tests were done.

    My thoughts:

    I understand and sympathize with you getting tested, but for those who have not yet suspected they got the damn Commie Cough … every positive test lends ammunition to the little tyrants who are using the CaseDemic as the latest excuse to violate our civil rights. There is no fucking way I would take that test.

    I’m not your supervisor, of course … you want to take the test, have at it, it’s your body. Just keep in mind how that will be used against you and everyone else.

    • Gadfly

      I think he was talking about the “there is not enough testing available” narrative, not commenting about whether people should get tested or not. Of course, if you actually might be sick, it’s probably good to get tested just to be sure. And if you’ve got no symptoms or haven’t been in contact with someone who’s sick testing is probably a waste of time. But it’s not hard to find testing, most places have an abundance of it, but some people pretend otherwise or focus on those mismanaged or misregulated places where there’s a shortage.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They don’t pretend there is no testing, their local and national ‘press’ is pushing it to their boob-tubes saying there is not enough testing.

      • prolefeed

        If the results of a test won’t give you a reason to change your behavior, don’t take the test. Applies to everything, not just COVID.

    • Gadfly

      Obviously, more government is the answer.

      “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, someone realized that a $1M fine for giving the shot to an unauthorized untermench might have the effect of slowing down the vaccine distribution.

      So Cuomo remedied that with a second decree: a $10k fine for anyone who allows a dose of vaccine go to waste!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Every does is sacred! ?

      • Count Potato

        I keep hoping this is the part of the movie where Batman shows up and kicks his ass.

    • DEG

      That’s a better advertisement for Mexico than everything KSuellington has said.

      And he’s said some good stuff.

  24. egould310

    I literally have nothing to contribute. Just changed my avatar. It’s at the restaurant I’m dining at. It’s a fish wearing a monocle and top hat. Also, I’ve drank 3 martinis.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Worthy avatar change deserves butt slap gif I propose.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        +1

      • Ownbestenemy

        At least we can tell our grandchildren…we tried.

    • Ted S.

      Martinis are like breasts: one is not enough, and three is too many.

      • Count Potato

        Get your ass to Mars!

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I understand and sympathize with you getting tested, but for those who have not yet suspected they got the damn Commie Cough … every positive test lends ammunition to the little tyrants who are using the CaseDemic as the latest excuse to violate our civil rights. There is no fucking way I would take that test.

    I think you’d be crazy to get tested unless you were already sick as a dog. Getting tested with no symptoms? No way.

    As goofy as the numbers are, it seems to me positive tests among symptomatic people are nothing to get in a big panic over. What are they, 15 or 20%?

    • prolefeed

      Even if I was sick as a dog, I would be resistant to taking the test. I’ve been extremely sick with stuff like the flu or the cold, and never got tested, just managed the symptoms. And the COVID symptoms seem to be weird enough that I could figure out I had it without getting tested.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Barely contained very ample assets.

    • Ted S.

      Is it more deadly?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Does it matter?

      • kbolino

        Other questions that don’t matter:

        – Where did it come from?
        – How did it spread so quickly (or fail to be identified earlier…)?
        – When will the next strain come along?

        etc.

      • prolefeed

        Basic epidemiology: in general, if you lock people down and make them have less contact with others, the ones that get whichever virus we’re talking about will cause selection pressure for the virus to become less virulent so it doesn’t kill the host before infection someone else, and also cause selection pressure for the virus to become much more contagious in those rare instances when the locked down people venture out in public to get food or whatever.

        Shorter: this more contagious strain that arose in locked down Britain is very likely to be much less deadly than the original strain.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That is old science, not new SCIENCE!

      • Count Potato

        I don’t think they know that either.

      • Rebel Scum

        No. That is not how it works.

    • Gadfly

      How could they know?

      They’re just speaking their truth. It’s bigoted to question it.

    • hayeksplosives

      Anecdotally, there are far more Covid cases affecting my staff and their families right now than in all of last year (minus December) combined.

      It does seem to be more virulent, but it doesn’t seem more severe.

      Unfortunately, this doesn’t bode well for a rapid transition to real life anytime soon.

      I suspect that the vaccine will be more like a flu vaccine than like measles vaccine. Measles is pretty static and only needs one vaccination. For flu, every season they have to give their best guess as to what strains will predominate and vaccinated for those strains, sometimes more effectively than others.

      My guess is in a few years, there will be a COVId shot and a flu shot, both trying to fight multiple strains. Heck, they might just roll in the vaccines together.

      And just as with flu, some people will choose the shot and some won’t, depending on individuals’ risk perception.

  26. Semi-Spartan Dad

    So, one day before the rally, there are reports now that Apple Maps has blocked directions to and around DC. I’m not so sure that Apple, Twitter, Facebook etc should be considered private companies as much as they are arms of the government… especially since it seems like half of their executives are government employees.
    https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1346544481483554817

    I’ve been getting emails from a very large organization based in DC warning me my life could be danger from “First Amendment Activities” taking place in DC tomorrow and that I should take precautions to secure myself. “First Amendment Activities”… how’s that for an Orwellian phrase.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Of course, the joke is on Apple if they think that the average First Amendment Activity attendee uses Apple Maps.

    • Drake

      I always thought Second Amendment activities would be more dangerous.

      I saw a shelf full of Rand McNally U.S. maps on a store shelf the other day.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Apple Maps sucks. It’s entirely possible that they are just seeing normal behavior.

      • kbolino

        Yeah, and it will compound as more people try to “verify” it.

    • Not Adahn

      If that actually happened, someone should ask as who’s request the takedown was made.

  27. KOVIDKristen

    A colleague announced he’s lousy with the ‘Vid on our team call today. Gasps all around. As if someone announced they had Ebola or Mad Cow. Like, y’all. He’s literally on a conference call with you right now, not hooked up to a ventilator at Walter Reed. For fuck’s sake.

    • Ownbestenemy

      People have been told, for a year, that you will die. Doesn’t matter if that chance is > 1%, you will die. What is better, those people probably do more risky things in their lives than the COVID will ever be to them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Err….< 1% but you get the idea.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Yeah, but on next week’s call he’ll be dead. Good luck getting him to do anything then.

    • KOVIDKristen

      Also, this is a guy under 40 who spent the first month of work from home asking when the building’s gym would reopen (i.e. he leads a healthylifestyle). His risk of needing medical intervention is probably lower than even the lowest risk people.

      • prolefeed

        Given that, I’d say his chance of dying from the Vid is less than 1 in a thousand.

        To put that in perspective, the average person driving 10,000 miles annually has a 1 in 6,000 annual chance in dying in a car accident. When was the last time you heard people gasp in sympathetic horror at someone’s imminent demise, because that person mentioned that they drive a car?

  28. Count Potato

    “How has Israel left the world behind in the vaccine race? 24/7 operation that gets six doses out of each vial, instead of five, and gives ‘left over’ doses to the young every day has inoculated nearly one in six people

    Israel has leaped ahead in the global vaccine race by squeezing every last dose out of its vaccine supplies and using its efficient health system to launch a 24/7 immunisation drive with military help – with Benjamin Netanyahu making himself as visible as possible as he bids for re-election in March.

    Some 1.4million Israelis have already had a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab, with nearly a sixth of the 8.7million population immunised against Covid-19 in less than three weeks.

    Nearly 146,000 people received the jab on Monday alone – more than some Western countries including Italy, Spain and Canada have distributed in total – with jabs being given out in sports arenas and military reservists being drafted in to help.

    While only Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines have been used so far, Israel has also had deals in place with Moderna and AstraZeneca since before any of the jabs were approved.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9115127/How-Israel-leaped-ahead-vaccine-race.html

    • Ted S.

      I blame the Joooooooooos!

    • creech

      “six doses out of each vial, instead of five, ”
      Probably some joke here about how (((they))) have plenty of experience putting (((their))) thumbs on the scale to shortchange customers.

      • invisible finger

        My first thought was Harry Lime.

    • Urthona

      TTheir entire country is the size of the D/FW metroplex.

      Do people not understand smaller government is better?

  29. KOVIDKristen

    So the righties are gonna burn DC to the ground tomorrow, yes? Because I think I still have a few pairs of Fluevogs in my desk drawer. ?

    • Drake

      They have to first encircle the city to ensure nobody escapes alive.

      • KOVIDKristen

        Yeah, but the Fluevogs! Will they be spared?

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      Gemini: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling (sic), a plan that may fail, annoyance

      it was foretold

      • leon

        a pretty good horoscope, as far as the gemeni goes

      • Not Adahn

        The card is a dandy in tights plucking a crop of swords that is growing out of the ground. He is picking them by the blade.

      • leon

        We gemeni seem to always get a bad draw

      • Ownbestenemy

        Welcome to the Sagittarius world

    • Urthona

      The right wing is too damn peaceful.

  30. KOVIDKristen

    Over the summer my boss had me work on a project related to COVID response. The info that was going into the project (a map of all the COVID shit we did around the world) was heavy on the “lookit all these ventilators!”

    I told one of my colleagues from Jump Street that touting the ventilators will bite them in the ass and will eventually be memory-holed.

    Today they told us “yeah, we’re not gonna be talking about the ventilators anymore”

    • hayeksplosives

      I recall some of the early reports (April/May) of fighting the virus in New York City contained testimony (anonymous) from doctors who were called in to help with CoVId patients even if their specialty was not in respiratory illness. They said they had to put people on ventilators but admitted many doctors didn’t know how to put the settings on properly so they basically wrecked people’s lungs over pressuring them.

      Seems a CPAP is a safer way to go. I have one of those and my trusty nebulizer. I have a ton of nebulizer ampules, but they have a shelf life. I just need a doc to keep writing prescriptions for it and I can survive with self treatment.

      • Ownbestenemy

        There was that one nurse, who highlighted that they were basically killing people because of medical maleficence in the beginning and she was probably right.

      • hayeksplosives

        New York had a disadvantage of having older buildings with retrofitted improvements and less than modern air handling. Perhaps they didn’t have enough beds; easy to believe if they had Certificate of Need requirements that are as hard to get met as getting a taxi medallion.

        I compared their numbers with San Diego at that time, since we had cases, but there was plenty of capacity open to handle the acute cases. It only got bad in San Diego when the clinics and hospitals had to shut down all elective procedures and postpone treatments that could wait.

        As a result, the hospitals had to lay off nurses and doctors because they couldn’t make money to keep the place fully open. So now we have gorgeous new facilities that have whole wings closed and unstaffed.

        So this % ICU metric as a trigger for lockdowns makes me want to break some teeth.

      • KOVIDKristen

        If that happened here in the U.S., imagine, say, Bangladesh….

  31. grrizzly

    Catastrophe Is All Around Us

    We do all this research every day, and then turn on the TV to find the nation’s top medical spokesman (a certain Dr. Fauci of fame and fortune) knows nothing and cares nothing for any of the research. He is a performance artist who just likes being on TV, being fawned over while he advocates the permanent overthrow of our rights and liberties. And yet even his colleagues and others in the profession, who know his long-running racket very well, dare not call him out for fear of losing grant money, being ostracized within their institutions, and trolled on Twitter. He is a scary man with the power to make or break careers, so rather than take the risk, others just shake their heads and turn the channel.

    Sheer cowardice explains most of the dearth of dissent. It’s easy to forget how cravenly careerist people become when they are afraid. Most people would rather lie or be silent than risk facing disapproval of friends and colleagues. Cancel culture makes this worse. Doctors who dare talk about natural immunities or the talisman of masks and distancing find themselves investigated by medical boards. Academics who speak out are accused of encouraging superspreaders, blasted by colleagues including students. It’s way beyond witch hunts at this point. As a result, you can easily get the impression that everyone agrees with the desperate need to dismantle civilization as we know it.

  32. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Man, fuck the Pope, sitting in the Vatican having his ass kissed and being waited on hand and foot in what amounts to the biggest mansion on the face of the planet while criticizing people who don’t want to be locked in their apartments. Go to Hell you old fool.

    • hayeksplosives

      I wonder why Ratzenburger really resigned. There were reports that he had received the results of the Church’s internal investigation he had called for, and that he intended to leave for his successor.

      And then it disappeared.

      Francis is such an obvious commie on a mission. He’s have converted to Islam if he thought he could have more influence that way.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’m not very familiar with Vatican inside politics to be honest but I do know a douchebag when I see one and Francis meets my criteria.

  33. hayeksplosives

    Speaking of healthy fat, I have perfected the art of making little baguettes with a nice crusty outside and a perfectly textured inside.

    Not great for low carb hubby though. I will need to lay off the bread baking until he loses his holiday pounds (his request).

    • db

      Do an article on your technique!

      • hayeksplosives

        I’ll have to take photos next time.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yep….along with the Internet, this is just creating more and more excuses to be degranged. Doooom! Doooom!

    • Rebel Scum

      So the people practicing secular sharia approach the people without masks in order to berate them about masks? Wtf happened to muh social physical distancing? Why put yourself in danger if the mask is ostensibly to protect others? (I suspect deep down you know it is all theater and you just like being a Konvid Karen Kunte.)

      • Ownbestenemy

        Your last few words are the most correct. You sir, are not the weakest link.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      And the dumb old heiffer’s obviously violating social distancing rules while harassing people. At least be consistent you psycho.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Are they trying to get another Battle of Athens?

    In a repeat of exactly what happened during the November 3, 2020 General Election, voters Georgia Republican stronghold precincts have been contacting authorities and media outlets complaining that Dominion Voting Systems machines are breaking down.

    With ballots stacking up in one of the most important elections in recent history – and will participation rates through the roof, election and polling officials are telling voters their ballots will be stored and scanned into the tabulation machines later.

    Popular Georgia radio host, John Fredricks, said voters from Republican dominant precincts have been calling his show and telling him they were unable to complete casting their ballots in the state’s twin run-off elections because Dominion Voting System machines were malfunctioning.

    The voters told Fredricks that poll workers told them to place their ballots in a “box,” telling them their ballots “would be scanned later.”

    • hayeksplosives

      UNSUBSTANTIATED!! BASELESS RUMORS!

      Nothing to see here. So Please don’t look!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its just rumors 😉

    • Ownbestenemy

      Paper ballots should have been used in this runoff. This is going to be a bigger clusterfuck than the general election and just fuel the fire for tomorrow.

    • creech

      Doesn’t the GOP have enough watchers and lawyers to sit with those boxes until they are counted? What the f**k have they been doing with all the contributions they got from soliciting us eight times a day for the last eight weeks?

      • hayeksplosives

        I got one of the text messages today that started “Did we do something wrong? You still haven’t contributed….”

        I know it’s a bot but I replied “Yes, you nominated two idiots to Senate and now the entire federal government hangs in the balance. Fuck off, losers.

      • Urthona

        they fucking better

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        What the f**k have they been doing with all the contributions they got from soliciting us eight times a day for the last eight weeks?

        Hookers and blow, d00d.
        Hookers.
        And.
        Blow.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      How do the machines normally work in Georgia? Is it necessarily a problem that they are not counting the ballots in real time?

      My county in CA uses Dominion. We fill out a ballot on touch screen and when done the ballot is printed on paper. I was told that the touch screen does not do any counting and is not connected to the internet. The paper that is printed has a QR code, which is what I assume the counting machine reads. The paper also lists my choices in plain text, so I can validate that the choices were recorded correctly. I assume that the counting machine reads the QR code properly. It should be an easy thing to validate, so I doubt that they would cheat by “misreading” the QR code. Once the paper ballot is printed, we put it in a ballot box to be counted later. I don’t know where the counting happens.

      Anyway, given the distrust in the system, voting officials should do a video on how the voting and vote counting works including scenarios like the counting machine being down, signatures not matching, votes being illegible, etc. That they don’t do so makes me suspicious by itself.

      • Urthona

        Neither Republican nor Democrat slanted news sources have done any good reporting on how actuallly any of these systems worked. The media is useless.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Because neither Republican nor Democrat want this can of worms opened. They both have their hands in this pot I suspect. Not just this pot, but I am guessing for a long long time.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        ^^ this. I don’t doubt that its another situation where the Dems are old practiced pros and th GOP are amateurish buffoons, but TMITE would gladly pin it all on the right

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Totally agree. It pisses me off that we can sit here and brainstorm dozens of different ways to rig an election: running ballots through the machine multiple times, not verifying signatures, throwing out inconvenient ballots, dead people voting, non-citizens voting, etc. Instead of showing us how it can’t be done, they just say these crazy ideas have been debunked, but the debunking is usually just some politician saying “nothing to see, move along”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Considering slight of hand is the oldest magic trick in the book, its what is being done. There is a reason that after the day is done and all the rhetoric and mud-slinging is finished, the two parties yuck it up and clink glasses to a job well done.

      • Cannoli

        The process in GA is the same up to the point of printing out the paper with the QR code and the plaintext selections, but then instead of putting it in a box to be counted later, we feed it into a scanner which displays a message that the ballot had been cast. This is the first year we’ve used this system, in previous years everything was electronic, with no hard copy printout.

  35. Ownbestenemy

    Giving that comforting feeling…

    “A power outage, or something happened that knocked the power out at the polling location, which stalled the ability for citizens to vote for about 35 minutes,” said Chatham Elections Board Member Antwan Lang.”

    Or something? How do you not know if it was or was not?

    • LJW

      Just like the burst water pipe that was actually a toilet overflowing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am more amazed that not one intrepid reporter with the pulse on the nation’s desire to have accurate information didn’t ask “what do you mean ‘or something happened’. You are a board member. Given the recent magnifying glass on election security, shouldn’t you be aware of what exactly caused the issue at that polling location?”

        But I ask too much.

      • Agent Cooper

        I found the DeSantis attack on the reporter refreshing (even though he was a dick) because he asked her if they investigated something.

  36. DEG

    “I’m going to ask the foreign minister … to ask the government of the United Kingdom about the possibility of letting Mr. Assange be freed and for Mexico to offer political asylum,” added López Obrador.

    A little too close to the USA.

    Pope Francis has criticised people who have taken off on holiday to escape lockdowns.

    Fuck off asshole.

    Unveiling the installation last week, Notari said it depicted both a vagina and a wound questioning the relationship between nature and culture in a “phallocentric and anthropocentric society.”

    That’s some high-quality derp.

    “The Trump Administration has altered the definition of ‘terrorism’ to include the behavior of a government towards its citizens — no longer is terrorism solely about an explosion or bombing. The Trump administration connects Cuba with the FARC and with governments China, Iran, Russia, Syria, and North Korea.”

    Is there anything terrorism can’t do?

    Seizures of the synthetic opioid fentanyl by Mexican security forces have increased by at least 486% in 2020, the country’s defence secretary has announced.

    We’re winning the War on Drugs. Pay no attention to the later bit in the article which reads: Sandoval said the number of drug labs found in Mexico almost doubled, from 91 in 2019 to 175 in 2020.

  37. Hyperion

    So, the GOP are getting crushed in the runoffs, and that’s before the dems haul in millions of ballots in the middle of the night. Welcome to our glorious new utopia, comrades.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Waaaaaay too early for that (in normal times I know…we are not in such times).

      • Hyperion

        It’s not even close and I wouldn’t doubt now, that they call this early this afternoon. By the time the 4am ballots arrive from NY state, is will be a landslide.

        It’s mandate. American wants communism and they want it good and hard, now.

    • Rebel Scum

      The irony for GA is like that of America, a sea of red with a few blue blotches and the blue blotches command victory and control.

      • Hyperion

        I can’t even believe that GA turned that blue that quickly. Unbelievable. Neither one of the candidates are even close in this runoff.

      • Rebel Scum

        I can’t believe GA would vote* so heavily for outspoken marxists.

        * “vote”…Lol…

        Admittedly Idk what GA usually looks like in it’s senatorial elections as the night an count progresses (I know VA since that’s where I live) so idk what is going to develop overall.

    • rhywun

      From this sample of countries, South Koreans sleep the least – averaging 7 hours and 51 minutes of sleep every day. In India and the US, at the other end of the spectrum, people sleep an hour more on average.

      wut

      They are claiming the average American sleeps almost nine hours a day?!

      Pull the other one.