¡Martes por la tarde enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jan 12, 2021 | Daily Links | 361 comments

I got a ton of time today.  My company was bought out by a larger company in California so not only am I taking their trainings but for good measure I am taking the old ones because the new company doesn’t have Arizona-specific training yet.  Which is a fantastic thing to get paid to do.

So here’s a few links:

Likely already discussed around these parts, but the Mexican President discovers if they can do it to Trump they can certainly do it tonot so bigly figures on the world stage.

Speaking of Mexico, restauranteurs are beginning to openly defy the lockdown.  What’s our excuse?

Outside of Brazil, Boxing is still king in Latin America but an interesting piece on how UFC is building a talent pipeline.

“We didn’t have transportation, but after some time, when I won a bit of money, we bought a car between Henry Briones, Alvaro Herrera and myself,” Cannetti said. “We bought a car, but the first few months ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone let us borrow a truck, and it was 12 of us on that truck going around Albuquerque. Imagine 12 of us in a truck; it was nuts.”

Um…yeah…Imagine that….

Yes, the 6th was some third-world bullshit.  Own it.

*Scratches Puerto Rico from potential retirement list*

Right, its Trump’s fault Biden will have a hard time normalizing relations with Cuba.  I get it, we can’t just piss on Kennedy’s grave.

A fun interpretation of an older tune.  Have a good afternoon.

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361 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Firstin’ aint easy. Especially with late links.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I get it, we can’t just piss on Kennedy’s grave.

    We can’t?

    • Rat on a train

      Not without going inside the beltway. I don’t want to risk getting charged with insurrection.

      • Lackadaisical

        Crossing the Potomac is contra legem.

      • Rat on a train

        No law is needed. I don’t like crossing the Occoquan.

    • Tonio

      That was you, right?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Oh, we can alright, after the 20th, who know?

    • juris imprudent

      You can, but you have to do it from a mason jar, not the source. Lacks the full impact of course.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Its a dare. Make sure you put out that eternal flame if you do.

  3. Rebel Scum

    lsrger

    Not enough time to proofread, apparently.

    • Rat on a train

      It’s shorthand for Jewish Nazi.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The best/worst kind of Nazi, depending on your perspective.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Fixed, gracias.

    • Count Potato

      “We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet.”

      OFFS!!!

    • Count Potato

      The comments are surprisingly good.

    • robc

      I saw one person seriously trying to defend them, but even they weren’t trying very hard.

      • C. Anacreon

        There’s one woman trying to defend Twitter silencing the NY Post’s Hunter Biden stories, saying “they were right to do so, it was all Russian misinformation”.

        Again proving that the lie is what people remember, not the correction on page B-43 a week later.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Have you met you” LOL

    • Chipwooder

      Twitter doesn’t do self-awareness.

  4. DEG

    Speaking of Mexico, restauranteurs are beginning to openly defy the lockdown. What’s our excuse?

    More than a few times I posted a list of businesses (restaurants, bars, and gyms) in PA defying Wolf’s mid-December through early January shutdown orders.

    “This coup really makes the U.S. feel like home,” Venezuelan comedian Joanna Hausmann said on Twitter, summing up feelings shared across the region.

    Except we have food.

    • Rat on a train

      And electricity, except California.

    • WTF

      What coup? I must have missed the coup.

      • DEG

        It all depends on how you define the word “coup”.

      • Suthenboy

        that was back in November

      • Lackadaisical

        That is the only reasonable way to interpret her comment.

      • prolefeed

        Except she’s not being reasonable, she’s emoting her Feels. See below.

      • Lackadaisical

        It is twittertown, if they were reasonable they wouldn’t be on it.

      • Not Adahn

        The new term they’re using on NPR is “siege.”

        I have no idea which side they think are the besiegers and whether or not Capitol doors count as sally ports or not.

      • Count Potato

        And not one trebuchet?

      • prolefeed

        Joanna Hausmann Jatar
        @Joannahausmann
        ·
        Jan 6
        Trump tweeting “stay peaceful” after he told a mob to march on the Capitol and “take back” the country with strength is like when my brother said “behave” after handing me a bottle of tequila with a straw in it on my 19th bday party

        Apparently she thinks a few hotheads briefly occupying Congress, then the president saying he will peacefully step down on Jan. 20th, is a coup (she’s not even characterizing it as an “attempted coup”). Rather than, say, leftists stealing several elections in the U.S. and seizing full power being a mini-me version of commies stealing a bunch of elections in Venezuela.

      • Agent Cooper

        “my brother said “behave” after handing me a bottle of tequila with a straw in it on my 19th bday party”

        The Eternal Adolescence of the American Mind.

    • rhywun

      Lamest “coup” evar.

    • Agent Cooper

      Hausmann?

      ¡Como Venezuelan!

  5. Rebel Scum

    What’s our excuse?

    Despite our history we now lack the spirit of defiance? (not me, though…)

  6. Count Potato

    “Facebook and other companies like Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch extended their ban on Trump’s use of their social media platforms after his online posts encouraged violent rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol. ”

    Deleting posts makes it much easier to lie about them.

  7. grrizzly

    Once I counted half a dozen TV channels showing boxing while in a hotel room in Mexico.

    • Chipwooder

      Heh…..makes me think of European Vacation and Rusty’s growing despair when the TV in their London hotel room, has nothing but channels showing documentaries about cheesemaking.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Should I watch cheese or snow?”

        I love that movie. Silly but IMO underrated.

      • pan fried wylie

        Every time he flips to the cheese channel, the narrator is still saying the word “cheese”.

  8. Count Potato

    “As they watched rampaging Trump supporters push their way past police to storm the U.S. Capitol live on TV Wednesday, many across Latin America and in Miami who left homelands roiled by strife, and experts who have seen and studied political turmoil elsewhere, were struck by a sickening sense of déjà vu.”

    Oh, bullshit.

    • Rebel Scum

      Everyone should be very familiar with the term “gaslighting” now.

      • Rat on a train

        I need to see the film.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        It’s very good. Ingrid Bergman! An earlier British version also exists.

      • Agent Cooper

        Young Angela Lansbury as well.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh yes, forgot about her saucy Cockney maid.

    • Raven Nation

      What about the many who left homelands roiled by rampant statism?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Californians? They should go back.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        They’s a-floodin’ Oklahoma, Rose o’ Sharon!

      • Lackadaisical

        Isn’t Oklahoma their ancestral homeland?

      • Rat on a train

        Folklore refers to it as the Land of Joad.

      • juris imprudent

        That generation went to California to work. It was the post-war generation that moved there to “find themselves”.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Rampage! Storm! Strife! Turmoil! Sickening!
      GHAAAA!!!!!1!1!11!

      • Shpip

        I see you’ve already read next Sunday’s IFLA cards for me.

    • Chipwooder

      Would those be the same South Florida Latinos who voted for Trump in large numbers?

  9. The Late P Brooks

    it was 12 of us on that truck going around Albuquerque

    There’s something you don’t see every day.

    Oh, wait- in Albuquerque?

  10. Rebel Scum

    Must be some good coffee.

    This post is NOT sponsored by Death Wish Coffee but I would definitely take money if somebody associated with Death Wish Coffee happens to read this.

    The Amazon reviews for Death Wish coffee are absolutely hilarious and quite concerning. I’m personally frightened and intrigued at the same time.

    The first red flag when researching this coffee is the list of suggested questions from Google and how they get progressively more alarming

    • Not Adahn

      It is good. It’s my daily drink.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I tried it last week, its okay,

      I wasn’t buzzing or anything.

  11. Count Potato

    How many people were at the protest? Trump says 250K, but even if it were 100K, that’s huge.

    Then , out of that, how many entered the Capitol?

    • LJW

      Couple hundred at most? But there was some violence outside of the capitol which was probably a couple thousand people.

      • Rebel Scum

        By BLM standards it was exceedingly peaceful.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I saw a lot of people outside the capitol condemning the more egregious behavior as well.

      • Viking1865

        The boot will stomp them too no matter how much they insist that they aren’t like those ruffians and extemists. They’re a good common sense conservative.

        There’s a reason the call is “insurrection” and “domestic terror”. They’re gonna go full Patriot Act, but instead of Muslims it will be Trump voters.

      • mrfamous

        “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?”

    • B.P.

      Handing out felony murder charges on 250K people is going to be quite a chore.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    I just got back from Bozeman. i went to Harbor Freight to buy one of those baby wire welders. I’ve got some body sheet metal work to do, and hopefully it will get the job done.

    There was one other guy in the store besides me not wearing a mask, and he’s older than I am.

    • Suthenboy

      what kind of sheet metal?

      any kind of galvanizing or coating? use a fan and make 100% certain you dont breath any fumes
      if you breath any fumes you will get the most horrific, crippling headache you have ever had in your life

      you probably know this already but feel obligated to warn anyway

      • R C Dean

        Suthen, there you are.

        Looking at picking up a .357 revolver (long range planning in case we decamp for Uruguay – semi-auto handguns are limited to 9mm). Thoughts? Recommendations?

      • juris imprudent

        Not Suthen, but I really like my S&W 686 (and despite the 6’s there, it is 7 rounds in the cylinder).

      • slumbrew

        Whatever you do, don’t watch a video of a suppressed Henry Big Boy X .357/.38 Spl – you will develop a burning pain in your wallet.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, that one’s on my list. Not suppressed, but I’m thinking revolver first.

        Dammit, I really do not want to drop coin in this market on guns (or a new caliber or two of ammo). But I’ll need a lever action and a revolver if we move to Uruguay. And with the Dems set to take control and in a frothing, rabid rage at People Like Me, I probably will while I can.

      • db

        Check the regs about exporting firearms from the US and importing to Urugay, if you haven’t already. It might be a lot easier to purchase once you get there.

      • Suthenboy

        S&W 686 6″ barrel
        hands down best on the market

        S&W does still make the 19 w/ 4″ barrel but 357 wears the lighter frame out. if you stick to 38spl it is hard to beat

        have to handle both and choose your preference

        ruger gp100 is on par with the best

        those are top 3

      • R C Dean

        Thanks. S&W 686, six inch barrel it is, then.

      • Sukkoi19

        I have both the new Model 66 (SS version of the 19) and 19 Classic. They have the two piece barrels so the forcing cone issues of the past if you ran a steady diet of .357 are no longer a problem. I have probably 1500 rounds through the 19 and 1000 through the 66. Great revolvers. You can get the 66 with a either 4.25 or 2.75 barrel and the 19 only comes with the 4.25 unless you get the special carry version.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I like my 686+ but if I were to do it over again I’d probably go with the GP100. I really just wanted that extra round.

        If I could find an N-Frame 627 that would be ideal but then Ruger went and made an 8 shot .357 Redhawk.

      • dbleagle

        I owned a Ruger Blackhawk 6 inch barrel in .357mag for since 1980. I even took two deer with it (Muley in MT and Whitetail in AZ). I loved that weapon until the night of the horrible boating accident. Now I miss it enough I can sometimes imagine that I am shooting it. (One manly tear at the edge of my eye.)

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I am sorry for your loss.

    • Ted S.

      Why do you want to weld your baby?

      • one true athena

        Don’t be silly, he wants a wire welder for the baby to use. It’s important for your kids to get an early start in the trades.

      • pan fried wylie

        No, it’s because babies fit places adults can’t. Tiny steamfitters are invaluable.

      • Homple

        No kidding. The most valuable worker on a utility tunnel job I engineered was a woman about 4’10” tall.

    • Agent Cooper

      Wire welding a baby? Who are you, Kermit Gosnell?

  13. Rebel Scum

    Have I mentioned I like Stossel despise Nazi Pelosi?

    Pelosi noted that January 6 marks the feast of the Epiphany in the Western liturgical calendar (a feast that Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, and others celebrate). She also noted that the word “epiphany” has “the connotation of an awakening, that people will realize in a different way.”

    “I thought it was going to be an epiphany for those who were in opposition to our democracy to see the light. Instead, it has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this presdient, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy. That’s what this is about,” Pelosi argued.

    “There was an article written a number of years ago on democracy which said, ‘I fear the day when white Americans will have to choose between their whiteness and this democracy.’ And we saw what happened that day. This cannot be exaggerated,” Pelosi argued. “The complicity—not only the complicity, the instigation, of the President of the United States must and will be addressed.”

    Jokes on you. I choose the republic.

    • Suthenboy

      goddamn
      has anything other than gibberish ever come out of her mouth?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        You’d have to ask her husband.

      • Agent Cooper

        Spitter?

        Inquiring minds don’t want to know.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Dear Nancy, go fuck yourself.

      • Aloysious

        … because nobody else wants to.

  14. prolefeed

    Dunno if anyone linked to this earlier – I’ve been taking a break from social media (which this site is) and politics generally – but a big-L Libertarian got elected to the WY state house running under the LP, beating a Democratic incumbent:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Burt

    He’s no anarchist – his platform doesn’t call for abolishing public schools or whatnot, for example, but he does seem to be exceptionally good on the 2A according to his website:

    Second Amendment

    Republican and Democratic legislators have proposed sweeping gun control bills that would dramatically alter the relationship between law-abiding citizens and their local governments. These combined bills would allow state and municipal bureaucracy to label individuals as mental health risks without due process. Laws like this disproportionately hurt veterans and marginalized groups. If passed, it would create barriers and restrictions that would limit our ability to protect our selves, our families, and our homes. I am dedicated to preserving our right to self-defense and gun ownership and would like to see Wyoming become the second constitutional carry state.

    While deployed in the Marine Corps, I witnessed the value of protecting individual rights from an overreaching government. Historically, gun control laws have been nothing more than people control laws, and these Republican-sponsored bills are no different. I oppose all gun registration or instant background check schemes that allow the government to keep track of firearm ownership. Lists like this can lead to targeting of individuals solely for firearm possession. I will work with gun owners to create a plan for Wyoming to join Vermont, where there is no permit or residency required for either open or concealed carry. The permit for our right to self-defense and gun ownership is the Bill of Rights, and you can count on me to always defend the constitution.

    Sooo, considering people at this site seemed to be overwhelmingly in favor of voting for Trump rather than the person the LP coughed up this time, whattaya think?

    • KSuellington

      If the LP ran more candidates like that if vote for them (if his other stances are as good as that). They really should be concentrating on municipal and statehouse races and maybe try in to one or two Congress critters elected rather than a focus on the Presidential race. They’ve been around since the fucking 70’s, if they were serious they’d have already of had some success doing so. I think while some of their membership is serious, the leadership is very much in it for the grift.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, the presidential races are an epic waste of money. Local, state, and maybe a few very carefully targeted congressional seats.

      • EvilSheldon

        School boards. County assessors. You’ve got the right idea.

    • Bobarian LMD

      If the LP would run more people like this, rather than the left appeasers they normally do (on the national ticket), they’d probably have a strong argument for becoming the 2nd Party.

      • DEG

        Ding ding ding ding ding!

        And they won’t.

      • Suthenboy

        what?
        no pot, patchouli or purple hair?
        where is the fun in that?

    • Chipwooder

      I like him a helluva lot more than Jo “We must be actively antiracist” Jorgenson, that’s for sure.

      I wish I could convince my wife to move to Wyoming, but she’d never agree to a place with that much winter.

      • C. Anacreon

        I wish I could convince my wife to move to Wyoming

        Tell her you’re going to become a dental floss tycoon. Montana, just across the border, has enough of them already, but Wyoming is wide open.

  15. pan fried wylie

    Morning links had a discussion on cooking pasta in the microwave. I suspect the main time saving is from reducing the volume of cooking water. Microwaves don’t instantly turn 25C water to 100C. 1kw of 2.4ghz into 100ml is going to heat up almost as fast as 1kw of nichrome against 100ml (ok, plus the time for the element to warm up, minus conduction losses, but we’re not talking about efficiency…). Nuking the pasta though, you’re not putting 8 or 16 quarts of water in the oven. The suggestion of using a pyrex pan for spaghetti could probably get away with 2-4qts tops…maybe not even that much, I’ve never put spaghetti in a 9×13 and covered it with water to know how much it takes. Weirdo.

    RE: whoever lost a handle while pouring a pot into the strainer. I grew up dumping pasta into a strainer, that’s how mom did it. Then a while back I found the pot with the strainer in it at walmart. Aside from the first few uses where I yanked the strainer out too quick and the water drained out onto the stove…derp, like, really, more than once? Leaves just enough liquid with the noodles to help spread the anti-stick lipids. Then dump the pot out later when the food is taken care of and it’s had a chance to stop roiling. There’s probably better designs on amazon, but the wallyworld pot works well enough and included a steamer basket that I use for my artichokes.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      A strainer that’s like a bucket that fits inside the pot you mean? That’s not a bad idea either.

      • Ted S.

        It’s not exactly a new idea either.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I know, I meant a bad idea for me to purchase.

      • pan fried wylie

        I tried to imply that my discovery was long overdue and that it was really y’alls fault for not telling me about it sooner.

    • kinnath

      you’re not putting 8 or 16 quarts of water in the oven.

      Correct. Just enough water to cover the pasta. A small fraction of water compared to the normal method of dumping pasta into a pot of boiling water.

      Much less energy involved. And, I generally reuse the same glass bowl to serve the pasta. One less pot to clean.

  16. Rebel Scum

    You leave Kayleigh alone!

    After claiming he was issuing a “truth reckoning” and listing all of Trump’s White House press secretaries in his op-ed, Randall Lane, CCO of Forbes Media and editor of Forbes Magazine, writes:

    Don’t let the chronic liars cash in on their dishonesty. Press secretaries like Joe Lockhart, Ari Fleischer and Jay Carney, who left the White House with their reputations in various stages of intact, made millions taking their skills — and credibility — to corporate America. Trump’s liars don’t merit that same golden parachute. Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet. Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away.

    All press-secs before the Drumpfler regime were pure as the driven snow.

    • juris imprudent

      I always thought that Carney and Earnest were the most wonderfully named (if not morally deficient) people to hold the office.

      • pan fried wylie

        Stealphrom U. Assraper and Bootram Stomppenface just can’t seem to get elected.

      • Not Adahn

        Stealphrom Assraper? Of the Cascadia Assrapers? How is ol’ STEVE SMITH these days?

      • pan fried wylie

        Turgid.

      • pistoffnick

        tumescent even

      • Swiss Servator

        HIM PROBABLY HAVE FRIDAY NIGHT POST!

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Gaslighting, you say?

    States across the country are increasing security at their capitol buildings ahead of what the FBI has warned are “armed protests” being planned at all 50 state capitols.

    An internal FBI bulletin obtained by CNN warns that armed protests are being planned at state capitols from Saturday through at least Inauguration Day next Wednesday. The bulletin also suggests there are threats of an “uprising” if Trump is removed before then.

    Complicating the concern is that the FBI’s bulletin was not publicly released but was leaked to reporters. Federal law enforcement has yet to hold a press conference detailing the Capitol attack or laying out plans for securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. And the purge of Twitter and Facebook accounts promoting violent protests has made it difficult for the public to understand the extent of the issue.

    The startling warning, just days after a pro-Trump mob forcibly took over the US Capitol, is pushing states to increase security in case of a similar such attack at state capitols. Although many capitols are closed due to coronavirus restrictions, the warnings are particularly fraught in states that allow people to openly carry firearms or those where President Trump has falsely claimed fraud.

    “You can’t see it, because you don’t have the special glasses, but trust us, the danger is REAL!”

    It’s like those old horror movie previews where they said, “Trained medical staff will be on duty in the lobby to revive those patrons frightened to DEATH!”

    • Viking1865

      Our Sainted Governor Coonman McBlackface was urging Virginians not to attend Bidens inauguration. Makes me wonder just how worried they are.

      • pan fried wylie

        McBlackface = wearing a ginger wig with your blackface?

      • Rat on a train

        Mickface for the Black Irish?

      • Suthenboy

        worried? or certain that their antifa false flag operations might injure actual voters?

      • Rat on a train

        I’m looking forward to replacing Governor Blackface with Governor Weinstein.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      And when nothing happens, they will still act like the threat was real, but heroes prevented it.

      And if something does happen, it will still be less violent than the usual protests when a Republican is inaugurated.

  18. grrizzly

    An alternative history.

    From a 2009 article cited in Jeffrey Tucker’s latest column.

    The 1957-58 pandemic was such a rapidly spreading disease that it became quickly apparent to U.S. health officials that efforts to stop or slow its spread were futile. Thus, no efforts were made to quarantine individuals or groups, and a deliberate decision was made not to cancel or postpone large meetings such as conferences, church gatherings, or athletic events for the purpose of reducing transmission. No attempt was made to limit travel or to otherwise screen travelers. Emphasis was placed on providing medical care to those who were afflicted and on sustaining the continued functioning of community and health services. The febrile, respiratory illness brought large numbers of patients to clinics, doctors’ offices, and emergency rooms, but a relatively small percentage of those infected required hospitalization.

    School absenteeism due to influenza was high, but schools were not closed unless the number of students or teachers fell to sufficiently low numbers to warrant closure. However, the course of the outbreak in schools was relatively brief, and many could readily return to activities within 3 to 5 days. A significant number of healthcare workers were said to have been afflicted with influenza, but reports indicate that hospitals were able to adjust appropriately to cope with the patient loads. Based on our New York Times review, there were no reports that major events were canceled or postponed except for high school and college football games, which were often delayed because of the number of players afflicted.

    Available data on industrial absenteeism indicate that the rates were low and that there was no interruption of essential services or production. The overall impact on GDP was negligible and likely within the range of normal economic variation.

    Health officers had hopes that significant supplies of vaccine might become available in due time, and special efforts were made to speed the production of vaccine, but the quantities that became available were too late to affect the impact of the epidemic. The national spread of the disease was so rapid that within 3 months it had swept throughout the country and had largely disappeared. It was reported that with the end of the fall epidemic, demands for vaccine declined sharply. Whether a renewed effort was made to encourage vaccination before the spring of 1958 is not known, but many believe it was not.

    During the 1957 pandemic, 25% of the U.S. population became ill with influenza, and excess mortality due to pneumonia and influenza occurred. From one watching the pandemic from very close range, though, it was a transiently disturbing event for the population, albeit stressful for schools and health clinics and disruptive to school football schedules.

    • pan fried wylie

      it was a transiently disturbing event for the population, albeit stressful for schools and health clinics and disruptive to school football schedules.

      DEAR GOD ALMIGHTY HOW DID THEY EVER SURVIVE!>!?1/1/.1eleventy

    • WTF

      That was the before times when America wasn’t a nation of compliant pussies.

    • R C Dean

      From one watching the pandemic from very close range, though, it was a transiently disturbing event for the population,

      That’s kind of how pandemics work when they aren’t highjacked for fundamental transformation, great resets, that kind of thing.

  19. Rebel Scum

    If we don’t show you what he actually says we can lie about it.

    “And if you look at what other people have said, politicians, at a high level, about the riots during the summer — the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle, and various other places — that was a real problem,” Trump added.

    MSNBC host Hallie Jackson cut away from the president’s remarks at that point, claiming that he was not telling the truth.

    “We are coming out of this now because the president has started to — as he occasionally does, often does — veer away from the truth,” said Jackson. “His video that he taped on Wednesday after the riots were happening at the Capitol was not viewed widely as ‘totally appropriate’ — in fact, many people argued they were highly inappropriate and that he told the people who were rioting, the mob who was descending on the Capitol, that they were ‘very special’ and that he ‘loved them.’”

  20. juris imprudent

    This is some vintage Williamson:

    And Dwight Eisenhower represents the one thing the modern Republican Party hates most of all: the Establishment. The modern GOP hates the Establishment so intensely that the party establishment works overtime to establish its anti-establishment credentials. Eisenhower was a general, true, but he wasn’t a swaggering oaf such as George Patton or a sneering kook such as Curtis LeMay — he was, first and foremost, a bureaucrat, and an excellent one. He had beliefs but little or no ideology. To the great irritation of the founders of this magazine, he accepted the New Deal as settled policy, and at that time he might as easily have run for office as a Democrat. On top of all that, he had been — impossible to imagine for a modern Republican — the president of an Ivy League university. That last one alone would brand him an untrustworthy Establishment man, a Deep State man, in today’s Republican Party, which has only one tedious story to tell, over and over: “We the People!” vs. the (evil, elitist) Establishment.

    The whole read is pretty good, but the problem he misses isn’t that we don’t have (or need) an Establishment – the problem is with the one we have. It has utterly failed in the duty it as a class/entity owes the rest of the country. I’ll buy that Trump was a remonstrance by the people toward the Establishment – but that has not fixed the problem either.

    • Viking1865

      The problem with Williamson and his ilk is that he looks at this country, where the three richest counties in the US are the DC suburbs, and believes this to be the functioning of a meritocratic republic, and not an oligarchic empire.

      The Establishment steals from the Deplorables to fund their lavish lifestyles. Strip away the federal government, the media circus that covers it, and Williamson would have to find a real job.

      • juris imprudent

        As I said, the Establishment isn’t holding up their end of the bargain. The Deplorables, very much like the useful idiots of the Left, don’t get that you don’t get a populist-led country (that’s worth living in) – we need to rebaseline the Establishment.

      • Viking1865

        The Establishment has no interest in being rebaselined. They are raking it in hand over fist. Like, have you ever driven through a residential neighborhood in Loudon County? Not only do they have the New Deal era’s job security and pension, they now earn significantly more than the average worker.

      • juris imprudent

        May not be this Establishment, if not, then it will be the next one.

      • kbolino

        And they still whine about being underpaid and underappreciated. The most distant place from the DC suburbs is not Bumfuck, it’s Self-Awareness.

      • Rat on a train

        Before the carnivorous, I rode the train with the bureaucrats. They bitched if OPM didn’t close the government for a dusting of snow. During the shutdown showdowns, they were giddy over the prospect of a prolonged “vacation”. They complained if the price of a monthly train ticket exceeded their government transit subsidy. They made these complaints openly and loudly in front of people that didn’t get any of those benefits.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh and there are no GS’s in the Establishment – they just answer to it.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        have you ever driven through a residential neighborhood in Loudon County

        Not only are those very nice homes, but they’re very nice homes at the DC premium. What would’ve been a $300-400k house in any flyover city is a $1.2M house in Loudoun.

        We lived just on the poor side of the county line, and it was starting to encroach on us. “Custom homes on 1ac lots starting in the $800s” said the sign on the subdivision being built next to our neighborhood.

      • Chipwooder

        And this is why I had to roll my eyes at the piece – what Williamson is doing here is pretending that Dwight Eisenhower is a suitable exemplar of the political establishment we have in the 21st Century. He is not, in any way shape or form.

        He also pretends that the Democratic Party(or just “the Left”, if you’d rather) of today is the Democratic party of Bill Buckley’s pals like John Kenneth Galbraith, which is equally silly. Adlai Stevenson wasn’t constantly screeching about “whiteness” and insisting humans with penises were actually women. Hubert Humphrey wasn’t toying with the notion of knocking down monuments to Washington and Lincoln.

        He uses Buffalo Guy as the sample for the Republican Party, but doesn’t do the same with some green-haired Antifa lunatic for the Dems.

        More or less, this is Kevin Williamson saying “Well, I don’t agree with everything the leftish establishment wants to do, but I like them more.”

      • Viking1865

        Yeah Williamson is a piece of shit.

      • Chipwooder

        I still find it hysterical that he got fired from The Atlantic on bullshit grounds but, like a beaten dog, just can’t quit that crowd.

      • Agent Cooper

        The Establishment is a cartel. #changemymind

      • Agent Cooper

        Welcome to Panem.

    • DEG

      Yes.

    • limey

      Brunette white ladies from sunny climes. My favorite.

    • juris imprudent

      “Fortunately I didn’t have this locked on myself while this happened,” Robert said in an online chat.

      But that other guy it was locked on – whew, is he shit-outta luck!

      • pan fried wylie

        More like shit-inna-lock, AMMIRITE?!?111

    • Lackadaisical

      Maybe they are into findom also.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.

    Joke’s on you, Bozo. I already assume everything in Forbes is, if not an outright lie, based on a galactic ignorance of the subject at hand, whatever that might be.

    • pan fried wylie

      What’s a ‘forbe’.

      • R C Dean

        Non-woody plants generally are divided into grasses and forbes.

      • Not Adahn

        Are you saying Teeve Torbes couldn’t get a woody?

      • pan fried wylie

        oh, like a sedge?

  22. Urthona

    My sister’s pediatric clinic in North Texas was shipped 200 doses of the vaccine today by the government.

    Odd, since they only treat children.

    So she’s vaccinating all the old people who want to get it, including my parents.

  23. Shpip

    In today’s MMA landscape, it’s not uncommon to see Hispanic fighters thrive at the highest level, and that’s not by coincidence.

    Many Hispanic fighters from Latin America can be found across all divisions in the UFC, the leading MMA promotion on the planet.

    Using skill at sport to escape poverty. Same as it ever was.

    And this is probably just me, but I pretty much quit watching boxing after Tyson went to prison. The upper weight divisions were famously corrupt, and as for the others — why would I want to watch a couple of Mexican dudes who weigh less than my college girlfriend (and I wasn’t a budding John) wearing pillows on their hands dance around and tap each other for twelve rounds. Give me Butterbean pounding punks into pudding any day of the week.

    • Chipwooder

      I don’t know, man, Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales used to beat the snot outta each other.

    • pistoffnick

      I gave up on UFC after Conner MacGregor won his second comeback bout in a matter of seconds. That shit is only slightly less scripted than WWE wrasslin’.

      • straffinrun

        UFC rigged? Nope. Match selection isn’t merit based, but the matches themselves aren’t fixed.

    • Agent Cooper

      Cue Modelo Especial theme!

    • straffinrun

      I got hit in the face by a 125 pound dude in high school. He eventually became an Olympic alternate in boxing. Now, I’ve been hit many times by big old country boys. That little guy’s punch was different. Floored me. I have a lot of respect for real boxers after that.

  24. Tres Cool

    “says Ngozi Erondu, senior scholar at the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown University, who identifies as Nigerian American and says half her family lives in Nigeria…”

    Thats about where I stopped

    • pan fried wylie

      I can spot spam when I see it. It’s in the pixels.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, I thought you might be going to Tom Kratman’s series.

      • Agent Cooper

        I wish Sci Fi book art were better.

      • C. Anacreon

        “will appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber…”

        Come on, you can’t have testimonials using made-up people’s names!
        At least come up with ones that sound less like Perry Mason characters.

    • Drake

      Where’s Gina?

      Biden’s CIA pick sounds like a clown. But this isn’t a political appointment. Either Haspel is resigning, being fired, or is dead. The “journalist” who wrote this fails to mention which it is. (She hasn’t been seen in public since the election).

      This article doesn’t even acknowledge Haspel’s existence. What the fuck is going on?

  25. Count Potato

    “”I’m not against sending these people to GITMO.”

    @MeghanMcCain
    says the “domestic terrorists” who stormed the Capitol should be “treated the same way we treat al-Qaeda.””

    https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1348721028868972544

    CWAA

    • Viking1865

      Sensible moderate common sense Republicans are just Kapos at this point.

    • Ted S.

      Dig up John McCain’s body and send it to Gitmo for McCain-Feingold.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I remember that time al-Qaeda stormed the Capitol and Haram al Bakir put his feet up on Pelosi’s desk while Abu ibn Haaji stole her podium. It was a dark day for America.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Her dad killed more Americans than those so called domestic terrorists.

    • Agent Cooper

      Now I see why they censured her mother.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I wish I could convince my wife to move to Wyoming, but she’d never agree to a place with that much winter.

    I can deal with winter, but I can’t think of a single place in Wyoming where I would want to live.

    • Chipwooder

      I dunno, I’ve never been to Wyoming. Looks pretty in pictures though!

      • Mojeaux

        Drive I-80 and you’ll rethink that pretty thing.

        The pretty places will cost you. See: Jackson Hole.

    • mrfamous

      I was told that Cheyenne was the gonorrhea capital of the United States.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I thought that was the Villages in Florida

      • mrfamous

        I may have my STDs confused (but not the city). Maybe it was chlamydia.

      • C. Anacreon

        I believe Tucker Carlson lives in The Villages.
        Wonder if there’s any connection.

  27. Count Potato

    “A white woman named Juliana Notari used a bunch of Black men to create a vagina on a hill.

    Not only is this transphobic, but what is it with white feminists equating on their body parts with their womanhood. It’s fucking creepy.”

    https://twitter.com/ChesyaBurkePhD/status/1345036217000341504

    This whole thread is too much. Actually, her whole feed is. Every post is about race somehow.

    • juris imprudent

      Only a PhD could be that stupid.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        She’s a PhD? I hadn’t noticed.

      • juris imprudent

        It was in the handle.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        /sarc.

        I know all the PhDs in my acquaintance use mirror selfies for avatars.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Twitter is a shithole but threads that contain an outsized number of gifs in order to make a point or rebut are the shithole’s shitholes. God do I hate that shit.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s funny.

    • Agent Cooper

      “I challenge you to try to get all the way through the Louvre with out getting thrown out”

  28. Rebel Scum

    Unity, healing.


    Bradley Whitford
    @BradleyWhitford

    The President of the United States is a terrorist.

    Meghan has joined the Dem Stasi.

    Whoopi Goldberg said, “All of those folks sitting there, knowing that this is a lie, for me, this is treason. You know that this is a lie. This has been predicated on a lie the entire time. And y’all just sit there and let it happen. You are the problem.”

    McCain said, “His family needs to be held accountable for this too. Don’t let Ivanka and Jared off just because they are not saying anything right now. Apparently, they’re in hiding. Do not let these people off the hook.”

    She added, “All of these people need to be held accountable. The reason why I never sounded the five-fire alarm before this point in time is because I always thought maybe there was a moment when it would be an absolute, utter, cataclysmic constitutional emergency, which is where we truly are at right now. Don’t let anybody off the hook. I beg of everyone.”

    • slumbrew

      The world would be a better place if the entire cast of The View dropped into a sinkhole.

    • R C Dean

      His family needs to be held accountable for this too.

      Just line ’em up and shoot ’em. Like the Romanoffs.

      an absolute, utter, cataclysmic constitutional emergency

      A three hour interruption of official business?

      What an attention whore.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I can see how filial loyalty could lead her to hold a grudge. Not that I agree with her.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Man, its going to be so much fun making fun of her in the camps.

    • Viking1865

      “The President of the United States is a terrorist.”

      No no not the one who ordered an American civilian murdered via drone for YouTube videos. No no no not the one with the torture and the kidnapping to black prisons (he’s not a terrorist anymore that hes out of power). No no no not the one who burned a hundred people alive in their homes for being part of a weird religion. No no no no not the one who had the FBI shoot a woman holding a baby in the face with a sniper rifle. No no no not the one who sold weapons to a terror state in order to fund death squads. No no no not the one who made us all drive 55.

      Actually, that last one is a terrorist. Fuck driving 55 on the Interstate. That’s not why we fought WWII.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Stolen. Thanks.

      • Agent Cooper

        Viking1865 is Sammy Hagar CONFIRMED.

    • WTF

      Christ, what an asshole. The acorn really doesn’t fall far from the tree.

      • kbolino

        See also: Liz Cheney

      • Suthenboy

        I like ” the turd doesn’t land far from the horse” better

        – my grandfather

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So it’s finally real rape, got it.

  29. Gustave Lytton

    Got an urgent email from company security warning about increasing threats of right wing violence since the start of the year. Crickets for the actual left wing violence that’s been near daily since last spring. I sent a ridiculing reply to my boss, who is far more conservative than I am.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Careful man, don’t get caught in the feeding frenzy.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m too low of a place to do so except as cannon fodder. And my ridicule was the competence of the sender wrapped in layers of concern for the company. I’ve gotten fairly good over the years at writing ambiguous memos with barbs but are 110% on board with the corporate message.

      • pistoffnick

        Can I hire you to write my part of my performance review? My review is coming up and my enthusiasm for the 6 core company values has waned (wasn’t much to begin with)

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        When I was younger I viewed that stuff as a writing assignment. Now I’d be telling everyone to kiss my ass.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        When you decide you don’t care about moving up the ladder any further it’s liberating. We’ve got some kind of organizational values bullshit and I don’t even recall how many there are much less what they are.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Corporate sent out some rah rah posters. Buddy and I put them up in the restrooms. Was hoping for more so we could have enough for the stall doors.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Enthusiasm isn’t required. For achievements, figure out how what you already did fits under those metrics. For future goals, figure out what you’re already going to do and shoehorn them in to the same metrics. If nothing else, fill up with fluff. Fluff that can’t be verified is even better. “Passionate advocate for company’s new outreach goals”

        By the time next cycle rolls around, replace stated goals with actual achievements. Double sundae if you do so while showing how your actual achievements achieved the states goals.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m so glad I work for myself now

      • Gustave Lytton

        Best and worst boss ever?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I suck.

        Pretty well.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m filling out an application for one of those “best under 40” awards, and it’s a whole lot of that. How can I shoehorn my boring-ass day job into their idiotic questions so that I can get an award that I can leverage with my employer to get more pay and early promotions?

      • Agent Cooper

        There are no Best Over 40 awards.

      • Mojeaux

        Tangentially: I am thinking about applying for some women-in-business grants.

        Those things make me nervous. Like, what if they don’t like me?

  30. wdalasio

    From the dead thread:

    The whip-smart people I know don’t talk like that.

    Most really smart people tend to underestimate their intelligence. They’re often surrounded by other smart people and will assume their sample is representative of the population. It’s similar to the guy telling everyone that he doesn’t own a television. The guy surrounded by intellectualism and life experience doesn’t stop to think about the role television plays in someone’s life. Moreover, really smart people generally have a really good understanding of their limitations. A really smart guy has a sense of all the things his handyman knows about that he lacks a clue on. And there’s a good chance he’s a little embarrassed by it.

    • UnCivilServant

      Stop buttering us up, what is it you want?

      • slumbrew

        I assume Glibs is like Lake Wobegon and we’re all above average.

        Sugarfree is our Garrison Keillor, except not a smug asshole.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Speak for yourself. I’m pulling down the average.

      • Mojeaux

        I must admit I probably am too.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Pfffft!AMATEURS!

        I’m the real “long-tail” experience on this site.

      • C. Anacreon

        Pfffft! AMATEURS!
        I’m the real “long-tail” experience on this site.

        The fact that me, an overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome
        Should be the star behind the Glibertarians site — hmmmmm

      • pistoffnick

        I’m getting dumber as I get older. At 21, I knew everything (and would tell you how it should be, too.).

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • Not Adahn

        Sugarfree is our Garrison Keillor, except not a smug asshole.

        I saw G. K.’s one man show in Austin back in the late 20th/early 21st C. Before then, I had the “typical” view of him.

        I walked out of that theater hating him.

        It was a long string of “…and then I met my hot new 20 year old production assistant. I truly loved my wife, but did I have the courage to take a risk and find true happiness, or would I take the safe route and remain faithful to [current wife who was once a 20 year old production assistant]?”

    • R C Dean

      really smart people generally have a really good understanding of their limitations

      This here. Someone who doesn’t is pretty much by definition not that smart.

      • Mojeaux

        The older you get, the more you understand how much you probably don’t know.

      • Viking1865

        Like me, for example, I need to get in touch with whoever is in charge of the LDS church in my area, but I can’t seem to track down a phone number. Need to talk to the pastor of the church. I know the name of the ward, but I can’t seem to get in touch with anyone. Is there a directory that’s available to non LDS people?

      • Mojeaux

        lds.org find a chapel

      • Viking1865

        Found it, thank you. It’s a different number than the other one I found, hopefully it works.

      • Mojeaux

        Am out and about and on my phone. I’ll help more when I get back home.

      • slumbrew

        Very much this.

        I’m still annoyed over the media pile-on on Donald Rumsfeld over his “unknown unknowns” comment – that was an incredibly pithy and insightful comment and people acted like he was speaking gibberish.

        I like to think that I know what I don’t know – but I may not know what I don’t know.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There were plenty of other reasons to hate on Rummy.

      • wdalasio

        And hating on him for those other things is not only fair, but right. But, I get slumbrew’s point. It’s repulsive to hear so much of the pseudointellectual class sneering at ideas and concepts that are entirely legitimate. Rumsfeld didn’t even invent “unknown unknowns”. I recall having heard the concept for years before he uttered the words.

      • Suthenboy

        “The older you get, the more you understand how much you probably don’t know.”
        ^this, right here^

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        My bother is a Phd in an actual difficult subject. He says “When you get your Bachelor’s you think you know everything. When you get your Master’s you realize you don’t know as much as you thought you did. When you get your Phd, you realize you don’t know anything.”

        While he may be right, I don’t think it applies to those who insist on being called “Doctor”.

      • Not Adahn

        My father had a PhD in Physical Chemistry.

        Before the Parkinson’s set in, he really did know everything. Admittedly, there was less to know back then, but still.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        the older I get, the less I know, the world just gets bigger,

    • Gustave Lytton

      Imposter syndrome vs Dunning-Kruger

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m the Imposter,

      • wdalasio

        It’s not really imposter syndrome. It’s more a condition of “miscalibrated evaluation”. If you’re very smart, odds are that a lot of the other people you deal with on a day-to-day basis are also really smart. From your perspective you aren’t “really smart”. You’re just sort of in the middle of (your) pack. You don’t really think you’re a fraud or anything. It just doesn’t occur to you that you’re unusually intelligent.

        I mean, riffing off UnCivilServant’s and Slumbrew’s comments, around here, I’m probably a middling-to-average mind. But, around here matters. In other contexts I get accused of talking over people’s heads.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Agreed

    • mrfamous

      When people make cognitive mistakes, it very often has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with the fact that all humans are prone to cognitive mistakes. Indeed there are some that only people with average or above intelligence make.

      Confirmation bias (the favored cognitive failure in the political realm) affects _everyone_ regardless of intelligence. Your only hope against it is knowing its existence and doing your best to watch out for it. And even then you’re gonna have middling success at best. In reality, thinking that way is evolutionarily advantageous but can lead folks atray when the situation no longer involves life and death.

    • Rebel Scum

      People that are actually smart know they don’t know everything.

      • Mojeaux

        My dad was very smart but he was insecure, so he couldn’t say “I don’t know.”

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Learning to say “I don’t know” was one of the more liberating moments of my life.

        Drove the spousal unit nuts, though (she wants me to “know everything,” even though she’s more than smart enough to understand that it’s not possible…).

      • slumbrew

        “I don’t know” is my favorite answer to any interview question I ask. “How would you find out?” is the interesting part.

  31. Shpip

    By the end of last night’s game, even CBS Sports was trolling the Buckeyes. (TW: Twatter)

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wtf. Snyder screwed up by accepting any responsibility for that disaster caused by almost completely by Democrats and bureaucrats.

      • Viking1865

        No, no no this is a good thing. A former governor is being held accountable, and this will 100% happen to a Democrat in the future, because there’s no double standards at all. No sir.

      • kbolino

        For all the Republicans seem to love losing with grace, you’d think they’d start questioning why the Democrats can’t win with grace.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    At long last, JUSTICE

    Amazon said Monday it was working to remove products promoting QAnon, a conspiracy group tied to the violent mob that attacked the Capitol last week. The move from the country’s largest online retailer comes after the chaotic rioting on Capitol Hill that left five people dead and shook America’s democracy to its core.

    QAnon conspiracy theorists subscribe to a false belief that high-profile Democrats and Hollywood celebrities are ritually sacrificing children and that President Donald Trump is fighting to stop it. QAnon followers have allegedly committed real-world violent crimes, including murder, and the F.B.I. labeled it a potential domestic terror threat in 2019.

    That’s it then. Harmonious tranquility is on the horizon. We are saved.

    • Gustave Lytton

      For a false belief, all of the actors seem determined to make it as plausible as possible.

    • Rebel Scum

      have allegedly committed real-world violent crimes

      Surely you have examples.

    • C. Anacreon

      Two people died during the march completely unrelated to the Capitol cohabitation, likely heart attacks, not unusual when you have a crowd over 200,000, especially with a lot of older people marching. But they have been included among the ‘five people dead”. Anything to make the events seem worse than what actually happened.

      Every pro football game with 70,000 people or more in the stands (when that used to happen) probably had someone die in the crowd attending that day. It’s just statistics. Not everything is because of bad people.

    • Count Potato

      “the F.B.I. labeled it a potential domestic terror threat in 2019”

      So is there such a thing as domestic terrorists or not?

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Over the weekend, Amazon — along with Google and Apple — said it would ban conservative platform Parler from its cloud services, after Trump supporters used the social network to express hatred and threaten violence that culminated in Wednesday’s riots, the tech giants said.

    Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot and killed last week in the riot, was an ardent supporter of Trump and a follower and promoter of many well-known radical conservative activists as well as leaders of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement, according to her social media profiles. She was engaged on social media with QAnon accounts and used QAnon hashtags.

    She was begging for it.

    • mrfamous

      This is infuriating. Truly disgusting.

      But I guess the dehumanizing of the opposition is going to be a great big feature of the near future.

  34. Count Potato

    Your tax dollars at work:

    “BREAKING: @PBS
    Principal Counsel Michael Beller Incites Political Violence In Radical Left-Wing Agenda

    “Go to the White House & throw Molotov cocktails…”

    “Even if Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters, Homeland Security will take their children away…””

    https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1349023335628288006

    • mexican sharpshooter

      RichardHaickPhoto @HaickPhoto
      2h
      Replying to @JamesOKeefeIII and @PBS
      It’s reprehensible behavior, but not nearly the same thing as inciting a riot or insurrection. He’s talking to one person in a supposedly private conversation, not blasting his stupidity across the airwaves. The only reason anybody is hearing this, is because you published it.

      Isn’t that kind of the point in publishing it?

      • Viking1865

        As Ace pointed out, O’Keefe is able to churn this shit out on a regular basis. Turns out its really really easy to find leftists who openly speak, over coffee or a drink, about the glories of gulags and advancing the socialist cause by any means necessary. It’s not like he has to spent months hunting for them, they just pop out one after the other.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        You would think it would be like Tom Green and after enough people know who you are, they’ll avoid you for making them look like an ass.

      • grrizzly

        I believe he no longer does it himself. He hires actors/spies who don’t mind lying about themselves. Sure, it’s not “ethical journalism” but instead how one should deal with the enemy.

      • Swiss Servator

        They use a number of people to get these…I suspect many are attractive women.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Then I will never talk to another hot girl again.

        ZARDOZ would be most pleased.

      • Not Adahn

        You can talk to them, just don’t try to impress them with your job. Just compliment them on their shoes and ask them if they want to fuck.

        Works every time.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        I was wondering about how he managed to find so many assholes like that, and then I realized that it’s simple — the modern world is a target-rich environment.

      • B.P.

        And nothing else happened. None of these reveals ever get any traction with “respectable” news organizations. Although getting someone from PBS fired is something, I guess. (All caveats about cancel culture aside, if new rules are to be put in place, they need to apply to everyone.)

    • I'm Here To Help

      Sad, but true, comment: “I lost my guns in a voting accident.”

      • Gender Traitor

        ***dejected applause***

    • db

      Finally! I freaking hated the ubiquity of that crap. There was nearly no place to escape it in the larger hubs.

    • Shpip

      Be careful what you wish for. Televisions in every airport gate, common area, and bar will now broadcast the PBS Newshour on a continuous loop.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Coming together under one boot

    The theme of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week will be “America United,” planners announced Monday, a reference to his pledge to bring the country together when he takes office.

    ——-

    “This inauguration marks a new chapter for the American people — one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united,” Presidential Inaugural Committee Chief Executive Officer Tony Allen said in a statement Monday.

    “It is time to turn the page on this era of division. The inaugural activities will reflect our shared values and serve as a reminder that we are stronger together than we are apart, just as our motto ‘e pluribus unum’ reminds us — out of many, one,” Allen continued.

    ——-

    There are also heightened security concerns around the inauguration, after a mob of President Trump’s supporters breached the U.S. Capitol last week in a deadly and dark episode that was egged on by President Trump.

    D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has asked for increased security around the days leading up to and following the inauguration in the wake of the attack on the Capitol.

    We will unify the nation. Except for those deplorables. They cannot be trusted, and must be kept under close guard.

    • Rebel Scum

      that was egged on by President Trump

      Something something big lie.

      turn the page on this era of division

      Now sit down, shut up and do as you are told, you deplorable nazi.

    • C. Anacreon

      It would be so easy for him to actually unite the country, or at least calm down things a lot.

      1) He should say he’s confident there was no fraud in the election, but he understands that millions of fellow Americans believe there was:

      “And I want you to know I hear you, and I want all elections to be free and fair, just like you. To ensure we have complete confidence in our elections from now on, I’m appointing a special blue-ribbon panel to make recommendations on how future elections can be completely reliable and trustworthy.”

      2) Say something positive about Trump:

      “You know I have my differences with my predecessor. But I do believe we all owe a great deal of thanks to President Trump for his Operation Warp Speed, which helped to defy all odds and promptly get us the vaccine we so desperately needed to fight this virus. Say what you will about the man, he did the whole world a lot of good with that.”

      It would actually endear a lot of those on the Right to Biden. So of course he wouldn’t do either of these, despite them both being ridiculously easy to state and relatively harmless. Because like all other politicians, he just can’t. Instead, he’ll probably tell us it’s time for everyone to unite, and if and of us don’t want to unite, he’ll send out the National Guard to MAKE us unite.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Zero sum game

      • The Hyperbole

        It would actually endear a lot of those on the Right to Biden

        Riiiight, and the Browns beat the Steelers in a playoff game.

      • Suthenboy

        instead he said
        “I dont need your vote” and “I have the largest voter fraud organization in history”

    • wdalasio

      I like this one.

      • KromulentKristen

        I mean, what did I miss that Snowden’s pardon chances just went up by 1000% ?

      • wdalasio

        I think your linked post has to do with Liz Cheney calling for impeachment. It would be a proper “Fu** You Very Much!”.

      • straffinrun

        The McCain’s and Cheney’s outrage at Trump is particularly odious.

      • See Double You

        Waterboarding them would be fitting.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        McCain doesn’t deserve that. Dad did oppose torture, probably the one good thing he did. Maybe just put her on NutriSystem.

      • mrfamous

        Liz Cheney and other establishment Repubs look to be “yeas” on impeachment.

        I’ve repeatedly stated how much I don’t like Trump, but man does he make the right enemies.

  36. grrizzly

    I’m bound to violate every new order immediately since my flight to LA later this week arrives after 10pm. It goes without saying that the trip is entirely non essential; walking on a beach without a mask is one of the main reasons.

    “Right now, because there is so much spread, we’re recommending that people wear their face coverings while they’re inside the home,” Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer said at a press briefing Monday.

    Local authorities have lately sought to impose the most stringent social distancing measures in the country, including new lockdown orders and a 10pm to 6am curfew, with the exception of essential workers.

    L.A. is also telling people to not event take a walk or jog without wearing a mask: “Now is not the time to meet with friends at your home to watch the game,” Ferrer said in the Monday statement. “It is not the time to go for a walk without a mask.”

    • Rebel Scum

      Fuck. Off. Slaver.

    • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

      Jesus P.!

      I thought the new restrictions in Alberta were bad, but compared to most of the Western world, we’re still one of the sanest by a long shot. (It’d be totally awesome if we were more like Texas or Florida, though…).

    • See Double You

      Tarring and feathering is too light a punishment for these people.

    • one true athena

      She is so useless and dumb.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Adam Carolla will be all over this tomorrow morning.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Why do so many public health officials look so unhealthy?

      • straffinrun

        Their conscience is under lockdown?

      • Agent Cooper

        Well done, Theodore.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’d wear a mask in LA while walking just to cut down on the stench of sidewalk shit.

  37. creech

    “This inauguration marks a new chapter for the American people — one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united,” Presidential Inaugural Committee Chief Executive Officer Tony Allen said in a statement Monday.

    I’ve been told that Americans have been united in the past – such as during WWII and after 9/11 Terror attacks. Yet, Dewey got 46% of the vote against FDR as the U.S. was demonstrably on the road to victory in WWII. And Kerry got 48% against Bush in 2004, as the U.S. was smiting terrorists hammer and tong. Even when Goldwater got crushed, after the Kennedy assassination (for which the media blamed right wing extremists even after Oswald was identified), Goldwater got about 40% of the vote. So, politically, the country has been roughly fifty-fifty divided forever. Somehow I don’t believe BidenhertimeHarris administration will be a game changer unless the Left can find a way to bar icky Republicans from ever voting again.

    • See Double You

      Every party in history has sought to consolidate its power. Having captured the corporate world, the Democrats may be able to pull it off.

      • wdalasio

        Having captured the corporate world, the Democrats may be able to pull it off.

        Perhaps. For a while. Until we all suffer a Heinleinian bit of “bad luck”. Then the pendulum will swing. And all the Pandora’s Boxes that they opened will become, for them, the stuff of night terrors. And the truth is, they’ll deserve it. The only problem is the pendulum will swing back on everyone else, as well.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      The desire for unity just means that they want us to fall in line behind the Dems. If there were unity, there would be no need for elections.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        America as a one-party state would require that the rest of the world nuke it with extreme prejudice as a simple defensive move.

        Y’all need to get your Independents in line and start a real third-party alternative. You can populate it with crypto-libertarians afterwards.  ;-)

      • straffinrun

        The only way a new party can challenge either the existing parties is to promise more free shit or violent revenge. America as we knew it never coming back.

      • wdalasio

        more free shit or violent revenge

        If the Dems institute the policies they’re talking about, the call of the latter is going to be a lot stronger than the call of the former. I don’t think they’ve thought through the can of worms they’re opening.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re deluded by the censorship in the media. Nobody they know voted for Trump.

      • straffinrun

        The lesson team red will learn is to stop disavowing their fringe and to do more than giggle at team blue when team red wins.

      • Not Adahn

        Unity is bullshit.

        330M people cannot plausibly be a single polity. There is no goddamn reason why the US should be one country other than some religious faith that there is one right way to live.

      • wdalasio

        Agreed. But, others, even here, have raised understandable objections to the idea of disunion. Personally, I see it as a better alternative than to where we’re heading.

      • Not Adahn

        My mother is upset that Africans get to vote in the United Methodist Church General Council, because they shouldn’t have any influence on the US church. She sees no contradiction in her belief that CA and NY should get to overrule TX when it comes to gun rights.

      • straffinrun

        Yeah. Unfortunately, the only way I can see forcing the statists to let people go is if the people make very unpleasant by staying.

  38. LJW

    Not going to link to twitter

    #BREAKING: PBS has fired Michael Beller, a mid-level staff attorney who was filmed by Project Veritas calling for the children of Trump supporters to be “put…into re-education camps.”

    There is no place for hateful rhetoric at PBS, and this individual’s views in no way reflect our values or opinions,” a PBS spokesperson said in a statement.

    I’d bet money it does reflect your values and opinions.

  39. grrizzly

    No more lame cloth masks in Bavaria.

    Bavaria will require people entering shops or using public transportation beginning Monday to wear FFP2 masks, which provide better coronavirus protection than cloth masks but aren’t common among the 40,000-strong U.S. military community in the state.

    FFP2 masks are roughly equivalent to the N95 masks used by U.S. medical workers.

    Bavaria had allowed people to wear a variety of store-bought and homemade masks in stores, but the state’s top official said Tuesday afternoon that stronger measures were needed to reduce the state’s coronavirus infection rate.

    • rhywun

      Massenhysterie.

    • Ted S.

      Masken wirken nicht; also müßen strenger maskieren.

      • Ted S.

        Das Wort »wir« soll drin sein….

      • rhywun

        wirken

    • Gender Traitor

      They should require these masks.

    • creech

      What’s shocking is that the U.S. still has 40,000 troops in Bavaria. Still trying to dig those werewolves out of the mountains, eh?

  40. Semi-Spartan Dad

    The Night of the Long Tech Knives continues… Mailchimp just blocked VCDL (a 2nd A group in VA) from sending emails using their system.

    • straffinrun

      You don’t like the private Earth? Build your own planet!

    • Viking1865

      Gotta disorient before Lobby Day.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That was expected. MailChimp recently changed their TOS. Babylon Bee is waiting for their notice as well.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Funny, I remember during the Arab Spring all the talk about how the internet was ushering in a new golden age of freedom.

      Laughable in retrospect

      • Gustave Lytton

        Anyone hit up John Gilmore for a new pull quote?

    • Not Adahn

      I’m sure that the only reason this hasn’t been purged is laziness.

      • Mojeaux

        Funny you should say that. I was thinking about this a couple of days ago.

        My hypothesis on why it’s still there is that it still draws a lot of traffic.

      • mrfamous

        Surprised it’s still there since it seems pretty clear that Ken White does not in any way support it.

    • Agent Cooper

      I’m shocked Michael Malice is still on da Tweetz.

  41. westernsloper

    Yes, the 6th was some third-world bullshit. Own it.

    YES!!!!! We are third world number three! NUMBER THREE, NUMBER THREE WE ARE GONNA BE DONE JUST WAIT AND SEE!

    • rhywun

      Because a proper first-world country operates an election which half the voters are somewhat to absolutely certain was rigged and are just expected to STFU and take it up the ass.

      • westernsloper

        I have no idea what you are talking about. I was just working on my peaceful protest march chant.

      • westernsloper

        I wrote my protest march chant that way because I couldn’t think of a word that worked that rhymed with world.

      • Ted S.

        ? You are the world,
        You are the children…. ?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Whorled,

      • C. Anacreon

        Now, I go down to Speaker’s Corner, I’m thunderstruck
        They got free speech tourists, police in trucks
        Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong

        There’s a protest singer, he’s singing a protest song:
        He says, “They wanna have a war, keep their factories
        They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
        They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
        They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease.”

        They’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
        They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind
        Give ya “Rule Britannia”, gassy beer, page three
        Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease

        Meanwhile, the first Jesus says “I’ll cure it soon
        Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons”
        The other one’s out on hunger strike, he’s dying by degrees
        How come Jesus gets industrial disease?

        /Mark Knopfler, “Industrial Disease”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nice, great tune!

      • westernsloper

        C…….none of that rhymed with world.

        Although I smoked a lot of pot and ate a lot of mushrooms while listening to that song back in the day.?

      • Mojeaux

        Whirled peas.

      • db

        hurled
        furled
        burled
        twirled
        knurled

      • Tundra

        swirled

      • westernsloper

        Ok smart guy, work those into a protest march.

      • Mojeaux

        Curled

      • The Hyperbole

        We’re the third World, you’re gonna get hurled!
        Your flag is unfurled and it ought to be twirled!

        *repeat until it makes sense*

      • westernsloper

        Nice.

      • rhywun

        hurled seems apropos in the New Normal