497 Comments

  1. Festus

    Going to destroy the Republican Party? Just wait a sec, I need a parasol, lawn chair and a cooler full of beer…

    • Suthenboy

      no shit
      good riddance

      • Festus

        How’s the paw, Paw-Paw?

      • Suthenboy

        half of my finger turned black but mostly healing, thank you for asking
        advice: stay away from blister beetles

      • pan fried wylie

        Manufacturers of blister packaging next-hardest hit.

    • rhywun

      Right? Good riddance.

      • Festus

        Nard-less Wonders, the lot of them!

      • Festus

        I see an explosion coming. Reps will self-destruct, Dems will drift further to the left. Conversely, North America turns fascist. Fuck it, I’m sorta old.

      • AlexinCT

        I wish I could disagree with you, but while the demise of the republican party is a welcome change, especially if it gets taken over or replaced by a party that actually sends people that want to serve the American people to office for a change, the fact that the democrat leadership is hardcore about controlling their lemmings, will allow them to do massive damage to liberty, all in the pretense of security or some such nonsense, while consolidating power. While the democrats fooled everyone that what they wanted was European style socialism – like Denmark or Sweden – what they are really looking to deliver is the Chinese CCP model: one party tyrannical rule.

  2. robc

    Baseball birthdays today start, and end, with Curt “fuck off, slavers” Flood.

    • Gdragon

      Curt’s on-field contributions (cut short as they were) are also very underrated I think. He was a very fine player. The sim league I play in is actually named for him.

      • robc

        He was in decline even before his year “off”.

        But yes, he had a very good career up until 1968. Something like 6 consecutive years of MVP votes. 1969 was down, and he retired in April 1971 after a horrible start.

      • Gdragon

        He was in decline but he still lost a not insignificant amount of career WAR from the interruption/halting of his career, don’t you think? He was still a 3 or 4 win player in 1969.

      • robc

        Fun fact: Flood, Pinson, and Frank Robinson played High School ball together on the same team. All 3 originally signed with the Reds.

  3. straffinrun

    McConnell told his Republican colleagues that Trump’s actions last week were worthy of impeachment, according to The New York Times, which cited anonymous sources.

    No one will be ignoring the elephant in the room if there isn’t one.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *golf clap*

    • Sean

      Anonymous sources.

      GTFO.

      • straffinrun

        True, but I could see McConnell being a douchebag on this.

      • Sean

        He’s a swamp critter, but is he that stupid? I dunno.

      • straffinrun

        Stupid or not, I dunno. It’s how the game has been played for years. It’s the old, “Oh yeah, Trump voters. What are you gonna do? Vote Democrat?” The public has a short memory.

      • Festus

        Votes don’t matter anymore. We saw what happened in the swing states.

      • AlexinCT

        And these lizards know not to buck their Chinese masters. The CCP wants revenge, that’s why the democrats also want it, and McConnel is owned by the CCP. Career suicide or not, the end of the republican party or not, McConnel’s loyalties are to the CCP and the deep state. And the Deep State needs Trump neutered and gone, or getting back to business as usual can’t happen with any veneer of legitimacy.

      • Brawndo

        McConnel likely wants a trial so they can publicly humiliate the democrats and their flimsy evidence. Oh wait, the democrats have no shame.

      • Gender Traitor

        It worked so well last time.

      • Festus

        Hey Red!

      • Gender Traitor

        Mornin’ Fes!

      • UnCivilServant

        Morning both of ya’ll.

        State offices closed today. But I’ve got appointments.

      • Gender Traitor

        Morning, UCS.

    • Suthenboy

      what actions exactly?

      • pan fried wylie

        Still breathing.

      • Rebel Scum

        Requesting that people peacefully protest. Apparently it is the worst presidential crime in US history.

      • pan fried wylie

        They didn’t HAVE to protest. Trump did that.

        IMMMMMPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

      • pan fried wylie

        EEEEEEEAACH!111eleventy!!11

      • AlexinCT

        Funny how 7 months of “almost peaceful protests”, encouraged by team blue, where the VP and the party put up money to bail out the rioters so they could keep doing their thing, resulting in billions in damage, countless lives ruined, and close to 50 people dead, was always reported as something we needed more of (at least until they too started targeting the political class), huh? But the one time the other team does some of the same, I only hear that it was terrorism and a coup attempt, because some protesters that died from heart attacks, a pro-Trump cop that may or not may have been beaten to death by supposed Trump people that sure look very Antifa/BLMish to me, and a lady that was shot by the capitol cops, out of thousands.

        I saw the speech Trump made, and anyone reading into it that he wanted people to riot – especially those peddling the idiotic idea that the people that stormed the capitol were going to take hostages and that would somehow allow Trump to keep the presidency, the height of both stupidity in abuses of logic and projection – is a fucking bullshitter. Especially when you belong to the camp that told people, for months, we needed more BLM & Antifa destruction in order for the displeased and disenfranchised to show their displeasure at the bad evil orange guy.

        Yeah, not going to let the people that spent 4 years making up lies and trying to undermine a president that wasn’t one of them get away with that. If we do we might as well get our fucking CCP social score number already and get to sending the people that displease the masters to the camps.

    • Urthona

      I still question whether this is true.

      • Rat on a train

        It will follow similar treadmills. Unnamed sources familiar with his thinking -> he told unnamed sources -> unnamed sources say he told others -> …

      • Urthona

        We only had 10 members of the House vote against, and there will be fewer senators voting against I predict. It’s just not like him to bother with a losing cause unless he wants to waste time.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This. He’s a political creature. Every action has a purpose. If he’s bothering with it, there’s a reason. It may not be a good one from a liberty perspective, but there is a purpose, and being that the clock is 2 years until they have any hope of regaining any kind of power, wasting time seems like a legit strategy (from a purely political point of view). If they can waste a few weeks early on with allowing the Democrats to put all of their fire on Trump it 1) gives them more than enough time for the democrats to overplay their hand, and 2) may help take some wind out of their sails on things they want to make an impact on early.

  4. CPRM

    Biden team already in talks with Iran over return to nuclear deal.

    Isn’t that against the rules? Like talking to the Rushunz about easing sanctions before Trump was in office…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Rules are for the other side.

      I’m so fucking over it. There is zero willingness to abide by the law or provide equal protection under it.

      If McConnell goes along with impeachment, he will be personally responsible for the destruction of the GOP. Maybe that’s a good thing, I don’t know. But I do know that the Democrats will see it as carte blanche to wage war on dissenters.

      • AlexinCT

        Rules are for the other side.

        I tell the morons that say we have a problem today because of bad orange man, that he is but the symptom of a far bigger problem, and the most important underlying real cause of that bigger problem is precisely the total lack of shame in showing that there really is a different set of rules for those that are part of the team blue and rulership class and the rest of us. So many people that actually subscribe to the belief that they have nothing to worry about because they don’t do bad things or hold the right beliefs are going to find out that the system they now have accepted doesn’t need you to actually do anything wrong. They can just make up something to take you out, and you have no recourse. When the rulers live above the law and the law is no longer fair, people will take the law into their own hands.

      • Festus

        The “Law” serves the people that write the “Law”. We’re fucked, good and proper.

      • Viking1865

        “Rules are for the other side.”

        The leftie shithead who stormed the Capitol and is on tape urging people to break shit got released pending trial.

        The redneck who put his feet up on Pelosis desk was released pending trial, but then Robert Muellers pet judge, an Obama apointee, overruled that decision and ordered him in to be jailed.

        We don’t live in a republic or even a democracy anymore. The justice system is feudal, there are quite literally different laws for peasants and the nobility.

  5. straffinrun

    Biden also will initiate his “100-Day Masking Challenge” with a mask mandate on federal property and during interstate travel.

    How is that a “challenge” if it’s mandated. And, it’s a good time to start a window tinting business.

    • Suthenboy

      buckle up
      its gonna be 4 years of complete insanity

      • Tejicano

        I’ve said it before – this transition to the pre-Harris administration has been giving me the same instinctual reaction that I always felt when riding in an unstable aircraft which seemed to be doomed to a crash landing. I’m expecting this thing to go south any minute.

      • Festus

        You get that “twitchy eye” feeling too?

      • Aloysious

        Brooks, if you like Guy Ritchie movies, try The Gentlemen. Came out last year, and is in the same vein as Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. As well as Snatch.

        I almost soiled my britches laughing. Trigger warning for the gentle folk: the word “cunt” is used liberally as a noun, verb, and dangling participle.

      • Ownbestenemy

        How…appropriately placed. 😉

      • Aloysious

        What? I have *no* idea how this showed up here.

        Squirrels are frisky today.

      • AlexinCT

        THERE ARE FOUR FUCKING LIGHTS! NOT FIVE…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      During interstate travel? LOL get fucked!

      • R C Dean

        What counts as interstate travel?

        I have to have it on while crossing a state line, but not while traveling within a state?

        That seems pointless.

      • straffinrun

        Just when I think I hate lawyers, this little loop hole is exposed.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Or does it mean on actual interstates? That’s how I read it. Who the hell knows?

      • pan fried wylie

        I’d like for you to stop reading things, please.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Cut me some slack, I haven’t had my coffee yet.

      • pan fried wylie

        Just stop reading when you come to obvious and soul crushing conclusion, sheesh.

      • db

        I imagine a convoy of a couple thousand cars, drivers all maskless; when one car gets pulled over, they all stop at the side of the road, get out and wander around maskless. See how many troopers the state is willing to dedicate to handling all those tickets/arrests. Make a big deal.

      • DrOtto

        *imagines all the idiots on H1 in Hawaii donning masks*

      • Rat on a train

        All roads connect to other states (Hawaii’s through high speed rail).

    • Suthenboy

      didnt some moron advise or demand recently that people mask up when home alone

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        There have been experts saying here and there that you should mask up to screw your wife so probably yes.

      • Festus

        Maybe their wives are hideous?

      • Festus

        Maybe the expert’s wives are hideous to behold. Ben Franklin said that you could place a basket over their upper body and never tell the difference.

    • Tonio

      I don’t believe this means people travelling on Interstate Highways in private vehicles, even if they cross state lines. I believe this is a mandate, er suggestion, which will be applied to carriers such as airlines, bus companies, passenger railways, etc. As always, the interstate commerce clause looms large.

      • straffinrun

        Quick google and you’re right. Fox news, ugh.

      • rhywun

        Yes, Biden is carefully constructing his edicts to control everything he currently has power over.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Which means his challenge or whatever is really just pointless except for the purpose of getting it into the news cycle for the media to carry his water. I am not sure there is a federal facility that hasn’t mandated masks by their parent administrator or secretary and are there carriers that haven’t at least on paper, instituted some sort of mask policy?

      • DEG

        The Post Office, last I checked, recommends but does not require customers wear masks. If there is a state or local mask mandate/ordinance/what-have-you, postal employees are required to wear a mask.

        A few weeks ago I was in my local Post Office to send off payment for a GunBroker auction. I did not wear a mask. Everyone else did. No one cared.

    • Sean

      Suddenly, borders are important.

      *eyeroll*

    • Urthona

      At least it’s a pointless flex.

      There aren’t federal properties or businesses doing interstate travel that won’t require a mask already during that time.

  6. Festus

    Keystone getting cancelled is very bad for Canada. It’s especially bad for all of the honorary deplorables that work in the oil-sands of Alberta.

    • rhywun

      An opposition party that wasn’t complete shit would point out to Americans that the left’s energy goal is to triple your monthly utility bill.

      • pan fried wylie

        An opposition party that wasn’t complete shit would point out to Americans that the left’s energy goal is to triple your monthly utility bill. deprive you of two thirds of your energy consumption.

        The reality for most people who have cars and kids that eat all their disposable income. I still don’t want to triple what I spent last month to heat the one room I keep comfy.

      • Suthenboy

        ^this^

        its about deprivation
        destroying peoples ability to live well

        proggie relative explained to me a week ago why poverty is not a bad thing

      • Festus

        Everyone having less balances the scales of justice.

      • Gender Traitor

        “You first.”

      • straffinrun

        *Chugs beer and leans back*

      • Jerryskids

        Amen. Everybody talks about how it’s impossible to replace all our current energy production with “Green Energy” without realizing that the watermelons have no intention of replacing all our current energy production. It’s the forbidden White Supremacy/Colonialist/Capitalist thinking that you should expect to have electricity any time you want it, 24/7/365. You’ll be told how much electricity you *need* and you’ll be properly grateful to get it, you maggot. And if you’re not properly grateful? Well, no electricity for you!

      • pan fried wylie

        Don’t bother checking the thermostat. Pepco shut it off.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Things to think about when shopping for a cloud enabled thermostat.

      • juris imprudent

        It is best to think of the Internet of Things as Intrusion into every Thing.

      • db

        I have a homebrewed home automation system that uses openhab–any device I have that tries to connect outside our home LAN gets blocked by the firewall.

      • Idle Hands

        The real deal one’s will actually tell you this is the goal. They want to go back to an agrarian society.

      • Viking1865

        The claim would then be fact checked by Politifact, debunked by both the NYT and the WaPo, refuted by all the TV news channels, and then mocked by the late night comics, SNL, and all the other culture clout people.

        All the bad things that are going to happen under the new regime will be blamed on Trump. Every single one of them.

      • AlexinCT

        An opposition party that wasn’t complete shit would point out to Americans that the left’s energy goal is to triple your monthly utility bill.

        it is worse than that. A country can neither have a good economy nor security if its energy needs are held hostage by others. The rulership class needs American energy independence to not exist, because so much of the horrible policies that subjugate American people to the will of unlawful global entities are excused by the need to appease those that control our energy generation.

        And mind you, when most people can’t afford their energy bill, government can come in to subsidize it, and then control you through your dependency. These people want to make sure the serfs know they can be made a non entity if they don’t comport and comply.

      • juris imprudent

        A country can neither have a good economy nor security if its energy needs are held hostage by others.

        That is certainly what the Japanese of the 1930s thought.

      • Viking1865

        They weren’t wrong.

      • AlexinCT

        Why do you think team blue is hell bent on making sure America is not energy independent?

      • juris imprudent

        The post-war era says otherwise. And it’s funny given how the Chinese are emulating the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere plan these days.

      • Viking1865

        “The post-war era says otherwise”

        It does not. Japans sea lanes have been guaranteed in the postwar era because they were first occupied and then a staunch ally of the United States. They import 3 million barrels of oil a day, and they can do that because they are best buddies with the only extant blue water fleet. As long as they are America’s allies, the energy keeps flowing.

        “Being best buddies with the biggest meanest country in the world” is a different way of securing energy, but its still securing energy. You either need your own domestic sources, you need to be big and powerful enough to secure the lines of supply, or you need an ally willing to do it for you.

      • juris imprudent

        The sovereign govt of Japan does NOT guarantee it’s own access to energy, it “accepts” our “protection” of that access (and this is a very large reason for American interest in the Mid East), as well as free shipping lane access.

        Your premise of being best buddies with America does not square with Alex’s assertion. It leaves Japan dependent on the U.S. – and in the short run of the post-war era, that’s worked out; the long term is still open to debate.

      • Viking1865

        Alex said this

        “A country can neither have a good economy nor security if its energy needs are held hostage by others.”

        The US is not holding Japan’s energy needs hostage, just like the US isn’t holding Canada hostage with shouldering the burden of continental defense. It could, if it so chose, but it does not and has not in the past.

        It doesn’t matter if your water comes from the pipes or a well, as long as you have water. If you don’t have water, that’s the problem. Water from a pipe is better than a dry well.

      • Festus

        They were right, though.

    • creech

      I believe it also means more Canadian oil will be diverted to our new best buddies in China.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s the real reason for the opposition. Double win if the energy goes to China AND denies the U.S. energy independence.

  7. Rebel Scum

    The Biden administration has already unrolled its plan to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and has begun holding quiet talks with Iran, an Israeli TV station reported Saturday.

    I was under the impression that an incoming admin was not supposed to speak to foreign governments.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If not for double standards, we wouldn’t have any at all.

      • robc

        When the GOP takes back the House in 2 years, they need to have something to foolishly impeach over.

    • Atanarjuat

      Those rules, all of them, apply to establishment outsiders only.

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I see Apple is backtracking their Parler ban if Parler agrees to more moderation.

    Something niggling in the back of my brain says that the ban had more to do with creating the appearance of unruly Trump supporters than any actual calls to violence.

    Because if they apply the same standards evenly, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube should be long gone from the App Store.

    • straffinrun

      The goal will be for Parler to be the same type of “moderated” platform as Twitter et al. And it will work, I assume. Fortunately, they’d have to handcuff the entire internet like China if they really want to stop millions of pissed off people from connecting.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      You can hop on any of the large platforms and catalog death threats to various people all day every day. The ban and the insistence on moderation is just an attack on a competitor on the aspect, being to say what you want to say, that gives them a competitive advantage.

    • Tonio

      I love how the capitol protesters are simultaneously depicted as incompetent fools (Buffalo Guy being Exhibit A), and scary, dangerous domestic terrorists.

      • Nephilium

        Schrödinger’s threat!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Whatever the narrative demands.

    • db

      They’ll have to hire a bunch of censors to sit around and block anything that Apple considers objectionable. Why in the world would parler assent to that? There would be little reason for them to exist outside the selling point that they don’t censor their users.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      That’s not a very grand gesture considering that Parler, as of right now, ceases to exist. Carrying the app for a site that doesn’t exist means jack shit.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    “Overall, Yelp’s data shows that business closures have continued to rise with a 34% increase in permanent closures since our last report in mid-July,” Justin Norman, vice president of data science at Yelp, told CNBC.

    No great loss. The Ministry of Plenty will allocate those resources more efficiently.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck Yelp. I hope those con artists and extortionists rot in Hell.

      Their entire business model is based on extorting money out of business owners by soliciting bad reviews (or creating them themselves). Now they’ve got a “Report a Racist Business” option as well.

      • Nephilium

        Google Maps allows business owners to flag their business as woman owned, minority owned, and LGBTQ friendly now.

      • Rat on a train

        Let people hoist their flags. It will make it easier to avoid them.

      • Viking1865

        I don’t mind that at all. It’s a positive piece of information, rather than a negative piece of information. Its something objectively provable. The problem with the “Report a Racist Business” is that the SJWs think anyone whos not of the left is racist. They’ll stop at Mas Country Diner and flag it as racist because Ma is sitting at the register wearing her Trump 2020 shirt, even if Ma treats everyone with equal kindness. Shes a racist because shes a Trump supporter. It’s not like you have to post video of the owner using a racial slur, you just make shit up for Internet points. Like all the “racist notes on the receipt” hoaxes.

      • Mad Scientist

        The problem with the “Report a Racist Business” is that the SJWs think anyone whos not of the left is racist.

        The left’s enemy is not the right, it’s humanity. The left considers everyone racist, themselves included, and is offended when other’s don’t self-flagellate enough.

  10. Rebel Scum

    Biden also will initiate his “100-Day Masking Challenge” with a mask mandate on federal property and during interstate travel. Klain promised the president-elect would sign additional executive orders on climate change and health care access in the first week of the new administration.

    Luckily I have no purpose to visit federal property (but I wonder if these cuntes intend to include national parks).

    Anywho, gotta nip that prosperity in the bud.

    *President-elect Joe Biden plans to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, according to several news sources.

    The decision delighted advocates of the so-called “Green New Deal,” but will disappoint Biden’s own political allies in the trade union movement, who had backed the pipeline for the thousands of jobs it would create.

    That shit hasn’t been built yet?

    • CPRM

      Trump didn’t care, as long as he got a few miles of wall built his ego was satiated.

      • Rebel Scum

        Wouldn’t matter anyway. Atlantic Coast Pipeline jumped through all the hoops and suffered all the lawsuits only to be under construction and then canceled by the gov’t.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah well funded lefty lawyers just judge shop until they find a Sierra Club card holding lifelong environmentalist who will of course refuse to recuse themselves.

      • juris imprudent

        This too is a problem – and no one thinks about how to attack the funding of these groups, or how to force them to spend resources to reduce what is available to the mission.

    • Tonio

      “but I wonder if these cuntes intend to include national parks”

      Rebel Scum, folks. A funny, funny Glib. Give him a big hand…

      OF COURSE the fecking will, RS. They love to use parks and monuments as playthings. Remember how there was always money to station rangers at park entrances during theoretical govenment shutdowns?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They notoriously closed the Colonial Parkway when Obama enacted his little temper tantrum during the shutdown years ago.

        I think if they did it again people would just remove the barriers and go on about their business as it is an important road for commuting in Williamsburg.

      • Rat on a train

        They closed the World War II Memorial. They put up barriers around an open air monument. It cost more to man the barriers than it would have to keep it open.

      • Animal

        And a bunch of WW2 vets just moved the barriers and went on in anyway. There’s an apocryphal story of one of them telling a park cop that “…Normandy was closed when we got there, too.”

    • pan fried wylie

      Luckily I have no purpose to visit federal property (but I wonder if these cuntes intend to include national parks).

      Dude.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Post offices.

      I’m wondering what the stick will be. That’s the real part of this whole thing. The airlines, buses, and trains already mandate masks. Biden’s actions will turn it from company policy where the most that can happen is the company refuses service (bans you) to some sort of federal violation, maybe even prosecutable.

  11. straffinrun

    Oliver Darcy
    @oliverdarcy
    ·
    “We are going to have to figure out the OAN and Newsmax problem. These companies have freedom of speech, but I’m not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such bringing them into tens of millions of homes,”

    “We”.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I shouldn’t be flabbergasted, but I am. We’re headed straight for totalitarianism and they’re cheerleading it.

      • straffinrun

        There’s always hope. Being ungovernable doesn’t mean you have to be violent. Hopefully, people will learn that they don’t need the state and their cronies to live. Price to pay, but it will be worth it if people try.

      • db

        Doesn’t matter. There’s still withholding tax.

      • AlexinCT

        The people that spent the last 4 years “resisting” are worried that since they used scorched earth tactics, the other side could return the favor, and make life hell for them by not accepting them as legitimate. So now they need to shut everyone down. Since the calls to unity fell on deaf ears, for a bunch of good reasons, amongst them most importantly that it only came after these crooks managed to steal back power and really was nothing but a bunch of platitudes because the goal is to punish anyone that objects to their power grab, they now are no longer worried about the optics of seeking revenge and using force to do away with their enemies. And have no doubt that they see us as enemies.

      • Idle Hands

        they don’t think any further than the possible ratings boost that occurs because they are one of the 3 channels left.

    • Festus

      I can only assume that he’s referring to himself and that 20′ long tapeworm.

      • Suthenboy

        I figured he has a frog in his pocket

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Out: Government tyranny
      In: Private oligarchic tyranny

      • Tonio

        Out: Overt government censorship.

        In: Private tech companies enact restrictions government wishes would pass court muster if they did it, curry favor with government, become the AT&T of yore.

      • Suthenboy

        ” at&t of yore” was universally despised and thus ended up shooting themselves in the dick

        these shitweasels are going to do the same

    • db

      “the OAN and Newsmax problem”

      All problems have solutions. They’re really looking for a more final one.

    • juris imprudent

      What exactly is an Oliver Darcy and/or why should I give even a runny shit about his opinion?

  12. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are now permanent”

    Well they do continue to incur costs while they’re shuttered with no cash flow coming in. This ain’t rocket surgery.

    • straffinrun

      They should take out student loans.

      • Nephilium

        Then restructure the business into a non-profit!

      • pan fried wylie

        “Nonprofits still have to bring in reve…no, fuckit, I quit…”

        -Accounting

  13. Rebel Scum

    GOP Leadership Will ‘Destroy The Republican Party,’ Trigger Mass Exodus If They Vote To Convict Trump, Sen. Paul Says

    Time to get rid of the Whigs, once and for all, anyway.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Hollywood celebrities pleaded with Electoral College to vote against the will of the people to prevent a Trump Presidency

    “Sedition” is ok when they do it.

    • Suthenboy

      I know when I need advice on politics the first place I go is to Hollywood celebrities

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You don’t but some actually do, mostly people who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground, and their vote counts just the same.

      • juris imprudent

        See, that right there is a good reminder of where the real problem lies – with people you probably know, or might even be related to. You better start figuring out how to set them right.

  15. Rebel Scum

    CNN discusses plans to ban conservative news organizations, influencers

    Cleary we have to protect people from choice. What we need is a ministry of truth.

    • Jerryskids

      And Reconciliation, don’t forget all the reconciliation.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Hard-lockdown California is — perhaps counterintuitively — recording significantly higher new case numbers and hospitalizations compared to the more open, less restricted state of Florida.

    Perhaps counterintuitively. Or, perhaps, they are offering concrete proof that shit has no beneficial effect. But that won’t stop them from blaming the peasants for being insolent and disobedient.

    • Tonio

      Ppl are obviously cheating in CA, Brooks. We need to have drone surveillance to detect secret backyard gates that people are using to secretly gather.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are now permanent

    That’s not why.

    • Rat on a train

      When the ‘rona shows up at your door with hired guns, you do what you’re told.

    • WTF

      Well, you don’t expect them to tell the truth about the government boot on their necks, do you?
      Because that would be doubleplusungood.

  18. Jerms

    Funny thats the song today, was going to go to Brooklyn to see my hipster brother later.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    What counts as interstate travel?

    I have to have it on while crossing a state line, but not while traveling within a state?

    I assume this basically affects planes and trains. Mask from Bozeman to Seattle, but not from Boz to Missoula?

    These people are retarded.

    But who knows? will the Illinois State Patrol be sitting at the Iowa line on I-80? I would put nothing past them.

  20. Jerryskids

    Good morning, everybody! And if I understand the rules here, I’m supposed to say “First!”.

    I have a theory that with what’s going on in Washington to “protect against attacks” and given that you can tell what Democrats are planning on doing by what they accuse the other side of planning on doing – well, let’s just say Joe Biden is going to enjoy the shortest Presidency of all time. And then the Democrats will have the perfect excuse to declare martial law and “temporarily” invoke emergency powers to suspend the Constitution as well as rounding up all the seditious traitors who might have ever spoken a word of encouragement about He Who Shall Not Be Named.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We are one incident away from the Insurrection Act and with all of the antagonization taking place they just might get it but I don’t think it’s a fomal plan, it’s just a bunch of dumbasses blundering themselves into a trainwreck.

    • Tonio

      That’s an interesting theory, JK. I hope you’re wrong.

      I see this as more of a panicky overreaction and bad third-world political theater. The razor wire and soldiers are just there for show. A military presence is a de facto military imprimis for the inaugurations, and presumably not something the generals would have done on their own. It’s all about Schumer and AOC and the photo ops.

      • db

        Yeah, these people aren’t exactly 3D chess masters.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I have zero doubt that the Dems and much of the GOP would happily use the military against America citizens. I think this is the first steps towards that… normalizing military presence, including checkpoints, and them taking orders from the pols. Especially when considered in combination with the parallel purge going through the military and law enforcement.

      • WTF

        We can only hope there will some resistance among the military rank and file.

      • Tonio

        Yep.

        And they haven’t considered what creating a sudden class of unemployed, unemployable people with guns and tactical training will lead to. Crime is gonna soar. It’s going to be like the terrain in Heinlein’s “I will Fear No Evil.”

  21. straffinrun

    Betcha he manages to fuck up one more thing before he leaves.

    https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1350990420831035399

    CNN Politics
    @CNNPolitics
    JUST IN: President Trump is preparing to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on his final full day in office, sources say, though — as of now — not for himself.

    • KromulentKristen

      I’d say odds that one of the Big Three is included are…not good.

      • straffinrun

        If you only got one, who would you choose? I’d really like to see Snowden, but he’s somewhat living freely, so I’d choose Ross and then Assange.

      • KromulentKristen

        Ulbricht. Only for the fact that he’s an American. If Assange were an American I would have trouble deciding

      • Gustave Lytton

        And Martha Stewart. Fuck Comey.

    • Rebel Scum

      Word.

      And fuck CNN.

    • Suthenboy

      Jesus that thread is a steaming pile

  22. KromulentKristen

    Doge is at vet for dental. A 17-year-old under anesthesia makes me nervous. But hopefully his chronic infections will stop.

    • Gender Traitor

      Hope all goes well and he comes home with sweet, minty breath.

    • Jerryskids

      Sympathy.

    • Tonio

      Good luck to doge.

    • db

      Best wishes for a speedy recovery

    • straffinrun

      17 year olds under anesthesia make me nervous, too. 😉

      Hope dog gets well.

    • DEG

      Best wishes.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Unity. Healing.

    “Donald Trump, in my opinion, is a career criminal, and what he does is commit crimes, and I’m sure — look what’s going on. Read the paper today, and — and we don’t know that they are paying trump, but this is what he has done, and anybody that pardons him or thinks of pardoning him. Nixon is a different situation. He did some bad things. I do not believe that Richard Nixon was a career criminal. He lied and okayed crimes in his own interest. I think Trump is an entirely different case. I think there would be an eruption in this country to the likes that you can’t imagine. I don’t think President-elect Biden has any intention of pardoning him, and not only do I hope they don’t pardon him. I hope the new attorney general finds if there are have had crimes that are committed that they indict him.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fucking Carville.

      Clinton ran a goddamned crime syndicate while in office. Selling secrets to China was just a portion of it.

      • AlexinCT

        And Obama took the corruption of the Clintons to a new level. The fucker got us Trump. But these crooks want to project and pretend the problem is the other people that resist their criminal activities…

    • WTF

      Please, name the actual crimes that objectively violated the relevant criminal statutes.
      Or shut the fuck up.

      • juris imprudent

        That sumbitch has some of Goebbels DNA, doesn’t he?

      • WTF

        That’s the thing, isn’t it? It’s not like we haven’t seen this shit before, yet most people are still oblivious to what’s happening.

      • AlexinCT

        That is by design. Two or three generations of people that have been indoctrinated rather than educated has left a giant hole that these fucking tyrannical fucks are happy to take advantage of.

    • Viking1865

      I do love how they always fall back on old reliables.

      “Look, Nixon was bad, but looking back he was so much more reasonable, moderate, and not Hilter. Not like the current Republican, who actually is Hitler.”

      I hope Trump lives to be 100, so that if we still do have free elections he can hammer every Democrat who says “Gosh Donald Trump was just so moderate and reasonable compared to Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis is Double Secret Hitler!!!”

  24. Atanarjuat

    Glenn Greenwald is doing God’s work in the toughest neighborhood right now on censorship and the plan to bring the War on Terror home and turn it against Trump supporters and anyone vaguely on the right.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Greenwald’s a good man but much of the left has already smeared him as a Russian stooge. Like with Assange, that love affair has long since gone south.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yes.

        They’ve turned on him, but that actually makes him better.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Luckily I have no purpose to visit federal property (but I wonder if these cuntes intend to include national parks).

    Visit Yellowstone? Who would do that, unless they had a death wish?

    • Rebel Scum

      East coast. More likely Shenandoah for me.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I have no problem with the scorched-earth destruction of the Republican Party, but I am not exactly optimistic about what will replace it. 90’s Bill Clintonism wity a gooey Romneyite center probably, which will still be the greatest threat to democracy since Adolph Trump.

    • straffinrun

      They are counting on apathy and defeatism to replace it. Fuck them.

    • Suthenboy

      in other words “meet the new boss”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      ’90s Clintonism with a gooey Romneyite center is the Republican Party now so why bother? If the party is torn down the replacement will likely be more populist and, unfortunately, socially conservative.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, that is something I don’t quite get – the idea that what replaces the Republican Party will obviously be better.

    • Idle Hands

      Republican party isn’t going away, while the dems have superior organization and cultural power the republicans actually have an incredible edge candidate wise still bench is far deeper with way more diversity(poltics wise anyway). Although I wouldn’t mind seeing the repubs going scorched earth either. Also the dems are fucking trying to make the republicans one thing I never thought was possible counterculturally cool.

      • creech

        The GOP has as many safe congressional districts as the Dems. If AOC can spout shit without re-election repercussions, then there are GOP congressmen who can too. They just need to use their brains (think Buckley style insults) instead of coming across as crazy. Rand Paul can emerge as the leader, and, by the way, Rand is a real DOCTOR.

      • Idle Hands

        If you think we get a rand paul character instead of a populist strongman at this point I admire your optimism.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I finally got that point across to my wife this weekend.

        What comes next is only a raising of the stakes, not a lessening. Our leaders are damned morons playing with fire and gasoline.

      • Idle Hands

        You can’t even blame people given the events of the last year. The bureaucrats and political class looted the country and destroyed people’s lives and aren’t going to suffer repercussions otherwise. If there was ever a group of people that deserved a franco or pinoche it’s the current squad of fucking unimpressive retards running things.

      • zwak

        This. Right now it is real, edgy humor (think Lenny Bruce) and pretty soon it will be books as the current purge is showing people what they can and cannot read acceptably. Film will be the last as it takes the most capital, but I can see religion making a strong comeback on a storefront level (not the Catholic Church or other big mainstream ones like Methodist, although the internecine warfare in that church is a sign of what’s to come)

  27. The Late P Brooks

    I watched “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” (for the ~50th time) last night. Nothing Guy Ritchie could do in real life would keep me from liking it.

    • Not Adahn

      Well, if marrying Madonna didn’t do it nothing will.

    • Idle Hands

      Yeah that and Snatch though basically being the same movie make him sainted no matter what stupid shit he does. Lock, Stock is amazing. Only British film I like more is layer cake.

      • UnCivilServant

        The two movies blur together in my memory. I’d wager that a good editor could mix the two into a single film, and no one would be able to tell.

      • Idle Hands

        Snatch has the better cast and is a cleaner film, pretty much though.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Damn you Adahn, was going to post that. That whole campaign produced some fun short films.

      • Idle Hands

        british gangster films anyway.

      • Idle Hands

        I mean obviously there is no beating Monty Python on anything.

      • Jerryskids

        Never seen Sexy Beast?

      • Idle Hands

        I have it’s been a long time, I have to rewatch it.

      • zwak

        You need to watch The Long, Good Friday. Like immediately. It is truly the best British gangster film of all time.

      • Nephilium

        I even enjoyed the Gentlemen from Ritchie.

  28. Not Adahn

    One out of eight Lincoln Project co-founders are sexual predators.

    *ahem*

    MORE THAN TEN PERCENT OF LINCON PROJECT FOUNDERS ARE KNOWN SEXUAL PREDATORS!

    /headline writers guild stylebook

    • Nephilium

      Up to 100% of Lincoln Project founders are known sexual predators.

      • Not Adahn

        WHO IS PROTECTING THE UNINDICTED CHILD MOLESTORS OF THE LINCOLN PROJECT FROM INVESTIGATION?

        “…it goes all the way to the top,” sources say.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      At least one out of eight Lincoln Project co-founders are sexual predators. A person familiar with the co-founders’ thinking suggested the others may or may not sexual intercourse with farm animals.

      Fixed it.

  29. straffinrun

    Depressing read.

    They are destroying millions of weak and vulnerable people.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I got my middle kid back into private school this semester with in-person schooling. She’s noticeably happier.

      The lockdown is damaging psyches all across the board.

      • straffinrun

        Good for your kid. Making society a Skinner box is about as immoral as you can gete.

    • Idle Hands

      yeah everyone who isn’t a damaged friendless incel lizard person understood this at the start. These fucking people who pushed that impossible course of action deserve things that would warrant the attention of the feds if they weren’t already responsible for 99% of the commentary here.

      • CPRM

        …everyone who isn’t a damaged friendless incel lizard person understood this at the start.

        Hey, I realized it too.

    • Suthenboy

      “They are destroying millions of weak and vulnerable people.”

      that’s the point, isn’t it

  30. Rebel Scum

    Canceled.

    Then Rodgers targeted Pelosi and Newsom as he slammed hypocritical politicians instituting lockdowns:

    I mean, they put these rules in place. They’re not even following their own rules. I mean, how many people have gotten caught? “Don’t travel. Don’t leave the state.” Oh, here’s so-and-so on a vacation. Oh, here’s so-and-so at a salon. “Don’t eat out at a restaurant unless you’re wearing a mask and separate.” Oh, here’s a picture of the governor of California violating those rules. Oh, public schools are closed, but I can send my kids to a private school in person.

    Rodgers commented, “For us to count on the government to help us out is becoming a joke at this point.”

    Perhaps the government has no business “helping” in this regard and it should just get out of the way.

    • westernsloper
    • KromulentKristen

      Don’t make me root for Aaron Rodgers. Don’t make me root for Aaron Rodgers. Don’t make me root for Aaron Rodgers.

      • Idle Hands

        seriously I hate that smug looking prick. Rather see Brady in it again.

      • rhywun

        I can’t even process this. It’s like one of those Zen koans.

      • Idle Hands

        I’m an alien waiting for my amnesty or my ship to come pick me up and takes like that aren’t going to encourage them to come back for me.

      • slumbrew

        Aren’t you a Bills fan? 20 years of abuse at Brady’s hands would understandably color your outlook.

      • slumbrew

        Don’t make me root for Aaron Rodgers. Don’t make me root for Aaron Rodgers. Don’t make me root for Aaron Rodgers.

        So. Much. This.

    • CPRM

      MVP!

    • Agent Cooper

      He’s no longer under the spell of Olivia Munn

  31. Not Adahn

    So, what’s the dealio with the eight stars on the boog flag?

    • Not Adahn

      I mean obviously 8 = H = Hitler, but what is the cover story that those white supremacist nazis are using?

      • Rat on a train

        It should be 4 = Г = Гитлер, Russian influence and all.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Who knows, it probably does have some kind of cryptic insider meaning though. A quick search doesn’t turn up much.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of holding the national parks and monuments hostage:

    They’re locking down the Mall, and most of “public” D C, right?

    “We didn’t want to do it, but we had no alternative. Now, if you help us find the terrorists and insurrectionists hiding among us, we will reward you. We will give you back some of your freedoms. We don’t want to punish them. We’re not cruel or vindictive. But there are people, maybe even someone you know and love, who are misguided. They are ill, and we want to help them get better. Help us help them. You wouldn’t want us to think you are a threat to democracy, too. Would you?”

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Rodgers commented, “For us to count on the government to help us out is becoming a joke at this point.”

    Nice. There was a thing a while back about Rodgers contributing to the Barstool Fund, which helps small private businesses fucked over by the closures.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Money talks.

    We’ve already seen many hesitating before vaccinating. Even some frontline workers are resisting it.

    That’s what prompted local hospital officials to come up with the idea to pay their workers to get the shots…

    That’s when hospital officials decided to offer $300 incentives to workers with documentation showing they got the second dose.

    “We want our employees to stay safe and we believe in the vaccine,” said CEO John McCormick.

  35. Rebel Scum

    The Big Lie.

    I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to this speaker today about this.

    And, look, I know that everybody wants to focus on trial tactics and strategy and so on. I want people to focus on the solemnity and the gravity of these events. Five Americans are dead because a violent mob was encouraged, exhorted and incited by the president of the United States of America, which broke into the Congress of the United States, into the Capitol, and came within a hair’s breadth of hanging Vice President Pence.

    I mean, the ears — the words are still ringing in the ears of the members: “Hang Mike Pence. Hang Mike Pence.” They — they built a gallows outside the Capitol of the United States. There was an assassination party hunting for Nancy Pelosi. So, this cannot be at the level of normal partisan push and pull and just kind of throwing rhetorical brickbats back and forth. This was an attack on our country.

    • WTF

      This was an attack on our country.

      “l’État, c’est moi”

      • AlexinCT

        There must not be any insurance for the places our ruling class is in, cause otherwise – as they told us – these things need to happen so people can show their displeasure with their government….

    • Tonio

      I don’t think hair’s breadth means what he thinks. That would be when you’re actually noosed-up, and your support has been removed and a musketeer shoots the rope before it becomes taut.

    • rhywun

      Five Americans are dead because a violent mob was encouraged

      …he asserted, without evidence.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Same line of bullshit they used in Charlottesville when the police helicopter went down. It was attributed to the totally unrelated scene. I am no longer pissed that they do this, I am pissed that everyday people gobble this up while nodding their heads.

      • Idle Hands

        Based on everything I’ve read the capital police officer died of a stroke in his barracks doing paperwork during a shift change.

      • rhywun

        I hadn’t seen that one. I did see that the three people they didn’t shoot died of natural causes.

      • Idle Hands

        I mean it’s indisputable he was at his hq when he suffered his stroke the rest I just guessed at given we don’t have any reports of other injuries he actually received during the riot beyond some people claiming he got hit with a fire extinguisher which I have yet to see officially corroborated.

      • CPRM

        I remember the AP story that the Capitol Police were denying that his death was related to what happened, but now even the Capitol Police page blames his death on it. I don’t know what to think. And frankly, I don’t really care. I don’t agree with the idiots that went in, not like if they actually did kill someone could make me disagree more.

      • juris imprudent

        People totally uncritically accept what the media tells them.

        That is not a problem with the media.

  36. Idle Hands

    https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-joe-biden-capitol-siege-politics-ap-top-news-ab877d14bc97682973add2acd514218e

    U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.

    The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington following the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. And it underscores fears that some of the very people assigned to protect the city over the next several days could present a threat to the incoming president and other VIPs in attendance.

    This is like something from DU. I’ve read like 4 articles on this paranoia it’s unreal and fucking frightening.

    • Rebel Scum

      insurrection…rioters.

      Interesting how these words are being used in conjunction. A riot is not an insurrection and vice versa.

    • Ownbestenemy

      How not every single one of those Nat’G don’t resign with that slap to the face is beyond me.

  37. Rebel Scum

    Lies, gibberish and faux acknowledgement of the constitution.

    The nation watched the violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol in disbelief and horror on Jan. 6, 2021, but the worst may be yet to come. The F.B.I. is warning of further imminent armed attacks on the Capitol and the State Houses of all 50 States. Rhode Island gun safety advocates see disturbing parallels with the recent violence in Washington D.C. and the aggressive rhetoric and tactics employed by far-right-activists at our State House and in city and town councils in recent years. Insurrectionism is regularly encouraged by the NRA and its top leaders, with calls to purchase firearms and ammunition to protect liberty and fight against government tyranny. A mob of thousands stormed the U.S. Capitol echoing the NRA’s long-standing message of armed revolution and calls for civil war. …

    Now is the time to de-escalate hate by regulating the sale of military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines that can hold up to 100 rounds of ammunition and can be emptied in a matter of minutes.

    We all need to respect the rights enshrined in both our federal and state Constitutions, but we don’t need to be held hostage by radical gun extremists. The Supreme Court has upheld laws in states that ban assault weapons and regulate the sale of ammunition for these weapons. A new majority of both Rhode Island Senators and Representatives support changes needed to make us safer.

    • Not Adahn

      hold up to 100 rounds of ammunition and can be emptied in a matter of minutes.

      You really need to work on your recoil management.

      • Not Adahn

        And I need to work on closing my tags. And my recoil control. And reloads. And…

      • juris imprudent

        I’d say that person had a recoil issue to the forehead.

    • EvilSheldon

      You should really consider getting some professional help, Linda. This level of hysterical paranoia is affecting your quality of life, whether you realize it or not…

    • Cowboy

      “Rhode Island gun safety advocates”

      Is this the new dishonest weasel word for the grabbers and steppers?

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I see this as more of a panicky overreaction and bad third-world political theater. The razor wire and soldiers are just there for show. A military presence is a de facto military imprimis for the inaugurations, and presumably not something the generals would have done on their own. It’s all about Schumer and AOC and the photo ops.

    Somebody, yesterday or the day before, linked a story which basically boiled down to Team President-elect asking for loyalty oaths from the people who will be in close proximity to His Sniffiness during the coronation. If that is true, they really are paranoid lunatics, and we’re in for a bumpy ride.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Do you know else insisted on loyalty oaths?

      • Tres Cool

        The Boy Scouts of America ?

      • Rat on a train

        Scouts BSA?

      • Tonio

        Il cosa nostra?

      • juris imprudent

        Henry VIII?

  39. Festus

    Fuck’s Sake! I don’t want to live through another wave of the Misery Index again. I sure as fuck don’t want to see 20% interest rates like the ones that greeted me when I finished high school. Kindly Uncle Sniffer is setting us back forty years. I never had meaningful employment for five fucking years. I don’t want to see my grandchildren broken on the wheel.

    • wchipperdove

      I absolutely sympathize. But rates are being kept artificially low by all kinds of Fed market intervention. At some point they’re going to *have* to let them rise to stabilize things, or it might even spiral out of control and happen no matter what they do.

      • Idle Hands

        I’d bet on the latter.

      • juris imprudent

        We really have no idea. This is economics, not physics.

        The classic examples of hyperinflation did NOT involve the world’s reserve currency. We’re in uncharted waters.

    • Fourscore

      Son, we don’t get what we want. We get what’s on the menu. The train has left the station, not today but many years ago. The ticket collectors change but the destination is always the same.

  40. Idle Hands

    I honestly see what’s happening as the Dems trying their fucking hardest to manufacture political capital when they don’t actually have any. The economy is completely fucked the longer the wait the less and less capital they’ll have they are hoping to get at least one big policy initiative past before we get to midterms and they get fucking wiped out.

    • UnCivilServant

      What miderms? They’re not going to let an actual election be held. There might be a mock election, but the results won’t be what the plebs voted for.

      • juris imprudent

        I will really enjoy watching you eat those words in two years. Or, at least I hope to.

      • UnCivilServant

        While I hope you are right, I’m pessimistic.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, shit in one hand and hope in the other, then tell me which one fills up first…

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m thinking this too. If the elections aren’t compromised (and I’m not wholly convinced the elections themselves are bad, although it’s clear everything surrounding the election is compromised), I’m thinking there’s gonna be a bloodbath in 22, and Team Blue ain’t gonna be pleased. I’m not sure Team Red will like it either, as I expect fierce primaries to be had as well.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      ^Mostly this, it really is political theater but it could precipitate an incident that will lead to bad not political theater. As for the midterms, it depends on whether McConnell is really stupid enough to give the green light for a Trump conviction which would kill their chances.

      • Idle Hands

        I think they want a no bull shit violent incident to get more fuel in the legislative engine, they need it to get anything passed politically. I don’t think they’ll get it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        All it takes is one idiot rightist or one smart leftist. We’ll see and it doesn’t necessarily have to be on inauguration day. All we can do is hope no one does anything but there are people that are accelerationists on both sides.

      • Sean

        Doesn’t even have to be politically motivated. Remember that Vegas dude?

      • Gender Traitor

        What Vegas dude? You must have imagined or dreamed that./MSM

      • Festus

        Elvis.

      • Idle Hands

        I mean he probably was it’s just his FBI handler went on vacation that afternoon after selling him a truckload of guns and ammo in the casino parking deck.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The only Vegas dude(s) in the headlines nowadays are the three Hawaiian shirt dudes arrested mid-year.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      In some ways I read it this way as well.

      Even the plebs know that it’s been democratic governors wrecking state economies with lockdowns, and all but the most devout will say it. Despite the media and social media machines doing everything possible to carry water for Team Blue, they won the election by the absolute thinnest of margins (if not by cheating). Team Blue is not what I’d call popular. They have their current spotlight because Orange Man Bad. This whole SEDITION! nonsense is an attempt at actually gaining some popularity.

  41. Rebel Scum

    Ya think?

    “You said your vote may have been political suicide. That caught the attention of one of the president’s advisors, Jason Miller, who retweeted it. Are you concerned you ended your career with that vote?” George Stephanopoulos asked.

    “I may very well have,” Meijer said nonchalantly. “But it’s also important that we have elected leaders who are not thinking solely about what’s in their individual self-interest, not what is going to be politically expedient, but what we actually need for the country.”

    “It’s not lost on me that I hold the seat that Gerald Ford held from 1948 to 1973. He committed a courageous act when he pardoned Richard Nixon but it ended his political career going forward,” Meijer explained. “Obviously I don’t want to follow in terms of the next election but I want to make sure we have leaders in office who are focusing on the fact that we’re a nation a laws, not a nation of men and that we’re putting the interest of the country first rather than their own political careers.”

    Sanctimonious prick is sanctimonious and a prick.

    • WTF

      focusing on the fact that we’re a nation a laws

      So, then you will have no problem producing evidence that shows which criminal statutes were violated by Trump?

    • juris imprudent

      Would you really say he was sanctimonious if he had said that about some other relevant but contentious point?

    • Gustave Lytton

      “It’s not lost on me that I hold the seat that Gerald Ford held from 1948 to 1973. He committed a courageous act when he pardoned Richard Nixon but it ended his political career going forward,” Meijer explained.

      No one is going to elevate you to the Vice Presidency if it becomes vacant, dickface.

    • Idle Hands

      Gotta back the windmill farmers who donated to him.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It does seem like there’d be some kind of methodical legal process they’d have to go through to do that but what do I know and, yes, the arbitrary and capricious exercise of government power is bad for business investment to say the least.

      • Viking1865

        Trump: “I am rescinding DACA, the government will now follow the written immigration laws.”

        Deep State: “You can’t do that, its unconstitutional because reasons.”

        Biden: “I am rescinding the Keystone Pipeline permits, because Gaia demands it.”

        Deep State: “This is a completely legitimate exercise of political power by a wise statesman.”

    • juris imprudent

      I’m sure there will be a lawsuit to follow for failing to follow the Administrative Procedures Act… [bwahahahahaha, I tried, I really did

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I expect a federal judge in Hawaii will put a stay on it.

        *resumes playing Russian Roulette*

    • Urthona

      You know what would really help the environment?

      Transporting all that fuel in a less efficient and safe manner.

  42. The Other Kevin

    “Biden team already in talks with Iran over return to nuclear deal.”
    So another plane load of cash is going to be part of the next stimulus bill?

    “Flashback, celebrities pleaded with Electoral College to vote “against the will of the people””
    Enjoy those flashbacks now, in a few weeks they’ll become suddenly unavailable.

    “CNN discusses banning their competition.”
    Unless they pry everyone’s eyes open ala Clockwork Orange, it still wouldn’t get them more viewers.

    In sports news. the Blackhawks are just as bad as everyone predicted. So there are still some things in life we can still count on.

    Have a great Monday, Glibs. How do you like your sedition? Straight up? Deep dish with pineapple?

    • bacon-magic

      Go BLUES!

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Five Americans are dead because a violent mob was encouraged, exhorted and incited by the president of the United States of America, which broke into the Congress of the United States, into the Capitol, and came within a hair’s breadth of hanging Vice President Pence.

    He claimed, without evidence.

    • EvilSheldon

      Like these sad bitches wouldn’t throw a full-on socially-distanced Zoom party if Mike Pence were found hanging from the closet rod, with his wang in one hand and a copy of “Out of Position” in the other.

      I mean, I would too. That would be hilarious. But still, crocodile tears, anyone?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Out of Position – A Gay, furry, sports based romance story, that even people who don’t like sports can enjoy!

        I am speechless

      • EvilSheldon

        Tell the truth, Gustave – you didn’t really have to Google that, did you? *wink*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pitchers, catchers and furries, oh my!

  44. The Late P Brooks

    U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration

    Of course they do.

  45. creech

    So the local newsrag carried a story this morning, sourced from AP naturally, that was 40 column inches long of investigative journalism about how several Trump allies had organized the rally in D.C. where Trump spoke and attendees then moved on to the Capitol. This is news? Who did they think organized the rally, Trump’s opponents? In any case, these 40 column inches were much more than they ever gave to the Hunter Biden scandals or commie chicks in the incoming Biden admin who admire Mao, or newly minted senators who demand White folks repent.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Propaganda and battle space prep.

  46. Rebel Scum

    2A is only for sport.

    We have HR 127 “To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.”

    What that “certain ammunition” is, is unclear, but in the past the gun grabbers have railed against “armor piercing” ammunition (commonly purchased 5.56 mm NATO green tips, for instance) among others.

    Indeed the Giffords Law Center specifically states:

    Moreover, certain types of ammunition, such as armor-piercing handgun ammunition, 50 caliber rounds, and Black Talon bullets, pose a particular danger to the public and to law enforcement, and serve no legitimate sporting purpose. Strict controls on the manufacture, transfer, and possession of these types of ammunition can help promote public safety.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They should go hunting…in Alaska…with the peashooters they believe we should be ‘allowed’ to have.

    • Plinker762

      Lol, they are a little behind the time on Black Talons.

      • EvilSheldon

        They’ve been discontinued for what, twenty years now? Longer?

      • juris imprudent

        But it still sounds scary!!!

      • EvilSheldon

        Sometimes a jacketed hollowpoint is just a jacketed hollowpoint…

      • Plinker762

        20 sounds about right. I still have a couple of boxes I kept when the whole campaign against them started. Aren’t the golden sabers pretty much the same round?

      • EvilSheldon

        To the extent that they’re both copper-jacketed hollow point bullets. Speer Gold Dots, Federal HST, Hornady Critical Duty, I think the modern Winchester version is the Ranger.

        Here’s an interesting site for pistol bullet comparisons:

        https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/#9mm

    • Tejicano

      “…50 caliber rounds…”

      Jim Bridger haz a sad.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    rates are being kept artificially low by all kinds of Fed market intervention. At some point they’re going to *have* to let them rise to stabilize things, or it might even spiral out of control and happen no matter what they do.

    Those dopes really believe they can fine tune the economy like a steam locomotive. Faster, faster, faster. That works, right up until it doesn’t. Then there is a giant explosion.

    • Idle Hands

      I don’t even give them that much credit they actually don’t care beyond enriching themselves and looting the world.

  48. Rebel Scum

    No shit.

    Jack Posobiec
    @JackPosobiec

    Cuomo set up 3 layers of security and state troopers ahead of an alleged pro-Trump demonstration in Albany

    No one showed up except journalists

    • Ownbestenemy

      Now if only news would cover that fact, but they won’t because it they need this narrative to continue their propaganda mission.

    • creech

      The narrative will be “See, our overwhelming show of tiger repellent military force scared off all the Trump deplorables. Obviously, we need to keep these military forces in place for the infinite future to keep the tigers away.” Your state capitol is going to have more guards than Red Square or the Reichstag ever did.

  49. KromulentKristen

    I finally finished The Good Place. Boy, did that ending have some serious unintended libertarian overtones.

    I may write up an article about it, but it would contain major spoilers.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I applaud a show that says…we told our story and we are done.

      • KromulentKristen

        Yeah, the story was over. I wish Mike Schur had done that with Parks & Rec and ended it after season 6.

    • Festus

      I watched the first season. It was quite charming.

      • KromulentKristen

        It’s only 4 seasons…would recommend finishing it. There’s one episode where the actress that plays Janet also plays all the other characters. It’s quite a performance

    • Nephilium

      Yeah. It’s a hard series to talk about while avoiding spoilers.

  50. Lackadaisical

    “Biden team already in talks with Iran over return to nuclear deal”

    So when does the justice department prosecute? J/k those rules only apply to republicans.

  51. straffinrun

    Looks like the cops found their mom. They don’t seem to be bastards anymore.

  52. Festus

    *random Anti-Semitic comment*

    • bacon-magic

      *cat butt goad initiated

      • Festus

        *Moar racist rants*

  53. Stinky Wizzleteats

    You still have freedom of speech and assembly but we’ll make exercising it so odious (to one side) no one will bother.

    • Sean

      But, at this point, we don’t. They’re very much making this obvious.

    • db

      Funny how people used to think it was a useful retort to proposed infringements on the 2A guarantees to flip it around and propose parallel infringements on 1A.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Feels like a space opera. I like it.

    • Festus

      I like it, LH. I felt bad about you bailing on us. Know that in future I probably will make retard jokes, as is my wont.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    What was that show I never watched? Game of Thrones?

    Was there an assassination by the Palace Guard, at some point? Maybe that’s why they are so worried abut somebody croaking Fearless Leader on the podium. Lord knows they are too historically ignorant to be making a connection to Sadat, or Indira Ghandi. I swear our political/pundit class thinks fantasy movies and teevee like Harry Potter and Game of Thrones are documentaries. I’m surprised they haven’t called up the ack-ack batteries to stave off a potential dragon attack.

    • CPRM

      -1 Pretorian Guard?

    • Rat on a train

      When are the going to expand the no-drive zone in DC to match the no-fly zone?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Hell, if I were in the National Guard and forced to sleep on the floor of the Capitol just to play a part in the Dem’s Terror Theater, I’d consider pulling the trigger too.

    • rhywun

      I thought these protests were coming on Inauguration Day.

    • Rebel Scum

      The narrative must be serviced, comrade.

    • Rat on a train

      The poor woman. Her day was ruined.

  55. Scruffy Nerfherder

    In some good news, I just spoke with the reseller of my Google business services. I told them that I would not be renewing this March and that while I appreciated their support, it had become clear that relying on Google’s cloud was a poor business choice going forward. She said that I need not explain further, she had heard it many times already.

    That says to me that the big boys are paying a price for their arrogance. Let’s hope it’s enough to temper them.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      You’d mentioned that Apple was also offering clemency to the Parler app.

      Hopefully this is a trend. The big boys are all about their bottom line. At some point, even they won’t be willing to carry water for the Dems if it means a huge leak in their own well.

    • Mojeaux

      Let’s hope it’s enough to temper them.

      I am not optimistic.

  56. Aloysious

    I somehow mis-threaded above. Second attempt.

    “Brooks, if you like Guy Ritchie movies, try The Gentlemen. Came out last year, and is in the same vein as Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. As well as Snatch.

    I almost soiled my britches laughing. Trigger warning for the gentle folk: the word “cunt” is used liberally as a noun, verb, and dangling participle.”

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Do you know else insisted on loyalty oaths?

    Ex-pfc Wintergreen?

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m trying to decide if they believe their own bullshit, or if they realized that incessantly calling people white supremacists and terrorists for 4 years solely based on who they voted for, tends to make them not like you.

      • Suthenboy

        “idont need your vote” – Joe Biden

        they dont give a fuck if you like them or not

  58. The Late P Brooks

    try The Gentlemen

    I’ll be on the lookout. I also noticed, last night, he did a documentary (the Guvnor, I think) about the guy who played Barry the Baptist, which looks to be worth watching.

    • CPRM

      The only films of his to avoid are the Madonna one he did when he got cucked and Revolver, which was a hot mess. Even his crappy King Arthur one was at least entertaining, even though it wasn’t ‘good’.

    • slumbrew

      I love RocknRolla. The cast is a murderer’s row of British talent (plus Piven & Ludacris).

  59. Rebel Scum

    1A is a threat to Democracy.

    Have Trump’s Lies Wrecked Free Speech?

    A debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy.

    In the closing days of his presidency, Donald Trump has demonstrated that he can make innumerable false claims and assertions that millions of Republican voters will believe and more than 150 Republican members of the House and Senate will embrace.

    “The formation of public opinion is out of control because of the way the internet is forming groups and dispersing information freely,” Robert C. Post, a Yale law professor and former dean, said in an interview.

    • KromulentKristen

      Yale. Nuff said

    • EvilSheldon

      So, Robbie, you’re saying that the formation of public opinion needs to be under control? Under who’s control? The governments’?

      I’m contemplating a constitutional amendment along the lines of, “No attendee of an Ivy League institution shall be eligible for government service in any capacity, retroactive to the beginning of recorded history.”

      • Old Man With Candy

        Ahem. (Penn, 1984)

      • EvilSheldon

        So you’re looking to enter government service?

      • juris imprudent

        How is it that you’ve never been in charge of Child Protective Service?

    • Viking1865

      The decrepit media is looking to secure government approval and either de jure or de facto licenses.

    • Agent Cooper

      ” constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy.”

      Can someone start bitch-slapping these people, please?

    • Hyperion

      The thing about that word.

      It has been twisted beyond recognition. Democracy means basically agreeing with whatever the left says it means. This is what progs do. They’ve been doing it since day one.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Jeez Louise. Trump is bullshitter, but it’s not like he’s a bigger bullshitter than the average politician.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    Based on everything I’ve read the capital police officer died of a stroke in his barracks doing paperwork during a shift change.

    “Previously undiagnosed medical condition” or “Skull bashed in with a fire extinguisher””

    What difference, at this point, does it make?

    • Rebel Scum

      None because half the country thinks that a MAGAt brained a police officer.

    • Idle Hands

      I’d happily believe skull bashed in with fire extinguisher if they you know taken him to the hospital first or I had seen some on the record official saying this. I haven’t seen that as of yet beyond idle speculation.

      • Viking1865

        There would also be video, I think. Since everything is videoed nowadays. If there was an actual assault with the MAGAtard beating on a cop with a fire extinguisher, someone would have turned their phone to it and recorded.

        There is that one video of someone off camera chucking a fire extinguisher at a cop. It hits him in the back of the head/neck/shoulder area. If that’s Switnick, and he had some kind of brain bleed or something the next day, then whoever chucked that fire extinguisher is going to prison.

      • Idle Hands

        The maga chugs definitely beat another cop up that day with flags and shit. I’m not remotely denying there was violence.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I posted a Reuters articcle the day after all of that where the cops issued a claritication that the reason for his death was not determined and was likely not directly due to the events of the day but I’ll be damned if I can find it now.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        One reason to miss print media, much harder to memory-hole their pronouncements.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Looks like not scrubbed, just damn hard to find among all of the noise. It required a very specific search.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        And a reread of that sparse article shows my mind has since added my own spin. Funny that…

  61. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

  62. Q Continuum

    You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m tellin’ you why! Mammary Monday’s coming to town!

    https://archive.li/gQ9YI

  63. The Late P Brooks

    A debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy.

    BRING BACK THE ALIEN AND SEDITION ACT.

    We’ll make it stick, this time.

    • juris imprudent

      Which of course showed just how much respect the Federalists had for the people they were governing. Truly the Democrats of their day.

  64. The Late P Brooks

    Looks like not scrubbed, just damn hard to find among all of the noise. It required a very specific search.

    Oddly enough, there seem to be very few articles which actually name him. He’s just the Martyred Hero of the Capitol Police, now.

    That makes it tougher to find.

  65. cyto

    On the propaganda front, I watched the NFL game on CBS yesterday. And almost every commercial break, I was confronted with propaganda in the form of commercials for CBS shows.

    “What else do the terrorists who attacked the capital have planned? 60 minutes Investigates, tonight!”

    “Capital terrorist attacks are just the beginning. Now law enforcement in multiple states are preparing for more attacks. Tonight, on 60 minutes.”

    “Because of terrorist threats to the inauguration, more troops have been deployed to Washington DC than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. 60 minutes investigates the threat of domestic terrorism, tonight!”

    Promo for Stephen Colbert Show: “Goodbye to the unindicted co-conspirator. Alas, we knew ye too well.”

    It was wall to wall propaganda, the whole game.

    It was pretty surprising in an NFL setting. You would think that economics would outweigh politics at some point. I mean, why inject purely partisan politics at all? What gain could there be that outweighs the risk of turning away fans of the NFL?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck the NFL, the NBA, any league that wades into this mess deserves to wither and die.

      • cyto

        Except it wasn’t the league or even the broadcast. It was the advertising by the network.

      • Urthona

        I seem to not remember 60 Minutes being painfully bad when I was younger, but maybe I just wasn’t political then.

      • UnCivilServant

        It was the mind control in Andy Rooney’s voice that erased all the red flags in your mind from the rest of the episode.

      • Rat on a train

        Depending on how much younger. It was political by the Bush years. Remember Dan Rather and the forged Killian documents?

    • rhywun

      Not to mention all the “social justice” commercials.

      It was a relief to tune in to Cozi and get wall-to-wall MyPillow Guy.

    • Idle Hands

      I mean NBC let fucking Costas give us preachy political dialogue for years during sports broadcasts before kicking him to the curb.

  66. Rebel Scum

    Not only is you lawn racist, so is your garden.

    Last week Corinne Fowler, Professor of Post-Colonial Literature at the University of Leicester, published a sprawling 316-page work examining the links between the British countryside, racism, slavery and our colonial past.

    Among her startling conclusions? Our cherished national pastime, gardening, has its roots in racial injustice. …

    ‘The countryside is a terrain of inequalities,’ she writes, ‘so it should not surprise us that it should be seen as a place of particular hostility to those who are seen as not to belong, principally black and Asian Britons.’

    Many great estates were financed by slavery and colonialism, and the origins of gardening were fundamentally elitist: ‘Knowledge about gardens and plants, in particular botany, has had deep colonial resonances,’ she says.

    ‘The scientific categorisation of plants has at times engaged in the same hierarchies of “race” that justified empire and slave and slavery . . .

    ‘Inevitably, then,’ she adds, ‘gardens are matters of class and privilege.’

    • EvilSheldon

      Am I the only one to notice, that everything with the potential to make the individual less dependent on the state, is now considered racist?

      Perhaps it’s just my monomania for independence and personal autonomy showing, but still…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re dependent and they want you to be too.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yep. I’m glad it’s not just me then.

        This could lead into a whole bit of pseudo-psychology about why exactly they want to be dependent, but I’m not really sure I want to go there right now.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Argument by assertion reigns supreme.

      • Suthenboy

        you arent the only one and not monomania

        I have been ranting on here and TOS for 15 years: entire leftist toolbox is to make you smaller. poverty, inability to create or accumulate wealth, inability to defend yourself, high crime, inability to think or speak freely, destroy the family….the list goes on. pure demoralization. make vice virtue and virtue vice. its about making the individual helpless.

        founders said the only way this works is with a civil, moral society. the statists desperately want to destroy that

    • Hyperion

      Meanwhile, Gates is up to what now? 420,000 acres? Give or take a few.

    • Hyperion

      What we really need to do, is kick all the farmers off their land and give the land to poh peoples. That worked really great in Zimbabwe, what are we waiting for?

  67. Certified Public Asshat

    Fact check: Quotes from Democratic leaders about riots, unrest taken out of context

    We rate this claim MISSING CONTEXT, based on our research. Two quotes attributed to members of the Democratic Party that allegedly referenced last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests actually predate the events. The two remaining quotes were not provided in full. None of the people mentioned in the claim called for violence over peaceful protest, according to sources.

    • Rebel Scum

      “I don’t know why there aren’t uprisings across the country. Perhaps there will be.” – Nancy P.

      • The Other Kevin

        If she said that before the riots, that’s even worse.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I envision junior interns being tasked to spin Democratic calls to violence in the best light possible by editors.

    • Suthenboy

      according to sources

      uh huh

    • Ownbestenemy

      “None of the people mentioned in the claim called for violence over peaceful protest, according to sources.” Including President Trump…no? Okay. Arbiters of truth they are.

      And I agree, none of those were calls to violence, but neither were Trump’s remarks. But hey, we have football on!

      • Not Adahn

        They didn’t call for violence over peaceful protest. They just said that righteous violence was a good addition topeaceful protest.

  68. Rebel Scum

    Moar climate change.

    Extreme cold has hit large parts of Europe, with freezing temperatures cracking railroad tracks in Poland, snow blanketing the Turkish city of Istanbul and smog spiking as coal was being burned to generate heat.

    In Switzerland, a skier who had been buried by an avalanche on the weekend died in a hospital of his injuries, authorities said Monday.

    The country had issued avalanche warnings several days earlier after heavy snowfall hit various regions. Officials said the skier and his two companions were buried by an avalanche while they were skiing off marked trails in the Gstaad area on Sunday afternoon.

    One man was able to free himself from the snow and then extricate one of the others, but the third man could only be found by rescue crews who arrived later on the scene. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died a short time later, authorities said.

    Temperatures dropped to minus 28 degrees Celsius (minus 18 Fahrenheit) in some Polish areas overnight, the coldest night in 11 years. Many trains were delayed on Monday after tracks at two Warsaw railway stations cracked.

    • Suthenboy

      “freezing temperatures cracking railroad tracks in Poland,”

      Scandinavian steel. ask the Russians about this

    • creech

      The long reach of Donald Trump is amazing. Don’t worry, Europe, the sun will come out on Wednesday and, once again, you won’t have to pay for U.S. troops holding back the Eastern Barbarians.

  69. The Late P Brooks

    Promo for Stephen Colbert Show: “Goodbye to the unindicted co-conspirator. Alas, we knew ye too well.”

    Yeah, that almost cost me a teevee.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That ignorant, smarmy fuck is the synthesis of everything I’ve come to despise about my liberal friends from college.

    • Viking1865

      Colbert on October 2, 2015.

      “now, mr. trump, to answer your call for political honesty, you’re not going to be president. it’s been fun. it’s been great. i love you! but come on, come on, buddy. all, let’s say, cow poo poo aside, there is zero chance we will see you being sworn in on the capitol stweps your hand on a giant golden bible”

      • db

        And he was proven right. No giant golden bible was used.

      • cyto

        Snopes, USA Today and Media Matters fact check this as true.

  70. Suthenboy

    uhmmm…has anyone pointed out that the senate has no power to try private citizens?

    • Animal

      The FYTW clause applies.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Plenty have. It just doesn’t matter anymore.

    • Viking1865

      Dershowitz did, but hes now a Nazi so hes being ignored by all the very smart people.

      • Rebel Scum

        but hes now a Nazi

        Not entirely wrong. He is good on many things but he seems to be under the impression that “you have no constitutional right to not be vaccinated” and that the government can force one on you at gunpoint.

      • Suthenboy

        “you have no constitutional right to not be vaccinated”

        that makes no sense. you have no right to not be assaulted? I can see some potential problems there

  71. Rebel Scum

    Unity/healing/etc.

    Some students at Harvard University are calling on the school to take degrees away from some of President Trump’s supporters and aides.

    Several students are reportedly circulating a petition that specifically targets White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Dan Crenshaw.

    According to the petition titled “Revoke Their Degrees,” these individuals spread “disinformation and mistrust,” which the authors allege helped fuel last week’s capitol riots.

    I suppose Harvard doesn’t teach the constitution or American history anymore.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That went out of fashion decades ago.

      Now it’s just screeds from Angela Davis and some commie asshole on Twitter.

    • Hyperion

      You no longer get degrees from universities as it is. What you get is your card to be a card carrying member of the one party. We’re going to a one party CCP type system and we’re moving at light speed.

      • cyto

        It sounds ludicrous…. Yet here we are.

      • Urthona

        Most college educated non-minorities voted for Trump.

  72. juris imprudent

    I’m not sure if this is a sign of hope, or that all is lost.

    • KromulentKristen

      JFC. They need a whole friggin program to tell them the world contains people who disagree with them and teach them how to talk to other humans? Fuck’s sake.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s funny.

      My son is at a UNC school, not Chapel Hill. They are most certainly not on board with that concept.

      If anything, the trend is going the other way, and so quickly that we have concerns about his safety this spring.

      • cyto

        Fun exercise… Go read your old college paper. I was at Chapel Hill, among others. The paper is astonishingly unreadable. The Daily Tar Heel was among the elite of the elite college publications when I was there.

        Oh how the mighty have fallen.

        But if you need to learn how to do more to promote anti-racist, they have you covered.

      • Suthenboy

        by anti-racism you mean racism, right?

      • juris imprudent

        The right kind of racism, IYKWIMAITYD.

    • Viking1865

      That might be peak National Review.

      You’ve got members of Congress drawing up domestic anti terror legislation to sic the security apparatus on people who voted Republican, and the National Review is devoting their time to “Bravo good sir, how civilized, well done well done.” some bullshit kabuki theater “intellectual diversity effort” at a public university. Seems to me that intellectual diversity should be a requirement at taxpayer funded universities.

      How about hiring some Republicans in the poli sci department? How about hiring some Austrian school guys in the econ department? How about you hire *gasp shock* a devout evangelical Christian to teach an ethics class? How many AGW skeptics are there in the science departments?

      The reason we’re about to be a one party state is that the one party has gotten in the position where all of their power centers are neccesary for people to enter the upper class, and they have somehow managed to get all their power centers funded by the people they plan to subject.

      Jimmy the HVAC tech has to pay taxes to send people who hate him to school so that they can then shut down his HVAC business because of the Wu Flu.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • Viking1865

        I mean seriously, its fucking peak Controlled Opposition RINOism. The Left is purging social media of their opposition, but hey theres a new symposium at a university where, once every two months, a True Conservative like Mitt Rommney or Ben Sasse will come give a 45 minute talk to ~150 people. Feel the intellectual diversity and devotion to a vigorous debate!!!!

        “Gosh what on Earth are these crazy field hands up to, running off. Master Joseph and Mistess Kamala just last week said they’d be getting an extra half pound of salt pork every week, and new roof shingles and even nails to fix them to the roof of their quarters. I just don’t understand why they keep sneaking North. He’s so kind, just last week he brought in a doctor and paid for it his own self because Elizabeth whos hair hes always smelling took ill with a fever. I tell you I done had three masters, he’s by far the kindest.”

    • Hyperion

      Well, they’re about to triple down on this shit and then some. It’s already been said that one of the Biden admin’s first pushes will be to push the education system way far to the left. They’re already left of Stalin, not sure how much farther they can go.

      The difference between us and China is that China doesn’t have the woke bullshit problem, and why they’ll solve that here. That’s why we’ll just be a CCP puppet state. The good thing is that once the CCP takes over, they’ll just send all the wokesters off to the gulags, the ones they don’t just shoot right away.

      The wokesters were always the useful idiots and they will be treated as such.

      As for the rest of us, the sane ones, we’ll just have to keep quiet and we’ll be fine, poor, but fine.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And all because the grifters in charge of the DNC are willing to burn the country down in order to save their own asses. They don’t believe this shit.

        It makes me ill.

      • AlexinCT

        When your only talent is grifiting, being send packing and having to earn an honest living, especially when you are then also going to be held accountable, you are willing to do whatever it takes. Cornered rats will fight.

      • Hyperion

        Some of them will be fine. The idiots, and there are plenty of them, will just be shot or disappear.

        The Chinese are serious and prideful and want to actually achieve stuff and not go down a well of wokeness. Start learning Mandarin now. Say bye to the wokesters, they won’t survive.

  73. The Late P Brooks

    Some students at Harvard University are calling on the school to take degrees away from some of President Trump’s supporters and aides.

    “Harvard: A Study in Brand Destruction”

    • Hyperion

      “Harvard: A Study in Brand Brain Destruction”

      FIFY

    • Urthona

      I got a kick of the fact that Q-Anon dude was a Harvard grad. The intelligentsia are not pleased.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Buffalo guy? Shame on Harvard for enabling extremism, they must have their incredibly large endowment confiscated at once.

      • Urthona

        Sorry. No. And I guess it’s a girl.

  74. Old Man With Candy

    I just got what had to be 10,000 words of wokeness in an email from Expensify. I can’t even do expense reports without being inundated with this sort of stupidity and evil.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I generally use those sorts of things as justification for ceasing business with an entity.

      • Old Man With Candy

        My boss, a huge Trump supporter and 2A advocate (we are encouraged to carry on company grounds) has to be cringing at this.

    • Lord Humungus

      Woke is everywhere…. even in my neighborhood with the Black Lives Matter and the “We Believe:” signs. Which is amusing given the (2010 Census) 95%+ whiteness of this suburb with their $400K or more homes.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Those signs scream “I’m white and upper middle class.” I just don’t see them here in the barrio where I work.

      • db

        The only BLM signs I see in my neighborhood are in the yards of two white families…who happen to live across the street from two black families, who have no such signs.

      • Urthona

        lol

      • Rat on a train

        There are a couple of black families on my street. The only sign in either yard is ADT.

    • Rat on a train

      I recall getting emails from every company I’ve ever done business with telling me how they are handling COVID. Maybe they’re doing the same for wokeness, but I added most to spam filters already.

    • Animal

      In the last few days I must have muted fifty people on LinkedIn. There have been a few people protesting that LinkedIn is supposed to be a professional networking and development site and to please discuss your political horseshit elsewhere, but it seems to be falling on deaf ears.

      You can’t escape this shit any more.

      • juris imprudent

        People who believe in political identity (and all other identity really trails that) of course cannot understand why you don’t want to hear their version of The Good News.

  75. Lord Humungus

    Jeebus, I wrestled a 40 pound amp down the stairs, swapped some gear out and had zero music coming out of the speakers.

    Moved it to the garage stereo system… and in the gloom discovered a bad 12AX7. I mean a piece of glass near the pins was cracked, killing the getter. Replaced that… moved back inside… and now I get a left channel but a very weak right! Back goes the Aleph J amplifier until I figure out what is going on. Yay solid-state!

    Argh!!!

    • Lord Humungus

      It should be noted that the Eico ST70 is 58 years old and has been messed with by the previous owner. I’ll give it a break.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Class D, young man, Class D. I have 400WPC running my woofers and I can toss it from hand to hand. And it runs dead cool.

      Did I mention the 0.00005% THD?

      • Lord Humungus

        Now where is the fun in that?

      • cyto

        This isn’t the place to brag about my Realistic brand 12″ subwoofer, is it?

      • db

        My handheld radio has 7 transistors!

  76. Rebel Scum

    For the second week in a row Wally World canceled my pickup order for tonight because of demand and lack of staffing. If you don’t have slots available then freakin’ don’t let me reserve one. I scheduled it 4 days ago. Jeez…

    • Lord Humungus

      I recently ordered some protein bars from Walshart and half of the ordered was delivered the same day by someone in a Chrysler … the rest of the order came via FedEx (or was it UPS?) two days later.

    • KromulentKristen

      I just got a beautiful ribeye that I ordered from Whole Paycheck 4 hours ago

  77. db

    Fun fact:

    In December, when the Kilauea volcano began erupting again, emissions of sulfur dioxide from the crater were estimated between 30,000 to 40,000 tons per day. That went on for a week or two, and it is currently reported as being around 3,000 ton per day or so.

    I used to work at a coal fired power plant. One of our units would burn about 4,000 ton/day of bituminous coal, which could be up to 6-8% elemental sulfur (typically it would be less than that for reasons). So, 4,000 ton/day * 6% = 240 ton/day S, or 960 ton/day SO2. That is as unabated emissions potential. We had an SO2 scrubbing system that functioned at around 92% removal for most of its 45 year life span (in the last ten years or so, it was upgraded and ran between 96-98% removal). So the abated emissions to the atmosphere were about 77 ton/day.

    30,000 / 77 = 389.6, therefore, at its initial emissions rate, Kilauea was emitting nearly 400 times the SO2 that one large coal fired unit with scrubbers would emit. In 15 days of emissions, Kilauea would have emitted 30 times more SO2 than that unit would have over the course of a 45 year operating life.

    At the reduced rate of 2500 ton/day, Kilauea would still have emitted 2.5 x the 45-year coal plant emissions in 15 days.

    • Hyperion

      That doesn’t count towards greenhouse gas emissions, because reasons.

      • db

        Well, technically, tropospheric SO2 acts as an agent for atmospheric cooling due to it forming sulfuric acid haze which prevents surface heating. There is an argument to be made that “anthropogenic global warming” is in part (maybe even a large part) due to removal of anthropogenic SO2 which would have had a cooling effect.

      • Hyperion

        Yay! Nuclear winter!. Bill Gates approves.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Is Sulfur Dioxide a green house gas and is it offset by the amount of particulate that it puts into the air? Just wondering. I know that Kilauea is not a ash cone but there has to be certain amount of stuff, to use the technical term, that gets into the atmosphere, I would think. #NotAGeologist

      • db

        SO2 is actually a cooling agent, see above.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Cool! I learnt a thing!

  78. The Late P Brooks

    therefore, at its initial emissions rate, Kilauea was emitting nearly 400 times the SO2 that one large coal fired unit with scrubbers would emit. In 15 days of emissions, Kilauea would have emitted 30 times more SO2 than that unit would have over the course of a 45 year operating life.

    Irrelevant!

    • db

      Indeed. Note that the USGS is not reporting CO2 emissions rates from Kilauea.

    • Rat on a train

      Natural SO2 is less harmful than man-made.

  79. Lord Humungus

    As an amateur historian I take some (very) minor consolation that in the long run the plans of leftists/fascists always fail. It is the nature of such things. Of course the time frame of the failure is unknown; see the horror of the USSR for an example, or how long it took the Imperial power of Rome to crumble.

    Something new, and hopefully better, will rise from the ashes. Or else we need a new frontier – space! – to move away from the decrepit power of the state. These are things that I probably won’t see in my lifetime, which is the sad part.

    • Suthenboy

      consider that the people doing this…thier children and grand grandchildren will inherit the ashes. they are mostly old and will be long gone so they dont give a fuck. what does that say about them?

    • Hyperion

      We committed suicide by wokeness.

    • robc

      Consider Russia…has something better risen from the ashes? Sure, compared to Stalinism, but its still not great.

  80. DEG

    This is a wasted day. When my alarm went off, instead of getting up and going to the gym, I shut the alarm off and went back to sleep.

    • Animal

      That’s certainly not a wasted day.

  81. DEG

    A separate report by the Israel Hayom daily said Israel, wary of Biden’s promise to return to the deal, is crafting military options to “undermine Iran’s nuclear efforts or, if need be, counter Iranian aggression, which will soon be presented to the government.”

    Great.

    Biden also will initiate his “100-Day Masking Challenge” with a mask mandate on federal property and during interstate travel. Klain promised the president-elect would sign additional executive orders on climate change and health care access in the first week of the new administration.

    Fuck Biden.

    Regarding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) apparent willingness to conduct an impeachment trial against Trump even after he has left office, Paul said, “They will destroy the Republican Party if leadership is complicit with an impeachment, or if leadership votes for an impeachment, they will destroy the party.”

    I’m feeling cynical. There will be a trial, there will be a conviction, and nothing will happen to the Republican Party.

    Hey remember in 2016 when Hollywood lobbied members of the Electoral College to change their votes, ignore the will of the people, and overturn an election?

    I remember too.

    Before founding the Lincoln Project, Weaver had been a longtime Republican strategist whose employers included former President George H.W. Bush, former Arizona Senator John McCain and Former Ohio Governor John Kasich.

    Great resume.

    That number has steadily increased throughout the past six months, now reaching 97,966, representing 60% of closed businesses that won’t be reopening.

    Feature, not bug, of our Overlord’s plans.

    As the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States approaches, two of the country’s three most populous states — California and Florida — are seeing two very different epidemiological curves. Hard-lockdown California is — perhaps counterintuitively — recording significantly higher new case numbers and hospitalizations compared to the more open, less restricted state of Florida.

    It’s not counterintuitive you shithead.

  82. KromulentKristen

    I would love to see the day where I no longer injury myself trying to open cans, bottles, or milk cartons. Today’s wound was from pulling the tab off the spout of a 1/2 gallon juice carton. A nice deep gash on the meat of my thumb from one of my fingernails.

    I guess I have successfully and inadvertently changed my fingerprint now.

    • db

      How in the world did you survive glass shampoo bottles?

      • KromulentKristen

        I was far less clutzy in my yoot

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Now would be the time to knock over a bank. Or given your location, steal the Declaration of Independence. The incoming administration won’t be using it much anyhow.

      • Rat on a train

        First, legally change your name to FNU MNU LNU.

    • KromulentKristen

      *injure

  83. Mojeaux

    Whoever linked the Jordan Peterson-Matthew McConaugheeeeeeyyyyyy interview, thank you! That was a great interview. I probably won’t get the book, but that’s because I don’t like to read nonfiction. I may borrow the audiobook from the library if they have it.