Thursday Afternoon SParse Links

by | Jan 14, 2021 | Daily Links | 360 comments

Greetings, Gliblings.

Super busy day here, so I’ll get right to the links!

 

Harold Bornstein Dead. Who? Oh, an eccentric doctor who once said something about Trump.

Siegfried is dead, too.

Montana wasn’t the only windy place yesterday.

Whatever you do, please don’t try to smuggle those dangerous ham sandwiches.

I guess you could always eat this instead.

 

OK, I am off! And I’m also leaving. Have a great day, kids!

 

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360 Comments

  1. The Other Kevin

    That doctor wasn’t one of those guys who predicted his own death, and then committed suicide, was he?

    • Bones

      Four bullets….. in the back of his skull? No cause mentioned in the article, but maybe raped to death by STEVE SMITH?

      • Swiss Servator

        Sure, just because someone gets rogered to death, we have to accuse our SENIOR CASCADIA CORRESPONDENT. Humph!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        To be fair, he peed “STEVE SMITH WUZ HEER” into the snow afterwards.

      • db

        NOT PEE! STEVE SMITH HAVE GREAT RESERVOIR OF OTHER FLUIDS!

      • Fourscore

        Judging from the good doctor’s complexion I’d guess complications of high blood pressure but what do I know, I don’t even play a first responder on V.

      • JMBOO

        COVID Bullets- Ze Bullets of Love, Truth, and Justice.

  2. DEG

    The vaunted Mediterranean diet and French gastronomy are getting some competition: The European Union’s food safety agency says worms are safe to eat.

    Oh boy.

    • Chafed

      As if French waiters weren’t enough of a problem.

    • Fourscore

      Fish like them in the winter and I eat the fish so in a way…

    • mrfamous

      Again with the eating bugs. What’s wrong with these people? Why do they want us to eat bugs so bad?

      • Aloysious

        We must save the planet, comrade.

  3. Enough About Palin

    “Siegfried is dead, too.”

    Why they didn’t go with Fischbacher & Horn is a mystery to me.

  4. Raven Nation

    I suspect there’s going to be a lot of stupid enforcement take place because of Brexit. I don’t think the EU will get the UK back, but they’d not like to lose any more.

    • Viking1865

      The whole Brexit thing is very illuminating. Apparently free trade, easy border crossings, and total loss of national sovereignty are a package deal. You can’t have the first two without the third.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Punishment thorough enforcing every process to the t.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    Wind sucks for golf, but awesome for Sailing,

    • Tonio

      You sail? Awesome.

      Isn’t it still a bit nippy up there, though?

      • R C Dean

        Still? Its barely gotten started.

    • Mad Scientist

      Winds like that beat the shit out of your boat. They’re the reason people anchor up in harbors. Anyone sailing in the that shit is a lunatic.

  6. Timeloose

    “The customs officers explained the fallout from Brexit resulted in a ban on personal imports of items including meat, dairy, produce and other food items.”

    Not petty at all EU. Grow the fuk up.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      How bad is dutch food if they are smuggling food from the UK?

      • kinnath

        Carrying lunch with you on a road trip is not smuggling food.

        The rules are just FYTW.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Much like the TSA thinking that your 20 oz. bottle of Diet Coke is an explosive device.

      • Brett L

        Its a binary explosive when combined with Mentos.

      • The Other Kevin

        Your lunch is one thing you can safely smuggle in your colon.

      • Bobarian LMD

        “Sir, I’m gonna need you to step over here into this side room.”

      • kinnath

        That is the recommendation — eat it or drink it before you cross the border.

      • db

        *Ham sandwich falls out of ass*

  7. The Late P Brooks

    White tigers are teh FUCKING AWESOMEST.

    Also snow leopards.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      P Brooks is Napoleon Dynamite confirmed.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Joe Exotic was a libertarian.

      • Lachowsky

        Self identified as. I don’t think he would he make the cut if I was arbiter of who is and who isn’t a libertarian.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Drugs, guns, gay sex, exotic animals…sheesh, what does a guy have to do to pass the purity test?

      • Lachowsky

        not put his business in his parents name without their informed consent just before it tanks, wiping out their net worth.

      • rhywun

        Well la dee dah.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        It is known, each of us is the One True Libertarian, its like Highlander but with more fat naked dudes.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *retreats to holy ground, aka the weed shop*

      • pistoffnick

        *puts pants back on*

      • Agent Cooper

        I AM NOT NAKED!

        Wait,

        I AM NOT FAT!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      White Supremacist!

  8. Rebel Scum

    Customs officers in the Netherlands have begun seizing ham sandwiches and other seemingly minor food items from drivers attempting to enter the country from Britain as a result of Brexit regulations.

    Tax dollars at work.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      ENB hardest hit.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      A prophet for our times

    • db

      haha is that really from last spring?

      • grrizzly

        No confirmation. But nobody is wearing masks yet, so plausible.

      • DEG

        It looks familiar to me.

        I remember there were some anti-lockdown protests in the Summer in Canada. I think this might have been filmed at one.

      • db

        now that you mention it, I think I actually remember watching part of that video last year. Not sure when it was first recorded, though.

    • Drake

      He called that one.

    • DEG

      The other videos in that thread are good too.

    • rhywun

      Dude bro’s not wrong.

    • mrfamous

      Holy shit, that dude is Carnac!

    • Agent Cooper

      It’s Nostradumbass!

      Actually, I like the guy but I also like the joke, so …

  9. Lachowsky

    Dearest Glibs,

    Jr. took a test a few weeks ago to see if he qualified to be placed in the school’s gifted and talented program. I got the results back a few days ago ( https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WaCl2YABWBEY9oUh3YisrbP6ANT5WRGr?usp=sharing ) and though I knew little man was pretty smart, i was surprised to see how well he did. I’m not sure how much stock to put in standardized tests, but he knocked it out of the park on something called a Slosson intelligence test. Based off of this score, his performance so far in school, and the interview with the GT coordinator, They made a few recommendations to me. First, (as one hell of an indictment on the public school system) they suggested I put him in private school. That’s not an option for several years where I live. There is a good catholic school, but it’s only a high school. Second, they offered to put him in sixth grade next year, instead of fourth. I think that putting him two years ahead may come with a whole other host of other social problems.

    Currently, i work with him on what ever kind of stuff he takes interest in, and that seems to be fine for now. I have a feeling that in the future he is going to learn to despise school if he isn’t ever challenged by it. Anyway, i was wondering which of ya’ll had any experience with this kind of thing and if any of you know if the particular test he took is good for anything?

    • Tonio

      Congratulations. Good luck.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Seconded. My first tested out with an IQ in the >150 range.

        You’re going to need the luck. Smart kids are not necessarily easy to parent.

      • Lachowsky

        For sure. I was bright, and a pretty damn ill behaved teenager.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Definitely DO NOT move him up 2 grades. That’s insanity. He’ll never be accepted by his classmates, and he’ll be far behind them socially speaking.

      Your best bet, if his education is the the first priority in your household, is to find him 1) a private school (even if that means moving), or 2) homeschooling via pod groups.

      • db

        Absolutely disagree with this; see my reply below.

    • db

      That is great news!

      I have a friend who was advanced placed into the first grade when he was about 3 years old. He was always the top student in our class, and he’s some sort of executive at a tech company now (deliberately being obtuse about this). He would have been tremendously bored if here were placed along with his age group. Many adults (whom we as kids overheard when they didn’t know we were listening) cluck-clucked about how he wasn’t going to be properly socialized, being stuck in with kids much older that him, and how he would have a terrible time fitting in. That was horse shit–he ended up being a very popular gregarious kid, with a first rate wit and great emotional intelligence.

      Look for as much as you can to challenge your little guy (without burning him out or placing too much stress on him, of course!)

      • Brett L

        Not a huge amount of evidence exists, but what I have read is:
        1) If you want your kid to be a competitive sports player, hold them back or make sure they are oldest in their grade/cohort
        2) A large longitudinal study in Australia found that advancing children as far as they were academically capable of seemed to be better for their academic and individual growth than keeping them in their cohort. The group that got left in their age cohort seemed to be bored and disengaged, and that had some carryover to higher education.

        (1) is significantly better documented than (2), but the Australian study seemed to indicate more positive than negative to skipping students ahead to their academic maturity, which also seems to measure developmental maturity as well. ie, a student who can focus on academic work at a sixth-grade level probably has the general behavioral maturity of other students who can do the same, regardless of age.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The group that got left in their age cohort seemed to be bored and disengaged, and that had some carryover to higher education.

        Story of my life. Middle school through early high school was rough because I never had to learn how to sit down and actually do work, so all the homework grades were low and the exam grades were high. Hell, there were law school exams that I took with less than 15 minutes of preparation because I’m lazy (and I was working a full-time job, but that doesn’t excuse the complete lack of studying).

        Socialization doesn’t have to happen only in the classroom. Boredom can absolutely kill a bright kid’s drive and love of learning.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        The sports situation only works until about 14. Once the slow growers (younger kids within their age group) catch up, they tend to be the ones who make it further.

        The theory is that those big kids rely on their size, and never learn to work hard, whereas the younger, smaller kids always have to work much harder than the rest. By the time they’re all 16, those older, bigger studs are now at the bottom of rosters, while the smaller kids who had to work their asses off to get any playing time take over.

      • Fourscore

        Bump your son ahead, Lach. By the end of his first year he’ll be bored to death again and time to look for a community college. In every grade there are the range of social abilities, all kids of the same age are not the same level of social maturity anyway. He’ll adjust fine with his parents support.

    • The Other Kevin

      The only experience I’ve had is with the Slosson cutoff. Drive to it, get out of your car, cut off your Slosson, get back in your car, and head East.

      Congrats. My two oldest had the opposite issue, one was held back and the other made it out of school only because of a very dedicated special ed teacher. I did check littlest TOK’s grades today, and she’s got a 4.15 GPA as a sophomore. I did really well in school but she’s even got me beat.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, I was thinking about the Slosson cutoff too.

      • Agent Cooper

        I actually had to give someone directions using the SLAUSSON cutoff. And that was at least 15 years after I lived in LA.
        I also had a Chinese woman ask me for directions in London. Thankfully, I had just come from where she wanted to go so I was able to give her something reasonable.

    • Viking1865

      My experience with it is being a former “gifted and talented” kid. I never skipped grades, and I did tend to get bored in school. Most of my teachers in elementary and middle school were fine with me quietly reading a book once I completed a given task. I could chew through about 10 kids/YA books a day by the time I was 9, then I switched to adult books. Then in high school I was in the public magnet/gifted high school.

      “Currently, i work with him on what ever kind of stuff he takes interest in, and that seems to be fine for now.”

      I think that’s a good approach. I don’t know if he is more of a reader/writer or a math/science kid or both, but that’s good. One thing that’s nice is he has access to thinks like Khan Academy and language learning apps that were much less accessible then they were when I was a kid. So maybe lean into that stuff, and then later I think theres even colleges putting lectures and stuff online.

      “I have a feeling that in the future he is going to learn to despise school if he isn’t ever challenged by it”

      If hes anything like the rest of the miscreants around here, he’ll despise it whether hes challenged or not.

      • Lachowsky

        “If he’s anything like the rest of the miscreants around here, he’ll despise it whether hes challenged or not.”

        I almost mentioned something like this. I was never challenged by school, but i am not sure if that was the reason i hated it or not. There were other reasons i hated it that may or may not have been the driving factor.

      • Viking1865

        I have never liked being told what to do. I am thankful my parents were very hands off people because my childhood would have been hell if I had to deal with some of the shit my friends did. So they had very reasonable restrictions on me. The teachers and admin people I always viciously butted heads with were the ones who delighted in asserting their authority. Like, it wasn’t enough to be polite to them and take care of business, you had to be actively knuckling your brow and bobbing your head.

      • Ted S.

        I have never liked being told what to do.

        Same for me.

      • db

        I was considered “gifted” and was placed in an advanced group that went to a local Catholic high school for classes 2 years beyond our cohort, but remained in our age cohort for other classes. I was challenged way more in my Catholic elementary/middle school than I was in the public high school that I later attended, with the exception of our music curriculum. The music teachers in our school really insisted on excellence and instilled a great work ethic. The rest, not so much. I would have been so much better served if the rest of my high school education had challenged me more and prepared me for the demands of a university education.

        I loved school, and really enjoyed going, but when I got to high school, the lack of challenge really made me lose interest quickly.

      • Agent Cooper

        I was in the gifted program in high school. We taught fifth graders about physics and shit.

        What a ripoff.

    • zwak

      My wife skipped a grade (5th I think) and she has said repeatedly that it fucked her up pretty seriously. Emotionally immature, and surrounded by kids who where physically ahead of her, not to mention puberty and all the shit kids deal with at that specific age, did more harm than good and it took many years to work past it. If your son needs to be intellectually stimulated at a greater level than his classmates, I would pull them out, homeschool at their own speed, and arrange for some other forms of social interaction; church, sports, and so on.

      • Ted S.

        I didn’t skip a grade (my parents thought it would fuck me up socially and I was already among the youngest in my class) and I wound up fucked up anyway — not that skipping a grade would have helped.

        I was always bored in school, but that’s because I was a voracious reader and read ahead at home as well as reading whatever other material I could get my hands on, like the World Book Encyclopedia.

      • zwak

        I am with you on being a compulsive reader. My real problem is that I find math sublimely uninteresting. And people (I grew up in a small college town) took that for not being good at it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Similar. Skipping grades gives a one time boost but then he’s still at the same slow pace of his new cohort.

        I wish there had been more structure and more involvement when I was a kid, but my parents were divorced so a lot of valuable time got wasted on that drama. Part of growing up later was learning to deal with doing repetitive and boring shit because that’s life. It’s rarely I wish I had learned that in school.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        I skipped from third to fifth grade, and then a few years later grade nine to eleven.

        Both were mistakes. I actually took an extra year of high school (loaded up on those optional courses) because I was too young/immature to go to college/Uni.

    • DEG

      Congratulations.

      I don’t have much advice to offer. I was in Catholic school K-12. I noted that almost everyone that transferred from the local public schools to the Catholic schools I was at worked harder and had their grades go down. There were a few exceptions. If you decide to keep him in the public schools and move him to the Catholic school for high school, make sure he knows he will be doing more work.

      • db

        Interestingly, I had the inverse experience. I found I was less challenged in high school, even though I was taking AP classes, than I had been in Catholic elementary school.

      • DEG

        The high school I went to was very good. The grade school was not good, but better than the local public schools.

      • db

        “inverse” in the sense of affirming, not contradicting, your experience.

      • DEG

        Ah, got it.

    • kinnath

      So I routinely tested several grade levels ahead of where I was. And I was routinely bored with the school work I was given. I was constantly in trouble for not doing home work, but always tested very high.

      I managed to stay out of trouble because I was a quiet introvert and didn’t cause problems when I was bored.

      I satisfied my curiosity outside of school. The Boy Scouts in the 60s was just the right thing for me.

      I survived.

      I cannot believe that pushing Jr two grades ahead will be good. Regardless of brain development, bodies still work pretty much the same way. Puberty is coming. And Jr needs to be with real age peers.

      Private school would be great. But I don’t think it is essential. Providing what public school doesn’t; however, is definitely essential. That is your job.

      At some point, kids need to learn how to navigate the hostile world that wokesters are creating. Getting along without giving in. Although, I have no real idea how do deal with that in this day and age.

      • Lachowsky

        My older brother told me that one of the benefits of school is learning how to deal with the frustration and boredom of being at the top of the class and having a teacher teaching to the bottom. He is not wrong.

      • kinnath

        Your life is constrained by the stragglers. Whether in the classroom or on a 5 mile hike in the scouts. Carries over to almost all work where “teams” are needed to get anything accomplished.

      • Fourscore

        Teachers, as a group, are not the best/brightest. Some are good teachers, most are good at taking roll call. Teachers don’t necessarily teach to the bottom, they are more concerned with classroom decorum.

        /looks at roll call taking award

    • one true athena

      Two grades is a lot, though where his birthday falls, also makes a difference. I skipped first grade, but because of my birthday vs school cutoff I was still basically with peers, so it didn’t make all that much of a difference to me. Overall, it was a good thing to get me out of a grade level that was doing nothing for me but sending me home crying because I was so bored, and I did well in all my later schooling.

      But, otoh, sixth grade is often part of middle school for a good reason – girls especially hit puberty in sixth and get all Tween-y. That may make a good thing to be a little under-mature – there’s probably nothing more powerful than a bunch of tween girls deciding to make him their little brother. On the unfortunate side, tho, sixth graders tend to get phones, be on social media, and can be utterly ruthless to anyone they pinpoint as a target, as well. Overall sixth is a very different dynamic from the rest of elementary. How he handles that is emotional maturity, not his intelligence.

    • mrfamous

      When I was in second grade the Chicago Public Schools informed my parents that they thought I was ‘slow’ and needed to be put back at a level that I could handle since I wouldn’t do any of the 2nd grade work. So they decided to give me an IQ test to see just how remedial a level I needed to be at. I got a 155 at which point, without missing a beat, they told my parents that I should be moved up two grades. So I wound up going from 2nd grade on Friday to 4th grade on Monday.

      I don’t if it was mistake or not, but I do know that I got beat up during recess a lot. In two years, my dad went to the school after I came home with a bloody nose and blackened eye and told them they better come up with a better solution than the current one. He was informed that the Chicago Public Schools had a “gifted program” but spots were usually hard to come by and they would check. It turns out they didn’t like to talk about it because they wanted to make sure there were enough spots available for the children of all the teachers and school administrators who qualified.

      Anyhow I wound up in the gifted program where they put me back in fourth grade with kids my own age, and I was there until graduating eighth grade and going to high school (at that point my Dad had had enough of the Chicago Public Schools and took out a loan to send me to Catholic school).

      As a sample size of one, that story is essentially meaningless. Unless you’re son is going to the Chicago Public Schools in the early 80s and is exactly like me, my experience isn’t really a good match for his. Plus I really don’t know if any other choice for me would have yielded better results.

      But congrats! On balance I’m very happy to have been born as smart as I was, even if there are some downsides that come with it.

  10. db

    “Ham Sandwich Seizure” is the name of the first single from my old band’s second album, “(Border) Crossing Sausages”

    • The Other Kevin

      I make homemade sausage and so I consider that sausage seizure a crime against humanity.

      • db

        (Border) Crossing sausages
        Slashing the night
        Running out of time
        Looking for a fight

        Fighting for my sanity
        Carrying the load
        Rescuing the sacred Ham
        From crimes against humanity

    • Agent Cooper

      is Crossing Sausages like a sword fight?

      • db

        If you have to ask…

  11. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Remember: if you write a letter to the state legislature in accordance with state law, you are a terrorist , motivated by nothing but hate.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nice link brah

      • DEG

        Hopefully Beshear gets impeached.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Hopefully, but I wouldn’t count on it, despite a Republican supermajority in both houses.

        And as much as I despise the man for taking an already poor state and dooming it for at least the next decade, ruining countless lives in the process, the better bet would be for the legislature to neuter him by changing the law he’s been abusing from the start.

      • Ted S.

        The page hangs in Firefox, throws up an error in Opera, and only works in Chrome. 🙁

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Works fine in Safari.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Also works in Brave (a Chromium offshoot, if memory serves…).

      • The Other Kevin

        He was sparing you from clicking the link and therefore associating with a known terrorist.

    • Rebel Scum

      “This is exactly what we saw in D.C.,” Beshear said. “These are the people that are out there trying to undermine our democracy in any way that they can.”

      Constitutional mechanisms undermine democracy. Actually, that is kindof the point.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Very true. The mob wants control.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Unity. Healing.

    “I wonder if you have thought through kind of how Republicans begin what someone on my team earlier today called de-Baathification of the Republican Party?” Reid asked Wallace on Wednesday night, likening the GOP to Iraq’s Ba’ath Party and suggesting Republican influence and ideology needs to be eradicated from American society the same way Iraq sought to remove the Ba’ath Party influence from its own politics. …

    “I wonder if Liz Cheney, her statement being the thing that Republicans used — the Democrats used, sorry — to explain why they needed to impeach Donald Trump, is there a little wing of the Republican Party that you think can do this sort of de-Baathification of the party? And can it work at this point?” Reid asked. …

    “I think the challenge is that the rot is from the grassroots all the way to the presidency. So the rot is at every layer,” Wallace said. “You can call it rot because it’s now criminal sedition. But there are people that supported it from the grassroots all the way up through to the White House.”

    Unity. Healing.

    Cuomo said, “Right, and what if they say, ‘I don’t agree with those people, I just like Trump’s policies?’

    Lemon said, “Well, then get out of the crowd with them. Get out of the crowd with them.:”

    He continued, “You’re in the crowd who voted for Trump. If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. That’s the crowd that you are in.”

    He added, “You voted for the person who incited a crowd to go into the Capitol and potentially take the lives of lawmakers, took the lives of police officers, took the lives, innocent lives who were there on the Capitol that day. You voted on that side, and the people in Washington are continuing to vote on that side.”

    • Drake

      The GOP cannot die fast enough.

    • Viking1865

      “what someone on my team earlier today called de-Baathification of the Republican Party”

      You don’t have enough guns for that Joy.

      • Floridaman

        Given how iraq wound up I doubt they want that.

      • Viking1865

        I can’t quite parse their stupidity. Like, somehow these people simultaneously believe that Trump voters are violent white supremacist terrorists who have a particular hatred of the media…….but they still think they should be antagonizing them with shit like this?

      • Floridaman

        Double think, I would reread 1984, in particular the book within a book.

      • EvilSheldon

        They don’t actually believe that Trump voters are violent white supremacist terrorists. It’s just a useful, focus-tested attack.

    • The Other Kevin

      Yep, keep marginalizing people. Keep calling people Nazis who just voted for Trump because they thought he might be better at protecting their jobs. Purge everyone from the Republican party unless they worship Romney, McCain, and Bush. That will go just great.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Filth, human filth

    • zwak

      The idiocy of this is how much damage it does to actual work ending racism. When everyone is a [bad guy] no one is.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I thought David Duke endorsed Biden.

      • Rebel Scum

        Richard Spencer. And Biden never denounced that endorsement. I guess Spencer is just an idea, man.

      • whahappan

        In fairness, I believe Biden’s campaign did reject Spencer’s endorsement.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I was surprised to click and see it is *only* $1.9 trillion and not $19T.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah I noticed that ZH didn’t try to delineate that after I posted

      • Viking1865

        1.9 trillion is 50% of the governments annual revenue.

        We are so so so so utterly fucked. Like, it’s not even funny how fucked we are.

        I’m gonna go see if I can take a 5% paycut in return for indexing my salary to inflation.

      • Floridaman

        Sure you can, but remember those will be the official inflation numbers. And really steak and spam are basically the same thing, so we can compare the price of whichever is cheaper going forward to the previous item in the basket.

      • mrfamous

        What bothers me so much about the “official” inflation numbers is that the ratio of average wages to the price of an apple should have absolutely exploded over the last 40 years. All of the advancements in growing and the supply chain and computerized inventory etc., must have resulted in a massive increase in efficiency in bringing apples to market. A natural system would have seen significant deflation in apples.

        But according to the government, the wage/price ratio of an apple in 1981 should be the same as in 2021.

      • Bobarian LMD

        1.9 on top of everything previous.

    • Lachowsky

      I’m seriously thinking about borrowing as much money as i can and find something valuable to buy.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah like if I knew how to fix cars or something, buying a shitload of expensive mechanics tools on credit might be smart.

      • Floridaman

        Nope, in Weimar they adjusted the debt so the people who borrowed got screwed. Do you honestly think in any change our government won’t favor the banks over you, after all look at Biden’s inauguration sponsors.

      • Viking1865

        You are 100% right.

        Holy shit we are sooooo fucked.

      • Floridaman

        Rather than debt, buy things of value, preppers, Austrian economists, and people like them did most of the thinking before hand. Realize how big the country is. Finally never draw attention to yourself

      • Lachowsky

        I know that the very first first thing our government does when there is an economic downturn that threatens the livelihoods of millions of Americans is to make sure to pass a bill that shovels hundreds of billions of dollars to the banks.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Not a UBI but a $15.00 an hour min wage. These people are truly that ignorant.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Yeah, raise the minimum wage and allow a bunch of low wage workers in illegally. That plan makes total sense.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Good news, everyone!

    A digital Covid vaccination passport is being jointly developed by a group of health and technology companies who anticipate that governments, airlines and other firms will soon start asking people for proof that they have been inoculated.

    A coalition known as the Vaccination Credential Initiative — which includes Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle, as well as U.S. health care non-profit Mayo Clinic — was announced on Thursday.

    ——-

    Bill Patterson, an executive vice president and general manager at enterprise software firm Salesforce, said his company wants to help organizations “customize all aspects of the vaccination management lifecycle and integrate closely with other coalition members’ offerings, which will help us all get back to public life.”

    “With a single platform to help deliver safe and continuous operations and deepen trust with customers and employees, this coalition will be crucial to support public health and wellbeing,” Patterson added.

    Sure it will.

    Fuck off, slaver.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      FUCK ALL OF YOU WITH A RUSTY PITCHFORK

    • Tonio

      There it is.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’m not sure that BigTech pushing a “digital vaccine passport” is gonna do much to restore any sort of benevolence I might have had for BigTech.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Currently, i work with him on what ever kind of stuff he takes interest in, and that seems to be fine for now.

    I think this is an excellent idea. Whatever happens, you don’t want to to lose his curiosity because some teacher says, “This is what we do, and how we do it. Sit quietly while I bring the dumbest kid in the room up to speed.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Marla Maples crack is hilarious.

    • KSuellington

      Hilarious.

    • Animal

      You’re wife, by the way…

      Proofreader! Hire one!

      • Count Potato

        That could have been deliberate…

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Had to be.

      • Agent Cooper

        CoVeFe is a highly secret material made of Cobalt, Virilium (Trump recently discovered it), and Iron. It will revolutionize everything!

        Do you not Q bro?

  15. KromulentKristen

    I totally missed that Roy died back in the early COVID Times. It’s always amazing to me when people who were bonded to each other die so close together.

    • Agent Cooper

      Johnny and June Carter Cash

  16. The Late P Brooks

    I’m seriously thinking about borrowing as much money as i can and find something valuable to buy.

    A Russian nuclear submarine would be nice.

    • Lachowsky

      I was thinking land, but a boomer would be fun.

  17. DEG

    For those in NH: Petition to oppose AG MacDonald on the state Supreme Court

    The Clown Prince has appointed his pet AG for Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. The petition includes reasons why AG MacDonald shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court. A quick summary: His actions in enforcing the Clown Prince’s orders, arguing against religious freedom, unwillingness to look into voting irregularities, and other reasons.

    On January 21st, 2021, the Executive Council will hold a public hearing on AG MacDonald’s appointment to the court. If you are in NH, you should contact your executive councilor and/or join the meeting in opposition to AG MacDonald’s appointment to the state Supreme Court.

    • Ted S.

      Will Sununu treat his constituents as badly as Andy Beshear did?

      • DEG

        I’m not sure if you’re trolling or serious.

  18. DEG

    Dashboard showing PA COVID violations

    Your PA tax dollars at work.

    A new website, recently launched by the Wolf administration, is shining a light on restaurants that have violated COVID-19 guidelines.

    It’s called the Pennsylvania COVID Inspection Dashboard. It allows people to search restaurants by name, city, county or zip code.

    Potential customers can find out if restaurants have been allowing people to sit at the bar, drink without eating food, or enforcing social distancing.

    And I say if the restaurant is not, that’s probably a restaurant for me.

    • Floridaman

      I was going to say, this is good. Yelp has been fairly crappy of telling me which restraints are open. The number of citations they get is the number of recommendations.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        But they will tell you if the restaurant is racist or not.

      • db

        Not much of a restraint, if it’s open 🙂

  19. Rebel Scum

    For what?

    BBC Newsnight
    @BBCNewsnight

    “Donald Trump belongs in jail.”

    Ex-FBI Director @Comey says while he “obviously believes” the president should be in jail, he doesn’t think “pursuing that is in the best interests of the American people”, adding Joe Biden should “consider” pardoning Donald Trump

    “No reasonable prosecutor…”

    • Lachowsky

      If Trump had had two nuts to clink against each other back in 2017, he would have fired Comey and charged him with something for attempting to black mail him with the steele dossier.

    • Viking1865

      Pardoning him would be very smart, because then he goes down with Nixon, and of course no one would have been pardoned if they weren’t obviously guilty.

      Trump should have pardoned Hillary years ago when it became apparent that her partisans controlled DOJ. He should pardon Joe the day before the inauguration on grounds that hes too mentally incompetent to stand trial.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’d like to see all sorts of shenanigans but they have his nuts in a vice and he’s pretty cautious when you get right down to it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And Comey deserves to hang from a lamppost

    • db

      Hell yeah.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “I think the challenge is that the rot is from the grassroots all the way to the presidency. So the rot is at every layer,” Wallace said. “You can call it rot because it’s now criminal sedition. But there are people that supported it from the grassroots all the way up through to the White House.”

    You want people blowing up courthouses? Because this is how you get people blowing up courthouses.

    • Viking1865

      You know every time they say “sedition” I imagine someone in a powdered wig and knee breeches and a big bright red coat reading it out from a parchment to a bunch of ornery, uppity, uncouth colonials.

      • Floridaman

        May god bless and keep the government… far away from us.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        If I were a terrorist,
        Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum

      • mrfamous

        I mentioned that in an earlier thread. SEDITIONNNNNNNNNNN. SEDITION!

      • Nephilium

        I’m just waiting for the Alien and Sedition Act 2, Lawfare Bugaloo

    • The Other Kevin

      The word “marginalizing” keeps coming to mind.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Stop reminding me that Obama’s godparents are terrorist bombers.

  21. zwak

    Just a thought: if this current impeachment (drink!) actually works, could some conservative (Texas, Florida) state AG issue an arrest warrant for AOC do to tweets and comments she made egging on riots over the summer? Add Kamalatoa and Pelosi too

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh they are sticking to that one even though its been debunked about a photo take at a State Capitol and not the US Capitol? Got it.

    • Fourscore

      Smokers also need that stimulus bump earliest. Ciggies are very expensive and inflation is hurting smokers the hardest

    • Floridaman

      Easy show up with a cigarette and blow the smoke in the nosy bureaucrats face.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My only smoking time was Team Spirit ’88 in South Korea. The gunney in charge of us would have smoke em if you got em breaks. Didn’t smoke keep working. Within a day everyone was a smoker.

    • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

      French ’em. You’ll know.

      When I was dating, I swore off of girls who smoked. It was like sucking on an ashtray.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If you cant hack up a gob of lung butter the size of a small egg you’re disqualified.

    • rhywun

      I’m astonished they aren’t putting smokers at the back of line because FYTW.

      OTOH, this could mean they know something about the vaccine they’re not telling us….

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Why even waste time checking on that? So stupid.

    • Count Potato

      It was a pretty ridiculous lie too.

    • rhywun

      The first anniversary of Foochy et al. telling everyone not to bother with masks can’t be far off.

      I can’t wait to re-live every stupid moment of the last year.

  22. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE: Dead MAGA rioter Ashli Babbitt and her Marine husband were in a THROUPLE with live-in 29-year-old bartender who is sticking by the widower’s side as he mourns his wife’s Capitol shooting death

    Ashli’s brother Andrew, 21, said his late sister was raised to welcome people of all sexual orientations, colors or creeds – as long as they were ‘Team America'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147335/Dead-MAGA-mobster-Ashli-Babbitt-Marine-ex-husband-THROUPLE-bartender.html

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Daily Mail really is a shit rag that’s not fit for birdcage liner.

    • Viking1865

      Big beard and multiple women living with him? Shit, they don’t even need a new PATRIOT ACT the old one should do just fine.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Oooh-fucking-rah!

      • Viking1865

        He really is upholding the honor of the Corps, isn’t he?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Baller

  23. Count Potato

    “Australia hunts Joe the racing pigeon who made epic 8,000-mile journey from Oregon to Sydney…. only to get a death sentence because he could be carrying COVID

    A racing pigeon which survived a gruelling 8,000-mile, two-month journey across the Pacific from the US to Australia will now be killed over fears it is carrying Covid.

    The bird went missing during a race in Oregon on October 29 last year before being discovered emaciated and exhausted in a garden in Melbourne on December 26 – with experts saying it likely hitched a ride across the ocean on a cargo ship.

    Kevin Celli-Bird said he caught the pigeon, which he has nicknamed Joe after President-elect Joe Biden, and nursed it back to health on pieces of dry biscuit.

    But when the story hit local media, Celli-Bird received a call from quarantine officers ordering him to catch the bird a second time so they can kill it.

    Celli-Bird says it is now impossible for him to catch Joe because, having regained his former strength, he simply hops away – leaving wildlife officers with the job of hunting down the pigeon themselves.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9145857/Australia-kill-pigeon-crossed-Pacific-Oregon.html

    OFFS!!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Wait, birds can get COVID? I don’t think that’s correct.

      • Lachowsky

        It’s swine/bird/covid flu.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        The deadly swirvid strain.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Wait.

      A bird that was in the US last 2.5 moths ago, took a 2 month trip spanning 8k miles, and they have to kill it because it might have the coof?

      GTFO.

      How is it that actually suffer these fucknuts? How do they remember to breathe?

    • Pope Jimbo

      No one tell the Kiwis. They might get bad ideas too

      A bar-tailed godwit took off from Alaska on Sept. 16 and landed in New Zealand 11 days later, according to the Guardian. The bird, tracked by satellite, traveled an estimated 7,580 miles.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      It wouldn’t surprise me if Australia started executing American tourists at this point. The leaked video footage coming out of Australia is sickening. One mother was dragged out of her minivan by police at a checkpoint and beaten in front of her children.

      I can’t remember if her crime that earned the beating was not wearing a mask in her vehicle or refusing to provide a reason to why she was breaking the state-mandated curfew at home.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Next time we let the Chinese add their island to the Co-Prosperity Sphere. No bailing them out like last time.

      • Lachowsky

        Japanese…

    • rhywun

      Too much stupid to unpack.

      • Count Potato

        Here, let me save you some time:

        The bird is the smartest one involved.

  24. Pope Jimbo

    Just to fire Tundra up: $2B light rail project in Minneapolis will not open in 2023 because of problems. The geniuses at the Met Council also have no idea when it will open and how much more the problems they ran into will cost. But don’t worry it isn’t like it is their own money or that they will go broke.

    Passenger service for the Southwest light-rail line won’t begin in 2023 as originally planned due to “unforeseen conditions” that have surfaced during construction of the project, the Metropolitan Council said Thursday.

    It’s unclear when the 14.5-mile line will open, and how much the delay will affect Southwest’s current $2 billion cost. The extension of the existing Green Line is already the most expensive public works project in state history.

    • db

      “unforeseen conditions” that have surfaced during construction of the project,

      Hellmouth opened up and swallowed half of the construction materials?

      • Pope Jimbo

        They encountered “poor soil”. Which is exactly why they were sued by all sorts of neighborhoods before the project got started. So it shouldn’t have been a big surprise.

        While these types of setbacks are not uncommon on projects of this scale, we are also disappointed by this development,” the council said, reiterating that the long-term benefits of the project will outweigh “short-term challenges.”

        That quote might have been true before the Rona. Now we have a $2B choo-choo that will bring no one to our deserted downtown. I’m sure they will pass some new tax on people who work from home to pay for this. After all if they weren’t working from home, they would be riding the train and paying fares, so it is only fitting they be taxed to support it.

      • db

        You know who else encountered poor soil?

      • Agent Cooper

        Richard Gere on The Curse of Oak Island?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Ooops, forgot to add this extra quote

      Light Rail Story:

      The council also noted that a $20 million mile-long crash protection wall, along the Southwest route between the Royalston/Farmers Market and Bryn Mawr stations, was a late add to the project. The wall is intended to separate light-rail trains from freight trains belonging to BNSF Railway, which requested it.

      “While this element is not a surprise, we have now completed analysis and design for the wall and have a fuller understanding of the challenges of constructing this project element in an active freight rail corridor,” the council said.

      From NPR on Trump’s Border Wall:

      To get an idea why the government is spending so much on Trump’s border wall, look no further than the construction sites down in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

      On one side of a caliche road, you can see the pedestrian fence that was erected more than a decade ago. At 18 feet, it looks downright puny. On the other side of the road are massive steel bollards topped with an “anti-climbing plate” that rise 30 feet above the cotton fields, surrounded by men in hardhats and heavy equipment.

      Bush’s fence averaged $4 million a mile; Trump’s wall costs five times that—$20 million a mile.

      So $20M/mile for light rail =

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. Bad day typing. That wasn’t supposed to get posted.

        I was just giggling that the fancy new wall for light rail costs the same as the border wall. One was money well spent, while the other was a horrible waste of tax payer money.

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        that money could have been spent on bike lanes!

      • db

        Hell, it could have been spent on my meals. I have very refined tastes, just like the people in charge of the rail project, I imagine.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Minneapolis got suckered by the Mono-Rail salesman too? Just like Springfield and Shelbyville.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Suckered?

        I don’t think so. You see we already have two light rail lines that lose lots of money every single year, so we are going to build a third even more expensive line. We are sure to turn a profit this time!

        The only fun part of this new line is that they ran it through some very tony neighborhoods and upset a lot of NIMBY rich progressives.

      • zwak

        Sacramento’s light rail has a stop dead smack in the middle of one of the toniest neighborhoods in the city, the Fat Forties. One night some enterprising rider got off at the stop, walked up one side of the street breaking into every car on the street, and walked back to the station in time for the next train, breaking into all of the cars on the other side.

        The number of Democrat donors who live in the area, not to mention Democrat politicians makes the whole thing priceless.

      • dbleagle

        Oahu’s $2B open in 2020 light rail project is moving along great. It is now up to $11.6B open by 2027. The current estimate is that it will lose $50-80M every year it runs. So we have that going for us.

        That monorail salesman was good I tell you.

    • Floridaman

      Why on earth do they need one, most of their urban are burned down, for reasons we are no longer allowed to mention last year.

    • Viking1865

      “won’t begin in 2023 as originally planned due to “unforeseen conditions” that have surfaced during construction of the project”

      Is the site anywhere near the spirited, enthusiastic, nearly completely peaceful protests?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Nope. The Autonomous Zone of Urban Redevelopment is way south of Downtown. Those fuckers can ride buses. Light Rail is for the swells who live in the burbs.

      • Viking1865

        I should have guessed that honestly. It is very much a pattern in urban mass transit that its more like white rail. Black and brown get to ride buses.

    • Tundra

      Thanks, but I’m over it. I am in a Zen place. No government theft or malfeasance can affect me.

      *throws laptop at wall*

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      2 BILLION for 14.5 miles?

      GTFOH.

      That’s only $137.9M per mile. What the fuck are these people doing?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I had breakfast with Wheelock Whitney (a big mover and shaker in Minnesoda politics) when we were building our first light rail. He said that for every $1 the city/state spent on the project the Feds were giving them $2. It was all about urban redevelopment and the train was only used as a pretense to swindle the Feds out of that money.

        SInce then, though, the train has operated at a deficit every year so it might not have been as clever an investment as they thought.

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        the Feds are fucking over strangers twice as hard I’m fucking over my friends!

        speaking of which: how many barrels of lube can you buy for $2B ?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Does Memphis still have their trolley running from one end of downtown to the other?

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        uffda

        long but predictable story: a few trolleys run (was completely out of service for most of a recent year), half of the tracks are abandoned, it has never had any serious ridership

        we didn’t get any lube, but we’re still servicing those sweet, sweet bonds

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        He said that for every $1 the city/state spent on the project the Feds were giving them $2.

        You’re welcome, I guess.

      • Viking1865

        “We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just stick our hand in the next guy’s pocket.” – Frank Sobotka

      • Grosspatzer

        NYC says hold my beer. This is how you do it.

        The proposed full line would be 8.5 miles (13.7 km) and 16 stations long, serve a projected 560,000 daily riders, and cost more than $17 billion.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Only $2.5B per mile.

        That’s all. Pocket change.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Boston says thank you for taking the title away from them.

      • Grosspatzer

        Ah, the Big Dig, remember it well. Had the misfortune of attempting to navigate there during the decade(s) long condtruction. One wrong turn = 30 minute detour.

      • DEG

        I just had a flashback to the first time I drove in Boston.

        Blech.

      • Grosspatzer

        I love Pittsburgh as well. If you’re not careful there you will find yourself on a bridge which will take you in a direction 180 degrees from your intended destination.

      • rhywun

        To be fair, the thing is needed – not least to fulfill a promise to replace the elevated they tore down decades ago – given how overcrowded the Lexington Avenue line is. But yeah, it should not cost that.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Sounds like it needs more diversity equity and inclusion.

    • one true athena

      Well, I’m sorry, but those are rookie numbers compared to the Jerry Brown “Bullet Train” in Cali. Why wouldn’t everyone want a bullet train that goes from one small cowlown to a slightly bigger cowtown and doesn’t actually go to any large cities, at all? Oh we’ll figure that part out LATER, pal, don’t be a climate denier!

  25. The Other Kevin

    Flags here are at half-mast. We looked it up, and it’s for that capital police officer. I guess blue lives matter now?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Have they come out with what actually happened to him? Was he beaten to death or did something else happen?

      • Lachowsky

        suicide by cop, as I understand it.

  26. Fourscore

    “The extension of the existing Green Line is already the most expensive public works project in state history”

    You ain’t seen nothing yet. Now is a good time to get some Biden graft, err, stimulus money. NY and Chi-Town aren’t the only ones that could use some bailout money.

  27. Certified Public Asshat

    Well then: Fact check: Jacob Blake did not ‘brandish’ knife, get gun before Kenosha police shooting

    ditor’s note:Prosecutors revealed Jan. 5, 2021, that Jacob Blake was armed with a “razor blade-type knife” when he was shot by police. Kenosha County, Wisconsin, District Attorney Michael Graveley said as a result the officer who shot Blake could successfully argue self-defense, and therefore wouldn’t face criminal charges. That does not affect the rating for this item; ratings are based on what is known at the time. When this statement was made in August 2020, it was not clear what Blake was holding or when, given the grainy cell phone video and lack of detail released by police.

    • db

      Sounds legit. I mean, back in 1608, Jupiter didn’t have any moons, so the Church’s persecution of Galileo stands as fact-based.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Maybe they should stick to fact checking the Babylon Bee?

  28. The Late P Brooks

    A racing pigeon which survived a gruelling 8,000-mile, two-month journey across the Pacific from the US to Australia will now be killed over fears it is carrying Covid.

    Fucking cargo cultists.

  29. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Same tune, wet….

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      And dry.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Jacob Blake was armed with a “razor blade-type knife” when he was shot by police.

    You can bring down an airliner with one of those!

  31. kinnath

    Did the forum just go down?

    • kinnath

      Just me. I managed to get myself logged out.

      • Lachowsky

        The censors haven’t found us yet.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Baffling! Inexplicable!

    The head of the Federal Aviation Administration told CNBC on Thursday there has been an unsettling rise in disruptions on commercial flights in recent days, prompting the regulatory agency to issue a stricter enforcement policy.

    “Really over the last few days, we have seen a distributing increase in onboard incidents where airline passengers have disrupted flights with their behavior,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said on “Squawk on the Street.”

    He said the episodes have stemmed partly from flyers failing to comply with face-mask policies, which have been implemented during the coronavirus pandemic, and also in the wake of the deadly, pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.

    Obviously, the only way to deal with this is to impose even more intolerable bullshit on your customers.

    Why the fuck do people fly (on commercial airlines)? Why subject yourself to that?

    • rhywun

      I’m not flying again until this bullshit is over.

      Same with restaurants.

      Which means I’m probably not traveling or eating outside my home ever again.

  33. Pope Jimbo

    Just to prove I read the links sometime….

    The only food allergy I ever had was from grilled silk larvae I ate in Korea. My in-laws were wildly amused by the incident.

    So the Euroweenies should take the warning about possible allergic reactions seriously.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ugh, those look disgusting.

      • rhywun

        I was expecting something chopped up or buried in sauce. Yeah, hard fucking pass.

  34. Trigger Hippie

    Carry over from the morning thread:

    ‘Swiss Servator on January 14, 2021 at 7:40 am
    “who never procreated”

    Ha, ha! That will show those SOB’s! I’ll willingly end my family line.

    Is that akin to “I’ll kill myself, and they’ll be sorry’

    Wow, your mind reading abilities are amazing, truly.

    Apparently my decision not have children offends you on a deeply personal level for whatever bizzare reason. But hey, you do you.

    Oh, and I fully expect you to throw some snark at the gay gents here for not doing their duty to ensure humanity’s future any day now. Any.Freaking.Day.Now.

    *rolls eyes*

    • limey

      NON-BREEDER LIVES MATTER
      #HANDSUPDON’TSPLOOGE
      #ICAN’TBREED

      • limey

        Absolutely brilliant. RIP, pre-canceled Woody.

      • KSuellington

        Woody is a scumbag but the man has made some great movies. That’s among his best I’d say. The Gene Wilder sheep love bit was funny in that flick as well.

      • Trigger Hippie

        All I was trying to say is that many, many people’s children and grandchildren are going to lead a far poorer and more oppressive life than the ones most of us have enjoyed so far if things continue as they’ve been recently.

        He’s the one who brought my family into it to attack my decision.

        I’ve been taking shit from all angles, all week and I’ll be damned if I won’t throw shit right back.

      • limey

        That’s okay babby. Many of us take a different approach, still trying to build the future we want to see. Children are our future. More independent, curious, proactive kids who will be the next generations of liberty lovers. Take that with a pinch of salt because I don’t have kids and probably can’t ?

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘Many of us take a different approach, still trying to build the future we want to see. Children are our future. More independent, curious, proactive kids who will be the next generations of liberty lovers.’

        See, that has absolutely nothing to do with why I decided not to have children. It was based on deeply personal reasons that don’t involve politics or philosophy or what I envision the future to be. Why? Not really anybody’s business.

        The assumption that I would make such a decision based on something as myopic as what he was proposing offended me, that’s all. I’m probably oversensitive today and I know I’m far from the most intelligent Glib but goddamn…

      • KSuellington

        It seems a fair enough thing to get annoyed about. I think a lot of people are just unbelievably on edge right now. It’s the doldrums of winter and we are soon approaching a fucking year of this horseshit and it isn’t ending. People have been losing their minds in this shitty town and the past few weeks have made it very evident. I’ve had two customers this week tell me fantasies about killing people. I woke to a terrible dream this morning of my bike getting stolen and then Kamala Harris appeared and started grabbing my ass and suggesting that I better get it on with her or she’d arrest me. Fucked up shit.

        This whole thing has been evil and we are now looking at a year that could be even worse. People can only take so much.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        See, that has absolutely nothing to do with why I decided not to have children

        The problem is that your original post implied that it was, and also implied that people who are having kids right now in the current political climate are stupid.

        I skipped over your comment because I assumed that you didn’t intend to insult all the people around here who recently had kids. Swiss, evidently, wasn’t as charitable in his interpretation.

        I don’t really care whether or not you have kids or why you choose not to. However, I completely agree with Swiss that the whole “couldn’t bring kids into this cruel world” justification is laughable.

        *shrugs*
        *wanders off*

  35. Ownbestenemy

    Man spammers are getting better: VM left “Hi we tried to drop off the paper word you requested at the address indicated but no one was available, can you please call back and verify your address?”

    Yeah no…not gonna happen.

    • KSuellington

      If you’ll kindly provide your banking route number we will be very please to make immediate deposit to your account.

    • limey

      Ow. My sides. I can’t even.

      Funnily enough I’m just watching her jolly-faced husband interview perfect woman Gina Carano ?

    • Viking1865

      #That Happened.

    • Rebel Scum

      Participating in a political rally is “insurrection”.

      I am so tired of the disingenuous horseshit surrounding this. A few dozen people out of likely more than a hundred thousand get rowdy and break shit and it is the fault of everyone present? Fuck off. Deal with anyone that actually committed a crime and leave it at that.

      • Lachowsky

        posting on glibs is soon to be insurrection.

      • Rebel Scum

        That avatar is insurrection. ///jk

        But I am pretty sure Hawaiian pizza is insurrection.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Soon? Haven’t you seen the harrumphing going on here!

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Look at through the lens of the Left escalating their war against wrongthinkers. It really has nothing to do with the political rally and was inevitable the second they successfully swung the election for Biden. Big Tech was primed and ready to go with their purge. This is all part of that campaign and is just the opening move.

      • Urthona

        Awesome account. Sounds like it could be anyone though.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Interesting. Either interpretation you take of who the provocateurs are does not bode well.

    • Urthona

      yeah right

    • Chafed

      Ugh. Disappointing but not surprising.

    • Urthona

      summary? i can’t do videos.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s only a couple minutes…But basically Trump’s account is referenced and Dorsey says that will not be the only account and the purge will continue beyond the Sleepy Joe’s *inauguration.

    • DEG

      How long until Project Veritas is unpersoned?

      • Urthona

        They already have been. Since forever.

      • DEG

        Not quite. That link goes to their youtube account. Their twitter account is still up. James O’Keefe’s twitter account is still up.

      • Urthona

        gotcha

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I heard Veritas has evidence of Dorsey’s heroin addiction and has warned him that they’re going to release it.

  36. KromulentKristen

    40 minutes til condo board meeting!! ???

    • straffinrun

      Great travelogue, KK. We need stuff to take our mind off the coming wokestorm. Always wanted to go to Syria.

      • KromulentKristen

        Thanks straff/stuff

    • KromulentKristen

      Here we go….

    • KromulentKristen

      The word “culmination” was used…

    • KromulentKristen

      I’m excited & scared about what they’re going to say. My life may be about to change…

    • Agent Cooper

      Are you meeting with Jack Klompus?

  37. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Many years ago some friends from Austria came to visit and had copious amounts of pork products confiscated at the airport by Customs. Then they went on a road trip and couldn’t visit any of the national parks because Obama closed them during the shutdown. They were not impressed with our bureaucracy.

    • Urthona

      To be fair, I’ve never been impressed with theirs either.

      • rhywun

        I spent a week in Austria ages ago – cannot recommend it highly enough.

        Of course it was decades ago.

      • DEG

        I like Vienna.

        Salzburg was nice to spend a day in.

        I had some plans to go to Graz on my last trip to Austria, but that fell through thanks to my getting a cold.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        There’s lots to do in Vienna. If I had the money I wouldn’t mind living there. The Wachau is a nice place for a bike ride or a river cruise. Graz didn’t do much for me.

      • grrizzly

        Gratz was nice to visit. I went there for a day because a classmate of mine works there.

    • straffinrun

      Not being consistent is a virtue. Or at least is effective.

    • Grosspatzer

      He’s got the blues.

  38. juris imprudent

    Damn Matt! (this one is subscription, so no linkee)

    Watch any random group of Americans thrown together into a tough situation — a highway pileup, a hurricane, military service — and they usually find ways to get along. It’s when they’re separated, lost in their own heads, that they go off. There was a time when opinions on national politics were way down the list of what most people considered most important about themselves. In online America, that’s gone. Unhappy people are made more unhappy. Potential respites in the form of family, community, and alternative perspectives are demonized as people sink deeper into cultlike bubbles. If we could just unplug, we’d recover. But we don’t know how.

    • Ownbestenemy

      A neighbor asked “Do all believe that think that we are ?”

      I said outside of the socials and among the general populace, so far, no. We all get by just fine. That is narrowing daily though.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ugh…it ate all my comments. “Do all PARTY1 believe that PARTY2 all follow INSERT PARTY DOGMA HERE?”

      • commodious spittoon

        If you voted for Trump or even thought about voting for Trump or ever defended him against something spurious said about him by our media betters, you’re a MAGA TRUMPTARD CULTIST ZOMBIE.

  39. grrizzly

    Repugnant. The singer performing the national anthem before the NHL game is wearing a face mask.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Reminds me…Kings opener tonight. Maybe they realized that big and bloated was so 2012 this year.

    • DEG

      Fuck

    • rhywun

      ? Fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh FUUUHHH… ?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They stuck in the tunnels under the White House? I am sure I have heard those murmurs somewhere on this site.

    • rhywun

      I think I heard that the one at my opener just now was on The Masked Singer*. I didn’t look up so dunno if that was true.

      *A show you could not pay me enough to watch.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Red Wing’s had an unmasked singer…yet the announcer still goes through the script…”please stand, remove hats, military members may blah blah”…why? No one is in the stands….oh and she is terrible but at least not embellishing.

    • Ownbestenemy

      And tie up the Supreme Court unless Roberts says “wah…its scary I don’t wanna woooze muh brainz”

  40. Ownbestenemy

    Thinking this through: If the Senate does convict after President Trump’s term and the Supreme Court upholds it as valid, does that open up Congress to go through history and impeach anyone that has served as an officer of the United States that falls under impeachment clause?

    • Urthona

      yeah but they won’t convict.

    • juris imprudent

      The political counterpart to Mormon baptism of the dead?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Right so I was thinking two years of our new Congress impeaching all the wrong thinkers of our past, even though it means nothing, but I can see it happen.

  41. Count Potato

    “On Jan. 20 Sen. Kamala Harris will be sworn in as VP of the US. There’s a call for women to wear pearls to honor Harris, and to empower women. A Facebook page “Wear Pearls on Jan. 20, 2021,” has 300K members. AJC would like to see your pearls. Send a photo to spoole@ajc.com.”

    https://twitter.com/ajc/status/1349494394488057864

    • Mojeaux

      ZZ Top would like a word.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That is going to be one really dirty inbox.

    • KSuellington

      Willie Brown heartily approves!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Even the mail box…spoole…pearls…its too on the nose.

    • Agent Cooper

      4Chan Activated.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      These people are fundamentally broken. Completely willing to sacrifice peoples’ financial livelihoods in order to score political points.

      Now that Trump is gone, they’re falling all over themselves to open up even when cases are high.

      And they expect us to swallow it like fools.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So NYC said they need to open up, ChiTown now says they need to open up. I am sure its not at all politically driven in any form or fashion, to say otherwise is sedition and may cause insurrection!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yep. Can’t wait for the diehard lockistas to realize their political masters aren’t going to give them full reign now.

      • Viking1865

        It’s almost like the whole point was to crash the economy and make people miserable and also provide an excuse for mass mail in balloting.

        Thankfully we have Joe Biden, the most popular politician in the history of the country to guide us through to a brighter day.

    • limey

      Excellent

    • DEG

      No face diapers is good.

      #1 is a good opener.

      The polka dots in #13’s dress screwed my eyes up.

      #19 and #20 are the same woman. Her iChive gallery isn’t bad.

      #29’s iChive gallery is good.

      #34 is my favorite of the bunch and has a good iChive gallery.

  42. Ownbestenemy

    So NHL has absolutely no fans in the stands?

    • limey

      And a lot less fans everywhere else now they’ve jumped on the woke appeasement train.

    • rhywun

      Indoors? LOL of course not.

    • Agent Cooper

      Nashville does. Not many. Someone threw a catfish on the ice. The catfish was wearing a mask. It was awesome.

  43. Count Potato

    “Democrats try to rewrite history when it doesn’t fit their narrative.

    In 2001, 2005 & 2017, objections to the counting of electoral votes were ok & weren’t perceived as trying to “overturn an election.””

    https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1349841646867931136

    interesting video

  44. westernsloper

    I am not sure confiscating British food should be problem anywhere.

    • Gustave Lytton

      *grabs HP Sauce bottle by the neck and smashes end open*

    • Agent Cooper

      I had the worst sandwich of my life in London.