A Path to Wellness Part 15

by | Feb 7, 2021 | Fiction | 439 comments

INT – PRISON – DAY

ON SCREEN TEXT: 13 months ago…

HARVEY is lifting weights in the prison yard. A muffled phone ring can be heard. Harvey gets an anguished look on his face and places the weights back on the bench press, sits up, unzips his jumpsuit, reaches a hand in and fishes around while making anguished looks. Eventually he pulls the phone out of his ass and puts it up to his ear.

HARVEY

Yeah, my guy has it all set up.

Q says the evidence will be in

the Blue room.

Harvey listens to the response.

HARVEY (CONT’D)

No, it can’t go down yet. Q says

first Trump has to fake losing the

election. We don’t make a move until

Biden is in the White House.

Harvey again listens to the response before continuing.

HARVEY (CONT’D)

Listen, I don’t know why! But Q

has been right about everything so far,

we need to trust him.

Harvey listens to the response again.

HARVEY (CONT’D)

Yeah, Ted, see you in 12 months.

Q has the whole escape planned.

And, Ted, it’s been an honor.

Harvey hangs up the phone and grimaces as he shoves it back into his rectum.

INT – WHITE HOUSE FORAY – NIGHT

Ted kicks in the double doors and enters in a totally cool fashion.

TED

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang motherfuckers!

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang starts playing.

TED (CONT’D)

Alright Ice, or T or

whatever the fuck, you

and the Proud Boys cover

the entrance.

ICE T

Got it, you racist fuck.

TED

Harvey, get to the Blue

Room, we need that evidence,

you creepy piece of shit!

HARVEY

Will do, sarge!

Harvey then does a tactical role for absolutely no reason.

TED

It’s time for Uncle Ted

to finally get in the

Oval office.

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang ramps up as Ted moves toward the Oval Office in slow-mo, casually wasting anyone that gets in his way.

 

(Can an editor put in links to the previous posts, there were complaints on the last post, and I’m still not sure on just how to navigate all these archive sites to find them all, thanks)

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439 Comments

  1. DEG

    When I saw mentions of Q, my first thought was girlie pics. Q Continuum delivers unlike QAnon.

    Harvey then does a tactical role for absolutely no reason.

    I chuckled.

    • hayeksplosives

      Also with the unnecessary tactical roll, starting with a bit of Galaxy Quest.

      https://youtu.be/CpR1NcqDaXw

      • DEG

        I caught a clip from one of the “Police Squad” movies in there.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think I need to watch that tonight

    • Chai Girl

      I thought the article was going to be about Yoga or something else. Oh well. I Like Reiki and Reflexology and massage.

  2. straffinrun

    In a free society this would be on TV right now instead of the fruit bowl.

  3. Ownbestenemy

    What did you do for the world mommy? Officiated a game. I changed the world.

    Meanwhile in some dank office women are designing bridges, spaceships, cars, etc.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’d better refrain from commenting.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I applaud peoples accomplishments but she is officiating a sport. Dont put that shit on pedestals while some single mom works 3 jobs working to put her kids through school.

        Not directed at you hayek of course.

      • limey

        I took it that hayeks should refrain from commenting about the DEWs and HEMP delivery mechanisms she is privy to in whatever she does.

    • The Last American Hero

      Not to mention double checking the math for the engineers. Those people are the real heroes.

  4. Chafed

    OMG you guys! We have a lady referee at the Super Bowl! Finally the patriarchy has been smashed.

    • Sean

      *lights a sparkler to celebrate*

    • Ownbestenemy

      She is a god damn hero Chafed

      • Chafed

        That explains the tear slowly rolling down my cheek.

      • Fourscore

        Prolly got an early vaccine

    • straffinrun

      They give her a flag or a rag to throw?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Lady Ref: *throws flag*
        Players: What’s the infraction?
        Lady Ref: Oh, nothing I guess.
        Players: …
        Lady Ref: …
        Players: Ok, well back go the ga
        Lady Ref: I just think it’s funny that

      • blackjack

        You shouldn’t have to ask me what you did wrong!

      • TARDis

        It was probably for something someone did 5 years ago.

      • ron73440

        My wife and I were wondering if she is the best or if she was picked for being a woman, my wife siad if they hadn’t mentioned it, she would assume he got there on merit, but them mentioning it made her skeptical. I wonder if we’re assholes for wondering and then I read this.

        I almost cried laughing and my wife tried to pretend it wasn’t funny(she failed).

        I also said “see, I’m not an asshole, that’s an asshole joke.”

        I am jealous I didn’t think of it, cause that’s funny right there.

      • ron73440

        That was even funnier.

        I’m dying laughing as I read it to my wife.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Probably explains all the ticky tack penalties.

      • C. Anacreon

        You might think it’s ticky tack, but I think it’s elegant, and we’re putting it on the mantle.

  5. LemonGrenade

    Ouch a bit close to home. I’ve got a true-believer still looking for signs and it’s been frustrating.

  6. Ownbestenemy

    Best commerical is Huggies just selling diapers. What an accomplishment in todays day in age.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Even they couldn’t help from taking a shot at the flat earthers.

    • straffinrun

      Huggies. For Babies With Back or Front Holes.

      • rhywun

        lol

      • Gustave Lytton

        Out you popped, out of your mummies tumpkin and everyone
        shouted : “It’s a boy, it’s a boy!”. And somebody said “but it
        hasn’t got a winkle!”. And then I said “A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A boy without a winkle!” And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed.

        Fuck the BBC and their overactive copyright police.

  7. Ownbestenemy

    Prediction: Tony Romo becomes the greatest sportscaster, redeeming himself for being overhyped as an actual football quarterback.

    • CPRM

      I’m not sure he was over-hyped, he just played for Jerry Jones (after he assumed all the early success after he bought the team was all his doing).

      • hayeksplosives

        He needed an o-line too. Poor dude was playing injured much of the time.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Didn’t mean to tickle your sensitive bone.

      • CPRM

        I’m just about reality…which is why the over-hype of Brady bothers me. How did he GOAT his way to this Superbowl? By throwing 3 picks, only completing 55.6% of his passes and having a 75.4 QBR. Yeah, he was what won that NFC championship…

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am lucky to even name the teams. Everything you just wrote is Greek to me.

      • CPRM

        To put it in perspective, in this same game, Rogers had his worst game of the season. He threw 3 picks, just like Brady, but completed 66.8% of his passes and had a 66.8 QBR. So, individually, the losing QB still played better than the winning QB, but the winning QB gets credit because as a team they won…the story of Brady’s career…

    • hayeksplosives

      Correction: best sportscaster never to have said “Look at that monkey run” on national television.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Lol

    • CPRM

      If we could eat it at McDonalds it wouldn’t be endangered.

      • limey

        How many tiny chameleons to a quarter pounder?

      • Count Potato

        I was thinking lizard poppers.

      • rhywun
    • The Other Kevin

      How has everyone overlooked it so far?

    • rhywun

      they assume the reptiles are critically endangered due to massive deforestation in the Sorata region of Madagascar

      Science!

      • Count Potato

        They are just good at hiding.

      • hayeksplosives

        Can we just convince these people to wear hair shirts or do some old fashioned self flagellation?

        I really don’t want to be dragged into their mental illness and guilt delusions.

      • The Last American Hero

        Wtf do you think masks are?

    • blackjack

      Everything changed colors back when I was a kid. I still have a mood ring.

  8. rhywun

    Can an editor put in links to the previous posts

    Guess not.

    • Fourscore

      Punch the CPRM in the title and # 14 will pop up as well as all the H&H series

      • rhywun

        Yah, I remember #14. I have no memory of the first 13, though.

  9. Ownbestenemy

    To sate the unwashed masses..NFL is going to allow Brady the Super Trump Supporter win and call it even.

    • C. Anacreon

      Bruce Springsteen agrees.

  10. The Other Kevin

    I noticed Kaepernick isn’t playing today. Damn white supremacy.

  11. CPRM

    Since the previous posts weren’t link, here is a summary:

    Harvey went to Sex jail rehab and jerked off onto a plant. He was being black mailed by a woman (Gloria Alread’s daughter? Ask Straiff about that one). Ted broke Harvey out of prison because he got word Harvey was the one put in charge of orchestrating the Vegas shooting so the dems could get gun control passed. Harvey and Ted tried to lay low at a Chuck-E-Cheeze where the back was a sex shop, Pizza Gate was right, but had the wrong pizza place. Ted and Harvey saved a CDC employee who was going to blow the whistle on fake vaccines against The Russian Flu. While pursuing them the FBI perpetrated the Stoneman school shooting, Tim the CDC guy got killed later…at some point Ted was in a coma…Michelle Obama was a trans-russian spy…um…and last we heard they needed back-up, so Ted recruited Ice-T.

    I think that covers it before these current chapters.

    • straffinrun

      Read that in Alex Jones voice.

      • Sean

        I was thinking Rod Roddy.

      • Suthenboy

        Have you been watching the news for the last 5 years? None of that seems outside the realm of possibility anymore.

      • CPRM

        That is my hole thrust (heh, phrasing!), jam every conspiracy theory into one narrative.

      • straffinrun

        Nympho Wars.

    • hayeksplosives

      Harvey plows White House driveway, confusing all onlookers.

      • blackjack

        That’ll piss them off!

  12. Count Potato

    STEVE SMITH MAKE SOAP

    • J. Frank Parnell

      You know who else made soap?

      • hayeksplosives

        Leonarda Cianciulli!

      • hayeksplosives

        Thanks to my trusty True Crime page-a-day calendar, I know she was an Italian woman who snapped when her sons were killed in WWII.

        She murdered three young women as a sacrifice to preserve the rest of her sons. She disposed of the bodies by making them into soap and tea cakes.

        She ended up in the pot, like the other two…her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of cologne, and after a long time on the boil I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap. I gave bars to neighbours and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Did it work? Did she save the rest of her sons?

      • hayeksplosives

        I… I never thought to look that up.

      • blackjack

        All she had to do was send Tom Hanks out to find them. Duh!

      • hayeksplosives

        Looks like my facts were a bit off. She had 17 pregnancies, three miscarriages, 10 childhood deaths.
        That left 4 kids. Her favorite, Giuseppe, was about to go to war, and she had grim predictions from a fortune teller. (Damned Sicilians.)

        Giuseppe indeed lived. In fact, she confessed in order to clear him of suspicion.

        Saving Private Giuseppe…

      • blackjack

        Fuck that. Did she make any lampshades?

      • Fourscore

        Italian, not ‘Sconie

      • Count Potato

        tea cakes?

      • hayeksplosives

        Yes, that means food.

      • blackjack

        This guy?

      • straffinrun

        Noap.

      • CPRM

        The Paper Street Soap Company?

      • Suthenboy

        My wife?

        *Seriously, you should see her soap. It is a freakin’ work of art.*

      • hayeksplosives

        The kind with little bits of petal showing and a nice raffia bow tied around it?

        I like those.

      • Suthenboy

        She has a dozen sophisticated techniques for mixing colors, scents, magic potions, abrasives, you name it. She makes one she calls ‘sunny beach’ which has beach, ocean and a bright sun. Take one look at it and everyone says ‘oooooooh, I want that!’

        My education is chemistry/biology and when I look at her notes and the advice she gets I think ‘alchemy’, but when I look at the finished product I think ‘Wow’. I never thought of soap as a luxury item until she learned how to make it.

      • blackjack

        ” I coulda done a better job if I had some Lava soap!”

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Pretty soon, even run of the mill generic bar soap WILL be a luxury item.

      • blackjack

        It’s Palmolive whisky! You’re soaking in it.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Tyler Durden?

      • CPRM

        Ahem…

        CPRM on February 7, 2021 at 7:12 pm
        The Paper Street Soap Company?

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’ve always failed at reshreshing before commenting and I always will.

      • Ted S.

        Billy Crystal?

    • rhywun

      COME IN SHOWER BEND OVER, WATER FINE!

      /SEA SMITH

  13. Ownbestenemy

    Gwen trying to be a diva is a low point in 2021.

    • Gender Traitor

      Don’t worry – it’s early yet. I’m sure things will get a lot lower.

    • blackjack

      No superb owl for ya’ll!

    • Suthenboy

      I met his daughter once. She had nothing good to say about him.

      • Suthenboy

        Good grief that thread is a steaming pile.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It’s bad. A bunch of bed wetters, slabbing up the last of the drip from Freeman’s schlong.

    • Raven Nation

      The replies provide a pretty good insight into USA 2021.

      • Suthenboy

        No shit. A president taking commie positions and the govt actively destroying the economy while people hide under their beds. It is disgusting.

    • rhywun

      CWAA.

    • hayeksplosives

      Well if he doesn’t want to go to a party, you shouldn’t either.

      Nobody needs 27 forms of recreation to choose from.

      • Suthenboy

        How dare you make fun of MORGAN FREEMAN. He is eminently qualified to tell you what you need.

      • straffinrun

        Still thinks he’s God Almighty.

      • Count Potato

        That’s a different Morgan Freeman

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      The comments in that thread are proof we’re fucked.

    • kinnath

      Down in that thread:

      Bernie Sanders

      Unbelievable. There are some Dems who want to lower the income eligibility for direct payments from $75,000 to $50,000 for individuals, and $150,000 to $100,000 for couples. In other words, working class people who got checks from Trump would not get them from Biden. Brilliant!

      Please let Bernie Boys go after the party.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They already are its just are still useful idiots in their eyes.

    • limey

      “You either get busy livin’, or you get busy dyin’.”

  14. Count Potato

    Damn, these penalties.

      • Mojeaux

        I hate the pass interference penalty. That is the ENTIRE point of the game.

      • Hyperion

        The chiefs hold more than any team I’ve ever seen, and get away with it way too much.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That is the ENTIRE point of the game.

        +1 NFL Blitz 2000

        Seriously though, I could go for them rebalancing the rules to make it more defense friendly. NFL teams shouldn’t hardly ever score over 35 in a game.

      • hayeksplosives

        The hold that canceled the interception right before Gronk’s second touchdown was real.

        Way to screw your team, buddy. You aren’t going to get away with any holds.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep that one was. The one where they tripped over one another is a classic no-call. Any half-competent HS ref could’ve gotten that right.

    • rhywun

      Patrick needs to wake up and save the nation from the nauseating spectacle of a win by that other guy.

      • Mojeaux

        We’re on our third string o-line. The stars are all hurt.

      • rhywun

        Ah, didn’t know that.

        I have a feeling I’m going to be tuning elsewhere before the game is out.

      • Mojeaux

        Also, Mahomes is hurt.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      The first PI in the drive before 1/2 was enough to get me to turn away from the game.

      And I didn’t start watching it until the kickoff immediately before that.

      Football sucks.

      • rhywun

        Yes, it does. And you people bitch about soccer all the time?!

      • CPRM

        [NFL] {NCAA} (HS) Football sucks.

        The game when not trampled on is still fun to play and watch.

      • rhywun

        I did see some NCAA games this year that were fun.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That’s fair, but where can we find real football? It’s been pussified from top to bottom.

      • CPRM

        We had the XFL…but the Rona kilt it…funny, the biggest complaint the ‘sports writers’ come up with against XFL 2 was ‘The stadiums are mostly empty, no one will want to watch because that looks weird’…

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I just hope that the pussification of baseball is done. The MLB isn’t yet totally in league with SJWism, but the reaping has started.

      • CPRM

        The pussifaction of baesball was done when they said “Ow, da bow it mwe! I shood get to be on base!’

      • DenverJ

        Yeah, because getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball doesn’t deserve a base.

      • CPRM

        DenverJ never played baseball with ‘indian’ tagging, and for that he is a lesser man.

        Any sport where touching the ball is treated as alergic, you gotta even wear a GLOVE to touch the ball, is pretty fucking pathetic. If you don’t want to be hit by the ball, don’t play the game you fucking pussy!

      • DenverJ

        Kinda rude

  15. rhywun

    No doubt Biden believes he’s doing right as he sees it. He’s also probably sincere about his desire to detoxify our politics by pushing for some gauzy notion of “unity.”

    OFFS. Never change, Jonah.

    • straffinrun

      Jonah is that guy that is still claiming parachute pants are cool.

      • blackjack

        No, he’s right in line with all the other red team losers. They’re super happy to be back benchers again. Just sit there and lose and bitch about all the fucked up shit the blue team is pulling. No responsibility. It’s where they belong. Trump was a cancer on their slacking.

      • straffinrun

        Kind of my point. He thinks he can drag conservatives back to the 80’s.

    • DenverJ

      His political point is true, though, look at what pushing Obamacare through cost the Democrats.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Obamacare was my first inclination too.

        That ass fucking cost him the remainder of his presidency. He didn’t have the juice to do much, and the Tea Party ransacked Congress.

        But it seems the Democrats feel destined to repeat those mistakes again.

      • ron73440

        It cost them short term, but long term, we haven’t gained against the progressives and Biden is doing his best to rule by decree.

      • DenverJ

        And Obamacare is still the law of the land.

  16. rhywun

    “The referees are throwing way too many flags.”

    Ya think?

    That’s kind of the game now. But nice of you to notice.

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, because all of those blatant penalties should be ignored because Mahomes is a black guy! Did you know that? If he’s a black guy, so am I.

    • creech

      Awful, but still not as bad as basketball where, it seems, penalties are called for dirty looks and everything under the sun except palming the ball and traveling.

      • Hyperion

        Those PI calls were blatant. How can they not call that?

      • creech

        Doesn’t the receiver have to have had a chance to catch the ball? Ten yards over head a split second before the PI?

  17. Ownbestenemy

    Refs definitely being another team on the field rather than the officiating standard.

  18. Ownbestenemy

    Smoke break and beer run while we watch someine lip their words in ‘entertainment’

    • straffinrun

      Halftime show has a Pelosi nipple slip.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I would take that over this trash.

      • creech

        Rather see AOC but she’s probably still hiding in the bathroom after her harrowing experience on Jan. 6th.

      • Hyperion

        Beyond fucking terrible. Is there even any possibility they could find anything shittier than that?

  19. Hyperion

    My God, the Superbowl halftime is the worst garbage I’ve ever seen. All of the commercials are pure shit.

    • CPRM

      But, they got some chubby guy who calls himself ‘The Weekend’, like a one man band. I wonder if he has the cymbols on his knees and everything. I’m not going to watch to find out.

  20. Urthona

    I always love how they put a lip sync contest in the middle of the big game.

  21. Count Potato

    This guy sucks.

    • rhywun

      I like that song the NFL’s been plugging all season. It’s pure eighties synth-pop except for the occasional grunting he throws in.

      • Count Potato

        He still can’t sing.

  22. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Why are the dancers wearing tighty whities on their heads?

    • Hyperion

      Who cares? Is that music? If so, it’s the worst fucking music I’ve ever heard.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I feel like I am 12 years old at a Jr. High dance with his music.

      • blackjack

        That’s exactly the same thing I’m yelling at the clouds! At least, there’s no one on my lawn.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Gimp masks have been acceptable wear for the out and about sophisticated ladies and gentlemen.

    • Gender Traitor

      New strain of COVID makes your brain hurt?

    • rhywun

      Apparently, it’s part of some performance art related to his latest album. There are embarrassing articles out there about fans being “shocked” at him appearing with his head bandaged up.

  23. Urthona

    It will be such a great sports story if after years and years of toiling in the NFL Tom Brady finally gets 7 super bowl rings.

    • CPRM

      Brad Johnson has a higher percentage of Superbowl wins than Tom Brady…

  24. rhywun

    I didn’t expect to see a shout-out to Siouxie Sioux.

    • Sean

      Wait, really?

      • rhywun
    • Count Potato

      What?

  25. Sean

    Ok, now I’m drinking. Cheers, y’all.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Halftime Klan rally?

  27. Count Potato

    This is the worst halftime ever. I want to fortify this asshole in balls.

    • Urthona

      You apparently missed all the other halftime shows that also sucked.

      • CPRM

        Janet Jackson’s had one great moment.

      • The Hyperbole

        Prince killed it and even though I know nothing of their music Bruno Mars and Missy Elliot? impressed me when they did it.

      • The Hyperbole

        wait I think it was Mary T? Bilge not Missy Eliot.

      • Mojeaux

        Mary J Blige

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        In no particular order:

        Prince
        Whitney Houston
        Michael Jackson
        Bruno Mars

      • hayeksplosives

        U2 was good.

      • Chafed

        Aerosmith was good before Britney Spears came out with a sock Puppet.

        Tom Petty was great.

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, and some of them I’ve seen makes that a lofty goal, but they did it.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    I guess my time honored tradition of hitting the mute button as the clock approaches zero at the end of the half has once again proved correct.

    • Chafed

      You were prescient.

  29. Count Potato

    What was that redditt ad?

  30. Suthenboy

    I knew it was a mistake to shoot commies in other countries.

  31. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Y’all are a bunch of old farts. The music was ok. He ain’t Prince, but he’s not bad.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I’ve seen far worse.

      • Count Potato

        Who was worse?

        Black Eyed Peas?

      • The Hyperbole

        The Rolling Stones, and I’m a huge fan (they are the fourth best Rock and Roll band ever) but their SB show blew.

    • CPRM

      I’m not even watching, just shitposting. But that song he has is a lame shitty 80s/early 90s song. The worst bits of music making a comeback.

      • rhywun

        You say that like lame shitty 80s/early 90s is a bad thing.

    • Mojeaux

      That’s the kind of stuff I put in my ears to go walk.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    The Chiefs had better get their heads out of their asses.

  33. CPRM

    If all you folx are gonna talk about is the Rigged Bowl, I’ll wander off for a bit to watch some Red Letter Media.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ive moved onto watching season two of Babylon 5. Ihad my fill of the fooseball

      • Chafed

        Good call. The show really took off in season 2.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Pick a topic, and I’m in.

      I’m still wondering why no SB Zoom.

      • Mojeaux

        We don’t have zooms on Sunday.

      • Tulip

        I am willing to start one as long as you will take over as host.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        As a zoom novice, I don’t even know what that means.

  34. Gustave Lytton

    I still see Harvey Kinkle. And suspect he’s really talking to Salem under a nom de plume.

  35. The Other Kevin

    They had some DC police heroes there. Wonder if it was the guy who bravely held open the barricade?

    • Dr. Chipping Pioneer

      I wondered if it was the one who bravely shot the unarmed woman in the back.

      • The Hyperbole

        She wasn’t shot in the back, she was shot as she tried to go through a side lite of a door that the rioters were breaking down.

      • blackjack

        She was shot in the side of the neck, in an effort to prevent her from taking a selfie even further inside the chamber.

      • The Hyperbole

        Are you really convinced that there was no violence on the part of the rioters, or are you just pulling “if they are going to exaggerate it, I am going to under play it.” thing. Here is video of the shooting, the cops are on one side the rioters are on the other, the rioters are smashing in the doors, she climbs up and tries to crawl through the sidelite.

      • blackjack

        She was no threat to anyone. That cop shot her for no good reason. Yes there was minor violence outside. That girl was not being violent when he shot her, period. The whole episode paled in comparison to any of the nightly BLM/Antifa riots we had all year. The only person killed in the Capitol riot was that girl. The cop should be prosecuted and convicted. You can’t shoot someone who’s not threatening you with lethal violence. Certainly not because there were some rowdy people outside earlier.

      • The Hyperbole

        So breaking and entering is cool now with libertarians?

      • Gustave Lytton

        As long as it’s refreshing the tree of liberty?

      • Gender Traitor

        So breaking and entering is lethal violence?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Oh come on hype. There’s a huge difference between being okay with B&E and finding that shoot problematic, and you know full well that you’re putting words in blackjack’s mouth.

      • Suthenboy

        Not taking someone’s life when they present no immediate threat to others is cool with libertarians. It is a basic principle.
        People broke stuff. No one set a fire.
        It’s just stuff, it can be replaced. People? Not so much.

      • The Hyperbole

        It was a tragedy, but ‘play stupid games win stupid prizes’ applies even if you agree with the prize winners ideology, notice the weasel words Blackjack uses “minor violence outside” “some rowdy people outside earlier”, there were people trying to bash in the door seconds before she jumped up into that opening and was shot.

      • The Hyperbole

        Suthen, there are people smashing a door to get at you, is that not an immediate threat?

      • Suthenboy

        ‘play stupid games, win stupid prizes’

        I cannot disagree with that. Yes, a horrible tragedy, but that does not remove the shooter’s responsibility.

        Someone around here said that their parents told them when they were young, in no uncertain terms, ‘stay away from protests and riots. Stay as far away from that as you can’.
        It is sound advice.

      • Suthenboy

        What door? My home or my office? Are they trying to get at me or just get in for some kind of hijinx? Are they armed?

        Faced with the possibility of taking someone’s life those are important questions. Am I defending someone else’s or my own life, or just property?
        I would never take someone’s life over stuff.

      • The Hyperbole

        Are they trying to get at me or just get in for some kind of hijinx? Are they armed?

        That’s the thing about breaking into someplace, the people inside have no way of knowing the answer to that question and may act as if the answer is the most threatening one, and as a believer in self defense I can’t fault them for that decision.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That’s the thing about breaking into someplace, the people inside have no way of knowing the answer to that question and may act as if the answer is the most threatening one

        Context matters. Castle doctrine doesn’t apply to the Capitol. General riotous behavior in a public venue where addressing grievances is a regular occurrence and often turns rowdy doesn’t really rise to the specific threat level required to start shooting into the crowd. Where was the specific imminent lethal threat? “They’re being rowdy and are breaking a door in this public establishment” wouldn’t get a regular person out of a manslaughter charge.

      • Suthenboy

        I think we agree in principle. The problem is that neither you nor I was there. It is impossible to know how we each would have decided under the pressure of the moment. Just from the info I have I think the shooting was not justified, but then nearly everything we have heard about it has been bullshit lies to push a political agenda.
        I know I would find it impossible to pull the trigger on a young woman that was not obviously armed and gunning for me. But again, I was not there.

      • The Hyperbole

        threat level required to start shooting into the crowd

        That’s not what happened, yes she was the first person through the breach and arguably not an “immediate threat” but how many do they let through? when does it become an “immediate threat” five or six dudes? ten?

      • blackjack

        I ain’t buying none of that bullshit. It was minor violence. Some people got rowdy. There’s no stories of any real casualties because there are none. These people would blame the weather on pro-trump protesters. The reason there’s nothing but this bullshit ” 5 people killed” is that it’s a nothingburger. Call those weasel words all you want, but it ain’t me weaseling here. If that crowd was intent on violence, there would have been some, not just from the cop.

      • CPRM

        First time I saw the footage. I agree with Hyperbole, this isn’t the narrative as has been espoused here.

        I’m not standing up for the cop, but this isn’t ‘Shooting someone through a barricaded door’ as I’ve read it described here multiple times. This is people trying to breech an entrance to a facility these people officers were tasked to guard.

        This admission does not mean the debate over the justification ends, but it is not as clear cut as many have presented.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        when does it become an “immediate threat”

        I’m not sure that trespassing is a lethal threat in a public setting, period. I’m not gonna stake anything on that because I’m not entirely sure, but they’d have to do something specifically threatening violence on somebody. Same as when 10 hooligans all run into a convenience store and start robbing shit. The manager can’t just open up on them even though they could easily harm him. They’d have to make a specific threat of violence against him.

      • Suthenboy

        I think Trashy got to the heart of it.

        If any one of us had done that we would be in prison right now and probably to the end of our days.

      • The Hyperbole

        Got it, you’re in the “they are over selling it so I’m underselling it” camp. Enjoy your bubble.

      • CPRM

        Fuck you Hyperbole! I said no such thing! (skinny thread fail joke)

      • blackjack

        when does it become an “immediate threat” five or six dudes?

        Man, you can’t kill some chick because you hope it’ll prevent others from entering and on the off chance they mean lethal harm if they do enter. Preemptive strikes are not self defense. Even worse when they are based on conjecture. You’re really into the weeds on this. Bottom line, if there’s no reasonable belief that you or someone lese is about to face lethal danger from a person, then you cannot kill that person. It was plainly not reasonable to fear that, in this case.

      • Broswater

        Well thank you for linking to the MSM approved video.

        I remember seeing another angle of it, where you can see that those protesters were already surrounded by a full squad of cops and that none of them where of any real physical threat to anyone.

        https://vimeo.com/509352437

        Starts around 5 minutes in.

        Now go ahead and tell me the guy that shoot her was in any danger for his life again?

        There is being a contrarian, and there is being a mendacious AOC.

        BTW I don’t really buy the conspiracy theory presented in the linked video. I’m more inclined to believe this was a crowd of frustrated but non-threatening people combined with a trigger happy cop. If I was one of the colleague of the guy that shoot her on the other side of the door, I’d be pretty pissed. First, he could have hit me, second this could have turn way more uglier than that.

        I’m just glad this didn’t ended in a blood bad.

      • dbleagle

        Nobody is going to mention that when she was shot there were a line of cops within two yards of her on her side of the door? Or that when the bullet exited her the cops at the front of the line were lucky they weren’t hit?

        That was a panic shoot by the cop.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      The TV went off at that one. Can’t take that shit.

      • The Other Kevin

        Why weren’t they giving Super Bowl tickets to cops who shot people 2 months ago?

      • blackjack

        Wrong people.

    • Chafed

      That’s when I was disappointed it wasn’t Al Michaels saddled with saying it. You know he would have gotten it out and moved on as quickly as possible.

  36. J. Frank Parnell

    Wow, a commercial making fun of something Trump did a few months ago that everybody has forgotten about. Such stunning. Much brave.

    • Count Potato

      I must have missed that.

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s about time someone finally had the guts to poke fun at that guy.

    • grrizzly

      Too subtle. I didn’t notice it. No idea which commercial.

      • Chafed

        It was an unfunny reference that probably went by most people.

    • rhywun

      lol

      Sadly, I don’t think they could even cheat their way out of this mess.

      • Not an Economist

        The same team that fortified the election fortified the game for the Bucs.

      • Chafed

        Even the Dems couldn’t pull that off.

    • Hyperion

      They should have brought the extra points in at halftime. I’m sure they’ll be ready next year.

    • Tulip

      Already started – if anyone would like to zoom, I’d like to pass over hosting, otherwise I’ll shut it down early. Thanks

  37. Chafed

    Nice job CPRM. From one writer to another, supply your own links if you want them.

  38. Mojeaux

    Welp, this game’s over.

    • The Hyperbole

      Your team should have cheated harder.

      • Mojeaux

        Yup.

      • blackjack

        That’s the big lesson from 2020.

  39. trshmnstr the terrible

    Anybody else find it just a touch creepy that Mila Kunis is starting to look a bit like Demi Moore?

    • Count Potato

      No?

    • Mojeaux

      Is that who that was?

      • Mojeaux

        Then yes, I do find it … interesting.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        She was all sorts of adorable on That 70s Show. Now, not so much.

    • Suthenboy

      I dont get the movie star thing. You can go to any college in America and find 100 girls better looking than any Hollywood actress and some of them wont be completely nuts.

      • blackjack

        I spent a pretty good amount of time finding even more than that, I’m going to have to disagree with that last sentiment.

      • Suthenboy

        This made me laugh

    • Tres Cool

      Im glad Im not the only one that saw the similarity.

    • DenverJ

      I don’t see it.

    • Tulip

      Muzzled Woodchipper is in charge. Goodnight all.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Everyone bolted about 10 minutes after you. Zoom is closed.

      • CPRM

        Yeah, I was late, because I was trying to be polite and put on a ‘shirt’ to not offend all you snowflakes, then when I tried the link it was dead.

  40. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Shouldn’t that new show Clarice be remember Clarence?

    • Suthenboy

      All of Hollywood should get an award for originality, this award being a brown paper bag full of runny dog shit.

      JFC, earlier wife was watching some kind of Harry Potter spinoff. The whole HP story is just recycled mythos that has been around for more than 1000 years and they are spinning off of that?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      My mistake. I thought the actress was Ellen Page or whatever she calls herself now.

  41. Count Potato

    Those throws were amazing, but I don’t see KC wining this.

  42. LCDR_Fish

    Well nuts…looks like the CO of my facility is making me isolate for 14 days again just because I went to my drill weekend.

    This is insane (least my company is backing me up). I’ll see if my unit CO can pull off anything because this is getting tedious.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Are completely cutoff from the outside world after? If not, then yes it is stupid.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Nope…and I was pretty isolated during the drill anyways.

    • ron73440

      LCDR_Fish, I posted this last night, but don’t know if you saw it:

      I went to your friend’s place Gourmeltz, It was a two hour drive, but it was so nice to be normal.

      First and most important, the food was excellent. I had a smokehouse burger and my wife had a brisket sandwich.

      I was happy to see it was jammed, it took a half hour to get to the counter. My wife was surprised because I was talking people after we sat down. Guy asked if I was carrying a Springfield Armory 1911. Told him it was a Smith and Wesson 1911 .45. Then a retired Marine asked me about my Marine Corps hoodie, and he asked the first guy about his cast. Poor bastard had been hit by a motorcycle while clearing roadkill and said he was lucky to be alive.

      Talked to the Lady on my other side about how nice it is not to perform the sacred rituals to enjoy some food.

      The place was LOUD. I didn’t realize how sad going out had become.

      If the above conversations seem unremarkable, my wife was shocked, because I NEVER talk to people when we go out. I realized other than a few phone conversations with my mother, and banal work conversations, I hadn’t talked to anyone other than my wife in a year. That can’t be good for you.

      If a curmudgeon like me misses talking, something is really wrong.

      If this continues and the place isn’t crushed by the Gestapo, we might go again in a couple weeks.

      • LCDR_Fish

        MIssed it last night. Glad it was worth the drive. I try to make it at least once a month depending on my schedule (get the wings to go and heat them up later sometimes). It’s cool to be able to buy beer to go there too.

  43. Tres Cool

    Im off to work kids. No superbowl super-spreader parties while Im gone.

    So sorry for your loss, Mojo.

    • Mojeaux

      Thanks, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s no big. Got bigger things to worry about and better things to celebrate.

  44. Chafed

    Jesus Christ am I tired of Bruce Springsteen’s everyman shtick.

    • Not an Economist

      He got out of touch with the everyman in the mid 80’s. He is just a garden variety rich person now.

      • hayeksplosives

        Worse than garden variety. Now he uses his “talents” to raise money for Team Blue.

        I’d say “shut up and sing” but I really don’t want that to happen either.

      • Chafed

        Exactly right on both points.

        You know who would have been great? Anthony Hopkins. He is a naturalized American citizen, widely admired, and assiduously refuses to discuss politics.

  45. trshmnstr the terrible

    Hey Jeep, fuck your manipulative unity message that has been focus grouped and massaged by Big Non-Profit for use by the prog-fascists.

    • hayeksplosives

      But only Joe’s healing hands could ReUnite us!!

      I cringed.

      The ReUnited States of America.

      Have the Dems done one conciliatory thing since Jan 20?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Well, they admitted they conspired to rig the election.

      • ron73440

        Well, they admitted they conspired to rigfortify the election.

        FTFY, don’t want you to get cancelled.

      • Suthenboy

        They keep telling nearly half of American citizens to go die in a fire, does that count?

      • hayeksplosives

        Die in a fire!! Right after you plow the driveway. And no skimping on the sidewalk this time.

        Chop chop! Get a move on!

  46. grrizzly

    I don’t think I had watched any Patriots game before their first Super Bowl victory 19 years ago. It was always Brady for me. Seven rings. With two teams.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Patriots game

      Would that be the Boston Patriots?

      (not an NFL fan)

    • CPRM

      don’t think I had watched any Patriots game before their first Super Bowl victory 19 years ago.

      Then you missed out on the true talent that was on their losing team the SB appearance before that got them to the play-offs before Brady lucked his way in, who went on to again get injured to have Tony Romo take his place. That’s right! I’m a Bledsoeite!

  47. Hyperion

    I don’t really get people. I’ve been watching NFL for 50 years.

    And I’ve been saying this for the past 6 months.

    Tampa Bay’s defense is extremely underrated, and they the best defensive unit in at least the past 2 decades.

    Also, this is the most shameful display by the sports media that I have ever seen, trying to blame KC’s inability to handle Tampa Bay’s defense on the officiating. It is beyond shameful

    SPMITE (Sports media it the enemy), go fuck yourself.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      TB won by much more than the margin of officiating error, but there were some pretty shit calls in the 2Q.

      • Mojeaux

        I have told Mr Mojeaux innumerable times that we have been playing lazily all season. The Bills was the only game where they weren’t lazy.

        But—Mahomes was playing hurt (needs toe surgery) and half the o-line starters are injured.

        So between that and their season-long lazy playing, I am not surprised and I might even say they deserved what they got.

        That said, there were some bullshit calls.

      • rhywun

        Also, this *season doesn’t count anyway.

      • Hyperion

        Well, use whatever excuses you want, it’s Tampa Bay’s defense.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, I didn’t realize “we play lazily” is an excuse.

      • CPRM

        NO!!!!!! IT IS BEECUZ TOM BRAdy IS THE BEStyest! EVar!!q1!Q!2mnkl ‘asdgnkl’fgnkl!

      • rhywun

        Tom Brady being from R’lyeh actually makes a lot of sense.

    • Chafed

      I’d like to hire 2 to clean my home.

  48. Chafed

    Fuck off Stephen Colbert. Tell your governor to open the state.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Amen. I can’t stand Colbert.

      • Akira

        He’s an example of comedic talent that is overshadowed and spoiled by political establishment ass-kissing.

      • rhywun

        His faux-conservative schtick was funnier than anything he’s done in the fifteen-to-twenty years since.

      • KromulentKristen

        I enjoyed that schtick. I get why he didn’t want to do that forever, but yeah – his choices since then have been unfunny.

      • CPRM

        Ug, that was an annoying attempt at humor, because he was too dumb to grok the actual points to make it work. He hasn’t been funny since The Ambiguously Gay Duo and Strangers with Candy.

      • Suthenboy

        I have two male dogs. One is very large, the other just medium sized. The medium sized one grovels incessantly in front of th large one because he desperately wants giant dog to love him and be his friend. His over exaggerated groveling is kind of funny to watch…you know…they’re dogs.

        When you see people doing that it isn’t funny. It is disgusting.

  49. KromulentKristen

    I pretty much liked nothing about that Super Bowl, except the food and conversation. I did like the one M&Ms commercial: “I’m sorry your name is Karen”

    • rhywun

      I only vaguely paid attention to about a third of it and it was the least engaging one I’ve ever seen.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      That’s just because you won’t admit the genius in the commercials, or appreciate all the heroes they continuously pointed out.

      You white supremacist.

      • KromulentKristen

        Yes, the very timely Edward Scissorhands Cadillac commercial not featuring Johnny Depp was…great.

        /Rayciss!!

    • ron73440

      I did like the one M&Ms commercial: “I’m sorry your name is Karen”

      Something in that one made me roll my eyes, but I can’t remember what it was.

      I don’t think I laughed at a single commercial, they were worse than last year, and that’s kind of impressive.

      Flat Matthew McConaughey was close to funny, sort of.

      • KromulentKristen

        There were a few little vignettes in that M&Ms commercial – the Karen one was the only one I can remember.

        I missed McConaughey.

        I thought the fly-by was cool, but they didn’t show an exterior shot of it, for fuck’s sake. I could hear that B52 screaming!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        There were a couple that I thought were reasonably funny, but I have a feeling similar to watching an awards show. Too much fart huffing, not enough decent content.

      • rhywun

        I flipped the channel at every commercial. ??‍♂️

      • KromulentKristen

        Just watched the commercial on Youtube…I bet it was the “mansplaining” scene that made you roll your eyes

      • ron73440

        That was it.

      • KromulentKristen

        Just watched the McConaughey commercial. It was cute. The tech that went into creating it is the interesting part.

    • Akira

      What if the link never really works? 😉

      • ron73440

        Foiled again!

      • DenverJ

        Google it

    • ron73440

      What if a link doesn’t link to anything?

    • rhywun

      What I have been saying for the last six months will have been vindicated?

    • Suthenboy

      Are we still flattening the curve? Do we have new more sooper deadliest strains ever?

      Amazing how stupid people get when they are scared and amazing how easily they are scared into being stupid. I guess they are going to keep playing pretend whack-a-mole until we have world wide communism. I am sure the cootie bugs will disappear then.

      • hayeksplosives

        I am alarmed by the prevalence of the tactic in which it’s not an actual danger that matters, it’s someone’s fear that is now taken as proof that what they fear is a real threat.

        I’m afraid I’ll die of snifflecooties if I don’t stay home; therefore the disease must be uniquely contagious and dangerous.

        I feared for my life at the capitol building! Therefore, an armed insurrection is waiting to happen any time, any place.

        I’m afraid of guns; therefore you can’t have guns.

        I’m afraid of global warming; therefore you can’t have reliable electricity or plastic.

        I’m afraid of the monster under my bed. Therefore, all mattresses must be laid directly on the floor.

      • Suthenboy

        “I’m afraid of the monster under my bed. Therefore, all mattresses must be laid directly on the floor.”

        Consider that stolen.

      • rhywun

        Heh I did exactly that for several years because my kitties were living under there, coughing up puke and hairballs, and tearing the shit out of the underside of the box spring.

        (The same box spring I still use 14 years later under the same tired mattress – I need a new bed.)

      • CPRM

        I also did it for years, but I didn’t have cats. the bed frame broke and I couldn’t be assed to fix it.

      • Chafed

        I’m glad to know my cats weren’t the only ones to do that.

      • C. Anacreon

        Now that you wrote “I need a new bed” I am hearing that to the tune of Huey Lewis’ “I Want a New Drug”. Maybe it was that dumb Springsteen commercial that got me thinking of that era.


        I need a new bed,
        One that don’t sag,
        One that won’t keep me up all night,
        Or come in a bag.

  50. Bob Boberson

    Nice to see our betters don’t need to wear masks oor social distance. The NFL is woke so I guess that keeps the cooties.

    If this were a gathering of deplorables the entire media would already be breathless about the super spreading and flagrant disregard for Grandma life.

    • Bob Boberson

      Cooties away*

    • Suthenboy

      I like that they invented the term ‘social distancing’ to describe what I have been doing for decades. I always called it ‘get the fuck away from me’, but hey, that’s just me.

      • CPRM

        Yeah, I’ve always stayed away from people, because I don’t want people in my personal space, and assume the same of others, so intentionally stand RIGHT next to someone is behavior not often observed even before Social Distancing.

      • Suthenboy

        I grew up on a little farm adjacent to 50K acres of trees and creeks. Not infrequently I would take my shotgun, some string and hook and a sleeping bag then disappear into those woods. I might stay a day, I might stay a week. I would not see nor speak to another person the entire time.

        I had been asked many times how I could stand that.
        “It’s called peace and quiet.”

      • Akira

        In my early 20s, my life goal was to live as isolated and remote as possible. I spent a lot of time researching prefabricated log cabins, subsistence agriculture, off-grid utilities, and (the biggest impediment) how to have some kind of income to buy the things that I can’t produce myself. The state of the world today has me re-contemplating that goal.

        I had been asked many times how I could stand that.
        “It’s called peace and quiet.”

        It’s a lost art these days. Everyone is constantly stressed by 24/7 contact with others via cell phone. I’m starting to wonder if the downsides of smartphones are beginning to outweigh the benefits.

        Oh well. I’ve read a lot of Stoic philosophy and started dabbling in Zen Buddhist meditation techniques, so maybe I’ll find some peace and quiet in my own mind even if the world around me is going mad.

      • C. Anacreon

        One part I’ve liked about the new normal is not having to worry about the goodbyes. We went to another couple’s house today, old friends, and they had a couple we’d never met before as well. No masks, good food, drinks and laughs for the game, though everyone stayed six feet apart from those they weren’t married to. After the game, we just stood up and said thanks, no worries about if there should be hugs or handshakes, just a nod to all and off to the car.

        Maybe I’m not like other people, but I have always disliked having to figure out how to leave a minor event.

      • Suthenboy

        ” I gotta go” always works for me. My wife on the other hand….ugh….I have to pick her up and carry her out while she is trying to start a new conversation.

    • Akira

      Nice to see our betters don’t need to wear masks oor social distance.

      As usual with highly emotional political causes, a lot of these hardcore Branch Covidians just throw on a mask and assume that they’re clear to do whatever they want. And that’s how the mask thing actually causes harm.

      I mean, I think the reasonable thing to do would be to avoid unnecessary contact in indoor spaces with vulnerable people (elderly with chronic illness) while younger and health people live their lives as normal. For that, I’m considered a “denier” who is reckless about human life, but the hardcore obeyers are just doing whatever they want because they have a square of T-shirt material strapped to their face.

      • CPRM

        At this point I the ‘reasonable’ thing to do is admit that we all die at some point, but is extending life worth not living life? You can do all the right things, as prescribed by the high priests of health, and still die of something else, or even the thing they told you were evading by not living your life. Either way, you are dead.

      • Mojeaux

        Our society does not have a healthy relationship with death. It ALL stems from an inability to accept that people die.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Something something when you believe in nothing, you fear everything.

      • Mojeaux

        ^^^Yup.

      • hayeksplosives

        I don’t think that’s been the case until relatively recently.

        I blame Nader.

      • Mojeaux

        As medicine has found ways to keep people alive longer (with advanced techniques that aren’t really simple things like antibiotics), people lost the reality that they could die. Medicine MUST have an answer for every contingency.

      • hayeksplosives

        I don’t think that’s been the case until relatively recently.

        I blame Nader.

      • CPRM

        Growing up my non-government mandated car seat was a metal bar on a booster chair. I’m still alive. But now it is illegal to transport a child under a certain ht/wt in a car without the specific to age and height 5 point harnessed seat. Even if the kid is taller if they aren’t old enough, they must be in a fucking government approved seat! even if you driving to school as a favor to the parents! Move that seat over to your fucking car, then return that seat to the parents so they have it to pick the kid up! IT’S THE LAW!

      • straffinrun

        Self fulling prophecy.

      • ron73440

        A long time ago I saw an actor on Letterman, he was an older italian guy who played in a lot of mafia movies.

        When Dave asked him about taking care of himself, he replied “I try not to be stupid, but I still enjoy myself. You got a lot of health nuts in L.A. and one day they’re gonna die of nothing.”

        Not an exact quote, but close enough.

      • The Hyperbole

        If you don’t drink and you don’t smoke you aren’t going to live forever, It’ll just seem that way.

      • KromulentKristen

        Try your waitress! Tip the veal!

      • CPRM

        My perspective comes from my dad’s death. He was in numerous car accidents, one being hit by a train, combat, a plane exploding, having a debilitating disease…but died from a UTI. You don’t know what is gonna get you, but something will.

      • Akira

        At this point I the ‘reasonable’ thing to do is admit that we all die at some point, but is extending life worth not living life?

        Yea, that’s the question that is never asked. I work in long-term care and see cases every single day where old people decide that they’d rather have a smaller amount of normal life rather than a longer life devoid of any joy. They decide all the time that one month of sitting on the porch watching grandchildren play is preferable to a year of agonizing treatments that confine them to a hospital bed. And everyone would agree that their life unambiguously belongs to them, and they get to decide what they will or won’t put up with to extend it.

        Fuck the authoritarians who took that decision away from people en masse.

      • ron73440

        My former neighbors, who I referred to as our adoptive grandparents justwent through hell because of this.

        He had Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and was hospitalized.

        They wouldn’t let her set in the room with him and hold his hand. She would call my wife and cry because he was scared and she was the only one who could calm him down. He got transferred for some testing and she was so happy to spend one day with him. He died after being in there for 6 months and not getting any physical visits from his wife of 50 some years or any of his kids.

        I told my wife if she was hospitalized like that I would end up under the jail.

        Holy shit, typing that out really brought back some of the rage I have about that stupidity.

      • Suthenboy

        I think that is a case you can attribute to malice and not stupidity. That is fucking evil.

      • blackjack

        This ain’t about extending anyone’s life. It’s not a coincidence that the left got everything it could have ever wanted out of this virus. We knew at the beginning it was a highly limited amount of people affected. Something like .5 to 1.5 percent of the people over 65 who got it would die. Shutting down the whole world’s economy for that would have been crazy. They did it for an entirely different reason and it worked like a charm.

      • Suthenboy

        Today was the funeral of a friend I have known for many years. We used to be shooting buddies. A few days ago he was walking from his car to the front door of Lowes to buy a lockset for his front door. and in mid-stride his heart just stopped. The doc said he was dead before he hit the ground.

        Live your life. Tell these control freak shitbirds to go fuck themselves.

      • Akira

        Insane.

        I moved to this house in 2014 and became good friends with the next door neighbor. Very interesting guy who was a homebrew expert and hosted monthly beer-drinking gatherings for his group of friends (to which I was immediately invited upon moving in).

        I chatted with him one day while he was cutting down a tree in his yard. A month or two later, my friend texts me and says, “I’m sorry about your friend Jim”. Not knowing what this was about, I looked it up – he died of a prion brain disease. Apparently he was healthy as a horse one day, then felt not quite right, got some tests done, and they told him he had this disease. Two months later he passed away at home.

      • Suthenboy

        Good grief, how did he contract that? I am sorry to hear that.

      • Akira

        Not sure. But if I remember right, it’s almost impossible to nail down exactly when and how a prion disease was contracted. They could have incubation periods of decades.

      • CPRM

        Found out a guy I worked with when I worked in radio died. When I worked there he quit smoking, because cancer fears and price. He’s actually the one who I talked to when I quit smoking about vaping.

        He died of cancer, just not lung cancer. Bladder cancer that spread to his liver I guess.

      • ron73440

        It happened to one of my wife’s friends.

        48yo woman doesn’t wake up one day from a heart attack with no prior signs.

      • rhywun

        the hardcore obeyers are just doing whatever they want because they have a square of T-shirt material strapped to their face.

        ^this

        There’s a reason some of us call it a ‘masktotem’.

      • DenverJ

        I’ve been calling them totems for months

    • Bob Boberson

      I fired this message off in frustration as I watched the SB post-game where any pretense of COVID theater was dropped. What a pleasant surprise to come home to so many thoughtful comments.

      To be clear, my frustration is that the elite don’t even make a pretense of following these rules (with increasing frequency now that OMB has been run off), even during their very public spectacles. Fine, lets all stop doing this nonsense. But they won’t allow that; we plebs are going to get this shit rammed down our throats forever and there aren’t enough independant minded people left to mount any meaningful resistance. Meanwhile their arrogance and hypocrisy becomes that more brazen, right along with the applaus from the unwashed masses.

  51. straffinrun

    The more absurd, commonplace and and repeated the lies become, the closer we are getting to the end of the cycle. Maybe it’ll be better and maybe it’ll be worse. Status quo is unacceptable and unsustainable, so embrace the change and go for the win.

    • Suthenboy

      We have only seen this 100X before. I have an inkling how it is going to turn out.

      • straffinrun

        Well, thank your maker you have free will.

      • Suthenboy

        I haven’t paid one whit of attention to the horseshit so far and I have no intention of doing so in the future.

    • CPRM

      Sadly, even though it’s been bandied about for years about the fall of the Roman Empire…this feels more like the fall of the Republic of Rome, where a skin-suited version will create a grand empire, admired by all the idiots.

      • straffinrun

        Fight against and accept that as part of your burden as a human.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I bought a package of gummies today that were past the marked best by date since it was the last one.

      • Chafed

        I’m calling an ambulance. Stay where you are.

    • Q Continuum

      People and the world may be bullshit but I have a daughter coming and I’m happy about it. And a big titty bride whom I think is the bee’s knees.

      I may have also had just a bit too much Malbec but who’s counting anyway?

      • Bob Boberson

        I’m not sure if I should envy or pity you. I’m so happy for you and your new family. I am afraid for what the world will be like for your daughter.

        Of course she might be of the generation that says. …..”F- this noise, never again” and lives to see it come to fruition.

      • Q Continuum

        Oh well. Choosing not to reproduce would have been letting them win.

        Besides when she started demanding my seed I was powerless to resist.

      • Suthenboy

        I am very happy for you Q. That is the best part of life and it will change you forever. Your entire perspective on everything will change.
        You wont understand what I am saying until it happens, but it will happen.

        In my opinion this is the greatest love song ever written and it was written just for that occasion

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4

  52. Suthenboy

    Since y’all all fell asleep I am watching Mark Levine: guest Thomas Sowell…in other words ‘One for the ages’.

    Mark Levine just now – “If we lose our virtue there is no government that can save us from ourselves.”

    • DenverJ

      I read an opinion piece today where the author repeatedly referenced “President *”. I thought that was great. I’d post a link, but I don’t have the best track record with that.

      • Chafed

        Give it a try. We’ll catch you if you fall.

      • DenverJ

        I guess he didn’t call him “President *” , just “*”. Also, links work better when you remember to add “href” to your html.

      • Chafed

        Thanks and well done.

    • CPRM

      The sad thing about Levine, he thinks the government should enforce virtue, instead of it being an individual goal.

      • Suthenboy

        I was unaware of that. That is a really dumb idea from a very smart guy…which is not unsurprising to me.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yeah, he’s a bit disappointing given his wealth of knowledge on the founding and on philosophies of governance.

      • Suthenboy

        I have thought that about a lot of people, including myself. We are all flawed creatures so we should cut ourselves a little slack. I look around and I dont see anything better. We are stuck with us.

    • C. Anacreon

      If you want some more Sowell tonight and haven’t seen it yet, there’s a great new biography short film about him on YouTube. Commentary by Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Eric July and others. Well worth watching and only an hour long, actually wish it had been longer:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4M9iJrgto

      • Suthenboy

        Thank you very much Doc.

  53. Yusef drives a Kia

    Hello Glibbies! Hows the morn?

    • UnCivilServant

      I donno. I had this dream where I was trying to log in to work, but the interface was now an index card you had to write your credentials on, but every time the pen touched the surface it counted as a character being processed by the computer, so you couldn’t go back and correct anything, and with my terrible penmanship, I was unable to log in.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Free day off?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, today is a work day.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        So it is, next up, the commute, under less than ideal conditions,

      • UnCivilServant

        Please be safe, I don’t know what the roads are like out your way.

    • Sean

      Meh.

      /waves

      Time to get ready for work.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::waves back at Sean::

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Yu & U! It’s freakin’ cold here. Reportedly 12 degrees F, allegedly “feels like 3.” It’s cloudy, though, so with any luck there won’t be rock-hard frost all over my car windows.

      • UnCivilServant

        11 here. -2 windchill.

      • Gender Traitor

        Read the first two parts of SV. Now know what a “psyker” is. Is “armaglas” what it sounds like?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a transparent armored substance used for windows.

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks! Thought so.

      • UnCivilServant

        So what are your first blush impressions of the yarn? (Yes, I know it’s got 33 chapters plus an epilogue, and you only finished chapter 2)

      • Gender Traitor

        I particularly like the way you wove the merchant’s “overheard” thoughts into the dialogue of the scene.

        I gather there is some tension between those in this universe who venerate the Emperor-God (if that’s the correct terminology) and those who are strictly secular. Still trying to figure out what the deal is with the Inquisition.

      • UnCivilServant

        The terminology is God-Emperor, but close enough. And yes, there is a lot of tension.

        As for the Inquisition – there’s a lot that can be said there.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I made it, once you leave town the roads are nice and clear, thanks for the good tidings,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        9

      • Gender Traitor

        Brrrr. Hope the Kia has a good heater. Heated seats, by any chance?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its misty and cold..my last day of class but I cant leqve until tomorrow.

  54. I'm Here To Help

    Good time to be a sports ball fan in Tampa:

    Lightning – Stanley Cup Champions
    Rays – improbable run to the World Series, but came up short
    Rowdies (minor league soccer team) – made it to the championship, final game got cancelled due to the VID, but both teams named the champion of their division.
    Bucs – Superb Owl champion

    I see another river parade in my near future…

    • Gender Traitor

      ::looks at SW OH weather forecast:: Good time to be in Tampa regardless.

      Congrats. But what is Tampa doing with a hockey team anyway? I once heard an Angeleno say that even the Canadians in LA don’t like hockey.

      • I'm Here To Help

        The Canadians in Tampa do like hockey, and we have a ton of them. I was a season ticket holder for the Lightning for a few years (until we moved farther out of town), and I have to say that Tampa is more a hockey town than it is a football town now. Even just before the SuperbOwl this year, there were still more buildings with Lightning banners on them than there were with Bucs stuff. The hockey team has sold out* every game for the last 250 or so games before the VID shutdowns. Current owner of the Lightning has a lot to do with that…

        *sold out – using a variety of tricks to do so, such as selling some of the remaining tickets as “upgraded” seats, thus counting seats twice. But I guarantee that of the 19,281 announced capacity, there were at least 19,000 people there for the games.

      • Gender Traitor

        I suspect our local minor league baseball team does something similar to keep their sellout streak going. We have quarter-season tickets – 17 games/season. Really missed them last year when their season was cancelled. : (

      • UnCivilServant

        were you still charged for the games not played?

      • Gender Traitor

        We had the option of a full refund or applying our payment to 2021 with perks like gift shop/concession stand vouchers. Chose the latter, but if this season is cancelled again…

      • UnCivilServant

        Okay. That’s more or less what I’d expect from a customer perspective. But I always fear the worst.

  55. Festus

    Mornin’ Glibbies! Work is trying to turn me into beef jerky still. Now I go back to read the article.

    • Festus

      Finally turned cold today and I noticed that my tire was halfways flat and I hadn’t stuck the block heater plug through the grill yet *grumbles* Filled the tire and got frostbite on my thumb.

    • straffinrun

      Mornin’ Festus. And UCS, GT.

  56. Fourscore

    -22