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Banjos

Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

557 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Some sporting event occurred yesterday.”

    It wasn’t a good game.

    • Count Potato

      And the halftime show was some fat no talent ass clown who can’t spell.

      • Festus

        Isn’t that the dude that used to wear a dead cat on his head?

      • Festus

        epic…

      • Fatty Bolger

        It reminded me of this.

      • Agent Cooper

        I don’t think performers are paid for show.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Though not at the SB, I have performed at 2 top tier halftime shows. You are correct.

      • Chai Girl

        Didn’t like the half time show, didn’t even know who he was. I have heard one of this songs before, they played it in barre class. The Commercials improved and some were really good. The others were political. I did like the streaker the best part of the game.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘Didn’t like the half time show, didn’t even know who he was.’

        That was my first sample of The Weekend as well. Went to a buddy’s house for the game and his wife insisted on watching it.

        The tenor, pitch, tone, inflections, and singing style never changed. Neither did that weird, hollow, echoing microphone effect. May as well have been playing the same damn song for twenty minutes.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Kansas City forgot to field an offensive line.

      • Count Potato

        They had lots of injuries there.

    • Nephilium

      At least we had good beer where I was watching it.

    • Tejicano

      I am continuously breaking my own record for the number of hours after the event without knowing which teams were playing.

      I read something about the chiefs. Not sure if they’re still from St. Louis. There was probably another team playing but I couldn’t be arsed to find out.

      • Rat on a train

        The Chiefs have been in Kansas City since 1963.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I was wondering how old Tejicano must be.

      • Rat on a train

        It depends. Was Dallas ever called St. Louis?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Don’t tell him about the A’s…

      • Gender Traitor

        …or the Dodgers.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “I’ll never forgive Capitalism for this!”

  2. KromulentKristen

    Well, shit. Losing Luby’s is like losing a monument to the 2nd Amendment. RIP.

    • juris imprudent

      Oh, that’s a bit of unfortunate phrasing – given the Luby’s in Waco was the scene of the mass shooting that led to the current TX concealed carry law.

      • Fourscore

        Killeen

      • Animal

        Yeah, Waco was a different mass shooting burning, carried out by a whole big group of thugs.

      • ron73440

        If you can, watch Paramount’s miniseries on Waco.

        They use a book by one of the survivors and a book from the lead hostage negotiator to put it together.

        Really well done and infuriating.

      • Atanarjuat

        I think cops also gunned down a bunch of bikers in Waco but initially blamed on the bikers. Not at a Luby’s to my knowledge.

      • ron73440

        I thought that was in Vegas?

      • Festus

        They all seem to meld together after awhile.

      • DrOtto

        That was a Twin Peaks. And yes, they quit releasing ballistic info when it became obvious it was all police guns that did the killing.

      • juris imprudent

        That part of central TX seems to have lot of shit going on.

      • KromulentKristen

        That’s what I meant. One if the greatest 2A advocates, Suzanna Hupp, came out of that shooting. She fought hard.

      • KromulentKristen

        *of

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      *hides Luby’s news from Mrs trshmnstr*

      I only went to Luby’s a couple of times, but my wife loved the place. She was probably the only person under 75 who liked it. I’m convinced that people just hated it because it was cafeteria style. The food wasn’t amazing, but there are plenty of businesses still open with worse food.

      • Fourscore

        My old boss would take me to Luby’s for a business meeting. A Vietnamese owned Chinese Buffet will take over the Luby spots in all likelihood.

  3. Tres Cool

    ‘sup fam

    I didnt get a chance to let GT know its all of 8º F here.
    Guess she’ll figure it out. She seems smart.

    • UnCivilServant

      I think she’ll notice.

    • Nephilium

      You should come up north, the lake is keeping us at a balmy 11 F.

    • Pope Jimbo

      -14 in Sunny Minnesoda (and that is because we are in a warming trend)

      • I'm Here To Help

        64 now, heading to the mid 70s today. Nice sunny day in Tampa!

      • UnCivilServant

        So, it never gets down to comfortable temperatures there?

      • I'm Here To Help

        I’m old with really bad joints and arthritis in ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows, and fingers. So this is comfortable temperatures for me.

        Summers aren’t that bad – hot and humid, but it actually got much hotter in Alabama than it does here. Biggest problem with summers are that they last 7 months…

  4. Count Potato

    ““By the House impeachment resolution logic, they could go back and impeach Abraham Lincoln,” he said.”

    Well, the Democrats are still mad that he ended slavery.

    • rhywun

      They do try their hardest to keep it going in another form.

    • Count Potato

      “The clips would counter videos that Democrats likely will show of the riot at Capitol and Mr. Trump‘s fiery speech at a rally shortly before the attack on Jan. 6, which Mr. Trump stands accused of inciting.”

      IANAL, but is that an argument? I don’t think “these other guys sell drugs too” would fly in court.

      I think a better defense is showing that things happened and were planned before that speech started.

      • juris imprudent

        This isn’t a court of law, it is a theater of politics.

      • R C Dean

        IANAL, but is that an argument?

        “Incitement” is pretty subjective. It requires a finding that the defendant “provoked” or “persuaded”, which is hard enough to show, and that the defendant intended to do so.

        I think a showing that “fiery” rhetoric regarding protests is pretty standard and completely unprosecuted could be persuasive that a particular instance is not incitement. Kind of a community standards argument.

        And, of course, this is a show trial, not a real trial. If you’re looking around for who doesn’t have good legal arguments, don’t leave out the Dems. In a weird way, it can be harder to have a good legal argument against something that is weird, stupid, and just plain bonkers.

      • Count Potato

        “Kind of a community standards argument.”

        OK, thanks.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That’s my take too.

        Being fiery and getting your audience animated is EXACTLY how politics are done these days. He didn’t do anything at all that was outside of modern political norms.

    • straffinrun

      “Ended” it by enslaving tens (hundreds?) of thousands of others and getting most them maimed or killed. A win in a way, I guess.

      • Count Potato

        “by enslaving tens (hundreds?) of thousands of others”

        That’s an odd description.

      • straffinrun

        Exactly what the draft is.

    • Rebel Scum

      The emancipation proclamation stabs 13A in the neck.

  5. Rat on a train

    It’s the beginning of the prophecy. Goodbye Fuddruckers.

  6. Count Potato

    Oh, and good morning, Banjos.

    Sorry, I’m a bit grumpy this morning.

    • Ted S.

      No Demi Rose story?

      • Atanarjuat

        That’s what made him so grumpy.

  7. straffinrun

    So, how did the female ref do?

    • UnCivilServant

      Couldn’t tell – everyone on the field looks alike when you’re unaware there’s a game on.

      • straffinrun

        All I wanna know is that twerking became the new touchdown gesture.

      • Nephilium

        Well, one player did look deep into her eyes while checking his jock strap.

      • Festus

        Did he whisper in her ear “My Privilege”?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        She was the only one with a giant pony tail.

      • Rebel Scum

        “Wait — what’d I do wrong?” asked Tom Brady indignantly.

        “Nothing. I said it was fine,” she said, folding her arms. …

        Play proceeded without any consequences, though she glared bitterly at Brady throughout the next few plays.

        Heh.

      • AlexinCT

        Look Ma! I am on TEE-VEE!

    • Rebel Scum

      Couldn’t see her face as a result of her wearing a shame muzzle so I can’t make a judgement.

  8. UnCivilServant

    I’ve tried to think of something to say on the links, but all that I think about is that I need to do something with the chorizo in my fridge soon, and that harissa would make a nice flavor base for a wing sauce if mixed with something to balance or contrast it a bit. These are unrelated.

    • UnCivilServant

      Does anyone have any chorizo suggestions? It’s in the form of loose filling rather than finished sausages.

      • Tejicano

        Break them up and brown in a skillet. Dump in some salsa before they’re done. When the salsa has cooked off most of the liquid push that all over to one side and drop in a couple eggs – scramble when curds start to form. When the eggs are cooked mix it all together, drop some shredded cheese and fried tortilla chips (unsalted). Eat and enjoy.

      • Suthenboy

        …and don’t forget to top with sour cream after serving.

      • Jerms

        I made a great white clam sauce with chorizo.

      • UnCivilServant

        Where does one find Great White Clams?

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Why, in the Great White North, of course.

        “Oh, take off, eh?”

    • ron73440

      I like to scramble it with some eggs, peppers and onions.

      Now I’m hungry.

      • ron73440

        Forgot to name cheese as an ingredient.

      • The Other Kevin

        Served over a bed of fried potatoes.

      • UnCivilServant

        Of all the required ingredients for the suggestions so far, the ingredients I have are ‘chorizo, egg, cheese’

        I’m going to have to get creative.

      • ron73440

        ‘chorizo, egg, cheese’

        That’s all you really need.

      • Not Adahn

        Choizo hash and eggs is one of Triangles best sellers. Just make the hash light on the potatoes.

      • Spartacus

        Dump it all in a bowl, wisk it up good, and microwave for 4-5 minutes.
        Don’t overthink this. It’s only food.

      • Cowboy

        Could do chorizo empanadas.

        I’m in the same boat as everyone else, I just do chorizo and eggs as a meal or in a breakfast taco.

  9. Atanarjuat

    That growing body of evidence raises questions about whether the FBI and other security agencies acted proactively enough to thwart the violence.

    It’s all those pesky remaining civil rights people have, maybe if we get rid of those they can finally do their jobs.

  10. db

    Gotta say, I’m not sad that I failed to waste a second on the NFL yesterday.

    • straffinrun

      If I knew which team Tom Brady was on, I’d know who won the game.

    • UnCivilServant

      The Nevarre Flamenco League finally started up again?

      /Ignores the fact that Flamenco is from the opposite end of Spain from Navarre.

      • Festus

        GUITAR FIGHT!

  11. Festus

    -22 American with a wind chill taking it lower. It’s been downright balmy all winter up until now.

    • Timeloose

      Yikes! I’m surprised at 9F this morning. It didn’t feel that cold, but there is no wind.

    • Fourscore

      Well, my boy, we’re -23 at the moment, in American degrees. Got the wood stoves a-ginnin’ , time for some oatmeal.

      • Festus

        Will probably hit the magic -40 this week.

    • pistoffnick

      -21 here in Doloot. The lake was beautiful this morning. Swirling mists and a bright orange sun.

      I sometimes wonder why I live here, but then I remember that the summers are really nice.

      • Fourscore

        I’m with you, Nick, already the days are noticeably longer, one day the driveway will be muddy again and It’ll be renewal time before we know it.

    • DEG

      21 degrees Fahrenheit. I just finished clearing my driveway of the snow that fell yesterday.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Woke up at -35° Celsius (-31° Fahrenheit). It’s now -28° C (-18° F). Speedo time!

        But the pup hates it.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    I assume Brady broke the all time record for super bowl bonus checks.

    When they waltzed into the end zone at the beginning of the second half, I bailed.

    • R C Dean

      Same here. There were some ticky-tack calls against the Chiefs defense in the first half, but they also picked up some bonehead penalties. Can’t say it really affected the outcome.

  13. db

    On the phone with the “Help Desk” this morning; password expired over the weekend, and, as always, my account is restricted such that only higher-ups in IT are permitted to reset my VPN password. I have no idea why, but it’s been like this for 10 years. Either I guess I should learn to change my password before it expires, or they should change their strange policies. No one can tell me *why* my account is restricted, but it always has been. Maybe because I’m one of the few people in the company they trust with local admin rights?

    • db

      So far, waiting over 20 minutes for them to find someone authorized to touch my account who has got their ass out of bed yet.

      • UnCivilServant

        I feel your pain.

        This is also why I set a calendar reminder to change my passwords before they would normally expire. I don’t want to be stuck in your shoes (again).

    • AlexinCT

      Wait, you can’t reset your own pwd? Sounds to me like they are worried you might either do damage on the way out or the place is a den of moronic activity?

      • db

        I can’t reset my password unless I’m connected to the VPN, and since all passwords expire at once (or it’s a SSO or something), I can’t connect to the VPN to reset my password.

      • db

        It’s no problem when I’m in the office, but that hasn’t happened for almost a year now.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, my company figured out with working from home that they should enable the ability to allow remote resets or suffer the flood.

        And this password rotating shit needs to go away. After decades of peddling this was better security they now know for sure most people, because they have to reset the stupid thing too often, either write it down or create a base pwd with rotating numbers, obviating any real security anyway…

        I get locking a pwd after X failed attempts, but rotating pwds needs to die already..

      • db

        My passwords are randomly generated each time and I learn to type them by muscle memory, but most of my colleagues follow the “familymember/pet name / spouse birthday” + “sequential number” password policy. If you have a truly secure password or passphrase, changing it ever 45 days isn’t going to make it more secure.

      • UnCivilServant

        We’ve recently switched to once a year 14 characters.

      • AlexinCT

        My passwords are “B1tchGimme$ome@$$000” variations…

      • db

        “LazyA$$ITdeptsLackerz001”

    • R C Dean

      That’s just dumb. We have passwords that expire, but if you miss the deadline it just forces you to update it before you can do anything else. Now, our mobile apps can crash your access because they will keep hammering the network to login with the old password if you don’t do things in just the right order, so we’ve got that going for us.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “[House lawmakers] made a huge, colossal blunder,” said Starr, who was a member of the defense team for Trump’s first Senate impeachment trial. “So walk back, and apologize to the former president, apologize to the American people that I never should have voted in favor of this without the benefit of all the facts. I rushed to judgment.”

    That’ll happen.

    • TARDis

      Yeah, right after Zero returns his Nobel Peace Prize.

    • Festus

      They don’t just want victory they demand vengeance. I’ve never seen the like. Donald Trump and his family hanging in gibbets might satisfy that baying mob. Maybe.

      • Mad Scientist

        That would just fuel their blood lust, and they’d demand the entire right be hung next.

  15. straffinrun

    Long quote, sorry.

    For instance, last week federal prosecutors filed an FBI affidavit showing that two days after Christmas, an anti-government activist named Ethan Nordean in the state of Washington posted a message on his Parler account as he planned to come to Washington for the Jan. 6 Capitol protest. It made a fund-raising appeal to “help us with safety/protective gear and communications equipment,” according to FBI documents,

    By Jan. 4, Nordean, a Proud Boys member who also went by the fictional name Rufio Panman, escalated the rhetoric as he prepared to come to the capital, suggesting violence was imminent.

    “Let them remember the day they decided to make war with us,” Nordean allegedly wrote on his Parler account.

    Screenshots taken from a video “show NORDEAN and other Proud Boys dressed in tactical gear along with the phrase ‘Back the YELLOW,’ which is a phrase commonly used to show support for the Proud Boys,” the FBI affidavit said.

    That is the “smoking gun” evidence? You better lock up half of YouTube and pretty much all of us if that is the case.

    • ron73440

      I’m sure Preet would lose his mind if he ever stumbled across us.

      • Festus

        “Stumbled”? Do you really believe he’s forgotten?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Huh. That’s almost verbatim what BLM/antifa activists have been posting since June yet still haven’t managed to roll up anyone.

      • straffinrun

        We’ll see how far out of our minds we’ve gone with mind reading and reading between the lines with this fiasco.

      • DrOtto

        Their protests, while fiery, have been mostly peaceful. Also, they haven’t been allowed to ransack Democracy!

    • AlexinCT

      That is the “smoking gun” evidence? You better lock up half of YouTube and pretty much all of us if that is the case.

      That’s part of the plan…

  16. The Late P Brooks

    The FBI alleges intercepted audio from the Jan. 6 attacks shows the three discussing sticking to a plan.

    “We have a good group,” Watkins is quoted saying in one of the transmissions. “We have about 30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan.”

    The affidavit also cites a pre-riot meeting at a northern Virginia hotel

    6 or 7, not counting FBI plants.

  17. Atanarjuat

    Since losing my job in the deceased live event industry I’ve been delivering food to make ends meet, among other odd jobs. Last night I delivered fast food to a college kid. Turned out he lived one block away from the restaurant. He gave me $5 tip though so I can’t complain. They’re building absurdly luxurious student housing all over town. As the article pointed out, forgiving loans is about buying votes of privileged upper middle class Democrats.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      ?

      It’s disgusting.

    • Festus

      Shit. Sorry, Man.

    • Count Potato

      “Since losing my job in the deceased live event industry”

      Sorry

    • Trigger Hippie

      Shit, man. Sorry to hear that.

      • Gdragon

        It’s quite interesting that so many of the comments seem to just be some version of “OMG I really love that thing that you own/bought!”

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      This!

      I know the local U has spent hundreds of millions on about a dozen new housing facilities that are essentially luxury apartments.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Some sporting event occurred yesterday.

    Don’t tell Moj.

    • Trigger Hippie

      It’s like you people don’t care how I’m doing after that dumpster fire of a game at all…

      *runs from room sobbing, gets over it, makes coffee*

      • Nephilium

        You know… if the Browns had made it…

      • Trigger Hippie

        A meteor would have struck South Florida on GameDay, killing everyone below the Madon Dixon line because God ain’t allowing that shit?

      • Trigger Hippie

        *Mason

        Blarg

      • Dixon Maden

        Thanks for that idea.

      • Trigger Hippie

        You see, TPTB?! I DO contribute here!

        *Run to the Noooorth, Run for your Liiiiffffe*

      • Mojeaux

        I care about you, TH. I care. We can cry together.

        Without Eric Fisher and Mitch Schwartz, though– There wasn’t any other outcome.

      • Trigger Hippie

        One healthy starter from last year’s team on the line was by biggest worry. It was justified. Patty-cakes looked like an exhausted deer being fucked with by a pack of sadistic wolves just before the kill out there.

      • Mojeaux

        I cannot disagree with one word of that.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Growing evidence Capitol attack was pre-planned undercuts Trump impeachment premise

    It was already documented to have started while he was still speaking a couple miles from Congress as well but we are not supposed to talk about that.

    • straffinrun

      Show me the attack and I’ll show you the evidence.

      /Gulf of Tonkin

  20. Certified Public Asshat

    What can you do about the Trumpites next door?

    Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job. How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

    *snip*

    So here’s my response to my plowed driveway, for now. Politely, but not profusely, I’ll acknowledge the Sassian move. With a wave and a thanks, a minimal start on building back trust. I’m not ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet.

    I also can’t give my neighbors absolution; it’s not mine to give. Free driveway work, as nice as it is, is just not the same currency as justice and truth. To pretend it is would be to lie, and they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.

    But I can offer a standing invitation to make amends. Not with a snowplow but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration and, more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed. Only when we work shoulder to shoulder to repair the damage of the last four years will we even begin to dig out of this storm.

    What if everything she knows is a lie? Can’t be…

    • Suthenboy

      Saw that yesterday. She seems nice.

      • Festus

        Hell, I don’t care much for my neighbors but I’ll still snow blow the front of their driveways when the plows run by if I’m out there. Just seems “neighborly”?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That’s because you’re clearly a nazi.

    • Rebel Scum

      by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration

      Truth > facts.

      • Suthenboy

        Yeah…they never seem to say what the is.
        I remember Maxine Waters screaming over and over “Trump is guilty!” and never saying what he is guilty of.

      • Festus

        Peach Fow-Fi!

      • AlexinCT

        He is guilty of threatening their racket. The credentialed elite class wants to do away with any kind of meritocracy (so they can’t be held accountable) and make it hereditary, and Trump managed to show how inept, corrupt, and evil they are. They will never forgive him for forcing their hand and letting the rubes see that their belief our ruling class was evil and stupid was true.

        That’s why they want to burn him at a stake.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Trump’s defense team will show clips of Democrats urging violence in 2020

    Mad Maxine is certain she never did such a thing.

    Anchor Ali Velshi said, “I was able to play that clip that you were referring to from June 23rd, 2018, where you’re asking people to confront Republicans at department stores, gas stations, and restaurants and tell them they’re not welcome. That’s the stuff that Donald Trump’s attorneys say proves that you and others are doing the same thing Donald Trump was doing on January 6th and in the days before that. What’s the difference?”

    Waters said, “They’re going to try it, but nothing any Democrat that I know of have ever said or acted in the way the president of the United States has acted. People must realize this president was out to destroy our democracy if he could not be president. He sent those people, those domestic terrorists, to the Capitol to take over the Capitol. Even they are saying so. They’re saying they were invited by the president. The president was rallying them right before they went. He told them to be tough. He told them to take back their government. And so nothing equals that.”

    • ron73440

      It’s different when we do it.

      I told my wife the other day, that should have been Biden’s campaign slogan.

      • Festus

        Not “Tasty Num-Nums”?

      • Fourscore

        They forgot to bring a watering can to water the Tree of Liberty

        /Some Old Dead Guy

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Maxine is wholly divorced from the truth and has been for decades. You could show her a video of her beating a puppy to death and she would claim to have never seen a puppy in real life. The words that come out of her mouth have no meaning.

    • KromulentKristen

      He told them to take back their government.

      OMG what a monster

    • Festus

      No, three pretty girls left out in the sun too long on Ibiza.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    They’re building absurdly luxurious student housing all over town. As the article pointed out, forgiving loans is about buying votes of privileged upper middle class Democrats.

    The Democrats (and most Republicans) just want to keep the education swindle going as long as they can.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Sen. Chuck Schumer and other congressional Democrats have called on President Biden to cancel as much as $50,000 in federal student loans, but economists warned that such proposals primarily benefit those who are already well-off.

    I mean, I do ok I guess…

    • Festus

      Do credit card debt next Unka Joe!

    • db

      That can’t seriously be a real argument. WTF do they think happens to every damn bit of gas and vapor you breathe out? The vapor cloud is just a visible tracer.

      Or are they trying to suggest that the virus gets trapped in the exhaled mist and travels better? Seems like it wouldn’t be all that active when encapsulated in a mist of propylene glycol or vegetable oil.

      • Count Potato

        It’s mostly glycerin. Some if not most vape juice has PG, but not vegetable oil.

      • db

        Does that affect my question?

      • db

        But, thanks, always glad to learn new things

    • Suthenboy

      Whut?
      It doesnt get blown around unless you are vaping? Or Karen can just see it?

      • Festus

        Ass filters are next. I wish this was half as funny as it should be.

    • ron73440

      I know when you smoke weed, you take a huge intake, but isn’t vaping just normal breathing?

      I guess it’s more dangerous if you can see it?

    • Rebel Scum

      Heard a very cringey and creepy nice commercial on the way to work today that was a message from the Va health department stating that we can all do our part by physical social distancing and wearing a mask to protect ourselves and others and I could not think “fuck off” hard enough.

      • ron73440

        Toyota had a little sponsored segment to remind us, it just repeated the religious mantra, mask up, social distance, and wash your hands.

        Everything is stupid.

      • Festus

        At least you guys don’t have the CBC.

      • ron73440

        Not sure there’s a big difference anymore.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Most people with more than $50,000 in federal debt have accumulated that debt by pursuing master’s degrees and other professional degrees, according to a Brookings Institution study. A May 2020 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that those who hold a master’s degree have an average salary of more than $77,000 — and an unemployment rate of about 2%.

    In other words, the sort of people who become Congressional staffers or work for large politically oriented non profits. You know, the people most deserving of government assistance.

    • straffinrun

      Printer go brrrrrrrrrr

      TREASURY SECRETARY YELLEN: President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year -AP

      • db

        Huh, so we could be back to where we started a year ago before the enlightened masters cut the legs out from under economies around the world, but more heavily in debt? Who holds that debt?

      • Nephilium

        And all of those closed businesses will just open right back up under new ownership. There will be no negative consequences to this at all!

      • straffinrun

        What’s is called when you Gilmore a response to Brooks?

      • AlexinCT

        Bitchfest?

      • Festus

        A “Festus”?

      • Atanarjuat

        Straffing? You could get one named after you.

        I thought it wasn’t totally inappropriate considering the money used to forgive the loans will be printed by Yellen.

      • R C Dean

        Nothing brings unemployment down like sending checks to unemployed people.

    • juris imprudent

      This whole thing just boggles my mind, if there was any bigger way for the Democrats to say FUCK YOU to the blue collar vote – I really can’t think of what it would be. You know what kills the labor movement? This does, because the retard leadership will endorse this while it screws the rank and file members.

      • Festus

        They already did that, J.I.

      • Nephilium

        You think they care about private sector unions? It’s all pub sec unions now.

    • Suthenboy

      Are we still hearing calls for retribution and Trump voters to be held accountable? For anyone who worked in the Trump Administration to be unreasoned?

      Unite, my ass. What a nasty bunch they are.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Springsteen is an asshole. I’m not interested in any calls for unity from that lousy piece of shit after five years of him repeating every damned lie about Trump and blaming him for all the country’s ills. He’s the epitome of useful idiot for the Democrats.

      • AlexinCT

        Funny how these fuckers ONLY want to unify after the “fortify” an election and their guy is in charge, huh? When the other side wins though, it is resist and burn it all down until they get to “fortify” another election… For democracy..

      • Pope Jimbo

        Springsteen is still in my top 5 most overrated people ever. A couple of good songs, but if you talk to anyone from NJ, they will rave on and on about what how great he is. Fuck that. Bon Jovi is a better NJ band that Springsteen is.

      • kinnath

        much, much, much better

      • The Hyperbole

        Yeah, I was thinking Southside Johhny but Tundra is correct.

      • Agent Cooper

        I would even accept The Gaslight Anthem.

      • pistoffnick

        THAT brings back some memories.

      • db

        I knew a guy who worked on a utility crew that did work at both Springsteen’s and Jon Bon Jovi’s houses. He said Bon Jovi was cool, personally brought drinks and snacks out for the guys, BSed with them while they worked and signed autographs. Springsteen, on the other hand, was standoffish, refused to allow them on the property without an escort (the electric meter was way out by the road), and treated them like dirt.

      • Suthenboy

        unpersoned. I hate spellcheck

    • juris imprudent

      What the fuck is Fiverr anyway?

      • Nephilium

        IIRC, it’s an odd job site.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Oooh, I always wanted a hat that can decapitate people.

      • AlexinCT

        What some people pay a hobo for a gum job?

      • pistoffnick

        *Puts dentures back in*

        $5 is $5, man.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is the ad that our family found amusing (but not for the reasons that the ad men wanted). At the end of that commercial we all asked “WTF is a fiverr and what do they sell?”

        None of us though felt like looking it up on our phones though, so I think they totes wasted their money.

      • UnCivilServant

        Statistically, no superbowl commercial generates enough activity or interest to be worth the cost.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Careful now. Do you realize how many phony-boloney jobs you put at risk with crazy talk like that?

        Next you will start blabbing about the ROI for trade shows. That spending $250K for a booth at COMDEX results in no additional sales.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘The best Super Bowl ads’

      I nominate the pregame Stay Safe/Tow the Lion PSA by Dr. Jill, the fireplace and Chance the Gardener. Their comedic timing was perfect and the in-stadium crowd loved it. As evidenced by the peels of laughter flowing through the seats immediately afterwards.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The biggest laugher in our household was Beavis and Butthead laughing about some gal saying “crack”.

    • AlexinCT

      Wait…

      No fat ass?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      There are other models out there other than Demi.

    • ron73440

      In fairness to her, she probably doesn’t remember.

      I think she has an assistant who reminds her to breathe.

    • juris imprudent

      These are also the people who will say that words are violence, but of course hate speech toward Republicans isn’t really wrong, is it?

    • The Other Kevin

      They are 100% convinced, without a doubt, that they are the good guys.

      • AlexinCT

        Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot, The Kims, Castro, Che, and so on, all thought they were the good guys too…

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not so sure they did. Their useful idiots might have, but I don’t think most of that list believed it personally. They just knew how best to benefit themselves from it.

  25. ron73440

    I typed this last night about hospital lockdowns. I’m still pissed about it so I am submitting it again:

    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.

    • AlexinCT

      You are not alone here… I have heard so many of these horror stories that it is heart wrenching.

      People that lost loved ones during this Kung Flu have been tortured because of what the CCP and their globalist allies did to us all. We should be nuking those fuckers.

    • Count Potato

      “They wouldn’t let her set in the room with him”

      That’s just wrong.

      • ron73440

        But he didn’t die from the virus, so mission accomplished!

      • Fourscore

        More than wrong, it’s criminal

    • Festus

      Fuck this shit!

    • invisible finger

      And then they wonder why people aren’t going for routine checkups.

      It isn’t just because people are scared of the virus, it’s also because people are scared the doctor has become part of the gestapo. Into the health care concentration camp with you!

    • Pope Jimbo

      That is straight up evil.

      The fact that none of the nurses or docs would say “fuck the rules” and let her sit with him just shows that we haven’t really gotten past the “just following orders” herd mentality.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

  26. straffinrun

    BTC going nuts thanks to Telsa and it looks like Tim Pool was wrong about a silver squeeze not happening.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    If it’s cold and snowy in New York, oil prices are up.

    • AlexinCT

      Gas prices in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” started going up the very same night that our elites “fortified” our election… It is now up 30 cents over what it was on election day… And it will only go up as the Biden administration keeps doing things that help OPEC and other oil exporters make bank by jacking up the prices and securing the flow for China.

      • juris imprudent

        Hell, it helps Putin! Isn’t that the most grievous sin imaginable in the proglodyte mind?

  28. Grummun

    My wife seems convinced that, because I have a Y chromosome, I must have some deep-seated need to watch sports. So she suggested we watch the SB last night.

    1. Fuck the NFL and their “law enforcement heroes” bullshit.
    1.a Fuck the NFL some more for their “pay $100 to get a cutout of yourself placed in an empty seat and virtually attend” bullshit.
    2. Fuck Jeep and their “ReUnited States of America” spot.
    3. Fuck that halftime show. I didn’t listen to it, the TV was muted, but the ranks of guys in the white masks goosestepping across the field was some nice totalitarian imagery.

    Also fuck Tom Brady, not because of anything to do with football, but because I find him personally odious.

    • straffinrun

      Bread and circuses without the being able to see the clown makeup is a let down.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The youngest son was home for the weekend and he is the sports nut in our family, so we watched the SB together.

      The kid howled with laughter at the idea that anyone would pay $100 for a cutout. He talked about how dumb people were for the rest of the game.

      I’m with you on the LEO worship. When they showed the capitol cops in the luxury suite swilling food and drink, my son started laughing about me stroking out due to BP spikes.

      And yeah, the Jeep commercial was pretty terrible. I wonder if they would have even allowed some company to run an add that said anything except “unity, unity, unity”? I doubt it.

      • ron73440

        I missed the Jeep commercial, just watched it. Maudlin and boring.

        What the hell was that about?

      • Pope Jimbo

        My best guess was that it was a big city ad agency’s idea of what fly over people would like.

        Let’s see, Churches, cowboy hats, farms, if we put that into our commercial then those rubes will think that we are including them in our unity stuff right?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *puke*

    • Festus

      So glad to see another one red-pilled about the NFL. It has been poison forever. Obnoxious bullshit from top to bottom.

      • Pope Jimbo

        What really irritated me about the NFL was to discover that all the knob slobbing they do for the armed forces was all because the US govt paid tons of money to the NFL. Those half time shows with color guards? Paid for the privilege.

        *And as an enlisted guy I know that those poor fucks in the color guard had to spend tons of extra time standing inspections and drilling for their 10 minutes on the field. The officers in the press corps didn’t have to spend an extra minute preparing. Fuck them.

      • ron73440

        When I was stationed in Kansas City we went on the field for a pregame flag ceremony.

        My first thought as the Bills were doing warmup sprints near us “Holy shit these guys are HUGE! Someone that big should not be able to move that fast.”

        We were in our dress blues and the Army was wearing camouflage utilities. We were a little jealous because utilities are much more comfortable, but we did look so much better than them.

        Before the game the Chiefs fed us pretty well, and we were given tickets for us and two guests in the end zone at the 16th row.

        That was a fun day, well worth the extra time to get the uniform ready.

      • ron73440

        Our families also were invited to the pregame meal also.

    • Rat on a train

      pay $100 to get a cutout of yourself placed in an empty seat

      Is it at least like some of the baseball teams where the proceeds go to charity?

    • Suthenboy

      “1.a Fuck the NFL some more for their “pay $100 to get a cutout of yourself placed in an empty seat and virtually attend” bullshit.”

      What the hell is that? Who would pay that, and what is the point of it?

      • Rat on a train

        My cutout was on TV!

      • I'm Here To Help

        As I understand it, they also get first crack at tickets next year.

      • The Other Kevin

        I think part of it was that you are entered into a drawing for tickets to next year’s game.

      • Grummun

        Correct. My cynical side says this is crass monetization of something they could have done for free, since it was the NFL and not Florida (I believe) that reduced ticket sales to 1/3 capacity.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck the NFL some more for their “pay $100 to get a cutout of yourself placed in an empty seat and virtually attend” bullshit.

      Say what?

    • Plisade

      Hmmm… I thought the field of white dude’s in masks, that they were all dressed and dancing in a way that hinted at MJ’s Thriller, was a bit of mockery of covid masks, implying that the wearers were all zombies. Wishful thinking, I guess.

      • Agent Cooper

        It was about plastic surgery. The obsession one has to change oneself. You know, perfect subject matter for a halftime show.

      • Grummun

        In fairness, I was largely ignoring the halftime show. I just looked up and saw the masks and thought “That looks like the Combine troops from Half-Life 2,” and the dancers lined up like troops at a Nazi rally.

        Speaking of which, fuck Gabe Newell, too. Where’s my Episode 3, you prick?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Skipping through the channels a few minutes ago, looking for “news”.

    I’m tempted to e-mail those clowns at Bloomberg and ask them if Joe Biden’s ass tastes like strawberry ice cream, or lemon meringue pie. They spend enough time licking it they should know.

  30. Pope Jimbo

    How do you know when the Leviathan is too big? When you read stories about a park board and permits for homeless encampments.

    What could be the last formal homeless encampment in the city, located in Minnehaha Park, was cleared by the Park Board Tuesday in Minneapolis . ]DAVID JOLES • david.joles@startribune.comTuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 in Shakopee, MNThe Park Board is slated to demolish what appears to be the last formal encampment in the city, at Minnehaha Park.
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    A divided Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted to stop permitting homeless people to camp in city parks, ending a program that gave sanctuary to hundreds last summer but also brought complaints about violence and drug use.

    In addition to repealing last summer’s directives that created temporary permits for encampments, commissioners directed staff to create a new Unsheltered People Policy.

    Last June, about 200 tents sprang up in Powderhorn Park amid Gov. Tim Walz’s emergency eviction moratorium, and the Park Board offered sanctuary to all homeless people. A month later, there were nearly 40 encampments in parks citywide with some hosting nearly 300 occupants.

    Public backlash to overcrowding, violence and discarded needles soon grew so loud that the board unanimously voted to claw back the number of encampments to just 20 parks with no more than 25 tents each, subject to temporary permits.

    What a bunch of reactionary jerks who pushed to keep homeless junkies from living in tents in their neighborhood park.

    • AlexinCT

      We want to do things for the homeless.. Expensive things! And you need to pony up money & property, cause whatever we do will not be in our backyards..

      • Pope Jimbo

        Last winter we built a few fancy Quonset buildings for the residents of the summer time homeless camps. That experiment must not have gone very well because there wasn’t a peep about trying it again.

      • Festus

        Junkies and the indigent prefer to live by their own rules. Whodathunk?

  31. Rat on a train

    I can find a use for $6,000.

    • AlexinCT

      I am glad you will get a chance to spend that money your kids will have to work to pay $60K to balance out (interests on that loan suck)..

      • Rat on a train

        Work? I thought the government paid people to not work. Now they are paying people to have kids.

    • Fourscore

      Need a fresh shipment of orphans. Moving on up to the Eastside, near Minnehaha Park

  32. UnCivilServant

    Supervisor: “Review these RFP documents before the meeting later today and see if anything’s missing.”

    *opens documents – finds 20 pages that have been through the wringer so many times that it’s document puree.*

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh and they had ‘track changes’ on, so that makes it even easier to read.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oops, I’ve gone crosseyed trying to read the damn thing.

        And my head was already hurting this morning. Actually it’s hurting less right now. Maybe the caffiene kicked in.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Huh- Noted labor economist Joe Biden was just mumbling incoherently about the minimum wage.

    Nobody should work full time and be under the poverty line?

    Meaningless number is meaningless.

    • Rat on a train

      The $3,000 year per child is well below minimum wage.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Who would want to be an employer? On one hand you have the govt bureaucrats fucking you over. On the other side, your own employees have decided that ratting you out to OSHA will lead to fame and riches.

      Minnesota workplace safety inspectors have been inundated with a historic level of complaints from employees worried about COVID-19.

      Yet there is no specific work-safety standard for infectious disease. Connecting COVID-19 deaths to workplaces is murky at best. And all workplaces have become potentially dangerous, increasing the stakes while pinching state resources.

      “With COVID, every industry has kind of turned into a high-hazard industry,” said Nicole Blissenbach, assistant commissioner for enforcement at the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.

      I’d be bad as an owner of a factory. If some OSHA asshole showed up and said my workers had ratted me out with complaints, I’d send them all home. Let them sit there for a while thinking about life without a paycheck. I’d use the free time to go over their employment records looking for evidence of illegal aliens.

      • Rat on a train

        I’m sending you all home while I review, update and implement procedures for infectious diseases. Hopefully, it doesn’t take too long.

  34. Rebel Scum

    No…

    Mariah Carey
    @MariahCarey

    Happy Colin Kaepernick Appreciation Day!

    • Rat on a train

      I appreciate not watching every NFL player, present and former.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Brady will never be as great as Kaepernick.

      • Fourscore

        ‘Cause he ain’t black like The Kaep or Mahones.

      • AlexinCT

        They are already saying he is a white privilege beneficiary guy…

        So now it is obvious that white privilege means any sort of competitive system that rewards those that have talent/work hard over the usual wokster slackers.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    UNITY = subjugation by conquest

    Stop Resisting.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Public backlash to overcrowding, violence and discarded needles soon grew so loud that the board unanimously voted to claw back the number of encampments to just 20 parks with no more than 25 tents each, subject to temporary permits.

    Who doesn’t want a shantytown in their nighborhood?

    Republicans, that’s who. Democrats are kind and generous, and will bend over backwards to help those less fortunate.

    • Festus

      She is welcome to more than my X.

    • Count Potato

      Is she even 36?

  37. robc

    Fritz Peterson, Willard Marshall, and Bug Holliday. I don’t know who any of those people are.

    That is a big step down from Babe Ruth over the weekend.

  38. Pope Jimbo

    Oooh, Minnesoda uses a lot of Indian names for various places. That totally means we need to make sure to add tons and tons of new Native American studies to our high school curriculum.

    Flanagan is a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, one among a group of Great Lakes-area tribes that collectively make up the Anishinaabeg. And as Flanagan notes, another tribe with long historical roots to the south gave the state its name: “Minnesota” is derived from the Dakota phrase Mni Sota Makoce, which means “lands where the waters reflect the clouds.”

    “We have Indigenous place names all over the state,” Flanagan said. “Our young people should know the background of where they live, whose land this is.”

    The Indigenous-focused initiatives include money for culturally relevant prekindergarten learning for American Indian children, scholarships for American Indian students pursuing teaching careers and a new program to provide tribal relations training for school administrators. It’s one part of a raft of education proposals from the Walz administration aimed at improving racial equity and reducing gaps in school performance between students of color and white students.

    • Sean

      White Earth

      Sounds problematic.

      • pistoffnick

        White Face Reservoir just north of Doloot.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I grew up near White Earth. It had (still has, but the casino is helping) lots of problems.

    • Nephilium

      Oh crap.

      /starts renaming all of Ohio

      • Agent Cooper

        Say them with me:

        BELL-FOUNTAIN
        RYOH GRAN-DAY
        LIE-MA

      • db

        KADITH?

      • db

        It’s Ohio, what do you think? There’s some seriously weird evil lurking in the areas outside the interstate corridors there.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Remember when the Mongol’s felt bad about their excesses in Baghdad and created a Persian Studies program in Khan University?

      And when Caesar required that all Roman elementary schools started teaching Gaulic history?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s Gallic History, and Caesar was quite the afficionado of some of it. All that stuff before the arrival of Julius in the region can safely be ignored.

    • Suthenboy

      “whose land this is”

      That is easy. Go down to the tax assessor’s office and see who is paying the taxes on it.

    • Not Adahn

      My required semester of Oklahoma history was mostly about Indians, for obvious reasons. Though the war that we fought and won against Texas did get a chapter.

    • rhywun

      initiatives include money

      And that’s all you need to know.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    The $3,000 year per child is well below minimum wage.

    It’s the thought that counts.

    *I think I’ll steal $100 from somebody and give five to a panhandler, to show what a great and generous guy I am. That’s how it works, right?

    • Rat on a train

      You’d give $10 if you were truly generous.

      • banginglc1

        That’s not how it works. You steal $100 from someone and then give the panhandler $100 of Chinese backed bond money, with an exceptional interest rate, And use the $100 you collected for Planned Parenthood “activities”

  40. KromulentKristen

    Who wants to see a middle aged chick ski like an elderly chick?

    https://youtu.be/V9n_tdOnfkQ

    • LCDR_Fish

      Do most skiiers use helmets now?

      • Tundra

        99% of the people I see.

        I started wearing one when I took up snowboarding. Now I wear one for skiing, too.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Sonny Bono haz a sad.

      • KromulentKristen

        Helmets were nonexistent when I learned to ski as a young un. When I took it up again in my 30s, I took one look at the mountain, thought about Natasha Richardson, and bought a helmet.

      • db

        I don’t remember anyone wearing them in the early ’90s. I don’t wear one, but I probably ought to.

      • KromulentKristen

        I don’t ski with audio (because I like the nay-chur), but if you like to ski with music, lots of helmets have audio inputs.

        Anyway, wearing a helmet to me is no different than wearing a hat.

      • db

        I don’t really wear a hat either. My head is kind of impervious to cold. Only when it is really really frigid do I cover up my ears.

      • The Hyperbole

        I haven’t skied since the aughts, but by that time I was usually one of the very few unhelmeted.

    • Suthenboy

      Nice, but I am cold now.

      *throws another log on the fire*

    • pistoffnick

      That snowsuit is VERY 80’s.

      I wish my knees would let me ski again. Don’t get old! It sucks.

  41. Count Potato

    “The Super Bowl halftime shows always reveal how much more frequently male entertainers get away with basic shit while womxn are dancing for their lives, singing their faces off, and sending messages, all while looking fierce as hell. The double standard is just bananas.”

    https://twitter.com/KellyMcCreary/status/1358590925522432001

    Don’t read the comments.

    • ron73440

      I guess what’s his name should have worn a banana hammock and done a crotch first slide to the camera.

    • Festus

      Do these people not understand that “fierce” is not a good look for a wammen?

    • Nephilium

      I’ll do you one better, I won’t read the twitters.

      I used to click through every once in a while, but now they want me to enable their scripting to even see a tweet. Not going to do it.

      • Mad Scientist

        You’re not missing anything.

  42. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    My wife likes football, so we had the game on. Ribs on the Weber were perfect, even though it was -10 outside. Fucking love my SlowNSear.

    I can’t believe that song is 41 years old.

    • Festus

      I can’t believe that I’m still around, typing after all this time.

  43. DEG

    Trump lawyer Bruce Castor told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham “you can count on that” when asked about using video montage of Democratic members of Congress calling for violence against Trump administration officials and law enforcement.

    Prediction: The fix is in and this won’t matter, assuming the Democrats and Never Trumper Republicans in the Senate allow Trump’s lawyers to present this evidence.

    That growing body of evidence raises questions about whether the FBI and other security agencies acted proactively enough to thwart the violence. It also undercuts the House Democrats’ impeachment claim — supported by 10 Republicans — that Trump’s speech spontaneously incited the riots, legal experts told Just the News.

    And also won’t matter.

    Americans underwent nearly 4,318,000 checks for firearm purchases last month, handily defeating December’s then-record of nearly 3,940,000 checks and recording over four million checks in one month for the first time in the 23-year history of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

    I would have done my part but no one near me has the Tavors I want in stock. I also need to shoot more. I will hang my head in shame.

    But a report from the Federal Reserve released in September 2020 found that the majority of student loan debt, roughly 60%, is held by the top 40% of income earners, who account for about three-quarters of all loan payments. The lowest-income earners hold less than 20% of all federal student loan debt by comparison.

    Could this result in the cancelling of the Federal Reserve? Meh, I shouldn’t get my hopes up.

    • ron73440

      Prediction: The fix is in and this won’t matter

      I’m come to think that about a lot of things recently.

      I have realized that as cynical as I am, sometimes I’m not cynical enough.(forget where I heard this, but I immediately stole it)

      Sometimes I feel like this guy, except instead of hope it’s respect for our system.

    • R C Dean

      I would have done my part but no one near me has the Tavors I want in stock.

      Auction sites, for better or worse. I hit four gun stores looking for a S & W .357 revolver. No dice. One had some Colts, but not in .357. Unless you wanted a .44 magnum, you were out just about out of luck. I also haven’t seen a Benelli 1301 combat shotgun on the walls since I bought mine last March or April. I paid the premium for the revolver because I am not sure that inventory will recover before lunatic gun control bills are passed by Congress. Same with ammo.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I did my part.

        But in the way home I hit a bump on a bridge and everything in the truck bounced out the window in to the river.

  44. The Other Kevin

    Yesterday I had my 8 year old niece over to watch Back to the Future. Her dance class is doing a dance to one of the songs and she knew how much I like that movie, so she suggested we watch it together. It occurred to me that when I first saw it, it was about a kid from the present going back to the distant past. But to her it’s about a kid from the distant past going even further into the past. The 80’s were just as foreign to her as the 50’s.

    She lost interest in a few spots, but the ending had her hooked and now she’s psyched about watching the other 2.

    • UnCivilServant

      “That’s not what 2015 looked like!”

      • The Other Kevin

        It’s going to be a lot of fun to watch that one with her.

    • Nephilium

      So… this came out over 9 years ago, but someone did update it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t get it.

        I mean, it’s still 2000, isn’t it?

        /broken internal chronometer.

      • Chipwooder

        This happens to me all the time. My wife wanted to watch one of her old standbys the other day, Sabrina, and it was distressing to realize it was 26 years ago now.

        Part of that, I think, is that the look of things didn’t change nearly as much going forward from the mid-90s as they did for the decades prior. Go 26 years back from Sabrina and you’re in 1969, and the length of time is obvious when you watch, say, Easy Rider. It looks so much different. 1995, on the other hand, is much more subtly different other than the technology.

      • Chipwooder

        It was like when I watched Dazed and Confused a while back for the first time in years, and it occurred to me that the movie was now more distant to the present time, by several years, than the 1976 that seemed so ancient to me when I watched it at the movies in 1993 as a high school senior.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yep.

        I find it entertaining that we’re in line for a That 90s Show, which is further from now that That 70s Show was in the 90s when it aired.

      • Count Potato

        Sabrina was 1954

      • Chipwooder

        I’m clearly talking about the remake, not the original. I’ve never seen the original.

      • Count Potato

        The original is 1000X better. Which is why I forgot the remake.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yep. Just shows how much fashion changes were forced by media gatekeepers, rather then developing spontaneously.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Yeah, watched it with my then teenaged kids a few years ago, and realized they saw it the same way we did the 50’s. It’s a kind of idealized “happy” decade like the 50’s was for us, too.

      And just think, in a few years it will be as far away from current day as the end of WW2 was from when the movie was made.

    • Mojeaux

      Real Genius.

      That is all.

      • Chipwooder

        This is God, Kent

      • db

        …and you’ve been a *very* *naughty* boy

      • Mojeaux

        And stop playing with yourself.

  45. Count Potato

    “There is an enormous amount of racial undertones to this entire convo about Brady being the best athlete of all time in a way that willfully ignores Black athletes past & present as well as the ongoing systemic discrimination against Black athletes in the QB position.”

    https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1358631366901067777

    What?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Jordan or Lebron?

      Answer: Larry Bird.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The greatest athlete of all time might also come down to a guy who grew up poor in Portugal vs. a guy who grew up poor in Argentina.

    • Not Adahn

      NPR’s “critic” was spitting mad this morning that the NFL didn’t celebrate and apologize to Kato Kaelinick yesterday.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’ve never heard or seen anyone in sports media claim that Brady was the best athlete off all time. Quarterback and Athlete are not the same word and mean very different things.

      This person is talking out of their ass.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Of all time” would require including people from past ages too. How do we compare greek olympians with french jousters with mayan ball players?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This too. The “Goat” context is for QB. He’s constantly made fun of for his physique (although, look, he is very handsome*).

        *I have a strong record of heterosexuality.

      • KromulentKristen

        Gronk is better-looking, though about 10x stupider.

      • Mojeaux

        Somebody yesterday pointed out that Gronk is stupid like a fox and the derp-derp-derp is an act.

      • slumbrew

        That was me;. It’s overstating it to say it’s an act – he’s not working on his math doctorate in his off hours, like that dude from the Ravens – but he leans into the dude bro thing.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        I think Gronk is a goofball, but not necessarily stupid.

      • Mojeaux

        To your point upthread about our o-line, we had many injuries of our starters, who did not play. Hence baby GOAT could not do his job. Also baby GOAT was injured too.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        They got by the entire year though. I guess Eric Fisher broke the camel’s back.

        The best play last night was definitely Mahomes being brought down and as he is sideways mid-air he throws a laser into the end zone that was certainly catch-able.

      • Nephilium

        Yeah, some of those passes that Mahomes was throwing while he was being brought down were damned impressive.

      • Idle Hands

        Mahomes is the greatest pure passer I’ve ever seen he usually completes like two passes a game that I’ve never seen anybody else make. That pass in particular stood out it was amazing, too bad it was incomplete.

      • ron73440

        I call him “Mr. Ridiculous”.

    • Suthenboy

      What a bunch of tiresome shit.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Obviously, we should force young black people to participate in sports they generally have no interest in to meet that arbitrary participation quota.

    • Rebel Scum

      systemic discrimination against Black athletes in the QB position

      There are no black QBs in the NFL. It is known.

      • Mojeaux

        Last I checked, there were quite a few black QBs.

      • Agent Cooper

        One of them (well, half of him) just played in the Super Bowl!

    • kbolino

      As of this year, 70% of NFL players are black. Less than 14% of the U.S. population is black. That is such a level of gross overrepresentation that it approaches absurdity. Blacks have so thoroughly dominated football (and basketball and many other sports as well) that white racists have had to switch their tactics from saying “the white man is superior in every way” to “the only thing blacks are good at is athletics” (which is still demeaning, but quite a shift and concession).

      And yet somehow despite black athletes making up 5 times their proportional “share” of NFL (and NBA) players, we are still talking about how there is an anti-black racist problem in these professional sports. If you were to write a fictional story that the civil rights movement has jumped the shark, gone around the bend, and become an absurd farce you would have to make it more believable than this reality.

    • Akira

      Black people are heavily overrepresented in the NBA and NFL.

      Pretty weak case for discrimination.

      • UnCivilServant

        It would be enough for lawsuits if the ratio were off in the other direction.

        Parhaps the disparate impact standard needs to be junked.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Who would want to be an employer?

    “Not I,” said the rat.

    I cannot imagine putting myself in that position. What a nightmare.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    That growing body of evidence raises questions about whether the FBI and other security agencies acted proactively enough to thwart the violence.

    Thwart it? They were too busy facilitating those “plots”.

    • Festus

      “Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly”

    • creech

      One wonders what the “plot” plan was? John Brown’s ludicrous raid on the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry was better planned than whatever these ‘insurrectionist” dudes had cobbled up. Brown had real weapons but was captured by a handful of Marines under R.E. Lee. What did the guys in the Capitol think would happen? [Brown could have been tried by the Feds for attacking a government arsenal, but President Buchanan didn’t have the balls to upset the North, so he let Virginia try and subsequently hang Brown for murder. Some of the Capitol dudes are going to be convicted of murdering the cop who died in the riot.]

      • Idle Hands

        that’s the thing the capital dudes were probably the most surprised of anyone they actually got into the capital. There was no plan.

      • Suthenboy

        Do we have any idea what really happened to the cop that died in the riot?

      • Idle Hands

        He died of a stroke in the barracks.

      • Not Adahn

        We know at least three of the five deaths were directly caused by the cops.

      • Suthenboy

        There has been such a blizzard of lies I have decided to disbelieve anything and everything I hear about the whole affair.

      • Akira

        Even CNN reported that they’re having trouble building a murder case since there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that he was actually murdered.

        Just like the Mueller Report saying there’s “no evidence of collusion” – if the people who desperately want it to be true are stating that there’s no proof, there’s really no proof.

  48. Festus

    Streaker wasn’t even nekkid. 1973 was better. Prove me wrong.

    • Nephilium

      That can’t be true. I didn’t exist in 1973.

      • kinnath

        too easy

  49. Festus

    Cashing out now. You guys have a grand day!

  50. The Other Kevin

    I’m tired of this shit. Maybe I’ll go fortify a bank and then move to an island somewhere.

    • UnCivilServant

      They stopped housing federal prsioners at Alcatraz. You may need a different plan.

      Besides, most retail bank fortifications only net $2,500.

    • Tundra

      Adorable.

      • Not Adahn

        Don’t know yet. I’m relying on my brother to perform the attitude tests, and they’re too young to have personlities yet.

      • PieInTheSky

        throw a dart and see where it sticks

      • Not Adahn

        You mean “throw a dart, and whichever one snags it out of the air is the one you want,” right?

      • PieInTheSky

        let’s go with yes

    • Tulip

      My neighbor just got a golden/great pyr cross puppy. She is soo cute! Such big ears!

    • Tundra

      Congrats! Exciting times!

    • rhywun

      Just one? Why not seven??

      • UnCivilServant

        If these half golden retrievers have any semblance of that breed’s personality, just one will be exausting. Seven would be killer.

        I’m not familiar with the great pyr.

      • Tulip

        Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!

      • Tulip

        Wonderdog says hi! Bark!

    • PieInTheSky

      Can’t afford a pure breed?

      • UnCivilServant

        Why would you want an inbred mutant?

      • PieInTheSky

        all the upper class people have pure breeds

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, inbreds stick together.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Hey, if it was good enough for Marc Antony and Caesar…

      • UnCivilServant

        Let me asp you a question – which caesar of that age wasn’t killed by sharp implements?

        I’ll give you a hint – he didn’t sleep with a Ptolomy.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Octavian and Tiberius come to mind.

      • R C Dean

        Apparently, people are running genetic checks on their purebreds, and finding they aren’t so purebred after all.

        I had to laugh at the Puppy Bowl contestants. It seemed like more than half of them were part pit bull, err, American Staffordshire Terrier.

      • Mojeaux

        I watch a lot of animal rescue videos at night to help put me to sleep. A vast majority of rescues are of pitbulls or mixes.

        I think they’re ugly and I’m not a dog person anyway, but that’s kinda sad.

      • Tundra

        We did the DNA test for our new old girl. She is mostly Aussie Cattle dog and pit bull, with a little Chow, GSD, Aussie Shepherd and Boxer in the mix.

        A purebred mutt.

      • ron73440

        I have an Aussie, that dog is insane and will eat anything.

      • Tundra

        Heeler or Shepherd? My girl is 10 1/2 so any insanity is lost in time. Mellow beyond belief.

      • ron73440

        Australian Shepard, she patrols the yard with murderous intent, loves to sleep on a lap even though she’s 65lbs.

        Wiggles like Wiley Coyote when he took earthquake pills.

      • Tundra

        From yesterday.

        Just relaxing in the sun.

      • ron73440

        Pretty

      • ron73440

        Here’s mine.

        Aussie

      • Tundra

        Awww. Daisy.

        Beautiful girl!

      • Not Adahn

        I had a wonderful dog with two pedigrees. Two rich families weren’t careful enough about maintaining a fence high enough to keep a Border Collie from crossing over when the Samoyed went into heat.

        That dog was speed. She ran down and caught birds in flight on multipe occasions.

      • Pine_Tree

        Some of our friends, the kind who always have an odd side-gig going, wanted to do this with their pure-bred Lab, and sell the puppies with “papers”. They knew another local friend with a male pure-bred, so they got them together, etc. and there were like 7 puppies in the litter. We got one.

        Anyway, it came time for them to do the genetic testing on all the pups and they found out that some of them were from the intended baby-daddy and some of them weren’t…

      • Not Adahn

        Honestly I would not have bred the mother, but my brother wanted a litter of puppies from her so that’s that.

        My favorite breed is the Berger Blanc Suisse, followed closely by the Border Collie. The former is a vastly better choice for people without acreages.

      • PieInTheSky

        Blanc – does that not make it to easy to lose on a snowy Swiss mountain?

      • Not Adahn

        Not really, they are good about staying in visual contact. Plus dogs are stupidly easy to track through the snow.

      • PieInTheSky

        there ought to be a law against breeding dogs without a government license to make sure people are qualified to do so. Kenneled in Bond or something

      • Suthenboy

        You joke but we have some states like that. North Carolina? I think Canada is similar? I am not very up on it because Louisiana, aside from requiring vaccinations and prevention of abuse, doesnt have many laws on the subject.

    • Mojeaux

      Awwwww, how CUUUUUUTTTTTTT.

      I would not take one of those if you paid me. Well, it would have to be a lot.

      Chez Mojeaux is a cat house.

      • Not Adahn

        Huh. I thought the LDS frowned on that sort of thing.

      • Mojeaux

        Sent that over the plate and NA knocks it out of the park.

      • UnCivilServant

        It went right over my head. I didn’t see it until just now.

      • Not Adahn

        It makes me sad when nobody picks up what I put down, so I feel obligated to try.

      • Mojeaux

        ‘splosives caught your cover pic for your IFLA post yesterday. I had to squint to see it.

      • Not Adahn

        That was one of TPTB. I have nothing to do with that. Usually the pics in the actual article are mine, but sometimes if I submit one without any, they will be nice enough to spruce it up with some.

  51. Rebel Scum

    Bitter clingers.

    David Axelrod
    @davidaxelrod

    Republicans on the Sunday shows are clinging to the life raft argument that a post-presidency impeachment trial is unconstitutional. They do so to avoid having to defend the things that Trump did to undermine democracy and foment an insurrection.

    If only saying it would make it so.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Political calculus

    Democrats are plowing forward with plans to pass a massive Covid-19 relief package. And if Republicans don’t join them, they won’t forget it.

    Already, there’s talk about midterm attack ads portraying Republicans as willing to slash taxes for the wealthy but too stingy to cut checks for people struggling during the deadly pandemic. And President Joe Biden’s aides and allies are vowing not to make the same mistakes as previous administrations going into the midterms elections. They are pulling together plans to ensure Americans know about every dollar delivered and job kept because of the bill they’re crafting. And there is confidence that the Covid-19 relief package will ultimately emerge not as a liability for Democrats, but as an election year battering ram.

    “This is one of those rare instances — maybe not exceedingly rare, but it doesn’t happen often — where the best policy perfectly aligns with the politics,” said Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), a Biden ally. “If I’m a candidate in 2022 running for the House or Senate, I think I’d want to be able to say we’ve had a robust Covid-19 relief bill, we raised the minimum wage, we made progress on health care, we’ve started to make progress on combating climate change and a whole range of issues candidates would want to run on.”

    “Full steam ahead. Just keep shovelling money into the boiler.”

    These people are completely insane.

    • Idle Hands

      I’ve never seen anything like this. Obamacare was a huge political issue that took months/years of browbeating to get congress in line. The policy changes they’ve enacted in the first month to little or no debate is politically impressive.

    • rhywun

      Because sending LeBron James a check for $1,400 is totally going to fix the economy.

    • Chipwooder

      Fire up that money cannon, baby!! Rampant inflation, here we come.

    • B.P.

      These people think that climate change is a hot topic with the average American.

  53. Idle Hands

    Super Bowl was rigged just like the election. Refs completely fucked the Chiefs.

    • Chipwooder

      They did, but the Chiefs did a pretty good job of fucking themselves as well with the lousy blocking and all the drops.

      • Mojeaux

        Our O-line was injured and we were starting with 2nd, possibly 3rd, string.

        Not an excuse, but it was on top of the lazy way we have been playing all season with the exception of the Bills game. They rode on Ws no matter how squeakily gotten, like that’s something to be proud of.

      • Chipwooder

        Yeah, they were slipping by with backup linemen but when Fischer went down, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back

      • Idle Hands

        Mahomes didn’t look his best at all. Also the Bucs defense balled out. But the refs first half calls that were decidedly one sided completely screwed the chiefs.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      They lost by 22 points. There was clearly a better team last night.

  54. PieInTheSky

    To quote Barry McCockiner, Tom Brady is an overrated systems QB.

    That is still the only thing I know to say about American Football

    • Idle Hands

      I don’t agree with that he is indisputably the best system qb of all time and has done it so long and had so many reps reading defenses he’s transcended the label at this point imho to be an all time great. I like any right thinking american dislike Brady but the championships and numbers are just indisputable at this point. It’s impossible to overate a guy whose been to 11 superbowls in his career and won 6 of them in the modern era. It’s too difficult to do even if your the best qb in the league.

      • Mojeaux

        Even after last night, I don’t get the Brady hate. I keep asking Mr. Mojeaux, and he says it’s because he’s tattler and a crybaby whiner on the field. Um. Okay then.

      • Chipwooder

        1) Boston is the worst and Patriots fans are uniformly awful. Not Brady’s fault directly, but his career empowered these people
        2)He’s the luckiest sonofabitch I’ve ever seen, going all the way back to that tuck rule bullshit. Even happened up to this postseason. The Bucs ended up playing two teams missing their starting left tackle, and Andy Reid’s mind is elsewhere after his son puts a small child in the hospital in a DUI wreck.
        3) He’s a cheating sonofabitch as well.
        4) He wears Uggs
        5) He smirked his ass off in the pregame press conferences before XLII. Tuck, Umenyiora, and Strahan wiped that from his face during the game

        Great player? Absolutely. But I hate him intensely.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s a decent list, thank you.

        I forgot about the cheating part.

        He can’t be blamed for Reid’s mind being elsewhere, though. I hope they throw the book at that kid because if they don’t, the Chiefs are going to be persona non grata around here for a while, even though the Chiefs had nothing to do with it.

      • Mojeaux

        Regarding Britt Reid:

        It is all too easy to imagine myself being that broken-down car on the road with the flashers on but the battery dying, already feeling helpless and maybe that’s only the latest obstacle/setback/hardship I’ve faced.

        I’m betting a whole lot of people feel the same way.

      • ron73440

        1) Boston is the worst and Patriots fans are uniformly awful.

        In the Marine Corps, I met many people from Boston. One of them was not an asshole.

        The Sam Adams commercial about the Boston cousin is very accurate in my experience.

        Great player? Absolutely. But I hate him intensely.

        So do I, and I’m sure he cares as he goes to his mansion and sleeps on a mattress of money with his hot wife.

      • PieInTheSky

        So the patriots are the celtics of football?

      • juris imprudent

        Worst insult my ex-wife ever laid on me was she said I played basketball like Danny Ainge. Ainge was the Brady of the NBA.

      • Tundra

        And his wife is still hot.

      • PieInTheSky

        nonsense. Women are only hot to age 29

      • Tundra
      • PieInTheSky

        Barry is the worlds foremost expert on tom brady

      • R C Dean

        I like any right thinking american dislike Brady but the championships and numbers are just indisputable at this point.

        Yup.

      • AlexinCT

        They are pissed that the guy that supports the man that told us the fucking people tearing down the country – cause they are inept fucks and any system that would hold them accountable threatens them – proves performing maters. Nothing sucks more than winners that don’t get picked by the government for the woke douchebags.

  55. The Late P Brooks

    They did, but the Chiefs did a pretty good job of fucking themselves as well with the lousy blocking and all the drops.

    Don’t forget committing stupid penalties.

    • Chipwooder

      Some of those penalties were horseshit, though, particularly the one that took away the Chiefs’ interception.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d love to see some isolation and comparison of DB play by both sides and then compare how the penalty count went.

      • R C Dean

        Same here. It looked to me like the refs thought the DBs should be social distancing from the receivers on the ticky-tack calls against the Chiefs. Maybe the Bucs DBs were really playing loose and never touched a Chiefs receiver. I didn’t really pay much attention to the game (or the commercials – hell, I didn’t even realize that was Springsteen in the Jeep ad, but I blame his plastic surgeon for that).

  56. The Late P Brooks

    A raft of public polls has bolstered the belief inside the White House that they have a mandate to act and that those who oppose the package will struggle to justify their stances come November 2022.

    “It’s going to be very difficult for Republican lawmakers to look their constituents in the eyes and try to explain why they voted against giving them $1,400 checks, why they voted against reopening schools, and why they voted against speeding up vaccinations,” a White House official told POLITICO. “We’re going to keep making the case about why this package matters and Republicans on the Hill are going to have to decide whether or not they’re going to listen to their voters.”

    Mandate. Mandate. Mandate.

    If you just keep repeating that, people will think it’s true. In the long run, we’re all dead.

    *I’m probably the one who’s crazy.

    • Chipwooder

      Whoa whoa whoa, why who is against reopening schools? Keep pissing down your own legs, thoroughly convincing yourself it’s raining.

      • juris imprudent

        Even the media is noticing that CDC says reopen and the Biden Admin is busying sucking teacher union ass.

    • Suthenboy

      I thought it was 5000 or 6K or something. Just make it an even million, hell, why not.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        You’re right that the cost of the package is $6k/person. The Covid stimulus checks are peanuts.

        All the focus on the stimulus checks just detracts from the real meat of the bill going to line the pockets of politicians.

    • Gustave Lytton

      why they voted against reopening schools

      Still passes me of when Congress voted to close schools nationwide. Wait, that didn’t happen? How can they have a vote to reopen schools then?

  57. PieInTheSky

    I still don’t fully get why you people use the term world champion for US centric sports.

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, all of the teams in the world play in one country.

    • Mojeaux

      For baseball, I would agree.

      For football, pretty much nobody outside the US plays gridiron football, so…yeah.

      • Chipwooder

        Eh….the best league in the world, by far, is MLB. It makes perfect sense to call the World Series winner “world champion”.

      • Mojeaux

        Until they play Japan, Korea, and Cuba, no.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Those nations best players come here to play as quickly as they can. The MLB has vastly expanded its international recruiting and scouting over the last twenty-five years…the best in the world play in North America.

      • Chipwooder

        NPB is the best league outside of MLB, and it’s roughly on a level with AAA.

      • Rat on a train

        Not since the Roughriders played the Rough Riders.

    • Nephilium

      There’s other countries in the world besides the US?

      And they have professional sports?

      • Chipwooder

        Soccer isn’t really a sport.

      • EvilSheldon

        Soccer is more of a sport than baseball.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh here we go – this will be worse than deep dish pineapple pizza.

      • R C Dean

        No activity that relies on the acting ability of its participants is more of a sport than baseball.

  58. The Late P Brooks

    Because sending LeBron James a check for $1,400 is totally going to fix the economy.

    He’ll use that money to tip the parking valets at his favorite private dining club.

    Stimulus!

  59. Count Potato

    “America Saw a Historic Rise in Murders in 2020. Why?

    At the most basic level of analysis, experts view the surge as the result of a worst-case confluence of forces — the stresses of a pandemic and the intensity of the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd — that pushed already-frayed neighborhoods into spirals of violence. That can partly explain why the bloodshed wasn’t evenly distributed. Some places remained as peaceful as ever. In others, the rise in murders was even more dramatic than it was nationally. Chicago saw a 37 percent year-over-year increase between the first halves of 2019 and 2020. And in New York City, by December 20, 2020, there had been a 40 percent increase over the 2019 numbers.”

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/america-saw-a-historic-rise-in-murders-in-2020-why.html

    • Suthenboy

      I wonder why. Such a mystery.

    • rhywun

      And that 40 per cent increase in NYC was almost completely restricted to all the same neighborhoods where all the murders already take place.

      • juris imprudent

        What more proof of inequity and privilege do you need?

      • rhywun

        I live in a murder desert. ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      intensity of the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd

      Bullshit. They want it to be about despair around police killing a black man, but it’s really about Democrat controlled cities restraining enforcement, letting violent criminals back onto the streets, kicking low wage earners out of jobs, etc…

      If it were really about Floyd, blacks would be killing cops and/or white people, not each other.

      The looting, rioting and arson on the other hand…

  60. Count Potato

    “TERROR THREAD: One of the first acts of incoming President Biden was to remove the Houthi Movement from the list of recognized terror organizations. The excuse he used was so that the US could begin to funnel humanitarian aid and money to the Iranian-backed organization.

    2/ The Houthi are an Islamic political and armed movement born in Northern Yemen during the 1990s. Their motto and mission statement are, “God is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam” and it is emblazed on their flag seen below.”

    https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1358804684119670786

    • Suthenboy

      No price is too high to get rid of OMB.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “Millions for tribute and not one centbillions for defense!”

    • rhywun

      Watching Biden reverse everything Donald did in the ME is going to be “fun”.

      • Idle Hands

        Whatever you want to say about Trump at least he made a concerted effort to try to establish an exit strategy by trying to no longer arm Iranian backed militia’s so we could have some metric for military success. These fuckers have absolutely no intention of ever leaving.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Absolutely. Perpetual war in the Middle East is the goal.

      • kbolino

        Goddammit. I really hope you’re wrong.

      • kbolino

        With all due caveats about the Biden admin being soulless and likely having an ulterior motive, so far Yemen is the one area where I disagreed strongly with Trump’s actions and am cautiously optimistic about Biden’s. I’m not too keen on cozying up to Iran or the Houthis but we’ve been fighting someone else’s bitter civil and proxy war in that country since the early days of the Obama admin, and while Trump generally moved us away from conflicts like that, he actively supported continued operations in Yemen. If he doesn’t totally fuck up everywhere else in the MENA and we disengage from Yemen, it might be a net win.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I assumed that Yemen was the price to pay for progress in other areas.

        The correct solution would be just to pull our dick out of crazy.

      • kbolino

        In case it’s not clear, “he” in the last sentence is referring to Biden.

    • Idle Hands

      The Obama strategy of trying to aid the Iranians in filling the power vacuum that is middle east would go a lot easier if they had the moral courage to say that’s what they were trying to do. Instead we get the state department funneling money and aid to these groups while the military arm continues to bomb and kill them like weeds. If I didn’t know better it’s all done to perpetuate a never ending war we can continue to launder disaster relief money through ngo’s and at the same time keeping raytheon and military crowd stays happy.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Agreed. I can see an argument that the Saudis suck and getting the Iranians to balance them out might be good. But if that’s the case, make the argument. However, in my opinion, the best way to go is to exploit our own energy sources so that neither the Saudis nor the Iranians have the money to cause trouble, but for some reason we can’t do that. But what do I know? I’m not an expert.

      • Tundra

        Yemen was payback to the Saudis. It’s all so fucking convoluted .

        Scott Horton does a good job of laying out all the shenanigans. He has a new book out that I haven’t ordered yet, as I’m not sure my blood pressure can withstand it.

    • creech

      Pharaoh Joe supports such a group? Then he needs to be stripped of all his committee seats.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The payoff for fucking over the Saudi’s Yemeni adventure will be the higher oil prices the Saudis need to prop up their house of cards.

      • juris imprudent

        Saudi Aramco – too big to fail.

  61. Count Potato

    “Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook’s Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story”

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/07/sheryl-sandberg-downplayed-facebooks-role-in-the-capitol-hill-siege-justice-department-files-tell-a-very-different-story/?sh=565212fe10b3

    “Facebook played by far the biggest role for those charged thus far in the Capitol riot. YouTube was a distant second. Parler was way, way, way behind.

    Yet it was Parler which Dem poilticians demanded be removed from the internet.”

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1358487115605106691

    • rhywun

      Surprise, surprise!

      /Gomer Pyle

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No shit

    • kbolino

      Company with deep ties to the establishment weaponizes new regulatory framework to crush its opposition using lies and spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

      This is why I’ve never trusted the left on regulatory capture. They fundamentally do not understand the nature of the problem and continue to believe that it is due to the government not being given enough power instead of a fundamental characteristic of human beings.

      • Idle Hands

        I do actually think they understand regulatory capture. The voters might not but the people getting the campaign checks sure do.

    • KromulentKristen

      Delicious!

      • R C Dean

        Sadly, out of season. Plus my neighbors just out of frame might not be too excited. There was a bigger one poached about a 15 minute walk from my house this year.

    • R C Dean

      Excellent. Looks like it works fine.

    • Tundra

      Gorgeous!

    • Urthona

      beautiful

    • Suthenboy

      Hey RC. Watch for an email today.

      Y’all haven’t been overrun with Axis deer yet? Turns out they are quite a bit tastier than whitetail. I even smoked the bones and made stock.

      • R C Dean

        None around here. There’s a bunch of them in Texas, and some have gone feral. I think there’s no season, no limit on them. I’m sure some deer hunters have gotten quite a surpise when one wander out.

        We have mulies and Coues whitetails, and probably some regular whitetails somewhere. Just mulies in our neck of the woods.

      • Suthenboy

        We are limited to whitetail here but a few axis have started showing up. A colleague of my brother invited us to his place in Texas so we drove over. The place is crawling alive with axis deer. Since he lives in semi-suburbia we took turns using a crossbow so as not to disturb the neighbors. The meat had more fat and a hardier taste than whitetail. Also, they are ridiculously easy to bag, at least for now. That may change as they get more familiar with being shot at.

        I expect them to spread across the southwest and gulf states before too long.

    • Rat on a train

      Fortunately the neighbor’s dogs scare them away from our garden.

    • The Hyperbole

      What is that some sort of pygmy deer?

  62. Not Adahn

    I started a The Expanse topic in the Forums if anyone else is caught up and feeling talky.

    • kinnath

      cool. I will check it out. Just finished the new season last weekend.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This last season started off great and then just slowed to a drag.

  63. KromulentKristen

    Now I’m really in dire straits for my Pa’s birthday. They’re going to Jekyll Island instead of staying home and going to 17. I was going to call 17 and arrange to pay for their dinner as a gift.

    Crap.

  64. Rebel Scum

    By all means, inflate away then.

    “People are on the verge of losing the roofs over their heads. The package provides rental assistance,” she said. “We have 24 million adults and 12 million children that are going hungry everyday. We need to provide them with food.”

    The goal is to make sure there is no “permanent toll” on Americans, particularly low-wage and minority workers.

    “We need a package that’s big enough to address this full range of need and I believe the American Rescue Plan is up to the job,” Yellen said. “My predecessor has indicated that there’s a chance this will cause inflation to rise. And that’s a risk that we have to consider. I’ve spent many years studying inflation and worrying about inflation and I can tell you, we have the tools to deal with that risk if it materializes.”

    “We face a huge economic challenge here and tremendous suffering in the country. We’ve got to address that. That’s the biggest risk,” she explained.

    • R C Dean

      The goal is to make sure there is no “permanent toll” on Americans, particularly low-wage and minority workers.

      If you wanted to create a permanent toll on Americans, inflation would be an excellent way to do it. Fortunately, inflation famously never affects low-wage workers.

      • rhywun

        particularly low-wage and minority workers

        They are so conditioned to assuming that these are one and the same that they don’t even notice how stupid and insulting it is.

      • Rat on a train

        The poor are just as bright and intelligent as whites.

    • Suthenboy

      That’s what pols do – create problems then offer to ‘fix’ them. They crushed the economy now they pass out free money.

      • Rat on a train

        Government: If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.

    • Idle Hands

      It’s hard not to think the people claiming inflation is coming for the 20th year in a row won’t be right this time. But what do I know. I’m reading articles that are basically talking about how the current economy is fantastic while basically every business owner I know is burning money like it’s 2010.

      • kbolino

        It’s hard not to think the people claiming inflation is coming for the 20th year in a row won’t be right this time

        Prices have gone up about 20% over the past 10 years and 50% over the past 20 years. Average wages have kept up so it mostly gone unnoticed.

    • rhywun

      We have 24 million adults and 12 million children that are going hungry everyday.

      Bullshit.

      • UnCivilServant

        Dinner is five minutes late = child going hungry

        Got food child didn’t like = child going hungry

        etc.

      • Rat on a train

        My son is always hungry. He tells us often.

  65. The Late P Brooks

    This is why I’ve never trusted the left on regulatory capture. They fundamentally do not understand the nature of the problem and continue to believe that it is due to the government not being given enough power instead of a fundamental characteristic of human beings.

    I think they understand regulatory capture perfectly.

    It’s a good thing, as far as they are concerned, as long as the tools they have provided for their NGO pals are used properly.

  66. The Late P Brooks

    Another ilttle gem from Politico:

    The battle lines of the midterms are far from settled. Republican operatives charged with reversing Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are quick to note that Biden will still have to deliver on his vaccination goals and solve the Covid crisis. In recent weeks, they have tried to blame Democrats and allied teachers’ unions for standing in the way of reopening schools.

    And the war on objective reality continues.

    The unions are threatening to strike rather than go to work. Obviously, it’s a Republican plot to discredit them.

  67. The Late P Brooks

    If you wanted to create a permanent toll on Americans, inflation would be an excellent way to do it. Fortunately, inflation famously never affects low-wage workers.

    “Look, Honey, I got another raise. Leftover beans and rice, again?”

    • Gustave Lytton

      “Nope, your favorite: tree bark and grass clippings”