Winston’s Mom does the Links.

by | Feb 25, 2021 | Daily Links | 474 comments

I won’t be here too long, so let Sloopy know if he calls me again on Wednesday night during prime time, he may as well just schedule rubbing the bunions permanently.

Now for linkS!

This really is a clown world, isn’t it?

They’re right to put a warning label on it.  Gonzo’s snout is (((obvious ))) and interspecies dating is absolutely disgusting.

Dear team cuck apologists either,

  • Create your own damn tech industry or
  • Make good on your bullshit “but where will they get their food/oil/trucking/unclogged toilets or whatever industry social cucks dominate” threats

Otherwise quit bitching whenever they do this.  They don’t give a shit about you, they don’t give a shit if you point out the double-standard.  It will continue until you either die or accept living under their heels.

In a just world this guy would be wearing a gimp suit in Cañon City, CO.

How?  I’m right here.

Finally…
No shit. Its almost like this is true because if you keep jacking up the minimum wage no sane employer is going to hire a teenager with fewer skills than a Keynesian at Princeton.  As that Friedman guy explained 30 years ago minimum wages price out brand new workers, like teenagers.  For $15 I can get a guy that also does windows instead of some punk ass that stares at his phone all day.

You can’t even make a point for your own argument without walking into the exact explanation why you shouldn’t raise the minimum wage, or even without peddling your bullshit book to the retards you haven’t blocked on your Twatter feed.

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

474 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    ““We really have an environment in this building where there is never a reason where a kid has to take their mask off,” he said.”

    So they don’t eat lunch?

    • I'm Here To Help

      That tuba player looks really comfortable as well…

    • Nephilium

      Lunches are fed through a blender, and then masks with straw holes are provided.

      • Festus

        Good Lord! Who has to clean those things at the end of the day? Can you imagine the stench of armpit, feet, pheromones, Axe and Juicy-Froot? “OMWC to the Music Room! Cleanup in Room 227!”

      • Rat on a train

        But the teachers appreciate being protected from that stench while the kids are in there.

      • Festus

        That’s the salient point.

      • Old Man With Candy

        The sax player is a hottie.

      • Mad Scientist

        Check out the flautist in the back row.

      • Old Man With Candy

        That’s a dude and I ain’t no edit fairy.

      • limey

        That’s someone who farts, right? Musically I mean. So I guess the tuba has the bass range covered for that, so these would be lady-pitched squeakers?

      • AlexinCT

        OK so what about when the teacher molests them?

      • Rat on a train

        Built in blinds?

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      They jusy call a covid time-out. Just lile the restaurants whete the wise and all knowing civil servant have determined that having a mask on while walking to your table and taking it off when seated will stopthe spread.

      Or its all bullshit pulled from a bureaucrat’s forth point of contact.

      • Mad Scientist

        Or its all bullshit pulled from a bureaucrat’s forth point of contact.

        Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

      • Rat on a train

        They’re doing something. Don’t you want them to do something? Those other people aren’t doing anything. Shame.

      • Tonio

        [Edit Fairy sashays by, looks at hot mess of prose, shrugs, moves on.]

      • Festus

        It’s telling that your Edit Fairy always “flits” or “sashays”. You are a good and solid Man, friend Tonio.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I like that the Edit Fairy doesn’t even bother taking a look at my dreck.

        /Lowered Expectations

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Phone posting! Tiny buttons! Fat fingers!

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        And quickly posting before taking my youngest to school.

  2. Festus

    “Winston’s Mom Does the Links” and does she ever!

    • Winston's Mom

      Yeah, Thats right!

      • Festus

        Finally! That was a tee-ball.

  3. Count Potato

    They put a warning back when Sesame Street was released on DVD years ago, that it wasn’t suitable for children.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well its about a pimp, a smack addict, two best friends in which one is probably a serial killer, a homeless guy that wants to gut you any time you turn your back and a bunch of other things.

      • Winston's Mom

        You leave Trashmrsterer alone!

      • Winston's Mom

        You leave um…yourself alone.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Well, with your prices going up like they have, I can’t make any promises.

      • AlexinCT

        WUT?

        A $2 ho should NOT be asking for shree-fiddy!

      • Winston's Mom

        Its called inflation.

      • But Enough About Me. Why? Why not?

        It’s called inflation.

        And it’s back, baby!

      • AlexinCT

        You need deflation to happen after release, right?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        For that kind of money, I expect some pumping followed by trickle-down of the magic multiplier.

      • Count Potato

        I’ve never seen it, but there was a pimp? Offhand, I know there was someone with an eating disorder, and a giant bird who had a friend only he could see.

      • Agent Cooper

        Bob. Bob was the pimp. People probably thought Gordon was, but he was the NARC.

      • db

        Who the hell was Bob?

      • AlexinCT

        Like the link?

      • invisible finger

        Mr. Hooper’s store was only a money laundering front.

      • Festus

        Oscar the Grouch ran the whole operation under the cover of being a “sanitation” company. Everyone knows that.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Definitely, he was extorting the landlord to take the contract with his totally legitimate sanitation company.

      • Count Potato

        LOL

    • Rat on a train

      For the older episodes or only for the newer ones?

      • Count Potato

        The older ones, as far as I can remember.

      • Festus

        I will give them credit though, When I was wee it was the first time that I’d ever seen black people on TV who were not just trying to entertain me. Sesame Street got it right in so many ways. I don’t think I remember seeing a black person in the wild until I was 7-8 years old. Hell that was about the first time that I met my first ((()))). We were raised to celebrate our differences, not draw lines in the sand. I still remember getting cuffed by my Dad when I pointed at a “Hippy”.

      • l0b0t

        Festus, My Name Is You. This is why the Obama years make me so blitheringly angry. We were on the right track, race riots had petered out by the mid-’90s, the old-guard race hustlers and poverty pimps had settled into a comfortable graft, social opprobrium saw the use of racial epithets disappear from polite company… we were all on our way to being “just folks”. Then those power hungry, Alinskyite grievance mongers had to go fuck it all up.

        BONUS for our contingent in Seward’s Folly – https://youtu.be/AdqFuI9XJj4

  4. rhywun

    “We really have an environment in this building where there is never a reason where a kid has to take their mask off,” he said.

    Thank God.

    ? stay safe ❣️

    • invisible finger

      Yeah, the guy is actually proud of how unhealthy his school building is.

  5. invisible finger

    “HIV, the virus that was later discovered to cause AIDS…”

    Another assertion that hasn’t actually been scientifically proven. But we can thank AIDS for the birth of shitty PCR tests used for misdiagnosis.

    • Count Potato

      “Another assertion that hasn’t actually been scientifically proven.”

      It hasn’t?

      • DEG

        I remember some speculation early on that AZT and other drugs used to treat HIV infected patients actually caused some of the symptoms associated with AIDS.

        I also remember a doctor, Duesberg I think his name was, who injected himself with HIV to show that HIV didn’t cause AIDS. I don’t remember hearing much about how that worked out.

        I’d go look it up, but I actually need to get some work done for work.

  6. Count Potato

    ““It takes a sophisticated operator to lie this effectively, to take the central problem of American life, which is the agonizing death of our middle class, and cover it with a smokescreen of manufactured race hatred so that no one even realizes it’s happening. You’d really need to be a – well, as CNN would put it – a disinformation network to pull that off. And of course, the irony is because everything is irony is that CNN itself has become a disinformation network, more powerful than QAnon and far more destructive.””

    https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/02/24/tucker-carlson-strikes-gold-triggers-cnn-into-proving-his-point-after-segment-on-disinformation-watch-n332020

    • AlexinCT

      The fact that these people at CNN and other propaganda stations feel no fear of so easily being exposed, tells me that they know the bulk of the idiots that watch them will believe their lies – even after they are disproved – because it is validation of the stupid shit they want to believe is real. Solipsism at its worse.

      • juris imprudent

        This is the problem – the people that continue to slurp up that CNN dreck. Accountability isn’t just a top-down concept.

    • Winston's Mom

      I’m doing the links here you spiral cut ass wipe.

      • AlexinCT

        I like it when you talk all dominatrix though and dirty maam!

  7. Cy Esquire

    Buenos dias banditos!

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Benioff is dumber than Gates, and that’s saying something.

  9. rhywun

    Can you imagine all the skeletons in Benioff’s closet? You don’t pile on the wokeness as thick as he does without good reason.

    • juris imprudent

      So you think he taught Harvey Weinstein everything he knew?

      • AlexinCT

        At a minimum they exchanged ideas for how to really get creepy…

    • KromulentKristen

      I am certain he’s a very dirty dealer. The way Salesforce stormed into the State Dept (interestingly just after a couple of White House goons were palmed off on us) was a sight to behold. Suddenly we were told we would be using Salesforce. But, like, for what? CRM should not be a “thing” in government. We had no use for the product.

      • db

        Wow, that’s…that should be a subject of some sort of inquest, I’d think.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Salesforce has branched out beyond CRM, sadly. My company is so excited to expand it to task and workforce management. Meanwhile decrying the exorbitant maintenance fees and lock-in of legacy software… but this is different.

      • KromulentKristen

        At the time it was a CRM software and the team I was on was providing O&M web services. Govt isn’t allowed to collect the kind of data that would necessitate that kind of tool, especially when it comes to private citizens & informal web forms. It was interesting because we started to see all these “programs” with all these contact info collection forms. I don’t know what the game is, but they’re collecting info from, for example, young, wealthy Africans: https://yali.state.gov/

        Something was very sus about all this.

        Anyhoo, that was back in the late Aughts.

      • juris imprudent

        A project office in Army was going to use it – for what I have no idea and I switched out of there before they got into implementation.

      • C. Anacreon

        One of my friends was a high school classmate of Benioff. Says Benioff was “kind of a dick” back then. Go figure.

    • Rat on a train

      We need a new war. It’s been a few years since we started one. It’s getting dull dealing with the ones we’re in. Let’s put those on the back burner for a decade or so. Where can we go that is messed up, but not messed up enough?

      • Tundra

        They are going to be quite busy in Iran, Syria, and several countries in Africa. We will never change until the empire implodes.

      • Animal

        Hong Kong?

      • Count Potato

        “We need a new war.”

        Probably the main reason the deep state was against Trump.

      • juris imprudent

        Can you imagine if Trump had been a real hardass? Had he put someone fierce in charge of rooting out the shit that went on and punishing the people responsible? A real fascist would’ve had these people lined up in front of a firing squad; Trump didn’t even fire them. What a fucking joke.

      • Chipwooder

        Let’s have a war
        So you can go and die
        Let’s have a war
        We can all use the money
        Let’s have a war
        We need the space
        Let’s have a war
        Clean out this place

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Don’t forget to sell the rights to the networks

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It’s already started, and this time it’s a little closer to home.

      • Rat on a train

        That does answer my last question.

      • juris imprudent

        I will tell you this may also be the only place our military isn’t going to get their asses handed to them, and it’s only going to get worse as the quality of the officer corps is further reduced. We’ve spent far too much time fighting stupid irregulars to ever be able to deal well (at first) with a quality military force.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        We could stick our dick in the India-Pakistan thing. Messing around in a conflict between two nuclear-capable countries would really liven things up.

  10. Rebel Scum

    An image shows students at a school in Wenatchee, Washington State socially distanced inside what look like human tents as they perform in a band.

    This is fucking retarded. But it is not quite as retarded as the image I saw of masked kids in the school band playing…wind instruments.

    • Festus

      They just need to learn how to play them out of their asses. Embouchure guaranteed!

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, the sign at Taco Bell says $13.50/hr.

    Good help is hard to find.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Coincidentally, the cost of their food far exceeded the already low quality years ago. And nevermind the…intestinal issues afterwards. Not worth it, in every sense of the word.

      • Mad Scientist

        Taco Bell performs miracles every day. They deserve a sainthood.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ?

      • Mad Scientist

        Taco Bell takes things that aren’t food and turns them into food. That piker Jesus started out with some fish and made more fish and people acted like it was a big deal. He had nothing on the miracles performed at Taco Bell locations around the globe every day.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Heh, gotcha.

      • Swiss Servator

        Hey, friendo….I don’t see Taco Bell turning water into high quality wine!

      • straffinrun

        They turn it into Yoo-hoo.

      • Mad Scientist

        The best cup of Mountain Dew on the planet is served at Taco Bell soda fountains.

      • Rat on a train

        The government won’t give them an alcoholic beverage license.

      • Nephilium

        How soon we forget.

      • But Enough About Me. Why? Why not?

        It takes the human body somewhere between 12 and 24 hours to turn perfectly good raw materials into feces. Taco Bell does it in under 2.

      • Animal

        Well, if you’re going to be anything, you should be efficient.

  12. Agent Cooper

    “We’ve engaged with the RNC to communicate that no messages on behalf of President Trump and no messages questioning the validity or integrity of the election are allowed on our platform under the guidelines that they may incite violence given the escalated conditions in the United States right now.”

    Dear Trump Supporters,

    FOAD

    Love,

    Republican National Committee

    • straffinrun

      Don’t complain about the Kabuki.

      • Agent Cooper

        Where do they think 74 million voters will go? The RNC is in fuck-around-and-find-out mode.

        I forsee potentially Trump supporters not voting at all, Republicans losing races, but widespread disobedience as people no longer think the government is legitimate. This will not end well, but the asshats at Salesforce (of all fucking places … I can guarantee militias aren’t organizing on Salesfarce) can’t see that.

      • straffinrun

        The people seeing government as illegitimate was the inevitable ending.

      • Animal

        I think the government being illegitimate was the inevitable ending.

      • Festus

        ^This right here!

      • Plisade

        Illegitimate gubmint is the alpha and the omega.

      • straffinrun

        Smile.

      • R C Dean

        I’m pondering what it means for a government to be “legitimate”. May be a post in that.

      • Plisade

        Hmmm…

        1. Gubmint is created on private property by consent of the owners and tenants.
        2. Those who initially don’t or no longer consent to be governed on that property are free to leave, or stay and receive only those gubmint services allowed by the gubmint while still having to obey… dammit, can’t make it work.
        3. Children are citizens by default until they reach the age of consent. If they don’t consent, see #2.
        4. People who wish to immigrate must consent to be governed, or see #2.

      • juris imprudent

        Except property rights exist as a govt/social construct. So no one really owns property outside of a legal system that recognizes those rights – and legal systems don’t just float around in the aether.

      • R C Dean

        I’m a minarchist. I think there can be a legitimate government. But I haven’t really articulated what that would mean, at least not beyond the usual soundbites.

      • Plisade

        Yup. I’d thought of that, and got stuck on item 2 and where the right to force unwilling people to comply would come from. Anarchy it is!

      • juris imprudent

        Trump supporters not voting at all

        That would be my neighbor – never voted before Trump and now has no plans to vote ever again. The Republicans aren’t going to change his mind no matter what they do, so why do anything in attempt to win him back?

    • Drake

      Unless those guidelines were in the original contract, Salesforce will be losing the lawsuit.

      The bifurcation of the economy continues – some software company will come along offering the same service without the political correctness.

      • Agent Cooper

        But Mastercard and BoA won’t process their payments?

    • Count Potato

      “may incite violence”

      That’s excuse for everything now.

  13. Festus

    Triggly-Puff is Miss Piggy. Prove me wrong.

    • Agent Cooper

      Miss Piggy, despite her weight problems and temper issue, has a certain je ne sais quoi. And actually very pretty eyes.

      • Winston's Mom

        She’s one of those confident fatties certain sets of men like. And people think they’re not represented in the media, well you know what? Muppets are media.

      • Festus

        Good answer both but I still can’t abide fat chicks. Mostly.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Yesterday, somebody linked a story about hoe long the cooties can lie in wait on clothing. But not on masks, I guess.

    Totally different.

    • Agent Cooper

      I still can’t determine if that study was done in the dark like the others, where the presence of UV light of some sort would kill off the virus.

      • Nephilium

        Democracy COVID dies in darkness?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Probably and they used a model virus, so its most likely a bs study for some sweet grant money.

    • Nephilium

      Masks have magic totemic powers, that’s why they have ear straps. For the magic.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Nah, President Chance the Gardener will sign an EO saying a new mask must be worn everyday in order to mitigate the danger of Commie Cough lingering on fabrics. The new masks will be designed to change colors after an arbitrary number exhales into it. If caught with an expired mask out in public, two weeks of involuntarily quarantine. No mask at all in public and you’re summarily executed, to save lives.

      • Mad Scientist

        The masks, manufactured by a Chinese company partially owned by Hunter Biden, will only cost $35 each, and there will be government programs to help the poor pay for them.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Now we’re getting somewhere!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Free bacteria traps for the poor! American made, no less.

        My heart swells with patriotism. What’s that? Patriotism is illegal now? Nevermind then.

      • Drake

        You and your Big Mask conspiracy theories!

  15. Rebel Scum

    A myth can be killed with evidence. But a zombie must be decapitated. His comparison is as dumb as the myth that minimum wage does not kill job creation.

    • UnCivilServant

      Hold on, hold on, are we talking voodoo zombies, magically reanimated corpses, or viral necrophagy?

    • Rat on a train

      voodoo economics

  16. Count Potato

    “On July 14, both Buchanan’s column and its excerpt of Fauci’s article were entered into the congressional record along with moralizing commentary that assigned blame for the disease to homosexual establishments and gatherings. Unfounded fears of transmission risk through simple contact, and accompanying social ostracization of the disease’s victims, became one of the most notorious and harmful missteps of the entire AIDS crisis.”

    That’s it. He’s cancelled.

    • Trigger Hippie

      About fucking time.

      It’s always amusing to see people that go along with authoritarianism get thrown to the wolves once they are no longer useful.

      • juris imprudent

        I am your authority figure – you can’t devour me!

        [oh, damn]

  17. Count Potato

    “Create your own damn tech industry”

    FWIW, I think that would require creating your own monetary system.

    • Cy Esquire

      They’ll just skin suit it or kill it through their freshly minted government/corportacracy. All they have to do is yell, Terrorist, Racist or some such bullshit.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The skin suiting is inevitable once your company gets big enough to be relevant. Good luck hiring an HR administrator who isn’t a woke commie. Good luck getting a legal department set up that isn’t infested with woke progs. Good luck getting a large amount of coding talent without progs infesting your company.

      • Drake

        When I become a millionaire entrepreneur, the “Personnel” Department will do the recruiting.

      • Gustave Lytton

        ^^ this

        Just like good luck hiring government relations employees who will work to minimize government entanglement of your company and industry.

      • CPRM

        Why would they do that when they can entangle your competitor as well?

      • R C Dean

        Good luck getting a legal department set up that isn’t infested with woke progs.

        Hey now!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We have our own diversity department within legal/operations. We have a company wide diversity department, but CLO doesn’t think they do enough, so we have a supplemental diversity department targeted just for us.

        Woker than HR.

      • R C Dean

        Have you thought about taking up subsistence farming?

      • juris imprudent

        The pay sucks but the working conditions are better?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        As a matter of fact, I dream about it daily.

        Seriously, it’s fascinating being on the inside and seeing them struggle to all out-woke one another. Thankfully, as I’ve been out on leave for a month, the distance has exposed how silly it all is. If they want to burn company resources on self-destruction, who am I to stand in their way? My check clears just as well either way. What got lost in the daily grind is the level of control I have over my situation. It doesn’t matter how many times they use the phrase “mandatory”, I can choose not to attend or to mute and minimize. It doesn’t matter how many emails they send, I can filter based on keywords.

        I hold all the cards. I can use up my benefits, bank the salary, all the while looking for the next step in my career. What’s the worst that happens, they fire me? Boo freakin’ hoo. Maybe next time I’ll find some honest work.

  18. Tundra

    Good morning, WM!

    In a just world this guy would be wearing a gimp suit in Cañon City, CO.

    I’d settle for just firing the little fucker.

    • KromulentKristen

      Did drugs fall out dat ass?

      • Count Potato

        The story is from 2018, but now it’s headline news.

    • Agent Cooper

      Best line from the cafeteria worker: “I don’t know if I believe in white privilege, but I believe in money privilege.”

    • Cy Esquire

      #believexer

    • AlexinCT

      The thing is that when you need to believe racism is rampant, like they needed people to believe cops are executing people of color in the thousands each year, you need to manufacture instances of that racism (or panic about the situation). My default position as soon as I hear about one of these horrible incidents of a poor victim of some form of “ism”, I assume that sooner than later we will find out this is a hoax.

      • R C Dean

        Indeed. The demand for racism far exceeds the supply.

  19. straffinrun

    I wanna see what dirty jobs Mike Rowe would do on Winston’s Mom. Also, if Winston’s Mom was a Ben & Jerry’s flavor, what would be the name?

    • Tejicano

      Friday night delight?

      • Nephilium

        Why Does It Burn when I Peach?

        Habanero and peach flavored.

    • invisible finger

      Cherryless Garcia?

    • Trigger Hippie

      Psyhilus after Sunset?

    • AlexinCT

      Eating Ass.

    • db

      Strawberry Cream Pie

    • Plisade

      Mustard Custard?

      • Ted S.

        I think you mean dolefully, not balefully.

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t you go bringing tropical fruit into this.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Milf Chocolate Creampie

    • juris imprudent

      Isn’t part of Rowe’s gig that he does the dirty job himself, just a little. Good luck pitching him on this one.

    • Cy Esquire

      If I was a her, I’d calmly walk away. Standing by the car was her first mistake. After watching the shit that happened all summer. I would quietly and calmly go find the first police officer to talk to, away from the scene and somewhere well lit.

      • Count Potato

        I’m guessing a powerful combination of drugs and twenty-something white girl privilege.

    • Chipwooder

      Wait a minute…..”sports car”? It’s a Charger.

      • CPRM

        Don’t let the cops know a charger is now a family sedan, or they’ll want to get real sports cars like the UAE.

      • KromulentKristen

        Brits, man. Top Gear had a “muscle car” show where one of the selections was a Cadillac.

      • UnCivilServant

        ???

        Caddies aren’t muscle cars. They’re supposed to be road dreadnoughts.

      • R C Dean

        The CTS-V coupe was a very legit muscle car. The current CT4-V, although incredibly blah in appearance, would probably also qualify, with a 550 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque Blacwing engine and a top speed over 180 mph.

    • invisible finger

      Why stop at “wealth of the country?” Why not the wealth of the world?

    • Ted S.

      I thought he had a pen and a phone.

    • Cy Esquire

      The guy had a super majority in the senate and house. Ok Barack, you play up that base with your bullshit.

      “I’d have changed the world, but I didn’t have enough power!”

      • juris imprudent

        Can’t you tell an attention junkie in need of a fix when you see one?

  20. Rebel Scum

    Actually you can fuck off and miss me with that nonsense.

    On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins stated that even after people have been vaccinated, “we don’t know exactly whether it’s still possible for that person to carry the virus. It might be, and until we have better data, then masks are still important.” And that on masks, “Even if we’re overdoing it, that’s fine. Better that than run the risk of infecting more people.”

    Collins said, “[I]t is still entirely possible for people to be out there in public who are infected with this virus and don’t know it. And the only way we’re going to keep such individuals, and it might be any of us, from spreading this is if they’re careful about wearing that mask. It’s not about protecting themselves as much as it is protecting everybody from them. Even after vaccination, we don’t know exactly whether it’s still possible for that person to carry the virus. It might be, and until we have better data, then masks are still important. I know people are tired of them. I’m tired of them too. But, at the same time, it’s a simple measure. It’s a life-saving medical device. Just put it on. Even if we’re overdoing it, that’s fine. Better that than run the risk of infecting more people.”

    Everyone is carrying several pathogens at all times and I am not going to pretend that the human immune system suddenly ceased to function, especially for a now endemic, mild flu strain.

    • invisible finger

      Everyone is carrying several BILLION pathogens at all times. It might even be trillions.

      The contradictions are proof of their incompetence – you should totally trust the vaccine and totally not trust the vaccine.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Saying we need to wear masks after a vaccine is some of the most unscientific shit I’ve ever heard.

      It’s openly stating that cloth diapers are more effective than a vaccine. What the fuck.

      • UnCivilServant

        Vaccination is invisible. You can’t shame and harass noncompliance as easily.

        Masks are highly visible.

        Obey! Obey!

  21. robc

    Baseball birthdays:
    HoFer Ron Santo (why did it take so fucking long?)
    Cesar Cedeno
    Paul O’Neill (no, the other one)
    Andy Pafko
    Shannon Stewart
    HoFer Monte Irvin (only 8 years in majors, starting at age 30 — he was a Negro Leaguer before that)

    Thats a pretty good list and there are another half dozen with double digit WAR.

    • invisible finger

      “why did it take so fucking long”

      Other players had a leg up on him.

      It always seemed to me that the more Santo campaigned for himself to be inducted the more he pissed off the writers.

      The only MLB foul ball I ever got at a game was hit by Ron Santo. (Off Ken Holtzman, Comiskey Park 1974.)

    • Jerms

      Robc—What MLB team do you root for? You do any fantasy BB?

      • robc

        Cincinnati. I grew up in Louisville during the 70s, so it was obvious.

        I did fantasy BB from 1992-2019. Same league. We finally shut down. I won once…in 1992. Sigh.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Aha, now I understand the Brooks Robinson hate.

      • robc

        That WS was just before my time.

        1975 was the first season I remember. So 1975-76 as a Reds fan is a damn good way to start off.

      • robc

        The Reds still have a 9 game World Series win streak intact. Game 7 in 1975, 4 game sweep in 1976, 4 game sweep in 1990.

      • robc

        Also what hate? I said he was better than Murray? How is that hate?

    • Swiss Servator

      “HoFer Ron Santo (why did it take so fucking long?)”

      Because he didn’t deserve it.

      The Collapse Cubs had how many of those never won squat guys in the HoF now?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    If you’re going to take that quack Foochy all the way to Canon City, the least you can do is toss him off the Royal Gorge bridge.

    Fly, Foochy. FLY!

  23. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE: He was the martyred face of the Capitol riot but now mother of hero cop Brian Sicknick says she believes her son died of a fatal stroke – not a fire extinguisher to the head – while authorities won’t say a word

    The mother of the US Capitol police officer who died following the riot on January 6 believes that her son succumbed to a fatal stroke – that he was not bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher as reported.

    Yet more than one month after Officer Brian Sicknick’s death on January 7, she has admitted that they are still in the dark as to what exactly caused that catastrophic episode.

    Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com Gladys Sicknick, 74, was unequivocal in her assertion that Officer Brian Sicknick was not struck on the head and that as far as the family knows her son had a fatal stroke.
    She said, ‘He wasn’t hit on the head no. We think he had a stroke, but we don’t know anything for sure.

    ‘We’d love to know what happened.’

    Because, while politicians have grandstanded and rushed to judgment no one has yet given the family the answers they need.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9275449/Mom-Capitol-police-officer-Brian-Sicknick-believes-died-stroke.html

    • rhywun

      “Sorry, ma’am, we’re not done using your son as a political football yet.”

      Disgusting.

      • Cy Esquire

        Mam, your son is getting the best grave dancers money can buy.

      • Swiss Servator

        Professional mourners, a massive pyre of myrrh and frankincense!

    • AlexinCT

      The agenda against the people falsely accused of this guy’s death has not yet yielded the results the people that are dancing on his grave want, so until then, the truth can’t be allowed to come out…

      • Count Potato

        Almost no facts about the event have come out.

    • Rebel Scum

      fatal stroke – not a fire extinguisher to the head

      Fatal stroke of the fire extinguisher…

      while authorities won’t say a word

      They already have. Ask the medical examiner.

      • Count Potato

        That hasn’t been released.

    • The Other Kevin

      Is that fire extinguisher story some of that “disinformation” I keep hearing about? The kind of thing that should get a network shut down?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Sorry, they have the “get out of disinformation free” card because they slobber on the right (read left) knobs.

  24. straffinrun

    My wife is more angry at me than yours is.

    • Tundra

      My wife isn’t angry with you at all.

      • Mad Scientist

        Mine is, a little bit. But she says Straff can make it up to her with some flowers and a card.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t have a wife.

      • Nephilium

        /joins UCS in the wife-less club

      • AlexinCT

        I tried for 23 years… Happy member of that club now…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Love is grand…”

      • juris imprudent

        You’re going to give Winston’s Mom the vapors.

      • straffinrun

        No, your wife is pleased with me.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Hands straff a tanto

      • straffinrun

        A new car? Sweet. Kind of a piece of shit, though.

    • Festus

      Probably not.

    • Drake

      I do my utmost these days to not have any “news” on around my wife. Pretty much any of it triggers her now.

      • juris imprudent

        We’re the reverse of that – my wife will watch the news until I’m there, then she changes it because she doesn’t like to hear me dissect their lies.

      • Drake

        I’ve accepted that they are all liars. Now that she sees it, she gets super-offended at being lied to.

  25. Agent Cooper

    I’d like to see Rand Paul stand before the DC fence, and beckon “Mr. Biden, tear down this wall!”

    • Drake

      A candle-light vigil would be perfect.

      • Festus

        Tiki torches.

    • Rat on a train

      The Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart is there to protect the people.

      • R C Dean

        You mean, its there to keep Congress caged up?

      • juris imprudent

        When do we cut off the water and power?

    • Cy Esquire

      I think it’d be better if there were a protest where the people showed up, tore it down and went home. It’s a show of dominance. It’s there only because they want it to be, nothing more. Fucking cowards.

      • Festus

        Yeah but who the fuck wants to be shot down in cold blood when the PTB seem to really mean it? It’s not like you were burning down some random Wendy’s or something. You need to have standing, nowadays.

  26. CPRM

    “Only 1 in 10 people that would ‘benefit’ from the minimum wage…” Yeah, that’s because a lot of lower middle class people in ‘fly-over’ country live well on wages under $15 an hour, thanks for trying to ruin that for us. So now you’ve reduced those people to the bottom rung, they want to be paid better than a 15yr old bag boy, so they demand more, while at the same time that $15 an hour raises the price of groceries…

    • Tejicano

      “Only 1 in 10 people that would ‘benefit’ from the minimum wage…”

      Mostly the new wave of undocumented aliens who pick up all the jobs which can’t be staffed at the cost of a minimum wage worker. And it wouldn’t be long before those would be 1 in 10.

    • Agent Cooper

      My son makes over $10/hour at his first job. There is an effective minimum wage that is different than the legal one.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        YeH, I haven’t seen any jobs that are minimum wage in years.

        Even McD, Kroger, and the rest of the traditional entry level jobs all seem to be well above $7.25/hour.

        All I know is that the kids who worked at Kroger for a couple of years and worked their way to a raise or two are about to get fucked. Their $13/hour isn’t going to go up by the same amount (in dollars or percentage) as those making the w try level $9.25 or whatever the average starting wage is for entry level jobs. They’re getting a $2 raise, being cut, or effectively demoted back to entry level work after having worked up to something better.

    • Gender Traitor

      “While small businesses are left standing, our work is not done.”

      • rhywun

        It’s almost like the government is in cahoots with Amazon. Nah, that’s crazy.

  27. DEG

    I saw Q’s news on the last thread long after the thread died. It’s good to here q-ette and Mrs. Q are doing well. That is quite a ride.

    The article quotes Wenatchee Principal Eric Anderson, who celebrates the fact that the school environment has been carefully tailored to ensure that students never remove their face coverings.

    This is fucking insanity.

    “Disney Warns Viewers That The Muppet Show Is From A Different Era When Comedy Was Culturally Acceptable,”

    I like the Bee.

    We have to wonder if we were cut off because we caught some Big Tech executives telling the truth recently and exposed that truth to the public.

    Project Veritas next wonders if water is wet.

    • UnCivilServant

      The water isn’t wet. Whatever the water is on is wet.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Rep. Eric Swalwell
    @RepSwalwell

    I represent one of the largest Indian-American districts in U.S. How do I look at what’s happening to @neeratanden and tell little girls of South Asian descent that they’ll have the same opportunities in life as white men? The answer: I can’t. And that’s a shame.

    Tell them to not be cuntes and they will be fine.

    • hayeksplosives

      Dear little girl.

      You will never be able to write your name in the snow with your pee.

      However if you study a real science you might be making a 6 figure salary in a few years time.

      Equally ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Vive la difference!

      • Rat on a train

        I don’t know if it will work, but you can try using a Shenis: https://youtu.be/eWEpBhQk0tA

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh good grief.

      • UnCivilServant

        People make too many assumptions about yellow snow writing and phrase it in such a way that doesn’t require direct from urethra writing. So use of an external reservoir and applicator would permit anyone to attempt to write their name using excrement.

    • AlexinCT

      Anyone see the tweet from Mark Ashworth about Swalwell’s penchant for giving “Asian girls” opportunities (to spy on the US)?

      • R C Dean

        Indeed. What I believe the kids call a “sick burn”.

    • mrfamous

      Still waiting for Swalwell’s obviously necessary resignation. At any other point in our history he’d be _long_ gone.

    • kbolino

      As we were told during Kavanaugh’s confirmation circus, nobody is entitled to get appointed just because they’re nominated.

  29. hayeksplosives

    “ with fewer skills than a Keynesian at Princeton”

    Oh, snap!

    That’s going to leave a mark.

  30. Rebel Scum

    He can start by dropping the charges bc they are horseshit and charging the former prosecutor for tampering with evidence.

    Even though St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was ousted as the prosecutor overseeing the case against Mark and Patricia McCloskey last year, the couple still faces charges of unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence. Now, a former U.S. Attorney has been appointed as a special prosecutor to oversee the case, and he’s promising to take a new look at all of the evidence in question.

    [Richard] Callahan said Wednesday from his Jefferson City home that he’s no stranger to prosecuting politically charged cases and will approach this one no differently. He said he stepped down last week from his post as a senior judge in Cole County to accept the special appointment.

    “I am going to approach it the same way I’ve done anything in the last 49 years — start with a blank slate, follow the evidence and see where it takes me,” said Callahan, who is 73.

  31. Rebel Scum

    No. Next question.

    Would you buy a gun that decided when it was okay for you to pull the trigger? Three researchers in New York say the technology is workable, but on today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we take a closer look at their idea and some of the inherent issues that come with incorporating artificial intelligence into a firearm.

    You can read the research paper produced by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, and Michael Giancola in its entirety here, but their basic idea is to incorporate AI technology into a smart gun that would determine when it’s ethical to pull the trigger. If the artificial intelligence doesn’t see a need for a gun to be used in a particular circumstance, then it would simply lock the firearm and render it useless to even authorized users.

    • Chipwooder

      There’s some money being flushed down the toilet.

    • db

      Would a police department buy a gun that decided when it was ok for officers to pull the trigger?

      Would a military force buy a gun that decided when it was ok for soldiers to pull the trigger?

      • kbolino

        Given the choice on a level playing field, neither.

        Given the right incentives set up by higher levels of the bureaucracy above them, both.

        Better question, maybe: would a politician let his or her bodyguards use only such guns?

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’m not Michael J Caboose and I don’t need Freckles.

      “Is that Church?!”

      *pulls trigger, out flies confetti accompanied with a party-horn sound effect*

    • Count Potato

      I don’t even like safeties.

      • db

        Wheelgun fan, eh?

      • Ted S.

        Why do you prefer cornerbacks?

      • Count Potato

        LOL

      • Animal

        The only safety that you should depend on is the one between your ears.

      • db

        Yup

      • R C Dean

        While that is indeed the primary safety, I gotta admit having a mechanical safety is a good backup when carrying Condition 1.

      • Rebel Scum

        I like a thumb safety.

      • juris imprudent

        Troy Polamalu’s hair haz a sad.

    • ruodberht

      Isn’t that a plot element of the anime Psycho Pass?

  32. Count Potato

    “Poll: Nearly 16% of Generation Z Identify as LGBT”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/24/poll-nearly-16-of-generation-z-identify-as-lgbt/

    “Journalist Glenn Greenwald was called “transphobic” for pointing out that although a new Gallup survey shows a surge in the number of Americans identifying as LGBT, almost all of the increase comes from those identifying as trans or bi, not gay or lesbian.”

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/glenn-greenwald-called-transphobic-for-commenting-on-results-of-gallup-lgbt-survey/

    • Chipwooder

      IOW, it’s a fashion. You can go right on your merry way with the opposite sex, but gain some victim cred by declaring yourself bi or trans. It’s not remotely as much of a commitment as being an actual homosexual.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Beat me to it.

      • Rat on a train

        Claiming bisexuality requires the least commitment.

        A: I’ve been bisexual for decades.
        B: How many time have you been in a relationship with a man or had sex with another man.
        A: There was this time when two of us had sex with the same girl.

      • Gender Traitor

        And doubles your chances of a date on Saturday night./paraphrasing Woody Allen, IIRC

      • Festus

        And here I thought that “flares” was just a stupid fad.

    • Trigger Hippie

      More like 10-13 percent of Gen Z are social signaling and are playing make believe in order to be “cool”.

    • Mad Scientist

      Winston’s Mom has been buysexual for decades.

      • limey

        Haaaaaaaaa

    • limey

      They are GaBioN, which means they are gay, bisexual, or neither, and also dumb as a big old basket of rocks.

      Not my finest work.

  33. Rebel Scum

    Chad Pergram
    @ChadPergram

    15) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has said not to expect any form of State of the Union address from President Biden until the COVID bill is done. So it’s possible State of the Union would then come in mid-March – in whatever form it takes.

    They have to get his drug regimen correct for him to even get through it. Or they are going to 25th amendment him before then.

    • Drake

      Saw him mumbling and slurring his way through a speech with the Twink in the North yesterday. I’m guessing it would take a dozen shots before I was that incoherent.

    • Pope Jimbo

      They are going to get back to simply sending a letter to Congress. Which would actually be a wild improvement.

      • R C Dean

        I would support that. Of course, as soon a Harris takes the Big Chair, we would be back to the quasi-imperial spectacle.

      • Tejicano

        It just says “Coming soon”.

        So I guess he’s off camera sniffing some eleven-year-old’s hair?

  34. straffinrun

    Heads up. I jerked off in the hand sanitizer.

    • Tundra

      Cool. I never use it, anyway.

      • Drake

        Same – that shit makes my hands really dry.

      • AlexinCT

        Staff splooge has a drying effect?

    • Pope Jimbo

      You are supposed to jerk off in the hand lotion!

      It is called the Circle of Life.

      • Ted S.

        It jerks off in the lotion or it gets the hose?

    • Cy Esquire

      Is that why your wife is so thirsty?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Moisturizing sanitizer now? I hope you’re charging extra.

    • Festus

      Since all of this bullshit began I have not once used hand sanitizer. Now I know why.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Neera Tanden is being targetted because she is a “person of color” and not because she is a nakedly partisan cunt.

    Keep telling yourselves that, CNN.

    • AlexinCT

      When you accuse someone of being an insane marxist you have to be doing that because you have evil beliefs & motives!…..

      /morons

    • limey

      And yet she’s a pussycat in comparison with that Becerra fellow.

  36. Pope Jimbo

    For $15 I can get a guy that also does windows instead of some punk ass that stares at his phone all day.

    You are a horrible business woman Winston’s Mom! You need to flip flop it on them

    • AlexinCT

      Shit.. people are just fucking idiots…

      We need an extinction level event to deal with these evil capitalists!

  37. db

    Make good on your bullshit “but where will they get their food/oil/trucking/unclogged toilets or whatever industry social cucks dominate” threats

    This.

    1. Most farmers don’t sell their produce to the end user. They have no control where it goes. So unless there is a change to a 100% farmers’ market in the US, there is no interrupting the supply of food to cities, barring a complete and total strike.

    2. The farm conglomerates will prioritize food delivery to wherever they can get paid.

    3. There aren’t enough independent plumbers out there to make a real dent in the ability of city dwellers to get service. Besides, where do you think the plumbers live, anyway? They’re not living 2 or 3 hours away from the cities, they live within a reasonable radius to where their clients are. So, interrupting the food supply hurts the plumbers too.

    4. The big-businessification of evereything pretty much precludes the whole “general strike by small, rural, conservative producers” angle.

  38. Gustave Lytton

    Oh yay, my password expires in 9 days. Almost two weeks of reminders every time I login or unlock my work computer. Fuck me.

    • Festus

      I feel you. Corporate made me sign into Google. Now I am on all the lists.

    • Nephilium

      I’m in the same boat, and for once I’m having issues getting my two domain passwords to match (apparently they have different historic requirements which I’ve bumped into). So I may have to suffer through two unrelated domain passwords for a while.

      • CPRM

        I have two separate passwords for two separate systems I have to log into. The renewal is SUPPOSED to line up so you can have them reset at the same time. But, they don’t.

      • Nephilium

        My renews are off by ~14 days, but you can always manually change your password. Which I do, probably next week I’ll work on changing them both to at least be similar again.

    • R C Dean

      I’ve got two days. The way our company phones are configured, there is a very particular sequence you have to use with the phone and the computer to reset the password without having your phone hammer the network with the old password and get you locked out.

  39. Cy Esquire

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-hangs-sign-mocking-congressional-neighbor-s-n1258821

    WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., placed a sign outside her office Wednesday mocking Democratic Rep. Marie Newman, whose office sits across the hall, after Newman hung a transgender pride flag next to her door in protest over Greene’s opposition to a LGBTQ rights bill.

    Newman, who has a transgender daughter, tweeted a video of herself putting up the flag Wednesday after she said Greene tried to block the Equality Act on the House floor “because she believes prohibiting discrimination against trans Americans is ‘disgusting, immoral, and evil.’”

    “Thought we’d put up our Transgender flag so she can look at it every time she opens her door,” Newman, of Illinois, wrote in the tweet.

    In response, Greene tweeted her own video showing her putting up a large sign that says, “There are TWO genders: MALE & FEMALE. “Trust The Science.””

    • Festus

      Fucking troll culture continues apace.

    • Count Potato

      So retard fight.

    • CPRM

      Why does everyone have to be human trash?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        They always have been. They are just not hiding it anymore. I am looking forward to them caning each other in the Senate. I’ll make the popcorn.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I just love paying these people whatever they get paid so they can play IRL Twitter. Then again when they’re wasting time on shit like this they’re eating into their efforts to do real damage so maybe it’s a win.

    • Agent Cooper

      It’s middle school.

    • EvilSheldon

      What professionalism. Such decorum. Government service certainly attracts the best and the brightest.

      *sigh* We are being governed by junior high school mean girls.

    • straffinrun

      Newman, who has a transgender daughter

      After all this time, I still don’t know if that means she has a cock or not.

      • CPRM

        Neither does Newman, but it gets votes!

      • Count Potato

        Depends if she is pre-op or post-op.

      • Gustave Lytton

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

  40. Festus

    So Cuomo the Greater is apparently a creep of the first order. Huh. Never saw that one coming.

  41. Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

    It’s Florence, not Canon City, read a map,

    • Animal

      Well, to be fair: The Imperial Supermax is in Florence.

      The Colorado Department of Corrections operates six facilities in Canon City: the Arrowhead Correctional Center, the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (medium security), the Centennial Correctional Facility (maximum security) the Four Mile Correctional Facility, the Fremont Correctional Facility and the Skyline Correctional Center. I think all of them are basically part of the same complex.

      So, Florence – Imperial, Canon City – State.

      • db

        wow that’s a lot of prisons for one area.

      • CPRM

        But, if they get out, where are they gonna go? They don’t have the right ski-boots to fit-in in Aspen…

      • Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

        I lived on Greenwood ave. and could throw a rock at Old Max prison, I know Canon/Florence very well, many friends work at Supermax,

    • Winston's Mom

      It’s Florence, not Canon City, read a map,

      I was never in-residence, when did they let you out?

      • Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

        97′ never going back again…….

  42. The Late P Brooks

    CNN headline:

    “What Mitt Romney gets exactly right about Donald Trump.”

    That’s a short article, I bet.

    • Rat on a train

      Well, he did spell his name correctly.

  43. Rebel Scum

    Brian Stelter
    @brianstelter

    Tucker could’ve just asked his colleagues… Fox’s website has a QAnon explainer…

    Thanks for proving his point.

  44. Festus

    Out for tonight. Perogies and sullen Wife await. Make the best of it!

    • Old Man With Candy

      Pierogies!

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Wait, what?

    The outsized role the centrists will play in Biden’s efforts in Congress have earned them both the attention — and, in some instances, the private ire — of White House officials, who are loathe to appear beholden to a small group of lawmakers but have almost no room for error on close votes.

    It’s centrists who are blocking Middle-of-the-Road-Joe’s agenda?

      • Cowboy

        Good fishing, too. Used to have some land in Rockport. Got out a month or 2 before Harvey wrecked everything. Good timing for me, but shame what happened to such a nice place.

    • limey

      If I kick in a buck can I sleep in the barn?

      • Cy Esquire

        Those bluffs on the snake river side would be some GORGEOUS home sites.

      • R C Dean

        I’d be surprised if you were allowed to build on those bluffs where the house would be visible from the river.

      • Cy Esquire

        I was never a fan of the “wild river act” but I thought it stopped on the Columbia, off down a rabbit hole I go!

      • R C Dean

        Any effect on private lands would be through state or local zoning.

        And?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Further downriver in the Gorge is the Columbia Gorge Scenic Area governed by yet another federal law and bistate commission, which explicitly has teeth unlike that one.

      • Cy Esquire

        Q: What restrictions apply to private residences, farm buildings and other
        buildings? Will landowners lose any use or development rights?
        A: No restrictions to private lands may be applied under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
        Comprehensive River Management Plans may establish goals for new construction
        consistent with classification. There is a wide range of uses compatible with these
        classifications so long as the overall values and character of the river corridor is
        maintained. Any effect on private lands would be through state or local zoning. Federal
        acquisition of lands or development rights would require landowner compensation.
        Q: What if a proposed development on private land is clearly incompatible
        with wild and scenic river designation, classification, or management
        objectives?
        A: The government typically provides technical assistance to find ways to alleviate or
        mitigate the actual or potential threat(s). Purchasing a partial right (easement) or the
        property in fee title is usually the last resort. If an easement is purchased, the owner
        would sell certain development rights and receive a payment, yet retain title to the land.
        Q: Can the private landowner sell land within the wild and scenic river
        corridor after designation?
        A: Yes. The ability of the owner to buy, sell, donate or leave property to heirs is
        unaffected by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Landowners who sell should inform the
        new owner of any easement transferred with the title.

    • robc

      Neither of those links are in Wyoming.

      • Cy Esquire

        TDIL: Wyoming has no income tax. Gracias.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Sinema is newer to the role and, because she is guarded in her public appearances, has proved something of an enigma for officials trying to ascertain her motives or demands.
    “She comes at things from policy,” one White House adviser said regarding Sinema’s unwillingness to say how she’ll vote on Tanden’s nomination. “She’s not as judgmental about personal things.”

    Well, I never!

    • db

      I wonder if any members of Congress ask their constituents whether they should vote to confirm any particular candidate?

      • UnCivilServant

        Sure they do.

        Wait, are you mistaking the voters for their constituents?

      • db

        Oh, right, I forgot they determine their positions by consulting their shareholders first.

  47. Rebel Scum

    Some people are more essential than others.

    A fund of $570 million will be set aside for federal employees who can’t work due to having COVID, symptoms of COVID, or are caring for someone with the virus. The kicker, however, is that the sick time can also be applied to federal employees who must stay home with their children because the kids’ school is being conducted online. The federal employee can also use the sick time if the child has the option of virtual learning. Yes, that’s right. Optional online learning.

    The funds are available to a federal employee who “is caring for a son or daughter of such employee if the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, if the school of such son or daughter requires or makes optional a virtual learning instruction model or requires or makes optional a hybrid of in-person and virtual learning instruction models, or the child care provider of such son or daughter is unavailable, due to COVID–19 precautions,” page 306 of the bill states.

    • Cy Esquire

      Leeches gotta leech. They don’t know how else to survive. I’m willing to bet the time counts towards their pensions and retirements too. The more I think about it the more my blood boils. I guess the one saving grace is they may not be screwing over some poor schmuck somewhere because they’re too busy sitting at home. It’s like a really strange extortion racket.

    • CPRM

      son or daughter

      Fucking transphobia is engrained in the system!

      …page 306 of the bill states.

      I don’t know if I’ve ever read a book that long.

    • Idle Hands

      They can pull out up to 21k per employee.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    [Blah blah blah] page 306 of the bill states.

    There’s your trouble.

    Ten pages, max, including title page and index.

    • Drake

      Require all bills to be read out loud in both chambers. Any member who isn’t present for the full reading is disqualified from voting on the bill.

      • CPRM
  49. juris imprudent

    So for all of the antifa bullshit, look what we are turning into. Mussolini laughs from his grave. Corporations as servants of the state and this isn’t a trend involving Trump in particular or Republicans in general.

    • kbolino

      I don’t understand why they want to wage a proxy war against their own retirement funds. Every major publicly traded corporation is already owned by a consortium of institutional “stakeholders”, those being the managers of public pensions, index funds, mutual funds, etc. I guess they just can’t wait until retirement to get their cut and instead have to interject early.

      • R C Dean

        Because the people running the corporations, pension funds, etc. aren’t relying on their measly 401(k)s for retirement.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What Schwab’s putting forward as the desired worker/owner relationship model sounds like it was laid down by Giovanni Gentile himself or maybe whoever Inspired Franco.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Yet another one from the prog-fascist playbook. Take a nugget of truth (public corporations are often myopic), coat with a cubic mile of bullshit, create a plan that “addresses” the bullshit while worsening the nugget of truth.

    • R C Dean

      I have loathed the “stakeholder” concept from the first time I heard it years ago. If you haven’t invested in the corporation, you have no “stake” in it.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Require all bills to be read out loud in both chambers. Any member who isn’t present for the full reading is disqualified from voting on the bill.

    I like that. Any Member caught napping will be thwacked with a whippy disciplinary utensil similar to the top section of a carbon fly rod.

    • Mad Scientist

      Do they have to be caught napping? How about we just assume they’re napping.

      • Winston's Mom

        Guilty until proven innocent.

    • R C Dean

      Require them to stand for the reading of the entire bill.

    • Cy Esquire

      “Any member who isn’t present for the full reading is disqualified from voting on the bill.”

      Should read:

      Any member who isn’t present for the full reading, their vote will be counted as a ‘no.’

      • Plisade

        ^ Even better.

  51. Count Potato

    “La Mesa-Spring Valley School Board member compares reopening schools to slavery and “very white supremacist ideology”, said board VP Chardá Bell-Fontenot, another members mentions that ’70 to 80 %’ of families and students want to return to school. ”

    https://twitter.com/VenturaReport/status/1364834752990048258

    But how does it “incite violence”?

    • R C Dean

      “White supremacy” got defined down to a big nothing even faster than I was expecting.

      • The Other Kevin

        “La Mesa-Spring Valley School Board member compares anything she doesn’t like to slavery and “very white supremacist ideology””

      • Rebel Scum

        So you are saying that Hawaiian pizza is slavery and white-supremacy.

      • The Other Kevin

        Of course. It is appropriating the culture of native Hawaiians, which is white supremacy.

        Scary how easy that was.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “very white supremacist”

      So…Finns?

  52. UnCivilServant

    That moment when you open your wallet and find $80 you didn’t think you had… 😀

    • Winston's Mom

      Jerry Seinfeld called, he wants his plot back.

      • UnCivilServant

        Who?

        *looks up*

        Oh, some usedtobe tv person.

        I don’t rip off people. I especially don’t rip off people I never watched.

    • Mad Scientist

      That video is the only thing I have ever seen on Twitter that was worth clicking.

      • KromulentKristen

        Do you even Iowahawk, dude?

      • R C Dean

        The guy had just the right attitude. Didn’t get riled by her, just laughed at her until he got a word in edgewise.

        And from the Very Model of a Modern Basic Bitch, no apology or thanks.

      • Gender Traitor

        “How dare you mansplain to me!!!”

    • Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

      Fucking amazing……
      she probably puts her car in drive while still backing up……

    • R C Dean

      It actually happens more often than you probably think, based on a convo with a convenience store owner awhile back.

      • Chipwooder

        Yeah, but how do you not notice it when you get out of your car to yell at that guy?

      • UnCivilServant

        How do you drive off from a pump with the hose still in the tank?

      • Winston's Mom

        Same way you can credibly claim to never watched Seinfeld.

      • UnCivilServant

        By not watching TV? That makes no sense.

      • Winston's Mom

        That actually answers a lot of questions in my “What’s this fucking guy’s problem?” Column.

        Not all of them, by the by, but it does answer questions.

      • Gender Traitor

        I believe Neal Boortz had the term for such folks – “obliviots.”

      • R C Dean

        The hoses actually have E-Z disconnect joints for just those occasions.

      • Mad Scientist

        Yes but…..in order to prevent gas vapors from getting into our precious atmosphere, California mandates a kind of breakaway hose that can’t be reconnected once it’s been separated. Many other states have adopted the same rule. Depending on where she is, replacing that hose is going to cost that chick about a grand.

      • R C Dean

        What on earth makes you think she is going to return to the gas station and pay for the damage she caused?

      • UnCivilServant

        I just figured she was picked up on camera at the station and they’d send her a bill.

      • Mad Scientist

        They know exactly who’s credit card was last used on that pump.

      • R C Dean

        Good points.

        I wonder if they could charge her card for it?

      • Ownbestenemy

        That’s why you pay cash and have a tint over your license plate.

      • Mad Scientist

        Based on a quick Google search, they’ll get her name and phone number from the credit card company, contact her, and offer to file a claim with her car insurance company.

    • Mad Scientist

      I love that brief moment when her jaw drops open after realizing what she’s done. It’s beautiful.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That made my morning.

    • Count Potato

      I’m pretty sure it’s fake.

      • KromulentKristen

        Yeah, she’s….not a good actress

  53. The Late P Brooks

    Implosion

    Democratic fury over the mob attack on the Capitol and its aftermath is spilling into nearly every aspect of life in the House, squashing hopes for comity and threatening even mundane legislative tasks like the naming of a local post office.

    Democrats accuse Republicans of nothing short of sabotaging the nation’s democracy with false claims that November’s election was “stolen” from former President Trump.

    Already angry that the refusal by some Republicans to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was endangering lives, Democrats now see the GOP as directly putting lawmaker lives on the line with dangerous rhetoric that feeds outlandish conspiracy theories.

    “It’s impossible for us to not look at them in a different light,” Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) said of the 139 Republicans who voted to reverse the election results.

    Bad blood reached a new level Tuesday night when Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) took the highly unusual step of forcing a full floor vote on an uncontroversial bill to name a Mississippi post office because it was authored by a Republican who voted to overturn the election.

    ——-

    Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday lashed out at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for giving “aid and comfort” to the insurrectionists.

    McCarthy, a short time later, would reply in turn, using a rare floor speech to accuse Democrats of adopting strategies of “grievance” designed to silence “millions of constituents” represented by the minority Republicans.

    Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who called former President Trump’s stand on Jan. 6 “our 1776 moment,” forced a vote Wednesday to end House business for the day; it failed but not before grumbling from members of both parties.

    Many Democrats say it is untenable to work with those GOP lawmakers who voted to overturn the election results even after the deadly attack.

    “It’s an improbable situation because these are the people that tried to undermine our government. And they may be no less guilty than the people who attacked the Capitol,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.).

    “It is going to be much harder to work across the aisle,” echoed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who blamed some GOP lawmakers for endangering her.

    Four years of well-poisoning are coming back to haunt the Democrats? Who could possibly have foreseen that?

    After all, DEMOCRACY! Barbie has done her level best to establish and maintain a congenial working relationship with her white supremacist colleagues.

    • Rebel Scum

      dangerous rhetoric that feeds outlandish conspiracy theories

      Rachel Maddow et al could not be reached for comment.

      Many Democrats say it is untenable to work with those GOP lawmakers who voted to overturn the election results even after the deadly attack.

      Perhaps they could stop being dishonest about the riot and the apparent problems with the election.

      And they may be no less guilty than the people who attacked the Capitol,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.).

      Unity. Healing.

      • R C Dean

        the deadly attack

        You mean, the deadly attack by the officer on the unarmed woman? Because that was the only deadly attack that day.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    I have loathed the “stakeholder” concept from the first time I heard it years ago. If you haven’t invested in the corporation, you have no “stake” in it.

    This. And guess what, employees; you have exchanged your labor for money. That is the end of the transaction. The company owes you nothing in perpetuity. You owe the company nothing in perpetuity.

    Think you can get a better deal elsewhere? Move on.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      And guess what, employees; you have exchanged your labor for money. That is the end of the transaction. The company owes you nothing in perpetuity. You owe the company nothing in perpetuity.

      *hands phone over to Brooks*

      Can you tell my HR leader that?

      In seriousness, this is exactly why health insurance needs to be decoupled from the employer.

      • juris imprudent

        In seriousness, this is exactly why health insurance needs to be decoupled from the employer.

        WHAT? And overthrow a glorious part of the New Deal, WWII-era regulation!?!??!

        Next you’ll be suggesting that the insurance cost shouldn’t only be deductible for corporations. Harrumph.

      • UnCivilServant

        Insurance should not be deductable for anyone.

  55. Rebel Scum

    This is cancer.

    The new Illinois rules require teachers to demonstrate that they “embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives.” It clearly specifies that these include incorporating into all their teaching and curricula neo-Marxist falsehoods about race and sex, and actively discriminate based on religion, viewpoint, and race. The rules require teachers to:

    -Directly oppose and undermine the concept of objective truth
    -Treat themselves and students as a determined product of their race, sex, and sexual behavior
    -Believe and preach cultural Marxist identity politics
    -Agree the United States is systemically racist
    -Support different behavior standards based on race
    -Engage in and support cultural Marxist activism
    -Push students into leftist activism
    -Introduce and promote adult sex behaviors and gender identity confusion

    If I ever have kids they will never go to public school.

    • Gender Traitor

      I have calluses on my knees from repeatedly kneeling and giving thanks that circumstances prevented me from becoming a teacher, despite my best efforts.

      (Yes, THAT’S why I was on my knees, you naughty boys!)

      • juris imprudent

        Almost rather try to sneak them over the border so they get put in a ‘container’.

  56. Count Potato

    “Canceling $50,000 of student loan debt would lift a huge burden from the same communities who have been hit hardest by the pandemic. President Biden can #CancelStudentDebt with the stroke of a pen. @SenSchumer and I are urging him to act.”

    https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1364767090163523588

    CWAA

    • R C Dean

      the same communities who have been hit hardest by the pandemic

      Upper middle class families with graduate or professional degrees?

    • R C Dean

      President Biden can #CancelStudentDebt with the stroke of a pen. @SenSchumer and I are urging him to act.”

      Gosh, if only she was in a position to get legislation passed . . . . Poor Senator, all she can do is petition Biden to take action.

    • Cy Esquire

      “SUPREME GREATEST BESTEST RULER EVER Biden and his pen can #CancelStudentDebt with the stroke of a pen. @SenSchumer and I are urging him to act.”

    • Rebel Scum

      who have been hit hardest

      College grads that can work from home (or at Starbucks)?

    • invisible finger

      Is this “cancelling” or “paying it for them?” Cancelling it screws the lenders, paying it for them screws the taxpayers

      Either way, it is supposed to count as income for the student.

      • UnCivilServant

        The taxpayers are the lenders. Private banks bailed from the student loan business ages ago.

      • Mad Scientist

        I thought the taxpayers were the co-signers, but the loans themselves were still private.

      • UnCivilServant

        I recall Mad Maxine asking the bank executives about it and getting a chorus of “We’re not in that business anymore, you guys took it over.”

        Or am I misremembering things again?

      • Mad Scientist

        Looks like you can get a federal or private loan even now, but the terms on the federal loan are likely much better (for the borrower).

      • R C Dean

        Not an expert, but at a minimum the feds guarantee the loans, meaning any banks that hold them will be held harmless.

        And I seem to recall that many/most were bought by the fed during Obama’s expansion of the money supply.

    • rhywun

      the same communities who have been hit hardest by the pandemic

      College students?

      Does she even read this stuff that one of her flunkies is writing for her?

    • R C Dean

      Begun, the Woke Wars have.

    • Gender Traitor

      I guess they’re not using phrasing anymore either.

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t some only eat tuna?

      • juris imprudent

        Or, isn’t this taco vegan?

      • juris imprudent

        I’m not vegan, I’m a vagan?

      • juris imprudent

        I’m sorry, I’ll shut up now.

    • EvilSheldon

      Oh no, how horrible! *giggle* Stop fighting!

    • UnCivilServant

      Tencent jumps straight to censorship.

      Ir is that jumps queer to censorship?

      • R C Dean

        One does wonder why a Chinese company, which cannot in any way buy into wokism, is doing this (other than to stir shit).

      • EvilSheldon

        Because wokeism is an idelogocal warfare tool designed to weaken and demoralize a society, enough that the explicit communists can seize power?

        (‘Wokism’ is one most excellent Freudian slip, BTW…)

      • kbolino

        EvilSheldon is right about this, as far as the CPC might be concerned, but for TenCent itself, going woke is all upside and no downside just like most other businesses, especially online-heavy businesses.

    • R C Dean

      I’m thinking there’s something seriously wrong with the family Beau married into.

    • KSuellington

      With that crack pipe hanging out the corner of his mouth he was basically irresistible to female members of his family.

      • R C Dean

        I would have gone with “bank account stuffed with foreign money”.

      • KSuellington

        Heh, his bulging bank account was sexy as hell too.

    • Cy Esquire

      Just the type of sheltered idiot to think pornhub is a “how to” website. Whatever happened with the underage niece? That all got ‘fortified’ away pretty quickly.

      • Mojeaux

        Dammit. Gilmore’d.

    • Rebel Scum

      I wonder if that has something to do with a mass disinformation campaign by media that purports itself to be news.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Of issues we asked ONLY of Germans, their biggest concern is the Jewish bakery next door” / circa 1930s

      Amazing what you can accomplish by constant propaganda.

  57. KSuellington

    One nice piece of news coming out of this fucked up state, it looks like the recall against Guv Greaseball is going to happen. They now have 1,825 million signatures (they need a valid 1,5) and they have until March 10 to collect them. Their goal is 2 million as we all know that every single signature is going to be scrutinized in the opposite way as mail in ballots. I am under zero illusions that this state can be saved, I view this recall as a statement on the lockdowns, of which California has been the worst.

    *insert Ron Paul “It’s happening” gif*

    https://recallgavin2020.com/

    • Ownbestenemy

      Did I read it somewhere that the legislation or his aides are working to change the rules mid-stride to dump up to 30% of the signatures?

      • KSuellington

        I have not heard anything like that, but I have heard that in the ones tallied so far 16% had been rejected. If that number keeps up (which I doubt, it’ll likely end up being about 25%) then it is indeed happening. It looks like they are going to slow walk the counting process though, so the special election won’t be until September or October. In no way do they want that happening in the late spring when people are still not eating inside restaurants and such. They want as much distance as possible. And as such he may survive the recall attempt. There are going to be a hundred or more candidates on the ballot if it happens.

      • db

        Jeez, California, way to lose your status as point man for change in the country. Pennsylvania has you beat by *months*!

    • rhywun

      Looks like Cuomo might go down too. And yes, he will be probably be replaced by someone even worse.

      • db

        AOC

  58. The Late P Brooks

    SCIENCE!

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging people to stop ignoring face covering and social distancing rules when they hit the gym after two new studies confirmed they are strong spreader locations.

    The agency released findings Wednesday on research it undertook at gyms located in Chicago and Hawaii that saw a high “attack rate” associated with outbreaks last summer.

    In Hawaii, 21 people contracted the virus in July from a cycling fitness instructor who had the disease and taught classes for three days. In the Chicago location, 55 out of 81 people who attended high-intensity fitness classes during the last week of August contracted COVID-19, the studies said.

    The common factor in both outbreaks was the lack of mask use, according to the CDC report.

    ——-

    Two people were hospitalized in the Hawaii outbreak and one in Chicago, according to the report. Two of the Chicago patients visited the emergency room with COVID-19 symptoms, according to the CDC.

    There were no reported deaths linked to the outbreaks, the CDC reports said.

    The agency urged gym facilities to make sure they have proper ventilation standards, decrease capacity and enforce mask-wearing and social distancing rules among its patrons to prevent future incidents. If possible, patrons should stick to outdoor gym activities, the CDC said.

    “This outbreak reinforces the need for combined COVID-19 prevention strategies, including universal mask use in public settings when persons are with others who do not live in the same household, especially indoors,” the CDC said in its Chicago report.

    Horrific decimation! Death and devastation on a massive scale.

    I’d say these outbreaks reinforce my belief the goddam plague is nowhere near as contagious or deadly as these clowns have told us. I also cannot help but note the weird specificity of these “samples”.

    Better ventilation would be an excellent idea. Were these “hot” classes?

    • KSuellington

      The other major piece of “evidence” for mask use seems to be that story of the hairdresser who had it and wore a mask and didn’t pass it on to her customers. Yes folks we are at the point that SCIENCE! is about anecdotes now.

      • rhywun

        I’d say we’ve been at that point for about ten months.

    • R C Dean

      The agency released findings Wednesday on research it undertook at gyms located in Chicago and Hawaii that saw a high “attack rate” associated with outbreaks last summer.

      Well, that’s not highly selective at all. And why release it now, 6 months after the “research” was conducted, rather than during the summer surge, or the winter surge?

      • KSuellington

        I’m still going with Fauci’s original recommendation to avoid wearing a mask.

  59. Ownbestenemy

    Well, the adaptation loading portion went like a charm. The programming however, not so much. Means I get to come in on a Saturday to redo this all over again. I am damn tired.

  60. Ozymandias

    I just submitted an article. With the new gig starting next week, I don’t know if/when I’ll be around, so if TPTB see this, just publish whenever and I’ll try to be around in the comments.

    • Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

      Congrats on the Gig Ozy! good to see things looking up,

      • Ozymandias

        Thanks, Brosef. We’ll see how it goes.
        I’m as curious as anyone else; it’s a contract ALJ gig.

    • UnCivilServant

      What’s the new gig?

      • Ozymandias

        See just above your comment.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Adminisstrative Law Judge”? It’s the closest my searching has come up with. Unless you’re working for Al Jazeera.

      • Ozymandias

        Yep. Admin Law Judge.

      • UnCivilServant

        Are you going to have to start posting everything in the form of a question?

      • Ozymandias

        What makes you ask that?
        😉

  61. The Late P Brooks

    Gosh, if only she was in a position to get legislation passed . . . . Poor Senator, all she can do is petition Biden to take action.

    If only she could somehow persuade the Senate Banking Committee to ask the GAO for some useful analysis.

    Maybe she might learn something.

    • juris imprudent

      She was a progfessor – there is nothing she could learn.

    • db

      “It’s hard to have hope when cups of tea are being sent to destination fucked”