Wednesday Morning Links

by | Mar 10, 2021 | Daily Links | 467 comments

Well…bye.

Dortmund and Porto moved to the last 8 of the UCL, the latter at Juve’s expense. Liverpool-Leipzig and PSG-Barca wrap it up today. Only one of them might be competitive. Some basketball player is in trouble for being an anti-Semite. Looks like Les Miles was a naughty boy while at LSU. And that’s pretty much it for sports.

Boss

Birthday celebrants today include: Ferdinand II of Aragon, nurse and activist Lillian Wald, actor Sam Jaffe, racist asshole James Earl Ray, actor/martial artist Chuck Norris, Canada’s first female PM Kim Campbell, religious scholar psychopath Osama bin Ladin, actress Sharon Stone, result of generations of inbreeding Prince Edward, pitcher Michael Timlin, actor Jon Hamm, another pitcher Shad Williams, and singer Carrie Underwood.

Not much in that list. Oh well, on to…the links!

“Fucking Up Since 1946”

More scare mongering from the idiots who have been wrong every step of the way. So of course their opinion will be treated as the gospel truth by people who want to be ruled.

Can they please give a reasonable explanation why this is unfair to certain groups? Seems to me the law will apply to everybody. Are they saying old people and Indians aren’t as capable of figuring things out? Because if so, then that’s racist and ageist.

I assume this is a surprise to exactly nobody. And no, it’s not something terrible (which I probably post too much of). I’m curious when the research on big asses is coming to complement this important work.

Get a load of this cuck. No seriously. What a loser.

“Shit, I forgot my name again.”

Move along. Move along. There’s nothing to see say here.. This is getting fucking ridiculous.

Can’t these people get a fucking hobby other than griefing? They need to go spend some time in a third-world shithole for some perspective. They also need to understand what private property rights are. “Environmental racism”. What a fucking joke.

Since Califirnia’s government has solved all the major issues and created a utopia, they can divert their energy to stupid shit. Here’s an idea: mind your own damn business. And since we know they won’t, expect an ordinance banning these in the near future.

We can’t let people have fun! Whatever we do, we just can’t have that.  LOL, GTFOH.

This, my friends, is a freaking great song. If you don’t enjoy it, I don’t know what to tell you aside from “reevaluate your life”.

Now go have a fantastic day!

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467 Comments

  1. Sean

    Heterosexual men are more willing to assist women when they have visibly erect nipples, particularly when that assistance involves greater interaction with them, according to new research published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

    Let’s call it the “Rachel effect”.

    • sloopyinca

      Thank you, Sean, for getting right to the point.

      • blackjack

        Ahem! PointS!

    • invisible finger

      BY ASSIST, MEAN RAPE.

      /snowflakesmith

    • I. B. McGinty

      Remember the days when you needed to adjust the knobs on the TV?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Tune in to Tokyo

        *giggles like a twelve year old*

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Who knew? Apparently, Q works at NYU-Oswego?

  2. Swiss Servator

    “It came as Vice President Kamala Harris took her latest solo call with a foreign leader, speaking to Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg without Biden on the line. ”

    The Pre-Harris Administration stumbles on. Joe will be gone by year’s end.

    • Tejicano

      Joe who?

    • Festus

      Yep.

    • WTF

      I would have figured they would drag him to a full 2 years so Kamala can theoretically be president for 10 years.

      • bacon-magic

        A corpse won’t last two years being dragged around.

      • juris imprudent

        Hector of Troy might have – but only because of immortal intervention.

      • db

        No, you have to put them on display behind glass for the adoration of The People if you want them to last that long.

    • Lord Humungus

      Ah yes, Norwegian diplomacy is sooo important.

      something something training wheels

    • Sean

      Can we start impeachment hearings on her yet?

  3. Count Potato

    So does this mean college women do better or worse in places where it’s cold?

    • sloopyinca

      It depends on how they carry the Freshman 15, I’d imagine.

    • Not Adahn

      Visibly erect nipples. Parkas are a no-go.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It never made sense to me that Q isn’t a warm weather guy.

  4. Rebel Scum

    How pandemic unfolds from here depends on how Americans act in critical weeks ahead, CDC director warns

    We are nearly a year into the “critical weeks ahead”. You can fuck off.

    • sloopyinca

      “Why can’t you sacrifice (yet another) 15 days to flatten the curve, you selfish bastard!”
      -bootlicker

    • Swiss Servator

      Today is the 1 year mark for TEH GREAT SHUTTING DOWNING here.

      • sloopyinca

        And the government “leaders” there are probably celebrating what a great job they did. Unironically.

      • TARDis

        *Checks national debt clock*

        They sure did! $28 Trillion. Awesome!

    • Nephilium

      /looks over this list for St. Patrick’s day events.

      /starts crossing out the ones requiring temperature checks or reservations

      /preps to be a super-spreader

      • Timeloose

        I got an invite to a party on Sat. All it says is green beer, Irish stew, Irish whiskey, Irish jams. Sat 3pm. Good enough for me.

      • Festus

        Enjoy!

      • Nephilium

        /continues looking over list.

        Ohhh… one brewery is doing Irish Poutine to really ramp up the cultural appropriation:

        Fries topped with corned beef, cheese and house-made stout gravy

        Too bad they’re in a shitty neighborhood, not East Cleveland bad… but bad enough.

      • l0b0t

        I would eat the Hell out that! There are a few places here that do Irish Egg-rolls (corned beef and cabbage) and Reuben Egg-Rolls (corned beef and sauerkraut). Both are delicious.

      • db

        That sounds really good. There’s an Irish bar-place in Phoenixville, PA that does Reuben spring rolls that are the greatest.

        Also, Stout Gravy is great, but what about a Gravy Stout?

      • Nephilium

        Both of the egg roll options are pretty common here (as are sauerkraut balls). The local we walk up to on Sundays to watch football have a short rib mac and cheese egg roll that the girlfriend loves.

        Is the Sly Fox still in Phoenixsville or did that location get closed when they contracted?

        As for a gravy stout, there have been beef heart beers and the like. And white flour is reportedly used as a cheap adjunct in certain Belgian beers (per Brew Like a Monk). The issue is getting anything with a high fat content in there usually kills any head retention.

        /starts thinking about doing an herbed brown ale…

      • DEG

        db, Molly Malone’s?

        Nephilium, Sly Fox still has a tap room in Phoenixville. They kept it after the move to Pottstown. They have also expanded to Wyomissing, Malvern, and Pittsburgh.

      • db

        Last time I was in Phoenixville, Sly Fox had moved to a different location across the road into a strip mall. The original place that I remember from about 15 years ago was a little nicer but smaller I think. They brew at a different location, but I’m not sure where that is.

      • db

        Yep, I think it’s Molly Malone’s. Honestly never paid attention to the name–it’s on a corner down the street from the coffee house.

  5. I. B. McGinty

    “Among the changes, the law shortens time for voters to cast mail ballots”

    I don’t see why they don’t mail out ballots for the 2024 and 2028 elections. There are people that will just vote R or D regardless of whose name is on there.

    • Rat on a train

      There should be a subscription type option. Register to automatically vote party line for the next few hundred years.

      • The Last American Hero

        They already have that, but so far only African American and gay voters are using it.

  6. Swiss Servator

    “Their wedding seemed like a real happily-ever-after moment. But wow did she manage to balls things up in a massive way,” an unnamed friend said in a statement about the husband’s relationship with teacher Kandice Barber.

    I love the Australian press.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m assuming they’re all like Ozzy Man.

  7. l0b0t

    That is, indeed, a fantastic song; thanks for sharing it. This one is likely not everyone’s cup of tea, but I do love the Utah Saints remix of Blondie’s Dreaming.

    • sloopyinca

      Too many marble dongs in that video for my taste.

    • Rat on a train

      I prefer Burke’s drum performance in the original.

    • Ted S.

      +1 Giorgio Moroder.

    • rhywun

      Not into the Utah Saints but always happy to hear some Blondie.

    • Festus

      Sloop’s version needed Debbie flouncing about the stage bra-less to really stick the landing. It’s a pretty good tune.

  8. Animal

    College men are more willing to help women with erect nipples, according to new research.

    No shit, Sherlock.

    • Tonio

      Not just the college lads, one would suspect.

      • db

        Yeah, that would have worked on me from about 2nd grade through and beyond today.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If only the turnabout were true, but boners seem to be a turnoff to the ladies when I’m in distress.

    • Not Adahn

      The researchers also found that nipple erection made women less willing to include another woman in their social circle.

      Mee-ow!

      • juris imprudent

        Who wants to be instantly dropped to wing-man status?

  9. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    This is getting fucking ridiculous.

    Getting? He’s amazing, really. He can’t even read from a teleprompter. I figured they would get him through the 2 years needed to keep Harris in power for 10 years, but there is no way. Out by Thanksgiving.

    • Sean

      The retrospective rewriting of his “legacy” is going to be really bad.

    • Tejicano

      I liked the recent video where Biden forgets the Secretary of Defense’s title, the Secretary’s name, and the name of the organization he leads.

      Had Trump forgotten any one of those three things the MSM would have been screaming “25th amendment” for the rest of the week.

      • Tundra

        It’s only Wednesday, but the “maternity flight suit” thing is my favorite this week.

      • Festus

        I’ve heard of “Paternity Flight Suits” being brought up in court before but never this.

      • Agent Cooper

        Have we done G-Force tests on fetuses?

      • Not Adahn

        The Pentagon has watched The Expanse and have determined a need for anti-Skinnies.

  10. Rebel Scum

    Heterosexual men are more willing to assist women when they have visibly erect nipples, particularly when that assistance involves greater interaction with them, according to new research published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

    Men like perky tits? Revolutionary discovery.

    • Sean

      Yes, but what we really need to do is research their effects on climate change.

      *lines up for grant money*

      • Festus

        “Obscure study finds that carbon off-sets and electric vehicles ensure that attractive girls have pointers all of the time!” *Goes outside to the driveway and sets fire to the car and truck, continues down the block*

  11. blackjack

    They pioneered all this voting bullshit here in CA. They already had a strong majority. Ballot harvesting flipped most of the long time red districts in ’16 and they made it close to impossible to vote in person in ’18. With the new machines, they restricted the polling places to just a few and the lines were at least an hour. The only way to reasonably vote is by drop box. Only a small percentage of those votes were cast by real people fed up with the lines. We either wait until the red team catches up and then it’s a contest of who’s more devious, or we somehow put a stop to this and get back to the old way ( never gonna happen.)

  12. Count Potato

    If Biden has been vaccinated, why is he still wearing two masks?

    • sloopyinca

      Because he’s a fucking retard.

      • WTF

        And consider, notwithstanding the fraud, tens of millions of people actually voted for that to be president.

      • Animal

        Because tens of millions of registered voters in the U.S. are fucking retards.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s good to see people recognize that this isn’t just a problem of partisan deviousness.

      • DEG

        That’s insulting to retards.

    • R C Dean

      Fauci said to?

    • Not Adahn

      Wearing two masks means you fucking love SCIENCE!

    • Tejicano

      Drooling more?

    • Swiss Servator

      An excuse for not being able to hear his mumbling.

    • Rebel Scum

      Virtue. Signaled.

    • bacon-magic

      That’s how Dr. Jill dressed him.

      • Animal

        That’s Frau Doktor Professor Jill to you, peasant.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Ahem, Frau Doktor Professor Von Biden

      • Animal

        I stand corrected, sir.

        *Bows*

    • invisible finger

      To hide the visible evidence of a stroke.

  13. Rebel Scum

    The measure, which passed with only Republican votes in the Iowa Legislature, includes numerous changes to the state’s voting laws that Democrats and advocacy groups said will make it harder for minority, elderly and disabled voters to cast ballots.

    The soft bigotry of low expectations rears its ugly head.

    • sloopyinca

      Maybe Team Blue could have put a rider on the Bill to fund a program how to teach minorities how to use the internet and find polling places or Walgreens.

      These people are the worst racists out there.

      • Festus

        No, you are! I can tell by the Top Hat!

    • juris imprudent

      Not to mention the presumption that voters with no motivation or brains can just be assumed to be Democrat votes.

  14. Festus

    “Please, Oh Benevolent God, Let Sugarfree make reference to Open Biden! I humbly beseech Thee.”

    • Tonio

      I don’t think that’s the deity that guides Sug. I’m thinking someone more extra-dimensional, and tentacly.

      • Festus

        I don’t believe in any of them but was going with Hoyle.

    • db

      You do not want to combine that phrase with anything else developed in the fever-dreams of SugarFree.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Defund the CDC.

  16. Rat on a train

    Backyard camping is a misdemeanor here.

    • Tonio

      We should do Glib meetup sometime. I’m in RVA area.

      Those ordinances are often passed to address a specific nuisance situation, ie otherwise homeless people living in tents. Then someday somebody discovers it applies to Wal*Mart boondocking, and kids backyard sleepovers.

      • l0b0t

        Back in the early 1990s, the topless diner on Georgia’s stretch of I75, Cafe Risque, decided to open a location in Tallahassee, FL. State Attorney (and ultra-Puritan anti-pornography crusader) Willie Meggs vowed to stop it. The city council met and a law was passed to ban the boobies. Within a few weeks, emergency sessions had to be held to repeal the law as it was quickly found to be written so broadly (a lady’s top had to cover a certain % of chest area) as to criminalize the rampant sunbathing by FSU co-eds.

      • Not Adahn

        I saw lots of billboards for that place, but didn’t know if it was worth stopping at.

      • Rat on a train

        The article says it was created because of RVs dumping sewage near Lake Anna. It is easier to catch people camping than to catch people dumping.

      • Tonio

        My bad for not reading the article. Yeah, that dumping would be a problem.

        What you did there…

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “It’s a powder keg waiting to happen,” Callender told Chron. “One of the most difficult in terms of controlling transmission is the high rate of asympotomatic spread among young people. Many are asymotomatic. They don’t know that the individuals around them have the disease. There will be a lot of people in close contact who are raising voices. We want people to understand that these are high-risk situations. Continue to wear a mask.”

    You

    lying

    sack

    of

    shit.

    • juris imprudent

      USS Theodore Roosevelt utterly refutes this BS. Why doesn’t even just one media outlet mention that?

    • R C Dean

      Asymptomatic = free range vaccination, no?q

      • Endless Mike

        Not to mention GMO free!

  18. juris imprudent

    Barber allegedly wanted sex five times a day and spent thousands on lingerie, corsets, toys, handcuffs, whips and masks for sessions with her partner.

    Interesting girl you got there mate.

    • EvilSheldon

      That might explain why the husband is sticking around…

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        At no point in my life would I have seen fucking five times a day as a positive in a partner.

        I mean, it’s cool in theory, but raw dick is real.

      • EvilSheldon

        More (or different) lube.

      • Animal

        At my age, I’m happy if I can manage five times a week.

        I’m reminded of the old saying: “At this age, it’s not that I want to go to sleep after sex. It’s that I have to.”

      • Endless Mike

        I would be impressed with 5 times a week.
        … I fear we are the same age.

      • Jerms

        He does have a free pass for life now.
        “I understand youre mad—but remember when you banged that teenager and went to jail?”

  19. DrOtto

    Texas is officially open today, and while it never should have been closed, suck it Karen! Also – FWEEDOM!

    • Agent Cooper

      Can someone please remix Ted Cruz’s Howard Dean/William Wallace moment with Kamala Harris’s delusional memories?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    If Biden has been vaccinated, why is he still wearing two masks?

    To hide the pacifier.

    • Tonio

      [golf clap]

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I was going to say drool catcher.

      • db

        Stutter + Mask = Complete Gibberish

      • db

        Perfect excuse as long as no one questions it.

    • TARDis

      To hide the little girl’s panties.

      • Festus

        Spicy!

      • Agent Cooper

        THE MASKS WERE PANTIES THE WHOLE TIME!

      • DEG

        On a serious note, I noticed one style of mask whose fabric and seams remind me of women’s panties.

      • Animal

        Have you been following me?

  21. l0b0t

    It’s becoming increasingly difficult for me to view President Biden as the tyrannical slaver he truly is when all I ever see is a weak, lost, old man. Is this going to turn into one of those David Lo Pan/Lo Pan situations? Is Biden searching for a Chinese girl with jade green eyes?

    • sloopyinca

      I don’t think she had to be Asian, as Lo Pan was prepared to use Kim Cattrall for the ceremony.

      • l0b0t

        Ooooh… that’s right. that opens up a world of possibilities. Is there fetching green-eyed young thing, with hair that smells like Wella Balsam or Johnson’s Baby, in the administration who will have to watch her back? Will they have to reopen the pizza-pie parlor tunnel to smuggle in some tendy nub-nubs?

      • Festus

        Nope Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo I used to get a half-chub over this – https://youtu.be/89_CtYEE2k4

      • Charlie Suet

        It’s a bit of a plot hole, since it’s implied earlier in the film Lo Pan actually does have to wait for an Asian with green eyes.

      • Nephilium

        If you’re watching Big Trouble in Little China and analyzing it for plot holes, I think you’re watching it wrong. Besides, you could just blame the unreliable narrator telling the story.

    • Rat on a train

      Joe Brezhnev

    • Ownbestenemy

      Heh, just watched that last night

      • Festus

        Watched it at least a dozen times when young, stoned and aimless. It probably holds up. Just like Return of the Living Dead. Or Bladerunner.

    • The Last American Hero

      If we can just get someone to break the hold that Saruman has over him, old Joexwill be back to himself in no time.

  22. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Sun-drenched beaches, packed crowds, and no COVID-19 restrictions in place.

    “It’s a powder keg waiting to happen,” Callender told Chron. “One of the most difficult in terms of controlling transmission is the high rate of asympotomatic spread among young people.’

    POWDER KEG!!! REMEMBER THE 22?5000?320,000,000? PEOPLE WHO CAUGHT THE VID AT STURGIS?!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!…I’m betting VD will be spread far more than the Commie Cough.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Even if they did do an autopsy. I know for a fact that the medical examiner’s office is backed up by months.

  23. Rebel Scum

    The husband of convicted teacher Kandice Barber “vows to wait” for the woman who cheated on him with a 15-year-old student.

    Do0d. Lame…

    • Not Adahn

      “I don’t think any of us thought Daniel would be athletic enough to keep up with Kandice in bed.

      About this particular circle of “friends”…

      • sloopyinca

        Little ditty ’bout Danny and Kan
        Two Aussie kids growing up in Aussie-land
        Danny gonna be an (Aussie) football star
        Kandice debutante in the back seat of Danny’s everybody’s car

      • Festus

        They play that fucking song EVERY night on the classic radio station at work. I’m a little triggered but Bravo?

      • WTF

        Under the boardwalk
        with a schlong in Kan’s mouth..

  24. Scruffy Nerfherder

    *browses thru depressing links*

    Whatever man…

    *hits bong*

    • Tonio

      Dude.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh, sorry dude…

        *passes bong to Tonio*

      • EvilSheldon

        That right there is pretty awesome.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

        “She watched us getting ready for a powerlifting meet and asked a question I’ll never forget it; ‘Do you have any old broads doing that?’ And I said ‘Yeah,'” Art Little said. “She came and watched us at the meet and said she wanted to do it.”

      • EvilSheldon

        Self-consciousness about trying new things has robbed more people of more enjoyment, than even the government.

      • Agent Cooper

        I knew exactly this link before clicking.

      • TARDis

        Inspiring even.

  25. rhywun

    Iowa Hispanic group files lawsuit challenging new voting law

    I suspect that “The League of United Latin American Citizens” represents “Democrats” more than they represent “Hispanics”, but hey that’s me. Their shady name allows for newspapers to print misleading headlines like this one.

    • sloopyinca

      I eagerly await the amicus brief filed by Good People Fighting Bad People. Because once they weigh in, you’ll know what side to take. It’s in their name, after all!

      • l0b0t

        IIRC, in Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, he mentions that at the height of the London stock frenzy, one company being traded was named “A Company For Doing Everyone A Great Deal Of Good But No One To Know What That Is“.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “The United Latin League of American Citizens” does not recognize the “The League of United Latin American Citizens” and agrees with rhywun’s point.

      • Festus

        “What has the Roman Empire ever done for us?’

      • juris imprudent

        Hold on there, wiggle that around a little and you’ve got Citizens United (of American League Latins?).

    • The Last American Hero

      I think I saw this movie. It’s based on a graphic novel where Zoro, Carmen San Diego, Don Quixote, and Dora the Explorer join forces to thwart the plot of a madman who plans to take over the world.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Carmen and Dora…can you describe these two so I can determine if I watch this movie?

  26. juris imprudent

    You asked for it – now you get… the Biden blitz!

    Biden is scheduled to deliver his first prime-time address as president Thursday, which will focus on the Covid crisis. Later this month, he’ll hold the first press conference of his young presidency.

    Hope he can keep up with the shocking increase in workload.

    • Agent Cooper

      “his young presidency.”

      Hahaha. Pretty funny, Politico.

    • WTF

      Covid “crisis”? What crisis? Cases have fallen so much that the news doesn’t even talk about them anymore. The pandemic is over, and it mostly petered out on its own as it ran through the population, as respiratory viruses do. All the masking and lockdowns did was delay herd immunity and prolong the pandemic.

      • db

        I just heard an authoritative statement on the radio the other day that “COVID cases are climbing again” with no citation of any numbers or even an interview with an “expert.” It’s insane.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        The use of cases as a metric is infuriating. If it is that bad the press would be covering the number of deaths. Since they seem to leave that out methinks something is rotten in the state of Denmark (other than the Scandinavian affinity for pickled fish).

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      He is only agreed because they promised him extra tapioca.

  27. Rebel Scum

    But Biden didn’t acknowledge any of the questions before his aides stepped in to escort the reporters away, telling them: ‘Come on, press, you gotta go.’

    I’m glad we get another “most transparent administration in history”. Bad Orange Man was bad even though he routinely gave 30+ minute impromptu press conferences.

    • rhywun

      I just loved how everyone was double-masked in the video clip I saw of that event. They care DOUBLE! Do YOU care double?!

      • EvilSheldon

        No.

        I don’t care single.

        I don’t care at all.

  28. Tonio

    “Can’t these people get a fucking hobby other than griefing?”

    No. Damn that company for trying to bring jobs to that neighborhood.

    But we’re going to hear a lot more about environmental justice in the future. It’s basically NIMBYism meets race hustling.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, the racist “Community District” head or whatever that position is called – these are neighborhood busybodies whose only real power is to dictate what does and does not get built in their fiefdom – shot down a big spend in one of the old toxic wastedump waterfront areas near me because wypipo. Or gEnTRifIcaTIon or some shit. It’s maddening.

      • Tonio

        It’s a shakedown operation. They want something. Often it’s a community center which they head. Because the only thing better than being given money is being able to spend other peoples money to better yourself.

  29. Rebel Scum

    About 500 individuals and more than 70 organizations sent the mayor a letter urging her to halt the metal shredder’s opening on the Southeast Side. A Rush doctor calls the matter a “textbook example of environmental racism.”

    What?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Like most cults, making sense is not encouraged.

      Fervent adherence to illogical tenets is an exhibition of faith.

    • Tonio

      I’m surprised nobody has made a chipper/shredder joke.

    • Agent Cooper

      If I were the company, I would call a press conference, go out to the podium and say “Do you want jobs? If you don’t, that’s fine. We will go somewhere else where people would like jobs.” And then leave.

  30. PieInTheSky

    There is a lot of discussion of bias in economics. This discussion is justified & needed. What I can add to this is some stories on how economists treat people from outside the field. Let me share with you a few bone chilling stories of what I’ve been through

    https://twitter.com/cesifoti/status/1364699994012459009

    You know assuming us libertarians are right, which I do, I think it is hard to imagine how many economics development policy sinecures would be lost.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Could be summed up as: “Economics professors are petty assholes like most other university faculty.”

      • Tulip

        Yep, with an extra helping of I’m the smartest guy in the room.

  31. leon

    I don’t want to work today.

    • EvilSheldon

      Me neither.

    • sloopyinca

      Call in and tell them you have no taste. You’ll get a covid day off and you’ll be telling the truth.
      ::waggles Groucho eyebrows::

    • Trigger Hippie

      Me either but I’m going in anyways. Damn living expenses.

    • Swiss Servator

      You rather desire to strike a percussion instrument for the remainder of this 24 hour time period?

      • Festus

        Swizzy beats the drum slowly…

      • db

        Plays the pipes lowly?

      • The Other Kevin

        He feels so frustrated. The boss is a jerk.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Is it possible to narrowly gaze at one’s self?

      • juris imprudent

        More clever allusion than pun, but we’ll drag him over to the dark side yet.

      • pistoffnick

        Nice!

  32. Cy Esquire

    Texas is going to be RAKING in the mullah over the next couple of years. I wonder what the big ‘moment’ is going to be that the proggies decide that they need to re-open and actually go back to work because they have to? Will they just keep printing bail outs forever?

    • Tonio

      I think you mean “moolah,” bro. Mullahs are something else.

      • Cy Esquire

        *ahem* Yes.

  33. Rebel Scum

    Since mid-November, scores of songbirds have died as a result of salmonellosis, a gut disease that is quickly transmitted when they gather at bird feeders or birdbaths. The CDFW said bird rescue centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast and Sierra Nevada have been “inundated with calls” from residents who have discovered increasing numbers of sick or dead birds at their feeders; in particular, the pine siskin, a migratory finch with a frantic, chattering call and mottled brown and yellow plumage.

    Then I must be killing them in droves. I swear they empty my feeder in 3-4 days and it holds a pretty good amount of seed.

    • creech

      Them birdies need to “mask up.”

      • Not Adahn

        salmonellosis

        Nah, they just need to make sure their poultry is cooked to 160 degrees before they eat if.

      • Swiss Servator

        Cannibal Songbirds.

        Good band name.

      • juris imprudent

        Female goth-hillbilly – has to be.

    • Mojeaux

      Huh. I’ve noticed an unusual number of dead birds at our place also— when the cat comes in the door with one in his mouth about every day.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    That might explain why the husband is sticking around…

    He’s handcuffed to the camera mount?

    • EvilSheldon

      Imagine, your keyholder having to do a 15-year bit.

      Remember Rule #14 – ‘Never lock yourself up in anything you can’t safely break with hand tools…’

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Wait until he finds out about all the prison guards and inmates she’s banging because you just know that’s happening.

  35. Semi-Spartan Dad

    I haven’t seen much talk about it but it looks like student loan forgiveness will be coming soon. The Dems slipped an amendment into the Covid Bill that temporarily eliminates taxes on forgiven student loan debt. It’s clearly prep for some upcoming action… probably an EO.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *shocked face*

      Aw fuck it, I don’t have a shocked face anymore, it’s worn out.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I feel like such a fucking sucker for paying my loans off.

    • WTF

      It’s just further advancement of the Chump Effect.

    • TARDis

      Won’t this require a massive transfer of funds to banks? The banks are not just going say, “Fine, here’s your cancelled promissory note.”

      *Blood Pressure…rising!*

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s going to be federally held loans only. Anyone who refinanced at a bank to a get a lower rate will be shit out of luck.

      • TARDis

        According to nerdwallet (FWIW) average debt is $47,671 for a total of $1.54 Trillion for federal. Private is “only” $131.81 Billion. 42.3 million borrowers.

      • Rat on a train

        The government took over student loans around 2010. It was the only way to keep rates low on unsecured, high risk loans without shoveling money to banks.

      • kinnath

        As I recall, the student loan program was profitable at that time.

        Congress folded the student loan program into Obamacare to show the bill was revenue neutral (thus hiding the cost of Obamacare) and ignoring the well known problem that the student loan program would not be profitable forever.

      • Rat on a train

        It was part of front-loading revenue while back-loading costs to get the 10-year estimate under the limit.

  36. Rebel Scum

    “It’s a powder keg waiting to happen,” Callender told Chron. “One of the most difficult in terms of controlling transmission is the high rate of asympotomatic spread among young people. Many are asymotomatic. They don’t know that the individuals around them have the disease. There will be a lot of people in close contact who are raising voices. We want people to understand that these are high-risk situations. Continue to wear a mask.”

    Or maybe they just are not sick and you can clutch your pearls while fucking the hell off about a cold going around.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If young people are asymptomatic and old people are vaccinated then what’s the problem?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Fearful submission to the government begins to subside.

      • juris imprudent

        Every public health officials’ 15 minutes are up?

  37. Count Potato

    “Sacramento, CA Makes DIY Auto Repairs Illegal

    In summation, this law keeps car enthusiasts from completing more complex repairs which are outlined as jobs that would leave the vehicle inoperable for more than 24 hours. However more simple tasks like oil changes, tune-ups, tire changes, and brake changes, are allowed.

    In addition, you are not allowed to work on another person’s vehicle. Also, work done on any vehicle must be completed at the home the vehicle is registered to. Talk about red tape.

    The new law also limits the use of many specialized tools for some reason too. The thing is many of these “specialized” tools are in fact common sights in garages. Restricted tools include air compressors, impact wrenches, and even tools as simple as torque wrenches. The law further defines these items as “tools not normally found in a residence.””

    https://www.odometer.com/car-care/2562390/sacramento-ca-makes-diy-auto-repairs-illegal/

    “It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in, or permit others to engage in, minor vehicle repair or maintenance under any of the following circumstances:

    Using tools not normally found in a residence;
    Conducted on vehicles registered to persons not currently residing on the lot or parcel; and,
    Conducted outside a fully enclosed garage or accessory structure and resulting in the vehicle being inoperable for a period in excess of 24 hours. (See Section 3.2.5, Table 3.2 (I) of the Zoning Code)​”

    https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/pages/autorepair.aspx

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      How in the hell does that pass muster? Goodbye shade tree mechanics.

    • Not Adahn

      Wait, torque wrneches are NOT commonly found in households? How the fuck are you supposed to properly mount your scope rings?

      • UnCivilServant

        This is commiefornia, merely asking that question makes you a felon.

      • Tundra

        I have two of them. Wtf?

      • l0b0t

        IKR! While I don’t have any impact wrenches, I have compressors and a wee, air-powered, finish nailer that I love.

      • db

        I have like 7 different torque wrenches. Happy to help bring up the average.

        Oh, also, this is only going to hurt immigrants and the car-owning poor the most.

      • EvilSheldon

        I only have three myself, but now I feel like buying another one.

      • rhywun

        this is only going to hurt immigrants and the car-owning poor the most

        Now you know how the mind of a California legislator works.

    • Sean

      air compressors, impact wrenches

      These are found in my garage and I don’t even work on my vehicle.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You’re just going to have to call a tow truck if you have a flat.

      • TARDis

        ^^^This
        Dickless wonder boy torquing the lug nuts to maximum to compensate.

      • l0b0t

        Or Michigan shops neglecting to tighten them at all and then being given cover by the courts,

        https://youtu.be/JgmHxSKHpgc

      • db

        First thing I do after having a shop work on my vehicles after I get it home is to undo and properly set the torque on the lug nuts.

      • Rat on a train

        It is known that air compressors are only used for automotive repair.

    • R C Dean

      And when you need to order a part?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Bye Bye Sacramento area Pick-a-Parts and Pick-n-Pulls.

    • Rebel Scum

      What the actual fuck?

      • Ownbestenemy

        It is Cash For Clunkers but without the ‘cash’ and solves the environmental racism problem that is inherent in all gasoline powered car owners

      • db

        Hopefully they manage to expatriate all the used car parts from California so that the rest of the country can still buy them, rather than forcing them to be scrapped.

      • EvilSheldon

        I think ‘the fuck’ is that progressives hate anyone who is capable of building or working with their hands, because it hurts them to be reminded of their existential uselessness…

      • Chipwooder

        MOLON LATHE

      • EvilSheldon

        *wild applause*

    • Agent Cooper

      How the fuck do they police this in addition to all of the other shit that needs policing?

      • leon

        Easy, the DA’s will just stop prosecuting petty theft and other crimes of poverty, so that they can focus on these villains.

      • Sean

        I’m pretty sure they’ve already checked that box off.

      • Nephilium

        The same as most of this shit… neighbors turning in neighbors.

      • db

        Yep. Does the neighbor’s air compressor annoy you in the evenings? Maybe he has too many of his brown brothers over, working on their cars, and talking away in some strange language? Maybe that one car sat out in the driveway a little too long, making an eyesore across the street from your precious front lawn?

      • rhywun

        The California Way™. And New York. And New Jersey….

    • WTF

      How in the fuck can you be prohibited from working on your own possession? This like saying I’m not allowed to modify the pickups on my electric guitar. It’s my fucking property, fuck you.

    • Mad Scientist

      An online explainer on the code says that the law is supposed to decrease the release of pollutants as well as maintain property values as some deem the sight of auto repairs in residential areas an eyesore.

      So someone on the county board of fuckery is annoyed that their neighbor is always tinkering with his car, and sometimes his friends’ cars too.

    • Agent Cooper

      Another example of Democrats hating poor people and making their lives more difficult.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    You know- morons

    Last year, like many other Democrats, I took action. I campaigned, responded to social media misinformation and donated money to candidates. I celebrated when Joe Biden was announced as the winner of the presidency and when Democrats took back the Senate.

    The bill could end my ability to be my own boss, set my own hours and otherwise live the American worker’s dream.

    I also wrote a book to remind myself — and all of us — that honesty was something that still mattered, despite having the most dishonest person imaginable leading our country. But now that Donald Trump is out of office, I’m facing a painful truth: The man I prayed would become president could sign a piece of legislation that would kill my career as a freelance writer.

    It’s the strangest political cognitive dissonance I’ve ever experienced.

    *outright, prolonged laughter*

    We wear the chains we forged in life.

    Retard.

    • Rebel Scum

      responded to social media misinformation

      Presumably with misinformation/disinformation of your own.

      when Democrats took back the Senate

      I wouldn’t say “took” (unless you mean “stole”). It is tie with a Dem VP as tie-breaker.

      despite having the most dishonest person imaginable leading our country

      He ain’t called “Lyin’ Biden” for nothing. (I mean seriously, dude premised his pitiful campaign on an objective falsehood.)

      It’s the strangest political cognitive dissonance I’ve ever experienced.

      Perhaps you will learn something but probably not.

    • Chipwooder

      As Instapundit is fond of saying, another rube has identified himself

    • The Other Kevin

      They can do this because come election time, the Dems will convince you that the Republican candidate is “Literally Hitler” again and they’ll just keep getting your vote.

    • Timeloose

      How are beef prices in the SE PA? We are still seeing 2X the price/lb as compared to 2019. Those steaks are much pricier than those from the local Acme, but in general.

      • Sean

        Still up a little. Those were $18/lb for prime and are about 1lb each.

        Over the weekend we got prime strips from The Fresh Market. They were ~$12 each for 10z cuts.

        Last time I looked, the farmers market was still a buck or two higher per pound for most of their stuff.

    • PieInTheSky

      That is a small gun sir. Is that indicative of a small something else?

      Or it could be a very large steak. Either way

      • Sean

        Yes, it is a small compact pistol meant for everyday carry.

        Kimber micro 9 esv

      • db

        A shop near here had a big shipment of these come in a month or two ago. I waited to go and get one, but they all sold out in a couple of days. I heard they had 20 or 30.

      • Sean

        I really like mine.

        This thing is easy to shoot and a breeze to carry. Nice sights and good checkering on the front and rear of the grips.

        I got a good deal on it on Gunbroker. *wistful sigh* Remember those?

      • db

        Yeah. I was on Gunbroker a couple of weeks ago, and saw that M1As haven’t really changed in price. I almost ordered a nice one. Last time I bought anything on Gunbroker it was an FNC.

    • db

      Lookin’ good. Still working my way through a 1/6 beef I bought last year. I haven’t done many steaks because I don’t have a good indoor grilling option. But in the next few days I expect to correct that.

  39. Festus

    Yeah about that bird feeder thing. They can fuck right off over that. They started bitching about this over a month ago. In Victoria. We have flocks that depend on us and have attracted at least a half dozen species we’ve never seen before. The salmonella problem is from much warmer climes. We bring our feeders in at night when the bears wake up.

    • Gender Traitor

      You just need to put up little plexiglass dividers on the perches and leave out teeny tiny little masks.

      • Festus

        The red squirrels are the Karens.

    • EvilSheldon

      I think I just melted into a big puddle of emo.

      • Festus

        My balls just vanished. “Open Biden!”

    • Festus

      Daughter#3 has one of those. They got the doge prior to the third child. They have been inseparable since the baby was born. Grandchild has two older brothers but she won’t need their help for awhile. That is one awesome pup.

    • Old Man With Candy

      We watch tons of videos like that. SP gets annoyed when I point out that the baby goats are necessary for our poor old dog’s happiness.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    California should have been a wake-up call for Democrats, but the result did nothing to stop the House from rushing to pass national legislation to enshrine the ABC test into law. (Thankfully, it looks like the Senate is a little more willing to apply the brakes.)

    And that’s one of the most disappointing aspects of how this has played out. Instead of listening, Democratic lawmakers are doing what I have long criticized Republicans for: resorting to talking points that play well to a base while overlooking the facts. House rules allowed this bill to be voted on Tuesday without full committee hearings — so no chance for testimony from freelancers like me.

    It would be wrong to say no one is listening, however, because the Republicans certainly are. They’ve offered amendments to eliminate the ABC test from the bill, which I am grateful for, even though I know we agree on little else.

    They only hit you because they love you, honey.

    STOP BEING SUCH AN INGRATE AND A DISAPPOINTMENT TO THEM, YOU STUPID BITCH.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “I had a dream job but I fervently supported a man who explicitly said he’d take steps that would necessarily eliminate just that job.”
      It’s hard to be sympathetic but I am if for no other reason than realizing one’s own dumbassery deserves at least some credit.

      • WTF

        He only deserves credit if he actually changes his voting behavior.

      • juris imprudent

        ding-ding-ding

      • Rat on a train

        He only cares because it impacts him. I’m sure he is cheering all the other stuff the Ds are rushing through on party line votes.

    • Not Adahn

      Not clicking at work. But let me guess — masks?

      • Sean

        Not on the models.

      • Cy Esquire

        You mean their faces… or like… anywhere?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Attractive women, but that’s some god-awful music.

  41. PieInTheSky

    today in youtube recommends

    THE FIRST 10,000 DAYS ON MARS (Timelapse)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3hPH_bc0Ww

    I mean there is being ridiculously optimistic and then there’s this

    • Hyperion

      I can’t wait until Elon actually gets a little colony of humans there, because of this statement about self governance and outright rejection of earth based government.

      I can’t imagine how entertaining it will be to watch Congress and every would be royalty on this plant tie themselves into knots over this 24/7. Next thing you know, they’ll be bi-partisan legislation in Congress to deny supplies going out to Mars until the Marians OBEY THEIR RIGHTFUL MASTERS! While every state government on the planet busy themselves with how to divy up their own rightful piece of red cheese.

      • Tres Cool

        So you’ve read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” too

      • Hyperion

        I did. Got my digital copy thanks to our very own SF.

        Unfortunately, I don’t see a way for the Martians to hurl any large stones at us via gravity well. Wait… I’ll still be here!

      • db

        A colony on Mars could use a large solar reflector to cook any ships approaching before they got close enough to be a threat.

      • Hyperion

        My suggestion for them is they get nuclear tipped missiles asap if they want to be left alone. Still having any supplies from earth blocked will be a problem.

      • PieInTheSky

        I find it strange the video sees all power via solar panels anytime I imagined off world colonies it was always nuclear

      • Rat on a train

        100% renewable energy by offshoring production to Earth.

  42. TARDis

    government has solved all the major issues and created a utopia

    Well Cali did just get $6.7 Billion. Paradise awaits.

    And thank you, GA Senators Pajama-Boy and Child Abuser for diverting tax money to blue states.

    • TARDis

      Well not really tax money, more like largesse.

    • Hyperion

      It’s known that at least one of the aforementioned works directly for the CCP.

  43. Hyperion

    “How pandemic unfolds from here depends on how Americans act in critical weeks ahead, CDC director warns”

    I can translate.

    How it goes for you sheep depends on how well you obey, from now on, forever. This is the new normal. Got it, sheep, be good sheep.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Every psychology major ever: “How does that make you feel?”

      Me: “Like punching you in the face.”

  44. Count Potato

    From a couple of days ago:

    “NEW: In a leaked post from a private Facebook group for UTLA union members only, teachers are warned not to post on social media if they go on spring break vacations because the optics would be bad for them while UTLA is refusing to return to “unsafe” in-person schooling ”

    https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1369102199205203969

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dude you need to get your ass checked cause those drugs took way too long to fall out.

      • Tres Cool

        In prison, he’d be called a tight-end.

        Sadly, most leave as a wide-receiver

      • Count Potato

        You people need some new material.

      • Not Adahn

        Eventually, something will displace it, and the assdrugs will join the Browns Pallbearers, Telling your dying Gramma that Trump was impeached, and the Golden Girls turning a generation of boys gay.

      • Mojeaux

        I do not understand the appeal of Golden Girls.

      • rhywun

        Telling your dying Gramma that Trump was impeached

        There’s an oldie but goodie.

    • Hyperion

      Some organizations are already offering to pay students not to go on Spring Break, lol. If I were a student, I’d take the money and go on spring break.

      Why stop there? They can pay me this week to not drink beer and not put anything in my body except for kale and almond milk. *stocks up on beer and junk food*

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean the poor teachers are stressed out from being worried sick about the poor children and how awful it is that safety concerns make it impossible to reopen schools, so the need a vacation to calm their nerves.

  45. Tres Cool

    “Their wedding seemed like a real happily-ever-after moment. But wow did she manage to balls things up in a massive way,…”

    Heh. She sure did.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    In addition, you are not allowed to work on another person’s vehicle. Also, work done on any vehicle must be completed at the home the vehicle is registered to. Talk about red tape.

    They’ll kill California car culture by any means available.

    Fucking lowriders

    • Hyperion

      Well, so much for buying a 12 pack to get your mechanic buddy over to change a part for you. FREEDOM!

      • Festus

        “fweedom”

      • SDF-7

        That dweam within a dweam?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Won’t this hit lower income people the hardest? Why do they hate the poor?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Victim-hood is the new celebrity du jour.

      • invisible finger

        “I’m afflicted with a bald patch!”

        That movie has lost none of its timelessness.

    • Hyperion

      It’s a thing because one of them is a brown peoples. /stupid

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If by punch line you mean a couple of decades in the Tower of London then I’m all for it. Normally I’m fairly antiprison but whiny hereditary billionaires who maintain their position on the public dime just rub me the wrong way for some reason.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The local news talk guy had an interesting take on the interview.

      His proposition is that Oprah, being a close buddy of Obama, who is a fierce anti-colonialist, set up the interview to give the superficial perception that she’s being sympathetic to Harry and Meghan, but in reality she was undermining the entire royal family by making them all look like petty twats.

      Complaining about your millions while the rest of the populace is going thru lockdowns, etc… is not a good look.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That presupposes too much intelligence and forethought.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t think it would be wise to underestimate Oprah. She’s no dummy.

      • Festus

        I’ve loathed her for thirty years. I may be a tadge biased.

      • Animal

        …but in reality she was undermining the entire royal family by making them all look like petty twats.

        They didn’t need her help for that.

      • Mojeaux

        You know, when the queen can order someone’s head chopped off (or at least run into a pilon at top speed) as a matter of national security, “petty” is not a word that comes to mind.

        Harry and Meghan? Petty.

        The queen? No.

    • littleruttiger

      I obviously don’t know anything about them, but if I were a friend of Harry I would be kind of worried for him – since marrying her, he’s cut off his family and given up a longtime hobby(s) – supposedly he was a hunter.

    • juris imprudent

      Imma smack you upside the head for even bringing that up here.

      • Cy Esquire

        Harder baby! This time with the big one!

    • Drake

      Would anyone know that Merkle is “black” (mulatto and octoroon are verboten words I think) if she didn’t tell us?

      How does anyone watch a couple of millionaires being interviewed by a billionaire all claiming to be victims?

      • littleruttiger

        There’s a lot of things like this, where I’m just so confused why anyone would care in the slightest

      • UnCivilServant

        (mulatto and octoroon are verboten words I think)

        But Quadroon is okay?

  47. Hyperion

    “Can they please give a reasonable explanation why this is unfair to certain groups?

    Of course not, it is known that if you are a minority, and these days that means anyone who is not white, a male, Christian, or heterosexual, it is very very hard to vote. Doesn’t matter if you have a new Mercedes and are an able bodied 20 year old, it is very very difficult to get to a polling place, because reasons.

    • juris imprudent

      I gave him the reasonable explanation – the Dems know they will win the votes of those too dumb and lazy to vote now.

      • R C Dean

        Not even that. The Dems know they will get their ballots, regardless of who actually fills out the votes on them.

    • leon

      I don’t know who she is, except now she’s pumping this “Online Violence” initiative to keep people from being mean to her online.

      • PieInTheSky

        I saw that piece of garbage… and it is always violence against women although every single serious study showed women are not harrasen/insulted online anymore than men are, and more than 50% comes from other women.

      • Chipwooder

        She’s a typical 20something woke idiot paid by the NYT to be a supposed “internet reporter”, where she mostly spends her time attack random people on twitter for their rather harmless comments, doxxing them and trying to get them fired from their jobs. She’s a nasty piece of work.

    • Hyperion

      Who?

    • Chipwooder

      I have no idea, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me. They have in common the desire to destroy someone’s life over harmless online comments.

    • Count Potato

      They did a scene together in Prep School Girls 5.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I know ENB is buddy buddy with Valenti.

      Lorenz makes a living tormenting people who otherwise wish to remain private and out of the public eye. If she gets a dose of her own medicine, there will be no sympathy from me.

      • leon

        So it’s a hypocritical Irony that she is pushing an “Online Violence’ bullshit because people are mean to her online.

      • PieInTheSky

        there was a meme with someone throwing shit with a shovel over a fence and upset when someone threw some back but I can;t find it.

      • Chipwooder

        Jill Filipovic is another ENB fave. Gee, with all these leftist writers she’s a friend of, and the lefty troll she married, and her extensive history of leftist writing pre-Reason, I’m starting to suspect she’s not all that committed to liberty.

      • juris imprudent

        Freedom for sex work, that’s about it.

      • PieInTheSky

        do not be uncharitable I am sure there are other things

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sandwiches? No wait, that’s freedom from sandwiches.

    • Agent Cooper

      Sure thing, Steve Peoples.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Isn’t he German? Sounds like a cultural norm. We should be more understanding.

    • Festus

      cuck

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Blind spots? Look to your bandmates’ way of thought.

    • Agent Cooper

      NEVER APOLOGIZE.

    • juris imprudent

      He should put out a message 10 minutes later – okay, blindspots checked and I’m good to go.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “I adjusted my side mirrors.”

    • Chipwooder

      Report to the struggle session, comrade

    • R C Dean

      Aren’t blind spots the one thing you can’t examine?

  48. The Late P Brooks

    They can do this because come election time, the Dems will convince you that the Republican candidate is “Literally Hitler” again and they’ll just keep getting your vote.

    TRUMP MADE HER LIFE A LIVING HELL!

    • Hyperion

      Apparently, TOS is already convinced it’s Hawley. If not, they’re going to have to change the name and repeat the exact same articles.

      • juris imprudent

        Templates do improve efficiency.

  49. The Other Kevin

    I really thought Biden would finish his term and just be a figurehead while the real work is done behind the scenes. I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong. I can’t imagine this going on for another few months, let alone 4 years. It’s just going to get worse.

    • Hyperion

      I’d almost make a large wager that they’ll keep him propped up, even when he’s nothing but a drooling moron who can’t utter a single coherent phrase, and who all the world are laughing at. CNN and the rest of the idiots in the US Pravda will just say he’s a brilliant and vibrantly healthy guy with a stutter and the sheep will keep believing.

      • littleruttiger

        I only see youtube clips, but man does he look and sound terrible

      • littleruttiger

        haha, yeah, I grew up with classic simpsons, so I’m biased, but even the random lines like that just cracked me up, it was a peak few other shows can match

      • l0b0t

        “Your father can be awfully sensitive. Remember that time you laughed at his Sherlock Holmes hat? He sulked for a week, then closed his detective agency.”

      • Festus

        No. They can’t gloss this over. Shit will hit the fan soon and they won’t be able to cover for him much longer. “He’s just a little addled! He’s still good! He’s still good!”

      • Chipwooder

        Who’s going to stop them? Think the press will ever stop running cover for this moron? I rather doubt it.

      • Raven Nation

        I’m more on your side. The idea that Kamala takes over in two years assumes that everyone on her team and everyone on Joe’s team are united. I’d be surprised if that’s the case. I think Joe’s people are desperate to hang on to power for as long as they can, using him.

  50. DEG

    The growing number of vaccinations is still not high enough — and likely won’t be for a few more months, according to experts — to suppress the spread of coronavirus through herd immunity.

    Oh, herd immunity is now good. Fuck you. I tapped out here.

    The lawsuit claims the new law, which Reynolds signed on Monday, creates an undue burden on the fundamental right to vote, citing numerous violations of voters’ constitutional rights.

    Fuck you. I tapped out here.

    Heterosexual men are more willing to assist women when they have visibly erect nipples, particularly when that assistance involves greater interaction with them, according to new research published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

    Someone got paid to study this? I’m in the wrong business.

    ‘She must have some sort of spell over him to be sticking with her,’ a friend said of Daniel Barber
    The husband of convicted teacher Kandice Barber “vows to wait” for the woman who cheated on him with a 15-year-old student.

    “Spell”. Fuck. It’s a cuckold fetish. And so what if he has a cuckold fetish? Cuckold fetish isn’t for me and for a lot of people, but it works for some.

    Biden visited W.S. Jenks & Son, a hardware store which used Paycheck Protection Program money to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, on Tuesday to tout his extension of the program.

    Biden visited a hardware store. He’s just plain folks that cares about the average American.

    Removing the mask mandate and relaxing capacity requirements as Spring Break approaches poses a dire risk for spiking infection rates in the Houston area, says Memorial Hermann CEO Dr. David Callender.

    Go fuck yourself.

    • Hyperion

      “Biden visited a hardware store. He’s just plain folks that cares about the average American.”

      I want to laugh, except it’s no laughing matter how plainly outrageous and vile that statement is.

      • db

        I’d be willing to bet Biden had no idea what any of that stuff in the hardware store was for, even when he wasn’t suffering dementia.

  51. The Other Kevin

    My teammates and I were talking about getting Covid shots. There are some disabilities that will get you on the list, but nothing that any of us have. It goes by age, and then diabetes, kidney dialysis, and Down Syndrome will get you a dose. Here they’re about a week away from covering my age. Mrs. TOK is against getting a shot, because she has has bad reactions to other immunizations and even simple things such as detergent or medical tape on her skin. I’m considering it, just because it will probably mean the difference between me playing in tournaments this season or not.

    Meanwhile, one of our able bodied guys got his because he called pharmacies and they gave him the dose from someone who didn’t show up for their appointment.

    • Urthona

      That’s the way to do it. my sister’s a pediatrician and for some reason the government sent her clinic a bunch of vaccines.

      Well she schedules some old people but when people don’t show up the vaccine is already thawed. anybody around is fair game or it gets wasted.

      • The Other Kevin

        There was some talk about this being racist or something, but I think it’s a good thing people are going through with this.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^ They can’t give vaccines away around here. The supply far exceeds the demand so they open it up to anyone around.

      • l0b0t

        I get two or three text messages a day from my union, reminding me that if want the shot, I can get it for free at the big US Open tennis rink in Flushing Meadows, Queens.

      • Urthona

        I’m in a rich upper middle class county and there are none but you can easily get it if you go elsewhere.

      • R C Dean

        “Equity” in action.

    • Not Adahn

      You athletes probably aren’t far enough to qualify on the basis of BMI. Although, how do they calculate that if you’re missing legs?

  52. The Late P Brooks

    More from the “freelancer”:

    Beyond that, all my colleagues and I have been hearing from Democrats in response to our concerns are talking points about how they are fighting for American workers. Don’t I count as an American worker? And if I don’t, then what exactly have I been supporting all these years?

    I know what I believe in — things like an end to systemic racism, better support for families and children, increased voting rights and equity in schools. Yet now I find myself looking at Democrats’ slogans and questioning my assumption that their bills truly help the people who need it most.

    I recognize that I’ve bought into broad narratives about the power of the people, usually pushing the most progressive-minded, feel-good policies that have easily repeatable language about things like the “dignity of work.” But when you’re the one whose work is suddenly threatened, it’s a bit more complicated.

    Wut? Stated intent not same as obviously predictable outcome? Say it ain’t so, Shirley.

    Could that 4 watt bulb in the vast emptiness of your brain be flickering to life?

    • leon

      Someone just needs to call Him a Racist, and he’ll smash that lightbulb to powder.

    • Agent Cooper

      This is why being a team player is dumb.

    • Mojeaux

      “Oh, that would never happen to ME.”

  53. PieInTheSky

    My mother got her first pfizer shot on the 5th and has her next one on the 26th.

    They say on 15th of march they will start making appointments for the general population, though you cannot chose the vaccine. But it is rumored you can choose the center to go to get the shot, and usually a center only has one vaccine, and people do not want AstraZeneca so they are trying to make lists of which center have Pfizer or Moderna.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have a friend who is a notary public, my age, but got the shot because he works with the public…

    • Urthona

      I had Pfizer and as did most of my family members.

      The only problem with it is the side effects can be severe. Especially if you already had covid. You should not be getting the vaccine if you already had covid, contrary to what people are saying.

    • Festus

      “Orange legs!” I about died.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (Hey, Lord Festus: for durable jeans I hear good things about Duluth Trading Co. I think GT has experience with them. That was you, right?)

      • Festus

        Thank’s TOG! They have to cup my buns juuuust right, though.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Dunno about cupping men’s trousers. Speaking of orange legs, nice to see your old avatar again.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        It was the, “Jew hat!” at the very end that had me in tears.

    • PieInTheSky

      there ought to be a law against parodying the president. Why in Thailand that right there is life in jail. SugarFree would have been drawn and quartered by now in a proper world.

    • db

      I would like to see someone compile a bunch of insulting comments from the 1980s/1990s about Reagan’s mental decline and mash them up with modern day clips of Biden.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        You probably could find people that are running cover for Biden that were all over Reagan.

  54. KSuellington

    I have a hunnert bucks with my brother on Dementia Joe not lasting until January 2023. I am really liking my odds on that right now. With the way that they are printing those greenbacks that is gonna buy me a sixer of my choice at the corner store.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re going to keep in there long enough to not go over Harris’ ten years limit even if they have to have him stuffed and Weekend at Bernie’s him to his nonexistent press conferences.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I have a hunnert bucks with my brother on Dementia Joe not lasting until January 2023.

      That’s a sucker bet. The Aricept™ injections have been fully adapted to. Puddin’ Cup’s gonna get his ass all 25thAed before end of summer IMNSHO. You might as well tell your bro to fork over the cash now (while it’s still worth something valuable, like beer).

  55. PieInTheSky

    HuffPost employees, after a year of working through a pandemic that isn’t over, were invited to a meeting today with the password “spring is here,” where they were told 47 of them would be laid off. They would only know if they still had a job if they didn’t receive an email by 1

    https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1369349911620292610

    I mean I sure the job market is strong for journos they’ll have another job in no time

    • leon

      It’s a cruel Irony that these journalists see the worst times during a Democratic Presidency.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      “spring is here”

      They got sprung alright.

    • Animal

      Learn to code! Learn to code!

    • Agent Cooper

      Learn to _______.

    • Agent Cooper

      John Kerry has some solar panel gigs all lined up for them.

  56. The Late P Brooks

    Survey says

    The economic relief bill moving rapidly through Congress is broadly popular, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
    The popularity of the bill comes as President Joe Biden’s approval rating tilts positive around 50 days after he took the oath of office.
    In the new poll, 61% support the $1.9 trillion economic relief bill proposed by Biden and expected to pass in the House Wednesday, and several key provisions of the bill are even more popular. A broad majority of Americans (85%) say they support policies in the bill that would provide larger tax credits for families and make them easier for low-income households to claim, including majorities across party lines (95% of Democrats and 73% of Republicans support it). Around three-quarters favor provisions to provide funding to facilitate a return to the classroom for K-12 students (77%), and sending stimulus checks worth up to $1,400 per person to most families and individuals (76%). Both of those policies also have majority support across party lines (55% of Republicans support each, among Democrats, support tops 90% for each one).

    Free lunch is real.

    Real popular.

    The Beatles were wrong

    • leon

      Why, Can’t you just imagine a world without Money and Evil people who don’t want to keep money away from the poor needy oppressed people like Meghan Markle?

    • kbolino

      I guess the Democrats who are so eager to personally pay more taxes are all in that 5% who oppose the tax credit.

      • kbolino

        Well, I wondered what happened to this avatar.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    I mean I sure the job market is strong for journos they’ll have another job in no time

    They can go freelance, and be their own boss.

    Oh, wait…

  58. PieInTheSky

    Bitter Rock, Alaska, 1897.
    “The photograph owner claims it was taken by a Russian sailor prior to his disappearance. It appears to be the being known as “the six-wing” and matches descriptions of reported sightings prior to the mass disappearances of 1943, 1973 and 2003.”

    https://twitter.com/Valdevia_Art/status/1369319771506946051

    • Scruffy Nerfherder
  59. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of obviously predictable outcomes

    While policing has been refocused in Portland, experts and officials say it’s unlikely those changes caused spikes in gun violence.

    “I believe if (the Gun Violence Reduction Team) were (around) today, we would still see a substantial, if not identical increase, in shootings in Portland,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said in January. “This is clearly part of a larger national trend.”

    Wheeler, who is also police commissioner, announced the unit’s disbanding last June and reassigned its 34 officers to patrol. He described it as an opportunity to reimagine policing and redirected $7 million in police funds toward communities of color.

    The push was led by Jo Ann Hardesty, the first Black woman elected to the City Council. She cited a 2018 audit showing nearly 60% of people stopped by the gun violence team were Black — though they make up less than 6% of the city’s population.

    Nearly half of the 55 total homicide victims in 2020 were people of color, many of them from Portland’s historically Black neighborhoods, according to city statistics.

    It’s hard to believe, Ted, but making it clear to people you have no intention of enforcing the law could possibly result in an increase in crime.

    • db

      “I believe if (the Gun Violence Reduction Team) were (around) today, we would still see a substantial, if not identical increase, in shootings in Portland,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said in January. “This is clearly part of a larger national trend.”

      So, what you’re saying, is gun control doesn’t work to reduce shootings?

  60. The Late P Brooks

    The violence has left leaders and community members scrambling for solutions. Some say the loss of the unit’s seasoned detectives has hurt the city, while others push for new approaches.

    Last month, police launched a squad of 15 officers and six detectives focusing on gun violence investigations. Officials say it’s only part of the solution, as leaders partner with community groups, work to increase transparency and use proactive approaches that don’t rely on the stop-and-frisk tactic.

    Gun control will solve this, not preventing your city from turning into a festering lawless shithole.

  61. Count Potato

    “Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ex-gay,’ wants to rehabilitate ‘conversion therapy’

    Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has come out as “ex-gay” – announcing that he “would like to help rehabilitate what the media calls ‘conversion therapy’” over the next decade, according to a report.

    The 36-year-old British political commentator, whose speeches and writings often ridicule political correctness, social justice and feminism, declared himself no longer gay and “sodomy free,” he told LifeSite in an interview.

    Yiannopoulos told the outlet that he is now leading a daily consecration online to St. Joseph.

    “When I used to kid that I only became gay to torment my mother, I wasn’t entirely joking,” he said.

    “Of course, I was never wholly at home in the gay lifestyle — Who is? Who could be? — and only leaned heavily into it in public because it drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, intelligent gay man riotously celebrating conservative principles,” Yiannopoulos continued.”

    https://nypost.com/2021/03/10/milo-yiannopoulos-announces-he-is-ex-gay-and-sodomy-free/

    What?

    • db

      handsome, charismatic, intelligent gay man

      Was he clean and articulate, too?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I see he’s still trying to drive liberals crazy.

    • Sean

      He no longer loves the cock?

    • Mojeaux

      provocateur

      All you need to know about that announcement.

      • UnCivilServant

        All I know is that he craves attention and controversy.

        I think being out of the limelight for years was insufferable torment for him.

      • Mojeaux

        Precisely my point.

      • rhywun

        ^this

        That’s all it is.

        CWAA

    • leon

      It has been argued that homelessness is associated with the end of institutionalizing people with mental issues.

      If that’s the case we should stop calling them homeless, but “Media-less” because clearly all they need is some boosting over media and they would be considered famous celebrities.

      (See for more examples: Meghan Markle)

      • Mad Scientist

        The ones I see around here mumbling to themselves are no different from the president of the United States.

    • Rebel Scum

      I thought he married a black guy.

  62. Lord Humungus

    STEVE SMITH NOT PICKY

  63. Lord Humungus

    >>College men are more willing to help women with erect nipples, according to new research

    I remember when EF and I stopped at my folk;s house one summer day. EF wasn’t wearing a bra. I thought the old man was going to keel over.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      It’s nice that you’ll do stuff like that for your Dad.

  64. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    While not exactly related to erect nipples, that study reminds me of time I was hitchhiking back to my apartment in Moscow late at night. A coworker tried to flag down a car for me and was having no luck at all. His wife took his place and there were three cars pulled over in the first 30 seconds. The driver was disappointed when I climbed in.

    • Raven Nation

      Years ago my FIL was driving from the western slope of CO to Denver with his daughter then in her late teens/early 20s. They were in a cargo van and got stuck in snow in a bunch of traffic going over Vail Pass. MY SIL was wearing a dinner dress and heels. FIL told her to get out and push. Within 30 seconds there were at least five guys at the back of the van pushing it out of the snow.

  65. PieInTheSky

    I got a youtube recommend for a Romanian outdoors channel camping in a tent at -10 C and it was followed by a Canadian one camping in a tent at -40 F on a frozen lake and the first one seemed less bad ass

    • Gustave Lytton

      The only bloodsuckers the Canuck has to worry about are mosquitos and those aren’t usually around at -40 C/F.

  66. Gustave Lytton

    The Year of the Three Presidents.

      • Rat on a train

        1921?

      • UnCivilServant

        That was a year of two presidents.

      • Rat on a train

        Edith Wilson played an influential role in President Wilson’s administration following the severe stroke he suffered in October 1919. For the remainder of her husband’s presidency, she managed the office of the president, a role she later described as a “stewardship,” and determined which communications and matters of state were important enough to bring to the attention of the bedridden president.

      • UnCivilServant

        There were plenty of puppet presidents, but I’m only counting people who hold the title.

    • PieInTheSky

      I don’t

    • The Other Kevin

      Once upon a time Andy Ngo would have been called an “investigative journalist”. Now he’s a “conservative provocateur”. It amazes me how transparent this is, yet so many people just go right along with it.

      • Agent Cooper

        Ngo certainly has his own biases but that’s true of every reporter. Also, his boots-on-the-ground and cinema verite style of reporting has led to increased credibility (at least to me)

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry,”

      Your bandmates sound like a bunch of assholes.

    • rhywun

      OFFS!

      Well, at least he (maybe) learned a lesson: keep your fuckin’ trap shut.

      • kbolino

        Silence is violence. He’s going to have to do a performative reeducation act to get out of this.

        “Fuck off” is more useful here than “I’m sorry” or saying nothing.

    • Agent Cooper

      He’s getting ratio’d pretty hard on the Tweetz.

      Ironically, his name is Winston. (Not sure about his mother)

    • rhywun

      PS. That website is a dumpster fire.