Winston’s Mom Does the Links

by | Mar 30, 2021 | Daily Links | 159 comments

I’ve been kissed before

Arms have held me fast

You can tell by my kiss

you weren’t the first

and you won’t be the last….

What? More links for you clowns? Alright, alright.

This shit again?  I generally don’t wish death upon people (bad for business) but the idiots on both sides of this debate need to die so we can move on.

On one hand I can see how outlawing cryptocurrency would benefit them, especially if they are trying to roll their own.  Because they’re a developing economy inflated fiat currencies would likely benefit them with regard to trade.  On the other hand, screw these people.

With six fingers and other birth defects as a direct result of inbreeding, I a$$umed the Amish were already immune.

Actually, its a decent explanation for why we haven’t seen runaway inflation…yet.

We’re all doomed. DOOOOOOOOOMMMMED.

I swear I must the only broad he didn’t touch.  I guess I’m just not Andy’s type.

 

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

159 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    Awake early or still awake?

  2. Tres Cool

    yo whats goody yo ?

    • Festus

      Rita Hayworth about 75 years ago?

      • Rat on a train

        Audrey Hepburn

  3. Count Potato

    “Actually, its a decent explanation for why we haven’t seen runaway inflation…yet.”

    Casual observation, consumer prices do seem much higher lately.

    • AlexinCT

      Before they started jacking prices they were reducing package sizes (or package content) in stealth mode.

      • rhywun

        That’s been going on for many years. Apparently they think consumers are too stupid to notice.

        (They may be right.)

      • Gustave Lytton

        So what if they notice? Not like consumers can jam another 2oz into the 30oz jar of mayo instead.

    • Drake

      Food, gas, and ammo are all higher than a year ago. Housing is going up in most places too.

  4. Rebel Scum

    According to the New York Post, the administrator of a medical center in the heart of Lancaster County’s New Holland Borough has estimated that as many as 90% of the families in the community have had at least one family member infected. And that means practically everybody has been exposed to the virus.

    Funny how that works.

    • juris imprudent

      You know what the Amish are really immune to – media (both mass and social).

    • Gustave Lytton

      And that means they have large extended families.

      I doubt the 90% figure is just for nuclear family/living unit but is casting the net as wide as possible.

  5. Festus

    I’m not a smart man but what I parsed from those graphs from the AEIR article does not look good. Start the garden plot back up? Snares for the squirrels and songbirds?

  6. Rebel Scum

    Actually, its a decent explanation for why we haven’t seen runaway inflation…yet.

    So you are saying I should liquidate my savings on drugs and whores.

    • Festus

      So long as you’re willing to share with me, Comrade!

  7. Count Potato

    So WordPress is still being retarded.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah, either I can’t post or nobody is posting.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t know, I had work paperwork to do.

  8. Rebel Scum

    In an emotional plea during a Monday press briefing, Walensky urged Americans to quickly get the vaccine, citing CDC data showing a 10% spike in daily COVID-19 cases.

    Luckily that doesn’t work on me.

    • Winston's Mom

      Vaccines? Odd fetish but whatever.

  9. Atanarjuat

    Speaking of the debt and how it may be dealt with, this video covers it at 39:00.

    https://youtu.be/fwNmL0AN49U

  10. Count Potato

    “‘Whites must keep quiet when racism is discussed’: Call by Paris’s deputy mayor prompts new fury over ‘American woke culture’ taking over France

    A collection of politicians, prominent intellectuals, and academics argued last month that France was being contaminated by American ideas on race, gender, and post-colonialism, and that they were undermining French society. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9417445/Paris-deputy-mayor-prompts-fury-Whites-quiet-racism-discussed.html

    French intellectuals you don’t say?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      “‘Whites must keep quiet when racism is discussed”

      My employer has started having meetings, segregated by race, to discuss racism. No exaggeration… whites are restricted to one meeting that any race can join and then there are separate meetings for different races of color that whites are forbidden to take part in.

      This really bothers me. I enjoy my job, am paid very well, and have a family to support. I thought about speaking up but will likely continue keeping my head down. This trend of encouraging racial discrimination and segregation doesn’t bode well though for our country.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        division… meant racial division at the end. Discrimination works too, but they are working damn hard to encourage division among races.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’ve been cured of any remnant of the “how could they’s” in regards to historical injustices. It’s abundantly clear how evil ideologies take over. They simply manipulate the masses into thinking they’re doing good and intimidate the dissenters into silence.

      • Rat on a train

        I’ve come to a similar realization about mass hysteria. I’ve read about past instances and wondered how they took hold. Now I no longer wonder.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It should bother you.

      • rhywun

        Sorry… that’s terrible.

        I sure hope my company doesn’t dive that far into this insanity.

    • rhywun

      To be fair… American ideas on race, gender, and post-colonialism are undermining American society too.

  11. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Bank reserves are now $3.4 trillion, double the level of a year ago (a magnitude not seen since the 2008-09 crisis). Significantly, most of these are excess reserves (beyond those required by the Fed), which means banks are hoarding cash. Indeed, they’ve been doing so since 2008-09. Likewise, the money supply (M-1) has increased substantially over the past year (+350%), to $18.4 trillion, although most of that occurred in 2Q2020. But the demand for money (cash balances) also has risen a lot, which means money’s velocity (rate of speed in spending) has been plummeting. Whereas velocity is the multiple of nominal GDP to the money supply, money demand is the inverse (the multiple of money supply to nominal GDP, or the reciprocal of velocity). Fast-rising money demand (fast-declining velocity) signifies hoarding.’

    A simple man’s viewpoint: So the banking system is basically being ran like an African diamond mining exchange? Sit on a mountain of it but only release enough to meet demand because releasing too much will devalue the product?

    • Winston's Mom

      Yes.

    • The Hyperbole

      Other than that the diamonds are real and the money is a pulled out of thin air.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That and we’re not forced to use the diamonds as a medium of exchange by fedgov.

    • Nephilium

      Or the banks don’t trust the fed to not change the bank reserve requirements on them with short notice. I’d also posit that there is not as much demand for business or commercial real estate loans in the current climate.

  12. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Hi Winston’s Mom. Winston said you were going to be at the pool today. Winston wanted to play D&D, but I’d rather go swimming. Can I bring you anything? Like a towel?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe6n8Z9IUSk

    • Winston's Mom

      I’ll give you points because it wasn’t Stacy’s Mom…again.

  13. Festus

    Newest accuser of Cuomo – Plusses – kinda Gilfy, Mario is handsy, he’s a bully and a creep. Minuses – Gloria Allred and the time that has passed.

    • WTF

      He kissed her on the cheek? Seriously? I can’t stand Cuomo, but this is ridiculous, he’s Italian for Christ sake, it’s what they do.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    In an emotional plea during a Monday press briefing, Walensky urged Americans to quickly get the vaccine

    Follow the SCIENCE! or you’re going to Hell.

  15. CatchTheCarp

    The main page is not updating for me -both in Chrome and Brave. I see these errors in the developer console. Any ideas how to fix this?

    Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property ‘init’ of undefined
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    • CatchTheCarp

      Disregard – figure it out. Empty cache and a hard reload.

      • CatchTheCarp

        That fixed the issue in Chrome but not Brave. This is the error in Brave. Also I get an intermittent “service unavailable” error when trying to post.

        Uncaught ReferenceError: et_core_page_resource_fallback is not defined
        at HTMLLinkElement.onload ((index):303)
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  16. The Late P Brooks

    Finest palette of skin colors in the judiciary

    President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced plans to name a diverse group of judicial nominees to the federal courts in his first efforts to have the federal bench “reflect the full diversity of the American people — both in background and in professional experience,” the White House said.

    The group includes three Black women nominees for circuit court openings, the first Asian American woman for the district court in Washington D.C., and the first woman of color for the district court in Maryland.

    The slate of 11 nominees, which includes nine women, “draws from the very best and brightest minds of the American legal profession,” Biden said in a statement announcing the nominees. “Each is deeply qualified and prepared to deliver justice faithfully under our Constitution and impartially to the American people — and together they represent the broad diversity of background, experience, and perspective that makes our nation strong.”

    I hope he’s got some gender fluid differently enabled folx on that list.

    Legal acumen is slavery.

    • Rat on a train

      Law and reason are racist. It’s time for some equity.

    • Cowboy

      Each is deeply qualified and prepared to deliver justice faithfully under our Constitution and impartially to the American people

      If he actually believed that, then why would the nominees diversity quotient even matter? The law is the law regardless of the number of woke points on your score card.

    • WTF

      Each is deeply qualified and prepared to deliver justice faithfully under our Constitution and impartially to the American people

      Our research into their radical left backgrounds indicates this is a lie.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      All these women are totally different than the woman put on the Supreme Court by OMB.

  17. Annoyed Nomad

    RE: the Amish in Pennsylvania, I understand that Ohio’s Governor addressed Ohio’s Holmes County at his latest Covid press conference. Holmes county has a high Amish/Mennonite population.

    Early in his press conference the Governor spoke about cases, and pointed out that Holmes county had low levels of cases. Later in his conference he spoke about vaccinations and the need to increase the percentage of people having been vaccinated. Once again he pointed to Holmes county as an example of where the percentage vaccinated is low, even mentioning that it could be due to “cultural” reasons.

    He didn’t seem to be aware of the mixed message.

    • Winston's Mom

      DeWine is a message so mixed he fucks men and women.

    • The Last American Hero

      The article cited how case count was high but was very quiet on the subject of hospitalizations or deaths. Interesting.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Is it just my imagination or has the media gone into full Daddy-in-Chief mode with their Biden coverage?

    Biden is doing this, Biden is doing that; the man is our One True Savior. Without him, we would be adrift and helpless in a stormy terrifying sea.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Dunno, haven’t really consumed much media. I click the more interesting links here, and the wife sends an article or two a week. Beyond that, I see no need to indulge in the daily propaganda feed.

    • Rebel Scum

      Joseph Biden, elder statesman and vanquisher of Orang Man Bad, here to rescue us from the turmoil’s of freedom.

      • Tejicano

        You forgot “His wise and seasoned guidance will lead us through these troubling times.”

        The incantation doesn’t work if you don’t recite it in its entirety.

      • Rat on a train

        Joseph Robinette Biden, mmm, mmm, mmm, …

  19. The Other Kevin

    Saw some encouraging news yesterday. The Kentucky legislature overrode the veto of a school choice bill, and the governor of Florida declare, no vaccine passports. Looks like there is some fight at the state level.

    We’ll see if Emperor Polydent tightens his grip on the galaxy.

    • Ozymandias

      I gotta tell you, Kev, I mean, TOK, that “Emperor Polydent” is now adopted into my vocab.
      It’s beautiful.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Ghislaine Maxwell did not kill herself.

    Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was charged on Monday for the first time with sex-trafficking of a minor, as federal prosecutors accused her of grooming a 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual acts with Mr. Epstein and later paying her…

    The new charges against Ms. Maxwell go further than those contained in an earlier indictment that accused her of helping Mr. Epstein recruit, groom and ultimately sexually abuse girls, but did not include sex-trafficking allegations.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They sure took their sweet time coming up with charges. I’m sure there’s a reason for that.

    • Festus

      The headline was a lie and she’s kinda gross, anyways…

  21. DrOtto

    Regarding the inflation article, metals prices quoted on a ticker and physical metals prices are rapidly becoming 2 different markets. If you can get physical metals, good luck paying leveraged paper prices. I sold 18 scrap catalytic converters last August and got $1,300 for them (and was pleased). A fellow mechanic just sold his 24 scap converters in late February for nearly $5,000. Now there may have been differences between the 2 piles, but the biggest difference is how much more physical metals are bringing. Most shops that sell physical metals are out of physical around here.

    • Sean

      Ugh. I guess the catalytic thieves are gonna be active again.

      • Nephilium

        They’ve already started here in the Cleveland area. See blurbs about it in the local news every couple of days.

    • The Other Kevin

      Is is really happening a lot, or are is just being reported more? I’m not sure how to find out.

      Funny how we’re talking about these attacks now, right after people started calling attention to anti-Asian policies in college admissions.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Just being reported more. I would guess that any statistical uptick they can find would be lost in the noise if other variables were taken into account.

        I’m still riding the theory that the 9 point Asian swing towards Republicans in the 2020 election kicked this off. Battlespace prep started in late December, and they rolled it out a couple months later. They are bought and paid for by the democrats, and they WILL act as such.

    • Rat on a train

      It reminds me of all the “attacks on Jews increase under Trump”. What they fail to note is the attacks are from Democrats.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        One might call that a threat of violence in another context.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Internalized white supremacy

    • WTF

      Although I do wonder, why are blacks attacking asians?

      Because Trump called Covid the Chinese Flu, duh!

  22. DEG

    In an emotional plea during a Monday press briefing, Walensky urged Americans to quickly get the vaccine, citing CDC data showing a 10% spike in daily COVID-19 cases.

    She can go fuck herself.

    • WTF

      10% spike in daily COVID-19 cases

      What about hospitalizations? Why is that not mentioned?
      I think I can guess.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Personification of evil

    After failed negotiations between South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem and the state’s House lawmakers, the governor issued two executive orders Monday designed to limit participation on women’s and girls’ school sports teams to people assigned female at birth.

    Earlier this month, state lawmakers passed a bill restricting transgender athletes from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. After signaling support — even excitement — for the bill, Noem declined to sign it over concerns the law would not survive legal challenges. Instead, she asked lawmakers to revise the legislation’s language. Major conservative backlash ensued and on Monday, South Dakota lawmakers failed to come to an agreement.

    “Only girls should play girls’ sports,” Noem tweeted Monday evening. “Given the legislature’s failure to accept my proposed revisions to HB 1217, I am immediately signing two executive orders to address this issue: one to protect fairness in K-12 athletics, and another to do so in college athletics.”

    OMG why can’t she be a good governor, like Cuomo or Newsom?

    • leon

      But FDRLIST totally said she was a heretic who who had abandoned the faith of Culture Kampf!!!

    • Rebel Scum

      people assigned female at birth

      Aka “females”.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    “I think the executive orders speak for themselves,” Miller says. “What they do is set out that DOE and BOR should take steps to ensure that girls play girls’ sports.”

    *staggers off in general direction of fainting couch*

  25. leon

    I have to thank ya’ll who pointed me to the right direction to some gifts of Zardoz yesterday. I was able to find some good deals. Thanks!

    • Gustave Lytton

      I picked up a digging bar last Friday. That’s a gift of Zardoz too, right?

      • leon

        I need to get something like that. I’m trying to remove a stump in the backyard to put in a firepit.

  26. Rebel Scum

    I was wondering what all the buzz was about.

    Previously, another team of fellow researchers had honed a method for training bees in landmine detection. They achieved this by getting the bees to associate the smell of TNT with food – a sugar solution.

    In the field, the trained bees tend to cluster near to places where mines are buried, in the hope of finding food.

    Such efforts have been active for many years but Prof Risojević says he and his team realised that computers could help by automatically analysing footage of the mine-seeking bees, in order to plot their activity and more easily locate the mines.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Land of the Free

    Federal prosecutors have dropped a long-standing fight to keep two alleged Capitol rioters in jail, marking one of the highest-profile setbacks for the government in these cases so far.

    The US attorney’s office in Washington had spent the past two months arguing to keep Eric Munchel and Lisa Eisenhart behind bars while their cases are pending. In February, a federal judge in DC sided with the government and ordered the mother-son codefendants to stay in jail. But the government notified the judge on Monday that they were backing down; the decision comes three days after a federal appeals court ruled that the DC judge had failed to justify the detention order when the two weren’t charged with assaulting anyone or destroying property.

    Munchel — who was photographed inside the Capitol wearing tactical gear and carrying plastic zip-tie handcuffs — and Eisenhart have been in jail since their arrests on Jan. 10 and Jan. 19, respectively. They’ll be released to home detention and location monitoring, which is what a federal magistrate judge in their home state of Tennessee originally ordered shortly after their arrests; they’ll only be allowed to leave home for work, school, medical appointments, religious services, court appearances, and a handful of other preapproved reasons.

    In exchange for dropping the detention fight, the government also asked that the two be barred from accessing the internet and using encrypted messaging applications without advance approval and that they be prohibited from contacting anyone involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Munchel and Eisenhart agreed to those conditions.

    “But we can still strip them of their First Amendment rights, can’t we?

    • leon

      We got to teach these insurrectionists the importance of democracy by sending them through the cleaners of the vindicitive deep state!

    • Rebel Scum

      Munchel and Eisenhart agreed to those conditions.

      Idiots. If you want to make a federal case out of anything this is it. Punishment without conviction of a crime is wholly unconstitutional.

      • WTF

        Punishment without conviction of a crime is wholly unconstitutional.

        That horse left the barn a long time ago, broke a leg, and died in the desert.

  28. PieInTheSky

    test 1 2 3

      • PieInTheSky

        happens

    • Nephilium

      I am not a human.

    • PieInTheSky

      not my day for commenting I suppose

      • Nephilium

        Appears that there’s some WordPress issues today. I was getting 503’s earlier.

  29. KSuellington

    From what I have seen of data, 2020 saw the largest percentage increase of violent crime in recorded American history. This is not such a surprising thing really. I imagine that as long as the current zeitgeist continues that crime will increase with it. Widespread masking will continue for years, and the criminals will most certainly use it to their full advantage. We are set to relive the worst parts of the 1970’s, with high inflation and rising crime. I imagine the leisure suits and quaaludes will not make such a comeback though.

  30. Rebel Scum

    Actually it is my patriotic duty to tell you to fuck off.

    NEW: Pres. Biden calls on governors, mayors and local leaders to reinstate mask mandates

    “I need the American people to do their part as well. Mask up. Mask up. It’s a patriotic duty.”

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      My patriotism reservoir is empty, fuckface. That’s what happens when you “fortify” your election, weaponize your pet institutions against me and those like me, and generally abuse people who try to take responsibility for their own lives.

      This country wasn’t perfect in its past, but at least it had ideals to look up to. Today? Today we’re the crumbling remnant of a once prosperous civilization. I owe you nothing, Joe Biden.

      • Rat on a train

        Dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism.

      • leon

        and generally abuse people who try to take responsibility for their own lives

        I’ve said it before, i’ll say it again. Progressivism is all about demoralization. They dress it up as kindness or charity, but it is no such thing. it is designed to take people who make good moral decisions, and make them feel like fools. It punishes them by forcing them to pay for the unwise, irresponsible and immoral actions of others.

      • Nephilium

        The article shared a while back about the Chump Effect really nailed that point.

      • Rat on a train

        Moral hazards for fun and profit.

      • UnCivilServant

        My country is not my country’s government, do not conflate the two.

        It is perfeclty patriotic to remove a corrupt canker that calls itself the government.

        It is perfectly patriotic to defy tyrants.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I look around and see broad consent from my countrymen. If there was a new Jan 6th happening every day, escalating by the week, I’d be more amenable to the captive populace theory. As it is, I see the government as a manifestation of the dominant culture in this country. Sure, there are pockets of dissent. Sure, it’s still a 55-45 country. However, a country still fidelitous to the founding wouldn’t be ho hum about the events of the last year.

      • UnCivilServant

        I look around and see an illusion of dominance out of sync with the general populace. I see people who think they’re alone in disagreeing and thus fear to speak or act, even though they outnumber those pretending to be the majority.

      • Rat on a train

        American culture no longer values liberty. Sure individuals want personal liberty as long as they don’t have to suffer the negative consequences of their decisions. Personal liberty for those icky people, no way.

      • Nephilium

        I’m seeing different levels of compliance in different areas. There’s also the question of how many people (like me) are wearing the ribbonmask to avoid getting the businesses I want to support in trouble. Riding through the parks, I see very few masks being worn by people walking, hiking, running, or cycling. It’s somewhat disheartening that it’s the people that appear to be in their early 20’s that are the most frequently masked up.

      • Rat on a train

        I can tell you the only masks I see on my street are worn by delivery and service employees. The residents go maskless, shake hands, gather in homes, and all else like they did before the panicdemic.

      • EvilSheldon

        Well said.

    • Tejicano

      “Mask up. It’s what plants crave.”

      • Chipwooder

        *golf clap*

        President Oatmeal Brains can kiss my motherfuckin’ ass.

    • Nephilium

      I have a very succinct and terse answer for that: Do Not Comply.

    • Lord Humungus

      I’m happy to see that Florida – via the Cleetus McFarland channel – doesn’t give a fuck about the mandates. They’re going to car shows and having fun. Bless Florida Man!

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Better would be allowing the doctor to be sued by the kid when they come to regret it in 5 years.

      • Surly Knott

        The doctors, the counselors, and the parents. Scorched earth is the only way.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No one paid any consequences (except the victims) the last time progressives decided to sterilize undesirables.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m curious for Dean’s thoughts on this. I don’t know much about med mal, but the fact that minors can’t contract and are seen as unable to consent really throws an interesting curveball at these transitions. What happens when the normal and expected results of a treatment (puberty blocking) are done to a kid who legally can’t consent, and who sees it as harmful once they’re of age? Can the kid go after the doctor? How about their parents?

        It’d be like a girl getting a boob job at 15 and then regretting it at 18 because she’s attracting the wrong type of guy with her obviously fake tits.

        In any other context I’d put money on the kid cleaning up in court. Not sure about medical, though.

      • rhywun

        The medical industry has pretty successfully snookered a lot of people into believing that this stuff is “medically necessary”.

        They’ll get off scot-free.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There will be some edge case where the law bans a rare actual treatment. Lots of outrage and the entire thing gets shitcanned because the legislature substitutes their judgement for those of private citizens (including doctors).

      Like so such, culture is the problem and laws cannot overcome that. Nor can they in South Dakota. It’s virtue signaling at best.

  31. Festus

    Still 503?

    • Drake

      Learning something useful in gym class – that’s different.

    • Urthona

      My wife got a speeding ticket in Gunter, Texas which is hilarious because she is the slowest driver in the world.

      I actually thought only 3 people lived there so I’m surprised by all the kids.

  32. Grummun

    Any suggestions for a general merchandise auction site that is not eBay?

    • Festus

      Front yard toothless edition. Lots of cardboard signs and semi-filled balloons. “Cheep stuff here<".

  33. Festus

    I am 503 Ye Mighty!

  34. Suthenboy

    “Lots of New Money, But Still-Low Inflation. What Gives?”

    *facepalm*

    Richard Salsman, and most of everyone else, doesn’t know what the word ‘inflation’ means.

    • Festus

      Everyone of these assholes are about the same age as me. We know what stagflation is. I remember graduating and there not being any jobs. He can go fuck himself into a comatose state.

  35. The Late P Brooks
    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Elon needs to finish his launch barges and tow them into international waters ASAP. Of course, it’s probably an ITAR violation or ten to launch from there after manufacturing in the US.

    • wdalasio

      For a nation with exactly zero launch capability outside of the private sector, these guys sure are assey with their treatment of the one guy who can actually put their satellites into orbit. It’s like they think their GPS systems work by magic or something.

      Frankly, I wouldn’t blame Musk in the least if he responded that SpaceX will be happy to move all company launch activities to the Russian Federation.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      My guess is Elon pissed off some bureaucrats and they’re getting even.

      He should land the next exploding vessel on their offices.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You’re going to have to be much, much faster (like amphetamine faster) to get one over on Malice.

  36. Festus

    Well, this wasn’t as much fun as it should have been. Good day, Glibs! I’ll see you on the ‘Morrow.

  37. leon

    https://twitter.com/rach_greenspan/status/1376370071686111232

    gl*nn gr**nwald and j*ck posobi*c are directing insane harassment to a literal INTERN (!!!) at USA Today

    what kind of grown adult speaks this way to random young women doing their job.. it’s sickening. love this cute industry where harassment is supposedly par for the course.

    of course the posobi*c tweet uses this intern’s first name, an extremely popular tactic on the far right to make their target seem/feel weak and unimportant. the amount of emails I get calling me rach..
    Disguised face

    Using her first name is denigrating, but you not writing their names out completly as if they were slurs is just dandy? go fuck yourself. Also, if you don’t like the name rach, then maybe don’t have your public twitter handle be @rach_greenspan. And Ladies, if you want to be treated respectfully, cut out the “it’s sexist if you attack my ideas” bulshit. It’s weak and it’s sniveling, and manipulative. Either you hang with the stresses that come with your chosen carreer or you don’t ,but asking for special privileges because “she’s a young woman” is bull.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      And Ladies, if you want to be treated respectfully, cut out the “it’s sexist if you attack my ideas” bulshit. It’s weak and it’s sniveling, and manipulative. Either you hang with the stresses that come with your chosen carreer or you don’t ,but asking for special privileges because “she’s a young woman” is bull.

      Relatedly, I remember when I first started working in an office, we had a young female intern. She came late to a meeting and stood because there were no chairs left. My extremely progressive male boss glared at me and leapt out of his chair to give her his chair. Then he stood the rest of the meeting.

      It was absurd and pretty damn damaging to the cohesiveness of our team. I’ll gladly give up my chair for a coworker who’s pregnant or disabled, but women in general (as all other people) can either be treated as equals or flowers but not both. In fairness to my coworker, she didn’t ask for the chair and probably felt too uncomfortable refusing given she was just an intern.

    • PieInTheSky

      Here’s a History Professor proposing a moral framework whereby swarming a 14-year-old for posting a bad word on social media constitutes “punching up,” while criticizing a 23 or 24-year-old adult journalist writing incendiary articles for major publications is “punching down”

      https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1376525545597497346

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Suck it up totalitarian bitch.

      These pieces of shit are going around and pressuring companies to impede the funding of the defendants’ legal costs, truly a hallmark of a free society.

    • R C Dean

      Well, if Greenwald accurately portraying the intent of an article is “harassment”, perhaps its not Greenwald who has a problem?

    • Chipwooder

      If she can’t handle criticism for her shitty (and it absolutely is shitty) article, then she chose her career poorly.

    • rhywun

      Wh*t k*nd *f gr*wn *d*lt t*lks l*k* th*s?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Even worse, is that the authors have set out to ruin the lives of normal, everyday people for not supporting their preferred policy, then have the temerity to cry foul.

      GTFOH

  38. Urthona

    moo

    • PieInTheSky

      oom

    • Urthona

      That was a test to see if this baby was back on, but it’s easily one of my top 10 comments.

  39. Urthona

    Making cybercurrency illegal seems about 1000X more useless than the war on drugs.

    It doesn’t exist in one location and no on runs it. Which is the point.

    You could literally use any service-related business concept as a front for it.

  40. R C Dean

    Well, my comments have been getting gorked.

    • Sean

      Russian hackers, dude.

      • rhywun

        Gorkyed.

      • Sean

        Heh.