Monday Morning Links

by | Apr 5, 2021 | Daily Links | 327 comments

Driving back toward the top four

I hope y’all enjoyed your holiday weekend. I know I did. Especially after watching Liverpool completely dismantle Arsenal. And after watching Chelsea shit the bed against West Brom and Spuds draw Newcastle, I was practically giddy.  Meanwhile, on this side of the pond, Baylor and Gonzaga will face off tonight for the NCAA basketball crown. I doubt it will be as entertaining as there Gonzaga-UCLA game was.  I doubt many basketball games could be. That game was a treat to watch.Jordan Speech appears to have his game figured out headed into Masters week. WHich, based on the last several years, means he may or may not have his game figured out.  And MLB is off and running, in case nobody noticed. With fans, no less! And that’s sports.

Thanks to the guy who brought us this.

Philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born on this day. He shares it with education pioneer Booker T. Washington, actor Spencer Tracy, actress Bette Davis, film producer Albert Broccoli, actor Gregory Peck, director Roger Corman, retired general Colin Powell, infielder Ron Hansen, scumbag politician Peter King, wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, baseball player Cris Carpenter, person in music Pharrell Williams, and that’s pretty much all I could come up with.  Kinda slim with the pickings today.  Oh well, time to move on to…the links!

Yeah, we’re not buying your bullshit like this anymore. Go sell that doomsday crap to someone who hasn’t been keeping track of how many times you’ve done it before and been wrong.

I get that you’re sad, but this is your job.

Uh, does this union know what its job is? Like, you are literally the security there. That’s the job you signed up for, you stupid asshole. Also, nice way to lump in the Jan 6 protests, where your officers held doors open for a lot of the people there, with some deranged asshole plowing a car into someone.

This reads like a real estate sales pitch...for pretty much any other city or state on the east coast.  I mean, they’re directly taxing over half of what these people make, when coupled with federal taxes and all the other shit people are forced to pay.  That’s completely fucking insane.

Not true and not legally-binding.

“Have it your way” is not a legally binding agreement, lady. The bigger question is this: why would anybody ever voluntarily eat at BK? It’s easily the worst fast food on the planet. And their service is literally worse than their horrible food.

“Trust us, it’ll work this time!” No it won’t. Because these government programs never work. Ever.

But the traditional troubles of public housing took hold — lousy maintenance and tenant screening among them. Units were boarded up in later years, and there never was an effort to connect it to the surrounding middle-class blocks.

Never an effort to connect them to surrounding blocks? Motherfucker, they’re literally connected by every single street that runs through them.  No, here’s why these projects always fail: because people generally treat free shit worse than shit they own.

Shouldn’t he have had a katana? Just kidding. He should have had a gun and shot the assholes.

Well, duh! People like him usually go back to the same grift once they realize getting a real job and being productive is hard work.

Here’s a great song. And no, it’s not a remix. Enjoy it!

Now get out there and have a great day, friends!

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327 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    I assure you, there is worse fast food than BK, Sloopy.

    Terrible is a boundless expanse.

    • Nephilium

      Not to mention that BK is part of the Horton’s empire as well.

    • sloopyinca

      Really? Name it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Taco Bell bean burrito?

        (Thumbs up on the nacho fries though.)

      • sloopyinca

        You’re picking one item you don’t like. The bean burrito is usually good, btw. Just get extra red sauce.

        Literally everything on the BK menu is trash. Literally. Everything.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’ll eat the Rodeo burger with cheese…and the crispy chicken sandwich is no worse than Wendy’s or McDonald’s. That’s about it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh, the menu board in aggregate, OK.

        I don’t get fast food often. “And I don’t eat meat, cuz I’m a veterinarian.” ($64,000 in Monopoly money to anyone who remembers that ad.)

      • Rat on a train

        I don’t get HBO.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I heart you, rattus ferroviairus.

      • TARDis

        Darlin’ you’re finer than a new set of snow tires…or something like that.

        Were you twirling your hair while you typed that?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I guess I heart you too. Oy, decisions…

      • AlexinCT

        Anyone that thinks Taco Hell is not a maker of WMDs is crazy…

        Also…

        Is the kids pic an homage to Old Man?

      • Old Man With Candy

        I’ll be in my bunk.

      • Nephilium

        Roy Rodgers? Taco Johns? Subway?

      • UnCivilServant

        I once descrbed Subway as ‘Distilled Disappointment’.

      • juris imprudent

        But it’s consistent!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Sonic is pretty damn terrible. Outside their shakes, they do nothing well. That includes their coneys.

      • sloopyinca

        I won’t even eat at a Sonic after getting food poisoning. But their shakes and slushes are solid.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Very salty! the better to sell limeades.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Sonic? Everything is kinda bland, but I’ve never had anything there I’d call terrible. I’d go to Sonic 20 times over before BK.

        My pantheon of terrible is:
        BK
        Jack in the Box
        Rally/Checkers
        White Castle

        Dishonorable mention to Taco Bell for everything being just a half step above terrible, In N Out for easily the worst fries I’ve ever eaten, and Steak N Shake* for second worst fries, worst value, and worst service.

        *is Steak N Shake fast food? Ours had a drive thru growing up, but also a hostess to sit us. Either way, dishonor on them, dishonor on their cow.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Animal (cheesy oniony Thousand-Isley) fries at I/O are good but apparently quite laborious to make, so I would order them only during a lull.

      • bacon-magic

        White Castle is da bomb! Before and after!

      • Grummun

        Agreed on terrible service at Steak n Shake, don’t go there if you’re pressed for time.

        I like S-n-S’s thin little fries, but you have to eat them immediately, to the exclusion of everything else on your plate, because they get cold in a hurry. Everyone’s fries suck once they’re cold. Good shakes, though.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        To me, they get it wrong in the opposite direction of most fast food. Most fries are undercooked, resulting in soggy limp fries. SnS fries were almost invariably overcooked (because they’re so thin), resulting in fries with the texture of potato chips, robbing me of the soft airy center that comes with bigger fries.

      • SDF-7

        Krystal? White Castle? KFC over the last few years?

        I think BK’s bacon double cheeseburger is actually pretty decent. And their patties at least resemble actual meat, unlike the processed (pink slime) feel of McD’s.

      • TARDis

        It seems to me that until recently, KFC improved their products over what I remember as a kid. They suck again, but not as bad as before. My wife and I never had KFC as a married couple. Only tried it a few years ago because my aspie son was pushing our buttons.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sloopy has clearly never been to an Anaheim Jack in the Box.

      • sloopyinca

        Jack In The Box is superior to BK. And Jack In The Box is shitty.

      • Mad Scientist

        I like me a Sourdough Jack.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Out of the big corporate options? I vote BK too.

      • rhywun

        Yes, and I used to be a big fan in my yoot. In fact, I didn’t enter a McD’s for a couple decades. When I did I was shocked to discover that it was in fact better than what BK had become.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This describes me as well.

        But I still don’t think BK is the worst.

        White Castle/Krystal
        LJS/Captain D’s
        KFC

        All of them are worse.

    • creech

      Who gives a crap about the taste of their food? The question is: “Is the corporation woke or not?”

    • Old Man With Candy

      I eat very little fast food, but when I do, it’s Del Taco’s Beyond Taco or Culver’s deep fried cheese curds. Now and then, Dairy Queen has decent onion rings, depending on the particular franchise location.

    • DrOtto

      I quit eating at BK when they left a lettuce core on my whopper. They had to push the bun onto the core to make it fit in the box. How fucking lazy do you have to be that, that is your suggested fix for a customer’s sandwich? I’m with Sloopy on this.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I am not sure that BK is the worst, but they definitely have the worst fries.

      • Mad Scientist

        The only franchise that can possibly out-horrible Burger King is Little Caesar’s.

  2. Count Potato

    “The bigger question is this: why would anybody ever voluntarily eat at BK? It’s easily the worst fast food on the planet. ”

    Worse than McD?

    Also, sidebar.

    • sloopyinca

      You’re just upset they genocide all those spuds to make the greatest French fries in the world. Also, the McRib is the pinnacle of fast food greatness.

      • Sean

        Also, the McRib is the pinnacle of fast food marketing greatness.

        FIFY

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Young Jack Osbourne concurs about McRib.

      • Count Potato

        “the greatest French fries in the world”

        I can’t even.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Me neither. I would even hazard to say that BK gets its fries more right than McD.

      • db

        Arby’s Curly Fries > BK Fries > Wendy’s Fries > McDonald’s fries.

        Arby’s RB sandwich > Wendy’s Burgers >> BK Burgers > McDonald’s burgers

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’d flip BK and McDonald’s burgers, but otherwise I’m in agreement. (I don’t particularly remember Wendy’s fries, besides not being objectionable)

        That said, fries are much easier to screw up and fix than burgers are. McDonald’s fries are much better when ordered “well done”. OTOH, you can’t order a Whopper cooked differently and magically take away the fake smoke flavor.

      • Fatty Bolger

        They were great back in the old days when they still fried them in beef tallow. The ones they make now are just OK.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        This guy remembers.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And the pies too.

        BK fries are awful. They appear to be dipped in some sort of batter before getting put in the oil. Their burgers have gone down hill since they went from the traditional flame grill to a speeded up version. Still not as bad as McDonald’s microwaved burgers and sandwiches. How anyone can defend microwave reheated food is beyond me.

        Oh, and the freestyle machines suck at BK. Watery flat sodas. Usually the sodas from Mcdonalds are tops.

      • Galt1138

        “…fast food greatness.” Given that qualifier, I have to agree. Or rather, my teenage memory agrees.

        I avoid fast food like the plague. After doing my best to cut out processed foods, I find the rare times I eat fast food (like early morning in an airport when no other place is open in a food court), I invariably feel terrible afterwards.

  3. Count Potato

    “Shouldn’t he have had a katana? Just kidding. He should have had a gun and shot the assholes.”

    Maybe they were Filipino or something? Their names aren’t mentioned.

    Anyway, SF doesn’t have a gun store.

    • WTF

      It is unclear if the family was targeted for their race, but is yet another devastating attack on the Asian community in the Bay Area — an epidemic of racism and violence in which elderly Asians have been beaten and killed in broad daylight, and small businesses have been targeted.

      Curiously not mentioned: the race of the perpetrators of this epidemic.
      Must be white supremacists.

    • DEG

      Anyway, SF doesn’t have a gun store.

      This sounds like a business opportunity for some enterprising Indiana gun stores.

    • zwak

      SF used to have one of the best gun stores, the San Fransisco Gun Exchange. Truly a landmark and it was so, so sad when the shitty forced it out of business. One of the workers opened up a weird little gunshop in El Cerrito in the east bay, but it isn’t the same at all.

      There was a Filipino owned gun store down off Army in the lower Market, but the shitty did the same thing there.

      • zwak

        Lower Mission, not Market.

  4. rhywun

    The state’s coffers had been bolstered by $12.5 billion after Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion federal stimulus package passed in March
    But Gov Andrew Cuomo said it wasn’t enough to fill an estimated $15 billion budget deficit caused by the pandemic

    Liar. Thanks to Uncle Joe there is NO deficit this year. Or there wasn’t until Uncle Andy decided to spray cash all over the place.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It was awhile ago, but I remember posting something from tax foundation showing NY actually had a surplus.

      • UnCivilServant

        LUL.

        New York pisses away any money that might pass through its fingers on crap it doesn’t need and then begs and steals more. It’s like that relative you’ve long since given up on as unredeemable and don’t give your address or phone number to, but they somehow get both and show up to pester you for more cash then make off with your lawnmower.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Paging Festus .

    • Trigger Hippie

      The Journal reported that the extra tax revenue would be used to pay for schools, help prop up tenants and small businesses behind on their rent, and provide funding for undocumented workers.

      Teacher’s Union payoff: check

      Vote buying while fucking over property owners: check

      Free shit for lawbreakers: check

      Well done, NY.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I suppose small business owners get some sympathy from me given how hamstrung they’ve been due to the lock downs but that’s about it.

    • WTF

      an estimated $15 billion budget deficit caused by the pandemic

      Narrator: It wasn’t caused by the pandemic.

      • Rat on a train

        It was caused by white supremacy.

  5. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Another officer has taken his own life and we have 80 officers who were seriously injured in the insurrection. Some of those injured officers may never return to duty,” Papathanasiou said.’

    Wait, what? Eighty officers seriously injured? First I heard that. If that was the case you’d think the media would have been shouting that stat from the rooftops.

    I’m calling bullshit.

    • sloopyinca

      I guess they’re counting the “emotional injuries” sustained by those brave officers who, until that day, did little more than give tourists shit who wandered into a place they weren’t supposed to wander.

      These people are serial liars, just like the politicians they “protect”.

      • Festus

        “From the Sands of of Iwo Jima to the Shores of Tripoli”

    • Swiss Servator

      That would be “Union serious injury” – see also, Every Cook County Sheriff Retirement at Disability Rates Plan oh Look, I am Injured!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Ah, that makes more “sense”, I guess.

    • CatchTheCarp

      The media is still calling it an “insurrection”. The media continues lying about officer Sicknick’s cause of death which still has not been released. What’s another lie?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Wasn’t he autopsied before cremation?

      • DrOtto

        They won’t release the autopsy results due to “on going investigation”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wonder if the officer that died (how did he die, I didn’t see a report of how he was injured) with the crazy ramming the checkpoint will be given a State funeral like the other.

    • WTF

      A bunch of grifters looking to get on board that disability gravy train.

    • creech

      Yeah, they had to throw 80 Chicom-19 sufferers out of the ICU to make way for the seriously injured Capitol cops. Some have bruises that haven’t yet healed.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Go sell that doomsday crap to someone who hasn’t been keeping track of how many times you’ve done it before and been wrong.

    I hate to break it to you, Shirley, but there are a lot more of them than there are of us.

  7. Tres Cool

    BK has the dopest breakfast available (for fast food). The OG-3X-OG chicken sammich is ill, too.
    Ill concede that the rest is mediocre at best. Bordering on inedible. Their fries suck.

    • sloopyinca

      Apparently you’ve never had a Chick-Fil-A breakfast sammich or the venerable steak egg and cheese bagel from McDonalds.

      • Tres Cool

        McD’s used to have the McSkillet burrito which was great. Still, it was in the shadow of the BK Enormous Omlette Sandwich.
        BK tater rounds > McD’s hash browns.

      • Nephilium

        The lines at Chick-Fil-A around here have pushed them out of the realm of fast food. It’s a minimum 20 minute wait.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh, you mean the misnomered In-n-Out? Going inside is about a third of the time of the drive-through, I will grant them.

      • Tres Cool

        Same here. Its a good sammich, but Im not going to wait that long for anything food-related.

      • Rat on a train

        The local Chick-Fil-A backs up around the building, past other business, and onto the street. It is somewhere between 500 and 1,000 feet.

      • TARDis

        My wait is usually 10 minutes tops, even with line wrapped around the building twice. The only time it was 20 minutes is when a dumb ass self absorbed twit blocked the exit lane, and no one could pull away with their food. No one could leave and I could not get in line, or leave the lot and just go home. When she finally got her stupid ass out of the way, at least 7 cars that had their food already served by runners were able to leave.

      • Rat on a train

        Sending people outside to help with the drive through helps a lot. People with tablets to take orders. Runners to send orders out if there is a delay on leading orders. Sonic is the only other place I’ve been where they will send orders out to cars instead of having everyone wait for the window.

      • db

        Really? I’ve seen BK, McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Arby’s all ask patrons with large/complex/special orders to pull their cars into a designated area to free up the window for other customers.

      • Rat on a train

        Yes. I’ve never seen at any other franchise.

      • Rat on a train

        At Sonic it isn’t even for complex orders. I often only go to Sonic for drink orders. They can fill those quickly so no need for me to wait behind all the food orders.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I hate the people standing out in front of Chik Fil A. No asshole, I want to see a large size menu not beg to see a little piece of paper flapping in the wind.

      • Pine_Tree

        Our drive-throughs (and curbside) are consistently about 5-10 minutes, and are always full, but we’re a small/medium-sized town, not suburban. Order ahead on the app, obviously, even if you’re doing drivethrough.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        CFA curbside is a consistent 5 minutes here, even if the drive through is a mile long. I pull up and order in the app from the curbside space sometimes.

      • TARDis

        The steak egg and cheese bagel went away around here.

      • juris imprudent

        Anybody singing the praises of McDonalds is in no position to rag on any other fast-food outlet being crap.

      • AlexinCT

        The McGriddle was passable for breakfast, but other than that the McRib, and the fries, the rest their fare is ass.

        If I have to have fast food it is Wendy’s Baconator or Chik-fillet’s sammiches.

      • Tres Cool

        I will not sit here, drinking my beer, and have you malign the great Filet O’ Fish.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s made with ground up fish heads and fish skin, right?

      • bacon-magic

        I miss the steak bagel. Good news, Panera bread makes one better on an everything bagel.

      • TARDis

        Panera is too damn expensive though. Plus they are more like semi-fast food. But yes, the steak bagel with a side of soup is decent.

      • Rat on a train

        If only Panera brought back pay-what-you-can it could be an inexpensive meal.

      • DEG

        They used to have a menu with a few good options.

        Then they fucked it up all up. I haven’t set foot in one since.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Sloopy, you and I can eat breakfast together anytime. I don’t know what that sauce on the steak egg and cheese bagel is, but it is worth the price of admission.

    • Mad Scientist

      Wow. I thought I had low standards. But eating breakfast food at any fast food place is far lower than I’m willing to go.

      • R C Dean

        The best breakfast burritos I’ve ever had are from a gas station/convenience store. And they are damn good.

        Hardee’s breakfast biscuits (scrambled eggs, sausage, and cheese) are a damn fine breakfast as well. Just got to eat them while they are hot and fresh.

  8. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    The derp is strong in the lynx this morning! Like this:

    We have to think about the B.1.1.7 variant as almost a brand new virus,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “It’s acting differently from anything we’ve seen before, in terms of transmissibility, in terms of affecting young people, so we have to take this very seriously.”

    So the virus continues to do what viruses always do? I have a better idea, doctor: go fuck yourself.

    The ‘experts’ are starting to panic as more and more people are ignoring them. It’s going to get more strident, but it just means they are losing the narrative.

    Great song! I think I will get out there and have a great day! Thanks.

  9. Tonio

    When did leftists become obsessed with Venn diagrams? Does anyone know where that came from? A couple of times recently I’ve seen different people say “you need to construct a Venn diagram” in rebuttals to conservative comments in the local newspaper. Situations where a Venn diagram wouldn’t be particularly useful. Creeping scientism, maybe?

    • UnCivilServant

      It A: “Looks scientific” and B: Is within their capacity to generate.

      • Tres Cool

        To build on that, A(1): “looks science-y” and “can be vague enough to be meaningless”.

    • Timeloose

      Sounds like the place for a good Venn diagram.

    • Gdragon

      Venn diagrams are learned very early in school and are something that a certain percentage of the population may have forgotten about (so they can feel smarter than others when they bring them up). Checks a lot of boxes. At least they’re not asking for rebuses or anything completely daft.

    • AlexinCT

      Venn diagrams with bullshit data is still more leftist bullshit…

    • EvilSheldon

      It’s an easy, lazy, no-intelligence-required way to dismiss someone’s argument?

      • AlexinCT

        I thought that was the “YOU ARE A FUCKING [insert your favorite pejorative accusation here]!!1!!eleventy!!

      • Rat on a train

        How was the shoot? The family changed their Sunday gathering from dinner to lunch so I couldn’t make it.

    • The Other Kevin

      If any of the circles include the words “People who believe…” they should be ignored.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If you really dig Venn diagrams, check out the Indexed blog.

    • zwak

      It’s simple to read, simple to make, and simply propaganda.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    The United States Capitol Police union is urging Congress to ramp up security around the Capitol, days after a an officer was killed outside the building, they said in a statement on Saturday.

    “This attack, combined with the violent events of the January 6th insurrection, have left our officers reeling,” Union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said.

    Obviously, we need protection for the people who are supposedly protecting Congress. Maybe we can make a human shield out of elementary school children.

    • Tonio

      [golf clap] for human shield

  11. The Late P Brooks

    He said that officers are back at work after Friday’s attack, keeping the Capitol safe.

    They should go on strike.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Another US Covid-19 surge may look different, experts say, particularly for younger people.

    It’ll look like catching a cold.

    “I do think we still have a few more rough weeks ahead,” Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist, told CNN on Sunday.

    Two weeks to flatten the curve, comrade. And you can fuck off.

    • Drake

      I had a nasty argument with my mother yesterday when she happily told me how they were going to start immunizing kids like my nieces and nephews. She has rarely left her home for a year and has been consuming mainstream media they whole time. I got mad at her in the moment, but I’m really angry at the people who brainwashed her.

      • Galt1138

        “…but I’m really angry at the people who brainwashed her.”

        I feel the same way about my brother and his wife. They’ve lost all sense of perspective, and while they’re both adults, the constant barrage of “We’re all going to to die of the commie cough!” by damn near every media outlet and politician (the cathedral) definitely had an impact.

        I can only imagine the damage it’s done to kids, particularly those who don’t have a parent to tell them most of the news is BS.

  13. Count Potato

    “Hunter Biden reveals he pressured a reluctant Joe into publicly supporting his affair with his brother Beau’s widow Hallie – so ‘that people wouldn’t think it was wrong'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9435729/Hunter-Biden-says-asked-Joe-publicly-support-affair-brother-Beaus-widow-Hallie.html

    “I’ve smoked more parmesan cheese than anyone you know’: Addled Hunter Biden chuckles about smoking crumbs from floor during peak of his addiction – as he talks drugs, FBI probe, Burisma and dating Hallie Biden in latest interview”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9434913/Hunter-Biden-said-likely-smoked-parmesan-cheese-peak-crack-addiction.html

    CWAA

    • AlexinCT

      They are trying to make this fucking creep sympathetic like they did his idiot of a father…

      • rhywun

        All I care about is the graft and how is Joe tied to it. You know, the other part of that story which the media buried in order to get Joe over the line.

      • AlexinCT

        It is referred to as “fortifying” the election….

        Saying it the way you do makes it sound so evil and corrupt, and makes them the bad guys. They only did it to save the fucking unwashed masses from their own idiocy and to protect their racket.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of slums…

    I re-watched “AKA Cassius Clay” last night. In one part, he’s talking to a large group, and he says something to the effect of, “Buildings don’t make a slum. People make a slum. Give these people the nicest building you’ve got and they’ll turn it into a slum in a day.”

    A guy who said that today would get called a racist, no matter what color his skin might be.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Independent thought alarm!

    • zwak

      Indeed. See also Sowell, Thomas, and Thomas, Clarence.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      After returning from Africa he also said “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat”.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Capitol Police union urging Congress to ramp up security after attack

    Because of one guy? Unfortunately for the narrative he appears to be a black Nation of Islam and Louis Farakan supporter. The jury is still out on the motive…

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      ‘..,Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan supporter…’

      So, white supremacy then?

      • WTF

        Yes, because he did it due to the white devil’s Tricknology.

    • creech

      What narrative is that? All I’ve heard on the national news is that he was a “troubled” person.

    • Ownbestenemy

      There is always a fence jumper, a checkpoint runner, some crazy in front of the White House in the past and yet at this point in time, we need to fortify the Beacon Of Democracy!

  16. Drake

    MLB really did sign a deal with the Chinese for expanded access to their networks right before pulling the All-Star game from Atlanta. Thus ends my association with all professional sports. (Shooting sports excluded until the commies take those over too)

    I know my tuning out and no longer attending games won’t make a dent on their income statement, but it won’t be my money they are getting.

    • rhywun

      Money talks, same as always.

      • Drake

        Which I can understand. The truly offensive part is their fake moral outrage with a law aimed at making sure elections are legitimate – while jumping into bed with some of the worst tyrants in the world.

      • rhywun

        Oh, absolutely. It’s completely outrageous and they need to be called out on it.

        I won’t hold my breath.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Jokes on them, baseball’s just not popular in China. Unfortunately the fans here get screwed too.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      When the shooting sports change the target silhouettes to the bullseye being behind the left ear you’ll know those are gone too.

    • grrizzly

      Corporate sponsor pressure.

      Just got off the phone with MLB/MLBPA sources who all confirmed the same thing: MLB’s decision to move was the result of corporate sponsor pressure. It was NOT the result of a player-threatened boycott. The players did not even vote on the issue.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, and how many of them are happily doing business with China?

  17. Rebel Scum

    Woman angry about wait time fires into Burger King drive-thru window

    Those still shots are great.

    The bigger question is this: why would anybody ever voluntarily eat at BK?

    In a pinch I would. But my normal second to Chick-fil-a is Wendy’s.

    • TARDis

      In a pinch I would. But my normal second to Chick-fil-a is Wendy’s.

      #metoo

      Without the McD’s steak bagel, third is Hardee’s (breakfast only). I love the Frisco breakfast sammich, but it has to go in the air fryer for a bit to crisp it up.

      I tried Wendy’s for breakfast for the first time last weekend. The sandwiches we’re just okay, but I really liked the crispy wide-cut seasoned fries.

  18. Stinky Wizzleteats

    What gets me about Burger King is the fake charbroiled flavor that you can taste with every burp for 12 to 18 hours after you eat there but the worst? I think you misspelled Taco Bell.

    • rhywun

      Yes, that is exactly the main thing I hate about BK. It didn’t taste fake when I was young but it sure does now.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The odd sweet smell (and taste?) I remember from my youth persist somewhat.

    • l0b0t

      Agree wholeheartedly about the charbroiled flavor. The only BK I can still enjoy are the original chicken sammich, the Whopper, and now, the fake Whopper. Honestly, the fake Whopper is a better product that the real Whopper in part because it doesn’t absorb as much of the charbroiled taste.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Veg burger (via Walmart) recently wasn’t terrible, just not particularly memorable.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    First headline I see on googlenooz:

    Time back home with voters only emboldens Republicans to oppose Biden’s agenda

    OMG!

    Could that mean they are getting an earful from their constituents about what a shitshow Biden’s America is?

    Maybe their constituents have been asking them if everybody in Washington has gone completely crazy.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I think I said this before, but Mike Malice was on some podcast telling the story about GOP-ers going back home after the 1/6 Insurrection.

      They were all ready to beg and grovel and say that they would never be part of a GOP that tarnished the sacred halls of democracy. Instead their constituents all said something like “now maybe you might start paying attention to us”. Zero outrage in the sticks over 1/6.

  20. Rebel Scum

    After saying he has “no plans” to run for governor, Beto O’Rourke quick to clarify he might

    Governor of what? Surely he does not mean governor of Texas.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Beta Maximus has a very loose relationship with reality. Self-delusion is a hell of a drug.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        But he’s loved by soccer moms who aspire to be HOA board chairpersons everywhere.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        But he skateboards without a helmet… I would think Karen would disapprove.

      • juris imprudent

        She wants him as her little side-action, not as a father figure to her children. No helmet = rebellious and daring.

      • zwak

        Ehhh, no “helmet” to those women means no condom.

        Safe Sex 4Eva!

      • juris imprudent

        literal LOL

      • Tundra

        So, so good.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The best part isn’t him falling and smacking his head…its the ‘recovery’ in which he nearly puts himself through a pane of glass.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Governor Phil Scott
    @GovPhilScott

    If you or anyone in your household identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years or older can sign up to get a vaccine! Get yours at

    This can’t possibly be legal. That said, I am pretty sure anyone born in the US is indigenous.

    • WTF

      This can’t possibly be legal.

      Of course not, but who’s going to spend the money to fight it and then appeal it past the lower courts?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Ditto x2. Not happy about the concept of shadow accounts, but at least I am not “volunteering to help the police in their inquiries”, so to speak.

    • rhywun

      Who the hell gives their phone number to Facebook?!

      • Nephilium

        Not a Facebook user, but my guess is that it may be required for using the messaging app on your smartphone. Or to set up a TFA login.

      • The Other Kevin

        It’s not. They ask for it, but you don’t have to give it out, and luckily I did not.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I made a fake account there once but never a real one. Anyone who tries to do something nefarious with Eugene Figglebottom’s info is going to be SOL.

    • Rat on a train

      We need some kind of government action to ensure personal information is protected. Give the job to OPM.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or SSA or DoD MPF or another ABC agency that has had a breach of my information.

    • Mad Scientist

      “Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online”

      “Leaked” is an odd way to put the thing Facebook users do intentionally every day.

    • Fatty Bolger

      How could you not? ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I laughed. I regret nothing.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “Mini helicopter on Mars”

    Is there enough of an atmosphere on Mars for an airfoil to generate lift?

  23. DEG

    “I do think we still have a few more rough weeks ahead,” Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist, told CNN on Sunday. “What we know from the past year of the pandemic is that we tend to trend about three to four weeks behind Europe in terms of our pandemic patterns.”

    Go fuck yourself.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Every older person I know who wants the shot has gotten the shot. Either these numbers are bullshit or the vacs aren’t worth a damn.

      • Pope Jimbo

        No, no, no. The new variants are hitting young people hardest.

        That is supposed to be scary, but I take it to mean that the vacs do work. Since a lot of the geezers are vaccinated, the cases are now trending younger. Of course, that brings up the old BS about cases being different than deaths.

        In my world, every case is just another young person who doesn’t need a vaccine. But in the Public Health world, every case is just another reason to get your lockdown on.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        So that’s the issue now, young people getting it? If it isn’t killing or maiming them, and it really is less risky than the flu for most young folks, who cares?

      • Sean

        You’re not getting it.

        GET BACK IN YOUR HOUSE AND LOCKDOWN!!!!!!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        It is because they are still betting (and its a solid bet) that American’s are woefully uninformed on the risks, thanks to Government and Media mouthpieces, and that merely catching it is a 50/50 chance of dying.

      • Akira

        American’s are woefully uninformed on the risks, thanks to Government and Media mouthpieces,

        A huge problem is that most people don’t have the ability to evaluate the truth of a claim by themselves. They’ve been trained to “listen to the experts”, which translates to “don’t try to reason – just let the government-media complex tell you what’s true”.

        There was a part in Atlas Shrugged where one of the government huckster scientist was telling people, “Don’t try to think – just leave it to the experts. You leave everything else to them; why should thinking be any different? Just listen to the government experts and everything will be fine.” This is not far off from the “I Fucking Love Science” crowd.

        They have the gift of human reason, a supercomputer that has yet to be surpassed in many ways, and they’re pulling the plug on it.

      • DEG

        Sounds like the QAnon enthusiasts and other conspiracy theory folks on the Reopen NH discussion channel.

      • Count Potato

        “This is not far off from the “I Fucking Love Science” crowd.”

        It’s exactly the “I Fucking Love Science” crowd.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And the new double-mutated variant from India – I wish Trump were in office so I can hear him say “The Dot-Variant, not Feather-Variant”

  24. Count Potato

    “My straight boyfriend gave me a queer pandemic haircut

    As he sawed through my thick mane, we invited queerness into the bathroom—and into our relationship

    This pandemic year has slackened so many human ties, untethering bodies from one another, leaving us to float in our isolation. We’ve been left without lifelines or anchors or chances to see how we might feel and change by interacting with each other—instead, we sit in our mostly not-at-all-private spaces doomscrolling on our phones.

    In this tired solitude, all my communities—but perhaps especially my queer community—have drifted further away. Even more acutely, I felt that my queerness was drifting away. I found the pandemic invisibilizing. So much of this time is characterized by stasis, and we remember people as we last saw them. I sometimes feel one dimensional in other people’s eyes; through a hetero-lens, my queerness becomes flattened.

    But this haircut was rejuvenating, dimensionalizing. It made me feel multifaceted and animated, pulling me out of my planar state as a flat form glued to the floor and giving me depth and permission to take up space—a prismatic affirmation of my bisexuality. It was empowering to reclaim agency when our lives are otherwise out of our control. It felt dramatic and bold when every day is Blursday. Liberating when I’d felt trapped. When I looked in the mirror of my tiny apartment bathroom, I saw the haircut I was always meant to have….”

    https://xtramagazine.com/love-sex/queer-haircut-straight-boyfriend-197564

    • rhywun

      ??

      That’s some impressive college-educated gobbledygook

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Why are you punishing yourself so? Vita brevis.

      • Ted S.

        You didn’t find it hilarious?

    • wdalasio

      Even that excerpt read like the blatherings of a low-grade high school sophomore with delusions of being the next Sylvia Plath. No, I’m not going to lower my IQ by following that link.

      • Ted S.

        So you’re saying she should kill herself?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Whenever they identify as queer, you already know they’ve established their identity around getting in your face and trying to offend or astound. It’s the gay version of punk, except more annoying.

    • juris imprudent

      The more you stare into the abyss…

    • Animal

      What a self-absorbed, vacuous fuckknuckle.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Essential worker callback

    On the morning Alexia Layne-Lomon returned to her office for the first time since the pandemic began, she woke up anxious. Her stomach felt queasy. Commuting into work, once a mindless daily routine, now felt foreign and risky.

    Layne-Lomon, 38, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, is one of millions of employees across the country who hastily made the transition to remote work last spring. A couple of weeks ago, she went back to her building to train a new employee at the anti-poverty agency where she is the director of development and grants.

    ——-

    Many companies have already welcomed workers back. Per data released on March 29, 24.2 percent of employees in 10 big cities throughout the United States were going into their offices, according to Kastle Systems, a managed security services provider for 3,600 buildings throughout the country.

    The number is expected to grow as more people get vaccinated. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a target date of May 3 for about 80,000 municipal office workers to return to their offices. On the other side of the country, Microsoft has begun bringing back some employees in a “soft open” of its Redmond, Washington, headquarters. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Target Corp., anticipating a permanent combination of hybrid and in-office work, has downsized its corporate office space by a third.

    Whatever companies decide, experts say, they should recognize that Covid-19 vaccines may not eliminate employees’ anxiety.

    A survey released last month by the American Psychological Association found that 49 percent of adults feel uneasy about returning to in-person interactions once the pandemic is over. Vaccination status did not affect that: 48 percent of those who have already been vaccinated say they, too, feel uncomfortable with in-person interactions.

    Paranoid germophobic hypochondriacs, assemble!

    • Old Man With Candy

      Alexia Layne-Lomon

      Hyphenated. Almost a certain sign of trouble.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Bless thxr heart.

      • TARDis

        I hope her tubes are tied, at least.

      • rhywun

        employee at the anti-poverty agency

        This part raised alarm bells for me.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        anti-poverty agency?

      • rhywun

        Probably a non-profit. ??

      • Rat on a train

        Pay executives enough and any organization will be non-profit.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m going to start referring to my business as an anti-poverty agency.

      • juris imprudent

        Lord Randolph Churchill (putting down a fellow MP): “Strange, strange how often we find mediocrity dowered with a double-barreled name.”

    • wdalasio

      Meh. I know the paranoid hype is overblown. On the other hand, it did allow me to ditch New York.

    • EvilSheldon

      I think I see the problem here. It’s that you’re a whiny, stupid, weak little bitch, and that you only ever interact with other whiny stupid weak little bitches.

      You can probably cure yourself by turning off the TV, deleting all your social media accounts, and getting a hobby that involves going outside and/or working with your hands.

    • Rebel Scum

      once a mindless daily routine, now felt foreign and risky

      Imagine the risk you are taking by commuting.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      My wife’s job announced recently that they’ll start returning to the office in June.

      She’s not worried about Covid in the slightest.

      But she’s still angry. Not because she has to go back to work (her productivity is up since staying at home), but because it’ll be back to a far more difficult logistical life at home.

      Everyone was asked to completely rearrange their lives. We did, and found out her working from home works much better for our family. It makes the lives much easier for all 4 of us. There is less frantic rushing around. Planning is easier. Our logistics are easier. Everything is easier.

      Her objection isn’t Covid or having to do work, but that returning to a much more difficult life outside of work is bullshit.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The unknowns over what office returns will look like, from schedules to safety precautions, have rattled employees, said Brad Klontz, founder of the Financial Psychology Institute and an associate professor of practice in financial psychology at the Heider College of Business at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

    Employers should be prepared for anxiety among their workers, he said. Those who were already prone to anxiety may have struggled more during the pandemic, and those who were not may have experienced anxiety for the first time in the past year.

    “Try to find somebody who didn’t have a sleepless night,” he said. “There’s going to be lasting effects.”

    Without question, the pandemic has posed mental health challenges. From August to February, the proportion of adults with symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder during the previous seven days increased from 36.4 percent to 41.5 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Amplifying unreasonable fears about overblown risks might have a long term adverse effect on mental health?

    Get the fuck out!

  27. Pope Jimbo

    I’m offended you used a story from some no-name, instead of the honorable Mike Osterholm. The poor guy has been waiting his whole life for this moment and he’s late to the party and no one is listening.

    Osterholm said Americans were not being realistic in the face of this new spike, which he said was being driven by a Covid variant.

    “We are the only country in the world right now experiencing this increasing number of cases due to this variant and at the same time, opening up, not closing down,” he told host Chris Wallace. “The two basically are going to collide, and we are going to see substantially increased number of cases.”

    He said he realized his message was not what people wanted to hear right now.

    “I understand the absolute resistance in this country even to consider that and you know — it’s kind of like trying to drink barbed wire — but the bottom line message of the virus is it’s going to do what it’s going to do, and we are going to have to respond somehow,” Osterholm said, adding it might involve pulling “back on some of the restrictions that we’ve loosened up on.”

    Maybe he needs to work on his analogies?

    • Count Potato

      He should drink barbed wire.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Pass.

    Hummer has unveiled the SUV version of its electric pickup truck, which comes with up to 300 miles of range and will sell for a suggested retail price of up to $110,595 for its first edition. Reservations for that model are already full, according to GM’s website.

    GM, which is producing the electric Hummers under its GMC brand, said the SUV will go into production starting early 2023, with less pricey variants starting at $90,000 in the spring of 2023 and a low-end $80,000 variant with a 250-mile range in the spring of 2024. Previously, the company said that its electric pickup truck will start assembly at the end of 2021, starting with the most expensive trim level.

    • B.P.

      The bad news: In 2024, $80,000 will be the cost of a meal at a decent steakhouse.

      • Sean

        In 2024, we’ll be in lock downs from Covid-23. No indoor dining.

  29. Sean

    All about race. 24/7.

    When Assata Thomas was 26 and shopping for a house, she just happened to end up with a realtor who, like her, was Black.

    But she soon recognized that her broker could relate to her experience, her needs, and her concerns as a Black homebuyer, and they developed a trusting relationship that culminated in her first home purchase, a single-family house in Willingboro. So when Thomas, now 52, was in the market for a bigger place, and then for her current house in Pennsauken, she deliberately sought out a Black broker.

    • WTF

      I am unaware of anything that is keeping black people from becoming realtors if they want to.
      And Assata Thomas is a racist. I mean, just change the races of realtor and client to white and see how that reads.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We are such a racist country with deep systemic racism that this person can freely go out and find a broker that will fit their needs and concerns ——- like every other first time home buyer. The humanity!

      • Tres Cool

        Or the fact that we elected a black guy to be president. Twice.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The ones screaming the loudest about systemic racism are bound and determined to prove it correct, particularly by their own actions and choices.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      All people of similar melanin levels have the same life experiences and can empathize on that basis, it is known.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yes, I know so many white folk who grew up in a majority black inner-city neighborhood and managed to get out while prioritizing fiscal responsibility.

        At least it wasn’t the projects.

        Now those suburban scaredycats, I don’t understand them at all.

    • Pine_Tree

      Um, you don’t “just happen to end up with a realtor” – you pick one.

      One more example of the “I have no agency” excuse to everything in life.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait, I didn’t have to go with the person I met at the open house?

      • juris imprudent

        Not quite “I have no agency” more like “life isn’t arranged for my maximum convenience and why should I have to work to get what I want”.

    • Rat on a train

      My realtor was brown. That is why I didn’t end up in the rich neighborhood that befits my white privilege.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “We are the only country in the world right now experiencing this increasing number of cases due to this variant and at the same time, opening up, not closing down

    Think of it as a test of your hypothesis, in real time.

    Will you jump off a tall building if your prediction is wrong?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Darkest days!

      I saw your appearance on Meet The Press on Jan. 31, saying the darkest days of the pandemic could be ahead, and I was pretty shocked. I mean, 18 days have passed, a lot has happened. How are you feeling about that now?

      I’m more convinced that that’s actually the case. I think right now what we’re seeing is basically the lull before the storm. I liken it in a sense to — imagine we’re all sitting on this beautiful sand beach on the Gulf somewhere. Blue skies, temperature of 80 degrees, slight breeze, not a cloud in the sky. And we’re trying to tell people, “Get ready to evacuate.” Everyone is saying “Why? this makes no sense.” But we can see that Category 5 hurricane 400 miles south of the beach heading straight towards the beach. And that’s what these variants represent right now.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I really want to rub this whole thing in my MIL’s face. She sat us down in January (after this moron blathered on about “darkest days”) and had a heart to heart (read lecture) with us about all the activities we were doing with our kids and how doom was coming over the next few months.

        Besides creating drama and pissing me off, her “concern” accomplished nothing. Well, that’s not true. It pushed me towards being openly defiant against this BS. “February and March are going to be the worst yet. My former epidemiologist friend said so. “… yeah, fuck off.

      • juris imprudent

        Just remind of her of how wrong she was about that the next time she starts in.

    • wdalasio

      Will you jump off a tall building if your prediction is wrong?

      Of course he won’t. Why should he. Getting things wrong, even when your getting things wrong leads to terrible outcomes, has no effect whatsoever on your status as an “expert”. At least if you parrot the approved narrative. Given that, any sort of shame or embarrassment about being wrong would be foolish.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      What happened to the dark winter we were promised?

  31. Rebel Scum

    Interesting.

    IN 1609, THE FLAGSHIP OF the Virginia Company, Sea Venture, was blown miserably off course by a brutal summer hurricane that wrecked the ship near a tiny island, some 700 miles off the Virginia coast. Fortunately, no lives were lost. Unfortunately, the island offered not a drop of fresh water.

    Today, that island is among the most densely populated countries on Earth, and it is still without a permanent body of fresh water. Oddly enough, visitors to Bermuda can see the solution to the problem of potability before the plane even touches down.

    Bermudians are some of the most water-conscious people in the Western world, and this consciousness is built into their homes. The blindingly white, limestone Bermuda Roof—an architectural rain-catch concept with roots dating back to the 17th century—is singularly responsible for making human life possible in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The roof of each home is mandated, by law, to catch and redirect rain into underground cisterns that serve as islanders’ primary source of freshwater. While initially conceived as a means of survival, the elegant roofs have become an aesthetic landmark. “Architecturally, Bermuda really hasn’t changed,” says Guilden Gilbert, a born-and-raised Bermudian. “It’s unlikely that you’d see any modern design in island architecture, which I think is actually a good thing.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Bermuda is a neat place.

      It’s also a tad bit racist, but in the “conservative blacks resent the transient liberal whites “ sense.

    • Rat on a train

      Jamestown, Bermuda, the Virginia Company didn’t have good locations for settlements.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The Jamestown site is particularly bad. They could have easily gone a few miles up river and avoided the swamp.

      • UnCivilServant

        “How could we have known? Did you expect us to actually look around before building a colony?!?”

      • Rat on a train

        The Paspehegh had a village a few miles upstream where the Chickahominy flows into the James. The story is the they didn’t think the English intended to stay because they picked such a poor location and didn’t bring women. The English were more concerned with defending against the Spanish.

    • DEG

      Bermuda is a nice place.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Too oniony for my taste.

  32. Jerms

    Nothing better than a Big Mac, fries and a strawberry shake. There. I said it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      There’s nothing wrong with it if you don’t overdo it. If I don’t get my once a month Big Mac fix I get antsy.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Bookmarked and gracias

      • Galt1138

        “Bookmarked and gracias”

        Agreed. Lots of yummy looking stuff on his site.

      • Drake

        Holy shit that looks good.

      • Ownbestenemy

        He has a couple…I think he did the Taco Bell crunch wrap also.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    The good news is we rid ourselves of the Bad Orange Authoritarian

    The problem for students like Ha is that youth unemployment remains stubbornly high. Though much better than the 27.4% rate in April last year, the unemployment rate for those ages 16-24 actually ticked higher, to 11.1% in March. That was significantly above the overall unemployment rate of 6%.

    That’s no surprise to Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. When the economy tumbles, the job market tends to be worse for young people, she says.

    ——-

    Erica Schoenberg would know.

    She was a member of the class of 2020, which had the misfortune of graduating in the brunt of the pandemic.

    A year after Schoenberg watched her virtual graduation ceremony from Trinity University from her living room couch, she’s back at her parents’ home because she can’t find a full-time job.

    Needing the income and something to occupy the day, she took a part-time job at a fabric store, and she also teaches Hebrew school over Zoom.

    It’s far from the career in publishing she imagined, and Schoenberg frets about the gap on her resume that lengthens by the day.

    The bad news is you shoulda learned to code.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “career in publishing”

      I think I see the problem.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Schoenberg frets about the gap on her resume that lengthens by the day

      she took a part-time job at a fabric store, and she also teaches Hebrew school over Zoom

      What gap? I bet there’s full time jobs available but are ones beneath her, such as at Kroger or UPS. With her background, should be easy to move into a management trainee position very quickly. However it’s clear she doesn’t have a good attitude and is resentful that life isn’t one giant vacation.

      I’d also say there are a lot of people with employment gaps (if she really had one) that have made do with them and employers are as likely to wave away the current situation just like during past downturns. But again, she’s clearly employment poison and anyone who could pick up on that will stay the fuck away from here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah no shit. When I left the military in December of 08, right when the downturn was ramping up and I couldn’t find work, my next employer prospect asked “What happened here for a year?” and my reply was “Bad timing to leave the military”. That was it. Nothing more. Probably my white privilege or something.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m more worried about the fact that so much of my resume is working for the State.

        I can’t get a real job with that background.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^ This…I am right there with you

      • Gustave Lytton

        Start off as a contractor in government contracts. Your background is a shoe in for that role. Either stay on it or hop to a third position after sheepdipping your resume.

        Bonus if you retire and then contract back.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    “career in publishing”

    I think I see the problem.

    She sits by the phone all day, waiting for a call from Teen Vogue.

    • Pope Jimbo

      GIven their focus on teenage anal sex, I think that working for Teen Vogue would be a shitty job. But it might help grease the wheels for your next job if you do it right.

      • juris imprudent

        All of that angst isn’t going to help, she really needs to relax and open up.

      • egould310

        Not to be a party pooper, but her career has definitely stalled in the chute.

  35. PieInTheSky

    Question: If sex is just something assigned at birth how can there be male privilege? Does not seem logical.

    • Akira

      Feminism and Wokeism are colliding because of this.

      My favorite contradiction is still “gender doesn’t exist at all” and “I identify as a woman because I wear dresses and make up and do other things that are classified as feminine“.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’ll ignore it. Just like they’ve ignored the inherent contradiction in postmodernism and socialism for decades.

      • juris imprudent

        Logic is patriarchal oppression!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You’re looking for logical consistency in a system that considers logic to be a construct of white supremacy.

      • EvilSheldon

        Excellent point, and it illustrates why Progressives are so dangerous, and so tenacious.

        When someone decides, as a core tenet of their philosophy, that logic and reason are evil, then how can you modify their behavior except through violence? They’ve taken everything off the table save compliance or the boot in the face.

        If you want death squads, this is how you get them…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Exactly

        By removing the possibility of agreement on objective truth, you’ve guaranteed that the only means of resolving a conflict of ideas is power.

    • kinnath

      There was an interesting article written some time ago, where a female-to-male transgender talked about essentially becoming invisible as a man unless someone needed a couch moved.

      Some privilege indeed.

      • UnCivilServant

        You didn’t happen to have saved the link, did you?

      • kinnath

        No, this was 5+ years ago. Long before transgender issues because such a focus for the woke. Before there was even woke.

        The article was written by someone that did the full transition. Lengthy hormone treatments followed by surgery.

        The focus was on her/his different experiences as both female and male. In particular, the article talked about how lonely being “male” was.

      • Akira

        In particular, the article talked about how lonely being “male” was.

        Haha yea, I have to chuckle when I hear women lamenting how hard the dating market is for them. I’m sure women and men each have their own unique challenges in romance, but a lot of women are told from childhood that “it’s a man’s world” and that men just get whatever they want 24/7 and never experience any hardship.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Haha yea, I have to chuckle when I hear women lamenting how hard the dating market is for them.

        Virtually any woman can walk in to any establishment, and walk out with virtually any male she chooses.

      • R C Dean

        The problem, I believe, is that there aren’t nearly enough men who hit that microscopic sweet spot of well off, good looking, available, manly, and “sensitive to her needs”.

  36. PieInTheSky

    3 firetrucks pulled up to a building 2 buildings from me and took out hoses but i dont see no smoke

    • PieInTheSky

      is it impolite to go to a fireman tap him on the shoulder and ask what the fuck is going on?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not at all….at least here in the States it isn’t. Usually the battalion commander or someone near that is on scene and is providing information.

      • UnCivilServant

        Touching someone on the shoulder is battery.

        Just ask but don’t touch.

      • Sean

        Take a bag of marshmallows & a stick.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    It’s the good kind of anti-Asian hate

    Yang also suggested that Mayor Bill de Blasio not spend the entire $6 billion in relief money that we’re getting from the feds. As the city could face years of deficits, Yang said, it would be prudent to squirrel 70 percent away.

    This is sensible — but another rival, former de Blasio legal counsel Maya Wiley, attacked him. “Our city deserves a serious leader, not a mini-Trump,” her spokeswoman said. Huh?

    Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president, didn’t need a policy reason to tackle Yang. At an event ­accepting a union endorsement — where he should have been in a good mood — Adams said that “people like Andrew Yang” have “never held a job in [their] entire life. . . . you are not going to come to this city and think you are going to disregard the people.”

    Yang is a lawyer. He has worked at startups, ran a school-testing firm and founded and ran a nonprofit training people to be entrepreneurs in struggling cities. He has always had a job. And he has lived in New York for a quarter-century.

    What’s behind the attacks is that the insiders are growing afraid of the outsider.

    Go away, slanty-eye job stealer. This is white limousine liberal territory.

    • kbolino

      The blue-pilling of Yang and Sanders has been somewhat impressive to behold. It doesn’t matter whether any of their ideas are good or not (and many of them are not), it only matters that they can be cajoled into dropping their ideas for irrelevant emotionalized reasons. And boy, can they.

    • rhywun

      I will LMFAO if that guy manages to split the vote for all those other hacks – the union shills and Marxist wannabes.

      Sure, he’ll be terrible in his own ways, but all the others are at first glance so much worse.

  38. Nephilium

    While I’m thinking about it… happy Dyngus Day all.

    • DEG

      Each session will have a limit of 100 tickets available, to ensure best safety, cleaning and social distancing practices

      I wonder how many people will comply with those practices.

      • Nephilium

        There’s a reason I didn’t take the day off and get tickets.

        At least one of the locations is a brewery that closed down for a time, blaming people for not following the mandates and social distancing.

  39. Ownbestenemy

    When I read this TW:PJMedia

    All I can think of was this

    It is the only way out of this mess.

    • Count Potato

      “A high school in Portland, Ore.,”

      I see the problem right there.

    • rhywun

      I was expecting SMOD.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Breathtaking.

    CNN’s @brianstelter on Hunter Biden’s new autobiography: “It is extraordinary. You’ve heard all the tabloid coverage … You think you know his story. We know right wing-media is obsessed with him, Fox News always targeting him … But this book, it’s breathtaking”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If it’s called anything other than Diary of a Corrupt Crackhead I ain’t buying.

    • The Other Kevin

      +1 tingle up the leg

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just when you think Stelter can’t beclown himself further and grovel even harder.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      It may well be breathtaking. Just not in the way Stelter is thinking.

  41. egould310

    I would much rather lay here in bed and listen to my wife snore; than to get up, shower and go to work.

    I’ve got a case of the Mondays…

    • Rebel Scum

      The gf snores if she lays on her back. Nothing a little elbow jab in the side won’t fix. Kidding but I do have to poke her so she will stop.

    • Unreconstructed

      I’ve been on a virtual meeting since 7 AM CDT. Still got an hour to go. Quit yer bitchin’!

    • Galt1138

      My wife snores all the time. A poke may work. But, she also tends to wake up easy, and then can be crabby from lack of sleep.

      It’s a better investment in my marriage to let her snore. Besides, I can typically go right back to sleep, something she has trouble with.

    • The Other Kevin

      “The reason for the season” indeed.

  42. PieInTheSky

    This thread is more personal than most of the things I share here, but I’m at my limit with Jason Hickel.

    I want to explain why I dislike him so much and how we got here.

    This is a personal story over several years so it’ll take a bit of time.

    https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378730932308471809

    long thread but how can someone believe poverty has not declined in the last 200 years? I do not think these people know what poverty looked like 200 years ago

    • juris imprudent

      Well sure everyone was poor back then, but why should anyone be poor now. derpa-derpa-doooo

    • kbolino

      Can anyone discuss important topics without emulating Mean Girls any more?

      • Rebel Scum

        That would be so fetch.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Well, it’s kinda obvious that people around the world are better off today than they were 200 years ago.

      But whatever you do, don’t give free market capitalism any credit for it! That’s a huge no-no!

  43. Rebel Scum

    This guy…

    Calgary police were met with resistance when they attempted to shut down a Good Friday church service for violating COVID restrictions. Artur Pawlowski, the pastor at The Cave of Adullam, told police to leave and not return until they have a search warrant in hand.

    “You come back with a warrant,” Pawlowski said. “Out! Out! Out!”

    Police were hesitant to leave but the pastor wasn’t backing down. “Out of this property, you Nazis!” Pawlowski shouted. “Gestapo is not allowed here!”

    As police left the property, Pawlowski told them “not to come back, you Nazi psychopaths.”

    “Unbelievable sick, evil people. Intimidating people in a church during the Passover! You Gestapo, Nazi, communist fascists! Don’t you dare come back here!” he shouted as they walked away.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good on him but they’ll be back after people have forgotten about it and he won’t run them out next time.

    • Hyperion

      OK, which of you glibs is playing a pastor in real life?

    • Galt1138

      That made my day. Good for him, telling those petty tyrant LEOs to fuck right off.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    I’m more worried about the fact that so much of my resume is working for the State.

    I can’t get a real job with that background.

    You could be a lobbyist.

    Oh, right. You said “real job”.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    long thread but how can someone believe poverty has not declined in the last 200 years? I do not think these people know what poverty looked like 200 years ago

    It’s like that excrescence I linked from Bernie yesterday.

    Rich people are stealing wealth from the middle class! They explicitly refuse to recognize the creation of immense new wealth in the past several decades, because it muddles the wealth envy narrative.

    • rhywun

      They explicitly refuse to recognize the creation of immense new wealth in the past several decades

      Or centuries. Or millenia.

    • Hyperion

      I’ve had this conversation with progs before where I’ve pointed out that the average middle class person in the USA today is better off then the richest people on earth just a few hundred years ago.

      They just say that doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is disparity of wealth or ‘equality’. It’s the same old thing, we’re all better off equally poor than for anyone to have even a dime more than anyone else.

    • Hyperion

      They thought he was a Ninja, didn’t they?

  46. Hyperion

    “Shouldn’t he have had a katana? Just kidding. He should have had a gun and shot the assholes.”

    White supremacists strike yet again?