Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely amazing day it always is!
Rand believes Fauci committed perjury.
Corporate media is the enemy of the people.
New conservative PAC targeting local school board elections.
VA hamlet disbands police, creates chain of custody issue where no one can access evidence locker.
CNN loses nearly 70% of its viewership.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Baseball birthdays: Darrell Evans, Ben Zobrist. That is all.
I was shocked to see Evans played 20 years in the majors. And in one of his worst statistical years, he won the world series.
The Rona is on the ropes! Keep up the good work you scallywags!
It’s on the ropes? Quick! RUN FROM THE ROPES!
HE HATES THESE CANS !
Yet another great 1970-80s movie that could not be made today.
“I was born a poor black child.”
Okay, you win, you can go with me.
“I found out what my “special purpose” is for!”
Morning, Banjos.
Currently, travelers are required to show a recent negative COVID test to board a plane. LaJoye was asked if he thinks the U.S. should require travelers to provide proof of vaccination before they are able to board an aircraft.
“I’m pretty clear and encouraging everyone to go get vaccinated, but just to alleviate any potential confusion, it is a federal mask mandate irrespective of one’s vaccination status, or state or local ordinances,” he said. “It is a federal requirement to wear a mask on all forms of public transportation.”
Ja vohl.
I wonder where in the constitution the federal government is granted that authority. Other than the FYTW clause. In the past they at least used try to cite some bullshit clause to justify their actions, but now it’s pretty much just a dictatorship.
Well, first you’d have to be granted that elusive standing thing by the courts. Then you’d have to have a crap-ton of money to mount a good case.
And then they’ll just use Wickard as precedent and say that if you’re going anywhere at all, it has an impact on interstate commerce somewhere/somehow and thus the Feds can regulate everything however they want.
And that totally makes sense, because the framers of the constitution obviously intended that a minor clause to ensure interstate commerce was free-flowing would mostly invalidate the rest of the constitution.
You forgot the Emanations and Penumbras Clause written on the back in lemon juice.
That’s a very selective clause, for example it doesn’t apply to the second amendment.
Do we need to call Nic Cage to find out what the Constitution actually says?
Yup.. obviously. 😉
Besides getting a Congress that dismantles a good chunk of the bureaucracy (by defunding the whole mess), a Court that goes out of its way to call out Wickard for the horse dung that it is is one of my “Never gonna happen” fantasies.
We’ve had enough rain in Texas now that I’m wondering when they’re going to change our climate to Rainforest. Seriously my fucking yard is a god damn jungle!
Which also brings up another question, have there been any actual modifications to “official” climate maps? ocean levels? in the last decade?
Don’t get me started. My girls are stir crazy from being stuck inside for what feels like weeks on end.
*thousand yard stare*
If I have to do another tea party….
After SuperDuperStorm Sandy, FedGov reclassified The Rockaways into a different flood zone and caused everyone’s insurance to rise and started programs to lift all the houses.
Coming from the land of hurricanes, and after having suffered Andrew on my 16th birthday, the whole “Superstorm Sandy” thing makes my ass burn.
It wasn’t a fucking Hurricane, or a tropical storm. It was just a fucking storm that at one time before striking had been a tropical system. But they had to make the narrative feel somehow uniquely devastating, and in response, they got the Weather Channel to propagandize for them by creating an entire new class of storm.
The Super Storm.
Get. The. Fuck. Out.
Yeah, just a fucking storm like any other:
I see you lived it too. Destroyed my grandmother’s house and I was without power for two weeks.
CNN’s drop in viewers is larger than its competitors, but all major cable news shows have experienced a drop. MSNBC had the second-largest drop in viewership since January, losing 49% of its total viewership between January and May. In the 25-54 age demographic, the network lost 63% of its viewers. During primetime hours, MSNBC lost 42% of its total viewers and 58% of viewers between the ages of 25 and 54.
And let that be a lesson to you. Don’t kill the villain, or people will stop watching your melodrama.
No, you have the first villain be just the pawn of an even greater villain. Of course, then you run into the power creep problem.
This is coming in ’24. The propaganda machine is such that the next guy will be worse.
Power creep isn’t a problem if you want the hero to be omnipotent.
Last week I dropped my cable plan to “basic”. No ‘news’ or ‘sports’ channels at all. And none of my money going to any of them. Seems weird that my cable company would want an extra $50 a month to show me more channels that all still air commercials.
Because the cable company doesn’t get any of that ad revenue unless they own the channel.
I don’t watch any broadcast or cable or streaming anymore. I can pick up the gist from independent content providers. Plus, Glibs has killed my attention span.
I killed everything except internet. Saved a ton of cash. I miss nothing. Over the air only works to me.
It’s still in the house but I never watch it, especially since sports coverage went to shit.
You reminded me that I need to get line for my trimmer.
You….you…you got a gift
Wow. Pound made the news?
That hasn’t happened since Francis Gary Powers got shot down.
I’m probably related to half of the town, probably more.
“Although Pound is not a hotbed of crime, the county struggles with drug laboratories and an increase in heroin use, Mullins said.”
Kind of surprised heroin got mentioned and not the bazillion trailer meth factories.
They need to bring in a calligrapher.
I’m probably related to half of the town, probably more.
It’s west Virginia not West Virginia.
Only an imaginary line that distinguishes the two.
At times, a difference with little distinction.
It’s actually on the Kentucky border. Over the border from Harlan County, made famous by Justified.
Played before but worth another listen – https://youtu.be/1n57WBtvtC4
Harlan County, where I’m related to half the people.
Hey bro.
You’re probably Scotch-Irish then. Whereas I’m of the melungeon dirt/rock/coal/meth farmers.
Yup, you got it. Any current day relatives there would be rather distant, but grandpa has “cousins” out that way.
Last year we drive west from Harrisonburg into WV. There are some hellacious hills separating them there.
Sure, that border, it must be around here some-whars. 😉
I’m probably related to half of the town – the good looking half?
The half with the family tree that looks like a cloverleaf.
Well, it is Pound Town — I expect the relations and relationships there get rather complicated.
Now my wife wants to know what I’m laughing at…
Morning glibs
Is there a bigger snake and more vile human being in the US than Anthony Fauci?
Soros?
Bloomberg?
*glances at CIA and FBI leadership*
We’re aflood with vile humans
And they congregate in government.
And the media and Hollywood and higher education and…
All that’s missing is a flute album.
Cortez.
Edit^^
Now she says she needs therapy and she’s “served during wartime” because she was in her office a couple blocks away while senior citizens calmly walked through the Capitol and took photos.
A willing media to canonize that is the only reason she says it.
The NYC Board of Education has decided that one can’t be too careful, so they have declared that children will remain masked upon return to school for the 2021-2022 school year. I’m at the end of my rope.
It’s easier to program the kids when they’re low on oxygen.
The whole theater is coming back with the next round of cold weather so might as well get used to it now.
They should be at the end of your rope.
Can we take a moment and contemplate how awesome that thumbnail was from yesterday?
Acktually a Gif… (joke made yesterday)
Unity, healing, justice
Portland police on Tuesday declared a riot amid a destructive downtown demonstration held on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
About 200 people gathered Tuesday night outside the Multnomah County Justice Center. Some in the crowd lit fireworks and a dumpster fire, tagged the Justice Center with graffiti and broke windows at nearby Portland City Hall.
Some also threw water bottles and fireworks directly at police officers.
Police declared a riot about 10 p.m.
Marchers later smashed windows at locations including a jewelry and precious metals business, Starbucks shops, a credit union and Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
Police said they made an unspecified number of arrests.
Peaceful protest.
“The peaceful protest intensified.”
“Some in the crowd lit fireworks and a dumpster fire, tagged the Justice Center with graffiti and broke windows at nearby Portland City Hall.”
The default phrasing used to be “the crowd lit.” At least they aren’t using the passive voice like the fires just lit themselves. But, yeah, a blatant attempt to keep up the myth that the protestors are (mostly) peaceful. Compare with “some were very fine people.”
Portland and other Cities are being held hostage by groups of 200 anarchists. This is insane.
200 anarchists with the implicit backing of those in power who think the monsters will come for them last.
“Police declared a riot about 10 p.m.”
It would have been peaceful had the cops not declared it a riot.
/s
It was mostly peaceful.
Some also threw water bottles and fireworks directly at police officers.
At what point is it ok for the cops to open fire on these cuntes?
The crows WAS a dumpster fire.
All you need is love.
and Vaseline. Assloads of Vaseline.
And then, more love.
STEVE SMITH SAY, SING IT ROBERT.
And water. Gotta stay hydrated.
Good morning, Banjos.
My, that’s a lotta lynx.
Rand is right. Fauci deserves the entire Flynn treatment.
Which of course will never happen. More likely a fucking Nobel prize or something.
Flynn didn’t kill anybody.
Fauci deserves far worse.
We’re aflood with vile humans
Neck deep in scum.
Which is what the second amendment was actually intended to address, which is why it has been completely gutted.
Better than ankle-deep in fresh air. We’ll see. Push back seems really possible now that the other side has started to remove the barricades. Too much, too soon the greedy fucks.
They fail to realize that society works as a pendulum.
Since when? The ratchet has been going in one direction for more than 20 years.
The pendulum only swings from left to far left.
You forgot the 1 in front of the 20.
I like the river analogy a bit better. Liberty is upstream, totalitarianism is downstream. There may be eddies and whirlpools that occasionally let a small portion of the river flow upstream, but there ain’t no way water is flowing back up to the head of the river.
Not with your attitude, mister.
The previous Great Awakening receded as well, and was followed shortly by the decadent roaring 20s, and later by the even more decadent 60s. Reagan rode the counter to all of that with the important caveat that having won on smaller govt, he never delivered on it.
Too few people want smaller government.
Not all scum is equal.
Banjos, that is a really great Punk tune! Your other links were just the perfectly piquant lead-in to it. Bravo and Mornin’!
Another Young Ones musical guest. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J2H_7LY5LqM
variety pays better
Light Entertainment? A commenter pointed out that that is a very Mike scheme.
I dig that Vox that Captain Sensible is playing.
Tim Dillon
@TimJDillon
The press is one of our great institutions and I have nothing but respect for them.
https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1397334297942630407
*stands and applauds*
Seth Rogen Says Comedians Shouldn’t Complain About Cancel Culture: Accept Jokes Don’t Age Wel
https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1397251568454488072
These people really are utter scum…
That’s how you create a market for your new, shitty comedy: convince people that good, older comedy “hasn’t aged well.”
I’d love to hear George Carlin’s take on all of this.
Rogen is a twat.
Neither does Seth Rogan.
Really, Superbad was 14 years ago. Has he done anything decent since?
Really appropriate from a guy who’s humor has never risen above the 7th grade level.
I really dug his work from his early career. Something broke his brain about 5-6 years ago. What could it be?
I was pleasantly surprised by An American Pickle.
I hope some comedian does a set that is just 25 minutes of shitting on Seth Rogen.
NPR ran a sob story about an adorable old couple that caught the ‘vid and died… back in January.
Also, NYAG convenes a grand jury to indict OMB. Is it ham sandwich time, or is she using this as a way of ending the prosecution while saving face?
The CBC’s reporter was audibly flicking xer bean about the entire situation. “It’s not often that a Grand Jury doesn’t return indictments but it does happen, rarely.” We’ve got him this time!
An online store had 40% discount on select whisky bottles yesterday and I bought 3 and now I wish I had bought more. I did not want to spend to much money at once but could have added a couple more to the order
CNN does some halo-polishing
After weeks of facing fierce attacks from Republicans, top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci now has a new critic: Chinese state media.
“US elites degenerate further in morality, and Fauci is one of them,” was the headline of a blistering opinion piece penned by Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times this week.
In the article Hu accused the top US infectious disease expert of “fanning a huge lie against China” by hyping the theory that the coronavirus was leaked from a Wuhan lab. Another article in the Global Times declared that Fauci had “betrayed Chinese scientists.”
The anger is centered on Fauci’s remarks this month that he is no longer convinced the Covid-19 pandemic originated naturally.
“I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened,” said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at a fact-checking symposium on May 11.
The comments appear to be a shift from Fauci’s earlier view that the disease likely was the result of animal to human transmission.
LEAVE SAINT FOOCHY ALONE!
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Insert an L and she could be a prominent pr0n star…Nectar Glans.
Is that what Johnny Wad calls his Grandson?
Now this is a bad joke
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1397309751915077634
Standing athwart history
The lawmaker with the most influence over President Joe Biden’s agenda right now isn’t a member of his party.
Biden’s Democrats technically control Washington: Chuck Schumer runs the Senate and Nancy Pelosi is speaker. But the president’s biggest priorities, from immigration to infrastructure, at the moment revolve around Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hold over his 50-member conference.
That’s an unwelcome sight for Democrats who just spent a decade without full control of Washington.
“He believes that he should have a veto over anything that the president of the United States and the majority elected to Congress want to do. It’s wrong,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), an advocate for killing the filibuster to hobble McConnell. “This was his playbook when Obama was president, and he’s dusted it off again.”
Biden’s goals are noble, and only a monster would impede his agenda.
Trump, on the other hand…
Fuck it. Just kill the filibuster and get this freight train going full steam ahead. The faster we plunge this country into cultural suicide and economic depression, the more people who will come out the other side with some semblance of a life left.
You’re way too optimistic. Once a country is turned into a socialist shithole, it doesn’t reverse its fortunes very easily or quickly.
It only took the Russians 75 years give or take and Cuba’s doing just fine from what I hear. If only we could have a peaceful national divorce I’d be all for the accelerationism but things would likely get pretty ugly.
“That’s an unwelcome sight for Democrats who just spent a decade without full control of Washington.”
Poor babies
Just look at the wondrous nirvanas that are the states and cities where Democrats have had exclusive control for decades! How could anyone want to oppose such glory?
The human with the most influence over Biden’s agenda is not only not a member of his party, but also no longer holds an elective office.
Oprah Winfrey?
Not orange enough.
Next they will be complaining that the Constitution is blocking them from doing what they want. They have 7 more seats in Congress. It’s a mandate!
“He believes that he should have a veto over anything that the president of the United States and the majority elected to Congress want to do. It’s wrong,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren
“What is ‘representative government’?” – Fauxcahontas
I just have one question:
Why is China’s taste in movies so dreadfully awful?
Anything besides banal shlock could lead people to think for themselves and is therefore forbidden.
Yeah, it’s not so much that the people have bad taste, it’s the prudish CCP apparatchiks.
Fair enough, but when faced with nothing but crap like “F9” ?, there remains the choice to, you know, not go see it.
Even so, take whatever percentage of the American population that would want to see that in the theater and multiply it by four and you get the reason the entertainment industry loves them some CCP schlong.
That is indeed the stupid math applied. Does anyone ever stop to think that the average Chinese worker/family does not have the disposable income of the average Western country? No. All the stupid, greedy fucks ever see is ONE BILLION UNTAPPED CONSUMERS. They deserve every bit of CCP dick up their asses as they get.
Ding-ding-ding.
I rarely watch movies because there is rarely one worth watching. Ford v. Ferrari was the last one I saw in theater.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwfuUyTMpVY
Why do they eat the terrible things that they do?
Oh vox, never change.
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/3/5675092/study-straight-men-cuddle-with-other-men-a-lot
Science!
Yes, we do, in rainy 45-degree weather after walking through the woods all night and digging a hole in the ground to sleep in. Then it is okay, encouraged even, to spoon another dude.
Doesn’t it fill up with rain?
Poncho hooches. But yes drainage is… less than ideal.
Vox should rename itself to wellackshually.com
That domain seems to be up for grabs, btw.
It could work as a libertarian site too.
Straight guys love pounding a sixer and spooning while watching mixed martial arts on the weekends, it is known.
A “sixer” is a dude with washboard abs, right?
Average sized genitalia, no one wants to cuddle with a freak.
So no Greg Norman’s?
Are we sure that’s not an emerging Xenomorph?
Not sure at all.
Gaaaaaaay….
Do straight men even like cuddling straight women?
(N =1) Yes.
Also puppies and kittens. And CZ pistols.
Cuddle? What a fag. (borderline NSFW, nothing explicit, but two guys in bed with no shirts on).
It depends on the women in question.
Sure, and where it is leading.
Well, I’d have to answer that I have slept in the same bed as a buddy back in the day.
Not because we were well adjusted but because we were poor mother fuckers who couldn’t afford our own rooms. Wasn’t uncommon for 4 guys to split a room with two double beds when out on a trip.
If anyone had tried to spoon someone I’m pretty sure the fight would have been epic.
The football field, any number of sports in the squared circle, yep – checks out.
Yeah, no. Like the pic in the article… that is not a cuddle.
Well that’s a load of bollocks.
If either Spud or I tried that, the spoonee would immediately punch the spooner right in the nuts. And we would both give up drinking.
Straight men cuddle with other men. A lot.
Not in my experience.
Is never a lot?
It’s the Vox, and even more so the Left’s, modus operandi. Repeat the lie that you desperately want to be the truth enough times, the gullible will begin to believe it.
Gullible 1″ Hey, did you know Straight men cuddle with other men? Like, a lot?
Gullible 2: Oh yeah, I heard that somewhere.
Back to Politico:
McConnell’s outsize sway as minority leader could be fleeting. Senate Democrats are preparing a unilateral approach to physical infrastructure, climate change and the care economy if Republicans deadlock with Biden. Democrats can unilaterally confirm Biden’s nominees as long as they have the majority. Schumer still controls the floor, and the authority it gives him to force tough votes on McConnell’s conference.
“Minority leader”?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the breakdown is actually 50 R, 48 D, and 2 I(ndependent).
Without Harris, the Biden agenda is dead in the water, in the Senate.
But don’t let that stand in the way of your TYRANNY OF TEH MINORITY! narrative.
Pointing out the truth of the situation is all well and good but it does no good. They don’t care.
Why do you think schools have been teaching new math?
Unilateral action is only bad when you do it!
How media shifted on COVID lab leak theory after months of dismissing it
I’m getting whiplash from the pivoting.
1984 was an instruction manual.
Next narrative will be “Trump failed miserably to inform Americans about the Wuhan Lab leak and to take forceful action to punish China. Now the Biden Administration is heroically cleaning up Trump’s mess by exposing the truth.”
WaPo top fact-checker explains how the ‘lab-leak theory suddenly became credible’ after discrediting it for a year
Political convenience is political and convenient.
They consulted their Magic 8-Ball.
They came out of their burrows and didn’t see OMB in office.
Or anyone in office.
?
Conservatives pounce by denouncing antisemitism, New York Times columnist writes
There is no antisemitism in the Democratic Party.
Cicilline said that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) apologized for her past comments “almost immediately. But I see no evidence whatsoever in the Democratic caucus or in the Democratic Party of antisemitism at all. In fact, the strongest voices that have condemned acts of antisemitism and this rise in antisemitic violence have been members of the Democratic caucus. But everyone should be condemning it. This is unacceptable in America that American Jews face any kind of discrimination or violence or harassment. And we’re the party that’s speaking out against hate and division and bigotry and racism and antisemitism. We don’t get the same from our Republican colleagues, sadly, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the most recent and I think most despicable examples of that and it should have been easy for the Republican leaders in the Congress to condemn what she said, to immediately call upon her to apologize, and they didn’t do any of that. Because she’s welcome in their caucus.”
1) But are you?
2) What, exactly did she say that was so bad?
POLITICO tried that too in an article about how anti-semitism is straining both parties. The Republican anti-semite is apparently MTG. No, it doesn’t make sense, but that’s the narrative they’re running with.
Are they still blaming Trump for the rise in attacks perpetrated by Democrats?
They don’t hate all Semites, just Jews.
They’re children, siblings blaming each other for the broken vase.
As a Minnesodan, I remember the epic spanking Omar received from Pelosi and fellow Dems in the House for her “all about the benjamins” comment.
Uffda. She couldn’t sit down for a week after Pelosi passed that resolution completely and fully condemning anti-Semitism. Omar learned her lesson.
Meanwhile….
Australia’s second most populous state reported on Wednesday its biggest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases in more than seven months and warned the next 24 hours would be critical to limit the spread of a cluster without clamping on tough new curbs.
The six new cases were the largest daily rise in the southeastern state of Victoria since October 2020. Authorities warned that more than 300 close contacts of sufferers had been identified, with many having visited crowded locations.
“These cases are linked and that’s a good thing, but we are very concerned by the number and by the kind of exposure sites,” the state’s acting Premier James Merlino told reporters in Melbourne.
“I cannot rule out taking some further action.”
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The cluster has been traced back to an overseas traveller carrying a variant first found in India who had completed quarantine in South Australia, although officials have not worked out how it spread.
The unnamed man tested negative in hotel quarantine and flew back to the state capital of Melbourne this month but tested positive six days after he arrived.
Authorities in Victoria believed they had reined in the cluster but an error in tracing the man’s movements has stoked concern that scores of infections could have gone undetected for a couple of weeks.
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Australia’s use of swift contact tracing, local shutdowns and tough social distancing has helped keep its figures low versus other developed countries.
They’re behind the curve. Unless they plan on going full Hermit Kingdom, it’s just a matter of time.
Looks like the Aussies are going to be on intermittent lockdowns forfuckingever.
Yup
FFS they’ve locked out their fucking citizens from returning home. They’re out of their goddamned minds.
Strange that, I remember seeing an article a few weeks back where Paul Hogan was wanting to return home and he couldn’t. It’s freaking nuts. If an icon like that couldn’t manage then the average citizen is screwed.
They’re abusing their citizenry in the hopes they can avoid the inevitable, which they cannot.
Australia and New Zealand are a special case. They’ve been told for decades that invasive species are A Very Bad Thing. Now other humans are akin to cane toads. Never forget, they kept immigrants on islands until they went home.
SIX CASES OMFG IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD
They are so fucked.
The covid sky has been falling for a long time.
What, exactly did she say that was so bad?
I think it boils down to copyright infringement. Any time any non-approved person makes a non-authorized Holocaust reference it’s a crime against humanity.
(((SPACE LAZORZ!)))
Let’s try that Reuters link about Australia again.
Six cases,
SIX!!!!
What if it MORE THAN DOUBLES to thirteen?
Kill the hosts. It’s the only way to contain it.
Trying to keep out what is now an endemic virus is a fool’s errand, you may as well try to catch the wind.
Tried, but only broke it.
Me too. Just now. I have to be careful because I’m growing older.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9618995/Demi-Rose-flashes-underboob-daring-dress.html
“Prime position! Amazon finalizes $8.45bn deal to buy Hollywood studio MGM – bulking up its streaming library with 4,000 movies including James Bond and the Hobbit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9621271/Amazon-buy-MGM-studio-James-Bond-Shark-Tank.html
I don’t know what the solution is, but corporations are getting too big.
Meh, movie studios are barely anything more than goodwill as their value fluctuates wildly based on the franchise popularity.
I’m not sure there is a solution but agreed.
1) simplify the tax code so they can’t write off their stupidity more than their smaller competitors can
2) kill regulatory capture
It may not eliminate these monstrous companies, but it’ll put the smaller companies on an even playing field.
Once a corporation reaches a valuation of $1,000,000,000 or more, the CEO is entered into a lottery. Each year, one CEO is picked at random to be executed in a gruesome yet humorous way.
I seem to remember that kind of talk (more amongst the left) about AOL-TimeWarner… ok, stop laughing.
Remember the anti-trust push against Microsoft?
/raises hand
I do!
In entertainment news, I’ve seen some rumblings that Disney “may be forced to buy D.C. comics” as part of another Warner merger.
“Walmart has apologized after a racist email saying ‘Welcome to Walmart, N*****’ was sent to hundreds of customers on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
People in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom reported waking up Tuesday to see they’d received the offensive email from the company’s official help@walmart.com email address.
Many posted screenshots to social media and expressed their fury at the company.
Walmart apologizes after racist email with the N-word is sent to hundreds of customers around the world on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
Hundreds of customers around the world received an an email saying ‘Welcome to Walmart, N*****’
The company apologized and blamed a ‘bad actor’ for signing up customers to its online database and changing their first name to the N-word
A Walmart rep says it is unsure how many offensive emails were sent, and has blocked servers from sending out racial slurs
Detroit woman Courtney Rhodman said she was angered to receive an email with ‘such a hateful word like that’ on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
A security expert said the email addresses had probably been acquired after a previous unrelated data breach
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9619125/Walmart-apologizes-racist-email-N-word-sent-George-Floyd-anniversary.html
FUCK!
Edit fairy, please help.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
OK, just delete it please.
I sorta edited it, but who the fuck knows. I’m trying to figure out if they meant “Nigerian.” The asterisks are a weird touch.
Walmart has apologized after a racist email saying ‘Welcome to Walmart, N*****’
I never expected niggards to be particularly welcome at Walmart.
I would think that would be Walmart’s primary target market.
They are a low cost retailer. Niggardly people are their target market.
*sigh*
Kill the hosts. It’s the only way to contain it.
Just like the end of Hud. Dig a big hole with bulldozers, herd all the cattle into the hole, and start shooting.
“Walmart has apologized after a racist email saying ‘Welcome to Walmart, N*****’ was sent to hundreds of customers on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
People in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom reported waking up Tuesday to see they’d received the offensive email from the company’s official email address.
In a statement, Walmart said it was ‘shocked and appalled’ and blamed an ‘external bad actor’. The company said someone had created fake Walmart accounts using the email addresses possibly obtained after a previous data breach, and changed their first names to a racial slur.
Walmart said it had blocked emails containing a racial slur from being sent from its domain. Reuters reported the company was unsure how many emails had been out, but its systems were not hacked and no customer information had been compromised.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9619125/Walmart-apologizes-racist-email-N-word-sent-George-Floyd-anniversary.html
that has /pol/ written all over it.
Wow, I edited this reel gud.
HaHa! A partial bank of lights went out last week. I told them that if they all went out at the same time that it wasn’t bulbs. Would they listen? No. They contracted a crew to come in to replace, scissor-lift and all. The bulbs remain dark. I work for imbeciles.
Local media is full of gushing stories about George Floyd and his legacy. Not one mention of the shots fired in George Floyd square.
Yup. TMITE.
Do any of them mention that time he held a loaded gun to a pregnant woman’s belly? The guy didn’t deserve to be murdered but the canonization of the man is ridiculous.
Dude, he loved his mama. Why do you want to disparage him?
You know who else loved his mama?
Jimmy Cagney?
His papa, I hope.
He was getting ready to get a job, start a new career and move on with his life. He moved to Mpls from Hou because of the heat.
FAKE NEWS!!!! He only forced his way into a home during a home invasion and let a group of other criminals in. There is no proof that it was actually Floyd who pointed the gun at the pregnant woman. Or that she was pregnant.
I, for one, will not stand idly by while the good name of a home invader is tarnished with scurrilous lies!
Since we can’t prove he held a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, he’s quite obviously a hero, worthy of admiration, monuments, holidays. Duh!
Now you are getting it!
Keep practicing and soon you will be able to fit into any social gathering of right thinking people.
I stand corrected. How big a donation should I send to BLM in restitution?
Truly the Frederick Douglass of our time.
George Floyd and his legacy.
Being a repeat violent felon that resisted arrest and dies of a drug overdose?
that time he held a loaded gun to a pregnant woman’s belly?
I believe the latest on this is that he held up a woman who was not pregnant but her kid was in the home. Either way, Fentanyl Floyd was a bad dude.
Knock off the badmouthing. George was turning his life around and thinking of applying to college.
Yet another election revelation.
I don’t see how a private entity providing money to set the conduct of an election is not illegal. No municipality should’ve accepted the money – they are funded by taxes to conduct elections. Not that Philadelphia or other corrupt Democratic strongholds would let that stop them.
Ratings from Neilsen Media Research reported Tuesday indicated that CNN lost 67% of its total viewers since January, when Donald Trump left the White House.
People can’t get their daily hate-boners going because there is just nothing to criticize the Biden-Harris *administration for. It is like the most popular and competent admin. evar.
Journalist could possibly find something to criticize if they could keep up with him.
Cenk Uygur
@cenkuygur
Israelis & Palestinians kill each other over which Sky God they pretend to speak to and it’s politically incorrect to point out there is no Human God, let alone one that favors Jews or Muslims. All this violence over the equivalent of which character they like better in the MCU.
Maybe you should sit this one out.
Nobody could’ve pegged that asshole as a smug atheist. Nobody!
I don’t dislike him for his atheism. The smug, shitty part, sure, but not that. He’s just a cunte. I’m an atheist, he’s a dishonest, leftist hack.
LOL. Leave it to Cenk to dumb the conflict down to the lowest possible level.
In the Civil War, I’m on side Team Cap!
MCU Cap? Sure. Comics Cap — probably not so much.
And just because it seems an apt time to say it (and I still love the avatar….) Hail Lobster!
I’m more on the side of you try to grub up my turnips, you die.
Anyone know why I can’t find Colonel EH Taylor small batch bourbon in PA anymore? I can’t even find it on their website now for special order.
Well, just how much of it did you drink? You realize it was a small batch, right?
Darby LaJoye, senior official performing the duties of the Transportation Security Administration’s administrator, told Just the News that TSA agents are handling mask mandate violations in airports the “same way” they would travelers trying to take firearms or other prohibited items through security checkpoints.
Fuck the TSA.
Huh. I read that completely differently.
When they said they were treating them the same, I thought that meant that they were not noticing 95%+ of the violations.
I know we’d discussed this, but I still can’t wrap my head around why, at this point, they are reporting that perhaps the virus came from a lab. Last I checked, that was still a right vs. left issue and they could still easily portray people as conspiratorial kooks who believe that theory. What is there to gain from this? Maybe better ratings?
My guess it is to get everyone really mad at the Chinese and to stop paying attention to the dumpster fire of the Biden administration.
If the neanderthals aren’t distracted soon, they might get a bit pissy about why gas is $1 more expensive now than it was 4 months ago.
Didn’t you read the fact checker that Biden isn’t responsible for the higher prices?
The lockdowns and mask mandates were imposed by super nazi President Trump and the KKKochsucking Teathuglicans.
-High School US History book from 2040.
Thought I read that the State Department is trying to bury this now.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-shut-down-wuhan-lab-investigation-probing-covid-19-origins-report
Ah…he shut down Trump’s investigation into it so Biden can spin up his own and be the media savior.
Because this is a legitimate prerogative of the US government.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced another $112 million in relief for Palestinians and other relief projects in Gaza and said the U.S. will reopen its consulate in Jerusalem, a move aimed at enhancing diplomatic relations with the Palestinians after they deteriorated under former President Trump.
The U.S. will commit an additional $112 million helping Palestinians and for other relief projects in Gaza, including $75 million in development and economic aid, $5.5 million in disaster relief in Gaza, and $32 million for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees.
Blinken said that the U.S. is in the process of providing a total of $360 million to support the Palestinian people. The secretary of state has promised that no aid will go to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and has long been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S.
Sure…
It is astonishing to see the “adults” in the foreign service completely ignore what happened in the Trump administration and go right back to policies that haven’t worked since 1967.
The Abraham accords should have demonstrated that you can ignore the Palestinians and get things done. The other lesson being that if you don’t give the PA money, they can’t get up to much mischief.
Nope. Those things will be completely ignored and we won’t even be phased when the Palestinians immediately start rocket attacks after Biden sends them more money.
Things are good. The country’s foreign policy is back to being run by professionals who know what they are doing.
Ivy League twits
Seriously, their ineptness is only eclipsed by their egos.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t know exactly what they’re doing.
After all — who needs so many Middle East experts at State (and on CNN, MSNBC, etc.) if things stabilize there? Got to keep that sweet, sweet trough set up.
What is the downside?
Some icky Israelis and Palestinians get killed? Yeah, not nearly as important as making sure you and all your buddies from Yale have an important job in State and can attend the right cocktail parties.
I no more want my looted earnings going to the people of the middle east than I want it to be obliterated in the form of our own weapons expended there.
GREAT thread on Argentina’s economic history told via the life of a scion of a landowning family who became economy minister under the military junta. One life tells the story of agricultural boom & bust, liberalism, Peronism, neoliberalism, labour repression & political chaos
https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/1391843846238134284
I see al this talk of liberalism and then also how the government imposed wage freeze, had various price controls, took over bad debt from banks, nationalized stuff etc… It seems strange. Liberalism has the component of living all aspects of economy free and no bailouts for fuckups
Argentina is a revolving door of oligarchs and communists and has been for a long time. There are no heroes to be found in that story.
I am sure there are no heroes but liberalism ain’t the issue
Why shareholder capitalism benefits wider society
https://voxeu.org/article/why-shareholder-capitalism-benefits-wider-society
I think we know (((who))) is responsible.
One person was killed and two others were injured in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Asaluyeh in southern Iran along the coast of the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, in the third such incident in the past four days, according to Iranian media.
The explosion occurred along an oxygen transmission line between the Mobin Petrochemical plant and Damavand Energy Company in Asaluyeh due to an “unknown issue,” according to an update on the Damavand Energy Company’s website. The fire was contained and extinguished, and the director of public relations of the Mobin plant told Iranian media that the complex is still functioning without any issues.
Not necessarily.
Poor maintenance is rampant in their infrastructure, so it could just have easily failed all on its own. “An oxygen transmission line” sounds like a fine place for something to start burning.
Damn those Aussies!
First they completely put the US to shame in their response to the Rona. Now they are leading the way in electric car technology.
I’d be willing to bet that a non-zero number of electric car owners would refuse to charge their vehicles if they knew the electricity was generated from shit.
“Just say no to dirty electricity!”
Please… that’s “powered by biomass reclamation”, of course. They’ll be fine with it.
This seems somewhat impractical.
Build more Taco Bells?
Not if you are looking for green ways to power the AC and lights in the U.S. Capitol building.
The Minnesoda delegation could keep the lights on for decades just by themselves.
One car per thousand people seems right in line with the rest of the watermelon’s goals.
Way too early to call this the dumbest of the year.
We’re gonna need a bigger bucket of whitewash
A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms. It’s not clear the researchers contracted Covid-19 and the lab strongly denied the report, calling it a lie to push the so-called lab-leak theory for the disease origin.
Scientists affiliated with the institute have previously said the institute did not come into contact with Covid-19 until December 30.
The US had actually provided some funding for the study of coronaviruses and their transmission through bats, which had made it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
On Capitol Hill Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it would have been a “dereliction of duty” not to fund earlier coronavirus research in bats in China.
“You don’t want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia, to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species,” Fauci said, adding the US had to go “where the action is.”
Separately, at the White House, Fauci said many scientists still believe the disease occurred naturally, but it’s also imperative to get to the bottom of it with more investigation.
An adviser for the World Health Organization, Jamie Metzl, said the lab-leak theory is possible while scientists were “poking and prodding and studying” viruses with the good intention of developing vaccines.
“Then I believe what possibly happened was there was an accidental leak followed by a criminal cover-up,” said Metzl, who served in the Clinton administration in the US Department of State and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the US, also said this week he is not convinced the disease occurred naturally and pushed for more investigation.
That is the takeaway here: There needs to be more investigation.
Let’s farm out this “research” and hope for the best, instead of maintaining control.
Top infectious disease expert should be used as Guinea Pig Numero Uno.
a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council
????
This person’s sole purpose is to signal the prog-fascist narrative to TMITE. That is the entire reason for the Atlantic Council to exist.
They’re eliding over the most important part of this.
They weren’t just collecting viruses for study, which is a defensible area of research, they were altering the viruses to make them more pathogenic and virulent, aka “gain-of-function.”
Gain-of-function has been one of Fauci’s (and Collins’) pet research areas for a while and warnings from a number of virologists and epidemiologists have been studiously ignored for years.
What is the non-evil explanation for gain of function research?
I’ve never been clear on why people would be trying to make viruses worse. Other than biowar, why?
The presumption is that all a lab does is speed up what can happen naturally, and then in theory, you are prepared for what nature does. The problem is, nature isn’t predictable.
As Peter Daszak put it, the point is to create the monster virus so we can develop treatments for it before it occurs naturally.
Of course, there are also military applications and if you do this extremely dangerous research in a facility with piss poor controls and safeguards, you’re a fucking fool.
They truly are acting out the old adage of “They were so concerned with whether they could, they never stopped to consider whether they should.”
Well it sure didn’t seem to work very well.
If the theory was practical, wouldn’t we have been able to combat the Rona right away because of all the awesome gain of function research that had already been done?
Seems like the idea is that you practice driving while blindfolded just in case you ever find yourself having to drive home real drunk. Theoretically it might help, but the practice is far more dangerous than any benefits that might be gained.
In all seriousness, we got off lucky. It could have been far, far worse.
MERS and SARS-1 have much higher infection fatality rates. If they had managed to maintain that lethality with the virulence of COVID-19, we would be in a world of hurt.
Now they know what happens when one of these viruses get released. It won’t be accidental next time.
^This! I can’t take any more. I’m going to bed. Have fun Glibbies.
Goodnight Festus!
Hey, he’s the TOP.MAN – you don’t gainsay his directives. Nevermind that the Obama Admin did put a stop to it and he slid the money out the door due to early Trump Admin incompetence.
We’re all just supposed to ignore the gigantic coincidence about where the virus started and the lab next door?
They just keep pissing on us and bragging about how nice the rain is.
Warm and fragrant!
If you’d like a more detailed and non CNN spin here is a free WSJ link.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-lab-leak-question-chinese-mine-covid-pandemic-11621871125?st=2mz6ko49y21t5nl&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This is disturbing, mostly because he’s right.
They absolutely intend to fully politicize the military.
Dear lord, the comments…
Disqus is like catnip for crazies
“Biden administration is to turn the American military into the armed wing of the left or the Democratic Party.”
I mean… the FBI. IRS, CIA, TSA, ATF and BLM are already there. It seems to be the natural order of things. Top government men with government guns here to help!
So militarize the police, and de-militarize the military.
It tickles me every time MacGregor is the voice of reason (although it shouldn’t, I picked up Breaking the Phalanx when it was creating a buzz).
Thirty-six percent of the U.S. Armed Forces have tattoos.
Which wouldn’t be bad if it was one or two that weren’t visible when in uniform but the ones today look like jailbirds with sleeves and more.
How “national” was the military when Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to forcefully integrate the University of Alabama? Right or wrong, that wasn’t a very “national” act. Eventually the South relented on segregation (and thereafter, segregation’s center of mass moved to the Northeast) but at the time it looked to many in the South like they just got Reconstructed good and hard again. Indeed, there are many parallels to the position of the military then vs. now (major war had recently ended, the military was bloated and soft compared to where it was at the height of that war, Washington DC had an overinflated sense of its importance to the country, the bureaucracy felt ascendant, etc.).
At first I read this story as “Unstraffed store in Tokyo sells entrails 24 hours a day” and wondered why an un-Glibinated store was such a selling point that entrail mongers would advertise it. Turns out it was ‘unstaffed”. So I guess Straff is still huge in Japan.
Sounds like clerking that store was a job so offal that no one wanted it.
It takes guts to poke Swissy with a pun so bad that he can’t stomach it.
Maybe it’s the stench that makes him narrow his gaze?
We’ll just spleen to him what’s going on.
Make sure to add an appendix to your explanation and cite all your references.
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I can’t believe you have the gall to do this.
I tried to figure a witty pun to add to this train but all the good ones have already been taken.
I’m gutted.
I’m sure he has the intestinal fortitude to carry on.
JFC, given the declining fertility and cost for low skilled labor there has always been a preference for automation (i.e. the economic term “capital”).
Aside from creating Gundam and creepy robot maids it’s one of the reason Japan keeps looking so much at robots as much as it does human nurses from the Philippines.
The JFC – was aimed at the press and not you Pope Jimbo
*slowly uncurls from fetal position*
*wipes tear stains from face*
You guys like me! You really like me!
It may be a trap, Jimbo! Why would anyone li….
They weren’t just collecting viruses for study, which is a defensible area of research, they were altering the viruses to make them more pathogenic and virulent, aka “gain-of-function.”
Gain-of-function has been one of Fauci’s (and Collins’) pet research areas for a while and warnings from a number of virologists and epidemiologists have been studiously ignored for years.
There is a whole “public health” doomsday cult subculture devoted to gaming out superpandemics. They get themselves all aquiver running simulations in which tens of millions of people die from fantastically lethal and utterly unstoppable viruses.
Then they tell their governments they need more money.
They don’t need more money – $14.99 will cover their fetish
I was expecting this.
Sad, I used to love that game.
There are some other ones that use a similar rule base though.
Never been a big fan of co-op games. Played a couple of them, and they seem much better suited to solo play on a computer.
Agreed. A co-op game in which player choice was truly the players choice with methodology to limit discussion would be great. Like, you can only talk if your players are adjacent to each other, or something.
And some fog of war, so you wouldn’t always know where your teammates are.
That was Osterholm’s gig for years and years. It got so bad they finally canned him from the Minnesoda dept of Health. Until this pandemic hit, he was stuck up in Duluth as an obscure professor.
Early in the outbreak, which China did not appropriately warn the world about, Chinese officials blamed transmission on an early hotspot, a seafood market in Wuhan, although that seems now to be essentially a lie, according to Metzl.
In fact, there’s ample evidence the Chinese government tried to cover the existence of the virus up. In February, CNN published a look at whistleblowers and truthtellers who warned of the virus as it was taking hold, and who paid the price. Some have gone missing, others have been detained by Chinese authorities, while others contracted and died from Covid.
That report includes a timeline of warnings from doctors in China compared to inaction by the government.
“Whatever the origin of the pandemic, that first month when China was spending all of its energy trying to cover things up rather than fix the problem, that was what allowed the stove fire to become a kitchen fire to become a house fire to become a world fire,” Metzl said.
It’s easier to cover up your pandemic when it doesn’t actually kill that many people.
Bats are seafood? Man the Talmud makes no sense at all.
Only if they catch fish like the seabirds do.
/lent rules
Who did you borrow the rules to? And when will they return them?
China continues to berate any person or organization which repeats the idea that this virus was accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
So I am starting to wonder if this might possibly be correct. Maybe the truth is that it wasn’t an accident.
I’m about 90% it leaked from the lab.
It wasn’t some bio-weapon, but some lab leak. I’ve no idea if it was natural and simply a leak of a specimen or if it was something they messed with.
I’m leaning about 50% it was intentional at this point. Maybe not even the CCP – although I wouldn’t put it past them – hell, maybe just a disgruntled individual.
We’ll never know so it’s “fun” to speculate.
My Bingo card has: accidental, modified on purpose
???
CPRM there is a free pair of fancy shoes and a nice hand bag loose in your neck of the woods.
When you do catch Rex, remember that problem he has with his jaw and restrain yourself to “just the tip”.
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-world-realizes-he-was-right-about-everything-alex-jones-appointed-as-new-head-of-cdc
They definitely trained for a marathon. I applaud them for their stamina.
The bad news about Gretchen Whitmer keeps piling up.
What a shame /sarc
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more benign and benevolent ruler.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Cuckhold’s Gender Reveal Party Goes Very Wrong
They still don’t know the sex of the baby, but the now know to expect it to be darker skinned than you’d expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzv8ICrMY28
She shouldn’t have been wearing such a short skirt…
It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if you can, ask your rabbi first.)
So forsake your religion…that will not bring out the zealots at all.
I am shocked.
But NYC is so “tolerant” unlike those places in the middle of the country.
Yes. This advice only applies to Jews traveling in Republican neighborhoods.
Does anyone work?
Look, we got rid of bad orange man, right? Why do you people keep asking so many questions? It worked!
Im paying attention to glibs while I participate in a safety panel for some new system getting implemented here at Vegas. Safety First!
“Absolutely repugnant.”
We got rid of orange bad man, it worked! Why all the questions? Is’nt a few minor inconveniences and little white lies a small price for saving our democracy?