Monday Afternoon Blah Links

by | Jul 26, 2021 | Daily Links | 371 comments

This should help.

 

Sunday was a trip into Chicago day…I sure hope my visit to Hagen’s isn’t how I got this odd stomach bug/fever. They really rock the seafood and Swedish goodies. But minor illness aside, the links are still on.

Let us see what it looks like out there:

  • The end is nigh! Consult Not Adahn for astrological effects.
  • Talk about a no-win job. But the guy wants it, so good luck, pal.
  • This is nobody’s business but the Turks. And the Afghans.
  • OBEY! No word on union contracts allowing for this…

Imma go find so lemon-ginger tea and Tylenol.

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Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

371 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    The two meteor showers that are unfolding during the last week of July are the Southern Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids.

    But it is no match for the Delta Corona-vid.

      • Grumbletarian

        “We are going to lock down, wear masks, and social distance, all of which didn’t work, but hey. It’s worth trying again,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci in a television interview this morning. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s what they taught us in science school. Look at my lab coat. It’s white. Do you like it? It has pockets.”

        Those last lockdowns weren’t real lockdowns anyway. That’s why they didn’t work.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        The damn Capitalists and Libertarians undermined a working lockdown and face diaper regime, which is why it didnt work.

        Plus Trump is Hitler which killed millions.

        ….

  2. waffles

    I miss the creeping authoritarianism. This new leaping and bounding authoritarianism is much worse.

    • Bobarian LMD

      But easier to identify.

      • waffles

        I guess that’s the white pill. The hope is that with the masks off it will be easier to resist and fight back. It only seems worse because it’s out in the open. I am sympathetic to this because I want to be an optimist.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If they didn’t feel confident about their odds of success it wouldn’t be out in the open. We’ll see how it all shakes out I guess but nosssir, I don’t like it either.

    • juris imprudent

      It’s like the change from slow shuffling to sprinting zombies – not an upgrade I wanted.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Emory did a study that recovered infected Americans (including asymptomatics) develop long lasting and wide ranging antibodies against SARS virus variants.

      Turns out not wearing a mask and getting infected was better choice than locking down and hiding behind face diapers. Nobody called that one….

  3. Rebel Scum

    Lebanese businessman Najib Mikati secured enough votes in parliamentary consultations on Monday to be designated the next prime minister, and now faces the difficult challenge of forming a viable government to tackle a financial crisis.

    Is “fuck you, cut spending” on the table?

    • juris imprudent

      Yep, that was part of the non-viable government.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Government too big to fail?

    • Bobarian LMD

      “Fuck you, American Pig-Dog, give us aid?” is probably a whole lot more likely.

  4. blackjack

    “we’ve reached the limits of a purely voluntary system”

    In his mind we reached that limit decades ago.

  5. Suthenboy

    “We all know the Delta variant has thrown us a curveball,”

    No, we don’t.

    • juris imprudent

      If Covid was really diabolical it would throw a change-up like Trevor Hoffman.

      • The Gunslinger

        How about a screwball like Willie Hernandez?

      • Fourscore

        Hoyt and a knuckler

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Since it’s less lethal, it’s kind of a hanging curve.

  6. Rebel Scum
  7. Count Potato

    “Imma go find so lemon-ginger tea and Tylenol.”

    I hope you are feeling better. Tylenol sucks though.

    • Swiss Servator

      All I can have, being one kidney short. 🙁

    • Bobarian LMD

      This is fake news, I’m sure Dr. Jill powdered his butt for him.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Thanks a lot. I know have an image in my head of Dr. Commandant Jill holding Joe’s feet up on a changing table whilst he babbles at the ceiling.

    • Rat on a train

      “My butt’s been wiped”?

      • Tonio

        That’s what many people heard. But regardless of what he was actually saying it isn’t good. I wonder how long before the press is barred from getting close enough to him to ask questions, and whether security or the ‘rona will be the pretext for that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Serious flash backs of my uncle from a few years ago who has dementia wondering around the family reunion saying random shit. One had, sad as hell to watch real time, on the other, fucking sick that this man is the ‘leader of the free world’.

      • juris imprudent

        No this is perfect. First Trump and now Biden – we might destroy the bullshit about “leader of the free world” yet. God knows, if Harris ascends over Biden’s still-warm corpse – the free world better goddam look elsewhere for leadership.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “Free world”. Around which distant star does this planet orbit?

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Yeah, one of the early signs of my father’s Alzheimer’s was his randomly calling people fat to their faces. Things like getting angry at random times and so on. It was, as you say, sad as hell. This whole Biden thing is fucking disgusting.

      • B.P.

        My mother was accusing everyone in the family of stealing from her, which wasn’t a lot of fun. We changed her care facility and toward the end she was positively cheerful.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Biden is getting what he deserves for being a piece of shit his whole life. He will get left out of history of US presidents because his Party of slavery banana republic election fraud means America doesnt have a president until civil war 2.0 is resolved.

        All the piece of shit democrats who put an Alzheimer’s patient as Manchurian candidate are gonna get what they deserve too.

        Many/most Americans are not cruel like the tyrants that want power like this. American’s big fault is indifference until were attacked. Americans dont know how to handle being attacked every day.

      • R C Dean

        Hard to make out, but that’s what I heard.

        As ever, this kind of micro-clip makes me suspicious. What was that in response to?

      • Bobarian LMD

        “What is that awful smell, Mr. President?”

      • Rat on a train

        Or the opposite, “Why don’t you smell like shit like you normally do?”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      WTF

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Is that a teaser for the next episode of Joemala?

    • Sean

      No doubt.

    • R C Dean

      That reminds me:

      We had a mass shooting here in Tucson a week or so ago. The shooter died in the hospital. There was an article in the paper yesterday about him.

      Turns out he lived across the street from his mother. Her house caught fire in January, and he ran in to try to save her and her boyfriend. He was burned over 80% of his body. Basically, it broke him. He wandered the neighborhood once yelling “Fire! Fire!”.

      And, he snapped. Killed his girlfriend in their house, set it on fire, shot up an ambulance nearby (EMTs badly injured but not dead yet, as far as I know). Shot a fireman coming to his house fire (dead). The police shot him – the body cam showed four or five very controlled shots.

      After reading the article, I felt pretty bad for him.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        At the same time, why do innocents have to die? We have all sorts of tyrants that work for government that are despicable human beings. I guess Its why America has a government district that can be protected by military types and miles of fencing.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yeah, I posted that right when it was happening – shooting up the EMTs and firecrew isn’t a normal response for almost anyone (compared to shooting at cops) – at least in the US.

        Wasn’t much background at the time.

        Wouldn’t have expected him to be up and walking around 6 months after an 80% burn – but I guess it depends on the situation.

      • R C Dean

        Mrs. Dean’s theory is that he blamed the fire department and EMTs for not being able to save his mother.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Heroes doing the lords work.

    Our Dems in DC said they’d appreciate care packages from home. Before 5pm Tues, we’re collecting Dr. Pepper, salsa, hard candy, hairspray, travel toiletries, hand sanitizers, sewing kits, first aid, and/ or $ to pay shipping. TY!

    9am-5pm, M-F 1414 N. Washington Ave, Dallas

    • Count Potato

      I saw that. They don’t sell those things in DC?

      • Sean

        You expect them to pay for things?

        You monster.

    • The Other Kevin

      Wow those poor oppressed public servants, living like homeless people in a fancy hotel.

      • Shpip

        Random thought: if these folks are staying in, say, a $400/night hotel for a month gratis, does the IRS consider that income for tax purposes?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Only if you work for Trump.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        If they stayed at a Trump hotel, they’d probably try to impeach him for emoluments.

      • juris imprudent

        Um, even if the IRS doesn’t, wouldn’t that run afoul of ethics rules in most legislatures?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I am not sure what the ethics rules in Texas are, but a free hotel room could be considered a gift-in-kind at the federal level.

      • R C Dean

        I’m guessing that the Dem Party can pay for hotel rooms, etc., and that Beto and whoever else is funding this is doing it through them.

        But hey, lets confirm that, shall we? I mean, why not?

    • blackjack

      Are they having the Jan 6th prisoners taste test the edible stuff? Lotta people don’t much like those dems.

    • R C Dean

      Saw that Beto is kicking in $600K(?) for their expenses.

      I wonder if that’s even legal under Texas law. Most states restrict “donations” to politicians, after all. Well, technically they do.

    • Ghostpatzer

      I will contribute doggie bags. IYKWIMAITYD.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Collected from a can at the doggie park?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Because they can’t buy that stuff in DC on their per diem?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s starting to sound like an evangelical prayer-a-thon.

    • EvilSheldon

      Would anyone be interested in going in on a 55-gallon drum of lube?

    • Tonio

      I thought it was going to link to pickleball grannies.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Sounds like a good place for “Lemon Party”… which I will never link to.

    • Mojeaux

      Could this get MORE tedious? Soon they’re going to have every single point on the mile-long Kinsey spectrum labeled.

      • Count Potato

        Oh, they’ve been way past that at least ten years ago.

      • Bobarian LMD

        We’ve gone from the 16bit list of sexuality to the 4KUltra Rainbow of Depravity.

        Incidentally, I’m super-ultra-straight, which makes Rebel Scum practically as queer as a $3 bill.

      • Rebel Scum

        I forgot, I’m actually Delta-Super-Straight.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        So, you change for whatever today’s political needs are?

      • Bobarian LMD

        He’ll only have sex with you if you have been vaccinated and wear a mask.

      • Tonio

        While I agree it’s tedious, but they are ultimately doing the rest of the world a favor by labelling and segregating themselves with the rest of the asexual / LSD (low sex drive) people.

      • Plisade

        “Gosh, nobody gives a shit that I’m a gobbledygook-a-sexual. Wait’ll I tell them I’m an argle-bargle-a-sexual. They’ll be shocked then!”

        –Another young person disappointed that the world doesn’t believe xe invented sex

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s a step forward in the evolution of humanity that we have become completely and totally obsessed with our junk and how other people perceive our junk.

      • Plisade

        Well, being proud of one’s accomplishments is just so much white-privilege these days. Onward!

      • Mojeaux

        Another young person disappointed that the world doesn’t believe xe invented sex give a shit about them or their feelings

        FIFY

      • Rat on a train

        I am a unique, yet to be named gender. Part of my gender requires regular wearing of plaid shirts.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Part of my gender requires regular wearing of plaid shirts.

        Isn’t that just “lesbian”?

      • juris imprudent

        Pat.

      • Tonio

        Also works for Bear.

      • Animal

        **Looks in closet**

        **Refrains from comment**

      • Rat on a train

        I do have short hair and am attracted to women.

  9. Ghostpatzer

    “De Blasio to expand COVID vaccine-or-test mandate to all city workers”

    Alternate headline:

    After over a year of collecting salary while sitting at home doing nothing, NYC employees agree to get vaccinated before returning to their offices to get paid to do nothing”

  10. Rebel Scum

    It’s actually time for you to fuck all the way off.

    Along with renewed restrictions, it’s clear that gentle persuasion did not achieve the vax rate we need to defeat Covid. Yes, the politics are hard, but dying is worse, as is re-tanking the economy. It’s time for vaccine mandates – nothing else gets us where we need to go.

    • R C Dean

      Yes, the politics are hard,

      Well, boo-hoo for you.

      but dying is worse,

      Meh. Its really a one in a thousand chance of dying, for people under 60 who are reasonably healthy.

      as is re-tanking the economy.

      Then maybe you shouldn’t do that again.

    • grrizzly

      The calls for vaccine mandates intensify exactly when the estimates of the vaccine effectiveness plunge. I bet it’s somehow related.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Under every politician’s desk that is pushing this is a pharma rep doing their due diligence

      • Ghostpatzer

        Pharma reps are hot. It is known.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Scrubs has never has lied to me in the past

      • Ghostpatzer

        Not sure what she is selling, but I might be buying.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Did you guys notice that the US gov has an order for 200 million Kung flu vaccines? Its either to supply the forcing of kid shots when they lower the recommended age or to try to force the remaining Americans.

        Either way, civil war 2.0 is getting hotter by the day.

      • LCDR_Fish

        To be fair, I think some of those 200 million are also for giving away to other countries – just our tax $.

      • kbolino

        Articles conspicuously missing from mainstream “libertarian” publications: COVID Vaccines are Corporate Welfare, You Should Be Paying for that Shot, Public Health is Marketplace Like Any Other

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Commies at unreason are scared to death of kungflu and forced max vaccine rates are the only solution.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Also just got home and have Veterans administration letter asking me to volunteer to serve again by getting the kungflu vaccine.

        VA will now give free vaccines to veterans, spouses, anyone who identifies as a spouse, and caregivers of veterans.

        All the time, effort, and taxpayer money on this while choosing to spend less time, effort, and money on actual veterans who need real medical attention for life threatening medical conditions.

  11. grrizzly

    Hagen’s pop-up about continuing with masking didn’t go unnoticed.

    • Swiss Servator

      I did not wear a mask, but all the other customers were. Nobody said anything to me. Odd.

    • Tonio

      If only she had gotten the vaccine earlier she could have avoided this…

      • Bobarian LMD

        Then her arms and legs would have just fallen off on their own?

        No need to go to the hospital.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Thanks, I needed that. Spawn #2 just got the second dose this afternoon. Fingers crossed (I know the risk is low, but it is non-zero and he should not have been forced into that decision. Fuck this noise.)

    • Pope Jimbo

      Ironically, this woman has become one of the most sought after employees by major corporations in Minnesoda. She’s a dream candidate that every HR person fantasizes about. Black, female, crippled. The only blemish is that she is a bible thumper from Nigeria so she might have problematic views on the gayz.

      Seriously though, that really sucks for her. I can’t even imagine the nightmare she and her family are going through.

    • R C Dean

      I find it highly unlikely that a young, healthy person (which she appears to be) would have such a bizarre reaction to the virus alone. Some of her symptoms seem more closely aligned with a vaccine reaction. So, I’m thinking the CDC is doing some ass-covering by blaming it all on the virus.

      I do appreciate the ignorance of the writer (and editors!), in not capitalizing the reference to the biblical “Job”.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Not sure. With the flu vaccine 18+ yrs ago, Guillaume-Barre syndrome was always a risk – due to the use of eggs in the vaccine. I think that was the only warning I ever saw before (temping for HR, handled a lot of paperwork for UNC-CH employees in ’03-04) – temporary involuntary paralysis, etc. Things like this seem more like one-offs due to other factors…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Doctors diagnosed her with arterial blood clots multiple inflammatory syndrome

        That’s just a description of symptoms that could easily have been generated by a vaccine that causes vascular damage and an inflammatory response.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Tyrannical stupidity continues.

    NRL stars and their families locked up in Queensland quarantine hubs must prove they taped their balcony doors shut after breaching Covid rules.

    Family members were photographed passing lollies to guests on floors above and below them at the Novotel Hotel in Surfers Paradise on their first day in the league’s Covid bubble.

    Everyone in the Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast hubs are as a result banned from their balconies and must supply photo evidence of the taped doors.

    • blackjack

      That was Bush the W’th who tried to get us to duct tape up our houses. People were more sensible back then and just laughed at the suggestion.

  13. Count Potato

    Today in our nation’s improving race relations:

    “‘You earned or inherited your money through oppressing people of color’: Affluent Dallas residents receive BLM letter urging them not to send their kids to Ivy League schools so black students can get a spot instead”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9826781/Group-calls-white-people-not-send-kids-Ivy-League-schools-black-students-spot.html

    “Minnesota fourth-graders are given ‘equity survey’ on race and gender and are told by teacher NOT to skip questions (even if they don’t understand them) and not to tell their parents”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9827255/Minnesota-fourth-grade-student-says-class-told-not-tell-parents-equity-survey.html

    • Rebel Scum

      and not to tell their parents

      Fire everyone involved.

      • Sean

        Fire at

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Is it time for beatdowns yet? Because I think it might be time for beatdowns.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I can hardly wait to have the other shoe drop and find out how many millions of tax payer money the state gave to the Equity Alliance for Minnesota to administer this survey. And what the overlap is between the leadership of Equity Alliance for Minnesota and the teacher’s union in Minnesoda.

      • Sean

        Don’t you hicks have pitch forks up there?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sadly, we have a LOT of reprogramming to do when it comes to Education in Minnesoda. For a long time we were told that yes we pay high taxes, but it was worth it because our schools were so good. All those smart people meant important companies would locate here for the smart workers.

        We were the “Brainpower State”!

        That trust in our schools has been eroding for some time, but there is still a lot of people who think that our schools are great.

      • juris imprudent

        Those must be people without children in those schools.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        We need a study on how dumb people with college degrees are.

        Once undergrad degrees became the standard for learning what high school used to teach and large numbers of commie classes, BAs are not really worth the paper they are printed on.

        We have idiot PhDs trying to run this country and some committee gave them a doctorate.

        Communism skews everything. USSR had physicists digging ditches in Siberia and tries to convince America that idiots should be technocrats.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Tar, feathers, rails.

        Some assembly required.

    • The Other Kevin

      I used to teach religious education at my church. We had to take a class on how to prevent and identify sexual abuse of children. “Don’t tell your parents” was a BIG red flag.

      • Tonio

        ^This.

        And for government to be doing this should be an even bigger red flag. Totally Orwellian usurpation of parental authority.

      • Ghostpatzer

        #metoo. Mrs. Patzer teaches those classes (“Protecting God’s Children” in the Roman church).

  14. The Late P Brooks

    It’s time for vaccine mandates – nothing else gets us where we need to go.

    Bullshit.

    • Sean

      Not gonna happen.

  15. grrizzly

    California City Orders Vaccinated Employees To Wear Stickers If They Want To Work Without Masks

    One California city has become embroiled in a battle over whether city employees should wear a “sticker” on their employee badges to show that they have been “fully vaccinated” should they opt not to wear a mask at the office. The city of Montclair (no, not the one in New Jersey) has declared that the policy will start next week, according to City Manager Edward Starr.

    Starr argues the policy is designed to ensure that Montclair is in compliance with an edict issued in June by California’s workplace safety board, which instructs all public employees in the state to submit evidence or sign a pledge attesting that they have been vaccinated if they opt to abstain from wearing a mask.

    In response to recommendations from the CDC, California’s Department of Public Health has encouraged the use of stickers on employee ID badges “to demonstrate they have been fully vaccinated,” Starr said.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Are they yellow stickers in the shape of a star?

    • blackjack

      A small series of numbers tattooed on the forearm would work better.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Anyone who has been to the Zestos ice cream in Atlanta would know how crazy it was to be handed an ice cream cone by someone with concentration camp tattoos and missing fingers.

        True story.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Simulation alert: The city manager’s name is Starr?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I work with a guy named Dick Starr. Asked him if he ever dabbled with making pornography since he wouldn’t have to make up a stage name. He just chuckled and he is like 65 years old.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Tolerance/unity/healing/etc.

    “Well, I’m against public confrontations like that, especially when you are in a hostile state of mind. If you have something to say to me, tweet it, but, you know, don’t come up to me with your hostility. I don’t like that. But I think that Tucker probably thought that he was in a safe space. I mean, he’s in some kind of fly fishing store in Montana. I mean, he figured everybody is there on his side, but when you are spewing lies that cost people their lives, actually no place is safe for him, and people like him.”

    • blackjack

      I’d like to spit some Beechnut in that dude’s eye.

    • R C Dean

      I mean, he figured everybody is there on his side,

      And there it is. You are either with the forces of good, or the forces of evil. There is no middle ground.

      The idea that people could civilly disagree and go about their lives is completely foreign to these people.

      And if I have to pick a side, I don’t think they are going to approve of the one I pick.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The dude has an interesting background working with…The Asia Foundation which has deep ties to the CIA. It wouldn’t be as crazy to think he was tipped off by our enterprising deep state as to where to coincidentally run into a very vocal dissenter of the deep state.

        Sorry, CPRM was lamenting we don’t conspiracy theory good.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Any references?

      • Penguin

        Mr. Obvious had a video.

      • grrizzly

        And I thought that Tucker Carlson was a part of controlled opposition himself.

      • kbolino

        Tucker is currently just outside the Overton window. Indeed, that’s probably his use. Whereas National Review demarcates the near side of the window, Tucker (for now) demarcates the far side of it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If only Tucker had drugged and raped a twelve year old, he would be cool.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      I would love if Behar confronted me in Georgia for not wearing a mask or advocating for liberty.

      I would school her on how she supports the party of slavery, kkk, and segregation. Then give her so many history lessons on the commies she is supporting that she would run away.

      I did the same thing to some White bitch from New York at On the Border. Trying to tell a Georgian how WE are the problem for not wearing masks. I asked if she belonged the party of slavery. She called me an asshole and walked away. A Black guy was sitting at the bar with no mask on and she didnt say shit to him.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    They just don’t want the data to be misused

    Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving the public of real-time information on outbreaks, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in their communities.

    The shift to weekly instead of daily reporting in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota marked a notable shift during a pandemic in which coronavirus dashboards have become a staple for Americans closely tracking case counts and trends to navigate a crisis that has killed more than 600,000 people in the U.S.

    It would be problematic if the opposition were permitted to offer up their own alternate interpretation of those numbers.

    • kinnath

      As far as I know, Iowa is not experiencing any serious surge in cases. So, they’re not hiding anything that I know of.

    • Pope Jimbo

      How can we claim that cases are “skyrocketing” if you can look at a graph and see that the current cases are still a fraction of what they were last winter?

      Your lying eyes will see that cases in Minnesoda have been way higher since this whole thing started. The only time they have ever been lower was the month starting in June. They have increased from 700 per week to 1800 per week. And deaths have stayed entirely flat.

  18. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I will not be buying an RV this weekend. Seller’s wife doesn’t want to sell yet. She’s in poor health & wants to use it a bit more.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Sorry to hear that, KK. That was a really nice rig.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    One California city has become embroiled in a battle over whether city employees should wear a “sticker” on their employee badges to show that they have been “fully vaccinated” should they opt not to wear a mask at the office.

    They could have something kind of like a pinwheel. That would be snazzy.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I mean, he’s in some kind of fly fishing store in Montana.

    Commies like dry fly fishing? Who knew?

  21. Rebel Scum

    Grandpa Gropey is having a rough day.

    “You are such a pain in the neck, but I’m going to answer your question,” President Biden said to a reporter while meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at the White House.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    And there it is. You are either with the forces of good, or the forces of evil. There is no middle ground.

    The idea that people could civilly disagree and go about their lives is completely foreign to these people.

    There’s no such thing as “off the clock”.

    Doin’ right ain’t got no end.

  23. Ghostpatzer

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/san-francisco-considering-congestion-tax-on-drivers

    “San Francisco considering congestion tax on high-earning drivers”

    “all three of the scenarios currently being considered would charge a $6.50 fee to enter the congested pricing zones during weekday rush hours for folks who make $100,000 or more”

    Sure, you can live like a king on $100K in the bay area. Soak the rich!

    • rhywun

      Pikers. Manhattan is going to congestion-price everyone.

    • R C Dean

      How are they going to know which people entering those areas make more than $100K?

      • Ghostpatzer

        RFID?

      • Sean

        It’ll be part of your social media score.

      • Tonio

        Some additional type of government list and ID. Duh.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Gold Stars.

    • Rat on a train

      all three of the scenarios currently being considered would charge a $6.50 fee to enter the congested pricing zones during weekday rush hours for folks who make $100,000 or more, with discounts for lower-income individuals, drivers with disabilities, and people who live in the areas impacted

      Do tourists need to bring tax records?

  24. Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

    No mere illness can stop the links.

    Indeed, it must be the Almighty COVID!

  25. Count Potato

    “Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database

    (Reuters) -A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.

    Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.

    Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.

    The firms, which include Twitter and Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it….”

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-facebook-tech-giants-target-120357401.html

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Have the Proud Boys done anything except mouthed off and get shot at?

      • Penguin

        They’ve gotten into scrums with Antifa.

        And as RS kind of alludes below, they are not white supremacists. Not surprising, since many of them (including their leader) are not white.

    • Rebel Scum

      including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.

      One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belong.

    • kbolino

      Hash-based content detection and filtering is trivial to work around.

      They’re not sending their best.

      • Bobarian LMD

        They’re not sending their best.

        The sad thing is that they probably are.

  26. rhywun

    OBEY! No word on union contracts allowing for this…

    Or human rights… or common sense…

  27. juris imprudent

    It’s a nice thought – Dems pushing too far and getting slapped back. Let’s see how that plays out.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Anything-but-bipartisan 1/6 commission will seal Pelosi’s retirement. Here’s why

      Because she’s older than dirt?

  28. Rebel Scum

    I mean, it’s not like they took an impromptu tour of the capitol or anything.

    The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped charges against five members of the Chinese military whom federal prosecutors previously accused of lying to obtain visas to get jobs and a doctoral spot at United States universities. …

    DOJ officials told the Wall Street Journal that the department dropped the visa fraud charges after a re-review of the cases and justified the move, saying the Chinese nationals had already served months in federal prison while awaiting trial:

    A senior Justice Department official said the punishment for the crimes the researchers were charged with usually amounted to around a few months in prison, and the defendants had all been detained or under other restrictions in the U.S. since their arrest a year ago. That led the agency to determine that further litigation in the group of cases would unnecessarily prolong their departure from the U.S. and that their situations since their arrests amounted to sufficient punishment and deterrence. [Emphasis added]

    A Justice Department spokesman said “recent developments” in the cases had prompted the department to re-evaluate the prosecutions. “We have determined that it is now in the interest of justice to dismiss them,” the spokesman, Wyn Hornbuckle, said, adding that the agency “continues to place a very high priority on countering the threat posed to American research security and academic integrity by the PRC government’s agenda and policies.” PRC is an abbreviation for People’s Republic of China.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “recent developments”

      In other words, the CCP threatened to out some American pols who are on the CCP payroll.

    • kbolino

      They did a whole 0.2 Flynns of jail time, and isn’t that enough for anybody not on the right?

    • rhywun

      I’m sure we will make sure to give them their laptops and thumb drives back before shipping them back to China.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Imma let you finish while I hit my pipe.

    • Rebel Scum

      Video evidence of illegal drug use and nothing else will happen.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dude, it was just cloves.

      • blackjack

        Parmesan cheese.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Russian disinformation.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      A few years ago there was panic about deep fakes. My conspiratorial mind thought they were laying the groundwork for dismissing some compromising videos that were about to come out. I guess if the media can convince people to ignore the Hunter videos, they can save the deep fake defense for another time.

  29. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Sweet. 99 Suburban just hit the local repo auction block. Body looks good and it’s missing the cats, so nobody wants it. Hopefully I’ll have me a parts truck in an hour or so for cheap.

    • LCDR_Fish

      cats?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Glad you asked, didn’t want to flaunt my knowledge of vehicles as being basically it goes vroom.

      • kbolino

        Catalytic convertors, which contain platinum in the catalyst, and thus are generally the only thing of street value on a vehicle of that vintage.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I thought about that later – but the plural threw me off.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        One for each manifold on that vehicle

      • Bobarian LMD

        During the scrap metal crunch:

        In STL, when I still lived there, there were some places you didn’t park, or they’d have your cats off in minutes.

        But Louisville got so bad, they were stealing chain-link fence from the front of people’s houses.

      • Tundra

        It’s going crazy here. Repair shop are offering to spray the cats so they can’t be sold.

        Fucking meth heads.

  30. Pope Jimbo

    Stories like this are what happens when Cheeseheads drink too much paint thinner.

    They write insanely dumb articles about why raising the minimum wage is such a no brainer. If they simply raised the minimum wage people of color would be totes rich and living in dignity. (Of course, none of the contributors to this article realize that minimum wage laws were specifically created to price black workers out of the market).

    Chuck Self, the chief investment officer at iSectors investment firm in Appleton, Wisconsin, supports raising the minimum wage. But Self said the longstanding income and wealth gaps between white and Black people will not be erased overnight by a $15 an hour minimum wage.

    In his essays for the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Self referenced a 2018 report by Duke University, arguing there is little Black people can do on their own to close the wealth gap. Greater educational attainment, home ownership and banking have proven insignificant in lifting Black families out of poverty and closing the generational wealth gap over the years, the report found.

    “The whole point of the narrative has been historically, Black people should do things to lift themselves up, so that they could be at the same wealth level as white people, but what that report shows is that it’s impossible, it can’t be done,” Self said.

    • kbolino

      Greater educational attainment … [has] proven insignificant in lifting Black families out of poverty

      Look at all the educational attainment!

      First/second generation African immigrants and West Indians are the ones primarily getting the educational attainment and their lifetime achievements and income levels show it. Whereas, the average young black male from a poor family in Baltimore is more likely to end up dead than literate by 25.

      Conflating the metrics for a subset of black people with the fortunes of black people in the U.S. at large is a pretty egregious statistical sleight of hand.

    • rhywun

      there is little Black people can do on their own to close the wealth gap

      Just… wow.

      • kbolino

        There’s (at least) a half-dozen sizeable neighborhoods within less than an hour’s drive of me that are either majority black and quite well off, or getting more black over time and also more wealthy. The same is true in other parts of the country.

        Something, something, how to lie with statistics.

      • Penguin

        The sheer racist contempt from the “progressives” is impressive, isn’t it?

      • juris imprudent

        Some things don’t really change.

      • prolefeed

        Tell that to my high-achieving wife and all her successful siblings, whose mother was a single mom who raised her kids for quite a while in the projects, and made damn sure all her kids got a good efucation.

        Tell that to all the other non-white people living in the high-end housing development I live in.

        I’m guessing the condescending arsehole who wrote that doesn’t know many black people.

      • prolefeed

        … education. Not edufucation.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Actually, it kinda works.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Actually, it kinda works.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Good Lord. The squirrels have finally visited me.

    • Gadfly

      So they want a $1 to buy only 4 minutes of unskilled labor as opposed to 8 minutes, and think that somehow helps people who don’t have much money?

    • Mojeaux

      So I’ll take a swing at devil’s advocate here and posit that MOST PEOPLE who have grown up on intergenerational welfare is not going to know/care that there’s another way and that it might even be a better way. Unless someone is deeply inherently self-motivated and looking for something greater, it’s going to be impossible to move those people. Inertia is a helluva drug.

      Now, that leaves the question: Why does the left equate welfare with black people? They are not a majority of the population. White people on intergenerational welfare are expected to be able to pull themselves up and out? “Soft bigotry of low expectations.”

      All any adult needs is to be left alone to make their own mistakes. I’m finding that with my kid being 18, it’s difficult for me to keep my mouth shut and just watch, because she is still my child.

      What the left thinks of black people is that they are children.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        LBJ said it best….

  31. The Late P Brooks

    99 Suburban just hit the local repo auction block. Body looks good and it’s missing the cats, so nobody wants it. Hopefully I’ll have me a parts truck in an hour or so for cheap.

    Score.

    Is it a big block?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      5.7L Vortec, which is what I currently have in mine, but I’m upgrading to the 383.

    • Ted S.

      Scruffy likes big blocks and he cannot lie.

    • Tulip

      My dad used to make one of those

      • Count Potato

        Neat.

    • Rat on a train

      Murphy beds and sleeper sofas were once a common thing in the US as was tables that could collapse and be pushed against the wall.

      • blackjack

        Back when a 500 sq/ft 2 bedroom house was fairly common.

      • Tulip

        Drop leaf tables. My aunt raised 8 kids in a 900 sq ft house that didn’t have a bathroom until the kids moved out. She had a pump in the kitchen (and a wood cook stove that heated the whole house. First, they got running water to the barn, then to the kitchen, then a bathroom and water heater and then a washer dryer.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        First, they got running water to the barn . . .

        Heh. Love it. Get the running water to the important parts of the property first.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    “The whole point of the narrative has been historically, Black people should do things to lift themselves up, so that they could be at the same wealth level as white people, but what that report shows is that it’s impossible, it can’t be done,” Self said.

    Everybody know the darkies are just feckless children who are incapable of running their own lives without the benevolent guiding hand of white champagne socialism.

    • creech

      I can just see Oprah, Jordan, the ghost of Michael J. and Barry and Michele nodding their heads at this nonsense.

  33. Pope Jimbo

    MINNESODA INSURRECTION!!!!!

    The John Thompson controversy has led to the storming of the Minnesoda State Capitol by Trump supporters. BREAKING!

    A motorist drove on the lawn of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul and waved a Trump flag during a press conference for embattled lawmaker Rep. John Thompson.

    According to WCCO’s Esme Murphy, a woman in an SUV drove on the lawn late Monday morning, interrupting a pro-Thompson news conference. Then, police and supporters of Thompson surrounded the vehicle in a “tense confrontation.”

    lol. The video shows one car with two people near it. We suck at tense confrontations.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Love the “CAPITOL CONTROVERSY” the news ran with.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    A late ’90s big block Suburban showed up on craigslist a while back, but I restrained myself, somehow.

    Possibly because I own too many vehicles already.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There’s never enough. Never!

  35. Gustave Lytton

    Package from Amazon JP, shipped via DHL.
    Package from Amazon DE, shipped via AustraliaPost.

    • Penguin

      Ah crap, Rebel Scum linked it above

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well yours has the context, so…good shoot.

      • Penguin

        Yeah, he’s doing a Weezer cover

        Oh, come on and kick me
        Come on and kick me
        You’ve got your problems
        I’ve got my ass wiped
        You’ve got your dick cheese
        I’ve got my hash pipe

        Funny, I thought the last line would be Hunter’s

    • Tonio

      Twitter seems to no longer like being linked to from Glibs (perhaps elsewhere, but this is the only place I go to with Twitter links).

      The work-around is to copy the url and paste it in a new browser window.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Trashy’s fix if you are using his extension…block Twits.

      • Penguin

        You can hit the refresh button twice, that usually brings it up.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m worried that the amount of paper to list all the Olympic athlete Rona deaths will significantly add to global warming. There will be millions of dead athletes!

      • Sensei

        It would appear most are returning home by chartered air.

        But I’m guessing carbon offsets will ease the guilt and ultimately enrich folks like Elon.

    • rhywun

      At this rate it will exceed the number of athletes pulling out so they don’t have to touch a Jew.

    • Ted S.

      Jon Rahm already tested positive seven weeks ago during the Memorial golf tournament.

      That *should* show how idiotic the testing is, but TMITE is trying to suppress making that conclusion.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Had a 5 stroke lead when forced to withdraw. The rest of the field should have withdrawn with him.

  36. Pope Jimbo

    Speaking of climate change….

    Is it possible to forcibly extradite Californians back? I’m really worried about the quality of folks that Cali is sending our way.

    Third, ensure that your climate-related move doesn’t exacerbate existing inequity. Climate migration risks deepening class divides, disrupting local culture and furthering a history of colonialism. When my family relocated to Duluth, Minnesota, the most valuable advice we received came from Karen Diver, the former tribal leader of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa – the original caretakers of the place we now call home. “Don’t let your climate solution result in our spiritual and cultural genocide.” Learn about the history of the land you’ll call home. Stand for the rights of indigenous people. Support public programs and community groups. Tread lightly.

    (The first two actions you can take were just as derpy as that one)

    • rhywun

      Should I hate myself that I read this stuff in the Space Indian voice from an episode of Futurama?

    • blackjack

      C’mon. This is the CNN version of a transplant. I’ll tell you what. We’ll send back all the assholes that came here first and voted for this shit, how’s that? I’m the only native I know. I didn’t vote for none of this.

      • Pope Jimbo

        NO DO BACKS!

        You let them in, you can’t return them to us. Besides you need all the people with gumption like this:

        For my family, San Francisco, the place that we loved and built community — the place where my daughter was born and my son learned to ride a bike — brought health impacts from smoke that in the end were too much for our set of circumstances.

        Yup, one summer of wild fire smoke was too much for their health so they had to move. I wonder if they understand what winter is like in Duluth?

      • blackjack

        It’s becoming an issue with me. California delivered more votes to Trump than Texas. There’s no stereotypical blue team Californian. The dems don’t win by some massive majority. They used to win by 1-2 points, then, once they got enough of a majority, they started cheating and now they have veto proof majorities, That doesn’t mean all Cali people are team blue nutjobs. It’s kind of slanderous to assume such. I bet I could find a bunch of liberty minded people in Manhattan within a day of landing there. I know there’s plenty around here. I bet likewise, you can easily find an authoritarian asshole in, IDK, Montana, say. State borders do not predict what individuals think, is all I’m saying.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Democratic machine politics. It’s what almost every major city suffers from.

        And is what the DNC wants to bring to the federal government.

      • R C Dean

        It’s becoming an issue with me.

        I hears ya.

        There appears to be a correlation, though, with a large influx of Californians and a lurch to the left in local, perhaps state, politics. I would be very interested in a study to see if this correlation is real, or just Team Red bullshit.

    • kbolino

      Out of the chaos that was the 1990s dot-com boom, the survivors all coincidentally turn out to be those companies most willing to incestuously lobby and cooperate with the government and establishment.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Same as it ever was,

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Just start your own coopted quasi private government proxy financial services company.

      • kbolino

        And all you have to do to do that is convince the banking cartel, the Federal Reserve System, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, a dozen state Attorneys General, and the Department of Justice to let you!

        Easy.

      • Rat on a train

        Well, just start your own government.

    • blackjack

      Determine Who Can Use Their Services

      Imagine telling your customers to fuck off. Imagine feeling confident enough that half the people using your service are expendable. It’s unthinkable to me. I had to work constantly to draw in more customers at my shop. I know that users aren’t customers, but ads sell based on views. They are telling half the viewers to fuck off

      • blackjack

        Sorry, I meant big tech in general. At Pay-pal, they are straight customers.

      • kbolino

        If you read between the lines (which could mean the conclusion I’m about to draw is total bullshit to be fair), it seems like the left contains all the saps. They spend money frivolously, they quite susceptible to targeted advertising, they’re very “brand conscious”, etc. Discarding the right, or at least the portion of it that can’t be nudged leftward, is only discarding the people who don’t make good money sponges.

        Of course, these companies being so tightly connected to the government and other large corporations that they’re basically guaranteed (for now) to make any lost revenue up on contracts and backroom deals probably helps.

      • R C Dean

        Imagine telling your customers to fuck off.

        Oh, I imagine it almost every day.

    • LCDR_Fish

      What? The 13 y/o gang-banger carrying a pistol at 2 AM who had just been involved in another shooting a few weeks earlier?

  37. Shpip

    In an astonishing development, a non-moronic take from Twitter.

    • kbolino

      The only unanswered question is, once they have recouped all of this surplus value they helped created, how can we get them to STFU and spend the rest of their lives on a tropical island sipping mai tais?

  38. B.P.

    The unwashed masses don’t seem into another COVID lockdown…

    https://kdvr.com/news/coronavirus/could-fully-vaccinated-coloradans-be-forced-to-wear-a-mask/

    “On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the recommendations for all vaccinated people to still wear masks is “under active consideration,” frustrated by unvaccinated Americans spreading the Delta variant of COVID-19.”

    He is so disappointed in us.

    “Folks enjoying Sunday afternoon lunch in the RiNo neighborhood, told FOX31 another mask mandate for vaccinated people would feel unfair, since they already did their part to stop the pandemic.

    “I got vaccinated to purposely not wear a mask,” Alaina Sylve from Littleton said. “I would avoid businesses that would require a mask because I do not want to.””

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re playing with fire worldwide. Why not Colorado too?

      • Hyperion

        They’ll never stop this shit until lampposts are involved.

  39. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Interesting vid from Sargon of Akkad on the corona tyranny and the fact that it’s a worldwide phenomenon and holy shit what they’re doing in Israel (this part begins around 11:30 and it’s nuts):

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/p4tFyLohb_g/

    No synagogue without a vaccine. I never thought I’d see the day that’d happen.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I resigned over that shit, the End Times may truly be upon us,
      /Tin Foil Fundie,

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Good for you, I folded and got it but I wish you the best. Coercion shouldn’t be part of this decision at all, it’s personal.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        A family member (cousin) who’s a medico got her shots a while ago, but when I told her I hadn’t been vaccinated at all, she responded with “It’s all about ‘my body, my choice’.” Her attitude amongst the people I know (including good friends) is definitely in the minority position.

      • blackjack

        I still haven’t gotten mine, but it seems like the ugly part of the coercion is just getting ramped up. I still don’t want to take experimental drugs for a disease I don’t have and won’t really be harmed if I get it. I might try and get a claimont sticker to wear in solidarity. My kid is flatly not getting it BAMN.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Unless a kid has a serious problem of some sort, and there are some of course, they flat out don’t need it and it’s a totally unnecessary risk.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        John hopkns study. Zero chance of kids under 18 with no comorbidities dying from COVID.

    • kbolino

      No synagogue without a vaccine.

      I know next to nothing about Israeli politics, but if the (Ultra-)Orthodox in the U.S. are any indication, I don’t think that’s going to go over well.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Meh. If my (((co-workers))) are any indication, a lot of Israelis are all in on draconian measures. Their lockdowns during the “first wave” were some of the most rigid on earth.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Do you know who else etc? It’s just nuts.

      • Gadfly

        Israel was founded as a socialist state, and it’s only recently that they’ve moved away from it, so I’m not surprised that the authoritarian tendency is still strong there.

      • blackjack

        Jews are not all cut from the same cloth. There’s multiple varieties. The Ultra orthodox are at the forefront of resisting draconian measures on this. Broad brushes cover way too much.

      • Ted S.

        And in Israel, there’s a *lot* of enmity between the Haredi and secular Jews. I wouldn’t be surprised if the secular Jews were doing this out of spite.

      • juris imprudent

        If the Palestinians had any brains, they’d sit back and let some (((factions))) go at each other for a while.

        Narrator: The Palestinians completely lack brains.

      • kbolino

        The Palestinian leadership makes the Joe and Hunter show look like amateur hour. I’d say the average Palestinian is less dumb than simply brainwashed to believe their lizards are better than the other lizards.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh definitely speaking to leaders and the vocal followers, not the average anyone.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        I was always convinced that the Pallies and the Israelis were the two smartest people in the Middle East, and if they could only bury the hatchet between them, they’d be running the whole place in a few years.

        Such a shame how it’s actually turned out.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And this is while the effectivity of the vaccine is declining against the variants. Israel has admitted as much.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Israel has obviously gone nuts.

    • mikey

      I notice today that the lots at the Ford and Honda dealers were practically empy. Few new or used cars.

      • blackjack

        Mechanics are going to love this. Except for the ones where I work.

      • B.P.

        Yesterday, local news was interviewing a car dealer guy who said, “We usually have 125-150 pick-up trucks on the lot for sale. Right now we have five.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I traded in a lightly used three year old car in on a new car earlier this year and got a good deal on the new one plus they were champing at the bit to get my old one. I’ve never seen the like.

    • leon

      But then Fauci wouldn’t get to beat his Vaccine drum. Hasn’t he always beat the Vaccine drum in response to any disease, and to the detriment of therapy.

      • R C Dean

        Indeed he has. He got heavily critized when he was the AIDS boss for chasing a vaccine rather than working on treatments.

    • creech

      So, more proof it was all Trump’s fault?

    • Hyperion

      It’s like this, if we do this, we’re doomed, and if we do that, we’re doomed. DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED.

      If only we would have listened to Saint Fauci, maybe we could have been saved.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My concern is that if the vaccines fail completely and that is absolutely possible, the governments are going to really go after the unvaccinated in a fit of trying to avoid being held responsible for what is their fault. It could turn very ugly, very quickly.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        The quicker the commie tyrants get hanged by lamppost the better.

    • Tundra

      Wow.

      The response keeps getting worse and worse.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The thing is these people are being proven correct. But with each piece of evidence, the resistance to it is growing.

      • Tundra

        That’s it. All the new data makes the narrative worse.

        Well, it’s been fun kids. See you on the other side.

    • one true athena

      I watched a video by a French immunologist (I think he was – maybe virologist) who said much the same thing, that mass vaccination DURING a rapidly evolving pandemic was completely stupid and will backfire horribly. Well, he said it in French, but that was the gist.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Have they locked him in The Bastille yet?

      • one true athena

        I’m not sure how old the video was, so… maybe?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Emory study that those Americans infected with SARS part 2 (including asymptomatic) developed wide ranging and long lasting anti bodies against SARS and its variants.

        No such evidence from vaccines yet.

  40. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Got it, $1,000

    I’ll easily get that in parts off it. Woohoo!

    Time for sushi.

    • Ted S.

      Fruit sushi?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I can change a tire.

  41. Hyperion

    I’m not sure if a Monday can be anything besides blah.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      Mine’s going well (albeit kinda odd). Once you’re retired and living in a worldwide dystopian Hell, every day’s really just Blursday.

      • Hyperion

        Well, you don’t have to be retired to live in a worldwide dystopian hell. Especially in the new woke USA, now with MOAR DYSTOPIA.

      • blackjack

        Day 13 of my 20 day quarantine following a 7 day vacation in Florida. I can only do so much day drinking here.

      • Hyperion

        “I can only do so much day drinking here.”

        Try harder. Yusef explains below about Tres Cool level hammered.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        I detect a certain . . . lack of commitment.

    • Mojeaux

      The dishwasher that Mr. Mojeaux won finally got delivered today, so there’s a #win.

      • Hyperion

        Nothing wrong with that unless you’re the one installing it.

      • Mojeaux

        Did not. Three nice and lovely gentlemen installed it and took away our old non-working one.

      • Hyperion

        Well that’s the only way to do it.

      • Count Potato

        Dear Penthouse,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I hate installing Dishwashers, it never works the first time,
        /Unlike every other appliance known to Western Civ.

      • LJW

        The only problem I had with installing our dishwasher was putting the insulation in the door.

    • Ted S.

      My dog and I saw a bear on our walk today, so there’s that.

      • Hyperion

        Why didn’t you try to tackle and wrestle it? No shirt of course, that would be cheating.

      • LJW

        I’ll take a bear over running into STEVE SMITH

      • grrizzly

        Was the bear far away? Did you take a selfie with it?

      • Ted S.

        I got a blurry photo on my smartphone. We heard it first, and it was halfway up a hill that the trail goes along the bottom of. By the time I got the phone out, it was about 3/4 of the way up the hill and had turned to watch us.

        Meanwhile, the dog has learned he can pick a turtle up in his mouth and show it off like a trophy, but I don’t know if he’s figured out he can kill it by dropping it from height. I hope not; the poor turtle didn’t do anything to him.

  42. Yusef drives a Kia

    I am Tres cool level of hammered, I hope I make it til 8 EST, wow,

    • Hyperion

      Exactly how many tall cans is a Tres Cool hammered?

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Supercomputers cannot count that high.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Resemble that number
        /Tall Cans! indeed!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m on 11 now, headed for 20,

      • Hyperion

        I was drinking Schneider Aventinus Wheat Doppel last night. I would wager you’d never make it to 20 of those.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You don’t know me very well, I knock down Trippels and stouts like water friend,
        /I love Beer

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Holy Mary Mother of God!

        16.9 Imperial ounces at 8.2% ABV? You could do it, but I’d arrange for the funeral beforehand.

      • B.P.

        “On a radio show interview, former relief pitcher Jeff Nelson said that Boggs absolutely would drink “50 or 60″ beers on a cross-country flight, explaining that the tally would begin in the locker room before carrying over to the drive to the airport, the tarmac, layovers, and any other chance he got as the team was making their way from coast to coast.”

        How many beers can a flight attendant be conned into parting with?

      • Hyperion

        Miller Lite doesn’t have enough alcohol in it to get a fly high.

      • Hyperion

        I drank 4 of them last night, after 2 Sapporo. I have a really high tolerance and I was quite buzzed.

      • R C Dean

        16.9 Imperial ounces at 8.2% ABV? 

        I did the math. 20 bottles would deliver nearly 28 ounces of alcohol. So,a little more alcohol than two (2) fifths of liquor.

      • Q Continuum

        My sister treated alcoholics at the VA who would drink an entire handle of JD plus a 30 pack on a normal day.

        Of course if they ever didn’t have that much to drink, they’d immediately have a seizure and die.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No sweat, Bring it,

      • Q Continuum

        I would actually die if I tried to do that.

      • rhywun

        My plumbing would probably shut down in protest. So, yeah.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Fuck Yeah!

    • limey

      Beria set covid policy from the grave.

      “Show me the patient and I will show you the positive test result”.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      That is one of my favorite movies of the last few years.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        +1000000

  43. The Late P Brooks

    What the everloving fuck?


    All Kimberly Cooley wants to do is hug her 6-year-old nephews – and she can’t because tens of millions of Americans are choosing not to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

    Cooley received two doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in February, but blood tests show the shots didn’t give her antibodies against the virus.

    That’s because, like millions of Americans, Cooley takes medications to suppress her immune system. A study by Johns Hopkins researchers that published Monday found that vaccinated immunocompromised people like her are 485 times more likely to end up in the hospital or die from Covid-19 compared to the general population that is vaccinated.

    “It’s pure selfishness,” Cooley, a public relations specialist, said of those who have chosen not to be vaccinated. “That’s what it is – it’s pure selfishness when you won’t do your part in the midst of a global health crisis.”

    Cooley, 39, is especially vulnerable, since she lives in Montgomery County, Mississippi, where only 37% of residents are fully vaccinated.

    Another moronic screed in which “not vaccinated” is explicitly conflated with “infected and supremely contagious”.

    Where did these dumb fucks go to school?

    • Gender Traitor

      Mississippi?

    • limey

      You’re a mur-diddly-urderer!

    • R C Dean

      All Kimberly Cooley wants to do is hug her 6-year-old nephews – and she can’t because tens of millions of Americans are choosing not to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

      Err, six year olds aren’t allowed to get the vaccine at all.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So take ivermectin as a prophylactic, you dumb bint.

    • rhywun

      All Kimberly Cooley wants to do is hug her 6-year-old nephews – and she can’t because tens of millions of Americans are choosing not to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

      That doesn’t even make sense and I sure as hell am not clicking on a CNN link to see if any of it does.

    • EvilSheldon

      “That’s what it is – it’s pure selfishness when you won’t do your part in the midst of a global health crisis.”

      Don’t confuse my selfishness, with my desire to see you suffer and die.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        I find it amazing at the inversion of responsibilities that’s occurred over the last 17 months. Used to be that people who were especially prone to succumbing to their health conditions took care themselves to make sure they were doing everything they could to not expose themselves to risk etc. Now, after governments’ response to the ‘Vid has completely upended our ideas of health and responsibility, it’s everybody else’s responsibility to make sure Individual ‘X’ is safe, instead of their own responsibility.

        What an extremely fucked-up world we’ve created. And so quickly, too . . .

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Another one:

    Kolkhorst has heard unvaccinated people argue that it’s their right not to get the shot.

    “It’s difficult for me to understand how people talk about personal freedoms, but they’ve impinged on our ability to go out and mingle and be with other people,” he said. “I try not to get mad at them, but it’s so disappointing and frustrating to those of us who can’t get out and be a part of life without being fearful.”

    Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk
    Once, he tried to convince an unvaccinated friend to take the shot. He failed.

    “Sometimes you just can’t fix stupid,” he said.

    Fuck off and die, bub. You had a fucking HEART TRANSPLANT. You’re already on bonus time.

    • Q Continuum

      I repeat from last night: if they can force you to inject experimental drugs into your body, they can force you to do anything.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

    • R C Dean

      “It’s difficult for me to understand how people talk about personal freedoms, but they’ve impinged on our ability to go out and mingle and be with other people,”

      I had to sit through some of that this morning. Because I lack Yusef’s giant clanking balls, I did not ask “If you are vaccinated, and you think the vaccines work, why are you limiting any of your activity?”

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      “Sometimes you just can’t fix stupid,” he said.

      No, but you can give them a job as a CNN “reporter.” Don Lay-MOH comes to mind, the fuckin’ poseur. (That’s a real French word, Don, you fuckin’ poseur . . . ).

  45. LCDR_Fish

    In the mood for more tunes. Just ordered 3 more Yoko Kanno soundtracks (import).

  46. westernsloper

    “We need stronger medicine to deal with Delta which is why were taking these steps today,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi.

    From everything I have heard the super scary Delta variant is less lethal than the original super scary variant. This is going a bit more off the rails than even I thought it would.

    I saw a news flash on my phone today the VA is the first Fed agency to require all of its 300,000 employees to get the jab. I wonder how that is going to play out. How long until all persons receiving VA health care are required to get jabbed or lose their benefits?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      They’re gonna keep pushing and pushing until they push the vaxx skeptics right into a corner. Cornered animals usually don’t just flop over and die.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Got my VA letter today asking me to volunteer to serve again and get the jab.

      Getting veterans pissed off is a third rail in politics. No way they will force veterans to choose between kungflu jab or medical treatment for combat injuries.

      Never say never though.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    That doesn’t even make sense and I sure as hell am not clicking on a CNN link to see if any of it does.

    Trust your gut. It’s nothing but a rambling hysterical appeal to emotion.

  48. Shpip

    I sure hope that the perp addressed her as Senator while mugging her.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Magic potion is magic, ch 593

    An Atlanta, Georgia restaurant owner decided only to serve fully vaccinated customers.

    The restaurant announced the rule on Instagram earlier this week, showing a “No Vax, No Service” sign that aims to reduce the spread of the virus inside the establishment.

    Armando Celentano, a co-owner of Argosy Restaurant and Bar told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the decision came after he and three of his employees tested positive for the virus even though they are all fully vaccinated, marking an instance of breakthrough infections.

    “It is a question of quality of life and safety for my staff and guests,” Celentano told the outlet. “It’s a privately owned, small business and I have to do what I think is right to protect the people who rely on me to make a living.”

    “Tested positive”

    Symptoms? Hospitalized?

    And what if that doesn’t work?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Not if, when

      If the variants are breaking through the vaccine protections, then his vaccinated customers can certainly bring it into the establishment.

      It’s all so painfully stupid.

      And if they were fully vaccinated, why were they testing for the virus? Were they symptomatic? Doesn’t sound like it.