Winston’s Mom Does the Links

by | Aug 23, 2021 | Daily Links | 287 comments

I got a call from my lawyer last night.  I was excited because he never calls me, I always call him.  He says he needed a hand from me, so I said…

…okay I’ll take care of it.  I got the links today.

What?  What did you think happened?  Freaks.

You know why so many nurses are cunts?  You can fire them all you want and they’ll find work the next day, but you’ll be short a few cunts.

Correctly?  What do you know Vice!

Lets not forget the real victims.

I’m not sure who is the bigger retard here.

Its in revelations people!

We get to see proof of concept in real time!

They’re out to get the black guy.

I’ll say it now, Vlad is dreamy.

What else can go wrong?

Yeah yeah yeah, we’re reliving the 70’s, except the music sucks ass and bush is only a fetish.

 

 

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Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

287 Comments

  1. Lord Humungus

    >>You can fire them all you want and they’ll find work the next days.

    Impose vaxx mandates – right in the middle of a worker shortage. Now that’s brilliant thinking. And yes this includes every fucking company that does this.

    • Nephilium

      Why come you want worker’s grandparents to die?

      • waffles

        I still have two living nonagenarian grandparents. Covid is fucking pathetic.

      • Rat on a train

        No. Covid-19 is so strong it reached through time killing my grandparents decades ago.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We are supposed to have something like 6500 technicians, but are way short of that with a lot set to retire and have just been holding on for shits and giggles…I suspect the FAA will be down technicians here in the near future. Here in the lower 48, pretty easy to get the work done. All the crazy bastards up in Alaska? Yeah, lose them and you are not replacing them quickly.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Unvaxxed glibs need to start gathering up their acorns if they don’t want to be forced into taking the jab. The mandate is coming to a company near you in the next few weeks.

      • Rat on a train

        Hopefully, the recently offered retention bonus means corporate is scared of losing us so they won’t try.

      • Grumbletarian

        My company said they’re at 33% vaxxed. And Tesla is moving into town. I’d be a bit surprised if they decide to mandate it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Unvaxxed glibs. I read that as unwaxxed glibs and went running for my soapbox so I could tell you that personal grooming is totes private and I don’t care what your mandates says.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I prefer my mandates be unwaxed

      • DEG

        I see what you did there.

      • westernsloper

        I have few acorns and will not only refuse the jab, I will not put another mask on. For those who are not indoctrinated into covid insanity, it has been proven neither protects you and I will not comply.

        (I need to talk to you or another crypto acorn glib on the sideline one of these days. I need to figure out how to use that forum thingy)

    • rhywun

      Yup, there’s a shortage at my company too. (((They))) don’t appear all that interested in medical experimentation, thank G-d.

    • Tonio

      I love it how they are having trouble getting nurses to vax up. That should tell people something…

      • Count Potato

        It’s probably a minority of nurses though. It could also be nurses who already had covid.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Medical workers know the propaganda coming the commies in media are lies.

        My sister runs a hospital lab. She is participating in a study to measure covid antibodies spikes and duration of immunization effectiveness.

        Some 1200 medical staff in her part of the hospital chain are refusing the vaccine. The govt is even threatening to withhold medicare payments if staff dont get vaccinated.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think we are finding the real reasons that OnlyFans banned pr0n…can’t have those nurses quitting and making more money now can we

    • blackjack

      Oh, we went way beyond that. They gave huge cash incentives to retire early. Like a year’s salary, right now as a bonus. Then, they froze all hiring and transfers, technically, still frozen after a year and a half. Then, they prohibited overtime.Now, they are instituting vax mandates with the very threat of firing.

  2. DEG

    “Let me be clear: The evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began,” he said. “It would have been true if we had started a month ago, or a month from now.”

    Hard and painful if it started a month ago? Color me skeptical of Biden’s claim.

    • Plisade

      Counter factual. Non-falsifiable. Bullshit.

  3. This Machine

    California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has opened an investigation into gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder’s financial disclosure, an FPPC spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.

    “Fuck, he’s going to kick Newsome’s ass! Quick, find something incriminating!”

    If Elder is found in violation of not improper campaign financial disclosure, each penalty costs a maximum of $5,000, according to the Times, which cited the FPPC.

    That’s it? I mean, five large is some serious beer money, sure, but I feel like that’s a pittance for a statewide gubernatorial campaign.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its the process that they are hoping to sink him with. He can dole out $5K no problem.

      • Winston's Mom

        Like David Koresh? He could’ve easily paid $25.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s more about getting uninformed people to read a headline that conveniently leaves out essential information and then assuming he’s shady, not the fines themselves.

      • blackjack

        Yeah. I’m sure every candidate in history has a half dozen at least of these infractions. Only when the opponent is very powerful do they get enforced, and in the scheme of things 20-25g’s is nothing. It’s the headlines that make the dent in support that they are looking for.

        “Larry Elder under investigation for campaign improprieties!!!!” That’s the money shot, a few weeks before the election.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Each penalty, They’re looking for about a thousand of these. And anything that even looks out of place gets tagged as a separate violation.

    • Count Potato

      If all the campaign finance laws were enforced no one could hold office.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Go on.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Fun fact, commies in media are scared shitless that Larry elder will win and Feinstein will die. Elder would get to appoint the next CA US senator.

      This is one of their many fears about elder winning but picking a us senator cannot be stopped by a commifornia legislature.

  4. DEG

    Two months after firing unvaccinated hospital staff, Houston Methodist is one of several area hospitals experiencing a severe shortage of medical personnel. Media reports say hospitals have “reached a breaking point” because of a flood of COVID-19 cases.

    I expect this will happen with Dartmouth-Hitchcock in NH which is planning to require vaccines and fire those that don’t get the vaccine.

    Dartmouth-Hitchcock is already preparing. They’re advertising that they’re hiring nurses. They will run into the same trouble Houston Methodist is running into.

    • rhywun

      Same here, only on a massive scale.

    • Drake

      I’ve already seen places try it with phlebotomists and lab techs. The companies get told to fuck right off, the fired employees find better paying jobs in a week, and it takes forever to fill those positions.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The media here is already running scare stories that if you’re fired for not getting vaxxed, you may not qualify for unemployment.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Hell, make it a condition of federal student loans just like selective service registration.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Why not also for food stamps, SBA loans, SSI, Medicare/caid, etc. Go for the gusto on this one FedGov! Don’t be pussies!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Have you applied for a job as director in the Dept of FYTW?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup, wouldn’t shock me. They think they’re gonna cow the unvaxxed with this apartheid bullshit. I’m hoping they have another thing coming.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And no one will bat an eye at the selective services they will punish either. Then again, we have mused that one of the triggers for a populace to move from disgruntled to action is threaten their livelihood and it seems they are hellbent on doing just that.

    • Spudalicious

      Huh. Free market trounces fascism.

  5. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Vlad is dreamy.”

    There’s worse to be found out there, that’s for sure. Whatever happened to good old refugee camps?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Won’t anyone think of the poor Somali refugees?

      Once the Afghanis show up, the Somalis won’t even be the chic refugee group. They might fall so far out of favor with the hip woke people that they actually begin to be prosecuted for their crimes.

      Of course, I would love to watch Omar get unseated by a crooked Afghani refugee.

  6. DEG

    More Americans Now Correctly Believe UFOs Could Be Alien Craft From Outer Space

    I rolled my eyes.

    • Lord Humungus

      STEVE SMITH BELIEVE IN UFOs. RAPED A FEW ALIENS IN MY TIME.

      • DrOtto

        ALIENS NO DO BUTT STUFF TO STEVE SMITH, STEVE SMITH DO BUTT STUFF TO ALIENS.

    • rhywun

      WTF is up with all the UFO babble lately? Are people really that out to lunch over the last year and a half?

      • Lord Humungus

        ::covers body in aluminum foil::

        say what now?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Isn’t it obvious? It’s the End of Days™!

        Our world is doomed! DOOOOOOOOMED!!!

      • Tonio

        Distraction from the evil and incompetence of the administration.

      • limey

        Boom. Was about to post something to that effect but gave up because it would have been a longer meandering thought. What was the deal with those “declassified” videos released by the Pentagon back in Trumptime? Just a little blip on a screen that a civ like me can’t make head nor tail of but “whoooo aliens”.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Ufos dont mean aliens. It means something is unidentified and its airborne and an object.

      • limey

        It seems to just sweep through as filler pieces by “news” websites every so often.

        *Ancient Aliens meme*

    • Loveconstitution1789

      What if we humans on Earth were dropped here by our distant relative aliens as punishment for something. Like being stupid.

      Stupidity does seem to run thru the genes of many humans.

  7. Not Adahn

    At least Cuomo didn’t have his ex-dog shot to stop the ‘vid.

    • Gadfly

      That Australian story was kind of crazy. I mean, the action makes sense if the disease is so dangerous as to require an entire country to lock down over and over again ad infinitum, so it is consistent with the rest of their behavior, but it seems rather heartless if you realize the disease, while dangerous, is not an existential threat.

  8. Fourscore

    “Vladimir Putin says he’s not allowing Afghan refugees into Russia”

    Omar scared that the Afghans will be invited to MN, disenfranchisement to all the Somalis living the high life. The Somalis will all be moving on up to East Side, displacing the Asian immigrants that have moved to the suburbs already.

    The Mexican/Central Americans are going to have to find a new place to live.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hah! Great minds think alike Fourscore.

      I’m not sure the Somalis will move on up. I think they will just be tossed to the curb by the hipsters.

      It could be interesting times watching the Afghani and Somali refugee gangs duke it out.

  9. DEG

    Biden says employers should require the vaccine

    President Joe Biden on Monday pressed businesses and public leaders to implement vaccine mandates after the federal government issued its first full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine.

    The Food and Drug Administration early Monday approved Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine for people 16 and older, a step beyond the emergency-use authorization under which the shot has been available since late 2020.

    “I’m calling on more companies in the private sector to step up with vaccine requirements that will reach millions more people,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “If you’re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that — require it. It only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of Covid-19.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      And with this comes the strong implication that things will happen to the business if they don’t. This is what governmental cooption of private business decisions looks like. You can’t even tell which businesses actually agree with the policy or not because of fear of speaking out.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Good thing the fascist was fortified out of office.

    • Sean

      Nope.
      Nope.
      Nope.

      • Drake

        Nope

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Make me, asshole.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I need to hire a mechanic. Might be a good time to start advertising “no vax required.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?

  10. UnCivilServant

    Normally, for a saturday release, GW delivers to the local game store on wednesday.

    Apparently for the Kill Team release this coming saturday, they delivered early.

    It was such a popular preorder that the local game store was running out of room and had boxes in public areas, so the owner decided to release the preorders early. I doubt GW would approve, but I got my Kill Team box today.

    About to open it.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Taut abs and impressive underboob.

  11. Count Potato

    “A Covid test worker has been sacked after filming himself urinating in a soap dispenser at a primary school used as a test centre before posting the video on Snapchat.

    Disgusting footage shows the agency staffer urinating into the nearly empty soap bottle in a sink at John Paul II Primary School on Whiterock Road in Belfast.

    A still photo then shows the bottle after being filled with urine and left for the next bathroom user to deal with.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9919227/Covid-worker-sacked-filming-URINATING-soap-dispenser.html

    So you’re saying he was drunk?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why oh why would you put that on social media?

    • Fourscore

      Wait, other people don’t do that? There’s no sign prohibiting it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They haven’t been in control for barely a week and they’re already shilling for Big Burka.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Damn your nimble fingers.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Big Burqa is price gouging.

    • Tonio

      I want to open a discount store called Burqa Burqa, home of the 2-for-1 special.

      • Pope Jimbo

        What about a reversible burqa? I bet those would sell well.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Black on one side, and Black on the other?

    • Agent Cooper

      “price of burqas in Kabul doubles”

      The market works!

  12. Toxteth O'Grady

    Mmm, fondue. Care for some immediately grated nutmeg?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Now that is how you do euphemisms.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Vot euphemisms? La muscade is funny to you?

    • Count Potato

      Make America grate again?

  13. Shpip

    Titania McGrath has some new competition. Billie Veline, RN is a parody twitter account that normies can’t figure out, because Poe’s Law.

    Here’s an example (reminder: great satire inches right up to the line of truth, and this is horrifyingly close to how colleges are operating these days).

    • Ghostpatzer

      The comments are gold. Not sure if this is a parody account? Holy shit.

  14. Count Potato

    “Fury as thousands of Extinction Rebellion activists bring London’s West End to a standstill for hours… before Met finally step in to make mass arrests after group chained themselves together under vans

    Police finally began making mass arrests on Monday evening after London’s West End was paralysed for hours by Extinction Rebellion protesters who had erected a giant pink table in the middle of the road.

    Officers moved in after demonstrators ignored repeated demands – made by loudspeaker – for them to leave the area.

    Until they began making mass arrests at 8pm, the Metropolitan police had detained just eight people, despite the fact that the protest began at midday today.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9918587/Hundreds-Extinction-Rebellion-activists-flock-Trafalgar-Square-march-Pall-Mall.html

    The only good thing about them is their name.

    • Lord Humungus

      I saw Extinction Rebellion back in 1988, back with the original singer. Definitely better back then, before they sold out to the man!

    • one true athena

      All that group needs is one psycho dude and they’ll be bombing and/or drinking the special kool-aid.

    • Tonio

      These people are like a metastasized version of Greta Thunberg, right?

      • rhywun

        Black Green bloc

    • Tulip

      Them first

  15. Gadfly

    What? What did you think happened? Freaks.

    Given the accompanying picture, I was reminded of this scene: Do you fondue?

  16. Winston

    So the West is now no-shit fascist?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      “now”? It has been unabashedly fascist for a century. oh, you mean late-stage fascist… yup. I guess we are.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        We’ll be fascist enough to catch up with the Chinese communists before too long if we continue at this rate.

      • Winston

        People have been pointing out fascistic elements in the West for quite some time but there was a reluctance among the “sensible” people to admit that we are actually in a tyranny.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      It’s the third way between communist and lazier-faire economies. You don’t want either one of those do you?

      • blackjack

        Actually…

      • Ghostpatzer

        Who doesn’t like a 3-way?

      • DrOtto

        Devil’s 3-way or the good kind with 2 ladies?

      • Gadfly

        All reasonably people are centrists, after all.

      • Animal

        Dead skunks and yellow stripes.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What was that? I don’t get it?

  17. rhywun

    Today in Science!:

    Eating 1 hot dog takes 35 minutes off life, study suggests

    • blackjack

      If that were true, the guy who won the contest would have retroactively died before the buzzer even went off.

    • The Hyperbole

      Thankfully its’ the last 35 minutes. You get a tasty meal and you wont be sucking oxygen through a tube on your death bed for as long, it’s a win-win.

      *paraphrased/stolen from some comedian who said it better, maybe Carlin or Stephen Wright I can’t recall.

    • Agent Cooper

      Who eats that slow?

  18. Ed Wuncler

    Yesterday my subdivision had a neighborhood cook out put with a great turn out. No one wore masks so chances are we will be responsible for the deaths of half the village.

    • Lord Humungus

      a SUPER SPREADER event! Just like the block party I went to… and the record conventions. And the airport. etc etc etc

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Land prices going down in your area?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s too bad. It’s been nice commenting with you. Let us know when you kick the bucket so we can have a toast in your honor.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You can toast him all you want, I’m heading to his house to nab all his orphans.

  19. Gadfly

    We get to see proof of concept in real time!

    While crypto can be a useful store of value, it seems to, as of now, have limited utility in the main purpose of currency: acting as a medium of exchange. Not only is it not accepted most places, but from what I’ve read the fact that everything is logged means there’s a limit on how many exchanges can happen per day, drastically limiting its usefulness. Perhaps there are some cryptos that overcome that technical problem, or perhaps if crypto gets more popular there will be crypto “banks” that bundle lots of little transactions together into fewer, bigger transactions to make it work, but as things stand now (at least from what I’ve read), crypto seems to be more akin to gold than to dollars.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No intrinsic value

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *looks quizzically at green sheets of paper with portraits on them*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Bitcoin doesn’t have a military that can protect the most repressive regime in the Middle East yet.

      • westernsloper

        This could be an ad for buying more bitcoin.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The biggest limitations I’ve noticed are along the same lines as what you see.

      1) the aforementioned limited usefulness due to most places not accepting them and/or not paying in cryptos
      2) the aforementioned technical limitations on transaction volume (some currencies are attempting to fix this)
      3) no clear winner/set of winners to gravitate to. Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed at scale, Ethereum isn’t popular enough to start clearing competitors out of the market.
      4) even when the transaction volume issue is fixed, the transaction latency issue still exists at some level.
      5) the value is all over the place, making it entirely too risky to hold on to in appreciable volume (even with fiat being inflated)

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t see how anyone that is considering prepping a valid option can also consider Bitcoin a valid store of value. It’s wholly dependent on technology to work.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d see them as hedging both bets.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep, that’s a very good point, too. Cash money works when the power is off.

      • DEG

        Kruggerands.

      • Gender Traitor
    • westernsloper

      I don’t know, I am for the most part completely ignorant in these things but I listen to people. I have listened to people who have made bitcoin their sole source of spending money through the use of transfers to gift cards. Are they full of shit? I don’t know.

    • one true athena

      The hole is worse because that’s visible in normal conditions and most people will refold the ballot the way it’s creased but yeah, they certainly went out of their way to be able to count them before opening.

      I’m not turning mine in early, because I know – at the very least – these jerks will count up all the “YES” votes ahead of time to make sure they have the counters for them. Cheating weasels.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, I believe you should have to actually walk into a polling place if you’re not out of the state for a good reason. Like military or obvious travelling. There’s no reason it won’t work as good as it ever did. People can collect these mail-ins and just burn the yes votes. The tracking doesn’t really tell anyone anything. “Your vote was counted”, really? OK then.

  20. Winston

    https://mobile.twitter.com/walterkirn/status/1429900399612350475

    A thoroughly discredited leadership is laying down harsh dictates. These commands come from the same people & arise from the same assumptions & institutional agendas that have brought catastrophic consequences abroad, military & social, there for all to see

    Trust your judgment

    • rhywun

      Paywalled but how gullible can you be to believe that headline.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s different. It’s not “our democracy”. It’s your democracy. “Our democracy” is threatened. Yours is not.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      WE’RE 17TH!!!!! YAY!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Intinded S1 Eppisode 1. Eh, sod it.

    • Drake

      Afghanistan and China are freer.

    • rhywun

      Police will be able to lock down apartment blocks while health authorities assess COVID-19 risk.

      A residential premise can be deemed a COVID-risk premise, with all people required to present to police during compliance checks.

      JFC

      • Gustave Lytton

        They really are determined to copy the Chinese.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Looks like it’s time to start *redacted* down under. The authorities have lost their goddamn minds.

  21. Winston

    Are Vax mandates and passports proof of rising social liberalism?

    • Tulip

      No. Rising authoritarianism. But you knew that.

      • Winston

        Well that implies that social liberalism involves leaving people alone…

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It always starts out that way when they’re deconstructing the pre-existing ethical foundations, but, invariably, the masses stare into the abyss, get scared, and start building authoritarian structures to keep the inevitable chaos from overtaking them.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Keep it up ladies. Push us right into institutional failure. I’m sure that’s going to work out great for you.

    • one true athena

      Yep. And they just found a dude not far from me with over 300 in his car.

      Second-most secure election in history, everyone.

      • Sean

        ?

  22. Winston

    Social liberals have always been pretty authoritarian:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_theatre_closure_1642

    In September 1642, just after the First English Civil War had begun, the Long Parliament ordered the closure of all London theatres. The order cited the current “times of humiliation” and their incompatibility with “public stage-plays”, representative of “lascivious Mirth and Levity”.[1] The ban, which was not completely effective, was reinforced by an Act of 11 February 1648, at the beginning of the Second Civil War. It provided for the treatment of actors as rogues, the demolition of theatre seating, and fines for spectators.[2]

    • Ted S.

      Winston strawmans without assertion first that there were any social liberals in England in 1652, and secondly that it was said social liberals who ordered the closure of the theaters.

    • Drake

      “Rogue” is actually a couple of steps above my opinion of actors.

      • UnCivilServant

        At the time of the English Civil War, Actors were rated in the same social class as Prostitutes.

        I’d say they have had too much status for centuries.

  23. Gadfly

    Yeah yeah yeah, we’re reliving the 70’s, except the music sucks ass and bush is only a fetish.

    I may have a fetish then. While grooming is fine, the shave-it-all fad strikes me as weird and is a bit off-putting.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Don’t feel bad, I have a bit of a hair thing myself but then I came of age in the ‘80s. I’ll even take pit hair if it’s not ridiculous.

  24. Tulip

    Good news! Babs doesn’t have cancer.

    • UnCivilServant

      Yay.

      Though I fear I missed the concerning announcement that Babs might have cancer.

      Who are we discussing?

      • Tulip

        My dog. That definition might fit her

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        YAY for Doggo! and you as well, 😉

      • UnCivilServant

        Ah, thank you.

        Still glad no cancer.

      • Spudalicious

        Ah. I thought you meant Barbara Streisand, and I was conflicted.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That is good news!

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      YES!!! HUZZAH!

    • Sean

      Yay.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Hooray! Good doggie!

    • Mojeaux

      Woo hoooo!

    • DEG

      Excellent.

    • Ted S.

      Worse, she has covid.

    • Tundra

      That is the best thing I’ve read today!

      I’m happy for you Tulip!

    • Gender Traitor

      O Frabjous Day!

    • blackjack

      Dogs deserve to be healthy. Great news!

    • Tulip

      Thank you all! I know she’s a dog, not a person, but she’s good company and I love her. I want her to be happy and it’s been hard seeing her not feeling well this summer. Finally she’s better, then this. The vet had me text pictures, were all “you need to come in, we can get her in today” which is never good.

  25. Tulip

    More good news! My jalapeno hot sauces are starting to ferment. I see a few bubbles and I can smell them. One bubbled over a little and I got some of the brine on my hands – yowza! Got some heat.

    • Sean

      Mmmm…hot sauce…

      • Tulip

        I’ll make a habanero one this weekend. I’ll add carrots, onions, red jalapenos, Anaheims and garlic. My habaneros are a bright red this year. And HOT!!!!!!

    • Ted S.

      Rule 34 implies that wholesomeness a fetish for some people.

  26. Winston

    https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/modern-collectivist-trends-and-how-to-resist-them/

    The First World War and the Great Depression were, I would suggest, the major events that have shaped most of the political, social, and economic trends for more than a century. The Great War, as it used to be called, undermined the generally “classical” liberal world that prevailed, at least in much of Western and Central Europe and North America before 1914.

    Another apt comparison to lockdowns is that the damage was wrought by the establishment themselves not some populist outsider. Woodrow Wilson for example was a Princeton Professor and Governor of New Jersey.

  27. Winston

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-trouble-with-virus-eliminationism/

    Out with the Constitution. Out with the rule of law. Out with the expectation of a continuously functioning market and social order. Out with travel plans, business planning, and normal life in general. All of our rights, freedoms, laws, and expectations must give way to the disease planners who will keep us informed about whether and to what extent we can make our own decisions.

    The idea of virus elimination via government is a fundamental threat to all Enlightenment values. It is not scientific at all: serious scholars in this field have observed that virus suppression through force is impossible and foolish. If temporarily successful, it merely results in a population with a naive immune system that is more susceptible to a more serious disease later.

    Eliminationism merely uses the veneer of science to enthrone a scientific elite to rule the world regardless of democracy, traditions, rights, or any other old-fashioned idea along those lines. It is a fundamental regime change, one tested (and failed) in 2020 but now proposed as the general practice forever, regardless of evidence.

    Funny how that keeps happening. Enlightened Technocracy always ends up ignoring the science and engaging in old-fashioned despotism.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “Enlightened Technocracy” I have yet to see that in History, examples?

      • wdalasio

        Didn’t Hayek do that proof back in the 1930s?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The United Federation of Planets. Yes, I blame all this on Star Trek.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        OK, That one I’ll accept,
        LOL!

      • Winston

        And the UFP was nothing but a very idealized take 1960s liberal internationalism…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Roddenberry had the Socialism thing down

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        With for all purposes unlimited energy like they have in the show it’d be something that might be workable but with limitations it’s always a disaster. Even if we discovered workable fusion tomorrow I think the moral and ideological busybodies would fuck it up for all of us though.

  28. Sensei

    Enjoy this gem from the Tesla forum on Reddit.

    There is no reason why I should have to exit Disney+ to open the glovebox. There needs to be a glovebox option under controls in the app.

    My daughter wanted a twizzler while watching Bluey. Try explaining to a 4 yr old having a meltdown that you could only get the twizzlers by turning the show off. I am sure there are other situations where this would also be very inconvenient. Tried voice commands first and no luck.

    Mind you I’m very much of mixed mind about the electronic only latch on the glovebox. It’s cool and always self secures as much as any plastic latched glovebox can be. OTH, if or when it breaks it’s going to be a PITA to open and repair. Plus it requires two presses of the touchscreen to open.

    It does, however, accurately describe the current generation of texting and driving and automobiles as appliances generation of drivers. An entire generation that has little understanding of anything mechanical, durable and essentially lasts forever. A great example is antique steam engines that still work to this day centuries later. Crap today is explicitly designed with a finite life. But let’s all be green buying a new electric car every three years.

    • Ted S.

      There’s no reason you should be watching Disney+.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I feel dumber for having read the comments.

      I really want off. I’m through.

    • DEG

      Reddit is for porn.

    • blackjack

      I always think of the Chinese, when I hear this kind of shit. They must laugh so hard at the fact that the government doesn’t think we are responsible enough to open the fucking glovebox!

      Remember when those retards set themselves on fire dousing the campfire with Blitz cans and then sued and won? The government mandated those spring loaded gas cans after that. I had to buy one of the first ones and I remember when it stopped dispensing gas the second time I used it, thinking about how lucky the Chinese are to get their own simple gas can which actually allows the gas back out when they want it. I had to get out my drill and use a super long bit to get the fucking gas back out. Insult to injury, it cost three times as much as a normal can.

  29. Drake

    The gym has the NUC evening news on. Nothing but people gleefully talking about new vaccine mandates.

    • Sensei

      But comrad don’t you want to do your part for the motherland?

  30. Tulip

    Went to grocery store. Spent $25 for a half full plastic bag. Bought, a lemon, garlic, one onion, 6 limes, store brand block cheddar, store brand popcorn kernels and a $7 hunk of parmesan. Yikes

    • Tundra

      It’s insane isn’t it?

      Not consumer related but I got another price increase from one of my steel suppliers. 18 fucking percent.

      Looks like I get to piss my customers off again.

      On the bright side, my $4.50/lb tri-tip experiment was a huge success! Tasty and tender. Cheaper than chicken.

      • The Hyperbole

        Where are you buying chicken for over $4.50/lb, someone’s cornered the market. Around here it’s $1.99 at most and that’s for the overpriced breast meat, the good thigh meat is even cheaper.

      • DEG

        It’s almost like different places have different costs of living.

        Where I’m at, chicken is mid-3 bucks/pound. Sure, cheaper than $4.50/lb, but way more than what you are paying.

      • The Hyperbole

        Okay, fair point, but what is beef where you are at? Maybe there is someplace where it’s cheaper to raise cattle than poultry but I doubt it.

      • DEG

        Where I’m at? A lot more than chicken.

        Funny, I bought some chuck roast for a chili last Friday, but I am drawing a blank on the price per pound beyond that it was more than the chicken I bought on the same trip.

      • Nephilium

        Checking the base prices (no sales) at the mid-range grocery store here in Cleveland:

        80/20 ground beef:
        Choice – $5/lb
        Chuck – $4.50/lb

        Whole chicken:
        Young Fryer – $1.90/lb
        All Natural – $2.50/lb
        Roasting Chicken – $1.70/lb

        Beef:
        Roasts – $8/lb (for at least three different cuts)
        Strip Steaks/Bone in Ribeye – $16/lb
        T-Bone/Porterhouse – $15/lb

      • UnCivilServant

        sounds like what I see around here too.

      • Ted S.

        The implication that normal people can figure out is that Tundra got tri-tip, probably on sale, for $4.50/lb, which is less than he’d normally pay for chicken.

        Obstreperous people looking to pick a fight will deliberately not draw that conclusion.

      • The Hyperbole

        Or, alternately people who never see chicken for anywhere near $4.50 /lb may wonder why chicken is so expensive where Tundra is buying his inexpensiove beef.

      • Spudalicious

        There was a big chicken die off and the prices went through the roof.

      • Gender Traitor

        The ‘VID got ’em?

      • Spudalicious

        I think it was a virus.

      • DEG

        Is there anything the ‘Rona can’t do?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Chickens have a virus (HPAI) that has a mortality rate of 100% if the chickens are unvaccinated.

        Its been said that because vaccinated chickens can still pass the virus along, the virus has mutated to a more deadly form than it originally was. Ooops.

        Science.

      • Tulip

        I’m getting organic free range chicken (I think the difference in taste is stark and worth it) for $3.50/lb.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Are they less laden with water? I try some of my grandma’s recipes and they all come out ‘watery’ and my sister and I can only think that its due to all the water they are pumped with

      • Tulip

        Yes. Also just taste more ‘chickeny’. More like the ones we raised.

      • Tundra

        Where are you, Tulip?

        Hyp is partially right – I’m buying organic for my wife. I don’t eat much chicken or pork, so I don’t pay as much attention to prices.

        All I know is that select strips were $7.99/lb, now they are $11.99/lb.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah that makes sense…you are buying premium pre-butchered pieces.

      • Tulip

        I’m in DC area.

    • DEG

      Groceries for a week for me are now routinely over $100.

      That did not happen pre-Lil Rona Insanity.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I eat crappier food to keep the bills down, lights off, don’t drive far, etc.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        As I’ve pointed out before, prices have probably risen an average of 30% since March 2020 where I live, but what’s really odd is the way they bounce around from week-to-week: one week I can buy a roasting chicken, around 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs.), for about $7, and the next week you can’t walk out of the store with the same chicken for under $17.

        It’s just bizarre.

      • Tulip

        Yes. I stocked up on my preferred coffee at 0.28/oz. It’s now 0.34/oz. But I’m watching sales. Quality has deteriorated as well. Celery was not good last time and I didn’t buy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Quality is the noticeable thing we see in common across the nation.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        We’re buying a lot more frozen veg to try and get around the quality drop problem.

      • Tulip

        I’m planting more for fall. We can do that here.

      • Tulip

        Good news! Couple more cantaloupes ripening

  31. The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

    A little something to lift up the mood a bit, in these stupid times: Bokanté – Nou Tout Sé Yonn. It starts interesting but a little slow, and then gets really interesting starting around the 1:00 mark; by 2:30, it’s on, baby!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Hella Yes! Thanks!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      There were no effects on that song, the different guitars, Basses and Percussion, all well produced, provided the Timbre’ needed, wow,

      • Ted S.

        Oh crap, I SFed the link. Try this.

      • Gender Traitor

        Cool link, bro.

      • Ted S.

        According to the threading, my nimble fingers beat you to the punch.

    • Tundra

      That was absolutely wonderful! That steel player was amazing, the vocals were perfect, percussion was insane and the white boys on guitar got it done. I sent it to my percussionist kids with a reminder to do better 😉

      Thank you!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Agreed, I passed it along to my Cali collaborator,
        /Music not War

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        CKUA keeps delivering, baby. God Bless Alberta.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I sent it to my percussionist kids with a reminder to do better

        “Some days the old man really chaps my ass.”  ?

    • Nephilium

      In other good news, the animated Tick show is streaming all episodes on Hulu (even the ones that weren’t released to VHS or DVD).

      • Winston

        Spoon!

    • rhywun

      Lovely

  32. Winston

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histriomastix

    Funny reading how much the Puritans hated theatre and Christmas.

    And said writings sometimes got them into serious legal trouble:

    Prynne was imprisoned in 1633 but not tried until 1634, at which time he had to appear before the Star Chamber on a charge of seditious libel.

    ….

    In the end, Prynne was sentenced to be pilloried twice, fined £5,000, and imprisoned for life. In addition, his book was to be burned by the common hangman, and he was expelled from his university, prohibited from practicing law, and mutilated by the severance of his ears. During his imprisonment, Prynne continued to produce anonymous pamphlets attacking leaders of the Anglican Church, which induced the authorities, in 1637, to inflict further mutilation: first, the surviving stumps of his severed ears were cut off, and, second, his cheeks were branded with the letters “S.L.” The letters represented the words “Seditious Libeler,” but since his biting words sometimes attacked Archbishop Laud, Prynne preferred to render them as “Stigmata Laudis,” or, “the marks of Laud.”[10][11]

    John Lilburne by the way first made a name for himself when he got punished for publishing one of Prynne’s books. Prynne and Lilburne later had a falling out during the Civil War but both of them turned against Cromwell.

  33. DEG

    Henri has arrived late in southern NH.

    • Tundra

      Fucking French are always late.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        But they usually bring decent wine, so I’m okay with my French rellies.

    • Ted S.

      We had just over 24 hours of rain here. Parts of Greene County got eight inches of rain.

    • rhywun

      Yeah that thing mostly passed us by only to circle around us for a day and a half. And left another damn heat wave in its wake.

    • grrizzly

      We’ve been driving side by side with Henri from western Connecticut to Boston. At times I couldn’t see anything in front of me on a highway.

  34. db

    The ultimate Glib revolver?

    • DEG

      $1000 for a SMLE Mk V? Wow. The market has changed. I think I paid about $2000 for mine.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I like this one, way jazzy, but a Groove, ooh and Synths!

  35. Ed Wuncler

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-public-schools-ctu-talks-covid-20210818-undjeyeu3ndl7mf7whajsipzq4-story.html

    “Sharkey said the state should consider allowing remote learning for everyone, especially in the wake of the delta variant. Some schools around the country have opened their doors for in-person learning only to quickly close them again because of coronavirus outbreaks.

    “The district isn’t willing to commit to the things that we think we need. We’re not willing to sign an agreement that doesn’t have those commitments in it,” Sharkey said. “So at this point what I think I would have to say is, that if we go back in and there’s a dangerous surge, we would count on the mayor and the district to do the right thing. And if they don’t, we’ll take matters into our own hands.”

    If I was Lightfoot, my retort would be that the teachers either show up on the 30th of August on time or else their union will be decertified and mass firings would begin. The more you give these fucking hacks, the more they want and the crazy part is that CPS released their budget the other day ( a yuge increase from the previous year’s budget) and CTU basically said that it wasn’t enough. I don’t understand how parents and politicians don’t see that the teacher unions really hate children.

    • rhywun

      Deblasio claims out of one side of his mouth that the schools will be fully open and out of the other he creates a two-tier society where the unclean are not fit to participate in everyday activities.

      Parents would have to be crazy to expect open schools at this rate.

    • wdalasio

      I’m not terribly familiar with all the details of Chicago politics, but how dependent is Lightfoot on support from the teachers’ unions? My guess is that they’re pretty powerful. Didn’t Rahm Emanuel get taken to the cleaners by them?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nope, Rahm got an Ambassador job, Japan or some shit.

      • Ed Wuncler

        The teacher union hate Lightfoot and endorsed her opponent in the last mayoral race, but for whatever reason she keeps on caving to them despite them constantly telling her to go fuck herself even when she gives them what they want.

      • Ed Wuncler

        And they are politically powerful but the shanagans they pulled this year soured a lot of people on them. If Lightfoot was half competent at her job, she could have gone toe to toe with their leadership and gotten the voters on board.

  36. wdalasio

    Here’s a pretty good take from City Journal, of all places, on the hyping of COVID. One of the things that has bothered me for the last year is that not only is our political leadership utterly corrupt, it’s also pretty damned incompetent at its corruption. I think, if I were a Top Man trying to institute a technocracy of Top Men, I’d give the current crop a D-, at best. I don’t think they realize that a major element of maintaining a technocracy is maintaining that technocracy’s credibility. But, the current technocrats have squandered it. Censoring and smearing is a blunt, talentless means of maintaining order. It validates criticism as occult knowledge that you have to suppress. A talented and competent technocracy wouldn’t have sought to bully and silence dissenters. It would have arrived with plausible responses. It would have made a pretense of incorporating them into the process and thinking. The last thing it would do is personalize it and treat the dissent as a threat.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      As I said upthread, show me a Technocracy that ever worked, Like rock stars, never believe your own hype,

      • wdalasio

        Well, I think that depends on your definition of “worked”. If you’re defining working as getting optimal results in the world from your policies, as you say, virtually none. If you define work as maintaining your technocracy’s control with a minimum of fuss or muss, I’d say countless civil administrations over the years. What’s genuinely striking is how poorly our existing technocracy is at even doing that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Agreed, but I see it as just a long proggresion of failed Ideas, and the technocracy just evolved with the times, Just Say’n

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If a technocracy makes decisions based on politics they’re going to go into the ditch even faster than if they make decisions based on hubris and bad science. What we see now is a reflection of that. It’s not so much a technocracy as it’s a false veneer of supposedly science driven decision making covering for pure authoritarianism.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Yes! this sums it up well, thanks!

    • rhywun

      Yeah, Tierney’s been pretty good on this stuff.

      not only is our political leadership utterly corrupt, it’s also pretty damned incompetent at its corruption

      But you’ll notice that this doesn’t matter. The IFLS crowd has firm control of every institution that matters. They are running the show with no serious opposition. They don’t need to be credible.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        When you have lost the trust of people like me, long believers in real scientific inquiry, then you have a problem, and we have guns,

      • wdalasio

        They don’t need to be credible.

        In the short run, yes. In the long run, I’m not so sure. For a very long time, science was seen, rightly or wrongly, as sacrosanct and above the fray. Having a large part of the population seeing it as just another racket might not bode well for its future.

      • rhywun

        Oh sure, the long run gets ugly if people don’t wake up and fast.

        But in the meantime the current elites have enough time to extract vast sums of wealth from the rest of us with no care for the future because why would they.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Wealth means nothing when cash and stocks are worthless. The rich will die in their mansions like the idiots who live in cities. Starvation is a bitch.

        It will be those with the most weapons and ability to survive that win.

      • blackjack

        When we no longer agree on language and simple facts, the gap is way too big to bridge anymore. Each side decides what it’s own truth is until the sides are so far apart, they have no choice to split apart. 2+2 will never equal 5 for me.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Piece of Cake! We are just jealous of the agility

  37. commodious spittoon

    Forget Afghanistan, we should be sanctioning Australia.

    • blackjack

      Kind of hard to seem serious when we have Portland.