220 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    ā€œAs a result of the unemployment bonuses and other pandemic-related factors, small businesses are reporting massive labor shortages.ā€

    That is as curious as a relevant first.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Apostate!

    • The Other Kevin

      I have it on good authority it’s because small businesses aren’t paying a living wage.

      • DEG

        Missed it by this much.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The only moral thing to do is destroy small business altogether and transfer all jobs to multinational corporations in partnership with corrupt governments…

        Always wanted to see that cyberpunk dystopia I was promised was just around the corner during the 80’s.

      • Gadfly

        You’ve got it all wrong.

        Once the jobs are transferred to multinational corporations in partnership with corrupt governments, you must also unionize the workforce so that you can have a third big, uncaring entity involved.

  2. Shpip

    Progressives Lament Upcoming Expiration of Ultra-Generous Unemployment Benefits That Pay More than Work

    Well, if business owners would just pay low-value-added employees $15 $25 an hour, labor shortages wouldn’t be a problem.

    /progs

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I take back what I said in the earlier thread. The power of inaccurate observation.

  3. trshmnstr the terrible

    As a result of the unemployment bonuses and other pandemic-related factors, small businesses are reporting massive labor shortages.ā€

    I’m hearing rumors of massive signing bonuses in many fields. 50% of salary or more.

  4. DEG

    Should unemployment welfare pay more than your typical job? Those familiar with the basic economics of how incentives work would say no.

    I have it on good authority that those are shitty jobs. The company just needs to pay more.

    A bodybuilder who married a sex doll last year claims he is now madly in love with an ashtray – and plans to give it an artificial vagina.

    Well. Umm… I guess it’s better than being madly in love with a face diaper.

    • rhywun

      I have a feeling that what he’s really madly in love with is attention.

      • MikeS

        Bigot!

    • B.P.

      I hear there’s a whole bunch of folks on their way from the Middle East. I’m sure they can take up jobs Americans won’t do.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The pansexual bodybuilder has found love again – with an ashtray he found in a nightclub

      So that’s what pansexual means. I’m going to remember that, the next time some celebrity announces that they are pansexual.

  5. Rebel Scum

    Everyone deserves somebody to love, I guess.

    Gay marriage didn’t only open the back door.

    • Tonio

      [Lana Kane head shake and grimace]

      • Gadfly

        Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?

    • Fourscore

      Even Bro’s girl friend corroborates that’s he’s first

  6. Lackadaisical

    I know itā€™s satire but damn.

    ā€œ Children are obviously better off dead than having to be alive and poor!ā€

    @Hayek

    Many allegedly normal people non-ironically say this, so it isn’t even satire.

    • Nephilium

      I don’t think I would call nikki normal, I mean… she was the worst. The AT&T of people! The opposite of Batman!

      • Lackadaisical

        Several people I know in real life have said this to me. Not in those exact words, but basically, any non-traditional family life in a poor household is not worth living in.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s why we bomb poor countries. They’re better off dead.

      • Agent Cooper

        “The AT&T of people!”

        OMG. My favorite Community line.

  7. Lackadaisical

    I think I could take him

    I’m with you Riven, I’m pretty sure I could beat him too, he isn’t even willing to put his xrays up in the bet.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Oh, give the guy a break, he’s been completely transparent about this and I’m all for transparency.

      • Tundra

        Leave it to you to drill to the root of the matter.

      • The Other Kevin

        Great, now the comments are filling with puns.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Enough, already. STEVE SMITH is poised to perform cavity searches.

      • Surly Knott

        Oh, he’s going to crown the lot of you.

      • Gender Traitor

        If he didn’t knock us to the fluoride be surprised.

      • Ozymandias

        Ooohhh, that’s gooood.

    • Fourscore

      Another retired guy that I’m familiar with went to buy a new vehicle recently. Both he and the dealer were known to be good (or better) ping pong players. Dealer had a table and a sign that said “If you can beat me I’ll knock $500 off the vehicle price” True story, game commences, being hard fought. Dealer gets a phone call and goes to answer it, comes back and the other player (his friend, too) is dead from a heart attack, 78 years old.

      Happened within the last few months, the dead guy was a fellow OCSer. I didn’t know him personally but he was an officer of an organization I belong to.

      • Tulip

        I’m sorry for your friend.

        But where is this? My mom could probably win. She was still beating the college age grandkids a few years ago.

      • DEG

        Sorry.

  8. commodious spittoon

    The threat of a new pandemic will never subside. But the notion that we need to ‘trade liberty for security’ is misguided and dangerous. Public health concerns cannot be addressed with law enforcement or national security tools. If we allow the fear associated with a potential outbreak to justify the suspension of liberties in the name of public health, we risk not only undermining our fundamental rights, but alienating the very communities and individuals that are in need of help and thereby fomenting the spread of disease.

    Who is this dangerous, right-wing extremist?

    • Lackadaisical

      That is why the ACLU has been suing the many states and the federal government since this all started.

      What?

      • commodious spittoon

        People in his replies wonder why it’s still up and how long will it be before they delete it, but why would they bother? We know they’re philosophically unmoored. It’s not incidental, they’re purposefully inconsistent. That’s what demoralization is all about.

    • rhywun

      Oh, that’s rich.

    • Ghostpatzer

      One of the authors of that piece appears to have successfully completed her reeducation. Wendy E. Parmet, in The Atlantic:

      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/legal-cases-covid-19-era/619914/

      The most interesting cases to date, however, have been brought on behalf of children with disabilities who claim that the anti-mask measures violate federal laws prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities. The theory is that by failing to allow schools to take reasonable steps such as mandating masks to make schools safe for children who are at high risk of complications from COVID-19, the states have violated studentsā€™ civil rights. The Biden administration appears to endorse this view. Recently, the Department of Education has begun an investigation into whether laws restricting mask mandates in schools in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah violate the rights of students with disabilities.

      By focusing on studentsā€™ rights to be safe at school, this new round of litigation seeks a very different type of freedom than plaintiffs sought in the earlier round. Now, instead of demanding the freedom from health measures, plaintiffs are seeking the freedom that, in a pandemic, only health measures can provide.

      These new cases offer the courts an important opportunity to correct the simplistic view of freedom evident in the initial round of litigation. Still, in a well-functioning polity, we would not need litigation to ensure that children can remain healthy at school. Public-health measures would be less contentious and less often litigated. Although courts have a crucial role to play, especially in protecting the rights of the most vulnerable individuals, judges generally lack training or experience in public health. They are not well equipped to make public-health policy, which is what they have been doing, far too frequently, throughout the pandemic.

      Yesterday’s “law enforcement and national security measures” are today’s “public-health policy”. Quite the transformation.

      • Gadfly

        The theory is that by failing to allow schools to take reasonable steps such as mandating masks to make schools safe for children who are at high risk of complications from COVID-19, the states have violated studentsā€™ civil rights.

        Mask mandates are not reasonable and do not make schools safe for children. If anything, the false security of mask mandates makes schools more dangerous for high-risk children, by acting as a substition for actual effective action.

  9. Rebel Scum

    Colored people People of color hardest hit.

    An abortion fund that helps hundreds of women in the southernmost region of Texas each year has stopped answering its hotline after one of the strictest bans in the nation went into effect this week.

    “Our very existence is a risk. The fact that we exist as an organization puts us at risk (of civil lawsuits),” said Zeana Zamora, executive director of Frontera Fund. The group helps people in the Rio Grande Valley — an impoverished region that is mostly Mexican American — access abortion care. …

    Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said it’s clear that the state is in a demographic transition, just as California, New Mexico and Arizona have been before. It’s making people in power feel threatened, and the new measures are a negative response to the demographic change, he says. …

    For Greisa Martinez Rosas, executive director of United We Dream, the abortion law and voter restriction bills mirror conservatives’ policies and stances on immigration.

    “What is happening in Texas is a deliberate attack by far-right politicians who will do anything to quell Black, brown, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities both in Texas and other Republican-controlled states across the country,” Martinez Rosas said.

    By merely existing, “Republicans see us as threats to their white supremacist agenda.”

    The “white-supremacist agenda” centered around ensuring that your vote counts and more minority babies are not killed…

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Let me make sure I understand this. White people feel threatened and therefore pass laws that will likely lead to more non-whites being born? Am I getting this right?

      • B.P.

        Well. Racist Donald Trump just endorsed Herschel Walker for Senate. White people are sneaky.

      • Gadfly

        The white supremacists are crafty and are playing the long game, just biding their time to take off their masks once they get a brown face of white supremacy elected by a diverse coalition of people who share their race-neutral views.

      • commodious spittoon

        Substitute “the Joooooooz” for “white supremacists,” and that puts you in the right frame of mind for these cretins.

    • Ownbestenemy

      ā€œOur very existence is a risk. The fact that we exist as an organization puts us at risk” Don’t lie. Your gravy train is at risk. Your federal tax dollars, Texas tax dollars, donors’ dollars are at risk. Be honest you fuck.

  10. Tundra

    Hi Riven!

    I hope you had a great week! It appears my productivity today mirrors yours.

    • DEG

      Productivity?

      /looks at what he got done

      Hmm

      On the other hand, I did find a bug my boss introduced.

  11. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Indeed, one study found that in dozens of states the average unemployed household could earn the equivalent of $25/hour on weekly benefits.’

    *grunts*

    Love knowing that some people make pretty much the same as I do to do nothing. And here I am getting very dirty, sweaty and risking life and limb doing things on ladders and roofs that would make OSHA freak out.

  12. Nephilium

    My last time hosting for a bit, but I’m still here today. So at 20:00 Eastern, I’ll be kicking off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Three day weekend celebration.

    To stay somewhat on topic, curious if anyone here had played Humankind and if they had thoughts on it. It looks intriguing, but with my backlog I’m currently leaning towards waiting for a sale. I’m also getting cautiously optimistic about Marvel’s Midnight Suns (no link to avoid moderation hell), which I may break down and buy at release.

    • DEG

      I might join the Zoom late. I have another Zoom starting in about ten minutes. I have some work that is not going to get done before that Zoom starts which I’ll have to finish after that Zoom. If it is not too late when I get that done, I’ll join the Glibs Zoom.

      • MikeS

        It’s like you’re Speed Buggy.

  13. Ownbestenemy

    How could the cartoons Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels be better than all of Disney’s money to make shitty movies?

    • Lackadaisical

      I feel like there is something syntactically wrong in your sentence, but yes, the animated Clone Wars series is awesome. Probably the best treatment of star wars ever. Yes Ever.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe money should have been in quotes. I meant that all their resources and that they squandered away probably the greatest money-making empire ever.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Commie’s gotta commie.

    ā€œI think itā€™s a different ball game now, a different strategy,ā€ de Blasio emphasized. ā€œInstead of assuming, as we have in the past ā€” for example, a travel ban was a very, very rare thing in the past. The few times Iā€™ve used that when we were expecting massive blizzards. But now, seeing what happened on Wednesday, a travel ban is the kind of thing I want to introduce into the equation early in each storm as a possibility, and then pull the trigger if I have to and literally tell people, ā€˜Off the streets, out of the subways, clear the way.’ā€

    • The Other Kevin

      A power hungry person found out how far he can push people, decides to keep pushing. Film at 11.

      • Homple

        “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

        …Frederick Douglass

    • B.P.

      Stay in basement to drown, plebe.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the worldā„¢

      Well, that didn’t take long.

      Alberta’s re-instating the province-wide mask mandate as of tomorrow.ā€‚Offering $100.00 gift cards to everyone who gets the vaxx.

      I’m now considering my options for civil disobedience.

      • Nephilium

        A ski mask that leaves just the mouth, nose, and eyes exposed?

      • Sean

        Something involving a bulldozer?

    • Rebel Scum

      But the left has assured us that men can get pregnant as well. And Biden is the best catholic evar despite not adhering to catholic doctrine.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Not to pick on you, Gadfly. Er, I think they can, indirectly…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Merde sorry why do I bother!

      • Gadfly

        Because commenting is fun!

        Never apologize for a mistake made on a Friday afternoon. It’s to be expected!

      • TARDis

        No worries, just do what you can do.

      • Gadfly

        And Biden is the best catholic evar despite not adhering to catholic doctrine.

        All the cool Catholics have discovered that they can, in fact, serve two masters. No problem.

    • Shpip

      Prog chick: If you don’t have a uterus, you can’t have an opinion on abortion.
      Me: Do you have an opinion about Donald Trump?
      Prog chick: I feel like he’s…
      Me: Hold it! If you’re not a billionaire real estate developer who’s been elected President, then you can’t have an opinion.
      Prog chick: !!??!!
      Me: Look up ‘Appeal to Authority Fallacy’ and ‘Identity Fallacy’ and get back to me

      She never got back to me.

      • Gadfly

        If you don’t have a gun, you can’t have an opinion about gun policy.
        If you’ve never been a soldier, you can’t have an opinion about war (or foreign policy in general, since war and the threat thereof is an inseparable part of this).
        If you don’t own a business, you can’t have an opinion about business regulations.

        In all honesty, I might accept the reasoning if it were equitably applied.

      • TARDis

        If you don’t have a penis, you can’t judge someone who studies CFNM documentaries.

      • Ghostpatzer
      • Loveconstitution1789

        Baby steps. Lets just hound people that have opinions about something but dont know why.

        I would even be fine with coming back to a discussion on a topic once the other person has time to review the topic and form a supported opinion.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Prog chick: If you donā€™t have a uterus, you canā€™t have an opinion on abortion.

        Fuck off, your genitals don’t give you a pass on murder, asshole.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They won’t do it. They have set down a path that leads only forward. They truly see it as a war at this point and if there are casualties on the road to victory, then they are glorious and just.

    • Chafed

      I love this sort of intramural fight. I have few good things to say about the FDA but kudos to them on this one. They appear to actually care about things like proper dosage and side effects. Let’s hope it leads somewhere… useful.

    • Ozymandias

      What no one will say is that it looks like the jab not only doesn’t confer long-term immunity, but may well make you more likely to get sick later.
      We are witnessing crimes against humanity, all covered up by American Pravda.
      In 1976, we shut down a mandatory immunization program when 25-35 people died and 400-500 got Guillain Barre. The VAERS data now has thousands of reported deaths and tens of thousands of other adverse effects, but… crickets.
      Pfizer owns the FDA. Hell, the last FDA chief is now on the board of Pfizer, but totally nothing to see here!!

      • Tundra

        Precisely what happened in the goddamn animal studies. Everything was rosy until the next wave.

        Fucking monsters.

  15. Count Potato

    “Hero shopper reveals how he attacked New Zealand knifeman with a pole as the fanatic shouted ‘Allah Allah’: ISIS supporter was let free to rampage as powerless cops watched him 24/7 waiting for him to attack

    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described S as an ‘ISIS-inspired known threat,’ adding that he was ‘under constant police surveillance’. Despite fears he was been planning a terror attack, courts previously ruled S could only be convicted of lesser charges of possessing ISIS propaganda. That resulted in a short jail term and meant police were forced to watch him upon release, knowing he was extremely dangerous and very likely to carry out an attack.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9955489/Hero-shopper-attacked-New-Zealand-knifeman-pole-battled-save-wounded.html

    “‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley faces up to FIVE YEARS in jail after he pleads guilty to one obstruction charge over Capitol riot: Attorney says he now disavows conspiracy theories”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9955999/QAnon-Shaman-Jacob-Chansley-pleads-guilty-one-felony-count-Capitol-riot.html

    The duality of man.

    • Rebel Scum

      That resulted in a short jail term and meant police were forced to watch him upon release, knowing he was extremely dangerous and very likely to carry out an attack.

      Good job.

      pleads guilty to one obstruction charge

      Bullshit charge is bullshit.

      he now disavows conspiracy theories

      He used to be fun. Soviet style “apology” incoming, I suppose.

  16. rhywun

    Hoo boy, I’m taking yet another required “discrimination” training. They’ve ginned it up with new stuff since the last one I had to take all of three or four months ago. Pronouns and chicks with big natural hair have been added. And I swear the instructor just said we have to “treat people with equity”. Buzzwords FTW!

    • Chafed

      My condolences. Remember, you can tell them anything they want to hear as long as your fingers are crossed.

      • rhywun

        Yup. I am good at telling them what they want to hear, especially from the comfort of home where nobody can hear me sputtering at the monitor.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the worldā„¢

      It’s times like these when I’m grateful for the little things, like being retired.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Sounds like they are leveraging new paradigms for best of breed equity solutions.

    • creech

      Ask instructor to define “equity.” I’ll bet their answer isn’t “everyone’s individual rights are to be protected equally.”

      • rhywun

        It’s canned video. Click “Next” a bunch of times, answer some obvious multiple-choice questions, done.

    • Lord Humungus

      The last time I had to attend “Diversity Theater” – I brought a book and read it with my head on the table and the book on my lap.

  17. Rebel Scum

    *shocked face*

    China has promised to keep its embassy in Kabul open and ā€œbeef upā€ relations, the Taliban have said, as Afghanistanā€™s new rulers worked on preparing their new government and winning international recognition.

    A spokesman for the Islamist militia, Suhail Shaheen, said on Friday a senior member of the Talibanā€™s political office in Qatar had been told by Chinaā€™s deputy foreign minister that Beijing also aimed to increase humanitarian assistance.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      If China can turn Afghanistan around, then maybe they deserve to keep it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        If China approaches it as we did and as Russia did..then they will fail. If they see it as a stepping stone and don’t care…they will succeed.

      • The Other Kevin

        They don’t have to turn anything around. They just need to pay off the Taliban to keep the locals out of their hair when they strip mine for all those metals they’re going to sell us for our “green” society.

      • Gadfly

        This. They’ve been doing this in several African countries for a while, with great success. Why should they care about the Taliban’s transgressions if these transgressions are not targeting Chinese citizens? That will be the line, and I think the Taliban will agree to terms.

  18. Ownbestenemy

    Alright, the abortion debate..I don’t tend to get in, but when a clinic is rushing to get as many girls in as possible…I don’t think I can be silent.

    From Whole Womanā€™s Health CEO @AmyHM
    : We have staff and doctors providing abortions in Texas – still at this hour – and they are all in to provide care until 11:59 tonight. Our waiting rooms are filled with patients and their loved ones. Right now.

    We have a sick society that needs love and care.

      • Gadfly

        Excellent movie reference.

    • B.P.

      You still have time to get pregnant so you can get an abortion!

    • invisible finger

      Thatā€™s faster than Dr Phibes, -er Fauci can consume their souls.

  19. Chafed

    Re Everyone deserves somebody to love, I guess. This guy should just cut to the chase and start doing porn. I don’t understand his kink but I’m betting there is a market for it.

    • rhywun

      Not buying that he even has a kink. Just a desire to be in the news.

  20. Ozymandias

    Greetings, Glibs. Man, am I fucking tired.
    Long week of day job as COO of a startup and “hobby” of fighting the vax mandate for military.
    Some tidbits I though that might interest you:
    1 – ~700K military members have NOT gotten the vax. Around 1.1MM have gotten at least one shot.
    2 – I got an email that said 27 Air Force pilots in one squadron resigned when ordered to take it. This is similar to what happened with anthrax. The reason is that for pilots, your future career as an airline pilot depends on being able to pass a Class 3 medical (or whatever it’s called now). I would also add that being a military pilot means being able to consume vast quantities of incredibly detailed info in short time spans. These folks are not fooled when they start digging. In fact, it only gets worse.
    3 – I got an email that 600 sailors on one ship refused the jab order by the skipper. So now they’re all expected at sea Article 15, which they can’t refuse while at sea. 600?? That’s a fucking mutiny waiting to happen.
    4 – Judge in CO denied emergency ex parte TRO – unsurprising really. Was always a longshot, but case goes forward. Air Force Academy Commandant backed down after reading motions and info that’s leaking out. No punishment for cadets who refuse.
    5 – The Navy is trying to compel a female officer who is 8.5 months pregnant to take vax. Insanity.
    6 – Finally – the vast majority of military folks reaching out to me against this are WOMEN. The men are sheep. My explanation? Mil women see life outside of the military; it’s not their whole identity, particularly since many of them are healthy and fit and want kids. I’m starting to dole out the deluge of calls and requests to my old MilJus colleagues who do CMs for a living. The Navy has created a consolidated disposition authority (CDA) to handle all refusal cases and courts because the jury needs alone could crush individual commands. 14 people who all demand court-martial (as an example) could shut down a unit.

    • Ownbestenemy

      God Bless you Ozy. What support can us on the outside help with?

      • Ozymandias

        I keep thinking about that OBE. I’ll let you know when I come up with something.

      • grrizzly

        Ozy, if you need some data analysis, say, VAERS numbers, I can help.

      • DEG

        Yes, please let us know. I’d like to help if there is an opportunity.

      • Tundra

        I don’t want to do any actual work, but if you need someone to torment the media, I’d be happy to!

      • Tundra

        Oh, and thanks for doing all this. You’re pretty cool for a crossfitter šŸ˜‰

    • The Other Kevin

      Seconded. You are doing important work. And at the very least, you are letting us know this isn’t just a handful of crazy whack job Trump supporters.

    • Ownbestenemy

      600 on one ship? Yeah. Let us see the captain administer those Art15s while not undermining whatever mission they are on.

      • TARDis

        Mission you say?
        “We had a failure rate of of 70% on the CRT training. We must do better. All personnel who failed will be required to watch “The View”, “Dear White People”, and anything recent with Alyssa Milano. Small focus groups will convene on board to read aloud from “White Fragility”. This is our mission!

      • B.P.

        *collides with container ship*

      • TARDis

        Bitch(es) set me up, man!

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the worldā„¢

        More like ” *collides with lighthouse* “.

    • Sean

      Rock on, Ozy!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Oz, you are doing the Lord’s work. I probably won’t be around to see the endgame, but I have kids who probably will. On their behalf, thank you.

    • westernsloper

      Fuck Ya! Smash them! What if Covid killed the US military machine industrial complex?

  21. Ownbestenemy

    RC Dean – you brought up not knowing how many are left in Afghanistan. The story about the school kids from California has been running for weeks.

    https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/08/23/sacramento-family-stuck-in-kabul/

    23rd of fucking August. But yea, they didn’t want to leave so we just cut the ties that bind and say bye!

  22. Count Potato

    Does anyone know of a good site that reviews TV that isn’t a front for Amazon or some big box store?

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the worldā„¢

      No.
      And I’ve been looking.ā€‚ā€‚:-/

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thinking some random youtuber might be your best bet. Written reviews? Probably none.

    • Count Potato

      Oh, I meant televisions, not TV shows, sorry left off an “‘s” there.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Make sure they review the remote, esp. if you like the sleep timer.

  23. TARDis

    ā€œIf you lose, however, you must post on your social media account that you lost to a dentist at Zen Family Dental in Massachusetts.ā€

    I would be happy to have my butt kicked by my dentist.

    • Hyperion

      Feed me Seymour?

    • B.P.

      Looks like that “white rage” that Gen. Milley is so concerned about.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’d be surprised it was without approval. 82d CG was on the ground at Kabul.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My ignorance…just what was on the ground did it…absent Washington’s policy

      • Gustave Lytton

        The same brainiacs that couldn’t see this coming and didn’t have a good evacuation plan wouldn’t have had a equipment destruction appendix to their non existent plan? No way!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Huh…I thought every contingency and this was all planned for was what was communicated towards us. The fact that the media brushes this all aside is enough to make heads explode.

  24. Gadfly

    ā€œMost recently, Ghost of Tsushima Directorā€™s Cut launched with a paid upgrade path from PS4 to PS5, and so will Death Stranding: Directorā€™s Cut when that launches this November.ā€

    Ghost of Tsushima was a great game.

    ā€œIf you lose, however, you must post on your social media account that you lost to a dentist at Zen Family Dental in Massachusetts.ā€

    LOL. I approve. But I would not accept the challenge, as I’m not good at Smash. After realizing this when playing with friends in college, my go to was to choose the most annoying characters and spam the most annoying attacks, hoping to win by attrition rather than skill.

    Everyone deserves somebody to love, I guess.

    Somebody, yes, but I draw the line at something. That guy needs therapy.

    • Fatty Bolger

      After realizing this when playing with friends in college, my go to was to choose the most annoying characters and spam the most annoying attacks

      Pikaaaaa! Pikaaaaa! Pikaaaaa!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think this would have been better three times over.

      • Gadfly

        I see you have either used or been afflicted with the same strategy. Pikachu and Ness were my primary character choices.

  25. Yusef drives a Kia

    Rain Delay! no Huck Finn for me, I can do rain all day but lightning? Not happening. Same forecast tommorow so I’ll have to wait til Sunday to launch,
    /all systems go!

    • pistoffnick

      Standing there alone
      The ship is waiting
      All systems are go…

      4…3…2…1
      Earth below us
      Drifting, falling
      Floating weightless
      Calling, calling home

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0A0XcWy88

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        The count goes on……

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nice, I think (not a pistolero). That is some questionable content, how long before Amazon shuts you down?

    • TARDis

      You and your ammo privilege.

      • Sean

        I’m still shooting 9mm from Obama’s first term.

        ?

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s like money – it doesn’t do much good stacked up in the basement…

      • Sean

        I do not have a basement. ?

      • DEG

        I am trying to build up a swimming vault of ammunition like Scrooge McDuck’s vault of gold coins.

  26. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Today is the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Justice

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nice. On Monday I shall celebrate this in place of the official holiday.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Ghost and I are the only Real Libertarians here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im a Fed which makes me ineligible to the club. Which…makes me more libertarian than you

    • MikeS

      Well that’s cool. Today is my wedding anniversary.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        And Mike. Mike is also a Real Libertarian

      • MikeS

        ????

      • DEG

        Happy Anniversary!

        And on the anniversary of IJ’s founding. That is auspicious.

      • MikeS

        Indeed. And thanks!

      • Tundra

        Happy anniversary brother. Give mama an inappropriate grope for me!

      • Mojeaux

        Grats!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Congrats!

  27. Hyperion

    Wokesters, whatup?

    • DEG

      That’s sad. I like Free Will.

      The first time I was there was after a funeral. My relatives and I wanted to get our minds off of what happened. Some of those relatives had planned ahead and had a change of clothes. I didn’t and was there in my shirt, tie, jacket. I ditched the jacket and tie after a beer or two.

      It was a good night.

      The place is a good place. I haven’t been there in quite a while.

      The Proper in Quakertown had only some water in the basement which they were able to take care of. They opened late the day after the storm.

    • Ownbestenemy

      *raised eyebrow* I am sure I have seen this before…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Apologies, I have a drug problem.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im just messin. I think it should be put out more than once per day.

      • MikeS

        That’s what we like most about you.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Insufficiency? šŸ˜‰

  28. grrizzly

    Tests confirm New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu had bleeding ulcer

    Tests confirmed Friday that a bleeding ulcer was the cause of New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununuā€™s flulike symptoms, his chief of staff said.

    Sununu was admitted to a hospital earlier in the day after having flulike symptoms since Wednesday. He had tested negative three times for COVID-19.

    ā€œTests have confirmed that a bleeding ulcer caused the symptoms the Governor has been experiencing this week,ā€ Chief of Staff Jayne Millerick said in a statement. ā€œAfter blood transfusion today, he is doing much better. He is extremely grateful to the staff at Portsmouth Hospital for their outstanding care and to everyone who donates blood. As a blood donor himself, he is happy he paid it forward and grateful to all who do the same.ā€

    • Ownbestenemy

      And how many ‘cases’ are like that? Oh the medical industry is just equating any fever or ‘flulike’ symptoms as COVID is a conspiracy? A pox on your house!

    • Mojeaux

      Huh. My bleeding ulcer gave me female-having-a-heart-attack symptoms. Nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath. The bleeding was the ulcer tell. The cardiac techs had me strapped to an EKG almost as soon as I walked in the door.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Gonna chalk that us to normal trypanophobia

      • The Hyperbole

        Don’t harsh the outrage, dude.

  29. TARDis

    Since this is technically a Riven nerd post, I have to ask if there were enough people for some Left4Dead action? Killing zombies with a team would do wonders for my stress.

    • Ownbestenemy

      When? I need to help with family business, take kid to airport but will be home around 7pm PST?

      • TARDis

        I have an early morning tomorrow so I don’t want to get gaming at 10PM. What is your Steam ID? I’ll send you a request. Has anyone else expressed interest?

      • Ownbestenemy

        my handle here

        Should be able to find others…I thought a couple did show interest last time you asked.

      • TARDis

        My ID consists of barley, hops, and yeast.

    • Lord Humungus

      I know I suggested it… but then I got distracted… by, you know, things.

  30. trshmnstr the terrible

    I’m a bit pessimistic on the election fraud stuff right now (not that it happened, but that anything will come of it), but I’m hearing rumors of video from GA showing hundreds of people dropping backpack loads of ballots to “an average of 24 dropboxes each”.

    I’ll obviously withhold judgment until the actual evidence is produced, but that would pretty much confirm my suspicions regarding one of the fraud vectors that I’ve heard rumblings about for over a decade. Now, if only the AZ fraud report would drop…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Same. There are no court cases (that I know of..) show the video to the world!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *does some math*

        Let’s say they overstated it and there are only 200 people, and they overstated the number of boxes and it was only 20 each, and that there were only 20 ballots per dropbox…. That would be 80,000 votes illegally harvested.

    • The Hyperbole

      It’s never going to drop, once it does the grift is over, who ends a perfectly good grift?

  31. Hyperion

    Look, we had to elect Biden. Don’t y’all feel so good that there are no more mean tweets? You sleeping so good?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Current events? Am I supposed to pay attention to that?

      I thought the deal was that I have a civic duty to vote, and that nice people vote Democrat.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Who’s We Kemosabe?

      • Hyperion

        Of course you are. Some of us just do not give a fuck about Constitutional law.

    • Gender Traitor

      You need to keep your eyes out for some classic Ohio Players albums (#HometownHeroes!) though maaaaybe not at the Salvation Army store…

      • Tundra

        Oh, yeah.

        Funky and fantastic!

      • MikeS

        No East Bound and Down. I am disappoint.

      • The Hyperbole

        That’s some solid trucker music.

      • MikeS

        It is. Girl on the Billboard might be my favorite of the bunch. Maybe Six Days on the Road.

      • The Hyperbole

        Those are the exact two I googled and listened to. Highway Junkie would be a good addition and Semi Crazy

    • Tundra

      Better wear a rubber, dude.

  32. hayeksplosives

    Ok peeps. Iā€™m in the work parking lot about it embark on the Friday afternoon 3 day weekend rush hour.

    Got Fastball playing on the radio and sunglasses on.

    If I donā€™t report in by midnight, send out a search party.

    • TARDis

      If you’re not home by 10, you’re grounded, young lady! Don’t use holiday traffic as your excuse.

      Akshually, I just took today off. Problem solved.

    • westernsloper

      Holy moses……OG – POOR estimated value over 3 grand.

  33. westernsloper

    Unemployment Benefits That Pay More than Work

    Ok, I am going to say something maybe controversial but who is the dumb ass in this situation. Those of us who keep working or the slack asses who got fired and get paid more for doing nothing. My goal is to be a slack ass and get free money.

    • rhywun

      And with Dr. Work demanding injections that goal can be real for much of America!

      • westernsloper

        Ya, me too.

    • kinnath

      The rational actor takes the free money. Maybe even work some job under the table for awhile.

      The dumbshits in this case are people giving out the free money.