“More!” the hat said. “Give him more!”
“He’s had enough!” the hair wailed, the tube of ivermectin paste clutched in his tendrils.
“My mouth tastes funny,” Donald said, President In-Exile of the United States of Real America.
“Rub it on his nipples,” the hat said. “Especially the big one.”
The hair, grumbling, rubbed the greenish paste on Donald’s magenta nipples as the man groaned in delight.
“I will have it,” the hair said, “I will have PRESIDENT CENTAUR for 2024!”
“Horse medicine won’t make him into a half-horse,” the hair said. “That doesn’t even make any sort of cryptozoological sense!”
“Quiet, you! Or I’ll have Leroy take another bite!” At the sound of his name, the giant alligator hissed and then snapped his jaws shut.
“I don’t need it,” Donald said. “I’ve beaten COVID dozens of times. I’ve taken all the vaccines! I made my own vaccine!” He shook a can of 7-up filled with palmetto bugs and aquarium water for emphasis.
“The ivermectin is just to keep you safe!’ the hat said.
“Look,” Donald said. “No one loves ivermectin more than me. No one! Look what it did for my son. Barron is over nine feet tall now. He’s yuge. He’s the start of the coming race. He’s finally big enough for me to love him.”
“That’s why you need to take more!” the hat screeched. He took a long gulping, choking drink of White Claw Mango and then barfed up a zipper.
“Dan-uld! Put ona damn shirt if yew’re gonna be makin’ videos!” Darlene said as she walked into the Oval Oval Office.
“No! Go away!” the hat said.
“Yes, Darlene,” Donald said “It was just a Tik-Tok.”
“Witch!” the hat hissed. “Shirtless is how he gets clicks!”
The hair lay frozen on the Oval Oval Office desk, the smooth Naugahyde of the cushioned surface of the folding table cool against his hairs.
Donald pulled on a filthy undershirt as Darlene opened the can of margarita she was carrying, drained it, belched, and laughed.
“I hate his Florida wife so much,” the hat whispered to the hair.
“Be quiet,” the hair hissed. “She threatened to make me into a merkin the last time she came home from the dog track all fucked up on bath salts.”
“Merkins are an urban myth,” Donald said, the ivermectin on his nipples bleeding through the fabric of his shirt.
Darlene cackled and scratched a scab off the side of her nose.
I’d like to thank you not at all for that mental image.
Glad I was already sitting down. Hoping my stomach will settle , otherwise I’ll be skipping lunch. Thanks, SF, you’re the best!
Seconded
Inquiring minds need to know though..is it the left or the right? Or a hidden third nipple?
Inquire all you like, but leave me out of it.
Why only 3?
He might have a row of 4 up each side.
I got strange looks here in the office over the choke/snort/gag noise I made.
“Hey Bob… What was that?”
“You… You wouldn’t understand.”
I was just think, ‘I’m drunk at 11am on Wednesday’ and I was sad. The I remembered! It’s 11am on a Wednesday! And I ran to my computer with the glee of a child on Christmas morning. I was not disappointed. The Hat and Hair return! How did they make it out of New Jersey?! Tune in to find out! And remember, drink your Ovaltine!
I pictured it like this
Now I want Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup.
That doesn’t even make any sort of cryptozoological sense!
And so begins the saga of STEED SMITH!
A centaur as the result of a week end with the Smith boys
It’s the mane attraction for Cryptid Night.
The Hat and The Mane?
*narrows gaze*
Wut?
I massaged er messaged you in the forums about the peppers.
My first forum message!
Responded.
It is a giant roach…2 inches or so.
https://typesofinsects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/palmetto-bug-800×500.jpg
very common here.
Also worth mentioning, they can fly.
Huh.
This is what I was picturing.
Oh no. They dont have waxed feet. They stomp around in shit and then wipe their feet off on your sandwich. They are giant nasty-ass roaches.
Nice alt text.
Lovecraftian couplet for the win. This is perhaps the most bizarre fiction you have written (that I know of).
That horse thingy just ain’t right.
I’m not sure if he got into the Adderall or forgot to take it for this episode.
*shrug*
Is it for Broneys, ya think? But, no, it ain’t right.
Nay, it is not.
O-oo-o-ohh Wibur!
Jar Jar Binks in drag is what I see,
Isn’t it a licensed Sarah Jessica Parker sex doll?
????
They’re hard to find. Everybody was champing at the bit to get one.
They marely got them in stock before they sold out.
High demand since you don’t have to worry about riding bareback.
Just whip it when you’re in the saddle.
We’re gonna ride this one into the ground.
There in no need to beat a dead Jessica.
How did The Hat get a zipper down its gullet?
Do I want to know?
I don’t.
He’s the start of the coming race. He’s finally big enough for me to love him.
I have to admit, I’m intrigued by the notion of a BT revenge epic. What I’ve read on the internet is that he’s high-IQ (and that’s not even coming from Donald Trump). He’s about 6’7″. All he needs to do is fil out and he’s dangerous.
He says his favorite food is caviar. Not making this up.
I thought that picture was Photoshopped. Barron could be the Gregor Clegane of the family.
BARRON SMITH WANT REVENGE
*cue godzilla shriek*
BARRON SMITH? Pine Barrens? Uh-oh, H&H just kicked it up a notch.
He is quite the Devil!
Just for fun, since the subject of roaches came up, mix white flour half-n-half with boric acid then add water until you get a pasty dough. roll it out into a sheet about 1/4″ thick. Use a pizza cutter to cut it into 1/2″X1/2″ squares. Let it dry overnight then toss them out under your sink, behind your fridge, in your window sills etc.
Within a month or two all roaches will disappear. They will keep roaches out of. your house for 20 years or so.
Know if it does anything for ants? We’re seeing the crazy ants here that don’t hurt anything (except electrical gear) but show up by the gazillions.
Permethrin. Dilute per instructions, spray around foundation. Don’t spray on cats or on anything the cats will irrationally lick.
Boric acid dissolves chitin. Roaches try to eat the flour but their mouth parts dissolve in the acid. They starve.
I dont. know about the ants….try it and see what happens. That might work.
Clove oil will keep ants out. Try putting some of that out.
I suspect it will work on ants — the ant baits I use Borax as the active ingredient, so that fits.
Borax works a treat on ants. Its the ingredient in some anti-ant products. Boric acid should also work.
Probably does. But if you want an easy solution, try the ant killing gel in a syringe dispenser. You just put a pea sized dot along the line where the ants are walking, and they swarm it. It kills the entire colony in a few days. I use it on ants that aren’t attracted to regular baits.
Hm. The More You Know! ?
Thanks, Edit Fairy! ?♀️
Fantastic series. This made my day.
What is it with Eurotards? I have been listening to Celtic music this morning. They are way over the top with the lights and visual flair. Just play the damned music and let it speak for itself.
LOL. That’s made for the American public broadcasting crowd. The kind who think some Chardonnay and some nice brie cheese from Trader Joes constitutes a raging party.
You’re watching Celtic Woman, aren’t you?
It’s the redheads, isn’t it?
Some of it was, yes.
Too much icing.
Palate cleanser (repost from early this morning, near the end of comments on DEG’s FF post): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1hR2g5Yjr4
Nice. Thank you.
I used this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jwGansp1E&list=RDMM&index=2
And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0qBgkaULU&list=RDMM&index=1
I think I like yours better.
You’re quite welcome! Glad you liked it. She’s just SO DAMN CUTE!!!
Shit. Now I kinda wish I’d had a kid. ‘Scuse me while I go lie down (alone) until the feeling passes.
“That’s why you need to take more!” the hat screeched. He took a long gulping, choking drink of White Claw Mango and then barfed up a zipper.
God damn you are good.
I made myself wait to read this until I finished a bunch of bullshit tasks.
Worth the wait. Thanks, SF!
It is the subtle details that make you puke a little in your mouth that make it all worth while.
*applause*
I kinda like Florida Trump better than presidential Trump.
Ever since the lawsuits, Miskatonic U. will admit anybody.
OT: As a follow on to the discussion about Tres’s network in the morning links, I’m putting together a “this is my home network” article to show what I’ve done and what I plan to do in the future.
Any technical minded people interested in adding on to the series with a whistlestop tour of your home network?
I’m technically minded, but I opted to outsource my parental control problems to Netgear. So I can add a recommendation, but that’s about it.
My network skills are about 20 years out of date. I set up my home LAN back in the early oughts when I ran the dial-up internet service. My server did the routing (including DHCP and DNS) along with being a file server.
I’ve dropped my domain so I’m no longer doing web, ftp or mail. The server (running Server 2003) is slowly dying so I’m preparing to switch my files to the local box.
First I need to get mine up to speed – built a new rig last week, and somehow screwed up the network configuration and it is refusing to serve DNS requests to Windows boxen. Maybe I can contribute a section on what not to do.
My goal (at least in my article) is to just do a basic look at what my concerns are, what I look for when buying equipment, and what I ended up with. I don’t have everything set up since I’m in a rental, so my article is less of “look, shiny!” and more of “look how easy it is to set up a network that isn’t controlled by the ISP.”
I could offer up something. There’s much I’d like to do with my home network but haven’t yet, however it is at least isolated from the ISP’s direct management.
I suck at networking. Just not one of my strong points. So my home LAN is pretty simple — wired everywhere I can, self-bought cable modem with self-bought router plugged into it that handles DHCP. Linux server as a file share. Officejet does network printing on its own, so one less thing to worry about. Mac mini to serve up Apple Home Sharing to Apple TVs. Not much else to it.
Have you tried Toastmasters? Yes I’m that computer illiterate.
For routers I have been prosumer to small office commercial for the past 15 years. The home level stuff was just junk.
Currently the router is a commercial system with dual ISPs, hot failover, 2 switches, IPv6 testbed, NAS, UPS, multi building links, etc.
I had to expand the system with working from home all of the time and the limits of the local DSL (3mbit). Used to have a single Juniper SRX.
One key item I tell people in the permanent work from home group is that this network is now your business network, you need a backup plan. You must test your backup plan.
In the previous times, the backup would be “go into the office”, but that isn’t available, so have the hotspot, or library, available, or yes, you may need to pay for 2 ISP links to do your work. Still cheaper than commuting.
I understood nearly all those words (up to w/e a Juniper is) but not necessarily in the order that you typed them.
Not technical at all, but I got one of those power line converters to hook up our PCs to a hardline rather than wifi. Mine is in a part of the Casa with barely any wifi signal, and when that worked I got one for Mrs. Dean’s as well.
They work quite well.
I first tried to use the TV cables that run into every bedroom, but it caused problems with our TV signal and even upstream onto the cables in the neighborhood. Since we’ve ditched satellite and cable TV, though, we could probably set things up using those cables instead of the power line converter. But the converter works, so it falls into the box of “Not broke, not fixing it”.
Ooh… Back in the dialup days, I used a similar thing that plugged into the electrical outlet and had a port for a phone cord; One close to the telephone and the other by the PC. I could log on to TallyNet (a free ISP provided by the Leon County Public Library) from the comfort of my bedroom (“You have to wait to make your call, I’m downloading a picture.”).
Powerline to ethernet is highly dependent on your house’s electrical build out. If it’s a newer house you are probably good, but be prepared for disappointment.
^^^ If your wiring is > 20 years or is a hot mess throughout the house, might want to find a different solution
I could start on what I’ve got in progress, but I need to get a new outlet in my coat closet to truly change it into a network closet.
I would have expected Trump in Exile to preside from the Ovaler Office.
Damn. That is funnier.
The question is, does being more oval make it less like a circle or more like a circle?
It has to do with amount of gold leaf involved.
On the presidential shitter?
+1 LBJ
Wouldn’t it be the Ovalest Office? The Ovalest Office ever, just tremendous, you’ll never see an ovaler office?
I love Wednesdays. The Hat & Hair are back better than ever!
Next up – the SF afternoon links girl!
Great, SF. Bravo.
I had some good chuckles in this one.
H&H is the best, everyone agrees, the best rug and cap evah.
Watts with this guy?
Biden: “By 2020 [we’re going to] make sure all of our electricity is zero emissions”
I guess we’d better get to it.
TINSTAAFL.
Stupid, stupid fuckers fell asleep during HS physics class.
Zero emissions energy is doable, but is usually cost prohibitive and/or in need of exotic materials or construction techniques. Thus, it’s idiotic to transition the entire society to zero emissions.
Geothermal is a decent way to get zero emissions energy, but not everywhere is well adapted for geothermal and it tends to be expensive.
Various solar methods get zero emissions energy, but the various methods either need exotic materials, toxic fluids, create an environmental nuisance, cost an arm and a leg, or a combination thereof.
Hell, taking a cue from nature, it’s possible to generate energy with net negative CO2. However, these loons will have to let me know when we figure out how to build synthetic chlorophyll and convert ATP to electric energy.
While electricity generation could possibly get there eventually someday way out there, agriculture and plastics are not zero emissions and probably never will be. well maybe plastics someday if we get bacteria to grow the stuff.
“Zero emissions” is a marketing slogan which assumes upfront emissions amortize out to zero. That is a fallacy, and in some cases an egregious one. “Time-shifted emissions” is more accurate.
The concept that most greenies won’t deal with is that . “Everything comes from somewhere and everything goes somewhere.” If you’re not taking those somewhere into account you’re not doing it right.
Zero emissions energy is doable
Is it? Including the energy to make the zero emissions stuff? Right now our solar panels are being made with coal-fired power plants in China.
There’s probably enough deployed solar capacity, even in China, to make solar panels with solar energy. But that’s going to be disingenuous for two reasons:
1. It’s just an accounting trick; the gross energy demand isn’t going to change, and to a first-order approximation, energy is fungible
2. Energy production is not the only source of emissions; refining of raw materials produces its own waste products
Looks like the ChiComs claim to have 130 gigawatts of solar installed. I doubt its that much, because they lie compulsively, but I was expecting practically none.
There is always an emission, per Suthenboy’s point. Even if it is heat. Lower emissions, or more efficient is the correct term. Zero emissions is a stupid term. You cannot produce pure energy by magic without some side product.
Look at this guy.
exotic materials, toxic fluids,
Those things are not zero emissions.
If he evidently has a flux capacitor, Mr. Fusion can’t be far behind.
I’m waiting for my Mr. Radar honestly…it would be an improvement to our current systems
Time Travel is a major component of the infrastructure spending bill.
Apparently Biden’s going to use the Stargate to go find a few ZPMs.
Violence is the answer.
Also, that dude couldn’t outrun that cop?
/facepalm
One of my favorite t-shirt slogans.
‘I know violence is not the answer. I got it wrong on purpose.’
I’ve noticed any number of times how often the people screeching “Violence never solved anything” are the first to demand government action about things they don’t like.
What do they think the government is doing? Having a friendly conversation with those who disagree with them over cocktails?
“If you don’t think violence is the answer, you’re not asking the right questions.”
For those who think “Violence never solved anything”, I have a question about how the Third Reich got solved.
“My mother said violence never solves anything.” “So?” Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. “I’m sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that.”
Starship Troopers. – Heinlein
Full version
I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea — a practice I shall always follow. Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”
This made me laugh.
Go back.
Warning heeded.
I suppose this is on topic. After a week of us both having sinus and allergy symptoms, Mrs. TOK developed a cough yesterday. To be safe we both went in for a Covid test, and we both came up positive. She has the cough, but apparently I’ve had it for over a week with no fever, cough, or any of the symptoms you hear about. I’m still in shock over this, I never thought Covid could have such mild symptoms. I suppose I’m lucky, in exchange for 10 days of sinus headaches I get immunity.
?
You’re dead and you don’t even know it yet.
Just like me.
And everyone else that had it and thinks they recovered.
On a serious note, I hope you both get well soon!
Congrats, you get to star, along with Lou Reed, in the next George Romero epic.
Glad everyone is OK.
Get well soon! I had some really mild symptoms a few weeks ago, but never checked to see if I had it. I’ve been thinking about doing one of those t-cell tests that Scruffy posted about a while ago.
Do it. I never would have gotten tested if my wife hadn’t developed a cough. Apparently just about any symptom can be a sign of Covid now. For us it was nothing like we’d seen in the news.
When I talked to my doctor’s office, I described pneumonia symptoms, because that’s what got me to call the doc.
Then they started asking me questions about Covid starting with, “Have you been around anyone that has Covid?”
Oh boy.
“I work in a hospital. What counts as being around anyone who has COVID?”
Good deal.
Although I want you to cast your mind back – way back – to a time when we FUCKING GOT SICK ONCE IN AWHILE! And nothing else happened.
I’m glad you both are doing ok. Pounding the quinine, zinc, D and C?
Haven’t really started on any of that. Planning on D and C for sure. I have an antibiotic on order because I do have a sinus infection. I’m supposedly at like day 10 of being sick so I’m really near the end of it.
If you go zinc and qunine, get the quinine pills. Tonic water has a pitifully small dose.
So you just make sure you drink a good half dozen G&T’s a day!?
See..that was what I was thinking
we FUCKING GOT SICK ONCE IN AWHILE!
Not for nothing, but the PCR test will return a positive for other infections as well…
Also, my son went to the ER with breathing issues; when they found out he was vaccinated they passed on testing him for the ‘vid and sent him home with antibiotics and a steroid.
I assume the compensation structures have changed if you’re vaccinated. The CDC probably doesn’t want to count breakthrough cases.
I thought they had released guidance on not testing mild cases for vaccinated peeps.
Who knows anymore? The “rules” change daily anyway, so it’s best to ignore them all anyway.
If you’re vaccinated, now is the time to say how much worse the symptoms would have been without the vaccine.
So about that. I’m not, but I’m experiencing symptoms I’d expect if I were vaccinated. Hmm.
But you’re around 50, right? And must be in a very good physical shape given your hockey games. I remember your article on riding handbikes. I’m not surprised by your experience.
Yes all of that is correct.
In that case, I’d say, ” thank the dog I’m not vaccinated. Those people seem to be getting much sicker than I did!
You still need to get the vaccine because otherwise you will still be considered one of the unclean. Just because you’re immune doesn’t mean that you can’t get it again. So be sure to get your booster shots as well. Nor does that mean you can’t get it and give it to other people when you don’t have symptoms. So wear your mask. Because, This is a totally not an engineered virus that behaves in ways that no virus has ever behaved before.
Also we’re all going to die.
https://news.yahoo.com/nipah-virus-why-more-deadly-185533487.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Like most people who get it, your symptoms were mild.
Or your tests are showing false positives (although I don’t know the odds of two tests showing a false positive at the same time . . . ).
Apropos of this, The Flu Has Returned to India.
Tell Mrs. Kevin to come on here to tell us your last words.
No need , they will be “fuck off slaver”.
Perfect.
I…wish…I had…only…told…more…slavers…to fuck off!
That seems to be the running mild symptoms I have been hearing about from people who have had COVID previously, though my sample size is not that inclusive. Sinus headaches, maybe a mild cough, no fever. Which I experienced not long ago, but again, no fever, I keep my fluid intake up and go about my day. Maybe also like db, get a t-cell test…
Why remove the likeness of your number one customer?
The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans as the new rulers continued to reimpose their austere vision on Afghanistan.
The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran, to the signing of the US-Taliban agreement towards peace and murder of a Japanese aid worker.
The Taliban takes “thou shalt have no other gods before me” rather seriously.
The George Floyd iconography in Kabul is just an example of cultural appropriation. It’s good they are removing it.
I like them more than Democrats.
I see the Dept of State has been hard at work bringing the most moronic American domestic politics to foreign countries.
They just scolded the Taliban for, get this, not having enough women in the government.
These are genuinely, profoundly, stupid people.
At the same time they’re asking the Taliban for help in getting people out of the country?
That’s some real high fallutin’ negotiatin’ they got going on there.
They’re so accustomed to having backchannels and compromat that they don’t know how to behave when dealing with someone who can’t easily be bribed or threatened.
kompromat*
I can’t imagine what those negotiations look like.
“You know those people in your country that you feel are collaborators and hate and want to kill? Yeah yeah, the ones on the list we gave you. Can you deliver them safely to us, please? We’ll… uh…. Give us a few minutes. We’ll come up with a quid pro quo that’s monumentally stupid and against our interests.”
The people who staff government agencies and NGOs are extremely parochial; it’s just that, being cosmopolitans, their parish is not defined by national or regional boundaries, but instead by a cross-national elite culture.
I’ve got an old contact in the Department. He is (or was) most assuredly not woke. I’d be curious as to how he’s faring.
Ah, looks like he’s in Nepal.
We will export our stupidity in the same manner we exported our ‘democracy’.
Re palmetto bugs. I’ve always assumed they were the cockroaches that decent people had. My FL MIL swore they never had roaches – they weren’t like that. Sure, they might have palmetto bugs, but they’re not the same.
Grew up in Florida, can confirm. They might get inside occasionally, but don’t typically infest your house like the nasty little ones can.
IIRC, the German cockroach, the wee ones ubiquitous here in the Northeast, lives and breeds indoors, while the Palmetto bug (American cockroach) lives and breeds out of doors and only come inside to eat.
Anyone put in a heat pump/hybrid water heater? My instincts say stay the fuck away from it but I’m being asked to consider one.
Follow your instincts unless you’re going for lowest energy consumption in an off-the-grid scenario.
Seems like they’d be well worth it if you live in a hot area. Plus your electric utility might help pay for it.
Yeah, that’s part of the thinking. $600 from the utility (*maybe, they only rebate BPA approved water heaters and the one I’m looking at has a different suffix on model number so may not be accepted), $150 fed credit, and 3-4 year payback on the difference.
I’m averse to them because they’re relatively complicated and more prone to failure.
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/heat-pump-water-heaters/
And we’re out. Water heater in a unconditioned, mostly uninsulated garage. Does drop below 40F and occasionally above 90F. Also doesn’t have a nearby drain for condensate.
Thanks guys!
WRT to Zero Emissions: Our (Jugsy’s) doge, The Dozer, is spoiled in his old age. Each morning when I get home, he gets a can of wet food mixed with the dry, since dogs are stupid enough to think its some exotic treat. Protip- Purina One made with duck & chicken may cause your 95 lb. boxer-doge to fart all over the house like a proper Holstein cow.
And that is a very good thing! We have confirmation from the scientific community.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/08/the-disgusting-reason-you-should-never-hold-in-farts/
Yeah, but the volume of it is tiny compared to your breath so no one will notice. Dilution is the solution to the pollution.
Plus, *never* trust a fart.
I cant remember off the top of my head what the LEL for methane is, but Im getting concerned about the pilot light on the water heater as a point of ignition. It even worse than me after some White Castles and Milwaukee’s Diet Beast.
It could be a shart.
Or a shartnado?
10/10 would laugh-barf again
Always trust a shart?
Boxers exist to fart. No special dietary reasons needed. It is what they are…
Word.
A little bit deeper dive on ACLU’s Vaccine Mandates will Set You Free policy stance
So it is okay for the Government to inflict that bodily harm?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck oooooooooooooooff
The Venn Diagram of my body and somebody else’s body is generally two separate non-overlapping circles except during copulation.
It’s amazing how every right always has an unstated but inarguable loophole that the establishment and its apologists can drive a Mack truck through whenever they feel like. Awfully convenient, that.
It’s also amazing that my rights always stop before I get to other people’s noses, but their rights seem to go straight through my head.
Rights + Power = Absolute
Rights − Power = Not Absolute
My body
is not your
externality
But could it be for $20?
Same as downtown
Dammit!
Same as Downtown.
Looks like I got all crossed up with Swiss.
It’s impolite to cross streams . . . of thought.
I mean let’s apply it to…penises. The threat of rape culture justifies the government to lop off your little tiddly-wink to ensure you do not inflict harm on others. Boobs..they are distracting and have caused much harm to teenage drivers and married men for ages…get rid of them too! Fingers pull triggers…justifiable to remove them.
My guess is they are getting massive amounts of donations from the boards of the Pharma industry…just my guess.
I think pharma has learned the rules of propaganda and infiltration quite well.
they are getting massive amounts of donations from the boards of the Pharma industry
Perhaps. But, it wouldn’t be necessary. I don’t know if anyone recalls, but just after the whole mess in Charlottesville, the ACLU leadership sent out a message that they’d support civil liberties, as long as doing so wasn’t divorced from the “bigger picture”. That bigger picture, of course, was the sensibilities of their progressive funding base. Standing against vax mandates might risk them being associated with icky right-wingers.
Perhaps. But, it wouldn’t be necessary.
Codependence is the name of the game
Did Ron Bailey write that?
He certainly could have.
OK, ACLU, either rights and liberties mean something, or they don’t.
I think they just answered that question.
But these rights are not absolute.
So bodily autonomy is a privilege?
Let me just thumb through their stance on abortion.
Excellent!