452 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Morning. I’m betting they cancel the cancellation of cancel culture.

    • Count Potato

      I’m still upset over Firefly.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Word.

      • Tres Cool

        + Jayne’s hat

      • Not Adahn

        Meh. Joss’s ideas are extremely clever but get played out really quickly. He’s best at short self-contained works like Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Serenity was a gem, but should have had a sequel.

      • SDF-7

        It was a leaf on the wind…

      • Drake

        I was pissed when they cancelled Terra Nova. Now La Brea is just a shittier version.

    • SDF-7

      As long as HR and the C*O suite are part of the cult as far as I can tell, it won’t matter much what the rest of us think. Especially since they’re trying so hard to make small businesses fail.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    “Of the of the 130,468 deaths registered as official COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic, only 3,783 are directly attributable to the virus alone.” And therein lies the truth. What a damn racket.

    Stagflation, here we come.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Yep. You don’t die of the flu either — you usually die because it’s the straw that broke the camel’s back (and in my FiL’s case, you die of pneumonia, “the old person’s friend”).

      COVID’s a filter.

  3. Shpip

    He also forecasted that Republicans could flip 60 seats next year, on par with Republicans’ massive 63-seat gain in the 2010 Tea Party wave midterm elections.

    “If you’re a Democrat and President Biden won your seat by 16 points, you’re in a competitive race next year. You are no longer safe,” McCarthy said.

    A bit hyperbolic, but I’ll allow it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      My guesstimation is the Democrats are banking on creating a situation so volatile that someone pops off. They will then simultaneously crack down and put the media to work 24/7 raging about the internal threat to democracy.

      That appears to be all they have at the moment. I cannot think of another way for them to politically maneuver out of the clusterfuck they created outside of instigating a war with China.

      Therefore, you can bet that the demands will become even more outlandish. The mandates pushed, the media more aggressive, the tax proposals even more insane…

      Hold on to your asses. This ride is going to get bumpy.

    • Rat on a train

      I don’t see a historic gain like that. The Ds had a lot more marginal seats in 2010 than they do in 2022. They had ~80 seat advantage in 2010 after winning seats in 2008. In 2022 they will have less than a 10 seat advantage after losing in 2020.

      • SDF-7

        Plus in California, they’ve got the ballot harvesting down. And I expect a lot of folks have fled the state over the last ten years. So there are some formerly R seats that aren’t coming back — nothing seems to shake the faith these people have in big government.

      • juris imprudent

        The R seats in CA are in places the Dems just won’t win. There aren’t that many, but they are there.

      • SDF-7

        There was one in my district. And he won on Election Night in 2018. Then got chipped down over the next 3 days of absentee ballot counting until he magically lost — like a lot of the rest of the state to give Pelosi her majority. First run of harvesting — and I don’t think they’re ever going to stop here.

      • hayeksplosives

        Why should they stop? They get what they want and they will never be held to account for it, particularly by their own consciences.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    I fucked that up. I blame the website. Shoulda been this quote:

    Worker productivity slumped by much more than expected in the third quarter, data from the Department of Labor showed Thursday.

    Stagflation, here we come.

    • SDF-7

      Maybe from all the federal contractor employees having to spend a good chunk of their time worrying and planning about losing their jobs… I know it has distracted the hell out of me the past month or so.

      • rhywun

        Let’s expand that nationwide and see if we can slump harder.

      • Drake

        Along with key people retiring or being fired.

        Totally unexpected.

      • Ted S.

        Government employee productivity is zero to begin with. It can’t really go down by 5%.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        There is such a thing as negative productivity, unfortunately.

  5. Rebel Scum

    Durham is far from being done.

    *yawn*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The big three (ABC, CBS, NBC) have given exactly this many minutes of coverage to the charges:

      0

      • SDF-7

        Of course — it would harsh their narrative. WRECKER! OUTCAST! UNCLEAN!

      • Not Adahn

        WDATPDIM?

      • SDF-7

        What Did A Threaded Process Import from Memory?

    • Drake

      Because… with Trump gone, the Clintonistas involved in the scam are no longer useful. It’s a way for the Biden team to purge some of team Clintons.

      • Homple

        “It’s a way for the Biden team to purge some of team Clintons.”

        True, except there is no Biden team; it’s an Obama team.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Ehh… Obama is a lame duck, dead in the water. And that is really the issue for the Donks; there is no one running the ship.

        Obama is DOA, Biden is senile, San Fran Nan has less and less influence every day as the Quad is rising, the Quad isn’t at a point of power yet, Schumer doesn’t control the senate, Hilary can’t get anyone elected to save her life, and so on. All of that leads to inconsistent messaging and power struggles, like the one Cuomo got pegged by.

        It’s a power vacuum on the left. They were able to harness a general fear of the ‘Vid, but outside of that they really have nothing consistent enough to drive messaging, drive votes.

  6. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Banjos.

    Haven’t had time to check out the links. We’re still fixing a database server (We did take a break because people were falling asleep). I may have already finished out my hours for this pay period.

    • Rat on a train

      First test of your backup strategy?

      • UnCivilServant

        Assumes facts not in evidence.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Biden and Pelosi have compared the 46th president’s Build Back Better agenda to President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society programs.

    Stalin had a noteworthy legacy, too. Think big, President Ballgag.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      5 Year Plans are old and busted, 10 Year Budget Windows are the new hotness.

      • Swiss Servator

        It is twice as good, because it is twice as many years!!!!!

  8. Rebel Scum

    The indictment of Igor Danchenko, the primary source for the discredited Steele dossier, provides damning evidence alleging the Russian analyst repeatedly lied to the FBI. But it’s only part of a larger portrait emerging in federal court records chronicling how the U.S. government was bamboozled into investigating Donald Trump for Russia collusion by a circle of players connected to Hillary Clinton.

    This has been known for years. *yawn*

    • Rat on a train

      U.S. government was bamboozled into justified investigating Donald Trump

    • rhywun

      OFFS. The FBI knew it was all lies but peddled it anyway. The government wasn’t “bamboozled”; the major players knew what was going on the whole time.

      • SDF-7

        The covering of the government derriere shall continue, Comrade!

      • hayeksplosives

        No reasonableprosecutor…

      • The Last American Hero

        The ounspoken but understood previous sentence was “This woman is the odds on favorite to be the next president. No reasonable prosecutor that wants to have a career would….”

    • juris imprudent

      This is tying pieces back to the Clinton campaign that weren’t known before. I’m telling you, Blumenthal has to be in there somewhere.

  9. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh

  10. l0b0t

    HOLY MACKEREL! I don’t really know what to say. I’m typing through tears. The outpouring of Glibs generosity has been positively astounding. Seriously, I’m shaken to the core and have a new appreciation for life and humanity. I can’t thank all of you enough. So many names that I can’t match up with handles, but in a way, that humanizes it more and makes it more meaningful. Thank you, thank you, thank you all. I love you people.

    • Tres Cool

      you’re part of a really big fam, cuh’
      If you end up in SW Ohio, Im sure I can get you with Kroger. Its a union shop, after all.

      • Tres Cool

        Since we’re both creatures of the night, we could get fucked up and take turns shitting in GT’s flowerbed.
        Then blame it on giant, feral, cats.

      • Gender Traitor

        Hey now! None of that!

      • robc

        If is funny, in SC Harris Teeter tried to pretend to not be Kroger. Every now and again, you would see a Kroger branded product on the shelf, but it was rare.
        Here in CO, King Sooper doesn’t even pretend, there is Kroger branded merch everywhere.

    • waffles

      Oh this makes me happy. I hope you land on your feet and get going on something better real soon.

    • Nephilium

      Entropy is once again refuted.

      This is my family.

      • Tres Cool

        No love for Niles Rodgers?

    • Sean

      I’ve got employment for you in PA, if’n you’re interested.

      But I think it should be easy for you find employment anywhere you look.

      • Swiss Servator

        OMWC, WebDom and SP get first crack at him!

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Um, phrasing?

      • slumbrew

        Looking forward to the forthcoming sitcom, ‘Glib’s Cafe & Grill’.

        Starring

        L0bot, as the irascible grill cook with a heart of gold!
        Creepy uncle OMWC, who is secretly a sweetheart!
        Sassy SP, who takes no gruff!

      • Festus

        I’d rent that!

      • Fourscore

        I’m picturing that and laughing already. OMWC is secretly feeding the urchins out the back door, SP wondering why the food bills are so high, Lobot can’t get a break from the grill, only place that allows smoking is behind the swinging doors.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure helping out a fellow Glib won’t actually get a guy moved up a circle in hell, but it is worth a try.

      This place is my virtual Eagles/Elks club. All the best to you guys.

      • Swiss Servator

        What? No love for the Moose or the Turners?!

      • Not Adahn

        Well, we’re not Rotarians. Too many coders and lawyers.

      • Tonio

        Oddfellows.

      • Festus

        ^^^ nice pull!

      • Tres Cool

        The last place I lived had an I.O.O.F. lodge. I kinda wanted to join.
        I also kinda want to see what the Druids are up to.

      • tripacer

        Here’s a great documentary about the Druids

    • Swiss Servator

      Our bunch here continues to make me smile.

      Let us know about specific things you might need help with, too.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Whoops! This kept slipping my mind (an easy thing to do these days, sadly . . . ).

      Just donated. Give ‘er, d00d.

      • Fourscore

        If you need a respite and in MN got a quiet place for you to stay. Just don’t wait too long though. The calendar is not our friend. Good to hear things will be a little better, Iobot, all the Glibs are good folks and vice versa.

    • Festus

      We love you in a chaste way, I0b0t. You needed a hand and there it was. I hope you swim away from the morass. Take up that offer from the old man. Flirt with some blue-haired harpies. Ya might turn one (or two). Stranger things have happened in the kitchen.

      • Fourscore

        You’ve been watching the Japanese channel, haven’t you, Festus?

      • Festus

        No, I spent a few years behind the grill. I know what happens back there. It’s like Peyton Place!

    • KSuellington

      You’ve been underselling yourself lol. Best of luck on the next chapter.

    • Animal

      This community is one of the few reasons I still have any faith in mankind. And therefore if a Glib needs help and I can help, I will.

      The fact that we have proved that a voluntary community can help someone down on their luck without the gubmint being involved is just a fringe benefit.

    • DEG

      🙂

      I hope things get better for you soon.

    • Mojeaux

      You are one of the kindest, most interesting people I’ve ever met and certainly the most well read amongst us Glibs (maybe all put together), and we all know you’ve been struggling for the last 3 years. It was time for us to do something to help you, and this is the only way we can.

    • CPRM

      HOLY MACKEREL!

      Watch your language! This is a fucking family friendly site!

    • EvilSheldon

      Hey dude, I don’t have so many friends (even internet friends) that I can let them go around being miserable!

      I hope things work out well for you.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Who will save us?

    But make no mistake about it, democracy overall is on the ropes in America. It’s the Republican Party under the likes of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who are primarily to blame — not to mention zealots like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Green (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), among many others.

    Let’s not forget either that even after the carnage of Jan. 6, 147 Republicans voted to overturn the election with no real evidence of fraud. This was itself a fraud on the voters — every one of us, regardless of party affiliation — and if that lineup of politicians stays in power, we will no doubt see more of it.

    ——-

    What Youngkin’s success suggests, then, is that if Republicans are on course to take over American government anyway, perhaps they can pledge to put their power to good use now that they know they can win elections fairly, and without Trump commandeering total control. If this evokes skepticism, it should, is it would require a marked and deliberate Republican shift away from lies, hate and electoral manipulation and back toward meaningful policy debate and a modicum of integrity. What Virginians perhaps said yesterday — to both parties — is that it’s what the voters really want.

    Hate, fear, divisiveness, electoral chicanery! Those crazy Republicans are destroying this country.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah, nothing says “meaningful policy debate and a modicum of integrity” like “All my opponents are lunatic racists! They have to find people who agree with me and agree to lose graciously again while we call them Nazis!” Wolf! Wooooollllllfffffff!

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

    • juris imprudent

      If good Republicans will just pass everything progressives want, then harmony shall rule the land.

    • Tres Cool

      “…not to mention zealots like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Green (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), among many others.”

      You know who else were zealots ?

      (I really like that for the creative use of “I only have eyes for you”.

    • Rebel Scum

      now that they know they can win elections fairly

      See NJ. And I’d wager that the Dem problem in VA was simply insufficient fortification.

  12. Rebel Scum

    U.S. Labor Productivity Crashes 5%, Worst Decline in 40 Years

    The cause is a mystery.

    • l0b0t

      From my limited experience with wargames in the military, you’re supposed to lose to the OPFOR; that’s the whole point of training, to get better.

      • Rat on a train

        I recall doing major exercises like JRTC. Over the course of the exercise the OPFOR got more powerful until they rolled over us. It was a rare major exercise that I wasn’t killed.

      • l0b0t

        We did the very first combined light infantry/mech infantry rotation at NTC Ft. Irwin. We got our asses absolutely handed to us by their shockingly effective OPFOR. I also got to field test a portable radar system and broke the ever-lovin’ shit out of it; the Army did not adopt TDAAR (sorry Raytheon; ya gotta make shit soldier proof.)

      • Rat on a train

        ya gotta make shit soldier proof
        I can’t recall how many CUCV rear windows we shattered. Frameless window meet subzero weather.

      • Swiss Servator

        I got CS gassed at 0200 by OPFOR there…Rangers. Man, we got hammered.

      • EvilSheldon

        A buddy of mine in college was in OPFOR, and he had some stories. One of them involved getting in trouble for stenciling officer’s rank insignia onto the stock of his rifle, as ‘kill markers.’

    • PutridMeat

      Harumph. Way to harsh my joke.

      No matter, I’m sure mis-attributed pronouns were part of the exercise somewhere.

  13. Rebel Scum

    President Joe Biden, having failed twice to convince House Democrats to back his legislative agenda, resorted Thursday to personally calling lawmakers to beg them to vote for the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act.,

    “C’mon, man. It costs zero dollars to destroy – uh – uh – you know the thing.”

  14. Tres Cool

    Madison Foglio has a weird face, yet I find her strangely attractive.
    Would.

    • Tres Cool

      Its like a weird Marsha Brady/Lady Gaga mashup.

      /considers another beer

      • Not Adahn

        I’m not sure Gaga actually has a face of her own. I think she just picks one out for effect. Maybe like those GoT assassins.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont have a problem with that.
        She had me with her meat dress.
        And she’s a hell of a piano player, unlike that hack Amy Lee. (still would Amy, too)

      • Not Adahn

        I am not educated in couture as an art, but I’d believe she’s particularly good at it.

      • hayeksplosives

        I am curious to see her in the movie about the Gucci family. The previews look good.

    • Ted S.

      She must be awfully fat.

      • Tres Cool

        Exceptions have, and will, be made.
        Variety and all that.

      • Festus

        Wow. She does nothing for my nethers. They remain un-stirred.

  15. Rebel Scum

    A Daily Caller reporter who recorded video in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the night Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot three people testified on Thursday that Joseph Rosenbaum chased and lunged at the teenager before he fired his gun.

    But he was just an innocent protester, according to CNN.

  16. Rat on a train

    Republicans have a big problem

    the party is wholly subservient to the man who started his term in office with his party in control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, and then led Republicans in a reverse trifecta, losing the White House, the House and the Senate.
    Any other politician would have been summarily, if politely, discarded by his party.

    I recall Obama campaigning for McAwful. Shouldn’t he be discarded? History forever starts fresh.

    • SDF-7

      Because if Republicans should take political advice from anyone, it is CNN. They know how to drive popularity and ratings, after all…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And they definitely have the GOP’s interests at heart.

      • Rat on a train

        Well, they do need someone to hang around to take the blame for all problems. See California.

    • rhywun

      Can we discard Joe when he “leads” his party off a cliff next year?

    • Rebel Scum

      Narrative > Facts.

    • kbolino

      The party is as beholden to Trump as he is to it, which is to say barely at most. Everybody’s trying to turn back the clock to business as usual but not enough people are falling for it.

  17. waffles

    Worst since 1981, nice nice nice.

    I had two job interviews this week. One public one private sector both for civil/structural engineering. I don’t think I’m cut out for public sector. Seems like a lot of following rules and preventing people from getting things done. The private job is cool though. Pay is almost the same, but the private sector job seems like a much more motivated environment. Recently I decided I might just be into that.

    • R.J.

      Good choice.

      • R.J.

        Perfect link. And so true! It’s hard to believe how many government employees believe they are doing important work- then they come to the private sector and realize what they had previously done was meaningless.

      • hayeksplosives

        Sigh. I am only two weeks into my “government employ” (although strictly speaking, my employer is a contractor, an LLC) and you guys are already trying to crush my spirits.

        In seriousness though, I like to think I’ve climbed above the “idiot line” , much like the tree line on a mountain, above which you have to possess a set of technical skills and True Belief(TM) in the mission to operate. This is an area that realistically can be headed up only by the federal government.

        My small cohort of fellow techies are genuinely motivated. We certainly aren’t working 1000ft underground for the glamor.

      • waffles

        I am now imagining you at a Yucca Mountain type facility somewhere in the Nevada desert working away in a James Bond villain style control room.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh c’mon, she said she’s working for OUR govt. No way it would have Bond villain style.

      • juris imprudent

        Holy hell, you commute from Pahrump? Or are you on the daily flight?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        AREA 51?!?

        Oh, this just keeps getting better.

      • hayeksplosives

        Juris is right. I don’t hunk my office has seen a coat of fresh paint in decades.

        Now the labs, on the other hand, are a wonderland of stainless steel (and other shiny metal), bright LEDs, glass, and crystal.

      • hayeksplosives

        Thusly typo: “I don’t think” not “I don’t hunk”.

        And yes I commute from Pahrump.

      • SDF-7

        Hopefully not too many LEDs — otherwise it sounds like they let JJ Abrams design the place. (To quote the Star Trek HISHE: “Who designs a starship bridge with lights shining in your face… from EVERY ANGLE?”)

      • SDF-7

        Commute, they told her… Pahrump pahrump pum….

        And your husband is probably glad you don’t hunk. 😉

      • hayeksplosives

        Nah, the LEDs are useful level, not “pizzazz level.”

        The juxtaposition of irregular tunnels carved out for miles underground (all painted white, but very rough and undulating walls and ceilings) against the sleek, straight steel pieces and neat electronics is kind of trippy.

        I’m talking about existing systems with that description. The project I’m on is in its early days so no hardware yet; we are preparing for it. Nice to be in on it from the beginning (almost).

        So I commute either to NNSS or to North Las Vegas every day, with some work-at-home. Fortunately I like the drive, and Elon is my copilot.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        We certainly aren’t working 1000ft underground for the glamor.

        You’ve got an underground lair?

        Coooooooooooool.

      • SDF-7

        I thought we weren’t doing Yucca Mountain? 😉

      • hayeksplosives

        I’m more of a Yucca Flats gal…

      • Swiss Servator

        They moved the Greys there, from Area 51.

      • juris imprudent

        Ah, I was thinking 51 on the other side of the mountains.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Town of Mercury right? Not that it exists.

      • hayeksplosives

        There are plenty of mountain ranges out there. I usually am in th Yucca Flats, west of Area 51, East of Yucca Mountain.

        Mercury is the main entrance to the Nevada National Security Site, where you’d get your badge if you’re a visitor, etc. (They don’t take casual visitors so don’t book those tickets yet). Mercury also has some administrative buildings, a cafe, some “dorm” style housing if sleep is needed, med clinic, classrooms. Mercury shows up on most navigation services. Not so much for the rest of the joint.

      • slumbrew

        (although strictly speaking, my employer is a contractor, an LLC)

        Black Mesa, gotcha. Say hi to Barney Calhoun for us.

    • Tres Cool

      On the other hand, the private firm may likely bid on gov’t contracts. You can have both.

    • DEG

      Go for the private sector job.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    You’re just not hitting it hard enough

    Democrats’ frustration with the White House is starting to bubble over after months of low approval ratings, legislative inertia and the disastrous showing for the party in Tuesday’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey.

    Officials say that President Joe Biden and his administration failed to effectively message or aggressively muscle its economic agenda through Congress and that, in the process, they allowed the party to grow more fractious.

    Faiz Shakir, a senior political adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said lawmakers have taken advantage of Biden’s reluctance to make demands in negotiations over his agenda. The president, he said, needed to start playing more of a leadership role.

    “We need less talk and a lot more action,” Shakir said. “It’s important for the president to be seen as trying desperately to get to ‘yes.’ Even if other people already are concerned, wishy washy, not sure – the president needs to be forceful.”

    If only there were some way to galvanize the American people and unite them behind the Democratic Socialist agenda. Maybe a fire in a prominent public building. Show them how close we are to the political Abyss.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Faiz Shakir says that now because he thinks his faction have control of Biden’s puppet strings. If the moderates were running Biden-bot, he wouldn’t be calling for the senile old coot to “lead”.

      The problem with the ratfuckers in Congress is they didn’t get their spendapalooza passed before the voters had a chance to rebuke them. The spongers in Congress now realize that their phony baloney jobs might be in jeopardy. Most of Congress agrees on one thing – incumbancy uber alles!.

      Of course, if the committed proggies were honest, they’d realize that is exactly why nothing did get passed. Because too many incumbents realized that those bills were ultra stupid. But when the crazies were in the office, they nodded and said ‘um…. yeah’ just to get them to leave.

    • SDF-7

      That’s a bold strategy, Cannon…

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      I like Scott Adams’ idea: give each illegal family a Hunter Biden painting (easily worth $450,000 USD, right?!?). Win-win.

      • SDF-7

        Nice!

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’d rather have one of Hunter’s carpets.

      • UnCivilServant

        Big parmesean cheese fan?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I like it. I know it grates on a lot of people

    • UnCivilServant

      Their compensation should be a one way flight to their countries of origin.

  19. Pope Jimbo

    We really should have made the Turkey the national bird like Ben Franklin suggested. Eagles suck at everything.

    I was promised a news story about eagles fighting. To me 98% of it looks like eagles cuddling after some snu-snu. At the very end there is some angry flopping about, but it ain’t ever going to beat poker on espn when it comes to ratings.

    • waffles

      Raptors in general are kind of dim and autistic. Corvids are where its at. I think Turkeys get a bad rap because they are such awkward fliers. They are really interesting birds too.

      • hayeksplosives

        Raptor brains are smaller than their eyeballs and are generally there only to process those eyeball skillz.

        Corvids really are where it’s at. They are remarkably good at teaching each other things and at abstract thinking. They can look at a puzzle for a few minutes without touching it and then hop over and solve it in one go. Very companionable. I had a pair of ravens that nested in the palm tree outside my office window in my newly abandoned job. The ravens are one of the few things I miss about it.

      • SDF-7

        So… the shadow of those ravens shall stretch across your office floor nevermore?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?

      • waffles

        Awesome. Ravens would often fly around me when skiing in the Tahoe region. They seem genuinely curious about skiers and will follow them down runs. I always enjoyed skiing on a snowy day and seeing a raven hanging around.

    • Fourscore

      Good call, Jimbo, they will lock up in flight and spiral down but always manage to “pull out” before they hit the ground.

  20. Count Potato

    “A new Rasmussen poll sponsored by The National Pulse has found that seventy-two percent (72 percent) of people who responded to a telephone and online survey believe “cancel culture” is out of control. Respondents also stated that free speech should be protected against censorship.”

    28% of people need to be cancelled.

  21. Nephilium

    Well wish me luck all. For some reason, the client thinks I need to be on site for a power loss test… instead of using an agent.

    So time to pack everything up, mask up, and drive for an hour for what should be about 30-45 minutes of testing, then drive back home.

    /verifies security badge is expired, looks around for bag to pack up laptop in…

    • Tres Cool

      Better take a 6-pack for the trip home.

    • hayeksplosives

      I hope you get to charge time for the commute.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

  22. Rebel Scum
    • Rebel Scum

      Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions.

      I wonder what is different now then a year ago…

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Is that true about requiring SSNs for vaxes? If so, what if you’re undocumented?

      • Rat on a train

        Free vax and bag of money?

      • ignoreLander

        Is that true about requiring SSNs for vaxes? If so, what if you’re undocumented?

        I have 99% ruled out every getting the jab, but to this point I’ve not said “never”. But I swear on all that’s holy, if ANYONE thinks I’m forking over an SSN for that jab, it puts me at about a 160% “not a chance in hell”.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ISTR a phony but plausible SSN didn’t work while giving blood 20 years ago.

      • db

        It is actually legally forbidden to use the SSN as an identifier outside of the SSA. Federal agencies can ask for it, but they must honor refusals to give it, and create a unique identifier for those who decline to give their SSNs.

    • robodruid

      how odd, i wonder what’s causing this?

  23. Toxteth O'Grady

    @Limey, ‘appy Guy Fawkes Day, if you’re around.

    • Not Adahn

      That’s the holiday where the whole family gathers around the telly, watches V for Vendetta and eats jellied eels between singing hymns to NHS, right?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Heh. Fireworks mostly, sounds like.

      • Michael Malaise

        V for Vendetta was such a crap movie. Pretty overrated.

  24. hayeksplosives

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10169007/New-COVID-19-pill-cut-hospital-death-risk-90.html

    Pfizer says its new COVID pill cuts risk of hospitalization and death by up to 90%

    Pfizer said it will ask the FDA and international regulators to authorize its pill as soon as possible, after independent experts recommended halting the company´s study based on the strength of its results.

    What could possibly go wrong? I’d like to see a study comparing this pill to ivermectin, vitamin D, and quinine.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Ah, yes. ”Pfizermectin.” It’s probably a protease inhibitor, too.  ?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        protease inhibitor

        You mean a wet spot on your pants in a strip club?

      • EvilSheldon

        Boo. Boo, I say.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So if it works so well, why do we need vaccine mandates?

    • Not Adahn

      The oral medicine is called Paxlovid.

      They’re… literally… the pax… Ican’teven.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Pax vobiscum!

      • Sean

        heh

    • Rebel Scum

      Pfizer says its new COVID pill cuts risk of hospitalization and death by up to 90%

      Except for all the jabbed people that are now in hospitals.

    • ignoreLander

      Everything was fine in energy production a year ago…

      Oh hey, it’s the same lying cunte who in that same conference lied and said firing truck drivers will have no effect on the supply chain. Lying cunte gonna lie, be cunte.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      All is wellllll!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Thanks, Hoov. 😉

    • Festus

      Sure, everything will be out in the sun after I’ve already been dosed. Cocksukahs. Fuck.

  25. Festus

    That music choice… I love you Banjos but you frighten, attract and yet repel me. Am I doing this right?

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Always read down before you post, BEAM

      Pfizermectin” it is!

      • Count Potato

        Or I should have read up.

      • Not Adahn

        Nope, it’s “the Pax.” For reals.

      • UnCivilServant

        Assume I’ve missed the reference from a combination of culture illiteracy and sleep deprivation.

    • Festus

      Lovely. I just got the P-vax yesterday. I’m as strong as bull with regard to virii but what have they done to us? Guess those magic beans weren’t so magical after all. Live and learn.

      • SDF-7

        That’s a big part of why I’m dragging my decision out as long as I can. The more time passes, the more the chance of people waking up, a lawsuit getting through… *something*.

    • Rebel Scum

      Pfizermectin. It’s like Ivermectin but ten times as expensive.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Of course, if the committed proggies were honest, they’d realize that is exactly why nothing did get passed. Because too many incumbents realized that those bills were ultra stupid. But when the crazies were in the office, they nodded and said ‘um…. yeah’ just to get them to leave.

    The “progressive” True Believers’ power and usefulness are limited.

    A Kansas Democrat sees he world a little differently than a champagne socialist like Gulag Barbie. One of these days, somebody might be able to wise her up.

    AOC is no less driven by a lust for political stardom than Kyrsten Sinema.

    • Festus

      AOC in Sinema’s hooker boots? The neck-beards would eat that up like the left-over candy at their creepy front door come November 1st!

      • juris imprudent

        Why not AOC and Sinema in a lesbian hate fuck?

      • Festus

        *wipes off neck-beard*

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        !

  27. Rebel Scum

    *shocked face*

    The Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97 per cent after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID.

    Italian newspaper Il Tempo reports that the Institute has revised downward the number of people who have died from COVID rather than with COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000.

    “Yes, you read that right. Turns out 97.1% of deaths hitherto attributed to Covid were not due directly to Covid,” writes Toby Young.

    Of the of the 130,468 deaths registered as official COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic, only 3,783 are directly attributable to the virus alone.

    To relate to the US: “We are treating every death WITH covid as a death OF covid.” – Dr. Bitch Birx

    • Festus

      So it turns out that if you get old , you die someday. Feature that?

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Duh. It’s paint, d00d. Kids are probably huffing it.

      Benjamin Moore FTW!

    • SDF-7

      I assume you huff it?

      • SDF-7

        Damn… too slow! Congrats, BEAM.

      • Festus

        My Brother and his friends did that when they were 13 or so. Why? I don’t know.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        To be fair, the only reason I’m moving fast this AM is ’cause the Bed Pig (otherwise known as my pup) managed to maneuver herself into pushing me out of my own bed before 6 AM.

        Jeez.

      • Festus

        This is why we lock the pets out except for nights like Halloween and New Year’s. Fireworks are baaaaad JuJu.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Thundershirt?

      • juris imprudent

        Tried one of those for our dog that gets absolutely frantic – didn’t help.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Spoonful of beer?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Half kidding there. Canid-suitable benzodiazepine?

      • juris imprudent

        He’s most happy if he pulls the comforter off our bed and wraps up in it.

      • Count Potato

        It’s a pill, but doesn’t say what’s in it.

      • hayeksplosives

        Who would do such irresponsible reporting? Oh yeah. Merck, Pfizer…

    • juris imprudent

      Sure, California SCHOOL OFFICIALS are bound to be most informed about this. WTF, is 4Chan writing for the Daily Fail these days?

    • Tres Cool

      He’s still pullin’ wool.

    • Festus

      Shoulda stayed in school… and kept working out at the Dojo.

    • Michael Malaise

      He’s still a fit mf-er who looks great for his age. And rich. And smart, too.

    • juris imprudent

      Did he switch that from subscriber to public?

  28. Count Potato

    “A throng of climate protesters swarmed Sen. Joe Manchin’s car Thursday morning in an effort to confront him about his opposition to President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion dollar social spending plan.

    The environmental activists followed Manchin from his $700,000 houseboat on the Potomac River in Washington DC to a parking garage where he keeps his $80,000 Maserati Levante as they chanted ‘pass climate change bills,’ ‘we want to live!’ and ‘fight for us!’

    Video shared on social media shows the group in the garage surrounding the Maserati as Manchin honks his horn.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10165413/Manchin-tells-Democratic-colleagues-ought-recognize-far-left.html

    Blocking someone’s car isn’t speech.

    • Festus

      How does a Senator afford a Maserati and a house boat on the Potomac. Just askin’

      • SDF-7

        Insider trading and slush funds, purely at a guess.

      • Festus

        “found money”

      • juris imprudent

        Because there’s nothing worth buying in WV?

      • slumbrew

        Manchin founded the coal brokerage Enersystems in 1988,[18] and helped run it until he became a full-time politician.[19] When he was elected West Virginia secretary of state in 2000, he gave control of Enersystems to his son Joseph. In Manchin’s financial disclosure for 2020, he reported that his non-public shares of Enersystems were worth between $1 million and $5 million and that between 2011 and 2020 he was paid $5,211,154 in dividend income from them.[20][21] In 2020 he received over $500,000 in dividends.[22] Enersystems is 71% of Manchin’s investment income and 30% of his net worth.[23]

        (WP)

        I don’t begrudge a politician who made their nut in the private sector from spending that cash.

        If it makes you feel better, that Maserati is almost certainly a money pit that spends way too much time in the shop. Because “Italian design but, also, Italian engineering”.

    • Gustave Lytton

      ? “My Maserati hit 185 [protestors],
      I crushed ’em all and now I don’t drive,
      I’ve got Capitol Police protection,
      In case I’m attacked”

      • Sensei

        Nice!

  29. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    May dog have mercy on my soul, as I am about to embark on a journey to hell called “American Airlines”

    • Tres Cool

      Good luck. We’re all counting on you.

    • robodruid

      may the odds be in your favor

  30. Drake

    The full video of Vaccine Injury Hearing that Ron Johnson led on 11/1 that the media totally blacked-out. Starts at 30 minutes.

    • Rebel Scum

      Questioning elections vaccines is white-supreme domestic terrorism. It is known.

    • Ozymandias

      One of my expert witnesses testified, I believe.

    • Ownbestenemy

      First 20 minutes and hearing that lady talk and just using all her strength not to break down. This is on in the background while I work for the bastard that is forcing it upon me and others.

  31. Rebel Scum

    Do you know what comedy needs? Fewer laughs.

    Dan Aykroyd has spoken out in support of cancel culture when it’s appropriate.

    The “Ghostbusters” star, 69, said hurtful comedy should be called out for its “hurtfulness.”

    “There is enough range in humor where you don’t have to go scatological and you don’t have to go pulling any divisive cards to get a laugh,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview.

    “There is so much in the world to comment on that is outside the realm of offensiveness. As a writer, you can go to other areas and have successful creative endeavors. Scatological humor is fun. It’s easy laughs. But there is more intelligent writing that can happen if you stay away from the offensive material that should be rightly canceled for its hurtfulness,” he continued.

    Get bent.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There is enough range in humor where you don’t have to go scatological

      This is the guy who came up with Dr. Detroit.

      • Count Potato

        Also wore “blackface” in Trading Places.

      • juris imprudent

        “Jane you ignorant slut”

    • Festus

      He’s earned his nut. Dan Aykroyd stopped being funny when he got fat and happy. About 1985 or so.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Yeah, I read this as another example of “I got mine.”

    • Red Pill Matt

      Dan, you ignorant slut.

    • db

      I’m pretty surprised about that. Aykroyd has a reputation of being kind of on the right, at least from his reported gun-collecting proclivities.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I thought he was a big believer in UFOs, going back to the Carson era. Less crazy than Randy Quaid.

  32. juris imprudent

    Haha – counties that accepted Zuck’s grant money it sounds like. Yeah, that’s working real well. But now without Trump, the scrutiny is way more intense.

    • SDF-7

      GAH! Dude… SF is Wed… don’t mess with our minds on a Friday with that kind of imagery…

    • Festus

      National Review is the worst. They may as well carry The Root on a sub-head. Neo-con asshoes. The magazine of the Bushes and Obamas and Clintons.

    • wdalasio

      How much is she “making a fool” of him? All he’s got to say is “No”. I’d expect something like this from a progressive source, but Conservatism Inc. should at least make an effort to have the appearance of not being shills for the left. Whatever you think of Manchin, he holds pretty much all the cards here. He isn’t up for re-election for another three years and there’s not really a host of Democrats who can replace him in West Virginia. And the Democrats labeling the reconciliation bill a “must-do” puts them in the position that they really don’t have much option beyond giving him whatever he wants. Joe Manchin can walk away from a reconciliation deal unscathed. At this point, both Pelosi and Biden have staked so much on the bill that not passing it pretty much ends their hold on power.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    The Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97 per cent after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID.

    Muh existential threat!

  34. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I lit up Kaine, Warner, and Luria last night with complaints about the DOL’s threat to expand mandates to small businesses. Here’s Warner’s response:

    Thank you for contacting me regarding required COVID-19 precautions for the American workforce.

    On July 14, 2021, I was proud to reintroduce the Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act, named after a Virginia federal worker who passed away from COVID-19 complications.  This bill would require each federal agency to establish and publish COVID-19 workplace protections.  As we continue to fight the deadly pandemic, we must place the health and safety of federal employees at the forefront, while continuing government operations and providing vital resources to the public.

    On September 9, 2021, President Biden signed two executive orders in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.  Specifically, these executive orders require that all federal government employees and contractors follow adequate COVID-19 safety protocols and be vaccinated for COVID-19, except in limited circumstances. Additionally, President Biden announced that the Department of Labor will develop an emergency rule requiring that all employers with more than 100 employees ensure that their workers are fully vaccinated or comply with weekly COVID-19 testing.  To support these efforts, workers will be provided paid time off to get vaccinated.  For more information, please visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan.

    COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective and I’m glad to know that the President is using every tool at his disposal to boost vaccination rates and save lives. If you are interested in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, please visit https://vaccinate.virginia.gov or call (877) 829-4682.

    I appreciate hearing your views, and hope that you will contact me in the future with issues that are important to you.  

    Sincerely,
    MARK R. WARNER
    United States Senator

    • Drake

      Was it nice to be lied to directly by a Senator?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I particularly enjoyed this part:

        If you are interested in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, please visit…

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Nice question avoision.

    • rhywun

      Dear Mark Warner:

      I will not comply.

      Yours etc.

    • SDF-7

      How to signal you’re an auto-reply bot and no one read your concerns without even trying…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Warner is an old-school kleptocrat. He just doesn’t care what you think.

        Kaine is a lying shit-weasel of the first order.

    • juris imprudent

      Shut up and do as you’re told.

    • Rebel Scum

      Nice canned response.

      If you are interested in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

      I’m not. Fuck off.

    • Tonio

      “Fuck you, peasant.”

      • Festus

        I gender as “Pleasant”. My pronouns are “Nice” and “Tight” you hater!

  35. The Late P Brooks

    I appreciate hearing your views, and hope that you will contact me in the future with issues that are important to you.  

    Much sincere. Great personal.

  36. The Other Kevin

    “The poll also found that seventy-five percent (75 percent) of respondents believed that protecting free speech is more important than protecting people from speech that is offensive.”

    This is really depressing. I had no idea there was so much racism in our country.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    From Rebel Scum’s Taibbi link:

    “The GOP ran a master class on race-based identity politics,” wrote CNN’s Bakari Sellers. “The return of the Lee Atwater playbook. Pretty grim,” is how former Harry Reid chief of staff Adam Jentleson put it. “Hats off to the depraved cynicism and villainy and race baiting. It worked in Virginia,” seethed Wajahat Ali of The Daily Beast. Van Jones last night called Youngkin the “Delta variant of Trumpism.”

    Just the facts, Ma’am.

    • juris imprudent

      Derp runs deep in the shallow end of the gene pool.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    And yes I commute from Pahrump.

    And by “commute” you mean “teleport via alien technology”.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      D00d, ixnay on the lienay echnologytay.

    • SDF-7

      Oh crap… Hayek has joined the Institute? Preston Garvey isn’t going to like that….

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Well, Biden’s got lots of company — the wheels are coming off our Justin Trudeau economy too . . . maybe they’ll finally have something to talk about.

      Let’s go, Justin.

    • Fourscore

      I was in the local Walmart on Monday afternoon. It looked like tornado alley, after the blow. Empty shelves, carts full of merchandise around, waiting to be restocked, shopping carts full of misplaced merchandise, the service counter with no employees, only 2-3 cash registers open. Appeared to be fewer employees on the floor. I’m not sure the cause, people don’t want to work, employees un motivated, higher employee costs resulting in fewer employees, lower caliber of employees? Any/all of the above?

      It also could have been the result of a busy week end and just not time to clean up the disarray but in any case the customers were there and looked like the typical gang, including us.

      • Festus

        Hasn’t happened here yet but mind you, I don’t shop.

    • rhywun

      Last month, nearly 200,000 people dropped out of the job market.

      Wait till millions are forced out of the job market in January.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Feature, not a bug.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Those aren’t people. They’re unvaxxed cockroaches.

        /TMITE in 2 months.

  39. juris imprudent

    So clicking thru the ZH link, I found this…

    Stop Press 2: We trawled through the various websites of the Italian National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Statistics to try to corroborate this piece from an Italian newspaper, and it appears to be based on this report (in English) published on or before October 20th. The author of the piece is effectively stating his opinion that only those who died of Covid without comorbidities (2.9%) should be counted as a Covid death, and then extrapolates from there to suggest that the ‘real’ Covid death toll over the period in question was only 3,783. This is all contrary to the report itself and to the NIH’s detailed guidance (in Italian) on how to classify Covid deaths. It thus seems as though the article severely misrepresents the position of the NIH, but a lot seems to have been lost in translation and this is really just an opinion piece where the author is poking fun at the NIH while trying to make a point about the risks of Covid.

    • Mustang

      Every piece of news is a lie or omits important details these days. Everyoje should be skeptical, especially if it supports their point of view. This is why having principles is so important.

      • Festus

        I’m gonna steal that and call it “Every-Joe”!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        ^^^

        TMITE – the (corporate) media is the enemy
        SMITE/SMIAS – social media is the enemy/ social media is a sewer
        CMIAP – conservative media is a psyop

      • PutridMeat

        I wuv you man, but be careful. Going to far down the path of everybody is lying, misleading, working an angle can be very unhealthy. SMIAS. But you can pull information out ofit . TMITE, but you can pull information out of it. Recognizing their motivations and incentives can tell what lens to interpret their take through. But getting into the rabbit hole of everything is a psyop and part of greater plan of an enemy can be toxic to you. You need something to be able to root yourself in reality. Seems largely like you have that, but we have to be careful casting everyone as the external enemy. Even when, by all appearances, they seem to be working hard to convince us of that!

      • Drake

        Believing lies can be very unhealthy too.

        Never thought I’d get to this level of suspicion / cynicism / realism.

      • PutridMeat

        Believing lies can be very unhealthy too.

        100 percent. That’s the last thing I would advocate. “Tell the truth. Or at least don’t lie” – JBP. But we should also recognize that not everyone saying stupid shit on SMIAS is lying. They’re wrong. Same with the TMITE, though there it’s much more driven by the business model and ideology and is much less forgivable. As much as possible, deal with individuals, accord them the benefit of the doubt and always take the high road. Don’t roll over, don’t accept a lie to avoid conflict. But avoid the morass of sinking into a world where everything is a conspiracy aligned against you. I’m not accusing Trshy
        of that at all. But the drive to classify everything at ”The Enemy”; I’m not sure that’s good for us. But maybe realism will require that – just because you’re paranoid doesn’t meant they aren’t out to get you – just be careful. I don’t know if it’s possible to stay psychologically healthy in a world where everyone around you is indeed “the enemy” and knowingly plotting against all that is good and righteous or at least is acting in a way consistent with that, but I aim to try.

      • Mojeaux

        ^^^This. I went down the ZH rabbit hole in 2008 and lived in fear for about a year or two, stoking it to downright terror, till I cut it off and said que sera sera. Bad things happen and are a-comin’, but I’ve got bigger things to worry about.

      • waffles

        To be fair 2008 was the year ZH was right.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Twas only being half serious. I wanted to lightly make the point that the conservative media is just as susceptible to the same low-character tactics as social media and corporate media.

        You’re correct about needing to be rooted in reality. That’s massively important.

        I’ll add two other related factors. Everything needs to be approached in perspective, and belief should only extend as far as can be verified. The best way to engage with reality is to live life. None of this other shit truly matters. Sure, it impacts us increasingly, but the day to day drama is just sport for political nerds.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Threat to Democracy.

    In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday evening, Ciattarelli noted he and governor Phil Murphy are only separated by a single percent in a race that still has to count early and provisional ballots, arguing that nobody should be declaring victory or conceding the election until all legal votes are counted. The process could take about a week or two.

    Currently, Governor Murphy and I are separated by about 1% after 2.4 million ballots counted. There are still tens of thousands of vote by mail and provisional ballots yet to be counted. And so, the governor‘s victory speech last night was premature. No one should be declaring victory or conceding the election until every legal vote is counted.

    Here is where we stand. First, we’re going to allow the 21 counties to continue with the process of counting every legal vote by mail and provisional ballot. That could take another week or two and we’ve got compliance people watching over that. If necessary, any decision on recounting or audit will come at the very end of the counting process, not before.

    • juris imprudent

      Democrats of course will scream that the results are conclusive. They are nothing if not consistent.

    • creech

      The problem is that mail in ballots that were counted already lean about 2 to 1 in favor of Murphy (according to local news sources). So, while a valiant effort, Ciattarelli is going to lose this race.

    • Drake

      It’s the old trick of trying to get people to look in the wrong place. Essex County was an obvious mess, so that’s where people are looking. Meanwhile Passaic magically added 42k Murphy votes at 2 am, hours after they had reported 100% of the results.

      • Sensei

        Funny how the machines weren’t working when my wife voted.

    • Michael Malaise

      It was nice of the GOPe to really give a push to Ciattarelli.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why are they claiming a true human tail contains no bone or cartilege? I would expect bone or at least certiledge to be a prerequisite for a true tail Else it’s just an oversized skin tag.

      • Tres Cool

        As someone that’s broken a TAILbone aka coccyx, I can confirm that they do exist.
        In other disturbing news, once while bangin the babymama from behind, I noticed an X scar at the top of her ass-crack.
        Post-coitus, I asked her and she said, “oh, my Devil’s tail? Where it was cut off?”

        The universe sent me so many signs, and I didnt pay attention….

      • Mojeaux

        I have not broken mine, but it was badly bruised in an embarrassing incident (no carelessness on my part) when I was in the 8th grade, and I can empathize.

        That shit HURTS LIKE HELL.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Doesn’t look like it to me. That thing is not in line with the spine at all.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        nubbin?

    • Festus

      “Bat-Boy Lives”!

  41. Brawndo

    I’m not feeling terribly optimistic that a bunch of Dems might be retiring. It means they’re more likely to pass reckless legislation they wouldn’t otherwise if they had to worry about reelection. See Obamacare.

    • Festus

      They will be replaced by AOC clones.

  42. Rebel Scum

    We have a solution to the Jewish carbon emitter problem.

    “We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams and using artificial intelligence,” Gore outlined. “All that information is combined, visible light, infrared, all of the other information that is brought in, and we can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.”

    “And next year we’ll have it down to the level of every single power plant, refinery, every large ship, every plane, every waste dump, and we’ll have the identities of the people who are responsible for each of those greenhouse gas emission streams, and if investors or governments, or civil society activists want to hold them responsible, they will have the information upon which to base their action and holding them responsible,” he added.

    • Tres Cool

      ManBearPig has spoken !

      • Festus

        I never said a fucking word!

    • kbolino

      I’m sure the PRC and India are going to jump at whatever Al Gore wants.

    • SDF-7

      Translation: ManBearPig will tell the mobs who to SMASH!

    • juris imprudent

      ManBearPig annoyed to have bright light focused on his emissions. No, but wait, I bought indulgences!!!

  43. hayeksplosives

    Am I correct in the belief that the truck driver guy Durr from New Jersey defeated the state senate President there?

    • Tres Cool

      I think the dems found 360M mail-in ballots (cause the USPS was slow) in a storage locker and he didn’t.

    • creech

      So far, he is well ahead. Of course, there are several mail bags full of ballots that must have fallen off the USPS truck and the goodfellas of the Dem party should be finding them soon.

      • hayeksplosives

        A bunch of news orgs, including New York Times and other “respected” lefty rags have called it for Durr in the past 12 hours.

      • Festus

        Yeah, Joe the Plumber won. Whoo-hoo!

  44. Rat on a train

    Construction On The Silver Line Extension Is Complete, Project Will Soon Be Turned Over To Metro

    Construction on the Silver Line extension from Wiehle-Reston to Ashburn is complete, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which is in charge of the project. The project is years behind its original estimated completion date of 2016.

    Don’t complain. You finished before California’s magic choo choo.

    A separate construction project for a new train yard at Dulles is also nearing substantial completion but MWAA provided no timeline for that project, which will also need to open before Metro begins service.

    Still time for some last minute graft.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ? Pardon me, boy* / Is that the California choo-choo? (No, no)

      *xir or whatever

  45. The Late P Brooks

    From Rebel Scum’s Stephen Moore link:

    Why invest when the politicians in Washington are threatening to tax away your earnings in the name of paying your “fair share?” Businesses that make profits are now demonized as enemies of the people in this new liberal anti-growth crusade. They keep forgetting that without employers, there are no jobs.

    The income redistributionists who seem to be driving the Democratic Party agenda will soon learn that their pixie dust economic doctrine called modern monetary theory, which posits that Congress can spend and borrow ad infinitum, is a giant hoax. When the political class begins to plunder company profits indiscriminately in the name of “fairness,” the profits and the businesses start to disappear.

    That’s just crazy talk. “Employers” exist for the sole purpose of handing out paychecks. All that other stuff about design and manufacturing and satisfying market demand is just frippery and window dressing.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      We’re seeing the consequences of the “chump effect”. Why would I go invest time and effort, blood sweat and tears into building a career when Big Brother has shown the propensity to pull the rug out from under me, and my company is glad to participate?

      Its a great excuse for me to find a much easier, much lower paying job and focus my efforts on off-the-books income/barter and reducing my family’s consumption by increasing our self-sufficiency.

  46. Rebel Scum

    Seems legit.

    The Federal Election Commission has ruled foreign donors can finance U.S. referendum campaigns, opening the door to foreign spending on fights over high-profile policy issues, Axios has learned.

    Why it matters: Foreign nationals are barred from donating to U.S. political candidates or committees. But the FEC’s decision — allowing them to support ballot committees — provides another avenue for foreigners to directly influence U.S. voters and domestic policy.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wow

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Man, fuck that shit.

    • hayeksplosives

      WHAT?!! Why does the reasoning about no foreign money on candidates not apply to policy initiatives too??

      • juris imprudent

        If I were to guess, I’d say it is because an initiative can’t have a personal motivation therefore it isn’t susceptible to corruption.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That would be a laughable assertion.

        So you’re probably right.

    • kbolino

      Somebody needs to kick the simulator, I think it’s glitching.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I wonder which countries would fund support/opposition of which referendums? Because I’m doubting this really will be used by private foreign individuals, even rich ones.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Pfizer says its new COVID pill cuts risk of hospitalization and death by up to 90%

    Is it an antidote for the vaccine?

    • hayeksplosives

      Sadly, that’s exactly what I was thinking.

  48. Mojeaux

    Meanwhile, at Chez Mojeaux, life goes on mundanely. I love mundane. Mundane is underrated.

    I’m marinating chicken in a tequila-lime concoction* to be grilled later. I may make spaghetti tonight if the beef thaws quickly enough. Meanwhile, I’m putting the finishing touches on the kitchen in order to settle in fully. Sadly, my dining room table leg cracked and we need to get it fixed, but we need our truck for that— Oh, THERE’S the drama I was not missing.

    I am on a Steely Dan kick right now. Hear that, NoDak?

    *Me to the grocery store liquor guy: “Hey, do you have airplane bottles here?”

    “Yep. What do you need?”

    “Tequila.”

    “What kind? We have 3.” *Shows me an amber one and 2 clear ones.*

    “The orange one. I guess?”

    “The … orange… one. Okay then.”

    What can I say? I’m a tequila connoisseur.

    • Tres Cool

      Best Steely Dan.
      The piano makes the whole song. Fight me.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m certainly not going to dispute it.

        Aja is the most perfect album ever made ever.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont know if a broad enough brush can be built for you to paint that with.
        Its like saying that KC BBQ > SC BBQ. Or that Donato’s pizza > Cassano’s.
        My ribs have been called “bomb dot com” and my greens are “off da chain”. But I dont really care for either.

        I wish I was distanced enough from society to be Michael Douglas here.

      • Mojeaux

        Late at night when I’m supposed to be working and it’s cold outside and warm inside and I have hot chocolate, I can build, hold, and paint with that big of a brush.

      • Tres Cool

        Late at night, when people are sleeping, and you’re cozy with your hot coco, bunny slippers, and old, faded, terrycloth robe. I’m working, too.
        Bales of kraft paper (cardboard) from all over SW Ohio are coming to be processed so that Kroger can make a public statement about “how proud we are to recycle”. And the (un-sorted) plastics! Which is a total waste of time, but makes good PR.
        Late at night, while you’re dreaming up cods, cuntes, and sliding out of your chair- Im there.
        You need me on that wall. You want me on that wall.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        As if court were ever that dramatic IRL.

      • Mojeaux

        “Sometimes late when things are real / And people share the gift of gab between themselves … “

      • Festus

        I don’t understand why you require tequila. I could visit and drink it up because I have no faith.

    • juris imprudent

      I cooked up 12+ quarts of spaghetti sauce yesterday. I like to make a big batch and freeze it. We did have some of it last night over spaghetti squash, with garlic bread. Delish.

      • Mojeaux

        I cook a stock pot full (don’t know how many quarts), but my 16yo XY scarfs it down in a day or two. Every dish is expensive when he’s eating it.

      • Festus

        Spaghetti squash is no bueno. Judi’s been trying to sell me on it for years. Me no likey! Yuck. Too watery.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah…she needs to take it to a paper towel and draw out some of that water or roast it.

      • Festus

        She tries and tries but since the surgery, nothing tastes right even if I can taste it at all.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Awe, Im sorry. Behind sight, taste is the other sense I would hate to lose. I can deal with deafness, hell, I would get to not hear the stupid in the world.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Seemed to have contributed to Michael Hutchence’s decline, anosmia. But probably secondary to the TBI.

      • juris imprudent

        Guess it goes on the list with cilantro (and pineapple on pizza).

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Blanco v. añejo?

      Hope no acquaintances spotted you. Or is that Baptists?

      • Mojeaux

        If I had met anyone, my bemused expression would give me away.

      • Tres Cool

        “Jews don’t recognize Jesus, Protestants don’t recognize the Pope, and Baptists don’t recognize one another in the liquor store.”

      • Festus

        Baptists aren’t allowed to have sex because it may lead to dancing?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Bingo!

      • Mojeaux

        What you did there, it was seen.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Er, purely accidental, if you mean me.

      • db

        +1 Basket of Cheers

    • Sensei

      It’s almost like you don’t drink…

    • KSuellington

      I’m sure if you’re a Steely Dan fan you know Fagen’s solo album, The Nightfly. If not, you should check it out. It is the friend of many a hi-fi salesman and soundcheck dude.

      • Mojeaux

        I do!

        I love “I.G.Y.”

      • KSuellington

        I figured so, but I’m also a SD fan and somehow didn’t know that album until a couple years back. My vote for best SD song is a triple tie with Peg, My Old School, and Hey Nineteen.

      • Mojeaux

        “I.G.Y.” was a big hit in the 80s.

        Hey Nineteen and FM and Josie are my faves. “Prays like a Roman with her eyes on fire” is just a killer lyric.

      • Gender Traitor

        “Do It Again.”

      • Festus

        Nope, “Dirty Work”. I love that fucking song.

      • KSuellington

        Also a classic there.

      • juris imprudent

        My list of favorite SD songs is probably a third of their entire output.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Kid Charlemagne features the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. Also Josie is great.

        Controversial: Their 2000 album Two Against Nature gives Aja a run for it’s money. Fight me!

      • Gustave Lytton

        “No Stairway to Heaven!”

  49. The Late P Brooks

    “And next year we’ll have it down to the level of every single power plant, refinery, every large ship, every plane, every waste dump, and we’ll have the identities of the people who are responsible for each of those greenhouse gas emission streams, and if investors or governments, or civil society activists want to hold them responsible, they will have the information upon which to base their action and holding them responsible,” he added.

    Goddam Trumpistas, always fomenting internecine discord, setting brother against brother and polarizing the nation.

    • EvilSheldon

      Red People’s Tribunals? Or are we just skipping right over to lynchings?

  50. Rebel Scum

    If only you spoke to Thomas Jefferson.

    Iowa student asks former VP Mike Pence for the name of the person who told him to buck Trump and certify the 2020 election results.

    Pence responds: “James Madison.”

    • juris imprudent

      I actually like that response.

  51. db

    From our company manager training regarding COVID vaccination disclosure:

    “According to the EEOC, an employer can ask for proof of vaccination status. Employers should refrain from asking follow-up questions about why an employee did not receive a vaccination. Such inquiries may elicit disability-related information, according to the EEOC, and would be subject to the ADA’s requirement that questions be “job-related and consistent with business necessity.” … It is suggested that employers ask only for the bare minimum of supporting documentation, such as a vaccination card or survey response.

    (emphasis in the original)

    LIMIT THE INQUIRY
    “simply asking…is permissible under the ADA because it is not likely to prompt the employee to provide disability-related information.”
    “The US EEOC said employees may decline to confirm their vaccination status for reasons that are unrelated to a disability. ‘Therefore, requesting documentation or other confirmation of vaccination by a third part in the community is not a disability-related inquiry under the ADA and the ADA’s rules about such inquiries do not apply.'”

    EEOC: Do not have conversations with other employees regarding other another employee’s vaccination status.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Do not have conversations with other employees regarding other another employee’s vaccination status.

      Why not? If it’s so dangerous that employers can require it, then coworkers can certainly ask too for their own protection.

      • Rat on a train

        I need to know which of my coworkers have exemptions so I can take appropriate cootie precautions.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just following the reasoning they established. It’s the whole foundation for the OSHA rule.

        Maybe I’ll ask HR for a list just to see what they say.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “If you’re not vaccinated, come sit by me.”

    • Not Adahn

      Can someone send Evan a stack of vaxcards so e can fill them out for us in Korean?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I hear that can lead to some hot lesbian action

      • Festus

        HaH!

      • Sensei

        Just be sure to use A4 paper!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Needs moar red seals!

      • Not Adahn

        Does the “image” watermark mean something?

      • Sensei

        It being used like “sample” would be used in English. イメージ = image.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We in FedGov sorta follow that. I cannot ask for a person’s medical information if they are requesting an accommodation, but employees must show their vaccine card to me if they want the not incentives we are offering. Seriously some major flaws in that logic.

      I have employees start telling me and I tell them I don’t want to know, go fill out the form (I still have a job to do).

    • TARDis

      Cute.

      Well if I Have to die from getting eaten, I guess a giant pussy is the way to go.

      Kind of looks like a cat named after a cookie.

  52. Not Adahn

    Sumtotal LMS is what we use to lose training records here. I find it hilarious that USPSA also uses it for a similar purpose.

  53. B.P.

    “Desperate Biden Personally Calling Democrats, Begging Them to Vote for His Agenda amid Mass Dysfunction”

    A local news channel just informed me that Meghan Markle, using her title of Duchess of Whateverthefuck, is calling GOP Senators begging them to vote for family leave. Kirsten Gillibrand supposedly gave her the phone numbers.

    “Who did you say you were again?”

    • Sensei

      I heard that as well. I’m sure that will work out well.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Effing grifter. Wonder if her dad regrets winning the lottery and sending her to private school.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        John C. Reilly could play him in a movie.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Do you even live in my state?”

    • Not Adahn

      Is she a US citizen or a dutchess? I was under the impression you can’t be both.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No, there’s no such prohibition.

      • juris imprudent

        Yep only office holders & federal employees may not have titles.

      • UnCivilServant

        Indeed, we do not issue titles of nobility, but the general citizendry is not barred from holding them.

  54. DEG

    Mornin’

    I finished “The Ash Lad” this morning. At one point, I was amused at the similarity between the Prince and the Prussian officer in “Cross of Iron”, especially at the end of “Cross of Iron”, except I think the Prussian officer had more potential. I was also amused how things ended for the Prince. R. J., it was a good movie, thanks!

    Igor Danchenko’s arrest is linked to a federal grand jury indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Durham is charging Danchenko, a Russian citizen residing in Virginia, with five counts of making false statements to the FBI. The charges stemmed from statements Danchenko made relating to the sources he used in providing information to an investigative firm in the United Kingdom.

    I still think nothing significant will come of this investigation.

    This is the worst productivity decline since the second quarter of 1981, when the measure decreased 5.1 percent. Economists had expected a milder decline of around 1.5 percent.

    LET’S GO BRANDON!

    He also forecasted that Republicans could flip 60 seats next year, on par with Republicans’ massive 63-seat gain in the 2010 Tea Party wave midterm elections.

    The Republicans will make gains, but I doubt that much.

    President Joe Biden, having failed twice to convince House Democrats to back his legislative agenda, resorted Thursday to personally calling lawmakers to beg them to vote for the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act.

    LET’S GO BRANDON!

    The song is good.

    • Festus

      “Cross of Iron” was a pretty good movie. James Coburn was woefully miscast. I liked how they actually used 1945 era weapons and equipment. When I saw it for the first time my 12 year-old pencil dick stood at attention. (WWII fetish)

    • LJW

      I’m convinced that all this wokeness is a Chinese psyop.

      • juris imprudent

        What? You really doubt we have the native stupidity to do this to ourselves?

    • CPRM
      • CPRM

        That is Kevin Farley, brother of Chris, as ‘The Older Brother’ in the fake boyband.

      • Sensei

        That’s great. It’s perfect parody. I’d never seen it before.

    • Rat on a train

      It wouldn’t be political if parents would just accept that the state owns children and knows what is best for the state.

      • hayeksplosives

        I can’t wait to drive across a bridge designed by people who passed woke calculus instead of, Ya know, calculus.

      • juris imprudent

        Let them drive across first, in a car with only an automatic transmission of course.

      • CPRM

        +1 Reardon Metal?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Apparently most or all of the Brady kids could have been killed by a rear-mounted camera in the Cedar Point episode, if not for the suggestion of a dummy run.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Galloping Gertie FTW!

      • Sensei

        Wasn’t that essentially the issue with the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse?

        One of the selection points of the firm that designed it was it’s diversity.

  55. Ownbestenemy

    My wife just found the ‘spam’ folder in her email. “Oh my god, that place is disgusting! Is it always that bad in there?”

    • CPRM

      “If you think that’s disgusting you should try reading Glibs.” was your response, right?

    • db

      LOL.

      Pray she doesn’t discover the crawl space.

    • TARDis

      Well it’s not called the Filet Mignon folder for nothing.

    • Ownbestenemy

      She isn’t big on technology beyond the calendar, texting and phone making on her phone for business. Well that and instagram/pintrest – which I told her, is probably where the spam is being drawn from. I just found it funny that all these years she never was email-curious.

      • CPRM

        email-curious.

        The most boring of all 72 genders.

  56. CPRM

    “Cancel culture” is defined as a form of censorship that harms the careers and reputations of public figures who may do or say something that could be argued as offensive.

    That’s a shitty definition, that booger flicking guy was not a public figure. Among many others.

  57. Tundra

    Good morning!

    • Festus

      Good morning to you! I’m off to the land of Nod. God-speed Lolbot.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hun, if you’re still awake, you’re not ineligible for GFM.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        or are you?

      • CPRM

        Say hello to Winkin and Blinkin

  58. Rat on a train

    Whitmer’s administration burns documents after COVID-19 rules pushback

    “During her campaign for governor, Whitmer promised to make state government more open, transparent, and accountable. Instead, the culture she has created empowers and allows officials to burn documents and delete emails,”

    Isn’t that SOP for Democrats?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Everything is on the up and up.

    • db

      Burn? Like, with an insult?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Excellent

  59. kinnath

    https://www.salon.com/2021/11/05/are-joe-manchin-and-kyrsten-sinema-abusers-or-victims-both-at-once/

    As United States senators from West Virginia and Arizona, respectively, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are supposed to represent the interests of approximately nine million people.

    But because of their self-appointed positions in the Senate as “centrists” — which is to say, “Vichy Democrats” who largely follow the lead of Republican fascists and corporate oligarchs — Manchin and Sinema have become the fulcrum upon which the Democratic Party’s tenuous majority, and its political fortunes, pivots.

    I sure Danial Patrick Moynihan would be so proud of the modern left.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I remember when Salon wasn’t so bonkers, when David Horowitz contributed to it.

      • kinnath

        I was a paid subscriber for a couple of years back at the beginning.

        They’ve become just a rag written by children in adult bodies to be read by children in adult bodies (thanks to critical drinker for that insight).

      • Sensei

        So I was I! Funny that.

        Back in those days when I tried to read reasoned arguments on the left and the right. Now I’ve stopped on both sides as they are both crazy.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I would be showing my age if I specified how long ago it was.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (but it was before they solicited donations)

    • CPRM

      The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing man he doesn’t exist Fascism isn’t a leftist form of government. Sure, the Republicans are Fascist, but less so than the Democrats. These are the choices we are left with. A Fascist government or a slightly less Fascist government. Overton waves.

      • db

        This. 100%

      • creech

        Well, conservatives keep calling progressives “socialists” so that leaves “fascists” as a term progs can use for conservatives and libertarians. Maybe we should start calling the progs “fascists” (as that is largely what they are). That will, of course, leave “racists” and “white supremacists” as labels for conservatives. Maybe instead of labels, we just attack policies we find detrimental.

  60. Ownbestenemy

    Watching this Sen Johnson Expert Panel and man…the fact that nearly all our representatives are telling these people to fuck off is depressing. Watching Ernest talk about his son’s death is heart-wrenching.