Winston’s Mom Does the Links

by | Nov 24, 2021 | Daily Links | 232 comments

I got it right here!

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
*gasps for air*

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

We ain’t in Kansas anymore.

No surprise here.  Winston turned out just fine.

Its like a mafia turf war.  Dumbasses.

At this point, the only people that won’t know China is in a recession are the Chinese,

Virus is gonna virus.

Okay, okay.  The pic was mean so here’s something a bit more classy.

 

 

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

232 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Who do they think they are, FDR?

    • Tonio

      A strong start out the gate.

  2. Count Potato

    “Come to think of it, this is precisely what Biden will do next.”

    Well, he already shut down pipelines.

  3. juris imprudent

    I don’t think either Tres or HM are going to indulge.

  4. prolefeed

    Re this from the A.M. thread:

    “Having lived there nearly 30 years ago, I miss that Austin.
    From what Ive been told about the place now, I wouldnt move back to Central Tejas for anything.”

    The Samsung plant isn’t being built in Austin, it is being built in Taylor. To get there, you drive out of Austin until you hit cornfields around the little town of Hutto. Then you keep driving quite a way past that, further into the boonies.

    Some of the people in Austin can be insufferable, though they largely don’t hassle me when I go there to get groceries and whatnot. You start driving in any direction away from the downtown, and pretty quick you’ll be in the “real” Texas.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I loved living there ca. 2009-2012. But I hear that the Californization has gotten much, much worse. Certainly a glance at the real estate prices supports that assertion.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Fuck, now I want some Trudy’s Five Star migas.

    • DEG

      When I considered moving to the Austin area, the plan was to be close enough to Austin for commuting and outside of Austin in the direction of Fredericksburg. I liked Fredericksburg.

  5. juris imprudent

    Just went to the 91-DIVOC site and sure enough Sweden’s line is just holding steady (for both cases and deaths) while the rest of the EU is spiking.

    • grrizzly

      But you must compare Sweden only to other Scandinavian countries

    • prolefeed

      I can only imagine the killing frenzy the North Korean government would instigate if someone was caught smuggling in “Hellbound”, which is a rather thinly veiled commentary on the country directly north of Seoul.

    • rhywun

      The residents are all trembling in fear

      Job done!

      Jesus, what monstrous evil.

      • Sensei

        Yup. And spreading.

    • Rat on a train

      The MPAA wishes the US took IP as seriously.

    • Penguin

      Why would he struggle to bring that into North Korea? He’s already living squid game.

      Except for the prize at the end.

  6. prolefeed

    “To add insult to injury, quarantine camp prisoners are expected to pay top dollar for their ordeal.

    The quarantine fee for an individual is $2,500 for the full 14 day period.”

    Bear in mind, the people being locked up are Aborigines. As in, most likely dead broke. So they looked at FDR and said, “Hold my beer, dead guy. We’ll put the undesirable non-whites in concentration camps, and make they pay money they don’t have for their jail.”

    • Tonio

      Charging for involuntary incarceration is the moral equivalent of seizing people’s bank accounts and taking their stuff.

      • juris imprudent

        Feds blink non-comprehendingly: is that wrong? Are you saying we shouldn’t do that?

      • DEG

        Were you trained not to do it? No, you weren’t? Then how could you know it was wrong?

    • rhywun

      Jesus, what monstrous evil.

      • Sensei

        Same comment as above.

    • Winston's Mom

      The quarantine fee for an individual is $2,500 for the full 14 day period.”

      Pffft. I charge more than that.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yes, but you also deliver actual value.

      • Tonio

        And transactions with her are voluntary.

      • Winston's Mom

        Strictly voluntary, but for a small I can make it appear mandatory.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        And for a slightly larger fee, make the client believe that it’s mandatory.

        Giggity.

      • Spudalicious

        For a “catering” event.

    • Rat on a train

      $2,500 before occupancy and other taxes?

      • Nephilium

        You’d hope at that price, there would at least be an open bar.

      • Fourscore

        If they don’t pay keep there until they do, maybe rent them out or have them work on a farm to pay for their upkeep.

    • Chafed

      This is straight out of the CCP playbook.

  7. Tonio

    The Australia situation is some straight-up Nazi shit.

    • Trigger Hippie

      This may come across as extremely naive but I honestly didn’t think I’d see the Anglosphere descend so fast, so quickly in my lifetime.

      • Tonio

        It’s been a bitter pill for me to swallow, too.

      • Nephilium

        /looks back at bold predictions last March that the lockdowns and insanity would obviously be over by Memorial day…

        I mean… once we went past that first two week mark.

      • Swiss Servator

        #METOO.

        *winces thinking of “They can’t do this more than 30 days” prediction…*

      • Ed Wuncler

        #metoo

        I thought at the very least we wouldn’t see this authoritarian shit until my early 50’s (I’m currently 36). The scary part is that if they introduced that shit here, a lot of the Left would cheerlead this shit because in their distorted minds, it’s only the crazy right wingers who are resisting the mandates.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The irony will be the Japanese, Jewish, Polish, etc communities that cheer for the unclean to be punished.

      • rhywun

        If there is one thing the last two years have taught us, it’s that propaganda works. And spectacularly.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Its not over… people seem to be fighting back MORE now and the Leftis have stepped up the propaganda.

        I would say propaganda works on ignorant people and believers. Once people get wise, propaganda isnt as effective to wide audiences.

        Same hing happened to goebbels propaganda machine after stalingrad. germans didnt believe the lies as much. They couldnt do much about it but they didnt believe like they did before.

    • Trigger Hippie

      …er, so soon…

      Just had my after work bowl and I obviously have no work tomorrow…this could get ugly.

      • Tonio

        Dude…

      • Trigger Hippie

        *glances at twelve unopened tall boys, grins*

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’m down to nine now.

        I aim to make my 3:00AM TH’s Glib ShitPost more understandable in Pharisees.

  8. Shpip

    This has happened despite the fact that last year no Americans were vaccinated (now 59% of all eligible Americans have had the “life-saving” jab) and some 17% have received booster shots…

    As long as there’s one unvaxxed person out there, there will be someone to blame.

    “The things we did didn’t work because you didn’t do the things that didn’t work too.”

  9. Count Potato

    “A milestone legal ruling might set the tone for a change in the opioid crisis debate nationally, after an Ohio court found that Walgreens, Walmart and CVS ‘recklessly distributed painkillers like they were a gumball machine’ in two counties.

    The case marks the first time in which pharmacy chains – rather than manufacturers -have been found liable for the health crisis that has claimed more than 500,000 lives in the United States over the last two decades and 100,306 just in the past year.

    The three companies acted illegally in filling significant opioid prescriptions in Lake and Trumbull counties, creating an ‘oversupply’ of the drugs and a ‘public nuisance,’ a jury in a federal court in Cleveland found Tuesday.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10238491/Ohio-jury-finds-three-pharmacy-chains-liable-distributing-opioids.html

    How is it illegal for a pharmacy to fill prescriptions?

    • Tonio

      This is going to lead to cancer patients writhing in agony, resorting to street drugs, and taking their own lives. Yet prohibitionists are totally okay with that.

      • Mad Scientist

        They’re not OK with it. They’re tickled pink about it.

    • Ted S.

      The War on Opioids is profoundly wicked. Governments are addicted to money, and see the chain pharmacies and Purdue Pharma as having big piles of money that the folks in government want.

      I hope the people prosecuting these cases get intractable pain that every doctor refuses to treat.

      • Tonio

        “I see you’re a district attorney. Sorry, but it’s too professionally risky for me to prescribe opiods to you. I’m sure you understand. Here’s a prescription for Tylenol…”

      • C. Anacreon

        Yep. It’s already very difficult for legitimate cancer patients to get opioid pain medications filled by pharmacies. Some pharmacies even currently refuse to carry or dispense opioids. And those cancer patients who do get the meds are treated with suspicion and asked unfounded prying questions like “when are they going to wean these off for you?”. This decision will likely make things worse, perhaps much worse.

        Imagine being in such protracted severe pain that only with opioids can you even approach a reasonable level of functioning. Only to be told by judgmental types that you should be fine with an occasional motrin. And so you live in fear that the only thing keeping you afloat could be yanked away from you at any moment, relegating you to a future of writhing in bed in agony.

      • Ghostpatzer

        *shudder* Not sure I would have made it through the recovery from thoracotomy/pleuredesis without opiods. These people are ghouls.

      • PutridMeat

        Maybe organize a parade but only invite tough on drug judges, prosecutors, and politicians….

        Too soon?

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘500,000 lives in the United States over the last two decades and 100,306 just in the past year.’

      Twenty percent of the total deaths in two decades in the last fucking year. Gee, I wonder what’s causing that?

      • Count Potato

        Fentanyl

      • Trigger Hippie

        I was thinking a small uptick in soul crushing authoritarianism, increased isolation, economic shock, and media driven doomsday hysteria all day, every day might have something to do with it but hey, correlation isn’t causation.

      • Winston's Mom

        Yes, all that shit leads to opioid addiction.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The obvious solution is draconian restrictions to opioid access causing millions more to suffer and seek riskier alternatives.

      • Count Potato

        Sure, those are all factors, but there was similar shit in the 30’s and 70’s, but back then heroin was heroin.

      • Trigger Hippie

        That’s a fair point. I’m too lazy to look up the stats on known Fentanyl deaths over the last recorded year but I’d be shocked if it accounted for anywhere near ten percent of those total recent deaths.

        Despair is a real thing. For those of us(me) inclined to both despair and addiction the last two years have been kinda rough. A little over a year ago I came begging to you all for a few hundred bucks because I got so overwhelmed with hopelessness that I couldn’t bring myself to get out of the house for weeks…and I ate a not small handful of sleeping pills and drank a lot each night kinda hoping I wouldn’t wake up.

        Point being: We’re a very populace nation and many of us are weak/fragile. A huge uptick in self medication during this shit is no surprise.

      • Count Potato

        Sorry 🙁 And I agree with you.

        “I’m too lazy to look up the stats on known Fentanyl deaths over the last recorded year but I’d be shocked if it accounted for anywhere near ten percent of those total recent deaths.”

        “Rates of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, which includes fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, increased over 16% from 2018 to 2019. Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids were nearly 12 times higher in 2019 than in 2013. More than 36,000 people died from overdoses involving synthetic opioids in 2019.”

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids were nearly 12 times higher in 2019 than in 2013. More than 36,000 people died from overdoses involving synthetic opioids in 2019.’

        Good God!

        I’m not sure what the percentage of those deaths were from Fentanyl specifically but either way, that’s depressing.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        500,000+ Americans die from heart disease every year.

        For some perspective.

        Plus, how many people OD as suicide? I dont think its a widely tracked number.

    • rhywun

      Jesus, what monstrous evil.

      • Sean

        Kinda got a theme going, eh?

      • Sensei

        Seems that way.

      • rhywun

        I calls ’em as I sees ’em.

      • Sean

        *Benny Hill salute*

        Carry on.

  10. Trigger Hippie

    ‘“The picture of the home-schooled student that emerges from the data doesn’t resemble the socially awkward and ignorant stereotype to which Ms. Bartholet and others appeal. Rather, home-schooled children generally develop into well-adjusted, responsible and socially engaged young adults,” they wrote.’

    I suppose children not spending most of their waking day around a bunch of emotionally undeveloped borderline sociopaths who’s behavior only amplifies in large groups despite a myriad of rules in place to tamp it down may be a positive.

    But enough about the faculty.

    • Tonio

      Somehow, I knew you were going there when I read “emotionally undeveloped borderline sociopaths.” Nicely done.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Danke.

    • mikey

      A fourth grader at home is learning to interact with adults. A fourth grader in a government school is learning t interact with – fourth graders.

  11. Count Potato

    “Social media now linked to depression in middle-age too: Harvard study finds people in their 50s who use TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram are ‘substantially more likely’ to feel down than their peers

    Harvard University researchers found adults feel even sadder if they use platforms favoured by youngsters, like TikTok and Snapchat, possibly as it makes them feel old.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10238083/Harvard-study-finds-40s-use-Snapchat-Instagram-TikTok-likely-feel-down.html

    Someone should make a new platform called Boom where people can post dad jokes and videos of chasing kids off their lawns.

    • rhywun

      people in their 50s who use TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram

      need to get a life.

      • Sensei

        Correlation vs causation. How does that work?

      • Suthenboy

        Next you are going to imply that wet streets dont cause rain.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Social media now linked to depression in middle-age too: Harvard study finds people in their 50s who use TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram’-were sad sacks to begin with.

    • Tonio

      More like “I thought I uploaded a video but it didn’t work.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Agreed but maybe the guy is an attention whore and he is wearing a short skirt right now with all his media interviews and is asking for it.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Hey now, teens exploiting themselves is the most American of endeavors.

      • Spudalicious

        Other than Tucker, what interviews has he done?

    • Trigger Hippie

      Hey now, exploiting teens is the most American of endeavors.

  12. Ownbestenemy

    Tonight, those edits came in. I’ll work on it tonight. Thanks for taking the time

    • Ownbestenemy

      Tonio….I need more beer

    • Tonio

      Take your time. Write drunk (fiction only), edit sober.

      • The Hyperbole

        Write drunk (fiction only),\\

        **Moves ‘Glib articles rough drafts and ideas’ to trash**

        So much for my 5 part treatise on the limitations of the rights of individual versus communities in regards to banning or requiring sweaters on pets.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My wife is obsessed with clothing for the dog…but she is adorable in the little hoodie so…whatevs

      • Tonio

        “she is adorable in the little hoodie”

        The dog or the wife? That’s why it’s important to be precise with modifiers.

        I’ve been busting OBE’s balls all day about this sort of thing.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, I tell my students to beware the “pronoun swamp.”

      • Tundra

        You’re draining the swamp?

        MGGA?

      • Tonio

        Beware the pronoun swap my son,
        and shun the ambiguous modifier.
        He took his red pencil in hand,
        long time the unclear prose he fought,
        ’til rested he by the Glib-Glib tree,
        and thus achieved clear thought.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Both?! Ya ya…

      • UnCivilServant

        Both, the Wife and the Dog have matching hoodies.

      • Tulip

        My dog and I have matching rain coats. Because it is hilarious to me.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Only acceptable for a short haired dog under twenty pounds living in a poorly heated home during the Winter months.

      • slumbrew

        My shivering, 60-lb Staffie disagrees with your weight cutoff.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Okay. Not a dog person but that breed is possibly adorable enough to get a pass…or you need to give it more snuggles.

      • Not Adahn

        There is a Great Dane at the park that is now wearing insulated racing silks.

      • Trigger Hippie

        JFC…

  13. juris imprudent

    OWN GOAL!

    This New York Times video doesn’t exactly shout, “Vote Republican” because everyone involved in it, and everyone it is aimed at, is a Democrat. But if Democrats can mess things up this badly, what other conclusion are we supposed to draw? Democrats make things worse is the resounding message here. I agree, except unlike the production team of the video, I don’t find this baffling.

    The video is a treat.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Heh. Cause people, especially people with property, are really more conservative in nature than they let themselves believe.

    • Brochettaward

      I like how towards the end the main hack tries to downplay the issues, saying that don’t get him wrong – real progress is being made in blue states. Then it switches to the other guy who basically says nah – all the problems Democrats bitch about are in blue states where they have complete control and where their policies are fucking things up.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yeah, I noticed that too. I jumped out when he started with the mini-apologia (I knew that heralded the end of the video) so I didn’t see the response from the other guy, I’ll have to go back and watch that.

    • pistoffnick

      “…what other conclusion are we supposed to draw?”

      Ahh, I dunno, maybe politics is a poor tool for fixing societal problems?

  14. robc

    Pretzel Assassin is a great name for a beer. Haven’t had it, no idea if it is good or not.

    • juris imprudent

      Local brewery (German style beers only) is releasing their schwarzbier tonight. We’re going out for Thai food, maybe with a side trip?

      • Tonio

        May the schwarz be with you.

      • Swiss Servator

        “I see you have the schwarz….and it is as big as mine!”

      • juris imprudent

        A growler of schwarz followed me home.

      • Homple

        Try some of this stuff. Köstritzer Schwarzbier.

        Read about it here:
        https://www.beermonthclub.com/kostritzer-schwarzbier

        Four half-liter cans cost $7.49, which is economical per unit for imports hereabouts. I like German beers because the Krauts don’t forget to add malt to the hops in their recipes.

  15. Fatty Bolger

    The COVID article is yet another example of how much pseudo-scientific BS is being peddled in the media and by the supposed experts. The rise of the all-powerful mask and decline of natural immunity is just one example of how bonkers things have become.

    I was thinking about Michael Crichton’s “Aliens Cause Global Warming” speech in reference to COVID today, and re-read it. He made that speech almost 19 years ago, and it’s never been more relevant.

    • Winston's Mom

      Bookmarked

    • Tulip

      Science advances one funeral at a time.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’m beginning to think that, in order to survive, society’s job may be to hasten those funerals along as quickly, and as close together, as possible.

    • Ghostpatzer

      That Crichton article is terrific.

      Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we’re asked to believe a
      prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that
      prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

      Yes. Yes they have (except the gliberati, of course).

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        TBF, EnviroGuess Canada seems to be able to forecast “human-hostile” (read: fucking cold and windy) weather in Edmonton down to the nanosecond and the femto-degree Celsius even a week out, but can’t get their forecasts of “human-friendly” (read: warmer, sunny, little or no wind) weather for tomorrow correct to save their collective non-gender-specific gonads. It’s absolutely infuriating. In most other fields of human endeavour I can think of, this kind of gross and continuous incompetence would result in lifetime unemployment. (No fair bringing up the job of “political pundit,” they’re a permanent own-goal.)

      • DrOtto

        Janet Yellin would like a word

  16. limey

    Owing to the original descriptions of Winston’s mother (or at least Winston’s memory of her) from Nineteen Eighty-Four, I believe the picture in the article more closely resembles her physique than the red-haired tart with the mop and the lingerie and the gloyven.

    Anyone ever pick up on the names Professor Frink used to drop at the end of his sentences? Ivan Reitman, Tom Glavine…

  17. Lazer

    Question about the charges/guilty verdicts in the Abery case.

    It seems each individual was charged with three different counts of “felony murder.” At least that is the way I heard it when the judgments were read.

    If there was only one person dead/murdered, how do they get three felony murder charges?

    • Brochettaward

      It’s lawyer math.

    • Ownbestenemy

      https://www.foxnews.com/us/arbery-case-charges-breakdown-of-the-charges

      Fox seems to have a straight breakdown.

      The McMichaels and Bryan could each be convicted of multiple counts of murder, which would then be merged for sentencing.

      Also

      …two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment — and each of those felonies caused Arbery’s death.

      • Ownbestenemy

        In other words, because they don’t have degrees of murder in Georgia, its malice or not, they also charged them in the acts that could lead to murder – malice murder, aggravated assault (must have been two instances I guess to charge twice) and false imprisonment. Adding up to 4 charges of felony murder, including malice intent.

      • Lazer

        thanks

    • B.P.

      Felony murder is the doctrine where, regardless of intent, the accomplices to a crime are charged with murder, not just the trigger-puller. If all three were charged with felony murder, maybe nobody actually killed him.

    • Suthenboy

      I never got the rationale of the offenders in that case. I dont believe the guy was just out for a jog but even supposing he was breaking Into houses or cars he did not put anyone’s life in danger or threaten to. It is just stuff and stuff can be replaced, people not so much. You dont kill someone because they stole junk from a house with no one home.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Evidently, the defendants claimed that Abrery tried to grab the shotgun. Arbery was hit 3 times and I assume it was a pump shotgun, so 3 racks of the shotgun.

        I was busy watching the Rittenhouse case and honestly Im worn out by the media lies this month.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      This case appears to come down to:
      1. This was an attempt by 3 White men to hunt down an innocent Black man and murder him;
      2. Three White men attempted to question Arbery about trespassing on private property and a fight for a shotgun turned into Arbery being shot 3 times;
      3. Some variation.

      The media are liars and the federal govt are corrupt as hell. So whatever they say is hardly the truth. The media support all these charges, all the convictions, and federal charges.

      That means to me that most of the charges are bullshit.

      With that being said, Arbery was never shown top do anything but trespass to look at a house under construction and having THC in his system. You cant shoot people for trespassing.

      The son was the shooter with the shotgun and at most he should be the defendant, if you dont believe a self-defense claim. I dont know about the case to know if Arbery’s fingerprints or there was evidence of him trying to take the shotgun away from the son. The Dad and guy filming it were dragged into murder charges for political reasons. The local DA was indicted by the feds for trying to impede the police investigation, so the case was transferred to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation which is our state investigative agency. Then the Cobb County DA indicted these 3 guys. Cobb County is not only run by Democrats its more corrupt than Glenn County where the shooting happened.

      Georgia was also pressured into passing “hate crime” legislation in 2021 and we know how unconstitutional thought crimes are. Our soon to be ex-Governor Brian Kemp signed that “law”.

    • Ghostpatzer

      And while the unvaccinated are still dying at a pretty rapid clip, we are finally able to more safely get together with our parents and grandparents and weird cousins and uncles.

      This is your chance to deprogram them.

      Doctor, deprogram thyself.

    • Tundra

      Ha!

      Too bad for them I’m the host!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Stopped after first paragraph, to reflect on giving thanks for people like her.

      Some people (like my friend Tom Nichols) think that you should spend your Thanksgiving playing nice, pretending that your cousin doesn’t follow QAnon and that your uncle doesn’t believe the election was stolen and also that the Cyber Ninjas are a bunch of cucks for not uncovering voter fraud. Tom believes that Thanksgiving is a time for harmony and niceties and gratitude. I love Tom, but he’s completely wrong.

      Or maybe you’ll need to report a relative to the FBI!

      Her real issue is she doesn’t like Thanksgiving dinner because she might have to hear someone counter her views.

      • B.P.

        From that excerpt it doesn’t even seem like she needs to hear something counter to her views. She just needs to be aware that someone in the room holds views different than her to trigger her deprogramming efforts. A badthinker in her presence could be polite and stick to talk about the weather, football game, tasty meal, nice memories of Aunt Gilda, etc., but that wouldn’t be enough.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d be inclined to advise her in my home to only open her mouth to insert food and any fucking preaching will cause immediate exile to the table outdoors, with one chair.

      • Homple

        She seems not nice.

    • Winston's Mom

      I’m no statistician—in fact I’m barely able to add and subtract; I got a D in tenth-grade math—but to me that says there’s a decent chance someone at your Thanksgiving table will be QAnon-curious or believe the Big Lie.

      And we’re done. Life is too short to deal with retards.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It is all framing a narrative that these crazy right wingers and their vast media complex have planted them into your family. Alex Jones sounds saner than her.

    • slumbrew

      I suspect her relatives loath her.

      • rhywun

        Or at the very least have learned not to talk to her about anything beyond her cats.

    • Suthenboy

      “…while the unvaccinated are still dying at a pretty rapid clip…”

      Oh? Citation?

      • Suthenboy

        My response to her: “It is so nice to see you again and you can finish eating if you wish but do it in the yard. When you are finished just leave your dishes there and go.”

  18. Ed Wuncler

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/582879-kinzinger-on-possible-governor-bid-im-the-only-candidate-that-can-win

    “If I ran for governor, I think I’m the only candidate that could win, at least that’s out there now,” Kinzinger said in an interview on Crain’s “A.D. Q&A” podcast.”

    I could give two shits if this dude was loyal to Trump or not. What I don’t like about him is that his principles are malleable and will sacrifice them in a heartbeat if it makes him look statesman like. Chris Welch (IL House Speaker), Don Harmon (IL Senate President), and the public sector unions would eat this dude alive, making him virtually a figurehead and destroy what’s left of the GOP in Illinois.

    • Fourscore

      Someone will win, whether or not he (Kinzinger) runs.

    • Suthenboy

      There is a GOP in Illinois?

    • Spudalicious

      Fuck that guy. He’s just another authoritarian on Team Red.

      • Swiss Servator

        He isn’t even pretending any more…he is in the Liz Cheney/Lisa Murkowski wing of the bunch.

      • Spudalicious

        Yep. Democrats just aren’t using their power in the right way.

  19. Ownbestenemy

    Despite overwhelmingly white jurors, they appeared to take their tasks equally with importance. Fucking white supremacist. The Matrix question of the day is “Would Arbery’s jurors vote to convict if they went to deliberations prior to Rittenhouse?”

    • Loveconstitution1789

      I understand the trial was moved to Cobb County, Georgia. The counties in the Atlanta Metro are full of White Lefties. Cobb County is super corrupt and feel free to read about how Cobb County got the new Atlanta Braves stadium.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I can

    • The Hyperbole

      Shit, was ‘spose to be a response to

      Everyone has an asshole in the family that should stay home alone.

      • LJW

        If you don’t that usually means you’re the asshole. I kid I kid.

      • Ted S.

        Narrator: He’s serious.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Wake up in the morning, go out into the world and meet an asshole, and you met an asshole.

        Wake up in the morning, go out into the world and meet nothing but assholes, and you’re the asshole…

        Somedays I’m the asshole.

      • slumbrew

        I think this situation is analogous to “If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Best part is…in a normal family you know who the asshole is but you put that aside for a few hours and just have a good meal together.

      • rhywun

        To be fair, The Atlantic knows its audience.

      • Fourscore

        I’ll be staying home alone this T’giving, giving someone else a chance to be the asshoe. If there is one at my dinner I’ll know who to blame.

      • Mojeaux

        Ours died.

  20. hayeksplosives

    I’ve got the Turkey brining, the pumpkin pie and the 24 hour salad made, the giblets cooked with the resulting broth set aside to help make the giblet gravy tomorrow.

    Decided to go with “take and bake” rolls to make my life easier. All I have to cook tomorrow is turkey, gravy, masked taters, and stuffing.

    Time for a nap now!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Excellent! Brining right now also, giblets were cooked with the neck earlier for turkey stock and then they were given to the dogs/cat chopped up.

      • hayeksplosives

        I gave the cat a little Turkey neck meat, but I don’t think he was keen on the carrot and bay leaf flavoring 🙂

        Had to go to the store this morning. It was very well stocked; found everything I needed except fresh thyme springs. It was a Smith’s, which stocks Kroger as their store brand. I don’t know how it works with all those regional grocers stocking a store brand that is stocked by a completely different brand in some other region (like Ralph’s in California and Smiths in Nevada are both Kroger??).

        But it works. Albertsons and Walmart would have been the back up options, but Walmart has lots of empty shelves.

    • pistoffnick

      “…masked taters…”

      *shakes head* So sad when even the spuds buy into the propaganda

      • UnCivilServant

        The first image I had was of potatos in domino masks. Superhero or Burglar?

      • Spudalicious

      • Spudalicious

        This Spud refuses to comply.

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      The wife has a thing against proper cranberry sauce; canned, ribbed for pleasure.

      So, I am bringing my own this year. Black Bog cranberry sour beer.

      Thanksgiving. Sorted.

  21. LJW

    Black Friday Is a Scam

    “Low inventory, low quality, and an artificial deadline are just a few of the reasons you should avoid Black Friday.”

    Been saying this for years.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its been proven that you can nab way better deals throughout the year. Advertisement propaganda at its finest.

      • LJW

        On top of that most of the black Friday items are clearance items. You can find good deals on all items throughout the year.

      • hayeksplosives

        My friends are always surprised to learn that when a store advertises an upcoming “sales event” that doesn’t mean there are any savings to be had over regular prices.

        Some kind of protection law was passed saying you can’t call it a “Labor Day sale” or “Black Friday sale” unless the prices were actually lower than normal during the sale.

        Hence all the ads (especially at car dealers) for a big sales event!! It’s only eventful for the people making the commission.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Toyota is (in)famous for its Red Tag Days™ event, which, as it turns out, is not a sales event at all. But they sure know how to press people’s buttons to get them to come into the showrooms.

      • hayeksplosives

        They just want to get that giant red bow to put on their spouse’s new car.

      • Fourscore

        Hahaha, I used the Promo Code and got “My Pillows” at 60% off. Lucky me, huh? Mike Lindell and I are good friends, after this.
        I’d guess some that don’t use the promo code got snookered

        /Sarc

  22. Gender Traitor

    Is it wrong that I’m morbidly curious about how SF would write up this scene?

    Bon appetit!

    • db

      Gonna see if I can join–family is set to begin pouring in any minute now for the overnight stay.

      • Sean

        Spray em down with Lysol!

      • db

        If I need to keep them at bay I’ll just go sit in the hot tub nude. No way will they come anywhere near that.

    • westernsloper

      Thanks Neph. I will be there. I got some shit to say about you fucken people celebrating this racist holiday.

  23. Count Potato

    “Will Smith says he used to have so much sex he would actually ‘throw up’.

    The 53-year-old explained that because he was having so much ‘rampant sex’, he developed a psychosomatic reaction to orgasming and sometimes vomited during the act.”

    https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1463147626845593602

    Girls ain’t nothing but trouble.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      T.
      M.
      I.

    • Spudalicious

      “Hey girl, just so you know, I may puke on you when I bust a nut.”

    • Q Continuum

      You’re doing it wrong.

  24. Q Continuum

    “Winston turned out just fine.”

    Him learning the birds and the bees because you decided to “work” at home doesn’t count as homeschooling.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Says who?

  25. hayeksplosives

    Does anyone have advice on buying a new Toku streaming stick? I have a couple of older ones, but I want to move an old one to my old tv and get a newer model for the main TV.

    At Amazon, there are so many different ones, with 4K or 4K plus or 4K/HD… some in a green box, some in gray or another color. Price $40 to $60.

    But what is the difference?

    • grrizzly

      You need the one that says HD/4K/HDR/Dolby Vision if you have a good new TV set. If you have a quality audio system setup then maybe get the one that also comes with Dolby Atmos.

      • hayeksplosives

        Thank you!

    • Tonio

      “Toku.” [Coughs, winks.]

      • hayeksplosives

        Lol. Spell check hates me.

  26. Q Continuum

    I take no pleasure in saying that I saw the shit going down in Australia from a mile away when the lockdowns started last spring.

    It was unbelievably naive for people think that governments would relinquish the power they seized in the name of “health and safety”. OF COURSE “two weeks to slow the spread” morphed into “lock up the unclean in concentration camps”; to believe otherwise is to betray monumental ignorance of 20th century history. The ratchet only goes one way until something big gives. Expect it to get a lot worse before it gets better. Thank G-d for 2A or we’d likely be in the same situation.

      • rhywun

        New York says “try to keep up”.

        Oh, and there WAS a demonstration here with thousands of protesters last weekend but I certainly didn’t learn about it from the local media.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The media is going to ignore the protests until they start offing the ruling class.

      • Q Continuum

        I think occupying the news agencies’ buildings would do the trick. Don’t know why they haven’t tried that yet.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        That is an A-team idea! So crazy, it just might work.

      • l0b0t

        Does the NYT still have the Gatling gun with which they chased away the draft rioters?

      • creech

        Cute story but just an urban myth; fake news spread by the NYT back in the day.

  27. Penguin

    Just got my brother this as a Thanksgiving / birthday / Xmas gift.

    • Sean

      Subtle.

    • rhywun

      Nice.

  28. Q Continuum

    TL;DR – “We have a great sex life except for the fact that he can’t get it up and I’m not satisfied.”

  29. Mojeaux

    I am on the hook for smooshed spuds and green beans for the morrow’s festivities. I was going to make a pie.

    HOWEVER

    I have done something to my back and now I can’t walk straight up without a great deal of pain. I may guide XY through the cooking process.

    • Sean

      Sorry to hear.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

      Try lying flat on the floor.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Try lying flat on the floor.

        And slowly drawing your knees to your chest with your arms, first singly, then together. Try to consciously relax your back muscles as you do this.

        /chronic back pain sufferer

      • Count Potato

        Yes

      • westernsloper

        ?

    • hayeksplosives

      Yikes! I hope you start feeling better soon.

      I took a little inspiration from your “fat bomb” recipe and mixed the leftover pumpkin pie filling up with some cream cheese and poured it into little foil “muffin” cup liners (about Reese’s PB cup size) and stuck them in the freezer.

      Yummy!

      • Mojeaux

        That sounds awesome, albeit not my particular jam.

        I’m headed back to low-carb soon and I’m going to try lemon fat bombs.

        Also, that recipe wasn’t mine. I just used it one day.

    • DEG

      Sorry Mojeaux. Get well soon!

    • rhywun

      OFFS. Why not free sex changes while we’re at it?

    • B.P.

      One day in prison?

      And I doubt he’ll spend it in a state prison. More likely county jail.

  30. mikey

    OK. I appreciate Winston’s Mom as much as the next guy, but Wednesday is supposed to be for SF’s Wednesday Chick. Please, tell me she’ll be back.

    • Tonio

      Special holiday scheduling, yo.

      Also, no PM links tomorrow. TPTB gave me and the squirrels the afternoon off.

  31. Aloysious

    That…

    What…

    ?

    ?

  32. DEG

    Australia’s Northern Territory already had some of the strictest lockdown laws in the English-speaking world. The five allowable reasons for leaving your home are: buying food; exercising for up to two hours; caregiving; work; education.

    I enjoyed visiting Darwin. NT News used to have some good Florida Man-worthy stories. It is sad what has happened to that place.

    Researchers at Harvard University just released findings from their new study showing positive outcomes for homeschooled students. Writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, Brendan Case and Ying Chen of the Harvard Human Flourishing Program concluded that public school students “were less forgiving and less apt to volunteer or attend religious services than their home-schooled peers.”

    Countdown until these researchers are fired….

    COVID-19 has killed more people in 2021 than 2020.

    The usual suspects on the NH subreddit claim the reason is masking. I know, I know, reddit is for porn and I should just lurk on the porn subreddits, but sometimes the NH subreddit is like watching a train wreck.

    Music link is good.

  33. straffinrun

    Infowars link reminded me to get more Turbo Super Male Vitality. Also, that Infowar passport cover helps you get through customs unmolested?