Monday Afternoon STEVE SMITH STILL LINKINGS!

by | Dec 20, 2021 | Cryptids, Daily Links | 226 comments

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STEVE SMITH NOT LET CHESSE PERSON HAVE LINKS BACK. YET. STEVE SMITH HAVE TOO MUCH FUN. HIM LIKE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS. HERE BEST LINKINGS FOR TALK ABOUT, COMMENTS.

  1. ‘Well, we don’t really do patrols anymore.’ STEVE SMITH SAD. HIM MIGHT HAVE TO VIGILANTE AND RAPE CRIME HOOMANS.
  2. AGENT WEBB FAIL MISSION. WAS SUPPOSED BITED NASTY DICTATOR HOOMAN.
  3. STEVE SMITH NO THINK THIS SERIOUS.
  4. THIS WHAT MEAN “FLORIDA MAN”?

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226 Comments

  1. The Other Kevin

    STEVE SMITH as a masked vigilante would be a great addition to Marvel Phase 4.

    • STEVE SMITH

      STEVE SMITH NEED COSTUME BE VIGILANTE? WHAT HIM WEAR?

      • The Other Kevin

        Being a prominent forest lawyer is already a good cover.

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH, PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER DAY, RAPE VIGILANTE NIGHT!

      • Tonio

        Well, the whole point of you is big, rapey ‘Squatch. Any type of full costume would detract from that. I’m thinking minimalist, here; starched collar, spats and stick like your avatar. I’ll have the boys in wardrobe put something together for you to try.

      • Nephilium

        No domino mask? I think adding that splash of color would really annoy the artists.

      • C. Anacreon

        Domino as drawn in the early 90s Marvel X-Force comic books was hot af.

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH PUT ON RITZ!

      • The Other Kevin

        I like it. Then the criminals can hear the ominous *click click* of the stick as STEVE SMITH approaches.

      • R.J.

        I know. A pointless tiny mask would be good too.

    • LJW

      I think his resume is more suited for the Watchmen.

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH MORE DO, NOT WATCH. BY DO, MEAN RAPE.

  2. Certified Public Asshat

    China ranks 107th among 153 countries in the World Economic Forum’s annual ranking on global gender equality. Men dominate top echelons of politics and business. Women made up roughly one-quarter of the parliament and there is just one woman in the 25-member Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.

    No women in communism? Weird.

    • kinnath

      Huh. Needs more DEIBJ.

      • Count Potato

        German for “the blowjob”?

    • The Other Kevin

      I feel like some kind of 90’s douchebag when I say this, but Americans tend to be willfully ignorant about what happens in other countries.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        There are other countries?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think that’s well established.

        Which wouldn’t be a problem if we weren’t invading half the known world at any given time.

      • The Other Kevin

        …or acting like we’re living in the only racist, sexist country on the planet.

      • Count Potato

        National security is a euphemism for world domination.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The term of art is “forward deterrence”

    • Sean

      They’re all spies. Banging our congress critters.

      • Tres Cool

        Can you imagine being that poor Chinese guy that had to hose Feinstein ?
        That cunte had to look like a washed denim wallet…or dried Abalone.

      • LJW

        I don’t doubt women are capable of being great snipers. But I question how much of their work was inflated by Soviet propaganda.

      • DEG

        On a related note, while at the Oaks Gun Show, I saw a good looking woman carrying a Mosin. I didn’t get a good enough look to see if it was a 91/30, an 1891, or one of the other long variants (like Finn M-24).

      • R C Dean

        I didn’t get a good enough look

        Well, not at the rifle, apparently.

      • creech

        If Red women snipers turn you on, be sure to read Stephen Hunter’s “Sniper’s Honor.” Slimy SS officers get their just desserts.

      • Penguin

        Nice irony in the music.

    • DEG

      They’re busy having better sex.

      • rhywun

        lol that’s the reply I was looking for

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        OFFS

        I love the positive reviews. I wonder if anyone who wasn’t bought into the conclusion read that tripe.

  3. Tonio

    PORTLAND, Ore. — A Taekwondo school in Northeast Portland said their business has been the target of vandalism twice in one month. And they’re not alone.

    Have they no rooftops?

    • Count Potato

      Also, don’t they know karate?

      • STEVE SMITH

        THAT NOT HELP ON ROOFTOP!

    • SDF-7

      Have they no rooftops?

      If they’re going to rooftop Korean, let them do it — and decrease the surplus population?

      • Rat on a train

        They need Koreans before they can have rooftop Koreans.

  4. pistoffnick

    “THIS WHAT MEAN “FLORIDA MAN”?”

    What do you do with a drunken sailor deputy?

    • STEVE SMITH

      RAPE.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Obviously put him in the bed of the captains daughter. There is no need to change the lyrics.

  5. Ownbestenemy

    Not too bad a wait with no appointment at DMV. 4 hours and a lunch break. Teen is off on his test. I predict he passes.

    A young kid just ahead of us couldn’t take the test because “your car reeks of weed, come back with a new car”

    • juris imprudent

      “But it’s my dad’s car!?!”

    • limey

      A nice little vignette of life at the DMV?

    • Sean

      LOL

  6. DEG

    “It’s unfortunate. It’s disheartening,” said Tavill. “They took the time to smash out every bit of glass that there was at the door. The inside glass, the window glass, the door panel, everything was just gone.”

    Surprisingly thorough.

    Chief Health Officer John Gerrard attempted to shoo the huntsman spider away with some papers, but the officials soon lost track of the arachnid.

    That’s riskier to her than Covid.

    The standing committee of the country’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, deliberated a draft amendment to the “Women’s Rights and Interests Protection Law,” state television network CCTV reported.

    Why do I expect this to amount to nothing?

    Both deputies were charged with disorderly conduct and Pike is facing an additional charge of felony battery.

    Whom did they piss off to get charged? I’m certain it was a good punch, they weren’t trained to not punch people, the totality of the circs, hth, smooches, kthxbye.

    • invisible finger

      When they board up the windows, will the Taekwando students break the boards?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Why do I expect this to amount to nothing?

      Oh, it’ll amount to nothing in China, but I expect the US-based progs to jump on the “See even China has a national women’s rights law why doesn’t the US have one???” train next time they feel the need to trash the US and portray their opponents as sexist monsters.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        As I recall, the constitution of the Soviet Union guaranteed freedom of speech.

        Laws are meaningless in a lawless society.

      • Gender Traitor

        …as they also are in a “mandated” society.

  7. Mojeaux

    I’m changing my account on Twitter. If you get a follower @lizardgumbo, that’s me.

    • Tres Cool

      In the interest of mental health, you should likely just dump Twitter entirely. I know it could be useful for you business, but….
      Just a free tip from your Uncle Tres.

      • Mojeaux

        I have frens.

      • pistoffnick

        There is no need to brag!

        /kicks rock

      • Mojeaux

        ?

      • Gender Traitor

        I was all set to link to “I Got Friends in Crawl Spaces,” but after listening to a few bars, I remembered that even I have musical standards.

    • R.J.

      Kinda rhymes with Mojeaux.

    • STEVE SMITH

      YOU NO MAKE GUMBO OUT MR. LIZARD?! STEVE SMITH MISS LIZARD MAN. HIM FUNNY.

      • Shpip

        See, the problem with Mr. Lizard was, while his avatar was of a six foot iguana, in reality he was a six in anole.

        I actually bumped into him outside of Tampa some time back, and… all right, I didn’t mean to do it, okay?

      • rhywun

        lol

  8. LJW

    “NE Sandy Blvd businesses disheartened by repeated vandalism”

    At what point is/was it OK to blame the victim? It’s not exactly news that you live in a shit hole.

    • STEVE SMITH

      WHAT HIM HAVE LEASE? HIM HAVE HOUSE? HIM JUST RUN AWAY AND LEAVE ALL THINGS? YOU HOUSE GET ROBBED, YOU MOVE?

      • rhywun

        Yeah, “don’t be poor”.

  9. Count Potato

    “Democrat Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday night, hours after Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker tweeted news of their own diagnoses.

    The spate of new infections among Democratic lawmakers is further fueling fears that the Omicron variant causing chaos around the globe has worked its way inside the United States Capitol.

    In addition to them, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced on Monday that he also tested positive for the virus.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10329047/THREE-lawmakers-test-positive-Rep-Jason-Crow-confirms-COVID-case-Senators-Warren-Booker.html

    So it only infects Democrats?

    • The Other Kevin

      Republicans aren’t dumb enough to publicize it and face a shit storm of “I hope it kills him” stories and tweets.

      • invisible finger

        Republicans haven’t figured out “victim cred” yet.

      • rhywun

        Or, they’ve figured out they will never get it.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Larry Hogan is a repub…

      Actually, nevermind.

  10. Count Potato

    “Utah college student, 19, is found alive but naked and covered in coal in the basement of her 39-year-old suspected kidnapper’s home five days after she was seen leaving her dorm”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10329009/Utah-college-student-19-naked-covered-coal-suspected-kidnappers-home.html

    “‘Cannibal’, 39, is charged after Idaho police find microwaved body parts of 70-year-old victim that murder suspect allegedly ate to ‘cure his brain'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10329261/Cannibal-charged-Idaho-police-microwaved-body-parts-70-year-old-victim.html

    Criminals are trying to out weird each other.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Coal?

      • The Other Kevin

        They were trying to frame Manchin.

      • Sean

        Ha!

      • STEVE SMITH

        HIM VERY NAUGHTY, SANTA GIVE COAL EVERY YEAR.

      • invisible finger

        STEVE SMITH not into the whole slavery thing; employees are just needless overhead.

      • Count Potato

        She was of legal age.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Is there a statute on burying minors in coal that I’m not aware of?

        I wish somebody would keep me up to date on this stuff.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sounds like blackbody as opposed to just blackface. So even worse than the worst crime (liberal politicians excepted)

      • juris imprudent

        She was a climate change fetishist?

      • invisible finger

        No, just miners.

      • Count Potato

        *walks back to dugout*

      • Drake

        Like a coal-fired human pizza?

    • LJW

      Missing from the headline

      “Affidavit alleges Allen met Brown in a slave domination chatroom on KIK messaging app and agreed to have him pick her up on December 13 “

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Stupid is as stupid does

      • EvilSheldon

        When meeting up with a new dom/sub, probably just start out with a lunch date…

      • Sensei

        Giving a new meaning to the toast “Bottom’s up!”

      • R C Dean

        Paging Creosote Achilles . . . .

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Well that’s embarrassing. Did she forget the safe word?

      • Tundra

        I was about to become outraged until I read that.

    • Plinker762

      BRAINS!

  11. Sensei

    My “lottery number” came up with EVGA. After only 13 months, I now had a 20 hour window to purchase an RTX 3080 10GB GPU for a low price including tax and shipping of $1k.

    I can turn around and sell this at roughly $1.4k. I can’t begin to tell you how much crypto has messed up the GPU market.

    When I signed up the retail on this card was $800. Naturally, I bought the thing. Merry Christmas to me!

    • LJW

      By the time my number is drawn the 4080 will be out.

    • rhywun

      The page I was looking at for cards gives a retail of 699 for that one. “Updated Oct. 5”

      Yikes.

  12. grrizzly

    Police deputies and sailors. I guess that’s why I’m heading to Key West for a week.

    • STEVE SMITH

      WATCH OUT! NO GET PUNCH.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Sounds like The Village People are having a reunion.

      • rhywun

        Right, hawt?

      • Gender Traitor

        Conspicuous by their absence from the between-inning antics at our local minor league ballpark this past season were the Retirement Village People. ?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It’s fun to stay in the VA…

      • B.P.

        It’s fun to rip through my 4-0-1-K

    • invisible finger

      I’m sure they’ll remember you for their next fundraiser.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m sorry. My youngest is in travel volleyball now, and we just got word she has to practice with a mask on.

    • rhywun

      Do NOT comply.

      I have no intention of it.

  13. Count Potato

    I looked around. From what I can tell, the face of the lapdancing cop has been blurred out everywhere. She’s not underage. She’s not a victim of a sex crime. It’s not because she’s a police officer, as the faces of the other cops there aren’t blurred. It’s also not because she’s a woman. The media shows the faces of women caught doing inappropriate things all the time.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, I noticed that. Why would you do that?

      And why would you pretend nobody knows who it was? Because, trust me, you can ask any cop at that precinct, and maybe in the whole department, and they know. I see absolutely no reason why her name isn’t a legit part of the story.

      • kinnath

        Somebody’s daughter perhaps?

      • R C Dean

        I think its pretty certain that she’s somebody’s daughter.

        Somebody who matters? Who knows? And wouldn’t that just make it a better news story?

      • kinnath

        Somebody who matters?

        Someone important to the press. Someone the press wants to protect. Some democrat maybe.

      • Q Continuum

        She’s just showing her female empowerment in the face of rampant toxic masculinity ok shitlord? The selfless hero journalists are trying to protect her from our evil, corrupt patriarchy and all you care about is seeing her face so you can enrich your disgusting male Onanistic pleasure sessions! Take your mansplaining and phallic-centered narrative elsewhere while we allow the poor victim to anonymously tell *her* truth.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe her face is soooooooooo ugly…

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        She’s got no alibi.

  14. rhywun

    ‘Well, we don’t really do patrols anymore.’

    Or detective work. Or indictments. Or punishment of any kind….

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I like #2. Yusef will like #22.

      66 will murder you in your sleep.

  15. rhywun

    So with half the NFL on the “Covid list” why aren’t we mourning their inevitable deaths instead of just acting like they stubbed a toe and will be back next week?

    • Q Continuum

      STFU!

      /pubhelth “experts”

    • slumbrew

      It’s hitting the bottom line, so changes must be made:

      Under the new policy, fully vaccinated, asymptomatic players and staff members are no longer subject to weekly testing. The league will instead turn to targeted testing of symptomatic individuals. Unvaccinated individuals will still be subject to daily testing.

      • rhywun

        The bottom line is “games suck”, right? Right?

      • rhywun

        Oh, and SCIENCE!

        JFC

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I remember last season without vaccines. Everyone dead.

    • Ted S.

      The branch covidians I know are mostly bitching that the league cares more about money than the health of the players.

  16. Certified Public Asshat

    What would make you feel safer? Guaranteed paid family leave or a $768,000,000,000 defense budget?— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) December 20, 2021

    FYCS, but if I have to choose one…

    Damn, I guess the defense budget. *goes to take a shower*

    • R C Dean

      Guaranteed paid family leave isn’t a “safety” issue at all. Well, it wouldn’t be if words still had meanings, anyway.

      • rhywun

        “Safety” has been redefined to mean “freedom from any worry, want, or criticism whatsoever”.

        Somebody should put out of dictionary of this stuff. Maybe give it a fancy new name like “Newspeak”.

      • EvilSheldon

        So much this.

        People who have few difficulties in life can go one of two ways. They can seek out challenges and achievements on their own time, or they can become one of the ‘wimpy little bitch’ subspecies of progressive.

  17. UnCivilServant

    *Looks at well-stocked kitchen*

    There’s nothing to eat.

    /Overgrown child

    • Gender Traitor

      Brownies! ?

      • UnCivilServant

        I gave a bunch away at winter steel. And I have to pace the rest.

      • Not Adahn

        I have had two different people ask about scores. I really need to learn practiscore.

        Also the CRO was baffled that we had 16 people show up “because of the weather.”

    • Sean

      This is why I meal prep.

      #lazycook

  18. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    Wait, there’s an NFL game on now?

    • Gender Traitor

      Is it the postponed Browns game?

      • rhywun

        Yes. Minus the plague-ridden unfortunates.

    • Penguin

      Yeah, on the NFL Network. There’s another one later. On ESPN.

      • hayeksplosives

        It’s also on Fubo.

  19. Drake

    My son is driving back from SC today – except he decided to take a 200-mile detour to get laid. Hard to be mad since I did the same shit when I was 21. So mayne we’ll see him tomorrow.

    • Sean

      Priorities.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, 200 miles? Pfft totally worth it.

    • Penguin

      Just admit that you’re proud and be done with it.

      • Mojeaux

        ^^^

    • Ed Wuncler

      It’s so absurd when I think about the shit I did for some ass when I was in college.

      • Animal

        Boy howdy, ain’t that the truth.

      • ron73440

        Once my wife’s car started died while we were dating.

        I took her out anyway and push started it a few times.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Yep. Rode my motorcycle over Donner Pass at midnight in October. Of, course, my hands were frozen into claws by the time I got to SF, but someone helped thaw them.

    • Tundra

      Most transparent humble brag ever.

      Is she hot?

    • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

      Humblebrag.

      First-world problems.

      Expecting Grandpa.

  20. Penguin

    Tampa family sues SIG Sauer b/c their P320 goes off too easily. No comment on teens doing dumb things when they haven’t been trained with guns.

    • R C Dean

      December 13, 2019, four friends were at a Tampa Police officer’s home in Lithia while he was away. They got ahold of his personal gun. And 15-year-old Christopher “Ramsey” Bevan accidentally shot and killed Hulett.

      Well, they committed a felony. Technically, when they picked up the gun, they stole it.

      SIG SAUER acknowledged in 2017 that “dropping the P320 … may cause an unintentional discharge.” They offered a free, voluntary program allowing owners to “upgrade” to a newer version with safety enhancements. Tampa PD sent back their issued P320s to be refitted.

      Should be easy enough to determine whether the gun was actually defective.

      “This alternate explanation is that this perhaps was not a reckless, and certainly not an intentional killing, but perhaps a defect in that firearm that caused this tragedy,” Ansari said.

      Even if the gun went off because it was dropped (not mentioned: whether they dropped the gun and it fired), its was still reckless for these yahoos to fool around with a gun without confirming that it was clear.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        A 15 year old is pretty much the definition of a reckless yahoo. The last time my dad smacked me I was about that age and I looked down the barrel of a gun he was cleaning. I can’t explain why I did it, other than the fact that I was a 15 year old idiot. None of that makes it the gun manufacturer’s fault though.

      • rhywun

        LOL you probably believe in “personal responsibility”. How quaint.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Stupid teenager does stupid thing and somebody dies.

      How unprecedented…

      • cyto

        What is unprecedented is that we as a society have decided that there is no longer such a thing as a stupid teenager doing something stupid. We have to hold someone accountable!!

        When I was 13-14 we used to sneak black powder from my friend’s dad’s supply for his muzzle loaders. We made small bombs out of things like the cardboard tubes on the bottom of hangars from the dry cleaners. Nobody got killed, but not for a lack of stupid.

        Today we would all be serving life terms for terrorism.

        That is a huge loss to society.

        We have gotten so depraved that we are charging kids as young as 12 as adults. The entire point has been lost… The same way the idiot progressives lost the point on covid (stopping the hospitals from getting overwhelmed). They changed the ability to charge kids as adults because 17 year old kids were doing armed robberies and shooting people and getting released from juvenile detention when they turned 18 with a clean record.

        Now we put 13 year old girls on lifetime Sex offender registries for taking selfies of their boobs and sending them to their boyfriend.

        The founding fathers were right to be worried. People are too stupid to be trusted with self-governance.

  21. LCDR_Fish

    Quick note I saw today: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-our-federal-overseers-do-science/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=second

    Phil Magness, that irrepressible foe of statism, managed to obtain emails between White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and NIH director Francis Collins in which they hatch an attack on the Great Barrington Declaration. (The GBD was authored by three well-known epidemiologists, arguing that the best approach to COVID was not locking down, but targeted protection for the truly vulnerable.)

    Dissent from the federal government’s chosen strategy was quite unwelcome. “There needs to be a quick and devastating takedown of its premises,” Collins wrote in reference to the GBD. Real scientists would investigate the premises first, then decide if the declaration should be subject to a “takedown,” but no such thing ever happened. The authors were disparaged, their motives impugned, their conclusions ridiculed, but one looks in vain for anything like a scientific counter-argument.

    It’s enough to make you suspect that the real objective of Fauci and friends was expansion of government authority rather than protection against disease.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/PhilWMagness/status/1471956647266377736

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fauci’s objectives have always been about his ego and wallet.

      It seems Collins may be similar.

      • hayeksplosives

        Fauci also has a long history of pursuing socialist agendas, all in the name of Public Health. Fighting global warming, “de-urbanizing”, turning back industrialization.

        I mean, the dude really wants a Mao-style “cultural revolution.”

        I’ll have to dig up the source for that. I heard it (in Fauci’s own words) on a podcast.

        Evil gnome.

      • ron73440

        I think he said we need a new way to look at modern life and then rattled of a Green New Deal list of wishes.

        My mom wishes he could be president.

      • B.P.

        Here’s a billion-word piece co-authored by that dickbag:

        https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31012-6

        “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that overcrowding in dwellings and places of human congregation (sports venues, bars, restaurants, beaches, airports), as well as human geographic movement, catalyzes disease spread.

        Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming.”

        You fucks cooked this shit up in a lab, and now you’re talking about living in greater harmony with nature?

      • hayeksplosives

        “Prioritize changes in human behavior”

        Let me introduce you to the concept of Human Action and Motivation, you control freak.

        Unbelievable hubris.

        (Thanks for digging up that link!)

      • juris imprudent

        Isn’t this right out of the hubris of Asimov’s Foundation?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yes

    • rhywun

      I’m sure CNN and friends will get right on reporting this.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Related: re: Trump

      Trump: “I didn’t… because if you fire him [Fauci] you’re going to have a firestorm on the Left.”

      https://twitter.com/Tamzilla_52/status/1473008076047405060

      And there you have it. He made a political calculation that really hurt him. It wasn’t because it was the right thing to do. Sounds like a politician to me and this is utterly disqualifying if he runs again.

      • Ed Wuncler

        I just don’t get his logic. The Left made him into Satan reincarnate, so firing or keeping Fauci wouldn’t have made a damn difference. I’m being an armchair general but if I knew that there was a soft coup against me, I would do everything I could to put my thumb in the Left’s and media’s faces and fire all those swamp fucks.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Definitely. Not exactly the most calculating type.

      • Ed Wuncler

        I hope Trump puts his ego aside and endorse DeSantis. I know DeSantis is a statist fuck too but he’s leagues better than what the Dems will foist on us in 2024.

      • creech

        You ever watch “The Apprentice?” Half the time it was pretty obvious Trump fired the wrong contestant.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Nope, but there was an Adam Carolla ep a week or two back where he was discussing with someone (don’t recall which show) but it was one of the ones he was helping with IIRC – there was something about one of the contestants having said something disparaging about Trump – and although he was far more qualified, he was dropped – almost explicitly because of the criticism.

        Similarly…there was a caller on Adam and Drew last week asking Drew if he regretted his defense of Fauci and the HIV epidemic stuff, etc. Drew did admit some blame/remorse for the policy recommendations at the time – since they were extrapolating from other data. He’s been coming around on a lot of stuff, but he just can’t burn the bridges behind him – just like Adam will call out virtually everybody but can’t put out a legit criticism of Kimmel.

        80% solution is still better than 98% of the other folks on the air.

      • cyto

        I thought the same thing. In fact, I thought he usually picked the wrong guy after a while.

        Then I heard Penn Gillette talking about it… Before the great got hate-fest…. He said something about Trump realizing that it was a show and about ratings and having a great instinct for what would drive viewers… Like picking Amorosa or firing the nice guy that did a good job…

        I still didn’t really get it until later when I saw how he had an instinct for manipulating the media during the republican primaries. I kinda wonder if he used to watch pro wrestling as a kid… Because he seems to understand that dynamic… The Heel, the hero, the underdog…. He plays characters and just like pro wrestling, he never winks at the audience. He plays it straight, no matter how absurd he is being as the Heel.

        I think that is who he was being on the Apprentice. A character who fires the wrong guy and keeps the spicy feuds going for ratings.

      • Raven Nation

        Victor Davis Hanson made the argument that Trump should have called a big press conference, said all kinds of nice things about Fauci, then say something along the lines of we can’t ask a man of his age to carry this burden anymore and wish him well into retirement.

    • creech

      Collins sat for a cockslobbering interview by CBS “Sunday Morning” yesterday, calling Fauci “the world’s greatest epidemiology expert.” CBS made Collins come across as a real hero for “standing up to Trump” and painted Sen. Paul as some kind of kook for letting politics pollute “science.”

      • whiz

        Actually he’s an immunologist. Fact check: FALSE!

      • R C Dean

        Ackchually, he is a primary care physician (boarded in Internal Medicine). He is not a specialist of any kind.

      • Gender Traitor

        How long has it been since he directly treated a patient?

      • kinnath

        Internship

    • Penguin

      Their culture isn’t just all banks & watches.

      • rhywun

        LOL I had no idea they were from there.

      • Tundra

        Underrated, IMHO.

      • Penguin

        I generally disliked “power ballads”, but Screaming in the Night was a good song (although you could start it a minute in and not lose much).

  22. ron73440

    Just flipped through ABC, NBC, and CBS news.

    All three were doing the same story:

    Omicron is the dominant strain in the US.

    PBS had BBC news on an that woman was lamenting the fact that most of the world has locked down, but not the US, even though Omicron was surging.

    TMITE

    • Penguin

      Peace be upon your balls, ron73440.

      • ron73440

        Thanks, still waiting for swelling to go down.

      • Tundra

        May your balls find peace in the new year.

        Get it right, Penguin.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Lemme guess, they didn’t say anything about Omicron being much milder.

      • ron73440

        Why would they, that’s not how you fearmonger.

      • hayeksplosives

        Baker Mayfield is allegedly crawling up the walls because he tested positive but is completely asymptomatic, but they won’t let him play.

        The NFL has decided to test people only if they have symptoms from here on out. $$>virtue signaling.

      • juris imprudent

        $$>virtue signaling.

        Good! We need a lot more of that.

      • rhywun

        Seriously.

      • rhywun

        I thought I heard one of the commentators mention one or more players who were on and off “the list” multiple times.

        The whole thing is a fucking joke.

    • rhywun

      Quick – fire another 10% of hospital workers to further fuel the “straining” narrative.

    • DEG

      Have some more panic porn

      New Hampshire’s first pediatric COVID-19 death occurred in September, state health officials announced on Monday.

      The person who died was under 12 years of age and COVID-19 was listed as the cause of death on the recently finalized death certificate, officials said.

      Health officials said the person was under 18 years of age but also indicated they were too young to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccinations were approved for people 12 and older before September.

  23. rhywun

    I wonder how many of my co-workers are suffering through this game.

    (The mothership is within walking distance of the stadium.)

    • Count Potato

      They are playing in NJ?

      • rhywun

        NJ is a satellite office.

        The main office is in downtown Cleveland.

      • Count Potato

        Oh, OK

  24. kinnath

    I recently finish Squid Game on Netflix. It is great.

    Tonight I finished Arcane. What an amazing fucking show.

    See Critical Drinker Recommends for both shows.

    • cyto

      Both have actual characters that have actual motivations beyond being a woman or a gay man or some other diverse checkbox.

      Squid game is fantastic because it is true sci-fi morality play… A ludicrous setup puts them in a hideous moral dilemma and then the writers and actors explore the consequences with great performances of real flawed characters acting on realistic motivations based in in-depth backstories. Even the hysterically terrible evil rich Americans couldn’t dent the outstanding core.

  25. Not Adahn

    At a club meeting. Lots of masks, which is perfectly understandable considering that some of these geezers probably met John Moses Browning in person.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yeah, I’m sympathetic to the high risk elderly, and I don’t mind wearing a mask at medical facilities.

      But if the geezer want to go out for dinner or catch a game, that’s up to them to decide about their own risk/reward. I’m not wearing a mask for them.

      Church is a difficult one because lots of elderly there. To their credit, most don’t wear masks.

      • rhywun

        I don’t mind wearing a mask at medical facilities

        I guess I mind, in that I didn’t wear the fucking thing in my hospital room last year for most of 11 days, including the days I had a tube shoved down my nose, until my surgeon did a tsk-tsk near the end.

        I was tested. My roommates (four of them in succession) were tested. All the docs and nurses were tested.

        But I won’t fight it, there. Ask nicely and I’ll wear the totem. It’s not like there’s another hospital down the road I can choose.

      • ron73440

        I didn’t get a sonogram because I wouldn’t cover my nose.

        I don’t see why I should risk losing a night’s sleep due to a headache when I tested negative.

      • Tundra

        I finally got kicked out of a place. A fucking tanning salon!

        So I drove down the street about 5 minutes and found a place that was happy to take my money.

        I’m done.

      • rhywun

        tanning salon

        Gay.

      • Tundra

        Scottish skin, dude.

      • rhywun

        And?

        You’re not helping your case.

      • Tundra

        OK.

        I am getting on a plane in one week to spend a week, nearly naked, at a latitude that provides copious amounts of sun. My Scottish ancestors, while impressive people, did not provide sufficient melanin to survive such a trip.

        There was a tranny leaving as I walked in, though.

      • rhywun

        lol

        Yeah, I don’t do nearly-naked in the sun for long periods.

        My many admirers can just deal with it.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        I mind because it is anti-scientific, in the real sense. Masks only accomplish fearmongering, at least at the level we are being “asked” to wear them.

      • hayeksplosives

        I should have mentioned that I meant in the waiting room. I think kids actively coughing up phlegm might as well not be hacking said phlegm directly onto me.

        But I wouldn’t expect my doctor to wear a mask or for me to in the exam room. And certainly not in my hospital room if I’m checked in!!

      • ron73440

        certainly not in my hospital room if I’m checked in!!

        They mentioned that the first time they came in my room, after my flat refusal it wasn’t mentioned until it was sonogram time.

    • EvilSheldon

      Interesting. I see basically zero masks at the local matches. A few at the indoor range, and no real correlation to age.

  26. hayeksplosives

    I subscribe to “History Vault” on Amazon Video.

    I recently watched a three part documentary on U.S. Grant. It was excellent.

    https://watch.historyvault.com/shows/grant

    • ron73440

      I saw that when they had it on the channel.

      I agree, it is excellent.

  27. LCDR_Fish

    Good news for Mojeaux’s XX and others.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/fedex-says-it-has-reached-appropriate-staffing-levels/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=third

    Supply Chain Dive reports: “FedEx has reached ‘appropriate staffing levels’ in its frontline workforce for the peak season, President and COO Raj Subramaniam said on its Q2 earnings call Thursday, after the company endured months of labor constraints that hurt service levels.” In a time when staffing shortages seem to be everywhere, this is welcome news.

    The company was bleeding money due to a shortage of labor, losing $470 million in the past quarter because of it. “In September, FedEx Ground was rerouting more than 600,000 packages a day just to work around staffing shortages at company hubs,” the story says.

    The company went on an aggressive hiring tear to bridge the gap, with 10,000 to 12,000 hires a week in the past quarter. Since September, the company is up more than 60,000 frontline employees. They were able to add so many by increasing pay, giving more paid time off, and offering tuition reimbursement, the story says.

    Subramaniam doesn’t see these new employees as temporary hires to cover a shortage. He said that FedEx is “focused on retaining recently hired employees for the long haul to keep its network efficient,” Supply Chain Dive reports.

    These changes won’t have an immediate effect. “Labor constraints will keep costs high through the second half of the fiscal year, though hiring challenges and network efficiencies are expected to ease in Q3,” the story says. (FedEx’s fiscal year begins June 1; Q3 is December 1 through February 28.) But FedEx is thinking long-term in response to a short-term crisis.

    This is one example of a company taking initiative to rethink the way it does business in the wake of the pandemic disruptions. It responded to profit-loss signals, increased compensation to hire more workers, and is reorganizing the way it hires to respond to seasonal changes. This is what it looks like for the private sector to figure things out.

    Whether this all pans out for FedEx (or any other company) remains to be seen. But it’s a private-sector response to the labor situation, and FedEx thinks it has the people it needs to do business right now.

    • Mojeaux

      So she got in in the nick of time!

      Still, she’s on a long waiting list for fulltime.

      • ron73440

        Is full time awarded on merit, or is it seniority?

      • Mojeaux

        Now, that, I don’t know. I’ll ask when she gets home.

  28. Mojeaux

    The Dolphins’ colors are ugly.