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  1. AlexinCT

    Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine mandate for private firms, allows mandate for healthcare workers

    The big woke companies that wanted legal cover are now screwed. If they mandate it (not two guys going on a date) they now run the risk someone will sue them if things go bad because of the clot shot.

    • rhywun

      Interesting point. I wonder if it will fly.

      • AlexinCT

        They lost their government provided protection from the mandate. So now they are worried which event will be worse for them,. Enforce the vaccine requirement anyway and risk the legal shit from that, or not enforce it and risk the legal shit from that. There will be no principled stance, but just a guess at which effort is less costly/risky, and we will all pay for it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And some companies are still going forward with it anyways.

    • Drake

      I hope it all starts winding done now. The OMGcron exposed the vaxes as dangerous fakes. Now that there is no legal cover, any smart company will just drop it rather than get sued for groundless firings or vax side-effects.

    • robc

      My company has been saying they will follow OSHA. So I guess now, that means nothing. My gut feeling from his comments is the CEO wants to mandate it (his wife nearly died from covid), but we are manufacturing and having staffing shortages on the lines already, so he won’t push anything that isn’t required.

      • Drake

        Got the same vibe from my bosses. They were willing twist arms – but only if it was at no risk to them.

    • Brawndo

      My employer has actually been reasonable on this. Surprising for a fairly large, New York based company, that projects wokeness wherever it can. They’ve not mandated anything even though we are a retail operation. They’ve been offering vaccines and boosters for free and encouraged everyone to get one, but that’s it. At least until a couple days ago when they started requiring us to put our vaccination status on our work profile (only management and HR can see it). We are allowed to put “decline to answer”. Even still, I’m going to drag my feet on this as much as I can. As a middle manager, they’re going to ask me to tell my employees to put that info up, and I really don’t want to get involved with that.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Figuring out who they would lose/could get rid of, is the first step.

      • rhywun

        We are allowed to put “decline to answer”

        How about “Fuck off”?

    • C. Anacreon

      mandate it (not two guys going on a date)

      Back in college in 1980 one of the guys in our fraternity was found to have a hidden copy of Man Date magazine, apparently gay porn. It led to a lot of of jokes (the world 42 years ago was quite different) but that was all, surprisingly enough. He decided to come out of the closet as a result, and ended up being elected VP of our house not long after. Nice to know that even flyover country rubes back then were pretty tolerant, despite what the Left today insists they still are.

  2. AlexinCT

    Eleven Oath Keepers including leader charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot

    People to government/FBI: “Who is Ray Epps and was the FBI inciting what happened?”

    Government/FBI: “Look over there!”

    • SDF-7

      I think it was Rebel Scum yesterday that expressed my thoughts:

      Congress / Repubs: “Insurrection, huh? Yet no one has been charged with sedition or insurrection in over a year of investigation…”

      Left: “QUICK! Charge someone with sedition!”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pretty much the only thing that makes sense on timing.

  3. Fourscore

    “RNC mulls requiring candidates to avoid debates”

    Free speech is gonna go up 9.7%

    • AlexinCT

      Did you pick that number randomly, or because that is the inflation number for 2022 so far?

  4. Rebel Scum

    Sinema doubles down on filibuster support, dealing likely fatal blow to Dems’ election bills

    One person shouldn’t be able to thwart democracy. – Dems

    • AlexinCT

      The left has clearly made the point that they want the minority to be able to block the majority when THEY are in the minority, but that when they are in the majority, this favor should NOT be returned. See Schumer when they were in the minority vs. Schumer today when they desperately need a bill to fortify elections so they don’t end up getting buttfucked in the 2022 midterms.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Dems have clearly made the point that they want an autocrat from their party.

        Anything else is just window dressing.

  5. AlexinCT

    Federal government caused monoclonal antibody shortage, says medical supplies CEO

    The tone in that heading kind of gives you the impression this was incidental/accidental, but the reality is that the Biden people did this on purpose and by design. My belief is that was done because they are all in cahoots with big pharma and the money they are raking in forcing people to take shots into perpetuity and that they need this crisis to continue longer so they have excuses to keep fucking fortifying elections.

    • Brawndo

      It doesn’t make much sense. Monoclonal antibodies were developed as part of Operation Warpspeed along with the vaccines. I can understand big pharma wanting to slander ivermectin and HCQ+zinc because they can’t make money on it, but as of now there is literally no treatment protocol for Covid until you are on deaths door and then they will finish you off with a ventilator.

  6. Rebel Scum

    Rhodes put out a call on the group’s website in the days before the attack for “all patriots who can be in DC” to travel to Washington for a “security mission” to “stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight,”

    ///FightLikeHell

  7. juris imprudent

    Epps was there and is under no threat, Rhodes wasn’t there and is indicted.

    That word, justice, I don’t think it means what you think it does. You must’ve put too many modifiers on it and drained it of all meaning.

    • Rebel Scum

      D00d. Epps testified that he is totally not an FBI asset. And he totally is not on camera committing incitement on multiple occasions.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I worry about that guy’s bar glassware. All the things it heard when Ray was crying in his beer has put it in jeopardy.

        If it suddenly “falls” and breaks, I’ll be the first one shouting “Epp’s stein didn’t kill itself!”

      • SDF-7

        How long have you been brewing that little gem?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Just beer with me and my puns.

      • SDF-7

        Only if you hop to it and keep us amused, good Pope.

      • Nephilium

        Threads like this are why I love this place. Worts and all.

      • db

        It’s a tun of fun around here.

      • Fourscore

        You drained every drop out of that pun, Jimbo.

      • SDF-7

        He’s a right barrel of laughs, that one.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Oh, pils, you have been holdstein that in for a while.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *tapers stare*

      • Mason

        They’re missing the lager point of all this.

      • Pope Jimbo

        They’re missing the lager pint of all of this

        FTFY

      • juris imprudent

        Slips just to the side of that one; it wasn’t me for once.

    • AlexinCT

      You used the wrong word there. This isn’t about any sort of justice. See 6 months of rioting and some $20 billion plus in damages, over 30 bodies, and absolute chaos supported by a apolitical party for more details.

      This is about political theatre and helping team blue and the deep state thwart the people’s attempts to stop them from only allowing the people to pick from candidates that are compromised and owned by the deep state so the deep state can continue to be inept, corrupt, and evil without impunity.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Dealmed CEO Michael Einhorn told NTD News that “relying on the government to determine who gets what… can be very lengthy in terms of time and oftentimes you have surpluses in certain areas and nothing in other areas.”

    “The process that we have now, which is practically a government takeover of these products, is not the solution and isn’t working,” Einhorn said.

    Private shipments of Regeneron and Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibody treatments were paused by the Biden administration. Eventually, the federal government took over distribution, but Florida Gov. Ron Desantis accused President Joe Biden of having a “stranglehold” on the treatment by controlling shipments to the state.

    That’s crazy. Everybody knows government bureaucrats are omniscient, and perfectly aware of all aspects of the supply and demand for every product and service.

    • AlexinCT

      Maniac left: WE WANT GOVERNMENT HELALTH CARE BECAUSE IT IS A HUMAN RIGHT!

      Reality: They want to break the healthcare system to punish people and really and most importantly use the power of government to force the people they hate to comply with the evil shit they want to do no matter how destructive and divisive that shit is.

    • rhywun

      Private shipments of ____ were paused by the Biden administration.

      How is this even a thing that we allowed to happen?

      • AlexinCT

        I see your problem…

        You assume the people that should have known better and would have objected were either informed or against the shit in the first place. You can’t object to something, to prevent it at least, if you only find out about it after the fact. It’s too late. Too many people have jigh stakes they have to play for, and what is good for the people isn’t on any of those lists…

      • Rebel Scum

        See: Keystone

        Approved project under construction stopped by the admin. ///FYTW

      • Brawndo

        Commerce Clause. What *can’t* it do?

  9. AlexinCT

    Kamala Harris Spits Out A Word Salad When NBC Reporter Presses Her On COVID Strategy

    If it works for Joe……

    • Fourscore

      KH has a new budding career on TV. A show called “Guess What I’m Saying”

    • invisible finger

      I expected her to swallow.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Only if it means a promotion.

  10. Rebel Scum

    RNC mulls requiring candidates to avoid debates hosted by Commission on Presidential Debates

    And miss out on having to debate the opponent AND the moderator? This is just part of the ongoing slow motion insurrection.

    • Nephilium

      In the era of multiple communication platforms, we need to schedule times for the candidates to spout talking points in response to tangentially related questions. Otherwise Democracy dies.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well I for one don’t want to have to listen to a candidate’s video where they take a deep dive into a particular issue and explain why they are the one who can help fix the problem.

        I want to listen to no more than 30 seconds on any issue. And 28 seconds of that should be them calling their opponent a liar.

        That is what the electorate demands and deserves.

      • Fourscore

        Put the debate on at 3 AM and see how many people really care.

      • AlexinCT

        Politicians don’t fix things. There is no power and/or ability to get reelected in that shit. I want a candidate that says their sole focus will be to tear down the bureaucratic behemoth and reduce the system that allows the people in power to collude with the wealthy at our expenses to rubble. It is a fascist system that socializes private loss and privatizes private profit, and our power cabal has managed to enrich themselves beyond their wildest dreams by making the little people pay for the massive mistakes they have straddled us with.

      • Fourscore

        Failure is success

  11. Not Adahn

    A good thing about being on covid leave is the tastier breakfasts. Corned beef hash and eggs this morning. Except I didn’t have any corned beef so I used sausage. And I didn’t have any potatoes so I used broccoli.

    • Tulip

      Sausage, ok. Broccoli?

      • Not Adahn

        Big fan of that combo, especially on pizza.

      • Nephilium

        Works well with orzo in a skillet for a quick dinner too.

      • AlexinCT

        Needs more hot sauce…

    • Ted S.

      I thought you lost your sense of taste.

      • Mason

        That’s how he is able to substitute broccoli for potatoes.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    She’s no Frederick Douglass.

    • SDF-7

      Hell, she’s no Helen Keller.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ll give her some credit. She’s half a Ghandi.

      • AlexinCT

        Are you cracking dot Indian jokes?

  13. SDF-7

    Sorry for the non-links link a little early, Banjos (and good morning!) — but this flabbergasted me:

    45% of polled Democrats favor *camps* for the unvaccinated. And other bits of totalitarian goodness.

    See also: They hate you, and they want you dead. There’s just a lot more of them than I would have suspected in the US. Thanks, Deptartment of Education.

    • Sean

      FWIW, I recently participated in a Rasmussen poll. I identified as a Hispanic female against illegal immigration.

    • SDF-7

      “Deptartment of Education” — yeah, I speel gud… sheesh.

      • Fourscore

        Public school much?

        Finally, I may get a chance to go to camp that I missed as a kid.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      48% think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.

      Time to buy some more ammo.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      It’s not over. It’s only beginning.

      Some of the other stats are chilling, too. 54% of the left support forcibly locking unvaxxers in their homes. Hitler didn’t have that level of support before he started strapping stars to semites.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Goebbels could have learned a thing or two from CNN and NPR.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Other polling from Rasmussen shows that Democrats have higher rates of fear related to COVID and new variants.”

      Their news sources are telling them to panic, and it’s still working.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The problem is that you can’t just turn the panic off.

      • Ownbestenemy

        When 2 years in you still think you have a 50/50 chance of being hospitalized what do you expect. Or that the rate of death is like 90% if you catch it.

    • Rebel Scum

      They did it to the Japanese…and also Republicans are fascists.

      • Rebel Scum

        To put a finer point on that:

        A healthy majority, 78%, of Democrats support COVID vaccine mandates, which would force people out of their jobs if they choose not to receive a vaccination. Three-quarters have a favorable opinion of Dr. Fauci. A majority of Republicans and unaffiliated voters oppose the mandate and have a dim view of President Biden’s chief medical advisor.

        In addition, a majority of Democrats support harsher measures for those who decide not to receive a vaccine that can’t prevent transmission or illness:

        55% support fines for those who do not receive the vaccine.
        59% support a policy that would keep the unvaccinated confined to their homes except for emergencies.
        48% think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.
        45% favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
        47% favor a government digital tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine to ensure that they socially distance and quarantine.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        At this point, I’m hoping they self-destruct by continuing to vaccinate until they are dead.

        It may be the least violent way out of this.

  14. Not Adahn

    Kamala Harris Spits

    I thought you had to swallow to advance as far as she has.

    • SDF-7

      Well, except for the ones that were chicken apparently.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    President Affirmative Action strikes again

    A source familiar with the president’s plans said Biden will tap former Fed governor Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as Vice Chair for Supervision — a key regulatory role. In addition, Biden plans to nominate academic economists Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson to fill the remaining vacancies on the Fed’s seven-member governing board.

    If confirmed, Cook and Jefferson would be two of only five African American Fed governors in the central bank’s 108-year history, and the first since 2006.

    Qualifications? Skin color.

  16. Pope Jimbo

    So if it is now precedent that employees of health care facilities can be forced into medical choices, can the next GOP-er mandate that any employee who gets an abortion is fired?

    • Nephilium

      THAT’S DIFFERENT!

      • Not Adahn

        Mandatory Norplant and PrEP.

    • Breet Pharara

      It’s clearly in the Constitution that abortion be treated entirely differently from literally every other medical procedure out there, just as the Founders wanted when they wrote it.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Not Thomas Jefferson though.

      • rhywun

        They expressly stated their desire for a Living Document that changes with the times.

      • juris imprudent

        Yes, they did – Article FUCKING FIVE.

      • db

        The process of amending the Constitution is tedious because it has great import. It literally is changing the rules by which our government is expected to operate. So, obviously, politicians and government agents look for ways to slide right up to (and over) the line where a change becomes so major as to require an Amendment. There are multiple problems with this, but the one I want to point out here is that the faster you can make changes, the less stable a system becomes.

        In any feedback control system, be it a modern computerized control system in a chemical plant, something as simple as a guy standing there watching a gauge with his hand on a valve, or even a pilot flying an airplane, it is possible to take a closed loop control and drive the system to instability and potentially destruction by changing parameters that determine how fast the controller reacts to changes in the output of the process. The faster it reacts, and the higher the gain it applies to the information it receives from the process, the more quickly the system can be driven to failure.

        There’s a common problem in aviation called “pilot induced oscillation” wherein a pilot controlling an aircraft cannot react quickly enough at a low enough level of gain to keep an aircraft stable in pitch in flight or while landing. Because the pilot is limited in his ability to apply fine control inputs, the inputs result in an exagerrated and excessive counter response to the system, driving it too far in the opposite direction. So now the pilot reacts again, this time with greater force, causing the aircraft to deviate even further from stability in the opposite direction.

        The same thing can happen with an industrial control system that is out of tune, or has been tuned for a normal range of operation but now finds itself outside the regime where the specific tuning parameters work for that combination of system and controller.

        In these cases, the only way to get the system back into stability is to completely remove the controller from the loop–go back to open loop, and if the system has a natural stability or equilibrium, it will return to that on its own (doing this when landing an airplane is not recommended because of the proximity to the ground–the better way in that case is to apply power and go around for another try).

        Political systems work in the same ways, but their oscillations are measured with periods of years or decades, maybe even centuries. Making excessive changes to the inputs or rules of the system rapidly can cause extreme failures, and it’s possible that once the oscillation is set in motion, it will be either impossible to remove the controller from the system until it’s too late, or the direness of the situation will not be noticed for a long time, after which it can no longer be corrected safely.

      • Nephilium

        AKA: Death Wobble

      • db

        Damn, wall of text there. All that to say that people are impatient and will try to get around the slow process of Amendment, throw the system out of stability, and wreck it all eventually if they are not held to that process.

      • Festus

        It’s like a rookie pilot falling for the ground loop.

      • Fourscore

        Or me adjusting the hot water in the shower, even with years of experience

      • juris imprudent

        It was a big improvement over the AoC, with the requirement for unanimity. We’d still be electing the Vice President as the second highest electoral vote claimant. On the other hand, we’d have never had Prohibition, the income tax or the direct election of senators.

      • The Last American Hero

        We’d probably also be part of the British Commonwealth or a French Territory.

      • Brawndo

        It’s not a Living Document, it’s just a fetus document. It can be aborted at any time.

    • db

      Maybe they can mandate abortions for women who become pregnant during their most economically productive years. Commerce Clause + “it’s a simple medical procedure.”

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Raskin is a former financial regulator from Maryland, who served an earlier stint on the Fed board during the Obama administration. She left that post to take a job with the Treasury Department. Raskin is married to Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who led the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.

    Sounds legit.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Sarah Bloom Raskin has been outspoken in arguing that bank regulators should consider the financial risks posed by climate change.

    That’s Job Number One.

    • Breet Pharara

      Hey, maybe they’ll realize how much energy needs to be produced to run the printing press nonstop and try to stop printing for a bit to save the climate.

      • juris imprudent

        More likely they’ll push to outlaw bitcoin because of the needless energy consumption.

    • Fourscore

      ” bank regulators should consider the financial risks”

      …should consider the financial opportunities for their friends…

    • rhywun

      Goodness… she’ll be so busy fighting Climate Change that I hope she finds time to root out Systemic Racism – which is after all central to every government job because Biden said so.

  19. Rebel Scum

    It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is everyday

    And that my friends is how we’re going to do it.

    And so right now we know we still have a number of people, that is in the millions of Americans, that have not been vaccinated and could be vaccinated and we are urging them to get vaccinated because it will save their life.

    Fuck off.

    • Ted S.

      The politics of failure have failed. We must make them work again.

  20. Festus

    Holee shit! Just watched the entire Sinema speech. She’s good, she’s very good. Hold onto your nards, America. If people like her gain the reins of power it will be all over but the crying. I can’t remember watching someone lie so convincingly since I caught eldest Daughter sneaking out of her bedroom window. This one is trouble.

    • Festus

      She’s thicc, which some of you seem to prefer. I can’t get behind Senator Hooker-Boot’s fat arms though.

      • AlexinCT

        If you can’t do her from behind, then double bag her so you can still do her?

      • Festus

        When you get bored do the arm pit.

      • AlexinCT

        Now you are talking bud…

        And aim for the eyes as you finish…

      • robodruid

        Go for the eyes Boo?

      • Festus

        I’m deadly serious, though. That was a powerful speech delivered with emotion and resolve. Run for the hills because she is lying through her teeth.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that a spellcaster with a gerbil familiar?

        Paging Richard Gere!

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t get the reference, but on this sub-thread there is no way in hell I’m clicking on a link.

      • SDF-7

        You just didn’t Minsc words at all there….

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Public Enemy Number One

    Novak Djokovic faces possible deportation from Australia after the country’s immigration minister canceled the unvaccinated tennis star’s visa for a second time on Friday, citing public health.

    ——-

    In a decision likely to have broad sporting and diplomatic consequences, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said in a statement early Friday that he had used his discretionary powers to cancel the visa again “on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.”

    The government is “firmly committed to protecting Australia’s borders, particularly in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Hawke added.

    “I am the LAW.”

    • Festus

      *makes jack-off motions, realizes that he is locked in a cell*

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Australia’s officially reached a 1 million percent increase since the Washington Post said they’d nearly eliminated COVID with science — a 1,134,100% increase to be exact, and they just reported the equivalent of 2,250,000 cases in the USNailed it again, The Science™ pic.twitter.com/bv0eHx8qSd— IM (@ianmSC) January 13, 2022

      The Australian government needs someone to blame, and tennis guy is the perfect villain.

    • rhywun

      In a decision likely to have broad sporting and diplomatic consequences

      I doubt it will have any consequences whatsoever. The people there want it to happen, the other players are happy to wave goodbye to him, and nothing else happens. The clapping seals that support him in Serbia will raise a stink but who gives a shit about Serbia.

      • Brawndo

        What’s it going to take for whatever org runs the tennis tournaments to kick Australia off it’s list of high profile opens? My guess is even if one of the players just fucking died of a heart attack on television during the finals, they wouldn’t do shit.

    • Festus

      Mid-Terms a’comin!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The omicron coronavirus variant causes less severe disease than the delta strain even in those who are unvaccinated or who haven’t had a prior Covid-19 infection, a study from South Africa’s Western Cape province showed.

      That sentence presumes there are people who have had a previous COVID infection and still caught Omicron. I’m betting they don’t have evidence of a single example.

      • AlexinCT

        Anecdotal, but I had the Kung Flu back in February 2019, before anyone even really got worried about it, and my symptoms were so minor I only found out I had had it from the Red Cross calling me to ask me to donate blood again as soon as possible because of antibodies in April.

        While on vacation recently outside the country min December, I attended a dinner with old pals and a bunch of others (17 people total) where someone brought the Omicron to dinner with us. All but two of us at that table got the Cron. My girlfriend and I did not. And I have told her that I was pretty sure I had given her my Kung Flu as I ended up visiting her when I was supposed to be rocking the Alpha or Beta version.

      • Festus

        Pretty sure we had it in November 2019.

      • AlexinCT

        Oops was 2020. Not 2019.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        definitely 2020, March for me,

      • Rebel Scum

        #MeToo

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        For me, mid-to-late October 2019, before we even had a name for it.

        We were in northern Italy at that time.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        Yep, Jan 2020 here in VA, fever that didn’t break, splitting headache, weird muscle soreness, severe fatigue, and of course a cough that lasted weeks. Have been in close proximity to multiple fully vaccinated covid positive cases within the last year, and haven’t had more than maybe a runny nose or sore throat.

        There was an article in the NY Times from march of 2020 i believe that looked at influenza like illnesses in NYC in fall winter 2019 and it was off the charts. In early march NYC hospitals were turning people away who could breathe because it was def covid and there wasn’t much they could do. The blip on the case chart for coof in march April 2020 is absolutely the end of a giant bell curve of cases. I’m convinced the CDC altered how they measure excess deaths beginning march 2020, because the chart I saw in that NYTs article when coof was likely raging does not add up to the excess death numbers provided.

  22. hayeksplosives

    This is the most depressing set of morning lynx I’ve seen in a long, long time.

    • Festus

      Oh come on, we’ve actually spoken in real time. Nothing can be more morose than that.

    • Fourscore

      Wait ’til tomorrow, OMWC says “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet”

      • Festus

        His links are always nothing but a gateway for me. Soma.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Barry Alan Mehler is an American social scientist. He is a professor of humanities at Ferris State University, who founded the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism.

      The academic bubble can’t pop soon enough.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, these people are worried their racket is going to go down in flames as society has finally realized they are no better than con men. Only they rip you of to the tune of $45-$90K a year with the help of the Fedgov.

      • Festus

        I’ve always wondered what would have happened if I would have followed the advice of my high school councilors and become a teacher? How many babes born out of wedlock? I guess we’ll never know.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Crap, My niece attends that place, she’s not a Commie yet,
      I need to Glib harder,

    • Pope Jimbo

      Isn’t that dude’s use of “cocksucker” as a pejorative problematic?

    • AlexinCT

      Am I evil for wanting them to go on this strike and suffer from their stupidity?

      • SDF-7

        No — presuming they don’t actually kill themselves, I don’t think “Stupid should hurt” is an evil thought.

    • db

      I’ll start paying attention to hunger strikes the minute the hunger strikers show enough dedication to actually start dying.

      • Raven Nation

        Bobby Sands nods in agreement from somewhere.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      “We’re prepared to hold out indefinitely now that the holidays are over,” she told Fox News this week.

      That Christmas ham tho.

    • creech

      “Better Red than Fed.”

    • juris imprudent

      That’s one way to take off that freshman 15.

    • Nephilium

      So… like a real eat nothing hunger strike, or a I’ll only eat 2,000 calories a day and will not order delivery “hunger strike”?

      • Festus

        Beer don’t count.

      • Nephilium

        Hey… I’ve been good since the new year. Drank on Sunday (because I was at a football game), but other then that I’ve been counting calories, and enjoying the company of fit young women in spin classes.

        It is about time for the annual article about the brewer down in Cinci who goes on a beer fast every Lent.

    • UnCivilServant

      A hunger strike is a self-solving problem.

    • db

      I happen to live with a person who works for a major Big Tech firm. A lot of that seems to be true, although from the meetings I have overheard, they don’t start with pronouns and talk about how shitty their lives are. Maybe a different company, or different segment of the same company.

      • AlexinCT

        They tried the pronoun shit at my company for a few months about 2 years ago, but people like me that told them we identify as thermonuclear weapons, attack helicopters, purple dragons, angelic entities, Satan, or battleships and then acted pissed when called out on that identification and pointed out they were othering us, killed that idiocy dead in but two months.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Sounds very familiar. My company isn’t that bad (thank God), but they’re walking the same path.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        (I dunno how it got threaded here…. Was meant as a reaction to the link)

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I find none of that surprising. Depressing, yes, but not surprising.

      Anybody who couldn’t see this coming after the James Damore fiasco is a fool.

    • rhywun

      You could not pay me enough to work in that environment.

      my company had all sorts of after-work activities. Sports leagues, game nights, different classes taught by employees. There was a rhythm and connectedness

      I think I’ve spotted part of the problem. Work is not life, people, despite what your boss thinks.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Twitter won’t let me copy/paste, but there’s a section where he talks about going around the room where everyone is supposed to talk about how they feel, he answers good, and a woman gets pissed he answers positively.

      I went through this in school. We went around the room and everyone talked about how hard the program is and how important it is to practice “self-care”. What a bullshit term. There was also a lot of talk about how hard it is to be a woman pursuing a PhD and about how they needed to be role models for their daughters in the ground they are breaking in a world that is hostile to women and people of color. For context, I’m the only male in the class and one of two white males out of the 60 or so people in the program. Give me a break.

      For some reason, I was skipped over. Which is good because like this poor bastard in twitter, I don’t know what else I could have said other than things are going well. And that I have no idea what this ridiculous “self-care” businesses is. I suspect it’s whining from people who are in over their heads but also have the luxury of navel-gazing because their spouse is the primary supporter. I somehow doubt that the single mother working 2 jobs to put food on the table for her children and a roof over their heads is worrying about “self-care”.

  23. db

    We’re working on a major capital project–I heard the other day that the control systems are in danger of delay because the DCS manufacturer is having difficulties sourcing microprocessors to build boards.

  24. Rebel Scum

    I heard Brandon reiterated his concern about, not who gets to vote but who gets to count the vote. Aye, comrade.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I would call Biden very ballsy for saying that shit out loud, except I don’t think he has the mental acuity to know what he is revealing with his statements.

      It was amazing though to hear a president say that “who counts the votes” is important. It was depressing to have a press corps that let that statement sail by without any comments or follow up questions.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        press corpse?

    • Tonio

      Just remember, there is always wiggle room. FBI does not AFAIK have any uniformed officers.

      Also, anytime you ask someone if they were “taking orders from the FBI” they may only know that they were taking orders from “Mr. Smith” who never really said who he was, or who he was working for.

    • juris imprudent

      Well we know who can replace Jackson on all references to “stonewall”.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of crazy people…

    I admit it. I’m bottomfeeding in the real estate market. I have no expectations of getting some sort of fantastic deal on the home shop of my dreams. But come on. I looked at a(nother) place yesterday which was like an EPA Superfund site. Decades of accumulated trash. A garage which appears to have been on fire at some point. Junk everywhere, and an old singlewide trailer which is apparently such a health hazard they won’t even let you inside.

    What lured me in? A good sized pole barn shop. also in decay.With no electricity.

    On 3/4 of an acre in a funky little enclave out in the country.It could probably be made into a cool place to live, but not if I had to sink $200k into it before I could start going forward.

    All for the low low price of $155k. These people are a lot like Minnie Mouse: fucking goofy.

    I’m trying to decide if it’s even worth making an offer of $120, just for the lulz. $80k would be more realistic.

    Maybe I should just start looking at bare ground. I wonder what it would cost to sink a well and build a metal “arch building”.

    • Q Continuum

      “Minnie Mouse: fucking goofy”

      Mickey’s always hopped up on coke so he can’t get it up.

      “3/4 of an acre in a funky little enclave out in the country”

      If all you’re looking for is a single-wide and a workshop, have you considered buying raw land, then having a single-wide put on it and getting the shop built? Would take more time, but you might come out ahead financially in the end and definitely get what you want.

    • robodruid

      Make the offer in writing. Real Estate person has to present.
      Ya might get lucky.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I wonder what it would cost to sink a well and build a metal “arch building”

      In Montana right? The cost for a well is location dependent. In VA, probably $5-10k. I’m guessing there are parts of Montana where you’ll need to go down several hundred feet and maybe still not hit. Could be several tens of thousands.

    • Fourscore

      Explain your reasons to the realtor, he/she gets the commission on 80K instead of a non-commission on 155K. The realtor wants to sell, the property is a dog to the agent, as you pointed out. Tell the owner to clean it up and you’d you’d be interested at the 155 point.

    • Hudson

      Neighbor just put in a well up here in Bonner county. Drilled down 600′ and costed somewhere around $30k-40k.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Wisconsin judge destroys democracy.

    Absentee ballot drop boxes can no longer be used in Wisconsin, a judge ruled on Thursday as the state prepares for spring and fall elections.

    Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren said that absentee ballots could not be returned through drop boxes, saying “there’s no authority to do it,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. However, Bohren said that state law does allow for absentee ballots to be mailed back or handed in in-person.

  27. AlexinCT

    Just told one of my lib coworkers that was complaining about people that refuse to pay attention to the media’s reporting on the science that he should keep quiet cause he was basically telling those of us that harbored reservations we needed to believe the people that peddled the French actor Jussie Smolliet bullshit. I had a half dozen people IM me privately that they wanted me to pay for their new computer equipment after they spewed their morning drinks all over it..

  28. Raven Nation

    *grumble, grumble*

    All week 50s & sunny. We don’t have to be anywhere and both working from home.

    Today, HAVE to take my wife a doctor appointment and we’re about to get freezing rain and sleet. If we’re lucky, it might warm up just enough to get regular rain for an hour or so before we have to leave the house.

  29. Q Continuum

    As would be appropriate for Friday Funbags, you have two options (usually go my right/her left and I have no idea why).

    First, much larger tits but with a few unfortunate face diapers.

    https://archive.md/uYtgz

    Second, smaller but still bodacious boobs certified face diaper-free.

    https://archive.md/macPW

    • Q Continuum

      Brandon is officially worse than Peanut Jimmy.

    • Drake

      That really looks like the end. Our biggest cities are deteriorating in third world shitholes right before our eyes. I don’t know how this ends within our current corrupted system.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t know how this ends

        Badly?

      • Drake

        Public hangings to restore order is my optimistic timeline.

      • R C Dean

        Ah, but the question is: who will be publicly hanged. “Seditionists”, or leftists?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Ferris State University; is that where they invented the carnival ride?

    • Pope Jimbo

      I don’t know what got into me. I’ve never cheated on any girlfriend, let alone with a guy.

      I know what got into you. A dick.

    • AlexinCT

      I respect people’s choices of whom they feel attracted to, but I don’t think there is enough fucking alcohol in the world to make me want to give up on being a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. But Q is right: this guy might be denying his need for dick…

      • Certified Public Asshat

        being a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.

        What are you trying to tell us?

      • AlexinCT

        That if I had been born female I would STILL be into pussy.

    • Rebel Scum

      The Democratic leadership of the House, in an unusual move, then took the Senate-amended bill and stripped out the NASA provisions, replacing it with the text of two voting rights bills and now called the “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.” They did so because H.R. 5746 had already passed the House and Senate, so the amended version could go directly to the Senate floor without the threat of a filibuster from Senate Republicans, who oppose the voting rights legislation.

      That can’t be legitimate.

      “Though I did not expect this outcome when I first introduced the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act, if my legislation will help overcome the filibuster, the Senate can finally have the long-overdue debate on voting rights this country deserves,” he said in a Jan. 13 statement. “I would be honored to make this unexpected contribution to the cause of protecting our democracy.”

      Go fuck yourself, you dishonest cunte.

      • Q Continuum

        “in an unusual move”

        Unusual is one word for it…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Don Beyer is a piece of shit bar none.

        If only we could carve off Arlington and Alexandria from the state.

      • R C Dean

        That can’t be legitimate.

        That’s exactly how they got p[art of ObamaCare through.

    • rhywun

      Heard about that.

      I thought it was joke. It seems like that can’t be real.

      • AlexinCT

        Come on man!

        After the crazy shit of the last 5 years, I find that my ability to dismiss shit as impossible has suffered severely because of all the fucking evil and stupid shit that has happened.

    • Rat on a train

      removed the content of a bill to fund NASA and preplaced it with their government voting fortification bill’s drivel
      Democrats removed the contents of a House bill dealing with taxes for service members replacing it with Obamacare so they could do an end run around the Constitutional requirement that bills dealing with taxes must originate in the House.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep.

  31. Rebel Scum

    Oh, Tulsi.

    Hillary’s calling tens of millions of Americans deplorables was divisive & disgusting. But Biden has gone further, calling those who disagree with his actions & policies domestic enemies, traitors, and racists. Biden promised to unite us, but he is doing all he can do divide us.

    • AlexinCT

      She is dead on..

      And a definite would.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    If all you’re looking for is a single-wide and a workshop, have you considered buying raw land, then having a single-wide put on it and getting the shop built? Would take more time, but you might come out ahead financially in the end and definitely get what you want.

    I am stridently anti-trailer-house. I looked at a couple of places (before I had any money in the bank) which were suitable for my needs. I have been looking for something with infrastructure (well, septic, power) already in place. I keep saying, “A small house and a big shop, and the house is optional.”

    A place with a shop and trailer would be good, because trailers can be dragged away and replaced with something better; for one thing, I don’t want to live in a long thin tunnel (that, more than anything else, is what soured me on shipping container houses). 1000 square feet (~30 x 30) of open-plan living area would be more than enough for me. The loft in my shop in Livingston was less than 600.

    • Grumbletarian

      “A small house and a big shop, and the house is optional.”

      I concur.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Biden promised to unite us, but he is doing all he can do divide us.

    She’s not wrong.

    • db

      Even if it were in centimeters, that would put the German average at around the 12th percentile, worldwide. That doesn’t sound reasonable. https://calcsd.info/

      • Ownbestenemy

        That site….

      • db

        I asked myself, “Self, how can I turn this site into even more of a sausage party?”

    • AlexinCT

      Remarks: “Oh how cute! It looks like a penis, only smaller”….

    • EvilSheldon

      $5k and a 60-minute procedure?

      I’m thinking that if it actually worked, it would cost a lot more…

      • UnCivilServant

        A lot of those procedures have the side effect of causing erectile dysfunction.

        It is really funny what vanity does for people.

      • ron73440

        It is really funny what vanity does for people.

        “Plastic surgery face” is horrifying in real life.

        It’s OK to get old.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Make the offer in writing. Real Estate person has to present.
    Ya might get lucky.

    Exactly. One of these times, the seller is going to be an heir who just wants to see a giant headache and source of expense and aggravation go away.

  35. Festus

    Alright, I’m out. Time to eat beef and sleep. Hope that you guys have the best one that you can manage.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Have a great day Festus!

    • AlexinCT

      Night night Festus.. Dream about the fun stuff.

  36. Rebel Scum

    GQP indoctrination.

    Homeschooling in Virginia has increased by nearly 40% since 2019, which has been partly fueled by the implementation of critical race theory in classrooms and the coronavirus.

    The children don’t belong to the state. I think parents really want to impart their own values to their children – their values and beliefs and their own worldview. And that is a major reason parents are home schooling,” Yvonne Bunn, director of government affairs for the Home Educators Association of Virginia, told the Virginia Mercury earlier this month.

    Sounds like some seditious talk.

    • ron73440

      At least it’s easy to homeschool in VA.

      All I had to do was send in an outline of what classes he would be taking.

      The first year I was detailed about this.

      Every year after that, I sent the exact same outline.

      Never once got a question.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I think parents really want to impart their own values to their children – their values and beliefs and their own worldview.

      Government schools were created and mandated specifically to prevent this.

      • juris imprudent

        But, but, but Horace Mann had the best intentions!

    • PieInTheSky

      The children don’t belong to the state – give it a few years

  37. Rat on a train

    I went into Fredericksburg. As many of you don’t know/care, US-1 in Virginia cannot be named Jefferson Davis Highway. The local area now has multiple names based on the preferences of each jurisdiction. It will take time to resign everything. It looked like Fredericksburg isn’t waiting for the new signs to pull down the old ones so hopefully you aren’t relying on signs to help you find your way. Spotsy still has the old signs up.

    • rhywun

      Finally the Racial Healing can begin. What a happy day for Virginia.

      • Rat on a train

        There are still other streets with offensive names, not to mention subdivisions, supervisor districts, counties, …

      • Rebel Scum

        Not to mention everything named after the natives, pretty much everything in the state needs to be renamed to not offend the lefts delicate sensibilities.

      • Rat on a train

        You may not touch Pamunkey.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    AKA: Death Wobble

    Tank-slapper.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I was wondering why we were neglected of this.

    • AlexinCT

      That’s someone you bang now but never commit to…

      In 5-10 years she will be one of the people complaining of fat shaming hurting her feelings…

      • PieInTheSky

        the question is does she do anal?

  39. Rebel Scum

    Oh, so they still intend to push the jabs.

    “Fully vaccinated individuals now include those within two months of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, five months of receiving the Pfizer vaccine series or six months of receiving the Moderna vaccine series; and individuals who are beyond the aforementioned timeline and have received the booster vaccine.”

    But perhaps the biggest development came in the following line.

    “Individuals within 90 days of a documented COVID infection fall within the equivalent of ‘fully vaccinated.’

    • AlexinCT

      Just keep catching the Kung Flu and you will be good..

      • Nephilium

        Or just keep testing until you get a false positive.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Just get covid every 90 days.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *refreshes page*

  40. The Late P Brooks

    In Montana right? The cost for a well is location dependent. In VA, probably $5-10k. I’m guessing there are parts of Montana where you’ll need to go down several hundred feet and maybe still not hit. Could be several tens of thousands.

    Idaho, now. I used to tell people, about my place in Montana: “I never would have wasted ten seconds thinking about buying that property if it didn’t already have a well on it.”

    Around here (Pocatello/Blackfoot), a well doesn’t seem to be much of a crapshoot. But there’s always an element of risk, and in the current environment, finding somebody who will show up and drill is far from certain.

    • PieInTheSky

      So who is fucking up real estate prices in Idaho? Californians like other places?

      • Rat on a train

        Like sportsball teams, California, Illinois and New York have agreed to the markets they are going to abuse.

      • PieInTheSky

        in that case why do all New York sportsball teams suck ass?

      • Brawndo

        Yes. But only the ones in Jersey

      • juris imprudent

        Did the Garden get moved over to Jersey?

      • PieInTheSky

        The Bills aint winning shit either

      • Compelled Speechless

        It is absolutely Californians. By a wide margin. I work for a builder in Idaho and I meet every buyer. 80% of what we sell is to Golden State assholes. I keep telling people I’m becoming racists against Californians. They really are a different breed of entitled and rude. And they all say the same thing…. I’m not one of “those” Californians. They are delusional about how deep the rot goes.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        From which parts of CA, mostly? Or all over?

      • Compelled Speechless

        All over. The area codes run the gamut. As you’d expect, the bay area ones are on their own special level of suck. Not a ton of those though. I suspect it’s because many of them wouldn’t be caught dead in deplorableville. The funny thing is how many of them are retired Cali state pensioned workers. Their tax base is fleeing right along with all the money they’re paying out in pensions. I can’t even begin to comprehend the level of economically screwed they are right now.

    • PieInTheSky

      also why in the everloving fuck is there a Museum of Clean in Pocatello

    • PieInTheSky

      I am starting to be of the opinion the phrase civil liberties is bullshit like most modifiers on liberty

    • R.J.

      Do they taste good?

  41. Count Potato

    “Nancy Pelosi’s son was involved in five companies probed by federal agencies – but has never been charged himself, a DailyMail.com investigation reveals.

    A shocking paper trail shows Paul Pelosi Jr.’s connections to a host of fraudsters, rule-breakers and convicted criminals.

    His years-long repeated business dealings raise two troubling questions Nancy’s son has been unable to answer: why did he get mixed up with such unsavory characters over and over, and how involved was he with the criminal investigations into his fraudster colleagues?”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9827893/Nancy-Pelosis-son-Paul-involved-FIVE-companies-probed-feds.html

    He should do a sit-com with Hunter.

    • Compelled Speechless

      You’d have a much more manageable cast size if you did a sitcom of congress critter’s kids who aren’t fences for their parents’ corruption.

  42. Count Potato

    “The Republican Party is a ‘front for a terrorist movement,’ MSNBC contributor and controversial political scientist Dr. Jason Johnson argued on the network Thursday, comparing the GOP to a ‘terror cell.’

    Dr. Johnson made an appearance on ‘Deadline: White House,’ where he proceeded to make the brazen comparison while discussing the relationship between former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as the 2024 presidential election draws ever near.

    Dr. Johnson, who is an associate professor of communication and journalism at HBCU Morgan State University, referred to Trump as ‘the bad guy’ and called the Republican Party itself a ‘front for a terrorist movement.’

    ‘If Trump is on the ballot in 2024, it’s the easiest thing in the world for Democrats because you can always run against the bad guy,’ Johnson said.

    ‘But I think the bigger more dangerous thing, and I’ve been saying for a while, I’m working hard to never say “Republican Party” again because it’s not a party.’

    ‘The GOP is no longer a governing party and news outlets should stop using that term.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10401237/MSNBC-contributor-Republican-Party-terrorist-movement-likens-GOP-terror-cell.html

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re telling us what they’re willing to do. We should be listening.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^

        Fortifying and militarizing DC, purging the military and law enforcement, and now setting up a department for domestic terrorists is not a coincidence.

      • rhywun

        Don’t forget shoving the One-Party voting bills down our throats.

        I think it’s time to start worrying.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m torn about how much to worry. Have you seen MSNBC’s ratings? I just saw something that said they peak at around 1.3M. Nobody is listening to these assholes anymore. Part of me thinks that they’re just allowing this sort of rhetoric to try to grab back some of those sweet OMB ratings dollars. It’s really looking like their insane power play bills are not only going to fail, but completely backfire.

        If I’m wrong though…..

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly – the point of The True Believer isn’t to be one, it’s to understand what you’re up against.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m just glad that we are toning down the rhetoric in the interest of unity and healing.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s how we return to normal!

  43. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Thanks for the lynx and the excellent train gif!

    Kamala Harris Spits Out A Word Salad When NBC Reporter Presses Her On COVID Strategy

    She’s just so entertainingly bad. Everyone is dunking on her. From the WSJ:

    Time for Harris to Cut Biden Loose

  44. The Late P Brooks

    So who is fucking up real estate prices in Idaho? Californians like other places?

    Pretty much. People from other states, too.

    Fortunately, most of the feeding frenzy is in the Boise metro area. Things have been crazy over there for years. I’m ~250 miles east of Boise. The market is definbitely ot as hot, here. People be skairt of dem Mormons, I guess. As for me? Better Mormons than communists.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Sure, blame Californians, but most Californians aren’t from California either.

  45. PieInTheSky

    The more I see how things go the less I am willing to get the damn booster so I hope and hope Europe drops the booster shit but it does not seem likely.

    Fucking Denmark with record cases and 60%+ of the adult population boosted now is starting 4th dose, though even the shitty transnational health bureaucrats doubt it is a good idea.

    I really am feeling that either me or most of the world are insane and I see it only getting worse.

  46. PieInTheSky

    because it has been a while

    Existential Comics
    @existentialcoms
    In retrospect maybe conservatives were right about this being the softest generation. Our ancestors died on Omaha beach or whatever to protect their country.

    And yet we are too much of weaklings to even wear pieces of cloth over our faces while in line at Arby’s to do the same.

    https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1480971594532995072

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Exactly backwards, as usual.

    • R C Dean

      Our ancestors died on Omaha beach or whatever

      See, that’s how you casually dismiss the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men.

      • PieInTheSky

        well capitalism killed them in the end

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That picture just screams “we all knew he wasn’t quite right, but we never thought he would go so far as to shoot up his school”

      • Urthona

        Link done got broken.

      • Urthona

        Damn this iphone.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Bravery is being coerced into doing something that doesn’t work anyway. Fucking morons I swear…

    • Rebel Scum

      And yet we are too much of weaklings to even wear pieces of cloth over our faces while in line at Arby’s to do the same.

      More like too weak to chance catching a cold and too stupid to see the negative effects of dutifully covering your face with a bacteria incubator and oxygen inhibitor.

      • R C Dean

        And yet we are I am too much of a weaklings to even object to wear pieces of cloth over our faces while in line at Arby’s to do the same.

        Its not the people resisting these diktats who are the weaklings. Submission is always easy.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    In retrospect maybe conservatives were right about this being the softest generation. Our ancestors died on Omaha beach or whatever to protect their country.

    And yet we are too much of weaklings to even wear pieces of cloth over our faces while in line at Arby’s to do the same.

    Holy shit. Ass backwards is right.

    As I said two years ago, our official response to the plague was the same as if all the “responsible adults” had begged FDR to surrender to the Japanese on Dec 8.

    “Let not a single additional drop of blood be spilled. Let not a single American be sacrificed on the altar of the false god, Freedom. Life in chains is far superior to senseless death in thrall to empty principles.”

  48. PieInTheSky

    Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS
    boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains. @CBSLA
    I’m told by law enforcement these @UPS
    bags are especially sought after by thieves opening cargo containers… they are often full of boxes with merchandise bound for residential addresses. More valuable than say, a cargo container full of low value bulky items like toilet paper.

    https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384

  49. Rebel Scum

    The annual company holiday party was canceled due to convid fear but they still want to do this creative mask competition. I wonder how submitting a pic of me in some variation of an actual slave mask would go over.

    • ron73440

      Ours was too, but we are going to have a “live” music performance over zoom from Marie Miller, don’t know who that is.

      Everything is stupid.

      Our last in person dinner, my boss got mad at me because I shook his hand.

      Everything is stupid.

      • Rebel Scum

        We do a department lunch each year and did it this year for the first time since convid started. Someone “tested positive” the next morning and since I was 1) sitting across from the person and 2) “unvaxxed” I was sent home for 10 days. No symptoms. Not sick. At least they didn’t make me use pto.

      • ron73440

        Have I mentioned that everything is stupid?

  50. PieInTheSky

    ‘Quantum Leap’s long-rumored return has taken a big leap toward becoming a reality. NBC has given a pilot order to a reboot of the beloved 1990s sci-fi series, which starred Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

    https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1481748136968310787

    I watched that show on the teevee back in the day

  51. cyto

    Don’t shoot the messenger…

    JasonAZ
    January.13.2022 at 9:03 pm
    Flag Comment Mute User
    Hey Cyto, can you get me “approved” over at Glibs? I really enjoy their daily links. Not sure their registration is working. I’ve requested access twice, but no luck. ?

    • cyto

      DesigNate
      January.14.2022 at 12:02 am

      They have some of the best daily links, and the best quips for them, just about anywhere.

    • UnCivilServant

      Who is this person and how are they messaging you?

      (Note, I can’t approve registrations or anything like that)

      • tripacer

        Sounds like a fed.

      • Drake

        Tulpa obviously.

      • cyto

        From TOS discussion of jab mandate ruling

  52. The Late P Brooks

    The annual company holiday party was canceled due to convid fear but they still want to do this creative mask competition. I wonder how submitting a pic of me in some variation of an actual slave mask would go over.

    I’d recommend something like this

  53. Scruffy Nerfherder

    RFK Jr. goes for Jake Tapper’s jugular.

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jake-tapper-sold-soul-pharma-rfk-jr/

    Despite extreme hostility toward this volume from mainstream media and the medical cartel, no one has yet identified a factual inaccuracy in its 250,000 words.

    If my book is baseless conspiracy theories, then shouldn’t Mr. Tapper welcome an opportunity to correct me with facts or arguments that go beyond name-calling?

    Allow me, then, to offer my own theory for Mr. Tapper’s apoplexy.

    Many people make Faustian bargains during their lives, trading personal integrity for material advantage. Oftentimes the metamorphosis occurs as a gradual erosion of moral fiber. Occasionally it happens in an instant; a man stands at a moral crossroads and chooses the dark side.

    I happened to have a front-row seat when Jake Tapper had his moment of moral crisis. I’m guessing his fierce vitriol toward me is a reaction to his embarrassment that I was witness to the instant when Mr. Tapper chose career over character.

    In July 2005, Jake Tapper was ABC’s senior producer when the network ordered him to pull a lengthy exposé on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) secret 2000 Simpsonwood conference.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The only Kennedy with integrity, no wonder the usual suspects hate him.

      • juris imprudent

        The only Kennedy with any integrity was the old man. Every one of the spawn has been degenerate to one degree or another.

      • cyto

        Old Joe? A smuggler with ‘Tegrity?

        That tracks.

    • Tundra

      Wow. That’s quite a story.

      Anyone here read his book yet?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m reading it now.

        Where I differ with RFK is that he persists in thinking the system can be fixed. His book is evidence that it is wholly corrupt, far beyond what you could imagine.

      • ron73440

        No, but I heard him on Tom Woods.

        If half of what he says is true, Fauci needs curb stomped.

        *I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it was rage inducing.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Here’s the thing. RFK Jr. has opened himself up for a massive libel suit.

        The things he has documented on Fauci in that book are in many cases criminal.

        So why doesn’t Fauci go after him in court? Why doesn’t he protect his reputation?

        I think it’s because Fauci is terrified of discovery and RFK has been tediously attentive to the facts.

      • ron73440

        Good point, if someone had written a book about me like that, I would be doing everything I could to get the truth out.

        But I don’t have the media and government acting as a shield for me either.

      • juris imprudent

        RFK has been tediously attentive to the facts.

        Salon didn’t think so.

      • WTF

        “Salon” and “facts” don’t really go together.

  54. The Late P Brooks
  55. Nephilium

    I believe I have seen peak ‘vid douchebaggery. I was at a grocery store the other day, and there was a masked couple (from what I could see, 20’s-30’s) who were walking around with a tape measure extended to the six foot mark as they made their way through the store. I thought nothing could be any more idiotic then the asshole who went around a couple years back with three foot pool noodles strapped onto his bike to show drivers the new (state law mandated) safe passing distance for vehicles.

    • UnCivilServant

      Did you yell at them to stop hogging the aisles?

      • Nephilium

        I dealt with them as you would any other mentally ill person in public. I ignored them.

        I have a feeling if they had poked me with a tape measure, they would no longer have a tape measure.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Southpark did it.

    • limey

      That’s about on a par with the bike moron.

  56. PieInTheSky

    Matthew Yglesias
    @mattyglesias
    The whole thing where a chip shortage reducing the volume of new car production led to soaring prices for used cars seems like it might contain some lessons for housing policy.

    https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1481968525514260480

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Please explain it to us, Sadbeard.

      • PieInTheSky

        he is apparently on o them evil YIMBYs

    • R C Dean

      “See, the way rapacious corporations make outsized profits is by not delivering goods to buyers. You shouldn’t need a Nobel Prize to see that.”

      • juris imprudent

        That’s some serious Krugman-envy.

    • robc

      This is what some don’t understand. We don’t have to build “affordable” housing. Building high end housing (which is what gets built) lowers the demand for older housing, making is more affordable. A new “McMansion” creates a chain of housing shifts, making everything slightly more affordable all the way down the price continuum. So on March 4th, some poor Gen Z moving into their first house, you are welcome.

      Although I will just be opening up a rental, as I sold my old house last June, so they chain is probably already complete.

      But I will be reducing the rental demand by 1 unit, so that helps too.

      • rhywun

        making everything slightly more affordable all the way down the price continuum

        Jane Jacobs pointed this out sixty years ago in a widely-celebrated book that every lefty professes to love but which none of them have apparently read.

      • robc

        I have been meaning to read it myself. But, yeah, I get the same impression. If they actually read it, they wouldn’t be Jacobs fans any more.

  57. Count Potato

    “21st century Jim Crow is about voter suppression and subversion—it’s about who gets to vote, who counts your vote, and whether your vote is counted.

    The Senate must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.”

    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1481687240011091968

    So system that elected you was broken?

    • UnCivilServant

      Clearly.

      I mean he’s so obviously unfit.

    • PieInTheSky

      But I though it was the bestest and most secure election evah

      • juris imprudent

        Obviously Joe would’ve had 180M votes if the system worked correctly and didn’t exclude everyone except white males over 21.

    • ron73440

      So system that elected you was broken?

      Obviously, Trump got some votes!

    • ron73440

      I fucked up, I scrolled down.

      Ass kissing sycophants as far as the eye can see.

      • juris imprudent

        Insanity is scrolling through twitter expecting to not see the worst of human mental excrement.

      • ron73440

        I know, but the only twitter exposure I get is through this place, so sometimes I forget.

    • rhywun

      “And that’s why I’m trying so hard to impose it.”

      CWAA. I mean, seriously he is a world-class asshole.

    • ron73440

      I read that tweet, read it again, then blinked uncomprehendingly at it a few times.

      I have a very short list of people I let hug me and an even shorter one of people I actually enjoy hugging.

      Why would anyone go to a “cuddle session”?

      Is it just me or does it seem like the people who would go to this are the creepy ones who shouldn’t hug anyone ever?

  58. PieInTheSky

    Ian Millhiser
    @imillhiser
    I know that this is an unpopular view, but the fact that President Biden has accomplished as much as he has despite a Congress that can’t function and a judiciary that thinks there’s a Let’s Go Brandon Clause in the Constitution is a testament to his skill as an executive.

    https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1481764808395571210

    • Urthona

      And by accomplish, I mean “fail at literally every single thing”.

      • AlexinCT

        This guy is doing some really fucking awesome drugs or is part of the big pharma cabal.

        PUFF PUFF PASS MOTHERFUCKER!

    • cyto

      Unpopular? That is not how you spell “idiotic”

      • Urthona

        He’s also right that it’s unpopular if yesterday’s polls are to be believed.

        Congratulations on passing Trump’s polling low bar, Joe.

      • cyto

        Actually, that really is an impressive feat .

        Trump had a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine working around the clock to pull his numbers down.

        Biden has a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine working around the clock to pull his numbers up.

        Talent!

    • limey

      What universe does this person live in? Why even acknowledge someone with such a stupid take, especially whatever that nonsense is about the SC?

      • PieInTheSky

        Gregg Gonsalves
        @gregggonsalves
        No matter the legal logic, #SCOTUS decision to shoot down the #OSHA vaccine mandate is a dangerous game. These justices are clearly gunning for the regulatory state overall, and they’ve shown they are willing to sacrifice American lives for political ideology

        https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1481731984053477376

        how bout this a one

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If only

      • Urthona

        They’re killing democracy by gunning for an unelected and unaccountable ruling body.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That is what gets me.

        They scream democracy, but they agitate for a nomenklatura.

      • juris imprudent

        Why do you expect them to have a clue? Isn’t everything about them saying “this person is a fucking moron”?

      • Brawndo

        “no matter the legal logic”

        Thanks for saying you’re a moron so plainly.

        “Clearly gunning for the regulatory state”

        By making the narrowest possible ruling.

      • ron73440

        Scroll down, just like the other tweet about the election speech:

        Ass kissing sycophants as far as the eye can see.

    • PieInTheSky

      This moron can’t legally silence free speech, so he’s openly begging corporations to do it for him.

      American Presidents are required to support & reinforce our constitution, not try to undermine it. Impeach

      https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1481952798287839237

      • Urthona

        I hate that fuckstick, but suggesting corporations censor their platforms is unfortunately allowable.

      • R C Dean

        So where do you draw the line, and at what point is a corporation doing the government’s bidding an extension of the government?

      • Urthona

        It’s always going to be tricky. You really can’t. It’s why we need an inherently weak government.

      • juris imprudent

        Wrong. An owner of a platform my decide what speech is permitted on that platform – it is a prerogative of ownership.

        The govt may not direct or encourage any private property owner as to what is permissible speech.

      • juris imprudent

        blech – may, not “my”

      • Urthona

        Sure they can.

      • R C Dean

        And do.

      • R C Dean

        Clicked too soon.

        See, e.g., SCOTUS’s amendment of the 1A to exclude commercial speech.

      • Urthona

        I’m sure they would have loved to impeach Trump a third time for suggesting NFL anthem kneelers be silenced, but I don’t think even the establishment could’ve pulled that off.

    • Rebel Scum

      How can that view be unpopular if Biden is the most popularly elected president evar?

      • juris imprudent

        Nixon had a 23% popular vote advantage over McGovern, Biden’s was just shy of 4.5%.

    • B.P.

      “Robert Lamirande
      @LamirandeRobert
      ·
      17h
      Replying to
      @imillhiser
      and
      @JoshuaMZeitz
      Not to mention an opposition party that is actively working to extend the pandemic for as long as possible.”

      I…uh….what?

  59. The Late P Brooks

    I know that this is an unpopular view, but the fact that President Biden has accomplished as much as he has despite a Congress that can’t function and a judiciary that thinks there’s a Let’s Go Brandon Clause in the Constitution is a testament to his skill as an executive.

    Yup. President Git ‘Er Done!

    • cyto

      We have not seen any appreciable inflation in decades. That he has been able to rocket us into the ’70s on inflation is truly an astonishing feat.

      • juris imprudent

        He didn’t do that all on his own – the Fed gave him a lot of help, even before he was elected.

      • cyto

        I still have no idea how we spent a bonus trillion dollars several times over a 12-year period and did not get massive inflation. They do actually need to rewrite some textbooks over that one.

      • Compelled Speechless

        This is always worth reminding people of. This isn’t a democrat problem. It’s a duopoly problem. As long as one of the two major parties is in power the government, the debt and inflation will all continue to grow at an ever quickening clip.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    The whole thing where a chip shortage reducing the volume of new car production led to soaring prices for used cars seems like it might contain some lessons for housing policy.

    The suspense is killing me.

    Does it have anything to do with windows?

    • UnCivilServant

      No, load-bearing Tortillas.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Ehlers Danlos

      • PieInTheSky

        maybe but would anyways

  61. Count Potato

    “I think this is the first time that the NYT has conceded that there is a legitimate debate on the question. Amazing concession to reality given the toxicity of the subject.”

    https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1481694283132551170

    Article paywalled. There shouldn’t be any debate. Obviously, trans teens should get a psych evaluation before medically transitioning.

    • Nephilium

      Some of us are still waiting to see what happens with the Federal Contractor mandate. Based on my understanding of the SCOTUS opinions, I’m not very hopeful.

      • Tundra

        Yeah, I can’t find any definitive answer to that one.

      • Nephilium

        It’s still under a stay under several of the federal courts. One stay was just for several midwestern states (including Ohio), another put the stay on the order nationally. I don’t know when the trials are scheduled, or the status of any appeals.

      • Drake

        I’m waiting to see if an office / wfh employee of a lab company is a “healthcare” worker.

      • R C Dean

        Are you subject to regulation by CMS? If so, you are. I don’t believe the CMS reg makes any distinction between patient care/public facing and back office. Why would it? The purpose is to force the vax on as many people as possible.

    • db

      It’s an interesting way of warning businesses never to be taking “free” money from the government.

      • juris imprudent

        A surge in healthcare providers turning away Medicare patients would be the fastest way to get fully federalized healthcare imaginable.

      • db

        I’m talking more about non-healthcare businesses being shown what could happen to them if they allow even the camel’s nose under the tent.

      • juris imprudent

        Ha! Like defense contractors?

      • db

        Yep, totally!

  62. Count Potato

    “The original run of “Will and Grace” (1998-2006), did more to advance the cause of gay marriage than anything else pre-Obergefell.”

    https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/hollywoods-new-rules

    It was True Blood. No one wanted to fuck anyone on Will and Grace.

    • Count Potato

      “So, in September 2020, the Academy launched its Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry platform (or RAISE). For a movie to qualify for Best Picture, producers not only had to register detailed personal information about everyone involved in the making of that movie, but the movie had to meet two of the Academy’s four diversity standards—touching on everything from on-screen representation to creative leadership. (An Academy spokesperson said “only select staff” would have access to data collected on the platform.) “

    • R C Dean

      *raises hand*

      Will and Grace era Debra Messing was definitable bangable in my book.

      • Tundra

        Oh, hell yes.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        #badpotatotakes

        If we’re going just on looks, I still would.

    • cyto

      Military people can have a truly badass sense of honor. She seems to be one of those.

      Would make a good hire when she returns to civilian life.