Monday Morning Links

by | Jan 31, 2022 | Daily Links | 514 comments

One more step.

Well it’s going to be the Bengals vs the Rams in the Super Bowl. And I couldn’t be happier for both teams. The AFC and NFC championship games were amazing fun, as were all four games last weekend.  The league has done a hell of a job scripting these playoffs. Elsewhere, the USMNT shit the bed against Canada. That game was really hard to watch.  No, seriously. Paramount plus made it near impossible to watch with constant buffering and picture quality going from great to good to great to terrible to buffering to good to…you get the point. It was shit.  And no tennis was played over the weekend. And lastly, remember that Danish dude who died and was resuscitated on the field last summer in the Euros? Well, he’s back in the EPL. That’s awesome. Anyway, that’s sports!

I had no idea this happened 20 minutes from house

The left went absolutely apeshit over the weekend because of this. I say bravo.  Every person involved should be pardoned as soon as a decent person (or Trump) takes office. Most of them have been sitting in a jail cell rotting without receiving bail, for trespassing, and don’t have trial dates in sight.  If that’s not a violation of their constitutional rights and reason for a swift pardon, I don’t know what is.

An adult response to a childish tantrum. How refreshing.

Biden bangs the war drums. Whatever it takes to ease this shitty poll numbers, right Joe?

Might want to get that looked at, dude.

Damn, that sucks for him. Now where is he gonna buy his herpes medicine? But seriously, get out of New York.

This is awesome. I wonder if they’re getting Trudeau news about it in his spider hole.

This sucks. They should have done a better job of vetting their clients. I hope they win on some technicality.

This is absolutely retarded. DOn’t these people know they’re in the government and above the law? Or is that only in America?

Good. Now we should secede. I’d have said the same thing six months earlier and will say it six months from now.

Here’s a great song for you. The full song too, so enjoy it more.

And enjoy the start of another week bringing us closer to springtime, friends!

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514 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Every person involved should be pardoned as soon as a decent person (or Trump) takes office. Most of them have been sitting in a jail cell rotting without receiving bail, for trespassing, and don’t have trial dates in sight. If that’s not a violation of their constitutional rights and reason for a swift pardon, I don’t know what is.”

    Besides not pardoning them when he could, Trump has billions of dollars and isn’t helping them.

    • sloopyinca

      That’s what bothered me (but I was late in getting links together and didn’t have enough time to get them done and write my criticisms as well). He could help them now and point out the constitutional violations these people are facing. He could also point out the hypocrisy in how he’s covered when he does it, as I assume the media would go bananas over it, leaving him the opportunity to highlight some of the rioters who got bail from Team Blue over the last couple of summers full of violence who went on to commit other crimes.

      But he’s too stupid or selfish to do either of those things.

      • Festus

        Or, conversely, he just don’t give a fuck. Choose your poison.

      • Tonio

        It has also occurred to me that he’s cynically exploiting the situation by not helping. The longer they stay imprisoned, the more abuses they suffer, only helps him in the polls.

      • juris imprudent

        Helluva reward for loyalty, ain’t it?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think you are giving Trump too much credit.

        He isn’t playing 3D chess. He’s just lazy and selfish.

      • AlexinCT

        He could help them now and point out the constitutional violations these people are facing

        And team blue & the deep state would use this to make sure he was labeled an insurrectionist, the constitution and legal system be damned, and banned from running again…

      • sloopyinca

        …which would give him many avenues to point out the hypocrisy in coverage relative to people like Harris, who were funding bail programs for people who caused billions of dollars in damage across America over the last several years of rioting and looting.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, I hear ya but think you are missing the point. The people that are corrupt don’t care that you expose them as long as they get what they want. If at this point it isn’t obvious that they have a system with different rules for them and the others (and especially their enemies), and expecting things like reflection or shame because of their dishonesty, simply is self delusion. I would much rather the evil people actually get fucked over, and there is a better chance of that with Trump sticking it to them.

      • Tonio

        expecting things like reflection or shame because of their dishonesty, simply is self delusion

        So much this.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        It would be like asking Marilyn Monroe to wear underwear, or not to be late to the set.

      • Count Potato

        It’s not just Trump. There are plenty of people with money and power who could help them.

      • AlexinCT

        Read my point above of what they do to their enemies and how the system treats those different than it would them. Especially when they commit crimes (the system excuses them) and their enemy doesn’t (the system makes up charges), then think that through. Unless you have billions you have to really watch what you are doing. I know Musk has started taunting these assholes, but he better watch it. His billionaire rivals would love to help the government destroy them.

      • juris imprudent

        If that doesn’t light the LC1789 signal, I don’t know what will.

    • Brawndo

      This. He’s all bluster, and that’s easily exposed in a primary

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Following protests of Spotify kicked off by Neil Young over the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, the music streaming service said that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the virus.

    A nation of children.

    • sloopyinca

      It’s attention-seeking by these people trying to gain just a little bit of relevance in a world that’s mostly forgotten them.

      Bummer too, because I was looking forward to Young’s music being used in commercials once he sold most of his catalog. Now that’s not gonna happen, which sucks because it would have drove him absolutely nuts.

      • db

        It’d be fun if someone could buy the rights to “The Needle and the Damage Done” and use it as an anti-vax-mandate anthem.

      • Ghostpatzer

        LOL.

        I heard you knockin’ at my cellar door
        My vax expired, can I get some more?
        Ooh, the damage done…

      • db

        Beauty!

      • db

        I left the city where my freedom’s banned
        Here in the country now, the vaxx is panned
        Ooh, the damage done

      • Ghostpatzer

        We’re gonna give Weird Al a run for his money.

      • db

        Now we just need someone who can play the guitar and sing. on second thought, it’s Neil Young.

      • db

        Second try:

        I left the city where my freedom’s banned
        Here in the country now, the mandate’s panned
        Gone, gone, but damage done

      • Festus

        That’s the dirty end of the turd. Some of his tunes are really good.

      • db

        Don’t get me wrong, I really like his old stuff. Back in the ’90s he went to shit with “Rockin’ in the Free World.” Couple of good songs on that album but it was a long decline from there.

      • C. Anacreon

        We could have had a commercial for “Keep on rockin with the FreeDent!”

      • db

        I’m looking at you, Elon Musk.

    • Festus

      Nah! I mostly like kids.

    • Nephilium

      Remember when Wonko the Sane was considered a joke? I’m beginning to think he was right all along.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Safetyism turned into Scientism

      • robc

        I don’t think it was ever a joke, Douglas Adams was just ahead of his time.

      • Not Adahn

        The leader of the galaxy was A-OK in my book.

      • Surly Knott

        He’s just some guy, you know.

      • Not Adahn

        No no, not The President of the galaxy, the actual leader.

        The one who was such a skeptic that he’d say things like “If you find that warmth makes you dry, you might want to come inside.”

      • Surly Knott

        Ah, it’s been too long. Clearly I need to re-read it.

      • Not Adahn

        https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ruler_of_the_Universe

        The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
        To summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

    • AlexinCT

      I am waiting for someone to claim Joe Rogan is a Russian agent, a KGB Directorate S plant, sent to the US to turn Americans against their government (even if it is now blatantly obvious that government is corrupt, inept and run by the evilest people you could imagine), just like the CBC claimed the trucker convoy was run/financed by Moscow…

      • juris imprudent

        The Birchers are reborn.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Rogan did say in his video he supports the content advisory warnings.

      It could just be the newest “Parental Advisory” sticker that makes an album more interesting than it ought to be. In which case, good.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Except in this case, it’s a content advisory for “adults” and not a warning to parents.

    • waffles

      Boomer-musicians clinging to the last shreds of their perceived relevance. Disgusting behavior.

    • Drake

      Surprised Rogan didn’t just publicly invite Young to his show. I doubt Young would have accepted, he probably knows he’d be in way over his head. Rogan would have agreed to disagree on the covid bullshit and found interesting stuff in Young’s career to discuss for an hour.

      • ron73440

        That’s assuming Young wouldn’t keep circling back to misinformation.

      • Drake

        Maybe once or twice – then Rogan would have put some data on the screen from VAERS or similar UK sources and asked Young to refute actual government data. At that point Young would be more interested in talking about Buffalo Springfield.

      • R.J.

        No doubt he is trying to do that.

  3. Count Potato

    “He also said that he schedules the guests on his podcast himself, and that he would try to book doctors with different opinions right after he talks to “the controversial ones.” Rogan noted that he earlier sat down on the show with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for CNN, Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is a member of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, and Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine.”

    He lived through three hours of Osterholm? Doesn’t Joe know Tai Kwon Do? Twenty minutes in, I would have kicked that smug asshole in the face.

    • Festus

      This is why you are you and Joe Rogan is himself. Spotify paid him a 100 million dollar advance. Our opinions are not worth a farthing.

      • Count Potato

        OK, fine, I’d put up with him for $100M.

      • waffles

        Joe Rogan seems to genuinely enjoy and even get along well with everyone I’ve seen him with on the show. That’s a skill.

    • PutridMeat

      Should CNN be required to put a dissenting opinion one every time they have someone one repeating the official state line? Should “The View” be protested (well yes, but that’s just on general principle) if they don’t have alternative views after propagandizing for the state? No?

      It’s always with the asymmetry. Allow conversation that deviates from the narrative? You need to apologize or offer up the Party line as a counter. For the time being. Until it becomes illegal to talk about things that deviate from the Party line. There is never a demand, a requirement, to provide a dissenting view when you are towing the lion with the official position of the State. That’s why I’m not sure it’s an ‘adult reaction’ for spotify to label content and then direct listeners to, what I assume will be, the official allowed narrative. Rogan’s a bit more on solid ground because he does talk to all comers. But I’m not sure ‘apologetically’ suggesting “he would try to book doctors with different opinions [the right, official narrative opinions]…” to counteract the mis-information is particularly healthy. He’s always booked who he wants, who he is interested in talking to. And that should be the only requirement. “Requiring” the presentation of the official narrative is a step down the wrong path. The slippery slope is technical mathematical fallacy in the area of logic; in a social context, it is an iron law.

      • Nephilium

        /waits for the return of the Fairness Doctrine

      • AlexinCT

        They will put on someone that disagrees with the expert by making the claim the expert is a cream puff and didn’t go far enough into totalitarian bullshit land…

        There, now you have balance!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Their dissenting opinions are always controlled opposition that either stay within the Overton Window or reflect a strawman position that can be easily dismissed.

        Note that CNN has not interviewed McCollough or Malone.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Dissenting opinions = David Brooks, Jennifer Rubin and George Will.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Osterholm was early March 2020 and it was only 90 minutes.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I feel bad for Osterholm.

        He was trying to get pandemic panic going back in the early ’00s. He was such a spaz about it, that they eventually forced him out of the Minnesoda Dept of Health. He got an office in Duluth at the local extension of the U of MN.

        Then when there is an actual pandemic, a GOPer is in office and he has to watch Fauci preen in the lime light.

        By the time a Dem is in office, most people are done, done, done with the panic pr0n.

      • The Last American Hero

        Who is this “most people” and why aren’t they recalling their politicians?

    • Jerms

      I got a text from my mom this morning that said “Did you hear that Joe Rogan is in trouble for spreading misinformation!!??”

      This is how they enable the vaccines to keep going into arms even though all cause mortality is up huge almost everywhere.

      Letting them put the disclaimer on his show makes him sound guilty. Even in a video he recorded Rogan sounded kind of apologetic.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Why don’t you watch it and decide for yourself Mom?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Have an aunt who listens to her facebook friends way too much start to go on a rant about Rogan.

        I told her to listen to any of his non-Rona podcasts and see for herself what he is like.

        He really is a self-deprecating guy who just talks to people. He just asks questions and lets them talk.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Well, not the podcasts he does with Normand, Shaffir, and Gillis. Your aunt will be horrified.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Don’t get Rogan talking about the moon-landing, either.

      • juris imprudent

        Well hopefully they’ll apply the same disclaimer regardless of the particular podcast, so the Gupta one would be tagged as well.

  4. Festus

    Unfortunately, I have seen that image IRL. It was dumped away quite gingerly. The smell. Oh god, the smell…

    • sloopyinca

      Is this about Rappaport? Or the piss?

      • AlexinCT

        Both?

      • Festus

        The piss but the other works.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Roger is the king. Too bad Pete turned out to be a prevert.

  6. db

    I especially love this part of the DM’s headline:

    Vital US border route is blocked after Trudeau flees city and Elon Musk backs truckers

    • db

      except WTF is up with this:

      Ottawa residents are furious at the disruption and angered by protesters flying swastikas through their city

      Could you think of a more obvious probable false flag?

      • db

        There is one picture of 6 morons carrying 6 flags: One swastika flag, One Canadian flag, three that say F*CK Trudeau (where * = a red maple leaf) and one Gadsden flag.

      • Festus

        Glowies

      • Festus

        The people that are demonstrating are more Don Cherry-like.

      • db

        And I think it might actually be 5 people with one flagpole holding both a nazi flag and a “Fuck Trudeau” flag.

        1. Why would anyone feel the need to do that
        2. Why would anyone associate with them

      • Festus

        Nobody would. Nobody that I’ve ever met in my nearly six decades. False Flag bullshit. I have literally never met a single person that would back that. Not one.

      • EvilSheldon

        Every single rally or protest I’ve attended, there have always been a handful of assholes showing up and doing asshole shit.

        I think that it’s less false flags, and more the pitiless hand of probability…

      • ron73440

        And depending on who is protesting, the media either ignores or highlights the assholes.

      • rhywun

        The NY Post is offering up “anti-vaxxers are carrying swastika flags and peeing on monuments.”

        Gaslighting 101

      • Tonio

        It’s like they’re not even trying.

      • Festus

        The CBC is trying to ignore it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        All is WELL!!

      • AlexinCT

        I hear Trudeau had asked if he should blackface up and go carry a Nazi flag around screaming “Trudeau is bad, hmmm kay”, but got told that people would still recognize him…

      • Festus

        “Boo!”

  7. The Late P Brooks

    What if the wrong thought police get control of the helm?

    “These bills don’t live in silos. It’s easy if you look from the outside to see this scattershot of legislation and see them as individualized, that an abortion ban may not be tied to the Don’t Say Gay bill, which may not be tied to the license to discriminate in healthcare bill,” he said.

    “But the truth is they are all connected. And the thing that connects them is the concerted attempt by Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies to push themselves to the right of Donald Trump and set DeSantis up to run for president in 2024.

    “In Florida you are free, but only free to do and say as you are told.”

    Only we should be allowed to tell the people what to think.

    • AlexinCT

      There is nothing more important to totalitarian power hungry evil fucks than making sure the people think the right things…

    • rhywun

      the license to discriminate in healthcare bill

      lolwut

      I wasn’t aware that Florida wants to mimic similar license to discriminate (against white people) bills commands that are in effect in other states.

    • Count Potato

      Don’t Say Gay bill?

      • rhywun

        That’s leftist activists’ cutesy term for a bill which would stop age-inappropriate sex-talk in elementary school.

      • Count Potato

        What sort of fascist would deprive a five-year-old of anal sex tips?

    • Lackadaisical

      “The bill “makes clear that no Floridian — student, worker, or anyone else — should be subjected to discriminatory content and rhetoric,” she wrote.”

      Sounds like slavery. /Communists

      Though I do think the requirement on private businesses not to force people to listen to such dreck does violate the first amendment.

  8. limey

    An adult response to a childish tantrum. How refreshing.

    The childish tantrum worked, though. The propaganda machine saw a threat and they’ve worked their way into having some influence and control over that perceived threat. Rogan’s civility and magnanimity in this instance will only be seen as a weakness to be exploited in ultimately undermining him and his platform.

    You can’t act in good faith toward these people and expect it to be reciprocated.

    The only way to work this to any reasonable advantage or to keep an even playing field is for Rogan to eviscerate these people and expose them to his audience. Watch the response to that. See the heavy handed censorship start from Spotify and the exponential increase in ad hominem, lying, propaganda directed toward him in the MSM.

    Does it sound like I’m a hardcore culture warrior treating this as a zero sum game? If so, how much merit is there in that approach right now? Even though I’m not a listener of his podcast (there is only so much I can consume reasonably every week), I have put some eggs in the Rogan basket in terms of Covidian accountability and the battle against the relentless Covidian machine.

    It’s windy out.

    • AlexinCT

      The problem is that too many people think this is a fair fight with Marquis of Queensbury rules. Team blue and the deep state fight prison rules. While you put up your dukes and act the gentleman, they will shank your ass. Repeatedly. Then they will sell you to Bubba for a candy bar and a pack of cigarettes after they have raped your beat up body.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        There is a large segment of the right that is stuck in 2004.

        “the left has their excesses, but they’re not all that different from us”

        Yeah. Okay. Companies are paying hiring managers to hire people who don’t look like you into management roles.

        Yeah. Okay. Suburban schools are teaching your kids that they’re irreparably racist based on their skin color alone and that they can change gender on a whim.

        Yeah. Okay. People are getting fired on the regular just for saying things that were uncontroversial as recent as a decade ago.

        Yeah. Okay. Companies siphon a portion of the proceeds from the things you purchase to fund non-profits working to dismantle western civilization.

        Yeah. Okay. There is a substantial and active segment of the population who want to lock you in camps for making a medical decision they don’t agree with.

        Yeah. Okay. Half the country thinks that disagreeing with them is “hate speech” and thus criminal.

      • waffles

        When you put it that way, I feel doom. But I still think the insanity is coming from far less than half the country. They just need to feel the pain before coming up to speed.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        But I still think the insanity is coming from far less than half the country.

        Depends on the particular insanity in question, but I agree in principle.

        Covid and the omnipresence of CRT have fractured my delusion that we’re a country of apathetic freedom-lovers snoozing away while the totalitarians meddle around the edges. We’re all totalitarians now.

      • EvilSheldon

        Conservatives gonna conservative…

    • Festus

      My leg keeps getting wet even though it ain’t raining.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    “21 million Floridians deserve more than a mouthpiece for the governor, than talking sound bites that sound good and suit a narrative,” Book told CNN. Her criticism was echoed by a group of prominent Florida physicians, who accused DeSantis and Ladapo of “espousing policies contrary to the evidence”.

    Can these people be any more un-self-aware?

    Hint: It’s not science which requires censorship of contradictory theories, it’s religion.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Never forget, it’s only one side that is seeking to limit your medical options and force you into herd treatment.

      They speak of choice as if they actually believe in it, which they absolutely do not.

    • AlexinCT

      There is no misinformation, consensus, or believing in science in real science. When you can challenge supposed science, be it through misinformation, calling out the stupidity of consensus science, or pointing out that believing in science makes a cool meme, but shows lack of scientific understanding of any kind, then what you have is science. If you can’t do these things, then it’s propaganda.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Science should be more of a verb than a noun.

  10. rhywun

    Now where is he gonna buy his herpes medicine?

    Somehow none of this is happening in my neighborhood. Maybe we just have a better class of people living here. Manhattan is a cesspool.

    • AlexinCT

      And they hate people like us for avoiding the shit they foisted on the fools that live in urban areas (especially the ones they control).

    • Ghostpatzer

      Maybe we just have a better class of people living here

      Certainly a less affluent class. Checkout these bargains. Sutton’s law at work.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ooh, dishwasher.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      So you are saying you can still get your herpes medicine?

      • rhywun

        Sure, would you like me to get some for you?

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Ottawa residents are furious at the disruption and angered by protesters flying swastikas through their city

    Just like when the Nazis took Paris! Oh, shame! Oh, WOE!

    • Festus

      I’ve been watching a bunch of live-feeds for a week and have yet to see a nazi or rebel flag that wasn’t an obvious plant. Come on! We’re Canadians, we’re not that stupid.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      8k is almost too low (is too low?) for a 20 year old truck.

  12. Certified Public Asshat

    I might be late, probably posted over the weekend:

    Leftists celebrating Neil Young’s crusade to cancel Joe Rogan overlooked old hippy’s homophobic past

    In the interview with Melody Maker magazine during the height of the AIDS crisis, Young spoke favorably of then-President Ronald Reagan and blamed homosexuals for the spread of the disease, invoking an anti-gay slur while remarking, “You go to a supermarket and you see a f*ggot behind the f**in’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Young has always been a raging asshole.

      • Festus

        Hence his fear of the Aids.

      • Festus

        The thing that always pissed me off about him was the realization that he already “Got His”. I was a huge fan for about ten years and then I came to the understanding that he was a cunte of the first order. I still liked the old stuff but he chipped and chipped away at any good will that was left. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

        Yeah, that shit is crazy.

      • db

        This punster never sleeps.

      • Festus

        I remember watching some concert video from back in the day and he seemed like a curmudgeon. Then he started going off on GMOs. Then he fucked his wife and family over. Sorry, Neil, we can’t be friends anymore.

      • juris imprudent

        Well you aren’t going to buffalo that man.

      • ron73440

        You might get to hear Neil’s opinion, for what it’s worth.

      • Ghostpatzer

        It’s not worth a whole lot, he is a child.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I repeat: by his own admission he used to blow up frogs with firecrackers as a boy.

      • Festus

        I saw that earlier. Sick.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        At least Frog Baseball was merely a cartoon, and even after that it took me a while to come around to Beavis and Butthead as a series.

      • EvilSheldon

        I can be friends with most people, including junkies, whores, criminals, cops, and even politicians. But one instance of torturing animals puts you permanantly in the ‘Not Really Human’ category.

      • Count Potato

        Boys killing frogs was very common when he was a kid.

      • AlexinCT

        At least he was not turning them gay…

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, guess I’m ducked.

        I think it’s be a bigger problem if you didn’t have any shame about it.

      • Chafed

        First sign he would be a psycho.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    WARNING: Despite any claims to the contrary, no matter how seemingly believable on the surface, we must remind our listeners in the most emphatic terms that the Emperor is, in fact, fully clothed, in robes of dazzling resplendence. Any claims to the contrary will be squelched in the interest of justice and fair play.

  14. Count Potato

    Anyone notice some avatars are missing?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Sorry to disappoint you, but not on this end.

    • R.J.

      Test. I lost mine at one point about a year ago.

      • The Hyperbole

        Almost everyone did, some wordpress reboot or something wiped them out.

      • ron73440

        R.J., I watched half of Lifeforce this Saturday, thanks for putting it up.

        Thursdays don’t work for me watching movies, but I love B movies.

        Watched Bubba-Ho Tep a couple weeks ago and couldn’t believe I had never seen it.

        Tried to get the wife to join me, that’s not gonna happen.

        She said something about knowing I am smart, but some of the movies I watch has her second guessing that.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I didn’t know we were married to the same woman.

        Two-timing bitch….

      • ron73440

        women…

      • R.J.

        Glad to hear you are watching my posts. Yes, Thursday isn’t ideal but you can always go back and watch later. Nice to hear you are enjoying it.

  15. rhywun

    LOL behold the proposed Dem gerrymandering of NYC – my district (11) expands to include ultra-liberal Park Slope in order to eliminate the GOP from the city. And I love 10 – it’s still scooping up all the liberal Jews in the Upper West Side so they can outnumber the heavily Republican Jews in Brooklyn; that district was cooked up at the last redistricting. It may be the only district in the country that runs through a tunnel.

    And remember, this is the result of the Dems somehow figuring out a way to bypass the Constitutionally-required “bipartisan” commission the voters demanded, so they could shove their own map up our asses.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Holy crap, 10th district is nucking futs. How does something like that withstand a court challenge? Williamsburg and Upper West Side in the same district???

      • rhywun

        Not even Williamsburg, fucking Bensonhurst.

        How does something like that withstand a court challenge?

        What’s left of the GOP can’t get their act together long enough to attempt one? I dunno.

    • Certified Public Asshat
      • Certified Public Asshat

        Hit post too soon:

        Maryland New

        The Eastern shore now shares the same values as the Annapolis class.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now that’s called getting fucked over.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And what the hell is that district four and five bullshit?

      • rhywun

        It’s hard to believe but MD may be more corrupt even than NY.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Having lived there, it’s not hard to believe at all.

      • Not Adahn

        I may be misremembering, but didn’t MD invent gerrymandering?

      • rhywun

        Massachussetts

      • juris imprudent

        MA, Governor Elbridge Gerry (Democratic-Republican now simply Democrat)

      • Ghostpatzer

        The Eastern shore now shares the same values as the Annapolis class.

        That is truly ingenious, and evil. Anne Arundel County and the Eastern Shore are literally separated by Chesapeake Bay.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The rationale is “the bridge.”

    • Count Potato

      Everything should be sliced up into rectangles like Iowa counties. Fuck all these weird complicated shapes.

      • Ghostpatzer

        The littlest patzer is studying fractals this semester. I think he may have a promising future as a redistricter (did I get that right?) if the comp-sci thing doesn’t pan out.

      • robc

        KY Supreme Court requires a minimum number of counties to be split.

        Meet that standard and you can still gerrymander away, but it prevents the worst of that kind of bullshit.

      • robc

        I think it works out to be 5 (possibly less if numbers were to line up perfectly) for congressional districts.

        Even for state house districts, due to more flexibility in size of district and many counties handling multiple districts (I think Jefferson County is 18 or 20 of the 100 districts itself), it isn’t that large a number. 10 years ago they split Warren Co 4 different ways, but that only counted as 1 split.

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean what difference does it make at this point? one goper or zero

    • juris imprudent

      Uh, what’s with the extension of the districts out into the Atlantic – more dead voters?

  16. The Late P Brooks

    They speak of choice as if they actually believe in it, which they absolutely do not.

    The headline of that article:

    ‘Free to do as you are told’: Florida Republicans advance wave of draconian bills

    Just like the vaccine mandates, right? Or is that magically different?

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s progjection all the way down.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Organic?

      • Lackadaisical

        I believe silicone is inorganic.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m going to bet that the “NYPD driving through BLM protestors” was actually “protestors mobbed a cop car and the police fled.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *watches video*

        Close, asshole behavior on both sides there.

    • rhywun

      I will note that that teacher was at a charter school. No way he’s fired from a regular public school.

      • PieInTheSky

        this is what you get without unions to protect you.

      • waffles

        you’re good at this.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Next, he will be arrested and detained indefinitely without bail. That’s the new normal, amirite?

    • Not Adahn

      $20 says he’s FTM.

      • R C Dean

        I believe that would be she’s FTM.

      • Lackadaisical

        Strong agree.

      • Not Adahn

        When I was at my lowest, deepest depression (pre-medication) the only reason that I didn’t kill myself was that it would have been rude to my parents.

        Apparently courtesy is one of my terminal values.

      • Lackadaisical

        There is courtesy and then lyiing.

        But who am to question it, if it kept you going. There is some real utility in courtesy.

      • Not Adahn

        There always has been a large overlap between the two. I’ve written a lot of letters to people whom I didn’t really consider “dear.”

  17. PieInTheSky

    last day of isolation. hopefully the fucking test tomorrow comes negative cause I need to go to the damn dentist

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just a warning, you can test positive well after the virus is dead in your system.

      • PieInTheSky

        I know that is what I am afraid of

      • AlexinCT

        Ask them for the anal swab.. The CCP says it is more accurate….

      • Pope Jimbo

        And don’t be shy about letting the doc know that you are open to letting students come in and practice their anal swabbing on you. Paying back to the community is very important.

      • AlexinCT

        Next you will suggest they just use the fat end of a aluminum baseball bat wrapped in swab…

      • PieInTheSky

        I am thinking an antigen test… that was negative the last time when the pcr was positive.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Oh, sorry. At 2:30?*

      *(“tooth-hurty”)

    • Not Adahn

      hopefully the fucking test tomorrow

      This is the kind of proficiency exam that society needs.

    • PieInTheSky

      Sex is not an addiction. I sucked dick for coke. did you ever suck di… nevermind

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Pie knows Half-Baked! or at least that part.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        RIP Bob Saget

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘even though we have three children’

      Well, she may have 3 kids, but I doubt you do.

      • Sean

        lol

  18. PieInTheSky

    I hate being a radical feminist and having common ground with conservatives, for example on topics like prostitution, gender ideology and pornography, because we only superficially agree and do so for *completely different reasons*. But that’s how far neoliberalism pushed us.

    https://twitter.com/IuliaIonela_/status/1487203276558942210

    The name sounds Romanian.

    The profile : “Vegan radfem. All hail prophetess Andrea Dworkin and goddesses in flesh JK Rowling, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Catherine McKinnon and Gail Dines! Also hail Satan”

    So I need a ruling. Parody?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      All hail prophetess Andrea Dworkin and goddesses in flesh JK Rowling

      Parody

      • Festus

        Every fantasy of a beautiful girl that you have ever enjoyed will now be set aside. Andrea Dworkin is what you sock off to. As it was, as it shall ever be.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Always remember, somebody married that malignant wildebeest.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        For a tax break?

      • Lackadaisical

        Self hatred is the only logical answer.

    • ron73440

      Parody?

      Didn’t look like it to me.

      She and the ones who answer her take themselves way too seriously.

      • Not Adahn

        I doubt JKR considers herself a RadFem.

      • PieInTheSky

        unlike sex, radfem is not self identity

      • Not Adahn

        Well, she seems too much of a gender essentialist to be a radfem also.

    • Plisade

      Why would one hate having common ground with others? And here I was thinking that was a good thing.

      • Not Adahn

        Not if those others are icky.

    • Not Adahn

      People call me husband stealer for bonking married men – but I like wives too

      The UK has better newspapers than we do.

    • Festus

      Ha! I love his little socks!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Seditious libel!

    Musk agreed with another user, Eva Fox, who also cast “shame on Biden.”

    “Biden is a damp [sock] puppet in human form,” Musk wrote, responding to Fox’s tweet.

    Off with his head!

    • PieInTheSky

      meh Musk is mostly griftin’

      • Festus

        Choose your poison.

      • Q Continuum

        Musk is more amusing.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This is what they’re importing to Europe.

      • R C Dean

        I believe we flew many planeloads of this diversity into the US recently, as well.

    • Q Continuum

      “All cultures are equally valid!’

      – some proggie shitstain

    • PieInTheSky

      nuke it from orbit?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well that is what happens to trashy sluts.

      • Lackadaisical

        F. You.

        for making me laugh.

    • juris imprudent

      Not of the body.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Pernicious disinfo!

    Japanese trading and pharmaceutical company Kowa Co Ltd (7807.T) said on Monday anti-parasite drug ivermectin showed an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other variants of coronavirus in joint non-clinical research.

    The company did not provide further details.

    The firm has been working with Kitasato University, a medical university in Tokyo, on testing the drug which is used to treat parasites in animals and humans, as a potential treatment for COVID-19.

    Clinical trials are ongoing but promotion of the drug as a COVID-19 treatment has generated controversy.

    Excommunicate them!

    • ron73440

      Clinical trials are ongoing but promotion of the drug as a COVID-19 treatment has generated controversy.

      the U.S. Federal Drug Administration, the World Health Organization and the EU drug regulator have warned against its use.

      Why is that? The controversy part links to Joni Mitchell threatening Spotify.

      The FDA links to this enlightening article.

      However, the FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention, including hospitalization, after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for livestock.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The FDA is wholly corrupt and has blood on their hands, along with the rest of the federal public health apparatus.

      • tripacer

        “received multiple reports”

        So, at least 2.

      • Drake

        Anonymously – from pay phones.

      • Count Potato

        It’s believable some people took way too much ivermectin.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If you take the human version it would be nearly impossible, but possible.

        Easier to do with the horse paste, which yes, was recommended by a few fringe doctors but they also advised taking an amount safe for humans.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Doling out the paste takes a little bit of mathematical skill so it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if a few people screwed the pooch on figuring the dose.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        There is no difference between a “human version” and the 1% injection sold at farm stores. The formulation is the same. The dosing instructions the exact same by weight for both the FLCCC protocol for humans and the enclosed IFU for cattle.

        The problem is that some people are incapable of measuring their own medicine out out from a large bottle. I guarantee the people who took much did not convert milligrams to millimeters (e.g., a 100lb person took 10 ml instead of 1 ml ivermectin).

        Instead of single use $500 epi-pens, people could measure out their 10 cent dose of epinephrine with a basic syringe. But increasing involvement of patients in their own medical care would give them too much control of their own medical autonomy and some will mess up. Can’t have that.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Of course it is, but at a portion of that blame lies with the medical industry that absolutely refuses to treat early.

      • Count Potato

        Same with the WOD and drug OD….

      • R C Dean

        self-medicating with ivermectin intended for livestock

        Gosh, if only there was a way to get ivermectin to people that was formulated and dosed for people . . . .

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I have whiplash.

      *lays down, puts ice bag on head*

    • juris imprudent

      Japanese showing their white privilege again?

    • Rebel Scum

      showed an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other variants of coronavirus in joint non-clinical research.

      It was already know to be anti-viral/bacterial.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If that isn’t a metaphor for what the modern left considers the correct order of things, I don’t know what is.

    • Hyperion

      Is one of them named Mayor Pete? The one that bottle feeds?

    • Rebel Scum

      But how many genders are there in the penguin world?

  21. The Late P Brooks

    meh Musk is mostly griftin’

    At least he’s entertaining.

  22. Lackadaisical

    ‘Job growth in the state, driven by population gains, has outpaced the rest of the country in recent months, according to recent federal data’

    While job growth can be a result of population gains, I can’t help but feel they’ve got cause and effect reversed here.

    • waffles

      When people post about the Biden boom I can’t always tell if they’re being sarcastic.

      • Lackadaisical

        Record. Growth.

  23. Hyperion

    Anyone see Twink of the Norht lately? I hear that Xe is in hiding.

    • Festus

      Honk Honk!

    • Hyperion

      Oooohhhh, please stop those trucks, I want to be out of toilet paper again! The luddites are back!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Left hand for hygiene, right for eating…I can’t wait.

  24. Q Continuum

    Shorter NYT: dark money’s good when we do it!

    https://archive.md/bQIyC

    I’ll give them credit for running the article at all, but the (wall of) text is a gold medal performance in mental gymnastics. While simultaneously taking about “leveling the playing field” (in spite of an infographic showing Dems spending double over Pubs) they can’t decide if they want to rein in dark money or encourage it because it benefits Dems now. Though it is instructive that all these “foundations” and “non-profits” are just political money laundering schemes.

    • ron73440

      My company is very proud to have donated:

      $25,000.00 to Children’s National Medical Center’s DEI fund.

      Not to help children in the hospital, the hospital’s DEI fund.

      Gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

      We are Federal Contractors, so this is just recycled tax money.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Children’s National Medical Center’s DEI fund

        WTF

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sorry little Johnny, you’re the wrong color so you’ll have to be waiting on that kidney.

      • Not Adahn

        “But we can invert your penis while you wait.”

      • ron73440

        I had never heard of such a thing until our HR rep sent out a glowing email, so proud of the donation.

    • AlexinCT

      They were protecting democracy!

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, I’m just surprised that NYT has taken note.

    • Hyperion

      Imagine if God had a really sick sadistic sense of humor and he made a hell where you had to sit in an office all day surrounded by NYT columnists?

  25. Rebel Scum

    Well it’s going to be the Bengals vs the Rams in the Super Bowl.

    How convenient for the Rams considering that movie that came out recently.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Headlines say, “Rents are up.”

    This can only be explained by profiteering and greed.

    #CANCELRENT

    • Hyperion

      The rent is too damn high!

  27. Hyperion

    Man, that Kraut Shlawb dude sure has a lot of insfluence. An entire world full of people doing his bidding. Guy was born about 20 minutes away from where Hitler was born. Weird, how all these villains come from that same small area of Bavaria. What the fuck did they put in the water there?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Wait, that’s real?

        I always thought it was photoshopped from the Hunger Games or something like that.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nope, he was getting some kind of award.

      • Hyperion

        It’s real, good gawd what a fucking weirdo.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Have you seen the pic of him at the beach? The dude’s fucking mental.

      • Hyperion

        LOL

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know man, Dr Evil personified. Creepy as fuck.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Bond villain vibe.

      • Hyperion

        Have you seen his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth? The cat dresses like that too.

      • Rebel Scum

        The dark lord of the Sith?

    • Rebel Scum

      It has not escaped my notice that he is a quintessential Bond villain.

  28. PieInTheSky

    mattparlmer Ringed planet
    @mattparlmer
    M3x8mm stainless steel socket head cap screws, currently unavailable from the North American emergency parts supplier of record

    https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1487924737569349635

    soon you won’t be able to get screwed in America

    • Hyperion

      You can always go to Canada.

    • db

      Ooh, nice, I have a bunch of these–maybe I’ll put them up on Ebay…

    • Pope Jimbo

      soon you won’t be able to get screwed in America

      Luckily with the Biden administration we can be sure that we’ll get fucked royally.

      • db

        Look, I know Hunter will basically fuck anything, but it’s still kind of a stretch to refer to him as Royalty.

    • ron73440

      If McMaster-Carr doesn’t have it, that’s alarming.

      Those people carry everything.

  29. Lackadaisical

    At work they just got the word that all computer costs will be up 20% in the very near future.

    Luckily it’ll just be transitory.

    • db

      Luckily it’ll just be transitory.

      Sure it will.

      • waffles

        It is transitory. We are transitioning to an economy of scarcity and higher prices.

    • whiz

      Does transitory mean it will come back down or just stop going up? Inquiring minds want to know.

      • Lackadaisical

        In reality? Neither.

        I think we’re meant to believe it will stop. No one is dumb enough to believe the prices will ever go back down.

      • whiz

        I know, I was being facetious 🙂

  30. PieInTheSky

    I ordered some ramen from a Japanese restaurant and besides the pot of broth there was a separate container of uncooked noodles saying on it “boil for two minutes” I mean if I wanted to cook I would have done so. Also all japanes restaurant are stingy on the pork in ramen just one thin slice.

    • Not Adahn

      Wait, so you’re rather eat overcooked noodles? WTF is wrong with you?

    • Lackadaisical

      They just don’t want you to get fat

      • Sean

        Then it should just be a hunk of pork and no noodles.

  31. Hyperion

    Man that QB dude in KC needs to start identifying as a white guy. Then maybe he can get to the superbowl again. That’s the advantage of looking like a white dude but identify as black. You can always switch back and no one will notice.

  32. PieInTheSky

    In local news some politicians want to take the great example of Hungary an introduce price controls on foodstuff to combat inflation. just fucking great

    • juris imprudent

      Whoa – wait, Hungary has price controls? All we have to do is say that the lefties want us to emulate Hungary and they have to abandon the scheme!

  33. Rebel Scum

    Trump teases a presidential run and dangles pardons for January 6 rioters at Texas rally

    Could’ve done it immediately following the event…

    If that’s not a violation of their constitutional rights and reason for a swift pardon, I don’t know what is.

    But muh MAGA Meemaw terrorisms, bruh.

    • Hyperion

      Y’all is gong to keep it up until we get mean tweets again, we won’t survive a 2nd round of mean tweets.

  34. Festus

    I’m wondering if people up here just stop.

    • Festus

      I’m doing it as much as possible.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Baristas of the world unite, not those icky blue collar truck drivers.

      • Hyperion

        It’s all about the world saving value brought to you by the teacher’s unions. Whatever would we do without them? Learn about math and history and other racist stuff?

      • Lackadaisical

        Great response in there pointed out that Leftists want the workers’ power for the government (themselves).

  35. Rebel Scum

    He also said that he schedules the guests on his podcast himself, and that he would try to book doctors with different opinions right after he talks to “the controversial ones.”

    Anything that counters the prevailing narrative is “misinformation”. I mean, how dare he promote debate by hosting professionals with varying opinions.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The problem is that when the “conventional” docs show up, they get exposed.

      Gupta had never had any experience swinging at anything except softball questions (tossed underhand) and Rogan got him to confess to all sorts of wrong think. (aka the truth).

      • juris imprudent

        Hell, Rogan isn’t even all that clever a questioner (like old Congressman Gowdy) – he just lets idiots spill their guts.

      • Rebel Scum

        And Gupta went back to the narrative the very next day. Lying s.o.b. he is.

      • juris imprudent

        Quack, quack, quack!

  36. Pope Jimbo

    King Walz is going to trick the GOP into screwing themselves.

    Governor Tim Walz is calling on lawmakers to pass legislation to legalize marijuana use in Minnesota, as he proposes funds from his budget plan to launch a state authority to oversee a recreational marijuana program.

    Speaking Wednesday, Governor Walz says his budget would set aside $25 million to create the new “Cannabis Management Office”.

    About the only people who are still anti-pot in Minnesoda are the GOP party members. Even the old farmers in the sticks don’t give a shit anymore. But the GOP is going to block this and piss off a bunch of people. When NoDak nearly passed pot legalization (and SoDak did pass it), you can’t pretend that there are lots of rural rubes who still believe in pot laws.

    Also, spending $25M for a new office to study how to legalize pot? I’ll do it for $200. “Just have the legislature repeal the existing laws against pot. Don’t set up any licensing or distribution networks. Just let people who want to sell it, sell it and let people who want to buy it, buy it”. I wouldn’t even bother with an age limit.

  37. Rebel Scum

    The United States and its allies are stepping up the pressure on Russia, warning the country faces “the mother of all sanctions” in the standoff over Ukraine and vowing to confront Moscow publicly at the United Nations on Monday.

    I’m sure Putin is shaking in his ushanka.

    But we really should not be trying to stoke a conflict here.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Even the Ukrainians are telling us to back the hell off and calm down.

      • juris imprudent

        Like what they have to say matters to OUR foreign policy experts?

    • Drake

      CNN wrote this article backwards of course. But all seems to boil down to two things.
      1. Biden Administration’s attempts to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany

      2. Russia’s refusal to accept NATO expansion into the Ukraine

      A deal – no NATO in the Ukraine in exchange for Russian guarantees not to invade – seems really simple. As for German energy dependence, that’s their own fault. There’s no fixing stupid.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The most logical thing I’ve heard that explains why Biden approved NordStream 2 and then started rattling sabers in the Ukraine is that they’re trying to create political cover for concessions after they’ve been using the Russia issue in domestic politics for years.

        In other words, they’ve already ceded the game but need to cover for it. The Russian stock market would seem to indicate that this is true.

        https://markets.ft.com/data/world/countries/russia

        This will drive the real warmongers nuts of course, but let’s hope it’s an accurate take.

    • Not Adahn

      We’re stealing rhetoric from Saddam Hussein now?

      • Ghostpatzer

        We’re stealing rhetoric from Saddam Hussein now?

        As long as we are appropriating Iraqi culture, I eagerly await the appointment of Baghdad Bob as Biden’s new press secretary. Jennifer is so dull.

    • Urthona

      To be honest, Putin should be cautious. The damage the West could do to his country is immense.

      He’s just smart enough to realize that without Germany giving a shit the thing has no teeth.

      ..

      I’m getting mixed messages anyway. If the Ukraine and central Europe isn’t concerned, why are we? Is Biden trying to drum up a war?

      • juris imprudent

        If the Ukraine and central Europe isn’t concerned, why are we?

        OUR DICK ISN’T BEING RESPECTED!!~!!111!!! 1 1232 wregfp’

      • Hyperion

        If we really wanted to fuck over Mother Russia, we’d send all of our wokesters over there.

      • Urthona

        Why would they go when they control all aspects of public life and education here?

      • Count Potato

        Biden is trying to drum up a distraction. And it’s working.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Also, spending $25M for a new office to study how to legalize pot? I’ll do it for $200. “Just have the legislature repeal the existing laws against pot. Don’t set up any licensing or distribution networks. Just let people who want to sell it, sell it and let people who want to buy it, buy it”. I wouldn’t even bother with an age limit.

    *faints*

    • Surly Knott

      No regulation? Impossible, just imagine the consequences!
      /actual argument I heard often when MI legalized medical, and later, recreational, pot.
      smdh

  39. Rebel Scum

    They should have done a better job of vetting their clients.

    “Are you a cop?” is a valid question, no?

  40. Rebel Scum

    An investigation says lockdown-breaching parties by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff represent a “serious failure” to observe the standards expected of government.

    I hold government in very low regard anyway. So I expect very little.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    You don’t say

    China’s zero-Covid restrictions will impact global supply chain recovery as any small disruption in the country will likely lead to “ripple effects” across the world, according to the head of shipping at HSBC.

    The pandemic has revealed “how lean the supply chain has become. And there is little margin of error,” said Parash Jain, global head of shipping and ports equity research at HSBC.

    “The sheer importance of China when it comes to global trade means that any small disruption in China, will have a ripple effect across the supply chain,” Jain told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday.

    China, the world’s second largest economy, has doubled down on its zero-Covid strategy due to recent spikes in infections across the country.

    Maybe relentlessly consolidating production wasn’t such a great idea, after all.

    • Hyperion

      “ports equity”

      Well, we’re fucked, best learn to grow your own food and toilet paper.

      • rhywun

        And computers and televisions and furniture and …

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Just run your redneck bidet (garden hose and sprayer) in through the window. As long as there’s running water you’ll be fine.

      • slumbrew

        Given that it’s HSBC I suspect “equity” there is meant in the (now old-fashioned) financial meaning

      • Hyperion

        That sounds racist to me.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Texas now has more jobs than it did before the pandemic hit
    Job growth in the state, driven by population gains, has outpaced the rest of the country in recent months, according to recent federal data,

    “Thanks, Joe Biden.” ///IndignantLeftist

    • Hyperion

      And they even allow people to run around without 3 masks. Damn fascists!

      • Urthona

        No masks for like the last year and half.

        Most people I know who are still pissed at the governor are pissed because he once had a lockdown right at the beginning of covid (like so many did).

        All he does now is copy DeSantis two weeks later which people seem happy about.

      • Hyperion

        You cannot go outside here without seeing people in face diapers. Drive a couple of hours to WV and you will not see any. Or the few you do see, you know they are not locals. People in the People’s Republic of Murlan love their masks and their taxes and being told what to do 24/7. The CCP would be proud of these people.

      • Urthona

        Here it does vary because I live in a wealthy suburb.

        When I go into the gas station where everyone is right next to each other, no one is wearing one.

        If I go into “Whole Foods” where there is self-checkout and easily social distancing, easily 60% are wearing them.

        It’s fashion statement.

        But I don’t give a shit. People wearing them is fine with me. People being made to is the only thing that irks me.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        But I don’t give a shit. People wearing them is fine with me. People being made to is the only thing that irks me.

        Yep. Setting aside some family situations, I haven’t felt obligated to wear a mask anywhere in the north suburbs of Dallas for probably 8 or 9 months, and that was at a medical facility so I wasnt going to complain about it.

      • Hyperion

        “If I go into “Whole Foods” where there is self-checkout and easily social distancing, easily 60% are wearing them.”

        Dirty hippies who haven’t bathed in a year and put their produce on a dirty conveyor belt without a bag, but wear uneless masks. Make sense.

      • Pine_Tree

        Here (small-ish town in GA), masks were never much of a thing. Even rarer now. Even the wannabe-hipster-yoots don’t do it anymore. Now if you see one, it’s either:
        – a geezer who’s bought into the fear, or
        – a sign that says I. Am. A. Democrat.

    • Hyperion

      Who knew those Sickh were fascists too?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Sikhs are (mostly) good people.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Truck fleets as a subscription service

    Selling vehicles is just the first step in Ford’s plans to make money off its first electric delivery van that the automaker is rolling out this month.

    Between plans to sell 150,000 electric Transit commercial vehicles annually from 2023 onward (after building fewer to sell the first year) and creating “charging depots” to help customers manage their fleets, the company’s new Ford Pro group will generate $45 billion by 2025 and more after that, CEO Jim Farley said Tuesday at an elaborate unveiling of the E-Transit and Ford Pro’s strategy.

    “Half our commercial-vehicle revenue could be software and services,” Farley said as he announced a pilot program in which the Sonoma County Winegrowers association will test its EVs and services.

    No thanks.

    Local service/delivery fleets seem like a good niche for electric vehicles, but my money is on Ford turning it into a giant disaster.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I wonder what the practical range of a transit van with a stated 500 mile range is when fully loaded and driving in the snow.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

      • Hyperion

        I asked for some of them, but doc says I’m already crazy.

    • EvilSheldon

      ‘Adult’…

    • Rebel Scum

      affected by a free speech event

      0_o

      Stop being a snowflake.

    • R C Dean

      Talk about your low bars.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        What, you didn’t enjoy the laugh track and obvious teleprompter reading with little to no intonation?

    • PieInTheSky

      wow that is painfully unfunny

      • Urthona

        I read the transcript and did think it was pretty funny.

        Although Manning’s “acting” was removed from the equation.

      • PieInTheSky

        The last really funny thing from SNL I saw was the bill burr sam adams one and that was funny. Of course it is more than an year old some other funny thing may have come out but I did not see much SNL and what I did was not.

  44. Certified Public Asshat

    Joni Mitchell suffers from a disease most doctors think isn’t real

    For the past decade, researchers have searched for a biological cause or single underlying factor that might explain the suffering. But they have mostly concluded that Morgellons is “a psychosis or mass-shared delusion.”

    In one of the most comprehensive studies to date, published in the journal PLOS, researchers from the CDC collected detailed epidemiological information, medical histories, and skin samples from 115 Morgellons sufferers in Northern California.

    “No parasites or mycobacteria were detected,” they reported. The researchers also couldn’t find any environmental explanation for patients’ suffering.

    • R C Dean

      Morgellons is “a psychosis or mass-shared delusion.”

      I seem to recall vociferous denials recently that there is any such thing.

    • Hyperion

      “Joni Mitchell suffers from a disease most doctors think isn’t real”

      O contraire, retardation is very real.

    • Fourscore

      It’s real, a lot of people suffer from it. It’s caused by a fear of the SS Admin going broke

      “Geriatric recessionary dermal psychosis”

  45. The Late P Brooks

    I wonder what the practical range of a transit van with a stated 500 mile range is when fully loaded and driving in the snow.

    Don’t forget “when driven by people who don’t own them and have no financial stake in their maintenance.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The range in that situation will be somewhere between pathetic and piss poor.

      • R C Dean

        What our supply chain really needs is a new kind of last-mile delivery of unknown reliability.

    • Urthona

      I guess I like people protesting this, but I don’t want it to affect my lifestyle in any meaningful way.

      The shit I order from Amazon while drunk and in my underwear needs to arrive on time or I’ll forget I ordered it.

      /American

  46. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Maybe real, maybe not…the reality of psychosis is well established though. Most likely they have dermatitis or some other run of the mill skin condition and their minds run with it.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    For the past decade, researchers have searched for a biological cause or single underlying factor that might explain the suffering. But they have mostly concluded that Morgellons is “a psychosis or mass-shared delusion.”

    Is that like “Sleepy Soccer Mom Syndrome”?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It sounds similar to another term I heard recently…

  48. UnCivilServant

    I hate the “account for every fifteen minutes of your workdays” part of the timecards. Of course they don’t have a code for “Spent an hour and a half filling out the time accounting page of the timecard even though I don’t produce billable hours”.

    • UnCivilServant

      On the plus side, they paid me $75 to just sit there and fill out that silly form that nets them nothing because I’m not billable.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m in the same boat. I have no problem at all with it, I’ll gladly fill out a spreadsheet for $75.

    • Not Adahn

      “compliance”

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      *nods in solidarity*

      My dept head got so sick of hearing us bitch about it that he narrowed us down to 3 categories. 1) doing your core job responsibilities. 2) doing something else. 3) out.

      So much better now!

      • rhywun

        Ours is the opposite of all of that. Dozens of buckets, needless hours spent figuring out the correct bucket for that 15 minutes, and so forth.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *things I don’t miss about engineering*

      • Lackadaisical

        Lol, that’s great. You have a cool manager.

    • Gustave Lytton

      years ago, in a similar account for everything position, my favorite was a matrix of usual job activities and the corresponding codes included a bunch of normal routine tasks and said there was no code for those. Yet they still had to be done.

    • UnCivilServant

      So what you’re saying is, we’ve found the solution to the Asian Carp problem?

    • PieInTheSky

      this would never happen in civilized Europe

      • UnCivilServant

        Of course not, Samsung would never bother to manufacture in a place where the workers can’t be made to work.

      • PieInTheSky

        hey we make more semiconductors than the US *

        * not really

      • Not Adahn

        True story: We (Freescale) used to have a 150mm fab in Toulouse. The last year of “production” we ran zero product. We weren’t allowed to lay people off without a year’s notice, so they paid people to come in and do nothing for a year.

      • rhywun

        C’est la vie.

  49. PieInTheSky

    How to Start Whittling – Complete Beginners Guide to Whittling

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cghNbdy0xtc

    1. why is this in my YouTube

    2. what the hell is Whittling never heard that word and i hear a lot of words

    • PieInTheSky

      it is using a knife to shave bits of a stick. Used to do that as a kid when bored.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s also used metaphorically meaning to make small changes/increments of progress over time.

    • Hyperion

      You never heard that word? You sure ain’t from Appalachia, son. You from that New York city or somethin, you damn hipster juice swlling doper?

    • Not Adahn

      Go watch some episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.

      • Hyperion

        Ellie May, mummy!

      • Hyperion

        Granny stewing up a heapin helpin of vittles, Jeffro Bodine being an inbred idiot, and Ellie May lookin like I wanna sammich of that.

      • l0b0t

        Inbred idiot?!? Jethro graduated the 5th grade so he can cipher; plus he is a big-time movie producer AND a double-naught spy.

      • whiz

        Not to mention going swimming in the cement pond.

    • Rebel Scum

      1. why is this in my YouTube

      There is always time to carve out a new skill.

  50. Rebel Scum

    Lindsey Graham gonna Lindsey Graham.

    Lindsey Graham criticizes Trump for offering to pardon J6 Prisoners…

    Graham supports Biden on Ukraine …

    Lindsey Graham backs Biden’s pledge to automatically pick a black woman, says it will “make the court look more like America”

    • PieInTheSky

      what a simp

    • Hyperion

      What the hell did thy put in the water in SC to make the people vote for this mealy mouth?

    • R C Dean

      says it will “make the court look more like America”

      The court is already as racially balanced as a group of 9 people can be. 11% black, 11% Hispanic, 78% white. You could arguably give replace one of the whites with a minority, but two blacks would mean blacks are overrepresented. I note also that the last time they limited their field of potential candidates to 7% of the population, it didn’t turn out so well.

      Graham and his ilk are the reason I won’t vote for Republicans, either.

      • Not Adahn

        Hear that Asians? Start makin’ babies if you want to get on SCOTUS!

      • Urthona

        With me.

      • rhywun

        They’re already 6 percent of the population – maybe they can get half a seat.

      • Urthona

        Or the person could be half-Asian.

        Quit making arguments for Kamala Harris.

      • rhywun

        Mail-in your ballots whenever you feel like it is the reason I won’t vote period.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    what the hell is Whittling never heard that word and i hear a lot of words

    It’s like carving, only easier.

    • Not Adahn

      First page of the Wood Carving merit badge book was a rant about how woodcarving is TOTALLY different from whittling.

      • Ghostpatzer

        My cub scout troop in Washington Heights waived the whittling/wood carving requirement for the Wolf Badge (was whittling in 1962, maybe they’ve changed). Guess they figured us sharks already knew how to handle a knife.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    says it will “make the court look more like America”

    Meanwhile, they have all been stamped out by the “Constitutional scholar” cookie cutter at Harvard.

    I don’t give a shit what they look like, let’s have some intellectual/philosophical diversity. How about the guy from Missouri who put the shazzam on Biden’s vaxx mandate, for example?

    • rhywun

      That’s not very progressive of you. Everybody knows that each race has different brains and within each one they are perfectly synchronized.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    If we really wanted to fuck over Mother Russia, we’d send all of our wokesters over there.

    Yes! An exchange program between Harvard Business School and Patrice Lumumba University.

  54. grrizzly

    Trudeau tested positive for COVID-19.

    • rhywun

      I thought he tested poz last week and he was in “isolation” until those rednecks made him dive for cover somewhere else.

      • Urthona

        No, he simply came into contact with someone and so was quarantining and being excessively cautious because he’s a good and virtuous person.

      • rhywun

        Ah. Let’s send him our prayers, then.

      • Urthona

        Well I think he may have tested positive now but didn’t click the link. That’s too much work. I simply assume what they probably say.

    • PieInTheSky

      he should have vaxxed

      • Sean

        ^^^

    • Rebel Scum

      Negative then I thought. The narrative has been altered. Pray he does not alter it any further.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Those mean truckers gave me covid!

      Jokes on them though, I have the holy sacraments.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Geez, that guy will do anything. I wonder how many toilet seats he licked.

  55. Rebel Scum

    Clown. World.

    The University of Nebraska has made a change to its cartoon mascot Herbie Husker to eliminate confusion about the meaning of a hand gesture he makes that some people connect with white supremacy.

    In the original depiction of the mascot, which debuted in the early 1970s, Herbie’s left hand made the “OK” sign with the index finger and thumb forming a closed circle. In recent years, some hate groups have come to use the gesture as a sign for white power — three straight fingers make a W and the circle formed next to an extended finger makes a P.

    Herbie’s left hand now makes the well-known “We’re No. 1” sign with his index finger raised.

    “The concern about the hand gesture was brought to our attention by our apparel provider and others, and we decided to move forward with a revised Herbie Husker logo,” Nebraska Athletics said in a statement to The Associated Press. “The process of changing the logo began in 2020, and we updated our brand guidelines in July of 2021. The revised logo is now the only Herbie Husker mark available to licensees.”

    Stop capitulating to the woketards by assuming their false premises.

    • Urthona

      This is a side comment, but it does amuse me it took 2 years to change the hand signal. Ah, the speed of educational bureaucracy.

    • PieInTheSky

      this is capitulating to 4chan really they started this as a troll

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They are literally too stupid to comprehend that.

      • R C Dean

        Nah, its become another way for them to demonstrate their power. They don’t care if there’s any truth to it, as long as they can make people knuckle under.

    • Pine_Tree

      Forget this change and think about the original for a second…

      I am convinced the original design was a troll-job by a Sooner fan.

    • Not Adahn

      Herbie is still white. He needs to be cancelled and replaced with Carlos Cornhusker.

  56. wdalasio

    But seriously, get out of New York.

    If his politics are anything like I’d suspect, how about he just stays there and basks in the glory of his policy preferences?

  57. B.P.

    Speaking of Joni Mitchell, I watched the Joe Rogan thing, and he mentioned that Joni is also pulling her music from Spotify in protest. He said he loves Joni Mitchell’s music, followed with “Chucky’s in Love is a great song.” Uh, that song is by Ricki Lee Jones.

    I really hope he did that on purpose.

    • juris imprudent

      That is the man they fear being more influential than they are!

    • Urthona

      He didn’t and isn’t that clever.

      Plus he sucked Neil Young’s dick first with the correct reference.

  58. Certified Public Asshat

    If I’m Joe Rogan, I’m rooting for Spotify to fire me. Rogan would get most of his contract paid out, his audience would follow him, and he could start his own media company, which would likely make him even more money.— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 31, 2022

    And now the right is getting carried away with nonsense. Rogan just wants to talk to people he finds interesting. He has no interest in starting Rogan News Network.

    • juris imprudent

      Clay wants to own all da libz, hurr hurr.

    • Urthona

      Like all human beings until the last 100 years of civilization when people started getting insanely wealthy.

    • Count Potato

      That was before they were Kosher.

      • PieInTheSky

        Kosher is so metal age problems

    • Urthona

      if mandatory vaccinations make sense in any sport it’s Formula 1.

      I just breathe a sigh of relief that Formula 1 is safe now.

    • rhywun

      What’s Euro-redneck for “go fuck yourself”?

  59. juris imprudent
    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I can tell you what it won’t look like.

      It won’t look like elected officials razing the administrative state to the ground.

    • PieInTheSky

      neah after the Dems take all your guns (Sean’s in particular) there aint gonna be no revolution

      • Sean

        *growls*

    • Hyperion

      “in which elected politicians serve as little more than veneer for bureaucracies?”

      And non-elected politicans, like Biden.

      • juris imprudent

        What difference, at this point, does it make?

        Seriously – this shit is decades in the making, you really think one election means much?

      • Hyperion

        Given that every fucking word out of Biden’s senile mealy mouth, at least the things you can understand, is something that Klaus Schwab made up, like Build Back Better, I believe you.

    • wdalasio

      The sort of state Tucker is describing here amounts to an authoritarian technocracy. And I think that’s a fair claim. The problem is that the liberal international order and its domestic counterparts were degenerating into this before COVID-19 was a thing. This didn’t start in March 2020. And only a fool would think it did. And the Jeffrey Tuckers of the world gave benign neglect, if not outright approval, when those liberal-states-turned-authoritarian-technocracies consolidated that power putting pressure on the unenlightened, unsophisticated, or just “icky” populists Tucker found distasteful.

      • juris imprudent

        It is also the utterly to be expected results of technocratic governance – the great wet dream of progressives (which over the years, conservatives being conservative – they have dutifully conserved). But progressives being progressive, they have to try to maintain the fiction that democracy matters. At least until populism sees the technocracy and it’s manifest failures and says “whoa” – you supposed smart-people ain’t half as smart as you think you are. Which of course are fighting words to the neo-aristocracy.

  60. PieInTheSky

    China’s big data is amazing. An acquaintance in Hangzhou had to be sent to quarantine center because she happened to bike past a supermarket the exact moment a covid positive person walked out. Now she has to spend two weeks in a designated hotel alone during CNY.

    Heterodox Asia
    @jaspergregory
    amazing is one word for it
    Quote Tweet

    https://twitter.com/jaspergregory/status/1488018931092652033

    • Hyperion

      Stop talking like that, you are making democrats very jealous.

    • rhywun

      “Amazing” isn’t the word I would choose but you do you, Twitter person.

      • Hyperion

        Pie is the Twatteati of Translyvania.

  61. juris imprudent

    Soave, TOS, but still rich in irony.

    Salinas has a majority Mexican population; all of Fontanilla’s students were Hispanic and were learning English as a second language. Education officials who propose adding ethnic studies to various curriculums—and making it mandatory, as the Salinas school district did—typically intend for privileged white students to learn about other cultures. There’s a certain irony in requiring members of an ethnic minority to study this, and an even greater irony in the fact that such students were struggling intensely with the course.

    Of course CRT in schools is just a right-wing myth.

    • Count Potato

      See #61 for more info.

    • Hyperion

      I go over there once in a while to taunt their statist asses about voting for Hillary. And they are still pretending to be libertarians, lol.

      • creech

        I don’t think they voted for Hillary. After all, there were any number of posters there who were telling us Hillary was dying of some fatal disease and wouldn’t make it to 2017 alive.

      • Hyperion

        Evil never dies, I think you have to kill it. I mean, look at Soros, he looks like Yoda fer Crikey sake!

      • juris imprudent

        Or Jabba?

      • Hyperion

        Jabba is that fat face kraut swilling Nazi, Schwab.

    • Hyperion

      Listen up there, juan, you taco eating spic, all your votes is belong to us or we will send you back to Gautemala where there are no lawns to mow. /democrats

  62. Hyperion

    I can’t even hear about the Bengals without thinking ‘Bungles’, which everyone called them for about 20 years. They once had a QB named ‘Boomer’. LOL, who da fuck names their kid Boomer?

    • PieInTheSky

      I hope the local women have sufficient standards that they don’t stoop to banging the kicker guy like he is important.

      • Hyperion

        The kicker dude is a local hero. He’s the only good thing in Cincy since WKRP went off the air.

      • Hyperion

        Also, did you know that Jerry Springer was once the mayor of Cincinnati? Him and Ricky Lake too, and I think Oprah and that dude named Tip O’neil, I think he was in the Senate once.

      • PieInTheSky

        I know nothing of Cincinnati so no?

      • Hyperion

        Chili, you put cinnamon in it, and I think chocolate?

      • Hyperion

        I once accidentally put cinnamon in my chili. Damnit it looked like Cumin until I put it in and it turned black and I thought ‘ugh, what the fuck did I do?’.

      • slumbrew

        Tip O’Neil was the quintessential Boston pol.

      • Mojeaux

        He’s the only good thing in Cincy since WKRP went off the air.

        Shitlord of the shitpost.

      • Hyperion

        That is I!

      • Hyperion

        I always liked Baily more than Loni Anderson.

      • Hyperion

        Oh good gawd, just no squeeing in here!

      • Mojeaux

        no squeeing in here!

        You’re not the boss of me.

      • robc

        Everyone* prefers Bailey, duh.

        *sure, there are some weirdos.

      • Hyperion

        I don’t think our very own Q liked Bailey better. I’m just taking a wild guess.

      • robc

        The footnote may apply to Q then.

      • robc

        The Nasty Boys were post-KRP.

        And the Icky Shuffle too.

      • Hyperion

        LOL, I forgot about the Icky Shuffle.

      • robc

        Which means you remembered the ’90 Reds but downplayed them?

      • Hyperion

        Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Dave Concepcion, all with batting averages over 500. I think that was the 70s? Hell, I can’t remember, it was the 70s.

      • robc

        The Big Red Machine was the 70s.

        The Nasty Boys were Norm Charlton, Rob Dibble, and Randy Myers. Jose Rijo was World Series MVP. Eric Davis was the big offensive weapon, with Larkin and Sabo. But they won with pitching, especially relief pitching. Starter gets them a lead thru six and the Nasty Boys finish it out.

      • Hyperion

        Baseball is totes racist. Too many white boys.

      • robc

        Myers had a 2.08 ERA and 31 saves. Dibble had a 1.74 ERA in 98! innings of relief. Charlton had a 2.74 ERA across 154 innings, but that included 16 starts along with 40 relief appearances.

        You had to score on the starters. The bullpen was going to hold leads.

      • robc

        3 out of the 7 players I mentioned are black. That is above the US average.

      • Hyperion

        “3 out of the 7 players I mentioned are black.”

        OK, the Reds get a woke award for that one. I was pretty sure that 7 out of 3 baseball players were born in Puerto Rico and identified as white guys.

      • juris imprudent

        -1 Garo Yepremian
        +1 Alex Karras

      • Hyperion

        It’s a wonder that Garo was not a politician. Either that or Spiro Agnew was a kicker.

    • whiz

      His actual name is Norman Julius Esiason — I think Boomer was an improvement.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, his parents must have really hated him.

  63. PieInTheSky

    Ethan Mollick
    @emollick
    This paper suggests mass extinctions follow a pattern – every 27.5M years, large asteroids hit the Earth and/or whole continents rent are open with miles-thick lava. It may be due to the Earth’s travel through the galactic disk. (But we have 20M years before the cycle repeats!)

    https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1487676324844085253

    • Hyperion

      But don’t worry, we’re going to stop climate change. Mmmkay.

    • Urthona

      That’s only 15 times longer than human beings have existed as a species, but I’d say we’re way overdue. Didn’t the last one happen 67 million years ago?

      • Hyperion

        Giant asteroid 2024! Can I vote early, and often?

    • Hyperion

      I’ve been sick as fuck for 3 days after taking one of those booster shots, Pfizer though. I got the damn booster flu, pretty sure it’s worse than covid.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This is after multiple countries have banned it for causing myocarditis.

      • Rebel Scum

        You can trust government agencies that are a revolving door of pharmaceutical company execs, right?

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, it’s just a good thing that those benevolent heroes stand up to those evil corporations to protect us little guys.

    • Richard

      It smells to me like the Moderna vaccine is now “approved” the same way the Pfizer vaccine was “approved”: Under a different name “Spikevax” and not really available.