Thursday Afternoon Link-o-Rama

by | Jan 27, 2022 | Daily Links | 267 comments

Perky little tune to attenuate your rage.

 

 

SMELLS LIKE INFRINGEMENT: San Jose, California, imposes fees, insurance requirements on gun owners. Mayor Sam Liccardo said a new fee for gun owners would support “evidence-based initiatives to reduce gun violence and gun harm.” Translation: “fuck you, because we can, and we have you by the nuts until you litigate this, and we’ll still have you on a list even if you win.” We suspect there will be a lot of tragic boating accidents in the near future.

 

 

HEADLINE WRITING for DUMMIES: Tattooed OnlyFans star with two vaginas begged to share her ‘delicious’ breastmilk. So, Daily Star, her tattoos are somehow the most interesting thing about her? And that she’s an OnlyFans personality is the second most interesting thing? Needless to say, humorless feminists are outraged by all this. Lactation and pregnancy pornography is an upsettingly fast growing genre. Please, nobody tell her what ANR means.

 

 

A PROPER SHITSHOW: Lebanon [OH] City Schools is asking the public not to gather or protest on school property ahead of the first meeting of the After-School Satan Club, which will take place at Donovan Elementary School Thursday. Superintendent Isaac Seevers concluded the letter by asking the public to refrain from gathering or protesting on or around school grounds. Fuck you, Isaac, the 1A rights of any wannabe protesters are just as valid as the 1A rights of the Satanic Temple. There is nobody to like here.

 

 

SINEMA-MANCHIN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME:  But [Breyer’s resignation] raises the question of whether the President will face a repeat of the Build Back Better battle, with just two Democrats tanking the party’s ability to move forward and allowing the Republican minority to rule the roost.

 

 

HEARTLESS REPUBLICAN HATES CHILDREN, FAMILIES: Sen. Ron Johnson says it’s not ‘society’s responsibility’ to care for ‘other people’s children’ while arguing against child-care subsidies for working parents. Could you use any more shock quotes in that sentence, Business Insider?

 

 

Glibs contributors are kindly asked to finish up anything you have in draft; we are running low on content. Also, anyone who has anything new to submit, bang that shiznat out.

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Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

267 Comments

  1. R C Dean

    Please, nobody tell her what ANR means.

    Not clicking that link.

    • Count Potato

      Would you like me to tell you?

    • Tonio

      It’s an advocacy website for the Adult Nursing Relationship people.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *looks for box of depends*

      • DEG

        Interestingly, the opening picture is Q worthy.

    • Pope Jimbo

      ANR is where all the cute caribous live, right? The ones that the evil profiteers want to drown in crude oil?

      • DEG

        ANWR.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Two vagina lady has some really ugly tats.

    • DrOtto

      I read that as “…really ugly twa…” oh never mind.

      • Lackadaisical

        Probably.

    • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

      And fake lips. Which are just as big a turn-off as fake tits.

      • ron73440

        Bigger, at least some fake tits look nice.

  3. R C Dean

    the After-School Satan Club, which will take place at Donovan Elementary School Thursday

    Seriously, they have a Satan Club in elementary school?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They love pushing the boundaries. It’s what they live for.

      • Shpip

        Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just an edgy, fake-n-gay version of See You At The Pole.

    • Rat on a train

      The only after school club in elementary school I recall was latchkey.

    • Tonio

      It’s a tit-for-tat situation:

      Flyers advertising the club said it will offer science projects, puzzles, games, arts and crafts projects, and nature activities…

      The Satanic Temple opens an after-school club at schools with a Good News Club, Christian gatherings run by evangelical organizations that offer Bible and faith lessons after school.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If they wait until Jr. High, the Dems already will own their souls.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why are there any religious after school clubs held on school grounds for elementary school kids?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I see no issue with it, you just have to accept you are going to get ‘fringe’ clubs like we are seeing here. It is either none or all, can’t pick and choose.

      • Lackadaisical

        I would almost say that there should be no consideration at all that they happen to be religious. Banning them for that reason isn’t much better favoring one religion over another. This isn’t France or Turkey. Geeze.

      • Fourscore

        My goal in elementary school was get home ASAP, we lived a mile away, change clothes and try to rustle up some locals for play time. I have one really great friend, still today, that lived right across the street, we planned the afternoon on the way home from school. He was an only child, dad had a good job, and my friend had a lot of nice toys. They even had a full size pool table down the basement, which of course was finished out in light knotty pine.

        We would not have been interested in any after school clubs. OTOH, mothers mostly were at home, my friend’s mom frequently baked cakes, she was very polite and would always ask me to ask my mother if I could enjoy her hospitality (and my Mom always said yes). Same in junior high, get home, get a baseball/football/skis etc. Play outside, then inside in inclement weather.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The offensive part is the government school, not the religious clubs.

    • Social Justice is Neither

      What else would you call the faculty lounge these days?

  4. Yusef drives a Kia

    Dark links today, Howdy!

  5. R C Dean

    Sen. Ron Johnson says it’s not ‘society’s responsibility’ to care for ‘other people’s children’

    I wonder how many people who say parents should consent to medical care for their children are all in favor of society “being responsible” for their children?

  6. The Late P Brooks

    But [Breyer’s resignation] raises the question of whether the President will face a repeat of the Build Back Better battle, with just two Democrats tanking the party’s ability to move forward and allowing the Republican minority to rule the roost.

    Anything short of rule by decree is the death of DEMOCRACY!

    • Urthona

      I don’t think it will unfortunately.

      • R C Dean

        I’ve already seen the usual suspects saying they plan to lay down in the Senate because “it won’t change the balance of the Court” or somesuch.

    • hayeksplosives

      But I thought the Dems loved bipartisanship!!

      Now they prefer votes to be strictly along party lines?

      • The Other Kevin

        They love whatever lets them get what they want.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        This. Anything else is just window dressing.

      • Nephilium

        Look… 48 Senators is an overwhelming mandate/majority. To stand in the way of that is to be against Progress and Democracy!

  7. Count Potato

    “Tattooed OnlyFans star with two vaginas begged to share her ‘delicious’ breastmilk.”

    She should make a video with that Reddiitor with two penises.

    • Urthona

      “experts”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The episode meanders into a discussion on energy sources, where Peterson alleges, with zero factual basis, that “more people die every year from solar energy than die from nuclear”.

      Well that took all of 15 seconds to google.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        ROOFS!
        Fucking idiots

      • Lackadaisical

        Impressive levels of dipshittery by journalos, as per usual.

    • R C Dean

      Were the DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m listening to the podcast now, nothing wacky at all in what JP has to say,

      • Certified Public Asshat

        He’s a little long winded, but the TLDL is the solution to climate change is more energy, probably in the form of nuclear. And climate models are junk.

      • Tonio

        The first rule of climate change club is that any form of nuclear is off the table. The second rule is to never talk about the first rule.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Climate change, along with Covid mitigation and anti-nuclear stances, are all arguments from a Malthusian point of view. That there are “too many” people, and it’s killing us.

      • wdalasio

        There rarely is. Peterson is usually incredibly careful with his pronouncements. And, really, it’s not like he’s really all that much of an extremist. Up until all of fifteen minutes ago, most people would have considered him a hard centrist.

  8. Shpip

    “In general, I don’t like to use the tax code for either economic or social engineering. I think we do a terrible job. I prefer a tax code that was simple, that was rational, that treated all income equally,” Johnson said in response to a question about the child tax credit.

    Well, there goes the MILF vote.

    • rhywun

      But… but… then people would have to think for themselves and take care of themselves. (Insert the pandering condescension of your choice here.)

    • westernsloper

      Listen bitch, did I knock you up? No? Well then you and your baby daddy pay for your snot nosed brat.

      • TARDis

        And if you can’t or won’t, you go to jail and the government you love takes them.

  9. robc

    “Glibs contributors are kindly asked to finish up anything you have in draft; we are running low on content.”

    I was torn between delete and submission, but you will get what you want, good and hard.

    Feel free to put my submission in the worst possible time slot available.

    Or maybe people will enjoy a peak into my mind. Probably not.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, I’ve got kind of a “random thoughts” post in the works that I’ve nearly deleted a couple times.

      Now, if Q were to put up a “random thots” post . . . .

      • robc

        Mine is “poetry”. Agile Cyborg I am not.

    • Swiss Servator

      We have things going back over a 2 year plus period… some of them I have been eagerly awaiting for…months.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We have a Glibhouse Letters designation?

      • robc

        And instead, you get mine.

      • Lackadaisical

        I doubt mine is eagerly awaited, but I know I’m a guilty party… Might get deleted.

      • Tonio

        “Feeling sassy, might take down later.”

        You win the prize for the oldest and shortest draft. Do your best. I can always drop in a sex scene, or gratuitous illos if it’s a total snoozefest.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m feeling draft shamed.

      • Lackadaisical

        It’s not the length of the draft, it’s how you use it.

      • Tonio

        That’s not very stoic of you…

      • Nephilium

        See… this is why I hide my drafts in my cloud until they’re at least presentable.

      • R.J.

        Yep. I have to work my ass off this week at my real job. I have “Zen and the Art of Pinball Machine Maintenance” in iCloud. And also two more GlibFlicks. I will strive to finish this weekend.

      • westernsloper

        I got nothing. My creative streaks come in spurts. Like Winstons Mom. I tried to start writing a piece about my lunch. Cream of Asparagus soup with ground beef and chicken but it just sounds flat. It put me into a fat coma though so ………damn, it was good. Eating it again tonight but as a sauce for a steak.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    But the reality is likely to be messier. With the midterms approaching, Senate Republicans are likely to oppose the nomination — whoever it is — and use it to rally the base. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his troops could warn that Biden’s pick will threaten constitutional rights and open the door to all sorts of dangerous decisions — whether it be protecting women’s reproductive rights, allowing for stronger controls of gun sales or permitting federal mandates for life-saving vaccines.

    That there is some mighty fine journalisming.

    • wdalasio

      Gosh, they’d oppose the nominee, whoever it is! Why, they’d raise objections to a judicial nominee committed to abortion, gun control, and vaccine mandates!

      • Lackadaisical

        Life. Saving. Well, except the abortions… But let’s ignore that.

      • rhywun

        It’s almost like they think “whoever it is” is guaranteed to be someone who wants to shit all over the Constitution or something. I can’t imagine what would make them think that.

    • Tonio

      That’s my second-favorite quote from the article.

      Also, “stronger controls of gun sales” is blatantly misleading. We’ve repeatedly seen attempts to impose onerous restrictions and unconstitutional infringements on gun owners.

  11. DEG

    “evidence-based initiatives to reduce gun violence and gun harm.”

    He can go fuck himself.

    On the topic of guns, I took delivery of a Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk II made by the Pakistani Ordinance Factory. Externally, the rifle looks great. The seller said the bore is dark and pitted, but has great rifling. He sent a picture of the bore. Yep, it looks dark and pitted, but with rifling. The price was good, so I bought the rifle.

    I checked the bore. My first thought was, “What is wrong with the muzzle end?” It looked like all sorts of gunk and possibly pitting. Maybe even a little ice/frost from condensation freezing? I started cleaning the bore. It’s grease. The bore might be mint. I will continue cleaning tonight and see.

    Unfortunately, I think the barrel bedding is off. The downward pressure at the muzzle doesn’t exist like it should. I’ll have to take the rifle apart at some point to figure out what is wrong.

    • mock-star

      Im awaiting delivery of some Turkish knock-off of a Remington 870.in 20 gauge. Normally, I stay away from the knock-offs, but won the auction on gunbroker for an even hundo.

    • DEG

      I will continue cleaning tonight and see.

      All done. What was left in the bore was just grease. The bore is mint.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I love stories with happy endings.

      • Sean

        Sweet!

  12. Swiss Servator

    “Glibs contributors are kindly asked to finish up anything you have in draft; we are running low on content.”

    This is true. Also, we have a very large number of posts in “Draft” status – going back 2+ years.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      I used the Leads/Submissions to give a heads-up about a story I put together earlier this month. Also have another that I sent directly to Tonio.

      Never heard back anything on the first one.

      • Tonio

        Crap. I didn’t realize it was two stories. I’ll write you tomorrow.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You call yourselves Glibs?

      No real Glib would have anything to do with a draft.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Glibs invoking selective service of its commentators is riding a thin red line.

  13. wdalasio

    But [Breyer’s resignation] raises the question of whether the President will face a repeat of the Build Back Better battle…

    You know, you could always just pick a nominee that wouldn’t be a crapshow for not only Republicans, but even moderate Dems?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Good luck finding potential nominees, of either stripe, whose judicial philosophy can’t be distilled to “I AM THE LAWGHH!”.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Meh. The nominee is likely to go through without much of a problem. Dems are in the majority in the Sentae. It won’t change the ideological makeup of the court. The next presidential election is too far away. The Republicans are generally deferential to the President’s nominations, even when the President is a Dem, which I think is why McConnel didn’t want to risk a vote on Garland. And of course the Dems and the media will use the nominee’s sex and color as a shield.

      • Urthona

        yup

  14. Ghostpatzer

    Fuck you, Isaac, the 1A rights of any wannabe protesters are just as valid as the 1A rights of the Satanic Temple

    Sometimes it’s OK to exercise 1A rights, and sometimes it’s not. The devil’s in the details.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There’s no 1A right to shoot fire in a crowded pentagram.

      • Ownbestenemy

        No flamethrowers in Hell?

    • Drake

      It’s a hell of a situation.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The horns of a dilemma

    • Pope Jimbo

      1A rights

      I think you meant Demon-strate, right?

  15. Count Potato

    “Stella created the new costume for Minnie in honor of Women’s History Month, which takes place in March, and in celebration of the French park’s anniversary, explaining that the ensemble is meant to transform the cartoon into ‘a symbol of progress for a new generation’.

    However, the move has been met with uproar online, where many are questioning why Minnie has been given a ‘woke’ new makeover, which comes in the same week that Disney found itself at the center of another furor over its upcoming live-action remake of Snow White, and amid increasing outrage over the studio’s haphazard attempts to present a more politically-correct image.

    In the past two years, Disney has implemented several woke changes across its entire company, from adding racism warnings to several of its classic movies – including Peter Pan and The Jungle Book – to encouraging white staff members to ‘decolonize their bookshelves’ as part of anti-racism training.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10449129/Disney-sparks-outrage-debuting-new-look-Minnie-Mouse-progressive-blue-pantsuit.html

    It’s a cartoon mouse.

    • The Hyperbole

      Muh Cullchah Warzzz!!!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      FMK: Green M&M, Minnie Mouse, and Lola Bunny.

      I’ll go first: F: Lola Bunny, M: Minnie Mouse, K: Green M&M.

    • Urthona

      i’d hit it.

      • Sean

        The new version looks like a gay Mickey. Just sayin.

      • Urthona

        Ok I’d hit it from behind.

    • rhywun

      Republicans pounce!

      • Count Potato

        If they were really conservative, wouldn’t they object to a sailor not wearing pants?

      • slumbrew

        Hey, Navy gonna Navy.

    • Brochettaward

      They dressed her like Hillary in one of her Moa-inspired pantsuits.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Frothy

    The U.S. economy notched its strongest growth in nearly four decades in 2021 after the government pumped trillions of dollars in COVID-19 relief, and is seen forging ahead despite headwinds from the pandemic, strained supply chains as well as inflation.

    A surge in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter as businesses replenished depleted inventories to meet strong demand for goods was the final push. Last year’s robust growth reported by the Commerce Department on Thursday supports the Federal Reserve’s pivot towards raising interest rates in March.

    Don’t worry. All that money went to investments in long term productivity. just ask them.

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeesh.

    • R C Dean

      A surge in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter

      Since GDP includes government spending, the real economy could have contracted and this would still be the result.

      I wonder GDP ex government borrowing looks like.

  17. Pope Jimbo

    Really, I have no idea why Two Vaginas lady hasn’t had a mastectomy. It is really the only fair thing to do.

    2 Vaginas/1Tit is a better pr0n angle anyhow.

  18. DEG

    ATF agents are asshoe

    Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized firearms from a Leacock Township property earlier this month and an Amish farmer at the property acknowledged selling guns without a federal firearms license.

    • Not Adahn

      They also arrested CRS Firearms. Who seems a bit of a tool, but the charge is bullshit.

  19. rhywun

    Could you use any more shock quotes in that sentence, Business Insider?

    Ugh, BusinessInsider is worse than Nikki.

    • Nephilium

      I was just thinking of Nikki this week. There’s been a low scale passive resistance to the post office brewing in my neighborhood. Since we’ve been getting buried in snow, almost no one has bothered to shovel their front porch and walk off, just the driveways. The mailpeople have not been delivering to these houses (it’s pretty easy to tell as there’s no footprints in the snow other then animal ones).

      It’s much less junk mail to deal with.

  20. Urthona

    We were having this discussion in the other thread about my not being able to get past the stats on vaccines, but here’s another article buttressing the declining efficacy of covid vaccines.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nearly-40-all-illinois-covid-deaths-last-month-are-breakthroughs-what-gives

    This goes all the way up to last week which is data I haven’t seen yet and Illinois is about 65% vaccinated. You can just see the efficacy declining there.

    • The Other Kevin

      It appears they were effective at first, but that declines over time and they don’t work well against new variants. I will give the benefit of the doubt and say rushing it through, they wouldn’t have seen that happening during the short trials. But at this point someone honest might say, “maybe this wasn’t the best approach” instead of “just give more of the same shots, I’m sure it will be ok.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The moment they started talking about boosters it should have been over.

        And that’s not addressing safety issues or the suppression of therapeutics.

      • The Other Kevin

        I guess you can say it’s the largest example of the sunken cost fallacy in history.

  21. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    Fuck Liccardo. He doesn’t care that people crap on the streets in San Jose. Instead he’s trying to ban gas in new homes, which makes housing even more expensive. He’s also the guy that had the cops route the attendees to the Republican convention around the block to the parking garage so they had maximum exposure to protestors who then attacked them. I don’t like wishing ill on many people, but it’s too bad he recovered from his bike accident.

  22. Count Potato

    “Putin Backs Crypto Mining Despite Bank of Russia’s Hard Line

    Bank of Russia proposed total ban on crypto mining and trading
    Russia is the third-biggest miner, after U.S. and Kazakhstan

    President Vladimir Putin backs a Russian government proposal to tax and regulate mining of cryptocurrencies, rejecting the central bank’s proposal to ban it completely, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-27/putin-backs-crypto-mining-despite-bank-of-russia-s-hard-line

    “White House Wants Crypto Rules as a Matter of National Security

    The Biden administration is preparing to release an executive action that will task federal agencies with regulating digital assets such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a matter of national security, a person familiar with the White House’s plan tells Barron’s.

    The national security memorandum, expected to come in the next few weeks, would task parts of the government with analyzing digital assets and assembling a regulatory framework that covers cryptos, stablecoins, and NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, this person…”

    (the rest is paywalled)

    https://www.barrons.com/articles/white-house-executive-action-regulate-cryptos-national-security-51643312454

  23. Certified Public Asshat

    Last night, I learned that I have been exposed to COVID-19. My rapid test result was negative. I am following @OttawaHealthrules and isolating for five days. I feel fine and will be working from home. Stay safe, everyone – and please get vaccinated.— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 27, 2022

    Strong leadership is testing negative but hiding anyway.

    • Ownbestenemy

      And not following your own government’s recommendations that are supposedly SCIENCE! based and allow you to continue about your life. What a poser.

    • SDF-7

      Just around the time a big protest convoy is coming to his capitol. Coincidence?

      • Tundra

        No. He’s a pussy.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

        Guaranteed he’s hiding

  24. The Late P Brooks

    It was the first time in 20 years that the U.S. economy grew faster than the Chinese economy.

    President Joe Biden quickly took credit for the stunning performance, which he said was “no accident.”

    WHEEEEEEEEE!

    • rhywun

      /Joe slips the author a sawbuck

    • Sensei

      No occident you mean!

  25. The Late P Brooks

    “We are finally building an American economy for the 21st Century, and I urge Congress to continue this momentum by passing legislation to make America more competitive, bolster our supply chains, strengthen our manufacturing and innovation, invest in our families and clean energy, and lower kitchen table costs,” Biden said in a statement.

    And, of course, they will do this by making every financial transaction subject to government scrutiny.

    • rhywun

      make America more competitive

      OFFS.

    • SDF-7

      I’d support Congress doing that too. Of course none of his legislation in particular, and probably all the legislation of the last 20 years has done any such thing….

  26. Tulip

    Glibs contributors are kindly asked to finish up anything you have in draft; we are running low on content. Also, anyone who has anything new to submit, bang that shiznat out.

    Yes sir!

    • Tonio

      Swiss yells at me, I yells at the lot of you.

      Does this mean that I might get that thing I’ve been begging you for your savage journey to the heart of the American dream?

      • Tulip

        A version anyway.

  27. TARDis

    Why is it being called a ‘resignation’? Is he being told to leave to start another shitshow? Is it a requirement for SCOTUS members to die without a retirement now?

    • Winston

      Since SCOTUS has no age limit or term limit technically speaking it is impossible to “retire” from it.

    • Urthona

      A black female would never have allowed the vaccine mandate to be overture
      bed. She’d be all “nuh uh” with index finger waving and hands on hips.

  28. Count Potato

    “BREAKING NEWS: Prodecutors slap the anti-vaxxer husband and wife who used fake vaccine cards to get into the Buffalo Bills stadium to watch their NFL playoff match with FELONIES. They are both now facing at least 1 year in prison. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THEY MUST BE FOUND GUILTY!”

    https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1486821632249372672

    Possibly the worst account on Twitter.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “I tawt I taw a Prodecutor”. Well, it IS a tweet, after all.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Occupy Democrats manages to make Democratic Underground look sane.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’d love to be on that jury.

      • TARDis

        Me too. I’d turn those fuckers rabid and then turn on them. “Actually I just think Bills fans are losers. Fuck vaccine mandates. Not guilty.”

      • Nephilium

        See, this is why Glibs shouldn’t shirk jury duty.

      • TARDis

        I don’t shirk. I’ve been summoned a half dozen times. I’ve only been questioned once. Am I supposed to lie to be on a jury?

      • Nephilium

        I wouldn’t recommend lying, but I’m not a lawyer, and this is not any legal advice.

        Just a general comment, since the usual response to getting called for jury duty is a string of suggestions for getting out of it. I’ve only been called once, wasted a week, never even got asked a question during selecting the jury.

      • TARDis

        It was fun watching the plaintiff and her lawyer’s panties moisten when I was questioned. Plus the hell no he must go from the defendant and her lawyer. What a joke. At least my company pays me full pay for that nonsense.

    • Compelled Speechless

      For godsakes don’t read the replies. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that has drained my faith in humanity that fast. There really are people lining up around the block who believe that the criminal justice system should be used to punish wrongthink. The glaring lack of self-awareness is just incredible.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They want to kill you. Get that in your mind and it all makes sense.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I get it. I don’t know why I still allow myself to be surprised by any of it. I just have to keep reminding myself that Twitter doesn’t represent actual reality. Right? RIGHT!?!?!?!?!

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      And this is exactly why supporting bans on vaccine mandates isn’t anti-libertarian… it’s anti-fascism.

      These vaccine mandates are supported by government databases and prosecuted by the government as separate offense in addition to trespassing. It goes far beyond freedom of association. Where are the damages to the owners of the Buffalos Bills stadium? There are no damages and no trespassing offenses.

    • Drake

      We may need a permitting process for Tweets.

    • slumbrew

      Wait, he’s that fuckface?. What a POS.

      • ron73440

        After the toothbrush incident, if that was me, I would not post anything anywhere, ever.

      • ron73440

        That’s hilarious.

    • Compelled Speechless

      He’s made huge strides. He’s primarily anti-establishment and pro-freedom according to his own description. However he uses the terms “individual and collective freedom.” Hearing “collective freedom” gives me nose bleeds trying to wrap my head around it.

    • Ghostpatzer

      LOL!! I need to convince my older son to try out. The Final Jeopardy answer that actually tripped xer up was “Country whose English name ends in the letter ‘H’ and is one of the ten most populous countries on earth”. Young Patzer blurted out “Bangladesh” before Jennings finished reading the answer. After 30 seconds (s)he came up with “?”.

    • slumbrew

      Legit belly laughed.

      Well done, Bee, well done.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Holy shit. But there is a silver lining – this is the perfect opportunity for a little ’60s -style revolutionary theater. Assemble about 20-30 unvaccinated knuckleheads with prescriptions at the target retailer and munch on popcorn while recording the ensuing chaos.

      • Rat on a train

        I recall when a group of enlisted soldiers would spread out into a long, broken line when they saw an officer they didn’t like approaching. Each soldier only had to salute for a short time.

      • ron73440

        In the Marines, we were more likely to mess with the officers we liked.

      • Rat on a train

        Different games for officers we liked, generally the same pranks we would play on each other.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!!

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I just wish they’d get the info right. It’s a Quebec Walmart, not a Canadian one. ”Canadian” Walmarts (like the one near me, approximately 4,000 kilometres west of the assholes that call themselves “Quebecois”) aren’t such hockey-stick-up-the-ass fascists, at least not yet.

      Canada stretches across 1/4 of the planet at its southern latitude, dawg.

  29. Winston

    How it started: https://quillette.com/2021/01/16/rise-of-the-coronavirus-cranks/

    And so I reluctantly support this lockdown for the same reason I initially supported the first one, as a last resort. It seems to me to be the only way to ensure that everybody is able to access healthcare, whether they have COVID or not. As soon as it has achieved its goal, I will press for it to be lifted. I am fully aware of the social and economic havoc lockdowns cause. We will spend much of the remaining decade picking up the pieces.

    How it’s going: https://iea.org.uk/iea-debate-will-the-2020s-be-a-good-decade-for-classical-liberals/

    The decade has not exactly got off to a flyer. This year will be the third year in a row in which Western governments pour borrowed billions into increasingly inefficient Covid-prevention schemes.

    “Classical liberal” very willingly supported “social and economic havoc” and is shocked that this havoc is leading to a backlash against liberalism. Meanwhile Peter Hitchens, who hates pot, supports trade unions and renatiobalization, was right the whole time.

    Also he supported massive increases in spending and government control and is shocked that this has resulted in massive increases in spending and government control.

    But he’s not wrong:

    North America and most of Europe is a write-off from the perspective of classical liberals and things will only get worse as millennial socialists and woke nihilists grab the reins of power.

    Any hopes that China would become more liberal once it was admitted into the World Trade Organization have been dashed. It is currently in the process of levelling down one of the classical liberals’ favourite case studies, Hong Kong. Like Russia, China is retreating into autocracy and can only be saved by revolution. The same applies to Belarus, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua and most of the countries that end in ‘stan’, among many others.

    Much of South America is an economic basket case and Turkey is currently trying to tackle inflation by lowering interest rates. If there is hope of some economic sanity prevailing it lies in India, Africa and parts of Eastern Europe but only if they can strengthen their institutions and tackle corruption.

    • westernsloper

      Tell your mom I said Hi.

    • Gustave Lytton

      but only if they can strengthen their institutions and tackle corruption

      ?

      • kbolino

        Effective institutions are inherently illiberal. They have traditions, they have hierarchy, they reward loyalty and punish treachery, they teach their own set of values, they resist secular state/cultural influence, etc. Liberalism will always tend toward the leveling of institutions that stand in the way of progress, which is to say, it would be paradoxical for liberalism to “strengthen […] institutions”.

        Moreover, corruption is just a placeholder for “things that are bad”. One can just as well observe that corruption built most of New York City, corruption built a hundred bridges and a thousand miles of high-speed rail in China, corruption turned Dubai and Abu Dhabi from desert villages to gleaming metropoleis, etc. Material wellbeing is largely inseparable from “corruption” of one kind or another; money and power always find each other.

      • Winston

        it would be paradoxical for liberalism to “strengthen […] institutions”.

        This paradox had been around for centuries and liberals have never properly addressed it. Liberals want constitutions but assume that the basic functions will never be amended or ignored since laissez faire economics will always be in favor. Jefferson thought that the constant Revolutions would somehow prevent tyranny, etc..

  30. Tundra

    I love that song.

    I hate San Jose, however.

  31. ron73440

    In this can’t be a coincidence news:

    Just got an email from iHeart Radio advertising Niel Young radio, interviews and concerts.

    I used to listen to the radio station from Pittsburgh on them, but there were too many extra commercials and 80% were pushing some progressive bullshit.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Surprised Neil hasn’t been cancelled yet. The woke crowd is OK with this?

      I was thinkin’ that maybe I’d get a maid
      Find a place nearby for her to stay
      Just someone to keep my house clean
      Fix my meals and go away

  32. slumbrew

    Allow me to share my mid-90’s earworm with you

    I’m not saying it’s good. I’m saying it was stuck in my head.

    It’s extremely 90’s

    • ron73440
      • slumbrew

        Very 90’s!

        That’s a band I’ve not thought about in a loooong time.

      • Nephilium

        I was in a very specific kind of 90’s mood earlier today (lyrics NSFW).

        Those guys were always a fun show to see live. I’m not irritated that when I hear a band is coming to town, I have to check the venue to see if I want to risk buying tickets.

        Tool – Rocket Arena – vax/mask
        Ministry – Agora – vax/mask
        Dropkick Murphys – Cleveland Masonic Temple – no vax requirement, no mask, tickets puchased.

      • rhywun

        Best of this lot – love them!

    • rhywun

      It’s extremely 90’s

      You’re not kidding.

  33. Winston

    According to Jeffrey Tucker, a leading social commentator and the founder of the Brownstone Institute, for a century or more, the US “has been the owner of the most important cultural/political idea in the world: freedom. That idea reshaped the world.”

    “That idea is no longer ascendant in US culture,” he said.

    “Over the last couple of decades, that idea has receded in importance while nostrums for the left and right have taken it over. Every sector you examine – academia, media, politics, and large businesses – you discover an extreme deprecation of the idea of freedom. It is being replaced by a culture of hectoring, compliance, ideological fanaticism, and nihilism.”

    Tucker said the Covid-19 lockdowns “cemented this trend, proving it to be a hard reality that freedom in the US is no longer the theme.”

    “Many countries in the world followed the US in its lockdown policies and that decision proved disastrous. That has been devastating for the US reputation all over the world. It has also shattered the idealism of a whole generation,” he added.

    Interesting. The last 80 years or so of libertarian thought was predicated on the assumption that US society and culture would be a permanent supporter of freedom. I mean this culture of freedom owes quite a lot to America’s Dissenting Protestant tradition so destroying that Dissenting Protestant tradition would obviously not undermine that culture of freedom, right?

    Also wouldn’t restoring a culture of freedom require a Culture War?

  34. Sean

    My car is losing the ability to spy on me the end of this month. 3g is kaput.

    VW is offering an upgrade to bring back that capability. I think I’ll decline.

    Of course, the new part is on back order due to chip shortages anyway.

  35. DEG

    Atilis Gym update

    A New Jersey gym owner who refused to close his gym under the state’s Democrat governor’s lockdown order was sentenced to one year probation.

    Ian Smith, co-owner of Atilis Gym in the Philadelphia suburb of Bellmawr, kept his business open to allow residents to maintain a high level of baseline health in the face of a virus disproportionately killing obese people.

    “We got one year probation for the crime of taking our doors off to prevent government goons from locking us out of our gym,” Smith announced on Twitter Thursday after the sentencing hearing. “[Atilis Gym] is open and will remain open at any cost.”

    I’ve been to Atilis Gym a few times. It’s a good gym.

    • ron73440

      If i lived near, I would definitely go to his gym.

    • Drake

      The gym I go to switched over to the Atilis franchise.

      • DEG

        I think Atilis Gym in Bellmawr is not part of the franchise.

      • Drake

        That would be confusing.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re getting what they voted for.

    • Ghostpatzer

      That is where my office is located. Thank $deity for remote working.

    • Count Potato

      #23

    • Tundra

      Good luck.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I look forward to my half million dollar Corolla.

    • ron73440

      Is he a six year old?

      “I just wish all the sick people would get better.”

      About the same level of intellect.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Unfortunately that sort of thing seems to sell.

    • grrizzly

      One of the replies: Wait…so Zero Covid is now morphing into Zero Risk of anything, ever?

      • Winston

        It does look like “unlimited freedon” is becoming a thing and is indeed leading to unlimited despotism as Dostoevsky predicted.

      • kbolino

        Despots can be killed. Even if someone were to off Buttigieg, an equally awful or worse moron would take his place.

      • kbolino

        Government work: using the blast wave of your previous failure to propel you to your next one.

    • DrOtto

      More Zero Vision anti-mobility nonsense. The real goal is to outlaw cars.

    • Aloysious

      He should advocate for banning the wheel. We could go back to using mule trains.

    • ron73440

      devout anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

      Black Panther star Letitia Wright posted an anti-vax conspiracy video in December.

      Real even handed reporting, as always.

    • westernsloper

      ??

    • Drake

      Kate is a dumb Canuk if I remember correctly.

    • slumbrew

      that’s saying a lot

      *rawr*

    • Sean

      ?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Great minds

    • ron73440

      You could say that again!

    • Gustave Lytton

      So not another Bridget Fonda story?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wowsers. The text, not the pics.

      But then she throws it all away with Marshall Law. I can’t even.

    • Rat on a train

      She had me at Tauriel.

    • straffinrun

      “Feds For Medical Freedom.”

      That’s like “Dogs Against Ball Licking,”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hey now…wait…nah you’re right

  36. Gustave Lytton

    36 years later and this infuriates me.

    https://www.oregon.gov/olcc/docs/final_orders/final_orders_1985/halfway_house_restaurant_85_l_024.pdf

    The subjective opinions being disguised as some sort of objective test and that a government agency should even have that power is making my blood boil. Postscript: the restaurant went out of business (along with at least one of the “nearby” alternatives). It’s now a private residence with some nice dogs so good for the current owners/residents.

    • Brochettaward

      Posting PDF file links is an act of violence.

    • ron73440

      How s that a thing?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Because the law is an ass.

        If an establishment provides lesser services or provides a non unique experience (whatever that is) then if the public doesn’t want it, it will fail.

        Really it’s about creating barriers to entry to protect existing establishments and for bureaucrats to justify their empiring.

  37. The Bearded Hobbit

    Crappedy, crap, crap. My phone died.

    Funny thing, it’s “working” in that I still get the chime when a text or email comes in. I can even call into it and complete the call. But the screen is black and there is a blinking blue LED.

    Did a DDG search and most of the suggestions were for various attempts to reset. Nada. Fortunately eBay had a refurbished replacement. I should get it next week.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That sucks indeed, hope you make it til ebay get’s it to you.

    • grrizzly

      Have you tried to press the power button and both the volume up and down buttons (yes, three pressure points) for like 20 seconds?

      • westernsloper

        If I do that on my phone it calls the cops. Never call the cops. Ever.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Yes, tried that. There were other suggestions like volume down + home for 10 sec, volume up + home + power. Tried them all. It buzzes and the softkeys at the bottom light up momentarily, buy No Joy.

        It’s an older model Galaxy G7 but I don’t want to upgrade. I like having the physical home button. Wife has a Galaxy A50 and neither of us like it.

        (shrugs) Oh, well. Modern problems and all.

    • Count Potato

      Try taking out the battery and letting it sit.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Supposedly this is a very difficult battery to remove; it requires a heatgun to soften the waterproof seal, then suction cups to remove the back. I’m letting it drain the battery overnight, then try again.

        Thanks to all for the suggestions.

    • Tundra

      Jesus, people.

      *shakes head*

      Hobbit, did you check the thermostat?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        did you check the thermostat?

        Heh, heh. Thanks, Tundra, was waiting for that!

        This doesn’t rank anywhere near “disk crash the night before my monthly backups” for sure. I can connect to the phone via USB and pull off my photos and stuff. Bluetooth is still working so I can check texts while connected to the car. Mostly the annoyance of re-downloading my apps and getting the new phone set up like the old one.

        As I said above, First World Problems.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh maybe not SW…digitizer failure or the SW controller for it

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sounds like SW failure.

  38. Brochettaward

    All those First will be lost in time, like Firsts in rain…

  39. limey

    There’s a scene in The Wolverine where everyone who goes in to visit old man Yashida is wearing a mask except Logan (because he is a far right covid denier anti-masker). It’s surreal watching it now. Just because he can’t die from COVID doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t. Mutant privileged jerk.

    • slumbrew

      I was going to say “that’s such a great movie” but then I remembered I was thinking of Logan. The Wolverine was solidly ‘meh’.

  40. Brochettaward

    I can feel it…Firsting in the air tonight. Oh Great Firster.
    And I’ve been waiting for this First for all my life, oh Great Firster
    Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? oh Lord, oh Great Firster

    Well, if you told me you were seconding
    I would not lend a hand
    I’ve seen your fail before, my friend
    But I don’t know if you know who I am
    Well, I was there and I Firsted before you did
    I saw it with my own two eyes
    So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been
    It’s all been a pack of seconds

    I can feel it…Firsting in the air tonight. Oh Great Firster.
    And I’ve been waiting for this First for all my life, oh Great Firster
    Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? oh Lord, oh Great Firster

    • Tundra

      Confirmed.

      Masterpiece.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Okay, that chick is hilarious.

    • westernsloper

      And people say twitter is a garbage dump.

      Only uncultured people say that.

    • Sean

      Quality.

  41. Count Potato

    Speaking of masterpieces, tonight’s movie is Lifeforce. The movie isn’t a masterpiece. I’m talking about the brunette who walks around naked.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      MMMmmmmmmmMmmMathilda May

  42. straffinrun

    Malice linked to this yesterday. Back when stand up had balls and Kimmel would even have a guy like this on his network show. The best I’ve ever seen on any late night show.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUr-l176ZmQ

    • Tundra

      I saw that. The discomfort of the audience made it even better!

      • straffinrun

        Better than Kaufman?

      • Tundra

        That’s a really good question.

        It’s the key to really good comedy, I think. To make your audience laugh while at the same time making them feel a little dirty for doing so.

        Kaufman was better than this guy, but this was still brilliant.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That was ballsy even then,

  43. Brochettaward

    The Washington Redskins are likely to be renamed the Washington Commanders.

    Snyder had one redeeming quality, and he couldn’t even keep it.

    • hayeksplosives

      Ugh. That is unfortunate.

      And you’re 100% correct about Snyder.

      My husband suggested a stylized logo of a V8 engine, partly as a nod to John “Diesel” Riggins.

      The name would be the Washington Engines.

  44. UnCivilServant

    Because there were only two students, the processes went a lot faster, especially those where there’s a bottleneck in terms of equipment. The class finished a full day ahead of schedule, and the knife I made is purdy.

  45. hayeksplosives

    Here’s a bit of a twist: Kaiser Permanente wouldn’t give the Covid Vaccine to a 45 year old woman with MS, telling her multiple times that because of the MS, she couldn’t receive a “live virus”.

    Her family is suing since she subsequently died.

    What I want to know is why the doctors thought it was a live virus vaccine. So were the docs misinformed, or were we?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10449629/Family-mom-MS-died-COVID-sues-hospital-doctors-refused-vaccine.html

    • Tundra

      This is the only time in my life that I wished I was a lawyer.

      If that’s in writing, the shit is gonna hit the fan.

      • hayeksplosives

        In my experience with Kaiser, there’s an after visit summary printed and given to the patient after every visit. Their insistence that a vaccine would not be appropriate for her should be on that summary.

        Also, she likely used the KP online messaging system to request a vaccine appointment or even to ask more questions about why they wouldn’t give her the vaccine.

        Of course, she might have died of Covid anyway once vaccinated, but her family has a good case here unless the medical establishment wants to tie themselves into knots to avoid a payout.

    • westernsloper

      I’m going with there is a good chance your doctor knows less than you if you are even slightly curious. See the food pyramid that is still pushed to this day.

      Why did they not treat her once she got sick?

      • Tundra

        Not the protocol.

      • westernsloper

        They have killed a bunch of people to push a fraud to make a buck. *deletes rest of comment*

      • Tundra

        I know. I can’t even type a fraction of what goes through my brain.

        This is a fucking slow-motion genocide.

        Get out of the system, kids.

  46. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Ah, some breast milk from a lady with two vaginas in my coffee and a whiff of jarred fart really starts my day off right. Thanks OnlyFans!