Wednesday Morning Links

by | Jan 5, 2022 | Daily Links | 406 comments

Blowout

The last of the regular bowl games was played yesterday. and the SEC continued its non-playoff game run of terrible form. I guess it didn’t just mean more to LSU. League Cup semifinals start today, with the first legs of one semifinal. Why they do this format in just the semifinals is a mystery to me. I’m sure the end result here will be stupid. And that’s sports.

The insanity continues. The city should just fire and replace them all. The fact that they have complete control over if and how students will be taught is criminal.

Teachers continue their vacation

I’m sure this won’t be an overreaction. Also, fuck you and your semantic bullshit, NBC.

Thank God they’re focusing on the important stuff. Literally none of that should be illegal, by the way. The decision on whether to allow it should be up to thew owner/operator of the plane.

What could possibly go wrong? Get out.  Get out while you still can.

Evidence is just now emerging? Uh, anybody with a brain knew this almost two years ago.

That’ll fix it! Oh wait, it won’t do anything.

Poor little guys.

Uh, what’s the problem? It’s not as if she could have shoved them in a carry on bag.

Here’s a great song. These guys were weird and full of way too much guilt. But they wrote some pretty songs. Enjoy it.

End enjoy your Wednesday, friends!

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406 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    The insanity continues. The city should just fire and replace them all. The fact that they have complete control over if and how students will be taught is criminal. – this is why many of the student end up criminals?

    Look teachers are brave and sacrifice everything for the kids! Also if this does not push Americans for a voucher system nothing will

      • PieInTheSky

        I thought nationwide black parents supported vouchers more than whites did…

      • Nephilium

        Oh, these lawsuits aren’t being filed by parents. The lawsuits are being filed by the school districts (headlines say nearly 100) in Ohio that (I would be willing to wager) are hemorrhaging students to those filthy private schools.

      • Not Adahn

        Parent’s shouldn’t have an opinion about how their tax calves are indoctrinated.

        Also, false consciousness and the Black face of White Supremacy.

      • PieInTheSky

        Also

      • PieInTheSky

        the also should have been

        Access Denied
        You don’t have permission to access “http://www.wkyc.com/article/news/education/lawsuit-ohio-pupil-voucher-system-unconstitutional/95-8e27536e-a337-4cb2-ad10-0071f3f4835f” on this server.

        Reference #18.4d934e52.1641388783.a33b98a4

      • rhywun

        Bean-counting is more important than the quality of your child’s education.

        Message received.

      • invisible finger

        Bean-counting? Racist!

    • Rat on a train

      Those brave teachers on the frontlines of the COVID wars. Virtual learning is too much of a burden for them. It is better to just cancel the rest of the school year.

      • Swiss Servator

        But still make sure the teachers get paid! Union dues gotta get sent in…

    • invisible finger

      Just close the schools permanently. Literacy and numeracy will increase.

      • Not Adahn

        Literacy is White Supremacy. Plus now with video and emojis, nobody needs to know how to read.

    • DrOtto

      Seen during the pandemic – a teacher with a “I teach, what’s your superpower?” yard sign in her yard. Meanwhile, her and the hubby were loading up the RV to go somewhere while she could zoom teach. You can’t make shit up.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Someone really needs to put up an “I think, Cunte” sign next to it.

  2. PieInTheSky

    What could possibly go wrong? Get out. Get out while you still can. – anarchists will chafe at the use of the word anarchy., Anarchotyranny is favored I believe.

    • Tonio

      I wonder if mere possession of firearms will also be ignored by the NYPD and prosecutors.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Magic 8 Ball says no.

      • Drake

        Yes – Unless you are a taxpaying normal with a regular and no police record. Then you get a couple years in jail and financially ruined in the process.

      • db

        This is, sadly, likely to be closest to the truth.

      • DrOtto

        I suspect you’re right. Defensive use of a gun will be referred to as vigilantism and won’t be tolerated.

  3. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Morning all.

    I like Dave Smith’s new Declaration of Independence.

    “It’s self evident that God wants me to be free and fuck you, I got guns.”

    • waffles

      Good morning!

      “Let’s do our very best to keep people out of jail, kids. And let’s really, really not sweat the small stuff.”

      A noble goal, let’s see how it works out. For some reason I just don’t have high confidence.

      • sloopyinca

        Why do they infantalize people like this to score political points? This is abojt adults committing crimes, not a bunch of kids caught spraying graffiti on buildings.

      • waffles

        They really see themselves as parental figures I think. But the shitty kind of parents that do all kinds of dumb stuff to reward bad behavior.

      • EvilSheldon

        All I can figure, is that people really enjoy being infantalized.

        The dancing nurses thing in the White House was pretty much the last straw. I’ve seen higher level entertainment in grade school…

  4. PieInTheSky

    Thank God they’re focusing on the important stuff. Literally none of that should be illegal, by the way. The decision on whether to allow it should be up to thew owner/operator of the plane.

    I dunno dude being a tiktok influencer should be illegal. Or at least it should be legal to throw rotten fruit at them should you see one in the streets

    • Swiss Servator

      I can go with your second option.

      • Fourscore

        “it should be legal to throw rotten fruit at them”

        Should be encouraged. Particularly at the Manhattan DA

    • waffles

      Tiktok people just look like regular people unless they have a tripod out in public or something. Influencer-type activities should be publicly shamed, I’ll agree.

      • RBS

        One of my favorite things about working ocean rescue shifts during the summer is that every evening at about 6 all the tik-tok/snapchat people come down to the beach and set up their cameras and perform some ridiculous stuff out in public.

      • waffles

        all those videos are second person. when viewed in the third person they look patently ridiculous. I love the youtuber who has videos mocking them.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What happened to rule number one of Plane Coke Party Club?

      • Tres Cool

        I thought you weren’t supposed to talk about Plane Coke Party Club.

      • pistoffnick

        I prefer Vanilla Coke.

      • The Last American Hero

        You wait until you get to the island before Jeffrey introduces you to your girlfriend?

        Oh, wait, wrong plane.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    The fact that they have complete control over if and how students will be taught is criminal.

    The fleas have mutinied, and taken over the flea circus.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am not sure what this is supposed to mean so I will assume it is racist

  6. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “ Specifically, Bragg says his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” for anything short of murder or deadly assault”

    I’m going to guess he’ll include defending yourself and your property in those categories.

    GTFO

    • Sean

      STEVE SMITH EXCITED!

    • waffles

      self-defense in most anarcho-tyrannical districts is nothing short of deadly assault

  7. PieInTheSky

    Uh, what’s the problem? It’s not as if she could have shoved them in a carry on bag. – the problem is the monkeys did not have negative covid tests

    • sloopyinca

      You’re just aping the government talking points.

      • Tres Cool

        “Dont monkey with another monkey’s monkey” -Johnny Paycheck

      • PieInTheSky

        yes I also clicked Fourscore’s link

      • Tres Cool

        Heh. I typed mine before I clicked the link.
        Great minds and all that.

      • Not Adahn

        Fox the fox
        Rat on the rat
        You can ape the ape
        I know about that

        There is one thing you must be sure of
        I can’t take any more
        Darling, don’t you monkey with the monkey

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        +1 Shocker

      • Festus

        I hitch-hiked 500 miles to see that tour in 1983! Worth it!

      • The Last American Hero

        At least you didn’t have to walk 500 miles.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Bruce Willis from the future will save us.

      • The Last American Hero

        Which one? Surrogates or 5th Element?

      • PieInTheSky

        ehm not sure if trolling…

      • Not Adahn

        Obs, Sixth Sense.

  8. Not Adahn

    NPR ran a hagiography of the “Sedition Hunters,” i.e. lefty doxxers going after 1/6’ers. The most hilarious part was when they were interviewing a Dutch member of the group (with literally no connection to the US mentioned) and NPR said they wouldn’t give her full name… because she might be doxxed.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That shit is going to get turned around and they’ll be wondering what happened.

  9. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    (Im late cause I took Tres Version 2.0 to school)

    • PieInTheSky

      lies schools are closed

      • Tres Cool

        For now, his remains fully operational. And while Im not certain about a mask requirement, he didnt wear his in. Then again, like any teenager, he also routinely forgets his homework…

  10. rhywun

    Evidence is just now emerging? Uh, anybody with a brain knew this almost two years ago.

    They’re just laying the groundwork for a retreat.

    Funny how the elites are dribbling out a “new” factoid every couple days that everybody knew two years ago.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yep.

      I intend to let nobody off the hook.

      • Fourscore

        “It’s simple, get a vaccine or 2 or 3, whatever, don’t be a simpleton”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It was lab created to stop at the first sign of a mask.

  11. Trigger Hippie

    ‘One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Congress is eying new laws to prevent future attempts to subvert democracy, with the goal of passing legislation this year.

    The House committee investigating the riot is considering “enhanced penalties” for presidential dereliction of duty, as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., says it has evidence that former President Donald Trump sat idly by and watched the violence unfold on television.

    Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the committee, said lawmakers are examining clarifications and changes to the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which governs the counting of electoral votes for president in Congress, a tradition that sparked the violence as Trump supporters seized on the day to try to prevent President Joe Biden’s win from being finalized.

    Members of Congress ‘on edge’ ahead of Jan. 6 anniversary
    “We found out, surprisingly, how poorly written it is, how ambiguous many of its provisions are, how simply things could be triggered without merit. And so we’re looking at how to reform that in a way that would have support across the spectrum, in terms of constitutional scholars,” Schiff said, saying the status quo is “a point of great vulnerability in terms of our democracy.”

    “The challenges in 2020 were superficial and patently absurd,” he said. “In the future, though, if it came down to a single state and the state attempted to overturn the popular will and Congress’ role came down to interpretation of an ambiguous provision in the Electoral Count Act, it could be a real crisis.”

    Among the changes under consideration: raising the threshold to challenge electors to more than just one House member and one senator; overhauling unclear “safe harbor” rules that give states a deadline after which, some argue, Congress can disregard their electoral votes; and making it clear that the vice president doesn’t have unbridled power to discount electors.

    Entering the new year, the committee faces a crucial stretch as it wrestles with how to handle reluctant witnesses and whether to subpoena members of Congress. The panel is bracing for its first public hearings in the coming weeks and months while facing pressure to wrap up and turn its legislative proposals into law by the midterm elections.

    An aide said the committee “will consider a wide range of legislative recommendations as we continue our investigation and craft our report.”

    “Our aim is to ensure nothing like January 6th ever happens again, and that includes attempts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election and stop the counting of electoral votes,” the aide said’

    Okay, my hungover because I have no work today ass has processed this after a cup of coffee and aside from a few obvious stolen bases in the verbiage my idiot alcoholic stoner take is the end result of fine-tuning this Act will result in basically making any opposition to the DNC/Media/MIC/CDC an act of treason.

    If any of the more intelligent and clearheaded Glibs would care to comment I’d be glad to see it.

    *makes second cup of coffee*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I am certain that all their changes are well intentioned.

      Just bend over

    • Tres Cool

      “…as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., says it has evidence that former President Donald Trump sat idly by and watched the violence unfold on television.”

      What was she doing? Why didnt she personally put a stop to everything, since she expected Trump to.

      • Not Adahn

        She was busy helping to write the articles of impeachment — that’s her job!

    • rhywun

      The Dems’ every living breath and thought goes into figuring out ways to establish the one-party state of their dreams. This is no different from their “voter access” shenanigans or their complete control over social media and most other institutions.

      • Festus

        If they kill the filibuster you may as well get fitted for your pajamas. I’m not being facetious.

      • Rebel Scum

        States need to start ignoring the dictates of DC. And stop sending it supplies. ///BuildtheWall

    • waffles

      “Members of Congress ‘on edge’ ahead of Jan. 6 anniversary”

      They need to chill. I’m sure the FBI won’t do anything on the anniversary. That would be tacky even for them.

    • mindyourbusiness

      Looks to me like the left in cahoots with Big Media seem to be trying to light a Reichstag Fire.

    • Rebel Scum

      for presidential dereliction of duty

      Would deliberately destroying the energy sector fall under this category?

      evidence that former President Donald Trump sat idly by and watched the violence unfold on television.

      When he was still giving a speech and had previously offered more security before the event?

      the end result of fine-tuning this Act will result in basically making any opposition to the DNC/Media/MIC/CDC an act of treason.

      Now you’re getting it!

    • EvilSheldon

      I didn’t realize until just now, but it looks like I’m picking up a new gun on 1/6. Yay!

      • Ghostpatzer

        On 1/6? It’s a trap!

  12. PieInTheSky

    BONEFISH on JIG in the BAHAMAS | Full Video!
    415,883 views
    Fishing with Luiza
    475K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPlIeZAOH2A

    Youtube keeps recommending this channel to me. I have some thoughts

    1. I am not sure fishing for fish is the main focus

    2. BONEFISH seems vaguely apropos

    3. If the male gaze is bad, fishing for it should be bad and we should start a feminist petition to cancel Luiza

    • Festus

      That’s half or more of the fun when you teach girls how to fish. You sit at the back and they attempt to cast. That’s like Shitlord 101.

  13. rhywun

    That’ll fix it! Oh wait, it won’t do anything.

    Most of them live in a desert and they haven’t thought to improve their water supply in decades.

    This isn’t rocket surgery, people.

    • PieInTheSky

      I keep suggesting you people steal Canada’s water but am ignored

      • Tres Cool

        Their water is metric. Doesn’t work as well down here.

      • Nephilium

        But then we would need to build a pipeline through the Great Lakes to make sure we’re only taking Canadian water.

      • PieInTheSky

        Or relocate Californians to Alaska

      • Fourscore

        Better check with Animal first

      • PieInTheSky

        they should build a 30 story apartment building on the plot next to his house for the californians

      • Animal

        -18 this morning. I doubt they’d stick.

      • PieInTheSky

        move californians out and give california to libertarians, few enough that thew water will be sufficient

      • Animal

        Hell no.

  14. CPRM

    I think the February 2nd date for the reveal of the new WTF name has significance. Welcome the Washington Groundhogs to the NFL!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That would be sufficiently horrible.

      I’m betting that’s the way they go.

    • Not Adahn

      It’s in case the name is poorly received, they can just redo it until they get the name right.

      Cher is gonna be rich.

    • Festus

      The Washington Warp and Weft seeing as how this has been such a manufactured controversy. Every actual native guy whom I have ever met is proud to wear all the problematic gear. They see it as brave tradition. Ya know who hates these team names? They’re not called Jimmie Johnny.

    • Fourscore

      Me too, after I figured it out

      • Tres Cool

        At parties I bet she’s a real….[dons sunglasses]….GAS!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m such an idiot.

      • pistoffnick

        I didn’t know that was a marketable product.

        I’m gonna be rich! I’m gonna flood the market!

      • Fourscore

        Flooding the fart market may be the unintended consequences.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        She was on Carolla’s show a couple of weeks ago. She’s surprised me with her intelligence and business savvy, no shit.

      • Festus

        ^^^ This was noted and jarred for later consumption.

      • EvilSheldon

        I hate to unironically use the term ‘degenerate’, but here we are.

        Not so much the selling farts part. That’s admirable hustle. The people buying NFTs of her farts, that’s a herald of the end times…

  15. The Late P Brooks

    From the sidebar of that fucking New York Post shitshow of a website:

    Apparently, there is some sort of social media outrage because Aaron Rodgers hugged Erin What’s her name after their post game interview.

    MASKLESS!

    Mass hysteria, indeed.

    • PieInTheSky

      And poor Colin whathisface could not get a QB job while this guy still has his. racism.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont like trying to spell his last name, either.

      • Festus

        It’s really hard to do without the hawk and spit.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sports news is lower than Hollywood news IMHO

    • Trigger Hippie

      Erin Andrews?

      Anyway, did she voice public outrage over being grasped by the Unclean? If not then it’s nobody else’s fucking business.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “We found out, surprisingly, how poorly written it is, how ambiguous many of its provisions are, how simply things could be triggered without merit. And so we’re looking at how to reform that in a way that would have support across the spectrum, in terms of constitutional scholars,” Schiff said, saying the status quo is “a point of great vulnerability in terms of our democracy.”

    Another three thousand pages or so should really bring things into laser focus.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “ And so we’re looking at how to reform that in a way that would have support across the spectrum, in terms of constitutional scholars,”

      Left unsaid is why I should want constitutional scholars to rewrite it. It’s the peoples’ country isn’t it?

      • Festus

        I’d like to vet the qualifications of these “scholars” first but maybe that’s just me. Is it Preet or Sowell?

  17. PieInTheSky

    “Examining nurture versus nature without any attention to externalities… that deeply influence human existence and experiences is both a crude and cruel lens.” Insightful critique of E.O. Wilson’s work & racism inherent in genetics

    https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1476531766118682625

    Apparently

    “First, the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.”

    tres scientific

    • Trigger Hippie

      “First, the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.”

      This is why WAR is bullshit, nevermind the fact there’s no reliable consensus metric for defensive play.

      • Trigger Hippie

        And don’t even get me started on QBR. The most useless statistic in North American sports.

      • The Last American Hero

        C’mon, it makes the average sports radio fan who can’t do basic math believe they are Billy Bean.

      • PieInTheSky

        WAR what is it good for?

      • Trigger Hippie

        I wouldn’t say it’s good for absolutely nothing but it’s deeply flawed.

      • robc

        Deeply is too far. Defensive assessment is light years ahead of where it was 40 years ago even.

        Heck, Voros McCracken’s insight into the split between pitching and fielding is only about 25 years old. I saw his initial posts on rec.sport.baseball, it was jaw-dropping at the time.

        Shout out to Voros if he is lurking, I don’t think he made the transition from TOS to glibs.

      • slumbrew

        He pops in now and then. He’s even been on the Zooms.

    • Tres Cool

      huh ?

  18. Festus

    I’ve actually flown on a Sunwing flight to Mexico about 33 years ago. I’m pretty sure that the staff know exactly what they have signed up for. Someone lit a e-cig? Heavens to Betsy! Good lord, there were people fucking in the restroom! This is what we freak out about now?

    • Not Adahn

      I finally got around to watching The Great Train Robbery. I found the line “Have you heard of the fifty-mile-per-hour club?” to be more hilarious than probably intended.

      • Festus

        Hah!

  19. Rebel Scum

    On Tuesday night, the teachers’ union voted to teach virtually rather than in classrooms — prompting district leadership to cancel school for Wednesday.

    Pull your kids from the school system and buy an online series of courses (Kahn Academy or something). If they have to learn remote then they might actually learn something this way.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Lawmakers expect another Trump-style attempt to steal an election in 2024.

    Curious since the coup was committed by the deep state.

    But crafting legislation to stop it is proving to be complicated.

    Might have something to do with the lack of federal authority over elections, which are the responsibility of the states.

    • DEG

      Might have something to do with the lack of federal authority over elections, which are the responsibility of the states.

      Not quite, Article I, Section IV says Congress can override the states on US Congressional races, except for the place of choosing Senators. Congress also decides when Presidential electors are chosen, as long as the day is the same throughout the country.

  21. Rebel Scum

    wild party on flight from Montreal to Cancun where maskless influencers drank alcohol and vaped

    Terrorists, the lot of them.

    • Festus

      It’s the Montreal-Cancun pipeline of SIN!

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Shah reminded people that a mask is not meant to protect the person wearing the mask, but other people.

    Garbage in, garbage out.

    • EvilSheldon

      Here’s another reminder – I don’t give a shit about other people.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Specifically, Bragg says his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” for anything short of murder or deadly assault (“carceral” being progressive double-speak for prison). Also, he says minor crime won’t be prosecuted at all.

    I’ll take that as a green light to ventilate thieves (which you should have anyway…).

    • Trigger Hippie

      Silly rabbit, self defense is for pigs.

    • db

      Prediction: people will start carrying concealed without a permit, using 80% guns or black market guns. Then Stop-and-Frisk will be reinstituted, but for guns instead of drugs. It’ll take a few years, but this will go full circle, or maybe more like an outward spiral.

    • rhywun

      lol

  24. Rebel Scum

    Evidence emerging that cloth masks are not as effective as N95 masks against COVID

    And N95s are useless for the supposed intended purpose as well.

  25. Rebel Scum

    Regulations adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board prohibit overwatering lawns, washing cars without a shutoff nozzle, hosing down sidewalks or watering grass within 48 hours after rainfall.

    I await a description of how they intend to enforce this nonsense.

    • Plisade

      The Karen Korps has been mobilized for 2 years now.

  26. Festus

    As mentioned in the dead-thread I actually met another one of us on the floor last night. She’s about the same age as me, so pace, Judi. I rolled up my sleeve to show the bruise that is still there after three weeks and then she showed hers from a month ago. Crap, show me yours used to be a lot more fun fifty years ago…

    • Fourscore

      I know you’re not a doctor, Festus, but still playing at work…

      • Festus

        4×20 get’s it!

  27. The Late P Brooks

    <em
    “The N95 is a step up in your protection,” said the company’s President Stephen Copperwheat. “If you’re worried about your protection, you go to the N95.”

    Federal health officials say that any mask, even a cloth mask, is better than no mask.

    And what does that mean, exactly? If other people’s mask are for your protection, are you supposed to carry a suitcase full of n95 masks and force everyone in your vicinity to put one on, at gunpoint?

    People get paid to spout this gibberish, don’t they?

      • db

        Does it have magnets? Because magnets are effective.

      • Festus

        Only if you wear braces from the 70’s or have a plate in your head.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Upon said further inspection, Office of Field Operations officers and agricultural specialists at the bridge discovered four undeclared spider monkeys concealed in a duffle bag.

    I thought we agreed to avoid any monkey business.

  29. db

    Articles like this really need to not be behind a paywall.

    I mean, probably. I haven’t read it, because paywall.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And nothing else happened….

      • db

        Yeah. And the article is from May of 2021. Eight months old and it’s still blocked by the paywall.

      • Festus

        The way I see it is if you need to paywall an article and then ban commentary, you probably wrote a steaming pile in the first place. Maybe that’s just me.

    • Sensei

      Turn off JavaScript and the text will appear w/o many of the photos.

      Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.

      Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.

      SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.

      Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”

      Mr Morgan spoke to author Laura Dodsworth, who has spent a year investigating the Government’s tactics for her book A State of Fear, published on Monday.

  30. db

    That New York Post article is the first place I’ve ever seen George Soros described as an “arch-anarchist.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well that’s some grade A horse shit.

      • Festus

        He’s a fucking fascist. Full-stop.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s a leftist authoritarian quasi socialist at best. An anarchist he ain’t.

    • Drake

      Did they misspell “antichrist”?

    • Count Potato

      Well, he finances antifa, who claim to be anarchists.

    • Rebel Scum

      About as anarchist as Antifa.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Remember when they went after some secretary who worked in a German Concentration camp?

      Soros literally worked with the SS to collect personal property for redistribution. Whats good for the goose….

    • Nephilium

      Is that the one that’s coming out of France?

      • Fourscore

        Gonna need le vaccine made only in France to stop/cure this one.

    • Drake

      These people may be permanently broken.

      A year or so ago I had a phone interview with a woman who was obviously wearing a mask. With the volume at max, I understood maybe every third word she said. Why not just turn off the video feed on Zoom if naked faces are that scary?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        These people may be permanently broken.

        Those people are fucked anyway. I’m concerned about the long-term effects on their young children. How many children are going to be off because they grew up only seeing masks instead of human faces with expressions for the first several years of life. Not to mention being immersed full time in that culture of fear.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have seen posts where children have colored in masks on books cause that is all they know. They are fucked.

  31. limey

    The Washington Red Guards
    The Washington Our Democracy
    The Washington Equity
    The Washington Stakeholders
    The Washington Red Army
    The Washington Stunning and Braves

    • Rebel Scum

      The Washington Cuntes
      The Washington Tyrants
      The Washington Villains
      The Washington Hive

      • The Last American Hero

        Actually the whole Hive/Hive Mind thing might catch on.

    • PieInTheSky

      Red Coats.

    • robc

      The Washington Spiders.

      Okay, that doesn’t work as well as for Cleveland.

      Got it, the Washington Guardians. Cleveland gets Spiders. Works well for both.

    • db

      The Washington Substance-Eaters

    • Festus

      The Washington Worriers The Washington Wet-Backs, The Washington We Wish.

    • slumbrew

      Washington Whiteskins

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Everybody knows monkeys go in a barrel, not a duffel bag.

    • Not Adahn

      Well, unless it’s your turn in the barrel.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Doh! How did I miss this? Barrel talk got me too excited to focus I guess.

    • Fourscore

      You’re more fun than…

  33. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I think there’s a term for arbitrary enforcement of laws.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Like George Patton’s Cardboard Army massing at the gates

    Law enforcement is tracking online posts promoting a violent reunion on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, and other potential threats tied to the upcoming anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, according to intelligence reports obtained by Yahoo News.

    The calls for violence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 6, are detailed in a Jan. 3 Department of Homeland Security open source intelligence report, which describes flyers for the violent reunion posted online. The DHS report was sent to the FBI and other agencies on Monday for further investigation and includes copies of the flyers being circulated calling for a bloody attack on Jan. 6.

    “This was just the beginning,” says one of the flyers, which features an image of rioters in the Capitol Rotunda during the insurrection last year. The image is covered with what appears to be blood splatter and says: “Reunion on Capitol Hill January 6 2022.”

    One flyer shows Jan. 6 rioters breaching the Capitol, with superimposed images of blood, while another shows rioters breaching the Capitol last year, with calls to “TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.” A number of the flyers call on people to join the “Reunion on Capitol Hill on January 6 2022.”

    It’s all over the jungle telegraph.

    • Festus

      Yep, I heard the natives banging on their hollow logs in a syncopated rhythm starting at midnight.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘The calls for violence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 6, are detailed in a Jan. 3 Department of Homeland Security open source intelligence report, which describes flyers for the violent reunion posted online. The DHS report was sent to the FBI…’

      Sent to, created by, tomatoes.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Law enforcement is tracking online posts promoting a violent reunion on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6”

      They put those posts out there, now they’re seeing if anyone bites.

    • Pope Jimbo

      A modern day Abbie Hoffman would figure a way to send an evite to all the office drones at the FBI building telling them that there is an official FBI office party on the National Mall on 1/6. Free booze.

      Then set up a few tents and when the office drones show up, tell them that the free booze is already gone. And there won’t be more.

      When the office drones get mad and start shouting, all the LEO’s in the area will swoop in and arrest them, thinking they are insurrectionists.

    • Rebel Scum

      Law enforcement is tracking online posts promoting a violent reunion on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6

      It’s going to be really awkward when all those FBI agents try to arrest each other.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nah they have evolved. They will get regular FedGov folks to go instead so the FBI isn’t just arresting their own.

    • robc

      They work about as well as flu vaccines…just fine (for some mediocre definition of fine) when they guess the correct variant, but they aint gonna work for a later mutation.

    • Fourscore

      This is the brand new Covid, number 4, too early to give it a name, maybe later today, vaccines available tomorrow.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Well…

      NEW – Emmanuel Macron denounced France's 5 million unvaccinated as "non-citizens" and vows: "I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, to the bitter end. That's the strategy." (Le Parisien) pic.twitter.com/5DoSlBskMo— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 5, 2022

    • Rebel Scum

      I have been meaning to ask the office maskurbaters.

  35. robc

    How about just charging market value for water?

    If the water is too expensive, people will stop farming that area. Or living in that area.

    And just to be clear, this applies to other kind of stupid subsidies too. LIke flood insurance (water related again). If flood insurance is too expensive in your area, it probably means you shouldn’t live there. Or you should build cheap houses that are easily replaced. Like the old generation beach houses on Outer Banks (which even in Nag’s Head are mostly gone, as I saw in the spring. They were still there 20 years ago, even with all the big fancier houses up in Duck).

    • db

      Yep! I used to work in the water treatment industry. I’ve been saying that since the early 2000s when I spent a bunch of time out West on some projects. It should be obvious that the more water costs, the more careful people will be with it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Imagine if they had used all the high speed rail money to build desalinization plants in CA.

      Why they’d have several half built desalinization plants right now!

    • pistoffnick

      Will they spank the monkeys?

      • Festus

        Tell us again about the monkey butlers, Bart!

    • Pope Jimbo

      How much will Biden pay out to anyone who is separated from their spider monkeys at the border?

  36. Q Continuum

    “Evidence emerging that cloth masks are not as effective as N95 masks against COVID”

    Of course the response will not be to end pointless mask mandates, the response will be to force people to double up or use N95s (nevermind the fact that there is solid research that wearing N95s for prolonged periods reduces your oxygen saturation and is dangerous).

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah this, people are gloating too soon. Just wait until your workplace insists you suck air through a fucking N95 all day.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ll just do what I see the current N95 users doing. Cut the bottom strap off so I can breath easy through the bottom of the mask.

        But from a little bit away it totes looks like I’m wearing a N95 mask and I get max social signal score.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Welcome to the new silica dust regulations party, pal.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    “We have also issued an unprecedented number of threat bulletins and advisories,” he said, citing a total of 80 intelligence products focused on the threat of domestic violent extremism, including four National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletins.

    While law enforcement assesses the credibility of potential threats like the calls for a violent reunion on Capitol Hill, the DHS is sharing raw intelligence with state, local and federal partners as it comes in.

    Former FBI agent Mike German told Yahoo News that the barrage of information may end up overwhelming local law enforcement and dull their response to credible threats.

    “I don’t think there’s ever been a shortage of intelligence advisories,” said German, now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.

    German said telling law enforcement that “millions of bad things that could happen” just renders the warnings meaningless.

    “Information untethered from evidence of actual crime or threat isn’t helpful,” he said, “and clogs the system in a way that creates white noise that makes it harder to see what is an actual threat.”

    But they’re totally ready for anything.

    • db

      “We have also issued an unprecedented number of threat bulletins and advisories,”

      Translated:

      “We are doing absolutely everything we can to scare the bejeezus out of the people who assign our budgets and delegate authority to us.”

      • rhywun

        Up to and including fomenting another “insurrection”.

    • Pope Jimbo

      80 intelligence products focused on the threat of domestic violent extremism

      Evidence that we have way too many G-men on the payroll. Even if you decide that not every one of those 80 plots had the full Michigan complement of 12 undercover Feds, that is a lot of people out there in the boonies firing up the deplorables.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. I did a search to figure out how many Feds were undercover agents in the Whitmer kidnapping case and the wiki page on the plot did not do much to bolster my confidence in Wiki as an unbiased site.

        If you took that page at face value, you’d be chomping at the bit to hang some seditious bastards. Not a peep about any misconduct on the Fed’s part.

      • Not Adahn

        Anything that disagrees with The Narrative is WP:Fringe by definition. Only those sources which support The Narrative are reliable. Again, by definition

      • Tres Cool

        Often when reading WIKI, Ill click the talk tab to see what the contributors are saying to each other about the content of the article.
        On that one, its non-existant.

    • Rebel Scum

      We have also issued an unprecedented number of threat bulletins and advisories

      The FBI found another Dodge pickup to etch swastikas into?

  38. Rebel Scum

    Meanwhile in Kuwait…

    Local authorities confirmed that a viral video showing a woman carrying a lion in her arms on a street in Kuwait depicts the aftermath of the animal’s escape. According to local reports, the lion was causing panic among local residents, and police were called and dispatched to the scene.

    The lion belongs to the woman and her father. Exotic animals, including lions, can be kept as pets in Kuwait.

    Don’t toe the lion, grab it by the toe.

    • Not Adahn

      Now I’m wondering if that makes her more or less attractive.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I thought you were supposed to catch a tiger by the toe?

    • Tres Cool

      I thought you were supposed to “GRAB ITS FUCKIN LEGS!”

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Washington Red and Yellows.

    For their team colors.

  40. Pope Jimbo

    Why are new laws needed?

    Use what works. Simply post a sign at every door of the Capitol building saying “Coups and Insurrections are prohibited on these premises”.

    Those signs worked so well at stopping gun violence, I’m sure they’d be even better at stopping insurrections.

    If you really wanted to take the belt and suspenders approach you could add – in small print – “Hats with bison horns are also prohibited” at the bottom.

    • Tres Cool

      Why do you hate native Americans ?

  41. Drake

    Weird story – a filmmaker spent years combing through thousands of phone records, traveling all over Florida conducting interviews, did DNA and handwriting comparisons, and figured out the girl in the trial wasn’t actually involved with Trayvon Martin. The woman who testified was recruited and coached to pretend to be his girlfriend

    Zimmerman sees the film and realizes she committed perjury with the knowledge of the prosecutor.

    • db

      So that was in 2019–what’s happened with that suit since?

      • db

        huh, judge dismissed the charges against all but Crump.

    • Count Potato

      ““Defendants…prepared and planned the arrest, trial and prosecution of George Zimmerman all the while obscuring what they knew and/or should have known, that Defendant Jeantel was a fake witness and an imposter, and that she was not the girlfriend of Trayvon named Diamond Eugene who was on the phone with Trayvon in the days before and day of the shooting,” the complaint states.”

      WTF??

      • Count Potato

        Why would they do that? If I remember she was a comically inarticulate witness. Also, how could the police or people who knew Martin not notice it was a different woman?

      • slumbrew

        Structural racism? Let’s go with that, covers all bases.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I thought that was common knowledge anyway..at least from those crazy kooky conspiracy sites on the right.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Meanwhile in Germany…

    This is the future your overlords want for your grandmother walking her dog

    I did Nazi that coming.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      What did socialists use before candles?
      Electricity

    • Loveconstitution1789

      What do you call it when a socialist teacher can’t control his students
      Class struggle

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Why can’t you tell socialists a joke?
      Because not everyone will get it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The Karens will goebbel that shit up.

      Thanks for spiking my blood pressure this morning.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I hope these videos finally put the “bad apple” theory among cops to rest. Video after video coming out of Europe, Canada, Australia, and now starting in America of gangs of police gleefully beating the ever loving shit out of the elderly and mothers with their children standing feet away.

      • Tres Cool

        They only beat them because there’s no dogs nearby to shoot.
        Jugsy and I have a 90 lb. Boxer, “The Dozer”. While completely pussified, he puts on a very convincing show of aggression. Ive already told her that if the cops ever come into this house (or his yard), kiss him goodbye. They’ll be quick to blow him away.

      • Drake

        They are beaten for their health and safety. The should be yelling “thank you” between blows.

    • Ghostpatzer

      How many heroes does it take to arrest a grandmother?

      • Pope Jimbo

        A lot if they are all like that weasely 98 pound kid/cop who is posing with his nightstick on his shoulder is an example of the cops there.

    • Tres Cool

      My 8th grade history teacher (RIP) was big on jokes.

      How did Hitler tie his shoes?
      In little knot-sies.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    solid research that wearing N95s for prolonged periods reduces your oxygen saturation and is dangerous

    Lies. Misinformation.

    Just because those masks are tight enough to (allegedly) filter at the microbial level, there is no reason to pretend they restrict oxygen flow to the wearer.

  44. Loveconstitution1789

    Even a Lefty law professor is telling Commifornia politicians that the Constitution specifically protects guns, unlike abortions. Think that will stop the Commie Democrats? Nope. It woul dbe funny if the SCOTUS enjoined all gun restrictions in CA and declared them unconstitutional too. It probably wont happen because the courts should strike down all gun control laws sua sponte as unconstitutional violations of the 2nd Amendment.

    California lawmakers unveil plan to hold gun makers liable for shootings

    “If we can sue car dealers, if we can sue lawyers for malpractice, if we can sue a barrage of individuals, why should not the people of this state of California have the same ability to sue a gun manufacturer?” Gipson said.

    The efforts could still prove risky despite California’s affinity for gun control, said Loyola Law School Professor Jessica Levinson. Unlike abortion access, Levinson said, gun rights are explicitly written into the Constitution. That means not only could the Supreme Court strike down any new law targeting the industry, but Newsom and the Legislature might unintentionally welcome legal scrutiny for policies already on the books.

    • Rebel Scum

      why should not the people of this state of California have the same ability to sue a gun manufacturer?

      Gun manufacturers are not responsible for the misuse of their products anymore than an automotive manufacturer is. Or are we going to sue Ford for the Wakusha massacre?

      • db

        The what now?

      • Pope Jimbo

        That time the white cops in Wisconsin pulled over a BIPOC driver, jailed him and made him feel dehumanized!

      • Rat on a train

        You can’t blame the driver. There was a Klan march or something going on.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Exactly. Guns shoot bullets, as designed. There is no manufacturer defect involved.

        I always laugh when I read a rental car contract and they have a clause about lack of liability from criminal activity. Hertz is not responsible if a renter takes their rental car and drives thru a parade hurting people. That’s the renter’s criminal conduct that hertz didnt rent the car for.

  45. Rebel Scum

    Meanwhile in France…

    CNN: French President Emmanuel Macron said he “really wants to piss off” the unvaccinated, in an exclusive interview with Le Parisien newspaper on Tuesday. 1/3

    “I’m not for pissing off the French. I rant all day at the administration when it blocks them,” Macron said, referring to his disdain for how bureaucracy often gets in the way of the French people. 2/3

    “Now the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so, we’re going to keep doing it, until the end. This is the strategy,” Macron added. 3/3

    “Let them eat cake.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Has he forgotten about French traditions involving tyrants?

    • db

      “If you ain’t vaccinated, you ain’t French.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure the deplorable French folks will surrender quickly and get vaxxed.

    • Urthona

      Is he blaming France’s covid explosion in the unvaccinated?

    • R.J.

      Oh boy. That will be his first and last chance to GTFO.

      • Festus

        Good God. Isn’t it the first Law of a relationship that you don’t listen at the keyhole lest you hear something that you will not like?

      • Fourscore

        Why I unfacebooked myself. I didn’t care how big the high school quarterback’s dick was.

    • Pope Jimbo

      It isn’t just that poor guy. How many other crazy girlfriends are out there looking at that and deciding that a) they are OK because they wouldn’t go that far and b) look at all the attention that gal got, maybe I could get famous for “sleuthing” too!

      • Festus

        Sleep with your phone in your ass-crack, I suppose.

      • Tres Cool

        Or the post-it note I would leave on my desktop display before Jugsy got home-

        CLEAR BROWSER HISTORY
        USE BLEACHBIT

    • Tres Cool

      I call BS. Unless its just poor journalismizing, initially it was “…cheating on her after she found a wrapped tampon that wasn’t hers concealed in his home.”

      Then it became “…decided to contact Tampax manufacturer Procter & Gamble and send Tampax the serial number on the box…”

      So was there just a single tampoon in there, or the entire box?

      *as an aspiring investigative reporter, I checked Jugsy’s stash of pontoons and each one does seem to have a number on the wrapper, which Ill assume is a LOT number

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m so disappointed in you.

        Respectable Glibs have their women use untraceable Ghost Tampons. If I am going to start letting The Man track my woman’s tampons, I might as well let them microchip my orphans too.

      • Tres Cool

        Are those also 3D printed ?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Generally about 28D printed.

      • Tres Cool

        What you just did there was noted in an ocular capacity.

  46. Rebel Scum

    Aye, comrade.

    Detroit public schools board member defends school closures: “We just want to flatten the curve”

    • Festus

      Xe’s talking about pubescent breasts, just so you know.

      • Tres Cool

        Gary Glitter hardest hit ?

      • PieInTheSky

        Is breast ironing not illegal in the states?

    • Nephilium

      So the schools will reopen in two weeks?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We have a bigger curve to flatten this time, make it 4 weeks.

    • rhywun

      LOL FFS

    • db

      “We just want to flatten the curve”

      Keep reciting the sacred incantations…

  47. The Late P Brooks

    You surrendered your right to control your property when you signed on

    In an ideal world, sites such as Airbnb would be able to operate without bias or prejudice. They’d provide the same services for all registered users seeking to book a rental, without regard for race. But that appears not to be the case and studies have shown that some hosts do discriminate based on profile photos and African American-sounding names.

    Now the property rental company is trying an experiment to help solve the problem, changing the way Oregon-based guest profile names appear during the booking process. For the next two years, hosts will see a prospective guest’s initials only — not their first name — until the reservation is completed.

    The move comes nearly 2 1/2 years after Airbnb settled a lawsuit with three African American women who alleged that the site allowed hosts to discriminate against Black users by displaying their full names and photographs, in violation of Oregon’s public accommodation laws.

    ——-

    Social scientists have amassed a trove of studies showing patterns of discrimination against people with Black-sounding names. A 2016 Harvard Business School field study, specifically looking at behavioral patterns on Airbnb, found that guests with “distinctly African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names.”

    The study prompted Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky to issue an apology to users, saying, “Bias and discrimination have no place on Airbnb, and we have zero tolerance for them.” Airbnb also began requiring users to accept a nondiscrimination pledge and launched the Instant Book feature, which allows hosts to offer their homes to be booked immediately without prior approval of a specific guest.

    Looking ahead, the company pledged to “continue working with our Hosts and guests, and with civil rights leaders to make our community more inclusive.”

    Your job is to accept anyone, no questions asked. You can clean up the mess and fix the damage later.

    • Not Adahn

      One of the very few absolute legal maxims not commonly spoken in Latin is “Bake the cake, bigot.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Your house is insured, so why should you care?

  48. Rebel Scum

    Is this cunte serious? ///rhetorical

    On the Maddow show, Rep. Jamin Raskin (D-Maryland) compared his guilt over not talking to his son who committed suicide about suicide, or not talking to teens about sex to not talking about….impending fascism.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The suicide makes more sense now.

      • Tres Cool

        Like the episode of South Park where Paris Hilton’s dogs keep killing themselves ?

    • creech

      Impending, huh? Raskin is one of the guys leading the charge!

  49. Rebel Scum

    Dodgy goal posts.

    Boris Johnson – ‘To travel to some countries you need a booster to be considered fully vaccinated and its likely within weeks this will become the norm’

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Johnson is a scatterbrained pathetic moron, Corbyn wouldn’t have been any worse and might have actually been better on Covid. What a goddamn loser the guy is.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, bit of a disappointment that one turned out to be.

      • Penguin

        Farage would’ve been better. Maybe not great, but better.

    • PieInTheSky

      As little expectations as I had for this guy, he managed to be much much worse.,.. The conservatives are utter shit and labour is worse… England is fucked. Proper fucked.

  50. Pope Jimbo

    Well if Adam Schiff is telling me that we need new laws, who am I to protest?

    Schiff makes Jimmy Stewart’s Mr. Smith look like a corrupt plutocrat. The only person who may have more credibility in DC is Jimmy Clapper.

  51. The Other Kevin

    The youngest TOK went back to high school today. This year, no masks and no online learning. We had no way of knowing that our decision to move to a tiny rural school district years ago would be such a good decision. Meanwhile my mom, brother, and sister live near the Illinois border and are constantly complaining about increases in crime, and too many people visiting their restaurants and stores to escape the lockdowns and restrictions in Illinois.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    I keep seeing pics of people “testing” themselves (or being tested by others) for the plague by jamming a big long q-tip up their noses deep into their sinuses. If this thing is so fantastically contagious that anybody and everybody will get it by Easter, why is so much effort required to get a sample? I mean, if walking through a grocery store maskless is enough to slaughter everybody within shouting distance, blowing into a tube should provide a more than sufficient sample. Or- take your used mask off and ship it to the lab.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’m not sure what those people are doing, but the at home tests I used were just inside the nose.

      • Tres Cool

        I did 3 at-home (Abbott Labs BINAX) tests for my initial positive. When I went to the hospital for the “official” pCR swab, they were WAY more gentle than I was on myself.
        I told the tech, “wait- you arent suppose to go all the way to the brain stem?”

      • The Other Kevin

        Mine too. Last year, I had an uncle who needed surgery and the test they gave him felt like it went back into his brain. But last week I was at urgent care, and didn’t realize she’d actually taken the sample. Apparently things have changed.

      • DEG

        So was the test I got when I saw my doc.

    • PieInTheSky

      Tim Dillon
      @TimJDillon
      Easiest way to test yourself for Covid is to locate the gspot in your asshole and massage it until you cum. If the cum is a green tint you have Covid. This is legit true.

      https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1478393399413813256

      • Tres Cool

        Sounds legit. A friend of mine worked at a KFC in high school. His co-worker in the back was an elderly black man, that dispensed this advice: “when you’re out with a woman, before you start to mess around, stick your finger in your ear and get some wax on it. If you start rubbing on her p*ssy and that finger starts burning, she’s got the clap.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Business: “you need to have proof you are vaccinated!”
      Me: “I’m not sick. Everyone knows that only the vaxxed can say that.”

    • Sean

      I haven’t been to a Philly restaurant since the early 00s. Fuck Philly.

    • creech

      My son trains servers for an upscale suburban restaurant. He’s starting to see applicants who have fled their jobs in Philly restaurants because they are fed up with the bullshit that takes their customers away.

  53. Brawndo

    Did that NY Post article really refer to Soros as an “arch-anarchist”? The contradiction in terms is literally right there, but also he’s not an anarchist. Stop lumping us in with statists like him.

    • LJW

      Same with ANTIFA. They’re not anarchists they’re Communists.

      • PieInTheSky

        the original antifa were right down Stalinists

    • Certified Public Asshat

      But the sick vaccinated ones only need to stay away for 5 days.

      • Tres Cool

        A co-worker’s wife works at a local hospital. Their new policy is, even with a CoVID + test, if you’re asymptomatic you can work as long as you follow their PPE guidelines.

        Must be some kind of deadly.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The nursing home where my mom works (for now I guess, mom did J&J but is so far refusing boost) is doing the 5 days but they currently have 20 staff out.

    • rhywun

      Mayo said Tuesday that nearly 99 percent of staff are compliant with the vaccine requirement.

      Once again, no indication of how many already quit or were fired in previous rounds.

      “99 pecent”

      Bull. Shit.

      • db

        Wait, so why isn’t it 100%? Why can’t they fire the 1%?

      • rhywun

        That’s who they’re firing now.

        So now they can claim “100% compliance”.

    • The Other Kevin

      My SIL works in health care. Besides people not wanting to get vaxxed, there is also a shortage of health care workers due to people just getting burned out and quitting. Mainly they are women who have a husband that works so they can afford to quit. She told me there was a group of nurses who quit and got jobs at Costco. It had a pay cut but there’s much less stress.

      • db

        Our local MedExpress shut down because there weren’t enough doctors and nurses to keep it staffed. For a while it operated solely as a COVID test office. Not sure what it’s doing now, if it’s even open.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Plus a whole bunch of nurses are signing up for traveling nurses. They get $100+ an hour and can travel to hospitals that dont have jab mandate.

        When the MSM is screaming that hospitals are swamped, it’s true. Because of Democrats, a large number of medical staff have quit or been fired so hospitals are short-handed. Normal quantity of patients are swamping hospitals.

        Of course, you cant run a business like this. So of course hospitals are begging to be bailed out by the federal govt.

        This is an economic and social disaster of Democrat and RINO making. I can loan out my wood chipper.

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s not like Mayo does good work anyway.

      • Pope Jimbo

        “Fourty-nine states would love to have us!”

        That is the threat the CEO of the Mayo made when the Minnesoda legislature was slow to come across with a half billion of taxpayer money.

        That money would be part of a $5 billion, 20-year expansion in Rochester dubbed “Destination Medical Center,” which would require a half-billion dollars from state officials for infrastructure improvements.

        “If they say yes, that’s great, we want to stay in Minnesota,” Noseworthy said. But, he cautioned, “If they say no, or you’re going to have to go for a bonding bill every year for the next 30 years, we’ll have to rethink about whether that’s the best use of our money.”

        Noseworthy, a neurologist, said Mayo is not threatening to leave Rochester, where the renowned clinic was established 149 years ago.

        But in a clear message to the Legislature, where the clinic’s proposal is encountering significant sticker shock, Noseworthy pointed out that “there are 49 states that would like us to invest in them. That’s the truth.”

        As a taxpayer, I’d be happy to stop paying those grifters and simply fly to whatever state gets suckered into subsidizing them.

  54. PieInTheSky

    The Truth About Prohibition

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/real-history-prohibition-global/620929/

    “This broader global context makes clear that prohibitionism was not conservative; it was progressive. It was not a culture clash of the propertied classes trying to “discipline” the have-nots. Just the opposite: Temperance was a weapon of the weak against imperialism, against predatory capitalism, and against an autocratic state that promoted and profited from ordinary people’s subordination to an addictive substance. Prohibitionism wasn’t reactionary; it was revolutionary.”

    Yes and like most revolutionary progressive stuff it was stuuupid

    • kbolino

      They’re not wrong. Prohibition is the archetypical realization of the progressive ideal: a universalist program, voted on with “popular support” but enforced from the top-down, beloved of schoolmarms who hector any dissenters, administered by a large bureaucracy, enforced most harshly against the working man, in the ostensible name of reforming him, while creating “unintended consequences” that spiral out of control, necessitating yet more spending and intervention, and even after its “repeal” the fundamental structure remains intact (federal ATF, state ABCs).

      • Count Potato

        They are right about it being progressive, but wrong that it was a “weapon of the weak against imperialism, against predatory capitalism, and against an autocratic state that promoted and profited from ordinary people’s subordination to an addictive substance”.

      • Nephilium

        You left out the carve outs for specific groups, as well as allowing the elites to still have access to alcohol.

  55. Gustave Lytton

    Jan 5 and no peep from our HR about demanding copies of vax cards or having approved accomodations/exemptions since the initial injunction was released. Probably trying to figure out if they can do a partial for offices in those states where it was overturned.

    • Nephilium

      There was a note sent out saying that the mandate was on hold, but to go get vaccinated and continue requesting accommodations. I’ve gotten no response from my latest update to my accommodation request for 3.5 weeks.

  56. Sean
  57. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    I never could get the hang of Midnight Oi, but that is a good song.

    • The Other Kevin

      Really? That surprises me. I loved them when I was in high school, and those songs are holding up for me.

  58. PieInTheSky

    Corey A. DeAngelis
    @DeAngelisCorey
    Replying to
    @CTULocal1
    Chicago public schools spend over $27,000 per student per year

    Give that money directly to families so they can find alternatives.

    https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1478592330449969154

    I knew US schools were underfunded but did not know it is this bad

    • PieInTheSky

      Of course, last time Chicago teachers went remote, only 55% even bothered to log into the online learning platform 3x a week. Voting for getting paid without work is a nice option if you can swing it, I guess.

      https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1478594266448506885

      I mean 3x a week is a bit much to expect given the stress of the pandemic

      • Pope Jimbo

        My current employer is heavily involved in testing high school kids. We get most of our revenue every spring when the year end tests are done.

        In 2020 there was a lot of panic when everything was shut down. It meant that we didn’t administer all those tests.

        Luckily the govt education agencies has almost 0 interest in clawing back that money. So instead of any layoffs, we got to just continue puttering along.

        Because the govt funds so much of education here, there is a Bizzarro-world like economics going on. The people cutting the checks could care less about results or getting the services they paid for.

  59. DEG

    Canada’s transportation minister is investigating after a chartered Sunwing plane filled with maskless passengers became the scene of a booze-filled party.

    Canada’s transportation minister can fuck right off.

    You better start stocking up on your surgical or N95 or KN95 masks. Studies are emerging that cloth masks are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID.

    FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!!!!111!1!1

      • db

        I worked with a guy who insisted that Windows NT was “Night Train” edition and was intended to drive IT people to drink.

        He later murdered his wife and killed himself.

      • PieInTheSky

        well that escalated quickly…

      • Ghostpatzer

        He later murdered his wife and killed himself

        Clippy told him to do it. Speaking of which, I wonder if Office365 has a version of Clippy which “reminds” you to get jabbed as you are editing your documents.

      • Pope Jimbo

        “Looks like you are writing an anonymous tip to the police ratting out your neighbors for violating covid prohibitions. Would you like help?”

      • Pope Jimbo

        “Looks like you are writing a post gleefully commenting on the death of an anti-vaxxer? Would you like help?”

      • Pope Jimbo

        No love for N-Me masks?

      • EvilSheldon

        Too many open ports.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    “This broader global context makes clear that prohibitionism was not conservative; it was progressive. It was not a culture clash of the propertied classes trying to “discipline” the have-nots. Just the opposite: Temperance was a weapon of the weak against imperialism, against predatory capitalism, and against an autocratic state that promoted and profited from ordinary people’s subordination to an addictive substance. Prohibitionism wasn’t reactionary; it was revolutionary.”

    WTF? Are they saying we should bring prohibition back?

    • kbolino

      It only failed the first time because men.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Look this time around we could use the super successful drug prohibition policies!

        Those are so good, that this time booze prohibiton will totes work.

      • Tres Cool

        I suppose when you figure men like Joe Kennedy got rich smuggling booze from Canada, sure.

  61. PieInTheSky

    Another day of 14C and brilliant sunshine. You people are hogging all the snow… so you know keep at it…

  62. Certified Public Asshat

    COVID-19 cases hit new record as Israel changes testing policies

    As coronavirus cases continued to surge in Israel on Wednesday, with almost 12,000 new virus carriers identified on the day before – an all-time high – the authorities announced significant changes in the testing policies to reserve the PCR tests to at-risk groups and especially to individuals over 60.

    Keep on vaxxin’.

  63. Pope Jimbo

    If Biden was so smart, he’d just outlaw Covid tests. Then he could truthfully say that his “plan” shut down the pandemic.

    • PieInTheSky

      I read they are building new test plants that will be operational in 2024 which is scary

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It’ll be bankrupt before then.

  64. Count Potato

    I’m sure if people started committing a bunch of petty crimes against this NY DA his response would be different.

    • PieInTheSky

      As it should be for the kings men

    • Drake

      Naw – He’d pulled a couple of Officers to guard his person and property. The officers who otherwise would be responding to your 911 calls.

    • Rebel Scum

      I hate everything about that.

      • Sean

        ^^ yup

      • Tundra

        Ditto.

        Hideous at every angle.

    • mindyourbusiness

      It’s very…Germanic.

  65. Rebel Scum

    I’m a Repooblican.

    “There’s things which I think should transcend partisanship and should transcend politics, and a breach of the US Capitol, an attack on our democratic principles and institutions should be one of those things — and I really blame Republicans at the top for capitulating to Trump. I blame Trump for continuing this, this, this, this environment of lies and conspiracy theories and not accepting that he lost, and encouraging and promoting what happened, the big lie, and what happened on January 6,” Navarro said catching her breath. …

    “Look, I felt that Donald Trump had not been legitimately elected. I felt he’d gotten help from the Russians, but you know what? It would have never occurred to me to take up arms against Donald Trump. That’s just not what we do in America. Our weapon of choice is voting, is democracy, it’s the ballot, and so I hope that people remember January 6. You know why? You know how? By registering to vote. By making sure they know where they have to show up to vote because there are elections this year, and they are so crucial,” Navarro said.

    Well, actually, life is comprised of four boxes…

    • wdalasio

      Aren’t her 15 minutes of fame up yet?

      Seriously. I get that she was semi-useful for the left for a few years. She could be paraded around as an “anti-Trump Republican”. But, really, that was ever her only claim to an audience. Even douchenozzles like Bill Kristol could claim to have had an audience independent of being willing to attack Republicans. But, Trump isn’t in office anymore. And the public has moved on to a whole new world of suck under Joe Biden.

    • creech

      “take up arms” b.s. There are 300 million firearms in the U.S. How many were at the Capitol on Jan. 6th, not counting armed government agents??

  66. DEG

    We’re getting new fear porn here in southern NH. The variable highway signs now say “THERE HAVE BEEN 3 NH ROAD DEATHS. ONE DEATH IS TOO MANY”.

    I’m assuming the number is for this year.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nothing wrong with road kill, if it is properly prepared and served with Chianti and a side of fava beans.

      • rhywun

        an all-time low of 202 in 2018

        Let’s look at 2020 and 2021, shall we? OK, maybe not.

        Narrator: Traffic deaths are up.

      • Sensei

        As well as people pushed onto subway tracks, beatings, shootings and various other occurrences which will now no longer be prosecuted.

      • DEG

        I think the clock restarted with the New Year. That number is way too low for 12 months.

      • Sensei

        Hopefully most of them were originally from MA…

      • slumbrew

        That’s hurtful.

      • Sensei

        My wife was born in Boston and where her family is from.

        Funny thing is my MIL kept the accent whereas my FIL lost he when they moved to NJ when she was in middle school.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Give her credit she had some mad con skillz

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It can’t be that hard to con Biden.

      • Sensei

        + 1 Werther’s Original

    • creech

      Follow “the SCIENCE.”

    • db

      How much of her hair did he sniff?

    • creech

      I’ve heard they think Cleo wasn’t particularly attractive, but maybe she picked up “ten tricks to satisfy your man” from her brother?

      • Urthona

        She was not. Deformed actually, due to inbreeding.

      • Urthona

        Don’t know how Gadot is gonna pull that off since she’s hawt as fuck.

      • Seguin

        When I was taking Mammalian genetics, we went over inbreeding. From what I remember, the effect can be completely negated by outbreeding in only one generation. This is because the actual mechanism by which inbreeding functions is by increasing homozygosity (in traditional Mendelian genetics, this means lots of DD or rr allele pairs) – which often results in deformities.

        In the course of that lecture, he mentioned that Cleopatra (or possibly one generation up) had an outbreeding event which sort of reset the clock. Although, as I’m reading Wikipedia, it appears that we don’t actually know Cleopatria VII’s mother’s identity.

        Considering she was able to seduce two major Roman personages, I’d say she probably had something going on.

      • Urthona

        Also she probably wasn’t particularly smart.

  67. Count Potato

    “Yale bans students from eating OUTDOORS at local restaurants for spring semester to try and cut COVID despite Johns Hopkins professor insisting they are the lowest risk group

    ‘Students may not visit New Haven businesses or eat at local restaurants (even outdoors) except for curbside pickup. Dining is grab-and-go until public health conditions improve. Yale is currently set to resume in-person classes on Feb. 7 — after two weeks of remote instruction.’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10370245/Yale-bans-students-eating-OUTDOORS-restaurants-spring-semester-try-cut-COVID.html

    • PieInTheSky

      I already linked a joke about that

    • rhywun

      So fucking stupid.

      I would demand a refund.

    • Drake

      So basically they are under house arrest.

      The good news is that if I’m passing through New Haven, I won’t have to wait in line at Frank Pepe’s.

  68. Rebel Scum

    Hamburg to keep the dirty Jews unvaxxed out of polite society.

    New restrictions have been announced today (January 4) which will affect double vaccinated and those who have recovered from Covid, who will now need to provide a daily negative test in order to enter many establishments in Hamburg, Germany.

    Only those who have received their booster shot will be able to attend restaurants, cultural and sporting events indoors in the city without testing, meaning that double vaccinated are no longer considered fully vaccinated.

    The 2G+ rule now requires those who have been double vaccinated to show their Covid passport AND provide a negative test result before entering a number of restaurants, cultural and indoor sporting events. Unvaccinated people no longer have access to such activities, according to Senate spokesman Marcel Schweitzer.

    • slumbrew

      Italians want to emigrate to Italy?

      • rhywun

        Vatican City and San Marino, I believe.

        Looks like Italy wants into Svizzera.

    • Penguin

      We have more people of Irish ancestry than Ireland.

      • Not Adahn

        Well, when they were introduced here, they had no natural predators to keep their numbers in check.

      • Sensei

        The Italians in NYC did their level best.

    • Not Adahn

      So, Germany and Switzerland just need to switch places?

      • Penguin

        You could call that the “Grass is always greener” map.

    • Rat on a train

      And here i thought the US had enough irish already
      Not until the Irish outnumber the Germans.

  69. Rebel Scum

    Know your audience.

    NASCAR has rejected driver Brandon Brown’s sponsorship with “Let’s Go Brandon”-inspired cryptocurrency meme coin LGBcoin, since the popular saying is a slight against President Joe Biden.

    According to The Washington Post, a NASCAR official said the organization “made clear during a November discussion about the potential sponsorship that it would not allow any reference or imagery based on the chant.” …

    “NASCAR on Tuesday decided against approving a sponsorship based on the anti-President Biden slogan ‘Let’s go, Brandon,’ according to a NASCAR official with direct knowledge of the deliberations,” the Post report said.

    The official told the Post that “NASCAR’s formal decision was not a reversal … but the governing body’s first and final word on the matter.”

    • Ed Wuncler

      It’s amazing at the lengths that NASCAR will go to tell their audience to go fuck themselves.

      • Sensei

        OTH, if it was the LGBT+ coin…

      • slumbrew

        It’s really impressively tone-deaf.

        At least the NASCAR execs will get their cocktail party invites.

      • rhywun

        And to destroy a driver who is not at fault for any of this shit.

      • Sensei

        Omelet and eggs. You know how it goes.