370 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    Can’t wait for the next Ruby Ridge

    I think neither can they…

    Cause they really think that’s how you signal the rubes they better stay in their place and let the top men do what they want.

    • robodruid

      Seems that they think the only way they can win this time is if there is a spectacular incident.

      • AlexinCT

        When rigging the game by making it easier for the counters to cheat in favor of the deep state isn’t enough, or clearly shows the game is rigged, you are only left with lawfare to disqualify the people that the deep state doesn’t want. Have no doubt that this is all about that. They are creating a new mechanism to make sure our choices are always people they approved, not people we want to dismantle their ideocracy.

      • waffles

        If the federal government goes out and murders a bunch of people who just want to be left alone what does that prove?

      • AlexinCT

        That they want you to know you are their bitch and you better remember that?

      • Plisade

        That they won’t leave you alone? That they’d rather see you dead than happy and independent? That they’re narcissists who refuse to believe you can live without them?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Did you know Judge Nap has a new podcast? And that he said sometime this week, “These are dark days, my friend”?

        (I forget re what; he has so many mini-casts…)

      • Bobarian LMD

        That they can.

        Whachagonnado?

    • rhywun

      As long as we’re all in agreement that Antifa still doesn’t exist.

      • waffles

        It really is impressive how the crust punk antiglobalist movement from the 90s and 00s got coopted into street thugs for the regime. Some people got promotions for pulling this one off.

      • Nephilium

        Shit, most of the young punks know nothing of the history. You should at least know the basics of the roots of the subculture you’re trying to join.

      • AlexinCT

        What more do you need to know than that the movement is peddled by the power structure as a marxist one, and to the rubes that makes it cool, because marxist morons told you being a marxist makes you special and better than the rubes that want anything but a totalitarian marxist state.

      • Nephilium

        Not punk bands are left wing (lyrics NSFW for both songs).

      • Nephilium

        Insert an “all” in there so it makes some sense.

        Hell, even NOFX claimed to be libertarian a while back.

      • limey

        Simply rejecting authority is not enough. You need principles, maaaan.

      • Nephilium

        limey:

        Fine. Here you go. On a site I found there were left wing punks warning people that the singer for this band had worked on the Ron Paul campaign!

        The horror… the horror.

      • l0b0t

        The science is settled. The further right the band, the better the music.

        https://youtu.be/CI6v1mrBj7I

      • rhywun

        You know they’re right-wing just from that font.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Yeah, that Pennywise album came out during the Bush II admin. I have a hard time believing they are anything other than leftist from that.

        But, you know, Fletcher.

      • rhywun

        Hmph. Well, the link works.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I got you.

      • rhywun

        ?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hey, works anyway.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Democrats want slaves. They always have. First it was African slaves. Then they made Black Americans into prisoner slaves. Then they made AmerIndian into reservation slaves. Then they made Black Americans into welfare slaves. Now they want immigrants as slaves.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Any abolitionists must be destroyed.

  2. AlexinCT

    FBI refuses to answer Ted Cruz’s question about their involvement in Jan 6 riot

    That’s because the deep state and their dnc stooges need to keep pretending that that riot was an insurrection so they can make sure the fucking people will not be given a choice to pick someone that isn’t approved by them (and owned and used by them like Beijing Biden).

    At this point team blue sees the writing on the wall, and they are busy changing the system to make sure the people that are no longer having their opinions assigned by them through old media, have no recourse through the voting process.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      The fact the DOJ, FBI, NSA, and CIA wont say how many agents they had in plain clothes means that they did have them.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Even with all those federal agents trying to set up the protesters, very few protesters committed vandalism or other crimes.

        Entering a public building like the Capitol when business was being conducted is not a crime no matter what the Commies in govt say.

  3. Ghostpatzer

    From the Cruz article:

    The impetus for this new development is, of course, Jan. 6, that grave day in American history when one protestor was killed by Capitol Police, and Congressional voting on certifying Biden’s win as president was delayed a few hours.

    LOL

    • Ownbestenemy

      Grave is their work of the month. Grave danger, Grave day, we put you in a Grave.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Trump leads Biden by five in 2024 poll”
    God no, run chubby nonorange Florida Trump instead-much more likely to win.

    • slumbrew

      This. Please.

    • Drake

      DeSantos seems like a much less gullible clown than Trump.

      • WTF

        Still doubtful he could get much done with all of the entrenched bureaucracies actively working against him.

      • Drake

        Probably but he wouldn’t keep doing the Charlie Brown kicking a field goal routine with the deep staters holding ball routine.

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly – we don’t elect a caudillo who rules by edict. The Presidency is already over-empowered per the Constitution, the problems need to be solved in Congress – including delegating less authority to the Executive.

      • Drake

        In some ways yes. On the other hand, when the Commander and Chief issues an order to withdraw troops from a country like Syria – they damn well better obey. When they disobeyed Trump, nothing happened. He should gone down to the Pentagon with a Company each of MPs and Marines and started relieving and arresting people.

      • WTF

        The problem being Trump had nobody he could count on within any of the agencies, including the Pentagon, to actually follow orders.

      • Homple

        “The problem being Trump had nobody he could count on within any of the agencies, including the Pentagon, to actually follow orders.”

        That’s the point. The apparatchiks now run the government and will obey only those presidential orders they want to. And that goes for the military now as well.

      • juris imprudent

        Also part of the problem was Trump TWEETED or talked to the media and he didn’t issue written orders to subordinates.

        A second aspect is the rot in the senior officer corps. There was an episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Victor Davis Hanson and H.R. McMaster where near the end, this came up. McMaster was absolutely unable to criticize his brother generals. He would dance around when VDH made a cogent point, and I literally wanted to scream at the computer “it’s because they are fucking careerists – that’s why they do what they do”.

      • juris imprudent

        Also Trump was a fucking weathervane. He’d say one thing and a day later he would contradict himself. If I were a subordinate to him, I wouldn’t do a fucking thing the asshole said until he committed to paper with a signature – something he couldn’t then turn around and deny.

      • db

        Yep to both of your comments here. Trump came from the private sector, where orders are seldom written, and there’s more accountability of staffers to the bosses–especially the big boss. He didn’t understand how to get things done, and he didn’t hire people who did, either.

      • Gustave Lytton

        McM has become become what he wrote about.

      • juris imprudent

        Yes he has. If I ever meet him I’m going to ask which Bundy brother he became. [In Dereliction of Duty, both of them were the object of McM’s most intense scorn.]

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump did what every President AND tweeted like never before.

        Trump’s plan to set back the Commie agenda caused nearly every Commie in govt to out themselves and block Trump’s planned rollbacks. Even with the blocking, Trump did a bunch of rollbacks. Its why they are scared that he will defeat the Democrat election theft attempt in 2024 by an even wider margin than in 2020.

        Trump had trouble finding quality people so he worked with what he had and overall they did well. He was the best President in US History. Even though the Founders were greater Presidents they were not really facing the End of the Republic like Trump was. The Founders thought they were but we know historically, they were not. Trump was fighting Commies inside govt and around the World.

        They impeached him twice in the House for ridiculous reasons and the Founders never had to face that.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Juris…. You are (1) believing what the MSM said (2) considering that nothing was written down. The Media doesnt cover what actually happened in Trump’s Administration. I dont think any accurate reporting was done about what he wrote down or didnt.

        Plus, the way Trump gave directives worked perfectly. The MSM was off chasing what he was tweeting about and then…BOOM… he rolls some Commie agenda item back.

        I know some of you hate Trump or dont like him but he did something right. Trump broke the back of the Democrat Party. Thats pretty great.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        At this point it’s who can mitigate the damage rather than contribute to it. Not ideal but you have to work with what you’ve got.

      • EvilSheldon

        That’s the question, isn’t it? Has Desantis ever owned or even managed a business?

      • WTF

        He does have executive experience as governor of Florida. He was also a JAG in the Navy before entering politics. As far as a business, not that I can tell.

      • DEG

        I skimmed his wiki page. He has no private sector experience in his adult life. He went right from the military into the civilian part of government.

        On the note of him having executive experience: He has Washington outsiders with experience dealing with government bureaucrats, which Trump didn’t have. If Congress swings Republican and stays Republican, I think there is a chance things like repealing Obamacare might happen since DeSantis isn’t Trump. In other words, he won’t have as much hate from the Establishment. The Establishment will hate him, just not like Trump.

      • Homple

        The Ryan/McConnell Congress wouldn’t have repealed Obamacare no matter who was President. No other Republicans will do it either. The insurance, pharma and medical industries are happy with Obamacare and the Republicans, bought fair and square by the those industries’ lobbyists, won’t touch it.

    • waffles

      If desantis becomes the frontrunner the media will use a filter to make him orange.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Trump is going to blow any other Republican away in Primary. DeSantos might be good but he is untested outside Florida and Trump’s election will literally cause Lefties to go all Jonestown on themselves.

    • I love tacos

      We are told here it’ll be Larry Hogan. He is popular, dreamy and stuff.

  5. AlexinCT

    USA Today Tries to Destigmatize Pedophilia, Fails Miserably

    Why is it that the people that told us they were morally superior than everyone else because of their beliefs seem to always want to make real fucking sick shit the norm, huh?

    • rhywun

      I wonder where P is going to slide in to the alphabet soup. LGPTA? No, that sounds like a golf tournament.

      • Surly Knott

        Is LGTAP too on the nose?

      • Festus

        More in the eyes.

      • Rat on a train

        Bisexuals not happy.

      • Festus

        They are never happy unless caught on camera.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Marshall’s line of questioning visibly irritated Fauci. “I don’t understand why you’re asking me that question,” Fauci said.

    HOW DARE YOU?

    • R C Dean

      “ You don’t need to understand why. You need to answer the question, fully and truthfully.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Is there a transcript? Would you start my orange?

        I’m so grateful an obstetrician decided to venture into local politics.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (RTFA would help to begin with, Self.)

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Is there anybody anywhere who isn’t sick to death of that pompous strutting egomaniac, Foochy?

    I’ll bet there are plenty of backstabbers in the mandarinate desperate for a chance to slip the blade between his ribs.

    • invisible finger

      Foochy was rather polarizing during AIDS, too. There were some gays who thought he was stigmatizing gays (downplaying drug abusers that were also infected) and there were other gays who loved the attention they were getting (especially politically). He sure knows how to gauge the political winds to ensure they blow more money his way.

    • DEG

      I’m reading Atlas’ book.

      As the book goes on, Atlas finds out that there are government bureaucrats on his side. They did nothing to speak up against the Birx/Fauci/Redfield Troika (Troika being Atlas’ word for them) because they weren’t doctors and they were worried about pushback from the Troika. After Atlas started speaking up against the Troika, several of them privately expressed support for what he was doing. Some even openly criticized the Troika in Covid Task Force Meetings.

  8. Fourscore

    Banjos, I need to borrow your dog for a few months, he’s well trained and you don’t need him anyway.

    • Festus

      He could come to our place but the namesake would sneak up and bite him.

  9. Festus

    That’s a great tune, reminds me of those old “colored” films that were so popular at the same time. Mike and Matt, if you are around I’m really sorry about the loss of your Mom. I don’t miss mine at all but you loved her and I grieve a little alongside you. I wish it were better.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    “Miss Sanborn, A lot of Americans are concerned that the federal government deliberately encouraged illegal unlawful conduct on January 6. My question to you, and this is not an ordinary law enforcement question, this is a question of public accountability. Did federal agents are those in service of federal agent actively encouraged violent and criminal conduct on January sixth?

    “Not to my knowledge, sir,” Sanborn replied.

    I think we can all breathe a huge sigh of relief. Keep up the good work.

    • R C Dean

      “If you don”t know, who would?”

      • AlexinCT

        She knows. She just has no plans to admit that the whole thing was a false flag operation so the deep state would have a “Gulf of Tonkin” like excuse to engage in criminal behavior to deny the people any means to pick leaders that would challenge and dismantle the deep state started under Boosh and weaponized by Obama.

      • Homple

        Reichstag fire, not Gulf of Tonkin. The Tonkin charade was used to justify action against foreigners; January 6th is an excuse to persecute citizens, same as the Reichstag fire was.

      • AlexinCT

        I am just following the logic of the people that said this asshat false flag op was worse than the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 terror attacks, both perpetrated by foreign powers, brah.

      • Homple

        Brah?

      • AlexinCT

        Or sis…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      violent and criminal

      Cruz gave her an out.

      Were federal agents in the crowd? Were they participating in any way, shape, or form? We want a full accounting of their instructions and how they performed to expectations.

      • AlexinCT

        See the whole Whitmer case and the discovery that more than half of the people involved were agents of the state encouraging some idiots to do criminal shit so they could create a “crisis” the deep state could hide behind when engaging in retaliation against its enemies.

      • Festus

        I want out. The center can not hold. These fuckers have lied and lied and lied. We need accountability which will never be forthcoming. Cuntes.

      • waffles

        From my desk it appears that the agent provocateur plan was wildly successful. Mostly because no one in charge will be held to account.

      • Raven Nation

        I’m not entirely convinced Cruz really wants to find out the truth, or even believes the FBI were involved. As someone noted here yesterday, Cruz is a snake-oil salesman. From what I’ve read about him, he’s really smart, but there’s nothing about him to suggest he’s anything but a swamp creature. My vague recollection from 2016 is that he was one of Limbaugh’s preferred candidates and I suspect he thinks going after the FBI about Jan. 6 gives him more cred with that part of the Republican Party if he’s running in 2024.

        True, he’d be better than Biden/Harris on some issues related to liberty, but I really don’t seem him wanting to roll back federal power as a general principle.

        I’d be happy to be proven wrong (here or by Cruz).

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He’s definitely Loyal Opposition

        Just in this case, it’s not the opposing party in charge, it’s the agencies.

      • EvilSheldon

        In every case. The bureaucracy runs the government, not the other way around. It’s just that the democrats like this particular bureaucracy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        He is trying to spin damage control for calling anyone that was near Jan 6 activities as terrorist….so I am inclined to believe you

    • limey

      That article really needs proofreading.

    • db

      You don’t ask questions like that if you want the real answers. These fools in Congress need to be asking questions like prosecutors do.

      The way that could have gone:

      Q: Miss X, this is a question of public accountability. Were federal agents present in the area on January 6?
      A: Yes, sir, there are always federal agents in the area of the Capitol.

      Q: Yes, of course. Were there federal agents among the crowd of people?
      A: …yes, sir there are often federal agents among crowds in situations like this

      Q: How many federal agents were among the crowd?
      A: Sir, we don’t have that information.

      Q: That’s interesting. Would the supervisors of any agents in the crowd be aware of their presence or planned presence there?
      A: Well, the nature of ongoing operations is often fluid, Sir, and agents have some leeway to act independent of direct supervision.

      Q: Yes, but certainly, any agents present would have expressed a general indication to their bosses that they would be there, or some would have been directly assigned, too, right?
      A: Some would, Sir.

      Q: Some would have been assigned, or some would have expressed their plans to be there?
      A: Both, Sir.

      Q: OK, so, those who were assigned there, there would be records of those assignments?
      A: In some form, Sir, yes.

      Q: So, you would have, or have access to, at least some of the information I asked you about earlier regarding the presence and how many agents were there?
      A: Some, yes, Sir.

      Q: So why did you tell me earlier that you didn’t have that information?
      A: Sir, I didn’t want to represent I had all the information you were asking for when I didn’t.

      Q: But certainly you could have told me you had some of that information without me having to drag it out of you under oath, right?
      A: Sir, I–

      Q: Let’s turn now to the other part–those agents that may have been there on their own cognizance, or not directly assigned a presence there.
      A: OK

      Q: Those agents who might have been there without being directly assigned, would those be a typical kind of agent?
      A: Sir?

      Q: I mean, would they be standard, run-of-the-mill agents who have a desk and go into an office daily?
      A: Sir, many of our agents work remotely under the current circumstances, as you know

      Q: Yes, certainly, but I mean to ask you if these agents would be classified as “office” agents or “field” agents.
      A: Sir, it’s hard to say without specific knowledge of whom you’re asking me about.

      Q: Well, Miss X, that’s why I am asking you. You are the one who is presumed to have this information or not. Please tell me whether there were agents present who were not directly assigned by their supervisors to be there.
      A: Sir, I believe there were some.

      Q: Good. Now, do you know whether these agents might have been, shall we say, detached, from other duties, to be, oh, more integrated with the crowd, to fit in better?
      A: Sir, I don’t know the specifics of agents’ assignments.

      Q: Is it common for agents to be inserted into crowds in order to assess the crowd’s actions, or perhaps to guide individuals in the crowd toward certain paths of action?
      A: Sir, I don’t know the specifics of operational details like that.

      Q: Can you tell me who in your organization would know those details?
      A:
      ….

      • Festus

        I think that I love you a little, db. No Homo!

      • db

        *chest bumps Festus*

      • l0b0t

        This is why I was rather fond of Trey Gowdy during Congressional hearings. He was a prosecutor before he was a CongressCritter.

      • juris imprudent

        Rand really should’ve taken lessons from him.

      • db

        Imagine the combination of a deep skepticism of government and prosecutorial training in a legislator with subpeona power!

      • CPRM

        …And the killer is in this very room!

  11. The Late P Brooks

    I love how the media reports, with straight faces all around, Biden’s plan to distribute millions of tests. Where will they come from?

    He’ll pull them out of his magic hat.

    What will those tests accomplish? Who the fuck knows?

    • Plisade

      Gotta keep the case counts high so we need more testing.

    • Nephilium

      The tests will move cash from the federal government to those who manufactured them. They may also prop up the terrible case numbers.

      What more do you want man?

    • waffles

      If I didn’t want to catch covid I would simply avoid taking a test for covid. No test, not covid. It’s just a cold, see you in a few days when I feel better.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Welcome back waffles and you are correct. Went through our household…or didn’t, don’t know cause no test available if we even wanted to and no way in hell am I going to urgent care or ER when it’s just sniffles and headache.

      • waffles

        Thanks. It probably only needs a tiny percentage of the population to overload urgent care or the ER with the sniffles. People are nuts. For the mast majority of the population the main disease is the hysteria. They could handle the symptoms but the compounded psychological distress of knowing it is the dreaded disease of unknown origin? That tears them up.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well I will be outraged if they don’t stop producing any home tests until they have one blind people can use. Because it just isn’t fair if the rest of us can test and the blind can’t.

      For most of us, we can quickly do a Covid-19 test without a second thought – we just use the swab, measure out the sample then read the result. But what if your eyesight isn’t strong enough to see the test in the first place?

      That’s the reality for the two million people in the UK with sight loss – including 360,000 who are registered blind or partially sighted – who need to be able to do a test independently without putting others at risk of catching the virus.

      Lucy Edwards, a blind YouTuber and TikToker who campaigns for awareness, told Metro.co.uk about her difficulties taking coronavirus tests, calling ‘the whole process completely inaccessible’.

      The 26-year-old added: ‘The only way I am able to do it independently is if I use an app called Be My Eyes, which connects me to an NHS professional via the specialised help tab of the app.

      ‘Once I am connected my iPhone’s camera can pick up what I am doing, although it is hard to point a camera when you can’t see what you are pointing at and you need both hands to do the test.

      ‘I am capable of doing the test independently in theory, but I do rely on my sighted fiancé because it just takes so much longer if I do it alone as it just is not an accessible process for me at all.’

      BTW, the chief whinger seems to be the ideal of many Glibs. A blind red head.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Her glamor photo is a soild wood but her normal everyday look is okay, nothing I would write mom about.

      • db

        You forgot “toothless.”

    • invisible finger

      The media are exactly like Biden – they just read whatever is put in front of them and are incapable of thinking about what it is they are reading.

      Biden is basically “Newsreader In Chief”

      • Festus

        No. Biden is your Grandfather yelling at you for wearing flairs.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I am imagining several years from now, someone will open up a cabinet in their house and find one of these “free” tests. Hopefully they will be reminded of what a colossal fuckup the entire government response was.

      • AlexinCT

        People that believe government solves problems, statists & leftists that want more government, will NEVER feel government fucked up. They might agree that it could have been done better, but not that government should not have done something. Ever. You will not convince these people that the problem is believing government should be in charge of solving these things in the first place.

  12. Rebel Scum

    “I decided to establish a domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach,” Olsen said. “This group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, helping to ensure that these cases are handled properly and effectively coordinated across the Department of Justice and across the country.”

    You are going after the FBI?

    “We’ve seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus

    But enough about BLM.

    as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies,” he said.

    Because there is nothing more American than absolute devotion to the state.

    • pistoffnick

      extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies

      *raises an-cap flag, spits on hands…*

  13. Ownbestenemy

    “We’ve seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies,”

    And the minute those words left his lips, the SCOTUS should have said “uh….no”

    None of that above is against the law, but Trump I suppose.

    • WTF

      The law doesn’t matter, just who holds the power.

      • AlexinCT

        The left and the deep state certainly believes this and are acting accordingly. Unfortunately team red is also part of the machine, with a few exceptions, and these people, understanding they are both inept and incompetent, feel it is an existential threat that the unwashed masses demand accountability and that they not run the country like pirates using the masses as cannon fodder and slaves. They want to keep what they have so far managed to steal, and they don’t want anyone to be able to demand accountability.

  14. Rebel Scum

    FBI refuses to answer Ted Cruz’s question about their involvement in Jan 6 riot

    One would think he would just say “no”. It’s not like a person with the right connections to the regime will be prosecuted for lying to Congress.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re very careful to not provide a legal basis for any action after the fact. As long as they deny and stall using the procedurally accepted words, they can’t be touched.

      • WTF

        I’m waiting for the fart-sniffing articles from the usual suspects explaining how failure to deny doesn’t mean anything, is completely insignificant and above-board, and ORANGEMANBAD.

      • Drake

        they can’t be touched – or defunded into non-existence.

  15. Rebel Scum

    ‘What a Moron’: Hot Mic Catches Fauci Name-Calling Sen. Marshall After Heated Senate Hearing

    Says the idiot that provided the imagery for the next volley in the meme war.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Is it a hot mic if Fauci probably did it to score those sweet internet points?

    • Necron 99

      Makes me respect Admiral Robert Willard more after he had to repeatedly assure Hank Johnson Guam is connected to the earth without calling him an idiot.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Dems’ bid to tar 2020 election skeptics belied by left’s own history of contesting voting results

    It’s ok when they do it.

    • WTF

      There are still idiots who believe the RUSSIA COLLUSION hoax was real.

      • AlexinCT

        Of course it is real! The media nd democrat politicians would not have spent years saying it was so, despite the fact that propaganda outlet Fox News said otherwise, if it wasn’t true!

        /moron

    • Festus

      That’s “Governor Abrams!”

  17. The Late P Brooks

    It’s coming to get you!

    As the Omicron variant spreads like wildfire across the United States, it’s likely just about everybody will be exposed to the strain, but vaccinated people will still fare better, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said Tuesday.

    “Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Those who have been vaccinated … and boosted would get exposed. Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in the sense of not having hospitalization and death.”

    Everybody will likely be exposed. How many will become sick?

    They hammer on “unvaxxed hospitalizations” but they avoid looking at that number in relation to the total unvaxxed population, for some reason. It’s almost as if they are intentionally misrepresenting things.

    • WTF

      but vaccinated people will still fare better

      My personal experience says this is liar liar pants on fire false. My wife and I experienced the exact opposite.

      • Drake

        My sister and her family had the opposite results too.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well the Rona will treat the vaxxed and the dirty the same, but Society will shame the shit out of the dirty, so technically the vaxxed will fare better.

      • Nephilium

        The only shaming I got was my mom asking me if I had now reconsidered getting the vax. Even the girlfriend’s branch covidian aunt and grandmother didn’t shame her about getting sick (although they both probably just blamed me).

      • Festus

        I’m double-vaxxed. My shoulder still aches. This was all needless political theater engineered to cast doubt on President Orange. Now they are back-pedaling. I try not to hate but I hate them so.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Okay, if we’re all going to get and be able to equally transmit it to others regardless our vax status then why is it anybody’s business whether I’m vaxxed or not?

      • AlexinCT

        COMPLY SERF!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. If the government today said we are dropping the mandates, a million souls will cry out on the betrayal and another million souls will wonder why they were threatened their jobs for nothing.

      • invisible finger

        Exactly. And it’s obvious by the way they are behaving like cornered animals.

      • R C Dean

        another million souls will wonder why they were threatened lost their jobs for nothing

        A lot of people have already been fired (or driven off) because they were Unclean.

        And millions more will wonder why they were vaxxed against their will, for nothing.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The takeaway for most of these people should be a strong urgency to get themselves into a life position, both financially and otherwise, where they can weather the next fascist mandate push that will inevitably come.

        If you can’t lose your job without feeling immediate, compelling pain, you’re already bent over the barrel by your employer with your pants around your ankles. It is simply a matter of time before they help themselves to you again, whether by their own volition or at the instruction of FedGov.

      • R C Dean

        I think the inhumanity of COVID protocols in the workplace is a major contributing factor to people leaving the workforce. Its accelerated my timeline, I can tell you that much.

      • SDF-7

        While I admittedly am not where I want to be with my finances, this was a bit different in my opinion.

        The contractor mandate would have (and still might, I suppose) locked me out of my entire career. There’s nothing in my area of work that *doesn’t* end up having a government contract to some extent — there just aren’t that many kernel / storage companies out there. Even the start ups are almost always working to supplement data centers / data bases / storage such that they’d be subcontractors to a “primary” fed contractor and hence would get this applied. So while normally I could think of “How would I pay the bills while I go find another job?” — this became “What the hell can I do to work at all?”

        And when the government can bend the entire economy / entire industry fields to their will, there’s only so much anyone can do if they aren’t willing to go full on survivalist in the Alaskan outback and all.

        May be wrong, but that’s how I see it.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I definitely get it. I have a piece of paper on my wall with the registration number issued to me by FedGov that allows me to do my job. Were they and their corporate puppets to turn against me, I would be wholly forced out of this career.

        To me, it’s about waiting out the waves of insanity, and trying to contemplate the different ways they can fuck with you. If they decide to go all Nazi about it, there’s nothing you can do. However, you can be resilient to the momentary excesses.

        We were in a position where we could play chicken with my company, and that was 100% because we had enough of an e-fund to live for 6-12 months. We didn’t have a plan, we didn’t have an off ramp, but we had a conviction and were willing to set aside our comfortable lifestyle to follow that conviction. The e-fund took the immediacy away and allowed us the breathing room to take a stand. That wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t been prepared.

        We may be truly screwed the next time the fascists rear their heads. However, they have shown their hand, they have exposed the tools in their toolbox. That information fundamentally informs future planning for our family. It’s not enough to be prepared for economic downturn and layoffs. We have to be prepared for me to be barred from my profession.

    • Rebel Scum

      but vaccinated people will still fare better

      No, they will fare the same until they die from a cardiovascular issue.

      with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility

      The common cold never existed I guess.

      Those who have been vaccinated … and boosted

      With something premised on a different spike protein – Fuck it. I don’t need to explain.

    • PieInTheSky

      but vaccinated people will still fare better – depends on the data. In California by quite a bit, in the rest of the world less

    • slumbrew

      the nation’s leading infectious disease expert

      I’m still annoyed that phrase is thrown around so easily. He is not.

  18. Rebel Scum

    “Far-right anti-vaccine aggression”

    “Well, there is some credibility gap from the CDC, but I think it’s important not to conflate that with the attacks on prominent U.S. scientists. Let’s break it down into components. Component one is the fact that the far-right anti-vaccine aggression has caused 200,000 Americans since June, last June, to lose their lives because they were defiant of vaccines, so there is — and this is coming right out of the CPAC conference, vaccines are political instruments of control. Or, first, they’ll vaccinate you, then they’ll take your guns and Bibles away, quotes from members of the United States Congress.”

    Dishonest cunte is dishonest and cuntey. And yes, the “vaccines” are political instruments of control. The whole convid narrative is.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Hotez is the poster child of the pro-vax crowd. My take on him is that he sold out to the highest bidder years ago. He’s a fundraiser for his charities and nothing more.

    • WTF

      Now do leftist vaccine aggression.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I give it a week with the new terror unit until it magically finds an anti-vaxxine Facebook group of soccer moms

      • Rebel Scum

        Jim Carrey and that blonde chick have been noticeably silent on the covid vax issue.

    • rhywun

      And the left falls for this shit hook, line, and sinker.

    • R C Dean

      Note the newspeak: “anti-vax aggression”. Vocal opposition is now “aggression”, right up there with “silence is violence.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        All for the new domestic terror unit to work with

      • dbleagle

        I see yet another group of Feds monitoring Glibs.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well he didn’t march either so it all checks out.

    • Rebel Scum

      because i’m so damn old I was there as well

      “Let’s go, Brandon. I agree.”

      It seems like yesterday, the first time I got arrested — anyway.

      “And I was doused by the water – uh – you know the thing.”

      • Festus

        “Fweedom!” Leftists lie.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    far-right anti-vaccine aggression has caused 200,000 Americans since June, last June, to lose their lives because they were defiant of vaccines

    Did it hurt when you pulled that out of your ass?

    • Festus

      Not a bit! I had plenty of lube from the powers that be!

      • R C Dean

        Must be Inner Party. They never seem to have lube on them for most people.

      • juris imprudent

        Everyone knows the proles like it rough.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    I wish Rand would have asked Fauci about their past dustups and who was proven to be right.

    “Um, I’m already 3-0 against you in these hearings. How many days will it be before you put out a press release admitting I’m right this time?”

    It is also incredibly funny to see a guy whine about death threats to someone who has actually been shot at and seriously injured in an attack by an unhinged neighbor. “You are scared Dr. Fauci? Come mow my lawn and get back to me”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Eh, Rand was shutdown by the committee chair.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Although I do want to see Rand go, “Fauci, how do you feel about puppies?”

  21. The Late P Brooks

    These serial killers wore shoes when they committed their crimes. Anyone with shoes on is a serial killer.

    Run away!

  22. PieInTheSky

    USA Today Tries to Destigmatize Pedophilia, Fails Miserably

    Tim Dillon voice: “I love today sponsor sheath underwear it is a great company because the CEo is an ethical pedofile, he is attracted to infants but does not act on it”

    • AlexinCT

      What did Michael Jackson and K-Mart both have in common?

      They both had little boy’s underwear half-off…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Why don’t pedophiles ever win races?

        They like to come in a little behind

    • Endless Mike

      I too, enjoy buying products from people who don’t molest infants.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility

    Ten seconds, and your goose is cooked. For real.

  24. PieInTheSky

    So in light of the recent college football championship, I forgot to ask: are the females sexually appealing at the university of Georgia?

    • Festus

      Southern University. Blonde and hot.

      • robc

        At one time, fake boobs at uga where referred to us “Hope Scholarships”. Basically, money had been saved for college, hope scholarships made tuition free, money was still given to kid, and joke explained to unfunniness.

        But, no matter what, it still uga, hell on earth.

      • PieInTheSky

        do the guys on the team have a reasonable chance of getting laid when winning the championship?

      • robc

        On the team is more than enough for that low bar.

      • PieInTheSky

        to you think the boys also got to enjoy a nice beer after? I assume athletes do not drink while the season is ongoing.

      • robc

        You are hilarious.

      • PieInTheSky

        so I should quit my job to pursue comedy!

      • robc

        I went to a southern university in the state of Georgia. My experience was, ummm, different.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAvhE4a_hI

        White guys rapping is never* a good thing, but there ya go.

        *There is a Beastie Boys exception, of course.

      • robc

        Technically not a rap, but I have seen there other music too.

      • robc

        Ratio has improved to 2:1 today. 3:1 was still aspirational in my day. We were about 4:1 in late 80s.

      • PieInTheSky

        ehm eminem?

      • robc

        I stand by my footnote. I considered adding him to it, but chose not to.

      • Drake

        Brought my son to Kutztown University of Pennsylvania to meet the football coach and take a tour. At the time, the ratio there was over 60% female. Half my brain thought “good for him”. The other half thought “he’ll flunk out and come home with 3 kids in a year”.

      • R C Dean

        At the time, the ratio there was over 60% female.

        Nationwide, around 60% of undergrads are female.

        Naturally, this is a Good Thing. If the ratio was flipped, it would be a Bad Thing. Because reasons.

      • juris imprudent

        The MIT of Georgia?

      • robc

        I prefer to think of MIT as the Georgia Tech of the North.

        But find the comparison silly for many reasons.

        I had a prof who got his PhD at MIT. His comment on the school was “Great for grad school, I don’t know what they do to the undergrads, but they are insane, I would never let my kids go there for undergrad.”

      • juris imprudent

        You’ll note that it wasn’t compared to CalTech of course. I need to watch Real Genius again, it’s been too long.

      • robc

        “A girl’s gotta have her standards.”

      • slumbrew

        My female co-worker went to MIT undergrad and has the great T-shirt: “MIT men: the odds are good but the goods are odd.”

      • DEG

        On my first foray into on-line dating which was in my mid-to-late 20s, I had a lunch date with a MIT grad student. She had gone to MIT for her undergrad, then decided to stick around for her graduate work. She was a mechanical engineer. Tall, cute lass from California that was on the MIT women’s basketball team during her undergrad years.

        I asked her on her lunch date why she was trying on-line dating. She said, “MIT is great for dating if you’re into short, skinny Asian guys. Otherwise, not so much.”

      • robc

        If you watch the video I linked, that is what the GT girls are singing at the end of the song.

  25. Festus

    I’ve a feeling that this is all spiraling out of control for the Party in power. They are running scared from public sentiment. How else to explain Nancy’s eyebrows?

    • AlexinCT

      She is in league with Beelzebub?

      • R C Dean

        I just checked. There is no Dr. Beelzebub doing plastic surgery in San Francisco, so probably not.

    • WTF

      Which is why they are so desperate to fortify the upcoming elections with their voting fraud enabling act.

      • juris imprudent

        Which isn’t going to happen. [sad trombone]

      • Jerms

        Why do you say this? Im desperate for some good news.

      • juris imprudent

        Manchin & Hookerboots aren’t on board with gutting the Senate. And even Schumer has to know he doesn’t want to be part of the disemboweled minority under McConnell – which he will be this time next year.

  26. robc

    Total US CFR Rate: 1.35%
    Last Month: 0.35%
    Last Week: 0.23%

    We are at or below flu levels now. It is just another fucking respiratory virus at this point and should be treated like the flu, or rhinovirus, or other coronaviruses.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The new domestic terror unit will be reaching out to you for your anti-government sentiment. Thank you for complying.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Police cars revolving lightNew from me @CTmagazine
    .

    Young folks are almost completely unaware of what the term “Protestant” means. They are 2.5x more likely to say that they are “Christian” than Protestant.

    That’s going to make religious classification much harder.

    https://twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1480547479770869763

    • Nephilium

      Meh… most Christians are Protestant. Filthy splitters.

    • robc

      It is not that they don’t know the term, its the rise of non-denomination churches pushing an ecumenical view. The term protestant just isn’t used anymore.

      • juris imprudent

        I think I mentioned the church-school I would pass on my commute – couple of years back they had the big sign commemorating 500 years of the Reformation. They knew THEY were Protestant!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I grew up Protestant and having to explain that all the time

    • PieInTheSky

      The question is: are you really a Christian if not Eastern Orthodox? Is heresy Christianity?

      • juris imprudent

        Hey, there’s Eastern Catholics too, not to mention the Oriental churches (some of which split off before the Great Schism). Christianity has more branches than a bramble-bush.

      • robc

        Then there is the Ethiopian Church, which claims its founder was the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts. If so, it pretty much predates everything but the early church in Jerusalem.

      • juris imprudent

        I think that falls within the Oriental group. The early church history is kinda fascinating.

    • PieInTheSky

      As long as republicans win elections it means votes were suppressed because the nation would never vote for republicans

    • WTF

      A question that rarely gets asked and never answered.

    • Trigger Hippie

      People still serving prison terms for violent crimes are apparently a marginalized group who need their voices heard.

      • WTF

        As are illegal aliens.

  28. Trigger Hippie

    My condolences for Mike and Matt.

    I know we poo poo the virus a lot here but it doesn’t mean it can’t kill people we love. Several of us here know that from first hand experience. Just remember all of this, the GOF, release, deaths, lockdowns, economic misery, striping of basic human rights, ALL OF IT, was created by government.

    • PieInTheSky

      I know we poo poo the virus a lot here but it doesn’t mean it can’t kill people we love. – I don’t think anyone says this though. it is not the virus it is the reaction to it. we live ina world with various risks to life and limb, this is one of them. I don;t think anyone here – unlike the left dancing on the graves of the unvaxxed – minimizes the loss some people have

    • invisible finger

      The virus isn’t killing many people – it is the outright refusal of the medical establishment (backed by government) to treat people with the illness that kills most of them.

      • PieInTheSky

        also very much this

  29. Rebel Scum

    Submitted without comment: Anti Vax Barbie

    • Festus

      I too shall forgo comments.

    • robodruid

      I will admit, i found it funny.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Bloodhounds

    The changing nature of Covid-19 means major pitfalls for contact tracers, including extraordinary workloads and failed attempts to reach people who have been exposed.

    Some epidemiologists maintain that contact tracing is a crucial preventive measure worth continuing, albeit with significant changes.

    “It is important because it provides a landscape of who had been in contact with someone that is positive, so it helps us identify who can be the next positive or prevent the sick individual from transmitting the virus to a healthy individual,” said Luisa N. Borrell, a professor of public health policy at City University of New York.

    While some calls fail, others can stop chains of infection, which is enough to keep contact tracing going, Borrell said. Ideally, it should reinforce other regulations, such as masking, testing, quarantining and isolating, she said.

    ——-

    If a contact tracer calls too late, people may already be at the end of their infections, she said. While a growing body of research shows that vaccinated people are less likely to spread the virus, the highly transmissible omicron variant has created new concerns.

    Are they going to send somebody to weld the doors shut on those people’s houses?

    I all sounds like wishful thinking, to me.

    • Rat on a train

      “I’m calling to inform you that you were in contact with someone who tested positive for the coof.”

      “Whatever, bye.”

      I wouldn’t get the chance since it would go directly to voicemail and soon after deleted.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “While a growing body of research shows that vaccinated people are less likely to spread the virus,”

      Show me this growing body of evidence

      • juris imprudent

        If you’ll just get on your knees behind me, you can see the source.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Contact tracing was always a ridiculously stupid endeavor for a respiratory virus.

      I got called by the Maryland and Virginia DOH tracers because I had been in contact with someone who tested positive. They called me more than a week after contact.

      I told them I was not showing symptoms, would not provide any further data, and hung up.

      • db

        How did they get your number, and who told them you had been in contact?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The person who had paid a sales call to me told the Maryland DOH.

        I assume Maryland was sharing data with Virginia.

      • db

        NO SALE

    • The Other Kevin

      At this point contact tracing is 100% useless and a waste of resources. It might have been useful in the very beginning. But with Omicron spreading easily, and it taking 2-3 days for a person to get symptoms or test positive, there’s no possible way for a person to know where they caught it.

    • CPRM

      Contact tracing can be valuable…when there are only a few people with a disease. They missed that window 2 years ago.

      • R C Dean

        Contact tracing has no value for a respiratory virus. The number of potential contacts is way, way too large.

        For bloodborne pathogens, like HIV? Absolutely. For droplet/airborne? Completely useless.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And hard to do when politicians tell you to go out and hug an oriental.

    • Raven Nation

      I got called the first two days after I tested positive. Since I didn’t recognize the number went to v/m and I never called back.

      As people note it’s just ridiculous.

      “So, we heard you tested positive. You were probably contagious for 48-72 hours before that, even if you were asymptomatic at that time. Can you tell us where you went so we can do some contact tracing.”

      “Sure, I was at two grocery stores and a pharmacy. Do you want the names of all the customers?”

      • R C Dean

        Can you tell us where you went

        “Yes, I can.” *uncomfortable silence*

        “Uhh, where did you go?”

        “Get a warrant.”

      • Raven Nation

        Even better.

        Have a question for you from yesterday’s post on TV shows. You wrote about Millenium that they did a great job of finishing it then they re-started it (or something like that, I can’t remember the exact way you said it). I’ve not watched M yet, but I thought it ran three consecutive seasons and wrapped up at the end of S3. Did I miss something?

      • rhywun

        Right LOL it’s so stupid

  31. Festus

    I need to get some sleep. Thanks for being around, you wonderful scamps! I couldn’t have got through the last five years without you. Hearts from Festus!

  32. PieInTheSky

    Wesley Yang
    @wesyang
    Foundations poured more than $23 billion into racial equity nonprofits in 2020 and 2021 after spending $3.3 billion between 2011 and 2019.

    Good Trouble/Voice of the Unheard staggeringly successful in enriching activist organizations.

    https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1481070597220323335

    • rhywun

      JFC what a racket.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The racket is the Federal Reserve continuing to pump money into these corporations.

        End the Fed and more than half our societal problems go away.

    • PieInTheSky

      that is very much wrong. The first part is much more powerful. Twitter is more powerful than the second pic.

    • Rat on a train

      Imagine how authoritarian it would be if a Republican were in charge. I guess we’ll see the contrast when Youngkin imposes a theocracy on Saturday.

    • Nephilium

      So you need two proof of vaccinations? Or is this like Fight Club rules?

    • CPRM

      Photo ID

      So they are Racist?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I identify as an 11 year old. It’s ok, I don’t act on it.

  33. Rebel Scum

    Petulant children.

    Hundreds of kids walked out of Brooklyn Tech today to protest the continuation of in person school during the Omicron wave and to call for a remote option

    Then again, they are sufficiently propagandized and victims of government schooling.

    • Urthona

      Didn’t I read this was actually set up by the teachers union?

    • rhywun

      Yeah, even as the narrative is falling apart openly now, it’s obvious that the country isn’t bouncing back any time soon.

    • Rat on a train

      We demand lower quality education. We will not be educated until our demands are met.

    • invisible finger

      Once a week, whether you needed it or not.

    • Rat on a train

      Those were decorative.

      • R C Dean

        Indeed they were. In addition to being functional. I doubt they were mounted on an inoperable sink.

    • rhywun

      Nice. I love Art Deco.

      • Tundra

        Same. Not sure how the Brutalist shit came to be when there was Art Deco in the world.

      • R C Dean

        I believe the Brutalist architects were Marxists, and the movement gained traction first in fascist/communist countries. It was overtly anti-human from the get-go, and was adopted and implemented by people who hate humanity.

        After the riots of the ’60s, the University of Wisconsin built several Brutalist buildings, etc. explicitly as a means of crowd control/suppression.

      • rhywun

        And many of the same lot went on to form “Internationalism”, i.e. big glass boxes. Also inhuman.

      • Tundra

        It’s all garbage.

        Architects Against Humanity

        A fun site that openly mocks today’s urban planners and architects.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, those are fun.

        And please, don’t get me started on “Post-Modernism”.

        Garbage is right.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And Biden revoked the EO about having more traditional design in federal buildings.

  34. l0b0t

    The More Things Change Dept. – So last night I enjoyed an episode of Barney Miller (for my money, the best cop show ever created), Season 1 episode 12 ‘Hair’. The episode opens with Cpt. Miller announcing the results of the gang’s annual pistol qualification. Everyone passed except for Det. Phil Fish. When asked why, Fish explains that he doesn’t practice because he would have to purchase his own ammunition and bullets are too expensive (Fish refuses to pay $0.13 per round for .38 Special). This episode aired in 1975.

    • db

      wow, was it that expensive back then? I have a hard time believing that number

      • Drake

        It was set in NYC.

      • db

        hmm, I guess using the CPI $0.13 in ’75 is $0.70 now, so not terribly unbelieveable.

        Man, ammo was cheap in the late ’90s, early ’00s.

      • Plinker762

        South African .308, $0.15/rnd delivered

      • Drake

        Link?

      • R C Dean

        I think that was the price over 20 years ago.

      • Plinker762

        2006

    • Tundra

      So funny!

      My wife and I were watching Longmire last night and Max Gail (Wojo) was in the episode. This led to a trip down memory lane for me.

      And you are right – it was a terrific show!

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Submitted without comment: Anti Vax Barbie

    So wit. Much amuse.

    I died laughing.

    • Plisade

      I viewed it from the perspective of anti-vaxMandaters wrote it as a spoof on how pro-vaxMandaters view them. And it was funny through that lens.

  36. Certified Public Asshat

    I still hear nearly every day from folks who say ‘I love the State of Maryland, I’ve spent my whole life here, but I just simply can’t afford to stay.’ That's why we're proposing the Retirement Tax Reduction Act to eliminate 100% of state retirement taxes in Maryland. pic.twitter.com/oe5THpsQhI— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) January 12, 2022

    It is because of my terrible voting decisions during my working years that I cannot afford to live in Maryland, therefore I should not be taxed in retirement.

    • PieInTheSky

      I though taxation was theft

    • AlexinCT

      You would be surprised how most of the people that vote for more government, and thus end up with amongst other things more tax liability and far crappier services and a lot of problems caused by centralization, never connect the decision to have more government with the problems they clearly see plaguing their lives. The worldview that government solves problems is the problem. These are the people that can never make the association and thus understand we should treat government as a necessary evil and limit it as much as possible.

    • Rat on a train

      Probably only covers pensions. You dirty people with 401k retirements can suck it.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It won’t pass, which is why it does include 401ks.

    • creech

      PA already doesn’t tax social security and pension and 401K income. Still, folks are leaving to escape Gauleiter Wolf and a state soon to flip from purplish to blue.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        DE too. Maryland should go big and go to no income tax to lead mid-Atlantic.

        (lol, I know)

      • juris imprudent

        I’ll be bailing because of the damn property tax.

    • UnCivilServant

      Simple, it is written to obfuscate the lack of content. If they spew enough bullshit, they get a pass as their peers assume they know what they’re talking about, or else are unwilling to admit to having done the same empty blather.

      • PieInTheSky

        see the article makes the point it is not to to obfuscate the lack of content it is to obfuscate the fact that the content, when said plainly, is insane

      • AlexinCT

        Word salad.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Hundreds of kids walked out of Brooklyn Tech today to protest the continuation of in person school during the Omicron wave and to call for a remote option

    Great-I foresee a giant black hole of ignorance and superstition, working its way through the school system like a gopher through a rattlesnake.

    Some day those kids will be grown up and holding positions of responsibility.

    • juris imprudent

      Or building a ‘career’ at Starbucks.

    • Surly Knott

      So, you’re saying a seamless transition of the elites? Congress, the Supreme Court, the CDC, the NIH, et. al?

  38. DrOtto

    USA Today, so stunning and brave. They jumped right over incest and went straight for pedophilia. Everyone know you should normalize incest first. If you are being really cautious, adult incest, then the even ickier incest, then pedophilia. What a bunch of creeps.

  39. Rebel Scum

    Anti-vaccine aggression.

    European Union regulators warned this evening that frequent Covid booster shots could adversely affect the immune system and may not be feasible for Europe.

    Repeat booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune system and tire out people, according to the European Medicines Agency. Instead, countries should leave more time between booster programs and tie them to the onset of the cold season in each hemisphere, following the blueprint set out by influenza vaccination strategies, the agency said.

    The advice comes as some countries consider the possibility of offering people second booster shots in a bid to provide further protection against omicron infections. Earlier this month Israel became the first nation to start a second booster, or fourth shot, to those over 60. The U.K. has said that boosters are providing good levels of protection and there is no need for a second booster shot at the moment, but will review data as it evolves.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Uh, I know a nose-licking dog, and I assure you that cocaine has nothing to do with it.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Swinging to the classics

    The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices in December were up 7% from a year ago — the biggest hit to family pocketbooks in around 40 years.

    That has many people asking who or what is to blame for soaring prices. For some progressives, one clear culprit stands out: corporations trying to fatten their bottom lines.

    “We can’t overlook the role that concentrated corporate power has played in creating the conditions for price gouging,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said during Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s confirmation hearing Tuesday.

    Some people never outgrow the hippy chick socialism phase. Like, share and share alike, man.

    • PieInTheSky

      For some progressives, one clear culprit stands out: corporations trying to fatten their bottom lines. – I always wonder why these corporations don;t attempt to fatten their bottom lines every year

    • Rebel Scum

      We can’t overlook the role that concentrated corporate power has played in creating the conditions for price gouging fascism.

    • Rebel Scum

      I don’t see “Plowy McPlowface”.

    • slumbrew

      Gordie Plow is just gold.

  41. R C Dean

    Re: the main page gif:

    As as former Newfie owner, I am fully willing to believe that you could train one to run a snow blower. Smart dogs.

  42. DEG

    Mornin’

    “I decided to establish a domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach,” Olsen said. “This group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, helping to ensure that these cases are handled properly and effectively coordinated across the Department of Justice and across the country.”

    Go fuck yourself.

    Fauci attempted to defend himself by going after Paul, saying that Paul was mistaken, and that he has misunderstood the facts. “I think in usual fashion,” Fauci said, “Senator, you are distorting everything about me.”

    Fauci can go fuck himself.

    At the end of the exchange, a hot mic caught Fauci saying, “What a moron. Jesus Christ.”

    Fauci can go fuck himself.

    Written by Alia Dastagir, the article laments that pedophilia stands among “the most misunderstood” of sexual orientations, with people often making it synonymous with child abuse. Dastagir writes:

    “Most misunderstood”? I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I think calling pedophilia the “most misunderstood” of sexual orientations is bullshit.

  43. Hyperion

    “Biden-Cheney 2024? Thomas Friedman, New York Times”

    I see that Friedman is off his meds again.

    • Rebel Scum

      Cheney-Harris / Harris-Cheney.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Was he ever on them?

      I figured he had outlived his usefulness to China and was on the outs at NYT.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Most economists are skeptical, however. They say inflation is being driven by a surge in demand for everything from iPads to automobiles, along with supply-chain bottlenecks that have companies struggling to keep up.

    “When more people want to buy things than companies are capable of making, prices go up. That’s just the law of supply and demand,” said Jason Furman, who served as a top economist in the Obama administration.

    Holy fuck.

    • PieInTheSky

      fucking is also increasing in price

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      This may be crazy but hear me out here: maybe companies aren’t capable of meeting demand because of supply chain issues. Maybe they’re interrelated.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Wait a minute, the quote takes that into account…how’d I miss that? I’m going back to bed.

    • R C Dean

      They say inflation is being driven by a surge in demand

      So let’s see the data showing increased consumer demand.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Inflation was cause people wanted their stuff! The news and WH told me so

  45. The Late P Brooks

    “Biden-Cheney 2024? Thomas Friedman, New York Times”

    Which Cheney?

    • Hyperion

      The twat of course.

      • WTF

        But which one?

      • Rebel Scum

        Double-crosser, not double-barrel.

    • creech

      In all fairness, Liz would probably be a better choice to become president when Biden shuffles off than would Kommiela. Note: better, not best.

  46. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Biden trails almost all predecessors in first-year press conferences

    In fairness, his people are doing the right thing by keeping him away from the press. He brings nothing to the narrative, anyway.

    Except possibly as a scapegoat.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    There’s no sign the Biden administration is considering price controls, which fell out of favor after a failed effort in the Nixon administration.

    There you have it.

    • creech

      In other words, wait about 3 months before more controls are imposed on “key and vital” businesses.

    • rhywun

      Oh lord. And remember, this is after the gay one left to form Yaz.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Ultimately, though, price stability is the job of the Federal Reserve. The central bank is expected to start tapping the brakes on inflation by raising interest rates later this year.

    Yup. Give that boy a Pulitzer.

  49. Tundra
    • Certified Public Asshat

      This one goes over my head.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Wage and price controls were not, mind you, an intrinsically bad idea. They just weren’t administered properly.

    But never fear, we’ll get it right this time.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    They say inflation is being driven by a surge in demand

    Whatever you do, don’t mention the helicopter money.

    • CPRM

      And there is no problem with Supply! Chocolate rations have increased!

  52. robc

    For the powers that be, or specifically SP, or whoever: I just submitted an article. I would prefer an 11 AM time slot, if possible.

    • Swiss Servator

      SP manages the actual Series of Tubes…I am TEH SCHEDULER OF WEEKDAZE! I’ll give it a look.

    • Swiss Servator

      OK, set for Tuesday, Jan 18th at 1100.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    And why did this song pop into my head after decades buried in the dust and debris of the junk filled attic of my brain.

    • Gender Traitor

      Not “Deja Vu”? (At work – no time to link.)

    • SDF-7

      Well, this has been in my head a lot over the last couple of years. But I think the why on that one is obvious.

  54. Ownbestenemy

    Pretty sure our COO for Air Traffic just announced her sudden retirement is a filthy anti-vaxxer

    • db

      But there’s no way there will be an exodus from the workforce if the mandates are upheld.

      • Ownbestenemy

        She had no indications and the time frame lines up with planned discipline periods.

  55. wdalasio

    “I decided to establish a domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach,” Olsen said. “This group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, helping to ensure that these cases are handled properly and effectively coordinated across the Department of Justice and across the country.”

    I’ll give this guy points for chutzpah. After blatantly stonewalling a inquiry by a sitting U.S. Senator on his office’s behavior, he has the gall to insist on additional funding to do more of the same.

    A note to the GOP Congresspeople, I know you’re not really all that much into the idea of doing anything about Democratic executive overreach that is obviously targeting your supporters, but if you were, you might consider giving the Justice Department a budget of a whole shiny silver dollar the next time you’re in the majority.

    • juris imprudent

      Twenty pieces of silver maybe?

      • R C Dean

        *polite applause*

        I would be very pleased if they funded them in the ordinary course, but summoned the director to Congress and presented him with 20 pieces of silver.

      • SDF-7

        Bonus points if it is wrapped in paper transcribed with Matthew 27:5?

      • Swiss Servator

        30 pieces, wasn’t it?

        I mean, with inflation since 32 AD…it would have to be a trillion dollar coin now, right?

    • creech

      None of this crap would be possible (one hopes) if Trump had kept his big mouth out of the Georgia senate runoffs.

    • Tundra

      That’s awesome!

  56. Nephilium

    OT work bitching:

    Fuck… two months ago a couple teams on the company I support got migrated to a new platform. This means that all changes for the teams that didn’t move would have to be done on the old platform (where they were working) and the new platform (where they would be migrating to in the future). This was mentioned multiple times to the change team. The cutover is Saturday for most of the teams, and going through all of the changes in the past two months, almost none of them were replicated.

    Time to give the change team a deadline, which if they miss will mean I’m replicating all of their changes Friday.

    • Swiss Servator

      It’s not like you have anything else to do, right?

      • Nephilium

        The cleaned up list is close to 150 changes. The account manager is not happy.

    • AlexinCT

      I see the problem…

      They don’t give a shit because you have to do extra work… Not them..

      • Nephilium

        They aren’t aware of that last part. But I would rather make sure we don’t get 50-some high priority tickets called in over the weekend.

  57. Not Adahn

    Exactly how much spare cash would you have to have in order to subscribe to a “gun of the month club” from freaking Cabot?

    I ain’t gonna lie though, I kinda want the left-handed damascus 1911.

    • UnCivilServant

      More than I’ve got, I couldn’t even subscribe to the ammo of the month club.

      • Not Adahn

        Three of the target stands assembled. Lily helped, got a pic for Sunday. The fourth is still in Rochester.

      • UnCivilServant

        So which steel will be used this staurday?

      • Not Adahn

        I want to use the static. I’m wondering if it would be too confusing to use the three I’ve got and put up three falling near each other if the fourth target doesn’t show up.

      • UnCivilServant

        Given the troubles we’ve had with just falling, a combine static/falling setup would confuse people too much

    • DEG

      There are some good looking guns in that collection.

  58. robodruid

    I wonder when the S.C. is going to make an announcement WRT forced ster oops i ment vaccinations?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Very soon according to Jeff Childers at coffee & covid.