519 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    Nancy Pelosi to seek re-election

    Go Vodka-Skeletor, it’s your birthday!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I can’t believe she is coming back. The Squad is going to make her miserable. Especially if they are in the minority.

      • AlexinCT

        I am guessing that she feels that she has better chances of preventing the other side from turning the tables on her and using the left’s tactics of lies and projection of accusations, and landing her ass in jail.

      • Sean

        I’d like to think she’s already miserable 24/7.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I think she prefers it that way, just as long as she can make others more miserable.

    • waffles

      Ugh, why. Why with 27+ of house dems not seeking reelection we have to be stuck with HER?

      We really live in the worst of all possible worlds, happy wednesday!

      • Lackadaisical

        Not even close. Be thankful.

      • waffles

        I actually believe something close to “we live in the best of all possible worlds” but it’s just funny that Nancy is eternal.

    • juris imprudent

      “can’t let go of power, power is the only thing keeping me alive”

      • Festus

        ^^^ Well Done!

    • Chafed

      Lol

  2. AlexinCT

    Durham Suggests Democrat Lawyer Marc Elias Testified at Grand Jury

    If there is one person that is deserving of a long stint in pound-me-in-the-ass-prison, where he gets passed around till people can’t tell the difference between him yawning or farting, it’s this Elias crook.

  3. Sean

    19th term @81.
    GTFO and retire, FFS.

    • AlexinCT

      The whole Jan 6th racket is about making sure nobody with an open fire comes to close to Vodka-Skeletor, cause she would go up in flames. She is one of those undead pickled in Vodka.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Are you kidding? These assholes never release their grip. She’ll be like a rolling cadaver like Strom Thurmond before it’s over.

      • Swiss Servator

        Thurgood Marshall may have actually been dead a week, before his clerks stopped wheeling him in the SCOTUS chambers…

    • rhywun

      Baby needs a new closet full of shoes and a mansion to put it in.

      • Nephilium

        Baby needs a new closet full of shoes freezer full of ice cream and a mansion to put it in.

        FTFY

      • rhywun

        I just had an uncomfortable vision of Biden, Pelosi, and a freezer full of ice cream.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s Wednesday!

      • Festus

        *shudders*

      • Pope Jimbo

        It could be necessary to keep the Feds from really investigating her hubby and son for all their shenanigans.

        If she lets go of the tiger’s tail her family is in trouble.

      • Festus

        Jesus Christ. She’s older than God! I guess it’s good that she has a reason to get up in the morning at her advanced age.

      • AlexinCT

        Her reason is that if she isn’t in congress she can’t use that power to prevent people from actually using the team blue tactics to go after her using the full power of the law.

  4. AlexinCT

    Bitcoin falls 50% from record highs

    I am no investment advisor here, but based on the attack-dump-buyupcheap-pump strategies I saw in the corporate world, I believe the smart thing to do is to hold onto your coin. This looks exactly like a planned attack on the coin by people that want those holding current bitcoin to panic and sell low. Once they have syphoned enough of that wealth on the cheap, they will suddenly restore confidence and value. The elite don’t like that the plebes have skill to make money they can’t just take whenever they want too much, and bitcoin is one of those things they hate the plebes having.

    • Fourscore

      When Bitcoin produces something other than dreams I’ll want to get in. The dollar also is a measure of a dream but a dream most of the world shares.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I think the more important idea is that you cannot hold dollars. That will lead to ruin, so invest in *something*.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’m off about the same opinion. I was a late adopter, but plan to hold onto my small stash. I would be buying but I have too much going on right now.

    • db

      This is my assessment as well. My bitcoin/crypto holdings started with proceeds from mining and a some small bits of “fun money” I threw in. I made the mistake of dumping a bunch of ETH when it collapsed a couple of years ago. I had about 20 eth at a low price and dumped it, then I stopped paying attention and came back a year later and it was at about 3x what I had, so I bought in again. If I had held onto what I had originally, I’d be up nearly 6x, but as it is, I’m way below that.

      I think HODL is the way to go, but if you’re betting your retirement on crypto, you need to reconsider your strategies. Fun money only unless you have a very carefully considered set of stop-loss values and some basic technical decision points.

      • AlexinCT

        And be very weary of scams. An old girlfriend contacted me a week ago to ask if she could borrow $50K cause she had her child’s school money (she is an Asian tiger mom and is sending her daughter to a $50K per semester high school and plans to make her go to an ivy league school) in Ethereum and had just been scammed by some people on WhatsApp that identified themselves as Chinese as well. They told her late last December that if she moved her money for 24 hrs into their account they would give her 10% of the total she moved, and she transferred all $328K she had just to watch them stop all communication with her and the money go up in smoke.

        She balked when I told her that for that kind of money she needed to sign a contract cause I didn’t want to be scammed myself. But that sure as hell is one heck of a price to pay to learn a lesson about greed and offers that are too good to be true..

      • Certified Public Asshat

        An old girlfriend contacted me a week ago to ask if she could borrow $50K

        This is like living in a completely different world.

      • db

        Yep. I think people may be a little more susceptible to crypto scams, partially because of the general nature of hucksterism in the crypto space inuring people to hyperbolic statements and claims of incredible gains, and part because they don’t treat it like real money.

      • Chafed

        Why on earth would you lend her any money after that experience?

      • Lackadaisical

        Once she sends them the additional 50k they pinky swear to send all 400k back.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

        She was mad I told her not without a contract, cause she now lives too far for me to collect it in booty calls.

      • waffles

        50k is an awful lot of booty calls even if you don’t count the commute.

      • AlexinCT

        Yup.

      • The Last American Hero

        What about booty calls at Ivy League schools?

      • AlexinCT

        Not sure what you are recommending there bro, but it sounds like you are encouraging me to end up in one of these links Q occasionally gives us about people banging moms and daughters at the same time amongst the avalanche of cucking links.

      • R C Dean

        They told her late last December that if she moved her money for 24 hrs into their account they would give her 10% of the total she moved, and she transferred all $328K she had

        I hope that’s the dumbest thing I read all day. Because that’s pretty fucking dumb.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Buy Bitcoin now or when it gets to a price you can live with. It will absolutely go back up.

      I made a lot of money buying in 2017 and selling fairly high.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The negative yielding bond market is $20 trillion dollars. All of crypto is $2 trillionish.

        Only one of these is considered risky/scammy.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I know right. The municipalities that are taking out these bonds for the most part pay up but there are numerous examples where bonds are written off. The negative yield bond is insane to me and should signal that bonds are not what they appear to be.

        Digital currency is mostly what it appears to be. In the case of Bitcoin, a finite amount of “money” that can easily be traded via peer-to-peer electronic means.

        The other funny thing is that most bonds are traded electronically too. Its not like most people hold a piece of paper bond anymore.

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    We’ve approached COVID treatments like filling a medicine cabinet. We’re not relying on one type, one brand, or treatment. We invested in and continue to buy a variety across monoclonal antibodies, pre exposure prevention therapies, and oral antivirals,” she continued.
    Psaki stated that the government has provided 71,000 antiviral doses to the state, including 34,000 additional treatments that work against omicron.
    “What the FDA is making clear is that these treatments, the ones that they are fighting over, that the governor is fighting over, do not work against omicron and they have side effects. That is what the scientists are saying,” said Psaki.

    I’m rather impressed by her capacity for blatant fucking lies.

    That said, you know what else doesn’t work against Omicron and has side effects?

    • AlexinCT

      This is all political, by design, and a sign of how evil these people that made this decision really are. What the FDA has done is obey orders from partisan fucking democrat hacks to prevent Florida from being able to deliver some of the treatment options that have allowed the state to stay open and still not let the Kung Flu kill a large percentage of its elderly population. PMSNBC/The Clinton News Network need new anti-Florida/anti-DeSantis talking points now that our occupied congress’ attempts to rig the 2022 midterms has hit a serious snag, and the crime syndicate with the blue banner is hoping the death count in FLA goes up so they can dance on those people’s graves and lie to the public that blue states fucking over their population did the right thing. Anything for power, brah.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Serious-Grown-Up-in-Chief

    President Joe Biden acknowledged Tuesday a deeply uncertain situation at the Ukraine border, where Russian troops are amassing but few observers have any definitive knowledge of whether or when they might invade.

    Earlier, the White House said a Russian invasion was “imminent,” and American troops have been placed on high alert to deploy to Europe in a show of reassurance. US and European sanctions have been readied in the event of an invasion. Biden also said he’d be willing to apply sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, a step previous presidents have avoided.
    Even as tensions mount, however, Biden conceded that one man’s opaque decision-making would determine how events unfold.
    “This is all Putin. I don’t even think his people know for certain what he will do,” Biden said as he made a brief outing in Washington for ice cream and to browse a local store, purchasing gifts for his wife and grandson.

    And Biden revealed he could move US troops into Eastern Europe soon to demonstrate American commitment to its NATO allies: “I may be moving some of those troops in the near term just because it takes time. And again, it’s not provocative,” he said.

    This is starting to remind me of a little vignette I witnessed a long time ago. Two guys in a bar; one eventually grew weary of the other’s moronic ramblings and strolled over, yanked him off his barstool, and used his head for a soccer ball.

    I don’t see this theatrical bluster ending well.

    • Drake

      After a war in eastern Europe, will we import millions of Russian and Ukrainian refugees? Or will they be taking American refugees?

      • AlexinCT

        Both will be lapped up by the CCP as new slave labor in their new occupied colonies in North Western Asia and North America.

      • Ghostpatzer

        After a war in eastern Europe, will we import millions of Russian and Ukrainian refugees

        Mail-order brides FTW!

      • Festus

        We need to improve the stock!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Hellz yeah, I’ve got a weakness for Slavic ice queens.

      • Chafed

        +1

  7. The Late P Brooks

    19th term @81.
    GTFO and retire, FFS.

    She’s irreplaceable. The nation needs her experience and sober judgement.

    • Drake

      Still so many inside trades to be made…

    • rhywun

      “sober” lol

      • Festus

        Strange that poor old Nancy has never discovered the miracle that is “Fixodent”. My chompers stay in place so well that I need to pry them out. Oh right… vodka.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Nancy Pelosi to seek re-election

    That hag will die before she gives up power.

    “Our democracy is at risk because the assault on the truth, assault on the U.S. Capitol and the state-by-state assault on voting rights,” she added.

    If only any of that were relevant or true.

    • Fourscore

      Should be home baking cookies for her great grandchildren and the President.

      • Festus

        Miss Havisham already has her cake.

      • l0b0t

        Thank you for that reference. I had forgotten all about that story; I read it in high school and really enjoyed it.

      • Festus

        “Come closer, Boy!”

  9. invisible finger

    So what Brigham & Women’s (essentially Harvard) is saying is that you can only get a heart transplant if you willing to increase the chances that your new heart develops myocarditis quickly.

    • AlexinCT

      OBEY PEASANT!

    • Not Adahn

      Get the shot, get myocarditis, toss the damaged heart and get a new one!

      • Festus

        Subway coupon.

      • Chafed

        That appears to be the plan.

  10. Rebel Scum

    Michael Avenatti representing himself in case vs. Stormy Daniels

    Busta! But I understand that to be poor practice, especially for a lawyer.

    • Festus

      Weasel gonna weasel. It’s in his nature.

      • robc

        Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals…except the weasel. — Homer Simpson.

    • Lackadaisical

      Who would want him as a client though?

      I wouldn’t take the case.

    • DrOtto

      Fool for a client

      • juris imprudent

        He’s probably thinking he can appeal on the grounds of incompetent counsel.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Special Counsel John H. Durham suggested in a court filing on Tuesday that Democrat lawyer Marc Elias, who arranged the fraudulent Russia “dossier” in 2016 and pushed for voting changes in 2020, has testified before a grand jury investigation.

    *yawn*

    • Pope Jimbo

      *holding football*

      Seriously, I’m going to let you kick it this time.

  12. Pine_Tree

    This isn’t exactly the same as the “why are deaths elevated?” article, but a friend who’s a nurse in our local hospital told me an interesting Covid-related anecdote the other day.

    Short version: A whole lot of the people who end up in the hospital with Covid are there because they got the cold and let it develop into pneumonia. And it’s because the Covid diagnosis paralyzed them – they just failed to treat the cold because “it’s Covid and you can’t do anything”, so it turned into pneumonia. Basically the culture of fear froze their response; they didn’t do what they’d have done for a normal cold a few years back, so it got worse.

    • rhywun

      To be fair, isn’t that what doctors and hospitals are telling them to do? “Don’t come to us unless you’re dying.”

      • AlexinCT

        I think the point Pine is making is that most of us when we have a cold take on a regimen of medication, rest, starving vs. feeding the thing, and so on, while most Covidians simply lay there crying like bitches and end up with pneumonia because they do nothing to help their bodies fight it.

      • Pine_Tree

        I don’t think that’s it. The impression I had is more that there’s a new/wrong impression (in the sick person) that “it’s Covid !!!!!” and they freeze up instead of treating their symptoms at home, and that’s how they become one of the “dying”.

      • Pine_Tree

        yeah, what Alex said. My response above is to rhywun, in case the threading doesn’t work.

    • Nephilium

      I don’t know that I ever really did anything different when I got a cold in the before times.

      • db

        This. I’m not even sure how to treat a cold, because I practically never get them.

      • invisible finger

        People under the age of 75 don’t remember a time when prescription medications didn’t really exist. That didn’t happen until 1951 – and doctors really weren’t trained in the pharmacopeia (and still only get a rudimentary exposure to it). The US Pharmacopeia added quinine in 1831 – pharmacists recommended it for colds. Most of the US pharmacopeia lagged European pharmacopeias by a couple decades! After physicians tried nosing into the Pharmacopeia, pharmacists associations began publishing what became the National Formulary.

        After 1951 – when Hubert Humphrey sponsored legislation to turn pharmacy into what we know of today (with a msssvie reduction in over-the-counter therapies), pharmaceutical companies became big business.

      • Ghostpatzer

        doctors really weren’t trained in the pharmacopeia (and still only get a rudimentary exposure to it)

        Pharmacists are still the experts on drugs and in a sane world would have a much greater say in their use. The “rudimentary exposure”, such as it is, consists of regular visits from pharmaceutical reps. Love those free samples.

    • Drake

      My neighbor had post-covid pneumonia and my wife is still fighting the aftereffects.

      The problem is that they don’t prescribe anything for covid or to prevent infections afterwards.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s enraging. They are literally condemning people to death because they want to protect their vaccine regimen.

        I want them to hang.

      • Not Adahn

        AZT says “Hi, Dr. Fauci!”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The refusal or even just failure to treat is an abomination of medical ethics.

      • Brawndo

        “Treat the patient in front of you” – Dr. Peter McCullough on Joe Rogan podcast. This is what happens when you rely on “public health” instead of people’s own fucking doctors.

      • AlexinCT

        You see that congressional session where the CA doctor basically pointed out that the state sent them all a notification that if they refused to comply with the state’s mandates (not to be confused with 2 guys on a date) they would investigate and remove their license to practice?

        “Consult your doctor” only works well if your doctor has not received a notice from the state telling them to comply or lose their license.

    • DrOtto

      This is exactly what happened with my mother in law. She got to the hospital just in time to get the pneumonia treated. I don’t think she would have made it another day.

  13. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’!

    Thanks for the tune, Banjos. We patzers appreciate the chess references.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Energy Company Linked to Chinese Intelligence Operation Sent Nearly $6 Million to Hunter Biden

    Nothing to see here. Move along.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Headline I saw yesterday:

    “Coldest Temperatures in a Year Expected This Week”

    It’s like they all have brain damage.

    • Ghostpatzer

      It’s like they all have brain damage.

      They’re just trying to be more like Joe. Biden, role model for the ages.

    • Nephilium

      We had news stories over the weekend that we would experience temperatures below 0, for the first time since 2019! Now they’ve pivoted to talking about the lake freezing, which hasn’t happened since those long ago times of… 2019.

    • Rat on a train

      Global whatever will result in the warmest temperatures since yesterday.

    • DrOtto

      I remember when Al Gore told us it may never snow in London again. Then in 2018, when it did, that was also global, er, climate change. Global climate warming change is a lot like playing board games with your 4 year old nephew – it’s important that the rules change constantly in order to get the nephew’s desired outcome.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Something like this

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    TMITE: Edition 218,767,335

    Anti-vax Olympic gold medalist Szilveszter Csollany dies of Covid, aged 51

    A Hungarian Olympic gold medal winning gymnast has died at the age of 51 from Covid-19.

    Szilveszter Csollany won gold on the rings at Sydney 2000, improving a silver medal finish achieved in Atlanta at the previous Olympic Games.

    Budapest newspaper Blikk has reported that Csollany fell ill in December and was put on a ventilator in hospital, before passing away on 24 January.

    While Csollany had, according to the publication, expressed anti-vaccination views on social media, the six-time World Championship medallist had been vaccinated to allow him to continue to work as a gymnastics coach.

    However he contracted the virus soon after receiving his jab, Blikk suggested, and had thus not built sufficient levels of antibodies.

    “It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the death of Szilveszter Csollany,” the Hungarian Olympic Committee confirmed.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Szilveszter Csollany won gold on the rings at Sydney 2000, improving a silver medal finish achieved in Atlanta at the previous Olympic Games.

      Hungary for a win?

      • juris imprudent

        Magyar wish for a narrowed gaze be granted.

    • rhywun

      Just… wow.

      • AlexinCT

        They are celebrating the death of people that oppose them in plain view, but the people that recoil at this level of evil are the bad guys according to these ghouls.

      • juris imprudent

        Nazis and Bolsheviks all believed they were the good guys too.

      • Rat on a train

        Nothing is too extreme when you believe the ends justify the means.

    • Rebel Scum

      anti-vaccination views

      Being against being used as a guinea pig for an experimental injection is not “anti-vaccine”.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      OK Covid ghouls, time to start masturbating.

    • invisible finger

      Sounds like he died of the vax, not Covid.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Specifically. he died because the vaccine suppressed his immune system rendering him unable to resist a disease that he should have been able to shrug off.

      • rhywun

        Plus there are all the co-morbidities that are commonly found in Olympic gold-medalist gymnasts.

      • AlexinCT

        Damage from overuse of performance drugs?

      • Lackadaisical

        Right?!

        Man dies shortly after Vax, musts a been the vid what did it.

        Sure, okay.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        He died from his stubborn views.

      • Chafed

        +1 The Narrative

    • Drake

      Shorter translation: “We threaten the livelihood of a guy we don’t like. It worked and now he’s dead. Hurray.”

  17. Rebel Scum

    “What the FDA is making clear is that these treatments, the ones that they are fighting over, that the governor is fighting over, do not work against omicron and they have side effects. That is what the scientists are saying,” said Psaki.

    “C’mon, man. That dumb son of a bitch DeSanta is down there in FL making me look bad. We gotta take this virus seriously. Not a joke.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      What makes me warm and fuzzy is the fact that I am pretty sure everyone in this fight is either lying or twisting data mightily in order to back up their side of this fight.

      Sure would be nice to have some trusted source of data and analysis that could tell us if the monoclonal treatments are truly ineffective or not.

      • Lackadaisical

        Seems the best we can do at this point is allow people to make their own choices, since no one has a concrete answer. Naturally that is the exact opposite stance our fed gov is taking. Anything not mandatory is prohibited.

    • cyto

      Everyone needs to read that article. It is a master class in everything that is wrong right now.

      In defending shutting down Florida’s unique monoclonal antibody distribution program, the white house claims the reason is that it doesn’t work against Omicron. They deride the Governor for wanting to use a medication that doesn’t work and ahs side effects (side effects from the monoclonal antibodies? That is a stretch, but ignore that for a moment)

      The very next thing,: so go get the vaccine and booster. Because that works.

      Notwithstanding that they have much greater side effects and are not effective against Omicron.

      So. Master class in deception.

      Next:. Our intrepid reporter did not note the outrageous contradiction, nor did he ask about it.

      Master class number 2.

      • Grumbletarian

        No no, the jabs totally work on Omicron, you just have to get, like, a dozen of the shots!

      • cyto

        That is what is so infuriating about this.

        Vaccines are not “strong” or “weak”. They are specific.

        If it does not stimulate immunity against the epitopes on the virus, it won’t work. Making a bigger immune response to the wrong thing is not helpful.

        (Why the immune system memory is shortened for this virus is another question, one that several PhD’s will be granted for studying, I am sure)

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m having a recurring argument with a guy in biotech who keeps bringing up the antibody response to the vaccines.

        He’s either being willfully obtuse or is a lot dumber than I figured. An antibody to the wrong thing or even an antibody response that is too narrowly defined is useless at best.

        Ultimately, you have to judge the vaccines based on the empirical data from the field. Those who continue to rely on cherry-picked lab results at this point are intentionally avoiding the obvious conclusions.

      • cyto

        Yeah. It is the “informed” that I find most infuriating. Randome dude at work or even a news anchor? Annoying. Maybe.

        But when you see a doctor completely missing the relevant facts, or flat out getting the biology wrong… That is inexcusable.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Why Are Non-COVID-19 Deaths Spiking Among Prime-Age Americans?

    Fake news. All deaths are covid. Now get your vax, you anti-science bigot.

    • Fourscore

      The charts are interesting, there has been a lot of damage to the American psyche and economy because of an add-on of additional deaths in the over 65 crowd. It’s not the deaths, it’s the reaction to the deaths.

      Some of the deaths attributed to covid would have occurred anyway.

      • Nephilium

        I know that in my circle of friends and acquaintances, there were a lot more suicides (successful and attempted), then hospitalizations for Covid (let alone deaths).

      • Lackadaisical

        I’d say it’s about even for me, but I’ve got a tiny sample size…

    • Brawndo

      Based on that headline I figured it meant people aged 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, etc

  19. Rebel Scum

    Man Deemed Ineligible for Heart Transplant After Refusing Coronavirus Vaccine

    Strange how a person with a heart problem doesn’t want an injection that causes cardiovascular issues.

    Doctors going along with this are evil.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    The CDC and some experts say that the excess deaths could be misclassified COVID-19 deaths, as well as deaths due to lack of care because of hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. They point to the fact that about a third of Americans die at home. Their death certificates would probably have been written by attending physicians who may not have tested the patient for COVID-19.

    Sounds legit.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Bitcoin falls 50% from record highs

    I bought at exactly the wrong time. But only a couple hundred dollars in order to dip my toe in the market and learn the ropes.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I’m gonna buy some with my next paycheck. Ive heard it’s an 18 month cycle tied to mining adjustments to bitcoin.

      • Lackadaisical

        That makes sense, they just halved the rewards I believe, or soon will.

        I don’t understand why that wouldn’t make the price go up though.

      • cyto

        They have a real structural problem with Bitcoin. Mining is too slow and too expensive. One of the original selling points was cheap (free) global secure exchange of currency.

        If that is ever a real driving factor again instead of speculative investment. The crowd may move to another platform.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ve been thinking this is inevitable for quite a while, but Bitcoin always seems to bounce back.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It should, but it may be delayed. I forget, it was probably a year ago that I read the article. Their theory matched the past performance pretty well, and I’m pretty sure the dump and pump happens every time the halving occurs. Now is good getting before it heads to $500k.

        My BTC holdings ($150ish invested, probably $75 value right now) are purely speculative. I’ll sell whenever I see a decent return. My staked ETH is a buy and hold because I think ETH is Facebook and BTC is MySpace.

    • Tulip

      I’m thinking I should buy a little

  22. Rebel Scum

    On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker said defendants who claim government entrapment “have a heavy burden to carry.”

    Being entrapped does weigh heavy on the soul.

    • Plisade

      And here I was thinking it was da gubmint who had the heavy burden of proof to convict.

      • AlexinCT

        That was THEN. This is NOW!…

        Guilty until you prove your innocence to the government’s satisfaction..

        Otherwise democracy dies!

      • juris imprudent

        Entrapment, like self defense, is a positive case that has to be made – unlike pleading not guilty and requiring the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Even of positive, the burden still is on the State to prove the claim wrong while the defendant attempts to bolster their views.

        I call this one a wash.

      • juris imprudent

        Not really. Any time you take on a positive claim (just as the prosecutor does in first bringing charges), you carry the burden. And in the instance of entrapment, you have to prove you had no disposition to doing the crime in question. Ask Marion Barry about it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I reject your world view sir!

      • cyto

        If having capital police hold the door for you as you walk in and they wave you through does not count as “entrapment” or “permission” in defense of a trespassing charge, I don’t know what would.

      • juris imprudent

        OK, that’s an entirely different case. And of course, when asked to leave, everyone did.

      • cyto

        The case at hand sounds just .. I was going to say terrible. But evil seems more appropriate.

        Take 2 homeless guys. Offer them free food and hotel rooms if they will ride around in a car with you.

        If that is really how this went down, everyone involved should be thrown under the dungeon.

        What would you have to say to two homeless guys living under a bridge that would get them to say no to free food and a hotel?

        Hey, you can have free pizza and stay in this hotel, but I gotta make a stop on the way…”

        Does a mentally ill homeless guy say no if you
        – are picking up your kids?
        – have to deposit a check?
        – need to stop at the DMV for two hours?
        – have to stop at your dealer to buy a gram?
        – need to pick up payments from the hookers you are pimping?
        – drive by a house to case it for a future B&E?

        Because, I am thinking they don’t care about any of those. And what they stand accused of sounds very similar to the last item on the list.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        It was a public building and the public servants inside were conducting what is normally the public counting of EC votes from states.

        Maybe those that entered private offices might be subject to trespassing or some misdemeanor. Those that vandalized would be subject to that charge. All the other protesters have done nothing criminal.

        I wish at least one of those protesters demanded a speedy and public jury trial and put the US govt on notice. I would have bet the US gov dropped charges in that case to avoid being seen as a Communist show trial that it is.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    There’s a growing group of doctors and researchers who are pointing to the COVID-19 vaccines as a possible culprit in at least a portion of the excess deaths in 2021. They usually point to several physiological mechanisms through which the vaccines could cause harm combined with known side effects, as well as data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a database of reports of health problems that have occurred after a COVID-19 vaccination that may or may not have been caused by it.

    VAERS reports exploded with the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines. By Jan. 7, there were more than 1 million reports in the system, including more than 21,000 deaths. Previously, there would be about 40,000 reports and a few hundred deaths per year. Reports are largely filed by health care personnel, based on previous research.

    The usual arguments against the VAERS data have been that it’s unverified and unreliable. However, some researchers have pointed out that the system isn’t meant to provide definitive answers, but rather early warnings. In their view, the reports have raised numerous red flags that haven’t been sufficiently investigated.

    I’m pretty comfortable believing vaccine deaths are represented by a number greater than zero.

  24. Rebel Scum

    Florida Is so Red, Democrats Can’t Even Field Candidates in Some 2022 Races

    FL is a threat to Democracy.

    • juris imprudent

      One party elections are a sign of an unhealthy party system. Doesn’t really matter which party.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck you and NO

    • invisible finger

      LMAO. Even the people that support this shit won’t support this shit.

    • Swiss Servator

      Nope. I got the two to be able to see my parents. No more.

    • PieInTheSky

      Well now I won’t need the booster at least a while

      • Sean

        Ever. You won’t need a booster ever. Unless you want to damage your immune system.

    • Rebel Scum

      I don’t see how people don’t see the problem with pushing the current shots while there is supposedly this new variant that is predominant. The narrative is fucked.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start:

        1) By the time it’s released Omicron will be over
        2) How are they going to do safety tests in the timeframe provided?
        3) They’re still not acknowledging natural immunity
        4) What is the cumulative effect of these shots?
        5) They haven’t finished long term safety trials on the first versions.

      • invisible finger

        You have some link that confirms long-term safety trials are actually going on?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Fair point

      • Ozymandias

        Yes. This is the requisite, ongoing clinical trial for Pfizer BNT162b2. You know, the vaccine currently being forced on everyone on the illegal claim that it is “interchangeable” with the already licensed – but unavailable product – Comirnaty? This is the study that supposedly would allow BNT162b2 to be licensed by the FDA… except this experimental drug is still being forced on everyone under the pretense (abetted by Pfizer’s media drones) that it is “the same” as Comirnaty. It’s what we sent the Nazi doctors to the gallows for (they forced people to take experimental smallpox vaccines, among other treatments). Nothing to see here, though. Totally cool.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        What would the world look like with Mengele and the other Nazi doctors running around free after the war with millions of supporters running interference for them? I have a feeling we’re going to find out.

      • Ozymandias

        We already have that, trashy.
        Scott Gottlieb (FDA Comm. 2017-19) now sits on the Board for Pfizer.
        Steve Hahn (FDA Comm. 2019-21) now sits on the Board of the company that owns Moderna.

        Here’s a funny (in the “Oh, I must laugh or I’ll cry” sense of the word) article about Bernie fuming over Biden’s new FDA commissioner selection.

        During Tuesday’s hearing, Califf’s work with major pharmaceutical companies drew sharp words from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who fumed that nine out of the last 10 FDA commissioners have gone on to work for the pharmaceutical industry.

        https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/12/14/biden-pick-to-lead-fda-fields-questions-over-pharma-ties-abortion-pill-covid-tests/

      • Lackadaisical

        Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

      • invisible finger

        Although Bernie sounds like he cares, I wonder where he thinks the qualified candidates for FDA commissioner would go otherwise? Plumbing and pipefitting?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        nine out of the last 10 FDA commissioners have gone on to work for the pharmaceutical industry

        Here’s what I don’t get about that… Exactly what else are they qualified to go do after a stint at the top of the FDA?

        Looking at the past handful of commissioners of the USPTO (because I’m familiar with how it operates), they all work at major law firms that do business with the USPTO. That’s what they’re qualified to do.

        That’s not to say that I’m oblivious to the self dealing and the misaligned incentives at the FDA. Only that the mere fact that they go on to work at pharma companies isn’t strong evidence of that self dealing.

      • invisible finger

        Sometihng seems wrong there, Ozy. For one, the “approval” happened in 2021, but the start date is April 2020. But I can let that slide.

        It’s the end date of 2023 that seems fishy. That seems like a mid-term safety trial, not a long-term one. I’m sure the law says something to the effect of “close enough for government work.”

      • Ozymandias

        Nope. You’ve been propagandized, IF, and you’re confused because of it. Go look at what was “approved” back on Aug. 23, 2021. What was “approved” was a BLA for Comirnaty, which was then immediately declared unavailable. The “approval” letter has two footnotes explaining this (FN 8 and FN 9). Pfizer BNT162b2 was simultaneously declared to be “interchangeable” in the mirror letter that the FDA sent to Pfizer. That was the bait and switch over which I am suing. There is a provision for having “interchangeable” products under the Project BioShield Act of 2004 (the EUA statute), but Comirnaty’s own purple book listing says it has no interchangeable products. Look up the requirements for interchangeability under 42 USC 262.
        The only vaccine available is Pfizer BNT162b2 and that clinical trial above doesn’t end until May 2023. That’s the same one that the cracked open the control group on, so it’s actually worthless as a “controlled” clinical trial because there is no control any more.
        Brother, this is so much more corrupt than you can even imagine, and it’s right out in the open.
        You’ve been fooled.

      • Ozymandias

        The continued gathering of data doesn’t even end with the BLA approval. The Pfizer BNT162b2 trial I linked you to states right on it that it’s the Phase 2/3 clinical trial. (They actually combined them as part of Operation Warp Speed.) There is a Phase 4 where data is gathered after BLA approval. Here’s the CDC’s own explanation of the process. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/test-approve.html

        Normally, for most vaccines, the time to approval from start is about 10 years. They cut that to about 10 months, but it’s TOTALLY LEGIT becuz (THE) SCIENCE. Nothing to worry about from that mass of death and adverse events being reported in VAERS.
        Once you understand that the FDA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer, it makes more sense. I know you’re new to this field, but that’s the reality. Read Marcia Angell’s book if you’re really interested in learning how pharma lies and manipulates and gives zero fucks about anything but selling drugs and biologics.

      • invisible finger

        Ozy, I put that approval letter as a bookmark on my phone the day it came out so I could show it to anyone who wanted to argue that the jab “was approved now” – it was fucking unbelieveable what is in that letter and what was being reported on the news and repeated by asshole “doctors”. I am glad you are suing – godspeed to you and I am rooting for you.

        I worked in a pharmacy for 5 years in highschool and college. My brother was a pharmacist. I learned not to trust pharmaceutical companies nor the FDA. And I also learned that the bell curve applies to doctors just like any other walk of life.

      • Ozymandias

        IF – Check the bookmark because the FDA pulled that letter down from the site and “updated” it with another one.
        Fortunately, I have a copy of the original FDA letter and was able to submit it (and show the differences) in some of our filings.

      • invisible finger

        My link is to a wordpress blog, not the FDA site. But I did not know the FDA updated the letter. Geez, they are just incompetent and unethical. If my link is good, it says the data collection must go thru 2027 which I had forgotten.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Normally, for most vaccines, the time to approval from start is about 10 years. They cut that to about 10 months, but it’s TOTALLY LEGIT becuz (THE) SCIENCE.

        This is one aspect that I’ve seen dismissed, but never really fleshed out. Usually the Branch Covidian response is a dismissive “oh, that’s just bureaucratic delays and paperwork”.

        OK, fine, let’s take that at face value. Now just because the delay is due to the red tape doesn’t mean that the delay only impacts the bureaucratic aspects of the endeavor. For it to make sense to cut it down to 10 months, there has to be no clinical benefit to waiting 10 years. One quick way to measure that would be to see how many failed pharmaceuticals exist where safety signals were discovered after the 10 month period. Methinks that number is pretty big.

      • Ozymandias

        trashy – that’s the whole point of the process: to allow time to tease out signals that suggest that the product/device/biologic might be causing second and third order consequences.

    • The Other Kevin

      Those are two happy people in that article. Fauci gets to see his vaccination fantasies realized, and the Pfizer guy gets a fat pipeline of cash from the government straight into his bank account.

  25. PieInTheSky

    In the end I did a RT PCR test and it came back positive so I have the bug… Fucking antigen tests came negative. In the end I blame libertarians.

    • PieInTheSky

      The only bad thing is that I visited my mother this weekend and stayed overnight… I hope I did not transmit something. I first got real symptoms during the night there.

      • Swiss Servator

        Can you send her a test?

      • PieInTheSky

        well that is pointless. For the PCR tests which actually work you need to go to a clinic. Home antigen tests are almost useless.

      • Swiss Servator

        Ah, I didn’t know if any PCR test kits were available in your area.

      • invisible finger

        Where did you get the idea that PCR tests actually work?

      • AlexinCT

        China told our US delegation of ambassadors that the only surefire Kung Flu test was the anal PCR swab…

      • Pine_Tree

        The old term was “kowtow”. You will submit to personal humiliation in order to appear before us.

        Everybody knows perfectly well what they’re doing, except the (very large number of) delusional idiots.

        This is PRC’s opening act of that in front of the world. They think they’re now at the point where they can be overt about it. They don’t mean to back away from it.

    • AlexinCT

      Congratulations on getting natural immunity. Drink fluids. Take vitamin D and cold meds, stop jerking off for at least 24 hrs, and get better quick…

      • Sean

        stop jerking off for at least 24 hrs,

        Whoah, let’s not get crazy here.

      • Swiss Servator

        I know…talk about the cure being worse than the disease!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Seems like Alex’s quackery alarmed a lot of Glibs.

        I wonder if he really believes that or is he just baiting us?

      • AlexinCT

        GO AWAY!

        BAITING!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yes master!

      • juris imprudent

        You circling the… something.

      • AlexinCT
      • Pope Jimbo

        stop jerking off for at least 24 hrs

        Like 24 hours consecutively?

        I NEED A VAX STAT! I never knew the consequences of the Rona were so severe.

    • Sean

      How are your symptoms?

      • PieInTheSky

        Sunday I had fever up to 38 C. Since Monday I had no fever, normal temps. No sneezing, no runny nose, no lack of smell or taste. I have a sore throat for which I was taking antibiotics and which leads me to believe it is omicron. I cough a few times a day and it comes more from the throat than from the lungs, I cough when my throat gets dry.

      • AlexinCT

        I had that cough when I had the Alpha/Beta version. None of the other symptoms. I think it is cause I held off for 24 hrs (as I advice above) and settled to only having sex with my girlfriends 5 times that day..

      • PieInTheSky

        7 minutes of sex in one day is impressive

      • AlexinCT

        Are you the guy that told me when one of your girlfriends asked you who your were going to satisfy with that little thing you looked her in the eyes and yelped “MYSELF!”? Or was that Tres?

      • PieInTheSky

        Tres probably I don’t have girlfriends

    • PieInTheSky

      I am annoyed because I was proud of never getting covid though I did everything I could legally do (and some things I could not legally do) and I liked my strong immune system being able to resist.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We’re all going to catch it at some point. There’s no avoiding it..

      • R C Dean

        Sounds like your immune system is doing just fine, to me.

    • Not Adahn

      Huh. I always wondered how a virus could cause a plague of undeath. Now I know.

      • Pope Jimbo

        C’mon man!

        The Rona started with bats. How could it not affect Pie and his fellow undead?

    • Rebel Scum

      came back positive so I have the bug

      Not unless you feel like you have the bug. And it could very well be another bug.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I think you have it backwards. PCR tests are useless, you have covid but are probably not contagious. The rapid tests are letting you know you are not a threat to anyone.

  26. Rebel Scum

    “Hello fellow neo-Nazis.”

    Patriot Front had its data leaked. This video sums them up pretty nicely:

    Camera on: We aren’t Nazis!

    Camera off: “Seig fucking Heil, let’s fucking go! I can say that now that it’s (the video) over.”

    Most cringe. And obvious. Glow-op. Ever.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Oh give me a fucking break.

    • rhywun

      The one on the right is wearing a slightly different shade of khakis from the others. Is he their boss?

      • R C Dean

        That’s what jumped out at me. They are wearing standard-issue glowie Dockers.

        They’re just so bad at this. Still it feeds the Narrative, so its not pointless. At all.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Nice to see that King Walz is reverting back to normal politics. Instead of using his vaunted Emergency Powers, he is buying votes like it is 1999. He is using a $5B budget surplus to create new programs that will need money every year in perpetuity. That is True Blue Democratic stuff.

    Among the policies Walz is asking the legislature to consider are funding more than 6,000 new public pre-K seats; an additional two-percent increase on current education spending; and increasing payments to child care providers, which Walz says will double the number of families with access to affordable care from 15,000 to 30,000. He’s been rolling out his supplemental budget proposal in pieces over the last week.

    It also targets adding more teachers into the profession, especially people of color, by establishing training programs, covering the costs for licenses and retention bonuses.

    There’s also efforts to hire more school counselors and psychologists and funding to offer mental health screenings statewide.

    I wonder why we need so many new school shrinks?

    • AlexinCT

      THE CHILRUNS! THE CHILRUNS!

      • Fourscore

        Sit in a classroom for a day and you may find the answer. In high school the principal wandered the hall ways before school started . If every kid has the same problem is that a problem?

    • pistoffnick

      Couldn’t possibly give it back to the tax slaves (like Jessie did).

      • Pope Jimbo

        You know that money belongs to the unionized brave teachers and day care workers.

        Letting the public get their grubby mitts on that money would be a tragedy.

    • rhywun

      New York is also throwing gushers of federal plague money out the window. It will be funny when that ends.

    • Rebel Scum

      especially people of color

      Racism is the new hotness.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    In addition, the CDC’s COVID-19 mortality data that covers 2021 attributes to the virus all deaths where COVID-19 was marked on the death certificate, regardless of whether it was listed as the underlying cause or as a contributing factor. Early in the pandemic, the CDC instructed medical practitioners to mark all deceased who had tested positive and even those presenting COVID-19-like symptoms, but who hadn’t been tested as deaths caused by COVID-19. Later in 2020, the guidance gradually changed. Untested cases were to be separated and COVID-19 was required to be at least a contributing factor to be listed on the death certificate.

    In the second half of 2020, the last period with available death certificate data on this point, nearly 90 percent of deaths involving COVID-19 had the disease listed as the underlying cause of death rather than as a contributing factor.

    Some experts have also pointed to government policies as a possible culprit in some excess deaths. School closures and business lockdowns have led to both financial and psychological depression, some research and anecdotal reports indicate, which may have led to death in some cases. However, suicide deaths have been relatively stable between 2019 and June 2021, based on available data.

    SCIENCE!

    ” However, suicide deaths have been relatively stable between 2019 and June 2021, based on available data.”

    That big jump in drug overdose deaths was strictly comprised of accidental deaths. Trust us.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      ^Yep, this

    • Rebel Scum

      “We will be treating all deaths with covid as deaths of covid.” – Dr. Bitch Birx

      They said the numbers were bullshit at the outset.

  29. db

    White House defends FDA closure of monoclonal antibody treatment centers in Florida

    I know it’s standard usage, but I always twitch a little at the use of “defends” in sentences like this. Often, I’d prefer “attempts [or attempted] to defend.”

    “Defends” seems to imply “successfully defends” in my mind, for some reason.

    • cyto

      Yeah… “,Nonsensically prattles on with non sequitur responses” might have been more accurate. Maybe too wordy though.

      When the reason is “,this medicine is not effective against Omicron and has side effects” and the next words out of your mouth are “so go get vaccinated and booster against the original strain”… Yeah, defended doesn’t cover it.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    In the end I blame libertarians.

    And rightfully so.

    *puffs out chest, struts around room*

    • AlexinCT

      Calm down Foghog Leghorn..

    • EvilSheldon

      Cool! I’m gonna forward that to some people in the biz – sadly, I don’t have the room to set up a private UTM shoot house…

    • juris imprudent

      Hmm, I thought if you entered the rear you wouldn’t conceive anything (except maybe a politician).

      • Q Continuum

        “except maybe a politician”

        Genuine LOL.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bravo!

    • PieInTheSky

      how can you think of ass at a time like this?

      • AlexinCT

        Wait, WUT? There is a time you shouldn’t be thinking about ass? DOES NOT COMPUTE…

      • Lackadaisical

        He’s following COVID protocol, remember?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Then wouldn’t assplay be on the table?

      • Lackadaisical

        Good point, gotta check for COVID.

    • Spartacus

      I was told that’s how lawyers are born.

  31. Scruffy Nerfherder

    SJWednesday: Vocabulary Edition

    Kyriarchy 101

    The term kyriarchy was coined by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza in her 2001 book, Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation. In the glossary, she defines kyriarchy as:

    a neologism…derived from the Greek words for “lord” or “master” (kyrios) and “to rule or dominate” (archein) which seeks to redefine the analytic category of patriarchy in terms of multiplicative intersecting structures of domination… Kyriarchy is best theorized as a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Yawn, intersectionalizing intersectionality. How droll.

    • Festus

      *Flashbacks to 1994 when Ex was getting her Degree in Sociology* Those people were insufferable then, I can’t imagine what it must be like now. Circles of Hell and all that fun stuff, I’d suppose.

    • AlexinCT

      At least it wasn’t Herpes or Syphilis…

    • db

      If Taiwan were properly under control of the CCP, that would never have happened.

      By “that,” I mean, the event being reported.

      • Festus

        The CCP’s idea of a “clean room” is much different from a square’s.

      • R C Dean

        + 1 prole disinterestedly pushing a mop dunked in dirty water

  32. Festus

    Mornin’ Banjos! Thanks for the musical link! I’ve listened to that album hundreds of times but it was a pleasant surprise to see it show up here.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Stuff and nonsense

    A year since a Reddit-driven retail trading frenzy rocked the markets and created the ‘meme stock’ phenomenon, leading U.S. lawmaker Nancy Pelosi’s investments have become a meme in their own right.

    Google searches for ‘Pelosi stock trades’ hit a record high earlier this month as users on social media platforms including Twitter, Reddit, Youtube and TikTok scrutinize her investments, believing the U.S. Speaker of the House may have an edge on Wall Street.

    ——-

    Last year, Pelosi filed transaction reports showing her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, made trades valued at as much as $5 million at a time in ‘Big Tech’ companies now facing an antitrust bill in Congress. Those companies are also among the most widely held across Wall Street, making investing in them relatively common.

    Seriously, who *doesn’t* buy Apple and Tesla in five million dollar lumps? Go big or go home.

    • Festus

      Those red-assed liars are still bitching about the Robber Barons to enflame their base. Shameless.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Meh.

    While playing a round of golf,
    Donald Trump says he’s the “45th and 47th” President of the United States.

    • db

      BIDEN = 46

      46 = 23 X 2

      2+3+2 = 7

      4+6+7 = 17

      17 = Q (17TH LETTER)

      NEED I SAY MORE?

      • AlexinCT

        That’s some serious numerology you did there brah…

      • db

        I’m thinking about starting a NUMEROLOGY OF THE WEEK column…

      • Not Adahn

        (((gematria))) FTW.

      • Lackadaisical

        Want.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That was beautiful

    • db

      Is it even worth pointing out all the hoops you have to jump through to lawfully buy a gun even in the most permissive jurisdictions in the US?

      The whole idea of “lawfully buying a gun” is disgusting to me, personally. There should be no legal restrictions whatever.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Honestly trolling. They really believe what they say

    • juris imprudent

      If you want to illegally buy a gun, it is easier than illegally voting – I think that is his complaint.

      • Ozymandias

        Really? Cuz you don’t even have to be alive to illegally vote. You’ve got to at least be swapping oxygen for CO2 to get a gun illegally.
        I don’t think that was his point at all, but okay.

      • juris imprudent

        Anyone making that idiotic comparison isn’t making any point at all. Just advising the world of what kind of idiot they are.

    • AlexinCT

      Only a moron that has never bought a gun thinks it is easier to do than casting a vote. Of course, one should make the accommodation for team blue morons that think it is totes cool to cheat when voting and conversely think gun buying from some guy on the street with a trunk full of Saturday night specials is how that has to be done.

      • db

        I challenge anyone who think it’s easier to buy a gun than to vote to go vote on election day, and then try to figure out how to guy a gun that day. However they like; go to a gun store, try to find an illegal gun on the street, whatever. Tell me how long it takes, how much paperwork or hassle they had to go through. Then honestly compare the two experiences.

      • Fourscore

        But you can buy a gun 365 days a year, excepting Xmas Day maybe. A bought vote is only good 1 day a year.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘honestly’

        There’s your problem right there.

      • db

        Maybe I’ll write an article about my experience on Election Day. I’ll start off voting in the morning, then go buy a gun. I’ll document the entire process and report.

      • rhywun

        It has never taken me more than ten or fifteen minutes to vote. As much as twenty if you include the walk to PS 170 and back.

    • Rebel Scum

      Dishonest and/or ignorant.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      It’s a subcommittee of a committee. It won’t even get out of committee.

    • juris imprudent

      My recollection of the Constitution seems to be missing anything about election annulment.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s fun to be divorced from reality.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I thought it was funny. States withdrawing EC votes is only symbolic. Hopefully states dont certify their EC votes in the future until claims for Democrat election fraud are given Due Process in the courts.

        Civil War 2.0 and impeachment are the only way to get rid of el Commandante Biden.

    • Festus

      Oh sweet summer child…

  35. PieInTheSky

    “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: The media are “truly the enemy of the people”?”

    -AGREE-
    White – 56%
    Black – 63%
    Oth Non-White – 60%
    Dem – 37%
    Unaffil – 61%
    GOP – 76%
    All Voters – 58%

    https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1485971164715487233

    • waffles

      We’re getting close to the Michael Malice “regard journalists with the same contempt as tobacco executives” level.

      • Certified Public Asshat
      • Certified Public Asshat

        well, son of a bitch…

        attempted to say *insert michael malice as the joker meme*

    • Ownbestenemy

      IT.. WAS… NICE LINK BRO ……

    • PieInTheSky

      what was bat soup?

      • Not Adahn

        It’s what Batman eats with his Bat-sandwich at the Bat-dining room table.

      • Nephilium

        Not the Batzone?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s what preverts have before they answer to the Coca-Cola Company.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Cool link bro

    • PieInTheSky

      that is one of those low carb meat eating accounts. You should not trust anything there. Only trust vegans and vegetarians.

      • AlexinCT

        You ever had vegetarian pussy? I bet it was born biologically male..

      • Festus

        Yup! All girl and skinny. Wore “problem glasses”. We both had itches to scratch and parted amiably. You haven’t lived until you’ve doggied a girl while Sinead O’Connor is belting out her misery at full blast on the stereo to camouflage the ruckus from her equally woke roommates!

      • AlexinCT

        You ever Rodeo one of them girls Festus? That’s when you doggie them and right towards the end you lean over and whisper in her ear that her sister likes it like this too and then hold on. It’s better than the Houdini, cause you need your buddy to tag in, without her realizing that happened, so you can run outside and wave at her through the window while the act is still going on.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I prefer the Abe Lincoln in these type of situations.

      • AlexinCT

        Are Axes and Vampires involved?

      • PieInTheSky

        that constitutes as rape these days

      • Festus

        No, not quite that bold. Her friend did enter the room to retrieve some clothing and she was like “Fuck, Angie! It’s Tuesday morning!” and left in a huff.

      • ron73440

        Fuck, Angie!

        You didn’t reply, “That’s what I’m doin'”?

      • AlexinCT

        Is there a ban on doggie styling on Tuesdays I am not aware of?

      • Not Adahn

        Yes. She was delicious, ngl.

  36. Scruffy Nerfherder

    SJWednesday: We’re Going Old School Labor Theory of Value Today

    I don’t get the argument that employers can’t afford to pay $15/hr. That’s the value of labor. If I can’t afford a Porsche, then I can’t get a Porsche. I don’t get to demand a discount on Porsches. If a business can’t afford labor, that’s on *the business,* not the labor market.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      If you can’t afford a Porsche, that’s your problem. If nobody can afford a Porsche, that’s Porsche’s problem.

    • juris imprudent

      There is no inherent value of labor. Otherwise there would be no difference between being a doctor and a ditchdigger.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think we’re rapidly approaching the point where there isn’t a difference between those two, or at least between doctor and gravedigger.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Pretty cool that it is an even $15 across the board.

    • Rebel Scum

      That’s the value of labor.

      According to who?

    • CPRM

      Well, I saw the McDonald’s over by work is now offering $15 an hour. When I started my job 2 years ago it was $10, I was making just under $14…Now they are making $15 and I supposedly (hasn’t shown up on my pay stub yet) got a raise to just under $16. A lot more requirements for my job than working at McDonalds. This inflation is fucking wages all up.

      • Festus

        #metoo

      • Lackadaisical

        My niece in highschool makes that much. Sorry dude.

      • Mojeaux

        My daughter makes almost $21 at FedEx Freight, driving a forklift.

      • CPRM

        It’s almost as if under a normally functioning economy the prevailing wages in different areas match the cost of living and not some arbitrary number.

      • Mojeaux

        And as if demand for the job skills is higher or lower.

    • rhywun

      I don’t get the argument that employers can’t afford to pay $1,000/hr. That’s the value of labor.

      Two can play this game.

    • waffles

      I also played risk as a child. Kamchatka can held with a single cannon.

      • AlexinCT

        You hold Australia with camps, right?

      • Drake

        We’d have to get a lot of lucky roles to take the whole thing from there.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It is an idea it is possible to have, an incredibly stupid one. Just because it can be thought doesn’t mean it needs to be tweeted.

    • Spartacus

      Sure, and “launch an invasion of Russia by landing at Hong kong and going through all of China and Mongolia” is also an idea it is possible to have.
      Or you could just airdrop troops into the middle of the Tarim Basin, which is probably lightly defended.

    • Rebel Scum

      What. A. Moron.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh, he’s serious?

        Jesus

      • cyto

        Needs the j Johnna Jamison meme from spiderman

    • Homple

      It’s the opposite of what the Czech Legion did in the Russian Civil War. Might work.

  37. waffles

    https://twitter.com/JoshShapiroPA/status/1486008582709686275

    How do I, as a normal Pennsylvanian stop this? As bad as Wolf is, this guy is worse. None of his opposition seems to have anywhere close to the kind of entrenched support as him. Is Shapiro inevitable?

    • db

      Honestly I haven’t paid much attention to who the potential candidates are in PA. I guess I should?

      • waffles

        We’d probably be happier if we didn’t pay it any attention. But Shapiro gives me the heebie-jeebies.

      • Sean

        But Shapiro gives me the heebie-jeebies.

        #metoo

      • Rebel Scum

        Is it the fast delivery, righteous indignance or that facts don’t care about your feelings? //jk

    • PieInTheSky

      Take Ben Shapiro and throw him (seems small enough) at this other Shapiro. Fight Shapiro with Shapiro .

      • Ozymandias

        *Polite applause*

    • Rebel Scum

      As Governor, I’ll veto any effort that looks to restrict, overturn, or undermine mail-in voting in Pennsylvania.

      “I want elections to be meaningless.”

      • PieInTheSky

        nono they will be very meaningful for his ilk

  38. AlexinCT

    You got this story wrong. Biden didn’t lie. Biden didn’t do shit but shit his pants. The old media, the new social media, and the deep state colluded to censor those telling you what a scumbag Biden, the deep state, and the old and new media were, while lying about the annoying guy that won an election they thought they had rigged in favor of the spawn of Cthulhu that eats children and has the only cackle more frightening than Kamala. Blaming just Biden for the corrupt machine is a copout.

    • waffles

      It’s easier to get rid of old man Biden than admit that the institutions are all malevolently marching us toward doom.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Otherwise there would be no difference between being a doctor and a ditchdigger.

    How badly do you need the ditch?

    • Festus

      Yup. Ditchdiggers probably earn better than doctors.

      • Festus

        The contractors, not the hoi-polloi but even the laborers are getting 30 bucks an hour. Shoulda took the opposite advice of my parents.

      • Fourscore

        I got a black lunch bucket from my parents at high school graduation time. I think that was a message.

      • Swiss Servator

        “The world needs ditch diggers too!”

        /Judge Smails

  40. The Late P Brooks

    We’re getting close to the Michael Malice “regard journalists with the same contempt as tobacco executives” level.

    Whoa, whoa, whoa.

    I respect tobacco executives.

    • AlexinCT

      Those execs lied a lot less than people that want you to believe that they are journalists but really are just team propagandists have done and continue to do.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    I think we’re rapidly approaching the point where there isn’t a difference between those two, or at least between doctor and gravedigger.

    It’s time to reclaim the term porch monkey croaker!

    • Spartacus

      This is not entirely wrong. They’ll probably end up being pretty much like flu shots.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Coronaviruses have been around forever and will be around in the future. The vaccines will not.

      • Festus

        The panic will subside eventually. Time and tide, Friend.

      • Fourscore

        Yesterday # 4 variant was announced, coming soon to a country near you. It viruses all the way down.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t think they’ve infected humans for very long. As far as I know, the earliest evidence is from the 1960’s.

    • WTF

      “Immunized”? The ‘vaccines’ do not confer immunity.

    • AlexinCT

      Yeah, vegans..

    • Rebel Scum

      I never did get that money from the Nigerian prince.

  42. PieInTheSky

    Devastating new results on the effects of state-funded pre-K programs.

    In policy you rarely get stronger study designs than random assignment + multi-year longitudinal follow-up.

    Yikes.

    https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/1486073711832834057

    Well the fact that preK is ineffective does not change that it is morally right or something

    • AlexinCT

      The whole PreK thing is about government corruptocrats letting the marxist/fascists that support their machine get your kids even younger so they can coopt an even a larger number of them into that evil stupidity.

      • WTF

        And to provide “free” daycare for their constituents.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Blah blah blah racial disparities

    “From the beginning, civil rights groups cautioned Congress and the Justice Department that use of a risk assessment tool to make these determinations would lead to racial disparities,” said Aamra Ahmad, senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union.

    “The Justice Department found that only 7% of Black people in the sample were classified as minimum level risk compared to 21% of white people,” she added. “This indicator alone should give the Department of Justice great pause in moving forward.”

    ——-

    “This is just one example of the ways that harmful artificial intelligence systems are being rolled out in everything from the criminal legal system to employment decisions to who gets access to housing and social benefits,” said Sasha Costanza-Chock, director of research and design for the Algorithmic Justice League, which studies the social implications of artificial intelligence.

    Costanza-Chock said the burden is on the Justice Department to prove the Pattern tool doesn’t have racist and sexist outcomes.

    “Especially when systems are high risk and affect people’s liberty, we need much clearer and stronger oversight,” said Costanza-Chock.

    Let them all rot in jail, then. If everyone isn’t eligible, no one should be eligible.

  44. Mojeaux

    I’m bearish on Bitcoin, and I say that as someone who bought in a dip and bailed near its peak. It produces nothing. It’s an electronic currency that is/has been used as a speculative investment, is not used by anybody except the Dark Web and its lost half its value. It has outrun its course. It’s over, folks. Don’t expect it to hit $65k again.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      So you’re basically predicting a shutoff of the money printer?

      • Mojeaux

        Not quite sure what you mean and thus, cannot concoct a witty riposte.

      • ron73440

        I read it as if they stop printing money at such ridiculous rates, the dollar might stop its freefall and that will hurt Bitcoin’s value.

        *Spoiler Alert: They have no plans to stop.*

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This. Crypto right now fell due to expectations that the Fed will fight inflation. This assumes the Fed cares more about inflation than they do about keeping asset prices high (they don’t).

      • Brawndo

        I think he means that the value of Bitcoin is as a hedge against inflation.

    • Grumbletarian

      Bitcoin halves again in 2024. It will climb again like it did every time before.

    • AlexinCT

      Not enough camel toe in her pic.

    • Mojeaux

      My husband’s best friend from a former life moved to Arkansas from SoCal (I remember him because his kitchen floor was that decorative epoxy gravel stuff which I thought was awesome).

      And Heidi Fleiss is moving to Missouri. What have we got that they’re attracted to?

      • rhywun

        Sanity?

    • Tundra

      The kitchen is beautiful.

      The rest, not so much.

      • PieInTheSky

        Everything to me is just to much I like simpler… even the kitchen though that is nice. I like the doorway on the right in the 4th pic though. The house can be nice if better decorated

      • Tundra

        I agree. Totally not my thing, but I can appreciate the craftsmanship.

    • Festus

      If only it had been a photo of Kat Von Timph! Kidding, I like her and all but without the studio makeup she looks like a pre-school minder. That voice, though.

    • B.P.

      “Chic: A bronze bath tub sat adjacent to a shower encased in glass”

      Is a glass-walled shower an exotic thing in the UK?

      • Not Adahn

        They still haven’t figured out mixer taps yet.

    • WTF

      It’s an infringement, so it’s unconstitutional, but the actual words of the constitution count for little anyway, so who knows how the courts will rule.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am guessing they are arguing it is akin to driving a vehicle? That aside, it creates a brand new lucrative industry for cops and lawyers and padding the coffers.

      • WTF

        It’s not like driving a vehicle for all the obvious reasons, and there is nothing in the bill of rights saying the right to drive a vehicle shall not be infringed.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh I agree, but I am sure that will be the handwave that they will use to sell it.

  45. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    That Epoch Times article is interesting. The neo-Malthusians should be pretty happy.

    “This huge explosion of inflammation during a severe episode of COVID seems to be causing a lot of other problems,” said Arch Mainous, the lead author of the study and vice chair for research in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida. “It looks like there is an overall impact on your body from this biological insult.”

    I’ve seen this with several friends/family. The knock on effects have been worse than the infection itself. It probably pays to keep following the FLCCC protocol for the foreseeable future.

    And we should burn every one of these fucking virology research labs. Just to be on the safe side.

    • invisible finger

      “It looks like there is an overall impact on your body from this biological insult.””

      It’s like this doctor hasn’t seen a patient with pneumonia before. That shit can sometimes take a few years to completely recover 100%.

  46. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Worth reading. A failure of ethics on full display.

    https://rescue.substack.com/p/i-dont-know-how-you-sleep-at-night

    Dr. Hill and the research team produced their meta-analysis of ivermectin in January, 2021. The paper considered eighteen studies on the thirty-five-year-old drug—which has been safely used since 1987 to eradicate parasitic pandemics in low- and middle-income countries. The study concluded that the use of ivermectin resulted in reduced inflammation and a more rapid elimination of the Sars-Cov-2 virus from the body. Six of the eighteen trials showed that the risk of death from covid-19 was 75 percent lower in patients who had moderate to severe disease.

    This was absolutely tremendous news. Hundreds of thousands of lives were about to be saved from the ravages of covid-19. Said Dr. Hill at the time to the Financial Times, “The purpose of this report is to forewarn people that this is coming: get prepared, get supplies, get ready to approve [ivermectin]. We need to be ready.”

    When Dr. Hill made that statement—to gear up for the worldwide distribution of ivermectin—nearly 15,000 people were dying across the world every single day. Dr. Hill continued, “Vaccination is central to the response to the epidemic. But [ivermectin] might help reduce infection rates by making people less infectious and it might reduce death rates by treating the viral infection.”

    But just one month later, Dr. Hill’s original, positive study conclusions on ivermectin quite literally fell off the rails. And so did the fortunes of the thousands who had no idea then that they were stuck on the tracks with a freight train barreling towards them—unable to get out of harm’s way because help had been hijacked.

    • PieInTheSky

      “I Don’t Know How You Sleep at Night” – on a mattress of ill gotten cash?

    • Tundra

      Terrific article. Thanks for sharing.

      That dude reminds me why I believe in hell.

  47. PieInTheSky

    Jash Dholani
    @oldbooksguy
    James Burnham Thread Thread

    The Managerial State (1941) by Burnham nails the world we live in

    70+ years ago, Burnham saw that capitalism would die

    And socialism WON’T replace it

    Instead, a new elite will take over – The Managers

    Top 10 insights

    https://twitter.com/oldbooksguy/status/1486051209559830528

    • limey

      YOU’RE NOT MY MANAGER!

    • juris imprudent

      And they called it Meritocracy!

  48. The Late P Brooks

    It’s not about the children

    Youngkin then said the push for mask mandates was losing steam and called out teachers’ unions for their role in opposing his executive order.

    “I think that many, many, many school systems absolutely wanted to stand up for parents, but again, there was this constant drumbeat from the education unions that consistently tried to work against parents’ rights,” he argued.

    He added: “Let’s be real. Virginia was only one of 16 states that had a statewide mask requirement, and this whole sentiment is moving against the teachers, the teachers’ unions and teachers associations, and the left liberals.”

    We can only hope.

  49. ron73440

    My wife has something that’s really knocked her on her ass. Started on Sunday and is slowly getting better.

    Little coughing and fever, mostly aching joints and no appetite or energy.

    So far I’m fine, I haven’t told anyone at work because they are 100% on the covidiot wagon.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Sounds like the vid. Our experience was 1-2 days of not feeling great (chills, aches, sinus pressure, coughing) and a week or so of feeling “not quite back to normal”. We medicated with Ibuprofen/Aspirin and Sudafed to knock back some of the symptoms for those couple days. We supplemented with Cal-Mag-Zinc, B12, D3 and Quinine to boost the immune system.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sounds like our family experience. Wife had all that for a week, I had it for 2-3 days and the teens for a day.

      • ron73440

        So far she’s on Nyquil/Dayquil and Zinc Quercetin.

        Was better last night and after making my lunch this morning she started feeling bad again.

    • Rat on a train

      Boondocker – unsophisticated rural background
      Way to demean Filipinos, Harvard.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    It produces nothing. It’s an electronic currency that is/has been used as a speculative investment

    This.

    • cyto

      It does produce something. It is a predictable (now fixed) supply of exchange tokens that are easily and securely transferred worldwide, outside of the control of government.

      That is something of value.

      • Mojeaux

        Until the government(s) really digs its (their) fingers into it, which it is (they are) starting to do. Then it becomes as worthless as a euro in Kansas City.

        Its WORTH right now is that it is outside government control, which is going to be untrue in a couple of years.

      • Urthona

        Government can’t easily control it. That’s the beauty of it.

      • Mojeaux

        My point is they can’t FOR THE TIME BEING.

        On my taxes, last year I had to declare that I had traded cryptocurrency. Maybe it’s true that the only way they will be able to control it is to tax it as capital gains, or perhaps at a special “cryptocurrency rate”, but governments are scared to death of it and they will find a way to actually control it, even if they have to criminalize it.

        I had a helluva time finding a brokerage that traded dogecoin to people in the US other than Robinhood (which I didn’t want to use). Can you imagine being unable to purchase it because the brokerages aren’t going to risk criminal charges to trade in the US? Whatever crypto you have is gone/frozen. You can’t legally use it as currency. You can’t buy it because no one will sell it to you.

      • Urthona

        I think their efforts are like the war on drugs but even more doomed to fail.

      • Mojeaux

        The one that made it impossible for legit pain sufferers to get painkillers legally and who go to the streets to get it or else suffer? That’ll increase its value, for sure.

      • Urthona

        I see what you’re saying. It sucks for any law abiding person.

        But really the whole regulating bitcoin is gonna be like whac-a-mole. Just massive money to fail and turn more people into criminals.

      • Mojeaux

        Sure, and that’s why I think its time is over.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        They can’t control it. What they want to do instead is create their own CBDC that they can control. That’s when the real pain begins.

      • kinnath

        On my taxes, last year I had to declare that I had traded cryptocurrency.

        That was the beginning of the end.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes, I think it was you who gave me the heads-up on that, although TurboTax pushed the question.

      • Urthona

        I didn’t “trade” cryptocurrency. I bought some credits in an Indie game you probably haven’t heard of that happened to award me cryptocurrency.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    If bitcoin were even tied to some sort of basket of commodities…

  52. Ownbestenemy

    Neph/UCS. My work week just got slammed, wont be joining in your RPG escapade.

    • Rat on a train

      RPG-7?

      • Swiss Servator

        It’s a blast to play!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Should say “My fear doesn’t care about your feelings.”

    • rhywun

      deaths surging!

      For the hundredth time… deaths with or deaths from?

    • Rebel Scum

      S.E. C-Cupp used to be fun.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m not into dudes.

        That jawline….

      • Rebel Scum

        The dark side has ruined her physically.

  53. Count Potato

    “Patriot Front and other white nationalists groups don’t randomly crash the March for Life’s party, write @RBraceySherman and @lizzwinstead

    They show up because the rally’s message resonates with them. The dog whistle is coming from inside the house:”

    No, they show up there because that’s where the government sends them.

    • cyto

      White nationalist groups.

      LOL.

      They are so desperately trying to create a white nationalist movement from whole cloth.

      • Rebel Scum

        Re-posting from above.

        Glows brighter than the sun. Kinda sad and hilarious.

    • cyto

      Plus… Talk about disparate impact, just look at numbers of aborted minority babies. One would think that the dog whistles to the racists would be on the other side of this one.

    • Rebel Scum

      White-nationalists don’t want black babies killed. Seems legit.

  54. Count Potato

    “Alex Berenson tells Fox viewers: “The mRNA COVID vaccines need to be withdrawn from the market. No one should get them. No one should get boosted. No one should get double boosted. They are a dangerous and ineffective product at this point.”

    https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1486154086877650945

    Don’t read the comments.

    • waffles

      I’m gonna read the comments.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nice knowing ya’

      • waffles

        I shouldn’t have read the coments.

    • Urthona

      I’m willing to compromise here and just not make people take them.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I want actual informed consent and the end of the blanket liability shield.

        Mandates are a non-starter

  55. CPRM

    Our Flag Means Death is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandons his life of privilege to become a pirate. The series also stars Academy Award winner Taika Waititi as Blackbeard, history’s most feared and revered pirate.

  56. The Late P Brooks

    Blah blah blah racial disparities, take two

    A panel of federal court judges has blocked Alabama’s new congressional map, drawn by Republican state lawmakers, from taking effect.

    In an opinion released late Monday, the judges sided with plaintiffs, including the ACLU of Alabama and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), writing that under the map, “Black voters have less opportunity than other Alabamians to elect candidates of their choice to Congress.”

    When crafting the maps last year, the GOP majority in the legislature drew just one majority Black district. But according to 2020 census state population counts, 27% of Alabama’s residents identify as Black. Therefore, the federal judges order that any map needs to include at least two Black-majority districts, “or something quite close to it.”

    Because we all know the darkies should only be able to vote for their own kind. Anything else is slavery.

    • Rat on a train

      How many majority female districts do they need?

    • rhywun

      The racism is coming from inside the house.

    • juris imprudent

      Except that’s PACKING instead of CRACKING – and both are wrong per the SC. Good luck figuring out just how to navigate that passage.

      • rhywun

        I thought “packing” is SOP nowadays? That’s the one where you have to ensure each hue gets its own district(s), right?

        If the SC says it’s wrong why is nobody throwing those maps out?

      • Rat on a train

        The rule is simple. You must do whatever it takes to maximize the chance the most Ds are elected.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    It is a predictable (now fixed) supply of exchange tokens

    Seriously? It seems as if a new variant pops up every day.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      You’re confusing bitcoin with cryptocurrency as a whole.

      • juris imprudent

        This is the only attractive thing about all of this – the competition amongst the crypto currencies. It’s a long way from sorting itself out as to which is the most reliable.

      • KSuellington

        I only trust Glibcoin.

  58. Tundra

    The media is the enemy of the people, part 20 gazillion.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well he should have gotten the shoe earlier duh….and that is the first comment. Fuck em.

      • rhywun

        Yes, this is “proof”. It’s just hard sciencing.

  59. The Late P Brooks

    You’re confusing bitcoin with cryptocurrency as a whole.

    I realize that. Which brings us to my next question: Is there an “exchange rate” between distinct species of cryptocurrency?

    • Mojeaux

      No. It has to go through the dollar first.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        No it doesn’t. A lot of “shit coins” can only be exchanged with bitcoin or Ethereum.

      • Swiss Servator

        Not on Coinbase, you can convert one to the other, directly.

    • Count Potato

      Yes, but it keeps changing, just like any other currency.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    I shouldn’t have read the coments.

    That’s what they all say.

  61. Ed Wuncler

    Super Local:

    https://patch.com/illinois/skokie/skokie-school-ignores-racial-slurs-prioritizes-white-kids-suit

    The 16-page complaint also alleges that the district has “willfully refused” to teach Black History Month, Hispanic/Latinx History Month or Asian History Month, that it invited police officers into the school without informing parents first and that it has failed to teach material to students written by nonwhite authors.

    This statement alone is an indicator that this is a fucking shakedown and a power move. Skokie is probably one of the most diverse communities in the Chicago Area and suddenly out of no where, the school district has become this hotbed of racism.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Hispanic/Latinx History Month

      Maybe because there is no such thing as Latinx outside the deranged minds of NPR.

      • juris imprudent

        Them dumb hicspanics better learn that the white SJW movement has decreed what they are and they will like it!

    • rhywun

      the district has “willfully refused” to teach Black History Month, Hispanic/Latinx History Month or Asian History Month

      Where do I sign up? It sounds like maybe they’re focusing more on academics than on faddish identity politics.

  62. Festus

    Been really knocked on my ass for a couple of days. Don’t dare admit it IRL because of precautions. It’s not covid-like symptoms but holy hell I am fatigued. The problem with me is that I can never tell if I’m actually sick or just hungover-er. 🙂

    • AlexinCT

      Hydrate better.

      • Tundra

        And make sure you are getting enough sodium, potassium and magnesium.

  63. The Late P Brooks

    No. It has to go through the dollar first.

    That’s reassuring.

  64. The Late P Brooks

    Would you really sell your house/Monet/Ferrari for bitcoin?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      No, same as I wouldn’t buy an electric car right now. Just like electric cars, the infrastructure is too spotty for cryptos and the real life examples aren’t quite living up to the potential of the concept yet. As it is, a more traditional alternative is still a better option. That said, I have dipped a toe in the water of both (hybrid cars, small crypto purchases).

    • AlexinCT

      No, but I would pimp people for it…

    • Fourscore

      Everything still has to be denominated in dollars. My house is valued at 2.357 bitcoins (not really). My house is valued at X dollars, which translates in to X bitcoins.

      Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, tweeted Tuesday: “I will eat a happy meal on tv if McDonalds accepts Dogecoin.

      • B.P.

        My local Quizno’s has a sign saying it accepts Bitcoin.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’m not saying yolo into crypto, but dismissing it outright and saying the USD is the only game in town is doing your wealth a disservice.

      • Swiss Servator

        I have only put in beer money…no more than that.

  65. DEG

    Hillsdale College is starting a lecture series from their Academy of Science and Freedom.

    From the Academy’s mission statement:

    To combat the recent and widespread abuses of individual and academic freedom made in the name of science, Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom will educate the American people about the free exchange of scientific ideas and the proper relationship between freedom and science in the pursuit of truth. Led by national and international scholars, its work will also serve to educate policymakers and the general public about important discoveries and ideas that might otherwise be ignored by scientific journals and corporate media. Through strategic alliances among scientific scholars and organizations, Hillsdale’s Academy for Science and Freedom will be a platform for free, reasoned, and civil discourse in scientific research and issues of public health and provide educational opportunities for citizens in general.

    The first lecture is by Doctor Scott Atlas. The lecture is about an hour and a half.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ll give Hillsdale credit for fighting the machine.

    • Ownbestenemy

      And no one else.

    • Tundra

      Damn. That’s pretty amazing.

  66. Rebel Scum

    Destroy it.

    “I can confirm the aircraft impacted the flight deck during landing and subsequently fell to the water,” said Lieutenant Nicholas Lingo, spokesperson for the US Seventh Fleet.

    “The US Navy is making recovery operations arrangements for the F-35C aircraft.”

    Asked about an unsourced media report suggesting there were fears that the multimillion-dollar plane could fall into the hands of China, Lingo replied, referring to the People’s Republic of China:

    “We cannot speculate on what the PRC’s intentions are on this matter.”

    • rhywun

      Their spies have probably already told them everything they need to know about the aircraft.

      • CPRM

        Hell, didn’t they supply some of the parts?

      • WTF

        And by “spies” you mean the bought and paid-for bureaucrats and politicians in the US government.

    • db

      Sure, you can speculate. Start with why *you* would recover an advanced weapon lost by one of your military rivals.

  67. The Late P Brooks

    The 16-page complaint also alleges that the district has “willfully refused” to teach Black History Month, Hispanic/Latinx History Month or Asian History Month

    Let me guess: this is based on the “Everything not Mandatory is Prohibited” interpretation.

    • KSuellington

      Why are Latinos the only group that gets transexualized with an “x” at the end of their moniker? I like how they now throw the “Hispanic” before it as it’s been shown in every poll I’ve seen that Latinos fucking hate that shit and don’t use it.

  68. CPRM

    I left my favorite cheap as hell frozen pizza off my Too Local article because it wasn’t listed as a national best seller.

    Roma Original Pizza originated in the town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1962 as a bar pizza. In 1964, Roma Original Pizza became available in your local grocery store. WOW! That is over 56 years that Roma Original Pizza has been cooked and served in your home!

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  69. The Late P Brooks

    On my taxes, last year I had to declare that I had traded cryptocurrency. Maybe it’s true that the only way they will be able to control it is to tax it as capital gains, or perhaps at a special “cryptocurrency rate”, but governments are scared to death of it and they will find a way to actually control it, even if they have to criminalize it.

    Are they taxing unrealized gains?

    • Mojeaux

      They aren’t taxing it yet. They just asked if I had traded any. They’re testing the waters.

      • kinnath

        They aren’t taxing it yet.

        Correct. They just want to make you a felon for lying about buying or selling crypto. Making of a double felon for tax evasion too is the second step.

      • Mojeaux

        They just want to make you a felon for lying about buying or selling crypto. Making of a double felon for tax evasion too is the second step.

        Bingo.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        In the pro column, it’s easier to flee the country with bags of crypto than with USD.

    • DEG

      They aren’t taxing unrealized gains.

      If you sell crypto, any gain is taxable. So there’s nothing taxable until you sell. Exchanges like coinbase will report your sales to the IRS.

      However, even though there is nothing taxable until you sell, the IRS wants to know who is dabbling in crypto.

  70. The Late P Brooks

    Everything still has to be denominated in dollars. My house is valued at 2.357 bitcoins (not really). My house is valued at X dollars, which translates in to X bitcoins.

    My point is about the instability of cryptocurrency. If I sell my house today for crypto, I have no reasonable expectation the proceeds won’t fluctuate wildly in relation to dollars (or houses) in the short term. That makes it pretty much valueless to me.

    • CPRM

      But BLOCK CHAIN! Man!

    • robc

      Depends what you consider the baseline.

      I think we are still on the gold standard, prices are pretty stable long term in relation to gold.

      So, gold doesn’t fluctuate wildly vs the dollar, the dollar fluctuates wildly vs gold.

      Newton’s third law.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        robc is Peter Schiff.

      • robc

        I am not, but will take that as a compliment, I guess.

  71. KSuellington

    “Nancy Pelosi to seek re-election”

    She will be on the ballot mailed to me. The chances are high that she will be the only name on the ballot for Rep. Occasionally they allow some proggie dimwit to get on and get about 15% of the vote. There will be no debates, there won’t even really be a campaign of any sorts. I’m highly unlikely to see more than 1 or 2 signs up with her name on it even though I work in every neighborhood in the City.

    • CPRM

      Ranked choice voting FTW!

      • KSuellington

        1) Nancy Pelosi
        2) Nancy Pelosi
        3) Nancy Pelosi

        Democracy!!!

  72. Sean

    How the heck did I end up on the Hidden Valley Ranch email list?

    Why does that even exist?

    This is what I got.

    • KSuellington

      Dude, are you gonna tell us where that place is or not?

      • Sean

        Only if you know the secret handshake.

    • CPRM

      You’ll score cool badges

      That’s worth all your personal data, right?

    • rhywun

      HVR makes me hurl.

      • rhywun

        I think it’s any ranch.

        I love their Caesar’s and a couple others I’ve tried. Bad oils, though, if the “bad oil” stuff is accurate..

    • Mojeaux

      You entered a contest?

      • Sean

        Nothing recently. I also started getting “People” emails.

      • Mojeaux

        I am on Facebook as my author self. I do not have anything to do with Facebook as my real self or my business. However, FB has suddenly been showing me “people I may know” who are past clients of mine. We have zero friends in common, and these people were my clients YEARS ago. I am so creeped out.

      • rhywun

        I’ve started using unique email addresses so I can find out who’s selling their mailing lists.

      • db

        me too

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I can’t come to any other conclusion.

  73. Sean

    *sigh*

    Ammo prices are still wonky.

    Bids on Gunbroker the same.

    What am I supposed to impulse buy?

    • db

      Primers?

      • Sean

        That would really be an impulse buy, since I don’t reload.

    • CPRM

      Transformers Masterpiece dolls action figures? (That’s what I do)

      • Sean

        I’d totally get Soundwave first, if I was inclined to go that route.

      • CPRM

        I got soundwave…7th

      • db

        I had Soundwave back in the day. Awesome Transformer.

      • The Hyperbole

        Is it up that high because it’s a StarWars tie-in or do any old lego kits draw in the big bucks?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Certain old sets bring in big bucks. Mainly because they were good sets and hard to find.

        Some sets just bring in big bucks because of the theme tie-in and they are not made anymore.

        If you dont have to have the original box, Legos are great because you can make an identical set you are looking for from other sets. Mainly because the pieces are interchangeable.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Always buy Legos on sale after Christmas and resell for ~30% markups.