THIS TRANSMISSION IS CLASSIFIED.  FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS TRANSMISSIONS CLASSIFICATION WILL RESULT IN PROSECUTION TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

UP TO AND INCLUDING IMPRISONMENT IN JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL GULAG.  YOU WANT TO BE LIKE THAT BUFFALO GUY?

REMEMBER WHAT WE DID WITH JOHN HINKLEY? GOOD.  WE DON’T EVEN KNOW, EITHER.

THINK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE I DO

Location:  MAR-A-LAGO RESORT

Date:  3 January 2022, 0345

 

“They’re doing it again.  They want to blame me for the Zoot Suit Riot again but nobody wants to wear zoot suits anymore so why is this my fault?”  The former President asked the gilded, phallic shaped floor lamp.  He looked back to his photo of shaking Kim Jung Un’s hand at Panmunjeom.

”One day, they will will thank me.”

“Nobody will thank you, not when you keep hanging out with that chubby chasing schmuck with the machine gun.”

”What’s wrong with chubby chasing?  The chase.  By definition there is no sport in it.”

”Mr. Trump…..You’re 4 o’clock is here.”  A secretary said over the intercom on the Mar-A-Lago Resolute desk.

“We had a 4 o’clock?”

”In the morning?”

”Mr. Former President.  You asked to see me?”  A government agent limped into the gilded executive suite at Mar-A-Lago.  His disheveled appearance left him looking like he used an emergency chemical shower.  His yellow and green plaid suit was curiously creased across the back as if he slept overnight on the green on the 14th hole.

”I don’t think he’s the homeless guy that lives under the bridge on the 14th green.  That guy is much more wily if he’s able to evade presidential security.  He’s a real fighter, a real god-fearing American if he’s going to survive out there without pants or meth.”

”Mr. President…I’m over here.”  The government agent said.  The room was different from his last visit nearly two years prior.  The white furniture was replaced with a luxurious golden velour.  He touched the couch.

“He loves it, look at him wince at the luxuriousness of my most luxurious golden velour couch.”

”I can’t say I’ve had the pleasure since the early 1970’s.  May I?”  The government agent asked.  He sat down slowly, and gingerly placed his bulging, sweating buttocks upon the firm, yet supple cushion.  “Sweet Jesus.”

”It is not brown adipose tissue we harvested from Haitian migrants.  I really resent that.  People from shit hole countries shouldn’t be made into furniture.  That was clearly from those tremendous manatee carcasses that turned up on the water hazard on the 9th hole.”

“I’m still over here.”  The government agent sank into the couch.  “So why did you call me over?”

”Have you seen what they are saying about me?  I’m laughing at the whole thing.  Like I am perched upon a golden throne playing a fiddle while I watch America burn.  Its not funny, okay its a little funny, but I’m not laughing.  Is this that SMITH guy?”

The government agent adjusted his balls as he sat on the couch.  He took his time.  “No this isn’t SPACE SMITH.”

”What about that Maxwell broad?”  The former president asked.

”No…sugar tits was just misdirection.”  The government agent replied.

”What about the vampire lady?”

”Who?”

”Some lady asked me for money like ten years ago.  Very attractive, delightful voice, like Bea Arthur.”

”The Theranos lady?”

”I could listen to her read a phone book, too, but she wasn’t selling those kind of services, guys.”

”She was actually an ambassador representing genetically modified apes.  A group of Nazi scientists tried to create a race of super servants that ultimately killed everyone working at the lab.  In a fit of panic, Nazi leadership spent the last two years of the war rounding them up and imprisoning them in a facility on the moon.  Impressive, really given they did all of that and were still fighting us.  Those guys really were superior.”

“Wait what?”  The former president asked.

”Everyone wants to say RETVRN TO MONKE until its time to do RETVRN TO MONKE shit.  Let me tell ya.”

“This is crazier than that time you brought Ukrainian hookers”. The former president said towards the lamp.

“Jesus titty fucking Christ, this couch.  Anyways, Holmes wanted to bring the monkeys home to work for her blood collection scheme.  The problem at the time was Hunter had a similar scheme involving a Taliban prison gang in Anbar province.  Her ties to Biden are a pretty open secret.  Those guys are now stuck working in the lithium mines.”

”Are you sure you should be telling me this?”  The former president asked.

”Are you sure this couch was stuffed with manatees?”

”Touchè”

THIS TRANSMISSION IS CLASSIFIED.  FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS TRANSMISSIONS CLASSIFICATION WILL RESULT IN PROSECUTION TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

UP TO AND INCLUDING IMPRISONMENT IN JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL GULAG.  YOU WANT TO BE LIKE THAT BUFFALO GUY?

REMEMBER WHAT WE DID WITH JOHN HINKLEY? GOOD.  WE DON’T EVEN KNOW, EITHER.

THINK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE I DO

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234 Comments

  1. DEG

    ”What’s wrong with chubby chasing? The chase. By definition there is no sport in it.”

    Tres Cool hardest hit.

    • Hyperion

      They’re easier to catch, but then you have to take them down.

  2. Not Adahn

    Everyone wants to say RETVRN TO MONKE until its time to do RETVRN TO MONKE shit.

    Truer words are seldom spoken.

  3. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    “delightful voice, like Bea Arthur”

    Still laughing at that one.

    • Tundra

      Yes, that is a great line!

  4. db

    Kavanaugh just mentioned the military anthrax vaccines. Although, weirdly, it sounded like he was pointing it out as an example of proper action? But I’m not sure.

    • The Other Kevin

      What was the name of that Twitter account where they did live analysis of the Rittenhouse trial? Something law. I wonder if they’re covering this.

      • DEG

        On Twitter? I don’t know.

        Rekieta Law had a livestream on YouTube of the Rittenhouse trial along with commentary from a panel of lawyers.

      • The Other Kevin

        Thanks. I really like those guys.

      • DEG

        You’re welcome!

        I’ll hop on it after lunch and this meeting.

      • Nephilium

        Let me second the thanks, just put it on after noping out of the raw Supreme Court feed.

      • The Other Kevin

        That was the one, thanks.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Rekieta’s nightly late night streams are really great too

      • Ownbestenemy

        Rekeita just tossed up a poll “Who should mandate vaccines” and one of the answers is “Eat Shit FED!” and it all of his chat answers except for a few.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well, that works here.

    • juris imprudent

      Somebody better check Ozy’s pressure release valve, quick.

      • Ozymandias

        In a strange coincidence, I *JUST* got forwarded to me the amicus brief by the group of attorneys that have been suing in FL (the one that has Sydney Powell). I was considering doing it, but didn’t have the bandwidth. Thankfully, however, that amicus brief includes the entire legal argument, including the federal judge’s findings, that the only available product is EUA. IOW, all of this talk about who has the power to impose vaxx mandates is a giant case of “cart before the horse” because there is no licensed vaccine available. Comirnaty isn’t available because it can’t be at the same time there’s an EUA for this virus. That’s how the EUA statute operates; EUA drugs have passed none of the requirements to be a licensed product.

        So the fucktards at the upper courts are all arguing about who has the power to fuck us over and no one is looking at the fact that BNT162b2 isn’t licensed – it’s unquestionably an EUA product and as such CANNOT BE MANDATED.
        I don’t know if it will get any traction, but if some curious clerk bothers to do even a modicum of research, they’d know this.

      • SDF-7

        That’s why these are no longer mandates — they’re “requirements” now, right? (Mostly sarcastic, but I wouldn’t put it past these weasels to make that argument….)

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Or he’s trying to imply this was a Chinese biological weapon.

      If we declare war on China for attacking us with a biological weapon, then I might consider getting the COVID jab.

      • Tres Cool

        Its not going to work on the real thing they’re ready to release.
        /adds tin foil to shopping list

  5. juris imprudent

    Somebody hit Agile Cyborg’s stash?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Wonder how he is, if he is.

      • Tundra

        He became Starman.

  6. juris imprudent

    Oh, that was good (from the twitter thread under sugar tits)

    Jack Posobiec
    @JackPosobiec
    ·
    20h
    Jan 6 is the first thing Joe Biden hasn’t blamed on the unvaccinated

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sometimes Jack can be witty. Sometimes.

  7. db

    Barrett now asking about how the requirement that an emergency action by OSHA be “necessary” versus the normal standard of “reasonable” applies in this case.

    • Ownbestenemy

      And what happens a year, two years from now? Still emergency? Emergency forever?

      • db

        haha she just asked that (I’m on a bit of a delay)

      • SDF-7

        That brings to mind another one of my fantasy Constitutional amendments. No state of emergency can last longer than it takes a normal legislative session to be called. If the Executive can consult with the Legislative and normal laws/budgetary processes can be used, it isn’t an emergency — it is an event in the normal course of business. This perpetual “Emergency because I say so” crap is just another way to have soft dictatorships.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^^ That mechanism is already there, they just FYTW or ignore/cede the power. Every state has an exit ramp for emergency powers and only a handful fought it and even then, some were overturned I believe. I could just be speaking out of my ass.

        Eventually, the 60 million people will realize they are no longer governed by their peers.

      • DEG

        I think Virginia allowed, and still allows, a state of emergency to last as long as the governor wanted it to.

        I think most states required action on the part of the legislature in order to override the governor.

        In PA, before the constitutional amendments, a concurrent resolution passed by both chambers of the legislature terminates a state of emergency except…. no concurrent resolution, except those to adjourn the legislature, has legal effect unless signed by the governor. The governor vetoed the concurrent resolution to terminate the state of emergency. There were not enough votes to overturn the veto, and the state Supreme Court sided with the governor. Hence the constitutional amendments.

        In NH (then and now) a concurrent resolution passed by both chambers terminates a state of emergency. The catch is the state senate has rules that require a 2/3rds vote to pass a concurrent resolution. There were never enough votes in the state senate to pass such a resolution. I heard different stories from the legislators I know about whether or not the votes existed in the state house to get such a resolution through the state house.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Right, that is kinda what I was getting at that there are exits, for the most part, but barely any legislature wants any of this on their hands and would rather have the executives take it. And people decry they want “democracy”. Fucking assholes.

      • DEG

        One of the PA Constitutional amendments reigning in the governor’s emergency powers states that only the Legislature can renew a state of emergency.

        Not quite your fantasy, but it works for me.

      • db

        Yeah, at least the Legislature is supposed to be the direct representatives of the voters. Pushing that authority down to the level of unaccountable bureaucrats is inappropriate.

      • Nephilium

        Ohio overrode DeWine’s veto to reign in his powers during an emergency. It limits states of emergency to 90 days, gives the legislature the ability to kill it after 30 days, and allows the legislature to kill emergency orders.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Hopefully by a 3/4 majority too.

        Make emergency powers very difficult.

      • DEG

        Simple majority.

        But, it’s an improvement over what used to exist: States of Emergency last no more than 90 days unless the governor renews. He can renew as many times as he wants. Legislature can terminate the state of emergency at any time with a concurrent resolution (simple majority of both houses needed for that). The governor must sign the resolution or the legislature override his veto for it to have an effect.

        Current: States of Emergency last no more than 21 days. Governor may not renew. Legislature must renew by a simple majority of both chambers. Legislature may terminate the state of emergency at any time with a concurrent resolution (simple majority of both chambers) which does not require the governor’s signature or a veto override to take effect.

      • Rebel Scum

        If the constitution is not in force during a crisis then the constitution is never in force.

  8. db

    Barrett now asking about “When will this emergency end, when must OSHA revert to its regular authority and go through its normal procedures?”

    Which of course ignores the fact that the damage will already be done–people will already have lost their jobs or been forcibly vaccination.

    • juris imprudent

      Given the answer will be never, that might just clue her in.

    • Rebel Scum

      when must OSHA revert to its regular authority

      When should OSHA ever exceed its regular authority?

  9. db

    “Unprecedented sweeping-ass ETS.” FTW

    LOL

  10. Q Continuum

    Two questions:

    Is Rittenhouse really a chubby chaser?

    Who know Maxwell had tits like that? Damn!

    • DEG

      Who know Maxwell had tits like that? Damn!

      There were hints of them in other pictures.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah that is what funneling teens to your billionaire friend will buy you.

      • Brochettaward

        They look natural to me.

      • DEG

        #metoo

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Nice boobs are a dime a dozen. Those boarding-school types are mostly screwed up AFAICT.

      • Not Adahn

        Who the hell orders a dozen boobs?

      • Ownbestenemy

        A drunk Canadian?

      • db

        Guys who are into 5-ways with Martian hookers?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Depends on the hooker now doesn’t it?

      • db

        I think we all know which one we’re talking about here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Then that would be a baker’s dozen + 2 creme filled

      • db

        5-way = 1 guy, 4 hookers.

        at 3 boobs per Martian hooker, that’s a dozen boobs.

        Unless you’re counting the guy’s man-boobs, in which case I have other concerns about you.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Semantics are semantics, lets just say if I had a million dollars it is what I would do.

      • slumbrew

        I always wanted to do that, man. I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I was told there would be no math.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Her sartorial sense is mostly terrible.

        I heard that she has daddy capital-I Issues and was never the same after the yacht incident (just past 30 years ago), whatever that entailed.

      • Plisade

        “Nice boobs are a dime a dozen.”

        Does not compute.

      • juris imprudent

        Nice boobs are a dime a dozen.

        I think Q comes by them cheaper than that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        To look at.

        I stand by my “meh” and hope Moj or Hayek or any other MLW will back me up.

      • juris imprudent

        To be fair (with respect to us men) – looking is what we get more than anything, and may arguably be the thing we are best at.

      • Mojeaux

        The opportunity to stare at nice boobs on the innert00bz is, indeed, plentiful, if not downright obligatory.

      • db

        One might even use the adjective “ample.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh sure, you or I could see similar or better in any locker room. But don’t tell them that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?‍♀️

      • Tundra

        I love your avatar.

        “And to drink – Peru!”

      • db

        Everyone’s going to be wearing one of these?”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Well, if you ever need to keep down the urges:

        Jenny Meyer: Hullo, Lane. How was your day?

        Lane Meyer: Beth broke up with me.

        Jenny Meyer: Oh, that’s nice. (resumes vacuuming)

      • Q Continuum

        To clarify: nice tits do not excuse the whole child molestation thing.

        In case any of you thought I was that morally corrupt.

      • slumbrew

        It’s cool, that’s not at all why we think you’re morally corrupt.

        😉

    • Rebel Scum

      1) No idea.
      2) I did. I believe I referred to them as “Q-worthy”.

  11. slumbrew

    The SPACE SMITH transmissions always make me think of the beginning of this song

      • Tundra

        Groovy!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Fuck you Hattie McDaniel, you’re nobody now. Same with you, Rochester.

      • Swiss Servator

        Damn your nimble typing!

      • l0b0t

        I find it shameful and somewhat enraging that early black performers are almost universally disregarded by modernity due to the roles they were offered. Mantan Moreland, Johnny Lee, Ernestine Wade, Ben Carter, etc. were great actors and should be celebrated for what they often brought to the material they played. Dig on Mantan and Ben Carter incorporating their old Vaudeville routine into a Charlie Chan flick – https://youtu.be/ejWuU6eq6u0

      • Gustave Lytton

        Indeed. Yes, there was a lot of bad, nay evil, things done but there was also quite a bit of people doing the best they could under the circumstances. Often long before it was recognized in today’s ahistorical and illiterate cultural memory. The civil rights movement of the 50’s would never have gone anywhere if there wasn’t much broader support or at least acceptance (even if some of it was cynical political posturing).

      • Mojeaux

        doing the best they could under the circumstances

        Not good enough, comrade!

      • Rebel Scum

        All I know is that everyone needs a ‘Mammy’ in their life.

      • Ted S.

        Mantan Moreland did his shtick in Two-Gun Man from Harlem, one of the “race pictures” with an all-black cast designed for black audiences. Apparently black audiences liked the shtick, too.

    • Swiss Servator

      First? I guess Hattie McDaniel winning an Oscar didn’t make her a movie star, eh?

    • Rebel Scum

      I guess we know who is not coming to dinner.

    • Drake

      Those are your betters, our “elites”.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I just lost a mouthful of coffee. Thanks Tundra!

    • l0b0t

      See, this is why claims of institutional racism fall on deaf ears. The American people (well, the Connecticut people) have been sending a Romulan to serve in the Senate for decades.

      • juris imprudent

        Wait a minute – you’re telling me that’s Blumenthal (in drag, sort of)?

  12. Drake

    A relatively unknown right-wing podcast got swatted last night while they are broadcasting.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Eh…two cops showed up and were nice. Still, a problem.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I like the theory that is was the cuck Jack Murphy.

      • Rebel Scum

        Dude should know that the internet is forever. And he could have just owned it.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Definitely, cop to the cucking before the gay porn comes out. Or cop to the gay porn first? I don’t know, such a bizarre unraveling.

    • Raven Nation

      “The idea behind swatting is to send police to someone’s home under heightened circumstances just to see what happens.”

      Yeah, “just to see what happens.” I’m sure there is no more malicious intent.

  13. db

    I know that the current case in front of the SCOTUS on OSHA vaccination mandate is brought by, and based on, the effect on businesses. So, it’s not particularly unexpected that the ideas of bodily autonomy, freedom of choice, and self-ownership were not brought up in arguments.

    Hopefully, it won’t be necessary to bring it up in the future, but those arguments are stronger, IMO, and have a higher chance of success than the current arguments in this case.

    • Drake

      That will make me feel better 6 months after I’m fired.

      • db

        Yep. The questions about whether OSHA has the abiliity under its regular authority versus its emergency authority to mandate COVID vaccines are pointless, because once they have already forced people to make a choice between employment and vaccination, the damage has been done, and they wouldn’t bother with a regular action.

      • juris imprudent

        Fuck that – there is NO authority in the Constitution allowing OSHA to do this, not regular, not emergency and not the FYTW clause either (since it doesn’t exist). Any Justice saying otherwise deserves immediate removal from the bench.

      • WTF

        There’s no constitutional authority for OSHA to even exist, but we all know the constitution doesn’t mean shit.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Not that I disagree with ya there, Normy.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I agree with you there. Unfortunately arguing the idea of bodily autonomy is only allowed in a certain context and thus non-existent.

      • juris imprudent

        Assume you have an uterus.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Exactly

      • Ted S.

        A perfectly spherical, frictioness uterus.

      • juris imprudent

        nice

    • Gustave Lytton

      The utilitarian arguments will ultimately fail, because they concede the premise and the establishment controls the levers of power. Like Ozy’s EUA argument above. All they do is license it as a regular drug. Oh, it’s not available. Then they would get a limited batch released to show that’s not the case or even offer it to anyone who refuses an EUA. If it came to that, which it won’t because FYTW.

      Unfortunately the correct answer of “fuck you, this is a free country” disappeared long ago and many/most people are scared and repelled by not having big whatever make the decisions for them and more importantly, for others.

      • juris imprudent

        To that latter statement, we need a variation on the Purge – call it rabbit season. The rabbits (the people you describe) must either defend themselves, or serve someone who will defend them, or get culled. At least it would be honest.

    • Raven Nation

      Missed it by THAT much…

  14. Gustave Lytton

    Shit weasel at work sent a memo to his manager complaining that some unnamed person isn’t wearing a mask and demanding that all unvaxed people be kept away from him. Add a dose of Fauci koolaid and sprinkle with Qanon ranting. I don’t want to be here.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Resisting the urge to ask him if he’d like the unvaxxed to wear some sort of marker on their clothing so he can id them at a distance.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Resistance is futile.

      • slumbrew

        He won’t get the reference and would enthusiastically support it.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Nah, he’ll want it tattooed to the forehead.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Second one. The only winners from those events is the critters in government.

  15. DEG

    Oldest US veteran of the Second World War dies.

    Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. — and believed to be the oldest man in the country — died on Wednesday at the age of 112.

    His death was announced by the National WWII Museum and confirmed by his daughter.

    Most African Americans serving in the segregated U.S. armed forces at the beginning of World War II were assigned to noncombat units and relegated to service duties, such as supply, maintenance and transportation, said Col. Pete Crean, vice president of education and access at the museum in New Orleans.

    “The reason for that was outright racism — there’s no other way to characterize it,” Crean said.

    But Brooks, born on Sept. 12, 1909, was known for his good-natured sense of humor, positivity and kindness. When asked for his secret to a long life, he often said, “serving God and being nice to people.”

    “I don’t have no hard feelings toward nobody,” he said during a 2014 oral history interview with the museum. “I just want everything to be lovely, to come out right. I want people to have fun and enjoy themselves — be happy and not sad.”

    • Tundra

      I loved how the dude lifted it out of the car and carried it across the road.

      • B.P.

        A classic.

    • db

      Kagan and Sotomayor are behaving like pure political animals, completely divorced from the discussion of law in these oral arguments today. They’re misdirecting the discussion.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Start with the conclusion and work towards a retroactive justification. It must be nice to have a guaranteed lifetime job.

    • Ownbestenemy

      How they are allowed scientific information makes no sense. It should be a pure exercise in law and state power.

      • db

        yep.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

    • db

      They think they’re health experts now because they watch the news and read the right-thinking print media.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I loved the conflating of PPE and the shot.

      • db

        yeah, and the dishonest question about whether hospitals can be required to make their employees wash their hands

      • Nephilium

        But TYPHOID!

    • rhywun

      We’re boned.

      It should be a pure exercise in law and state power.

      + 1000x times this

      • R C Dean

        Well, its a pure exercise of state power, anyway.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      750 MILLION CASES

      Yes, Breyer (ugh) misspoke, but I guess I expect a little more from the Supreme Court. Especially when no one corrected him.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They are all operating on that the vaccines are 100% effective.

      • db

        “uniquely effective vaccine” is a phrase that has been repeated many times during these arguments.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I tossed out a YT comment that gassing millions was also uniquely effective

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh, it’s unique alright.

      • Rebel Scum

        More like a uniquely ineffective gene therapy.

        Then again, it depends on what the intended effect is…

        But either way, it does not justify or legalize a mandate.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Then they’re idiots, other than mendacity there’s no other explanation.

  16. juris imprudent

    Own-fucking-goal.

    This song, which is one of the most beautiful in the show, is performed by Aaron Burr. Of course, the Jefferson Administration charged Burr with treason. According to some accounts, Burr actually hatched a plan to conquer North America, and overthrow the American government. The history is muddy. In Trump v. Vance, Chief Roberts offered a sanitized version of this background. In any event, celebrating an accused insurrectionist is not the right symbolism for January 6.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The problem is simple: Hamilton sucks.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      In 2018, Miranda was also kind enough to sign my pocket Constitution at the Supreme Court.

      Are you fucking kidding me? Miranda is a terrorist-celebrating commie rat.

  17. rhywun

    In brighter news, the streets here are delightfully free from roaring unmuffled engines and street racing today.

    I fucking love snow.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      then come over and take some of mine,

    • Not Adahn

      It added to this week’s IFLA pics.

    • grrizzly

      I shoveled snow today to provide access to the front door. We pay for snow removal but nobody was doing their job by 1 pm–while food and wine are on vehicles for delivery, supposedly.

  18. R C Dean

    I don’t suppose any of the Justices have asked how it is that a disease is somehow a workplace hazard, have they?

    I mean, if OSHA can regulate any hazard that can also show up in the workplace, then there’s no limit to what OSHA can regulate, is there?

    Also, I don’t suppose anyone has asked whether a response to an emergency that is permanent is within their emergency powers. The vaccine mandate is effectively permanent – once the shot is given, there’s no giving it back. Aren’t emergency measures, like emergencies, supposed to be temporary? And I don’t think saying “Oh, the mandate will be temporary” really answers the question. What is being mandated isn’t temporary.

    • Ownbestenemy

      ACB asked about the emergency part.

      • R C Dean

        My question was more, can emergency authority be used to mandate permanent changes, or is it limited to changes that are, like emergencies, temporary?

        Not, how long can a state of emergency drag on. If that was of any real interest, this case would have been over in 15 minutes, because we are now in Year 2 of the pandemic. Any attempt to invoke emergency authority at this point should be laughed out of court.

      • db

        She (Barrett) asked specifically whether this mandate would be permissible under OSHA’s regular authority versus its emergency authority.

    • Urthona

      All good points. You appear to be smarter than a supreme court justice.

    • slumbrew

      Just tuned in & there was some mention that the vax is fundamentally different than, say, requiring gloves in that you can’t just “take it off” when you leave work. Which the state is pooh-poohing.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I think Alito sort of made that argument. He used a waving wand analogy that didn’t quite work.

    • The Other Kevin

      I haven’t hear anyone say there is a very big difference in risk by age. An unvaccinated 18 year old is at considerably less risk (statistically, 0 risk) than an unvaccinated 70 year old, yet they’re being treated exactly the same.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This. 75% of deaths are over 65, you know, prime working age.

      • Urthona

        Should have nothing to do with it though.

      • R C Dean

        Of course, Sotomayor’s lunatic babbling about 100,000 children in the hospital is also utterly irrelevant to a workplace mandate.

        And is completely wrong. The number of children in a hospital nationwide because of COVID is certainly less than 1,000, and probably less than 500. Maybe a lot less. Almost every child admitted to a hospital who has a positive COVID test is admitted because of something else.

      • Urthona

        yes. from their perspective, this should’ve ended when the cdc admitted vaccines don’t stop the spread.

        From mine, though? Even if the vaccine is effective and low risk this still shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no emergency.

      • Gustave Lytton

        If even there’s an emergency.

      • Urthona

        Yes. and another point: they don’t have the authority anyway.

    • Hyperion

      I bet that one day they’ll even be able to regulate the air that you breathe.

    • db

      Mostly, the justices that mention the risk are simply buying into covid panic and reciting stats they got from the New York Times. There has been a small amount of discussion about how can it be a workplace hazard when it is something that happens outside the workplace and that vaccines are not temporary measures that can be used only at work, such as hard hats and fire extinguishers, without being required for use at home or in general daily life.

      • R C Dean

        vaccines are not temporary measures that can be used only at work, such as hard hats and fire extinguishers, without being required for use at home or in general daily life

        I’m glad to hear they have at least dim glimmering on that angle, but I was really asking whether any disease countermeasure is within OSHA’s authority, since diseases aren’t workplace hazards. They are general hazards, that also show up in the workplace.

  19. Aloysious

    Cherry Poppin’ Daddies is much appreciated.

    Got to see them live once. They were fantastic.

    • rhywun

      Every time I see your avatar I wonder why Daffy has giant tusks growing out of the sides of his bill and pointing at the sky.

    • Nephilium

      I saw them a couple times. The band hated being called a swing band since they started as a ska band. They had maybe one good song (Don Quixote) as a ska band. For swing, I preferred Alien Fashion Show, Squirrel Nut Zipper, The Atomic Fireballs, and of course, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

      • DEG

        Those are some good bands, but this is the epitome of swing. It was Frankie Manning’s favorite song to dance to.

      • Nephilium

        I was going for the modern bands as opposed to the classics.

  20. Hyperion

    Nice to see a Space appearance again.

    Don’t any of you work?

    • slumbrew

      Don’t any of you work?

      What are you, a Canadian muppet?

      • Hyperion

        I’m trying to conjure up an image of a Canadian Muppet. A furry flannel wearing, maple syrup swilling, hybrid of Twink of the North/Moose/Squirrel, eh?

      • rhywun

        Also it has a flapp(ier) head and says “Hey, buddy!” a lot.

      • slumbrew

        I’m not your buddy, pal.

      • slumbrew

        (“Rufus”, the answer is “Rufus”)

      • juris imprudent

        Puppet versions of Terrance and Phillip?

  21. The Late P Brooks

    He looked back to his photo of shaking Kim Jung Un’s hand at Panmunjeom.

    And now I have a picture in my head of Kim Jong un in a zoot suit.

  22. slumbrew

    Watching the Rekieta stream of the Arbery case – do judges usually gas-on this much when passing sentence?

    • db

      Pay attention to which justices are doing that. It’s the ones in favor of the mandates who are politically grandstanding and using emotional arguments.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think he meant the actual Arbery case…

      • db

        oh, I’m behind in the stream

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Don’t cross the streams!

      • slumbrew

        Correct.

    • slumbrew

      Hah, they just answered my question (also asked in the chat) – yes, this much gassing-on is normal.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Lol, right when I logged on and I read your question, I saw it pop up in chat on his channel. That is fun!

    • Rebel Scum

      *Checks in*

      Wtf is with the minute of silence? Isn’t that something for the prosecution to demonstrate? Isn’t the trial over? We have a verdict? Stop bleating and give the fucking sentence.

      *listens further*

      This cunte shouldn’t be anywhere near a courtroom.

      • slumbrew

        These live-streams are illuminating. They should replace all Dick Wolf shows.

      • Rebel Scum

        The comments from the Rekeita crew are good though.

      • slumbrew

        Far more entertaining than I would have predicted. Good stuff.

  23. db

    Justice Breyer sounds just like Vincent Schiavelli.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      GET OFF MY TRAIN!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      In which role?

      • db

        Mr. Kerber, for instance.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        John O’Connor

  24. The Late P Brooks

    I mean, if OSHA can regulate any hazard that can also show up in the workplace, then there’s no limit to what OSHA can regulate, is there?

    A the very minimum they should be able to ban driving to work.

    • Plisade

      Oooh, nice.

    • The Other Kevin

      I think we need to start calling this “Vaccine tunnel vision”.

    • Tundra

      Wow.

      Just wow.

    • ron73440

      I have been avoiding listening to this, I knew it would piss me off.

      That woman with her “safe and effective” mixed in with a lot of half truths and dismissal of any risk makes me want to fire up the wood chipper.

    • SDF-7

      It hasn’t been to lie to Congress for some time, why should the Nazgul be any different.

      And listening to that clip — can Kagan just call herself the Government Lackey of the Court or something? Impartial my butt — she’s sitting there arguing for the state the whole time. Oy.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Kagan is probably right that regulators weigh various risks. She just overestimates their ability to do it well.

      • R C Dean

        They definitely do. The risks to their careers, their budgets, their authority.

        The risks to us? Not so much.

      • ron73440

        she’s sitting there arguing for the state the whole time

        That’s why she’s there.

    • Rebel Scum

      “…safe, effective, proven…”

      Doesn’t matter to me. Bodily integrity mofo.

      “…the risk of unvaxxed to vaxxed workers…”

      The vaxxes work? The vaxxes don’t work? Make up your mind. Also, see above.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Alito hit on what RC has been talking about.

      He gets it.

    • Penguin

      At least Alito’s not a moron.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Are there any recordings of Gorsuch?

      • db

        There’s a lot of him in the Rekieta stream (which covered the entirety of the arguments). The longest-winded were Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer.

    • Drake

      That woman just said that he vaccines were FDA approved. At minimum, that is a lie of omission (only Emergency Usage).

  25. Tres Cool

    I knew not to click on that link when I saw it. But I did anyhow, just to satisfy my own masochism.
    Yep, that stupid song.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Only asymptomatic unvaxxed people can spread the plague.

    Why can’t you get that through your heads?

  27. Tres Cool

    I’m out, kids. Managers out with the (suspected) ‘vid. One of us Supreme Beings with a healthy immune system must fill in.
    I dont know how soon they’re expected to rule on the “mandate”, but if it means I need to get a jab, Ill grab my SHTF bag and go live under Yufus’s trailer.
    ——————————————————————————-nothing follows—————————————————————————

    • R C Dean

      Managers out with the (suspected) ‘vid.

      If the manager has any pending exemption requests on xer desk, now’s your chance.

      • kinnath

        DOA never covers personnel issues.