Friday Morning Links

by | Feb 4, 2022 | Daily Links | 510 comments

It’s one of those weekends

No sports today. But it’s an FA Cup weekend. So there’s that to enjoy. Which I will, as I freeze my nuts off.

LOL, there was a recovery going on? More like a spend-a-thon that bore no fruit whatsoever. But CNN gonna carry the water.

Fan-fucking-tastic. Wonder who will sanction us for dropping a bomb that killed a bunch of women and children yesterday? Oh wait, our government are the “good guys” and those Russians are pure evil. At least that’s what the guy with horrible poll numbers says.

I got your mask right here, dick.

Thanks for the advice. Now go fuck yourself.

This was probably amazing. If I had a chance to have been watching it, I’d have been jacking it like Toobin on Zoom.

Wait, was it real Mayo or “sandwich spread”? Because that should have had an impact on the sentencing.

`Looks like double-jeopardy is popular with politicians these days. I guess after the WH chose to press a private company to censor someone, this shouldn’t surprise anyone.  Also, that cop is a piece of shit who deserved more time. But this isn’t the way to go about it.

We need more of this.

What a shitshow of conflicting objectives. Nobody wins here. Which would be great if it only involved the principals of the dispute. Too bad it results in a shittier situation for normal people too.

This is at least an honest answer. There’s power outages everywhere in the country when a horrible storm happens. Hell, there’s outages in California in the summer just because. But those aren’t red states, so it doesn’t get the coverage ours did.

Rock on with your big hair. What a classic. And here’s a second classic. Those perms…damn. That’s rough. Anyway, enjoy.

And enjoy this cold ass Friday and the hopefully-warming weekend.

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510 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    CLOWNS? I HATE CLOWNS!

    And not just the ones on this post, but the ones in politics for sure…

    • sloopyinca

      Then you’re not gonna be a fan of these links, I can assure you.

      • AlexinCT

        “I want my mommy”….. sniff, sniff…

  2. AlexinCT

    LOL, there was a recovery going on? More like a spend-a-thon that bore no fruit whatsoever. But CNN gonna carry the water.

    I disagree about the fruit bearing. That “recovering” shit happened because the government printed/borrowed a ton of cash and then pissed it away, but it DID result in massive inflatory economic destruction. Note that to the people that print/borrow money this inflation shit is awesome, because when the dollar drops in value to 10% of what it used to be, that $30 trillion we already owe would suddenly mean they now have room to borrow/print some $200million more to buy votes and enrich their connected people with, and that is a great thing. That the rest of us are left poor and fucked over is also a bonus, because that means we will now depend on government handouts to avoid losing everything. And that’s the endgame: making all the serfs so dependent on government that they will just accept the status quo the connected want to establish.

    • WTF

      The only “recovery” was the gradual re-opening of businesses that the government had arbitrarily and illegally shut down for no good reason.

      • Nephilium

        /looks at the shuttered businesses around town

        Well… the re-opening for those that survived through the lockdowns.

      • WTF

        Well, yeah, other than the thousands of businesses that couldn’t survive the shutdowns. In a just world there would be heads on pikes over the wanton arbitrary destruction committed by the politicians. This sort of lawless tyranny is what the second amendment was actually intended to address.

      • AlexinCT

        So they are no longer making the case that inflation is transitory or real good for the poor guy but bad for the rich, making that a good thing?

      • waffles

        Government is still trying to nip that in the bud.

    • waffles

      Agreed. All the “recovery” is in the form of massive spending filtered through all government agencies.

  3. slumbrew

    That first music link brings me back. Good tune.

    • Rat on a train

      How does masking effect band camp?

      • Festus

        You put one over your flute, just in case.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        In one of the videos a kid does have a piece of cloth over the end of his trumpet.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        (not a euphemism)

      • Rat on a train

        so actual cloth?

      • Festus

        I was referring to the dirty way as described in the movie,

    • The Last American Hero

      Our district does that. It’s that or no band. So whenever people keep talking about how everyone is so over Covid restrictions, I wonder what planet that live on.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        My God. If you have a kid in band they should announce “this is stupid” at the beginning of every lesson.

      • The Last American Hero

        I do, and he loves band. So the choices are: no band, fail band/get suspended, or bend the fucking knee.

        Since he loves band and wants to keep up grades to one day go to college, he bends the knee.

      • DEG

        It’s highly location dependent.

        I can go into Boston and see the Covid Cultists in the wild.

        In many parts of NH, no one gives a shit about Covid. Pennsylvania outside of Philly is the same.

      • The Last American Hero

        California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and most of the Eastern Seaboard aren’t “done with Covid restrictions” and likely won’t be for years.

      • DEG

        As I said, it’s location dependent.

        Go to a place where no one gives a shit. They’re out there. Even in California they exist.

      • rhywun

        It’s also occupation dependent, age dependent, national-origin dependent, and a few others.

    • Rebel Scum

      Masks really help when you are using a wind instrument…

  4. SDF-7

    The highly infectious variant led millions of workers to call in sick, or in some cases show up to work ill, in the past weeks.

    Wow, CNN — way to just repeat Baghdad Bob *cough* Psaki’s misdirection word for word there…

    • AlexinCT

      If you are still watching CNN, and worse, believing anything CNN says, then the problem is you.

      • Nephilium

        CNN said people like you would say that. They also said people like you are the enemy of the people.

      • AlexinCT

        If by people you mean the corruptocracy they lie for, then fuck yes, I am an enemy of those people…

    • rhywun

      I’m sure it did, and then 99.99 percent of them got better in a few days and nothing else happened.

      TREMBLE!

  5. AlexinCT

    What a shitshow of conflicting objectives. Nobody wins here. Which would be great if it only involved the principals of the dispute. Too bad it results in a shittier situation for normal people too.

    I am still not sure if these horrible disasters are caused by intent or ineptitude, but it feels like the end goal, people so fucked over and desperate that they will believe any and all lies the very government that has made it easy for life to fuck them in the ass tell them about how this time they will fix things…

  6. SDF-7

    CDC: “Masks really don’t do anything”.

    Also CDC: “Keep wearing them anyway!”

    Shocked government / leftists — “Whycome no one trusts in the CDC anymore?”

    :eyeroll:

    • AlexinCT

      Why do you think the machine is so hard at work censoring and canceling. Like I told my girl the other night: There has not been a single case in human history that I found when I looked where the people that demanded others be censored – for whatever reason, but especially because they were saying “bad things” – banned/canceled, or sent to camps (not needed anymore when you can simply leave them unable to earn a living and on the streets) turned out to be the good guys and fighting the good fight. Our government machine and one political party in particular is doing exactly that, but somehow so many believe they are the good guys?

      Yeah, we need an extinction level event, cause humanity needs a serious reset.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yeah, we need an extinction level event,

        Joe! Stop poking the Russian bear!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Last summer, the CDC recommended indoor masking for communities logging either an average of 50 Covid cases per 100,000 residents or a test positivity rate of at least 8 percent.

      That guidance has not changed. And as of Thursday, 99.9 percent of U.S. counties met the criteria for indoor masking.

      The guidance hasn’t changed because it obviously works.

      • AlexinCT

        If you assume the agenda was to help stymie the Kung Flu it sure doesn’t look like it works, but then again, that was not the agenda it was instituted for. They are sticking to it because they see it is working for the real agenda…

    • rhywun

      That’s why they’re pushing the masks that don’t let you breathe now. And pantyhose.

  7. rhywun

    But it’s an FA Cup weekend. So there’s that to enjoy.

    I would have except I dropped ESPN+ for jacking up the rate 40% after they promised not to.

    • Nephilium

      The only reason I have ESPN+ is the Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ bundle. I don’t think I’ve watched a single thing on it.

      • ScoobaSteve

        I have both Hulu and Disney+. I could get the package including ESPN for $0.01 per month more, but its not worth it to me.

      • sloopyinca

        Spend the penny. It’s worth it just to watch live Kabaddi from India. It’s hilarious. Like a combination of tag and smear the queer. And people are paid to play it!

    • Rat on a train

      Sports channels are overpriced. I recall my days with Comcast when there was a dispute with MASN. When they worked out their dispute, Comcast announced with joy that they would continue to be able to carry MASN because every Comcast subscriber was going to pay $7 extra each month. They were surprised when I told them to drop me to the basic (mainly local channels) tier because I refuse to pay another $7/month for a channel I don’t watch.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        They know full well that most people who are keeping cable rather than cutting the cord are doing so because of live sports. It’s why you can’t ever find just a sports package. It would cost essentially the same as the full package.

      • rhywun

        ESPN alone is something like $35 a month from every cable subscriber.

        I’m ready to cut the cord (plenty of live sports on, say, Fubo) but there isn’t a broadband competitor available to me unless I move. Or I would need to have one of those “conversations” with the cable company that I’m terrible at.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Cutting the cord will eventually work, but for most people it isn’t there yet.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ugh, ditto. Hold hands with me, Rhywun? Will buy you the tipple of your choice with the first month’s savings.

      • Rat on a train

        Or I would need to have one of those “conversations” with the cable company that I’m terrible at.
        They tried to talk me out of cutting cable. “You will lose the bundling discount. You will only end up saving $10 month but will miss out on all those channels.” I pointed out the $10 savings didn’t include the savings on equipment charges, taxes and fees. I offered to stay if they dropped the equipment charges. I ended up saving about $50 a month. That was 10 years ago. I have no idea what the charge now. I now spend about $20 month for streaming services.

      • R.J.

        Me as well. Actually on renewal I was offered the highest internet speed tier, nobody tried to sell me cable again. My monthly savings on boxes, useless wired phone and cable is $100. I will never look back. Another bonus is I can have just a TV, no ugly box and wires to deal with. Screw cable.

      • Mojeaux

        I must have cable for my aliens shows, true crime, and Hallmark movies.

      • Rat on a train

        I’m still on the low internet tier that they have raised from the original 5Gb to 50Gb over the years. I reused some coax wiring for a MOCA bridge to get ethernet to the living room without tearing up walls.
        In a WTF regarding cable television equipment charges, they send me a new router free every time I renew my contract even though I connect ethernet directly to the ONT. I have a box of them now.

      • R.J.

        If you name your shows, I will see which ones exist in the non-cable universe. You would be surprised what’s out there. Hallmark movies are definitely out there. Roku has at least one alien show channel and a ghost Hunter channel now. True crime channels abound in the non-cable space.

      • Rat on a train

        Hallmark movies are definitely out there
        Wife can confirm.

      • rhywun

        Fubo probably has all of that plus live sports. (I see the Hallmark Channel :))

  8. Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

    If, and it’s a big fucking if, Cuomo did this to Zucker then my opinion of him just went up. Still a piece of shit, but maybe not a stupid one.

    • Not Adahn

      You can’t be a mob boss being stupid.

    • AlexinCT

      Sleep with the fish Zuck!

    • Lackadaisical

      Eh, I’m not going to cheer too hard for any particular side in a fight between two sets of bad people. I’m rooting for both to lose.

      • Compelled Speechless

        They’ll both be jobless and poisonous to rehire. The lack of attention and influence that they so crave will crush what’s left of the pulsating balls of vile that stand in for their souls. I’d call that losing. At least until some other propaganda rag picks them up….

      • R C Dean

        They’ll both be jobless and poisonous to rehire.

        Like Toobin?

        Nah. They’ll lay low for a little while, and get picked up somewhere else in the Borg.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s what I like to hear, except the last part. Why did you have to ruin my fantasy?

  9. prolefeed

    Discussed the Texas power grid thing with my wife – she thinks they’ve “done nothing” to prevent Snowpacalypse style 2.0 blackouts, I said you don’t build a power grid to have zero blackouts during a 50 to a 100 year event because you’ll have a bunch of expensive power plants sitting idle.

    I pointed out that our revealed preference is that we don’t think we’ll have rolling blackouts this year, since we didn’t buy a backup diesel generator. And that I’m not worried about a couple of days of 17 degree lows, since that’s what’s known as “50% of winters here”.

    Power is still on at Chez Prolefeed.

    • Fourscore

      Power outages are rare here, even in the summer. We either have rain or snow but not freezing rain, that’s the bad stuff.

      • Rat on a train

        The January power outage in Virginia was caused by unusually heavy, wet snow. There have been many heavy snow storms in the 20+ years I’ve lived in the area. I have never seen trees bending and breaking under the weight of the snow before. I don’t fault Blackface for the power outage or the time to restore. He does deserve blame for leaving stranded motorists on I-95 for 24+ hours.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Power never even hiccupped here at the trash can. This storm was an every other year phenomenon. Besides the roads being a mess, the infrastructure is fine.

      Of course, people are ignoring that the issue last year wasn’t snow and ice. It was very low temperatures (for the area) for an extended period of time. This time, the lows are around 15*, which is typical for when a cold front comes through this time of year.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      since we didn’t buy a backup diesel generator

      Drop $600 on an 8k watt trifuel portable. Spend another 100 bucks on an outlet and interlock panel to safely feed your house through the panel. If power goes out, plug in the generator and then turn the breakers on you want to use. 8k watts isn’t enough to run everything in a house 24/7, but it’s enough to cycle everything and run lights continuously.

      If you have natural gas, add a connection and you can run your generator indefinitely. Otherwise, keep a few 20 lb propane cylinders on hand. Much safer and easier to store than diesel in large quantities over the long term.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I will add a caveat or two.

        Be very aware of the duty cycles on the inexpensive, consumer-grade generators. The windings are not designed to handle continuous loads for extended periods.

        Additionally, oil changes on 3600 rpm engines are a must do.

      • prolefeed

        The natural gas quit working last year, because it requires electricity. I’d have to have some other fuel to kickstart the electricity, then switch to natural gas.

        I’m not ready to have a bulky piece of machinery sitting unused in my garage year after year. My third bay is full enough with gardening stuff and rubbish cans. Another event like last year, I might change my mind.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Your natural gas service depends on electricity?

      • prolefeed

        It needs a spark to make it combust, is what I was told. Not an expert, but everyone in the neighborhood lost natural gas heating during the grid rolling blackouts.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ah I see. They lost heating because the air exchanger and fan won’t work without power.

        A generator will work just fine.

      • Count Potato

        The meter uses electricity?

      • DrOtto

        Supposedly the supply lines froze for the nat gas. It wasn’t an electrical issue. At least I don’t believe so.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now that can happen. I think the last time it occurred in Virginia was in the 80’s My father made a bundle renting portable heaters to the utility to thaw out frozen valves.

      • Lackadaisical

        I had a natural gas, automatic switch over at my old place. I think we used it twice in 5 years, but it was nice to have that security.

    • Homple

      ” I said you don’t build a power grid to have zero blackouts during a 50 to a 100 year event because you’ll have a bunch of expensive power plants sitting idle.”

      You do, however, take sensible winterizing measures to prevent the power plants you have from shutting down because it got cold.

  10. Fourscore

    In politics, it’s clowns all the way down

    • Festus

      Problem being, they’re not amusing or annoying Clowns anymore. They have grasped the meme and turned terrifying.

      • AlexinCT

        They are child raping, human guts eating, evil clowns…

  11. Festus

    Hahaha, the CNN night of long knives. Too fucking perfect.

  12. Not Adahn

    Re: TX Blizzafreezeageddon blackout:

    NPR has an interview with a womyn who when asked, what she’s done to prepare for another blackout ACTUALLY SAID (and I am not making this up) “donated to Beto O’Rorke’s campaign.”

    • WTF

      Mental illness. I bet she was smug and self-righteous about it.

      • Festus

        I hope that she winds up in an emergency shelter so that she doesn’t freeze to death.

    • Atanarjuat

      “I gave money to a preening sugar baby’s vanity campaign.”

  13. Don escaped Texas

    “spend-a-thon that bore no fruit whatsoever”

    That’s not economically possible. We can agree that it was in and of itself was ill-advised and it’s impact will be inefficient and market corrupting, but it’s income for someone.

    Whether the spendathon or omicron dominate the curve over one or two months is quite another question….we’ll have some idea by March.

    To the extent that Glibs serves as a keen observer of truths in the marketplace of ideas, the least we can do is keep our charts in good order and the chronograph wound.

  14. Pope Jimbo

    Sorry to to off topic (but it is cop related. So sorta?). Minneapolis cops demonstrate that keen attention to detail that made them so many friends with “civilians” in the past.

    A bad, bad, bad, bad shoot. No knock raid where they shoot a guy in a blanket. The dead person is black, not a criminal and not named in the search warrant. The warrant was to grab a guy suspected in a homicide in St. Paul.

    Minneapolis police body camera video released Thursday night showed several officers rushing into a downtown apartment shouting “Search warrant!” and then shooting and killing Amir Locke as he stirred beneath a blanket on a couch with a gun in his hand.

    The 55-second video, first in slow motion and then real time, shows the SWAT officers enter and close in on the 22-year-old Locke with their guns drawn and equipped with mounted lights that illuminated the otherwise dark apartment. The incident Wednesday morning unfolded in seconds before Locke was shot and killed.

    Uffda. If you can stomach the video, it is a stretch to say that the victim was any threat even though he had a gun in his hand.

    Fucking new chief should immediately be fired for being so stupid and allowing the goons to go on no knock raids.

    • Fourscore

      “Don’t take your guns to bed, son”

      • Pope Jimbo

        If I lived in downtown Mpls, I would have a pistola nearby.

      • Fourscore

        I’ve heard that there are some people that sleep with a gun nearby, in a place that’s convenient to reach from bed. Don’t know the validity of that though.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought about keeping one under the bed. It’s probably the easiest to reach without higher risk of accident.

      • sloopyinca

        Get a combo safe that screws into the side of your nightstand. We have one on each side of our bed and I regularly practice unlocking it and retrieving a handgun.

      • UnCivilServant

        …handgun

        There’s the problem. I’m waiting for the SCOTUS ruling on Bruen before trying to get one of those.

        Storing my longarms at the bottom of the Hudson is more convenient anyway.

      • sloopyinca

        Oh yeah, I forgot the 2A didn’t apply in NY.

      • EvilSheldon

        Also, make sure that all of your exterior doors can stand up to a few good kicks. Reinforcing your bedroom door is probably a good idea, too. Anything to give yourself a few extra minutes to figure out the situation.

      • Sean

        Wait, I thought everyone just put their EDC pistol on the nightstand?

        /confused

      • UnCivilServant

        Not the way I fumble for the alarm clock.

      • AlexinCT

        I am with you on keeping mine next to me on the nightstand. I am a super light sleeper and for me this solution works. If you are not someone that wakes up quick this might not be a viable solution for you…

      • Lackadaisical

        Nothing like a negligent discharge to wake you up right quick though.

      • EvilSheldon

        My home defense gun isn’t the same as my carry pistol. Same model, but bigger, with a mounted light and extendos.

      • Timeloose

        Night stand on a shelf under the alarm clock right next to a mini-mag light and a spare mag. The pit bull at the edge of the bed helps as well.

      • l0b0t

        Sigh… NYC. Machete tucked within reach, spear-gun by the door.

      • slumbrew

        Nothing like a negligent discharge to wake you up right quick though.

        Old co-worker came _extremely_ close to shooting his wife in the middle of the night.

        He was a “light sleeper” but didn’t wake up when she got up to go to the bathroom.

        He _did_ wake up when she came back to the bedroom…

        Dunno if he re-thought the pistol on the nightstand after that.

      • Not Adahn

        They make really pricey underbed safes for longarms.

      • EvilSheldon

        They are expensive, but they’re great for keeping multiple long guns reasonably available.

      • Not Adahn

        My EDC is in the nightstand.

        My home defense gun is at my “barricade” position (behind a dresser with LOS to the bedroom door.)

      • Gender Traitor

        ::raises hand:: Two theoretical brackets that theoretically slip between the mattress and box spring, theoretically spaced just right to hold a theoretical 20 gauge. Theoretically, that really couldn’t get any more convenient, don’tcha think?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Our only hope in this shooting is that the victim seems to be a truly innocent person. So everyone will agree that the shooting was wrong. BLM and the race hustlers never seem to go to the mat to protest the killing of an honest guy. They only like protesting when thugs get killed.

      • sloopyinca

        The real saving grace in this situation is the low temps. Because they’re gonna call it a good shoot (because he had a gun) and the weather is the only thing that’s gonna keep people from burning down the city.
        Unfortunately the people who will cry for justice always go looting and burning businesses instead of torching city hall. Which I’d fully support.

      • AlexinCT

        Yuck…

        I can already see all the pasty white freaks in shorts & t-shirts waltzing around with “I just popped a load in your mouth” look on their faces out there…

        Scary shit.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Are you tan shaming me?

        And if it hits 42, I ain’t going to cover up just so your delicate sensibilities aren’t disturbed.

      • AlexinCT

        It’s never the people you would like to see with less clothing that are the ones you see..

        And I am still rocking a nice tan from my scuba trip a month ago….

    • Rat on a train

      Why no-knock? They can’t use the drug flush excuse.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It was for the apprehension of a suspect of a homicide in another city! He could have flushed down the … um, let’s see…. the murder vicitm’s body?

      • Rat on a train

        The police have heard about all the guns lost in water. They were afraid he would flush the murder weapon.

    • EvilSheldon

      So the cops did a dynamic entry without knowing exactly who was where in the house? Not just assholes, but incompetent ones…

      • Not Adahn

        Listen, you are just a civilian. You are not qualified to judge the competence of highly trained law enforcement officers.

      • EvilSheldon

        Show me a highly trained law enforcement officer then. 😉

      • Lackadaisical

        Seems de rigeur, at least for every raid that gets in the news they manage to shoot the wrong person or get the wrong address.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m expecting the totally organic, in no way centrally organized and planned, 72.8% peaceful protests to break out across the globe over this any minute. Maybe they can keep Zucker around at CNN for another couple weeks to orchestrate one more international sabre rattling. You know, for old times sake.

  15. Cy Esquire

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-police-to-get-more-help-from-rcmp-to-address-trucker-convoy-protest-1.5766001

    “More serious reports of residents being harassed and threatened with rape and violence for wearing masks or being physically assaulted while walking in their neighbourhoods have caused uproar on social media and led to tense questions in Wednesday’s briefing between city councillors, the police and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson.”

    I’ll take “Shit that never happened” for $600 Alex!

    • Festus

      Yeah, that one is total bullshit. I know working men, hell, I’m one of them. Never happened.

    • sloopyinca

      I bet it did happen. And I bet it was undercover feds (what’s the Canadian equivalent to feds, btw? “Gloooooowies” perhaps?) what done it.

    • AlexinCT

      Were they wearing MAGA hats? Maybe singing Putin’s praises? Cause that would really have added some oomph to this fable…

      • Compelled Speechless

        They were carrying nooses and bleach in cup warmers!!!

    • Don escaped Texas

      rape AND violence

      • Lackadaisical

        It’s the only thing they know. /Prog

        I’m gonna go Dave Chappelle and say I’ll believe it if their Grandma is captured on video with the guy’s birth certificate in hand while he performs the crime.

      • Swiss Servator

        Way to light the STEVE SMITH signal…

    • The Last American Hero

      mounted horsemen vs. semi’s? I’ll put my money down on the truckers.

  16. AlexinCT

    This was probably amazing. If I had a chance to have been watching it, I’d have been jacking it like Toobin on Zoom.

    There is so much more here than meets the eye. Zuck is an evil fucker, and him just saying “My bad, I am resigning” sounds like pure bullshit to me. Remember, CNN’s viewership is down by some 80-90% – I guess even the most rabid asshat with Trump living rent free in their head eventually had enough of being fed shit sammiches. Several members of their cast have been outed as being beyond human scum (and I suspect like with icebergs this is just the tip of how fucking many scumbag humans work there), and that has got to scare the other criminal liars. But there is also the whole problem with the Cuomo NY crime family’s fall and their relationship to CNN. No, I think Zuck saw some real trouble coming CNN’s way, like Whoopi does when she sees food and starts yelling “GET IN MAH BELLY”, and opted to exit stage left.

    • invisible finger

      I thought CNN was up for sale. Getting rid of some albatrosses might be an effort to improve the curb appeal.

      • AlexinCT

        I would buy CNN for $1 if they then let me make that chubby bald asshat my personal bitch….

      • Pope Jimbo

        You wouldn’t have to do anything Alex.

        Stelter would be voluntarily licking your boots/ass the second you became his boss. He doesn’t care who his master is, just that he has one.

      • AlexinCT

        That display of reasoning your holiness, is why you lead a pack of believers and I am just a follower.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well when you get tired of Stelter and need a break, send him over. My boots could use some polishing.

  17. Rebel Scum

    America’s economic recovery is about to go into reverse

    That happened when coronatarian state governments prevented people from working when the scamdemic began. Welcome to the party.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Which cut killed caesar?

  18. Rebel Scum

    A bipartisan group of senators is within striking distance of a deal on a bill that would impose crippling sanctions on Russia for its hostilities against Ukraine.

    The USG seems to be acting in a manner not in the benefit of the people.

    • Fourscore

      Brandon’s threatening to boycott America’s gas station, that’ll help keep prices down

    • Festus

      The Democrats are desperately looking for an out. War might work fine for poll numbers but they’ll never pay the cost. It’s all so seedy and expected. Everyone knows this but almost nobody will chirp about it. Fuck you Brandon and fuck you Brandeau.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The sad part is that the next reporter didn’t say “Ditto to everything Matt was saying. What real evidence are you talking about?”

      • B.P.

        Right at the end: Either you believe the stuff I’m telling you, while not giving concrete evidence, or you’re falling for Russian misinformation.

        I really hope people are slowly getting wise to this sort of bullshit.

    • WTF

      Has Russia actually committed any hostilities against Russia at this point? If not, wouldn’t imposing sanctions anyway just remove any reason for restraint?

      • WTF

        Fuck, “against Ukraine”.

      • AlexinCT

        Does the Holodomor count?

      • WTF

        Not according to Walter Duranty and the NYT.

      • Rat on a train

        Annexing Crimea is more recent.

      • R.J.

        I liked your original statement better.

      • Not an Economist

        There are accusations (and some evidence) that there are Russian troops among the rebels fighting against Ukraine. And there is evidence the Russians shot down an airliner over Ukraine territory.

        Not saying we should do anything but Russia probably has been doing shit to Ukraine for a few years now.

      • Lackadaisical

        If by a few you mean 250, then yes.

      • Not Adahn

        Since Crimea? Or since installing a puppet government in Donetsk and Luhansk?

      • Atanarjuat

        It’s purely defensive, in response to NATO threats to bring Ukraine into its protection and put “defensive” missile launchers there that also happen to be able to be used offensively.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Why don’t we round up the kids of all the important people in govt and send them to the Ukraine.

      The same way we station enough troops between the DMZ and Seoul, the VIP kids would be a human tripwire. Surely our public servants couldn’t object to their kids being used as fodder in this international dick waving episode?

      The only downside is that Biden and Pelosi’s kids would raise the Ukraine’s per capita corruption level singlehandedly. I imagine the other kids are equally horrible.

      • Fourscore

        Hunter could work out a deal where he makes money and the Big Guy gets the credit and peace is restored. Not cheap though.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If all the politician kids were herded up into one place, the Russians might not attack, but US truckers might convoy up to run those bastards over.

      • AlexinCT

        Domestic Terrorism!

      • Lackadaisical

        Yes, that would solve the domestic terrorism problem.

    • rhywun

      It could get amusing when Joe tries to tell Germany to stop doing business with Russia.

    • l0b0t

      Has there ever been an example, ever, of economic sanctions causing a nation-state to change its behavior or act against its perceived interests? Politicians love them some sanctions, but are they at all efficacious?
      Also, would not massively increasing US domestic energy production do more to reduce Russia’s ability to afford foreign adventurism? It might even bring back those $1.64 per gallon gas prices from 2018.

      • Festus

        FDR choked out Japan’s oil supply. That worked out well.

  19. Rebel Scum

    As Covid cases and related hospitalizations fall nationwide, Americans — exhausted by two years of pandemic — are increasingly asking when masks can come off indoors.

    “Not yet,” says both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many infectious disease experts.

    1) The pandemic was over before it was announced. It is endemic. Learn to live with it.
    2) I never participated in the wearing of shame muzzle and I’m not about to start.
    3) Kindly fuck off.

  20. UnCivilServant

    Where did the article title go?

    • Not Adahn

      Your browser has a virus. Kindly do the needful and click the link provided and I will remove it for a nominal fee.

    • Festus

      Probably up to Banjo’s cervix. They are doing God’s work birthing Glib-broads.

    • Pope Jimbo

      lifetime supply

      Wouldn’t that be one? Or is she some Gsa Gsa Gabor type who is going to have 10 husbands.

      She takes around a kilo per month of the meat herself and also finds much of her own food by picking seaweed and sorrel, and catching crabs.

      Oh, I see. Yeah a gal who is always catching crabs every time she leaves the house will probably go through a few hubbys.

      • Not Adahn

        Wouldn’t that be one? Or is she some Gsa Gsa Gabor type who is going to have 10 husbands.

        Obviously she’ll need to take them for a test drive, and finding one that actually has the stamina to live her preferred lifestyle will take some time.

    • Fourscore

      A nice left hand bolt action, too. That’s my kind of rif…oops, I mean woman

      • Not Adahn

        And I can’t believe the enlightened UK government allows illegal assassination racist mass-shooting silencers!

    • EvilSheldon

      That is so awesome that I’m not even going to joke about it, for fear of tainting the awesomeness…

      • Festus

        I had that tune running through my head not three days ago. Uncanny.

    • B.P.

      “Graduate leaves inner city life to become huntress on a remote island”

      There are fewer than 50K people in Perth, Scotland.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Other experts suggest that the metrics to determine mask use should not be limited to local areas, or even the United States.

    “We need to think of this as a global virus,” Dr. Pedro Piedra, a professor of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said.

    Piedra suggested adding the consideration of how well the world at large is vaccinated against Covid-19, “so we don’t get these waves of viruses coming into the U.S.”

    “I understand perfectly well that we’re trying to go back to having a normal society, but the truth is that this virus came not at our request,” Piedra said. “It came, and it has had a huge societal impact in terms of death and hospitalization in the U.S. and many other countries.”

    No, people like you have imposed a huge societal impact, and the sooner we’re rid of you Safety Nazis the better.

    Do what’s best for society, and set yourself on fire.

    • WTF

      but the truth is that this virus came not at our request,

      That might be up for debate.

    • R C Dean

      Other experts suggest that the metrics to determine mask use should not be limited to local areas, or even the United States.

      Because people need to wear masks in Tucson to protect them from viruses in Sri Lanka, or something.

    • Plisade

      “I understand perfectly well…”

      Let me stop you right there.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    One of the most glaring examples of the global impact of the coronavirus is the omicron variant, which became dominant in the U.S. within a single month after it was first detected in southern Africa.

    And your pigeon superstitions did absolutely nothing to impede its spread.

    • WTF

      And it turned out to be no worse than a typical cold or flu.

  23. The Hyperbole

    Wonder who will sanction us for dropping a bomb that killed a bunch of women and children yesterday?

    We did what now?

    • sloopyinca

      We carried out a “successful raid” where a terrorist “blew himself up and killed four women and at least six children”. And he even managed to make it look like the blast came from the outside of the building and left some of it covered with large caliber pockmarks.

      • sloopyinca

        The real chef’s kiss in that article is that he allegedly blew an entire building up with a suicide vest he was wearing and they still managed to identify him through fingerprints.
        And the media printed it with a straight face.

      • AlexinCT

        “It was HIS OWN fault!”

      • The Hyperbole

        he even managed to make it look like the blast came from the outside of the building

        How so, I’m no expert but the video images I see don’t give me any clue one way or the other

        he allegedly blew an entire building up with a suicide vest

        Looks like most of the building is still standing.

      • sloopyinca

        I should have said an entire floor of a building.

        And that wall is blown in, not out.

        Everybody I’ve seen give analysis of the blast says it’s indicative of it being blown in.

        Furthermore, they’re calling a raid where we went into Syria and a house full of people died, mostly women and children, is being hailed as a success while the same people were certain Trump was starting WW3 when he had a terrorist leader killed with no collateral damage.

      • The Hyperbole

        I have no problem criticizing them for calling this a success, even if it went down exactly as they say, The war on terror is a complete failure and if this guy was a threat to us I’d like to know how. I’m apparently not seeing the same thing you are, looks like the blast took out one room maybe 20″ x 20′, part of the third floor is still standing there is debris around the out side of the house, don’t know what wall you are seeing that is blown in, all I see is the roof which makes sense – if the walls are blown out the roof would fall in. If you got a link to the guys doing the analysis I’d like to see what their reasoning is.

      • sloopyinca

        You see all those blocks laying all over the rest of the top of the second floor. Those were exterior walls at one point.
        It would help if we could see the area surrounding the building to see if there are a bunch of blocks there as well. But either way, it was an ill-advised raid that resulted in a bunch of deaths of women and children and the loss of an American chopper we had to also blow up.

      • The Hyperbole

        Without seeing a before picture I can’t be certain but, to me it looks like the third floor only covered half the second, where the people are standing and those blocks are was an exterior space, you can tell by the parapet wall that is still standing, and how the roof is only half as wide as the second floor, those block are from an exterior wall but they are on the outside of where that wall was. Also if you watch the video in your link there are plenty of views of the the exterior and yes there are blocks and even a window frame scattered out in the yard.

      • Atanarjuat

        This kind of shit being so common is why I can’t watch fictional movies where people get justice and wrongs are righted.

      • WTF

        Yeah, as soon as I heard that he supposedly had “wired up explosives to take out his family as well” and that most of the top floor was taken off, I figured we
        were listening to bullshit to try to avoid responsibility for the “collateral damage”.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yeah, saw that this morning before the links went up. When I heard them say he used a suicide vest to cause damage like that my eyes rolled back so hard they nearly did a full rotation.

      • SDF-7

        Sounds like they really want to remind folks of Afghanistan, their last great success. Bold strategy there, Cotton…..

  24. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Jim Acosta said network would now become ‘Fox News Light’

    I guess the question of whether they actually believe their own bullshit is answered.

    Textbook groupthink and value reinforcement.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Acosta is probably worried that a new boss might a) demand he do his actual job of reporting and stop preening and b) give raises based on merit.

  25. Rebel Scum

    Jim Acosta said network would now become ‘Fox News Light’

    Interestingly Jim Acosta is routinely guilty of that which he accuses FNC.

  26. Rebel Scum

    The two had been out drinking at a bar with another person earlier in the night in nearby Moorhead, but things took a turn when Erlbacher spread mayo on Solberg’s food, which riled Solberg and sparked a bar fight, the Woodbine Twiner-Herald reported.

    A furious Erlbacher called Solberg’s half-brother, Craig Pryor, on the way to the café and threatened to set Solberg’s house on fire and shoot him, the newspaper said. Pryor later came to Dave’s Old Home in Pisgah, where another confrontation was brewing.

    Mayonnaise a lot of weirdness in this story.

    • AlexinCT

      Is mayonnaise an euphemism for man goo? Cause I can see someone getting mad at that condiment if it wasn’t something they enjoyed.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I think it’s spelled “condoment” in that particular context.

      • Rebel Scum

        Condiments? I do not use them…

    • Trigger Hippie

      It’ll be a miracle if Swissy doesn’t whip you for that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Swissy and his buddies Jon Hamm and Ryan always get worked up about mayo.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The reason he got run over a second time and a third time was because he shouted “Take me to the Mayo Clinic” after getting hit the first time.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Aioli! Youse guys are asking for an artisanal narrowed gaze.

    • Swiss Servator

      ….

      *shakes head and walks away*

      • SDF-7

        Oh my God! You broke Swissy! YOU BASTARDS!

  27. robc

    Posting a link with an anti-ad-blocker wall is functionally equivalent to posting a link behind a paywall.

    Zero chance I will read either. And just as tacky on the part of the poster.

    • sloopyinca

      Which ones?

      • robc

        Not Adahn’s at #22 set this off. But I wasn’t wanting to call him out, just making a general point.

      • Not Adahn

        I am incapable of feeling shame.

        But more seriously, I have no way of determining what kind of hoolie-hoo or fritzenjamming is going on with any particular website as long as it doesn’t trip the “suspicious website” block at work.

        Which all remote storage does. I don’t consider it tacky, but I’m also not the boss of you.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Jim Acosta said network would now become ‘Fox News Light’

    Satan is my news director.

    • AlexinCT

      He is not looking forward to no longer being able to just tell whatever lies they want to help the dnc and the corruptocracy… Reporting something factual? Fuck no. NEVAH! That shit would hurt the cause…

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think he is more worried about the mandatory hair bleaching and boob jobs all Fox News reporters are required to get.

      • Fourscore

        Fox gets my vote, blondes with big titties are great start in the morning and a nice way to go to sleep.

        Thumbs down with the Judy Woodruffs and Cristiane Amampours of the journalistic world.

      • AlexinCT

        Those are men, baby!

        /Austin Powers on the ugly journos

  29. Festus

    Ha ha! Just got the new safety training video from corporate and it’s en Espanol! Fucking clowns are everywhere, lately. The walls are closing in.

    • AlexinCT

      Reply to them with “Mama me la pinga, chingones!” You should get a promotion for being bi or tri lingual seeing you live in the country that is occupied by frogs and might know some frogspeak,

      • Festus

        I knew what the gist of the thing was but come on, Man. How could you fuck that one up?

      • AlexinCT

        HR…

        Nuff said.

      • Festus

        “Mama es tu tambien”.

      • Not Adahn

        That was an interesting movie.

      • Festus

        She is a toothy but busty interesting woman.

      • Not Adahn

        But apparently she doesn’t let the teeth get in the way.

      • SDF-7

        Tua mater caligula gerit.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Yeah, saw that this morning before the links went up. When I heard them say he used a suicide vest to cause damage like that my eyes rolled back so hard they nearly did a full rotation.

    There was this movie I saw one time where the guy completely levelled a city block with two well thrown sticks of dynamite. Of course that’s what happened.

    • AlexinCT

      Hollywood explosions?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Pulleeeeeeeeeze!

        Michael Bay Explosions!

      • AlexinCT

        I stand corrected….

  31. Rebel Scum

    Despite promising months before to the millions affected by last year’s freeze that the lights would stay on this year, Governor Abbott refused to make any guarantees for the power grid this week.

    No one can make guarantees about what damage might result from a storm.

    • Tonio

      Many people just do not understand the scale of utility infrastructure and the expense involved in upgrading it. The same people who say “they” should just bury the neighborhood power lines are the same ones who will whine loudest about the months (years) of construction and traffic disruption, and then complain when their electric bills go up.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

        Burying lines is expensive. And homeowners piss and moan about losing a bush or tree in their front yard to the work.

      • Not Adahn

        And replacing downed power lines is good union jobs!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Replacing buried lines is also more expensive.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup. I used to think they were a great idea until I started to experience them. Cost us a pretty penny to replace some at work and they didn’t even do what they should have (prevent storms from knocking out our power)

  32. Festus

    They also spelled training course as “coarse”. HR, our best and brightest!

    • AlexinCT

      People getting studies degrees don’t tend to be the intellectual types Festus…

      • Festus

        They are mostly ESL types. I’ll give them a little leeway regarding the Engrish Rangruage.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Zucker was cast out of the company with immediate effect on Wednesday after bosses at WarnerMedia and AT&T, which owns WarnerMedia, were told of the affair by Chris Cuomo’s lawyers.

    “Cast out”

    Like, from Heaven.

    *outright, prolonged laughter*

    • Festus

      They chucked him out like the MOAB! Zucker and Stelter. Fat Man and Little Boy.

      • Festus

        I should write for Guttfeld.

      • AlexinCT

        Needs more fart jokes…

      • Festus

        Always needs more fart jokes!

    • R C Dean

      were told of the affair by Chris Cuomo’s lawyers

      From what I can tell, she was his sidepiece for years, and it was a wide-open secret.

      Speaking of which, why does she still have a job?

      • Not Adahn

        Why do you hate strong independent women you misogynist?

  34. Rebel Scum

    It’s about time to pivot to a winning strategy.

    The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden is launching new gun controls, which include a National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative.

    The WH used a press release to explain the initiative “will train a national cadre of prosecutors and disseminate investigation and prosecution tools to help bring cases against those who use ghost guns to commit crimes.”

    The WH also noted that Biden also plans to step up actions against “unlicensed dealers” who sell firearms without background checks.

    I didn’t realize the ghosts got ahold of the Ghostbuster’s guns.

    • Festus

      He tripped over his dog about the 2nd Amendment. Good Lord, what has happened to our continent?

    • Timeloose

      Yes all those criminals who cant get illegal guns have drill presses, fast prototype machines, and a CNC mill.

      • Not Adahn

        If they can set up industrial chemical factories under laundromats and distribute product through fried chicken places, surely it wouldn’t be too difficult to set up a weapons factory in a hardware store.

      • Timeloose

        They could, but it is still harder than getting a illegal gun for the average criminal.

    • The Other Kevin

      I don’t think they’re smart enough to do this, but Conspiracy Theory Kevin might surmise that all the coordinated violence, defunding the cops, and not prosecuting criminals was planned. Then the increase in crime would be the perfect cover for massive gun control.

      • Count Potato

        That’s what they did in the 70’s, and 80’s.

    • creech

      It is doubtful these guns are being made in underground shops, right? So where are every Tom, Dick and J’avon on the corners of every major city getting their guns? Are there major thefts from gun factories or shipments? Are they coming from burglaries where guns are taken from nightstands and closets?Are gunrunners bringing in truck loads from “easy to buy” states? Dredging lake and river bottoms where gun-laden boats tend to tip over?
      Seriously, where are the yoots obtaining their firearms?

      • EvilSheldon

        90-odd percent of the time, they steal them from legal owners.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        You can easily buy guns anywhere you can drugs. I’m guessing the mass of guns on the black market is large enough to be it’s own self-contained ecosystem. Meaning buying a 38 special on the corner doesn’t mean it was stolen that weekend out of Indiana. It was probably stolen a couple decades ago and has worked its way through many owners.

      • Fourscore

        Never buy a gun in a parking lot, from the trunk of a car, from a guy you met on Craigslist. One of the two parties is going to end up with both the money and the gun.

      • rhywun

        Someone made a very serious documentary about that.

      • DEG

        There has been a rash of attempted burglaries of gun shops in NH. The guys show up at night, try to break in, fail. One member of the gang got busted thanks to him showing his face to a security camera.

    • l0b0t

      Why are they taking the lift down the slope? I thought one rode to the top and skied down.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Because it is Russia type Georgia? Everything is backwards in that part of the world.

      • Fourscore

        Taliban Amusement Park?

      • Lackadaisical

        Looks like the thing was going in reverse at double speed at that. If you look closely you can see they’re all turned the opposite way.

    • Lackadaisical

      Kudos to those smart enough to bail at the last minute, the guys slamming into the back up of chairs and being flung 30 feet… Probably a bad day.

    • db

      Is that recent or a replay of the one that happened a few years ago? I recall that one was in Georgia as well

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s probably old. Like me.

    • Timeloose

      Why are all of the posts after it look like they are from grinder?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    But more seriously, I have no way of determining what kind of hoolie-hoo or fritzenjamming is going on with any particular website as long as it doesn’t trip the “suspicious website” block at work.

    My current “feed” for reasons I will not go into, sucks. Multimedia extravaganzas with unkillable autoplay video and dancing advertisements bring my computer to a hands-and-knees crawl. Looking at you, Daily Mail.

    It’s like being back on dialup sometimes.

    Nobody’s fault but mine. Some day I’ll have a real home again.

  36. The Other Kevin

    I think the NHL all-star game is this weekend? You can tell how excited I am about it. Spoiler alert: I’m not.

    • Nephilium

      The NBA all-star game is coming up in a couple of weeks. The only reason I’m aware of it is so that I can avoid downtown while it’s going on.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    The WH used a press release to explain the initiative “will train a national cadre of prosecutors and disseminate investigation and prosecution tools to help bring cases against those who use ghost guns to commit crimes.”

    Phew. I was kind of worried, for a minute.

    • Pope Jimbo

      cadre

      I know the CCP has bought up a lot of the Biden administration, but they really should let a local proof read the press releases. Words like that are a giveaway.

      • AlexinCT

        They needed another word they could replace for mandarinate, because that one was a giveaway too…

    • R C Dean

      those who use ghost guns to commit crimes

      Both of them?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Don’t get your hopes up. The last election had another Somali challenger who was also a liberal kook and outraised Omar locally. Still got trounced.

      Omar’s support isn’t from the local Somali community. Lots of them don’t like her at all (especially when she ditched hubby #2) and was seen buying beer. Nope, her core supporters are the proggie white people who love having their Congresswoman be a POC, immigrant, socialist, Squad member.

      • AlexinCT

        I thought Omar’s support was from the people she paid to run voter fraud scams. Doesn’t she have an army of paid people doing ballot harvesting for pay for her?

      • R C Dean

        That, and intimidating the opposition with threats of violence.

        Basically, she runs her district like it was in Somalia.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I think he is more worried about the mandatory hair bleaching and boob jobs all Fox News reporters are required to get.

    Will they make Stelter’s boobs bigger, or smaller?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Doesn’t matter. No one will notice because everyone will be mesmerized by his blond back hair.

      • Festus

        Gives you sumpin’ to hang on to.

      • sloopyinca

        I assumed he had sprouts coming from the eyes all over his back and that’s how he asexually reproduces.
        That’s the way it works for tubers.

      • R C Dean

        Step away from the SugarFree . . . .

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Stelter is the boob.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a slaughterhouse

    More than 900,000 people have died from Covid-19 as of Friday, according to NBC News’ tally, and data shows that states with low vaccination rates have had the biggest share of deaths over the past six weeks.

    The country has recorded 100,000 deaths since Dec. 13. During that period, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania have the largest number of deaths when adjusted for population. Of those states, Pennsylvania is the only one to have fully vaccinated more than 60 percent of its population.

    ——-

    More than 60,000 deaths were reported in January alone, almost double the number recorded in November, before the highly contagious omicron variant began spreading across the country.

    Well, there you are. You can’t very well argue with that.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      We don’t talk about age anymore do we?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      data shows that states with low vaccination rates have had the biggest share of deaths over the past six weeks

      No matter what data they present, you can be assured that they spent a significant amount of time cherry picking the period and slicing it up so that it sends the desired message.

      Meanwhile in Israel, the most vaccinated country in the world….

      The chart reflects serious cases, July through now.

  40. sloopyinca

    I’m curious why were picking sides in the Ukraine-Russia fiasco. Woildnt we be better served to watch two corruptocracies fuck with each other and keep our men and women at home? We manage to do it when it happens in Africa or Asia. But we just have to stick our duck in every European meat-grinder we can.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s hard to stay out of it when one of the parties can expose your own corrupt dealings.

    • l0b0t

      Hey! We didn’t pay the Bidens all that money just to be left to Russia’s tender ministrations!” – Ukrainian politicians, gangsters, and oligarchs (probably)

    • Tonio

      Putin bad. Distraction from the administrations previous and ongoing failures. Do-somethingism…

    • R C Dean

      Here’s the deal, I think.

      The Ukraine has a ton of blackmail material on Biden and very likely others. We know this because of Hunter’s million-dollar-a-year gig and Biden’s interference with the Ukrainian politician.

      The Russians have a ton of blackmail material on a lot of American politicians. We know this because everything, and I mean everything, we have done around energy policy works to Russia’s benefit. Choking off American production, greenlighting the Russian pipeline, blocking alternatives to the Russian pipeline, etc.

      This is all for show.* Everybody wins – Biden gets to act tough, Putin gets to act tough, the Ukrainians get to say they have international support, and this will play out the way it would have anyway.

      *So far. What starts as playacting can easily cross the line.

    • kbolino

      Ukraine has been a backwater proving ground for the Anglo-American-EU NGO complex for decades now. Losing it to Russia, or even Russian-aligned populism, would be a major spiritual blow to the people who believe “liberal democracy” is the correct system to rule the world.

      Of course, as events have repeatedly shown, the UK/US-EU system eventually wins in the end, even with setbacks, so freaking out over the “loss” of Ukraine seems shortsighted to me. Ukraine has already had one “color revolution”, it’s not like the ground isn’t fertile for another.

      I guess Putin’s (somewhat noticeable) competence animates them in a way that not even the Taliban can anymore.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s a remarkable turn for people that loved Obama scoffing at Russian mal-intentions. It demonstrates a truly remarkable lack of self-awareness.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Furthermore, they’re calling a raid where we went into Syria and a house full of people died, mostly women and children, is being hailed as a success while the same people were certain Trump was starting WW3 when he had a terrorist leader killed with no collateral damage.

    Just wait ’til you see what happens when Putin does a surgical anti-terror strike in the Ukraine.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Toning down the rhetoric.

    While discussing a proposed Missouri self-defense law, host Joy Reid said, “As expected, Mark McCloskey, who is running for the open Missouri Senate seat, praised the bill. Because it means that he essentially, and his wife, could have been in their slippers and shoot every single Black Lives Matter person that walked by, legally, and they would not even be detained.”

    Packnett Cunningham said, “Joy, I’m so glad you reminded us that the McCloskeys were front row and center to testify on behalf of passing this bill. This was, of course, the couple that was made famous by stepping outside of their restricted Covenant mansion in St. Louis, Glocks in tow, pulling their guns out on unarmed black protestors. But of course, to people like the McCloskeys, black skin is weapon enough, and this is precisely the problem. This is exactly what this bill is designed to do. It is to legitimize seeing blackness as a weapon in and of itself and then justify our murders.”

    She added, “I also want to set the proper historical context because back in the day, by 1950, Missouri had the second-highest number of lynchings outside of the deep south. So when folks talk about making America great again, that’s the kind of Missouri grand ol’ tradition that they want to return to. They want to return to days when you could lynch or murder black folks, and there would be absolutely no retribution for it. That’s not hyperbole. I’m telling you as a black Missourian, and as a protestor, that is reality.”

    Naturally, this characterization of events and the proposed legislation is completely accurate…

    • Not Adahn

      A Raven Arms Glock-15 assault rifle with the tingy that goes up and modified firing pin that allows it to have fully automatic clips and a chainsaw bayonet.

    • sloopyinca

      I’m shocked they got one thing right: it was a restricted mansion.

      And the people traipsing through their lawn broke down a gate that stated it was private property. Unlike the Capitol building, I might add. But some of the people who allegedly trespassed there are still being held without bail and without a court date in sight.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Totes different. One was a sacred hall of our civic religion. The other was a barn for tax cattle.

      • juris imprudent

        One belongs to us all, the other is a selfish obsession about power and status.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    I’m curious why were picking sides in the Ukraine-Russia fiasco.

    Muh NATO!

    You know, that club which should have been disbanded a few decades ago.

    • AlexinCT

      Actually it is all about the elites and their financial rackets. NATO has very little to do with them all jockeying for position so they can rob their tax payers and launder the money they are stealing through countries like Ukraine, and is merely a distraction.

    • sloopyinca

      But neither party to this “conflict” is a NATO member.

      • Atanarjuat

        NATO countries are arming Ukraine, so the organization gives the US military-industrial complex a reason to profit from making Russia the bad guy.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    No matter what data they present, you can be assured that they spent a significant amount of time cherry picking the period and slicing it up so that it sends the desired message.

    Just imagine how sputtering mad they’d get if you could get into one of those press conferences and tell them their claims lack context.

    • sloopyinca

      Remember when the left decried military adventurism and the right ripped on republicans like Ron Paul when he did the same?

      It wasn’t that long ago.

      • juris imprudent

        Team loyalty FTW!

  45. DEG

    The economy added 467,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, significantly better than most economists had expected.

    Huh. What did ADP report?

    “Not yet,” says both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many infectious disease experts.

    Go fuck yourselves.

    Unlike Canadian tow truck operators, Aussie tow truck operators are working with police.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday

      I just assume they’re lying now. I have no reason to believe a single damned word out of the government.

      • Plisade

        ^^^

  46. Rebel Scum

    Speaking of child abuse.

    Imagine forcing your one year old to wear a mask around the house to teach him mask compliance

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      An entire generation of mentally fucked up kids. That’s going to be great in a couple of decades.

      • sloopyinca

        The catastrophic lifelong damage this is causing will never be quantified. And I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic when I say that.

      • AlexinCT

        We se the damage as a bad thing. The people that caused it see it as an opportunity. Fucked up kids are gonna be angry at society.. They will then be a lot easier for marxism peddling evil entities that promise them free shit to coopt…

        Evil fucking shit..

    • Rebel Scum

      Related.

      Assistant superintendent Paul Koh of @WCPSS, explains he wants to mask 2 yr olds to train them in “mask compliance” in preparation for the next few years:

      Grab your pitchforks…

      • EvilSheldon

        He’s just doing his job…

      • R C Dean

        I wonder what other kind of compliance Paul Koh wants to train children in.

    • EvilSheldon

      Would you, if you had those abs?

      • Count Potato

        How do you know I don’t have those abs?

      • Tulip

        You post here.

      • slumbrew

        That’s hurtful.

        Accurate, but hurtful.

      • Lackadaisical

        I have them, they’re just under a protective layer of fat.

        Not trying to run my marriage by being completely irresistible.

      • slumbrew

        Because you own shirts. QED.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sigh.

      My Korean Lunacy is old and busted (and she’s from Daegu). I’d be interested in an upgrade but it would cost me an arm and a leg (aka half my stuff).

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Copycat killers

    A group of American truckers are seeking to import a Canadian movement to protest against vaccine mandates, with thousands of members on social media pledging to bring the demonstration to Washington DC next month.

    In Canada trucker protests have been linked to the far right and caused days of disruption in the capital, Ottawa, as well as in a border town in Alberta.

    US organizers operating a Facebook group called Convoy to DC 2022 quickly gained more than 100,000 members and announced a convoy next month. But the Facebook group was recently removed by Meta.

    “We have removed this group for repeatedly violating our polices around QAnon,” said a spokesperson for Meta, referring to the QAnon conspiracy movement that has sprung up in rightwing circles and often promotes antisemitic tropes.

    Resistance is Murder.

    These people must be stopped, no matter what it takes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I note that they don’t provide any information in the article that could assist a reader in finding the organization and supporting them. Not even the name of the group.

      • ron73440

        Why should they?

        It mentions QAnon!

        Terrifying!

      • DEG

        Yes.

        Some folks set up new convoy groups on facebook, gab, and telegram. Here’s an example of a such a gab group.

        So, they’re out there.

        I see talk of March 1st, which is too far out in my opinion. It gives the government too much time. I’m certain they’re watching Canada. There might actually be something to reports like this.

      • Atanarjuat

        It seems like the state stopping a 40 mile convoy would cause a significant highway disruption that would be fairly impressive on its own.

        Anyone joining these alternate social media platforms and/or protest groups: assume everyone there is a Fed.

    • sloopyinca

      Fourth-generation hill farmer Robert Hooper, 57, insisted he had a lawful right to defend his property, with his barrister arguing on the basis of a 400-year-old precedent set by the legendary jurist Sir Edward Coke.

      How does one farm hills? Is he trying to grow mountains or something?

      • AlexinCT

        You plant crops that grow up a hill?… Just not parsley…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Plant a bunch of Anitas?

      • Atanarjuat

        I suppose you could have long grass that is grazed or cut for hay, or grow conifer trees for pulp or lumber.

        Over the border in Scotland, their understanding of property rights is a bit different. Walkers can legally cut across any piece of land that they want to, and even camp on private farms, as long as they don’t stay past a certain number of days. Apparently it’s a tradition that goes back a few hundred years there too.

      • Pope Jimbo

        In Minnesoda and NoDak the assumption is that it is OK to hunt on any land that is not posted.

      • Atanarjuat

        I’m not a hunter, but I don’t think that sort of thing is accepted here in the South. Interesting.

      • Pine_Tree

        Not to the “camping strangers” extent, no, but any old-timers would tell you that it was very common for quail hunts to roam over neighboring fields via a neighborly understanding. And that non-cultivated land (timber or swamp) was kindasorta fair-game, especially in large tracts.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        That might be a Western MN – Eastern ND thing? Those degens from DL are a little nutty.

        It is highly frowned upon in both north-eastern and south-eastern MN.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        How does one farm hills?

        My step-dad grows corn and oats on pretty steep hills. He has a special combine with a drivetrain that matches the angle of the hill yet keeps the cab and hopper level.

    • AlexinCT

      I rember some details about this case… Some asshat had left a car blocking his driveway and he took action since nobody else was helping out..

      Happy to see he won, but this should never have even been a court case. You fucking leave your car on other people’s property without permission, you accept the consequences.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The fact that made it to trial in the first place is galling.

  48. Rebel Scum

    Beware the Russian troll menace.

    “They’re Still Here.” US State Dept. posts video to social media warning Americans of ‘Russian Trolls spreading disinformation’

    • AlexinCT

      Funny how as soon as team blue’s politics and ineptitude started fucking shit up the Russian trolls and saboteur sightings go through the roof, huh?

      • Cy Esquire

        There’s a direct correlation with Democrat fuck ups and middle east bombings of famil… terrorists. But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. If only they pushed equity when it came to drone strikes, they might change their tune.

    • ron73440

      This is why I hate people:

      Mr. Mr. Get me outta here
      @tt_dubs
      ·
      19h
      Replying to
      @IAGovernor
      You forgot to tag Fox News! Your buddies will be so proud!

      • Rebel Scum

        Haven’t you heard? Freedom is far-right, white-supreme fascism.

      • kbolino

        Projection

      • juris imprudent

        + social media is a human sewer

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its just an amplification of how narcissistic humans are.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That reminds me, I need a dashcam.

      • Fourscore

        In case of a questionable accident don’t tell your insurance company that you have a video

      • dbleagle

        Another person smart enough to not stop in a kill zone.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Not clicking, that’s probably an ad for that sheath underwear.

    • Atanarjuat

      Great channel. Very well researched and presented.

    • ron73440

      I saw that yesterday.

      That is one of my favorite YouTube channels.

      UCS, here is an option for your Buck Knife conundrum.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    But groups that monitor the far right in the US are concerned about the planned protest.

    “The far right uses big public events like this, particularly around Covid denial, as an opportunity to normalize their presence as well as an opportunity to recruit new members,” said Devin Burghart, executive director of Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. “There are examples in Canada where the far right came out in droves.”

    Burghart said the far right seizes on vaccine hesitancy and Covid-19 denial, with legitimate healthcare awareness efforts outmatched by the sheer size of misinformation campaigns. “It’s very hard these days to draw a bright line in the Covid denial space that is dominated by conspiracy thinking and far-right ideology,” he said.

    Of course they’re concerned. If you dispute the claims of government employees, you are a right wing terrorist. Any fool can see that.

    • ron73440

      Right wing hate, is there anything it can’t do?

      It’s almost as versatile as climate change.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    “normalize their presence”

    We must drive those rats back into the sewers. Otherwise, people might question our reality.

  51. AlexinCT

    If you doubt that the entire race huxting movement is about doing away with any form of a meritocracy, check this shit out. Doing things right and being gung ho about doing things right is suddenly a sign of racism…

    Fuck me, but can ut get more obvious that the inept elite class is just doing away with anything that would allow people to want to hold them responsible and accountable?….

    • ron73440

      I don’t know where the picture is from, but the blonde lady might be crazy.

    • rhywun

      It is an attempt to literally tear the country apart, and a whole lot of people who ought to know better are going right along with it.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      So, erm, if those things are “white”, that sorta implies that the opposite is a characteristic of PoCs, yes?

      Perfectionism => Sloppiness
      Sense of Urgency => Unreliable
      Professionalism => Unprofessional
      Worship of the Written Word =>???
      Quantity over Quality… Okay, they’re just making this shit up.

  52. Timeloose

    Is Southern gone or is he taking a break?

    I might have missed something as I’ve been posting and reading less glibs until recently.

    • The Hyperbole

      His last comment was on the 12th of Dec, he said nothing about taking a break. I think he got tired of Sloper’s shit.

      • Timeloose

        Thanks.

  53. Rebel Scum

    I assume these things are edible.

    Dozens of robber crabs invade family’s campsite looking for food

    Also, I’ll be sleeping in the car…

    • AlexinCT

      See my post right above yours…

  54. Count Potato

    ““With the omicron variant, kids are either going to get the vaccine or they’re likely to get a serious condition of omicron,” Dr. Emanuel says.”

    https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1489400069203939335

    Wrong.

    • AlexinCT

      I hope he ends up with a serious condition of bleeding hemorrhoids…

    • ron73440

      That’s not “misinformation”, but a podcast interview with Doctors is?

      • The Other Kevin

        Some misinformation is ok.

    • PieInTheSky

      define likely

      • The Other Kevin

        and “serious”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      get a serious condition of omicron

      Complete fallacy aside, does this guy even speak English?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Omicron heard that you called it highly contagious but mild, and now it wants to fuck up the kids.

      • Lackadaisical

        If you define serious case of omicron as ‘could test positive’ then I’ll concur.

    • The Hyperbole

      Dr. Emanuel didn’t say that?

    • R C Dean

      Give the man credit. Packing that much wrong into one sentence takes talent.

      Current vaccines provide minimal protection against getting infected.

      Kids are highly unlikely to get seriously ill from any variant, much less Omicron.

  55. PieInTheSky

    Aaron Rupar
    @atrupar
    ·
    20h
    Biden on the Second Amendment: “When the amendment was passed … you couldn’t buy a cannon … and so there’s no reason why you should be able to buy certain assault weapons.”
    Aaron Rupar
    @atrupar
    TIL: Biden’s claim about cannon ownership is false. Private citizens actually could own cannons back in the day.

    https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1489314458707111939

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Aaron Rupar is one of the biggest cunts on the internet, but good for him for admitting he is a cunt.

    • l0b0t

      Jeepers! The first bloody reply is astounding – “Right, because cannons were stupid inefficient and not really that dangerous, but since modern equivalents like the rpg, not to mention automatic arms, are too dangerous for “uninfringed” ownership, there are all kinds of infringements on keeping and bearing arms.”

      • ron73440

        I try not to scroll down on twitter.

        My dim view of humanity gets dimmer every time I forget not to.

      • kbolino

        “Artillery isn’t dangerous” and other stunning insights from normie Twitter.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This is why I watch the two episodes regarding Bastonge from BoB, cause they display exactly how artillery is safe and benign.

    • Rat on a train

      As I said yesterday, privateers were know for fighting without cannons.

    • Rebel Scum

      you couldn’t buy a cannon

      You could, and many did, own a ship armed with several. You could, and many did, keep one at you residence to use at your leisure.

      The term “arms” is used for a reason.

  56. Festus

    Hoping that the fweedom bug is catching! I need to nod out this morning. God-speed, Glibs!

    • AlexinCT

      Sleep well sir.

    • ron73440

      Fine people on both sides all over again.

      They really are a one note band.

      • AlexinCT

        We need to create fake incidents of racism to make sure you understand why we are all about fighting racism!

    • Rebel Scum

      Maddow Edits DeSantis Remarks, Falsely Claims He Never Condemned Nazis

      I’ve seen this movie before…

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey

    There’s no way to quantify how many Americans are now suffering serious, if not irreversible, harm to their health because hospitals are buckling under the weight of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. But doctors say the consequences are far-reaching, given how many procedures have been postponed.

    “The impact on surgery is incredibly broad,” says Dr. Patricia Turner, executive director of the American College of Surgeons. “It’s going to be felt for a long time.”

    The bottom line is that “we’re seeing patients suffer,” says Beecroft. “Everything from major traumas to heart conditions to cancers needing an operation are being affected.”

    As the omicron variant hit in full force last month, hospitals all over the U.S. started pausing “elective” procedures — a term that can be misunderstood to mean surgery that is optional or not needed, but in fact refers to essential, time-sensitive procedures.

    Millions of omnicron victims, all on ventilators, piled every which way in hospital corridors.

    Doctors and nurses weeping helplessly in each others’ arms. Consoling one another as best they can.

    • The Other Kevin

      That actually did happen, for about 2-4 weeks, then it was over. Where was Dr. Turner when everything was locked down for a year?

    • rhywun

      Any mention that hospitals are started to refuse treatment to non-guinea pigs? And their children??

      Any mention that hospitals are firing non-guinea pigs left and right for no good reason whatsoever?

      Oh, it’s NPR. Never mind.

  58. Count Potato

    “I’m just going to tweet this straight, but: Jamie Gangel says that in the wake of Zucker stepping down, she heard from congresspeople “who felt devastated for our democracy” as a result of his departure”

    https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/1489371101595586563

    OFFS!!

    • AlexinCT

      Democracy dies if team blue loses the shills peddling the lies for them?

  59. TARDis

    Coming soon, to a planet near you, Weimar World!

    A little bit more war should speed us along.

    • Rebel Scum

      USA #1!

    • Urthona

      Per GDP I believe Japan is winning.

      It’s worth noting that their economy has underperformed as a result since then.

      • Rat on a train

        Per GDP I believe Japan is winning.
        They pee for accuracy. We pee for distance.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    Omicron cases are now falling in the U.S. overall, but the pressure on hospitals will not evaporate so quickly, doctors say. Hospitalizations generally trail infections by a week or two, and critically ill patients can require lengthy hospital stays.

    And while some hospitals have restarted elective surgeries, others are still too overwhelmed to do so.

    “Overwhelmed”

    We’ll leave it to your most lurid imaginings to fill in the blanks.

    And- whatever you do, don’t mention anything about intentional short-staffing of healthy nurses.

    • ron73440

      intentional short-staffing of healthy nurses.

      They are not healthy if they’re not vaxxed.

      Obviously they can only have health nurses working there.

      You need to learn THE SCIENCE!

      • R C Dean

        intentional short-staffing of healthy nurses

        I don’t know what that is supposed to mean, but whatever it means, its flat out wrong.

    • R C Dean

      Hospitalizations generally trail infections by a week or two

      We are already seeing our COVID patients decline. We’re probably down about 20% over the last week or two, which means admissions of COVID patients are down more than that, because it is true that some COVID patients stay for longer periods.

      I would say that 10, maybe 20% at the very most, of COVID patients are critically ill patients that require lengthy hospital stays.

  61. KSuellington

    Evil Sheldon said, “ Also, make sure that all of your exterior doors can stand up to a few good kicks. Reinforcing your bedroom door is probably a good idea, too. Anything to give yourself a few extra minutes to figure out the situation.”

    Absolutely agreed, the most likely thing to happen to a solid wood door upon force applied to it is that the jamb will fail. Get a steel strikebox with 3 inch screws that go into the stud and/or a reinforced strikeplate with 3 inch screws. A good quality deadbolt like a Schlage B560 or if you want something ultra strong a B660. You want that door to have to take at least a few batterings before it gives to allow time to get your defense up and going.

    • Not Adahn

      At the fraternity house, we had steel doors with frames set into cinder block walls. However the handsets did fail when kicked in, and occasionally the door was sufficiently damaged that it had to be replaced.

    • Atanarjuat

      Yes, you can buy aftermarket strikeplates that are almost as tall as the door itself and put screws all the way up and down. It will slow the cops and probably make it unable to be kicked in by half-assed thieves.

      • KSuellington

        Yup, that is what I am talking about, although you don’t really need the ones that go all the way up the door. Cheap deadbolts like Kwikset and the like will fold, but the heavy duty ones like I mentioned can withstand some serious force. Everything’s gonna fail eventually and against a battering ram that will be fairly quick, but you want the extra time and extra effort that it will buy you.

    • EvilSheldon

      I couldn’t do anything with my condo front door, because it has a glass sidelight right next to it. Plus, I have a big crappy sliding door that opens out onto the patio.

      So making the best of a bad situation, I installed a pre-hung steel fire door in place of my bedroom door, screwed into the 2×4 framing with 3″ GRK deck screws. You’ll have to kick that for a while before it goes down, and, added bonus, there’s really no space to use a ram or a sledgehammer in my bedroom hallway.

      • KSuellington

        Good ideas there. If you want something you can add to your front door that will provide a lot of protection while you are inside and won’t alter the door to get the HOA in a huff look up the Master Door Security Bar. It’s just a simple and cheap bar that fits under the lever or knob and goes down to the adjustable base on the floor and stops forced entry. You can also get secondary track locks or even just the old fitted broom handle (if your track is on the inside) for your patio door. Yes, of course they could smash the whole thing but in my experience that is actually pretty rare as it draws way too much attention.

      • juris imprudent

        Feds scribble notes – ES‘s bedroom has to be attacked through the window with smoke and incendiary devices.

  62. PieInTheSky

    So I know 3 people who got the booster around christmas and got the cov this week. Now this is anecdotal, but I don’t know that many people overall so I don’t see the pint of the boster thing.

    also my friend in dutchland told me his son’s daycare is closed because all the boosted staff got the bug.

    • R C Dean

      I haven’t met a single person who got sick from Omicron who wasn’t triple-vaxxed. And I don’t mean “popped positive”, I mean sick as a dog.

      • PieInTheSky

        I think my symptom was all bacterial infection in my left tonsil. Because I get that every few years and the pain was identical and fixed with antibiotics. Maybe the cov made me more vulnerable to that, but virus wise I had no symptoms. Outside left tonsil pain I had nothing.

        My triple vaxxed friends have worse symptoms than me but still pretty mild overall

      • Urthona

        I got sick from Omicron and was only double vaxxed. Same with my wife.

        But I don’t know what “sick as a dog” means. My case would be considered “mild” in the grand scheme of things, even though it did suck for a few days.

      • ron73440

        My wife was really sick for over a week, she’s not jabbed.

        I had 5 days of feeling crappy with a really sore throat, I had the J&J 8 months ago.

        I also started taking Zinc Quercetin once she got sick.

        Not sure if it means anything, not even sure if it was COVID since neither of us lost taste or smell.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I haven’t met a single person who got sick from Omicron who wasn’t triple-vaxxed

        *Raises hand*

        Granted, it was a 36 hour illness with minor symptoms lingering for a week. I wouldn’t classify that as “sick as a dog.”

      • WTF

        Yup. Anecdotally, my wife is vaxxed and boosted, I am a pureblood. We were both exposed to Omicron over Christmas. She was sick as a dog for weeks, while I had a mild cough and congestion for about a day.

    • PieInTheSky

      On the bright side Spain announced no more masks on the street which is good if I make it on my holiday

    • Urthona

      The booster (and now the vaccine) is only supposed to protect you from “serious” covid now.

      It’s fairly obvious the jig is up when it comes to infection. It isn’t even a throttle.

      So the narrative has changed.

      It does look good on the death protection part, but there’s some rumblings now on the demographics. Some data is showing that really old sick people are not taking the vaccine because the vaccine would be not a good idea for them personally.

      I wait for further crumblings of the official narrative and lick my chops.

      • PieInTheSky

        Well I was never in danger of serious covid and my bout proved that in spades

      • Urthona

        I mean that’s so true, which is exactly why the vaccine mandate crumbled immediately when that was revealed.

        Why should young and healthy people take it if it doesn’t limit the spread?

        Obviously they shouldn’t.

      • kbolino

        It does look good on the death protection part

        On this front, there is a vast divergence between the data from the United States (unvaxxed 40x more likely to get hospitalized and/or die!) and the rest of the world (unvaxxed no more likely, sometimes less likely to get hospitalized and/or die).

        Conspiratorial thinking aside, this is a recurring theme with U.S. government-collected metrics vs European etc. counterparets: crime rates, infant mortality, etc.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The US data is hopelessly bad, and intentionally so.

        I generally disregard it now as there are so many perverse incentives at play.

        Excess deaths will be available later and will provide some insight, but the “public health” aspect of collecting accurate data in order to drive policy has been completely inverted into generating data to support policy.

      • Urthona

        “On this front, there is a vast divergence between the data from the United States (unvaxxed 40x more likely to get hospitalized and/or die!) and the rest of the world (unvaxxed no more likely, sometimes less likely to get hospitalized and/or die).”

        Interestingly, Germany’s was just like the U.S.’s until some intrepid reporters figured out they were counting people as “unvaxxed” until 3 weeks after full vaccination. After changing that, the numbers got a lot closer.

        I believe this is how the U.S. does it too.

        There is an argument to made for simply discounting the U.S.’s data because it is so bad.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That particular sleight of hand hides an immense amount of negative feedback on the vaccines.

        If the COVID vaccines suppress the immune system temporarily, which we are almost certain they do, then infection in the period immediately after taking the shot becomes more likely and more deadly.

        By classifying those cases as unvaccinated, they are covering up what is a direct consequence of the shot.

      • Lackadaisical

        My wife got the vid, no one else in our family has.

        She’s the only one who has been jabbed. Not saying that’s data, but it is a data point.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My entire immediate family has had it. None of us were vaccinated.

        Observations:

        I got it worst, 52 year old male. I waited too long to start therapeutics because I didn’t want to waste ivermectin on a cold. Illness was about a week, persistent cough for a month due to inflammation in the throat.

        The son had it second worst, 19 years old, but immunocompromised. He recovered within a week, We used ivermectin.

        The 15 year old daughter had it for a couple of days.

        The wife, 59 years old, had minimal symptoms. She was on prophylactic HCQ.

        The 11 year old had a mild fever for a day. That was it.

      • Ozymandias

        Zerohedge had a great article yesterday on the UK health report that showed that people who got double-jabbed now have what appears to be permanently lower antibodies than their unvaxxed peers.
        These shots cause long-term damage to the immune system. That will eventually come out, but for now, the medical corruptocracy at CDC/FDA/NIH is going to lie, lie, lie as much as possible.
        Why wouldn’t they? They’re involved in a Crime Against Humanity. Lying and manipulating data is part and parcel of the whole thing. I mean, Tony Fauci was involved in funneling money through his pal Peter Daszak that helped cause this whole thing.
        Then they got Daszak on the “investigation” team to help “debunk” the lab leak theory, etc. These guys are every bit as bad as the Nazis.
        History will eventually record that these guys were criminals of the first order and that they killed millions, probably more than the Wehrmacht did.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yep. They’re in full ass covering mode.

        If protecting themselves means sacrificing others, well, that’s just too bad now ain’t it?

      • kbolino

        I don’t know if they will ever be held accountable, but I hope so.

        Any candidate who says they will break the EUA liability shield gets my vote.

    • PieInTheSky

      I got the double pfizer in May but now I doubt it had any effect on my illness.

  63. The Late P Brooks

    Get a steel strikebox with 3 inch screws that go into the stud and/or a reinforced strikeplate with 3 inch screws. A good quality deadbolt like a Schlage B560 or if you want something ultra strong a B660. You want that door to have to take at least a few batterings before it gives to allow time to get your defense up and going.

    Sure, Dillinger. Just tape a signed confession to the door while you’re at it.

    “What INNOCENT citizen would feel the need to take these extraordinary security precautions, ladies and gentlemen of the jury?”

  64. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t know what that is supposed to mean, but whatever it means, its flat out wrong.

    Firing the unvaxxed.

  65. Ozymandias

    The Zucker resignation/firing has all the hallmarks of a “limited hangout.” The NY Post article I saw, much like the Daily Mail link above, is part of it. The public gets this salacious article about the “behind the scenes” meeting, “leaked audio,” etc., and the magician’s misdirection works perfectly. There is absolutely zero chance that Zucker had to resign because of his relationship with a senior producer. They were practically peers, everyone knew about it, etc.
    Which leaves one to wonder – what could Chris and/or Andy Cuomo have had on Zucker that would force him to step down – and require this whole charade? Hmmm…. let’s see…. what else has happened lately at CNN that they don’t want to talk about?
    Anyone find it strange that handsy Chris also happened to have worked with a producer who was a pedophile? Wasn’t there a second pedo at CNN, as well? And no chance that Zucker knew??
    I’d bet a steak dinner that what ousted Zucker was that the Cuomos have emails that would suggest Zucker knew about his pedos quite some time ago – or something even worse. It may be true that Cuomo wanted his $18 million and threatened to ‘blow the place up’ if Zucker didn’t go, but I guarantee you the reason being given is the cover story for what really forced Zucker’s bosses to tell him he had to resign.

    • Urthona

      I mean he was a propagandist for CNN. Nothing could make my opinion of him much lower.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      ?

    • Count Potato

      It’s also that Zucker fed Andrew Cuomo talking points for his Emmy-winning TV show.

  66. PieInTheSky

    Rosamund Pike to star in pandemic-themed thriller ‘Rich Flu,’ produced by Pablo Larraín.

    A disease kills off some of the richest people on the planet. Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. People then flood the market with assets the world no longer wants.

    https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1489356773421158401

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Is it called Aesop’s Fables For Morons?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Next year’s Honey Harvest might have some fun things to say about Tundra.

      • Fourscore

        Fun things or “funny things”

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ya know. Funny

      • Tundra

        Bring it. Just spell my name right!

  67. Ownbestenemy

    Launching into the stratosphere

    https://twitter.com/GhostOfGord/status/1489627173455544325

    I was asked to appear on British Television to discuss the Freedom Convoy.

    Pull Quote – “The leader of Her Majesty’s Lay Back and Take It opposition, The Conservative Party of Canada, has been ousted …”

    Could have gone much longer, such is the nature of this particular beast.

    • Atanarjuat

      Nice.

    • PieInTheSky

      so while ok on a few thing, Greenwald is still and abject moron

      • Count Potato

        No he isn’t.

      • PieInTheSky

        ” I’ve sent the last 3 years proving Lula’s imprisonment unjust and defending Evo Morales, Corbyn and Ilhan Omar.”

        qed as they say

      • kbolino

        Yeah, he’s a non-corporate leftist, there’s few of them still around, but he’s still a leftist.

        However, this is enough to make him better than 99% of mainstream leftists.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. He, Tulsi and Freddie DeBoer only look reasonable by comparison.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, if my choice is GG (or one of your others) versus AOC/Madcow/etc – then hell yes I’ll support them. I can accept their leftism because they can accept that I don’t.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Greenwald is honest.

        That’s all I really care about.

  68. Count Potato

    “Joe Biden’s 50-something year-old son illegally purchased a firearm that his lover tossed in a trash can across from a school. Secret Service is accused of hiding it and ATF is dropping the inquiry. I will not take lectures on firearms from this man.”

    https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1489320790893998085

    Remember when the left complained GWB did cocaine?

    • Not Adahn

      Even the hungriest Scotsman would turn his nose up at curried sporran.

  69. The Late P Brooks

    The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis hosted an event that made headlines before it even began, called “Is Professionalism a Racist Construct?”

    In the event, the presenters characterized various qualities of workplace environments such as “perfectionism,” “a sense of urgency,” “defensiveness,” “worship of the written word,” and “quantity over quality” as characteristics of White supremacy culture.

    Way to play up the stereotype, kids.

    I hope the posters advertising this little minstrel show featured a grinning shoeless picaninny lounging in the shade behind the barn eating watermelon while hiding from the straw boss.

    • juris imprudent

      If you curious, and have any tolerance for Sadbeard (when he’s in one of his coherent moods). It’s actually pretty funny.

      https://www.slowboring.com/p/tema-okun

      Which is to say it’s sloshing around quite broadly in progressive circles even though I’ve never heard a major writer, scholar, or political leader praise or recommend it. And to put it bluntly, it’s really dumb. In my more conspiratorial moments, I wonder if it’s not a psyop devised by some modern-day version of COINTELPRO to try to destroy progressive politics in the United States by making it impossible to run effective organizations. Even if not, I think the document is worth discussing on its own terms because it is broadly influential enough that if everyone actually agrees with me that it’s bad, we should stop citing it and object when other people do. And alternatively, if there are people who think it’s good, it would be nice to hear them say so, and then we could have a specific argument about that. But while I don’t think this document is exactly typical, I do think it’s emblematic of some broader, unfortunate cultural trends.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Which is to say it’s sloshing around quite broadly in progressive circles even though I’ve never heard a major writer, scholar, or political leader praise or recommend it.

        Working as planned. Critical theory isn’t supposed to be a rigorous discipline. It’s supposed to be a vehicle for introducing class strife that kicks off the glorious revolution. That the proggie proles are taking the ideas and running with them is exactly the point.

  70. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    And a good morning to Glibs far and wide.

    Both song selections today are fantastic. So much hairspray, so much spandex and leather. Ah, the ’80s were a glorious time!

    And cocaine was a helluva drug!

    • Mojeaux

      the ’80s were a glorious time!

      It’s like you and I were separated at birth!

      I agree. Great music choices, Sloopy!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The multitude of attorney firms collecting massive sums for “working” from home is telling.

      • Swiss Servator

        I see a number of “corn farmer” entries near me. I wasn’t aware that FARMING had been shut down….DAMMIT.

    • Swiss Servator

      @#$%!!!!!!!!!!!

      In my town… A Catholic High School, an Episcopal Church, everyone that bangs two boxes together and calls themselves a “manufacturer”, temp agencies, landscaping companies (?!) “American Equine Insurance Group LTD” (seriously?!) “Gospel Justice Initiative, Inc” (wut?) “Midwest Elite Gymnastics Academy”

      GRRRR!

    • Pine_Tree

      Serious question because I haven’t studied it: are these “loans”, or just giveaways?

      I mean, I know what the eventual answer is likely to be, but how’s it s’posed to be?

      • Pine_Tree

        Well, answering my own question – it calls it a loan….

      • Sean

        Forgiveable loans. If you can show you spent the money “properly”. You don’t have to pay anything back.

      • Pine_Tree

        And on their status indications, they very deliberately make it impossible to tell whether it has been Paid In Full or Forgiven…

      • ron73440

        I’m surprised it doesn’t have a Jobs Created OR SAVED category.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It does sorta…

        Based on their reported 500 jobs retained…

      • ron73440

        Of course it does.

    • rhywun

      The biggest ones in my zip code are car dealerships and prep schools.

    • slumbrew

      The largest near me, by far, was $2+MM for an advertising agency.

      Because those guys totally were unable to work remotely, I’m sure.

  71. ron73440

    How I picture Glib Zoom.

    • Swiss Servator

      You are not entirely wrong.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nailed it

      • The Hyperbole

        TBF it’s only like that when that one guy is on.

  72. Gender Traitor

    I got another snow day off work! ? And no Zoom meeting, either!

    • Mojeaux

      YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

    • Tundra

      For you, GT:

      Snow Days

  73. Mojeaux

    Hey, yo, Trigger Hippie, you okay? You spent some time in my prayers last night.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Aside from not sleeping well due to wondering if a paranoid schizophrenic would bust in my backdoor and try to murder me, I’m in the best of health.

      Thank you for asking

  74. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The new season of Raised By Wolves is out and it’s even weirder than the first.

    I’m now just watching it because it’s so bad.

    I think maybe the writers are trying to pull off a Hegelian dialectic discussion with thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, but for idiots.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This just says that they deluded themselves.

      Always a good sign…. not.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      OMG, it’s just like CHAZ

    • ron73440

      Remember, Trudeau said for all politicians to “think carefully” about what they support.

      Shit weasels, the lot of them.

      • Mojeaux

        From a subsequent comment:

        At the end of the day one has to ask oneself, can I hold my head up knowing that I stood for truth, freedom, and ensuring a decent future for our children or was I “just doing my job”? History tells us where “just doing my job” leads.

        From what I’ve seen, enough cops would rather flex their power than stand for truth and freedom that it makes the ones who do irrelevant.

        One cop offering a bottle of water to a supporter he’s been ordered to ignore isn’t going to change anything when 3 cops are all too happy to follow orders.