Saturday Florida Man Links

by | Feb 19, 2022 | Daily Links | 164 comments

OMWC asked if he could have this weekend off to clean all the stickiness out of his van, although if anyone would know a universal solvent, its him. It’s good to get in here and pinch hit. Maybe when I’m on paternity leave in another… shit is it only six weeks?… I’ll be around more. I hope each and every one of you is staying safe from Canadian Truckers and other terrorists. My only regret is that the Canadian snowbirds didn’t join the protest. They’re thick as fleas on a barn cat down here.

I’m sure this can’t possibly be great, but if anyone has the charismatic crazy to pull off Fallout, it’s Walton Goggins.

Is there anyone who isn’t a pervert and a kiddie diddler?

She seems nice.

Killing a leopard by choking it to death bare-handed, that’s pretty hardcore.

Music is going to be a little different than OMWC’s fare.

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

164 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    Brett!

    whaddup doh’

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Welcome, Guest.

    • Brett L

      You put in almost 2 years doing afternoon links, and then you fuck one sheep…

      • Ted S.

        Only one?

      • slumbrew

        One isn’t that baaaad

      • SDF-7

        Depends on if ewe ram it too hard — I think Brett just used it as an excuse to hoof it.

      • Brett L

        “Once, a philospher; twice, an [Aggie]”

  3. Ted S.

    Happy birthday Justine Bateman!

    (She and my sister were born on the same date and year, which is how I know it’s her birthday.)

    • juris imprudent

      Yesterday was Yoko Ono’s 89th birthday; Billy Joel was right, only the good die young.

      • Ted S.

        That would explain why Betty White nearly reached 100.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Truly the best of the Beatles.

    • Chafed

      Has your sister also gone full proggy?

  4. Ted S.

    Is there anyone who isn’t a pervert and a kiddie diddler?

    Brett L?

    • SDF-7

      See above — he took it on the lamb.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Killing a leopard by choking it to death bare-handed, that’s pretty hardcore.

    Only if it’s self-defense.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of days, is it Hitler Day?

    • The Last American Hero

      1/6 was last month.

  7. Sean

    “Broyles allegedly vomited into a laundry basket and onto one girl’s shoes.”

    I hate when that happens.

    • slumbrew

      One of our self-appointed betters.

      • slumbrew

        “Matthews said the girls were asked to delete photos and videos of the incident from their phones.”

        Teach them early and often about protecting their would-be rulers

    • Tres Cool

      Abby is a solid would but only when she was sloshing wine-drunk.
      All that anger has to make her do crazy ish.

      • cyto

        I totally went to this same kid party when out first moved from the world of private school preschool to the (better) bublic school kindergarten.

        For those who haven’t been there, first time moms are keen to socialize with other first time moms and keen to throw birthday parties for their kids to show off for the other moms. So we went to a lot of birthday parties back then. This was far from the first, but still was near the beginning of the years coming in September.

        So far our experience at the private school had been lots of “look at my expensive bounce house rental” and “we got an expensive setup for the pool out back” and tons of “look how creatively I decorated the cake”, and the public school was not much different, but the crowd was a little more down to earth.

        Then the big redhead happened. Mid September, maybe the third party of the year… We all gather in the back yard as the kids play. Beer in the cooler, wine for the mom’s. So far, standard for the non-religious school crowd. Then the big red-headed mom came out. A loud woman dressed in a loud halter top dress, she loudly announced “jello shots!!!!” and began pushing a large tray of loosely formed jello shots in everyone’s face. ( If you make jello shots with too much alcohol, the jello doesn’t set)

        Now, it is hard to recall at this point how shocking that was.. but at the time we were a group of mostly first time parents, fresh off the era of sanitizing everything, and child-proofing everything. Jello shots in a crowd of toddlers see ed like a horrific idea.

        Plus, she was a nice mom who didn’t want the kids left out, so she had adult jello shots and kiddie jello shots.

        Anyway, her boisterous personality won out over the glances of shared concern, and she shoved round after round of shots into people’s faces. (Just how big is this woman’s refrigerator?)

        Holy crap… What an awesome trainwreck! Lots of hot young moms got completely plastered. A few filled trash cans with jello, box wine and cupcake mixture.

        I had a blast.

        The difference with our politician’s party… A decade of parenting, a decade of life, and a decade of wear on the moms. When stuff like that happens today, the parents of middle and high school kids are much less likely to still have the body of a 20-something MILF. They are much more likely to be a bunch of 40 year old Karens who get all lecture-y when they get drunk.

        I prefer the table-dance drunk mom to the screed of a Karen. Unfortunately, I am past the age where 28 year old MILFs try to recapture their pre-pregnancy glory by drunkenly showing off for me… It is all drunk lectures from that woke mom who thinks the lady in front off her at target was racist because she said “I like your hair” to the black lady at the register.

      • Ted S.

        In real life, Cyto is the drunk flashing his moobs for everybody else.

      • cyto

        Well, now….

      • cyto

        And honestly, I am the dude who tells the long winded funny but off-color story that 4 of the moms are totally into but two are being judgie and his wife is mortified so she has to loudly tell everyone “he has no filter” 12 times.

        So then he goes over with the guys and we secretly share our disdain for the politics of the day.

        We don’t have any flashers any more… Just the random mom who gets divorced every now and again… Those are always fun.

      • Sensei

        Always fun when one of the moms has an affair with one of the dads.

        At that point the non-impacted moms now all have to pick sides.

      • cyto

        Oof. Air quotes “fun”.

        We had a dad in the group one year who would crudely make passes at all the women. They hid it for the first few events.. maybe secretly flattered? But after a couple of times through, they started telling us about him. One more time around the horn and he quit showing up.

        Dude was an alcoholic.

        Oh. Then there was the open swinger couple… They were from the travel baseball group. Yeesh. New York migrants.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      allegedly vomited into a laundry basket and onto one girl’s shoes

      At least the white wine came up with the fish.

      • Not Adahn

        I heard rumors of back when drinking contests were allowed on campus, competitors would swallow dye in their team colors before the chugging commenced.

  8. juris imprudent

    Impressively obscure sources.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Land of the free. Home of the brave.

    Authorities are considering reinstalling a fence around the Capitol ahead of a possible trucker convoy protest during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union next month, officials said Friday.

    The fence is the same barrier that remained around the Capitol for months after the Jan. 6 riiot and during the “Justice for J6” rally.

    In a statement, a Capitol Police spokesman said the agency was working closely with the Secret Service on a plan for the March 1 speech.

    “The temporary inner-perimeter fence is part of those ongoing discussions and remains an option, however at this time no decision has been made,” the spokesman said.

    In an earlier statement, the agency said it was working with other law enforcement agencies and the Washington D.C. National Guard.

    They should trip-search everybody who attends, out of an abundance of caution. No exceptions.

    • Fourscore

      The 82nd Airborne is a little busy right now but they’d sure like to help, may have some leftover ammo.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m just surprised they’re reusing the materials and didn’t issue a new contract for purchase.

      • slumbrew

        OT for the city guys who put it up, though.

      • cyto

        Is it odd that I am more interested in the folks who took the fence down during Trump’s speech?

  10. The Late P Brooks

    In the United States, anti-vaccine groups, supporters of former President Donald Trump and followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory have sought to replicate the protests north of the border.

    The worst of the worst. Round them up.

    • Tres Cool

      I honestly dont get the part where people conflate that Trump = AntiVax. He pushed for the vaccine, and got both parts of it, at least one while he was still in office. I think his wife did too.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Star Bellied Sneeches.

        Watch the old Dr. Suess cartoon and it will all make sense.

      • Tres Cool

        Do Sneeches get Steetches ?

      • rhywun

        And the Dems were universally anti the Trump Vaccine until they all turned on a dime on November 3, 2020.

      • cyto

        This ability to believe absolutely anythinng, even things that directly contradict your own lived experience, is what terrifies me.

        It has revealed to me that the entire world is populated by the prosecutors and juries from the “Little Rascals Preschool” and “McMartin Preschool” trials. “Raped with butcher knives, despite lack of any physical evidence?”. Sure! “Aliens? Hot air Balloons? Sex in the storefront window on Main Street at noon??”Absolutely!!! “Sacrifice babies in satanic rituals, despite no missing babies?!?!”. Yup! Totally balieve it!

        Now the entire country is deep in it… Even a major chunk of the Libertarian elites. “Trump said it?!?…. Oh, must be racist then.”

        Our leaders know we are 4/5 the way down the rabbit hole toward truly loving Big Brother. That is why they have stopped even trying to craft believable lies. Biden blames inflation on not spending another $3 trillion. Nobody even bats an eye. Trudeau laughably says the anti-mandate protest is white nationalist Trump supporters. That gets repeated without laughing out loud. How is that possible? Don’t they know they live in Canada?

      • Nephilium

        Hell, for some people, you can watch the reset happen in their eyes when you point out something from their own lives that contradicts the story.

      • Fatty Bolger

        It makes as much sense as calling anti-vaccine mandate protestors racist. There’s no logic to any of it.

      • cyto

        Racist, Nazi Trump supporters. How the hell did that make any sense to any of them?

        Better, the video of people pointing out the only guy with a full face mask who is also the only guy with a Confederate flag (which is totally a Canadian thing O_o), the truckers ran him off in shame.. but that is your proof that it is somehow a racist plot.

        To what end? Who knows. But Trump! So.. yeah!

      • rhywun

        To what end?

        It is literally intended to make him feel better about assuming dictatorial powers.

        Maybe he even believes the outrageous lies by now, he’s repeated them so many times.

      • cyto

        I am totally intrigued by this. Dude declared himself a dictator, and deputized the banks to enforce his dictates.

        Will any in Canada stand up? Will the courts offer any resistance?

        I would hope the response here would be much more rapid. But I suppose I secretly know it wouldn’t.

        #resist was quick to block Trump from the overreach of rescinding illegal Obama executive orders… But the judiciary has not been even slightly interested in stopping Biden from going off the rails.

      • Chafed

        Really? The SC struck down the OSHA regulation on an expedited basis, nuked his eviction moratorium, and didn’t let him abandon the Remain In Mexico policy.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        The problem is that the meaning of the Confederate flag is totally different to different groups. One-half the population thinks it is an absolute expression of RaSism(!!!!!!), while the other half treats it as a combination of Rebel and Southern. So, it really isn’t that big of a stretch to see it in rural Oregon or Washington and have the people flying it think nothing of any RaSist connotations. I have heard tell that it isn’t uncommon to see it in rural Canada either, but I haven’t been up there in a long time.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of Goggins… I recently watched a movie called “Diablo” which featured him in a splendidly evil role.

    I should watch it again, because I have gotten into this bad sleep mode malfunction pattern of nodding off. And then I’m wide awake at 4:15.

    • CPRM

      He did that one with Gibson where he wanted to assassinate Santa, not a great movie but that had some fun parts.

      • Nephilium

        Fatman.

    • Tres Cool

      You should aim for 5:15.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    A new tactic in the war on common sense

    The Roseville Joint Unified High School District is at risk of losing liability insurance over its decision to defy state-mandated mask regulations.

    When Gov. Gavin Newsom made the decision to lift the statewide indoor mask mandate for most situations, he said that schoolchildren were still required to wear face coverings, citing low vaccination rates with younger children. As of right now, there is no date for when schools’ mask mandates would be lifted.

    Going against that guidance for K-12 schools, Roseville Unified announced it would no longer require face coverings indoors.

    The legal consequences of that decision are starting to unfold.

    KCRA 3 obtained a letter sent from the Schools Insurance Group to the Board of Trustees on Thursday. It warns the district could lose its liability insurance over the decision to drop face coverings.

    “It is imperative that the Board understand that this action renders the District and individual Board members vulnerable to liability that may not be covered by SIG,” wrote Cynthia Wilkerson, executive director of the Schools Risk and Insurance Management Group.

    Honest? Honest as the day is long.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The insurance companies know the masks are useless so it’s a wash for the kids on risk, but guaranteed that some asshat will sue when their kid catches COVID. And uses the government’s bullshit metrics as evidence.

      • rhywun

        The insurance companies know the masks are useless

        I wouldn’t count on it.

        Witness the way they penalize smokers and vapers equally.

      • Nephilium

        And chewers, and snuff users, and snus users.

        My guess is it’s probably just because it’s easy to test for nicotine, it would be harder (if not impossible) to test for delivery method.

    • Tonio

      My gut reaction is WTF do government schools have insurance? I know that the federal government self-insures. Do state governments self-insure? While said insurance may ultimately save the taxpayers money it just gives the citizens even less control over the schools, which seems to be the endgame of the teachers’ unions.

      I still firmly believe that government employees should have to carry their own liability insurance, particularly cops and teachers.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I remember reading that any city over 100k can’t get insurance at this point. So, it’s a bit of a wash. School districts aren’t THAT big, but the level of teacher-related BS is pretty high.

      • Sensei

        Yes. Schools have insurance, municipalities have insurance and other government entities do as well.

        Usually they self insure, but small towns and municipalities create joint insurance pools to share risk as a multi-million dollar claim could bankrupt small towns. They also normally get excess insurance from the private insurance markets.

        So, for example, a town with exceptionally bad risk management practices may have to pay an additional premium to join the pool or it could be kicked out entirely.

      • R C Dean

        Exactly this.

        Of course, most states have passed various forms of immunity against liability for COVID. Plus, its impossible to prove where somebody caught it. The risk being liable because some crumbcruncher got the sniffles is vanishingly small. Even disposing of the lawsuit early, before it costs much to defend, should be pretty easy.

        IOW, this isn’t being done because some gimlet-eyed actuary said mask mandates were the only thing standing between the insurer and bankruptcy. This is more of the same fascism that we have seen in many areas – a private or semi-private organization enforcing the will of Our Masters.

    • CPRM

      Doesn’t look like a walker to me, but a knee scooter. But surely not a bike.

    • hayeksplosives

      Thank you for posting this.

  13. slumbrew

    I never figured out why the guy fronting a punk band dressed like a vato

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      OC War Skins. Seriously, that was a big thing back in the eighties in Socal.

    • blackjack

      His brother was a famous skateboarder from dogtown. The dogtown people seemed to embrace the vato scene and incorporated many elements of it in their style. That’s one of the reasons most skaters didn’t really like them much back then, despite acknowledging they were top level skaters.

  14. Tonio

    Does anyone know how to refresh comments without killing the video? I was watching in PIP mode.

    • rhywun

      Open the video in a new tab?

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Today in magic hat economics

    The Chicago Department of Public Health on Friday denied a permit application for a scrap metal facility that sought to operate on the city’s Southeast Side, bringing welcome news to residents who for years fought against the proposal.

    ——-

    The Natural Resources Defense Council, which had long pushed against the facility’s relocation from Lincoln Park to the Southeast Side, called the denial an “enormous victory,” but said the city must be dedicated to policies that prevent such a situation from happening.

    “Our community is not a sacrifice zone,” the NRDC and other environmental organizations said in a statement, in part. “…Although we are celebrating this decision, the community continues to deal with the toxic legacy that has allowed pollution to accumulate in our community and we will not stop fighting for our right to clean air, and we will continue to fight until the health of Chicago communities like ours can live in a healthy environment.”

    ——-

    The company claimed it followed every step of the two-year permitting process, building the “most environmentally conscious recycling facility in the country,” but that the city didn’t abide by an agreement it entered with the company in 2019.

    Community opposition to the new shredding facility was strong, with residents calling the move a case of environmental racism.

    In a statement issued after the denial was announced Friday, RMG said, in part, “politics, not environmental or public health protection, is the only reason that the city denied Southside Recycling’s permit to operate.”

    “That job sucks. We’d rather see you starve.”

    No more steel recycling. The planet is saved!

    I’m sure the Mexicans will be willing to bite the bullet and let that plant be built south of the border. And the new York Times editorial board will wring their hands and moan about the high cost of cars and washing machines the effect upon disadvantaged communities.

    • Tres Cool

      Metals and glass recycle well. Paper can be so-so. The whole “Im saving the planet” idea falls apart with plastics.

    • rhywun

      I wonder if anyone listened to what the actual residents think in addition to the activist elite class that claims to represent them.

      • juris imprudent

        The activist elite class buys a few actual residents for cred, then dumps the useless idiots after they have served their purpose.

      • Tres Cool

        As Tres Sr. always said, “everyone wants their trash picked-up, but nobody wants to live next to the dump”
        Some years ago, our at-the-time darling environmental warriors (Ohio Citizens Action) went to a neighborhood in Cincinnati where people were living near a landfill. Through their tireless efforts of “campaigning (aka likely telling people they could get ca$h from the gov’t)” and “educating”. The state and county shut it down over some triviality that I dont recall at the moment. The trash company just sent everything out of state.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yeah, nobody wants a dump built next to them. But that rarely happens. The problem is, people buy and build houses next to a dump, then complain about the smell.

        The same thing happens with noise complaints by people who choose to live near airports and military bases.

      • Fourscore

        “complaints by people who choose to live near airports and military bases.”

        Until the military base threatens to shut down and jobs will be lost. Then a lot of city fathers and politicians get excited.

      • kbolino

        Buy cheap, gentrify, complain about the reason it was cheap in the first place.

      • rhywun

        nobody wants to live next to the dump

        I’m reminded of DeBlasio’s plan to close Rikers – which sits on an island off the coast – and dump replacement jails in nice neighborhoods around the city so the inmates can be closer to “their” neighborhoods instead of, you know, the real reason which is to punish the residents of a city he doesn’t even like.

        You get a sense that the elites would love to put the scrap metal facility in some rich neighborhood just to punish them.

      • R C Dean

        You get a sense that the elites would love to put the scrap metal facility in some rich neighborhood that votes the wrong way just to punish them.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of shitty jobs…

    Youtube serves me up educational films from the Periscope archives. Last night I watched one about mining and smelting nickel ore in these immense facilities in Canada.

    What kid in his right mind would watch that and rush off to the Frozen North to wrestle red hot ingots of nickel?

    • SDF-7

      Jean Luc? Must have been a Q conspiracy….

      More seriously — it really feels like they’re not even trying anymore. As with the Oklahoma Bacchanal-wannabe, it really does feel like the latter days of the Roman Empire.

      • Q Continuum

        What incentive is there for them to “try”? They know they’ll never face any accountability and the corporate media will sweep it under the run. Remember Trump’s statement that he could shoot someone in Times Square and face no repercussions? That’s where “the elite” are at.

        Also: Q Conspiracy.

        https://archive.is/Ipalz/eb56d75a6dba6d9d9cdb1df941e083e4778b948e.jpg

        NSFW.

      • PieInTheSky

        ewww

    • Sensei

      Nothing to see here. Move along.

    • hayeksplosives

      Come out to the Nevada desert! We’ll get together, have a few laughs!

  17. kbolino

    I doubt this observation is novel, but it has never quite clicked for me until now. From this response to this original post:

    OP: i don’t mean to be depressive, but even as many restrictions are withdrawn, i can’t escape the sense that everything is different, destroyed. the whole tenor of life has changed, i can’t believe they not only resorted to these crazy measures, but that they still defend them.

    Response: Reminds we of when we had a president that everyone knew should never have become president but no one could say that. So we lived a lie and it destroyed our souls over years.

    COVID is our punishment.

    Not just for Trump. Any idiot can (and does) point out that “if it was just about Trump, why did it happen worldwide? There’s no Trump in Britain, hur-dur”.

    But for our audacity to want to be free from them. Our insolence for opposing them. Our depravity for inflicting them with the awareness of our existence. Our blasphemy for denying the supremacy of science and the academy. Our heresy for having obtained and shared forbidden knowledge. And worst of all, our god-damned stubborn refusal to fully bend the knee. Every day we remained happy or at least not depressed was an insult to them. We are unnecessary refuse and we weren’t dying off fast enough. Their demographic destiny was taking too long. Their divine right to perpetual rule was challenged (Trump, Bolsonaro, Orban, etc.). We did not know our place. And so we had to be taught it.

    First COVID, then the blatant hypocrisy of BLM, then the “vaccines”, and now the reverse hypocrisy of the Trucker protest. We are being punished, we are being reminded of who’s really in charge, and we are being put in our place. Our suffering is intentional, it is intended as an infliction upon us tenfold of the emotional distress we “caused” them.

    This is their root motivation and it is why it has dragged on for years (and likely won’t end soon either).

    • kbolino

      Failed to close the last blockquote. Everything double-indented is my own words.

    • The Gunslinger

      I believe some people will never get back to “normal”. The youngest people at my office are still walking around with masks on while even Whitmer is dropping mask requirements for schools. If you’re not going to get rid of the mask now, then when?

      • cyto

        There has definitely been permanent damage to the kids.

        I have been handling Wednesday nights at church for over a decade. We have about 60 elementary school kids most weeks, post COVID. It was 90+ prior.

        They are very difficult now. They struggle to follow directions, particularly if there are multiple steps. I used to do lots of relay games. Line them up in 5 teams and have them run 1 at a time to collect something from the other end of the gym, that sort of thing. This year, like as not the entire group will take off running when I say go.

        I had to teach them kickball. They even have trouble breaking into groups… I line them up and assign them numbers. Calling it out as I touch each head… “One, two, there, one , two, three.. “. They can’t figure out how to go to the line where the coach is holding up a paper with a big 2 on it.

        It is a really big deal. Academically, I am sure it is worse.

      • kbolino

        I think for many this was a (metaphorical) unmasking moment. This is how they’ve felt for awhile but they didn’t realize they could be so open about it. The power–shitlib alliance is the new normal. Each is useful to the other, patron–client style. This makes me believe the old normal was already dead for awhile but persisted in a zombified state.

    • cyto

      Uh… Nobody could say Trump should never have been president?

      Did I wake up in an alternate reality this morning?

      • The Hyperbole

        Reading that guys other tweets and looking at who he follows, I don’t think he’s talking about Trump, he’s not a leftist at all. Maybe he’s talking about Obama.

      • cyto

        Well, we certainly were not allowed to say anything about that one.

        Dude diverted a trillion dollars earmarked for buying troubled assets (mortgage backed securities) to a takeover of the auto industry, and stole $30 billion from secured creditors and gave it to the UAW. All without the slightest bit of legal authority to do so.

        He still has not been criticized in any public way for that… And that was week one.

      • kbolino

        Well, shit. “Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”

        There probably is truth to “Obama never should have been President” as well. He also rushed things (muh legacy!). Without him, there’s almost certainly no Trump. The ACA broke the spells that Congress (through questionable use of reconciliation) and the Courts (through inventing the penaltax) are respectable bodies that follow their own procedures. The white progressive sense of entitlement, “we’re on the right side of history”, “demographic destiny” etc. would be much more repressed (“look, an articulate Black man saying what we’ve always wanted to hear!”).

        I’m not sure it “destroyed our souls” though. But it did begin the political awakening that led me to Trump (and later toward more radical ideas).

      • cyto

        You forgot the stealth legacy… Operation Choke Point.

        That gave us big tech censorship. Trudeau clearly is patterning his moves on that.

        The left has a completely unrefulated pair of pliers on the nutsack of the country with the legacy of operation Choke Point. They shut down all sorts of avenues of opposition.

        Plus, the whole strategy of recreating a racist society has its roots in Obama … Injecting race where it did not belong over and over, but quietly, seemingly being above it. Beer summit. Treyvon Martin could be his son. Withholding information on the St. Louis gentle giant while BLM was being organized.

      • kbolino

        True. And let us not forget also the Title IX commissions. That had a host of “unintended” consequences, like the notion that you can cancel someone’s education (=meal ticket to middle class life) for wrongthink, that the Fedgov can backdoor compliance offices into every university, that what someone feels is true is more important than articulable facts, that “sex” and “gender” are both meaningless concepts and yet also tools of oppression, etc.

      • kbolino

        Do not look at it rationally, look at it emotionally.

        Most of us knew exactly what Trump was: the middle finger to the establishment. While my political leanings were more mainstream back then, I still could see that the other Republicans were GOPe cucks, Clinton was an out-and-out crook, and Sanders was untrustworthy (I did not realize how much so back then, though; what a sellout).

        Trump never should have been President, in the sense that the veil never should have been lifted so soon. Most red pills have been taken post-Trump. The level of political awareness at the margins has grown tremendously. People are engaging again with ideas from the early 20th century that were considered dead by the 1960s. The post-war consensus is finally and truly dead. This is the new era. But its emergence was rushed. It arose out of crisis instead of carefully executed plan. That is all Trump’s fault (whether he or we knew it at the time or not).

      • hayeksplosives

        This type of complete fiction being spouted by the lefties drives me crazy when it’s repeated and accepted as fact.

        “I Couldn’t say it.”

        “I didn’t feel safe.”

        “I feared for my life.”

        Dude, those are your own self-inflicted mental hang ups. The fact that you are brittle doesn’t make any of those things true.

      • cyto

        Can I get you to come to my next gathering with the SJW PhD Jewish troglodyte who derails every gathering with her political screeds about how everyone is racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and double-racist?

        The guy who used to fence with her moved, and I don’t know how many more I can survive.

    • R C Dean

      Reminds we of when we had a president that everyone knew should never have become president but no one could say that. So we lived a lie and it destroyed our souls over years.

      Its a little early to be saying that we have been living a lie for years when Biden has been in office just over a year.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Our suffering is intentional, it is intended as an infliction upon us tenfold of the emotional distress we “caused” them.

    It’s what we get for attempting to make them look in the mirror.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    When will our heroes in blue be freed from the onerous yoke of the Constitution?

    A 6-year-old girl who had been reported missing in 2019 was found alive with her non-custodial parents living in a home police had visited several times during the two-plus-year search for the girl.

    The circumstances surrounding the discovery of Paislee Shultis cast a spotlight on the murky issues surrounding missing persons cases. Experts told CNN that such cases, especially involving children, can be difficult to investigate because they often result from custody disputes or other difficult family dynamics.

    Ultimately, in this case, and others, the authorities are limited by the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. There are exceptions that have been outlined by courts, and it’s not clear if investigators in this case could have relied on any of those for a more thorough or timely search of the upstate New York home.

    If you’re innocent, what are you trying to hide? Any refusal to allow a thorough search should be deemed an admission of guilt. Child Services should have been allowed to lock down their bank accounts and credit cards and starve them into submission, too.

    Better one hundred innocents suffer than one guilty party go free.

    • SDF-7

      A pimple’s love is different from that of a square?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Much about the case is not known, including why Paislee’s parents lost custody of her in the first place. At the time the girl was reported missing, she was believed to have been abducted by her noncustodial parents, Kimberly Cooper and Kirk Shultis Jr., police said in a news release. The girl’s parents, and her paternal grandfather, Kirk Shultis Sr., all face charges in connection with the case.
    “We should all wait until the facts come out,” said Carol K. Morgan, who represents Cooper. “Everyone should be patient before they draw their own conclusions.”

    Wait, what? Based on the headlines, that poor little girl was kept locked in a tiny secret compartment, except while she was being tortured and abused.

    Are you telling me this might not be completely accurate?

    • PieInTheSky

      I am thoroughly amused how lefties like the Berkshire Hathaway crew just because they payed some lip service to taxes

    • The Last American Hero

      To be fair to Charlie, I didn’t think the Fedgov would pay the richest Americans $10k each to buy and $80k car.

      Also, how’s that Hyperloop going?

      • Sensei

        NJ has no state sales tax as well.

        Sadly, I didn’t get in on time and “only” got $3.5k and no sales tax.

        Unreal.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Today, in worthless cunticity

    There are nearly 4,000 cars burning uncontrollably somewhere in the Atlantic and, for once, it has nothing to do with Elon Musk. A cargo ship traveling from Germany to Rhode Island loaded up with vehicles hot off Volkswagen’s assembly line caught fire on Wednesday morning near the Azores. All 22 crew members evacuated safely, but the cars — including an estimated 1,100 Porsches, 189 Bentleys, and an undisclosed number of Lamborghinis — well, let’s just say they might not make it.

    The emissions created by burning three football fields’ worth of cars is, admittedly, not great, but if you think about this holistically — and given Volkswagen’s record — accidentally torching its product may be one of the most climate- and pedestrian-friendly investments the company could make! Sinking these vehicles and inadvertently converting luxury SUVs to coral reefs is kind of a net win for the planet.

    And don’t feel too bad for the people who lost custom Porsches; I’m sure Volkswagen will get everyone’s money back — it has a lot of experience with legal settlements!

    Much wise. So journalism.

    • cyto

      I didn’t know Ben Shapiro was a Glib! Hey Ben!

    • kbolino

      It is the fate of all ad-revenue-driven online businesses to become hives of bug-men. That revenue model can lead nowhere else.

    • rhywun

      Ah, the sneering condescension school of journalism. My favorite.

  22. Sensei

    WSJ headline. Let me fix some things.

    Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine for Kids Isn’t Working Well Against Omicron So Far, Delaying FDA Review

    • kbolino

      The vaccination for kids is a line of fuckery I cannot believe so many people are crossing. There is no small part of me that resents my (now ex-)coworkers for lining up like dutiful little slaves to get their children vaxxed. At least my friends and family have more sense than that.

      • rhywun

        The kid-jab propaganda around here is breathtaking both in its frequency and its story lines.

        There’s one with a nervous Karen questioning sticking her kid, until we find out that her pediatrician reassured her. “That’s all I needed to know!”

        There’s another one with kids in capes and utility belts and shit. “Be a vaccine superhero!”

        There’s another one with a teenager lamenting all the conspiracy theories about horse paste and chlorine injections until finally someone sets him straight and he sees the light.

      • Q Continuum

        “horse paste”

        I colleague’s kid got worms recently and had to take ivermectin for a “real” reason. Dipshit lefty colleagues had the audacity to ridicule her.

        I had to think very hard about whether punching them would be an NAP violation.

      • EvilSheldon

        A few drinks in, I start to think that Progressives’ mere existence is an act of aggression towards everyone around them.

      • R C Dean

        Depends on your views about latent aggression. Progressives are basically a loaded gun pointed at your crotch. The triggers hasn’t actually been pulled yet, probably, but . . . . they plan to, they want to, and they will as soon as they think they have the opening.

      • rhywun

        Work colleagues? A lesson learned… don’t talk about personal stuff with them, ever.

      • CPRM

        That doctor is going to lose their medical license, their is no ‘real’ reason to EVER prescribe Ivermectin, it’s horse medicine, plain and simple. The doctor should be made to drink fish tank cleaner!

  23. Tundra

    Hi Brett!

    Congrats on another little Floridian!

    Also, that leopard story is amazing. That is some righteously toxic masculinity!

    • R C Dean

      I have to ding him for the blind shot into the brush, though.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    The vaccination for kids is a line of fuckery I cannot believe so many people are crossing.

    I don’t even like kids, and the sight of little kids in masks pisses me off. I can’t comprehend how people have been so willing to buy into the notion children absolutely need to be vaccinated against an illness from which they have virtually nothing to fear if they are healthy.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have lost what little respect I have for many people if they are eager to have their kids vaccinated against a nothingburger and no it does not protect grandma cause the vaxx does nada for transmission

      • Q Continuum

        No fucking way q-ette is getting jabbed. Ever.

    • Sean

      I have instant respect for any parents with little unmasked kids in tow.

    • rhywun

      I’m equally disturbed that nearly all teenagers who roam the neighborhood evenings and weekends have their faces cinched up tight. Outside.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That’s the one that creeps me out, blind obedience from teenagers? we are truly in the End Times

  25. PieInTheSky

    How Pitmaster Quy Hoang Blends His Vietnamese Heritage with Texas Barbecue — Smoke Point

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7MocwxUg5U

    he said at s moment that bacon is made of pork belly, but the bacon that goes in a full english breakfast, aka real bacon, comes from the back of the pork I believe. Or so rate my plate has led me to believe. the other type is streaky bacon, not bacon bacon

    • The Last American Hero

      Cultural appropriation.

  26. PieInTheSky

    Seafood Spaghetti with 50 Fishes by chef Giuseppe Iannotti

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

    I am sure this tastes good but it seems a waste of a lot of seafood

  27. PieInTheSky

    “Sadly, the virus itself – particularly the variant Omicron – is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B cell and T cell immunity. And it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines.” – Bill Gates
    Sadly?

    https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1494790335658172426

    • Hyperion

      I’m worried and we all should be. Now that the Axis of Evil, Klaus, Gates, and one of them Koreas are seeing their Covid hysteria nearing the end of it’s shelf life, you can be sure that their henchmen are in Wuhan right now working on a more effective ‘Great Reset Inducer’. I wish I was kidding.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Sadly?

    Sadly, natural immunity cannot be monetized by people like Bill Gates.

    It’s tragic, is what it is.

    • Q Continuum

      Fuck him with a balsa wood dildo.

    • kbolino

      If it was only about money, they would have cornered the market on therapeutics as well.

  29. Count Potato

    “All media who are attending the area, please keep a distance and stay out of police operations for your safety. Anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement may be subject to arrest. There will be a media availability later today at 474 Elgin Street. #ottnews”

    https://twitter.com/OttawaPolice/status/1494683910411751426

    “I have spent 12 days live streaming from Ottawa. I did not see one shred of violence until the police showed up.”

    https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1494809430461984771

    • Hyperion

      Our Canucki friends need to know, Ceaușescu moment. That is all leftists understand. They will continue to escalate until you are willing to put an end to ‘it’.

      • R C Dean

        I cannot shake the feeling that this will all end in blood. And that would be preferable to the alternative.

  30. Not Adahn

    Decent amounts of fluffy snow coming down here. Got a couple of good pics for next week’s column.

    • PieInTheSky

      you people are hogging all the snow. I tool my walk today in a tshirt. 18 C and sunny. In fucking February.

      • Animal

        You’re welcome to some of ours. We’ve been snowed in since Tuesday.

  31. Hyperion

    Another slow day on Extremist Site Central? Y’all getting a sun tan again today? I gotta go to the Post Office, wife says. Oh boy is this gonna be fun!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Hey now some of us have to work today,

  32. CPRM

    What ever happened with that Ukrainian dwarf girl that was ‘abandoned’ by her adopted parents after they found out she was really an adult and accused her of trying to kill their other children? I miss crazy news like that.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Last I heard the court dismissed all the charges against the parents. I assume she’s living on disability somewhere.

  33. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    You ever get to the point where the world around you sucks so bad and everything is making you sad and angry and you just want someone to be kind and soft and tender toward you and you can’t find that? No?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      yes, daily

    • Tulip

      Yes.

    • CPRM

      Someone Needs some Dick Cheese to cheer them up.

    • Not Adahn

      I got a spare room and an adequate internet connection.

    • SDF-7

      Yes to the first half, but regarding the second I’m very lucky to be married to a wonderful woman who helps keep me sane. Hope you find what makes you happy.

    • limey

      Yes, but I comfort myself with the knowledge that I don’t deserve it. In your case that doesn’t apply, because you surely do 🙁

  34. UnCivilServant

    Evening, Glibs. I should have brought a computer.