Thursday Afternoon Rainy Day Links

by | Feb 3, 2022 | Daily Links | 207 comments

Obligatory tune.

 

SCOOP: Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failure. No, he didn’t poop on the rug. Well, okay, he did, but that’s not what Axios meant.

 

 

HE’S NOT WRONG, YOU KNOW: “Boobies are proof that men can focus on two things at once.” -NYS Judge David R. Stilson. But probably not the best thing to post on social media if you are a judge, even on a low-level state court bench.

 

 

NZ TO REOPEN BORDERS: New Zealand’s government on Thursday said it will end its quarantine requirements for incoming travelers and reopen its borders, a change welcomed by thousands of citizens abroad who have endured long waits to return home.

 

 

AN OLD FRIEND RESURFACES: I’ve just been contacted by the RCMP Protective Intelligence Unit. They’re chasing down criticism and ‘threats’ to the Prime Minister. Constable Clowery badge 58759 was very polite * we had a nice discussion, but subtext here is clear – WE ARE WINNING Please share widely. Consider it shared, Gord. Thanks for all your good work.

 

 

DENMARK PREPARING FOR ACTION IN UKRAINE: Danish defense minister Trine Bramsen says her country will deploy four F-16 fighter jets to a nearby Lithuanian airbase.

 

 

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: HS students in Oakdale, CA, are refusing to wear masks. This lad is displaying admirable leadership capabilities, and understands peaceful protest. Big Glibs shout-out to the Let Them Breathe folks, they are fighting the good fight in one of our proggiest states.

 

 

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT: A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday decided that former Rochester Drug Cooperative Chief Executive Officer Laurence Doud III helped fuel the opioid epidemic during his leadership of the locally-based pharmaceutical distributor. We all know how this is going to end – cancer and surgical patients writhing in agony because their doctors are too afraid to prescribe pain medication that works. I don’t care how many people that allegedly “saves” from addiction, it’s still evil.

 

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

207 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “if you are a judge, even on a low-level state court bench”

    Yeah, that’s Q’s Job!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah you use your army of shitposters to get those thoughts out.

    • Count Potato

      Also, Trine Bramsen looks like she might be Q-worthy.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        I want a love as strong as those buttons!

      • juris imprudent

        I was always confused by Smyth/Smith – cause they were different. Real different.

      • Tonio

        That’s going to put someone’s eye out when it reaches the point of critical failure.

    • Lackadaisical

      Did anyone notice the posts were from 2014? Might not have been a judge at the time.

  2. Sean

    Go Gordilocks!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah Ive been sharing as much as I can.

      • Tonio

        Thanks, OBE.

    • DEG

      Simo Häyhä.

      Good choice.

  3. Certified Public Asshat

    Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failure.

    This is also still his best (only?) accomplishment.

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

    Already school dist in Oregon is also going sans mask. Which is funny as they are in the one county that is possibly more liberal than Portland.

    • Tonio

      I would be negligent if I didn’t tell you it’s “negligee” or more properly “négligée.”

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Also are there more than one Marilyn Monroe or does the negligee belong to Marilyn?

        /momma wanted to be an English teacher until she got knocked up at 17

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

        Sure Tonio, kink shame me.

    • DEG

      holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

      🙂

    • Gustave Lytton

      School district in Clackamas?

      (poor joke the county’s community of Liberal)

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

        Benton.

      • Gustave Lytton

        We were at Fred Meyer there and the wife wore a mask to go along, but was bothering her. I suggested she just take it off. And nothing else happened. No store employees ran up. Couple people had surprised looks on their faces like shocked that you could do that.

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

        Freddies and Bi-Mart are probably the two places you can get away with that in Corvallis. But, the IGA in Benton Co. DNGAF.

        Of course, that is north Albany.

  5. juris imprudent

    The judge hasn’t met the Danish foreign minister.

    • juris imprudent

      Damn, defense minister – see, even I couldn’t concentrate.

  6. Sean

    Those poor buttons.

    • Ownbestenemy

      If their military is as strong as those buttons, don’t mess with Denmark

      • Rat on a train

        They will put up a good fight for a few hours until the Queen surrenders.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That reminds me of my 18 year old self strolling through the Queens Garden and all the lovely sunbathers…

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Denmark was a puppet (Protectorate) of Nazi Germany. The agreement was to free up german troops for other fronts. The Germans always kept at least one German unit in Denmark territory.

        Turns out the Socialists of Europe were/are not really different when it comes to tyranny.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yearning to break free….

  7. juris imprudent

    NZ government denies that lawsuits of subjects locked out of the country have any bearing whatsoever on this decision.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I expect any lessoning of any measures will be all SCIENCE!

  8. Count Potato

    “We all know how this is going to end – cancer and surgical patients writhing in agony because their doctors are too afraid to prescribe pain medication that works. I don’t care how many people that allegedly “saves” from addiction, it’s still evil.”

    It’s also stupid. So bipartisanship?

    The problem is illegal fentanyl, not doctors prescribing opioids. If it was due to doctors prescribing opiates, the “crisis” would have occurred a hundred years ago. Since fentanyl cannot be un-invented, the only logical solution is to make it legal.

    • Chafed

      I do worry for patients in pain. Tonio is going to be proven right and it’s going to be ugly.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    The measures were initially credited with saving thousands of lives and allowed New Zealand to eliminate or control several outbreaks of the coronavirus.

    You betcha.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    We all know how this is going to end – cancer and surgical patients writhing in agony

    I know that last time I had a kidney stone, I asked for morphine. They gave me the dose and I knew immediately it was tiny because I didn’t get the urge to puke.

    I told them to give me another and I’m going to bet that the sum total of the doses I got did not add up to the first dose I got when I had a kidney stone back in 2002.

    They wouldn’t give me any more after that because I “might get addicted.” To which I responded “I’m 50 years old, if I were going to develop a drug addiction, I could have done it years ago. But right now, I’d just prefer to not feel like there’s a shiv in my back.”

    • Count Potato

      It’s all horseshit. Drug use doesn’t cause addiction.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I got to the ER a couple hours from death with a split open intestine and in sepsis. As I laid in the gurney screaming and shaking, the asshole ER staff wouldn’t give me me any pain killers until the radiograph showed I actually had a split intestines and wasn’t acting out for drugs. I’ll never forget those frontline ER heroes watching like a bunch of fucking sadist ghouls.

      Of course, those ghouls did give up the pain meds in the end. That beats the ICU nurse who actually stole my entire pain pump unit. I can’t imagine how many disabled patients that ICU nurses in that unit had stolen the pain boxes from. They had marked it down as being administered while telling the patients their pain meds had to be withheld because they couldn’t find the key to change out. At least that’s what my what I was told until my wife showed up and rained down brimstone. That actually ended up going to to the police and hospital investigation.

      • Ozymandias

        WTF.
        Wow.

      • TARDis

        It’s amazing how they change their tune when they have to admit you weren’t drug seeking. What pisses me off more is that the druggie nurses just get fired and then can go to work at another hospital when they should be in jail.

      • DEG

        Wow. That is fucked.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Wow, times have changed. This wasn’t a problem until at least 2000; on multiple occasions prior to that where I needed strong pain medication (lung surgery, varicocele, hernia, kidney stones, tooth extractions) the appropriate medications were prescribed without question. But back then doctor’s didn’t get sued and/or prosecuted for overprescribing drugs.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ok. You win.

        That’s effed up.

  11. Tundra

    Thanks, Tonio!

    Excellent song/video.

    And excellent tweet from our old pal. I wonder if we’ll get tired of all the winning?

  12. Warty

    Gord fucking rules.

  13. DEG

    Among the degrading posts that the watchdog group cited was a meme he allegedly shared on Jan. 23. 2014, showing a woman in a bra with the caption: “Boobies Are proof that men can focus on two things at once!”

    Sounds like he’s insulting men there.

    Danish defense minister Trine Bramsen says her country will deploy four F-16 fighter jets to a nearby Lithuanian airbase.

    You mean F-36DD fighters?

    HS students in Oakdale, CA, are refusing to wear masks. This lad is displaying admirable leadership capabilities, and understands peaceful protest. Big Glibs shout-out to the Let Them Breathe folks, they are fighting the good fight in one of our proggiest states.

    🙂

    • TARDis

      You mean F-36DD fighters?

      You bet. Dudes will break cover to check them out, and be destroyed by banned button-cluster bombs.

    • Rat on a train

      You mean F-36DD fighters?
      The Japs don’t have anything like these!

  14. Ownbestenemy

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1489347877147230209

    Reporters today asked for evidence for the USG’s claims about the Syria strike and how civilians died, and Jen Psaki implied they must believe ISIS — just as she implied anyone against US intervention in Ukraine is pro-Russian.

    So if you even ask questions now, you are pro-“whatever side we want to bomb or hate”…fuck a duck this is accelerating.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Biden administration is in “Fuck off, peasant” mode.

      • R.J.

        Is there any other mode for him?

    • Drake

      So we ignore Syria’s borders (and our own) and simply kill people there anytime we get the urge. But threaten war if Russia doesn’t respect the Ukraine’s borders? Puzzle me that, Jen.

  15. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I read that as “Officer Clowney”

    • juris imprudent

      Javon with a badge?

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    That high school senior kicks ass.

    • Tundra

      It was absolutely perfect. Good job, parents!

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “Watchdog group” is our modern day WCTU.

  18. Certified Public Asshat

    NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS: "There is a reason they call me the Biden of Brooklyn." pic.twitter.com/ifi5mRCrMm— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 3, 2022

    Imagine bragging this hard about being inept.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Imagine being that clueless.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Appropriating Demented Senior culture?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      What’s with the duck masks?

      • Sean

        Quack.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well…he probably holds a firearm sideways like a gangsta so why not his mask?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Heh. Handsiest president ever, no age or gender is safe around him.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Another strike against masks, he can’t sniff so he just gets more handsy.

    • Tonio

      “and he bit the usherette’s leg in the dark…”

    • B.P.

      At the outset of COVID Fauci said people should never shake hands again. Ever. Because he’s a clear-thinking man of science.

  19. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    There may be something rotten in the state of Denmark, but it ain’t the DDefense Minister.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I dunno, we should be able to get a full inspection before we go that far

    • Ghostpatzer

      She’s not rotten, but she is awfully ripe.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What, no community garden that is just top soil sprinkled onto a tarp?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

        Something tells me these guys are slightly more competent than CHOP or CHAZ.

    • The Other Kevin

      Who’s the warlord in charge?

      • juris imprudent

        LH hasn’t been heard from lately, has he?

    • TARDis

      I picture a government douchebag jumping out of a tank demanding a building permit while some other government stooge runs up and asks for an impact study certificate.

      “You don’t have permission for this!”

    • B.P.

      Where did they get the $800K for all of that particle board and 2X4s?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They probably had it on one of their trucks

    • The Other Kevin

      Highly infectious. Great. Can’t wait to see what Fauci makes everyone wear to prevent it.

      • Count Potato

        He’s tilting at windmills.

      • The Gunslinger

        The dykes are immune though, right?

      • slumbrew

        That’s what dental dams are for.

      • juris imprudent

        Ya’ll are gonna clog things up until Swiss comes skating by, aren’t you?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Free government condoms coming up!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        New mRNA vaccine.

    • Sensei

      So yet another form of Dutch treat?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You’re not alone.

      • Nephilium

        I’m just seeing the vaccine as another way to create more variants.

      • kinnath

        How long before fauci makes it mandatory for senior citizens in monogamous relationships?

      • grrizzly

        The gays will enthusiastically get jabbed without any mandate. And then they will infect each other and be grateful to the government and Big Pharma because they only have a mild case of AIDS.

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

        Is a mild case of AIDS like being only a little bit pregnant?

  20. Count Potato

    “The Kremlin was planning to release a fake video showing Ukraine attacking Russians, which the U.S. is hoping to foil by making public, a new report reveals as troops start deploying from Fort Bragg to Europe amid rising tensions.

    A senior administration official shared with The New York Times details of acquired U.S. intelligence revealing plans for a fabricated video showing Ukraine involved in a ‘genocide’ against Russian-speaking people in Moscow’s territories or in eastern Ukraine.

    The individual did not want to share direct evidence of the plan in order to protect sources and methods.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10473683/Putin-planned-use-fake-video-accusing-Ukraine-genocide-troops-leave-Fort-Bragg.html

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      No fair. They are stealing our material.

    • B.P.

      Operation Himmler never gets old.

  21. Count Potato

    “A 35-year-old Rhode Island man believes he is the only person alive to suffer from a rare, toxic black fungus that’s been growing in his brain for the past four years.

    Tyson Bottenus, of Providence, said he picked up the tropical fungus in January 2018 while embarking on a backpacking trip in Costa Rica to celebrate his recent engagement to fiancé Liza.

    Their otherwise-pleasant adventure in the Nicoya Peninsula was hampered when Bottenus took a spill and scraped his elbow while cycling along the region’s dusty roads. He cleaned the wound and later visited a local hospital, where it was again sterilized.

    After returning home to months of unbearable migraines, partial facial paralysis and three brain biopsies, he learned the souvenir he picked up in Central America was called Cladophialophora bantiana, also known as ‘black mold’ because of its dark appearance.

    Since 1911, there have been just 120 cases of culture-proven cases of Bottenus’ condition recorded, according to the United States National Library of Medicine.

    ‘I have not encountered anyone else who has this,’ Bottenus told DailyMail.com on Thursday. ‘Everyone else I believe, who has this fungus, is dead unfortunately.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10473345/Man-toxic-black-fungus-growing-brain-120-diagnosed-rare-condition.html

    Yikes! But at least it’s rare.

    • Rat on a train

      he began ‘abusing Advil’
      Drug distribution managers better be careful.
      As well as brain surgeries, he’s undergone five spinal taps
      I believe he will need 11.

    • juris imprudent

      Let me guess – ivermectin would treat it.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Nation of guinea pigs

    The White House is ready to “hit the ground running” to vaccinate children aged six months to 5 years old as soon as Pfizer/BioNTech receives emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine for that age group.

    “Our message to parents and families is simple: We are doing everything we can to prepare now. We’re taking all of the best practices and applying all the lessons learned over the last 12 months to ensure getting kids under 5 the protection of (the) vaccine is easy and convenient, and we’ll be ready to start getting shots in arms soon after (the US Food and Drug Administration) and (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) make their decisions,” White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said Wednesday.
    Pending the FDA’s authorization and CDC’s recommendation, Zients said the administration will be “ready” and will “hit the ground running” to vaccinate the approximately 18 million children under the age of five.
    Since the vaccine is specially formulated for this younger age group, the administration is “working closely” with pediatricians, states, local health departments, doctors and pharmacies to ensure the vaccine is available at “thousands of locations nationwide” once it is authorized and recommended, Zients said.

    I want to see those people running at the end of a rope.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It’s some kind of science we just don’t understand to get kids vaccinated with old vaccines against the current dominant (but mild) strain.

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

      He doesn’t look like Ali G as he looks fairly bright. On the other hand, he is wearing a hat like Steve Coogan.

      No Bueno.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “Rare” is used nine times in this article, but that doesn’t seem to comport with the rest of it.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-cases-coronavirus-vaccines-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms

    Science contacted regulators and vaccinemakers about any information they’d gleaned on these side effects. A Pfizer spokesperson wrote, “We can confirm it’s something we’re monitoring.” Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson all said they take side effects seriously and share reports they receive with regulators. An FDA spokesperson said the agency “continues to maintain a strong focus on monitoring the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines,” while the European Medicines Agency notes it “is taking steps to use real-world data from clinical practice to monitor the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.”

    Other researchers note the scientific community is uneasy about studying such effects. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it,” Pretorius says. “I’ve talked to a lot of clinicians and researchers at various universities, and they don’t want to touch it.”

  24. Ownbestenemy

    Can Canada come here and save us too?

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/02/03/jury-whitmer-kidnap-trial-fbi-agents/6640218001/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

    Bad acts of 3 FBI agents will not be mentioned in Whitmer kidnap trial

    A judge delivered a double whammy to the defendants in the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap case Wednesday, concluding that jurors will not hear about the checkered pasts of three FBI agents who investigated them.

    The jury will however get to hear about all the bad shit the non-feds did in the their past.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m sure the jury will also not be informed of the information asymmetry.

      • juris imprudent

        “lengthening trial into a minitrial on public perceptions of the FBI”

        Oh, of course, can’t have that – though it is central to the whole case.

    • Mojeaux

      RING THAT FUCKING BELL!!!

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

        Mojo gets it. Let it slip during opening instructions, or during closing.

    • rhywun

      Well, that’s enraging. It must be a Thursday.

    • Ghostpatzer

      The subject of jury duty came up recently, and I’ll just say that I am eager to get called. One juror can muck up the works for the machine.

      • creech

        That’s the stuff!

  25. TARDis

    I like that people are calling the events up north the Great Honkening. Good luck, Truckistanis.

  26. The Other Kevin

    Last year, the Chicago Blackhawks were involved in a sexual assault scandal, and as part of that they fired their GM. Last night they had a public town hall to discuss their search for a new GM, and it was a complete disaster. The owner got angry and dressed down reporters who asked questions about the sexual assault. The Internet was not impressed.

    On the broadcast of last night’s game, they discussed this. Wayne Gretzky just happened to be one of the analysts. When you’ve got Gretzky chiming in… yikes.

    • creech

      How do they survive being called “the Blackhawks?” (Best logo in major sports, btw) Maybe “Chicago Wind Bags” would work better?

  27. Gender Traitor

    Yeah, well, we had the rain yesterday. Today, this is the obligatory music for SW OH (but here helpfully translated for those of you in New Yawk & Joisey.)

    BTW, guess what name showed up when I logged into the work Zoom meeting I had to join from home because my workplace was closed? ?

    • Raven Nation

      Hah! I have the same problem – in both directions. My Glib-zooming in my work meetings and doxxing myself in Glib-zooming.

      • kinnath

        This is one of the reasons I don’t join the zoom meetings. My home computer isn’t set up for audio and video, and I won’t use my work computer for glib meetings.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s why I glib-zoom (when I do) on the smartphone.

  28. R C Dean

    Well, yay for me. I finished my Form 4 paperwork to get a suppressor. I used Silencer Shop’s prefab option. The (first) suppressor is for the Tavor X95 bullpup(s). Now I’ve got the fevah, though, and am eyeing my Para .45 (which will need a new threaded barrel). Mrs. Dean will almost certainly want one for her bullpup, as well. And maybe one for her HK VP9 handgun (which will also need a new threaded barrel).

    And they had an HK USC on the wall at the gun shop, an ideal platform (with some work) for a suppressor. Its the first one I’ve actually seen in real life.

    Come on, bonus!!

    • kinnath

      I need to get one for my PC9.

      • R C Dean

        The Silencer Shop prefab is probably about as easy as it gets to navigate the paperwork. Still took two trips to the gun store (once to do my fingerprints on the Silencer Shop kiosk thingy, and once to get my Form 4 app certified by the store). Their prices look decent, too.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        The fingerprints are my hangup. I would love a silencer.

      • R C Dean

        My fingerprints have been taken repeatedly – for my law licenses, for starters. Also for concealed carry licenses, for my security officer license (don’t ask), and for my Global Entry card. I’m already in The System.

    • Sensei

      And now you will be able to shoot anyone with just the softest mechanical and thump sound.

      At least that’s what TV, Hollywood and DC keep telling me.

      • Rat on a train

        Quieter than an air rifle.

      • R C Dean

        .45s are naturally subsonic (there may be +P rounds that aren’t, but I don’t shoot those), so I will be very curious about how loud they actually are when suppressed.

        I gather the 5.56 suppressor helps a fair amount, but you’ve still got an unavoidable supersonic “crack”. Also curious about how that will sound.

      • Don escaped Texas

        I don’t shoot those

        I shoot +P because I need them to get standard velocity out of the 3.78″ barrel on my EDC.

        I don’t have a mountain of data on it, but I’m hoping that at worst I get the same defense load expansion I would have gotten from standard velocity out of a 1911. I don’t think this can hurt me…we’re talking about a gentle round with a recoil that is as manageable as they come.

        It’s worth thinking over.

      • R C Dean

        If you’re getting standard velocity, you should still be subsonic.

        “Suppressor” and “EDC” don’t really go together, though. You’ll need a threaded barrel, even if you would just use it at the range. I can get one for the Para, and HK makes them for the VP9, but getting one for a short-barreled carry gun is likely challenging, if its possible at all. If you’re interested at all, I’d start with the barrel.

        It will also very likely block your sights, so you will likely need new sights as well. They do make “high” sights specifically for suppressed guns. If I get one for the Para, the suppressor will be last thing I get, after the barrel and the sights.

      • Don escaped Texas

        you should still be subsonic
        absolutely: just getting even

        “Suppressor” and “EDC” don’t really go together

        I defer to you; I’m just talking ballistics; you need to get even no matter what peripherals you bolt on

        likely block your sights
        I get that; I’m not a suppressor guy: just talking ballistics; a .45 at 800fpm isn’t anything I would volunteer to absorb, granted… I’m simply suggesting a consideration for combat ACP ammo

      • Ghostpatzer

        *lights MS signal*

    • Tundra

      Fuck. Yes.

      Penguin can do that.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        I miss all the good Zooms :^(

    • Don escaped Texas

      since he just joined Lou Reed’s band, pour one out for Dusty Hill

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

      I’m not saying this is the greatest; I am saying that this goes great with a Shiner or while cruising US385 at 100MPH

      • Tundra

        Excellent choice.

      • Ghostpatzer

        RIP. Straight ahead blues rock is great, and they did it well.

  29. DEG

    Not all Ottawa trucks are downtown.

    This past weekend, I had the privilege of reporting on the ground in Ottawa, where the Canadian Truckers’ for Freedom Convoy — consisting of tens of thousands of transport trucks from all corners of the nation — began to converge on Canada’s capital city. Hundreds of thousands of supporters came out in support, to protest the heavy-handed COVID restrictions still in effect across Canada, which happened primarily in Ottawa’s downtown, centred on Parliament Hill.

    It was truly remarkable to see so many transport trucks parked up and down a number of the main streets in downtown Ottawa, including all down Wellington St, right outside of the Canadian Parliament building. But while all eyes were focused on Parliament Hill, the noisy trucks blockading downtown, and the massive protest underway there, I couldn’t help but think — “where are all of the other trucks?”

    As I mentioned, reports showed that not just hundreds, or a couple thousand, but tens of thousands of trucks had driven to Ottawa from all corners of the nation to converge on the capital.

    While downtown Ottawa was quite a sight to behold — and it still is, with all of those trucks still there as I speak — I did not see tens of thousands of trucks parked downtown.

    So I began to investigate — and to ask the truckers how they ended up where they did, and how police and city officials had directed their movements upon arrival.

  30. Rat on a train

    Biden on gun control plan: ‘There’s no amendment that’s absolute’

    “Remember, when the amendment was passed, they didn’t say anybody can own a gun, any kind of gun, or any kind of weapon,” he said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed, and so nobody with the money should be able to buy certain assault weapons, but that’s another issue.”

    All those privateers just hurled insults.

    • Ghostpatzer

      All those privateers just hurled insults.

      Or Cows

    • Gustave Lytton

      George III agrees. No privately owned cannons.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Funny, that story upthread would seem to indicate that he has a real thing for nice guns.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ll put that on my federal income tax return.

    • Drake

      So slave auctions aren’t really really unconstitutional?

    • DEG

      Taste of Sicily stayed open through the lockdowns.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nice. How dare she screw up the mortality numbers by actually treating the sick. It’s a blatant violation of the Hypocritical Oath!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m trying not to hate.

      • juris imprudent

        Resistance is futile.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And yet they persist.

    • SDF-7

      How precipitate…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Don’t dilute the message.

      • juris imprudent

        The rage will be unfiltered. [Is there a problem here?]

      • dbleagle

        Just be careful of the molarity.

      • robodruid

        I did Nazi the reaction coming.

  31. R C Dean

    We all know how this is going to end

    Yeah, we do. And its a shame. There were very real abuses by Pharma, the distributors, etc., but our response has been typical. Search high and low for the victims, and kick the shit out of them.

    • The Hyperbole

      Jesus, but that delivery is off putting, reminds me of the tool review guy who mispronounces every other word, it’s not quite ‘Block insane Yo mama’ but still pretty fucking cringey.

      • Tundra

        You aren’t a fan of Letterkenny, are you?

      • The Hyperbole

        I’ve never seen a whole episode, seen some clips that were funny but I don’t recall the talking like an idiot part.

  32. Don escaped Texas

    https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/01/22/the-parable-of-boris-johnson

    Guv Gavin survived his hypocrisy, but this may well be the final straw for the overstaying Boris.

    None of Downing Street’s recent bluster survived the briefest encounter with reality.

    I’m dying: those dry English fucks, well, you gotta hand it to them: they can turn a phrase.

    • Ownbestenemy

      All I know is I have his photo and the mayors where they are ‘holding their breath’ for photos on my phone so when I go to Cali for my soon to be great nephew’s arrival in the world, I can point to it and say fuck off.

    • Don escaped Texas

      is staff salary a federal line item or an expense for California?

      My fucks are only given re things I’m taxed for, so I need to know whose ledger this hits

  33. Ownbestenemy

    Lifted the rear passenger side of the Explorer and put in the jack stands for the teens. I want them to have some adult supervision. They are embarking on replacing the rear strut solo. Take some ownership and you will be proud of your accomplishment.

    • Tundra

      Chocks and jack stands?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wheels chocked too!

      • Tundra

        No salt out there so they should have a decent time getting everything apart.

        Good work!

      • Ownbestenemy

        They got off two of the hardest ones on their own. They learned the power of a good breaker bar.

    • The Hyperbole

      Jack stands? Don’t you have any concrete blocks lying around?

      • Don escaped Texas

        cinderblocks are just for folk who don’t have milk crates

      • Ownbestenemy

        Dude…im white trash, not living in a doublewide. Now where is my PBR

      • Rat on a train

        Using those for shelves.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Proud papa. They got the old one out without killing each other or breaking the break line.

      • DEG

        🙂

      • Tundra

        Hell yeah! So fun to watch them become Not Soave.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And new one in. I wanted to share some photos but the free sharing site is trash

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Natural “immunity” is a thing

    What is clear from the new CDC report over all periods is this — the worst group to be in is the nonvaccinated group without prior COVID-19. That group is the most likely to be infected, and if also at risk for severe disease — older 65 years of age, obese, chronically ill or immunocompromised — the most likely to die from an infection. Therefore, if you are in this group, please get vaccinated!

    They apparently do not accept or concede the likelihood some non-trivial portion of that never-vaccinated group will never get sick because their immune systems are innately capable of successfully fighting off the virus. That would impede the panic.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So I am good cause I check none of these boxes

      older 65 years of age, obese, chronically ill or immunocompromised

  35. The Late P Brooks


    His t-shirts are great!

    “Apparatus Predates Safety”

  36. DEG

    Alberta truckers heading to Edmonton.

    The leadership of the ongoing blockade on Alberta’s Southern border in protest of the pandemic lockdown restrictions has released a message for the Alberta government:

    Hey Kenney, We’re Coming For Coffee!

    A Message from the Freedom Convoy,

    For the last 6 days, we have peacefully protested the vaccine passport, forced masking, and vaccine mandates. Instead of hearing from our Premier Jason Kenney, he has instead accused us of violence and of harassing the good people of Coutts, Alberta.

    We have been patient for two years. We have invited dialogue, and we have been met with half-truths, empty promises, and flip flops. Our elected representatives were welcomed to come speak with us, and we have been met with silence.

    Mr. Kenney and the Members of the Legislative assembly of Alberta: you couldn’t make it to us, we’re coming for coffee. Look forward to meeting you.

    Free People, God Speed.

  37. DEG

    Cops move in on Aussie protesst

    Police have moved in on the ‘Freedom Camp’ outside Parliament House in Canberra this morning.

    A large police presence has made its way to the site and is now engaged in a standoff with protesters and have begun to take down tents and other temporary structure as well as towing away cars from the site.

    • Ownbestenemy

      He is a smarmy asshole.