Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Sleepy Eyes

by | Feb 23, 2022 | Daily Links | 300 comments


Trudeau’s War on Truckers Is a War on Truth

On Monday night, I watched in horror as the votes were counted in Canada’s House of Commons over Justin Trudeau’s invocation of The Emergencies Act. Under the auspices of this invocation, Trudeau’s government has seized the bank accounts of anyone affiliated with the Freedom Convoy, arrested over a hundred protestors and those who planned the truckers’ protest and even seized some of the trucks in what has been an appalling display of government overreach.

And yet, Trudeau won; according to the majority of our elected representatives, the Emergencies Act would stand—at least for now; it is currently being debated by the Senate.

The House voting to affirm Trudeau’s actions was a staggering blow, not just to Canada’s protesting truckers but to anyone with a commitment to civil liberties, the rule of law and even the truth. As many have pointed out, there simply is no emergency to speak of. All the blockaded border crossings were open by the time Trudeau announced his invocation of EA, and up until the police arrived in Ottawa this past weekend, there had been no violence whatsoever at any demonstration associated with the Freedom Convoy. In fact, crime in downtown Ottawa dropped during the protest.

Of course, you probably don’t know that. And it’s not your fault. Instead of covering the actual protest, the media chose to focus on alleged “hate crimes” which are never followed up on, or on the lunatic fringe—people who were officially disassociated from the movement by the organizers of the convoy.

It’s Gord! Our Gord is in Newsweek!


Trigger Warning: The video discussed here is hard to watch. Amazon is trying to kill us.

OHMYGAWD! SAURON IS SO HOT, U GUIS!


Texas candidate kicks up controversy by posing nearly nude atop an oil pump

A woman running for railroad commissioner in the Lone Star State has raised eyebrows over her racy campaign video — in which she straddles an oil pump wearing little more than a cowboy hat and boots.

“They said I needed money. I have other assets,” GOP lawyer Sarah Stogner, 37, said in a tweet of the campaign clip posted to TikTok.

Stogner, who posted the steamy video on Super Bowl Sunday, said it was shot in November by a documentary crew she hired for her campaign against incumbent Wayne Christian, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Some friends suggested that she post the video on TikTok to call attention to leaking wells in West Texas, according to the paper.

“I started doing a little digging and was like, wow, this is great,” she told the outlet. “This is how I’m going to communicate to the masses about what’s happening out here, because people are visual.”

Stogner told the paper she decided to release the video because the risk seemed worth it — as a University of Houston poll showed her only a few points behind Christian, who has been bankrolled by oil and gas interests.

“I knew it would be controversial. I didn’t realize it would incite the rage and anger that it did from the press,” she told the Chronicle.


 

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300 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    anyone with a commitment to civil liberties

    Your civil liberties were just civilly removed.

  2. Rebel Scum

    “I knew it would be controversial. I didn’t realize it would incite the rage and anger that it did from the press,” she told the Chronicle.

    Leftist media hates traditionally attractive women.

    • Tonio

      They particularly hate PAWs who exploit that. Somehow, those women are victims of the patriarchy. I’d say she’s exploiting the patriarchy, not the other way around.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Exploit me, Baby!

      • DEG

        PAWs – Phat Ass White?

      • Tonio

        Typo. Should have been TAWs, for “traditionally attractive women.” Or, I should have just copy/pastied like a real nerd.

      • DEG

        Ahh.

      • Lackadaisical

        Maybe it’s just me, but she doesn’t look particularly attractive. Just not horrible.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Who doesn’t appreciate a good pastie?

        Spoiler: last good thing Alyssa Milano did.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        *Nods knowingly at DEG*

    • SDF-7

      They never matured past Junior High and that Becky Robertson NEVER should have gotten all that attention?

      • Tonio

        They claim to be sex positive, and hate slut shaming. Yet…

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        The bottom line is, nothing they say applies to conservatives or people who are in any way right-leaning, real, or perceived.

        Black empowerment is great, they say? Ask about Clarence Thomas or Larry Elders. Does a woman deserve respect? See Sarah Palin or Margret Thatcher and how they were treated. The fact-checking, affirmative action, DEI; none of that applies to anyone outside the Dem reservation. It’s bullshit all the way down.

  3. Swiss Servator

    I almost bailed on that video….twice. But the fellow commenting managed to keep me in to the end.

    I am still wincing.

    • Nephilium

      What’s wrong with Ministry?

    • rhywun

      I skipped around, heard the word “representation”, and instantly bailed.

    • Compelled Speechless

      On a related note, I’m on my 73rd watch of the railroad commissioner candidate’s video. Just when I thought nothing would reignite my passion for democracy, she came along and elevated my interest.

      • TARDis

        It took you 73 times to come to right conclusion?

      • Compelled Speechless

        No, I concluded about every 5th time through.

  4. Count Potato

    I remember when Ministry’s label sent out promotional bottles of motor oil.

    • Nephilium

      Shouldn’t that have been Stone Temple Pilots?

      • SDF-7

        No, that would be motor oil *additives*.

        For Motor Oil itself, I was thinking Midnight Oil.

    • Rat on a train

      with sympathy?

      • rhywun

        I wonder if they acknowledge that one.

        I love both versions of them but I’m like that.

        Bad Religion also has a synth-pop album that they disavowed. I don’t know why – it’s great.

  5. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I have a “Dating in DC” story that tangentially involves Jesus Built My Hot Rod

    • Tonio

      Oh, I want to read that.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        It’s a doozey

  6. Ted S.

    To be fair, a lot of us are terrified of Biden, but not for the reasons Stephen King thinks.

  7. Rebel Scum

    No, that’s not it.

    The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.

    I see all the problems will be blamed on the problem that is not a problem for us.

    • Bobarian LMD

      And the only way to fix it is to vote the same asshats back into office!

    • Rat on a train

      I don’t recall when I last filled up, but gas has gone up $0.40 per gallon since then.

      • Ted S.

        I filled up last week ($3.779), and it was a dime a gallon higher than the previous Friday.

        I paid $2.079 a few days after the election in November 2020.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

      Help us, Joe – you’re our only hope!

    • Count Potato

      Shouldn’t Twitter ban them for fake news?

      • whiz

        I’m sure they can find an expert like Paul Krugman to verify that they are correct.

    • R C Dean

      I do not see how a crisis that began a few weeks ago is responsible for inflation and supply chain problems that began a year or more ago.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Viewing time as a linear progression with “causes” preceding “effects” is white supremacist thinking which denies the reality of LGBTQBIPOC+ people.

        Do better.

      • SandMan

        I think the correct phrasing is “denies the lived experiences of ” blah-blah-blah.

    • hayeksplosives

      They really think our memories are so short we will think inflation started last month?

  8. DEG

    “They said I needed money. I have other assets,” GOP lawyer Sarah Stogner, 37, said in a tweet of the campaign clip posted to TikTok.

    And those other assets are great.

    • kinnath

      Free the Nipple!

      See, I support women’s causes.

      • Bobarian LMD

        As long as it’s not on the collarbone.

    • Ownbestenemy

      A butter face for sure but I doubt anyone will be paying attention to that from here on out.

      • DEG

        Her face didn’t bother me.

        I looked through her tiktok and other social media “stuff” to see what her positions are. Lots of stuff about oil and gas companies not cleaning up after themselves.

      • DEG

        Oh, and she hunts and fishes.

      • robc

        Sounds like a Teddy Roosevelt republican.

      • R C Dean

        I looked through her tiktok and other social media “stuff”

        Doing God’s work in some of the worst neighborhoods . . . .

  9. DEG

    What kind of leadership is this, especially from the scion of a Canadian political dynasty?

    He did disgrace the Castro bloodline.

  10. Ownbestenemy

    I had to make a scary call. We uh…let our business license lapse and it was revoked a few months ago and we just didn’t pay attention. Called up the city thinking they were gonna levy a huge fine or try to slap a misdemeanor on us, but they said just reapply.

    Now trying to figure out why they want us to apply for a DBA when we use our LLC as our business name…gatekeeping is so damn tiring.

    • Rat on a train

      Are they backdating? I recall the one time I forgot to update vehicle registration. The DMV backdated to the expiration without penalty.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nah…we will get fucked somehow, this I know.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Don’t relax until it is complete. There be dragons in the bureaucracy.

      • DEG

        Yes.

        Good luck OBE!

  11. Gadfly

    It’s Gord! Our Gord is in Newsweek!

    Is Glibertarians about to go mainstream? I don’t think the world is ready for that.

    • Ownbestenemy

      He has been in Newsweek for the past month and has the badge of honor of getting banned from Twitter for *checks notes* ban evasion…

      • Tonio

        ^Fanboi confirmed.

      • Gadfly

        That’s cool.

        Also, “ban evasion” is indeed a badge of honor, as it’s the go-to when they don’t like someone but don’t have even the faintest hint of a TOS violation to pin on them. That’s what was used to ban the “Defiant Ls” account, but it had such a big following and the move was so blatantly baseless that it was reversed.

      • B.P.

        Being arrested for resisting arrest.

      • db

        “Ban evasion” is the “structured transactions” of the social media world.

      • MikeS

        and since then he has moved to Gettr

    • SDF-7

      For your own sanity — don’t try to read the comments though. Ugh.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Eh, think of the up-and-down votes attached to each comment as a kind of poll of opinion — and then get yer scrawny butts over there and downvote the assholes who are dumping on Gord. You can do it without signing in. (I just did.)

      • R.J.

        I did so!

      • MikeS

        #metoo

    • Ownbestenemy

      Everyone knows aviation fuel doesn’t melt steel.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Did we need more evidence? Anyone who has been paying attention to any sources outside of corporate media has known since almost the beginning. Their original lie was that the Wuhan Flu started in a wet market that is less than a mile from the WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY. An all time great cover story right along with this one:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p_FHTV2RSA

    • hayeksplosives

      There is a discussion on that article in the Joemala thread today.

      If you have just eaten, you might want to skip the “story” today. I can’t unsee it.

  12. DEG

    Aussies do have guns: Largest collection of militaria in Australia goes to auction

    Australia’s largest collection of historic militaria – amassed by one passionate enthusiast – is up for auction this week.
    Rod Bellars, of Victoria, collected more than 10,000 items of military equipment over the span of 60 years before his death last year.
    His collection included tanks, firearms, swords, military uniforms, helmets, boots and heavy artillery.

    According to the Aussies on the gun collectors’ forum where I found out about the auction, the owner went to great lengths to keep the collection legal. Many of the guns, including machine guns, are still functional. They didn’t say anything about whether or not the tanks or artillery pieces are still functional. I didn’t go through the lot listing to see.

    But, I did find some lot listings.

    Tanks

      • DEG
      • DEG

        Artillery

        There are more parts to the auction. You can poke around the Lloyds Online website to find the rest if you are interested.

      • R.J.

        Boy those guns went quick…

    • Ted S.

      When Bob Hope visited the troops, they gave him some tanks for the memories.

      • Swiss Servator

        For that, I hope you get a toothache.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Flushika and Rhashuanda were already taken

    • SDF-7

      She looks more like Gwen Stefani than Norma Jean.

    • Lackadaisical

      Oof, that’s like a Scotland 7, still has all her teeth.

    • rhywun

      What’s wrong with her face? Skin should not do that.

      But yeah, hon, social media is a cancer. We could have told you that.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      NATURE BOY RULES!

    • Brochettaward

      When I was a young Firster just earning my reputation, I challenged The Nature Boy to a First-off for the ages. Maybe I’ll tell my tale one day.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m guessing when Flair has a “first-off” with the 28 year old model, he wins every single time. She’ll be lucky to get any “off” in that situation.

      • R.J.

        He’s gotta be shootin’ dust out of that thing by now. She could just brush it off her shirt like bread crumbs.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Right, like Keto bread crumbs. All protein, no carbs.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Hooray for yoga pants.

    • Compelled Speechless

      She might not be the world’s best gold digger. That dude is notoriously bad with his money. Good chance she gets another unpleasant shaft after he keels over.

  13. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Apparently The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ has just rescinded the Emergencies Act. My suspicion is that he didn’t want to face the Senate vote, which was looking much more unlikely to rubber-stamp his invoking of the Act than the Commons was.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Some goodish news

    • Ownbestenemy

      News stories about legally given charity monies and freezing everyday Canadians’ accounts might have turned the key too. Also the leak of their private location and information…and cops acting ‘professionally’ and on and on.

      • The Other Kevin

        The leader of Iran called him totalitarian. That’s not a good look.

    • DEG

      News story

      Whoa.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government can revoke the Emergencies Act now that the crisis in Ottawa and Canada’s border crossings has calmed down.

        He had to do it! What other choice was there?

        Odds that he’ll unfreeze the bank accounts and lay off on the individuals?

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’m sure they’ll be real quick to undo those actions.

        And the media will hold him to it.

      • hayeksplosives

        Even if he unfreezes the accounts, he’s saving the list for future reference.

        The chilling effect has already rolled out to other ordinary Canadians who might otherwise have objected to government overreach in the future.

    • Gender Traitor

      “I didn’t mean it, baby! You just make me so mad sometimes!”

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        ^^This

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It’s just this pandemic and that lying son of a bitch, Putin!

      • Trigger Hippie

        +1 ruined Black Panther Party.

    • Sean

      Honk Honk!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ja Wohl

    • The Other Kevin

      But they’re still keeping the parts where they spy on, and confiscate, people’s donations, right?

    • db

      I have said this before, but this “try an illegal [unconstitutional] move, see which way the wind is blowing, and then retract it before you can have a court ruling against you” mode of governing has got to stop. See, for instance, the State of New York’s move when they were about to get their ass spanked on second amendment grounds…

      • blighted_non_millenial

        ^^This

      • Pope Jimbo

        Even more maddening is that they will use the lack of a ruling against them as an argument in their favor next time that they want to do this.

        “Hey, last time we invoked the Emergency Act, it wasn’t struck down by the courts!”

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I am a sticky sticky son of a gun

    Ejaculating forcefully will do that.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Treat all penises as if they are loaded.
      Keep the penis pointed in the safest possible direction.
      Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
      Know your target, its surroundings and beyond.
      Know how to properly operate your penis.

      • db

        The penis is evil, the penis is good.

      • ZARDOZ

        ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE PENIS IS EVIL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

      • Animal

        What if the penis is shooting blanks?

      • hayeksplosives

        Don’t hand it to Alec Baldwin, just in case.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Make sure to keep it properly cleaned and oiled.

  15. Rebel Scum

    No hibachi for you!.

    Kana “Tanukana” Tani, one of the most prominent female figures in esports fighting, had her contract with Cyclops Athletic Gaming terminated after she made controversial remarks.

    In an esports world dominated by male players, Tanukana stands out with her impressive records and placings on “Tekken.” On Thursday, however, her livestream comments where she stated short men under 5 feet 7 inches did not have “human rights,” adding that those who fall under in height should consider bone-lengthening surgery.

    This resulted in her firing from Japanese esports company Cyclops Athletic Gaming, whose main sponsors are Red Bull and Alienware.

    No one has a sense of humor these days.

    • rhywun

      No one has a sense of humor these days.

      It’s amazing there are humans alive in the last few decades who haven’t caught on to that.

    • Shpip

      I read that first as “incredible areolas,” then realized that Q would be along with those in about five hours.

      • R.J.

        I know! I thought it was a conversation about the Lady from Texas again.

    • hayeksplosives

      I don’t have the 38 minutes to watch it in real time, but it was cool to drag the play arrow back and forth along the timeline.

      Solar maximum in 2025. We should get some good shows along the way.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “I started doing a little digging and was like, wow, this is great,” she told the outlet. “This is how I’m going to communicate to the masses about what’s happening out here, because people are visual.”

    Some visuals are better than others.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Golden Retrievers Love Mud


      and dead fish, cowshit, chasing skunks….

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yup. My old mutt would roll around in mud and slack pond water whenever we went out for a walk. He’d be so happy, then when we got home he’d act like a vampire being sprayed with holy water when I’d hose him off. You could almost hear him shrieking, “What are you doing? I stink so pretty right now!”

      • Bobarian LMD

        My mutt, who had some rhodesian ridgeback in her, would do this too.

        I walked her on a running trail once, and she found where a jogger had a bathroom emergency.

        She literally ground it into the fur around her neck and then tried to rub all over me.

        Walking her back with a leash and a stick to keep her away was horrifying; gagging and crying the whole way.

        She also did not appreciate the bath.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Last summer when I was staying at my dad’s house, I buried some fish guts in the garden. Didn’t think anything of it.

        Got a call from my sister a few weeks later when she was staying at the house. Seems her beagle had found the burial site, dug it up and spent the afternoon rolling around on some fish skins that were still there.

        The dog was please, I was amused, but my sister was neither.

    • The Other Kevin

      He couldn’t talk because Jeff Dunham was in the other room.

      • Gender Traitor

        Biden DOES look a bit like Walter…who would make a better president.

      • TARDis

        At this point, a jalapeño on stick would make a better president.

      • Rebel Scum

        JD does a bit with Walter as Biden. It’s funny but I hate it because I actually like Walter.

        who would make a better president.

        Peanut.

      • Lackadaisical

        ROFL

    • Pope Jimbo

      What must really irk Joe – in his lucid moments – is the fact that he knows Putin can do more pushups than he can.

    • hayeksplosives

      The picking his teeth with his finger as he started at the reporter was especially classy.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “I knew it would be controversial. I didn’t realize it would incite the rage and anger that it did from the press,” she told the Chronicle.

    She’s obviously not a legitimate public servant.

  18. Brochettaward

    And there has been no shortage of media reports gleefully multiplying the number of Nazi and Confederate flags at the protests from one each into many, again absent any substantiating data. Canadian and American liberal media outlets focused all of their attention on what is at most a far-Right fringe of the movement to avoid admitting to their readers that there are millions of Canadians who streamed out to Canada’s streets to greet the truckers, who feel strongly that the government has overstepped when it comes to COVID and with whom the truckers’ message resonates.

    I guess to get printed in Newsweek, you can’t call out an obvious false flag when you see it. That would be too conspiratorial even though the only image of guys with a Nazi flag I saw was of 6 dudes walking alone wearing black masks over their faces.

    • hayeksplosives

      Were they wearing matching earpieces while saying “Greetings, fellow truck drivers.”?

  19. The Bearded Hobbit

    GAH! My credit union just “updated” their web page. Everything is harder to get to, I have to do the stupid passcode verification by email EVERY TIME I LOG IN. And the send dates for my bill payments are are scrambled and there is no way to change them.

    I *%#^@ hate updates!!!

    • Mustang

      Mine did too and it was a huge step backwards. I don’t mind updates, but this looks like a website from five years ago and it’s not intuitive at all.

    • db

      Yeah, same here. I don’t understand why they think that e-mail or text code verification is secure.

      They should be using U2F authenticators like a Yubikey, or a BitBox or something. That’s far more secure than sending a text message to a cell phone that might or might not be in the owner’s hand.

      • MikeS

        Yeah. I actually “hacked” quite a few of my mom’s accounts (at my dad’s behest) after she passed just be doing a hard reset on her phone.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “I didn’t mean it, baby! You just make me so mad sometimes!”

    He wouldn’t beat you if he didn’t love you. Be thankful.

    • SDF-7

      Apropos that this comment came right after the scouring of the Shire just above…

  21. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. This story obliquely points out why the LP is so worthless. MPR’s story is about two of Minnesoda’s major parties plans to run candidates against King Walz. (They are mad that King Walz talks a game about legal pot but really doesn’t do anything).

    What is depressing is that the four major parties in Minnesoda are:

    Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
    Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party
    Legal Marijuana Now Party
    Republican Party of Minnesota

    The Minnesoda LP party is in the second tier. For fuck’s sake, the splitters in the pot movement can’t even work together and they are both out drawing you!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      FWIW, there’s a movement afoot to make the LP not quite so pathetic.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I listen to Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem podcast and have some hope he might help get them on some reasonable path for success.

        But still, you would think that the last elections would have gotten shit tons of votes for the LP.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The LP has been pissing away opportunities for a decade now. Ron Paul tried to save them but they shit all over his supporters when he stopped running.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I think it was taken over by people planted in the party to delegitimize. Have you ever heard Nick Sarwark talk? That guy was doing a bad impression of what what progs think of left libertarians. Yeah, collectivist identitarianism is a great sales pitch to people in the radical individualist party.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m supporting the Mises Caucus which has vowed to make asshats like Sarwark irrelevant. Hopefully they’ll get Angela McCardle elected to chair this year. She’s the bomb.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Agree. I actually registered as a libertarian for the first time so I could try to vote Mises. She’d be a great chair and with Dave Smith and his buddies in charge of messaging, I think the could actually get some real attention. The elections are due for another technological disruption with the explosion of independent media and the marvelous death of legacy media. These guys actually get that and are planning around it.

      • creech

        “they shit all over his supporters when he stopped running.”
        When was that?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Over a decade ago

  22. Ownbestenemy

    2022 Bingo card: I hedged on ‘snow in Vegas in late February’

    • Pope Jimbo

      As in snow from the sky, or as snow in cocaine?

      I wouldn’t think anyone in Vegas would take the latter bet at any odds.

  23. kinnath

    Youtube is now serving me spanish language ads before videos. WTF?

    It’s not like I pay attention to the ads at all.

    • The Other Kevin

      Me too. I also get them on Pandora.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      You running a vpn with a Mexican end-point?

      • kinnath

        work computer

        just started today

      • Swiss Servator

        That’s a favorite old song, “I’m on a Mexican VPN, woah, woah, woah…”

      • slumbrew

        I wish I was in
        Tijuana
        Eating barbecued iguana

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *narrows gaze*

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Did you watch any videos in Spanish or any other foreign language? That seems to do it for me.

      • kinnath

        nope.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Maybe your cleaning lady is watching your Youtube while you are out. Or maybe one of your orphans.

      • kinnath

        work from home. no orphans.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Shitlord status REVOKED!

      • Sensei

        Funny thing is all the Japanese stuff I watch on YouTube has English ads.

        I’m sure it does it based on where I’m watching. I wonder if it thinks kinnath is Latinx, but in the US.

  24. Pope Jimbo

    Brother Keith is disappointed, but he won’t challenge the sentencing of Kim “Tazer” Potter.

    “Look, I’m not going to second guess Judge Chu,” said Ellison in an interview with FOX 9’s Paul Blume. “I will say that it is my hope that sentences like this could be used to try to prevent the next tragedy.”

    “We believe that precedential cases would indicate that the court had the discretion and made the proper factual findings,” Ellison added. “So we don’t anticipate any realistic chance that the case would be reversed, the sentencing would be reversed. So we’re not going to put resources into doing something we think will be futile.”

    So he wishes that they would really have fucked over Potter to send a message to the other cops. I wonder if he’d feel the same about the sentences handed out to the few car jackers who have been convicted. For some reason, I think he’d be pontificating about how important it was to find a way to not wreck their lives.

    • MikeS

      I wonder if/when he goes full Gascon?

  25. kinnath

    Two Manhattan prosecutors leading Trump Organization probe resign

    Two prosecutors heading the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s probe into the Trump Organization called it quits on Wednesday – throwing the case into question.

    The resignations of Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne were first reported by The New York Times.

    A source confirmed to The Post that the prosecutors jointly stepped down. The source stressed that the coordinated nature of the departures was a sign of intense frustration with the direction of the case.

    • kinnath

      Criminal defense attorney Ron Fischetti, who represents the Trump Organization, told The Post he saw the resignations coming and was “happy” with the development, while maintaining his clients’ innocence.

      He said there was “no investigation” without Pomerantz and Dunne, adding that the resignations were a sign that Bragg could soon close the case.

      So, they have an inside scoop that Trump isn’t running on 2024?

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is the problem with this country. We can’t build a decent wall that is capable of “closing in” anymore.

        I keep hearing that we can build those walls, but where is the proof?

    • Rebel Scum

      throwing the case into question…intense frustration with the direction of the case.

      I, for one, am shocked that this fishing expedition might get skunked.

  26. Tulip

    Babs has become Houdini at getting out of her cone. She has also started bashing me in the legs with it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Make sure you aren’t standing in wet cement when you are taunting her.

        “B-b-b-babs is coming to b-b-b-b-onk me”*

        *I was going to use a different b word, but I worried that someone might take it out of context and we’d lose our family friendly rating.

      • db

        “Berate?”

    • Tulip

      I know it’s on purpose because I have stepped out of the way and she turns and takes another run at it.

      • slumbrew

        I slept on the couch to keep an eye on our last hound after she got surgery – she would ram the edge of the cone into my face in the middle of the night.

        She knew exactly what she was doing.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        STOP WAVING THAT RED CAPE!

    • Swiss Servator

      *squints suspiciously*

    • Rebel Scum

      New omicron COVID subvariant BA.2 detected in Twin Cities area wastewater

      Now we have to worry about the slurry of subvariants.

    • MikeS

      Health officials are monitoring the new form of the coronavirus, but it is too early to predict whether it will spark a new surge.

      But we have out fingers crossed it will!

  27. trshmnstr the terrible

    Sciency Science Experts: You vaccine hesitant dumbdumbs are stupid, hypocritical, and stupid! Oh, and you’re dangerous!

    WHO has named vaccine hesitancy one of the greatest threats to global health. Nonetheless, some people are hesitant or refuse to get vaccinated because they do not trust vaccines and health authorities. A new research result from DTU, published in the journal PLOS One, shows that misinformation on social media contributes to this distrust and creates a false image of benefits and disadvantages concerning vaccines.

    “Where vaccine supporters often refer to news media and science sites when sharing knowledge about vaccines on Twitter, we can see that profiles belonging to anti-vaccine profiles far more often share links to YouTube videos and to sites that are known to spread fake news and conspiracy theories, which previous research has also shown,” says Bjarke Mønsted who holds a PhD from DTU Compute. He continues:

    “Furthermore, vaccine opponents’ profiles often link to commercial sites that sell alternative health products. This is surprising given that vaccine hesitancy often stems from a fear of financial conflicts of interest. Particularly because previous research has shown that 12 people globally are responsible for vaccine misinformation, including people who earn a fortune from the sale of alternative health products.”

    They do science here!!!

    • commodious spittoon

      Seen earlier: a headline by Mother Jones in May of last year decrying the dangerous new natural immunity theory being pushed by anti-vaxxers.

    • Rebel Scum

      sites that sell alternative health products

      Such as vitamins and minerals I suppose.

    • slumbrew

      It may be time for SMOD.

      • ZARDOZ

        GO ON, ZARDOZ IS LISTENING…

    • hayeksplosives

      The first one just wants us to believe that a man fucked her.

  28. Count Potato

    “These are the owners of #IconicCafe Enrico and Deborah Kuhn. They have been open for business during the #freedomconvoy22. Now they want to put them in jail for serving the truckers. They said they will not give in, what they do is for their country and freedom all over the world”

    https://twitter.com/Ranting4Canada/status/1495471835420450816

    It’s illegal for restaurants to sell food, apparently.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Only if you sell it to the Wrong People™; if it was during a BLM “protest,” they’d be heroes to the Left!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Pulleeeeeaze!

        The BLM would never do something as horrible as engaging in free trade during one of their protests. They’d take the high road and appropriate the food from the restaurant in the name of The People.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I bow to the intuitive obviousness of your superior wisdom, and feel shame.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Send $100 to the local BLM chapter as penance.

      • Rebel Scum

        If it was during a BLM protest their business would be torched.

    • commodious spittoon

      Somebody on Twitter posed Trudeau the question: is it illegal to buy groceries for someone whose bank accounts you’ve frozen?

      The answer is, apparently, don’t be silly. You’ll find out when you’re frozen out of your accounts in a week or two.

      • rhywun

        They hate you and they want you to die™.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *censors comment that would certainly alert the NSA bot*

    • Brochettaward

      I find all the stories about businesses being forced to close due to the protests to be funny, because I’m pretty sure protesters didn’t force anyone to close their businesses. Their presence and whatever threat they posed certainly didn’t force such action, unlike other mostly peaceful protests we’ve seen.

      • creech

        “My God, they’re looting The Bay and burning down the Tim Horton’s!”

    • Swiss Servator

      STEVE SMITH KAMP 4 SCIENZ!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Those girl campers deserve the full “stem” experience.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I just twig out and can’t berries kinds of stories.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Aww nuts. That’s a bummer.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s a camp counselor murder waiting to happen.

    • db

      “Anatomy camp”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Oh, they know what the dealio is. They also know that you can’t handle the SCIENCE!

      The New York Times reports that the CDC has published only “a small sample of the data” because it fears the public would not properly understand the data, that the public is too dumb.

      “The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective,” the Times reports.

      • rhywun

        Geez, that’s pretty transparent bullshit even for the Times.

  29. slumbrew

    Aw, man – The Amazing Johnathan died.

    That sucks.

    I’m glad I had a chance to see him live.

    • commodious spittoon

      Huh. Didn’t see The Amazing Randi died last year.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Really?

      Damn.

      My favorite chubby, sweaty, probably coked out on stage, magician/comedian.

      • slumbrew

        “probably”?!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Fair enough.

    • Compelled Speechless

      My first thought was that it’s a prank, but the rest of the internets seems to confirm. There’s a “documentary” about him from a few years back where he’s just in a total downward spiral, but my recollection was that the further you get into it, the more it seems the whole thing is staged. I may have to watch it again to remember. His first Comedy Central special was one of my all time favorites. His humor is my favorite combination of absurd childish whimsy and pure pitch black morbidity – wrapped up in hack magician packaging.

  30. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Trudeau and others in the ruling elites convinced themselves that the nonviolent demonstration of populist anger about COVID restrictions would become Canada’s January 6, a violent insurrection that would overthrow the government.’

    Meh.

    Sorry, Gordo. You lost me there.

    • slumbrew

      I seriously doubt Gordo views January 6 that way. He’s describing how Canada’s Top Men justified their authoritarian overreach to themselves.

      • rhywun

        That’s how I read it.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        That’s how I read it too.

      • Old Man With Candy

        He’ll be in Zoom tonight. You can show up and ask him.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      No, I think he’s got that one right. You’d be amazed at how many people up here in The Great White North took to Twitter and basically stated that this was an “imported” protest by “MAGA types” and funded by “foreign interests” who wanted to see a government overthrown. They’re still throwing around idiotic claims like the truckers’ protest was an act of “sedition,” blah blah blah.

      It just confirms my belief that YouTwitFace exists as a honeypot to attract witlings

    • commodious spittoon

      Given the horseshit we’ve been treated to in the last year (not to mention the heinous treatment of the protestors they rounded up) I wish at least a few reps had been insurrected. It’s not as if the response would be any less deranged.

    • Trigger Hippie

      *sigh*

      As much as it pains me to do this:

      ‘Brochettaward on February 23, 2022 at 3:39 pm

      I guess to get printed in Newsweek, you can’t call out an obvious false flag when you see it. That would be too conspiratorial even though the only image of guys with a Nazi flag I saw was of 6 dudes walking alone wearing black masks over their faces.’

      The Bro has addresed a broader point.

      However Gordo intended for it to be precievied, a large portion of the readers will assume he conceded the assumption of intent by the 1/6 idiots. I personally assume the vast, vast, majority of them thought they could emulate a Madison, Wisconsin style protest and walk away freely with no repercussions, not assume they as a group largely comprised of unarmed, middle-aged to elderly people could could actually overthrow the US government. The very idea is fucking retarded. But for many readers (also fucking retarded) that little concession of his (in their minds) validates the government overreach.

      Give an inch, lose a mile.

      • blighted_non_millenial

        Or you know like the women’s march that interrupted senate business.

  31. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    And now for something completely different:

    Anybody here do printed circuit board prototyping using one of the many, many different “free” design programs available Out There? I’ve tried several, and I must admit I find them all kinda baffling; I must be a lot dumber than I thought (always the last to know). For one thing, none of them seem to have a suite of commands that are similar to any of the graphics programs I’m used to (and I’ve used some strange ones — Xara, anybody?), and that problem is so far outside what I think their graphics front-ends oughta do that it’s really throwing me off.

    Can anyone recommend something? I’m not unwilling to run through tutorials etc., but the ones I’ve tried so far don’t seem to be very good. And certain progs are real kludgy hair-pullers **COUGH*KiCad*COUGH**.

    • Count Potato

      Do you want to do schematic capture?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I can build the schematic myself, if that’s what you’re asking; if you mean “Do I want to import others’ schematics?,” I suppose that would be useful, but not required.

      • Count Potato

        Well, there is software that you draw the schematic, then generates a PCB from from it.

        Like Scruffy, I don’t know what is free now or good now.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Once upon a long time ago I could tell you, but I’m definitely curious to see what others say.

    • Don escaped Texas

      I’ve always paid someone to do all that and never delivered more than the algorithm. If I may, what are you trying to do? Just learn how to do it for the sake of knowing?

      I know PLC are huge compared to a single PCB, but maybe context will help.

      At some point someone is going to deliver a cellphone-sized box with all the interfaces you need to load files you wrote from the comfort of your laptop AND with enough I/O you can port through sort of phone-sized cable (or bluetooth).

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        No, I’ve got some circuits that I’m prototyping, but ultimately want to create PCBs for. Being able to submit them to a fabber would be nice, but really, I’d probably just PDF ’em and roll the actual copper at home in my lab. In the past, I’ve drawn them almost by hand, but they look kinda “hacky” to me and I’d like to be able to do something slightly better. Yeah, I know, no-one’s ever gonna see it inside an enclosure, but *I* know it’s there.

      • Plinker762

        I use expresspcb.com for custom boards I use at work. They have a schematic program which will link with the board program.

  32. LJW

    Just saw an interesting number. The EU gets 1/3 of it’s natural gas supply from Russia. This number is inflated because of the environmental mandates they put in place. Russia is laughing all the way to Kyiv. I suspect the Baltic countries and Finland are getting nervous.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What’s funnier?

      The German Green Party, which pushed hard for shutting down coal and nuclear in Germany, hates the Russians.

      Stupid isn’t confined to DC.

      • rhywun

        Or Albany, where the exact same story is in play.

    • grrizzly

      I don’t understand why Finland is ever mentioned in this context. Ukraine has a long history of being in the same state as Russia, many Russians–including Putin–consider Russians and Ukrainians to be the same people. The Baltic countries have large poorly treated Russian minorities. But Finland is not like these countries. There are no Russians living there and the history of Finland being part of Russia was relatively brief.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Same average blood alcohol content?

      • creech

        Heard some dude on radio say that Finland is unnecessarily getting its panties in a twist because Russia would have to go through Poland to invade them, and Poland is a NATO country, so U.S. would respond. Maybe someone should look at a map of Europe before discussing foreign policy?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Well you could invade Finland through Poland, you’d just have to take the long route.

      • Ted S.

        The Soviets tried to ethnically cleanse the Baltics by importing a bunch of ethnic Russians. No wonder the Baltics hate their Russian minorities.

  33. db

    Stephen King tweeted yesterday that Putin is terrified of Joe Biden.

    You’d think if anyone in the world knows what is terrifying it might be the #1 horror author of the last century, but apparently not.

    • Compelled Speechless

      If they’re going to lie about the numbers, I’d rather they do it in that direction.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Primitive superstition strikes again

    The Department of the Interior is moving forward with plans to remove a name the department declared to be derogatory from federal lands.

    Interior Secretary Deb Haaland formed a task force and declared the word “squaw” derogatory in November 2021. Now, the department is seeking public comment on name replacements for the more than 660 geographic features that contain the word.

    Historically, the term has been used as “an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” the department noted. The term originated from the Algonquian word for “woman,” but its meanings has been skewed for centuries by white people.

    The task force, dubbed the Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force, also moved to replace the word with “sq_ _ _” in official communications.

    “Words matter, particularly in our work to make our nation’s public lands and waters accessible and welcoming to people of all backgrounds,” Haaland said. “Consideration of these replacements is a big step forward in our efforts to remove derogatory terms whose expiration dates are long overdue.”

    Conjure words are nothing to trifle with.

    • Rebel Scum

      “an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,”

      White Squaw, aka Liz of the Fauxhicans, has a sad.

    • rhywun

      Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force

      Oh for fuck’s sake.

      Never change, Democrats.

      A bunch of school-board Marxists just got canned in SF of all places because they wasted time on shit like this. Sadly, the people don’t have the power to recall a bunch of wastrels in the Interior Department.

  35. straffinrun

    Putin didn’t invade Ukraine while Trump was in office cuz Trump was in Putin’s pocket.

    Team blue talking points are ridiculous.

      • Brochettaward

        That’s the most coherent argument for how Trump was doing Putin’s bidding.

        Of course, not mentioned is that Trump was supposedly undermining NATO because he, you know, wanted Germany and the rest of Europe to spend more on their own defense as NATO actually requires.

      • commodious spittoon

        The glory of NATO is, there’s no force multiplier in cost. The less you invest, the greater the return. Science!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Obviously it would have made Trump look bad and Putin didn’t want that so he waited for Biden who he knew was going to win despite his trying to help Trump. If Putin was half as competent as our media likes to pretend he is he’d be God and Russia would be Heaven and no other country would stand a chance.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Shit, if Putin was that good, I’d emigrate to Russia. Instead, my Glorious Leader is The Hair That Walks Like A Man™.

        Farg.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hell, Trump was simultaneously playing 4D chess and a buffoon.

        Beat that.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Start with the conclusion, beat facts in evidence into submission.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Or perhaps, just spitballing here, maybe it was at least partially because low oil and gas prices didn’t give Putin the resources he needed to mount such an operation. Just thinking aloud here.

  36. grrizzly

    Got a phone call from CDC NATL IMMUN. My phone flagged it as spam. If not for a risk of talking to spammers I’d be very happy and willing to tell them that I am not “vaccinated” and never will be.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    “Throughout this process, broad engagement with Tribes, stakeholders and the general public will help us advance our goals of equity and inclusion,” Haaland said.

    In strict accordance with native tradition.

    • rhywun

      Blink twice if you need to be rescued, Deb. We know Biden commanded this gibberish of every bureaucracy.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Got a phone call from CDC NATL IMMUN. My phone flagged it as spam. If not for a risk of talking to spammers I’d be very happy and willing to tell them that I am not “vaccinated” and never will be.

    At this point, if anybody asks me, i’m going to tell them I’m part of the control group.

    Somebody has to be.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Already got my card! (Quite swanky-looking, actually — oughta confuse some Karens I run into at the local Safeway . . . )

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Took about a week, BTW — comes from the UK.

      • rhywun

        It’s a trap!

        JK. Upon closer inspection it looks like it might be of value.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Man, drugs are falling out of a lot of asses (including mine) this afternoon.

    • Rebel Scum

      Keep backing that dog into a corner…

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        There’s gonna be a lot of unintended consequences of invoking the Emergencies Act and scape-goating these people. Canada’s rapidly becoming a much more suspicious, frightened, angry and vengeful country, and it’s all because of our fucking pols. Between COVID bullshit and this crap, too many people I know have just Had. It.

        It’s gonna take a generation at least to heal these wounds, and it won’t be entirely successful.

      • rhywun

        The world is rapidly becoming a much more suspicious, frightened, angry and vengeful planet.

        And at least half of its inhabitants are cheering it on.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Vax control group? Nice.

    • commodious spittoon

      shoe0nhead is a 10/10 6/10 lady

      I would, and I hope this isn’t prurient, pay cash money to peek her in her underwear. Maybe tens of dollars.

      • DEG

        There are nudes of her out there.

      • Brochettaward

        She looks better than I thought she would have. Apparently she got her tits done?

        The Armored Skeptic apparently leaked the photos after their break-up? See, a Firster doesn’t pull that kind of shit.

  40. commodious spittoon

    Read the latest SF and comments… there’s a new guy posting here, Compelled Speechless.

    That sums up that nightmare dump.

    All the eldrich horror porn, gruesome puss-filled orifices, nightmare children whelped into the world by corrupt wombs, supping (or meant to have supped) off one of several leathery, wizened nipples sprouted from horror-story simulacrums of national politicians, that’s alright. I’d eat breakfast off those stories.

    What SF described today actually sickened me. I’m now imagining Bush Senior macking on Ron’s confused, upset face. Bill and Bush trading was stories and loads.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m honored to have my contributions be recognized. My teachers always told me I have a gift for innuendo. I have to yield to SF, he’s still the master.

  41. DEG

    DeSantis pokes fun at Psaki

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made fun of White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki in a video on National Margarita Day to criticize the massive increases in prices and inflation brought on by the Biden administration’s policies.

    As Biden directs his attention towards a conflict some 5,000 miles away from problems in the United States, the Florida governor took a jab at Psaki, referencing a January video in which she advised Americans to simply “have a margarita” instead of thinking about the problems occurring all around them.

    “My advice to everyone out there who is frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and then wake up on Monday morning, we’ve got to keep fighting,” Psaki said in a video.

    • Brochettaward

      I can only imagine the hysteria if one of Trump’s blonds had told people pissed off about the direction of the country to go drink a margarita to calm down.

    • hayeksplosives

      The comments on that website seem to indicate that Trudeau would get elected again.

      Is cbc.ca pretty much the equivalent of NPR?

      • MikeS

        NPR wishes. IIRC the CBC is 100% funded by the Canadian government.

      • Compelled Speechless

        So completely objective and free of any corrupting influence from the unwashed merchant class. Enlightened in other words.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The Ceeb’s audience share of nightly news in Canada hovers south of 2%. People who watch CBC unironically are basically tankies for the Liberals, and yes, if it were up to them, Trudeau would be re-elected forever. He’s got such great hair, after all.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      He got word from the government rep in the Senate that the prospects for a Yea vote on the Emergencies Act were grim. In addition, the banks have been Shouting Down A Phone at him and Cabinet because people are closing their accounts at Canadian banks at a record pace, including some big U.S. depositors who’ve figured out that their deposits are not safe. Hair-boy’s also rumoured to be taking a bit of a shellacking from his own backbenchers, with some saying he’s reaping what he sowed during the last election. Right now, it’s all about face-saving and damage control.

      It’s not a victory. It’s the start of a long, cold civil war. And it’s mostly Trudeau’s fault.

  42. Loveconstitution1789

    Russia declared war on Ukraine. Within 6 minutes, reports of Ukrainian military infrastructure being hit. Massive communications outages.

    Reports of russian airborne troops trying to capture the airport in capital of Kiev. Reports of amphib attack on Odessa.

    Images of huge explosions in Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, and Maripul.

    This is what happens when tyrants cant get their way. they attack the innocent to enslave them.

    Get ready for China to attack Taiwan and North Korea make a move into south Korea.