¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Mar 15, 2022 | Daily Links | 169 comments

My local Kroger must have overestimated the number of Irish in my neighborhood, because they are selling those packaged corned beef briskets for $3.50/lbs.  Can’t wait until they have to mark them down next week.  So Playa Manhattan said to make one into a pastrami, then he said to toss it into tacos!

So I did.  Pastrami tacos!

 

Now for some links.

Stem” the “flow” of “migrants”.

I was specifically told, people that look like me were predisposed towards supporting progressive/communist autocracies.

Goddamnit, way to defy the stereotype Colombia.  Don’t worry, Brandon is all over it.

Best argument that Bitcoin holds real value:  criminals use it.  The second best argument? Criminals actually do use it.

Debt trap”.

 

Here’s a jaunty tune.  Enjoy your Martes.

 

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169 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “My local Kroger must have overestimated the number of Irish in my neighborhood, because they are selling those packaged corned beef briskets for $3.50/lbs. ”

    $1.99 here.

    • Nephilium

      And here I was happy when I saw it was down to $5/lb here. There’s three sitting in the freezer now.

      • Count Potato

        Prices are insane.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        And we’re passing the saving on to YOU!

      • C. Anacreon

        The best St. Patrick’s Day ad campaign slogan evee was “Irish I had a Schlitz.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wow…it would be cheaper to buy a brisket and just make your own at that point.

      • juris imprudent

        Not the last time I looked at Costco.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nevada still has whole chickens and brisket for cheap. Chickens are still $.99 – $1.29/lb and briskets were $4.99/lb last week. Gotta go tomorrow anyway so will see if that has shot up.

      • hayeksplosives

        Really?? Beef Prices have been awful here in Pahrump for a while now. Stew meat was $7.49 last week at Smith’s!!

      • Nephilium

        Not here it isn’t. Brisket is at $9/lb. I can at least still get cheap pork on the regular.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Flats are like that here, but you can buy a whole brisket for pennies more than what the separated flat would be.

        And they cut off the best part.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah it takes some knowhow to break it down properly but you can buy a whole packer for nearly the same prices as one that is already broken down and 1/3rd of the weight of meat.

  2. Lackadaisical

    “Stem” the “flow” of “migrants”

    Worldwide financial crash should do the trick. /Biden admin solving problems

  3. Ownbestenemy

    We had some back in 2020 go on sale for 1.29/lb. I have 6 frozen in the freezer. One will be turned into pastrami for sure.

    • Count Potato

      I didn’t know you could turn corned beef into pastrami.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Beef —> Corned Beef —> Pastrami

        Cold smoked is best, but you can hot smoke it and it comes out great.

        Most home recipes are easy to follow and if you have a spice shop around, get their brine blend rather than store bought, or make your own. If you buy the prebrined corned beefs, I suggest desalinating it.

    • Tonio

      We love cooking articles. Especially ones involving meat. Just sayin’.

      • Ted S.

        Your love of meat is well known.

      • Aloysious

        (•_•)

      • Tundra
      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Gott damnit, Tundra!

      • Tundra

        Juuuuuuust a bit outside!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am not sure my wife would appreciate me explaining my meat techniques

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        +1 Coital Alignment Technique

  4. Count Potato

    “I was specifically told, people that look like me were predisposed towards supporting progressive/communist autocracies.”

    Hispanics aren’t very woke. The more the Democrats push identity politics, the more they are going to lose Latin-equis.

  5. DEG

    some say the party must intensify on-the-ground operations that were largely suspended during the pandemic.

    Stopping canvassing was a dumb idea. In NH, the state Democrat Party prohibited any canvassing. Republicans did not operate under any such restriction. I did not do any canvassing for the state rep I helped out, but I met some of the folks that did. They said that many of the people they talked to liked that the canvassers were out because it was a sign of a return to normality.

    I doubt the Democrats will make that mistake again.

    The income from the bonds is to be split into buying more of the asset and funding a ‘Bitcoin City’ near the Conchagua volcano in the La Unión region in the country’s southeast.

    Libertopia?

  6. Lackadaisical

    “Many Colombians say they are fed up with their elected leaders and the way the country has been run in recent years.”

    If they elect a former rebel leader who wants to redistribute the wealth (probably mostly into his own pockets) they’ll be getting what they deserve. Have they looked around their neighborhood lately?

  7. DEG

    For Whom the Horns Honk

    Will freedom survive the death of Canada’s Freedom Convoy?

    The trucker’s convoy was crushed as soon as the police were unleashed. It took law enforcement only two days to remove every protestor and vehicle from Parliament Hill. They used simple riot control techniques. Friendly and fraternizing police were replaced with tactical units, who had more protective equipment and better weapons, and unencumbered by body cameras and badge numbers. The suspension of usual protocols was likely planned to avoid accountability, since a future investigation would have been considered, especially due to the controversial invocation of the Emergency Act.

    • EvilSheldon

      The truckers convoys were absolutely dedicated to non-violence. Now everyone can clearly see that non-violence is off the table, as an effective method of change.

      This probably wasn’t the lesson that the authorities were trying to teach.

      • Tonio

        And while I commend that about them, it was also an extremely pragmatic stance to take.

    • R.J.

      Freedom will survive. Even more importantly, we have all learned what lengths a villainous government will go to in quelling protests that do not suit their needs. Lesson learned. Next time will go differently.

      • Tonio

        IDK, there is a lot to be said for disruption as opposed to active confrontation.

      • Fourscore

        Now, where’s my copy of the red book?

      • R.J.

        The type of protests will never resemble big marches in the street again. Think more along the lines of 2,000 people withdrawing their money at once from a vulnerable bank which is known to collaborate with the government. Economic actions can cause profound damage. Reputation damage in a public forum is easy to accomplish as well. The tools of the oppressors are shockingly easy to use.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      No, it means those of us in states that do not recognize DST will have to change our clocks once. Unless of course we decide to tell the feds to once again, fuck off.

    • Tundra

      I think standard time makes more sense, particularly health-wise.

      But I don’t really care.

      • robc

        I say split the difference. Just pick a time and stick with it,

      • robc

        Without adjusting clocks by 30 minutes, I propose shifting the US time zones about 1/2 way and going to standard time.

        The 6 New England states would be Atlantic Standard.

        Every thing else to the Mississippi would be Eastern Standard.

        River to Great Divide would be Central Standard.

        Rest of 48 states would be Mountain Standard.

        No states would have to be split. MT, WY, CO, NM would be the western edge of CST. MN, IA, MO, AR, LA would be eastern edge of CST. NYC and Chicago would be on same time. NYC and LA would be 2 hours apart.

    • rhywun

      Wow, I had no idea they were working on something useful for a change.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Or at least less of a pain in the ass.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Yeah, it’s still the government making a bad idea permanent.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That was what I noticed.

        It wasn’t “Hey this was a stupid idea that we should get rid of.”

        It was “It’s so great we’ll make it permanent.”

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Though I strongly prefer Standard time, I’d celebrate not having to set my fucking clocks twice a year if Daylight Savings was the choice they made.

        Jolting the circadian rhythm of hundreds of millions of people is fucking cruel, and there’s no goddamn good reason for it.

    • MikeS

      In November 2021, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds only 25 percent of Americans say they prefer to switch back and forth between standard and daylight saving time, when the sun rises and sets one hour later in the summer than it would during standard time.

      Forty-three percent of Americans say they would like to see standard time used during the entire year.

      Thirty-two percent say they would prefer that Daylight Saving time be used all year.

      • MikeS

        Dammit. Hit POST too soon. To finish my thought:

        Of course the morons pick the least preferred of the two, but whatever. I’m in the “pick one and get it done” camp.

        Oh, and we have to wait an extra year because of the airlines? Fuck that. This isn’t Y2K. Do it now.

      • grrizzly

        The move is driven by the senators from FL and MA. At least in New England many people prefer having some daylight after 4pm in the winter.

      • MikeS

        Yes, I’m sure the difference in opinion has a lot to do with difference in latitudes.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        But then the mornings in MA are dark as fuck in the winter.

      • MikeS

        Which is why I could be talked either way. But I think I’d rather have some light in the evening than in the morning.

      • grrizzly

        I never wake up when it’s still dark. Even in December. Definitely not a morning person.

      • Ted S.

        I work 6 to 2:30 so it’s always dark when I wake up.

        And I’d prefer year-round DST to year-round standard time.

      • rhywun

        I hate sunset at 4:30 so I guess I’m in the 32% camp.

      • MikeS

        Yeah, I guess if I were to pick one, I’d be of the same mind. And Rubio did mention that in his comments. So, maybe they aren’t morons…this time.

        However, “my fuck the airlines” opinion still stands.

    • Surly Knott

      Over/under on how long before the DST shift is re-introduced against the new standard?

  8. juris imprudent

    people that look like me

    You turn a lighter shade when you vote Republican you know.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Keep looking at this imaginary problem over here while we rob you blind and kill your kids with bioweapons and foreign wars.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Dave Smith debated Nick Fuentes a while back. He’s definitely got an identarian bent, but you can tell much of what he says is meant to be provocative. He’s still nowhere near as racist, offensive or sincere as your average wokester. If this guy is what you’re worried about, you definitely need to get out of whatever bubble you’re living in.

      • hayeksplosives

        They (the writer) can’t even pretend to be neutral, can they?

        But, hey, at least they are reporting what unnamed “experts” say.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Isn’t it interesting how the ones who accuse others of saying things “without evidence” also happen to be the people most likely to avoid citations and quote sources anonymously? ?

  9. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    To stem the flow of migrants Trump should have proposed a giant tampon on the border. It would have been much more equitable, and the Dems would have had to go along.

  10. Aloysious

    mmmm… tacos.

    ?

    • Tonio

      ^^^this^^^

      Coincidentally, it’s Taco Nite here, too, but more traditional.

      • Ted S.

        So you put on the ritz?

      • Tundra

        Igor on the piano.

        This is a flawless scene from a flawless movie.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        …more traditional.

        In a bag of Fritos?

        /standard high school wrestling meet fast food

      • Ownbestenemy

        Walking Tacos….mmmm

      • Timeloose

        Taco night tonight as well with left over Arroz con Pollo.

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    People keep making loans to Argentina for some reason.

    Perhaps they figure that they’ll get paid back in some Nazi gold someday.

    • one true athena

      Why would you not believe a letter from Wilhelm, Prince of Saxe-Holstein, who needs your help to get his gold out of Argentina?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yep. This is huge news.

      The petrodollar system has underpinned the American Empire for decades. As it unravels, we are in for some not very fun times.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Woo hoo! European pricing…if we’re lucky.

      • R C Dean

        Its worse than that. Without the petrodollar system, I don’t know how much longer the dollar will be the reserve currency (especially given the rate at which we are debasing the dollar). When that happens, all that inflation we have been exporting because we have the reserve currency comes home to roost.

        And that may be a reason to expatriate. If the dollar fails and is removed as the reserve currency, then the impact may be worse (a lot worse? who knows?) in the US than in other countries.

        Ima have to think about this one.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Any country holding dollars in reserve will see the value of those reserves evaporate overnight. So if they back their currency on the value of their holdings (like many in Latin America) it will hit them as well.

        I’m really curious how El Salvador works out.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        El Presidente Dudebro may be assassinated before this is over. The dollar underpins the entirety of the DC power base, they’re going to get desperate.

      • juris imprudent

        American pesos!

    • Compelled Speechless

      Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Petrodollar finally gives and we bleed out, right as we enter into a conflict we’ve spent decades trying to goad Russia into in order to bleed them out? I would say it’s cosmic justice, except the people that are responsible for all of it have set everything up so they’re the only ones who don’t feel it.

      • Drake

        Putin bullied the “oligarchs” into keeping Russia’s physical economy intact. Ours has been offshored and now the oil business is being blocked. Of course we’ll bleed out first.

        Hard to believe we were a net oil exporter 14 months ago.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Saudis are angry over the U.S.’s lack of support for their intervention in the Yemen civil war, and over the Biden administration’s attempt to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Saudi officials have said they were shocked by the precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.

      As if there were any doubt as to who has been driving our foreign policy for decades.

      It’s a long overdue correction on that front, but we’re woefully unprepared for the financial havoc it’s going to wreak.

    • Spudalicious

      This wouldn’t be happening if Biden wasn’t jerking off Iran again.

  12. rhywun

    Also jaunty tune. Bonus points for being Mexicans.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      It is jaunty

  13. Aloysious

    ooo… Slipknot.

    Solway Firth

    My fav.

    • Grummun

      More Slipknot

    • Ownbestenemy

      If his name was Joe or Hunter it would have been kosher excuse.

    • R.J.

      Look, I’ve only been in Florida for a few days and the stories start.

    • hayeksplosives

      Well-said. Identifying what the motives of a nation or leader are does NOT equate to endorsing them.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        In the Art of War Sun Tzu says we should know our enemy and know ourselves. For some reason some people find this controversial.

    • R C Dean

      The first and most paramount national interest is preserving the security and safety of the people who make up the nation. This means both protecting them from threats from without by means of invasion, as well as protecting them from within from civil conflict and upheaval. It also means preserving the way of life, beliefs, and distinctiveness of a people.

      In a nutshell, that is why the leftist project of fundamentally transforming America is anti-American (and by “American”, I mean “American citizens”).

      • juris imprudent

        That word, preserve, runs counter to the belief that all things that happened before are bad and only our beautiful imaginations can deliver us a glorious future. You can’t progress if you are concerned with preserving.

    • Tundra

      “Butchering and maiming children has always been my life’s passion,” said Planned Parenthood doctor Damien Ghoul as he rubbed his hands together and smiled. “Now, thanks to gender ideology and our new ‘gender services,’ I can carve up kids from kindergarten to high school as well as in the womb! Woo hoo!”

      Ouch.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Damien Ghoul”

        Appropes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Damn

    • rhywun

      I laffed.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let’s get this over with then. Ban it and see what happens when fuel prices skyrocket.

      The Democrats will get murdered, literally.

      • Tundra

        He also issued a fucking crypto EO.

        It just never stops. Bring the collapse.

      • Mustang

        I just need everyone to chill the fuck out until around October when I’m moved into the new house. Then it’s game on.

      • Drake

        I’m in a rental for a year…

    • The Other Kevin

      If they did that they’d also have to ban elections forever.

      • Drake

        Probably already thought of that “emergency” measure.

      • R C Dean

        “Elections are insurrections.”

        You heard it here first.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        If they did that they’d also have to ban fortify elections forever.

        Fixed.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “Debt trap.”

    Watch out for the leg-breakers.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Jaunty tune with a south of the border flair.

  16. Tundra

    Cannot unsee.

    Sorry, friends.

    • Aloysious

      Dude.

      SugarFree doesn’t need any suggestions.

      And now to go gouge my eyes out.

    • hayeksplosives

      Ah, the old “right side of history” argument. India is going to look out for India.

      I don’t know if Jen is drunk, but her lilting “up-voice” on her statements betrays a lack of confidence.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They know they’re fucked. The only question is how stupidly desperate are they going to get before they deal with reality.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of our descent into the shitter, I saw an American flag being flown upside down yesterday. Beneath it on the same flagpole: what appeared to be a Trump 24 flag.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    House progressives are planning to call on President Joe Biden this week to use his executive power to declare climate change a national emergency and to ban fossil fuel drilling on public lands.

    Good thinking.

    I saw another article, I forget where, in a long line of “High gas prices will hasten our transition to golf carts and save the world,” from one more yahoo blissfully ignorant of what is actually behind the curtain.

    Expensive gas drives demand for EVs. Automakers pull EVs from the magic hat. More EVs on the road means more demand from magical clean electricity. Utilities pull magical clean electricity from the magic hat. And they all lived happily ever after.

    • creech

      When do we pull magic nuclear power plants from magic hat? Those truly serious about “saving the planet” and converting to all EVs will have to embrace nuclear power.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It only takes about a decade to get one built if you can get it built at all.

      • creech

        Yes, and it will still take ten years to build if we wait ten years more to start building it.
        I know little about nuclear power plants, but I suspect today’s versions are a far sight more safe than those at Chernobyl or TMI. Maybe a pro-nuclear p.r. grassroots campaign should be ginned up before a Greenie wave takes out our standard of living?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The anti-nuclear energy lobby has always confounded and astounded me. It’s the cleanest, most consistent source of power available.

        I get the opposition to nuclear weapons, but the hatred for nuke plants is just stupid.

      • MikeS

        That’s current/past technology. There are companies out there with modular designs which should* greatly speed build time. Decentralizing the power generation would be another benefit. I’m sure there are bugs to be worked out, but it’s pretty cool stuff.

        *I know, the regulatory process is a large percentage of the time and won’t go away, at least short term. But one would hope/think that as this technology is proved out, at least some of the hoops could be removed.

      • juris imprudent

        the regulatory process

        Could be drastically reduced in time with just a few well placed bullets.

      • MikeS

        We need lamppost and woodchipper deregulation!

      • The Last American Hero

        We built the first one in 2 years and didn’t know how to build one since it had never been done.

    • Ted S.

      I was listening to ÖRF’s (Austria) “Morgenjournal” program ththis morning, and one of the reports was greenie propaganda about how driving slower on the autobahn would save some ridiculous amount of gas — I think they claimed 10%.

      No mention of the extra time spent on the road. Taxes on time are the worst of all. In theory, you can make extra marginal dollars, but you can’t make extra time.

      • R C Dean

        So, when you get off the plane in Austria, do they say “Welcome to ORF”?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Österreichischer Rundfunk.

        I just like the word Rundfunk.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ORF is Norfolk, VA

        Shitty airport

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I’m surprised we haven’t heard anybody calling for a return to the 55mph speed limit yet.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Sammy Hagar hardest hit.

    • rhywun

      I can’t wait to not watch that.

    • R.J.

      Oy. Man that show should have ended years ago. It’s just an animated corpse shuffling forward with new puppet masters. I loved the original.

      • rhywun

        Lisa went prog decades ago – my God, she must insufferable now. They’ve probably got her guest hosting The View.

      • Sean

        ??

    • R.J.

      In the meanwhile, Joe Rogan outdraws the Simpsons for audience by 10 to 1.

    • juris imprudent

      Ain’t it grand that we have the righteous to bring ’em to justice? Fuck me, this is why we’re doomed.

    • rhywun

      Damn, I wish I could turn phrases like that.

      • Tundra

        I wish I had a farm.

      • rhywun

        Only if I had orphans to work it.

      • R.J.

        I have some spares that formerly sorted change into my carpet bags. If you can supply the land and potato-sack clothing…

      • R.J.

        I have some spares that formerly sorted change into my carpet bags. If you can supply the land and potato-sack clothing…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Go Jeremy go!

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I loved the end if Clarkson’s Farm when he went off on all the fuckass regulatory hurdles he had to jump to use his own land to produce locally-grown food. You know, the thing all the commies seem to love.

  20. Q Continuum

    “GOP efforts to label Democratic candidates as socialist”

    Ummmm… I think a fair amount of them, at least the prominent ones, identify themselves as socialist.

    Keep on truckin’ AP.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Democrats are just plain lunatic at this point. Socialist doesn’t even apply.

      • rhywun

        Nihilist?

      • hayeksplosives

        Those that think socialist isn’t a winning term call themselves “social democrats” because they are compaaaaaassionate to the downtrodden and better than you are at spending your money on the less fortunate. For equity.

        To me “social democrat” means “Choose the form of your destructor.”

    • rhywun

      forgive student loans then

      LOL twitter is for serious people with serious thoughts

      • UnCivilServant

        We’ll forgive your student loans provided you pay off the principal, interest, and fees.

  21. Tulip

    Aargh! My week keeps filling up with meetings. This morning I only had one each for Wednesday-Friday. Now I have 3 or more each day. FUCK