Thursday Afternoon Links of Discontent

by | Mar 10, 2022 | Daily Links | 310 comments

Music (possibly NSFW lyrics).

 

YOU. BLOATED. IDIOT: Of course it depends on how narrowly you define “Russian leader” and “harm,” but Ima say that Josef Stalin, as he is known in the west, takes the cake.

 

 

NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION LEADER SPEAKS BEFORE CITY COUNCIL: Just kidding. This is Estonia PM Kaja Kallas, and she says the EU has a moral duty to admit Ukraine. She totally gives off that “I haven’t really thought this through” do-gooder vibe one sees in local politics. You want WW3? Cause that’s how you get WW3.

 

 

PERFUNCTORY SELF-FLAGELLATION TO DISTRACT FROM REAL AGENDA: Buried at the bottom of the article linked above is this turdnugget from EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell. First the stage business: “[Borrell] blamed himself for not doing enough and not being quick enough in telling the parliament that the price of war will be long-lasting.” Boo fucking hoo, Josep. Then the ass-fucking: “European citizens need to turn the heat down in their houses. Everyone needs to make an effort. In the same way you would use less water if there was a drought. The same way we wore masks.” There is this thing called nuclear, Josep, and that would lessen your dependence on oil from Russia, Iran, etc. How long would it take to spool up those offline German nuke plants, anyway?

 

 

LUCY VAN PELT WITH THE FOOTBALL, WHEN THE MASKS STAYED ON: “The Biden Administration will extend the transportation mask mandate by another 30 days, multiple industry sources tell CNN. It was set to expire March 18.”

 

 

BULLSHIT: “Attorney General Merrick Garland has vowed to continue investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol from Jan. 6, 2021, labeling the probe as the ‘most urgent investigation in the history of the Justice Department.’” Way to take a big, steaming dump on the victims of 9/11, you asshole. And how come no action on that Las Vegas shooting? Imagine where we’d be if his SCOTUS nomination had been confirmed.

 

 

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: VP Kamala Harris makes an existential statement accompanied by bold hand gestures, and takes a brave stand …about something. Joemala is not fiction.

 

 

BULLSHIT, REDUX: And what about all those oil furnaces that heat homes and businesses? What about the increased load on the electrical grid? Where are these electric cars going to come from? What about being dependent on China for lithium for batteries for those EVs? What about greenlighting Molten Salt Reactors? MSR is a mature technology, and is safer and more easily scalable than traditional nuclear power plants. And, of course, what about just drilling more?

 

Bonus music track. Not particularly on-message, but fun. (NSFW)

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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.

310 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    You assholes ruined my sleep schedule…I should be going to bed but Im wide awake. Hopefully 3 more beers will do the trick.

  2. Count Potato

    “YOU. BLOATED. IDIOT: Of course it depends on how narrowly you define “Russian leader” and “harm,” but Ima say that Josef Stalin, as he is known in the west, takes the cake.”

    Well, he’s always been an idiot.

    • R C Dean

      Ackshually, Stalin was a Soviet leader, not a Russian leader. He wasn’t even from Russia.

      *pushes glasses up nose*

      • Tonio

        That’s exactly why I put in that qualification.

        But he was a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1917-20, so a leader if not a supreme one.

      • grrizzly

        Lenin is definitely worse than Putin. And you cannot argue that he is not Russian.

      • C. Anacreon

        Quit Stalin and get to the point.

      • DrOtto

        Comrade out and say it.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Russia/USSR has had a long line of bad leaders. By comparison, Putin is probably better than average, at least he was until this point.

      • Chafed

        That seems like an important qualifier.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It is an important qualifier, but prior to this I think the constant demonization of Putin was a mistake, because he was likely as good as they were going to get.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Is Putin a bad leader? Well, from the perspective of the west, sure. But from the perspective of Russia?

      That isn’t for me to say.

  3. UnCivilServant

    LUCY VAN PELT WITH THE FOOTBALL

    I always expected Charlie to kick her instead of going for the football.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Dude! That’s a Family Guy clip! Put an NSFAnyone warning!

    • Fourscore

      In a few years Charlie will be fielding Lucy’s fungos.

      IYKWIM

  4. Count Potato

    “This is Estonia PM Kaja Kallas,”

    How come other countries get to vote for women that look like that, and we get Hillary Clinton?

    • Tres Cool

      Madeline Albright and Jeanne Kirkpatrick in a 69.
      Let that sink in.

      • MikeS

        With Helen Thomas watching and asking stupid questions.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Women don’t start wars!!!

      /facebook idiot

      • grrizzly

        Catherine the Great has been much more successful in expanding the empire than Putin. At least so far.

      • Tonio

        And that’s not all she expanded IYKWIM.

      • SDF-7

        STEVE STALLION WIDENED RUSSIAN FRONTIERS!

    • Not Adahn

      She is speaking some serious Kaja googoo.

      • UnCivilServant

        Unrelated, we have a mjaor production migration tomorrow, it’s unlikely I’ll be able to make it to Winter Steel.

      • UnCivilServant

        *not tomorrow, saturday.

        I need sleep.

      • Not Adahn

        Boo!

  5. UnCivilServant

    I recieved a call from someone claiming to be conducting a CDC vaccination poll. I kept expecting myself to end the call, and a great many questions were greeted with “I decline to answer”. Though I did answer about my lack of concern about the virus itself and lack of faith in the safety or efficacy of the clot shot. There was a surprising lack of personally identifying information, so it might actually have been a pollster rather than a scammer.

    • Fourscore

      “We gave at the office”

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      “Am I being detained?”

    • MikeS

      Oh. That was me. I thought I said so at the beginning.

      • UnCivilServant

        uh huh.

        Then what was the question to which I answered either or?

      • MikeS

        I asked if you I would prefer to watch a porno of Kamala Harris fisting Hillary Clinton, or Janet Yellen pegging Joe Biden while he deep tongue kisses Donald Trump.

        Honestly, I was bit surprised by your answer.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        They’re both equally horrific, so really, there’s no reason to express any distinct preference.

      • MikeS

        Well, “neither” was in play.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Could’a used that 411 a few minutes earlier, d00d.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, you didn’t call me.

        I do feel sorry for whatever poor sod you did reach.

  6. Count Potato

    “VP Kamala Harris makes an existential statement accompanied by bold hand gestures, and takes a brave stand …about something.”

    At least unlike Joe, she knew where she was.

    • The Other Kevin

      Let’s all remind ourselves once again, these are the smartest and most qualified candidates the Democrats could come up with.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I don’t think those qualities were on their qualification checklists when they were looking for the running mate

    • R C Dean

      If you click the link, apparently she didn’t know where she was.

      I know, links are for ignoring, not clicking.

      • Count Potato

        I did click on the link, the joke is that Biden is so senile he doesn’t know where he is.

      • MikeS

        Except she didn’t know if she was on the eastern flank or northern flank and had to check her notes.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      It looks like she’s sniffing her finger in that photo. Was she enjoying some of the Slavic women?

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    So in continuation of the health insurance fiasco.

    The government re-enrolled me without my direct consent to do so. I had reviewed my 2022 options but never selected a plan on their website. They claim that I did consent back in the end of 2019 to share my tax information with them for five years and apparently there’s a clause in there that gives them permission to auto-enroll me.

    It is now March and I am receiving my first notice about premiums due back in January. I called and cancelled the policy but they will not backdate the cancellation. Because it was a subsidized plan, the subsidies are going to come back out of my next year’s taxes to the tune of about $5000.

    Fuckers

    • Count Potato

      Damn.

    • Tonio

      Sorry, Scruffy.

    • TARDis

      Fuckers indeed. Sorry, man. That’s some bullshit.

    • Tundra

      Can’t wait for single payer.

      • TARDis

        No worries, soon you’ll be denied treatment and won’t need to pay.

    • Mojeaux

      You are not having a good day today, my friend.

    • Ghostpatzer

      That sucks, sorry to hear that. Just when you think you’ve seen all the ways the man can fuck you over they come up with a new one.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

  8. rhywun

    That might be the dumbest tweet from The White House, ever.

    • Nephilium

      Give them time…

    • Tres Cool

      Its a low bar.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      If you scroll up in the thread, the White House is bragging about oil and natural gas production.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its only dumb because we aren’t in on the grift they are hoping to pull off.

      • Tonio

        Grift and control. Never forget the control. All their actions are consistent with an agenda to reduce the number of private vehicles.

        Remember “Cash for Clunkers?” I can see them doing the same thing with an ICE vehicle buyback using the lure of quick cash coupled with the empty promise that they’ll be able to buy electric vehicles with the proceeds from the buyback.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Very astute observation. I can see it start with “For any 3-car family making below the poverty line….”

    • juris imprudent

      BUT IT WASN’T A MEAN ONE!

  9. Count Potato

    That’s pretty much, “When we have transporters powered by dilithium crystals”.

    • The Other Kevin

      Someone needs to ask Joe or Jen how long they think this transition will take. Years? Decades? Longer? And during that time, everyone besides the ruling class is supposed to just suffer through it, right?

      • Count Potato

        Maybe never unless there is dramatic improvement in battery technology.

      • R C Dean

        I would say, never unless there is a literal order of magnitude improvement, at least, in battery technology. Paired with a massive reduction in battery cost.

      • Fourscore

        The earth is like a giant flywheel, always spinning. We’ll capture the energy and it’ll be enough to light up everyone on earth for the cost of the transmission lines, if only Big Oil would get out of the way and the Republicans would allow it.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        +100 mph carburator.

      • Rat on a train

        They are fine if the peasants suffer before, during and after the transition.

  10. grrizzly

    extend the transportation mask mandate by another 30 days

    As long as they keep pouring champagne in my glass, it’s not a big deal.

    • whiz

      And as long as you are drinking, you don’t need to have the mask on.

      • Gustave Lytton

        But recover between sips/bites!

      • grrizzly

        It all depends on the flight attendants in your cabin. Some of them don’t care in the slightest whether you drink, eat or do nothing at all.

    • DEG

      I’m going to stick to my plan to drive across country for FreedomFest.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        This is why I am driving across the country in a couple of months.

    • Rat on a train

      It is just one of many reasons I avoid public transit.

  11. TARDis

    Electricity is… MAGIC.

  12. Tundra

    Are you trying to make my head explode?

    That’s a lot of stupid, but the WH tweet takes the cake. Fuck. I miss 2019.

    Thanks for the songs.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, Tonio with the brutal today.

  13. Shpip

    This is Estonia PM Kaja Kallas

    Between her and Finland’s PM, I’m sensing a distinct trend of northern Europeans to vote for the most bangable pol out there. No idea how well that’s working out for them.

    • juris imprudent

      You don’t see Putin invading their countries do you? [“go ‘way, baitin'” muttered in Russian]

    • TARDis

      I’m hoping for a Sanna/Jacinda porn vid.

      Keep thinking with your dicks, eurocucks.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      We could have performed that experiment ourselves with Tulsi Gabbard. But nope. We get a dementia patient.

    • Chafed

      I’m starting think it’s something we should do. That might mean putting Q in charge of both major parties.

  14. R C Dean

    the ‘most urgent investigation in the history of the Justice Department.

    If an investigation of people who killed no one, inflicted a handful of relatively minor injuries, and committed some vandalism, all with the net result of delaying Congressional proceedings by a few hours is the urgent in the history of the Justice Department, I’m thinking we wouldn’t even miss DOJ if were simply erased from the face of the Earth.

    Of course, its easy to say that this investigation is more urgent than the investigation into the antifa riots which did kill people, maimed a number of feds, and caused billions in damage, because there is no such investigation.

    • juris imprudent

      Or Chinese espionage.

  15. Tundra

    I think Strawberry is starting to hate her job.

    Ouch. No lube, either.

    Prediction: she will be drunk at the podium by the end of the month.

    • juris imprudent

      God if she’d just pull out a gun and put a bullet thru her head.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Well, it would put us out of our misery.

    • The Other Kevin

      While I’m sure she really enjoys having a job where she is expected to lie about everything and is never held accountable, it does have to get tedious trying to explain away everything done by this train wreck of an administration. She’s also got the added pressure of covering up all the failures of Democratic policies.

      • Ownbestenemy

        When you believe the lie, it isn’t tedious. She thinks any unapproved question that isn’t about slobbering over her boss is just annoying.

      • Fourscore

        To her husband:

        Uh-uh-uh, I was out with the girls and I had one tiny teensy drink and some congressman tired to thank me for doing my job so well and then….

    • Animal

      “Uh – uh – uh – uh…”

      Positively Churchillian.

      • The Other Kevin

        We’ve come so far from “the buck stops here”.

    • Ownbestenemy

      No mention of the additional $1.75 over the previous 12 months prior to the invasion…

      • Gustave Lytton

        No, that was due to covid.

      • Sensei

        Surprised Trump hasn’t be thrown out as well.

        It’s everybody’s fault but Joe’s unless you are Franklin Foer.

        Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call

        TW- The Atlantic

      • Gustave Lytton

        TW- The Atlantic

        Fuck cancer. Again.

      • Ghostpatzer

        It’s hard to imagine that any of his rivals from the last election could have matched the president’s performance in this crisis.

        Well, he got that right.

    • Ownbestenemy

      And he will get away with it. He has a puppet press corp with mild opposition that will run that headline. Then he has an army of blue checkmarks and talking heads that will continue it on talk shows and socials.

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    A dissection of the maternity clinic bombing video

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TahdQuZ7DJ9iSq771ev-D78HpvldCt6/view

    TLDR: Totally staged

    Thomas Röper, born in 1971, has held numerous leadership positions as an expert for Eastern Europe and Russia in the finance sector. Today he lives in his chosen home St. Petersburg. He has been living in Russia for over 15 years and is fluent in Russian. Focus areas for his work in critical media analysis include how Russia is portrayed in the media in Germany, criticism of Western media reporting overall, and topics of geopolitics and the economy.

    • Count Potato

      I have no idea who to believe.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s probably the correct conclusion.

        But I am not believing my government about anything.

    • R C Dean

      I would guess that Mr. Roper is very likely a Russian operative. A quick scan of his debunking makes it look plausible.

      I haven’t watched the actual video.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Until proven otherwise, I’m putting it in the file with Kuwaiti incubator babies and Syrian chemical attacks.

  17. pistoffnick the refusnik

    PERFUNCTORY SELF-FLAGELLATION

    Twice a day whether I need it or not, thrice on Sundee.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, they’ve abandoned the meritocratic criteria of “Attractive woman”?

      Does anyone buy their product anymore?

      Not sure if fact, but there was rumor of a fraud among some magazines where they would buy up subscriptions to each other to juice the circulation numbers allowing them to charge advertisers more. I expect that had a limited shelf life as advertizers realized that ad dollers with those publications weren’t translating into more sales.

      • rhywun

        So, they’ve abandoned the meritocratic criteria of “Attractive woman”?

        They’re not alone.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Ashley can call my bull.

      Some of those others, yikes.

  18. db

    Ownbestenemy:

    I read your thing about the intersecting runways. Who cleared an airplane to takeoff on a crossing runway while the landing traffic was on short final? That’s messed up.

    Lots of fuckups there…I don’t know why the landing pilot did what he/she did unless they swa a potential collision with the departing traffic. I don’t know why a controller would cause a potential conflict like that…

    Bad all around, it sounds like.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I missed that!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have a video…I will smuggle it out

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah. I went back and re-watched it. I didn’t see it before but 8L was closed at that time. I have to pull the audio too on what the AT was telling them. It would make sense on why the aircraft ready for departure was cleared for takeoff. I don’t think we have a configuration where we are landing the 8s and departing the 1s anyway.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        If it’s on Live ATC’s archives, VASAviation should cover it…you should tip him off 😉

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im finding it and then I will pair it up with our ground radar that I took.

      • Ted S.

        I didn’t see it before but 8L was closed at that time

        That’s OK, because 26R was open.

        /ducking

      • Rat on a train

        What about 36D?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Even better…the go around was a medevac in a PC-12

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Wait – who landed o n the taxiway????

      • slumbrew

        The medevac landed on the taxiway.

        Good times.

        Safety first!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not just that…he was lined up to a closed runway and then banked hard to the left and ended up on the taxiway

      • slumbrew

        He and his passenger(s) are incredibly lucky.

        Are these medevac flights professionals or volunteer pilots?

      • Ownbestenemy

        When I looked up tail numbers it’s all private for obvious reasons

  19. DEG

    This is Estonia PM Kaja Kallas, and she says the EU has a moral duty to admit Ukraine. She totally gives off that “I haven’t really thought this through” do-gooder vibe one sees in local politics.

    Moral duty? And yeah, I agree on the do-gooder vibe.

    “I am here. Standing… here…”

    There’s her problem. She should have remembered her kneepads.

  20. db

    Re: “Electric vehicles running on clean energy”

    If you keep repeating the big lies often enough and with enough apparent conviction, you will be believed.

    These people are driving us to ruin.

    • rhywun

      Pay no attention to the strip mines and the noxious pollution behind the Chinese curtain.

  21. Ghostpatzer

    “Fuck Cancer”

    Damn straight.

  22. Winston

    https://lawliberty.org/our-fragmenting-democracy/

    Citizens within a democracy must feel some enduring common ties, interests, or attachments that keep them together even as they often disagree from day to day.

    The Constitution was once so uniting that it was carried around in civic parades, but that tradition is not going to be revived anytime soon.

    It was once an unusual person, generally an aristocrat, who regarded himself first and foremost as a citizen of the world, but today this sentiment is not uncommon among the ever-growing upper-middle class. Davos man is inherent in commercial globalization.

    Classical liberals do not have a solution either.

    There you have it: lockdowns and biomedical fascism are inherent in commercial globalization. And this is from a defender of commercial globalization mind you…

    The next new trend in tech, for instance, is the Metaverse. As Bruno Maçães observes, the new virtual world will immerse the whole person, involving all five senses rather than “disembodied egos” we encounter in social media. In other words, we will not see people that we do not know personally just in the two-dimensional, generally political context created by social media today. Instead, the metaverse will create the possibility of more full-bodied interactions that people once had in their localities or traditional mediating institutions. To be sure, the benefits of the metaverse are speculative, but friends of liberty generally believe that such experiments are worth considering, because the innovations that endure tend to be those that contribute to human flourishing.

    Count me as a skeptic that becoming even more dependent on big Tech and even less connected to the real world will lead to the rebirth of freedom..

    • robc

      There you have it:

      An appeal to authority?

      • Winston

        Do you agree with his claim that “Davos Man is inherent in commercial globalization”? If it is false then what went wrong? If true then that means that commercial globalization will inevitably destroy itself. The latter is…problematic to say the least.

    • juris imprudent

      If that means I can punch someone in the face in the metaverse and it actually hurts them, it might not be all bad.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      The lady that’s talking now is basically every single penny ante non profit director, ever

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Reading a letter from corrupt grifters, BLM! LOL

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      This whole thing is just a series of publicity opportunities for various non profits & celebrities.

    • Rat on a train

      Jussie Smollett cried in court as his family begged a judge not to jail him, claiming that the world is going through enough with the war in Ukraine and COVID-19 but saying it’s ‘not his fault.’

      • Spudalicious

        I hope that doubled his sentence.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        That’s literally what happened (and more) during this hearing

      • C. Anacreon

        Like a guy who killed his parents begging for mercy because he’s an orphan.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Judge is rubbing it in, dayum

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      This guy is seriously mental

    • Rat on a train

      Jussie is not suicidal in case you were wondering.

    • db

      That’s great. Is that a series they’re doing? Because it could be one of the longest running series in history…

    • Ghostpatzer

      LOL. I especially love how the Brits incentivized the creation of an unseaworthy merchant fleet in 1773. Lots of boating accidents, not unlike present-day USA.

    • Tundra

      Terrific!

      Thanks!

  23. Winston

    https://lawliberty.org/the-brave-new-world-of-biopolitics/

    They define safetyism as “a culture or belief system in which safety has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns.”

    The rise of safetyism has been dramatically highlighted over the course of the covid pandemic, with many Americans demonstrating a willingness and even eagerness to give up various traditional rights and liberties in exchange for the promise of increased biomedical protection by the regulatory state. This was perhaps most exemplarily on display in the way that many Americans, not least in the mainstream media, prioritized the biomedical protection promised by lockdowns and shutdowns over any potential tradeoffs, such as negative economic impacts. This even extended to refusing to consider or discuss such tradeoffs, even in cases where these redounded to matters of health in various ways (such as increases in rates of mental illness, substance addiction, and suicide).

    Last November, I wrote about the connection between safetyism and another increasingly dominant sociopolitical phenomenon, namely, what is nowadays often called “wokeism.” Because the pandemic seemed to be propelling the further rise of safetyism, because safetyism and wokeism are in various ways “fellow travelers” and even “joined at the hip” in many contexts, and because both have become increasingly culturally dominant in recent years, I worried that the pandemic would accelerate the growth of both of these problematic ideologies, which many have convincingly characterized as forms of secular religion.

    Interesting that modern society is willing to destroy itself in the name of physical and mental health and ending racism. What would the liberals of the past think?

    • juris imprudent

      That any form of religious zealotry is dangerous, just as it always has been.

  24. The Other Kevin

    Chicago Glibs, I posted earlier this week but just so you have it, here’s my hockey schedule for the weekend.
    Friday 3/11 @ 5:55pm and 7:20pm
    Saturday 3/12 @ 10:35am and 6:50pm
    Sunday 3/13 @ 9:10am

    All games are at Fifth Third Arena (Blackhawks community rink), 1801 W Jackson Blvd. Entry and parking are free.

    • Swiss Servator

      Dang…Times are a bit awkward. If I can make Saturday 5pm church service…hmmm.

    • Ghostpatzer

      They can’t really cancel Tchaikovsky, can they? Wouldn’t that alienate the LGBTQ community?

      • Sensei

        Wagner stil A-OK!

    • rhywun

      You’re going to have to pull Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov out of my cold, dead hands.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Some definitive Mussorgsky for you, Rhywun.

      • rhywun

        I knew the orchestra version long before the piano one. It was weird hearing that the first time.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I’m not sure I like this remaster. In the original recording, right at the beginning Richter hits a sour note, and there is coughing from the audience periodically during the performance; these things seem to have been removed.

      • Not Adahn

        If Putin bombs the Great Gate of Kiev, there will be Hell to pay!

      • rhywun

        We’ll send Baba Yaga after him.

    • The Other Kevin

      One of the greats. That was some seriously tasty baked goods.

      • rhywun

        Their little chocolate chip cookies are divine.

        But only a sometimes food.

      • slumbrew

        Their crumb cake was my childhood crack. So good.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Sheeeeit. I love the raspberry coffee cake & chocolate-coated donuts. My college roommate and I liked the chocolate donuts with the little crumbles on top. They looked like esugar-dusted rabbit shit. Whenever we were in the grocery, we would say “should we get a box of turds?”

    • Mojeaux

      Entenmann’s popularity mystifies me. I find it dry and largely flavorless. (Said the girl whose mother baked a lot and very, very well.)

      • Ghostpatzer

        Coming from fresh-baked goods, Entenmanns probably sucked. I grew up on Hostess and Drakes, so Entenmanns was a sizable step up.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes.

        The only thing my mother truly loved that she couldn’t bake was the raspberry Zingers.

      • Mojeaux

        I didn’t feel like baking sugar cookies yesterday for obvious reasons so I asked my husband to get some from the HyVee bakery. Either my taste buds are off or those sugar cookies have zero flavor. Took one bite and gave the rest to my kids. Sadly, my kids have been spoilt by my baking so they aren’t too enthused, either.

      • Sensei

        Depends on the product. Some was good some was so-so.

        In the metro Philly area Tastykake was the local favorite.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve had Tastykake. Once. Never again.

      • DEG

        Tastykakes are wonderful.

        I’d occasionally have Entenmanns products, but Tastykakes are better.

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, you’re also unable to eat cilantro.

      • Mojeaux

        I COULD eat it but I don’t WANT to eat it.

      • Spudalicious

        A mental defect, not a physical one.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Tastes like soap mixed with urine mixed with ass. Truly a disgusting plant.

    • juris imprudent

      Mrs. JI’s guilty pleasure on vacation. Never have it at home.

  25. Winston

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-facebook-instagram-temporarily-allow-calls-violence-against-russians-2022-03-10/

    Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.

    The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to a series of internal emails to its content moderators.

    It’s not hate speech if you hate the People the elites want you to hate…

    • juris imprudent

      The irony would be lost on them if you suggested it being only for 5 minutes per day.

      • whiz

        2-minute hate FTW?

    • rhywun

      Unreal.

      Why are US senators involved in this shit?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s getting harder and harder to shake the feeling that America is one of the bad guys. Well, maybe not America. I’m becoming more convinced that politicians like Biden, Obama, McCain, McConnel, etc. don’t seem themselves as Americans but rather as Globalists.

        Davos is becoming less and less of some grand conspiracy theory and more of a reality with every passing day.

      • Tundra

        100%

        There is really nothing wrong with America the ideal, but America the institution is gone.

      • Winston

        Davos man is inherent in commercial globalization.

        Is this true?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I miss the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateralists.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The Pentaverate and that damned Colonel Sanders. Seriously though, this is bad.

      • slumbrew

        It’s a well-know fact, sonny-jim, that there’s a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world…

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I can’t figure out if the Netflix series The Pentaverate is still on track.

        Must be interfered with by the The Pentaverate.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I believe in the Pentaverse.

      • Winston

        Is the Council on Foreign Relations chopped liver?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yes.

        Everyone knows that the world is run by the Illuminati from a bunker in Tibet since 208 B.C.

      • juris imprudent

        I see nothing wrong with Davos as a destination, as long as the trip is one-way.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I wonder if one of Putin’s hypersonic missiles can reach there.

      • Tundra

        ?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So the Russians were telling the truth and we were lying our asses off? Well I’ll be damned.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I’ll play devil’s advocate. These labs were left over from the USSR, and like most things Soviet, they were shoddy. We told them they should shut the labs down, because you don’t want stuff leaking out of there and/or getting into the wrong hands.

      They said, no, we are not going to close them down. We want to continue research just like you do, and we don’t have the money to upgrade them.

      So we agreed to send them the money to upgrade their labs. There’s nothing particularly nefarious in this. Their facilities are safer than they were and at least we are able to keep a finger on what they are doing.

      Now the skeptic in me says, sure it might not be nefarious, but this kind of research can be used for good or bad, and as we’ve seen at Wuhan, these foreign facilities are a convenient way to get around domestic restrictions.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’d buy that except for the knee jerk lying that there were no labs with their media lackeys providing cover. And asterisk that too with they react like pathological liars with chronic untruth when the actual truth would serve them better.

      • slumbrew

        ^^ This ^^

        “There are no labs”

        “There are labs”

        “Any bio attacks will have been done by the Ruskies”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        What country is corrupt enough that we can pay them to do our dirty bio research on the down low and keep plausible deniability?

        Hmmmm……

      • juris imprudent

        I think it’s time we stopped kidding ourselves. The nukes will only be used to kill off the surviving zombies from the bio-apocalypse. There are just FAR TOO MANY assholes playing god with this shit. Either someone gets sloppy *cough* Wuhan *cough* or eventually someone just fucking nuts decides to purify humanity.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I do worry that someday there will be a scientist who believes the earth is overpopulated who decides to release an actually bad virus.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        And the worst part will be that women, BIPOC and the alphabet people will be hardest hit.

      • juris imprudent

        Even if for some reason they are survivors – oh look at the mess everyone made and they expect us to clean it all up.

      • Animal

        This. Someone a while ago commented here that, while the Great War was the war of chemistry and WW2 the war of physics, WW3 will be the war of biology.

        Speaking as a biologist, the thought of that scares the ever-lovin’ bejeebers out of me. When I was in wearing my “Uncle Sam Ain’t Released Me Yet” suit I had to take a bunch of NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) training, and of the three, it was always bugs that scared me the most. Still do. Too many non-biologists don’t have a really good grip on what could really be done with an engineered virus.

      • juris imprudent

        Uh, that someone was me.

        We’ve clearly been misguided in worrying about nukes while bio-tech has been proliferating out of control.

      • Animal

        Well, you’re right. On both counts.

      • juris imprudent

        I on occasion go to the Edgewood end of Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and I get really creeped out by the very old buildings still standing there.

      • Swiss Servator

        CRC – I was there in 1989…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wait, I thought trans were always the killees, not the killers

      • Count Potato

        Somehow, I don’t think that person is actually trans.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Brian De Palma approves

  26. Winston

    https://fee.org/articles/the-rural-libertarian-as-a-historical-anomaly/

    Modern cities continue to be the drivers of social and economic development, although their outward appearance constantly changes, e.g., from traditional downtowns to “edge cities.” And it’s the libertarian, not the conservative (in the general sense), element that is responsible for that development. Yes, cities may have been the birthplace of socialism. But the freedom of thought and association that enabled socialist movements to emerge and spread—which of course also enabled classical-liberal ideas to emerge and spread—were themselves founded on the classical liberal principles of privacy, free association and expression, and individual autonomy. Those principles necessarily evolved in cities, not the countryside.

    Privacy, free association and expression, and individual autonomy are in full display in modern cities right now, lol.

    • Winston

      He claims that the rural libertarian is an anomaly of history. Perhaps.

      But on the other hand maybe the urban libertarian is in fact the anomaly of history since modern cities are far from libertarian bastions.

      Or are we going to need a civilizational collapse to restore freedom?

    • juris imprudent

      in the age-old phrase, “Stadtluft macht Frei”

      Well yes, we all know that old saying. JFC Winston, why do you continue to troll this shit as though anyone here believes it?

      • slumbrew

        He keeps kicking the shit out of some strawmen. It’s tiresome.

        Like The Bro, Winston has some great contributions when he breaks out of his schtick…

  27. Count Potato

    ““The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is ‘Christian,’ because it means ‘people like us,’ it means white,” the sociologist Samuel Perry said.”

    https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1500674803631591424

    CWAA

    • Nephilium

      Makes perfect sense. There’s no Christians in Central/South American, Africa, and Asia.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Idiots gonna idiot

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Those are Catholics, which by Protestant tradition are Satanists.

      • slumbrew

        The Whore Of Babylon!

        (everything I know about that is from Jack Chick comics)

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Disney should license his material and turn it into the next Marvel franchise.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I . . . just for the surreality, I’d watch that series.

        I would.

      • slumbrew

        Same. It’d be cray-cray.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The Pope is the Antichrist? That’s one I haven’t heard in a while.

      • Ted S.

        Well, the current pope….

      • slumbrew

        Along with this one, explaining the dangers of role-playing games.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I still see those pamphlets occasionally in these parts. What denomination hands those out?

      • slumbrew

        “Chick was an Independent Baptist who followed a premillennial dispensationalist view of the End Times. He was a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality.”

        So, Independent Baptists? I dunno – lapsed Catholic, married to a Jewess.

  28. Count Potato

    “Biden Keeping Iranian Plot to Kill John Bolton under Wraps to Avoid Derailing Nuclear Deal: Report

    Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been plotting to assassinate John Bolton, former national-security adviser in the Trump administration, says a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the government’s investigation of the suspected plot. That is according to Tom Rogan, who reported the development in the Washington Examiner on Monday.”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-keeping-iranian-plot-to-kill-john-bolton-under-wraps-to-avoid-derailing-nuclear-deal-report/

    I have mixed feelings about this.

    • Tundra

      I don’t. I wish they would have succeeded.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Does Iran have a GoFundMe set up?

  29. Count Potato

    “BREAKING NEWS: Netflix announces that it is suspending its service in Russia and as well as “all future projects and acquisitions from Russia” in order to punish Putin and the Kremlin for their illegal invasion of Ukraine. RT TO THANK NETFLIX FOR MAKING RUSSIA PAY!”

    https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1500613610074169349

    This has to be dumbest account on Twitter.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “This has to be dumbest account on Twitter.”
      Pffft, not even close.

      • Count Potato

        Yes, it is.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Russia Today is going to thank Netflix for leaving?

      Makes sense.

  30. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The enraging part of the Frum tweet is that he is salivating at the prospect of war with Russia that would kill millions or even billions. He doesn’t give a shit about average Russians or their well being.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Twenty years later and his war boner is unsatiated with zero reflection, guilt, or doubt.

    • Winston

      One hour behind me…

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Drugs, exeunt ass, stage left.

    • Animal

      Are they Djoking?

      • juris imprudent

        No vay.

      • juris imprudent

        Or, Novaks no entry.

      • rhywun

        Better.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just root for Nadal, the authority loving kissass.

      • rhywun

        Never have, most certainly never will. CWAA.

    • Winston

      Thank goodness xenophobic nationalism is a thing of the past..

      • juris imprudent

        Numbnuts, it is disobedience they are coming down on.

    • rhywun

      The remarkable part is that he is the only one, at least that the average person has heard of. There are a couple no-name unclean players the last I checked, but that’s it.

      • slumbrew

        I hear good things about that Arthur Ashe fellow

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Drugs, exeunt ass, stage right.

    • rhywun

      The fuck.

    • slumbrew

      We have our own quality gays, thank you very much. Don’t lump them in with that d-bag.

      • slumbrew

        I can’t be arsed, but I bet that, if I check his timeline, he was a virology expert a few weeks back.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      So, interesting people?

      (Present company excepted, of course . . . )

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Truly the insight into the conflict that I needed in order to crystallize my thoughts.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    You’re not gonna believe this

    Financial woes, coupled with a barrage of horrifying scenes from Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion, have pushed a majority of Americans to unprecedented levels of stress, according to a new report from the American Psychological Association.

    The association’s annual “Stress in America” poll, published Thursday, found that U.S. adults — already weary from two years of the Covid-19 pandemic — are now overwhelmingly troubled by inflation and the war in Ukraine.

    According to the results, 87 percent of those surveyed cited rising costs of everyday items, such as groceries and gas, as a “significant source of stress.”

    Let’s go Brandon!

  32. UnCivilServant

    My former place for haircuts got shuttered during the lockdowns. I tried a new place. It costs twice as much, but it’s in walking distance of my house. Since my requirements are simple, I don’t have much in the way of criteria. Is my hair the approximate length I was asking for? Yes. Is any of it janky? No. Were any red flags raised about the site or staff? Not so far.

    • robc

      Flowbie

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I usually go to Great Clips because I can get out of there under $25 after tip. Unfortunately, the “approximate length” question is a No for them. Always seem to miss patches of hair. The other close haircuttery is usually over $50, so I try to make due with the hacks at Great Clips.

      • MikeS

        Holy shit. I think I paid $30 for my Wahl trimmer. I mean I get convenience, and style, and all, but $25 for a haircut? I tapped out back when they were getting around $15

  33. Count Potato

    So what’s tonight’s movie?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Leprechaun 4: In Space” gets my vote.

      • Count Potato

        Does Jennifer Aniston get naked?

        Anyway, I think it’s either Convoy or Ninja Terminator, but I don’t know which?

  34. Shpip

    In honor of World Kidney Day

    I tried to get the Bosslady to celebrate it, but she made chicken w/ olives and preserved lemon instead.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      You poor thing. And I’ll be right over to take that nasty chicken off of your hands.

    • slumbrew

      Bosslady is a woman of refined taste. I mean, marriage aside, I guess.

      😉

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      chicken w/ olives and preserved lemon instead.

      Fuck yeah (and I don’t even like olives)

      • robc

        But what do you put in dirty martinis?

  35. Mojeaux

    HyVee last month: “Russian tea cakes”

    HyVee yesterday: “Mexican wedding cookies”

    • MikeS

      For the same product? (I don’t know what either are)