Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Wartime Novelty

by | Mar 2, 2022 | Daily Links | 247 comments

Bimbo Eruptions


 

I still can’t believe Kamala wasn’t able to clear up this whole Ukraine nonsense in a long weekend.


 

My first impression of Elden Ring in a screengrab:


 

Joe thought they wanted him to throw them beads. But Joe had no beads, and so they did not show him their boobs. And Joe was sad for he liked boobs and thought they were good.​


 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw​

 

This song keeps going around in my head because I’ve been reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, the source novel of the movie of the same name that inspired “One” and is cut into the video. With all the people eager to bumble us into a war with Russia, all three are important.

You can watch the 1971 movie in its entirety here:
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfBVLAY_pU&ab_channel=Interval%26AICComix​

And this is great reaction video to the song:

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247 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Cori Bush”

    CWAA

    • Count Potato

      “2021 set a record for fatal police shootings.”

      So you are saying burning down the Auto Zone didn’t work?

    • rhywun

      She seems unaware that “her community” is actually not on board with the “defund” movement.

      Scratch that – I’m sure she’s totally aware and doesn’t give a shit.

  2. Chipwooder

    Now the world is gone, I’m just one

  3. DEG

    I still can’t believe Kamala wasn’t able to clear up this whole Ukraine nonsense in a long weekend.

    She forgot her kneepads.

    Joe thought they wanted him to throw them beads. But Joe had no beads, and so they did not show him their boobs. And Joe was sad for he liked boobs and thought they were good.​

    My first thought on seeing this picture is they are getting ready to be face and/or throat fucked.

    • Chipwooder

      Go on…..

    • juris imprudent

      Did someone say Spring Break?

    • Lackadaisical

      Little graphic.

      Who are they even?

      • MikeS

        Who are they even?

        Boebert and Green. Two parts of a dream threesome for millions of Trumpsters.

      • DEG

        This reminded me to check (NSFW) r/Politically_NSFW to see if those folks were commenting on this picture. Yep, there is a post for it.

        Not many Trumpsters on that group, but the group did not disappoint.

      • MikeS

        Funny. There is also way too many people in there who daydream about banging Harris. No accounting for taste, I guess.

      • DEG

        That group is a sewer.

      • Gadfly

        No accounting for taste, I guess.

        It’s a group of (presumably) men who are so horny and shameless they post their sex-dreams to the internet. Such groups are not generally known for having good taste.

      • Chipwooder

        Boebert and Taylor-Greene

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      She forgot her kneepads.

      Putin can get way better on the streets of Yakutsk.

  4. Rebel Scum

    With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech.

    With all due respect, you should tell black people to stop killing each other in droves.

    • WTF

      Only a racist would point that out.

    • Nephilium

      There was a guy who kept painting messages like that over a BLM mural in an “urban” neighborhood in Cleveland. The story quietly died down when it turned out it was a black man who was doing it.

  5. WTF

    I had thought someone made up that Kamala quote as a joke, but she actually said it. Who the hell votes for these idiots?

    • Sean

      Dead people.

    • Plinker762

      You may have or at least that may be how your ballot was counted.

    • Animal

      Other idiots.

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, I had to check myself. Sadly it’s real, or there are really good deep fakes out there.

    • hayeksplosives

      But first female Veep! First Veep of color! First female Veep of color!!

      The progs had no choice but to vote for her. Otherwise they’d have been racist/misogynistic.

      (Question: since Kamala ticked both the First Female Veep box and First Veep of Color box, is there still a prize for the first female Veep who’s white, or did Kamala steal her crown? Same question for first male Veep of color—did Obama blow that up by going straight to President? Special prize for being black and actually growing up in bad neighborhood projects?)

      • DEG

        Depends.

        Are they useful to the narrative? If so, they get a crown.

        If not, they don’t.

      • R C Dean

        Not first Veep of Color. A Native American was a Repub Veep in the early 1900s(?).

      • Gadfly

        Charles Curtis. Herbert Hoover’s VP, elected 1928.

    • Chipwooder

      Her caboose is impressive.

  6. Count Potato

    It is kind of amazing how almost everyone is all in on this Ukraine thing. Ukrainian flags everywhere on forums and social media.

    • WTF

      Well, it’s a lot easier than actually having to do something.

      • Mojeaux

        ^^^ Drama! Slacktivism!!!

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Cry virtue and let slip the hashtags of war.

      • WTF

        ^ I’m stealing this.

      • Galt1138

        Same.

      • Gadfly

        Bravo.

      • Tundra

        *wild applause*

      • Count Potato

        A surprising number of people are doing something by sending money, organizing funding drives, etc.

        Although yes, there is also a lot of pointless virtue signaling.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I never know where to send money during these things. Who can you give to in a situation like this that you can be assured will use it effectively?

      • Translucent Chum

        Tell you what. Send it to me and I will make sure it gets used properly.

      • Desk Jockey

        I know of one in Binhamton, NY that is legit. I can share the link if anyone is interested. Through a Ukrainian church up there, the family still has lots of relatives stuck/refuse to leave the Lviv area. I think they’re looking more for medical supplies, humanitarian aid, etc though.

    • Chipwooder

      It’s Wag the Dog – the Fad King’s been working overtime.

      I mean, seriously, they produced all these Ukrainian themed things virtually overnight.

    • Rebel Scum

      As someone of Ukrainian descent it does not matter much to me. I certainly do not wan the US going to war with Russia over it. Ukraine is all kinds of fucked up politically speaking. It should let the pro-Russian regions go and work on its internal issues.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        What I remember about Ukraine from when I lived in the region is that it was horribly corrupt and poor. It was the source of most of the prostitutes in the brothels, and you really didn’t want to mess with their mafia. I doubt much has changed. I wish them well in their fight, but I can’t pretend like they are some model of democracy and decency.

    • Seguin

      Kinda shocking when the NPCs all get their updates at the same time, innit.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ve been surprised at the vociferous reaction too. It isn’t like Ukraine was paradise on earth.

      So far I can’t decide if they are glomming onto this so hard because they are desperate for anything that will distract attention away from them. Or if it is because actually fucking with borders is totes out of bounds and just isn’t done by the oh-so-correct international diplomacy crew. Sort of like Trump not understanding how things work.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The neocons recognize that Russia has called their bluff. They’re rallying the propaganda effort as a result.

        The frightening thing about this is that they’ve been proceeding for the past 25 years as if there would be no repercussions. Are they going to recognize or accept the potential repercussions now or are they going to just keep pushing into what Russia certainly sees as completely unacceptable. Loose talk of regime change in Moscow is beyond irresponsible and should be stifled immediately.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Here is some virtual tinfoil. Sometimes paranoia, lunacy, and aggression are simply Russian paranoia, lunacy, and aggression.

        And russians that were pro Putin years ago are still pieces of shit. putin is a no good for Russia KGB hack.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Democrats are using Ukraine as a distraction and rally topic that they can exploit. Democrats are slavers, so they dont really give a shit about Ukraine.

        Democrats are in save ass mode to prevent their utter destruction as civil war 2.0 plays out.

    • Gadfly

      A sympathetic people of a similar culture are the victims, while the bad guys are people who have been bad guys in popular culture off and on for pretty much everyone’s lifetime. Not hard to figure out why this would captivate people – it’s an easy story to sell.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Yea, Its amazing that Americans feel sympathy toward a peaceful nation being attacked by Commie/Fascist Russia.

      Oh wait, thats exactly the kind of generosity America is known for.

    • Sensei

      Also the Metallica track is one of my favorites before Metallica epitomized the “Loudness Wars” and I stopped listening.

  7. Tundra

    And this is great reaction video to the song:

    She’s pretty good. I enjoy these dissections of songs.

    Now I gotta watch the movie.

    • kinnath

      She is excellent in her reaction videos.

  8. Sensei

    Apologies for the early OT as I’ve got to jump.

    I’m a Parent and a Statistician. There’s a Smarter Way to Think About the Under-5 Vaccine.

    What we need for the under-5 vaccine trial evaluation, instead of judgments of absolute safety or efficacy, is probable improvement over the next best alternative, considering all the available information. Even the concept of an emergency use authorization challenges the ordinary F.D.A. binary of approval and disapproval. We should take that idea and extend it.

    There is a version of statistics that would be more suitable than significance testing for evaluating this trial data: Bayesian statistics. The essential tenets of this approach are that investigators should constantly update our understanding of any scientific claim based on the latest data and that we never need to label such a claim as definitively proved or disproved.

    JFC…

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, let’s just inject babies with Pfizer juice and see what happens.

      ‘Aubrey Clayton is a mathematical statistics researcher and a parent to three children under 4.’

      Clearly understand multiplication, but is probably massively sleep deprived so I’ll cut her some slack.

      • Gadfly

        Hopefully she’ll come to her senses and won’t have to learn about subtraction.

    • rhywun

      I thought it’s already been established that the jab provides negative benefits to normal people under some age. Unless they’re constantly reformulating the juice behind our backs, how is the “latest data” going to change?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m not as familiar with Bayesian. I’m guessing though if the control group of unvaxed was eliminated or dramatically reduced, a Bayesian analysis would show improved efficacy and reduced adverse events for the vaccine.

      • R C Dean

        The FDA has taken the position that the vax is more dangerous to men under 40 than the disease. It was part of their approval of boosters (yes, you read that right).

        The Euros don’t recommend it for people under 30 (I think its don’t recommend, rather than don’t allow).

        It has negative efficacy for protecting children from infection. Which pretty much pegs the needle on the risk/benefit analysis for that cohort.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Don’t think about lying about your kid getting vaxxed either. When you kid has normal heart function in five years they will know you counterfeited their vax passport.

  9. db

    HEY DRAKE

    I logged into Sprint (T-mobile)’s web site and went to their CDMA Retirement page: https://www.sprint.com/en/cdma-retirement.html#

    It told me that the G7 Thinq is not affected by their planned network changes.

    • Drake

      Hmmm… not what they are telling me.

      • db

        Log in and check it out. It said specifically the device on my account was not affected. I got text messages last fall saying I would need to replace my device but their tune seems to have changed.

      • Drake

        I just logged into T-Mobile instead of Sprint. They say I have to activate a new device by 6/30. So I’ll worry about it in 3 months.

        They still have the LG V60 and the Wing as phones you can upgrade to, but they are out of stock. So it’s just a mean tease.

    • The Other Kevin

      Give them a break, they need to get through Obama’s speeches first.

      • Count Potato

        Did he send them a USB stick?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      And what do the Ukrainians think about Joe Rogan still being on Spotify?

    • MikeS

      Chuck Todd is slammed by his own reporter

      It’s like the headline writer and I watched two different videos.

      • Lackadaisical

        But you clicked, right? Mission accomplished.

      • MikeS

        Dammit!

      • Ted S.

        I didn’t click.

      • MikeS

        “Don’t click” is good advice for Daily Mail links and Ted’s music links.

    • db

      One industry that has exemptions from federal liability, just like gun manufacturers, include vaccine manufacturers, which can’t be held liable for civil damages from a vaccine-related injury or death. Pharmaceutical companies developing COVID-19 vaccines also have immunity from liability under the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.

      Oh, btw, if you’re going to allow gun manufacturers to be sued for the end user’s misuse (criminal or otherwise) of their products, then open that shit up to every industry. Every one.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        …open that shit up to every industry. Every one.

        That would be the end of General Aviation.

      • db

        Automotive as well. Burn it all the fuck down. If they’re going to do it to one industry, they should accept the consequences for all.

        If it saves even one life, it’s worth it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Why did your car let me drive drunk?

      • MikeS

        “That reminds me, I need to sue InBev, also.”

      • creech

        Automotive will be in deep doodoo. Just look at all those car and truck ads where vehicles race along snow covered roads. Looks to me (and a passel of lawyers) that they are encouraging and promoting misuse of their product.

      • R C Dean

        And those driver assist ads ‘ “Look, you don’t need to pay attention to traffic, or even keep your hands on the wheel!”

      • Gadfly

        It would be the end of everything. Cleaning supplies, knives, baseball bats, nails, fertilizer, ball bearings, and on and on have all been misused to inflict harm. To hold the manufacturers responsible is insane. If I water-board someone with Aquafina, is Coca-Cola now liable? It’s clown world thinking.

      • R C Dean

        One industry that has exemptions from federal liability, just like gun manufacturers

        They just can’t stop lying.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      How about addressing the other misleading statements? Like when he said he helped to release 60 million barrels of oil from reserves to ease gas prices. The US uses 20 million barrels per DAY; so, he eased gas prices for three days. Whoopee.

    • Drake

      Just got a message from my Accountant doing my taxes…

      Holy fucking shit, I must be rich and Joe kept that promise.

      • Lackadaisical

        Same here buddy.

        I’ve somehow gotten much richer than I was under Trump.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Drug manufacturers have immunity from lawsuits for Kungflu jab.

  10. Rebel Scum

    That’s called prosecution.

    So, we know that gun violence is on the rise across the country, with significant numbers in San Francisco. A traditional prosecutor might say that if someone is in possession of a gun illegally or uses a gun to do something unlawful, we’re going to punish them as harshly as the law allows, and that’s our way of deterring crime.

    The thing that frustrates me about that approach is that we are accepting that we don’t have a role to play in promoting public safety until after a crime occurs. We’re trying to be proactive in my office. In San Francisco, instead of waiting for the police to make an arrest in homicides involving a ghost gun and punishing the individual that committed the harm, we are suing the ghost-gun companies and asking the courts to prohibit them from shipping their weapons into our community.

    This guy seems to know what’s what with the Constitution.

    • Count Potato

      Has anyone ever been murdered by a “ghost gun”?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        The Scooby Doo mysteries have taken a dark turn.

      • Seguin

        Z-z-z-zoinks, Scooby! It looks like he was hit by several rounds of 9mm Parabellum in the back of the head!

        Ruh roh raggy!

        *pulls off mask* It was old lady Clinton the entire time!

        Cast laughs at 2fps.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘2fps’

        Right in my childhood.

    • juris imprudent

      We’re trying to be proactive in my office.

      So how is the pre-crime division doing? Are the psychics on top of it?

    • rhywun

      WTF is a “ghost-gun company”?

      • UnCivilServant

        About a hundred to a hundred and twenty fictional riflemen being paid in real money.

      • Count Potato

        Remington?

      • Drake

        They are certainly dead.

    • R C Dean

      we don’t have a role to play in promoting public safety until after a crime occurs

      “Dammit, why can’t we arrest people who haven’t committed any crimes!”

      • Bobarian LMD

        “Dammit, why can’t we arrest people who haven’t committed any crimes are in favor of the 2nd amendment!”

      • whiz

        Minority Report FTW

  11. Count Potato

    “Ukrainian models who left for Fashion Week and can’t go home: Stars tell of crying backstage and phoning family in bomb shelters as their country was invaded while ‘tone deaf’ designers debuted their latest collections

    Ukrainian models, designers and editors that left their hometowns for Milan Fashion Week have been stranded in western Europe after their country descended into a war zone just hours after they left. Among them is Anna Mazzhyk who is creating an OnlyFans”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10564067/Ukrainian-models-Milan-Fashion-Week-home.html

    Please send food.

    • Rebel Scum

      They could use some cheeseburgers.

    • Drake

      I’m old enough to remember when models were pretty.

    • Necron 99

      I believe you only need to worry when models are NOT crying backstage.

  12. Sean

    https://www.jpost.com/international/article-699098

    $1 million bounty on Putin offered by Russian businessman
    The Russian entrepreneur said the Russian president came to power by “blowing up apartment buildings in Russia.”

    Spicy.

    • MikeS

      OK. He might have the biggest balls in the world.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        He might. People that have crossed Putin were injected with radioactive substances and nerve agents.

        Putin doesnt realize that if there is a Hell, Putin will be ass up taking a full sized Soros in the ass with Hitler controlling the pace and Stalin watching.

    • The Other Kevin

      Wait, I thought it was supposed to arrive in DC last night. Was all the fencing for nothing?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Security theater is never for nothing.

      • Nephilium

        Per an e-mail list I’m on, there’s now two different convoys rolling through Ohio. One on the 3rd, the other on the 6th.

      • DEG

        Yes, there are multiple convoys.

        Some have already disbanded.

        This one is supposed to arrive in the DC area on the 5th.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        You’ve never driven around DC have you?

      • juris imprudent

        Just get them all pointed at the Pentagon parking lot, it’ll be days before they figure their way out.

  13. grrizzly

    Can you imagine thousands of IT workers in the US going publicly against the official narrative?

    Scores of IT workers in Russia sign public anti-war petition

    In a hint of the strength of opposition among Russian professionals to war in Ukraine, an open letter that’s been circulating through the country’s IT industry since the invasion on Thursday — to protest at the act of military aggression and call for peace — has gathered around 30,000 signatories from named IT workers.

    The petition is entitled: “An open letter from representatives of the Russian IT industry against the military operation on the territory of Ukraine.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Depends on the narrative and who’s pushing it.

      • rhywun

        How about any the narratives that are hot right now like “DEI” or “systemic racism”?

        We saw what happened when ONE American IT worker pushed back.

      • Lackadaisical

        Sent to the digital gulag, iirc.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh come on, grrizzly, no one listens to US IT employees even when it comes to IT matters, who’d give a crap about our political opinions?

    • creech

      I heard there were dozens and dozens of signers with the name Ben Doverski.

    • hayeksplosives

      LOL.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Proof that humor can be found in just about anything.

      • Compelled Speechless

        The only thing the Swedes could provide were stationary mines. None of them can be fired in forward or reverse. Only neutral.

    • hayeksplosives

      One of my favorite Simpsons scenes, from back when it was funny.

      https://youtu.be/VTLYris4kJU

      TUNGSTEN!!!

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      OK that’s a winner, right there.

      I sometimes think I might be a psychopath because I enjoy assembling Ikea furniture.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’ll be you have quite the collection of allen wrenches and extra screws.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        MeToo!

  14. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Well I just listened to a sobering podcast. Tom Woods interviewed Gilbert Doctorow yesterday.

    To say he was blunt about the potential outcomes of the Ukrainian situation would be putting it very mildly.

    Although he did say that William Burns at the CIA is sane and may be the voice of reason at the White House. His opinion of Blinken is that he’s a fool and will get us all killed. As Doctorow put it, Putin views this as an existential event for Russia and will not back down, therefore making it an existential event for all of us. He made the prediction that if it is not settled soon, we will see Russian subs surface off the Atlantic coast as a warning of Russia’s seriousness.

    • Rebel Scum

      I suppose Richmond is far enough from Norfolk Naval and Oceana…

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      . . . we will see Russian subs surface off the Atlantic coast as a warning of Russia’s seriousness.

      That would be a uniquely stupid thing for Putin to do; it’s essentially the same kind of provocation as the U.S. declaring a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Putin views this as an existential event for Russia

      I’m amazed at the certainty people have that Putin will not risk nuclear exchange over this. Or that MADD is guaranteed if nukes are used so any decision is all or nothing.

      Is the US really going to nuke Russia if Russia hits Berlin but doesn’t target us? It’s possible, but I think far from an ironclad guarantee. We take risks in an existential events, and Russia may well decide that’s a risk worth taking if EU escalates their interference.

      Antagonizing a nuclear power is stupidly dangerous. Doubly so with Article V hanging over our heads. It may turn out that being a NATO member is the biggest threat that the US has faced in the past 70 years.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        MAD instead of MADD of course, though neither is pleasant to contemplate.

      • R C Dean

        Antagonizing a nuclear power is stupidly dangerous.

        Let’s hope the Russians realize that before they nuke Berlin.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m amazed at the certainty people have that Putin will not risk nuclear exchange over this.

        Doctorow made the point the Russia hypersonic cruise missiles have changed the equation. Subs can sit in the economic zone offshore and hit DC with a nuke in under five minutes.

        I doubt this display in November was not intended to send a message.

        https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/europe/russia-hypersonic-missile-hits-target-test-intl/index.html

      • Lackadaisical

        How much money do we owe them if they do it?

        Oh please don’t throw me in that briar patch!

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Didnt someone on here already argue against blindly using Russian propaganda?

    • R C Dean

      Putin views this as an existential event for Russia and will not back down, therefore making it an existential event for all of us.

      Keeping Crimea, and the autonomy of those breakaway provinces, are existential for Russia? Because that’s what they are demanding (as well as Ukrainian “neutrality”).

      • Gustave Lytton

        Crimea= Black Sea fleet and access to the Black Sea/Med/warm water port/historical claims
        Breakaway provinces= buffer/protection for ethnic Russians (and Russia as protectors of ethnic Russians and other Slavs)
        Ukraine not part of Nato= keep foreign military alliance off their doorstep (more than it is already. I bet if they had their druthers, they’d prefer the Baltics and Poland weren’t apart of it either)

      • Drake

        Kind of like no nuke missiles in Cuba or Turkey kept the Cold War from going hot.

      • R C Dean

        Crimea and especially the provinces strike me as more “nice to haves”, rather than “Russia will cease to exist without them”. But hey, who knows what’s going on in Putin’s head?

        At the end of all this, I suspect Russia will be less secure.

        Personally, I’m not sure that a 5 minute launch time really changes the math from a 20 minute launch time, for a nuclear exchange. Or that hypersonic missiles from a sub really make much difference from regular ones. The point of nukes on subs is second-strike capability – they won’t get taken out in the first strike.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m not sure that a 5 minute launch time really changes the math

        It’s about decapitation.

        DC and all control centers would be hit first before a response can be created, thereby creating an opportunity for an ICBM wipe-out with less chance of full-scale retaliation.

        It’s also why Russia doesn’t want Ukraine in NATO as it puts missile platforms within three minutes reach of Moscow. Zelensky’s stupid talk in Munich two weeks ago about obtaining nukes probably sealed the deal on the invasion.

        It’s still nuts, but Putin has made it clear in recent years that a world without Russia isn’t going to be a world at all. And the West is stupidly talking about regime change, which would certainly involve military action. I’m not up for testing his resolve.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Crimea and especially the provinces strike me as more “nice to haves”, rather than “Russia will cease to exist without them”.

        Russia’s portion of the Black Sea Fleet has been based in Crimea since the breakup of the USSR with a lease running out in 2017. Ukraine has already stated it was not going to renew the lease, leaving them without their longtime port and base facilities. Then Russia seized control of that and a good chunk of the Ukrainian Navy to boot. Control of Crimea is almost assuredly seen as necessary and strategic importance to Russia, especially given previous Ukrainian actions.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Imagine if Canada controlled the entire Puget Sound or Mexico controlled San Diego and LA ports and they said they were evicting the US Navy from their respective Pacific ports. That would not sit well with the US. We’ve invaded several countries in the Caribbean and Latin America for lesser reasons and at further distance.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Not mention Sevastopol has been a port for Russia since the 18th century. The only reason it was part of Ukraine at all was political maneuvering on the part of Khrushchev when he was seeking power. It bought him support. It’s 70% ethnic Russian as well.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        ^laughable justification for Russian aggression.

        Maybe Russia should not have signed a contract for a lease of sevastapol.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Crimea doesnt have a lot of ukrainians before or after the soviet Ukrainian starvation plan of the 1920 and 30s?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Russia has internal problems as strongman tyrants always have.

        Russians think that all former Russia territory always belongs to them. Putin admitted such.

        Findland, estonia, latvia, lithuania, romania, moldava, poland….should be prepared for war.

        War sucks but so does living in constant fear of attack. Fuck russia. Fuck china. If these tyrant nations get too itchy with the nuke triggers, turn them to glass. This way we can rebuild and get back to living free.

        As I said, Russia is a paper tiger. Russian nukes are just as unreliable as other russian miliary equip. See all the unexploded ordinance in ukraine sent by russia. Russia compensates for substandard weaponry with quantity.

    • straffinrun

      Yeah, that was a hair raising interview. To think this could be (possibly) avoided by putting it in writing that Ukraine won’t join NATO.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        But then the neocons would have to admit they were wrong.

      • R C Dean

        I would bet that was the trigger for the invasion, and they decided “Fuck it, we might as well tighten our grip on Crimea and the provinces while we are at it.”

        I think if the US and the Euros had just come out and said “No more eastward expansion of NATO”, this wouldn’t have happened. Still leaves plenty of room to gun up the parts of the old Soviet empire that Putin hasn’t seized (yet). And I believe that he very much wants to.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Russia would just use some other excuse.

        Ukraine has a soveriegn right to join whatever defense org is needs to against Russia. Russia is the typical aggressor. except when Russia is in Pacts with Hitler to steal territory.

  15. Pope Jimbo

    Let’s see how this case plays out. I’m interested to see if us plebes are able to use the “reaching for the waistband” excuse.

    A search warrant filed by Minneapolis police says a homeowner told officers she caught a man breaking into her garage before she fatally shot him Feb. 22.

    The warrant, granted by a judicial official of Hennepin County District Court, says officers were dispatched to a home on the 3300 block of 25th Ave. S. just after 8:30 p.m. on multiple reports of a shooting. One of those calls was from the 53-year-old homeowner, who said she shot a man caught burglarizing her garage when he came toward her and reached for his waistband.

    I hope she told the cops she “feared for her life”.

    • juris imprudent

      The cops would’ve said “sorry ma’am, that’s not just the facts and quite frankly, that’s our line and our line only”.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    I’ve been reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

    That book was a serious downer.

    • Seguin

      All sit for the National Anthem of Trinidad and Tavolo.

    • Drake

      I can’t find the longer version of this meeting. Putin alphas a bunch of oligarchs and makes them sign an agreement (to keep some factories open I think). Makes the last guy walk down and sign, then return his pen.
      https://youtu.be/4ZrEYfuU6fg

  17. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Sounds like the big local hospital is being run by crypto-libertarians. The place is a hotbed of RACISM!!!!

    Two weeks after issuing a public letter renewing its pledge to be “intentional in addressing systemic racism,” leadership for Hennepin Healthcare, the Twin Cities’ largest safety-net hospital system, is facing internal turmoil over photographs featuring two employees dressed in blackface makeup.

    The pictures feature two white paramedics, including a deputy chief of EMS, wearing brown makeup. One shows three people dressed as 1960s vocal trio the Supremes. Another shows two people dressed as R&B duo Milli Vanilli, in dreadlock-style wigs and dark makeup.

    The photos, obtained by the Star Tribune, are not dated, but they resurfaced two weeks ago, when a member of the public forwarded them to Hennepin Healthcare leadership.

    The HORROR!

    But don’t worry they hired their first Health Equity Officer. That will fix everything.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m also going to go out on a limb and say that if one of the pics is of Milli Vanilli, they probably weren’t very recent.

      • Sensei

        At that point they can just blame it on the rain.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    He made the prediction that if it is not settled soon, we will see Russian subs surface off the Atlantic coast as a warning of Russia’s seriousness.

    They will be greeted with flowers and champagne.

  19. DEG

    Run-off in Texas Railroad Commission race

    Incumbent Wayne Christian, chair of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas in the state, is headed for a Republican primary runoff election against Sarah Stogner, an oil and gas attorney who posted a campaign ad of herself mostly naked atop an oil pump jack.

    The crowded primary race for a seat on the Railroad Commission was too close to call late Tuesday night, but by Wednesday morning, 98.6% of the votes had been counted and Christian had secured 47.1% of the votes, falling short of the 50% needed to win the election outright. Stogner received 15.2% of the vote.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Steers and Queers in Texas!

      This totes proves it. States with normal amounts of dudes would have given her more than 15% of the vote.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That gal should buy this vehicle and drive it across Texas as she campaigns.

        Shades of Paul Wellstone’s green bus that he campaigned across Minnesoda in.

        *Make sure to checkout the built in flame thrower in the pics at the bottom

      • Lackadaisical

        I almost had the chance to live there, but the words ‘South Carolina’ scared the wife too much.

        Guy’s singing could use some work.

    • kinnath

      I’ve lost count of the times that I have posted that nuclear winter is the solution to AGW.

  20. Rat on a train

    Aaaaah, more slacktivism. GitLab changed their logo to use Ukraine’s colors.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      “GitLab”? As in the British phrase, “Wot a stupid git!” ?

  21. EvilSheldon

    It’s a small thing, but it’s still a thing – Virginia’s switchblade ban repeal just passed out of the House and Senate, and is headed to Gov. Youngkin for a near-certain signature.

    I, for one, am looking forward to some hot Italian-on-Puerto-Rican knife duels in the next few weeks…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sweet. I’m surprised it got out of the Senate.

    • Hyperion

      Well, I mean as long as they get that Ruskie vodka off the shelves, they are still safe, right?

    • Hyperion

      Hey Tulip, you ever do hydropponic maters? Indoors?

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know there’s only one ‘P’.

      • Tulip

        No, I think some others do. SP did a post on hydroponics once.

  22. Hyperion

    I gotz a hangover damnit and tired as fuck. I stayed up almost all night last night playing ELEX II. Check out this trailer song. Why do Eurotards do stupid shit like releasing a game on Tuesday?

    Whiskey and Pills

    I’m a kill the first mofo who ways the world ‘Eurojank’.

    • Mojeaux

      Eurojank.

      • Hyperion

        Damn you!

    • MikeS

      I like that guy (although this isn’t one of his best) but never watch him until someone here links him. This was a good one I watched since I stopped by. Good stuff.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Unpersoned

    Threes Brewing CEO and co-founder Josh Stylman is stepping down from the company after the popular Brooklyn brewery came under fire over controversial comments that Stylman made about COVID-19 and NYC’s vaccine mandate in mid-February.

    “Josh Stylman has made the decision to step down from his position as CEO, effective immediately,” Threes Brewing said in a statement posted on its social media platforms on March 1. “He believes that his fiduciary responsibilities as CEO of Threes Brewing are in conflict with his duties as a parent and a citizen and is choosing to be able to speak his mind without concern that the team at Threes will be held responsible for his personal views.”

    ——-

    Two weeks ago, Stylman posted messages to Twitter calling NYC’s vaccine mandate a “crime against humanity,” and comparing the public health regulation to Jim Crow laws and the Nazi regime in Germany.

    Public outcry was swift in response to the incendiary messages. Twitter users rebuked Stylman’s stance on the mandate, while a local Brooklyn politician promised to take his business elsewhere. Stylman told Eater at the time that multiple wholesale clients contacted the brewery with concerns after hearing about the messages. Threes posted a statement on social media on February 17 stating that the company did not stand by Stylman’s remarks, calling the comparisons to egregious historical acts “inappropriate and inaccurate.”

    “Twatter users” were outraged.

    I wonder how many people applauded (secretly or otherwise). It doesn’t matter. Wrongthinkers will be purged.

    • juris imprudent

      If I had a business these days it would have zero social media presence.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        As someone once said, “The only people who go on social media are those who want to hurt you.”

    • rhywun

      NOT GOOD ENOUGH. DESTROY THE PERSON ADVOCATING AGAINST THE POLICY THAT THE CITY IS REVOKING NEXT WEEK!

      • Lackadaisical

        For fucking real?

        My God.

      • rhywun

        TWITTER HAS SPOKEN.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Bully

    Ron DeSantis is apparently not above scolding high school students to make his, uh, point about Covid-19.

    The Florida Republican governor approached a group of students wearing masks who were standing behind a podium at the University of South Florida, where he was scheduled for a news conference Wednesday.

    “You do not have to wear those masks. I mean please take them off,” DeSantis said to, at first, polite laughter. But he wasn’t kidding around.

    “Honestly, it’s not doing anything. We’ve gotta stop with this Covid theater. So if you want to wear it, fine. But this is ridiculous,” he continued.

    He then sighed dramatically and began delivering his remarks.

    Some of the students took off their masks, while others left them on. The Hillsborough County School District in Florida told CNN the students at the event were from Middleton High School.

    DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw defended the governor’s statements on Twitter: “I mean, someone had to say it, after 2 years of propaganda that terrified and manipulated young people. Breathe free, feel safe and be happy.”

    No kidding.

    Also- everybody at CNN needs to die in a fire.

    • rhywun

      Exactly this – someone has to say it.

    • juris imprudent

      Scolding?

      Fucking scolds ought to know scolding and they don’t.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        His tone was a little gruff. Kind of like a football coach. But there was nothing wrong with the content of what he said.

    • DEG

      DeSantis is right.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’ve said it before, and surprised it hasn’t happened yet, but mask bans are coming. People can’t resist demanding that others conform to their wishes.

      • Lackadaisical

        I hope not, even though I’m very much against it personally.

    • Lackadaisical

      From your lips to God’s ears.

  25. Gadfly

    I still can’t believe Kamala wasn’t able to clear up this whole Ukraine nonsense in a long weekend.

    I can’t decide whether that explanation she gave represents her own stupidity, her low view of the people she was talking to, or both.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Or that’s how it was explained to her, which I guess would represent her own stupidity.

      • juris imprudent

        Bwahahahaha

    • Lackadaisical

      I take it as the latter, based on what was posted above.

      She knows layman doesn’t mean retard, right?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    It’s worth noting that while many states are in the process of undoing mask mandates as Covid-19 cases plummet nationwide, there’s still plenty of proof that suggests wearing masks – contra DeSantis – does have an effect.

    “Layered prevention strategies — like staying up to date on vaccines and wearing masks — can help prevent severe illness and reduce the potential for strain on the healthcare system,” reads the latest CDC guidance on mask-wearing. “Wear a mask with the best fit, protection, and comfort for you.”

    QED, motherfucker.

    Case closed.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Case closed, unlike my italics tag.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Leftists are a cancer.

      • Drake

        And cowards – hoping the cops and Pool kill each other.

    • juris imprudent

      I would think the local PD would stop immediately responding and demand call back numbers for verification. I mean, how many times are you willing to look stupid?

      • Tulip

        At least 5?

      • Lackadaisical

        They’re cops, so everyday is like the last, amirite?

  28. Tundra

    I’m only about an hour into this, but Jeffery Tucker is a badass.

    Thad isn’t everyone’s favorite, but this is an interesting conversation.

  29. SandMan

    Late response from previous thread.

    I was sitting in doctor’s waiting room a few hours ago, when I read “a skeleton of a large eagle fell from the ceiling” I absolutely lost it. I mean people were staring at me wondering if I was on drugs.

    So thanks for the laugh sugarfree!

  30. Mojeaux

    OMG Gigi is massive cringe.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      You mean the original movie? With Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan?

      Huh. I thought it was quite charming, albeit a product of its time.

      • Ted S.

        Of the 50s, or la belle époque?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yes.

      • Mojeaux

        It got better once the opening number faded into the story.

    • Ted S.

      You mean you’re creeped out by Maurice Chevalier singing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”?

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. It got better.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “I Remember It Well” was a duet that always had the Spousal Unit and I breaking up, since we have our own idiosyncratic memories of what we thought of each other and how we first got together Back In The Day.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        It also helps if you have French rellies and realize that the French just don’t think like North Americans when it comes to relations and romance between the sexes. Some of their attitudes would get them cancelled here.

        Not that they’d give a rat’s ass. Which is another aspect of the French that’s hard for us to grok. I find it quite refreshing.

      • Ted S.

        So you’re creeped out by that, but not by Gigi’s aunts (or whatever the relationship is) grooming her to be a high-class gold digger?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        You’re being disingenuous.

        Not “gold digger.” Courtesan, or high-class mistress.

      • Mojeaux

        Eh, women do what they must to survive, especially in those times. So … kinda.

      • Mojeaux

        That is the class she was born into, yes? So those are the cultural expectations of her class?

    • MikeS

      Common sense: 1
      Insanity: 8,554,258,186

  31. Loveconstitution1789

    I for one cant wait until Poland and/or Germany invades Kalingrad to take back that port that russia grabbed in WWII but has been german or polish territory dating back hundreds of years.

    I for one cant wait to travel to Prussia.

  32. Loveconstitution1789

    I for one cant wait until Poland and/or Germany invades Kalingrad to take back that port that russia grabbed in WWII but has been german or polish territory dating back hundreds of years.

    I for one cant wait to travel to Prussia.