Winston’s Mom does the links

by | Mar 9, 2022 | Daily Links | 264 comments

What the hell?  First Sugarfree sends me a bottle of cognac.  Then he books an evening’s worth of fetish time. Okay. Then I’m dressed like Carol Brady, making a bunch of pancakes via webcam while deftly explaining the health hazards of seed oils.

Then, that cock-tease leaves me with the PMSlinks.

Fuck that guy!

 

This conjures up nothing but conspiracy.

It’s probably for the best, we got dragged into the last two world wars from “allies” asking us to equip them.

Karl Marx was a bitch with a small penis. News at 11.

Remember when this guy wasn’t a shithead?  Me neither.

Predictor?  W’re already there, cupcakes.

Finally….

The other day I mentioned how Sherman was able to live off the country while marching across Georgia. But before and after that march his secret weapon was incredibly good logistical capacity — for example, building roads through supposedly impassable swamps at 10 m a day 5/

And the kind of expertise that make a nation strong means drawing on all the talent our society has to offer. If that be wokeness, make the most of it 6/

We’re going to lose the next war to a truly pathetic country. Like Belgium.

 

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

264 Comments

    • Ownbestenemy

      Diabolical way of the PTB to see who is active posters!

      In all seriousness, my families prayers to OMWC and SP!

    • DEG

      I didn’t see that post. Thanks for putting it here.

      Best wishes to SP.

    • Tonio

      Thanks, GL.

    • Tundra

      Thanks, Gustave.

      Is there any way to pin that one for awhile?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Oh My God! My prayers and love going out to OM and SP,
      /just Dammit!

  1. DEG

    National Review’s Dan McLaughlin: “oh no he let Lucas write his dialogue again.”

    I laughed.

    • rhywun

      #metoo

  2. Rebel Scum

    Coinbase is joining the liberal international order via a partnership with the World Economic Forum.

    I see that it is time to divest.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Coinbase is a good onboarding platform for crypto noobs, but always best to buy a hardware wallet and move off the exchange.

      • Tundra

        Any recommendations?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Ledger nano x

      • Tundra

        Thank you.

      • Tundra

        Thanks, db!

  3. The Late P Brooks

    And the kind of expertise that make a nation strong means drawing on all the talent our society has to offer. If that be wokeness, make the most of it

    Ole!

    • The Other Kevin

      Everyone knows it’s impossible to build a road though a swamp without 10 people standing off to the side making sure the workers are using the right pronouns.

    • rhywun

      What the fuck does that even mean?

      Oh, this is like that thing where people who complain about shitty schools want their kids to grow up dumb and ignorant.

      Or… a complete fucking lie.

      • Winston's Mom

        Oh hello there. ??

        Its a fucking lie.

    • Gadfly

      He started off his statement well then veered sharply into a ditch.

      What does wokeness bring to the table, that it strengthens a nation?

      • WTF

        The evidence at present shows that it severely damages and weakens a nation.

      • Suthenboy

        That is it’s purpose: demoralization.

    • Suthenboy

      It don’t be wokeness. So, there is that.

  4. The Other Kevin

    I don’t know why but we’ve been avoiding seed oils for years and we almost always use olive oil or butter. Good to know there’s a legit reason for it.

    We recently banned Canola oil from the house because we saw a “how it’s made” episode and found out how much bleaching and other processing it goes through. No thanks.

    • Lackadaisical

      Don’t worry, all your olive oil is counterfeit anyway. 😛

      • Ted S.

        All your olive oils are belong to us.

      • The Other Kevin

        :: looks at back of olive oil bottle ::
        “Made in China”.
        D’oh!

      • Ted S.

        One thing I’ve always found amusing about Double Indemnity is then when Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck meet at the grocery store, there’s an entire aisle just for oils.

      • Rat on a train

        Do you like corned beef?

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        *remembers the Spam aisle in the grocery store in Honolulu*

      • UnCivilServant

        Sorry, my spam filter blocked that image.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
        Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
        Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
        Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
        Lovely Spam! (Lovely Spam!)
        Lovely Spam! (Lovely Spam!)
        Lovely Spam!

      • Fourscore

        Let the good times roll. I see Span sammiches, Spam and Eggs, Spam noodle soup, Spamdy, roast Spam.
        What’s not to like? A kid in a Spam store with a brand new credit card.

      • Nephilium

        We’ve got a pierogi isle in the freezer section at our grocery stores.

      • MikeS

        Never apologize, UCS.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Spam sushi is surprisingly good. As are “plate lunches” based around Spam.

        Mmmmmm, Spam . . .

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Bros and Chads have known for years to avoid seed oils. Not as dumb as they look.

      They also think touching paper receipts lowers your testosterone. That one seems a bit much.

      • Warty

        Lol imagine touching receipts

        Ngmi brah

    • Rat on a train

      We use peanut oil infused with gluten, milk, eggs, soy and shrimp.

      • slumbrew

        That’s how you shitlord.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I read into that a while back and it seems they are legit bad for you.

      It makes sense because the good stuff is way more expensive.

      My only (other) gripe is that I can’t find a mayonnaise without “bad” oils that doesn’t taste like shit.

      • Tundra

        Primal Kitchen is the answer.

        Good stuff.

      • rhywun

        I’ve seen those at the supermarket but am wary of dropping that kind of $$ when I don’t know if I’ll like it.

        TL;DR – does it take like avocados? That’s a no from me, dawg.

      • Tundra

        Not at all.

        Be brave.

      • rhywun

        ?

        Cuz I tried Hellman’s with olive oil and it was gross.

      • Ted S.

        You should have tried Best Foods instead.

      • rhywun

        I was expecting that from you someone.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      STEVE SMITH LIKE RAPE SEED OIL.

      ‘CAUSE STEVE SMITH LIKE RAPE.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        And now I feel like a jackass. This is what I get for posting mobile…

  5. pistoffnick the refusnik

    …an evening’s worth of fetish time…

    Kinky is using a feather, Sugar-Free Fetish Time® is using the whole chicken.

    • Winston's Mom

      HEY!

      No kink shaming!

  6. The Late P Brooks

    I just read a thing from Slate (I’ll spare you the link) about gas prices. Blah blah blah if only we had more central planning and less dastardly kkkapitalist give-the-people-what-they-want-ism, $5/gal gasoline would be no big deal.

    Walkable cities and 73mpg avg fuel economy, FTW!

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Funny how “walkable cities” are run by Democrats and you cant walk them because criminals will shoot you, rob you, punch you, or slit your throat.

      • juris imprudent

        You need to stop oppressing those poor people.

  7. Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

    STEVE SMITH LIKE RAPE SEED OIL.

    CAUSE, LIKE RAPE.

      • Compelled Speechless

        *Photo captured at exact moment of seed oil extraction*

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        ** GOLF CLAP **

        The judges would’ve also accepted “O-face.”

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s right in the name. Finally, some truth in advertising.

  8. Tundra

    I love Dr. Cate. Her book Deep Nutrition is one of the best nutrition books I’ve ever read.

    Thanks for the lynx, WM! Always nice to see (all of) you.

    • Winston's Mom

      No, no.

      Thank you

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Seriously, thank you!

      • Tundra

        Love Sly. Nice choice!

  9. Bobarian LMD

    Fuck that guy!

    I would assume you’d already pegged him.

    • juris imprudent

      With the strap-on from Seven perhaps? No, I guess not.

    • Compelled Speechless

      How long will NYT wait before they quietly let this guy go? And no one will report about it.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      They do God’s work at Project Veritas.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Who wants lemonade?

    The U.S. oil industry is on an upswing, buoyed by the surge in gasoline prices to a record $4.25 a gallon Wednesday, sky-high crude oil prices and even some begrudging praise from President Joe Biden as he announced a ban on Russian energy imports.

    But the rally-around-the-rig sentiment in the U.S. from the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may not last long, and experts say the consumer pain from the fuel price spike could hasten the shift away from oil in the U.S. and toward cleaner energy sources.

    The price at the pump, which the American Automobile Association says has leaped 75 cents per gallon in the past month because of the invasion of Ukraine, is likely to push more people to consider electric vehicles, which are slowly gaining market momentum as carmakers roll out new models. And that gasoline price rise, led by the rally in crude prices to 14-year highs, is offering some companies and policymakers a ready-made national security argument to push for more green energy projects as insulation against oil price shocks.

    Or we could be realistic, and burn more coal.

    • Gadfly

      IIRC the largest source of electricity in the US is natural gas, meaning moving to electric will not, in fact, shield drivers from fluctuation fossil fuel costs. Unless we also shift our electric generation to nuclear and hydro, but I don’t see much of a push for that.

      • Tundra

        Also, where the fuck are we gonna get the materials for the stupid batteries? Because the new Russia/China/India alliance is gonna control most of the sources.

        Fools.

      • The Other Kevin

        We can produce enough oil and natural gas to sustain ourselves. We can’t produce the specialized materials for batteries, and will always depend on not-so-friendly countries for that. Which of those is the stronger national security argument?

        Doesn’t anyone remember the beginning of the pandemic when the manufacturing in China was shut down?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Luckily, all the tyrannical elites and Lefties scheming around the World have unknowingly shifted from the rapid fantasy energy they wanted back to fossil fuels.

        There is no reason that a slow transition from oil cant happen. Russia attacking Ukraine shows that oil/fuel is still king of the battlefield. If Russia had solar tanks, the cloud cover over Ukraine would have left them out of power like some of them are out of gas.

      • Gadfly

        I will be interested to see how all this plays out. So many of the shortages are due to a reliance on international trade, and while free trade does bring down prices it also makes you reliant on your trade partners. I think we are going to see a resurgence in mercantilism and autarky across the globe.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I love having discussions about trade. I am for Free Trade but that requires all trading partners agree to abide by basic trade rules. Otherwise, its some other kind of trade besides Free Trade.

        While Free Trade is great, the real World has nations and tyrants that might require some strategic stockpiling of traded materials in case of war.

        I would still like America to default to Free Trade most of the time and with good trading partners.

      • Sensei

        Ignoring that Tesla can’t keep up with demand and the other manufacturers don’t produce them in any kind of volume.

        There is no way to make electric passenger vehicles replace ICE in possible way in anything short of years.

        Nobody in the MSM will call them on this.

      • UnCivilServant

        But states have already outlawed the sale of ICE machines (starting at the end of the decade).

        I wonder how long that will last once they find out there simply aren’t going to be enough other types produced – ever.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        …outlawed the sale of ICE machines…

        Nobody likes a warm gin and tonic. There will be riots.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Everyone was saying it going to be like partying ’79 with Biden, but the Euro-trash scene is all like ’68.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      “Experts” who say that expensive gasoline due to political shocks and incompetent management will move people towards even more expensive ways of getting around and heating their homes ARE FUCKING IDIOTS.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yup.

        Moar nukes!! And burn the natural gas for Pete’s sake. CO2 is NOT a pollutant!!

  11. Rebel Scum

    The Pentagon on Tuesday evening shot down a Polish proposal to transfer their MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and receive replacement aircraft from the United States.

    MiG-29s are neat planes.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      As long as the F18s aren’t behind you

    • TARDis

      How are they kept airworthy if the country that builds them isn’t your ally? Too arsed to look it up.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I assume it involves beer cans, bailing wire and lots of duct tape.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I assume it involves beer cans, bailing wire and lots of duct tape.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        WTF, squirrelz?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Goes to show that America doesnt make shit well like they used to.

        50 year old Tomcats.

      • TARDis

        Interesting article, but light on important details.

        Through a combination of engineering ingenuity and audacious espionage, Iran kept its F-14s in working order — and even improved them. The swing-wing fighters took to the air in several conflicts and even occasionally confronted American planes.

  12. DEG

    Wreck of Shackleton’s ship found

    The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

    One hundred years after Shackleton’s death, Endurance was found at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea, within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town, and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley.

  13. R C Dean

    This conjures up nothing but conspiracy.

    Now I have to add “Close out Coinbase account” to my list of chores.

    • rhywun

      WEF are the Great Reset guys that want to control the world, right?

      Yeah, get your shit out of there now.

      • The Other Kevin

        I can’t imagine people who are into crypto would be cool with that.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Kill or be killed. WEF is going to figure out digital currencies and how to have complete control of the economy regardless of who helps them figure it out. Better to be on the winning side early. I for one welcome our space suit wearing overlord, Herr Schwab!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s definitely in WTFH territory.

    • Grummun

      Coinbase advertised heavily during the Olympics. “Start your NFT collection!” was enough to decide Coinbase was not to be taken seriously.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “The situation in Ukraine is in fact a game changer” for the oil industry, said Mark Brownstein, senior vice president at green group Environmental Defense Fund, which works with the industry to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. “It just sort of accentuates the challenge of having the global economy tied to oil and gas. If the industry was already facing a metaphysical challenge in climate change, it’s now got a second.”

    A senior Biden administration official offered the same message to reporters when discussing the Russian import ban.

    “The way to avoid high gas prices is to speed up, not slow down, our transition to a clean energy future,” the official said in a Tuesday call with reporters. “The reality is we can’t drill our way out of dependence on a global commodity that’s controlled in part by foreign nations and their leaders.”

    Is there some innate animating quality of petrochemicals which leads world leaders to indulge in stupid pointless dick-measuring contests?

    It’s not oil which created this mess. It were the politicians.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The reality is that we can’t produce enough clean energy to do much of anything. Talk about not following the science. oh well time to hang my laundry on the line after cleaning it on the washboard. How much does a Franklin stove cost?

    • R C Dean

      The reality is we can’t drill our way out of dependence on a global commodity that’s controlled in part by foreign nations and their leaders

      This is kinda true. However, I distinctly recall a previous Democrat administration that said “we can’t drill our way out of this” who were immediately proven wrong.

      The more we produce, the less what is done by foreign nations and their leaders matters to us. Sure, the price is set globally, but there’s a big difference between the price being set globally, and needing what we are paying that price for to be produced overseas and delivered here.

  15. Loveconstitution1789

    William Tecumsah Sherman cut trees down and used those as a road base in soft soil.

    Krugman is still a Commie!

    • Compelled Speechless

      Sorry, Krugman is not a commie or a socialist. He’s definitely in good with the Davos crowd and is willing to be their good loyal propagandist. It is important to understand the differences between the different economic political systems if you stand any chance of putting up a fight. Using socialist and communist interchangeably is a show of ignorance. Almost every government that called itself “communist” was in fact socialist using the promise of eventual communism to justify their totalitarianism with no real intention of ever fading into the night quietly. Obviously “communism” hasn’t been actually tried because it simply cannot exist. The idea in communism is that the “public” owns everything, which is childishly naïve. There’s no difference between owning and controlling. If you control it, you own it. There is no such thing as a system where there isn’t a massive disparity in power to control resources. To say that there’s “public control” of anything is to conceal the true workings of any socioeconomic system. If there’s a government, all roads lead to oligarchy since the defining characteristic of the state is to be the exception to the rules (i.e. you don’t “steal”, you “tax”. You don’t “mass murder”, you “legitimately declare war”.) The differences are of course, imaginary. A tale statists tell themselves to justify firebombing innocent children from the sky or shaking down the immigrant shop owner for protection money.

      The point of this rant is that you shouldn’t confuse the people that believe in the imaginary (unicorns and communism) and the people that believe in using the state to achieve whatever aesthetic preferences they desire upon the world at the barrel of a gun or the threat of total and complete ruination for dissenters. Socialism is very much a 19th and 20th century creation that no one with any power still really believes in. What exists now and what they intend to spread everywhere is more like the Chinese model that doesn’t really have a name to accurately describe it. It has many elements that could be identified as socialist (centralized control), fascist (the lines between public and private nearly disappear), technocratic (everyone and everything is filed, cataloged and quantified by vast bureaucracy) and oligarchic (the people running it are self-selected and deeply incestuous). Whatever you want to call this is what Krugman is.

      It is decidedly NOT democratic (not that democracy is a good idea anyway.) Democracy is the window dressing used to convince you that you have a say. The people that constantly decry the death of democracy are the ones most gleefully participating in the very system that works to make sure you are uninformed and impotent.

      Be careful with how you throw these words around. The intermingling of these concepts is another one of the word games they use to obscure what is really happening. It’s just another form of wokism, where casually or even accidentally racist became “white supremacist” overnight. They want you to think that there’s no difference between those two things. They want you to think Krugman is a commie. If you believe that, you’re miles off the scent of what is actually happening and all you’re doing is assisting your enemy. Reject their premises from the outset.

      • Tundra

        So not completely speechless.

        Good rant!

      • Compelled Speechless

        Thanks. Sorry it got a little wordy, but people saying things like “ChiComs” drives me up a wall. They are not even remotely communist and they’ve been moving away from socialism for decades. What they (and us if we’re being honest) are becoming is far more insidious, because it is far more effective and inescapable than anything ever conceived by the evil totalitarian fucks of the 20th century. If you’re not willing to take the time to understand the nuances between things, than don’t bother to have an opinion.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Its sad that you dont understand that the chinese communists control all property in china.

        Just because Xi’s name is not on all property deeds doesnt mean the commies dont own all property.

      • juris imprudent

        willing to be their good loyal propagandist.

        He used to be Enron’s propagandist when they had money. It ain’t without reason that WM has such a special scorn for him.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Communism is the end goal of Socialism. The fact that most Socialists are too stupid to get to actual Communism is not Marx’s fault.

      Communism used to be the state controlling all property. The definition is changing to include:
      1.a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
      2. (often initial capital letter) a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

      We now see Socialists be undermined by the flaws in their system, so they use Fascism to control people and property. As we see businesses being effectively controlled by govt interests to do their bidding.

      Krugman is for planned economies and undermining moral hazard in business.

  16. R C Dean

    all the talent our society has to offer. If that be wokeness, make the most of it

    Wokeness is the negation of talent, ya feckin’ halfwit.

    • Count Potato

      Trying to export wokeness is the dumbest thing the State Department does. And that’s a very high bar.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It’s not dumb. It’s highly intentional and strategic. The people that follow them and believe it to be sincere are dumb.

      • Count Potato

        It’s very dumb. It’s not a successful strategy. It makes them lose influence over other countries.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The ruling class is rapidly moving to straight up compulsion through control of your health care and finances.

        The fig leaf of woke is starting to wilt.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Yep, I had a rant about this yesterday. It’s usefulness as a get-out-of-argument-free card is about to expire when the actual shit hits the fan. The blue-check crowd will be waxing lyrical about the days where we had the time and resources to bemoan micro-aggressions and cancel culture was actually effective because we didn’t actually have anything real to worry about. The useful idiots that got on board with this crap are about to be stunned that no one with actual power accepts their phone calls anymore.

  17. grrizzly

    This Lyft ride to the airport is expensive. But at least I don’t have to worry about giving tips–the driver asked me to put on a mask. He’ll get 4 stars as well. This is only the second time it happened to me in 2 years.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    But Biden refuted Republicans’ characterization that he had harmed U.S. energy production.

    “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. That’s simply not true,” he said. “Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pumped more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year.”

    Holy non sequitur, Batman!

  19. Rebel Scum

    The other day I mentioned how Sherman was able to live off the country while marching across Georgia. But before and after that march his secret weapon was incredibly good logistical capacity — for example, building roads through supposedly impassable swamps at 10 m a day 5/

    And the kind of expertise that make a nation strong means drawing on all the talent our society has to offer. If that be wokeness, make the most of it 6/

    We have to rape, pillage, plunder and bomb our way from Kiev to Odessa?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Morgan Bazilian, professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said that while the war in Europe may be placing a halo around the oil industry at the moment, that glow will fade.

    “The rallying around the flag, the build-it-in-America, the rally around the rig, freedom molecules language — that rhetoric is nonsensical,” Bazilian said in an interview. “It doesn’t have any grounding in anything.”

    But high oil prices, Bazilian continued, will have a more concrete meaning for the industry.

    “It certainly makes people look a lot harder at substitutions,” Bazilian said. “That hurts demand. That’s demand destruction.”

    We should start with political substitutes. Maybe we could try not electing morons explicitly working to destroy the economy.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      How much is a Bazilian?

      • Compelled Speechless

        I don’t know, but if you’ve ever had one, you’ll know it hurts like a mother fucker.

      • Animal

        Twenty dollars, same as downtown.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It’s not an amount but the unit of measurement for stupid.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s hard to achieve demand destruction when the economy is in freefall.

      In other words, when capital is being destroyed at a rapid pace, there’s no money to invest in novel industries.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s not stopping celebrity twitter from cheering it on from their ivory towers.

        I remember a story I heard years ago (I think it was NPR’s planet money when that was still pretty good, but don’t quote me) about how the Soviets had put almost all of their shoe manufacturing into a couple of plants in one region of the country. Shoe production fell way behind nationally for various supply reasons (a fluke in an otherwise paragon of central planning). The Soviet response was not to figure out how to get enough resources to get shoes made to get them to the citizens that needed them for work, it was instead to create an elaborate propaganda campaign extolling the virtues of going shoeless (foot protection is an evil created by the bourgeois you see).

        When I read or watch news from any of the corporate new sources (Pravda as I lovingly call them) I think of this story. All the energy that should be spent on trying to stop the freefall is spent on either telling you that there’s no freefall, or freefall is a good thing.

    • EvilSheldon

      Why in the fuck does the Colorado School of Mines have a School of Public Policy?

      • juris imprudent

        Once they had affirmative action admissions they needed to create a program for them?

  21. Tundra

    How the hell were the Ukrainians gonna get the MiGs anyway? Wouldn’t Russia just blow them out of the sky?

    Seems like a dopey plan that Poland got out in front of. I wonder why they don’t trust us?

    • Tres Cool

      Well, it takes 3 of them to screw in a lightbulb after all,

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      It sounds to me like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Last week Abe Blinken was saying he would be ok if Poland donated the MiGs. Then Poland said, no, we’re not going to do it. Then after a little vodka they said ok. Now the DoD is saying, hold on, wait a minute. If you’re going to send them MiGs, why announce it? Land it on a road near the border, repaint it, and let Ukraine tow it across the border with a tractor in the middle of the night.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Ukrainian pilots pick up fighters and fly them to Ukraine.

      Ukraine clearly doesnt need planes to put up a good defense. They need SAMs, SSMs, and AT missiles.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Ukraine having planes would make a difference but since Russia does not fully command the air either, its not a huge thing for Ukraine to not have many planes.

        Russian pilots are not stupid. When Russian planes dont return to the airfield, you can only blame that on so many “mechanical failures”.

  22. Count Potato

    Prayers for SP.

    I can’t make much sense of that chart on that seed oil website.

    So what is the best oil for deep frying?

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Peanut or beef tallow

      • Count Potato

        Peanut is way too expensive, and I don’t think beef tallow is even an option.

      • UnCivilServant

        Peanut oil is too much for your budget?

        Well, then ‘best’ is off the table.

      • Count Potato

        I use it for asian cooking. Not even sure it’s “best” though.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Are you thinking of sesame oil? Peanut oil is more than canola, but not by much. A gallon is ~10 dollars.

      • Count Potato

        I was thinking of peanut. You are right that it’s not that expensive if you buy it in quantity, but I haven’t seen anyone selling it quantity for a long time.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        I haven’t seen anyone selling it quantity for a long time.

        FleetFarm, Gander Mountain, Bass Pro Shop, etc., all sell peanut oil in gallon jugs

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        You can buy peanut oil in quantity from places like Costco Business Centres.

        And for deep frying, any oil with a high smoke point will do. Done properly, deep frying should “burden” the food being fried with almost no additional fat whatsoever, so seed versus non-seed is mostly a non-issue.

        Sesame oil for frying is a disaster, because its smoke point is far too low.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Oh, and if you want flavour with that peanut oil (which is quite neutral in taste), adding 2 to 5% beef tallow is good, but duck fat (same percentages) is even better.

        Mind you, the best fries I ever had were in Leeuwarden city centre from a truck advertising “Belgian-style” fries, and they used horse fat. Mr. Ed for the win, yo.

      • Count Potato

        It could be a supply chain, because I used to see it. Now all I see are small bottles.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        I don’t think beef tallow is even an option.

        Any independent butcher will have an excess of beef fat. They might even sell it cheap.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxx8R99zQ1w

      • Tres Cool

        Any time I trim up a brisket I do just that.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Motor.

    • UnCivilServant

      You know what’s not on their fancy charts? Physical activity. Just from 1980 to now, people have become far more sedentary.

      • The Other Kevin

        Excuse me, people are exercising their thumbs more than ever.

      • whiz

        Exactly, UCS, correlation is not causation (wrt the use of seed oils).

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Random question from deep in left field:

    Beef jerky recommendations: brand? style?

    I have never really cared for it, mostly because what I have had in the past seemed like it belonged on the bottom of a shoe. But I’m looking for a protein-rich snack to satisfy my cravings.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Jacks Links Teriyaki rules!

      • The Other Kevin

        We should support Jack’s Links because they do so much for the rapesquatch community. If Glibs had official sponsors, they would be one.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Them and DR Woodchippers.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Huzzah!

    • Tundra

      Tillamook makes some decent ones without a bunch of sugar. Avoid the gas station brand – they are loaded with shit.

      I also like Duke’s. Costco carries them and I really dig them. Much tastier imo than jerkey.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’ve got some of the Wal-Mart house brand in my snack closet that is actually pretty good, but if you’re doing keto, look close because a couple of the flavors have too much sugar.

    • Lackadaisical

      Try some nuts instead, cheaper and tastier.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      The best jerky I’ve ever had was home-made.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Me too. I’ll be in my bunk.

    • db

      If you have a local deer/elk processor or butcher, they might make and sell their own jerky or sticks. Those local ones are often the best and freshest.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    A jet-assisted Waco. What’ll they think of next? I hope those wings are screwed on securely.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      It is L-O-U-D in real life.

      • db

        I have a friend who used to fly airshows–he said that thing is really dangerous to take off because even at minimum thrust, the jet wants to push the tail over the nose because the thrust has to be vectored downward to clear the tail. They don’t light the jet until well into the roll so there is enough airflow of the tail to allow the elevator to counteract the moment from the jet.

  25. Winston

    https://fee.org/articles/which-dystopian-story-does-2022-resemble-the-most/

    The episode’s vision that people would be denied access to services based on socially disapproved actions also feels eerily prescient. Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of people involved in the Canadian trucker protest and cracked down on donations to the demonstrators. It’s not hard to see how, as technology comes to integrate more aspects of our lives, the opportunity will arise for state and corporate authorities to monitor our actions and try to mold them.

    I don’t know about but you but wasn’t libertarian theory predicated on the assumption that this is literally impossible?

    https://www.aier.org/article/does-modern-technology-enable-communism/

    We see this in popular literature. Leigh Phillips’ The People’s Republic of Walmart (People’s Republic) and Aaron Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism, (Luxury Communism) argue that, unlike in the Soviet Union, modern technology makes communism, or, as the authors see it, an economy managed entirely by the government, not only possible but preferable.

    • Bobarian LMD

      That’s why Ole Joe is pushing for a government version of bit-coin.

      They can tell you what you can spend your money on and how much you can buy.

      • Winston

        And what will be done about it?

      • Compelled Speechless

        By whom? I imagine progressive sorts will give it a thunderous applause.

      • Winston

        What will the advocates of freedom do?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Tally sticks.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        D00d, that’s why the underground economy will never die.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Be lined up in front of a firing squad?

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Libertarian Theory, sure. Problem is most people aren’t libertarians.

      Key word is theory.

  26. Tres Cool

    I just woke from a nap expecting my usual midweek horrifying/nauseating dose of SugarFree and instead I get the news about SP.

    It feels like someone just let all the air out of the room.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      This^, everything else pales right now,
      /Very sad Yusef

  27. The Late P Brooks

    unlike in the Soviet Union, modern technology makes communism, or, as the authors see it, an economy managed entirely by the government, not only possible but preferable.

    Morons get hold of typewriters.

    Film at 11.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Venezuela is a clear example of a fairly Capitalist petro nation lose most of that wealth because they went full Commie.

      Easy sign to make:
      EMBRACE COMMUNISM. GO BROKE.

    • Winston

      Ironically the prosperous consumerist society has totally cut off the urbanites from the workings of the supply chain so now they are more in favor of central planning than ever. Oh and modern urban living is filled with central planning rather than Hayekian spontaneous order. Whoops.

  28. Winston

    https://brownstone.org/articles/patricians-vs-plebeians-the-realignment/

    When I was a kid — and the same with my parents when they were young — you could count on certain fundamentals in politics. The Chamber of Commerce represented business, and business generally favored free enterprise. Not always, but mostly.

    Small businesses could become big and big could become small, but they generally opposed socialism, big government, regulation, and high taxes. For this reason, they generally supported the Republican Party.

    It was also a time of class malleability, with people moving in and out and up and down. There were always gaps between rich, middle, and poor but they were not as wide as now, and there was a healthy rotation among them.

    In the last ten years, and accelerating dramatically in the last three, this has changed. Big business consolidated and centered on tech and finance. Then it became entrenched. The laptoppers educated at woke universities ported their values into the workplace, gained managerial control, and deployed HR departments as their mechanism of control. The politics of these industries followed, and now it is the base of the Democrats.

    ….

    All of this happened almost imperceptibly sometime after the turn of the millennium, and set the stage for the rise of Trump in all his working-class appeal. That cemented the deal. The Republicans lost the backing of the most influential sectors of economic life, and the Democrats could count on the backing of the most highly capitalized and powerful players in the whole information economy.

    Which is to say that the Democrats are the party of the rich. And the entrenched rich somehow found themselves on the side of lockdowns and mandates.

    This Jeff Tucker article identifies a pretty serious problem: turns out the cosmopolitan educated wealthy tech-friendly urban elites are in fact totalitarians. This is a problem because it was assumed those people would be libertarians but they aren’t. This is a situation that libertarians did not expect to find themselves in.

    Why did this happen? Probably because the Davos set has full power and are therefore quite willing to use that power. Hence why classical liberalism out of date.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Businesses were able to ditch Moral Hazard. This allowed businesses to be reckless with their money and other people’s money, like the government. All business has to do now is suck up to Democrats and RINOs and make sure they dont allow non-Lefties to have jobs. In return, businesses get bailouts and welfare from Democrats and RINOs.

      Luckily, there are some black and white reasons why things went really bad in America recently. Getting Americans to do something about them is a different story.

    • Gustave Lytton

      was assumed those people would be libertarians

      Assumed by the mouse in your pocket?

      • Gustave Lytton

        For short-run optimism, being unrealistic, leads straightway to disillusion and then to long-run pessimism; just as, on the other side of the coin, long-run pessimism leads to exclusive and self-defeating concentration on immediate and short-run issues. Short-run optimism stems, for one thing, from a naive and simplistic view of strategy: that liberty will win merely by educating more intellectuals, who in turn will educate opinion-moulders, who in turn will convince the masses, after which the State will somehow fold its tent and silently steal away. Matters are not that easy; for libertarians face not only a problem of education but also a problem of power; and it is a law of history that a ruling caste has never voluntarily given up its power.

        Sure does.

      • Winston

        Rothbard is completely correct on the ruling case though…

      • Winston

        Seems Rothbard didn’t realize in 1965 that the ruling caste would embrace the death of WASP small-town America. He realized it before he died though judging by his complaints about PC.

      • juris imprudent

        JFC, Rothbard wrote – as though that is dispositive? WM — why the hell didn’t you get an abortion?

    • Winston

      Sorry my remark about classicalnluberalism being out if date was meant to be referring to the mindset of the WEF and this Brownstone institute article i linked to yesterday:

      https://brownstone.org/articles/a-liberal-moment-but-which-one/

      Liberalism was all well and good in the 18th and 19th centuries. Still, Science has advanced to such a level that liberalism is no longer needed. Liberalism will soon be ground beneath the wheel of time. It is destiny, after all.

      • juris imprudent

        Funny how you ignore Spengler and his ilk from the last century. We’ve been told this before.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Who assumed they would be libertarians? That makes no sense. They’re technocrats, and technocrats always have a tendency towards authoritarianism.

      • Winston

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

        historically the countryside has been a great obstacle to liberty while cities have been the places where liberty and the fruits of liberty have flourished.

        ….

        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.

    • wdalasio

      Holy crap! Tucker almost seems like he’s stumbled upon the truth! The logical corollary to this, of course is that the pro-market, pro-liberty side of the argument isn’t going to be so fond of touting the woke slogans that have been the catechism of the entrenched elites, a catechism Tucker gave more than his share of support to. And maybe, just maybe, the rough edges of the great unwashed is preferable to the polished fascism of progressive elites. That might be a bridge too far for Tucker, quite yet. But, it’s good to see him at least make a baby step.

      • Winston

        Tucker’s mistake is that he foolishly thought that the Deep State and Big Tech could be trusted because they didn’t like Trump and since he didn’t like Trump either they would never purge him if he spoke out of line since he is a Good Guy. Then Covid happened and he realized that Big Tech and the Deep State are perfectly willing to purge him since his anti-lockdown stance makes him a Bad Guy…

      • Winston

        Another problem is the elites embraced neoliberalism in the 1990s for political expediency and the cosmo set assumed this was a permanent trend but it turns out that said elites are perfectly willing to embrace statism for political expediency too…

      • juris imprudent

        Except of course Michael Young had already coined “meritocracy” to describe this class and Burnham wrote about the managerial elite before Rothbard was out of high school.

  29. hayeksplosives

    Thomas Massie just posted:

    I’m voting against the oil sanctions
    bill.

    Biden has no plan to enable
    development of traditional domestic
    energy sources.

    His plan is to buy oil from dictators
    in other countries, and to use high
    gas prices to bludgeon American
    consumers into adopting a leftist
    energy agenda.

    He explained himself clearly and concisely but he’s still gonna get called Pro-Putin for voting against the oil sanctions.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Massie is full of shit. Massie can vote to NOT buy oil from Russia AND vote to not buy oil from Iran AND vote to restart American fracking.

      Buying oil from Russia is retarded. Russia is clearly a threat to US security, so we shouldnt fund our defacto enemy.
      Buying oil from Iran for same reason.
      Buy oil from Saudi Arabia. Then when Democrats lose the House, Senate, and WH America FRACKS!

      • hayeksplosives

        He can only vote on bills that are up for voting. I don’t believe the one on the floor now specifies anything about fracking.

        Massie is absolutely right about the left wanting to use this to force the green agenda on us all.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Of course the Lefties are trying to shrink the supply of oil to raise the price. And buying oil from russia while they attack ukraine is morally wrong.

        Ypu can fuck over Lefties for trying rigs the oil price AND fuck over Russians for being tyrannical assholes for invading innocent ukraine.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It’s also not like you can just replace energy sources overnight. Fracking does not instantly replace oil. They are two entirely separate matters. BTW, your own government is responsible for almost every invasion of a sovereign nation that’s happened so far this century. Guess what? They did it entirely for their own interests while enriching themselves with both money and power while slaughtering the innocents (roughly 500k in Syria alone, but for some reason we STILL haven’t gotten Assad?) and robbing you blind to pay for it. Where’s your boycott of everything American for such aggression?

        This insane reaction to everything Russian, right down to cat shows is completely unhinged and an extension of TDS. You’re playing right into the hands of your enemies….again LC. Like everything in politics, sanctions and boycotts do practically nothing to harm “leaders” who’s resources are always easily replenished by turning a gun on their own citizens. What you will do is end up completely fucking over all the Russian poor citizens that want nothing to do with this or any other aggression and have exactly the same power to stop this lunatic that you do – which is to say zero. Bringing all the worlds citizens to the brink of nuclear annihilation while our psychopathic leaders play a life-sized game of Risk is beyond stupid. A quick reminder that all the people championing our brush with the apocalypse are exactly the same people that have spent the last 5 years calling you an insurrectionist, racist traitor. If you hate the globalists as you say you do, you’ll recognize that the real enemy, as always is the state. Their state and our state. The people that pretend they have the right to decide who lives and who dies.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Give the whole blame America a rest. America is the best nation on Earth for a multitude of reasons. As for attacking other nations like Russia has attacked ukraine without casus belli…America has never done that. Ever. Even russias last self defense war where the Nazis attacked the USSR, they had the molotov-ribbentropp pact where they stole land from finland, estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, romania.

        America might have flimsy casus belli to use military action but its always there. In the 21st century…
        Afghanistan- protecting Al Qaeda who attacked America on 9/11
        Iraq- saddam tried to assassinate a US president. Iraqis killed us soldiers.
        Syria- syrian forces and syrian support ISIL forces attacked Us soldiers in Iraq.

        Dont attack americans and american property is the lesson here. America has never attacked Switzerland because the swiss have never attacked America.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        You cant let Lefties off the hook in America and you cant let Russians who support Putin tyranny off the hook either.

        If russia wants to attack America over helping ukrainians defend themselves from russian tyranny, then fuck russia. They will get what they deserve.

        Russia is all the way wrong here and if they want pick a fight with America, they will lose. I know some of you dont know history well. The imperial japanese tried to blame America for cutting off AMERICAN OIL to Japan as being some casus belli for war. Its not and never has been a good reason for war. Imperial japan had attacked china and needed american oil to continue its war. America choosing to not sell its oil is not america attacking japan.

        Same with russia saying its ukraines fault for russia having to murder innocent ukrainians. Ukraine never attacked Russia. Tyrants lie and blame others for their aggression without casus belli.

      • juris imprudent

        Calm your tits LC, whether we buy Russian petroleum is beside the point – Europe is the market that matters.

  30. db

    The most annoying thing about that Seed Oil link is that they use the term PUFA all over it without prominently stating what the acronym stands for. I’m not saying that the anti-seed-oil hypothesis is wrong (I just heard about it here) but I really with they’d stop trying to tell me consuming PUFA is bad without telling me what it is.

    In my cooking I already use olive oil and butter as my primary fats (sometimes lard or bacon grease too)– I almost never use canola or other seed oils except when deep frying and I’m going to re-think that, once I figure out WTF PUFA is, and why it’s bad, ‘m’kay?

    • Count Potato

      Poly Unsaturated FAt?

    • Tundra

      Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids.

      Which you need, but not nearly in the amounts that the Standard American Diet (SAD) provides. Also the processing of those oils creates all kinds of nasties.

      Minimize or eliminate. Buy an air fryer.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      My boss’s boss is an old Army guy. He sends out a weekly status report FILLED with acronyms. His quarterly presentations are full of acronyms. I have no idea what’s going on.

      I don’t mind acronyms, but you have to define them somewhere.

      • UnCivilServant

        My policy is to define the acronym the first time it is used unless it is known to me that the intended audience commonly uses it for the same purpose.

      • db

        Overuse of acronyms makes things feel “cult-y” to me.

        Like UnCivilServant (UCS) below, I feel it is best practice to define the acronym at the first use of it in every text that uses it.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        what does “db” stand for?

      • Count Potato

        It’s a tenth of a Bell.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That would be a decibell.

      • whiz

        Actually, dB (not db) is the short version of decibel (not decibell). /pedant mode off

      • Gustave Lytton

        Which is 1/10 of a Bel, not a Bell. Or 1/10 of a bel.

        /also pedant

      • R.J.

        I like him more every day.

      • Tundra

        I find my love for him very confusing.

        Although the agony that my True Bleever sister and BIL must go through when they read his tweets on the screens of their Teslas does give me a lot of joy!

    • Loveconstitution1789

      The Navy brass that ordered that should be canned. If it was civilian DoD leadership, then expose them for literally pulling a ship out of underway rotation for political reasons.

    • grrizzly

      I’ve already heard about it. But I thought it was the Bee.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Even worse, they probably weren’t even educating them about their gender identity.

    • rhywun

      Creating a lost generation one terrified child at a time.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Tar and feathers need to make a comeback

  31. Count Potato

    “Bronx judge rules case of teen rapper and Crips member, 16,’who shot an NYPD cop’ should be tried in FAMILY COURT because police were ‘illegally searching him when his gun accidentally went off'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10595241/Judge-moves-case-rapper-16-accused-shooting-cop-family-court.html

    “‘I want him locked up’: Asian man, 29, who was bludgeoned by hammer-wielding suspect wearing a wig and purple lipstick says he’s sick and tired of rising crime in NYC”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10593415/Asian-man-clubbed-head-hammer-NYC-subway-platform.html

    NYC is doing great.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I’m not sure criminal court would be worse than family court.

      The 16 year old in Family Court may have to pay the cop alimony for the rest of his life.

    • rhywun

      All race, all the time.

  32. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The FDA is coming for the independent pharmacies by removing their revenue streams.

    https://compounding.com/

    This is about control over your medical treatment options. They’re angry that people didn’t do what they were told during COVID and chose to treat with ivermectin or HCQ. The chain pharmacies helped them force vaccines into the market and shut down the off-label options.

    • Tres Cool

      When I was in my Kroger earlier, the PA music and ads were in the background. They’re pushing 500 fuel points ($0.50/gallon) to people that come in to get the jab.
      Smells of desperation.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The chain pharmacies helped them force vaccines into the market and shut down the off-label options.

      The chain pharmacies also directed people to Moderna and Pfizer. Maybe they had J&J earlier, but by the time I capitulated, all of the chain stores had decided to block J&J. I ended up driving an hour away to a community health clinic that just a got a shipment in stock. It was the kind of place with “no narcotics and benzos prescribed” plastered all over the doors and windows.

      • Ted S.

        I was amazed I was able to get a J&J shot the day after I first looked into it (the day Biden announced the unconstitutional mandate).

  33. R C Dean

    Alright, I just submitted a post. The only thing I can think of is, some of the images might need resizing (which I have no clue how to do). Feel free to fill your content gaps with some R C, at your convenience.

    • Tonio

      Thanks, RC. I’ll take a look at it tomorrow.

      • Count Potato

        Good job with Joemala. I actually wondered if SF wrote it.

  34. Suthenboy

    Sherman lived off of the country? If by that you mean he burned farms and stole all of the livestock and grains, then yeah, he lived off of the country.

    • Sensei

      Even as a Northerner that was my first thought about Sherman as well.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I kind of assumed that was the definition of living off the country during a war.

    • creech

      Sherman, by convincing many Southerners that the war was lost, saved more lives than he took. Lee’s army in Virginia was severely reduced by deserters heading back to Georgia and South Carolina to look after their families and farms blighted by Sherman’s bummers.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ShermanThe ATF, by convincing many Southerners survivalists/preppers/people who want to be left alonethat the war independence was lost, saved more lives than they took.

        Works here too.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Referring to Waco of course.

    • slumbrew

      Whoopsie.

    • Sensei

      Hong Kong as well.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Tonga was pursuing the same policy, but they’ve been getting a lot of cases since the volcano blew up. It was probably brought in by aid workers from Australia and New Zealand. No reported deaths yet though.

    • DEG
      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Absent totally from the story is any indication whatsoever of the severity of the infections they’re seeing.

        If everyone’s just getting an Omicold, what the Hell are they declaring a state of disaster for?

  35. Tonio

    Tulip has graciously volunteered to kick off the Wednesday evening GlibZoom tonight at 8:00 PM EST.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Fluffer kerfluffle

    White House press secretary Jen Psaki began Wednesday’s briefing by taking questions from reporters sitting behind the first row, an unusual step that comes shortly after griping among some reporters about who gets to ask questions and for how long.

    “I heard there was a little kerfuffle in here after the briefing yesterday,” Psaki said with a slight smirk before opening the briefing room for questions. “What we’re going to do today is we’re going to start with the third and fourth row and fifth and sixth row, get more people’s questions answered.”

    Psaki said the White House is “always happy to get more questions answered from here.”

    ——-

    The press secretary’s comments come two days after an argument broke out among reporters at Tuesday’s briefing about how quickly the session ended and who got to ask questions.

    Some reporters voiced displeasure with how quickly a wire reporter seated in the front of the room had decided to end the briefing.

    Unruly whining children.

    • slumbrew

      Why is a 29th ID patch(?) on the front there? I don’t think I’ve seen that before

      • Tres Cool

        I thought it was a Yin-Yang thing to display her ethnicity ? I dunno either.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s result of dumping the green Army Service Uniform. Gotta have those combat patches on display.

        If she was active duty, then it was probably her aviation unit was attached as a subordinate. Or she was an augmentee.