Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – “Boo-hoo-hoo,” said Cindy Lou Who

by | Apr 27, 2022 | Daily Links | 356 comments

Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover

Monday was an emotional day at Twitter — even for its executives.

Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.

Gadde cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change, according to three people familiar with the meeting. She acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk’s leadership.

She can dry her tears with the $25 million she made over the last two years as a DNC stooge.


 

COVID frontline doctor allegedly outed as NYC school pediatrician with 9-to-5 job

A New York City pediatrician spent the COVID-19 pandemic complaining online about her grueling 12-hour days in full PPE on the frontlines — only to be revealed as a school doctor with a plum 9-to-5 job, according to an explosive report.

Dr. Risa Hoshino had emerged as one of the preeminent physician influencers at the height of the pandemic, created a reputation for herself online as an expert in treating children with COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms, according to Substack blogger Sarah Beth Burwick.

But according to the report, Hoshino has been misrepresenting her job and exaggerating about working long hours in the hospital and saving coronavirus-stricken children.

Hoshino has a $170,000-a-year gig as a New York City public school pediatrician, with most of her work being done remotely, according to Burwick, who describes herself as a lawyer mom from Los Angeles.

While Hoshino reportedly often posed up in personal protection equipment and scrubs, complained about being overworked and disrespected by her patients, and used her public platform to promote mask-wearing and vaccinations, her Instagram page painted a very different picture.

On Hoshino’s IG account, the raven-haired physician was reportedly seen in bikini shots looking carefree on the beach – a far cry from the worn-out COVID doctor persona that she cultivated on Twitter.

Nearly all of Hoshino’s social media accounts have since been deleted or made private.


 

‘Fictosexual’ man married hologram bride, but now struggles to bond with her

She’s not real — but his feelings are.

A “fictosexual” man who wed a fictional, computer-synthesized pop singer four years ago said he’s now unable to communicate with his wife, but is still in love with her.

Akihiko Kondo, 38, was dating Hatsune Miku — depicted in pop culture as a 16-year-old with turquoise hair — for a decade before they had an unofficial wedding ceremony in 2018. Kondo — one of many who identifies as “fictosexual,” or someone who is sexually attracted to fictional characters — spent 2 million yen, or about $17,300, on the nuptials, but his family did not attend.

Now married for four years, Kondo, 38, said his relationship has hit a roadblock: He can no longer speak with Miku due to a technological hurdle, according to Japanese newspaper Mainichi.

Dammit, Krieger!


 

Dummy-sucking paedophile in a Santa elf outfit is spared prison

A dummy-sucking paedophile who came to court dressed as an elf and says she identifies as a girl of five has been spared jail after she admitted kissing two children.

Transgender Janiel Verainer, 60, approached schoolgirl victims at an event where she played the piano, a judge heard.

That put her in breach of a sexual harm prevention order from six years ago banning her from contact with children, imposed after she kissed a girl outside a café and 460 indecent images were found on her phone.

Verainer was asked to remove her dummy during a routine security search at Maidstone Crown Court after turning up in pigtails and wearing a dress, high socks and a cape.

It comes after she attended another hearing shortly before Christmas where she wore a red and green elf costume, with a woolly cardigan, Santa Claus badge and matching hat.

During the 2016 hearing, Verainer asked to be called Jorven Seren and claimed to identify as a five-year-old girl.

She was scolded by the judge for hugging a large doll throughout the proceedings and was seen sucking her thumb.At Maidstone crown court Verainer got a suspended seven-month prison sentence

Judge Adele Williams told defence barrister Paul Hogben at the time: ‘That is totally inappropriate and I make it plain she will not be doing that for the rest of the hearing.’

Psychiatrists concluded Verainer, who then lived in Margate, had personality problems but no mental health issues.

It’s that last line that really makes the story come together.


 

It’s almost too well done as a cover but I’ve always loved it. Chasing this cover back is how I discovered Bowie was so much more than “Let’s Dance.”

 

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356 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • Tres Cool

      Bauhaus w/o Peter Murphy is just Love & Rockets.

      • Chafed

        And both are great.

  2. Count Potato

    You know what they say, $25 million can buy a lot of mouthwash.

    • Chafed

      But can it clean her soul?

      • Count Potato

        Oh, she sold that a long time ago.

  3. Drake

    I bet that fictosexual guy could find all kinds of videos of his chick cheating on him over at Pornhub.

    • SDF-7

      spent 2 million yen, or about $17,300, on the nuptials, but his family did not attend.

      Ya don’t say…. his dad is probably thinking “I gave up being in the yakuza for this shit.. Not going to humor this idiocy.”

  4. Count Potato

    “COVID frontline doctor allegedly outed as NYC school pediatrician with 9-to-5 job”

    You you’d the link.

  5. Compelled Speechless

    “Fictosexual’ man married hologram bride, but now struggles to bond with her”

    In reality, he’s just had enough of being asked “is it in yet”?

    Hologram joke or asian joke…..you decide.

    • Tres Cool

      Why not both ?

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s why I like you Tres.

    • SDF-7

      Denny Hamlin, is that you? 😉

    • SDF-7

      Thank goodness. I was worried some sick bastard out there Rule 34’d Cindy Lou. (NO SF! THAT IS NOT A REQUEST!! AAAAH!!)

      • kinnath

        That is Cindy Lou Who all grown up now.

      • SDF-7

        Damn… June Foray is holding up really well then!

      • SDF-7

        Sorry — there is no such other Grinch movie(s). Just like the solo greats The Matrix and Highlander….

  6. Count Potato

    “Dammit, Krieger!”

    Who?

    • Compelled Speechless

      I hope you’re joking. If you’re not I’ve got great news. You get to binge Archer and hear all the jokes for the first time. I’m a little jealous.

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

      • Sensei

        Judy Greer who also does Cheryl Tunt is the voice of Mitsuko.

        She actually does quite passible Japanese pronunciation.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I think you mean she uses her white privilege to appropriate the proud Japanese culture and deserves to be burned alive at the stake.

        What FDR did to them was hunky dory though.

      • Chafed

        That explanation was progtastic!

      • Compelled Speechless

        Yep. FDR was great. He was in no way an admirer or practitioner of fascism. A true progressive.

      • Tonio

        “Thank you.”

      • Mustang

        Oh man, I’m jealous too. The Count is in for a real treat.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Krieger or Pam would make excellent glibs.

      • Mustang

        Seems like half our references are from the show.

        YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

      • Compelled Speechless

        It’s just like the old gypsy woman said!

      • Timeloose

        I got my wife to start using “just the tip” in normal conversation.

      • Tonio

        Excellent.

      • Sensei

        Pam doing street racing with the yakuza is one of my favorite bits.

      • EvilSheldon

        “Sorry about your homie, homies.”

      • Tonio

        “And this is for Pearl Harbor.”

    • Chipwooder

      Famed defense attorney Albert Krieger?

    • Tonio

      If you don’t want to watch them all, I’d say start with Lo Scandalo, The Honeypot and Live and Let Dine.

      • Tonio

        Also, Drift Problem.

      • MikeS

        Placebo Effect has to go on the must-see list.

      • Compelled Speechless

        You will want to watch them all.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t know, a couple of days ago people here were saying Breaking Bad sucks.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Not everyone can have taste I guess.

  7. Tundra

    It’s almost too well done as a cover but I’ve always loved it.

    Me too. And it’s clear that they loved it, too. I always got the feeling that they covered this with a certain reverence.

    As is proper.

    Thanks!

      • Tundra

        Indeed, my main man!

  8. db

    Psychiatrists concluded Verainer, who then lived in Margate, had personality problems but no mental health issues.

    That had to be utterly devastating for her. It will have knocked her down several rungs on the victimhood ladder.

    • Tonio

      Ouch.

  9. Shpip

    Hoshino has a $170,000-a-year gig as a New York City public school pediatrician, with most of her work being done remotely, according to Burwick, who describes herself as a lawyer mom from Los Angeles.

    Pardon my ignorance of big-city ways, but why do the NYC public schools need a staff pediatrician? School nurses, I can see. But don’t all these kids have access to their own physicians for actual doctor stuff like checkups and minor procedures, either paid for by their parents or as part of the battalions of city / state Health Department staff?

    • db

      $170k seems fairly low compensation for a physician. Is it common for doctors employed by governmental agencies to have lower salaries in exchange for employer-provided liability insurance or other benefits?

      • Sensei

        “Is it common for doctors employed by governmental agencies to have lower salaries in exchange for employer-provided liability insurance or other benefits?”

        Yes – usually in the form of pension and vacation. For other occupations healthcare as well. However, in the healthcare industry (not private practice) usually they get smoking good deals on healthcare.

    • Tonio

      I wondered about that, too. While I can see hiring an MD to be in charge of the school nurses for a school system of that size, I can also see hiring someone with a PhD in nursing (yes, they exist, mostly supervisory/academia).

    • Sensei

      Given the size of the NYC school system having ONE physician in something administrative doesn’t seem crazy. However, I doubt it is just one.

      NYC has 1.1m students.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    COVID frontline doctor

    I don’t like what they’re doing here by insinuating the association with the COVID Frontline association which has been fighting the restrictions and vaccines.

    • Drake

      I get it messed up with my dog’s heartworm pills.

    • Tonio

      You would think the rest of the medical community would be all over her, much as vets are all over stolen valor.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ve been pretty disabused of the notion that honor is a big part of the medical profession any longer.

    • SDF-7

      As part of the deal, Boeing signed a fixed-price contract that required the company, not taxpayers, to pay for any cost overruns during the complicated conversion of the two airliners.

      I’m saddened that this isn’t the bloody *default* position. NASA and Orion / SLS, the USS Gerald R Ford and other pork sinks leap to mind as needing it.

  11. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Re unjailed pedo:
    If it’s because of anything other than he’s being thrown in the Tower of London or he’s being drawn and quartered I don’t like it one but.

    • MikeS

      hahaha

      kuatolives
      @kuatolives5

      Well, I for one think you are a very handsome young man. Good for you!

    • kbolino

      One of the suggested tweets:

      NEW: Greg Abbott’s PR stunt busing migrants to Washington, DC appears to have completely backfired — an outpouring of volunteers have welcomed them and are helping them to navigate immigration courts, re-connect with relatives, and reach their desired destinations, per @nytimes.

      If a right-winger were to point out the existence of such groups, he’d be called a conspiracy theorist.

      Celebration parallax strikes again

      • Pope Jimbo

        If DC has so many wonderful groups to help these illegal immigrants, why didn’t they directly ship them there in the first place?

      • kbolino

        That’s what Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties are for.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.

    “Clean out your desk and leave the premises,” hopefully.

  13. db

    Bauhaus’s version of Ziggy Stardust is better than Bowie’s.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      +1

    • The Hyperbole

      I’m not seeing it. Don’t get me wrong, It’s a perfectly cromulent cover, but it doesn’t actually add anything to the original, it may be a wee bit edgier, a smidge more raw. But c’mon, we’re not talking The Saints covering Connie Francis or SAHB doing Jerry Reed. For a cover to be more than a nice homage it needs to transform the original in some way, Bauhaus doesn’t get there.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      That was their first that I bought also. Hadn’t thought about that in years.

  14. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    If I was a kid I might fake being sick to see that doctor. “I got a fever doc. Real bad.”

    • SDF-7

      “And the only cure is… more cowbell!”

  15. R.J.

    *Opens link to Dummy Sucking Paedophile*
    “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!”
    *Pours bleach on eyes*
    Nice selection of links today!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Dr. Risa Hoshino had emerged as one of the preeminent physician influencers at the height of the pandemic

    No wonder I’ve never heard of her.

    • The Other Kevin

      Good to hear your bullshit detector was, and is, running perfectly.

  17. DEG

    A New York City pediatrician spent the COVID-19 pandemic complaining online about her grueling 12-hour days in full PPE on the frontlines — only to be revealed as a school doctor with a plum 9-to-5 job, according to an explosive report.

    Heh. Why am I not surprised?

    • The Other Kevin

      Something tells me this isn’t the kind of “disinformation” that will concern the DHS.

      • SDF-7

        Well, you could check with Quentin Tarentino in the link above…

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I don’t think it should be banned, and I don’t thing flying that flag necessarily makes one a racist, but I don’t really understand why someone would want to fly it, especially in Canada. Unless of course they are just trying to get a rise out of people.

      • grrizzly

        They had to fly the Confederate flag because saying All Lives Matter was deemed too racist.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Some people just need to troll. It’s one of the last true forms of entertainment we have that hasn’t been completely swallowed by the woke.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        The battle flag has become, internationally, a symbol of rebellion.

        Make of that what you will.

  18. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    If I plan a party and invite, like, 35 people to a venue that holds 25, all 35 will show up, won’t they? Isn’t that Murphy’s Law of Parties?

    Can I tell people no spouses/significant others/prostitutes? I have the perfect venue in mind, so I’d rather not look for something else. It’s my damn party!

    • Tundra

      In an age of Cholera covid?

      No way everyone shows.

      • R.J.

        Here in Texas, parties get wild with people. Everyone wants to get out and have fun. And usually such parties are Karen free, which is a bonus!

    • SDF-7

      You’re the host — so yes, if you stress that the venue covers only those invited and you’re sorry but there’s no capacity for extras, normal people wouldn’t find that unreasonable (I would hope… I’ve lost touch with ‘normal’).

    • Count Potato

      So you’re providing the prostitutes?

    • R.J.

      1. Yes. In fact, 40 will show up.
      2. Yes you can. That will ensure at least one or two couples won’t show up and keep you under your threshold. At least until the midget KISS band shows up.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQKw-9JJCY

    • Tonio

      You kinda have to invite spouses, etc.

      • R.J.

        She could put “cash bar” in the invite. That’ll keep the party size down.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        It will 100% be cash bar – $25/person/hour is rich people territory.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The Spousal Unit and I had an open bar at our wedding reception, almost 30 years ago.

        I’m pretty sure some of my friends are still there.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^ It would be very odd to explicitly ban spouses or significant others from a party. I can’t ever recall a time where I’ve received an invitation for a party where spouses were explicitly asked not to come. The closest I can think of is a bachelor/bachelorette party where even then it’s just assumed and not stated. Also assuming we’re not considering poker nights, girl’s nights, as parties.

        I would just cut the guest list down to accommodate the venue or find a venue that will accommodate the guest list.

      • SDF-7

        I guess because I mainly only go to work related functions this doesn’t seem odd to me. I can’t remember the last invite I got that *included* spouses… maybe Baltimore around 1995 or so?

        I stand by my position — if the host lays out clear reasons and they’re decent reasons, I think it is a dick move for folks to get bent out of shape about it. If you don’t like it, say you’re not going and free up the slot for someone else’s SO then.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I mean there’s a world of difference between finding it odd and getting bent of out shape about it. No need to even give reasons.

        If my coworker Jim begins wearing a dress and asks to now be call Jane… I’m going to find it odd but hey not my circus not my monkeys.

      • The Last American Hero

        I used to have an employer that had their Holiday party at a hotel, no spouses, open bar, hotel rooms covered by the company and people from offices in 4 states attending. It’s like they were trying to cause trouble.

    • Nephilium

      Put in fancy calligraphy at the bottom of the invite:

      Prostitutes will be provided.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        But will she be prepared for any lawsuits that arise?

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      After a more detailed reading of their web site, I may be able to accommodate more than 25. It’s just that their food packages are for a minimum of 25.

      No way I can afford open bar, though. But at least I won’t have to pay for drinks for myself (assuming my friends aren’t total assholes. But it’s DC, so you never know)

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        At my daughter’s wedding we had a cash bar but I would often hang out at the bar and pay the tab for some people. Kept my overall costs under control and allowed me to be a good guy every now and then.

    • Ted S.

      You can cry if you want to.

    • Mojeaux

      What kind of party is it?

      The only way I wouldn’t want to bring my husband is if it’s AT work, during or just following working hours. Otherwise, husband doesn’t get invited, I don’t go.

    • Old Man With Candy

      You didn’t invite me. Antisemitism, straight up.

      • R.J.

        I didn’t get an invite either. Sad!

      • Tulip

        Me neither.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I didn’t know you were Jewish.

    • Pope Jimbo

      My sister imposed on my father and aunt for one of her birthday parties. She talked them into allowing them to have a fish fry (Dad) at my aunt’s farm. I was roped into helping with the fish fry part of the festivities.

      The only rule my aunt had was “no dogs” because she owns two big Spinone dogs. They are friendly as hell with people (although they slobber a lot) but are pretty territorial about their yard.

      Of course three of the sister’s urban progressive yahoo buddies showed up with small yip dogs. They were utterly offended when the aunt told them that if they let their dogs out they were on their own and she wouldn’t promise them that they wouldn’t get bit by her 90lb dogs. The idiots were angry she wouldn’t crate her own dogs up so their dogs could run around.

      So yeah, you are screwed thinking you can tell people you invite to a party that there are rules and limitations. They are going to do what they are going to do.

      • R.J.

        The best rule I ever saw was above a urinal in a skeezy bar in the hidden places of the British Virgin Isles. It said “Don’t Shit in the Urinal.”

      • Pope Jimbo

        “Ole and Sven, Those are not breath mints at the bottom of the urinal. Please don’t eat them”

    • SDF-7

      Bit early for the Dems to import it for the midterms — if that was their plan, I think they chickened out.

      • Count Potato

        So they should have hatched it later?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Yes in fact, they’re just going to lay on it for now.

      • Compelled Speechless

        They ran the numbers and found it would do poultry little to help them in the polls.

      • ron73440

        They could have feathered the nest for the more extreme wing of their base.

      • The Other Kevin

        They shouldn’t say a peep about it until the fall.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It could go eider way

    • Sean

      Too soon. This ain’t gonna fly.

    • Animal

      What a fowl development.

    • cavalier973

      Did you get this from a tweet?

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      No. Way.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      In its 37-page report, the GAO warned that neither agency had a system in place for reporting allegations of political interference. It also said they had failed to train staff how to spot and report this.

      Cue the very moderated mea culpas in an attempt to save the agencies from retribution and possible dissolution.

      “We’ll be better next time, we promise!”

      • kbolino

        If they don’t answer to “politics”, i.e. elected officials, then who do they answer to?

        I want more of this, not less.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I want them all to get cavity searched and the agencies razed.

        But I recognize that even if they admit any wrongdoing it will be blamed on process and procedure and there will be little no personal accountability. Committees will be formed, reports buried…

      • kbolino

        I don’t see it as wrongdoing. It is the President’s job to “interfere” with the agencies that he is in charge of. Of course, this President is just a walking zombie, and it is unnamed unelected people actually doing the “interference”.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Last night while we were rehydrating after basketball one of the guys started a story about how there was some old crank in the doc’s waiting room when he went there who started in on how Covid was “big business”. My buddy obviously thought we were all going to tut-tut about the old coot with conspiracy theories.

      Instead at least three other guys (not including me – the biggest nut of us all) jumped in and said “well he isn’t wrong”. The first guy never even got to finish his story. We spun off into how therapeutics were suppressed along with how being healthy, having enough Vitamin D and quinine all were valid.

      I thought it was revealing that so many normies have figured out that they got swindled by the Rona. It ain’t just us nuts.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Judge Adele Williams told defence barrister Paul Hogben at the time: ‘That is totally inappropriate and I make it plain she will not be doing that for the rest of the hearing.’

    They don’t have contempt of court in Limeyland?

    • Tonio

      They do. But this person is clearly a lunatic, despite the findings of the psychiatrists, so finding the person in contempt would get every lunatic-advocate up in arms.

  20. Count Potato

    “A whistleblower who was reportedly working with the feds investigating the activities of Deutsche and its ties with former President Donald Trump was found dead by cleaning crew on the campus of a Los Angeles high school.

    Valentin Broeksmit, 45, was found deceased on Monday around 7:05 a.m. at Woodrow Wilson High School located in the 4500 block of Multnomah Street, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office, ABC10 News San Diego reported.

    Los Angeles County Police Department Public Information Officer Alba Mendez told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that Broeksmit’s death is being investigated as an ‘undetermined death.’

    An autopsy is reportedly pending to determine Broeksmit’s cause of death.

    Broeksmit was a film producer and self-described ‘comically terrible spy’ who had reportedly struggled with drugs.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760311/Whistleblower-helped-investigation-Deutsche-Bank-Donald-Trump-dead-Los-Angeles.html

    So what did he find out about the Clintons?

  21. Winston

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/symbols-of-white-supremacy-flew-proudly-at-the-capitol-riot-5-essential-reads-153055

    Gadsden flag is fine…

    Another flag with a racist history is the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag. It was designed by slave owner and trader Christopher Gadsden when the American Revolution began, as Iowa State University graphic design scholar Paul Bruski writes.

    “Because of its creator’s history and because it is commonly flown alongside ‘Trump 2020’ flags, the Confederate battle flag and other white-supremacist flags, some may now see the Gadsden flag as a symbol of intolerance and hate – or even racism,” he explains.

    It has been adopted by the tea party movement and other Republican-leaning groups, but the flag still carries the legacy, and the name, of its creator.

    • SDF-7

      ” some may now see the Gadsden flag as a symbol of intolerance and hate” — and per the links, some may see themselves as a 5 year old, thumb sucking, dummy cuddling girl. Doesn’t make it so.

      • R.J.

        “Some say he’s a symbol of intolerance and hate…
        But we call him the Stig!”

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        You win the ‘Net today. Plus all the Top Gear (Classic Edition™) videos you can watch.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Now do the hammer and sickle….no? The Che Guevara….no? The Antifa flag…..

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      There’s a Gadsden hanging in the government office building I work in, in a display of historic flags. LOL

    • Mojeaux

      No step on snek.

      • R.J.

        I saw a great morale patch with a stomped on snake that said “I specifically requested the opposite of this!”

      • Mojeaux

        My daughter gave me this. I did have it hanging up on my office wall before we moved, but my office here doesn’t have a place to hang it, sadly.

      • R.J.

        Nice!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Dammit, otters are cute.

      • Mojeaux

        Awwwww *melty*

    • kbolino

      You will know the right is actually starting to win the culture war when people like this are afraid of losing their jobs, instead of the other way around.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I think you’re severely underestimating what they’re capable of with their overreaction to this. Remember when the left thought they were going to lose the Supreme Court and started putting microphones in the face of any woman who would go on record calling the nominee a gang rapist and printing it everywhere? Now realize that you just broke into their private country club that they’ve been able to use to build their egos and authoritarian tendencies by publicly humiliating anyone who so much as looked at them the wrong way. My suspicion is that accepting this with quiet dignity and grace is not on the menu. Whatever comes next, you’re not enough of a depraved sociopath to anticipate it.

      • kbolino

        Whatever comes next, you’re not enough of a depraved sociopath to anticipate it.

        This disturbs me, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I had the same thought after January 6th. I knew the reaction was going to be over the top, but their commitment to the insurrection and coup narratives and attempts to turn the full force of the war on terror on our own people was beyond what I thought they were capable of. My new rule when it comes to expecting a reaction from the left is that there is no bottom. They will rationalize anything.

    • dontreadonme

      Say wut?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “I’m often inspired by the vigorous debates on controversial issues that occur on Twitter, but I’ve also been seriously troubled by the plight of some of our users who are completely overwhelmed by those who are trying to silence healthy discourse in the name of free expression,” Gadde wrote in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed. “At times, this takes the form of hateful speech in tweets directed at women or minority groups; at others, it takes the form of threats aimed to intimidate those who take a stand on issues.”

    That made me dizzy.

    • ron73440

      Shorter Gadde:

      Ignorance is strength and freedom is slavery.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      THIS SCARES ME SO IT MUST BE BANNED

    • kbolino

      One of the Iron Laws: you get more of what you reward and less of what you punish. Whine about sexism and racism and you will get more sexist and racist trolling. Trolls thrive on attention, especially negative attention.

      This is a lesson every 12-year-old should already have learned, never mind middle-aged journalists and other mandarins posting on social media.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    some may now see the Gadsden flag as a symbol of intolerance and hate

    Some may see the Hammer and Sickle as a symbol of totalitarianism and mass murder…

    • Compelled Speechless

      That kid better not lose that fucking ball.

      • Sean

        ?

      • Tundra

        Boss.

    • MikeS

      Give that man a World’s Best Dad shirt, pronto!

    • Pope Jimbo

      We went to a St. Paul Saints game on Easter Sunday. An older guy caught a foul ball. Then flipped it to a kid who had been trying to catch it.

      After that, the announcer came on the PA and just said “Good job man. You are go good person”

      The crowd in the sections gave the guy a standing ovation. The guy turned beet red blushing.

      I wish I had video of that to share as a Daily Ray of Sunshine.

      • Ted S.

        He was obviously trying to groom the kid.

  24. Winston

    https://mobile.twitter.com/theeyeopener/status/1518992370230079488

    So Ryerson is now “Toronto Metropolitan University”. Blandest name possible and they are adopting the US-style naming practices (University of… and … State University). There has no been no Metropolitan Toronto since 1997 and Metropolitan referred to Greek colonization practices.

  25. rhywun

    Transgender Janiel Verainer, 60, approached schoolgirl victims at an event where she played the piano, a judge heard.

    Today in conflating “transgender” and “transvestite”.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I wear a lot of menswear-inspired clothes. Maybe I should claim myself as trans next time I need a job?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Hey, if it improves your chances of scoring a sweet gig with awesome cash, why not?

    • R.J.

      When I was a kid, if a creepy bastard like that came near me I’d be running fot the hills. It’s like Sylvester Stallone with a wig!

    • kbolino

      Autogynephilia

  26. B.P.

    Here’s a fun story. State agency director tries to thank conference organizer, who is black, for organizing a conference.

    https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-employee-says-director-made-racist-comment-at-recent-conference

    ““Dan Prenzlow, he got on stage in front of 600 people and, in an attempt to thank me, he pointed out my position in the room and he said, ‘There she is in the back of the bus, Aloe,’” said [conference organizer], CPW statewide partnership coordinator.”

    Heartbreak ensues. Okay. Maybe have some awareness of what you’re saying before saying it, I guess. But wait, there’s more. Conference organizer sends letter to Governor (linked in story) with other allegations of racism.

    “I spent the last four months planning this conference and knew just about everyone by email or by creating name badges; but, that same eagerness I had to engage with everyone and offer a simple hello was often met with a few cold stares and no warm hello back. The pattern was obvious, white men were not a fan of having me at this conference, let alone running it.”

    ————————–

    “I introduced Dan Gates, the Chair of the Colorado Wildlife Council and Habitat Stamp Committee, a known racist, with a smile.”

    —————————

    “In a failed attempt to thank me, he exclaims on stage in front of 600 people “…there she is! In the back of the bus, Aloe!” The room turns and looks at me in shock mostly. I am grateful that I ran into the arms of another Black woman to who I could cry and hide. When Prenzlow comes to find me, he says he wasn’t aware of the context of his words and that he didn’t mean any harm.”

    ____________________

    “He’s pushing 60.”

    Also, conference organizer says the keynote speaker is a eugenicist. She demands that the two guys referenced above be fired, after which they are made to engage in “deep restorative justice work.” Not really sure how an ex-employee is forced to do that. She also wants to be compensated for her time and trauma. More coverage:

    https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/cpw-director-on-leave-after-complaint-of-racist-comment/article_9f46afc0-c4ec-11ec-ae01-df10b775b062.html

    • Urthona

      I’m confused as to why that’s racist.

      • B.P.

        Saying something innocuous that someone interprets in the worst possible light is racism. Casting aspersions on old white men is refreshing. Get with the times.

      • Q Continuum

        That’s because you’re a cishetwhitenazifascist.

      • MikeS

        I can’t even with your racism right now.

    • wdalasio

      The pattern was obvious, white men were not a fan of having me at this conference, let alone running it.

      Wait, I think you misunderstand. Yes, they weren’t a fan of having you at this conference. But, that was because you were an insufferable bitch, not because you were black.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Lucero said given all the equity, diversity and inclusion work some CPW employees and organizations like his have been doing, this incident was especially disappointing.

        “It’s very appalling and very heartbreaking because we’ve had these discussions in the last five, six years about [equity, diversity and inclusion] work,” Lucero said. “So, we call for the firing of Dan Prenzlow.”

        I’ll bet a bit of money on the theory that all those cold stares were a result of those conference attendees thinking “That’s the woman who forced me to waste all that time attending all those woke training bullshit meetings”.

    • hayeksplosives

      She seems to have an unlimited capacity for detecting racism in everything, including “cold stares” and hearsay from third parties.

      And then she says she fears for her job. Now that she has indicated her sensitivity to perceived racism, no way will the state agency fire her. She’d take them to the cleaners in court.

    • rhywun

      The pattern was obvious, white men were not a fan of having me at this conference, let alone running it.

      Get bent with your BS generalizations and mind-reading.

    • Pope Jimbo

      pushing 60

      Hold on there you ageist!

  27. Winston

    https://www.cato.org/events/weltschmerz-how-west-lost-its-mojo-what-liberals-can-do-fix-it

    Interesting: McCloskey and Goldberg really are naive Whiggish optimists.

    McCloskey states that everyone wants to live a “boring and bourgeois” life. Seems awfully collectivist. And both recognize the importance of culture yet why was McCloskey so certain that liberal culture and “boring and bourgeois” life would not be seriously affected by cultural changes and seems to take it as a given that Permissionless Innovation is not going to undermine liberal culture or boring and bourgeois life.

    And “liberal democratic capitalism” as the Top of The Mountain is an interesting metaphor since progress is literally impossible at that point.

    • Winston

      Both are worried about cultural attitudes about Freedom of Speech interesting that Sheldon Richman, Jeff Tucker, Welch and Gullespie have all said similar things. Why was it assumed that Social and Cultural attitudes toward Freedom of Speech would never be changed?

      • Compelled Speechless

        Who made the assumption that the attitude towards free speech would never change? I would have assumed the obvious. Our human tendency towards paranoia, xenophobia, tribalism and pettiness would lead me to assume that love of free speech has to be learned and hostility towards it is the natural norm.

      • Winston

        I posted a video of three people literally saying just that. And I posted a Jeff Tucker article saying just that.

        Also when libertarians support social liberalism and attack socons they are implicitly making the assumption that “freedom of speech” was something these “social liberals” weren’t against.

        Or this article:

        https://www.aier.org/article/over-half-of-millennials-identify-as-socialist-heres-how-to-change-their-minds/

        Not all, but many of the same candidates millennials have heard espousing the virtues of capitalism have also had socially conservative views. And millennials are even further to the left of older generations on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion, and drug policy. Many younger Americans consider these issues deal-breakers, and they won’t support socially conservative candidates no matter the latter’s economic principles. The current Republican coalition may make political sense now, but it may have to change if enough millennials are to become reliable free market voters.

        Note how he has no problem with leftist social issues…

      • Compelled Speechless

        Going to be honest. Didn’t watch the video. McCloskey and Tucker both frustrate me. The sort of academic libertarians that think speechifying is going to save them as they ultimately help spread the rationalization for every single encroachment on liberty that the state thinks up. They seem to suffer from the TDS everyone in the Beltwayatrians has, forgetting who the real villain is. Gillespie seems to have checked out and Welch made it so I can’t even listen to Fifth Column anymore. Cato has been on my shit list for a while now. Both Cato and Reason become more and more indistinguishable from Vox and Salon each passing day. Like the current (not for much longer) heads of the libertarian party, I will assume they’re now controlled opposition by the left until proven otherwise.

      • kbolino

        I think establishment libertarians, like neoconservatives, are basically historically illiterate. They are by and large midwits, that is to say they have (slightly) above-average intelligence but think that’s equivalent to superlative intelligence. They do not realize, or are unable to admit, that liberal democracy is not a native human condition. It is not what people naturally yearn for. It took hundreds of years and a cradle-to-grave propaganda machine to make it work. But this same regime also convinces (via a sort of self-justifying magic trick) its subjects that propaganda is unnecessary, that they are completely “free” from the state intrusions of illiberal regimes, and that the system they live under is self-perpetuating. The creeping realization that none of these premises are true strikes people in many different ways, but the CATO libertarian (among others) recoils in horror away from it. The political right, which is coded as vaguely illiberal (and certainly contains illiberal elements, but so of course does the political left) by that same propaganda machine, must be the source of the “problem” (said problem being human nature). Thus they can never embrace it, even when there are plenty of people on the right lining up willingly to be liberalism’s thankless janitors (the Dave Rubins, Douglas Murrays, Ben Shapiros, etc.).

      • Compelled Speechless

        First, I would argue that to equate neoconservatives and libertarians is itself historically illiterate. Buckley may have talked a good libertarian game early on, but he and his ilk (the Kristols for example have ties to the Frankfurt school) became the biggest back door to massive government in the history. The idea that if we just build up a huge centralized government to defeat our enemies usher in a golden age where our ideology wins out and the government just peacefully fades away sounds a lot like someone else I know. I’m pretty sure it’s the least funny Marx brother.

        I am starting to come around to the idea that there probably isn’t a system that can truly function without some amount of propaganda. All human systems are primarily built on faith and without reminding people of why they truly believe in what they’re a part of, I’m not sure you can create something that won’t collapse from apathy or be easily undermined by someone who is willing to use propaganda to promise people everything.

      • kbolino

        I don’t think they are genealogically linked, only that they share the same naïveté about liberalism’s roots.

      • kbolino

        I’m not sure you can create something that won’t collapse from apathy or be easily undermined by someone who is willing to use propaganda to promise people everything.

        Interestingly, this was as I understand it the premise behind a “liberal arts” education: to pass down the same broad and deep understanding of history and culture that informed the Founding Fathers. Propaganda of the word, to go with the propaganda of the deed that their WASP aristocratic families showed them.

        It failed, obviously, but I do think in the past many were more aware of how things had to work to sustain the system, but they perhaps weren’t explicit enough about it, or simply didn’t foresee the degradation (there’s that naïveté again), or perhaps (tinfoil hat time) were entirely prescient and simply got thwarted.

        In any case, nowadays you can’t even make the argument that people in power should be able to read ancient texts in their original languages, never mind that also should be able to understand them.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m going to sound like a few hundred other people here, but higher education has clearly lost it’s purpose. The liberal idea that we can always become better individuals is admirable. People are capable of truly amazing feats, both physical and intellectual and when the education seriously encourages pursuit of serious learning and inquiry, it’s easily among the most important things that humanity has ever devised. It’s not inherently that way and achieve that requires endless vigilance, which is exactly why it is so important to keep it away from politics. We pushed the old religions out of it and we need to push the modern religion – the state – out for precisely the same reasons. Malaise, corruption and degradation of merit. It’s now just a factory of grift for the people who run it to extract the wealth of the peasants and spit out obedient cattle for the fools who’ve convinced themselves that they’re the progeny of actual intellectual pursuit.

      • Winston

        The Public School system was supposed to indoctrinate the peasants into being proper liberals. Whoops.

        And i would argue that the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are trying to see if their WASP liberalism can survive without the WASPs and the answe seems to be no…

        Another problem is that it was realized in the 19th century that educated wealthy urbanites who liked new tech and foreign goods tended to ben liberals so it was assumrd that those sorts would always be liberal and the solution is to make everybody be like that.

      • kbolino

        They fundamentally misframe the problem:

        Across some of the most successful societies in history, liberal institutions are under attack from the far left and the far right.

        The far left and far right want to end liberalism, yes, but they have no say in its affairs. It is the mainstream left that is succeeding in undermining “liberal” institutions. They probably had to both-sides themselves into including “far left” in that description anyway.

        They are always more worried about the reaction than the cause.

      • Winston

        Yes, the fact that our elites are in fact illiberal authoritarians is the real problem. And complaining about populists or hoping for some Enlightened Centrist Globalist Technocrat to save the world isn’t going to solve it.

      • kbolino

        Our elites are not smart or competent enough to be illiberal authoritarians. They couldn’t will a Xi Jinping into existence even if they tried. If they are outsmarted by an illiberal authoritarian from within someday, it will be more in spite of them than because of them.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Deirdre Mccloskey is trans. Not exactly bourgeois even if she lives the rest of her life in a conservative manner.

      • kbolino

        ?

        Most old-school communists would consider transgenderism intrinsically bourgeois.

      • grrizzly

        Not exactly the same kind of trans…

        Very few Hollywood movies were shown in the Soviet Union. The Central Committee of the CPSU had to give a permission to each US movie. Nonetheless, Some Like It Hot and Tootsie were widely available.

      • kbolino

        Any info on the censor’s rationale? IIRC they did sometimes allow some Western films when they felt they portrayed the West unflatteringly (with the famous, but possibly aprocyphal example, being The Grapes of Wrath, which allegedly left many Soviet citizens wondering how even the lowest Americans had it better than they did).

      • grrizzly

        Actually, the other day I read a Russian article about how Some Like It Hot made it to the Soviet Union. Somebody wanted to import a Marylin Monroe movie. The most severe Communist leader in charge of ideology (Suslov) was temporarily out of favor. Young and “progressive” Communist leaders (like Brezhnev!) were in charge. The movie director already had one film in Soviet movie theaters, so he’s been accepted. The people who pushed the movie argued that the main characters were from the working class and the movie displayed a link between criminal gangs and business circles. And sexual deviations were so far away from the leaders’ thoughts that it was not an issue.

      • kbolino

        Nifty, thanks!

      • Compelled Speechless

        Trans is undoubtedly bourgeois. You don’t see large numbers of children living in the slums in India spending hours a day reflecting on every tiny nuance that makes their sexuality and gender expression a unique and beautiful snowflake. It is fundamentally a function of excess time and wealth, call it decadence, that feeds it. The people that identify this way are clustered in academia not because they’re inherently more intelligent on the average, it’s because academics (and students) inherently have far greater wealth and spare time to imagine new struggles with.

      • kbolino

        There is an arguably non-bourgeois variant of transgenderism, but it has a lot more to do with prostitution than pronouns.

      • Compelled Speechless

        True. Thaddeus Russell’s Renegade History of the United States touches on some of the gender bending pioneering of the rabble. I should have said that the current manifestation of trans in our culture that dominates the conversation is based on decadence.

    • wdalasio

      McCloskey states that everyone wants to live a “boring and bourgeois” life.

      That seems inaccurate on its face. People have wildly different risk tolerances from one another. A “boring and bourgeois” life implies a high degree of risk aversion. But, again, not everyone in the world wants a life of high grade muni bonds. The relevant factor would be people don’t want uncontrollable, non-diversifiable risk imposed on them.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Are there any high grade muni bonds left?

      • kbolino

        The relevant factor would be people don’t want uncontrollable, non-diversifiable risk imposed on them.

        And yet most votes consist in handing responsibility over a portion of known, controllable, diversifiable risk over to the government, so that at some later date it can shirk its responsibility but not its authority and thus impose even worse risk upon them.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Excellently put.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Hobbit-

    What is your fire status? I have not heard.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      We are still in a hotel in Albuquerque. Our home is not in immediate danger, they are holding the fire lines, but they are taking no chances with the residents; safety first.

      Interestingly, we discovered today that we will be kicked out of our room on Friday to make way for folks attending the All Nations Pow-Wow this weekend. We are being evacuated from our evacuation center. Ha!

      Thanks for asking, BTW.

      • R.J.

        Good to hear from you! I was about to start asking. So now you move further down the hotel chain?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Well, sideways at least. We are getting the “Evacuation Rate” here at the Holiday Inn Express but will have to pay the standard rate at Best Western. They are making noises about letting us back in on Monday. Will see.

      • Tundra

        I hope you can go back soon. Maybe when the dust settles you can share your bug-out prep?

      • DEG

        Best wishes.

      • MikeS

        we will be kicked out of our room on Friday to make way for folks attending the All Nations Pow-Wow

        Sounds like instead of helping displaced people, this pow-wow is their chief concern.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    “…there she is! In the back of the bus, Aloe!”

    Unless he added, “Right where she belongs” I can’t get too warped out of shape.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Unless they were actually on a bus and she was in the back, it was a pretty stupid thing to say.

      • Ed Wuncler

        It’s a pretty stupid thing to say but something to not get bent out of shape about and make a whole production. If this organizer was a mature person, they would have confronted the person privately and ended it there. I had an incident like that at the office a couple of years ago and everyone was scared that I was going to go to HR but I talked to the person and politely told them that I didn’t appreciate the comment and please don’t ever say it to me again.

        And that was it. People of this organizer’s ilk are narcissist’s who loves to stir the pot and constantly portray themselves as victims. Sadly they get their way most of the time because people usually try to avoid confrontation and are scared of being accused of being a racist

      • Urthona

        I kind of assumed she was sitting in the back of the room and he said bus by mistake. I guess if she wasn’t it was dumber than that.

      • Urthona

        Not that stupid. I mean sometimes the entire course of civil rights history isn’t paying through someone’s head.

      • B.P.

        The second story has this:

        “She wrote to Polis that when Prenzlow came to find her after first making the comment, he said he wasn’t aware of the context of his words and didn’t mean any harm.”

        I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that what he was trying to say wasn’t meant to evoke civil rights, or anything else really, other than the person being in the back of the crowd. But if the above is true, he’s at least a top-flight ignoramus.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Maybe, but it’s not like back of the bus is some obscure reference.

      • R C Dean

        It did happen sixty freakin’ years ago.

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  31. The Late P Brooks

    We are still in a hotel in Albuquerque. Our home is not in immediate danger, they are holding the fire lines, but they are taking no chances with the residents; safety first.

    Good to hear. Good luck.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’d also like to point out that Dr Risa is already a star… ?

    • Urthona

      My nurse might’ve been hot but I couldn’t tell because she refused to wear a bikini.

      • Urthona

        whoops. wrong thread

      • Urthona

        wait no. it wasn’t. fuck.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Oh good! I needed one of those to round out my collection.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        She should do a tour of, well, any Muslim country really. Hope she can fly…

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Gotta catch ’em all.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I think I love this. Or I really hate it. Or I love it. What just happened?

      • Ted S.

        God that’s even worse than Demi Rose.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Also, that guy looks like an upside down scrotum with a human face CGId to it.

    • kbolino

      Drake beat you to it (#14).

      We are quickly seeing the limits of “X is a private company, they can do what they want”. Turns out that was just another discardable but tactically useful hollow slogan.

      • Count Potato

        It was always complete nonsense. No private company can do whatever they want.

    • wdalasio

      At this point, I look forward to President DeSantis staffing that board with his people.

      • Urthona

        Yes. This would be another in a line of hilarious miscalculations.

        They control basically the entire internet…. except maybe twitter (remains to be seen)

        holy shit are they stupid

      • wdalasio

        They also have a lot more to lose. An Infowars going bankrupt is one thing. It sucks for Alex Jones, but beyond that, the fallout is limited. Now, when Comcast (NBC) or Disney (ABC/ESPN) get a visit investigating their behavior, well, the story gets a little more interesting.

      • Compelled Speechless

        The board will decide that DeSantis (really anyone not named Romney or Cheney) is disqualified from running for public office because they are lying liar faces. In fact, the rumor that any such person as “Gov. DeSantis” has even existed is dangerous insurrectionist misinformation. Get in the paddy wagon fascist.

      • kbolino

        I give it under 10 years until “nonpartisan” election oversight boards become heavily pushed, which will among other things “vet” candidates for political office. If MTG gets slapped with “insurrection”, then it’ll be a lot less than 10 years.

      • Winston

        So Cuba basically?

      • kbolino

        Post-Castro Cuba, at least.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I had a post earlier today about how this is the logical end and true intent of progressivism. The goal is eventually to have everything (including the workings of private business) be under the control of self governing bureaucracy of the “enlightened elite” and have democracy as a veneer that convinces us we have some sort of say. It starts with things just like this. Unaccountable, unelected and unreplaceable political appointees who get to decide who is on our voting menu for our own good while all the important things are decided on by the impartial, altruistic floating brains in jars that compromise our perfectly tuned academic elite.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • juris imprudent

        Plato’s philosopher-kings!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The idea that just won’t go away.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The WEF is almost a pure distillation of Plato and Rousseau.

      • Compelled Speechless

        With costume design by the pope and Dr. Evil’s tailor.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Democracy prevents us from storming the Bastille because everyone thinks they just need to vote harder. Bring back the monarchs and we’ll get accountability again.

      • Nephilium

        paddy wagon

        RACIST!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I now call The Board to order, Chairman Alex Jones presiding.

      • rhywun

        Nope. Biden will stuff the board with a permanent bureaucracy of leftists who will fight anyone DeSantis thinks he can put in “charge”.

        See: every other government bureaucracy.

      • kbolino

        The “leadership” could be fired, at least if the recent precedent about the CFPB is any indication. But the pool of “talent” that will staff the uncontrollable positions will all be drawn from the swamp, unless they put the HQ in bumfuck.

      • Urthona

        This new Republican majority (if it really happens) needs to end things like the CFPB entirely.

      • Ownbestenemy

        By end it you mean expand it and provide specific carve outs

      • kbolino

        And yet somehow not even manage to take it over. The Stupid Party can’t even manage to big-government properly.

      • Urthona

        Totally

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It won’t matter. The ATF doesn’t suddenly become a force for 2nd A rights whenever the GOP holds the presidency.

        Any blowback on the Left from a DeSantis presidency will be minimal and fleeting.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Hawaiian judge, future President Harris appointee, will block all their proclamations anyway.

      • Urthona

        Theyll sometimes declare stuff “misinformation”, which the media will ignore unless it suits them and conservatives will ignore all together.

        I predict it will be about the same as it is now.

      • kbolino

        Yeah, it’s mostly a formalization of the status quo. It could even work to “our” benefit: government reorgs amplify incompetence more often than they stymie it.

      • Urthona

        I realize that I have no idea how any of this works.

        I don’t understand how the executive can just create a new bureaucratic office. And if he can,I would assume a new executive should be able to destroy it. But apparently not.

        Further, I don’t underhand how any of the details work. The hiring. The firing. The oversight.

        Then I realized it’s because none of this was ever taught to me in a civics or government class. Why? Because this has nothing to do with what this country was supposed to be about.

      • Sean

        Look, with a pen and a phone you can do anything.

        That’s it. No limits.

  32. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    The head of the DHS Disinformation Governance Board will be headed up by the lady I linked to yesterday, who believes that criticism of women online is a form of censorship. Wondrous.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Saying that’s not the case is disinformation.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So…free Taylor Lorenz?

  33. Swiss Servator

    Anyone hear anything about a disinformation board at DHS???

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s just disinformation.

    • Urthona

      Probably just a silly rumor.

    • kbolino

      Their first task will be combatting the dangerous fake news that drugs fell out of their rectums.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why no, I haven’t. Got a link?

      • Ownbestenemy

        No Rick Roll…sad!

      • Tundra

        Swing and a miss.

        The link.

      • MikeS

        That’s so passé

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Bikini pic was better.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Need one without to make a proper comparison though

    • Sean

      No Twitter link?

      Sad!

    • Sensei

      Anyone remember which freedom loving president gave us DHS?

      • Ownbestenemy

        The one that actually can say he was at least more coherent than the current?

    • Hyperion

      “disinformation board at DHS”

      Ministry of Truth?

    • MikeS

      That dog otter be rewarded!

    • Pope Jimbo

      What kind of shellfish weasel would abandon her kid like that?

      Thanks Tundra! That made me happy.

  34. Ownbestenemy

    I’ve got some ranting to do. Teens…grrrrr. I get home and teen#1 says teen#2 texted him that the car broke down. Okay no biggie. Grabbed the extra gas can (cause I can guarantee it’s outta gas) so I go to where he said he was and…not there! WTF!

    ‘I can get it home’ okay fine. So not gas. Well sorta. They drive it on fumes and I think the fuel pump or filter is dirty.

  35. Ownbestenemy

    Did I hear some rumor about a disinformation governing board or something?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Just Swiss’s overactive imagination.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sorry…you have been abdicated

    • Tundra

      Dang. That’s cute overload!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Classic Haunted New Dad look on the dog’s face.

        “What have I gotten myself into?”

        Altar Boy #1 just got a lab-pit bull-terrier mutt. Looks nice, have just seen pics so far.

    • Gender Traitor

      If only we could harness the energy in those little tails!

  36. Ownbestenemy

    I really hope the DHS Truth Team hits hard. We are at the point where soft tyranny needs to make way for that sweet brutal tyranny to pull the “but it could never happen here!” crowd away from their bullshit view that we are still a free nation

  37. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘none of you are making the varsity team’ Edition)
    #93
    Champs
    Bobarian LMD 19
    Ted S. 19

    MikeS 22
    whiz 22
    Sean 23
    The Hyperbole 23
    SDF-7 24
    Not Adahn 25
    kinnath 26
    Tundra 26
    db 27

    Chumps
    Ghostpatzer 117
    TARDis 119
    l0b0t 120
    rhywun 121
    Grumbletarian 123

    Sweet leapin’ Jesus! 16 players, 53.5 Average, 12 over the Tundra line. If I receive a challenge to a Quordle battle form another ‘libertarian’ comment section I’m just going to forfeit.

    • Ownbestenemy

      If we do get into a battle can we get cool jackets at least?

      • Tundra

        Neat!

        Let’s challenge Cato first. I bet they’ll cry.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That’s money

      • Sean

        Sweet!

      • MikeS

        I’m in.

      • Hyperion

        Battle? Bowling shirts? Nobody fucks with the Jesus!

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      My late score:

      Daily Quordle 93

      9️⃣7️⃣
      6️⃣8️⃣

      • Ted S.

        Not a chump.

  38. Brochettaward

    For years, I heard from people on the left that right wing cries of persecution on social media were conspiracy theories and another example of the right trying to play the victims. It was part of the rights supposed persecution complex. I’m speaking to the choir here, but isn’t it amazing how quickly a billionaire buying Twitter while paying just lipservice to the notion of free speech has them completely up in arms. It was already noted on here earlier that even left wing sites are admitting that what Twitter has done over the yeas to the right is censorship.

    We live in strange times. The left’s mask has completely slipped. They openly admit to all the things they denied for so long, and they just revel in it like a pig in shit.

    • Hyperion

      “The left’s mask has completely slipped.”

      It’s been on the ground and trampled under foot for years.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hate speech isn’t free speech. As a Firster you should know that.

      • Hyperion

        What about when Elon Musk, the world’s most evil man and shitposter gets to decide what is hate speech?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t know, maybe the FBI planting some illegal pron (only halfway kidding, they’re ruthless) on his computer will take care of this guy. We’ll see I suppose.

      • Hyperion

        I think they’ve pretty much met their match, but they sure as hell will try. It’s fun watching Bezos beclown himself because he’s so jealous of Musk it has totally consumed him. Fucking Smeagol.

    • Peter Lorre, contemplating a Crime

      QED!

      • Tonio

        I see what you did there with your handle, Tulpa.

      • Peter Lorre, contemplating a Crime

        All are Tulpae here Friend Tonio……
        It’s a shocking job, but somebody has to do it.

    • Hyperion

      Strawberry is completely honest and is totally not a crummy toady for Biden and his ghouls.

      • Compelled Speechless

        As a slight defense of Strawberry, press secretary is literally an administration’s chief propagandist. They’re all expected to say any lie asked of them with a straight face.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know, I’m just poking fun at how hard they pretend that is not true.

  39. Hyperion

    “Vijaya”

    I read that as Vajayjay, lol.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What did the bartender hand Vijaya when she was crying? A tampon.

      Here all week try the roast beef

      • Hyperion

        Should have been a roll of toilet paper since she’s an asshole. You try to comfort the workers by telling them they are all doomed? These people suck beyond belief.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Please don’t mix the imagery of the the tampon and the roast beef for me every again.

      • Hyperion

        I’ve learned by reading SF for years to be immune to that sort of effect. I just don’t click on Sean links and am very cautious about Tres links.

      • Ted S.

        But of course you love Ted’s music links.

      • Hyperion

        I just tried clicking on that Bowie link SF posted and it’s useless because my wife is talking on the phone on the sofa right on the other side of this shelf I have on my left. She’s one of these people who yells on the phone. WTF is it with that? Guess I could put on my headphones.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m immune myself. I was stealthily trying to mix the imagery in other people’s heads. Mwahahahah.

      • Hyperion

        Well, that certainly is evil. You can keep your Glib card if you have enough proof of beating your orphans today.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I didn’t beat them today. I let the stray dogs I’ve been starving do the duty for me so I have time to count the money I made from selling fentanyl to disabled immigrants.

      • Hyperion

        Well, that’s certainly commendable.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *high five *