Joemala: Episode 71

by | May 25, 2022 | Joemala | 176 comments

“Be strong, Anoki. No lip-quivering.”

“Ma’am, have I failed you in any way,” asked Anoki plaintively, her lower lip quivering.

“No, my pet. You must remain here. I’ll need a ‘usually reliable source within the White House,’ when I’m at MSNBC.”

“But I’m just an intern, ma’am. And my appointment only goes through the end of the semester.”

“Something will turn up for you here, I’m sure of it.”

“One last time,” asked Anoki, imploringly.

“One last time,” answered Jen, huskily. She pushed Anoki backwards onto the desk, the same sturdy oaken desk made for Eleanor Roosevelt’s private office, a smaller version of the resolute desk. Jen’s perfectly manicured fingernails expertly traced up the inside of her lover’s legs, causing Anoki to gasp.

Jen’s fingers finally reached the top of the deep green bikini-style panties which complemented Anoki’s kilt. Jen playfully traced her nails along the waistband, causing Anoki to breathe in short, punctuated breaths. She slowly leaned in to her lover’s crotch, savoring the fresh, clean smell of college girl vag, the same smell that had so enticed her boss’s corrupt idiot son. It had cost her a pretty penny to replace the panties stolen by Hunter with new old-stock from the lingerie boutique in Georgetown where “Miss Graham” also bought her delicate underthings.

Jen carefully hooked her fingernails under the waistband, preparing to pull the panties down so as to feast upon Anoki’s sweet plum.

“Oh Em Gee,” shrieked Mayor Pete, bursting in to Jen’s office, a bicycle helmet cradled under his arm.

Anoki sat up, pushing her skirt down causing it to tent over Jen’s head making her look like a plaid ghost.

“Mr. Secretary, how may I help you,” asked Jen cooly, after freeing her head from underneath her lover’s skirt.

“Well, first, some anti-nausea meds if you have any,” said the second heir-apparent bitchily.

“I’ll find some,” said Anoki, hastily exiting.

“That’s the person you want me to hire,” asked Mayor Pete?

“Yes, she is,” replied Jen. “Obviously Chasten won’t have any jealousy issues about her,” she said, forcing her voice into a neutral inflection as if she was his friend trying to help him out.

“Well, okay then,” said Mayor Pete. “And she has talents other than that?”

“Yes, Mr. Secretary, she does.”

 

* * * * *

 

Anoki walked out of the staff entrance to the West Wing, stopping at the security desk to put her small backpack on the table for inspection. Ralph waved her through.

“Good evening, Ms. Lee. See you tomorrow.”

“Good evening, Mr. Lee.” It was a little ritual she had with the tall, elderly black guard.

It was late in the afternoon and only the usual protesters and street people were lining the fence along what had been Pennsylvania Avenue but was now a barricaded sidewalk. She headed west and turned south onto 15th St, then crossed onto G St, which was a less hectic walk than New York Avenue.

She arrived at her destination, a Korean hole-in-the-wall restaurant in an alley near the Chinatown metro station. The place was sketchy af, but that kept the tourists and foodies out. The foodies who did wander in were rewarded with food dressed out with a colorless, odorless concentrate of the Reconnaissance General Bureau bioagent affectionately known as PSB, or “puke, shit, bad.” They never came back.

She was the only customer in the place, at the beginning of what was should be peak dinner hours. Her handler approached the table and told her the Gaegogi Jeongol was on special today, and very good. That was her cue to talk freely. And have some delicious dog stew, just like back home in Pyongyang.

“I am ongoingly disgusted by the decadence of the Americans,” said Anoki. Performance was an important part of operative check-in. “Someday I hope to find a Juche man and bear many children, who will be all be gymnasts and soldiers.”

“Fortunately, my new boss will be the homosexual Secretary of Transportation. Seemingly unimportant, but part of the administration inner circle. I will no longer have to submit to the desparate lickings of a older woman to obtain intelligence, but he will be harder to control without sex.”

“Is he completely homosexual?”

“Totally. He didn’t even become turgid when he walked in on us.”

“What do you have for me today?”

“They are terrified of the radicals within their own party,” said Anoki, pushing a large tan envelope with a string closure across the table. “I found a conscription plan which they intend to use to draft the antifa youth and then use them as cannon fodder. It doesn’t address the war, but I suspect it will be with our patrons, the Han.”

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

176 Comments

  1. juris imprudent

    …making her look like a plaid ghost

    O M G indeed.

    • juris imprudent

      Also, very good substitute work Tonio.

  2. R C Dean

    I found a conscription plan which they intend to use to draft the antifa youth and then use them as cannon fodder.

    I am interested in your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

    This is kind of an odd ep – no favorite lines this time.

    • R C Dean

      Ah, now I get it – Tonio filling in. Wise, not to tread on the master’s turf. Nicely done to keep things rolling, with perhaps a change in direction. And I had been thinking the whole time Anoki was Japanese.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m assuming it’s a mushroom pun. Undoubtedly a reference to “penis,” which is what Anoki is really into.

      • Tonio

        Colder.

  3. Drake

    Hmmm…. A land-war in China with Antifa as the vanguard. That might just be crazy enough to work.

    • juris imprudent

      Our real, official plans are better than disinformation!

    • Tonio

      Not all plans come to fruition. Apparently they even keep up a plan for invading Canada.

      And it’s also possible that they know Anoki is a Nork asset, and are feeding her false info.

      • kinnath

        Or she became a double agent after falling for Jen.

      • Not Adahn

        The earlier appearances made it seem that Anoki was not in Jen/ “You don’t actually taste like strawberries you know” and suchlike.

      • UnCivilServant

        I find it funny that the Canadian WWII era plan for war with US and War Plan red are Effectively mirror images of each other, with the armies colliding along the same two avenues of advance, with the US goal being to cut off the ports before the Royal Navy could reinforce the Canadians, the Canadian plan being to hold key US locations to keep their own ports open… and the UK plan being to abandon Canada until after the rest of the war is resolved.

    • kbolino

      [Chairman Mao has entered the chat]

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s the reverse PVA strategy for Korea II.

  4. DEG

    Oh that’s a good twist.

    draft the antifa youth and then use them as cannon fodder. It doesn’t address the war, but I suspect it will be with our patrons, the Han.

    Heh.

    Though I wonder if it will be a Civil War instead of war with China? Maybe too obvious.

    • R C Dean

      There ya go. I look forward to antifa finally being the bullet magnets they deserve, regardless of which war.

  5. DEG

    Oh. This is Tonio filling in. I didn’t even notice until I read the comments. I read the article and skipped the author bio blurb. Nice one Tonio!

    • Tonio

      SugarFree is a bit down today, understandably. I had written this a couple of weeks ago and wrote a hasty ending when he asked if someone could fill-in today.

      • R.J.

        Thank you Tonio. This is great work!

      • DEG

        SugarFree is a bit down today, understandably.

        I understand.

        I have little interest in working today, though I did go outside to cage my herbaceous peonies and deadhead the tree peonies.

    • Ted S.

      I noticed it when I scrolled past the bio.

  6. Rebel Scum

    Hawt.

    • Drake

      That’s MAGA White Supremist talk if applied to our border.

    • kinnath

      that was fun

    • Sensei

      That’s great. And on topic with the Korean angle.

    • DEG

      That’s neat. Thanks! I’m going to spread it around.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Excellent.

  7. UnCivilServant

    What’s the best way to clean a keyboard short of popping off all they keys and taking a shop vac to it?

    • Drake

      Buying a new one?

      • kinnath

        Break the USB dongle, so you can throw away a fully functional keyboard and mouse that can never be paired with another dongle?

      • UnCivilServant

        Dongle? Dear sir, this is a family friendly website.

        Besides, I only use wired keyboards and mice.

      • kinnath

        My dongle dangled at an awkward angle.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They have pills for that now

      • kinnath

        Which would you recommend?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Xiaflex

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s a terrible name. The amount of flex is precisely the problem I’m trying to solve.

      • Bobarian LMD

        “Don’t let your dongle dangle in the dirt, roll up you dongle and stick it in your shirt.

        Don’t let your dongle dangle on the ground, even if your dongle weighs ten pounds.”

        A bastardization of old cadence we used to sing back in the ’80s, before the Army was woke.

      • ron73440

        Don’t let your dongle dangle in the water, pick up you dongle and stick it in her daughter.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve had this keyboard to ten years, and other than the accumulated crud, it’s fine.

    • Sensei

      That is the best way in my experience. Canned air is a distant second.

      • UnCivilServant

        My main objection is that after I pop a key off this particular keyboard and replace it, the sound and feel is never the same, because it’s not engaged with the actual switch top the same way ever again.

    • Nephilium

      Mechanical or membrane keyboard?

      For a mechanical, pull off the caps, lightly wash them in warm soapy water, use a low power vacuum around the switches, and rinse under warm water. Let everything dry completely, and pop the keycaps back on.

      • UnCivilServant

        Mechanical. I think I finally got the spacebar reset after having to take it off and clear out stuff that had accumulated under it over the past decade. It’s now sounding and feeling the way it was before. It only took hammering the key until it finally reengaged with the switch.

    • Not Adahn

      Dishwasher.

      • UnCivilServant

        fraid I don’t have one.

      • Rat on a train

        Had to sell off your orphans?

      • db

        Yes, but you have to use acetone in it so the circuits don’t get messed up with water.

      • DEG

        Interesting. Here I thought the right way was with a flamethrower.

      • db

        Well, have you ever seen a dishwasher running on acetone?

        *considers what it would take to get one running way out in the middle of a field*

    • R.J.

      Soak it in Diet Coke for an hour, then put it in the oven at 375 F for thirty five minutes. Your keyboard will not give you any more issues after that.

    • Sean

      Can’t you just take the clamshell apart to get inside and shake it out? Or am I being dense about the problem?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t think I understand your suggestion.

      • Sean

        Take apart the keyboard shell and shake the debris out. Aren’t there screws on the bottom side?

      • UnCivilServant

        Sorry, I’m accustomed to clamshells being hinged sincle-piece cases.

      • UnCivilServant

        So I misunderstood the suggestion.

  8. Rebel Scum

    They’re just saying all of the tyrannical things out loud nowadays.

    Lewis Brackpool reports from the streets of Davos, Switzerland, wrapping up Day 1 of the World Economic Forum’s meeting. The first day of the summit saw a focus on using how artificial intelligence can be used to usher in a safe digital future. As the surveillance state expands, safety, in this instance, lies in the eye of the beholder.

    • The Other Kevin

      If there were such a thing as digital safety, the first step towards it would be to not entrust any of it to people who go to Davos.

    • R C Dean

      how artificial intelligence can be used to usher in a safe digital future.

      *deletes internet*

    • Compelled Speechless

      Safety is in the eye of the beholder? That seems like a way of saying the most important thing to do is keep all their power safe from the plebs who might not fancy their authoritarian goals.

  9. Tundra

    “Totally. He didn’t even become turgid when he walked in on us.”

    Yep. Gay.

    Nice work, Tonio!

    • Compelled Speechless

      Right? I almost passed out from all the blood leaving my brain from reading it. I would have had a heart attack if I walked in on it.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Although I’d like to replace “turgid” with “tumescent.”

      It pays to increase your word power!

  10. Rebel Scum

    As usual ‘The View’ provides salient and thoughtful points.

    Whoopi wants people to deputize themselves.”Does your neighbor have too big an arsenal? Call the cops!”
    She falsely claims the Second Amendment doesn’t cover ARs, only weapons used for hunting.
    “They’re going to come for those AR-15s and you better get ready to give them up!”

    Whoops. I misspelled “hysterical and dangerously ignorant”.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The same woman who didn’t think that Roman Polanski drugging and fucking a twelve-year old was “rape-rape.”

      It’s amazing to me that she’s still around.

      • kinnath

        She was funny, for a while, along time ago, in a galaxy far away.

      • Ownbestenemy

        What you did…seen

      • Rebel Scum

        I thought she was in Star Trek.

      • kinnath

        She wasn’t funny in that.

      • rhywun

        I may be the only human who liked Guinan.

      • The Last American Hero

        Vic Fontaine was 3x the bar advisor that Guinean was.

      • rhywun

        Oh hell yeah. He was great.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Cut her some slack, she’s paid big bucks to have an opinion on things she knows little about and she’s not that smart. I’m surprised she doesn’t say even more stupid shit than she does.

      • kinnath

        Cut her some slack,

        Nope.

      • ron73440

        she’s paid big bucks to have an opinion on things she knows little about

        She earns every penny.

      • juris imprudent

        Right color, right politics – yep, unassailable even for her (((lapse))).

    • wdalasio

      Does your neighbor have too big an arsenal? Call the cops!

      You know, I’d love, rather than trying to convince her idiot audience to do this, to see her try this herself. And get arrested for wasting the cops’ time.

      They’re going to come for those AR-15s and you better get ready to give them up!

      I have no doubt the sort of politicians Ms. Goldberg supports would love to. It’s just that isn’t happening. The power of the U.S. gun lobby comes from one thing, not money, not elite status. It comes from the lobby’s ability to inform their voters when a politician is a threat to Second Amendment rights. And those voters care a great deal about making sure those Second Amendment rights remain intact. And they’ll vote accordingly. Even obsessively. That’s really the whole secret to the gun lobby’s power. And the number of voters likely to be receptive of that lobby’s Second Amendment warnings has likely surged since 2020, along with the surge in gun sales during the lockdowns and riots that the likes of Whoopie Goldberg fully supported.

      • Raven Nation

        “And those voters care a great deal”

        Given that early signs are for a Red Wave in November, I can’t imagine too many Dems (other than those in very safe seats) wanting to jump on the gun control band wagon between now and November.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’ve seen them calling out the empty bills they want to pass and go for a constitutional amendment. Good. Do it. Let’s see where the country really is on the issue.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      How big an arsenal is too big?

      • UnCivilServant

        When you can fire one round from each firearm, discard it, pick up the next, keep firing one round and not be able to shoot through your collection by the time you die.

      • DEG

        So what you are saying is, is I need to buy more guns?

      • Nephilium

        I think if you need to extend your storage onto your neighbor’s property, it’s probably too big (or you need more property).

      • juris imprudent

        This why you buy acreage.

      • Ownbestenemy

        5 acres min. Is what I am looking for. 15-20 max. A small pond to have a boating accident in works.

      • Timeloose

        That’s great country up there. I routinely ride on roads around that area.

      • DEG

        I like the “liking room” typo.

      • Timeloose

        is it me or does the fisheye lens make all of the rooms look as if they have 7ft ceilings.

      • Not Adahn

        When you knock out ceilings so you can stack gun safes.

      • R C Dean

        How big an arsenal is too big?

        When you have more guns than you can stay proficient with?

        Collector guns don’t count. Those aren’t “arsenal” guns, those are “museum” guns.

      • Rat on a train

        Bigger than a breadbox?

  11. Rebel Scum

    Kemp Prepares To Face Off Against Incumbent Governor Stacey Abrams

    According to recent polling data, Kemp is experiencing early trouble in the gubernatorial race because of repeated unfounded claims that he’s already governor. Political experts believe this may damage his chances if he doesn’t recognize Gov Stacey Abrams as Georgia’s supreme leader.

    “I’ve been governor this whole time. What are you guys talking about?” said a bewildered Kemp to reporters with CNN. “I literally live in the Governor’s Mansion.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s already President of Earth. How many jobs can female Michael Strathan handle?

    • Sensei

      The Bee doesn’t disappoint.

      In the social justice system, words are considered violence. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious attacks are members of an elite squad known as the Microaggression Victims Unit. These are their stories.

      • juris imprudent

        The Bee does not disappoint.

        At publishing time, multiple reporters had suffered seizures, as well as paramedics, the mailman, and an unfortunate flock of passing geese.

      • Rat on a train

        I thought there were now chevrons on both sides.

      • whiz

        In the social justice system, words are considered violence. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious attacks are members of an elite squad known as the Microaggression Victims Unit. These are their stories.

        Dun… DUN!

  12. Ownbestenemy

    Nice job Tonio…I uh…I’ll be right back

    • db

      Hey, are done in there? I need to use the bathroom!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Go’way batin

    • Ownbestenemy

      Pretty cheap for peace of mind.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Given the way my home’s value has gone crazy, I could afford that and have money left over. But then my wife would divorce me for living so far out in the sticks.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    what had been Pennsylvania Avenue but was now a barricaded sidewalk.

    Nice, Tonio.

    Land of the free.

    Home of the brave.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Always buy Pennsylvania Ave when you play Monopoly

      • rhywun

        Sadly, you’re only getting the one in Atlantic City.

      • Raven Nation
    • Ownbestenemy

      I’m guessing…and of course speculation…they onsite officers know what is behind a shooter at a school

    • Drake

      “Two Uvalde police officers and a school resource officer fired at the shooter, but it did not stop him from entering the building.”

      Perhaps some range time and training is in order?

      My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit…

    • EvilSheldon

      Nothing works with 100% efficacy, and only children and utter smoothbrains think otherwise.

      If you do a statistical analysis of mass killings where there was an armed defender on site, vs. mass killings where the killer is allowed to go unresisted…well, I think we all know what the results would show.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    For Brooksie

    That’s a leetle outta reach, for me. And it’s Boise.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    em>I believe the shooter was wearing body armor.

    His granny was a total badass.

  16. This Machine

    Anoki sat up, pushing her skirt down causing it to tent over Jen’s head making her look like a plaid ghost.

    Bravo, Tonio. Bravo.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Silver lining

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have marked the start of “a third world war,” and Russian President Vladimir Putin must be defeated “as soon as possible” if the world wants to preserve civilization.

    That was the stark message that Hungarian-born billionaire and philanthropist George Soros delivered on Tuesday to attendees at the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

    “Even when the fighting stops, as it eventually must, the situation will never revert” to where it was before, warned the 91-year-old Soros.

    “Other issues that concern all of humanity – fighting pandemics and climate change, avoiding nuclear war, maintaining global institutions – have had to take a back seat to that struggle. That’s why I say civilization may not survive.”

    If “civilization” as defined by George Soros, et al, is to be swept aside… “Play on,” I say.

    • Drake

      Meanwhile the Ukrainian army is starting to crumble.

      • R C Dean

        I’ve been expecting it. Link?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Very long and certainly Russia biased but sound analysis. Too long didn’t watch: Fighting has considerably accelerated in intensity and the Ukrainians are being cut off and defeated in detail along with an accelerated rate of surrender to the Russians. I’m sure there are some other good non 45 minute video sources of info out there as well.
        https://youtu.be/-jbJxhjgAoY

      • R C Dean

        Regrouping necessarily entails moving away from the enemy. Use of either term is probably pretty optional early in the movement (other than in the face of an overwhelming offensive, which doesn’t seem to be happening) and the choice of which term is probably determined by the bias of the reporter.

        The question is whether it goes to plan, or turns into a rout, which in turn generally depends on how effective the other side is in pursuing the retreating forces.

        Time will tell.

      • R C Dean

        Today’s report from the Institute for the Study of War:

        Russian forces are likely reinforcing their grouping north of Kharkiv City to prevent further advances of the Ukrainian counteroffensive toward the Russian border. Russian forces may commit elements of the 1st Tank Army to Northern Kharkiv in the near future.
        The Russians will continue efforts to encircle Severodonetsk and Lysychansk at least from the south, possibly by focusing on cutting off the last highway connecting Severodonetsk-Lysychansk with the rest of Ukraine.
        Russian forces in Mariupol will likely shift their focus to occupational control of the city as the siege of Azovstal has concluded.
        Russian forces are likely preparing for Ukrainian counteroffensives and settling in for protracted operations in Southern Ukraine.

        ISW has a pro-Ukrainian bias, but I think they tend to be pretty reliable on the day-to-day and overall situations. Reading the detail, it looks like the Ukrainians are consolidating their lines (which requires some withdrawals) and the Russians are continuing their penny-packet tactics.

      • Drake

        Consolidating lines may have worked well in WWI. Now it just packs your army in tighter to get pulverized by artillery being spotted with drones.

      • R C Dean

        Non-consolidated lines leave your forces scattered over the countryside in uncoordinated groups ripe for being picked off.

        Consolidated lines doesn’t mean they are lined up shoulder to shoulder. It means none of them are sitting out by themselves, unsupported. The eastern front in Ukraine has been a mess (based on the ISW/BBC maps) and both sides were probably well advised to do some reorganizing.

      • Drake

        Maneuver is the only way to win a large-scale modern war.

      • R C Dean

        Not disagreeing. Maneuver requires organized forces, not scattered forces.

        Modern war also requires some level of garrison/defense. If all your soldiers are in mobile columns, you are leaving the enemy a very large uncontested area to maneuver in for their own purposes. If you don’t have defensive positions to impede the other guy’s maneuvering you will also lose. Maneuver doesn’t guarantee victory – look at the failed Russian assaults in northern Ukraine – largish mobile forces broke their teeth on defensive positions.

        From what I can tell, both armies suck at maneuver.

      • R C Dean

        Shame he doesn’t know how to write.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        $40,000,000,000 well spent then.

      • Drake

        $38 Billion for political payoffs, kick-backs, and Soros NGOs. Probably wasted the rest.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That $40B was to keep Zelensky from negotiating an end to the war.

      • kinnath

        The Russian army can’t win. The Ukrainian army can’t win. The Russian army can lose slower than the Ukrainian army.

    • rhywun

      Avoiding nuclear war has to take a back seat to defeating Putin Man Bad.

      Fucking warmonger.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That old sack of shit has lived a full life anyway, what does he care if the world ends in a thermonuclear hell?

    • Rebel Scum

      if the world wants to preserve civilization

      Seems to me that minding our business would help preserve civilization.

    • one true athena

      “Defeat Putin quickly because my gravy train graft is being diverted to Ukraine. End of Civilization!!” said the Bond Villain.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    The former hedge fund manager, who is chair of Soros Fund Management LLC and founder of the Open Society Foundations, is famous for using his wealth to help foster open societies and create inclusive democracies with governments that are held accountable.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • The Other Kevin

      Democracies that are inclusive to his minions and are held accountable to him?

  19. Tres Cool

    “…sturdy oaken desk made for Eleanor Roosevelt’s private office”

    Now that is the solid, historical, research, I demand for my paid subscription

  20. Raven Nation

    There must be some kind of gene or something that is carried by politicians worldwide. The new Labour government in Australia (elected four days ago) is already declaring that they will have a difficult task managing the economy because of the huge debt created over ten years by the previous government – despite them whining that the government wasn’t spending enough on various programs. IOW: “dear supporters, we’re not going to be able to do everything we said we would and it’s not our fault.”

    OTOH: their first economic policy will be to raise the minimum wage.

    Also: post-election analysis suggests the previous Liberal/National government (moderately conservative) suffered their biggest voter defections among white, highly-educated women who were worried about climate change (as I noted on the weekend, most of the seats the Lib/Nats lost were to “independents” who campaigned on climate change).

    • R C Dean

      I wouldn’t say “highly-educated”. Maybe “decoratively-credentialed”.

      • rhywun

        “Brainwashed” or its more charitable euphemism, “overeducated”.

      • Ted S.

        Or as British blogger David Thompson likes to say, “severely educated”.

    • Mojeaux

      There must be some kind of gene or something that is carried by politicians worldwide.

      Sociopathy.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s kind of what you do when you take over a new position of authority. Things are worse than I thought. The previous guy was terrible. I’ll have to adjust my plans. It happens in business too.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    white, highly-educated women who were worried about climate change

    You know- morons.

    • Raven Nation

      It’s fascinating listening to the news from places like Oz, NZ, UK: there is just no debate about CAGW. It’s going to happen. There are already discussions about moving some coastal communities because of rising sea levels. And, of course, none of the politicians want to talk about trade-offs: “yes, climate change is happening and it’s probably going to be bad. Here’s what we’re going to do to ameliorate it’s worst effects. But, understand, this is going to wreck our economy, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, and lower our standard of living. But, it’s necessary to save the planet.”

      Nope, we can arrest climate change and make everyone’s life better.

      Tom Sowell’s quote, “there are no solutions, just trade-offs,” needs to be tattooed across the forehead of EVERY politician and policy wonk in the world.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “There are already discussions about moving some coastal communities because of rising sea levels”
        Even granting them that just for discussion’s sake, maybe they oughtta get on the phone and give the damn Dutch a call. They could probably give them some pointers on less disruptive ways to address the issue.

      • rhywun

        IIf sea levels are rising, that is actually a valid thing to focus on.

        All the rest of the crap about “carbon” and “green energy” is crap unless you happen to be one of those folks camping out in Davos right now with their hands poised over the levers of global power and who can impose their will Gaiawide.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Anybody who tries to lecture me on climate change gets a lecture back on how nuclear energy is the safest and most effective method of creating vast amounts of energy without CO2 emissions known to man. If they can’t get on board with nuclear, then they don’t really believe their own climate change BS.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The politicians recognize there are trade-offs. They just don’t mention that it’s the serfs who will bear them.

      • juris imprudent

        tattooed across the forehead

        The ink won’t sink any deeper.

  22. Rebel Scum

    Once a penal colony, always a penal colony.

    South Australia Labor Covid Madness Fines of up to 70k and 2 years jail for any individuals breaking Covid Rules…Welcome to Covid1984

  23. Sensei

    The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier

    What has happened, he suspects, is that rampant misinformation related to the Covid-19 vaccines, and the fact that pundits like Tucker Carlson on Fox News have devoted a lot of time to bashing them — among other untruths, he has suggested that the vaccines make people more likely to contract Covid-19, not less — has begun to taint some people’s view of long-established vaccines. “I think we’re going to see more of this, more spillover of persons who had previously vaccinated their children and who are now not going to vaccinate,” he says.

    Such doubt has been accompanied by, and may have been augmented by, an erosion of confidence in medical expertise generally. “We used to be able to persuade more, with our background and training,” he says. Parents trusted his advice because he was a doctor. Now, when he cites the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other official guidelines, skeptical parents sometimes accuse him of being a shill — of having been lied to and taken in by some vast conspiracy. “It’s very concerning, this lack of trust,” he says.

    Unpossible!  Who what have thought that the CDC would have destroyed its credibility and that this could have an impact on people concerning other vaccines with demonstrated safety and efficacy?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The vaccine industry deserves an evisceration.

      And those paragraphs are nothing more than argument by assertion and appeals to credentialism. You’ll note that they don’t cite any hard data, because that data is not on their side.

      • Sensei

        Part of why I highlighted it. Pure “appeal to authority”.

    • rhywun

      These people are unable to conceive of a world where people think for themselves and act on the evidence in front of them.

      That is how you get ridiculous twaddle like the assertion that Tucker Carlson does their thinking for them – because that is precisely how the left operates so of course the not-left operates the same way.

      • R C Dean

        the not-left operates the same way

        Well, it largely does. I don’t know how else to explain Hannity.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t know how else to explain Hannity.

        Irish fetal alcohol syndrome

      • rhywun

        lol, fair enough

      • rhywun

        It is interesting that Tucker is the current bête noire. It means they’re afraid of him. Nobody is afraid of Hannity because he is so ridiculous.

      • R C Dean

        Well, Hannity is a hollow shell of a mouthpiece for the Team Red fundraising wing of the Uniparty. I think they use him as a whipping boy when they don’t anyone else. Somebody needs to be on deck to take beatings from the Team Blue fundraising wing, after all.

  24. Bobarian LMD

    It’s Lyndsey, it’s only “Miss Graham” if you’re nasty.