¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | May 17, 2022 | Daily Links | 215 comments

One of my favorite things to do these days is going to Trader Joe’s.  I like to put on SiriusXM Octane (Channel 37), roll down my windows, turn up the stereo on my Grand Cherokee to full blast.

The looks of “what an asshole” from the Subaru and Tesla crowd of Scottsdale never gets old.  Although for full effect I’d need a Gelandewagen, but sadly  I do not possess the means.

 

Now for a few links!

He either finally going to do something that’s actually fascist, or he wants to copulate with Petrobas.

Arrested on his return to Cuba…let me get this straight.  A Cuban dissident goes on a “fuck Castro” tour around the world, then is stupid enough to go back to Cuba?  Is he retarded? You decide.

Speaking of Cuba, yet another MAGA policy was simply unmade.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just send them to California, and have them claim asylum where they can live free and be celebrated for being gay and Mexican? …whoa tinfoil hat time!

Russian (speaking) hackers!

Though it might kind of funny if the thing that makes the left crack down on Mexico is their refusal to buy “conflict avocados”.

With the sudden crash in the Bitcoin market, El Salvador took it in the shorts. El Presidente DudeBro’s response?  Call in more banana republics to buy in.  Meanwhile….

Have a jaunty tune, and a great afternoon.

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215 Comments

      • Count Potato

        Anyone see 2,000 Mules?

      • DEG

        Yes.

        I think the case that there were mules is persuasive. If all of the dropped ballots were for Biden, the mules swung the election. But therein lies the problem. Were all the dropped ballots for Biden? Were there other sources of fraud that might have benefited Trump?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Probably and that’s the rub for the stolen election crowd. There’s no way to prove anything.

      • Homple

        Needs more “Both Sides!”

      • Atanarjuat

        Yeah. Honestly it wasn’t really shocking. I saw articles in the news where “a giant box of ballots was discovered at the last minute, 100% for Biden” and wrote the whole thing off as a scam.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        If their numbers are even remotely accurate, the election was a sham.

        This is the mode of election fraud that seemed the most likely. I don’t doubt they took a belt and suspenders approach, but the mail-in fraud component was clearly orchestrated in advance and executed broadly.

        Two questions linger. How many of those ballots were trafficked (legit vote illegally harvested) versus stolen (illegitimate vote)? Who actually won?

        Unfortunately we will never have enough data to answer either question. Best I can say is it looks like the margin of fraud was well over 1M votes in 2020.

      • Tonio

        No, I ordered my DVD copy last week (STFU, I’m old), and although they charged my card I haven’t gotten a tracking number yet. The website says to expect “significant delays.”

        The good news is that they are overwhelmed by orders for physical media, which means it’s selling better than expected. The bad news is that they underestimated how many people can’t/don’t stream, how many people are tinfoil nutters who want access impervious to big tech censorship, etc.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Nah, good on you, old ‘un.

      • R.J.

        Darn. Just missed you. Previously I posted that based on the sales so far, it would be the #2 movie in the nation (for release day and day two) should it have been added to the movie charts. There are no good ongoing numbers.

      • Tonio

        “restrictive voting law…which Democrats and activists warn could suppress voter turnout”

        Bullshit.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the fairness and the balance caught my eye. ?

    • Mojeaux

      I got out of crypto last year with a net gain (not much and certainly not much over time), and I have ZERO interest in dabbling again. I’m good at making a few bucks and then getting out.

      • Mojeaux

        Okay, so, I will for a moment be completely serious. I think the only long-term placement holder for money is food and toilet paper.

      • 2ndClassProle

        LOL… right! these are trying times.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Imagine not using a bidet in 2022.

      • Mojeaux

        *checks CPA’s avatar* That would be a water fountain for you, yes?

      • TARDis

        lol.

        and monocle washer.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *tips hat*

      • TARDis

        I’d rather imagine there were no Bidens fucking the world up.*

        *Not a threat, fucking police state treasonous stooges.

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The problem is compounded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looking to provide El Salvador with financing to help it repay a government bond due in January 2023. The bond is worth $800 million, and the country has other debt repayment obligations on top of that.

    Dumbass

  2. Trigger Hippie
    • Atanarjuat

      Two questions. First, do you think you have substance abuse issues, and second does Ted have a similar page?

      • Ted S.

        No. I don’t need money at this time.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Really sorry to hear about your dad, man. Truly, you’re a far better man than I. Hope you get things figured out and stable soon.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Oh, I definitely have substance abuse issues but I keep them as cheap as possible. Much like my food intake I try to keep it at five bucks a day or less. Of course that adds up over time and has not helped me avoid this situation but I swear that not a penny of charity will be spent on them. The guilt would be too much.

    • 2ndClassProle

      Threw a little coin your way… hope it helps. This too shall pass!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Don’t apologize.

      • Sean

        ^^ This.

      • TARDis

        +1
        Ask, receive, be thankful, move forward.

    • Tonio

      Do you have a strategy for getting back on your feet and becoming stable?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah…does good to write it out and what better place than here!

    • Mojeaux

      TH, can you email me please? moriah at moriahjovan dot com I am not on my usual computer (and won’t be for 3 more weeks) and I don’t have your email handy.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Hey, I don’t do GFM, but if you spin up a Givesendgo or send me your PayPal address, I’ll toss in a few bucks.

      trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yeah, I kinda forgot that GFM are partisan hacks who fuck over people who don’t toe the progressive lion. Don’t sweat it, the goal has been met. Thank you for offering though, man. I appreciate the thought.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I had forgotten that they don’t take a penny unless you opt in. Helping out a Glib is more important than an impotent gesture towards some company. We take care of our own.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Thank you.

        Thank you all. I can’t even begin to express how much I love you people.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’m not blubbering like a baby out of gratitude right now, nope. Shut up.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Okay, the goal has been met. Stop sending money.

      You lot are the finest people I’ve never met. I don’t deserve to be apart of this community but you all put up with me for some reason and for that I’m eternally grateful. Honestly, I fucking love you people more than you can possibly know. You’re my family and I’ll never take you all for granted. I swear. Again, thank you all. I’m overwhelmed.

      • slumbrew

        Okay, the goal has been met. Stop sending money.

        You’re not my supervisor!

        * donates again *

        (not really)

        This is indeed a pretty good group.

        Hope things start looking up.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Thank, man.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Whoever just sent me $500 really, really, REALLY didn’t need to do that. That’s waaay too much. Now I’m bawling like toddler again.

      • slumbrew

        * checks to see if I screwed up a decimal point *

      • Trigger Hippie

        It’s not too late to back out if you did.

        Seriously, that was freaking ridiculous.

      • DEG

        Wasn’t me, though I did give.

        Tonio has a good question.

  3. Count Potato

    “I like to put on SiriusXM Octane (Channel 37)”

    What do they play?

    • MikeS

      New, hard rock.

      • MikeS

        I stopped regularly listening to Octane when Jose Mangin started pushing bands that were far closer to some sort of electronic pop than hard rock.

    • The Hyperbole

      “Experience the loud and uncensored community of new hard rock, featuring the next generation of headbangers destined to be headliners!”

      Right now their are playing so uninspired bland song by a group called Novacaine.

      • The Hyperbole

        Oh, the song was Novocaine by 10 years, still pretty run of the mill ‘hard rock’

    • mexican sharpshooter

      “Hard alternative”

      Not quite Liquid Metal 40, doesn’t make me feel as old as Ozzy’s Boneyard 38 or Hair Nation 39, but most certainly not the candy ass stuff on Alt Nation 36 my kids keep listening to.

      Yes I realize having Sirius XM makes me hella old.

      • Count Potato

        I like old metal way more than new metal.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Ah, well I’ll find some System of a Down for next week.

  4. UnCivilServant

    Carrying over the Ford Electric vehicle discussion from the previous thread – After suggesting they resurrect the Edsel branding, I came up with a better name for it – the Edison.

  5. LCDR_Fish

    KDW sounds a bit more sane when he’s talking about guns rather than COVID.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/the-buffalo-blame-game/

    …The murderer in Buffalo didn’t kill anybody you’ve ever heard of, and so the first thing to do if you want to exploit the deaths of all these people — and that is what Democrats intend to do — is to connect the crime to some famous name or prominent institution. It doesn’t matter if there isn’t any actual connection: Just assert it, and that’s good enough for the newspapers and the cable-news cretins and the impotent rage-monkeys on Twitter. And so New York governor Kathy Hochul blames social-media platforms. Amanda Marcotte blames Tucker Carlson. Other hack Democrats blamed Donald Trump, the Republican Party, Fox News, the National Rifle Association, etc. The usual suspects.

    Democrats are looking for something — anything — to cling to politically at the moment, because they are terrified that they are going to get wiped out in the midterm elections. And they probably are going to take a beating: Never mind that the Republican Party doesn’t deserve to win — the Democrats deserve to lose, and that’s what matters at the polls. What can Democrats do about that besides pray that Marjorie Taylor Greene has an extra shot of espresso in her moonbat latte this morning? There are options, but they are tough, and apparently it has never crossed Governor Hochul’s mind (such as it is) to try a different approach: Rather than cheap demagoguery and shunting great streams of public money into her husband’s company, she might try competent governance and see how that works out.

    ….

    As with so many shootings of this kind, the massacre in Buffalo didn’t exactly come out of nowhere. The same is true for the less dramatic kinds of shootings, too: There were at least 33 shootings in Chicago over the weekend, and, when the data are in, we’ll almost certainly find that the victims were almost all black and that the shooters almost all had extensive prior criminal records, including prior weapons violations in many cases. This stuff doesn’t just fall out of the sky. It is predictable as the change of seasons. You won’t see a lot of headlines about those 33 shootings, and that is, in one horrifying sense, entirely appropriate: They aren’t really news. News is something unusual, something unexpected.

    We talk a great deal about crime in Chicago, because it is a big, dangerous city, and it is one of the five U.S. cities that the national media ordinarily pay attention to. Buffalo is a smaller, more dangerous city, with a homicide rate just slightly above Chicago’s: 18.38 per 100,000 vs. 18.26 per 100,000.

    The vast majority of murders in these United States are no surprise at all — we know with actuarial precision who is going to do the killing, who is going to do the dying, when the crimes are going to be committed, etc. We even know what policies would likely be effective in preventing these crimes — for example, enforcing the gun laws at the state and federal level, particularly the straw-buyer laws — but we don’t do that, because that would be hard work and take up a lot of resources that could be used for more important things, like paying cops to eat Doritos and shoot Jim Beam on the taxpayers’ time and dime, paying cops to impersonate garage doors, paying Philadelphia homicide detectives in excess of $300,000 a year, and buying armored attack trucks to patrol the mean streets of Norman, Okla.

    There is much that could be done, if anyone were willing to do it.

    Here’s something I am not willing to do: I am not willing to renegotiate the Bill of Rights every time some sexually frustrated loser with a 5.56mm death-boner has a homicidal temper tantrum.

    Set aside, for the moment, the inevitable attack on the Second Amendment: Governor Hochul is targeting the First Amendment. Never mind enforcing New York gun laws or funding more proactive policing measures or maybe asking some more pointed questions about the kid who showed up to school in a full hazmat suit, Governor Hochul intends to focus on an area in which she has no authority, expertise, or influence: policing speech online.

    …..

    As a matter of constitutional law in the United States, there is no such thing as “hate speech.” It is not a legal term at all — the words have no legal meaning. As such, there certainly is no exception to the First Amendment for “hate speech,” a fact that is well understood and attested to by boatloads of constitutional scholars holding many different political points of view. It is the unanimous position of the Supreme Court. This is not new. Governor Hochul, who has a law degree on her sad little résumé (Erie County clerk and bank lobbyist) ought to know better. Perhaps she has forgotten. Perhaps she missed that day in law school. Perhaps she is a cheap demagogue who ought to be ashamed of herself and of whom New York ought to be ashamed.

    There is no such thing as “hate speech” as a matter of constitutional law in the United States, and the sort of thing that is classified as “hate speech” in countries that do have such laws is — pay attention, now — exactly the kind of speech the First Amendment is designed to protect: offensive, unpopular, detestable, the kind of speech that most people consider immoral and indefensible. The kind of speech nobody likes or wants is the kind of speech the First Amendment is there for — the other kind of speech doesn’t need any protection. Here is a useful heuristic: If you immediately want to suppress somebody’s speech, then that is probably the kind of speech the First Amendment was made for. We write down our laws for a reason, and that reason is because your gut instincts can’t be trusted and because we don’t want our civil rights to depend on whatever kind of daffy electrochemical misfire is happening inside that three-pound ball of meat Kathy Hochul calls a brain on any given Monday morning.

    Like “hate speech,” “assault weapon” is a term without meaning. (“Assault rifle” is a term with a formal military sense, and if you think that we should not ordinarily sell them to civilians, then, rejoice: We don’t.) The shooter in Buffalo was armed with an ordinary modern sporting firearm, a 5.56mm semiautomatic rifle — the most common rifle in the United States. It was not, contra the Washington Post, “modified.” The Post headline reads: “Suspect in Buffalo shooting modified Bushmaster so it could hold more ammunition.” But as far as I can tell it was only “modified” by putting this magazine instead of that magazine into the rifle. (Magazines holding more than 10 rounds are illegal in New York State, but the law is effectively unenforceable, and it wouldn’t make any difference in these cases even if it weren’t. EDIT: He would have had to break the lock that keeps the fixed magazine in place, a simple task taking about two minutes, which is what he did. So I suppose the rifle was modified in the sense that a locked-up bicycle is modified when a thief breaks the lock to steal it.) The killer seems to have chosen the Bushmaster brand because it has been associated with similar shootings. This is a reminder that there is no major daily newspaper in the United States of America that is capable of writing about firearms competently.

    Another line of argument that has been put forward: We shouldn’t let 18-year-olds buy firearms. I am open to that as a policy reform — we don’t let 17-year-olds buy firearms, and that doesn’t seem to me incompatible with the Second Amendment. But if we are going to treat 18-year-olds like children, then we have to go all the way and raise the age for voting, the age of sexual consent, the age for marriage, getting a tattoo, joining the military, etc. If we are going to take away 18-year-olds’ civil rights, then we have to take away their bank accounts and credit cards, too. The civil right enshrined in the Second Amendment isn’t something that some Supreme Court justice magically pulled out of his penumbra — it is right there, in writing. That means it deserves the highest level of protection and deference — and that means that there are a lot of things that 18-year-olds can lose before their explicitly constitutionally guaranteed rights.

    Kathy Hochul is an unserious politician representing an unserious party in an unserious state in a largely unserious country that is kept on the road mostly by sturdy guardrails inscribed in an 18th-century document that some guy wrote with a feather. Events such as the one in Buffalo require a serious response, but there is nobody around to provide one, at least not in elected office. What we have is mediocrities, demagogues, and grandstanding ghouls happy to climb atop any pile of dead Americans, no matter how high or how mangled, to do a little TikTok dance in the blood and sing a verse of “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

    But, really, I am sure this is all somehow Tucker Carlson’s fault.

    • Count Potato

      “paying Philadelphia homicide detectives in excess of $300,000 a year”

      Wow

      “Amanda Marcotte blames Tucker Carlson”

      I’m not going to go looking for that.

      • TARDis

        I remember my mother advising me to work for the government because even though you won’t make a lot of money while working, you’ll get to retire with a small but manageable pension that won’t end unless the government collapses.

        She was wrong, wrong, and right.

      • cavalier973

        Two employees got walked out yesterday morning. They had been fired. They were back this morning, just as if nothing had happened.

      • LCDR_Fish

        links in the original.

      • The Last American Hero

        How do you think Beckett afforded that wardrobe?

    • rhywun

      Perhaps she is a cheap demagogue who ought to be ashamed of herself and of whom New York ought to be ashamed.

      Got it in three.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Kathy Hochul is an unserious politician representing an unserious party in an unserious state in a largely unserious country that is kept on the road mostly by sturdy guardrails inscribed in an 18th-century document that some guy wrote with a feather.

      You forgot the part with the 100M armed people who happen to agree with the guy with the feather. Sans those people, the guardrail is pure hallucination.

  6. Count Potato

    “Speaking of Cuba, yet another MAGA policy was simply unmade.”

    That’s actually good though.

  7. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    I don’t really have a problem dropping the restrictions on Cuba. The Cold War is over, or at least it should be, and sanctions haven’t done a darn bit of good changing their government. This doesn’t qualify as something good that Biden has done, but at least it doesn’t qualify as something bad.

  8. DEG

    Mr Fariñas’s mother said that the car they were travelling in was intercepted by state security agents.

    In 2010, the activist won the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.

    The 60-year-old is a long-term campaigner for human rights.

    He has gone on hunger strike dozens of times and spent years in prison in Cuba.

    Not at the airport? Cuban security officials are slipping.

    Since he’s been in prison in Cuba, I think this guy knows what he is getting into. Probably a masochist instead of a retard.

    • Atanarjuat

      Yeah, he’s brave and principled and willing to suffer for the cause he believes in. Although he mentioned the street protests — I’m skeptical of any protests now that we know how the CIA and NGOs like NED instigate them for political reasons.

  9. Tundra

    All hail the gif!

    Gracias, amigo!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Between this one and the #1 ass slap….makes my day.

      Your not first your last

      • Ownbestenemy

        This makes my day, which involved getting my finger caught in a safety chain on the loading dock much better. At least the swelling has gone down and doesn’t seem broken.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Ow

      • Tundra

        Dang.

        As your physician, I order you to watch both those gifs 14 more times.

      • Nephilium

        And that’s going to make the swelling go down?

      • Tundra

        Moves it to a different, less painful spot.

        Don’t question me. I’m an expert and the science is settled.

      • R.J.

        After about 30 minutes the swelling will recede.

      • slumbrew

        30 minutes?!

        Nobody likes a braggart.

      • MikeS

        She is cute as a button.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I have always been curious about the genesis of that. All I’ve learned is that they’re Dutch.

      • DEG

        This video.

        It’s age restricted.

        One of the women, I think the winner, is Cynthia Cremer.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That was great!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        All I’ve learned is that they’re Dutch.

        So’s the Spousal Unit. Thank God.  ;-)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Only Dutch person I’ve known was a boyfriend’s uncle, and per the saying quite rude to me! “Hi, Jack, I’m Annette. You’re doing it wrong.” Except subtract the introduction.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        They can definitely be direct, that’s for sure.

  10. Tonio

    “LGBTQ youths ages 13 to 24” Uh-huh. Part of that age range are definitely not “youths” by any reasonable stretch.

  11. Rat on a train

    One of my favorite things to do these days is going to Trader Joe’s.

    The looks of “what an asshole” from the Subaru and Tesla crowd of Scottsdale never gets old.

    Trader Joe’s will put us on the map!
    I would like to think the lack of signatures indicates the area doesn’t have much derp, but I know downtown and route 3 has plenty of it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      First, we note the sinister irony that the NATO-funded Integrity Initiative, whose ostensible purpose is to “Defend Democracy Against Disinformation,” was caught red-handed conducting a secretive influence operation to meddle in the internal politics of Spain, a democratic NATO member.

      Second, we note how crucial — indeed, indispensable — the social media platform Twitter was to the influence operations in question. It is precisely the importance of Twitter as a theater for U.S., U.K., and NATO backed psychological influence operations that informed our analysis of Elon Musk’s attempt to purchase the platform. We weren’t exaggerating when we described Elon’s threat to allow free speech and transparency on Twitter as a “declaration of war” against the Regime. As the Integrity Initiative’s use of the platform shows, Twitter’s value to U.S.-aligned intelligence agencies as a friendly ground for influence operations far exceeds its nominal value as a technology company.

      Well there it is.

      What is of interest to me is the presumption since at least 2015 that Russia is providing disinformation on everything under the sun. I give that as much credibility as I do the “Russia hacked our elections” bullshit in 2016. I gather that building Russia up as an enemy and sabotaging efforts at detente has been an ongoing process, particularly at NATO. Whether that is because NATO is run by neocons, or because NATO is actively creating a rationale for its continued existence and more arms sales is unclear.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Probably “and”.

      • Atanarjuat

        There’s been an endless stream of anti-Russian propaganda. I remember how the power grid in New Hampshire or Vermont went down right after Trump was elected. For about 3 days in the news we were told it was due to Russian hacking. Then they mumbled a correction and quit talking about it.

    • 2ndClassProle

      Doesn’t surprise me. Projectionist the whole lot of them.

  12. R C Dean

    Saw this while scrolling the news at lunch.

    State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin also referred to the prisoners as “Nazi criminals” and said that “we must do everything to bring them to justice,” according to Al Jazeera.

    Sounds like the Russians aren’t going to exchange any of the Azov Bois for Russian POWs. Somewhat to my surprise, it sounds like they may be planning some kind of trials for them. I figured they would just let the Chechens leave them in a ditch. Still not clear on how POWs can be tried and punished by the country that captured them.

    I find the use of the word “evacuated” rather than “captured” to be bizarre, but I can’t figure out which propaganda operation is pushing it.

    • Atanarjuat

      I’m not sure, but I work with a bunch of Russians. When this whole thing popped off, they mentioned that one of the goals was to find the men who burned the protestors to death in Odessa in 2014 and make them pay for their crimes. I suspect this sort of retribution / public atonement plays well domestically.

      • R C Dean

        I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. Based on what I’ve seen *reaches for grain of salt*, I suspect Azov and the Chechens operate on about the same level. And who knows if the Russians have succeeded in bringing in Syrian fighters, and what they’re up to. Like most wars, I have no doubt war crimes are being committed. I’d be interested to know if trying and punishing POWs is a war crime itself, for that matter.

      • R C Dean

        one of the goals was to find the men who burned the protestors to death in Odessa in 2014

        I wonder how many of them were inside the steel plant.

        While actual Ukrainian soldiers will be treated as legit POWs.

        I’m pretty sure the Azov Bois count as legal combatants, roughly equivalent to our National Guard. Uniforms, chain of command, all that. Especially after the mass mobilization in Ukraine.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        War crimes are for individuals committing atrocities against civilians. I don’t think their status as legal combatants with uniforms would affect this.

        From what I gathered, including videos on the ground in Donbas with villagers that doesn’t appear to be Russian propaganda, the Azov brigade has spent several years raping, murdering, and torturing civilians in the Donbas. These atrocities are what they are being tried for, not for fighting the Russian soldiers.

      • R C Dean

        These atrocities are what they are being tried for, not for fighting the Russian soldiers.

        Somebody should try them for that. I do wonder how the Russians are going to make positive IDs of the individuals who committed the crimes. Or if they are even going to try very hard.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Now that I have no idea. Perhaps guilt by association is sufficient and the Nazi tattoos serve as the needed identification. It’s not an exact analogue, but if someone in a group committing a crime kills someone, everyone in that group can be charged with murder regardless of if they pulled the trigger.

        I’m guessing Godwin’s Law doesn’t apply here since we’re talking about war crimes and a group with swastikas. Did they charge concentration camp guards with war crimes or something similar? If so, I wonder if being employed as a concentration camp guard was sufficient for the charge rather than actually having to link the guard to killing a specific person… the evidence of which would likely be impossible for proof in a civilian-type trial. These aren’t civilian trials though, and I would have no moral issue with hanging every prison guard in a concentration camp without being able to link each guard to killing a specific individual.

      • Atanarjuat

        I doubt there’s much overlap between the personnel in the steel plant and those who burned the protestors. I think the movement of anti-Russian sentiment there is pretty large.

        My understanding is the Azov was fully incorporated in the military and they are legal combatants. However if it can be proven that any of them engaged in the torture or execution of Russian POWs or the indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas I hope they face legal consequences.

    • Drake

      That sounds like the Azovs will be left behind for the new “buffer republics” to do with them as they like. While actual Ukrainian soldiers will be treated as legit POWs. Saw one vid where the Russians had captured soldiers disrobe – one line for no tats or normal military stuff, a different line for Nazi tats.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Still not clear on how POWs can be tried and punished by the country that captured them.

      POW, under international conventions, is a strict set of guidelines. It means being an enemy combatant , performing combat operations in identifiable uniforms and markings.

      Spies and insurgents can be treated as criminals because they forego those protections. There is pretty good legal arguments to be made that these paramilitary organizations did just that.

      • Drake

        If you were conducting yourself within the “Laws of War”, you are not supposed to be punished after capture.

        Rape, murder of civilians, those kind of charges can still be pursued against a captured soldier.

      • R C Dean

        I’d be very interested in a reasonably high-level write up of how these kinds of things are supposed to be handled under current international law, if anyone knows of one.

      • Mojeaux

        Letters of marque in the Revolutionary War enabled captured privateers to be treated as prisoners of war.

      • R C Dean

        I suspect the letter of marque gave them legal status as a kind of quasi-combatant on behalf of a sovereign.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yes, it is the difference between a pirate and privateer – sanction to attack the enemies of the issuer as their agent. It makes them effectively an extension of the Navy.

      • R C Dean

        There is pretty good legal arguments to be made that these paramilitary organizations did just that.

        I’m sure the lawyers will have a field day. I take that back – I doubt any lawyers will be involved at all in whatever happens to Azov. Other than as window dressing.

        I would be surprised if they didn’t count as legal combatants when captured. What they may have been up to before the current unpleasantness? Probably plenty of not-legal-combatant status there. Should a legal POW be tried for crimes they may have committed before they were a legal combatant? Seems iffy to me. The alternative – some seriously nasty people walk for the seriously nasty things they did – isn’t very attractive either. Your real old school doctrine, of course, calls for summary execution of spies, etc.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The laws of war are little more than victors’ justice. Any pretension of universal principles and applicability have been shown to be phony.

        *my own personal opinion is that those myriad “laws” are attempts to civilize and regularize what remains a savage affair, to the benefit of the aristocracy and nobility running them (and their chronological descendants), and hiding the brutality has engendered more not less conflict.

  13. DEG

    45 minute documentary on part of Peter Jackson’s collection of First World War stuff. This documentary concentrates on airplanes.

    • Surly Knott

      Right up my alley! Saving to watch later, but thanks much for sharing!

      • DEG

        You’re welcome!

        It’s kind what he and his people do.

      • DEG

        Oops. Cool what he and his people do.

  14. SDF-7

    At least I’m not in the tournament still — I can tour Chumptown in relative piece and look for a drywall contractor for that wall Trashy was talking about:

    Daily Quordle 113
    6️⃣?
    5️⃣8️⃣
    quordle.com
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    I swear I just have a gift for coming up with every word that fits but *isn’t* what they have in mind….

    • TARDis

      I was without unwoke internet access today, so I missed out on the latest Glibennings. I went with a random seed word again today. ‘Furry’. Don’t know why.
      *shrugs*
      Daily Quordle 113
      3️⃣7️⃣
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    • Rat on a train

      Daily Quordle 113
      5️⃣8️⃣
      6️⃣9️⃣

      My worst score yet.

      • Sean

        A new record!

      • Tundra

        For me as well. 29!!

        I win, Rat!

    • Bobarian LMD

      Late to the game…
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    • Drake

      The whole purpose of putting that blob in a magazine is ritual humiliation of being forced to pretend that she is attractive.

      • Mojeaux

        Her *face* is pretty.

      • Atanarjuat

        Agreed, although the photo has been retouched.

      • Mojeaux

        I can find the beauty in just about anything. Except this.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This

        And don’t try to tell me she worked hard for that figure.

        At least with Serena, there was recognition of her effort to achieve that level of fitness even if it involved copious amounts of anabolic steroids.

    • 2ndClassProle

      Love Peterson… and looking at the picture of Yumi Nu, he was correct on his assessment.

      • R.J.

        She’s not even an attractive big girl. And I like big girls.

      • 2ndClassProle

        I am more into symmetry so a thick girl who is symmetric will look good to me. Even Q’s tig ole bitties girls, I will not find attractive, but it is all subjective, like pineapple on pizza.

      • TARDis

        I’ll copy my comment from elsewhere.

        Nope. She is not curvy, just fat and saggy. All of her. Kind of pretty with the hair and make-up, but that’s all.

    • UnCivilServant

      I have to agree with Kermit.

    • Tundra

      I don’t think the bar fight atmosphere of twitter is right for him, anyway. He’s a pretty sensitive guy and doesn’t need the platform anymore.

      Besides, he’s right. I saw an ad for Lizzo during the hockey game and I asked my wife why the hell people are letting her be such a spectacle. It’s disgusting.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That swimsuit did her absolutely no favors. It’s basically SI cat-butting it’s audience.

      • 2ndClassProle

        Maybe Swiss can replace the cat-butt picture of Yumi Nu from now on, when glibs get out of hand.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I’d rather see the cat butt. It at least makes me laugh.

      • 2ndClassProle

        Agreed!

      • Swiss Servator

        Gah?! Hey, nor going to do that…. would hurt all of us.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I’ll do it.

      • rhywun

        It’s basically SI cat-butting it’s audience.

        Heh, exactly.

        “Dare to disagree!”

      • R.J.

        Now there’s a good point. Need to pull SI sales figures for the swimsuit issue for each year the past 10 years and the compare this one.

    • whiz

      I don’t know why Peterson would enter that fray. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and very subjective. Stick to more important topics.

      • Mojeaux

        Because he talks a lot about beauty and its important to the essence of humanness.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I like you, dude, but why poke the bear?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        addressed to JP Ph.D, that is…

  15. Count Potato

    “”More than 120,000 emails found on Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop have been posted online by a former Trump White House staffer.

    Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to Peter Navarro in Donald Trump’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, uploaded 128,775 emails to a searchable database this week through his organization Marco Polo.

    The site, BidenLaptopEmails.com, also allows users to download all the emails for Mac or Windows computers.

    Among the thousands of emails in the publicly posted database is the infamous ’10 for the big guy’ message, in which Hunter’s business partner James Gilliar appeared to suggest Hunter should hold 10% of the equity in their multi-million-dollar deal with the Chinese on behalf of his father, President Joe Biden.

    Another email in the database, previously published by DailyMail.com, shows Hunter describing an extraordinary apparent quid pro quo with a Mexican billionaire’s son, outlining how he got him into the White House and inauguration, and thanking him for visits to his villa.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10825801/Former-Trump-aide-posts-huge-trove-120-000-Hunter-Biden-emails-abandoned-laptop.html

    Drugs/ass but worth reposting.

  16. Tres Cool

    Im going to bed.
    Some of us work all night, Rufus.

  17. grrizzly

    The belief in masks is eternal. Just off a zoom call on a deposition tomorrow. It will take in person. One lawyer who will be there in person said he would take the subway (for the first time in 2 years!) and will wear an N-95 mask. He later added that he would be wearing a mask during the 9-hour deposition because he doesn’t want to get covid with a 6 month old at home. I know the guy personally, we used to work together, he is in his late 30s, extremely fit, used to run marathons (maybe still does). He’s also very smart wrt his job duties. Elite education. Of course, he described his political views back in the day as being from the Democratic wing of the Democratic party (yeah, it’s been more than a decade since we met).

    And everybody was reminded to bring their vaxx certificate just in case even though the party running the deposition didn’t insist on it. Fortunately, I’ll have to watch this idiocy on zoom–not in person.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I’ll give him credit for wearing an N95 to protect himself rather than demanding everyone else wear a cloth mask to protect him. It’s a step in the right direction.

    • Atanarjuat

      “I suck at understanding risk too”

      • grrizzly

        He also sucked at poker.

    • db

      What’s your thinking on the PA primaries? I’m registered (L) so I can’t vote in them anyway, so I haven’t been paying much attention other than to know that Barnette is rather controversial and that Dr. Oz is a fuckstick moron.

      • Sean

        I’m praying Barnette gets it. I need to know that not all political seats to go the highest bidder.

        Much of the funding this season came from outside states. The fucking shitty blue states.

        What does that tell you?

      • db

        It tells me the Democrats are desperate to win a Senate seat here.

        It also suggests to me that they may be terrified of letting the state legislature get even more red–especially with regard to election security improvements.

      • DEG

        Much of the funding this season came from outside states. The fucking shitty blue states.

        Not just in PA. A state rep in NH that I know says the Democrats have already dropped lots of money on returning control of NH to the Democrats. The filing period isn’t even open yet.

      • TARDis

        I’m so sick of the “tested positive” crap. Die already, and be a real statistic. There are so many people suffering from so many things and yet, testing positive for Covid is an Earth-shattering event.

      • rhywun

        I-am-presenting-mild-symptoms-and-I-am-grateful-for-The-Jab,-The-Second-Jab,-and-The-Holy-Booster

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        In the name of the Fauci and the Gates and the Holy Pfizer, amen.

      • Nephilium

        In the name of the Fauci, the CDC, and the NIH.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Somebody please start brewing up some Flavor-Aid for these morons.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (Blacks hardest hit in ’78)

    • rhywun

      I got a huge pile of derp after that piece of derp.

      I think it’s time to stop clicking on twitter links.

      • MikeS

        It has been suggested.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Bigotry started a long time ago. Nobody knows where. I think the French started it.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Correct. It was the French, who would taunt their enemies from the tops of the castle walls with racial epithets before launching live bovine and poultry at them via catapult. There are no recorded instances of bigotry anywhere before they began this practice.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9DCAFUerzs

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I thought he was referring to white Cro-Magnon man living in what is now France, when they wiped out the peaceful Black Neanderthals.

      • Grumbletarian

        You’re thinking of baguettry.

    • cavalier973

      Anyone who goes on and on about “racism”, “white supremacy”, and “white privilege” is probably a child molester.

  18. grrizzly

    A dose of sparkle, an award for Forest Whitaker and an address by Zelensky at Cannes’s opening night.

    There was the typical glitz and glamour as the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday, with plenty of stars on the red carpet and the bestowal of a lifetime achievement award. And then there was President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who made a surprise appearance via satellite.

    The other day Ukraine won Eurovision. If Ukraine doesn’t win the World Cup this year then everyone at FIFA is a Putin cock holster.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Flopping for UKR would be even easier than the vote rigging they did for Eurovision.

      • rhywun

        Your move, Scotland.

      • UnCivilServant

        Risky, you just might get assailed by a flock of sheep bombs.

        Baah Shish Boom.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I think it’s time to stop clicking on twitter links.

    *nods slowly*

    • Ownbestenemy

      Interesting.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Swelling down and now the damage

    https://pasteboard.co/8fNaruzWaJ7O.jpg

    Not too bad…maybe a fracture but my 14 doses of GIFs has alleviated some of the pain.

    Thanks Dr, Not a Dr. Tundra

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck you too buddy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe I should submit that to Amber Heards legal team and explain what real bruising looks like

    • Tundra

      Wait until you get my bill!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just a finger. I can add it to the bone chip in my pinky

    • Bobarian LMD

      Did someone punch you in the nose?

  21. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘And Then There Was One’ Edition)
    #113

    Champs
    cyto 22
    l0b0t 22
    Not Adahn 22
    Sean 22
    TARDis 22
    Ted S. 22
    whiz 22

    Grummun 23
    Tulip 23
    MikeS 24
    trshmnstr the terrible 27
    Rat on a train 28
    grrizzly 29
    Grumbletarian 29
    Ozymandias 29
    Tundra 29

    Chumps
    SDF-7 119
    kinnath 120
    The Hyperbole 121
    one true athena 122
    rhywun 122
    Grosspatzer 124

    Wow, what a shitty day, the Tundra Line was the best score and 6 chumps, 51.04545455 Average. Sean takes sole possession of the longest no-chump streak at 35, (grumbles grumble bullshit words grumble grumble). In Championship news MikeS bests Tundra in the only playoff and advances to Round 3 which begins tomorrow, Good Quordling and Good Luck (except whiz).

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Huh, I would have won today. Oh well

      • TARDis

        Great. So now it’s a big lemon party. Slacker.

  22. Gustave Lytton

    I got a brand new bar code scanner today. This thing is awesome. So much better than squinting at labels on precariously held boxes or leaning over crates while typing in the numbers. Now just click and it auto fills to where the cursor is.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Who would have thought we have a niche fetish for barcode scanners here

      • slumbrew

        niche?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I blame my finger

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yep, mine does the same. Probably out of the same Chinese factory, it’s pretty similar.

    • DEG

      Dr. Caldwell is a better doctor than Dr. Fauci.

      • Tundra

        I’m a better doctor than Fauci.

        *points upthread*

      • MikeS

        Dr. Kevorkian was a better doctor that Dr. Fauci.

  23. Evan from Evansville

    Going to pay my fine in about 30 min. Thankfully, it’s just around the corner. Should be back Stateside in a week if all goes well.

    GIRLS ARE STUPID: “One of the biggest pick up lines dudes use in Indy. Cocaine.”

    Um…I’m gay for THAT pay..

    WTF is she complaining about?! TAKE IT TO THE HOOP!.

  24. cavalier973

    Who is Thomas Massie?