Thursday Afternoon Links

by | May 19, 2022 | Daily Links | 290 comments

RIP, Vangelis.

 

SENATE PASSES $40bn UKRAINE AID BILL: Rand Paul one of the few holdouts.

 

GOVERNMENT SEAL OF APPROVAL: FDA mulls “healthy” label for foods they like.

 

NPR – 2020 CENSUS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ACCURATE: Posting this without comment.

 

STANDING ON A PILE OF BODIES: In true Alinsky fashion Richmond (VA) school superintendent uses Buffalo shooting as an excuse to try to smuggle CRT into the schools.

 

LOCKDOWNS, THE CURE FOR ALL POLITICAL ILLS: Energy Minister of Luxembourg calls for EU lockdowns to reduce dependence on Russian oil. I know I keep going on about the topic, but there really is a war on your freedom of movement.

 

JASON MIYARES, RISING STAR: Glibs has been all over the Biden Ministry of Truth DHS Disinformation Governance Board, but here is an article focusing on one of the architects of the takedown, fresh-faced Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, son of a Cuban immigrant. This lad is going places, folks.

 

YOU THINK YOU HAD A BAD WEEK? Here is a link to a video of an hyena biting a buffalo in the nutsack.

 

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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.

290 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “In true Alinsky fashion Richmond (VA) school superintendent uses Buffalo shooting as an excuse to try to smuggle CRT into the schools.”

    Which will lead to more shootings. Which is what they want.

  2. Sean

    Fuck Luxembourg.

    • Swiss Servator

      The Energy Minister of Luxembourg is invited to lock him or herself down. Permanently.

    • grrizzly

      Luxembourg is not done with covid restrictions either.
      Travelers who are not fully vaccinated are not allowed to enter Luxembourg.

      • DEG

        Maybe I should have gone to Luxenbourg when I thought about it five years ago.

      • Chafed

        That’s fine. I can spend my money elsewhere.

  3. Rat on a train

    Notice which states are overcounted?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Utah?

      • Rat on a train

        All the spirit children?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Too many wives.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Utah has a notoriously large population of welfare scammers.

    • rhywun

      Very strange. Usually they claim that lefty states are undercounted and use statistical mumbo-jumbo to arrive at a higher figure in order to grab more FedBucks.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah, if you go to the second .xsl file here, it has the annual estimates through 2018. Look at which states suddenly started growing a lot faster or slower than the trends to get to the 2020 “official” figures, and you’ll see it’s almost all designed to help TEAM BLUE in apportionment.

      And yet the Beltway Class insists it’s Trump who interfered with the Census.

      • Ted S.

        And Delaware and Utah aren’t particularly off the trend they had from 2010-2018.

        Likewise, the estimates had Illinois losing 150K people from 2013-2018, only to gain half of that back in the following two years.

      • Swiss Servator

        Which is horseshit…IL has been bleeding out for a decade.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        This is why the opt out movement is more appealing by the day. Even if the fixed the schools or fixed the elections, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are millions of people in this country who devote their existence to making sure the state grows more totalitarian and leftist. Why fight them? They already won. Just tell them to go fuck themselves and live

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Dammit, I wanted to delete the comment, not post half of it.

      • R.J.

        I thought it was good as is.

      • robc

        New York really stood out to me because of the whole “we were 70 people short of not losing a seat” or whatever the number was. It turns out reality was they were way short.

      • Chafed

        I’m wondering if it’s enough to cause them to lose another seat.

    • Sean

      I can’t believe NJ didn’t make the list.

      • Ted S.

        New Jersey gained 120K people in the estimates from 2010-2018, and then another 350K on top of that by the 2020 census. Make of that what you will.

      • Chafed

        The mob spoke to the census takers?

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        New Jersey is better than NYC?

    • Urthona

      All in the erroneous census gives democrats 5 more house seats.

      • Rat on a train

        Remember when the Ds wanted to use estimations for apportionment? The Supreme Court said no but they weren’t going to let that stop them from getting what they want.

      • Fourscore

        MN should have been under counted by 2, at least

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Among the goals, the FDA says, are to provide consumers who have an unsophisticated understanding of nutrition with an easy way to make choices in the supermarket — and to coax food manufacturers to improve their products.

    Unsophisticated, like food pyramid unsophisticated?

    • Sean

      Eat more grains!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      All food is healthy if you are vaccinated.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        No, the food must be vaccinated too.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        And masked. Then we know it is safe.

    • Tonio

      I can’t find the version I remember from my childhood, but here is a Marilyn Manson song about the Food Pyramid.

    • Rat on a train

      You need gluten free ebola.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dude, Ebola is like so 2013. Monkeypox is where it’s at.

      • cavalier973

        Monkeypox was one of the ingredients in the AstraZeneca vaccine

      • R.J.

        Every time I see “Monkeypox” I think “Monkey Puffs,” which sounds like a breakfast cereal.

      • cavalier973

        Monkeypox! It comes in a box! Tastes like rocks and old gym socks!

        Part of this complete breakfast.

      • R.J.

        “Serve it to unwanted guests!
        Stuff the mattress with the rest!”

      • DrOtto

        *slaps FDA Healthy sticker on box*

  5. UnCivilServant

    Fix it now – But don’t restart anything until after 5!

    • UnCivilServant

      Am am going to end up burning the comp time I’m accumulating recovering from accumulating the comp time, thus ending up in a net loss of recreation time!

      • UnCivilServant

        I really want to tell the end users “Nothing you’re doing is important enough to stress me over, kindly wait until my work is completed before trying to use the system.”

        While true, it would not go over well.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Shut them down and don’t say anything?

      • UnCivilServant

        Wouldn’t stop the hassling by various interested parties.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why is it that support techs so often refuse to listen when I’m trying to tell them what has been happening and what has been tried so far?

      You keep interrupting me jumping to conclusions just before I get to the part where it shows that, no, it’s not that.

    • UnCivilServant

      PeopleSoft is melting my brain trying to get this darn thing working again!

  6. The Other Kevin

    First of all, Tonio NEVER phones it in.

    The “Healthy” label is just stupid. The first most obvious problem is that some people will decide they can eat dozens of serving of these foods every day because they’re “healthy”.

    There’s all this talk about right-wing trolls taking down the Ministry of Truth, but I think all the possible lawsuits and pushback from Republican congresspersons were the real story. To me these attorneys general have been one of the few bright lights in the last few years.

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The EU is batshit. They might push hard enough that the entire thing comes apart though.

    Measures akin to a COVID lockdown are needed in order to curb the EU’s reliance on Russian oil, one member state has said.

    Lockdown-like measures should be implemented across the European Union to curb the bloc’s reliance on Russian oil, Luxembourg’s energy minister has said.

    • UnCivilServant

      The measures include locking all Eurocrats and politicians in small cells with no telecommunications access.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Anything except going to the negotiating table.

      • Bobarian LMD

        How much heat does burning a EU bureaucrat produce?

        There is probably a lot of greasy oil in one of those.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        And alcohol.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I remember the crazies were talking about this being the next thing after covid.

      *reaches for the foil*

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Because democracy means shutting up and following orders. How can you be opposed to that? Do you love Putin or something?

  8. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Since most of the comments on my post last night were OT, I’m going OT right now.

    I have an occupied bird’s nest on my window sill. Until now, they have only been a mild annoyance, with their cheeping at the asscrack of dawn. But the forecast for this weekend is mid-90’s I shit you not. So I am going to have to close that window. It’s a casement (i.e. crank) window, so the nest is wedged right in there. I’d like to strongly encourage the birds to leave, rather than either a) relocate the nest (will involve a 30′ ladder, which I don’t have), or b) murder the things.

    One colleague suggested spraying something chemically and unpleasant (like Lysol or something). I thought smoke might work, but 100% guaranteed my neighbors will call the fire dept after seeing smoke coming out of a window.

    Any other suggestions other than outright avicide?

    • R.J.

      Ultrasound pest remover. No people can hear it.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Will one designed for mice work? What’s the range of those things? Not sure I have a socket close enough to the window.

      • R.J.

        One moment….

        This is a horrible long link. This one is battery powered and has several frequencies so you can focus in on what you want to repel. Also a plastic owl with motion sensor noise might also be good.

        PestContro Portable Ultrasonic Rodent Repeller, Battery-Operated Pest Control… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OACRO12/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_i_8Y2328S3VH6SB3NBV5BP

      • R.J.

        Short answer is yes, there are ultrasounds for birds. That one probably works since it has two frequencies. Shop around, a farm supply may have one locally, and a plastic owl.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I’ll give that a try! Thanks!

      • Count Potato

        Not sure how that could remove baby birds that can’t fly yet.

        Maybe KK could show them her aeronautic videos for inspiration.

      • R.J.

        Oh, well you just eat those. With a little raspberry chipotle sauce. Crunchy crunch goodness!

    • creech

      Heck, if elephants have rights so do birds. You probably owe the birdies reparations if you disturb their nest. And what if their blackbirds? You gotta leave the window open until they fly away.

    • Sean

      spraying something chemically

      Straight to chemical warfare?

    • MikeS

      Are there eggs or fledglings in it? If not, hurry up and knock it own. They’ll build a new one.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I need to pull away the chunk of foam insulation that is currently blocking it to get a look. But all the squawking sounds distinctly juvenile/adult.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I’ll murder unhatched eggs if I have to, I guess.

    • Tulip

      I’m sorry about the OT KK.

  9. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Shhhhh…. you weren’t supposed to notice this.

    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-most-powerful-evidence

    Scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Moderna quietly posted the paper a month ago as a pre-print, but it has received little attention despite its import.

    The researchers examined the development of anti-nucleocapsid antibodies in people who had been part of Moderna’s clinical trial and were infected with Covid. As they expected, the scientists found that the vaccinated people were far less likely to develop the anti-nucleocapsid antibodies. Only 40 percent of people who received the shots had antibodies, compared to 93 percent of those who did not.

    But they then went a step further. Because the infected people had been in the trial, their viral loads had been precisely measured when they were found to have Covid. So the researchers were able to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated people who had the same amounts of virus in their blood.

    Once again, they found that unvaccinated people were far more likely to develop anti-nucleocapsid antibodies than the jabbed. An unvaccinated person with a mild infection had a 71 percent chance of mounting an immune response that included those antibodies. A vaccinated person had about a 15 percent chance.

    Only in cases of severe infection and very high viral loads did the difference narrow significantly; in those cases all unvaccinated people and most of the vaccinated had anti-nucleocapsid antibodies.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Someone should sue…oh.

    • cavalier973

      That’s enraging. I know people who were pressured into getting the gene-jabs. I want the people who pressured them to be sued into financial ruin, then thrown into prison.

      • juris imprudent

        Drawn and quartered.

        Wait, wait, they say – that’s cruel and unusual punishment! We say – you fucked the Constitution, you don’t get to hide behind it now Roperite.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Cruel and unusual is always determined by cultural norms.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Color me shocked. I wonder if anyone can can dig deeper and find out when this was first known. I’d have to assume the pharmaceutical companies at least had a pretty good idea of all this well before this paper was published. If our entire media wasn’t American Pravda, the idea that they were knowingly pushing a “vaccine” that might actually make you more susceptible to getting the disease it’s supposed to treat would be a massive scandal.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      From the comments:

      While some are coming around, so many just stand in line and get jabs. Zombies. Where has the Republican Party on all this horror? Standing in line. Few have any guts.

      This is as clear of an example of the abused conservative as I’ve seen in a long time. This person thinks everybody is still playing politics. Everybody who is aware of the reality of these shots has drawn a line in the sand. Maybe they got a single shot and stopped. Maybe they said no to boosters. Maybe they’ve held out from day one. Wherever that line is drawn for that individual, they have a line.

      Those Republicans standing in line for shot four aren’t gutless. They’re conquered. Whether or not they once had a seed of doubt, they’re now true believers. You cannot be against this crap and simultaneously submit to the medical tyrants’ every demand. At some point, a belief has to manifest in action if it’s in any way sincere.

      • Ozymandias

        trashy –

        I’m going to cut some people a husk. These shots have been mandated upon pain of loss of employment or prison (if you’re in the military) – and a LOT of good people caved. I said from the beginning of this that was always the point: they wanted to know “who will bend the knee – and who won’t” when put to the squeeze. The answer told them a LOT.
        HOWEVER, I’m not going to fault someone who was at 19+ years of service and being threatened with having their transferred education benefits of $85,000 to the kids being taken back by the government if they didn’t take it. Maybe because I know a lot of those cases happened – a LOT took it unwillingly. When this info comes out and eventually becomes understood – there might well be a fairly sizable number of angry mofos who feel like they got fucked by their own government – And by pharma companies – like Pfizer and Moderna, who just happen to have the last 2 FDA commissioners on their payroll now.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I think there’s a big difference between those who took the original jabs to keep a job and those who are exposed to this info and decide to get the boosters anyway because reasons.

        The people I’ve encountered who were forced to get the jab are, almost to a person, angry and a bit humiliated at being violated like that. Some have sworn off the boosters. Some have worked hard to clean up their finances so they can weather the storm next time. Some are looking for opportunities to change careers into something less likely to result in forced medical experimentation. They are changed people.

        Then there are those who may find the whole thing a bit distasteful, but dutifully march to the TMITE piper’s tune. Those are the conquered people. That little shred of conscience and self-preservation is a whisper of a voice in the back of their heads, easily crowded out by the seductive song coming from the TV.

  10. creech

    Corporations are making “excess profits” and “price gouging” customers. Yet, at the same time, they are reporting disappointing earnings and the stock market has gone in the shitter. Puzzling, isn’t it?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      12% revenue increases in times of 15% price inflation isn’t an upward swing.

      The political blame-game has begun and the real pain hasn’t even shown up yet.

      The question to me is whether the big equity firms will be able to maintain their stranglehold on corporate America. If that system breaks, the jig is up for the wokesters and the environuts.

    • Raven Nation

      How many dollars makes “excess .”

      • Compelled Speechless

        +$1. All profit is excessive.

        -Bernie from the comfort of his third mansion

    • Drake

      They just write it off!

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Miyares and Sears are the best things about the Youngkin administration.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      They’re (Youngkin & the leg) dragging their feet on the legal weed stuff. Fighting over bullshit. It’s infuriating.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s a sop to the soccer moms that got Youngkin elected.

        I’m willing to tolerate it if we get progress on the local control issues over education and limitations on emergency actions put in place.

      • Tonio

        My understanding is that the old black market supply chain, now gray market, is still intact and working fine. *cough*

        The big sticking point seems to be set-asides for people convicted of non-violent weed-related crimes; the socon talking point is that these licenses are going to be awarded to “criminals.”

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        The Ds want to prioritize protected classes when handing out licenses.

        Meanwhile, we libertarians are sitting here, like, “how about no licenses?”

    • Rat on a train

      Like 2016, dodged a bullet, so Virginia will be fortified back into the Clinton crime family in 2025.

  12. Tundra

    Thanks, Tonio.

    Nice to know that the Dems have completely and utterly abandoned any pretense of being anti war.

    And that the FDA is as retarded as ever.

    Healthy: whole foods, good oils, low sugar.

    See? It’s easy!

  13. db

    I want to talk about cruising.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Go to Balboa Park in San Diego.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

      • pistoffnick

        Or the Duluth Family Sauna

      • pistoffnick

        Or so I’ve heard.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Golden Gate park has a sad.

    • Tonio

      You mean like on a cruise ship, right?

      • Bobarian LMD

        The (special kind of) Love Boat?

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      There’s this rest area off I-89 just outside Stowe, VT…

    • Drake

      Do they call you the Cruiser?

      • C. Anacreon

        Figured he should enlist before he got drafted.

    • MikeS

      Wide stance. Tap your foot three times.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Make sure the shoes you’re tapping aren’t standard FBI issue.

      • pistoffnick

        Minneapolis Airport bathroom

      • Chafed

        db is a senator?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Wear a condom. Monkey pox is on the loose.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Is it going to be problematic to discuss if this starts disproportionately affecting the black community?

    • Rat on a train

      We are going to hook you up to a machine that measures stress. Don’t stress, your job depends on you passing.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, but some stupid clerks don’t know that.

    • EvilSheldon

      They’re really not. This kind of thing is exactly what a polygraph would be well suited for.

      It would be more expensive and less fun than just taking everyone with access to the document, lining them up against a suitable backstop, and shooting them in the head one at a time until someone confesses.

      • Urthona

        Lie detectors are complete pseudoscience.

      • EvilSheldon

        Measuring broad-spectrum stress responses compared to a baseline level during an interrogation, is not pseudoscience.

        While it’s not possible to tell whether or not someone is lying in response to a particular inquiry, a well-trained poly operator can identify general patterns of deception with near-perfect reliability.

      • Urthona

        No they cannot. It’s nearly impossible to even devise an adequate experiment for this.

      • Rat on a train

        How many spies have passed polygraphs?

      • EvilSheldon

        I seem to recall that both Ames and Hansen blew multiple lifestyle polys, but both had connections that they used to keep their clearances from being affected.

    • Chafed

      Remember Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

    • The Other Kevin

      I guess the Flavor of Love is “Neopolitan”.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I thought it was dark chocolate and cherry. Ohhh I see what you did. Who’s the pink? Do I even want to know?

    • B.P.

      “He mainly served as a hype man, getting the crowd riled up for Chuck D before he went onstage.”

      Well, no. He was the “hype man” in rap parlance, but not as described here. And he looks pretty good in that tuxedo.

    • Chafed

      It’s astonishing he hasn’t gone bankrupt.

  14. Swiss Servator

    I wonder if that hyena has a coffeeshop, along with a couple of giraffes?

    • MikeS

      If he does, the video may have just been a viral marketing attempt to Hype his shop.

  15. juris imprudent

    Mildly disappointed that the Benny Hill soundtrack did not accompany the hyena annoying the water buffalo.

    • rhywun

      Mine is this one.

      • cavalier973

        Very cool. I’ve only seen “Blade Runner” once and didn’t remember anything about the soundtrack, but that music captures the essential flavor of the movie.

        On a distantly related note, I only learned yesterday what the song was that was playing in Flynn’s Arcade in “Tron”:

        Journey’s 1990’s Theme

        https://youtu.be/NxztxglUxK4

      • R.J.

        I am going to look up his last album.
        I read his obituary and apparently his last album was called “From Juno to Jupiter” and included recordings of the Juno probe.

  16. EvilSheldon

    RC Dean, in case you missed the Dedthred,

    Mr. Dean,

    My rule of thumb – I buy the cheapest brass-cased factory ammo that was made in a country where I could safely drink the water. I’ll allow some leeway in that rule for Magtech (Brazil) and Aguila (Mexico) just based on prior experience – their ammo is good stuff.

    Steel-cased ammo won’t hurt your gun, but it’s usually filthy and underpowered.

    I don’t buy remanufactured ammo unless it’s from a maker I’ve tried out before. I’ve had good results with Atlanta Ammo, Felix, and Peak Performances.

    Hope this helps!

    • Sean

      I was gonna call you out on Aguila, but I figured the thread was dead.

      And I’ve had zero problems with Magtech.

      • EvilSheldon

        Magtech makes the best factory match 5.56mm ammo I’ve ever used (other than my Copper Creek stuff, and that’s handmade and two bucks a round). Too bad it hasn’t been in stock anywhere since 2019…

      • EvilSheldon

        Oh, and that should be Fenix Ammunition and Peak Performance ammunition. Autocorrect, amirite?

      • LCDR_Fish

        Fenix is re-loaded? Pretty sure it’s all new.

      • EvilSheldon

        Fenix’s defensive ammo is new. Their training ammo is remanufactured. Their competition stuff is split down the middle, some is new, some not.

        I wouldn’t let that stop me from buying more of it. The Fenix 147grn. 9mm USPSA Minor load is very solid.

      • Spudalicious

        Magtech is fine. I bought a case of .22LR that was an Argentinian brand. Stuff shoots great.

        As for factory reloads, I have done very well with Freedom Munitions.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’m sorry to be difficult, but I have to say – my experience with Freedom Munitions soured me badly on the brand. A few years ago, I bought a bunch (30k divided between me and two other guys) of their 147grn. 9mm plated bullets, and all of them were sized incorrectly. The loaded ammo made with those bullets keyholed at ten yards, out of numerous different guns. Freedom Munitions’ reaction was, “Hey, they’re y’all’s reloads, not our problem if they don’t shoot…”

        So yeah, I don’t recommend them.

    • Drake

      A few weeks ago I was shooting some Red Army steel 9mm I had bought at the height of the shortage at an indoor range. It was really loud, smoky, and like a flashbulb going off. I swear there were also sparks coming out of the ejection port with the brass.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Shit’s filthy, smells funny too.

    • Not Adahn

      For reman, I’ve had good luck with https://www.minutemanmunitions.com/

      Though really, they’re no cheaper than factory.

      And Federal aluminum cased has always worked perfectly for me.

  17. Certified Public Asshat

    Boo, Everton survived relegation. Hopefully Burnley goes down now instead of Leeds.

  18. The Other Kevin

    So Elon tweeted something about Democrats being the party of division and hate, and Democrats are falling over themselves to prove how divisive and hateful they are.

    • R.J.

      That doesn’t take much doing.

    • rhywun

      It comes naturally to them.

    • R.J.

      Gaahh. Why did I go read comments on reddit about that?

      • Brochettaward

        Link?

      • Brochettaward

        There are two plausible explanations for this:

        He could have been suckered in by the fascist propaganda about the Buffalo shooting

        Dictators often ask their underlings to publicly say outrageous things which everybody knows are false. This could be a fascist pledge of allegiance.

        I mean, look at Musk’s haircut. TOTAL FASC

      • EvilSheldon

        “Dictators often ask their underlings to publicly say outrageous things which everybody knows are false. This could be a fascist pledge of allegiance.”

        You mean like, “Men can get pregnant?”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • Brochettaward

        It’s amazing to me that Reddit’s main political forum, which should be a mix of opinions, is just a sea of lefties jerking each other off. There’s almost no dissent of any kind. That is, in their view, how social media should operate.

      • R.J.

        It is wretched.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Reddit is for the most moronic of the morons when it comes to politics and economics. It’s like a bunch of Lenins with lobotomies.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Isn’t that here minus the lefty part?

      • Brochettaward

        This is a small, self-selecting community that is started by and run for libertarian leaning individuals. Reddit is one of the largest sites on the internet and R/politics is nominally just for the discussion of politics. It isn’t aimed at one ideological group. You don’t end up with an echo chamber like that unless it becomes very clear to one side that they aren’t going to be engaged with on equal terms.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Gotcha, I’m not that familiar with Reddit’s political boards other than knowing enough to say they suck. They’ve banned their way into an echo chamber looks like.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The only way to kill the hidden hate in the heart of every Republican (anyone to the right of Pol Pot) is to get out front of them with much louder, more obvious hate. That’s real love.

      • Count Potato

        Those Cambodian skulls aren’t going to pile themselves.

  19. B.P.

    Time to bust out those “Dow 30,000” hats and T-shirts that were kicking around a few years ago.

    • Count Potato

      Yikes! This is not good.

    • R.J.

      Wow. Quite the story. When she got rebuilt, could the doctors not correct those eyebrows while they were at it?

      • Spudalicious

        The Sharpie needs to wear off first.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Labor so bad it tore her a new hole?…

      Or…

      HIKER DISCOVER HIM HAVE NEW VAGINA WHILE ON CAMPING TRIP

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      What gender did the second vagina identify as?

    • juris imprudent

      Odd that this should come up after making mention of Dead Ringers the other day.

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      God damn. Who’s the war paint for?

  20. grrizzly

    Panel recommends replacing Massachusetts seal, motto

    The commission put together to study the racial implications of the Massachusetts state seal and motto has voted unanimously to recommend that both be replaced.

    The Special Commission on the Official Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth, made up of lawmakers, members of Indigenous tribes, historians and others, made the decision at its meeting on Tuesday, GBH News reported.

    • EvilSheldon

      Can they change the state seal to a couple of drunken micks fighting over the last potato?

      • R.J.

        And EvilSheldon wins the comments today. Well done.

      • Rat on a train

        You can always fall back on Mickface.

    • cavalier973

      Let me guess: they want to remove the Indians from the seal.

      • Chafed

        And replace them with Elizabeth Warren.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Will the new motto be Wicked Pissah?

    • Rat on a train

      I can believe they want to remove “liberty” from their motto.

      • juris imprudent

        The honesty is astonishing.

    • Winston

      It’s just the Confederate Battle Flag…

    • Count Potato

      “Panel recommends replacing Massachusetts”

      I agree with them.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Back from Pocatello. Looked at a little house in a decent quiet older neighborhood. Said house is well into the overlap of “fixer-upper, or tearer-downer?” It was built in like 1910. It reminds me a lot of some of the houses I and my friends lived in, in college. Not too far from Idaho State, actually.

    “Why?” you ask. Because it’s on a decent sized corner lot, with enough room to put a garage/shop twice as big as the house. I can’t tell if I’m running out of patience or options faster.

    • Tundra

      I just signed another lease. Still too insane for my taste.

      And the thought of moving makes me break out in hives.

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      Huh, sounds like my neighbors place.

      Except he never finished the damn shop.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    The Special Commission on the Official Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth, made up of lawmakers, members of Indigenous tribes, historians and others, made the decision at its meeting on Tuesday, GBH News reported.

    Virginia’s is much easier to fix. They just need to change the motto to “STOP RESISTING.”

  23. Gadfly

    YOU THINK YOU HAD A BAD WEEK? Here is a link to a video of an hyena biting a buffalo in the nutsack.

    Much worse than your standard nut-punch.

    That buffalo must’ve been old, he didn’t seem to be putting up much of a fight against that hyena.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      FTA, He was old and had just finished fighting off some lions.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        “Fuck… At least I get to go out teabagging a hyena.”

  24. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Healthy food: anything unprocessed. Unhealthy food: anything processed. Whole grains somewhere in the middle used to supplement your meal. Pretty simple in the end.

    • cavalier973

      What about hot dogs?

      • B.P.

        “Researchers at the University of Michigan released a peer-reviewed study last week claiming that eating a single hot dog can take 36 minutes off of a human’s life. In contrast, the study found that eating nuts could add 26 minutes to someone’s lifespan.”

        That hyena was just following healthy eating guidelines.

  25. DEG

    The Food and Drug Administration is testing designs of a label that food manufacturers could voluntarily put on the front of packages indicating that a product is “healthy.”

    Fuck off slavers.

    Lockdown-like measures should be implemented across the European Union to curb the bloc’s reliance on Russian oil, Luxembourg’s energy minister has said.

    Fuck off slaver.

    • Chafed

      Lol

    • Sean

      *your

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You big dummy!!!

    • DEG

      🙂

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I just signed another lease. Still too insane for my taste.

    Crazy price for what it is, but way ahead of the place I threw an offer down on last week.

    I’m sick of living in this tin doghouse.

    • Tundra

      I get it. I actually really dig this place and the neighborhood. It’s fine for now

  27. Winston

    https://tnc.news/2022/05/19/guest-op-ed-one-year-later-there-is-still-no-evidence-of-unmarked-graves-or-missing-children-at-former-residential-schools/

    There are no names associated with these allegedly missing children, no lists of children who had gone missing or unaccounted for, no parents or relatives who claim that their child was among the 215.

    Who are the 215 children allegedly buried there? No one has the slightest idea.

    Not one of the many Indian Bands who sent children to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, including the Kamloops Band itself, has ever come forward with the name of a single child who allegedly went to the school and never returned, and for whom the Band has been looking ever since. Not one.

    There is thus absolutely no evidence of any child who attended KIRS from any Band in BC actually having gone missing, much less that any child was murdered and secretly buried in the apple orchard by six year olds. That tale appears to be the figment of overactive imaginations.

    • Gustave Lytton

      They’re trying the same bullshit with BIA here.

      • Winston

        Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan are safe despite their Indian policies, right?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Haha. They’re all coming down. Any excuse to erase history.

  28. Winston

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10828875/George-Monbiot-says-farming-ABOLISHED-save-planet.html

    The writer, who describes farming as the ‘most destructive force ever to have been unleashed by humans’, argues meat producers will not be able to sustainably keep up with the increase in global food demand.

    He suggests that the world should look at newer methods, including creating industrial quantities of protein powder using bacteria which can be used to make food such as ‘protein pancakes’ instead.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I have no issue with trying to find food replacements.

      But the tell is that they can never do that work without proclaiming that traditional food production methods are unsustainable and/or evil while also proclaiming that man is a scourge on the planet.

      They’re simultaneously admitting that they hate humans and that their products can’t compete with modern agriculture.

    • R.J.

      I got your protein pancake, buddy.

      • C. Anacreon

        Should always trust research by George Moonbat.

      • juris imprudent

        Dude can generate clicks.

    • Winston

      Change is always good…

    • rhywun

      All the happy horseshit commercials put out by Con Edison and the like… NYC is not going to know what hit it when the power goes out.

      • Tulip

        This iS why my first priority for my next house is a generator. Then solar, then kitchen and baths. It will be my last house, so I want it to be the way I want. But first, backups.

  29. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Well, that worked out nicely’ Edition)
    #115
    Champ
    The Hyperbole 17

    trshmnstr the terrible 19
    one true athena 20
    Grumbletarian 21
    kinnath 21
    Not Adahn 21
    Sean 21
    SDF-7 22
    Ted S. 22
    whiz 22
    db 23
    Grosspatzer 23
    Rat on a train 23
    Bobarian LMD 24
    Grummun 24
    TARDis 24
    Tulip 24
    grrizzly 25
    MikeS 25

    Chump
    Tundra 120

    20 Players, 27.05 Average, Split on the Tundra Line, speaking of whom- Tundra drops from the no-chump chase after 31. Leaving Not Adahn and Mike “DoubleChump” S the closest at just 12 back from Sean’s impressive 37. In Championship News I beat whiz with a near hit to my starter word and a lucky flyer. To join Ted S, Not Adahn, and Grrizzly in the the Final Four which begins tomorrow. Good Quordling and Good Luck.

    • Brochettaward

      I Quordled and my score was First.
      Brochettaward 1

    • Tulip

      Thanks for doing this. It’s fun.

      • Tundra

        Seconded. My 3 hours of sleep murdered my streak, but tomorrow is the beginning of a new one!

    • Ozymandias

      Better late than never, I always say.
      Daily Quordle 115
      8️⃣7️⃣
      5️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

  30. Winston

    https://www.aier.org/article/speaking-of-liberal-values/

    Liberal, enlightened values are never so firmly entrenched that their widespread acceptance can safely be taken for granted. The propositions in which these values are grounded must be constantly polished and refined, and the values themselves must be incessantly repeated, defended, and championed.

    What we say, how we say it, and who is given respectful hearings all matter very much. Change the talking for the better, change society for the better; change the talking for the worse, change society for the worse. To coercively obstruct discussion and debate is unquestionably to change the talking for the worse. And as McCloskey documents, such change can happen rather quickly.

    But however much we might applaud these expressed sensibilities, we must recognize that they are not self-reinforcing. On the loose always are illiberal sentiments, expressed by the arrogant, the ignorant, the unenlightened, and the authoritarian. To establish their utopias, enemies of liberalism will never hesitate to squelch free expression. We liberals, therefore, must forever be ready, understanding the power of words, to challenge with our own words these assaults on freedom of expression and on open, peaceful discourse and debate.

    But doesn’t this mean that Liberalism requires old ideas that can not be rejected and constantly have to be articulated and defended and there is a need for there to be people who support such values? As opposed to blather about modernity, change, progress, new tech and assuming that wealthy educated urbanites will automatically be liberals?

    • R.J.

      I had… the best snark ever and when I hit ‘post’ it went away. The moment it gone.

    • Sean

      Tedious.

    • B.P.

      Yet another of our best and brightest who thinks in terms of fairy tales.

      “There are currently loud drunk people outside my window in Spain. I’m not at all worried somebody will get shot. Why? Because of guns, or lack thereof.”

      I hope this guy doesn’t worry that a gunfight is imminent every time a drunk person raises his voice in the U.S.

      • EvilSheldon

        There are currently no loud drunk people outside my window in Virginia. This is nice. I like it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I couldn’t decide.

      • R.J.

        Me neither. Great article. So, several millions darts full of testosterone?

      • rhywun

        Both turn green for me. ??‍♂️

  31. Brochettaward

    We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to First, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to First against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is First, First at all costs, First in spite of all terror, First, however long and hard the road may be.

    We shall First on the beaches, we shall First on the landing grounds, we shall First in the fields and in the streets, we shall First in the hills; we shall never second.

    • R.J.

      Jeez, premature firsting! Next post is at 7:00!

    • Tundra

      *salutes*

    • Aloysious

      *stands erect*

  32. Tulip

    I took the day off today. It was glorious. I ran errands, weeded part of the yard, and am now enjoying a mojito using fresh mint from my garden. I got all the stuff I need to make a backyard solar powered fountain this weekend.

    • Brochettaward

      Look at Tulip reveling in her white and seconder privilege where she can take a day off.

      You know who doesn’t get days off? Firsters.

      • Brochettaward

        And presumably minorities and gays who have to spend all their time exerting extra mental energy dealing with the white people.

      • Tulip

        You just wish you were enjoying a mojito and planning your next landscaping project.

      • R.J.

        That inspired me. I am getting a martini and going outside.

      • Tulip

        I only drink martinis on weekends.

    • Sean

      We expect pics.

      • Tulip

        This seems like an easy article, so yeah pics.

      • Sean

        ?

    • Tundra

      Lovely day! Cheers, Tulip!

    • LCDR_Fish

      California?

    • C. Anacreon

      Because LA District Attorney George Gascon declined to charge him with a felony for the knife attack on Chappelle?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Gascon needs a good stabbin’ himself.

  33. Semi-Spartan Dad

    China Insists Party Elites Shed Overseas Assets, Eyeing Western Sanctions on Russia
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-insists-party-elites-shed-overseas-assets-eyeing-western-sanctions-on-russia-11652956787

    China’s Communist Party will block promotions for senior cadres whose spouses or children hold significant assets abroad, people familiar with the matter said, as Beijing seeks to insulate its top officials from the types of sanctions now being directed at Russia.

    The directive came as Mr. Xi seeks to minimize geopolitical risks for the Communist Party amid concerns that officials with overseas financial exposure could become a liability if the U.S. and other Western powers impose sanctions against Chinese leaders and their relatives, similar to what was done against Moscow following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the people said.

    Sounds like China is continuing to move closer towards action against Taiwan. Regardless, the world environment is starting to feel more like pre-WW3 or perhaps pre-WWI but with nukes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The weaponizing of the international financial system by the West may go down as the single dumbest move in history.

      • Brochettaward

        Previous generations of top men fought very hard to bring the Russians and Chinese into the fold…so their far lesser successors, given the challenge of authority which was just too good not to abuse, could fuck it all up.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s the infuriating part. They just couldn’t resist the temptation to abuse the trust.

        We should have no doubt as to how we will be treated by them.

      • Sean

        We ain’t seen nothing yet.

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      WWI was the last war of kings. WWII was the war to settle what would be the next international political system.

      That system, liberalism, is failing. And in its failing it is going to drag the world into another conflict.

  34. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    Just finished my legally mandated diversity training. I’m feeling extra obnoxious now.

    • Tundra

      Feel free to call me a dago thistle-arse Kraut.

      It will be cathartic.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        All that and you’re a cunte too.

        You’re right. That felt good.

      • Tundra

        Always here for you, brother.

    • R.J.

      Come vote on next week’s reprehensible sleazy movie at 7:00 then. Maybe even watch one in advance!

      • Brochettaward

        RJ – I know you talk about the movies you may cover ahead of time, but I think it would do your article good to announce each week before hand what next weeks will be. People can watch if they choose beforehand and the Thursday article can be for discussion.

      • R.J.

        Not a bad plan. When time allows we at least announce it on Mondays. Could also include a link.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Nice excuse for a post…

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      If I actually worked in an office now, if be staring at boobs and grabbing some ass after that training. I always figured it wasn’t appropriate office behavior, but that training is like waving a red cape in front of a bull.

    • Tundra

      Honestly, it can’t be posted enough.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Still wonder what happened to the anti-war left in this country. Bunch of useless Hippies.

      • Winston

        The vast majority of them opposed the draft solely. As for the rest they were either Commies, hated Republicans or thought the MIC was too white…

      • Tundra

        Everything in the Team, nothing outside the Team, nothing against the Team.

  35. Tulip

    It’s cooled down a bit, so I did a little more yard clean up. Today, I filled 3 paper yard bags. Got my glib fit in.

  36. Tulip

    You know, I’m going to take most of tomorrow off as well. This has been restorative and I want to.

  37. hayeksplosives

    I have survived the family visit. They leave at about 10:45 tomorrow.

    I’ve learned a lot. Parents constantly on their screens = frustrated/sad/attention-seeking jerks.

    So as the parents neglected shit, I put on
    Y bathing suit and flung the kids in the pool,

    Eventually their parents deigned to get in. But pretty sure that the fact they can actually swim now is due to my instruction.

    • Festus

      No worries, Hayek. They just grow up to worse than you would imagine. Circle of life and all that bullshit. My first Grandson was a terror. Now he’s a sneaky, spoiled terror.

  38. Festus

    Dead-site. Festus is rocking in the corner.

  39. Raven Nation

    testing

  40. hayeksplosives

    I assume something difficult is going on either technically or personally.

    I’m praying for everyone.

    ?