Wednesday Afternoon SugarLink – Excuses, excuses

by | May 4, 2022 | Daily Links | 229 comments

On Step 3 of The Critical Drinker’s “How To Kill A Show” plan, I get the feeling Disney thinks Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness is not going to do well, and they need to get their excuses ready.

 

Marvel’s Victoria Alonso & Xochitl Gomez On Bringing Hope And Visibility To LGBTQ+ Community With America Chavez

Xochitl Gomez is shaking up the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her debut as LGBTQ+ Latina superhero America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, bringing with her the representation someone like Marvel’s Victoria Alonso would’ve relished seeing while growing up.

“What it would’ve meant is to have had a tad more understanding of the person that I was and that I was growing into being was not invisible,” Marvel exec and Doctor Strange 2 EP Alonso, who shares a 9-year-old daughter with designer wife Imelda Corcoran, told Deadline at the film’s premiere Monday night in Hollywood.

“I think visibility at any age is incredibly important whether you’re 10, 20, 30 or 80,” she continued. “To have your people and to have someone who says, ‘I am, and it’s OK. I am, and I am powerful. I am, and I belong.’ I think any young adult could have that today, [specifically] the 42 percent of LGBTQIA adults that consider suicide or those that do it, would probably think twice that maybe they’re OK [as they are]. My hope today is that—as a small gift from a bunch of filmmakers that want to tell great stories—if there are any kids out there thinking even minimally that their lives are not worth it, I can honestly tell you their lives are worth it and we will celebrate it with them.”

 

How can a person be expected to watch or read something that doesn’t represent them? I call for a boycott of anything that doesn’t feature a fat, diabetic failed writer whose love life is a crow pecking at roadkill. I demand to feel REPRESENTED.


 

Student Debt Cancellation Is Unfair. That Doesn’t Mean Biden Shouldn’t Do It.

On the face of it, canceling any student debt creates a class of winners, and no class of losers. After all, nothing happens to those unaffected, except that their local economies may be stimulated as former college debtholders will likely spend more on goods and services once they are permanently freed of their monthly debt payments. Perhaps there will be some downstream effects, like there will be for any addition to the national debt, like the possibility of higher taxes down the road or taxpayer dollars not being spent on other priorities. It might add to inflation, but most estimates suggest the impact would be relatively modest. But those effects are going to hit people whose debt has been canceled, too. They’re also taxpayers and participants in the economy. With some winners, no losers, and everyone affected similarly by future downstream effects, what is not to like?

 

Yup. No downsides whatsoever. No moral hazard. No addition to the tax burden of people who didn’t take out loans or paid them back. No reward to colleges for their fraud of selling useless degrees. Although, getting a philosophy grad to argue the case was a sly move on Slate’s part. Who knows more about overpaying for a useless degree than a Philosophy Ph.D. from Princeton?


 

Isaiah Lee, the guy who attacked Dave Chapelle. He got the full Altamont.

 


 

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229 Comments

  1. Mustang

    This is not the best First in the world. No, this is a just a tribute. I am not worthy of that First, which is to come.

    • Rat on a train

      Somebody has to step up and do the important work. Thank you for your service.

  2. Mustang

    Dang, I enjoyed Doctor Strange. Guess I won’t be watching this one.

    • Ted S.

      I have no desire to see any of the Marvel or DC Comics movies.

      • Mustang

        I enjoyed the escapism up until they went crazy with the streaming content. It was pretty easy for me to sit back and suspend my disbelief for a while and laugh at the slapstick humor in quite a few of them.

    • SDF-7

      I found it pretty forgettable — and they made him a complete and total moron to make Spider-man: No Way Home work at all (seriously.. don’t get me started on how incredibly dumb he was all through that). Plus, I considered myself at a good stopping point at Endgame, so between all that and America Chavez as a character being about as interesting / watchable as The 24-7 AOC Channel, I don’t feel any need to bother.

      Oh — and when it comes to Ben Folds.. this is my go-to. More and more each day, unfortunately… and much closer to it than the other side.

      • Mustang

        I’m not a comic book guy so I don’t have any frame of reference. Endgame pretty much wrapped up the Marvel universe for me as well. I think I made it 30 minutes into Eternals. Can’t do it anymore.

      • Bobarian LMD

        America Chavez was one of those properties that really juiced up the actual comic buying market.

        and when I say juiced up, I mean made their long time customers all rage quit, to be replaced by the 10s of LGBTQWERTYLMNOPs come out and start buying their comics.

      • SDF-7

        But who wouldn’t love Captain America replaced by a transdimensional Lesbian illegal immigrant who constantly slams the US and is written as a shrill harpy? Pure comics gold, Jerry!

      • SugarFree

        Look, just as men make the best women, Mexicans without citizenship make the best Americans.

      • Nephilium

        You mean like the bisexual Superman?

        At least Falcon picked up the Captain America shield and title.

      • 2ndClassProle

        Same here. I enjoy them for the escapism, and the great effects. Hard to believe how awesome they are compared to thirty years ago. Recently, watched Batman. I do not know if I was in the right mind set or not, but it was not a very good movie.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Um….which Batman was not a very good movie? Well, shit. MOST of them. Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns are fantastic. Nolan’s Batman Begin’s and Dark Knight are equally amazing. (Both of their other ones…um…yeah they suck.)

        But hey, four ’em are legit classics. Perfect movies.

      • 2ndClassProle

        Evan, I agree on all points you made. I was talking about the latest one. It was three hours, and I just could not get into it.

      • Animal

        I admit I got a kick out of Batman and Robin, not because of Clooney as Batman – he was awful – and not because of the dumb-as-dirt Alicia Silverstone – she was even worse. Not because of Uma Thurman’s phoned-in performance, or how they took a serious villain, Bane, and reduced him to comic relief.

        No, I got a kick out of watching Schwarzenegger just fuck around through the whole film. You can tell he didn’t want to be there and that they weren’t paying him enough to take it seriously.

        “A laundry service that delivers! Wow!”

      • 2ndClassProle

        I enjoyed Tom Hardy’s Bain, but I am kind of a fan boy of his. Even dressed up for Halloween one year as Bain. It was fun.

      • juris imprudent

        Hardy’s Taboo was quite a trip.

      • Nephilium

        It could be worse… look up all the changes that have been done to Ms. Marvel for the upcoming show (and movie).

      • Not Adahn

        Mx. Marvel?

    • Nephilium

      I’m not a fan of the magical superheroes. Too many of them have no real limitations, and unlimited powers. Same reason I’m not that big a fan of Superman.

      • SDF-7

        A lot of comic characters are actually pretty unstoppable if the writers used their powers logically. I mean — Flash, anyone? Only a few characters could even have a chance to see him, much less stop him if he stayed at his full speed. Green Lantern should be pretty unstoppable since they removed the yellow vulnerability (yet isn’t). As a fan of Firestorm — believe me when I say that they never come anywhere near his potential (inability to directly affect organics or not).

        The writers happily keep “Shields set to Plot Device, Cap’n!” like they would with the Enterprise on Star Trek… one week they go toe to toe with 3 Romulan Warbirds — next week, they’re shaken around by a gorram Pakled trading ship. You just have to roll with it.

        (And for the other direction, stay well away from the Morrison run of Batman [aka Bat-God]).

      • EvilSheldon

        In science fiction, vulnerabilities are way more interesting than powers.

  3. Count Potato

    “I call for a boycott of anything that doesn’t feature a fat, diabetic failed writer whose love life is a crow pecking at roadkill.”

    What’s his super power?

    • Mustang

      See previous Glibs post.

      • Count Potato

        It can’t be writing if his backstory is “failed writer”.

      • Mustang

        It’s not the writing, it’s the uncontrollable vomiting almost on command.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Combined with simultaneous crying/laughing.

        And swelled ankles.

      • Chafed

        It’s all true.

    • Rat on a train

      privilege?

    • UnCivilServant

      Not everyone needs superpowers, bigot!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I don’t care who goes to see the Broadway hit Sugar Free: The Musical

      I just want a cut of the licensed merch.

      • Tulip

        Barf bags?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Assless Chaps

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I saw it… It was better than Cats…

      • R C Dean

        See, that’s how you damn with faint praise.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    If Isaiah Lee is alive to be charged he didn’t really get the full Altamont. Still sucks to be him though.

    • SugarFree

      Halfamont?

  5. Mustang

    Damn the long term effects of debt cancellation, full speed ahead!

    No critical thinking whatsoever.

    • SDF-7

      Well, it *is* Slate and all…

      • Bobarian LMD

        I always go to Philosophy majors for my economic advice. Which isn’t any worse than NYT Nobel-Prize winning Economics Professors, I guess.

        Winston’s Mom concurs.

    • Lackadaisical

      It’s impressively bad thinking in general. The article seems to mention several downsides to non borrowers, and then just brushes them aside, because reasons.

  6. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    “On the face of it, canceling any student debt creates a class of winners, and no class of losers.” It seems to me that the people footing the bill are the losers.

    • Shpip

      the people footing the bill are the losers

      AKA “chumps

      • Tonio

        Thanks. You beat me to linking that.

    • Nephilium

      But you’re helping your fellow man woman person!

      • Lackadaisical

        They prefer enby, bigot.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Look, the lesser people should be happy to help their betters out, so they can live a superior lifestyle. That’s the American dream, right?

  7. Shpip

    He got the full Altamont.

    Share this pic far and wide, pour encourager les autres.

    Something something you get less of what you punish.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That backwards arm has got to sting.

      • Drake

        Handcuffing it was a nice touch.

      • Sensei

        It IS what they do.

        I find it especially touching after cops shoot somebody. After that the individual is cuffed and after that they begin first aid like CPR.

        Those procedures DO get followed.

    • juris imprudent

      I hope his manicure/nail-paint was damaged in the struggle and he didn’t just take the stage with that little care to what his hands looked like.

      • Tulip

        *hides hands* it’s garden season!

      • juris imprudent

        My hands usually look worse because I’m not a nail-painting kind of guy. Since he was white-knighting QUILTBAG folk, I just wanted to be a litte catty.

  8. Tundra

    Damn, that’s a great song, SF!

    I haven’t listened to Ben for a long time – gotta fix that!

  9. Plisade

    “economies may be stimulated as former college debtholders will likely spend more on goods and services”

    Sooo… “Trickle Down Economics” is good now?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      More like the seen and the unseen.

      • Plisade

        And more and more obscene.

  10. Bobarian LMD

    Who knows more about overpaying for a useless degree than a Philosophy Ph.D. from Princeton?

    Do you even First Peoples Multicultural, Trans, and Queer Support studies from Evergreen, Bro?

  11. Gender Traitor

    Re: Chappelle attack –

    Another surprise came when [Chris] Rock, who was also performing the event, came on stage and asked Chappelle: “Was that Will Smith?”

    • Nephilium

      I’m sure you’ve seen, but Chappelle is planning on doing outdoor shows in Yellow Springs again this year. I may try to convince the girlfriend that we should get some tickets and head down.

      • Lackadaisical

        I absolutely would if it were me. Guy is hilarious.

      • Ted S.

        You want to be Neph’s girlfriend?

      • Chafed

        You could do a lot worse.

      • Tres Cool

        I bet that beard tickles.

  12. rhywun

    L+ people are so invisible today, I can’t even.

    • Ted S.

      It’s not like they show homebody gay men in monogamous relationships, only the insufferable drama queen types.

    • Lackadaisical

      L+ means what?

      • db

        Lasted longer than CNN+

      • Bobarian LMD

        The subscription fees weren’t so onerous.

      • juris imprudent

        There should be a joke about moving vans somewhere in there.

  13. DEG

    Xochitl Gomez is shaking up the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her debut as LGBTQ+ Latina superhero America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Madness is apropos.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, we’re already living in the multiverse of madness. Why would I want to see it on the screen?

  14. SDF-7

    ‘Member when the teachers unions were all adamant about keeping the kids at home, away from their friends and isolated for two years or so?

    Well NOW they’re all upset about it. Really. There could be tears. :eyeroll:

    • Chafed

      She is a walking advertisement for charter schools.

  15. Drake

    How can a person be expected to watch or read something that doesn’t represent them?

    For some reason empathy seems to be completely lacking these days. Old movies often expected you to understand and perhaps empathize with all the characters.

    In the old days, part of a diplomat’s job was to understand other people’s concerns and try to address them in negotiations. That’s gone now too. Blinken, Biden and the other morons are out there portraying Putin as a supervillian even as they violated the Minsk agreements.

  16. Sensei

    Good news on the student loan forgiveness, the WSJ reports:

    Biden is considering limiting student loan forgiveness to borrowers who make less than $125,000 a year, according to the White House.

    • rhywun

      The republic is saved.

      • Sensei

        Gender Studies graduates rejoice!

      • Bobarian LMD

        $125,000 a year lifetime.

    • SDF-7

      Why Congress wouldn’t immediately impeach him for giving himself the power of the purse is a mystery for another day apparently.

      (Of course, a strong case could be made on immigration and the whole executive purpose to “faithfully execute the laws” instead of “pick and choose what I feel like executing today” that’s become the fashion…).

      Where’s the onion for my belt again….

      • Bobarian LMD

        You’d need to have some agency be responsible for making laws in order for them to call the Executive on breaking them.

        We haven’t had one of those in quite a while.

    • Not Adahn

      Official announcement to be issued the week before the midterms. Closer if CDC determines young voter’s attention span has shrunk.

    • Lackadaisical

      That’s…. A pretty high bar. What recent grass does that exclude? Software guys?

      Most lawyers don’t start out that high, apparently right at the median lawyer salary.

      • Sensei

        Exactly. Plus, naturally, it’s per person.

        So your wife the Art History major is also covered too.

    • 2ndClassProle

      I quit my job at the first of the year to finish school. Took a huge tax hit from withdrawing 401k early. I would not mind getting some of the money back in the form of loan forgiveness. Not for sure if this revokes my libertarian card, but I will reclaim my money taken from me.

      • Sensei

        This libertarian believe you should take money back from the state if offered. I’m assuming you aren’t in favor of the loan forgiveness of course.

        Same way I claimed my ridiculous EV credits.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I got cash for my clunker.

        Doesn’t mean I supported that stupidity.

      • 2ndClassProle

        No, not in favor of it, but if I can get back the forty grand they took from me this year, from the 401k, I will take it.

      • The Last American Hero

        Some people joined the military and got shot or shot other human beings to avoid the loans and get the gi bill. Some worked through school and some worked afterwards and lived modestly to pay their debts.

        Suckers. Every last one of them.

  17. Not Adahn

    Just pay for the student forgiveness with a one-time tax on all university endowments over $1G.

    • juris imprudent

      I didn’t realize inflation was so bad that we were into Gazillions.

    • db

      Do you mean MMM?

      • Ted S.

        I wasn’t certain whether he mean one grand, or one gigabuck.

    • EvilSheldon

      Shit. I owe you a You-Hoo.

  18. Certified Public Asshat

    I don’t remember where I heard this idea, but it was suggested that if we are not going to tax universities to pay for student loan forgiveness, we should *at least* delay SS benefits for anyone who accepts debt relief.

    I can sort of get on board with this idea, but I’d like to suggest anyone who accepts relief forfeits all future SS benefits (up to them to decide if the amount of debt they have is worth that trade-off). Also, let me opt out of SS completely (debt forgiveness recipients still pay in).

  19. R C Dean

    But those effects are going to hit people whose debt has been canceled, too.

    After admitting that everyone will take a hit, he somehow neglects to point out that those whose debt was cancelled will be winners, on net. So there will, in fact, be winners and losers.

    Ya feckin’ moron.

  20. SDF-7

    Don’t live in Louisiana, so probably Senator John Kennedy is actually useless — but from the side lines, you have to love some of his cracks.

    Personal favorite of the day — grilling the DHS head on the Disinformation Board loon: “was the department aware of her TikTok videos? They’re really quite precocious“. Heh.

    • Not Adahn
  21. Drake

    Just me or does Mayorkas look like a demon who did a half-assed job disguising itself as a human?

    • juris imprudent

      Maybe he needed the make-up artists from Men in Black?

      • Drake

        I was thinking of Constantine – hit him with the holy water gun to see what he really is.

    • MikeS

      I think the same thing every time I see Adam Schiff’s weasel face.

      • 2ndClassProle

        God, I hate that guy. After everything he said, which was untrue, especially about the Russia stuff during the Trump administration, I cannot believe anything the guy says.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I wonder how Schiff’s scrawny neck holds up his head.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        There is an easy way to find out!

      • Chafed

        It’s good to have company.

    • rhywun

      It’s not just you.

  22. EvilSheldon

    Were I the President, I would unilaterally cancel all outstanding student loans, the cost of which would be billed to the top hundred public universities as a percentage of their endowment – any school that failed to cough up the cash would have their accreditation revoked.

    • Rat on a train

      Bill it to the school were the loan was used.

      • Bobarian LMD

        This^^, some of them fuckers was worse than others.

      • hayeksplosives

        This is what I’d like to see. It’s the only way to stop or even reverse the ridiculous tuition hikes that naturally follow plentiful student loan funding.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Why exclude private universities like Harvard and Yale? It seems that a lot of the debtors are running up the bill for their puppetry degrees at private colleges.

      • EvilSheldon

        Honestly, I forgot that they were private. I would specifically include the Ivy League in the party.

  23. wdalasio

    “I think visibility at any age is incredibly important whether you’re 10, 20, 30 or 80,” she continued.

    Maybe I’m going to sound sort of out-of-touch here, but what the hell is the thing with grown adults taking their inspiration from comic book superheroes. I mean, little kids? Okay, I get that. But, if we’re talking little kids, being honest, the sexuality of the characters isn’t a thing. Despite what Hollywood seems to think, 10-year-olds aren’t really thinking sexually. And they aren’t thinking “gender identity” unless their psychotic parents have drummed it into them through some sort of Munchausen-by-proxy. Their harmonal phase hasn’t kicked in yet. No, I’m pretty sure it’s the adults pushing this crap. And, so, again, what sort of grown adult is looking at a comic book superhero and thinking about whether that fictional character is like him or her or not? No, of course they’re not like you. They’re fictional characters.

    • EvilSheldon

      Grown adults don’t, except in the most casual way. Emotionally crippled children in adult bodies often do.

    • R C Dean

      I think visibility at any age is incredibly important

      “I have no self-worth except vicariously, from famous people.”

    • Nephilium

      Because super heroes are the fables of our time.

    • MikeS

      Despite what Hollywood seems to think longs for, 10-year-olds aren’t really thinking sexually.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Well, looking at the thoughtfully provided visual, Hollywood thinks it is time for a beatdown!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m leaning more and more towards Rorschach as my role model.

      • l0b0t

        Judge Dredd, or maybe Itto Ogami walking the demon road to hell with wee Daigoro.

    • rhywun

      News to me even if it’s “dog bites man” territory.

    • Tundra

      No kidding. Are they secretly on Two-Scoop’s payroll?

    • hayeksplosives

      The irrational threats and fear mongering are figments of the left’s imagination.

      Nobody is suggesting that gay marriage is going to be banned or kids split up by orientation.

      It’s the equivalent of “They want to put y’all back in chains!!”

      I hope that there are enough rational people to see through this ridiculous act.

      • The Other Kevin

        I think all this hyperbolic screeching is wearing thin for a lot of people. How many times did they predict bodies piled up in the street (net neutrality anyone?) and nothing of the sort happened.

    • rhywun

      Sure, Jan – the TEAM who didn’t shamelessly reveal internal SCOTUS documents which will likely cause more riots and destruction this summer is the dangerous one.

    • rhywun

      Just skimmed the article.

      What a POS he is.

  24. Trigger Hippie

    Tales from the unwoke: White Trash Edition.

    So, my car died a few months ago and I’m currently not in a financially stable position to replace it. This has resulted in a good deal of walking on my part. Monday morning, around 7:00am, I decided to hoof it to a Hy-Vee nearly five miles away from my apartment to pay my electric bill (who doesn’t like a ten mile hike after spending the better part of a decade smoking around thirty cigarettes a day…fuck you).

    Shortly before the first half of the journey I encountered a woman walking her small dog. Within fifty yards of or passing she pulled her dog and herself away from me by at least ten yards and began screaming at the top of her lungs: “I don’t trust you! You’re a man and I’m afraid you’ll hurt or rape me!” Keep in mind this is a meth addled, fugly, busted out old bitch just as wide as she was tall.

    I responded by smirking at her and saying “Lady, If I was the raping type I certainly wouldn’t risk imprisonment over your crazy, used up old ass”

    She then proceeded to scream at me about how she was afraid, ready to call the cops and was a lesbian. I didn’t respond to the irrational fear comment, winked at her when she threatened to alert law enforcement because a middle aged man dared to walk past her on the sidewalk and responded to the lesbian declaration with “Okay, good luck with that.”

    I get why so many people here hate cops. I do so myself. That being said, dealing with people like this silly sod on multiple occasions for years on end can make even the most positive amongst us grow cynical pretty damn quick.

    • db

      Your mistake was acknowledging her at all.

      • Bobarian LMD

        You should have asked her for a ride.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, don’t even look at crazy.

      • Trigger Hippie

        That’s the thing. Prior to the interaction, I didn’t acknowledge her at all. It was only after her dramatic response to my very presence being within half a damn football field of her that I felt a bit froggy and decided to mildly fuck with her after she fucked with me. It cost me nothing and felt slightly gratifying to mess with her… because I’m a dick.

      • Sean

        Good, because a non reaction will only embolden her.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry about the car. There are a lot of crazy paranoid women out there.

    • MikeS

      Glad you’re back, TH. Sorry about the car. Is it fixable?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Oh, it got sold to scrap yard months ago

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Sounds like she’d fit in on a college campus.

    • Pope Jimbo

      ^THIS^

      Dad was a probation/parole officer. We probably got at least one call every month from some woman crying and begging my father to make her husband/boyfriend stop hitting her. This was back in the Old Days when they really couldn’t charge a guy if the woman wasn’t willing to press charges.

      There are a lot of fucked up people out there. Cops have to deal with them all the time. It affects anyone who does that job. That doesn’t excuse what some of the cops do, but it is a factor that needs to be accounted for.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Cops deal with people who are having their worst day all the time. It would be hard not to be cynical about people dealing with that.

      • rhywun

        My cynicalest was working the front desk at a string of seedy hotels, and even some not seedy. Oofa I grew to hate people.

    • Tres Cool

      Who gives a meth-head a small dog? Thats just 1 line of bath salts away from a chinese entree.

  25. Evan from Evansville

    Shit not easy. Had a light, no-biggie seizure on Monday. Then, yesterday I had a big one. Actually DID lose consciousness. Mid-seizure and now forgotten exactly HOW, i fell on my face and it got cut up a bit. Mostly just a bloody nose. (Pure hypothesis:) The biggest problem is my shoulder. I apparently tried to catch myself on the way down. I think I DID, landing on the ground in a left-handed push-up. Then I spun around or something and now….I think I have a sprained shoulder. It fucking HURTS. Moving it around too much, yeah. But also even when I’m totally still. Mostly a throbbing pain, nothing to get concerned about, but it hurts. I am having trouble sleeping because everywhere I lay, something hurts somewhere.

    I have to go to immigration tomorrow and sort a few things out. (No biggie.) But it’s 6:am and we’ve been hittin’ that bowl all day. Well, at least I have. I had a lot of weird work to do in the morning, writing messages to lawyers and calling the embassy and then immigration to get all info ready. After that, I decided to continue my little vacation.

    Always look on the bright side of life!

    • Count Potato

      I hope you get your seizures under control.

    • Tundra

      Evan, the ketogenic diet can be a pretty powerful therapy for seizures. It may be worth a little experimentation.

      • 2ndClassProle

        Yep, I was thinking the same.

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      ? #waffleelite
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      • rhywun

        Ugh.

        ? May 4, 2022 ?
        ? 5 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6
        ?⬜????? = 7

        #globle

      • TARDis

        Better than me. I chumped.

      • Ted S.

        ? May 4, 2022 ?
        ? 1 | Avg. Guesses: 3.5
        ⬜??? = 4

        #globle

  27. KSuellington

    “On the face of it, canceling any student debt creates a class of winners, and no class of losers. ”

    There are certain ideas that are so stupid they require one to be highly edumacated. That’s certainly Princeton PhD level stupid.

    Why not have the universities cover the cost of the debt? Make it just like if you can’t pay for your car or house. They get their diploma back and the debt with it. That might encourage them to not give out so many worthless degrees in the first place.

    • Tres Cool

      This is about all I needed to read. “He did not have his body-worn camera on during the interaction.”

      • Tres Cool

        “The two black holes will merge about 10,000 years from now and ripple the fabric of space-time in the process.”

        Guess Ill pay my mortgage this month.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    Well this is awkward.

    I have a job offer that is pending a background check. Just got an IM from my manager telling me that he got an email from some background check company wanting to verify my employment. “Just wondering if this is legit or phishing”.

    I hadn’t really wanted to let current company know about new job until things were signed, sealed and delivered. (I have no idea why – other than participation in this chat room – I wouldn’t pass the background check, but still).

    • Sensei

      That’s a red flag from the prospective company in my book.

      I’m assuming they are outsourcing the the background check, but these companies know not to contact current employer.

      You can contact the prospective company and tell them what happened. After that it’s up to you how to evade this with your current company.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is awkward, not much more than that.

        I am pretty sure that I would have been submitting my resignation tomorrow. I like my manager, I would have liked to have been the one who told him that I was bolting. Instead of him hearing about it this way.

        Thinking back, there might have been a checkbox asking if they could contact my company. I thought I clicked No, but I could be wrong.

      • Tres Cool

        Twice when I’ve applied to work for gov’t contractors I checked that box, and they contacted my employer anyhow. I dont think they’re obligated to follow that direction.

    • The Last American Hero

      Say it’s legitimate and you are planning on volunteering at your church.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I just said, I didn’t expect them to contact you, but it isn’t phishing. Left it there.

      • Fourscore

        Damn that Putin, he’ll do anything to make Biden look back, calling your boss and all.

  29. Sensei

    The problem is that Disney wasn’t woke enough. Yeah, that’s how they got all the backlash.

    The executive eventually reversed course following intense backlash. He publicly denounced the act during the company’s annual shareholder meeting on March 9, in addition to directly apologizing to employees in a company memo.

    But many believe it was just too little, too late.

    “When this legislation started in Florida, [Disney] should have had a position ready to go…a position that was true to the mission and values of what Disney is — a place that accepts everyone for who they are,” George noted.

    Disney vs. DeSantis: Chapek’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ fumble a warning to CEOs, says Harvard professor

    • 2ndClassProle

      Would!!!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “ Cape Coral art instructor Casey Scott said her students were curious about her sexual orientation ”

      Assuming that’s true, not considered was “It’s not your business or concern”

    • rhywun

      Good grief.

    • Tundra

      I had a delicious Reuben sandwich the other night.

      A girl made it for me. I was hoping her name was Elizabeth, but it was Wendy. So, so close.

      • TARDis

        I know there’s a joke there. I just can’t remember what it was.

    • kinnath

      ENB

      ENB

      ENB

      Enby

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “ Namely, the right to terminate a pregnancy may be justly seen as a subset of the right to bodily integrity. ”

      Normally, the right to bodily integrity means the right to not having something done to you.

      “ “As we’ve warned, SCOTUS isn’t just coming for abortion — they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on which includes gay marriage + civil rights,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) tweeted.”

      The 14th Amendment has a sad.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        What’s her take on right to privacy, or bodily autonomy for that matter, when it comes to certain vaccines I wonder?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re more concerned with whether or not you can freely vape.

      • rhywun

        They’re more concerned with whether or not you can freely vape smoke dope.

        Try to keep up.

      • Ted S.

        Now do financial privacy.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You have that up when you participated in voluntary transactions with a corporation that tracks your every purchase and sells that data to the government.

      • Tres Cool

        “ Namely, the right to terminate a pregnancy may be justly seen as a subset of the right to bodily integrity. ”

        Who’s body? If I knock a broad up, and she wants to flush it, but I want to keep it…where are my rights?
        If I dont want the kid Im legally bound to support it financially. But if she wants to Plan B or coat-hanger it out of existence, I dont have a say?

      • Tundra

        Yes.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Welcome to male privilege.

  30. grrizzly

    Los Angeles still claims to have a face mask mandate on public transit, including LAX. Nonetheless, nobody was enforcing it on passengers at the airport. Many (most?) didn’t wear masks to go through security. The lounges (visited 3 today), including a previously mask Nazi Admirals Club, didn’t care about masks either. Unfortunately, the employees have to be muzzled. I was at LAX exactly 2 weeks ago, right after the federal mandate was lifted and before LA re-imposed its own mandate, and many employees at the lounge didn’t wear masks. LA and SF are the worst places in the country. Maybe NYC too.

  31. Sean

    LEGO shipped my Muppet mini figs today.

  32. Ownbestenemy

    Damn work has been hectic all week. Don’t any of you people work?

    • Timeloose

      Agreed. It’s been a whopper of a week.

      My zoom will be with a company bureaucrat that is keeping my customer samples hostage in a warehouse.

    • TARDis

      I’m taking vacay. I’ve been trying to get my shower grout clean enough to reseal before SWMBO gets back from FLA. She bought some Chinee POS rotary brush to help. It’s junk. It eats batteries and the power switch won’t lock in the position after one use.

      • Ted S.

        Teach her to do it herself.

      • Tundra

        Fuck that. Get this.

  33. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Waffle is not Ultra-MAGA” Edition)
    #100
    Champ
    whiz 18

    Scruffy Nerfherder 19
    Grummun 20
    Grumbletarian 21
    Not Adahn 21
    The Hyperbole 21
    trshmnstr the terrible 21
    Rat on a train 22
    Sean 22
    rhywun 23
    Ted S. 23
    Ozymandias 24
    SDF-7 24
    Tundra 24
    kinnath 25
    l0b0t 25
    Raven Nation 25
    TARDis 25
    The Other Kevin 25
    Tulip 25
    db 26
    MikeS 26
    Ghostpatzer 27

    Chump
    Bobarian LMD 120

    Bobarian LMD does the ‘Champ to Chump’ shuffle, whiz takes over the top spot with his third 18 of the week, mighty impressive, whiz. 24 P, 27.1666666666666 A, 9/15 TL, 38 SSS. The ‘no chump trio’ extend their streak to 22. Not too shabby, now let’s not be home to Mr. Fuckup and finish the week strong.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *shakes fist at whiz*

      • whiz

        I have an article submitted laying out my strategy for choosing starting words. Of course that’s not all there is to it, but I think it’s very important.

        As I mentioned in the morning thread, I did get lucky by choosing the correct word on the first guess for the last word (out of four possibilities). It could easily have been 19 or 20.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re cute little rascals until they kill your cat and try to drag your infant into the bushes. Nasty, nasty yellow eyed opportunists they are.

    • Tres Cool

      “Once both pups receive their vaccinations they will be raised together and will be given a chance to grow and learn natural behaviors in our large outdoor caging,”

      Didn’t LBJ say that about getting the “niggers to vote democratic for the next hundred years” ?

      /Hey-ohhh

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Oh well, I haven’t liked her since The Color Purple anyway (actually a good movie, definitely worth a watch).

    • Tundra

      I really appreciate these ghouls helping to solidify my position.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m feeling a little reactionary myself.

      • rhywun

        ^ rEaCtIoNaReeeee!

      • 2ndClassProle

        ^^^^
        This!

    • whiz

      TBF, even if the child could vote on it, if the mother and doctor want the abortion, the kid is out-voted (democracy!).

    • UnCivilServant

      Ya know, the one solution I don’t see them sharing – If you’re not trying to have a kid, stop with the unprotected fucking.

      • Tundra

        BIGOT!

        or

        RACIST!

        or

        PATRIARCHY!

        or

        WHITE SUPREMACIST!

        One of those, anyway. Certainly not personal responsibility.

    • 2ndClassProle

      Right! … plus it had to be horse medicine.

  34. Ted S.

    Suck it, Pep.

    • rhywun

      Fair. Though I hate Real Madrid too.

      • robc

        Atletico hates being called that.

  35. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody