¡Martes por la tarde! ¡Enlaces mexicanooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos!

by | Jun 7, 2022 | Daily Links | 293 comments

Don’t have a whole lot today, so let’s get to the links!

They paused the game?  There are two ways to solve this:  Mexicans get less “bigoted” or FIFA can get fucked.  My money is on Mexico.

Yet another migrant caravan heads for the US-Mexico border ahead of the Americas Summit…except the Mexican government follows through on their promise to snub Brandon.

At this point, I’m guessing this was a strategic decision.

If this happens, where will Peter Schiff move?

48 hour rule, or should we just assume the minister was sleeping with his wife?

Argentina proposes a tax on grain companies that benefit from the Russia-Ukraine war against the Vortex.  Meanwhile in Brazil, they are trying to find ways to harvest more grain (for the Vortex).

 

Another jaunty tune, or if you’re not into it, here’s something more your speed.

 

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293 Comments

  1. Spudalicious

    Seriously? There’s nothing happening on this side of the border?

    • Spudalicious

      That’s a first, bitches.

      Mmmmm first

      • Compelled Speechless

        God I love the glorified sexism of 90’s videogames. No one would have ever played those lousy Cruisin’ games if you didn’t get these amazing payoffs at the end of each race.

      • Count Potato

        Like Blazing Saddles, you couldn’t make Dead or Alive today.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Which is a real shame considering the leaps and bounds made in jiggle physics. Sad.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      The futból game was in Chicago.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        What exactly are you telling us about the Mexicans living in the United States?

  2. Raven Nation

    Also football: Australia 2, UAE 1; AFC playoff round.

    • juris imprudent

      Does anyone happen to have the score on the Cal game?

      • Fourscore

        I caught it earlier, it was zip-zip, if that’s any help.

  3. Rebel Scum

    Mexico’s draw with Ecuador on Sunday night in Chicago was once again halted by the return of an anti-gay chant directed at the opposition goalkeeper during the match.

    That’s the least bad thing that typically happens at soccer games outside the US.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Flaming rolls of toilet paper being hurled at the players was a highlight of the one I went to in Costa Rica.

    • juris imprudent

      Mean words stop the game but not the batteries, or bags of piss that the little shits of Central America toss.

    • Tonio

      Damn your nimble fingers and mind.

    • whiz

      Those friendlies aren’t so friendly after all.

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Carried over from the previous thread, I found the $16K speaker cables

    https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Terminated-Speaker-Cable-Discontinued/dp/B000J36XR2/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

    1.0 out of 5 stars I have only a little time…
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2010
    We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.

    PLEASE! You must listen! We cannot maintain the link for long… I will type as fast as I can.

    DO NOT USE THE CABLES!

    We were fools, fools to develop such a thing! Sound was never meant to be this clear, this pure, this… accurate. For a few short days, we marveled. Then the… whispers… began.

    Were they Aramaic? Hyperborean? Some even more ancient tongue, first spoken by elder races under the red light of dying suns far from here? We do not know, but somehow, slowly… we began to UNDERSTAND.

    No, no, please! I don’t want to remember! YOU WILL NOT MAKE ME REMEMBER! I saw brave men claw their own eyes out… oh, god, the screaming… the mobs of feral children feasting on corpses, the shadows MOVING, the fires burning in the air! The CHANTING!

    WHY CAN’T I FORGET THE WORDS???

    We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.

    Do not use the cables!

    • SDF-7

      Sounds like someone was trying to compete with the Sugarfree gummy bear review for top honors.

      • Tres Cool

        I need a link to that. Or citation.

      • SDF-7

        I thought it was Internet Famous enough not to need one.

        Here’s a sampler set.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The reviews for the Squatty Potty are pretty epic, too.

        e.g. It wasn’t so much that I was dropping a deuce. Oh, it was being dropped; that much was undeniable. But I couldn’t really claim agency on said descent. Gravity was doing the work. I was merely the meaty husk from which it made its hasty escape. Used to more of a segmented approach to waste disposal, I was quite surprised that the creature making its egress from my nethers had more the appearance of a python. Smooth, and consistent in width, it coiled luxuriously in a pool of toilet water that is (or at least was) cleaner than the water that most of the people on this planet drink. As it continued to coil, my emotional state flowed from one of surprise, to horror, to amazement, and then again to horror as the snake coiled higher and higher, like soft serve ice cream at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. It was now surfacing above the water line. But still, the snake showed no signs that it was anywhere near finished with its journey. In a panic, I pawed at the flusher. The poor toilet strained, but eventually sent things on their way. But I wasn’t done yet. As the toilet flushed the waste away, more came to replace it. As the flush subsided, the coil started anew. And then I was done. I tried to catch my breath as the toilet flushed a second time. I felt my liver shift and expand, unsure what to do with all the extra space now afforded to it. I cleaned up and stood, almost dizzy after the affair. “Wow. A+++”, I thought to myself. “Would poop again.”

      • MikeS

        OMG. I’m crying. That’s gold!

      • Tundra

        No kidding!

        I felt my liver shift and expand, unsure what to do with all the extra space now afforded to it.

        Perfection.

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

        “Would poop again.”

        Words to live by.

      • SDF-7

        “Beats the alternative” applies here as with the old “Still alive” case.

      • Tres Cool

        Oh, thats good. People are funny.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The only thing I took from that review is that these cables allow for communication across the time-space continuum. I must have. I’m going to cash in all my Dogecoin to buy them so I can communicate back to myself to buy all the Dogecoin. It’s a flawless plan. Admittedly, I haven’t checked the price of it in a while. How’s it doing?

  5. Pope Jimbo

    So the Mexican soccer team’s glory is memory holed?

    • Tonio

      What you did there…

    • Compelled Speechless

      I think you meant that the team’s memory is glory holed.

      • Chafed

        See the last GlibFit

      • Pope Jimbo

        No way. Last time I looked through a GlibFit glory hole, things didn’t go well. You won’t fool me that way again.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yeah, that eye damage can be a bitch…

      • Compelled Speechless

        Did the glory hole not go well or did it go so well that you’re confused and scared of the feelings it awoke inside of you? We’re not here to judge your holiness.

      • Nephilium

        Maybe he’s just not European (NSFW – It’s Always Sunny).

      • Sean

        “You’ll put your eye out.”

  6. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  7. Tonio

    Sportzball fans using homophobic slurs against the players of an opposing team? I have never heard of such a thing. Next those people will be brawling in the streets.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Mexican government follows through on their promise to snub Brandon.

    I, for one, am glad that we are respected on the world stage again.

  9. SDF-7

    Afternoon, MS et alia.

    My money would be on Mexico as well. Frankly, at this point given the machismo culture heritage, I expect Latin America looks at us as a nation of pansies anyway — so I don’t think they care what Chicago thinks of their chants.

    Puerto Rico should have been granted independence under the Philippines model long, long ago. They’ve shown zero interest in becoming a state and really we had no business making them a territory. Cut the strings.

    • juris imprudent

      Cut the strings.

      And let the island just drift away? /I could be a Democratic Congressman

      • Tres Cool

        + Hank

      • Ted S.

        It’ll tip over like Guam.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Is there anyway to make this work on California?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Lex Luthor had a plan.

      • Rat on a train

        Nuke the San Andreas Fault?

      • SDF-7

        Otisburg…… OTISBURG?!?

    • rhywun

      Cut the strings.

      Hear, hear.

  10. DEG

    The hearing comes two weeks after a group of Democratic congress members including the House majority leader and one Republican proposed what would be the first-ever binding plebiscite that would offer voters in Puerto Rico three options: statehood, independence or independence with free association, whose terms would be defined following negotiations.

    The US should just cut Puerto Rico loose.

    • Tonio

      “Independence with free association” unpacked

      We give them “limited” foreign aid and defend them with our military, ie they continue to freeload.

      • SDF-7

        Does any island in the Caribbean have anything to worry about other than from *us*? I think we’d have major issues with a regional war flaring up there, much less anyone from Europe or Asia trying a landing there. So why even bother saying it?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Does any island in the Caribbean have anything to worry about other than from *us*?

        Other than Cuba?

      • Tonio

        James Monroe looms large.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      What does Abuela want?

      • UnCivilServant

        A roof that doesn’t leak.

  11. Rebel Scum

    “She is not perceived as a credible person on Latin America,” said Michael Shifter, past president of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington. “She has not established herself with the Latin Americans.”

    But she’s black and Indian. What more do you need?

    • Bobarian LMD

      She is not perceived as a credible person

      Nothing else follows.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Was the speech good or bad? I just enjoyed it on mute.

      • SDF-7

        So that’s what Spud got for his first above, I take it?

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s worth listening to. She hits all the right points I believe.

      • Tonio

        Miniplayer, dude.

        She addresses the “spare me the BS about constitutional rights” guy. Gets good around 6:10.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ll listen to it tonight when I’m not at an office pretending to work. I’m ready to get my swoon on…

    • Tonio

      No apology needed for posting that.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Hot damn. But is she switching parties? I don’t see her getting anywhere with the Democrats with all that “God” and “freedom” and “rights” talk. Just icky!

      • MikeS

        Tulsi for 2024 LP presidential candidate!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or no party…we should try that one

      • Compelled Speechless

        Are you not aware that the LP was just successfully taken over by real libertarians who don’t suck?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Ding!

      • Tundra

        They don’t suck, but I do wonder what it will mean. The ‘post libertarians’ don’t seem too impressed.

        Angela was on Malice’s show last week and I thought she did a nice job.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I don’t expect them to suddenly win the presidency or a bunch of similarly high profile seats. I do expect that there will be a bunch of much more media savy people who will know how to get attention in ways the legacy media will find hard to ignore. If nothing else, I think they may be able to raise the profile of the freedom movement enough to significantly widen the current sliver of an Overton window that our current discourse allows.

      • robc

        Has her economics gotten any better?

      • MikeS

        *robc throws a bucket of cold water

        Good question.

      • robc

        I did vote for her in the 2020 primary.

      • robodruid

        I contributed to her campaign.
        $10

      • Tundra

        I’ll be happy to sign on as her economics advisor.

        Really, really happy.

      • robc

        She could be Sec of State, no problem.

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

        That would be a hard conversation to have with the wife.

      • robc

        Isn’t she Hindu? Wouldn’t it be gods talk?

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

        That is one race I am really worried will be “fortified”

      • Compelled Speechless

        I can’t wait for the sad Liz Cheney memes. Another evil American political bloodline toppled in a matter of weeks? The neo-cons that have ruined the century so far aren’t getting the jail time they deserve, but at least a few are finally being kindly escorted away from the levers of power. Better than nothing.

      • R.J.

        Agreed.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Don’t worry. She’ll get employment at some DC think tank.

      • Compelled Speechless

        As if she wasn’t already?

      • mrfamous

        “One thing the incumbent GOP lawmaker has on her side is fundraising… her total haul as of early April to about $10 million.”
        Gee I wonder what moneyed interests might want to keep Liz Cheney in power. One of life’s deep mysteries.

  12. DEG

    Libertarian moment?

    Financial services company Discovery and Advanced Emergency Management Services have launched a private firefighting service in South Africa.

    The group said the service will be a value-added benefit primarily to Discovery Insure clients whose vehicle, home or business may be impacted by fire. The service will be available to clients across the majority of the Johannesburg metropolitan area, it said.

    • Tres Cool

      “The UHP unit can be connected to a GARDEN HOSE and allows a very effective first attack against house fires, car fires and other smaller fires,” said Hadley Shapiro,”

      Uhhhh…

  13. Rebel Scum

    Brandon, you gaslightin’ som’bitch.

    BIDEN: “My plans have produced the strongest, fastest, most wide-spread economic recovery America has ever experienced—with record jobs, record small busineses and wages rising.”

    • Raven Nation

      He should try playing the Clinton card: “the economy Trump left me was so much worse than what I thought, it will take longer to get out of his mess than I anticipated.”

      • KSuellington

        His press just said exactly that today.

      • KSuellington

        Secretary

      • Bobarian LMD

        Right the first time.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I thought that was Obama’s shtick.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Whatever happened to putting in “he said without evidence?” I feel like that fell out of fashion in journalism circles circa Jan ’21……

    • Pope Jimbo

      I love the random page flips around 0:36.

      All it takes to have record setting growth is to lock everyone in their houses for a year. Then pile on a heaping helping of inflation and your wage growth numbers will be awesome.

  14. KSuellington

    I’d be all for Puerto Rico becoming a state as long as the State of Jefferson is added alongside them. Make it like the Alaska/Hawaii entrance back in the 50’s and that will also make it easier on the flag design.

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

      I would rather see a Portland to Seattle state, and leave the rest of Oregon and Washington alone.

      Really, what we need to do is start recognizing city-states were the major metro areas have zero in common with the rest of the state, like NYC, Seattle and Portland, SF and LA. That would go a long way to releasing the pressure on the country right now.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yep – treat em like DC. Shouldn’t be too difficult – pretty much every state capital is geographically distinct from the major urban areas in the same city.

  15. Rebel Scum

    We’ve tried everything and we’re all tapped out.

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen concedes Biden has no plan to lower gas prices: “the administration has done everything that they can.”

    Gas prices have more than DOUBLED since Biden took office.

    • SDF-7

      Oh thank God… they’ve certainly done *enough* that if they can’t “help” us any more, that’s at least something.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I’m OK with them not doing any more things.

      • LCDR_Fish

        “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Stinks of ‘nothing left to cut’

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They could cut some regulatory impediments to reopening refineries that were shutdown during COVID.

      Ah, that’s just crazy talk.

      • SDF-7

        I’ve said it before — but at this point, who in their right mind would invest in more refining or drilling, especially if this admin is still in? They can yank it all back away in a heartbeat, and they’ve made it more than clear they hate the industries and would love to do so.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ve said it before – thank god we avoided blatant fascism by getting rid of Trump! Now we’ve got some real Top Men in government controlling private industry from the top down.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ve said it before, but if I was a Noble Red Man running a reservation, I’d be building refineries and nukes, while telling the Feds to go fuck themselves and their regulations.

        Brandon might have made energy production more profitable than casinos.

        Bonus Points if Musk financed a refinery on the Pine Ridge reservation. Close to the Bakken oil fields, it would be perfect. Of course, Biden would then be bragging about how his policies turned on of the poorest places in the country into one of the richest.

      • Nephilium

        Just because they changed their mind once doesn’t mean that they may change their mind in the future!

      • rhywun

        who in their right mind would invest in more refining or drilling

        Apparently, nobody. Our oil industry should probably be looking to buy leases in… some oil-rich country we are friendly with but I can’t think of any.

    • Sensei

      I disagree. They could make domestic energy production even harder.

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s curious how these cuntes are pressing for greater electricity demand via electric cars and no increase in electricity production.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They hate poor people.

        I see no other rational explanation.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It’s just powered by the sun man.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They will ensure current production is only delivered to the rightthinkers.

      • Nephilium

        That’s unpossible. Electric Vehicles will be carefully managed by the Ministry of Transportation. Of course the politicians will need vehicles at all times, while those of the upper class can purchase shares in a vehicle that will be available for a small fee, background check, loyalty oath, DNA swab, and being up to date on your latest COVID vaccinations.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *China masturbating furiously in the corner*

      • Tulip

        You forgot monkey pox vaccination and recitation of the latest quiltbag includees.

    • Sensei

      And what about long haul and as of right now short haul delivery, Debbie?

    • Ownbestenemy

      They are all saying it out loud now.

    • rhywun

      Honest question: who is paying for the electricity provided by all those EV stations?

    • Drake

      I loved being sneered at by the elites who are trying to impoverish my family.

    • Cannoli

      Let the peasants eat cake

  16. The Other Kevin

    I have Enya on heavy rotation on Pandora. I hope none of you think less of me for it.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The best I can do is promise not to tell you that I think less of you for it.

    • The Other Kevin

      Whew thank you, that’s a relief.

    • SDF-7

      Funny — I would have pegged you more for a wild child, TOK.

      • The Other Kevin

        In these stressful times I find her music relaxing. Plus when I paint I enjoy listening to music that involves a high degree of craftsmanship.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Try Steely Dan or Genesis.

      • Tres Cool

        Genesis w/o Peter Gabriel is just Phil Collins.
        Bauhaus w/o Peter Murphy is Love & Rockets.

      • Tres Cool

        And a donut with no hole is a danish.

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

        The second sentence is so much more important than the first sentence.

      • Mojeaux

        Genesis? Dafuq?

      • Mojeaux

        I hate Phil Collins’s voice the way MikeS hates Geddy Lee’s, although he is objectively wrong on that.

      • MikeS

        Geddy Lee is literally the worst singer ever, figuratively speaking.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s not Collins on that track.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s not Collins on that track.

        You expected me to actually listen to it before opining?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You should. It really is a work of art by people skilled in their craft.

      • Tundra

        He’s right.

      • SDF-7

        But how can you keep from singing when you paint the sky with stars?

      • Rat on a train

        I will have to think about that on my way home.

      • Mojeaux

        When I am trying to destress, I listen to ambient spa or electronic chillout lounge or what they call “smooth jazz” which is not jazz, but which is not easy listening either.

    • Mojeaux

      Why would you break my heart that way?

    • whiz

      I’ve never had Enya on heavy rotation, but I do like to listen to her once in a while. Go for it.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Less?

    • Sensei

      Going with the “flow”?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why would we think less of you? It’s only time.

    • Drake

      I assume Loreena McKennitt is also popping up in that mix.

      Add in some Blackmore’s Night and I’ll be ready to go on a quest.
      https://youtu.be/UYKTogyz1e0

    • LCDR_Fish

      Been on a Yoko Kanno kick on spotify (will need to subscribe sooner or later, this is a useful service for traveling). I’ve got a stack of her soundtracks, but I’ve been listening to a lot of her early stuff – ridiculously versatile composer – I’d put her head and shoulders above most of the film composers in the US the last 20 yrs.

    • robodruid

      I will have to let the orinoco flow.

    • Not Adahn

      Getting stoned to the bejeebus and making out while listening to The Memory of Trees are some of my greatest memories. No lie.

  17. SDF-7

    Been 30 minutes — so off-topic and probably a spoiler for tomorrow’s mid-day festivities, but Hunter hooker siphons COVID funds. I suppose if I completely lacked a conscience I would have found a way to make bank over the last couple of years too.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The looting of the treasury has bled over to the populace at a far greater pace.

    • The Gunslinger

      To be fair that poor girl definitely earned some sort of compensation. Too bad it has to come out of the taxpayer’s pocket. But let’s be honest, does the Biden family have any money that wasn’t stolen from somebody?

    • Compelled Speechless

      Isn’t the old saying “when seconds matter, the police are moments away and the FBI might eventually get around to it in a few years if they run out of people to frame.”?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Apparently, the police are hours away.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Like a California freeway, 1/2 mile in distance but an hour away.

    • Ownbestenemy

      It’s a rehashed story from 2018 because of “public interest”.

      I’m curious while the teens were troubled, all they had was talks and written down ideas. No guns, no IEDs etc according to the article. How is that to the level of criminal?

      “One of the students had numerous writings and drawings which depicted weapons capable of causing mass destruction. He wrote about being “God-like” and killing police and other persons. He had an academic analysis of one of the Columbine shooter’s journals,” the release stated.’

    • rhywun

      He said the Robb Elementary shooter is not the same person as the 13-year-old or 14-year-old referenced in the 2018 police report.

      OK, then.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Fuck. Off.

    “It always baffles me when guys use Jesus as their excuse to discriminate,” Ruby told the news outlet. “Like, wasn’t Jesus the guy who preached ‘Love Thy Neighbor.’”

    This isn’t about religion,” he continued. “This is about being a good teammate. When guys go out of their way to make a point of opposing Pride Night, they’re sending a clear message that people like me just aren’t welcome in baseball. It’s a reminder that even on the one night we get to be proud of ourselves at the ballpark, we are still second-class citizens. It’s as simple as that.”

    Good teammates don’t compel speech.

    • SDF-7

      Someone really doesn’t understand when they’ve crossed the line between “tolerate” versus “celebrate”, obviously. (As has been said here before… “Stay out of my bedroom!” has become “Celebrate what I do in my bedroom!”).

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Openly gay pro-baseball player Bryan Ruby…Ruby, who has played in the minor leagues but is reportedly taking June off

      That’s strange framing from the Daily Wire.

    • Sensei

      [Kramer is cornered in an alley for not wearing the red ribbon at the AIDS walk]
      Bob : So, what’s it going to be? Are you going to wear the ribbon?
      Cosmo Kramer : No! Never!
      Bob : But I’m wearing wearing the ribbon.
      [points to Cedric]
      Bob : He’s wearing the ribbon. We are all wearing the ribbon! So why aren’t *you* going to wear the ribbon?
      Cosmo Kramer : [yelling] This is America! I don’t have to wear anything I don’t wanna wear!
      Cedric : What are we going to do with him?
      Cosmo Kramer : Huh?
      Bob : I guess we will just have to teach him to wear the ribbon!
      [Kramer to escape up the fire escape, but is dragged down by the other AIDS walkers]

      • Compelled Speechless

        Prophetic.

      • Tres Cool

        Thanks to you I just had to watch that clip.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Movements can be derailed cause someone didn’t wear the 27 pieces of flair required.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      A kid on my son’s team has a brother recovering from chemo. They had a bunch of t-shirts made as part of a fundraiser, that I decided to use as an alternate uniform.

      Even then there were kids on the team that didn’t wear the cancer ribbon shirts.

      • Mojeaux

        The shaving of one’s head in “solidarity” with the cancer patient is stupid, too. From what I’ve seen, the cancer patients don’t care for the practice, either.

      • Tundra

        A friend of mine was being treated for brain cancer. She lost all her hair and I asked her if she wanted me to shave mine in solidarity. Her response (after looking pointedly at my melon): “No need. You’ll catch me soon enough.”

      • mrfamous

        Based AF

      • Tres Cool

        Having lost Mama Tres to cancer some years ago, I still dont feel compelled to march in a “End Pancreatic Cancer” campaign or wear adornments.

    • R.J.

      “That’s cool. We will compel them to wear it. Next month is ‘Celebrate Republicans Month.’ We will celebrate everything Republicans have done for the country. You will wear a big red elephant on your jersey all month. Remember, you have to be a good team mate and wear it.”

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I’m surprised the league allowed any player to not wear the ribbon.

        your teammates go out of their way to indicate they don’t accept you

        I’m guessing if they do that (assuming you’re not lying), it’s because you’re an asshole.

        There are numerous examples of gay players who either don’t face such issues or don’t talk about it.

    • kbolino

      “Sure, I don’t believe in your hokey religion, but if I twist your messiah’s words in just the right way, won’t you do what I tell you?”

    • EvilSheldon

      So you’re saying that you can’t be proud of yourself without getting validation from everyone around you?

      You should probably get some therapy.

  19. Tundra

    “Our family forgives the person who did this. One of Orlando’s greatest legacies was to not hold grudges,” they added.

    Probably sleeping with the guy’s daughter. Still, it was a fairly manly response.

  20. DEG

    Vaccine mandate survey results

    I recently sent out a survey asking people to relay their experience in attempting to obtain a medical exemption for work, school, travel, etc. 329 people responded, and of those, 23% were in the healthcare field.

    Not surprisingly, the majority of respondents had difficulty getting a medical exemption; only one-third of respondents had their exemption requested granted the first time without difficulty.

    Sadly, 60% of respondents were never granted a medical exemption.

    • Sensei

      Any idea how this was sampled?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pretty sure it’s an open request to anyone that lands there. At the bottom it says take the survey

      • Sensei

        So anecdotal. High selection bias.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Matches up to a lot I’ve heard, especially for gov employees.

  21. rhywun

    There are two ways to solve this:

    Narrator: It won’t be “solved”.

    • Bobarian LMD

      I guess it’s better than a parallel masturbator?

      • SDF-7

        The gay answer to the old “1 woman can deliver a child in 9 months… so 9 women could deliver a child in 1 month” chestnut? 😉

      • Bobarian LMD

        He’s using one of the other passenger’s hand?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Gets really weird when you get into conversations of how to achieve a full wave rectifier masturbation pose

    • rhywun

      The drivers who filed suit are African American, court documents said.

      I wonder why that is relevant.

      • Sensei

        My assumption is that so is the masturbator.

        So they are likely trying to remove allegations of racism from the accusations.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I hope the guy was wearing a bee costume as he got off the bus after his masturbation session.

      Then the headline could have been Honey Nuts & Cheerio

  22. Sensei

    When Kotaku called the store on Monday, someone answered saying that it would be open again soon and directed us to contact the communications firm Longacre Square Partners, which specializes in topics like investor relations, shareholder activism, and crisis management. A representative of the firm refused to offer on-the-record comment on the situation over the phone. They declined to comment in writing either, and demanded we not mention the name of Longacre in the story.

    https://kotaku.com/gamestop-meme-stock-crypto-scam-used-games-walkout-unio-1849027868

    That’s how you PR and crisis manage!

    • rhywun

      How have they not gone the way of Blockbuster?!

      • Nephilium

        My first reaction when I saw the blurb about it was how they were shocking gamers by walking out. FFS, I don’t know a gamer who would have gone to a Gamestop in the past decade.

        And are they going to be made into a Party Game?

      • rhywun

        I used to go there – and there is one within walking distance – up to about five or six years ago to get used console games but even those can often be downloaded now. Plus I mostly stopped console gaming anyway (for the sole reason I find it a hassle compared to desktop gaming).

    • R.J.

      Did anyone even notice? Maybe one customer in Idaho somewhere, who then ordered online.

  23. Fourscore

    Every child is important and it’s our job to protect them. I’m serious.

    On average, about 2000 abortions are performed (or incurred) daily. If the establishment is concerned about the 20 in Uvalde all they would need to do is take a 20 minute coffee break and supply would be replenished. Any other conclusion is hypercritical.

    • Tundra

      Nice.

      How’s things, Fourscore? Make it thought the storms OK?

  24. Certified Public Asshat

    This guy just gave me a bill idea:Offering Drag Queen 101 as part of the K-12 curriculum. Attending Drag Queen Story Time will satisfy the requirement. https://t.co/Sogz2Ag8jV— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 7, 2022

    Not satire, as far as I can tell (actual CA state senator)

    • whiz

      A Democratic CA state senator. Of course the odds were good that that would be the case.

      • Ted S.

        Are there Republican state senators in California?

      • whiz

        9, out of 40 total.

        They actually have term limits — 3 terms, 12 years.

    • kbolino

      The Culture War is just a right-wing smear campaign

      • Compelled Speechless

        Exactly. And all those right wing terrorists must pay for fabricating it!

    • rhywun

      Who had “drag queen” on their 2022 list of revered educators bingo card? Not me.

    • SDF-7

      If there was ever a virus to pull numbers out of your ass on…..

    • Tundra

      Why did they pick monkeypox as the next Big Thing? It doesn’t make any sense. No one is scared by it, it takes about 10 seconds of research to find out that you aren’t getting it from being around people (unless you are fucking an infected person).

      Am I missing something?

      • SDF-7

        It terrifies everyone in DC and the mass media because they’ve gotten so used to fucking the rest of the country in the ass?

      • kbolino

        If Cawthorn is right, that’s not just metaphorical.

      • kbolino

        Reminds me of the Great Ebola Freakout of 2014

      • Ted S.

        Oh god, I remember some of the folks on TOS — and I think some of them migrated here — freaking out over it.

      • Tres Cool

        Dont forget Zika and the tiny-headed babies. And the demand from the CDC for $1BN to combat it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Dont forget Zika and tiny-headed babies.

        His name is Joe Scarborough! And he and his co-star Zika have one of the top rated shows on TV, so how dare you make fun of him?!!?!!?!

      • Rat on a train

        Was it gluten free?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Supposedly it is deadlier? (although the article gives a range of 0-11% in one place and 3-6% in another, so it is real clear).

        It also is deadlier for kids which is a real plus after Rona. Sure, normal people wouldn’t be that concerned about kids getting a disease that seems to be transmitted during sexual activity, but those people haven’t been paying attention to what is happening in schools have they?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Also really looks like the Babylon Bee dropped the ball on this story: Miracle: Pfizer Announces They Just So Happened To Finish Monkeypox Vaccine Yesterday.

        Turns out it was Bavarian Nordic that got $299M.

        The U.S. government has ordered millions of doses of a vaccine that protects against monkeypox. The news follows the first confirmed case in the states—a man in Massachusetts—following an outbreak in the U.K.

        The order amounts to a $119 million order for Jynneos vaccines, which are used for the prevention of both smallpox and monkeypox. It was announced by biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic, which makes the vaccine, on Wednesday.

        The order will convert bulk vaccines, which have already been made and invoiced under previous contracts with the U.S. government, into freeze-dried versions which have an improved shelf-life.

        The total government contract with Bavarian Nordic amounts to $299 million, which would provide 13 million freeze-dried doses.

        Totes not a scam. I’m sure we’ll need each and every one of those monkey pox vaxes.

      • rhywun

        “Bavarian Nordic”? That’s an unusual combination.

      • one true athena

        Whitey McWhiteface Company must’ve been taken already

      • EvilSheldon

        I used to work for them. Or at least a company with the same name – I don’t think my guys were in the biotech field.

      • Mojeaux

        Funny. I have almost everything Alan Parsons did and didn’t connect those dots.

      • Tres Cool

        That made my ass-polyps burst and bleed.
        You’re weird enough that you may like THIS.

      • Mojeaux

        I do not like it.

        You seriously need to start putting your CL ads up as articles here, cuz “ass polyps burst and bleed” is funny.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Since England Dan is already deceased, survivors need to form Croft & John Ford Coley.

    • Drake

      She’s really enthusiastic in her lying.

      • kbolino

        I’m impressed with their ability to find these people. First Kamala Harris now Karine Jean-Pierre. It’s like they want everyone to be racist and sexist.

      • Tres Cool

        Well, compared to 1929 its a touch better.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Give it another few months. The house of cards is swaying in the wind. It just takes one to fall out.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why do you think Strawberry groomed her to be the replacement? Anyone half competent would upstage her predecessor.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Never

      Stop

      Lying

      The rubes might catch on.

  25. Tundra

    Otter Team 6

    Yeah, it’s my favorite Twitter account. Wanna make something of it?

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. I forget to check the Bee for a while and then when I go look for a story, I find gems like True Facts about FIrearms

    • Mojeaux

      @Pontiff, thank you for the job lead. I’m starting my second day as a reader.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is a real RAY OF SUNSHINE!

        Our timing sucks. If I hadn’t just quit there, we could have split a referral fee. But I’m glad it worked out. In the Before Rona times, they used to make you readers show up at one of our testing sites and sit in a room grading papers. I bet it is way better doing it remote.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe I’ll apply next year. Of course, I’m worried that I might not have the right stuff to be a professional reader. I’d hate to get severe lip cramps in the middle of an essay.

      • Rat on a train

        Is it just decoding or do I have to comprehend?

      • Mojeaux

        I would’ve put your name down if I’d remembered what it was. 😉 Could hardly put His Holiness Pope Jimbo. I just put “an internet friend.”

    • rhywun

      “Access”

      I wonder who is currently being denied “access”? Oh… they mean “free”.

      Be nice if they said what they mean.

    • Sensei

      Yeah, because NJ has all kinds of money.

      May as well just pay not only for the abortion, but give the woman a check too.

  27. MikeS

    /gets on soapbox

    There are no club bylaws and I’m not your supervisor. And this is not aimed at just one person: If you’re going to take part in the friendly competition/social club/annoyance to non-players known as Quordling, don’t you think the fair and sporting think to do would be to post all your scores…not just the days you do good?

    /hops off soapbox

    Last call for Quordle scores.

    • Rat on a train

      Yes.

    • Sean

      Do you need a cranberry juice?

    • rhywun

      Name names!

      I know I have a big gap but that’s because I quit for awhile.

      • Mojeaux

        Me. I said publicly I was not going to post my shame.

      • MikeS

        You aren’t the only one

      • Mojeaux

        Long ago I came to realize I am a poor sport and I’m totally okay with that.

      • MikeS

        No, quitting and then quitting quitting is different. ?

      • MikeS

        Everyone has their bitch.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Since you asked

      Daily Quordle 134
      6️⃣3️⃣
      7️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ?⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜?⬜⬜⬜ ⬜?⬜⬜?
      ⬜?⬜⬜⬜ ?????
      ⬜???? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
      ⬜???? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
      ????? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

      ⬜⬜?⬜? ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜?⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ??⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜?⬜⬜⬜ ?????
      ⬜?⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
      ⬜?⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
      ????? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

      • MikeS

        I had to add you back in…Hype’ purged you last week.

    • SDF-7

      Heh… can you just imagine how crappy I’d be doing if those were my *good* scores?

    • Ownbestenemy

      I post days I get around to playing

      • MikeS

        I know not everyone can play everyday. Totally get that.

  28. Tulip

    I just picked fresh green beans. I’m going to have shrimp in piccata sauce with green beans and almonds and a freshly picked salad with freshly picked radishes. I love having a garden.

    • Tulip

      Ooh, and a glass of wine.

    • Sean

      I love radishes, but my gf doesn’t. So I rarely get them.

      • Tulip

        You could grow some and have them all to yourself. My favorite is sauteed.

      • MikeS

        Sauteed radishes? Huh…I need to try that. Butter…EVOO…?

      • Tulip

        Butter

      • MikeS

        ??

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

      Last night the wife made a slaw of fennel and radish, picked from her garden. I don’t know if I have seen anything put her in a better mood lately.
      Main course was calamari over noodles and spinach.

      Aaaaand that is the last I will talk about food for a while.

  29. MikeS

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Get me some cranberry juice’ Edition)
    #134

    Champ
    l0b0t 17

    Sean 19
    Tulip 19
    whiz 19
    Grosspatzer 20
    grrizzly 20
    Scruffy Nerfherder 20
    Grumbletarian 22
    Not Adahn 22
    rhywun 22
    Ted S. 22
    The Hyperbole 22
    Tundra 22
    Ozymandias 23
    TARDis 23
    Grummun 24
    pistoffnick 24
    robc 24
    SDF-7 24
    Cannoli 25
    one true athena 25
    kinnath 26
    MikeS 26
    Ownbestenemy 28

    Chump
    JG43 122

    Grosspatzer didn’t let us down! He defeated the Hyperbole! Now Grosspatzer goes brain-to-brain with Whiz to see who the super Quordler is. And then there’s one more round? I admit I am confused by the extra rounds and how that all plays out. Seems almost like it’s being made up as we go…

    All in all, today was an average day. The T-line split was 12/12. The average was 26.7 but would have been a boring 22.X had someone not busted. Most streaks kept extending. Quordlemetrics: 0 2 3 5 (3).

    Average music for an average day.

    • Sean

      The ‘Get me some cranberry juice’ Edition

      LOL

      • MikeS

        *points at your avatar

    • The Hyperbole

      No more rounds, by winning Tourney the Third ‘Patzer earned the right to challenge whiz, the current Champ, for the belt. After that title match, we will start another tourney to see who gets to challenge whomever the winner happens to be. It’s very simple, even Bro could figure it out.

      • MikeS

        Ohhhh…it’s just a “reigning champion” thing. I thought you were gonna end up with some tournament of champions nonsense.

      • R.J.

        THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE…

      • SDF-7

        “My seed word is Candy”

        Of course it is……