Friday Morning Links

by | Jul 8, 2022 | Daily Links | 407 comments

Didn’t even try

Lol, sure thing. I assume nobody else who follows world soccer believes this either. Elsewhere, Nadal has withdrawn from Wimbledon. I think it was deliberate in order for Kyrgios to be fresh against Joker in the final. He wants to be top dog and that’s his best chance.  I can’t find anything else worth talking about aside from mentioning the Baker Mayfield trade and how fun week 1 will be with Carolina playing Cleveland. So I’ll move on.

But it was the last guy who was an authoritarian. We’re on a slippery slope here because this senile dipshit keeps vilifying a coequal branch of government and keeps trying to undermine them.  Hopefully the court slaps down whatever half-baked EO is issued. And hopefully it reasserts its authority while doing so.

Seemed like a good dude

Shinzo Abe assassinated in Japan. This is sad. The dude seemed like a good guy and really hated commies.

I sure hope they’re right. What kind of dumbass looks at this crazy asshole and helps him obtain a gun?

Sad news to Japanese card game and anime fans. I never got into any of that, but I know how popular it is.

This is outstanding! Hopefully the jury agrees with the judge.

Good! I hope that prick never knows a day’s peace.

Always and forever

Thank God they left the hot dogs alone. They know the consequences of doing that.

So…more of the same failed bullshit. Why am I not surprised?

This is quality trolling. Also, aren’t masks good anymore? They’re just following the science while they exercise their 1A rights to protest, right progressives? You’re big fans of Antifa doing this, so why not these clowns?

Here’s a great montage song. Too bad they didn’t use clips from the movie in the video. Oh well, enjoy it.

Now go have a great day, dear friends.

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  1. Count Potato

    “Shinzo Abe assassinated in Japan. ”

    Yikes!

    “This is sad. The dude seemed like a good guy and really hated commies.”

    Agreed. RIP

    • AlexinCT

      That’s very likely why he was killed…

      • Grumbletarian

        No, they assured in the article that us that a guy built a ghost gun in a country with some of the most strict gun control laws and killed a politician but didn’t have a problem with his politics.

        Also, I have a bridge for sale.

      • Penguin

        In that photo, Abe appears to be looking at Merkel with contempt.

      • Pope Jimbo

        He was killed for being brave enough to tell the truth.

        Honest Abe. RIP

    • Sensei

      Quote in the WSJ

      Police named the suspect as Tetsuya Yamagami, a resident of Nara. Mr. Yamagami told police he disliked Mr. Abe but didn’t have a political grudge against him, according to public broadcaster NHK.

      He just killed him, but was fine with his politics.

  2. Count Potato

    “Can’t talk, ‘hate-jacking'”

    • Count Potato

      “The incident was the latest in a string of attempts by far-right groups to link LGBTQ events to child grooming and pedophilia.”

      Far-left groups already did that.

      • Rat on a train

        They did it without assistance.

      • AlexinCT

        The crime they accuse the right off is telling people the left is grooming their kids. They want parents to just shut up and let them do this.

      • DrOtto

        “It ain’t gonna lick itself”

      • WTF

        I like how the group is just labeled “white nationalist” and “hate group “ without ever citing any evidence.

      • Rat on a train

        The seriousness of the crime means we can’t be bothered with such technicalities.

      • DrOtto

        The SPLC says so, case closed.

  3. Shpip

    Asked if the suspect’s parents could be in any criminal jeopardy, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said it’s too early to tell.

    There’s probably going to be civil litigation. There is ongoing criminal prosecution and criminal investigation,” he told reporters Wednesday.

    There will definitely be civil litigation, right up until the plaintiffs realize that the shooter’s parents have no appreciable assets. Then it’ll be time to sue the gun manufacturer.

    • sloopyinca

      Apparently they own a fairly popular restaurant. Well that’s done now.

      Why the hell did they help him get a gun when they had to know he was a psycho?

      • Shpip

        I’m guessing a strong sense of denial. “He’s my kid, he’s okay. The two-tone hair, the face tattoos, that’s just a phase he’s going through.”

        And to be fair, there are tens of millions of young people out there who are dressing and acting in ways to freak out the normies, but have no intention of ever committing a crime of any kind, never mind mass murder.

      • sloopyinca

        Sure. But the cops came and took all his weapons away 3 years ago. And since then all he’s done is post insane shit online.

        The hair and face tats weren’t really even what I was talking about. There’s a trove of evidence showing he was a dangerous nutjob. His parents had to have seen that.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The 21-year-old suspect was too young to get a gun permit in 2019 from the state of Illinois, but his father, Bob Crimo Jr., sponsored one for him despite previous threats by his son to harm himself and loved ones, authorities have previously said.

        Crimo was still under 21 in 2020 when he purchased the AR-15-style weapon allegedly used in Monday’s attack — a purchase he could only make because his father sponsored his Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) application.

        Stupid move by the father, but absolute bullshit if he faces any liability. Firearm permits are unconstitutional and blaming the father for sponsoring the FOID is implicit acceptance of FOIDs. In a free state without FOIDs, Crimo would have passed the background check and gone home with the gun.

        Freedom is risky and dangerous. Either Crimo was too dangerous to live freely in society (lock him up in jail, a mental facility, or put him down like a rabid animal) or he’s a full participating member. Giving family members (ex wives with a grudge, etc) the ability to red flag citizens is far for more dangerous than any number of mass shooters.

      • sloopyinca

        He should have been locked in the nuthouse.

      • R.J.

        Agreed. If you can’t be trusted with knives, why are you walking around? Clearly you are a major danger to others.

      • sloopyinca

        He’d already made threats of violence and suicide. They were bad enough they had to take his weapons away. Couple that with his online posts, and it should have been obvious to his parents he was really fucked in the head.

        We need to bring back mental institutions.

      • Bobarian LMD

        But there needs to be better controls and oversight; because the institutions were used to lock up a lot of people without recourse.

      • sloopyinca

        I don’t disagree.

      • DrOtto

        I agree there shouldn’t be a FOID system, but since they did, I’d look at that as “vouching” someone into the mob, when it turns out bad, they’re coming for you too.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The FOID system is wrong and no one should ever be held accountable for not supporting it. There shouldn’t be a “but” following a statement like “The FOID system is wrong”.

        As a free citizen, Crimo should have been able to buy a gun and would have in most other states. The father had nothing to do with it. The focus here should be on if Crimo should have been locked up in an institution or put down in the ground prior to buying the gun. If the answer is no to that question, then this couldn’t have been prevented.

      • EvilSheldon

        I don’t know why people do this, but it’s common enough to be noteworthy.

        The asshole who murdered Dimebag Darrel was given his pistol by his mother. Same with the Sandy Hill asshole – admittedly he did kill his mother to get access to the gun safe, but she did buy several guns explicitly for him. Then there was Chris Kyle. He literally gave the gun to the asshole who backshot him.

        Dunno. I really want sport shooting to remain open and inclusive, but you really shouldn’t be handing guns over to obvious circus sideshow freaks, either.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Same with Kip Kinkel. But his parents paid the price first.

      • Not an Economist

        The Sandy Hill killed his mother as well. He needed to get access to her keys. She wouldn’t let have the guns unsupervised.

      • db

        Yeah, I have a real issue with lending one of my guns. You need a gun, go buy one yourself, please.

      • EvilSheldon

        The people I hang with have backups.

    • Rat on a train

      and the gun store

      • Grummun

        Does not Illinois have an process to obtain a “Firearm Owners ID” Card? Does that process not include background checks? Seems like, if the State, after due research and sober consideration, saw fit to grant the kid the privilege of buying firearms, the gun store can’t be held liable for selling the kid a gun.

        I’ll see myself out.

      • Rat on a train

        You silly person. No gun store no gun. No gun no murder. A gun’s only purpose is to murder.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, I read it on sugar free. Guns are violent perverts.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Right in the buttstock.

      • Gustave Lytton

        With the thing that goes up.

  4. Rat on a train

    will be allowed to plead not guilty
    There are circumstances where you aren’t allowed to plead not guilty?

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s “Not guilty by reason of justification” where there are preconditions. Basicially it’s a plea of “I did it, but it wasn’t a crime because…”

      In some states you need to clear some pre-trial bars to bring the argument of justification before the jury.

      • UnCivilServant

        A “Normal” not guilty plea is “I didn’t do it.”

      • sloopyinca

        Is that similar to pleading no contest? Serious question.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, no contest is “I accept the penalty, but don’t admit to doing the crime”.

      • DrOtto

        Pleading no contest means you accept that they’ll find you guilty, but are not copping to the crime. Has some ramifications in civil court.

      • Rat on a train

        Maybe I missed it but don’t recall such proceedings for Rittenhouse.

      • UnCivilServant

        I wasn’t paying close enough attention to say one way or another.

  5. AlexinCT

    But it was the last guy who was an authoritarian. We’re on a slippery slope here because this senile dipshit keeps vilifying a coequal branch of government and keeps trying to undermine them. Hopefully the court slaps down whatever half-baked EO is issued. And hopefully it reasserts its authority while doing so.

    The dipshit isn’t doing this. That asshat criminal doesn’t have a clue wtf is going on anymore. Dementia does that. It’s the people that installed him, so they could unwind the work that damaged the globalist agenda they are in overdrive now to get back on track, doing this to us. The globalist order can’t win as long as the American middle class exists and feels it is a betrayal for our government to sell us out to the other rich assholes in their clique. So the plan is to wreck it, then make all these people dependent of government so they can be controlled like the Europeans. My warning is that if that effort to destroy & hook the middle class on government handouts fails, all they can then do is adopt the CCP model of turning us into drones whose lives can be taken at their whim.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      This SCOTUS has been particularly selected by Trump to tackle abortion. An EO isn’t going to stand in their way. If the democrats want to reinvigorate the 10th amendment, I couldn’t think of a better way to do it.

    • rhywun

      In addition, the order establishes an interagency task force between the HHS and the White House Gender Policy Council, which includes Attorney General Merrick Garland

      OFFS!

    • invisible finger

      Dementia is cop-out.

      The guy has been a party stooge his entire life and nothing has changed. He does whatever the party tells him to, all he asks in return is to get paid and keep his family protected.

  6. waffles

    Yugi-Oh brought us Bandit Keith. An American in a flag bandana with outrageous self-confidence. It’s high time we be the Americans the Japanese think we are. For Abe.

  7. PieInTheSky

    Ray : There’s a Christmas tree somewhere in London with a bunch of presents underneath it that’ll never be opened. And I thought, if I survive all of this, I’d go to that house, apologize to the mother there, and accept whatever punishment she chose for me. Prison… death… didn’t matter. Because at least in prison and at least in death, you know, I wouldn’t be in fuckin’ Bruges. But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, fuck man, maybe that’s what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in fuckin’ Bruges.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/6quioqqo3DTDTRzX8

    • PieInTheSky

      Also belgian beer still sucks.

      • AlexinCT

        Stella Artois isn’t that bad…. And most Belgian babes will switch off between speaking “Francais” and “Nederlands” while you work them out…

      • robc

        Ummm…really? “Lets pick possibly the worst beer from Belgium to defend them?”

        Its called “wife-beater” in the UK for a reason.

      • AlexinCT

        You guys drink beer warm, yo… Wasn’t that why we had a revolution back when in your old colonies? I know people pretend it is the tea or the taxes, but it has to be the warm beer and the spotted dick…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Cool beer (cellar temperature), not warmed. And spotted dick is good: sponge pudding with currants, topped with custard.

      • Not Adahn

        spotted dick is good

        That’s how you get monkeypox.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        STELLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

      • sloopyinca

        Well this is nonsense. So at least we know you haven’t been kidnapped by saying something unusual.

      • Drake

        Uh, no. It doesn’t.

      • robc

        10 paces at dawn. Outside the Cantillon brewery. So I can enjoy a nice gueuze before and after your death.

      • pistoffnick

        Also belgian beer still sucks.

        Especially that Trappist hoppy shit.

        But…mussels in Brussels and French fries with mayonnaise!

      • robc

        Trappist…hoppy?

        huh? Trappists are not very hoppy at all.

      • Lackadaisical

        I always thought malty and strong AF.

      • robc

        malty and sweet. Some hops to offset the malt sweetness, but not too many.

      • pistoffnick

        I remember it being bitter. I just assumed the bitterness came from excessive hops?

      • robc

        See above, you shouldn’t be getting bitter from a trappist. Malty and sweet and some spicyness from the yeast. Maybe it was the spice flavors?

      • robc

        https://www.bjcp.org/style/2021/26/

        When you say trappist, I tend to think of 26D or maybe 26C. Maybe you were drinking a 26A, but seems unlikely.

      • MikeS

        Hoegaarden is delicious.

      • robc

        The story of Pierre Celis, the founder of Hoegaarden is amongst my favorite beer stories. Just an odd journey.

        RIP

      • MikeS

        I will look it up…as soon as I am done with this stupid meeting. The only thing worse than Friday morning meetings and Friday afternoon meetings.

    • PieInTheSky

      What also sucks in belgium is mobile data… Wtf

    • Mojeaux

      Hey! Those Belgian types are my people!

      Also, Brugges is beautiful. Wish I could find my doilies.

    • sloopyinca

      ¡Muchos gracias!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        No, it’s “merci buckets”. 🙂

      • sloopyinca

        Dammit! How’d I forget that line?

      • AlexinCT

        TWO DOLLARS!

        I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!

      • Shpip

        Well, this made my morning. Lemme ‘splain.

        1) Read the “merci buckets”
        2) Thought immediately of this scene, which has one of my favorite songs from the film (along with One Way Love)
        3) Recalled the lovely Diane Franklin in The Last American Virgin (Q will have to link to the NSFW scene, cuz I ain’t)
        4) Listened to Lionel Richie’s “Oh No” while watching said scene
        5) Spending the rest of the morning streaming Richie’s Tuskegee album whilst perusing Glibs

        I really like that album. And Better Off Dead. And young Diane Franklin.

    • Tundra

      Great flick.

      “Sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.”

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        “Look at that, people throwing away a perfectly good white boy.”

      • AlexinCT

        “My brother makes this monster eggnog with lighter fluid”…

  8. AlexinCT

    Sad news to Japanese card game and anime fans. I never got into any of that, but I know how popular it is.

    Odds this was Pikachu getting revenge for all the abuse?

    • UnCivilServant

      None. Different franchise.

      • AlexinCT

        They all look the same……

  9. juris imprudent

    So the Browns traded their QB from last season knowing the QB they signed for this season may be suspended by the league? That’s impressive, even for that organization.

    • AlexinCT

      They want to go back to the good old days where everyone made Browns jokes?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        They have an impressive 4 season streak of finishing 3rd instead of last.

    • UnCivilServant

      They are always investigating new heights of letting you down.

    • Lackadaisical

      ????

      What the hell Cleveland!

    • MikeS

      It’s 3D chess. They new they were still going to suck, but now it’s not their fault! It’s that damn Goodell’s fault for suspending their QB!

    • Not an Economist

      Baker probably wouldn’t have played for them anyway, even if he was on the roster.

    • Nephilium

      Baker was pretty well out once the Browns announced they wanted Watson. Right after that news broke, Baker put a big goodbye letter to Cleveland on all his social media outlets. Then the news reported that Watson wasn’t interested in Cleveland. With no starting quarterback (as Baker had made rumblings about not taking another snap in Cleveland), the Browns doubled down on getting Watson, and the huge contract is (most likely) what swayed Watson into agreeing to the deal. The expected suspension was 6-8 games based on previous (and similar) cases. The Browns were hoping to at least get a 1st round pick for Baker. Baker’s attitude, injuries, last season, and actions caused other teams to be wary of taking on the $18 M fully guaranteed contract for one season. If Baker had acted like a professional, he would have sucked it up, and prepared to take the field during the Watson suspension to show he was worth the money for a contract next year.

    • AlexinCT

      WE NEEDZ MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS!

    • UnCivilServant

      Why do they assume there were any infectious microbes locked into that ice in the first place?

      To be trapped in ice, the microbes would have to have been there. What reservoir host was up there shedding these microbes into the falling snow? How many are actually able to infect humans?

      Also, when were those glaciers laid down, and are they actually storing ice from that time, or has it cycled down?

      • Not Adahn

        Dude. They were created by Raz Al-Ghul.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that Obama’s or Kamal Harris’s pen name?

      • R.J.

        That’s where Fauci stored his trash.

      • Lackadaisical

        Caveman germs.

      • Rat on a train

        Are people with Neanderthal DNA more or less safe?

      • Lackadaisical

        More safe, I’d assume. Most glibs can mark themselves safe.

      • juris imprudent

        You don’t believe Yeti was up there on those glaciers, doing god only knows what.

      • Not Adahn

        NO TALK ABOUT COUSIN YETI!

      • Enough About Palin

        IF GLIBS GET CAVE-PLAGUE STEVE VACCINATE THEM ALL. AND BY VACCINATE MEAN…

    • Rat on a train

      I’m more afraid of alien attacks after their ships are freed from ice by our transgressions.

    • Rebel Scum

      Angling for the combo climate change / virus disaster I see.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The Chinese are obviously the biggest threat but the Federal BI agreeing with that makes me think I might actually be wrong.

    • R.J.

      He’ll reinstate the draft and force the injection on draftees.

      • Drake

        His handlers seem conflicted on whether to start WWIII or Civil War II first. Maybe they are going for a simultaneous implosion.

      • Lackadaisical

        Seems like what china would want, so that’s probably what he’ll do.

      • Enough About Palin

        IT’S A GODDAM CIVIL WORLD WAR!!!1111!!!1

      • R C Dean

        I gotta say, the premise of the Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 series is a little too on the nose: that the “American Empire” instituted “sustainable war” as an economic stimulus package, to remedy the “global simultaneous default” that they more or less accidentally caused.

  10. Count Potato

    “Emmett Till protesters STORM senior living facility in search of woman accused of setting lynch mob on him after 1955 warrant for her arrest is unearthed in Mississippi courthouse

    We on the move. We don’t know how they’re hiding this white woman down here, they’re hiding Carolyn Bryant Donham,’ Shabazz said in a Facebook Live. ‘They’re calling the police, but we’re on the move. We know she’s in here.’

    The group descended on the brightly lit room, where senior citizens sat in wheelchairs and looked confused as the activists – some wearing what appears to be bulletproof vests – entered.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10992759/Emmett-Till-protesters-storm-senior-facility-searching-woman-accused-setting-lynch-mob-him.html

    Do they even know she’s alive?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They should all be tossed in the clink before they lynch some innocent old person. Fucking disgusting…

    • EvilSheldon

      ‘Activists.’

      Got it.

      Well, if you needed another reason to personally own an AR-pattern rifle, the world just keeps serving them up…

      • Enough About Palin

        My favorite anagram for “activists” is scat visit.

    • rhywun

      Democrats nod and smile as their efforts at tearing the country apart continue to bear fruit.

    • banginglc1

      I might argue this is where the country needs Christianity or at least Christian principles. The woman may be a piece of shit. This woman played a role in the murder of that poor young boy. She may have played a greater role than I originally thought when I first read about this years ago.

      But we she’s clearly not out there defending what she did and I would hope she developed remorse. We need to find a way to forgive. Don’t get me wrong, most likely she should have been held accountable many years ago. But after a certain point in time, we have to learn to forgive and let go. That a part of why we have a statute of limitations on crimes. It’s why I don’t want to be fully judged by my past mistakes.

      Don’t get me wrong, we all should have to take responsibility for our actions, and some are so egregious that we can never let go. But, what will this accomplish? She’s either already had to live with the weight of this or is irredeemable. She’s close enough to meeting her maker that it’s his turn to judge.

      And if we are going to go after her, can we do it in a way that might not ruin the lives of a bunch of seniors that are already miserable and waiting to die.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        There’s something profoundly ironic about lynch mob lynching somebody for instigating a lynch mob.

      • juris imprudent

        Such is totally lost on these raging imbeciles.

    • Not an Economist

      Terrorizing senior citizens is always a winning strategy.

    • Brawndo

      Reminds me of the stories we get occasionally out of Germany of them finding some 90 year old to throw in jail for something they did in the camps.

      Wheel her ass to court and toss her in jail, but they should be protesting outside the police headquarters demanding they arrest her instead of creating a potentially dangerous scene at a nursing facility.

      • R C Dean

        If either of my parents are in a nursing facility and I see a lynch mob out front, the guns are coming out.

      • UnCivilServant

        What crime is there to charge her with that hasn’t passed the statute of limitations?

        Is your prosecutorial theory that she was intentionally trying to kill Till by proxy?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Is there a statute of limitations on rape or murder?

        I’m a firm believer that false accusers should be charged with the same level of severity as the crime they falsely accused their victim of.

      • UnCivilServant

        However, with the rule of law, you have the issue that at the time of the events, that was not the law. I don’t think ending the protection on ex post facto laws is a good idea.

    • Enough About Palin

      Granted, it’s only alleged, but supposedly that Till fellow wolf-whistled at a woman, which is now a capital crime, so there is that.

      • R C Dean

        Hey, sexual assault is sexual assault. #believeallwomen, amirite?

  11. Not Adahn

    Using pop culture symbols like Buc-ee’s and Fred Perry—the black and yellow T-shirts that have become synonymous with the Proud Boys—is just the latest iteration of Duke’s same strategy.

    Fucking hell. I thought journalismists at least could identify pieces of clothing. Ho abjectly worthless do you have to be when you can’t even fashion right?

    • Not Adahn

      But those Buc-ee’s gaiters are pretty awesome.

      • EvilSheldon

        Buc-ee’s is awesome in general.

      • Not Adahn

        Now I wan brisket and egg tacos.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Uh, any shirt with sleeves is T-shaped?

      Ooh, scooters banned in Houston. Sounds heavenly.

      • R.J.

        Ah. Electric scooters on sidewalks.

      • Brawndo

        Wal Mart customers hardest hit.

    • Timeloose

      I think that the Proud Boys are just Ska fans.

    • EvilSheldon

      Fred Perry polos have been part of (both Red and White) skinhead iconography since before you popped out of your mommy’s twat, you fucking soybean.

      (The dimwit reporter, not you, NA.)

    • Ownbestenemy

      I thought Proud Boys were Hawaiian shirts?

      • EvilSheldon

        Nah, those are the Boogaloo Bois.

        I still giggle at the idea that the feeb thinks the ‘Boogaloo Bois’ are a real thing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So all made up shit it seems.

    • banginglc1

      I’m wearing a blank grey t-shirt. Does that mean anything these days?

      • EvilSheldon

        Normalcore. It’s a real thing, I swear to Enkidu…

      • R C Dean

        Suspicious. Like driving the speed limit. What are you trying to hide, comrade?

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Texas Proud Boys’ adoption of Bucky’s image is only the latest example of white supremacists adopting easily recognizable pop-culture symbols to assert their place in mainstream political and cultural discourse, said Heidi Beirich, Ph.D., founder and leader of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and the former leader of Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report and Hatewatch blog.

    “It’s this idea that you need to get yourself dressed in mainstream clothing, and seep into society without being readily identified as a ‘bad guy,’ that people in the white supremacist movement have been aware of for a long time,” Beirich said.

    Blah blah fucking blah. Monsters in the closet. Monsters under the bed. Monsters in your sock drawer. It must really suck to be you.

    • Shpip

      Also, this is how you do corporate-speak:

      “We have never had contact with these people and do not know who they are,” Jeff Nadalo, the general counsel of Buc-ee’s, told Texas Monthly, adding: “No third party is going to prevent us from providing clean bathrooms equally to all people.”

      Translation: While we wish they’d wear Ed Hardy or some brand already associated with douchbaggery, we’ll weather this silly trend (and the even sillier handwringing that’s accompanying it) by focusing the customer on our core competencies.

      • Rat on a train

        What about second parties?

      • Not Adahn

        In this contract, the party of the first part hall be known as the party of the first part.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        What about second parties?

        While all the pants shitting from TMITE complicates Buc-ee’s mission to provide clean bathrooms, our associates are up to the task.

    • The Other Kevin

      One guy wore something at a protest and now it’s white supremacists adopting pop-culture symbols. You know what? All of them were wearing shoes, too…

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s such a perfect clip to use here for several reasons. That basically is the corporate media trying to interpret the “white supremacist” threat, ascribe meaning to meaningless clues and link together things that are in no way related.

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      • Lackadaisical

        Nicely done, I fat fingered one and got a 2 instead of 4 stars. Q.Q

        Also didn’t get my worldle today… Bad start to the day.

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    • JG43

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    • Compelled Speechless

      I finally gave in and tried it. I think it’s pretty good for my first time.
      7 8
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      • MikeS

        That is good. My first few goes were tough while I got the hang of things.

    • Ted S.

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  14. robc

    Did the Abe assassin get the gun in Indiana?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      From the looks of the gun he made it in his garage.

      • robc

        But his garage was in Indiana?

    • The Other Kevin

      Yes, he got it on sale, buy one get three free, from a shop just off the highway.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Ich brauche eine Wärmflasche!

  15. Drake

    I watched the pretty Dutch farm lady on Tucker last night. Learned that the Netherlands in the #2 agricultural exporter in the world. Their government desperately wants to destroy that industry because of “nitrate poisoning”? When Tucker asked her what the government would like to do with all that soon to be unused farmland she said that wanted to use it to house immigrants. (Do millions of immigrants shit less than thousands of cows?)

    The evil of the left never ceases to amaze me. They want to destroy the livelihood and traditions of the native population while turning the bucolic Dutch countryside into a hellscape of public house and third world immigrants.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      A divided population will always vote for authoritarian policies but just think of the cuisine!

      • Drake

        Cuisine? With the local farms destroyed, they’ll be eating “food” manufactured in factories.

  16. Rebel Scum

    President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at protecting abortion rights in response to the landmark decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

    The “right” has not been removed. But it should be fun to see how this plays out.

  17. db

    Was there a quordle roundup for yesterday that I missed? I didn’t see one in any of the threads.

    • Sean

      I think they’re “on a break.”

      Shame. I had two good plays this week.

      • db

        Yeah, I only asked because yesterday was my best ever–a 17.

      • MikeS

        More like “done”. It’s available to anyone who wants to take it over.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Texas Proud Boys seem to be adopting Buc-ee’s beaver as a hate symbol

    What makes it a hate symbol?

    • juris imprudent

      Duh – the Proud Boys. Those fuckers ought to start wearing Marx and Che shirts.

  19. rhywun

    Elsewhere, Nadal has withdrawn from Wimbledon.

    They should have let Fritz take his place. It’s disgusting that Kygios gets a walkover.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    From the looks of the gun he made it in his garage.

    Did he copy Kirk’s anti-Gorn zip gun?

  21. robc

    Are there any presidents named Abe who haven’t been assassinated?

  22. Q Continuum

    “hate jacking”

    I always thought this was when you jacked off to homemade porn of you and your ex after she left left you for your best friend.

    Further: is there any, y’know, actual EVIDENCE that the Proud Boys are White Supremacists or is it just the old “we don’t like your politics = NOTZEEZ!!!” trick?

    https://archive.ph/edYjg

    Friday Funbags.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ask their Afro-Cuban leader about the white supremacy, maybe he knows.

      • AlexinCT

        He is the Afro-Cuban face of white supremacy!…

    • kbolino

      As far as I can tell, the key prerequisite to an organization being labelled “white supremacist” is that it’s full of feds and state/local police moles. Once you’re on the SPLC’s radar, you can bet you’ve got more agents than sincere members.

  23. hayeksplosives

    Man, that’s crazy/sad about Abe. He always seemed like a reasonable guy in international politics.
    RIP

  24. db

    I saw that Abe had died yesterday, but I didn’t realize it was an assassination. Did the assassin make any political statements, or has a group claimed responsibility?

    • waffles

      Weirdly a lot of mainstream American reporting, at least on social media, keeps saying Abe was shot instead of saying was assassinated.

      • db

        Gotta feed the algorithms?

    • Ownbestenemy

      He just didn’t like him…or how it’s being sequestered in Japan.

      • Lackadaisical

        Maybe Abe was porking his wife. Otherwise I don’t see how this is anything but political.

    • Rat on a train

      Many agencies subsequently developed a plan to turn federal facilities, particularly those that deliver federal benefits, into voter registration agencies.

      We are incompetent at our core mission so what harm could it be to take on more?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Distrust the government? The hell you say!

    “This NPR/Ipsos survey of American gun owners shows that the majority of gun owners are supportive of moderate gun control measures like background checks or increased age requirements, but harbor deep distrust of government suggesting the barriers that exist to more actions on guns,” said Chris Jackson, senior vice president with Ipsos.

    The survey of 1,022 adults with at least one gun was conducted from June 15 to 21, before the mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, but after those in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.3 percentage points. There were 445 Republicans interviewed, 389 independents and 183 Democrats. (Five people declined to answer.)

    “Go ‘way. Shootin’.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Fucking Fudds never heard of incrementalism or what?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Too busy taking a bath in this nice warm water.

    • R C Dean

      “more actions on guns”

      Shouldn’t that be “more actions on criminalizing gun ownership”?

      • Brawndo

        We’ve already got single action and double action guns. Now they’re talking about triple action? When will it end?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    “As a gun owner myself, both pistols and hunting rifles, I feel that it’s important that background checks, red flag laws and raising the age should be something that we as a country should be doing,” said poll respondent Christopher Montes of Connecticut.

    Montes, a self-declared independent, said there are simply too many guns in the wrong hands.

    Nigra hands, that would be, I reckon.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Draft them and issue them a rifle? A-OK.
      Let that same person purchase a firearm? Absolutely not.
      Fuck off Chris.

    • Rebel Scum

      too many guns in the wrong hands.

      Lefthanded people ruin it for everyone.

      • waffles

        as a lefty I find it obnoxious how many guns eject the brass on the wrong side.

      • UnCivilServant

        Every gun I’ve ever fired has ejected on the right side, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

      • TARDis

        One would think there would be a niche market to serve the freaks of nature in our zillion gun land O’plenty.

      • Not Adahn

        Cabot makes one, a bit spendy tho.

      • R C Dean

        This is why Mrs. Dean shoots the Tavor. As a bullpup, it has to be reversible or lefties can’t shoot it at all.

      • Enough About Palin

        I suggest you never piss her off.

      • R C Dean

        My wedding gift to her was a 9mm Sig, so . . . .

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but that’s not something to brag about. That’s well below average.

      • R C Dean

        Hey, the barrel is a full 16.5 inches, buddy!

      • Compelled Speechless

        You win. That’s impressive.

  27. db

    U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel took to Twitter to express his condolences.

    “We are all saddened and shocked by the shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo,” Emanuel tweeted Friday. “Abe-san has been an outstanding leader of Japan and unwavering ally of the U.S.”

    Added Emmanuel, “I have spoken with senior Japanese leaders and we all agree that this crisis should not go to waste, and that it is high time for Japan to enact common-sense rules regulating gosuto guns.”

    • Tundra

      Nice.

      Brutal to see all those little ones hooked up to machines, though.

      • Enough About Palin

        If I took my GSD to a children’s hospital, she’d kill everyone in the building and then me for putting her in a situation that left he no choice.

      • R C Dean

        We have a mastiff therapy dog who is the fave in our pediatric units. She has an advantage because she is big enough to reach the kids who are in a bed.

        Taking the Big Dumb One to a children’s hospital would be like firing a fur-coated cinder block down the hall.

  28. Q Continuum

    The only possible reason that guy shot Abe other than politics is to try and impress Jodie Foster.

    Do we have a statement from her?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s too busy hiding from Hinkley to be bothered.

    • Rat on a train

      He could be trying to start a race war.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Never hire Booth Catering Japan to provide supplies for your political event.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Fucking Fudds never heard of incrementalism or what?

    “What are you worried about? They’re only taking guns away from crazy people. I have nothing to fear.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Pat no attention to what we’re saying or has happened pretty much everywhere else.

    • Not Adahn

      This rifle can kill a 500 pound elk at 200 yards! No civilian needs that kind of firepower!

      • Rat on a train

        Are you allowed to shoot calfs?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        My name is Elmer Fudd, millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      You’re crazy if you don’t think we’ll go after your hunting rifle.

    • Enough About Palin

      First the came for the crazies’ guns and I said nothing, which means I must be crazy too.

      • UnCivilServant

        In the DSM 6, wanting to own a firearm is a diagnostic symptom for homicidal mania.

  30. Rebel Scum

    Nothing to see here…

    President Joe Biden’s administration sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-owned gas company that has financial ties to a private equity firm cofounded by Hunter Biden, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.

    In April, Biden’s Department of Energy announced the nearly one million barrel sale to Unipec, which is the trading arm of Sinopec. Sinopec is wholly owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party.

    Unipec reportedly purchases oil across the globe and then apparently sells it through its Sinopec Marketing subsidiary.

    • db

      WTF?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Normal behavior. Don’t question their patriotism

      • db

        I can’t think of any reason to set up a car like a technical and do that other than to start fires and hurt people. That’s fucking crazy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Which is it db. Do you want to be a helicopter parent or free-range?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well there was also a shootout nearby that wounded 8.

        I still can’t figure out why downtown Minneapolis hasn’t seen a return of corporate workers to the office towers there.

    • Gustave Lytton

      That portrait mode is the biggest crime.

    • rhywun

      JFC.

      • Sean

        You’re just jelly.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The area that these videos are from is called the Warehouse District. When I was working at a startup we had an office there because it was so cheap. The area was a bunch of old warehouses that had some run down lofts. While we were there, it was totally gentrified. The warehouses were torn down and replaced with faux warehouses with super expensive condos.

        I can say that the area is now far more dangerous than when it was a seedy part of downtown back in the day.

      • Tundra

        Yep. I lived at 1st and 4th back in the late ’80s (right next to the old Creamette factory. Hookers, dealers, bums and cops all the time.

        Positively pastoral compared to today.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My sister lived over near the Laugh Factory back then. The rent was as cheap as she could find.

      • rhywun

        I don’t get it. Why is it so dangerous then? I’ve never heard of a gentrified neighborhood getting more dangerous. Unless it’s just part of the overall lefty pro-crime policies.

      • Tundra

        The cancer has spread. Like a lot of cities, the violence was pretty well contained in a few neighborhoods. Since the martyrdom of St. George, it’s all over.

        Add in the lack of cops and amazingly inept leadership, and voila, dead city.

      • Lackadaisical

        But you better not leave, you racist. This is good crime, not bad crime.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is the whole Defund the Police and George Floyd shit show.

        Cops quit and the ones left no longer arrest anyone. Even if you do get arrested you get bailed out quickly.

        The miscreants have learned that there is no downside to street racing, car jacking or any other number of felonies.

        The Warehouse District is gentrified, but still surrounded by shitty neighborhoods. Little Somalia is a half mile away. Looking at those kids, it seems like a lot of our new immigrants have decided to bring the fun of civil war here to Minnesoda.

        Political leadership has no appetite to crack down. If some cop had rolled up on those kids and used a night stick to tune a few of them up, the mayor and city council members would have trampled each other to get in front of a camera to defend the firework assholes.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s my read, will without the local knowledge of the area. Why rush your career arresting someone who will be bailed out (or not charged) all while risking your career?

    • Tundra

      It gets even better.

      1300 calls on Monday night. 80 cops.

      Fuck you Frey. Fuck you Ellison.

      • Enough About Palin

        Frey reminds me of Anthony Perkins’ character in “The Tin Star”.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If someone whipped out a pistol and ventilated those douchebags I’d shed no tears.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A pistol against an assault roman candle?

      • Pine_Tree

        I have to say I’m impressed with the rapid-fire roman candles. Never used one of them.

        Would make “shooting roman candles at the yard chickens” even more fun than usual.

      • R C Dean

        A pistol against an assault roman candle?

        Only if my shotgun wasn’t handy.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Despite the potential support for some gun-control measures among gun owners, when you dig deeper there is a clear distrust of government, especially among Republicans, who make up the plurality of gun owners in the survey.

    Just a quarter of gun owners overall said they have trust in the federal government to look out for their best interests. (An even lower 16% said so of the news media.)

    They claimed, without evidence.

    • R.J.

      Who are these crazy 25%?

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

      • The Other Kevin

        25% of people in every survey are either stupid or crazy. H/T Scott Adams

      • rhywun

        Law enforcement or otherwise government-employed?

    • Rat on a train

      Just a quarter of gun owners overall said they have trust in the federal government to look out for their best interests.
      I trust the government to look out for the interests of those who control the government.

    • Tulip

      See, they’re wreckers. That’s the point of this.

  32. The Other Kevin

    Costo hot dogs? The brats are where it’s at. Good to hear those didn’t go up in price either.

    Interesting day in hockey yesterday. The Blackhawks went into the day with 0 first round picks, but traded two of their best young players and got 3 first round picks. It seems the rebuild is on. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

    • Tundra

      Wild signed Flower to an additional two years. Not sure about that.

    • R C Dean

      Trading away your best young players seems like an odd rebuilding strategy.

  33. straffinrun

    Been watching the tv news covering Abe’s murder. They have only a few angles which show him getting shot. Every time something gets in the way of the camera so you never see him actually getting hit. Maybe they are showing the gratuitous footage out of respect. I dunno, but the whole timing of when he gets shot and then him on the ground seems off. No idea what that’s implying, but it seems unnatural. It’s Japan, so there must be footage out there, but I can’t find it. And yes, by politician standards, the guy was an angel.

    • Negroni Please

      I admittedly know very little about Japan, but I thought there was a general consensus that abenomics fucked the country over. Idk. Thoughts?

      • straffinrun

        The average person doesn’t blame him. I would, but, you know.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, his internal policies maybe weren’t the greatest, but I don’t care cause I don’t live there. His foreign policy was good.

      • straffinrun

        That’s one of the main reasons I live here. Yeah, I know, they’re under the US nuclear umbrella. Regardless, they aren’t sending their boys abroad to spread demahcracy.

    • straffinrun

      And I’ve come across dozens of these street rallies. Abe’s would’ve been filled with people filming it.

    • Sensei

      Any idea what kind of bullet/shotgun shell was used?

      I’d imagine getting ammo in JP is near impossible.

      • straffinrun

        He was former SDF. Made himself?

      • Sensei

        The gun was home made- yes. I haven’t seen video – did it look smokey or like homemade black powder?

        That would really be interesting if he was assassinated with a zip musket pistol…

      • straffinrun

        Big puff of smoke accompanied the blast.

      • Sensei

        Damn. If only Japan had some strict firearm regulations. Also, laws against murder.

      • AlexinCT

        My bet is shrapnel..

      • straffinrun

        He’s a Warhawk, but I don’t think Ben would do that.

    • Gustave Lytton

      He also resigned (twice) due in part to flare ups of his chronic ulcerative colitis, rather than clinging to power.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Upon further consideration

    China’s first large-scale attempt to require Covid vaccinations appears to have ended before it began.

    On Wednesday, the capital city of Beijing announced that starting Monday, most people would need to be vaccinated before entering social gathering spots like gyms.

    On Thursday, the city removed mention of the mandate, according to the state-run local newspaper, Beijing Daily.

    The report cited a member of the city’s virus prevention and control office, who emphasized current rules — a negative virus test from within the last 72 hours — for entering public venues. But the report did not mention the vaccination requirement, only saying the government representative encouraged people to get vaccinated voluntarily.

    When contacted by CNBC, a representative for the Beijing city government confirmed the Beijing Daily report. The capital city reported zero new Covid cases for Thursday, with or without symptoms.

    The state-run newspaper said it contacted the government office after the vaccination mandate generated “attention and misgivings” among city residents, according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese text.

    Breaking point, dead ahead.

    • Lackadaisical

      TFW China is less authoritarian than your government.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      You have had a horrible shock, not just seeing your wife have sex with another man, but also learning that she has cheated throughout your marriage.

      Right now, totally understandably, you want to walk away from your marriage.

      But it sounds like until this incident, you were generally happy with your wife.

      Once the shock wears off, it’s possible you will want to attempt to put this behind you and try again.

      Um

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, this advice is because they want this guy to end up watching other dudes plow this woman he keeps paying for…

      • Lackadaisical

        Sounds like her boyfriend is generally happy with your wife too.

        What the hell advice is this?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Right?!?

        Two options in this situation.

        1) bail
        2) if you’re going to try to patch it up, set some really strong boundaries and enforce them ruthlessly. If she’s not willing to abide, bail.

        It is exceedingly rare that people having an affair will stop having affairs. Most of the ones I’ve heard of where it stopped were because they blew up everything about their life and rebuilt it from scratch. It was a”come to Jesus” moment for them. “I’m gonna stop” isn’t ever enough.

      • wdalasio

        The wife’s comment was that she was sorry he’d seen it. No way in hell she’s ever going to stop. Throw her ass to the curb.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep, that would be an instant eviction.

        “Go visit your parents for a while. You had better make any travel arrangements in the next hour, because that’s when your access to the credit cards and the bank accounts will be cut. I’ll be sending the divorce documents to your parents’ house on Monday. I will preserve your honor in this first round so long as you sign on the dotted line and don’t ask any questions. If you do, the second round will be much more uncomfortable for you.”

        What the idiot columnist completely ignored is that a hidden affair is a de facto admission that the marriage wasn’t generally happy. People generally don’t hook up with the neighbor when their marriage is going really well.

    • Pope Jimbo

      She doesn’t like oral sex as defined by her putting her mouth on your penis.

      She likes sucking cock. Big cock.

      Bet if the cuck had a big one she’d be giving him hummers.

    • AlexinCT

      Was she paying off a service?

      I would have filmed it, then taken the bitch to court. This can only end one of two ways based on the historical records in the pr0n movies…

      Either you divorce her with extreme prejudice and try to rebuild your life by hate fucking, or you end up being forced by her to watch other men get what she will not give you while not being even allowed to pull your pud…

    • wdalasio

      Meh. I’m not sure it’s right to call him a cuck at this point. If he doesn’t throw her to the curb, if he takes Diedre’s advice, then he’s a cuck. Because, when the guy can say, “My wife said she was sorry I’d seen that,” you know there isn’t going to be any change in behavior.

  35. Rebel Scum

    Well, if the feds won’t do it…

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state National Guard soldiers and law enforcement officers Thursday to apprehend and return migrants suspected of crossing illegally back to the U.S.-Mexico border, testing how far his state can go in trying to enforce immigration law — a federal responsibility.

    • AlexinCT

      That makes sense…

    • straffinrun

      Honestly, there is something very hinky about the whole story.

  36. Pope Jimbo

    From the Minneapolis links above, it seems to me that the only way out of the death spiral Minneapolis is in is to crack way down.

    You will have to let the police off the leash and let them start arresting gobs of people and then putting those people in prison. Even for shit that normally you would settle for probation for. Minneapolis needs a lot of examples of people who got fucked over royally for engaging in mayhem to serve as examples.

    With half the crazies in Minneapolis still thinking that no police is the way to go, I don’t see that happen.

    It will get worse before it gets better.

    I don’t see any path forward where you can get back to normal without going through some extreme law and order phase. Similar to NYC having to put up with Stop and Frisk and other civil liberty violations from the cops.

    • straffinrun

      I lived in a high crime neighborhood in Denver. It’s the absolute worst.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My wife and I lived in a high crime neighborhood when we first started living together. We were the only ones in our apartment building not burgled. I was also the only white dude.

        I don’t think it was white privilege that protected me. I did wonder which of my neighbors liked me enough to spare us.

        *most likely reason we weren’t burgled was because we had nothing worth stealing back then.

      • Ownbestenemy

        bah…i failed.

    • Tundra

      I agree with you, but we still have the Minnesota Freedom Fund (or whatever the fuck it’s called) bailing felons out like crazy.

      It’s definitely not a good time to be down there. My nephew and his girlfriend took a beating on their condo and moved to Florida.

      I think that’s a pretty common story. Lots of giant companies leaving their buildings empty. Fucking sad to watch.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If I wanted to ruin my life, the epic troll of the century would be to buy a billboard downtown and put a pic of Derek Chauvin on it with the caption “Miss me now?”

      • AlexinCT

        You would be made to pay for reminding the not totally insane how insane what they got now is…

      • R C Dean

        Yet there is a ton of new building in downtown Minneapolis. Its baffling.

    • Drake

      That would come dangerously close to admitting that multiculturalism is a failure and unworkable stupid idea. Doubt it will ever happen.

    • db

      Look, Your Holiness, don’t you understand that the mayhem is a legitimate form of protest? All the people are saying is that they want the police out of the picture. Once that goal is attained, all the mayhem will stop.

      There will be an end to the horror when you capitulate. We pinky-swear.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Right now, totally understandably, you want to walk away from your marriage.

    But it sounds like until this incident, you were generally happy with your wife.

    Once the shock wears off, it’s possible you will want to attempt to put this behind you and try again.

    Beg her for forgiveness for your pettyminded jealousy. Cook dinner for her and her new boyfriend. Offer to hold the camera. Maybe you’ll get a nice creampie as a reward.

    • wdalasio

      Yeah, this comes across to me as some of the worse advice I’ve seen, even from The Sun.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Lie back and think of social justice

    Customers and co-workers of the Manhattan bodega clerk facing murder charges after he fatally stabbed a violent ex-con who attacked him in his store stuck by him Thursday, calling him “a good man.”

    “That poor man does not deserve this,” Christopher C., who works at a nearby store in Hamilton Heights, said of 61-year-old bodega worker Jose Alba.

    “It was self-defense and I don’t care what anyone says,” he told The Post. “The cops need to do a deeper investigation because it’s not fair to him and his family. What if he was the one that lost his life?”

    Patricia Perez, a regular customer at the Broadway bodega, said Alba kept the peace at the store, including during the occasionally unruly night shift there.

    “There’s actually been ridiculous things happen,” Perez said outside the grocery store. “I’m just really sad he’s going through this. He’s just defending himself.”

    Alba, a father of three from the Dominican Republic, was behind the counter shortly after 11 pm Friday when 35-year-old Austin Simon, an ex-con who was still on parole for assaulting a police officer, stormed behind the counter and accosted him.

    Vigilantism cannot be tolerated. You can’t take the law into your own hands. Call 911 and wait to be helped.

    • Tundra

      War on self-defense. IIRC, the Bolsheviks were pretty good at it.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Bernie Goetz get curb stomped nearly forty years ago by NYC and people are still shocked?

    • Sean

      an ex-con who was still on parole for assaulting a police officer,

      You’d think the cops would have given him a medal, not handcuffs.

    • Rat on a train

      Vigilantism cannot be tolerated.
      Defending yourself is now being a vigilante?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      At least popular outrage has helped him be freed from Rikers, if I heard correctly.

  39. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The sinking of the SS Arctic in 1854:
    https://youtu.be/UEGseRuJ4Xw

    Interesting stuff, apparently some of the crew realized they were done for and they got drunk and had their way with the female passengers. I’d never heard of this one. Interesting story.

    • straffinrun

      Hey, we’re about to die. Let’s guarantee we’re going to hell.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There were allegedly murder, rape, and cannibalism among the survivors of the USS Indianapolis’ sinking.

  40. straffinrun

    According to NHK, Putin, Xi and Trump had offered condolences while the US had Blinken tell Japan, “Well, that sucks”. Joe was sleeping, I guess.

    • Ownbestenemy

      His staffers got around to putting out a statement.

      • straffinrun

        I really wish they’d let him run his own account.

      • Tundra

        That would be glorious.

    • Sensei

      Are you really going to wake up the president to tell him the former PM has been shot?

      • UnCivilServant

        Whenever some emeritus state leader dies, current state leaders are expected to make the appropriate condolances. It’s simply diplomatic protocol.

      • Sensei

        And the US did so via the State Department.

        You are saying you need to wake up the POTUS to get a money quote?

      • UnCivilServant

        The statement only need have his name on it. Under normal conditions that’s a straightforward prospect.

        The official presidental statement that came out is trying to exploit the incident for domestic policy pushing.

        “While there are many details we do not yet know, we know violent attacks are never acceptable & that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it. The U.S. stands with Japan in this moment of grief.”

        Not enough lampposts.

      • Tundra

        “gun violence?” What the actual fuck?

      • db

        Holy crap, they just cannot control themselves, can they?

        It’s institutional narcissism.

      • R C Dean

        Authoritarian Tourette’s.

      • MikeS

        Translation: Oooh, look! We have a famous body to stand on!

      • UnCivilServant

        To be fair, the president doesn’t need to be woken up to release a statement on such an issue. Appropriate, politically neutral, condolances can be written by any competent staffer.

        Problem is, the administration’s areas of interest do not intersect with decorum or politically neutral relations.

      • Sensei

        Sorry we posted at the same time. I agree here.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Highly qualified? Who cares?

    The NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders have hired the first Black female team president in the league’s history.

    Sandra Douglass Morgan, a Las Vegas native, is not new to firsts. She was the first Black city attorney in Nevada, when she served for the City of North Las Vegas, and she was the first person of color named chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the team said Thursday.

    She is also an independent director at Allegiant Airlines, Caesars Entertainment and Fidelity National Financial Inc.

    “It is the honor of a lifetime to join the Raiders at one of the most defining times in the team’s history,” Morgan said. “This team’s arrival in Las Vegas has created a new energy and opportunities we never dreamed possible. I look forward to taking this team’s integrity, spirit and commitment to excellence on the field into every facet of this organization.”

    The important thing is, she’s black. And a woman, whatever that means.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its working out well for the White House communications team, so why not?

    • straffinrun

      From “Just Win Baby, Win” to participation trophy in the blink of an eye.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not sure you should point out that she “…is also an independent director at Allegiant Airlines” Aren’t they on the selling block?

    • R C Dean

      Sandra Douglass Morgan, a Las Vegas native, is not new to firsts.

      A firster, eh? Does the Bro know?

      • JasonAZ

        haha! I saw that and thought the same thing…

    • creech

      Define “woman.”

      • juris imprudent

        For that matter is she really black black or just identifying as black? Does she have the right politics to be authentically black?

  42. KSuellington

    Sloopyinca said, “We need to bring back mental institutions.”

    It’s among my least libertarian opinions, but I would have to strongly agree with this. The open air asylum model that we have currently had for the last several decades is very obviously not working. Funny enough, that model is the finest example of the wonders of bipartisanism that I can think of. Asylums should take the place of jail for the population of drugged out zombies and mental cases screaming at themselves or dancing in traffic that I constantly encounter.

    • Timeloose

      Do you all think that the State Run Mental Hospitals would have been closed as quickly if One Flew Over the Cucko’s Nest didn’t become a hit? We have several former nut houses around me, they have been converted to privately run mental institutions or actual prisons.

      The case to bring back the Asylum
      https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2091312

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The novel came out in ’62; is that pertinent?

      • KSuellington

        Thanks for the link TL, I put it in my “to read” for the weekend. I absolutely think One Flew helped move the public in that direction. Also Szasz and Foucault certainly played their parts by pushing their theories in the social sciences and getting them fairly widely accepted by academia. It’s funny how many people I talk to about this who are content to lay this all at the feet of Ronnie Reagan. The left really got that myth into the public consciousness (at least here) . When I mention to them the role of the ACLU in getting the institutions closed I invariably get a blank look.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    The hire of Morgan comes less than a year after Jon Gruden was dismissed as head coach of the team. In October 2021, a league investigation into the Washington Football Team examining workplace misconduct uncovered emails Gruden had sent years earlier that showed he used racist, misogynistic, and homophobic slurs.

    Affirmative action Penance hire.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      🎵 Strawberry Shortcake, gee, you’re looking swell / Cute little doll with a strawberry smell

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ok That was funny

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh good, maybe now I can get it out of my head after decades.

    • creech

      Damn Amish and their Rumspringa.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Good riddance to bed rubbish

    Outwardly, U.S. officials are playing it cool even as the resignation has rattled the U.K. If the clamor surrounding Johnson’s myriad scandals fades and a more solid prime minister emerges, that could work to Washington’s benefit.

    “Johnson has lurched from one political crisis to the next,” pointed out Charles Kupchan, a former senior U.S. official who dealt with European issues. “Washington could use a steadier hand in London to help guide the transatlantic community amid Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, building competition with China, and high levels of inflation and economic dislocation.”

    ——-

    Even if the U.S. were to have been more nosy about Britain’s internal political chaos, Johnson was unlikely to find much comfort from Biden.

    The two men in the past had differences over both style and substance, and some of the damage was done long before Biden was president.

    The Oxford-educated Brit once questioned whether former President Barack Obama, Biden’s one-time boss, was inclined to dislike Britain’s imperial past because of his part-Kenyan heritage. He also likened former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to a “sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”

    And, of course, Johnson had cozied up to Trump, who supported his campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union. In fact, Biden described Johnson as “kind of a physical and emotional clone” of Trump, whose erratic and scandal-plagued term in the White House also did not unravel U.S.-U.K. ties.

    The idea of Brexit was never popular in Biden circles, and the fallout from that break-up has led to lingering tension between Biden and Johnson over the impact on Northern Ireland and the Good Friday agreement that has kept the peace there. Post-Brexit Britain also has failed to convince the Biden team to grant it a bilateral trade deal, a deep frustration for a government in London that in some ways needs the U.S. more than ever now that it has left the EU.

    Boris’ true sin.

    Maybe that nice London mayor could be PM. He seems like a sensible chap.

  45. Tundra

    WHERE’S MY BINDER?!?

    Far and away the worst spox I’ve ever seen.

    Prediction: she’s gone by August.

    • Ownbestenemy

      She magically never sees any news….ever.

      • db

        The press corps just wants to have talking points spoon fed to it! Can you imagine how hard it is for them to come up with the right narrative without a professional like Psaki indicating what they’re supposed to be reporting?

      • Gender Traitor

        She spends every waking moment that she’s not at the press room podium in Hunter’s sensory deprivation chamber.

    • Not Adahn

      Only if they can find a LGBTIQQ2SA+ BIPOC Muslim to replace her.

  46. Ownbestenemy

    Try this again. Watching this youtuber comment on the interrogation of the armorer in the Baldwin shooting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VEbTfYBVw

    Such incompetence and complacency led to the death of that woman. She even had rounds in her pocket in the interview room. I am guessing the cops checked those out before they set her down…but who knows.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Britain’s Conservatives are overall more moderate than America’s Republican Party, including on topics such as climate change or abortion. In booting Johnson, the Conservative Party also showed it had less tolerance for leadership scandals than Republicans, who have largely stood by Trump despite two impeachments and other strife.

    Those Brits- so posh and civilized. Not like the hick savages those flyover states inflict on us.

    • R C Dean

      Republicans, who have largely stood by Trump despite two impeachments and other strife

      We’ll just conveniently overlook the Republican Congress that torpedoed his agenda and, at a minimum, sat idly by while the Deep State committed sedition.

      • rhywun

        Also don’t let’s talk about Hillary’s attempted coup.

        “other strife” 🙄

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Nothing to do with the parliamentary ability to call an election at any time?

  48. Sensei

    In J-School they teach the important thing to bring a story to life is to capture the little details.

    Manuel Gallo Espinoza, 59, shot and killed Byron Carreño, his partner in an English language school in Loja, Ecuador, on July 2, the reports said, citing “investigators.” He also shot two other partners and his pet before turning the gun on himself after a dispute about the management of the school, the reports said.

    Former N.J. priest indicted for sexual assault dies by suicide after shooting 3, killing 1 in Ecuador

    Naturally he returned to the US while under indictment, but still managed to leave the country.

  49. Sensei

    WWE’s Vince McMahon Agreed to Pay $12 Million in Hush Money to Four Women

    The previously unreported settlements include a $7.5 million pact with a former wrestler who alleged that Mr. McMahon coerced her into giving him oral sex and then demoted her and, ultimately, declined to renew her contract in 2005 after she resisted further sexual encounters, according to people familiar with the matter. The wrestler and her attorney approached Mr. McMahon in 2018 and negotiated the payment in return for her silence, the people said.

    And meanwhile the rest of us have to sit through annual workplace web based training on sexual harassment.

    • ron73440

      Mr. McMahon coerced her into giving him oral sex and then demoted her

      Apparently she wasn’t good at it?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Most things I’m forced to do I’m not good at either.

      • ron73440

        Makes sense.

      • Sensei

        The $7.5m BJ.

    • ron73440

      Holy crap, that’s two comments that worked.

      I was getting the Internal Server Error again.

    • Pine_Tree

      Looks like the first shot may have totally missed. Not even a flinch, and then obvious contact on the second.

      And good job by the 2 bodyguards just to his left-rear – seriously, not sarcastic. The vid shows them moving to get in the line of fire right away.

    • Sensei

      Damn.

      That elongated “hey” being spoken by woman off camera essentially means “what?” as in “what’s happening?”

    • hayeksplosives

      Twitter didn’t want me to see the “sensitive content” so I had to do some digging, but yeah, two distinct events.

      So sad that he has a couple of seconds of terror before it was over. He was one of the good guys! And retired from politics.

      What was the point?

  50. Nephilium

    Off to go grab food, then to a beer fest, and then punk music.

    This song seems appropriate.

  51. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Crap. Worst score I’ve had in some time.

    Daily Quordle 165
    9️⃣5️⃣
    6️⃣4️⃣
    quordle.com

  52. hayeksplosives

    Doing some Great Depression style cooking today.

    Checked the pantry last night and found some potatoes growing “eyes”, some dehydrating onions, and the fridge had some celery that was about past its prime.

    So I found a kielbasa in the freezer and laid it out to thaw overnight.

    Now all of it (sans post-prime trimmings) is in the big electric skillet, sizzling away.

    I can almost feel my genetic material mutating towards Polack

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Ah, eastern European ditch-digger food. Love that stuff. And I’ve got the waistline to prove it!

      • hayeksplosives

        Amen, brother!

        And this has some magic paprika and nutmeg sprinkled in to add a layer of awesomeness.