394 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    4chan users claim to have hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud account – smell like russian propaganda to me

    • Count Potato

      “Administrators on the image board moved quickly in the hours after the content was posted to pull down threads that included materials from the alleged leak, leaving many on the site, which is known for featuring some of the most salacious subject matter on the internet, furious.”

      Why would they do that?

      • Not Adahn

        Halfchan has been cucked ever since Moot was in charge.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t remember it that way.

      • Not Adahn

        I mean, that’s how the name “halfchan” got started in the first place.

      • SDF-7

        My first thought is because they think it would be a bridge too far with ESG-guidance-happy backend providers. That’s the typical way the techocracy shuts down competition ^W “disinformation” these days, and they’d happily use it given past behavior.

      • Count Potato

        That could be it. I have no idea what technical or financial services they rely upon.

        Also, it’s 4chan, so the whole thing could be bullshit.

      • Lackadaisical

        The fact they bothered to take it down means it’s 100% true.

      • Count Potato

        Not necessarily.

      • Not Adahn

        Is it still on kiwifarms?

    • Count Potato

      “Other records show Hunter Biden’s Apple ID account, which is used to sign in to all Apple services, has been associated with 46 different devices since 2011, including over 20 iPhones, eight Mac computers, nine iPads, and three Apple TVs, Dimitrelos said.”

      So there are another 45 devices out there?

      • UnCivilServant

        Guy keeps taking them in to get fixed and never picking them up.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Wild how the Trump hooker pee story was the best the left could come up with, when Hunter Biden’s real life is better source material.

      • AlexinCT

        I am sure they are kind of peeved they didn’t get more material to project about from Hunter’s adventures, cause that would have made for some real prime-time chuck shit….

      • straffinrun

        They’re just throwing the Hunter story at the wall to see what sticks. I’m guessing a lot of does.

      • cavalier973

        If Trumps kids were doing this…

      • AlexinCT

        I am surprised they have not resorted to accusing some trump kids of this so they can take the heat off their own… progjection is a real thing…

      • Not Adahn

        Dude. Bush’s daughters committed A CRIME when she ordered a margarita at Chuy’s with a FORGED DOCUMENT! And she never spent any time in jail!

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        They would have open sourced the material so we can all comb through it, like what the NY Times did with Palin’s emails.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        That’s what I was thinking of. So much for not publishing hacked materials.

      • Lackadaisical

        That makes how he completely forgot a whole laptop a lot more understandable.

      • Sean

        Well…that and all the crack.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s CIA propaganda…

    • Not Adahn

      Biden needs to order the FBI to send in troops to the Darkweb and root out the hacker 4Chan once and for all! It’s a disgrace that we could catch Osama Bin Laden, but Trump and Putin keep protecting this traitor!

      • PieInTheSky

        I thought the FBI was busy putting child porn on the dark web

      • UnCivilServant

        They have enough budget for plenty of parallel operations.

      • juris imprudent

        ^+^+^ This is why I love this place.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Twitter lawyers up to sue Elon Musk over broken buyout deal – This is distracting us from getting that Mars colony. I don’t like it

    • AlexinCT

      Some people claim this is the reason he is walking away. I believe he is playing this very smartly and his end goal is to drop the buying price by at least $10 billion now that it is obvious Twatter is a giant shitshow pretending to be a viable company. The current deal will be dead. A new offer will be made based on the fact Twatter has desperately tried to hide the fact a way larger part of the traffic they claim they get was bots and that the stock value has dropped drastically. He will win that in court despite the stories you keep hearing that Twatter has no obligation to tell the truth about their business (which is absolutely insane stupid think).

      Twatter can’t afford not to sell now that Elon has exposed them as frauds. They are not gonna be able to rip the buyers off like they decided they would with this deal either. The problem with a shit sammich is that as soon as you try to look closely too it, you will see that is what it is. No amount of condiments or sprucing up can hide that from a connoisseur.

      • Lackadaisical

        And, if they make a billion dollars from the fee, they might finally get a decent p/e ratio. Maybe.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Earnings?

      • juris imprudent

        no obligation to tell the truth about their business

        Well, it is what leftists believe about corporations. So they are trying their damnedest to make it the truth.

    • Drake

      Discovery in that trial should be epic.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        From the replies:

        Musk poured $44 billion into Twitter. The global population is 8 billion people. He could have given $5 billion to each individual and still had money left over. Most people’s lives would be changed if they received a $5 billion check. But he squandered it all on Twitter.

      • UnCivilServant

        Basic math people. When you divide billion by billion, the billions cancel out. That’s $5.50/person

      • Ownbestenemy

        Lol…to think we put people on the moon.

      • SDF-7

        Can we get a “B” Ark going?

      • Enough About Palin

        All those involved are pretty much dead now.

      • SDF-7

        Math that makes sense is white supremacy or something….

      • PieInTheSky

        that has to be trolling.

      • ron73440

        I hope they are making fun of the journalist that used similar math talking about the money Bloomberg wasted running for president.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That’s parody…I hope.

  3. PieInTheSky

    The U.S. Has Now Spent More in Ukraine Than in the First 5 Years in Afghanistan – but in Afghanistan is what is euphemistically called “security assistance” all US spending? Because if not the headline seems misleading.

  4. straffinrun

    Biden’s approval rating is historically low. According to Gallup, five presidents have sunk into the 20s. Those presidents include Harry Truman (22 percent), Richard Nixon (24 percent), Jimmy Carter (28 percent), George H.W. Bush (29 percent), George W. Bush (25 percent).

    Pretty sure Bill Clinton sank into the 20’s. Fact check on Monica’s age at the time?

  5. PieInTheSky

    White House Falsifies Official Transcript to Protect America’s Senile President

    Yes minister did it best

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF-Qnv2Srfs

    “The purpose of minutes is not to record events but to protect people”

  6. Count Potato

    “The U.S. Has Now Spent More in Ukraine Than in the First 5 Years in Afghanistan”

    Totally not a proxy war.

    • grrizzly

      It’s called the Russo-American war in Ukraine.

  7. straffinrun

    Just turn Epstein’s island into an abortion clinic resort.

    • Not Adahn

      Pretty sure there was an ensuite abortionist there already.

      • straffinrun

        I know he liked them young, but eeeeeewww.

      • Tres Cool

        I hear you pay extra for bareback just to cover “contingencies” .

  8. PieInTheSky

    States owe nearly a trillion dollars in liabilities on top of unfunded pensions, report shows

    I honestly do not understand how some people think defined benefit pensions are a viable concept. How can you promise money you cannot guarantee you will have?

    • PieInTheSky

      Also what is a few billions to Ukraine here and there compared…

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, that’s the basis of most transactions these days.

    • AlexinCT

      The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

      ― Thomas Sowell

      • juris imprudent

        Easy for some rich, white guy to say. /clueless Brit

    • straffinrun

      It’s a promise that they’ll threaten people with violence later if they don’t pay. So, govt in other words.

      • PieInTheSky

        but if the people don;t have the money, what will threats accomplish?

      • AlexinCT

        Remind them they are owned by the state?

      • straffinrun

        Oh, you’ll get money, Lebowski.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that code for the blue states get a federal bailout?

      • UnCivilServant

        The threats are step 1, in case they can somehow figure out a way to cover the debt.

        Step two is the take whatever the debtor has you can get away with and sell it to recoup something.

        Hrmm… a fire sale on state assets in New York might be amusing to watch. Especially if it involved reducing the region to territory status for a while to reign in the spending.

    • SDF-7

      “Its easy! Just be out of office when the bill comes do and enjoy palling around with your civil service union buddies!” say most state politicians.

      Extra salt in the wounds — Newsom would rather splurge our supposed “surplus” (which I think is at least partly just sucking as many Fed funds as they can) on buying votes for the next election (probably figures — hey, it worked with my recall!) rather than try to actually address liabilities. Almost certainly figures a Fed bailout will take care of it anyway. If Illinois doesn’t beat CA to it or the Fed doesn’t bankrupt itself first…

    • Brett L

      It’s not impossible. What IS impossible is to do so assuming ahistoric rates of return. I think the IL system needs an ARR of about 12% to make good on their pensions. I believe Florida finally switched all the way to defined contribution for most state employees (I want to say that law enforcement, emergency services and corrections can still opt for pensions). They were also 120% funded last year (again, I can’t recall the formula but I think that is the amount of money to pay the next 20 years of obligations). Which probably means they will be 95% funded this year.
      What you cannot do is assume there will be money later to make up for underfunding now. You should be able to set up a stable annuity fund with enough money.

      • PieInTheSky

        It’s not impossible. – it is highly improbable

    • Rat on a train

      How can you promise money you cannot guarantee you will have?
      Because those who promised the money will be gone leaving the bill to future generations. Run up the bill. Somebody else will pay it.

      • invisible finger

        Exactly. Grandchildren have been used as collateral since Social Security was concocted.

  9. Count Potato

    “But when Biden’s chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, announced he now wants to force all companies to disclose all aspects of their carbon footprint as a way to immediately reduce emissions”

    Totally not mission creep.

    • SDF-7

      I started putting a rant here about 3 times this morning on the insane Fed overreach of the regulatory state… but 1) Y’all have heard it before, 2) Preaching to the choir in any event and 3) At this point, what difference would it make? I can fantasize in my head as much as I want about the other two branches slapping the Executive back into a semblance of the intended role… but I know I’m just fooling myself. The Imperial Bureaucracy is here to stay until their incompetence brings it all crashing down. Just bloody depressing. I should go take a walk.

      • Count Potato

        I would post it anyway.

      • juris imprudent

        [whispers] if you write, they will post it [fades into cornfield]

    • Rat on a train

      “By any means necessary.” The SEC should also require official statements for every hot topic as boycotts/buycotts can effect business and stock prices.

  10. AlexinCT

    Steve Bannon tells Jan. 6 committee he is willing to testify

    I wonder if they will show this on TeeVee.. Not live for sure. They will need to edit everything he says to keep the narrative going..

    • juris imprudent

      I believe he is making that a precondition – live hearing. [chuckles to self, they are so screwed]

      • Lackadaisical

        They’ll just fix the official transcript later.

      • juris imprudent

        No one reads the official transcript except historians, and they’ll have plenty of other material to deconstruct the clown show.

      • SDF-7

        Quote: Exactly! End Quote. Repeat line again.

  11. rhywun

    Biden is obviously dimwitted on economic matters and, maybe worse, he’s appointed a slew of people to key posts who are proven to be chronically and dangerously unprepared.

    I’m sure that’s all true but I think they’re doing this deliberately. Amid all the chaos of the last couple years they are purposefully putting the most radical socialists in charge at every position in order to see what they can get away with before it all comes crashing down in November.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I’d be ok with unprepared if that meant they did nothing. Unfortunately they are taking actions that cause enormous damage seemingly deliberately.

  12. Lackadaisical

    ‘California doctor proposes FLOATING abortion clinic on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico to bypass bans in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama after Roe v Wade was repealed ‘

    Yeah, this makes me want to go rainbow warrior on them…

    • Count Potato

      If you can get to a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, you can get to another state.

      • UnCivilServant

        They don’t want solutions, they want attention!

      • R.J.

        It’s easier to throw the dead children into the sea and avoid California’s tough bio-hazardous waste laws.

      • UnCivilServant

        And not get paid for the parts? That’s half the revenue stream!

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Same with organ and tissue donation. After seeing that industry up close, where everyone is making bank off corpses except for the family of the deceased, I’ll discourage anyone who asks. Vultures would be ashamed of their recovery teams, and the psychological mind games they play with bereaved parents is sick.

        I always wondered how many dead children’s’ bodies it took to fund the National Sales Retreat held every year, complete with open bars every night. Or the continuous stream of dinners with surgeons at top end steak houses.

    • Rat on a train

      I look forward to floating gun stores.

      • R.J.

        Oooo! Me Too!
        “Davey Jones’ Discounts!”

      • SDF-7

        “One stop shopping — the register is right by the lake for your boating accident!” ?

      • TARDis

        “Can I get a 25mm deck gun here?”

      • R C Dean

        Sorry, pal, etc.

  13. Rebel Scum

    The U.S. Has Now Spent More in Ukraine Than in the First 5 Years in Afghanistan

    But that was just dicking around killing towelhead babies and testing weapons. Ukraine is about DEMOCRACY itself!

  14. Rebel Scum

    Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Sinks to Historic Low of 29 Percent

    Most. Popularly. Elected. President. Ever.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Democracy is good.

  15. AlexinCT

    White House Falsifies Official Transcript to Protect America’s Senile President

    They have been doing this pretty much right out of the gate, right? From the get-go it pretty much has been 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix, and clown porn sold as family friendly thruthiness..

    • straffinrun

      They can’t even claim it’s a gaffe anymore. They’re just blatantly lying. It’s kinda funny.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s the thing straffinrun, they have been getting away with manipulating the people’s perception of reality (giving democrats cover to make them look good while hurting anyone that was not part of the team blue globalist movement the shank) forever, and think they still can do this despite the fact this guy is an absolute disaster. I am absolutely not surprised they would feel the need to keep giving this guy cover, even when it burns them brutally, because they need to protect the guy they foisted on us to protect themselves.

        They hid em in a basement to make sure they had a chance to fortify the 2020 election. Unfortunately the world the globalists want to take us to is unraveling, and they can’t keep this idiot in the basement, Worse yet, they have no backup with any sort of competence to foist on us. So hence we get this spectacle playing out with a whole lot of sheep still desperately wanting to buy a lie because of team politics…

      • SDF-7

        Between Canada earlier, what PPP is doing to us, Sri Lanka and the Netherlands — I have to confess that there’s a definite part of me that would not mind seeing the next Davos conference (and all their ilk) going decidedly different than in the past. Like, lamposts different.

        Then I remember that I probably would have felt the same way about Versailles prior to the storming of the Bastille and remind myself that these things never stop where prior thoughts “expect” and to be careful what I wish for.

        Here’s hoping globalism and globalist elites get taken down some pegs without it turning into violent anarchy.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Then I remember that I probably would have felt the same way about Versailles prior to the storming of the Bastille and remind myself that these things never stop where prior thoughts “expect” and to be careful what I wish for.

        On the other hand, even out of control violent anarchy would have been a vast improvement over the Soviet gulags, Nazi concentration camps, or Japanese rule in their occupied territories.

      • Rat on a train

        The mob is difficult to control once unleashed.

      • juris imprudent

        manipulating the people’s perception of reality… forever

        FDR’s wheelchair nods sagely.

  16. cavalier973

    What do the members of the J6 committee expect to get from Brannon?

    • UnCivilServant

      Sound bites and spectacle.

      • AlexinCT

        And are they not smart enough to worry they will get a lot of that, but all of it not serving their lie?

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s what the editors in the newsroom are for.

      • juris imprudent

        No, those people in Congress really think they are smarter than he is.

  17. Rebel Scum

    January 6 Committee Avoids Asking Cipollone Questions That Could Implicate Hutchinson in Perjury

    Narrative > facts.

  18. Rebel Scum

    She is hoping to offer surgical abortions to women in states like Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, via a vessel on federal waters
    Ship would be based nine miles from the coast of Texas and three from the coast of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi able to evade those states’ restrictions
    Autry notes that people living in southern parts of states with restrictive abortion rules are actually closer to the coast than to other with abortion access
    Team of licensed medical professionals would offer abortions for up to 14 weeks

    Interesting solution to a non-problem.

    • Rat on a train

      Team of licensed medical professionals would offer abortions for up to 14 weeks
      Who was it that challenged the 15 week law that got the rules changed?

  19. Rebel Scum

    Even/especially the Hispanic ones.

    “What scares me is that we’ve seen the shooters, time and time again, like the shooter at my high school, have these incredibly xenophobic ideals — these hateful and racist ideals over and over again.” …

    What’s not going to help to reduce gun death is stigmatizing it and making people think that the only time we should be talking about mental illness is when there’s a white-nationalist mass shooter that goes and kills people, like the 17 students and educators the white nationalist last year at my high school killed.

    He’s just making shit up at this point. But he does acknowledge gun suicides. So that’s something.

    • rhywun

      Maybe the left can step back from inciting racial hatred for a bit and see what happens.

    • juris imprudent

      Nikolas Cruz?!?

      White supremacy can infect anyone!

    • kbolino

      “we never talk about mental health in this country!”

      [meanwhile, over half middle class is medicated up the wazoo with psychiatrists on speed dial]

      • grrizzly

        Drinking is healthier.

      • Sean

        My liver would like to speak to a manager.

      • Enough About Palin

        It will need to stop slurring if it truly wants to be understood.

    • AlexinCT

      MILF pr0n rocks…

    • SDF-7

      I started to ask “Who cares — what is this, some stupid British tabloid stirring up crap with celebrities like they’re SOOO damned important?”.

      Then I looked at the link and saw it was the Daily Mail… “Oh, right…”

    • Lackadaisical

      Washington commanders?

      Is that an xfl team from the Pacific Northwest?

      • Enough About Palin

        From the root word Kommandant.

    • juris imprudent

      The Commissars? I think it’s perfectly fitting.

    • invisible finger

      Friend went to get some Red Man chewing tobacco yesterday. They handed him a pouch of “America’s Best”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Man

      • Grummun

        Some would discuss that anal sex is also away to ‘keep one’s virginity’

        Related.

      • Enough About Palin

        “Some would discuss that anal sex is also away to ‘keep one’s virginity’”

        Well that Joseph Smith did pull those tablets out of his ass. Twice no less!

      • AlexinCT

        This just feels like a misallocation of resources and too much work…

      • Enough About Palin

        Chicks that look like her bore the hell out of me. Who wants to fuck Barbie?

      • Enough About Palin

        BS like rainbow parties were ?

    • SDF-7

      I’ve said it before (see above about posting the same damned thoughts preaching to the choir here) — but state / Fed amendments mandating that anything longer than 3 months can’t be “A state of emergency” by definition (really, anything that is longer than the time to convene a special legislative session so the Legislature can make any laws needed — 3 months is just my penciled in figure here), can’t be “auto renewed” by the weasels using it to extend their power, etc. would be the first thought if the branches had any interest in maintaining their power.

      But it seems like the Fed Congress, they’re happier with their appointed Kings (taking 10% of their asses and working them or somesuch…) than doing their jobs and being accountable for anything. Grumble bitch moan complain.

      • UnCivilServant

        If you could feel important, make bank, and not have to do anything you didn’t want to, would you pass up the opportunity in exchange for hard work and accountability?

    • Lackadaisical

      Sorry, but this will just go to a higher court and get reversed.

      • UnCivilServant

        I donno, the same thing happened to the legislative maps where even the NY Court of Appeals said “No, you didn’t follow the process.”

    • UnCivilServant

      Didn’t the government of Sri Lanka already resign?

      • kbolino

        They have one of those inexplicable president-and-prime-minister systems, and the President never left. His brother, who was the PM, resigned, but he was replaced with the previous PM, who obviously helped make this mess to begin with. He too has said he’ll resign, but he hasn’t left yet.

    • AlexinCT

      That whole silk road cum green agenda experiment in Sri Lanka sure as hell seem to be indicating disaster from these results, but the people that want this global reset don’t seem to get that lesson in reality. Obviously just telling people they will own nothing, live in pods provided by government, be made to eat insects, and be worked like drones, and be happy, is not taking, but the powers that be will not let go of their vision of the new world order….

      • The Other Kevin

        I checked out a few stories this morning, and it’s not surprising that the MSM stories don’t mention the environmental regulations that destroyed their farming industry. The just call it “financial mismanagement” by the government.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have read this is a CIA setup not a real insurrection.

    • AlexinCT

      Their efforts are about whitewashing the murderous communist totalitarian collectivist movement, cause they really, really want more of that…. Marxism is purely a cult where its members find joy in the fact their peer – neighbors and others close to them – all are made to suffer as well. So many people find existential joy in knowing others are hurting and their lives are horrific, even if they are hurting because of that shit too.

  20. Rebel Scum

    This cunte is not serious.

    My version of a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment:

    THE 28th AMENDMENT

    • AlexinCT

      Did he have a bad experience grazing at the buffet table and some crazy dreams to follow, again?

    • Tres Cool

      I guess it just hasnt sunken in yet that criminals dont bother with background checks.

    • R.J.

      I would one that revised the 2nd Amendment to remove any ambiguity. “You have the right to own and bear weapons of any type.” Period.

      • Lackadaisical

        +1 suitcase nuke

    • TARDis

      Douchebag cry for attention.

      I was looking for an amendment proposal that would clarify and expand 2nd amendment rights. No luck.

      The very least I want is a clause that states all eligible (not crazy) citizens may possess any weaponry that is allowed for the local and state constabulary.

      Plus the need for informal militias whose true purpose is to force the government to serve citizens and not the other way around.

    • The Other Kevin

      “The inalienable right of a free people to be kept safe from gun violence”

      Interesting way to look at it. Considering everything in the constitution is in regard to what government can and cannot do, but here we have something that somehow magically dictates how all people in the country behave.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Not just how they behave but how outside forces affect them. The idea that this could be promised by writing it on paper is beyond ludicrous. Why don’t we just promise people safety from car crashes and cancer while we’re at it? What a fucking buffoon.

    • Grumbletarian

      SECTION 7.
      Police who are trained and vetted to use firearms shall be subject to comprehensive and continuous monitoring and shall be dismissed if found to exhibit any racist or violent behavior.

      Since we know you can cite a tweet from when someone was a teenager to permanently label them a racist, this runs smack into the First Amendment, but dipshit likely doesn’t care.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Biden should send one of his plague boats to the Gulf to perform mass abortions. Come one, come all.

    • AlexinCT

      How much of Hunter’s animosity towards Jill is his hidden desire for step mom hate fucking?

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘hidden’?

        Guessing that is on his laptop somewhere in his search history.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The question no one is asking is why @DrBiden prescribed crack to her stepson— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) July 11, 2022

    • Compelled Speechless

      Can this be categorized as progjection?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    What do the members of the J6 committee expect to get from Brannon?

    Contempt and slight regard.

    • juris imprudent

      That’s what they should expect. I really believe these idiots think they can cow him.

  23. Count Potato

    I keep getting those internal server error things.

    • Rebel Scum

      ///MeToo

    • AlexinCT

      Happens when you try to post too much too fast?

    • Drake

      What have you been eating?

  24. Rebel Scum

    That’s too bad…

    A Bill Gates Foundation supermarket in the Netherlands that focuses on new-age foods like plant protein meat has spontaneously caught fire in the middle of the night.

    • AlexinCT

      Insurance racket?

    • R C Dean

      “Spontaneously”

      • SDF-7

        “Mostly non-inflammatory”.

  25. Rebel Scum

    I’m sure this serves a valuable porpoise.

    The Faroe Islands announced on Sunday that it would provisionally limit the number of dolphins that could be killed in the territory’s traditional hunt to 500.

    “An annual catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins has now been proposed by the Ministry of Fisheries on a provisional basis for 2022 and 2023,” the government of the Danish autonomous territory said.

    The decision to crack down on the number of hunted dolphins comes after public outcry from last year’s hunt, where over 1,423 white-sided dolphins were killed, a spree that shocked even residents who supported the practice.

    • juris imprudent

      French pretenders to the throne hit hardest.

    • Animal

      That’s a whale of a story.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      To what porpoise?

  26. Rebel Scum

    I’d be surprised if he didn’t.

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), tests positive for COVID, spokesman says.

    “…He greatly appreciates the protection the vaccine has provided him…”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Granted these are self reported symptoms, but I get all of the western states reports of of the lil-rona for FAA employees…

      Little have reported fever
      Most report: headache, cough and runny nose

      To report a positive they must provide the results.

      So it seems that the vid has evolved into our new common cold.

  27. waffles

    Good morning. Busy week ahead. The hunter biden stuff is so unbelievably bad my only conclusion is that he is clearly the most protected person in the history of US politics. I wonder how long it can last.

    • Lackadaisical

      …. Wanna fud?

    • Sean

      I like him even more now. I bet he’s a hoot at parties.
      He’s definitely cooler than any of Trump’s sons.

      L O L

    • Ownbestenemy

      Lol. This would have all went away if they just admitted the dude is troubled

      • Tres Cool

        The old “Billy Carter Defense”.

    • Lackadaisical

      Love the responses (why would Russia make Hunter do this?)

    • hayeksplosives

      Creepiest thing I’ve read in a while is Hunter’s ex wife description of her first meeting with Joe Biden in which he tells her, while gripping her and pulling her to him, forehead to forehead, noses almost touching, “My boy tells me he loves you. That means -I- love you. understand? I love you.”

      10% to the Big Guy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I get the feeling the family wishes they were “The Family” and are trying to enact out The Godfather

      • R.J.

        Holy shit. That is creepy.

      • Enough About Palin

        “I learned it from you, Dad!

  28. Rebel Scum

    The midterm variant is upon us.

    The latest subvariant of the novel coronavirus to become dominant in Europe, the United States, and other places is also, in many ways, the worst so far.

    The BA.5 subvariant of the basic Omicron variant appears to be more contagious than any previous form of the virus. It’s apparently better at dodging our antibodies, too—meaning it might be more likely to cause breakthrough and repeat infections.

    It’s almost like it is a cold/flu virus, which mutates constantly, which is why you get one or several colds a year.

    Vaccines and boosters are still the best defense. There are even Omicron-specific booster jabs in development that, in coming months, could make the best vaccines more effective against BA.5 and its genetic cousins.

    Actually you should just take your vitamins.

    • Sean

      BA5 gonna git ya!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah scary headlines “Deadly Ninja variant!” Followed by explaining at the end of the article “there is no indication it is deadlier”

    • R.J.

      I wrote little bit about this in the movie post Thursday. Wife took the Paxlovid shit, and it made her well in five days – then she relapsed for another ten days. Altogether 18 days of this bullshit. To your point, just take your damn vitamins.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      More sleep, better food, moderate exercise, et cetera, et cetera . . .

    • Drake

      Now I want to see somebody shoot it.

    • UnCivilServant

      That thing is never going to hold its zero.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m not sure about the optics of that.

    • Sean

      OW! My eye!

    • AlexinCT

      Hunter Biden crack whoring level of genius?

    • Pope Jimbo

      To be fair, the original gun smith was only supposed to add a sling. Then the owner wanted more. Classic scope creep

      • SDF-7

        Very nice (polite applause). Too bad it will likely trigger Swiss.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well I hope he sticks around and doesn’t bolt

    • AlexinCT

      WORD!

    • Rebel Scum

      *sensible chuckle*

  29. Rebel Scum

    Paul, you dishonest cunte.

    Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said he was “sobbing” as he watched the Jan 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol happen, according to a new book. …

    “I spent my whole adult life in that building,” Ryan told Leibovich in the book. “And I saw my friends, a lot of cops, some of my old security detail – I’m still friends with a bunch of those guys. It really disturbed me, foundationally.”

    • AlexinCT

      This guy was a statist scumbag and his divorce exposing his skumbaggery saved us all from prolonged machinations by this asshat.

      • Tres Cool

        “I spent my whole adult life in that building,”

        Paul you’re a leech on the taxpayers. Go get a job.

      • juris imprudent

        That guy couldn’t do a day’s productive work if his life depended on it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Eddie Munster is a pussy.

    • kbolino

      When exactly did so many men get any reason to believe their tears matter?

      They’re leaning hard into “weak men create hard times” lately.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, he was Boehner’s protegé.

      • kbolino

        The Republican Congressional delegation has been a parade of terrible people for a lot longer than many realize.

  30. waffles

    If it holds zero, what’s the problem? Heh.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    With its excellent academic and music programs, Oberlin College in Ohio seemed like a perfect fit for Nina Huang, a California high school student who plays flute and piano and hopes to eventually study medicine or law.

    But Huang, 16, said she crossed the college off her application list after Ohio enacted a near-total ban on abortion last month. She now plans to cast a wider net for schools in states with less restrictive laws.

    “I don’t want to go to school in a state where there is an abortion ban,” she said.

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide has some students rethinking their higher education plans as states rush to ban or curtail abortion, according to interviews with 20 students and college advisers across the country.

    While it has long been the case that some students hesitated to attend schools in places with different political leanings than their own, recent moves by conservative states on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights have deepened the country’s polarization.

    NPR- doing their part to polarize the nation by publishing crap like this. Twenty “students” and college advisors? That’s a representative sample, by golly.

  32. UnCivilServant

    Random question for gun glibs – what horrible, user- and firearm-maiming catastrophe are you courting if you try to feed .410 shot shells through a .45 colt lever gun?

    • Tres Cool

      As I recall, the Thompson Contender did something along those lines.

    • Drake

      What Brooks said about the rifling. If it were to actually fire, I would guess you would have to use a bore-punch to get the empty casing out of the chamber and clear a hellacious jam.

    • Gustave Lytton

      You’re writing a story involving a Taurus firearms designer?

      • UnCivilServant

        It was one of those random thoughts that popped into my head.

        The Taurus Circuit Judge is on my list of “That’d be neat, but I’m not sure how to safely fire it” guns

    • TARDis

      Well he’s not wrong.

      • Lackadaisical

        In vino rima saxum veritas

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Whoops, that one was Reuters. It all comes from the same sausage mill, at this point.

  34. Pope Jimbo

    All of Minneapolis’ problems are now solved

    Attorneys at the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office (CAO) stumbled on a troubling realization: The majority of those convicted of misdemeanor gun possession are young Black men with no prior record who say they carry “for protection” and who, after their initial run-in with the legal system, seem to lose hope and go down a path of crime and stints in custody.

    This unprecedented approach, called the Pathway Gun Diversion Program, is the first of its kind in the country and has garnered attention from academics and prosecutors in other states. In April, Minneapolis increased funding for the initiative by $480,000 and extended the program through 2025.

    After someone is charged with misdemeanor gun possession — and they have no prior record — they take a diagnostic assessment. They may be eligible to enter the program by pleading guilty in court to the charge and agreeing to a two-year stay of adjudication.

    When that probation period is up, the individual enrolls in the Pathway diversion program, which involves nine months of classes. Courses, which are taught by licensed social workers and mental health professionals, are done in three phases, said Pathway program director Priscilla Brown, who created the program and teaches courses.

    Brown said the people who come to Pathway — the vast majority of whom are Black men — landed there because of decisions that were influenced by trauma.

    “We’re talking about intergenerational trauma,” said Brown. “We’re not just talking about the trauma you have just waking up every day hearing gun violence, whether you’re a part of it or not; just knowing that it’s in your community, in your family. There’s domestic violence and abuse. We’re also talking about the intergenerational trauma going all the way back to slavery that they don’t even know about because they are not even old enough to have the stories told to them.”

    I would have thought it would be cheaper so simply not charge people for simply carrying. But I guess you don’t get an extra half million for that program.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The majority of those convicted of misdemeanor gun possession are young Black men with no prior record

      No prior record doesn’t exclude those who are picked up for another crime and found with the gun. So it’s not clear if this is Stop and Frisk type bullshit or one of several charges for first time offenders (e.g., gun possession plus assault/larceny/etc.). Either crappy writing or the confusion is intentional.

    • AlexinCT

      Can’t let those people feel they don’t need to stay on the team blue plantation if they have the ability to defend themselves….

      • Pope Jimbo

        We’re also talking about the intergenerational trauma going all the way back to slavery that they don’t even know about because they are not even old enough to have the stories told to them.

        C’mon Alex! They don’t even know how they are being Traumatized by The Man.

      • juris imprudent

        In a state that never, ever had slavery. I mean, shit, if you were talking Alabama that would be at least a tiny bit plausible.

    • Lackadaisical

      My favorite part is the intergenerational trauma they recurved, which, they’re too young to have learned about. How old are they? 4?

      Or do they mean they haven’t been brainwashed in college yet?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Random question for gun glibs – what horrible, user- and firearm-maiming catastrophe are you courting if you try to feed .410 shot shells through a .45 colt lever gun?

    I can’t imagine you’d be doing the rifling any good.

    • R.J.

      Only if it is designed for it. If not you could have issues with case expansion, primers, etc… get a revolver built for it to do that.

  36. Rebel Scum

    Terrible twos.

    It is a foreshadowing of poverty, prison, and even death. It tells the story of children — who through no fault of their own — have been corrupted and abandoned by a system that places no value on the traditional nuclear family.

    When Minneapolis police officers showed up in St. Paul last week to execute a search warrant for a murder suspect, they were met by toddlers — some still in diapers — who punched, kicked, cursed, and threw rocks at them. (Alpha News is only publishing 30 seconds of the video, but it goes on for another two minutes.)

    The nuclear family is muh-racisms or something.

    • PieInTheSky

      nuclear is bad we need wind mill families

      • Mojeaux

        Pie wins the internet.

    • Mojeaux

      toddlers … punched, kicked, cursed, and threw rocks at them

      So … toddlers doing what toddlers do.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Normally would agree but these little hellions were….much different.

      • Mojeaux

        What, you expect me RTFA? Are you new here?

      • Mojeaux

        I just watched it. I’ve seen videos like that before and they’re just appalling. It’s why I don’t believe in the concept of “free will” as it is generally understood. Almost all of those children will grow up never feeling “There is something really wrong here and I want out and this is how I can do that.” They’re stuck in a repeating loop of failure and misery.

    • Enough About Palin

      I was on the Number 5 bus coming home from work (my third year of retirement started today – God bless capitalism and property rights!) and there was a cop on the bus. A little black kid of about three or four was acting out a bit a and his mother pointed at the cop and told the kid that if he didn’t stop the cop would take him to jai. We constantly hear reference to the Black Community. Well as someone who has lived in “The Black Community” I can tell you first hand it is extremely fucked up. It’s still in bondage to the slave mentality.

      People say, “Oh, but their lives are so full of poverty and violence, they never had a chance.” Tell that to the Hmong restaurant owner who spent years dodging death and losing family members in war-torn Laos, followed by ten years in a Thai refugee camp only because she was lucky enough to make it across the Mekong River.

      I learned the concept of Being in Bondage to the Slave Mentality decades ago on a black community radio station. Really opened my eyes.

    • SDF-7

      Insert Picard-Face-Palm here, and I renew my motion for a “B” Ark.

      • R.J.

        It’s bad for fat people too, you can see pendulous man boobs straining against thin shirts.

    • Rat on a train

      More allies in the battle over the office thermostat?

  37. Pope Jimbo

    I read that they will use a 10 year old oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico for their abortion factory. But none of the news outlets running the story have verified it. They’re just repeating the claim made by one person in Alabama.

    • PieInTheSky

      maybe they can make baby oil while their at it

      • Rat on a train

        a renewable resource

      • Ownbestenemy

        Green energy? We should give it a name

      • SDF-7

        They could park the rig near a peninsula. That way it would be Salient Green.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What you did….was seen

    • Rebel Scum

      Pirate radio abortion?

  38. SDF-7

    Back from vacation, back to Quordling… felt close to chumping, but narrowly escaped:

    Daily Quordle 168
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    • pistoffnick

      4 9
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    • Sean

      #waffle171 3/5

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      🔥 streak: 17
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      • TARDis

        #waffle171 5/5

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        🔥 streak: 21
        🏆 #waffleelite
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      • Sean

        Sweet.

      • Lackadaisical

        5 for me today as well. Was a decently hard one, so actually a bit proud.

      • The Hyperbole

        🌎 Jul 11, 2022 🌍
        🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 5.55
        🟧🟨🟥🟥🟥🟩 = 6

        #globle

    • JG43

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      Daily Quordle 168
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      That shouldn’t have been that hard.

    • TARDis

      3-6-9-suck.
      Daily Quordle 168
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      • robc

        You won’t be last, see my post below.

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      7 9
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  39. The Late P Brooks

    We’re also talking about the intergenerational trauma going all the way back to slavery that they don’t even know about because they are not even old enough to have the stories told to them.

    “Some of those people don’t even know they’re victims until we tell them.”

    • PieInTheSky

      I met an American girls once who told me at length all about epigenetic transfer of trauma. What is it with you people?

      • invisible finger

        I would have suggested you bite her in the neck but she was already batty.

      • juris imprudent

        He’s smarter than that – you are what you eat after all.

      • kbolino

        In Romania, you pay a gypsy woman to dispel the curse that’s been afflicting you, and the problem goes away.

        In America, you pay a psychiatrist to diagnose you with “mental illness” and prescribe pills, and the problem gets worse.

        There’s a reason we look crazy to you. Now if only I could get more people to realize the Romanian way is better.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        What do you mean, “you people”?

  40. Pope Jimbo

    I wonder what the Abortion Uber Alles people think about stories like this one where King Walz and Brother Keith are being defended against the scurrilous charge that they are for legal abortions any time for any reason?

    In a blue state like Minnesoda, surely they would run on such a position? All the right thinking people have assured us that this is what people want.

    Do the DFL incumbents support third-trimester abortion “for any reason?” Both say they do not and neither of their political opponents produced evidence that they do or have supported no-restriction abortion.

    While polling shows strong support for abortion access, especially within the first three months of pregnancy, most Republican candidates support bans on the procedure — sometimes even if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or if the life and health of the mother is at risk. The GOP candidates for governor and attorney general oppose abortion and wouldn’t have won the party’s endorsement otherwise.

    But statements issued after the federal court ruling, while endorsing the court action, attempted to flip the issue on Democrats.

    Can you imagine? Having a litmus test on abortion. What sort of party does that?

  41. Threedoor

    As much as I like watching Russian tank turrets launch into orbit just stop. The Stunga does that just fine without any of my money.

    • SDF-7

      Nope, sorry — there’s only one good / cool way to get turrets in orbit.

      • Drake

        Footfall Orion for the win.

  42. Pope Jimbo

    Well that escalated quickly. Minneapolis Sheriff – ‘first openly gay sheriff in the Midwest’ – is accused of creating a hostile workplace after sending racist and homophobic texts.

    In another text on May 3, a command staff member asks Hutchinson if he needs any information in preparation for a phone call with Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell.

    Hutchinson responds, “Idk. Maybe. ‘F–k you-ya bald mumbling f—-t,’” using a homophobic slur.

    Bonus points for our sheriff also applying for PTSD disability retirement. His problems seem to arise from when he rolled his car on the way back from a LEO conference while drunk as a skunk. I guess the pressure of not getting away with it caused mental problems.

  43. grrizzly

    The English Channel is so narrow in some places. I took a picture of both France and England in the same airplane window.

    • Not Adahn

      Fortunately the Divine Wind destroyed the Armada and prevented the Huns from invading.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, the Spanish Armada was defeated more by storms than the English Navy. And William the Bastard was delayed quite some time waiting for the winds to be favorable.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    So many broken people out there.

    For Maryland high school student Sabrina Thaler, however, the prospect of attending college in a state that bans abortion is unsettling.

    Thaler, 16, recalled the question she posed to her high school class during a discussion in May after the decision that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade was leaked.

    “What if I go to a college in a state where abortion is banned and I get raped and then I don’t have the option to have an abortion?”

    Nobody doesn’t get raped in college. It’s a weekly ritual.

    • juris imprudent

      Maybe she’s looking forward to it?

      • Ownbestenemy

        She could drag around a mattress and get internet points.

      • Lackadaisical

        Glibfit. Mattresses are heavy.

      • Enough About Palin

        Reminds me abut what a friend said about Gabriel García Márquez’s books. He said it’s chicks really, really get off on the rape scenes, despite feigning shock and horror. He says they love to be raped vicariously.

    • PieInTheSky

      They need to teach rapists to wear condoms.

      • Lackadaisical

        *starts writing grant application*

        You’re a genius.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Maybe she should consider an in-state college so she doesn’t rack up so much debt. Win win.

  45. Not an Economist

    NASA had been promoting for weeks, they were going to release the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) tomorrow at 10:30 EST. Today I woke up and found out that President Biden has decided he was going to release an image at 5:00 EST today.

    I guess Joe is looking to borrow glory from wherever he can.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Serious? West Wing style

  46. robc

    Daily Quordle 168
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    What is the saying? Quordle destroys the bold.

    I hit 4 letters on upper right on opening word, so abandoned 2nd seed word to go for it. Yeah, that didn’t work.

    • robc

      Upper left, not upper right. Obviously, I had no clue on upper right.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    I met an American girls once who told me at length all about epigenetic transfer of trauma. What is it with you people?

    Is that like osmosis?

    • Not Adahn

      Somehow this mechanism only began in 1619, and only affects people with sufficiently high levels of melanins.

      • PieInTheSky

        nono it applies to us Romanians too. If my great grandma was abused during the first world war, I also carry the trauma.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Please, what do Europeans know about trauma, war and oppression?

  48. juris imprudent

    Surprisingly, not the NYT.

    As inflation continues to impact working-class Americans across the country, reports show that Black Americans are being hit the hardest.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Racial justice…what can’t it fix!

    • Rat on a train

      We clearly need variable prices based on intersectional scores.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Maybe stores can have special areas that are exclusive to Black Americans, too.

    • UnCivilServant

      Burrowing Owls want to go extinct.

    • Pope Jimbo

      That sounds like you have trained that fish. Doesn’t seem sporting.

      • Tres Cool

        Do I have the wrong Benson?

  49. The Late P Brooks

    From Juris’ link:

    I myself am a wealthy, white investor living in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It would be fun to think that I am where I am today because I worked hard and had some talent in my career on Wall Street. But I also recognize that my success is due to sheer luck in the skin color lottery in America. My parents were able to financially support me, in part because they had a government-subsidized mortgage in the 1960s that simply was not available to Black Americans. Now, my adult sons are today better off financially than typical Black people their age on account of the simple fact that I was born white.

    It’s time we strengthen our resolve to right the wrongs of the past by reforming the tax code and removing yet another advantage rich white men like me have over the rest of the country. It is by no means the only policy solution that is needed to fill America’s $10.14 trillion racial wealth gap, but it is a crucial and necessary step to take if we want to move our country forward in its long, slow march towards racial justice.

    Gifts to the United States
    U.S. Department of the Treasury
    Reporting and Analysis Branch 2
    P.O. Box 1328
    Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328

    Come back with a cancelled check, or STFU.

    • PieInTheSky

      which trolley problem link?

  50. hayeksplosives

    As much as I love Glibertarians, todays links and comments were a depressing way to start the day.

    America is past the tipping point.

    • UnCivilServant

      All the black-pill nihilist ranting makes me debate wandering off, but I don’t have another venue where I can vent my spleen and not have the local miscreants lambast me for my opinions.

      I think the bad news gets the most attention because it generates the strongest emotional response. We are only human and have to express the thoughts that would otherwise eat away at our thoughts and cause real problems.

      Think of it as a mental vomitorium in the misinterpreted sense rather than the roman meaning of a stadium egress.

      • Not Adahn

        I don’t even notice it and just click on the more entertaining links.

  51. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Yep, the knives are out for Sleepy Joe. I was wrong – I thought they would find a way to oust Kamala first.

    The Hunter Biden stuff is almost unbelievable. 4Chan is getting credit, but it sure smells like an op.

    I’ve heard the song many times, but never seen the video. Poor Fido!

    Have a great day, people!

    • PieInTheSky

      it is never a great day.

      • Tundra

        You never know – this could be the one!

    • robc

      I figured they would wait until after Jan 20, so that Kamala could have two full terms.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Well, have to lay the groundwork first. Which would be about now.

      • Tundra

        She’s completely unelectable.

        I’m sure they are trying to figure out how to shoehorn Michele or Hillary in there somehow.

        They really fucked up by overlooking Klobuchar. I detest her, but she would be a monster improvement over any of the current bench.

      • robc

        “She’s completely unelectable.”

        You know that and I know that.

      • Sean

        Dominion says “hi!”

      • juris imprudent

        Harris knows it too. Not one single delegate to the Democratic convention. That’s got to put her on par with Spiro Agnew.

      • Gustave Lytton

        She ended her presidential campaign in December 2019, two months before the Iowa caucuses.

      • AlexinCT

        So do the people that knew Hillary or Joe were unelectable as well, but found a way to make it work for the later one..

      • juris imprudent

        Any Democrat was electable against Trump – there really are a lot of people that hate him. Maybe you don’t know any, or you think they don’t vote, but there were more real votes than fake ones.

      • AlexinCT

        Won’t contest the fact there were more real votes than fake ones, but our election system is designed to be opaque specifically so a few unreal votes here & there, in the right places, can be enough to cheat. The problem is that you don’t need millions of illegal votes to steal an election. Something close to 50-100K ones, in the right places, and you can rig the whole thing.

      • kbolino

        I know them, and they are weak. They do not deserve to have a say in anything, least of all the running of a country. We’re well beyond “no skin in the game” and getting into “total fantasy” territory with them. They will cling to a dying system even as better alternatives blatantly present themselves.

        But yes, they do exist. Probably in sufficient numbers that, even though the election probably wasn’t legitimate, it could have been, especially if these people were more geographically distributed than they actually are (which various policies are driving to happen already).

        However, this is all the more reason for me to look down upon democracy. Trump is a product of it, and no great man. But as low as he is, the people who opposed him are almost always (much) lower. They cannot even accept the mild rebuke that he represents, and though many of them will be dead before it matters, they are utterly unfit for the future trials that await us.

      • R C Dean

        They really fucked up by overlooking Klobuchar.

        They didn’t overlook her, exactly. They disqualified her because she’s white.

  52. grrizzly

    Icelandair has 7 different Icelandic gins in businesses. Had no idea that was the country’s favorite spirit.

    • PieInTheSky

      When I was a kid my grandma who woke up a lot earlier than me and my cousins would make a tomato salad with lots of salt pepper and some oil before we woke up, so it had time to create a sauce of the tomato juice mixed with oil, in which we would dip bread. I am trying to recreate that for dinner.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Do tomatoes grow to look like peppers there?

      • PieInTheSky

        well excuse me I did not separate the vegetables into categories

      • PieInTheSky

        eh you Americans probably don;t know what a good tomato tastes like.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Homegrown tomatoes absolutely have a better taste.

    • Aloysious

      Those peppers look amazing. Are they Cubanelles, or another variety?

  53. Not Adahn

    No.

    TW: NPR, crab whiskey

    • Nephilium

      That popped up in my feed a while back, the selling point in the article was the description of the flavor, “like a briney fireball”.

      • Tres Cool

        “Briney Fireballs” sounds like a great nautical-themed pr0n.

      • Nephilium

        STD themed nautical pr0n?

      • Tres Cool

        Those arent just barnacles!

  54. Stinky Wizzleteats

    How do y’all think they cracked Hunter’s password? Just ran through some likely passwords and lucked out? That they could get into his account doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence regarding Apple’s security.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nah I am with Tundra on this…this has all the markers of an alphabet agency.

      • The Other Kevin

        It could be confirmation bias, but there seem to be some things happening that have questionable timing. As in, why are some of these things happening now?

      • Tundra

        Progression (with a side of gaslighting). First they absolutely locked down the laptop story – remember the 50 intelligence fuckos who signed a letter saying it was Russian disinfo?

        Then, slowly the lies became impossible and even TMITE admitted that yeah, it’s real.

        Now, it’s time to accelerate. With all the bullshit in Ukraine, the Sri Lanka revolution and an increasingly fucked up economy, it was getting harder to keep people focused on the Bidens. Hence the new leaks.

        Oh, and don’t forget the release of the story that we sold a shit-ton of the strategic reserves to a Chinese company that – surprise – Hunter has a chunk of.

        We’re being played (again).

      • Ownbestenemy

        Looking at it I think it could also be a release from the Biden team. It covers up the business dealings and focuses on the salacious parts of him and drives the narrative in that direction.

      • Tundra

        Prediction: Hunter finally succumbs to his demons, is found dead on the floor of a seedy hotel room sometime in October. Joe is wheeled out to talk about pain, mental health and how he lost two beautiful sons.

        And it still doesn’t work.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Or trying to keep the old man from running again.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Two shots to the back of the head and a gun in his right hand even though he’s left handed and it’s ruled a suicide.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Could be but the autists at 4chan can be an inventive bunch too. Maybe it was saved on a password manager on his laptop or something and this allows them to obfuscate as to where it came from.

      • Sean

        Could easily be this.

    • R C Dean

      Just ran through some likely passwords and lucked out?

      Well, it is Hunter Biden.

      “I dunno, guys. We only get so many tries before we’re locked out. Anyone want to make a guess? How about “password69”?

      “Well I’ll be damned. Look at that.”

    • Tres Cool

      CrACk1234

  55. The Late P Brooks

    I’m sure they are trying to figure out how to shoehorn Michele or Hillary in there somehow.

    Our best.

    Our brightest.

    • juris imprudent

      Our bushiest.

  56. Tres Cool

    WRT Mormon “soaking” I was thinking about the 4Chan troll making the OK sign a secret white-supremacy signal.
    How could the story be planted to TMITE that “Transitioning Teens are having “Birth Parties” where fetus dolls are inserted rectally then forced out with “labor”” ?

    *unless it could be an actual thing

    • Negroni Please

      This comment broke my brain.

    • Lackadaisical

      Sounds like a regular Friday night back when I was growing up.

    • kbolino

      I wasn’t prepared for this. It’s not Wednesday.

      • kbolino

        “The incomprehensible cosmic horrors shall no longer constrain themselves to a single day of the week”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Days of the week are social constructs we must shed in the presence of Cthulhu

    • Tres Cool

      I could add some coat-hangers and an ersatz abortion to the said inserted doll. If it makes you feel better about “womyn’s rights”.

    • Aloysious

      🤢

  57. Tundra

    This is wild.

    Dem ops going to people’s houses to tell them that their support for the Green Party hurts dems.

    I like the guy’s response: “If you would move further left, this wouldn’t happen.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just as wild

      They cannot help but fact check clearly bullshit things.

  58. Enough About Palin

    “Twitter lawyers up to sue Elon Musk over broken buyout deal”

    I spent over a decade on the M&A team of a multi-billion-dollar global corporation. Twitter doesn’t have a prayer. Nor the requisite resources to successfully litigate Musk. Odds are, they will be paying him millions when this all shakes out.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I believe that is why he posted the “Chuckmate” meme.

      • Tres Cool

        They’re 100% right about discovery.
        He operates on another level, unless he has some really smart people sitting in the circle giving him advice.

    • Sensei

      Agreed. Plus discovery will be a hoot.

  59. Mojeaux

    I need a rug for my echoey office and possibly heavy drapes too.