Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Chica edition

by | Aug 17, 2022 | Daily Links | 280 comments

The New Face of PacSun Is a Virtual Woman, Because Real Ones Just Won’t Do


We appear to have reached a new, more advanced tier of the metaverse, in which the powers that be (aka PacSun marketing execs) have decided that us lowly human beings should take fashion advice from someone (something?) that doesn’t actually exist. The storied leisurewear store has announced that its newest spokes-thing will be Miquela (aka Lil Miquela), a perpetually 19-year-old “virtual influencer” who only exists online.

Miquela, who will primarily be collaborating with the brand on back-to-school and holiday campaigns, was one of Time’s “Most Influential People on the Internet” way back in 2018. Her staying power—and her 3 million Instagram followers—are likely what PacSun was after. She was invented (created?) in 2016 by the Los Angeles-based computer software firm Brud, and was collaborating with brands as big as Prada by 2018. She also appeared in ads for Calvin Klein (where her lip lock with model Gigi Hadid caused backlash for its “queerbaiting”) and Dior. According to Input, among Miquela’s biggest appeals are that “she’ll never age, clothes will always fit her perfectly in advertisements, and she’ll always do exactly what you ask of her.” Super! We’re back to wishing women were brainless and blindly obedient—but this time, there’s a dark 21st century twist.

If your brain is still glitching about trying to understand this, you’re not alone. I, for one, have a few questions: How can a robot who only exists on the internet be any years old? Who is actually speaking when she posts online? How can she call herself an “LA native” when she doesn’t actually live anywhere? How is she taking pictures with (famous) human beings (and don’t said humans feel kind of silly posing for it)? And most of all: Why on earth are we taking advice from someone who doesn’t actually, materially, in a fleshly human way, exist!?

Jezebel really answers their own question here. Why would you want a perpetually young, obedient brand model rather than, well, a harridan? And, of course, it’s rich for an outlet to that employs so many transwoman to complain about an ersatz female.


 

1982 will have man-made horrors beyond your comprehension. Where are the bodies? WHERE ARE THE BODIES?!? Are they the taproot of the cabbage?!? Why is a meat baby growing from a vegetable?!?


 

Doctors warn dangerous ‘vabbing’ TikTok trend that sees women use vaginal discharge as PERFUME could cause thrush or even infertility

Doctors are warning against a new viral TikTok trend that sees single women use their vaginal discharge as perfume.

‘Vabbing’ — which involves smearing fluid behind the ears and neck — was made popular by American Tiktokker Mandy Lee whose original video racked up 1.5million views.

Proponents claim it increases the chance of attracting men, by spreading their pheromones — chemicals made by the body to attract mates in some animals.

But doctors say there is little evidence to support this works the same way in humans and warn the trend carries serious risks of vaginal infections, including thrush.

Dr Paraskevi Dimitriadi, a private gynaecologist in London, told MailOnline it could also lead to problems with fertility.

Bacteria on women’s fingers can lead pelvic inflammatory disease, where the bugs spread from the cervix to organs higher up, Dr Dimitriadi said.

This can lead to scarring in the fallopian tubes, making it difficult for fertilised eggs to reach the womb.


 

 

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280 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Was Ms. PacMan a virtual women?

    • Pope Jimbo

      I don’t know. Did she ever get eaten by Mr. PacMan?

  2. Count Potato

    Queerbaiting? If they are big hairy guys is it bear baiting?

    • Tonio

      You’re done with that pic-a-nic basket, right?

  3. Swiss Servator

    I…uh…these links…

    *wanders off in a daze*

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Is your gaze narrowed or just vacant?

    • juris imprudent

      It was the virtual woman vabbin’ that done him in.

      • WTF

        That combined with the field of vegetative Amy Schumers.

    • Animal

      That’s all too common these daze.

  4. Rebel Scum

    Doctors are warning against a new viral TikTok trend that sees single women use their vaginal discharge as perfume.

    I thought something smelled fishy.

    • Lackadaisical

      A ridiculous comment, as if women never have a little fun by themselves.

      • SugarFree

        Or get the occasional fingerbang in a Waffle House toilet.

      • juris imprudent

        Bacon, maple syrup and, oh my!

      • SugarFree

        “I like it sticky, Johnny!”

      • Nephilium

        Cheeto Finger! (NSFW)

        No WAY!

      • R.J.

        That just got better and better.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Melania likes that

    • R.J.

      So when men do it, is it sacking?

      • Animal

        Yes. They’re even forming competitive teams in some parts of the country. One of the first teams formed, as I saw in a documentary I was watching the other day, was the Florida State Seminal Vesicles.

      • Tundra
      • Grosspatzer

        I was disappointed when I learned that USC was leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. Since Oregon State remains in the Pac-12, the annual meeting of the Trojans and the Beavers is now a thing of the past.

      • Gender Traitor

        Oregon State just needs to join the SEC so they can play South Carolina. 😉

      • Atanarjuat

        Yeah, the idea that men’s fingers, which routinely go in vaginas, who’s kidding who, are cleaner than the fingers of women is utterly stupid.

  5. Count Potato

    “Bacteria on women’s fingers can lead pelvic inflammatory disease, where the bugs spread from the cervix to organs higher up, Dr Dimitriadi said.”

    I’m sure plenty of women are already touching their hoo-ha for other reasons.

    • Tonio

      And she should know!

      Dr Paraskevi Dimitriadi is a specialist cosmetic gynaecologist and has trained at some of the world’s leading hospitals in all aspects of gynaecology. Dr Dimitriadi continues to practice in a major London teaching hospital. She takes an active interest in research into aesthetic gynaecology and lectures both nationally and internationally on a range of topics in aesthetic gynaecology. She is a full member of the European Society of Aesthetic Gynaecology (ESAG). Dr Dimitriadi is an expert in laser vaginal tightening and vaginoplasty procedures.

      At first I thought they might be a man since I’m unfamiliar with Greek (?) naming conventions.

      Vaginoplasty is the cosmetic surgery which some M2F trans people get.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Can transwomen still vab? Pretty transphobic if they can’t.

      • Count Potato

        Well, most of them are non-op, which would be a sticky situation.

  6. Tundra

    Fuck me that’s a great song. Thanks, Sug!

      • Timeloose

        That video is so over the top.

      • Timeloose

        Looks like a new band to dig into. Great stuff.

    • rhywun

      I liked it too. Bookmarked for future research.

  7. KK the Dalit

    Bacteria on women’s fingers can lead pelvic inflammatory disease, where the bugs spread from the cervix to organs higher up, Dr Dimitriadi said.

    Hear that, women? No more manual masturbation or finger fucking for YOU!

    • Q Continuum

      PANIC! WE NEED MORE PANIC!!!

      NB: This really does just sound gross though.

      • juris imprudent

        Are you forgetting your Hat’n’Hair with Hope spreading her charms?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Bananas and cucumbers only.

      • KK the Dalit

        Those doctors are in the pocket of Big Vibrator

      • Mojeaux

        KK wins the internet.

      • R.J.

        Now you made me look up Dalit.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Is that a big vibrator in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

      • Tonio

        Damn your nimble fingers.

        Or maybe not…

      • KK the Dalit

        Now Tonio wins!

      • Rat on a train

        personal massager!

      • KK the Dalit

        She Bop, but only with FDA-approved gadgetry.

    • R.J.

      CONCERN TROLL SAY NO TOUCH PRIVATES.
      BY NO TOUCH PRIVATES MEAN
.

      • Bobarian LMD

        STEVE AM JOIN ARMY!

  8. Rebel Scum

    Oh, deer.

    The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is warning the public of an infectious disease outbreak that has caused a number of deer deaths across the Commonwealth, many occurring in the Piedmont region.

    Known as hemorrhagic disease, the department said the infection commonly affects white-tailed deer, with outbreaks occurring annually in the Southeast and in Virginia east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

    Outbreaks of the disease are often seen with otherwise healthy-looking deer being found dead, or close to death, laying in cool dirt in a wetland or near/in the water during late summer or early fall. The Department of Wildlife Resources said the disease causes the deer to run a high fever, so the infected animals tend to seek out the cooling relief of damp and cold soil.

    • Count Potato

      Deer Ebola?

      • SugarFree

        Ebolapox. You only catch it from having sex in cars.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You got Deerbola?

        Now you’re bucked!

    • juris imprudent

      Wasn’t CWD bad enough?

      • Stillhunter

        Luckily this is much faster acting and has a more typical life cycle that doesn’t involve prions. These are more like a flu outbreak (but in the summer) than CWD.

    • Stillhunter

      North Dakota cancelled their whitetail season last fall and offered refunds for people holding tags due to EHD.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m aware of it down here in SE VA.

      I’ve got a friend who works for the counties to remove problem animals and he’s come across small herds all dead in a pond.

  9. Sensei

    The New Face of PacSun Is a Virtual Woman, Because Real Ones Just Won’t Do

    How is this different than a Vtuber?

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

    Other than being woke. It’s not an AI – it’s just going to spout whatever text or vocal you input into it.

    • Count Potato

      If I recall, Jezebel also salty over Projekt Melody.

      • juris imprudent

        Jezebel has seen the future and doesn’t like it.

    • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

      Didn’t she work for Obama?

  10. Fatty Bolger

    ■ Don’t touch your clitoris, or you may go blind.

    • Nephilium

      You mean Satan’s doorbell?

  11. Mustang

    This has got to be a simulation. These links pretty much confirm it.

  12. Timeloose

    So today features the following:

    A fake spokesmodel
    A fake baby / vegetable
    A fake trend with a fake warning to those who won’t try it.

    What is real, where am I, what time is it, where do I sign?

    • Sean

      Yikes.

  13. KSuellington

    Quality links. Meat Babies is a good album name I’d say. Those are solid, general rules for vabbing. I really like the use of the emoji đŸ± 💩 in them.

  14. DEG

    ‘Vabbing’ — which involves smearing fluid behind the ears and neck — was made popular by American Tiktokker Mandy Lee whose original video racked up 1.5million views.

    The new butt-chugging?

    • Count Potato

      It’s not even close to the craziest shit on TT.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I mean, no. It’s weird, but nothing dangerous about it despite DOCTORS WARN.

  15. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “If you are on your period, just wait”.

    Hm. Just wait. That’s more responsible advice than the CDC gives about Pride Pox.

    • SugarFree

      “Slip a used tampon into his drink. It will drive him WILD.”

      • Count Potato

        I’ve found used tampons in drinks in the ladies room at bars I’ve worked.

      • Tonio

        Don’t get me started on cleaning women’s restrooms. They trash those much worse than guys do.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup. Half the time it looks like a fucking German snuff film was made in there.

      • Mojeaux

        German snuff film

        *amused chuckle*

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        German Snuff Film? So, death by poo-poo?

      • R.J.

        Oh yeah. I had to do the same. No manners at all.

      • rhywun

        They trash those much worse than guys do.

        Huh. That’s not what TV has been telling me my whole life.

      • KSuellington

        How bloody would you like your Mary?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Maybe (((she))) is just marking her door so the angel of death spares her soon-to-be firstborn?

  16. Rebel Scum

    I thought we weren’t supposed to use the “war” word.

    “Look, I suspect she’s not being coy. I do not think she knows what form that is going to take, whether that will be a presidential campaign, or some kind of a citizen’s movement, like an anti-war movement, in this case, an anti-Trump movement. The other thing I would say is in the Civil War. She declared war on Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s Republican Party. She specifically called on Americans not to vote for the dozens of election deniers who have won Republican nominations for the governorship or the secretary of state roles in various states, which would have a dramatic role in 2024 in whether or not elections are certified are not.”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      She lost by 40 points, but clearly the people want her.

      • Rebel Scum

        The deplorable denizens of WY don’t count.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “Election Denier”. Yes, I deny that there was an election.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think that there are pills to cure E.D.’s

    • Atanarjuat

      or some kind of a citizen’s movement, like an anti-war movement

      Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath waiting for Liz Cheney to be part of an anti-war movement.

  17. one true athena

    That PacSun model thing is just catfishing, isn’t it? It’s a bunch of dudes with a fake female avatar. Patriarchy wins again!

    And that “vab” thing – maybe the other Gliberinas of my age can back me up on this, but I think that fad went around before. Maybe it was a Cosmo tip or something early 90s? Same specious theory about pheromones.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m certain it showed up in some 80’s or 90’s grocery store checkout magazines every week as “this trick will drive your guy wild”.

    • Mojeaux

      I stopped reading Cosmo when I realized it was running the same articles and pictures over again.

      • SDF-7

        Did they hire Barry Allen as an editor? Real Cosmo Treadmill from the sound of it.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I never thought it would happen to me, but I felt the same way about Penthouse.

      • MikeS

        What you did, there…

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        Was it you who mentioned books by the guy for zero tax, and I had gone to high school with him?

        Because he published a few fake letters in Penthouse also.

      • MikeS

        Nope, not me.

    • Not Adahn

      That fad has been around at least since the 1700s in Europe. It was also supposed to work as a fixative for other perfume.

  18. Mojeaux

    Today is a day for ambient spa music and gratitude exercises. Amongst all the other (not lovely) drama in my life, last night, XY’s boss backed into my car so it is cautiously undriveable. No, not the same car that got crunched last year. For the nonce, my primary driver is the big-ass Dodge Ram, which I love, but damn, it’s got problems.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • KK the Dalit

      Yikes…sorry Moj

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      I listened to that link you posted on the last thread and it brought a tear to my eye, too. It’s fun to watch people have fun doing what they are good at.

      Thanks.

    • Tonio

      Can’t win for losing. Sorry to hear this. Hope that he, or his insurance, will take care of this.

    • Gender Traitor

      đŸ€Šâ€â™€ïž***SIGH!!!*** What next?

      Don’t answer that.

      • Mojeaux

        As I said, gratitude and mindfulness exercises. Also, Abilify.

    • Grosspatzer

      Oh no. Hope that gets fixed tout de suite.

    • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

      A couple of weeks ago it was my turn in the barrel. Now, it looks like yours.

      Sorry, Mojo.

    • Count Potato

      Yikes!

  19. KK the Dalit

    My question is, are the authors here at Glibs following the AP Style?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1559904542900293638

    We now have guidance saying that “pregnant women” or “women seeking abortions” is acceptable phrasing.
    Phrases like “pregnant people” or “people seeking abortions” are acceptable when you want to be inclusive of people who have those experiences but do not identify as women.

    • Mojeaux

      Fiction follows Chicago style.

      • R.J.

        Chicago style is good pizza.

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        Now, that is deep.

      • Tonio

        I’m going to award a rare second [golf clap] here.

        For those who don’t know, the AP (Associated Press) style manual is the defacto standard for journalism, the University of Chicago Manual of style is the common standard for general writing, and the APA (American Psychological Association) Style Guide looms large over academic publishing.

        Why the APA, you ask? At one time each academic discipline had its own style manual. That led to chaos for publishing interdisciplinary studies, and much pain and suffering for college students who were expected to submit papers using the style manual for whatever discipline they were writing a paper for.

        At some point (late seventies or early eighties) academia made a rare show of getting its shit together and decided that the APA style manual was the most robust and easiest to use and adopted that as the standard for academic publishing.

      • Raven Nation

        Dissent: CMOS still rules History.

      • Tonio

        Ah, good to know. I was speaking from memory because I was in college when that happened.

        Apparently the MLA (Modern Language Association) still rules over parts of academia.

        OMWC, can you speak to the physical sciences?

      • rhywun

        I do want I wawnt!

        /Cartman Style Manual

      • Count Potato

        What about logic?

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        And by the 90s they had changed to the MLA style book.

    • UnCivilServant

      I follow no formal manual of style.

      • Tonio

        I will not make a bitchy comment.
        I will not make a bitchy comment.
        I will not make a bitchy comment…

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m afraid it’s true, I just throw whatever garbage comes to my mind onto the page. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, I get failing grades in all of those.

    • Timeloose

      Nothing like making the language more confusing on purpose.

    • KK the Dalit

      NERDS

      • UnCivilServant

        You still hang out with us, so that’s gotta be a compliment.

  20. SDF-7

    Jesus — Babyland General has been around since the 1980s. Did these people *just* discover Cleveland?

    Will their minds really be blown if they go to Helen just up the road and get some Christmas stuff (Helen is a German / Christmas themed tourist trap town).

    • Nephilium

      Don’t go trying to blame that shit on us up here in the proper Cleveland.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Seems legit.

    A senior Eurocrat has called for a “Civil Protection Force” directly under the control of Brussels to be established to fight the impact of climate change.

    EU crisis management tsar has called for the creation of a “Civil Protection Force” directly under Brussels control for the ostensive purpose of fighting the impact of climate change.

    The suggestion has prompted one MEP to accuse Brussels of “using any excuse to grab more power”, with the union’s green agenda policy having already resulted in chaotic scenes in the likes of the Netherlands.

    Do whatever it takes to get the Jews climate under control.

    • SDF-7

      Huh… something like a “Civilian national security force”? Haven’t heard anything like *that* before, have we…. :eyeroll:

      Wish these people would at least change the playbook from time to time.

      • Tonio

        The ghost of Ernst Röhm chuckles gleefully from Hell.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Will they be armed like the IRS?

    • rhywun

      Nice Jew joke but it’s becoming ever more apparent that the nabobs ruling over Europe have it in for all of the plebes this time.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Captain Brussels and the Euroteers.

  22. UnCivilServant

    I threw together my article on Civil Service. It was shorter than I anticipated, because I kept it to a technical review of the system and the consequences of how it works in practice.

    • kinnath

      I look forward to it

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, It’s been sent to the powers that be for review.

      • R.J.

        Of all the big trucks, Titans have issues. Lots of stuff breaks.,

    • R.J.

      ‘ Last Thursday a prominent Taliban cleric was murdered by a one-legged suicide bomber who had stuffed his artificial leg with explosives in Kabul today, according to officials and Taliban sources.’

      Now that’s some Austin Powers stuff there.

      • SDF-7

        That sentence needs an editor. Or the one-legged suicide bomber is a time traveler. He stuffed his leg today, but blew up the cleric last Thursday….

      • R.J.

        Good writing and journalism rarely go together.

      • Tonio

        You people are on fire this afternoon.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Last Thursday in Kabul….” Delete “today”.

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, my two reactions were ‘oh well’ and ‘that took longer than I thought it would’.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Maybe it was a long fuse.

  23. KK the Dalit

    Lady in the RV park with a V8 Titan with 13k miles had no idea trucks were such a precious commodity these days. I should have just offered to buy it for $10k and not said anything about the seller’s market…

  24. Shpip

    Late at night east coast time (or as Florida Man puts it, “just getting started” time), I’ll be watching a west coast baseball game. Ad rates must be cheap, because this PSA keeps getting run every fifteen minutes or so, and it’s pissing me off.

    It should be:

    This guy was driving way too fast for his abilities, and he wrecked.
    This guy was driving too fast for conditions, and he wrecked.
    This girl didn’t look both ways crossing the street up from her phone. Oops.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Looks like Sideways.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I’ve seen that one a zillion times in the last week or so.

      Ad rates must be cheap

      I was wondering the same, or how else are the Shriners and St. Jude’s folks able to run two-minute ads literally dozens of times every day?!

      • rhywun

        Not to mention the “check your zip code!” shysters.

        *launches across the room to shut Jimmie Walker up again*

      • R.J.

        Doesn’t matter. On mute I still hear him in my head.

      • Tres Cool

        DYN-O-MITE!

      • R.J.

        MON-EY!

  25. Rebel Scum

    Oh, well that makes it ok then.

    “I also want to remind my fellow Republicans, we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision he made without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel at the FBI,” he said at the Politics & Eggs event, a breakfast gathering at St. Anselm College for business leaders that has become a customary stop for White House hopefuls in the early-voting state.

    “The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence continued. “Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop. Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.”

    Closeted, neocon cunte. ///NuclearMAGA

    • SDF-7

      Squishy as Mittens.

    • Tonio

      Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.

      One of those things is not like the other one. Progressive activists were calling to defund all police, everywhere. The call to defund the FBI is specific to one federal law enforcement entity which is increasingly acting like the political police in a totalitarian state. The “party of law and order” would do well to support actual law and order, which includes prosecuting and firing government employees who break the law.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Pence’s first chief of staff as VP and longtime staffer is married to an FBI counterterrorism analyst who worked for Peter Strzok.

    • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

      I am starting to think Trump should have picked Palin as a VP.

      Think of the exploding heads from that!

  26. Scruffy Nerfherder

    *barf*

  27. Rebel Scum

    Run, Liz! Run!

    “I’ll make a decision in the coming months.” — Rep. Liz Cheney said about possibly running for President.

    • Lackadaisical

      Oh boy, someone believes their own press releases.

    • SDF-7

      She may announce it — but I put more stock in the reports from this morning that she’s starting a grifting PAC ala The Lincoln Project.

      Frankly, wouldn’t be at all surprised if they merge. Of course, I also wouldn’t be surprised if those geniuses are getting their khaki brigades and their funding from the same Three Letter Agencies.

    • Tonio

      I suspect she will run as an independent, with backing from both the never-Trump GOP and covert backing from Democrats. The net effect of this will be to ensure that the Democrats retain control of the Executive branch.

      • kinnath

        It won’t matter. The two parties have made it mostly impossible for an independent to get on the ballot in all 50 states. She would need to go via some minor party that already has ballot access in the big population states.

        Perot had a weird charisma that let him get on all the ballots the first time. And he used that charisma during the debates. He was shut out of the debates the second time and was a not factor in that election.

        The two parties will never let another independent get enough access to be a factor in a presidential election.

      • rhywun

        And she has no charisma that I am aware of.

      • robc

        Imagine how Perot would have done with ranked choice voting.

      • UnCivilServant

        Disqualified in round 1?

      • robc

        Probably, but see below.

      • robc

        Perot finished 2nd in Utah and Maine. So that is a possible 9 electoral votes. Did I miss any states?

      • robc

        In theory, he was in 3rd in (almost?) every state, so the question is who his voters 2nd choice was (polling suggests 50/50 split, I question that). But, in a world with ranked choice voting, how many people would have voted for him first and then their “realistic” preference second?

        Enough that he finishes second in enough states and collects enough from third place to win enough states to throw election into the House?

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        I think any campaign of hers would be as effective as Avinotti’s. If she gets kicked out of the J6 club, she will have zero friends anywhere as she will be of zero use.

  28. Old Man With Candy

    I save my vaginal dribs in a jar, then when it’s full, I distill it and use it for fertility rituals.

    Behind the ear is a waste.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No wonder you’re hot man meat

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Failure

    CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is reorganizing the agency, saying it didn’t react quickly enough during the Covid pandemic, according an internal review of the agency’s operations released on Wednesday.

    Walensky laid out several organizational changes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will take over the coming months to correct missteps and failures that occurred during the last 2.5 years of the pandemic, according to a fact sheet.

    “For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” Walensky said in a statement.  “My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication, and timeliness.”

    The central objectives of the reorganization are focused on sharing scientific data faster and making it easier for the public to understand health guidance, according to the briefing document. Walensky launched the review in April after the massive winter surge of infections from the omicron variant upended the nation’s public health response.

    “We just didn’t fail hard enough.”

    How about this? Mass ritual suicide.

    • grrizzly

      The cat responds.

      • Tundra

        Gato is the best.

    • Mustang

      Translation: we didn’t put the boot down hard or fast enough and no one expects the CDC to be an enforcement agency. Now we will be. Lick that boot.

      This comes right after that BS Bill was signed? What’s in it that affects the CDC?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Dissolve it, raze the buildings, salt the earth

    • one true athena

      ’emphasizes accountability’

      let’s start with you, Rochelle.

    • Grummun

      How about an aggressive approach to your responsibility for investigating adverse events from, and evaluating risk of, “vaccines”?

  30. Gender Traitor

    There’s a gang of Hate Birds, The Birds That Hate, lurking outside our office building again.

    Canada is not sending us their best. 😒

    • KK the Dalit

      Hate Birds (The Birds That Hate) have been making the RV park’s pond a stopover recently

      • Shpip

        Migratory bird season in SC opens September 1. Just sayin’.

    • SugarFree

      Or that is their best.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Well. The internal server just won’t stand for me badmouthing the CDC.

    • R.J.

      I noticed that this morning. Try using single instead of double quotes. It may be some HTML interpretation issue. Happens when I try to copy from an article.

  32. KK the Dalit

    Now the guy next door is playing “Poems, Prayers, and Promises”

    ❀❀❀❀

    • KK the Dalit

      Now it’s “The Eagle & The Hawk”!

    • C. Anacreon

      Alcohol, dirty malls, Pensacola, Florida bars

      What did I do
      What did I do
      What did I do to deserve this

      /Pet Shop Boys

      • Atanarjuat

        Long time, no see.

    • KK the Dalit

      I’m waiting for the most apropos song now: “Sweet Surrender”

    • KK the Dalit

      “Annie’s Song”. Blech. “Annie’s Other Song” is far more romantical.

      • Gender Traitor

        Best Denver album is Seasons of the Heart, his Annie divorce album. Fight me.

      • KK the Dalit

        I like The Rocky Mountain Collection but a “greatest hits” doesn’t count, I don’t think

      • Gender Traitor

        Favorite tracks on SotH are Shanghai Breezes and Heart to Heart. Recommended if you don’t have time or inclination to listen to the whole album.

      • KK the Dalit

        Shanghai Breezes has a nice melody, but having been to Shanghai, I think ol’ Johnny D had a….different experience than I did.

    • db

      I think John Denver hit his peak when he wrote “Now, Where’s That Fuel Selector Valve Again?”

      • Gender Traitor

        I always thought Elton John should have reworked one of his hits for JD the way he did for Princess Di. “Denver is travelin’ tonight on a plane…”

  33. The Late P Brooks

    The CDC should have armed dynamic response teams to quell anti-SCIENCE! dissent.

  34. Bobarian LMD

    “A Successful Vabbing”

    I think that’s gonna be the name of my auto-biography… or my debut album.

  35. Pope Jimbo

    WaPo writer goes on and on about the rube Trump supporters who always have the rug yanked out from under them

    Lindell, who believed fervently that the election had been stolen, would finally offer up the raw information that he claimed showed how voting machines had been hacked and the results altered from overseas. This wasn’t his analysis, obviously; he’d hired guys who said they’d uncovered a pattern that could be replicated by others. But when the moment came 
 it couldn’t. The data was invalid and/or useless. There was no proof. None has since emerged.

    But Lindell was in a corner. He’d kept stringing people along for months, promising a big reveal. Whether he knew he didn’t have anything or not, someone did. And this is how cons work: The stakes keep getting increased until the whole thing collapses.

    This episode sprang to mind immediately when I started watching “The Pit,” a symposium held in Arizona over the weekend by 2022â€Čs in-vogue election conspiracy theorists, the leaders of the group True the Vote. Same elevation of hype. Same collapse of what was promised.

    The writer called on Rick Wilson as an expert on why Trump is crazy and his followers are dumb.

    I’m too lazy to check on how excited the author got when the FBI raided Trump’s home. I’m sure he was appropriately skeptical that the walls were closing in.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    CNN is on the case

    “My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication, and timeliness.  I look forward to working with the incredible people at CDC and our partners to realize the agency’s fullest potential to benefit the health and well-being of all Americans,” Walensky said in a statement on Wednesday.

    ——-

    The changes will be aimed at improving the culture and restoring public trust after the agency’s acknowledged missteps in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
    The reforms follow a period of review and introspection at the CDC. In April, Walensky announced Jim Macrae, an administrator at the US Department of Health and Human Services, would lead a one-month review of the agency’s Covid-19 response efforts. At the same time, she charged three of her deputies to scrutinize operations and recommend strategic changes. Walensky has been meeting with groups of staff in person as employees return to their office after months of remote work.

    Nothing about evidence-based decisionmaking. I guess shrieking emotionalism and cargo cult superstition will continue to be their primary focus.

    • rhywun

      Guessing more focus on DEI and climate fluff.

      • Tundra

        More like trying not to end up decorating a lamp post when the rest of the malfeasance is revealed.

  37. Lackadaisical

    Mindy kaling really let herself go

    • Tres Cool

      hubba-hubba !

  38. Tundra

    REMINDER!

    Honey Harvest is coming up on September 18 at Fourscore’s place in Emily MN. I just sent out the big email, but happy to add others to the list.

    minnetundra AT the place that shares your data with everyone.

  39. Rat on a train

    GUN BUYBACK EVENT
    If you have a 3D printer and happen to be in the Rockville MD area, you can get a $200 Visa card for a ghost gun. Don’t go crazy, they can limit the number of cards per person.

  40. Aloysious

    Banning.

    A word I did not know that I didn’t want to know.

    • Ted S.

      I’m sorry you didn’t know the word “banning”.

      • Aloysious

        dammit.

        I meant ‘vabbing’.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    I could never understand why “libertarians” would vote for that obnoxious little fascist Perot.

    • Count Potato

      Who were the other choices?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Andre Marrou.

      • Tres Cool

        Lyndon LaRouche and/or Ralph Nader

      • Tres Cool

        David Duke?

  42. The Late P Brooks

    ’emphasizes accountability’

    let’s start with you, Rochelle.

    Haha. You slay me.

  43. Tundra

    What’s better? SugarLinks or Sugar Walls?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Why not both?

    • Nephilium

      Why not Sugar Free?

  44. Scruffy Nerfherder

    *the face you make when you find out the town may have eminent-domained half your property without notifying you*

    • Gender Traitor

      …not to mention the blood-curdling scream you make. Good luck! Fight ’em or at least make ’em pay out the…nose!

    • Sean

      How much Tannerite do you have?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Not enough, but I do have some Valium, which I might need.

      • Sensei

        Did they just show and start doing some kind of work?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        No.

        When I purchased the land, the town had a wishlist line for an expansion of the interstate exchange, but it was non-binding. I had verified it with the planning office at the time. No official easement on file.

        Now, years later, I’ve got the land under contract for sale and apparently the town has decided that line is binding. At no time was I notified of a change because I would have sought compensation from them for a taking.

        I’m getting the info third-hand from a civil engineer, so now I’ve got to go back to the town planning office for what is probably going to be an unpleasant experience for everyone involved. They’re blowing up my sale of the land.

      • Sensei

        That sucks.

        Give them hell and hopefully it doesn’t cost you a ton. Lawyers ain’t cheap.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There is the possibility that the engineer didn’t verify the easement directly and made an assumption. I’m going to go with that hope for the moment.

    • db

      “But the plans were on display
”
      “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
      “That’s the display department.”
      “With a flashlight.”
      “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
      “So had the stairs.”
      “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
      “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

    • Not Adahn

      The process goes more smoothly if you don’t know about it.

  45. Nephilium

    I have been asked to provide the Hump Day Zoom link for you lot. This should be WebDom’s fancy clean link that will start at 20:00 Eastern.

    If it isn’t, feel free to curse at me.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Neph…sure you didn’t book that with your work account?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I see now…we got fancy. Ill jump on in a bit…its lonely in there

      • Old Man With Candy

        NB, you need to log into Zoom first, then click WebDom’s link.

  46. Ownbestenemy

    Another night of monsoon weather. Thunder just cracked above the house and bought scared the bejesuss outta me.

    • Sean

      I wish it would rain here. Been a sucky grow season so far.

      • robodruid

        Here as well, although we got 1/10 th of an inch yesterday, and i am having concrete work done.
        So conflicted.

    • rhywun

      Aww. A magnificent beast.

  47. Count Potato

    “California gender clinic treats patients as young as 2-years-old

    Mental health director Diane Ehrensaft said that at UCSF they “see children as young as two and as old as 25.” Ehrensaft describes her own child as “gender creative.”

    UCSF explicitly adheres to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines, which recommends that children as young as 8 could begin medical transition. WPATH is set to release its new 8th edition guidelines this year, which plans to lower the minimum age for teens to obtain hormones, as well as face, chest, and genital surgeries.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/california-gender-clinic-treats-patients-as-young-as-2-years-old

    People need to gather their farm implements.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The inevitable reactionary wave is not going to be kind to these ghouls and I won’t have any sympathy for them.

      • Count Potato

        Unfortunately, by then, the backash will also be against trans adults.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It will. You’d think more of them would realize that and stop supporting this crap.

      • Count Potato

        It’s not trans people that are supporting this, it’s radical leftists. Yes, that includes some trans people, but most trans people aren’t that into politics, just like most non-trans people aren’t that into politics. Blaming trans people is like blaming black people for BLM.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Fair enough, but if I don’t see it as obvious that they are two separate groups, there’s no way the general populace will.

        And the comparison to blacks and BLM is not completely apt. You’re born black. Transitioning is at some point a choice, that makes the distinguishing between the two groups even more difficult.

      • Count Potato

        “Fair enough, but if I don’t see it as obvious that they are two separate groups, there’s no way the general populace will.”

        Yes, that’s a big part of the problem.

      • rhywun

        This.

    • Count Potato

      “”If a child is not feeling seen about who they are, they’re at risk for some pretty serious psychological problems, including anxiety, depression, even suicidal thoughts,” said Ehrensaft, referring to the debunked affirm-or-suicide myth used to pressure parents into green lighting their child’s transition under the threat of suicide.

      A clinical diagnosis of persistent gender dysphoria isn’t even necessary. Aside from transgender patients, UCSF also treats children they describe as “gender creative,” “gender diverse” and “gender-expansive.””

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Perhaps if the children didn’t have adults whispering weird ideas into their ears, they wouldn’t be quite so confused.

        These sick bastards are seeking affirmation and validation for their own choices and using kids to get it.

      • Count Potato

        They deemed a clinical diagnosis of persistent gender dysphoria isn’t necessary, because that’s something impossible to diagnose in a child.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        No matter what they say, the child doesn’t actually matter to them. Pushing their completely postmodern worldview however…

      • Count Potato

        Yes, it’s politics, not medicine.

    • Count Potato

      “In this video Christy Olezeski, PhD admits that Yale Medicine is treating kids as young as 3 YEARS OLD in their “gender journey”. She’s the co-founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program. 3 YEAR OLDS should not be led to change genders! Leave them alone”

      https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1559393032042151936

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Eyes a little bit too wide open. Creepy ass smile while using euphemisms for surgical mutilation and chemical castration.

        She’s a fucking loon.

      • R.J.

        I thought you were talking about Cheney.

    • Count Potato

      Also, as usual, TMITE:

      “Children’s hospitals: “We do puberty blockers and genital surgeries for children.”

      Journos: “Yasss! Gender-affirming care!” 🎉

      Conservatives: “They do puberty blockers and genital surgeries for children.”

      Journos: “Wow, that’s targeted harassment and stochastic terrorism!” 😡”

      https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1559771210568765440

    • Mojeaux

      I have come across a girl who presents as a boy whom I know enough about to suspect her real problem is that she just hates her body and wants to call as little attention to it as possible.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s endemic among adolescent girls.

        Well more than half of my 15 year old daughters acquaintances and friends identify as bi or non-binary or something else.

        It’s obviously a psychological social contagion and pushing medical treatment as a solution is insane and evil.

      • Mojeaux

        Exactly.

      • Sean

        It’s all part of a communist plot.

  48. Atanarjuat

    If our elites were practicing actual child sacrifice to Baal or Moloch, how would we know?

  49. Sean

    New box trucks are up %40 since just before Covid.

    Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck the commie rat fuckers.

    • Sean

      40%

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        4%0

    • Count Potato

      Wow.