Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Sep 15, 2022 | Daily Links | 162 comments

 

WEALTHY RESORT COMMUNITY COPES HARD AFTER MIGRANTS FLOWN IN: Martha’s Vineyard issues press release on “humanitarian crisis,” begs state and feds for money. “The Simpsons” nailed this a while back.

GIBSON’S BAKERY, DEFAMED BY OBERLIN, TO REOPEN: Lorna Gibson plans to rebuild the family business. (h/t: KK)

NICK GILLESPIE – THE LOU REED OF LIBERTARIANISM: No, really, someone actually said that.

SPECIAL DELIVERY FOR KAMALA HARRIS: Texas Governor Abbott buses migrants to Naval Observatory in DC. The official residence of the VPOTUS is on the grounds of the observatory. Regardless of how you feel about open borders the hypocrisy of these self-designated “sanctuary cities” is astounding.

POLITICAL CANDIDATE MOVES TO CENTER AFTER PRIMARY: Don Bolduc, NH Republican nominee for US Senate, backs off of claims of electoral shenanigans in 2020 presidential election. Bolduc is a retired US Army general.

IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: Canada’s Green Party thrown into chaos over pronoun kerfuffle on a Zoom call.

EUGYPPIUS: Every day there is more evidence that the SARS-2 outbreak began months before the earliest documented Wuhan infections. Why does nobody care?

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Tonio

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162 Comments

  1. Shiny Nerfherder

    Nick is one of the most interesting libertarian thinkers in America

    *spits coffee*

    • Bobarian LMD

      It’s a short list.

      • Rat on a train

        There can be only one.

    • Aloysious

      Contrast and compare the other writers. Like Bobarian says, it’s a collection of disappointments.

    • The Last American Hero

      He’s more jacket than man now, twisted and evil.

  2. Shiny Nerfherder

    If Bolduc maintains his position on eliminating DHS, I don’t care.

    • Chafed

      I think he proved he is the same as any other politician.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I try to keep that thought in the back of the mind when thinking about Rand or Massie.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or even the founding fathers.

      • Fourscore

        I’m reading a bio of Madison. He’d fit in perfectly today.

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    But the rail strike aint happening, so civilization continues…..

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      *puts flamethrower back into closet*

      *sighs heavily*

      • Rat on a train

        Grab your tiki torches and khaki pants …

      • Lackadaisical

        Why? Is he a fed?

      • Seguin

        The look isn’t complete without the blue polo or tshirt.

    • Rat on a train

      Thanks Buttigieg!

    • SDF-7

      For now — there are rumblings that the rank and file may not vote to approve the agreement. That’s probably take a few weeks to queue up at least (if the PPP admin has anything to say about it, at least 6 weeks, right?).

    • Homple

      A month with no rail transport would have been a great introductory course in transport and logistics.

  4. Shpip

    WASHINGTON – Two migrant buses from Del Rio, Texas, arrived near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning.

    I’m not sure what the progs are bitching about. They’re getting their preferred policies… good and hard.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Sending them to Martha’s Vineyard is priceless. Make those leftist twats live with their own policies.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        And if they deport them, they look like total assholes.

      • Nephilium

        To who?

        It’s not like it’ll be reported on if they are deported.

      • Chafed

        That move is a thing of beauty.

      • Gender Traitor

        ***GASP*** THEY USED THE “C” WORD!!! ::raises back of hand to forehead, swoons::

      • SDF-7

        Dammit, I had to re-open that link now… “I didn’t remember them calling Republicans cuntes…. hmmm….”

      • Lackadaisical

        cun… oh community? Of course.

        I mean, cum**ity.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s good that they use Bulgarian instead of Russian. Don’t want those people.

      • grrizzly

        They should have used Ukrainian. Probably and old design.

      • SDF-7

        “We stand with immigrants!”

        well… actually, “We stand with immigrants taking over YOUR states and YOU paying for it. We’ll be standing over here by the champagne fountain!”

        Yeah, the naked hypocrisy is rather fun to watch real-time.

      • Lackadaisical

        “Police said Gordon told deputies that Branch had been involved in another incident at the restaurant on Wednesday. About 10 minutes before the [second*] attempted carjacking, Branch allegedly reached into another woman’s vehicle, unlocked the driver’s door and got into the car, a second incident report stated.

        He then sat on top of the woman “placing all of his bodyweight” on her and told her to get out. After the woman screamed for help, Gordon intervened and chased off Branch, according to the report.”

        …and then the police got him? nah, j/k. He had to do round two before the cops got there.

        *my note

      • slumbrew

        That’s a pretty sweet guillotine choke he used there.

      • Lackadaisical

        We stand with getting cheaper labor. /rich folks

      • Lackadaisical

        My wife has experienced something interesting in running her business, others can comment if they found this to be true.

        Her truly rich clients always try to haggle her down(which she never entertains), while her middle class and even the few working class clients she has will pay up without whining about it.

      • Sensei

        My wife has said the same about nursing.

        Wealthy patients bitch about poor “service”. Middle class are happy for somebody that provides appropriate care.

        Working class is a crapshoot of crazy expectations and people happy for care.

      • SDF-7

        Isn’t that the setup to the old punchline of “How do you think we *became* rich?”

        Wealth builders are usually pretty tightfisted.

      • Pine_Tree

        “We respect women.” Reckon they haven’t heard that you’re not supposed to say that now? Or even acknowledge that it’s a thing?

      • Gender Traitor

        Wait – don’t tell me! The MV “homeless shelter” doubles as an Airbnb and is booked solid with “leafers”, isn’t it?

      • slumbrew

        If you’re a “peeper” and going to Martha’s Vineyard, you are very, very confused.

      • DrOtto

        She even had the nerve to say that they want to help them, but there is a legal process. They are so fucking tone deaf it’s hilarious.

      • juris imprudent

        Wrong! You are supposed to live with what they want – they expect to be exempt.

  5. Shpip

    While “Green”-branded platforms vary from one part of the world to the next, they all typically draw in heterodox left-of-centre political figures who trumpet ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, and social justice through non-violent means the coercive force of government, ultimately backed up by men with guns.

    FIFY

  6. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: Canada’s Green Party thrown into chaos over pronoun kerfuffle on a Zoom call.

    You love to see it…the article details a whole mess of sanctimony & own-eating

    • Chafed

      I read as much as I could. These infantile spats are entertaining when they eat their own. Let’s hope they continue to do so.

      • R.J.

        A recording of that call could be turned into a dance song. Some drum and bass, a little sampling…

    • rhywun

      Deliciously crazy.

  7. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Pretty sure I had the ‘Vid in July 2019. Unfortunately I got the jab and couldn’t test for antibodies. Then I got the ‘Vid 2.0 in March of this year.

  8. R.J.

    Nock Gillespie. The Fonz of libertarians.
    Nick Gillespie. The Pete Rose of libertarians.
    Let the mockery continue.

    • Tundra

      Nick Gillespie. The Nick Gillespie of libertarians.

    • slumbrew

      “lost its load”

  9. Lackadaisical

    RIP Nick Gillespie, at least we still have Lou Reed.

  10. Tundra

    “what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit”.

    Wut?

    Lou was solid, but ‘outlaw’?

    No.

  11. Gustave Lytton

    Wife had Tucker Today on last night with Chris Rufo. What an absolute turd. He seems to get everything on the problem (or really symptom) side but his solution is conservatives just need to steal the ring of power back so they can use government to force their desires and wishes on society. 🤦‍♂️

    And lots of sneering at libertarians (which he conflates with libertines) as if libertarians have been running the Republican Party and the conservative movement for the past forty years.

    • Tundra

      Is he wrong?

      When in human history have logic and persuasion prevailed?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Never

        The only way to end this is to end the Fed. Take away their monetary control and DC is done.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just because most of human history is nasty short and brutish, doesn’t make it a goal to shoot for. Rufo thinks his side can control the levers (despite the inclinations of the bureaucracy, culture is downstream of politics, and that will be a permanent solution. It won’t. He’ll forever be riding that bull looking for another 8 seconds rather than realizing that is the problem and the only way to stop it is to get off instead of getting suckered into the siren song of power.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        the only way to stop it

        Look at the optimist over here!

    • Drake

      I can’t get worked up about it any more. Are the Leftists worried about what happens if the Republicans take over?

      They know they’ll probably get away with rigging enough elections – that’s why we see fake impossible polls swinging their way to prep for it.

      And even if the Republicans win big, so what? They won’t do crap.

  12. Tundra

    Nice set of lynx today, Toino!

    From the absurd, to the enraging to the sublime.

    The Quilette one wins, though. Sweet Jesus it’s fun to watch the circular firing squads.

    By the time the 2021 federal election rolled around, the Greens’ leader was a black Jewish woman named Annamie Paul, who got absolutely trounced in her own riding, winning fewer than 4,000 votes. Paul was then quickly run out of the party leadership during a complicated (and often farcical) internecine battle that involved public accusations of bigotry hurled in all directions, and which (predictably) repelled many of the party’s financial supporters.

    I can’t stop laughing!

    • Lackadaisical

      I wonder what others say about intra-Libertarian fights, or do we just not even get noticed?

      • Tundra

        We wield zero power. No one even notices.

    • Urthona

      There’s a libertarian party?

      • Tundra

        Yes, wherever Pope Jimbo happens to be.

        Party on!

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s more of a social mixer.

    • Tundra

      So sweet!

      I love when they sleep on their backs!

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I’m always in disbelief that that fearless crazy little thing is deaf & blind

      • Tundra

        It’s really amazing. I also like how patient the little pug is with the crazy ones!

        That dude reminds me that I chose the wrong career path.

  13. Gustave Lytton

    Why does nobody care?

    Because at this point there is no interest in truth. Nearly everyone is comfortable with the narrative that supports their own beliefs and has no desire to re-examine (or even examine) them.

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, all the conspiracists shot their load already. At this point why does it matter?

  14. Gadianton

    “It’s a 12-day fundraising campaign that started a week ago. As of this writing, Kuttner has raised exactly $249.83. And $10 of that is from me.”

    Beautiful.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Tulpa?

  15. Urthona

    The Martha’s Vineyard thing is maybe the funniest bit ever by conservative states.

    I don’t even give a crap about immigration and I’m dying.

    • Tundra

      The best part is that it’s 50 people!

      50.

      Peak derp really is unreachable.

  16. DEG

    Hassan’s seat represents a top pickup opportunity for Republicans, who are trying to erase Democrats’ slim Senate majority this fall. New Hampshire broke for now-President Joe Biden by 7 points in 2020, and many in GOP leadership believe Hassan is susceptible to a competent challenger — a view that led them to back state Senate President Chuck Morse in the primary. Morse conceded to Bolduc early Wednesday.

    Hassan is weak and should be easy to pick off.

    Morse is not a great candidate. An Establishment shill. Even if he wasn’t, he has no charisma or much name recognition. Bolduc didn’t have name recognition when he started, but he’s been working on his getting his name out there for three years.

    Strangely, anti-Maggie Hassan ads, paid for by folks other than Bolduc as the Bolduc campaign has no money, are still running. I expected them to stop as the GOP Establishment doesn’t like Bolduc.

    • creech

      Well, the Establishment has lost the Toomey seat in Penna., so maybe they think if they help Bolduc win he will knuckle under? It’s certainly happened before – Hassan herself brags about being a bipartisan aisle crosser, but her record is meekly supporting Schumer and her Party’s leadership.

      • DEG

        Another thought: The folks paying for those ads had contracts to run them past the primary because they expected Morse to win.

        Related: Up in the White Mountains there was a Tulsi Gabbard for President billboard which stayed up long after she dropped out of the race. Some news outlet asked the owner why. The owner’s response amounted to: “They paid to have up until . We’ll take it down then.”

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Nick Gillespie went the the Great Cocktail Party in the Sky?

    • creech

      You know who threw great cocktail parties? Ed Crane, of Cato, out by his lake home in NoVa.

  18. Tundra
  19. Ownbestenemy

    First day back as a tech and stuck at a site for hours….it’s good to be back

  20. Shpip

    A little history lesson: on this day in 1945, a major hurricane hit Homestead, Florida, severely damaging the naval base that was there at the time.

    Who knew that World War II caused climate change?

    • creech

      The article goes on to say that the Blimp base cost about $200 million (in today’s dollars) to build, that blimps flying out of there on anti-sub patrol only discovered one
      U-boat in all the years the base was operational, and that said U-boat shot down the blimp with its anti-aircraft fire! Waste and military operations probably have gone hand in hand since Cro-magnon took on Neanderthal.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        We cannot allow a dirigible gap, Mr. President!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I think those beads fell out of his butt yesterday.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      It reminds me of something the medieval church would have written about heretics.

    • ron73440

      Tom Wood’s email talks about this one from Jay Bhattacharya’s perspective.

  21. Count Potato

    “No, really, someone actually said that.”

    Now the aliens are just fucking with us.

    • SDF-7

      SPACE SMITH SAY….. WHAT YOU MEAN ‘NOW’?

  22. rhywun

    Holy fuck… now there are commercials for lawyers on how to ramp up your own Camp Lejeune commercials.

    Make it stop!!

  23. Dr Mossy Lawn

    Tampa Glibs,
    I’m going to be flying into Peter O. Knight (KTPF) Saturday. Should be a bunch of Mooney’s arriving this weekend. Available Saturday and some time Sunday and Monday nights.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    If you don’t have that cancerous growth removed, you’ll die

    As Indiana’s near-total abortion ban went into effect on Thursday, Democratic lawmakers announced their dismay, referring to the ban as a “death sentence”.

    ——-

    “Hoosier women have lost a fundamental right to privacy in medical decisions with this near total ban, which is extremely cruel,” said Representative Sue Errington of the 34th district in Indiana. “I’m old enough to remember before Roe v Wade. And I know that laws like this only ban safe legal abortion. Women are going to suffer, and some will die from this,” she said.

    How do people make statements like this with no conscious recognition of what they’re saying?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    If pregnancy and childbirth were as lethal as these morons seem to believe, the species would have died out long before now.

    • Mojeaux

      Well, it isn’t without risk of death. Ask me how I know.

  26. Mojeaux

    I have nothing to say. I just wanted to post.

    • slumbrew

      Anarchy!

    • SDF-7

      I vote whenever you feel that way, it should just be curses!.

    • Sean

      😃

    • Ted S.

      This is why there are no female libertarians….

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Well, it isn’t without risk of death. Ask me how I know.

    I realize that; for mother and child.

    But the overblown “death sentence” rhetoric is ridiculous.

    And- before Roe, there were plenty of successful, non-lethal abortions performed.

  28. UnCivilServant

    Evening, Glibs. I’ve made it to Superior and checked into my hotel. I have a nice view of Lake superior, and decor out of the conservative side of the 80s (Browns not leopard print)

    • Fourscore

      100 miles from heaven, UCS

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t worry, it didn’t take too long to drive from Superior to your place last time. I don’t suspect it will take any longer this time.

      • Shpip

        If only he’d driven another twenty-five miles

    • pistoffnick

      The only thing superior about the town of Superior is the view (of Duloot)!

      I’ll see you (and Fourscore, kinnath, CPRM, and others) at Honey Harvest.

    • UnCivilServant

      *sings off-key*Oh lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches, I must make a-mends…*/sings*

    • one true athena

      And this guy still claims he’s not running in 2024. Lol

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of preposterous hogwash

    “Today’s announcement is a critical first step towards giving banks and credit card companies the tools they need to recognize dangerous firearm purchasing trends – like a domestic extremist building up an arsenal — and report them to law enforcement,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, in a statement last week.

    ——-

    Now, after a Democrat-supported effort led by the socially progressive bank Amalgamated Bank, gun stores will have a separate code.

    But experts say it’s unclear what impact the new policy will actually have, if any, on gun violence.

    The smart money is on “none”.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      We all know criminals buy their guns in gun stores with credit cards

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        And they buy dozens at a time. That’s how we can spot the trends.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    We all know criminals buy their guns in gun stores with credit cards

    “I use my White Supremacy, ltd corporate cash back card when I buy crates of AR 16s and pallets of ammo. You should too!”

    • UnCivilServant

      Mine seems to be broken, they never give me the discount I’m supposed to be eligable for, then mutter something about half-Irish.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        See, if you are Irish, you need to ask for the AR180. It is all coded, and you have to follow the prompts.

  31. slumbrew

    What’s the term for Oppositional Defiance Disorder, but for low-level flunkies? i.e., aimed at people not in any way in a position of authority?

    I’ve got that, whatever it is. You send some e-mail and “we require this information by Friday”? That’s definitely going to the bottom of the pile – maybe next week.

    Petty? Perhaps. But fuck off with your demands I drop what I’m doing and answer you.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Do we work in the same office?

      “Can you take the next hour to get this data that normally would take a week to gather? And I want it in this format that we’ve never asked for before. And while you’re at it, give me the data for the last year at this really granular level. Oh, and one more thing, can you tell me how much of this product we can sell, even though we don’t have a forecast for the product and we haven’t even defined what the product is?”

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, released a letter sent to the Biden Justice Department Thursday calling for a federal investigation of Wednesday’s two flights of 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts for kidnapping, RICO and civil rights charges. The flights were coordinated by one of Newsom’s potential 2024 rivals, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

    The Martha’s Vineyard flights were followed Thursday morning with a surprise delivery of two busloads of migrants to Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

    Muh human trafficking!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Haven’t the Feds been flying “asylum seekers” all over the country for months now mostly under the cover of darkness and hidden from the press? Is that not human trafficking?

      • Not an Economist

        Yes. But that is different because reasons.

  33. Plinker762

    Martha’s Vineyard smelled of douchebaggery back in the 80s when my dad would take us sailing there. I preferred Cuttyhunk.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      The English would often go to Bedlam Hospital to see the insane and criminal, and would do this for entertainment, picnicing, if you will.

      It seems the tradition is returning.

      • Surly Knott

        Fun fact: Bedlam is now The Imperial War Museum.

    • UnCivilServant

      If any of that timber was good for larger pieces either structurally or aesthetically, I’m pissed.

      If it was garbage wood, okay, plant new trees. They grow back.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh, that reminds me – Before I got out of Iowa, I was stuck waiting for a truck carrying part of a windmill tower to negotiate its way out of a gas station. It was a super-oversized load far longer and taller than regular traffic is rated for, and that engine was chugging down diesel trying to get it to the worksite.

      No way those things will generate as much energy as is used to build them.

  34. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    All my bedroom lights decided to burn out at the same time.

    • UnCivilServant

      Are you sure it’s the bulbs and not the circuit? Even if the bulbs are all bad, might the circuit have damaged the bulbs?

      • Count Potato

        I’d check the fuse/breaker.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Checked the fuse box and nothing…the over-the-bed reading lights are working. It’s just all the main lights that crapped out. It wasn’t EXACTLY the same time, but within about 2 days.

      • whiz

        Rolling blackout!

    • Count Potato

      These euphemisms are getting obscure.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I. Wish.

      • slumbrew

        A universal lament.

        I’m assuming the campground folk are largely couples, which can’t help.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        It’s a couply-type endeavor, for sure. And there are way more solo women than solo men doing this lifestyle.

      • slumbrew

        Slightly surprised by the latter.

      • UnCivilServant

        Indeed. Anyone want to speculate on why this may be? Local variation? Some psychological difference?

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Are you? I’m not, at all.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I mean, you can look at the data of how quickly widowers remarry vs. widows to get an indication.

      • slumbrew

        Were I to speculate?

        RVers skew retired and retired folks skew female.

        Is that crazy-talk, KK?

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        The “RV Life” groups on Facebook are almost all couples or solo women. There are one or two solo men I’ve seen on those groups, and they’re all looking for a woman to come along with them. Very few of the solo women even mention finding a partner.

      • UnCivilServant

        So we’ve established a factual pattern. But I still wonder ‘why’?

    • Homple

      Are you expecting someone to fix the cable?

  35. UnCivilServant

    Today, at a random gas station, I bought an ice scraper/snow brush that claimed to be made in the US for about $3. Of course, cynical me wondered if the step performed in the US was fitting the scraper to the brush, with the actual parts made in China. So I looked up the company. Turns out it’s Canadian, but they’re hiring Injection Molding technicians in Kansas, so I can only conclude that they actually do make these things in the US.

    I’m actually somewhat happy now. Even if the darn thing breaks at the first bout of freezing rain.