459 Comments

  1. Rat on a train

    “Do it now,” Biden said. “Do it now. Not a month from now — do it now.”

    “And it’s going to save people a lot of money.”

    I need inflation to drop before the midterms.

    • WTF

      I also need to blame small business owners for the consequences of my disastrous policies.

      • Chafed

        How long before he blurts out “kulaks and wreckers”?

      • Rebel Scum

        That’s the “MAGA Republicans” which apparently represent a “clear and present danger”.

    • Sean

      #FJB

    • rhywun

      I guess he thinks that unleashing the strategic oil reserves isn’t going to buy enough votes. Pity.

      • Drake

        He probably thinks that we just pump crude oil into our gas tanks. Refinery capacity has nothing to do with supply or prices.

      • Brochettaward

        Biden doesn’t think. He is handled. But his handlers know this, they just care about optics and being seen as if they are doing something.

      • hayeksplosives

        This way they can blame 0bScEeeen PrOfits!!! for all of our financial woes.

    • DrOtto

      I wish he’d ask Dow Jones to raise the industrial average while he’s babbling nonsensically.

      • Enough About Palin

        I wonder what Jill wishes he could still raise?

  2. Hyperion

    “Officials Issue ‘Mandatory’ Evacuation Orders Ahead of Hurricane Ian”

    Official start of Rethuglicanz plot to replace evil orange Hitler with more evil orange Hitler from place that grows oranges. See what is going on here?

    • Rat on a train

      literalier Hitler

    • hayeksplosives

      The Dutch are taking over the UK’s monarchy again?

  3. Rat on a train

    In response to being called out, Rivero accused those who were coming after him of not valuing what Occupy Democrats does.

    “If you understood the time and effort that goes into making viral memes – and the impact they have – you might respect our work more,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet.

    Memes are difficult.

    • Count Potato

      RT IF YOU AGREE!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That’s hilarious.

    • Not Adahn

      NPR was using Unicorn Riot as a news source.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        OFFS

      • Not Adahn

        Well, they ARE the foremost expert on how the Proud Boys and Patriot Front are swarming peaceful antifa protests and bringing violence to noble BLM demonstrations.

        Seriously. And also as part of the story they were horrified at the inexcusable ignorance of the state police not knowing that Patriot Front was a hate group. At some point “there’s nothing wrong with repeating a lie, as long as you didn’t originate it” became standard journalismist practice.

    • Pat

      You have to appreciate their persistent clinging to the labor theory of value.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh yes, a thousand guys digging a trench with spoons contribute so much more value than one guy with a backhoe clearing it in hours instead of weeks.

  4. Hyperion

    “not valuing what Occupy Democrats does”

    No doubt trashing a park and shitting on the sidewalk next to it, is hard work.

  5. Not Adahn

    Meh, I can understand wanting to oust Madison Cawthorn. As far as crazy members go, he seemed to be less successful than MTG, and the crippled vet bit wasn’t working as criticism armor.

    • Tonio

      His mistake was spilling the beans on the coke orgies attended by elected officials from both parties, and selected aides.

    • Banjos

      iirc, he’s not a vet. Was in a car accident.

      • R.J.

        While driving to attend an orgy?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think he was a vet who was crippled driving to an emergency situation where a dog had been poisoned

  6. Hyperion

    “Biden demands gas stations slash prices at the pump: ‘Do it now’”

    OK, comrade Maduro, we’ll get right on that.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The only question in my mind is what other batshit crazy shenanigans the Biden administration is going to pull between now and November.

      October is starting to scare me a little.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        October is starting to scare me a little.

        Home Depot has their largest chest freezer at 40% off through I think tomorrow. Just saying.

      • The Last American Hero

        Do you have a dedicated windmill to power it?

      • rhywun

        Does it get much crazier than destroying a couple pipelines in the Baltic Sea?

      • Hyperion

        Yes, Brandon says hold my beer, nuclear war with Russian is more crazy, Jack.

      • Brochettaward

        Biden’s actions both domestically and internally are the most reckless of any president since…I don’t really know when. It is absolutely comical that this is coming from the administration that touted how the “adults” were back in the room. I have avoided the talk about us being on the brink of war with Russia, but after they attacked those pipelines they really have put us closer to that than at anytime since the Cuban missile crisis. And at home, we are one indictment of Trump away from the system losing all legitimacy in the eyes of half the country. The 2020 election wasn’t quite enough for some of them.

      • The Other Kevin

        Not only his actions, but he keeps opening his yap and saying the dumbest things. He’s the president of the US, he’s got the bully pulpit, and people actually listen to what he says. Well maybe not so much now. Even Trump didn’t have dozens of people telling us what he “meant” to say on a daily basis.

      • Rebel Scum

        All of our current problems are self-inflicted.

      • Hyperion

        “what other batshit crazy shenanigans the Biden administration is going to pull between now and November.”

        Oh, I dunno, send Hunter Biden’s crack dealer, Zelensky a boat load more tax payer dollars? Sabotage Russian pipelines and starve Europeans of fuel to heat their homes this winter? Start a nuclear war with Russia? Brandon says ‘Hold my beer, Jack!’.

      • WTF

        But – No. Mean. Tweets!!!!

      • tarran

        “A winter of death for the unvaccinated” was kind of mean… just saying.

      • Swiss Servator

        …and kind of incorrect.

      • Rebel Scum

        October is starting to scare me a little.

        Just wait for the surprise. It’ll be nuclear.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sure would be nice if maybe we had elected officials who had spent even 10 minutes in the private sector. My guess is that Biden’s lifeguard job was also a govt job and not a private pool.

      • Chafed

        Completely. His entire crew seems unacquainted with economic reality.

  7. Count Potato

    Never mind rainbow party fentanyl, where muh quaaludes?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Not shitting your pants enough?

      • Count Potato

        You shit your pants on quaaludes?

    • Pat
  8. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Banjos.

    Not too many co-workers in the office yet, but a bunch o emails.

  9. Brett L

    Morning everyone. I am officially outside the cone of sorrow. Anyone on the southwest side of the state, be safe and let me know if I can help afterwards. Seriously, if you need someone to help you rake leaves, whatever. I’m going to spend the next two days trapped in a house with 4 kids. Give me an excuse.

    • Brochettaward

      I am going to need someone to step up the Firsting in my absence around here.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *wet spot forms on front of pants*

        Am I doing it right?

    • Pope Jimbo

      trapped inside the house

      Countdown to L5 begins. At some point those 4 kids are all going to take a nap at the same time. All kids napping at the same time is the most powerful aphrodisiac in the universe.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’m almost bummed nothing happened here. I know it’s still incoming, but seems like we will also be missing the worst.

  10. Pat

    Be sure to double check your kid’s Halloween candy this year as they may have scored some free drugs

    When I was young, the world was a more innocent place. We were warned about razor blades in Halloween candy.

    • Rat on a train

      Take your haul to the station for an x-ray.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If you had saved those razor blades like a good kid, you’d have something now to chop those free drugs up into lines with.

  11. Shiny Nerfherder

    The study analyzed the breastmilk of 11 healthy women, with five study participants receiving a Moderna COVID-19 shot and the remaining six receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Researchers sampled breast milk for five days post vaccination, and trace amounts were detected in seven samples belonging to five different participants.

    Forty-five percent of study participants, therefore, saw COVID-19 vaccines taint their breastmilk.

    This goes along with the reports of gastrointestinal bleeding in nursing infants whose mothers took the vaccines.

    • Pat

      Yeah, but just think how much worse it would have been for the nursing infants if not for the vax!

      • Rat on a train

        Also, does it count as a vax for the infants?

  12. Cowboy

    COVID Vaccines Detected In 45% Of Breast Milk

    Not in my house. I got the clotshot because I was being pressured in order to keep my job. But wife and I had a discussion. Theres just too many risks and unknowns for her to get it, especially since she was pregnant when they really started pushing it hard.

    When we got sick a few months ago, she did have it slightly worse than me, with the fatigue and taste loss, but she also recovered a lot quicker. I got stuck with lingering bronchitis that took a ZPack to get rid of. Cowpoke was fine in like 2 days.

    In the end we both feel we made the right decision. A family friend vsccinated her babies and plans on giving them boosters. Thats crazy to me, but to each their own, I guess.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      A family friend vsccinated her babies and plans on giving them boosters. Thats crazy to me

      It is crazy.

      • Sean

        It is crazy.

        x 1,000

        Fucking idiots.

      • Hyperion

        Wife and I were in Walgreens yesterday. There was a long line of people wearing cloth masks there waiting for Covid booster shots. These people are institutionalized and will line up like sheep, still wearing their cloth masks, to get in the train cars.

      • Fourscore

        I talked to an Asian friend in Houston, she got the flu shot yesterday but said no Covid boosters. She said many still wearing masks, including her, all store employees, etc.

        She was shocked, shocked tell you, when I told her that we never got the flu shot, ever, and skipped all the covid hysteria. It’s tough for me to understand that so many that escaped post 1975 communism are concerned about catching a cold. Elderly people…I don’t know…

    • Pope Jimbo

      The other end of the Women and Rona fun… New study says Rona shots did affect women’s periods

      Not long after the rollout of coronavirus vaccines last year, women around the country began posting on social media about what they believed was a strange side effect: changes to their periods.

      Now, new research shows that many of the complaints were valid. A study of nearly 20,000 people around the world shows that getting vaccinated against covid can change the timing of the menstrual cycle. Vaccinated people experienced, on average, about a one-day delay in getting their periods, compared with those who hadn’t been vaccinated.

      Alison Edelman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University, who led the study, said that for most people the effects were temporary, lasting for one cycle before returning to normal. She said there were no indications that the period side effects had any impact on fertility.

      Shut up with your whining! We are telling you that the shots are 100% totes OK.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sadly this will be the shit that has the most impact on turning the public on the Rona shots:

        The study also didn’t answer all of the questions raised by people about vaccines and periods, including how the shots affect trans men and nonbinary individuals.

        While these observations aren’t necessarily medically alarming, Katharine Lee, an assistant professor at Tulane University who led the survey, said the information is important to help trans men plan for additional support if menstruating causes gender dysphoria, and also to help people make decisions about stocking up on tampons and pads.

        Rodriguez, who is a member of the Osage Nation, said medical researchers need to earn the trust of the Indigenous and people of color by providing more information upfront about side effects.

        Wait? The Rona shots are bad for trans, nonbinary and indigenous people? STOP EVERYTHING!

      • Pope Jimbo

        I also think that my new go to response for why I haven’t gotten boosted will be: “I’m concerned about the effects the shots have had on the periods for many men”

        I dare them to push back on that!

  13. Hyperion

    “5 migrant buses arrive in NYC as Mayor Adams’ tent city construction begins. More than 10,000 migrants have been bussed since April from Texas to New York City, which has a right-to-shelter law requiring the city to house anyone in need. ”

    Dumb rethuglicans, now the real Americans in NYC who are totally not trying to relocate to FL, are going to have people to now their lawns! Oh wait, they don’t have any lawns…

    • Rat on a train

      I’m sure some could use a nanny or cleaner.

      • Hyperion

        They’ll have to pay those and claim it on their taxes.

    • rhywun

      I like how the tent city is going up about as far as humanly possible from city residents and still within the city.

      • Hyperion

        That’s only because the rethuglicans who control NYC are forcing them to do so. C’mon rhywun, don’t you still live there? Are you even able to go outside without being chased down the street by a mob of Ultra MAGAs in full Nazi attire?

      • R.J.

        That made me laugh. Running away from people who can goose step at 12 miles per hour.
        “I can hear them! They’re right behind us!”
        *STOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMP*

      • Rat on a train

        No prison ships available?

      • Not Adahn

        Is still inside the wire thingy to be supportive of (((refugees?)))

  14. Count Potato

    “Researchers sampled breast milk for five days post vaccination, and trace amounts were detected in seven samples belonging to five different participants.”

    Is drinking trace amounts harmful?

    • Hyperion

      All FDA approved vaccines are good for you, mmkay?

      • Sean

        Medications never have side effects or adverse reactions.

      • Hyperion

        Not any that I have ever heard of yet, according to the AMA. Like mama’s breast milk used to be, back in the old days before it was full of industrial contaminants from prescription meds and FDA approved vaccines.

      • Count Potato

        Is it FDA approved?

        Regardless, I have trouble seeing more eating tiny amounts of RNA could do anything.

      • Pat

        What we should do is start a government agency to investigate the safety of drugs so that we could know those kinds of things with certainty.

      • Drake

        Everyone there would probably end up getting bribed by big pharma until the whole agency was worthless.

      • Hyperion

        It was an emergency, there’s a pandemic raging all around you!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I thought the whole point of this vaccine was that the rna hijacked a cell to pump out gobs of spike protein. Perhaps one strand of RNA entering one cell isn’t enough to create an enough spike protein to cause an adverse reaction, but I don’t know enough to weigh in on that.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        It raises the question of whether they were testing for mRNA in breastmilk or the spike protein.

        It sounds like they were testing for the former. But the real damage is coming from the spike protein.

      • Atanarjuat

        Nursing babies aren’t getting it straight into their cells though, they’re eating it. I’m sure every time we eat plants or sushi we’re eating uncooked mRNA in the tissues of those organisms. The mRNA is then subjected to all the acidity and enzymes of the digestive process. Still, I wouldn’t want this experimental shit in my baby’s milk just in case.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The concern that I would want more info on is whether it can breach the digestive barriers. If it can breach the brain blood barrier, the placental barrier, and the [whatever it’s called] barrier to get into milk, it wouldn’t shock me if it could get into esophageal cells and work its way to a blood vessel.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I guess it’s still better than drinking formula.

      • The Last American Hero

        Biden fixed that too by making formula hard to get.

    • Grummun

      IIRC we were assured that the mRNA would stay clustered around the injection site and not disperse through the rest of the body. If the mRNA is showing up in breast milk, then the mRNA is spreading out, and consequently potentially causing organ cells (heart, lungs, etc) to generate spike proteins.

      • hayeksplosives

        There is a lot of conclusive research showing the mRNA goes—and stays—in the liver, the ovaries, and a few other choice locales.

        There are also new reports coming out from medical doctors and medical examiners (doing autopsies) finding blood clots that can be inches long in which the spike proteins have interlinked with one another and also have had the spikes stick into blood vessel walls.

        The spike protein itself is the damage mechanism. There will never again be a vaccination enter my body.

      • UnCivilServant

        In one of the myriad sources, I saw a hypothesis that the action of the immune system against the spike protein produces amyloid fibers, which would result in those stringy clots. This could also be described as the proteins interlinking.

  15. Pat

    Inmate serving life sentence for murder escapes from Nevada prison

    Sept. 28 (UPI) — Authorities in Nevada have launched a manhunt for a convicted felon who escaped from prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder.

    The Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement Tuesday that 42-year-old Porfirio Duarte-Herrera had escaped from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs, located about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

    The department said it learned that the medium-security inmate was missing following a 7 a.m. scheduled count. The prison then activated escape procedures about an hour later, it said.

    Gov. Steve Sisolak revealed in a statement that an investigation by the Nevada Department of Corrections discovered that Duarte-Herrera had been missing “since early in the weekend.”

    • WTF

      Why is a convicted murderer in only a “medium-security” prison?

      • Hyperion

        Prisons are overpopulated. What do you want us to do, let out dangerous marijuana addicts?

      • DEG

        I know this is snark, but when I lived in Pennsylvania, this is exactly what was happening.

    • Hyperion

      He’s hiding out in a casino walking around with weapons of war, where security cameras will never see him until after he’s done shot up a music concert across the street.

    • hayeksplosives

      Ugh. I drive by that joint regularly. There are “No Hitchhiking” signs along the local highway.

      Dude is probably in Pahrump even now.

  16. Stillhunter

    It’s probably the DEA behind the candy a la Fast and Furious. Why would drug producers spend all that money producing fake candy to potentially kill people (customers). None of it makes any sense. But people lap it up.

    • Pat

      Why would drug producers spend all that money producing fake candy to potentially kill people (customers).

      Adulterated product costs less, and since the customer has no legal recourse, there’s little incentive not to kill your customer.

      • Hyperion

        You two are proof why we cannot support dangerous libertarian types like you and that Rand Paul guy. You support letting dangerous marijuana pushers on to our playgrounds.

      • Count Potato

        Heroin is based on repeat business.

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

        This. And news media is based on scare tactics.

      • Stillhunter

        But who’s buying it and why is it getting into typical product streams? This is described as something potentially widespread (which I doubt). To what end? Someone is supposedly giving it away.

        My guess is a scare tactic like the razor blades in candy that seemed to pop up regularly. Mostly to keep people afraid and prove the DEA’s worth.

      • Count Potato

        It was probably disguised as candy for smuggling purposes.

  17. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘Ordle report — Brett is outside the cone of sorrow, I narrowly avoided the cone of shame. BR got down to last guess and at least a 50/50 type word with one missing letter and no clues… so consider myself very lucky not to chump on it.

    Daily Duotrigordle #210
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 09:18.33
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 247
    6️⃣7️⃣
    8️⃣9️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 247
      7️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 247
      5️⃣4️⃣
      7️⃣6️⃣

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 247
      4️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com

      My streak of lucky guesses has ended, it was a good run.

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 247
      4️⃣🟥
      🟥9️⃣

      Lol. Every possible bad guess on LR. Gods of Quordle shitting on me today!

      But I will endeavor to persevere.

      • kinnath

        Daily Quordle 247
        6️⃣5️⃣
        4️⃣9️⃣

    • rhywun

      Blech.

      Daily Quordle 247
      4️⃣8️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣

    • The Hyperbole

      Daily Duotrigordle #210
      Guesses: 36/37
      Time: 03:50.87
      Not my best time but the first time I went right down the line after my seed words without skipping any.

      Daily Quordle 247
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      Meh

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 247
      5️⃣4️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 247
      4️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣3️⃣
      quordle.com

      First two seed words worked like a charm — no guessing required.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      So cartoon villain Trump grants a waiver of the Jones Act to reduce suffering after a hurricane on Puerto Rico, and Congress tightens the requirements to waive the Act. Just plain dump.

      • Sensei

        Precisely.

  18. Brochettaward

    On September 11th, 2022 the Army Of The First established an elite school for the top one percent of its Firsters. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of Firsting without highspeed internet and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighting Firsters in the world.

    They succeeded.

    Today, the Navy calls it Fighting Firster School. The Firsters call it:

    Top First

    • SDF-7

      And I’m sure there’s a lot of sweaty homoerotic beach volleyball there too.

  19. Pat

    ‘Toxic culture’ of abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC secret filming

    Harley, who gave her consent to be identified, was filmed being restrained and forced into seclusion

    Humiliated, abused and isolated for weeks – patients were put at risk due to a “toxic culture” at one of the UK’s biggest mental health hospitals, BBC Panorama can reveal.

    An undercover reporter at the Edenfield Centre filmed staff using restraint inappropriately and patients enduring long seclusions in small, bare rooms.

    Staff swore at patients and were seen slapping or pinching them on occasion.

    Hospital bosses said they have taken immediate action to protect patients.

    Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the medium secure unit, said it was taking the allegations “very seriously”.

    A number of staff members have been suspended, and the trust said it was working with Greater Manchester Police, the independent healthcare regulator the Care Quality Commission, and NHS England “to ensure the safety of these services”.

    • PieInTheSky

      I blame the profit motive and privatization

    • Timeloose

      “Staff swore at patients and were seen slapping or pinching them on occasion.”

      Sounds like my elementary school.

      • Fourscore

        I laughed, ’cause it caused a flashback. Funny how I had tried to blot that out but still it lingers.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Officials Issue ‘Mandatory’ Evacuation Orders Ahead of Hurricane Ian

    I, for one, will not stand for such gendered and therefor sexist language.

    • Rat on a train

      End all mandates!

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

        So, just lez dates?

  21. Not Adahn

    Local jail was celebrating the purchase of a new full body scanner that can check the inmates’ prison wallets. It was paid for with covid relief bux.

    • Timeloose

      So a full body xray powerful enough to penetrate flesh. I’m sure there won’t be any mis-use.

      “I don’t feel like looking up his asshole, or frisk this POS use the Rapescan 2000.”

      5 Gy/month later, we will have less prisoners to deal with.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s not misuse when the government does it!

  22. Rat on a train

    Army tests ground drones
    Reducing manpower needed on the battlefield will help with their recruiting problem.

    • SDF-7

      Skynet needs them to get cracking on the H-K’s already. Way behind schedule.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Ground drone” makes me think of “land shark” for some reason.

      • UnCivilServant

        The proper term is ‘Killbots’

      • Rat on a train

        “candygram”

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

        Really, it’s just a dolphin.

  23. Sensei

    We may have found a unicorn!

    Hooray, a Student Loan Forgiveness Plaintiff

    Mr. Garrison is enrolled in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which limits his monthly payments to a share of his income and discharges the remaining debt after 10 years of payments. The President’s loan forgiveness will immediately cancel $20,000 in debt. But this won’t reduce his monthly payments since they are already capped.

    However, it will require him to pay more than $1,000 in state tax on the canceled debt this year. Indiana doesn’t tax Public Service Loan Forgiveness, so he wouldn’t face a state tax liability several years from now. Thus he won’t receive an “additional benefit from the cancellation—just a one-time additional penalty,” according to his suit.

    • Not Adahn

      Moral hazard is bad, m’kay?

      • Not Adahn

        DAMMIT! Wrong character!

  24. Rebel Scum

    “We haven’t seen the lower prices reflected at the pump though. Meanwhile, oil and gas companies are still making record profits — billions of dollars in profit,” the president said Monday.

    “My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump: Bring down the prices you’re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you pay for the product.”

    That’s not how this works.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      It’s how it works to a wannabe dictator.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Make up the loss in volume?

    • Rat on a train

      Homeowners should only sell for what it cost them to purchase plus any maintenance. Anything more is gouging.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’ve been looking at The Chive a little lately, and I see a few ladies are catering to the foot fetish crowd. Maybe we should have a GlibFeet feature.

      • Swiss Servator

        Rex Ryan, is that you?

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

        So, you think we need a new feeture?

      • mock-star

        Thats the corniest pun yet.

    • Chafed

      That is the right way to start my day.

  25. Rebel Scum

    Dramatic Images of Erupting Sea Emerge from Europe-Russia Nord Stream Pipeline ‘Leaks’

    Sabotage.

    • rhywun
    • The Other Kevin

      I can’t stand it.
      I know they planned it.

    • robc

      Bosum Buddies isn’t a movie, so I have no idea on the 4th.

    • Hyperion

      What about Forest Gump? Why does Hanks hate retards… I mean ‘special folk’.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Splash

    • Rebel Scum

      Forest Gump
      Saving Private Ryan
      Big
      Splash
      Catch Me if You Can

      • pistoffnick

        Forest Hump
        Shaving Ryan’s Privates
        Big
        Sploosh
        Fuck Me If You Can

    • Pat

      The Money Pit

    • tarran

      I thought Apollo 13 was good, but then again, I actually watch lunarmodule5‘s complete Apollo mission videos, so my tastes may be a little weird.

      • Pat

        I forgot both that they made that movie, and that Tom Hanks was in it.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, that one gets my mental vote. And I know my tastes are at least a little (and probably more) weird already.

      • EvilSheldon

        Thank you! I was starting to wonder what kind of freaks I was hanging around with…

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Toy Story and Toy Story 3.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Taught me the dangers of D&D when I was a Ute.

      • The Last American Hero

        Scared the shit out of the parents of the gamers in my group, so it got the job done regardless of the production values.

    • kinnath

      Road to Perdition

      Philadelphia

      • kinnath

        The Green Mile

    • Grummun

      The ‘Burbs

  26. Sensei

    The Morning-After Pill Gets a Gen-Z Rebrand

    As health companies step up marketing for morning-after pills, they are ushering in bright packaging and TikTok videos. ‘We want it to be fun and shareable.’

    WTF?

    • Sean

      Make it PEZ shaped.

      • Gender Traitor

        From an RBG dispenser?

      • Rat on a train

        notorious

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Legit LOL!

    • DrOtto

      Make it fentanyl flavored.

  27. Rebel Scum

    IRS Sent Out Over $1 Billion In Child Tax Credit Payments To The Wrong People

    Seems like it is the IRS that needs to be audited.

    • The Last American Hero

      I’m one of them. They issued a “correction” letter insisting I filled it out wrong and needed to get the credit, which we do not qualify for.

  28. Atanarjuat

    On Tucker Carlson’s show last night he played clips of both Biden and Victoria Nuland threatening to stop the flow of the Nord Stream pipeline. It strains credulity that Russia would sabotage their own pipeline and starve themselves of its revenue. This is a psychotically reckless act which might escalate into a third world war.

    Next time some Democrat tries to lecture me about the importance of upholding “norms” I’m going to roll my eyes so hard it will affect the tides.

    • Drake

      Next time you are called a “domestic terrorist” it will be by an actual terrorist.

    • Rebel Scum

      It strains credulity that Russia would sabotage their own pipeline and starve themselves of its revenue

      Never mind that it removes their bargaining chip. Also never mind that they don’t need to destroy it because they can just close the spigot.

      might escalate into a third world war.

      Which is likely the goal. What better way to kill off millions (billions?) for the Great Reset than a nuclear holocaust?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      If Russia did it, it would undermine their credibility with other customers while they’re seeking long-term partners in the energy business. It would be beyond stupid.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s entirely possible that Russia did it as a false flag. They can use it as a way to drive a wedge between citizens in the West and their governments, especially given the statements by Biden and Noodleman.

    • Grummun

      He’s not wrong that Russia has no motive. Even as a false flag attack, I think Russia is way down the list of suspects.

      He does a lot of dancing around “I can’t accuse the Biden administration” while presenting all the reasons he thinks the Biden administration did it.

      As I see it the question is, who benefits the most? And, the simplest explanation is most likely the correct explanation.

      Those who benefit most obviously: war mongers in the west, who want to reduce the chances of a negotiated peace; and alternate providers of gas and oil. The US sits in both camps, but also (some) Ukrainians, UK, Norway, others. Chances it was China and North Korea are vanishingly small.

  29. robc

    AT LONG LAST, THE CHESS DRAMA IS OVER.

    Okay, not that chess drama. A couple of weeks ago, on a podcast, Fabiano Caruana (the top ranked US player) promised Eric Rosen he would play the Stafford Gambit in the online Titled Tuesday tournament. Last week, he reneged, saying that after analyzing, it was just losing to every move by white. After a week of pressure, yesterday he sacked up and played it. And won.

    Quote from Rosen: “This makes me so happy. I guilt-tripped one of the best players in the world to play a really bad opening.”

    Eric is an International Master (level below Grand Master) and youtuber, who has made a bunch of videos about the Stafford. It is a dubious opening, at best. But very trappy to the unsuspecting opponent.

    • The Last American Hero

      Ginger tits would have taken up the challenge that afternoon and celebrated victory by dinner.

  30. Rebel Scum

    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy reportedly worked to sink the re-election campaign of Madison Cawthorn while trying to weed out “controversial Republicans” who might cause disruptions to his agenda.

    I knew that cunte couldn’t be trusted. MAGA needs to co-opt and remake the entire party.

    • Hyperion

      It’s almost you don’t love our Democracy and you’re one of those crazy libertarian types who think this is a Republic, or some crazy shit like that.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “His agenda”. That’s cute. Let me guess what it consists of: whining about being the powerless minority party, raising money, and profiting from it.

  31. DrOtto

    That last story is almost as hyperbolic as an episode of Stike Force.

  32. Rebel Scum

    COVID Vaccines Detected In 45% Of Breast Milk

    But it’s safe and effective. And it definitely won’t give your baby heart issues.

    • Hyperion

      It only gives millennials and teenagers heart problems that kill them. For once, I start thinking that Klaus may have had the right idea with this great Reset. Imagine the money that mom and dad can save on internet and cell phone bills.

      • PieInTheSky

        It only gives millennials and teenagers heart problems that kill them – no, I read studies that going to the gym to much, cold showers and intermittent fasting cause those heart problems

      • PieInTheSky

        also climate change, artificial sweeteners etc

      • Hyperion

        You forgot mean tweets. But now we’ve gotten rid of those.

    • Not Adahn

      Well, only feed your kid the other 55%

  33. Q Continuum

    “My wife goes to the gym every day. She is also my carer as I have mobility issues. She’s usually gone for three or four hours. We rarely spend any time in the same room as I am normally on my Xbox talking with friends.”

    wut

    “We enjoy an open marriage — well at least she does. To date she has had around five affairs that I know of. I have never even had one.”

    Well, you have something, though I wouldn’t really call it a “marriage”.

    “My wife’s children, from her first marriage, are grown up and take little interest in her. They rarely visit and I worry she would become suicidal.”

    Again: wut

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19911397/wife-fling-worried-fall-lover/

    For some reason, I think this letter’s real. I just don’t think someone would put this much thought and detail into a fake letter.

    • Hyperion

      What the hell kind of loser uses an xBox to talk to people online?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        He should use Zoom to talk to people he met online like a normal person.

      • Not Adahn

        A console peasant?

    • Not Adahn

      Is she going to drive him to the other woman’s house?

      That’s the only time I’ve been in a cuck-adjacent situation: I spent a weekend with a chick from my tango class, and she was dropped off/picked up from my house by her boyfriend.

  34. pistoffnick

    That might be Bobby Dylan’s best song.

    I have a friend who sometimes plays that around the campfire. He sings the N-word – it’s fun to watch the younger crowd flinch when they hear it.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Nice pipeline you got there. Be a shame if sumptin happened to it. Forget about it.

    • Rebel Scum

      So did Brandon awhile back.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Food comes from the store. Also power comes from the outlet and as our President reminds us gas and gas prices come from the gas station.

    • Hyperion

      “Guess where your food comes from, you ignorant, elitist prick.”

      Ukraine? But we stand with Ukraine!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I guess not a diss on KC BBQ since he’s vegetarian.

    • Timeloose

      NYC has a brand all right. That brand is that New Yorkers think everyone outside of NYC cares about what happens in NYC.

      • Sensei

        Also see CA and CA residents.

      • Swiss Servator

        I thought it was “Crime n’ rats”?

      • Timeloose

        I do like NYC and I do like the people who were born and raised there. It’s still fun to bust them for being “tough” while soft as hell when out of their element. I call my friends when they visit “fresh air adults”. I take them to very red neck events with real not city camo, guns, animals, tractor pulls.

    • robc

      No brand? About 50% of all pans are Kansas-shaped.

      /Special thanks to Dr Nick and The Simpsons for that joke.

  35. PieInTheSky

    Book review: “Hitler’s National Socialism” by Rainer Zitelmann (Part 1)

    https://iea.org.uk/book-review-hitlers-national-socialism-by-rainer-zitelmann-part-1/

    “Since this renewed interest in fascism has been preceded by a revival of socialism as a popular mainstream ideology, it is perhaps unsurprising that most of the new self-declared “anti-fascists” see fascism through a Marxist lens. The orthodox Marxist perspective is that fascism is not a system or an ideology in its own right, but simply the most brutal form of capitalism. In this interpretation, liberal democracy is the form that capitalism takes when the ruling class feels secure in its position, and can afford a few superficial niceties, such as democratic elections and civil liberties. Fascism, on the other hand, is the form that capitalism takes when the ruling class feels under threat, and lashes out – it is capitalism with the gloves off.

    One problem with the Marxist perspective has always been that Hitler’s rhetoric was often stridently anti-capitalist. The way Marxists usually deal with this is by dismissing it as a mere rhetorical trick. They argue that when Hitler railed against capitalism, he never believed a word of it; he just tried to deceive working-class voters, who supported the Communist Party (KPD) or the Social Democrats (SPD). But actions speak louder than words: once in office, Hitler viciously persecuted socialists

    Some people on the political Right, meanwhile, have been more willing to take the “socialism” in “national socialism” at face value, arguing that “national socialism” really was a variant of socialism. They point out that in actual practice, there were some striking similarities between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

    Yes, Hitler persecuted socialists – but so did Stalin, and so would future socialist regimes. It’s what those in control of socialist states do once they are in power: they kill other socialists.

    Then there’s the liberal interpretation, which sees fascism as meaningfully different from socialism, but which sees both as different versions of collectivism, which have more in common with each other than either has with laissez-faire individualism. They point out that while the Nazi economy was not state-run, it was heavily state-directed.”

    • Hyperion

      He just wanted to get into Karen’s pants.

    • Swiss Servator

      “Thanks to technology, Gigi is wearing her medical alert bracelet. That’s how Wilmar learned that she lived nearby. He contacted the number on the bracelet and got a hold of her granddaughter Karen.”

      Thanks to technology? The high tech, super science of…engraving?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I was thinking more basic than that. A written alphabet and the ability to read is a technology.

      • Rat on a train

        How many medical alert bracelets have been found in archeological digs?

      • Swiss Servator

        See, they didn’t have the bracelet and they DIED!

    • Rat on a train

      Who signed for her?

  36. PieInTheSky

    This pipeline thing is beyond my security clearance, I cannot even formulate a coherent opinion on it.

    • Hyperion

      Let me try. The US with the backing of Europe’s ‘leaders’ sabotaged it to ‘Get Putin’.

      • PieInTheSky

        meh. all speculation.

      • Hyperion

        Brandon says ‘Here, Pie, hold my beer!’.

      • Atanarjuat

        As I posted above, there is video of US officials threatening to stop the flow in the pipeline. The list of suspects with both motive and opportunity is pretty short.

      • PieInTheSky

        The list of suspects with both motive and opportunity is pretty short – yes, the US/England, maybe Ukraine, and Russia… that is fairly short

      • Hyperion

        SEA DINDONUTHIN!

      • Gustave Lytton

        SEA SMITH MANAGE TO RAPE EUROPE ALL WINTER LONG. HE PROVIDE THE WARMTH THEY NEED. JUST COME IN WATER.

      • Swiss Servator

        COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

      • Hyperion

        What I like about Glibs is that no one else will get any of these jokes.

      • The Other Kevin

        SEA SMITH NOT CAUSE RUPTURE IN PIPE, HIM USE PIPE CAUSE RUPTURE.

      • Hyperion

        They were just kidding.

      • Swiss Servator

        They also said they can control the temperature of the planet, make the economy dance and sing and everyone have solar and windmill powered cars.

    • Atanarjuat

      Two explosions were recorded before the leaks were detected, with the first explosion occurring early Monday, followed by a second, stronger explosion that night that was equal to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to the Associated Press.

      This is exactly the sort of thing Navy Seals train to do.

      • Swiss Servator

        And Russian Navy folks too. The Ukes could have hired some undersea pipeline dudes to do a little “reverse maintenance”, I am not sure if the UK could pull this off, but probably. I am less sure of France. The Scandis or Poles, not seeing it.

        I am going to be reckless and rush to….wait and see what we find out. I can only hope the same folks that have sussed out all the activity in the Black Sea (pointing out that the Moskva did in fact sink, reminding the Ukes that the missile frigate they claimed to sink had gone through the Straits of Kerch a few hours before, etc) can do a little digging to see if any “exploration vessels” or “maintenance ships” were in the vicinity at relevant times (the Ukrainian version of the old “Russian Fishing Trawler” that always happened to be around every USN base, NASA site, etc).

      • Not Adahn

        Greenpeace? Sea Shepherds?

      • Swiss Servator

        They would have bragged about it.

      • PieInTheSky

        I can tell you Romania is off the hook

      • Swiss Servator

        *squints suspiciously*

        OK….this time.

      • Not Adahn

        Vampyr cannot cross running water.

      • Rebel Scum

        I am going to be reckless and rush to….wait and see what we find out.

        But Russian to conclusions is way more fun.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        He just want the investigation to be Finnish.

      • LJW

        Why would Russia do this? 1. The pipeline is a source of revenue for them. 2. They could just shut it off if they wanted to mess with Europe? I guess they could use it as propaganda and blame the US or Ukraine but that’s a lot of money to lose for propaganda.

      • PieInTheSky

        Why would Russia do this – have reason to claim Nato directly attacked their infrastructure ?

    • Timeloose

      You all are forgetting China, North Korea, Israel, or France there are many options.

      Then there are the non-state actors such as the US and other countries oil and gas companies.

      • Swiss Servator

        North Korea does not have that kind of reach. France has no reason to do so. Israel…why? China…that is a stretch for their Navy, but I suppose they could.

      • Timeloose

        I’m being as serious as every other theory being touted.

        North Korea: Has a submarine fleet however shitty. Possible means, motive could be made that it destabilizes their enemies.
        France: Definitely has the means. Has the least to loose and the most to gain from a loss of Nat Gas as they are mostly supplied by Nuke energy. Motive, they could take a grater role and control in the EU over Germany and drive the chaos to a favorable position for France.
        Israel: Likely has the means, motive is shaky

        China: Has the means with a submarine and underwater drone capability. Has plenty of motive as it destabilizes nearly all of their currency rivals and allows lower pricing to them for Nat gas. There is not a good motive from a exporter’s economic perspective, but certainly from a war monger military’s perspective. Rumors last week about a very serious upper CCP conflict and possible Coup in China.

        What I’m saying is there are a lot of possible reasons. some make sense, some make as much sense as Russia sabotaging their own pipeline. The US makes as much or less sense than China.

        We are also forgetting the crab people of middle earth, Blue whales, and the Atlanteans.

      • Atanarjuat

        The US as a culprit makes vastly more sense than China. It starves the funding for the Russian war machine that the US is fighting in its proxy war. It makes Germany more dependent on shipments of US-sourced LNG. It punishes Germany for announcing it will slow weapons delivery to the proxy war.

      • Swiss Servator

        That is why the Ukes are the ones I am leaning toward.

      • Tundra

        Don’t sleep on the UK.

      • Timeloose

        I don’t think we know if it was sabotage for sure yet. If it was, the lack of subtlety has me leaning away from the US or UK.

      • Timeloose

        The fact that we all can see that the US is one country with the most capability to pull this off doesn’t make it the most likely to commit the act.

        The Russian war machine is still starving and would still starve without the US committing one of the most blatant acts of war against a friendly nation I could conceive of.

        If this was a preemptive strike against all of the EU by the US to make them poor and freeze to death to ensure that they don’t pay Russians for their gas, that is movie level motivation. It would be much easier and less messy for the US to directly supply weapons’ to the Ukraine in the open than have our allies in NATO do it. NATO = USA for all intents and purposes.

        In addition, I can’t believe that the CIA would perform this act without some other more likely suspect as a patsy. If they did it there would have been some blatant electronic intelligence and faked or real hard evidence nearly immediately to implicate a third party or country.

        I’m open to being wrong, but I hope I’m not. Something like this could unravel all of our alliances and cause an incredible level of chaos in the world.

        I have not heard of any possible natural or mechanical explanations for these issues. Could the pipeline burst due to some pressure shock at either end?

      • Tundra

        Gee, I don’t know. Fading superpower with a spectacular history of proxy fuckery across like 128 countries since 1990?

        Who the fuck knows. Regardless of whoever did this, our “leadership” wants war and they want it soon.

      • R C Dean

        The bottom line seems to be that it would be brain-dead stupid for just about anybody to do this. Given that as a baseline, I lean toward the CIA/US.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Regardless of whoever did this, our “leadership” wants war and they want it soon.

        This. This is the real takeaway. It could’ve been SEA SMITH who did it, but the pending horrible responses by Russia and by the US are going to be each party’s respective responsibility.

      • Count Potato

        Patrick Duffy?

      • SDF-7

        I keep thinking about fishing trawlers dragging their anchors and undersea fiber optic cables… haven’t most of the strange severings of those been stupid mistakes like that?

        “I tell you, Georg… we keep going very slow after we let Sven pull up the anchor.”

        “I thought *you* told him to pull up the anchor!”

        Probably outside the realm of possibility (since I would hope the pipeline is much more sturdy), but there are a lot of fishing trawlers running around the Baltic and North sea areas, so it leaps to mind.

      • Atanarjuat

        That doesn’t explain the explosions, as posted above: Two explosions were recorded before the leaks were detected, with the first explosion occurring early Monday, followed by a second, stronger explosion that night that was equal to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to the Associated Press.

      • UnCivilServant

        Pipelines are designed to be armored against anchor hits.

        Though it might be breached by repeated strikes to the same location over an extended period of time. But that’s what inspections are for. The pipline was regularly inspected, wasn’t it?

      • Drake

        It was brand new – and there were 3 separate ruptures.

      • Drake

        The Poles have the capability to do it and they have been getting feisty with the Germans and Russians lately. Now most of what’s left of the flow of gas from Russia to Germany goes through Poland.

        I don’t suspect Norway – but they could have done it. They are going to make a lot of money as a result.

        There are tons of listening, radar, and sonar stations in that area – but I doubt anyone is looking too hard for the culprits. Like the FBI investigating Antifa.

  37. Pope Jimbo

    WHY WON’T YOU RUBES SHUT UP ABOUT ELECTION IRREGULARITIES????!!!!

    More than 1,000 St. Paul absentee voters have received 2022 general election ballots listing the wrong Republican candidate for Minnesota’s House of Representatives in their district, officials say.

    The GOP nominated Scott Hesselgrave in August to replace Beverly Peterson in the race to succeed Rep. John Thompson in House District 67A after Peterson died earlier that month, but the ballots issued by Ramsey County elections officials still list Peterson as the Republican candidate, according to a Tuesday filing with the Minnesota Supreme Court.

    “Ramsey County sincerely regrets this error and apologizes to both the voters of District 67A and the candidates impacted by this oversight,” county officials said in the release. “Upon learning of this error, we immediately began an internal audit to identify where the error occurred and today formally began the legal process to resolve the issue. Ramsey County elections staff is preparing to implement a resolution as soon as one is identified by the court and is taking steps to update internal procedures to ensure an error does not happen again. It’s imperative that every vote count.”

    Uffda. This is going to make it much harder to stuff that ballot box. All those “found” ballots are going to have to be redone.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Undersea pipelines are risky and dangerous. See?

    • Hyperion

      Whey would environmentalist who have a misguided hatred of Russia do such a thing? I blame oil companies, and Russia. And Trump.

      • Swiss Servator

        4chan, in league with The Proud Boys, financed by Drumpf and using a Russian sub!

      • Gustave Lytton

        In the conservatory!

      • creech

        Is there a nearby Amish community?

  39. Rebel Scum

    I really loathe this garden gnome.

    Biden Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm Calls ‘Green’ Energy Transition A “Transformational Opportunity”

    What did commies use before candles?..

    • Pope Jimbo

      Don’t you remember the trillions that the govt gave to Rockefeller to pump gas and all the subsidies that they gave so people would build gas stations?

      • Rat on a train

        They didn’t build that.

    • The Last American Hero

      She presided over the Golden Age of Michigan’s economy. You think she can’t work wonders in the energy sector?

  40. UnCivilServant

    Interns provide an interesting perspective on jargon you take for granted. Haven’t had to think about how to explain some of the basics for a long time.

    • PieInTheSky

      they can return the favor by explaining their pronouns

    • PieInTheSky

      I think liberty was a thing before Philadelphia

      • Urthona

        Agree to disagree. You can’t have liberty without cheese steaks.

      • Swiss Servator

        You misspelled “Tastykake”.

      • rhywun

        That sounds like the end-stage of a sex act. I think I’ll pass.

    • rhywun

      more than 750 people shot dead since Memorial Day

      Journalisming!

      • DEG

        I was going to point, I haven’t heard anything about a new murder record in Philly. 750 murders breaks last year’s record by a lot.

  41. PieInTheSky

    The sand in Okinawa, Japan contains thousands of tiny “stars”. These “grains of sand” are actually exoskeletons of marine protozoa, which lived on the ocean floor 550 million years ago.

    https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1574983812231987203

    • Pope Jimbo

      FAKE NEWS! I never saw those when I was there. And I spent a lot of time snorkeling in the ocean there.

      * I loved Okinawa. I would have gladly stayed another year if Uncle Sam hadn’t insisted I return to NAS Memphis.

      • PieInTheSky

        seems a bit to hot in the summer.

      • Swiss Servator

        There is a Naval Air Station…in Tennessee?!

      • Count Potato

        They have air in Tennessee.

      • Swiss Servator

        But is it naval air?

      • Not Adahn

        The obesity crisis has reduced the amount of navel air available.

      • Pope Jimbo

        There was. Maybe is? Up in Millington TN just north of the city.

        Millington is also where the Olympic baseball team trained. I saw a very young (and skinny) Mark McGuire play. Also saw a series against the Cubans where they bunted six straight times against Jim Abbott. They finally realized that even with one hand, Abbott was easily fielding the bunts and getting them out.

      • robc

        You have to control the rivers somehow.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Way back in the Dark Ages there was a NAS in Olathe, Kansas.

      • UnCivilServant

        To be fair, It’s really hard to sink Kansas.

    • Count Potato

      So their beaches are free of cockroaches?

    • Not Adahn

      You mean like diatomaceous earth?

  42. cyto

    How strong is the doublethink?

    I suspect it is infinitely strong, but we shall see.

    The last couple of days has seen an explosion of videos and commentary about the Russian election in Ukraine to annex part of Ukraine. Armed soldiers going door to door to collect ballots. Suspicious turnout and margins. Everyone says they are a sham…..

    And…

    Do you think any of these people who crow about the most secure and fair election in history will notice that there are some uncomfortable comparisons with these Russian elections to the most secure election ever?

    Somehow I doubt it… But they did use features that are universally rejected in secure and secret elections around the world… Things that look very familiar to the American electorate.

    • rhywun

      As I’ve noted before, nearly every facet of US elections is now conducted in a manner that the US condemns when countries we don’t like do it.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      A buddy of mine has been an election observer in Bosnia, Ukraine and Tajikistan. Some of the things they look for are voter intimidation and someone submitting multiple ballots. For example, in Tajikistan there was a site with 3 booths, but everyone was lined up at one booth because that’s where the village enforcer was making sure everyone was voting the right way. In Bosnia the man of the house wanted to submit votes for all members of the family. Mail in voting enables these things.

  43. PieInTheSky

    The Kyiv Independent
    @KyivIndependent
    ⚡️Reuters: US prepares $1.1 billion arms package for Ukraine.

    The U.S. is preparing a new $1.1 billion arms package for Ukraine which will be announced in the coming days, Reuters reports citing U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

    https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1574901028620836890

    with all these billions, can you sent a million my way? I really don’t like my job and would like to quit.

    • Hyperion

      Do you stand with Ukraine and are not a global warming denier or Ultra MAGA?

      • PieInTheSky

        whatever gets me the dough

      • cyto

        I really do wonder how I can get in on this scam.

        We have dropped like 10 or 12 trillion dollars in just a couple of years, and only a few hundred billion are accounted forin terms of direct payouts to citizens. I mean. Hallibutan was great for skimming millions of of a billion dollar contract.

        But when hundreds of billions are washed around in the slop….

    • Hyperion

      I heard about this ‘unexpected’ twist of fate.

    • Mojeaux

      As I understand it, there is no love lost between blacks and Hispanics, anyway.

    • Swiss Servator

      So hard for the money?

      • KSuellington

        So you’d better treat her right.

      • Red Pill Matt

        *narrows gaze

    • robc

      “Duffy says he plans to move to either California or Colorado with his partner, Linda Purl.”

      Just yesterday I heard something about him being in Colorado Springs, so that may have been decided.

  44. Pope Jimbo

    Ooooh! A politically correct reason to kill the hate birds

    DULUTH — Gaggles of geese have foiled plans to restore wild rice on the St. Louis River, leaving those leading the work to a last resort: As many as 300 of the birds will be euthanized next summer to give the native rice a chance to thrive.

    Several agencies, including the Wisconsin and Minnesota departments of Natural Resources, have been battling the Canada geese as they work to restore 275 acres of wild rice to the river, part of a plan to remove it from a national list of polluted Great Lakes waterways. Other means of deterring geese from ravaging rice beds have been employed, including decoys, disturbances from kayakers, egg addling (hatching prevention) and fencing.

    I am also now happy to know why all those guys with epees were wading around that river. That has been puzzling me for a while.

    • robc

      ummm…if wild rice was native, wouldn’t the geese have been feeding on it forever, so, yeah, I dont get it.

      • Not Adahn

        Killing off the wolves allowed the Hate Bird population to get out of control.

    • Swiss Servator

      Epees? No wonder it didn’t work. That is clearly saber work!

  45. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Did WWIII start yet?

    Christ, that storm looks no bueno. We talked with some friends and family in the area who are trying to decide whether to bail or not. It’s so weird watching it approach unlike, say, a tornado that just pounds the shit out of you with little warning.

    Mother Nature is a saucy bitch. Stay safe, FLA friends!

    Researchers sampled breast milk for five days post vaccination, and trace amounts were detected in seven samples belonging to five different participants.

    I still have no idea what this means. Clearly, the idea that the mRNA was to stay in place has long been debunked, but how long will this show up in breast milk? What are the ramifications for the baby? What about in utero?

    This might have been a bad idea.

    Someone else will link the Scorps, so here’s my contribution.

    Have a great day, peeps!

  46. Certified Public Asshat

    The American Revolution was about leaving Britain. If America’s founders questioned slavery there would not have been the heinous “3/5 compromise “ in the US Constitution, which was drafted and enacted AFTER the American Revolution. This is basic history… https://t.co/QkwBFF7CkX— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓 (@rweingarten) September 28, 2022

    A lot of dunking on this tweet.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      *points to carribbean sources in the late 1500s and early 1600s questioning the morality of slavery to refute both DeSantis and this tweeter*

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This tweeter: AFT Prez.Teacher.Unionist. Fighting 4 children & communities, democracy, justice, public ed & healthcare & freedom 4 all. Wife of
        @Skleinbaum. Pronouns: She/her

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The Ukraine flag in the handle made none of this surprising in the least.

      • mock-star

        I wonder who the 4 children are that she is fighting. And is it one at a time ala Bloodsport or is it a handicap match?

    • Rat on a train

      Would he have preferred 5/5 giving slave states more representation or maybe a breakup of the United States?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Probably the former. The Civil War of 1936-1945, where the Communo-Confederates were eventually defeated by the Fasco-Unionists when they nuked Atlanta and Richmond, made for a much more compelling history.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Fools

    No state in the eastern U.S. has grown faster in recent years than Florida, which has added nearly 3 million residents since 2010.

    Now, the state is yet again in the path of a major hurricane, with Hurricane Ian expected to make landfall on Florida’s western coast Wednesday. It is now classified as a Category 4 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.

    Tampa, Fort Myers and Sarasota – all among the state’s fastest growing metropolitan areas – are within the range of predicted paths, the NHC said. Ian may bring a “life threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding in the Florida peninsula,” the hurricane center said in it’s 5 a.m. ET update.

    More people — and more buildings to house them, often in coastal areas — mean that a major hurricane could become more costly and destructive.

    The population boom in hurricane-prone Florida is an example of the “expanding bullseye effect,” said Stephen Strader, a professor at Villanova University who studies how human environments are vulnerable to natural disasters.

    Those people never should have left New York.

  48. UnCivilServant

    Reviewing Resumes again.

    Candidate described one of their roles in a previous job as a ‘Vision Person’. Knowing the agency and business unit involved, I know this is bullshit. Can I circular file based on that alone? (probably not, but I’m tempted)

    • PieInTheSky

      I was always amused when I was interviewing year 3 student internship CVs and they were full of leadership and management skills because they took part of some student organization in their first couple of years

      • Rat on a train

        “I was treasurer of the chess club.”

      • UnCivilServant

        “But I scheduled all of the meetings”

        “So did our Executive Assistant. Do you have any other skills that would help in the Secretarial-EA career path?”

        (I’m not knocking secretaries, I miss when we had the aid of one. I do not know these processes half as well as they did.)

      • UnCivilServant

        (To clarify, though performing a vital function, the EA was not a manager and did not need management/leadership skills for the job, so it was a direct response to Pie’s observation.)

    • Rat on a train

      Back when I had the misfortune of reviewing candidates, bullshit was a fast track to reject. I even caught a few obvious lies, which was unfortunate for one candidate who looked good on paper and interviewed well for the targeted area but clearly lied about other experience.

      • UnCivilServant

        Judging by the types of candidates I’m seeing, Sharepoint developers hate their job and are applying to anywhere else.

        Thing is, Sharepoint development doesn’t have much in the way of crossover skills that can help them take on a role in my group. This one COBOL developer at least worked in Unix.

  49. PieInTheSky

    The left understands the family better than Giorgia Meloni ever will

    We don’t exclude gay parents, single dads or trans kids.

    https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/09/giorgia-meloni-family-deborah-frances-white

    We should get back to traditional human family values, along with the very natural warm acceptance and celebration of gender and sexual diversity that is most authentic to human beings. Families should have the opportunity to come in all of their various, beautiful human shapes and sizes. Let’s not get stuck in the suburban alienation of the mid 20th century, as if a washer/drier makes up for extended family, lots of wonderfully individual role models and plentiful childcare. Let’s get really traditional. Let’s make families about kinship again.

    Or you know just reduce government and take it out of the family.

  50. PieInTheSky

    The Italian Far Right Is About to Meet Italian Bureaucracy
    Italy’s politics is a constant cycle of failed populist waves.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    People move to Florida for all kinds of reasons: year-round warm weather, comparatively cheap housing, no individual income tax, and large communities of other retirees or immigrants, for example.

    “People are able to look past the long-term risk and think about, ‘Where do I want to be for the next 10 years of my life?'” Strader said. “But there’s also a gambling aspect to that, and unfortunately, a lot of people are still willing to sit at the table.”

    No other possible reasons?

    • Sensei

      Because nowhere else on the Gulf or Eastern seaboard are people vulnerable to hurricanes.

      • WTF

        NYC and vicinity has gotten hit by plenty of hurricanes in the past, we’ve just been very lucky for the past several decades.

      • Sensei

        I’ve lost a shared family property to Sandy and my detached garage to Irene.

        But hurricanes aren’t the reason I want to GTFO of NJ…

  52. PieInTheSky

    How physics in the USSR was saved from ideology

    https://hxstem.substack.com/p/how-physics-in-the-ussr-was-saved

    At the end of 1948, preparations began for the All-Union Conference of Heads of Departments of Physics, scheduled for March 21, 1949, with the aim of an ideological pogrom in physics on the basis of the idealism of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity, which allegedly defied Marxist philosophic principles. The campaign was instigated by second-rate physicists, near-science administrators, “philosophers,” Communist party apparatchiks, and other zealots.

    “Is it true that quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity should be banned because of their idealistic, bourgeois and anti-Marxist nature?”

    Kurchatov replied “If they are banned, then the bomb will have to be abandoned.”

    In response, Beria said that the most important thing is THE bomb, and everything else is nonsense.

    • robc

      Too bad agriculturalists werent working on the bomb.

  53. The Other Kevin

    Scott Adams has his snark turned up to 10 today. He’s comparing the idea of Russia blowing up its own pipelines to the sheriff putting a gun to his own head in Blazing Saddles. And he’s calling the video of Biden clearly stating they’d shut down the pipelines as a crazy conspiracy theory.

    • robc

      So what is his theory? Accident?

    • The Other Kevin

      Someone in from the west protecting their own energy interests. Judging from the sarcasm, definitely not Russia.

    • PieInTheSky

      Here is a theory: unbeknown Russia and the US both attacked the pipelines at the same time in different places, some some explosions are US some are Russia.

    • R C Dean

      he’s calling the video of Biden clearly stating they’d shut down the pipelines as a crazy conspiracy theory.

      I’m saying this is snarkasm.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    The last major hurricane to hit western Florida was in 2017, when Hurricane Irma thrashed the eastern part of the Fort Myers-Cape Coral metro area; tens of thousands of people have moved to the area since then. In Tampa, no hurricane has hit the city directly in decades.

    But- more and more, worser and worser!

    • Atanarjuat

      I guess Hurricane Michael which hit deep red Bay County Florida in 2018 doesn’t count because who cares about those deplorables.

  55. The Late P Brooks

    I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I went and got a haircut yesterday. Why can’t these dumb bitches cut it the way I tell them? She cuts it short back and sides, exactly what I said I DIDN’T want. I look like a fucking cop.

    • The Other Kevin

      Get yourself some khaki shorts, a polo shirt, and Ray-Bans to complete the look.

      • Timeloose

        You need a mustache then the look will be complete.

  56. DEG

    confirmed that 100,000 homes have already been reported across the state.

    I know this is the Daily Fail, but reported as what?

    More than 11 million in Cuba were left without power after the initial winds of the powerful then-Category 3 storm pounded the island’s south coast

    Also, I know this is the Daily Fail, but you mean that joke about Socialists, candles, and electricity isn’t true?

    • UnCivilServant

      Of course it’s not true.

      The Socialists didn’t have candles either.

  57. DEG

    “My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump: Bring down the prices you’re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you pay for the product.”

    Go fuck yourself.

  58. DEG

    The Washington Post reports that McCarthy “worked this spring to deny Cawthorn a second term in office,” saying he had “lost my trust.”

    This should surprise no one. The Establishment has been shanking outsiders all along through this campaign season.

    • Not Adahn

      The first rule of orgy club is you do not talk about orgy club!

  59. The Late P Brooks

    Salvation is at hand

    The Biden administration is proposing that nutrition labels go on the front of food packages rather than the back. It’s part of a strategy to end hunger and diet-related diseases in America in eight years — some 40 pages of ideas to try to make the nation healthier.

    The White House unveiled the plan ahead of a conference on hunger, nutrition and health being held in Washington on Wednesday — the first of its kind since 1969, a when a similar effort sparked programs like food stamps.

    ——-

    The White House is buying into the idea of using food as medicine. It wants Congress to pass legislation for pilot programs that would cover medically tailored meals for people who are on Medicare, and to expand access to nutrition and obesity counseling for people on Medicare and Medicaid.

    The administration also wants to encourage private health insurance companies to cover medically tailored meals and more nutrition services.

    All the school children in America will begin their day by singing “Biden loves me, this I know, for the Constitution tells me so”.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      a strategy to end hunger and diet-related diseases in America in eight years

      Lololololol.

    • Not Adahn

      a strategy to end hunger and diet-related diseases in America in eight years

      They’ll have a cure for the ‘beetus in eight years? Really? Someone wrote this with a straight face?

      • UnCivilServant

        Nah, anything with ‘too much’ sugar will be banned from food stamp purchases.

        Food manufacturers will be able to buy a certification of acceptable sugar levels for a slight fee, payable to the certifying officer.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        anything with ‘too much’ sugar will be banned from food stamp purchases.

        That’s actually a good idea?

    • rhywun

      when a similar effort sparked programs like food stamps

      Turns out people are buying the wrong foods with their food stamps. Let’s flush a few more trillion dollars down the toilet and see if we can get it right this time.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Probably not a coincidence that everyone got fatter when the government became more involved in nutrition.

      • R C Dean

        There is also a certain correlation between the decline in smoking and the increase in obesity.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t recall smokers being less fat than non-smokers.

      • Count Potato

        Food Pyramid

      • Tundra

        Hyper processed and calorically-dense foods.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    The White House says it wants the Food and Drug Administration to conduct research and propose new rules for nutrition labels to go on the front of food packages. The system should “quickly and easily communicate nutrition information … such as star ratings or traffic light schemes to promote equitable access to nutrition information and healthier choices, and can also prompt industry to reformulate their products to be healthier,” the White House said in its strategy.

    And the, they will ask in wonderment why the landfills are piled high with unsold, unopened packages of healthy food.

    • Not Adahn

      Just make it mandatory that all food be healthy! Why do I have to be the one thinking all of this up?!?

      #Beliveinscience

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh noes! We lost our megapixels and lossless compression!

      • Not Adahn

        Nobody needs more than 640×480 resolution.

  61. The Late P Brooks

    Act of God

    But a mysterious gas leak that occurred Tuesday on the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline that runs from Russia to Europe is raising concern about how the Kremlin will lash out as it falters in Ukraine.

    Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, called the gas leak “sabotage”.

    “Paramount to now investigate the incidents, get full clarity on events and why,” she tweeted. “Any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response.”

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking during a press conference earlier on Tuesday, said the U.S. had not yet confirmed initial reports of an attack or sabotage.

    “Now, my understanding is the leaks will not have a significant impact on Europe’s energy resilience, and what’s critical is that we are working day in, day out both on a short-term basis and a long-term basis to address energy security for Europe and, for that matter, around the world,” he said.

    Just a bizarre coincidence. A fluke of engineering.Meanwhile, we stand ready to divert gas from American customers.

  62. Count Potato

    “BREAKING: Clinic featured at child trans summit sends legal demand to Post Millennial to censor our reporting

    Children’s Minnesota demanded that the article be deleted. They did not want the video of the panel where clinicians discussed the medical and therapeutic gender transition of young children to be exposed to the public.

    The Post Millennial wrote about the World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference in Montreal, Quebec, in September. We wrote about the panels at that conference, and what clinicians and activists were saying on those panels, including one on “Navigating The Changing Landscape With Littles And Their Families: Exploring The Role Of Mental Health Across Different Practice Settings With Transgender And Gender Diverse Pre-Adolescent Children.”

    As a result, The Post Millennial received a legal demand from Children’s Minnesota, which publically available information states is the seventh largest pediatric health system in the United States, and advertises as “The Kid Experts.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-clinic-featured-at-child-trans-summit-sends-legal-demand-to-post-millennial-to-censor-our-reporting

    • Count Potato

      “Trans health providers for ‘littles’ explain why kids should be transitioned without mental health treatment

      “The pathology is not being trans; the pathology is the transphobia that the kids and their families are winding through the world with,” said Kerry McDonald, a therapist with a private practice in California. “So we’re there as a mental health support if that causes really normal stress.”

      A consultation team of Minnesota mental health professionals that treat pre-pubescent children who have been led to believe they are transgender got together on the first full day of sessions at the 2022 WPATH conference, to discuss their experiences helping these children on their “gender journey.” Dr. Rachel Levine was the keynote speaker at the conference.

      In a session called “Navigating The Changing Landscape With Littles And Their Families: Exploring The Role Of Mental Health Across Different Practice Settings With Transgender And Gender Diverse Pre-Adolescent Children,” they discussed the various therapeutic approaches to dealing with these children, whom they refer to as “the littles”. These “littles” are often as young as three years old. Many of them, they said, are perfectly fine and don’t need mental health treatment before being socially and medically transitioned.”

      https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-trans-health-providers-for-littles-explain-why-kids-should-be-transitioned-without-mental-health-treatment

      That they are calling children “littles” is creep af.

      • MikeS

        I am usually hesitant to use the “evil” label on people, but these evil monsters deserve it.

      • R C Dean

        The pathology is not being trans

        Yes, it is. And by their own terms, too. If its not a pathology, why does it need treatment?

      • Mojeaux

        The more I am exposed to “trans,” the more I believe that for the vast majority of girls, it’s a desire to remain hidden and/or their conditioning that liking “boy stuff” actually means they’re a boy. I’m coming to believe that for a vast majority of men, it’s autogynephilia.

    • Rebel Scum

      They did not want the video of the panel where clinicians discussed the medical and therapeutic gender transition of young children to be exposed to the public.

      I can’t imagine why…

  63. Ozymandias

    Re: US blowing up the pipelines. (I posted this in a dead thread and wanted to bring it forward just to cause trouble).

    In any other context, if I threatened to do “X” to you if you do “A,” when you do “A” and then “X” happens?
    We might not immediately conclude you did “X”, but you sure as shit would be among any sane, reasonable investigator’s prime suspect. And we’d be asking for alibis, checking your phone records, etc.
    ONLY in politics does the happening of “A” immediately produce media explanations about why it MUST BE someone other than the politician MFer who explicitly threatened to do it.

    • Tundra

      I’m not sure we did it. I am sure we were part of it.

      • Tundra

        And further I’m sure it is just coincidence that Hungarian voters were taking a fresh look at sanctions. And that the Italian bird was elected. And the mid terms are looming.

      • Ozymandias

        The BALTOPS-22 6th Fleet exercise in June, right down the street from where it happened, could never have been a cover story to allow SEALs to use an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to test some new toys, put everything in place to make boom-boom if it became necessary.
        COMPLETE CO-INKY-DINK.

        I still don’t get the credulity and sensibility that people project onto Fascists who have (a) rigged elections, (b) faked a pandemic, (c) locked people in their homes, (d) targeted and collapsed small businesses, (e) sent infected elderly people back into homes that undoubtedly killed thousands more, (f) faked a FISA warrant, (g) tried to overthrow an elected President, etc, etc.
        They would NEVER RISK DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!1!1!

        Eventually, the Normies will come to see. It’ll be too late, if it already isn’t.

      • Grummun

        I had the same thought about BALTOPS, but I don’t know, technologically, how realistic it is that we could place charges in deep water, leave them there for months and then reliably remote detonate them.

    • Urthona

      How it would be legal for the US to blow up the pipeline? No war was declared.

      • Rebel Scum

        How quaint.

      • Urthona

        😉

      • Urthona

        I’m thinking this could be used for Biden’s third or fourth impeachment.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      ONLY in politics does the happening of “A” immediately produce media explanations about why it MUST BE someone other than the politician MFer who explicitly threatened to do it.

      This is bizarre to me too. Biden explicitly said we would do it. Seems like you have to go through mental contortions to put the cause elsewhere.

      • Ozymandias

        It’s like, I threaten to kill my neighbor’s dog if my petunias get dug up again. Petunias get dug up, dog is dead the next day.
        “IT COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE ME!1!!1!”
        (Act insulted, indignant, and smugly condescending at anyone who could possibly suggest I might be a likely cause.)

  64. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Monday press release: “our head honcho has the China flu!”

    Tuesday press release: “our head honcho had a face-to-face with Foreign Minister so-and-so!”

    These people are bad and they think we’re stupid.

    • Sensei

      These people are bad and they think we’re stupid.

      Yes and yes.

  65. mikey

    Business should start booming in Limeyland.
    Just got an email from a Brit car parts place. A brand new Healey alyoumineeum cylinder head is almost $600 less (in USD) than is was this day last year. Over 20% less.
    On the other hand, yesterday day I paid $15 for a five-pound bag of flour.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Can you eat cylinder heads?

  66. Ozymandias

    And for my next shitposting…!

    On breast feeding and mRNA

    “I was breastfeeding my son at the time. I pumped within an hour of receiving the shot. My 5 month old son nursed the night following the shot and later ate the pumped milk that I acquired the same day of the shot. 11 days later he was found unresponsive during his nap at daycare. It is not clear how long he was unresponsive for until found by babysitter. He was immediately rushed to the hospital and doctors were able to get his heart beating again with excessive effort. Organ damage was extensive and he had no brain function, he did not recover. He passed away 13 days after I received the shot”. The VAERS report says: “Died? No Recovered? No”.

    “Just think of how bad it would have been if I hadn’t gotten the shot…”
    I’m sure it’s NOTHING to do with the SAFE and EFFECTIVE mRNA shots that have always showed problems in animal studies in the past and is why they could never get green-lighted to conduct human trials.

    Ozy’s Theorem on Learning: There’s only one way to learn – the hard way.

  67. The Late P Brooks

    The chocolate ration has been increased


    Consumer confidence rose for a second straight month in September, as moderating gas prices and the hope that inflationary pressures might be easing helped lift the nation’s collective mood.

    The Conference Board reported on Tuesday that its baseline index rose to 108 from a revised 103.6 in August, the highest it has been since April.

    The monthly survey found that Americans are feeling less pessimistic in both their assessment of current conditions and their outlook for the future. The Present Situation Index portion of the survey rose from 145.3 to 149.6. The Expectations Index, which is based on the short-term economic outlook, rose from 75.8 to 80.3.

    The reading comes as welcome news, since the consumer outlook lately has been buffeted by the growing fear of an economic downturn. Last Thursday, the Conference Board said its Leading Economic Index notched its sixth consecutive drop, which the organization’s senior director of economics said is “potentially signaling a recession.” The index provides visibility into a range of economic activity, ranging from jobs to manufacturing to markets.

    Praise Biden. His omniscient stewardship of the nation will save us.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Last Thursday, the Conference Board said its Leading Economic Index notched its sixth consecutive drop, which the organization’s senior director of economics said is “potentially signaling a recession.”

      Fuck these lackeys. We are in a recession and have been for months.

  68. Rebel Scum

    Our cultural revolution continues apace.

    “We want to make this a national monument to the ‘Invisible Founders,’” said the Rev. Larry Walker, a trustee at Montpelier, the home of James Madison, father of the Constitution, in announcing plans to build a national slavery monument right on the grounds of Madison’s home. The Montpelier board is planning on a massive scale: “Our memorialization project is not going to be limited to a bench and a plaque,” Walker declared, as the board compared the projected monument to the Lincoln Memorial. If this thing is built, future visitors to Montpelier will come away with one overwhelming message: James Madison was an evil man who enslaved other human beings.

    Board chairman James French showed the photo of the Lincoln Memorial in order “to illustrate…our desire to create a national monument for the legacy of those who were enslaved.” Montpelier CEO Elizabeth Chew said that the plan for a national slavery monument was one of “big future projects” planned for Montpelier. The board announced its big monument plans on Sept. 17 at a little-noticed panel session (the video of the session has all of 91 views as of this writing), “Equal Power-Sharing at Montpelier,” at the mansion’s David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center. The New York Post has noted that David M. Rubenstein, who got the visitor center named after himself by donating millions to Montpelier, is “on the boards of the globalist World Economic Forum, China’s Tsinghua University, and the Council on Foreign Relations, among others.” What a surprise!

    • Rebel Scum

      Dear @ZelenskyyUa, you know that you can count on our loyal support for the cause of freedom of Ukrainian people. Stay strong and keep your faith steadfast!

      She was to liberate Ukrainians from both the Russian and Ukrainian government?

  69. The Late P Brooks

    “Looking ahead, the improvement in confidence may bode well for consumer spending in the final months of 2022, but inflation and interest rate hikes remain strong headwinds to growth in the short term,” Lynn Franco, senior director of economic indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

    ——-

    “We’ve been surprised with just how correlated consumer confidence has been with energy costs and fuel costs,” said Keith Buchanan, portfolio manager at Globalt Investments. “It makes people feel better when the weekly stop at the gas pump costs 30% less than it did three months ago.”

    Although the average national price of a gallon of gas recently reversed course, breaking a 99-day streak of falling prices, it remains well below June’s record high of $5.02.

    It’s like Biden gave you a raise!

    • whiz

      I’m not sure why Biden is jaw-boning gas stations (well, I am, but it doesn’t make sense). Crude prices are down 33% from their peak, gas 26%. It seems that gas is following crude.

  70. Mustang

    Re: the pipeline.

    Let’s see, who would do this? This is some Bond villain stuff. Everyone pointing fingers at everyone else, potentially escalating to a devastating conflict while simultaneously pushing a green agenda. And who looks and acts like an actual Bond villain?

    Klaus mutha fuckin’ Schwab.

    I mean, the dude’s got the wardrobe. I guarantee you he was standing at the helm of some 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-looking submarine, gripping the railing of the bridge, shrieking incoherently about his new world order while he torpedos the pipelines.

    Cause untold suffering and loss of life due to cold and conflict? Check.
    Stop pumping Gaia-killing fossil fuels? Check.

    No doubt his XO, Greta Thunberg, was standing next to him screeching.

    Look, it makes as much sense as anything else.

    • Sean

      Klaus mutha fuckin’ Schwab.

      I mean, the dude’s got the wardrobe. I guarantee you he was standing at the helm of some 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-looking submarine, gripping the railing of the bridge, shrieking incoherently about his new world order while he torpedos the pipelines.

      L O L

    • Plinker762

      Could have been Xi, he has been out of sight for a while.

      • Mustang

        The whole coup thing was really just a distraction.

  71. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Biden: “If Russia invades, there will no longer be a Nordstream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

    I mean… it seems reasonable enough to go with Biden’s own statement on this unless if further evidence points in a different direction. We have a direction admission right here. Anything else is baseless conjecture.

    The theory about Russia doing it to themselves is a bit bizarre. I’m not sure how else to take Biden’s statement that we would destroy the pipeline other than meaning we would destroy the pipeline. Either directly or through a proxy.

    • Tundra

      See my link above. Russia destroys their own pipeline but leaves the Norwegian one intact?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        That’s a good point too.

    • The Hyperbole

      They invaded in Early Feb. We waited 8 months to make good on the threat?

      • Grummun

        We waited until Vlad started talking about using battlefield nukes.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The pace of the war significantly changed last week. It will be much more intense and Russia is now committed for the long-haul. The start of this new phase is exactly when I’d expect the US to do it. The State Dept’s goal is to topple Russia, not defend Ukraine.

  72. PieInTheSky

    A billionaire bought one of America’s biggest newspapers. Then he put his 28-year old daughter with deep ties to socialist organizations in charge

    You may have seen the articles, but it’s actually worse than reported…

    And the consequences could affect every resident of LA

    https://mobile.twitter.com/mattbilinsky/status/1574571045029224448

    1. Meh other things are worse for the residents

    2. Good way of getting wokie points for daddy i assume

    • Urthona

      Luckily for us, no one actually reads newspapers.

  73. Drake

    This interview doesn’t go well.

    Climate change activist Izzy Cook tells everyone not to travel to places like Fiji by plane to save the planet and then is asked where she flew last… she flew to Fiji

    • Urthona

      She was clearly joking. You can’t fly some place that’s underwater because of global warming.

  74. Mustang

    I am not saying the vaccine breast milk study is wrong, but it was done with about a dozen participants. I’d say it’s a start but I wouldn’t make any decisions based on it. It’d be nice to know when they were no longer able to detect traces of the vaccine as well.

    • Urthona

      Yeah. I definitely need to sample more breasts here.

      • Mustang

        You and Q could milk it for millions in research grants.

      • Tundra

        Better nip this in the bud.

      • Urthona

        I think I could nurse this for a long time.

    • Ozymandias

      So far, I’ve seen studies that show the synthetic mRNA remains in the body for as long as 8.5 months post shot (because that was the longest study to look at it so far).
      Normally, natural mRNA is used up by the body and then gone in short order. It is a virtual certainty that the clotting related problems are because the amount of payload in the shots has to be high enough to induce an effect, but for whatever reason, the synthetic mRNA with the spike protein encoding is hanging around in recipients for months and months afterwards.
      This is completely separate from whatever harms there may be from the LNP components that encase the synthetic mRNA payload.
      Jes’ keep on jabbin’ though!

  75. The Late P Brooks

    If its not a pathology, why does it need treatment?

    Your nitpicking and sophistry are not helpful.

  76. Enough About Palin

    “COVID Vaccines Detected In 45% Of Breast Milk”

    Now there’s a vaccine delivery system that I could firmly get behind (IYKWIMAITYD).

  77. Enough About Palin

    “Biden doesn’t think. He is handled. ”

    You can bet your grandmother’s ass that even before the hurricane hit Cuba, the articles about DeSantis having failed Floridians had already been written.

    I still don’t vote, btw.

    • Enough About Palin

      Wrong quoted story obviously.

  78. whiz

    Test

  79. whiz

    Test 2

  80. whiz

    Test 3

  81. whiz

    Test 4