366 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    Durham witness: FBI offered Steele $1M for proof of dossier claims, but he had none

    They keep releasing the corrupt criminality of the US bureaucratic machine in dribs and drabs to make sure nobody realizes how broken things are. The system is killing us.

    • Lackadaisical

      Right?

      When are all the FBI and CIA goons’ trials beginning?

      Oh that’s right, never gonna happen.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That’s a phenomenal admission.

      They’re actively shopping for dirt.

  2. AlexinCT

    Biden’s railway deal to avert strike spiked by union

    I bet like was done to the Saudis, the union was called names and fucked over, and now has decided to get their revenge on the Obama team really running the country. Biden was too busy doing his Beavis “I need TP for my bunghole”, Cornholio routine to provide a comment.

  3. AlexinCT

    Boaters Rescued Amid Struggle With Sharks Off Louisiana Coast

    Which version of Sharknado was this?

    • Rat on a train

      Cajun?

      • AlexinCT

        So the sharks were all circling this idiot trying to cover em with hot sauce before they gobbled him up?

  4. UnCivilServant

    I like not this news, bring me different news.

    • slumbrew

      Just what you see, pal.

    • Atanarjuat

      It’s an illuminating bunch of information, that’s for sure.

  5. Brochettaward

    I vow there will be a First in every pocket when I’m done. People will know the power of a First.

    • AlexinCT

      Agreed.

    • MikeS

      I got First in pocket
      I got bottle, I’m gonna use it
      Intention, I feel inventive
      Gonna make Bro, make Bro, make Bro respect

  6. Pat

    Angela Lansbury dies aged 96

    Has foul play been ruled out?

    • AlexinCT

      The butler did it!

    • UnCivilServant

      In unrelated news, the murder rate in Cabot Cove has dropped to historic lows.

    • Jerms

      Angela Lansbury trivia- Her daughter had sex with Charles Manson.

  7. AlexinCT

    Income Inequality Far Worse In Dem-Run States, New Census Data Shows

    Today’s democratic party is the party of the elite. The rich, college indoctrinated, mostly white, suburban women- single or married to cucks that they control – that are easy to manipulate through appeals to emotion. Cause the democrat political class and its propaganda and bureaucratic government cabals, is nothing but a conglomerate of crime syndicates that make the old mob look like a church choir.

    They use race, gender, and mental disorders to convince the low information types to believe all sorts of blatantly idiotic shit. Stupidity like how real violence happening in communities they have left without law & order of any kind, doesn’t matter, while words are violence that require the perp to be destroyed so they can never again earn a decent living in a functioning society. The machine tells you that in order to save Gaia they must destroy the economy – and especially the parts of it that provide the economic mobility that will allow the hard workers to move up that ladder – because their plans require the middle class, especially the blue collar middle class, to be done away with. Biology is ignored or downright attacked in a way that requires people to pretend insanity is the new norm. Mental disorders are treated as heroic and encouraged. And their tactics drive the world towards a system where nobody can live without the blessing of the people in power and obedience to whatever idiocy they feel is in vogue.

    • Lackadaisical

      That news doesn’t surprise me at all.

      Sam the rules and regs prevent people from rising up, and give not opportunities for graft and corruption. More levers of power to use to stay rich.

      • AlexinCT

        The biggest fear amongst todays elite is that their ill gotten gains are not protected by a hereditary system, a requirement considering their track record of the last 5 decades. To make things worse, their offspring, in general, tend to be absolute morons, even dumber and more idiotic than the current crop of elite douchebags, and these elites clearly see their offspring will end up pissing it all away for sure. So their response is to change the rules to benefit their mongrels. That’s why they want to end meritocracies (this way they never have to fear accountability), to drag the public schools system’s already drastically subpar performance even lower (their kids go to private schools), and to rig any other institution that would pose a potential threat to their hold on power.

      • Lackadaisical

        Preach it.

      • DrOtto

        +1 Hunter Biden

      • waffles

        When you put it that way, there’s at least a certain evil rationality to it.

  8. UnCivilServant

    Today is one of those days where all I want to do is crawl under my desk and hide.

    • AlexinCT

      Sorry to hear that UCS. Put on the gloves and get er done.

      Push through. Fantasize of things that make you happy.

      Before you know it tomorrow will be here and you will get another chance to do it all over.

      • UnCivilServant

        So what you’re saying is I should quit and go on welfare.

      • AlexinCT

        If that’s gonna make you happier….

        Maybe your call in life is to be homeless. Do drugs, be sexually assaulted, and go around smelling like piss and shit.

        I don’t know about you, but I prefer to deal with the daily shit rather than become a ward of the state or a ward of a global mental asylum.

      • UnCivilServant

        Of course it’s not going to make me happy.

        I want to stop feeling trapped, and being on any sort of hand out wold make that feeling worse.

      • AlexinCT

        You need something to distract you from your daily dreck. Maybe you should start going on late night Subway rides to assault idiots also on the trains for shits and giggles?

      • UnCivilServant

        The only Subways around here sell disappointing sanwiches.

      • AlexinCT

        I can’t think of a better reason to put an ass whooping on people there than the crappy sammiches one you made, man…

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘right wing bigot excuses spousal abuse’

        😛

    • Rat on a train

      VIP visit?

      • UnCivilServant

        No. Tired, miserable, and stressed.

        No ‘VIP’s visit here.

      • Spartacus

        Sorry. I know the feeling and it sucks.
        Any chance of getting a little time off?

      • UnCivilServant

        I just had most of September off.

      • Lackadaisical

        Sounds like you need a change of pace…

      • R.J.

        Stress feeds depression and create a feedback loop like transistor death. I have gone through this. I had to make life changes around the work that improved my overall situation. Ron’s stoic posts are excellent. What I would tell you to do first, and foremost, is do not downplay any advice. You are deliberately shortchanging yourself to avoid change, I see it i. Your posts.
        Maybe you can’t change work right now. Look at the things within your power to change now.

      • Fourscore

        I would encourage a divorce, you need to get married and quickly divorced. It does wonders for the body and mind.

      • R.J.

        That is certainly something within his control.

      • slumbrew

        As a shortcut, he could just make a bonfire out of at least half of his assets.

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

        I see you have met my brother.

    • Atanarjuat

      I would leave a job like this immediately and never look back.

      • UnCivilServant

        I suck at finding work. More specifically, I suck at selling, either my skills or my work. You can hear the uncertainty in my voice when there’s even an iota of a doubt, and it makes me sound like I don’t know what I’m talking about. Add in the fact that I don’t like talking to people that I don’t know and the interview is always a disaster.

      • Atanarjuat

        If you lost your job and had to interview or starve, you’d find a way. Do a few interviews and you’ll get the hang of it. Do something sociable beforehand.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yes!

        Stay going on interviews now, even if you don’t plan to take the job. Also, I am similar, my wife is a great cheerleader. You need to do some positive self talk and get someone in your corner. This will help you with your confidence. Remember, everyone else is out there faking it, you don’t even have to, so you should be presenting accordingly.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t get callbacks. No callbacks, no interviews. Closest I came was the “sorry, but we’ve filled the position” letter.

      • Lackadaisical

        Huh. Maybe some resume writing tips would help? Seriously Also, not sure how many places you’re applying to. I’ve often had very long ways for responses, no responses, etc. It’s a numbers game just like dating girls, you should expect a certain amount of rejection without letting that put you off your game. That’s easy to say, but harder to do, which is why I seriously suggest finding a cheerleader, especially if you’re not already feeling your best.

      • Sensei

        Also adding to what Lackadaisical said – how is your resume constructed?

        I can tell you if I was looking at resumes and saw something chronological instead of more functional from a person coming from the public sector I’d have little interest.

        My assumption is that your average public sector employee punches a clock and phones it in compared to one from the private sector. I realize this isn’t true, but that’s my first thought.

        OTH, if it is more functional and you tell me the issues you deal with and the solutions you provide and provided I’d be much more interested and less concerned with where you worked.

      • UnCivilServant

        I honestly despise the ‘Functional’ resume layout because it dissociates duties from jobs and I can’t assess what they actually did at X, Y, or Z job. When I see a Functional Resume I assume they’re hiding lack of experience by using years where they had less technical responsibility to pad the optics, so to speak. I literally skip the dissociated skills list and look at the job duties.

      • Sensei

        There are hybrid forms.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Are you tied to staying a NY government job? If not, I bet you could find a job out of state with a nice piece of land for your blacksmith shop and maybe even setting up a private range.

      • UnCivilServant

        Logically, I know it’s possible, but I’m also in a (non-clinically) depessive state where I’m liable to assert that I have no skills that anyone is going to pay me for.

        Are there any job search sites that are actually trustworthy and worthwhile? Last time I had to find work, they were all pretty sleazy and garbage.

      • rhywun

        Everyone seems to use Indeed now. Even though I got my current position by word-of-mouth, I probably would have found something there. Didn’t seem sleazy to me.

      • robodruid

        K:
        In all seriousness, you would probably qualify for several federal positions.
        First step setup a resume at USAJOBS.gov.

        Email me robodruid100 at gmail
        if you need some walking through

      • UnCivilServant

        There is apparently an IT Specialist opening at a location listed as “Romania, Romania”

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I’m also in a (non-clinically) depessive state

        Take some magnesium glycinate (and glycine if you want to get wild) before bed. You’ll sleep better and start feeling better overall.

        If I’m wrong, you’re out $20.

      • Lackadaisical

        Get a lot if sun and/or take vitamin d too

      • AlexinCT

        👌👌👌

        Go for the vitamin D and sun… Also salt. People become depressed if they have too little of either.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Are there any job search sites that are actually trustworthy and worthwhile?

        LinkedIn worked well for me when I was searching. All of my hires came from postings on LinkedIn as well.

        Just ignore the social aspect of LinkedIn and only focus on the jobs component. It’s worth springing for the premium membership while actively searching. There’s garbage recruiters and such on LinkedIn, but a lot of legitimate postings.

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

        The best job site for you is here. Start by asking all of the glibs “are you hiring?”

        I bet more will show than you realize

      • UnCivilServant

        I haven’t written code since college.

        I’ve been a sysadmin, application admin (mostly peoplesoft), and IT manager.

      • slumbrew

        The best lack all conviction, while the worst
        Are full of passionate intensity

        (I’m with you in the former group)

  9. Rat on a train

    Angela Lansbury dies aged 96
    An original gaslighter is gone.

    • MikeS

      👍🏻

  10. Pat

    Mexico sues Arizona gun retailers, alleging ‘arms trafficking’

    Was Eric Holder available for comment?

  11. AlexinCT

    California’s Drought Withers Tomatoes, Pushing Grocery Prices Higher

    They have a plan to replace fruits & vegetables with crickets and Soma?

  12. hayeksplosives

    Fuck the CDC. They are in full panic mode now that various nonpartisan agencies and foreign governments are figuring out that the mRNA vaccines are causing otherwise healthy, active young folks to drop like flies.

    I’d like to believe justice will be fine, but there are waaaay too many of our rich elites involved to let that ever happen.

    Come on, journalists; this is the kind of story your predecessors were born for!!!

    • UnCivilServant

      Come on, journalists; this is the kind of story your predecessors were born for!!!

      That was them, we were born to hobnob at cocktail parties.

      /Journalists.

    • AlexinCT

      The best thing that came out of this Kung Flu debacle is that so many people have gotten a chance to see how “science” is only as good as the people involved’s willingness to follow the scientific process instead of selling out to political agendas. The expert class is politically compromised. Nothing they say should be taken as anything but a pile of lies intended to advance some evil political agenda until you have been able to independently verify the claims.

      • Spartacus

        You can be a scientist or you can be an activist. You cannot be both.
        Maybe someday I’ll expound on my reasons for this and what I see as evidence all around for the proposition.
        Right now I need to get to work.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think that would be self explanatory, but given the world we live in now, clearly some people need to hear it. Unfortunately a lot of them are getting rich and running universities producing these counter productive individuals.

      • Fourscore

        If something is to good to be true…

      • Homple

        “You can be a scientist or you can be an activist. You cannot be both.”
        Well, there was Semmelweis. He was sort of both.

      • Spartacus

        Interesting point.
        There are a lot of people out there now who believe themselves to be both. The vast majority of them are wrong.
        Moreover, in this domain, public perception counts for a lot, and most of the public are not going along with this “Now I’m a scientist, Now I’m an activist, now I’m a scientist…” schtick. Even if those people are capable of discarding and re-acquiring objectivity at will (again, most think they can but they are wrong), the public are going to consistently regard a person as one or the other, and the activist persona is easier to understand. This, in a nutshell, is the source of the diminished confidence in scientific experts that our betters are constantly wringing their hands about.

    • slumbrew

      Journalism went from being a sort of blue collar job to being filled with the children of the wealthy (comparatively speaking).

      Confort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable only applies selectively now.

    • Drake

      The Euros are figuring it out too. They went even harder for covid lock-downs and mandates but now are asking the questions that should have been asked 2 years ago.

      • WTF

        And nothing will happen.

      • Raven Nation

        I can see the Dems spinning this as “well, this all came out of Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. Yet another impeachable offense.”

      • Drake

        I would concede the point and agree in this case.

      • DrOtto

        They haven’t done it with inflation (planted with Trumps seeds anyway, the ongoing spending certainly didn’t course correct. I don’t know that Trump wouldn’t have continued down that path), I don’t know why you think they’d be smart enough to do it with Clot Shot (sophomoric, I know).

      • whiz

        In a sane world, they wouldn’t be able to say Trump started the inflation spiral without admitting they have made it much worse. (I know, we’re not in a sane world.)

  13. AlexinCT

    So after 2 decades of the left questioning every election they didn’t win only to follow it up with the last 2 years of anyone that dared question the most questionable election in our history being punished and accused of being a terrorist and a threat to the republic, the people that enforced this criminality – to save our democracy, even though we are a republic specifically because democracies suck – now seem to ready the battle space to call their losses out as cheating

    • rhywun

      “election deniers”

      I really loathe the language of the left.

      • AlexinCT

        Without their language people would quickly catch on to the fact they are about some real evil and destructive shit.

      • Pat

        It’s such a ridiculously stupid attempt to associate people you don’t like with Holocaust denial. As if anyone denies that an election took place in 2020.

      • Spartacus

        Maybe the idea is to associate them with climate change deniers. Most of the Democrat core are too young for the Holocaust to come straight to mind.

      • Pat

        Even the “climate denier” label was originally conceived around the same idea, although you’re probably right that at this point that’s where most of the politically connected youths’ minds would go.

      • DrOtto

        It’s like “speed kills”, which was originally an anti-drug rant started in the 60’s and then rebranded after the fuel crisis in the 70’s that originally gave us 55mph speed limits that then stuck around for 20 fucking years under the guise that “speed kills”.

      • Nephilium

        And it’s not like the left has handled losing in previous elections with grace and dignity.

      • WTF

        Because they’ve never lost, they’ve been cheated out of their rightful positions of power.

      • DrOtto

        They were perfectly well behaved and completely rational 2016-2020 and good sports, to boot. Whatever in the world are you talking about?

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

      Let them call this shit into question, and use that to open the door for election integrity. Call them on every little bit of bullshit that they have been saying, and use it. Oh, you think there was election cheating? Great, lets audit the last few, see what we see. No? Then you are full of shit, but since you mentioned it, thought it was soooooo important, lets audit everything, restore some confidence in the shebang.

      • Lackadaisical

        INSERREKKKTION!!!

  14. slumbrew

    Semi-serious question:

    Why is income inequality bad?

    • Rat on a train

      Equal pay for equal work doing whatever I want.

    • Nephilium

      Because RICH PEOPLE and/or envy.

      That’s about all I can figure out.

    • AlexinCT

      because the idiots have been indoctrinated to believe any system that doesn’t have all people crossing the finish line at the same time and with the same performance is not fair. This is basically the people that feel jealousy towards those that made different choices than they did and were rewarded for those choices. Especially the ones that chose to delay gratification in order to maximize the return. The people that live for instant gratification can not stand those that don’t have a better outcome.

      • Rat on a train

        How come someone with 30 years experience in a skilled field is paid more than me working a cash register with a masters in gender-fluid poetry?

      • UnCivilServant

        About that.

        We’ve put in more self-checkouts and determined that your services will no longer be required.

    • Pat

      Semi-serious answer: peasant uprisings. Regardless of whether or not the ultra wealthy earned their money legitimately, the perception on the part of the lower classes that they are being deprived while the ultra wealthy prosper can cause the kind of resentment that results in violence. Placating the plebs may be cheaper and less socially disruptive.

      • Pine_Tree

        This. Theft and envy are real and pervasive (see 8th and 10th Commandments), and aren’t going away regardless, ever, but perceptions of dramatically large differences make them very, very exploitable by the proggie elites.

        Basically it makes for a more-easily stirred-up mob, which isn’t good for anybody.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I figured that one out decades ago. Even when I was nominally a “Democrat”, it was obvious to me that cash handouts were largely to keep those types from getting too uppity. Somehow I saw that as a “good” thing back then.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’ve heard this often from liberals in new York.

        ‘if we don’t pay them off, they’ll go wild and steal/destroye everything’
        I always thought that was a pretty uncharitable view to take of the lower classes.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane” – Rudyard Kipling

      • slumbrew

        Thank you – that’s probably the most accurate, realpolitik answer. But that wouldn’t be what the people banging on about income inequality would say, I’m sure.

        I suppose I could enact my own labor and go see what their steel-man argument is.

      • Brawndo

        Maybe not their best argument, but one that many believe is that wealth is a fixed value. The pie doesn’t grow or shrink, it’s just cut up into unequal slices.

      • slumbrew

        If that’s the best they’ve got…

        Some quick searching, I get this (presumably bunch of commies): https://www.faireconomy.org/why_is_income_inequality_bad

        People in more unequal societies live shorter lives. The United States is number 50 out of 222 in the world in terms of life expectancy.

        Children in more unequal societies do worse in school. Out of 34 OECD countries, we are 14th in reading skills, 17th in science, and 25th in math.

        More people are imprisoned in an unequal society. We have the highest incarceration rates in the world as well as the most people in prisons.

        People in more unequal societies are more likely to experience mental illness. In 2003, 17-29% of Americans suffered with mental illness.

        More children die in infancy in unequal societies. We are number 176 of all 222 countries.

        Obesity is more common is unequal societies. Obesity rates in the United States are the highest of all OECD countries.

        Teenage mothers are more common in unequal societies. Teenage pregnancy rates in the United States are the highest of all fully-industrialized nations.

        A quick perusal of the links on each of those points doesn’t show any mention of “income inequality”. It’s a big grab-bag of correlation without causation. In fact, I think you could flip those all around and say “this is what causes income inequality”.

        These are not serious arguments.

        *fun fact from their ‘About’ page – “Founded in 1994 as Share the Wealth…”. That name was a little too on-the-nose, I suspect.

        ** Brave, why are you gas-lighting me and telling me that ‘their’ is a typo?

      • The Last American Hero

        What a joke. We have a greater percentage of non-native language speakers in this country, concentrated in the younger cohorts.

        Our reading skills will never, and should never, rival Japan or Finland.

        We drive more, which drives up our fatality rate. We also have some very violent cities. None of that has bat shit to do with income inequality but does drop our numbers a bit.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I think they would argue that the violent cities are a result of inequality.

      • slumbrew

        I think they would argue that the violent cities all bad things are a result of inequality.

        FIFY

      • straffinrun

        Regression to the mean takes care of it, albeit on a multigenerational timeline. Problem is when the dipshit children of elites use government force to stay at the top in spite of their mental inabilities.

      • Sensei

        +1 Charles III

    • rhywun

      It isn’t.

      But measuring it gives a nice indication of how leftist policies screw over people on the lower rungs. They don’t want to talk about that, of course, so instead they twist it into the only message they have – some hogwash about “racism”.

    • EvilSheldon

      It’s not. Income inequality is an unalloyed good.

      • Drake

        As long as there is income mobility. Otherwise it’s a time-bomb.

      • Nephilium
      • Lackadaisical

        I wouldn’t go that far. It is virtuous only in so far as it is reflective of meritocracy and the rule of law. There nothing ‘good’ about the income inquiry between a dictator and his subjects.

    • Pine_Tree

      Adding some to be all literal, even though it’s only a semi-serious question.

      It’s plainly not bad. It’s clearly GOOD. Income inequality objectively all by itself is one of the key pieces/drivers/signals that moves the world along in a way that (can) be great.

      My point (and Pat’s) about the mob, above, still stands, though. When things get out of whack regarding perceptions and demographics, you can get some very very bad impacts.

    • DrOtto

      Systemic racism?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The playing field these days is certainly tilted unfavorably to those with political connections. Rubes will yell capitalism, but as Dave Smith says the United States government is the biggest government in the history of the world.

      • R C Dean

        Rubes will yell capitalism

        And they wouldn’t be all wrong – Money and power will always find each other.

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

      In theory, it is the stagnation of certain groups vs. the increasing wealth of others. In reality it is just envy in most cases.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It’s not bad when it arises naturally. If it’s artificially created it’s a problem, and that seems to be increasingly the case.

  15. Atanarjuat

    The primary source of the Steele dossier was Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who’s now on trial as part of Durham’s investigation for allegedly lying to the FBI about his own sources for the information that he provided to Steele.

    Federal prosecutors allege that Danchenko, who has pleaded not guilty, fabricated and concealed his sources in conversations with the feds. The trial began in Alexandria, Va. on Tuesday.

    I find it hilarious that they found a fall guy for their Steele Dossier hijinks. “It wasn’t our honest law enforcement agency that deceived the American people, it was that Russian guy.”

    • AlexinCT

      What’s the over & under that Danchenko will be Epsteined?

    • Drake

      I could see her in a role like Ambassador to the UN or even Secretary of State. But keep her in her lane and well away from domestic policy.

    • rhywun

      It’s so transparently ridiculous.

      And yet it works. SMDH.

    • Atanarjuat

      Adding that “From the five- to 10-year timescale, it’s clear that the war in Ukraine will speed up our consumption of fossil energy,” but that in the longer term the war is “speeding up this green transition,”.

      Considering there was a popular protest in Germany to restart NordStream, I doubt that will prove to be the case.

      • UnCivilServant

        Translation “This war has given us an excuse to blow up infrastructure critical to a sane and comfortable future to force evil green solutions on the unwilling.”

      • Atanarjuat

        Yep. That, and the talking point that Germany will need to add extra solar panels in case the evil Rooskies blow up their pipeline in the future.

        Not sure if it was posted here, but apparently Gazprom found a NATO underwater explosive drone next to their pipeline in 2015, but it failed to detonate. Even more proof of Putin’s perfidy.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the global elites are going to get a rude awakening now that the pot of frogs is starting to simmer.

        Good.

        But I’m worried about their plans to quell any resistance. You know they have them.

      • Brawndo

        You know what else speeds up fossil fuel usage? When it gets dumped into the ocean because *someone* decides to blow up a pipeline

  16. Lackadaisical

    ‘hayeksplosives on October 12, 2022 at 6:51 am
    Can Tulsi be persuaded to run as a libertarian??

    She has expressed som kinda socialist domestic policies in the past, but I think the scales have fallen from her eyes.’

    I don’t buy her schtick, it’s too convenient of an about face. People like Crist, and Weld offer an important view into politicians’ minds. I don’t trust Tulsi just because she once said something correct about war when it turned out to be politically disadvantageous… Exactly how appealing her recent videos are to the right makes me even more suspicious. Spandex+shooting makes most right wing men’s minds turn to jelly.

    • Pat

      Libertarians are the cheapest date in the world for failed pols from the big two parties. Keeps some money flowing into the coffers between political consulting gigs.

      • Nephilium

        And of course, hire friends and relatives to cushy “campaign” jobs.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Hey, Andrew Yang has a party now!

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      ^ She’s a Marxist who hates you and wants you dead. Besides her physical appearance and rambling about not being involved in some foreign conflicts, I don’t understand why her name keeps popping up. Might as well support Pelosi or Warren. Although, I guess in fairness none of the three would be that different from the recent Big L Libertarian candidates.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Even her anti-war views are suspect. I think she shilled for drone usage a few months back.

    • Grumbletarian

      I’d be leery about voting for her, but she’d be a lock for Secretary of Defense in a Grumbletarian administration.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’d make her chief of my staff.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        What you did there…

    • Lackadaisical

      @Drake/grumble

      Assuming the above was about Tulsi, maybe, but couldn’t you find a MORE acceptable person overall who also has good views on foreign policy? I don’t feel the need to elevate potentially dangerous political enemies just because they agree with me on one issue. But I’m not straffinrun (nothing against him, I just know that’s his one issue thing).

      • Drake

        Maybe somebody is out there – other than Rand Paul I can’t think of a name.

      • slumbrew

        I like the cut of Massie’s jib, but don’t know all his positions.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Massie and Paul are the only two people in congress I like. Maybe someone else if I think hard enough.

        I don’t know what’s going on in Kentucky with Massie and Paul, but also McConnell and Andy Beshear.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Are there any domestic ramifications to the Sec Defense role besides foreign policy?

        I don’t know the process for how America’s law enforcement was turned into a paramilitary force by sending them excess military equipment, like BearCats, but I’m guessing the DOD was involved somehow. And it feels like the elites in DC are gearing up to turn the military itself against domestic enemies.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yes, also the military does have a domestic mission, e.g. usace which builds and maintains a lot of major waterway infrastructure, not to mention permitting in wetlands…

      • Lackadaisical

        Straffinrun for Secretary of defense. You can be the ambassador to the UN.

      • straffinrun

        As secretary of defense I won’t be falling for that Gulf of Tonkin in the tailpipe trick.

      • AlexinCT

        Nuke first ask questions later and lots of Feng-Feng action?

      • Lackadaisical

        Sakura, not Feng-Feng.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Massie

      • Drake

        Yes, but I hate the idea of removing him or Paul from Congress.

      • Grumbletarian

        I wouldn’t elevate Tulsi because I think she’s a dangerous enemy. I would elevate her because I agree with her positions on national defense and the appropriate use of military forces, and it would show a certain amount of willingness on my part to appoint members of the opposition party* to positions within my administration.

        (*She had to go and ruin that by leaving Team Blue, but whatevs.)

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I’d make her Secretary of State or Defense.

        Keep her away form domestic policy and turn her loose on the out of control foreign policy twats.

      • Lackadaisical

        ” it would show a certain amount of willingness on my part to appoint members of the opposition party* to positions within my administration.”

        I’m at the point where I don’t trust the other sides enough to do that. Biden’s rapacious attempts at putting his boot on our necks, combined with the cheerleading from every quarter of the left for those actions has really been a wakeup call to me.

      • Grumbletarian

        Certainly I have no interest in appointing Democrats to positions where their policies run contrary to my own, of course. I wouldn’t want Tulsi is a position where her economic ideas would be relevant, for example.

    • Tundra

      We aren’t voting our way out of this.

  17. Atanarjuat

    Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, said in a press conference in April 2021 that the agency had not detected a link between the vaccines and myocarditis. The basis for that statement remains unclear.

    “A small child with chocolate all over his face insists he didn’t eat the cookies. The basis for that statement remains unclear.”

    • Lackadaisical

      My phone wasn’t looking their website.

      Are they really not releasing the data? Seems a FOIA would force them to with no recourse on their end.

      • Gender Traitor

        “Request denied due to national job security concerns.”

    • The Last American Hero

      So you’re a cookie-monster denier?

  18. Rat on a train

    Judge gives go-ahead for Maryland to demolish old Nice-Middleton Bridge
    Maryland is replacing a bridge across the lower Potomac. The old bridge was a non-separated, two-lane crossing built in the 1940s. The new bridge is four lanes with a median. Bicycle groups want to use the old bridge for a trail (there are no trails leading up to the bridge) but Maryland doesn’t want to pay for the estimated $50 million over 30 years in maintenance for what would be a rarely used bridge. They offered to turn it over to local governments but they also don’t want to pay. The groups don’t have a way to pay for the bridge but want to force Maryland to keep it.

    • Lackadaisical

      That background is a little suspicious when they’re claiming in court they’re worried about scouring. To be clear scouring can occur regardless of another bridge being upstream.

      • UnCivilServant

        If I recall correctly, isn’t scour something the bridge piers cause to themselves by their impact on the current?

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s true. The disruption in current by the power increases velocity/ turbulence of the water adjacent to the pier. If that extends into the skull and the skull is of the right type it will cause the soil to be displaced around the pier. If enough still is eroded that can definitely ruin your foundations. Usually you design for some and also place some of a large enough size that scour is unlikely. There can be complex interactions between adjacent structures in the water, but I’m not a bridge guy honestly.

      • slumbrew

        Bridges are built on skulls? That is extremely metal. \m/

      • Lackadaisical

        Some are. /Pre20th century safety standards

      • Lackadaisical

        Incidentally, skulls would be pretty scour resistant.

      • Rat on a train

        Well, the trail groups are claiming Maryland hasn’t done proper environmental reviews for demolishing the old bridge.

      • Lackadaisical

        Bah.

    • Homple

      Bicycles. It’s always bicycles.

      • Rat on a train

        All those bicycles going down Crain Highway are stuck on the Maryland side or is it people commuting the ~50 miles to DC from Dahlgren?

      • Nephilium

        Fuck all Critical Mass riders.

        Fuck them with their own bike locks.

  19. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — Preliminary round sucked more than the CDC or my sense of humor. Main round was a little better. I’m with UCS on the day as a whole, honestly…. but go seize the fish, glibs.

    Daily Duotrigordle #224
    Guesses: X/37
    Time: 08:48.23
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 261
    7️⃣6️⃣
    5️⃣4️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 261
      7️⃣3️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 261
      6️⃣3️⃣
      7️⃣8️⃣

      Meh.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, meh.

      Daily Quordle 261
      8️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣7️⃣

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 261
      6️⃣3️⃣
      5️⃣4️⃣

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 261
      6️⃣3️⃣
      5️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 261
      8️⃣4️⃣
      7️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 261
      6️⃣4️⃣
      3️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • The Hyperbole

      Daily Duotrigordle #224
      Guesses: 37/37
      Time: 03:29.61
      Not too shabby.

      Daily Quordle 261
      7️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣4️⃣
      Meh.

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 261
      7️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grummun

      6 3
      4 5

    • AlexinCT

      The ideocracy will eat its own…

    • R.J.

      People clearly have nothing to do.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Hitting people who wear dresses, is fine now.

    • thrakkorzog

      Was listening to a local DJ talking about hanging with Aikman. They stopped off at a gas station to get some Cokes and when they got back to the car there were two pairs of panties tucked under the windshield wipers of the car. The DJ was wondering WTF. Aikman just said, “Yeah, you kinda get used to it.”

      I feel like Aikman will be fine.

  20. PieInTheSky

    Well i got scamed. swindled. Ripped off. Stupid 60 euro tasting menu. Could’ev gotten decent steak for 30 instead of beetroot mouse and sweet potato ice cream.

    • UnCivilServant

      Was that a mousse of beetroot, a mouse in beetroot sauce, or a beetroot carved to look like a mouse?

      • SDF-7

        Of our racing replies — yours is better. Nice job.

    • SDF-7

      I’m really, really hoping you typo’d mousse there or Europe is getting back to their “Eating anything that doesn’t try to eat us first” phase a bit early.

      • PieInTheSky

        Well obviously it was a typo i noticed as i pressed post but it was too late.

        There was some sobrasada in the shape of a pig head with the pork cheek dish

    • R.J.

      Uck. Mystery tasting menus are a mixed bag. My condolences to your stomach.

    • Nephilium

      Was it a mystery because the tasting menu wasn’t listed, or that it was in a language you couldn’t read? I have enough dislikes that I generally avoid mystery tastings. But I am looking forward to my pork themed beer tasting dinner next week (the brewery is calling it the Day of Pigs).

      First Course: Brochettes Of Melon
      Second Course: Pistachio Crusted Pork Belly
      Third Course: Beer Braised Pork Tenderloin
      Dessert Course: Fried Ice Cream

      With a beer to be paired with each course.

      • slumbrew

        That sounds excellent. I love pork, though my (((wife))) doesn’t like it so much (aside from bacon. Because “bacon”).

        I’ve had a couple pork chops in the freezer for way too long – she’s out of town tonight so I may try sous vide’ing them.

      • slumbrew

        Speaking of tasting menus, my wife sent me this high-roller item yesterday:

        https://www.gordonswine.com/event/hughdavies/

        me: “you _do_ remember that I’m not drinking this month, right?”

        (she had, in fact, forgotten; would have been a “probably not” at that price anyway)

      • Nephilium

        The girlfriend’s not a big pork fan either. I’ve managed to at least get her to try some (that she’s enjoyed). Especially since our freezer is filled with pork tenderloins that were picked up on sale.

      • Lackadaisical

        It’s difficult to give her the hog, but she enjoys it when you do?

      • PieInTheSky

        It was not a mystery just not worth the money imo. There was a gazpacho with a slice of tomato, some tuna, some braised pork cheek and some desert.

    • slumbrew

      Sorry, dude, it happens.

    • Fourscore

      I’m not going to try that.

    • slumbrew

      The contrast between the headshot and the live shot of this lady made me laugh:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ULjhCmLSWE&t=41s

      (nothing wrong with her, but that picture may just have been touched up a bit)

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      👌

    • UnCivilServant

      👍👌😎🐑🐑🐏🐑🐐

      • AlexinCT

        Wait, you saying that the goat will be fucking em some sheep and loving life for that?

    • MikeS

      Sending a thumbs-up can be seen as passive aggressive and even confrontational, according to Gen Z who claim they feel attacked whenever it is used.

      👍🏻

      • slumbrew

        Not to collectivize, but Gen Z can gargle my balls.

        (narrator: he did, in fact, collectivize)

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        who claim they feel attacked

        Said nobody who has ever been actually attacked.

      • Pope Jimbo

        One of the problem with the anti-bullying, anti-fighting shit that has taken over schools is that our kids don’t know what it is like to be in a real fight and the difference between words and fists.

        I know that I learned a lot about discretion and keeping my mouth shut after a few thumpings from older kids. The whiny brats today never learn that lesson.

      • slumbrew

        But words are weapons, sharper than knives.

      • Gender Traitor

        Sending a thumbs-up can be seen as passive aggressive and even confrontational, according to Gen Z who claim they feel attacked whenever it is used anyone speaks to them.

      • Homple

        So do our little precious ones get an uptwinkles emoji to replace the upthumb?

    • SDF-7

      Gen Z doesn’t like “thumbs up”… I think we can find another finger to direct their way.

      See also… “And I’m supposed to give a shit what a group of entitled brats think?”

      • AlexinCT

        Porlly cause they immediately assume the thumb will be going up her ass. maybe it should.

      • thrakkorzog

        Reminds me of the Dennis Miller joke about Muslims getting 72 virgins. “Who wants a bunch of virgins? I want a girl that’s not afraid to stick a thumb in my ass.”

      • Nephilium

        👌

    • rhywun

      What is this I can’t even.

      Sorry, Daily Mail, I’m not letting stupid Gen Z troll me.

    • Lackadaisical

      Glad I can do one thing in the fight against sissies. Take that dress off and enjoy life 👍

    • Grumbletarian

      Gen Z r the same ppl who txt ‘how r u?’ n shit like that 2 each other.

      • Sean

        Hmu

    • Raven Nation

      “I don’t know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me,’ one woman said.”

      We’ve trained a generation that thinks this is a coherent argument.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Gen Z can eat 💩

  21. Tundra

    CDC Won’t Release Review of Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation

    Lamp posts.

    And then there’s this.

    If we don’t get vaporized in a nuclear war, I truly believe these people will pay for this.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Dude, why do you want to hold our betters accountable?

    • Jerms

      You would think maybe that would be on the news or something.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Only that Tucker guy.

    • Drake

      And then there’s this: For Immediate Release: October 12, 2022

      FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines for Use as a Booster Dose in Younger Age Groups

    • straffinrun

      It was voluntary. So we should give them the voluntary choice of guillotine or wall.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The only thing more tiring than adults obsessing over comic book stuff are armchair psychologists. Got anything to back up that there proclamation amigo?

      • AlexinCT

        I bet the answer is: Yes, anyone that disagrees with my idiocy is a fascist!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      “I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies,” stated Moore. “Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.”

      Moore always has been a twat who can’t see the actual fascist technocracy that’s staring him in the face because he’s worried about a populist revolt.

      • Tundra

        Malice was trolling the fuck out of people buy asking if Hitler’s rise to power was against the will of the people.

    • Count Potato

      Fascism is a meaningless word at this point.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Only a racist would say such a thing.

    • rhywun

      LOL that headline ended up in a surprising (and totally not surprising) place.

      • slumbrew

        INO, rite?

        *reads first half, nods along*
        *reads second half, WTF?*

      • Lackadaisical

        Same.

    • thrakkorzog

      Umm… Alan Moore is a nutjob, and has been for a while. He’s on record on saying that a giant lizard is God and telling him how to write.

      Doesn’t make him a bad writer, but it does make his opinions suspect.

  22. Drake

    The FBI’s Tac Vest Fascism

    Glad I’m not the only one who has that kind of visceral reaction to the FBI and other Feds showing up in combat gear to arrest an obviously non-violent suspect (or search a former President’s house).

    Defund the whole thing, they are morphing into the NKVD right before our eyes.

    • Sensei

      Same reaction.

      …but officer safety!

  23. Pope Jimbo

    Danchenko, the primary source for the Steele dossier, is charged with five counts of lying to the FBI.

    How can lying to the FBI be against the law?

    If the courts say that law enforcement can lie to suspects, it should be a two way street.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, the FBI lies to us every single day. But it’s OK when they do it.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      And they don’t record their interviews, so the FBI can make up any old crap.

    • slumbrew

      Without checking, I’m going to say the Moors did not, in fact, “invent” irrigation channels.

      • Swiss Servator

        I saw Afghan qanat (canals) and karez (underground/borewells) that were way older than the Moops set up.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Good call.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was going to say something to that effect, but work intruded.

        Humans have been masters of hydrology since the days of Ur.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sierra Nevada?

      I’m sorry but how is that not cultural appropriation? I mean they are using the name of one of our states when talking about their crumby mountains!

      • robc

        On a related note (crumby mountains), to do the entire Appalachian Trail, dont you have to start in Scotland and end in Morocco?

      • robc

        Would you like to explain why not? They are part of the same Mountain range. Not my fault Pangea split apart.

      • UnCivilServant

        They WERE once part of the same mountain range, but the discontinuity means they are no longer.

  24. Count Potato

    “Montgomery County Schools Saw 582% Increase In Reported Gender Nonconforming Students Over Two Years, Data Shows….

    The data — which is not publicly available to parents or taxpayers — was posted to Twitter on Oct. 6 when educator Elicia Eberhart-Bliss shared an image of a slide show presented at a meeting of the district’s “Pride ALLiance.”

    During the 2019-2020 school year, a total of 35 students reported gender nonconformity to a counselor, including four elementary students, 19 middle school students and 12 high schoolers. During the 2021-2022 school year the total number of students reporting gender nonconformity spiked to 239, including 18 elementary students, 129 middle schoolers and 92 high schoolers.

    The data state that 423 students filled out the form with a counselor, and 45% of those students are considered “non-binary.” The data were collected across 84 schools, including 20 elementary schools.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/11/maryland-schools-spike-reported-gender-confused-trans-montgomery-county/

    https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2022/10/11/marylands-largest-public-school-district-sees-582-increase-in-gender-madness-among-students-n1636309

    There is a school to clinic pipeline.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I note the distribution is heavily weighted towards middle school when kids are struggling the most with puberty.

    • rhywun

      There is that, and also I bet a big helping of peer pressure.

      At this rate it will soon be cool to “gender conform” again.

      • The Other Kevin

        Just like always, teenagers are constantly trying to prove their individuality by acting like everyone else.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s also a get out of jail free card for nearly anything you don’t want to do?

        Didn’t do homework or got bad test scores? Sorry, but try struggling with your very identity, hater! Now gimme an A.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Couldn’t really be that she just believes the Democrats are full of shit could it? I mean, those motherfuckers are above reproach.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

    • The Other Kevin

      She’s a practicing Hindu. Get over yourself.

    • Lackadaisical

      Wow, getting back stabbed by your own aunt. Nice lady.

      • whiz

        Tribalism uber alles.

  25. The Other Kevin

    “CDC Won’t Release Review of Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation”

    You know what else the CDC won’t release? Who in the CDC got royalty payments from pharmaceutical companies.

    • Jerms

      Or the autopsies of those killed by the vaxx.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    I’m sure if Sloopy was running the links today, he would have commented on the big sporting news. The real power in the Big 10 is taking on Alabama in 2032.

    That prompted me and one of the Altar Boys to have this exchange

    • Pope Jimbo

      The Gophers are 1-0 all-time against the Crimson Tide, after Minnesota beat the Crimson Tide 20-16 in the 2004 Music City Bowl in Nashville. Meanwhile, Minnesota is 9-8-1 against current SEC teams, with the Gophers’ most recent game against an SEC opponent being the 2020 Outback Bowl when they beat Auburn 31-24 to finish that season 11-2, the program’s best record in 115 years.

      Get your bets in early before the odds change too much.

      • Swiss Servator

        So Alabama will be coached by Nick Saban’s brain in a jar?

      • Pope Jimbo

        As long as the Tide doesn’t have Tua’s brain in a jar playing under center, I think we are OK.

    • rhywun

      To be fair, McConnel might as well be a Democrat at this point.

      • AlexinCT

        Cocaine Mitch is definitely a uniparty deep state bitch.

    • straffinrun

      “ McCarthy, by contrast, has had the luxury of opposing almost everything Democrats bring to the floor, without having to worry about causing a shutdown or a default on the federal debt”

      He has the luxury of not endorsing a decent into hell.

      • Lackadaisical

        Usually you have to be indecent to get into hell.

  27. Sensei

    Never change NYC and NYS, never change!

    Bronx man who smashed up Manhattan McDonald’s with ax is busted again

    The man who went on an ax-wielding rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s has been busted again — this time for allegedly spraying-painting graffiti in Brooklyn and then swiping a pricey bike to try to flee cops.

    Michael Palacios — who was caught on video smashing up the crowded fast-food joint on the Lower East Side during a beef with other patrons in September — was approached by police around 5:40 p.m. Sunday after he was seen spraying graffiti behind 69 Second Ave. in Gowanus, according to police sources.

    The 31-year-old messenger ran and snatched a bicycle from in front of a coffee shop and tried to ride off before he was detained, sources said.

    • straffinrun

      Who doesn’t lock their bike in NYC?

      • Sensei

        $3,500 bike no less.

    • rhywun

      “Hey buddy, stop doing that.”

    • Count Potato

      Stupid obvious question: why wasn’t he in jail?

    • Sensei

      My friend in PA sent this to me last night. He was equally unhappy.

    • LJW

      I will never trust the numbers so long as they have mail in ballots. Banana republics thrive on mail in ballots

      • rhywun

        ding ding ding

        This slow-down is done on purpose.

    • UnCivilServant

      Sounds like they want to hide the evidence of fraud.

    • Grumbletarian

      “SCOTUS said we can’t count undated ballots, but fuck them.”

    • Swiss Servator

      It wasn’t a politician, so we are clear!

      • The Other Kevin

        Aw, nuts! I mean… aw, nuts.

    • thrakkorzog

      Had a plumber tell me he used to trim trees until he saw a guy getting pulled into a woodchipper and lost an arm. Then he was like, welp need to find another line of work.

  28. Shiny Nerfherder

    Weird market day.

    VIX is climbing while Dow and S&P are up.

    • waffles

      I still don’t understand what the VIX measures or how it is derived.

    • straffinrun

      I’m not looking. The more backwards it gets, the clearer it gets that a big old problem is coming. Even the titanic had its ass way up in the air before it sank.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/pepsico-raises-guidance-again-as-higher-prices-lift-sales-11665570888

      Prices for PepsiCo Inc.’s snacks and drinks are going up further.

      The company has already pushed prices higher in the latest quarter, Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston said Wednesday, and was prepared to lift them more if costs escalate.

      The latest increases come on top of significant price hikes this year. PepsiCo on Wednesday said organic sales, which strip out currency effects, acquisitions and divestitures, rose 16% in its third quarter from a year ago, boosted by prices that were 17% higher on average.

      The higher prices, and what Mr. Johnston said has been a better-than-expected consumer reaction to them, are a key reason why PepsiCo again lifted its outlook for sales growth for the year. It now expects organic sales to rise 12% this year, double the original forecast at the outset of the year. The company raised its profit forecast, too.

      I’m guessing stocks are temporarily going up due to increased revenue from price increases. I think the C-Suite suits are celebrating too early. Consumer behavior may not have significantly changed yet, but it’s coming.

      I admit to drinking a lot of Coke and Pepsi Zero. There used to be regular 2-liter sales of $1/bottle or $1.50 regular price. Just last week at a low price regional grocer, I saw a sale of 2 for $5 for Pepsi 2-liters and Coke Zeros were $3 each with no sale. So around 100% price increases. My raise will probably be 3% this year. The companies are insane to think consumers are not going to adjust their spending.

      • rhywun

        This is not going to end well for anyone in the restaurant business.

      • Drake

        Or for anyone who eats.

      • Sensei

        I wish more mom and pop businesses did this.

        Plenty of people don’t understand how a business works and assume that the owner is the one making all this extra money when prices go up.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, I feel sorry for them, because most struggle to price themselves a good profit to begin with.

      • The Other Kevin

        I saw this when I used to show and sell my artwork. People balked at the prices, but it turned out I was making like $1 an hour.

      • Lackadaisical

        🙁

        I hate stories like this. Small businesses are so much work, and everybody is trying to get a ‘deal’ from you.

      • Pope Jimbo

        All those carbs being cut from the diets of all the fatties in the US!

        Utopia, here we come!

      • Mojeaux

        *side-eyes all the ground beef in my freezer*

    • Grumbletarian

      Look, he identifies as competent, ableist bigot.

  29. robc

    RE: Income inequity.

    I think the blue states have more IT positions (for some reason), which is going to effect that. IT pays well and is male dominated. I havent looked into if they adjusted for that, but that is my first impression.

    • The Last American Hero

      They also have more regulations, which throttle mobility.

  30. The Other Kevin

    I’ve been following Tulsi on social media for a while. I’m inclined to be more generous toward her. She has consistently opposed censorship, COVID hysteria, and foreign intervention. I don’t know if I’d vote for her (not that she’s running for anything), but her bringing attention to those issues and making the “right” enemies is important. Kind of like Russell Brand, I don’t agree with everything he says, but he’s pushing the envelope on certain issues and I’m supportive of that. We need to get back to a place where we talk about issues and not just one team vs the other team.

    • robc

      I did vote for her in 2020. SC has open primaries.

    • Pine_Tree

      I really do like the “right enemies” thing. But – she’s been too wrong for too long on guns.

      And that’s the one I use as a shibboleth, always. So I just can’t.

    • R C Dean

      I’m going to need her to tell me when and why she did a 180 on gun control. And an explanation of whether she still supports the Green New Deal, and if not, when and why she changed her mind. Those two issues are hard stops for me, and I don’t trust any politician who supported them until they convince me they have had a real change of heart, rather than just a new grift.

      • R C Dean

        She does have a section supporting 2A rights.

        I need convincing this is a real change of heart, and not just a politician launching their new grift by targetting a fresh group of suckers.

      • slumbrew

        Yes, this.

        It’s nice that she’s saying the right things about the 2A now, but I would really need to hear why it’s so different than her statements before. What changed her mind? Why and how was she mistaken before? etc.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^This. It’s a campaign speech without any substance. It’s basically copypasta that could come from any number of 2nd A sites or conservative politicians’ platforms. She needs to explain why she was wrong and what changed her mind. JP Sears is a great example of doing this with intellectual honesty when he changed his position on the 2nd A.

        Today’s Democratic Party does not believe in our constitutionally protected right to bear arms. Our founders passed the Second Amendment out of a recognition that every one of us has a right to defend ourselves and our loved ones, and to serve as a check on a tyrannical government seeking to take away our God-given freedoms. The Democratic Party’s hatred of the Second Amendment and their increasing authoritarian instincts pose a serious threat to our freedoms. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” Beto O’Rourke said at a debate when he was running for president. Our founders intentionally passed the Second Amendment right after the First Amendment. The majority ruling from the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down New York’s law that barred people from concealed carry firearms summarized very clearly why Democrats are wrong to try to take away our rights: “Just as we do not need to seek a permit to stand on the street corner and exercise our right to free speech, we shouldn’t have to seek permission for a law abiding citizen to carry their firearm. We as a society don’t get to pick and choose which of our rights in the constitution are more worthy of protecting than another.” Protecting our freedom to defend ourselves and those we love, and protecting our rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution against a tyrannical power is exactly why we must ensure our right to bear arms “shall not be infringed.”

  31. R C Dean

    Here’s my question: Where does the FBI get $1MM to pay any informant?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      From selling crack in the ghettoes?

      Oh wait, wrong agency…

    • Fatty Bolger

      It came out of the big guy’s 10%.

    • AlexinCT

      Your taxes.

    • WTF

      Didn’t they just steal like $86MM from safety deposit boxes in California?

    • Lackadaisical

      Operating expenses slush fund. With the director allowed to allocate up to 1 million to any expense as required.

  32. Count Potato

    “Stanford Children’s doctor says “the demand for transgender surgery has increased by five-fold” and suggests that if a boy takes hormones and “her testes are non-functional,” doctors should surgically remove them—even if the child is a minor.”

    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1579859832425058305

    CWAC

    • LJW

      Amazing how in just a couple l years the left has infected nearly every institution and eroded trust in them all.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      She’s straight up insane. Like no-shit, I’m capable of gassing an entire ethnic group population, insane.

    • R C Dean

      if a boy takes hormones and “her testes are non-functional

      Why would I take any advice from a semi-literate doctor?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Sounds reversible.

      • R C Dean

        The semi-literacy, or the castration?

    • Lackadaisical

      Thanks for making me feel sick to the stomach.

      • Swiss Servator

        Oh yeah? Have seen today’s Joemala yet?

    • Sean

      Yuck.

    • The Other Kevin

      That was my thought, too. Looks like the newer Civics. Which I like, but I expect a little more from a BMW.

      • Sensei

        Can you get yourself in and out tiny tight cars like this?

        Obviously you want the automatic.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m pretty small so I’m ok with a smaller car, though I won’t do a really tiny car. I currently drive a 2014 Civic, that’s just the right size for me and I like the gas mileage.

      • Sensei

        So when you win the lottery you’ve got a shot with various sports cars!

  33. kinnath

    If I was in the market, and if I had enough cash to bribe my way the front of the line . . . .

    I would be all over one of these.

    • R C Dean

      I’ve always liked the Z cars. I’m hearing good things about the new one. They are not stupidly expensive, either.

    • Sensei

      It’s basically a reskinned old Z with a new motor.

      To keep the costs down they reused a fair amount of the old car’s interior and kept the controls basic compared to the current all tech cars. I actually like the lack of tech very much.

      You can’t get a LSD in the lower trim version otherwise I’d be perfectly happy with it. And, unsurprisingly, it has gained weight. The new motor makes up for it with HP, but you never want to add weight to a sports car.

      My real question would be how does it compare to a Mustang. I’d rather have the V8 in the mustang so the new Z needs to offer me a better balance and handling. If it does it becomes an interesting proposition. Otherwise, Cars and Coffee Mustang here I come!

      • Count Potato

        All cars are getting heavier due to supposed safety regulations pushed by the same people who want lower emissions standards.

      • kinnath

        I am biased. I love my 350Z.

        When I got my 350Z, all the reviews for the car raved about it. While all the comparisons to the peer sports cars at the time noted a bunch of deficiencies.

        Seeing a similar trend with the new Z.

        The 350Z wasn’t the lightest, most powerful, fastest sports car in its class. But it is a dream to drive and has always been rationally priced.

      • R C Dean

        That’s been my take. I don’t see the value of shaving a tenth of second off the zero to sixty time if it costs you $10K and the car isn’t fun to drive.

      • Sensei

        If I want to go fast in (mostly) fast line I have an EV with pretty good road manners.

        If I want to enjoy the drive without being arrested the new Z seems perfect. However, if it weighs the same as a Mustang and handles the same I’d rather listen to a naturally aspirated V8 while trying to avoid a ticket.

      • kinnath

        Dealers are putting huge markups on the new Z. It may be a lot easier to get a Mustang. But, I hate Ford. I hate them much, much less that GM and Chrysler. But I still hate them. {you can blame that on a mid-80s Mustang that simply stopped working before hitting 100k miles. The dealer just shrugged and said that’s what it was.}

      • Sensei

        The problem solves itself for me. No need and space for a play car. Hoping in retirement to get a classic of some kind with good parts availability and just having fun with it.

  34. Mojeaux

    So the KCPD cited Davante Adams for shoving the photographer Monday night. Why can’t Davante Adam have shoved ME?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Pay the photographer $10k and move on.

  35. Sensei

    OMG they are remaking Barbarella.

    Replacing Hanoi Jane will be Sydney Sweeney.

    I wonder if she will successfully find a reunited British pop group.