337 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Do you think he has a weird growth on his balls?

    • robodruid

      You dare ask that on Wednesday?

      • Sean

        Heh.

      • Ted S.

        Some of us can handle SugarFree.

      • Swiss Servator

        Let us see if you still say that later today…

        *shudders*

        /Editor

      • Ted S.

        I don’t read the posts until three hours after lunch.

    • Lackadaisical

      Like a thing that goes up?

      *Insert gun balls photo*

    • Aloysious

      All three of his balls? *shrugs*

  2. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Banjos.

    Got any good news to balance out the links?

    • robodruid

      No nukes were used yesterday. That’s good-ish news.

      • UnCivilServant

        While I appreciate the world not ending in nuclear hellfire, that is also known as the status quo. So, “World has not ended” isn’t really news.

    • Count Potato

      “Musk May Close Twitter Deal by Friday”

      • Lackadaisical

        Plus the NYS vaccine case.

      • Brawndo

        I’m a little bit retarded, but the NYS vaccine case, does that ruling only apply to public employees? Or private as well? I’m not in NY, but I also live in a liberal shit hole state where I would have made them fire me if they pushed the issue (company is HQed in NY too).

      • Sensei

        I believe it only applies to the 16 workers in the suit, but I haven’t been following it that closely.

      • rhywun

        And I just read the private one was “rescinded”. Not that I was aware or would have ever complied.

      • DEG

        And… since the NY Supreme Court is a trial court, the city can easily appeal.

        The highest court in NY is the Court of Appeals.

      • Atreides

        “Musk May Close Twitter” would have been even better.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Hmm, not super conspiracy-y. This is a global health emergency after all!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Back when I was studying economics and marketing, we simply called that “pricing theory.”

        Raise the price until your most unappealing potential customers simply balked and walked away.

        Full disclosure: when I worked for a telco, we used the same strategy to get rid of deadbeats and send them to the competition.

  3. Count Potato

    “But their appeal contradicted the Biden administration’s position that it’s up to the Ukrainian people to decide whether Kyiv should engage in negotiations with Moscow. ​

    After ​Democrats and the White House criticized the proposed change in policy, Jayapal issued another statement Monday “reaffirming support for Ukraine and clarifying the position” laid out in the letter to Biden.”

    One think you can say about Carter was that he was all for making peace deals.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      it’s up to the Ukrainian people to decide whether Kyiv should engage in negotiations with Moscow

      That’s a laughable assertion.

      • Count Potato

        Although it should up to the Ukrainian people.

        Of course, none of this shit would be happening if Obama didn’t remove their pro-Russia government.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        It would have been over in April if it weren’t for our little bitch Boris scuttling the negotiations.

      • Ted S.

        It would have been over by March if Russia didn’t invade in the first place.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Yes, yes, all that matters is how bad the Russians are. Don’t take any off-ramps from the war because the Russians might benefit.

      • R C Dean

        Don’t the Russians also get a vote? By Russians, of course I mean, the Russian government.

        Nobody gives a crap what the Russian or Ukrainian people want, of course.

  4. Rat on a train

    Only 25 days of Diesel? There’s 9 Fast & Furious alone.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Careful, you might Vin a narrow gaze.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s all Groot with me.

    • Count Potato

      Depends on the size of the animals. An entire steer has one face. How many are in those Goya 1lb. cans of sardines that used to sell for a $1?

      • Count Potato

        Well, not in, they cut the heads off.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Good point, by eating beef, I’m minimizing the number of faces.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Silly vegetarian doesn’t believe the death of animal life is an immutable characteristic of humanity’s continued existence regardless one’s dietary choices. It’s just those icky meat eaters. Shocking.

      • Count Potato

        Growing vegetables kills animals too.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Exactly. I know the vegetarians/vegans here aren’t delusional enough to believe otherwise but apparently a lot of people still do.

      • Fourscore

        Those big ass diesel tractors in Iowa/Kansas gonna have to learn how to run on methane, if you want to be vegetarian

    • Pope Jimbo

      I think he would be appalled at me when he started showing me those animal pics and I started drooling when he showed a cow. I don’t like chickens, so I would simply frown when their beady-eyed faces were shown.

  5. Count Potato

    “Murkowski is one of the more moderate Republican senators, siding with Democrats in voting to back Obamacare and opposing Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.”

    I wouldn’t call believing ridiculous rape stories “moderate”.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Moderate = Does what Democrats want

      • Pat

        Also “reasonable” and “fact-based”.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

    • rhywun

      I wouldn’t call her a Republican, either.

    • Pope Jimbo

      After she survived the last race by winning as a write-in, is there any chance she’ll lose this time?

      If she does lose, will that count as a +1 in the GOP column?

  6. rhywun

    New York City ordered by court to reinstate all those fired over Covid vaccine mandates

    My understanding is that it only applies to handful of garbagemen, not the thousands of others who were fired for the same reason.

    • Count Potato

      I’m thinking if someone is handling NYC garbage on a regular basis they are already immune to everything.

      • Count Potato

        Zombie garbagemen?

      • Pat

        I’d see that movie

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’d refuse

      • whiz

        Good movie idea — don’t dump on it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I heard that in Casey Kasem’s voice.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    And what will make the machine go ping when we kill off plentiful reliable energy?

    Doctors are taking aim at the fossil fuels industry, placing blame for the world’s most dire health problems on the companies that continue to seek oil and gas profits even as climate change worsens heat waves, intensifies flooding and roils people’s mental health.

    “The burning of fossil fuels is creating a health crisis that I can’t fix by the time I see patients in my emergency department,” said Dr. Renee Salas, summarizing the findings of a report published Tuesday in The Lancet. “Fossil fuel companies are making record profits while my patients suffer from their downstream health harms.”

    Salas, an emergency medical physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is one of nearly 100 authors who contributed to the prestigious medical journal’s annual report on climate change and health.

    The report accuses fossil fuel purveyors — and the governments that subsidize them — of subverting “efforts to deliver a low carbon, healthy, liveable future” and demands that world leaders pursue a health-centered approach to solving the climate crisis.

    Fucking retards.

    The medical industrial complex’s profits are all completely legitimate and justifiable, and their business practices are strictly on the up-and-up.

    • rhywun

      even as climate change worsens heat waves, intensifies flooding and roils people’s mental health.

      Lies, demonstrably proven false over and over again.

      Fucking r-tards, indeed. Dr. Renee Salas hates you and wants you to die.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Doctors are remarkably immune from their lousy job performances and retarded opinions.

    • Translucent Chum

      Ask her to point to a single piece of her equipment that isn’t derived from some type of oil.

    • Grosspatzer

      “The burning of fossil fuels is creating a health crisis that I can’t fix by the time I see patients in my emergency department,”

      I long for the good old days when people died naturally from starvation, exposure, and disease as God intended. How dare those fossil fuels purveyors upset the natural order!

  8. Count Potato

    “Kraft Heinz CEO Says More ‘Rounds of Price Increases’ Coming as Inflation ‘Will Continue’”

    I think the only Heinz thing I buy is their worcestershire sauce. I gave up on Lea & Perrins after they changed the U.S. recipe.

    • rhywun

      Is the Heinz one better? I got “used” to the Lea & Perrins but I’ll switch with no problem.

      • Count Potato

        Heinz is way better than the store brand I tried. I think it’s better than the new L&P, but not as good as the old one, although that’s based on memory.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Look, John Kerry needs a new yacht (with sails because he cares about the environment)! Get out there and buy Heinz!

      • slumbrew

        with sails

        And a 250 HP engine with a 500 gallon tank.

        What, you think he’s gonna just sit becalmed like some plebe when the wind stops blowing?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I thought he’d just call the Coast Guard and have them tow him around.

      • dbleagle

        If his sails aren’t wool or cotton, then they made of oil as well.

  9. Grumbletarian

    Dems are worried lower black voter turnout will ‘eviscerate’ their path to victory this November

    It would be delicious if minority turnout were high and Democrats lost (see: Georgia). The explosion of leftist heads would sound like like a steamroller crushing bubblewrap.

    • rhywun

      If I were black I would vote Stupid Party just to punish the Dems for taking me for granted for the last 75 years or so.

      • The Other Kevin

        But then you’d lose your social security and be in chains!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I think “low minority turnout” is going to be how they spin the fact that the blacks are getting uppity.

  10. robc

    Chessle 256 (Expert) 3/6

    ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
    🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    https://jackli.gg/chessle

    Good score based on no knowledge. I shifted the yellows that my seed moves gave me to the front, guessed last 4 right, then their was only one geometrically possible reorder of the front 6.

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 275
      3️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

      I expect to see a lot of 2s on UL for a common seed word. Any ones? Possible, I think.

      • Grumbletarian

        Not for me. It was the last one I guessed today.

        Daily Quordle 275
        8️⃣6️⃣
        7️⃣5️⃣

      • Pat

        Daily Quordle 275
        6️⃣4️⃣
        5️⃣3️⃣

        Definitely didn’t get a 2 on UL, but could have been worse I guess.

      • kinnath

        Daily Quordle 275
        4️⃣5️⃣
        2️⃣7️⃣

        Got a 2, but bottom left instead.

        Best score in a long time

      • Grosspatzer

        Daily Quordle 275
        3️⃣4️⃣
        6️⃣7️⃣
        quordle.com

        Chessle in 4 after having the final position in two. Move orders in closed openings are irrelevant, that position can be reached in double-digit ways, all of which are reasonable.

      • robc

        From turn 1 and 2, I knew c4 had to be 2nd move. So that made the horsey order mandatory, as Nc3 had to come after the pawn move.

        My seed turn is the stupid e4-e5-d4-d5-c4-c5-Nf3-Nf6-Nc3-Nc6

        It generally gives me the family of openings. Or hits so little I am completely stumped.

      • Necron 99

        Daily Quordle 275
        2️⃣4️⃣
        5️⃣7️⃣

        I got the 2 on UL, still had to use my second seed for UR. Two choices for LR, of course I guessed wrong on the first try.

      • robc

        Are you AUDIO for first seed word? I figured that leads directly to UL on 2.

      • Necron 99

        Yes, not sure how good it is but also use chest if nothing comes of it.

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 275
      8️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣9️⃣

      I think I’m getting worse.

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 275
      3️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Less than 25 days’ supply of diesel? Good. I hate diesel engines.

    • Sean

      Diesel was back to $5.99/gal this morning.

    • DrOtto

      While I don’t understand why a commuter choses a diesel for daily transportation, they certainly have a place in getting goods to places by either truck or train. This will just become one more cost factor in rising inflation.

      • Sean

        We’ve been transitioning our fleet back to gas powered trucks.

    • DEG

      Prediction: There will be more than 25 days supply of diesel as sellers will find more. Prices will also continue to rise.

  12. UnCivilServant

    Zeldin: She still hasn’t talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes

    Hochul: Anyone who commits a crime under our laws…has consequences…I don’t know why that’s so important to you

    (-.-)

    Seriously, woman? You don’t know why people regard not getting stabbed, robbed, or beaten as important?

    • Pat

      WDATPDIM?

      • UnCivilServant

        I would like to answer your question, but I have no idea what you asked.

      • Pat

        What Difference At This Point Does It Make?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If I am stabbed in the back and pushed onto a subway track to die, I want the world to burn.

      • UnCivilServant

        I would prefer that the subway train stop short of hitting me and that I receive proper medical attention to recover fully.

        But you do you.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        That was not an option in the hypothetical I described.

    • rhywun

      She is jaw-droppingly awful at this game. I shudder to think she might actually win.

      • WTF

        She has a “D” after her name, in NY that’s all that’s necessary for victory, especially since the Ds control the big urban population centers they can use to “fortify” the election.

      • R C Dean

        We are going to find out if the same can be said about AZ in a few days. The Dem candidate for governor is also just terrible at campaigning, AZ is also deep red outside of its urban centers, and the big urban center, at least, is what puts any statewide Dems in office. Naturally, it has terrible election security.

      • waffles

        Phoenix ain’t no NYC.
        But that this race is competitive at all speaks to me.

      • Grosspatzer

        Heh. An old college friend was president of the Hudson County Bar Association a few years back. He is doing very well for himself, I am sure he is totally above board.

      • Sensei

        Hope he has the same fringe benefits.

      • Pope Jimbo

        MPR one of the house organs for the DFL admits that they hate the jackpine savages out in the sticks

        Statewide, the DFL is hoping those fears[abortion] will motivate voters, a messaging strategy that reflects the party’s shift away from the priorities of smaller, more rural communities once strongholds for the DFL and toward urban centers, said DFL strategist Todd Rapp.

        “The DFL formula today is you dominate inside the (Twin Cities) beltway, and then you do extremely well, in what I call what college towns,” said Rapp.

        Increasingly, once-blue pockets outstate aren’t part of the plan.

        “The DFL doesn’t feel like they have to win those township districts in order to win either a majority in the legislature or to win statewide races,” he said.

        FUCK YOU HILLBILLIES!!!!

      • The Last American Hero

        They don’t. Same strategy applies in Washington State, and I’d be fairly confident it applies in Oregon as well.

      • Jerms

        I looked at an actual betting sight yesterday and she was at 82% chance of winning. I cant even watch her speak. Gives me the willies shes so evil.

      • rhywun

        With the polls even? Hmph, we’ll see.

      • UnCivilServant

        They’re betting that the fraud machine has geared up for that.

    • Nephilium

      Those are just crimes, not crime-crimes.

      • Pope Jimbo

        crime-crime: praying in front of an abortion clinic?

  13. Sensei

    I’m torn about this. On the one hand I think the State Department is basically corrupt and run by more than a few people who are evil. OTH, it does show exactly what China thinks about the US of A.

    How China Abuses U.S. Diplomats

    Nearly every U.S. diplomat arriving in China since fall 2020 was at risk, though not everyone was treated the same. Congressional aides say State has privately admitted that some 30 individuals were imprisoned for weeks in locked rooms and often squalid conditions. (State tells us it was only 16.) These people and other arriving diplomats have also been subject to multiple and unnecessary medical tests; forced to undergo months of quarantine and family separation; and they are monitored and controlled by China’s online “health” app.

    • UnCivilServant

      Arrest all of the CCP “Diplomats” and revoke recognition of the Maoist rebels in Beijing.

    • rhywun

      Trading industrial secrets for access to China’s consumers is evidently worth the humiliation. What are you gonna do.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The report’s theme reflects a growing frustration and helplessness expressed by medical professionals left to deal with the impacts of climate change as world leaders struggle to address the root cause.

    “The report highlights the harm the fossil fuel industry has really wreaked in creating this crisis,” said Dr. Jerry Abraham, the director and chief vaccinologist at Kedren Community Health Center in Los Angeles, who was not involved in writing the report. “Foe is a harsh word, but it has to be used.”

    The “fossil fuel industry” exists for the sole purpose of filling the air with toxins.

    • Nephilium

      Just as we all learned as kids from Captain Planet, all environmental issues are due to evil people with terrible punny names doing evil. There is no benefit to them at all.

      • UnCivilServant

        What I learned from Captain Planet is that teams chosen for ticking off checkboxes will inevitably decide to pawn off their work on one guy, and likely bully the member of the team with any sense.

  15. Sean

    I switched shaving soaps this morning.

    I’m not grooving on it. 😒

    • UnCivilServant

      What prompted the switch?

    • Grumbletarian

      Haven’t used soap or shaving cream in years. I shave in the shower using a gel body wash.

    • Pat

      I’m currently using this, which I received as a gift. It’s pretty good. The scent is mild and pleasant, gives the skin a nice refreshing little tingle. But plain old glycerin soap works better than anything I’ve ever used in terms of lubrication.

      • Pine_Tree

        Yeah, glycerin soap > other solid soap > anything not solid

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Castor oil

        Not recommended for use with your standard Gillette razors.

    • Timeloose

      I’ve been using Proraso Shaving Cream in the green tube for a few years. I also started using the aftershave. Lightly scented and goes a long way.

      • Q Continuum

        You know what else is lightly scented and goes a long way?

      • Timeloose

        Magnum cherry flavor

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Eau de douche Zyklonne?

    • Q Continuum

      One unfortunate consequence of my quasi-pathological levels of testosterone is a continuing tendency toward face and body acne, even into my 40s. If I don’t use benzoyl peroxide face and body wash, I’ll break out like a teenager. Fortunately, I have found a non-comedogenic shaving cream that keeps the baddies at bay too.

      • Count Potato

        “If I don’t use benzoyl peroxide face and body wash, I’ll break out like a teenager.”

        Try a mix of zepharin and vodka.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Try Differin, OTC.

      • prolefeed

        Take a couple Vitamin A supplement pills daily. Works great for me.

    • Nephilium

      I picked up a leave in beard conditioner a couple weeks back… I am not a fan. Back to something that gets rinsed out.

      • UnCivilServant

        The chemicals do not stay on, especially around the face.

      • l0b0t

        I really like The Conditioner from Paul Mitchell; both as a shaving adjunct in the shower, and in its proper role as a leave in product. YMMV.

    • DrOtto

      I stopped using anything but hot water based on advice from someone on this site several years ago. It takes about a week, but something changes with the texture of the whiskers in that time and you really don’t need anything other than water.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Not sure if you’re joking, but he’s absolutely right. I read this a couple of years ago and actually did switch to just using hot water. It hurts for the first couple of weeks, but now I have no problems. My skin is far less prone to rashes or getting nicks ever since.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Diesel was back to $5.99/gal this morning.

    Remember the ’70s, when diesel was touted as a cheap alternative to gasoline? I do.

    Haha, suckers!

    • Pope Jimbo

      What I never understood was why I could easily find diesel stations to fill up my Chevy Luv truck in Minnesoda where the cold can make it a bitch, but had all sorts of problems finding diesel stations in Memphis.

  17. Pat

    Dems are worried lower black voter turnout will ‘eviscerate’ their path to victory this November

    The deceased voter turnout will make up for it.

    • Gender Traitor

      That’s “post-alive,” you…lifist, you!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Are you still black if you don’t vote at all?

      • Fourscore

        I’ve been transitioning for 40 years, in that case

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I can’t help thinking there are a lot of black people who want Stacey Abrams to STFU and GTFO.

    • Compelled Speechless

      If they have to think about voting for her, they ain’t black!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I switched shaving soaps this morning.

    I toss the slivers of my no-perfume Olay for sensitive skin in my shaving mug. Works quite nicely.

    • Sean

      I already reordered a tub of Proraso.

      • Timeloose

        Right on. Green or Red?

      • Sean

        Green.

      • Timeloose

        Do you think the formula changed? My latest tube was a bit more watery, but the scent was the same.

      • Sean

        Dunno. Haven’t ordered any in quite while.

  20. Count Potato

    “The concern about black men lacking enthusiasm for Democrats this year has been a problem in Georgia. Stacey Abrams campaign has been holding policy meetings with black men under the title “Stacey and the Fellahs””

    Worst band name.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      “Stacey and the Fellahs”

      Pornhub channel

      *barf*

      • rhywun

        Plotline of her next romance novel.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Thicc?

  21. Lackadaisical

    “McConnell creates new rift inside GOP, earning censure from Alaska state party”

    So the Republicans are spending millions to prevent a republican from getting elected? I guess they agree with the Democrats, the greatest threat to democracy is letting Republicans win elections.

  22. Lackadaisical

    ‘Four years ago, Abrams garnered between 93 and 94 percent of the Black vote, according to exit polls and AP VoteCast. Across five polls over the past month, Abrams averages 83 percent support…’

    Even with the drop of 10 percentage points, that’s a crazy high level of racial uniformity. I wonder what people would say if other groups voted so consistently in one direction.

    • Rat on a train

      As long as the direction is D the media won’t see a problem.

  23. Q Continuum

    Who’s the bigger spousal abuser, Dr. Jill or Fetterman’s Mrs.?

    • Sean

      Dr.

    • Drake

      I just saw a debate clip on the news and thought exactly the same thing. His family has enough money to get him help and let him lead a comfortable life.

    • DrOtto

      His parents are just hoping he finally gets a job so they can take him off payroll, so I think his parents are behind the push.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Biden is more coherent than Fetterman. Wild.

    • Rebel Scum

      Yes.

  24. Q Continuum

    You know who else will “close the deal” by Friday?

    • Pope Jimbo

      If you can regularly masturbate while watching The View you have some freaky crazy genes/chromosones/etc. You are like the guy that is resistant to zombie bites. You are going to be pursued by the goons from Big Pharma who want to dissect you to find out your secret so they can put it in their ED drugs.

  25. Shiny Nerfherder

    SJWednesday: Obligatory Halloween Edition

    But our society equates Whiteness with normalcy, and therefore everyone outside of that category is foreign, weird, or joke-worthy – perfect for a costume.

    • R.J.

      Staaahp

      • R.J.

        I’ll break my phone

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh come on, you didn’t even wait for my question.

        *pouts*

    • Grumbletarian

      remember that you can’t just borrow someone else’s culture or race for a day. It doesn’t work like that.

      Thanks. Next time I see a non-white person in a suit and tie, I’ll be sure to REEEE in their face for appropriating white culture.

      • Rat on a train

        On Halloween, everyone must dress what they are. No costumes allowed.

      • Grumbletarian

        I would also have accepted “Whites have no culture, you racist!”

      • Nephilium

        Pumpkin spice begs to differ.

    • Q Continuum

      What if I go as an over-privileged, over-credentialed, White proggy harridan? Is that ok? Cause it’s sure as hell a lot more foreign, weird and joke-worthy than if I put on a sombrero.

    • Gender Traitor

      Everyday Feminism needs your help! Become a member and help keep EF alive!

      Where can I chip in to help kill it off?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Keep fear alive

    Every inpatient bed at Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago has been full for more than six weeks. Emergency room volume is up more than 150%.

    The flow of patients is like “a treadmill that never ends,” said Dr. Allison Bartlett, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Comer Children’s. As soon as a child is discharged, their bed fills up with the next kid in need.

    Yet the hospital is simultaneously fielding a barrage of requests to accept new patients from facilities that don’t treat children or are overrun themselves.

    “It’s scary. It makes me worry about my kids getting in a car accident and not having a place to go,” Bartlett said.

    Let’s obsess about every conceivable danger.

    A terrified populace is easily led.

    • Count Potato

      It’s because they closed schools.

    • invisible finger

      Certificate Of Need – and self-imposed staff shortages – strikes again. And being in Chicago what with all the gunshot victims, aka the Kim Foxx Trickle Down Effect.

      Also wouldn’t surprise me that ADE and VAE have something to do with it.

      • Sensei

        When folks freak out about ICU beds I always like to bring up Certificates of Need.

        I either get blank stares or they quickly change the subject.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m guessing they didn’t bother to ask if this happens every year.

      • R C Dean

        It’s certainly been happening off and on since the first COVID outbreak. Including the time after COVID became a nonfactor for hospitals.

      • Count Potato

        We got slammed with RSI every October, but this year seems especially bad.

    • Grosspatzer

      Odd. I’ve been to the local ER twice this month, the place is empty. Something in the NJ air must be conferring immunity to the plagues which are devastating the rest of the country.

    • Q Continuum

      Propagandists gonna propagandize.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        There’s not even a pretense of trying to report in an objective fashion anymore.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I thought the same thing when we had Gov. Mumbles (Mark Dayton) in office. Any video of him was terrible. When he debated opponents, he would lurch through answers like a drunk. Then the next day you’d read the writeup in the paper and they had removed all the ‘ers..’ and ‘ums…’ and all the random asides and his answers looked human.

      If more people had watched the debates, he would have been sunk. Instead most people just saw the writeups and didn’t realize what an idiot Mumbles was.

      • Fourscore

        Whatever happened to him? Did he die?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m sure he’s in his huge mansion surrounded by his most loyal servants.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I watched some of the end of it. I haven’t had a good laugh in awhile, so when Fetterman was asked Eagles or Steelers (the softest of softball questions) and took another 10 seconds to respond, I cackled maniacally.

    • Fourscore

      Probably some jobs would welcome him, now that he has some exposure

      • rhywun

        Sadly, I don’t have any openings at the moment.

      • PutridMeat

        Slow hanging curve right over the plate….

      • rhywun

        inorite?

    • Fourscore

      Not sure if she is 2 but a cute little kid that knows her way around the play ground.

      Law school and on her way to politics

    • PutridMeat

      Is it wrong that rather than being all sun-shiny, I was a little creeped out?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ooops. I liked the “Nap Time” line. But yeah it was definitely a bit heavily edited by some mom trying to go viral.

  27. Rebel Scum

    The greatest show in the history of politics

    Cripple fight!

  28. Trigger Hippie

    New Hat and the Hair episode up on YT and it’s absolutely glorious.

  29. Rebel Scum

    House Dems backtrack on letter urging Biden to negotiate with Putin

    There can be no negotiation. We must fight until the last Ukrainian. And everyone else when the US gov’t leads us into a nuclear holocaust.

    • Drake

      Some regimeology / kremlinology on this and why the current regime is all-in on war with Russia.

      It’s hard to believe but they sent Bernie Sanders out to explain why the House Democrats wanting peace were wrong. A guy who honeymooned in Soviet Russia – which probably explains his grudge against today’s Russia.

    • Swiss Servator

      They need to wait until another $75 billion or so gets pushed along…with no oversight or accounting.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Because of this fall surge of respiratory viruses among children, around three-quarters of pediatric hospital beds nationwide are now full, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.

    That is forcing hospitals around the country to resort to the contingency plans reserved for such crises: They are sending sick kids to other states to receive care or are making space in other wards, like specialty units or postoperative recovery areas. Some hospitals are sending ICU patients directly home once their cases are no longer acute, rather than to another floor. And many on-call nurses are working extra hours.

    Wait- they are discharging patients who no longer need hospitalization?

    Oh

    my

    GOD!

  31. Rebel Scum

    The Alaska Republican Party responded Monday by voting to censure McConnell for spreading “divisive and misleading statements” about Tshibaka, who was endorsed both by the state party and former President Donald Trump.

    Local/state party apparatus will be necessary to remove/defeat the RINOs.

    • DEG

      Yes.

  32. Shiny Nerfherder

    Somebody was taking PIT maneuver classes.

    https://i.imgur.com/zKAXOlk.gifv

    Extra points for immobilizing the driver at the same time as the vehicle.

    • Rat on a train

      Hey, the driver needed to exit now.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Doctors said masking and social distancing likely prevented kids from getting exposed to respiratory viruses earlier in the pandemic. Then kids began to encounter new pathogens for the first time, with little immune protection.

    So- masks forever, then; preferably with an external supply of sterile oxygen.

    • invisible finger

      Doctors. Aka non-scientists.

  34. Count Potato

    “Suspect in NYC ‘knockout-game’ subway attack held on $20K bail: ‘Why am I in trouble?’

    “Is it looking bad for me?” Smith allegedly asked cops of the case, according to the complaint. “My thing is, he said something to me inappropriate first. I was defending myself. Can I just say one thing before I get inside? I was defending myself.

    “Why am I in trouble? Why are you doing this? I don’t have a record,” he said. “Am I getting booked for this? I did push him.””

    https://nypost.com/2022/10/25/suspect-in-nyc-knockout-game-subway-attack-why-am-i-in-trouble/

    At least he’s being held on bail.

    • rhywun

      At least he’s being held on bail.

      Yeah, I was quite surprised at that.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      My thing is, he said something to me inappropriate first. I was defending myself.

      The words, they hurt me.

  35. Sensei

    Ignoring the fundamentals of this business the IPO market this year is a disaster. I’m assuming Intel only put this offering out because it had no choice. They’ve been hammered on their business structure so I’m sure this was a promise to investors. Not even a $1bn float at the IPO price.

    Mobileye raised $861 million by selling 41 million shares, valuing the company at roughly $17 billion, the people said. That is more than the $15.3 billion that Intel paid for the Mobileye in 2017 but a far cry from the $50 billion or more that the chip giant originally set its sights on when it unveiled plans for the listing late last year.

    Intel Prices Widely Anticipated IPO for Self-Driving Car Unit Mobileye

    • The Last American Hero

      The only question that needs to be asked is how many shares did Nancy put herself down for.

  36. Rebel Scum

    But it’s not just DeSantis and it’s not just Florida that has Democrats worried. Today Politico published a story titled “Democrats growing anxious — again — over Black turnout.”

    Dems seem to think they still own black people.

    • Rat on a train

      Democrats are worried Republicans will stop blacks from voting by putting them back in chains.

    • The Other Kevin

      All your votes are belong to us.

    • Nephilium

      Yet, it’s the Republicans who want to put them back in chains…

      • UnCivilServant

        Am I the only one who thinks of Mr T’s collection of gold chains when that line gets mentioned these days?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Isn’t that the first stage of Kanyeitis? Next you will start ranting about (((them)))

  37. Rebel Scum

    According to the Energy Information Administration, the US has only 25 days of diesel supply, the lowest level since 2008. Simultaneously, the four-week average of distillates supplied increased to its highest seasonal level since 2007. Weekly demand is also at the highest point in two years due to increased trucking, farming, and heating use.

    This is fine.

  38. Rebel Scum

    A Pew Research Center poll revealed that nearly all Americans are concerned about the rise in the cost of food and consumer goods due to inflation in a worrying sign for Democrats ahead of the midterm election.

    All good-thinking people know that J6 and unfettered abortion access are the only two things that matter.

    • Rat on a train

      According to local D campaign messaging the only thing that matters is getting an abortion after you are raped.

      • invisible finger

        Yeah, they couldn’t care less about the rape.

      • LJW

        The rapist was out bail free.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Let’s not exaggerate here. They also care about getting an abortion for incest victims too.

        What I never get are the crazies who say that a limit of 16 weeks or so without exceptions for rape and incest is totes unacceptable. You’ve had 16 weeks to figure this shit out, why would rape and incest victims need an exception? Maybe if it was a six week limit I could see some merit to the exception, but by 16 weeks you know you are knocked up.

      • rhywun

        They are all out there claiming that every GOP candidate wants to ban literally all abortions.

        I don’t think that is accurate, myself.

      • Rat on a train

        I am probably in the minority here. I recognize the taboo of incest but if it isn’t rape incest then I’m less concerned. It takes generations of incest for inbreeding to reinforce genetic errors.

      • Fourscore

        Maybe but looking at the crop of politicians has me wondering

  39. The Late P Brooks

    the IPO market this year is a disaster.

    I would not shed a tear if the IPO machine dried up and blew away. Stay private, focus on your business.

    • Sensei

      I can defend it, but it most certainly is abused as well.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Dems seem to think they still own black people.

    I, uh…

  41. Brawndo

    “B​lowback to the suggested diplomatic tack ​arrived quickly.

    “Vladimir Putin would have signed that letter if asked,” a House Democratic leader told Politico. ”

    RUSSIAN AGENTS!!!

    • Pat

      I knew that name sounded familiar for some reason other than the obvious historical figure. He and Eminem exchanged two of the lamest diss tracks in the history of rap a few years ago.

    • rhywun

      He looks like I’d catch something unpleasant if I got too close. Ick.

      • Sean

        LOL

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      gross

  42. Brawndo

    I work in manufacturing, specifically welding I-beams for structural projects. My company is having a great year, and we all just got bonuses, so I’m wondering if the lowered demand for manufacturing is ahead, and that’s something I’ll start to see in the coming weeks.

    • Ted S.

      I got a 2% raise.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    RUSSIAN AGENTS!!!

    STOOGES! LACKEYS! PAWNS! PUPPETS!

  44. Pope Jimbo

    All hair the new King!

    “You don’t choose the mullet. The mullet chooses you,” Salvadore told the Times Union last week.

  45. Rebel Scum

    Allow me to square that circle.

    Georgia saw record early voting turnout for this year’s midterms.

    Karine Jean-Pierre said blacks are still being suppressed but she couldn’t name any voter suppression in Georgia.

    “Of course, high turnout and voter suppression can take place at the same time. They don’t have to be – one doesn’t have to happen on its own,” Karine Jean-Pierre said.

    Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn’t say if Joe Biden was wrong to compare Georgia voting law to “Jim Crow.”

    • R.J.

      Help help! I’m being suppressed!

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Movers. Shakers. String-pullers.

    The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is at its lowest point in decades. But that hasn’t stopped Wall Street executives and some of the world’s wealthiest investors from gathering in Riyadh for a conference that’s nicknamed “Davos in the Desert.”

    On Tuesday, Jamie Dimon and David Solomon, the CEOs of J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, respectively, shared a stage with billionaires Stephen Schwarzman, of The Blackstone Group, and Ray Dalio, who founded the world’s largest hedge fund.

    Former President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also appeared at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, and former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is scheduled to speak on Wednesday. Both Kushner and Mnuchin now run private equity funds backed by Saudi Arabia.

    But no cabinet officials or senior staff from the Biden administration are there, because the White House is currently reevaluating its partnership with Saudi Arabia.

    That’ll teach ’em. Joe has principles.

  47. robc

    server error test

    • UnCivilServant

      I wonder what sets it off so that particular comments keep making it error

      • robc

        It wouldn’t work with the link in plain text, but I enclosed it in a-tags and it worked. Huh.

      • UnCivilServant

        Except it didn’t. There’s a lack of sucrose in that link.

      • rhywun

        In my experience what sets it off is the amount of care you put into a response and whether you forgot to Control-C it before hitting Post.

  48. Certified Public Asshat

    Here’s a truth few will say aloud but I will:Being a senator is America’s easiest job. You just have to sit there & say “yay” or “nay.”This notion that @JohnFetterman can’t do that job because he’s recovering from a health event is moronic — and everyone in media knows it.— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 26, 2022

    So easy, anyone can do it.

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean at this point a horse may be an improvement

      • Grosspatzer

        Caligula was a Roman(Ian)?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That seems to be an explicit admission that senators are supposed to vote the way their party tells them to and do nothing else.

      Sirota, as usual, proves himself a useless twat.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        And that’s a stunning endorsement of DEMOCRACY

      • Gender Traitor

        …I always voted at my party’s call
        And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
        I thought so little they rewarded me
        By making me the ruler of the Queen’s Navy.

        /Gilbert and Sullivan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfao1s3Tiek

    • Sensei

      It’s easy – “Should David Sirota be imprisoned for life or not? Yes or no?”

    • Pope Jimbo

      A compelling point in support:

      Evaman 01

      If Feinstein can zombie her way through this then fetterman who just needs some more time to read a teleprompter will be fine

    • Gustave Lytton

      Recovering from a health event would be his foot is in a cast. The guy is a brain damaged loon. So is Sirota.

  49. PieInTheSky

    Maria Roberta Gherca – BEST moments

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5SCF74zFsI

    I am not sure if the skimpy shorts are imposed on athletes by the patriarchy or there is a choice element because i remember seeing jumpers with less revealing outfits

    • Sean

      Yes!

      #TeamGherca

  50. The Late P Brooks

    President Biden, who has raised concern over the country’s human rights record, is upset Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pushed for deep cuts to oil production earlier this month, which has led to higher energy prices.

    At the same time, Saudi Arabia has a $600 billion government investment fund, and the country is telegraphing its ambitions beyond traditional energy.

    There are panels at the conference on artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, tourism and hospitality, and investing. Other speakers include Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and Ben Horowitz, one of the world’s best-known venture capitalists.

    The Saudis use oil production as leverage (or a weapon)?

    And they want to diversify their econom.? Haven’t we heard that before?

    • Drake

      *Shrugs* We just “diversified” our economy away from oil production, why can’t they?

    • PieInTheSky

      And they want to diversify their econom – well they are building that dystopian linear city thing

    • rhywun

      Her grammatical choice is in line with her political positions: Meloni is a neofascist who opposes abortion and LGBTQ rights.

      OFFS. 🙄

      • PieInTheSky

        her pronoun is Duce

    • Pine_Tree

      Sorta related to what might be her reasons – my oldest daughter (19) is a firefighter in a neighboring county. Fairly small-framed but fit and strong enough to pass all the strength and endurance requirements in training (only female that made it through in her class), but otherwise very classically feminine.

      Anyway, she always makes sure to say she’s a “fireman”, just to tweak anybody who’s sensitive enough to be bothered by it.

      The folks that aren’t super-sensitive generally immediately get what she’s doing and play along.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    That seems to be an explicit admission that senators are supposed to vote the way their party tells them to and do nothing else.

    And raise money for the Inner Party. That’s their most important job of all.

  52. PieInTheSky

    it literally took the US less time to put a man on the moon in the 1960’s than it does to build protected bus/bike lanes in the year 2022

    what are we even doing here

    https://twitter.com/sam_d_1995/status/1584990467716190208

    I blame extreme libertarianism myself

    • UnCivilServant

      Of the two, I’d rather be sending people to the moon than building bike lanes.

    • R.J.

      I enjoyed that this morning, thanks!

    • rhywun

      Community veto regimes and citizens concerned about parking and road widths are literally a more powerful force than gravity

      Conveniently leaves out the ridiculous EPA regulations and union work slowages.

      • Rat on a train

        How dare people who live on the route voice their opinion. The small percentage that ride bikes should make the decisions. They pay taxes too, which by the way, I demand the right to drag race the flight strip. My taxes paid for the airport.

    • Gustave Lytton

      So called protected bike/bus lanes are dangerous, unnecessary, and a waste of money. Retards run city planning departments these days.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I’d like living in a bike-able city/town. That place is not Seattle, or any existing city for that matter.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Pretty much every college town is bikeable. Or used to be.

      • Nephilium

        It’s also not any city that gets regular snow and ice, unless you want multiple bikes and kit.

        I would also rather bike on a road with a turn lane and two lanes going in either direction, then the new style of bike lane, one lane in each direction, and then a divider in the center.

      • PieInTheSky

        I am sometimes surprised how few people die biking in Amsterdam since they are all maniacs and no one believes in helmets and such,

      • PieInTheSky

        or maybe there is a libertarian lesson there about spontaneous organization and such

    • Pope Jimbo

      This is almost a Ray of Sunshine …. Minnesoda suburb withdraws support for a new bus line

      The Maplewood City Council has withdrawn its support for the proposed Purple Line bus-rapid transit project until more study can be done to determine the city’s best public transit option.

      Monday’s vote, which was unanimous, came after council members raised questions in the past month about the route of the Purple Line through the city and whether the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed ridership patterns on public transportation, given the rise of remote work.

      Now if only they’d admit that the new light rail line they are trying to build is a total waste of money and just stop.

  53. PieInTheSky

    The Chinese government has been accused of establishing at least two undeclared “police stations” in the Netherlands.

    Dutch media found evidence that the “overseas service stations”, which promise to provide diplomatic services, are being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in Europe.

    A spokeswoman for the Dutch foreign ministry said the existence of the unofficial police outposts was illegal.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63395617

  54. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    That song still gives me chills.

    As do most of your lynx, but not in the same way.

    My stoicism is gonna be tested.

  55. PieInTheSky

    just found out about Kiuchi Nobuo, a Japanese POW captured by the Soviets in Manchuria in 1945, and his *insanely horny* drawings of female Soviet officers at his internment camp in Ukraine
    there’s a lot of good stuff here honestly – lots of humanizing anecdotes from the aftermath of the war. very very nice find

    https://twitter.com/tara_chara/status/1584910606213255168

    • R.J.

      It’s great. I can’t seem to see all the pictures on his original site. May have to boot up the PC.

    • Tundra

      Really cool.

      Thanks, Pie!

    • Sensei

      Thanks!

    • Count Potato

      moon blindness?

    • Drake

      Interesting to think about Japanese POWs in Soviet camps.

    • slumbrew

      POW knocking up a local girl. That’s unexpected.

      Some Ukrainians must have had some surprising ancestry DNA tests.

    • Count Potato

      How is that even possible?

      • Tres Cool

        MRSA

  56. DEG

    On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court ruled that New York City must reinstate all employees that were fired because of their vaccination status.

    Remember, this is a trial court.

    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who caused a stir this summer by questioning the quality of his party’s candidates, has created a new rift inside the GOP by spending millions to defeat Alaska GOP Senate nominee Kelly Tshibaka.

    McConnell’s leadership PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, has been running attack ads against Tshibaka in an effort to boost moderate incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

    The Alaska Republican Party responded Monday by voting to censure McConnell for spreading “divisive and misleading statements” about Tshibaka, who was endorsed both by the state party and former President Donald Trump.

    The money for Murkowski was going to support Don Buldoc in NH.

    Stacey Abrams campaign has been holding policy meetings with black men under the title “Stacey and the Fellahs” but despite those efforts as of six weeks ago she was falling behind the level of support from black voters that she had during her previous run in 2018.

    She might lose her re-election campaign?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Waste money on a race your party is sure to win, that’s some genius strategery.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Nothing says “effective” cleaner like a bacterial contamination.

    isn’t Pine Sol supposed to be a disinfectant?

    Shouldn’t it kill the contaminants?

    • PieInTheSky

      cars are killing the earth

    • Translucent Chum

      It’s clear the solution is to only allow employees to pump air in addition to gas.

    • Sensei

      Is it really a “carjacking” if no firearm was involved?

      • Sean

        IMO, absolutely.

      • Tundra

        Yes.

      • Tres Cool

        I got car-jacked once.
        Luckily I didnt get any on the seat.

        /hey-ooohhhh

      • R.J.

        *applause and cheers

    • Fatty Bolger

      I’m always a little leery about using those, especially since they’re next to the kinds of places that get robbed all the time.

      • UnCivilServant

        My $60 car tire air pump was a great investment.

  58. Rebel Scum

    I really despise this kunte Kelly.

    CAUGHT ON TAPE: @CaptMarkKelly Paid Staffer Reveals Campaign’s Deceptive Strategy to Win Over Independents & Moderate Republicans

    “Say Mark Kelly is pro-life but…absolutely he is not pro-life.”

    “He [Mark Kelly] has to play both sides.”

  59. Rebel Scum

    This is fine.

    A Government laboratory in Maryland plans to make the circulating monkeypox strain more lethal in highly controversial research in mice.

    The team wants to equip the dominant clade – which mostly causes a rash and flu-like symptoms – with genes from another strain that causes severe disease.

    They hope the experiment will reveal how different genes make monkeypox more deadly, and spur the development of better drugs and vaccines for humans.

    • Tundra

      This has to stop. The only reason to do these experiments is to weaponize the bugs. This bullshit about “understanding it so we can fight it” is insane and a flat out lie.

      I have no problem with drone strikes on each and every one of these labs.

  60. Drake

    Gain-of-function research = creating a bio-weapon.

  61. The Late P Brooks

    The team wants to equip the dominant clade – which mostly causes a rash and flu-like symptoms – with genes from another strain that causes severe disease.

    They hope the experiment will reveal how different genes make monkeypox more deadly, and spur the development of better drugs and vaccines for humans.

    Just as long as they test it in the faculty lounge.

    • Tundra

      Excellent! I haven’t listened to them in ages.

      Thanks, Sean!

      • Sean

        🙂