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  1. Shiny Nerfherder

    The top Republican House investigator says his team has uncovered evidence suggesting federal health officials used grant dollars to keep private scientists on script and have them deny COVID-19 originated with a lab accident despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

    No shit Sherlock. The money cudgel is employed everywhere.

    • LJW

      Next they’ll be shocked to find scientists must abide by the climate narrative to get that governement money

    • Pope Jimbo

      What? You mean there isn’t a real reason for limiting hiway funding to states that didn’t raise the drinking age to 21?

      • Pat

        As much as Reagan has become the yardstick by which all subsequent Republican presidents are measured in conservative circles, that’s one of a litany of issues where he was a total joke in office. Some of those things you could justifiably blame on congressional Democrats, but nobody had a gun to his head on that one, or Iran-Contra, or Grenada, or Panama, or Beirut…

      • juris imprudent

        Smaller govt, except for the M.I.C.

        Shit, he didn’t even kill the Dept of Ed as promised.

      • Pat

        Smaller govt, except for the M.I.C.

        Don’t get me wrong either, sometimes that’s as good as you can get, and all the military buildup and saber rattling may arguably have contributed to bringing the Soviets to heel, but all in all I’d say his presidency was as mixed a bag as Trump’s. Then again, the establishment GOP loathed Reagan, too. It wasn’t until he left office and died that they decided to canonize him with Lincoln.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Panama Invasion was Bush, but yeah, Reagan did a lot to set that up.

  2. AlexinCT

    Who’s messing with the Glib blog and crashing it?

      • AlexinCT

        I am too busy going after the crypto exchanges.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Russians

    • Tonio

      SQVRLS.

      • AlexinCT

        I KNEW IT!!!

      • Tonio

        Thanks for that. That’s going in the Glibs media library as a stock illo.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. I actually contributed to the group?

        Don’t you know what that will do to my libertarian street cred?

      • Fourscore

        Oh, you get a second chance

      • Pope Jimbo

        Think of the implications if it gets out that I actually can help out!

        Why, I might not be allowed to wander freely around the Honey Harvest anymore. They might try to get me to help!

      • Pat

        Why, I might not be allowed to wander freely around the Honey Harvest anymore.

        They have taken away Jimbo’s right to gambol!

      • UnCivilServant

        He’s free to gambol – and to help out.

      • Fourscore

        Hopefully Jimbo won’t help too much. Though I have to admit with PONick and now MikeS and Jimbo all in the smoked salmon column I’m not complaining.

        Good to meet UCS (again), Yusef and Putrid Meats (and some new ladies) and all the regulars again. A fine bunch of lads/lassies.
        I regret that we didn’t get a group picture. Next year no one leaves until after the pictures are taken.

      • Lackadaisical

        4 score a Fed?

        I didn’t have that on my bingo card.

    • Rat on a train

      белки – Russian squirrels

  3. AlexinCT

    FTX Collapse Sparks Contagion Fears as Crypto.com Withdrawals Jump

    Really? The only thing people are worried about when looking at a crooked company that basically served as the second biggest donor for the dnc crime syndicate and was involved in absolutely criminal money laundering and money scamming efforts, is that it might look bad on crypto? They are taking people beyond the sale, making them worry about crypto as a viable entity (which it is) while taking their focus away from the fact these people are criminals and they worked with a political party that is a crime syndicate. Do you think if this was being done by team red that the story would be about the viability of crypto? No, you know it would be about criminality. And yeah, now the criminals are hard at work making sure THEY get to write new laws about crypto…

  4. AlexinCT

    How The Implosion Of FTX Connects To The Global Elite

    They will get governments to use tax payer money to refund them their losses while letting the crooks go scot free?

  5. Pat

    Record Low 7% of Voters View Mitch McConnell Favorably

    Because he’s a semi-fascist MAGA Trumper, obviously.

    • WTF

      Pretty sure Cocaine Mitch is hated by both sides.

      • R.J.

        How does he stay there? Is he that unpopular at home?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Same way Harry Reid did; pure, unadulterated power politics.

    • Count Potato

      Do 7% of voter even know who he is?

      • Fourscore

        Do those 7 percenters even know who they are?

      • Count Potato

        If they are voters they got 37 pieces of mail with their name on it.

      • SDF-7

        Forget the questions someone give them another beer?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Oh, they sure do. Those 7% are Up on the facts.

      • Michael Malaise

        Elaine Chow has a large extended family?

  6. AlexinCT

    Record Low 7% of Voters View Mitch McConnell Favorably

    I call bullshit. There are not enough members of the uniparty and the various dnc crime syndicate money grabbing organizations to get past a fraction of a percent for this asshat. This scumbag went out of his way to make his own party lose so he could keep his power. If anyone deserves some kinetic action it is his evil ass.

  7. AlexinCT

    Amazon cuts 10,000 jobs ahead of Christmas

    Think about that. The one company that every fucking year has had to bring on temp staff to cover the Christmas season delivery crunch has up and shed people in crazy numbers. That’s got to bode real bad for everyone involved, and is a clear indicator that they know this season is gonna be anything but merry.

    • UnCivilServant

      I want more details on where the jobs are being cut.

      I mean, after some of their Prime Video fiascos, they might not be in the fulfillment services division…

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s corporate jobs being cut, not warehouse. Especially the device department working on Alexa. Alexa was Bezo’s personal obsession but he’s gone and the new CEO wants no part of it.

        Alex is right though that they are also forecasting worse sales this Christmas due to changed consumer behavior from inflation. That’ll probably mean hiring less seasonal help rather than firing permanent warehouse staff.

      • R.J.

        The number of people who want to pay for eavesdropping devices for their home has reached a natural maximum? What a surprise.

    • WTF

      And yet we are to believe that the vast majority of the country voted for more of the same. I guess it’s plausible, people are idiots after all.

      • AlexinCT

        When you allow ballot harvesting, you are basically creating a system to have the least informed and most disconnected sell their vote for peanuts.

      • WTF

        Ballot harvesting, universal unsecured mail ballots, ballot “curing”, un-auditable ballot counts, etc. When we see these things in other countries, we say their election process is not legitimate. But for us it’s somehow just fine.

      • Pat

        We’ve toppled South American governments for less.

      • AlexinCT

        It is not an accident, but by design, that our election system has been taken down to the level of a banana republic. The uniparty is doing this, by design, because the populist movement has become a serious problem for their agenda to sell Americans out to a global reset movement. They don’t care how obvious it is that the system – like every other system in the Fed Gov and most State Govs – has come unraveled and is being played, because it is an existential threat to them and their ability to keep stealing from the productive.

      • Drake

        Bracken has some harsh memes this morning.

      • Sean

        Pfizer advent calendar. lulz.

      • Lackadaisical

        Democrats actually got fewer votes than Republicans, so there is no ‘car majority’ voting for more of the same, unless you mean more uniparty role, in which case, yes we are that dumb.

      • UnCivilServant

        That data point in isolation is only an emotional comfort, as it’s no different from the electoral college situation. If those votes were red areas getting redder, it has limited effect outside of those localities.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think so. I think electoral sorting during the past 6 years ended up favoring Democrats as some moved out of the mega cities and some conservatives escaped from purple districts that locked down to redder pastures.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      They doubled their staffing during COVID. This is just trimming the fat for them.

      Meanwhile,small businesses continue to take in the ass.

    • Sean

      I’m still hiring…

      • AlexinCT

        Hookers, bartenders, and cooks?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Gig economy.

    • SDF-7

      Alternate take — they’ve overextended, flush with pandemic work-from-home / order-everything-online funds and are bleeding customers because Prime subscriptions are getting too high and on the “scale back” chopping block, they’ve blown goodwill and way too much money on crap like “Rings of Power” and (personal bias here) they’ve neglected their core eshopping algorithm for so damned long you can’t find anything by search unless you want three pages of “Amazon Recommended” Chinese knockoffs, Kindle books you ALREADY HAVE (this one really burns me… the book algorithm has sucked for so long… and now it doesn’t even account for crap you bought from them before?!?), etc.

      Combined with shipping times being all over the place (due to the shipping companies), which made competitors like Walmart and Target look just as good — their retail ops are likely in a bit of a tizzy. I expect their Cloud Services are doing fine (because for some stupid / crazy reason, businesses think not paying their IT people but giving all their data to 3rd parties is a great idea… I’ve never understood it), they just need to tighten some belts.

      • Nephilium

        Quite a few of the larger companies want to get out of the data center business. They’re expensive to maintain, require specialized staff, and make the company responsible if there’s any outage. I have a feeling it’s going to be cyclical like most things. Companies will use cloud/leased data centers, there will be a big outage at one that causes problems for multiple large customers, the large customers start bringing it back in house, then they decide they need to cut expenses, and start moving back to cloud/leased data centers…

      • invisible finger

        I’ve been in IT so long I’ve seen things go from centralized to decentralized to centralized to decentralized on at least 5 full cycles. Nothing winds up reducing costs, it’s just pushing the costs from one account in the ledger to another.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think this theory can be pushed to any maintenance or operations field.

      • Nephilium

        Same here. One company I worked at, one of the first big projects was pushing calls from the local offices to a call center, last project I worked on was pushing calls from the call center to the local offices…

      • Sean

        Bring back The Tick!

      • Nephilium

        SPOOON!

      • Rat on a train

        Best product placement ever.

      • Rat on a train

        AWS has a lot of government contracts. Azure and GCP are competing but AWS had the big head start as the only option for awhile.

      • Pat

        (because for some stupid / crazy reason, businesses think not paying their IT people but giving all their data to 3rd parties is a great idea… I’ve never understood it)

        On the bright side, at least they don’t have fat contracts with the military and intelligence agencies such that the government can leverage hundreds of billions of dollars to get them to cough up private data or anything.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Why isn’t there a button I can click when I want to get my order up over $25 for free same day shipping?

        OK, I added something for $10 and you show me a message saying that “if you buy qualified items for over $25 you will get free same day shipping!”. Now let me search only qualified items to see if there is anything worthwhile!

        So nope, I just don’t buy anything more and wait a day.

      • Pat

        Why isn’t there a button I can click when I want to get my order up over $25 for free same day shipping?

        Same reason milk and bread is all the way in the back of the grocery store.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not sure what grocery store you go to but bread is right next to the door (bakery) and in the middle (national brand loaves) at mine.

        Admittedly the milk is at the back still.

      • Pat

        Heh, the Walmart out here did a full-store renovation last year and moved the bread back about 5 aisles. The bakery is at the front right off the deli and produce section though. Most stores keep staples like that deeper into the building so you have more opportunities to view merchandising displays and impulse items.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So you are saying whites to the back?

      • Michael Malaise

        Do you even Chocolate Milk or Pumpernickel bro?

      • Michael Malaise

        Milk is at the back because that’s where the cold stuff that needs to stay cold comes in and it’s easier to restock from inside than the middle of the store. Also! Our nearby Krogers have a smaller milk and eggs display at the very front by the self checkouts.

        (I don’t disagree that putting staples at the back and having people walk through all of the other shit makes business sense)

      • Nephilium

        There was a webpage that used to search Amazon for just that purpose.

  8. Trigger Hippie

    “So you have someone like Dr. Fauci that had complete control over the entire pandemic,” he said. “And his advisers and all these medical experts were signing on to everything, essentially giving him a blank check to say whatever he wanted to say, to shut down whatever industry he wanted to shut down, to make our kids have to go virtual instead of in person. And the whole time they were receiving grants from Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci.”

    All these people should spend the rest of their lives rotting in a prison cell.

    • AlexinCT

      They won’t. They control the corrupt system, so they can always protect each other. The only way someone like Fauci gets to go to prison is when it will be a bigger benefit to the cabal to do this to him than it is to protect him so others keep doing the criminal bidding of the master class.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I said should, not will. Of course they won’t. Sometimes I wish I was still a bad Christian so I could indulge in the very un-Christ-like comfort of knowing they’ll spend eternity in Hell.

      • Suthenboy

        I figure Fauci will have to buy a fake mustache and live in Costa Rica. If people see him on the street his head will end up on a pike.

    • Lackadaisical

      “So you have someone like Dr. Fauci that had complete control over the entire pandemic,”

      Bullshit.

      Everyone has a little blame to take for the pandemic response. From the governors on down to you and me.

      • Ozymandias

        What you mean “we,” kemosabe?

      • Lackadaisical

        I know I didn’t do everything I absolutely could have to resist the bullshit lockdowns and related craziness. And maybe I should have, whatever the personal cost.

      • Ownbestenemy

        “We” is probably in the numbers of maybe globally…1 million… Out of 8 billion

      • Trigger Hippie

        ^

        I didn’t take the clot shot. I refused to enter businesses that required me to mask up. I didn’t promote the lockdowns or layoffs. I publicly decried the entire fiasco. What else was I supposed to do to? Take to the streets and loudly protest? We’ve seen how well that turned out for the Canadians.

      • UnCivilServant

        I suppose an armed revolt is the new minimum standard of noncompliance.

      • Trigger Hippie

        And here I am without a firearm in my possession.

      • juris imprudent

        How are you stocked on pitchforks and torches?

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, maybe it was more prudent what we all did. I don’t know, maybe that’s getting into the means and methods of resistance. I just feel like maybe there is something more I should have done.

        Besides withdrawing my consent(and that imperfectly at best in my own case…) What else should I have done? I witnessed the greatest abridgement of freedom this country in the past 50 years and did not do much to stop it. I dunno.

        Proverbially setting yourself on fire probably isn’t the right response (e.g. like the truckers) but it does make you wonder if everyone had would anything be better?

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^This

        It peeled back a part of the human psyche that revealed in each and every person the desire to have control over another. Those that said Fuck Off! Are in a very tiny minority that is probably a statistical blip.

      • Jarflax

        Everybody thinks they will be the dude refusing to salute Hitler, but the reason that image is iconic is that it was one dude in a crowd of 10s of thousands. Odds are overwhelmingly high that you’d be sieg heiling along with the crowd.

      • Ozymandias

        I don’t care if everyone “sieg heils” in front of the fascists, as long as they’re doing their part to hide the (((unvaxxed))) and otherwise engaging in malicious compliance w/ the bioterror state – to the extent that they can. We all do what we can do, but you first have to decide to actually do something.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Don’t mistake someone bringing up reality that freedom and liberty are thinly held with not recognizing and commending the efforts of those that are fighting back and taking the stand.

      • Ozymandias

        I forcefully agree with you, OBE.
        …While I also (simultaneously) believe that we need to encourage our fellow Americans to adopt those habits that produce traits necessary for supporters of Liberty and – concomitantly – that we denigrate and shame cowardice and the other vile and low traits that destroy Liberty.

      • Tundra

        Landmesser ended up dead anyway. I agree with you. Salute in public, agitate and sabotage in private.

      • Plisade

        “Swear allegiance to the flag
        Whatever flag they offer
        Never hint at what you really feel
        Teach the children quietly
        For some day sons and daughters
        Will rise up and fight while we stood still”

    • Michael Malaise

      People blame Trump for not standing up to them enough, and I suppose that’s true to an extent. But, he basically had everyone against him if he wanted to push back.

      • MikeS

        But, he basically had everyone against him if he wanted to push back.

        Except the pro-Trump crowd tells us “pushing back” is exactly what he excelled at.

      • Michael Malaise

        I am neither Pro or Anti-Trump, but I don’t believe that was the reason for any of his success.

        1. He was a political outsider at a time when people were looking for one (Clinton vs. Jeb! — no thanks)
        2. He was a honest liar, as Chapelle said. He told you about how the system worked from the inside. (Being rich still places him as a part of the connected/elite/whatever you call it.)
        3. He said things that no groomed politician would say in their right mind and it was refreshing to hear.

        Now, once on the job, he was instantly compromised by Washington because that’s what Washington does to anyone who is an outsider. He played along with the Covid stuff because for awhile it was really unknown how bad it would ultimately be, and he didn’t want to play the part of “loser who killed millions.”

        The only real long term way out is a national divorce (logistically difficult) or a strong man who shares your political beliefs and isn’t afraid to kill many, many people to enforce them.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      It was primarily Vanguard and Blackrock that kept it afloat.

      And Vanguard and Blackrock had their own agenda, which is coordinated with the government.

      The line between corporate and government interests is so blurred that there is no distinguishing the two anymore.

      • Suthenboy

        Is there a word to describe that economic system? It is right on the tip of my tongue……

      • WTF

        You know who else employed that economic system?

      • Nephilium

        Free Market Capitalism… right?

      • SDF-7

        I’m sure once you remember it, it will stick.

      • juris imprudent

        There’s a whole bundle there.

        However the way our govt does it, it should be called fecist.

    • Pat

      To be fair, that’s been standard operating procedure since the ’90s dotcom bubble. Apparently the only thing wrong with company towns was that they didn’t have foosball tables.

      • slumbrew

        We had “free” bagels every Thursday back when we were quite a bit smaller.

        People raised a stink when they finally ended that around 2009, to the point that the CEO had to address it in our regular all-hands meeting “it was costing us the equivalent of 2 engineer salaries annually – we felt it was more important to have people keep their jobs vs. having bagels”.

        That ended the grumbling for all but the most self-entitled. Of which there were plenty.

      • UnCivilServant

        How many bagels did your company go through each week?

      • Sean

        Their cream cheese budget was ridiculous.

      • UnCivilServant

        Security wanted more Lox.

      • Not Adahn

      • slumbrew

        A pile, at multiple offices. Plus cream cheese, etc. That was the issue – it had slowly grown to be a a couple grand a week across all the locations.

      • Michael Malaise

        That is a good way to frame it.

  9. Count Potato

    “The Pandemic Industrial Complex Is Drying Up, As Thousands Of ‘Pandemic Experts’ Are Laid Off”

    I could have done that job.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Are you a psychopath? Or at least a sociopath?

      If not, then no, you couldn’t have.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’m confused. Are you saying the supreme court will rule for the administration because it won’t take up the case?

      • Pat

        They’ll most likely be forced to take it up eventually when there’s a circuit split, and I’m predicting Roberts does his “deference to elected branches” shtick and Coney-Barrett joins, yes.

      • Lackadaisical

        Got it, thanks for clarifying.

        I don’t know how it will go, but I think your right in Roberts, there isn’t an executive power he doesn’t approve of.

  10. Suthenboy

    “Record Low 7% of Voters View Mitch McConnell Favorably”
    No, they don’t.

    “Inside House Republicans’ Fiery Closed Door Meeting”
    R’s never miss and opportunity to miss and opportunity. No excuse for this shit.

    When have the D’s paid any attention to what the courts have to say?

    The Feds covered up their leading role in the cootie bug crisis? Shocked. I am shocked I tell. you. Who could have guessed that?

    The rest of the links: The voters are getting what they voted for, good and hard.

    • Count Potato

      “The voters are getting what they voted for, good and hard.”

      Maybe. AZ has had a suspicious number of problems — sending ballots to the wrong people, tabulators that didn’t work, etc.

    • straffinrun

      I view McConnell unfavorably and 93% of the has never agreed with me on anything.

    • Trigger Hippie

      “Everyone else’s Congress Critter is evil and corrupt. Mine is a beacon of light and justice. Plus I HAVE to vote for my guy cuz the other guy is so horrible.”

      It’s a stupid but there it is. McConnell could very well have that approval rating but it means fuck all when the people in that state operate under the thought process above.

      • Michael Malaise

        He wins with 60-75% of the vote in his district. That’s really all he needs.

      • Michael Malaise

        Whoops. State. He’s one of them Senators.

  11. Pat

    I’ll leave you with a song

    Nice selection. Flogging Molly is one of those bands I couldn’t listen to all the time, but that really scratches an itch when you get it.

    • Nephilium

      They really went downhill when the lead singer got sober though (it was after the Drunken Lullabies album). If you like them, there’s a band out of New York that’s solid as well called The Prodigals. Unfortunately, the past couple of years have had them be basically radio silence as they couldn’t tour.

      • Pat

        They really went downhill when the lead singer got sober though

        Happens to a lot of bands, unfortunately. A drug-addled 20-25 year old mind seems to be the sweet spot for making good rock and pop music. It’s all compilation albums, “revival” festivals, mid market headliner tours, and eventually a Las Vegas residency from there.

        I’ve heard The Prodigals before, but had completely forgotten about them. I might have to snag their discography for my music backlog, which means I’ll listen to it in about 7 years.

      • Nephilium

        The Prodigals had a rough spot as the lead singers twin brother died during the Haiti earthquake during the Obama years. He was there doing humanitarian aid, and it took them off their game for a while. For many years, they were the free afternoon show on St. Patrick’s Day at the House of Blues. There were several years when some of the members of the band had been… overserved.

  12. Rufus the Monocled

    Looks like America will indeed remain in a perpetual state of emergency. After 40 years of visiting the U.S. a few times a year, it appears I won’t be able to visit for an indefinite period of time. How absurd. All over mRNA injections. Never thought America was this corrupt. Canada is worse but still, for all the yapping America does about liberty….bah. I’m just jaded about all this.

    Laying off workers around Christmas time is just about the lowest thing an employer or company can do. Especially one owned by a multi-billionaire aiming to corner the orange juice market like Bezos.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      I’ll reply to myself. What does the U.S. expect? People to get their 4th, 5th etc. shots when demand has collapsed globally? Makes no sense what they’re doing other than to be a lap dog to the military-medical-pharm industrial manufacturing complex. Yet, people who had just two shots will get in? Will they have to present ‘proof of vaccination’ for being ‘up to date’ like stupid cattle? Nothing makes sense. Worse, the U.S. voted for a status quo.

      • Nephilium

        Worse, the U.S. voted for a status quo.

        Yeah. That’s the part that gets me. I knew I was in a minority, I didn’t think it was that small of a minority though.

      • AlexinCT

        The US didn’t vote for anything. The people in power abused their emergency protocols to make sure the people counting the votes decided the outcome.

      • Drake

        This.
        They are still “counting” votes a week after the election to get the desired outcome.

        Florida is what a legit election looks like.

      • Nephilium

        So the party cheated to have DeWine win both the primary and the election?

      • Drake

        Didn’t Ohio clean up their process after an embarrassing election a few years ago? While I don’t like DeWine, the state seems to be trending redder since then. Similar to Florida.

      • Nephilium

        DeWine was big on lockdowns, big on the state shutting things down, and he cruised to re-election. DeWine got slapped down by the Republican state house over his abuse of “emergency powers” to the point where a veto was overridden.

        It appears that people liked the shutdowns and lockdowns.

      • Suthenboy

        “It appears that people liked the shutdowns and lockdowns.”

        “If you scare people they will do anything you tell them to do.” – Rudolf Eichman

      • Suthenboy

        Wasn’t there an ad on TV recently where a group of sterotypical teenage victims were fleeing from a masked killer and their master plan was to hide behind a large brace of chainsaws? Eichmann chuckles.

      • Jarflax

        Renacci and Blystone split the angry over the lockdowns vote in the primary. Dewine won with a plurality. A sitting Governor winning his primary with a plurality is not the people voting for the status quo. But populist movements have a big uphill fight because by definition outsiders don’t understand the game well.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That ad has been around and is funny as it plays on horror film tropes. The chainsaws…running car…run upstairs…

        Funny commercial actually

      • Trigger Hippie

        “Head for the cemetery!”

      • juris imprudent

        Yes, we are that small a minority. The exercises in denial are swimming up a river in Egypt.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’ll reply to myself. What does the U.S. expect? People to get their 4th, 5th etc. shots when demand has collapsed globally?

        Will they have to present ‘proof of vaccination’ for being ‘up to date’ like stupid cattle?

        Certainly US children will now that the Covid vax is on the CDC schedule. Or else the parents will ultimately face imprisonment and an unleashed CPS due to the compulsory nature of school. Some states are temporarily waiving the Covid vax mandate for children, but that can be reversed at any time.

        Homeschooling may help, but it’s state dependent. I think a CA glib recently mentioned his homeschooled children are still caught in the school mandate. Even within states, there can be different types of homeschooling and you may have to pick the right one.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Home of the free and brave.

        Unreal.

      • Count Potato

        “Certainly US children will now that the Covid vax is on the CDC schedule.”

        That’s the most nonsensical thing ever.

    • Michael Malaise

      At least we aren’t “humanely” killing our mentally ill. Yet.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Bezos owns less than 10% now and is not involved in day to day, though he is still chairman of the board.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Health officials are expecting a new tranche of about $3 billion in relief funding sometime this month, according to KHN, but that money will come after most of the Foundation-funded employees have seen their contracts run out and moved on to new ventures.


    Important jobs, like cleaning up bum shit off the sidewalk.

  14. Count Potato

    “Maricopa election officials launched PAC in 2021 to stop MAGA candidates

    The PAC called Pro Democracy Republicans of Arizona claims on their website that they are “fighting to keep our democratic institutions alive.”

    It has been revealed that embattled Arizona’s Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and Supervisor Chairman Bill Gates in 2021 started a political action committee to stop MAGA candidates.

    On November 17, 2021, Meg Cunningham from the Kansas City Beacon tweeted that Richer, “the Maricopa County recorder, is launching a PAC to support Rs running for non-federal AZ offices who ‘acknowledge the validity of the 2020 election and condemn the events of Jan. 6, 2021, as a terrible result of the lies told about the November election.’

    Richer retweeted her saying, “Thanks to a few generous donors this is now launching. Join me if you care about traditional Republican ‘stuff’ (free people, free markets, rule of law), but also don’t believe in conspiracies about the 2020 election or that Jan 6 was a tourist event.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/maricopa-election-officials-launched-pac-in-2021-to-stop-maga-candidates

    THERE IS NO CANNIBALISM IN THE ROYAL NAVY

    • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

      Hush, you! Everyone says all of our elections are clean!tm and no amount of cheating or underhanded actions have happened. This is just what the people want

  15. Pat

    Homeowners Have Lost Collective $1.5 Trillion in Home Equity Since May

    I was just graduating high school and beginning college during the last housing bubble and subsequent collapse, and as a dumbass 18 year old kid I remember thinking “How the fuck does anyone expect to keep getting 20% annual increases in their home price and living off the home equity lines of credit?” Now as a grumpy prick entering middle age, I still wonder How the fuck does anyone expect to keep getting 20% annual increases in their home price and living off the home equity lines of credit? Seriously, what market fundamentals did anyone think were holding up the edifice? I guess this is why I’m broke, I’m obviously too stupid to see what’s plain to everyone else.

    • Lackadaisical

      1. Buy a house in 9 months in credit
      2. Wait for appreciation
      3. ????
      4. Profit

      • UnCivilServant

        Sell before the crash. #3 is Sell before the crash

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s why it’s in ‘???’ because no one knows when the crash is.

        Some people I talked to thought now would be a better time to buy than when I did 8 months ago. So far they’ve been wrong and prices in my market haven’t changed appreciably whereas financing has made costs balloon.

        Eventually it will get to the right place, but there is a cost in not owning a home as well (rent plus other inconveniences).

      • UnCivilServant

        As long as you sell when the prices are higher than your expenses, you’ve done so before the crash. There’s no need to get up to the bleeding edge, just beat your costs.

    • Michael Malaise

      I have a rule to never borrow against my house.

      • Fourscore

        That’s a smart rule and get the house paid for as soon as you can. Opens up more options.

      • UnCivilServant

        I borrowed against the house to pay for the roof. I won’t borrow against it for anything that isn’t fixing the house proper.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      You need a place to live and a mortgage payment is fixed while rent is not.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Advocates say the public health sector has long been underfunded….

    There’s a shocking revelation.

  17. Rufus the Monocled

    So. A person who held ‘slave parties’ and refused to debate is elected in AZ.

    Did Get this right?

    Canada is retarded. It’s the piece of shit with the corn stuck in its head. But USA. Come on, brahs.

    • UnCivilServant

      No, the person who controlled the electoral process and decided not to recuse herself ‘won’.

      • juris imprudent

        The Stacey Abrams gambit.

      • R C Dean

        Perhaps that merely means that Hobbs is more competent than Abrams?

      • juris imprudent

        Kemp

      • R C Dean

        Of course. Duh.

    • WTF

      “Elected”. Sure. It was pretty obvious once the “counting” dragged on for a week that they were going to find a way to find enough “votes” for Hobbs, who just coincidentally was in charge of the whole process.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Even if the process was legit, the appearance of impropriety is enough in this case to treat it as illegitimate.

      • straffinrun

        Yep. If every time they take extra long to count the blue team wins, it delegitimizes the election regardless if there’s rampant fraud or not.

      • Rat on a train

        Whycome people no trust institutions?

      • Lackadaisical

        So much, THIS.

        Anyone who had ever taken a 30 minute training on ethics should know you avoid the appearance of impropriety as well as the fact of it.

        This stinks to high heaven, whatever the result was going to be.

      • Jarflax

        The Democrats have been in the business of urban machine politics for 150 years. Why does it still shock people?

      • rhywun

        It’s a little jarring to witness them take it nationwide.

      • Jarflax

        They haven’t really. It is still local. They have just added a few cities over time, and the urban/rural population ratio has shifted giving them a bit more power. New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago have been ballot harvesting and setting rules to guarantee machine control for a long time.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve always wondered what this country would look like had we had fraud-free elections from the word go.

    • Aloysious

      Beautiful.

  18. Shiny Nerfherder

    This was an interesting read. It definitely made me go back and question some assumptions.

    https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/07/that-mrna-vaccines-cause-cells-to-produce-spike-proteins-is-a-fairy-tale/

    Scoglio makes a salient point, that nobody has measured spike protein levels in vivo after vaccination. It’s simply an assertion of the manufacturers that the shots actually work as advertised.

    He posits that the contents of the clotshots are simply immunogenic poison and are sufficient by themselves to create the health problems we’re seeing.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Whereas in other vaccines such as the ones for children, you have to introduce aluminum, for instance, to make the immune system respond. But here, you don’t need to add anything because this material is as toxic as aluminum or worse. It’s so highly toxic that as soon as you inject it the immune system attacks it and then it explodes into millions of nano-particles in the body.

      This is actually what has been proven afterwards. Because the only study that has evaluated the biodistribution of the Pfizer Corona “vaccine” is a Japanese study done by the government in co-operation with Pfizer.

      Pfizer tried to secrete this study, but it was released through a Freedom of Information Act, in short FOIA, request.

      And in this study they found that in the mice into which they injected the material, especially the lipids were found unaltered, unmodified, unchanged. That means, if they had entered the cells, they would’ve been metabolized and you wouldn’t have found them in the same way you have injected them. That means they have not entered into any cell, but they diffused in all organs of the body, and particularly liver, spleen, female ovary and kidneys.

      • robc

        “Pfizer tried to secrete this study, but it was released through a Freedom of Information Act, in short FOIA, request.”

        So was that sentence translated from Japanese or something?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        He’s Italian, cut him a break.

    • Grummun

      It [the spike protein] is an artificial laboratory product, absolutely. Also because the virus doesn’t exist. And the virus doesn’t exist because it has never been proven to exist, has never been isolated. We have made almost 250 FOIA requests around the world asking “can you show me the documentation about the isolation and therefore of the identification and therefore of the existence of the virus?” – and we got the same answer 250 times: “We do not have it.

      Am I misreading this, or is he saying that the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not exist? What have people been sequencing then?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I read it as “Until we isolate the virus and prove its existence, we have to assume it is simply an assertion not grounded in any scientific basis.”

      • UnCivilServant

        The thing about FOIL/FOIA requests is that you have to specifically identify the documents you’re seeking, and if you’re sloppy in that identification, the agency loves to find ways that it doesn’t apply to anything in their records because they hate answering these requests. So 250 “Your FOI request is garbage” responses means little unless he produces the requests which show the documents he was asking for, I can’t say his responses indicate the nonisolation of a virus.

      • juris imprudent

        Doesn’t exist naturally in any original host species.

  19. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — really good (for me… not for Hype, still haven’t cracked 4 minutes) first round… sucky main event. LL can die in a fire. Almost no shared letters with the others and then a “guess this *one* letter right!” mess at the end. Took 3. 😛

    Daily Duotrigordle #258
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 04:24.76
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 295
    6️⃣3️⃣
    9️⃣4️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 295
      7️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 295
      6️⃣3️⃣
      9️⃣4️⃣

      Looks familiar.

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 295
      8️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣7️⃣

      bleh

      • Jarflax

        Daily Quordle 295
        3️⃣8️⃣
        6️⃣9️⃣

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 295
      6️⃣3️⃣
      7️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grummun

      7 3
      8 5

    • Necron 99

      Daily Quordle 295
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Utter horseshit. I don’t believe that result for a second.

      • AlexinCT

        You shouldn’t. This is battlespace prep by team blue as they need this to go to courts and give them more time to find enough ballots to make it look like their crook made it over the finish line.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s what Stacey Abrams said!

      • UnCivilServant

        Keep telling yourself you have a point and you might start to believe it.

      • juris imprudent

        Either her complaint had validity or your’s does not.

      • UnCivilServant

        So lay out the suspicious activity that supports her claim.

        You don’t have a winning argument, just your blind faith.

      • UnCivilServant

        And after her first complaint, voter verification was implemented, and she moved even further from victory.

        So If we implement more voter veirfication in all juristications, I’ll be happy.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I know you’re on your hobbyhorse of “the people are stupid and wanted this result,” and while I don’t disagree with the premise of “there are a lot of stupid people out there,” the mere presence of idiots does not rule out fraud as well.

        There are enough irregularities, enough history of irregularities, enough people in the administration of the system openly admitting their bias and intent, a brazenly open conflict of interest by the person in charge of the election, and sufficiently high stakes to question the result.

        I’d have to go back and review the Georgia situation in order to comment on it. Maybe Abrams had a valid complaint, maybe she didn’t.

      • Jarflax

        Either her complaint had validity or your’s does not.

        Are you seriously asserting that either all complaints about election validity are valid, or none are? Because that may be the most tortured misunderstanding of logic I have ever seen. Election validity is a question of fact, and necessarily the answer to the question must be specific to an individual election.

      • juris imprudent

        Neither one is based on facts in evidence, they are the conjectures of losers.

        That doesn’t mean they are automatically false, but at this point they are equivalent. As I recall Abrams was roundly dismissed as verging on lunacy.

      • Pat

        Neither one is based on facts in evidence

        The SoS running for governor overseeing the very election in which she is a now-victorious participant after a week of counting ballots and an election-day snafu that prevented some indeterminate number of people from being able to cast an in-person ballot is not conjecture. It’s not dispositive, but it’s not conjecture, and certainly not in the same realm as the wild ass shit Abrams was peddling.

      • Jarflax

        The problem with this discussion is that a number of different ideas get conflated into ‘fraud’. On some of those ideas I tend to agree with you. I do not think the Dominion machines were autoswitching votes, and I think the cases of operatives directly filling out masses of ballots post election, or ‘losing’ ballots for the other side were uncommon. But harvesting ballots from people who had no interest in voting absent the nice operative who showed up with the forms already filled out? Sending operatives door to door to ‘help’ the poor illiterates vote a straight blue ticket? Changing voting rules to allow mail in voting to enable the ballot harvest, including votes harvested from dead people, and illegal aliens? All of that has been a part of elections for a very long time, and it was heavily ramped up in 2020 and is still going on. You can argue that those activities fall within the rules, and just dismiss the dead and illegal alien votes, but in any reasonable use of the word legitimate votes which do not represent the actual deliberate choice of an actual citizen are not legitimate.

      • Ozymandias

        You mean there’s no voter fraud or fixing of elections like this?

        FTA – “A former Judge of Elections has been convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certifying false voting results during the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections in Philadelphia. ”

        “During his guilty plea hearing, Demuro admitted that while serving as an elected municipal Judge of Elections, he accepted bribes in the form of money and other things of value in exchange for adding ballots to increase the vote totals for certain candidates on the voting machines in his jurisdiction and for certifying tallies of all the ballots, including the fraudulent ballots. Demuro further admitted that a local political consultant gave him directions and paid him money to add votes for candidates supported by the consultant, including candidates for judicial office whose campaigns actually hired the consultant, and other candidates for various federal, state and local elective offices preferred by that consultant for a variety of reasons. Demuro also admitted that the votes he added in exchange for payments by the political consultant increased the number of votes fraudulently recorded and tallied for the consultant’s clients and preferred candidates, thereby diluting the ballots cast by actual voters.”

        TOTALLY THE CONJECTURE OF LOSERS!!1!

        JI – Serious question. How many more of these do I need to post before you would agree that there’s at least some evidence that there is election fraud in our system? And that it seems to be much more effective – even decisive – for one particular party?

      • R C Dean

        Neither one is based on facts in evidence, they are the conjectures of losers.

        It is certainly true that the winners never challenge the validity of elections.

        I think it is also true that we have approximately zero mechanisms for dealing with flawed elections after the fact.

        That means the election processes themselves have to be highly reliable. Our processes don’t pass muster. There were also failed audits of the 2020 elections (failed, as in the auditor couldn’t validate the results, which is the standard for audits).

        Given all this, I think it is at least rational to doubt that our current election processes always and everywhere deliver results based on the number of valid ballots submitted.

      • B.P.

        “As I recall Abrams was roundly dismissed as verging on lunacy.”

        Abrams features prominently in a documentary about voter suppression that the adults in the room fawn over.

        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12538822/

    • Drake

      Some real third-world shit there.

    • Tonio

      Don’t forget about all the people who were turned away from the polls when machinery, which they totally tested beforehand and was working just fine up until the final hours, mysteriously stopped working.

      • Drake

        I was going ask – Recount what? The voters they turned away? The votes that were dumped in a box (then presumably thrown in a dumpster)?

      • Tonio

        It’s highly unlikely that a recount, even an honest one, would alter the outcome.

      • Count Potato

        See above about Maricopa County. The guy in charge started a PAC to defeat Lake.

      • Drake

        Obviously a new election is the only recourse people will believe, So that won’t happen.

      • UnCivilServant

        I new election – with voter verification and vote ingetrity processes in place that have been absent from these suspicious results.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And a mandatory election audit ran by the autist at 4Chan

      • Michael Malaise

        “the” autist?

        I mean, there are so many to choose from.

      • Lackadaisical

        Why, on this very forum alone…

    • Pat

      recount likely

      This is one of my favorite chestnuts from the post-COVID elections era. There are questions about the integrity of the ballots themselves, poor or no chain of custody, mismatched signatures, “cured” ballots — but we counted them all again and got the same result! It’s like a company suspected of fabricating receipts showing the auditor their fabricated receipts and the auditor going “Welp, the assets equal the liabilities plus equity, looks good to me.”

      • Grummun

        Isn’t this basically what the audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa found? “If you recount all the ballots, Joe won Arizona…” (press unanimously screams “AH HA WE TOLD YOU DO”) “… but these tens-of-thousands of ballots are invalid and should not have been counted at all.” (::crickets::)

      • Michael Malaise

        Third Party curing of ballots should be illegal.

    • Suthenboy

      Yeah, and I am a flying reindeer with a glowing red nose.

    • Tundra

      Nice.

  20. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The entire incident was recorded on police body camera footage, according to the indictment.

      Seems that releasing the video would settle the issue.

      • Count Potato

        Also recorded on home security, and Capitol Police cameras.

      • Not Adahn

        I cannot believe those racists are punishing a latinx BIPOC.

        Also, that’s an old-looking 45.

        At least he can join the reporters who were suspended for the Sandmann, Rittenhouse and Sicknick stories. Right?

      • Lackadaisical

        He looks like a 65 year old who has aged well.

      • Urthona

        I mean for fuck’s sake. The election’s over. Have to be conservative reporters looking into this right?

    • Suthenboy

      Oh FFS.
      Nancy hired her husband’s gay lover to kill her husband.
      It is amazing to me how the obvious can be right in front of people’s noses and they just cant see it.

      • AlexinCT

        After he got caught drunk with a young guy in his car and gave the cops shit, he created a lot of problems for Vodka Skeletor. I can see someone that vindictive wanting payback and having some homeless gay prostitute beat up the guy that was supposed to shut the fuck up and just make money doing trading for her…

  21. robc

    Zillow (reliability level: 0 out of 10) says my house is up $30k since closing price in March. But, we locked via contract in April 2021, so who knows how much equity we have lost since May.

    Im not going any where for a long, long time, possible ever, so I don’t care.

    • UnCivilServant

      Zillow claims my house is worth $49K more than I bought it for.

      They also claim that the house directly across the street which is in similar condition but has a second floor and a yard is worth $10k less than mine.

      • straffinrun

        That’s cuz you’re not in it.

    • Sean

      Redfin says I’m up 70% in 10 years time. Last owners took a bath on the sale.

      • Lackadaisical

        I was up over 75% in 5 years (sale price, not Zillow imaginary)

        I also made some serious updates and repairs…

    • Michael Malaise

      We are up 81% after 15 years. But we could probably get more than the Zestimate because there’s some things we’ve done to the house that don’t show up on their site. (S&M dungeon, et al.)

      • AlexinCT

        With or without the gimp? Cause with gimp lets you charge an extra $50K, I believe….

      • Michael Malaise

        I have contacts with a GDS (Gimp Delivery Service) — you choose from a menu of various gimps (diversity is our strength, after all) and you get a gimp discreetly delivered to you for a reasonable hourly fee.

      • Seguin

        So you have to rent a gimp? WEF strikes again.

      • Michael Malaise

        You’ll own no gimps and be happy!

    • Michael Malaise

      This isn’t a bad idea. Might actually be some kind of a cost saver long-run.

  22. Not Adahn

    NPR translated a word from a Zelensky speech as “russist.”

    I have… issues with translating into neologisms.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      It’s NPR, I’m surprised they didn’t translate it as “Russíste”

    • Jarflax

      Is Russism a Viking revivalist party?

      • Lackadaisical

        Given that is the essential basis for Russia’s historical claims on Ukraine, that’s perfectly cromulent.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Russist we much.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    If every time they take extra long to count the blue team wins, it delegitimizes the election regardless if there’s rampant fraud or not.

    They’re just being extra-careful. You wouldn’t want the wrong fascist to win due to a clerical oversight, would you?

    • juris imprudent

      Semi-fascist or full?

      • Jarflax

        If your fascism is only a semi, there is a little blue pill you can take.

      • Trigger Hippie

        If your fascism last longer than four decades, seek a revolution.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Winner.

  24. PieInTheSky

    I am wondering if the crash comes that many people see, maybe fucking up the midterms will end up good for Republicans. Else it means the tide swings to Dem one party state and the US may be a wee bit fucked

    • Sean

      wee bit fucked

    • The Other Kevin

      I agree with you. The Republicans may have accidentally stepped into a good situation. They have enough power to throw a wrench in Biden’s plans (excepting those executive orders, but the SC has been helpful in stopping those). They also have the power to run investigations. But not enough power to really take responsibility for anything.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘They also have the power to run investigations. But not enough power to really take responsibility for anything.’

        Ah, the Republicans’ sweet spot.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Always just along for the ride.

  25. PieInTheSky

    How The Implosion Of FTX Connects To The Global Elite – that is just Bankman-Fried, there are others involved also well connected, at FTX Almeida research or some of the probably 50 plus affiliated companies

  26. pistoffnick

    I lost my mouth guard (I grind my teeth at night) sometime this weekend.
    .
    .
    .
    I found it this morning in the carton of eggs.

    Which one of you is fucking with my brain?

    • PieInTheSky

      I have not worn mine in 3 months and things do not seem to be getting worse. Hated it might wear it again in the future… But in my case I guess it was not that bad

    • Suthenboy

      Just a stab in the dark here….a cocktail and an ambien?

      I laid off of the ambien because of weird things like that. I got 7K in cash for my stepson’s wedding and the next morning could not find the money. We tore the house apart and finally discovered the money was stashed in a Tupperware bowl in the back of a cabinet.
      No more ambien for me.

      A friend of mine was with the sheriff’s office. he got a call one night and raced down the the local 7-11. Some dude was standing in front of the hot dog rotisserie in his birthday suit taking out hot dogs and eating them and not paying for them.
      “Sir, have you had any alcohol?” – “I guess, had a cocktail earlier.”
      “Sir, have you had any other intoxicants?” – “Not really, I took an ambien before I went to bed.I Just really wanted a hotdog.”

      Needless to say the poor guy woke up in a jail cell the next day and had no idea how he got there.

      If you are taking ambien…stop. Just deal with the insomnia.

    • Tonio

      Did you take off your tinfoil? Because that’s how they get to you.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Bankman-Fried went from maintaining a $15.6 billion net worth to having “no material wealth” equally as fast, according to data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The entrepreneur resigned on Friday as his company filed for bankruptcy.

    A billionaire who doesn’t have enough tangible assets walking-around money to buy a Happy Meal.

    Nothing to see here. Everything is A-ok.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am sure he stashed something somewhere

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      A billionaire who doesn’t have enough tangible assets walking-around money to buy a Happy Meal.

      In fairness, have you seen what a Happy Meal costs these days? I’d have to take out a mortgage to buy them for my 4 kids.

      Relatedly, I saw clip of 1999 commercials on Youtube the other night and was very surprised to see Taco Bell was promoting 30 cent tacos and $1 chalupas. Doesn’t seem that long ago, but that’s around a 500% increase in cost since the last time I was at one. Mean income sure hasn’t increased 500% in the past 20 years.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        since the last time I was at one

        *based on the last time, not since the last time. It’s been about a year, not 20 years.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, got a single order of large fries from a Mickey D’s for my son as a special event. $4.50. what the heck. Not doing that again.

      • Michael Malaise

        The McDonald’s app is worth it. They have deals every day that save money, and with any order you rack up points to can spend on menu stuff.

      • Nephilium

        But then I would have to eat McDonald’s.

        /worked there as a teenager, haven’t been able to stomach it ever since

      • Michael Malaise

        I wasn’t talking to you.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t eat enough McDonalds to be worth it.

        Plus Apps don’t get installed on my phone.

      • Lackadaisical

        Thanks for the tip.

    • robc

      Rags to rags in three generations years?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I don’t think SBF was ever in rags.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    “By working with the Ministry of Digital Transformation to set up payment rails and facilitate the conversion of crypto donations into fiat currency, we have given the National Bank of Ukraine the ability to deliver aid and resources to the people who need it most.”

    This is probably the most unintentionally hilarious thing I’ll read all week.

    • juris imprudent

      It would be a helluva thing if that’s what broke the Ukrainian govt and lost the war.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Ministry of Digital Transformation

      They specialize in gang signs.

  29. Rebel Scum

    Corporate layoffs are a warning sign of coming ‘economic crash landing’

    Amazon cuts 10,000 jobs ahead of Christmas

    Disney Begins Layoffs, Hiring Freeze, and Limiting Employee Travel as Stock Crashes

    Homeowners Have Lost Collective $1.5 Trillion in Home Equity Since May

    Best. Economy. Ever.

    • The Other Kevin

      Crazy how all this is happening right after the election. Huh.

    • PieInTheSky

      looks like @SBF_FTX
      has not been deleting tweets

      the reduction in tweet count has come from other accounts deleting tweets (mostly related to FTX/SBF) that Sam had RT’d

      lotta @TomBrady
      🫡

      all tweets deleted in last 6 days

      https://twitter.com/cmsintern/status/1592372634955976704

    • PieInTheSky

      Compare the New York Times treatment of:

      1. Coinbase having layoffs.

      2. FTX defrauding customers, going bankrupt, and disappearing ~$10 Billion of other peoples’ money.

      https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1592313470498017281

      • Urthona

        Is Coinbase safe? Cause I have bitcoin in it.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Not your keys, not your coins

      • Urthona

        is there something i can do to fix that?

      • PieInTheSky

        A hardware wallet is a cryptocurrency wallet which stores the user’s private keys

        Cryptocurrency software wallets enable crypto holders to securely store their digital currencies and tokens in one place. Cryptocurrency wallets often also allow users to buy, swap, lend and earn cryptocurrency, similar to how your bank account lets you access savings and loan products.

      • Urthona

        Are you saying I need to ditch Coinbase? I need step by step instructions bro.

        Glib article?

      • Jarflax

        Any asset you have on deposit is the property of the institution you deposit it with. You have an ‘account’ meaning a contract with the institution that gives them ownership of the asset, and gives you a contractual right to have the asset returned, under conditions (which you did not read, because no one reads them). This is true of crypto, stocks at a brokerage, and even your paycheck that is deposited to your bank. You only own the asset if you have cash in hand, stocks in certificate form in your physical possession, or your crypto keys stored in a wallet on a device in your physical possession. I use Exodus, but I have no idea if it is still a good choice as I selected it some years ago, and had been largely out of crypto until this past week.

        https://www.exodus.com/

      • Urthona

        But then how do I fix that?

      • Pat

        I need step by step instructions bro.

        I’m going to try posting each step separately and see if it I can get past the 500 errors.

        Step 1: Download Electrum

      • Pat

        Step 2: Run through the guided setup process, which will create your keys and recovery phrase. Store your recovery phrase somewhere safe, like an offline password manager, or write it down and put it in a safe or safety deposit box. That will ensure you’re able to recover your wallet should anything go wrong.

      • Pat

        Step 3: After setup you will be able to see your wallet address in Electrum. It’s a long string of random characters. Log in to Coinbase and initiate a transfer. In the recipient box, copy over your wallet address from Electrum. Don’t forget to account for the transaction fee – in exchange for adding your transaction to the queue and processing them, miners take a skim so that your transaction is recorded in the next block. A higher transaction fee will ensure your transaction takes place more quickly, an average or lower fee may take more time. Click the button to finalize the transfer.

      • Pat

        Step 4: Obsessively check your Electrum wallet every 10 minutes. It will let you know when the transaction has been completed and your tokens are fully transferred to your wallet.

      • Pat

        Step 5: Once you have confirmed the transaction and it has propagated to the entire blockchain, close Electrum, you are done.

      • PieInTheSky

        should be imo… coinbase kraken and probably binance for now

      • slumbrew

        Lemme try:

        “Not your keys, not your coins”

        Did I get that right?

      • slumbrew

        Shoulda refreshed first…

      • Pat

        Seriously though, why in blue hell would you keep your crypto in the exchange wallet? Even a soft wallet is going to be better, and it takes all of 10 minutes and a very small percentage of the transfer to move your coins to your own wallet.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Binance, Coinbase and Gemini are “safest” exchanges, probably. Buy a ledger though and move them off.

      • PieInTheSky

        Word count NYT’s puff piece on SBF:

        “Fraud”: 0
        “Enron”: 0
        “Crime”: 0
        “Illiquid”: 0
        “Stolen”: 0
        “Hidden”: 0
        “Criminal”: 0
        “Back door”: 0
        “He’s getting sleep”: 1

        https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1592349684471037955

      • rhywun

        Tucker Tulsi showed a montage last night of all the on-air MSM tech bros giving that guy a tongue bath over the last year or so – it was hilariously cringe.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      LOL. I see some Sadbeard and Scaramucci in there as well.

      Everybody is running from the flaming building.

      • Tonio

        I look forward to Winston’s Mom doing one of her vicious, insightful, takedowns of this in the near future.

      • juris imprudent

        Only if Krugnuts was praising SBF, and given the Dem connections that seems likely.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    The implosion of FTX has garnered the attention of federal lawmakers and regulators. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre remarked last week that the Biden administration believes cryptocurrencies risk “harming everyday Americans” without “proper oversight.”

    Ordinary people doing business without us as middleman will destroy the financial system.

    • The Gunslinger

      I would pay money to watch Blackberry try to explain the implosion of FTX in layman’s terms without having her binder in front of her.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    Maybe instead of early voting, we could have late voting?

    Like if I voted for Biden in 2020, I could change to Trump after I got laid off just before Xmas?

    • robc

      New voting idea, based on this concept:

      Step 1: Anyone who wants can register or deregister for any office they are eligible for.
      Step 2: Everyone has one active vote for every office they can vote for. They can change this at any time. If you die or move, your votes go inactive (for a move, you can activate based on new location, some votes may stay active, if they still apply).
      Step 3: On election day, the plurality leader gets the job for the specified term of office.
      Step 4: If at any time during that term, anyone gets a majority, they take over the office for the rest of the term.
      Step 5: Vote totals are publicly viewable at all times.

      • Lackadaisical

        I like it. Sounds like chaos.

  32. The Other Kevin

    Move over Great Reset, hello Great Correction. Hope all of you are doing well.

    • The Other Kevin

      You know we’re living in strange times when Zero Hedge is all of a sudden the voice of reason.

      • PieInTheSky

        Zero Hedge was somewhat the voice of reason in 2010 as well, it just went batshit at some point

      • Ownbestenemy

        It was the jews

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        (((them)))

        It’s always (((them)))

        /zerohedgecommentsectionoff

      • Rat on a train

        Jews are just a coincidence.

      • Lackadaisical

        So, you’re telling me they had the inside track on FTX?

  33. PieInTheSky

    The NHS waiting list in England (the ‘backlog’) now stands at 7.1 million, 60% higher than pre-pandemic.

    This backlog is still growing month on month. Why? And what would it take for it to start falling?

    https://twitter.com/BenZaranko/status/1592424821417455618

    what it would take is for the evil Conservatives to properly fund the healthcare system that is the envy of the world.

    • UnCivilServant

      It would take the dissilusion of the NHS and the removal of the government from the healthcare industry entirely.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    All this bitcoin stuff seems like a scenario where some random “friend of the family” says, “I’ve got a safe. Give me all your cash and valuables and I’ll keep it in my safe, and when you need it, just ask, and I’ll give it back”

    . Six months later, you get a postcard from Tahiti.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Sigh, not bitcoin, but the larger crypto world as a whole.

  35. Tonio

    We are running low on material so if anyone has been sitting on any articles or fiction please polish those and send them in.

    • R.J.

      Will do. Several travel pieces. I can turn in Saturday morning. Sorry I cannot move faster.

    • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

      I will see what I can whip up.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Might want to rethink that phrasing towards Tonio

    • Penguin

      *coughs*

      • Tonio

        Your strip is in Pending now. I forgot to move it out of drafts. Apologies.

  36. Rebel Scum

    Nothing to see here.

    Suspicious activity at Scottsdale precinct

    Check this out

    ‘Tabulator voter suppression issues started shortly after a county technician arrived to check our equipment.’

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Ministry of Digital Transformation

    “Now you see it, now you don’t.”

  38. PieInTheSky

    “This letter from the barbarians contains improprieties. Do not call it to my attention again.”

    Chinese emperor on receiving a letter from the newly self-proclaimed Japanese emperor (c. AD 710) – a response I commend to such of my followers as may be engaged in foreign affairs.

    https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1592493488800948227

    from the replies:

    The letter starts with “日出處天子致書日沒處天子無恙”, which is classical Chinese and can be roughly translated as

    “From the Emperor of where the sun rises, writing to the Emperor of where the sun sets: Hope you’re well.”

    • AlexinCT

      Would have been more fun if it read: “From the Emperor of where the sun rises, writing to the Emperor of where the sun <strike<sets don’t shine: Hope you’re well.”

      • AlexinCT

        Damn blotched that HTML trick.

        “From the Emperor of where the sun rises, writing to the Emperor of where the sun sets don’t shine: Hope you’re well.”

  39. Rebel Scum

    Dems need to find enough votes ballots.

    Officials will not know the results for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District until at least Thursday because of ballot curing and military and overseas ballots.

    Incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert leads Democrat Adam Frisch by about 1,100 votes, which is 0.3%. If it stays that way, they’ll get an automatic recount.

    • Count Potato

      Ballot curing is horseshit.

  40. PieInTheSky

    i suspect our culture would be healthier if institutions were evaluated on the basis of their performance in the last several years, the last decade at most

    no more resting upon hordes of prestige accumulated over the last century or more

    if you want to know whether or not e.g. the NYT is a good newspaper now, look at the quality of their reporting over the last several years

    beyond that, you don’t get much useful information

    https://twitter.com/acidshill/status/1592381465815154690

    lol how wishful

  41. Ozymandias

    So, evidently Switzy’s paymasters have more than idle curiosity about these “vaccines.”

    FTA:

    “On July 14, 2022, a lawyer submitted a 300-page criminal complaint to the responsible cantonal public prosecutor’s office on behalf of six people allegedly injured by mRNA vaccinations. It is directed against three representatives of the Swiss licensing and supervisory authority for medicinal products and medical devices (Swissmedic) and five vaccinating doctors from the Inselspital in Bern. A criminal investigation is to be opened against them. The lawyer has now gone public with a media conference.”

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Ozy, I linked to an article further upthread in which a Canadian scientist asserts that they’ve never isolated the spike protein in vivo after vaccination. He believes that the ingredients of the shots are sufficient to create the immunotoxic reactions even if they don’t actually cause the body to create spike protein as advertised.

      The side effects of the clotshots are the side effects, so this assertion may be somewhat moot, but it may be of interest as it would be straight up fraud by the manufacturers.

      • Urthona

        Yeah I saw it but this seems like a very bold claim.

        I still have yet to see a proper debunking of why the vaccinated people survived the early covid so much better. they — in fact — did. There may well be confounder but I haven’t seen a convincing arguments.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I’m not sure that claim holds water as the data of vaccinated versus unvaccinated seems thoroughly corrupted by collection practices. It may be true, but I’ve taken to questioning just about every data point now.

        Simple fact remains, unless and until they scientifically validate that the shots do indeed cause the body to create spike proteins as intended, it’s a fraudulent claim at best. They have to prove it.

      • Ozymandias

        Where is the evidence that the “vaxxed” did so much better than the unvaxxed early on? Can you point me to what you believe is the “proof” of that proposition?
        They unblinded the trials before they were even done, so there has been no RCT for these products. None. Ever.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        There is evidence but not in the direction of vaccine efficacy. Pfizer completed 6 months of RCT data before unbinding and released it last July. I’ll repost what I said on it back then.

        The trial data from July 2021 showed you’re more likely to die from cardiac arrest after receiving the vaccine than to die from Covid if you are unvaxxed. Some here have argued that the numbers are too low to be meaningful, but if that’s the argument, than any risk from Covid is too low to be meaningful.

        https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v1.full-text

        During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo recipients died; during the open-label period, 3 BNT162b2 and 2 original placebo recipients who received BNT162b2 after unblinding died. None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators. Causes of death were balanced between BNT162b2 and placebo groups (Table S4).

        This is six months follow-up for Pfizer vax versus placebo in 44,000 study participants. 2 people out of 22,000 in the placebo group died from Covid over 6 months.
        If those two deaths are significant in any way, consider that 4 people in the vax group died from cardiac arrest compared with 1 in the placebo group. A much greater difference than deaths from Covid.

        There is no evidence showing that vaccines prevent mortality. There is evidence that vaccines temporarily reduce the incidence of Covid, but that’s not the same as the claim that vaccines prevent deaths due to Covid. This blinded RCT data of 44,000 people shows they do not.

      • Ozymandias

        But SSD, you’re falling for what they do. You don’t take X months of data into an RCT and say that well, 6 months of data proves X. That’s like being 30 minutes into a lab in physics and asserting to the teacher that your “half-lab” is “proof” of something. You would get a zero and fail and justifiably so. And the trials eliminated all kinds of people from the trial – like pregnant women, older, sick people, etc.
        Why do we keep accepting non-science from pharma as “The Science” when it doesn’t actually show shit?
        When will we follow the FDA’s own rules regarding ARR (absolute risk reduction) and RRR (relative risk reduction)?
        Where is the Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNV) to save just one life?

        112. From the National Institute of Health website, Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy has an ARR of 0.7% (95% confidence interval), 0.59% to 0.83%; p<0.000; Moderna’s experimental gene therapy has a similar ARR of 1.1% (95% CI), 0.97% to 1.32%; p < 0.000; Johnson & Johnson had an ARR of 1.2%.
        113. Put into understandable terms, this means that the ARR of the Pfizer experimental gene therapy confers a benefit to less than one person in every one hundred that receive the injection – and this is from the manufacturer’s own data. For every one person that receives a benefit, 142 would not…
        114. These experimental gene therapies also come with their own concomitant risk. For the adult recipients (age 16 and older), the Pfizer COVID-19 clinical trial found the overall incidence of severe adverse events during the two-month observation period to be 1.1%, or 1 in 91, which is larger than the ARR for the Pfizer experimental gene therapy. When this phenomenon was further studied after the EUA was granted and injections were performed on the general public, it was found the rate of severe adverse events went from 1:91 to 1:43, over double the trial rate. This means that as a matter of relatively straightforward mathematics, the Pfizer “vaccine” is more than three times as likely to result in a harm to a recipient as it is to result in a benefit, which (as noted infra) requires 142 people to be vaccinated, before the 143rd person will obtain that benefit. According to the numbers, we should expect at least three people out of that same 143 to have had a serious adverse event by from being injected with the Pfizer shot.

        From one of my complaints.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Ozy, we’re on the same page. And I was careful not to say “proof” but only “evidence shows”.

        We could say that there is no evidence that the vaccines reduce mortality rates from Covid, but that implies there is no data. There is data showing that vaccines do not reduce mortality rates from Covid.

        I agree with you that 6 months is not enough time to generate evidence on safety from adverse events. However, 6 months is a sufficient duration to assess the efficacy of drug to prevent an epidemic supposedly so deadly that constitutional rights were suspended. I have worked on many clinical trials with a time duration this long or even shorter to determine efficacy. Safety runs much much longer. The vaccines do not prevent mortality from Covid because it turns out the risk of death is so low that it can barely be detected in a sample of 44,000 people. Preventing mortality isn’t even a possible endpoint because the vast majority of people don’t die after contracting Covid. The vaccine is a tiger rock.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        And by the vast majority, I mean something like 99.991% survive Covid without a vaccine based on Pfizer’s own data.

        Urthona, in all seriousness, how can your facts possibly show that the vaccine increases survival of Covid when Pfizer’s own clinical trial data shows a 99.991% survival rate for the unvaxxed?

      • Urthona

        The evidence comes from our states’ reporting of deaths in the unvaccinated as over twice as high.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        And therefore the definition of “unvaccinated” matters greatly.

        It’s been well established that the public health authorities have played fast and loose with it and incentivized the hospitals to do so as well. Simply put, if you did not have a vaccination on record with the hospital that were being treated at, the hospital recorded it as “unvaccinated.” Within two weeks of your most previous shot, you’re “unvaccinated.” I’m sure there are other exceptions, but the first one matters the most. It makes the data completely unreliable.

      • ron73440

        I could be wrong, but I think they were counting all COVID deaths before the vaccines were available as unvaxxed deaths, and that made the vaxxed deaths lower in proportion.

      • ron73440

        Because the deaths before there was a vax were added into the COVID deaths after the vax was available, it made the vax seem more effective than it really was.

      • Ozymandias

        I saw that.
        I have never understood why people bought off on the notion that injecting one’s self with (solely) the lethal factor of a bioweapon – mind you, injected directly into cells, bypassing all of the other elements of the body’s immune system, as a bonus – will somehow result in good clinical health outcomes. It makes zero fucking sense.
        And the propaganda has essentially been “STFU!!!” and “YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MUH VACKSEENS!!!” to anyone who raises this question.
        It’s not a vaccine. It doesn’t even meet the DoD”s own definition of a vaccine, located right in the appendix of the order that DoD claims gives it the authority to carry this all out.
        See DoDI 6205.02 – Glossary. Vaccine – A preparation that contains one or more components of a biological agent or toxin and induces a protective immune response against that agent when administered to an individual.
        Pfizer now says that they never even tested it for prevention, yet the FDA granted the BLA for “prevention” of Covid-19. The whole thing is so rife with fraud that it’s difficult to get a judge to wrap his or her head around it. It’s the best example I’ve ever seen of the notion of the power of the The Big Lie. I always thought that notion was complete horseshit (because in my house growing up, the bigger the lie, the worse the punishment). But I get it now. Intelligent people just quail and shut down when they see the scope of the fraud and lies. “It just CAN’T be (!!)” what their eyes are seeing.

      • Nephilium

        See also Theranos.

      • Suthenboy

        “It just CAN’T be (!!)” what their eyes are seeing.”

        There is an awful lot of that going around.

    • Grummun

      Any hope of an English translation of the whole article?

      • PieInTheSky

        tv stars are better than us and we should follow their lives

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t even follow their shows.

    • Michael Malaise

      Probably because it was like, here, star in 5 episodes and then go away without doing anything significant in the role?

  42. The Late P Brooks

    what it would take is for the evil Conservatives to properly fund the healthcare system that is the envy of the world.

    Or those people could just die while awaiting treatment. That would clear the backlog pretty effectively.

    • Urthona

      “envy of the world” lol

    • Plinker762

      You’d better go all in.

    • AlexinCT

      I did all you asked of me and laundered all that money for you guys, so you better not throw me to the wolves, now… Please?

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Greetings, fellow freedom fighters. It is with great pleasure I announce Fidel Castro has won another free and fair election.

    Viva la Revolucion!

    • Tundra

      Pretty, but I’ll bet the HOA has some gnarly restrictions.

      • AlexinCT

        Are you still allowed to bang your neighbor’s wife, or is that only for the pool boy?

      • Michael Malaise

        Welcome to Swinger’s Corners!

    • Pine_Tree

      Yeah, that’s Serenbe. Looks cool but nutty/rich/fantastical/etc.

  44. KSuellington

    Hmm I think I know what tomorrow’s SugarFree story is going to be.

    | When asked by Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez to describe Weinstein’s physique, Siebel Newsom said: “Lots of bruises, markings, yellow and green, lots of stretch marks on his belly, very not physically fit at all. Looked uncircumcised and strange though, kind of fish-like, the penis, something was distorted in the testicles … Lots of skin, lots of skin down there.”

    • AlexinCT

      Was the next question: “What did it taste like?”???

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Let’s suppose DeSantis wins the Presidency in 2024.

    What are the odds he evades being hamstrung by the Apparat just as Trump was?

    • AlexinCT

      They will make sure he doesn’t win if the mail in and ballot harvesting criminality has not been addressed.

    • Pat

      I don’t know how true it is, but I was told clear back in the late ’90s that what we now call the “deep state”, and what was then called the “permanent bureaucracy”, used to jokingly refer to the incoming presidential administration as the Christmas help. Make of that what you will.

    • juris imprudent

      Really it would depend a great deal on who gets elected to Congress. One Glorious Maximum Leader ain’t going to change much.

    • Michael Malaise

      DeSantis (or any other Republican) cannot currently get to 270 without election reform in AZ and PA.

      Wisconsin and Georgia are in better shape now than in 2020, but other states are worse.

  46. PieInTheSky

    1973: The LAST DAYS of PORTER | Scene Around Six | Archivist Picks | BBC Archive

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDwwVR5fd4

    BBC Northern Ireland reporter Larry McCoubrey delivers a poetic send-off for porter. The “pint of plain” has long been an institution in many a Belfast bar, but it is a beer which is not long for this world.

    Originally broadcast 11 May, 1973.

    • Tundra

      That was great!

      I love porter and, even more, a proper bar.

    • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

      I like a good porter, much better than stout.

  47. Drake

    Not bad. The developers have decided to build houses really close together around here. At least giving it a European village look makes it more attractive than the standard cookie-cutter look I can’t stand, And they left a few older trees standing in the backyards instead of just clear-cutting a hundred acres because it’s easier,

    • Drake

      Meant to be a reply to Pie’s neighborhood link.

    • R C Dean

      Decent squat. Unimpressive deadlift, though.

      • UnCivilServant

        I disagree. It’s impressive to have the dead lift anything.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Something something surplus population

    By a remarkable coincidence, just as governments, campaigners and business owners are meeting in Egypt to address climate breakdown today, the world is officially crashing past the symbolic 8 billion population milestone . This means global population is on its way to 10 billion or more by the turn of the century.

    But there will be no attempt by countries at Cop27 to connect the inexorable growth of human numbers with the seemingly unstoppable rise in temperatures. Despite the fact that the several billion more people expected to be alive in 70 years’ time will put more pressure on resources and will produce far more emissions, the population explosion is yet again being ignored, sidestepped or denied by world leaders.

    Part of this is down to sensitivity about talking about human numbers. History is littered with violent governments trying to force sterilisation on vulnerable people. Suggestions, too, that human numbers be cut have often been peddled by authoritarian regimes and far-right extremists, and genuine concern today in rich countries is often met with accusations of racism or eco-fascism.

    Yet as the scientist James Lovelock was fond of saying, anyone who failed to see the connection between climate and population was “either ignorant or hiding from the truth”, adding: “These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.”

    What this place needs is a good global nuclear war.

    • rhywun

      LOL at them dancing around their self-imposed taboos. They should just come out and advocate for more abortions for Africa.

      • The Other Kevin

        The solution is always to cull the poor people who don’t use a lot of resources, and protect the “elite” class that has private jets and yachts. Maybe if y’all scaled back we’d be in better shape.

      • juris imprudent

        You plebs want US to sacrifice? To the fainting couches!!!

    • juris imprudent

      Key-riiiiiiist, Malthusian stupidity never dies

  49. The Late P Brooks

    The hard fact is that in an age of climate breakdown, human numbers matter. And the ecological impact of another 2-3 billion humans will be immense.

    This is also about women’s rights too. By ignoring population, the needs of women and girls are being sidelined by governments that are too obsessed with consumption to notice how vital education and family planning are in tackling the climate emergency.

    This sounds s innocuous. Rational feminism will save the planet.

    And yet… somehow I can’t help but assume any money which might actually trickle down to the level of individual benefit is purely accidental.

    • juris imprudent

      Rational feminism is trans friendly right? It is a sure way to ZPG.

    • KSuellington

      Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown, do the climate breakdown.

      Love their new term, very hip hoppy or maybe James Brownesque.

      “Can we do that climate breakdown in E. I said gimme an E bass man! When I say it’s hot in here, I mean it’s hotter than Ju-ly in a Georgia church. Now where’s that funky breakdown! Unh!”

    • Fatty Bolger

      * Not actually a hard fact.

  50. CPRM

    Then Disney’s corporate earnings disappointed Wall Street, sending its stock crashing to new lows.

    Really? goes and checks

    Disney stock $16.77 in Feb 2008, today it’s $95.84. I know we’ve had a lot of inflation since 08, but I don’t think it’s been THAT much.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Sigh, not bitcoin, but the larger crypto world as a whole.

    Yes. Sloppy shorthand on my part.

  52. Michael Malaise

    Can Pat put together a crypto primer for us luddite Glibs? I’d even consider paying for it.

    • juris imprudent

      Ask the Dutch about tulip bulbs.

      • Nephilium

        There are some things that blockchain tech would work really well for. Things that need to be stringently verified, aren’t (that) time sensitive, and can be part of the public record. I would think something like a title transfer, contract, or the like would be the optimal use case. But everyone wants to try to make it a currency, which needs to be time sensitive and (IMHO) shouldn’t be required to be part of a public record.

      • EvilSheldon

        Like votes?

      • Nephilium

        I would think that would be too vulnerable to a 51% attack, and the fact that people’s votes should be anonymous.

    • Pat

      Unfortunately, I would probably not be of much help. While I understand the concepts, I have only lightly dabbled in cryptocurrencies personally. There are others among us who could probably take up the task though.

    • CPRM

      Here is something to get you started:

      STEVE SMITH – Tall hairy woodland rapist
      SEA SMITH – Aquatic rapist
      SPACE SMITH – Space faring rapist

    • Ownbestenemy

      I thought we had a series in the past. Check the archives

  53. juris imprudent

    Ozy, all

    There is more evidence of fraud than vote suppression. Sadly they have equal traction as narratives to respective segments of the electorate. To too many that matters more than any facts.

    • R C Dean

      Honestly, the most credible case of voter suppression that I have seen (other than ridiculous texts giving people the wrong election day, which are unlikely to move the needle) is Maricopa County, 2022.

      • Urthona

        indeed

    • Ozymandias

      That’s a copout. You’re intentionally conflating people’s views about voter fraud and objective evidence of voter fraud as a way of claiming there isn’t any.
      I don’t care what people believe, I’m asking you straight up to either address the multiple cases of actual, confirmed fraud in which people in charge of elections have pleaded guilty to criminally fixing elections (but only for three straight years in the case I cited above!) and square that with your constant schtick that there isn’t any and it’s the “conjecture” of the losers.
      And you turn it into “Oh, but these rubes are always claiming it so freely and that’s just bullshit because really, there’s just not that many of us freedom lovers. We’re the minority.”
      Again – how many more guilty pleas and objective evidence of voter fraud do you need before you acknowledge it actually exists? If the answer is that there is no amount to change your mind, then just admit that you refuse to acknowledge that it happens or is possible because… reasons.

      • juris imprudent

        What I personally think doesn’t matter all that much. Yes, there are cases of fraud, and they tend to be minor and do not connote proof of massive conspiracies.

        We have around here a curious vacillation between which branch of the uni-party wins and the world is ending when Repubs lose! So which is it young feller – do the parties and elections really matter, or are they a farce from the get-go?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        We have around here a curious vacillation between which branch of the uni-party wins and the world is ending when Repubs lose!

        Can we add a bit more gray to this black and white model? I think there is a uniparty that consists of most of the Dems and the eGOP. These are factions of one larger DC Swamp party united in their own common interests…. maintaining power and looting taxpayers. They do war amongst each other but unite against outsiders. The eGOP would rather see an eGOP member elected than a Dem. But the GOP leadership would also rather see a Dem elected than win an election with someone outside of the eGOP.

      • Jarflax

        Both parties are corrupt. All politicians are corrupt. There is a difference between corruption, which will be with us always, and active hostility toward western civilization. The Republican party is full of corrupt, unprincipled liars hiding their corruption under a false mantle of conservatism and fiscal responsibility. The Democrat party is full of corrupt unprincipled liars who mantle their corruption with promises of legally enforced egalitarianism and anti-industrialism. Team red is a parasite, but team blue is a scavenger that kills the host in order to eat its rotting corpse. We can survive and maybe eventually improve things under Team R. Not so much under Team D.

      • juris imprudent

        It seems the ‘e’ you occasionally attach to GOP doesn’t really modify much. So what is the exact pretense?

      • Ozymandias

        They tend to be minor

        Did you read from the DoJ website that I posted above? Did you skip the part where I mentioned that he admitted to fixing elections for every elected office, including federal, for 3 straight years?? And that’s just what he pleaded guilty to??

        I see what it is, JI. Elections are all perfectly legit and it’s those loser Republicans who keep whining that’s the real problem. I’ll make a note.
        (“And do not connote proof of massive conspiracies”)
        Ah. Yes. Look at me, conspiracy theorist. We shan’t be having any of that nonsense, eh, JI?

        Pfizer’s shit is also all legit, no one at the FDA has been bought, there was no “conspiracy” to bury the data showing the harms at CDC, and the Clinton Foundation is a completely above board charitable organization.
        Do you also believe that the mafia doesn’t exist? Because that is a giant conspiracy, by definition, and it exists right out in the open.
        Or that drug cartels don’t exist? No? If I catch people smuggling drugs I should conclude – first and foremost – that whatever the tonnage involved of cocaine, it absolutely does NOT PROVE THAT THERE WAS A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR ALL 37 METRIC TONS OF COCAINE! THAT WAS JUST A BIG WEEKEND FOR MY BUDDY, PHIL.
        Do the Snowden emails not show a giant conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Americans? No? That didn’t happen? FISA courts, the FBI actions, what they did to Trump… that wasn’t a conspiracy?

        I’ll just let you figure out why Republican claims of Democrat election fixing stick in your craw to the extent that it blinds your otherwise deep and cogent thinking.
        Conspiracies do exist, JI, on massive scales, many of them right in your face – and they count on people to refuse to acknowledge it because something deep in them doesn’t want to confront it. Human beings hate conflict, and many people are so conflict avoidant they’ll twist reality rather than have to acknowledge – or participate in – conflict.

      • juris imprudent

        Ok, I see part of our misunderstanding is what conspiracy really means, and I take it as something ofher than the normal operation of the system. For example, it isn’t a conspiracy to oppose Trump, it is the natural and normal operation of the system.

        Reagan was opposed by that same system and as was argued above not much more successful than Trump.

        The conspiracy to traffic narcotics isn’t hidden from anyone. That too is how the system works in opposing (and serving) that vice.

      • Ozymandias

        You’re almost there! Now just apply it to politicians and think of what’s at stake – and you’ll stop pretending that the the GOP screaming about election fraud doesn’t make it fake!

  54. The Late P Brooks

    Not even the thinnest veneer of impartiality

    Democrat Katie Hobbs has been elected governor of Arizona, NBC News projects. Hobbs’ win over Republican Kari Lake is a major victory for democratic norms — and helps keep a formidable MAGA politician from ascending to an influential office.

    ——-

    Hobbs’ win is a relief for democracy watchers. As secretary of state, she oversaw the state’s administration of elections, and she represents credible vote counting in an era in which the GOP has rallied behind the idea that inconvenient losses are proof of fraud. Setting aside partisan politics, it’s good news for the country that Arizona voters chose a small-d democrat over an authoritarian activist — especially in a critical battleground state.

    She stood at the gates of the city and thwarted the barbarians. Let us praise her.

    Also- “projects”? So-called election day was a week ago.

    • R C Dean

      Don’t forget – Hobbs is a Soros-funded radical.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m getting dizzy from all this spinning. One man’s “As secretary of state, she oversaw the state’s administration of elections, and she represents credible vote counting…” is another man’s, “She just happened to win an election she was in charge of overseeing.”

      • Fatty Bolger

        After weeks of counting votes, she finally won an election that she was in charge of. Democracy is saved.

      • rhywun

        JFC this shit is unbelievable. It’s soviet levels of gaslighting.

    • Rebel Scum

      an authoritarian activist

      Show your work.

  55. kinnath

    The Reps did not dodge any bullets by losing the election.

    There is no upside to the Dems stealing another election with the rabid support of 90% of the mainstream media.

    There is no happy ending coming out of this.

    • AlexinCT

      ^^^THIS^^^

      • Tundra

        Ditto.

    • CPRM

      Hat and Hair seasons:
      Season 1: The First Term
      Season 2: President In Exile
      Season 3: The Second Term
      Season 4: Profit???

      • MikeS

        Season 4: Profit???!!!!11

        Think positive!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      JFC, just retire already

  56. Rebel Scum

    As if soccer wasn’t gay enough already.

    The USMNT appear to have made an immediate stand on their arrival in Doha, though, by changing the usual red stripes on their crest to a rainbow around their team base.

    Pictures from the Al Gharrafa SC Stadium in Ar-Rayyan, where the US team trained on Monday, showed a huge US crest on the wall, alongside the slogan ‘One Nation’.

    It is understood the crest on the team’s kits on the field won’t be changed, but the new colors will be shown off at their practice facilities.

    • juris imprudent

      The women’s team has more LGBTQ+ cred.

    • Michael Malaise

      “It is understood the crest on the team’s kits on the field won’t be changed, but the new colors will be shown off at their practice facilities.”

      JFC. Cowards.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Closeted?