Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Godless Heathens

by | Feb 8, 2023 | Daily Links | 211 comments

Gynecologists Hate Kourtney Kardashian’s New Vaginal Health Gummies

Hello, people with vaginas: I come bearing a story about Kourtney Kardashian, a vitamin grift, and the conspiracy of pussy odor.

Amidst a depressing trend of celebrities putting out lackluster wellness brands they don’t seem to personally give a shit about, Kourtney Kardashian’s supplement brand Lemme has now rolled out “Lemme Purr” vaginal health gummies—aka pussy probiotics—for $30 a bottle.

On Monday, Kardashian and Lemme co-posted the official announcement of a new supplement intended to increase vaginal health and “support vaginal taste, vaginal odour, vaginal health and vaginal freshness.” The video features Kardashian lying on the ground with cats circling her. One runs across her as though she is not there. She then pops a pill that I highly doubt is actually one of these pussy gummies. No one purrs.

Here’s the product description from Lemme’s Instagram:

“Vaginal health is such an important part of a woman’s overall well-being (and not talked about enough) which is why we are so excited to launch this! Give your vagina the sweet treat it deserves (and turn it into a sweet treat). You know what they say…you are what you eat 😜

We combined real pineapple and Vitamin C with the power of clinically-studied SNZ 1969™ probiotics to target vaginal health and pH levels that support freshness and taste.”

First thing’s first, since we’re talking about health here. Never, ever take medical advice from a Kardashian, and especially not the one who teamed up with Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow to sell a candle invented to smell like Kourtney’s vagina. (It was, as dead Gawker wrote, called “Smells Like My Pooshy.”) Not only are the supplements not regulated by the FDA, which means we have to trust brands when they tell us what’s in their products, but gynecologists are already criticizing Lemme’s new pussy potion.

Dr. Jen Gunter, a gynecologist and author of The Vagina Bible, called out Kourtney’s “grift” on Instagram for perpetuating tired tropes about stinky vaginas, pointing to an entire chapter in her book that debunks the myth of pineapple as a smelly vagina salve. “Anyone who suggests that your vagina isn’t fresh or needs an improved taste is a misogynist and awful person,” she wrote.

Does this Dr. Gunter [pause for laughter to die down] understand just how much jizz, piss, and spacedocking the average Kardashian vagina accumulates in a typical weekend? These are rugged, off-road vaginas, adapted to the rigors of the NBA and Soundcloud rappers. These things can’t clean themselves and the scent of the abattoir doesn’t dissipate on its own.


 

The First Lady takes the Second Man, as is her right. Also, by the transitive property, she has now drained Willie Brown’s willie dozens of times.


 

I love this Twitter feed, just weird and cool science and history stuff.


 

Transphobes Have Come Up With ‘Harry Potter’ Dogwhistles For Their Hate Speech

Over the past few years, as J.K. Rowling has wholeheartedly embraced transphobia, the Harry Potter franchise has become a haven for other anti-trans bigots. Now, with the upcoming release of Hogwarts Legacy, transphobes have found a new way to express their hate: Harry Potter-themed transphobic dogwhistles.

Filmmaker and writer Jesse Earl first reported the new dogwhistle earlier this month, when transphobes started commenting on her Youtube videos with the words “Avada Kedavra.”

Avada kedavra, an Aramaic phrase that translates into “I destroy as I speak,” is one of the three Unforgivable Curses in the Harry Potter series. When cast, it instantly kills its target. Since Earl’s tweet, multiple people have proven her point by publicly responding to her with the curse. Transphobes have also responded by bragging that they’ve bought copies of Hogwarts Legacy, disproving the idea that the game can be separated from Rowling’s transphobia.

Some commenters on Twitter have waved off the harassment, dismissing it as dorky and pathetic—and yes, using a fictional curse from a children’s book as your method of hate speech certainly is both of those things. But as sad as this kind of hate speech is, it’s vital to understand that, as Earl notes, saying “I kill you” in any language is a death threat. Like all death threats, it needs to be taken seriously and dealt with aggressively.

The Mary Sue. I’d call it a sewer, but sewers serve a purpose. It’s more like a remora attached to the geek internet, draining blood from it and shitting it back out as some sort of anti-fun toxin.


 

Is this a shocking video? Or the best Bumble profile ever?

I like when the camera turns to the lesser women to capture their awe.


 

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211 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Hello, people with vaginas:”

    OFFS!!

    • Count Potato

      spacedocking?

      • SugarFree

        The act of pooping into a vagina.

      • Count Potato

        This site is very educational.

      • Shirley Knott

        Today I didn’t need to learn…

      • Tonio

        Eeeeewwwww!

        The term Is also used to describe an inherently gay sex act involving two penises, at least one of which is uncircumsized and has loose foreskin.

        Will have to be careful using this term in conversation with mixed audiences.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s the one I was familiar with. Do tread lightly with who you discuss this around. I had a lovely formal dinner party that turned into a wild chaotic brawl when debating the correct way to perform a rusty trombone.

      • Nephilium

        Just don’t bring up a Rusty Venture.

    • Rat on a train

      The grocer was all out of them when I went.

  2. Sean

    I love the lego domino ring.

  3. Ted S.

    I love this Twitter feed, just weird and cool science and history stuff.

    Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

    • Mojeaux

      It’s called “The Ouroboros,” right?

  4. Count Potato

    “Over the past few years, as J.K. Rowling has wholeheartedly embraced transphobia”

    No, she hasn’t. She just doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

    • Mojeaux

      Last I heard, her general message was “People with penises are not women; get out of women’s spaces.”

      • WTF

        Sounds right to me.

      • SugarFree

        Rowling funded a women’s shelter because the only other one in town was not only allowed transwomen to use the shelter, it was run by a transwoman.

        For this, Rowling is the worse person since Hitler.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Accept the female rapepenis bigot!

      • Lackadaisical

        Women can’t rape, because rape is an exercise of power and women don’t have power, only men. Just like blacks can’t be racist.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I thought it all started when Rowling defended someone who was fired for saying sex is real?

      • SugarFree

        Yes, that is how it started. But the bloody shirt they like nowadays is the (bio)women’s shelter.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      She just doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

      Ok, go on…

      • Count Potato

        She’s made a bunch of false statements, been surprised at things that anyone familiar with the subject would know, etc. Her ignorance is often cringe. She has some good points, but she is hardly the best person to be making them.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Well substantiated claim.

      • Count Potato

        Yes, it is.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Like what? What false statements is she making?

      • Count Potato

        It’s all very well documented online.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Don’t pull that shit. If you are making the claim, spell it out.

      • Count Potato

        So I’m supposed to go search the internet for you?

        I’ve posted about some of it here at the time.

      • Gender Traitor

        Narrator: He’s got nuthin’.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        If you are going to make a claim, and then back it up with “its all over the internet” then I am going to call bullshit. In the internet I visit, she comes down as being a) correct on trans issues, full stop and b) a writer of shitty books. Nothing about being wrong on trans issues in any way. So if you say there is something else out there, it is up to you to show it.

      • Count Potato

        “Narrator: He’s got nuthin’.”

        So you are accusing me of lying?

      • Gender Traitor

        Are you going to present even one example of a false statement she’s made?

      • Mojeaux

        Internet etiquette is that the person who makes the claim has to back it up when asked.

      • MikeS

        Her false statements, or activists saying she’s made false statements?

      • Count Potato

        Both. Activists have said many of things she said were wrong, when they weren’t, and often accused her of being transphobic when she wasn’t. I think her heart is mostly in the right place, even if she tends to be over dramatic and that use of inflated language doesn’t help her. Another problem is when she first started tweeting about it, she didn’t know much about the subject (eg. she was surprised to learn the massive increase was FTM, not the MTF she complains about). She also can’t seem to comprehend the difference between people who are actually trans and people only claiming to be. Granted, Scotland has, or at least had (I haven’t checked recently), a terribly wrong policy in how it allowed biological males in woman’s prisons, and she was justifiably upset. But saying something like “the penised person who raped you is a woman” makes her sound like an asshat to genuine MTF because, besides a minority of political loonies, they wouldn’t consider that person a woman either.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        Count, you do realize that included in that minority of loonies that deny “the penised person who raped you is a man” is the British Government and law. They straight up deny the rapes exist because rapists by legal definition there can only be men and the government takes that trans women are women mantra literally.

      • MikeS

        Count, thank you for the thoughtful reply.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        The problem here is there are false statements, ignorance and batshit crazy statements. I fully believe she’s said normal lefty falsities or is ignorant of things because she’s not marinating in the trans fight but I’m not aware of her being bat shit crazy in any of the things she’s said. Sure “trans women are women” is false but for most people it’s a platitude with limits and she’s definently on the right side of where a number of those limits should be.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Godless Heathens

    *puffs out chest, struts around room*

  6. Tundra

    Absolutely outstanding lynx, SF!

    Kardashian cooter, some amazing engineering, tits, beer and QoTSA.

    Perfection.

    • SugarFree

      I like to give the people what they want.

      • Lackadaisical

        Space docking?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Just like the song

      • Gadfly

        Sine saccharo, vox populi.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah this is a good link day.

  7. Ted S.

    Avada kedavra, an Aramaic phrase that translates into “I destroy as I speak,”

    I thought it translated into “Hakuna matata”.

    • Compelled Speechless

      You mean hasa diga eebowai.

      • Ted S.

        Klaatu barada nikto.

    • rhywun

      Sometimes a “death threat” is just trolling some humorless authoritarian who really, really deserves it.

  8. The Other Kevin

    I’m going to say Lemme is even worse. To me, it sounds like a rip off of the brand Lume, which is an antibacterial deodorant that actually works.

    • Ted S.

      Oh god I hate those commercials.

      Almost as bad as the ones for Pooph.

      • The Other Kevin

        One of my kids has notoriously smelly feet. But that stuff takes care of it like nobody’s business. Apparently it works on armpits and stuff too. It is a good product.

  9. The Other Kevin

    I watched that last video three times and then I realized the girl had some kind of glass in her mouth.

    • WTF

      She does? I need to watch it again!

    • Ownbestenemy

      There was a glass?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Mouth?

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Pretty AND a plucky daydrinking alkie? I think I’m in love fellas.

  11. Timeloose

    I happened to see this QOTSA video in a Osaka bar doing the salaryman night of drinking back when it came out. It was surreal.
    I didn’t understand how I missed the album back home.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetvK6ldl2s

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Do Kardashians douche with pineapple juice? That seems… unappealing.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Needs some rum…

    • SugarFree

      Breaks down the proteins and softens the meat.

      • R.J.

        Just like pineapple and ham pizza!

      • C. Anacreon

        Pineapple juice can kill the big bald guy from Guardians of the Galaxy. I learned this in Glass Onion.

  13. Lackadaisical

    “Anyone who suggests that your vagina isn’t fresh or needs an improved taste is a misogynist and awful person,” she wrote.

    That seems a little premature, some people are really infected and need some help down there.

    • Bobarian LMD

      And a Kardashian Gummy is just the trick?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Different discussion.

        Whether they are the cure for stank snatch is up for debate. That stank snatch exists should not be.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of Salt Lake City- that link from the previous thread does a pretty good job of explaining why I spent not a single second thinking about moving there.

  15. B.P.

    “Over the past few years, as J.K. Rowling has wholeheartedly embraced transphobia, the Harry Potter franchise has become a haven for other anti-trans bigots.”

    I know failing to garner attention is the worst fate of all, but maybe there are people out there going about their business who really don’t give a shit about trans-mania.

    • The Other Kevin

      And those people are the worst trans-phobes of all.

      • Count Potato

        They’re also the majority of trans people.

      • MikeS

        When you say “majority” are you talking about actually trans people, or today’s “trans” community?

      • Count Potato

        Actually trans people. The “trans-mania” doesn’t help them.

    • Nephilium

      the Harry Potter franchise has become a haven for other anti-trans bigots

      Wait seriously?

      Read Another Book Series!

      (Not you B.P., just the y’utes in general)

  16. Lackadaisical

    From the dead thread:

    “Old Man With Candy on February 8, 2023 at 2:59 pm
    Yet another installment that I find very difficult to masturbate to.”

    Difficult, but not impossible.

    • The Other Kevin

      “I’ll do my best.”

  17. Timeloose

    “The First Lady takes the Second Man, as is her right. Also, by the transitive property, she has now drained Willie Brown’s willie dozens of times.”

    If a dude kissed my wife like that he would be drinking his dinner through a straw for a few months.

    • Old Man With Candy

      What about kissing your mother in law like that?

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Depends on what the over/under is.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    And those people are the worst trans-phobes of all.

    Ignoring somebody is just like striking them dead.

  19. Count Potato

    I’ve been thinking about AirBnB banning Lauren Southern’s parents because they banned their daughter for unspecified affiliations five years ago. That’s just insane! Where does it end? The friends and relatives of everyone here are affiliated with a political kook.

    Although if I ran AirBnB, I’d ban Lauren Southern for not being in a lesbian sex video with Mikhaila Peterson. It takes place in a locker room. Lauren is wearing a Vancouver Canucks jersey. Mikhaila is wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. Neither of them are wearing pants. They’re both sad. Sad, because they’ve never seen their team win a championship. They begin to console each other. Their eyes meet. The jerseys come off. Boom chika wow wow.

    Two Girls, One Stanley Cup

    You know you would watch that.

    • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

      I am guessing she would puck it up. No skills.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘You know you would watch that.’

      I’m in. When do you publish?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Doesn’t do it for me, but I do like the way you think.

  20. The Other Kevin

    Michael Shellenberger is doing some good work on the Twitter congressional hearings. He’s got the live stream, and he’s been tweeting updates every so often.

    Mostly they’re just confirming stuff in the Twitter files, but the few Dems on the committee (including AOC) are doing their best to frame this as no big deal, in fact Trump did worse, and they needed to censor more because January 6.

    https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Rep. @AOC says the "information coming out of the NY Post" was "disinformation," which is bizarre. She seems to be saying that the laptop is not authentic, which is not something any mainstream journalist or policymaker believes anymore.— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) February 8, 2023

      That’s our AOC.

      • The Other Kevin

        And to top it off, she’s REALLY REALLY PISSED about it.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Eventually she’s going to have to learn a hard lesson about the diminishing returns of performative anger.

      • WTF

        Even Hunter admitted it’s his.

      • The Other Kevin

        You don’t believe her? I can’t decide if you’re racist, misogynist, or want to date her.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Embrace the ‘and’.

      • Nephilium

        And has reportedly filled lawsuits about it.

      • rhywun

        If she was smart she’d just shut her trap and let the MSM direct everyone’s attention to the next shiny object.

  21. Ted S.

    Just blow the truck up

    Idiot truck driver doesn’t read sign (granted, I thought the sign was bigger than that); can’t turn around when he gets to the gate closing the road for the season.

    • Ted S.

      Heck, I’m surprised they allow semis on the road at all, since it stops having a lane divider long before it gets to the gate closing the road off.

      The road is beautiful to drive up (Google Street View doesn’t do it justice, but since I was alone I couldn’t take pictures) if you’re doing it at a time you’re likely to be the only car on the road. I’ve done it twice just before 7AM. However, on one of my trips up I made the mistake of driving the road back down the mountain after my hike, so around 1PM, when there were definitely other people driving up to the trailheads. Keep going the direction you came from and come down the mountain when you get to Tannersville.

    • B.P.

      Wow, some cub reporter is really nailing the facts down…

      “Joseph James Brooks, 48, of Johnstown, was driving a 2019 FRG Semi and pulling a 2007 53-foot Stoughton trailer…”

      • R.J.

        Some journalistic integrity remains!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Just tie it on to the next Chinese Weather Balloon and airlift it out of there.

  22. DEG

    Is this a shocking video? Or the best Bumble profile ever?

    I’m intrigued.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Hmmm. I don’t see no ring. Not that I was even looking to see if her hand made an appearance.

    • Compelled Speechless

      That headline is absolutely true. As long as you don’t count any of the hundreds of emails between Twitter and government agencies explicitly about the laptop that are now publicly available.

      My two year old is more believable when he sneaks candy that I can literally see in his mouth and then says “no” when I ask if he stole candy. That is the level we are at. And still millions will believe them.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is still more plausible than the recent “THERE WERE CHINESE WEATHER BALLOONS DURING TRUMP’S ADMINISTRATION” narrative.

        “Really?”
        “Yup absolutely, we looked for similar patterns and found some matches”
        “But did you find any evidence of it? All the Trump admin types are disputing this”
        “Well they wouldn’t have known because the balloons were invisible. Joe Biden started his admin by telling them to upgrade balloon detection capabilities”

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ve been mostly keeping out of the weather balloon debate. I finally have to ask. Why am I supposed to give a shit that the Chinese are flying a balloon over us? What information is it supposed to be gleaning that is so much worse that the 24/7 satellite surveillance that all governments have on every other government? I have not yet seen one explanation for why this actually threatens anyone. What am I missing?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m in your boat.

        But if I had to guess, it’s more the audacity. Would we say we’re not sure why we’re supposed to worry if the equivalent of a Blackbird (unarmed, flies at high altitudes) flew over? Equally harmless as the balloon, and no more capable than the satellites either.

        On a smaller scale, I’d probably be pretty pissed if a neighbor had a balloon with unknown equipment on board floating over my yard too.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        The information they glean from the balloon is pretty simple; how does the US react to an unauthorized intrusion into its air space. It doesn’t need to be spying, it is the spy.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Bingo.

      • Penguin

        It’s metaspying!

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Dopey Joe has no concept of “border” so it’s not any issue to him.

        He may have surpassed FDR and is approaching Wilson-levels of destruction to the country.

        Speaking of destruction, in too-local news the idiots in Santa Fe are pushing a 14-day waiting period for firearms purchase. They are also debating an end to Daylight Saving. Guess which one will pass.

      • R.J.

        I though eliminating daylight savings time was a done deal.

      • Animal

        It’s the other way around. After next month we’re on permanent Daylight Savings Time.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not nationwide. It died in Congress last year. Only the Senate passed it.

      • Chafed

        I’ll let the NYT explain it, “[W]hile spy satellites can see almost everything, balloons equipped with high-tech sensors hover over a site far longer and can pick up radio, cellular and other transmissions that cannot be detected from space. That is why the Montana sighting of the balloon was critical; in recent years, the National Security Agency and United States Strategic Command, which oversees the American nuclear arsenal, have been remaking communications with nuclear weapons sites. That would be one, but only one, of the natural targets for China’s Ministry of State Security, which oversees many of its national security hacks.”

        Additionally, if it is true (and I’m not saying it is) that there were other times balloons traveled over US airspace but weren’t detected until after they passed through, then our early warning system has some significant gaps.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        Don’s tinfoil hat

        Testing to sit if next time they don’t have to start their worldwide pandemic with some schmuck in Wuhan but can spread it directly over the US so long as their agent is the CiC.

  23. grrizzly

    Tomorrow’s edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung doesn’t mention “Hersh” once. They had many hours today to cover the story.

    • rhywun

      I’m willing to go along with those who object that it’s just this guy’s say-so.

      It comfirms what I already believed but… “anonymous sources”? Give me a break.

      • Chafed

        I’m pretty well done believing any story based solely on anonymous sources. We have been burned too many times in the last several years to buy that line.

      • Sensei

        Yup. It fits my biases and the fact pattern, but I can’t call it true based on that story.

        For example, the NYP’s Hunter laptop story had many more sources and verifications.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Concerns

    Baylor professors fear students will lose critical thinking skills with ChatGPT

    ——-

    “If you don’t have to do the critical analysis because you have the chat and the online information that’s gathered, where is that critical thinking that’s happening?” Powell Nichols said. “If you never have to make the decision because you have AI telling you what decision to make, you ‘use it or lose it.’”

    Several other professors echoed Powell Nichols’s concern. Dr. Forest Kim, executive director of the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership, said these recent developments with ChatGPT were very concerning.

    “For me, the biggest fear would be that if students use it, they are simply short-circuiting the learning process,” Kim said. “Critical thinking, oral and written communications… these are all critical competencies across all industries, but especially in business and healthcare.”

    That ship left the barn a long time ago.

    • R.J.

      No shit.

    • Compelled Speechless

      More and more it seems people are being rewarded for not critically thinking. Being able to confidently repeat things that fly directly in the face of reality is becoming more valuable by the day. It’s not just government, giant corporations have entire bureaucracies that seem to exist to tell the higher ups what they want to hear. We are already living in a world tailormade to be run by AI.

    • rhywun

      They’re probably getting everything from Wikipedia and MSNBC already – there’s almost no difference in the content.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Probably because the copy was submitted to both by the same FBI agent.

  25. KSuellington

    | Does this Dr. Gunter [pause for laughter to die down] understand just how much jizz, piss, and spacedocking the average Kardashian vagina accumulates in a typical weekend? These are rugged, off-road vaginas, adapted to the rigors of the NBA and Soundcloud rappers. These things can’t clean themselves and the scent of the abattoir doesn’t dissipate on its own.

    This is the kind of quality writing that makes me always renew my yearly subscription here. Bravo.

    • Tundra

      Off-Road Vaginas is a great album name.

      • KSuellington

        Absolutely. Or maybe the backup band for a country outlaw singer named Ruff Tumble.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Who will stand up to these celebrities and Big Pussy?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Really the best thing for the marketing teams working for Big Pussy could do is get out of their echo chamber.

      • Bobarian LMD

        “Help me find my keys and we’ll drive my jeep out!”

      • WTF
      • WTF

        Shit I don’t know what happened there

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Libertarian Moment?

    John Hindraker at the Power Line blog is getting dragged in the comments on one of his posts yesterday.

    Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech is tonight. Consistent with the custom of recent years, he no doubt will acknowledge the presence of individuals in the crowd and use their stories to reinforce his policy objectives. I was shocked to learn that among those who will be present tonight are the parents of Amir Locke, as guests of Ilhan Omar.

    I don’t know whether Biden will talk about the Locke case tonight. If he does, what he says about the case will be a lie. And in any event, Ilhan Omar is using the case, and Locke’s parents as props, to advance a bad policy idea based on fabrications.

    Should no-knock warrants be abolished? Probably the best-informed opinion you are likely to read is David Zimmer’s. He speaks from experience:

    David’s post consists largely of background on no knock raids and data on their use and effectiveness. I commend it to your attention.

    So Hindraker was sure Omar and Biden were going to use Amir Locke at the SOTU last night and trotted out some hack from his think tank. The comments are brutal. I bet it is at least 5 to 1 against no nock raids and defending Locke and his family.

    • Pope Jimbo

      David Zimmer seems to have been a member of the Sheriff’s swat team. He swore in his article that his team was sooper cereal and never shot anyone or raided the wrong house. I pointed out in the comments that I bet he knew the MPD swat members who all got medals for “coming under fire” when they raided the house of an innocent family. Unfortunately for them, the innocent family had a shotgun and enough time to shoot at the swat team. And since they were shot at they all automatically got medals.

      “They were acting in good faith on a warrant that was properly drawn up, based off of what appeared to be good information,” Garcia said. “Their bravery under fire should not be negated [because of the misinformation].”

      But the Khangs, through their lawyer, beg to differ.

      “They were given medals for taking fire in my client’s house … where, by the grace of God, no one was killed that night,” Heffelfinger said.

      My point being, that Zimmerman was around when this happened, so he can’t pretend that stupid shit has never happened when cops decide to escalate things with a no knock warrant.

      • EvilSheldon

        Who was fired, or even disciplined, because of their inadequate surveillance?

        No one?

        Any amateur can get a job done properly most of the time.
        Professionalism is getting it done properly every time, and taking responsibility when you fail.

      • Pope Jimbo

        No, this other swat raid on an innocent family is True Professionalism A sheriff’s swat team raided a house based on a warrant given them by the Minneapolis PD. Of course it was the wrong house and the swat team just destroyed the house of another innocent family.

        Look at the truly professional ass covering:

        “What due diligence was done to make sure that the proper individuals were staying in that house?” KARE 11 asked Anoka Sheriff James Stuart about the raid on Bianca’s home.

        “That would be a question for MPD,” replied Stuart.

        Stuart says he can’t remember a similar “terrible situation” ever happening in Anoka County, and acknowledges his team did none of their normal fact-checking or surveillance before executing the no-knock warrant.

        He says they trusted MPD to have done their due diligence since it was their warrant..

        Likewise the MPD is truly professional:

        More than two months after the early morning raid on Bianca’s home, there’s still no record in the state court system of the search warrant – or the evidence provided to Judge Fitzpatrick by MPD Detective Swierzewski when he applied for the warrant.

        Except for the copy left with Bianca, there is no public record of the search warrant’s existence.

        Spokesman John Elder told KARE 11 MPD acted on the best information they had and defended the use of the search warrant because the robbery suspect still had mail going to the Coon Rapids address.

        “MPD would not have any reports related to this incident as it did not occur in Minneapolis,” a city official told reporters. And “Except for the copy left with Bianca, there is no public record of the search warrant’s existence.”

        Amateurs leave paper trails and take responsibility.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I should have linked to this version of the story because of this quote:

        On Monday, [Police Chief] Dolan recognized members of the SWAT team for their bravery.

        “The easy decision would have been to retreat under covering fire. The team did not take the easy way out,” Dolan said. “This is a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong but did not because of the professionalism with which it was handled.”

        “The officers put themselves in harm’s way. They were shot at and shot and deserved to be recognized.”

        How could the press covering that ceremony not have burst into laughter and started taunting the cops at that point?

        “You mean the professionalism that caused you to start shooting up a family’s home?”

  27. Pope Jimbo

    I remember when Harry Potter p0wned the conservatives because it was clear that Dumbeldore was gay.

    Have the crazies demanded that anyone with any Dumbledore swag get canceled because there is no way that anyone should support a self-loathing gay dude who is transphobic.

    • WTF

      Women are strong and can handle anything a man can.
      And they’re also delicate flowers who must be protected from words that might upset them.

    • creech

      “Only a minute.” Back in the day, one could get slapped silly for just ten seconds worth of crude or vulgar talk to a woman. Or so I hear.

  28. Gender Traitor

    In it-doesn’t-get-much-more-local news, my doc has apparently reviewed my lab results from yesterday’s checkup, noted the somewhat high cholesterol, but is NOT recommending any of those icky medications for it! 😃

    • Count Potato

      So I guess it was in normal parameters.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Unless it’s sky high I’d steer clear. Good on your doc for not handing statins out like candy.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’d love to get off fucking statins. But 2 heart attacks by age 40 does not bode well for that wish.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sorry to hear it, I have a person in my family who had muscle breakdown from taking them so I’m going to steer clear unless it’s of critical importance. Apparently that’s a very rare but very real bad reaction/side-effect.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yes. Breakdown is rare. But weakness and soreness are not. Neither are memory problems.

        I’m not very excited about.

      • Gender Traitor

        Yikes! 😳

      • Count Potato

        Yikes! Sorry 🙁

      • Tundra

        Damn, son. How often does your cardiologist do a calcium test?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I get full panels every year.

        And the kicker is that my heart is not the primary culprit, but my liver. After heart attack 1, suddenly at age 33, my cardiologist wanted to investigate. I had a clogged artery, and his argument was that 33 year olds have heart attacks, but not 33 year olds with no history of heart problems, and virtually no heart attacks at this age are a result of clogged arteries. His claim was that I could have been born with a cigarette in my mouth and a bottle of booze in my hand, and I still wouldn’t have have accumulated enough plaque for a heart attack.

        So we did tests for months.

        The culprit is that my liver doesn’t re-uptake bad fat and cholesterol at the capacity it ought to, and it has to go somewhere since it can’t just be shat out or otherwise eliminated. That somewhere is in the heart.

      • Tundra

        Wow. I’ve never heard of that in someone so young. Does he have you take any liver-related supps? NAC?

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Damn, that sucks. Keep up the living thing, it seems to be worth it.

      • R.J.

        This is terrible. I hope someday you get medical relief from that.

      • DEG

        Sorry

      • Tundra

        Even if it’s sky high I would try dietary interventions first.

    • DEG

      This is good news.

  29. Count Potato

    “Did Biden give the order to destroy Putin’s Nord Stream pipeline after Ukraine invasion? Bombshell report claims Navy divers carried out mission to kill Russia’s gas stranglehold on Europe in audacious mission overseen by president”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727691/U-S-carried-Nord-Stream-bomb-attack-secret-plan-led-Joe-Biden-report-claims.html

    “US intelligence confirms Chinese spy balloon was part of Beijing global surveillance operation to collect information on military sites across the world: Report”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11728557/US-intelligence-confirms-Chinese-spy-balloon-global-surveillance-operation-Report.html

    Who knows?

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m getting shell shock from all these bombshell reports.

      • Count Potato

        Everyone involved is a professional liar.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yep. There is no source that one can trust.

        That’s not a good thing. We’ve seen our society go from generations of high trust to a low trust society in the span of 1 presidential election.

        TMITE is directly responsible.

      • rhywun

        to a low trust society in the span of 1 presidential election

        Yeah, this is not good. Especially with such a large proportion of the population being completely oblivious of it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m not convinced they’re oblivious. Many seem to be cheering it on and carrying water for societal breakdown.

  30. Gadfly

    sell a candle invented to smell like Kourtney’s vagina

    But why? Who would buy that?

    Sometimes reality manages to catch up to SF.

    • Count Potato

      Also, if you bought it, how would you know?

      • Bobarian LMD

        The burning sensation?

      • Bobarian LMD

        A candle that burns you without having to light it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If you are worried about gases being emitted by your pussy, wouldn’t having an open flame around it be a very bad idea?

      • Gadfly

        A good point. The target market must have been credulous perverts, I can’t think of anyone else this is for.

      • Count Potato

        Or maybe people who have smelled Kourtney’s vagina is a larger demographic than I thought?

      • SugarFree

        I am confident that fewer people watched the pilot episode of Velma than have smelt the Kardashian miasma on the wind.

      • R.J.

        At some point I have to watch it. Maybe a Zoom party? Not sure how else I can take it.

      • SugarFree

        It’s inevitable. I have to break my no hate-watching rule.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You sure that shouldn’t be

      A candle inverted to plug Kourtney’s vagina and stop the smell

    • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

      It keeps the witches away.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Somebody bought Madonna’s new album

      And the candle may be less offensive than Sam Smith’s latest video.

  31. Gadfly

    The First Lady takes the Second Man, as is her right.

    It is good to be the queen.

  32. Tundra

    Kari Lake back on Malice today. Much better than the first time. I was surprised that the lawsuit is still going forward, but I’m not surprised that she still speaks politician. Malice threw her a couple times with some funny questions, so that lightened her up a lot.

    • Bob Boberson

      That’s good, her first time
      On his show was one of the worst episodes I’ve listened to. She refused to come off message or act like a human….I’m not sure that I finished it.

    • Count Potato

      I’m surprised he asked her back after the last time.

      • Tundra

        I was too, but I think her people reached out to him.

        It was interesting enough to hear her side of the story. You won’t believe this, but it’s not exactly as presented in the media.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I don’t believe you. Pravda told me that Pravda never lies.

      • Gadfly

        How could Pravda lie? Pravda means “truth”, and the truth is not a lie, comrade.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    The officers put themselves in harm’s way

    By kicking down the wrong door, right?

    • Bob Boberson

      Let’s not even acknowledge the innocent citizens they put in harms way.

      As long as they got home safe….

    • Grosspatzer

      Damn thing wants a passcode.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Mojeaux and I were at the first link, worked fine. Tried yours and it was like my sex life- just me.

      • Grosspatzer

        Weird. Now I got in, before it kept bugging me for a passcode

  34. Pope Jimbo

    UCS needs to check this out for his miniature painting.

  35. Old Man With Candy

    Is this a shocking video?

    I want to bear all her children.

  36. Brochettaward

    RJ.

    We all know the reason you won’t make The Woman King a Glibflick.

    It’s because you are racist.

    • R.J.

      I wrote an awesome response. So good that the server was overwhelmed and did not post it. Dammit.
      I am addressing the topic of shitty movies like that next week. A post on false firsts and participation awards.

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t think there is an American old enough to really remember anything resembling a free country.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        It’s all relative, pal, especially when you grow up in a backwater, very rural state.

    • rhywun

      We Have to Get away from Depending on Fossil Fuels

      When I was little, this stuff was just beginning to ramp up. And I fell for it because that’s what all the smart people kept saying. I just assumed that the “bad guys” – you know, anyone who disagreed – were simply too powerful. Now look where we are.

      How did these people get so much power??

      • Brochettaward

        They have a message that tells the politicians what they want to here and they made it a very griftable proposition.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        It took time ands lot of effort to convince a generation or two.

  37. Plinker762

    The domino ring was in my youtube feed earlier today so it must be making the rounds. It then lead air powered Lego semi truckme to this

    • rhywun

      Yes, and they’re fucking stupid for doing it.

      Dems defend their own.

      “Taking the high road” is for losers.

      • Sensei

        Pretty much. But I wouldn’t want him to represent me either.

        It’s a tough call.

  38. Sensei

    Written by a dude for the paywalled NYT

    On the last Friday in November, in the afterglow of a literary awards ceremony, the novelist Mieko Kawakami held court in a banquet hall at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, wearing a tweed Gucci dress, clutching an Hermès Birkin handbag and sipping a glass of domestic beer she would never quite finish. Each time she raised the drink to her lips, another writer, editor or publicist came along to distract her from it. Kawakami, who is 46, greeted them each with a degree of warmth that made it hard to tell which were strangers and which were her friends.

    Breasts and Eggs’ Made Her a Feminist Icon. She Has Other Ambitions.

    • Gustave Lytton

      greeted them each with a degree of warmth that made it hard to tell which were strangers and which were her friends

      🙄

      • Sensei

        She was a hostess. That’s what she based her novels on initially.

        I’d never heard of her, but reads like she is successful as an author.

    • R.J.

      Poorly written article. I think it was two EFTs that bounced. The reporter doesn’t know the difference.