359 Comments

  1. Pat

    Nearly 100 Babylon Bee joke stories have come true

    That few?

    • AlexinCT

      Yeah, we live in a world where parody to show stupidity reflects reality. Frightning.

  2. Not Adahn

    I mean, Cracker Barrel is the wytest restaurant that exists, I’m surprised Portland hasn’t kicked them out already.

    • SDF-7

      They thought they could keep those crackers over a barrel.

    • Rat on a train

      What about the upscale Cracker Barrel, Bob Evans?

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Portland is the wytest city in the west.

      • The Last American Hero

        Hard to tell with everybody dressed up as ninjas.

  3. Pat

    Historic UAW election picks reform leader who vows more aggressive approach to auto negotiations

    Ford to lose billions on electric cars

    Nice juxtaposition.

    • invisible finger

      I assume the UAW still wants work rules like 45 seconds to fill the gas tank in an electric car.

  4. Nephilium

    Don’t worry, Ford will make it up in volume

    • R.J.

      Hahaha. I cracked that joke at Autopian. Nobody got it. Seriously, what if going through the leadership’s heads? Do they not see the giant iceberg ahead?

      • DrOtto

        Most of the world is now financially illiterate. If you don’t believe me, read a Krugnutz column.

    • DrOtto

      That reminds me, I have some Ford stock I have to sell. I bought it for $2.00 a share during carmageddon when they were doing everything right but got dragged down by GM and Chrysler’s mismanagement. Now all 3 of them are making dumb decisions because management gets lead around by government decisions instead of what buyers want. I miss the days when the automakers fought nonsensical gov’t decrees.

      • The Last American Hero

        Hang on to it. They will either sell EV’s and profits will soar or they will get bailed out and stock prices will go up.

  5. AlexinCT

    Revelation of FBI Informants Shakes Proud Boys’ January 6 Trial

    What? Another of the many things our disinformationists pretending to be media called a conspiracy theory – that 1/6 was an inside job by Trump haters – is now also turning out to be a true thing?

    Clown world…

    • Not Adahn

      This is about the FBI having an informant on the defense team.

    • The Last American Hero

      The Man Who Was Thursday, a Nightmare.

    • Nephilium

      /looks up in morning links

      Skimming the story, it looks like they’re specifically targeting instances where children are being abused or hurt.

      • SDF-7

        And isn’t that a perfect nose under the tent — no one can defend not reporting that!

        Oh… and drug dealing, that harms the community so much… need to report that.

        Oh… and anti-community thoughts, comrade…

        The way the article reads, there’s pretty little chance of this passing this year – but the bill author is adamant they’ll keep pounding on it.

      • Pat

        it looks like they’re specifically targeting instances where children are being abused or hurt

        Of course they are. And, conveniently, since there’s no “for the children” exception to generally applicable laws, once that passes then the confessional becomes a witness stand and the priest a stenographer. How could something designed to create shame and emotional leverage have been co-opted by the state for such nefarious purposes?

      • Fourscore

        “Your confession is being recorded for security reasons. All English speaking priests are presently busy. An Al priest will be with you soon. For more serious sins dial 1-800-SuperSin”

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘This would be a persecution of the Catholic church because a priest would go to jail before they would reveal someone’s sins.’

      Time to make some more saints, if necessary.

      • Nephilium

        Yeah. I’m pretty sure the priests would still be under the law of God to not reveal what was shared. It may have been a while since I’ve gone to church or the like, but I’m pretty sure God’s rules are still supposed to trump man’s rules. If the priests roll over, at that point the Catholic Church is just another big pseudo-NGO.

      • The Last American Hero

        Given how they rolled over during COVID, I’m not confident that the USCCB has the balls to stand up to this.

      • SDF-7

        That they haven’t excommunicated Biden and/or Pelosi doesn’t fill me with confidence, no.

      • Raven Nation

        As some have noted above, using child abuse is a brilliant tactic because who could oppose that. The other angle is that, given the recent history of the Catholic Church and child rape, I can only imagine the way this will be played if the church opposes it.

      • Nephilium

        Oh, it’s a brilliant way to provide cover, I completely agree. When those laws pass, it’ll be an inflection point for the Church. Will they actually stand up for themselves, or relegate themselves to continuing to fade out as time goes on until there’s another schism.

  6. AlexinCT

    First-Citizens Bank will acquire Silicon Valley Bank: FDIC

    The corruptocracy ha another of the banks being used by the corruptocracy to fuck over the citizenry to bail out a bank that did real stupid shit to help the corruptocracy out. Odds are 100% US tax payers will foot the bill for the woke & evil social justice bullshit peddled by the god damned corruptocracy.

  7. Pat

    Revelations of the sheer number of FBI informants involved in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot have shaken a trial of members of the Proud Boys in Washington, DC, as one FBI informant had infiltrated the defense team.

    As Julie Kelly, who has covered the January 6 trials extensively, reports, there are at least ten informants now known to have been involved in the Proud Boys — more than twice the five defendants who are on trial.

    One shocking revelation last week was that one FBI informant, Jen Loh, a member of Latinos for Trump, had been in close contact with the defendants and their legal team throughout the trial, potentially compromising their constitutional rights.

    I’m sure the prosecution and the judge were shocked – SHOCKED – to learn of this, and will move swiftly to dismiss charges.

    • Not Adahn

      Nah, they pinky-swore that Loh didn’t tell them anything they weren’t entitled to know.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        It’s like those messages they shared by accident. You’re just going to have to take their word for it. besides they’d never lie, they’re public servants!

    • juris imprudent

      “Nothing to see here, move along”.

      • AlexinCT

        Fuck me. At this point we should be filing cases against the FBI.

        I no longer have any doubt 1/6 was a fucking government insider job and part of the effort to hamstring the people they were worried would discover they rigged, erm fortified, the 2020 election by making them criminals for opposing the corruptocracy.

  8. AlexinCT

    Historic UAW election picks reform leader who vows more aggressive approach to auto negotiations

    Anyone want to call the odds that what happens is more of these jobs go to Mexico or somewhere else where labor is cheaper?

  9. Pat

    Parts of Twitter’s source code used to run the social media platform were leaked online, the company said in a court filing.

    In the legal document filed Friday with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter requested that Github, a Microsoft-owned internet hosting service for software development, remove the code from the site on which it was posted, The New York Times first reported.

    Uhh… didn’t based Elon just announce a few days ago he was open-sourcing their entire stack?

    • R.J.

      Yes. But his way, not on some skeevy site. And it was only for his recommendation criteria. That github could be everything.

  10. AlexinCT

    Many Americans Likely in for Tax Refund Disappointment

    No fucking way am I giving the IRS my money interest free. I will be sending them a check for what I was able to avoid having them take out of my pay check without triggering automatic audits or penalties on April 18th. For me the real evil days that compete with December 7th 1941 or 9-11-2001, tend to be that day in April 15th or 18th when the slackers want time off where the government robs me yet again to piss away good money.

    • SDF-7

      And the real fun is that they’re robbing us for the money they pissed away 20 years ago at this point. They’ll be robbing 2 generations away for the money they’re pissing away this year.

      • Rat on a train

        Democracy is sending your bill to someone else.

      • AlexinCT

        So that’s why they are destroying the Republic?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      “ She is a member of the Indigenous Alliance of the Academy of Motion Pictures”

      Is that the one with Mel Brooks?

      https://youtu.be/MAYt6dpCgOI

    • Grumbletarian

      Would Heather Rae have achieved the same success as a white woman that she has enjoyed as a fake Cherokee? Possibly.

      Wouldn’t her white privilege have helped her become more famous and successful?

      • R C Dean

        Would Sam Bankman-Fried have achieved the same success without committing fraud? Possibly.

    • DrOtto

      I don’t know, but I’ve been told it’s better to pretend being Jewish in Hollywood.

      • Not Adahn

        *Whoopi Goldberg nods jiggles*

      • AlexinCT

        There went my breakfast…

    • Lackadaisical

      I see a bigger problem:

      “Johnny Sequoyah, despite her Cherokee name”

      Her? Named Johnny?

      Johnny cash will have to do remake of ‘a boy named sue’, but called a ‘girl named Johnny.’

      • DrOtto

        Johnny Cash is no longer available. Maybe Lou Reed can pick up the reigns.

  11. SDF-7

    Not sure if this just means the CA GOP is so pathetic, they figure they might as well grift, or the losers currently infesting the CA GOP can’t even grift / mess with foreign spies (hey there Swalwell!) unlike the Dems.

    Either way, the CCP sure seems to be covering all their bases. Nice that we keep sending them the money and technology to ruin us, you globalist jerks.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      So, some dude randomly announces that he is running for governor as a Republican, and that makes him a life long conservative? Something is rotten in this story. There is no background about the guy and his politics, no history of his positions, and so on. I am not buying that he is a RedStater, just a run of the mill con man, who saw a graft just sitting there, same with the PPP.

  12. Rebel Scum

    “The problem isn’t that our satire is too close to reality,” Seth Dillon told Fox News. “It’s that reality is too close to satire, so our jokes keep coming true.”

    Clown world can be difficult to parody.

    • Penguin

      Tell me about it. You really have to go out on a limb these days.

  13. AlexinCT

    Leftist protestors and hoaxsters feel no fear because they have gotten used that they never have to face consequences. The left holds a monopoly on pretend aggrievance and uses that cudgel to silence the enemy. But I bet we will see a lot less bullshit from these scumbags if they are made to pay for their shit.

  14. Pat

    It’s time for Hollywood to grow up

    Have we passed the peak of superhero movies’ dominance of the big screen? I certainly hope so – and the signs are promising.

    For more than 15 years, the film industry has been colonised by daftly named characters in spandex, playing out inane plotlines against a brain-bleeding cacophony of cartoonish CGI.

    I interviewed Academy Award-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan recently about his new film noir, Marlowe, and he very much agreed. ‘It seems Hollywood is run by Marvel now’, he told me. (We can add Warner Bros / DC to that – which is not as hugely successful as Marvel, but big enough to be part of the problem.) ‘It’s this enormous factory’, he said, ‘dedicated to sequels and remakes’.

    The wheel of fortune ever turns, though. DC’s latest, Shazam! Fury of the Gods (ugh, that title), was a ‘box-office bust’, limping to just $30million in its opening weekend earlier this month. In February, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (ugh, that title), suffered the biggest-ever second-weekend drop in revenue for a Marvel movie.

    And there’s more to suggest the superhero genre is losing its powers. The last title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to break a billion dollars was four films ago – Spider-Man: No Way Home, in 2021. Last year was the first since 2014 that the global box office didn’t have a Marvel or Star Wars product in the top two. Last year’s Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Forever, underperformed its predecessor by a staggering $500million. Black Adam, starring the Rock, was also a relative bomb, taking just $393million.

    The critics are turning on superhero flicks, too: Quantumania and 2021’s Eternals – which reportedly lost money, too – are the only MCU movies marked ‘rotten’ on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

    Though you do have to ask, why have critics been cheerleading this gibberish for the past 15 years? Is it not a critic’s job to, well, criticise? Is Avengers: Endgame – with 94 per cent critical approval on Rotten Tomatoes – really better than the likes of Munich (78 per cent), The Prestige (76 per cent) or There Will Be Blood (91 per cent)?

    It seems audiences are tiring of superhero shenanigans. Huzzah, say I. It’s about time Hollywood started making films for grown-ups again.

    This is hardly a controversial opinion, but as a member of the choir who’s been tired of capeshit since my idiot high school buddies dragged me to the Sam Raimi Spiderman in 2002, I enjoy hearing it preached to me.

    • AlexinCT

      The problem to me isn’t the fact there are so many superhero movies, but that the other stuff they put out is absolute trash and loaded with even more garbage woke shit making it unwatchable. I don’t need my entertainment to be as preachy as Hollywood has made it. Especially since all the preaching is about woke stupid shit.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I don’t think the movies have necessarily been overtly woke. The spin-off shows have been, but the main movies just suffer from good guy has special powers, and has to defeat bad guy with special powers. Good guy powers will win after the 2.5 hours are up.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I agree. That’s probably why the superhero movies got so popular in the first place, they were made for enjoyment and not overly burdened with messaging beyond the typical good guy/bad guy stuff.

    • SDF-7

      I don’t mind a good superhero movie from time to time — but they’ve way oversaturated the market, and (more importantly) they’ve eschewed good for The Message for some time now (Marvel) or don’t-know-what-the-hell-they’re-thinking (DC).

      Even if they ditched the capes entirely, though — the current writing in both movies and TV seems to be “recycle nostalgia bait, but make it for Modern Audiences and don’t worry about anything that made it good enough for people to remember”. So we’re looking at perpetual reboots and re-imaginings of any story they can get their grubby mitts on until people finally stop shoveling out for it. I don’t know what the actual creative people are doing, but they’re certainly ignored by the current gatekeepers.

      • AlexinCT

        I don’t know what the actual creative people are doing, but they’re certainly ignored by the current gatekeepers.

        Practically all of them have been banned for not worshipping at the altar of wokeness.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Sounds like Pat is ready for The Marvels.

    • Nephilium

      At least there’s been an upswing in horror and slasher movies again. Some of them even going back to the roots and going for the R rating instead of the PG-13 rating.

    • dorvinion

      I’ve never been a comic book person so I’ve been tired of hearing about the superhero movies since being taken to see X2

      I’m surprised the trend has lasted as long as it did.

    • Grumbletarian

      For more than 15 years, the film industry has been colonised

      Fuck. Off.

    • waffles

      I watched spiderman: no way home last Friday. It was heralded as a good movie in a sea of capeshit mediocrity. It was still pretty bland and mediocre. I found it really hard to care about the characters and only really enjoyed the nostalgia to the sam raimi characters.

    • slumbrew

      Unmentioned: the foreign markets.

      “ daftly named characters in spandex, playing out inane plotlines against a brain-bleeding cacophony of cartoonish CGI” translates into something for Mandrin-speaking audiences much easier than a There Will Be Blood.

    • DrOtto

      While I welcome it, Marlowe is hardly new material.

    • The Last American Hero

      Superhero movies are big with international audiences. Nobody outside of the west may care about Scarjo and Kylo watching their marriage fall apart, but giant robots blowing shit up cuts across cultural boundaries and usually doesn’t piss off the CCP. They also pay the studio bills so the artsy stuff can get greenlit.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Nobody inside the west cares, either.

  15. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘Ordles — DuoTri was good on score… but way too slow to be proud of. Quordle itself started well, but sank in the morass of mediocrity.

    Daily Duotrigordle #390
    Guesses: 34/37
    Time: 05:40.51
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 427
    6️⃣7️⃣
    5️⃣2️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 427
      4️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣3️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

      Blossom Puzzle, March 27
      Letters: E I P L R S Y
      My score: 209 points
      My longest word: 10 letters
      🏵 🌻 💐 🌺 🌷 💮 🌹 🌸 🌼 🏵

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

      • UnCivilServant

        Epilepsy – 8
        pliers
        repliers
        rippers
        preppers
        silly lepers
        Okay, I’m not getting up to ten letter words, what was it?

      • Sean

        slipperier

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 427
      6️⃣4️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣

      Speaking of the morass of mediocrity…

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 427
      4️⃣5️⃣
      8️⃣6️⃣

  16. Rebel Scum

    Revelation of FBI Informants Shakes Proud Boys’ January 6 Trial

    Federal Bureau of Insurrection.

  17. hayeksplosives

    Seriously, “Shawn Fain”? When I saw the headline, before I read the article, I thought “Oh great. Just like how “mob rule” was welcomed in 1914 Ireland.”

    Are we not doing “history” anymore?

    • Shirley Knott

      Why no, no, we’re not. Nothing happened before 2000 except some ancient shit nobody cares about (Egypt, Rome).

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I thought that was a prank.

    • Michael Malaise

      I came to make the Sinn Fein joke, but I”m glad we are all on the ball this morning.

  18. hayeksplosives

    Good morrow, all you miscreants! Have a great day!!

    Also, this adjustable bed is the absolute bomb. I don’t wanna get up!!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Have you asked your lawyer about the cats?

      I was a tad obnoxious the other day; I apologize.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Idaho To Allow Death By Firing Squad After Governor Signs New Law

    I’m sure this will trigger the left.

    • AlexinCT

      They will get all riled up and shoot their load?

      • Pat

        They’ll be firing off a lawsuit challenging this faster than a speeding bullet, but of course, it all comes down to what facts get loaded into the legal chamber. Either way, expect the ruling to be explosive.

      • robodruid

        Depends on the caliber of the lawyers.

      • Fourscore

        They’re all primed and ready to roll out the big guns.

  20. AlexinCT

    Roh Roh Shaggy…

    It looks like CNN has been spying on this blog!

    You “digital blackfacers” are now gonna be in trouble!

    • Rebel Scum

      “Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly ‘Sweet Brown’ Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, ‘Ain’t nobody got time for that! Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on ‘America’s Next Top Model’ (‘I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!’). Or maybe you’ve simply posted popular GIFs, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen RuPaul declaring, ‘Guuuurl…’” he wrote in an article published Sunday.

      “If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism,” he continued.

      First, Aunt Jemima. Then, Uncle Ben. Now black person memes. I don’t get why proggies are trying to remove black people from modern culture.

      • B.P.

        Stand by for explicit instructions as to how and when you may participate in the culture.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        They need them quiet, and isolated in ghettos.

    • Michael Malaise

      Recycling this shit again? Must be a slow Trump day at CNN.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The 6 months of “TRUMP ARRESTED!” articles they can’t run ate up their other news headlines.

  21. Certified Public Asshat

    ESPN celebrated Women’s History Month by promoting a special about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas……a biological male who destroyed real women in the pool. pic.twitter.com/gVLa0rz2NN— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) March 26, 2023

    Stunning, brave. Repeat.

    • The Last American Hero

      More of this please.

  22. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    The entire article is criminally laughable, but this part stuck out to me.

    A second bivalent booster dose has not been studied as much as experts would like, Schaffner said. This means you should not try to finagle a second jab.

    “We don’t like to make recommendations on the basis of no data,” he noted. “And I think that goes to the heart of why the FDA hasn’t been more assertive in this regard.”

    While it’s scary to be immunocompromised during the COVID pandemic (when an infection can mean severe outcomes), if you sneak in another dose, you could put yourself at risk. FDA authorization is necessary before that second shot. To keep yourself safe, you should wear a mask indoors, wash your hands, use hand sanitizer and test before gatherings, Schaffner said.

    I suppose that means that they couldn’t get any of the mice to survive the first shot in order to get the second.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/second-bivalent-covid-booster_l_641cba1fe4b0fef152494ea0

    • Certified Public Asshat

      “We don’t like to make recommendations on the basis of no data,”

      To keep yourself safe, you should wear a mask indoors, wash your hands, use hand sanitizer and test before gatherings, Schaffner said.

      Lol.

    • SDF-7

      Meh… I’ll give a pass to the immunocompromised to be concerned about any virus and take steps to protect themselves.

      Until and unless they start arguing for all of human society / interaction to change for their benefit, at which point they veer strongly into “Frak off” territory.

      One thing that’s puzzled me during the whole Pandemic Age is just how many immunocompromised there supposedly are (it is getting like frakkin’ gluten allergies… and for all I know may be related). Maybe that’s just a matter of modern medicine meaning these folks don’t just die early so the overall extant percentage is low, maybe there’s an environmental factor (like said gluten allergy) or a societal factor (keeping kids in bubble wrap so they never get an immune system)… just seems odd to me that there are supposedly so many whenever they need to pump the scare factor. And I’m sorry for those who seriously have to live their life that way — it must be hard, because fundamentally… nature is more than happy to kill us, and it must seem like it is trying extra hard for them. And if the risk/reward ratio for the shots works for them, have at it. Just don’t try to push the rest of us into your little sterile bubbles again.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Well one way to compromise your immune system is to take the mRNA shots…

      • Bob Boberson

        As you point out”Immunocompromised” is the new gluten allergy. It was comical to me the number of people (some for that sweet COVID excuse to shirk work and some because humans are panicky morons) that suddenly were ‘immunocompromised’ or ‘high risk’ once COVID got going.

      • Bob Boberson

        I got a stern comment from a coworker that my flippant and disdainful comments about the lockdowns and masking were not appreciated….his kids have ASTHMA and could DIE from COVID!

      • Rat on a train

        Fuck off slaver – an asthmatic

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        One thing that’s puzzled me during the whole Pandemic Age is just how many immunocompromised there supposedly are (it is getting like frakkin’ gluten allergies… and for all I know may be related).

        A large number of people have immunology diseases. These diseases themselves don’t often cause immunocompromised systems, but the steroid and biologic treatments do. The conditions are after all caused by immune systems thrown in hyperdrive that have to be damped down. So it makes sense that the percentage of the population that is immunocompromised skyrockets as more advanced treatments become available.

        But that doesn’t mean everyone with immunocompromised systems need to live like bubble boy. There is a lot of confusion about what immunocompromised means in the real world. Steroids used to be general immune system inhibitors. But now steroids and biologics are becoming increasingly tailored to target specific areas of the body, so that immunocomprised status is not a general condition. That distinction is lost on many patients and even their doctors.

      • Rat on a train

        These diseases themselves don’t often cause immunocompromised systems, but the steroid and biologic treatments do.
        I have an immune disorder with mild, but annoying, symptoms. The doctor told me I either live with the symptoms or take an immune suppressant that makes me vulnerable to worse things. I went the lower risk route of living with the disorder.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        I take an immunosuppressant for my MS, but I want to be clear, my life is not greater than society. And by that I mean trying to make the world safe for the lowest common denominator is a fools errand, and as we are seeing, is quite destructive.

  23. waffles

    I’m very skeptical of the electric car conversion. Without a similar revolution in power generation and transmission it just doesn’t work. I’m far from the first or only person to notice this. It looks like a tremendous boondoggle and it’s just getting started.

    • Q Continuum

      It’s a 100% boondoggle. Unless and until we make a large-scale transition to nuclear and start building new reactors like it’s going out of style, these electrification schemes are just a way of lining politicians’ pockets and lowering the peasants’ quality of life.

      • AlexinCT

        Even an energy infrastructure would not be as important to me as the ability to fully recharge in less time than it takes to fill my a small fender bender tocuhed your battery system out of fear the thing will burn up in your garage. Fuck dat shizz.

      • invisible finger

        It’s not just an energy infrastructure.

        The practicality of ICE vehicles birthed the service station industry. Which, had it not happened in the manner it did, would have limited the growth of the automobile industry. The blacksmith that would re-shoe your horse could also (if he so chose) to do engine repair or tire changing.

        I’m not on the west coast so I don’t know all the infrastructure that makes Teslas and other EV’s practical. There seems to be a lot of “proprietary-ness” around charging infrastructure. And there also seems to be a lot of location-tracking going on as well. Maybe it’s just my general distrust of the software industry having been in it for 35 years, but I’m leery of an industry that requires hacker conferences to do a percentage of the quality assurance.

      • AlexinCT

        Looks like my post got mangled… I was saying that even if they could set up the infrastructure required to service recharging country wide, I have zero desire to wait for a long time for the recharging every 200 miles or so. The convenience/security of easily filling up my guzzler in a couple of minutes and then being back on the road for 360 miles is not something I want to trade.

        And I am aware of how the property/casualty industry will total an EV if they even suspect the battery system was somehow justled (impossible it doesn’t happen in an accident). There have been too many cases where people that plopped down $90K for an EV got in a fender bender, some in a few weeks after buying the vehicle, where the car had minimal damage, but because the battery rig was somehow touched, they ended up getting a $65K for the totaled vehicle as well as a 300% rise in their insurance premiums out there.

        Fuck that shizz…

      • DrOtto

        Not if the actual goal is to get us out of personal transportation.

    • Grumbletarian

      A few months in a reeducation camp will sure you of your misperceptions.

      • Grumbletarian

        cure, that is, not sure…

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        That, too.

    • invisible finger

      I can imagine an uptick in diesel-powered generator sales when it dawns on people that a prolonged blackout limits their ability to go somewhere else. And I wonder about evacuation events like hurricanes as well as the cleanup efforts in the aftermath.

    • R C Dean

      “Without a similar revolution in power generation and transmission it just doesn’t work.”

      I would add battery technology to that list. LIthium-ion batteries simply cannot be the basis of a transportation system on anything like the scale of our current system.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Until there are nuclear powered cars, and I mean directly powered, not through a battery system, there will not be a true replacement for ICE power. Nothing is as tunable for a given situation, nor carries as much potential energy as ICE.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      You are forgetting the power of rainbow unicorn farts. These will power everything!

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      They’ll probably still use Hilux’s because of the reliability.

    • Bob Boberson

      How long before the uniparty starts straight-faced calls for a drone campaign to blow up the stuff we left over there?

      • Drake

        Old news. There is an exciting new war to be fought in Syria for reasons. All that same equipment can be procured again and shipped to the Middle East again. It’ll be awesome.

      • Bob Boberson

        Embrace the power of and. Our brilliant strategists at the Pentagon and State Dept seem to be dead set on an omni-front war.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        So, are you saying that Ukraine is over, and Syria is the new Domino to potentially fall?

    • AlexinCT

      This will allow the Taliban to do bad shit and give them an excuse to go back into Afghanistan once the racket in Ukraine has lost traction…

  24. Certified Public Asshat

    BREAKING: The billionaire co-founder of Home Depot Bernie Marcus said that young people are fat, lazy and stupid with no motivation to work. Will you join me in never shopping at The Home Depot again?— Erica Marsh (@ericareport) March 26, 2023

    I don’t need another reason to shop at Home Depot.

    • Q Continuum

      As if that chick has ever set foot in a hardware store.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Wood?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Somebody’s nailing that.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        But they will get board eventually.

      • Rebel Scum

        Proud Democrat: Former Field Organizer to elect President Biden. Volunteer for the Obama Foundation. (She/Her)

        She’s hot, but…

        Wood?

        Probably.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Fake outrage. I assume he’s a Trump supporter or something?

    • Rebel Scum

      Will you join me in never shopping at The Home Depot again?

      No. In fact, I may go there after work just for fun.

      • Grummun

        Eh, Home Dept is way up on the north end of town. I’ll stop at Lowes in solidarity. Or, is Tractor Supply good enough? I need more cat food anyway.

    • slumbrew

      “again”

      Riiiiiight.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        She might have stopped in to buy a plant at some point.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        They sell rugs.

    • Ted S.

      I miss the Home Despot parody site.

  25. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    You know those guys we armed who turned on us and then we couldn’t beat until Russia stepped in and did it for us?

    Yeah, they’re totally why we’re staying in Syria.

    https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/26/after-escalation-white-house-says-us-troops-in-syria-are-there-to-stay/

    “Here’s what’s not going to change … the mission and ISIS is not going to change. We have under 1,000 troops in Syria that are going after that network, which is, while greatly diminished, still viable and still critical. So we’re going to stay at that task,” Kirby said on CBS News’s Face the Nation.

    • Drake

      ISIS isn’t going to change? Because we’re protecting them from the Syrians and Russians?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        What does appear to be changing is the relationship between Turkey, Syria, and Russia where Turkey may be about to remove its troops altogether.

      • Drake

        How long before the Saudis and Iraqis deny us access?

      • The Last American Hero

        Centuries. You don’t fix a centuries old violent religious schism with a couple weeks of kissy face.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Maybe the generals are lying again…not like they haven’t before about Syria. Its a shadow war to line pockets.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Tolerant Left, Tolerate!

    On March 23rd, 2023, George Mason University announced that Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin would address the graduating class of 2023 during the May 18th Commencement Ceremony at EagleBank Arena.

    Preceding this announcement, GMU has neglected to meet the needs of students. From allowing homophobic, transphobic, racist, and/or anti-abortion groups to regularly occupy campus and harass passersby, to ignoring students and student organizations requesting assistance or support in their endeavors, GMU administration has taken pride in the diversity of the student body. At the same time, however, the administration has failed to protect and defend those same students from harm.

    Things that don’t happen…And opposing view are literally like physically attacking you…

    Selecting a speaker that has passed anti-trans legislation, promoted the abolishment of racial equity curricula, and restricted the availability of literature in public schools is an intentional target towards historically marginalized communities comprising Mason. It is harmful and disrespectful to the many students who continuously shape GMU’s community to bring in an individual who has also neglected the needs of Virginians. George Mason University prides itself on being one of “the most diverse institutions in the Commonwealth.” Yet by having Governor Youngkin as this year’s Commencement speaker, we believe that the University compromises its supposed values of centering students’ experiences and overall well-being. When satiating its own desire to appease the powerful few, the University, once again, has abandoned these principles.

    Youngkin is about as milquetoast as they come. Feel free to remain in your cry closet.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      ” From allowing homophobic, transphobic, racist, and/or anti-abortion groups to regularly occupy campus and harass passersby…”

      Oh, these things most definitely did happen, it is just that freedom of speech allows for it, explicitly.

    • B.P.

      A town starving for the sight of something even marginally beautiful.

      • Rat on a train

        If you didn’t live in an urban utopia you could see cherry trees in your neighborhood.

    • slumbrew

      Yay. Flying in there on Thursday (wife is running the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler). Thankfully, we won’t be driving anywhere.

      TBF, the cherry trees _are_ spectacular when they’re in bloom.

      • Rat on a train

        There is a line of them if front of the local elementary school and others spread throughout the area.

    • PieInTheSky

      I was looking for some paperwork in a drawer when I found a secret phone. – rookie mistake. Keep the phone outside the house and pin locked.

      • Not Adahn

        Do they even make phones that aren’t locked by default anymore?

      • AlexinCT

        She prolly guessed this guy’s password was “P00n#T@ng” anyway…

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        All it takes to open mine is a swipe. To hell with anything else, and I don’t do anything with money on it anyway.

    • AlexinCT

      She is pissed that her ability to withhold sex when she doesn’t get her way in an argument is sabotaged by his getting it elsewhere…

    • Rat on a train

      But it didn’t contain any crystal meth?

    • rhywun

      I liked the clear colas. They seemed “cleaner” tasting to me. But I’m not a huge cola fan to begin with.

    • Not Adahn

      I remember drinking diet crystal pepsi and Captain Morgan in 1993. And I think that was it.

    • PieInTheSky

      the ladies should be busy repopulating the country with new citizens

      • Brawndo

        They should help me repopulate the US

      • AlexinCT

        You knocking Brawndo for GILF pr0n wants?

      • robodruid

        No shit, wife and I did a one day tour of Saint Petersburg & Hermitage. (lots of rusting soviet subs)
        Women were insanely hot or babushkas.
        No in between.

      • SDF-7

        The men by bearing arms… the girls by bearing sons!

        Sorry… rewatched the One True Mulan over the weekend.

      • Fatty Bolger

        One of my favorites.

      • Not Adahn

        Be our guest with all the colors of the wind — Hakuna Matata!

    • The Last American Hero

      No shit. Put together a special brigade of Ukrainian female special forces dropping some waifu on the Russian invaders and Zelensky would be on the outskirts of Moscow by September.

  27. Rebel Scum

    Gotta play by the rules as they are.

    Lindell wants to lose… Trump’s message was correct. If ballot harvesting is legal then Republicans have to play the game better than the Democrats at least until they have the power to change the rules. Lindell’s strategy would handicap Republicans

    • AlexinCT

      You don’t fight the gang member with a shiv in a prison brawl using Marquis of Queensbury rules, you fucking idiots. You fight him with his own tactics, then when you win, decide if you should be setting new rules.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (Even he was a wrong ‘un. But Oscar was an eejit too.)

      • AlexinCT

        Is this some comment about how after you win the prison brawl you sell the losers for candy bars & cigarettes to other inmates?

  28. Certified Public Asshat

    MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country. We need more resources to secure the border. Not less. pic.twitter.com/bKuQnFPuzP— President Biden (@POTUS) March 26, 2023

    Considering everyone remembers the Orange man…eh fuck it, most people won’t see it.

    • Rebel Scum

      Gaslighting s.o.b.

      • SDF-7

        Let me guess — he’s defining funds for border security as “Funds to process more amnesty claims via the stupid app they developed” or something instead of actually securing the border. Too bad Canada didn’t decide to keep you, Brandon.

    • Brawndo

      Which border? I thought most fentanyl came from China.

      • rhywun

        As I understand it, China ships the precursors to Mexico. The Mexican drug gangs cook it up and ship it north.

    • Count Potato

      “MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security”

      ????

      • rhywun

        I think, maybe, he might be lying.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I don’t know, I have never heard MAGA talk about the border.

    • Rat on a train

      A soldier in my unit offered to reenlist if the Army would provide daily fellatio from a beautiful woman. It was a quick method of ending negotiations.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Counter proposal: getting fucked by the green weenie everyday if he reupped.

      • Rat on a train

        Since this was right before GWOT …

      • slumbrew

        “Best we can do is a dependapotomous”

    • Grumbletarian

      Smith makes his living by being obnoxious.

  29. Rebel Scum

    The woke military doesn’t need munitions anyway.

    The Biden administration has promised — as part of $33 billion sent in military aid for the besieged country so far — a US Patriot air-defense system will be sent to Ukraine, along with over 200,000 rounds of artillery, rockets, and tank rounds.

    In fulfilling those promises, The New York Times reported the US has sent Ukraine so many stockpiled Stinger missiles that it would take 13 years of production at recent capacity levels to replace them. The Times added that Raytheon, the company that helps make Javeline missile systems, said it would take five years at last year’s production rates to replace the number of missiles sent to Ukraine in the last ten months.

    Currently, the US produces just over 14,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition every month — and Ukrainian forces have previously fired that many rounds in the span of 48 hours, The Washington Post reported last month. US officials in January proposed a production increase up to 90,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition each month to keep up with demand.

    • Rat on a train

      Years of guaranteed contracts for the MIC!

      • Tres Cool

        Or to slowly disarm us and limit our ability to defend ourselves.

      • Rat on a train

        Weaken the US or kickbacks for the Big Guy. It’s a difficult choice.

      • R C Dean

        Why not both?

        Kickbacks on the military aid sent overseas, and kickbacks on the phat defense contracts, which can’t keep up with the rate we are depleting our stockpiles by sending them overseas.

  30. db

    The defense objected to the continuation of the trial until the prosecution told Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee of President Donald Trump, that Loh had not informed them about the defense in the trial.

    Oh, well that’s okay, then.

    • Brawndo

      “you have to promise that you didn’t cheat, but we won’t hold you accountable for lying or cheating. We trust you.”

      Wtf. It’s a Trump judge. Demand the charges be tossed at the bare minimum, these are egregious violations.

  31. db

    Idaho To Allow Death By Firing Squad After Governor Signs New Law

    When are they holding tryouts for the squad?

    • SDF-7

      No, you misinterpret… they’re going to set up a railgun and fire The Squad at the prisoners. You haven’t seen the damage a properly accelerated Ilhan Omar can do….

  32. Rebel Scum

    You muh nizzle.

    Barbie Bassett, a popular anchor and the station’s first chief meteorologist in its 50 plus year history, hasn’t been seen on the NBC-affiliate station since the March 8 incident. Her bio no longer appears on the company’s website.

    Bassett’s comment was during a segment that was talking about Snoop Dogg’s wine company, Cali Wine Collection- and the launch of his Snoop Cali Blanc variety.

    Before the broadcast ended, Bassett, who is white, repeated a famous Snoop slang saying, ‘Fo shizzle, my [epithet].’

    The racial epithet referred to is one for black people.

    The only shocking/offensive thing here is that Snoop Dogg has a wine company.

    • Not Adahn

      ..that makes white wine!

    • PieInTheSky

      does it have weed in it? In Romania some infuse wine with wormwood

    • Brawndo

      How long before us honkies can’t even say “n-word”

      • AlexinCT

        SHUT UP CRACKER!

    • Pope Jimbo

      It is crazy that Snoop who was once the symbol for gansta rap and a Threat to Society is now pimping every product under the sun.

      Maybe it is because Corporate America knows that there won’t be any blowback on them from someone digging up some dirt on Snoop?

      • Nephilium

        I blame the friendship with Martha Stewart.

      • R C Dean

        One of the weirdest things in celebrityville is that Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart are good friends in real life. I mean, WTF?

        I’m betting they bonded over shared prison experiences.

      • Mojeaux

        I think Martha Stewart is the GOAT. She’s really an awful human being, but she took her prison sentence like a champ.

  33. Drake

    Over the weekend I started watching Clarkson’s Farm because of Tom Luongo’s recommendation.

    I forgot how funny Clarkson can be when things aren’t to scripted. Hardest I’ve laughed in some time. But Luongo is right – between the goofs, Clarkson is seriously showing what it takes to make a living as a farmer if you don’t have Top Gear money in the bank. While he has fun with them, he does seem to genuinely like the farming community he’s becoming part of.

    At one point in the second episode, he’s standing in one of his fields where the crop has been completely lost to beetles. The guy with him is explaining that he can’t spray pesticides because of regulations so tough crap – same goes for the guys without money in the bank.

    • The Last American Hero

      Remember that part of the genesis of that project was that after Brexit, the farm subsidy got cut. So without the subsidies, you literally can’t run a farm.

      • Drake

        They cut the subsidies, but kept all the regulations I assume?

      • R C Dean

        New theory: Putin doesn’t just want the industrial Donbas, he wants the Ukrainian wheat fields, because he sees Europe starving in a few years and the one thing that is better leverage than energy, is food.

    • slumbrew

      That series is fantastic and, yes, will give you a huge appreciation for what it takes to farm.

      Also, England is a authoritarian hell-scape that makes any US regulations look like bloody, unfettered capitalism.

    • B.P.

      Wait until he gets into it with the town council. My teenage son and I are watching it. He’s getting a good lesson in bureaucrat stupidity.

    • Tundra

      Dusty in here. That there is a father.

      Thanks, Holiness.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *Sniff* A-Yup.

    • slumbrew

      Unsurprisingly, they Hoyts are legends in this parts. It was a huge deal when Dick stopped running in 2014.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Keep pushing, cuntes.

    An undated video has surfaced of a public school teacher saying that her goal is to confuse kids about gender. The teacher, whom parents have identified as a Mounds View Public Schools teacher, explains in the video that some of her students can’t tell if she’s a boy or a girl. …

    In the video, the teacher is wearing a school lanyard reading “Valentine Hills Elementary.”

    “The students asked the other teacher if I’m a boy or a girl,” she says in the video. The “other teacher” allegedly asked the students if this really mattered, to which one student responded, “No, I just can’t figure it out. It’s just so hard. I can’t figure it out.”

    And I was just like, yes, that’s the goal,” the teacher says in the video.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda. So glad to hear that she is a local nut.

      Weird suburb for that to be happening in. They are up there in the redneck area of the Twin Cities. A place where the only reason you aren’t wearing a NASCAR jacket is because you are wearing you Skidoo or Polaris jacket.

    • R C Dean

      The computer’s punchline is at least as funny as the implied original joke.

    • Rat on a train

      Is this a catch-22? If you are attracted you are a latent homosexual. If you are not attracted you are an active homosexual.

      • AlexinCT

        I am gonna let them call me gay – I am since I identify as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, anyway – if I get to tap that…. Hard.

      • Rat on a train

        latent transsexuals everywhere

    • Tres Cool

      As long as there’s a pink-sink in those jeans and not a 6″ she-nis, her muscle tone has nothing to do with being a homo.
      Solid WOOD on account of that ass. Id fuck her harder than Jenny Craig has been fucking fat chicks.

      • PieInTheSky

        well the argument is that while being biological female, she may have taken some testosterone to get those gym gains and as such became masculinized

      • AlexinCT

        I bet this is guys with small cocks worried her clit might be larger than their tools?

      • PieInTheSky

        to paraphrase the brofessor, you could break your dick in dat ass

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Listen, is there a Y chromosome there or not? That’s the deciding factor.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    I forgot how funny Clarkson can be when things aren’t to scripted. Hardest I’ve laughed in some time. But Luongo is right – between the goofs, Clarkson is seriously showing what it takes to make a living as a farmer if you don’t have Top Gear money in the bank. While he has fun with them, he does seem to genuinely like the farming community he’s becoming part of.

    Maybe I should give it a try. I was a huge fan of Clarkson’s print work, back when it actually had to do with cars.

    • robodruid

      First season is awesome. As a person who is trying something similar and has nowhere near the money he has, i sympathize. I have made many of the same mistakes he has.
      I also love the land.

      Second season is much more…..scripted.
      Cheerful Charlie has the patience of a saint.

      • Drake

        Now that would make for some interesting glib articles!

      • robodruid

        Summarized as “Don’t do what I do”.

      • R.J.

        Someday we may see the Cheerful Charlie outtakes.

      • slumbrew

        Charlie is amazing.

  36. PieInTheSky

    Celebrities at the Vanity Fair Oscars Afterparty as Economics textbooks: a thread

    https://twitter.com/maiamindel/status/1639685262711070721

    Microeconomic Essentials by Jay Prag and Advanced Macroeconomics by Campante, Sturzenegger, and Velasco have nice tits.

  37. Rebel Scum

    More like there is zero chance they can threaten us.

    Biden: “We’re lucky we have Canada to our north. All of our values are the same… There’s no fundamental difference in the democratic values we share.

    Considering Justin Castreau’s love of China’s “basic dictatorship”…

    • R.J.

      He’s not wrong. Both of our government’s worship at the alter of WEF.

  38. Tres Cool

    Jesus H. Vishnu what a night- I just got home. But Im off tonight, and plenty of Tall Cans™.

    whaddup doh’

  39. Banjos

    Comic Book genre has been over saturated, but really the biggest problem is the same problem with the vast majority of films, they just simply suck. And it’s not due to wokism, I feel like they are all being written by 90 IQ emotionally stunted Millennials with nothing to say. The dialogue is awful, there’s little to no character development, and it’s hard to care about the plot if you don’t give a shit about the characters. You can get away with low IQ writing if it’s a really fun movie with interesting action sequences and likeable characters like John Wick, but the vast majority lack that even. It’s not just comic book movies that suck, everything does.

    • Nephilium

      So the CW just launched another new superhero show, Gotham Knights. Premise is that Batman/Bruce Wayne has been killed, and his adopted son (who isn’t a Robin) has to partner up with three criminals to clear their names.

      It. Is. Terrible.

      Worse than the Batwoman show.

      Flat out atrocious. I made it through the first episode and tapped the fuck out. This review/evisceration (HT: SugarFree) hits some of the bad points, without even going into the comic history side of things.

      • PieInTheSky

        the CW – I thought that was for under 25s

      • Nephilium

        Arrow was mostly solid, and Legends of Tomorrow was a fun romp with B and C listers continuing to screw up in time after the first season.

      • AlexinCT

        CW lost it completely more than a decade ago.

      • Not Adahn

        I liked Gotham S1 when it was being a straight procedural set in the Batman universe. And I liked Seasons 3+ when it went full Tim Burton Batman. S2 kinda sucked as it couldn’t make up its mind which it was.

    • B.P.

      I like it when those millennial writers try to do period pieces. Sorry, nobody used the term “gaslit” in 1988.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Unfortunately.

    “Pierre Poilievre, leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition”

    Biden: “Loyal opposition?”

    Pierre Poilievre: “We believe that opposition is an act of loyalty in our system.”

    Biden: “We do too unfortunately”

    Sure, except for trying to eliminate them completely.

    • R C Dean

      “We believe that opposition is an act of loyalty in our system.”

      Except, that’s not what the term means. “Loyal Opposition” refers to those who are not members of the current ruling in-group, but are still loyal to the current government. It is in contrast to the disloyal opposition, which consists of traitors and seditionists who are not loyal to the current government.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      after giving them sleeping gummies

      Important detail.

    • Gender Traitor

      Medea is the enemy?

      • UnCivilServant

        Jason should have realized it when she killed her brother to distract their father.

      • Gender Traitor

        μην το κολλήσετε σε τρελό

    • Michael Malaise

      Not a horrible, selfish person at all.

    • PieInTheSky

      this sort of article tiles is getting more and more often and it annoys me.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sorry doc, no matter how miserable you make yourself you ain’t gonna live forever.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You mean you won’t be able to drive the Grim Reaper off by throwing bran muffins at him?

    • AlexinCT

      Neither is my dick… Or anyone else’s. So he can go eat a giant bag of dicks with his shit.

    • Fourscore

      Good for him, more for us…

    • Michael Malaise

      Guy is a total party-pooper.

    • EvilSheldon

      If you want to be skinny fat with subnormal strength and muscular endurance, that diet sounds like a good idea.

    • Rebel Scum

      Dr Bhatt told DailyMail.com: ‘The worst thing [for cardiovascular health] is red meat.’

      ‘There’s little question, that red meat raises the risk of heart disease and also of cancer.’

      I do not subscribe to this particular religious view.

      • Rat on a train

        Scientists force fed rats more red meat in a day than a human consumes in a lifetime. The rats died. SCIENCE!

      • R C Dean

        But, were the rats swole?

  41. PieInTheSky

    Poles dislike Russians, Belarusians, Hungarians and Germans much more now than before the invasion of Ukraine, finds a study by @CBOS_Info
    .

    Meanwhile, they like Ukrainians, Americans and the English much more.

    https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1640283832396939264

    • Rat on a train

      Do they know about our Polack jokes?

    • slumbrew

      We’ve got an office in Krakow. Perhaps is just who we’re getting but they all tend to be a bit… surly.

    • Rebel Scum

      I don’t trust Poles.

  42. Count Potato

    “According to a post on Instagram this week, Kanye West realized he was wrong about Jewish people after recently watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street. Who knew a teen comedy could be so enlightening?

    “Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump street made me like Jewish people again,” West declared in his Instagram post. “No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people.”

    West added, “No Christian can be labeled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew. Thank you Jonah Hill I love you.””

    https://pjmedia.com/columns/matt-margolis/2023/03/26/kanye-west-apologizes-for-anti-semitism-in-the-most-bizarre-way-n1681631

    • AlexinCT

      Kim Kardasian whoring herself out wrecked this guy’s brain.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s well known that he’s diagnosed bipolar. He’s a very intelligent occasionally insane person.

      • AlexinCT

        I bet you that if his politics were still aligned with the left, if he was not trump guy, that none of this would have been in the news.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Might have been but the tone would have been more pity and concern rather than condemnation a la Britney Spears.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Might want to be careful with putting the “I like Hitler” guy on the right.

      • AlexinCT

        If you disagree with any of the left’s idiot tropes., you are accused of being a right wing nutbag…

    • Michael Malaise

      Wait until he watches 22 Jump Street.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Comic Book genre has been over saturated, but really the biggest problem is the same problem with the vast majority of films, they just simply suck.

    No kidding. I watched a movie last night called “Dodsworth” (1936). Highly recommend.

  44. PieInTheSky

    Gone with the wind

    Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive

    https://thecritic.co.uk/gone-with-the-wind/

    A couple of years ago, Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University had the bright idea of comparing UK Government price modelling with the actual accounts of wind producers. He quickly discovered what I will gently term “surprising irregularities”.

    The Energy Department’s modelling assumed that capital expenditure per MW of offshore wind would fall by more than 50 per cent between 2018 and 2025, that operation and maintenance costs would fall by a factor of four, and average output would remain at 51 per cent installed capacity over the course of a turbine’s lifetime (modern turbines peak at 45 per cent in their first year).

    How does this optimism compare to reality? Prof. Hughes’s headline discovery was that the cost of installing and operating windfarms went up, not down, in the 2010s. Indeed, the unreliability and greater sea depth of new offshore turbines meant operation costs per MW quadrupled between 2008 and 2018, whilst capital expenditure doubled. Danish data also indicated that the larger, newer generation of wind turbines breakdown faster, meaning that their output is lower after a couple of years when compared to older models

    • UnCivilServant

      The business model for these facilities is to make money off of government subsidies, not power generation.

  45. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Historic UAW election picks reform leader who vows more aggressive approach to auto negotiations

    Riiiight. Not like those softies that ran things before. This should help Ford stop losing the billions and bring quality and consistency back to domestic auto production.

    What?

    State Legislation Could Strip Catholic Churches’ Right To Protect Members ‘Sealed Confessions’

    Commies just can’t help themselves. Always gotta kill the Church. For the children, naturally. Gotta protect them so the State can castrate and sterilize them later.

    With all the bad news, it sure is easy to become demoralized. Thanks God we still have The Ramones, Lou Reed and David Bowie. Whew,

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Screw those guys but as long as I can hold out hope for another Rush tour there’s still something to look forward to.

    • Sean

      Russell Crowe Treatment?

      • Rat on a train

        Fighting around the world?

      • Michael Malaise

        ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!??!?

    • slumbrew

      Three weeks later, Richardson’s wife sold all of his old belongings at a yard sale to make room in the garage for her yoga mat and the kids’ new bikes.

      They really aren’t in the parody business anymore.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *glances at own museum* sigh.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Thanks God we still have The Ramones

    Bang head here

  47. The Late P Brooks

    According to WaPo headlines at the google nooz, AR-15s are bad.

    Bad bad bad.

    • Rat on a train

      Just rename them. That seems to be the solution for other problems.

    • Michael Malaise

      Except for any en route to Ukraine.

    • Rebel Scum

      Trailer full of dishonest horseshit right out of the gate.

      The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a bestseller.

      The rugged, powerful weapon was originally designed as a soldiers’ rifle in the late 1950s. “An outstanding weapon with phenomenal lethality,” an internal Pentagon report raved. It soon became standard issue for U.S. troops in the Vietnam War, where the weapon earned a new name: the M16.

      But few gunmakers saw a semiautomatic version of the rifle — with its shrouded barrel, pistol grip and jutting ammunition magazine — as a product for ordinary people. It didn’t seem suited for hunting. It seemed like overkill for home defense. Gun executives doubted many buyers would want to spend their money on one.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wow, that’s a lot of lies to fit in a single paragraph.

      • Count Potato

        Very few people had AR-15’s before the assault weapons ban. Then after the ban expired they became insanely popular.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Why would it seem like overkill for HD?

        A light, powerful, maneuverable platform with virtually no recoil, that is accurate. Why wouldn’t it considered PERFECT for home defense? That’s why I had one before I lost it tragically while boating.

  48. Gustave Lytton

    Cracker Barrel becomes latest company to flee Portland

    They had one restaurant in Portland. And closed restaurants in Beaverton, Tualatin, and Bend. The Bend location had a grand total of 29 employees before shutting down abruptly with no notice to customers or employees, where the local tv station noted they initially hired 175. It’s not just Portland crime.

  49. Rat on a train

    US Capitol Police request $840 million budget

    If approved, the budget would give Congress’ internal police department an annual budget larger than the police departments of several major American cities, including Philadelphia, Denver, Cleveland and Tampa.

    The approximately $840 million request would dwarf some prior years’ requests, and it would more than double the budget request of $356 million made by the department in 2015.

    • slumbrew

      Nothing left to cut.

      • UnCivilServant

        I played that game once upon a time.

        Forgot how to play in the meantime.

    • Rebel Scum

      larger than the police departments of several major American cities

      Well they now have to operate in all those places for some reason.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    It’s not a witch hunt!

    But most Americans don’t agree with him. By a 56%-to-41% margin respondents said the investigations are fair and not a “witch hunt.”

    As expected, there’s a huge partisan divide — 9 in 10 Democrats say they are fair, while 8 in 10 Republicans call them a witch hunt. A slim majority of independents call them fair, but they are closely split, 51% to 47%.

    Those most likely to say the investigations are fair are those in the Gen Z and Millennial generations, people who live in big cities and suburbs and white college graduates, especially college-educated white women.

    The latter is a demographic that’s been one of the most reliable Democratic voting — and anti-Trump — groups.

    That’s it, then. Trump is toast. You can stop writing fifty articles about him every goddam day.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    The approximately $840 million request would dwarf some prior years’ requests, and it would more than double the budget request of $356 million made by the department in 2015.

    That makes perfect sense. Prior to the arrival of Trump’s robot army, there was no need to defend the Capitol from vast hordes of domestic terrorists.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Those most likely to say the investigations are a witch hunt were core Trump supporting groups: white men without degrees, white evangelical Christians and those who live in small towns.

    Mouth breathers. Nobody cares what those flyover mongoloids think.

      • Rebel Scum

        AOC says that the Republican Parents Rights bill is “fascism”

        I, for one, refuse to live in a country where the government does not have complete control of indoctrinating educating the children.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    In a mirror of public perception about the ongoing investigations, those most likely to think Trump did something illegal are white college grads, especially white, college-educated women, women who live in small cities and suburbs and people who live in the Northeast.

    Okay, Karen.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Suburban white women will be what brings about the end.

  54. Count Potato

    “These parents are the choreographers, writers, and directors of every video featuring this poor little boy.

    There is not one frame of this video in which the boy has had a say in how he is to be presented. The child is a prop. Heartbreaking.”

    https://twitter.com/GAG_Illinois/status/1640181471301206016

    It’s sexualizing kids.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So I do see valid arguments equating child pageantry to the same and that is about it. I never liked those either. Stop trying to live vicariously through your child since you are a washed up whore that amounted to nothing by playing Barbie with them.

      Gymnastics and cheer are athletic sports with specific uniforms that aren’t meant to sexualize (though I know people do find them sexual and they are sick fucks in terms of pre-teen/teens in them). Some more modern cheer routines are a bit risqué and should be looked at with a critical eye, along with some dance.

  55. Shirley Knott

    In happier news, that would have gone well in What WeAre Reading, there is now an on-line archive of pulp fiction:
    here.
    It looks a bit spotty, but many of my old favorite SF mags are there. I regretted the demise of Galaxy and If in real time. Many others there as well, and not just SF.

    • Tundra

      Thank you! Not a SF guy, but I’ll check out the hard boiled stuff!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Thank you SK! I had Analog and Asimov’s as a kid, but slipped away before those really started to slide. I liked Analog better overall.

  56. Count Potato

    “MN Democrat Leigh Finke was unable to answer basic questions about the harms of so-called “gender-affirming health care.” Finke is sponsoring a bill that would make MN a refuge for children seeking such care.”

    https://twitter.com/AlphaNewsMN/status/1639703699864924161

    SCIENCE!!!!!

    • Rat on a train

      The only harm is not mutilating children.

  57. Pope Jimbo

    Bonus Ray of Sunshine

    Local bus driver notices lost boy, stops and helps him.

    • slumbrew

      Good man.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I would completely fail at that. In my mind I’d be “Good for him and his parents! Kids can walk alone!” Glad this guy decided to stop and at least check.

      • Pope Jimbo

        “It was about 6:40 when I drove past this boy walking in the same direction I was driving. He was probably in kindergarten or first grade, wearing a backpack and without an adult. I thought, hmmm,” recalled driver Ambrose Younge.

        Shortly after, Younge turned around at the Theodore Wirth Trailhead to start the second part of his route and spotted the boy standing in the middle of the road. “That’s when I sensed something was wrong. I stopped and coaxed him to get into my bus,” said Younge.

        I’d hope we’d all do the same. Notice the kid the first time and not do anything. But then when he was in the middle of the road, stopping and helping.

    • Tundra

      Stud. Poor little dude must have been terrified.

    • Michael Malaise

      “That’s when I sensed something was wrong. I stopped and coaxed him to get into my bus,” said Younge.”

      OMWC smiles.

  58. The Late P Brooks

    Consumer protection

    As millions of student-loan borrowers wait for debt relief, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to make sure President Joe Biden isn’t letting protections for those Americans fall off his radar.

    On Monday, the Massachusetts Democrat sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona — exclusively viewed by Insider — regarding efforts the department should take to ensure borrowers are protected from predatory behavior. After Biden announced up to $20,000 in student-debt relief for federal borrowers in August, he also outlined steps the department will take to hold potentially predatory programs accountable for actions that could load students up with debt, and Warren has some ideas on how to enforce that oversight.

    “As I offer support for your effort to identify low financial value programs that saddle students with mountains of debt that they have little hope of repaying, I also write to bring to your attention several other areas where the Department can and should strengthen accountability and oversight of institutions of higher education that too often leave students with insurmountable debts,” Warren wrote.

    Finally, somebody has the gumption to go after the predators peddling Ivy League gender studies programs?

    • rhywun

      Yeah, it would be more helpful to identify the true “predator” here but that would mean being honest and we can’t have that.

  59. Ownbestenemy

    Had an epic game night on Saturday. Played Redneck Life (highly recommended) and took nearly 5 hours to complete between laughing and general tomfoolery.

  60. Pope Jimbo

    What do you do when the state coffers are bursting with a $17B surplus? Raise taxes Pinky, just like every other day

    Minnesota legislators who worry about predicted transportation funding deficits are eyeing several familiar types of transactions to tax, including deliveries from services like Amazon and DoorDash, and rides from services like Uber and Lyft.

    Such rideshare and delivery fees are among a series of taxes moving through the House Transportation Committee to supplement traditional sources of money that pay for roads: gasoline taxes, tab fees, sales taxes on car parts and special transportation sales taxes. Sponsors of the bills said they are searching for new ways to fund transportation and transit, especially ways that won’t face the same declines in revenue versus inflation that the 28.6 cent-per-gallon gas tax has.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Nothing like a tax on your brake pads so that it can support public transportation.

    • kinnath

      Both ‘Rainbow Connection’ and ‘Rainbowland’ were banned . . . .

      They banned a Muppets song from way back when.

      God, this is ridiculous.

      • Gender Traitor

        :: hastily downloads “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and orders The Wizard of Oz on DVD::

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Although I’ve been an adamant collector of physical media (particularly for music) for a long time, and I generally only buy digital media if it’s the only version available, the late trend of editing digital art to be more in line with “modern times” has solidified my desire to continue purchasing physical media that can’t be touched by those in the Ministry of Truth.

  61. Mojeaux

    Today, a funeral salesman will come to our house to sell us a pre-death package. I arranged this, as asking my poor XX to try to think of all this during a crisis in which both me and my husband may be harmed (e.g., car accident) is quite beyond the pale. I’m writing her an “in case of death” pamphlet. I’m going to call a lawyer friend to help us with a will. We also have to change insurance beneficiaries. My mom’s not going to live forever, so we’re moving things around.