Wednesday Morning Links

by | Mar 15, 2023 | Daily Links | 388 comments

Five!

The NCAA’s are under way…sort of. I never know how to treat the “First Four” games. Anyway, they’ve started. There’s been more free agent signings and big trades this NFL off season than any I can remember. And there’s still some big names out there tat haven’t pulled the trigger yet. And across the pond, Haaland scored five goals in a UCL round of 16 match, which is insane. And that’s it for sports.

The wording of this headline is certainly peculiar. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out the drone was named the Maine II.

Hero!

Way to go, Brandon! No, for real this time. Brandon did a great thing. The other person the article is about is a complete asshole overstepping his authority.

Yeah, because he was making it up. Which isn’t a crime. Because if a politician lying was a crime, the world would be a better place because all of them would be in prison.

This is all perfectly normal. Move along. There’s nothing to see here.

Signal received. Your virtue has been noted…you bunch of dumb bastards.

Nuggets in sauce

This lawsuit has merit. I would follow it closely for the lulz, but my attention span is lacking and I’ll probably forget. But I still think it’s awesome.

This is all normal and above board. These are public servants after all. Nothing untoward could have been happening. That’s tin-foil hat stuff, right?

I’m a bit surprised this hasn’t happened already. And once it does, the left are gonna lose their shit.

Ask and ye shall receive. OK, that’s good. And now for my favorite (by them). Enjoy them both.  I’m enjoying getting back to work today. But not really enjoying it. I’m spent after Universal Orlando. Banjos and the kiddos have another day in the Floridian paradise. But somebody had to come back and work to pay for the trip. Anyway, have a great day, friends.

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388 Comments

  1. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    “ San Franciscans line up at board meeting to sing and shout their support for a reparations plan to give every black resident $5M”

    Their timing is impeccable as the era of easy money is ending.

    • SDF-7

      Encouraged by the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which offered a free lunch for all attending, the mostly black crowd told how racist policies affected their ancestors and their own lives.

      That is just the cherry on the shitcake, there…. (TANSTAAFL).

      • The Gunslinger

        TANSTAAFL

        The Ass Now Seems To Act All Fluffy Like?

      • The Gunslinger

        Thanks, never seen that before. My texting/commenting skills are sorely lacking I’m afraid.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I was once reproved on HnR for the same question.

      • Nephilium

        TANSTAAFL predates texting by a bit. Next you’ll say you don’t know why “We can throw rocks at them.” is awesome.

        /hint: When you’re at the top of the gravity well, rocks can do a lot of damage

    • rhywun

      “I’m rich, biatch!”

      • AlexinCT

        Was it Eddie Murphy or Chris Rock that had a skit about what stocks to buy when reparations happened?

      • rhywun

        I dunno but Chappelle a live report.

      • AlexinCT

        So bling…. Lots of bling.. and lap dances from honkey womenz..

      • Tonio

        And then complaints about how the money didn’t stay in the black community, because tricknology. Followed by demands for more reparations.

        Except from the rumblings I’ve heard the reparations people know what will happen and want to limit the amount of cash each person gets. They want virtuous community organizations to receive the lion’s share so those organizations can use it for totally guaranteed legit projects that are guaranteed to improve things for black ppl.

      • AlexinCT

        And then complaints about how the money didn’t stay in the black community, because tricknology. Followed by demands for more reparations.

        Blackmail 101: Once the mark breaks down and pony’s up, drain them dry…

      • Pope Jimbo

        The tribes in Minnesoda with casinos have learned that they have to put the money the kids under 18 get into a trust so their parents don’t spend it all for them.

        Too many examples of parents burning through all the money they get every month + the kids’ money too.

        If you want to run a test on how reparations would go, simply end the monopoly the tribes have on gambling here in Minnesoda. As soon as someone builds casinos in downtown Minneapolis, all those Indians who have been getting $15K/mo would see their money dry up. And they would have absolutely nothing in the bank.

      • R C Dean

        Let’s see how the reparations pilot project known as BLM goes. It raised billions to fund guaranteed legit projects, etc.

  2. Count Potato

    That’s like the new Mac start up thing.

  3. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    It’s looking more and more like SVB was another Democrat money laundering operation.

    • AlexinCT

      Wait, this was not obvious form the getgo? I already pointed out the Fed’s incentive to save this shit-op was that it benefitted them. That’s why they couldn’t be bothered about that Ohio donor train derailment either (the smellies were impacted and one of their big donors would take it in the ass if they actually took action).

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        It’s been argued that the Fed is dismantling the laundering pipeline structures (FTX, SVB, Signature) at the cost of bailing out some of the bad actors. I can give some credence to that as somebody (Jamie Dimon) started the run on SVB and Barney Frank is wailing that Signature didn’t have to be shuttered. It sure looks like there’s a knife fight going on.

      • SDF-7

        Wake me when they get to Chinese companies giving “charitable donations” as a laundering pipeline then.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        You’re assuming that China is the main problem. By all appearances, we’re in a financial war with the ECB and its PR group, the WEF.

      • SDF-7

        No, I’m just assuming if they’re shutting down laundering pipelines it is only the ones that don’t feed the trough of their masters. Nothing more.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        You think China controls the Fed?

      • SDF-7

        I think China controls most of our politicians who control the Fed, yeah.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        If the Dem politicians controlled the Fed it would have never raised interest rates. We would still be at the zero bound.

      • AlexinCT

        The woke US, as part of the WEF global reset order that wants to keep most of the existing power structure status quo, is at war with the CCP and the block they are trying to create to make sure the reset happens but with the CCP large & in charge. The third faction in this conflict, the people that say “fuck the global reset and global order” has already lost.

      • SDF-7

        Given the WEF set have made it very, very clear that they’re fond of the China model and the Asian people’s historic tendency towards societal order over individual freedoms — I really don’t think there’s actually a fight there.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Somebody took the black pill this morning.

      • AlexinCT

        There is a fight. The WEF criminal cadre does like and want the CCP model, but only with them in charge. The CCP wants to be the one in charge. Hence, conflict.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        All of it dependent on the easy money train. End that and a lot of this bullshit can’t be underwritten anymore.

  4. Count Potato

    “Because if a politician lying was a crime, the world would be a better place because all of them would be in prison.”

    But it would make prison worse?

    • Lackadaisical

      Newsome is pretty. /Gang leader

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “Sooner or later, they always drop the soap bar.”

  5. PieInTheSky

    I am considering boycotting the links until they start posting at the correct hour.

    • UnCivilServant

      It is the correct hour. Fix your clock.

      • robc

        If the House would get off their asses, we wouldnt have to fix our clocks ever again.

  6. rhywun

    Five!

    Puke.

    • sloopyinca

      Agreed. But it’s a hell of a feat.

  7. Grummun

    The guy filing the boneless wings suit should be publicly flogged with celery stalks until he admits that he’s a grievance mongering asshole.

    • R C Dean

      I know I’m old and my legal training is hopelessly out of date, but back in the day you had to show damages to have a lawsuit. I guess that’s not a thing any more, because I can’t come up with the slightest bit of harm inflicted by eating white meat instead of dark meat.

      • sloopyinca

        Cottonmouth from dry white meat counts as harm especially when compared to delicious, juicy dark meat.

      • WTF

        Yeah, that seems like it’s worth a couple million.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        But sauce.

      • UnCivilServant

        Look, Sloopy just admitted he doesn’t know how to cook chicken, since none of it is supposed to turn out dry.

      • Rebel Scum

        I did some big, juicy breasts the other night. Turned out great.

      • AlexinCT

        Is this some reference to that Canadian shop teacher with size ZZ boobs?

      • SDF-7

        Of course not… not like this is the post-Reconstruction South, after all!

        ( I know, I know… I’m going to hell for that one…)

      • Count Potato

        Wings are white meat.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I can’t come up with the slightest bit of harm inflicted by eating white meat instead of dark meat.

        RACIST!

        (I don’t know why, but any time I see white and dark in a sentence, I’m sure it is somehow racist)

      • Nephilium

        Entertainingly, I remember reading that the reason that we refer to it as white and dark meat was to avoid saying breasts and thighs in “polite” or “mixed” (meaning male/female) company.

      • The Last American Hero

        Dark meat matters.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      should be publicly flogged with celery stalks

      This is the real outrage. Why is their celery on my plate?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Damnit, report me to Ted S.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is some tricknology by the evil capitalists.

        The reason it is on the plate is because the owners know it will spend a LOT of time just sitting there. And you don’t have to pay celery overtime.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Celery soup is good. ‘S all I’ve got.

      • Swiss Servator

        Celery salt on a Chicago-style hotdog?

      • Rebel Scum

        Who’s celery? You stealing veggies?

  8. rhywun

    Way to go, Brandon!

    Had me going, there.

  9. rhywun

    At this point I would believe Trump over the FBI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • AlexinCT

      The sad thing is that what you said is logical and the way the prudent informed person would feel inclined to go considering the gaslighting to hide how corrupt the Feds are after the revelations practically everything they said Trump did bad was exaggerations or outright lies.

  10. Count Potato

    “Texas’ existing medical marijuana program, called the Texas Compassionate Use Program, already allows doctors to prescribe low-THC weed products to qualifying patients. People with cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and a number of other “debilitating medical conditions” currently qualify for the program. ”

    Not even regular weed?

    No idea why the left would lose their shit if chronic pain patients were included.

    • sloopyinca

      They’ll lose their shit because it’ll be one fewer thing they can point at Texas and laugh about when comparing it to their model states like California and New York.

      • Count Potato

        Chronic pain patients can get low-THC weed seems like a very minor change.

        Also, Texas has the worst marijuana laws in the country.

      • sloopyinca

        They can already get that. This will expand it even more. And when nothing happens, TX will go to recreational pot in short order.

      • Count Potato

        “TX will go to recreational pot in short order.”

        I’m not that optimistic.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        See the baseball cap that is Oklahoma.

      • Count Potato

        You mean Occupied North Texas?

      • R.J.

        Heh. Believe me, Oklahoma is different. They are not Texas. Far more conservative.

      • DrOtto

        “North Texas? More like southern Oklahoma.” – Hank Hill

      • Not Adahn

        Red River Bridge War
        Date 1931
        Location
        Texas–Oklahoma border, U.S.
        Result Decisive Oklahoman Victory

      • UnCivilServant

        Knock down all bridges over that river.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I thought they were Texas’s Canada.

        I would think TX is too vast to be pinned down re conservatism.

        Hank Hill: “Ah’ve found a route where I don’t have to drive through Oklahoma. 🙂”

        I dunno, seems like the narcissism of minor differences from over here. I have Okie family and they never disparage Texas.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Once the Califucktards become ascendant, they’ll get their legal dope.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m thinking there will be a handful of states that always seem to find an excuse. That KY has introduced a bill to make Delta8 illegal makes me believe that we’ll be one of those fucked states where they’ll always “need more time to study the impacts.”

      • R.J.

        They will not. Texas has old-school neo conservative politicians that will not allow that. It will not be brought to vote.

      • DrOtto

        Two things I don’t think we’ll see in TX is legal weed and legal gambling.

      • R.J.

        Agreed.

  11. rhywun
    • SDF-7

      Yup, that’s a good one — can’t argue with you there. My go to on Behavior is probably this one, and this one I think is underrated.

      • rhywun

        Ah, a memory… there was a guy in my circle of college friends (almost roomed with him my junior year) who instead moved to London to shack up with the singer.

        He was literally the prettiest young man I have ever seen. They met at a show IIRC.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        With NT?! How long did that last, do you know?

      • rhywun

        No idea. We never saw him again.

      • SDF-7

        Wait, so he inspired this? Or I suppose it could have been this — but the first one I always took for that scenario.

  12. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    The president told the crowd he’d signed an executive order aimed at stiffening background checks to buy guns, promoting more secure firearms storage and ensuring law enforcement agencies get more out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.

    How? There’s a background check every time you purchase a gun.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s all theatre for the fucking uninformed idiots..

    • sloopyinca

      From what I can tell, they’re trying to do away with private transfers not requiring a check. But doing that ends states rights on the issue. And if they go down that road, they could be forced to accept a SC ruling that forbids states from any regs on their own if they win a supremacy clause argument on the merits of this EO should it be challenged.

      • Grummun

        A requirement for background checks on private sales can’t be enforced with universal registration. How can you prove Chuck sold a gun to Bob, and didn’t perform a background check, unless you already knew that Chuck previously owned the gun that Bob now holds?

      • DEG

        Easy.

        Entrapment.

        Errr….. undercover sting operation.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Think long term. If the gun was manufactured after the universal check was enacted, then Bob can be arrested. You wouldn’t need any other proof. Without a registry, Chuck would probably skate unless if Bob snitches. With a registry, Chuck would be arrested too.

    • R C Dean

      True. Even the guy selling guns out his trunk requires a referral from somebody.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      There’s a background check every time you purchase a gun.

      It is a state by state requirement… often called the gun show loophole. Unfortunately, we’re moving in the universal background check direction which will be used for a universal gun registry.

      Until very recently, private sales in VA did not require background checks for purchasing a gun. Then Dems here proposed a “common-sense” compromise to have State LEOs available at every gun show to run voluntary background checks on private sales. Then, a year or two later, the voluntary part was removed. Never give an inch to any of the gun grabbers. No comprise, no ground.

      This led to a lawsuit from the VCDL since adults aged 18-20 years can no longer purchase handguns in VA because they can’t pass a Federal background check. A clear violation of the 2nd A and a judge granted an injunction for 18-20 year olds on universal background checks that I believe is still in effect.

      I would assume many Red states still allow private sales with no background check.

    • Grumbletarian

      We must eliminate the loophole that allows people with no criminal record to purchase guns!

      • AlexinCT

        I see what you did there…

        Buh-bye constitution?

    • mock-star

      The dumbest part is that the there could be “universal background checks: if those who wanted them could do 2 things: A) compromise on anything and B) take into consideration the concerns of their opposition.

      Regarding A, what has ever been proposed for the grabbers to give up? Ending the NFA – I mean if everyone has been cleared, whats the problem? Even something as simple as reopening the machinegun registry? Nope, nothing,

      Regarding B, the biggest concern seems to be the need for a registry, yet no one comes up with a system where a registry isnt needed, How about a scheme where a check is automatically done and an endorsement is put on your govt issued ID automatically? Be convicted of a felony or whatever and one would have to go get a new drivers license without the endorsement. When buying a gun, one just has to show their license with endorsement, no paperwork needed. You’ll never ever see anything like this because the check, while the stated goal, isnt the real goal.

  13. SDF-7

    Thanks for the PSB, Sloopy! I mentioned the other day my favorite is King’s Cross — but here’s one that has to be in my top ten if anyone wants to go beyond your links. And one of the very rare items for them — a good video! (Ok, quite a few in the Actually era had good ones (Jealousy, So Hard, Heart and Always on My Mind [though that’s really just an ad for their movie It Couldn’t Happen Here]) — but a lot of their other videos are just terrible, so had to make the joke…)

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      All I remember of ICHH is “How mootch?” (much) and Joss Ackland* being odd.

      *still alive

      • SDF-7

        Yup… I think pretty much all of Ackland is in the Always on my Mind video Sloopy linked. I presume they found him the best part of the film as well.

  14. DEG

    San Francisco residents lined up at a city board meeting last night to share their full-throated support of a wide-eyed reparations plan that would award every black resident $5million, wipe their personal debt, guarantee $97,000 incomes for 250 years and $1 homes.

    I tapped out.

    • SDF-7

      I suspect they wanted to add “… and a pony” but were worried it sounded too much like 40 acres and a mule.

    • Rat on a train

      I’m shocked so many people showed up demanding the government take from others to give to them.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Reparations to people who were never slaves from people who never owned slaves in a state where slavery was not legal. It’s so stupid, SF will probably end up doing it.

    • Michael Malaise

      It will be glorious. I cannot wait for Reparations Day.

  15. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Looks like reality is hitting the European markets today. All of the major indices are down a couple of percent.

  16. Rebel Scum

    I’m here on behalf of the American people

    Go fuck yourself.

    Biden said. “In an instant, he found the courage to act and wrestle a semi-automatic fireware — arm — away.

    The use of this term is deliberate. A normal person would say “gun” or “rifle/pistol”.

    • WTF

      But was it fully semi-automatic?

  17. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — DuoTri went well (better than yesterday is too low of a bar). Main event started promising but settled back into mediocrity… got in the “I can burn a guess or two to eliminate letters!” groove and went too far with it.

    Daily Duotrigordle #378
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 03:16.60
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 415
    7️⃣5️⃣
    2️⃣8️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 415
      3️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • rhywun

      I’ll take it.

      Daily Quordle 415
      4️⃣7️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣

    • Necron 99

      I see we use the same seed word.

      Daily Quordle 415
      5️⃣7️⃣
      2️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

      • rhywun

        Oof. That seed word is in my rotation but I didn’t use it today.

      • SDF-7

        Actually, I normally don’t use that one — but I’ve seen it from others here and since I needed to check more vowels and had only an “O” from my first seed word… thought, why not? 😉

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 415
      4️⃣8️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣

  18. AlexinCT

    They are coming for the sammiches!

    Will the allow cricket-butter sammiches on bread made from cricket flower once the serf food staple diet consists of cricket made products so the elite have more Wagyu, caviar, and lobstah for themselves?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      That was friggin idiotic. Was tempted to comment, “What is this, Highlights for Children?” but, ya know, real name.

    • rhywun

      you’re literally eating a heart bomb

      *taps out*

  19. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    Has anyone done the Ides of March ?

      • SDF-7

        That’s just brutal.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Et tu?

      • Michael Malaise

        That’s a visual pun, hypocrite.

  20. SDF-7

    And just because it amuses me… Sloopy if I keep ranting on about PSB. At least it isn’t this one.

  21. Count Potato

    “I love my daughter’s unusual name — but people say it’s slang for drugs

    March 11, 2023

    To be blunt, this Canadian mom doesn’t really care what you think about her daughter’s name.

    An Ontario couple who decided to name their daughter Chree were met with disdain from their friends and family who pointed out the name sounds similar to “tree,” a code term for cannabis.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/03/11/i-love-my-daughters-unusual-name-but-people-say-its-slang-for-drugs/

    WTF, NYPost? Why is this stupid article still on the front page?

    • AlexinCT

      LOOK, SQUIRREL!!!

    • rhywun

      “tree,” a code term for cannabis.

      Anyone else never heard of this?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I have never.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “trees” is a thing, ya.

      • Count Potato

        I have, but only plural, eg. “selling trees”.

        Still, that’s not even the child’s name.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’m still in the “Devil’s lettuce” stage.

    • Michael Malaise

      We just named our daughter Mary Jane.

  22. Rebel Scum

    San Franciscans line up at board meeting to sing and shout their support for a reparations plan to give every black resident $5M, wipe personal debt, provide $97K incomes and homes for just $1 – and no one asks how the city will foot the bill

    This is all so stupid and dishonest.

    • rhywun

      Performative theater. And when it doesn’t happen because the city has pissed the entire treasury away on klimate and “migrant” crap, there’ll be hell to pay.

    • WTF

      Decades ago taking handouts was shameful, and only to be done under the most dire necessity. Now we have people proudly and loudly demanding ever more lavish handouts at the expense of others. This is not an improvement.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It has been said that one of the last acts of any empire is the looting of the treasury. We are well past that, so now its loot the people that still think there is money in the treasury.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Bread and circuses started long before the fall of Rome.

    • sloopyinca

      Thank you for sharing. I hadn’t seen that. It will definitely shed new light on the era.

  23. AlexinCT

    Those saying that the system is breaking down keep ignoring the fact that the real problem was/is that we had/have a corrupted system pretending to be capitalism, where government used/uses its power to pick winners & losers. That’s why the system can’t be sustained. Just as the marxists found out but now desperately pretend is not the case, you can’t violate the laws of economics & human nature by fiat and wishful thinking. Now the fascists are finding out the indirect control shit is also doomed.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Here’s the problem….

      One of the liberal arguments we destroy all of the time is the “Not real communism!”

      And this argument sounds a whole lot like “Not real capitalism!”

      We know that slaughter and starvation of are the results of communism. Is it perhaps possible that corporatism is the result of capitalism? Wokeism, even. It got started outside universities because companies refused to resist market pressure, which is a natural reaction companies do when faced with any pressure.

  24. AlexinCT

    What’s the over and under that unconstitutional shit the people in power want, like this, won’t become law of the land just because?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Taxing unrealized gains would collapse the system. The big NY banks have no interest in that.

      • SDF-7

        Given everyone with a 401k is capable of understanding the concept of unrealized gains (well, until Brandon tanked them) and we have more than abundant examples of what happens when the “It only affects the super rich!” camel sneaking down the income/wealth brackets — I can’t see them getting that through, no.

  25. db

    I missed Enlaces! yesterday, but I did think it worth noting that my top favorite bands/musicians are, in no particular order,

    1. Moist
    2. Moist
    3. Van Moist
    4. Moist
    5. Pink Moist
    6. Moist Zevon
    7. Moist
    8. Moist Zeppelin
    9. Peter Moist
    10. Emerson Moist and Palmer

    I could go on and on.

    • db

      Oh, and how could I forget King Moist?

      • robc

        Moist Crimson is better.

      • db

        I like both Greg Lake and Adrian Belew

      • Count Potato

        You don’t like Moist Whetton?

      • db

        Frankly, his best work was done with Moist

      • The Hyperbole

        Love King Moist, kind of surprised as you don’t seem like the funk and soul type.

    • R C Dean

      I prefer to Moist Floyd to Pink Moist. Close call, though.

    • WTF

      Nobody likes The Rolling Moist?

    • Michael Malaise

      I think song names would be better as most band names are 1-3 words.

  26. Rebel Scum

    This lawsuit has merit.

    Seems rather fowl and frivolous to me.

    • sloopyinca

      Don’t give this plaintiff a hard time just because he’s hatched a good extortion plan.

      • db

        I don’t know, there’s not much chance of it succeeding, but I guess some schemes fly on a wing and a prayer.

      • SDF-7

        There’s a nugget of truth to that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Disagree. This lawsuit has no legs

      • AlexinCT

        Chicken choker.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Hey lookie! A cat with a narrowed gaze.

        Or as my cat-owning friends call it, a typical day.

        (They want us all dead, they really do, but they can’t figure out how to open the cans of tuna without us.)

  27. Rebel Scum

    Three wineries owned by California Gov. Gavin Newsom are clients of Silicon Valley Bank, and the governor has maintained personal accounts at the institution “for years,” according to a Tuesday report from The Intercept.

    I suppose he is sour grapes right now.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      You know it’s Wednesday right? Don’t start the vomiting early please.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The college that photographed their freshers nude! (Sorry, Scruff.) I would have noped out of that. Collect call to Mom.

      • AlexinCT

        Next up when they get their way, stories about pregnancies birthing events going up?

      • Count Potato

        Trans men can’t get women pregnant. Neither can most trans women.

      • AlexinCT

        Your assuming they have had their bottom surgery….

      • rhywun

        Yeah, remember any man who says he is a woman is now a woman.

      • Count Potato

        No, I am not.

      • rhywun

        Oh wait, they’re saying “trans men” – so confusing.

        Looks like they already admit “trans women”.

      • Count Potato

        Most trans women can’t get women pregnant either because they stop producing swimmers.

      • rhywun

        Right but there’s nothing stopping some random dude from claiming to be a “woman” without any hormone changes or the snip-snip.

    • rhywun

      “Students demand”

      How many? What percentage? And how many are shamed into not objecting because they don’t want to be cancelled?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        At some point, universities are going to have to start expelling the idiots.

      • Swiss Servator

        Not as long as the checks clear…

    • Rebel Scum

      Students at historic all-female Wellesley College…demand admission for trans men

      Sure…I don’t see why women persist at giving up their own spaces.

      • Rebel Scum

        Whoops. I guess this would still be women. This shit is so tedious and stupid. Do what you want ladies.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Transmen are women again.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Texas legislators are considering a new law that would make medical marijuana significantly more accessible. The Texas House Public Health Committee heard arguments on House Bill 1805 on Monday, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram’s Eleanor Dearman. The bill proposes expanding the Lone Star State’s medical marijuana program to include chronic pain patients who would otherwise be prescribed opioids.

    Aim high.

  29. Certified Public Asshat

    From a man who has never been wrong:

    In Opinion"SVB isn't Lehman, and 2023 isn't 2008," Paul Krugman writes of the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. "We probably aren't looking at a systemic financial crisis." https://t.co/VVbsLaLjNh— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 14, 2023

    • Brawndo

      Fuck. I didn’t think this would lead to a collapse but now that I find that I’m in agreement with Krugman, I’m not so sure.

  30. AlexinCT

    I don’t get the anger like this, because it always seems to take a man to show women how to be the best at women things anyway so the patriarchy can be put in its rightful place…

    • The Last American Hero

      Those women are necessary casualties in the culture war. Practice harder, and maybe you can out-man the men like Captain Marvel and Galadriel from Rings of Power.

    • banginglc1

      Women are just as capable as men! (As long as that woman was born a man).

  31. Rebel Scum

    I’m not saying it’s aliens…

    A draft research report authored by Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department was released on March 7 and focuses on the physical constraints of unidentified aerial phenomena.

    “…An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions,” the report read. “These ‘dandelion seeds’ could be separated from the parent craft by the tidal gravitational force of the Sun or by a maneuvering capability.”

    I know this is just the next distraction, but if true maybe they can do us a favor.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      How do you know when the DOD doesn’t want you paying attention to its ongoing failures?

    • The Last American Hero

      A better movie would have had them destroy the seats of power and then broadcast a message “you’ll thank us later” as the aliens zoom off into space to liberate another world.

      • Michael Malaise

        But people are basically all the same so the same abuses of power would happen again and again over time.

  32. Drake

    This wasn’t much in the U.S. news. Protestors (glowing with NGO and CIA sponsorship) have spoken out in favor of foreign meddling in their country. A reportedly milder version of our own foreign agent law was shot down. Seems a very strange thing to spark “spontaneous” protests.

    https://news.yahoo.com/georgian-lawmakers-drop-foreign-agent-083429915.html

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      We just can’t quit fucking around overseas. Congress couldn’t even bring itself to end the Syrian SNAFU after years of failure.

      We have to fight ISIS!

      Oh, you mean the guys we armed and then Assad and Russia destroyed? It’s all so painfully stupid.

      • Drake

        We’ll see if they just want to push a woke globalist agenda there, or if they try to push Georgia into another disastrous military adventure against the Russians.

      • Swiss Servator

        Being invaded and having part of their country stolen?

        Is there any Russian conquests you won’t excuse?

      • Count Potato

        The U.S.A.

      • Drake

        It’s not the Russians I’m talking about. It’s our own idiots interfering in Georgia and pushing them to do crazy suicidal things.

        A media campaign in Mexico to recover San Diego and San Antonio would be comparable, with similar results if tried.

  33. Rebel Scum

    I wonder how many black people they have helped.

    The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and related causes received an astonishing $82.9 billion from corporations, a new funding database from the Claremont Institute has found.

    “As a point of reference, $82.9 billion is more than the GDP of 46 African countries. In 2022, the Ford Motor Company’s profits were $23 billion,” they also noted. The sum of $82.9 million includes “more than $123 million to the BLM parent organizations directly,” as well as much more to other organizations supporting BLM’s agenda.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      It’s a good grift if you can get it.

    • SDF-7

      Well, their leaders certainly helped themselves from what we can tell.

    • Count Potato

      Where did it go?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I’ll bet ActBlue garnered a large portion.

    • slumbrew

      All very sweet. Thanks, Holiness.

    • SDF-7

      I think this would be a good time for a civics lesson for the little girl to let her know the President is not a fairy to grant wishes, nor a king to impose his will on the populace. “You should fix this since your (sic) the presitent (sic)”. Ugh. At least she can hopefully learn.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      STFU Charlotte. Go back to school and learn to write properly before offering up your uniformed and uneducated opinion.

      • AlexinCT

        Charlotte is not a kid. I am predicting that unless they find a way to bury this once it starts unravelling, we will soon find out this was done by and adult democrat operative using the “I am a kid and I want social justice” lie so they could create this teachable moment based on a huge fucking lie.

        These people’s SOP is to fake the things they want. See race hoaxes.

      • The Hyperbole

        Public schools, Hollywood and The Media have been indoctrinating the yutes in liberal ideology for decades and we’re skeptical that some kid would regurgitated those talking points? Seems inevitable actually.

      • AlexinCT

        I am not skeptical because I don’t believe a kid was indoctrinated to believe this shit, but because of the writing on the note… Look closely at the cursive “g” and remember no cursive writing has been thought for more than a decade… In fact, I am no hand writing pro, but this seems to me like there are 4 or so different writing styles. Maybe it was some moms doing it at their book reading club while swilling wine, but my bet is it was people in the machine.

      • Count Potato

        Then how do people sign their name?

      • AlexinCT

        Someone put a image of a big X here plz…

      • Fourscore

        I gave a check to a 12 year old a few months ago, he printed his signature, bank cashed it. My oldest grand daughter, 30 YO scribbles some up-down marks, deposits with her phone. College grad. I’m thinking that would be an easy target.

      • Mojeaux

        My kid just has a marginally bumpy scrawl, but otherwise, he prints. They don’t learn how to print beyond the basics and they certainly don’t learn how to write cursive, which means they can’t read it. I either print-cursive upright or use block lettering (depending on how readable I need it to be), and he can’t read my writing unless I use block letters.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think the first sentence was a child. I think something that wasn’t fair was not originally ‘ladies’ and my guess is encouragement by the book club moms changed into a rant for the child to write and/or they complete.

      • The Hyperbole

        Why fabricate something that most likely exists, how many grade school classes send letters to the president, how many teachers use that exercise to push some BS onto their pupils?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Why not fabricate it?

      • The Hyperbole

        Just seems much more likely that some leftist teacher/parent put Charlotte up to this, than the presidents PR team forging it. Alex may very well be right, but I doubt it.

      • Mojeaux

        Kids don’t talk like that on their own. The writing may be the girl’s, but the words are the adult-in-charge’s.

    • R C Dean

      “And when I was your age, I wanted to ride a dinosaur to school every day. That didn’t happen either.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Is one of the driving factors behind the surge in trans people, just women who want to get a huge raise by now identifying as men?

      Wait till the job market tightens up some more and those menx discover that they are now first on the chopping block. I bet they all de-transition at that point to get the extra protection of being a woman.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Heh. Was just thinking of when we might hear the first MTF complaining they are making 70% of what they used to make.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit on the letter. And we all know the “wage gap” is also bullshit.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Sodium and saturated fat are healthy/necessary, you cunte.

    Most Americans consume too much sodium, sugar and saturated fat, according to government survey data. Sandwiches—which almost half of Americans eat on any given day—are a primary culprit. Nutritionists, doctors and public-health officials are trying to nudge people to make their sandwiches healthier, believing that even simple changes can improve health.

    Sandwiches are the number one source of sodium and saturated fat in Americans’ diets, making up about one-fifth of our daily sodium intake and 19% of our daily saturated fat calories, according to an analysis of federal survey data. Sandwiches contribute 7% of daily added sugars, the same percentage as breakfast cereals and bars.

    “The standard deli sandwich with processed meat and cheese, you’re literally eating a heart bomb,” says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University.

    Go fuck yourself.

    • SDF-7

      “Eat well, live right…. die anyway.” Now fuck off, slavers.

    • AlexinCT

      I am not a fan of sugar, but sodium and sun light, both banned these days, are absolutely necessary to keep people from sliding into depression.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I subscribe only because of the editorial board.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Sandwiches are the number one source of sodium and saturated fat in Americans’ diets, making up about one-fifth of our daily sodium intake and 19% of our daily saturated fat calories…’

      Considering a sandwich will most likely make up about one third of my caloric intake on any given day the math doesn’t seem to be too much of a problem for me.

      • UnCivilServant

        I plan to make sandwiches for lunch today. I have a leftover roast beef that will go perfectly.

      • The Last American Hero

        Sandwich making is women’s work.

      • UnCivilServant

        Those who do not work do not eat.

      • R C Dean

        Says the guy who has a sandwich for his avatar.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I would wager they are pulling the numbers from the cheapest, most pumped up mass produced deli meats to get those numbers. And they can rightly fuck off.

    • Count Potato

      “literally eating a heart bomb”

      So anyone who eats a deli sandwich explodes?

      • UnCivilServant

        Only if they got it from the Aloha Snackbar.

  35. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Paywalled

    Russia Is Blocked From Collecting $4.5 Billion in Ukraine Bond Dispute

    Kyiv can make the case that Moscow cajoled it into an unfavorable bond sale a decade ago, U.K. court rules

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-is-blocked-from-collecting-4-5-billion-in-ukraine-bond-dispute-147b4fc0

    Those bonds were sold when Yanukovych was in charge and Russia was giving Ukraine better terms than what the EU was offering. Our little coup happened shortly thereafter. It’s all so transparently bullshit.

    The court obviously felt the need to make up some idiotic reason for a foregone conclusion given the current situation.

    • Rat on a train

      What is Russia going to do, go to war over the issue?

      • Swiss Servator

        They can invade, run the customs posts until they have collected!

        /United Fruit Company

  36. Rebel Scum

    Fascist infighting.

    Amid the national showdown over drag performances and transgender rights, a storytelling event in a city park in northern Ohio became the latest flashpoint, fueled by demonstrators who waved swastika flags and shouted “Seig heil” before a melee that led to two arrests.

    Hundreds of protesters, including armed white supremacists, members of several extremist groups and LGBTQ community supporters descended on Wadsworth, Ohio, a small town outside Akron, for a drag queen storytelling show that had been moved from a private venue.

    White supremacist protestors shouted “Heil Hitler” and made Nazi salutes outside the event while pro-LGBTQ counterprotesters chanted, confronted the far-right agitators and wielded rainbow-colored parasols as a sort of shield for attendees.

    • R C Dean

      “White supremacist protestors shouted “Heil Hitler” and made Nazi salutes”

      So white, I bet they glow in the dark.

    • PieInTheSky

      Are actual Nazis dumb enough to yell hail Hitler these days?

    • rhywun

      It’s “Sieg”, morans.

    • WTF

      This is such an obvious false flag it’s ridiculous. What a transparent attempt to paint anyone opposing the QUILTBAG trans grooming agenda as actual Nazis.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah, read that when it ran in Townhall or one of the sister sites the other day.

      This is the part that stuck out for me, especially since one of the multinational megacorp’s annual survey questions is something along the lines of “I feel this company is at the forefront of driving human advancement” or some such garbage.

      Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, people in nearly every white-collar profession ceased finding their work inherently meaningful. So, they sought to use their profession to change the world.

      That directly speaks to that, and probably explains why I’ve always found that question so stupid (outside of someone working for Space-X or an actual cure for cancer or a working fusion reactor… who the hell could say “Yes” to that?). I know I’m a cog in a machine — and most people are similarly cogs in machines… and that’s fine! The world needs those who just do their damned jobs too, you crazy narcissists. (In fact, a serious argument could be made that plumbers and other infrastructure jobs are more meaningful than a lot of the web development (not you, WebDom!) and fluff programming jobs these days).

      • The Last American Hero

        If the company is there to make and sell ball bearings, their job is to make and sell the best gorram ball bearings out there, at a price the competition can’t match. And while ball bearings make our lives better, it isn’t about moving forward human achievement, it’s providing a useful good to make money.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t know that people generally found office work inherently meaningful, ever. It’s not that the meaning disappeared from office work. It’s that meaning disappeared from the rest of their lives as the acid of post-modernity ate it away.

  37. AlexinCT
  38. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Does anyone watch Redacted? Thoughts on it?

    I stumbled on it a few days ago, and it seems like an interesting alternative news sources. I don’t like that it feels a bit gimmicky with the gold pitches. A little naive too (e.g. the stance that “China would never invade Taiwan” versus “Taiwan isn’t America’s problem to spill American blood over”). 5 years ago, I’d also say wildly conspiracy theorist, but now those seem like pretty damn accurate prophecies.

    The show has provided interesting info on a lot of the current events that I’m not seeing elsewhere. For example (and sorry if I missed this in a Glibs link), a leaked video of an FDIC meeting a few months ago where the members talked about how the American public were idiots for trusting in FDIC insurance and not to let them know the true precarious state of American banks (my paraphrase).

    • Rebel Scum

      I’ve seen a few clips/episodes. Seems aight.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      They are willing to show sources from other places which is interesting, but they are a little too quick to jump to confusion. Their predictions are usually wrong, but they never acknowledge it. In that way they are like the rest of the media. I also find their clickbait headlines like “Oh shit! This changes everything!” to be really annoying.

    • AlexinCT

      Good for my kielbasa!

      • PieInTheSky

        did not eat enough fondue

  39. PieInTheSky

    It seems Romania got approval from the US State Department to buy 95 JLTV whatever the fuck those are

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Junior Latvian Trans Vegans

      They’re a bargain these dyas.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought these were Japanese Lightweight Televisions from 1995.

    • juris imprudent

      whatever the fuck those are

      Team America’s version of a Toyota Hilux.

      • Count Potato

        U.S. vehicle import laws are retarded.

  40. PieInTheSky

    Women in Berlin can now swim topless in the city’s public pools if they choose to – just as men can.

    As well as being hailed as a step forward for gender equality in the German capital, the measure introduced this week is symptomatic of Germany’s love of Freikoerperkultur – literally translated as ‘free body culture’ – which has its roots in the late 19th century.

    Berlin’s authorities took action after a female swimmer said she was prevented from attending one of the city’s pools without covering her chest in December 2022. The woman lodged a complaint with the city’s ombudsman’s office at the Senate Department for Justice, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination.

    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/berlin-public-swimming-pools-intl/index.html

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      *visions of Angela Merkels dancing through my head*

      *stabs eyes out*

    • AlexinCT

      I prefer the Eye-talian recipe my nonna had for that stuff…. Tomatoes & basil ftw.

  41. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    I’m glad vacation was fun and I hope you paid little attention to the news of the day. Because it kind of sucks.

    This is all perfectly normal. Move along. There’s nothing to see here.

    That’s the worst part. It is perfectly normal. It boggles the mind that normies can’t see how much these fuckers enrich themselves at our expense. Sad!

    This is all normal and above board. These are public servants after all. Nothing untoward could have been happening. That’s tin-foil hat stuff, right?

    This one could bite him. Lobbying for cronies is one thing, but for yourself is another level of corruption. Oh wait – he’s from Cali? Never mind.

    Great musical choices today. I think this one is my favorite of theirs.

    Have a great day, y’all!

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s my favorite too. Love that song.

    • R C Dean

      That’s the face of someone who would leave you face-down in a ditch without a second thought.

      • PieInTheSky

        Wait are you saying indigenous people are like that?

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Be your own woman!”

      “I really dig being a stay at home housewife”

      “WTF ARE YOU DOING!!!!!!!”

      • Timeloose

        There are trade-offs in life. You can’t have it all. If you are a career woman or man you will miss out on some aspect of raising your kids.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        That’s just the cishetero-patriarch in you talking.

      • Mojeaux

        Opportunity cost. It rules every decision one makes.

      • R.J.

        True. But if my wife wants to be my sugar mama and let me raise the kid, clean the house and do the bills – I would take it. The rat race is getting tiring.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I wouldn’t be too quick to that choice. I’m a SAHD for 16 years now. It definitely takes a toll in very bad ways. It’s a lot easier to say “Fuck my cultural upbringing and societal expectations”, but not nearly easy enough to actually do it.

        I sacrificed everything I might have wanted to be for my family. I don’t regret that choice, but it’s a choice that has left me hollow in lots of meaningful ways.

      • ron73440

        I would lose my mind in a week.

        And that’s without kids in the house anymore.

    • The Other Kevin

      Look, people should be free to live the way they want as long as it’s the way the people on the left want them to.

    • KSuellington

      I have been enjoying the tweets and articles by Peachy Keeenan lately. The outfit she usually writes for, American Mind, also has some great stuff. It’s well worth an add to your browser’s favs.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Those chicks are gonna make some lucky dude miserable someday.

    • Timeloose

      Brought to you by TWATS. The Women Against Tiredness Society. Not a bad video.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Now I want lobster

    Industry groups including Maine Lobstermen’s Association are suing the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California for defamation, arguing in a lawsuit filed Monday that their prized catch shouldn’t be on a “red list” published by Seafood Watch, a conservation program it operates.

    Last year, Seafood Watch put lobster from the U.S. and Canada on its list of seafood to avoid due to the threat posed to rare whales by entanglement in fishing gear used to harvest American lobster, the species that makes up most of the U.S. lobster market.

    ——-

    The aquarium says its recommendations are correct based on the best available evidence. It says right whales are indeed vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear.

    The lawsuit ignores “the extensive evidence that these fisheries pose a serious risk to the survival of the endangered North Atlantic right whale, and they seek to curtail the First Amendment rights of a beloved institution that educates the public about the importance of a healthy ocean,” said Kevin Connor, a spokesperson for the aquarium.

    What did those whales ever do for me?

    • Tundra

      What a bunch of cunts. The lobstermen have been working those waters for 400 years.

      Yes, cunts, it’s the fucking wind turbines.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You mean the lobster lawyers who are suing over someone else’s speech that carries no legal weight? Yes, yes they are cuntes.

      • Tundra

        Right. Because the greenies always stop at speech. Every time.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Next, the Beef checkoff can sue some vegan advocacy groups for their talking points.

      • Tundra

        Yes. And it isn’t talking points, Gustave. You have been watching the plant-based foolishness, I am sure.

        How would you propose to fight? A sternly worded letter and some beef commercials?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Read the actual text on their website. This is as dipshittery as the boneless wings lawsuits. There isn’t anything to fight, other than tilting at windmills. Coming on the heals of wind turbines are killing the lobster harvest, it smells more like the lobstermen are flailing around trying to generate publicity however they can.

      • Gustave Lytton

        But if they do want to fight, repealing the Marine Mammals Protection Act would be a good start.

      • UnCivilServant

        So I can go clubbing again?

      • Tundra

        They are being blamed for killing whales. I don’t really give a fuck about their strategy, but I also don’t blame them for trying to head this off early. The greenies have all the power and most of the money. The farmers in the Netherlands probably wish they had paid more attention to the Agenda 2030 or whatever the hell it’s called.

        There are no rules anymore. If lawfare is an avenue, go for it. And repealing the Marine Mammals Protection Act is as likely as End The Fed.

      • slumbrew

        “Gustave Lytton kills puppies in the course of doing his business and you should avoid his products” carries no legal weight but I don’t think you’d be out of line for suing to stop someone from running a campaign based on that factually inaccurate statement.

      • Gustave Lytton

        https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/search?query=%3Afree%3BLobster%7Cspecies

        AVOID
        Pass on the below sources, or if you don’t know where and how the lobster was caught.

        American lobster caught in the U.S. and Canada. Some American lobster fisheries may be certified by the Marine Stewardship Council; however, our red Avoid ratings indicate a high level of concern with the environmental impacts of these fisheries.

        Yeah, sure is defamatory and not an opinion.

      • slumbrew

        This fishery poses a risk to overfished or at-risk species, including endangered North Atlantic right whales. Entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of serious injury and death to North Atlantic right whales.

        That is presented as a fact.

      • Not Adahn

        Eh, you’re not wrong. The problem becomes when they don’t have any official regulatory power but official regulators use their opinions in making decisions.

        Like the FBI/DoJ taking the SPLCs opinion about whom to investigate/prosecute.

        Likewise if some state regulators started doing bad things to sellers on the Red List.

      • The Last American Hero

        The posting is at a public museum. So Joe Citizen goes and says, shit, the lobster guys are overfishing lobster and killing whales. If the greens kept their propaganda to their own website and not posted it in the aquarium there would be no beef.

    • KSuellington

      Fisherman have been crabbing the coast of California for 150 years now, but all of a sudden crab pots are a mortal danger to whales here. The last two seasons have been severely delayed in order to save the whales. Evidently whales have been getting tangled in pots and it is a whalocolypse out there on the seas. This season they not only fucked the crab fisherman out of their traditional start before Thanksgiving (Dungeness crab is common table fare around that weekend here)but delayed it until after Xmas and New Year so they really got screwed. I imagine this is going to be a regular occurrence.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        More whales are getting tangled because there are more whales now.

    • slumbrew

      That’s suuuuuch bullshit. Otherwise I’d be regularly reading about whale deaths for the decades I have lived here in New England; such deaths are rare and newsworthy by their rarity.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    The U.S. lobster industry is based mostly in Maine. The industry brought about 98 million pounds of lobster to the docks last year. That was less than the previous year, but historically a fairly high number.

    But how many whales did they bring in?

    • KSuellington

      And there has never been more fricking whales out in the Pacific (and I’m sure all the oceans) since before the days of whale oil lamps. When I was a kid it was a rare sight to see one, in the past five years I’ve seen more than the rest of my years combined.

      • db

        The whales are just coming closer to land to shop for real estate soon to be flooded by CLIMATE CHANGE.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Business as usual

    Ohio filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday.

    The federal lawsuit also seeks to force the company to pay for groundwater and soil monitoring in the years ahead and economic losses in the village of East Palestine and surrounding areas, said Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

    “The fallout from this highly preventable accident is going to reverberate throughout Ohio for many years to come,” Yost said.

    I don’t know. How fiery was that mess before being intentionally set ablaze?

    At least we know the job will be done right, now that we have a bunch of ambulance chasers supervising.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah amazing how they tossed the intentional burning of the chemicals onto the railroad

    • Rebel Scum

      Acting is pretending…

    • R C Dean

      Now do women actors who have had plastic surgery and wear makeup on set.

    • SDF-7

      Look, if you want dancing girls….

      • Mojeaux

        Pet Shop Boys has some cringe memories attached. I avoid when possible.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Externalities!!!!!

  45. The Late P Brooks

    So- yesterday I talked to my sister. She told me she had a cold (her terminology) which knocked her flat on her ass (not her terminology) for two weeks. She is all in on plague vax and boosters (yet has somehow managed to catch it at least twice).

    I found this to be interesting. I said nothing.

    • PieInTheSky

      you could have at least recommended some vit D

      • KSuellington

        If that is an actual Keanu quote I now like the guy even more.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That is fantastic.

        *However, this will result on some nights and couch surfing for you married dudes

    • SDF-7

      At least she wasn’t bitten by a møøse….

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Damn, that’s harsh.

      I like it.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Read the actual text on their website. This is as dipshittery as the boneless wings lawsuits. There isn’t anything to fight, other than tilting at windmills. Coming on the heals of wind turbines are killing the lobster harvest, it smells more like the lobstermen are flailing around trying to generate publicity however they can.

    Monkey see, monkey do?

  47. Count Potato

    ““You’re erasing trans babies!” Equality Florida kicked off their Pride at the Capitol program this year by protesting a slew of controversial bills that are making their way through the Florida legislature”

    https://twitter.com/theflstandard/status/1635636115595046913

    Trans babies.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Leave the kids alone… or else.

      • Tundra

        This.

        Trans needs to go the fuck away.

      • Mojeaux

        The LGs (and maybe the Bs) needed to get rid of this long ago. I don’t know why they’re putting up with it.

      • Count Potato

        Long ago it had nothing to do with kids. It had nothing to do with kids until recently.

      • PieInTheSky

        you are literally calling for genocide you monster

    • Ownbestenemy

      I wonder what the intersection of folks that are against circumcision but are all for body manipulation is…

      • banginglc1

        Is circumcism the compromise to treating trans youth?

        You want to be a woman? No until you’re 18! But we’ll cut piece of your dick off to test things out!

        I like it.

    • Grumbletarian

      The backlash will be brutal when it happens.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Environmental science- it’s only right when it gives the answer we’re looking for

    A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a quick legal challenge against the the Biden administration’s decision to approve the controversial Willow oil project in Alaska.

    Biden’s decision to allow ConocoPhillips to build its massive project on federal land in the Alaska wilderness has caused an uproar among environmentalists. They argued in their lawsuit that the approval violated four environmental laws despite the fact that the Bureau of Land Management greenlit a smaller version of the project than ConocoPhillips had sought.

    “Willow would result in the construction and operation of extensive oil and gas and other infrastructure in sensitive arctic habitats and will significantly impact the region’s wildlife, air, water, lands, and people,” the groups wrote in their lawsuit, which asks the Alaskan court to vacate the Biden administration’s approval of the project.

    BLM failed to follow requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act to consider alternatives that would lessen the project’s impact on the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, or NPR-A, or to take a required “hard look” at the project’s cumulative impacts, including on climate change, the suit alleges.

    You did it wrong. The whole point of the exercise is to work backwards from “no”.

    • The Last American Hero

      Keystone pipeline nods in agreement.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Why walk into that. If Libsoftiktok did not exist, I would say they have the high ground with it, but they do not.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      But, why make that comparison?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Right? I mean, you give a hint of credibility to the notion that some drag performers are on par with predatory pastors.

    • PieInTheSky

      Meh… there seems to be a tad to much moral panic on the drag thing IMO. That does not mean it is not fertile ground for nonces (as sargon would say)

      • Count Potato

        It’s not a moral panic. They are deliberately trying to indoctrinate kids and separate them from their families.

      • rhywun

        This. The fad was started by literal Marxists for exactly that purpose.

        They get away with it by assuming the victim status that comes with the alphabet soup crowd.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      That guy is paid to deliver the party line. So yes, the DNC has spoken.

    • Rebel Scum

      you’ve been entertained by drag your whole life

      Those examples are not the same thing.

      • ron73440

        you’ve been entertained by drag your whole life

        Am I weird?

        I have never been entertained by drag.

        When I see it on TV, I immediately change the channel.

        I don’t get why anyone would go to watch as an adult, let alone bring their kids.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Mrs. Doubtfire maybe

      • db

        Repressed autogynephilia

    • R C Dean

      As someone pointed out, the question isn’t “Why do kids go to drag shows?”. The question is, “why do drag performers want kids at their shows?”.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    The groups also charge BLM with failing to consider the project’s impacts on lands used for subsistence by Alaska Natives. And the suit argues the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to properly consider Willow’s potential impacts on endangered species such as polar bears.

    Muh kitchen sink!

  50. PieInTheSky

    25 years ago, my family and I moved to the USA w/ $600 in our pockets

    2 years ago, I decided to start my own space company

    Today, we’re announcing that we’ve been awarded a $60m program from the US Air Force to work with them on hypersonics

    Truly the American Dream

    https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1636003773444247554

    I mean what is more American than a fat defense contract

    • Mojeaux

      I mean what is more American than a fat defense contract

      Pie, you are awesome.

  51. Certified Public Asshat

    Ukraine war: Florida’s Ron DeSantis invited to visit after ‘territorial dispute’ remarks

    Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko criticised Mr DeSantis’s comments and tweeted his invitation to the Republican governor on Tuesday.

    “We are sure that as a former military officer deployed to a combat zone, Governor Ron DeSantis knows the difference between a ‘dispute’ and war,” Mr Nikolenko said.

    “We invite him to visit Ukraine to get a deeper understanding of Russia’s full-scale invasion and the threats it poses to US interests.”

  52. PieInTheSky

    The Romanian National Opera in Iasi has decided that the ballet dancer Vlad Marculescu will not be disciplined, after he was accused by eight female opera employees of having entered several times the dressing room where the ballerinas were changing,

    https://www.g4media.ro/a-male-ballet-dancer-accused-of-entering-the-dressing-room-of-his-female-colleagues-will-not-be-sanctioned-there-is-no-regulation-allowing-the-attribution-of-disciplinary-action-eight-female-d.html

    segregated changing rooms how barbaric. We need to go starship troopers (the movie not the book )

  53. The Late P Brooks

    I have never been entertained by drag.

    Not even Monty Python drag?

    • Gender Traitor

      Dinsdale Piranha knew how to treat a female impersonator.

      • Gender Traitor

        …or so I hear… 🙄

    • ron73440

      OK, but that’s not the same as Rupaul’s Drag Show, is it?

      Is that really “drag”?

      • ron73440

        Apparently, I didn’t drag the closing tag to the right place.

    • Rebel Scum

      The quiltbags are trying to stretch the definition of their minstrel caricature to be equal to a man playing a female character.