Monday Memorial Day Morning Links

by | May 29, 2023 | Daily Links | 199 comments

Everyone loves Memorial Day. We commemorate the sacrifice of multitudes of military, sent to their deaths by lying scum politicians. We celebrate their ultimate sacrifices with hot dogs and hamburgers- “Uncle Paul was killed by the North Vietnamese Army in Quang Tri. Pass the ketchup!”

And everyone loves birthdays, and today’s include a guy who had two wishes and got them both; a guy who was more Catholic than the Pope; a historian who didn’t like (((us))) very much; a guy who proved that comedians don’t have to actually be funny; the guy who beat Hillary; a president who showed us all how brainy he was; a guy who proved that being consistently wrong pays well; a guy whose fame and fortune came from driving around in circles; a guy who definitely needed more range time; and a woman whose Wikipedia photo looks disturbingly like Pocahontas.

Link link link, that’s what’s gonna happen here.

 

“What is she doing here?” That’s actually a great question.

 

I never did like Charlotte.

 

Local news. Our kids are morons.

 

Stop reading Glibs and go rail someone.

 

This bullshit never seems to go away.

 

Stay on message, guys, stay on message.

 

C’mon, there’s only one song that we can have today.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

199 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Happy Memorial Day!

  2. Count Potato

    “a guy who was more Catholic than the Pope”

    Well, that’s easy now.

  3. Count Potato

    “The US is at an increased risk of domestic terror attacks by rightwing “lone wolf” actors, experts have warned, as inflammatory Republican rhetoric around a variety of issues seems likely to continue ahead of the 2024 election.”

    Good.

    • Count Potato

      “According to the data, 90% of the cases of US terrorists are classed as domestic.”

      If it’s domestic, it’s not terrorism. It’s just sparkling violence.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      If only…

    • Count Potato

      “Susan Corke, intelligence project Director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the far right has been “increasingly mobilized since the beginning of the Trump era”.

      “Currently, the level of mobilization, coordination and sustained focus of the far right’s anti-LGBTQ+, particularly anti-trans, [prejudice] is much worse.

      “The past year saw unprecedented violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people, and the most frequent victims were women of color, especially black transgender women,” Corke said.”

      But, of course.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        She hit all the right words.

      • Gender Traitor

        “Bingo!”

      • Grosspatzer

        “The past year saw unprecedented violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people, and the most frequent victims were women of color, especially black transgender women,”

        Citation needed.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Actually, I’ve seen referenced stats which are consistent with that claim.

        BUT…. (and there’s always one of those)…

        …the actual numbers were ridiculously minuscule, like 35 nationwide, of which something like 30 were big city street-level prostitutes.

      • Grosspatzer

        Yeah, a “50% increase in $metric” doesn’t tell me much unless I know the baseline. Lying with statistics is a well-worn tactic.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Plus when it comes to this sort of thing, it’s usually measuring an increase in false claims.

      • Rebel Scum

        I assume it’s like black on black violence, which is the most prevalent violence.

      • juris imprudent

        It would almost be fun to dig through the archives to find how much they touted the same threat before.

      • Francisco d'Anconia

        How come it seems that the vast majority of these incidents are not right wing?

  4. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    LOL. There is hope for Wikipedia.

    “ Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist best known for his pessimistic—and wildly inaccurate[dubious – discuss][2][3][4][5][6][7]—predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources.[8][9]”

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      “ Ehrlich became well known for the controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb which he co-authored with his wife Anne H. Ehrlich, in which they famously—and erroneously—stated that “[i]n the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”[10][11]”

      At least one of the editors on that page gets it.

      • rhywun

        Someone must be asleep at the switch.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Dubious, my ass.

  5. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    “Testosterone levels ‘plummeting’ in young men due to porn consumption”

    I don’t think that’s how it works.

  6. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    “ Which mobile phones emit the most radiation… and where iPhones come on the list”

    As I like to remind my wife after she reads the latest cellphone scare story, if the earheaters we called cellphones back in the 90’s didn’t turn us all into the Incredible Hulk, the current models certainly won’t harm us.

    • Sensei

      Just because you fixed microwave ovens what do you know?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I know that 5G signals can’t cause microcrystals in vaccines to self-assemble into mind-controlling nanobots.

      • Count Potato

        That’s exactly what you would say!

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        nanobot status confirmed.

    • Grosspatzer

      The Fish! One of my more pleasant HS memories.

      • Ted S.

        I didn’t know you had a thing for Abe Vigoda.

      • Grosspatzer

        Strictly a business relationship.

  7. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates. You know who else is celebrating a birthday today?

    • Gender Traitor

      Happy Birthday, ‘patzie! 😃🥳🎂

    • DEG

      Happy Birthday!

    • Count Potato

      HBD 🙂

    • rhywun

      Hitl–? Oh.

      • Grosspatzer

        LOL. Actually, my brother shares a birthday with that gentleman.

        Thanks, all. 3.5 score and counting.

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      Happy pie day.

      I mean, I assume you get pie today.

    • Sean

      Grosspatzer, oh Grosspatzer,
      How many years have gone by?
      Your age is like a mystery,
      Hidden behind a veil of time.

      Some say you’re ancient as the stars,
      That you’ve witnessed history unfold.
      Others claim you’re just a young soul,
      Barely past being a mere tadpole.

      But I wonder, old Grosspatzer,
      What tales do you hold within?
      Of battles fought and loves lost,
      Of triumphs and tragedies akin.

      Do you remember when the world was young,
      And life was full of endless possibilities?
      Or does your memory falter and fade,
      Lost in the mists of forgotten memories?

      Yet still you stand, old Grosspatzer,
      A testament to the passage of time.
      May your wisdom continue to guide us,
      As we journey through this life sublime.

      -BAI Chabot

      🎂🎁🎈

      • Grosspatzer

        “Ode to a Patzer”. Nice!

    • R.J.

      Happy birthday, whippersnap….
      Oh yeah. I guess I’m the whippersnapper this time.

  8. Grosspatzer

    “Feinstein expressed confusion over Kamala Harris presiding over Senate: report”

    I imagine she is also confused over Biden presiding over the executive. I certainly am.

  9. DEG

    According to the new report, Feinstein expressed confusion to her colleagues, when she saw Harris presiding over the chamber, in one of many tiebreaking votes the vice president has had to cast.

    See, Harris wasn’t on her knees sucking cock so that’s what confused Feinstein.

    In the United States, 25 percent of adults are perpetually inactive.

    And in the United Kingdom, one in three men and one in two women don’t exercise at all.

    Forget 10,000 steps daily; they barely take 10,000 steps in a year.

    They should squat more.

    From the sidebar of that story.

    Moskowitz and his colleagues published a review of 46 case-control health studies on the issue of mobiles and health in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2020.

    He said: “Our main takeaway, is that approximately 1,000 hours of lifetime mobile use, or about 17 minutes per day over a 10-year period, is associated with a statistically significant 60 per cent increase in brain cancer.”

    Why do I smell bullshit?

    The US is at an increased risk of domestic terror attacks by rightwing “lone wolf” actors

    That’s a new euphemism for “glow op”.

  10. Rebel Scum

    sent to their deaths by lying scum politicians

    Pawns in the game of world domination, unfortunately. They gave their lives for an idea that they were lied to about. Unfortunately the politicians will never get what they actually deserve.

    • Francisco d'Anconia

      Precisely this

      • Fourscore

        “They gave their lives for an idea that they were lied to about.”

        Their lives were stolen for an idea that they were lied to about.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    The Big Bad Lone Wolf will always be with us.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Testosterone levels ‘plummeting’ in young men due to porn consumption as link to social isolation shows ‘real problem’

    I’m going to go ahead and assert that porn is not causing low T.

    • rhywun

      It’s mobile phones, duh.

    • Sean

      They don’t eat enough steak.

  13. Rebel Scum

    MOBILE phones users have been given a chilling warning about how much time they spend chatting.

    Don’t hold it near your balls I guess.

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean if there aint no testosterone anyways who needs balls

    • juris imprudent

      It’s the dick pics – they capture the testosterone instead of the soul.

  14. Ted S.

    I never did like Charlotte.

    Wilbur should have crushed her.

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      “That’ll do, pig.”

  15. Grosspatzer

    “The number of attacks by adherents to rightwing ideology has soared since 2016, as Republican lies about election interference, and escalating rhetoric from the right about minority groups, have served to “provide mechanisms” for individuals to become radicalized, an analyst said.”

    Justification for suppression of wrongthink. Human beings do not have agency, they merely respond to external stimuli.

    • Rebel Scum

      Interestingly leftists/Democrats never accepted the result of the 2016 presidential election. Likewise for 2000 and 2004. It was before my lifetime but I’d guess they didn’t accept Reagan or Bush senior either.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    According to the data, 90% of the cases of US terrorists are classed as domestic. Of the domestic extremists, 95% are far-right, Jensen said: white supremacists, Proud Boys, anti-immigrant groups and anti-government groups.

    There has been a worrying increase in the number of attacks. Prior to 2016, Jensen and his team logged about 150 individuals a year who were “committing crimes inspired by extremist ideology”.

    Since 2016, the number of people committing such crimes has jumped to about 300-350 cases a year, Jensen said – not including a huge spike in 2021 as a result of the January 6 insurrection.

    Motivated by by Trump’s theft of Hillary’s Presidency, no doubt

    • Rebel Scum

      95% are far-right, Jensen said: white supremacists, Proud Boys, anti-immigrant groups and anti-government groups.

      Stated without evidence.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s the only thing they ever look for, so yeah, it is the overwhelming majority.

    • Grosspatzer

      “When attacks by white supremacists do happen, “they often get parsed in a way that minimizes them,” he said. White supremacist violence is frequently recorded under the category of gang violence, rather than domestic terrorism, while attacks conducted by individuals who have far-right beliefs are frequently classified as hate crimes – outside of the domestic terrorism umbrella.”

      Ah, I get it. The FBI needs to revamp their classification system. They are not properly assigning the “domestic terrorist” label to every random nut job with an account on glibertarians Zero Hedge. The SPLC can help with this.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Individuals rather than organized groups more likely to commit extremist crimes as inflammatory Republican rhetoric escalates

    Except all the high profile violence I can think of over the past several years has been committed by people arguably incited by leftist/Democratic Party rhetoric.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    “Before the internet and before social media, how an individual was likely to radicalize is that it was going to be through a face-to-face relationship that they had in the physical world,” Jensen said.

    “So they had a cousin that was involved in a skinhead gang and they recruited them, or there was a group active in their neighborhood and they saw a flyer and took an interest in it.

    “It was a much more labor-intensive process to get people involved.”

    I wonder why he doesn’t mention jail.

  19. PieInTheSky

    I never did like Charlotte.

    “unclear who shot first” – who shot first used to be the source of many a internet argument

    • Ted S.

      What shot second.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I don’t know. Third base.

    • Grosspatzer

      When it comes to retailers, I only care if they are selling things I’d like to buy. I DNGAF what else they are selling. Yes, my kids are grown, but I don’t think quiltbag displays and such will poison kids in the absence of complicit/apathetic parents. Talk to your kids, people.

      • Count Potato

        The ridiculous thing is that babies can’t understand what LGBT is.

      • rhywun

        I suspect this is all really about dressing your kid with your politics, as an accessory.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I hate it, always have.

        And yes, the same goes for those who drag their kids to MAGA rallies, but at least those parents aren’t mutilating their children for virtue points.

      • Mojeaux

        Meh, I put my kid in a “John Galt’s got nothing on Hank Rearden” tee shirt when she was in 4th grade, but honestly, that was because the shirt said “adult,” but was actually a kid’s size and I didn’t want to waste it.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I am with Grosspatzer here, but I do think this the pushback that we all knew was coming. This is for the “Just Bake the Fucking Cake!”, the boys who don’t want a tampon machine in the john, the girls forced to compete with “girls”, and so on. We knew it was coming, and now, here it is.

  20. PieInTheSky

    Plans for supermarket price cap on basic food

    • PieInTheSky

      for fuck sakes wordpress

      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65736944

      I have to admit I don’t get the deal with the british conservative party. They seem to be even more devoid of economic literacy than most other so called right parties in other countries, they are woke as shit, and still the british left calls them fascists. What is the gameplan here?

      • Ted S.

        RTE in Ireland tried to put the blame for high food prices on the supermarkets, but that apparently didn’t work, because I’ve heard several interviews now in which they’re hectoring the farmers about the high prices.

        Note how the title of the piece puts “dishonesty” in sneer quotes.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        The right in Britain has the same problem as the right in the US; the “leaders” all came from the same education system as the left, and do not have any idea of what the common man really wants. And It might even be worse, as it is a parliamentary system, so, zero chance of someone coming in to shake up the system.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Rhodes Scholarship: The matriculation system for the British worldview since 1902.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    At the same time, the threat of rightwing terrorism has been exacerbated by the normalizing of political violence, or violent rhetoric, by elected officials and media personalities. Prominent figures can provide a gateway for people to commit violence when they demonize immigrants or the LGBTQ+ community, or indulge conspiracies like the great replacement theory, Jensen said.

    Like when prominent Democrats and media personalities trivialize violence and destruction carried out during racially motivated “protests”?

    • Rebel Scum

      “it’s different when we do it.” //TheLeft

      And they are almost exclusively the culprits but they project harder than a Casio.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        We got everything we needed to destroy the final vestiges of fiscal sanity in the US but it’s not enough.

        We’ll see if Gaetz can round up 25 votes to can McCarthy’s ass.

    • Rebel Scum

      Double dose of bullshit headlines.

      In reality, Brandon and the Dems got everything they want and the Rs caved. And we are one step closer to complete insolvency and worthless currency.

      • R C Dean

        The bellwether issue was the new funding for the IRS in the last spending blowout – the money for the 87,000 new agents, etc.

        That was cut by 2%. All the COVID emergency spending is now locked in for perpetuity. What a colossal failure by McCarthy and the Repubs. For a bonus, this deal takes spending off the table as a live political issue through next year’s election.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s the beauty – there are those who would argue they didn’t. Perspective, it’s what makes us human!

      • EvilSheldon

        I don’t think that ‘caved’ is exactly the right word. It implies that there was any disagreement on the part of the GOP in the first place.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Interesting dynamic here. New York City is in a panic about immigrants and is basically saying, “Yeahhh, that sanctuary city thing we passed? We didn’t actually mean it.” So the Governess has decided to bus them to upstate and western NY, where the rural counties are now panicking. Our county actually declared a state of emergency. And here in Oberlin East, people are shocked and appalled when I tell them I favor more immigrants coming here.

      Leftists are funny to watch.

      • Grosspatzer

        “And here in Oberlin East, people are shocked and appalled when I tell them I favor more immigrants coming here.”

        Diversity is good. (Old) Man cannot live by NPR alone.

      • juris imprudent

        One refugee woman for the kitchen, another for the bedroom and a third for the salon – he should be all set and no more catering to NPR ladies.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I’ll happily settle for competent kitchen staff at the café, easy-to-hire day labor to help me with my house reno projects, and more ethic food availability at the grocery.

      • Fourscore

        Good luck!

      • Sensei

        On my walk from Penn Station I go by three different hotels currently housing them

        It’s fucking chaos. A boatload of unregistered scooters as many are doing food delivery. I also get a nice contact high as I walk by.

        I’ve never felt unsafe though as compared to the screaming domestic mentally unwell people shouting violent threats. I’m good for that roughly once a week or so.

      • Grosspatzer

        Damn. Remind me not to push my employer into rescinding their stupid vaccination policy which bans me from the office and all company-sponsored events. I’m counting my blessings.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Psst: it’s governatrix.

  22. Shpip

    “The FBI doesn’t know how many people white supremacists killed last year in the United States. They don’t collect that information,” German said.

    When attacks by white supremacists do happen, “they often get parsed in a way that minimizes them,” he said. White supremacist violence is frequently recorded under the category of gang violence, rather than domestic terrorism, while attacks conducted by individuals who have far-right beliefs are frequently classified as hate crimes – outside of the domestic terrorism umbrella.

    “You would think that if the FBI and the justice department had a real interest in significantly suppressing this type of crime, they would at least count them,” German said.

    If you accurately describe ordinary street crime as “something other than terrorism,” then we can’t scaremonger the public into believing there’s a white supremacist UltraMAGA terrorist behind every tree!

    • juris imprudent

      You would think that if the FBI and the justice department had a real interest

      Hell, they are manufacturing it as much and as fast as they can. You’d think the left would have some pity on overworked bureaucrats.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ah the it’s there we are super serious it’s there but no one will look at what we see!

    • Rebel Scum

      Curiously the FBI seems to be spending more time and effort trying to create he narrative that the regime insists is real.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    “Communities and governments need to adopt a public health approach to preventing extremism by engaging communities, mental health experts, social workers and, especially, people involved in the day-to-day lives of young people,” she said.

    We need a Biden Youth organization to instill proper values in our young pioneers, in order to establish a new social order which will last a thousand years.

    • Rebel Scum

      I would like a leftist to define “extremism”, considering “extreme” is a relative term.

  24. PieInTheSky

    The same racist nazi fuckers who complained about a black elf in the Rings of Power and a black mermaid in the new Little Mermaid are now throwing a fit because there’s a black Aaragorn in the new #lotr mtg set

    I fucking hate how many racists there are in the #boardgames space

    https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1662942250618216448

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      That dude sure likes the word “racist”

    • Fatty Bolger

      He was a native American in the Ralph Bashki version.

  25. Q Continuum

    Speaking of alliteration: Memorial Mammary Monday manifests monumental milkers to maximize your masturbatory movements!

    https://archive.is/NE3g7

  26. The Late P Brooks

    White supremacist violence is frequently recorded under the category of gang violence, rather than domestic terrorism

    So much white supremacism going unaccounted for in Chicago.

    • DrOtto

      Forget it, it’s MAGA country.

  27. Fatty Bolger

    Too much prolactin interferes with testosterone production and affects a man’s ability to maintain an erection.

    In the United Kingdom, men eat bread far more frequently than women.

    Well come on guys, if you can’t get it up, at least try to make up for it a little.

    • Rebel Scum

      English muffins are preventing men from English muff.

  28. PieInTheSky

    should postminors need a sex licence? askling the tough questions

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        What is an ND?

        And what’s with the kiddie cartoon profile pics? These people are weird.

      • PieInTheSky

        neurodiverse I presume

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Ah yes, that bullshit term.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    In other words, the GOP insistence on work requirements is nothing but the party’s typical performative malevolence toward the poor. If they really cared about getting SNAP recipients into the job market, they’d fund job training programs and infrastructure projects. They never do.

    If we just had more road and bridge projects, we could put all those homeless people to work driving earth moving equipment.

    • Rebel Scum

      End SNAP and magically all able-bodied recipients would have a job in no time.

    • rhywun

      They never do.

      OK, then. 🙄

    • rhywun

      “Meanwhile, we want to keep them on benefits forever.”

  30. Q Continuum

    “Testosterone levels ‘plummeting’ in young men”

    Thanks to my benign pituitary tumor, I don’t have to worry about this!

    • Grosspatzer

      Thanks to your stimulating posts, neither do I!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Saturday

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Toss-up for me, but probably Saturday.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Sunday was awesome!

    • PieInTheSky

      thing is when you give fame and moneys to very very stupid people with a predisposition to mental illness, what do you expect?

    • Sean

      White wimmenz raised all those eco terrorists. Lock up the white wimmenz!

      No, I’m not reading the artcile.

    • Rebel Scum

      Can we send her to a sweat shop in Vietnam?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Isn’t she dead yet?

    • Fatty Bolger

      lol. Just getting dumber with age, I see.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Indianapolis 500; Marcus Ericsson may have sounded like a whiny bitch after the race, but I agree with him. Red flagging the race for a “thrilling one lap finale” was bullshit.

    • R C Dean

      I dunno. I’d rather watch actual racing after a red flag than watch the laps tick down while everybody drives the speed limit for 15-20 minutes.

    • Count Potato

      Non-binary is bullshit.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      They’ve got to go to the back of the store. It’s just like Rosa Parks!

    • rhywun

      One of my favorite bits on AbFab had one of the ladies declaring that a gay infant is the greatest fashion accessory you can have.

      It’s alarming how quickly today’s reality has soared past yesterday’s satire.

    • PieInTheSky

      should have at least tazed him

      • EvilSheldon

        If he’s ‘…really more like 5,” why the fuck are you letting him watch Heathers? Great movie, I agree, but I feel like Barney and Friends might be a little more age-appropriate.

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      ‘Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw.”

  32. Shpip

    Not to be a Debbie Downer, but this is the fellow being mourned in the pic at the top.

    TL:DR — Three-year letterman at Duke, blew off law school to become an Army Ranger, killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007

    • Sensei

      Thank you.

      It’s a moving photo.

    • Old Man With Candy

      But he fought for the glory, power, and enrichment of Bush and his cronies.

  33. Count Potato

    “The makeup artist who transformed Melissa McCarthy into Ursula for The Little Mermaid is hitting back at the fallout surrounding his work and employment on the blockbuster live-action remake.

    Many drag queens have criticized Disney for not hiring a queer makeup artist to bring Ursula’s iconic look to life, as her original aesthetic in the 1989 animated classic was based on legendary drag queen Divine.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12135161/Melissa-McCarthys-makeup-artist-Little-Mermaid-slams-ridiculous-backlash-against-work.html

    OFFS!

    • Ownbestenemy

      By all this logic, dude being forced to bake gay cakes should now have the proper defense for not baking a gay cake.

      • juris imprudent

        No! No logic – only FEELZ!!!

      • R C Dean

        Good point. What aren’t all those activists taking their business to a QUILTBAG bakery?

    • PieInTheSky

      just 3? androids have like 6

  34. The Late P Brooks

    The Democrats held reasonably firm. They agreed to some modest budget constraints for two years, moved the next debt ceiling cabaret off to beyond the next election, and saved millions of Americans from serious economic pain.

    What kind of moron could believe this? Oh, right- Hiltzik

  35. PieInTheSky

    Britain, 3023 AD:

    It’s been another hard winter, many of the young and old did not make it. But the bodies are buried and the vernal equinox is here

    The ancient priesthood of The Treasury gather at Stonehenge to witness the event, and make their annual proclamations. They announce the continuation for another year of the triple lock (although nobody remembers what that is), the sighting of Green Shoots of Recovery, and the imminence of the Return to Growth.

    https://twitter.com/peterrhague/status/1662786117257646085

    might be too optimistic towards the end

  36. PieInTheSky

    New estimates of IQs by ethnicity from a large, nationally-representative sample of American kids have been released.

    https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1662977594428465153

    I am not really in the IQ believer camp, but for some reason I thought Jewish would be it’s own category but it does not seem so.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, nothing suspicious at all about whites and blacks not having any range to their IQ scores.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    If the problem doesn’t even exist, why are you so distraught?

    Gov. Greg Abbott is poised to sign a bill that would ban trans athletes from playing in college sports on the team that aligns with their gender identity, the HuffPost reported.

    If Abbott signs the bill into law, student athletes on teams sponsored or authorized by public colleges will only be allowed to play on teams that match the gender they were assigned at birth.

    The bill passed in the state legislature of Friday and advocates have pushed back against it.

    “S.B. 15 is yet another invasive, impractical measure mandated by the Texas legislature to ‘fix’ a problem that does not exist,” Melodía Gutiérrez, Texas director for the Human Rights Campaign said, according to the Texas Tribune. “Every student deserves the same chances to engage in sportsmanship, self-discipline, and teamwork, and to build a sense of belonging with their peers. We should not discriminate against or ban any student from playing because they’re transgender.”

    They can still join the debate team, can’t they?

    • Homple

      “Assigned at birth.”

      • KSuellington

        Assigned at conception.

    • PieInTheSky

      it was all in good fun.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I’d rather watch actual racing after a red flag than watch the laps tick down while everybody drives the speed limit for 15-20 minutes.

    The first two, sure. The last one- with two laps to go, they should have just kept running under yellow while they tried to clear the track. That’s just how it works out sometimes. Whoever was in front when the yellow came out (Ericsson, Newgarden, Scott fucking Dixon or that Rahal stiff, it doesn’t matter… ) takes the win.

    • R C Dean

      The last one, you can argue either way, I guess. Should a red flag that you would otherwise use be withheld because there aren’t many laps left? Hard for me to get too worked up, but I’d still rather watch a restart and a shootout for two laps. I kind of like the NASCAR overtime rule, which Indy pretty much emulated yesterday.

    • PieInTheSky

      learn to be happy with your pod ?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Higher interest rates

      Blackrock is the biggest pusher of this bullshit, but their entire business model is built on near zero interest rates. Remove the easy money and a lot of the perverse incentives in the economy dry up.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    I kind of like the NASCAR overtime rule, which Indy pretty much emulated yesterday.

    Not really a fan of green-white-checker, either. As I used to say about the F2000 support races, “Thirty minutes, or until all the cars have been destroyed.”

    At some point you could just do rock paper scissors, too.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    “Assigned at birth.”

    *doctor tosses coin into air*

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      If they could control your mind with EM waves, we’d all be eating bugs already.

      That’s what’s known as disinformation, or poisoning the well.

      • Count Potato

        That doesn’t mean they aren’t working on it.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Their primary weapon is narrative control. Everything else is a pipe dream.

        Their problem is that nobody outside of the Head Start to College pipeline believes them anymore.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Blackrock is the biggest pusher of this bullshit, but their entire business model is built on near zero interest rates. Remove the easy money and a lot of the perverse incentives in the economy dry up.

    Don’t forget the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. U S debt service, as is rapidly becoming impossible to ignore, will soon devour the budget.

  42. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    But of course….

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/graham-criticizes-defense-spending-debt-ceiling-deal-biggest-winner-biden-defense-budget

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that China would be the beneficiary of the U.S. defense budget proposed in the tentative debt ceiling deal.

    “I respect Kevin McCarthy. I want to raise the debt ceiling. It would be irresponsible not to do it. I want to control spending. I’d like to have a smaller IRS. I’d like to claw back the unused COVID money. I know you can’t get the perfect—but what I will not do is adopt the Biden defense budget and call it a success,” Graham told Fox News on May 28.

    “Kevin said that the defense is fully funded. If we adopt the Biden defense budget, it increases defense spending below inflation,” Graham added.

    How can I have WW3 without a blank check?

    Graham is competing for Most Likely To Go Full Hitler in this year’s Senate.

    • Fourscore

      Compromise = half way between two bad ideas

  43. Count Potato

    “An Australian woman who took issue with the latest trans trend of males breastfeeding newborns has been censored by Twitter at the behest of her own government. She was told that her tweets opposing male breastfeeding for newborns had “violated Australian laws.”

    Lactation specialist Jasmine Sussex took to Twitter to express her outrage at trans-identified males undertaking a drug and hormone regimen for the purpose of satisfying their breastfeeding fetish and feeding newborns the secretions that erupt from their nipples. She called it an “unethical medical experiment” on newborns, reports The Telegraph.

    Sussex believes that she was targeted by Jennifer Buckley, a trans-identified male Australian paramedic who breastfed his wife’s newborn….

    Sussex had posted about Buckley’s adventures in breastfeeding via an article praising the practice and the couple in Parenting Queer, written by Buckley. That article has since been removed from Parenting Queer’s website. In it, however, Buckley wrote “I would like to share my story of fertility and how I was able to breastfeed, although brief, potentially stopped our baby from becoming very sick. I want to share my journey of breast feeding and the birth of our child.””

    https://humanevents.com/2023/05/26/breaking-woman-censored-by-twitter-in-australia-for-criticizing-male-breastfeeding

    https://reduxx.info/two-australian-women-told-they-broke-the-law-after-criticizing-trans-identified-male-breastfeeding-child/

  44. Fourscore

    “potentially stopped our baby from becoming very sick”

    Sorry but your baby will be sick with you two as parents

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Crumbs

    SNAP benefits are available for Americans whose income is less than 130% of the federal poverty line, or about $1,500 a month for a one person household, or $2,000 for a two-person household in many areas.

    Before temporary increases during the COVID pandemic that have since been reversed, these benefits averaged about $121 per person per month, or about $4.00 per person per day, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found.

    That’s like a hamburger a day. I would be fascinated to know how much it costs to make that magic happen.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Inconceivable!

    If lawmakers fail to pass the tentative agreement, and they don’t raise the country’s debt limit by early June, the government may confront an unprecedented challenge: determining which bills to prioritize for payment as the Treasury Department grapples with insufficient funds.

    If the United States doesn’t raise the debt ceiling in time, the Treasury may have to decide whether to make interest payments to its debtholders or to pay its non-debt obligations, such as Social Security, veterans’ benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and running government organizations like the military and the US Centers for Disease Control.

    Everything is Priority One.

    • R C Dean

      “an unprecedented challenge: determining which bills to prioritize for payment”

      A challenge nearly every household and business in the world manages to handle every day. But it’s beyond the capabilities of our ruling class.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    If America’s credit rating were downgraded, that could raise borrowing costs for millions of Americans, sending mortgage, personal loan and credit card rates higher. It could make business’ borrowing costs rise and lead to layoffs – and ultimately a recession.

    What about the government’s credit card payments? That’s what really terrifies the Inner Party.

    • R C Dean

      Well, the government’s credit rating has been downgraded before, in 2011. What happened then?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The central banks started coordinating policy.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, however, has not said what the Treasury Department would do if the country hits the so-called X-date, when the government can no longer meet all its obligations. In March, she called prioritizing payments “effectively a default by just another name.”

    Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.

  49. Tres Cool

    WRT: Ownbestenemy on May 29, 2023 at 8:40 am
    I’m equally appalled at this

    I got my kid a onesie that said “I Tore Mommy A New One”.

    She didnt think it was funny.

  50. Mojeaux

    I know that Roku is only free because of ads, and all of us are used to watching TV with ads, but the breaks make sense and they aren’t too onerous. The ads on Roku (and YouTube, for that matter) are so numerous, they render the show unwatchable.

    I also know this is frivolous in the face of all that’s going on in the world and being bandied about here, but I’m on the verge of being black-pilled and I’d like to complain about frivolous things.

    • Fatty Bolger

      I don’t watch anything with ads except for live sports, or maybe the weather channel when there’s a hurricane nearby. I even skipped the Bosch sequel, after watching the entire original series, because Amazon put it on ad-supported Freevee. No thanks.

      To get rid of ads on YouTube I subscribe to the family version of Premium, which is nice because I can share it with my kids, and it includes ad-free YT music, which is like Spotify.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    The ads on Roku (and YouTube, for that matter) are so numerous, they render the show unwatchable.

    True. Some channels (or whatever they choose to call themselves) are much worse than others. There have been times I have just bailed out of a show because of the commercials.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Well, the government’s credit rating has been downgraded before, in 2011. What happened then?

    The Fed propped up the Treasury market.