Tuesday Morning Links

by | Jun 20, 2023 | Daily Links | 252 comments

No sports. Straight to…the links!

Climate change

Sorry, but we’re not buying this bullshit. Weather isn’t climate. And riots also aren’t climate. And neither is poor forest management.

Maybe this should have been in sports. But it’s more like a government and bureaucratic thing than a sports thing. So it went in the news instead.

Well that’s that, I suppose. This administration is feckless.

This is taking pro-abortion a bit too far. Christ, what an asshole.

Why would he do that?!?!

That crazy Putin. His tactical nukes are probably as close to Poland as our tactical nukes are to Russia.What a psychopath!

Words fail me. Seriously.

I don’t even remember this happening. I wonder what the settlement was.

I wouldn’t hold out hope. This is looking pretty bleak.

Here’s some solid rock. Good stuff.  Yeah…drugs. What a solid band (for a time). Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this blistering hot Tuesday, dear friends.

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252 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    These dropped early.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Should have taken the puberty blockers.

    • SDF-7

      Sloopy didn’t want to leave ’em hanging.

  2. Rebel Scum

    The culprits: climate change

    Climate change turned me into a newt.

      • SDF-7

        Nah — he’s just eft.

      • SDF-7

        Oh come on! That was funny!

        grumble… best material never gets responses… sigh…

    • The Last American Hero

      Last week we had a 2 day heat wave and the climate change articles ran amok. This week it rained and we reverted to the norm. I don’t see any articles on climate change.

  3. AlexinCT

    Sorry, but we’re not buying this bullshit. Weather isn’t climate. And riots also aren’t climate. And neither is poor forest management.

    But we need you to panic about climate change so we can finish off what we started with the Kung Flu!

  4. UnCivilServant

    And enjoy this blistering hot Tuesday, dear friends.

    Well, it is supposed to threaten 80 degrees today. I didn’t know you were a limey.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah — for June, it has been cool here in the Central Valley of KALI-for-NEUH. (Thank you, Arnold). Only a few days in the 90s, none in the 100s yet. Normally we’re in the low 100s, with 110s in July and August. I’m assuming it has to do with the wet winter cycle we got this year, jet stream dip or something — but I’m certainly not knocking it.

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

        Supposed to be 68* here in Oregon today. June what?

  5. PieInTheSky

    Sorry, but we’re not buying this bullshit. Weather isn’t climate. And riots also aren’t climate. And neither is poor forest management. – well you may not have a choice about buying it

    • AlexinCT

      Comply serf!

  6. PieInTheSky

    Words fail me. Seriously.

    “This content is not available in your country/region.”

    ditto

    • sloopyinca

      That’s too bad. It’s fascinating.

    • rhywun

      Females twerking at cops in some shithole Chicago neighborhood.

      Or, “another Saturday night in Chicago”.

      • Nephilium

        I think I saw that series, it had gay Jesus in it, right?

      • AlexinCT

        These children are our future!

      • SDF-7

        If the future is Mad Max / Fallout… yeah, I believe you.

      • WTF

        And there are people in that thread actually defending that idiocy.

  7. PieInTheSky

    I wouldn’t hold out hope. This is looking pretty bleak. – I mean do not mess to much with the goddamn ocean. Or as the black character would say in a comedic movie: white people shit

    • AlexinCT

      At depth they are just fish food.

    • SDF-7

      Article I read earlier this morning conjectured that they may have gotten hung in the wreck. Certainly possible — and if so, that would add a further element of tragedy to subsequent visits — wrecks of Titanic and Titan both.

      But yeah — overdue / loss of contact with a sub at that depth? I pretty much assumed “lost with all hands” after a few hours — anything that goes wrong in that scenario is almost certain to be catastrophic.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m convinced they’re dead already.

      • sloopyinca

        Did they not learn anything from Roger Moore James Bond movies (especially For Your Eyes Only)? You always, always, have a saw and jaw crusher attachment on a submersible.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        The correct lesson is that you always have Barbara Bach on your submersible.

      • sloopyinca

        If she wasn’t the best looking Bond girl, she was definitely top three.

      • robc

        Ringo Starr…its good to be a beetle.

        And Joe Walsh is married to Barbara’s sister.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC News on Monday that his trip to Beijing marked an “important start” in stabilizing U.S. ties with China and that the countries should move on from the spy balloon incident that postponed his visit earlier this year.

    It’s the Clinton playbook then.

    Stopping the downward spiral in relations between the world’s two largest economies “is not the product of one visit, even as intense and in some ways productive as this was,” Blinken said. “But it’s a good and I think important start.”

    They don’t respect you cuntes at all.

    • SDF-7

      They don’t respect you cuntes at all.

      See? Another thing they have in common with America now!

  9. Rebel Scum

    His tactical nukes are probably as close to Poland as our tactical nukes are to Russia.What a psychopath!

    Never mind that NATO has been encroaching on Russia since the fall of the USSR. But Russia is just crazy and imperialist while NATO is full of angels. Or so I’m told.

    • UnCivilServant

      Lucifer and his legions were Angels, blinded by pride.

    • PieInTheSky

      NATO has been encroaching on Russia – well there was a reason all countries were eager to join NATO. NATO did not force anything.

      • SDF-7

        Said reason being “It is nice for Uncle Sugar to pay our military budgets so we can funnel money to our cronies!”.

        NATO most certainly should have said “No way” to avoid provoking the Russians for no reason and furthering the US obligations overseas (that are pointless). Goes without saying that the US should have left NATO in the early ’90s anyway.. if Europe wants to have its own protective alliance, let them… there’s no need for us to do it.

      • PieInTheSky

        I doubt eastern europe in NATO added significant expense to US defense budget that would not have existed otherwise. Afghanistan and Iraq had little to do with Eastern Europe.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        NATO is an excellent deal for every country except for the citizens of the United States. Why wouldn’t European countries rush to sign up?

        These countries get the full military backing of the US and have to do nothing in return (except for essentially becoming a vassal state of the US). Instead of spending money on defense, these governments can redirect taxpayer money normally needed for defense into social engineering on a massive scale.

      • Swiss Servator

        ” (except for essentially becoming a vassal state of the US)” I keep hearing things like this…and “American Empire” etc.

        Don’t vassals provide something to their lords? We spend money on defending them, or blood trying to prop up their governments (Iraq, Afghanistan). What are we getting out of this?

        We need a new term for this Wilsonian impulse-state.

      • sloopyinca

        We need a new term for this Wilsonian impulse-state.

        Remora-states.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Suthenboy said it best. These eternal wars and heightened military state are designed to loot the US taxpayer. Normally countries loot their enemies in war. Instead, DC is looting their own American citizens. The politicians and big military are rolling in money faster than they can grab it.

        The invasions in Iraq and Afganistan, the hundreds of foreign military bases, the 80+ military engagements on foreign soil America is currently involved in, nation-building contracts, “donating” of US-made military hardware to corrupt shitholes, and the DEA having free reign in South America and Afghanistan, just to name a few, is all about taking money from American citizens and funneling it to DC politicians, lobbyists, NGOs, and others in the swamp.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        👆👆👆

        And as a bonus, it strokes the egos of the narcissistic psychopaths in DC, thus providing motivation and justification in their lunatic minds.

      • R C Dean

        “Normally countries loot their enemies in war. Instead, DC is looting their own American citizens. “

        Which tells you who DC thinks its enemies are.

      • Grummun

        Why wouldn’t European countries rush to sign up?

        For countries that have lived under Russian domination in living memory, they’d probably have been happy to sign up for something even without so much US largess. Of course, part of NATO’s mission is US domination of Europe, so we buy compliance.

  10. AlexinCT

    Well that’s that, I suppose. This administration is feckless.

    Actually, despite all the efforts of the powers that be to hide it from the public, the problem is that Xi owns the dolt they fortified the 2020 election to get in the WH as well as most, if not all of Wall Street and the upper management of every 3 letter agency.

    • rhywun

      Look fat, there’s still wealth to plunder in China. Steady as she goes.

      • AlexinCT

        The funny thing is that the main reason these idiots can’t disconnect is that China is preventing them from repatriating that wealth China played them on. It’s like the old traps for monkeys where you stuck a fruit in a bottle and the monkey couldn’t let go of the fruit even though once he stuck his hand in it was too big to pull out with the fruit in his fist.

        The writing was on the wall back in 2010, but Wall Street kept pretending that they magically would change the CCP and the rules of the game somehow. So now they would rather risk the world than give up on money they will never get, cause that would make them not so rich.

      • Drake

        Much of the Putin hate is for similar reasons. He shut down the looting that was going on under Yeltsin.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        It’s easy to underestimate how much the Brits despise the Russians. They’re still prosecuting 19th century imperial rivalries and looting Russia’s resources is a primary objective.

      • Drake

        Yes – the Brits want to re+fight the Crimean War. The American neo-cons want to restore Trotsky to power.

  11. Gustave Lytton

    Your right, poor forest management as a reason is bullshit. Like blaming the spotted owl for mill shutdowns in the 80’s & 90’s.

  12. rhywun

    *clicks first link*

    Front and center I see “Fear and Greed Index: Extreme Greed is driving the US market”

    *closes tab*

    Never change, CNN.

    • AlexinCT

      Envy of what others have seems to be the main component of social justice.

      • UnCivilServant

        I wouldn’t discount Sloth either.

      • Rat on a train

        They’ve embraced all the deadly sins.

      • UnCivilServant

        I can’t disagree. It didn’t even take long to come up with examples when I ran down the list mentally.

      • AlexinCT

        It is not an accident that most evil comes from people that convince themselves their cause is just so any means justify the end.

      • juris imprudent

        On point.

        Prior to our secular age, the word “pride,” for most people, would have suggested the medieval notion of the seven deadly sins, among which prideful indulgence was chief. Further, many would recall the passage from the Book of Proverbs that cautions us that “pride comes before a fall.”

        Although pride was often viewed as a danger and a threat in the past, my point isn’t that young people today see it in a purely positive light. Like most people, their moral judgments of pride depend on exactly what a person claims to be proud of. Gay pride, obviously, is justified and good. But expressions of straight pride would infuriate some and befuddle many. Black pride is clearly virtuous—displays of it are routinely incorporated into many public and private events. White pride though—not just the violent and hateful kind, mind you, but any appreciation of the Euro-American tradition as such—is entirely forbidden in all polite corners of society, and expressions of it are policed and suppressed. Similarly, national pride—that is, pride in being an American—is labelled as toxic. But national pride for someone from Mexico or Honduras must be celebrated and encouraged in the name of tolerance, as indicated by the thousands of people illegally crossing America’s southern border who proudly fly the flags of all the nations to our south. You know: the nations they are fleeing in droves.

      • rhywun

        I’m not terribly religious and even I have always found the “prides” that are supposed to be celebratory (black, gay), to instead be off-putting.

        The status of LGBT persons as historical victims is the root of their pride, and the unspoken justification for Pride Month.

        This I think gets at the root why.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I always though that they used pride because it’s the opposite of shame, and they didn’t want to be ashamed of being gay.

  13. Rebel Scum

    Comfort for everyone is a big part of the wine train’s mission after 11 women members of a book club — 10 Black and one white — were kicked off the train for allegedly being disruptive in 2015. The women filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company, seeking $11 million, and settled the following year for an undisclosed amount.

    Of course they did. No chance they were actually being disruptive. They were just dining while black.

    • AlexinCT

      I hear black ladies have problems in movie theatres as well for some reason…

    • WTF

      It’s not just black ladies. A group of women + Wine = Cacophony and Disruption

      My friends and I experienced it recently dining out.

      • The Last American Hero

        Fucking Kim Crawford…

  14. Rebel Scum

    The carbon-fiber submersible named the Titan

    There is an irony here.

    • Rat on a train

      They can send down the Tit to find it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I had thought about making that joke, it fit this site to a T

    • SDF-7

      Well, if they send down the Zeus now it would be a shock.

  15. AlexinCT

    Minutes after reported Near West Side shooting, crowds twerk and taunt cops

    Priorities…

    • SDF-7

      Are you saying theirs are ass-backwards?

      • AlexinCT

        BAZINGA!

    • Fatty Bolger

      I saw more twerking that taunting, at least in that video.

      The cop in the middle seemed appreciative of the show.

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

        When in Rome.

  16. PieInTheSky

    Study suggests warfare was responsible for the boom-bust cycles of Neolithic societies

    https://phys.org/news/2023-06-warfare-responsible-boom-bust-neolithic-societies.html

    “Computer simulations

    In the study, the researchers focused on the period from the first evidence of agriculture in Europe to the beginning of the Bronze Age—between 7000 BCE and 3000 BCE. The simulation begins with each small unit of the map either empty or occupied by a village of independent farmers. The simulation combines two components: population change in each unit based on climate variability during the time period; and interactions, which include populations in each unit splitting, migrating, or coming into conflict with each other.

    The patterns created by the computer simulations were then compared to real-world data. A radiocarbon dating database was used by the team. “Archaeological data on settlements and Carbon-14 dating indicate boom and bust cycles. As settlement data are limited to a few regions and periods, we rely on Carbon-14 data in our model predictions,” explains Kondor. ”

    sounds legit

    • UnCivilServant

      “My Model says my Model is correct.”

    • AlexinCT

      Which computer simulations? Sim City? Age of Empires?

    • juris imprudent

      Seems we’ve completely forgotten about GIGO.

    • robc

      Dont you get sued for libel for saying that?

  17. Rebel Scum

    We are definitely ready for an unnecessary war against Russia and China.

    “The comment section is a good time to refresh ourselves with discriminatory harassment: A form of harassment that is unwelcome conduct based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity), national origin, or sexual orientation,” Grinston wrote.

    The 82nd Airborne’s tweet recommended Army families check out a book called a “Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens,” as well as another that describes how parents can learn to “support” their LGBGQ+ child, from the on-base library. The titles are “intended for ages 13 and up,” the photo stated.

    • rhywun

      Man, the backlash to all of this stuff is not going to pleasant.

      • AlexinCT

        The problem is that the people doing this have end goals they refuse to give up despite the fact everyone is saying you will not get us to normalize sex with kids.

      • juris imprudent

        Accountability will reach those people, even if in a very crude form.

      • The Last American Hero

        Backlash. Ha. Haha. hahahahahahah.

    • sloopyinca

      They’re redefining what “tip of the spear” should be used for, IYKWIM.

    • Gustave Lytton

      AirborneSexuality all the way!”

      • AlexinCT

        Take me to that Quonset hut
        Tie me up, and spank my butt..

      • Gustave Lytton

        “I hear the dildos coming…”

    • Rebel Scum

      You used to just have to worry about the Aussie wildlife trying to kill you. Now it’s also the government that is trying to do so.

    • AlexinCT

      Fair Share is a concept invented by kids on a playground that know they will be picked last for any game.

    • rhywun

      Someone isn’t doing their fair share. I wonder who it could be…

      More here.

      • WTF

        And yet there has been no warming for nearly a decade. In scientific terms that would mean that their “increasing CO2 emissions = increased global warming” hypothesis has been falsified.

      • AlexinCT

        Not a single one of their climate models has born out. Yet we keep getting told the problem isn’t that the models are either rigged to show heating that doesn’t exist or simply are incorrect because we don’t understand climate enough to properly model it. No, instead we get told by angry kids and stupid bartenders that we only have 12 years to save Gaia from extermination by solar burnup.

        As someone that modeled aircraft engines in a long ago past, I will tell you that if my models were that inaccurate, the aircraft using those engines would have dropped out of the sky like bricks.

      • The Last American Hero

        Not just not borne out. Consistently overestimated, typically by 2-3 times.

      • SDF-7

        “Once we adjusted our model, our model continues to tell us we’re right!”

        alternate take:

        “That’s why we moved all the temperature stations to sun-baked parking lots so we can show warming!”

    • SDF-7

      Well… they have a lot of thorium (and uranium, iirc)… so that should be doable on their part. If they weren’t such anti-nuke pansies about it, of course.

    • B.P.

      No one really gives a shit about global warming. I interact almost exclusively with lefties during my daily work and such and, although some of them mention global warming here and there (usually in a “humans are terrible” sense) because that’s what they’re supposed to do, about zero of them are willing to experience even the slightest bit of discomfort/inconvenience. If the thermostat is two degrees off of perfect… oh hell no. Good luck getting everyone to live like a bivouacking soldier in the 10th Mountain Division.

      • AlexinCT

        They sure care about that racket if it can be used as an excuse to justify robbing the productive even more.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Finally the military is doing as is intended, social engineering and providing elective and destructive medical procedures to insane people.

    Front Page Magazine’s exclusive report that Biden’s nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Brown, had signed off on a 43% quota for white male officers made waves. In interviews, I warned that quotas had become more fundamental to the military than winning. And it’s been that way for a while. That’s why we have a very diverse woke brass that is incapable of winning wars, yet argues for abortion and transgenderism.

    The Biden administration’s obsession with making diversity, equity and inclusion into the center of every military program has put more pressure on the woke brass to deliver results.

    • Rat on a train

      When do we fully return to being able to buy a colonelcy?

      • UnCivilServant

        When you could do that, you had to raise and equip the regiment on your own dime.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Needs more cultural enrichment.

    Woman and child violently attacked by African migrant in Bordeaux, France; the suspect was later arrested

    • AlexinCT

      They need a better dog from the clip I saw.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      the suspect was later arrested

      🎼🎵 And nothing else happened 🎶

      • SDF-7

        A Metallica rewrite for Modern Times, hmm?

  20. AlexinCT

    If you were wondering what those extra 83k IRS agents would be for it is things like this. The people that want a banana republic are doing their best to make it happen.

    • Rebel Scum

      What the hell does the IRS need with 4473s?

      Whatever it is it ain’t good.

      • Sean

        ^^ Ayup.

      • Fatty Bolger

        How else would they know who to audit?

      • Rat on a train

        How else is the government going to build a gun registry?

  21. AlexinCT

    Let’s do this, because despite the fact it has never worked, this time the right people want it, so it will magically work.

    Mental disorder, I tell ya.

    • Rat on a train

      Penaltax Roberts will stop that.

  22. Rebel Scum

    There is no debate necessary when you have consensus.

    Dr. @PeterHotez on why he won’t debate @RobertKennedyJr: “In science, we don’t typically do debates. What we do is we write scientific papers … one doesn’t typically debate science. Maybe the one-off discussion of evolution versus creationism & that sort of thing, but that’s not what we do in science.”

    • PieInTheSky

      one doesn’t typically debate science – what a stupid statement. One absolutely debates findings of science. Or at least should.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        If you change science to religion, then it makes sense.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      What we do is we write scientific papers … one doesn’t typically debate science.

      But you see, the papers aren’t legit if they don’t get into peer-reviewed journals. And it just so happens that the pharmaceutical companies control all the peer-reviewed medical journals, and the schools of medicine, and the regulatory system…

      But how dare you ask one of us to sit down and debate in good faith in person? That’s just uncouth and undignified, unlike my constant sniping and character assassination attacks on Twitter.

    • The Last American Hero

      So in other words, we only punch down when we’re dealing with a bunch of uneducated religious fanatics that will beclown themselves in public. If someone comes with actual facts, fuck that shit.

    • Drake

      So all that scientific method stuff we learned in school isn’t real. Back to an inquisition telling us what the scientific facts are.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Progjection is a hell of a drug.

    Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, “closely resemble[s] an angry, threatening brown individual.”

    Advice for white libs: if you see a tree and immediately think “looks like a scary minority to me,” you might be the racist.

    • AlexinCT

      When you are obsessed with seeing abuse, you will always see abuse. Whether there is any or not, you will see it.

      • Rat on a train

        If you hear dog whistles, you are a dog.

    • EvilSheldon

      He’s certainly not interested in fighting anymore…

      • The Last American Hero

        He just tuned up that sports mascot real good.

    • UnCivilServant

      I can only assume the creator suffers from mental illness.

      • Gustave Lytton

        So two misdemeanors and pretrial diversion for the third. And the third is for mere possession, not perjury on the 4473. How the hell is possession while using drugs a federal crime and are people actually charged with that? If you lawfully possess a firearm and you toke up, you’ve committed an additional crime?

      • WTF

        He’s getting probation for a gun felony, just like any of the plebs would get.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Pretrial diversion, no less. If he successfully completes that, the charge is dropped.

    • AlexinCT

      My take is that they will read his mind, like they did with Hillary and Joe, find no ill intent, and tell us that even though this came up to a level where a prosecutor would file charges, there would be no judge or jury that would convict. Especially in team blue controlled banana republic legal jursidictions.

    • Rat on a train

      Which hand will they slap?

      • rhywun

        He gets to keep the $5M that Ukraine (or was it China? I can’t keep all the felonies straight in my head) bribed him with, right?

      • Drake

        Joe blurted out something about how nobody has found that money. Because nobody has looked for it.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      Not unexpected but wow. Anyone bringing up the Big Guy bribes will now get fact checked into oblivion, and the old msm “this is all nothing and old news anyway” treatment.

  24. Evan from Evansville

    SORRY OT: Well. Mostly official. Or decided, rather. Looking for anxiety, depression, substance use, epilepsy and the bizarre/predictable side effects of its current meds/dosages. Place I went to that does in/out or both-patient stuff said they couldn’t handle it cuz of the epilepsy. So they literally told me to go to the ER cuz of that. Detox shit, but epilepsy has been acting up. Not unrelated.

    Haven’t figured out FULL details, but it’s about a 3-day stay in the hospital. Hrm. Apparently lorazepam and phenobartbital may be involved. 1) Anti-seizure as fuck: Good. 2) Sedatives: Good. 3) Anti-anxiety and laid back (are sold on the street as fun drugs): Hell. Yes. 4) Can increase depressive and suicidal thoughts: Bad!

    5) Is known to cause short and long-term memory issues…UM. That’s already a big issue with me. Uh. Let’s not exacerbate that.

    At my parents’ and Dad’s gonna take me back up to my place in an hour or so. Talking to my psychiatrist (who REALLY quickly squeezed me in) tomorrow and go over it all. It looks kinda like I’ll be doing this next Monday. I have not fully decided. I would have preferred a mostly in-patient with some time outpatient. That could have been done without the epilepsy issues. Hrm.

    Life is tricky: News at 11. I’m not terribly fussed, though I am considering (I’ve done it before) smuggling in edibles and I’d quite like my nicotine vape. Hrm-sy-doodle.

    • Gender Traitor

      Take care, Evan, and thanks for keeping us posted.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Blinken’s trip to China, the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 2018, was postponed in February after the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over U.S. territory. President Joe Biden said last month that an agreement he and Xi made to keep communications open had also been derailed by “this silly balloon.”

    They already know everything, anyway.

    • AlexinCT

      You mean they are reminding Biden whom is the top and whom the bottom, right?

      • The Other Kevin

        In that regard, it worked as intended and there’s no need to rehash it.

  26. pistoffnick

    I went cruising for chicks at T.J.’s Meat Market (slogans: “Our wurst is the best” and “You never sausage a place”) last night. I picked up 7 Polish and 7 Brahma chicks and brought them home with me. They are chilling in the kiddie pool in my basement. Cute little things!

    • SDF-7

      I’d ask for pics but then it would be a real peep show.

      You’re a real chick magnet.

      • pistoffnick

        That’s a cheep joke

      • UnCivilServant

        I expected the one where the character invented a literal chick magnet and had to deal with the baby chickens stuck to his coat.

        When you get to that much text, well, it loses its impact in a visual medium.

      • UnCivilServant

        I see, for some reason the link went to the next strip in line.

        Odd

      • UnCivilServant

        Nope, not Odd, the link was to 2002-04-13, but the strip you wanted was 2002-04-12.

      • SDF-7

        Pobody’s nerfect, sorry.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    And yet there has been no warming for nearly a decade. In scientific terms that would mean that their “increasing CO2 emissions = increased global warming” hypothesis has been falsified.

    Science is not a debating society!

    • AlexinCT

      CON-SENSE-SUS!

      As I pointed out: in the middle ages the church made sure the consensus was that the world was flat and the center of the universe despite knowledge that it was not so. Then we all found out that consensus existed for political advantage. Exactly like the one about Climate Change…

      • Ownbestenemy

        It has always been about information/knowledge and they that control that, control the masses. Free thinking peoples are fucking dangerous.

    • The Last American Hero

      This is why they did the shift to climate change. Even the lemmings started to figure out is wasn’t getting warmer.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    “We said what we needed to say and made clear what we needed to make clear in terms of this not happening again, and so long as it doesn’t, that chapter should be closed,” Blinken said.

    “But it’s something we’re very vigilant about and that we’ll continue to watch,” he added.

    There is now a sternly worded reprimand in their file, and they have been put on conditional probation. Procedures have been followed.

    • UnCivilServant

      Fear? Not necessarily. Sometimes the sound of his voice is so annoying that it doesn’t matter what’s being said, you just want him to shut up.

      • AlexinCT

        Are you channeling our current corruptocratic leadership?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, I’m bouncing back and forth between work and Glibs, so I didn’t follow the link. I just find that saying annoying, since there are people whose tongues I’d rip out just because the noise they make is so irritating – If I weren’t in possession of all the technological tools to get away from the sound by other means.

      • AlexinCT

        There are no cool gloves to help you with that problem, man?

      • UnCivilServant

        There are a couple of different pain gloves, but I have to figure out which are for inflicting pain.

    • SDF-7

      Or you’re a chef and you’re really determined to make him eat his words.

    • Grummun

      They should put it on twitter, they’d reach a much larger audience than distribution through movie theaters anyway.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Somber reflection, and celebratory gunplay

    …Juneteenth should be more than a day of rest or celebration. It should be a somber day to reflect on the unique challenges Black people have faced in this country — and a day to emphasize the need for national atonement. This Juneteenth is an opportune moment to consider the bill Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., introduced last month calling for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans.

    Bush was right when she said at a news conference that “the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people. America must provide reparations if we desire a prosperous future for all.”

    Black people have no agency or responsibility for themselves. They are helpless innocent children of the earth, incapable of taking charge of their own lives. Only through the magic of free money will they be able to realize their potential.

    • AlexinCT

      When they constantly get told by college educated white female cat ladies living in urban dwellings that if it was not for these cat ladies protection and do-gooderism these black kids would be back in chains, can you blame these kids for being that dumb?

    • WTF

      … the need for national atonement

      For the 400,000 Northerners dead in the war that freed the slaves? Like half a century of Affirmative Action and diversity quotas that disadvantage white people in favor black people even though the white people being disadvantaged had nothing to do with slavery?

      FUCK RIGHT OFF, GRIFTER.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      You’ll get nothing and like it!

  30. Tonio

    Hunter to plead guilty!

    I guess the thought of SCOTUS overturning federal bans on gun ownership by known drug users was too much for Team Blue.

      • AlexinCT

        Some people are real fucking evil.

      • UnCivilServant

        I talk an evil game, but mostly it’s directed at other people who’ve done something.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Dude, it’s not their fault they’re sick fucks.

    • db

      Some things are so awful, it’s nearly impossible to understand that there are people capable of doing them.

    • UnCivilServant

      And then the drug wore off?

      Or is this just shit that never happened.

  31. kinnath

    Daily Quordle 512
    4️⃣6️⃣
    8️⃣7️⃣

    horseshit today

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 512
      8️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣7️⃣
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      Blossom Puzzle, June 20
      Letters: D E I P N O T
      My score: 295 points
      My longest word: 11 letters
      💮 🌹 💐 🌻 🏵 🌼 🌸 🌺 🌷 💮 🌹

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

    • rhywun

      I walk the line.

      Daily Quordle 512
      4️⃣5️⃣
      8️⃣7️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      Horseshit, indeed.

      Daily Quordle 512
      7️⃣5️⃣
      9️⃣4️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle/

      Blossom Puzzle, June 20
      Letters: D E I P N O T
      My score: 348 points
      My longest word: 11 letters
      🌼 💮 🌻 🌺 🌷 🌹 🌸 💐 🏵 🌼 💮

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

  32. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a damn good thing we got that debt ceiling nonsense out of the way

    On his first trip to California since announcing his reelection campaign, President Biden on Monday announced $600 million in federal funding to fight the effects of climate change after touring a Northern California nature reserve with Gov. Gavin Newsom.
    The financial commitment from the president is expected to only enhance Biden’s strong political support in California and among Americans concerned about the environment, two constituencies critical to the president’s bid for a second term.

    I guess money really does grow on trees.

    • creech

      His political support in California could drop by half and he’d still win the state’s electoral votes.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Probably a way to get Gavin to stop running for president.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    There are a couple of different pain gloves, but I have to figure out which are for inflicting pain.

    I’d go with the velvet ones with a chain mail lining.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    The Biden administration funding to combat climate change, which will be awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Inflation Reduction Act, will help coastal and Great Lakes communities susceptible to storm surge, sea level rise and flooding and support innovative solutions to boost climate resilience.

    “I’ve toured many sites across the country that clearly show climate change is a genuine existential — the existential threat to humanity,” Biden said as he stood near a salt marsh at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center in the San Francisco Bay.

    The Democratic president touted his administration’s work to fight climate change. Biden highlighted $2.3 billion to modernize the electric grid under the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including $67.4 million to California.

    “Throughout our history we’re the only nation in the world that has come out of every crisis we’ve entered stronger than we went into,” Biden said. “We’re doing it again here on the climate crisis.”

    God save the queen. Let’s all go have some flapjacks.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Of course, when we say “modernize the grid” we mean shift to erratic and unreliable sources.

    • R.J.

      I am afraid you are correct.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        It’s absolutely correct.

        There is a difference between energy and power. Energy is just that. Power is energy when and where you need it.

    • Gender Traitor

      Any clue why? Is “tribal” a Forbidden Word now?

  36. The Late P Brooks

    The changes Newsom has proposed would also make it easier to complete his controversial plan to build an underground tunnel to transport water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to Southern California, for example. A main goal of the package is to reduce the opportunity for lengthy delays due to lawsuits filed under the California Environmental Quality Act, which can sink building projects.

    Whatever you do, don’t call it a pipeline, or we’ll never get it built.

    • creech

      Call it a “high speed choo-choo train that will reduce the time it takes to move water to Los Angeles.”

  37. creech

    Re: Wine Train incident. I was asking my granddaughter about her job (server at popular sports bar type restaurant) and she mentioned how prejudiced some of her fellow servers have become. Why? The black patrons are the most unruly, worst tippers, and lace the air with “mofo” this and that which bothers the other patrons. She says the servers cringe when they see black folks assigned to their tables. Then pundits wonder why behavior of some members of a group morphs into dislike for an entire group just based on skin color or appearance.

    • UnCivilServant

      Stereotypes originate somewhere.

      • Nephilium

        And this isn’t a new stereotype nor observation.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It so much hanging them out to dry as not wanting to put us in a position where the nukes would be liable to fly. At least they’re not that nuts.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Ukraine was always a sacrificial lamb in the neocons quest to get at Russia. You’d have to be a fool to believe a damned word that came out of DC or London’s pie-holes about assurances of any sort.

        Now after they’ve poked the bear, Ukraine is going to find out why it was always a very bad idea to do so. It’s not like they didn’t have the entire Middle East to look to as an example of how we leave a trail of destruction everywhere we go.

      • Rebel Scum

        At least they’re not that nuts.

        Time will tell.

    • Rebel Scum

      “They got to meet the same standards. So, I’m not going to make it easier,” Biden told reporters. “I think they’ve done everything relating to demonstrating the ability to coordinate militarily, but there’s a whole issue of is their system secure? Is it noncorrupt? Does it meet all the standards … every other nation in NATO does.”

      Other countries in NATO don’t pull their own weight and otherwise meet the standards. But that is irrelevant if Ukraine joining NATO is a red line for Russia.

      • rhywun

        Yes, that is their red line and I believe they’re quite serious about it.

        Biden is a fucking idiot to be spouting off about this. It is not going to happen – period.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      He also said they wouldn’t get fighter jets.

  38. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    High end trolling: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ill-donate-50k-if-paul-offit-takes

    I’ll donate $50K if Paul Offit takes the entire CDC recommended vaccine schedule in one sitting

    He once said “healthy infants could safely get up to 100,000 vaccines at once.” It’s time to walk the talk. Take just one dose of each vaccine on the CDC childhood schedule in one sitting.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Knives out

    In a baffling turn of events, the Donald Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing his Mar-a-Lago classified documents debacle appears to have placed the case on warp speed—setting a trial just two months away.

    On Monday morning, federal court records showed that U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon created what’s referred to as a “rocket docket” to speed his trial through the system.

    Cannon issued an order stating that the most historic criminal trial in American history will commence Aug. 14. That’s just 55 days away, while most federal trials take up to a year or more as both sides prepare for an epic showdown in court.

    Peter Carr, a spokesman for Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith, could not confirm that this decision was correct, and not simply a typo. Trump’s defense lawyers did not immediately respond to questions.

    Legal scholars have noted that this judge is something of a loose cannon, consistently making puzzling decisions that lean heavily in favor of the president who appointed her in his final months in office.

    Legal scholars, partisan armchair litigators…

    They don’t seem to like her very much.

    • AlexinCT

      She is in the way of us getting our pony!

    • Grummun

      “Wait wait wait how can we drag this out through the entire 2024 election season if you expedite the trial!”

      • Fatty Bolger

        Speedy trials are a threat to our democracy!

    • Fatty Bolger

      No fair! We had this timed so it would have maximum effect on the election!

      • SDF-7

        Maybe it is more because he can be an egotistical idiot and just made the prosecution’s case for obstruction for them?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The constitutional right to a speedy trial is baffling.

  40. AlexinCT

    I hope he fucking sues them and gets millions. And I for one will avoid the Mayo clinic and would recommend everyone do so if they want medical treatment that doesn’t come from science denying quacks.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Administrators suspended Professor Michael Joyner without pay for a week, citing his “use of idiomatic language”

      The “idiomatic language” the college could be referring to comes later in the New York Times article when Joyner stated “there are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it… testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”

      Lysenko was rational compared to these lunatics.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ummm…but it does…

    • The Other Kevin

      If that’s the consensus now, then let’s take it off the lists of banned substances for the Olympics, etc.

    • MikeS

      The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine disciplinary letter to Joyner demanded that he “vet each individual media request through Public Affairs including follow-up requests; allow them to do their job as they determine what topics are appropriate and are responsible for protecting Mayo Clinic’s brand and reputation… cease engagement in offline conversations with reporters,” and “discuss approved topics only and stick to prescribed messaging.”

      “Failure to fully comply with the expectations outlined above or any additional validated complaints from any staff, including, but not limited to, the issues noted above, or any form of retaliation will result in termination of employment,” the disciplinary letter stated.

      All your words are belong to us.

    • creech

      Looking forward to aging male athletes declaring as women and winning all the women events in the next Olympics. Hundreds of “New World Records for Women” will be set.

    • Rebel Scum

      Mayo Clinic professor suspended after saying testosterone improves athletic performance

      Truth > Facts

  41. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Interesting that they gave Hunter just enough to basically call the case closed, shrug off accusations of partisanship to those who are already inclined to be forgiving, and whitewash Joe’s involvement in all that bullshit just in time for the election season and Trump’s trial to begin in earnest. The DOJ is weaponized beyond all hope it appears.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Narrative above all.

    • The Other Kevin

      Yes, that is the strategy. We’ve talked about it here for months. Now they can say the Bidens have been thoroughly investigated and Hunter has paid for his crimes. And anyone who says otherwise is sowing disinsformation and should be censored.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    The U.S. Constitution guarantees a person’s right to a speedy trial, a measure meant to protect against jailing someone indefinitely through Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

    Unless they are insurrectionists who defiled the temple of democracy. Those motherfuckers can rot in jail for as long as the government wants to keep them there.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well traitors don’t deserve those protections as they’ve defacto rejected them. A mushbrained argument of course but they’ll use it.

    • creech

      Or assorted run of the mill felons set loose to roam the streets for years while awaiting trial. Things used to be different. I think I’ve told the story about how a found a news clipping from the 1950s about my father’s uncle being robbed and pistol whipped in Philly, the perp traced to Virginia and extradited, put on trial and sentenced to prison all within four months time.

  43. Rebel Scum

    Who?

    When asked by host Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ “This Week,” if Trump should drop out, Hutchinson didn’t merely respond by answering “yes, I think that he should drop out,” something he acknowledged that “clearly, he’s not going to.” Hutchinson also defended the severity of the charges by attacking the narrative that the DOJ’s involvement has led to the “weaponization” of government.

    He also criticized “the whole concept of the–that so many Republican leaders adopting that this is a weaponization of the Justice Department,” including how Trump has indicated he’s going to appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Biden family,” which he says is “called a weaponization of the Justice Department.”

    The weaponization ship sailed long ago.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      How much you want to bet that the DOJ will agree to drop charges if Trump agrees to not run for office again?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They want a landmark case to lean on in the future. Taking him down will do that. There is no chance they don’t let their foot off the gas.

      • Sean

        Yeah. This is all out war.

      • Tundra

        Should be fun when he’s convicted. I’m sure everyone will be stoic.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Gatekeepers of SCIENCE!

    YouTube said Monday that it had removed a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking with podcast host Jordan Peterson for spreading what the company said was vaccine misinformation.

    The decision is the latest challenge for Kennedy as he seeks to find support for a Democratic presidential run after years as an anti-vaccine crusader. The video was removed amid a broader tug-of-war online between vaccine conspiracy theorists and prominent doctors.

    YouTube’s policies against hosting false medical information are long-standing.

    “We removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel for violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy, which prohibits content that alleges that vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities,” YouTube said Monday in a statement.

    At least somebody is willing to stick to the script.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      tug-of-war online between vaccine conspiracy theorists and prominent doctors

      Purely objective reporting there.

  45. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    I saw this one coming from miles away.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/can-artificial-intelligence-solve-socialist-calculation-problem

    I was recently told that humanity is “rapidly advancing” toward solving the socialist calculation problem. I wasn’t told why, but around the same time, economist Daron Acemoglu suggested that artificial intelligence could be the solution.

    To get literary, perhaps we are on the verge of creating the Machines, the artificial intelligences that plan the global economy in Isaac Asimov’s short story, “The Evitable Conflict” (which became the last chapter of his book, I, Robot.)

    Anyone with half a brain who has actually used ChatGPT could tell you that it is a pipe dream, but one that they will pursue regardless.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    They want a landmark case to lean on in the future. Taking him down will do that. There is no chance they don’t let their foot off the gas.

    It would be like letting Hitler retire to Bergtesgarten, as long as he pinky-swore no more world domination.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Anyone with half a brain who has actually used ChatGPT could tell you that it is a pipe dream, but one that they will pursue regardless.

    If the all-knowing Machine tells you the world needs 17 billion pairs of pink peg slacks, you don’t argue.

  48. R.J.

    Random thought:
    1. Sell California to China to pay off our Chinese-owned debt. All the people there have to stay and no longer participate in American politics.
    2. ?
    3. PROFIT!

    • SDF-7

      Oh hell no! I still have a house in Georgia, so I damned well better be able to get out. And like Sodom and Gammorah, there are still some decent people in this state who haven’t made it out just yet.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Peterson, a right-wing Canadian pundit and psychologist known for his attacks on feminism and racial diversity, recorded the video as a podcast for The Daily Wire, a conservative media outlet.

    SILENCE HIM.

    • rhywun

      “attacks on racial diversity”

      I don’t even have to have heard a single word from that person to be fairly certain this is a bald-faced lie.