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by | Jul 31, 2023 | Daily Links | 210 comments

Don Brett is MIA. We don’t know why. Toddlers running amok? Meth gators? Blue Curaçao binge? Pythons? Toddlers running amok with meth gators? It’s always something with Florida Men.

Anyway, the comments are all yours, even for that guy, and that other guy.

 

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210 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    I hope he’s OK.

    • SDF-7

      The Meth Gator? I’m sure he’ll recover.

      even for that guy, and that other guy.

      I resemble that remark!

      • Tonio

        The gator is doing well and will be going to wildlife rehab.

        “Hi, my name is Ali, and I’m a meth gator.”

        “Hi, Ali.”

    • Rat on a train

      Gators are more FL.

      • MikeS

        That pun made me IL

      • Fourscore

        “Wear your gaiters, Young Man, if you’re going after ‘gators”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Now was it MO.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Nor, not now.

    • Sean

      He’s partying with Hunter and Cracky.

  2. Sean

    Even me?

    • Tonio

      Okay, we’ll take the Irish, too.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait, You were thinking of exclusing us… again?

      • UnCivilServant

        Dammit. Why can’t I type?

      • R.J.

        You’ve been commenting to me. My typos are contagious.

      • Rat on a train

        Because the Irish are illiterate?

      • Shirley Knott

        Because you’re Irish? Gotta stop tossing the easy ones out there 🙂

      • Tonio

        You probably can’t type because you’re Irish. Therefore, drunk. Or tormenting the Anglo-Saxon language like James Joyce.

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re a bit late to tha bandwagon, it doesn’t have the same punch.

  3. John Nerfherder

    Meth toddlers tormenting gators.

  4. Common Tater

    “Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer testifies to Congress that then-VP Joe WAS on more than 20 business calls with his son – but Dems now insist it was only to exchange ‘niceties’ and discuss ‘the weather’!”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12356923/Hunter-Bidens-business-partner-Devon-Archer-arrives-bombshell-testimony-Joes-involvement-shady-business-deals-DOJ-accused-trying-jail-talk.html

    Just like all of Hillary’s emails were about yoga classes. You can tell how into yoga she is just from looking at her.

    • Sensei

      Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., confirmed Archer told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that Joe had been on speakerphone multiple times while his son was talking with business partners over a 10 year span – but insisted they were talking about ‘niceties’ such as the weather.

      Amazing how the story keeps changing. Shocking…

      • Fatty Bolger

        “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden said. “Here’s what I know. Trump should be investigated.” – Joe Biden, September 2019

        Trump was impeached three months later.

    • Grumbletarian

      Ah, the old “Sure, Bill Clinton may have met with Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix with nobody else within earshot, but it was just to talk about grandkids and golf!” defense.

      • The Other Kevin

        It worked then, might as well give it a shot.

      • Grosspatzer

        * pictures JB stumbling and faceplanting on tarmac *

    • Fatty Bolger

      Nobody is dumb enough to believe that, though I’m sure plenty will pretend to.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Joe was just being a good father by supporting his troubled son’s endeavors.

  5. MikeS

    Their ALL mine?!?!?

    • MikeS

      *they’re

      dammit

      • Tundra

        There, all mine!

      • Fourscore

        Those there, they’re theirs.

      • Pope Jimbo

        YOUR A MORON

      • MikeS

        Ha! Touché

    • kinnath

      Giving banana republics everywhere a bad name.

    • Sean

      “getting” ?

    • SDF-7

      The way various agencies are flexing their mussels, Abbott should just clam up and prepare for the lawsuits. Buoy, you can take that to the bank.

      • Grosspatzer

        Nah, just set up a shell corporation to manage a mussel farm to grow the population.

      • Grumbletarian

        Pretty shellfish of you to scoop up all the good puns.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The world is his oyster and he doesn’t care.

      • Fourscore

        Mollusk you always jump in? And never at a snail’s pace either

    • John Nerfherder

      The Biden administration is working for Davos and the Soros clan. The intent is to destabilize the US.

      Has anyone noticed that each new decision becomes even more petty and malicious? They’re intentionally trying to fan the flames into open revolt.

      The purpose is to destroy the dollar and prevent European capital from fleeing to the USA.

    • R.J.

      Oh, fuck off.
      I say we turn the river into a lake of fire for a month, because Texas can do it if we want. Biden and his titty twisting legal team can come down and watch.

      • SDF-7

        Given their military recruitment policies — I’d bank on Texas having the better forces soon enough. At which point a hearty “Fuck off (y’all)” seems appropriate.

      • R.J.

        Indeed.
        “Sorry about your clams, they suffered an industrial accident. Whatchoo gonna do?”

      • Gender Traitor

        turn the river into a lake of fire

        Call in consultants from Cleveland.

    • Grumbletarian

      Sharks with laser beams on their heads is also an endangered species. Abbott should make the Rio Grande a haven for them, to replenish their numbers.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m sure thousands of people per day wading through the river aren’t great for those mussels.

      • Tundra

        Don’t you have a buddy working down there? How can they be OK with this shit?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I see what you did there, I think.

  6. SDF-7

    In today’s most No shit, Sherlocks news…

    Paired with a light apertif of goalpost moving sauced with an invocation of “Iraqi war casualty” dead son/brother…

    And for those crazy enough not to read Animal’s story this morning (or busy actually working or something) — RIP Paul Reubens.

    • SDF-7

      We’re all for liberty and self-determination… unless it inconveniences someone we’ve decided is on our globalist team.

      (Ugh)

      • R.J.

        This will be a good test for how these globalist pansies do against actual violent, angry people. Probably pretty damn bad.

    • John Nerfherder

      Donbas secession = bad
      Taiwan secession = good
      Catalonia secession = bad
      Kosovo secession = good

      • UnCivilServant

        When did Taiwai Secede from the Taipei Government?

      • John Nerfherder

        Kawai seceded from Yamaha a long time ago

      • Common Tater

        That’s adorable!

      • Don escaped Texas

        WV = good

        MS = bad

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Look, Fat. It’s for Our Democracy. What are you, Putin’s Puppet?

    • B.P.

      Since all of the proper-thinking robots are likely going to ignore the African stuff and stay focused on the Ukraine stuff, can we start throwing around the word “Eurocentric”?

    • KK, Non-Man

      Surely that will cure the drug-addled homeless shitting in the streets!

      • R.J.

        I know. Such a petty bullshit thing to do, when serious problems are out there.

      • Homple

        A little abatement of censorship and propaganda on a public platform is a bigger problem than hobo druggies crapping on the sidewalks. Priorities, people.

      • Grosspatzer

        “Market St.” Not any more.

      • Gender Traitor

        Depends what you’re in the market for…

      • rhywun

        Crazy. That part of Market Street was sketchy AF when I lived there 25 years ago, especially “Civic Center”… so it’s not that surprising to see it return more or less to its natural state.

        I was in Manhattan recently for the first time in three years, around very busy areas like the bus terminal, 34th Street, Broadway… I saw nothing like this. Everything was buzzing. If anything it was more chaotic than ever. More bums, though – that was the only noticeable difference to me.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sure would like to know which sign company that didn’t know to pull permits accepted the job… I call bullshit.

  7. KK, Non-Man

    🤷‍♀️

  8. Common Tater

    “Volunteers given injections of the jelly-like substance, hyaluronic acid, had an eight-fold increase in ejaculation time.

    Hyaluronic acid is used in eye drops to stimulate tears.

    Now in a trial at Zagazig University, Egypt, with 30 men aged 30 to 50, it’s been used to increase time to orgasm, from an average of 37 seconds to more than five minutes.

    The men had five separate gel jabs into the penis.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12357757/Jab-gel-help-prolong-mens-love-making.html

    Nope.

    • Sean

      Nope.
      Nope.
      Nope.
      Nope.
      Nope.

    • John Nerfherder

      Hmmm, interesting…

      interesting…

      into the penis

      And I’m out.

    • Rat on a train

      37 seconds is an average?

      • SDF-7

        When the 18 year old boyfriend goes 7 times a night for 37 seconds each, it skews the average.

      • Grosspatzer

        Seconds? I can barely manage a first /Old fart.

    • robodruid

      eh, I’d try it once.

  9. KK, Non-Man

    Speaking of MIA…I hope our #1 Florida Man, Penguin, is OK.

    • Tonio

      OK? When has he ever been ok?

      We don’t want him ok, we want him deranged and ranty, that’s when he does his best work.

  10. The Other Kevin

    “…and that other guy.”

    Present!

    • SDF-7

      I thought we knew all that already. Good to see it is trickling out into wider media so they can uncover if there are more of these (through sheer shame if nothing else).

    • juris imprudent

      It’s terrible when they do here what we do elsewhere around the world.

    • Suthenboy

      I doubt china is alone in that. Ten bucks says the CDC is up to thier eyeballs in it and that is not the only one.

  11. Sensei

    Markham said she warned him he shouldn’t leave his car charging off a random outlet without getting permission, lest the locals assume he was “just some jerk from California, doing what jerks from California do.” Lauterbauch countered that he did in fact consult the museum director and figured he wouldn’t be too hard to find if someone had concerns.

    What happened when a Tesla came to Ekalaka

    Amazingly enough, everybody here comes out looking OK.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ve killed a lot of mule deer around Ekalaka (that was the south end of where I hunted, Glendive and Wiboux on the north end). Great people.

      The only person in Ekalaka that ever gave us grief was a rancher who let us sit on some of his hay bales to shoot some mulie does. His parting words were “kill every damned on you can boys”. It was a drought year and the deer were eating him into the poor house.

      As we were packing up at the end of the day, the rancher drove by and asked us how we’d done. We told him we’d shot 3 and he said “you only saw 3?” When we said that we had seen tons, but only 3 seemed big enough to shoot, he spat out “I TOLD YOU TO SHOOT EVERYONE YOU SAW!” Then he told us to never ask to hunt on his land again.

      Strange how people who live closest to nature have a completely different take on said nature than city slickers.

  12. Pine_Tree

    Re-asking my Oppenheimer question since it’s on the dead thread: So I’m considering going to see it, perhaps with some of the family (including teens). But I hear there’s a fairly “adult” scene that might make me rethink that. In all seriousness, can anybody advise? What’s the content like?

    • Sensei

      Also prominent in the narrative is Oppenheimer’s tortured inner life. When the bomb was first successfully tested at the Trinity test site in New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer said he’d thought to himself the following: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”…

      “Oppenheimer” has drawn the ire of thin-skinned Hindus by having the physicist (played by Cillian Murphy) utter these words in bed with his naked lover, Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh). India’s central information commissioner—you would be right to ask why such a job exists in a democratic country—described the scene as an “insult” to the Bhagavad-Gita, “which is our holy book.” It isn’t clear why it is an insult, unless we take a hyper-Victorian view of nudity, and in any case Ms. Pugh is shown on Indian screens wearing a computer-generated dress.

      ‘Oppenheimer,’ the Bhagavad-Gita and India’s Outrage

    • Don escaped Texas

      I would take a 14 year old because the historical and physics references are good enough they might learn something
      and they will understand the obvious moral question of total war
      and they might glean something about the power of central power during a national emergency
      and I hope they learn that adults are not perfect but are works in progress with many motives
      and sometimes the fact of something is not as terrible as the embarrassment by the public revelation of that same thing

      very few under 20 are going to grasp the politics of professional life

      as for the sex, I presume all kids have seen better in their porn and will be bored by those few moments

      99% of Americans will not get the pluralism of sampling and exploring scary ideas without getting the team tattoo, of separating sin from sinner

  13. Sensei

    With Murphy out of state and Oliver under medical care, Scutari is NJ’s acting governor

    Gov. Phil Murphy is out of state for personal reasons. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who normally serves as acting governor in Murphy’s absence, is “currently receiving medical care at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and is unable to discharge the duties of acting governor at this time,

    Livingston is a good distance from Trenton and other quality hospitals. I wonder what is going on…

  14. Common Tater

    “Only 35% of Gen Zers — defined here as being aged 18 to 26 — say they always tip at a sit-down restaurant, according to results of a Bankrate poll released last month.

    And only 24% of Gen Zers always tip hairdressers, hairstylists or barbers, according to the survey, compared with 40% of millennials and 67% of Gen Xers.

    Gen Zers are also less likely than baby boomers to tip when getting food delivered (31% compared to 62%) or using a taxi or ride-share service (22% versus 56%).

    The only exception involves home repairs and services, for which Gen Z was most likely to always tip (15%). The likelihood decreased by generation.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/here-are-all-the-places-stingy-gen-zers-wont-tip/

    That seems ass backwards. Who tips repairmen?

    • juris imprudent

      Who tips repairmen?

      Speaking of repairman, we haven’t heard about KK’s of late.

      • SDF-7

        Hopefully it is a story longer than 37 seconds.

    • Fourscore

      I tipped the chimney replacement team. They came on time, got the job done in hours rather than days. The chimney was sheared off 2 years in a row, guy 1 didn’t want to do it again. It was up for 25 years. Another similar chimney, that I installed (when I was 55) has been up for 30 years without a problem.

      Consider it a bonus as opposed to a tip. Who doesn’t like a bonus?

    • B.P.

      I got dragged to an expensive hipster brunch yesterday. I was very much not in my element. The place was packed with twenty-somethings chowing down and jacking drinks. Why can’t the youngsters seem to make rent?

    • DrOtto

      As a mechanic, I occasionally receive tips. It’s almost always youngsters. I try and discourage it, but how hard do you fight not to take money?

    • Sean

      We’ve tipped repair people.

  15. UnCivilServant

    I give up

    I can’t type.

  16. The Other Kevin

    Guess that’s it for Biden. With this new evidence, Team Red has enough to form a committee to explore the possibility of forming an exploratory committee to explore the possibility of impeachment.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      They need to set up a blue ribbon commission first.

      • SDF-7

        After they send a sternly worded letter saying they’re planning on it, they love the administration and please don’t make them do it.

        The N.u.k.e. option.

    • Rat on a train

      They are planning to introduce articles of impeachment in January 2029.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Just like the Republicans to impeach a corpse. They simply have no respect for the dead.

      • Rat on a train

        Beware of Zombie Brandon.

      • Homple

        Pope Formosus says, “Let me tell you about the time….”

    • DEG

      I’m certain the Biden family are shaking in their boots.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      LOL good one.

    • Tundra

      I did.

      Pretty sad, actually.

    • Rat on a train

      Going with a concentration camp physique.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, no one cared enough to intervene when she was clearly starving worse than an anorexic?

      • KK, Non-Man

        She was an anorexic. Restrictive eating is one of the main symptoms

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        They just gave her hunger affirming care.

    • KK, Non-Man

      That’s garden-variety anorexia dressed up as “lifestyle”

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yes. Always such a sad thing to see.

      • Gender Traitor

        #HealthyAtEverySize

    • R.J.

      That’s a heck of a deal!

    • Sensei

      Judging by the prices of other models it would appear that other customers have the same reaction to poop brown firearms that I do.

      OTH, if I didn’t live in NJ and had the need for roughly $70 less than much more appealing color choices I think I’d suck it up. It’s a plastic gun so it isn’t going to win any beauty contests.

      • Drake

        The 8 round single stack should probably still be legal in 9 months after you apply for a “buy” permit.

    • Sean

      I have one in a better color. It’s a perfectly reasonable little pistol for the money. I paid $200 for the gray after rebate.

  17. KK, Non-Man

    I keep seeing the word “demonic” all over Twitter.

    Has everyone turned into a 17th century Puritan?

    • Tundra

      I think it’s becoming pretty clear that demons exist.

    • UnCivilServant

      If they did, they’d have condemned Twitter as a den of depravity and sin.

  18. Common Tater

    “Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova has reportedly “died of starvation” after subsisting exclusively off a diet of exotic fruit in Malaysia, according to her friends and family.

    She was 39….

    A proponent of uncooked herbivorous fare, the Kasan native claimed she ate a “completely raw vegan diet” for the last four years, consuming just “fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies and juices.”

    Meanwhile, a friend claimed that for the last seven years, Samsonova had only eaten the giant, sweet jackfruit and durian, a spiky, mace-like fruit known for its custardy meat and noxious odor.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/vegan-influencer-starved-to-death-friends/

    I wonder what sort of mental illness causes such behavior.

    • Common Tater

      Missed it by this much.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I knew someone like that (middle-aged liquid fruito); eventually had to have serious dental work.

      • Common Tater

        The sugar rotted her teeth?

      • Pope Jimbo

        No, they were just punched out of her mouth by all the people tired of listening to her shit.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        He and no, although good guess.

      • Common Tater

        OK, all the people I’ve known, and heard stories about, who had these insane sort of diets were women.

        So what happened?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        A European.

        Include me out of inquiries; I was just looking for a place to share, not friendship nor indeed serving suggestions.

        https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E05/1002984

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        From that same episode:

        “Are you giving up pork chops?”
        “Yes”
        “And bacon?”
        “Yes”
        “And ham?”
        “Dad, it’s all the same animal!”
        “Yes, some *magical* animal!”

    • Rat on a train

      I like jackfruit, but it is work to eat.

      • Sensei

        How about durian?

      • Rat on a train

        I don’t like the texture of durian. The taste is meh.

    • KK, Non-Man

      Only 6 minutes late! Doh!

    • Fatty Bolger

      She was probably anorexic.

    • B.P.

      No thoughts for the toilet she likely murdered?

      Yeah, I know, it’s sad actually. I’m a jerk.

    • Drake

      There are plenty of vegetarians in that part of the world. Peas, beans, chickpeas, and lentils are usually featured heavily in their diets along with wholegrain rice. Jackfruit is a side dish.

    • robc

      Is it Hype that said there was no significant fraud in that election?

      • MikeS

        juris imprudent

      • robc

        Thanks.

      • Brochettaward

        We’ve had more than a few buy into the narrative that Trump lost because of Trump. That’s what it boils down to.

        I’d ask anyone a simple question. If they could cheat, if it was at all possible, do you really think they wouldn’t have done it? Especially to beat bad orange man?

        The truth is also pretty much the exact opposite of whatever they claim. So when you see them insist that 2020 was the more secure election in history, it’s a pretty safe bet that it was one of the least secure.

    • creech

      “What difference, at this point, does it make?” This is the sort of investigations that Trump should have been conducting back in Dec. 2020, instead of listening to Rudy and Sydney.

      • Brochettaward

        Trump didn’t have the authority, support from his own party, or time to do this. He needed the courts, and the courts punted.

      • Sean

        “Punted” is too nice. They fucking failed us. Commies, everywhere.

  19. Pope Jimbo

    Started with Special K, then King Walz, now my idiot Congressman Dean Phillips What is it that makes all the loser Minnesoda pols think they should run for President?

    WASHINGTON – Rep. Dean Phillips, who once said younger Democrats should challenge President Biden, plans to meet with Democratic donors in New York next week to help determine if he should be among them.

    Exactly one year ago, Phillips, 54, was the first Democrat to publicly question whether Biden was the best candidate Democrats could field, saying he did not think the president should run for reelection in 2024, preferring instead a younger, more “dynamic” Democrat be at the top of the presidential ticket.

    Phillips’ ambitions were first reported by Politico , who said the lawmaker is highly unlikely to mount a primary challenge unless Biden’s health worsens or his political standing drops precipitously. Phillips’ re-election campaign confirmed that the lawmaker will meet with Democratic donors in New York City next week.

    I can’t believe that Ilhan Omar hasn’t said something dumb about (((Phillips))) going to see (((“New York donors”))). If she had been born in the US, Omar would probably be the one Minnesoda pol with a real chance at the White House.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Shocking

    A popular narrative suggests young people are liberal and getting more liberal. Thus, social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest 12th-grade boys had become overwhelmingly conservative.

    As with many Reddit posts and viral tweets, the truth was more complicated. But the numbers do say this: Twelfth-grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative versus liberal, according to a respected federal survey of American youth.

    In annual surveys over the last three years, roughly one-quarter of high school seniors self-identified as conservative or “very conservative” on the Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly endeavor that dates to the 1970s. Only 13 percent of boys identified as liberal or very liberal in those years.

    The figures represent a striking shift in the political views of boys. As recently as the late 2000s, liberal boys occasionally outnumbered conservatives. Back in the Carter era, both boys and girls leaned liberal.

    Inexplicable.

    • The Other Kevin

      Meanwhile, the girls surveyed show there will be no shortage of AWFL’s in the future.

      • John Nerfherder

        The affluent part of that could be ending shortly.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Maybe young boys don’t like being told they are evil?

      • John Nerfherder

        👆

  21. Raven Nation

    Some of you may be aware that Australia suffers a perennial bushfire problem. The following just popped up in my newsfeed:

    “Fire authorities looking to avoid a repeat of the devastating bushfires of 2019 and 2020, are investigating how cultural burning can become a more accessible service. Representatives from eleven Local Aboriginal Land Councils have come together with other fire mitigation groups, to discuss how their practices can reduce fire hazards and promote land regeneration.”

    Now, let me be the first to say that, yes, it’s pretty well established that indigenous peoples in many parts of the world has a pretty good idea of how to use fire to mitigate catastrophes. BUT, isn’t that knowledge pretty widely held today? So what is going on here? Perhaps Oz officials want to do burn offs or brush clearing and felt they need to clothe it in indigenous practices to get the OK?

    Full story: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/fire-authorities-investigating-how-cultural-burning-can-become-a-more-accessible/q6zb53mmi

    As some of you know, we just got back from visiting down under. In one state we visited, there is a well-known high quality timber the cutting of which has been banned for decades. Since the ban, the forest service has gone in and brought out trees which had fallen through natural causes then sold the wood at auction. Apparently, in just the last few months, that practice too has been stopped. Trees which fall will be left there.

    • rhywun

      Trees which fall will be left there.

      What could possibly go wrong.

    • KK, Non-Man

      That’s California-style forest management

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Much has been written about the liberal drift of young women. The Donald Trump presidency mobilized millions of women, outraged over words and alleged deeds that, to Trump’s critics, suggested an unrepentant misogyny. More women embraced liberal politics in response to the conservative drift of the U.S. Supreme Court, a movement emblemized by a 2022 ruling that struck down the constitutional right to abortion.

    Less has been said about the politics of 12th-grade boys.

    Trump himself may be a key to the conservative trend in that group. The 45th president energized male voters with his rhetoric: his “overt hypermasculinity,” as one NPR analysis put it, and his frequent use of language one might overhear in a high school cafeteria.

    “Donald Trump talks like a high school student. Maybe there’s a connection there,” said Robert Palacios, 21, a student at the Catholic University of America and president of District of Columbia College Democrats.

    “If you grew up playing video games that were not age-appropriate, and you were sitting in the [virtual] lobby, screaming at the mic, Trump was your president,” said Ethan Benn, also 21, a student at the George Washington University (GWU). “He really channeled that energy.”

    More broadly, the conservative wing of the Republican party has made pointed appeals to disaffected men of all ages.

    We need wholesale distribution of testosterone blockers in every school lunchroom.

    • rhywun

      “Trump… Trump… Trump….”

      It couldn’t possibly be a reaction to the decades of propaganda aimed at feminizing men finally going too far.

    • B.P.

      Conservatives are childish, chauvinist potty-mouths. that seems like a downgrade from Nazism.

    • Raven Nation

      “is “overt hypermasculinity,”

      Good thing Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, et al didn’t engage in that kind of rhetoric.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    Ooooh, this story about The Man hassling bikers is just too good.

    Basically, lots of cyclists go on group rides and decide to leave the bike trails and get out into the street. Then the park police rudely make them follow the law and ride single file when in the street.

    This experience has happened more than once this summer Minneapolis parkways: police yelling at cyclists on parkways to get in line. One of the cyclists working at the rear of the group ride, “marshaling” to alleviate conflicts with motorists, talked to the officer, who rudimentarily cited a city ordinance. Everyone left confused.

    The whole thing is a masterpiece in “how can you expect bikers to ride single file?”. The best is when the author includes this gem…

    By the way, I recently learned a fun fact: when the German army occupied the Netherlands during World War II, they also implemented a single-file cycling rule. Transportation historian Carlton Reid describes what happened in 1940s Holland (emphasis mine):

    “Dutch cyclists were used to ruling the road, and they continued to ride in front of motor vehicles, even though the motor vehicles now contained Nazi soldiers. This came to a head in the year after the invasion, with cyclists ordered to keep their hands on their handlebars at all times, not to ride two-abreast, and to cede priority to motorists at junctions.”

    That is right! Only Nazis make bikers ride single file!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Not only that, the Nazis made them ride on the far right side of the road.

    • Rat on a train

      It only takes a jogger, a dog on a leash, or (worst of all) to make trails practically useless for groups of cyclists.
      And all it takes is a cyclist to make roads practically useless.

    • Drake

      Two pictures of the same person?

    • Pope Jimbo

      There really should be some sort of consequence for legislators who propose such overtly unconstitutional laws.

      • John Nerfherder

        I have a few ideas

    • rhywun

      *tries reading that, pukes*

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Just needs more indoctrination

    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is giving $20,000 grants to each of 10 community groups that applied for funding for youth programs aimed at tamping down gun violence.

    The groups, operating in seven neighborhoods and 11 public housing projects, will work on a variety of initiatives. Some will train teens as community activists focused not only on gun violence, but also on environmental and voting campaigns. Others will lead financial literacy or therapy sessions, among many other activities.

    Collectively, they are projected to involve about 100 young people in communities where Bragg’s office identified shooting hotspots.

    “Gun violence is my number one priority,” said Bragg at a meeting with the 10 groups at the DA’s office in Harlem on Thursday. “We’re not going to prosecute our way out of this.

    I thought TRUMP! was your number one priority. And, as for prosecuting your way out of the problem, maybe you should give it a try before you dismiss it out of hand. That’s kind of your job, bubba.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Why is a DA able to give out grants?

      • rhywun

        Quiet, you.

    • R.J.

      Actually, yes. You can prosecute your way out of that.

    • Tundra

      Uh oh.

      But how the hell will they fight the west?

      Oh.

    • John Nerfherder

      Looks like Guinea is in too, if not militarily. That provides coastal access for economic purposes.

      • Rat on a train

        So all the states suspended for coups.

      • John Nerfherder

        The trend has been that we train their military and then the military stages a coup and aligns with Russia.

        We’re overflowing with competence at State.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The funding for the programs comes from the district attorney’s “Criminal Justice Investment Initiative,” which was launched by Bragg’s predecessor Cyrus Vance Jr. with asset forfeiture money taken from international financial institutions.

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    Justin Nappler, of the East Harlem organization Not Another Child, said his group planned to use the grant money to work with 10 young men who have pending gun charges. Each will be involved in formulating and implementing an individualized work or education plan over 10 weeks, and receive counseling and a $1,500 stipend.

    Make them write “Hands up, don’t shoot” on the blackboard 100 times.

  26. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I just found out it’s Disability Pride Month. Is there even a flag?

  27. R.J.

    I submitted a quick post on climate gaslighters. And then I mentioned this on a dead post from Sunday morning, thereby out Brooksing Brooks.

  28. Brochettaward

    They can take your life, but they can never take….YOUR FIRSTS

    • Raven Nation

      Does this mean you’re about to be hung, drawn, and quartered?

      • Ted S.

        I’m always hung.

  29. Brochettaward

    What’s wrong with Hollywood? You have people like this guy…who directed Secret Invasion.

    He doesn’t feel bad if you didn’t like the show. He doesn’t care if fans were happy. The people running things don’t care about pleasing the customers/viewers and it shows.

    • John Nerfherder

      The guy is a fucking commercial director and he doesn’t care about fans?

      Disney can’t go broke fast enough.