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Nothing better than the day after Labor Day.  Nobody wants to work but at the very least I don’t have to avoid social media spamming me with “thank a union for the day off” propaganda.  Seriously, some union goons paying off corrupt politicians to vote on a holiday isn’t the win you think it is.  Just ask the Italians next time (fuck) Columbus Day comes around.

Enlaces!

 

Mexican Presidential candidate dons an inflatable dinosaur costume as Mexican parent light communist textbooks on fire.  Okay both stories are not technically related.

I’m still a bit overwhelmed by the irony the Dollar is inflated to the point that it actually hurts Mexico.

A better world

The buoys floating in the Rio Grande are technically on the Mexican side.  Mkay?

I want to say something controversial:  I’m glad this pilot crashed and died after participating in a gender reveal.

Russian Army finds reinforcements in…Cuban conscripts?

I have a better idea, lets not apologize and simply pretend we did.

AP is aghast Chileans might actually have liked it better under Pinochet.

 

Don’t start the song unless you plan to hear him shout at the end.

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190 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Ruminants?

    That motherfucker isn’t veal!

    • KK, Non-Man

      Very mooving First. We herd you loud & clear.

      • SDF-7

        No bull — our Common Tater won’t be cow’d by the First shtick of Bro (rather, it would be-hoove Bro to study an actual first and put his routine out to pasture).

      • Pope Jimbo

        He udderly destroyed Bro!

      • Shpip

        The guy’s not even around and you’re kicking him in his dairy air.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        It wouldn’t be the first time Brochacho was living in peoples heads.

        And it certainly won’t be the last time.

  2. Common Tater

    “Parents in an Evangelical Christian community doused the accused Marxist indoctrination books with fuel and set them afire”

    Based.

    • SDF-7

      And releasing carbon dioxide! Picking up the trifecta there…

      • Common Tater

        Mexicans also release methane.

    • Common Tater

      “In response to accusations the books were laced with gender ideology indoctrination, the president denied the claims, stating, “They have been prepared by teachers and experts.””

      That’s not the winning argument you think it is.

  3. Common Tater

    Fuck autoplay.

  4. SDF-7

    Mexican Presidential candidate dons an inflatable dinosaur costume as Mexican parent light communist textbooks on fire. Okay both stories are not technically related.

    Sure they are…

    AlexinCT on September 5, 2023 at 7:43 am

    When my kid was 5 and crazy about the whole Jurassic Park series, he wanted desperately to be a velociraptor. I wonder if I should have gotten him surgery to help him reach that dream….

    Are you velociraptorphobic? Not an ally of 2SLGBTQVR? Heresy! 😉

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Well done

  5. Pat

    Mexican Presidential candidate dons an inflatable dinosaur costume

    I wish we had showmanship and fisticuffs in our national legislative chambers like they do down south – it would do them some good.

  6. KK, Non-Man

    I once (OK, maybe 5 or 6 times) watched a compilation of people skiing in inflatable dino costumes

    • Tonio

      “Watched.” [snickers, coughs]

    • Ted S.

      I didn’t know you’re into furries.

      (Yes, I know dinosaurs didn’t have fur.)

      • Fatty Bolger

        Right, they had feathers.

      • Seguin

        Scalies. Yes, they exist. I’m sorry.

  7. SDF-7

    I’m still a bit overwhelmed by the irony the Dollar is inflated to the point that it actually hurts Mexico.

    Well, they are striving for global income equality. One of the few times they’re doing what they say…. (everyone [sans elites utique] will be equally impoverished… they’ll drag what was the First World down to Third World standards if it kills us…).

  8. Pat

    AP is aghast Chileans might actually have liked it better under Pinochet.

    At least the helicopters ran on time.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    But as Chile marks the 50th anniversary next Monday of the coup that brought Pinochet to power for almost 17 years, many in the country don’t see it as a dark day. Amid a weak economy and a surge in violent crime, recent polls show that many Chileans don’t think human rights are as much of a priority.

    Your right to live in peace and security means nothing, say the people who enforced useless theatrical plague totemism in the name of their claimed right to imaginary safety.

    • rhywun

      Yeah that’s quite the stolen base.

  10. Shpip

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a newly-published interview that the US government needed to apologize for its history of interventions in Latin America, arguing that such actions contributed to government instability in the region.

    Can we start by giving Puerto Rico back to Spain?

    • SDF-7

      Can we give them AOC while we’re at it?

    • SDF-7

      Oh dear God in heaven… I so do not really care. Not to tell Tucker his job — but I think there are more pressing stories than the sexual proclivities of a somewhat retired asshole politician….

      • Robonerfherder

        To be fair, the story isn’t whether Barry liked to suck cock or smoke crack. The story is how the media hid it and the agencies probably told them to.

        Then the agencies probably used it for leverage.

        But you know you want to know how much Barry likes to get his salad tossed.

      • RAHeinlein

        And also the reasonable probability that “Michelle” may run for POTUS/other office. After all, she is the Most Admired Woman in the world…

      • rhywun

        You know they will just twist it around into a morality play about how homophobic America is.

      • Sean

        Agreed.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        No I want to know more. If Obama was gay, that means the other half of the internet conspiracy is likely true: that Michelle is a man.

      • Common Tater

        Gay men aren’t attracted to trans women.

      • Suthenboy

        Washington doesn’t have marriages based on love or attraction. I dont think any of those people, unless they outright despise their spouses, could not care one whit about them. They are motivated by political strategy.

      • KK, Non-Man

        This

      • grrizzly

        Straight men, on the other hand, who like sexual partners with penises and don’t want to think of themselves as gay…

      • Tundra

        I still want to know the story of his chef out naked on a SUP and how the Obamas lied about being there. Anything that makes the Lightbringer look like the reprehensible creature he clearly is.

    • Common Tater

      How difficult would it be to get a sample of Michelle’s DNA?

      Anyway, that Newsweek cover might seem less ridiculous now.

    • Pat

      It’s a very apt comparison, what with Mexico and the USA being two countries with a common culture, language, and history seeking reunification after decades of the USA’s repressive policies.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Don’t forget Hasselhoff.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Maybe the lesson should be to make Mexico a better place that people don’t try to flee from.

      • rhywun

        Why bother when it’s easier to let their low-skilled population live in the U.S. and send their dollars south.

      • Suthenboy

        ^THIS^

    • Rat on a train

      Is Mexico going to shoot people attempting to flee to the US?

  11. Common Tater

    “Russian Army finds reinforcements in…Cuban conscripts?”

    Cubans fighting Soviet proxy wars is nothing new, but it was usually in much warmer weather.

    • KK, Non-Man

      This will not end well fir the Castros, methinks. The mire they send, the riskier for the regime.

      • SDF-7

        They must have a real problem with mudslinging.

      • KK, Non-Man

        Ahhhhh, shit. 😉

      • SDF-7

        Just to be clear — that’s meant as light hearted teasing. 😉 I probably make more than the average typos / mistakes in posts, after all.

    • Spudalicious

      I saw the documentary, Red Dawn.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Huh, I am shocked, shocked that an army is using up other peoples soldiers instead of their own.

      That has never happened before in history.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Back again

    In an open letter to the G20 before its meeting in Delhi, the group of almost 300 millionaires, economists and politicians say urgent action is needed to prevent extreme wealth “corroding our collective future”.

    The letter, whose signatories include the Disney heiress Abigail Disney and the artists Brian Eno and Richard Curtis, urges the G20 to demonstrate the same global cooperation it showed in ensuring multinational companies pay a minimum level of tax to agree collectively to tax wealth.

    ——-

    The letter says: “Much work has already been done. There is an abundance of policy proposals on wealth taxation from some of the world’s leading economists. The public wants it. We want it. Now all that’s missing is the political will to deliver it. It’s time for you to find it.”

    The letter, organised by Patriotic Millionaires, the Institute for Policy Studies, Earth 4 All, Millionaires for Humanity and Oxfam, says taxing wealth more heavily would shrink “dangerous levels of inequality.”

    ——-

    “Taxing the very richest, those who can most afford it, is a back-to-basics policy when it comes to economic common sense – and yet no major political party has the drive or the decency to get on with the job. It’s as though they are more interested in the politics of an endless race to the bottom for our country, rather than making plans to actually invest in our public good.”

    So fucking tedious.

    We want this! Flop down on the floor and kick your feet and screech like a two year old; show the world how serious you are.

    • Robonerfherder

      It’s quite simple. STOP PRINTING.

    • SDF-7

      (puts on his best attempt at a Scottish accent)

      Fuck you, ya commie bastards!

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        (considering the SNP, that might be a little insestuous.)

      • rhywun

        I miss Secret Nazi President.

    • Pat

      When you really, really want to help the poor with your enormous, ill-gotten wealth for which you feel shame and guilt, but you don’t want to, you know, actually have to interact with them.

    • Suthenboy

      Good God, the tiresome marxist ‘Tax the Rich!’ nonsense never ends does it? It is pure envy from the ‘not rich’ and an effective tactic for staving off pitchforks for the ‘are rich’.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Did any of the rich folks demanding higher taxes agree to give away all their money right now? Not when they die, but right now. Keep a couple hundred grand and give all the rest of it away.

      I bet a lot of them have mansions that they could give to undocumented immigrants who don’t have anywhere to go.

    • Rat on a train

      If anyone is having trouble giving their wealth away, I will take on the task for them.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    The letter says the G20 – made up of the G7 group of rich countries with leading emerging market nations such as China, India, Brazil and Indonesia – should collectively agree to raise taxes on rich individuals and to stop tax competition and avoidance by the super-rich.

    And then- declare war on Monaco and Lichtenstein.

    • Robonerfherder

      declare war on Monaco and Lichtenstein

      way… way.. overdue

      • Suthenboy

        Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lichtenstein? Where will Hallmark make their latest iteration of Cinderella?
        Leave them alone.

  14. Common Tater

    “Diane Ehrensaft, a self-identified “feminist” who supports a “gender revolution,” is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital gender development center. She is also a professor at UCSF School of Medicine. The developmental and clinical psychologist specializes in pediatric “gender-affirmative care for transgender and gender-expansive patients.”

    Ehrensaft made what some may consider fringe claims about gender ideology, including that kids can identify as “gender hybrids” which include a mythology-inspired creature called a “gender Minotaur,” and that kids can change their genders by season and can have different identities depending on their location….

    “I totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and the children are leading it. And it’s a wonderful thing to see. And it’s also humbling to know [children] know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive,” she said during a 2018 talk at the San Francisco Public Library.

    “A boy… twirled [in my office]… and said to me, ‘You see, I’m a Prius… I’m a boy in the front, and I’m a girl in the back.”

    “I started meeting a whole bunch of other gender hybrids. And so we have the gender Prius, we have a gender Minotaur,” she said. “And most of the kids who are gender minotaurs love mermaids. So make sure you have a lot of mermaid books. If you really you think about it, it works.””

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/feminist-medical-school-professor-says-trans-kids-identifying-minotaurs-part-gender-revolution

    TW: autoplay

    • Robonerfherder

      The people pushing the crazy are way beyond fucked up. Completely unsalvageable.

      • Suthenboy

        “…If you really think about it, it works.”
        No, it doesn’t.

        They may be unsalvageable but they are imprisonable. Every person associated with this lunacy, primary those who facilitate physical mutilation of children should be in solitary for life. No chance of parole.

    • KK, Non-Man

      OMFG THAT’S CALLED NORMAL CHILDHOOD YOU FUCKING FREAKAZOUD. KIDS MAKE UP CRAZY WEIRDASS SHIT.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Agreed. My question is what is the supposed adult’s explanation for making up crazy weirdass shit.

    • Sean

      Children are better at make believe. Got it.

    • rhywun

      the children are leading it.

      Literal LOL.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Pinochet led the coup at a time when the country was mired in an economic crisis that included scarcity of food and galloping inflation that reached an annual rate of 600%. When the military took over it implemented a free-market economy that suddenly meant those with means could go on a consumerism binge even as the poverty rate soared.

    They just cannot help themselves.

    • Fatty Bolger

      LOL. Truly.

  16. Pat

    The tyranny of Google

    In 2009, a book appeared that consciously echoed that centuries-old question that evangelical Christians like to pose: ‘What Would Jesus Do?.’ Instead, the American new-media pundit, Jeff Jarvis, wrote a book that invited us to ask, What Would Google Do?. There were so many things, Jarvis explained, that we could learn from the Californian technology company, and then incorporate those lessons into our lives.

    ‘It’s about seeing the world as Google sees it, finding your own new worldview, and seeing differently’, Jarvis wrote. As Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson affirmed in a cover blurb: ‘Google is not just a company, it is an entirely new way of thinking.’ In the manner of a charismatic prophet, Jarvis promised that reading his new bible would lead to personal transformation: ‘This isn’t a book about Google, it’s a book about you.’ Hallelujah!

    Google turns 25-years-old today. Jarvis’s book belongs to an era of techno utopianism that has long since passed. Back then, it was a given that technology would change the world for the better. And by studying the practices of the founders, we could improve ourselves, too. So, how well does this assessment of Google hold up today?

    […]

    At one point in his book, Jarvis allows himself a dark thought: What would happen if Google fell from its saintly standards and tried to screw us? We needn’t worry, he assures us: ‘Google could lose our trust the moment it misuses the data it has about us or decides to use our growing dependence on it as a chokehold to charge us (as cable companies, phone companies and airlines do).’

    Such optimism seems very naïve today. It is still true that Google does not charge us, as consumers, directly. But multiple authorities across several continents have judged that it does operate a chokehold on competition, and this costs us all a lot.

    For example, in 2022, the EU levied a record fine against Alphabet, Google’s umbrella company. Having once vowed never to detain people on their journey to another destination longer than necessary, Google now seeks to keep people on its own properties for as long as possible. According to the European Commission, Google abused its market dominance to give an illegal advantage to its shopping service. Google also dominates dozens of markets that once had thriving competition, from smartphone platforms to web browsers, all of which serve as funnels to deliver us to its advertising business. Google also participated in a secret wage-fixing cartel against US technology workers that suppressed wages by some $3 billion, according to one complainant in a class-action lawsuit.

    There are other ways that Google ‘charges’ us indirectly. The real cost to us all from Google comes from the excessive prices it levies on businesses for advertising, which are well above what they would pay for the same advertising in a competitive market. These costs are then passed on to consumers through higher prices. Economists at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) tried to estimate what this might be. It found that in 2019, each UK household ‘spent’ £500 with the advertising duopoly of Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google) – a far higher figure than would be expected in a competitive market. Indeed, the CMA estimated that the total annual cost to UK plc of Google and Meta’s excess monopoly profits would have been as much as £2.3 billion. This cost is likely to be far higher today, as Google’s revenues have doubled since then.

    So how did we get here? Firstly, the digital advertising market is enormous today – worth more than the entire technology sector was before the explosion of the internet. Just two weeks before Google was founded, Microsoft surpassed General Electric as the world’s most valuable public company. Yet its annual revenue in 1998 was smaller than Google’s quarterly profit today (Google reported $18.4 billion in net income in the most recent quarter period, up to July).

    Google’s crowning achievement is the electronic exchanges it uses to trade ads. These are the largest exchanges in the world by value, and are the world’s only unregulated exchanges of this type. In these black boxes, Google acts as the buyer’s broker and the seller’s broker, giving it a unique insight into every trade. This also allows it, as various competition lawsuits allege, to inflate prices.

    Such behaviour is not permitted in any regulated exchange, and both sides of the market suffer as a result. When publishers devised a digital auction innovation in 2014 that levelled the playing field, called ‘Header Bidding’, Google was alarmed. It became even more worried when Facebook endorsed it. Google’s own research showed that using this method, customers were happier, got better results and paid less than using Google’s black box. It ate into Google’s own margins. Google responded in 2018 by signing a secret deal with Facebook, which various US states regard as a form of collusion. The US Department of Justice, fired up under the current administration, wants Google to be broken up, with the ad exchange spun out. Google has offered a voluntary restructuring instead.

    ‘Call me a utopian’, Jeff Jarvis conceded in his panegyric to Google. But today, it isn’t Poundland futurists like Jarvis who are the utopians – it’s the self-described ‘free marketeers’ who advance a similarly Panglossian defence of Big Tech.

    • SDF-7

      So… lie about your motivations incessantly, strong arm or buy out as much competition as possible then use your market dominance to attempt to brainwash the populace?

      I suppose if you’re Doctor Fucking Evil, WWGD is a good guide… but for the rest of us, I’d vote no.

    • Sean

      That’s an unappealing 22.

    • Pat

      I thought smoking was supposed to make you skinny

    • rhywun

      “models”

      She looks like a middle-aged mom who ran out on to the sidewalk half-dressed after one of her kids wandered away.

  17. SDF-7

    This crap keeps reminding me of the Council Wars series where abundant energy and nanotech had lots of posthumanist folks make themselves into merpeople, unicorns, etc…. then they all died when the power was cut. Feeding the delusion at this point is just cruel — these kids need to accept that reality doesn’t care about your feelings or your interpretation. (Of course, if society keeps going the way it is… they’ll be meeting reality the hard way when priorities shift towards “food, shelter and survival” and all).

    • SDF-7

      Dammit, Brooks’ed the reply. That was about the whole Gender Fucking Minotaur shit above, sorry.

  18. Common Tater

    “Researchers from the University of Rochester, New York, found that men were more likely than women to come to hospital with a foreign object lodged in their rectums. They suggested, however, that this may be down to reporting bias — because women were less likely to put non-sexual objects in their rectums, reducing the chances of their case being recorded”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12483169/Doctors-remove-8inch-long-wire-teens-penis.html

    • KK, Non-Man

      Women don’t have prostates, fellas. That’s why butt stuff doesn’t appeal to us all that much. It’s not rocket surgery.

      • SDF-7

        Doesn’t appeal to all of us guys either… but I’m just a square (especially around here).

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Get out of here. Next you’re going to tell us that women can’t have penises.

      • MikeS

        What are you, a biologist?

      • Pat

        Having undergone a couple of prostate exams in my day, I can assure you that either I am an anatomical anomaly, or prostate stimulation is not a sure avenue to pleasureville…

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Maybe the doctor should have sweet talked you a little.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        🎵 Moon river…

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Got your whole fist up there, Doc?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Wut? How is that reporting bias?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    ‘Call me a utopian’, Jeff Jarvis conceded in his panegyric to Google. But today, it isn’t Poundland futurists like Jarvis who are the utopians – it’s the self-described ‘free marketeers’ who advance a similarly Panglossian defence of Big Tech.

    Que?

    Are we referring to VC hucksters as free marketers now?

    • Pat

      Think tank libertarians and free market economists have always been opposed to antitrust, and have made a special effort in the last 15 or so years ever since Big Tech became an oligopolistic nightmare to assure us that market power is not sustainable in the long-run, and that Facebook and Google will tomorrow’s Yahoo and Pets.com. Trust me, I actually used to buy it and make all the same arguments myself.

  20. Grummun

    Resurrecting some discussion points from last Friday afternoon (busy weekend):

    Re: visibility in vehicles, I recently swapped a 2014 Impreza for a 2022 Forester, and the visibility is great, both in comparison and objectively.

    Re: old D&D books, I’ve got most if not all the 1st Ed hardbacks, I stopped buying after the Survival Guides. I have 2nd Ed PH and DMG, although I was given those. Also a handful of 1st Ed modules, other miscellaneous softcover items. Given how many people owned up to owning the older books, and expressed disdain for later editions, I’m surprised there aren’t more play-by-network games going on in this user base. I still run a 1st Ed-ish game with people I’ve been playing with since college (graduated in ’92 and I’m the youngest of that crowd). For the ones that can’t meet in person anymore we use MapTool for a virtual table top and Skype for voice comm. I’d rather use something other than Skype, but I have to work within the comfort level of the others.

    • Pat

      I’d rather use something other than Skype, but I have to work within the comfort level of the others.

      Try Mumble. It’s easy as all hell to self-host, low latency (designed for gaming), and there’s clients for every platform. I have it running on my VPS. Before Discord became the fucking Borg and took over all online gaming communications, Mumble was the 2nd most popular option behind TeamSpeak.

      • Grummun

        I’ve used Mumble in the past with a different group, and had problems with echo cancellation, if I recall correctly. Maybe it’s gotten better.

        I had a question for you about jitsi, actually: how much hardware do you need to host a jitsi server?

      • Pat

        I haven’t had any problems with echo cancellation, but then I use Mumble with a headset, not desk speakers, so there’s a lot less opportunity for problems anyway. I know it supports echo and noise cancellation if you’re using Opus (which should be the default), but I couldn’t say how well it would work in that scenario.

        For Jitsi, hardware requirements are very much an “it depends” kind of thing. They recommend 4 GB RAM and a 4-core CPU as minimum requirements, but the size of the group you plan to host plays a big role in how much you’ll need. Jitsi uses Prosody for signaling, and that’s not multithreaded, so more CPU cores isn’t necessarily a benefit. Dedicated cores are more important than the quantity of cores – some VPS companies are worse than others with load balancing, so your 4, 6 or 8 v-cores might still run poorly because you’re only getting 20% capacity out of any one core while your neighbor making Scarlett Johansson deep fake porn is siphoning off the other 80%. Obviously that wouldn’t be a problem if you’re hosting on your own hardware. For a group under 10, 4 cores and 8 GB of RAM should be fine.

  21. Derpetologist

    Regarding US actions in Latin America, I’m still trying to figure out why we held on to Guantanamo but gave up the Panama Canal. That canal is probably the single most valuable piece of real estate on earth and would have given the US plenty on non-violent leverage against our rivals.

    Also, suggested attack ad #8:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JLhTJ3jz90

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      There is no expiration on the the Guantanamo Bay treaty. As long as we keep paying them. Not sure on Panama Canal treaty. Blame Jimmah Carter.

      • Derpetologist

        Ah, brilliant.

        ***
        Under the lease treaty signed on July 2, 1903, the U.S. must send $2,000 in gold as payment to the Cuban government each year. After the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 removed the U.S. gold standard, lease payments were unilaterally changed to a cardboard check backed by paper dollars. The payment due on July 2, 1974, was made by check in the amount $4,085.[3] With inflation, $2,000 of 1903 dollars would have been worth about $4,085 in 1934 and would have further increased to over $52,000 by 2013; however the payment remains at $4,085. Since the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban government has cashed one of these checks, and only because of “confusion” in the early days of the revolution. The other checks, made out to “Treasurer General of the Republic”, a position that has not existed since 1959, were once shown stuffed in a desk drawer in Castro’s office during a television interview with him.[4]
        ***

        Follow-up question: If we already had a base and thus a beach head in Cuba, why was an invasion attempted at the Bay of Pigs? If the US is going to be imperial, could we at least do it the smart way?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Because we allowed the CIA to run Bay of Pigs and they did what they do best, pull the rug out from people they support?

    • Common Tater

      It was stupid to give it up, and now China runs it.

      • Suthenboy

        Just as we warned him it eventually would. Carter was as much an America Hater as anyone in office today. The guy was fucking evil as much as any leftist today.

        My mother still tells me she thinks he is a ‘Good Man’. Good fucking God. Yeah, he is a good man the way Fidel Castro was a good man. He is a goddamned monster.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Well, good news for you soon.

  22. The Other Kevin

    Update from the last thread:
    Mrs. TOK’s roller derby team decided tonight they were going to require masks at practice. After Mrs. TOK, two other players, and two coaches said they wouldn’t be at practice until the requirement was lifted, whoever was in charge scaled back and made masks “recommended but not required.”

    This is how we will beat it this time. We all know the truth, so push back early and don’t give an inch.

    • MikeS

      Excellent! We need more of this. I’m optimistic we’re going to see more of it this time around.

      • The Other Kevin

        I am too. We’ve had actual scientific studies, and we know how the censorship works. I don’t doubt they’ll try to say that some upcoming variant is somehow different, but there was a lot of bullshit exposed and a lot of the “experts” have lost their credibility.

      • Fourscore

        Local Walmart was giving free flu shots today. There was no line, no waiting and apparently few to none takers.

    • Pat

      Huffing and puffing through a made-in-China, chemically-treated paper mask whose pores are an order of magnitude larger than the diameter of the virus they are ostensibly intended to stop, while you play a sport where you smash into each other on roller skates, makes absolutely perfect sense. Safety first, everybody.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        It’s a poor man’s altitude training. Make the most of it.

      • Tundra

        Pass. I hiked to almost 11K yesterday.

      • Ted S.

        We don’t have 11K around here. I was only able to get to about 3800′.

      • Tundra

        Still better than breathing through a fucking mask.

    • KK, Non-Man

      ✊️

    • rhywun

      👍🏻

    • DEG

      Good

    • Grosspatzer

      👍👍👍

  23. The Late P Brooks

    After Mrs. TOK, two other players, and two coaches said they wouldn’t be at practice until the requirement was lifted, whoever was in charge scaled back and made masks “recommended but not required.”

    Excellent.

    Let us know how many people wear masks. I would not be surprised if some who arrive in masks ditch them.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’ll let you know tomorrow. Back in the Covid times my hockey team was required to wear masks. About 5 minutes in they became chin covers.

      • Tundra

        I didn’t make it 5. I sweated enough warming up that I felt like I was being waterboarded.

        Good to hear about the Missus. Let’s rack up some more wins!

    • Pat

      I would not be surprised if some who arrive in masks ditch them.

      Not a chance. The ones who arrive in masks are going to be the ones who never wanted to take them off in the first place.

  24. Suthenboy

    When taxes on the rich reached 90+ percent. how much of that was collected?

    One does not get rich or stay rich long by giving their money away.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The government wouldn’t have needed as much. There was no Medicare or Medicaid at the time.

    • Pat

      It’s strange that compliance with extortionate tax rates is so low given how enthusiastic those millionaire signatories are about paying them, innit?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Not a lot. Most of the tax code was write offs. Business expenses in particular were easily written off, which some speculate is the reason for the “generous” corporate culture of the time. Parties, lunches, etc, all paid by the company.

  25. Tundra

    Thanks, MS!

    The buoys floating in the Rio Grande are technically on the Mexican side. Mkay?

    Using pool lane markers to keep people out is so silly. When we were in Big Bend a couple years ago, I waded across to the Mexican side, too. For tamales, naturally!

    That song is so good. I can’t believe it’s 33 years old.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      We’re only as old as we feel.

      • Tundra

        Ah, so I’m 120. That explains a lot.

  26. DEG

    The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism.

    Hmmm…..

    I looked up a history of Chile’s population numbers. Pinochet ruled from 1973 to 1990. Chile’s 1975 population was 10,421,000, 1980 11,234,000, 1985 12,109,000, and in 1990 13,141,000. So he killed a tiny fraction of Chile’s population. We’ll call it roughly .02%. Compare with actual Communist regimes.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      But Communist regimes had good intentions.

  27. KK, Non-Man

    So I’m going to see a concert next week. Over/under on this vid bullshit gaining enough momentum to cancel it, or require masks at the venue?

    (venue is in downtown DC and the band is unsurprisingly on the vid hype train like most of their colleagues)

    • Pat

      venue is in downtown DC

      Mask and vax card at minimum, I’d say.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    Stupid Minnesoda News Story.

    When students go back to class Tuesday, some schools will be without their school resource officers (SROs). Some police departments are pulling officers over a new law that restricts what holds an officer can use on violent students.

    Gov. Tim Walz is now indicating he may call the legislature back into a special session over the issue.

    At issue is the wording in a new state law that says officers can not use face-down holds, including kneeling on a student’s neck. Republicans want a special session called to change that language.

    So the stupid DFL passed a law with poor wording and the butt hurt cops decided to take their billy clubs and go home. Now King Walz is acting as if the sky will fall if there aren’t cops in schools. (Despite there not being cops in Minneapolis schools since St. George died in 2020).

    No good or intelligent people at all in this story. No idea why Walz thinks this is such an important deal and worth a special session. Maybe cops are just a bad idea in a school?

    • Pat

      Maybe cops are just a bad idea in a school?

      I was about to say, I know I’m inching ever closer toward geriatric, but I have living memories of a time when “school resource officers” weren’t a thing, and while the schools were still shit, they certainly haven’t gotten any better for the presence of a glorified crossing guard.

      • pistoffnick

        We never had a school resource officer when I was in school. And we (most of us farm boys) all carried knives.

        What has changed that we now need cops in schools?

        /adjusts belt onion

      • Pope Jimbo

        During fall a lot of kids in my high school would drive directly to school after being in the duck blind in the morning. A good chunk of cars had shotguns in the trunk. Somehow we never had any shootings. Probably because trunks were sturdier in those days and the evil guns couldn’t escape and go on a rampage.

        * We also all carried pocket knives from Jr. High on.

      • R.J.

        We made gun racks in shop class. Then those were mounted in pickup trick rear windows, stocked and driven to school.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Acceptance of misbehavior and glorification of delinquency, aided and abetted by “parents”.

      • rhywun

        LOL none of you went to school in the ghetto, did you.

      • Suthenboy

        Same here. We all carried knives. I still do.

        Number of students who died in my time in schools…..zero.

      • Fourscore

        In days gone by boys were school crossing guards with metal signs. I was the captain in 6th grade, I wore a leather belt as opposed to the guards with white cloth belts. To the best on my knowledge we never had an incident. I still have a picture in full gear. Unfortunately the 5th-6th grade girls were not into Boys in Uniform just yet.

        Girls were hall monitors but no power of arrest.

    • Shpip

      Gov. Tim Walz is now indicating he may call the legislature back into a special session over the issue.

      Minnesoda legislators should take after their Tennessee counterparts: “We considered your ideas, governor, found them stupid, and dismissed them all. We’re adjourned.”

    • Ted S.

      Minnesoda being stupid is not news.

      • Fourscore

        Too local

  29. KK, Non-Man

    I have an article idea about how Gen X isn’t the Breakfast Club devil-may-care too-cool group we portray ourselves as.

    Think about it. Who birthed and raised Milenials and Gen Z?

    • SDF-7

      Baby boomers putting off having kids until they were 40 and needing surrogates and artificial insemination?

    • DEG

      I think Baby Boomers raised older Millenials.

  30. Pope Jimbo

    Speaking of Minnesoda schools….. St. Cloud celebrates a reduction in suspensions of black students.

    Suspensions for Black students in St. Cloud Area Schools are down in 2023 from 2022.

    That was the takeaway from an Aug. 16 school board presentation of the results of work to reduce suspension rates. The data was presented by Mike Rivard, assistant superintendent of E-12 Education Services, and Donna Roper, director of Research, Enrollment and Assessments.

    The percentage of out-of-school suspensions for Black/African American students decreased from 73% in 2022 to 66% in 2023. The percentage of in-school suspensions for Black/African American students decreased from 77% in 2022 to 67% in 2023.

    Although lower, it’s still proportionally high as approximately 41% of all students in the district are Black/African American, according to 2023 enrollment data .

    I’m wondering if the reason suspensions are down is because the shitty students are no longer going to school at all? (Only 70% of Mpls kids now attend school regularly).

    • Pope Jimbo

      The factoid that really struck me was that the St. Cloud school district student body was 41% black.

      St. Cloud is an hour or so northwest of Minneapolis. Very much its own city. The Census bureau says it is 70% white, 16% black. Even that seems like many more black residents than I would have guessed.

      But how can your schools be 40% black when they are only 16% of the general population? If journalos weren’t so terrible at math, you’d think they’d notice that discrepancy and try to figure out what is happening. Are all the white kids going to private schools? Are the black families good Catholics and have 10 kids per family?

      • Tundra

        Young somalis. Lots of them.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is my suspicion too. But I still think there must be a lot of white kids at some private school to skew the numbers.

      • rhywun

        Many of the white kids are going to private schools. Basically, anyone who can afford it.

        This phenomenon is common in blue cities the last couple decades.

    • Rat on a train

      You can’t suspend me. I quit.

  31. Rat on a train

    The school’s HVAC couldn’t handle today’s heat. They closed at noon. They kids were not disappointed.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      When I was a kid we didn’t have AC at school. And we had to walk uphill through the snow even on the hottest days.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Note from HS teacher posted on classroom door in a late spring heat: “Yes, I know it’s hot.”

      • creech

        Barefoot too!

  32. The Late P Brooks

    When taxes on the rich reached 90+ percent. how much of that was collected?

    In that story I linked there was somebody moaning and groaning about how disappointing it was that the Limeys weren’t on board with the new! improved! soak the rich plan. Some people still remember Margaret Thatcher.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I won the Medal of Honor for what?1?!

      • Tundra

        And of course the recipient handled it perfectly.

      • DEG

        Yeah, he does look a bit pissed off.

    • Ownbestenemy

      WH Spin: Biden did not wonder off, he was allowing the MOH recipient the lime light.

      The girl when Biden passes and looks at Biden then back at stage is priceless along with the old black lady like “WTF?”

    • mexican sharpshooter

      To be honest that was probably for the best.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Just walked out in the middle of the fucking ceremony. Insane.

    His team probably wishes he’d just lock up, like Mitch.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Is it too much to ask that they someone keep track of the idiots who blocked transport of LNG, so that when it gets cold, or there are brownouts, they are the first to be cutoff from heat and electricity?

      • Tundra

        Please. It will never affect our betters.

    • rhywun

      fracked gas bomb trains

      Serious people are dictating policy.

  34. Mojeaux

    Fuck. Travis Kelce hurt his knee.

  35. Derpetologist

    Image from an article about the cartwheel plus sign people in Florida

    Look at the legs of the guy in the bottom right. Either that guy has a hell of a tan, or the membership requirements have been relaxed.

  36. Tundra

    This is so fucked up.

    Land of the free, they said. Home of the brave.

    Burn down cities? Celebs raise money for bail (if you’re even arrested).

    Be a dipshit? 22 years motherfucker!

    • Urthona

      It’s too bad republicans are gonna lose the next election or some could maybe be pardoned.

      • rhywun

        JFC.

      • Fourscore

        If there ever was a case for the death penalty this is it. Adults harming children get no compassion from me. I’d like to be the judge in these cases.

      • R.J.

        Thank you for playing. You have won most sarcastic remark of the day on Glibs.

        *Golf clap

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He wasn’t even a dipshit (on that day at least). He wasn’t even there.

  37. Derpetologist

    Regarding the Challenge Chip death, when I ate one, it turned my tongue blue temporarily. That chip was one of the spiciest things I’ve ever eaten. If you like spicy food, I recommend it.

  38. Homple

    No Grain Belt branded underwear, so I’ll pass.