Saturday Morning Survey Links

by | Sep 23, 2023 | Daily Links | 221 comments

I am calling on the fine people of this community to help me out here. NPR Lady has pretty much resigned herself to the idea that she’s involved with a (gasp!) libertarian. However… she absolutely hates the “NPR Lady” nickname. And honestly, though I don’t hate it, there’s ambiguity because I used that term for everyone I’ve dated in the past year. And (I say somewhat abashedly), this one might stick around for a while and deserves a unique sobriquet. So I’m taking suggestions. She’s very much a save-the-world type, free spirited, loves her weed and music, avid and skilled dancer, very intelligent, and almost as short as Banjos. So go with that description.

And we’ll go with birthdays, including the subject of one of my favorite poems; the ancestor of Pearson; a rather fringe character; the Yin to Lucas’s Yang; Spudalicious’s spirit animal; a hero of mine who died before I could see him in action; a vastly overlooked guitarist, and the recent subject of Old Guy Music; Larry David’s alter ego; and a pioneer of combining music with activism, thus making shitty music and moronic activism.

Off to Links.

 

This is news you can use.

 

“We need to incentivize plant closures.”

 

Related: I’m guessing there were big campaign contributions from Toyota and Hyundai.

 

And fuck the First Amendment, amirite?

 

How’s the intersectionality thing working out for you?

 

Look, comedians like to tell Polack jokes. Live with it.

 

Riven and I share an obsession with Sierra Ferrell. Deal with it. This is a great song performed perfectly.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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

221 Comments

  1. Robonerfherder

    “Future Gulag Widow”

    • cyto

      I assume we have already ruled out “Old man’s prime bitch”……

      • cyto

        I love that you felt the need to define that term in this crowd.

      • slumbrew

        I love the fact that entry quotes an 11th Circuit opinion.

      • DrOtto

        I love that the opinion cites the documentary “Pimps Up, Ho’s Down”.

  2. I. B. McGinty

    Shawty?

  3. Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

    Tote Bag.

    • cyto

      I went past this twice before it registered that is was a name.

      Damn…. that is brilliant.

      • Chafed

        Seconded.

  4. Robonerfherder

    It appears even the Poles realize Ukraine is fucked.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      As a man who married a Polish woman, I am surprised that they actually changed their mind about something.

      • Robonerfherder

        Based on the few Poles I know, this is an accurate observation.

    • Chafed

      It’s the only explanation for his veto.

  5. Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

    So, just out of curiosity, what “fundamental rights” are being denied for the LBGBBQLOLNPR club?

    • Robonerfherder

      The right to convert, fuck, and mutilate your kids.

  6. Sean

    Fuck the UAW.

    • Robonerfherder

      It’s mostly overweight middle aged men.

      I’ll pass, thanks.

      • Chafed

        Gay Tres may be interested.

  7. Fourscore

    OM, maybe a diminutive of her first name would work.

    My ex was named Maureen, her family called her Moe, seemed to fit…

    Other than that, no help from me.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      My college girlfriend was a Melissa, and she went by Mel.

      Another one of the PhD holders.

    • Lackadaisical

      “My ex was named Maureen, her family called her Moe, seemed to fit…”

      Were their other kids named Larry and curly?

  8. Robonerfherder

    Menendez pulled the race card. Now you know he’s in trouble.

    https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1705357956441592122

    “It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere.”

    • Fourscore

      Who doesn’t keep a a 1/2 mil walking around money? Every time I go shopping I check my pockets, make sure I have enough, just in case I want to buy a new house or see a good deal on a Ferrari.

      I’m guessing there are other congress people a little nervous this morning, emptying out their refrigerators.

      • Sean

        I’d love to see the IRS get involved here.

      • cyto

        To investigate anyone who is not toeing the party line and spouting the party talking points?

      • Sean

        To take the slimy corrupt fucker down a couple pegs, cuz I have zero faith in any other real consequences forth coming for him.

      • cyto

        Dare to dream….

    • rhywun

      how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino

      …says a guy who has been in Congress for thirty years. 🙄

    • Sensei

      Team Blue here in NJ including governor have called for his resignation.

      That way he can appoint somebody and give he or she a big leg up for the next election.

      They all know he is both corrupt and likely going down.

  9. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, Old Man.

    I’m terrible with nicknames, but lack of ability never stopped me before. Since this is Hispanic Heritage Month I will propose “la niña bonita”. The specific use of “niña” is in keeping with certain predilections with which the denizens of this site are quite familiar.

  10. Robonerfherder

    UAW strike is blowing up used car prices again. Just when it looked like there might be some relief.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Looking at the new car side, and it’s been fucked for so long, I’m not sure it will ever be normal. Makers have been loading updumping inventory. Meanwhile, some dealers are still applying markups on top of the msrp increases…

      • Sensei

        Manufacturers aren’t really happy about the dealer gouging and the impact on the brand and customer satisfaction.

      • Chafed

        Have they done something about it?

      • Sensei

        You know how dealer franchise and state lobby works. Depends on state and dealer.

        They will mess with allocations and discretionary spend. But they really don’t have a ton of options. So mostly behind the scenes soft power.

  11. I. B. McGinty

    I dated a girl that I called “dribbles” because on our first date she dribbled salsa on her shirt. But also because of something else…

    • R C Dean

      She was a point guard?

      • I. B. McGinty

        Not basketball related.

      • cyto

        Oh, right…. soccer. Got it!

    • Ted S.

      She spit instead of swallowing? Or maybe she had a fistula?

      • cyto

        Are there people who see the word “fistula” as a hyperlink who actually click on it?

      • Chafed

        No.

    • Chafed

      OMG. I had forgotten that nightmare.

    • slumbrew

      I’ll defend Ani – she has some great songs

      • slumbrew

        TBF, a horn section improves every song.

  12. The Gunslinger

    Not sure I’ve got the geography correct, but how about Finger Lakes Lady.

  13. Rat on a train

    Candy?

    • R C Dean

      I think we’re done here.

      • Sean

        I concur.

      • cyto

        100% there is no second place.

        Although…. “Tote Bag” was absolute genius.

    • juris imprudent

      While perfect for him, does that really describe her?

      • cyto

        That is the most oblique version of “send noods” that I have ever seen.

    • DrOtto

      I dated a girl in high school named Candy, she later danced for me at my batchelor party. Some names you can’t outrun.

  14. Brawndo

    The UAW strikes will benefit everyone. Except the customers.

  15. Grosspatzer

    “Just like with breasts, there is a wide variation in the shape and size of labia,” Dr. Lyndsey Harper, founder of sexual wellness app Rosy, tells Yahoo Life. “They can be short, long, uneven and everything in-between. There is no perfect size and shape of labia.”

    We sure like girls, all kinds of girls…

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2mHTsCjS4

    • creech

      Wasn’t this pretty obvious from the NSFW photos that Q used to post?

    • cyto

      “There is no perfect size and shape of labia”

      Well, that just ain’t true.

      Every guy… and probably most every lesbian too…. knows that the perfectly sized and shaped labia are the ones attached to the lady who says “yes. Yes, I will have sex with you.”

      All the others probably are pretty danged perfect too… but they really don’t count.

      • Chafed

        Lol. So true.

  16. PudPaisley

    My Little Tomato. It’s a delicious and versatile vegfruitable that can be a variety of colors, but usually is green or red.

  17. juris imprudent

    the fine people of this community

    [spits coffee]

  18. PieInTheSky

    make the heat stop it is almost October. I want red wine weather.

    • rhywun

      92 degrees – yikes.

      54 here. I had to turn on the heat the other day when I woke up shivering in the low 40s.

    • Lackadaisical

      Because it’s a dumb idea?

      • PieInTheSky

        it is a comedic short clip don’t be so serious

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        My favorite comment

        I don’t think those guys respected her, and instead just saw her as a sex object. Every time they came home from the mine they shouted “Hi, ho!”.

      • Lackadaisical

        You expect me to click before commenting?

  19. Grosspatzer

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/22/sen-menendez-defiant-after-second-corruption-indictment.html

    This counterargument — namely that what prosecutors claim are bribes in exchange for favors were actually just personal friendships and the typical work of a U.S. senator — was the same one Menendez made the last time he was charged with corruption in 2015. In that case, the argument worked to the senator’s benefit.

    Typical work of a U.S. senator. He’s not wrong.

    • Sean

      Gold bars are always a thoughtful gift. Keep that in mind as we get closer to Christmas.

    • db

      Members of the US Congress are not to be molested during their duties. It’s a duty to be “available” to their constituents, and what says “available” more than “open for bribes?”

  20. rhywun

    Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the Hamtramck’s progressiveness.

    Or… maybe they just outnumber everyone else and vote for “their own”. Oh, I guess that is “progressive” now.

    the resolution banned not only the rainbow flag but all flags except for the U.S., state, city and POW/MIA banners

    As just as I suspected, this has nothing to do with the narrative the “progressives” are attempting to set up.

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, they should have banned the POW/MIA banner too.

      • rhywun

        Agreed.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        God I hate that thing.

      • Rat on a train

        Bring the flags home.

  21. Suthenboy

    Big fan of Ferrell here.
    Mornin’ all.

    • PieInTheSky

      hippies man …

    • Suthenboy

      You know better than that.

    • rhywun

      Wow, hell does exist.

      • R C Dean

        “A woman dressed in a kimono tiptoes between the tattooed limbs of about fifty influencers, musicians, and yogis lying on the floor of a spa in West Hollywood.”

        Yep.

    • Robonerfherder

      “At the end of this,” the instructor prepares the crowd, “we’re going to have the opportunity to create sound—to move what needs to be moved.”

      The participants, which includes one of Demi Moore’s daughters, a DJ with face tattoos named Diablo, the singer Kesha, and “Krotchy,” a model known for her two differently colored eyes, breathe more deeply into their white robes, creating a song on top of the song with their huffing: Oh-ah, oh-ah-oh.

      Then the instructor, wearing silver hoops the size of cantaloupes, gives a quick countdown: “Three, two, one.”

      Suddenly everyone is screaming.

      Girls arch their backs and howl up at the ceiling. When a few run out of air, they almost moan. That’s when some start to clap; others cheer. And one man breaks through with the staccato call of a dolphin.

      I never cared for Pentecostal services because of the hand waving and the individuals submitting themselves to the mob. This is not much different. It’s just going for the same “spiritual” experience without God. These people worship only themselves.

    • Ted S.

      They revived est?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Something, something, Cthulhu sleeping, something.

    • EvilSheldon

      Cult induction, anybody?

  22. juris imprudent

    And from Taibbi, a public post that is a deep drink of disturbing.

    Two years later, news broke on both Google’s secretive involvement in the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence drone surveillance program, Project Maven, as well as its construction of a version of its eponymous search engine that was tailored to the Chinese government’s censorship and surveillance demands, Project Dragonfly. Through access to internal source code, it became apparent within the company that the search phrase “human rights” was on a potential censorship list, but management refused to clarify. Through a conditional resignation letter, I fought my way up to a one-on-one meeting with the head of Google’s AI, Jeff Dean, who didn’t dispute that the company might turn over information on Chinese citizens who searched for the phrase “human rights.” He argued that, for all I knew, Google was already providing that information to the U.S. government through Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants.

    • Robonerfherder

      The innumerable cut-outs for various programs, contractors, and NGOs that all spy on us are going to be next to impossible to uproot without dismantling the federal government itself.

      • juris imprudent

        It all starts with Google and their collection methodology for advertising. The almighty dollar has driven more of this than any desire for power.

      • Robonerfherder

        Fair observation, but it’s expanded way beyond that now.

    • Suthenboy

      Apparently some semblance of ‘it cant happen here’ still remains in the American mind. It can happen here and it is happening right now right in front of our noses.
      It is disturbing but not surprising.

      Strip away all of the bullshit and let’s see what is left.
      Ex.: I think it was Rep Spartz during Garland’s grilling in front of congress who got him cold. She pointed out that no matter how many answers and excuses he had, no matter how he protested that the DOJ is as pure as the driven snow the end result of his leadership is that Americans are scared of him and of his department in the same way that Soviet citizens were afraid of the KGB.

      No matter how many answers excuses, explanations and protestations this administration puts forward the end result of their border policy will be the end of our country as we know it. It simply doesn’t matter how many times they tell us to believe them and not our own lying eyes that is the result of applying their policies.

      I suspect the average American just cant admit to themselves what they are seeing happen in real time. It is too monstrous, too frightening. We still have too much to lose but that will change soon.

    • R C Dean

      Wait, Google’s defense was “We’re not ratting out people interested in human rights to the ChiComs, we’re ratting them out to the CIA?”

      • cyto

        The thing that is terrifying me is that nobody seems to care.

        I mean, there’s us weirdo libertarians. And a few real conservatives. And a tiny handful of true liberals.

        And that is all.

        Everyone else is living out their lives as if they are an NPC in a dystopian novel from a century ago. Worse… I truly believe that they all can see five lights, and they are happy about it.

      • juris imprudent

        “The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.” — Aldous Huxley

      • cyto

        I thought his writing was hyperbolic.

        Huxley was an optimist.

      • slumbrew

        Everyone always references “1984”, but we really landed on “Brave New World”

      • cyto

        And we are plummeting toward Harrison Bergeron

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Honorable mentions to Demolition Man and Idiocracy

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Most people are quite content to stare at their (refurbished) iPhone watching TikTok video’s, eating Doordash, and just generally succumbing to oblivion.

      • cyto

        Huh?

        I was busy watching links from Glibs on my android, eating generic brand cocoa pebbles and just generally….

        Wait, what were we talking about?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        As long as it wasn’t CrunchBerries…

      • cyto

        Hahaha haha

        Actually…..

        I was sitting on the porcelain throne…. I used “generic cocoa pebbles because it was funnier than the truth….

        That I had just finished eating crunch berries (the real stuff, but from the giant bag) with my 12 year old daughter, while we watched Mr Beast on her Fire tablet.

        But ya gotta match te beats, or it ain’t funny.

        But now that you said that…. the truth is even funnier….

      • Mojeaux

        Yanno, regular people who aren’t paying attention get shat upon a lot around here.

        Regular people are busy surviving and they know what the economy is doing to their bottom line and they know the gummint’s got something to do with it;they just don’t know what and they don’t have the bandwidth to go searching obscure conspiracy websites, not knowing what they’re looking for (my personal google-fu is shit) and may not have the life experience or education to make connections if they do find them.

        And then let’s say they do find them and do make the connections and then get outraged. What are they supposed to do about it? They’re struggling to make rent and groceries and gas, wages aren’t going up, Now they KNOW that their vote doesn’t count for shit and they feel more powerless than they felt before they started looking and making connections.

        Now what?

        They’re still spending their time working and trying to enjoy their lives with their families (or not). But now instead of vaguely suspecting it’s hopeless, now they KNOW it’s hopeless.

        People have survival concerns, yo. Most people don’t have the bandwidth for anything more than “Thanks, Brandon.”

      • juris imprudent

        So I wrote a bit on this, but I damn stuck trying to make a non-fatalistic follow-on piece.

      • Mojeaux

        I need to think on this piece a bit before commenting too much.

        At first skim, I would just say that people aren’t generally content. Contentment (perhaps a substitute word for happiness) is, I think, aspirational.

        I also agree that it’s difficult not to slide into fatalism.

        One thing I explore in 1520 Main is the idea of savings (of money) being hope for a nebulous, vague future that you could maybe have, when, like Marina, you really never thought about having any kind of future at all. [This comes up later with Marina’s real mother, but that’s not really a spoiler.] It’s also why romance novels exist—they are hope for a future with someone.

        People need hope, and they don’t get that keeping up on shit and knowing it’s hopeless, so yeah, hard to find a non-fatalist way to follow that up would be difficult.

        *Ron’s Friday midday post has entered the chat*

      • Mojeaux

        And let’s not forget that the people trying to tell them what’s going on in plain language are actively being suppressed by governments and big tech, so whether they can find these voices or not is iffy.

        THEN you have intergenerational conditioning which boxes you in from birth. IF you can think past that, you’re one in a million. That is the human condition. Who said “abject poverty is the natural state of mankind”? We didn’t know any better until thie Grand Experiment which seems to be coming to an end.

        (I will admit that I’m very bitter right now because the ONE family member I thought I could depend upon to argue in good faith and listen will not. He just shouts over me with nonsense [not even talking points, just nonsense] and will NOT believe a word I say, even when backed up by proof, because my “proof is suspect.” And that’s IF he doesn’t shout over me first.)

        There are a lot of things going on here in people’s lives that they should be given some grace for, in not knowing what’s going on. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a thing.

      • juris imprudent

        I think you misread that – it was more why be disturbed by ratting them out to the ChiComs when we’re already doing the same with the US national security apparatus. See, we aren’t evil – we’ll fuck over everyone equally.

  23. PieInTheSky

    How’s the intersectionality thing working out for you?

    true Islam is tolerant some Muslims internalized white supremacy

  24. The Last American Hero

    I suppose NPR labia is a little crass.

    Accordingly, I would look at my wwjd wristband and ask myself “what would JJ McClure do?”

    JJ would call her beauty. It worked on Farrah Fawcett.

  25. Grumbletarian

    She’s very much a save-the-world type, free spirited, loves her weed and music, avid and skilled dancer, very intelligent, and almost as short as Banjos.

    Lil’ Hippie.

  26. cyto

    I am Old Man With Candy.

    Here…. meet Candy.

    My work here is done

    • Mojeaux

      She doesn’t know OMWC’s moniker.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Sugar Britches?

    • cyto

      Neil Degrasse Tyson tries to defend his views on Gender Ideology to Comstantine Kostin.

  27. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man.

    I like the classics. Sugar-tits is always good.

    The Poland thing is interesting because they’ve got elections coming up. The Ukraine thing appears – among thinking people – to be deeply unpopular. This was funny, too:

    “If we look at the sanctions from a pragmatic point of view, we see that they cause more harm to Europe than to Russia,” he said, according to TASS, adding that “the new packages of sanctions are not necessary.”

    You don’t say!

    49 degrees when I got up this morning. Definitely feels like autumn. We’re gonna head up north a bit and see if the Aspens are starting to turn.

    What are You People up to?

    • cyto

      Hey, you’re right! Its….. checks thermometer…… 77 degrees!

      Seasons are definitely turning down here.

      • Rat on a train

        45 when I left the hotel this morning.

    • R C Dean

      Feels like autumn here, too. 72 degrees this morning. Shouldn’t even get to 100 today.

      • cyto

        One of my favorite things in life since moving to Florida was talking to my mom when they were hunkered down for a snowstorm. I’d listen to her talk about how they have plenty of bread and milk and salt, and how cold it is…

        And then I’d say “yeah, it turned off cold down here too. We are at the beach right now and it’s a little windy… I had to wrap the kids in towels for a while after they got done swimming….

        Ah…. good times.

    • Ted S.

      I get the impression Poland is engaging in the same sort of tactics that Greg Abbott is; namely, an attempt to get Brussels (which hates the current Polish government and I wouldn’t put it past them to deliberately engage in policies that damage Poland for having elected the wrong people) to look at what several central European countries see as the negative consequences of the “imports” of a new tranche of cheap agricultural products.

      In theory, these crops are supposed to be transited through Europe to bypass the Black Sea which was used to sell Ukrainian grain to third world countries. Grain being fungible, however, it’s allegedly winding up on the domestic European markets and pushing down the prices local farmers can get (which I’d guess are inflated by the Common Agricultural Policy). The current Polish government is heavily dependent on the rural regions, so pushing back against the imports is also liable to be an effort to fire up their base.

      Poland and the Baltic states more than anyone else have experience with Russian aggression. All those third world illegal immigrants Belarus just let transit their country on their way to invade Poland (TW: BBC link) didn’t just get to a landlocked country like Belarus organically.

      • cyto

        Remember how this war was going to cause a global famine?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        A famine of truth.

    • pistoffnick

      What are You People up to?

      I was going to send the roosters to freezer camp, but it’s raining. They get to live another week.

    • Pope Jimbo

      There was a bar near Killdeer, ND that had a bartender that everyone called Slippery Tits. Back in the late ’80s, so don’t go rushing off to book travel.

      She was OK looking, but it was shocking the first time we went there and the guy who lived out there called her Slippery Tits without warning us. The fact that he didn’t get slapped was amazing, then we realized everyone called her that.

    • Sean

      Cheerleaders get scholarships?

      • Tundra

        Only if they put out, apparently.

    • R C Dean

      I wonder if they named names of the big shot donors who they serviced.

    • KK, Non-Man

      Can you imagine being a big time donor, and a Northwestern cheerleader is what you get? Would you be kicking yourself, saying “why didn’t I go to UFL or Miami?”

      • cyto

        Lol!.

        Wait… that’s not funny. You can’t make jokes about that!! Uh…. something.. uh… misogynist!!

      • KK, Non-Man

        Both my parents went to Northwestern, and my Ma was absolutely gorgeous. But let’s be realistic… 😆

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Yeah, but the girls in Florida might have icky politics!

  28. creech

    Just call her “Honey.”. You apparently find her sweet enough and are kind of stuck on her.

    • Robonerfherder

      “I’ll take Elephant Penis News for $1000, Alex”

      • cyto

        That’s “A Le ‘ Fantpen is”

      • slumbrew

        “The Penis Mightier”, indeed

      • db

        You’ll get Elephant Penis for free, and you’ll like it, Citizen.

    • cyto

      What!?!?! My stomach was itchy!! My stomach was itchy!!!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Who knew this joke was so SCIENCE-y?

    • cyto

      Shut up and put on your mask, plebe

      • juris imprudent

        I would’ve been disappointed if it had been anything else.

      • Fourscore

        Every time I get a twinge in my chest I wonder…

    • Robonerfherder

      No, go fuck yourself, and drop dead so I can piss on your grave.

      • Beau Knott

        Why wait? Drown them in it, even if yet another use of elephant penis is required.

    • Suthenboy

      If you cant believe the Daily Mail who can you believe?

    • slumbrew

      Legit LOL

  29. Timeloose

    NPR lady….you could call her JG. Short for Jane Goodall, as she is a Progressive amongst the Glibs observing their strange and unusual behaviors. So much like us, but still so different.

    • Sensei

      I wasn’t sure where that was going.

      Kawaii has too many usages and not all are work safe.

      • PieInTheSky

        i only see squiggly lines

      • Sensei

        I did too until you realize the components of each character repeats.

        However, there are around 200 of those….

  30. DrOtto

    Captain Funbags?

  31. PieInTheSky

    The Pitfalls of Arrogance
    An unpleasant encounter with a critic, and how we can learn better argumentation from it.

    https://planetocracy.substack.com/p/the-pitfalls-of-arrogance?sd=pf

    There are plenty of people who criticise the concept of space colonisation. Some are more reasonable than others. Often, unfortunately, a lot of critics are aggressive, ill-informed and unpleasant. I have locked horns with one such person recently.

    Philip Ball wrote a scathing attack on the concept of space colonisation in the Guardian, and I in turn picked it apart in a Twitter post. Ball was unhappy at this and attempted a counter rebuttal, which honestly was even worse than the original Guardian article – in terms of factual errors, quality of argument, and tone.

  32. cyto

    Meanwhile, over at WaPo, Taylor Lorenz 2.0 went ahead and published their hit piece on Dave Portnoy after canceling their interview.

    Then they carefully locked their Twitter accounts and boldy bragged about their triumphant article on Twitter.

    It…. did not go well.

    The community notes cut, sure…. but that ratio…

    Just, damn

    https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1705322338189705308?t=FDmJOErHeI-8i3yH-y1b4A&s=19

      • Fatty Bolger

        Nothing but scum left at these legacy outlets.

      • Suthenboy

        Yep. They are totally morally bankrupt.

    • Sensei

      Emily Heil’s Twitter is locked down too.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        You know who else said Heil?

      • Rat on a train

        People giving directions in Huntington Beach?

  33. Fatty Bolger

    How about “Lolita?”

    • slumbrew

      I like it – literary and appropriate. OM as Humbert Humbert.

      • Ted S.

        I was thinking OMWC as Joey Buttafuoco.

  34. Rat on a train

    I’m sitting at SLC waiting for a flight to DCA hoping Ophelia doesn’t interfere.

    • cyto

      Please tell me they didn’t pull the stake out…..

  35. Common Tater

    “Doomsday cult leader who says he is reincarnation of Jesus is turning 1,500 children into sex slaves on remote Philippines island, lawmakers say

    Clad in a white suit with gold watch and aviator sunglasses, the leader of quasi-religious cult Omega de Salonera looks more pop star than a Messiah.

    But Jey Rence B Quilario was this week accused of heading a doomsday cult where ‘rape, sexual violence, child abuse, forced marriage was perpetrated on minors’.

    Quilario, who claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus, was named using congressional privilege as well as his group in connection to ‘widespread exploitation’.

    And Save the Children has urged the Filipino government to take immediate action to free the estimated 1,500 children held by the cult on a remote island.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12552057/Jey-Rence-Quilario-omega-salonera-jesus-sex-slaves.html

    • cyto

      1,500?

      This has to be fake.

      Heck, every journalist in the country told me that just one kid sex slave situation was beyond belief when The Sound Of Freedom came out….

    • Rat on a train

      I visited that island about 10 years ago. Beautiful but underdeveloped by Philippine standards.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Any other islands you visited you would like to mention?

  36. Common Tater

    “Sen. John Fetterman may be allowed to dress like a slob in the halls of power — but it’s still a capital offense in New York City’s finest restaurants.

    Intrepid Post reporter Jon Levine learned that hard truth this week when he crisscrossed the Big Apple’s culinary landmarks wearing Fetterman’s trademark hoodie, gym shorts and sneakers and tried to gain entry — only to face scorn and mockery from maître d’s with more common sense than Congress.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/the-post-tried-eating-at-nycs-finest-restaurants-dressed-like-sen-john-fetterman-see-how-it-went/

    LOL

    • cyto

      Why are the only people with anything funny and insightful to add are on the right?

      That is brilliant.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Love the kid at J-G dressed like his preppy dad.

  37. Common Tater

    “In the middle of a never-ending war with Russia, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has asked Serbian Satanist Marina Abramovic to become an “Ambassador” for the war-torn country as reported by the UK Telegraph….

    Now, apparently, the war effort rests in the hands of a 76-year-old self-described ‘artist’ most famous for holding severed, bloody, goat heads. “An attack on Ukraine is an attack on humanity and has to be stopped,” Abramovic has said….

    She was briefly a featured artist for Microsoft in 2020 until her ties to Satan became too much even for a company responsible for Windows ME.

    Abramovic has been photographed in front of a painting by Thomas Lawrence titled “Satan Summoning his Legions” with controversial left-wing billionaire Jacob Rothschild. Abramovich also had transgressive art installations she called “Spirit Cooking” in 1996 that featured the consumption of bodily fluids while chanting phrases that some allege are Satanic. In 2016, when Wikileaks published the Podesta Archive of emails, Clinton advisor and powerful left-wing operator John Podesta was revealed to be attending “Spirit Cooking” meals with Abramovic as late as 2015.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/zelensky-asks-satanist-marina-abramovic-be-ukrainian-ambassador/

  38. Pope Jimbo

    I forgot how old your squeeze is, but maybe Tomb Raider for a pet name since I know how old you are?

    Or since you like to ride her so much “Jimbo’s Bike”?

    • Old Man With Candy

      I’m outside watching her dance troupe perform, and it’s downright chilly. Suck on that, Dracula!

      • Old Man With Candy

        Not sure how this ended up here.

        /that’s what she said

  39. Common Tater

    “Two sponsors of Russell Brand’s YouTube show have reportedly backed out after allegations of sexual assault from years’ past have swirled around the comedian. This comes after YouTube demonetized Brand’s channel, meaning he can no longer generate income from ads shown on the platform.

    In the wake of that demonetization, NBC reached out to Brand’s sponsors and asked them if they would continue to advertise alongside Brand’s content. NBC discovered that, upon asking, two companies said they would back out of that relationship.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/sticker-mule-vivobarefoot-cave-to-pressure-cancel-russell-brand-sponsorships-amid-unproven-allegations

    “Brand, who has been demonetized on YouTube, where he has four channels and millions of subscribers, said the UK Parliament is attempting “to target, control, choke, and shut down Independent media organizations” through a coordinated effort between Big Tech and legacy media under its Trusted News Initiative, which is the basis they used to cut Brand off at the knees.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/russell-brand-slams-uk-parliament-for-demanding-social-media-companies-deplatform-him

    Not coordinated at all.

    • Robonerfherder

      Look at the Dave Portnoy incident. The “reporter” contacted his sponsors with leading accusation prior to talking to him or anyone else.

      She intended to get them to drop him and then make that the story. It’s cuntes all around.

    • Suthenboy

      “Why men love women” from a guy wearing an ascot. Sounds legit.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    “We all will benefit when workers have a better wage that can give them a chance to raise their families in the middle class,” he continued. “That will set the standard for everybody, and that will help everybody.”

    Those poor UAW workers, scraping by from paycheck to paycheck, dreaming of a better life.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    “They’ll stay out until they can get a fair contract that gets them compensations for the incredible, productive work that they do,” Kildee said. “The companies’ profitability is dependent on the productivity of these workers, and they know it.”

    Craftsmanship is what I think of when I see the UAW logo.

    • prolefeed

      And as usual, “fair” is being used for the sake brevity versus the more accurate “this is what I want”.

      I’ve boycotted anything built by the UAW ever since I bought my first Toyota and realized some brands don’t constantly break down due to shoddy design or workmanship.

  42. The Bearded Hobbit

    Melanie Haber?
    Audrey Farber?
    how about
    Betty Jo Bialowski?

  43. prolefeed

    Why is she currently called “NPR Lady”? Does she spout lines she heard on NPR?

    • Mojeaux

      Yes. All of his post-SP ladies have been NPR-spouting lefties.

      • Mojeaux

        Akschually, I think I came up with that.

      • Old Man With Candy

        You did.

      • prolefeed

        Almost all of the plethora of women I dated during the search for Mrs. Prole were leftists, though not by design, minus the ones who were screechy about their men having to be in lockstep with them politically.

      • Mojeaux

        Y’all are better men than I, Gunga Dins. I couldn’t deal with being in a mixed politics marriage.

      • prolefeed

        We just avoid talking about politics, for the most part. Plenty of other stuff in common. If you can agree to disagree, that’s half the battle.

        “Snuggle Buddy” is the substitute for “NPR Lady” I’d suggest.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Headline I just saw:

    ‘California moves to allow insurance companies to factor in climate change risk’

    Is that what you call it when you charge higher premiums to insure houses out in the trees with no readily available fire suppression?

    • prolefeed

      I would avoid an insurer who based their rates on such bullshit instead of actual risk based on actuarial analysis. Projectuarial analysis seems like a piss poor substitute for “actuarial”.

      Though, if using those buzzwords was just a way to get the insurance commissioner to not reject a needed rate increase, then good on them.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    You could always call her Little Queenie

  46. "RFK Apologist"

    If the Ukraine War is reframed as a conflict over your right to tell Polish jokes, I think the aid package could be passed very quickly