Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Set Phasers to KILL!

by | Nov 15, 2023 | Daily Links | 168 comments

How is all that allyship with BLM working out for you, my Jewish friends?

Hundreds of Metro Detroit Jews stranded at D.C. airport by ‘malicious’ bus drivers

Hundreds of members of Detroit’s Jewish community flew to Washington, D.C., to march in solidarity with Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday, but some of them say they had trouble participating because of what they said was a “malicious walk-off” by some bus drivers.

Local members of the Jewish Federation of Detroit and the Jewish Community Relations Council went to the country’s capital to focus the national conversation on freeing the estimated 240 hostages Hamas took from Israel on Oct. 7, said David Kurzmann, senior director of community affairs at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

But some buses hired to transport “a significant number” of the groups’ participants from Dulles International Airport to the site of the march, according to Kurzmann, failed to appear, which delayed and in some cases prevented their arrival at the event.

“We have learned from the bus company that this was caused by a deliberate and malicious walk-off of drivers. Fortunately, many were able to travel to the march, and we are grateful to the drivers of those buses that arrived,” Kurzmann said in a Tuesday statement.


I love this Twix feed.

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‘The Marvels’ Director Nia DaCosta Describes Critics Of Woke Marvel As “Virulent And Violent And Racist And Sexist And Homophobic”

DaCosta made her thoughts known during an interview with Variety’s Angelique Jackson ahead of the film’s opening weekend.

The director was first asked if her use of the Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic” in the film’s trailer was a shot at critics of Brie Larson’s acting.

Jackson explained, “The lyrics, ‘Well, now, don’t you tell me to smile,’ seemed especially pointed, evoking an early scene from the first Captain Marvel where Carol is approached by a smarmy biker who revs his motorcycle engine to get her attention and says, ‘You got a smile for me?’ When Carol doesn’t react, he calls her a ‘freak’ under his breath and heads into a store at an L.A. strip mall. Her revenge: stealing the jerk’s bike.”

DaCosta said the song had nothing to do with Captain Marvel critics, “That’s the first time I’ve realized that those lines are in the song.”

She added, “I cannot say that that was on purpose on my part. Sorry to be disappointing.”

Don’t worry, Nia. I’m sure you have literally hundreds of more disappointments in you just waiting to burst forth.


 

 


 

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168 Comments

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

    Tyrannosaurus WRECKED!

    • Tonio

      [golf clap]

      • juris imprudent

        C’mon, he didn’t even wake her up.

  2. Shpip

    “While we are deeply dismayed by this disgraceful action, our resolve to proudly stand in solidarity with the people of Israel, to condemn antisemitism and to demand the return of every hostage held by Hamas has never been greater.”

    The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit declined to identify the name of the bus company or companies who it says refused them service.

    Get snubbed like that and still acting like a cuck?

    • SugarFree

      Can’t piss off the bus company, all those people who no longer live in Detroit might not be able to get to their non-existent jobs.

  3. Mojeaux

    I’d as soon see a dude fucking a tree knot. 🙄

    • Spudalicious

      Then don’t read West of Eden by Harry Harrison.

      • Mojeaux

        I will take that advice.

      • Spudalicious

        I think there’s only one scene in the series, and the lizard is top.

      • juris imprudent

        Sounds like political fiction.

      • slumbrew

        Too late.

    • EvilSheldon

      Let’s not give him any ideas.::

      • Ted S.

        I’m glad you volunteered to take one for the team.

    • Pope Jimbo

      He’s bringing the D to LGBTD+?

    • Animal

      STEVE SMITH SAY, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

      • rhywun

        “HA HA HA HA!” SAID FRIEND WOODY WOODPECKER. BUT HE NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET….

  4. CPRM

    The director was first asked if her use of the Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic” in the film’s trailer was a shot at critics of Brie Larson’s acting.

    The director usually doesn’t have any input on trailers. They usually aren’t even cut by anyone at the studio anymore. There are companies that all they do is cut trailers.

    • SugarFree

      The rumor is that she noped-out on both the reshoots to try and salvage something to make a film with, and the entire editing process.

      • Nephilium

        I’m loving the existential angst coming through my newsfeed from people who have apparently wrapped their whole identity around the MCU always being good. There’s an article I saw about how Disney can turn the MCU around if they lean into the GOOD parts of the Marvels.

        That’s… that’s not how it works. As someone who has a completionist mindset when it comes to movies and shows, I have some real garbage in there, doesn’t mean I gave up on the franchise, or that there was no chance of something better coming out later (looking at you Chucky!).

      • Brochettaward

        Apathy has set in.

        You can get away with calling your critics racists when there is success. You can pretend you are talking about a minority of your fanbase.

        When everything is bombing now, you are basically saying the majority of your fans are racist.

        It was always a tone death and stupid marketing ploy, that fanbaiting stuff. Now it’s a sign of a real pathology and a group of people who have drunk their own kool aid. You aren’t giving your customers what you want as an entertainment studio that readily admits it produces product rather than art.

      • Suthenboy

        “Disney can turn the MCU around”

        Maybe they could hone their skills first by turning Disney around.

      • juris imprudent

        Which is screamingly ironic given that at the outset of the MCU it was all ridiculed as immature male fantasies (good lord – COMIC books! [eye-roll]) – but that was a couple of decades back and like, before the narrative came a-conquering.

      • Brochettaward

        One reason the the geek thing is dying is because it was co-opted by the woke left and mainstream. These are people who used to roll their eyes with it until it became the big way to not just make money, but build a career and push your message. This is the other side of the coin to the woke shit.

        You get writers and directors and actors who don’t take the shit seriously. They want the money and fame and the platform, but don’t care about the source material. You had actual comic book fans making these movies at the start. Now? It’s some black woman who has never read a comic even after being hired by Marvel.

        So people say it was the quality for whatever reason. The woke shit isn’t just a result on the end product. It’s also influencing HOW the shit gets made. Writers and directors are now cast like actors.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve got the completionist instinct as well.

        I have only myself to blame for sitting through every single episode of Agents Of SHIELD when I should’ve punched out after season three or so.

        I’m getting better and gave up on the terrible new Justified reboot before the end.

    • EvilSheldon

      Brie Larson is acting? Huh. What a concept…

      • kinnath

        Oscar for best actress 6 years ago.

        Then, she ruined her career by transitioning into superhero mode and then disparaging the primary audience for the movie.

        I assume she is bitter and blames her problems on the patriarchy.

      • The Last American Hero

        One of the top 3 Nissan Pitchmen/Pitchwomen ever.

  5. The Other Kevin

    Wow, that was… something.

  6. The Other Kevin

    ‘The Marvels’ Director Nia DaCosta Describes Critics Of Woke Marvel As “Virulent And Violent And Racist And Sexist And Homophobic”

    Ah the old tried and true method of hand waving away a shitty product because millions of people are so deplorable.

    • Drake

      Insulting and alienating and big percentage of your prospective audience heading into a holiday week is an interesting strategy.

    • SugarFree

      Hillary thought them how. Then Obama ran with it.

    • CPRM

      You wanna know how fucking dumb they are? SPOILERS! At least this is what I’ve heard, I haven’t seen the movie. They’re using this movie as the one to bring in the X-men, and what X-men character do they use? Beast. Why not fucking Rogue you dumbshits? You know, the character that stole Carol Danver’s powers and put her in a coma? The character that actually has a connection to the Carol Danvers story? And a chance to have another Bonus Hole in the movie.

      • Brochettaward

        The X-Men stuff was only shot very recently out of desperation. The entire thing was thrown together as a last ditch effort to drum up interest in the movie. It’s also why it leaked so quickly.

        The MCU is dead in the water. I stated in the other night but Disney is sitting on multiple projects with budgets in the hundreds of millions that are all dead in the water before they even had a chance to be marketed. No one cares about the MCU anymore. They killed the golden goose…twice. Or three times if you want to count Indiana Jones.

        The MCU going tits up is the ultimate story in Hollywood hubris. We are seeing history here, people. Even if you don’t care about comic book movies.

      • Suthenboy

        Yes, it is history. Wokety wokesters skin suited a company that caters to teenage boys, disparages teenage boys, company tanks.
        Imagine that.
        I would sarcastically ask why they cant learn when they see this happening over and over again but…well, they are wokety wokesters. They cant tell reality from not-reality and are incapable of learning.

      • The Other Kevin

        The woke stuff is definitely a part of it, but with both Marvel and Star Wars, they went with quantity over quality. They used to put out one or two Marvel movies a year, and there was a lot of anticipation. But with Disney+ they churned out tons of mediocre shows and movies. I got tired of that fast and just stopped watching.

      • SDF-7

        To be fair — their source material (Marvel) went woke well before the MCU proper did, so they could just argue they were being true to the source material.

        Why DC and Marvel both seem to be deadset on driving away the people who actually give a shit about their product (I know why, really… because all the writers are steeped in those politics, they’ve taken over as editors, and they’re damned well going to jam their agenda down the deplorables throats!) makes no sense to me… but the MCU is just catching up there.

        There is no excuse for Indy or Star Wars (especially since they had the template of Zahn’s trilogy… don’t want to use it? Fine.. but you could borrow elements of it rather than “re-do the first film and fuck around with the next two”…). I know, I know… Kathleen Kennedy… make it suck and put a lesbian in it (or whatever the South Park phrase is)…

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

        Zahn? Seriously they had Brain Daley with Han Solo at Stars End they could have worked from. Or The L. Neil Smith Lando books!

      • Brochettaward

        They know they’ve destroyed it. So now they are quietly right past the corpse while whistling and hoping no one notices what happened.

      • Raven Nation

        Hey Suthen: one further follow-up on the hockey player and the manslaughter charge. This is purely for the conversation, not disputing anything. I’ve not seen the vid so my surprise was based on the original report of the dead guy’s team that it was a “tragic accident.” I was remembering this as a comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zedn%C3%ADk#Neck_injury

        And see also Clint Malarchuk (although I didn’t know about that one until today).

      • Suthenboy

        I watched the video over and over carefully. I kept in mind that as the skater turned he began his …fuck it. Let me look again.

      • Suthenboy

        OK. Puck is traveling left to right on the screen. Team pushing the puck left to right while opposing player moving right to left goes past the puck before he begins his u-turn, muscles past one player and aims his trajectory toward the player that was killed. His attention appears to be on the other player, not the puck. Just as he muscles past one player and changes his trajectory at the injured player he begins raising his right leg in what appears to me a good old fashioned reverse kick and lands it right on the other player’s throat. It does not look like he raised his leg to regain his balance mid-turn. He turned too late for the puck and just in time for his opponent that was skating straight towards him.
        It looked like a very deliberate, aimed kick at the guy’s throat.

        I think they jumped on ‘freak accident’ because it seems inconceivable that a player would deliberately murder an opposing player on the ice in front of cameras and fans but that is what it looks like to me. I hope I am wrong.

      • Nephilium

        And could have capped off the whole Brie Larson character or not. She winds up in a coma, and can pop out of it whenever they want/need to bring her back. It also gives a ready excuse as to why she’s not fixing all of the galaxy threatening issues (assuming they ever move forward with Nova).

    • Ted S.

      Translation: Don’t criticize me because vulva.

  7. Brochettaward

    The world is divided into two groups.

    He who Firsts.

    And they who second.

    We know who I am.

    • juris imprudent

      So does every woman you ever disappointed.

      • Spudalicious

        Their name is Legion.

  8. Seguin

    Oh man. That paperback blurb had me rolling!

    • Nephilium

      Just wait until the sequel: The Thing from the Tit!

      • Seguin

        Is this when the World War Three (Tits) awakens the Kaiju Gazonga?

      • Nephilium

        To be defeated by giant robots!

      • Seguin

        YES! A Barbeau-Bot!

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

        So, you think they are gonna milk it for all it is worth?

      • Seguin

        Until the numbers start to sag.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You are as bad as the Marvel folks. Trying to milk a great idea into an entire franchise.

      • Seguin

        Superheros are out, and the tits are in! Gotta keep abreast of trends, y’know.

    • Seguin

      Hang on. Sugarfree, did you write that blurb? Seems like your writing style and the small print there…

      • SugarFree

        I would completely take credit if I wrote that.

      • Seguin

        I’m still suspicious. I mean, TWO authors who like tits and hate taxes?

        Not bloody likely.

  9. The Other Kevin

    Any Florida Glibs out there? I leave tomorrow in the wee hours for lovely Tampa to play some hockey. Hopefully it will be fun enough to write about.

    • Shpip

      I was just in that part of the state (north of Tampa) today, but couldn’t stick around to see your team. Up to Big College Town from the Bay area today, as I have to pack tomorrow, then drive the missus and I to Fort Liquordale on Friday, where we get on a big-ass boat for a test GlibCruise.

    • Spartacus

      I live a couple hours south of Tampa, so I can’t be much help this time around.
      If you have time, the Dali museum isn’t too far from the Lightning’s hockey arena.
      There’s a front coming through the next day or so, so it may be getting chilly. You might have to bring some long pants.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’m in Tampa… How long you here?

  10. KSuellington

    I mentioned it here before but that T Rex painting reminds me of the gay male porn hoarder eviction I did a month or two back. Dude had literally floor to ceiling stacked with porn. Every surface of the house had cock on it. The piece de resistance was a giant painting of a lion fucking a dude. Right beneath it a coffee table with copious gay porn, erection enhancers and a mound of crystal meth.

    • Tonio

      “gay male porn hoarder eviction I did a month or two back”

      You might could write up that story for us. Sounds fun.

      • KSuellington

        Heheh. The gay realtor guy was more shocked by the house than I was. I’ve seen some things. 40-50k houses and apartments I’ve been in over the years. Thanks I should probably get off my ass and I’m finally write something for here.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Alright, which one of you Glibs lost your porn collection when you got evicted?

      • Common Tater

        None of us would have left the meth.

      • Pope Jimbo

        There is a meth to our madness?

  11. Ted S.


    Spoiler: A Third Tit is a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

  12. Certified Public Asshat

    When Carol doesn’t react, he calls her a ‘freak’ under his breath and heads into a store at an L.A. strip mall. Her revenge: stealing the jerk’s bike.”

    I did see this terrible movie but forgot everything except how terrible it is. This line is probably all you need to know about it, an unlikeable super hero/thief.

    • kinnath

      Grand theft is always an appropriate response to male chauvinism.

      • rhywun

        A wonderful lesson for any aspiring girlboss.

  13. Mojeaux

    Sixlets > M&Ms.

    • Ted S.

      When Fivelets just aren’t enough….

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      No, Sixlets are for the po’ white folk,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        or like the chocolate ration in1984

    • Nephilium

      That’s so wrong it hurts my head. Next you’ll say Circus Peanuts are the best candy…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Necco wafers?
        /Blech

      • Mojeaux

        citric acid > chocolate

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

        Oooh, yeah!

    • CPRM

      But there are no peanut or peanut butter Sixlets.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Peanut Sixlets?
        spray painted peanuts

      • Lackadaisical

        Further proving her point.

    • Grummun

      M&Ms

      That’s a pretty low bar.

      • prolefeed

        Our Halloween candy bowl, kids were pawing thru it looking for the M&Ms. Actively avoiding the Milky Way bars. Basically, more chocolate the better.

    • Lackadaisical

      Needs more heater than signs, otherwise, technically correct.

  14. Shpip

    Why the long face, pal?

    NEW YORK — A 747 cargo plane carrying a horse had to dump 20 tons of fuel and return to JFK Airport on Thursday after the horse escaped its crate inside the plane.

    The plane was in the air less than a half hour when it turned back.

    Most modern aircraft are equipped with a stall warning system. None have a stallion warning system.

    • The Other Kevin

      The pilot was like “Hay something’s wrong.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Neigh, twas more than that,

      • The Other Kevin

        There was unbridled terror on that plane.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        You’re just trying to stirrup trouble.

      • The Other Kevin

        We’re probably going to spur a narrow gaze or two.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Request permission to return to the mane terminal

      • Ted S.

        Wife, to husband: Honey, does this climate change make me look fat?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        CO2, kills the world, Makes plants grow, what’s next, warm summers?
        /Heaven forfend!

      • prolefeed

        Warm winter nights actually. As in, improving the worst winter weather.

        If you doubt the improving part, drive from Texas to northern Canada, watch the population drop off as it gets colder.

    • The Gunslinger

      The mane thing is, everyone is safe. Not a bit of trouble in the end.

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

      It sounds like they just wanted to saddle someone else with the cost.

    • juris imprudent

      Apparently this was the pilot’s first rodeo.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    DaCosta made her thoughts known during an interview with Variety’s Angelique Jackson ahead of the film’s opening weekend.

    I’m safe.

  16. Sensei

    Deeply religious doesn’t mean knowledgeable.

    Weingarten, who said in 2010 she considers herself to be a “deeply religious” Jew, quoted Jewish conservative commentator Mark Levin’s video footage of the minyan — a quorum of Jewish adults, traditionally male, required for certain religious observances — outside the White House.

  17. R.J.

    “The Marvels” is not worthy of a Beastie Boys song. Especially that one. That is the point of discussion, not if somehow the lyrics in an old song insult an actress.

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

      Dude, the whole thing is sabotage.

    • The Last American Hero

      Should have picked Girls not Intergalactic.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I mentioned it here before but that T Rex painting reminds me of the gay male porn hoarder eviction I did a month or two back. Dude had literally floor to ceiling stacked with porn. Every surface of the house had cock on it. The piece de resistance was a giant painting of a lion fucking a dude. Right beneath it a coffee table with copious gay porn, erection enhancers and a mound of crystal meth.

    Pelosi evicted her husband?

  19. DEG

    I love this Twix feed.

    I like it.

    • Spudalicious

      The etched bottle of Dom is a nice touch.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    That dude and the dino? Is that the Love that Cannot be Named?

    You know the Cloaca of Silence?

  21. Common Tater
    • Urthona

      And also part of an open one.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Are we sure she isn’t just representing the views of the majority of her constituents? Isn’t that her job?

      Also, given how many private groups that FB shut down for questioning the election or the vax, how did they not shut this one down?

  22. DEG

    Lockdowner pays a price, albeit a small one

    Well, well, well, it looks like someone is getting a taste of their own medicine.

    Dan Andrews, former premier of Victoria, Australia, has been DENIED a membership to an exclusive golf club.

    Why?

    Because he locked down the entire city during the pandemic and banned golfers from playing outdoors.

    • juris imprudent

      Sorry Dan, we do have a men’s club, but that doesn’t mean dumb pricks are allowed.

    • Seguin

      Next Week

      Local Victoria Golf Club declared natural habitat to the Northwestern Brown-striped Turf-minnow.

    • juris imprudent

      I’d love to be the judge to deny that.

    • Lackadaisical

      Holy shit, is the projection every so strong.

    • juris imprudent

      No shit. Much discussion about who was to be called what with the new grandson.

      When I was asked what I wanted to be called I said – he won’t be calling me anything for a while so there’s no rush.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Granny Fucker. Insist on that.

    • B.P.

      I just want to know how the hell “meemaw” took over in recent years.

      “In truth, most first-time grandparents aren’t that old, based on results of a 2019 survey by AARP. When broken down by generation, women who are baby boomers (born roughly from 1946-1964) were 50 years old when their first grandchild was born. Gen X women (born roughly from 1965-1980) were 40 years old.”

      40? Is that a young, single-mother thing?

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

        My son calls is mothers step-mother Meemaw. Works pretty well, as she is close to him but isn’t blood.

    • Shpip

      In truth, most first-time grandparents aren’t that old, based on results of a 2019 survey by AARP. When broken down by generation, women who are baby boomers (born roughly from 1946-1964) were 50 years old when their first grandchild was born. Gen X women (born roughly from 1965-1980) were 40 years old.

      That’s gotta be a typo.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    We should never have let Rutgers into the Big 10. They are behind this “SCIENCE!”.

    Employers are illegally paying less than minimum wage to an estimated 32,000 workers in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, according to a new report from the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University.

    On average, workers were shorted $2,700 per year over the past decade with violations concentrated in high-demand, service sector jobs in places like restaurants, preschools, hair salons and entertainment venues.

    Researchers found that Black and Latino, immigrants, young, female and part-time workers — who disproportionately fill those service sector jobs — face higher rates of minimum wage theft violations than white, Asian and male workers.

    Estimating the scale of minimum wage violations is notoriously difficult because employees are often hesitant to file complaints and employers are unlikely to admit to violating wage laws. Employers and employees may also be unaware that any violation is occurring.

    The researchers estimated violations by examining responses to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. They looked at how many people reported hourly earnings lower than the minimum wage, while making some educated guesses to account for limitations in the data. For example, the data isn’t detailed enough to know every worker’s location and employers’ size, both of which affect minimum wage rates. The researchers say their final tally likely understates the scale of minimum wage violations given their conservative methods of data analysis.

    So they openly admit that they have no hard data to back up their claims?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Of course their solution is MOAR GOVT EMPLOYEES/MONEY

      “Minneapolis is a national leader in its commitment to robust, effective enforcement,” said Fine, director of the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University, in a statement. “Unfortunately, we can see from the underlying violation rates that wage theft remains a pervasive issue. Our findings point to the urgent need for more investigators and increased support for strong co-enforcement partnerships.”

      Rutgers’ Workplace Justice Lab is also collaborating with the Minneapolis Labor Standards Enforcement Division and the Main Street Alliance on a pilot project to provide bookkeeping and payroll services to small businesses, which receive a large share of complaints about wage violations. The report’s authors note 54% of minimum wage complaints made to Minneapolis during the study period came from workers at small businesses.

      Nothing left to cut.

    • rhywun

      LOL the same people most likely support illegals working under the table. Totally not related to the issue of “minimum wage violations”.

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

        These same people will complain about the lack of jobs for African Americans, but then spend all of their time trying to shut down industry due to imaginary ecological and climate issues.

  24. Common Tater

    “The former editor-in-chief of the left-leaning news website The Recount has been charged with multiple counts of child pornography.

    Slade Sohmer, 44, is accused of possessing and distributing hundreds of child abuse material, including images depicting the rape of a child who was around four years old…

    He previously worked as a camp counselor for a nonprofit in New York, per his LinkedIn, which says he has worked as a co-director at Camp Power since 2010….

    Fox News noted that Buzzfeed has removed a 2018 article about Sohmer titled ‘People Are Touched By This Writer’s Conversation With A Bunch Of Fourth Graders.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12754171/Former-editor-left-leaning-website-Recount-Slade-Sohmer-charged-multiple-counts-child-pornography.html

    CWAA

    • Pope Jimbo

      See that is why you don’t hire dyslexic journalos! The title should have been “People are conversing about This Writer’s Touching a Bunch of Fourth Graders”.

      Also, I’m sure the camp was really named “Camp Power Bottom”.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The researchers estimated violations by examining responses to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. They looked at how many people reported hourly earnings lower than the minimum wage, while making some educated guesses to account for limitations in the data.

    SCIENCE!

  26. SDF-7

    Congress has decided to cocktease the country again. I’m sure they’ll reauthorize everything and maybe throw in some more privacy-fucking bits just for fun at the last minute.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I can’t even believe that the FBI and the other intelligence agencies are even pretending to care if there is a law or not. They haven’t followed the current one and nothing happened, so why fight about any future law?

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Won’t anyone think of the children union journalos?

    The 21st century has not been kind to the news business, to put it lightly. Evaporating print ad revenue, the siphoning of digital ad dollars by Silicon Valley, colossally poor foresight and management from media executives—none of this is breaking news.

    But conditions have been uniquely distressing for the St. Paul newspaper that’s set to turn 175 next spring. While the Pioneer Press has endured the same industry indignities as its longtime rival, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, forecasts are (relatively) rosy to the west, compared to almost two decades of bloodletting to the east. And much of that can be attributed to ownership.

    In 2006, when Alden came into the picture as a minority owner, the editorial staff boasted 202 union news workers—reporters, editors, photographers, copyeditors. Ten years later that number had plummeted to 78. The latest tally from September: a skeleton crew of 29 guild members in the newsroom, plus a handful of managers. Union workers on the ad and circulation side have disappeared at a similar clip. In total, the Pioneer Press has shed 336 union jobs during the Alden years. (The Strib’s unit, of which Racket staffers were once a part, dipped from 309 to 209 during roughly that same span.)

    Woe is us! Union jobs have been cut!!!! Why won’t those evil bastards who bought the paper with their own money treat us better?

    What would be interesting is if the PiPress decided to become a conservative newspaper. Instead of a twin of the Red StarTribune. Maybe cover the bullshit that the Strib doesn’t? Like Omar marrying her brother?

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

      The news business is fine, witness Taibbi’s joint, The Free Press, Michael Schellenberger, and various others who put giving people information first and an otherwise quality product. That is the problem. These so called legacy media companies are more bloated than a group of hippos, pass of propaganda as news, and couldn’t find a cost cutting measure to save their business model’s bikini.

      • rhywun

        My town is one of those that went the Gannett route and now there’s only one actual reporter for the one print rag that is left (which I have not seen for sale, anywhere, BTW). Everything else is farmed out to the national staff. You have all probably seen many of these outfits – they all share the same web design which more or less adapts the USA Today look.

        Yet there are several free rags and multiple additional online-only outlets. Some of them even present alternate views.

        Has anything been lost? It’s the same argument put out by people who miss Walter Cronkite.

  28. grrizzly

    Some folks who sounded reasonable with respect to covid have completely lost the plot by now.

    Trump will likely be convicted before the 2024 election. Even if he isn’t, he’ll likely lose as he did in 2020. Far as I can tell, Trump’s purpose is to stop Ron DeSantis from getting nominated—likely out of fear of a COVID commission. If you want justice, Trump’s not your guy.

    There will be no meaningful covid commission or justice no matter who is installed in the White House in 2025. Most of the population and almost all of the elites have been complicit in the covid tyranny.

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

      Too many people want Covid to just go away, historically and medically. Everyone knows they did stupid shit that had costs that are still being born out, and they just want that to go as far down the memory hole as possible. If Trump tried to ride the “I created the vaccine” wave now, it wouldn’t do him a speck of good, as, again, too many people want the whole thing forgotten.

      • rhywun

        I’m not sure I agree.

        Certain cohorts are all too willing to mask up and jab up again. And the vote – often.

      • The Last American Hero

        But not for Trump.

    • Suthenboy

      They hate DeSantis’ platform and history as much as Trumps. This is a clear admission that they think Trump can win.
      I think he stands a damned good chance but I have been wrong before.

  29. B.P.

    Antisemitic remarks overtake city council meeting’s public comment

    https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/antisemitic-remarks-colorado-city-council-meeting-public-comment/73-09e7bef3-b616-4b58-96bc-f3213a7bdab7

    “Speakers identified themselves with names like Andy Zemite, Judy Stroyer and Sieg Heil.”

    “there were a couple of speakers that made comments about potentially putting people in camps and rounding people up in the United States and putting them in camps. That would be illegal and that is not protected speech.” [said attorney Jessica Smith]

    Huh?

    • Sensei

      Charitably, threats are not protected.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      My town stopped using Zoom for city council meetings for this reason.

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

        Too many Holden McGroyns in the East Bay? I bet they all look the same to the Walnut Creek Ladies League.

      • rhywun

        I took Bart to Concord for “fun” when I lived in SF. I think I was awake for Walnut Creek, not sure.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Nobody goes to Concord for fun.

      • rhywun

        I worked the night shift – I didn’t get out much.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That actually would have been funny, but no. It was the exact same stuff as mentioned in the link. People calling in with names like Judy Stroyer and Zeke Heil. In addition there was a Sadie Enword. Probably a bunch of bored teenagers rather than actual racists. And the Ladies’ League is too busy visiting the wineries around here to be bothered with city council meetings.

    • rhywun

      virtual speakers

      Ahhh. I was wondering who is going to show their face for that.

      I am reminded of the cowards who mask up at anti-Israel events.

      I don’t like cowards.

  30. Sensei

    My man Eric at South Main Auto very unhappy with the engineer that came up with the automotive red locking electrical connector. I despise them and they are unnecessary on many uses.

    Which made me think of the classic if you could go back in time would you kill Hitler or that engineer?

    https://youtu.be/x3y6MauR0NM?si=Q0xjiwLBtR5VbARz

    • Suthenboy

      No. The guy who came up with the flat, slotted screw.
      No, wait. Maybe the inventor of drywall.
      Jesus, I dunno, there are so many choices.

      • Sensei

        To be fair the flat slotted screw was an evolution, the problem is that its superior offspring haven’t eliminated it.

      • The Hyperbole

        All right, I bite. What’s wrong with Drywall?

    • CPRM

      Why fucking bother for a horn?

      • Sensei

        Inspection.

  31. CPRM

    I have the night off and an article running tonight, so Zoom Night Ahoy!

  32. Evan from Evansville

    Anyone around? Phone interview w the Children’s Museum (Indy) went quite well. BUT. There are two more interviews, and one is an in-person lesson plan component or something. All of it is FAR too much work for fucking $17/hour. Guess is they have so many applicants they can afford to. It ain’t worth that to me at all. The other one is easier, still looks great on a resume, has a regular 1:45-6:15pm schedule Mon-Fri.

    Background check came back today and, duh, I’m clean. (I was good at not getting caught, knowing my rights when I was, and handled myself well under interrogation, though that was in Korea. (Yep. I am a perfectly middle-class, short, pretty cute…white dude. Of course all help. I’ll take ’em.)

    That gig is $15.50/hour. And close by. It’s just logical. Every day schedule and stability. And they know this isn’t a LifeTime Job for me. Have other museums’ interest come March or so anyway.

    Onward. Upward. Always. (In my own broken way.)