Monday Afternoon Links

by | Dec 4, 2023 | Daily Links | 135 comments

The World at large deserves this.

 

I don’t know when the world started sniffing glue, but it is quite apparent that people are out of their flippin’ minds. Here are some links to show you what I mean.

  • “The high-profile trial is expected to last several more months. An appeal process, if necessary, could take years.” Um, good timing on that.
  • He was still running? I know some people run to drop and endorse to get a Cabinet spot or such, but many of these folks I just don’t see where they get off doing this.
  • We are innocent victims, oh, and we are going to rape and murder even more! How does anyone hear Hamas and not just spit and move on?
  • Speaking of the Hamassholes… what the heck in going on here? Who knew righteous jihad was jamming up a museum and a Golden Arches?

Music – going old again.

The comments are all yours. Bah!

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135 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Gnu butt?

    • UnCivilServant

      That poor skeletal cow.

    • SDF-7

      I understand Stallman might have GNU CowButt working by 2050. Meanwhile, PenguinButt is widespread and scalable….

      • Pat

        Plan 9 will supplant them both in 2235

      • R.J.

        speaking of Penguinbutt, where the heck is Penguin? Anyone heard anything?

      • Tonio

        No. I’m worried.

        I’m going to reach out to him again, and start working the vast Glibertarians network.

    • Shpip

      Fortunately, wildebeest have never been introduced to North America — which is a good thing, since they would not only compete with bison for resources, but would be tremendously destructive to crops.

      No gnus is good gnus.

      • Suthenboy

        I think you are probably going to hell for that. Well, at least it will be another reason added to the list.
        Keep it up and you might even catch up to me.

      • Shpip

        Like all varieties bred exclusively for their milk, this one has a fine dairy air.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Your puns are udderly wonderful!

      • Animal

        How now?

      • Don escaped Texas

        !

  2. Common Tater

    I picked the wrong time to quit sniffing glue.

    • SDF-7

      At least you weren’t called Shirley.

  3. Common Tater

    Never heard of him.

  4. The Other Kevin

    So who are all these protesters? Students? People of middle eastern persuasion? Seems like an awful lot of them.

      • Fourscore

        Where does the money come from? Gotta be well coordinated and funded, that kind of money should be traceable. Nice signs, headdress, transportation.

        Young people that seem to not work or go to school.

      • Homple

        The people capable of tracing the funds do not trace the funds, therefore they want the funding and the rioting to continue. Why they do, I cannot guess.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah — the sudden global swell of support for raping terrorists who’d happily decapitate or toss off a building most/all of the “Gender Studies” types is a decidedly odd phenomenon.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Someone posted a profile of the commie assholes with ties to China pushing this crap.

      • rhywun

        CWAA

        How is it that so many commie ratfuckers start successful businesses?! It doesn’t make any sense.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It wouldn’t surprise me if selling “startups” is yet another way to funnel money to connected people.

      • Sean

        Not everyone can get a book deal.

      • Fourscore

        I just finished a book, “We Have Been Harmonized” by a German, Kai Strittmatter. Harmonized being the Chinese term for the use of propaganda. Interesting read, published in 2020, takes Trump to task with his handling of Covid, etc, amongst other things. The use AI is very well advanced.

        Bread and circuses can make most of 1.3 B people compliant.

        I’ll gladly send it along, hit me at latvia2112 at the yazoo

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

        How many of those businesses are actually successful?

        I mean, make real money from real customers, as opposed being money laundering schemes, a la SBC.

      • rhywun

        Missed that but would not surprise me in the least. One of the CCP’s major goals is tearing the US apart.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        How much of it is support for Hamas and how much is for the Palestinians in general? Then again I’m sure there’s a hardcore (or moroncore) bunch that thinks any enemy of Western interests is a friend of theirs but they couldn’t be wrong.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “more wrong”

      • Pat

        The server squirrels don’t like something or other about the comment I wrote about it, but the gist was: Whip people into intense enough hatred, and bad guys become good guys just by being enemies of the badder guy.

      • kinnath

        Since no one commented this morning Squirrel

      • Rat on a train

        My cat challenges the squirrel to a match. Get the red card ready.

      • Fourscore

        Animal siblings learn through rough house playing, possibly that cute little guy outgrew his siblings and is preparing for reality. I’ve seen red squirrels stop the mating act and tussle a rival and then return to what they had been doing, all in a couple minutes’ time.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        How much of it is support for Hamas and how much is for the Palestinians in general?

        A distinction without a difference. Hamas are not rogue terrorist actors. They are the military arm of a state and appear to have wide support of its citizens.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The “support” of a people under the thumb of a ruthless cabal of murderers isn’t really support.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Even if they share the views, goals, and desires of the cabal murderers?

        I don’t really see much evidence for ‘peace with Israel’ having broad support among Arabs living in the Middle East. Quite the contrary. Not really a historical or modern record of Middle Eastern inhabitants having much of a desire for peace with anyone.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Exactly. It’s not the Likud-Hamas war. Israel-Palestine/Gaza or Israeli-Palestinian/Gazan.

    • rhywun

      It’s a mix of both.

      In NYC, the Palis have been protesting regularly every few weeks for many years. I know because it was around the corner from my home, NYC’s Arab central.

      The same folks have been embolded by the murders of Oct. 7 to march around Manhattan and the crowds massively swollen by leftists who use any excuse to rabble.

    • Drake

      Once we accept a million or so Palestinian refugees, there will be a lot more. Also more stories wondering why anti-Semitism is on the rise (probably white supremacy).

      • The Last American Hero

        Well, people from the ME are white on the census forms.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Burgum probably just came to his senses.

    • Suthenboy

      Much like the GayJay campaign it was clear he was going through the motions, had no chance and no intention of winning. Trying to siphon votes from Trump?
      Trump is like the fantasy monster that only gets stronger every time you hit him.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Now I want to watch Repo Man.

      • Timeloose

        Isn’t that Iggy Pop lip syncing in that scene?

      • Bobarian LMD

        That is the actual Circle Jerks performing their song.

        “I can’t believe I used to like these guys!”

    • Timeloose

      Instead, lets go for Sushi and not pay.

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

        Hey kid, wanna make 10 bucks?

  7. Pat

    The 500 errors are back…

  8. rhywun

    Who knew righteous jihad was jamming up a museum and a Golden Arches?

    It has little to nothing to do with “jihad”. It has everything to do with Marxist activists using Oct. 7 as another excuse to stir up shit.

    See also: the 2020 summer of love. Same crowd.

    • Sean

      Oh, the angry, the bitter, and the unfuckables!

    • Common Tater

      Palestinian Lives Matter

      • rhywun

        I should clarify – in both cases there was a “mostly peaceful” core who actually were attracted by the issue at hand. And in both cases the crowds were greatly magnified by Antifa types. It’s how you get “end capitalism” T-shirts at a pro-Hamas demonstration. I am somewhat surprised that Antifa hasn’t ramped up another summer of love – maybe it’s too cold out?

      • Pat

        I am somewhat surprised that Antifa hasn’t ramped up another summer of love

        That’s next year during the election cycle. No need to fight fascism when there’s no bad orange fascist to fight.

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

        Most Arabs I have met are pretty pro capitalism. At least, the ones who don’t just want to kill Jews.

      • rhywun

        Most Arabs I have met are pretty pro capitalism.

        Same. They bought up all the little shops in my old neighborhood that successive waves of Norwegians and Italians abandoned when their families all moved to Long Island.

      • RBS

        Not really though. Just ask Hamas.

    • Ted S.

      Compare the reaction to this and the reaction to the kerfuffle in Dublin.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Well looky here- something new for me to not give a shit about

    They love me, they love me not — the phrase sounds like an innocent children’s game. But for some people looking for a relationship in the modern dating scene, a potential partner’s wavering commitment is a painful experience that can leave them torn between feeling hopeful and hopeless.

    These days, the harmful behavior is popularly known as “breadcrumbing” — sporadic acts of attention that don’t really result in anything the victim may consider meaningful, said Duygu Balan, a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and attachment wounding in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Breadcrumbing refers to a form of manipulation — whether intentional or not — involving one person “feigning interest and acting as though they feel sincerely interested and invested in a relationship with another person when they are not,” said Dr. Monica Vermani, a Canada-based clinical psychologist and author of “A Deeper Wellness: Conquering Stress, Mood, Anxiety and Traumas.”

    Experiencing social isolation or loneliness is associated with a higher risk of death, a new study has found.

    ——-

    Regardless of why someone breadcrumbs, the impact can be incredibly harmful, especially if it lasts years, experts said.

    Here’s how to recognize when you’re being breadcrumbed, and how to move on if the time comes.

    Women, emotional children hardest hit.

    • SDF-7

      Strange how the ever increasing focus on softening the “hard” parts of life and relationships seems to be increasing the immature, emotionally stunted narcissists who believe everything they dislike is tantamount to trying to kill them.

      So strange….

    • RBS

      Nice to see people still making shit up.

    • rhywun

      I think I’ll just keep calling such people sociopaths.

      • Pat

        It doesn’t have to rise to that level necessarily, but it’s not a big secret that relationships can be emotionally transactional, just like they can be sexually or materially transactional. If that’s not your bag, the solution isn’t exactly rocket science.

    • R.J.

      Breadcrumbs are carbs. Leave bacon crumbs.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Chicharrones.

        Every slight or mistreatment first needs a diagnosis in order to bail?

  10. The Late P Brooks

    It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.

    • Raven Nation

      Oops, lyrics definitely NSW

  11. Common Tater

    “He’s Got $250 Million to Spend on Communist Revolution

    Fergie Chambers is heir to one of the biggest American family fortunes. He’s also a revolutionary with ‘actual bloodlust’ building a mysterious commune in Massachusetts. His neighbors are scared….

    It’s a commune. It’s a “liberatory training space.” It’s a housing collective meets agricultural collective. It’s where the People’s Gym (“free for working-class people and permanently closed to cops, active military, landlords, and capitalists”) is located. It’s where the journal Combat Liberalism is based. It’s the headquarters for the Berkshire Communists group, which Fergie started. It’s where the Babochki Collective, the funding arm of all of Fergie’s projects, sometimes meets.

    Fergie’s the General Secretary of the Berkshire Communists, which describes itself as a “revolutionary Marxist-Leninist collective, aiming to promote the formation of a powerful workers’ party.” But the urgent issue that late summer afternoon—before Hamas’s war against Israel; before Fergie called for “making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public”; before three of Fergie’s comrades were arrested on the roof a weapons manufacturer in New Hampshire—was that 16 comrades were descending on Alford for a weekend retreat, and it’s been pouring rain. The canvas tents they pitched on the property are letting in water. A skylight in one of the six houses there is leaking. The punching bags in the barn-turned-gym are in the wrong place….”

    https://www.thefp.com/p/hes-got-250-million-to-spend-on-communist

    CWAA

    • R.J.

      He will be in a gutter, forgotten and covered with his own vomit in less than 3 years. All his money will be spent.

      • robc

        That was my thought. $250 million doesn’t go that far these days. Especially if he isn’t leaving it in the capitalist investments and only spending the proceeds.

        This is also why I set up a trust for my daughter. Not that she would get anywhere near $250 million, but between 1/2 of my Mom’s estate and the life insurance if something happened to me and my wife, she would have far too much money to deal with.

        She can have 5% per year forever.

    • rhywun

      Daddy must be so proud.

  12. Common Tater

    “A Native American man has been imprisoned for 35 years in the gruesome killings of two drinking buddies – including one homicide where he hacked the victim with an ax and left his head in a stove.

    Shilo Aaron Oldrock, 30, pleaded guilty in federal charge to counts of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter in August for the violent murders of two men, identified only by their initials – E.B and P.S.

    Oldrock, a member of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, later admitted to police he killed both P.S. and E.B. Both crimes took place within the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

    In one killing, Oldrock killed his drinking and meth buddy and burned his body in a barrel. Months later, consumed by paranoia of the other killing and the death of his grandmother, he killed another friend by stabbing him 22 times before decapitating him.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12824209/Native-American-Shiloh-Aaron-Oldrock-murder-sentence-head-ax-stove.html

    Why are the victims anonymous?

    • SDF-7

      He hacked the records too?

      • R.J.

        He gave them thirty whacks with his axe?

    • The Other Kevin

      “two drinking buddies”

      “his drinking and meth buddy”

      That explains it.

    • Ted S.

      What culture was being appropriated here?

    • SDF-7

      Federal historical or natural preserve announcement incoming…

      • The Other Kevin

        It’s going to be super fun watching them explain away how bad lithium mining is for the environment.

      • Tonio

        Native American “sacred space.”

    • The Other Kevin

      California: We’re banning gas cars and only allowing EV’s.
      The Universe: Great! Here’s a huge supply of lithium. All you have to do is mine it.
      California: * shifty awkward look *

    • Pat

      Here’s where we get to find out how serious all the watermelons are about racing towards the battery-powered future. Spoiler: not very.

      • R.J.

        Yep.

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

      Of course it is under the Salton sea. That might just be enough to get a mining permit right there. Place is a redneck shit hole.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s a man-made lake covering part of what was tribal land so draining it would restore native land.

  13. The Other Kevin

    My niece had her dance recital yesterday. It’s a big production, 100+ kids and I always look forward to it. This year’s theme was “Christmas in the City”. Thankfully they didn’t choose Chicago or San Francisco. None of the dancers were shot or had to step around feces.

    • Swiss Servator

      “Dance of the Needle Strewn Sidewalk”

    • The Last American Hero

      Semi-related are the aids drug commercials telling gay men that if they take this pill they can party like it’s 1975 but with no social stigma. Because having countless random sex partners doesn’t expose you to a million other cooties, and that’s assuming the drugs work as advertised.

      This won’t end well.

      • Drake

        We didn’t get the flying cars we were promised, but you can prep up!

    • Pat

      That’s a cold-blooded crime.

    • Suthenboy

      I am trying to imagine what path led you from volcanoes to fucking corpses.
      ok, I can see that….

    • Pope Jimbo

      I wonder if his defense lawyer will try the old “Blame the Victim” strategy?

      Hire some investigators to dig up some dirt on the so-called victim to make it not seem so bad.

  14. Aloysious

    To you ‘Bah!’ I’m adding a ‘Humbug!’.

    Stupid news. Stupid face masks. Stupid me for not paying attention and spending$22 on one windshield wiper.

    • R.J.

      Oy. That hurts. Are you going to return it or get another $22 wiper?

  15. Pat

    Revenge of the feudalists

    ‘The Earth does not belong to us’, said King Charles at COP28 in Dubai last week. I don’t know about that, Your Majesty: a lot of it certainly belongs to your family. When he was Prince of Wales, Charles oversaw the Duchy of Cornwall, which consists of 205 square miles of land spread across 23 counties in England and Wales. Upon his ascension to the throne last year, he handed this vast territory to his son, William. Since 1337, you see, it’s been the heir to the throne who has enjoyed command over the duchy. Imagine the brass neck it takes to pontificate to the plebs about their non-ownership of the Earth while you and your family sit atop vast tracts of land worth £1 billion. What the king should have said is: ‘The Earth does not belong to you.’

    Rarely has the feudalistic streak in green politics been so fantastically exposed. Here we have a king of unimaginable wealth and unearned power flying by private jet to a tribal autocracy to wag his finger at the global masses over their eco-unfriendly behaviour. At COP, Charles rubbed shoulders with the monarchs of the United Arab Emirates – ‘an autocracy with the sheen of a progressive, modern state’, in the words of the New York Times – and other kings, sultans and emirs. He chinwagged with the Sultan of Brunei, who owns 7,000 luxury cars, including 300 Ferraris. Then they’ll tell you you’re killing the planet by driving to Tesco once a week in your Skoda. He made merry with the Emir of Qatar, a multi-billionaire who has an entire ‘fleet’ of private jets, some of which can carry his limousines. Then they’ll damn you for polluting the skies with your annual Ryanair flight to Mallorca.

    So many monarchs, billionaires, CEOs, celebs and climate-change windbags are flocking to Dubai for COP that the carbon footprint of the blasted event is expected to be stratospheric. For some perspective, COP26, held in Glasgow in 2021, had over 38,000 delegates and together they pumped out a whopping 102,500 tonnes of CO2 – the same amount produced by 8,000 Britons in a year. The Dubai COP has more than double that number of delegates (97,000), many of whom are rocking up in a ‘flurry of private jets’ and some of whom will mingle in the freshly built Leadership Pavilion, with its ‘shades of cream and gold’, ‘designer lighting’ and general ‘vibe of a luxury car dealership’, where the strictly non-alcoholic tipples include ‘iced Americanos’ made with a ‘gem of a bean from the Kaw Kaw Mountain in Papua New Guinea’. Then they’ll tell you to turn off the heating in your terraced house to ‘save the planet’.

    And who built the facilities in which this gold-collared superclass will gather to bemoan the perils of modernity? Poor Africans and Asians, of course. In October, it was revealed that migrant workers were toiling in ‘perilous heat’ to construct the luxury buildings in which His Majesty and others would be holding forth on the world’s end.

    • R.J.

      I am glad we are seeing the end of monarchy.

    • B.P.

      It’s nice of them to just go ahead and rub our faces in it.

    • Suthenboy

      Somewhere around here I have a collection of Clemens essays. He wrote one after a trip around Europe. He spoke of the titled class there as if they were scum of the earth.
      I feel the same about our entitled class here. Pure scum.

  16. Shpip

    Future GlibCruise contender?

    It’d be like visiting The Villages, but with ocean breezes replacing the endless whir of golf carts.

    • R.J.

      Ooooo! Let’s see how this first one goes.

      How many have committed to 2024, besides myself and KK?

      • Shpip

        I think we have eight total.

        Of course, anyone who wants to increase that number can sign up here.

    • Fourscore

      Made me laugh…

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Backlash

    The political branch of the powerful Koch network is facing scrutiny as operatives chafe against a decision to endorse Nikki Haley for president that many see as out of step with their values.

    The decision by Americans for Prosperity’s super PAC to get behind a candidate with seemingly little chance of prevailing in the GOP primary — and, more critically, one who espouses views contrary to key parts of the Koch network’s well-financed advocacy efforts — has confounded longtime Koch-world operatives alike.

    Chris Maidment, who up until this weekend was a director of grassroots operations for Americans for Prosperity in the key primary state of New Hampshire, spoke out late Friday on X that he opposed the group’s endorsement of Haley and would not be helping the organization to support her.

    A day later, Maidment was “terminated” from the organization, he said, and he told NBC News that he is not the only one within the Koch-backed group who is disappointed in the Haley endorsement. He noted Americans for Prosperity leadership were warned there would be “attrition” within the group’s ranks if they moved ahead with backing Haley.

    If I were a person who took an active participatory interest in the election, Haley’s affiliation with the UN would be a dealbreaker.

    • Drake

      Will Reason be publishing “The Libertarian Cse for Nikki Haley” shortly?

      • Pat

        Make Neocon Warmongering Great Again!

      • Rat on a train

        Make the ads stop!

      • The Last American Hero

        It does explain the Desantis hate that goes on every other day there.

    • Pat

      Americans for Prosperity

      Ahh, but they were never specific about whose prosperity.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Here’s where we get to find out how serious all the watermelons are about racing towards the battery-powered future. Spoiler: not very.

    Aren’t they desperately trying to “protect” a big lithium deposit in Nevada?

    • Suthenboy

      Stated vs. Revealed preferences. As usual the left doesnt give a flying fuck about what they purport to support.
      The push towards an unworkable all electric world is directed to push us into a world of stone age technology. Of course this is ridiculous. There are far too many people today to operate in medieval level technology. The prey will be spooked long before the trap is sprung and the architects of this, in my ideal world, will end up in gibbets.

  19. DEG

    Oops

    Former New Jersey governor and Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie will not be on the Maine primary election ballot after failing to obtain the required number of in-state petition signatures.

    • Rat on a train

      Christie only received 844 signatures

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Story about how short days are bad for mental health. The real reason I posted it, though, was for the hate the “experts” put on Daylight Savings Time.

    For many of his patients, Stiehm said, time change created by daylight savings time, “creates problems.” Even having sleep thrown off by an hour can be hard for someone who struggles to get enough sleep in the first place. “For instance, I’m used to waking up at seven in the morning. Now, when daylight savings time ends, I’m waking up at six because my body is used to that. I used to go to bed at the right time on the clock, but now I’m waking up an hour earlier.”

    Stiehm believes that daylight savings time is so bad for our collective mental health that he’s been advocating for putting an end to the practice. While he says that the jury’s still out on whether we should select permanent daylight savings time or permanent standard time, he said, “I think there’s universal agreement that we should stop changing the clock.” It’s only a matter of time — pun intended — before we put an end to it.

    If anyone asked, Stiehm said his vote would be for sticking with standard time.

    “I’m a doctor,” he said. “I only have to care about saving lives. I believe we should be on standard time year ‘round. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the European Sleep Research Society agree. This is recommended broadly.”

    I can’t decide if the doc is really that much of an asshole, or if the journalo can’t write for shit.

    • Suthenboy

      I am retired. I sleep when I want to and wake when I want to.
      I am up at 2-3am and in bed by 6-7, unless I choose otherwise.

    • Suthenboy

      I remember when flying was a pleasure.

    • Fourscore

      Bovard was being “Harmonized”. The fear of missing a plane or being ostracized by other passengers cause most people to simply fall in line and be quiet.

      I once had to go to the country land commissioner’s office to see about getting a variance. My wife told me to just shut up ’cause the previous time I had kind of exploded and walked out before I could get anything done. Another time I asked the clerk if she remembered me, she replied, “I’ll get my supervisor” and she did.

      • Suthenboy

        What the hell? All these years and I am just now finding out I have a twin?
        Oh well, I am usually the last one to find out about all kinds of things about me and what all I have been up to.

  21. Mojeaux

    Good morning, Glibs!

    • Gender Traitor

      You need to come hang out with us during the pre-AM Lynx hours! (That would be 5 a.m. CST) 😉