Sunday Morning Links of Ennui

by | Nov 10, 2024 | Daily Links | 245 comments

I dunno, I’m just not feeling it. Maybe because it’s Sunday and the Ravens aren’t playing. Maybe just being tired of dealing with college kids. Maybe feeling the futility of trying to have some emotional support and relaxed companionship of the female sort. Maybe getting sick of hearing the Team Red-Team Blue triumphalist-defeatist tropes over and over. I dunno. Whatever. I’m just bored. But at least I have some links in my life.

Birthdays today have among them a guy whose bowel troubles were legendary; a guy who faded from view; a guy whose music you’ve listened to more often than whatever famous pop star is your kink; a guy who could definitely make you a sandwich; one of a pantheon of hoplophobic demons; some drunk guy who shouldn’t talk about his son; star of one of the worst movies ever made; one of the reasons “Palestinians” are so beloved in Lebanon; the lucky man in the middle; and a pitch-perfect voice actress in Daisy Dukes.

Yawn, here’s Links.

One more example of why government employee unions should be burned to the ground and the ashes pulverized.We ask that the public keep in mind that these people are their friends, family, and neighbors and do not deserve to live in fear for upholding the law.” Yes, they do, absolutely.

Dodged two bullets- a neocon and a big government drug warrior.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Yet another, “You people are so stupid, why aren’t you voting for us???” analysis from our favorite commie news outlet.

Just in case you think shit be cray-cray here, (((we))) say, “Hold my Manischewitz!”

We Americans really need to step up our game.

ISD is working on their fundraising.

Follow-up to a story from yesterday: the cunt got fired. Given the iron grip of civil service, I suspect there will be a nice money cushion coming Marn’i Washington’s way if it hasn’t done so already as part of the termination.

Here’s an actual mash-up between Deep Purple and The Byrds, yet has a Savoy Brown feel to it. They also did a surf song on their one-and-only album. It’s fallen into obscurity but shouldn’t. The music of the Old Guy’s teen years was pretty rich.

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Old Man With Candy

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

245 Comments

  1. Pat

    Maybe getting sick of hearing the Team Red-Team Blue triumphalist-defeatist tropes over and over.

    That’s just what I’d expect from some demfag LOSER!

  2. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Haley, Pompeo will not join second administration”
    Imma not start pleasuring myself just yet, have to wait to see who he actually does hire, but that’s good news.

    • juris imprudent

      He may actually have learned that Generals don’t follow orders they don’t like. Maybe he’ll try retired Colonels this time around?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Let us hope so, the smart guys who won’t toe the political line all seem to top out as Colonels.

      • SarumanTheGreat

        As I recall, all of the big military ‘stars’ of WW II were colonels or below. All the then current generals at the start of the military buildup were passed by for active commands of any sort, except the one who was put in charge of the Japanese-American internment camps.

      • juris imprudent

        That was GEN Marshall’s doing – he had a plan for what he wanted in Army GOs. Eisenhower and Bradley were the prime examples, Patton was another exception.

  3. Pat

    a guy whose bowel troubles were legendary

    Happy birthday Milt Moss?

    • Pat

      a guy whose music you’ve listened to more often than whatever famous pop star is your kink

      Happy birthday John Williams?

      • Pat

        some drunk guy who shouldn’t talk about his son

        Happy birthday Joe Biden?

      • creech

        Thomas Crapper?

    • juris imprudent

      a guy whose bowel troubles were legendary

      Happy Birthday John Harvey Kellogg?

    • The Hyperbole

      I was going with George Brett

      • Old Man With Candy

        One of my favorite YouTube clips.

    • Ted S.

      I was thinking Jonah.

      • Suthenboy

        Winner

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    In an alternate reality where Harris won what’s the chance that FEMA drone would have been fired? My money’s on somewhere between zero and zero.

    • robodruid

      They would have been fired for being too stupid to leave evidence of the crime.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Nah, just quietly moved over to State.

    • Suthenboy

      Transferred to training where she would teach the others to do the same.
      This is why culture is important. The idea of doing something like that comes from a third world banana republic mentality. Shitholes are shitholes because they have shit cultures that produce shit mentality.

  5. Pat

    ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — The union that represents New York State’s Environmental Conservation Officers

    Because, yes, that needed to be a thing…

  6. PieInTheSky

    star of one of the worst movies ever made – Dracula II: Ascension was a pretty bad flick

    • Ted S.

      He alluded to the movie in question in the description of a different birthday person.

  7. Gender Traitor

    Hey, everybody! OMWC is bored! Let’s start some shit here in the comments! Nothing like a good old-fashioned flame war to liven things up! 😃🔥

    I…got nothin’.

    Never mind. 😕

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      CUT IT OUT OR I’LL TURN THIS CAR AROUND! I’LL DO IT!!

    • Sean

      🍍🍍🍍
      🍕🍕🍕

      🧐🧐🧐

      • The Gunslinger

        So my wife has started working at a locally owned pizza joint. They’ve been around for decades and make a very thin crust pizza with 5 topping choices and that is the extent of the menu.

        Anyway, I noticed recently the apron she brought home has “home of the dago flapjack” embroidered on the front. I always considered dago to be a slur. Am I wrong?

      • Sean

        AFAIK.

        *shrug*

      • Suthenboy

        Insultes in general only have teeth if there is some truth to them. Make of that what you will.

      • SarumanTheGreat

        At one time it was a wopping big slur. But only when others applied it Eyeties.

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe they’re “reclaiming the D word.” Does it appear frequently in Italian-American rap?

      • R C Dean

        “‘Eh, I got your D word right here.” *tugs crotch*

        Like that?

      • Mojeaux

        @saruman What you did there was seen.

      • slumbrew

        “That’s our word”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        But what are the five toppings? Onion, mushroom, peppers, pepperoni, and sausage?

    • Pat

      Deep dish isn’t pizza. Circumcision is male genital mutilation. Your favorite sportsball team sucks, my favorite sportsball team is better. You favorite band sucks, my favorite band is better. Your favorite book and author sucks, Ubik by Phillip K Dick is better. Etc.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Ubik really is better.

        Unless it is Moby Dick. Only loser hate that.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not feeling it.

    • Old Man With Candy

      To be fair, I had a delightful time last night at dinner with the latest NPRista.

      • R.J.

        Do tell!

      • Old Man With Candy

        She is intelligent and mostly sane. Never mentioned the election (bless her!), but we had a close accord on the sociological origins of the Covid madness and several other contentious issues (she’s a fan of Elon Musk, for example).

        I’m trying to plot the logical next steps.

      • Mojeaux

        So … she’s Mary Poppins?

      • The Last American Hero

        Have her over for some wine and play Garrison Keillor tapes on the hi-fi.

        It’s a real panty dropper with that crowd.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Oh, and heartily agreed with the Sowell quote about bureaucrats when we talked about government versus private sector: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

        I’m waiting for the shoe to drop.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m waiting for the shoe to drop.

        You finally notice the Adam’s apple?

      • Mojeaux

        @JI, legit LOL

    • Aloysious

      New England style clam chowder is superior to Manhattan style clam chowder.

      There are no beans or tomatoes in real chili. Chili goes on the beans, and chopped tomatoes go on top.

      Artisanal small batch mayonnaise is the only way.

      • Mojeaux

        Some of us are too lazy to make our own mayo.

      • Old Man With Candy

        All it takes is a teenager with acne.

      • Mojeaux

        Hush, you. We all know about your irrational hatred of mayo.

      • Suthenboy

        “There are no beans or tomatoes in real chili.”

        Hmmmm. I had a butterfly net around here somewhere….

  8. The Hyperbole

    “star of one of the worst movies ever made”

    We’re gonna need a bigger hint.

      • Name's BEAM. *James* BEAM.

        Ishtar.

        Honourable Mention: Picnic at Hanging Rock. Not even my smokin’ hot girlfriend at the time sitting beside me in the theatre could’ve redeemed that waste of two hours of my life.

    • Ted S.

      I don’t get OMWC’s hate for The Seven-Ups.

      • Tres Cool

        “Black Dog” with Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis is a genuine stinkburger.

        Also, Meatloaf.

    • Aloysious

      My Dinner with Andre and/or Ordinary People. They are just the worst.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        You’re lucky if you haven’t known that sort of ordinary person.

        MTM’s own son died around that time, and apparently she was much like her character.

      • Aloysious

        I found the story to be unbearable. Thankfully, I don’t know anything about MTM.

        With the exception of MTM, I like most of the actors in that movie. Heck, I specifically tried to watch it because of a young Timothy Hutton. It was just unwatchable.

        There’s just no excuse for My Dinner with Andre.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I hope you know Laura Petrie anyway.

  9. Pat

    “Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    They mean imminent in the Biblical sense.

    • Suthenboy

      Not the global warming sense?

  10. PieInTheSky

    though I should not care as it is not my country, I am slightly annoyed for some reason counting votes takes so long in America. I have become plot committed and I want to know how it finishes. I never heard a European country taking quite so long. Is there one single elderly counter or what?

    • Pat

      We’ve overthrown the governments of third world shit holes who conduct their elections a damn sight better than we do.

    • rhywun

      The only reason it’s taking this long because the House is still up for grabs.

      The Dems desperately want to launch another impeachment in January so they’re slow-rolling this while they fortify.

      • juris imprudent

        PA Dems failed to fortify spectacularly – two districts were flipped, so the partisan count went from 9-8 D to 10-7 R. I’m sure this can’t be right because I WAS TOLD THAT THE DEMS CONTROLLED THIS. Any crow eaters out there?

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, a lot of the claims around “fortification” involve using the urban 95% D areas to run up tallies, something that can’t really be done in House races.

        I thought Team Red would lose the House thanks to the gerrymandering here in New York following the 2022 election.

      • rhywun

        I thought Team Red would lose the House thanks to the gerrymandering here in New York following the 2022 election.

        It could still happen I think?

        The Dems did flip a couple of those districts already.

      • Ted S.

        Last time I checked, Team Red was up to 216 seats, and leading in one seat each in AZ, CO, and AK, and three or four in CA.

        Dems would have to win 10 of the 11 undeclared seats to take a majority.

      • The Last American Hero

        I ate my shit sandwich with a healthy side of shit brownies back on Thursday. I still can’t believe that Team R got off their ass early enough to make a difference this time around. I also miscalculated the size of the Amish population, which is apparently a large enough demographic to swing a state according to Twitter.

      • juris imprudent

        using the urban 95% D areas to run up tallies

        If you recall, I did the analysis of the ’20 election compared to ’16 and ’12 and found the election swung in the suburbs. Trump outperformed himself in ’16 in Philly and Biden did only marginally better than Hillary there. I’ll buy that the drop-boxes etc allowed a lot of bullshit to happen – which is why it didn’t manifest this time around.

      • juris imprudent

        Team R got off their ass

        Truly, an electoral miracle.

  11. juris imprudent

    Any famine in Gaza will be exactly like every other famine – the product of human decisions to withhold food, in this case the decision of Hamas.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I Can Hezbollah?

    • dbleagle

      There are local famines in pre-industrial societies from natural disasters. But you are correct in this case. Israel told the civilians to leave northernmost Gaza, gave them safe routes to use, and expanded the humanitarian area. Most days, less F-Sa, up to 200 truckloads of humanitarian aid cross into Gaza. The Israelis are restricting the HA from northernmost Gaza to put pressure on the remaining enemy. The civilians that stayed, their hunger is on them- and on HAMAS is they were prevented from leaving.

  12. R C Dean

    It’s always the dog that didn’t bark.

    I’m not seeing that OMWC has paid off his election bets.

    • juris imprudent

      And apparently his long walk along the shore ended up with one set of footprints.

    • Ted S.

      So a basenji?

    • Old Man With Candy

      I’ve paid off Sloopy. HM and Spud are next.

      • R C Dean

        Why does that sound kind of ominous to me?

      • Gender Traitor

        In case it makes you feel any better, unless Biden steps (or is put) aside between now and Inauguration Day, I’ll lose my long-standing bet with the now-absent Jarflax and be sending the Glib Foundation a chunk of change.

  13. Ted S.

    a guy who faded from view;

    Happy birthday Douglas MacArthur?

  14. Ted S.

    and a pitch-perfect voice actress in Daisy Dukes.

    [ OMWC imagines June Foray in Daisy Dukes ]

  15. PieInTheSky

    Today I had lunch at my moms and tried this years pickled vegetables. It is cold and dark and rainy outside and it is officially pickle time.

  16. Chipping Pioneer

    To paraphrase Michael Malice:

    There is no law so obscene that the police would not be willing to enforce it, up to and including the mass execution of innocent squirrels.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Seems like they could have sent a guy to just knock on his door doesn’t it?
      “Hey man, I’m seeing you have a tame squirrel and raccoon here, would you mind filling out the required (apparently that’s a thing) paperwork? Here’s the link to the website.”

      • Suthenboy

        This.
        Instead they sent a bunch of sanctimonious armed goons to make an example of him. It wasn’t about the squirrel or the raccoon.

        OBEY is the point of the vast majority of government action.

      • R C Dean

        And, of course, he had already filed the paperwork.

        Suthen has it. Just like how, for leftists, the cause is never the cause, the cause is always the revolution, for bureaucrats, the law is never the law, the law is always the jackboot.

      • juris imprudent

        OBEY is the point of the vast majority of government action.

        Uh, which government action isn’t about OBEY?

  17. Pat

    No, you don’t have ‘post-election depression’

    How is your mental health holding up after the re-election of Donald Trump this week? Do you need some ‘grief’ counselling? Did you take a day off work? How about a visit from an emotional-support duck, or some time to play with Lego? Believe it or not, these are all options being offered to grown adults at their places of work or study, to help cope with their supposed ‘post-election depression’.
    _
    In the aftermath of the election on Tuesday, the Guardian offered its staff extra counselling and support. In an email to employees, editor Katharine Viner said that the result was ‘upsetting’ and urged UK-based journalists to reach out and ‘offer your support’ to their US counterparts. ‘If you want to talk about it’, the email went on, ‘your manager and members of the leadership team are all available’.
    _
    The Collective – a ‘queer-owned’, ‘sustainable, vegan bulk refillery’ in Iowa – went further and shut up shop for the day after the election. This was to facilitate ‘a day of collective grief’, as explained in an Instagram post, ‘to protect our crew and to feel what needs to be felt’.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      What the hell is a ‘vegan bulk refillery’?

      • Don escaped Memphis

        tofu enema?

      • CPRM

        Something ‘queer-owned’ and sustainable, duh.

      • rhywun

        JFC what a sanctimonious asshole.

      • juris imprudent

        Granted, we don’t know how long they’ve been in business – and in Des Moines. Somewhere on a coast I could believe.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Probably West Des Moines.

        Every urban area has a Boulder.

    • Grumbletarian

      Did universities offer the same thing when Biden won in 2020? Did employers allow their conservative staffpeople to take a day and ‘feel what needed to be felt’?

  18. PieInTheSky

    ISD is working on their fundraising. – a bit of light trolling is neither abuse nor harassment. Those women should just get off the internet for a while and use the time to learn to make better sandwiches

    • Suthenboy

      This. Also, the claims in that are complete horseshit.

  19. CPRM

    The posting by Bulent Buyukbayram, a member of the Christian Democrats in the city of Delmenhorst, also showed the words “shit St Pauli” written on the doll’s head, with the letters ‘S’ shaped like the logo of the SS, the Nazis’ main paramilitary force.

    Two S’s drawn with straight lines, not next to each other, always means Nazi.

    • Ted S.

      He’s a Turkish-German. I don’t think the Turks are known for their love of Jews.

      • CPRM

        Not a comment of the reality of the situation, but on the reporting in the story.

    • rhywun

      Bundesliga club St Pauli are known for having an alternative fan scene and left-wing supporter base.

      LOL they’re straight up commie antifa scum.

      The truth hurts but I suppose he could have stated it a bit more delicately.

  20. rhywun

    Yet another, “You people are so stupid, why aren’t you voting for us???” analysis from our favorite commie news outlet.

    JFC. I tried, honest.

    But it seems that I am allergic to lies piled on top of lies.

  21. PieInTheSky

    Romania may be a shithole, but I do not think I ever saw anyone crying or losing it after an election did not go their way.

    • Suthenboy

      In most non-western countries I have been to the people seem almost numb to the political dumbfuckery. They have seen it all, got used to it and got over it.

      • PieInTheSky

        pretty much

    • rhywun

      I’ve never seen it myself but the media sure do like to report on it.

      • Ted S.

        Thankfully everyone on the boards I frequent has said nothing about the elections since Tuesday.

        There’s also been a slight change on the football board I frequent where non-leftist memes don’t immediately result in the bullies who would post every anti-right meme publicly getting the vapors. I’m not the only one who cracked a joke referencing Peanut the Squirrel.

      • Suthenboy

        Someone pointed out yesterday…here? or on tv?….that most of the polling done during elections is done by people up to their eyeballs in advertising. They keep the races tight to keep eyes on the news channels. The news channels know this when they are reporting ‘Trump and Harris neck to neck!’.
        It was never close and everyone except the voters knew that.
        It is about ad money. It is always the money.

      • The Last American Hero

        It happened in 2016 – we had teachers in the elementary school that were crying in class during much of the day. That was…a bit of an issue that needed addressing.

        It also happened in 2016 in my wife’s office (she works for the state). So many people either called in or were so listless at work that they may as well have shut down the office.

  22. LCDR_Fish

    Ray of sunshine….well almost 75 years later….

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/the-unsung-piloting-feats-of-georgia-jipp/

    Jipp had a passion for flying, having spent her childhood taking rides in her father’s plane and then her teenage years earning her pilot’s license. A rash of brutal blizzards, reminiscent of the ones chronicled by Laura Ingalls Wilder in The Long Winter, gave Jipp a new outlet for her passion as she flew 150 mercy missions during the winter of 1949.

    As Dean repeats often in her book, Jipp “was little, but she was brave.” And she had to be, flying mission after mission to bring fuel, food, and much more to stranded farmers who were burning furniture to stay alive. The situation became so dire that the U.S. military was called in to help, and Jipp flew alongside C-47s dropping supplies.

    Jipp flew these missions when she was only 22 years old, and it seems the rest of her life was fairly uneventful in comparison. She went back to school for meteorology and worked for the U.S. Weather Bureau for about 33 years. Dean clearly spent painstaking hours researching Jipp, and she provides readers who want to learn more with a timeline of the aviatrix’s life, charming photos of the pilot conducting her meteorologist’s work, and additional reading resources.

  23. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    yo whats goody yo’

    TALL SABBATH CANS!

  24. Tres Cool

    In my line of work, we frequently deal with another Fischer.
    Karl Fischer

    • R.J.

      Tit rationing sounds terrible.

    • Sensei

      As opposed to the alleged misogynist in my field.

      In October 2019, Fisher was criticized for references he made during a fireside chat at an industry conference sponsored by Tiburon Strategic Advisors.[34][35] Bloomberg initially reported that Fisher made references to genitalia and likened winning money-management clients to “trying to get into a girls’ pants.” In a Bloomberg interview at the time, Fisher said he felt his comment were taken out of context.

      • The Last American Hero

        Seriously, does anybody even finance-bro anymore?

      • juris imprudent

        I’ll stick with Fisher, I’m up over 33% from a year ago.

  25. rhywun

    Donald Trump’s election victory against Vice President Kamala Harris this week has emboldened influencers herp derp

    You know what else “emboldens influencers”? Constant fucking reporting on this tedious and largely made-up bullshit.

  26. PieInTheSky

    It seems news worthy in the local press that one of the chefs at Mar-a-Lago is Romanian. This is small country energy right there caring about nonsense like this.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Whatever. Take the dog for a walk and talk to him. throw a stick in the water for him to chase.

  28. Mojeaux

    So XY’s grill broke and it was unrepairable, which would have put the store down for a few days, so Chipotle sent him to Chicago to get another one.

    He made it there and back in a truck WITH A TRAILER.

    That’s one way to practice your driving, I guess.

    • Sean

      *achievement unlocked*

    • R C Dean

      Unless you are going to never pull a trailer in your life, sooner or later you are going to have to pull one for the first time.

      • Mojeaux

        Well, yeah, I mean, I did it with a 2-ton passenger van and a popup camper when I was 16, so … But it’s different looking at it from the parent’s POV, especially when I just taught him to drive a few months ago.

        And at 20, I drove home from BYU in record time (my dad was PISSED I made it home in 17 hours).

        XY will be 19 next month.

    • Old Man With Candy

      So XY’s grill broke

      What did he do to get punched in the mouth?

      • Mojeaux

        Well, I mean, what HASN’T he done to warrant a punch in the mouth?

        He did get his nose broken once, though.

    • SarumanTheGreat

      Reminded me of how I learned to drive in snow in 1981, driving out to the Laurel Highlands (Westmoreland County) and back to Montgomery County in a blizzard to pick up a rusty old bucket truck the firm was going to fix up for the customer. 12+ hours. It was mostly on the PA Turnpike, but it was still bad. Passing trucks while driving on snow was nerve-racking. But I was 18 and didn’t know any better.

      • Mojeaux

        I won’t drive my pickup in snow. It has nothing in the bed and a bag of sand is not going to help, AND it has rear-wheel drive. I probably would have when I was younger and didn’t know better.

        Best snow car I ever had was my Honda CRX. Manual transmission and front wheel drive. Then was my Granny Car.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Emotional support duck, you say? If it comes smoked, on a plate with wild rice and asparagus, I’ll have one.

  30. Mojeaux

    May I just say, I love the word “ennui.”

    Also, inertia is a helluva drug.

    • Name's BEAM. *James* BEAM.

      Did you see The French Dispatch?

      “Ennui-sur-Blasé” has to be the best made-up French place-name evah.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    No serious presidential candidate had ever talked this way

    Oh, one of those elitist experts who has never read a history book.

    • juris imprudent

      LBJ confined his spiciest remarks to private conversations.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the past 16 years, yet their idea of consensus has failed to reach much beyond the big-city limits.

    No kidding.

    *blind squirrel picks up juicy morsel, sniffs suspiciously, tosses it away*

    You’re just not messaging hard enough.

    • Sensei

      *blind squirrel picks up juicy morsel, sniffs suspiciously, tosses it away*

      Dude – you know that the state did to P’nut, right?

    • Suthenboy

      That is hilarious.

      It’s the same ol’ schtick. We are gonna leave. Oh, he did get elected? I cant leave now, I have to stay and fight!

    • R C Dean

      Nice of Dashcam Dolt to just drive off. TBF, doesn’t look like there was a good place to pull over and park to check on Tesla Ricky Bobby, who was likely going too fast in the left lane anyway, and screwed the pooch when he had to swerve to the right get around Dashcam Dolt. I vote there are two idiots in cars here. If Dashcam Dolt hadn’t crossed over to the left lane, likely no accident.

      • Mojeaux

        Yeah, I’m really more offended by the Dashcam dude for going slow in the fast lane.

      • Sensei

        The road is posted 35 MPH. Ricky Bobby was going way too fast. But, yeah, if Dolt didn’t immediately head left this likely would never have happened.

        That said, it’s tough to feel too bad for Ricky Bobby.

      • Tundra

        I don’t feel bad for the dipshit.

      • Suthenboy

        He moved to the left because….? The driver did not appear to be preparing to turn left.
        The other car…no sympathy. There is no lane where the laws of physics are suspended. Going waaaaay too fast.

  33. DEG

    “It was a stupidity, a mistake,” he told Bild newspaper. “I am getting serious threats. I have apologised to St Pauli.”

    I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that he thinks that only stupid thing was getting caught.

    • rhywun

      Feh. What he did is most notable because Germany doesn’t have anything like free speech.

  34. UnCivilServant

    Did the Alaskans get rid of that stupid Ranked voting?

    • Pat

      According to every organization and think tank touched by the Kochtopus tentacles, RCV is the great libertarian hope, and perhaps the greatest achievement of mankind since the Mestizo people first began ass fucking each other while smoking weed 50,000 years ago.

      • DEG

        I see what you did there.

      • UnCivilServant

        How are they not done counting? RCV is a yes/no question with no ranking shenanigans to fiddle with. That should have been known by midnight local time on electiond day.

      • R C Dean

        Any place with lots of junk mail ballots is slow because they have to go through the signature verification farce.

      • The Last American Hero

        When the ballots are delivered by a guy on a dog sled who has to fend off bears and wolves while navigating the Yukon, things take a bit longer.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Yet here we are. In January 2021, at Joe Biden’s inauguration, the young poet Amanda Gorman invoked the spirit of the civil rights era in describing “a nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished”.

    It now appears that her faith was misplaced. The US we thought we knew is broken indeed, and may well be finished.

    Weep for America. Weep for her.

    What a steaming pile of onanistic blather. Go ahead, pal. disappear up your own asshole. No one will miss you.

    • rhywun

      The US we thought we knew is broken indeed

      Good. The U.S. you “thought you knew” sucked.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I’d say wait until inflation recedes, but they’ll never connect the dots.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    The detached wheel rolling down the road is laugh-out-loud funny. The retard in the Tesla needs to learn how to control his vehicle.

    • Sensei

      I don’t understand why the dash cam guy feels compelled to immediately head for the left lane either.

      But yes, the “hero” here is without a doubt the moron in the Tesla.

      • Tundra

        I’ll be charitable and suggest that he was planning to pass the guy ahead.

        Or he’s just 90% of the drivers here.

      • R C Dean

        I had the same thought, but he wasn’t closing on the guy ahead. Even if he was going to pass him, he took the left lane way too early.

    • PieInTheSky

      how is that a earworm nothing about that song is catchy

      • Mojeaux

        The bassline is killer.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        👍, Moj.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you SHOULD do something.

      • R C Dean

        Well, yeah, they aren’t kosher, that’s for sure.

    • R C Dean

      Too fatty for me.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        This appears to be in English, yet I can’t understand a word of it

    • UnCivilServant

      That doesn’t even look appealing. It’s taking good ingedients and ruining them.

    • Name's BEAM. *James* BEAM.

      I . . .

      I’d eat that. {hangs head in shame, considers suppuku, decides it’s too much work}

  37. Mojeaux

    Welp, the Refs Chiefs are playing today. We are well into our Villain Era.

    • DenverJ

      So far the broncos are winning

  38. The Late P Brooks

    We wuz robbed

    “Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable,” Biden said. “A defeat does not mean we are defeated. We lost this battle. The America of your dreams is calling for you to get back up. That’s the story of America for over 240 years and counting.”

    The message severely clashed with the dire warnings that many Democrats, including Biden, have issued about the dangers of a second Trump term. They have predicted that Trump’s return to power would jeopardize the very foundation of American democracy. They assured voters that Trump would make good on his promise to deport millions of undocumented people. And they raised serious doubts about Trump’s pledge to veto a nationwide abortion ban.

    Maybe all those dire predictions were merely cynical nonsense intended to stir up the gullible and mentally unstable. Haha, the joke’s on you.

    • The Last American Hero

      Wishcasters keep forgetting the Biden rule. Congress couldn’t meet to pass flood relief, according to the White House, there is no way they are having SC hearings before January.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    The stark reality has left Democrats asking themselves the same question over and over again: how did we get here?

    Will they ever decode the secret message? Will they find the buried treasure? Will they save the world from the alien invaders? Keep watching, boys and girls. And until then, remember to drink your Kool Aid every day.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      From my poking around leftward sites, they genuinely believe that they didn’t prog hard enough.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Until morale improved?

      • Evan from Evansville

        Yes. They’re convinced they haven’t ‘trained’ the ‘proper’ sort of peasants, ones who unblinkingly follow Top Down diktats. True Blue family is quite upset. The electorate is blamed for being so stupid and gullible. Turns out, I ‘spose, The People just like ‘The Wrong’ sort of lies.

        In their snow globe universe, everything looks idyllic. It’s impossible to imagine other customers and passers-by seeing their dreamland as anything other than the one they believe They created, crafted for them. Perfection For Us, By Us. No hint of self-awareness shown.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Damn, Toxeth, exactly. Happy and willing to play whatever role they think(?) is needed. They think they do such a good job, too. Pretty hard to not be crushed when you’ve invested so much into it. Was hoping some jazz would lighten it, but never came.

        It is their religion, offering neither solace nor salvation. Others at least put both on the table, theoretically. Blue likes sitting in the nice restaurant with all the celebrities, the powerful, and all them Fancy Folk. Just to be inside is enough! They don’t mind sitting at their tables, paying the bill and only being served delicate, fancy, yet empty plates. They keep up appearances that the food is astounding, too afraid to signal to other patrons their ‘meal’ fucking sucks. Wouldn’t look good to the other social primates.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Always

    • Suthenboy

      Yeah…I am gonna have to concede to Mojeaux. She is right, they really are true believers.

    • The Last American Hero

      Afghanistan has environmental agency officials?

      • rhywun
  40. PieInTheSky

    since the Mestizo people first began ass fucking each other while smoking weed 50,000 years ago. – wasn’t there a native american culture with lots of anal sex iconography?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    I went back and watched it again, because it’s so amusing. Camera car idiot goes straight for the left lane. This should surprise no one, especially the the guy in the Tesla. If you’re going to drive faster than everybody else, you need to pay attention and assume everybody ion your path is about to do something stupid. There was a ton of room for the Tesla to pass on the right, return to the left lane and continue on his merry way. But he diced to aggressively chop the other car to teach him a lesson, and put himself in the fence.

    Sympathy zero.

    • Sensei

      Freeze it right as the Tesla comes to pass. It looks like he is countersteering already.

      I feel like the asshole hit the curb or something behind dashcam guy and already unbalanced the Tesla.

  42. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    High of 60 today. May have to switch to hot coffee.

    • PieInTheSky

      we were around 40 silly degrees all day and constant rain. It almost feels like a November day.

    • PieInTheSky

      coffee should always be hot. I drink it hot even in 40C weather. Just like tea. Ice tea is nonsense.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        See my reply to UCS above and imagine I copied and pasted it here

      • Evan from Evansville

        Iced tea, NEVER with sugar, is a perfect drink. Add lemon to taste. Not THE perfect drink, but it’s up there. Can’t go flat, no calories, tasty, just add ice as needed.

        Sweet tea is a Southern abomination. Dad, from rural VA, can’t stand it and wisely passed wisdom on. Why not just have a fucking coke and actually enjoy yourself?

  43. The Late P Brooks

    The White House pushed back against those gripes, framing Democrats’ losses in a much more global context. Incumbents have lost ground around the world in the past year, a trend that experts largely blame on the anger and disillusionment spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing high inflation it caused.

    You know- bad luck.

    • The Last American Hero

      It will most likely end up in the hands of a renegade pilot in search of his missing brother. He will be assisted by a cantankerous old co-pilot and cute plucky side kick that can fly the chopper when the renegade is captured by the bad guys.

      • PieInTheSky

        but they need a good mechanic, even if a bit of an alcoholic

      • Mojeaux

        Howling Mad Murdock has entered the chat.

  44. PieInTheSky

    I bought some turkey Chorizo and while I appreciate the lower calories yeah no… hard to make good pork from turkey.

    • Tundra

      I like beef chorizo, but pork really is the best.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Wasn’t this kind of an old South Park episode?

    • rhywun

      www dot teen-vogue?

  45. The Late P Brooks

    For now, though, the Democrats who poured their hearts and souls into electing Harris as the first woman, first Black woman and first Asian American woman to serve as president seem exhausted. They have spent most of the past decade warning the country about the dangers of Trump and his political philosophy only for a majority of American voters to send him back to the White House.

    Fucking stupid voters. We need a better class of peasant.

    • R C Dean

      I have to wonder if they crossed the streams by advertising her as both Asian and black. The Asians might say she ain’t Asian, she’s black, and vice versa.

      • Sensei

        Dessert topping and floor wax!

      • rhywun

        Or maybe nobody gave a shit about it.

      • Gender Traitor

        As far as I know, she didn’t get that all-important Tiger Woods endorsement.

      • rhywun

        LOL that’s unhinged even by Slate standards.

      • Ted S.

        It most certainly is.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        If you vote for her, she ain’t black?

      • dbleagle

        Wow. Just wow Slate. I will paraphrase from the game show “Wheel of Fish”, “Stupid! Why are you so stupid?”

        Leaving aside Aldi Obama’s: poor decision making, failed platform, choice of Walz, a horrible inability to form a sentence, and a personality that reminded millions of the worst ex-wife they had ever met; she was tethered to biden and his failed administration.

        The article says that as VP it should have helped her in her run. Since the XIIth amendment that has been rarely the case. In the last 100 years only one sitting VP has been directly elected as the POTUS, George HW Bush, and that was following a successful Reagan presidency.

    • Suthenboy

      If there is a more blatant admission that Harris is a DEI pick I dont know what it would be.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    It will most likely end up in the hands of a renegade pilot in search of his missing brother. He will be assisted by a cantankerous old co-pilot and cute plucky side kick that can fly the chopper when the renegade is captured by the bad guys.

    Don’t forget the stunningly beautiful down to earth girl-next-door mechanic who will repair the fuselage with some Reynolds Wrap and duct tape and magically conjure up the parts needed to get the old bird back in the air.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    I have to wonder if they crossed the streams by advertising her as both Asian and black.

    Vice President Check-the-Box, inauthentic? Noooo.

  48. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    We had dinner last night with a guy from Jordan. He had some surprising opinions. He was very happy about what Israel is doing in Gaza and Lebanon. He also complained about all the “migrants” in Europe.

    • Mojeaux

      It’s always seemed to me that the Middle East is happy to let Israel do their dirty work for them.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Apparently the PLO tried to pull an October 7 on his family way back when they revolted in Jordan, and he is in no mood to forgive.

    • Suthenboy

      Did anyone else notice from the pager bomb videos that bystanders mostly looked at the victims either with disinterest or outright ‘good for you’ attitudes. I am guessing the locals knew the terrorist guys and were thinking “Good riddance to that motherfucker”

  49. cyto

    Stupid actress I had a crush on when I was a teen makes political declarations:

    “I do not care about political teams. I’m merely in favor of each individual freely living a life however they want, without impairing any other individual from freely living their own life”

    Stupid asshat Hollywood….. wait.

    https://x.com/JustineBateman/status/1855777663127863631

    • cyto

      I feel like we are having an Alice’s Restaurant moment, except for liberty instead of anti-draft.