¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jan 28, 2025 | I Am Lame | 211 comments

One of those Tuesdays where I damn the intro. And jump right into ¡enlaces!

So with that..um…¡enlaces!

The Orange Man starts his reign of terror on unsuspecting victims of questionable visa status. Mexico responds by refusing to take back what is in theory, their own citizens. You could almost say they’re acting like the migrants weren’t Mexican.

Both presidentés of Mexico and Honduras take to Twix to talk tough. Before anyone starts the “you know who else talked sternly and waved a fist like that?” I am going to end nip it in the bud: my mother.

LOL. LMAO, even.

Mexico is putting kids in cages.

Understanding you have no leverage against the US leviathan and giving in is not the way to handle the Orange Man, says a journo with CNN.

This one is a classic. Have a great Tuesday!

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211 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Other American Ocean!
    I like it

    • Rat on a train

      The five oceans are the North, South, East, West, and Far American.

    • SDF-7

      Should have been American Ocean and Diet American Ocean in our finest tradition.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      You know, someone really missed an opportunity. Chile with Beans should have been the name.

      • Nephilium

        But chili doesn’t have beans in it unless you need to stretch the meat more.

      • Rat on a train

        Honor our military by renaming to Chilimac.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Way to miss a joke, Neph.

        (and I agree with you con frijoles.)

      • slumbrew

        unless you need to stretch the meat more.

        These euphemisms…

    • Rat on a train

      Not after Italy is annexed.

      • Nephilium

        I think you mean Ameriboot.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      We were that close to being the United States of Vespuci.

  2. SDF-7

    unsuspecting victims

    Said “unsuspecting” victims ignoring the entire US presidential campaign season and the last couple of months post-election where it was made abundantly clear that deportations were in the offing.

    Frankly, Margaret…. indeed.

    Article is from 4 days ago — I suspect Mexico is being not quite so difficult after Columbia got the Orange Pimp Hand, but if they are — I also suspect it is more to do with not wanting to lose those sweet, sweet remittances. And my sympathy is just as swelling for them.

    • Rat on a train

      But Mexicans run the US economy. Imagine all of them back in Mexico. Mexico would be the world’s largest economy.

    • Drake

      If the stories are true, Trump called the Columbian President from the golf course and he caved before Trump finished his round.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      That’s really the funny part. He only campaigned on it for four years.

  3. SDF-7

    I am going to end nip it in the bud: my mother.

    Wait… did MS make a preemptive yo momma joke?

  4. Shpip

    Trump has vowed to deport scores of immigrants back to Latin American nations, carry out cross border attacks on Mexican drug cartels, increase economic sanctions on leftist governments in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, and seize control of the Panama Canal.

    “Scores of immigrants” is thinking too small. “Hundreds of thousands,” nay “millions…” Now we’re talking.

    Or maybe CNN doesn’t write very well.

    • Nephilium

      Well, local news did say that 20 people were in custody…

    • Rat on a train

      Maybe score is a standard unit of deportation.

      • SDF-7

        “Scores of millions” wouldn’t be too far off.

      • Fourscore

        Four…. knows…every day…

  5. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Probably the best Stones song.

      • The Hyperbole

        You are both mistaken “Can’t you hear me Knocking” is not only the best Stones song it is a top contender for best Rock and Roll song period. There’s not a nastier opening riff nor a better Sax/Guitar extended outro in the genre.

      • PudPaisley

        The whole Let It Bleed album is fantastic. I’d put it in my all-time top 5.

        I sent you an email the day after talking to you here. Did you get it? I titled it something like “What’s up dude bro” or similar, so maybe it went to spam.

      • slumbrew

        Excellent choice, Tundra.

        Although sometimes I think I love it so much because it languished a bit and didn’t get the airplay of the others.

      • slumbrew

        *notes the date and time in the journal*

        *clears throat*

        The Hype may be right.

      • Tundra

        Pud:

        Sorry, I sometimes forget to check that account. Responded!

      • SDF-7

        I favor this one… but I doubt that comes as a surprise to anyone here.

      • Beau Knott

        I don’t know, the same could be said of this.
        Admittedly for very different reasons, but …

    • kinnath

      Definitely my favorite.

      Paint it Black is a close second.

      Then Angie is in its own special category.

      • slumbrew

        Lovely. I had forgotten about that.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        God the nineties were great.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Starfucker…

  6. Tundra

    LOL. LMAO, even.

    I thought they were part of the Resistance or something.

    Also Denali is a cooler name. I say leave it.

    • Rat on a train

      GMC McKinley doesn’t sound as tough.

      • trshmnstr

        I ended up returning my GMC McKinley, it had some weird gremlins. I left it running in the driveway and brought the wife out to see it. I poured us some whiskey to celebrate, but every time I took a shot, the truck died.

      • SDF-7

        On the plus side — your wife put on a Teddy after every time the McKinley died?

      • juris imprudent

        Back on the down side – the Teddy had a big stick.

      • trshmnstr

        Back on the upside, Teddy is her nickname for me, and it’s a gloriously big stick.

      • Fourscore

        I’ll take that long white limo in the reflection, more my kind of car

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        That’s a silver Honda Ridgeline, 4x.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I didn’t want to spoil the illusion, a mans gotta dream

    • Necron 99

      Also Denali is a cooler name. I say leave it.

      Agree, Mount McKinley is a stupid name. Denali sounds cool and powerful, like a GMC truck trim. Who wants to say I got a Sierra Mount McKinley?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Why would they name a mountain after a truck though?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Because Tacoma, WA beat them to the punch naming a city after a truck?

      • Necron 99

        Bonneville was taken?

      • Jarflax

        Don’t get salty but that joke fell flat

      • SarumanTheGreat

        Well, they named a truck after an entire ecosystem (Tundra) so why not?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’m fine with knowing a mountain has two names. Arizona has several mountains like that.

      • Suthenboy

        Once again the left makes words meaningless. Call it what you want it is a giant bump in the earth’s crust. It is still right where it always was. Names are just a convenient way of referring to a specific bump in a specific place. Bringing politics into it is all kinds of retarded.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I mean, I still call it Squaw Peak. Not because it’s offensive, I’m offended they named a mountain after Lori Piestewa. She was a terrible soldier.

      • kinnath

        I only know of Squaw Peak. But I haven’t lived there for three decades.

      • creech

        Or battles: Bull Run or Manassas? Antietam or Sharpsburg?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Denali isn’t cryptic enough. Too easy for the white eyes to pronounce.

      Once again look to Minnesoda to see how things should be done….

      Lake Calhoun -> Bde Maka Ska is what you are looking for. Stupid spelling. No matter how the word is pronounced, you can claim it was wrong and it is because the person was racist (see Kamala). And you can claim it stands for whatever silly thing you want, no one actually speaks the original Dakota anymore.

  7. Suthenboy

    Watched a bit of the Leavitt press conference. Apparently Trump is to blame for everything the Biden fake administration did. I find that shocking. Who knew MAGA was in charge all of this time?

    • SDF-7

      When your political base is the Short Attention Span Theater group of TikTok? It might work out for them….

  8. SDF-7

    Nice to see that apparently the server squirrels calmed down. Couldn’t post anything for a while there so I just gave up for 30 minutes or so.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Getting it out in the open

    With this move, Trump has effectively shut down the NLRB’s operations, leaving the workers it defends on their own, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said in a statement.

    “These moves will make it easier for bosses to violate the law and trample on workers’ legal rights on the job and fundamental freedom to organize,” she wrote.

    The NLRB is a wholly owned subsidiary of the unions.

    • SDF-7

      Given his choice for Labor Secretary and some of the pandering — I’m not holding out hope that he nukes the NLRB from orbit. But I sure wouldn’t cry if he managed to. That abomination needs to go away.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Since their appointments in 2021, Wilcox and Abruzzo have taken broad views of the protections labor law offers workers.

    Wilcox, a former union lawyer, wrote that as the first Black woman to serve on the labor board, “I brought a unique perspective that I believe will be lost.”

    As the agency’s prosecutor, Abruzzo worked to remove barriers to organizing, most recently winning a board ruling outlawing “captive audience” meetings, or mandatory meetings at which employers try to dissuade workers from unionizing.

    Her approach toward protecting workers’ rights and holding employers accountable has raised the ire of many in the corporate world. The NLRB faces more than two dozen lawsuits brought by companies, including SpaceX and Amazon, who say the agency’s structure gives it unchecked power to shape and enforce labor law. Space X was founded by Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk.

    Why would anybody object to a completely one sided approach to negotiations?

    • R C Dean

      My calculation would be:

      The rank and file cares a lot less about the NLRB and the shenanigans around organizing and the rest that Union, Inc. does, and Union, Inc. will never in a million years support Trump (or Vance).

      If the economy improves, the rank and file will be fine. If it doesn’t, the Repubs are fucked anyway. So go ahead and nuke the current Board (which, along with much of the staff, are creatures of Union, Inc.). What’s the downside?

  11. Suthenboy

    I hear a debate on the teevee right now….deepthought or deepthink or whatever the Chinese AI is. Are the Chinese lying? Could it be fake?

    Hint: If the Chinese wake up in the morning and tell you it is morning and they are awake – they are lying. Just something to keep in mind.

  12. The Other Kevin

    Mrs. TOK decided to drive down and pick up our kid by herself. She’s currently at the police station waiting for the uniformed officer who will escort her to the house. The leader of the house says he needs my kids paycheck asap because they are $5k behind in bills. Tough luck pal.

    • SDF-7

      Hope it works out, TOK… especially with your wife and daughter being the ones at the sharp end of the stick and all (the uniformed officer escort will presumably help).

      Glad your daughter saw the light, I agree with comments here (yesterday?) that getting her out of town visiting her sister for a bit might be a good idea. But I really don’t trust anyone who qualifies for “Cult Leader” on their business cards so I’m particularly askance of the whole situation. Best of luck.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      GOMRSTOK!

    • Tundra

      Jeez Kevin. I take one night off and everything goes crazy

      Praying for all of you.

    • Tonio

      I missed all this, and hope it resolves as well as possible.

    • Suthenboy

      Wait…whut? The guy knows y’all are coming? And he is demanding ransom?

      • Suthenboy

        You might want to get in touch with the DA there.

      • The Other Kevin

        No he doesn’t know we’re coming, she started a new job and her paycheck is late.

      • The Other Kevin

        Not *we* , I’m home babysitting my niece.

    • KSuellington

      Damn, good luck with all that. I hope it goes smoothly. Fucking parasites those people.

    • Sean

      Crazy. Hope it all works out for her and your family.

    • SarumanTheGreat

      Good luck, and hopefully good riddance to those whackos.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “Mexico is putting kids in cages”

    If I’m reading the sign at the top of that story correctly, it says “Welcome to your land”, implying that the US belongs to the illegals. That makes it sound like an invasion. I wonder what religious group sponsored that protest and how much money they are getting from taxpayers.

      • rhywun

        Nice.

      • KSuellington

        That’s the best news I’ve heard so far out of this administration and they have been producing some good ones so far. Hope they keep it up.

      • SDF-7

        To quote Jim Nabors — Surprise, surprise… surprise! And a Biden appointee… again… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

      • R C Dean

        I was expecting that. What exactly is the judge going to do if Trump just says “Nope. Not gonna write any checks.” Declare him in contempt? Go after people (who, exactly?) at the agencies and declare them in contempt? Have Trump or somebody arrested and jailed for contempt?

        Really? Well, I say bring it on, then.

    • SDF-7

      Well it isn’t like La Raza has been terribly subtle for the last 20 years about “the reconquista” and all.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, maybe they should rename the Sea of Cortez to the gulf of Mexico, see how we like it!

    • R C Dean

      I thought she was greeting them back to Mexico. Which is, indeed, their land.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        You could be right, but the sign was pointed toward Mexico as if it was addressed to people crossing over into the US. That said, it could have been staged that way just for better lighting.

    • rhywun

      I have no idea what’s going on there but given it’s the BBC I have to agree it’s some anti-OMB silliness.

  14. R C Dean

    “Mrs. TOK decided to drive down and pick up our kid by herself.”

    JFC. Well, let’s hope it works out.

    “The leader of the house says he needs my kids paycheck asap because they are $5k behind in bills.”

    Well, I guess he’ll just have to evict her.

    • SDF-7

      I’m now wondering on further reflection if TOK’s daughter is pulling down a very, very respectable $5k biweekly take home salary (talk about upper middle class!) or if the leader is just bad at math (or is one of those “Send a little to try to stave off the bills” kind of loons….).

      • KSuellington

        “Every penny helps, but we need you to give till it hurts.”

      • Ted S.

        I have a feeling it’s not just her paycheck the cult needs.

  15. UnCivilServant

    This 3D printer…

    Needs better documentation.

    I’m doing the assembly of discrete components (vat, fan, air filter, build plate), and the diagram isn’t really helping.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I always hear “Temu emu! ..and Doug.”

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck no, I don’t shop with them.

      • Jarflax

        I am picturing a Temu 3d printer. It looks suspiciously like a baking sheet and a pack of Shrinky Dinks.

      • R.J.

        You never go full Temu.

  16. Shpip

    Put a uniform on Florida Man, he’s still Florida Man.

    A Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputy is accused of smuggling narcotic pills by hiding them inside bags of candy.

    Arrest documents show detectives searched Melo’s luggage and found 60 pills hidden inside Skittles candy bags.

    And here you thought that people who mixed Skittles and M & Ms in a bowl were monsters.

    • EvilSheldon

      Looks like Florida Man was moving some molly onto Groove Cruise 2025. He had the right market in mind, anyway…

  17. Fourscore

    There’s a fawn under the bird feeders with a broken front leg. She can walk, 3 legged style, but not well. I am feeling compassion for the little girl and accidentally spilled some corn. Fortunately we don’t have much snow this year so she’s able to get around, sort of. She’s a loner, she can’t keep up with the other deer. A bobcat or coyote would make short work of her though.

    A few years ago there was a doe (with a fawn) that had the same problem, her leg healed up and she was able to get around fairly well, just one front leg shorter. She had a fawn the following year as well and then disappeared.

  18. Gustave Lytton

    The whining Quislings* are complaining that the deportations aren’t fast enough so we need to end all deportations immediately. Sounds more like it needs to ramp up. Deport all illegals now.**

    *quislings is exactly correct. They’re conspiring and aiding and abetting with foreign invaders to upend the laws and society of this country

    **Im willing to accept that if illegals self deport within a set time period, they won’t be permanently barred from applying for lawful admission once they return home.

    • Fourscore

      ” if illegals self deport”

      As if they’ve never even been here. Gotta do it properly though, over or under the wall, swim the river.

    • Jarflax

      Here’s an idea, those Quislings are offered the chance to keep one illegal here each. All they have to do is give up their own citizenship and take a spot on the repatriation planes. One caveat, I get to pick which illegal gets to stay not them.

    • R C Dean

      I like that, Gustave.

      “If you are here illegally, or are here on one of the special Biden asylum visas, you have 60 days to leave and you will still be eligible for reentry. If we have to deport you after 60 days, you will be permanently barred from re-entering the country.”

      Mrs. Dean was in Phoenix this past weekend and said the traffic south was unusually heavy. Which is nice.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And I’d add the same thing for underage illegals. Set period (60/90 days/1 year) after you turn 18, you can voluntarily self deport and apply for lawful admission. No more “Dreamers”. Sucks that your parents screwed you over, but that’s life, get in line.

      • R C Dean

        I wonder how many Dreamers have one or more parents who are citizens. Damn few, I would expect.

    • DEG

      Homan in his Tucker Carlson interview said deportations wouldn’t happen as fast people want.

  19. Urthona

    There’s a whole thing among my leftward acquaintances going down that Trump shut down the Medicaid portals today.

    Looking forward to this fact check.

    • R C Dean

      I could see some malicious compliance/“resistance” dumbshit doing that. Supposedly, they are already putting people on administrative leave for being dumbshits.

      • Urthona

        That seems likely.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I work for a Medicaid contractor in 30 states. If those closed down I’d have heard about it.

      • Urthona

        The White House indeed agreed with reports that the websites had shutdown in some places but that’s all so far.

  20. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    I think Argentina should get to keep its name on account they’re cool

    • Tundra

      Agreed. I’ve added a trip there to my travel list.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        I want to check out their skiing. Maybe with Milei’s economy, the ski areas will be able to up their game.

      • EvilSheldon

        The dove hunting in Cordoba is unmatched anywhere in the world.

      • R C Dean

        Bro Dean’s boss takes him trout fishing down there every few years. It’s apparently spectacular.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        Yes!!

    • Tonio

      Javier Milei is totes dreamy.

    • SarumanTheGreat

      Naw, rename it ‘Mileitina’. If Simon Bolivar had a nation named after himself, why not the man who has apparently saved Argentina?

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Equals

    Trump and Rubio need to accept that Latin America will not put up with a new Monroe Doctrine. They must treat the region’s countries as equals, because they are sovereign nations, not banana republics. If they don’t accept those facts, Latin America will move further towards China’s embrace, and the Trump administration will lose the ability to ensure that the region’s countries cooperate with their immigration plans.

    Equals who just need more Yanqui Dollar welfare.

    • Jarflax

      Does this new Monroe doctrine actually include the idea of minding our business in the other hemisphere?

  22. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    All the foreign YouTube reactors have suddenly discovered BLTs. And they all DO IT THE WRONG GODDAMN WAY. Some have used British back bacon (WTF no). Some have grilled the sandwich whole instead of toasting the bread. These people drive me cuckoo for cocoa puffs. I don’t know why I still watch them.

    • Mojeaux

      The one Brit family who did Reubens did it ALMOST right. She even pickled the brisket herself. Like, what, you don’t have corned beef there?

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        The Hs? I like them because they actually study American food and note the details.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        The latest BLT fiasco is Adam Couser, who I think is really fun & funny, but thick as a brick.

      • UnCivilServant

        Mo – Corned beef as it exists in modern cuisine was a product of the problem of transporting beef on the railways. It was the cheap preservation option, and ended up in the cuisine of poorer groups. The british associated salt beef with the navy and sea travel, and didn’t let it into their primary cuisine.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Probably for the best UCS, salt beef is rank and would ruin the cuisine that gave us lung and kidney pie and marmite.

      • Mojeaux

        UCS, that’s interesting, but not surprising. “Poor people food” usually ends up on rich people’s plates and then drives up the cost until it’s no longer poor people food. Why? Because somehow poor people make suboptimal food delicious.

        This goes for home handicrafts as well. Quiltmaking was a poor people skill born of necessity, using rags that had no other use, and people needed blankets. Dressmaking was such a poor person skill that flour sack companies started printing the sacks with pretty designs so homemakers could make dresses out of them. Now, sewing is a luxury hobby.

    • B.P.

      So if they’re doing it with British back bacon, they’ve discovered the ham sandwich? I hope they’re all getting worked in the comments. Also, I weep for cultures that don’t know the wonder of the BLT.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I like BAT sammies, lettuce is not food

  23. R.J.

    Ha! I was suspended on X, and I never even posted.

    • Tundra

      I’m starting to wonder if it’s who I am following. I almost never post, but I do interact with some local libertarians and 2A peeps (and TOK). I’ve been shadowbanned a bunch recently.

      I still like TwiX and find it useful but it’s annoying to not even know how I broke the rules or whatever.

      • R.J.

        I was called an “inauthentic account.”
        Proving once and for all I am a Tulpa.

      • Tundra

        So…. fuck off?!?

      • R.J.

        I fucked off. I appealed and said I hadn’t even done anything yet. I will probably still be told I am some kind of fake. Is it my avatar? I mean, that is me. My photo. So insulting.

  24. Mojeaux

    I don’t know how social workers do it. I have spent all day on the phone coordinating this, organizing that, scheduling something else. And that’s just for one person! Thank heavens for calendars and alarms, email and texts.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      One of my summer season neighbors is a retired social worker. Boy, does she ever hate the government!

    • Ted S.

      I assumed they do it by not actually caring about the people they’re “helping”.

      • Mojeaux

        The social workers at the hospital and with hospice and suchlike have been very wonderful.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Inside job

    Martin’s office disbanded the Justice Department’s Capitol Siege Section and moved to dismiss cases against violent Jan. 6 rioters who attacked police officers. He also filed a motion last week that implored a judge to drop conditions that would have required some members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group to get court permission before they visit Washington or the U.S. Capitol after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 sentences.

    Martin wrote Monday that the two officials he selected would need to issue a preliminary report by Friday, and he asked all employees to pass along “all files, documents, notes, emails and other information” about the use of 18 U.S. Code 1512, which prosecutors often refer to as the “1512” charge. Martin referred to the review as “Project 1512” and called it “important work.”

    ——-

    Now that the Capitol Siege Section has been disbanded, some officials see Martin’s “special project” as a sign that he’s targeting some of the leadership of the unit that remains.

    “It definitely smells like he’s trying to force them out,” a Justice Department official said.

    A former Jan. 6 prosecutor said the investigation sounded like it would be “totally frivolous” and said it would “divert resources” within the office that could instead be used on keeping Washington safe by prosecuting crimes.

    And what the fuck have they been doing for the past four years? These people are utterly shameless.

    • Ted S.

      violent Jan. 6 rioters who attacked police officers

      They asserted without evidence.

      • The Hyperbole

        Evidence other than the videos of them doing such?

    • Urthona

      This will be interesting.

      If I were a long tenured employee I might keep my job and call his bluff.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s not a bad deal, should nudge some of the people with one foot out the door for whatever reason all the way out.

      • Urthona

        Hope so, but I think the allure of riding that civil service desk for decades more is strong.

        My uncle became a lawyer — basically did law school, studied, and passed the bar — while being employed as a civil servant.

        It’s free money.

    • R C Dean

      Hard to believe he’s only been in office one week.

      • Sean

        Just getting started.

      • Urthona

        Where the fuck was this the last time?!

        I’m starting to love this Trump guy.

      • Mojeaux

        Where the fuck was this the last time?!

        He was in Orientation.

      • Jarflax

        Adversity teaches hard lessons. He learned them.

    • SarumanTheGreat

      Urthona, as 45 he didn’t know how deep and bad the swamp was, had his inner circle full of backstabbers, and had to be concerned about reelection.

      This time, with a more loyal team and no worries about 2028, he’s all ‘F it, I’m cleaning house’.

    • The Other Kevin

      Many of us questioned if he’d learned anything from last time. I think we have our answer.

  26. DEG

    Men in boots and baseball caps climb on top of a vast metal structure to drape over thick white tarpaulin, erecting a rudimentary shelter to temporarily house men and women exactly like themselves.

    Hmm… I’m guessing because this is OrangeManBad this isn’t the type of stimulus Paul Krugman likes.

    • R C Dean

      “exactly like themselves”

      Latin Americans with no right to be in the US?

    • grrizzly

      Well, the US government was behind it and then it was lying to cover it up. They can’t really do it any other way.

      • R.J.

        Personally, I think the various groups had become so loose knit that one hand didn’t know what the other was doing, until all the sudden a shit ton of them went on notice for firings this past week.

    • Urthona

      I saw a post that said “so it was nothing”

      Errr… no.

      1) the people noticing were actually correct

      2) the government knew the entire time and lied

    • Suthenboy

      They were spying on people. Whatever that tech is that allows one to see inside and through walls etc…they were flying those around either as experiments or targeting certain people or facilities. At night. Put that in your tinfoil hat and smoke it the next time you and the wife are making sexy time.

      • Urthona

        Making sexy time is exactly what I call it too.

      • Urthona

        I can’t think of a good theory on what they’d be doing though.

        Chicken census?

      • Gender Traitor

        Air dropping sick chickens?

  27. Suthenboy

    Huh…50M bucks for condoms to Gaza.

    Bullshit. They are trying to launder money to Hamas.

  28. The Other Kevin

    Mrs. TOK and our eldest are safely on the way home. She waited over an hour for a cop to show up, but he went with her. They left some of her things behind because they were locked in storage or something, but those can be replaced. The “man” of the house wasn’t home, but when he found out she was moving out he blew up her phone, saying he knew who her parents were, she owed him $600, and he’s taking her to court. We have screen shots of all that. What kind of dipshit threatens people via text? At least she sees what a psycho he was.

    Thanks for the good wishes and prayers. Hopefully we can get this kid back on her feet.

    • The Gunslinger

      Really glad she’s outta there. Give her a big long hug.

    • R.J.

      Boy what a road trip. Glad you are heading back, and everyone is safe. Stay vigilant for a while.

    • Gender Traitor

      Thank goodness! Please continue to keep us posted as you’re able!

    • Tundra

      Thanks for the update. You are both awesome parents.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I am so glad to hear TOK.

    • Ted S.

      Oh, “blew up” via text. I thought maybe he literally exploded her phone.

      • UnCivilServant

        That trick only works with pagers.

    • Beau Knott

      I am relieved at the outcome, and deeply pleased for you and Mrs. TOK. I hope things continue in your favor.

    • Suthenboy

      That dude needs to be in jail. As I said, you might want to talk to the DA.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Good to hear, TOK

    • Pope Jimbo

      Fantastic news TOK!

      Hugs for everyone in your family.

  29. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    It took me 3 attempts, 5 phone calls, and about 2 hours of time today to transfer about $12K to my brother to reimburse him for payments he made to my mom’s nursing home. The bank wanted to know how I got my brother’s account information, when was the last time I met with him, where was the last time I met with him, whether I’m making the transfer under duress, and whether someone is threatening me with late charges. I get that they need to be careful with scammers, but Jeez Louise, I’m not some feeble senior citizen. Let me transfer the money. It makes me wonder how Hunter Biden was able to move millions between his accounts.

    • Suthenboy

      I had to do something similar once and the bank lady kept asking me and apologizing at the same time. I asked her not to apologize because I was all for caution in such situations. I had no problem with it.

      • Ted S.

        I’d bet it’s also the GD laws that purport to prevent money laundering that require such measures. Such laws only wind up hurting honest people.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I asked the lady about who was imposing the process, and she mentioned something about money laundering regulations.

        I don’t mind some screening to make sure I’m not getting scammed, but if you’re going to do it, do it right the first time. Don’t make me submit the request three times and screw it up the first two times, and don’t block my online access.

      • Suthenboy

        “…hurting honest people.”

        As intended.

    • Ted S.

      Were those cocaine-filled condoms falling out of your ass? :-p

      • Pope Jimbo

        Quiet. I’m battling a time lag here. Also, I was so pleased with my bon mot, that I couldn’t be bothered to read any other comments/linx.

      • Tundra

        How’s things there? Are you gonna stay past your target date?

    • Suthenboy

      Trim spending? That was totally not on purpose, right?

  30. Ownbestenemy

    That email from OPM is something else. Knew something was up when we got two days in a row of ‘test’ emails. Not sure it even applies to my job, being on the national security side of things.

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