Winston’s Mom does the links

by | Mar 7, 2023 | Daily Links | 255 comments

That fucking Mexican made me get up early to do this shit.  Sure, just ask randomly if anyone can pick up the slack.

No mind to everyone else with outside lives, families, and jobs.   That cock tease can suck it.

 

Possible plot twist:  Buffalo guy is a FED.

You know that black guy best known for the .gif where his eyes get all buggy and he says, “good”?  Chevy Chase called him a bad word, maybe because he isn’t funny.

You know that’s…bad, right? Like really bad?

Because he’s black?

Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ! I should’ve saved the really bad quip for this one.

Probably.  I used to give Winston sugar cubes and tied him inside of a fenced enclosure like a Rottweiler when he got jumpy.  Goddamnit it worked!

Krugnuts confused by the economy?  No shit, at least he’s being honest.

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

255 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Possible plot twist: Buffalo guy is a FED.”

    The aliens are fucking with us.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Nah, he can’t even be bothered to show up to o the links.

      • Tres Cool

        ZING!

      • R.J.

        Survey says he’s still in jail? Had a 41 month sentence, and he was not given bail so he’s been there all this time. Now since I have not seen him in jail with my own eyes, it is possible the jail thing is a hoax…

        *tinfoil hat crinkles

      • Winston's Mom

        Nah, he can’t even be bothered to show up to o the links.

        You snarky little shit.

        panty drop

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hawt

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Yes, Mrs. Robinson?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Doh!

      • CPRM

        I wish I could put pictures in direct. Cuz I make em.

      • Tundra

        For God’s sake give this man editorial powers.

    • juris imprudent

      Well FBI has already done what they could to protect Ray Epps, and possibly/probably more, so I say it’s more likely he’s a patsy.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Yeah, he looked too lost to be a plant. I don’t know what to make of this guy. How can you be so paranoid as to believe the Q Anon stuff to the point where you nicknamed yourself after it and yet be so naïve to think that the cops escorting you around the capital during a riot have your back?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        20+ years of LSD?

  2. Count Potato

    Didn’t he just say the same thing about Lena Dunham? I’d post a link, but it has a picture of Lena Dunham.

    • waffles

      if it weren’t for this chatroom I would never have know who she was.

      • Tres Cool

        She makes me feel very conflicted.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Eww

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        He meant “conflicted about stabbing his eyes out with a spork”

  3. Shpip

    A migrant from Somalia has been convicted of murdering her own baby at a refugee accommodation center in Germany last year, according to reports.

    Her lawyer lobbied for the charge to be reduced to manslaughter, but she was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

    Well, that’s one way to avoid deportation.

    • UnCivilServant

      Put her to work in the electricity mines.

    • Pat

      She should have come to Minneapolis, she could have chalked it up to abortion activism and gotten a cable news show.

    • Tres Cool

      Life in a German prison vs. a shitty country with no roads…..cost-benefit-analysis ?

  4. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?”

    As with a lot of stuff, there are people that truly need it, but there’s a huge incentive to overprescribe.

    • The Other Kevin

      There’s a fuck ton of money in drugs. Especially ones that have commercials that instruct you to ask your doctor about them.

      • Count Potato

        “There’s a fuck ton of money in drugs.”

        Enough to buy elections.

      • Winston's Mom

        That’s every pill popping commercial.

        Plus they always wind up with some cunt looking around at a farmers market or doing yoga. Like some fatso on the latest diabetes script is gonna do yoga.

      • Count Potato

        Or eat vegetables.

      • Lackadaisical

        Farmers markets have great pies.

      • Nephilium

        We got both kind of pies, Amish and Mennonite.

      • Michael Malaise

        I used to do those commercials (well, not those crappy ones) — they used to be more interesting and diverse conceptually. Now, they’re all stupid lifestyle b-roll bullshit about people surfing or bicycling. I don’t know if its the regulatory climate (there is a lot you cannot show) or if it’s just become lazy.

      • CPRM

        I did a few photoshops of fake drug ads in my day.

    • Rat on a train

      “Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?”
      In many cases no because the parents are selling the drugs.

      • Mojeaux

        They’re not called “Mommy’s Little Helper” for nothing.

      • Count Potato

        Where muh quaaludes?

    • Ted S.

      But not with opioids.

    • juris imprudent

      Did the article mention the gender break – my understanding is that boys are generally considered more hyperactive.

      • Count Potato

        When it first started, it was 49 out of 50.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It was their first modern attempt to make boys behave more like girls.

      • juris imprudent

        And yet the trans craze runs the opposite direction. Although I suppose that’s one way to reduce toxic masculinity.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Teachers felt like it wasn’t their job to deal with boys. They wanted the politeness and longer attention span of girls when posting kids up at a desk for hours at a time. So in comes ADD meds that we’re given out like candy, because, all of a sudden, teachers were telling parents that their kids are overactive. Boys received the brunt of it during the 90s and early 2000s. An entire generation of boys medicated to make teachers jobs easier.

  5. Pat

    You know that black guy best known for the .gif where his eyes get all buggy and he says, “good”?

    I thought he was best known for making cringe conscious hip hop.

    • Winston's Mom

      Thank you. I hate him even more now.

    • Cowboy

      Yeah, but Because The Internet was a banging album, and Atlanta is a good show.

  6. Count Potato

    “Religious private schools that are operated by churches or related faith-based organizations in Nevada are exempt from these occupational licensing regulations.”

    So a socon carve out that doesn’t make much sense?

    • Pat

      Because of Sin City people don’t typically associate Nevada with Mormonism, but there is a very sizable LDS presence here, including the late Harry Reid. I’d guess that probably had something to do with it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *See car lots and hotels in Las Vegas

      • Mojeaux

        Heh. The Mormon Mafia.

  7. Pat

    You know that’s…bad, right? Like really bad?

    Central governments adulterating precious metals? Why I never!

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The metals were just seductively sitting there, asking for it.

      • UnCivilServant

        Australia made advances, but the gold didn’t react.

      • The Other Kevin

        The gold was not unresponsive.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Newest central bank product: Fiat metals!

      “It’s gold because we fucking said it is.”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Fiat Metals. As reliable as the cars.

      • Pat

        Gives new meaning to Fix It Again Tony, eh?

      • Sensei

        Rusting to provide a deflationary currency. Very rare!

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      If it isn’t being assayed, then it is on China.

  8. Pat

    Possible plot twist: Buffalo guy is a FED.

    Every “extremist” group since about 1968 is basically a bunch of feds doing the Spidermen-pointing-at-each-other meme.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I think he’s so preoccupied with his businesses that he hasn’t really stopped to consider it before.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Or he’s playing dumb.

  9. Count Potato

    Oh, good, Pat is here. Can you explain this to me like I’m five?

    “You can sideload APKs to install anything you want, including alternative app stores like F-Droid or APK-Mirror.”

    Pretty much everything I’ve found is about phones, not TV’s.

    • Pat

      Phone or TV, it’s the same OS. The challenge with the TV version is getting the APK files onto the device so you can install them. You can find a guide here

      • R.J.

        Thank you for posting that. A similar thing can be done on Roku. If you are using Roku, make the potato nod in the affirmative and I will hunt down a guide. I side-loaded a basic podcast player onto my Roku about a year ago.

      • Count Potato

        OK, thanks. I just don’t want to brick a $1K TV.

      • UnCivilServant

        So… You don’t want to throw this brick at it?

      • Pat

        Even using ADB the risk is tiny, you’ll be fine.

      • Mojeaux

        I have had APKs that won’t install, most specifically the basic Tetris, because EA ruined Tetris with all its fancy bells and whistles and they don’t make the handheld ones anymore and DAMMIT I’M PISSED!!!

      • Pat

        I’ve got a Gameboy Color with an OG 1980s Tetris cart if you want it.

      • Mojeaux

        Oooh! Maybe so. This is what I used to have before I lost it or I wore it out or something. Got another one. I don’t know what happened to that one.

      • Michael Malaise

        The Nintendo DS is still a very solid handheld platform, as evidenced by the price tag of around $150,

      • rhywun

        I was digging through old junk the other day and found all my DS cartridges and couldn’t find the DS. Oh well.

      • Pat

        Until today I was unaware there were such things as stand-alone Tetris players. From the looks of that the Gameboy Color is a bit smaller, but if you’re interested just shoot me an email – rTtsVtYpKxR5PwT3zf@protonmail.com

      • Pat

        That’s pretty cool. I remember a few people way back in the original RPi B days making DIY Gameboy cases for them, but they were as thick as the old Dynatac 8000s.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I still have a jailbroken Wii attached to my TV because I have an emulator installed on it with every game for NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy and N64. I’m curious to see if my kids will have any interest in it when they get older or if they’ll just think it’s a bunch of stupid old games.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Go to archive.org. I believe they have in-browser emulators for tons of old games.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        There are some good web-based tetris games out there. Scroll past tetris.com and look for some others.

      • Pat

        Interestingly, the only reason I still have that Gameboy is because my dad was too stubborn to play Tetris on any other device and the D-pad on the original ’80s Gameboy I gave him wore out.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My mom had secretly bought Dr. Mario for my OG Gameboy…which explains her Candy Crush addiction of today.

      • Sensei

        I find downloading a file manager program from the Play Store easier than the “send to device” option. Never got that way to find my device.

        Put the APKs on Google Drive, DropBox or other cloud service that the file manager supports.

  10. Lackadaisical

    “It began ‘doping’ or diluting it’s gold in 2018, which involves mixing in copper or silver but keeping the purity above 99.99 per cent”

    *Squints*

    I’m not sure what to make of this.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Coins and other minted bullion have a buy price that is always above the spot price for gold, typically up to 10% for something like a Krugerrand or a Liberty Eagle.

      This is because those coins carry a confidence value to them that the next buyer is getting exactly what they paid for. Shanghai specified a purity value in the contract and Perth tried, well really they did, fuck them and any other buyer who expected the described product. In doing so, they undercut the confidence in the mint, and that may not be able to be regained. It’s a huge fuckup.

      • Lackadaisical

        Okay, but they still kept purity at 99.99% and Shanghai wanted something even more pure?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Yes. It’s a contract, and Perth violated it. Confidence is shot to hell, Perth is liable. Unwinding it could get very, very, nasty, messy, and expensive. Perth could fold as a result because who’s going to trust their product? If you have to test every shipment, that’s an added cost to the product.

        I suppose Shanghai could seek remuneration of the value difference instead, but they’re not obliged to do so.

  11. The Other Kevin

    Not that it will change anyone’s mind, but it’s a little encouraging that the only argument I see against those J6 videos is that people seeing two sides of a story is somehow bad for democracy.

    • juris imprudent

      There’s never been a good argument for not releasing them. The fact that anyone even tried to make one shows me the contempt they have for me.

      • The Other Kevin

        They spent an entire year showing footage edited by a Hollywood editor, and suddenly they’re pissing their pants over an hour long TV show.

      • juris imprudent

        Repetition of very select footage to be precise. Against many hours and vantages. Hmmm.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I’ve been wondering that meat-puppet Luria will land now that she’s been voted out. I was moved out of her district before the last election, which disappointed me because I wanted to vote against her.

    • Michael Malaise

      The Week of Living Dangerously.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Did these kids learn nothing from Far Cry 3?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I don’t think most Spring Breakers go to the area where those people were killed. And it sounds like they were mistaken for Haitian dealers, which sounds kind of racist.

      Anyway, I’m headed down to one of the states on the State Department’s Do Not Travel List in a couple weeks. Fingers crossed.

      • R C Dean

        North Dakota?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Don’t be silly. North Dakota doesn’t exist.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        So it has gone to the birds?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It is on their migratory path. Or it would be if it and they were real. Connect the dots!

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        (taps finger against nose)

  12. Mojeaux

    Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?

    Maybe, maybe not, but my family’s amphetamine needs are being met and are a godsend.

  13. Count Potato

    “Could Benadryl and Sudafed be pulled from pharmacy shelves? FDA to review common over-the-counter cold meds due to concerns they’re useless

    Phenylephrine – commonly found in medications like Vicks Sinex, Delsym for children, and certain types of Sudafed – became exceedingly popular in the mid-2000s when the federal government imposed new restrictions on purchasing pseudoephedrine, an ingredient that can be used in clandestine labs to make meth.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11830411/FDA-reevaluate-common-counter-stuffy-nose-medicine-concerns-useless.html

    The government sucks ass.

    • The Other Kevin

      Benadryl is definitely not useless. It has the amazing ability to make children fall asleep.

      • R.J.

        Chris Rock talked about his mom using Robitussin. I think it was him.

      • Mojeaux

        Benadryl by itself winds me up. Not in a good way. Tylenol PM, however, works a treat.

      • Tres Cool

        I liked to call it the “$6 babysitter”.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Phenylepherine is garbage. You can pry my pseudoephedrine from my cold, dead, but not from a lack of ability to breathe, hands.

      • Mojeaux

        I miss my old stacking days. caffeine + aspirin + ephedrine [none of that pseudo business]

      • Cowboy

        ECA stack was awesome til they banned ephedrine. Well guess what FDA? We moved on to Clenbuterol. Horse asthma medicine is so much safer, right?

      • Mojeaux

        Wait, what????

      • Cowboy

        Sorry, meant we as in the people that had been using ECA stack for weight loss. When they banned ephedrine, we had to find something else effective, and Clen is super effective, but more dangerous.

      • Rat on a train

        Yep. Phenylephrine is no better than a placebo. Pseudoephedrine is vital.

      • dorvinion

        I was once visiting family in IL and needed a working antihistamine as I was exposed to an airborne allergen.

        I went to the drug store in the small town and was told he could not sell me any pseudoephedrine w/o a prescription.
        Told me I’d have to go to walmart 15 miles away to get it OTC.

        So I took the Phenylepherine he offered instead and it did exactly what I expected – nothing.

    • Pat

      I didn’t know Benadryl contained any other active ingredients besides diphenhydramine, but then I buy the store brand stuff.

      • Count Potato

        It doesn’t. It’s just a bad headline. And it’s clearly effective.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Fuck off FDA.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’m sure this is very rare, but I still can’t trust chiropractors.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Quacks, the lot of them.

    • The Other Kevin

      Somebody get the number of that chiropractor for my wife. /Benny Hill

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Mine uses an electric tap hammer. No manual adjustments on the neck.

      • Count Potato

        Unless chiropractor schools are letting in actual gorillas as part of DEI, what kind of manual adjustment can rip four fucking arteries?

    • Pope Jimbo

      still unable to speak

      She must have potential suitors lined up around the block

    • Winston's Mom

      The fuck? I’ll rub your neck for ya, and throw in the severed arteries for free.

      • pistoffnick

        I am simultaneously terrified and turgid!

  14. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    From the aforelinked eurodollar paper:

    Eurodollars complicate Federal Reserve policy for a number of reasons.97 The first is that such instruments engender growth of dollar-denominated credit without a commensurate increase in the conventionally defined money supply.98 In a very real sense then, foreign banks create unsanctioned American money when they create Eurodollars.” Because Eurodollars are not subject to reserve requirements, to the extent they can, banks are incentivized to shift deposits from noninterest bearing reserves to Eurodollars.00 Effectively this creates a very large pool of dollar-denominated assets abroad ready to be lent out. According to the Bank of International Settlement, a quarter of the U.S. dollar balance sheet is located outside the United States.0lo This asset pool undermines the ability of the United States to manage inflation by restricting its money supply, because a large pool of dollar liquidity abroad is beyond the control of the Federal Reserve.102

    To the extent that the Federal Reserve is no longer in control of the supply of dollars, the monetary sovereignty of the United States is diluted. If foreign banks can lend dollars at unregulated interest rates, then the interest rate set by the Federal Reserve is, at least to some extent, made less effectual. Indeed, the Bank of International Settlement has noted that it matters little whether a central bank buys a U.S. Treasury note held in custody in the United States or one held abroad.103 Generally speaking, arbitrageurs will take advantage of differences in interest rates until returns on the various sources of dollars are equalized.104

    Nevertheless, the Federal Reserve’s prerogative to control the money supply and interest rate is undermined by the alternative sources of dollars. Under the concept of monetary sovereignty, “each country has the exclusive authority to regulate every aspect of its currency, including any factor that may affect it internally or externally.”os As an idea, monetary sovereignty predates political sovereignty.106 While it would be a stretch to call monetary sovereignty more important than political sovereignty, such a comparison is ostensibly meaningless: the two concepts are inextricably intertwined. As the continuing crisis in the Eurozone demonstrates, running a modern nation-state without the ability to control its monetary policy is a difficult, perhaps impossible, task.07 The principle way Eurocurrencies undermine monetary sovereignty is demonstrated by the credit multiplier effect discussed in Part II.D.ios

    Because Eurocurrencies give private financial institutions the unrestricted ability to expand the availability of a particular currency, the country whose currency is the target of the Euroinstrument no longer has exclusive control over its money supply. For example, the expansion of dollar-denominated credit increases the availability of dollars and can result in inflation of the dollar.09 Furthermore, the lack of reserve requirements on Eurodollars creates a potentially infinite money multiplier, potentially leading to an infinite degree of inflation, all without the input of the Federal Reserve or the U.S. Treasury.110 Thus, the power to control the number of dollars (or dollar-equivalent instruments) in the market has been taken out of the exclusive control of U.S. authority and diffused among foreign banking institutions.

    While this is a distillation of a complicated process, the end result is that-to a certain extent-the Federal Reserve’s power to control the money supply, and thus manage inflation, is undermined by an alternate and potentially unlimited supply of dollars. Recently this has not been a major concern because of very low inflation rates since the recession.”‘ However, in periods of high inflation, monetary controls like increasing interest rates or purchasing treasuries are less effective if there is an easy alternate source for dollars.112

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Functionally, it appears that Powell is attempting to end the ECB and their suck on the US economy by starving them of eurodollars. Yellen is fighting him by forcing the Fed to monetize the debt and ease the money supply further. That’s why the failure of the Build Back Better bill was crucially necessary.

      The transition from LIBOR to SOFR plays a further role in disconnecting the US financial system from the European financial system.

    • Pat

      Ultimately, wouldn’t any instrument redeemable for USD have to be settled in USD, of which there is a (theoretically, at least) finite supply? I’m missing something here.

      • R C Dean

        I gave up a very long time ago trying to understand finance at that level.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        It is unfathomable as they gave up economics for social engineering.

        If you look at it that way, it starts to make sense.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Even Friedman called the Eurodollar system incomprehensible.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        But you touch on the problem, most of the money that the Fed “printed” back in 2008 went to shore up foreign banks. The Fed has been the lender of last resort for the entire world.

      • Pat

        I mean I understand their reasoning in that regard, but if Europe keeps creating instruments redeemable for dollars and they outstrip the available supply, that’s their tough shit. You’re not obligated to ensure there’s sufficient liquidity for the eurobankers. So in that sense, they’re only losing control of the money supply to the extent they decide to cooperate with that nonsense.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The Fed isn’t cooperating anymore and the ECB is in deep shit as a result.

        As Luongo put it, Powell is crushing the old European money and the banks that have harbored them for hundreds of years. And Wall Street will no longer be at London’s mercy with LIBOR gone.

        If the Davos crowd wants to go full commie after the financial collapse, that will be their problem, not ours.

  15. Pope Jimbo

    Moar food labeling nonsense

    WASHINGTON — For dairy farmer Lucas Sjostrom, allowing beverages made out of soy, almonds, oats, rice or other plant based products to be called “milk” is more than an encroachment on his market, it’s a personal insult.

    “Dairy farmers are offended that someone would try to steal their whole livelihood,” said Sjostrom, the executive director of the Minnesota Milk Producers Association. “We feel that it’s a total theft of our way of life.”

    The nation’s dairy farmers insist that plant-based products now labeled as milk be called juices or beverages – or anything but milk.

    Yet the Food and Drug Administration recently issued a proposed rule that would allow the makers of beverages made from soybeans, almonds, oats and other plants to continue to label their products milk, as long as the non-dairy products employ qualifiers such as soy milk, and almond milk.

    Look if those almond fuckers want to call their shit “milk” they better be basing their prices on something sensible like how far they are from Wisconsin

    • Rat on a train

      Ban “herbal” teas. They don’t contain any tea. It’s confusing. People looking for tea may accidentally buy it thinking they are getting tea.

      • Tres Cool

        They’re already in the pocket of Big Dictionary. Merriam-Webster has them covered:

        3a
        : any of various plants used like tea
        also : a drink prepared by soaking their parts (such as leaves or roots) and used medicinally or as a beverage

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Eh, drinking milk is like doing shots of fat. Or eating a stick of butter by itself. I would much rather have almond milk on the few occasions that I have cereal.

      But putting anything in coffee is a Rong as two trannies fucking.

      • Not Adahn

        Are the trannies hot?

  16. CPRM

    If anyone remembers the article I did on the Dollar Tree toy line Final Faction where the figures cost $1.25 each and they even produced a cartoon. Now they have a comic out, and I found an Ebay listing trying to sell this $1.25 comic for $225. I just bought a copy today, now I can plan my retirement!

    • Tres Cool

      Step 4: PROFIT!

  17. Michael Malaise

    Had a fun conversation with a blue-pilled co-worker today:

    • He looks at people who still wear masks as those who are “sick” and not trying to get anyone else sick. They don’t protect anyone. He has boxes and boxes of masks at home.
    • He once criticized a co-worker for bringing in his unvaxxed son to the office. Now he says, “it doesn’t make a difference.”

    • Compelled Speechless

      Here’s where I keep getting black-pilled. You get these people that are able to look back on things like COVID and realize it was total hysteria and much of what was done was futile if not out-right destructive. They offer no apologies for being so gullible and so self-righteous simultaneously. They do no other analysis and wonder what else they could have been misled about. Come the next crisis, they arrogantly default right back to the establishment narrative without question like an Alzheimer’s patient.

      I spent 10 years trying to get a neo-con relative to admit Iraqi was not only a mistake, but a malicious lie. You’ll never guess who just told me that “Putin has to be stopped or he’ll take over half of Europe.” JFC

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        On the other side, I’ve encountered quite a few people who have become skeptical across the board after initially getting the first shot. It didn’t just impact their view of covid or of public health, but of our entire society. They may not have completely altered their worldview, but many have recognized that something is wrong and that they need to protect themselves from the next thing to come.

      • Michael Malaise

        Red-pilling is a process. Look at Russell Brand or Nate Silver. They’d gladly exclaim themselves liberals (Brand for fuck’s sake still likes Bernie) but they no longer sound like them.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Your namesake was on Jimmy Dore recently. He’s another one of those guys that’s so close to getting properly red pilled, but can’t quite get there. He asked Malice if he thought that socialism failed because it is inherently flawed or just because the wrong guys were running it in the Soviet Union. Malice, to my shock basically punted, presumably because he didn’t want to undermine the rest of his arguments to that tankie audience. Jimmy, how many times do “the wrong people” have to turn countries into totalitarian nightmares before you admit it’s the system?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        And there are still practicing Catholics after the whole pedo-priest thing.

        Some people have different opinions on what is important.

    • CPRM

      I go to the clinic once a month, today was the first time they said masks were optional. It was the first time I saw the face of the nurse I’ve been interacting with for the last year.

      • Tres Cool

        Poor thing had to see yours too!

        /you made it too easy

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        I went to the doctors yesterday, and we still are required to wear them. No one said anything that mine was beneath my nose, and the acutal Dr.’s was worn so badly that everyone knew it was just for show. The whole thing is a joke at this point.

      • Ted S.

        She didn’t want to get his herpes.

        It is that sort of clinic, right?

  18. Sensei

    Anybody have experience with AdBlock DNS? I really have no desire to spin up a Pi, expose it to be accessed outside my network and maintain it running PiHole.

    I’m looking for ad blocking on my Android phone and iPad. The iPad will let you run ad block extensions only on Safari. Meanwhile, the Borg have no desire to let you run any kind of filtering without root.

    So far I’m trying it demo and it works well. Trying to figure out if the 20 Euro annual price is worth it.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      No experience with that particular one, but my pihole points to quad9. It seems to work fine given that it blocks some stuff.

    • Pat

      I really have no desire to spin up a Pi, expose it to be accessed outside my network and maintain it running PiHole.

      Pi-Hole’s been Dockerized, so you don’t need to have it running on physical hardware. AdGuard Home would be another option that you can just install locally.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That reminds me, I need to migrate it over to my server to free my pi up for the next project.

      • Pat

        For me the decision to containerize Pi-Hole was easy: I’m out of free ports on my home office router and I don’t want to buy a switch.

    • dorvinion

      Never used that service.

      The easiest way I’ve found to get good adblock on my mobile devices is to run wireguard on my home router (openvpn if you prefer that) so that my phone/laptop/etc that I’m out and about with can hit my pihole for DNS lookups.

      If I want Ad blocking I just turn it on while I’m out and about and everything goes through home, including DNS.
      Bonus is I can securely access everything else on my network as well

      You would never want to expose a pihole directly to the internet – its an abuse risk.

    • R C Dean

      Surgery and injections?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Why do they do that to themselves?

    • Michael Malaise

      Was the strip club named Labyrinth?

    • Michael Malaise

      That’s an insult to David Bowie.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Nooooo…..

    • Pope Jimbo

      Probably because Alec shot her in the face too.

    • hayeksplosives

      Holy cow.

      She looks like that Wildensteen cat woman.

      Whyyyyy???

      Take a page from Helen Mirren’s book and age gracefully with a few wrinkles!

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Amen. Way more attractive outside and in.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        This. So many formerly good looking people cannot handle aging, and it is just so sad.

  19. Tres Cool

    WRT to the kid from “Community”

    He was reportedly getting increasingly frustrated about the way his character Pierce Hawthorne, an out of touch, bigot, was being portrayed and snapped suggesting that if the character was made any more racist, he might next be required to call the black characters on the show the N-word, Deadline reported.”

    And I suppose TMITE have memory-holed this SNL classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

    • Compelled Speechless

      I used to like Donald Glover until he woke up one day and decided that, despite his Ivy League education and incredible success in multiple avenues of show business at a very young age, he was in in lock step politically with Ta-Nehisi Coates and suffered terribly for his skin color. No amount of Emmy or Grammy nominations, multi-million dollar showbiz deals, supermodel girlfriends and fawning press coverage could convince him otherwise.

      I’m not sure I buy this specific accusation about Chevy Chase, but the guy does have an unbelievably long history of basically everyone in Hollywood accusing him of being an insufferable asshole. I think I once heard Dan Harmon say that they were writing Pierce that way to try to make him quit Community so they wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore.

      • Michael Malaise

        I was going to start watching Atlanta since I have never seen the show. It looks interesting to me. Have any glibs watched it?

      • Compelled Speechless

        I watched the pilot when it first came out, but I don’t really remember it. Guess I wasn’t immediately hooked.

  20. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    I be going to Maine June 17-July 29! Party at the RV!

    • UnCivilServant

      Any stops along the way? You’ll be passing a lot of glib-infested hellholes getting there.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Looks to be (approximately)

        Lewisburg WV
        Lewisburg PA
        Bennington VT

        I’m probably only going to do one night in each place. I may take a bit more time coming back to SC. We’ll see.

      • juris imprudent

        If you come up short on Lewisburg PA, you’ll be in our neighborhood. Unless you’ve come up I-81 in which case you’ve given us a wide berth.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m close (TX standards) to Bennington. I believe I’ll give you a visit.

      • Timeloose

        Sounds like you are taking the scenic route.

        I’m about an hour and some change from Lewisberg.

        I’m near 81 and 84, but it sounds like you are keeping off the interstates.

      • mock-star

        Depending on the route you take, you will be very close to me between the Lewisburgs. If you take 76 to 99 instead of 81, youre close to my territory.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Party at the RV

      That will surely be one to remember. Especially after too many Cuba Libres

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        About, there is a T there, normally…

  21. Pat

    The politics of fear is the enemy of democracy

    So now we know, they did seek to terrorise us. They did set out to scare us into compliance. It’s there in black and white in the latest Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages revealed by the Daily Telegraph as part of its Lockdown Files. We should ‘frighten the pants off everyone with the new [Covid] strain’, Hancock said to his media adviser, Damon Poole. ‘Yep that’s what will get proper behaviour change’, Poole chillingly replied. And then came what must be one of the most dire and cynical utterances made by a public figure in recent times. ‘When do we deploy the new variant’, Hancock asked.

    When do we deploy the new variant. They were openly talking about using information as a weapon, about ‘deploying’ horror stories on Covid to petrify the public into social obedience. This unnerving chat about manipulating the masses took place in December 2020 when the Kent strain of Covid-19 was spreading. Worried that Brits were tiring of abiding by social-distancing rules, Hancock, then health secretary, looked to his team for ideas on how to re-engineer us all back into a state of unquestioning deference. And their big idea was fear. Fear would be ‘vital’, they agreed, in making us bend the knee once more to the ideology of lockdown.

    It is the breezy nature of the conversation that feels most disquieting. It is testament to how much the power had gone to their heads that they could so blithely chat about spreading dread among the people. It is a sign of how imperious the political class became during the pandemic years that they could so casually talk about dropping a bomb of fear on what they haughtily viewed as the unruly populace. We were no longer their fellow citizens, to be engaged with as sensible, free-thinking adults. We were marionettes whose strings had to be pulled; child-like creatures to be swayed this way and that by horror stories from on high. As then cabinet secretary Simon Case said to Hancock in January 2021, ‘ramping up messaging’ will be the only way to ensure lockdown compliance – ‘the fear / guilt factor [is] vital’, he said.

    To some of us, it’s not a shock to discover that the elites used fear to try to bring about ‘behaviour change’. It’s been clear for a long time that making the masses feel scared, fretful, guilty was a key part of the machinery of compliance during lockdown. From those ghastly government posters showing gravely ill people alongside the words ‘Look her in the eyes and tell her you never bend the rules’ to police forces setting up hotlines so that we could snitch on neighbours who were ‘contravening’ the guidelines, they were constantly whipping up foreboding to try to keep us in our place. As far back as May 2020, the sociologist Robert Dingwall, who was advising the government, said officialdom had ‘terrorised’ the populace so much that ‘coronaphobia’ would be the next big problem. In short, dread of Covid-19 might go viral too, possibly preventing the return of social normalcy.

    • Tres Cool

      A writing teacher I had ages ago (that I clearly paid no attention to) stressed that in literature, conflicts are almost always “man vs man”, “man vs nature”, or “man vs. himself”.
      A psychology teacher I had stressed that we animals are wired and instinctually driven by 3 motivators: “hunger, fear, sex”.

      Look like they had the same class.

  22. CPRM

    Making some hot sauce! Well the ‘mash’ anyway, that I’ll let rest together in the fridge for a week or two, before straining out the chunks and getting a smooth sauce. Using some peppers from Shawn, habs, penos, and serranos.

  23. Pat

    Senate Republican Leader McConnell slams Fox and Tucker Carlson for Jan. 6 portrayal

    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell joined a chorus of widespread attacks on Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol since he accessed more than 40,000 hours of security footage.

    Carlson and his team had exclusive access to the security tape surrounding the attack thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, drawing concerns the host would use the tapes to spread a new wave of disinformation.

    McConnell said he aligned himself with remarks issued earlier Tuesday by U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger to his rank-and-file slamming Carlson’s “offensive and misleading conclusions” about the siege. He held up Manger’s one-page statement — called “Truth & Justice” — near the Senate chamber on Tuesday.

    “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,” McConnell told reporters.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      All you need to know about Cocaine Mitch is right there.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        And if you had any doubts as to whether he was in on it, they should be completely gone now.

      • rhywun

        His and Schumer’s rants tell me everything I need to know about 1/6.

    • Pope Jimbo

      When the 9/11 conspiracy nuts were in full swing, I remember a couple mainstream publications (Popular Mechanics?) spent like an issue going through the claims one by one and debunking them. They didn’t just ban anyone from talking about it.

      So will Cocaine Mitch back up his talk? Will he release his own video showing why Shaman guy was being escorted by cops around the Capitol Building? Or how the J6’s committee video that “showed Hawley running away like a punk” was more accurate than the unedited version Tucker released where Hawley was at the back end of a group of Congressmen?

      Or is he just going to wave around a piece of paper – which I don’t put any account into because only one cop signed it. You have to have at least 50 “experts” from the FedGov sign something to make it legit.

      • R.J.

        The only thing I want Mitch to release is a big, smelly semi solid load in his pants while he is standing at a podium, addressing reporters with cameras.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Big Diaper has it’s best people on adult diapers for our overlords. Complete noise and smell containment. Biden and Mitch have been casually unloading in front of the cameras for years without the public knowing.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I fucking KNEW it!

      • The Last American Hero

        You want him to pull a Nadler?

    • Count Potato

      CWAA

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      To be fair, there were people who smashed windows and fought with cops. Those should be charged with vandalism, trespassing and assault. In the videos I’ve seen, Carlson does seem to gloss over that. But by the standards of the summer of riots, this was positively peaceful, and a lot of the narrative is BS.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Carlson seems to be going after the blatant lies presented by the committee first. It’s the correct approach IMHO. Show the world they’re lying sacks of shit.

        That’s far more important than getting the guy who busted a window.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Maybe, but I think he’d be well served by having a “To be sure…” sentence. Maybe he has. I’ve only watched a handful of clips on Youtube, so I might have missed it. But that’s probably a handful more than the people who are condemning it have watched.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I’ll bet he gets to Ray Epps shortly.

        I know there were some guys busting up windows. IIRC most of them were well covered Antifa style so they couldn’t be easily identified.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        My understanding is that Epps was there the day before, but not the day of the riot. If that’s true, the tapes won’t show anything about him.

        Agreed about the masked window smashers. All he has to say is, “Go after those guys, whoever they are. They are the ones that committed crimes. And while you’re at it, FBI, what progress have you made on the person planting pipe bombs?”

      • Count Potato

        “My understanding is that Epps was there the day before, but not the day of the riot. ”

        He was there the night before and on that day that will live in infamy. There were already tapes out of both.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        If it’s true he was there the day of, then this could get more interesting.

      • R C Dean

        I thought I’d seen pics of him supposedly urging the crowd to go in. He may not have gone in himself, so he may not be on Tucker’s videos.

      • whahappan

        He was definitely there the day of, on video that was available for 2 years now. Tucker showed him too, along with testimony of his that showed he lied about when he left the Capitol. He did not enter the building, but he urged and directed others to, as well as orchestrating the removal of barriers.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Nothing happened in the Soviet Union for decades, until it did.

        The cultural memory is being built.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        What I am wondering about is how much of that was done by provocateurs, or done in response to police trying to kettle them.

        We know that much of what was presented was BS, so we should question all of the rest.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    ,em>The Nobel laureate underlined his deep uncertainty about the state of the US economy in a Sunday tweet. He shared a chart showing residential building construction has climbed steadily since early 2021, whereas private-sector housing starts have plunged over the past year.

    Que?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,” McConnell told reporters.

    Two sides to every story? That’s a lie!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Fuck that corrupt turkey necked old fool, he’d side with The Devil if it’d help his bottom line.

      • Tres Cool

        How do you know he hasn’t?
        You’re asking me to accept facts not currently in evidence.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Good grief. That Kim Basinger thing reminds me of a commercial I saw recently. An older lady (maybe five or ten years younger than me) comes on. She has a great face; lean, attractive, with lots of “character lines”. She starts talking, and I figure it’s some sort of anti-depressant pitch. Then she goes away, and comes back. Her face is all bloated (like Basingers, but not as horrifying as Madonna). She looks like she has gained thirty or forty pounds.

    And she says, “See how much better I look? I feel happier now. Thanks, BOTOX!”

    Gack.

    • rhywun

      The debates should be interesting. That guy can talk and talk.

      • robodruid

        Very interesting.

  27. Tundra

    Jesus.

    So everything sucks?

    In other news, if I ever meet the Subaru engineer who thought it was ok to have to go through the wheel well to replace headlights, I will slap the living shit out of him/her/xe.

    • CPRM

      You have to remove the front bumper on my Malibu to change the headlights. Not just the actual light case, just the bulb to.

      • Tundra

        Next time I’m using C-4.

    • Sensei

      It saved $1.00 per car and 3 seconds on the line.

      NPV of the manufacturing cost savings is greater than NPV of expected warranty labor cost. Proceed.

      Remember behind every bean counter cheapening the brand is an engineer being rewarded for this.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Thankfully, the construction equipment market requires serviceability in design. We still get some stupidly designed equipment, but it’s not nearly as bad as the trucks we use to deliver it.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’ll play Devil’s Advocate. Sometimes there is so little space in the engine compartment it’s difficult to change the lightbulb without the help of the orphans’ tiny hands. They are busy doing other things in the basement and I don’t want to let them out. Turning the wheels to one side to access the hatch for the lightbulb is preferable.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Went looking for it. Check this narcissist out.

    Gadfrey, what a pathetic loser.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    In other news, if I ever meet the Subaru engineer who thought it was ok to have to go through the wheel well to replace headlights, I will slap the living shit out of him/her/xe.

    I put a $15 headlight bulb in my dad’s Cadillac CTS. It took about half a day. Not only do you need to get the inner fender out of the way, the front bumper has to come halfway off.

    I was pissed when I had to take the battery out of the CRX to get a new bulb in it.

    • Tundra

      Lol.

      What year CRX?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      My favorites are the ones where you to a front wheel to get to the battery. I’m looking at you, Dodge.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        …where you have to pull a front wheel..

      • Sensei

        Oh heck yes.

        Mind you on my Tesla I have to remove the backseat and pull a connector to “safe” the high voltage battery.

        They learned their lesson. Every Tesla before and all the redesigned Y and 3s went back to you simply unclipping the “fire” disconnect loop in the front trunk. On my model the same loop exists, but no connector. If it is cut by responders you have to replace the harness.

        Cost saving and repair cost NPV turned out to be negative as so many procedures require the HV to be disconnected.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Light bulbs were the one issue I had with the New Beetle. You had to turn a pot metal bolt head, and then the whole assembly would pop out the front, after which you could pull the bulb out the back. And the pot metal clip that held the thing in place was good for one change, and then it was shot.

      Such German engineering.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        German engineering is overrated. It’s very nice until you have to do maintenance.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    It saved $1.00 per car and 3 seconds on the line.

    NPV of the manufacturing cost savings is greater than NPV of expected warranty labor cost. Proceed.

    Remember behind every bean counter cheapening the brand is an engineer being rewarded for this.

    And now, if you want to pull the motor out of just about anything, it seems, it has to come out the bottom. With the cross member and front suspension.

    if you don’t have at minimum a two post lift you’re pretty much fucked.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    What year CRX?

    ’90 or ’91; I can’t remember for sure. That’s one of the cars I wouldn’t mind having back.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      It was a popular car on the autocross circuits.

    • Mojeaux

      Ooooh, I had a 1986 CRX. I loved that little thing. Its name was Grasshopper.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    A CRX of that vintage would be really bitchin’ with the motor and tranny behind the seats. Or converted to front engine (V-6), rear wheel drive.

    • Mojeaux

      Not for snow. Manual transmission + front wheel drive + snow == WHEEEEEEEE!!!!

  33. Not Adahn

    This T shirt is NOT available in sizes under XL. I am not joking.

      • R.J.

        Paging Sugar Free, can you identify this fetish?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Not for snow. Manual transmission + front wheel drive + snow == WHEEEEEEEE!!!!

    You gotta hang the tail out. Rear wheel drive is where it’s at.

  35. CPRM

    Put the hot sauce I cooked up into my big latch-top jar, and even though I did no measuring of any kind, it poured in and filled it exact, no extra or wasted space! Yay! Now to let it cool off to go in the fridge.

    • R.J.

      I want that game. Looks better than “Simpsons: Hit and Run.”

    • Count Potato

      Those things were ugly.

      • Mojeaux

        Speaking of oddball cars, I loved the Prowler.

    • Sensei

      My father in laws last car before he became unable to drive.

  36. Ownbestenemy

    Not to sully Yusef thread. Past couple months FedGov clamored they absolutely were not trying to censor us….

    So Chuckie gets on the Senate floor and demands Fox to not air a segment. One could argue it was Executive departments skirting the Constituon but here is Congress, demanding….what a wild world we live in.