Sunday Morning Sneak Links

by | Mar 26, 2023 | Daily Links | 222 comments

As I may have, ahem, mentioned, I have been making my way through the world of AWFLs. The big disadvantage is that if I have to do Links and I’m unexpectedly, ahem, detained in an unfamiliar domicile, I have to sneak into the bathroom and do them on my phone. This is an exceptionally painful process, so things will be a bit abbreviated.

Including, alas, the birthday list, but still, let’s note a backwards-looking guy; a guy who bragged about trespassing; a guy who wrote plays about animals; a guy who should have dangled from the lamppost next to where LBJ and Nixon should have dangled; the greatest general in Air Force history; a guy who had communications issues; a guy who played the same roles as Zero Mostel and Jack Nicholson (great trivia points); the most prominent member of a long-time Mafia family; a guy who proves that atheists can be assholes, too; another guy who did one good thing and is still living off that; a woman named Ching Chong; and a guy you can blame for the shittiest aspects of the internet.

Let me link before she thinks I’m locked in here jerking off.

 

Sounds good to me. Best of luck in your future endeavors, Voldy.

 

So let me get this straight, if we don’t make poor people cough up tax money to make expensive toys for rich people, the rich people aren’t going to buy the expensive toys?

 

I dunno, why not put a political hack in charge?

 

Team Red assclowns in a bumfight.

 

The democratic government of Ukraine at work.

 

I’d vote to acquit.

 

This was particularly apropos.

 

Old Guy Music is an obscure favorite of mine which seemed weirdly appropriate.

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222 Comments

  1. robodruid

    AWFL=?

    Are you avoiding the women or are they avoiding you?

    • Brawndo

      Affluent White Female Liberal

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Ah, I thought it had to do with fluorescent bulbs.

      • Tres Cool

        I thought it was how the kids today text awful.

  2. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    L’Chaim !

  3. Brawndo

    Congrats on getting your dick wet.

  4. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    AWFLs?

  5. SDF-7

    I’d vote to acquit.

    Frankly, I suspect I would as well. Though the kid certainly needs some anger management, I don’t buy into the whole “you can only shoot X times after being assaulted” thing.

    This was particularly apropos.

    Probably wrong of me — but I’m certainly fine with the left’s politics taking themselves out of the dating scene (or they can date each other… at least arrange meetings to pet each other’s cats or something). Most of them fall way over the crazy line anyway. Conservative or moderate women must be laughing their butts off, and the mail order bride industry is almost certainly planning for an uptick. MGTOW of course will increase for those who don’t want to take that option. Surely a recipe for social stability, too… (probably part of why they want to feminize all the young men they’re pissing off (and on) so badly).

    Morning, reprobates… enjoy your explorations, OMWC.

    • Fourscore

      “I’d vote to acquit”

      Where is the line drawn? If someone tells me they are going to kick my ass (in a not friendly manner) I have to take their word for it. If the threat comes with a stick or rock my only defense is to have more firepower. I can’t wait for the actual contact.

    • juris imprudent

      If the wife were gone tomorrow I would give absolutely no thought to seeking out female companionship. The world is far too mad for me.

      • R C Dean

        Same here.

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

        Make it a trio, I think I am on my last one.

        But, if you keep your politics on the DL, and ride the lightning, so to speak, you have an easy out.

    • Rebel Scum

      “at least arrange meetings to pet each other’s cats”

      These euphemisms…

    • EvilSheldon

      I’d have to see video, or at least have a better description of the scene.

      Once again, you can use lethal force to defend yourself against the threat of death or serious injury. Being punched in the face might represent that level of threat, or it might not.

      • R C Dean

        My default is “Don’t start nuthin’, won’t be nuthin’.” I’m not real excited about prosecutors minutely parsing slo-mo video to determine what a “reasonable limpe-wristed soy-boy” might do. Sure, there might be something egregious on there, but a tie goes to the defender.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      and the mail order bride industry is almost certainly planning for an uptick.

      I know there’s a movement of bitter, bitter women decrying “passport bros”, or those who leave the country to find a wife instead of marrying an American woman.

      I don’t blame these men one single bit.

  6. Gender Traitor

    As Nadia drove her date back home…

    Well, there’s your first red flag right there.

    …he revealed he had not voted during the 2016 presidential election because he had not liked either candidate, former President Trump or the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

    “And I was like ‘I’m never speaking to him again,” she said. “I almost kicked him out of my car.”

    She did him a HUUUUUUUGE favor by vowing to leave him alone.

    • Grumbletarian

      My eyesight is so bad that I can’t legally drive at night, due to an incurable genetic disorder that affects my retinas. That means LASIK won’t help. You figure that’s why my dating life has always been basically nonexistent? I would hate to think women were really that shallow.

      • Gender Traitor

        That’s a perfectly legitimate reason, and I trust you wouldn’t mind being upfront about that when arranging a date. It eliminates “I don’t have a job” or “My license got suspended for DUI” as the reason you can’t drive yourself to an evening date.

      • Grumbletarian

        I’m open about it, but it shows up in other ways, like me having to basically bury my face in a menu to read it. I doubt I could really hide it if I wanted to.

        Apologies for the land mine you accidentally stepped on; it’s a bit of a touchy subject.

      • Gender Traitor

        No apology necessary – I was admittedly being…well… glib. Thank you for the reminder that there are many reasons why someone wouldn’t be able to drive – including plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with their desirability as a potential dating partner.

      • Brochettaward

        Yes. Yes they are that shallow.

    • Fourscore

      Would she have been ready to dump him if she saw his home reeked of wealth? If he was a successful entrepreneur AND a college professor?

      /Asking for a friend.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’d date her but I’m a masochist who’s always wanted to bag a shrill harpy who’d keep my balls in a vice over political matters. She seems just the thing.

    • Chafed

      My thoughts exactly.

  7. Grumbletarian

    Then politics came up. As Nadia drove her date back home, he revealed he had not voted during the 2016 presidential election because he had not liked either candidate, former President Trump or the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

    “And I was like ‘I’m never speaking to him again,” she said. “I almost kicked him out of my car.”

    She seems nice.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      They’re the new and improved bible-thumping church ladies.

      • Gender Traitor

        They’re the new and improved bible-thumping church ladies.

    • Rat on a train

      My wife has a friend from work like that. Amazingly she is still single.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Cox has also noticed in his work that more young people, especially young women, are searching for romantic partners in their friendship circles. This could be because daters, especially young women, feel like it is easier to find a partner who is more compatible and shares the same political values among acquaintances or friends, he said.

      Revolutionary idea right there.

      • Pat

        It’s amazing to watch young people navigate dating nowadays (and I say this as a socially retarded total fucking clown who basically never dated). One of the younger fellas with whom I occasionally play video games was talking about how shitty Tinder is. So I ask him “Well, why don’t you try something else?” And he replies “Like what? I’ve already tried Bumble. Where else are you going to meet anybody?” It literally never even crossed his mind that you could meet a woman without a fucking app on your social credit metering device. I guess with religion eliminated as both a common cultural understanding and a social institution it makes sense. It’s funny to see kids in their 20s reinventing a secular version of church to share common ideology and meet people.

      • rhywun

        I assume bars still exist. Sheesh.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The large number of kids going to college, combined with the efforts of those colleges to enforce penalties on social interaction between young adults has had some perverse results.

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

        I am not religious at all, but I have recommended church as a great place to meet women to single friends. Unless you are a die hard atheist, it doesn’t really matter whether or not you are a true believer, it is about community.

        Also, bars still work. People like getting out and talking to people, face to face. Sure, go out with a group of friends, but it still isn’t uncommon to talk to, and get the phone number of, single people. Then, do things in public that make others feel secure and, if they are worried about it, safe. Have coffee, lunch, stuff like that.

        Oh, and don’t be a damn know-it-all. Listen to them, ask them questions, things like that.

      • Gender Traitor

        If a single person weren’t comfortable attending church, I’d recommend volunteering, taking classes, or attending other group gatherings whose primary purpose is something other than finding a dating partner. That way you’re more likely to find folks with common interests (and, ideally, at least some shared values.)

    • slumbrew

      JFC. It’s not even “he voted for OMB!”.

      Nothing short of having identical political views is acceptable.

      That dude did indeed dodge a bullet.

    • prolefeed

      More to the point – he actually disliked Trump and didn’t vote for him, and that STILL wasn’t good enough for her.

      Most of the women I dated were liberal, including the woman I married, and we got along fine. A scorched earth approach to politics like this is gonna pop up in non-political topics. Stay the fuck away from women like that.

      Shorter: Prolefeed’s First Rule of Dating – don’t waste time chasing people who aren’t really into you exactly the way you are. Plenty of other choices out there.

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

        This. My wife is quite liberal, and we get along great. We do have a ground rule; no talking politics directly.

        Also, no yard signs. Except for “Presidents come and go, but the Wu-Tang is forever.”

  8. Rat on a train

    Leonard Nimoy’s greatest role was host of “In Search Of”.

    • SDF-7

      Nah… as one of the few villains who actually managed to make Columbo visibly angry.

      • Grumbletarian

        By that I mean an assassin in the employ of Welles.

  9. juris imprudent

    I can just imagine the knock on the bathroom door – “are you okay”?

    • SDF-7

      Go way! Reprobating!

      • juris imprudent

        “Just… one… more……. link. Ah. there, done!”

    • Fourscore

      I was wondering the same thing. Why was the bathroom door even closed?

      • db

        So, a few years ago I attended a leadership conference for the EAA at their headquarters in Oshkosh. They have a very nice center center there for meetings with guest accomodations, but the size of the group was such that we had to double up on rooms.

        My roommate was a nice guy in his 80s. In the middle of the night I awoke, disoriented, to hear him getting out of bed in the dark. He walked into the bathroom (which was right across from my bed), left the door open and proceeded to take a massive sloppy shit in full view of me. As soon as I realized what was going on, I averted my eyes and covered my head with the blanket, but the damage was done.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Sorry, dude, but at least I washed my hands afterward.

      • Brochettaward

        You’re just a young nancy boy who has never been to jail or in the military.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Or Beech Mountain.

        When I was a sophomore in HS I went on a ski trip with my church youth group. The bathrooms there did not have doors on the stalls, nor heating, so everyone in the bathroom not only was looking right at you as you take a dump, but also at the steam your warm turd made in the cold water.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The unpleasantness of modern dating led me to this article.

      https://thehill.com/latino/3908663-young-latino-leaders-unlikely-to-see-jews-as-targets-of-systemic-discrimination-says-poll/

      Latino millennial and Gen-Z thought leaders are increasingly unlikely to see Jews as the target of systemic discrimination, according to a new survey commissioned by the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

      “Amidst rising levels of antisemitism, including violent attacks on Jews across the United States, the misperceptions among younger Latino adults of the threats American Jews are facing are disconcerting,” said Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC’s Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs.

      “The Latino and Jewish communities must bridge these gaps, especially when both minorities are targets of hate. We need to stand together as one against bigotry and violence in America.”

      United in victimhood we stand!

      • rhywun

        OFFS!

      • juris imprudent

        You can’t be a victim class when you are secretly in control of the world.

  10. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles… nothing to write home about… so I’m writing on some remote server about them.

    Daily Duotrigordle #389
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 04:49.24
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 426
    4️⃣5️⃣
    9️⃣6️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 426
      6️⃣4️⃣
      3️⃣8️⃣

      Fuck me. I danced all around 3 of the 4 words. If even one of my first guesses had been correct this could have been alright.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Daily Quordle 426
      8️⃣3️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣

    • rhywun

      Whew. The last one took me forever.

      Daily Quordle 426
      6️⃣3️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 426
      7️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣4️⃣

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 426
      6️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣8️⃣

      Meh.

      • kinnath

        Daily Quordle 426
        4️⃣6️⃣
        9️⃣5️⃣

      • kinnath

        One of these words is not like the others

  11. rhywun

    rich people aren’t going to buy the expensive toys

    Ray of sunshine 😀

  12. SDF-7

    In today’s (yesterday’s? who knows…) rigged political prosecution news. All above board, citizens… move along. Nothing to see here. This is fine!

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

      The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal.

      Unsurprising, Mayor Dimwit notoriously instructed the metro police to stand down when Antifa was trying to burn down St. John’s Chruch.

    • Rebel Scum

      The Federal Bureau of Insurrection had help.

    • Brochettaward

      This provides more evidence that January 6th grew out of confusion and not some organized plot to overthrow the government. When you have protesters being urged on by police officers, that then provides some level of authority to advance on and enter the Capitol Building

      This is still a rather charitable interpretation of the evidence. What justification could the cops give for their behavior? They were just trying to blend in by escalating what was happening?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Seeding a crowd with agitators is a time tested American law enforcement tradition. In a big enough crowd there’s always someone who’ll take the bait.

  13. Rebel Scum

    “Kevin explained he was struck and decided to shoot but looking back, he realized it was egregious.”

    I disagree.

    • Pat

      Same. I’d also vote to acquit. Keep your fucking hands to yourself and don’t be a thieving cunt and you’ll never have to worry if getting shot 10 times was “excessive.” This is also exhibit no. 993651024 of why you do not, ever, under any circumstances, for any reason, talk to the fucking cops. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. The only 8 words you ever exchange with a cop even if you just got done shooting the guy who was raping his wife: “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”

      • juris imprudent

        Four words: I want a lawyer.

      • Pat

        Also good, but sadly insufficient in light of the Salinas v. Texas ruling, since they can use your silence as proof of guilt in court unless you specifically invoke your rights. Perhaps 12 words would be better: “I want a lawyer. I am invoking my right to remain silent.”

      • Don escaped Texas

        AFAIK, this is correct

        it’s a shitty cop-sucking notion nowhere in 5A, but it’s correct

      • Pat

        The TL;DR of it:

        Lower courts disagree about whether and when the Fifth Amendment permits prosecutors to raise an adverse inference of guilt from a criminal suspect’s silence. In Salinas v. Texas, the Supreme Court introduced a new wrinkle into the constitutional analysis: Suspects must first expressly invoke their right to remain silent during police questioning in order to later claim protection for that silence at trial. Significantly, silence alone does not constitute proper invocation and instead forfeits the ability to challenge an adverse inference offered by the prosecution.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Huh, wasn’t aware of that…what convoluted BS reasoning.

      • rhywun

        That’s absurd.

      • R C Dean

        Makes sense. After all, everyone knows you have to say “I am exercising my First Amendment right to free speech” or else you can be arrested for whatever you say.

        Although as we learned during the pandemic, saying “I am exercising my First Amendment right to free exercise of my religion” doesn’t count, for some reason.

      • prolefeed

        My standard line: “Respectfully, officer, I do not wish to answer any questions, and I do not consent to any searches.”

        In this case, I’d add, “And I want a lawyer.”

        Then shut the fuck up, unless you need to repeat the statements because they are feigning deafness or ignorance.

      • Rebel Scum

        I’ve heard about that. Seems ass backwards to how gov’t agents should treat peoples constitutional rights. Most people reasonably think “I can just engage my rights by the action of remaining silent.”

      • prolefeed

        That’s a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling that ought to be challenged, given the changeover in justices since.

      • juris imprudent

        The irony being the logical outcome is to reduce even further anyone’s willingness to cooperate with the police.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Especially when it involves something like this. This ain’t no traffic stop.

  14. Rebel Scum

    “President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Russia cannot start until Western allies send more military support.”

    We have already done way more than we were ever obligated to (which was nothing). Maybe it is time to do what you should have done before the invasion and negotiate.

    • robodruid

      But the US has stopped that already.

      Tough spot for Ukraine.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They have a troop buildup around Bakhmut and it looks like they’re going to try to relieve it. We’ll see.

    • Ted S.

      So they should have just surrendered unconditionally? Because that’s the only “negotiation” Russia would have accepted

      • Brochettaward

        Your simping for Ukraine posts are just comical at this point. You aren’t presenting legitimate arguments grounded in anything resembling reason or, you know, facts.

        The two sides did negotiate. They did, reportedly, almost reach a deal on peace terms very early on and it was the US that pressured Ukraine to drop the talks for endless war.

      • Ted S.

        I’m not the one who’s spent the past year dehumanizing both Russians and Ukrainians by arguing that they have no free will and are forced into doing what they’ve done over the past year by tricknology from the US foreign policy establishment.

        All of this could have been avoided by, you, know Russia NOT INVADING in the first place.

      • Brochettaward

        That is a rather interesting spin on the argument that the US foreign policy establishment poked and prodded Russia for years and knowingly crossed what is a redline for Russians across the political spectrum by trying to get Ukraine into NATO. That argument somehow dehumanizes Russia in your eyes. Got it.

        But let’s reiterate – even Putin’s critics in Russia largely oppose, and vehemently so, the idea of Ukraine joining NATO. Because it is blatant security risk to Russia and the US would never tolerate a reverse scenario.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe, just maybe if we had not fomented a coup against the legitimately elected govt in 2014 – maybe Russia wouldn’t have seen an invasion as in their interests.

      • Rebel Scum

        Funny. That’s not what the Russians said at the outset of the invasion.

      • R C Dean

        Vague recollection: When the Russians invaded, they intended to (a) seize the Donbas, (b) replace the current government, and (c) impose restrictions on the autonomy of the new government.

        While not, perhaps, technically unconditional surrender, it’s definitely next door to it.

        And no, Ukraine was never an existential threat to Russia. The Russian invasion was completely unjustified, even if understandable given Russian paranoia.

        With that out of the way, Ukraine is going to have to give up something (and get nothing in return), and Russia is going to be rewarded for its invasion. That’s just the way the world works.

      • Grumbletarian

        And no, Ukraine was never an existential threat to Russia. The Russian invasion was completely unjustified, even if understandable given Russian paranoia.

        Ukraine by itself is no threat to Russia. A Ukraine that was part of what has overtly become an anti-Russia military alliance is something I would expect Russia to consider a threat.

      • Brochettaward

        What exactly is an existential threat? No one has ever argued that Ukrainian infantry were going to be storming Moscow. But the Ukraine being in NATO is most definitely an existential threat to their security. Any number of things could set off a hot war between Russia and the US and having a border state as a member of NATO would be disastrous for Russia.

        Or the reverse could happen. Russia and Ukraine could get into a squabble and instead of it being contained to just Russia and Ukraine, all of Europe and the US would be dragged into it. That aint just bad for reluctant Americans. It’s a threat no sane, reasonable Russian leader would tolerate. It is not Russian paranoia.

        And America has known exactly how Ukraine in NATO plays in Russia since the end of the Cold War. Every single thing our government has done for the past decade plus in Ukraine has been a blatant provocation to Russia and for nearly that entire time has been geared towards egging them on into invading.

        Let’s reiterate. America did everything it did knowing full well how Russia would respond (and in my view, had to respond). So what does that make American leadership?

      • R C Dean

        “Russia and Ukraine could get into a squabble and instead of it being contained to just Russia and Ukraine, all of Europe and the US would be dragged into it. That aint just bad for reluctant Americans. It’s a threat no sane, reasonable Russian leader would tolerate.”

        Which you would think would be a very good reason not to invade, since that is exactly what happened, and was quite foreseeable.

        As I’ve said before, this is the end result of tit-for-tar escalation on both sides. Russia seizes Crimea, Ukraine builds up its army, Russia supports a civil war against the Ukrainian government in Donbas, Ukraine leans West, Russia builds up an invasion force on Ukraine’s border, Ukraine starts talking about joining NATO, etc. until we get where we are today. And, yes, the US stuck its dick in, in some remarkably stupid ways. I’m still having a hard time not seeing the Russians as the primary instigator of the tit-for-tat, though.

        None of which changes that Russia will eventually be rewarded, and Ukraine screwed. Might as well cut to the chase.

      • juris imprudent

        Speaking of that which is foreseeable – contemplate what Ukraine will think when we pull the rug out from under them, like we have all of our other proxies. Maybe they should ask the Kurds.

      • R C Dean

        Just for clarity, Bro and JI – do you think the Russian invasion was a justified response to an actual existential threat to Russia, or understandable in light of Russian history and resulting paranoia? I’m leaning toward the latter, and that’s giving the benefit of the doubt in my mind, and discounting the idea that Putin and the Russians are trying to recreate some semblance of the Soviet empire.

      • kinnath

        Two cultures have been fighting over this ground for a thousand years or so.

        It’s just Hatfields vs McCoys writ large.

        Not our circus; not our monkeys.

      • juris imprudent

        Mostly the latter, maybe a little of the former, particularly given our meddling in Ukraine and our refusal to stand NATO down anytime in the last 30 freakin’ years.

        Plus what kinnath notes.

      • juris imprudent

        Actually Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia. Not the govt per se, but the territory – it is a primary invasion path from the west and exposes hundreds of miles of Russian border that is pretty much indefensible.

      • juris imprudent

        Just to follow on – there are living Russians with memories of the last invasion. So all of our talk about how that could never happen – well, they have that lived experience to the contrary.

    • R C Dean

      We’ve already sent them more than the entire budget of the Russian military. If it was mostly stolen or wasted, well . . . *shrug*

  15. Rebel Scum

    “Phillip Washington, the CEO of Denver International Airport, was nominated for the position by the president in July 2022 but has faced opposition because of questions surrounding his qualifications.”

    Nonsense. The only qualification is diversity of immutable characteristics.

  16. Rebel Scum

    “Then politics came up. As Nadia drove her date back home, he revealed he had not voted during the 2016 presidential election because he had not liked either candidate, former President Trump or the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

    “And I was like ‘I’m never speaking to him again,” she said. “I almost kicked him out of my car.” ”

    Sounds like a YOU problem. And sounds like he dodged a bullet.

    • Fourscore

      One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure.

  17. I. B. McGinty

    “Then politics came up. As Nadia drove her date back home, he revealed he had not voted during the 2016 presidential election because he had not liked either candidate, former President Trump or the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

    “And I was like ‘I’m never speaking to him again,” she said. “I almost kicked him out of my car.” ”

    Let’s see, lack of car and having to bum a ride from a date…didn’t vote in the 2016 election…which Glib is this?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Well, I meet the “didn’t vote in 2016” requirement.

    • Fourscore

      No way to narrow that down, IBM

    • Pat

      I’m broke enough and apathetic enough to be a suspect, but I do have a car. Of course it’s the sort of car that, if one drove it to pick up a date, one would be driving home by oneself in short order…

      • Tres Cool

        If I were to be dating again, I could pick them up in the Camaro. But Id rather test their mettle with POS Envoy Denali. The interior is pristine, and quite cozy. The exterior shows it originally came from NE Ohio…..

      • Tres Cool

        Disclaimer- not at the moment “pristine”. After taking 2 dogs to the vet during 2 days of downpour, there’s some muddy footprints in the back that need to get cleaned up.

      • Fourscore

        On the interior roof?

    • The Last American Hero

      I vote for Not Yusef. It’s been established that he drives a Kia.

  18. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    If you had any doubt as to how little the law matters.

    https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/23/senate-votes-down-sen-rand-pauls-resolution-to-repeal-2001-aumf/

    The 2001 AUMF is used today to justify the US occupation of Syria, US operations in Iraq, the war against al-Shabaab in Somalia, and other special operations across Africa. Most of the groups the US is fighting using the 2001 AUMF didn’t exist when the authorization became law.

    Repealing the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs will not have any impact on US operations in the Middle East and Africa, as hawks in Congress have argued. President Biden has previously claimed Article II of the US Constitution as his authority to justify airstrikes against Shia militias in Iraq and Syria. During a debate in the Senate, Sen. Time Kaine (D-VA) said the president “has Article II power to defend against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and is doing it every day.”

    • Rat on a train

      Kaine is a POS

    • Pat

      We should just enact a standing declaration of war against every current and future political entity on planet earth in perpetuity and save the kabuki theater as well as the pretense we don’t have an imperial presidency.

    • Grumbletarian

      Repealing the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs will not have any impact on US operations in the Middle East and Africa, as hawks in Congress have argued.

      If repealing it will not be an impediment to U.S. interests, then why not repeal?

      • Brochettaward

        Because if you repeal it, the terrorists win.

      • Mojeaux

        TSA == terrorists already won

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Only terrorist sympathizing pussies want congressional oversight of war powers.

      • Q Continuum

        If there’s even one chance in a million that it’ll prevent us from blowing up poor brown people, we can’t do it.

      • Rat on a train

        “Why are we bothering to ban CRT is schools? CRT isn’t taught in schools.”

    • juris imprudent

      Paul took the wrong approach, he needs to submit a new authorization – that the President is unilaterally empowered to conduct any military operation any where against anyone at any time. He can call it the Enabling Act.

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

        Playing with fire there, JI. It could pass.

      • juris imprudent

        Then the fuckers should have the balls to do it. At least then we could kill them all with a clear conscience.

      • R C Dean

        It would be purely a formality at this point.

    • rhywun

      Despite several studies and real-world examples pointing to the benefits of hybrid work, Credit Suisse’s top brass remained stubbornly attached to outdated work paradigms.

      Three days in the office IS “hybrid work”… or am I missing something?

      OTOH, that would ruin my morale so maybe there is something there? I dunno.

    • R C Dean

      Couldn’t it be spun as “a cautionary tale of allowing hybrid work” just as easily? The author babbles on about “prioritizing employee needs and preferences”, but shouldn’t the business’s needs get top priority? I would expect prioritizing some employee’s needs and preferences would mean paying them for not showing up and not doing anything, after all.

      This is one of those odd things where something that was totally ordinary a few years ago (going to work) has somehow become intolerable.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I think part of it is that many, many businesses were forced to send their work force home for over a year, and many of those businesses didn’t skip a beat during that time. My wife’s productivity actually went up.

        And during that time many people learned that working from home, while not sacrificing output, ALSO made family life much easier. Even simple things like getting 2 kids to different baseball practices at the same time, became not only much easier, but in some cases, possible at all.

        I know my wife will never work another office job. If it’s not remote, it can fuck right off.

  19. Q Continuum

    “Women and Democrats, in particular, say they are unwilling to date across the aisle.”

    You must not date outside the faith.

      • Brochettaward

        Harder to ignore was his conviction that if Clinton won, we would automatically go to war—with which country, he couldn’t say

        The bitch wanted to set up a no-fly zone in Syria to make herself look tough. So how about we start with “Russia.”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, that was the main reason I voted for the guy. Her policy proposal on the matter was nuts.

      • R C Dean

        which country, he couldn’t say

        “Which country do you got?”

      • Rat on a train

        Help, I Can’t Stop Hooking Up With Trump Supporters
        Because Clinton supporters are beta?

  20. Rat on a train

    the greatest general in Air Force history
    Jimmy Stewart?

    • Fourscore

      Goldwater?

    • Tres Cool

      If the food in my fridge could talk, it would sound like the lump that arrived after the transporter malfunction in the 1st Star Trek movie.

      • SDF-7

        Enterprise what we got back… didn’t cook long. Fortunately.”

    • robodruid

      Its not the guns
      Its the squatting on the Squatter.

      • Tres Cool

        I do like how they used caps. GUNS

      • robodruid

        Yea, violence of America and all that.
        I admit, i have always figured GUNS were the obvious solution for a squatter, but this guys method sounds brilliant.

      • Tres Cool

        I think the clincher is that he had a lease agreement with his mom. If you were just a landlord (property owner) dealing with that it could be more difficult. Unless you recruited family, etc.

      • R C Dean

        How is it that somebody (a tenant with a lease) whose rights to the property are derived from the owner has rights that are superior to the owner?

        I know, it’s koo-koo land.

      • Tres Cool

        If you watch the video, the guy doesnt supply a timeline of how long the place had been occupied. And they backed down quickly, which was to his benefit. Im guessing the woman wanted to avoid cops, the news, or risk her cushy DOC job.

        Recently, Jugsy has a property in Columbus, Ohio that had no manager, but an assistant. Management would drop by from time to time, but the woman was largely left to her own devices, w/o supervision. She moved her friends/family into HUD-subsidized units, for free, recording them as “vacant”. It was only after the assistant manager was fired, and a maintenance guy went to inspect the “vacant” units that Jugsy got a phone call: “Uhh….people are living in these units. They have their shit moved in and everything. Dishes in the sink.”
        Some of the people fought a direct eviction, requiring police involvement. They cited squatter’s rights and CPD basically told them, “unless you have a lease with your name on it, or ID that shows this is your residence (they didnt) you have to go.”

    • R C Dean

      Who is paying the utility bills on these squatter-infested houses? Couldn’t the owner just have the power and water cut off?

      • juris imprudent

        In California, that would entitle the “occupants” to take the property owner to court. It’s fucking koo-koo land.

      • Tres Cool

        Horror stories Ive heard from friend that own rentals, and Jugsy’s experience in “affordable housing”. When the lights go out they buy candles, and cook on a grill. Or in the case of a house, may rob electric from a neighbor via an extension cord from an outdoor outlet. No water? They buy it in jugs at the supermarket, and shit until the toilet is full.
        Once its full, they use the bath tub.

    • UnCivilServant

      Talk about resting on your laurels.

    • The Hyperbole

      Vindication at last, sweet, sweet tasteless vindication!

    • juris imprudent

      WHO? /real deal old man

    • rhywun

      It’s totally their basketball skills and not the kissy lips or bikinis. 🙄

      • R C Dean

        In my college days, we referred to those as “blow-job lips”.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “A lot of young women think it’s far more likely to find someone to go the distance with when they are friends first,” said Cox. “There is a more sturdy, stable foundation to build a relationship on.”

    Preposterous hogwash. A one night stand based on a selection process little different than a lottery is the best way to begin a stable long term relationship.

    • Tres Cool

      Jugsy was supposed to be a one-night hookup. And we’re 10 years on.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “So, Nikki Haley can keep clicking her heels,” he continued. “What we know is that President Donald Trump will bring America’s enemies to heel.”

    Sheer poetry.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    While the rally in Waco corresponded with the 30th anniversary of the federal siege in the area that disbanded cult leader David Koresh’s compound, Trump’s team insisted that the location and timing had nothing to do with the event.

    Why would it?

    • Pat

      It was, what, a 2 month long standoff? I guess 1/6 of the year is blacklisted for events in Waco.

    • Tres Cool

      The shit at Ruby Ridge pissed me off. The Waco stuff (after Id read the book) left me seething.
      Now I read/hear conspiracy stories about how OKC and McVeigh were gov’t ops.

      I have zero trust in any elected official.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Give that man a cigar.

      • Count Potato

        Which man and why?

    • Pat

      Pee Privilege is stored in the balls.

    • juris imprudent

      A woman TSA agent – nice.

    • R C Dean

      “We apologize again for your experience,’ the airport tweeted in response, according to the Daily Mail. “Your comments have been noted and shared.”

      Too much laughter and high-fives all around, I hope.

      Shockingly, as it turns out, female TSA agents can get kind of stroppy when they are ambushed by some dude’s junk at work.

    • Q Continuum

      “she said in a separate post she wanted[…]the entirety of tsa abolished altogether”

      Broken clock.

    • rhywun

      “anyone know what i can do”

      See a therapist?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That’s how he got into this mess to begin with.

        How about get rid of social media completely, his social circle, and see what happens?

    • creech

      “Ken, I’ll take ‘Things Blown Way out of Proportion’ for $1,000.”

      • R C Dean

        I thought she just punched him in the no-no place, not . . . Oh, I get it. Although it seems any dick on a chick is going to be out of proportion.

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

      Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Couldn’t it be spun as “a cautionary tale of allowing hybrid work” just as easily? The author babbles on about “prioritizing employee needs and preferences”, but shouldn’t the business’s needs get top priority? I would expect prioritizing some employee’s needs and preferences would mean paying them for not showing up and not doing anything, after all.

    “Employers” exist for the sole purpose of handing out paychecks.

    • juris imprudent

      That is pretty much the view of government employees.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The bank’s leadership failed to recognize the fundamental shift in employee expectations and the value of flexible work arrangements. Despite several studies and real-world examples pointing to the benefits of hybrid work, Credit Suisse’s top brass remained stubbornly attached to outdated work paradigms.

    Aaaand done.

    I wonder if it ever occurred to this dimly flickering intellect to ask himself how Credit Suisse managed to survive for so long.

    • Brochettaward

      All that harassment, and she just kept going to social gatherings at bars and even their homes to spend time with them.

      • Tres Cool

        She’s kinda cute, in a Michigan UP kinda way. I do like me some redheads.

      • juris imprudent

        Like a true Buckeye, you’d do anything to fuck Michigan.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Apparently Vice President Harris has launched a “charm offensive” on Africa. I’ll be very interested to see how that goes.

    • Q Continuum

      Because SSA is so receptive to the woke insanity Dems force down everyone’s throat.

    • Fourscore

      So, she brought in a ringer?

    • Gender Traitor

      She already has the “offensive” part down pat.

    • juris imprudent

      “charm offensive”

      So they’re sending her in completely unarmed.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Innovators

    Two Cuban migrants landed at Key West International Airport on a motorized hang glider Saturday morning, authorities said.

    They were taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody after landing at approximately 10:30 am. local time, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, which has deputies assigned to the airport.

    No serious injuries were reported, authorities said.

    Injuries? Why would there be?

    • Tres Cool

      Point of order- if the aircraft was motorized, it wasnt really a glider.

      • Grumbletarian

        I thought they were called Ultralights.

      • Tres Cool

        Or “para-glider” if you remember Dan the Fan Man.

      • slumbrew

        Paragliders just use a soft wing with the fan essentially on the pilot’s back.

        Ultralights have a rigid structure.

    • The Last American Hero

      Because the copilot decided their playlist for the flight was Neil Diamond singing Jonathan Livingston Seagull and We’re Coming to America on a continuous loop.

      • juris imprudent

        Well they weren’t playing John Denver’s greatest hits.

      • Tres Cool

        x2 album Hot August Night

    • slumbrew

      motorized hang glider

      Some good journalisming. Ultralights have been around since before the journo was born, I’d wager.

      • slumbrew

        Chris Ferrara, a Key West local and self-proclaimed aviation buff, told ABC News he was driving his golf cart nearby when he heard the distinct noise of the hang glider engine hovering above him.

        “hovering”

      • Tres Cool

        Im more taken by the distinct noise of a hang glider.

      • slumbrew

        That, too.

        They sound like everything else with a 2-stroke motor.

        “The district noise of a lawnmower”

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Progress

    United Auto Workers members have ousted their president in the union’s first direct election, ushering in a new era for the prominent organized labor group ahead of negotiations later this year with the Detroit automakers.

    The union’s new leader will be Shawn Fain, a member of the “UAW Members United” reform group and local leader for a Stellantis
    parts plant in Indiana. He came out ahead in a runoff election by hundreds of votes over incumbent Ray Curry, who was appointed president by union leaders in 2021.

    Fain, in a statement Saturday, thanked UAW members who voted in the election. He also hailed the results as a historic change in direction for the embattled union, which he says will take a “more aggressive approach” with its employers.

    “This election was not just a race between two candidates, it was a referendum on the direction of the UAW. For too long, the UAW has been controlled by leadership with a top-down, company union philosophy who have been unwilling to confront management, and as a result, we’ve seen nothing but concessions, corruption, and plant closures,” Fain said.

    More militancy will definitely put a stop to plant closures.

    • juris imprudent

      Had to laugh that the new boss is nearly homophonic with Sinn Fein.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

  29. The Late P Brooks

    For investors, UAW negotiations with the Detroit automakers are typically a short-term headwind every four years that result in higher costs. But this year’s negotiations are anticipated to be among the most contentious and important in recent memory.

    Fain has said the union will seek benefit gains for members, advocating for the return of a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, as well as raises and job security.

    The change in the UAW comes against the backdrop of a broader organized labor movement across the country, a pro-union president and an industry in the transition to all-electric vehicles.

    I’m sure Joe will invite him to the White House for pie and ice cream before he settles in to wrecking what remains of the American auto industry.

    • Tres Cool

      “…and an industry in the transition to all-electric vehicles.”

      Where are those batteries and motors made? Not in UAW shops.

      • slumbrew

        But they’ll be assembled by union members, since you can’t get that UAW quality anywhere else.

  30. Tundra

    Goos morning, Old Man!

    Your adventures are reaching James Bond levels of exceitement!

    The democratic government of Ukraine at work.

    I don’t know what’s more disgusting, the government of Ukraine or the morons who defend them.

    “There are many new buildings there, and this is a UNESCO site, which do not have relevant documents and permits. The legality of such new buildings also raises legitimate questions,” Ukraine’s minister of culture, Oleksandr Tkachenko, said on Ukrainian television. “The state must manage what belongs to it.”

    Sounds about right, comrade.

    So let me get this straight, if we don’t make poor people cough up tax money to make expensive toys for rich people, the rich people aren’t going to buy the expensive toys?

    My buddy installs solar. During times without subsidies, work disappears. It’s such an obvious scam.

    This was particularly apropos.

    Are there no women left who think politics is retarded and would rather go for a hike or something? As bad as you have it, Old Man, I feel really sorry for my 23 year old son. The bitches his age are loony.

    • juris imprudent

      My son got so lucky.

    • R C Dean

      There was that survey recently claiming to show that a majority of women under 30 are mentally ill.

      What we have done (or allowed to be done) to that generation is a crime.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    “The state must manage what belongs to it.”

    Everything within the State, et cetera.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    From a CNN story about SVB:

    For the past year, the Fed has jacked up interest rates at an unprecedented pace in the modern era.

    Anything which happened prior to Y2K might as well be the bloody Stone Age.