321 Comments

  1. Shirley Knott

    The squirrels are awake early this morning! I wa, too, more’s the pity. Oh, well.
    Happy Weekend Eve everybody!

  2. Shirley Knott

    Buzzfeed? “Our job here is done.”

    • Rat on a train

      “Well, they can call it whatever they want,” Reid said. “Romney didn’t win, did he?”

      • rhywun

        That’s weird – I don’t recall recent history ever being presented in “social studies” class or the AP history class I took.

        A different era, I guess.

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

        I always wondered about that too, and someone recently told me that it is cut off at a certain point, Vietnam for my high school, as that is Current Events, and should be taught in Social Studies.

        Which it wasn’t.

      • juris imprudent

        What disturbs me most about that – this isn’t history, it’s current events.

      • SDF-7

        The indoctrinators *cough cough* sorry, instructors have to ensure they’re thinking Right Think before they send them up to college, after all.

      • juris imprudent

        I didn’t think Trump had much support in the younger demographic anyway.

      • SDF-7

        I’m more concerned about the “Russian meddling” in 2016 being pitched without any of the facts that it was garbage and spun by the IC than Trump per se.

      • juris imprudent

        Holy shit, they’re teaching that as history and not creative writing?

      • R.J.

        Because of that, Trump will have a strong case to sue. Depends on how far over the line the content goes. At this point I think I would school my child with textbooks made prior to 1980.

      • Sean

        LOL. You still have faith in our courts?

      • R.J.

        So true.

      • juris imprudent

        Goddammit, that’s a bullshit article. He’s only talking about the textbooks written since 2017, which admittedly is bad, but is less than half the list of suitable textbooks.

      • Homple

        Pretty soon it will be in all suitable textbooks, because The History knows that The Bad Orange man was, in fact, bad.

  3. Fourscore

    Morning Banjos,

    Mike Lindell will have to step up his advertising, need to pay off the 5 mil.

    He could save a lot of money by paying with pennies and nickles. Some places are just rounding off the penny part, maybe the nickle part too

    • rhywun

      “FEELIN’ GOOD!”

    • juris imprudent

      He’s gonna need to get crackin’!

    • Fatty Bolger

      Got a refund on a $3.99 item the other day, they just rounded it to $4.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    I was all set up for a hellacious first and you foil it by posting the links early? Ah well, firsting is lame anyway.

    • SDF-7

      … and some Firsting is lamer than others.

      • Shirley Knott

        ….and some aspires to lame but barely rises to loser.

  5. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Kennedy Jr: I just hope his campaign’s success doesn’t go to his head…maybe steer clear of convertibles for a bit. I actually like the guy somewhat though and compared to the rest of the Democrats he’s a breath of fresh air.

    • robodruid

      Internal Server Error

      • Rat on a train

        Kennedy is a cyborg?

      • robodruid

        Nope, my response on Kennedy generated one.

      • robodruid

        Which is odd.
        Lets try again….
        So do the dems dare have a debate?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Probably not, Biden could lose a debate to a cinderblock if they don’t get his meds quite right. I’m expecting the old “Let’s not legitimize his vaccine conspiracies by providing a platform” excuse…and it’ll work, for most Dems anyway.

      • blighted_non_millenial

        CNN, MSNBC, etc. are already on the case.

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

        Biden is going to have a challenger just like Stacy Abrams had one in the Georgia elections.

        Selected, not elected.

    • juris imprudent

      I’d sooner vote for a blind squirrel.

      • Lackadaisical

        Same.

        He had a few good talking points, but he’s just another leftist in the end.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I absolutely want him to debate any of the approved DNC candidates.

      • Homple

        Out of sincere curiosity, who would you vote for?

      • juris imprudent

        No one who wants to be President.

      • Homple

        Thanks, I was curious if you had any choices in mind.

      • juris imprudent

        I am slowly learning the necessity of not caring about what moron is in the White House.

      • Tundra

        It’s lazy thinking to think that there will be meaningful change because a new person is sitting in the Big Chair.

        No (political) Messiah is coming to save us.

    • SDF-7

      I do think he has a shot, yeah.

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

        Or, rather, the Dem’s will have a shot at him.

  6. SDF-7

    I hope the song choice isn’t a comment on your girls and a planned family outing. 😉 Morning, Banjos!

    And the sheer (meat)balls on Ikea thinking they could take more of the US market. More likely their attempts will be bork-bork-borked.

    • Not Adahn

      I would totally have installed their glass-doored bookcases if shipping them to me wasn’t $400.

      • R.J.

        There is one right next to me. I agree, no way I would ship their stuff. Price is too high. I only have some Ikea because it’s next door. It saved me from buying any of their rock-hard sofas, for one.

      • Lackadaisical

        Can you confirm they’re claim about their first US store opening in 2019?

        That sounds totally wrong. When I visited NYC in the mid 2000’s I remember seeing a giant building with their branding on it. Was it just a warehouse?

      • rhywun

        I feel like the one in Brooklyn has been there at least a decade.

        It’s the Daily Fail – you know the play a little loose with “facts”.

      • dbleagle

        The Brooklyn store opened in 2006. They used to run a ferry straight to it from Manhattan. It was free if you could produce a receipt.

      • Tres Cool

        To much fanfare (and fucked-up traffic), IKEA opened a store in Cincinnati in 2008.

      • R.J.

        I think I can! I bought my Challenger in 2014, and by 2018 I had to move to an SUV. I distinctly remember loading Ikea products in that Challenger.

        I verified by looking at Frisco, Texas historical events. Ikea grand opening was 2005.

      • DrOtto

        Frisco also has a Bojangles! (From yesterday’s links)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I loaded a mattress into a Civic once. No coils, obviously.

      • R C Dean

        IKEA has had stores in the US for at least a decade, probably two.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Three, for sure.

        The Carson (CA) one is right by where the Goodyear blimp is stationed.

      • Sean

        https://www.furninfo.com/furniture-industry-news-archive/3207

        IKEA has always considered the Philadelphia area its hometown. The leading home furnishings retailer kicked off its aggressive expansion plan in North America with the relocation of its first U.S. store, which opened in Plymouth Meeting, PA in 1985. The new store, located at 400 Alan Wood Road in Conshohocken, PA, officially opened its doors on Wednesday, January 15 and is the first of 50 new North American stores to open in the next ten years during this expansion endeavor.

        I’ve shopped at that one.

      • juris imprudent

        I remember the Virginia one in the big mall down I-95 south of DC in the early 90s.

      • DrOtto

        I know I got lost in one in Houston before moving to the Round Rock area in 2007. And Round Rock had one at that time already, although I think the Round Rock one was new. I guess my Daily Fail standards, they’re going by the Texas tourism theme of ‘Texas – it’s like a whole ‘nother country’

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe they mean a different type of store?

        IKEA had a store in West Covina in the early 2000s, maybe even late 90s.

      • rhywun

        Was going to say the same. When I saw their shipping prices a few years ago I noped right the hell out of that website.

      • R.J.

        All their big stuff weighs at least 30 pounds per item and comes in awkward long packs. Shelves are in tight packs like 50 pound surfboards. It has to be hell on shippers.

      • Nephilium

        Checking recently (there’s an Ikea down in Columbus, but that’s a haul), they’ve adjusted their shipping prices to a more reasonable level.

      • rhywun

        *tap tap tap*

        Yeah, it does look more reasonable now.

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

        We have five of them. Dragged around to more than a few houses at this point, but they are nice if you attach them to the wall. The doors are heavier than the shelves and until and unless they are filled with books, they will topple.

  7. robodruid

    Huh……
    It’s kinda odd, I am not seeing any massive drive to update on Vid Vaccinations lately.
    Funny that.

    • SDF-7

      I still get the annoying as hell California ‘Vid ads on Youtube from time to time (AppleTV watching Drach / falling asleep, so no, I don’t care enough to figure out an ad blocker before y’all dogpile on me). Probably just means Gavin doesn’t want to turn off the graft spigot to some cronies more than they really believe it matters, granted.

      • Rat on a train

        I get plenty of “If it’s COVID – Paxlovid.”

    • rhywun

      The propaganda is still in heavy rotation here.

      • R.J.

        Last night was the first time I didn’t see any on TUBI. So nice. I’ll take car commercials over that any day.

    • juris imprudent

      I tune out all pharma ads.

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

      I saw an idiot at the Men’s wear store yesterday wearing a mask.

      It seems the under thirty set put them on if they have a break out or something like that.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Or if they’re shoplifting.

  8. Lackadaisical

    “EcoHealth Alliance created “mutant” coronaviruses in Wuhan using US grant money”

    It’s it just me or is this the third for fourth time that has been confirmed in some way or another? Fuck the government, and fuck China.

    • AlexinCT

      But the usual suspect that told you to even suspect this might be the more realistic scenario made you a racist because you wouldn’t accept their absolutely racist take that this thing came from the fact Chinese people like to buy all sorts of filthy animals at a wet market to eat, still pretend otherwise…

      Does ScrewTube still give you strikes and ban you for saying they spend close to 2 years helping the scumbags hide the truth from the people?

      I was surprised this revelation was not removed or labeled as misinformation.

    • rhywun

      That’s not insulting in any way. They should have added wigs and Lee Press-On Nails. Woman harder, guys.

      • R.J.

        Make them wait in line to pee sitting down for a day.

    • juris imprudent

      Sam Brinton applies for Canadian citizenship.

    • Lackadaisical

      Gaaaaaaaaaay!

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Clown World

    • SDF-7

      “How are we going to reinforce the theory that we’re all a bunch of insane weirdos this week?”

      “I know!”….

    • Rebel Scum

      Canadian politicians wore pink heels today to show their support for women

      You don’t show support for women by pretending to be one (or a caricature of one…).

      • SDF-7

        Personally, I like to support my wife my being behind her and cupping my hands….

      • invisible finger

        Looking forward to their support of blacks, indians (either kind), Mexicans, Chinese, etc.

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

        If they all show up in saris, I will burn my widow.

    • Nephilium

      Well, there is the Pink Boots Society for brewers.

  9. Lackadaisical

    I saw Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly play in Seattle.

    • Michael Malaise

      It would be nice if they had more than one song.

  10. Rebel Scum

    BuzzFeed, vaulted into prominence by posting now-discredited Steele dossier, closes news division

    They had a news division?

    • AlexinCT

      “Pure propaganda & programming = News” if you are on that side of politics, it seems.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Leading Economic Indicator Sinks to Lowest Level in 28 Months: ‘Worsening Economic Conditions Ahead’

    Listen, Jack. This is the best economy ever. As cornpop popcorn potato used to say, uh, you know the thing.

    • AlexinCT

      I bet Biden’s people will come up with a plan where the people that make the right financial decisions will end up paying for the idiots to help them score political points with the idiots.

      Anyone else notice that it seems team blue’s strategy is basically to cater to stupid and evil, because statistically there is far more of that than otherwise?

      • SDF-7

        Robbing Peter to pay Paul works just fine when you’re also doing your damnedest to create a bunch of Pauls.

      • R C Dean

        You mean, like charging people with good credit ratings more for mortgages to subsidize people with bad credit ratings?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        From each according…

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

        Don’t they call that progressive taxes?

      • Rat on a train

        The rich need to pay their fair share of mortgages.

    • Rat on a train

      “The president, when he came in, nothing was being done! He made sure that economy came back in a way that we haven’t seen in some time…”

  12. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    yo whats goody

  13. Rebel Scum

    Uncle Sam loses money making money

    Could just read “Uncle Sam loses money.”

    “The average price of copper, nickel and zinc, which are the primary metals in each coin, have increased each year, resulting in an overall increase in the cost of metal for each denomination,” the U.S. Mint said in its report detailing the situation.

    So you are better off just having the metals.

    • dbleagle

      Todays melt value of a 1909-1981 penny is 0.0265. The new zinc cents are melt valued at 0.007.

  14. Grumbletarian

    Ikea plans $2.2 billion expansion in the US to rival Walmart and Target

    Finally people will be able to loot tables to put their stolen TVs on.

    • Pine_Tree

      I doubt that’s the kind of folks that would end up with an actual table after the whole Ikea process.

      So they’ll end up with the stolen TV sitting on a stack of flat-packed table parts.

    • Michael Malaise

      It doesn’t take me 42 minutes to get through Wal Mart or Target.

  15. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — solidly in my typical “Tolerable, but not great” meh range. I’m sure y’all will build back better.

    Daily Duotrigordle #415
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 03:36.92
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 452
    3️⃣6️⃣
    7️⃣4️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 452
      5️⃣6️⃣
      7️⃣4️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

      Blossom Puzzle, April 21
      Letters: A D E L G R Y
      My score: 259 points
      My longest word: 10 letters
      🏵 🌼 🌻 🌺 💮 🌷 🌹 💐 🌸 🏵

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 452
      6️⃣4️⃣
      8️⃣7️⃣

      Bizzare.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Charges against Alec Baldwin dropped in fatal shooting death of Halyna Hutchins

    I guess they can start shooting that movie again.

    • SDF-7

      The production team can certainly go out with a bang — no need to rifle through the financier’s pockets.

      • R.J.

        It’s a very high-caliber production.

      • Rebel Scum

        Careful. We might trigger Swiss.

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t worry, he won’t go off half-cocked.

      • WTF

        He may however go ballistic.

      • R.J.

        Maybe he is sliding into apathy regarding the narrowed gazes?

      • Grumbletarian

        He is always locked and loaded with narrowed gazes.

      • Fourscore

        He’s all pumped up, he’ll lever these comments and double the action.

      • dbleagle

        He’ll never go Winchester on gazes.

      • The Other Kevin

        It’s going to be a big hit, #1 with a bullet!

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

        So, you don’t think the movie is gonna make a killing?

      • juris imprudent

        You were quick to draw that conclusion.

  17. Sean

    Woohoo! This month’s shipment of pistachio butter is out for delivery.

    /addicted

  18. Rebel Scum

    SpaceX’s largest rocket ever built explodes four minutes after launch

    I’m usually good for about 5 minutes, myself.

    • SDF-7

      Rapid Unscheduled Insemination?

  19. Not Adahn

    People curious about what guns have good reputations:

    Caveats — these guns are being run by competitors, so they are going to be on the bigger/heavier side. Also while these are all guns that need to be able to run many thousands of rounds without hiccup, Open division shooters are the kind of people wo enjoy putting in lots of time maintaining their racing gear. If you are interested in “normal” guns, completely disregard Open division, look at Production, Carry Optics, Single Stack and Revolver.

    With all of that out of the way, this is what the shooters at the various USPSA National competitions are using:

    https://s3.uspsa.io/media/2022_Survey.pdf

    • EvilSheldon

      Production/Carry Optics guns boil down to:
      – CZ or Tanfoglio if you can handle a DA/SA trigger,
      – SIG if you can’t,
      – Glock if you’re a Timmy who’s dipping his toe in competition,
      – Beretta or Walther if you’re a giant gun hipster,
      – Canik will do you fine if you don’t have a lot of cash (or if you’re Nils…)

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I watched a movie called “Paul” last night. It was pretty darn funny.

    • R.J.

      Oh yes. It’s expiring on TUBI in a few days. I did not have time to post. Simon Pegg is a gem.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches unlikely presidential bid backed by 14% of Biden voters

    Hopefully he doesn’t get Kennedy’d.

    Interesting ticket would be DT/RFK.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Interesting ticket would be DT/RFK.

      If only for the aneurysms that would trigger in DC.

      • Not Adahn

        Do we have the supply chain to deal with all that chewed scenery?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Charges against Alec Baldwin dropped in fatal shooting death of Halyna Hutchins

    These things happen.

    • Not Adahn

      You can’t make a Western without shooting a few directors. Same reason why samurai movies are so expensive to clean up afterwards.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Uncle Sam loses money making money

    They make it back on the money they conjure out of nothing.

  24. Rebel Scum

    Concern troll is concerned.

    A week after the midterm elections, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri offered a cold—but probably correct—diagnosis of the wreckage facing his party. Working-class, independent voters who had previously cast ballots for Barack Obama and Donald Trump had stayed home, thwarting the GOP’s hopes of a broad House majority and a narrow one in the Senate. The Red Wave forecast by so many never materialized, and the soul-searching had begun. …

    Just consider the messages coming from House Republicans on Monday. McCarthy traveled to the beating heart of the global economy—Wall Street—to demand deep cuts in government spending in exchange for a vote that would let the government pay bills already accrued, a threat evocative of the 2011 debt ceiling showdown that sent markets into a crisis and cost Americans $1.3 billion. Meanwhile, his fellow House Republicans gathered nearby in lower Manhattan, employing dodgy crime stats at a show trial-esque hearing aimed at discrediting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Donald Trump’s fraud case.

    Not to be too blunt, but neither of these headlines seem geared toward a Hawleyan reboot of the Republican Party. Spite can be fun, but it isn’t a policy. A global economic crisis is never good, but what’s potentially in the hopper amid the debt ceiling standoff would be a fiscal doomsday, with one analysis of the still-forming GOP debt plan agreement predicting it could cost more than 700,000 jobs. The policies put forward by McCarthy—no raised taxes, no touching of Social Security or Medicare—would demand a whopping 52% cut from everything else on the federal books to meet the goal of a balanced budget within a decade. And polls show a majority of Americans approve of Bragg’s prosecution of Trump. …

    Put plainly, Republicans from Washington, D.C. to Tallahassee seem to be chasing political duds in order to placate the party’s fringes. It may feel good to go on cable and insinuate Biden is senile or criminal, and the party’s hacks may giggle. But that’s not a formula to win over swing voters who are watching from afar and just hoping Washington can remember that there are real people with real interests that need some real tending. This performative version of conservatism may feel fun in the moment, but it’s no substitute for long-term control of the gavels.

    Only leftists policies can help the people. The government is us, all of us, after all.

    • Shirley Knott

      TW: the book of faces. Apropos

    • Raven Nation

      1. “show trial-esque hearing” self-awareness = 0
      2. “insinuate Biden is senile or criminal”: he’s probably both. Stop insinuating, charge him. And besides, I thought we were supposed to “do the right thing” regardless of consequences.
      3. “not a formula to win over swing voters”: how many of these are there?
      4. “not a formula to win over swing votes” + “no substitute for long-term control of the gavels”: Elliott clearly comes from the school that the only thing that matters is gaining, and maintaining, control over others.
      5. “fiscal doomsday”: that’s gonna happen anyway. Perhaps we should try to have a modicum of control over it? Although, it’s hard to see how the problem is solved without some increase in taxes (I’m on the way to turn in my Glib card).

      • R C Dean

        Cut spending to 2019 levels, no deficit. No need to increase taxes.

    • Bob Boberson

      Put another way: It’s a naked vegan dinner party with a bunch of strangers.

      Put another way; an insufferable twatfest

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      “a liberating space that celebrates our most pure selves, through plant-based cooking, art, nudity, & self-love.”

      Stephanie Uribe, 35, said she had just come back from doing cacao, tobacco and temazcal ceremonies in Nicaragua, and wanted to “keep that energy going.”
      “I think nudity allows us to connect in a different way,” she said. “To strip away what the patriarchy has put on us. Like, uber-sexuality or hyper-sexuality.”

      They’re nothing more than narcissistic assholes pretending to look for meaning in their meaningless lives, but actually just signaling their wealth and social status by engaging in luxury acts beyond what is typically accessible or even acceptable for the masses.

      It’s the new Radical Chic.

      • Bob Boberson

        They’re nothing more than narcissistic assholes pretending to look for meaning in their meaningless lives, but actually just signaling their wealth and social status by engaging in luxury acts beyond what is typically accessible or even acceptable for the masses.

        I’m saying this in all earnestness; that might be the best summation of 21st century western culture I’ve ever read.

      • The Other Kevin

        Camille Paglia is spot on, we’re at the end of an empire and all this decadence is a sure sign of it.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I never thought they would turn me into a cultural reactionary, but here we are.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Can I get a seat at that bar too?

      • Sensei

        Here, have a Bud Light!

      • Count Potato

        Paglia/Foster 2024?

      • Michael Malaise

        Could you imagine debating Paglia?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        No

        I’d admit my defeat in advance in order to avoid the shame of being destroyed in public.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Thanks, but I can’t take much credit for it. Somebody else coined the term “luxury beliefs” and it stuck with me. The upper class has always sought to distinguish itself in some manner. It used to just buy stuff beyond the reach of the deplorables, now it pursues pushing the boundaries of morals and ethics because they feel they can get away with it. The pedophilia and transgender craze seems to be a distinct outgrowth of that mindset as well.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for

        These upper-crust Americans viewed ordinary Americans as “sunk in moronic darkness” and that “It is a question whether a high WASP ever supported a fashionable cause without some secret knowledge that the cause was abhorred by the vulgarians.”

        This still goes on today.

        In the past, people displayed their membership in the upper class with their material accoutrements.

        But today, because material goods have become a noisier signal of one’s social position and economic resources, the affluent have decoupled social status from goods, and re-attached it to beliefs.

        The upper class craves distinction.

      • Sensei

        Thanks for that!

      • Count Potato

        The lower upper class, the nouveau riche, craves distinction. The upper upper class, old money WASP, do not crave distinction. They have nothing to prove, and gain nothing by drawing attention to themselves.

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

        Also, progressives, who are not the upper class materially, crave transitive experiences. The want to push boundaries for the simple act of pushing boundaries, they crave difference as a distinguishing act.

      • Gustave Lytton

        now it pursues pushing the boundaries of morals and ethics because they feel they can get away with it

        That isn’t new. What is new (somewhat) is the complete lack of shame in public disclosure. Also, abandonment of any pretense of noblesse oblige, but that is more of an artifact of old money and society.

      • The Other Kevin

        “For $88, and after Ms. Max has approved the applications…”

        $88 per person, and I get to approve who’s allowed? I think I could host something like this, and suffer through a few hours.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Ms. Max and her assistant, Maya, served courses of carrot and ginger soup, quinoa-stuffed bell peppers and cacao raspberry avocado mousse. The heat had been cranked up, and women periodically fanned themselves with their menus. Only one attendee was menstruating at the event, which everyone agreed was pretty remarkable.
      Guided by Chelsea Leyland, 35 — the founder of the menstrual health company Looni, which had collaborated with Ms. Max on the dinner — women were prompted to share a word that summarized their relationship with their periods. There were tales of embarrassing menarches, disasters in white jeans, period sex and struggles with chronic conditions like endometriosis.

      All those naked asses on the furniture.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Very few brown asses.

      • Michael Malaise

        “Disasters in White Jeans” isn’t a terrible band name.

      • Sensei

        Low Spark of HIgh Heeled Boys

        Nights in White Satin

  25. The Other Kevin

    Judicial Watch is really doing some great work. Unfortunately I’m pretty black pilled about all these “smoking guns”. They’re just going from doing things in secret, to doing things in the open, because nobody’s going to do anything about it, and the general public is either on board or just doesn’t care.

    • Bob Boberson

      Agreed. There isn’t any pretense about who controls the levers of power. Shine a light on their misdeeds all you want, it won’t make any difference.

      I remarked the other day; the fact that the perpetrators of COVID aren’t decorating lampposts shows we’re past the point of no return.

    • AlexinCT

      While the team blue members of the he general pubic don’t care, there is a large swath of general public members that are being fed lies or kept in the dark that don’t know r understand what really is happening because it has not been explained to them so they get how criminal and corrupt the current system has become.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    All those crazy hair trigger paranoid psychos out there. Where could they have come from?

    • Fourscore

      Pretty swanky neighborhood. Fourscore neighborhood kids got a bag of Brach’s under the Easter tree.

      Thanks Jimbo, for a memory trip.

    • Tundra

      It actually made me smile. Thanks, Holiness!

      • Pope Jimbo

        The getaway on the scooter is what made me like it

  27. Rebel Scum

    *Nelson laugh*

    Elon Musk Just Took Away Hillary Clinton’s Verification Badge

    • Sean

      L
      O
      L

  28. Mojeaux

    Okay, look, you people. Today is my barfday. I have had crullers. Now I want shenanigans!

    • Sean

      Happy Birthday!!

      🙂

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^This^^^

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Yay happy birthday!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      🎂🥧🧁 🎉

    • The Other Kevin

      Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day. And I think I speak for all of us, when I say we are better for having you around.

    • Count Potato

      HBD 🙂

    • rhywun

      🐂🎉🎂

    • Nephilium

      Happy 21st you!

    • Tundra

      Happy birthday, Mo!

      I hope it’s a stone groove.

    • Shirley Knott

      👍😁🎂🎂🎂😁👍

    • Shirley Knott

      Also obligatory.

    • Aloysious

      *gives the lovely and gracious Mo a birthday wedgie*

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Naw, the British b-day thumps.

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

      No Wey! It’s my wife’s barfday!

      Happy, Happy!

    • whiz

      Happy B-day Mojo!

  29. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Saw my first mammalian wildlife here at the campground. It was a doe. A deer.

    • Grumbletarian

      It was a doe. A deer.

      A female deer?

      What’s next, a ray?

    • Pope Jimbo

      mammalian wildlife

      You almost got Q’s attention there. All you needed was one simply type s/l/r/

    • Nephilium

      That’s not wildlife, that’s a rat with hooves.

      • AlexinCT

        She said doe, not capybara…

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Essential government services

    President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday in an effort to expand on his administration’s environmental justice goals, such as delivering clean air and water to communities nationwide.

    “For far too long, communities across our country have faced persistent environmental injustice through toxic pollution, underinvestment in infrastructure and critical services, and other disproportionate environmental harms often due to a legacy of racial discrimination including redlining, the White House said, detailing the executive order. “These communities with environmental justice concerns face even greater burdens due to climate change.”

    Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks about the executive action from the White House Rose Garden on Friday afternoon. The president wants to ensure that Americans, regardless of their race or backgrounds, incomes, or places of residence, benefit from “cleaner air and water, reduced risk for asthma, cancer, and other health burdens, and better access to green space, safe and affordable housing, and clean transportation,” the White House said.

    The order will establish the Office of Environmental Justice at the White House to coordinate the administration’s efforts to implement the new directives.

    They’ll need a budget. Raise the debt ceiling, now.

    • rhywun

      Unconstitutional.

      Next.

      • WTF

        Too bad the constitution ceased to matter quite some time ago.

    • Count Potato

      “reduced risk for asthma, cancer, and other health burdens, and better access to green space, safe and affordable housing, and clean transportation”

      Don’t live in a big city.

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

      Huh, so “justice” now means Obey Laws we Created Out of Whole Cloth.

      Did, not, know, that. /sarc

    • whiz

      “For far too long, communities across our country have faced persistent environmental injustice through toxic pollution, underinvestment in infrastructure and critical services, and other disproportionate environmental harms often due to a legacy of racial discrimination Democratic rule…”

      FTFY

  31. Pope Jimbo

    So a bunch of assholes meet in a legislator’s office …..

    Local crazy pol and local teachers get into a dustup during a meeting and everybody comes out looking like an asshole.

    In the end, I think I’m going to side with the right wing nutjob legislator. The local journalo does their very best to shine a favorable light on the simple teachers who were just there to talk about a special ed subsidy. But I remain unconvinced that they weren’t just as guilty of being jackasses.

    Milaca science teacher John Shipman questioned whether Wesenberg was serious about protecting children from sexual abuse.

    “Where is the legislation on the Boy Scouts, youth camps and church retreats?” he says he asked, referring to various sex abuse scandals that have arisen in recent decades. “When is that legislation coming out? There are actual problems there — legislate that or you don’t deserve this office,” Shipman said he told Wesenberg.

    That is the quote that makes me think that the teachers doth protest too much.

    • Fourscore

      Sex ed is best taught from the gutter. It worked for 1000s of years. Kids have life too easy these days, Tijuana 8 pagers taught us every thing we needed to know.

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

        There is quite a market for Tijuana Bibles these days.

    • Rat on a train

      I support keeping the Boy Scouts, youth camps, and church retreats out of schools.

    • AlexinCT

      If those other entities can bang kids, then dang it, we teachers want to get to do that too!

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, they *are* all assholes.

  32. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Isn’t it funny that it takes legal action to learn the really interesting stuff when dealing with government?

    A more cynical person than I might think that the government isn’t being straight with us.

    Every biolab on the planet should be a smoking crater by now. And every one of these scientists in prison.

    Oh, and I’d like a pony and a Wild Stanley Cup too.

    • AlexinCT

      I suspect that the reason that the masses are not up in arms and demanding justice is simply that the vast majority of people get their beliefs and righteous anger/indignation from whatever sources tell them how to feel. The politicized media has gone a long way to hide how horrible what the political scientific class did to us because they were complicit. I have often, after I explained details to people that were less informed, seen them either end up incredulous that things were so bad or fuming and angry. The masses are just controlled and not able to realize what was done to them.

    • Michael Malaise

      Best I can do is a housebroken Stanley Cup.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    A White House official said Biden plans to highlight in his speech Friday how his environmental justice and climate agenda “stands in stark contrast to the dangerous vision Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy and his extreme caucus have for our planet, our economy, and public health.”

    The official said that the House Republicans’ recently passed energy measure that seeks to undo almost all of Biden’s climate change agenda “would be a climate and health disaster that President Biden won’t allow on his watch.”

    Even Hitler loved nature.

    • Pope Jimbo

      President Biden (I mean his handlers) should be reminded that his “watch” is to execute the laws passed by the Congress. Not to come up with his own laws.

  34. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. King Walz seems to have caught some Special K-itis and thinks he could run for President

    His recent State of the State sure seems like he is gearing up for a national run. Lots of shade thrown at Florida and DeSantis. Of course he lied about Florida banning books and other things.

    “I’ve seen some of these other governors on TV – they find a lot of time to be on TV – and they’re always talking about ‘freedom,’” he said. “But it turns out what they mean is that government should be free to invade your bedroom, your children’s locker room, and your doctor’s office.

    “Here in Minnesota, when we talk about freedom, we talk about having your children be free to go to school without worrying about being shot dead in their schools,” Walz said.

    And he kept after the unnamed DeSantis. “Look, I’m only the governor of this great state. It’s not up to me how folks in places like Florida go about their business. But I have to tell you, I’m pretty glad we do it our way and not their way,” Walz said. “They’re banishing books from their schools. We’re banishing hunger from ours.”

    Ummm.. which state exactly is forcing citizens to let men into women’s locker rooms? And the line about banishing hunger is awesome coming from a governor who’s administration paid more than $250M to thieves who looted the school lunch program.

    • Fourscore

      Walz is a joke but not funny. He believes the tripe he puts out. Did he ever tell the bravery he exhibited when his NG unit got the call for overseas duty, where real people with real guns were shooting at one another?

      Seems like a lot of the shooting is in the urban areas, that carry Walz politically.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I would have expected better of you Fourscore!

        Tom Hagen, a military reservist from Waseca, Minn., who served in Iraq, wrote a letter to a newspaper in the district saying that Walz wasn’t being entirely candid about his record “through artful omission” about where his overseas missions took him. Hagen said voters deserved to know Walz didn’t deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.

        Walz didn’t let it go unanswered and criticized Hagan as dishonoring a fellow veteran.

        “There’s a code of honor among those who’ve served, and normally this type of partisan political attack only comes from one who’s never worn a uniform,” Walz wrote in the same newspaper, The Winona Daily News, just days before being elected.

      • Pope Jimbo

        What are you some bitter old cook thinking back to your glorious past?

        Walz, who didn’t activate the National Guard until the third day of rioting, responded to Frey’s accusations on Tuesday afternoon.

        “I don’t think the mayor knew what he was asking for,” he commented. “I think the mayor said, ‘I request the National Guard, whew, this is great. We’re going to have massively trained troops.’ No. You’re going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks.”

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Not even a particularly good sculpture.

      • UnCivilServant

        You expect artistic skill or merit to outweigh political purity?

    • rhywun

      😂🤣

      What happens when the baby starves to death?

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

        Same thing that happens when vegans make cat food.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Cats make food out of vegans?

    • Rat on a train

      God promised never to wipe us out again by flood. No promises for other methods. SMOD be with you.

      • UnCivilServant

        The ark name is symbolic, and doesn’t explicitly have to be a ship for waiting out a flood. Figuring out the form will be part of the challenge

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Hopefully we get to choose the form of the Destructor.

        What did you do Ray?

      • Rat on a train

        snu, snu?

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

        Bibendum.

    • Rebel Scum

      A Museum in Aarhus, Denmark has been renamed from ‘Women’s Museum’ to ‘Gender Museum Denmark’ and has created a statue of a Man breastfeeding a baby as a symbol of the ‘hybrid of the masculine and feminine’ in todays modern society.

      The gender benders are trying to destroy western civilization.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Then it can be of a man breastfeeding from a baby.

  35. Rebel Scum

    The Twink of the North is not pleased.

    Justin Trudeau isn’t too happy that Twitter labelled @CBC “Government-Funded Media”

    “Independently” 69% government funded…

    Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter.

    And Trudy ran on giving you dishonest cuntes more money. To which your response was favorable coverage.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, and I’d like a pony and a Wild Stanley Cup too.

    How would you like that pony cooked?

    • Tundra

      Smoked, please.

  37. Rebel Scum

    Or maybe election day should be election day.

    “Two weeks ahead of Election Day, we worked with Congressman John Duarte’s campaign to identify 18,000 strong Republican voters who hadn’t voted yet despite a wide window of early voting,” the RNC chairwoman will explain. “We shifted our strategy to repeatedly contact those voters as Election Day approached. Then, we worked with the California GOP to ballot harvest and ensure that those Republican votes made it to the ballot box in time to be counted.” The result? “Congressman Duarte won by just 564 votes,” McDaniel will highlight.

    That, she hopes, will become the blueprint for the next major national elections in 2024 where ballot harvesting is legal, all while continuing the RNC’s legal work to maintain bans on harvesting where it remains unlawful. “We fight in the courtroom, but we play by the rules we’re given in the field,” McDaniel will explain.

    “We need to ensure that voters bank as many votes before Election Day as possible — through early voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting where it’s legal,” McDaniel will add, calling for a continued GOP shift to beat Democrats at their own game. “If we only vote on Election Day, we will always be playing catch up to the Democrats,” she’ll emphasize.

    • rhywun

      “If we only vote on Election Day, we will always be playing catch up to the Democrats,” she’ll emphasize.

      She’s not wrong.

      • R C Dean

        Whether she’s right or dead wrong depends on who “we” is. If “we” is every voter because you can only vote on Election Day, then she’s dead wrong.

        Whatever, though. AZ elections are irredeemably rigged for the foreseeable. I won’t be voting again.

        We already have proxy voting. We just call it ballot harvesting.

    • Rat on a train

      Just go with proxy voting. It was good enough for Congress.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Cut spending to 2019 levels, no deficit.

    We can cut CO2 emissions by half, but we cannot even slow the growth of government spending.

    • Tres Cool

      Well you have to spend more to cut CO2. Duh.

  39. robc

    No WCC update yet…they are nearly 6 hours into a grind of an end game. Its almost surely a draw, but its not obvious.

    But, comment on the setting. They have a nice board and pieces, it is electronic, automatically sending moves made. This is standard for major tournaments. Nice stage, chairs, table etc. Each player has a break room with a chair and a couch and big tv (showing the board) and a snack table. Very professional, duh. As expected for this level, winner gets $1.2MM and loser $800k, iirc.

    And then the clock is a red plastic piece of shit.

    • robc

      Draw is finally official.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Better get busy on your ark, people.

    On it

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      He didn’t fail to be a candidate.

  41. Count Potato

    “A retired CIA leader coordinated a letter from former intelligence chiefs claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation because he wanted to help Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

    Mike Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that he was asked by Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State – who at the time was a senior member of the Biden campaign – to help discredit the laptop reporting.

    Morell was a former acting CIA director, serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2012 to 2013. He retired from the CIA in September 2013.

    The House Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, is currently investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop, as well as the Biden family businesses.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11997959/Ex-CIA-chief-spills-got-spies-write-false-Hunter-Biden-laptop-letter-help-Biden.html

    But the My Pillow guy gets sued.

    • AlexinCT

      Lawfare is how team blue punishes its enemies. That, and the legal system is not there to serve the law anymore.

  42. Count Potato

    “Furious Michigan residents slammed their Democratic state lawmakers for facilitating the construction of a Chinese-backed green energy project.

    During a public hearing for the Michigan Senate’s appropriations committee, locals condemned plans to use $175 million in taxpayer funds to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Big Rapids Township owned by Chinese tech company Gotion.

    Despite being aggressively confronted for considering the plans, the committee went on to approve the measure in a tight 10-9 vote, with every Republican and three Democrats on the committee coming out against it.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11997731/Michigan-residents-slam-Democrat-led-2-4-billion-proposal-Chinese-green-energy-plants.html

    • Grumbletarian

      How many of those Ds will be reelected?

      • Sean

        All of them.

  43. Sensei

    Whoops. Paywall.

    $14.8 Million in Gold and Valuables Vanishes From Toronto’s Airport

    OTTAWA — Early Monday evening, a special container, about five to six square feet, was unloaded from an airplane at Toronto’s international airport. Inside it was more than 20 million Canadian dollars, about $14.8 million, in gold and other valuables. It was swiftly moved into a secure cargo holding facility.

    Then, like many a suitcase, it vanished.

    Announcing the theft on Thursday, Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn of the Peel Regional Police, the force that patrols Toronto Pearson Airport, offered few details about how the high-value container had disappeared beyond perhaps the obvious: by “illegal means.”

    The investigators gave so little information apparently because the theft remained a mystery to them.

    • Shirley Knott

      Just as Sam Brinton applies for Canadian citizenship. Coincidence?

    • The Other Kevin

      Ocean’s 14: The Toronto Caper

    • R.J.

      Whatever assholes. I have gotten to where I recognize the writing style of leftists and I avoid their self-congratulatory verbal diarrhea.

    • Rebel Scum

      The JMU Debate Team supports the flourishing of transgender people at JMU & beyond. We oppose the support given by groups on the JMU campus to bring Liz Wheeler to speak and we encourage any group offering her support to cease that support immediately.

      So what I’m hearing is that the JMU debate team does not like debate or freedom of speech. Considering the school’s namesake, the irony is amazing.

    • Grumbletarian

      No person should be prohibited from expressing their viewpoints in the public sphere, but we’ll spend the next several paragraphs explaining why this person is an exception to that otherwise absolute statement. We’ll let you know if any other people also should be prohibited from speaking.

  44. Count Potato

    BREAKING: Ben Collins is an Asshole

    “I cannot believe how many people are falling for “we wanted the rocket to explode actually!”

    I realize we are on the app that he spent $44 billion to turn into his fan zine, but come on!”

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1649091973549281280

  45. The Late P Brooks

    I was perusing the 1911s at Palmetto, and stumbled across this guy. For that money, you could look at it as a bag of parts and do some rubbing and tuning on it and probably end up with a plain jane effective tool.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Could you be a little more dramatic?

      • Sensei

        People WILL DIE if there are no blue check marks!

        Or, just maybe, you could pay and save those people.

      • Rat on a train

        If it saves just one life.

      • Rat on a train

        cats and dogs living together

      • EvilSheldon

        Not without shooting up a school…

      • Sean

        🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

      • limey

        I ‘member that. Fantastic.

  46. Sensei

    Threesome?

    On Thursday morning, Tennessee state Rep. Scotty Campbell (R) was walking to the Capitol in Nashville when a reporter stopped him to ask about allegations of harassment brought against him by an intern.

    Campbell told NewsChannel 5 he “had consensual, adult conversations with two adults off property.” Six hours later, the lawmaker — who two weeks ago voted to expel three Democratic colleagues over decorum violations — submitted a letter of resignation, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) announced Thursday afternoon.

    • R.J.

      I don’t think any politician is capable of keeping his comments to himself.
      The fact he resigned meant it had to be pretty bad. Dumbass.

  47. Count Potato

    “A North Carolina 6-year-old and her parents were shot Tuesday night by an angry neighbor who fired at them after a basketball rolled into his yard, a report said.

    Kinsley White was wounded along with her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, and father, William White, when a gunman opened fire around 8 p.m. in Gaston County after he became enraged about the bouncing ball, according to WSOC-TV.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/6-year-old-girl-parents-shot-after-basketball-rolls-into-mans-north-carolina-yard/

    This will receive less attention for the obvious reason.

    • robc

      Me playing basketball at a young age indirectly led to our neighbors moving.

      But at least they didnt shoot me.

    • R C Dean

      Anybody else notice what sure seems like a coordinated campaign to undermine the idea of self-defense by suddenly making national news stories out of dumbasses shooting people who come on their property?

      • R.J.

        Yes.

      • Nephilium

        Yep. This is the fourth or fifth news story I recall hearing about in the past week about similar items.

      • Q Continuum

        Nothing in Journolist happens by accident.

      • Sean

        Nothing in Journolist propaganda happens by accident.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yes. The old trick of reporting more on things that already happen in order to support a narrative, still works.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, you mean like the amplification of the anecdotal deaths from COVID for people that weren’t in the primary risk demographic?

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Campbell told NewsChannel 5 he “had consensual, adult conversations with two adults off property.

    Wanna fud?

  49. Count Potato

    “NEW Ngo investigation: A #drag queen & ex-elementary school aide who helped groom a child into becoming a drag performer was convicted of nearly a dozen felony child sex crimes in Oregon. She was sentenced to less than a year in jail in a sweetheart deal.

    Last year, @hunnybadgermom & I reported on Kelsey Boren’s arrest ahead of a child drag event at #Antifa bar Old Nick’s Pub in Eugene. (The pub is a meeting place for Antifa.) Boren was one of the adults who groomed the child into becoming a performer.

    On Oct. 23, 2022, #Antifa & far-left extremists gathered to attack the small group who protested the child drag event at Old Nick’s Pub. The child performer was taught how to do drag by a now-convicted child sex offender.

    Kelsey Boren is far from the only #drag queen who is also a child sex offender. In 2019, @houstonlibrary apologized after a Drag Queen Storytime performer was revealed to be a convicted child sex offender. Albert A. Garza, a male-to-female #trans person who used the drag name “Tatiana Mala Niña,” had a prior conviction for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy.”

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1649182158735523840

    https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-oregon-teachers-aide-drag-mom-to-child-drag-queen-sentenced-to-less-than-1-year-in-prison-for-11-felony-child-sex-crimes

    Pizzagate is seeming less and less crazy.

    • R C Dean

      I’ve been asking when Q Anon goes from “conspiracy theory” to “spoiler alert” a lot lately.

    • limey

      taught how to do drag

      Dress in ill-matched women’s clothing and apply makeup with a trowel?

    • R.J.

      No.

    • WTF

      I could buy a really nice gun for that money.

    • Grumbletarian

      Confirming the report from CNBC, the Pixel Fold will weigh 10oz or 283g. Folded, the dimensions are 5.5 height x 3.1 width x 0.5 depth (inches). Unfortunately, there are no dimensions for it unfolded quite yet.

      Math am so, like, tough and junk.

      • Sensei

        It’s conceivable with how it hinges there could be some minor difference, but you could certainly approximate the unfolded dimensions.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I just bought a Pixel 5 so I could install CalyxOS. Had a buddy who liked it.

      • Sensei

        I have a Pixel 5a and it’s been great. Also cheap.

    • limey

      You can pay a lot of money to facilitate tracking your every move and online activity with increasing particularity.

      “It’s just metadata.”

      Whatever helps you sleep at night, guy who says that.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Anybody else notice what sure seems like a coordinated campaign to undermine the idea of self-defense by suddenly making national news stories out of dumbasses shooting people who come on their property?

    No one is safe.

    From anything.

  51. Gender Traitor

    Heads up to any PTB that happen to be about – the midday Stoic post is showing up in the Dashboard as “Pending” rather than “Scheduled.” I mention this because I finally finished drafting Tuesday night’s Board meeting minutes, so now I’m getting bored. 😉

  52. Rebel Scum

    This drivel has everything.

    Weissmann said, “The key word that you used in Eugene is the word reputable. So if I were at a reputable news organization, I don’t know that I’d be particularly worried about what I saw at the National Enquirer, which was completely colluding with the Trump campaign, or what we saw at Fox News. If you talk to any reputable journalist, whether it’s in television, whether it’s in print media, this is so far beyond the pale in terms of what news is supposed to be. You’re just not colluding with one political campaign. So I don’t think that there’s a real sort of, you know, slippery slope here where we see liability here.”

    He continued, “These are private parties that are suing. Their interest is not to get a public apology to defend American democracy or to protect the information flow. They’re trying to get the damages to their client. And so that’s where you really think the FEC —which did impose a small fine on the National Enquirer — needs to step in. And it can’t be a small fine. You really need to be thinking about, okay, what is the business model for the National Enquirer? What is the business model for Fox News and the next media company that’s going to pretend to be giving news but is actually going to be promulgating lies? Is there going to be some regulatory damage that’s going to deter that? So we don’t have a repetition because it’s really easy to just simply avoid denigrating a company so you won’t get sued but still promulgate a big lie. And so you need to have the government step in to have some kind of regulation of that kind of conduct.”

    Progjection, no self-awareness, abject dishonesty, and outright calling for censorship.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Weissmann is a straight-up psychopath.

      • juris imprudent

        No reasonable person could disagree.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Certainly not Arthur Andersen.

    • Grumbletarian

      Remember when NBC doctored the George Zimmerman 911 call to make him sound like a Grand Cyclops Wizard?

      Remember when Katie Couric interviewed a group of gun rights advocated and doctored the video of it to make it look like they had no answers to her perfectly reasonable questions?

      Remember when CNN called Nick Sandmann a white supremacist and Kyle Rittenhouse a murderer on the first day their respective stories were covered?

      Well, I blame Fox News for all of it.

  53. Rebel Scum

    I’m just glad that we can all get along and compromise.

    While speaking on “All Things Considered,” NPR White House Correspondent Asma Khalid stated, “I asked Jeff Zients, the White House Chief of Staff, why have you all been so unwilling to negotiate here? Because during the debt limit crisis in 2011, the Obama White House did negotiate with congressional Republicans and spending cuts were part of the conversation.”

    She then played a clip of Zients saying, “If you’re going back a decade, I think the lesson learned was that playing brinksmanship with the full faith and credit…of our country and getting close to a period of default had major impacts on the economy, on families across the country. And we’re not doing that again.”

    Zients also stated, “I think the off-ramp’s very clear. It’s the same off-ramp that was taken with no drama…when President Trump was in the White House, take default off the table, like we have every time. Don’t play games with the full faith and credit of the United States. It’s unacceptable. It’s not up for negotiation. And then have the separate discussion around different visions for the future of the country and budgets.”

    “Do what we want or else.”

  54. The Late P Brooks

    “Do what we want or else.”

    Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.