154 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    Zelensky Visits DC to Ask for More Money

    He’s no President Skroob, that’s for sure. Here’s hoping we send him away empty handed since it doesn’t look like the House is going to cave on the “Will you actually enforce the damned law on the border!?!?” tie to any more “aid”.

    Oh who am I kidding… PPP will just do it anyway under some flimsy justification. Constitution, Schmonstitution….

    Morning, Banjos. Morning, all.

    • Rat on a train

      It’s infrastructure spending. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

      • AlexinCT

        I loved the new spin out of DC that we should spend the money since it just comes back to the US anyway (military purchases). It’s idiotic since the US sources most components from China anyway, and most of the money sent to these crooks to pay Biden’s blackmail is being stolen by the top brass and sent to foreign banks.

      • Rat on a train

        The government should also buy products from other industries and destroy them. Think of all the business that would generate.

      • Lackadaisical

        You just described our way-industrial complex completely accurately.

        This is why they love war.

    • WTF

      PPP already handed him $200M. Without congressional authorization.
      And they claim Trump will act like a dictator.

      • AlexinCT

        Progjection is a real thing….

        When team blue accuses the other side of something, assume they are doing it or plan to do it themselves, and you will be right 99% of the tie.

    • Gadfly

      The Europeans really should be footing the bill here. Russia is a European problem, not an American problem. That the Euros aren’t contributing more makes me think they really don’t view Russia to be as big of a threat as many people claim. Europe has way more money (and people) than Russia, they can handle this if they want to.

  2. SDF-7

    Biden Turns to Hillary for Help With 2024 Campaign

    1) Show a disdain for half the country, calling them extremist ignorant hick enemies.
    2) Abuse the government to investigate and persecute enemies.
    3) Be entirely unlikable and unable to speak effectively in public.
    4) Stumble and seem barely able to function entering / exiting vehicles….

    Other than “how to wear a pantsuit”, what exactly is she supposed to provide him again?

    • Rat on a train

      She can help suicide anyone with information that could harm Biden.

    • Not Adahn

      The same help she provided to Jackson-Lee in Houston, hopefully.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Remember to Vote November 6th!”

    • R C Dean

      I honestly thought Hillary wouldn’t make it this long.

      • UnCivilServant

        I suspect she’s being sustained by sheer spite.

      • Rat on a train

        Hate is a powerful drug.

      • Bobarian LMD

        And plenty of fetus blood, collected by Planned Parenthood.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Anna Lee, Lee’s spouse, heard a thud around 3 a.m. and found him convulsing on the bathroom floor, according to court documents.

        She called 911.

        First responders, suspecting a possible stroke, took him to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, a nationally certified stroke center.

        Look you only get to go to Valhalla if you go down fighting and being a heroic badass. Brushing your teeth at 3 am does not punch your ticket to drink mead with real warriors.

      • kinnath

        That’s why we drink mead here and now.

      • The Last American Hero

        What if I use an electric toothbrush on the highest setting? That gas to count for something.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve been to Valhalla a few times – there are several huge cemeteries and my wife’s (((people))) are interred there.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The over the hill “My favorite TV character would be Maude if this was the 1970s” vote. It is, sadly, a fairly substantial demographic.

      • pistoffnick

        “Harold and Maude” was an excellent movie.

    • WTF

      Biden Turns to Hillary for Help With 2024 Campaign

      Now I’m nervously anticipating the horror that awaits us later today from SugarFree.

    • AlexinCT

      Why did he not turn to Obama? I know: because they need to protect the Obama legacy. So Hillary has been teed up to go try to right that sinking ship. After all, she is far more ruthless too.

    • Suthenboy

      You misspelled ‘Maosuit’.

  3. Grummun

    Sherrod Brown

    Rest of the US, you’re welcome.

    – Ohio

    • Nephilium

      At least we’ve got a chance to get rid of him soon.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        TIL Sherrod Brown is an old white guy.

      • slumbrew

        #metoo

  4. Grummun

    Biden in ‘Deep, Deep Trouble’: Calls on Prominent Election-Denier to Turn Things Around

    Awesome headline. Someone at Hot Air has aspirations of working for the Bee.

  5. robc

    Why is no one challenging Biden in the primary?

    Actually, surely someone is and the media just isn’t covering them?

    • robc

      Apparently Marianne Williamson is the only one.

      I guess I did know that she was running. Also, it would be hilarious if she won. Also, she would be an improvement on Biden.

      • robc

        Also, also, there are 32 others, but they aren’t considered “principal” candidates. Amongst them is Vermin Supreme.

      • robc

        Meanwhile, the Rs have 8 principal (ignored candidates who have dropped out) and 25 others.

      • robc

        $200k in FEC receipts is the requirement to reach “principal” level.

      • robc

        He is in the “others” list. As he just filed in October, I am guessing he hasn’t filed a quarterly FEC report yet, as he isnt showing any dollars, hence is in that group. I am guessing come January or something, he will move up to principal list. I am using thegreenpapers.com for my information.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I can’t even. Dean is giving up being my Congressman to run. I have no idea why he thinks anyone wants him to run, but at least now I have a chance of getting a worse representative.

    • Rat on a train

      How many states are holding Democrat primaries? I heard Florida Democrats canceled theirs.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Our democracy.

      • invisible finger

        Yes. “Our” democracy, not “your” democracy.

      • Not Adahn

        Bah. The Democratic Party is a private organization and can pick their candidate any way they want.

        Also, tax dollars should never be spent in partisan primaries, nor given to po0litical parties.

      • Nephilium

        Yep. The real fun is when you tell normies that the parties should pay for and run their own primaries, and they just go, “But… they’re elections!”

      • rhywun

        In most places the primary for all intents and purposes IS the election.

    • AlexinCT

      Actually, surely someone is and the media just isn’t covering them?

      The democrat party has super delegates to pick their candidate. Like they did to uncle Bernie, these delegates will override any and all voters to serve the purpose of the people in power. If they have an open primary their plans to fake some shit crisis to replace Biden AND KOH-MOH-LOH right before the election so it can’t be stopped or challenged, will not work because of the unknowns.

    • The Last American Hero

      That Kennedy guy was, but when they refused to allow him to debate Biden in spite of polling 20% of Dem voters, he switched to independent.

      Democracy.

  6. Gender Traitor

    Oversight Committee Posts “Biggest Revelations” From Biden Investigation

    And nothing else happens.

    • AlexinCT

      The only time stories about criminality from our political or permanent unelected bureaucratic class that stick are the ones that that machines tells what passes for media to report on.

  7. Evan from Evansville

    The children are behaving better. I turned up my Authority Knob (sigh, FBI, it’s a fuckin’ joke) to more assertiveness. Not too much at all, but as I’m the only guy (well!, one MTF who doesn’t pass and she’s told me she has severe mental issues), and even being 5’7″ and pretty fit makes many differences. Predictable how that goes.

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  9. AlexinCT

    Had a conversation yesterday with a bunch of people, most of them CT leftards, about how society is these days seeing failures in every system. They all, and especially the usual left worshippers, all had opinions, and like the saying about opinions and assholes says: they practically all stunk. Most blamed Kulaks & wreckers or complexity for the issues. Some even peripherally hit on the reason but couldn’t say it. I finally commented when they asked me why i had not said anything. So I laid into them. Yes, I told them, the world has gotten more complex. But by design, that complexity more often than not comes from technical capabilities which should actually make it easier to run things. They lost it when I told them our real problem is that our leadership class today is beyond mediocre credentialed idiots. Idiots that for some reason have chosen marxist ideas and ideals in their effort to return to a feudal system with them permanently on top. No society can function when the criteria to choose those in charge is neo marxist bullshit that stress religious adherence to the cause and ideology over competence. DEI & CRT ideology have for 30 years now replaced competency requirements. So now we have diverse marxist idiots running everything into the ground.

    • Suthenboy

      “beyond mediocre credentialed idiots”

      While true, I think of them ini terms of European aristocracy. Midwits at best with far too much power and nearly zero accountability. There is a reason that ‘royally’ is in the expression ‘royally fucked up’. People use that expression all of the time without realizing where it comes from.
      Remember when your grade school teacher told you ‘those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it’?
      I think we are near the end of the game here. It is hard to imagine how things could get worse than global warming, end oil and the cootie bugs. Any one of those will collapse our civilization as we know it.

      • The Last American Hero

        On the other hand, Vivek absolutely lowered the boom on Haley and the other pretenders the other night. Maybe there is a glimmer of hope.

    • EvilSheldon

      If your asshole stinks, you should consider changing your diet.

      If your opinions stink, you should consider changing your informational diet.

  10. AlexinCT

    Rasmussen: 1 in 5 Admits 2020 Election Fraud

    Looked at this poll and I have to admit it feels solid. They only took 33% republicans (which tend to vote in person) and the questions didn’t seem tailored towards forcing a response other than what the poll was asking about.

    What did leave me scratching my head is that those admitting cheating on their mail in ballots, and I am assuming the vast majority are team blue people because these days they don’t even care if you know they cheat (after al, they are fighting someone worse than Hitler!), didn’t realize they admitted to federal criminal activity. or maybe they did, but figured they have nothing to worry because the justice system likes their crimes.

    • R.J.

      It’s the latter. We live in awful times. Morality appears optional.

    • robc

      Reading the details, its 20% of mail in voters, not 20% of all voters.

      But, that proves the point about mail in.

      • prolefeed

        Yeah, my brother was trying to convince me to register to vote in 2020, and then hand the mail in ballot to Mrs. Prole to vote all Democrats. “It’ll make her so happy!”

        “Happy that her husband has no integrity and contributed to electoral fraud? If you succeed in convincing me to register to vote, I’ll fill it in myself, and my ballot will cancel out hers. The matter / antimatter of ballots.”

        Then he abruptly changed topics.

  11. AlexinCT

    Jack Smith Collected Images, Website Visits and Usage Data From Trump’s Cellphone

    Was Jack jealous of all the lady part pics the guy gets?

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m stunned that Trump’s phone wasn’t mysteriously broken and destroyed like all those other phones that govt workers have.

      • ron73440

        Could you imagine how hard they would go after him for destruction of evidence if he said word for word what Lois Lerner said about the hard drives crashing?

      • The Last American Hero

        He should have said it, let them go apeshit, use the Lerner defense, then say “my bad, I found the phone.”

  12. AlexinCT

    When I read this shit, I had a couple of thoughts. My first one was if she had – like South Park satirized – just skimmed past the language and then signed the thing to move on, or if she did read it, simply changed her mind after the fact.

    • Suthenboy

      Uh…..no.

    • KSuellington

      I think she likely willingly singed it and then when the relationship got old had a conversation with a friend who told her that she would be crazy for not getting a “you won’t have to work for years” payday for a huge harassment lawsuit against tech chump bro.

      • KSuellington

        Or signed it.

    • cyto

      Someone has never heard of BDSM role playing.

      This is 100% bog standard stuff for that subculture and indicates a very intimate and longstanding consensual sexual relationship between the two. Based on the dudes statement “In 2014, I made the grave error of judgment to hire someone I was dating and with whom I was engaged in a consensual sexual relationship.”

      He hired his girlfriend, not coerced an employee into sex. It also sounds like he was a low level guy at the time, and the lawsuit comes after he climbed the ladder.

      Embarrassing… but the lawyers claims about the sex slave contract are just plain stupid. It is common enough that I know about it, and I’ve never done any of that stuff.

      • KSuellington

        Yup, it did look indeed fairly standard for that type of relationship. I saw some of the contract on the DailyMail and it’s not something you would mistakenly sign. I didn’t see the detail about it starting way back when, but if that’s true then my scenario makes it even more likely. She was done with the relationship and ready to be someone else’s “slave” while holidaying in the Caribbean.

    • cyto

      His dissent is well worth the read. Another commissioner joined him and added some other details.

      Without a free press, this goes nowhere, but the administration is yet again weaponizong the government to ensure Americans are illegally censored online.

      These guys are in the room, so they know of what they speak.

  13. Nephilium

    I just saw something new the other day that makes me weep for humanity. When I was buying plane tickets, there was a new payment option… to sign up for a payment plan. Considering you generally need a credit card to purchase the plane tickets, why would you then do a payment plan on top of a payment plan (considering how most people use credit cards)?

    I’m not sure if that, or the constant 4 easy payments for items as cheap as $50 concerns me more.

    • AlexinCT

      Getting people deeply in debt is a real quick and easy way to make them malleable and easier to control.

    • Lackadaisical

      Just shows how financial institutions are getting a bigger and bigger share of the pie. Very unfortunate in my mind. These aren’t low value add, but obviously it makes sense to some.

    • EvilSheldon

      I was feeling tired and lazy last night, but I needed coffee cream and snacks. So I stuck a hand out from under the covers and ordered some groceries delivered.

      There was a payment plan offered for fifty bucks worth of groceries. I groaned inwardly.

      • AlexinCT

        Are they doing dumb shit like this to help sell the fantasy Bidenomics has not wrecked the economy and is basically destroying any and all chances at chasing the American dream for those at the low end of the income tree?

    • prolefeed

      The woman in the pink bathrobe about halfway through appears to be Winston’s Mom.

      The third one down has a suspicious bulge in their panties. NTTAWWT.

    • Nephilium

      I will once again sing the praises of one local brewery doing a canned mild as part of their core offerings. Now, it’s an “imperial” mild since it’s 4.5%, but just getting people to look at low ABV beers that aren’t lagers is a win in my mind. Off the top of my head, at least two other breweries in the area also regularly will have a mild on tap (those are more in the 3-3.5% ABV).

      • robc

        Its all a matter of when in time. 4.5% would be low for a mild at certain periods in time. British beer, due to taxes and etc, kept getting lower and lower in ABV over time. So milds dropped to 3%.

        But a good mild shouldn’t be described as “watery”.

      • Nephilium

        Agreed. None of the local ones would be called watery, they’re medium to light bodied.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        My local does a summer IPA at 3.8%, Sol Session. I love it as I can have a few and not worry.

    • invisible finger

      So now we know what some Columbua Law students think of contract law.

    • Spartacus

      Meh. We have students who don’t pay their bills all the time. They get registration and transcript holds. They can’t register for more classes until they pay up, and if they try to transfer we won’t send out transcripts. This is SOP at many places so Columbia probably will do pretty much the same thing.

      • UnCivilServant

        repossess their knowledge. Send someone to lobotmize them (might even improve their intelligence)

    • UnCivilServant

      Nope.

      The NYS Public schools didn’t want to focus on the revolution.

      • Not Adahn

        OK history was a pretty simple (if entertaining) affair.

    • WTF

      No Popery!

      • Rat on a train

        The smell can be overpowering.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m glad it was banned by the feline pontif, Pope Purry.

    • Lackadaisical

      Nope

  14. The Other Kevin

    “Biden Turns to Hillary for Help With 2024 Campaign”
    Great move, she seems to be highly skilled at losing.

  15. Fatty Bolger

    “It is possible, and we’ve seen it before, that a higher number, in particular Black men because of a kind of hypermasculinity of Donald Trump, could vote for Trump [again],”

    “hypermasculinity” 🤣🤣🤣

    • The Other Kevin

      I thought they said he had a small penis? But now he’s hypermasculine.

    • slumbrew

      By DC standards, he’s a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        An NY5 is a DC9.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    News which should surprise no one

    Republican politicians and organizations opposed to former President Donald Trump have delivered high-profile endorsements of other candidates over the past month in efforts to change the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

    But those endorsements haven’t moved the needle politically in Iowa, according to the new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of the state.

    At least not yet.

    In addition to showing Trump with more than a 30-point lead over his nearest competition, the poll finds majorities of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers saying the endorsements don’t affect how they will vote in the Jan. 15 contest.

    Fifty-four percent of likely GOP caucusgoers say Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ endorsement of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t matter to their vote choices.

    Thought leaders seem to be losing their grip on the nation’s psyche. Maybe somebody should tell them respect must be earned.

  17. cyto

    “Why isn’t anyone running against Biden in the primary” has been covered here.

    The DNC has rigged the primaries… even more than usual. Since Biden is not campaigning, they passed rules that nobody could campaign in any of the early primary states. If they did, any delegates they won would be awarded to Biden.

    So Kennedy fought it for a while, but as they added more amd bigger states to the list, he dropped out to go third party.

    The DNC is even more fully rigged than it was for HRC in 2016 when they got caught red handed. Even without rigging, their superdelegate system all but ensures that the establishment choice will win. But this time, they didn’t even let anyone else run… then they started moving to primaries since there is no contested election.

    Basement Biden, 2.0

  18. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Heavy whipping cream in my coffee makes me happy
    Heavy whipping cream in my eyes can make me cry
    Heavy whipping cream in my coffee tastes so lovely
    Heavy whipping cream almost always makes me fly

    • UnCivilServant

      How did it get in your eyes?

      • Sean

        Whipping it?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        You didn’t see that movie?

  19. cyto

    As to why they brought in Hillary to help Biden… he is already plugged in to the Obama machine. But the rumbling from other factions started early thus year (last time around they made noise before the convention about putting Mario Cuomo in as a brokered convention replacement)

    Clinton would give him 2 of the 3 big power structures in the DNC and block these moves to get him to drop out for someone like Newsome.

  20. KSuellington

    Bill supposedly said that Hillary’s campaign in 2016, “ could not sell pussy on a troop train,’” This seems like a pretty accurate assessment and something that he would indeed say. I think the Dems made a very big tactical error with the Trump mug shot. That was an inflection point. I’m still thinking they pull a switcheroo with Greasy Gav, and they could succeed in weighing down Trump with the trials and outcomes, but they could very well have it all backfire on them.

    • robc

      Bill supposedly told them to focus on the upper rust belt states, but Hillary ignored him.

      If there is one thing he is clearly good at, it is winning elections.

      • KSuellington

        Let’s not sell him short. He was also talented at getting pussy.

      • The Other Kevin

        I never liked the guy, but I can admit he was good at politics. He could win elections. And he’s 100% right. Trump saw an opening and took it, and instead of making a few appearances assuring loyal Dem voters she had their back, Hillary just assumed she’d get their votes, and even called them “deplorables”.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Not to relitigate 2016, but Hildogs essential problem is she had zero real political experience. All she had was a gimme senate seat and a losing presidential candidate run. Those do not make a successful politician! And, consequently, she had no idea how to talk to people, glad hand, any of the things that give you political capital. It is a testament to how broken we are as a country that she got as many votes as she did.

        This is why I have no worries about a Michelle 0 run or Obrah.

      • KSuellington

        Hillary also had the albatross of Iraq very much around her neck as we were still fucking there after a decade and a half and she originally supported the invasion. There were still a fair bit of Dems that were against war at that time.

    • Raven Nation

      HRC believed her own hype. She thought she had all the blue states locked up and went after a landslide (didn’t her campaign argue that Texas was in play?).

      The arrogance is astonishing considering they made parallel assumptions in 2008 and got their clocks cleaned by a rookie.

  21. Pope Jimbo

    Roh-roh! Does Special K have a problem when it comes to railroading black boys into prison?

    Haynes, 36, was released from the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater on Monday after Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty agreed to vacate the 2005 murder conviction of Haynes, who was 16 when he was accused in the 2004 killing of 55-year-old Minneapolis flower shop owner Harry “Randy” Sherer. Moriarty called the prosecution of Haynes a “terrible injustice.”

    Haynes’ case is not the first involving the prosecution of a teen during Klobuchar’s time as Hennepin County Attorney that was later questioned. In 2020, as Klobuchar was in the midst of campaigning to become the Democratic nominee for president, protesters showed up at the site of a scheduled rally in St. Louis Park demanding justice for Myon Burrell, who was convicted in the 2002 killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards.

    Burrell, like Haynes, was a Black teen living in Minneapolis, and the lack of physical evidence in the case was also similar to Haynes’ case.

    I’ll actually defend Special K a bit. Both of these wrongful convictions weren’t cases of there clearly being evidence that exonerates them. Both were thrown out because the evidence was super weak. The current County Attorney Moriarty is a lunatic who wants to let everyone out of jail.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Moriarty in action: Too liberal even for Brother Keith.

      One day after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison removed a murder case from her, Hennepin County’s chief prosecutor, Mary Moriarty, blasted state officials for undermining her authority by making an “undemocratic” decision.

      “I ran on reform,” Moriarty said in a defiant news briefing Friday afternoon at the Hennepin County Government Center. “They are stopping me from doing the job I was elected to do.”

      Gov. Tim Walz agreed to appoint Ellison to the ongoing criminal case stemming from the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Zaria McKeever during a Brooklyn Park home invasion last fall. It’s a highly unusual move following backlash against a controversial plea deal offered to two teenage brothers accused of gunning down the young mother as part of a plot devised by her ex-boyfriend, Erick Haynes.

      Prosecutors agreed not to seek a conviction in adult court for the teenage brothers, ages 15 and 17, and spare them lengthy prison sentences in exchange for testifying against Haynes. Each boy was offered approximately two years at a juvenile facility in Red Wing and extended probation until their 21st birthdays — a deal that McKeever’s relatives decried as a miscarriage of justice and Ellison later criticized as “inappropriate.”

      In recent weeks, as pressure mounted from outraged relatives and community members, Moriarty held firm in her position that her office was following the science, citing research on adolescent brain development suggesting that a young person’s mind is not fully formed until age 25, and noting that incarceration can lead to worse outcomes for teens who often leave prison a greater threat to society.

      • Fourscore

        If it wasn’t for the lakes and trees I’d be a neighbor of MikeS.

      • Not Adahn

        Someone needs to take her for a scenic walk around Reichenbach Falls.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      The long knives are out. Right now the D’s are in for a sea change in who runs the party. For a long time it was said that black women were the secret backbone of the party, and now they are flexing.

      Same thing with the R’s, but the media is much more focused on showing that battle in it’s saddest moments, as opposed to keeping it all behind curtains.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe the strident Black Women are what are driving Trump’s surge with Black Men?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Bill supposedly said that Hillary’s campaign in 2016, “ could not sell pussy on a troop train,’”

    Considering the pussy on offer…

    • AlexinCT

      If the pussy being sold was Hillary’s I can see why nobody was buying.

      • prolefeed

        You may not be acquainted with the startlingly large percentage of the male populace with no discernable standards for getting pussy.

      • kinnath

        Heard at college . . . . “as long as she has a hole and a heartbeat”

    • Drake

      His good buddy Jeff Epstein sure could.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    What’s in it for us?

    With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans. Instead, the death toll remains “alarming,” “disturbing,” and deserving of “urgent attention,” according to insurance industry articles.

    Actuarial reports — used by insurers to inform decisions — show deaths occurring disproportionately among young working-age people. Nonetheless, America’s chief health manager, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opted in September to archive its excess deaths webpage with a note stating, “these datasets will no longer be updated.”

    It’s not as if the CDC can leverage those numbers into expanding their power and increasing their budget. Somebody might even start asking inconvenient questions.

    • The Other Kevin

      Wow, that doctor sure isn’t following the science.

    • The Other Kevin

      I was just talking to one of my hockey buddies who’s 63 and retired from sled hockey. After his 4th or so booster shot he had sudden weakness on one side of his body. To the point where he has trouble transferring from his wheelchair. They gave him $30k of tests to look for neurological and immune disorders and didn’t find anything. He’s sure it was the shots but they’re still not admitting that officially.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        I have been hearing a bit about the death rate in the US having gone up, and that they haven’t ruled out the clot shot.

    • Not Adahn

      Wait, if the oldsters got killed off from coof, then wouldn’t (normal) death rates skew things towards younger stiffs?

      • UnCivilServant

        If a disease did kill off an abnormally high number of elderly, you’d expect a dip in mortality proportional to the spike caused by the disease, then a regression to the mean.

        The numbers don’t look any worse than a bad flu season though.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Tough problem for the Democrats. On the one hand they can blame Trump for operation warp speed and developing the untested pre-therapeutic (vaccine) .

      But since they were the ones trying to get everyone to knuckle under and get the jab they get the blame for any excess deaths.

    • Suthenboy

      I did not touch that goddamned vaccine or let my wife anywhere near it.

  24. Brochettaward

    After my Firsts, people tend to beg me to stop. They can only get so hard. So wet.

  25. Gender Traitor

    From a glance at some headlines, I gather Hunter is saying he’ll only testify before Congress publicly. Should he be careful what he asks for, or does he have something up his sleeve?

    • R.J.

      Something up his sleeve.

    • kinnath

      My guess . . . .

      He ignores the questions asked by the republicans and spouts out whatever bullshit he wants. The democrats will ask leading questions that allow him to spout whatever bullshit he wants. The media will take “highlights” of his bullshit answers and blast them out to the public. Thus, he is corrupting any jury pool that might hear his trial.

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. Plus TMITE can claim Hunter already answered all the repub’s questions so just moveon.org.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Software updates

    Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot.

    Documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators say the update will increase warnings and alerts to drivers and even limit the areas where basic versions of Autopilot can operate.

    The recall comes after a two-year investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into a series of crashes that happened while the Autopilot partially automated driving system was in use. Some were deadly.

    That feature they call “autopilot”… it isn’t. Watch the road, or take the bus.

    *As we all know, inattentive drivers are hardly exclusive to Teslas.

    • The Last American Hero

      My favorite bit is that the massive recall results in a software update that is being rolled out right now, over WiFi. No mechanics or dealer visits needed. Not sure why it’s national headlines.

      • AlexinCT

        Because they can write a bullshit headline to make idiots think Teslas are bad cars and thus cause Musk economic harm.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The arrogance is astonishing considering they made parallel assumptions in 2008 and got their clocks cleaned by a rookie.

    That election (2016) was amazing. Bannon was reading the rule book while Team Herself were picking out color schemes and china patterns for the Inaugural Gala.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Wait, if the oldsters got killed off from coof, then wouldn’t (normal) death rates skew things towards younger stiffs?

    By age group, numbers are down for 65 and older, presumably due to deaths pulled forward, but excess deaths in the ~25 to 50 range are up significantly.

  29. CPRM

    Just looked at WebDoms post from last night. I remember one year in 80s my parents did the turkey in the microwave. I do not remember how it turned out. My microwave has an autoroast setting for poultry. These young kids need 80s microwaves I guess.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I don’t think that our Founding Fathers anticipated electronic media. Let’s ban any media that utilizes electricity in any fashion. Whether it is broadcasting, or even printing presses that run on electricity. Obviously, the only purposes for those War of the Words Weapons are for mass communication.

      Your Gov can only issue press releases on handbills that have been manually typeset.

      • WTF

        Because of course the 1st amendment only applies to hand-cranked printing presses, the Founders never could have anticipated electronic media!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ben Franklin could have.

    • Suthenboy

      I am past talking about it. I am at the ‘fuck you, you cant have my guns’ point.