Friday Afternoon All Saints Day Links

by | Nov 1, 2024 | Cocktails, Daily Links | 168 comments

I’ve returned from my first cruise, and the girlfriend is already asking about our next one (which may be the total solar eclipse one in 2026). Meanwhile, I’m trying to sell her on a camping trip in central Ohio some time next year, and would love to be able to arrange a big group camping trip. If there’s interest, I’ll start a thread up over in our forums.

But that’s not why you’re here, you want some entertainment, links, and a place to comment.

I was completely unaware of the incestuous political side of this divorce.

Cold beer here!

I’m looking forward to cheering Chubb on come Sunday.

Yeah… when you’re having problems with releasing games on time, getting poor reviews on those games, the right way forward is MOAR GAMES!

Fire? At a water park?

Fuck your dress codes. Wearing a shirt is not the same as haranguing people or handing out flyers.

They’re going to make this a… (checks notes) musical? Note, this is not referring to the earlier movie.

Don’t say “Mistake on the Lake”, I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. Also, don’t pronounce Cuyahoga like he does (Kai-A-Ho-Ga is the correct way).

Commies need to commie apparently. Steam isn’t a fiefdom, they’re a service that has actually earned quite a bit of respect for treating gamers and game creators pretty fairly (I consider this a bit late, but it’s still good).

Then there’s the studios that have burned all their good will and respect. If only someone had pointed out these flaws in exquisite detail many years ago.

For the cocktail, I’ll bring back one from the Mixology 101 class on the ship:

Mediterranean Cobbler

  • 6 part vodka [Ciroc Snap Frost was used on the ship] (1.5 ounce)
  • 1 part Ouzo (0.25 ounce)
  • 3 part Pinot Grigio (0.75 ounce)
  • 3 part Lemon Juice (0.75 ounce)
  • 3 part Blueberry Syrup (0.75 ounce)
  • Raspberries

First, muddle one raspberry in a tin, add the rest of the ingredients, some ice, and shake until mixed. Then this gets strained into a Collins glass (tall thin glass) filled with crushed ice (or for the lazier people, very small ice cubes). Garnish this with a bouquet of bruised mint (put it between your hands and clap, just once) and a couple more raspberries. On ship, they had us build this in the glass (and used raspberry puree instead of trusting a bunch of normies with muddlers), but with syrups and the like, I feel the shake is the appropriate way to go.

Tonight I’m out to go catch a band I’ve been wanting to see for a while, and they’re in town tonight. Now for the real question, will they have CD’s for sale at the show?

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Nephilium

Nephilium

Nephilium is a geek of multiple types living in the vast suburban forests of Cleveland.

168 Comments

  1. R.J.

    Those optimal beer glasses look vaguely martini-shaped.

    • R.J.

      Also First.
      *Thrusts hips

      • Brochettaward

        I can feel this through my screen.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve got more than enough glassware that I don’t need ones designed to keep beer colder. But I am enough of a geek that I have all sorts of different shapes and sizes of glassware.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Beer goggles, bro.

  2. Shpip

    “Ohio has strict regulations on conduct and attire at polling locations to maintain neutrality, with the goal of ensuring voters can cast their ballots free from outside influence.”

    Interesting to see what would happen if someone wore a Gadsden Flag shirt (or a Che Guevara likeness).

    • Nephilium

      No one has said a word about my Vote Whig (They Can’t Possibly be Worse!) or F*ck the Polis (the shirt is self censored) shirts the times I’ve worn them.

      • SDF-7

        I should look into custom printing for “Vote Whig — There’ll be Hell Toupee!”

      • PutridMeat

        “Vote Whig — There’ll be Hell Toupee!”

        I think we should just lock you and Shpip in a room together and wager on who comes out alive.

  3. SDF-7

    you want some entertainment

    Honestly, I was expecting this (or perhaps this one). Glad the cruise went well for you — just be careful if the girlfriend starts suggesting midnight boat rides to the center of deserted lakes (see the “That’s not where I left it!” clip someone posted a couple of days ago…)

    And I’d like to thank both you and Banjos for correctly citing this as All Saints’ Day — it always seems like All Hallows’ Eve outshines today in the modern world.

    • Nephilium

      While I love Halloween, traditions can be important. I mean it is still a holy day of obligation for those who are still a part of the Catholic Church.

    • PutridMeat

      midnight boat rides to the center of deserted lakes

      Won’t be long now

      • PutridMeat

        Or now….

    • Shpip

      “And I’d like to thank both you and Banjos for correctly citing this as All Saints’ Day”

      Dia de Los Muertos gazes at you through empty eyes.

  4. kinnath

    Prior research and a lot of anecdotal evidence suggests that beer consumers prefer their beverage cold—generally as cold as possible.

    Only if you’re drinking shit beer and need to suppress the actual aroma and flavor of the beer.

    — Cellar temperature in a Belgian tulip.

    • Nephilium

      Depends on the style and the beer. Stouts and most Belgians, I’ll go cellar temp. Light lagers and the like, colder. IPAs reside in the middle ground.

      • kinnath

        Light lagers

        I thought we were talking about beer. 😉

        I do understand the appear of light lagers and the reason people drink the ice cold. But they seem pointless to me.

  5. SDF-7

    I was completely unaware of the incestuous political side of this divorce.

    Bedfellows make strange politics?

    • B.P.

      Bravo.

    • Rat on a train

      Carville + Matalin

  6. kinnath

    big group camping trip.

    Maybe.

    • Drake

      A little guerilla war training?

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait, guerilla? What are we going to do with the gorillas? We preordered!

      • Sean

        An extremists getaway!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      STEVE SMITH IN!!!

      • SDF-7

        … AND OUT!!!

        …. AND IN!!!

        … AND OUT!!!

        YOU GET IDEA!!!

    • Grummun

      I’m gonna pass on the camping, but if there is a group dinner somewhere in there, I’m interested.

      • SDF-7

        “Donner — party of five….”

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I have sworn off tent camping, and Ohio is a five day drive for me. So… count me out. But! If someone wanted to rent a ski condo in the Rockies (or somesuch) I could be down.

  7. SDF-7

    I’m looking forward to cheering Chubb on come Sunday.

    Poor Sunday — she’s got to deal with that from a chubby… should have just done pole dancing like Destiny or Crystal.

    • Nephilium

      Only in Cleveland can you go to a sports bar on a Sunday and hear a large group of men chanting “Chubb”.

  8. UnCivilServant

    don’t pronounce Cuyahoga like he does (Kai-A-Ho-Ga is the correct way).

    Nah, it’s “Koi Hog”, the As are silent.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I pronounce it coagulate.

      • SDF-7

        That’s just a bloody shame, Zwak.

      • Fourscore

        That gets to the heart of the matter

  9. SDF-7

    , the right way forward is MOAR GAMES!

    Ugh… that screams that their management picked up some Agile consultants harping on “regular, frequent release cadence will improve quality through customer feedback!” or some other happy horsecrap.

    That you can’t plan features because the window to actually move from “getting feature-1 into release, dealing with integration bugs” to “getting feature into release” becomes more like 2 to 3 weeks (because integration and bug fixing is always the long tail) never gets cited here… It is a beautiful model if you have teams that aren’t required to get a feature into every release — but then those look to management as “not participating” or “not customer driven”… and you get right back here.

    Or maybe I’m just reading my own annoyances into that statement… Could be… 😀

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh, no it’s not about feedback, Ubisoft has actively said that they do not listen to customer feedback.

    • rhywun

      ten new Assassin’s Creed games before 2030

      I don’t get it. Never mind that that is 10 more of them than I would ever play but… even if you liked those games why would you want to play ten of them in five years?!

      • Gadfly

        I do like those games (or maybe did, the last couple have been underwhelming), and I would not like to play 10 in five years.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, maybe I’m just getting old but five years ain’t what it used to be. It would probably take me five years to finish one of them.

  10. Grummun

    a musical?

    “You died of dysentery.” ::sad trombone music plays::

    • Rat on a train

      Oregon Trail: Dysenterie à Deux

  11. MikeS

    That drink looks like it’ll sneak up on you and kick your ass

    • Nephilium

      The ouzo helped balance out the sweet ingredients. During the class the instructor said we could adjust up or down any ingredient but the base spirit. In his words, “You paid for the class and I don’t want you to miss out on the expensive stuff. If I see you underpouring it, I’ll top off your drink myself.”

      Don’t worry, I’ll be pivoting back to cooler weather drinks next week. We were unseasonably warm here, and this was a very nice drink (the other two we made were a variant on the Martinez and a lemon infused tequila/pineapple drink).

      • MikeS

        It does sound delicious.

        And it reminded me of ouzo. I haven’t had it in ages. When I went to college there was a Greek restaurant that served it (name of the place was Ouzo IIRC). I need to see if I can find it in the booze store.

  12. SDF-7

    Fire? At a water park?

    Well, Lake Erie (or a river or two, wasn’t there?) has been done… so just passe now.

    • Nephilium

      The Cuyahoga river was the famous one. There was a fire in a river down Akron way a couple years back, but that was due to an overturned tanker spilling fuel onto it. But this is the reference I was aiming for.

      • The Other Kevin

        Mrs. TOK got a new job with her roller derby league, booking their schedule for next year. One of the Ohio leagues they found is called Burning River. Two of their teams are the HazMat Crew and the Pyromaniacs.

        https://www.burningriverderby.com/

      • Nephilium

        TOK:

        I used to know some of the girls ladies who were in the Burning River Rollergirls back in the day. There was a fair amount of crossover between the punk girls and the derby scene.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m disappointed in their merch page.

        Seems like she’s staked out a little bigger travel radius for next season so perhaps I will cross paths with you or other Glibs at a game.

  13. SDF-7

    Note, this is not referring to the earlier movie.

    It isn’t like comedic spoofs of the Oregon Trail are unheard of….

  14. DEG

    He also acknowledges that the true best result is one where the glass is so small that the beer is consumed in one or two quick gulps, but he insists drinking beer in such an ugly fashion misses the point of drinking beer altogether.

    Kölsch glasses in Köln and Alt glasses used in Düsseldorf are about that small.

    • kinnath

      Batshit crazy. But the best production values that I’ve see out of the left so far.

    • slumbrew

      I literally LOL’d at “… and eliminated the minimum wage”

      😂

      • SDF-7

        Oh noes! Can’t get the government out of manipulating the job markets! People might actually have to negotiate a fair trade for their labor! The horror! … the horror…..!

    • The Other Kevin

      Someone should change the voiceover to tell how Kamala appointed Liz Cheney as Sec. of State and 3 months later we got in a nuclear war with Russia.

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      Elections ARE rigged.

    • MikeS

      Some of the comments are gold:

      God forbid we give the homeless somewhere to live

      The best part about this awesome future is when JD Vance becomes Rush Limbaugh

      • rhywun

        Depends on why they’re homeless?

        I bet they don’t get into details like that. They are just “the homeless” – like they were born that way.

    • Drake

      Wow – that’s some great stuff.

    • SDF-7

      Geez, what a fanwank…. I couldn’t make it through. Love how they admit all the “yeah — you might be upset with the censorship… and the government telling you you have to inject experimental shit… and possibly losing your job… BUT BUT HOW’S THIS MADE UP SCENARIO!!” Holy hell guys… maybe stick with the “This is what your side actually did” versus the fever dreams in your overmedicated 2 am shroom festivals?

      • Drake

        That’s the beauty of it. Like Otter’s speech in Animal House.

        “The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests—we did…”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Judging by the who’s who of the org that put that together, I’d say overmedicated 2 am shroom festival is about right.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “Overmedicated 2 am shroom festival”

        Greatest hits album.

      • R C Dean

        “overmedicated 2 am shroom festivals”

        OK, now I’m intrigued.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I just want some of that FNPUP CRʁALD CVD PUNANGER.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, that’s one fun thing about AI, how it gets ancillary signage totally wrong.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m guessing they wanted Russian letters but AI messed it up more than it otherwise would.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      They finally admitted climate change was real.

      Goddamn RINO squishes.

    • The Other Kevin

      The lesson I’m taking away is that the libertarians who stocked up on food and ammo will rule the wasteland and get their pick of the hot ex-celebrities.

    • slumbrew

      My favorite bit might be that Musk and Thiel have achieved post-Singularity consciousness and, uh, bodily ascended. Or something.

      • MikeS

        Yeah, they don’t age, but Dictator JD apparently decides he’s gonna just get old and die.

      • slumbrew

        She doesn’t even know where they are after achieving immortality. They’re out there roaming the cosmos like Dr. Manhattan.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Its JDictator, shitloard!

    • slumbrew

      I didn’t realize that the Supreme Court can just grant dictatorial powers, either. I learned something new.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s right there in the 88th Amendment.

      • The Other Kevin

        Pro Tip: You can also get rich by taking out a loan with an overestimate of your property’s value, because they have to loan you that amount.

      • MikeS

        I think you committed a dozen felonies just by suggesting such a thing.

    • MikeS

      I gotta admit, I didn’t see the plot twist coming about who the dictator would be.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        True, and they should have had a NSFW warning for the lefties seeing Trump sick and dying.

    • Suthenboy

      So the admit that the censorship, scamdemic, etc. is evil. That’s a good start.

      Wow, that really is some fever dream shit right there. TDS indeed.
      I remember suggesting that description when Peter Suderman in the TOS days claimed Trump would unleash cannibal rape gangs (he literally said that) on the public. Hey Pete…you promised me cannibal rape gangs. Where are my cannibal rape gangs?

      • SDF-7

        You only have a chance to see them if you’re hanging around outside restaurants at dinner time.

        They’re always eating out.

    • Rebel Scum

      Wow. That had everything. And the progjection was next level.

  15. SDF-7

    the studios that have burned all their good will and respect

    Yup… after ME3 somewhat — but most certainly after Inquisition, I’m definitely never going to be a preorder… and will wait long enough for the non-shill press and Steam Forum Freedom Fighters to settle down on any Bioware game.

    But really, since EA bought them (and Codemasters… and probably every other damned studio they ever bought), they’ve just obviously moved in a way I don’t care to play… so I stopped worrying about it years back. I’ve seen some videos lately that a lot of game time for the last few years has been on “older” games — and I’m certainly part of that.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve still never bothered to finish Inquisition, and still haven’t picked up Andromeda. ME2’s final mission was one of the top gaming memories for me. I loved how they didn’t hold your hand, people could be killed, and you could wind up with a total party wipe while being successful on the mission (although it’s hard to get that accidentally). I lost most of my crew (but all my companions made it) on my first play through and was shocked at first, and then appreciated that it fit with the story and choices I made.

      • SDF-7

        I’m the type to do all sidequests as soon as they are available before going on with the main mission — so I actually never lost a party member on my own playthrough.

        And yeah — never picked up Andromeda either, but that was more because I never felt any desire to. Inquisition I played once — hated the “fetch quest” feel of it, which is probably why I didn’t have any expectations (or interest) in Veilguard… moving more towards “MMO style even if single player” just doesn’t interest me. Leave the stupid politics to the side…

      • UnCivilServant

        Rereading my review, a line jumps out at me.

        I get the feel of several parallel writers, where the less experienced members got handed the main plot.

        From today’s perspective, my thought is “did the DEI team get the main quest?”

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I started playing Andromeda and quickly stopped playing it, but I don’t remember specifically what I didn’t like about it.

  16. Shpip

    “6 part vodka [Ciroc Snap Frost was used on the ship] (1.5 ounce)
    1 part Ouzo (0.25 ounce)”

    If you don’t have Ouzo, what can you use in its Absinthe?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Oh, Pernod you didn’t!

  17. SDF-7

    Now for the real question, will they have CD’s for sale at the show?

    Why would you these days, seriously? I would think just have cards / contactless phone app updates (that was a thing, right? “Put your phone near mine and update contacts?” No security holes there…. :eyeroll:) with a Patreon account address. Become a Patron for only XXX / month and you can download the album! Locks in more of a subscription model, gives you a good fan base contact set, etc….

    • Nephilium

      Hell, if they even had an option to give them cash for digital downloads at the show I’d be happy. Instead I keep seeing vinyl and shirts only (if even that). There’s also a large number of bands that seem to have just gone to social media for updates and the like, forgoing e-mail newsletters and the like.

    • Sean

      Or just download it from Amazon.

  18. kinnath

    One of my co-workers said their kid got back from trick-or-treating and they found a Harris/Walz campaign card in the candy bag.

    • MikeS

      Imagine how miserable your life is that you think that’s a good idea.

      • Tundra

        SHould’ve paid closer attention to which house so you can plan the appropriate response next Halloween

      • SDF-7

        Still a couple days available to get a garbage truck parked by their driveway….

      • Rat on a train

        I’m sure the house is plastered with campaign sings.

      • Rebel Scum

        Still better than candy corn. Maybe.

    • SDF-7

      Better than a Chick Tract style miniversion of “Tommy is Really Tomi and this 40 year old teacher helped show him the ropes!” or some crap, I suppose.

      But yeah — especially with the inundation by social media making political identity a 24/7 thing with so many of the younger set… let the kids be kids away from all this crap while they can, ya jerks.

      • R.J.

        Hmmm….
        Libertarian Jack Chick tracts. There’s an idea!
        “TANSTAAFL! Freedom isn’t Free!”

        “Beware the Leviathan!”

      • R C Dean

        “this 40 year old teacher helped show him the ropes”

        Anybody heard from Creosote Achilles lately?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I thought it was “the mistake BY the lake”.

    • slumbrew

      Still feeling the boat motion

      These euphemisms, etc. etc.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s not about the size of the boat, it’s about the motion of the ocean.

      • SDF-7

        She likes big boats and she cannot lie….

    • MikeS

      Still recovering from the ick I picked up.

      Goddamnit. See, I said the zombie apocalypse would start on a cruise ship and I was right.

      • Nephilium

        Have you not watched Zomboat!?

        Entertaining and fun.

      • MikeS

        Don’t have Zulu and it’s not on Prime. *sigh*

      • Tundra

        Racist?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Ich is a fish disease.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      MASSIVELY JEALOUS!!

      • B.P.

        I’ve seen them once before. They throw a pretty good party.

      • Tundra

        Venue?

      • B.P.

        Tundra — They’re at the Ogden Theatre.

      • Tundra

        @B.P. Awesome! Have a great time!

  20. rhywun

    Commies need to commie apparently.

    Oofa that was a rough read.

    I lack the imagination to envision the replacement of Valve with a community owned alternative

    Of course you do. Now STFU.

    • Nephilium

      I love that all of the current anti-Steam articles just act like Steam’s forcing people onto the platform and taking a cut for nothing. While the amount of the cut can be argued if it’s fair or not, Steam offers quite a lot of stuff for their cut, such as patching services, network access, matchmaking, friends, DLC management, mod support, and more. I remember the outcry when it was first required for Half Life and hated, but at this point I think of them as the bastion of PC gaming.

      • rhywun

        Same story with Apple Store and the like.

        The cut is probably ridiculous but yeah I don’t see anyone writing their own stores. Come up with your own money-printing operation.

      • Nephilium

        rhywun:

        Well EA, Ubi, Bethesda, MS, GOG, Epic, and a couple of others have tried. Of those, GOG is the only one that I’ve given money to directly. Nearly all of them started out by removing their games from Steam and came back after a while.

      • rhywun

        Oh yeah, I use GOG too.

        Only because they have games that Steam does not. I mostly play indie games so I would probably not have missed anything from any of those other outfits.

      • R.J.

        GOG has Redneck Rampage! YEEHAW!

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        They’re doing it with Bandcamp too. A group decided that they’re going to build a “collective” to replace the hegemony of Bandcamp (which actually is quite fair).

  21. Gustave Lytton

    Finished the Vance interview. Repeats the lie that Reagan screwed up mental health.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Poacher

    Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign’s final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades.

    The former president campaigned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday and was scheduled to visit Salem, Virginia, on Saturday.

    The Trump team is projecting optimism based in part on early voting numbers and thinks he can be competitive against Democrat Kamala Harris in both states — New Mexico in particular, if he sweeps swing states Nevada and Arizona. That hope comes even though neither New Mexico nor Virginia has been carried by a GOP nominee for the White House since George W. Bush in 2004.

    He’s stealing Kamala’s rightful sewn-up votes!

    She hasn’t hasn’t wasted her time coming to Idaho or Montana looking for garbage votes.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      She knows people would throw dirty diapers at her.

    • rhywun

      I don’t know if I could survive a four-year bender.

      • MikeS

        I’m willing to give it my best effort.

      • Sean

        You won’t be able to afford it.

      • slumbrew

        *breaks out pruno recipe*

      • R.J.

        Do I need to start publishing moonshine wine and cordial recipes again?

      • DrOtto

        *breaks out pruno recipe* – we’re gonna need a bigger toilet.

  23. The Other Kevin

    I forgot, we have a friend who’s in Milwaukee tonight for the Trump rally. We told him to pick up MAHA shirts if he sees them.

  24. Tres Cool

    Back in the (937)

    “I just want some of that FNPUP CRʁALD CVD PUNANGER.”

    Current Punanger status: Calm

  25. Rebel Scum

    Right…

    BREAKING: Arizona AG investigates Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney as a possible death threat.

    Sure. Let’s run with that. Trump could use a few more bullshit indictments on the eve of the election.

    • R.J.

      Good Lord.
      I do agree that if she wants war, she should stand on the front lines.

    • slumbrew

      We are ruled by unserious people.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The investigation will go through Tuesday and then it will quietly go away.

    • Evan from Evansville

      They really are terrified of Nov 5. If they don’t get their way, I’m unsure of what the response would be. Hence, pre-boarded DC+ buildings. I’m not sure what the response to a Harris victory will be. More polite, assuredly, kinda sadly.
      It’s officially come to the point where My Politics are not to be brought up. I’ve always been mostly mum, but Dad is rampaging about Trump being a racist blah blah blah [insert statements with no thought here] blah blah. I gave Mom a brief reason why I decided not to vote. Enough to make the message but I didn’t get into detail. I’ve known not to bring up anything with my True Blue Bro and SiL.

      Best back and forth: “[Dad going on about a neighbor with a Trump sign] She couldn’t possibly have *empathy.*”
      Me: “You haven’t talked to her or know why she’s voting the way she is. It seems like you’re being the one without empathy. You’re convinced they’re Bad. And Case-Closed. Seems rather unfair.”
      [Pregnant silence in the car, but Mom knew I made a damn valid point. Nothing new enters Dad’s ears.]

      “It seems all the nastiness, ALL the hatred and polarization you described, is only coming from the Democrats.’ <– Fun ending point. And Indiana will naturally swing Red and the Nation.. Oh, dear. It is fun being the (politically) ostracized family member, who if they actually believe their sentiment, means I'm an evil whatever who does whatever to kill someone else's something. It's good we don't talk politics, but Nov 5.. I live with them and I'll see it all. It'll be fascinating. The coming peril and promise they fantasize of will surely come true.

    • MikeS

      The adults are in charge!

    • rhywun

      Harris is out there saying he’s disqualified.

      This is getting really fucking tedious.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Desperation is repetitive: “Please?…Please?!..PLEAAASE!!!

        I’m not sure it’s fun to watch.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Thanks and appreciated.

      • rhywun

        Love the implication that MAGA hates fags and wants to murder Harris.

        You don’t hate the MSM enough.

      • MikeS

        For what it’s worth, if anyone gives a shit, I’ve reconsidered my earlier decision to vote for Oliver. Some of his bad positions I was willing to overlook, but I dug more after prodding from the Glibertariat and found more I don’t like and so yeah…fuck this guy. Bring back Gary Johnson. Hell, Bill Weld would be a vast improvement.

      • Tundra

        @MikeS

        I give a shit. Chase is yet another candidate that sets the LP back a mile. I’m not saying we abandon and join the other fuckwits, but despite some nice work by Angela and others we still end up as the party of libertines with fucking boots on their heads.

        Meanwhile, the rest of the political world makes mincemeat of our desire to be left alone to (somehow) prosper. I think staying active in libertarian politics has more efficacy as an “earn my vote, motherfucker” movement. All the important people showed up this year for the convention. What would happen if the libertarians actually became an important bloc?

    • Rebel Scum

      Good.

  26. Tundra

    Good Lord.

    The Democrats’ Insanity Defense:

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/democrats-insanity-defense

    In the September debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said something so ludicrous that many viewers must have dismissed it out of hand. “She did things that nobody would ever think of,” Trump said, while rattling off a list of some of the vice president’s most radical past positions. “Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”

    The idea that the vice president “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” seemed so patently absurd that The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser cited it in a column posted the next morning as an example of Trump’s lunacy: “What the hell was he talking about?” Glasser wrote of the trans operation lines. “No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’ point.”

    That reaction was understandable—the idea of the operations was, as Trump himself said, a “thing nobody would ever think of.” The problem was that it is true.

    Cannot wait for the death rattle of the corporate media. We’ll have a nice party.

    • Rebel Scum

      Dems/leftists say what Trump/MAGA are doing and it’s insane lies.

      Trump/MAGA say what Dems/leftists are doing and it’s insane truths.

      • Tundra

        Perfect.

        Despite your candy corn insanity.

      • MikeS

        Candy corn is Satan’s jizz.

      • DrOtto

        Trump wrote project 2025 in his blood!

    • rhywun

      Jobs’ reality distortion field had nothing on the one the Dems have. It’s unbelievable.

    • Suthenboy

      I am reading through the excerpt thinking…uh…what is he talking about? He is talking about her saying that in an interview on video. I just saw the clip today.

      Also, what Rebel Scum says.

  27. LCDR_Fish

    Speaking of Mass Effect….since I’m working with an upgraded laptop now…what are the thoughts about the remastered version of the ME trilogy? I saw some weird graphical comparisons…but as far as I’ve heard it is still pretty accurate to the originals?