Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Womp Womp

by | Nov 6, 2024 | Daily Links | 306 comments

“What am I going to do, Momala?” Ella wailed. “They canceled my modeling contract!”

She rocked an unconscious Kamala back and forth so vigorously she fell off her throne, insensate and bloated.

“I don’t think I have any tears left!’ Ella sobbed.

“Can I take this off now?” Tim asked, picking at the gimp suit. “I’m really sweaty.”

“YOU DON’T KNOW HOW THIS FEELS!” Ella screamed.

“I lost too, you know,” Tim said. “My wife’s children will never get to have abortions now. And they really need abortions. Like, really.”

Kamala grumbled something and farted.


LOOK IN THE THE EYES OF THE DRAGON AND DESPAIR!


I’m only a recreational conspiracy theorist (and all the votes are not all in,) but this needs a-splaining.

It might have been a wave of Democrat apathy, but man that’s a lot of people sitting out the election. I don’t like the “apathy” explanation, given I am a solid Gen X and resolutely believe the mantra “Recoiling in disgust is not apathy.” Or enthusiasm for Kamala really was that low (the recoiling in disgust part.) Maybe it is just a weird COVID stat, but the implications are the same if it was an anomaly or DNC shenanigans: doom.

Also, Trump winning the popular vote (which we are not sure of yet) is a huge kick in the nuts for the DNC. Maybe they’ll let an actual primary happen in 2028, but they seem to love doubling and tripling down on terrible ideas, so I doubt it.


Yes, yes, it was the 70s, but seriously, what the hell are those back-up singers wearing? And the drummer… Cocaine really is a hell of a drug.

Also, explore that YouTube channel. They have put up many wonderful of Midnight Special musical performances.

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306 Comments

  1. Shpip

    Also, Trump winning the popular vote (which we are not sure of yet) is a huge kick in the nuts for the DNC. Maybe they’ll let an actual primary happen in 2028, but they seem to love doubling and tripling down on terrible ideas, so I doubt it.

    The usual cadre of malcontents will have their “vote,” and then the party bosses and money men will select a candidate for them to fall in line behind. Same as it ever was.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      At least the the party bosses and money men in the smoke filled rooms were serious men. The zers in the vape filled room that picked Kamala are worthless.

      • Shpip

        I’d like to think that the smoke-filled room guys knew that, for all the caterwauling about “reproductive health care” and the like, that Americans vote their pocketbooks and that their candidate was well and truly buggered this cycle.

        But by defenestrating Joe, the money was tied up, unless it went to the DEI hire on the ticket. So they rolled the dice and went with her. Now, they’re both out of the picture, and the bosses can start battlespace prep for Newsom or Whitmer or whatever senator is feeling saucy.

      • Tonio

        all the caterwauling about “reproductive health care” and the like, that Americans vote their pocketbooks

        Yes, and that enrages the leftist base, particularly AWFL crones. The two best meltdowns I’ve seen from people I know are:

        “I can’t believe people sacrificed women’s rights because of gas prices.”

        “I can’t believe people voted for a con man instead of a woman.”

      • The Other Kevin

        Tonio, that’s word-for-word what Mrs. TOK is seeing on Facebook. These people have zero original thoughts.

      • SDF-7

        I still have to wonder if the party bosses were perfectly fine with letting Trump take the fall for the recession that the FedGov will now stop masking.

        If they’d had 4 more years of puppetry (and hiding the economic impact), gravy — but pinning this mess on the Stupid Party? They’ll be looking to lock in some real socialism now, boy-ee!

      • R C Dean

        I still don’t see how terminating a healthy pregnancy is reproductive health care, unless amputating a healthy leg is orthopedic health care.

      • rhywun

        I still don’t see how terminating a healthy pregnancy is reproductive health care, unless amputating a healthy leg is orthopedic health care.

        The same way that mutilating a healthy penis is “gender affirming health care”.

    • Sean

      The Dems blew $2.1 BILLION and fucking lost.

      Celebrity endorsements don’t mean dick.

      99% favorable MSM coverage still couldn’t do it for the fakest bitch in Fakertown.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        “the fakest bitch in Fakertown.”

        This is the problem. If they come back with a decent candidate they can definitely win.

      • The Last American Hero

        Whitmer would have eaten Trump for lunch and shit him out by dinner. She is like catnip for suburban women for some reason.

  2. The Other Kevin

    Thank the Lord Trump won. That Torture Me Elmo treatment is what you get in J6 prison.

  3. cavalier973

    The only link is to a Steely Dan video.

    Anyway, I still think a Constitutional Amendment that stipulates that only US citizens may vote, voting occurs only on election day, identification is required to vote, Election Day becomes a Federal holiday, and voter fraud becomes a Federal offense is warranted.

    • Urthona

      That won’t pass though.

      • cavalier973

        And Trump can’t possibly win the popular vote.

        Come on, man! This is the era where dreams come true!

      • Urthona

        I know but amendments are so so hard these days. Hard to believe we’ve ever done it.

    • rhywun

      Sorry, you’re more likely to get a Constitutional amendment that guarantees legislated racism and boys beating up on girls and secretly chopping off their body parts – like New York has.

    • SugarFree

      Click the channel link on the left hand side of the screen under the video.

      • bacon-magic

        Mmmmmm Fionna.

  4. Urthona

    I’m of two minds about it.

    1) There was definite nonsense with all that drop box voting in 2020. Might’ve even been legal but it shouldn’t have been.
    2) Elections are not in any sense over in this country as the black pillers claimed. Mobilize people and keep fighting for election laws.

    • The Other Kevin

      High voter turnout and lots of people watching who know how the game is played seemed to do it. I heard of a few incidents, such as trying to stop counting votes and continue the next day, and one case of kicking out Republican poll watchers, and those were stopped by a court order or a threat of legal action.

      I really, really did not expect the election to be called this fast. I am pleasantly surprised.

      • Urthona

        Yes. Although I think the biggest factor is just the ability to anonymously drop ballots into drop boxes. Nobody should allow that bullshit.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Also Fulton county trying to open ballot harvesting stations, with orders for security to kick out anybody trying to observe what was going on.

      • SDF-7

        They just had to keep room ready for the plumbers.

    • rhywun

      There is no way that many missing Dems simply sat out when they had the opportunity to put down Orange.

      I can entertain the idea that multiple effects are at play here, including Kamala sucked and the antifa types stayed home, but no way does that amount to millions.

      Call me a conspiracy theorist, I think it’s obvious what happened.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I agree.

  5. EvilSheldon

    LOOK IN THE THE EYES OF THE DRAGON AND DESPAIR!

    THE SCREAM BRO 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/ulUufMVgQO
    — neo (@theneoblastguy) November 5, 2024

    This works with people, too…

  6. Shpip

    “What am I going to do, Momala?” Ella wailed. “They canceled my modeling contract!”

    No worries. She’ll get a new gig as the face of the Clinton Foundation.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I was thinking the Hunter Biden Home for Wayward Girls.

      • SandMan

        OK, I laughed, but I think Hunter has higher standards.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m not so sure Hunter has standards at all.

      • SugarFree

        “NO YELLOW”

        An actual text message he sent to his cousin when she offered to set him up on a date.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        OK, he doesn’t want his women to have jaundice.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    I wanted to see smoke pouring from Elmo. Disappoint.

    • SDF-7

      Resistance is futile.

  8. OBJ FRANKELSON

    My Achems Razor take is, that in conditions deliberately constructed to make cheating easier, there was more cheating. If there was a 15-20 million ballot degree of cheating I don’t know.

    The Kung Flu has some sort of effect, but it was dwarfed by the amount of fuckery.

    • Tonio

      The ghost of Sir William of Occam (or Ockham, since before regularized, consistent spelling) has a sad.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        My reliance on spell check (and subsequent atrophied proofreading skills) strikes again

      • SugarFree

        I assumed it was some Arab guy I’d had never heard of…

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Hafises?

        Hassemtobeamidaboobohboy?

    • R C Dean

      While the COVID emergency voting measures (mail-in ballots, drop boxes, etc.) may have been dialed back in some places, in many they are now status quo. I don’t know how much of a drop off in legitimate votes the partial rollback of these measures would have caused.

      In AZ, for example, absolutely nothing has changed since the 2020 election.

  9. cavalier973

    I’m not feeling elated, as I have heard other people say (not here).

    I am content, at best.

    I’m happy that I accidentally got the day off today.

    I am looking forward to tax deduction #3’s birthday tomorrow.

    I’m considering making some no-bake cookies later.

    I already cooked several egg McMuffins for various members of my family.

    My paycheck was larger than usual (Next time it will be smaller than usual, though).

    Trump won the electoral college and the popular vote.

    I think I will pull out Heroquest and play with the tax deductions.

    I like my daughter’s boyfriend. He is an intelligent and friendly guy.

    My seven year old chattered my ear off earlier, which was nice.

    Things feel normal, and Inam content.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Nice.

      “I think I will pull out Heroquest and play with the tax deductions.”

      I can’t wait until mine are old enough for this. I snatched the new release and all the expansions they made so far…

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      My seven year old chattered my ear off earlier, which was nice.

      Enjoy it now. When they reach their 20’s, they won’t call unless they need something.

    • EvilSheldon

      How do you do your Egg Mcmuffins?

      • cavalier973

        I use deli ham—cherrywood smoked—an egg per muffin, sliced cheddar, sliced Swiss.

        I fry the ham a bit to get rid of the fat, then remove it. Then I slice, butter,
        and fry the English muffin (both sides of each slice), and remove it. Then I fry the egg in butter, with a sprinkle of salt, black pepper, and onion powder. When the egg is done, I assemble everything, throwing a slice of cheddar on one muffin slice, and a slice of Swiss cheese on the other, put it back in the pan, and fry each side for a couple of minutes, until the cheese is melty.

      • EvilSheldon

        Oooh, that sounds good.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Congrats on #3. Which, I suppose, will be its name?

      • cavalier973

        “Tres”

        But, it’s a celebration of his birthday, not his actual birthday, which happened 18 years ago.

        The best coffee I’ve ever had was at that hospital.

        While we were waiting for #3 to arrive, my wife and I binge-watched several of the old James Bond movies.

        #3 was almost a c-section, because the doc couldn’t get him out, at first. Eventually, he got a big plunger and pulled him out that way.

        Years ago, when he was about 5 or 6, he was watching his elder siblings trying to get past a particularly challenging puzzle in “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.”

        They struggled for a while, then finally he spoke up and told them exactly what to do.

        I was impressed.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Elated isn’t it. Neither is content. I think relieved is the best descriptor for me today.

      We dodged a particularly nasty bullet, and I feel like this election put wokeism on trial and nuked it from orbit. There should be no doubt that Americans finally put our feet down and said enough of this particular brand of bullshit. Wokeism won’t disappear overnight, but it’s clearly a losing proposition politically, even against deeply hated by many Trump. Academia will have to come up with a new scam. They too like the halls of power and having influence. Wokeism will no longer help them grab that in America.

      • SandMan

        Relief is a good descriptor.

        1) at least some real pushback and possibly scaling back of the DEI bullshit.

        2) some relief on the assault on the 1st ammendment.

        3) no packing of the SC.

        Those are probably the big ones for me. Toss in 2nd ammendment erosion and ” unrealized” cap gain taxation concerns.

  10. Drake

    In 2020 the wild conspiracy theorists were saying that truckloads of ballots were showing up in the days after polls closed. They were running 80% or so in Biden’s favor in most places because 100% would look too fishy – hence the Trump bump.

    Looks like they were right unless there’s a better explanation. COVID and / or enthusiasm for Joe Biden isn’t convincing.

  11. Urthona

    Anyone care to explain what the fuck is happening in Arizona?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Peyote.

      • Urthona

        Thought so

      • Urthona

        I will be in Arizona over the next 3 days taking my daughter to a dance audition and then my son to the NASCAR championship. They’ll probably be 3/4 of the way to counting votes by them.

      • SugarFree

        That’s a sore subject for me. None of my so-called friends in Arizona will grow or gather any for me.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Well it’s not like 2020 where they knew the result as soon as the polls closed.

    • SDF-7

      I’m just assuming Governess I-Fucked-Up-Maricopa-As-The-SoS-And-Handpicked-People-To-Fuck-It-Even-More!

    • Drake

      I’ve heard several people claim that Arizona is controlled by the cartels.

      Looking for enough votes to elect the astronaut asshole?

    • R C Dean

      A Soros governor, a Soros SecState, and a Soros AG, for starters. Throw in a rabid anti-Trumper running the Maricopa County elections, and you’re most of the way there.

      • Drake

        The most cowardly Republicans anywhere who let it all happen.

  12. J. Frank Parnell

    I’m only a recreational conspiracy theorist (and all the votes are not all in,) but this needs a-splaining.

    Biden was just that popular, Jack.

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      More popular than Obama even!

      • Urthona

        Significantly.

        I’d expect but it to go up each election but that was insane.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Yes, Democrats are extremely racist and sexist, so it makes sense that they would turn out to vote for an old white guy but not for a black man or a woman.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Also, Trump winning the popular vote (which we are not sure of yet) is a huge kick in the nuts for the DNC.

    Yeah, Trump’s a total IDIOT for wasting his time and energy campaigning in New York and California.

    • Urthona

      I also think that the rally attendance itself is a minor factor. You want to get on the news.

  14. J. Frank Parnell

    I was skimming the morning thread just now and saw someone suggest that Neal Asher might be a right-wing guy. Not sure if he is or not, but I recently finished reading The Human and this stuck out:

    In the far past, the enslavement of people was fast and dirty. Individuals were seized and put into chains, then brutalized into cooperation. Those who did this did not consider themselves evil; they thought of the slaves as subhuman, themselves a superior species, and this the natural order. The perception of superiority continued into supposedly more civilized times, while the enslavement necessarily took a slower and more subtle course. Before the Quiet War, it came through restrictions on liberty by increasingly bloated government. Citizens found themselves becoming chattels of the state, and its corporate partners. An ever-increasing number of rules and regulations, produced by ever-expanding bureaucracy, required funding through taxation. Those citizens were complicit in this because, foolishly, they believed in every new ‘danger’ pointed out to them by the elites, which, of course, each needed ‘regulation’. The politicians who made and imposed the rules considered themselves a superior species too, and also felt sure their steady enslavement of the populace was only the natural order of things.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Yeah, he’s a righty.

      • juris imprudent

        Fascism really does fit the Hegelian model, but the Hegelians are all too stupid to see that.

    • SugarFree

      100%. His Twitter feed is all right-wing, bordering on libertarian.

      • Beau Knott

        Likewise his FaceBook feed. He seems to be a decent guy; he certainly engages with his readers.

    • EvilSheldon

      I managed to finish 2.6 Neal Asher novels over the course of GlibCruise. I think I’ve finally concluded that I just don’t like his writing.

  15. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Pretty sure that I heard Elmo say “John is dead”

    • Tundra

      Yeah, that was a little disturbing. I hope Rufus doesn’t see it.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I thought Paul was the dead one?

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Uncertainty?

    Neither Trump nor Harris really promised fiscal discipline on the campaign trail, raising worries that investors will demand higher yields in exchange for holding Treasurys as the government is forced to issue more and more debt to fund its ballooning spending.

    ——-

    The big jump in rates comes even though the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark rate in September and indicated further cuts ahead. On Thursday, the central will make its next decision on interest rates.

    Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab, said the bond market is now in a “new regime” as the impact of the election comes into focus.

    “I’d say that the path of least resistance now for yields is higher, simply because the market really wasn’t prepared for this outcome, and now it will take time to figure out what the actual legislation might be, and then what the Fed’s reaction function will be,” Jones said.

    I was just having this conversation with my sister in law the investment advisor yesterday. Deficits do matter. The bond vigilantes are coming back.

  17. The Other Kevin

    Kamala is making a speech. Ironically this is the best speech she’s made this entire election.

  18. DEG

    seriously, what the hell are those back-up singers wearing

    They also look a bit too happy.

    • bacon-magic

      Cocaine is a helluva drug. That drummer is about to have a heart attack for realz.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    “They canceled my modeling contract!”

    Just wait ’til you see how many orders you get for your “designer fashion” now.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Kamala is making a speech.

    Is her mascara streaking down her cheeks like clown tears?

  21. juris imprudent

    Walter Kirn: Gloating has a real use in human affairs.

    Got to love that guy!

  22. Tonio

    Old business followup for Mojeaux, re the “I don’t think about you at all” quote.

    Thanks. I haven’t read The Fountainhead (I know, worst libertarian ever). That quote is also used in Mad Men which has a lot of libertarian callouts. Knowing its original source adds depth and context to the Don Draper character.

    • juris imprudent

      I’ve never read Rand either, but I do have the Virtue of Selfishness on my list given I got a rather unorthodox recommendation for it.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Fountain Head really is her best actual novel. Atlas shrugged is a great objectivist thought experiment… but those freakin’ monologues.

      • Mojeaux

        COMPLETELY agree, and Fountainhead was supposed to be the proto-Atlas Shrugged.

        Also, the thing about Atlas Shrugged is that Rearden was the better character and man (until that stupid note he wrote to Dagny) than Galt.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      No Ayn Rand, but a lot of Hanna Arendt.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    the market really wasn’t prepared for this outcome

    Keep telling yourself that.

    • The Other Kevin

      Oh no, then they won’t need abortions! Please don’t throw me in that briar patch!

    • SDF-7

      “… and nothing of value was lost.”

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Wait, I thought it was the incel army that done it! If they ain’t getting any before, then threats of not getting any now don’t really work.

  24. R C Dean

    Why is the front page of the blog all fucked up?

    Or is that just me?

    • Ted S.

      It’s not just you that’s fucked up. Millions of Harris voters are, too.

      • Ted S.

        That having been said, the front page of the blog suddenly looks different.

      • SDF-7

        Oh shit — they’re doing Windows 8 tiles!

        ( 😉 )

    • Nephilium

      That would be the new homepage, which should work better on mobile devices, and be more supportable going forward.

      • db

        Gaslighting!

      • juris imprudent

        Well it’s disgusting on my home PC.

      • SDF-7

        I think it will look better (personal opinion: probably fine) when we move away from Sloopy’s blink tag background this morning. That’s making it look like a ’97 Altavista homepage at the moment.

      • Sensei

        You’re right! It looks great on my Windows Phone!

      • juris imprudent

        That’s making it look like a ’97 Altavista homepage

        I was thinking Geo-cities.

    • SugarFree

      It’s mostly the WordPress redesign. If you think the frontend is bad, wow, the backend stuff to make a post? They’ve dumbed it down to the point that it’s insanely hard to use if you don’t have a TBI.

    • Gender Traitor

      The only posts I see listed on the Glibs home page are the Links – neither of today’s SF posts.

      • Sensei

        Scroll down. It puts some kind of “highlights” at the top.

      • Raven Nation

        If I scroll down past that first bloc of links, there’s a heading for All Posts and they’re just below that (Macbook Pro running Sonoma 14.6.1; Firefox 132.01)

      • Spudalicious

        Links are at the top because they draw the most traffic. Scroll down and the chronological order of posts is still there.

      • Raven Nation

        I see you rid yourself of Tester.

    • Mojeaux

      It’s fucked up, yes.

      Also, vid link wants me to sign in. WTF.

      My tits have calmed, but I don’t feel like I’m in stasis anymore and am settled. I didn’t realize how unsettled I was.

      HOWEVER.

      The name-calling from the left continues apace, including my sibs who think that everyone who even thought about voting for Trump are too stupid to live. And so. I’m going to avoid them wherever possible, which means I may just delete Facebook because that’s where all this shit gets posted. I’m having a hard time with this. Do I think they’re stupid? No. I think they’re misguided and refusing to understand other people’s viewpoints and it makes me sad.

  25. Tundra

    Boy, that’s a great track. And yes, the 70s were indeed – uh – unique.

    In all the positivity I forgot that my homies back in Minne have to take the gimp back now. Sorry boys. Maybe this sad showing will finally show the good people of Minnesoda the error of their ways.

    I crack myself up.

    • SugarFree

      Maybe, out of the glare of the election, Tampon Tim will finally feel like he is in a safe space to finally come out of the closet. The furry closet.

      • Tundra

        It would be great for your series, that’s for sure. 76 more days of TT and the gang!

      • EvilSheldon

        The overlap between furries and gimpsuit enthusiasts is…substantial.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I gotta say, SF, I had a feeling that all the cast members of Kamala’s timeline would be sitting on a stage, trying to tell her that the show is over, Ella smoking a cigarette and wiping of the tats, Walz peeling back the gimp suit and toweling down, none of them really paying any attention to her, as she is the reason the four year run on Broadway has been cancelled…

        But you, you keep it fresh and lively.

    • Fourscore

      Just in time for Tim to get ready for the Annual Northern caravan to the Hunting Grounds. Either way MN was a loser, regardless of Tim’s outcome but at least it’ll be a Welcoming Home for the War Hero who bravely set out to conquer Wash, DC.

      It’s OK, Tim, welcome home to Loosersoda.

  26. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    So, just watched the dingdongs concession speech (getting tire repaired) and I gotta say, if she had made speeches like that on the campaign trail she would’ve done better.

    I think she was scared shitless of everything she has ever done, and now she’s lost can relax.

    • SugarFree

      She probably just stuck to the actual speech written for her. A lot of her abused speechwriters went off-the-record to say she’d scream at them to re-write and re-write speeches and then she’d never use them. And we know she’s not great with the whole talking and acting like a human thing. The main reason she spiked the Rogan interview. She was never going to do that.

  27. Fatty Bolger

    Kamala not wearing *those* favorite earrings of hers for her concession speech. Guess those are only for when there will be questions. 🤔

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Doom and disaster

    Yesterday, Donald Trump won a second presidential term from American voters. His first term was marked, among other things, by attempts to water down environmental laws and regulations aimed at the auto industry. And as a candidate in 2024, Trump has promised plenty of disruption to the sector through both trade policy and an abrogation of the government’s commitment to fight climate change. Here are some of the more significant changes we think are coming.

    ——-

    During his first term, Trump repeatedly criticized EVs, saying that “all-electric is not going to work,” and he vociferously attacked EVs during his campaign, telling supporters at his party’s national convention in July that “I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one,” referring to a current White House goal to reach 50 percent EV adoption by 2030, and calling the most significant climate legislation ever “the new green scam.”

    We’re all gonna die.

    • The Other Kevin

      It will be a bloodbath.

      • SDF-7

        Assault and battery.

    • rhywun

      If he can make any progress cancelling the klimate hoax he will save us trillions of dollars.

      Get it done, somehow.

    • Tundra

      The industry desperately needs deregulation and some good old fashioned creative destruction.

  29. DEG

    Republicans make big gains in the NH state legislature

    In a night of big wins for the New Hampshire GOP, perhaps the biggest surprise was the defeat of Democratic Senate Leader Donna Soucy, who represents the one-time Democratic stronghold of Manchester. She was defeated by former state Rep. Victoria Sullivan in a race largely ignored by the mainstream media.

    Sen. Shannon Chandley (D-Amherst) was also defeated, by state Rep. Tim McGough (R-Merrimack). Both Chandley and Soucy were targeted by the Republican State Leadership Committee, which ran ads highlighting their support for sanctuary city policies and opposition to popular Education Freedom Accounts.

    I saw a note from the NHLA. One NHLA senator (Keith Murphy) was re-elected. Of the newly elected senators, four are NHLA endorsed. We’ll see how many of the four turn into duds. I have not seen information from them about how many endorsed state representatives have won.

  30. Translucent Chum

    Hurricane Raphael saw the Hat and Hair reelected and decided to fuck off to Mexico.

    • juris imprudent

      C’mon it wasn’t going to tangle with TRUMP!

  31. DEG

    Republican gains in Vermont

    BIG GOP WINS IN HOUSE AND SENATE – the Franklin County House and Senate delegation (see St. Albans Rep. Casey Toof above) will be all Republicans in January, and the Senate has six new Republican senators – including Chittenden North winner Chris Mattos (to right of Toof) and Larry Hart of Orange County.

    It’s six minutes after midnight. 91% of the vote – a total of 362,501, 8,000 shy of the 2020 record turnout – has been tallied. Barring last-minute big returns for the Democrats in several small towns, the results spell the end of the Democrat supermajority in both the House and the Senate and the election of a Republican governor and lieutenant governor.

    • juris imprudent

      Hold on, that sounds like the seals of the apocalypse being broken, or something. Is Coolidge’s body still in the ground?

      • DEG

        It’s the end of the Democrat supermajority, not the beginning of a Republican majority.

        Phil Scott has been the governor of Vermont since 2017.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        Phil is a Vermont Republican. Like Jeffords.

      • R.J.

        I will take it as a sign of a high water mark.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    That would be the new homepage, which should work better on mobile devices, and be more supportable going forward.

    Change?

    *hisses, backs into corner*

  33. Sensei

    Good news from The Guardian!

    US election live: Kamala Harris concedes to Donald Trump but says ‘do not despair’ as she vows to keep fighting for democracy

    • rhywun

      *slaps knee*

    • B.P.

      Real democracy hasn’t been tried.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      “as she vows to keep fighting for democracy”

      Insurrection!!!

    • juris imprudent

      I’m sure any criticism of him will be read as r-a-c-i-s-t.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Indeed, the Trump campaign press secretary told journalists that California’s waiver would be “immediately revoked” if Trump returned to office.

    As such, fuel efficiency rules set forth by the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency, which are meant to go into effect in two years, are almost certainly toast at this point. As we know, the previous Trump administration took an unorthodox approach to undermining existing fuel economy standards, sidelining the EPA in the process.

    Given these facts, the future for electric vehicle adoption in the US now appears questionable, and it’s likely that OEMs—the American ones in particular—will return to their 2016–2020 playbook, which involved lots of supersized gas-guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks, with less emphasis on the safety of pedestrians. As an example, Ford has been candid that its EV division is losing billions of dollars a year, and a second Trump administration may well empower shareholders to demand a more profitable allocation of those resources from the automakers in which they are invested.

    Pedestrians will be counting their lucky stars if they get hit by a Tesla Cybertruck instead of an F 250.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Potentially great news if they go through with it.

      https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ford-temporarily-suspends-production-of-all-electric-truck-as-demand-remains-sluggish/

      Ford is temporarily suspending production of its electric F-150 Lightning truck as the auto industry continues to grapple with the sluggish demand for electric vehicles and politicians turn them into a point of attack.

      Ford announced Thursday [last week] will be pausing its F-150 Lightning production for a couple of weeks until the beginning of the new year. It is the latest setback for the F-150 Lightning, a blockbuster Ford product that has missed sales targets and necessitated cost-cutting measures and layoffs at Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan plant.

      The delay comes only months after Ford announced plans to scrap an all-electric sport-utility vehicle and push back production of its upcoming all-electric truck. Ford also took heat last week when CEO Jim Farley touted its Chinese competition while the company benefits from taxpayer-funded loans and subsidies.

      also: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/more-evidence-of-weak-demand-for-evs/

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’ve seen them around, but hadn’t seen one up close until recently.

      They’re much bigger than I imagined they’d be. I was thinking something the size of a Subaru Baja.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Pedestrians will die!

  35. SugarFree

    Oh, no! David Frum is no longer registered as a Republican! How will the GOP survive?!?

    • The Other Kevin

      The GOP keeps coming out on top of these trades.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      His team won, so he’s quitting it?

      More than a little strange.

  36. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    In the coming months, I will have the pleasure of archiving and memory-holing the Biden Administration’s presence on our website. Our soon-to-be-former Head Honcho made most of the work we do all about her. It was very personality-driven, rather than program-driven.

    The former head honcho under Trump 45 made our motto “the purpose of foreign aid is to end the need for its existence” or something like that. We also had a big umbrella program called the “Journey to Self-Reliance” that sought to hand off programs to the host countries (along with the costs). The motto and program was scrapped as soon as Biden came in.

    But I think our agency is going to see some even deeper cuts. Hopefully to the programmatic side of things (say goodbye to your aid money laundering “Mission” in the world’s 19th-ranked GDP, motherfuckers)

    • The Other Kevin

      If you’re lucky Elon Musk will fire you in person.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        OMG I would say “fire me harder, daddy!”

      • R C Dean

        If you’re gonna get fired, that would be the way to do it.

      • SDF-7

        I strongly suspect KK would take the package Elon offered Taylor Swift earlier this year….

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        Elon wouldn’t fuck me because he can’t impregnate me 😂

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        You don’t have to tell him that.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        Well, my age is kind of a dead giveaway

  37. The Bearded Hobbit

    Good news on the national level. However, in that big, blue square at the lower left of your map:

    Commiela won 52% Trump 46%

    The State’s Governor is Lyin’ Lujan, solid blue

    Both of the Senators are blue, the one was re-elected 55-45

    The representative of this part of the state won 50-44; blue

    The State Senator for this area (blue) was unopposed

    The State Representative for this area (blue) was unopposed

    The County Commissioner was newly elected 60-40; blue.

    I don’t know what color my HOA president is but I never listen to them, anyway.

    I have no representation at any level of government.

    The state’s march toward Commifornia continues!

    • Tundra

      Pretty much the same here, although we were able to defeat the lion hunting ban.

      On the flip side there will be new taxes on guns and ammo.

      Lots of non-proggies in my neighborhood, so at least I’ll have people to commiserate with.

      • Raven Nation

        These guys are pretty much on the way for me: https://www.deguns.net/

        I MIGHT be open to a supply run in December.

      • Tundra

        I think it starts in April, but I appreciate it!

    • rhywun

      Yeah, my state lurched a bit further left.

      Just proof there’s way further to fall before people come to their senses.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Kamalamadingdong won 53.8 here in Oregon, which, coincidently, is the same percent every R was shot down in the general.

      On the plus side, Rank Choice was shot down in a HARD NO.

      • Gustave Lytton

        So glad about that and the ubi/gross receipts. Portland is a mess implementing it already. I think that may be part of why RCV went down.

        My fear is it’s people who want open primaries and top two CA style bullshit.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, you cannot convince me that ranked choice is anything other than another attempt at permanent Dem one-party state. Because that is who supports it.

      • Tundra

        Oh yeah, somehow we killed that too.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    They’ve dumbed it down to the point that it’s insanely hard to use if you don’t have a TBI.

    Throttle Body Injection sucks. Port injection with individual intake stacks or GTFO.

  39. R.J.

    Dafuq just happened to the site? I go to a meeting, and suddenly everything is topsy turvy.

    • Tundra

      Damn your nimble, rodent-like fingers JFP!

    • Nephilium

      Did it have its nuts out for P’Nut?

    • R C Dean

      Nuts out for P-Nut, indeed.

    • cavalier973

      P-nut’s ghost swing by to curse everyone there.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, no! David Frum is no longer registered as a Republican! How will the GOP survive?!?

    Something something you can’t have a ship without rats.

    • Sensei

      That’s awesome!

  41. The Late P Brooks

    No.

    Don’t.

    Go.

    I hear that in Willy Wonka’s voice, “Don’t. Stop. Come back.”

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Then it read exactly as intended.

    • Sensei

      Once she took the torch from Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris initially emphasized a positive, joy-filled mission to the future, consolidating excited Democrats behind her, but it was not enough to win over uncommitted voters.

      OMG!

      • cavalier973

        He saw something that didn’t happen.

        I think that’s called “the Kamandela Effect”

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        She abandoned that after, like, 5 days

      • juris imprudent

        excited Democrats

        So the 15M or so Democrats that voted in ’20 just weren’t excited?

    • rhywun

      disqualified by Jan. 6

      Maybe the notion was horseshit to begin with? Just a thought.

    • Suthenboy

      Didnt we hear the ‘what will the world think of us’ crap the last time around?
      People stopped puking that up to me when I answered “I dont give a fuck” a few times.

  42. Raven Nation

    Hmm, someone mentioned Ross Ulbricht earlier today. Tom Woods seems to think Trump will pardon him or commute his sentence: https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/thedayafter?e=cdfc59dbe3

    He should free Ulbricht and pardon Snowden and Manning then give them all immunity and have them give public testimony about all the shit they saw.

    • slumbrew

      Manning violated their oath, so I’m less OK with waving that off.

      • Raven Nation

        Fair.

      • juris imprudent

        All clearance holders also swear that oath, they just aren’t armed and under a chain of command.

      • dbleagle

        I agree with Slumbrew. Manning signed off on that oath and he knew the consequences, so fuck him.

  43. Shpip

    Bastiat’s Window has a pretty thorough post-mortem of the Democrats this election cycle.

    There will be ample opportunity to critique Republicans next year, so today’s essay offers helpful hints to Democrats who currently face two options: (1) Blame Harris’s debacle on deplorables, human garbage, Fascism, Nazism, anti-Americanism, misogyny, racism, misinformation, and disinformation; or (2) Look inward to understand how Democrats are responsible for Trump’s return.

    Worth a few minutes of your time.

    • SDF-7

      Is he going for insemination with that opening graphic?

    • SDF-7

      Looks like USS Constitution is out of drydock and functional at the moment — that’d be one hell of a party bringing her in to New York Harbor past Lady Liberty with a simultaneous fireworks display over Rushmore or something…. I’m sure he’ll come up with something yuge! (the best!), but yeah… that could be a lot of fun for a change.

      Just imagine the 1619 Project level of scolding we’d be getting otherwise…. Hell, someone should pay to recreate Schoolhouse Rock style shorts on X and TikTok and see if we can remind the current kids what this country is about and get some of the positive vibes of the bicentennial back.

  44. cavalier973

    Listen to Banjos:
    (From Tuesday Morning’s links)

    With that being all I got for today, I’m going to throw out my election day predictions. Barring anything crazy like a nuclear attack or a targeted version of Maricopa County 2022, Trump will win the popular vote, over 300 electoral college votes, and will win at least one surprise state (most likely NH or Minnesota, maybe even Maine).

    • CatchTheCarp

      Indeed, that was a spot on prediction. In the Steely Dan video I saw just a glimpse of Walter Becker, he hardly got any camera time. There are some really great videos on that site, what a rabbit hole to jump down. I watched Heart perform Crazy On You from 1977 when they were at top of their game, wow! Forgot how talented those Wilson sisters were.

      • juris imprudent

        Teenage Juris saw Heart back in those days, probably was in my bunk for a week.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    On the plus side, Rank Choice was shot down in a HARD NO.

    Ranked choice (in “open primaries” drag) got tanked by better than two to one here, I think.

  46. Evan from Evansville

    Ladies at work are *convinced* Trump is going to:
    a) Start WWIII
    b) Ban ALL contraceptives. Plus abortion. All of it, I guess.
    c) Get rid of women’s right to vote.

    I wisely said nothing. I thought many things with much internal chuckle. (Mine don’t sound like Harris’. Unless it’s funnier, then fuck yes. It does.)

    • Sean

      My gf had a rough day surrounded by (sad, unhinged) true believers too.

      • Raven Nation

        It seems to me that the campaign to terrify people into voting against Trump had very little effect on those outside the Team Blue bubble. But, in the bubble, it certainly added to the hysteria.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I absolutely added to Blue’s hysteria, pulling the rest of America into craziness as well… <– But yep. The latter FURTHER prompted to rush to vote for Trump. "Not sitting at home THIS time, cupcake." <– I didn't vote this time, either. I woulda if not in Indiana. (I wasn't able to in '20 + COVInsanity.)

      • juris imprudent

        Speaking of gf with rough day, we never did get a report from NA did we? Has he rejoined the hunt a la OMWC?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I believe we’re finally at a point when asking people like that (bluntly):

      Are you fucking stupid? Or more accurately, how stupid are you?

      We definitely need to take hold of the opportunity presented here to strangle that sort of stupid shit in its tracks. It’s time for all of us to openly call idiots out for their idiocy.

    • Raven Nation

      I’m a little more inured to it, given I’m surrounded by brilliant academics. Many are depressed today and are sure that academic freedom is about to be destroyed.

      I also have a non-academic friend who now “knows” that Project 2025 will be implemented, in full, on inauguration day.

      • rhywun

        Many are depressed today and are sure that academic freedom is about to be destroyed.

        Textbook example of progjection. JFC.

      • juris imprudent

        will be implemented, in full, on inauguration day

        By a Congress that can’t even execute appropriations on time.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, I was talking to one of my friends today with whom I can have some meaningful political conversations. That noted that they were afraid that, even if academic freedom wasn’t overtly curtailed, people would begin to self-censor. I responded, “well, I’ve been doing that for about 20 years.” They were surprised.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “Many are depressed today and are sure that academic freedom is about to be destroyed.”

        Sigh. So many of them would, and I say this as I come from an academic family and live in the circle, strangle academic freedom in its cradle for grant money. Not to mention if someone speaks out against liberal shibboleths.

      • juris imprudent

        They were surprised.

        I’m surprised they didn’t say “well heretics have no rights”.

    • creech

      I hope their health insurance covers mental health issues. Head shrinkers should be doing land office business in next few weeks and months.

  47. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Can we take a moment to address Scott Pressler?

    Every time I think about him, I kind of tear up a little bit. That kid worked so, so hard. He committed all the way. I just admire his energy and drive so very much.

    • Urthona

      Yeah. I don’t know if it was a factor because Trump won every swing state but had it been closer it could’ve been.

    • cavalier973

      Yep.

      He worked very hard to get people registered to vote, and to get them to go out and actually vote.

    • Sean

      Down right amazing. I think he moved to my county.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      The Eastern Europe MEPs seem to be fairly decent. What’s their influence like in the fake Euro Parliament?

      • juris imprudent

        Probably on par with Thomas Massie here.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I assess the EU parliament as a facade that the managerial class uses to put a veneer of legitimacy onto their technocratic diktats.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, the EU is led my Ursula Vampire Den Layen. So they got that going for them.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Are you fucking stupid? Or more accurately, how stupid are you?

    “Listen to yourself. Don’t be ridiculous. Get a grip.”

    • juris imprudent

      “Do you even HEAR yourself?” and how much effect did that have?

  49. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Just got pinged by a recruiter for this position LOL

    https://talentmarket.org/reason-adm/

    (FYI, Talent Market is a liberty-focused recruiting agency [despite the TOS association] that works with orgs all over the country, if anyone is looking for a job)

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Do it! Be our mole on the inside!

    • Urthona

      I just hope the libertarians win.

      • R.J.

        Which ones are those? I can never tell over there.

    • Raven Nation

      Huh, hadn’t been following that. I’ll await the BBC’s lament.

      I loved this from your link “when the Federal Constitutional Court declared parts of the government’s budget policy unconstitutional. It deprived the coalition of a viable financial plan, then exposed the rifts between its partners.” Even the German constitution wants to destroy right-thinking people.

      BTW: needed win for Bayern today.

    • rhywun

      SPD is going to try to form a coalition with CDU/CSU.

      🙄 Anything to keep the green fantasy going with other people’s money, I guess.

      • Ted S.

        Most likely is new elections in the beginning of next year.

  50. Mojeaux

    So speaking of Steely Dan, Fagen’s The Nightfly is an EXCELLENT album.

    • The Hyperbole

      It’s a good album, ECELLENT is a bit much, at best three songs are worth paying attention to, the rest just make nice background noise. Like shopping music, something that’s not too interruptive.

      • Mojeaux

        You are objectively wrong.

    • Don escaped Memphis

      it’s just a matter of taste………….

      and of your being exactly correct

      no one has to love it like I do, but I will say that the detractors seldom can key or fret their way through more than a bar or two of any of it; I could teach a mildly retarded chimp to play every instrument on every track on London Calling, but, somehow, that’s a great album

      Aja is probably my favorite album

    • Evan from Evansville

      Musk properly loved it right up top. She’s right. Young men have never known NOT being ‘evil, patriarchal despots.’ Especially if white. Bonus Get-Out-Cuz-Gay Card’s are fast losing cache. It’s somehow a brilliant scheme which managed to successfully dupe two+ generations of men into ‘compliance.’ If you don’t bend the knee, you’re decried as Anything-Everything Evil.

      Sucks to get punched back, eh society? Enjoy! Best not rile up them youngin’s! Historically, a wretched idea! Don’t run with scissors!
      (They will. Team Blue’s sole mission” Make every American as miserable as possible, then blame it all on Trump. That Dept of Govt Efficiency best have legs.

    • Sensei

      People do and did not openly support Trump in NYC.

      That train anecdote is highly suspicious.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      My son is in a similar boat, though not quite yet voting age. He’s grown up in an environment where he’s only heard that men, particularly white men, are The Problem. The cause of every struggle in America (and beyond). Hearing anyone at all tell them something different is bound to appeal to young men.

      Similarly they’ve completely wrecked an entire generation of young women with the same lie; men are the problem and it’s their duty to reject any and all things masculine as toxic and undesirable. To see men as an oppressor and themselves as heroines in the battle for some fucked up idea of what equality is.

      Their intent is to destroy. That’s it. I’m glad that young men had enough balls to finally tell Democrats and wokeism to fuck off with their bullshit. I’m equally happy to see married women/mothers, those most experienced in dealing with men and masculinity, not fall for their bullshit and defend men and masculinity with their vote for Trump.

  51. UnCivilServant

    🥳

    I have a BIOS

    I forgot to plug the system drive back in, so it can’t boot yet, but I haven’t gotten this far since I started this project.

    • UnCivilServant

      (-.-)

      Of course it couldn’t be smooth sailing. pihole won’t start DNS because apparently instead of eth0 the interface on the motherboard is enp6s0 .

      Why??!

      • UnCivilServant

        That took way too long to get pihole fixed. But it’s working.

        Now I can get to looking at the storage.

      • UnCivilServant

        21 hours to build the RAID5.

        Supposedly I can use it while it’s building, but that seems reckless.

      • UnCivilServant

        Okay, the time remaining is dropping faster than realtime. Sometimes going back up. No idea how much time it will take.

  52. rhywun

    Oh goddammit I’m watching Hoarders on replay and it’s loaded with political ads, because it aired Monday.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I agree his purchase of Twitter was a tremendous act of charitable goodness. TMITE, but Tweeting ‘killed’ journalism for a while with its… robust filters and happy-as-fuck to be Washington’s secretive Hand of the King, controlling The Narrative.

      I think Musk and I would get along. We have nearly identical signatures, and I’d be thrilled to be his science project. (I also helped invent wifi with Hedy Lemarr, so he owes me. She and I were playing in bed. One master/slave became another. So it goes.)

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      While I do think it was a good thing in a multitude of ways, I don’t think it was born of pure altruism. Elon pushed all of his chips in on Orange and is going to walk away with a tremendous amount of influence and power. I do think he has noble impulses, there was a transaction there

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t believe it was entirely altruistic, but no act of charity is, even if it’s just to have warm fuzzies. He got pissed off because Twitter banned Babylon Bee, which is what got the bee in his bonnet.

        Enlightened self-interest at work.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Just so. Plus he makes all of the right people angry.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I don’t think it was PURPOSEFULLY used to fuck the Media’s new train, but it was great ice cream on top of the “Fuck. You.” sundae. I DO think he was/is pissed how The Media plays a fundamental Team Blue role, and could see how they were meddling. Hrm. Maybe it was an equal mix.

        I’m frequently happier not knowing more.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        If you don’t have skin in the game, then you aren’t making good decisions.

        Him getting something out of this makes it even more real to him.

      • Mojeaux

        Back to The Fountainhead. Do you remember Roark did Peter Keating’s work for him for no real reason, sacrificing his mind for someone he knew didn’t deserve it, wouldn’t appreciate it, and would self-destruct anyway? The given reason (IIRC) was because he was just superior and that was enough. Well, okay.

        If you re-read it as Roark being the Christ figure who sacrifices himself for someone else’s good, who does not deserve it, won’t appreciate it, and will self-destruct anyway, and make that comment in an Objectivist forum, you will get banned.

  53. creech

    I didn’t catch all of it, but NBC was just talking about a county in Texas that is the “most Hispanic in the country” where Trump won by 16%. Supposedly, this county had not gone Republican since the 1890s? Guess that offsets my county that was Red since the Civil War but has been Blue since 2012.

    • R.J.

      Oh jeez. I don’t need that.

  54. R.J.

    TPTB: I did submit the Thursday movie post moments ago. Apologies for being late.

    For those who like to find and download a copy in advance, it is “Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob’s Drive-in Jamboree”

    • Ted S.

      Thursday is tomorrow.

      • R.J.

        Yes, I normally submit it a week in advance. This is crazy late for me.

    • Mythical Libertarian Woman

      I, meanwhile, did NOT get the next MLJ episode done as scheduled. Whoopsie. I ingested too much derp this week, I couldn’t handle the excess 😅

  55. EvilSheldon

    #DoNotConcedeKamala and #HeCheated are trending on Twix right now.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Ahh, so election denialism is ok again.

      • juris imprudent

        The eternal recurrence in double-time.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It’s (D)ifferent now.

        Besides, I don’t think Trump was around long enough, or made enough friends, to rig an election in multiple states. That’s deep state stuff, and clearly they couldn’t even pull that off. He doesn’t have that sort of juice. The idea that he somehow cheated is just plain denialism.

  56. Chipping Pioneer

    lol ok then arizona

  57. cyto

    You only thought you knew the depths of TDS.

    You have no idea.

    Sulla, from TOS

    https://reason.com/2024/11/06/trump-has-many-grudges-now-he-has-a-chance-to-act-on-them/?comments=true#comments

    So horrible, picking a pull quote is a challenge. So let’s just take the lede

    “If there is an advantage to electing a preening, petty, thin-skinned, whiny, vindictive, vacuous, mendacious, boorish bully” to the White House, I wrote in November 2016, “it may be that he prompts a reconsideration of the absurd hopes and cultish veneration that surround the presidency.” I suggested that “a ridiculous president will encourage Americans to take the presidency less seriously.”

  58. Festus

    Judi texted me from work asking how it was going. I answered “Pretty well, actually. Just enjoying all of the salty ham tears.” She shoots back “You should enjoy the moment. Not that I’m a Trump fan but it’s a big in your face to the others.” I replied “Just to clarify, I’m not pro Trump, I’m anti moron. There were emojies that fleshed it out a little better.

  59. Pope Jimbo

    The Star & Sickle (Minnesoda’s commie rag) did not disappoint. They have a special columnist who covers Outstate Minnesoda for the paper. Her latest Rubes in the Frost did not disappoint.

    Are the people around me racist and transphobic and misogynistic? I understand that question comes from a deep sense of grief at the outcome of the election, based on Trump’s rhetoric and his plan to overturn federal diversity, equity, and inclusion hires, his stacking of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, and his plan to end transgender participation in women’s sports.
     
    All the phobias exist in greater Minnesota as they do in any other place. But I hope Twin Cities folks don’t think all of greater Minnesota is that way.

     
    In rural Minnesota, from what I’ve seen, the group that takes the brunt of open rejection is transgender people. People run for school board pledging to get rid of LGBTQ+ books in public schools. Social media users pass around memes mocking drag queen story hours, whipping up fear and anger over “men in women’s bathrooms,” and arguing that men can’t get pregnant.

    • cyto

      How dare they countenance the idea that men can’t get pregnant!?!?!

  60. The Bearded Hobbit

    Insomnia sucks.

    • Suthenboy

      Word. It is goddamned torture.
      Have you tried ambien?

  61. Suthenboy

    Morning all.
    I hear a lot about pet peeves: “Now that Trump is in he should…”
    That is the normal and expected human response. I have another idea.
    We are never going to get rid of the evil socialist mentality and we cant make all of the current socialists disappear. Barbarism (theft and enslavement) is too deeply ingrained in us. We could however set these fuckers back a couple of generations or even back to scratch.
    How to undo their long march through the institutions? How to massively cut back on the size, scope and power of a centralized government?
    How do we upend the massive concentration of power that we have stupidly let accumulate? How do we put a spear in the heart of the dragon?
    Any ideas?

  62. Suthenboy

    Suggestion #1 – Get rid of income tax. The tax code is an absurdly powerful tool for control. It is a sword hanging over the citizen’s head all of the time. In many ways we plan our lives around it; it is always there if not in the forefront of our minds then in the back of our minds. It gives the government the power to crush any person at any time for more reasons than anyone knows. We can never know for certain when we have or might run afoul of it. In fact, it is so pervasive and complex that we probably all have in some way or other. As a result we all keep our heads down hoping we dont get noticed and audited. It creates in the mind of every citizen the mentality of the serf. Accordingly it gives those predisposed to do so the power to treat the citizenry as tax cattle and they absolutely do.
    Ever talk to con artists? They have contempt for their marks. “If they were stupid enough to fall for it then they deserve what they got”
    That same contempt is on full display in our so-called ruling class today. They are just the fucking hired help and we have given them the power to loot with abandon. They are walking away with the bank account and all of the silverware folks. We need to stop this.

    Get rid of the income tax.

    • cyto

      Agreed.

      But it can’t be a hidden tax, like the VAT.

      Flat would be OK, except they still intrude into your life too much.

      We need to get the cost of government down so a national sales tax could work

      • Suthenboy

        My first concern is to take away the cudgel that the income tax gives to the govt.
        Second, money. Dramatically cutting the size of govt and their insatiable hunger for money is just as important.
        What we need is a constitutional amendment limiting how much they can take from the citizenry and what they can spend it on.
        A chainsaw will be needed for entitlements. That is very clearly nothing more than a means of vote buying.
        Government producing nothing. When a country gets to the point where 90+ percent of the money is going through the government that country is fucked. That is a fatal condition. How about the sum total of all taxes and mandated expenditures is limited to 15% by law? That is still higher than what God wants but as high as I am willing to go. Income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains, insurances etc…sum total 15%.

  63. Suthenboy

    *I know that no matter what my suggestions are they will generally, not by you lot, be met with lots of emotional appeal.
    Why do I hate children and doe-eyed fuzzy bunnies etc. Fuck the children and put that cute bunny into a pot. I love rabbit and dumplings.

  64. Suthenboy

    *Idylly sharpens knife*
    Who’s next?
    Ah…academia. This one is easy. Cut their money. Government money in academia and research is fucking poison. No more govt guarantee’s on students loans. No more grant money to study monkey dicks. This business of having raving lunatic communists permanently ensconced in classrooms brainwashing our children on the taxpayer’s dime needs to be killed with fire, the ashes pissed on and cast into the sea.

    • cyto

      Absolutely. Nobody is going to fork over 20k per year to go study one of these vile “studies” degrees that end up with no marketable skills other than being in HR and reuining the culture. Not if it is real money they have to earn up front.

      Colleges would be much better off if they didn’t have any “studies” departments.

  65. Suthenboy

    I realize that everything I am talking about is not within the president’s power, it is the purview of congress. This would be a perfect time for our totalitarian friends to learn a good lesson: Me today, you tomorrow. If you concentrate power eventually it will be used against you. If we start using it against them they may have a come-to-jesus moment and help to dismantle it.

    • cyto

      We need a whole society realignment, and we might be getting it.

      If the idea of enumerated powers makes a comeback, I’ll be overjoyed.

      • Suthenboy

        We seem to have lost sight of inalienable rights and the purpose of institutions is to serve individuals, not the other way about.
        The Left has thrown open the borders to import collectivist culture – people from honor cultures where individuals hold no value and exist to serve family, tribe, church and state.
        That shit has to be shut down and the invaders expelled. If they came in illegally I dont care what their story is: get out. Loosen up and ease the process of coming here and enforce that strictly.

      • cyto

        That seems to be the easy and obvious solution.

        Yet nobody wants it.

        When bush tried to do it, neither dems nor Republicans would support him.

        They both seem to want *illegal* immigration so they have a permanent underclass.

        It is only in the last 15 years that the dems have been so brazen about their great replacement plans.

        You wanna see how strong the censorship is… look for stories about the network of agencies and NGOs that is moving illegals into and around the country.

        The only place really covering it is O’Keefe.

        They are condoning of huge sections of airports…. and nobody is even curious?

        It is really bizarre.

        Makes you wonder what else they are able to pull off without us knowing

      • Suthenboy

        Yes, and that shit has to come to an end.

  66. cyto

    This election really rips the mask off of our system.

    It is astonishing how little the candidate matters.

    People are talking about Trump winning in a blowout, but I can’t help noticing that he barely beat a ham sandwich.

    People are so unbelievably tribal that they went out and voted for Kamala by the millions. Nobody could have looked at her and went “Yeah! That is who I choose to lead our government!”

    She was at 23% favorable going into the summer. Yet nearly double that number voted for her.

    That is insane.

    I’m not sure if we are even rational creatures, because a rational creature would not have voted for Kamala at all.

  67. Suthenboy

    “I am looking at you” – Kyle Rittenhouse

  68. cyto

    This election was great at winnowing out those who would have gladly drunk the cool-aid in Jonestown

    Prime example, Jimmy Kimmel

    https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1854399425126310369?s=19

    Note what he keeps for.

    He thinks Trump is a threat to journalism and free speech, and harris was going to preserve those things

    They literally have been running on ending free speech, and many of the network news shows are lamenting that lack of censorship cost the election. They want more regulation on free speech.

    And Kimmel weeps for free speech under Trump.

    He weeps for Ukraine and NATO.

    This is more than just unhinged. These people are cultists.

    I wonder what percentage of society carries the genes for susceptibility to cult thinking?

    People like Kimmel are pretty dangerous in large numbers.

    • Suthenboy

      I will bring it up again, partly because of its relevance to your question and partly out of frustration at not being able to find it.
      – Back in the mid-nineties? Skeptical Inquirer published a study of personality types that showed across all cultures, demographics and populations the percentage of people who are curious, cynical, questioning of dogma and authority is amazingly uniform at about 7%. That means 93% of humanity are sheep.
      With that in mind it is. not surprising that the climate doomsday cult/scam has managed to get legs.

      • cyto

        Depressing. Yet also in a way refreshing, since it makes one feel less crazy for noticing….

  69. cyto

    Also… Matt Welch on Megyn Kelly

    “I was rooting for Kamala Harris”

    The prime TDS sufferer explaining why nobody listens to him any more.

    Rooting for Kamala. Sheesh.

    • Suthenboy

      I distinctly remember warning him that he had a chance and a platform to make a real difference, something few people get. He could stand up and speak the truth, make a difference and be remembered or he could sell out, get the cocktail party inviites, parrot the party line and then die while his name and legacy blew away in the wind like every other sell-out in history.
      I am putting it a bit harsh but that was the essence of it.

      • cyto

        I have been angry at that crew for a long long time…. probably because I feel duped. I thought i had found my people. And then….

        Well, and then woodchippers and too local and some good folks created a home for us crazy folk to share the love.