Sunday Morning Home Alone Links

by | Jun 21, 2020 | Daily Links | 322 comments

And doesn’t the news make you want to do that? Not the actual news, but the presentation. The most commonly uttered phrase chez nous when seeing or reading the news is, “What the sweet fuck???” It’s kinda cute coming from SP, much less so coming from me.

Birthdays include a guy to whom I owe a great deal; a guy who, if he were any better, would be famous for Tena; a rather nauseated fellow;  a tragically underappreciated comic actress; the Man Who Would Be Siegfried; someone who fucked Spock and Jim Rockford; a guy who can’t write songs, lead a band, or ride Space Mountain; a human punchline; and a guy famously persecuted by Obama for embarrassing his regime.

News, just to see if we can simultaneously amuse you and infuriate you.

 

I am struggling to find anything meaningful and non-stupid here.

 

“You’re fired!” “No, I’m not.” “Yes, you are.”

 

Our local news. White people is weird.

 

More local news. Racist cop beats white people, presumably because there were no darkies around and when you gotta beat someone, you gotta beat someone.

 

No-one can accuse the #resist crowd of being unserious.

 

Women and minorities hardest hit.

 

“Jimmih!”

 

Since you guys always complain about jazz, I’m forcefeeding you something superb and short, much like my peni… uhhh… wait, did I say that out loud? Whew, caught myself in time.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

322 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    Happy Father’s Day, Glibdads!

    • AlmightyJB

      Thanks Mojo!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It’s Fathers day? Hmm

    • Cy

      Thank you Mojo.

    • TARDIS

      Thanks! Today I can happily be a slug with no recriminations. I’ve been practicing for months, doncha know.

      • Broswater

        One of my girlfriend’s kids found something about ”Step-up” dads and though it would fit me well. I’ll accept the challenge.

        So I’ll go with a heh, they’re not mine, but I’m doing my best and am trying to raise them as my own.

        So I’m not sure if I should celebrate and see it as my day too but I’ll do it just in case.

        ‘Smoking salmon, drinking beer!

      • Broswater

        This wasn’t meant as a reply to you Tardis but at least it’s in the good comment.

      • Chafed

        Sounds like they are sweet kids.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thanks Mo! I decided to pickup an OT shift on this day but looking forward to some good eats later this evening.

  2. PieInTheSky

    I am struggling to find anything meaningful and non-stupid here. – I blame the heat. makes the brain slow.

    • Atanarjuat

      The story about online K-pop teens thwarting Trump by reserving all the tickets for the rally was kind of interesting.

      • Subwoofer

        I’m curious about this. Did it actually prevent people who wanted to do from coming?

        If they had “a million” ticket requests for a 20k person stadium, clearly they weren’t displaying any ‘sold out’ or other messages preventing people from getting them. It seems like all this did was embarrass Trump a bit by getting him to announce it was going to be orders of magnitude bigger than it was.

      • Suthenboy

        Teenagers, my ass.
        20 bucks says it was the Chinese.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The relatively small crowd size was probably more due to the threat of coronavirus and leftist violence than anything else. If I was inclined to go to a Trump rally I’d be second guessing myself under the present circumstances.

      • Broswater

        You shouldn’t. I went to a Maxime Bernier event with Dave Rubin last fall. Being called a Nazi by fat fascists is actually quite entertaining. And they do get out of your way. These are scared little shits.

      • Atanarjuat

        Well, you see, one other time Trump was caught lying about his attendance numbers, and it totally derailed his entire administration and prevented countless evil deeds.

      • Rhywun

        And the children shall lead them.

      • Rhywun

        Bonk bonk bonk!

        I can’t wait.

      • Rhywun

        knew it

      • blackjack

        Just can’t wait.

      • Chafed

        Blackjack gets it.

      • Tundra
      • Rhywun

        That was taken a week later.

      • creech

        So is someone going to do the same for Biden rallies or isn’t it necessary given the low attendance?

      • Not an Economist

        Biden’s low attendance is because his campaign — unlike Trump’s — is practicing social distancing to protect voters from the Trump caused pandemic. Biden’s real support among caring, thoughtful people is through the roof.

        DNC

  3. PieInTheSky

    Women and minorities hardest hit. – the casting couch will now be a solo affair.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Pity the cleaning crew.

      • Sean

        This is why leather furniture is the best.

  4. AlmightyJB

    Pretty impressive. 2nd video best of the 3. Watching it made me think of a few things. One being, how long would this last in the US before being set on fire or spray painted with BLM, we know the statue wouldn’t last long. Second, at the rate our Bizzaro world education system is going, how long will it be until the Axis were the good guys and the Allies were the evil ones?

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/viral-images-putins-cathedral-war-glimpse-alien-civilization

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sure, why not? If they could manage to rehabilitate the image of a murderous bastard like Stalin they can manage to rehabilitate the image of a murderous bastard like Hitler.

  5. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Re the Mesa cop: Maybe that’s the one good thing that’ll come out of all this mess, that police departments across the country will start looking at use of force against people regardless of color with a skeptical eye and that unions will be afraid to defend them. After the racialized emotionalism dies down something good can come of it if we play our cards right and libertarians actually have something meaningful to contribute here. It’s an opportunity to influence the law enforcement narrative for the better, we don’t have to embrace all the other nonsense.

    • AlmightyJB

      Yeah, unfortunately I think the police state will continue.

    • Subwoofer

      If libertarians were leading the charge I’d agree, but we’re not. It’s the progs. And knowing the progs track record, they’ll demand a solution that involves no QI for cops when they’re involved in disputes with minorities whole simultaneously demanding more whites be shot to ‘fix the racial disparity’.

    • Suthenboy

      The police arent the problem. The system is the problem. I understand the need for sovereign immunity but it needs to be dramatically narrowed.
      Creating a financial incentive to enforce petty laws and big ones is the worst action they could have taken. That needs to end. By itself it would change the country overnight.

      • Suthenboy

        Qualified….no sovereign. What the hell Suthenboy?

      • R C Dean

        Well, qualified immunity is a kind of sovereign immunity.

      • DEG

        Why not both?

      • blackjack

        I’ll just try this video again. because I like it.

      • EvilSheldon

        More accurately, the police aren’t the *entire* problem.

  6. Ted S.

    a guy who, if he were any better, would be famous for Tena

    Don’t you mean Nina?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Hear that whizzing sound? That was the joke flying over your head.

      • Ted S.

        So a joke that wasn’t very funny.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Only if it has to be explained. Dissected frog and all that.

    • westernsloper
      • Ted S.

        Maybe he meant Teva

  7. Atanarjuat

    As if there wasn’t enough proof the media is the enemy of the people, their websites are the only kind that have a giant inescapable popup preventing you from reading a single word of their nonsense even if you wanted to.

    • Suthenboy

      I have to laugh every time the NYT asks for money.
      “Oh Noes! I cant read this commie drivel without paying? The tragedy of it all!”

      • Brochettaward

        It’s even funner to bypass their shitty paywalls by just hitting escape before they can load.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s a pretty old bunch to be paying them in meth. Anyone over fifty who’s getting high on that stuff is just asking for a coronary.

    • Atanarjuat

      I heard it as a person who buys Sudafed for people, because you have to show your license so they can restrict you to two packages. Which I have done, sadly. Also when I was locked up my roommate had “SMURF” tattooed on his arm, done incredibly poorly by his drunk other arm, so it couldn’t be read easily from the front.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ^

        Yep. Nowadays most Smurfs are basically out of steady work due to new laws and regulations. Plus most generic Sudafed is bought in Tijuana “pharmacies” and smuggled over now. Maybe that’s changed again, haven’t bothered to check in awhile.

    • BakedPenguin

      You never watched Breaking Bad.

  8. PieInTheSky

    So are the riots over over there? Are all the statues toppled?

    • PieInTheSky

      Need to distinguish between the Gross Statue Removal Rate (GSRR) and the Net Statue Removal Rate (NSRR) now, because while they are indeed toppling a lot of them, they’re also adding a few new ones.

      https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1274398055274610693

    • Rhywun

      For fuck’s sake, Ted’s.

  9. Atanarjuat

    Yeah, that baby Trump balloon is roughly the equivalent of saying “Barack Insane YoMamma”.

    • Atanarjuat

      *Block.

  10. Crusty Juggler

    K-Pop revolutionaries are the Che Gueverra of our time.

  11. Suthenboy

    Political rallies are always dog and pony shows. At least he didnt strip and start dancing.

    Berman is a fucking idiot.
    POTUS Suthenboy: “Ask him to resign. He can keep his pension and save face.”
    “What? He refused? WTH? Ok, fuck it. He is fired. Have him escorted out and if he returns, arrest him for trespassing. Keep an eye on him. If the seditious bastard says anything publicly that is illegal, fit him for a jumpsuit. From now forward if I want someone gone they get shitcanned off the bat. No more offers to resign.”

    Mentally ill people are weird. And dangerous. They are also pitiful.

    “It was in the heat of the moment and after a foot pursuit. It sounded as if Officer Clark simply did not think about it and acted quickly. There did not seem to be any willful disregard for the suspect’s safety or property…”
    I think Mesa needs a new broom.

    Trump balloon: They are trying desperately to lose. I suspect they are going to be successful.

    Porn industry…….I dont care.

    Stop apologizing you idiots. Also, stop saying stupid things.

    Shit. I was lit up before 7am.
    As soon as it was light enough to see I started trimming vines. I finished the muscadines and started on the jasmine. Jasmine grows very thick in full sun and makes a perfect shelter for paper wasps. I guess they dont like giant blades near their babies. Fortunately it was the medium sized red and black ones, not the pygmy red and black or the giant, bright red ones. It only felt like a cigarette put out on my skin instead of a cigar.

    • PieInTheSky

      Porn industry…….I dont care. – sounds like someone who’s onlyfans is not doing that well

  12. PieInTheSky

    I thin the wine I am drinking (2016) needs to wait at least to 2026

    • PieInTheSky

      think goddamnit

    • Old Man With Candy

      Are you going to save the piss afterward?

      • PieInTheSky

        well unlike (((you people))) I am not made of money I can’t afford old wine that is not vinegar. Except with rare exceptions.

  13. Crusty Juggler

    Sex vs. gender: What J.K. Rowling got wrong that you can get right

    She’s wrong, educators and advocates say, and she’s also conflating terms. Sex isn’t about the lived reality of women — that’s gender. And neither of those is the same thing as sexual attraction.

    “Sex and gender are not the same,” says Lyba Spring, a retired sexual health educator living in Toronto.

    Sex is a medically constructed categorization that you get assigned a birth, Spring says (one reason why not everyone is gung-ho about so-called gender reveal parties). Baby comes out with a penis and “it’s a boy!” Baby comes out with a vulva and “it’s a girl!”t’s an assignment that has nothing to do with the baby’s gender, she says.

    “Gender is a feeling, it’s a self-perception, and gender doesn’t always line up with a way a person was sex-assigned.”

    Despite the conflation that some people — Rowling included — keep making, the distinction matters.

    “We like simple, we like man and woman and boy and girl, we like the binary,” Spring says.

    And yet, “nothing is simple… we’re much more complicated than we thought we were, so as our eyes become open to people finding words to attach to their feelings, it’s critical to come along with them and learn with them.”
    Having the words is incredibly important, says Lyra Evans, a school trustee in Ottawa.
    Evans grew up as a young person “who didn’t have access to LGBTQ terminology.” That meant hardship and a struggle to verbalize her feelings in a way that enabled her to access care and process the negative emotions she was feeling and her experience with gender dysphoria.

    “It’s really important that we teach young people the words that they might need to express themselves,” she says. After all, “there’s a reason we have a plethora of synonyms for good, and that’s because having a clarity of language is important to allowing people to express themselves.”

    Fine. Acceptable. Ethical. Principled. These are all synonyms for good, but they have their own unique connotations and you wouldn’t use them interchangeably.
    “It’s important that everyone is on the same page when it comes to the meaning of the words that we are using,” Evans says.

    It’s time to educate you white old racist bigots on what’s real. You’re welcome.

    • PieInTheSky

      can we just agree gender is four nouns and leave it at that?

    • PieInTheSky

      but what amuses me is the phrase educators and advocates say as if that means anything.

      Sex is a medically constructed categorization that you get assigned a birth, – SCIENCE

      “Gender is a feeling, it’s a self-perception, and gender doesn’t always line up with a way a person was sex-assigned.” – something something facts don’t care about feelings

      • Suthenboy

        I was about to say the same. Facts dont give a fuck about feelings.
        My grandfather used to say “Shit in one hand, put your feelings in the other. Which weighs more?”

      • EvilSheldon

        Dude, your grandfather was Crow T. Robot?

    • Rhywun

      Despite the conflation that some people — Rowling included — keep making, the distinction matters.

      I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. The crowd that has been deliberately misleading the public on the meaning of words is now accusing their ideological enemies of doing what they do.

      • Fatty Bolger

        accusing their ideological enemies of doing what they do

        Don’t they always?

    • R C Dean

      “Sex is a medically constructed categorization that you get assigned a birth“

      And I’m out.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Evolutionary biology is a white cisgender construct, don’tcha know…

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “The President of the United States has governed solely to his base and not to those who aren’t necessarily predisposed to his points of view on issues such as immigration, social justice, and, frankly, wealth distribution,” Yar said. “We think the balloon calls to mind the childish nature of governance through partisanship.

    “Elections have consequences.”
    -Rutherford B Hayes

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Who governs to the people that aren’t his base, aka people that hate them? Also, what was that prison reform and no new wars stuff, chopped liver? If anything, the refusal to acknowledge the better things he’s done has pushed him in the direction they’re crying about.

      • Atanarjuat

        All of modern politics, outside of libertarianism, is forcing your wishes on other people. As if Hillary wouldn’t have forced abortion access, gun control, and favors for big banks on a country bitterly divided on those issues.

      • Don Escaped any Landslide

        forced abortion access

        if choice is coercive, could you tune up your argument ?

      • Ted S.

        Forcing people to pay for it certainly is coercive.

      • Atanarjuat

        A huge chunk of Americans believe it’s murder, and a different chunk want to make it freely available, essentially forcing it upon those who they disagree with.

      • Don Escaped any Landslide

        ah, I can follow that

      • Atanarjuat

        Yeah I just meant there are some areas in politics where there is no happy middle ground. It’s true of Trump but not at all unique.

    • Suthenboy

      Translation: “Trump is not a commie. Partisanship is childish, that is why we are engaging in it.”

    • Rhywun

      The President of the United States has governed solely to his base and not to those who aren’t necessarily predisposed to his points of view on issues such as immigration, social justice, and, frankly, wealth distribution

      But enough about Obama.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      aren’t all flyers Photoshopped these days? graphic design and all……

      • Atanarjuat

        I’m not sure if the youths are using word processing software or what, these days. I just meant the photo looks sort of fake.

        Police Free Zone is a huge improvement in branding, though.

  15. PieInTheSky

    “Man made famines” u mean like the kulaks burning their fields?
    Gulags? You mean prison work camps similar to that of the American system but with better conditions

    Also counterrevolutionaries will get purged thats normal

    Also only gulags applies to lenin the other two don’t

    https://twitter.com/theNicecommie/status/1274318812633055233

    • Suthenboy

      “No matter how much information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion. Take them to Siberia and show them the gulags and the mass graves. They still will not believe it. They will only believe it when the military boot is crushing their balls. Not before. ” – Yuri Bezmenov – chief propagandist in SE Asia for the USSR

  16. westernsloper

    “I said Abbott ‘wheeled himself out there,’” Cheshire recounted.
    “I’m OK with it,” McDonald replied.
    “And then within seconds, you demanded that he ‘stand firm,’” Cheshire continued. McDonald chuckled.

    That’s it? That is the super offensive language about Abbot?

    • Suthenboy

      ….and they were dumb enough to apologize.

      Never apologize

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement Saturday that he would leave his post after Attorney General William Barr sent him a letter saying that President Donald Trump had removed him.

    “Wait, what? I work for him?”

    • PieInTheSky

      zerohedge is frowned upon by right thinking peoples

      • straffinrun

        On a long enough timeline, Biden becomes president.

    • Ted S.

      And to think it’s all the fault of a Youtube video.

    • Drake

      He wanted to keep the oil profits in Libya and create a gold-backed currency. And Libya was the cork in the unrestrained Africa to Europe invasion wave. So he had to go.

    • BakedPenguin

      Agreed. He made a deal with the US after 9/11 to stop supporting Islamic terror groups, and AFAICT, he kept it. Also, he wasn’t nearly as big a fan of slave trading as the new warlords and Hillary apparently are. Evil scum.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Huh. If Egypt attacks Turkey from the rear, does Greece help?

  18. Crusty Juggler

    A Letter From the Other Front

    In this essay, anarchists from a rural area of the United States describe how people who live outside the urban centers can contribute to the movement against police violence and institutional white supremacy that has unfolded in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

    You rural honkeys can’t escape the Revolution!

    We agitate at home. What is appropriate here? What is possible? We are wary of directly importing big-city tactics into small towns. We think strategically and engage in acts of wild and imaginative creation, bridge building, guerrilla art, sabotage, organizing, fundraising, intelligence gathering, and mutual aid. We talk to our white and non-Black communities about what is going on, especially those who might feel differently about the events. We listen to what people are saying and ask questions. We show up at local demonstrations enthusiastically because we know that holding cardboard signs on the corner is an important step for this town.

    We offer up our rural spaces for respite and recuperation for those who need a break from stressful or traumatizing environments. We are clear about what we can and cannot offer (meals, beds, use of common spaces, running water) as well as other considerations—is the house or land project made up of all white residents? Is the local town safe for people of color to travel through? What about those who are visibly queer or trans or otherwise marginalized?

    We identify our local enemies. A lot of white supremacists live out here in the boonies. We locate them and learn about their networks and capabilities. We use this information tactically to counter their efforts. We are careful to safeguard our identities and anonymize our efforts because a well-armed enemy is not something to fuck around with, especially when everyone in town knows your face and where you live.

    We arm ourselves and train each other. The racist right is heavily armed. We buy guns and learn how to shoot. We start gun clubs to share and build our capabilities.

    We give money as we are able. We donate to bail funds, supply runs for protests, Black-led organizing and to Black individuals. We give as generously as we are able, especially if we benefit from white privilege or class privilege, if we are still getting a paycheck or are pulling in extra on COVID unemployment.

    We provide tech support. We may live under a proverbial rock, but some of us have internet and phone lines. We help with graphics and web design. We listen to the police scanner and send updates to comrades on the ground. Location matters less than it ever has.

    WOLVERINES

    • Sean

      ????

      November is going to be fun.

    • commodious spittoon

      We arm ourselves and train each other. The racist right is heavily armed. We buy guns and learn how to shoot. We start gun clubs to share and build our capabilities.

      Hey, they came around the Second. Maybe we can sell them on the First, too.

      • TARDIS

        And then the 4th?

        Hey, I can dream can’t I?

      • EvilSheldon

        Two more Glocks and a half-case of .223 bonded soft-points inbound as of last night. Thanks, drunken GrabAGun browsing!

      • Sean

        God bless America. ??

      • EvilSheldon

        Did the renewal paperwork for my CHP, and loaded a bunch of pistol ammo too. Since I can’t shoot this weekend, I’m gonna get everything else out of the way.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Feel free to jerk yourself off over the marginal contributions you’re making but if you try anything meaningful in rural/small town America you’ll get ventilated.

      • commodious spittoon

        Shhhh these are our new Civil Rights allies. They don’t know it yet but they’re helping uphold the Bill of Rights.

    • Rhywun

      “We’re the good guys. Please leave us alone.”

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Pathetic.

  19. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    A very happy father’s day to you and all the rest of the dads here. Yes, the holiday is fake but the job is very real. Cheers to those who take it seriously and are busy churning out the next generation of shitlords and ladies! You are the best.

    Say what you will about Two-Scoops, the dude knows how to fire up a crowd. I’m just sad there is almost no chance of a debate with Wiltin’ Joe

    Since you guys always complain about jazz…

    I wouldn’t say complain, exactly. I just find it hard to grasp. As I said last week:

    I’m not a jazz guy, but I always listen to your songs and do a little research on the artist. They all seem to have interesting (usually tragic) lives. Almost fictional at times.

    And, naturally, Jaki Byard delivers:

    Byard died in his home in Hollis, Queens, New York City, of a gunshot wound on February 11, 1999.[38] He was shot once in the head.[38] The police reported that Byard’s family, with whom he shared the house, last saw him at 6 pm, that he was killed around 10 pm, that there “were no signs of robbery, forced entry or a struggle”, and that no weapon was found.[38] The death was soon declared to be a homicide,[39] but the circumstances surrounding it have not been determined, and the case remains unsolved.

    Perfect.

    I hope each and every one of you has a fabulous day. It’s time for me to step out

    • Old Man With Candy

      Yeah, one day, an enterprising filmmaker will investigate and figure out who killed him and why.

      My in-person experiences with him were always positive. First time I met him was at a small club gig that hadn’t been well-publicized; there might have been three other people besides my girlfriend and me. He still played his ass off. I went up to him afterwards and nervously did the whole Chris Farley thing: “You’re my favorite pianist, I’m a huge fan. I have all your albums!” He smiled and responded, “Oh, so YOU’RE the guy!”

      • Tundra

        Lol. That’s a good memory!

        Hard to not nerd out when you are with someone you admire. I was in a security line at LAX with R. Lee Ermey once. It was all I could do to just make idle chit chat and not Farley the bit. He was a good guy.

    • Atanarjuat

      No debate?! You mean we’ve been put through all of this, only to be deprived of the hilarious payoff?

    • Rhywun

      I think I won’t step out today.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    But Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. — a frequent Trump target during the rally — tweeted in response that “teens on TikTok” had made “fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID.”

    Who tricked Gulag Barbie into thinking she represents anything more than a tiny sliver of popular opinion?

    • Crusty Juggler

      She sure is unpopular.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Twitter, the answer is always Twitter. It’s the platform where narcissistic psychos gather to give each other likes and pretend they matter.

      • leon

        Twitter does seem like terrible place to base your ideas off of.

    • Rhywun

      If the only positive thing to come out of a Trump victory in November is that crazy bitch losing her shit even more, I’ll pull the fucking lever myself.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        NY has to vote De Blasio and AOC FFS. If they don’t, they deserve everything that happens to them.

        I leave Cummo out because I can’t bee greedy.

      • Rhywun

        De Blasio is term-limited next year but I’m sure there’s someone even worse waiting in the wings.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Just vote Republican for the love of God.

      • Nephilium

        Like Bloomberg?

      • Rhywun

        Enh, he was better than De Blasio.

      • Nephilium

        Not exactly a high bar. 🙂

        And just pointing out the class of Republicans that NYC has as options.

    • straffinrun

      Kind of hacking our damahcrusee, no?

      • leon

        Quick, have the FBI investigate AOC and arrest all her most vocal supporters for interference!!

    • Count Potato

      “white supremacist”

      Where do they get this shit?

      • kbolino

        Obama brought racial healing, Trump rejected Obama, ipso facto white supremacy.

        Start from an untrue premise, throw in a heaping helping of unadmitted biases, and voila you can conclude whatever makes you feel good.

  21. Crusty Juggler

    Why Florida Is the Way It Is

    Russell is at his best when he offers cultural commentary, dropping his gonzo persona and becoming wickedly insightful. He looks hard at the libertarian funk found everywhere in Florida, which can confound residents and outsiders alike. Russell quotes the historian Gary Mormino’s observation that “frontier values—fierce individualism, gun violence, a weak state government, and rapacious attitudes toward the environment—defined and continue to define Florida.” This is true even of the liberal Baby Boomers who keep flocking to the state, and who pride themselves on their nonconformity and resistance to authority, which they see as progressive values. But their stance in fact converges with an aggressive conservatism, marked by its attack-dog insistence on elevating the rights of individuals to do whatever the hell they want, society at large and the environment be damned. In Florida, Russell observes, “liberty” is equated with “license,” in contrast to more noble past visions of liberty as “not the absence of constraint, but the exercise of self-limitation.”

    This unrestrained mentality pervades retirement utopias like the Villages, where 66,000-plus “active adults” over the age of 55 live in a “plastic antiplace” that they don’t really have to care about. Because their hearts are back where they’re from—Cincinnati or Minneapolis or Albany—they are unwilling to invest in Florida schools and roads and public services; the state is just a place to let a little sun shine down on their heads, to play a few rounds of golf while they’re awaiting death’s sickle. Their particular brand of confused libertarianism intermingles with the more common flavor Russell and his friends encounter on their trip. Nearly everywhere they go, they find Trump supporters (most devastating, even a climate scientist they meet is a Trump apologist). He writes, sympathetically, that these people belong to

    a class that has been told time and again that they are exceptionally free. Free to fashion their social and economic identities howsoever they choose. Free to master their fates and captain their souls. Yet everywhere they turn, these individuals are stymied by political and financial powers from whose vantage they appear to be as abstract and insignificant as remainders on a spreadsheet. There is a growing discrepancy between [their] right to self-assertion and [their] capacity to control the forces that might make such self-assertion feasible.

    Does this idea fill you with despondency? Does the thought of Florida make you want to laugh and cry at the same time? I, too, laugh at the capers of Florida Man, at the stupid beautiful bodies of sun-blistered spring-breakers, at the tourists who drunkenly wander too close to retention ponds and tempt the hunger of the gators. But if I’m laughing, it’s only through a quietly devastating despair. As Russell puts it in his hilarious gut punch of a book—a book that anyone who is interested in not only Florida, but the whole country, should read—“How long before a society of atomized individuals rightfully following only their desires, heedless of what they owe others, destroys itself?”

    The Collective will get you, Florida!

    • Rhywun

      Terrible, terrible freedom!

    • slumbrew

      Real liberty means doing what you’re told.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “How long before a society of atomized individuals rightfully following only their desires, heedless of what they owe others, destroys itself?”

    “These cats won’t march in formation. Why are they so stupid?”

  23. The Late P Brooks

    From up above:

    “It’s important that everyone is on the same page when it comes to the meaning of the words that we are using,” Evans says.

    Those words you have been using for centuries are being repurposed to better suit our wishes.

    • leon

      Everyone needs to be on the same page, but for political purposes, we don’t like the one everyone has come to, so we’re going to say you are wrong.

  24. leon

    Yesterday at the store I saw a white silence is consent shirt. Fuck you. I don’t care what your position is, if you are trying to browbeat me into professing something you can go fuck a fire ant hill.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Sees person in t-shirt.

      Rufus: Ok. I’ll bite. I think you’re a retard.

    • Cy

      I’d have a hard time not slashing their tires while maintaining eye contact.

      • Cy

        And when I was done with the 4th tire. I’d ask “Can you hear me now?’

    • straffinrun

      It’s a test. Only simpleton’s that mouth words as they read are safe.

    • R C Dean

      One month ago: affirmative consent is the only legitimate consent.

      Today: silence is consent.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        The Blue Caps would be proud.

        Psychological gulags.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Make that they would be impressed.

    • mrfamous

      No, no. Compelled speech isn’t authoritarian in the slightest. What are you, paranoid?

    • egould310

      Society in 2020: White Silence = Violence

      Libertarians in 2019: Get government out of people’s lives.

      Society in 2019: RACIST!!!

    • Count Potato

      Awesome.

      Who is the reporter?

      • Rebel Scum

        Shes hawt.

        Dude is hilarious.

  25. westernsloper

    A few weeks ago the wind blew the door off my old Bradly so I am buying myself a new smoker for Fathers Day. Thinking of going propane.

    • TARDIS

      I’m getting a new electric smoker for Father’s Day. I don’t think I’ll like it better than my Weber, but we’ll see.

  26. Fourscore

    “She was expressing strange beliefs telling people she knew when the Second Coming of Jesus Christ would be happening”

    Lived experiences

    “She was expressing strange beliefs telling people she “was the Virgin Mary”

    Life can be frightening when little kids are involved and one never knows what to expect minute-by-minute. And help seems to be non-existent as the exchange with the police in question reveals.

    • straffinrun

      I’m a little confused as to why this is a news story. Some lady lost her marbles. Happens every day.

      • Mojeaux

        Cuz her kids disappeared and were found dead.

      • straffinrun

        Damn. Everything is awful these days. *Did listen to your song recommendations. Thumbs up.

      • Mojeaux

        ?

      • Fourscore

        It points out how little can be done when someone slides off the edge. Legal action takes time and with the ex being ex I don’t think he has much standing. Remember the Houston woman a few years ago that drowned several of her children? Intervention is hard to get, and rightfully so and too often too late.

        I went through that and fortunately it didn’t end in tragedy, though my ex solved her own problem years later.

      • straffinrun

        Didn’t know the whole story. Gotta say that 2020 has taxed my sanity and I’m only viewing it from the outside. Can’t imagine what it is like in the center of the storm.

  27. straffinrun

    Vallow said Daybell told him, “I can murder you now with my powers.”

    The cop responded with, “So can I, but I’ll get away with it.”

    • Trigger Hippie

      Aaaaah shit, that made me chuckle.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    CNN: everywhere they look, see see exactly what they were looking for

    Once viewed inside the White House and Trump’s campaign as a reset button for a presidency beset by crises and self-inflicted wounds, Saturday evening’s campaign rally in Tulsa instead became plagued with pitfalls, a disappointing microcosm of the blindspots, denial and wishful thinking that have come to guide the President as he enters one of the most precarious moments of his first term.

    By the time he strode out to the strains of Lee Greenwood on Saturday evening into a partially-full Bank of Oklahoma Center, the event had devolved from a triumphant return to the campaign trail after a 110-day pandemic-forced absence into something else altogether. The launch of a new assault on former Vice President Joe Biden fizzled, replaced by recycled grievances and race-baiting. The sparse crowd was a reminder that many Americans, even Trump’s supporters, remain cautious of a pandemic that continues to rage in places like Oklahoma, where cases are spiking, even if Trump is ready to move on

    President Cartoon Villain is a goner. America sees right through him, now. He’ll be lucky to get more votes than that traitorous bitch Jill Stein.

    Keep telling yourselves that.

      • Rebel Scum

        “They ain’t black.” – Joe Biden

    • Rhywun

      I’m curious to know what they mean by “race baiting”.

      plagued with pitfalls

      Now do Joe.

    • TARDIS

      Hey CNN, whycome no comments section? LOL.

      • Suthenboy

        They finally cut it, did they? Cant blame them. Par. for the course on lefty sites.
        When they had one I would see one out of one hundred comments in support of their view. Ninety nine out of one hundred were mercilessly mocking them.

      • Cy

        They cut it about 3 or 4 years ago. It’s why I like reading the comments on FB videos. The top comments are pointing out the farce. It’s amazing how so few have been able to control the narrative. Meanwhile, anywhere there’s a comment section, the quiet sane people who keep the wheels turning are calling bullshit.

      • Suthenboy

        Ah ok. I thought I had read some in the last year but now I realize it was on twitter. They regularly get their asses shredded there.

      • leon

        They were worried NBC might have them cancelled.

    • Rebel Scum

      replaced by recycled grievances and race-baiting

      But enough about Team Blue.

  29. Rufus the Monocled

    Anyone know much about this dexamethasone treatment for Da WOO-han?

  30. Mojeaux

    So I guess kids’ Dimetapp et al is being recalled because the wrong doses are printed on the label.

    The proper dosage is “until the kid goes to sleep and stays that way for 8 hours”.

    • Incentives Matter

      The proper dosage is “until the kid goes to sleep and stays that way for 8 24 hours”.

      FIFY.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^ Both are correct. 8-24 hours should be standard dosage because as a parent, any of those numbers in that set will do.

  31. straffinrun

    Uh boy.


    Raz Simone
    @RazSimone
    Medics refused to help even after people in the CHOP begged. They let our bro bleed out for 30 minutes till he died. Fuck politics. Fuck your currupt system.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Who knows what the truth is really? All I know is I sure as hell wouldn’t go in there.

      • Sean

        One Chazinista shot another Chazinista, and it’s the medic’s fault.

    • leon

      Even when you kick the man out, he has a way at keeping you down.

    • Tundra

      What happened to ‘Autonomous’?

      Did they contract for EMS? Otherwise go fuck yourselves.

      • Gender Traitor

        The Red-Headed Libertarian ™
        @TRHLofficial
        ·
        3m
        Replying to
        @RazSimone
        Did you apply for foreign aid?

      • Count Potato

        LOLOLOLOL

    • Suthenboy

      Medics typically arent going anywhere or do anything until the cops secure the scene.
      Huh.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yes, it is a corrupt system, yes politics need to get fucked, but hey, welcome to the real world. EMS isn’t going to go into an area where you will probably steal their wagon and supplies and then complain still that your “bro” still died.

      This is why they changed their name from autonomous to occupied but still were too stupid to realize that people are not going to go in there if the risk is too great. Sometimes you have to let the toddler just go off and figure it out on their own.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      You. Reap. What. You. Sow.

    • mrfamous

      “@ViktoriiaUAH
      Replying to
      @RazSimone
      Congrats Raz, based off population size you have the highest shooting death rate of any autonomous nation on earth. You even beat out Chicago which is a feat for anyplace but an active war zone. Keep up the great warlording.”

    • Rebel Scum

      “Autonomous.”

  32. leon

    I’m not gonna lie. These last two weeks seems like they have been a disaster for Trump.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Seems like it. The Dems are playing this perfectly because they’re shameless cynical psychos. Capitalizing on mayhem is what they do best.

      • Suthenboy

        It wouldn’t have been so bad if he hadn’t shot Aunt Jemima, beaten up Snap, Crackle and Pop, tore down statues of American icons, occupied downtown Seattle and called voters white supremicists. I dont know why he cant control himself.

      • Drake

        Capitalizing on the mayhem they caused.

    • Sean

      It’s been worse for Biden and democrats.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I think as pointed out that right now, its all about a small section of American’s. Nothing the left or media says is going to move his supporters and nothing he does is going to move the left to his side.

      • leon

        It’s not about getting people to switch sides, it’s about getting people to pick sides, and do so enthusiastically. I’m pretty floored that a strategy of hiding is working so well for Biden, but given the amount of hate for Trump from the left, if might just be the “best” strategy that works.

      • Cy

        Biden coming out of hiding means he’ll have to get in front of a camera. Both sides know what happens if you put a Presidential Candidate with Alzheimer’s in front of a camera. We don’t even need to discuss his long record or his party’s constant desire to destroy everything, including their own.

      • Ownbestenemy

        His campaign can’t even get a clean prerecorded moment from Biden for an ad or other statements. Intentional maybe? Who the hell knows.

        I mean, his twitter avatar is him no even being able to wear a mask properly. Maybe he is directing it, thinking it makes him “one of the guys”, your “best bud who is a bit quirky that comes over and borrows your nail clippers”.

    • LJW

      I’m curious how accurate the polls are. Looks like Trump could get destroyed in November if they are.

      • Suthenboy

        It is a replay of 2016. The covid numbers are more accurate than any of the polls. After all, Hillary had a 97% chance of winning a week before the election.
        Pay no attention to the polls.

      • Suthenboy

        97%. When they put out that number I had to look twice. Really? No one in history has had that and it was in direct opposition of what I was seeing and hearing. I laughed it off and resolved never to look at polls again.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Typically the national polls try to drive public opinion until later in the election where the gap narrows to save a semblance of credibility. As you indicate, I wouldn’t get too worked up about it just yet, maybe get worried in late September.

      • Sean

        “The covid numbers are more accurate than any of the polls. ”

        OMG ???

      • Ownbestenemy

        See 4 years ago polls…

        Pew Research 6/15 – 6/26 1655 RV 2.7 51 42 Clinton +9
        ABC News/Wash Post 6/20 – 6/23 836 RV 4.0 51 39 Clinton +12

        I know its a bit of a different race at this point, incumbency and all. But polls this far out have little to no relevance on the General Election from what I can see.

        Obama had steady polling with one or two outliers for Romney during this time-frame.
        Bush was steadily getting beat in the polling data during this time-frame.
        Clinton had it easy because of the relative peace in my opinion.

        Conclusion, this far out? Polls mean squat.

    • Cy

      i disagree. Trump pretty much has to continue to stay out of it. The places being torn apart were never going to vote for him in any scenario The more statues being torn down, rioting, videos of lawless violence, etc… the more votes for Republicans. They don’t have to campaign, the evening news is doing a fine job for them.

  33. straffinrun

    Pieceful Protestors

    Minneapolis Police
    @MinneapolisPD
    ** SHOOTING UPDATE **
    10 people at area hospitals suffering from gunshot wounds. All are alive with various severity levels of injuries.

    • Tundra

      Murderapolis is back!

    • Crusty Juggler

      Reminder: if you are a WHITE and you leave a city because it becomes too violent that makes you a racist.

      • leon

        White flight and gentrification.

      • Rebel Scum

        Tbf if you are white and you move into the city you are racist. ///gentrification

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Going back to basic logic…

        If W&C = R and W&^C = R and ^W&C = ^R and ^W&^C = ^R then what are they actually trying to say? Oh yeah, racism is inherent based on skin color.

        Progressives haven’t changed in 100 years, they’ve only shifted tactics to align with popular sentiment better.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Medics refused to help even after people in the CHOP begged. They let our bro bleed out for 30 minutes till he died. Fuck politics. Fuck your currupt system.

    You don’t suppose they had reservations about how they might be treated in the Zone, do you?

    “Fuck politics.” I wish you were serious.

  35. Crusty Juggler

    Far-right movement could be targeting Washington D.C, according to report

    The National Capital Region Threat Intelligence Consortium (NTIC) reported Monday that “the District is likely an attractive target for violent adherents of the boogaloo ideology due to the significant presence of US law enforcement entities, and the wide range of First Amendment-protected events hosted here,” Politico reported.

    In its June 15th assessment, the NTIC found “recent events indicate violent adherents of the boogaloo ideology likely reside in the National Capital Region, and others may be willing to travel far distances to incite civil unrest or conduct violence encouraged in online forums associated with the movement.”

    On Friday. the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that while Washington D.C. is an attractive target, other cities should also be on alert, as the boogaloo ideology is not restricted to just one place.

    Call in the Guard! Protect our nation’s capital at all cost!

    • Ownbestenemy

      They, (new new journolist) really ran with the whole boogaloo thing didn’t they. Wonder if the NTIC runs analysis on Antifa (that doesn’t exist) and BLM (which totally is peaceful and not at all trying to become a political party using terror tactics)

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The left engages in terrorism and the right gets oppressed for it. Seems fair…

      • Rebel Scum

        Progjection.

  36. Incentives Matter

    So the spousal unit makes up a Father’s Day card for me from our pup, gives it to her and says “Go see BEAM! Go see BEAM!” She almost made it to me before she decided to plop down on the floor and start chewing on the card.

    Best Father’s Day ever.  :-)

    • Ownbestenemy

      Awesome! Happy Father’s Day IM.

      • Incentives Matter

        Thanks d00d. You as well!

  37. Suthenboy

    Regarding CNN comments above. I just went and looked at CNN’s twitter page. There is nothing there except CNN tweets. Am I twitting wrong? I have never gone there outside links to it here. How do I see if there are any replies to their nonsense?

    • straffinrun

      They are there for me. Click replies.

      • Gender Traitor

        Do you have to “follow” them to see the replies? I’m signed in on my hardly-ever-used Twitter account, on CNN’s page, clicked “Tweets & replies,” and can see how many replies a given tweet has, but if I click on the little dialogue balloon, it only allows me to write a reply myself, not see others’ replies.

      • Suthenboy

        Same here. I made a twitter acct years ago. I dont remember the name I made it in. suthen boy is someone else. Suthenboy is suspended and Suthenboy1 appears with my email but the person using it is a weather man from Kentucky. What the hell?
        I am not interested enough to find out or fix it.

      • straffinrun

        Don’t think so. I’m looking at them now and a lot of them are hostile.

      • Mojeaux

        Don’t click on the balloon. Click on the actual tweet.

      • Gender Traitor

        Got it! Thanks!

    • slumbrew

      The comments, man…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Come on slumbrew, if you aren’t doing anything wrong why do you fear surveillance?

  38. Crusty Juggler

    What Is The Boogaloo Movement? Far-Right Group May Be Planning Attacks In Washington, DC, Says Intel Report

    There are generally two factions of the Boogaloo movement. One faction is tied to neo-Nazis, while a newer iteration has a libertarian bent. Both groups want to overthrow the U.S. government and cause American society to collapse. The neo-Nazi wing of the movement wants to start a race war and has cheered on violence following the George Floyd protests.

    The other faction of the movement has a radical libertarian ideology, with members wielding assault weapons and wearing Hawaiian shirts. They have sometimes tried to incite violence against the police during the Floyd protests.

    “The earlier boogaloos were white supremacist,” J.J. MacNab, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told USA Today. “The ones that came later did not inherit that side of the belief system. Most of them aren’t even aware of white supremacy in subsets of the movement until they read it in the newspapers. A vast majority on Facebook are adamantly against it.”

    The kicker is the comment: “Anti-libertarian bigotry by the media against millions of peaceful people is an ugly thing.”

    It sure is, friendo.

    • slumbrew

      It sounds 100% like a 4Chan meme that the media has run with.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Almost like they needed a counter narrative to continually put out on the news while the buildings burn behind them and a soft anarchy is slowly creeping through the nation.

    • Q Continuum

      “They have sometimes tried to incite violence against the police during the Floyd protests.”

      Is there one, single shred of evidence for this? They keep repeating it, but I have yet to see a single image of a Hawaiian shirt wearing thug participating in any way other than protecting property. You can bet if they had anything on them, it would be run 24/7 nonstop.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        No evidence needed, just repeat it until it’s true in people’s minds and it’s all good.

      • Crusty Juggler

        That guy who killed the Fed cop in Oakland was supposedly one of them, which gives them the scare story.

      • The Last American Hero

        See the Floyd murder was so outrageous that even the white nationalists were rioting.

      • Rebel Scum

        Is there one, single shred of evidence for this?

        Not that I have seen.

        They keep repeating it

        Repeat the lie enough…and perception is reality.

    • Rhywun

      “Most of them aren’t even aware they are white supremacists until we tell them they are.”

      • Suthenboy

        “I always seem to be the last one to find out about what I have done.”

    • Drake

      It sounds like somebody skimmed a couple of prepped blogs without understanding any of it – especially their underlying concerns that being proven valid right now.

    • Rebel Scum

      neo-Nazis

      Whom are notoriously small/anti-government…

      while a newer iteration has a libertarian bent

      Clearly are violent terrorists…

      Program on Extremism

      “Extreme” is a relative term and I will never apologize for being an “extremist” for liberty.

    • EvilSheldon

      “Earlier?” What in the fuck are you even talking about, “earlier?” The Boogaloo meme has been around for like a year and a half, there is no ‘earlier.’

      How in the fuck did a mental defective like this qualify for a research fellowship at a major university? (Don’t answer that.)

    • R C Dean

      Remember “may” = “may or may not”.

  39. PieInTheSky

    Holly fuck the way it is raining almost makes a fella velieve in catastrophic climate change. Damn.

    • Suthenboy

      I will be glad to take some of that off of your hands.

  40. TARDIS

    So tik tok trolls essentially denied Trump’s base access to the rally? Won’t that increase the base’s support? I mean, one of the survey questions I answered is whether or not I would attend a rally. I said no. That does not mean I’ll vote Dem. Stupid Commies.

  41. Count Potato

    ““Could it be aliens?” NO IT F*CKING ISN’T. So done. I’m blocking and reporting any racists who dare appear on my TL with their ish and I’m batting 100% lately with getting accounts banned so take your chances. I’m 2 glasses of red wine in and feisty.

    I’ll be using my platform to get them deplatformed. I should have pushed harder before, no excuses. Time to buckle up and cancel racist trash infecting the minds of millions”

    https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1274137970308767745

    This asshole again.

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stephen-green/2020/06/01/uab-professor-sarah-parcak-temps-rioters-to-destroy-birmingham-monument-n477914

    • Count Potato

      “I’d like to see one of the most racist shows on TV @AncientAliens
      cancelled permanently. It’s an entire show that exists to discredit the extraordinary artistic and architectural accomplishments of past and current peoples. The time has come. #CancelAncientAliens”

      https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1274137247521083392

      • Ownbestenemy

        The internet is our destruction

      • leon

        Certainly don’t cancel it for the lack of evidence….

      • Ownbestenemy

        Now do your ilk and their desire to discredit the extraordinary artistic and architectural accomplishments you are seeking and helping to destroy. Not just theorize, but actual destroy. What a cunte

      • Rhywun

        Most questions where they ask if it was aliens are basically answered with “No, it was slaves.”

        *snort*

    • kbolino

      I’m batting 100% lately with getting accounts banned

      It’s always ultimately about power.

      • egould310

        She doesn’t know how batting averages are expressed.

    • leon

      “Time to buckle up and cancel racist trash infecting the minds of millions”

      See it’s a mind virus. This is why we need common sense thought control.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m 2 glasses of red wine in and feisty.

      Lightweight.

      I’ll be using my platform to get them deplatformed.

      Tyrant.

  42. Rufus the Monocled

    It’s gonna take a Bernard Goetz moment or a act of violence that tips or shakes people back into reason it feels like.

    • Crusty Juggler

      What?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        There’s a game of one upmanship; chicken. The shooting has already begun. Maybe it’s gonna take one shooting too many that disgusts people and suddenly people calm down.

        /slap!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Can see both sides of that and the corrections officers’ remarks were spot on. You tell us we are professionals then treat us like this. Superintendent is like “fuck, I don’t want this guy to get Epstiened on my watch”….so I hate everyone in this story.

  43. Count Potato

    “6/ Metaphorically, Gamergate was our moment to kill baby Hitler. Only, no one needed to die – you just needed law enforcement, Facebook, Reddit and Youtube to take the harassment of women seriously.

    They did not. And now our entire political system is poisoned.”

    https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1274343193228840966

    The most privileged, spoiled people on the planet are still going on about this.

    • leon

      So the decision to kill baby Hitler is something that the”moral” left is ok with.

      • kbolino

        Something, something, “ethicists” are the least ethical people.

    • kbolino

      The most privileged, spoiled people on the planet are still going on about this.

      And it’s why they win, in the end. They forget nothing and they learn nothing. They stirred a hornet’s nest then whined when they got bit. Now that they are getting more and more institutions under their control, they will continue to bring it up until they can purge every remnant. They want power and they are more willing to fight for it than their opponents. They lost once but they will continue again and again until they win. With each iteration, they get more support and the opposition gets less. The facts get rewritten, the narrative gets more firmly established, and the consequences of disagreeing with them increase.

      The rules matter less than who gets to enforce them.

      • Q Continuum

        TL;DR – Collectivists are naturally good at organizing because they’re collectivists.

      • leon

        “they learn nothing”

        Thats not a winning strategy.

      • kbolino

        Maybe. It’s possible that they have learned something, that something being how to attain political power, whether it be governmental, corporate, social, etc. What they haven’t learned is how to apply consistent standards and practice intellectual honesty. They have emotionally welded themselves to an unfalsifiable hypothesis, and they have either been really lucky or really successful at getting others to agree.

    • The Last American Hero

      So the NHS doesn’t pick up the tab on mental health treatments? How the hell did medical bills drive a Brit to stripping for survival?

  44. Brochettaward

    So, anyone following sports may have noticed the stories about NFL players testing positive for covid. It’s like players from a dozen teams now that we know of. No one seems to actually ask what a positive test means. Like, are these guys actually showing any symptoms? Because to me it just seems to show what a bullshit metric positive tests are. The thing is more simultaneously more widespread and less severe than its made out to be.

    • Breet Pharara

      Zeke Elliot was completely asymptomatic and said he didn’t even suspect he had it. Most others report very mild symptoms. I’ve heard light cold from a least a couple. It’s almost like 20 somethings, maybe early 30s, who are in incredible shape are at 0 risk and reporting they have it is just to stir up fear and nothing more.

  45. Q Continuum

    It’s going to be fascinating to see if Biden is able to win despite not campaigning at all. To be fair, it’s probably the only play the Dems have, considering a majority of likely voters already think he has dementia:

    https://zogbyanalytics.com/news/943-the-zogby-poll-a-majority-of-voters-believe-biden-is-in-the-early-stages-of-dementia-60-of-younger-voters-think-so-swing-voters-less-likely-to-think-biden-has-dementia

    Let him loose on the campaign trail and that number can only go up. You can see what a stroke of genius it was for the Enemy to shut everything down with COVID; now Biden has a plausible explanation for hiding and he can simultaneously snipe at Trump for “ZOMG endangering the lives!” of people with his campaign rallies.

    It will also be interesting to see how the Trumpsters try to counter the dirty tricks by TikTok kidz sabotaging the rally ticketing process. Further, if there actually were protesters physically blocking access to the metal detectors, I’d expect the Secret Service to drastically up its presence at the next rally.

    • The Last American Hero

      He’s taking a page from noted white nationalist Thomas Jefferson. You don’t run for President. You stand for President and let your surrogates get their hands dirty.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      If he does have dementia, and the party knew it and still ran him? Wow. Not only is this irresponsible to the country but flat out cruel to Biden.

      • prolefeed

        The primary voters picked him. And Biden was a better alternative than most of his primary opponents.

        What’s the opposite of a deep bench.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    There are generally two factions of the Boogaloo movement. One faction is tied to neo-Nazis, while a newer iteration has a libertarian bent. Both groups want to overthrow the U.S. government and cause American society to collapse. The neo-Nazi wing of the movement wants to start a race war and has cheered on violence following the George Floyd protests.

    The other faction of the movement has a radical libertarian ideology, with members wielding assault weapons and wearing Hawaiian shirts. They have sometimes tried to incite violence against the police during the Floyd protests.

    “I’m from the Ministry of Truth, and I approve this message.”

    • kbolino

      There is one god and Michael Malice is his prophet?

    • Suthenboy

      100% projection

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      No jobs, cooped up under house arrest, no real outlets. It’s not just the US going through the lockdown. It really is a perfect storm for chaos.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        But the lockdowns were necessary!

        /slips shield AND mask on.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Snark aside, they may have been necessary to keep the hospital system from being overwhelmed. Doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be downstream effects or that the lockdowns were too severe in some cases.

    • Rebel Scum

      Germans and broken glass…at night…

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Takeaway from this morning’s Meet the Press:

    Trump is a DIVIDER. Biden is a UNITER.

    The election is a foregone conclusion. Biden is, like, WINNING. Totally.

    • Q Continuum

      “The election is a foregone conclusion”

      I seem to remember some very similar prognostications being made 4 years ago…

      • leon

        I might be crazy and in the minority, but Biden is not Clinton, and I think he’s much more palatable as a candidate.

      • Cy

        Absolutely. I think he’d have won had he run last election instead of Clinton. I really think he’d make a very mediocre quiet president. But he still scares the shit out of me because it’s not him I’m afraid of, it’s going to be his VP who gets the throne after he resigns or dies a few months in.

      • Brochettaward

        Eh. People seem to forget that Biden has run for president before, and was such a lackluster underwhelming candidate that he usually couldn’t even muster support in the double digits.

      • Homple

        “I really think he’d make a very mediocre quiet president.”

        Are you a member of the “Make the White House an Alzheimer’s Care Facility” movement?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I think you’re right he’s better than Hillary but that’s a pretty low bar. It’s the delusion that it’s only Trump rhetoric that’s dividing us that drives me crazy. Those fault lines already existed. Trump just gave voice to them and nothing the left has done has calmed anything down.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        But if people calculate ‘yeh it was there before but Trump is making it worse’ that’s a tad problematic.

        The issue I have with Biden is he’s clearly not choosing the people around him.The party is. Unless this is standard practice?

        Whatever it is, they’re stacking it with Sanders left-wing economic advisors and letting identity politics decide who will the the VP choice. That’s the problem.

        Trump has to win. And I don’t know if this time out being super brash is a winning strategy. But if they debate, Trump is going to thrash and throttle Biden. I don’t see how this can be avoided. They have to debate. You can’t keep Biden in hiding forever.

      • Rhywun

        The left has made any perceived divisiveness from Trump 1000% worse.

      • kbolino

        He’d be a lot more palatable if he ran for President instead of co-chairman of the Junior Marxist League.

      • creech

        Agreed. I think this year’s election finds Trump playing the Hillary part. Everyone expects him to win but there is a deep undercurrent of people who voted for Trump who now, after four years of unseemly behavior (let’s let it go at that) have decided he doesn’t deserve another four years. Trump hatred seems to run much deeper than Hillary hatred, and it will come out in the privacy of the voting booth. Get ready for four years of Biden and Harris.

      • Gender Traitor

        Biden’s mind doesn’t have four years left.

      • Breet Pharara

        I was on the Trump will win train before the tracks just completely disappeared and everything went crazy. I think it’s impossible to say anything about the elections right now. Any predictions are based on what we’ve seen from past elections and applying those patterns to this one. Don’t think there have ever been circumstances like this. Any guess is based on 0 information and equally ill informed.

  48. Rebel Scum

    ‘Baby Trump’ balloon appears in Tulsa ahead of rally

    I still don’t get the Trump-baby thing.

    • straffinrun

      The only things they hate more than Trump are babies.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    So, anyone following sports may have noticed the stories about NFL players testing positive for covid. It’s like players from a dozen teams now that we know of. No one seems to actually ask what a positive test means. Like, are these guys actually showing any symptoms? Because to me it just seems to show what a bullshit metric positive tests are. The thing is more simultaneously more widespread and less severe than its made out to be.

    SHUSH, you.

    Ix-nay on the questioning of the narrative, or somebody from the Ministry of Love will come rap-tap-tapping at your door.

  50. PieInTheSky

    And the electricity is down. Just fuckin great

    • Rebel Scum

      What did communists use before candles?

      Electricity.

    • Fatty Bolger

      I’ve seen it pointed out before that Oliver is almost always wrong about everything.

      • Rebel Scum

        He’s the most smug and most wrong person on the planet.

    • Akira

      “Whenever you have to ask ‘where does it stop’, the answer is always ‘somewhere’!!”

      This isn’t true with the Left. Their positions on pretty much everything have slid to extremes that, 10 years ago, they would have swore was some absurd exaggeration that would never occur. This is why Leftists are so bedevilled by Jordan Peterson’s question, “When will you say that this has gone too far?” It forces them to confront the fact that they are speeding towards extremism never before seen.

      The slippery slope CAN be a logical fallacy, but that doesn’t mean that no slippery slopes exist anywhere. They’re a real thing.

  51. DEG

    I’m not going to read the news. I’m sick of it unless it involves things like Gauleiterin Whitmer losing. I’ll just listen to Old Guy Music which is pretty good.

    I noticed two posts yesterday that I missed. I saw Yusef’s post yesterday about Bella. I hope for the best for her. I also saw Trigger Hippie took a new job. Excellent!

  52. The Late P Brooks

    I think you’re right he’s better than Hillary but that’s a pretty low bar. It’s the delusion that it’s only Trump rhetoric that’s dividing us that drives me crazy. Those fault lines already existed. Trump just gave voice to them and nothing the left has done has calmed anything down.

    Exactly. They never mention all the two time Obama voters who voted for Trump. They don’t seem to be very interested in why that happened.

    • Not an Economist

      They never mention all the two time Obama voters who voted for Trump.

      Why would they want to listen to those racial bigots?

  53. creech

    The Associated Press “news” story on the Trump rally editorialized that his use of “Kung Flu” was “racist.” Now I always use “ChiComVirus” but is “KungFlu” racist?

    • Brochettaward

      Everything that isn’t explicitly not racist is racist.

    • Incentives Matter

      David Carradine haz a sad.

    • Rhywun

      Ask totally not-racist China.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    Everything that isn’t explicitly not racist is racist.

    Silence is consent. Enthusiastic consent.

    • EvilSheldon

      I think we have a winner in the ‘Best T-Shirt Hell Slogan of 2020’.