¡Enlaces mexicanos por la tarde! ¡Miercoles!

by | Jun 24, 2020 | Daily Links | 307 comments

I was mildly troubled by today’s H&H.  Mostly because Trumpfest yesterday took place about a half mile from my house—lets just say rednecks still drive pickup trucks and they let loose the gas!

I had nothing to do with any of that.  On to the news from the south.

 

IMF:  Latin America is projected to achieve the worst economic performance since 1980.  They can say with a straight face, because their data for the region only goes a far back as 1980.

Brazillian Trump ordered to wear a mask by a federal judge, further escalating a meaningless hill everybody seems to want to die on.  Good luck with that.

Surprise headline of the day.  No shit CNN.  Its empowered totalitarians all over the world, particularly the ones CNN likes.

If a recession lasts three years, don’t they normally call it something else?  Never mind, its Al Jazeera.

Mexico earthquake death toll rises to six.

…I was expecting more than six.  The Pope sends his thoughts and prayers.

I thought this was everyday in Cuba?

Gilberto said he’s busy working as an electrician and does not really have the time to wait on the endless lines that have become customary in Cuba during the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s difficult. Everything is scarce,” said Gilbert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and asked that his last name not be used.

He complained that the crowd standing outside the store in Habana del Este, a Havana suburb did not seem to be practicing too much social distancing. Then he quipped, “What people are really afraid of is not finding food, compadre.”

This is for cooking oil.  He was waiting for cooking oil.

Here, have some tunes.  Its a classic.

About The Author

mexican sharpshooter

mexican sharpshooter

WARNING: Glibertarians.com contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. https://youtu.be/qiAyX9q4GIQ?t=2m22s

307 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    Dear Brochettaward:

    Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither:

    I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
    Indeed, ’tis true that Henry told me of;
    For I have often heard my mother say
    I came into the world with my legs forward:
    Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
    And seek their ruin that usurp’d our right?

    • Trolleric the Goth

      what did he do?

      • The Other Kevin

        More like what DIDN’T he do…

      • Count Potato

        You mean it’s more than just being “first”?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        obsessed with First

      • Tres Cool

        Slow day, so I was kinda bored anyhow. Five O’clock just arrived @4:15

        HEY YUFUS!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s always 5 at Chez Yusef, Sup Tres!
        Tall O’Dells IPA in the air!

    • Not Adahn

      It’s better in the original Klingon.

      • Swiss Servator

        We need a German-Klingon hybrid, to be the ultimate terror language!

      • juris imprudent

        Isn’t Mongolian close enough?

  2. Count Potato

    ” Its empowered totalitarians all over the world, particularly the ones CNN likes.”

    So all of them besides Russia?

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I’m sure Antifa is on their way down there to fight for social justice.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    Brazillian Trump ordered to wear a mask by a federal judge, further escalating a meaningless hill everybody seems to want to die on. Good luck with that.

    Or what? A firing squad?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Potentially lead to a fine of $386 per day. Bolsonaro’ll be alright.

  4. leon

    If a recession lasts three years, don’t they normally call it something else? Never mind, its Al Jazeera.

    Argentina is in a permanent state of recession.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Venezuela’s embattled ruler President Nicolas Maduro has made the most of the coronavirus lockdown to stamp his authority over the country’s key political institutions, all in the matter of a week.

    He’s just copying President Cartoon Villain.

    • cyto

      That whole story raises one question in my mind. Exactly what control did he not have? Venezuela has been pretty much an absolute dictatorship for a couple of decades now.

  6. cyto

    Okay, it has been 24 hours and I have a question. How many people are are actually upset about the media continuing to push the fake NASCAR noose story?

    My immediate circle is absolutely livid. But we are all from the south and we take it as a blood libel directed at us. Everyone on TV seems to think that it is the greatest thing ever and it is totally true and he is actually a hero even though nothing actually happened.

    So what say you? Where is this on your personal Richter scale? Is this a two? A zero? Several of my friends are at 11.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Its NASCAR. I don’t care.

      • cyto

        That’s what I thought. I find it interesting. None of us see it as a NASCAR thing. There’s not a Nascar fan in the group.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Exactly. People screaming the loudest about it aren’t fans either.

      • Ted S.

        Much like the people screaming that Nascar fans wouldn’t like Danica Patrick because they’re all a bunch of knuckle-dragging sexists.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        You leave racing babe out of this….

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I was, til stint racing, so Fuck NASCAR

      • Rhywun

        I would say the same except this hoax seem[s/ed] to have the potential to blow up in their faces as it should, due to the enormous attention it is receiving & it won’t go away like other hoaxes.

      • juris imprudent

        It could only be less relevant if it was CART.

    • Mad Scientist

      I’m about a 2. It’s worth mentioning, and some derision, but that’s about it because it’s no more outrageous than 20 other things that the media pushes every week.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        ^^ I might move it to a 3 or 4 because NASCAR hastened the demise of quality racing, and I hold a grudge.

      • Mojeaux

        it’s no more outrageous than 20 other things that the media pushes every week.

        I don’t know about anybody else, but even though I don’t get involved in these topics, much less debate them—there are too many, they’re all equally outrageous, and gaslighting is exhausting to fight—I’ve got battle fatigue.

        I’m constantly het up and though I stay away from the topics, when I read stupid shit, my heart gets to thundering with a fight-or-flight response even though a) I don’t have to do either and b) I have no intention of it.

        My anger and fear are always there, bubbling underneath the surface, and man, I’m tired.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I told my wife last night that I have to laugh at this stuff because the only alternative is to start shooting.

        Fight or flight. Retreat from society or prepare to start using physical violence. They’re not leaving us too many other choices.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        That’s exactly how I feel. I try to avoid it all but inevitably, like this weekend, a friend tells me that proof of Trump’s racism is when he said the KKK are good people.

        I calmly said that he didn’t say that. She responds why am I defending trump. I say I’m not defending Trump I’m stating the truth. Then she says he said it and I’m just closed minded. Eventually i go on a rant about the media and nobody caring about the truth and she says why am I getting so mad.

        Fast forward to waking up to a text from her that Trump said Andrew Jackson is magnificent which is more proof Trump is a racist. So I say he didn’t say that. He said the statue was magnificent.

        I don’t want to spend any time defending him. I don’t see it as defending trump. I see it as defending truth and principles

      • TARDIS

        why am I getting so mad

        That sound kind of like

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Funny but i got a barely coherent stuttering joe biden ad. If that’s the best he can do on an ad that probably had 10 takes there’s no chance he’ll be in a live debate

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t see it as defending trump. I see it as defending truth and principles

        That’s the gaslighting that’s so exhausting to fight. Your friend wasn’t gaslighting you. She’s the one being gaslighted and you just can’t fight that.

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t see it as defending trump. I see it as defending truth and principles

        You need to read this

        The new mode is argument by commandment: It borrows the form to game the discourse of rational argumentation in order to issue moral commandments. No official doctrine yet exists for this syncretic belief system but its features have been on display in all of the major debates over political morality of the past decade. Marrying the technical nomenclature of rational proof to the soaring eschatology of the sermon, it releases adherents from the normal bounds of reason.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Saying this as somebody who spent time living in North Carolina and has been to North Wilkesboro when it was still a NASCAR track. Also my father-in-law was at the race where Fireball Roberts crashed and died:

      At this point very few people are still pursuing it. Yeah, Wallace still did it last night but he struck a different tone since, and most media has dropped it. I’d say it’s over for most. Like a 2 on the richter scale. You might feel a little shaking but it’s not going to hurt anyone.

      • Chipwooder

        Wallace’s interview with that clown Lemon was irritating, but his statement today is fine. If he just sticks with that line of thought about it, that’s fine by me.

      • Rhywun

        What did he say today?

      • R C Dean

        “I was relieved just like many others to know that it wasn’t targeted towards me,” Wallace told Craig Melvin on NBC’s “TODAY” on Wednesday about the noose found in his garage stall over the weekend. “But it’s still frustrating to know that people are always going to test you and always just going to try and debunk you and that’s what I’m trying to wrap my head around now.”

        “The photo evidence I’ve seen and have in my possession [shows] it was a garage pull that was a noose. I don’t know when we’ll get to the point that we’ll release that image … It’s alerting and it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up,” Wallace said.

        “It was definitely in the shape of a noose. It wasn’t a functioning noose,” Wallace said.

        Weak. Very weak. Not relieved that the whole thing was a mistake/misunderstanding, relieved that it wasn’t targeted at him. Still implying there was something there, still referring to it as a noose later in the interview, still butthurt because a lot of people saw through it immediately.

        No picture released. No acknowledgement that loops in garage door pulls have been photographed at Talladega for years. They are still lying and trying to gaslight us. His statement doesn’t change anything for me.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, me neither.

      • R C Dean

        I hope Bubba never visits my house. We have two automatic garage door openers. They have releases for the doors. You pull a rope to release them. I didn’t like the plastic handles hanging down and banging on the tops of our cars, so I took them off and tied a loop in each one. It would, apparently, make the hair stand up on the back of his neck and be very “alerting”.

      • Naptown Bill

        I hope he never goes anywhere with boats. It was a bowline.

      • Rhywun

        “Sorry, not sorry.”

    • Desk Jockey

      Between this, banning the confederate flag, and sending Kyle Larson packing, they’re basically running one big ad campaign for local dirt track racing. So it works for me.

      • Drake

        This looks like a lot more fun than NASCAR right now.

        I could be a NASCAR fan as I’m rapidly losing interest in every other pro sport. But they just sent up a giant signal that they are just as woke and shitty as the other leagues.

      • Ted S.

        Something in the way it woos you?

      • Tres Cool

        It’s woo! Its woo its woo!

      • Drake

        There was a similar type of track near where I grew up. Lots of fun. It’s a Stop & Shop now.

    • salted earth

      Has anyone asked this question yet, If you are trying to harass or threaten someone by leaving a noose, why would you use a “skinny” piece of rope and hang it on the side of a garage door? Wouldn’t you get a larger diameter rope and hang it in the center of the space, so it obvious and the first thing you see.

      Personally, I don’t have a horse in this race so I don’t care beyond the media using it to foment discord.

      • cyto

        You see, that is the perception that I was expecting everyone to have. The angle is not that one guy claim something happened. That’s just one dude.

        The angle is that the media is using a lie to libel a large group of people in order to foment racial Discord.

        I was wondering if anyone would see it that way. And I suspected that not nearly as many as I thought should would actually see it that way.

      • Mad Scientist

        The angle is that the media is using a lie to libel a large group of people in order to foment racial Discord.

        So, Tuesday.

      • Not Adahn

        Isn’t Discord a common carrier? Isn’t it illegal for them to make single-race groups?

      • Mojeaux

        a large group of people

        A large group of people the left/elite loathes more than any other group of people on Earth.

      • Lady Z

        While I could care less about the sport and don’t feel personally libeled, every single lie the media/left/whoever puts out sets me off because it is a deliberate attempt to undermine liberty. No matter how many times it happens or inured I become, it’s still fucking WRONG.

    • bacon-magic

      If ALL the shit that has hit the fan since the beginning of 2020 wasn’t still happening it would be a bigger deal. Right now it’s just adding to the pile of “this is how our 2nd civil war started”.

      • B.P.

        The problem with all of the second-civil-war talk is that, about a week into the secession, a substantial portion of those on one side will be sneaking across the border to do laundry at their parents’ house, find out what’s in the fridge, etc.

      • Incentives Matter

        Akshually, the problem with any civil war is that there is no “border.”

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      As an individual incident, about a 2. As part of a larger pattern of the media jumping on bullshit stories to stoke tensions, about a 7. This crap isn’t leading to a good place.

      And it seems that with all these, a picture could resolve the issue quickly. If it was a slipknot of some kind, it could conceivably be a noose. If it is a bowline or some other know that doesn’t close up, it’s for pulling down a door. It shouldn’t be that hard to show the picture.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Never heard of this particular outrage

    • whiz

      What bugs me is that everybody there must have known they were just door pulls, but they still made a big deal about it. It reminds me of the recent incident with the “nooses” in the playground that turned out to be improvised swings — the person that put them up (a black person!) said hundreds and thousands of people must have seen them and didn’t think they were nooses. But someone had to somehow think they were put there to intimidate black people, and sounded the racist alarm. Same situation here.

      • Naptown Bill

        The scary and depressing part is that a hell of a lot of people had to whistle right past “There might be an innocent explanation for this” and head straight for “Better demonstrate my wokeness before the mob comes for me.”

    • Naptown Bill

      I’ve lived most of my life in Maryland, but my family is from Alabama. My grandfather moved up from Birmingham in the 50s to work for the then Department of Health in DC. Growing up, the theme in our extended family up here was that we’re Southerners who happen to live in Maryland, something my grandmother emphasized especially. Both my grandparents’ people fought for the Confederacy. One of my great somethings was allegedly so uncommonly tall that he had to have a bespoke cavalry uniform, and my grandfather’s cousin still has his saber, which supposedly still has “Yankee blood” on the blade that no one may ever wash off.

      So, for me, it combined with the Confederate flag and taking down statues and so forth is probably an 8. It’s not my immediate life, and there are way more important things to think about, but unlike a lot of people around me we’re talking about people who are in pictures in my grandmother’s living room. These are people with headstones on family land down in the ‘Bama. No, it’s not my immediate family or my immediate culture, but it’s definitely my heritage and it’s definitely my ancestry. It cuts much closer to the bone for me because of that. It’s not just an academic question or something I read about in a high school history class, we’re talking about a lot of people with my last name in the CSA rolls.

      • TARDIS

        Well said. I’m not from around here, but I’ve lived here most of my life. I don’t know how that happened, but it did. I will not disrespect the people whose lives are rooted in the south.

  7. Juvenile Bluster

    I’m not sure which annoys me more right now. Trump Derangement Syndrome or Trump Devotion Syndrome. Both are deadly and most people seem infected. That’s possibly why I’m so annoyed all the time. Or one of many reasons.

    Actually I think what ignores me most right now is the left, for now. We’re in a world where not only is there no forgiveness for your actions, there can be no forgiveness for actions you took when they were accepted. And I’m not talking about Confederate statutes. Fuck those traitors. But anything anyone might have done more than, say, 10 years ago, that was acceptable then but unacceptable now, is enough to have the mob destroy your life. I don’t get it.

    (mind you, the right will TRY to do that, but they’ll get bored before doing much of anything and rally around the next time Trump posts on Twitter about arresting people who burn the flag)

    • cyto

      Complaining about cancel culture is an unpardonable sin. Please report to the re-education camp.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Can’t I just go through a struggle session?

      • salted earth

        Only if you wash your hands and wear a mask.

      • cyto

        Of course you can. Where do you think you prepare for struggle sessions? At the re-education camp, of course!

    • Chipwooder

      As someone else said, woke leftism is a religion with inescapable original sin but absolutely no means for forgiveness or atonement.

      Also, Confederates are yesterday’s news. Now they’re after non-slaveowning presidents, Union generals, abolitionists, and non-specific tributes to women’s sufferage. All of this proves emphatically that the statue frenzies have fuck all to do with George Floyd, racism, police brutality, etc. They are 100% about communist agitation to erase anything that is demonstrably American in pursuit of Year Zero.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        ^This, good thing for us they overstepped and ratcheted it up too quickly.

      • R C Dean

        Did they? Where’s the blowback? All I see is mayors and governors doing nothing, statues coming down, and demands being met. What am I missing?

      • cyto

        Exactly!

        And what is wrong with these constituencies? I can’t get my head wrapped around a mayor that tells the police not to stop rioters from burning down businesses in the downtown area. How in the world does that guy not get run out of town on a rail?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That’s in certain states and in cities with shitbag mayors. I feel bad for the good people who are stuck in those particular places but I get the perhaps incorrect impression that people’s hearts have begun to harden against this nonsense in the more red areas of the country.

      • juris imprudent

        I’ll agree with all but the communist part.

    • The Other Kevin

      I thought of this the other day. The people who agree with and defend everything Trump does, and the people who reflexively oppose anything Trump does, are all still puppets of Trump. They are basing their opinions on what another person thinks, and not thinking for themselves.

      • Mad Scientist

        That’s 99% of the human race you just described.

    • leon

      I’m not sure which annoys me more right now. Trump Derangement Syndrome or Trump Devotion Syndrome

      This is why i blast the first few seconds of this everywhere i go.

      And I’m not talking about Confederate statutes. Fuck those traitors.

      Ahem, i’m going to make a bit of a critique here. I question that a group of people who want to leave the union are traitors. They are traitors because they lost. But likewise we could disparage any monument to Native Americans, Gauls, Britons, Celts, Angles, or any other conquered peoples because they opposed the ruling regime. The argument being that the CSA was peculiarly evil, even though the war was between two slave owning republics throughout it’s entirety.

      • RAHeinlein

        +1

        And, I object to the narrative that the Civil War was “only” about slavery and the Confederate flag is symbolic of same.

      • Rebel Scum

        As usual, history is complicated* and the winner of the war gets to whitewash (heh…) the circumstances it. But sometimes leaves us with a catchy tune.

        *I maintain that the entire principle of the US founding (secession) was destroyed when Lincoln pursued his war of control and tax-collection. The constitution does not grant the federal government the authority to prevent any state from leaving the union for any reason.

      • OneOut

        If the Civil war was only about slavery why were the slaves only freed long after the war began.

        It’s almost like freeing the slaves was a tactic of war rather than the reason for war.

      • Not Adahn

        Rebels != traitors.

      • R C Dean

        The vestiges of the Confederacy the wokesters and BLM are trying to eradicate were symbols of reconciliation after the Civil War. There is no reconciliation in them, so no wonder they either don’t get it, or get it and hate it.

    • Count Potato

      It’s always been very selective. Remember that internet executive who go cancelled for being against gay marriage? Obama held the exact same position at the time.

    • Lady Z

      But anything anyone might have done more than, say, 10 years ago, that was acceptable then but unacceptable now, is enough to have the mob destroy your life.

      The goal is to normalize the new definitions of racism, bigotry, etc. Anything that fits the current paradigm may be applied retroactively.

    • bacon-magic

      The Trump devotion is directly tied to the left going too far. The problem overall has been here way before Trump, some people just latched on to him as the solution. He has been pushing back too, just like he said he would. Part of the reason why his base gives him a pass on stuff they don’t like he does or says.
      I still think the far left has much more planned before November and in my opinion it’s not going to work out like they think. I hope it all turns out positive.

      • cyto

        That is where I am. I have never been a trump supporter, but somehow I keep getting pushed into being on his side by how ridiculous the other side is. And that seriously takes some doing.

        If they had simply shut up and let him have enough rope to hang himself, he would have been done before the election. Instead, they keep running in front of him as he is trying to shoot himself in the foot and sticking their hands in the way of the bullet.

      • juris imprudent

        Isn’t there some pithy quote about never stopping your enemy from doing something stupid?

      • Mad Scientist
    • Ayn Random Variation

      It’s not even close to equivalent. If you speak out against one side you will be fired and tarred and feathered and exiled from society. If you speak out against the other side you are awarded high social status and are called brave.

      • grrizzly

        Exactly this.

      • TARDIS

        We can only hope, that for a very brief moment, the deafening silence will happen in November. Then the wailing and violence may commence.

      • Jarflax

        Which is a great piece of evidence as to who is more and who is less correct. Only a deliberate liar feels the need to forcibly silence those who dispute him.

  8. leon

    hill everybody seems to want to die on

    The funny thing about hills and dying on them, is that it is always posed as “Why are you fighting over this, it doesn’t matter?”, but then isn’t that a two way street? If it doesn’t matter, then why are people pushing others where they feel like they have to die on that hill?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      That the thing, both sides seem to be pushing each other to die on it.

      • grrizzly

        I can easily imagine signs “No mask. No service.” at the entrance of each store in ten years. People still take off shoes at the airport and are prevented from transporting a bottle of wine in their carry-on.

        People on the side fell for the panic bigly. They supported draconian measures imposed by the government. Because it was an extinction-level event and there would be piles of dead bodies on the streets without lockdowns. They don’t want to admit even to themselves that they were wrong. When everyone wears a mask–accedes to the dogma–they can continue telling themselves that the restrictions were justified.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I think we stop with the mask BS when a cop beats or shoots somebody and the only reason for the encounter was enforcing a mask mandate.

        …but I’ve been wrong before.

      • Mad Scientist

        We stop when the politicians realize no one is using them and enforcement is impossible, so they scurry back to the front of the parade and declare they’re no longer necessary.

      • whiz

        We stop when people start robbing others with a mask on and the police realize it’s counterproductive.

      • Old Man With Candy

        You’re late to the game.

    • mrfamous

      I’ve been trying to make the argument that under the current situation, there is fundamental value in saying “no” to whatever the latest petty tyranny is, independent of whatever that tyranny may be and how it may or may not affect you.

      It’s a lack of people willing to say “no” that leads us to having to take our shoes off at the airport.

  9. Count Potato

    “This is for cooking oil. He was waiting for cooking oil.”

    Cooking oil is important.

    • Incentives Matter

      When I was in Cuba a few years ago, it was important then, too — and always in short supply. The typical family got a couple of litres/month, along with (barely enough) rice and beans. Pretty much nothing else. Not even spices (with the exception of salt and pepper). One of the things you could leave your housekeeper in your hotel room that would be really appreciated was cooking oil (which you, as a rich, capitalist, foreign, running-dog lackey could get in Cuba’s “parallel” economy because you had the magic CUC currency and, therefore, access to the “tourist” grocery stores). Other goodies that they couldn’t get and really liked: bar soap, deodorant, painkillers (ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin, Aleve), fragrances, toothbrushes,/other toiletries, and some CUCs (they’re harder for native Cubans to use, but there are underground channels they can access).

      Beautiful place, great people, utterly fucked-up “economy.”

      • Suthenboy

        While Cubans in Miami have a universe of wonderful, delicious food. If they could vote today who would the cubans elect? Another Castro?
        Fuck communism. Fuck Antifa. Fuck BLM. Fuck the Democrats.

      • bacon-magic

        ^^^

      • cyto

        Cubans in Miami are the most reliably anti-communist people in the United States. There to the right of Pat Buchanan on this.

        Having a close-up, in person view of the results of Communism will do that for you.

  10. Rhywun

    So far, more than 1.1 million cases and more than 51,000 deaths have been confirmed by Brazilian health authorities, and the crisis shows no sign of abating.

    Now that’s the kind of in-depth analysis I have come to rely upon from CNN.

  11. Count Potato

    “New York cops will stop cars with out-of-state license plates and impose fines of up to $10,000 on anyone who doesn’t stick to 14-day quarantine after arriving in tri-state area from coronavirus hotspots

    Anyone who travels to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from states that are still seeing high coronavirus numbers will have to quarantine for 14 days.

    The governors of each state announced the decision on Wednesday.

    In New York, cops will stop cars with license plates from the affected states to ask the person why they are not quarantining and how long they have been in the state for.

    The quarantine applies to any state with infection rate of 10 infections per 100,000 people on a seven day rolling average or 10 percent of the total population testing positive.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8455979/Mandatory-14-day-quarantine-announced-arriving-tri-state-area-high-risk-states.html

    OFFS!

    • Juvenile Bluster

      This is New York crying about Florida and Texas having done the same thing with regard to cars with New York license plates back in March.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yep. Payback.

    • Mad Scientist

      Alternate headline: New York Finds New Revenue Source To Fill Budget Shortfall

    • Apples and Knives

      Cuomo seems really proud of the way his “kill most of the vulnerable population right off the bat” plan for flattening the curve worked.

      • Drake

        It was an unexpected tactic. Caught those old bastards unaware.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      So the wokest of the woke figures let’s give cops even more reasons to fuck with people

  12. Mojeaux

    My Facebook leftist feed is predictable. My Facebook “moderate” feed is annoying. My Facebook “libertarian” feed is infuriating.

    • Gender Traitor

      ::picks up coffee, pulls up chair:: Oh, do tell!

      • Mojeaux

        Moderate-lefty: “…reasonable vandalism and damage…”
        Sensible commenter: “…so it’s reasonable if it’s someone else’s property?”
        “Libertarian” friend: “Yes!”

        *headdesk*

        She is quite affluent and lives in an affluent neighborhood and has a biracial grandchild. So of course she’s down with the struggle.

      • Lady Z

        My “favorite” so far was from a lefty friend who compared the rioting and looting to Jesus clearing the money lenders from the Temple. The cognitive dissonance is strong with that one.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve seen that one several times, as I have friends in the church (various and sundry denominations, even!), some of whom are lefties.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think the story of Barabbas is more accurate but I am sure they wouldn’t understand why.

      • Mojeaux

        That is an excellent analogy! I would never have thought of it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It was just like that! Except the moral of the story and not just purely righteous indignation of the situation. But yeah, just like Jesus (just make sure it was black Jesus and not the European Jesus).

      • westernsloper

        “Libertarian” friend: “Yes!”

        *sound of screeching record scratch stopping the music*

        So destruction of private property is totes ok. Either she doesn’t know what a libertarian is or I don’t.

      • Mojeaux

        Hence the quotes around libertarian.

    • Fatty Bolger

      My Facebook feed is… nonexistent. Never used it, never will.

      • Not Adahn

        My parents are always “did you see what your brother posted on Facebook?” No mom. I will always love my siblings, but I’d prefer to keep liking them too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Doesn’t beat when I had to send a picture of my son’s birth certificate (via text message mind you) to my mom so he can get something or another and she had set up her phone to auto upload texted photos to her facebook feed.

        Sorry son…I was furious.

    • The Other Kevin

      I hate everyone involved in just about everything lately.

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        Me too. My disgust with humanity is at an all time high.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      I think this was the fourth time in the past couple of months he’s posted a video accusing somebody of having hurled a racial slur at him (conveniently off camera of course).

      • leon

        Yeah, I saw that he may have done a podcast as a “Trump Supporter”, seems like he’s a grifter, just trying to sieze on the idea of the moment, and finally hit big with this one.

    • kinnath

      This would never have happened if carrying guns was more common.

      • Drake

        I’m looking forward to his last video.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    How many people are are actually upset about the media continuing to push the fake NASCAR noose story?

    I want to know who the insufferable prig is who went running off to NASCAR Mommy to cry about it.

    If that motherfucker was on my race team, I would mock and abuse him mercilessly until he was forced to wheel his toolbox out the door (or until the team fired me). How in the everloving fuck does that “discovery” rate any response other than saying, “Huh” and untying the knot? What the fuck is wrong with people?

    • R C Dean

      Why untie a perfectly functional knot that makes the rope more usable for its intended purpose?

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Can’t I just go through a struggle session?

    I struggle to muster the energy to care.

    • Mad Scientist

      Would

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It’s not particularly interesting, but I don’t know I would call it bullshit.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah, bullshit unless she was ten or under.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Man, you guys are the ones who complain the set-ups for Bang Bus videos are unrealistic, aren’t you?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I prefer Fake Taxi for the better production values.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        I like the fake can’t pay the rent/deposit

    • Mojeaux

      I don’t find that BS at all. It IS possible to go through the world not knowing what’s going on around you.

      • leon

        +1 Lots of things i didn’t know

      • Mad Scientist

        I’ve known some people who grew up fairly sheltered and had no idea about some things that are laughably common.

      • Not Adahn

        I didn’t know there was such a thing as a bad word until I was six and moved to a “bad” school.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Most racial slurs I had never heard until going to college.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Grew up in NYC and never heard the n word in person until i went to college in Buffalo and met a lot of people who inhabited the space in between

      • Count Potato

        She grew up in New Orleans and Nashville.

      • Mojeaux

        As if she should absorb it from the air by magic.

      • Count Potato

        I could see if she was some extreme introvert, but an actress?

      • Mojeaux

        I can see how an actress would be born with the knowledge, sure.

      • Count Potato

        That Kant be possible. Just like an all-straight high school drama club.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. 2003, we had one black kid and one white kid in my flight at basic training that never met anyone outside their skin color in real life.

      • grrizzly

        That is impressive.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They knew about whites or blacks from TV or friends, but it was at MEP that they caught first glimpse.

        Cool cats both of them and just a culutral shock for the rest of us that people out there might not have the same upbringing or surroundings.

      • Tres Cool

        I never had direct interactions with any race other than white until I enlisted.

      • Q Continuum

        Then you had “interactions” with women of all colors eh?

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^ The military was truly the adult Baskin Robins “31 Flavors”

      • Q Continuum

        I figured the first thing they taught you at Marine Basic was how to bargain for sex in at least 5 languages?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Must have been as shocking as when I realized everyone didn’t know what “uffda” meant.

        Nearest black guy to my hometown growing up was 45 miles away (Fargo/Moorhead), but we had lots of indians and swedes for minorities.

      • TARDIS

        But enough about the democratic underground.

    • Tundra

      Still hot.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Between this, banning the confederate flag, and sending Kyle Larson packing, they’re basically running one big ad campaign for local dirt track racing. So it works for me.

    I’d trade 33 Bubba Wallaces for one Kyle Larson.

  16. Gender Traitor

    IIt’s after 4:30 EDT, and it’s not my fault links were a little late, so I’m shamelessly reposting this link I put up late in the last thread just because I’m so damn proud of the two co-workers of mine who first suspected this multimillion dollar fraud. And because I’m in desperate need of any kind of positive news. https://www.whio.com/news/local/coronavirus-dayton-woman-faces-federal-charges-involving-two-ppp-loans-totaling-more-than-25-million/KNIQJV7SOVDHZBQIUDAJXF24DE/

    • Mojeaux

      Yay them! You have a right to be proud!

  17. The Late P Brooks

    I’m shamelessly reposting this link I put up late in the last thread just because I’m so damn proud of the two co-workers of mine who first suspected this multimillion dollar fraud.

    Nice.

    • creech

      Tip off #1 should have been to ask “Why are you applying for this grant at our bank? We aren’t your regular bank and we don’t know your business.”

      • Gender Traitor

        I don’t know that the person applied for the loan/grant at our credit union. It was the employee who was notified of an incoming $1 million dollar wire and noticed that the “business” account had a very low balance and/or activity. She took it straight to our resident Anti-Fraud Goddess, who got the ball rolling to have it investigated, as I understand it.

      • TARDIS

        Anti-Fraud Goddess

        I’d watch that show. Is it on Netflix, or Hulu?

      • Gender Traitor

        The Goddess in question would be more to Tres’s taste, if you get my drift. She’s a sweetheart and passionate about protecting our institution and our members – especially our elderly members – from fraud and financial abuse. We’re lucky to have her on our team.

      • Tres Cool

        Which branch is that at? I wont mind driving an extra 10 minutes or so….

      • Gender Traitor

        Back office. And she’s married. Sorry, Dude! ; )

      • TARDIS

        more to Tres’s taste, if you get my drift

        Well no, but I was more stimulated by the Anti-Fraud superpower anyway.

    • Drake

      Should call it “Wedgie Wednesday”.

      • Q Continuum

        Flossing Friday.

    • Count Potato

      #2 is shopped

      • Count Potato

        #30 same crap

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Every. Single. one of them, Damn!

    • TARDIS

      I’ve always wondered, do women like constant all day contact with things on their anuses?

      • Gender Traitor

        This woman does not.

        Also, WTF?

        Please solve this math problem to prove that you are not a bot. Once you solve it, you will need to log in again.

        I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO MATH ON THIS WEBSITE!

        “Math class is TOUGH!”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ha!

  18. Tundra

    Thanks, Señor!

    Nice to see the Phoenix cops getting in on the totalitarian bandwagon. I guess that old piece of paper really is only good for asswipe now.

    Inspired song choice! Old VH is great VH.

    Like this!

    Still one of the most amazing live bands I’ve ever seen.

    • TARDIS

      Well they want a police state, and they will get it. It just won’t be the one they wanted.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ugh, things like that are going to wreck the chances for meaningful reform of use of force policies and the like.

      • Rhywun

        Who wants reform when there’s protest-larping to do?

    • Tundra

      Relentless.

    • Tres Cool

      I was hoping it wasnt anything from 1984.

      Me Wise Magic is meh…..

      Its tough for me to pick a favorite, but this is in my top five.

      • Mojeaux

        That intro is beautiful and I love Spanish guitar.

        Reminds me vaguely of “Mistral Wind”.

        In the same ballpark, I do like some Van Hagar.

      • Tres Cool

        It has its place. I concur.
        Since redheads were always my achille’s heel, this could be my favorite Hagar song. He can play the F out of a guitar.

      • Mojeaux

        Yep.

        I like most of 5150. I can’t really name a song on it I will go to the trouble to skip if it comes on.

    • TARDIS

      Wow. I like it too, and I realize I have not heard any VH in years. I sat outside under the deck a short while ago to enjoy the rain, and tried to make make myself listen to something I have not heard in years. It took a bit to come up with anything to listen to. That would have been great.

      • Mojeaux

        Nowadays, if someone comes up with something I really like, it’s a surprise. I’ve tended to hang onto my moldy oldies for the last few years.

      • TARDIS

        For me I wonder if it’s because radio ruined music for people decades ago. I laughed at a letter someone once wrote to a local rock station. It was something to the effect(?) of “thanks for making me hate my favorite music”.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I’ve heard good things about WOO, but haven’t ever watched a race.

    World of Outlaws is highly entertaining.

    I wish they (is USAC even still around?) would bring back non-winged sprint cars on dirt and on pavement.

  20. salted earth

    Question about mask enforcement, WA is requiring masks in public starting on June 26th. They are asking businesses to “enforce” the law. (I understand that private businesses can discriminate in specific ways about who is allowed on their property.) Let’s say an employee of a company thinks that the law is an infringement on the rights of individuals, but their employer asks them to act as an agent of the government to enforce the law (at least to the point of not allowing people entry), what should you do?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Unless the state is deputizing the entire citizenry, fuck all nothing.

      • Tundra

        When the state has shown a shocking willingness to hammer small businesses who dare flout the mandates?

        No, if it’s my store, I put up a big sign that says I hate the masks, you hate the masks, but the pricks in the capitol want to shut me down. I appreciate your business, so I am offering a free mask and a 10% discount on your purchase until these shitheads come to their senses.

        And then I would have a recall petition available for signatures.

      • littleruttiger

        I’ll play the mask game with gritted teeth, I just bought a pack for the first time today, but I’m really hoping no governor is dumb enough to try and re-institute lockdowns again (although I’m not optimistic about that – I think here in NC gyms are still closed, so they aren’t even completely out of lockdowns)

        It boggles my mind that they passed muster to begin with – it boggles my mind even more that a judge wouldn’t look at the encouragement of the BLM protests, and declare them null.

        I don’t know what the current Michigan status is, but last I read up on it a judge basically said the governor can declare an emergency for as long as she wants and there’s nothing the legislature can do about it. That also boggled my mind.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am right there with you. For my wife, she is in complete “free association” mode and I am a libertarian guy in heaven. If her customers want her to wear a mask, she does, if they don’t care, she doesn’t. If she has elderly clients, which she does, she talks to them prior to find out what protections they want.

        Most of our elderly clients JDGAF and they let us know in typical boomer fashion “I fought in Korea and it didn’t kill me, so why would I wear a damn mask now?”

        She politely has let several clients go because they were all uppity that she wasn’t wearing the mask of Bane all the time when grooming their dogs.

      • Old Man With Candy

        If you fought in Korea, you’re not a Boomer. Unless you went to war at the age of 6.

        /pedant

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh I suspect NV is right on those heals with a similar order coming out today

    • Pope Jimbo

      I eagerly await the video of two yahoos who see a black man running unmasked in their neighborhood. Worse, they think it is the same guy who has entered several local businesses unmasked recently. So they attempt a citizen’s arrest and it goes badly. The two yahoos shoot the guy and he dies.

      I’m sure all the Karens in the country will laud these conscientious enforcers of social distancing.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Wait, we’re going backwards now. philly supposedly opens inside bars and such around July 3. My job is allowing unfettered access to the office as of July 8. Only the Karenest of Karens are wearing masks outside.
      They can’t go back, can they?

    • TARDIS

      I shopped at the local Kroger this afternoon. I noticed a significant increase in mask wearing, as in 80% versus about 40% a week ago. I take this as a bad sign. I got some dirty looks too. That was new.

    • Trolleric the Goth

      my question is why the daughter covered for the mom too?

    • Apples and Knives

      Dude, go with your gut. Move on.

  21. Pope Jimbo

    Wisconsin idiots get in on statue toppling stupidity.

    Protesters wrapped chains around “Forward,” the bronze statue of a woman located at the State Street corner of Capitol Square, and pulled her down around 10:45 p.m. The sculpture is a replica of a Jean Pond Miner sculpture cast in 1893 and installed in the Capitol in 1895 that was designed as an allegory for devotion and progress, the embodiment of her home state.

    Protesters set their sights on another statue, one of Col. Hans Christian Heg at the top of King Street, tore it down and dragged it into Lake Monona. Heg was a Norwegian immigrant and journalist who died of his wounds at the Battle of Chickamauga fighting to preserve the United States and end slavery.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well now you are infringing on my heritage! I guess the media will just keep lying to the people and say he was a racist or some such. Gaslighting indeed

    • See Double You

      I don’t know. From reviewing the article, the Forward statue had long been a lefty favorite. Now the mob they’ve unleashed has turned on them.

  22. Derpetologist

    spot the not: controversial sculptures

    1. statue of a naked pioneer family where the woman was not wearing a wedding ring

    2. statue of a burly naked man standing on top of naked women

    3. statue of a king was which was melted down and made into bullets by his enemies

    4. statue of a slaveowner who burned 77 people alive

    5. statue of a notorious, mass-murdering henchman of a dictator

    6. statue of a slave, pirate, slave trader, and independence fighter

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      5. Sounds too much like Che. That’s my guess for the not controversial sculpture.

    • Derpetologist

      an interesting take:

      ***
      “These statues are a part of the history of Hungary. Dictatorships chip away at and plaster over their past in order to get rid of all memories of previous ages. Democracy is the only regime that is prepared to accept that our past with all the dead ends is still ours; we should get to know it, analyse it and think about it!

      All of the statues, therefore, were positioned according to the original sculptural and architectural plans. This park is not about the statues or the sculptors, but a critique of the ideology that used these statues as symbols of authority.

      I realised that if I made this park with more direct, drastic and real tools, as many thought I should, I would create an anti-propaganda park from these propaganda statues and in doing this, I would be faithfully following the same recipe and mentality that we inherited from dictatorship.” — Ákos Eleőd, architect
      ***

      He was speaking about Memento Park, which was set aside for communist statues.

      ***
      A quote by the architect on the project: “This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship.”[1]

      Memento Park is divided into two sections: Statue Park, officially named “A Sentence About Tyranny” Park after a poem of the same name by Gyula Illyés, and laid out as 6 oval sections; and Witness Square (also called “Neverwas Square”), which lies east of the main park entrance and is visible without payment. Statue Park houses 42 of the statues/monuments that were removed from Budapest after the fall of communism.[1] Witness Square holds a replica of Stalin’s Boots which became a symbol of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 after the statue of Stalin was pulled down from its pedestal in 1956, and is flanked by two single storey timber structures housing the internal exhibition space, their design being evocative of simple internment camp buildings.
      ***

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Park

      One Sentence On Tyranny – Hungarian recitation by author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUKMkJc3tE

      The nature of the Hungarian language is such that it is possible for one word to express a long phrase, and so several of these very long words can count as a sentence.

      ***
      ONE SENTENCE ABOUT TYRANNY

      Translated from Hungarian by Andris Heks

      ‘Where there is tyranny,

      there is tyranny,

      not just in the barrel of the gun,

      not just in prisons,

      not only in the interrogation rooms,

      not just in the guard’s word

      shouted at night,

      there is tyranny

      not only in the smoke-dark

      streaming charge of the prosecutor,

      in the admission,

      in the prisoners’ wall tapped Morse signals,

      not just in the judge’s chilling

      verdict: guilty!-

      there is tyranny,

      not only in the marshal’s bark:

      ‘attention’,

      ‘fire!’, in the drumming,

      and in the manner of pulling the corpse

      into the pit,

      not just

      in the secret news

      anxiously whispered

      through a half opened door,

      in the ‘sh’of the finger sealing the mouth:

      ‘don’t move!’

      where there is tyranny,

      there is tyranny

      not just in the iron hard

      facial feature

      and in that iron, in the already wordless

      struggling scream,

      in the silence

      boosting dumb

      shower of tears;

      in the bulging eye,

      there is tyranny,

      not only in the ‘on-your-feet’

      blared ‘long live-s’,

      ‘hurrays’, songs;

      where there is tyranny ,

      there is tyranny,

      not just in the unremitting

      clapping hands,

      in the opera, in the trumpeting,

      in the just as hypocritically cheering stone monuments,

      in colours, in galleries, separately in every frame,

      already in the painter’s brush;

      not only in the noise of the softly gliding

      car in the night,

      and in that:

      it pulled up at the gate,

      it is there as you say ‘hello’

      and you sense

      through the silence of the receiver,

      that a stranger is eavesdropping;

      not only the wriggling

      strangling of the phone wire of the Laocoon mode*:

      train, aeroplane, track,

      distaff, rope,

      for tyranny

      is presently there,

      in every single thing,

      as not even your old god could have been able to;

      there is tyranny in the kindergartens,

      in father’s advice,

      in mother’s smile,

      in how the child replies to a stranger;

      not only in the barbed wire,

      not just in the slogans in book lines

      which are even more stultifying

      than the barbed wire;

      it is there

      in the parting kisses,

      in the way the wife asks:

      when will you be back dear?

      in the street,

      in the routinely repeated how-are you-s,

      in the handshake

      that suddenly loosens,

      and as instantly

      your lover’s face freezes,

      because tyranny is there

      at your date,

      not only in the interrogation,

      it is there in the confession,

      in the sweet word’s ecstasy,

      like a fly in the wine,

      because even in your dreams

      you are not left alone,

      it is in your bridal bed,

      before that, in the desire,

      for you will deem beautiful

      only that which it already possessed once;

      it was tyranny you lay with,

      when you thought you loved,

      on the plate and in the glass,

      it is there in the nose, the mouth,

      in cold and in twilight,

      outside and in your room,

      as if through the open window,

      the putrid stench flooded in,

      as if somewhere in the house

      there was a gas leak,

      if you talk to yourself,

      it is tyranny that questions you;

      even in your imagination

      you are not independent,

      even the Milky Way above is different:

      it is a border zone, scoured by beams,

      a minefield, the star:

      it is a spying window,

      the teeming sky canopy:

      it is just one labour camp;

      for tyranny speaks from fever, from the tolling bell,

      out of the priest’s confessionals,

      from the sermon,

      the church, the parliament, the torture rack:

      all are but its stages;

      whether you open or close your eyes,

      tyranny is looking at you;

      as disease,

      it accompanies you, like a souvenir;

      you hear it in the rattle of the train wheel:

      ‘prisoner, you are a prisoner’,

      on the mountain and beside the sea

      it is this that you inhale;

      in the zigzags of the lightening,

      it is in every unexpected

      noise, light,

      in the startled heart;

      in rest,

      in shackled boredom,

      in pouring rain,

      in sky high bars,

      in the cell-wall-white

      entrapping snowfall;

      it looks at you

      through the eyes of your dog,

      and because it is there in every goal,

      it is there in your tomorrow,

      in your thought,

      in your every movement;

      as water cleaves its bed,

      you follow and create it;

      peek out from this circle?

      it is tyranny that looks back at you from the mirror,

      it is tyranny that watches; to try to run away would be in vain,

      you are at once a captive and the captor;

      it impregnates your tobacco’s aroma,

      your clothes’ fabric;

      it penetrates you

      to the marrow;

      you would like to think,

      but only its thoughts come to your mind,

      you would like to look, but you can only see

      what it conjured up for you

      and already forest fire surrounds you,

      fanned into flame by the matchstick

      that you threw down

      without stamping it out;

      and it also guards you,

      in the factory, in the field, at home

      and you no longer feel, what it is like to live,

      what is meat and bread,

      what it is to love, to wish,

      to open your arms wide,

      this is how the slave

      himself forges his fetters and wears them;

      if you eat it is tyranny you nourish,

      you beget your child for it,

      where there is tyranny,

      everyone is a link in the chain;

      its stench emanates and spreads from you,

      you too are tyranny;

      for it is already because of you

      that your child stiffens into spitefulness,

      and your wife, swaying in your lap,

      turns into a whore;

      like a mole in the sunshine,

      we walk in blind darkness

      and we fidget in our room

      that is like the Sahara;

      for where there is tyranny,

      all is in vain,

      this ode too,

      any work,

      no matter how true,

      because from the first,

      tyranny stands there at your grave,

      it decides who you were

      and even your ashes serve it.
      ***

    • Derpetologist

      4 is the Not. While Isaac Royall was a slaveholder who ordered 77 slaves to be burned at the stake and later his coat of arms was incorporated into the seal of Harvard Law School, there are no statues of him. Harvard Law School remove his coat of arms from their seal in 2016.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Royall_Jr.

      ***
      Royall fled to Nova Scotia three days before the Battle of Lexington. He wrote to his friend Simon Tufts with instructions to sell slaves to raise money for his exile in London. In the same will that granted lands to Harvard, he offered emancipation to his slave Belinda (later, Belinda Sutton, freedwoman), promising to pay her support. She had to petition the Massachusetts legislature six times to receive her due.

      Harvard Law professor and United States Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story praised Parker – the first Royall Professor – as “a mind with sufficient knowledge of the old law [who] was yet not a slave to its forms” – as the “free spirit” needed to teach law for a newly free country. But law had a dual role in the world shared by Parker, Story and Belinda Sutton, emancipating some while enslaving others. Sutton’s first petition, submitted during the Revolution, observed that leaders of the breakaway colony sought for themselves “that freedom which the Almighty Father intended for all the human race,” while “by the Laws of the Land [she was] denied the employment of one morsel of that immense wealth, apart whereof hath been accumulated by her own industry, and the whole augmented by her servitude.”

      – Janet Halley, Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
      ***

      I’m pretty sure Charles Tufts, founder of Tufts University, was a descendant of Simon Tufts.

      The reals in order are the Pioneer Woman’s Statue, Civic Virtue (the burly man is virtue and the women are vice), the old NYC statue of King George III, the Lubyanka statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky , and Piet Pieterszoon Hein.

  23. Ownbestenemy

    Just because it is bizarro world, I am going with #4

  24. The Late P Brooks

    When did you first notice these symptoms?

    Joey Rodolfo, the owner of a clothing store in Seattle, Wash., told “Fox & Friends” that he plans to move out of the state, citing “no leadership” and a “socialist” city council as reasons for his decision.

    Rodolfo, the co-founder of Buki clothing, made the comments as authorities in Seattle are making preparations to retake the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, or CHOP, after several shootings and a number of other crimes have been reported in what protestors have declared a “cop-free zone.”

    Demonstrators moved in and occupied the neighborhood on June 8 after police pulled out of their East Precinct building following more than a week of protests over the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, some of which grew violent. Floyd died while in police custody.

    On Monday, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the city will move to end the police-free zone after two recent shootings, one of which was deadly.

    “I will tell you what’s currently happening in Seattle,” Rodolfo said on Wednesday. “We have people in leadership positions where we have no leader.

    Oh, come on. That’s crazy.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That.Is.Awesome. I need to send that to my brother.

    • Pan Zagloba

      I own it and have played it. It is pretty good as a game, with gloriously tragicomic atmosphere. The graphic design is excellent, too. If you can somehow get your hands on it, do so!

      Oddly educational, too.

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Oh goody! Minnesoda is going to come out with another model for the Corona Virus. This time it will be used to show us how bad the second wave will be.

    Modeling in Minnesota has been politically controversial, with Republicans questioning the high death counts of initial models and questioning whether they pushed Walz to prolong an economically crippling stay-at-home order. Nearly 800,000 unemployment insurance claims have been filed since the start of the pandemic.

    Why doesn’t the GOP stop hating SCIENCE? Why do they have to make things so political all the time? And poor Gov Walz being pushed into issuing those lockdown orders (and keeping them in place so long).

    What is funny is that our most recent model that was issued in the beginning of May predicted 1400 deaths by the end of May. Actual deaths? 1000. But I guess that is better than the original model that was predicting 20K.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I have noticed there has been absolute silence about models and studies lately and only “fringe” media outlets are running them. I suspect because it is showing that this is 1)contagious and 2)mostly mild symptoms

      Hell there was a new study out of France about school aged children and their ability to spread (or in this case, not spread) the disease. Ignored. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Your kid will be in cell block B this year, here is their new digs.

    • Tundra

      Is that fuckwit Limmer planning on doing anything?

    • R C Dean

      “We will now demonstrate how bad the second wave will be with our model, which assumes the second wave will be bad.”

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Honey, I’m just following the science and data.

    • Tundra

      One is plenty for me, thanks.

    • AlmightyJB

      Never tell me the odds

  26. peachy rex

    My neighbourhood park currently contains a Little League team at practice, a group tennis lesson, and some other team running wind sprints. The athletic field at the school next door has half a dozen soccer and football players doing drills.

    The local pols -proggies all – may think they’re still making the rules. They are not.

    • Drake

      I’d rather get the rona and deal with the 0.04% chance of death than give up living.

  27. salted earth

    For PNW glibs interested in a glib-together

    sodium the symbol that means at proton mail decimal point com (This makes sense in my head, so I’m hoping it does in everyone else’s too.)

    • Mojeaux

      Na at proton mail decimal point com ?

      • salted earth

        oops no, the word sodium
        Thanks, Mojeaux

      • AlmightyJB

        So we have to get high just to understand your code language. Jj. Lol

      • salted earth

        it would probably help 🙂

  28. Yusef drives a Kia

    Razorfist lurks! check out this title and the font he uses, I have the Bumpersticker, coincidence? NO
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7NBPN-yd2U
    STEVE SMITH SAYS RELAX

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well I’ll be, it’s not outside the realm of possibility, he’s libertarianish.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I immediately recognized my Glib sticker, He’s around, Shit he could be one of (((Them)))
        /TPTB

    • Count Potato

      Sorry, not seeing the STEVE SMITH reference.

    • TARDIS

      Damn, that’s just plain ugly.

      • Rhywun

        Welcome to the New Normal.

  29. Yusef drives a Kia

    And now’s tht time,
    for Glibs to take a break,
    to grille, bake and BBq,
    Baked beans, cole slaw whatever,
    and Steak,
    /BEEER!!!!

  30. quincy

    I am a New York resident who might have to travel cross-country in a few months. So, what hoops do I have to jump thru to get my car registered in Vermont?

    • Tejicano

      INANAL and don’t play one on TV, but… Wouldn’t you need to have a residence in Vermont to do that? Granted, there are ways to accomplish that cheaply, particularly if you know somebody who lives there and is willing to write up a contract showing that you are renting a room in their residence.

  31. Old Man With Candy

    Do you know what will push me over the edge, into spitting on my hands, hoisting the black flag, and begin slitting throats? If Cowboy Monkey Rodeo is canceled because it is deemed racist.

    #dicksoutforwhiplash

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Whoa, easy, we can work through this, don’t anything rash, like advertise on Craigslist or wherever, you have a reputation……

    • Naptown Bill

      If they get rid of my cowboy monkeys, I’m going to the barricades!

    • Chipwooder

      Rarely does anything online ever make me actually laugh out loud but you, sir, have pulled it off tonight!

    • westernsloper

      Better gig than a monkey astronaut right there. Much better than possible plague tester monkey.

    • Mojeaux

      A monkey that can ride a border collie. I’m floored.

  32. Sean

    My gf has been on a drunken rant on the phone for more than an hour. I should send her sister a muffin basket.

    • Ted S.

      What’s she ranting about now?

      • Sean

        Right now? Neighbors.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Complaining about her property value going down in these times?

        My God.

    • Tres Cool

      Is that a….euphemism? Cause in my head the sober synapses remaining in my amygdala tried to make a connection to the snark center of my cortex.

      I got nuthin.

      • Sean

        Her sister is taking all the talk, so I don’t have to.

        Other topics include fucking liberals, public schools, current events.

        Occasionally I hear something nice said about me. ?

      • Jarflax

        Is that fucking liberals as in “God I hate these fucking liberals” or as in “We should go out and reard these brave woke liberals with sex.”?

      • Sean

        The first one. Very much the first one.

  33. Crusty Juggler

    I am selling pictures of my feet.

    First…cum (get it?)…first serve.

  34. Sean

    I got outbid for an ugly gun with a few minutes left on GB. I refuse to get into a bidding war for an APX carry.

    • Tejicano

      Smart move. I got outbid on a collection of SKS parts – mostly because that included a blade bayonet which seem to have appreciated more than any utility but I couldn’t see spending so much just for the parts I wanted.

      I’m pretty sure I was bidding against the seller or a proxy of his – just trying to get the price up to the market rate.

      • Sean

        I try to go in with a max price in mind.

        June has been crazy, lots of NR rated peeps with new accounts bidding stuff above msrp.

      • Tejicano

        I had a max price in mind just for the items I needed. When the bidding started creeping up to that I weighed the idea of going higher and selling the bayonet later to recoup (which would have more than paid for the venture – given the prices those are going for when you can find one) but figured it wasn’t worth the work involved.

    • Q Continuum

      Get a PX4 instead. Way better.

      • Sean

        We have two in the house. A C and a SC. ?

  35. Yusef drives a Kia

    I think there is something dead under my house, like oh shit……
    /I didn’t do it….

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I was there for work today and people stared at me like a freak, no mask, orders or not, the sheep are complying….

      • Q Continuum

        I must live in some kind of alternate reality. Hardly anyone in my neck o the woods wears a mask and even those that do just mind their business.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That’s BhC, major cities and Cali yes, around here, we are live and let live,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Monument right? that’s far enough away from the Stupid virus

    • Sean

      16 yo me wants to order one tomorrow. Today me says meh.

      I have no trigger time on one.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        2019 me says meh too. 2020 me is a little worried about market supply.

        Found some hidden complaints about cycling failure. Choosy about shells too. Probably a pass.

    • EvilSheldon

      They work, which is more than you can say for most magazine-fed shotguns.

      They have all the handling aplomb of a 4-foot length of fence post.