Thursday Afternoon Links of Normalcy

by | Aug 13, 2020 | Daily Links | 344 comments

Dropped our youngest off at VPK for half the day this morning. This afternoon my wife picked him up and took both kids to the zoo. Hopefully, they don’t get forced to stay at the primate exhibit. Kidding. But man, it has been quiet in this house for three… fucking… hours. I have missed silence. Badly. Also, you’ll probably have another Glibertarian doing links tomorrow. My MIL is moving closer (a good thing in our case) and the wife and I are going up there to help her start packing her house (which I assume means me moving heavy shit around all weekend) while my kids go to the beach with my parents. Its like normal has returned.

Brazil exports COVID back to China in chicken wings.

Israel and UAE decide they hate Iran more than each other.

According to our resident Buckeye, no. But while the B1G may be surrender-monkies, The Big 12 will be playing. Sloopy is already talking shit about asterisks, but the men will take the field and the boys will cower behind their masks.

Warty thinks this guy is the one guy in the world who should maybe squat less.

Finally, the IRS would like Americans to know that their check printers are eagerly awaiting a “go” order from Congress.

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344 Comments

  1. Surly Knott

    Printer goes brrrrrrrrr

  2. Surly Knott

    Printer goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  3. Rebel Scum

    Israel and UAE decide they hate Iran more than each other.

    No secret that the Arabs and Persians do not get along.

    • Hyperion

      Aren’t the Ayatollahs in Iran, the Arabs?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Negative, the two biggest ethnicities in Iran are Persian and Azeri (Azerbijianis).

      • Hyperion

        I know what the ethnicities are.

        The reason I say that is that I used to work with a Persian guy, I mean an Iranian. But he was always cursing about those damn muslim arab assholes. I thought he was talking about the Ayatollahs. I guess I assumed wrong.

      • Ted S.

        Aren’t the Ayatollahs in Iran, the Arabs?

        No, the Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan.

      • Gustave Lytton

        How about the Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla?

      • Bobarian LMD

        He doesn’t post here anymore.

      • Agent Cooper

        Quoting Billy Joel will get you nowhere.

      • C. Anacreon

        Ooh, you got a real nice beard
        A real nice beard
        You know it really caught-a my
        Eye-atollah

        But you know your mind is weird
        Your mind is weird
        You really are a nutty kind of
        Guy-atollah

        /Steve Dahl, to tune of “My Sharona”

  4. DEG

    Coronaviruses are thought to spread mostly person-to-person through respiratory droplets, the CDC says. However, “it is possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object, including food or food packaging, that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes,” the CDC says.

    Is it just me? If something is transmitted through droplets, of course you can get it by touching a contaminated surface then touching your eyes, mouth, nose.

    • Idle Hands

      no we live in the absolute dumbest times. This is the argument against the efficacy of masks, they are toxic breeding grounds that leave a trail of viral waste. I’m beginning to suspect 95% of people can’t handle the concept of tradeoffs.

    • Rebel Scum

      Speaking of masks…

      After @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris were briefed by public health experts, Biden says America’s 50 governors should institute mask mandates for the next three months to help save lives.

      • Idle Hands

        I’d be interested to see how they could even do that legally but like that even matters. Who knew the conservatives were right about sharia law being instituted in america all the women will have to wear burkas.

      • Raven Nation

        One report said Biden wants the mandate to include wearing masks outside. Can’t find that confirmed right now.

        And, of course, the thread has all kinds of people declaring this “leadership.”

      • mrfamous

        The federal government cannot do so. It should be by a 9-0 vote unconstitutional. They’d have to bribe the states with money: IE, mask mandates or you don’t get monies. And that would have to come from Congress.

      • Viking1865

        “It should be by a 9-0 vote unconstitutional.”

        Try 5-4 approving it, penaltax emanation of penumbra written by Roberts.

      • grrizzly

        In the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts the mask mandate has been in place for the last 3.5 months. Nobody is discussing its repeal. On the contrary, it was recently expanded.

      • Idle Hands

        I walk around with a condom on my penis everywhere I go without a mandate.

      • Hyperion

        3 months. That’s cute. If those two authoritarians get in power, you’ll be wearing a mask until they’re gone.

        I just wonder how long it will be after they take office, that the travel restrictions take effect?

        I’m moving next May or June, but if Trump loses, I’m seriously wondering if I should just take the financial hit and get out of here while I can still go. Can they get that done in less than 6 months with all the other over the top shit they’re pushing? Maybe they’ll get distracted with the door to door gun confiscation and forced vaccinations and I can make my escape.

    • Rhywun

      Is it just me?

      I dunno but I remember them saying at least two months ago that the chance of catching the plague from your groceries was infinitesimal, so stop “washing” them.

      • Hyperion

        Since it’s not about the virus, it should never have to make sense, and it won’t.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its as if 100’s of years of virology knowledge suddenly disappeared and we started back at square one.

      • grrizzly

        Is Immunity a Case of Rothbard’s Lost Knowledge?

        It’s extremely odd that we woke up one day in the 21st century when such knowledge seemed almost to evaporate. When famed statistician and immunologist Knut Wittkowski went public with the basics of viruses, he created shock and scandal. YouTube even deleted his videos!

        How did my mother know about immunities? Because her mother taught this to her, and hers before her. It was a major public-health priority after World War II in the United States to school each generation in this counterintuitive truth. It was taught in the schools: do not fear what we have evolved to fight but rather strengthen what nature has given you to deal with disease. Professor Bhopal dared say what few others have been willing to say but which seems obviously the case when you look at areas of the world where the virus is fully under control (New York and Sweden, for example).

        My next question: why is herd immunity a taboo topic in the 21st century? Perhaps this is a case of Rothbardian-style lost knowledge, similar to how humanity once understood scurvy and then didn’t and then had to come to understand it again. Somehow in the 21st century, we find ourselves in the awkward position of having to relearn the basics of immunology that everyone from 1920 to 2000 or so seemed to understand before that knowledge somehow came to be marginalized and buried.

      • Chipwooder

        Herd immunity is a taboo topic because it doesn’t advance the power-hungry goals of politicians.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, the knowledge didn’t just suddenly evaporate.

      • Idle Hands

        This is what 100 years of gov mandated progressive education leads to, people thinking the top chips can some how magically solve every problem with their science.

      • Idle Hands

        In fairness they used to just believe the top chimp in the sky could solve anything with his powers or the top chimp could solve everything with his powers. So ymmv

    • Bobarian LMD

      This 180 degrees out from what they have been saying and means that any mask less than N95 is basically worthless.

      Two months ago the main vector was through touching surfaces where large droplets had fallen. Masks ‘worked’ by catching those larger droplets and by reminding you to not touch your face.

      Respiratory vapor is not stopped by a layer of cotton/polyester/rayon.

      • Hyperion

        Try running around on a hot day, all day, with a N95 mask on. I can’t even tolerate those things for an hour at a time. I wear one of the cheap comfy ones now because I’m 100% convinced it’s all on joke on we serfs, and when we were out last weekend, mid 90s, I thought I was going to fucking pass out from having that thing on my face.

  5. invisible finger

    Something from 93 years ago that reminded me of Dr. Fauci and the climate change assholes.

    H.L. Mencken, September 1927:
    Mr. Ayres seems to have a fear that the end is not yet – that science, having turned its back upon the moral orders of the world, will one day return to put it down, maybe by force – that is, we are facing scientific tyranny almost as bad as the old theological tyranny of the current political tyranny. “When science has becomne supreme,” he says in the the last sentence of his book, “any attempt to rectify its formulae will be persecuted as heresy.”

    But here, I believe, he is simply judging science in terms of the crimes of philosophy. There is not the slightest sign that science, in itself, has any such malign ambition. Its aim is simply to establish the facts. It has no more interest in the moral significance of those facts than it has in the moral significance of a stroptococcus. It must be amoral by its very nature: the minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

    Nevertheless, there is a certain uncomfortbale reason in Mr. Ayres’s fears. Science itself will never send him to the stake, but the quacks who hang about its flanks may one day try to do so. Such quacks are alrady numerous, and they tend to disguise themselves as scientists, and to be accepted by the world in that character. I point, for example, to the so-called hygienists, and especially those who are public job holders. Theoretically and by their own representation, these singularly cocksure men are scientists, actually they are simply moralists, and of the same lineage as Prohibition agents. The body of exact facts lying under their pretensions is of very modest dimensions, and so far as I am aware not one of those facts was unearthed by their own efforts. It is certainly by no mere coincidence they they are the only claimants to scientific authority in the whole modern world who make any demand that the police enforce their decrees.

    • Idle Hands

      Monty Python figured this out in the 70’s.

      • Idle Hands

        as an aside Cocksure is an amazing word.

    • juris imprudent

      Shows how little progressives have changed through the years.

      • Hyperion

        In the US, if I have this right, they were slave owners, and then the KKK, then they showed up again as commies who called themselves progressives, joined the temperance movement and got alcohol banned, and then the invented eugenics. And now they’re intent on burning down and destroying the country.

        Those guys must be fun at parties.

      • juris imprudent

        Reading the Hamilton/Jefferson stuff – if either camp was an intellectual forebear to our contemporary progressives, it was the Federalists. The belief in strong, central govt, the Bank of the US (when Congress was not given the power to charter corporations), and govt “investment” in developing the economy. That’s kind of a really weird thing with the Democrats now pissing all over the legacy of Jefferson. The big difference was the Federalists didn’t really think they were making people better, as every progressive from Wilson on has dreamed.

      • Viking1865

        The Anti-Federalists were right. They were right all along.

    • Hyperion

      ” It has no more interest in the moral significance of those facts than it has in the moral significance of a stroptococcus.”

      My, how times have changed. I remember when I was a little kid, 5-6 years old, the adults were always saying ‘one of these days they’ll figure out a way to charge us for drinking water!’, and they’d laugh. Not even, they’ll charge you for breathing air, you badly underestimated them.

  6. Ted S.

    Sloopy is already talking shit about asterisks, but the men will take the field and the boys will cower behind their masks.

    To be fair, this the college presidents, not the players, who are cowering.

    • Ted S.

      “It’s”, not “this”.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Are you dictating xeir pronouns for zem, shitlord?

    • leon

      ^^^ This is not something players want, since they only get so many shots at being drafted.

    • Rhywun

      This whole year is a fucking asterisk.

    • The Last American Hero

      Bullshit. See the Pac12 player unity movement.

      • Rhywun

        I was suspicious but too lazy to enact my labor.

        For those unaware, the players’ demands feature specific requests in the areas of health and safety, racial justice and economic equality.

        Though it seems fairly minor. Who knows where it will go.

  7. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    I got as far as “fractures both knees” before noping the fuck out of that article.

    • juris imprudent

      Agreed. I’d rather click an HM link than that.

    • Tres Cool

      Watch it ya, big puss. You can akshually hear something snap- not sure if its his knees or quads.

      • Drake

        Nope. I still do squats but quit the whole “do a little heavier” every time Starting Strength thing after a few episodes with my knees.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      #metoo

      • Fourscore

        Re: “How much additional kit will I need?” from earlier

        As with any other hobby there will be add ons. RCBS sells a pretty good kit, I have most of the same stuff but piece by piece. Scales, powder dispenser, etc

        I counted the other day, have 17 die sets and a couple are multi, like .38/.357 and .45/.45 Winc Mag. Suthen probably has X3, his inventory is far more vast.

    • Hyperion

      Don’t watch that. You can hear something snap and then his right knee appears to just slide right out of place, it’s ugly. I assume that bones were going through flesh. That can happen I guess when you’re holding up 1000 lbs.

  8. DEG

    As he attempts the squat, all seems well for a brief moment, before his knees buckle and Sedykh can be seen screaming in pain.

    I watched the video.

    OUCH!

    • leon

      #MeToo and :shivers:

    • Sean

      Not gonna watch it.

    • Idle Hands

      Am I a bad person for laughing hysterically the whole time.

    • Suthenboy

      They arent topless. They are wearing some kind of weird black squares over their boobies.

    • Idle Hands

      I Just love it when I hear about how much better, smarter and more sophisticated european politico’s are compared to our brand knuckle dragging simpletons.

    • KibbledKristen

      Clearly 35 is much, much too old

    • Rhywun

      Gross in every way.

    • Not Adahn

      Paolo is a chick’s name now? I guess genderqueering is Italian now.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Damn. That’s gold.

      • DEG

        Seconded.

      • Apples and Knives

        “Over my dead body” one is better than the best thing Onion has ever done.

      • C. Anacreon

        My woman-ness and my black-ness are by far my two best qualities,” said Harris. “As it turns out, I’ve been qualified to run for VP since birth!”

        The Bee nails it, every time. Comic geniuses, they is.

    • juris imprudent

      I just can’t wait all the way to Sunday for the Bee on Glibfit.

      • Gender Traitor

        OK, tell the truth – which one of you is it? Not writing for the Bee, but pictured in that cover photo?

      • DEG

        Not me.

      • Gender Traitor

        You were awfully quick to deny that. You don’t know whether or not I find him attractive.

      • DEG

        HAH!

        You don’t know whether or not I find him attractive.

        Doesn’t matter. It’s still not me.

      • Grosspatzer

        That reminds me of the Teen Vogue “covers” from past glibs days. Did she get a gig with the Bee?

  9. Tres Cool

    Ninth!

    TALL CANS!

    • Timeloose

      It hast to be the all drug Olympics skit. Great stuff.

      • KibbledKristen

        “some sort of fish paralyzer”

      • Chipwooder

        “Also, I believe he’s had several cocktails within the last hour or so.”

      • juris imprudent

        Holy shit, I’d forgotten what Dennis Miller looked like back then. I remember one of his great lines about “can you imagine what a cranky bastard I’ll be when I don’t have this hair”?

  10. Rebel Scum

    Think of the children.

    “Let me just say this … you know everything I do is about the children,” she continued. “You know, having five children of my own, nine grandchildren, I worry about everybody’s children in America, of course. I have advice for them whether they want it or not. And one of the things that is so terrible is in this epidemic because we’re saying we have to assault the virus, we have to defeat the virus, contain the virus, stop the spread, and that means we have to have testing, tracing, treatment, masks, spacing, all the rest of it. And we especially have to look into the minority community, which is suffering an undue disproportionate impact of this virus. Think of this: a Hispanic child is eight times more likely to be hospitalized with the virus than other children. Eight times. An African-American child is five times more likely to be hospitalized from the virus than other children. I mean, this is a challenge to our conscience. But, again, they refuse to face the gravity of the situation and listen to scientists and tell us what we need to do. And with their school money that they have, they want to spend the overwhelming bulk of it, in only schools that open up.”

    • invisible finger

      Yeah, everyhting she does is using children as collateral to run up debt.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s such a giver. What a good person.

      • juris imprudent

        The inheritance she has in mind for those children, truly mind-boggling.

    • Viking1865

      “And with their school money that they have, they want to spend the overwhelming bulk of it, in only schools that open up.”

      I just don’t understand their problem? Why don’t these parents just hire a private tutor. That’s what my kids are doing. Sometimes they come over to my house and put their lunches in my 10,000 dollar refrigerator right next to the 96 dollar gallon of ice cream that we share as a special treat.

    • Plinker762

      I worry about everybody’s children in America, of course

      but not about their great grandchildren

    • invisible finger

      The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

    • Suthenboy

      Jim Jones’ pal is one of the most despicable pols I have known.

      *Adam Schiff waves from the sidelines

      • KibbledKristen

        Ahhh…memories! Greenville SC Sept 2019. This lady was fawning all over his corrupt ass.

        Who’s your messiah now, lady?

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        How pathetic does one have to be to want a picture with that guy?

      • KibbledKristen

        I’m pretty sure that I was seated next to his bodyguard. IIRC he was 1/2 in my seat, he was so YOOGE

    • C. Anacreon

      Since your on the topic, why not bring up the rates of morbid obesity in children in those populations, and also let us know how many of the hospitalized children without other severe medical comorbidities were profoundly overweight? Nah, that’d be fat shaming, can’t have that.

      • Grosspatzer

        I wonder what pct of those populations are uninsured. Maybe i’m off base here, but at least in the northeast ER’s are the go-to doctor’s offices for those lacking medical insurance. These days I suspect if you shown up at an ER with any sort of URI you’ve got a good chance of being hospitalized. And those populations will be highly over-represented.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    It is certainly by no mere coincidence they are the only claimants to scientific authority in the whole modern world who make any demand that the police enforce their decrees.

    Mencken, man.

    *Gravity don’t need no stinkin badges.

  12. Viking1865

    The SEC and the ACC are playing, so is the Big 12. So that’s the consensus 1st and 3rd best conferences, along with the 4th best conference that happens to have Clemson in it.

    I want Urban Meyer to full heel and announce hes quitting immediately and starting the “Columbus Amateur Football Club” which will be scheduling exhibition matches against the college football teams that are playing.

    Soon, hopefully, to be joined by the Ann Arbor/Happy Valley/East Lansing/Bloomington etc etc Amateur Football Clubs.”

    • Idle Hands

      There’s no way Alabama or Texas wasn’t having a season, they would just run televised scrimmages if it came down to it. Pretty sure both will have fans in the stands.

    • invisible finger

      Without state money that is going to be a problem since it is illiegal – by executive order – to sell tickets.

      • Viking1865

        Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State could do it with booster money probably. Set up big buckets that say Peaceful Protest George Floyd Donations at the entrance.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    All I need to know

    “I think her policy perspective is very consistent with the need to help hard-pressed households that have been slammed by the pandemic,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “I think she’s focused on the right things.”

    If Zandi likes Harris’ economic ideas, they’re awful.

    • leon

      Pay me them taxes. I think the Dems believe their own shit about the tax cuts being “just for the rich”, while simultaneously pining to get the SALT deductions back, for rich people

      • Viking1865

        The Democrats believe that a public school teacher making 76,000 working 180 days a year, 6 hours a day is the hard working middle class, while a restaurant owner who clears 85,000 a year working six days a week, 10 hours a day is a rapacious capitalist exploiter member of the 1%.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I have advice for them whether they want it or not.

    STFU, Karen.

  15. Rhywun

    the one guy in the world who should maybe squat less

    Today in “not clicking that”….

    • juris imprudent

      Imagine a couple of guys in clown suits standing outside her cell. Now that would freak you out!

      • Nephilium

        Remember the great clown panic… can we go back to that instead of this COVID bullshit?

    • Idle Hands

      Hillary looks like she can creep.

    • Suthenboy

      After everyone has forgotten about her and some other shit-storm of the day is the center of attention she will despair and kill herself.

    • Fatty Bolger

      She should be more worried about that moment when the cameras go off and the guards start to look the other way.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Photo caption in the story: Epstein killed himself in a New York cell last August

        Sure he did.

      • Drake

        The day after they think they located all of her stashed evidence, she sadly succumbs to despair.

      • Hyperion

        She should be scared when she hears a strangely familiar voice say ‘you guys can take a break now *cackle cackle*’.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s understandably paranoid and it wouldn’t surprise me really if it’s true.

    • Chipwooder

      I’m picturing the prison scenes from Tango and Cash with Hillary as the Jack Palance character, stepping out of the shadows while all the inmates she’s paid off attempt to carry out an overly elaborate death.

  16. UnCivilServant

    Brazil exports COVID back to China in chicken wings.

    Given how many unused chinese tests come back positive for Wuhan, I place even odds that it’s the tests rather than the food.

    • Raven Nation

      I’d say there’s an even better chance the Chinese officials are lying.

      • Drake

        Best chance is that their tests are shit.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The viral identifying material is still around long after the virus is technically inactive from what I understand. Maybe frozen foods are different though but indicated presence doesn’t necessarily mean you can catch it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      You are a good person, I take back half of what I have never said about you.

  17. Evan from Evansville

    And life is interesting. I have been good recently and still spend the night in the ER. I was found face-first and wasn’t making any sense. I proved to the doc last night that I’m got released earlier today. The family and Lady but I don’t fee it.

    I just need routine. Having that taken from me has been the source of my wow. I am doing online worth to get things out there and to help everyone with their projects.

    There are a couple of things that need to be tuned–future plans to adjust to–but it greatly interests me to work on all variety and manor projects! I am ready to go!

    https://evanmathews.carrd.co/

    • KibbledKristen

      Hey, man…take care. That shit is worrisome!

    • DEG

      Spent the night in the ER? Sorry.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I appreciate the concern! I don’t think it real.

      I’m a prime contender or people that aren’t directly related by the ‘dangers’ of COVID, I am a prime example of how the negative effects greatly outweigh actual danger.

    • Count Potato

      Hope you feel better soon.

    • Grosspatzer

      Keep on truckin’. Good things are possible as long as you keep trying. Wishing you the best. /Someone who crawled out of a very deep hole a long time ago.

    • TARDIS

      I am ready to go!

      Good luck, glad you are able to work.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    More nonsensical jibberjabber from Vox

    I think something Keynes contributes to this discussion is that if your economy is not producing at its capacity — if you have people, if you have machines, factories, buildings that could be utilized and are not being utilized — the government has a real role where it can step in, particularly amidst massive amounts of uncertainty.

    But that’s where you get into something really tricky, which goes back to our consumer preferences versus social purpose discussion. There are broadly two ways you could respond to this: One is to say we are going to offer more stimulus checks that are going to go out every three months as long as unemployment is above 6.5 percent. That’s just getting money into people’s hands. And here, there’s a debate over how much money to give, but no real debate over what you’re doing with the money.

    The second is to say, we have all these people were sitting around at home. We have all of these folks who had jobs who don’t have them anymore. And we have this unbelievably pressing need to decarbonize our economy. So, let’s put those things together and announce a massive Green New Deal investment plan.

    “What would Keynes do?”

    Who gives a shit?

    • Fatty Bolger

      My response is: Fuck off, slaver.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They just jam the Green New Deal into every damn situation, don’t they? That’s just what we need in these trying times is an end to fracking and skyrocketing energy costs.

      • leon

        It’s just the latest tact of institute full socialism now. Same words different tune.

    • leon

      But that’s where you get into something really tricky, which goes back to our consumer preferences versus social purpose discussion. There are broadly two ways you could respond to this: One is to say we are going to offer more stimulus checks that are going to go out every three months as long as unemployment is above 6.5 percent. That’s just getting money into people’s hands. And here, there’s a debate over how much money to give, but no real debate over what you’re doing with the money.

      The second is to say, we have all these people were sitting around at home. We have all of these folks who had jobs who don’t have them anymore. And we have this unbelievably pressing need to decarbonize our economy. So, let’s put those things together and announce a massive Green New Deal investment plan

      Shorter Vox: Why give people money for them to decide what to spend, when we could decide how they should spend the money and do it for them, and conscript them into a national service if necessary.

    • Suthenboy

      “We have all of these folks who had jobs who don’t have them anymore. And we have this unbelievably pressing need to decarbonize our economy.”

      Giant treadmills? Chain them all to wheels? We could hire some other people to hold long braided pieces of leather to encourage them.

      • C. Anacreon

        And you thought the Black Mirror episode where most people’s jobs were to ride stationary bikes all day to generate electricity was just dystopian fantasy.

    • invisible finger

      Sounds like stoking the electricity plants with the bodies of the unemployed.

      • Nephilium

        There was some movie about this… something… something… Green.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      In the long run he would die.

    • Count Potato

      Keynes would end the lockdowns.

  19. Idle Hands

    Pretty sure that’s the only guy in the world Warty has some a modicum of respect for.

  20. Hyperion

    “Warty thinks this guy is the one guy in the world who should maybe squat less.”

    Oh fuck…

  21. Rebel Scum

    Dissolve the UN.

    As U.N. Human Rights Officer Jan Arno Hessbruegge noted:

    International human rights law establishes boundaries on how broadly domestic laws on personal self-defense between private persons may be drawn. States may not prohibit self-defense altogether, but in protecting the right to life they must also be sure that self-defense rights do not exceed reasonable boundaries. Certain initiatives to broaden self-defense laws raise serious concerns from a human rights perspective, notably “stand your ground” laws that permit the use of lethal force despite the existence of safe retreat options. Contrary to what has been asserted by some gun rights advocates, international law does not establish a right to firearms as a means of self-defense.11

    The linkage between the right to self-defense and the right to be armed is a fallacy perpetuated not by human rights scholars but by lobbyists for the firearms industry.

    • leon

      You have a right to an effective form of self defense. I don’t care what anyone else says.

    • Suthenboy

      Fuckstick has no say in the matter.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Frankly, I don’t give a fuck what international law says about the matter. I bet the rapees who got victimized by the UN’s blue helmets wished they had a pistol.

    • leon

      Simply saying that someone has a right to defend themselves while simultaneously barring them from accessing the most efficient means to do so is akin to saying someone has freedom of religion while preventing them from going to a church, mosque, synagogue, or any other place of worship.

      John Roberts has a word to say about that.

    • Plisade

      “The linkage between the right to self-defense and the right to be armed is a fallacy…”

      How so?

      • Suthenboy

        “The linkage between the right to self-defense and actually having the means to do so is a fallacy.”

        FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

        Same gibberish we always get from people wanting to put the yoke on us. Fuck that guy with a firehose.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Basically if you’re young, handicapped, or a woman you don’t have the right to effective self-defense if you can’t be armed. Why does the author hate these groups I wonder.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If you’re old I mean. Jesus…

    • R C Dean

      *clears throat*

      Fuck off, you fucking fuck.

  22. UnCivilServant

    Because the first episode passed the admittedly low bar set (It caused at least one audible laugh), I decided to watch episode 2 of Lower Decks.

    Good point 1 – they toned down Manic Psycho. I still don’t like her and the entire plot she was in with BluePurple-Haired Soyboy was 100% predictable. It also contained all the cringe.

    Once again, the side plot was better than the main plot and housed all the actually funny bits. It managed a few laughs and one actual guffaw, but is also forgettable to the point where I had to think to remember what the joke was after having just finished the episode.

    5/10

    • Rhywun

      CBS All-Access

      Hell no.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m using… alternate methods to view it.

  23. KibbledKristen

    Sooner or later even the soccer moms and Karens will revolt

      • KibbledKristen

        *whom

        THe masks and stay at home

      • Gustave Lytton

        Said it before. When the Karens flip, and they will, they’ll be berating people for wearing a mask. Some whiny ass person laying into an allergy sufferer or someone immunocompromised because they don’t think anyone should wear a mask anymore. Individual personal choice is dead. Mobs rule.

      • Viking1865

        Dude, the latest thing the fucking insane white women of the country have latched onto is that MASKS LEAD TO CHILD TRAFFICKING.

        See, apparently the literally thousands of children which are moved around the country to be raped can now be moved in plain sight with masks on.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I thankfully missed that.

      • DEG

        I’ve seen it.

    • Suthenboy

      What? I thought they were already revolting?

      I cant keep up.

    • Rhywun

      November will offer a clue.

    • Suthenboy

      The elite always sit in their ivory towers tenting their fingers and smiling to themselves then shock and disbelief when the rope shows up.

      They knew damned well they were crushing the best economy in history and impoverishing millions when they started this nonsense. Hunger has a tendency to help people pull their heads out of their asses and catch on and when they do…

      • Count Potato

        Unfortunately, I’m not seeing much resistance.

      • Suthenboy

        We dont have insurrections because people have too much to lose. That is changing very rapidly.

      • Suthenboy

        See Brooks below at #31

    • The Hyperbole

      People are driving across Texas to get 20$ worth if groceries? Bullshit. I’m not seeing a bunch of broken down hoopties in those lines of cars either and I’d wager dollars to donuts everyone of those people have cable and internet for their 50″ HDTVs. Absent the politicization of Tom Hanks Disease these people would be ridiculed for taking goods meant for truly needy people just because they made bad decisions.

      • Rhywun

        Something‘s off. I find it hard to believe that there’s only one food bank in all of Texas.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        There’s an entire class of people out there who don’t know fuck all about personal finance, or can’t be bothered to discipline themselves to live within their means. I have some sympathy, because been there done that, but when you’re queuing up at the food bank 2 weeks after uncle sugar turns off the spigot, maybe it implicates more than just the macroeconomic situation.

      • Don did not Escape Bama

        On the one hand, the article wasn’t laden with anecdotes.

        On the other hand, they missed the chance to find someone from, oh I don’t know, at least Sherman or Palo Pinto or Palestine who made the drive if they wanted to make that case.

      • l0b0t

        I spoke to my mother in Copperas Cove a couple days ago. She said nothing is shut down, restaurants are open for dining and nobody is masking unless they go to Walmart.

      • Grosspatzer

        Seriously. Is gas free in Texas now? You can buy a lot of food for the fuel cost of driving across Texas and back.

    • Tres Cool

      I was going Meijer today around lunch time, and the right lane of a State Route was nothing but standing cars for at least 1/2 mile. I couldnt tell what was going on- funeral procession? Construction ahead?

      No, it was a church handing out bags of food.

    • Not Adahn

      Thousands of cars would make a line longer than a mile.

  24. Count Potato

    I don’t know if you can catch covid from groceries, but I disinfect everything going into the refrigerator, and quarantine the non-perishables for a week.

    • Drake

      So what you are really consuming is vegetable and fruit infused vodka?

      • Count Potato

        I use quaternary ammonium that’s used to make bar wash.

      • UnCivilServant

        That sounds like you’re using stale urine.

      • juris imprudent

        Makes note to pass on dinner invites to CP‘s place.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m mildly embarrassed to admit that I do the same thing using 66 percent ethanol and the stuff that doesn’t need refrigeration goes into the storage building for at least 96 hours.

    • Rhywun

      “The internet is forever.”

      I remember hearing that somewhere.

    • Bobarian LMD

      I seem to recall him talking about travel restrictions that weren’t exactly lauded, either.

  25. Bobarian LMD

    Anyone seen the FleshBike™

    NSFSanity

    • KibbledKristen

      He’s not goin’ very hard, there. THat’s why he has to fuck a bike, I guess.

      • Rhywun

        I wonder if that was before or after South Park did (nearly) the same thing.

      • Nephilium

        You mean Garrison’s IT? South Park was way earlier with that, they were mocking the huge build up over the Segway.

      • Rhywun

        I can’t place anything that happened in the last couple decades very accurately. But yeah, I figured as much.

        Hence, I did not laugh.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of revolting peasants

    Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan asked the state Supreme Court to reverse the decision of a King County circuit court judge that allowed a recall effort to move forward against her, which could result in her expulsion from office.

    Durkan, a Democrat, was called out by five Seattle residents who filed a petition seeking to recall her because of how law enforcement officials have responded to protests this summer, according to The Seattle Times.

    Durkan reportedly asked the circuit court judge to reconsider the decision, but the request was denied.

    The state’s highest court is now being asked to render judgment after a notice of appeal was filed on Wednesday, The Times reported.

    The petitioners in turn asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider two of the charges the judge initially dismissed and to broaden their original charges against Durkan.

    Their patience is not infinite, after all. Maybe somebody in Portland will step forward.

    • Suthenboy

      I pray that her goose is cooked. Sane people would run her out on a rail. Next, get rid of the DA’s facilitating this chickenshit commie insurrection.

      Now do Seattle, Chicago, New York, St. Louis…every city run by commie cockroaches.

      • Hyperion

        The governor will intervene if necessary. She’s not going anywhere. Sorry Portlandia, you got what you vote for. If you don’t want it now, better move.

    • The Last American Hero

      5 of the 7 conservatives that live in Seattle do not a recall make.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yeah, so they can replace Wheeler with someone more left wing.

    • Hyperion

      Everyone in Portland is totally woke. All of them. There is not one single unwoke person there. Even the ones that seem perfectly normal and are super nice, are woke beyond reason. Perfectly normal people who believe every single word coming out of the mainstream media, without question, like it was the word of the gospel, every single line of ludicrous identity garbeldy gobble coming out of academia, all of it. And they will vote democrat, I don’t care if it’s Hitler reincarnated running. The nicest people, but also 100% proggy brainwashed and naive as you can get.

      No one is saving Portland, or Seattle, it’s over.

    • KibbledKristen

      Waitwaitwaitwait…an ethical cop???????

      • TARDIS

        Probably just someone that just hates the cunte, because she’s a cunte.

      • Viking1865

        This is her underling, a male piece of leftist shit.

        Which is even scarier to me. It’s one thing for Soros to handpick his DAs, but I was under the impression that the people in the office were civil servants. Now, naturally civil servants will tend leftwing, but the idea of a whole fucking building full of commie DAs and ADAs scares the absolute shit out of me.

      • TARDIS

        I meant the cop, not the prosecutor. I would expect DA’s and piggies to be tight though. But yeah, commies in the justice system are one of the biggest problems.

    • Suthenboy

      Did anyone have any doubt that the St. Louis DA is hopelessly corrupt and an idiot?
      Chances of disbarment?

      The helo service looks an awful lot like a hobby farm to me.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Absolute immunity boyeeee!!!

    • Rhywun

      Wow.

    • Hyperion

      After Biden strokes out and Harris takes over, VP Kim Gardner.

  27. Spudalicious

    Hey, there are six links up there. You’re not Brett. WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIM YOU MONSTER?!?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Prima facie slavery, too.

      • Viking1865

        I’m willing to compromise: no voting for anyone who’s not registered for selective service.

    • Gustave Lytton

      After arguments before the 5th Circuit in March, a federal commission recommended extending the draft to include women as well.

      “The Commission concluded that the time is right to extend Selective Service System registration to include men and women, between the ages of 18 and 26. This is a necessary and fair step, making it possible to draw on the talent of a unified Nation in a time of national emergency,” a summary to the commission’s final report said.

      Fuck off slavers. I hope Lewis Hershey is burning right now.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hey, discrimination it totally OK if you do it for the right people or to the right people. How do they square the circle on this one?

    • Grosspatzer

      Chunk is addicted to my garden. Gun glibs cordially invited over for target practice and beer. Will post videos.

      • mikey

        I never really minded donating 30% of the crop to the local critters. However, the fucking woodchuck would wait until the lettuce was just right and destroy the entire patch. Not eat a few heads – shred the whole crop.
        My wife is a tree hugger and our gardening Bible was Rodale – plant marigolds in the tomatoes to keep the tomato worms away. Rodale’s advice on wood chucks? Shoot them. It shot two of them and we never had anymore probems.
        We lived in MA at the time and when my wife told the folks at work what we did over the weekend her colleagues were all “Shot it? Like with a GUN??? Your husband owns a GUN? How does he know how to use a GUN?”

  28. Count Potato

    “67-26 in favor of mandatory mask laws, with 50% of the public strongly supporting them

    You can say whatever you want about the science of masks, they are *popular* and we are less than 100 days from an election that could destroy the conservative movement”

    https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1290376100305084416

    • grrizzly

      Trump put on a mask for a reason.

    • Suthenboy

      Funny how polls always seem to parallel the prevailing opinions of the ruling class.

    • Rhywun

      Amazingly, the support rises the more educated you are.

      (And by “amazingly” I mean “not amazingly at all”.)

      • Idle Hands

        I don’t think in human history There has never been a more educated credentialed class of complete retards than we have now.

      • Rhywun

        And the left is proud of it. Top Men are smart. Only stupid rubes deny Science.

      • Hyperion

        And it makes complete sense that everyone coming out of a university with a degree today are uber liberal. Because they drove out all of the conservatives. And if any are left and they’re working in an academic environment, they don’t dare talk about it.

        So there you go, 100% of highly educated people are liberal.

      • mrfamous

        It is interesting how the “strongly oppose” doesn’t change nearly as much though, while the “strongly support” shoots through the roof. The authoritarian impulses of educated lefties runs like clockwork.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Land of the not free home of the not brave.

    • Hyperion

      As often as they’ve portended the end of the Republican party and the conservative movement, I wouldn’t be too concerned if I were either. All you’re going to do is make them hate you more and be more resolved, dummy.

  29. Sensei

    Greetings!

    I’ve been mostly offline for a week with a torn cornea thanks to a literal sharp stick in the eye. I don’t recommend it.

    Although I did get some laughs from my Japanese friends when explaining what happened as a “dad joke”.

    気のせいじゃない。木のせいだよ!

    • KibbledKristen

      Google translate is…not helpful

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m guessing the word play of “ki” of the two different kanji.

      • Sensei

        “Ki no sei” is a set phrase for “imagination”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ahh…

        *scribbles more notes*

      • Sensei

        The first part of each phrase sounds the same.

        (My) Imagination
        The tree’s fault

        So a loose translation would be, “it’s not my imagination. It was because of a tree.”

      • Nephilium

        Sure it is…

        Did you mean 気のせいじゃない。木のせいだよ!

        Eventually, through some clicking it translated it to:

        It’s not my fault. It’s because of my mind!

      • Sensei

        Actually it’s the exact opposite. Japanese does not machine translate well.

    • DEG

      I’ve been mostly offline for a week with a torn cornea thanks to a literal sharp stick in the eye. I don’t recommend it.

      Sorry. Healed up?

      • Sensei

        Just about. Thx!

  30. KibbledKristen

    Murphy’s Law of living alone: every time you sit around in your underwear, someone will unexpectedly knock on your door. Every. Time.

    • Nephilium

      And? Answer the door. Do it!

    • kinnath

      Uh, that is what the door robe is for ?

    • Raven Nation

      You answer your door?

      • KibbledKristen

        Never. Unless it’s Uber Eats.

    • KibbledKristen

      By the time I got my pants on, they were gone. No note, no package delivery.

      I can’t tell you how many times someone has knocked on my door, thinking it was someone else’s house. I think I need a more off-putting “welcome” mat.

      • Agent Cooper

        Glibs should sell FUCK OFF, SLAVER welcome mats?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Maybe if you closed your curtains that wouldn’t happen?

      • KibbledKristen

        Man, I live in Virginia and all my windows face due east and it’s August. My curtains are WWII London level blackout.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Then you should look for the hidden creep camera. I’m trying to tell you it ain’t coincidence.

    • Rhywun

      I only get a knock once in a while, not every day. ?‍♂️

      • Ted S.

        Living in the middle of nowhere, the only knocks we get are from the rare times it’s UPS or FedEx delivering something.

      • KibbledKristen

        My neighbor walks my dog, so she just comes up every day and lets herself in, so I’m wearing clothes most of the time. Today I played basketball and was overheated, so I stripped down as soon as she left. So of course, someone knocked.

        It’s also always when I’m at my most chill.

    • Ted S.

      Hawt.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      When you call the hot pizza delivery guy and then disrobe that’s bound to happen.

    • Suthenboy

      Lift one slat so all they can see is one of your eyes and growl “What do you want?!”

    • KibbledKristen

      For a new “welcome” mat, I’m thinking: “this is not the house you’re looking for”. Or “you must be lost”. Or “your GPS steered you wrong”.

      (I can’t have profanity because there’s kids on my floor)

      • Spudalicious

        Just be honest. “I’m in my underwear”. Decent minded people will just keep walking.

      • dbleagle

        I used to have “GO AWAY” and a old buddy has(d) “Do you have a warrant?”

      • KibbledKristen

        How about a picture of the T-1000 in the helicopter with “Get. Out.”?

    • C. Anacreon

      In the olden times when people smoked and one was allowed to do so in public places, the trick to making a bus come to the bus stop was to light up a cigarette. Wouldn’t be more than a puff before it rumbled into view.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    but the men will take the field and the boys will cower behind their masks

    Well in the case of Penn State, their team will be cowering behind the boys in the shower.

    Everyone knows (esp Sloopy) that this is just panic over the prospect of being beaten by the Golden Rodents of THE U of M this year.

    • Ted S.

      The Stannous Gophers?

    • creech

      At least Penn State fans won’t have to be mourning yet another loss to the Buckeyes this year.

  32. Pope Jimbo

    Not Minnesoda Nice

    The background for this story is that the GOP in Minnesoda only controls the Senate. The GOP has tried several times to end Gov Walz’s one man rule and gotten no where. Walz has not even pretended to work with the legislature. So yesterday, the GOP refused to confirm Walz’s Labor Secretary which pretty much meant she was fired. The DFL and Walz have gone apeshit at the pushback.

    The story contains a juicy bit of dirt sent anonymously to a friendly reporter (what reporter isn’t a friend of the DFL?).

    Minnesotans will remember Nancy Leppink as a badass woman who fought like hell to protect the health and safety of working people during a pandemic until her final day in office. Minnesotans will remember Paul Gazelka’s final days as Senate majority leader as a crisis of character on public display. A man who prided himself on his principals, a penchant for business and labor, and his prized relationship with the governor, chose to flush it all down the toilet in a manic, brazen attempt to appease a band of angry, mask-less men who couldn’t stand losing the spotlight to actual public servants. At this point, the only living organism voting for Senate Republicans and their flat-earth strategy in November is, in fact, the coronavirus.

    Bonus Glib points for the John-O using principals instead of principles

    • Suthenboy

      Viruses are not living organisms. So, this is the person setting public health policy?

      *facepalm*

      • prolefeed

        Technically, they are parasitic living organisms – they reproduce copies of themselves using DNA – that have dispensed with spending energy creating metabolic tissues in favor of hijacking those from their hosts

      • Suthenboy

        They are molecular remnants from living cells that have died. They are the biological equivalent of junkyard litter. No metabolism to speak of. They dont live or do anything at all. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.

        *If do manage to find evidence of life on Mars is it s toss up in my mind whether we find nothing but fossils and viruses (dead world) or some living slime growing under the surface.

      • C. Anacreon

        Both sides have been extensively argued on this. Essentially you’re both right, you can say they are either living or nonliving. Such is (or isnt) life.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Probably not. They are some shit stain press flack trying to get a mob stirred up against the GOP hoping that they will go back into the fetal position.

        Hopefully they will understand that most people in the state are tired of Walz and his never ending emergency powers. The ones who aren’t are all in heavily blue districts you will never win.

    • KibbledKristen

      * Bookmarks link for same reason *

      • Rhywun

        Seriously.

        Salesforce – shocking.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Salesforce, the solution to nobody’s problem

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      General Motors already makes shitty vehicles so they may as well.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Too bad about Albertsons. The infections in corporate America run deep.

      Salesforce is no surprise. Besides being a gun grabbing POS, Marc Fuckface is an asshole and his company pumps out garbage software.

      • KibbledKristen

        Benioff’s connections got his company’s hooks into the Fedgov during the Obama admin. AFAIK they’re still using Salesforce widely.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The sales dipshits at my company are apparently in love with it as well, as though it was some sort of magical revenue generator if they just fuel it with enough leads and activities.

      • EvilSheldon

        Salesforce is indeed garbage, but so are all CMS packages. They’re basically ransomware that you pay to infect your own systems.

    • Rhywun

      ROSA (SHE/HER)

      LOL

    • Suthenboy

      What was the name of that movie….oh yeah, There Will Be Blood.
      Keep setting up those dominos and eventually one is going to fall down.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      BUT IT WAS FEDERAL SHOCK NAZI STORMTRUMPERS THAT WERE CAUSING THE VIOLENCE

    • The Hyperbole

      All I’m seeing is the cops clearing a stairway, and arresting some one (presumably a protester) and a bunch of people filming it, where is the cop shoving? and who got away with what?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The revolution will be tweeted.

      • TARDIS

        This all comes down to one thing, these useful idiots don’t need to work to be fed or housed.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

    • Rhywun

      In another win for Trump’s critics

      First fucking sentence. Shove the politics up your ass.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah and by win they are referring to the deaths of people in nursing homes.

        “Win for Trumps critics” is the death of old people. Yeah. OK.

    • Suthenboy

      Oooooooh and 62 grainers at that. Yum.

    • Sean

      I thought sportsmans guide was no bueno.

      Does anyone have anything positive to say about them?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I have no experience with them. That’s good to know.

      • Sean

        I’ve never ordered from them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Flaking lead paint at a school. Now there’s something to actually get spun up about.

      • commodious spittoon

        I wonder what they’re doing with those delicious paint chips.

      • Ted S.

        Feeding them to the children to make them stupid and compliant.

      • limey

        Whatever happened to a good old 12 pack of wax crayons? All the flavor and none of the heavy metal poisoning.

      • This Machine

        Found the Marine.

      • Rhywun

        To be fair, they’ve only had four or five decades to fix it since it was discovered that lead is no bueno.

      • commodious spittoon

        What’s all that about “too important to be left to the market”…?

      • Rhywun

        See also: the public housing that is literally falling apart to the tune of several billion dollars a year.

      • Viking1865

        The Republicans keep denying them the funding though.

      • Suthenboy

        I am skeptical. I would swear lead paint for walls has not been made for many decades. The only true lead paints made today are artist’s paints.

        Oh look: The United States’ Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) banned lead paint in 1977 in residential properties and public buildings (16 CFR 1303), along with toys and furniture containing lead paint.

        Someone is full of shit. Another zombie boogeyman.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s not uncommon for inner city schools to have never been remediated. The suburbs are generally lead free these days.

      • Rhywun

        You have to understand that literally zero dollars are spent on maintenance for these buildings. That paint probably dates from the fifties or sixties.

    • limey

      Is it all 55? I can’t drive 55.

      • TARDIS

        Me neither. I’d get shot.

    • Suthenboy

      Why yes, yes it does. I am thinking summer in my jeep with the top off.

      • Ted S.

        I don’t think I want to see you topless….

      • Suthenboy

        *strikes sexy pose*

        You might be surprised

      • Viking1865

        Be careful going through Sturgis. I hear the corpses are piled in the streets 10 deep.

      • KibbledKristen

        I know, right???

        Maybe there will be some strapping beardos with robust immune systems left, though

      • dbleagle

        Stay off of I-90 since it is meh. The route through the middle of the Black Hills (385) looks good. You can always just swing south to Sturgis as a side trip to see the piles of bodies.

      • KibbledKristen

        I figure by the end of the day, I’ll just want to set the cruise control and get back to RC on I-90

      • Don did not Escape Bama

        US385 runs through both Deadwood and Marathon TX (Big Bend). What an intriguing pair of towns.

      • KibbledKristen

        I could do 385 if I’m feeling perky. But usually at the end of the day in a strange place, especially if there’s been socializing, I just want to get back to home base and have a cocktail.

      • dontreadonme

        Just came through there last week on the way back from Montana. If you want to see Rushmore take the loop to the South. Also 16A drives through a gorgeous valley with lakes and granite boulders. Lots of happy Harley riders having a grand time without helmets or masks. Good to see.

      • KibbledKristen

        I’m having trouble deciding between Devils Tower & Rushmore. I’m only there 4 and 1/2 days, so I gotta pick one or t’other.

      • dontreadonme

        The tower is a little off the path but more impressive to me than someone defacing a granite cliff.

      • KibbledKristen

        Off the path is never a problem for me

      • dbleagle

        Devil’s Tower is my definite pick. It is kinda out there but the views from the top are great. There is a trail around it and you can watch the climbers. Plus by being on a trail you have left 95+% of the people behind.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      I love the Black Hills. Take some of the gravel roads out to the Badlands too.

      • KibbledKristen

        Wall & Badlands is on the itinerary

    • KibbledKristen

      Also going to hit up the SD Air & Space Museum, and maybe Mount Rushmore depending on crowds.

      Tryna look at the satellite to see if there’s any spotting locations for Ellsworth in case they’re doing training exercises when I’m there. Looks like the museum parking lot os as good a spot as any.

  33. Gustave Lytton

    Tmite, tax dollars at work for public propaganda edition. Bragging about being partisan. Zero attempt to be a professional. Then there’s his Bundyville series uncovering “right wing extremism” while there’s leftist insurrection just outside his front door that that he whitewashes.

    https://twitter.com/ryanjhaas?s=21

    • Suthenboy

      Ten bucks says he is one of the shitweasels rioting every night.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I don’t know, the people in that thread seem to think he’s a decent guy.

    • This Machine

      What is happening in Portland is important to what happens next

      Well he’s not wrong.

    • KibbledKristen

      They just want to stop people from getting the quinine

    • Rhywun

      Here’s a 2×4. Knock yourself out.

  34. Yusef drives a Kia

    People don’t like the Census, any completion means a Bonus for us enumerators

    • TARDIS

      I remember during the previous census, which was about ten years ago, I made the polite Hispanic lady explain the difference between Hispanic and Latino. That was fun.

  35. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Just dropped off #1 soon at boarding school for high school senior year. He actually seemed happy. There’s hope!

    • dontreadonme

      Good video. This mask thing is really messing people up. I was hiking in the mountains last week and encountered idiots wearing masks at 10,000 feet and still glaring at me and turning away as I passed them on the trail. F’ing insane.