Tuesday afternoon links of atonement

by | Sep 16, 2020 | Daily Links | 292 comments

Mmmm…

 

I was canning pickles on Saturday, people. That’s a hell of a lot better excuse than Brett can’t find the USB port in the dumpster he’s currently occupying.

 

Catch a nap gentlemen, your time is done.

 

Ironically for Kany,e this isn’t a lucid moment.

 

We’ve been socked in for over a week now. The west coast can’t even keep it’s pollution to itself.

 

I don’t know who his advisors are, but damn Joe.

 

Screw you, I’m a Doors fan. And this is one of my favs.

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292 Comments

    • Sean

      President Donald Trump awarded seven California National Guard soldiers the Distinguished Flying Cross on Monday for rescuing 242 campers trapped by the massive Creek Fire in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the afternoon of Sept. 5 and into the early morning hours the next day.

      Good.

      • TARDis

        Boring! In other news, 300 hundred Portland Protestors were awarded the Congressional Medal Participation Trophy of Freedom for their valiant efforts toward staying out all night and breaking shit without a steady supply of lattes.

  1. Count Potato

    ” Kanye has 21 Grammy Awards from 69 nominations!!!! It’s not like they’ve snubbed him. ”

    I’m let you finish taking a piss.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      69 nominations

      nice.

      • Ozymandias

        I took a quick look at the outrage from fellow artists. Gave me a chuckle.
        Piss on a Grammy? The Horror.
        Piss on a crucifix? HIGH ART.

      • Fatty Bolger

        He should donate it to the Met.

  2. grrizzly

    This is crazy.

    For more than a week we’ve seen horrific pictures from the West Coast of unbearable air quality and catastrophic damage from wildfires. On Monday the smoke began to arrive in New England, and yesterday we actually witnessed the sun noticeably dimmed by smoke.

    This morning as the sun rose, it once again took on an orange glow, an indication of smoke in the atmosphere. You might wonder how this all got here, and the answer is the jet stream.

    • Ted S.

      I noticed driving into work yesterday at 5:30 AM that the sliver of moon had an orange tint.

      • grrizzly

        The sky has an orange tint from my window right now.

      • Fourscore

        We had about 3 days of the orange sunlight but the wind changed today, air is fresh, cool, blue sky. Couldn’t smell anything, looked like high altitude fog/clouds. Much cooler tonight.

    • Sensei

      There was local story here with pictures from various places in NJ discussing the same thing.

    • Idle Hands

      Sun was so dim this morning I thought it was the moon.

  3. Count Potato

    “PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Dangerously dirty air spewing from the West Coast wildfires is seeping into homes and businesses, sneaking into cars through air conditioning vents and preventing people already shut away by the coronavirus pandemic from enjoying a walk or trip to the park.”

    I’m trying to feel sorry for the people of Portland, but nothing is happening.

    • Mad Scientist

      What these people need to avoid the smoke is to wear masks. Problem solved.

    • Plisade

      My father is in Lincoln City, on the coast outside Portland. He and his were at Evac 1; all seems to be well now.

      The really sad thing is that he is in the middle of packing up to move to Florida. I’m afraid the fires will hurt real estate there.

      • Count Potato

        Sorry, I’m sure there are many good people there, but you know what I meant.

      • Plisade

        Oh, I wasn’t posting to take offense. Yes, I know what you mean and I’m so glad he’s resolved to getting away from the left coast. Once my brother leaves, our little exodus is complete.

  4. Rebel Scum

    this isn’t a lucid moment.

    It was a liquid moment.

    • blackjack

      Well, was it silent?

  5. Ted S.

    The links of atonement shouldn’t be until Sept. 27/28.

    • invisible finger

      And he should atone for calling today Tuesday.

    • Chafed

      Look at you being culturally sensitive.

  6. Count Potato

    ““There was a Marine veteran that had been deployed a total of six times… Dodge Ram started down the street in front of his house. .. [He] saw a woman walking her dog, ran over her, killed her, killed the dog, put her in the back of his pickup truck… molested her … came home … and called the state police and said, ‘I just killed someone,’” Biden said in Tampa on Tuesday.”

    such eloquence much lucid

    • Florida Man

      Joe: And that little marine was me.

      Handlers: damn it Joe!

      • Fourscore

        “and that little marine was Kamala from Jamaica Plains or Queens or somewhere”

    • Overt

      I always wondered what the discerning necrophiliac uses for transporting his corpse brides. Dodge should run far and wide with that endorsement.

      And of course, to tell such a story and then say “We can’t let the stigma affect these people” is even tone-deaf bad for Biden. What the hell is wrong with that guy?

      • Count Potato

        Well, after they get done normalizing pedophilia, necrophilia is next.

      • Cancelled

        Unless they killed their ‘lover’ I’d say pedophilia is orders of magnitude worse than necrophilia. Actually, let me be stronger in this, pedophilia is wrong, whether or not it is taboo, because someone is harmed. Necrophilia is merely taboo, although it may involve a trespass to chattels depending on the source of the corpse.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure the fact checkers are working overtime to track down the details of this case so the can see if Joe was telling the truth.

      Of course, Joe is going to skirt the fact checkers because technically no one can figure out what the fuck he is saying.

      • R C Dean

        My first question:

        Is that story even true?

      • Count Potato

        I’m not even sure what the story is.

      • R C Dean

        “There was a Marine veteran that had been deployed a total of six times… Dodge Ram started down the street in front of his house. .. [He] saw a woman walking her dog, ran over her, killed her, killed the dog, put her in the back of his pickup truck… molested her … came home … and called the state police and said, ‘I just killed someone,’

      • Ozymandias

        Grammar, what is it?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda.

        evil Dodge

        Maybe Joe heard that Marines are called Devil Dogs and got confused and it came out evil Dodge? And he knows that is bad because he and Obama saved Dodge from going bankrupt

      • blackjack

        Another evil dodge

      • blackjack

        Well, mopar, anyway.

  7. Plisade

    “Catch a nap gentlemen, your time is done.”

    Um… that’s quite obviously something else, as in not spooky.

    • Count Potato

      Looks like a small mammal.

      • Apples and Knives

        Yeah, a small animal running along a stone fence, followed by a water smudge on the windshield.

      • Mad Scientist

        That was no smudge! THERE IS A PREDATOR AMONG US!!!! Everyone should immediately stop what they’re doing and cover themselves with mud!

    • Grosspatzer

      They just found out they’ve been emancipated.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I guess the NY Post needs to periodically remind us that they are not serious by reporting on windshield smudges.

      • Florida Man

        A smudge on the lens! I know when someone is threatening me!

      • Nephilium

        I’m glad someone went there.

      • Mad Scientist

        I for one welcome our new birdshit on a windshield overlords.

    • wchipperdove

      Someone suggested it could be a Pepper’s Ghost, an old stage illusion where something out of one’s field of vision can be lit and seen reflected in the glass.

      • Ozymandias

        “And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids and their dog!!”
        RUH-ROH.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Gettysburg ‘ghosts’ run across road in this bone-chilling video

    Meh.

    • blackjack

      Some serious doors fan music!

      • blackjack

        Even better!

    • Agent Cooper

      Doors are so f-ing overrated.

      • blackjack

        He says, in the same links where Kanye is pissing on one of 26 fucking grammy’s!?!?!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      What exactly did they do right?

      • Sensei

        “Almost everything”

        Lots of testing, masks, distancing requirements, lockdowns after clusters emerged. And finally they pulled the plug.

        Realistically it was sorority that broke the rules and another cluster in the Gettysburg Hotel. As far as we know nobody was even hospitalized.

      • Grosspatzer

        That sucks. My kid is at Scranton, they just imposed a 2-week lockdown (one step away from the above) because of about 80 or so positive cases (nobody hospitalized AFAIK). Crossing my fingers on that; FWIW Gettysburg was his second or third choice, we liked it as well.

      • Caput Lupinum

        Scranton? My God, you have my condolences. /escaped native

      • Caput Lupinum

        しんじまえ. That’s gonna be in my head for days now.

      • db

        One of my favorite songs.

      • Grosspatzer

        Love the school
        The town is… interesting.

      • Caput Lupinum

        U of S is a good school, yeah. Scranton is a hole, but some of the surrounding towns like Dickson City and Clark’s Summit are, well, less bad.

      • Francisco d'Anconia

        Heyna

      • db

        Scranton:

        Where children played
        Without despair
        In back yard slag piles
        And folks managed to eat each day

        Just about thirty-thousand pounds
        Of bananas

      • invisible finger

        Realistically breaking rules had nothing to do with it because none of the protocols have any effectiveness whatsoever.

      • Sensei

        Oh, that too.

        I meant it realistically it was two clusters that caused the pants shitting. Which if they had followed “the rules” and still had an identical outcome they may have not panicked. It was the lack or rule following that shut it down for sure.

      • R C Dean

        Lots of testing, masks, distancing requirements, lockdowns after clusters emerged. And finally they pulled the plug.

        That sounds more like “My College Did Almost Everything Wrong” to me.

      • invisible finger

        The most telling thing to me is every “expert” referred to has never worked in a hospital. Back in March it was all about easing the burden on the health care heroes. And at first the hospital workers had horror stories about being overwhelmed. And a few weeks later those same workers said it was manageable and then a few weeks later they said it’s not a big problem anymore and that was the last time the panic mongers ever talked to a hospital worker.

      • Florida Man

        New projection is our normal OR case volume is going to be down by 15 percent for the rest of the year. Presumably because some people are still scare, some have no insurance and some have no PTO left.

    • Grosspatzer

      The de-densification plan did not include all students. For the remainder of the semester, freshmen will continue living on Gettysburg’s campus. Some students, including tour guides, intramural staff, and resident assistants, will also remain on campus after being asked to stay to enhance first-year students’ experience. Following the cleaning of spaces no longer occupied by upperclassmen, some students will move their residence in order to spread out across campus. My roommates, also seniors, are remaining on campus to continue their roles as college staff.

      This is what drives me bonkers. It’s a dire emergency, except when it’s not. Freshmen are less at risk than upperclassmen, except tour guides, intramural staff, and resident assistants who apparently are not at risk. Or maybe they are heroes, I’m not sure. A few of my fraternity brothers were noted for “enhancing first-year students’ experience”, and we sure thought they were heroes. Of course, if you question this bullshit, the reply is “BUT SCIENCE!!! “

      • Rhywun

        This is what drives me bonkers

        Yep. It’s all ridiculous theater.

        Eventually the RA’s are gonna get the plague and sue the fuck out of the school and win. I would just give up on this year – it’s not happening.

      • R C Dean

        A few of my fraternity brothers were noted for “enhancing first-year students’ experience”,

        *waggles eyebrows*

      • Overt

        My kid’s high school is the exact same way. They go through all this effort to break the kids up into cohorts that can then attend classes so that they stay in a single room all day and do not mix with one another. Sounds great right? Any outbreak is limited to that single cohort, and the other cohorts can continue schooling.

        Except for the combined sports where cohorts mix.

        And of course except for the fact that these kids have more than 10 friends and they mix with the other cohorts outside of school.

        And yet some “expert” was probably paid a 5 or 6 digit sum in order to come up with this complete farce of a plan.

    • wchipperdove

      I had been thinking about taking some college classes to get out of the house and meet people (read: college-age girls) but, nope, not this freakin’ year.

    • Idle Hands

      Let me guess no refunds for room and board.

      • Idle Hands

        also for school.

      • Sensei

        Actually refunds for room and board, but miraculously this was decided one day AFTER the time for refunds for the class tuition.

        Purely a coincidence I’m sure.

    • Drake

      My son’s school made a big show of covid precautions. When everyone still got it, then recovered, they pointedly ignored it and didn’t cancel school.

  9. Rhywun

    The west coast can’t even keep it’s pollution to itself.

    Stop hurting the planet, the west coast. ?

    • Sean

      Can we fine them?

      • Grosspatzer

        Sure. They will pay in carbon credits.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Germans do stupid and oppressive laws with the best of them.

    • Rhywun

      infecting at least 23 others

      Love to see the proof of that.

    • Idle Hands

      send her my way I’ll take care of her.

    • Nephilium

      I was shocked as hell, one of the East Side suburbs is still going with their Mac and Cheese crawl tomorrow.

      • Rhywun

        This year, dozens of videos showing ‘Karens’ calling cops on black people and screaming at supermarket clerks over face masks have gone viral on the internet.

        That’s an interesting way to phrase “have been relentlessly pushed by the media”.

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Imma say it was lucid. He’s realized the Grammys haven’t been worth a shit for the past ten years at least so a piss will have to do or maybe it’s a statement about being rewarded for for earthly deeds. Whatever it was, I don’t think it’s because he thinks he was snubbed like the article implies.

    • wchipperdove

      I think we’re attributing too much intelligence and purpose to him.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Kanye’s pretty smart but he’s also nuts.

      • Idle Hands

        most genius’s are. And yes I think Kanye qualifies. Probably the most influential musician of his generation and of the last decade.

      • Mojeaux

        Kanye’s pretty smart but he’s also nuts.

        Most geniuses are.

        Can confirm.

    • Rhywun

      I didn’t read the article. The stunt reads to me as “fuck all y’all, look how many grammys I got”.

    • Pine_Tree

      I think next he’s gonna market that one Grammy on ebay and make a (nother) mint off of it just since he peed on it.

  11. Count Potato

    “Twitter suspends account of Chinese virologist who claims COVID-19 was developed in a Wuhan lab – as she releases report with ‘evidence’ that she says backs up her theory

    It is not clear if there was one specific tweet from Yan that violated Twitter’s policy.

    In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night, Yan claimed she was suspended because ‘they don’t want the people to know this truth’.

    Yan, who is a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, said COVID-19 was ‘man-made’ and ‘not from nature’.

    ‘I have evidence to show why they can do it, what they have done, how (they did it),’ she told Fox News.

    ‘The scientific world also keeps silent… works together with the Chinese Communist Party, they don’t want people to know his truth. That’s why I get suspended, I get suppressed, I am the target that Chinese Communist Party wants disappeared.’

    After the segment aired, the Fox News show also accused Facebook of censorship after saying they had been blocked from sharing the interview segment on the social media platform.

    A video of the interview segment posted on the Tucker Carlson Tonight show’s page now comes with a warning that reads: ‘False Information. This post repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact-checkers say is false.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8740093/Twitter-suspends-Chinese-virologist-claims-COVID-19-lab-made.html

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      God do I hate Dorsey and Zuckerborg.

      • Rebel Scum

        At what point does their censorship qualify as election-meddling?

  12. Bobarian LMD

    Babylon Bee predicts the future.

    3 months ago.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Arradondo said around 100 officers have left the department or have taken leave since the beginning of 2020. That’s more than double the usual number of officers who either step down from the department or who are inactive each year.

      Oh, not what they meant by defund the police?

      • Pope Jimbo

        The article I posted on this in the morning links said that most of the officers were retiring because they had PTSD because of all the rioting.

      • Tundra

        I just saw a couple of my MPD pals at the gym. Things are getting worse down there.

        Nice job Minneapolis ‘leadership’. You are getting what you wanted.

      • blackjack

        Fucking pussies!

        That’s a free book, btw, and a pretty interesting (if not self serving) one at that.

  13. TARDis

    Oddly, my 80’s girl wife enjoys The Doors. Our “crossovers” are somewhat limited. This is one of them. Honestly, I just think it’s just his daddy voice and appearance for her.

    • wchipperdove

      Leather pants.

      And, I’ve been meaning to ask this, what’s going on in your avatar?

      • Mojeaux

        Leather pants.

        And he’s pretty.

      • wchipperdove

        He was a nice-lookin’ guy. But by all accounts, a bit of a jerk.

      • TARDis

        Porta-potty being spirited away in a freak gust of wind or something.

        Here.

      • wchipperdove

        Wow.

        I always thought it was a P-a-P, but it looked like it had been shot out of a catapult or something.

    • wchipperdove

      And it looks like the thing might have peed on him. Unless he drools.

    • Not Adahn

      Reed Bender is a father-of-two and a service technician at his father’s company Bender Sewage and Drain in Mitchell.

      Reed Bender? Oddly specific.

    • grrizzly

      And this happened in South Dakota! There’s no sane place anywhere in America.

  14. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. HOA decides to sell member’s house because he put up a flag pole

    A Navy veteran who installed a pole in his yard to fly the American flag is now in danger of losing his home because of it.

    Reed Herman’s home in the Wright County city of St. Michael has been foreclosed upon by the homeowners association for his development, and the house will be sold for the highest cash offer at a sheriff’s auction Oct. 7.

    The Preserve West Townhome Association claims it’s selling the home, valued at around $300,000, to recover about $6,600 in legal fees and other costs associated with the fight over Herman’s flagpole, which the association maintains was installed in violation of the rules Herman agreed to live by when he bought a home in the development.

    “Association living, I suppose, is not for everybody. We have a lot of rules, and we sign an agreement to abide by those,” Joanne Dungan, the association’s president, said in an interview.

    I never got why anyone would live where a HOA ruled.

    • Mad Scientist

      People like HOAs because they want rules imposed on other people.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sounds like an asshole move on the HOA’s part but he knew the rules when he purchased. I dislike all parties involved.

      • LJW

        Isn’t there some sort of compromise between taking it down and taking his house? So glad our HOA is so laid back.

      • Drake

        The guy is a Veteran and does know where these people live. They ought show a little caution before taking his home.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Non-negotiable. No HOA or the real estate gorilla is out on her ass.

      • Tulip

        Same for me. It was an absolute no when I was house hunting. Another absolute was it must have gas cooking. I turned and walked out of several houses before the realtor got the message. And I sent a list of must have, nice to have and absolutely must not have ahead of time.

      • prolefeed

        Unfortunately, it’s hard to find a place around here without an HOA. So far it’s just been the Karen next door (literally named Karen) “anonymously” turning me in for having the audacity to put in landscaping without begging for approval in advance.

        I was like 90% sure it was her marching me out, then she finally rang my doorbell and without any preamble asked if I could trim back the bushes that were planted to cover up the utility boxes.

        I more or less politely said I was letting them grow tall so they could do the sole thing they were planted for.

      • prolefeed

        Narcing, not “marching”. FN auto”correct”.

      • db

        What’s the cyclic rate of fire on that?

      • Drake

        Nope. Never.

    • db

      Absolutely will not live in a place with an HOA. We made this crystal clear to our last agent, and she assiduously refrained from suggesting properties that didn’t meet our specs.

      The only thing like this I’d even consider would be an airpark where there is an extremely limited association solely to maintain the runway/taxiways and make sure people didn’t put up trees or similar in safety-sensitive areas.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Two houses ago, we lived in a neighborhood controlled by covenants. Stuff like “no cattle”, “dont dump wastewater into your neighbor’s yard”, etc.

        Nobody to enforce it, so it would have to be enough of an issue to take to court, but there was a way to deal with the most egregious offenders, not that we had any that rose to that level.

        Why that model isn’t deemed sufficient, I don’t know*.

        * I do, but it’s too sad to internalize

    • Agent Cooper

      Sorry, the article misspelled her name. It’s Joanne Eichmann.

  15. LJW

    The Gettysburg ghost is just a water droplet on the windshield.

    • Plisade

      I think it’s drugs falling…

  16. J. Frank Parnell

    Last night I overheard my wife talking with a friend of hers on speakerphone. This particular friend and her husband have been chugging down the Covid Flavor-Aid since this whole thing started and have been locked down hard for months.

    Anyways, I heard the friend going on about how some of her friends and neighbors are just going about their business and going places and not really doing any social distancing at all and not following proper mask guidelines, and and the weird thing is that none of them have caught Covid yet, and she just can’t figure out why. She doesn’t know if they’re just lucky, or if the people they’re hanging out aren’t socializing outside of a little circle, or what’s going on, but it’s just completely crazy that none of them have gotten sick yet.

    • LJW

      With exception to wearing a mask at stores where required, I’ve been going about my business normally this entire time. I assumed most people were doing the same. I went to a wedding a few weeks back. Talking with friends I learned several distant “friends” have been on complete lock down this entire time.. These are people in their early to mid 30s who are curled up in fear. We are doomed.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        Can confirm. Getting married in three weeks. Only people to throw a bitch fit have been 26-32 year olds. One pair won’t even sit with their parents because their parents aren’t social distancing. All the folks that are actually at risk are like, fuck yea, lets party… I intend to oblige the latter.

      • Mad Scientist

        Can you provide a special room the worriers can social distance in, featuring closed-circuit footage of the wedding/reception? At some point, cut the feed and go to footage of people staggering around and dying for no apparent reason.

    • grrizzly

      I don’t think it’s a coincidence that out of only two countries in the world with a sane reaction to COVID, Sweden and Belarus, one is a dictatorship. Panicked humans lose reasoning abilities and democracies reflect that.

      • Cancelled

        The more democratic a government the less possible it is for it to be fully sane, because it can’t be fully anything. The upside is the same effect tends to limit its ability to be fully evil. The downside is that once it tips past a certain point of partly evil, the evil just make sure it stops being democratic so they can go the rest of the way.

    • Idle Hands

      incredible. This has been eye opening for me. Luckily none of my closest friends have been sheeple who bought into any of this.

    • one true athena

      I just heard about some acquaintances who were doing the same – not been out of their house for MONTHS. Getting their groceries delivered. Letting their packages sit in the garage for three days before wiping them down.

      And since i know they’re also lefties, it makes sense that they get all their news from the lunatics at CNN, etc, who fearmongered them into tis insanity that it’s THE PLAGUE!! WE’RE GONNA DIE!!! Including their two teenage boys, by the way.

      Meanwhile I’ve been to the grocery store at least once a week since this all started, MrOneTrueAthena has gone into his office, etc.

      Like, it’s no wonder they have no grip on how many people have actually died/been sick. Because they believe corpses are still piling up in the streets and a positive test is a death sentence.

      • Rhywun

        grocery store at least once a week

        If this was anywhere near the danger they claimed, that would never have been allowed.

      • Mojeaux

        Heaven grant me a day I don’t have to go somewhere. PLEASE GRANT ME A DAY!!! *falls down pleading with the universe*

      • prolefeed

        I was in Lowes yesterday, maskless of course, buying some Febreze for my wife. As I was ringing it up at self pay, the lady next to me with her masked up little kid stared in horror, presumably because I was the disease vector of death, the only person in the place not wearing a mask, and told her kid, “We need to go!” and not quite ran out of there.

      • Idle Hands

        I decided no more mask for me. Wore one for three months just because I didn’t want to argue, now I just don’t give a fuck.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I’m not quite there yet, but I mask up exactly when I’m required to and unmask exactly when I’m not required to, often in the vestibule.

        I was not super happy about having to be masked up at the habitat build last weekend, but after seeing the sawdust the mask collected, I’m okay with that one. mild discomfort to keep that shit out of my lungs.

      • Idle Hands

        be the change you want to see in the world lol.

      • prolefeed

        I keep a really dirty mask stuffed in my pocket in case some store employee insists I wear one, and I’m buying something I want enough to not turn and leave. Usually feigning deafness and walking away rapidly makes them go away without having to leave the store.

        My wife was looking at this crumpled, dirty, obviously not in the least bit effective mask, and asked if I wanted a new one.

        I said that would defeat the purpose of mocking the silliness of the mask EOs, since no one has ever demanded that I put on a new one in order to shop.

      • juris imprudent

        Insert one of those roll-out party favors.

    • But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies

      . . . none of them have caught Covid yet, and she just can’t figure out why.

      She never learned statistical theory at any point in her life, did she?

      TBF (which I hate doing when my snark’s on), one of my bestest buds, who’s normally hyper-rational, has come >this< close to losing it when it comes to COVID. Kinda blows my mind.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Eye popping cleavage.

    • Mad Scientist

      I think that’s delightful, but I can’t understand why you’d make a rotary for a marine environment, where you want lots of torque at low RPMs, which rotaries suck at. Still. A diesel rotary. A MASSIVE diesel rotary. COOL!

      • Sensei

        Mazda is trying to make the rotary part of a lean burn hybrid electric powertrain which I also don’t understand.

        There have been some attempts to make into an aviation engine which I do get given its power to weight versus the efficiency tradeoff.

      • Tundra

        I met a guy who was putting one in his homebuild. Lost track of him, so I have no idea if he was successful or a cautionary tale.

      • Mad Scientist

        There are plenty of them out there in planes already. Subaru boxer engines as well.

      • Sensei

        No Subaru engine for me! Too many stories of issues. I’d just bite the bullet and use a Rotax.

        Fortunately my good friend, pilot and huge GA enthusiast has removed any desire for me to own an aircraft or get a pilot’s license. Too much of a PITA…

      • db

        The Subaru conversions usually have problems not with the engines themselves, but with the speed reduction units. The engines produce best power around 5000 rpm, but you don’t want to turn a prop at that speed.

      • Mad Scientist

        I can see it in a plane because you can gear it down and it’ll happily run at high rpms forever. But I don’t see how it’s good for lean burn generator. The nature of the thing is combustion is still happening when the exhaust gasses reach the header, so you never get a complete burn. And it doesn’t like to be run too hot, which a lean burn will exacerbate. On the other hand, it’s very light relative to a piston engine. It seems like the ideal condition would be a single rotor in something like a weed whacker.

    • EvilSheldon

      HHNNNNNNNGGG! *fap fap fap*

  17. Ozymandias

    On that article about Biden argle-bargling his way through a lie/story about a Marine with PTSD:

    This will keep happening and only get worse. The guy has dementia or some other mental disability. I mean, FFS, maybe, just maybe, it’s related to the stroke and/or the second aneurysm they took out of his bleeping brain. Anyway, this will continue to happen as Biden is pushed out onto the stage and tries to read his lines, but can’t help trying to be Ol’ Joe(!) from Scranton and show how he knows what’s going on around him and can “relate.” Then he’ll start confabulating and blabbering barely coherent sentences and the Media will later be put in the position of translating this into English and telling everyone how sharp Biden is… And how racist anyone is for pointing out that Biden isn’t all there anymore.

    Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

    It really is one of the most cruel, depraved – and, simultaneously – funny things I have ever seen in politics.

    • EvilSheldon

      I would be truly disgusted by this spectacle, if I thought that politicians were human…

    • Fatty Bolger

      There are already so many other videos just like this, where he gets confused, tells onion belt stories, forgets what office he’s running for, and so on. It’s really quite amazing, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. And the media’s only response, when they deign to address it, is to call them “gaffes” and criticize Republicans for making it an issue.

      • LCDR_Fish

        A quick duck duck go search can’t bring up anything resembling that case.

        Frankly though, it’s another fallback issue – “you had the chance to “fix” things for 8 years and yet on your watch vets were setting fire to themselves in VA parking lots – care to respond?”

      • Count Potato

        I’m starting to think it might possibly be on purpose, to gain sympathy, or let everyone know it will be Harris who takes office. Out of all Latin music, he picks the one song that goes “Slowly, I want to breathe your neck slowly” accidentally?

    • Idle Hands

      It’s honestly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen I don’t think anyone even the people who are voting for him think he’s capable of being president.

    • Drake

      I real journalist would ask for the poor man’s name.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Someone’s desperate, but not who you think.

    Carville said, “I would get Michael Bloomberg to put up $500 million and run the actual town hall on television so everybody could see it. I mean, his inability to react or empathize with people is something staggering, and everybody’s trying to wonder why did he do this. He’s desperate because he knows he’s going to lose, and when he loses quite frankly, in my opinion, he’s going to jail, and he knows that. So why would he expose himself to a format that is completely ill-suited to him?

    Sounds like some progjection on the format criticism. We’ll see how Sleepy Joe does.

    And why, pray tell, would Trump be going to jail?

      • Rhywun

        OFFS that fishing expedition?

    • UnCivilServant

      Conviction first, then trial, then they’ll figure out what the crime was.

    • Rhywun

      That’s barely more coherent than anything coming out of Biden’s piehole.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      “his inability to react or empathize with people is something staggering”

      I don’t understand the whole thing about Trump lacking empathy. Am I supposed to care about that? Do people really believe a politician when he says he feels your pain? I guess they do, but jeez, people, wake up.

    • Idle Hands

      On one hand good this means no more lockdowns and anyone who says otherwise is a science denier. On the other had wtf is this fucktard talking about. What a fucking flim flam man. Also logically it could technically make sense as there isn’t a vaccine yet.

      • invisible finger

        Logically it makes NO sense. BECAUSE there is no vaccine to compare it to. It like saying oxen are better farm animals than unicorns. Technically valid but logically senseless.

        To take it to the next step logically one would have to conclude that developing a vaccine is a complete waste of time and money if a mask is more effective. So he’s basically saying he wants the government to waste everybody’s time and money.

        If it ducks like a quack….

    • Rebel Scum

      Just because you can buy a sports car does not mean you can drive a sports car.

      • Tundra

        +1 pre-stability control 911

    • Agent Cooper

      Where is the video on that page?

    • wchipperdove

      That’s not satire, that’s real life.

      • Tundra

        That’s eerie.

        *looks for BB surveillance devices*

    • Drake

      Have they been spying on me?

  19. UnCivilServant

    You pickled your pickles whole?

    Cucumber skin prevents the flavor of the pickling juice from fully permiating the interior. At least cut them into spears so you get better flavor infusion.

    • Mad Scientist

      Since when do you want your food to contain any flavors?

      • UnCivilServant

        Since always. I don’t understand where this bland slander came from.

    • creech

      OK, so why is putting pickles in glass jars known as canning?

      • UnCivilServant

        the term ‘can’ predates the use of metal cans. As does the process. It’s an artifact of older forms of English.

      • Caput Lupinum

        generally, “a small cylindrical sheet-metal vessel used to contain liquids, preserves, etc.,” Old English canne “a cup, container,” from Proto-Germanic *kanna (source also of Old Saxon, Old Norse, Swedish kanna “a can, tankard, mug,” also a unit of measure, Middle Dutch kanne, Dutch kan, Old High German channa, German Kanne). Probably an early borrowing from Late Latin canna “container, vessel,” from Latin canna “reed,” also “reed pipe, small boat;” but the sense evolution is difficult.

        The verb followed suit from the noun, as English has always had a fondness for verbing.

    • Spudalicious

      Given that I don’t touch them for two weeks after processing, and they will be stored up to two years, I’m not all that concerned about flavor penetration.

      • Mad Scientist

        Tonight on Profiles of the Glibertarians: Spud confirms penetration is not a concern after two weeks of not touching.

    • Tundra

      Shit. The dude is hilarious even in throwaway tweets!

  20. TARDis

    I hear the lovely sound of my meat being pounded down in the kitchen. It must be German dinner night.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Surprise, it’s flat rat.”

      • TARDis

        I hope there’s enough fat to render for the gravy.

    • prolefeed

      Phrasing? Are we not doing that anymore?

      • TARDis

        Yes.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Your going to fry your schnitzel?

      • TARDis

        Indeed. Although I don’t know if Panko is German. Whatever. It’s good. Plus Spaetzle, and cucumber salad too.

        Also, leftovers for lunch. Going to be the only good part of my day, if I get to it.

      • db

        Survey says Axis powers share food

      • TARDis

        You can have the rest of the Spaetzle, and cucumber salad, but Schnitzel is comink vit me, ja?

      • db

        katsudon and schnitzel are prepared similarly

    • R C Dean

      I vaguely recall some Australian researchers saying similar things back at the beginning of this.

      • Tundra

        I was listening to a podcast with a virologist at Iowa who described it as ‘uniquely suited for humans’. In context it sounded like ‘someone made this fucker. It didn’t spread from bat soup’.

      • Drake

        Notice how the mainstream media has downplayed Chinese responsibility for this whole mess?

      • KSuellington

        Yup, they have been supremely unconcerned about the origins of it. Zero investigative reporting from the legacy media on this.

      • KSuellington

        Which is unsurprising as the last thing that corporate media wants is a questioning to that degree of China. They have way too much to lose, along with their friends in other massive multinationals.

    • Urthona

      her claims are being heavily censored on social media right now. are they pseudo scientific?

      • Drake

        No.

      • Count Potato

        I have no idea.

      • Urthona

        a virologist i read said there was no “smoking gun” in the data but also some interesting arguments from the data. in other words, it should probably not be censored.

      • Ozymandias

        No, she is a very real microbiologist and the paper she published is no-bullshit microscopic analysis of the virus, the various points where it has been manipulated, to include non-essential elements of it being doctored to make it appear as if it were natural. The paper will be almost unintelligible to a layperson because of how detailed it is, but if you read it, there won’t b a doubt in your mind that she’s a 100% legit scientist and she knows exactly what she’s talking about.

      • Ozymandias

        Zero Hedge embedded the paper at the bottom of this article. You can read the whole thing there. It’s real science, as distinct from most of the bullshit being blared by the MSM and other CCP toadies in the scientific community.

  21. KSuellington

    Yo, Kanye piss on his Grammy, just like R Kelly on yo mammy.

    Seriously though those Biden hits just keep coming. The media is really doing a bang up job of covering for his non campaign. Two weeks till the first debate. I’m thinking in a week we get a full court press or media outrage over Trump Lies!!!! There will be some specific thing that sets it off, but they will all say, “this is the last straw. Trump lies so much there literally cannot be a debate.” And then Team Biden will cancel it. I’ll be very surprised if it happens. Let’s see.

    • LCDR_Fish

      At this point….Trump should just sit down with Joe Rogan on the record – the ratings would be insane (and very entertaining). I bet Rogan could get him to commit to descheduling something too.

      • KSuellington

        Absolutely. That would be infinitely more informing than what passes as debates these days. I think it would in all likelihood only help Trump, especially if he used it to say he was going to have the FDA reschedule cannabis. Rogan is a damn good interviewer. There is a reason the guy has the most popular podcast in the country.

      • Urthona

        i’ve never watched rogan in my life but i would definitely read the highlights of that.

      • KSuellington

        His interviews are often hours long, so I have only done a few in their entirety, but have checked out many ten to thirty minute clips. I imagine a Trump would perform great in such an environment. As long as he doesn’t take a hit of the blunt that he’s passed.

      • Drake

        Its like hanging out in ypur stoner friend’s basement. You could end up talking politics (stupidly) watching a George Foreman fight on Youtube or movie previews.

      • Tundra

        DId you listen to the interview with Snowden yesterday? Fucking Rogan described police unions as necessary to ‘provide health insurance’ which he then described as a ‘basic human right’.

        Yes, he’s a good interviewer but I think he’s been concussed a few too many times.

      • KSuellington

        No didn’t check that out. He is all over the place with his politics and often contradictory and not sophisticated with them (I’m being kind, yes, he’s taken more than a few head blows). But, despite that, he relates well to a wide variety of people and gets them comfortable enough that they talk pretty freely. It’s an under appreciated skill that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Perhaps I don’t listen to him enough. Rather stoner-y voice, but calm and lets people talk; e.g., to Tommy Chong and his Trump theories: “Mmm. Why do you say that?”

      • EvilSheldon

        Rogan is not all that bright, but he’s a terrific interviewer and he’s genuinely intellectually curious. That’s a rare combination.

      • Count Potato

        I’ve only listened to the ones with Alex Jones and Miley Cyrus, and decided Miley needs to go on InfoWars.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Haven’t they spoken before? I would think it would be titled ¡Snowden #2!! or something.

        Yeah, nothing against Rogan , but even sped up, 3 hours with most anyone is too long.

      • Urthona

        he was also a bernie sanders supporter.

      • Idle Hands

        his politics are skin deep and a total horror show. But he’s basically an everyman guy whose not politically correct at all, which is refreshing.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        I don’t listen to Rogan because I agree with him on everything. I listen to him because he does a good job of getting his guests to talk and then letting them talk.

    • Ozymandias

      I sort of agree. I could easily see this if Biden were a lock to win, but I don’t think he is and I think they know it. As just one example, Trump and Biden are currently in a dead-heat among Latino/Hispanic voters in Florida. For comparison purposes, consider that Hillary beat Trump by 13% among Latinos in FL – 46/33, IIRC – and she still lost the state by 1%. Biden is going to get blown out in Florida if those numbers are true and hold. And you can do the same thing with what Trump is currently polling among blacks. Those two things combined would doom Biden.

      So, I think there is a second play, which is that they drug Biden up on speed/uppers and whatever else they can come up w/ and then the mods try to carry him across the line. I think he’ll get the questions ahead of time and have every answer rehearsed. And I think it will be clear at some point to anyone, but the DNC operatives with bylines will fire up the Gaslighters to 1000% to tell us all how Biden showed he was perfectly capable of handling Trump.

      • Urthona

        then why do polls keep saying biden is winning florida by 5 or more points? i’m confused.

      • Ozymandias

        Because the media is lying its ass off? Just like last time.

      • Urthona

        really though?

        does it benefit their party to believe falsely they are winning?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yes. A lot of people want to vote for the winner. So if they read polls that say Joe is winning they will go for him.

        Sad commentary on our herd mentality, but it is what it is.

      • Ozymandias

        Yes. It’s the discouragement phenomenon.
        “Don’t bother voting because your guy can’t win. It won’t even be close.”

      • prolefeed

        With the corollary false conclusion, “Don’t bother voting, Hillary / Biden has it locked up.”

      • TARDis

        Because Hillary really only had an 88% percent chance of being President Puppet Empress, instead of 93%.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Listen to the 5th Column ep from Sunday – they cover Florida as well as the Wisconsin numbers which are mirroring 2016 (or actually looking even worse than 2016 for Biden at this stage).

      • prolefeed

        The polls are not accurate. I’m guessing people are lying or hanging up without answering. Based on these polls, in 2016 almost all of the number crunching sites predicted Hillary had a 90%+ chance of winning. They’re ALL still predicting Biden is favorite to win this year, by around a 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 margin.

        GIGO.

      • Suthenboy

        What in hell are you talking about? It is three days before the election and polls show Hillary with a 97% chance of winning.
        Game over, man!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Totally agree that Biden will get the questions ahead of time.

        But what happens when Trump starts peppering him with his own questions? That is when the ref should step in and stop the fight.

      • LCDR_Fish

        If all the clips they’ve shown of him the last few weeks were 100% rehearsed – he’s in really bad shape.

      • Ozymandias

        They are and he is. Hell, he had a teleprompter for that softball interview over zoom and he made the mistake of holding something up and you could see the reflection of the teleprompter. He was being fed his lines on an absolute layup interview.
        The dude is non compos mentis and I’m not trying to be funny or hyperbolic. I mean that in the legal sense of the word: as in, if he changed his will right now and someone challenged it after his death, the person defending the changed will would be hard-put to claim he met the legal requirements for capacity.
        It’s sad; pathetic, really. And not in Trump’s “sad” way. I mean, it is genuinely worthy of pathos. Dude is almost 80 and has had two brain surgeries, one of them emergency surgery after he stroked.

      • Suthenboy

        He is the personification of the Democrat party.
        They put him up because he is the best they have got.
        They have been circling the drain for years. Sooner or later they were bound to go down.

      • Ozymandias

        I agree with your first statement.

        They put him up because he is the best they have got.

        I would disagree and say they put him up because (a) he was all that was left out of a field of complete crapola, (b) Bernie was on his way to winning the primary, and (c) the DNC knew Bernie would get slaughtered by Trump.

  22. Tulip

    I actually think the way the media covers Trump is backfiring with some surprising people. Months ago, I was waiting in a lobby with some millenials from work (one of whom is a state department brat) and CNN was playing on the TV. CNN was doing its usual outrage about something Trump did and state department brat turned to the rest of us and said “well what is he supposed to do? Like any other president would be different.”

    • Tulip

      Hit reply too soon. The others all were like yeah, they’re always so outraged. I was surprised by their reaction.

  23. Suthenboy

    Safe bet: China says up, look down. MSM says daylight, it is nighttime.

    Oh, and that Gavin Newsome guy, would someone please kick that guy until shit comes out of his nose.

  24. Nephilium

    So it’s not just the small places closing down. The I-X Center in Cleveland just announced it’s permanently closing at the end of the year. This was a huge convention center that usually would hold the boat, auto, RV, home, and other shows (sometimes multiple ones at a time).

    • Florida Man

      The 2.2-million-square-foot event center is owned by the city of Cleveland, which acquired it by threat of eminent domain in early 1999. Since that time, it has been leased to the I-X Center Corp., which handled the day-to-day operations for the facility.

      The city initially acquired the building to tear it down to make room for a new runway at adjacent Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. That runway was subsequently determined unnecessary.-

      Top. Men.

      • creech

        You can bet the Top.Men. had good intentions and remind themselves every time they check, with shit-eating grins on their faces, their personal financial statements.

      • Nephilium

        The city of Cleveland has a history of running businesses they own into the ground (story from the pre-lockdown times).

      • Rhywun

        It sounds like they’re just one five-year plan away from profit!

    • The Hyperbole

      Baugh said the I-X Center’s business model was under stress even before the pandemic.

      The building had comorbidity.

      Also I didn’t know that the city stole the building.

  25. prolefeed

    You’d think some election prognosticator would be somewhat smarter than a semi-bright border collie, crunch how much off the swing state polls were in 2016 (say, overestimating Hillary’s margin by 7% or so), and then adjust the polls in each swing state by that margin.

    Except then they’d likely predict Biden was favored to lose, and get fired or unpersoned.

    Maybe some less lazy Glib could do that calculation.

    • Ozymandias

      A great point and another factor against the polls (as put out by the less-than-unbiased media): there’s a certain “don’t want to be the bearer of bad news” factor. Look at what happens to people who go against the DNC/Media narrative – on almost any subject. They get pilloried, unpersoned, and deplatformed.
      To wit:
      1. Look at the microbiologist saying that the virus was created (something that was said very early on, by the way, and look at how that story got strangled and buried).
      2. Look at what happened to people who said that masks show little to now efficacy against respiratory virus spreading.
      3. Look at what happened to people who said the rioting – er, I mean, “mostly peaceful protests” weren’t.
      4. Look at what happens to stories/data that show police really don’t kill black men in significant numbers.
      5. Look at how they’ve handled the signing of the Middle East Peace accords.
      Polls that say OMB is leading?? Oh, no, no, no, not when they’ve been telling everyone he’s a racist, fascist dictator ruining America.
      Nobody who makes their living in the public consumption of information is going to go against The Narrative. And The Narrative is that Biden is leading and will win. Because he has to or it will be the End Times.

      • Mad Scientist

        The Narrative is that Biden is leading and will win. Because he has to or it will be the End Times.

        And the End of Times will be democrats insisting Republicans cheated and more rioting and tripling down on everything that got Trump elected in 2016.

      • Ozymandias

        “Some men [political parties] you just cain’t reach. So you get what we had here last week [election] — which is the way he they wants it.” Either they’ll learn, or they’ll eventually implode.
        Anyone remember all of those breathless articles about the death of the Republican party? That was progjection, too. They let themselves be dragged further and further Left (I’m putting that squarely on The Lightbringer) and now there is almost no such thing as a moderate democrat. At least not on the national stage. It’s no longer permissible to be a working class, blue-collar dem. Where are all the pro-Life Dems now? Where is their voice?
        The more I see, the more I’m convinced that what we’re witnessing – and what the politicos will be the last ones to figure out – is an electoral shift. Trump is a moderate Dem in his leanings – which is also why he drives a lot of us Glibertarians nuts – but it’s also why he’s capturing the heretofore working class dem bastions, like in Wisconsin and other traditional dem strongholds.
        Trump hasn’t “flipped the map” as the pols like to say: the map flipped around him and he was in a position to take advantage of it. Those working class voters aren’t coming back to the Dems any time soon, given the trajectory of the party. That’s why they ran Biden, by the way. They’re trying to recapture those places they lost. I don’t think that’s happening.

    • The Hyperbole

      Maybe some less lazy Glib could do that calculation.

      You want me to find the difference between two numbers and then subtract that number from another number? Okay but I might have to take off my shoes.

    • Hyperion

      Around 8% is my guess, how much they are estimating sloJoe’s chances in the swing states. IOW, he goan lose.

    • The Hyperbole

      Meh, wanna makes a statement go protest at the state house or sommat, I hate this kinda stuff even if I agree with it, I’m just trying to buy an egg slicer here, man.

      • Sean

        They’re not hassling anyone. A little noisy, perhaps.

      • The Hyperbole

        I am annoyed by public displays like this, it lacks couth, there’s a time and place for this. If they weren’t “protesting’ and were just a bunch of loud, rowdy frat boys I’d feel the same way. Inside voices people.

    • Hyperion

      LOL

      Did you see the Karen retreat back up the aisle with here cart. Commie cooties can’t me back up here!

    • Cancelled

      That looks like a great way to lose infantry a company at a time.

    • Mad Scientist

      Is it just me, or is that a modified jet with rotors on the wingtips?

      • db

        Turboshaft engines. I’m guessing it made more sense to put them out there rather than run a heavy drive shaft out from the fuselage. Plus they probably get a little forward thrust from the exhausts.

    • dbleagle

      That looks fantastically funny- with the correct group.

    • Hyperion

      Rioting is a right and so the public should pay for it!

    • Drake

      Because 9/11 was act-of-war?

      • Count Potato

        I think they mean most expensive riot damage.

    • Hyperion

      Have you heard anyone talk about Soros besides internet commenters?

      • Drake

        Places like Daily Caller and Gateway Pundit will. Not sure about Breitbart. Obviously InfoWars.

        Bill Barr has talked about his shenanigans.

      • KibbledKristen

        My college roommate worked for OSI for a while. They actual used organization money to send employees to Landmark Education. Boy, she sure did try her hardest to get me to join that cult. Thankfully, she didn’t last long with it.

    • db

      I have to state for the record that the lyrics of this song are ridiculous regarding many things including “peak” everything and overpopulation. But the thing seems to fit pretty well.

  26. db

    Wait for that Riders on the Storm video to be cancelled. 5:26 !