Saturday Morning Ch-ch-changes Links

by | Oct 3, 2020 | Daily Links | 303 comments

With the coming of Fall, the weather changes, the leaves change… holy fuck, it’s still 107° out. Why do humans actually CHOOSE to live in this furnace? Well, other things are changing, much like my soiled adult diapers.

Speaking of diapers, many newborns appeared on this date, including Francisco d’Anconia’s spirit animal (one of whose movies we watched two nights ago); a guy who never went home; a guy whom I fervently wish had lived long enough to witness this timeline; a true Madman; a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a Big Bambu; a scumbag Jew-hater who Team Blue tongue-bathes with adoration; a source of relief to the pigeons of Austin; and a wide receiver who was brutally fun to watch.

Some things never change, and the news is one of them.

 

“Any excuse. ANY EXCUSE.”

 

Doors fan?

 

Fortunately, there are no pics.

 

Blind pig. Acorn. And really, this governor ought to be introduced to the concept of woodchippers.

 

What?

 

Someone besides us watched the debates.

 

Old Guy Music continues my obsession with Matt Lorenz, who manages to be a force of nature, a one man band who (fittingly) does Tuvan throat singing.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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

303 Comments

  1. Timeloose

    So does the Senate have COViD too? Why can’t they confirm who prez Woo Flu nominated?

    • Timeloose

      Now that I fully RTFA I see that two Senators have it as well.

      “Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, among those announcing they had tested positive for the virus,”

      Well they should just wear a shitty mask since “science” says it will protect the rest of the Senate.

      • cyto

        That’s a funny rejoinder.

      • prolefeed

        Both Senators are Republican. A RINO defection or two might keep them from 50 votes.

        Unless they these two are quarantined for the vote in a glass covered portion of the Senate floor.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The school is hoping to educate architects around the country about the needs of the deaf community.

    Yet, when presented with an opportunity to regain hearing, a lot of them are adamantly opposed.

    • Mad Scientist

      There are some advantages. If I was deaf I could sleep though the night without being woken up by the neighbors arguing or cats yowling.

      • Fourscore

        I don’t hear well anymore, there are some advantages. I also don’t see as well as I used to and no advantages. Life goes on, I can still read, in spite of a public school education.

      • Festus' Mustache

        We have over a dozen pairs of reading glasses scattered around the house. Maybe twenty? I know that there are three pairs in the truck. Far-sightedness sucks.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I’m mixed on eye surgery (although it would be nice if covered). I knew folks on my last ship whose lasik improvements only lasted a few years – not sure about PRK – but the recovery time was a big issue when assigned to a ship.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Pretty sure my Dad has had cataract surgery more than once and he still wears glasses – may also be related to age at time of surgery and other conditions.

    • Atanarjuat

      I say the time has come to allow the deaf to use regular buildings.

    • cyto

      that was a really cool video. I never considered things like needing wider walkways and hallways so that you can look at each other while walking in order to have a conversation. So that is a unique challenge for a place like that. And the design of classroom spaces was also interesting.

      The big notion was that stairs are an impediment…. you are walking along and come to a set of stairs and you have to shut up for a minute while you go down the stairs. I can see where that would be annoying.

      But then things got a little weird. “Glass elevators allow communication on the go…” WTF? Who talks to people in the lobby while they are in the elevator? That makes very little sense…

      And then “transparent walls allow conversation between rooms…..’ What? That’s not really a thing… I mean, I can yell down the hall for Steve, but generally we don’t talk that way. And the whole “what about private conversations” bit really got short shrift. Why did you make public spaces so that you could have conversations with anyone from anywhere in the space in the first place? How often do you need to carry on a conversation from 60 feet across a lobby?

      Things really took a turn for the weird once they brought that stuff up. They said “architects design spaces for private conversations” and showed a series of public spaces where there were absolutely no places where you could have a private conversation.

      I don’t know how well I would function in deaf culture.

      • Rhywun

        Someone’s been reading Zamyatin.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

      • Overt

        Yeah, a lot of these problems don’t require architectural solutions. I have conversations with my deaf daughter from other rooms all the time.

        “Daughter!”
        “Daughter!”
        “DAUGHTEEEER!!!!!”

        *Unlocks phone*
        – Get down here and feed the cats
        – kk brt lol, love.

      • cyto

        That sounds familiar. We are a loud family. Lots of loud in my house. So they have all acquired the skill of not being able to hear anything that they don’t want to hear. So I can yell from 3 feet away and still get nothing.

        Which, of course, results in using “dad voice”, which always gets their attention.

        Which, of course, usually results in the wife getting annoyed with dad for using dad voice.

    • The Gunslinger

      After having the tumor removed from my head I have no hearing in my left ear. My doctor really pushed for a conduction type implant. I have decided not to because I don’t want that thing stuck to my head like Frankenstein’s monster and because I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn’t care for it properly and it would become infected. So I go to work everyday and cope the best I can.

      • The Gunslinger

        Also fuck Whitmer. It’s about time people stand up to her.

      • Surly Knott

        Amen to that!

    • R C Dean

      Yo, Scruffy, I think I emailed you yesterday on the Trijicon. Lemme know if something went awry, and I’ll try again.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Huh, I didn’t get it. Try again. I think I may have set up the masked email incorrectly. I just changed the settings.

        n7vdkvn7xd8r@beconfidential.com

      • R C Dean

        Tried again.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Got it. Replied.

  3. Cy

    “With the coming of Fall,”

    I read that differently than intended.

  4. Surly Knott

    John Perry Barlow’s autobiography, Mother American Night, is worth a read.

    • Atanarjuat

      Added to the list.

      Unrelated, but I recently read the Crying of Lot 49, which I think was a suggestion from somebody on TOS, weird wild stuff.

  5. Fourscore

    Buchanan’s analyses were sometimes a little hard for me to follow. I only read one of his books, as a beginner. I need to go back and read some more (probably wouldn’t do much good at this point, however).

    Thanks, OM, for the Sat Early Bird Special.

  6. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Pulling off a complex confirmation that touches all three branches of government in the four weeks remaining before the election always promised to be a daunting task for Republicans in the middle of a pandemic.

    Nice concern trolling. President nominates, Senate approves, SC welcomes soccer mom judge lady.

    See? Easy.

    Doors fan?

    Nah. Thích Quảng Đức fan.

    Good for Michigan, but the bitch will do anything to continue it. Just like our piece of shit governor.

    Still, an estimated 1 million Americans are profoundly deaf and use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate.

    Wait a minute. .3% of the population uses sign language? Yet every lefty function has an interpreter? I suspected it was some kind of scam, but I had no idea it was that ridiculous.

    The buildup of tau proteins caused by VT is quite similar to that of Alzheimer’s. So, if it can be determined how the VCP mutation is causing dementia, that may help develop new treatments for many forms of dementia.

    Or, you know, you could work on preventing the build up of the proteins in the first place. Oh wait – stupid me – there’s no money in prevention!

    Your video, while excellent, triggered a seizure. Great song, though! I liked the black helicopters and contrails!

    I hope each of you has a fan-fucking-tastic day. Why not, eh?

      • Old Man With Candy

        That’s what SHE said.

      • C. Anacreon

        No, he was right the first time. 3% of the US population would be 10 million.

    • Spartacus

      Last summer (2019) we had a science camp for high school kids. One of them was deaf so we had to hire ASL interpreters. Yes, that’s plural. We had to have two because they have to spell each other every 30 minutes. Cost us over $6K, just for the interpreters. I was faced with either effectively doubling the camp fee or eating the cost–I ate the cost. This time.

      Next time we cancel the camp.

      • cyto

        Wow. That’s just insane!

        Are there grants to help with that?

        This sounds like something that could happen to us.. we have been discussing putting together a robotics/programming camp. I have been vacillating about how to do it…. the original thought came as a way for one of my favorite teachers to get paid to do the enrichment programs she does at the elementary school. I was looking at putting it together as a part of after-care and summer camps through the school system. But we also had thoughts of just doing a summer camp that was independent of bureaucracy.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Welcome to the world of unfunded mandates.

        Reducing opportunities for everyone, everywhere.

      • Spartacus

        A few more details…
        During the academic year, our office of adaptive services provides ADA accommodations for students in classes. Summer camps, though, are extracurricular so they refused to help. The other real problem was that we just learned about the deaf kid a week before the start of camp, which limited our choices. You may be able to get some money for your programs if you plan for it in advance but independence of bureaucracy also means you have to solve your own problems.

        On the other hand, we do probably a dozen summer camps of various kinds in normal years (yes, including band camp), and this is the first time this particular problem has hit us, so my long term solution is probably going to be some sort of “tax” on all the camps to create a self-insurance pool to pay for any future needs. If this is something that only happens every 2-3 years then I can increase fees by only $6-7 per camper to cover it. I have enough wiggle room in my budgets to cover stuff, it’s just that for this one I got really pissed at this “buy 2 get 1” deal that I was kind of forced into because of the short notice. We have students taking ASL classes, and with more lead time we could probably have hired them for a lot less.

      • Ted S.

        Next time you tell all the parents of the children with normal hearing how much the deaf kid is costing them.

    • Count Potato

      “Wait a minute. .3% of the population uses sign language? Yet every lefty function has an interpreter? I suspected it was some kind of scam, but I had no idea it was that ridiculous.”

      Not so much that, but it is very easy to put text on a screen now.

      • leon

        Making the deaf Read is pure Nazism.

  7. Drake

    Question for the Jewish Glibs. When will my neighbors be done camping in their Gilligan’s Island hut and blowing a horn?

    • Old Man With Candy

      When you move away.

      • Drake

        Heh – they will have a long cold winter.

    • mrfamous

      Just tell “blow the chauffeur” jokes and learn to live with it.

  8. Tres Cool

    Doors Fan?

    “Journalist dies after setting herself on fire: “Blame my death on the Russian Federation”

    But don’t you love her madly ?

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Not biting. Not going to break on through that trap. Nope.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Hey Muppet! How’s life treating you in that Police State within a State? I couldn’t believe what I heard coming from that froggy fucker’s dictats.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Don’t remind me. The next day, that is he didn’t even wait to see if his idiotic decree would work (which it won’t), he announces with a ‘heavy heart’ he’s closing theatres.

        Not a shred of evidence. Just because. He admitted in the National Assembly he didn’t have evidence.

        Now we’re officially in a bad place like Ontario. The incompetence is SHOCKING.

        Finally, the media is starting to slowly burn and turn. Lawyers are now challenging the government.

        His measures are literally INCOHERENT.

        Meanwhile, surprise, suicides and child abuse have skyrocketed. ALL ON HIM.

        May he rot in hell.

      • Rhywun

        His measures are literally INCOHERENT.

        Don’t tell me Cuomo’s running Quebec now too.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I think they’re sharing notes.

      • Festus' Mustache

        28 day quarantines, Fines for people going about their day-to-day. This Revolution will not be the quiet one that they hoped for.

      • Nephilium

        Gustave:

        That’s how long it takes for the Rage virus to kill its host.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I might have to quarantine myself.

      • Gdragon

        You guys are pushing back more than we are it seems, Ontario seems to be in lock step.

        I was wondering if the best way to resist is to just throw a big fucking (harmless) party, like the kind that you fly Andrew W.K. in for. God only know if someone could pull it off (I couldn’t).

    • Gender Traitor

      People are strange.

      • Grumbletarian

        At least when you’re a stranger.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Faces come out of the rain when you’re strange.

      • blackjack

        Is this the end? My only friend, the end?

      • Festus' Mustache

        I went on a Doors jag for about three years as a Teen. Curly hair half-ways to my ass.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Today’s earworm emplaced.

      • Gender Traitor

        Could do worse.

        Don’t tempt me to do worse.

      • Gender Traitor

        OK – since you asked nicely, I’ll refrain.

      • Nephilium

        DO IT!

        Now I’m just thinking of watching the Lost Boys movies again.

      • Gender Traitor

        Ah, but you didn’t ask nicely.

        Now, if it comes down to a one-on-one duel with Ted’S…

        Nah – he’s got me beat easily.

      • Nephilium

        /kicks a pebble

        Alright.

      • Gdragon

        Father, I want to kill you…

  9. Atanarjuat

    Speaking of Whitmer, a small blip in the lockdown saga occurred when she banned sales of seeds and gardening supplies. I can’t wrap my head around the evil of such a decision. I may have mentioned losing my job because I was dumb enough to work in the volatile entertainment industry. Well, I got hired at a garden center recently. Apparently they’ve done better than normal business through the lockdowns, presumably as people stuck at home began projects. Now, they tell me veggie garden seeds are hard to keep in stock, I suspect people want a hedge against possible shortages.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I can’t pick who’s the worst between Whitmer, Cuomo, and Wolf.

      Probably Cuomo simply because he is directly responsible for thousands of deaths.

      • Festus' Mustache

        He sleeps well at night.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Legault and Ford are in that mix.

      • Fourscore

        You forgot Walz

      • Surly Knott

        And Whitmer, who also ordered patients back into elder care facilities.

  10. Festus' Mustache

    I was just resting my eyes on the Zoomer! Hype too!

    • Tres Cool

      Seems like Hype has a history of grabbing a nap on Zoom chats.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Contrarianism is a tiring avocation. Myself? I have no excuse but at least I didn’t fall down and break something this time.

      • Tres Cool

        /puts sheet over TV

    • Atanarjuat

      I think I’ve drunkenly passed out every time I’ve been on, but I manage to hit the off button so it’s hopefully more of an unnoticed Irish goodbye.

      • Festus' Mustache

        #metoo

      • Timeloose

        I’ve found myself starting to ramble drunkenly then bowing out.

      • TARDis

        #metoo

        I have a foam mattress in my man-cave. When it calls to me, I must obey.

    • The Hyperbole

      Hey, I didn’t nod off last night, I rage quit after Sloper mocked my hat.

      • westernsloper

        That hat mocked itself. I was merely bring regional differences and context to the discussion.

    • Rhywun

      I was so tired after two weeks of 5am wake-ups I didn’t even try to join.

    • AlexinCT

      Looks like I missed a good one… damn.

  11. leon

    So Trump destroys the Senate?

    Maybe he is Palpatine

    • Cy

      Are all of these pols just blades of grass to be mowed?

    • Festus' Mustache

      I wish that a girl like Aubrey Plaza had the same contract with the Daily Mail that Thunder-Thighs has.

      • Tres Cool

        pssst…..she made a self-shot pr0n
        Peruse it @ your favourite adult media site

        You’re welcome.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Really? I don’t watch porn because reasons but really? What’s the web-site? For research.

      • Tres Cool

        Just try pr0nhub, you hoser

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Voluptuous figure.

  12. Count Potato

    “Seven are now infected after ‘Amy Coney Barrett superspreader event’ amid fears that it’s only a matter of time before more of Trump’s senior team develop COVID”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8800717/Seven-infected-Amy-Coney-Barrett-superspreader-event-White-House.html

    “Trump’s aides including press secretary Kayleigh McEnany FINALLY start wearing masks as they watch the president step onto a helicopter to go to Walter Reed”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8800485/Body-language-expert-says-White-House-staff-appeared-fearful-shocked-Trump-departed.html

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Trump’s aides including press secretary Kayleigh McEnany FINALLY start wearing masks as they watch the president step onto a helicopter to go to Walter Reed”

      As they should. Wear masks around those confirmed to have it, don’t wear around those who don’t have it. It’s not that hard.

      • Plinker762

        I thought the masks only reduced spread from those with the CCPV. It’s as if the reason keeps changing.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The masks will save us! The masks will save us!

      • Rufus the Monocled

        “Usage of face masks are strongly encouraged by health officials, to prevent the spread and transport of respiratory droplets. In this study, however, we show that a single layer of a surgical mask can atomize a cough droplet into numerous tiny droplets, thereby significantly increasing the total population of aerosols ejected during a single human cough. Although droplets of a broader size distribution are ejected during coughs, we focused our attention towards a relatively large droplet size (~ 620 ??), which shows great affinity to undergo atomization during its penetration through the mask layers. The entire phenomenon was captured using a high-speed shadowgraphy imaging technique at a recording rate of 6500 fps. The single-layer masks were found to be ineffective in restraining cough droplets while no penetration could be noticed for a triple-layer mask. This is because a single-layer or double-layer face mask causes atomization of the droplets resulting in the formation of larger number of droplets with smaller sizes (< 100 ??). These tiny droplets can aerosolize in the immediate environment and can remain suspended for a longer time. Thus, it is recommended to avoid the use of a single-layer or double-layer surgical face mask as a physical obstruction to the ejected cough droplets for controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus."

        https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.00591.pdf

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I can’t anymore. I just can’t.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        QUIET YOU

      • Gdragon

        UTIAS! I had a co-op placement there in high school with Project Ornithopter (I’m such a nerd on paper).

    • leon

      Body language expert: or bullshit

  13. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    Well, trashchild #1 walked in on us in flagrante delicto this morning and asked “what are you doing?”

    “um, uh, sleeping… why aren’t you still in your room?”

    That’s gonna be an awkward conversation with the 3 year old and a prime candidate for first lasting memory…

    • Ted S.

      She hasn’t walked in on you and Overlady trshmnstr having sex?

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        not until today. she’s a heavy sleeper, so we’re usually good from once she passes out until her clock tells her she can get out of her room.

      • Ted S.

        Whoops, I misread your post and thought she caught the other people in the Zoom chat that you passed out in front of.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Those Zoom chats are restricted to “Friends Only”.

      • Nephilium

        What do you think happens in Zoom?

    • Old Man With Candy

      “Showing Mommy this one cool trick.”

      “Oh, I think she knows that one, I saw Uncle Bob showing that to her already.”

    • Sean

      Ha!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I read that as transchild #1

      Trashy is keeping up with the times, good, good…

      And the appropriate answer is wrestling. Followed by an introduction to the wonderful world of Ric Flair.

      • Festus' Mustache

        The correct term is “Bed-Wrasslin”.

    • Gdragon

      “It’s not so funny when it’s your mom, is it!?!?”

  14. Deaner

    Good morning Glibs!

    The senate can’t delay the ACB confirmation. It was Trump’s Final Wish(TM) before he came down with the WuFlu, which makes it an unwritten law. The founders would literally be turning in their graves! /ProgLogic

    • Sean

      Mornin’

  15. Festus' Mustache

    All five of the thumbs up for the music link, Old Man! That one is added to the rotation.

    • limey

      Yes, it is very good; video and music.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Seeing Matt live is… an experience. We last saw him at a small venue in Wisconsin and at the end of the show, we were absolutely exhausted.

      He, of course, was chipper and lively. Had a delightful conversation about his home-made instruments.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Pretty much the only thing that I miss about living in the City are the small clubs and bars where you are actually a part of the music scene. When the dude onstage tips his hat toward you is a cool thing.

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: Citations Needed

    Voting involves making tough decisions and weighing all sorts of contrary information, the conclusion of which is not often neat. But, informed voters will select the candidates who are best for our nation and its people, regardless of the personal shortcomings of those candidates. It’s the “policies” that should matter, not the persona.

    • Festus' Mustache

      I mean to say that she might fuck donkeys but her positions on limited government and a flat tax are appealing. How’s the Unit, Scruffy? Didja at least get a keepsake?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nope. Spoke to the urologist this morning. Stone still seems to be stuck.

        I rolled over at 11pm last night and my left flank lit up like it had been stabbed. The rest of the night was spent popping Percocet and taking short naps.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        On the bright side, urologists are the funniest doctors.

        The one on call this morning was cussing because I was born the year he graduated high school.

      • Tundra

        Christ, Scruffy. I hope this resolves soon.

      • Festus' Mustache

        #thoughtsandfeelingsforScruffy! Be well, Friend.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You ain’t the only one brother.

        Thanks

      • Count Potato

        Get well soon!

  17. Count Potato

    “Sen. Chris Murphy:

    “If President Trump can’t be out there on the campaign trail for the next two weeks, then he’s going to rely on his surrogates and unfortunately one of his surrogates is Vladimir Putin.””

    https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1312055658137739264

    CWAA

    • Rhywun

      OFFS. At least Biden has Xi in his corner, right Chris?

  18. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: Nobody Tell Her About Heart Disease or Cancer

    Every two days in America, there are as many deaths as occurred on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and every three as many deaths as occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. In the first case, FDR called it “a day which will live in infamy.” On the second, America was launched into two wars which to this day are shaping how American foreign policy is approached in the Middle East. The loses to the virus have been met with a collective yawn. All Americans need to treat the virus with the same resolve which we had when we went into the Second World War and fight it with all of our might.

    • Rebel Scum

      I see we still lack any semblance of perspective and we are pretending that the yearly flu isn’t a thing because Orange Man Bad.

    • R C Dean

      Love the full hazmat on the medical people, and nobody else wearing a mask.

      • R C Dean

        Meant for GT below.

    • Rhywun

      My brain is not broken enough to make sense of any of that.

  19. Gender Traitor

    On one hand, I could have lived quite happily without seeing this image. On the other, there IS something deliciously karmic about it.

    She should have stuck it in much further.

    • TARDis

      She should have stuck it in much further

      With a 5 pound mallet?

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, something at least this big.

    • Festus' Mustache

      You are an interesting person, Red. I’m keeping an eye on you…

      • Gender Traitor

        ; )

    • UnCivilServant

      Unrelated, I respended to your feedback.

      • Gender Traitor

        And sent more story! Thank you!

      • UnCivilServant

        I warn you, this scene is incomplete.. because that’s all I’ve got written.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That dude is unhinged.

      • Festus' Mustache

        #classclown

    • Rhywun

      Fox News hung my browser again so I didn’t get far enough to check whether his tweet advocating shooting cops is still up.

      But yeah – stay classy, Tom.

    • AlexinCT

      I want one just to play around with…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Dammit. I should have thought of that.

  20. PieInTheSky

    I am at my mom’s place by the lake and there is a unusually large number of cormorants. They were not here in these numbers before. It is inflation. Someone is printing cormorants in excesive numbers

    • PieInTheSky

      Great weather though 27 and sunny

      • Rebel Scum

        What is that in ‘Freedom’ units?

      • Rhywun

        I think around 82.

        We just broke 60. Damn cold the last few days.

      • Rebel Scum

        60s here today. Finally grilling weather again. I have been cooking inside all summer because it has been too dammed hot and humid. I have developed a very good relationship with my cast iron skillets. But it is time to rekindle that relationship with the grill.

    • PieInTheSky

      On the other hand fewer muskrats. Maybe muskrats go in a cocoon and come out as cormorants

      • AlexinCT

        Find a recipe for them cormorants…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Daryl Dragon died last year. That could explain the lower numbers.

  21. PieInTheSky

    Fitting to find that the Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct is kind of coming true today on the second anniversary of the Grievance Studies Affair. The Conceptual Penis was not part of that suite of papers, but it was what led to them. LOL

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1312098607831474178

  22. leon

    I’m calling it now* it’s going to be a blood bath.GOP will loose house, Senate and Presidency.

    * I reserve the right to change my opinion of New evidence is found to make me believe otherwise.

    • Sean

      Nah. I’m calling the opposite.*

      *YMMV in super shithole Dem cheating areas.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Not a morning person, I take it?

    • PieInTheSky

      Just throw all your guns now in the neweest body of water easier that way

      • PieInTheSky

        Nearest goddamnit

    • Festus' Mustache

      I believe that “2020” will become a slang term from here on in. “Did you see that weak-assed attempt?” “Yep, had 2020 written all over it!” I think Trump will win,.

    • Rebel Scum

      Trump wins, GOP gains in the Senate and takes the house.

      Next state election GOP wins VA house/senate and governor*.

      *might be wishful thinking because I think Dems need to be severely punished.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s only a victory if election integrety is finally enacted and enforced with teeth.

    • Grumbletarian

      Trump wins EC and popular vote. Of the 5+ million votes GayJay and McMullin got in 2016, 4+ million of those will go to Trump and Jo will get the leftovers.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: Why Vote On Voting Day? Wait Until After, Just to Be Sure

    I am very concerned with all the talk of early voting. Both presidential candidates are old. What happens if the one you voted for drops over dead? Or, possibly does something stupid just before the election that might change your opinion of them? I encourage people to wait as close to the election date as possible to avoid any last-minute concerns.

    • leon

      Or, the VP candidate endorses the opponent.

      Fuck you Weld! I’ll never vote early again

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Voting Day is magic, it is known.

    • Hyperion

      I don’t know what religion the guy claims to be, well I guess I do now, but he’s one evil motherfucker if I’ve ever seen one. It would be more obvious right now except his mind is about gone, but I haven’t forgotten all the dirty rotten evil shit this piece of garbage has done during his 40 years in DC.

    • Rebel Scum

      Biden launches ads touting his faith after cardinal says he’s ‘not a Catholic in good standing’

      No modern Dem “Catholics” are in good standing.

  24. Count Potato

    “Althea Bernstein claimed 4 white racists set her on fire in Madison, Wisc. An extensive investigation involving federal, state & local investigators failed to corroborate her shocking claims. She’s not commenting now & her family asks for privacy #HateHoax”

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1312128144392949760

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      her family asks for privacy

      Questioning her now would just be racist and insensitive.

    • R C Dean

      Botched Molotov.

      Take it to the bank.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Of course they did. Probably with glee.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Meanwhile advocating for murder is still ok if you’re the right people.

      • Rhywun

        Like Tom Arnold.

      • Count Potato

        That Tom Arnold is considered “the right people” is just scary.

      • Rhywun

        Apparently, all it takes is loudly declaring yourself to be a “liberal male”.

  25. Hyperion

    “Trump’s Diagnosis Imperils Quick Supreme Court Confirmation Timeline”

    No it doesn’t.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why would anyone think it did? He’s finished his part of the process.

      • Hyperion

        Exactly.

      • TARDis

        These people are dangerously deranged… and relentlessly evil. I fear for our children’s future.

      • Festus' Mustache

        The Dems are at the “White Cliffs Of Dover” stage of grief, hoping for a miracle. Like Trump declaring war on China and Russia simultaneously.

      • Rhywun

        With Donald incapacitated, it’s impossible for him to convey Putin’s marching orders to his loyal GOP senators.

        Or something.

      • Nephilium

        But some senators have the ‘vid now. It would be irresponsible for them to have a vote.

        /things progs believe

      • spqr2008

        Couldn’t the Senate merely borrow the House Chambers to vote? There’s less than a quarter of them relative to the House, so if they social distance and use masks, then no problems. All the best people say that the China Virus is afraid of masks and social distancing…

      • Festus' Mustache

        You have to smack yourself on the forehead with a cast iron frying pan. Stop making sense!

      • R C Dean

        You think Pelosi would allow that?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Between the smug, the vocal fry, and the obvious self-absorption, I think I’d have to kill somebody if I were married to that.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I read your reply and yet I still clicked the link. HM and Sugarfree have created a black hole in my cerebral cortex that must not be denied. Now I yearn for the sleep of the ages. Death is but a wisp of the eternal damnation that calls from the abyss.

      • TARDis

        I wonder if a wood chipper is on her wedding registry.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Why does a commissioner of agriculture need endorsements from Emily’s List and NARAL?

      https://www.jennawadsworth.com/

    • slumbrew

      Watching it without sound – based on the body language and facial expressions alone, I can’t stand her.

    • Rebel Scum

      Would. But I’d be ashamed of myself after.

      • Mad Scientist

        Then you’re not doing it right. The goal is for HER to be ashamed after.

      • Festus' Mustache

        ^^^ You are correct, Sir!

    • Festus' Mustache

      #stratergery

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends, and am deeply sorry. The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do. I ask that my family’s privacy be respected in this personal matter,” Cunningham said in a statement sent to The News & Observer.

      “I’m not going to remove myself from the limelight but I expect you to honor all the boundaries I’m putting around this, for the sake of my family of course, because as their father, being Senator is the best thing I can do for them right now.”

      • Festus' Mustache

        I can’t fathom the depth of that depravity. To be so self aware that your actions have harmed everyone around you and yet being so fucking bold as to basically wave it off. Jesus, I can barely handle my own emotions on a good day. The Wife? And another thrown into the mix? What about the kids? That sounds like a living hell to me but maybe I’m just an ethical creature born on a tortured plane of existence. Maybe we are living in hell.

      • Drake

        Unlike this guy, you have a conscience which is a real impediment to a political career.

      • Ozymandias

        I’ll just casually mention that adultery is still a crime under the UCMJ. But not all Light Colonels are equal.
        (No, it typically isn’t prosecuted for Reservists or the Guard (IME), but it’s still a criminal offense last time I checked the MCM.)
        Piece. Of. Excrement.
        Not because he cheated on his wife, nor she on her husband, but because he’s basically said that he’s above it all, and deserves to be a Senator despite the inability to control his own urges – AND simultaneously fucked over his family publicly.
        But he’ll get a Media pass because he’s on the right Team.

      • Drake

        Being NC, he may not get a pass. Then again, he might ride the wave of fraud.

    • Ted S.

      I guess we know who doesn’t read the articles.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Hey! I’ve already copped to being the most sub-average Glib.

      • TARDis

        Welcome to left side of the bell curve, man. I’m just trying to stay within one standard deviation myself.

        {also, I think your mic volume is too low on zoomies}

      • Festus' Mustache

        Don’t mic shame me, it’s a lap-top and built in;-)

    • Gustave Lytton

      Trying to win the carpetbagger vote.

    • Festus' Mustache

      These are the End Times, aren’t they?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      OK, I laughed out loud at that.

    • Sean

      Lol

    • Rhywun

      He expected to find that white supremacists were responsible for the mayhem.

      You’d have to be living under a rock to expect that.

      He said that he respected their goal to build a society without hierarchy

      Ah, I get it. He’s an idiot.

      • R C Dean

        Worse.

        “ He said that he respected their goal to build a society without hierarchy, but that their tactics worried him since they could help President Trump get re-elected.”

        He has no problem with arson, looting, assault, killings in principle. He just objects if they might help Republican win an election.

        These people are broken. And I don’t know how fixable they are.

    • Count Potato

      “Quinn told Stockman that these anarchist groups advertised the protests on social media and drew “cultlike energy” to demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. Left-wing anarchist groups that are part of the Antifa movement typically use social media to organize their gatherings and protests.

      It is a common misconception — and a prevalent lie — that most of these protests spontaneously erupt due to anger at police brutality. But according to Quinn, the truth is that these events are meticulously organized, with protesters being recruited online.”

      Yet, the social media companies cracked down on anti-lockdown protests.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Apparently* this guy is running to be my congresscritter. VA GOP might have learned from recent mistakes. I hate to have to point it out but it is the way it is, Team Blue cannot play the race card on him.

    *Mildly concerning that I didn’t know until I looked it up.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Team Blue cannot play the race card on him

      Ahhhh…..

      • Rebel Scum

        Logically, of course. But they will anyway because clearly he is an “Uncle Tom”.

      • Drake

        Never understood the reference. Didn’t Uncle Tom eventually stand up to his master and got beaten to death by other slaves? Maybe appropriate in this case.

      • spqr2008

        Exactly, but apparently very few people remember that, and think of the version from “The King and I”

  27. Nephilium

    So we know all the schools aren’t meeting in person, so let’s push for a tax increase.

    Go ahead and read down to the budget block if you want to really get pissed. I’m not in that school district, so I can’t vote against it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But they saved $2.5M on PPE!

      • Nephilium

        I saw that line item, and am trying to figure out how the fuck the school district needed $2.5M on PPE. Were they running a required metal shop class?

    • Festus' Mustache

      I wonder who will be left standing to write the History of 2020.

    • Rhywun

      I’m surprised it’s not folded into your city taxes like it is here.

      • Nephilium

        This is an additional tax on top of the ones that already exist. When you fill out your local and state taxes, you have to include the school district you reside in, which can change your taxes. Of course, since the school district you reside in is based on your address, they should already know it.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, I have to tell the state my county. ?

    • Festus' Mustache

      There are thousands of municipal libraries functioning. Old folks need their reading fix and bums need to take a leak and sleep one off.

      • UnCivilServant

        What’s that have to do with Blockbuster?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Seemingly obsolete business models?

    • Nephilium

      Last year when I was at PAX Unplugged, there was a company launching the Blockbuster Board game. It’s a fairly basic party game, but with Blockbuster branding. They sold out over the course of the event.

      Talking with the company reps, they said it cost surprisingly little to license the Blockbuster name and logos for the board game.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not surprised.

        That game is also one of the products the last store is selling on their site.

    • Gustave Lytton

      All proceeds from our product sales go directly to support our store and help us stay open.

      Isn’t that most businesses?

    • Mad Scientist

      Here’s a video of all the Blockbusters in the US coming and going.

  28. Mojeaux

    I am seeing Biden/Harris signs sprouting. I’m skeert. I am desperately hoping Trump supporters are just not advertising because asshoes.

    • Festus' Mustache

      I’m confident about the “Shy Tory” syndrome but what worries me are the shennanigins post-ballot. That’s when shit gets weird.

      • Mojeaux

        I have also noticed that there are yard signs for our Team Blue state congresscritter and other Team Blue candidates, but none for Biden in the same yard.

      • hayeksplosives

        100% this.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’d have a Trump sign except 1) I don’t advertise my politics and 2) if I did I’d fear the destruction of my property by violent leftists.

      • Mojeaux

        It may be that others are like me: don’t like the guy but have no choice, but certainly not going to campaign for him.

        We had a Rand Paul sign back in the day and I still have Rand Paul tee shirts. “The NSA knows you bought this Rand Paul T-shirt.”

      • hayeksplosives

        High five, sistah! I have the Rand NEA one too. 🙂

      • Festus' Mustache

        Same. I have a strict “No Logo” rule. Either you pay me to advertise or it doesn’t get my endorsement regardless of the cause. Fuck You. Pay me!

      • Mojeaux

        Fuck You. Pay me!

        Hey, that’s my line! But I’ll let you use it. LOL

      • Festus' Mustache

        Stolen from Goodfellas but it stands.

      • Mojeaux

        Oops. I never saw that.

        I got it from Harlan Ellison. PAY THE WRITER!

      • Festus' Mustache

        Early punk/hippy influence. No, I’m not a walking billboard and fuck off. Funny how that was one of the only things that really grew on me from those days. That and the sores…

    • creech

      The Karens are out in force. Here in one Philly burb, the GOP’s internal polling showed Biden gained another one percent on Trump after the debate on Tuesday. The moms and single gals don’t care for rudeness…unless they are upbraiding some far right Nazi white supremacist who isn’t wearing a mask i while jogging in the park.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Far from a Karen, my wife thought he acted like a bully and is much more negative toward him now.

      • R C Dean

        Biden interrupted him first, called him a liar, and told him to shut up. Confirmation bias and all that, but I don’t see how Trump is the bully.

  29. Mojeaux

    Well, so Cam Newton tested positive for the WuFlu and there is chatter about the game against the Chiefs being postponed.

    • Rebel Scum

      We can’t have the healthiest people risk catching a cold with a mortality rate of a fraction of a percent.

    • Hyperion

      So, the Patriots’s white privilege is real?

      I’m so glad I stopped watching football. You can’t fucking postpone a fucking game. Have you ever heard such a fucking bunch of bullshit? A QB breaks their leg and is out for the season, you don’t postpone games, that’s the ‘breaks’, pun intended. FUCK THE NFL. That is all.

    • Mojeaux

      Game canceled because several other Patriots players have been sent home pending further testing.

      Chatter is that they’ll play it Tuesday if all comes up rosy.

    • Festus' Mustache

      I for one welcome the monsters from under the bed.

    • Rebel Scum

      These people also stand in front of cars while threatening the people in said cars. Do that to me and you will learn a hard lesson on the operation of a mobile 3000 pound hunk of metal.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sadly, when antifa controls the machinery of justice, you will be arrested and process punished.

      • Festus' Mustache

        They can’t physically break you so they will go to more deceptive measures, like slinging plague-ridden rats over the city walls. They’ve been at it for fifty years.

  30. hayeksplosives

    My husband’s youngest son just called to tell us he knocked up his girlfriend. Fortunately, she seems like a genuinely decent person, from the one visit we had with them.

    I’d say “he’s not ready” but then, no one really is.

    Sigh. One more liberal voter, incoming.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Mornin’ Granny! *ducks*

      • hayeksplosives

        Ugh. So it begins.

        After my husband got off the phone after hearing the news, he muttered quietly to himself “Payback’s a bitch.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        aka “The fucking you get for the fucking you got.”

        At least that’s how dad described me and my sister.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Possibly my favorite sitcom dialogue ever, from early “Roseanne”: Dan and R. are flirting in the kitchen with the kids present. Becky scoffs, “You guys think we don’t get your corny little sex jokes.” Roseanne replies, “You kids ARE our corny little sex jokes.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wow, modern ultrasounds have amazing diagnostic capabilities.

      /hope for an Alex P Keaton

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It was the footie pajamas that gave it away.

      • hayeksplosives

        Lol.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      How long have they been together?

      • hayeksplosives

        2 years? Something like that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        A good sign.

      • hayeksplosives

        And they came to visit us out here in CA. So she was “introduced” to the family.

        I’m hoping her liberal tendencies are just a product of being a young woman indoctrinated by school to think left=compassion.

      • Tundra

        For sure.

        Almost all of them are retarded at that age.

        Congratulations to all of you! Be the badass grandma I know you can be!

      • Festus' Mustache

        Hopefully. I think most of us were raised kinda squishy-left. She’ll come around when life smacks her in the face a few months from now.

  31. Count Potato

    “*reads Cal Cunningham’s “and you are historically sexy”*”

    https://twitter.com/JJHunt10/status/1312365764154929154

    So what does that even mean? You’re so sexy you’ll make history, like Helen of Troy? You would have been hot in the past?

    • Ted S.

      She’s dressed as a slutty Abigail Adams?

  32. straffinrun

    Evidently, saying “I’d rather be a rapist than a pedophile” is the best icebreaker.

    • Gender Traitor

      “Yes, I would. If I could I surely would.”

      • straffinrun

        Life is short.

      • Tres Cool

        + El Condor

      • Festus' Mustache

        Is that from Fiddler On The Roof?

      • Festus' Mustache

        When I was a wee boy, like about 5, I used to tool around on my mustang bike with the sissy bar and banana seat humming that tune. Memories are funny things. Thanks Ted S.