Monday Morning Links

by | Oct 5, 2020 | Daily Links | 406 comments

Good Morning my Glibs and Gliberinas!  And what a glorious morning it always is!

 

Trump made the ‘Rona his bitch.

 

And the media is losing their shit.

 

Poll that doesn’t overweigh Democrats, has Trump leading nationally.

 

I’m amazed that there are people still willing to live in deep blue shitholes.

 

The caravan has already been stopped.

 

Get woke, go broke.

 

Second largest theater chain closing.

 

That’s all I got for today.  I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.

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Banjos

Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

406 Comments

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m amazed that there are people still willing to live in deep blue shitholes.

      Stockholm Syndrome.

      • Rhywun

        You know (((who else))) concentrates in deep-blue shitholes?

        Seriously, that map is a straightforward depiction of where all the Jews are. This is going to get darkly humorous.

      • l0b0t

        YUP! The mood is getting uppity in the shtetls; there is a great deal of scoffing at the idea that such insular communities are the folk spreading the virus around and the compliance with any new order will be quite low.

      • Tejicano

        Maybe they’ve seen this authoritarian movie before?

      • AlexinCT

        Meh, Cuomo is a second rate tyrant, lacking in intellect, and not able to do the real evil shit other than by accident. His expertise is in redundant stupidity and pettiness. Then again, even lacking the real desire to murder, the guy has set one heck of a record killing old fucks in the Kung Flu times.

      • leon

        That’s… Sadly predictable coming from de Blasio.

      • Agent Cooper

        If you have a lot of money, living in a large coastal city can be quite nice. If you don’t, it’s not.

      • Akira

        I was born in Long Beach but live in Ohio, and people always ask me “What the hell are you doing here then??”

        And my smartass reply is always, “Paying low taxes? Not spending an hour a day in traffic? Experiencing virtually no street crime? Owning a good size house with a yard? Not having to walk through camps of homeless people on public sidewalks?”

  1. PieInTheSky

    Get woke, go broke. – eh the bubble probably also has some effect on ratings… we shall see next season. Personally I don’t plan on renewing my league pass.

    • UnCivilServant

      It will have not impact on my viewership.

      I already don’t watch it.

      • PieInTheSky

        yes because you are short and unathletic. Can you even do a 360 dunk?

      • UnCivilServant

        Yes, I am a paltry 6′ 3″, Tiny by basketball standards.

        But I ask you this – how can you stand all the squeaking?

      • PieInTheSky

        You sounded shorter on the zoom

      • Not Adahn

        Nah he’s definitely in the “don’t fight with him unless you have some significant advantage” size category.

      • Fourscore

        I know for a fact that you are taller than I am, UCS

      • pan fried wylie

        6’9″ with the glass dome

    • Swiss Servator

      The only way to watch is through the app(s) or TV, right? If naught else, you think it would increase viewing by 20,000 people who aren’t there in person…

    • Nephilium

      Cutting some of the teams also probably had an effect. At least here, basketball is back to being a third tier sport behind baseball and football (especially with the Browns looking good for the first time in decades).

      • PieInTheSky

        Well Lebron himself used to have more fans than some teams and he’s there

      • Nephilium

        Yes, and LeBron done burned quite a few bridges up here in Cleveland. After the initial decision, the big poster of him downtown had armed police guarding it for weeks.

    • Tejicano

      Get woke, go broke. –

      Ha ha ha ha! I can only hope this leaks over into corporate America… and SOON!

      • Fourscore

        You mean people vote with their pocketbooks? Say it ain’t so…

      • Tejicano

        I stopped buying Levi’s products about 30 years ago when I learned they were funding anti-gun organizations with the money I was spending on their jeans.

      • db

        Same here

    • Winded

      Last night’s not-watchers missed an epic performance by Jimmy Butler–imagine this, a player who cares so much that other teams let him leave rather than allow his work ethic to take hold with younger “stars” not as concerned about winning.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Second largest theater chain closing. – also the word chain is reminiscent of slavery and should no longer be used.

    • Swiss Servator

      “We have work for you, friend!”

      /Jacobin Magazine

      • straffinrun

        Jacobin has come out with some of the best anti lockdown articles out there. How weird is that?

      • Swiss Servator

        “We want OUR hands on the chains, not yours!”

      • straffinrun

        That was basically the article. It is amazing to watch authoritarian wannabes take on actual authoritarians because they know the tricks.

      • Charlie Suet

        The hard left quite often disagrees with what the mainstream left is doing, even where there seems to be an ideological link. Like how some of the biggest critics of postmodernism in academia are old-fashioned Marxists.

      • straffinrun

        Yep. And they bring an angle of attack that libertarians often miss.

  3. Tonio

    Leftists are starting to push the narrative that Trump is faking his Coronavirus diagnosis. Yes, the same people who lecture everyone else about conspiracy-mongering.

    • leon

      Honestly, I wouldn’t put it past as a campaign stunt. No one’s talking about white supremacists now.

      Of course the Trump Admin couldn’t keep a secret to save his life.

      • Swiss Servator

        “I know we’ll fake the ‘vid!”

      • Tonio

        Some people are still talking about alleged white supremecists (see below). I agree that I wouldn’t put it past them to fake this, but it’s also a high-risk strategy and compromises the WH physician and to a lesser extent Walter Reed.

      • leon

        I agree, it’s not likely at all. But I could see the idea being kicked around at the strategy meeting.

      • Swiss Servator

        …and promptly leaked.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

        The machine hates the guy because he threatens their efforts to create a hereditary aristocracy of credentialed elite experts that would insulate them and their offspring from the consequences of ineptitude and criminality that are their only real abilities.

      • R C Dean

        “ sources familiar with the President’s nasal passages say . . . .”

  4. leon

    I saw a CNN clip where they had a doctor on explaining why a covid patient would be let out of the hospital. It was very irresponsible for him to do the motorcade.

    • robc

      I can’t figure out how a motorcade is irresponsible. Walking down the street shaking hands and talking to people would be. But a motorcade?

      • WTF

        I can’t figure out how a motorcade is irresponsible.

        ORANGEMANBAD!!!11!!! Do you see?

      • AlexinCT

        What you fail to understand is that these people would turn any event or story related to this guy into a negative, regardless of how serious or otherwise this event was.

      • straffinrun

        robc probably didn’t fail to understand that. He fails to understand why anyone would fail to understand that. I’m with him.

    • straffinrun

      All of those diabetic, octogenarian secret service agents are in grave danger.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      It was very irresponsible for him to do the motorcade.

      Meanwhile in an alternate universe

      Obama Shows Bravery As He Powers Through Covid To Thank Supporters

  5. leon

    “Poll that doesn’t overweigh Democrats, has Trump leading nationally.”

    What do you mean overweigh? Aren’t their more registered Democrats than Republicans?

    • Swiss Servator

      But it if you go 60/40, you still are counting too much on one side.

    • straffinrun

      Looks like they weighted it according to the actual percentages of R’s, D’s and Ind’s.

    • UnCivilServant

      Well when you have a registration ratio of 42%, 38% and 20% but a consistant polling ratio of 56%, 30% and 14%, you get bad numbers.

      • leon

        Can’t you do mathematical adjustments for that? To interpolate the actual values? And do pollsters not do that?

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t forget, the average poll is about pushing a narrative, not reading the public opinion.

      • db

        The real polls are the ones the campaigns commission but do not release.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I wouldn’t put too much trust in those either. There is still too much incentive to give the customers the results they want to hear and will pay for.

        Interestingly, my phone has been flood with message from the Dems and none from the GOP. I wonder if the Dems think VA may be back in play.

      • db

        But the campaigns want real information so they can respond to the reality, in general. Not saying that they aren’t stupid enough to pay to smell their own farts, but a competent campaign manager would keep two sets of books, metaphorically with regard to polls.

      • robc

        yes, yes, honest ones do.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I posted this article yesterday. WSJ trumpeting their latest poll showing a 14 point lead for Biden. It’s now been linked in every one of their political articles to broadcast as far as possible.
        https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-scores-14-point-lead-over-trump-in-poll-after-debate-11601816400

        Buried at the very bottom is this:

        In the new survey, 45% of voters identified as Democrats and 36% as Republicans, a 9-point gap that is larger than the average 6-point advantage for Democrats in prior Journal/NBC News polling this year. Journal/NBC News pollsters don’t adjust the sample to meet benchmarks for party identification, as they do for other voter characteristics, such as race.

        The poll conductors are rigging the sample by adjusting some characteristics and not others to derive the outcome they want.

      • AlexinCT

        I believe team blue has given up on the WH but they are mining the money well for personal gain and hoping to avoid a loss of the hous and a win of the senate to impeach orange man and show the serfs their place. Polls like this are needed to get the stupid team blue cows out to vote…

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Cannot say election day only poll counts. No election DAY Trump-Biden. Donation not taxation.

  6. Donation Not Taxation

    Morning, Glibs time, Banjos

  7. leon

    NBA could just take its ball and go home to China.

    • Swiss Servator

      “Broadcast times are now in CST… China Standard Time”

      • Tejicano

        Ha ha ha! You jest now. Just give them a bit more time.

  8. leon

    Because nothing makes sense anymore, I was sure the covid would be a death nail to Trumps campaign. But I guess people like that.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not sure how you initially came to that conclusion. What was that based on?

      • leon

        He has covid, unable to Campaign effectively in the final month. People think he’s weak and sick.

      • Tejicano

        But then he bounced back like a boss.

      • Swiss Servator

        Or people see a “case” or a “positive” isn’t a death sentence…

      • Tejicano

        HERESY!! Avert your eyes! Hold the faith!

      • WTF

        Yeah, for an overweight 70-year old man. Giving the lie to the hysteria over “cases”.

      • Not Adahn

        That was another bit of NPRness this morning.

        They accused his doctor of lying because he called Trump a bit overweight. The “facts” are he’s “typically classified as obese.”

    • Rebel Scum

      Sympathy vote. Plus he is apparently doing alright, which destroys the end-times media narrative almost like it is just another cold/flu virus that will be with us going forward like all the other corona/rhinoviruses.

    • grrizzly

      I’d understand you if you thought that the COVID-19 and everything related to it would destroy Trump’s chances for reelection. But to think that Trump’s positive test would be the death nail… that’s hard to believe.

  9. straffinrun

    They’ve skewed the polls all the way up until at least October of the election year for decades. Do they think it will help get turnout for team blue or do they do it because it generates clicks?

    • AlexinCT

      Yes, at this point, as I mentioned above straff, this is about keeping the morons agitated to achieve three things, since I believe team blue knows they will not win the WH. The first and obvious one is about raking in money, and they are very successful at this. The second is about getting out the vote out and changing who is the senate majority while keeping the house, because if they succeed, they can do the third thing they want: to impeach and get rid of orange man to make the point they will NOT allow the people to pick someone they disapprove of (meaning anyone that wants to dismantle the corrupt system they have created and tell us represent us all: government).

    • Charlie Suet

      You’d think presenting the race as tight would encourage turn out. The Dems don’t want their younger voters staying at home because it’s a sure thing.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, the young will not go out to vote anyway…

      • creech

        You might not have noticed, but they don’t have to “go out” to vote any longer. Someone (a Dem operative) will be delivering blank ballots right to the dorm room and collecting them later.

      • AlexinCT

        Why bother with the middle steps when you can just fill it out for them and make sure they vote the right way…

        /dem strategist

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      Trumps IQ is in quantum flux. It’s simultaneously both an idiot and a genius, depending on the observation you run. Just like W Bush (at leas they could say Cheney was the evil genius behind the throne). Just like Regan (who was both senile and running the Iran Contra Affair personally). etc etc etc.

  10. Broswater

    ”Trump made the ‘Rona his bitch.”

    But but I’ve just been assured by the newspaper that 2 doctors said it was too early and that if his symptoms scale back it could be a bad sign!

    I like the last part mostly that goes something like :”If we let him out now, the idiot plebeians will think the Wu Flu is no biggie. Have you seen those curves!!”

    Title of the article :”This is not medicine, it’s political manipulation.”

    You’re right, it is.

    And it’s a French newspaper from Montreal.

    To think I used to deliver that rag as a kid…

  11. The Late P Brooks

    According to CBS News, doctors in charge of President Trump’s health okayed his drive-by supporters. The White House Deputy Press Secretary told CBS’ Mark Knoller that “appropriate precautions were taken in the execution of this movement to protect POTUS [and] all those supporting it, including [personal protective equipment].”

    The Secret Service in Trump’s detail and the ride were “cleared by the medical team as safe to do.”

    that can’t be right. This morning’s talking point is about how he callously endangered the lives of those secret service agents he forced at gunpoint to drive him around in that hermetically sealed Suburban.

    *I wonder what his security detail thinks of him, personally, as compared to previous assignments.

  12. Tonio

    George Takei, as part of his extended campaign to stay relevant, pokes the bear. As it were.

    • Rhywun

      Thereby demonstrating how completely irrelevant the “actual” Proud Boys always were.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        Fake news / Chris Wallace
        Donation not taxation.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘Thereby demonstrating how completely irrelevant the “actual” Proud Boys always were.’ — Rhywun

        Fake news / Chris Wallace
        Donation not taxation.

    • Chipwooder

      Has anyone ever milked a single role from a 50 year old TV show (which only ran for two seasons) as successfully as George Takei?

      • UnCivilServant

        Winter, Road Work, and uh…

        There’s a third season?

      • Not Adahn

        Texas has four seasons, but three of them are summer.

        Upstate has three seasons, Summer, Fall, and Winter. There is also some weird muddy sort of liminal time where it might be late winter or early summer or both. Kind of the calendar reverse of Indian Summer (which is racist so it’s apparently been renamed “Second Summer.” ).

      • Rhywun

        And a bunch of movies!

      • robc

        There are THREE seasons!!! — Picard

      • robc

        I have no idea what Brett Somers or Charles Nelson Reilly did before (or after) Match Game.

        As far as I know, that was their entire careers. I am guessing they were famous before, but I have no idea for what.

      • Chipwooder

        Brett Somers was on The Odd Couple as Oscar’s ex-wife (she was married to Jack Klugman in real life).

        Charles Nelson Reilly, I have no idea.

      • robc

        I looked him up, mostly broadway, he won a best actor Tony.

      • Bobarian LMD

        He was on one of the live action kid shows I vaguely remember as a kid. Sid n Marty Kroft.

        Looked it up… Lidsville.

      • Agent Cooper

        Charles Nelson Reilly was Witchypoo in Sid and Marty Kroft’s shit.

        He was also Jose Chung in The X-Files and Millennium is 2 of those show’s greatest episodes.

      • Mojeaux

        Charles Nelson Reilly was Witchypoo

        I did not know that! That’s awesome.

      • Bobarian LMD

        False, Billy Hayes played Witchie-Poo.

        CNR played the almost exact character on Lidsville, though.

      • Agent Cooper

        I got my memory wires crossed up.

      • blackjack

        We have a guy at work who’s name is Charles Nelson. Everyday, I have to resist the temptation to print up a “Riley” and add it to the end of his door plaque.

      • pan fried wylie

        2nd place goes to Leslie Nielsen

      • Not Adahn

        I thought he was a soap opera star.

  13. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Fabulous song, particularly for a Monday morning.

    I’m glad Trump is better, but this holding vigils outside the hospital creeps me out. Venerating politicians and bureaucrats is kind of sick.

    I’m amazed that there are people still willing to live in deep blue shitholes.

    I’m not. Most people don’t notice the bars of their cages.

    Second largest theater chain closing.

    The delay of the Bond flick really pissed me off. I wanted to go sit in a goddamn theater and be entertained for a couple hours. Is that too much to ask?*

    Well, get out there and give ’em hell, kids!

    This is gonna be a wild week – I can feel it.

    *Yeah, i know.

    • straffinrun

      The Trump vigil stuff is a bit odd. Granted the left is insane, but eventually even Trump and team red will run out of money to be throwing at people. Then what? End the fucking Fed.

      • AlexinCT

        How can they run out of money when they can just print more?

        Seriously, they have worked real hard to make sure that when money goes away and things fall apart, they have their hands on the things that will be valuable, so regardless of how shitty the next world that comes because of their ineptitude is, they remain on top.

    • Tejicano

      “The delay of the Bond flick really pissed me off”

      Yeah, really. I’m sure they killed more people in the movie* than would have died from watching it in a theater.

      * not pretending that theatrical deaths are as real as deaths in real life but just pointing out the difference in scale between something portrayed in a 90 minute flick vs. the population of the entire world at large.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘The delay of the Bond flick’ — Tejicano

        What if exposed @ theatre? 2020 is No Time to Die.

        Donation not taxation.

      • Tejicano

        “2020 is No Time to Die.”

        Trump could have stolen that.

      • pan fried wylie

        And get sued by the next bond movie?

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      I wanted to go sit in a goddamn theater

      This is why you and I can never be friends. The requirement to watch movies around other people is a burden that we put up with because of the technological limitations of home theaters.

      Kind of like how when books where prohibitively expensive you would go to university to listen to a Reader read from a book. Now we just read books at home, and watch movies at home. Like God intended all along.

      • pan fried wylie

        Kind of like how when books where prohibitively expensive you would go to university to listen to a Reader read from a book.

        If that sniffler doesn’t step outside and blow their nose before the next chapter…

  14. leon

    Saw a Hill video talking to Richard Wolfe: asking if the Corona recession was proof that capitalism was doomed.

    Because clearly a system that can’t handle the government forcefully shutting it down is a failure.

  15. Yusef drives a Kia

    See you guys tonight!

    • db

      That is messed up. What a den of evil. The Church’s history is full of dirty political moves and awful people masquerading as holy, but we were taught that was all history, confined to past centuries. Wrong.

    • Donation Not Taxation

      ‘using Vatican funds’ — PieInTheSky

      ‘Francis signed the encyclical, the third of his pontificate, on Saturday (Oct. 3) in Assisi, Italy, the birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis. The encyclical, titled Fratelli Tutti (strictly, Brothers All, though in Italian the implication is all of humanity), tackles the challenges faced by today’s globalized society, from racism to immigration to inter-religious dialog.’

      October 4, 2020
      Claire Giangravé
      https://religionnews.com/2020/10/04/pope-francis-new-encyclical-fratelli-tutti-enshrines-familiar-criticisms-of-racism-and-borders/

      Donation not taxation.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not saying we need a Crusader pope, or even Catholic, but is it to much to ask for one that’s at least Christian?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He’s the Antipope. He should be defrocked and replaced with Mel Gibson.

      • Not Adahn

        The CoE and Unified Church of Canada were just early adopters of the hip new religion of athiest Christianity.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘I’m not saying we need a Crusader pope, or even Catholic, but is it to much to ask for one that’s at least Christian?’ — UnCivilServant

        Limiting to Christians = religious discrimination / jk

        Francis is devout follower Church of Liberalism. = most important qualification / TPTB

        Donation not taxation.

  16. Drake

    Trump in the hospital with ‘rona – and he still managed to make more public appearances this weekend than Joe Hiden – this is one weird campaign.

  17. robc

    I was hoping for Sloopy links, wanted to discuss the weekends EPL events.

    Anyone remember Leicester getting thumped 3-0? Nope, not after yesterday’s later games.

    At least Man U had a 10 man excuse.

    Also, wanted to point out the top of the table while I still can (although the Villains have a nice claim to the top too, but are 1 game short).

    • Swiss Servator

      When has the lack of a link ever hampered discussion of anything on this site?

      • robc

        I just wanted to rub it into sloopy specifically.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Lucky guy

    • robc

      For those who don’t follow it. yesterday morning West Ham beat Leicester City 3-0, which was a big upset. Then in the afternoon, Tottenham Hotspur beat Man United 6-1, partly due to a red card to a Man U player, and having to play the last 3/4ths of the game with 10 men. Then, to top it all off, Aston Villa thumped defending champs Liverpool 7-2. No excuses, Liverpool just got whipped and quit.

      It would be like if a 12 upset a 5 early in the NCAA tourney and then that night a 15 beat a 2 and a 16 beat a 1. The original upset would be totally forgotten about.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I too was looking forward to Sloopy tears.

        I will quibble about United losing 6-1 due to the red card. They were awful in that game even before Martial was sent off.

        No one has ever said this, but I am glad Spurs have Sissoko over Pogba.

    • straffinrun

      If the bullet fits…

  18. Rebel Scum

    Trump made the ‘Rona his bitch.

    Related.

  19. straffinrun

    Have you taken a look at Trump’s Twitter feed over the past hour? He’s swinging like a blind Jim Thome.

    • Chipwooder

      I’ve never paid any attention to Trump’s twitter, and I see no reason to start now.

      • Swiss Servator

        Isn’t that what the Hat and the Hair is for?

      • Chipwooder

        Exactly. That’s where I get the straight scoop, raw and unvarnished.

      • straffinrun

        It’s a scatter shot of issue tweets ranging from abortion to gun rights. A dozen in a row, all caps and extry exclamation points.

      • leon

        He wants to make sure the people know his positions before he dies.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      swinging like a blind Jim Thome

      Heh. Nice. Instant visualization.

      Also: https://youtu.be/3Tdop5NlICQ

  20. Rebel Scum

    Trump does “X” And the media is losing their shit..

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Trump should (assuming he makes it out the other side) run on being the candidate with immunity.

    This morning, there were a couple of people saying, “Oh, sure, he looks okay now, but it’ll swing back around and knock him flat. Because that’s what it does!”

    • Apples and Knives

      “Wait two weeks.”

  22. Rebel Scum

    CFO shows up at the office today to notify that someone in this office tested positive for the commie-cough. Now everyone is being anal about masks. Wonderful. Not wearing it at my desk and I’ll have a problem if they force the issue.

    • UnCivilServant

      I have a spray bottle of 99% isopropynol. It’s not very useful as a cleaning agent because it evaporates too quickly. But if you aim for the eyes you might be able to drive them off.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Dilute it to seventy percent and it’ll work better.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have plenty of 70% already. No need to futz around with the 99% to make more.

    • Chipwooder

      I was half expecting a swarm of scarabs to attack the crowd the second that lid was off.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What else do you have to lose?

    • LJW

      Welp ancient mummy just jumped to the top of the presidential polls. By president I mean future Supreme Pharaoh.

      • Tejicano

        Like a dude who’s been kept under wraps and hidden out of the public eye as much as possible?

      • UnCivilServant

        He insists he has the guts to take on the incumbent, and has the canopic jars to prove it.

      • Not Adahn

        … there are at least three Glib authors that might have that in their stories.

      • UnCivilServant

        Just because one of the characters in my books is a mummified were-jackal…

      • AlexinCT

        Hillary Clinton makes an appearance in your books?

      • UnCivilServant

        No.

        Nothing that horrific.

      • AlexinCT

        My bad. When you said mummified were-jackal I went to Clinton. But she is an Old One. Pelosi is the were-jackal mummy, then?

      • Rebel Scum

        His mind is so scrambled he can barely function.

    • Tejicano

      Who knows? A cloud of immortality might have burst forth? Would that have been any stranger than what we’ve seen so far?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Why were they doing that outside? And in front of a group of people?

      Shouldn’t that maybe be done in a lab with a controlled environment?

  23. Rebel Scum

    Poll that doesn’t overweigh Democrats, has Trump leading nationally.

    Shocking.

  24. Rebel Scum

    The group of mostly young men and some small children were met by a large roadblock of Guatemalan authorities after the country’s President Alejandro Giammattei promised Thursday to detain and return anyone who entered illegally.

    “We will not allow any foreigner who has used illegal means to enter the country, to think that they have the right to come and infect us [with coronavirus] and put us at serious risk,” Giammattei said in a broadcast address to the nation.

    White-supremacy has no bounds.

    • R C Dean

      “mostly young men and some small children”

      Where da wimmin at?

    • WTF

      The group of mostly young men and some small children

      Looks like they’ve learned that having a kid with you will help you game the system.

    • db

      The group of mostly young men and some small children

      Yeah, that’s not suspicious or anything. Straight up human trafficking. What happens to the kids after they get across the border? Sold into slavery? Returned for the refund and then recycled to get someone else across the border?

    • Broswater

      Most be some of those 17 year old children with gray hair that keep immigrating to Europe.

  25. PieInTheSky

    Very impressive effect of COVID-19 on the “home advantage” in football (soccer).
    Soccer ball

    When playing in an empty stadium, the advantage of the home team drops by 50%.

    Down pointing backhand index
    Large effects on results, fouls and cards.

    https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1312744337768239105

    • robc

      It was also discussed with the blowouts that have been happening, that the crowds would prevent that, as now the losing team basically quits, but before they would rally due to fan support. At least to avoid embarrassment.

      • robc

        Another thing that has been noted is that the difference between top players and next tier is smaller on the practice field. That the top players perform in front of crowds while the 2nd tier struggles, and that these matches are more like practice field matches.

      • PieInTheSky

        this was said if the young guys/rookie in the nba bubble… they would not have done as well with a hostile home crowd.

      • robc

        And dont get the calls with the crowd influencing the refs.

  26. Rebel Scum

    NBA Finals Game 2 Ratings Crash by 68%, Least Watched Finals Game in History

    Fellating the Chinese ain’t working out for ya?

  27. Rebel Scum

    Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld is closing all of the chain’s locations in the U.S. as well as its theaters in the U.K. in the wake of MGM and Universal’s decision to delay the release of “No Time to Die” until next year, according to Variety.

    Dying industry anyway. Just release movies online. My home entertainment center is perfectly capable of providing the cinematic experience.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Theaters made sense when a “big” TV was 30 inches or so, not so much now. I won’t miss the overpriced snacks or the floors sticky with jism either.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        the floors sticky with jism either

        OK Pee Wee…

    • PieInTheSky

      Eh I still think the cinema has some things going for it… shared by more people, you can’t just pause it which may lead to better immersion, the big screen the big room etc.

      then again the driving parking standing in line can be annoying.

      • Overt

        “you can’t just pause it which may lead to better immersion”

        As an old man, I must point out that paused movies are less immersion breaking that trying to hold it in for another hour.

    • Chipwooder

      Depends on the movie. When they had a limited release of a restored print of 2001 in IMAX a few years back, that was breathtaking. Blows watching it at home away.

      More often than not, I still prefer the big screen.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      It’s been over a decade since I last saw a movie in the theaters. We do commercial-free streaming so I’m not even aware of what new releases are out there. We just occasionally buy movies at VUDU that are on sale and look good.

    • Agent Cooper

      I love going to the movies. Makes it feel more like an event, especially for something like No Time To Die.

  28. PieInTheSky

    The new Supreme Court president says he hopes a justice from an ethnic minority background will be appointed before his retirement in six years’ time.

    Lord Reed said the lack of diversity among the 12 Supreme Court justices was a situation “which cannot be allowed to become shameful if it persists”.

    Only 4% of senior judges appointed to the High Court or above are from ethnic minority backgrounds.

    Lord Reed has taken over as president of the Supreme Court from Lady Hale.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54410466

    • UnCivilServant

      Such racism, he should be buried alive for that bigotry.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      At least we still have Lord Reed.

  29. straffinrun

    Why it’s fashionable to hate your own country

    The abiding and inherent tendency of the people of the Anywhere class is thus to denigrate their own country. The motivation for this should be obvious, if we view this conspicuous self-hatred in terms of virtue-signalling. It is to draw attention to oneself, to display what an enlightened and decent person you are, prepared to right the wrongs of the past and confront the wrong-minded folk of the present. It’s a modern form of self-flagellation, an egocentric, narcissistic, often insincere form of romantic primitivism that goes back to Rousseau, in which the childlike, innocent Other is always sanctified as superior.

    • PieInTheSky

      most humans are devoid of reason so asking why is pointless.

  30. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Manic Monday: The Devils On Earth

    Dear Care and Feeding,

    When I was in college, I became pregnant and put the baby up for adoption. I chose a couple who were educated, lived in a very nice area, and seemed like smart, kind, and good people. They emailed me photos and updates for about a year, until they divorced, and then we lost touch.

    The child is 9 now. The mom recently found me on Facebook, and I was shocked to see that she has become a conservative alt-right conspiracy theorist gun nut, anti-vaccination, and anti-mask COVID denier. She posted about home-schooling (not virtual school) the child but also posted about working two jobs, which leads me to think the child is only learning xenophobia. As far as I can tell, the dad has nothing to do with either of them anymore. My question is: Is this a case of “I signed away my parental rights and should let them be,” or should I be concerned? And if so, what could I do? The child hasn’t seen me since she was a baby and may not even know she’s adopted.

    Dear NM,

    You haven’t said why you are concerned, and I don’t want to assume. Is it because it’s simply awful that a child, any child, is being raised this way? Or do you have feelings connected to your role as her birth mother? I think it’s important that you establish that for yourself, and if you find that you’re having a hard time processing this emotionally, it may be worth it to speak to a professional who has experience with parents of children placed in adoptive care.

    That said, you did sign away your parental rights, but you still have every right to be concerned—I am too! I have no connection to this child, but I am concerned anytime I hear of a young person being trained in the ways of the worst among us. We all should feel a sense of responsibility for the children of the world, and it would not be unreasonable at all for you to feel particularly bothered by this set of circumstances.

    • Chipwooder

      it may be worth it to speak to a professional who has experience with parents of children placed in adoptive care.

      A leftist woman writing to Slate undoubtedly already has an entire team of psychiatrists on standby.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The birth mother is obviously a deplorable too. Who has a kid and gives them up for adoption when abortion is so much better?

      That poor kid wouldn’t be suffering now if she had simply gone to Planned Parenthood.

    • Apples and Knives

      “alt-right” translation: conservative
      “conspiracy theorist ” translation: questions msm
      “gun nut” translation: owns a gun
      “anti-vaccination” translation: not sold on rushed vaccine for disease of low personal risk
      “anti-mask” translation: enjoys breathing air
      “COVID denier” translation: understands risk

      • Not Adahn

        Cuomo is demanding that NY be LAST on the vaccine distribution list. I’m sure this means he’s an anti-vaxxer.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    Surprisingly this story is not good news. Leader of Minnesoda’s Karen community dies

    You have to feel bad for the Minnesoda Karens. Poor refugees arrive here only to find that their name has become toxic.

    • Seguin

      My first reaction: “Whitmer’s gone??”

      • UnCivilServant

        But Whitmer was Michigan.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    There’s always room for propaganda

    If there was ever a year to appreciate teachers, it is 2020.
    And World Teachers’ Day — which is held annually on October 5 — aims to do just that.
    Amid a global pandemic, teachers have become even more vital, as they navigate how to help students adjust to distance learning and adapt to Covid-19 safety guidelines in their classrooms.
    Many teachers said they are working as hard as they possibly can to make the best out of a tough situation.

    Those poor teachers. Nobody appreciates them.

    • PieInTheSky

      Yeah teachering was babysitting so doing it online is not fit for purpose

  33. A Leap at the Wheel

    If Trump infected enough R senators to scuttle the ACB nomination, I possibly going to lose my mind.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I let my mind go missing last year. Trust me, it’s better this way.

      • UnCivilServant

        We may have your mind in the lost and found.

        There are a few dozen in there.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Hey, girl. How you doin’?

    Joy Villa, singer, songwriter, and author, left the stage at the WalkAway “Unsilent March” in Washington, D.C., to lead a prayer vigil outside Walter Reed Medical Center Saturday night. President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus at the nation’s top military hospital.

    PJ Media was on the scene and got to talk with Villa about the march, her thoughts on Trump’s recovery, and on Hollywood discrimination against conservatives.

    • Agent Cooper

      People who do this kind of idolatry are weird. For either party of politicians.

      • Seguin

        Yeah. She kinda fine tho

  35. Not Adahn

    NPR gonna NPR.

    One of you probably know the official name for this — it’s a variant off the non sequitur where you use syntactic form to imply something not stated by the words. NPR looooves the shit out of it.

    This morning’s was: Trumps doctors say he’s improving…but on Friday he had to be given supplemental oxygen twice!

    They really love using this pattern in interviews: Congressman Badrepublican, you said that puppies are adorable and fuzzy, but sources familiar situation are reporting that you murder nuns on the weekends? How can you justify saying that black people should be put back in chains?

    • UnCivilServant

      “I play Crusdaer Kings and am a fan of Mr. T. There need to be more gold chains.”

      • leon

        CKIII makes playing from 870 hard, because you have to wait 200 years to even get a decent succession law.

      • UnCivilServant

        Nonsense, you just need to orchestrate a situation in which you inherit Byzantium’s primogenture.

        Marriage and Murder are still some of the strongest weapons in the game.

      • PieInTheSky

        you wouldn’t last a day in 870

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now you’re just making the wampir jokes too easy.

      • UnCivilServant

        You have fond memories of those days, don’t you?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I tried to turn on NPR this morning. I lasted ten seconds.

      It’s intolerable.

      • Drake

        You should stop funding it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Minnesoda Enthusiasm

      *This is the mayor of Duluth’s twitter. She had called Trump a white supremacist prior to his visit last week. (and she did call the cops on the protesters but they had already left)

      • Rebel Scum

        She had called Trump a white supremacist

        But Trump is the divisive one.

  36. PieInTheSky

    Stare at this image for a few seconds and it completely disappears. This effect has been attributed to the adaptation of neurons vital for perceiving stimuli in the visual system

    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1313056579642626048

    depends on how you stare I assume. I have to sort of relax my eyes to have something happen, but even then the yellow remains.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Worked for me.

      Must be because I don’t have bat vision.

    • UnCivilServant

      No matter how much I stare at it, it still says “Website Blocked”

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      This effect has been attributed to the adaptation of neurons vital for perceiving stimuli in the visual system

      God damn it Science Reporter. That’s literally every perceptions of visual input. Our betters really know nothing.

    • PieInTheSky

      that is a bad commercial.

  37. Pope Jimbo

    So what is going on exactly?

    How can thousands of rubes mix it up at Sturgis and only a couple hundred people get the Rona, while a debate prep session seems to have infected everyone in DC?

    Are the swamp creatures swapping spit in the shower or something?

    To me it seems strange.

    • straffinrun

      Hope Hickeys.

    • robc

      I blame the president of Notre Dame. They have had outbreaks among students (no harm really, but whatever) and I am guessing he brought to the ACB announcement which is where things really started spreading.

    • UnCivilServant

      Bikers have a more developed immune system. Swamp creatures live in a biologically sterible bubble most of the time and are afraid of this thing called “outside”

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      Air. Exchange. It’s all fucking about air exchange.

      Sturgis, anti-mask rallies, rodeos, and mostly-peaceful-social-justice-rallies all happen out-doors where the air exchange approaches infinity. Debate prep sessions all take place in doors, where the air exchange approaches zero.

      • robc

        Yep. Grocery stores, despite being inside, are also not bad, as you don’t hang out chatting with someone for 10 minutes or so to get a large dose.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ve been to Sturgis. There are a lot of bars there. I have to believe that a lot of those bikers were tossing back a few indoors for more than 15 minutes (or whatever the new “scientific” threshold of time is).

        By the way, this is my number 1 theory that I think makes sense, but I still think that a lot of people were indoors at Sturgis too. Maybe the time they spent outdoors driving around (in sunlight) helped?

      • AlexinCT

        I have it on good authority they used some kind of nose bleach!

    • Rebel Scum

      seems to have infected everyone in DC

      Not everyone, just people with an “R” next to their names.

    • EvilSheldon

      Everything that we’re being told about C19 is a lie?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Do you really want to know if KellyAnne is tonguing Mike Lee?

      • Sean

        Rule #34.

      • leon

        :barf: Please. I like my only senator.

    • AlexinCT

      They all bang the same hookers?

    • Apples and Knives

      The bikers didn’t feel the need to get tested?

      • robc

        Yes, no jobs that fit what I do right now though.

      • robc

        Although, maybe soon, if the right someone takes them up on this offer!

    • Mojeaux

      I use Coinbase. #winning

    • AlexinCT

      I am buying stock…

      This company is not going woke, and thus, it will make money…

    • Florida Man

      Good news for racist. Want an all white supper club? White membership is $1, Black is $1,000,000.

  38. Not Adahn

    Mini-review:

    These things. They suck. They were on sale and I wanted to have a spare set. Would not buy again, on sale or not.

    I am blaming them for my dismal performance yesterday. That and the hangover. And the fact that I had to DQ someone.

    • Agent Cooper

      “And the fact that I had to DQ someone.”

      Peanut Buster Parfait to the face?

    • robc

      I have a solution: Simplify the tax code so that the rich don’t have damn complicated tax forms.

      • UnCivilServant

        But then what would we do with the licensed auditors?!

        /IRS

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Rubber rooms

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m not sure I’d want to use a condom made by an IRS auditor.

      • Rebel Scum

        And eliminate the income tax. Shit (while technically constitutional because of the amendment) ain’t congruent with freedom in the first place.

      • robc

        Well, yeah. But I am working within the constraints given.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘And eliminate the income tax.’ — Rebel Scum

        And other taxes. Let people choose what government they want voluntarily donate.

        Donation not taxation.

      • AlexinCT

        Are you fucking nuts? How is government going to be able to pick the winners and losers, let alone sell favors, with a simplified tax code? Fuck you people are evil for trying to deny a pol the easy life…

        /crooked pol

    • leon

      And by “auditing the poor” do they mean the lower middle class, because the poor don’t pay income taxes?

      • UnCivilServant

        They do file for refunds of monies not paid due to credits.

      • robc

        The article says primarily people claiming EITC.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Which, is easy to audit through the mail. It’s also really not that imposing on poor people, it’s usually just verifying social security numbers or catching unmarried people who are claiming the same dependent.

      • Drake

        I’m sure they mean people who don’t use real Accountants to do their taxes. Auditing an accounting firm and dealing with their lawyers is probably no fun.

  39. PieInTheSky

    Coffee associated with improved survival in metastatic colorectal cancer patients

    Date:
    September 17, 2020
    Source:
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Summary:
    In a large group of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, consumption of a few cups of coffee a day was associated with longer survival and a lower risk of the cancer worsening, researchers report in a new study.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917181251.htm

    • EvilSheldon

      Makes sense. A few cups of coffee keeps things moving down there.

  40. Rebel Scum

    He’s dying and his doctors are lying!

    Anchor Tapper said, “Some interesting comments from Commander Conley, who before this episode had an impeccable reputation. He was asked why he didn’t give all the information yesterday, and he said he was trying to, I’m quoting, trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of the team and not give any information that would steer the course of his illness. Is that what a physician is supposed to do?”

    Gupta said, “No. I mean, you’ve got to be honest. You’ve got to be transparent—all these details matter. I mean, he is out and coming out to brief the public about the president. That’s the briefing that’s happening. If you are going to do that, then you have to be absolutely honest. And it wasn’t just sort of conveying an upbeat attitude. He was — it was purposely misleading yesterday about a very basic issue, which is whether or not the president had been on supplemental oxygen is one of those issues. That’s important, Jake, because when you look at patients the way that doctors approach this, we know his age, we know his pre-existing risk factors, you can immediately start to assess his risk as more data comes in that risk sort of stratification changes. If he required oxygen, that definitely indicates that there was some impacts, significant impact on his lungs, and that puts him on a different trajectory.”

    • robc

      I wish his doctor would come out, say “HIPPA, so fuck off”, and walk away.

      • robc

        I really should know how to spell HIPAA.

      • leon

        If the doc claimed that, you’d have Adam Shiff on the next CNN show calling for Trump to be impeached because he won’t release his medical records.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Except that HIPAA can be waived by the patient.

        And then there’s the debacles of FDR and JFK that should never be repeated, but will be because it’s more convenient.

    • PieInTheSky

      Trump cannot die trump is not a man it is an idea a dream of a greater America

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re so concerned for the President!

    • leon

      I say we get Tappers Doc on national media and ask him questions about Jake Tappers health.

    • Not Adahn

      it was purposely misleading yesterday

      I’m seeing this being repeated, always without concrete examples of said misleading. So I’m assuming it’s bullshit.

  41. Not Adahn

    My Union hurts. I’m pretty sure it’s from carrying my club’s collection of steel targets from the trailer and setting them up yesterday. I don’t think it’s a nerve or cartilage or anything like that, since the pain is fairly symmetrical in the backstraps over the rib cage, below the scapulae. Is this something I have to worry about re-injuring, or is it just typical overworked muscles?

    • PieInTheSky

      I thought the union is supposed to protect you from on the job injuries

      • UnCivilServant

        Unions are to fleece you for funds to contribute to politicians who hate your guts and want to deprive you of your freedoms.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s “Darmok and Jalad” with an additional level of encryption. Extremely effective at excluding outsiders.

      • robc

        Somehow a great episode despite such a stupid premise.

      • UnCivilServant

        No one speaks English anymore.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘No one speaks English anymore.’ — UnCivilServant

        ?Que? No habla inglés.

  42. AlexinCT
    • PieInTheSky

      I thought it was considered against medical ethics to offer such opinions on people who are not one’s patients

      • Not Adahn

        Wen previously served as president of Planned Parenthood before being removed from the organization last year due to “philosophical differences” she said she had with new board chairs “over the direction and future” of the organization.

        No doubt she’d try to treat Trump with a combination of cannula and vacuum.

  43. creech

    More proof that Trump is a racist: he’s in a hospital named for Walter Reed. Reed grew up in North Carolina during the Civil War and NC was a notorious slave state. He attended Univ. of Virginia, started by the notorious slaver and rapist, Thomas Jefferson. He was later associated with George Washington Univ., named for another slaver. While he was an army officer in the West (probably giving infected blankets to the Apache) he adopted a native American girl, giving cover to his obvious racism, much like what Amy Barrett is trying to fool us with today. Why hasn’t Trump denounced this racist, fascist, white supremacist???

    • Gustave Lytton

      You forgot Reed’s work to promote colonialism by fighting yellow fever.

      • creech

        Just the use of “yellow” is proof of racism!

  44. PieInTheSky

    “There is no getting ‘back to normal,’ experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better”

    This is possibly the most damaging message in terms of public health and I believe it is highly irresponsible to run such an uninformed headline.

    https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1312587056045056000

    • UnCivilServant

      Hey, mr ‘expert’, we are going to go back to normal, regardless of diktat. The sooner you accept that, the better.

    • leon

      The #COVID19 pandemic will be over eventually, probably sooner than many believe. We need to get to the other end of it with the lowest possible morbidity and mortality, but also with our sanity, society and institutions reasonably intact.

      Some estimate it will be over within the next month or two.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hence why the tolerable threshold for cases keeps getting lowered.

        Gotta keep the scam going.

      • Rebel Scum

        “14 days to flatten the curve”

        I’m old enough to remember that the premise was to not overwhelm the healthcare system because you can’t actually stop the spread.

      • Drake

        If anything has been proven the last 6 months – government inability to stop the spread is it.

      • robc

        About 3 months from peak, if you have a real peak, in any given location.

        So about 1 more month in SC. KY still hasn’t had their peak although they look like they are heading that way.

      • leon

        I was just making a jest about election day.

      • robc

        Utah is still a long way to go.

      • grrizzly

        The epidemiologists who criticized the lockdown idea back in 2006 estimated that the epidemic might take 8 months (see the pdf file embedded at the bottom) to go through the entire country.

      • Nephilium

        Just two more weeks…

      • robc

        Ohio still hasnt had their peak. You all closed down too effectively, IMO.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Certainly, we never returned to normal after the Black Plague, the Spanish Flu, the Hong Kong Flu…

    • Tejicano

      I just spent the evening in an Irish pub in Tokyo. Probably 50 to 60 patrons in no way social distancing. Masks rare if seen at all. Everybody enjoying themselves as in the before times. It was glorious.

  45. Sean

    https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/the-cause-of-the-latest-testing-blunder-has-been-revealed-and-it-could-mean-curtains-for-dido/05/10/

    Dido Harding has been called on to resign following a ‘shambolic’ blunder which saw almost 16,000 Covid-19 cases going unreported.

    The government’s new testing tsar, who was appointed in August to head up the Test and Trace scheme, was forced to admit that a technical issue resulted in 15,841 cases between September 25 and October 2 being left out of the reported daily coronavirus cases.

    The reason for this was that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum, pouring yet more scorn on the government’s efforts to get a handle on the situation.

    Emphasis added.

    LOL!

    • leon

      database is managed in Exce

      :Psycho Horror Music:
      :flashbacks to memories long suppressed:

      Leon isn’t here right now, please come back later.

      • robc

        Better than access.

        Well, maybe not, but, yeah, I am going with it.

      • leon

        As long as you’re not storing anything that could be interpreted as a date, or a number that needs scientific notation or….

      • UnCivilServant

        or any datasets that need to be rapidly accessed, on which you want to perform any operations beyond simple filters, or if it’s too big.

      • robc

        mysql and postgres are both free. Use anything other than excel of access.

      • UnCivilServant

        You left out Maria (which forked off MySQL anyway.)

      • robc

        I wasn’t trying to be complete.

      • leon

        ^^^ This.

        Is mysql still being developed? i thought Oracle had killed it when they bought it.

      • DEG

        Pedant: Sun bought MySQL. Oracle bought Sun. Oracle kept MySQL around. Why? I don’t know.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oracle is a hoarder. It’s probably the only reason they bid on TikTok.

      • DEG

        MySQL free? Sun paid a BILLION BUCKS for it back when Sun was losing 200-250 million a quarter.

      • Nephilium

        Or phone numbers, or MAC addresses, or…

    • Not Adahn

      What a Dido.

    • AlexinCT

      Stupid is as stupid does…

    • Charlie Suet

      Labour voters on Twitter demanding that government appointees resign isn’t really news. Quite a howler though.

      What always annoys me with this sort of cock-up is that people draw the wrong conclusions from it. They ought to realise from this that the state is bad at everything and shouldn’t be called on to run anything. Instead they pretend that everything would have run smoothly if their team were in charge, despite the fact that most of the key bureaucrats would be the same either way.

      Plus I end up defending the Tories because I hate Labour so very very much. That’s annoying too.

    • AlexinCT

      That guy wants that cock safe from the Rona…

  46. Certified Public Asshat

    Killing the NBA's popularity in the US will be LeBron's legacy. Didn't have to be this way. Sad. Can't be the GOAT if you kill the game. #AirJordanForever https://t.co/vxK2m2e5D7— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) October 1, 2020

    Strong troll game.

    • Mojeaux

      Jason Whitlock was a shit-stirrer at the KC Star for years. I’m glad he’s still stirring shit.

    • Hyperion

      They’ll just say it’s all because of commie flu and full steam ahead with their woke bullshit. When Covid is gone and there are zero viewers left, they’ll switch to blaming it on global warming.

  47. Not Adahn

    Got my assignment for Factory Gun Nationals. I’ll be ROing “After Midnight.” If you’re shooting it, be sure to give me the Glib handshake along with the requisite bribe, and then make the Sign of the Monocle if you want me to induce a reshoot.

    • leon

      Thats done by making a circle with your hand, and then extending the middle finger downwards?

      • Not Adahn

        Shhh! Don’t give away the secret signs!

    • Not Adahn

      It’s an odd stage to me in that it has targets set up in front of walls. But hey, I guess if you don’t mind them getting shot to hell you can do what you like with your equipment.

  48. Rebel Scum

    Ideally.

    The Hill
    @thehill

    Supreme Court could threaten Biden agenda

    • leon

      Nothing a little threat of Court Packing can’t fix. amirite Frankie?

  49. Rebel Scum

    Conspiracy.

    Lin Wood, a high-profile lawyer representing Nick Sandman and Kyle Rittenhouse, tweeted, “Many leaders in administration of @realDonaldTrump are quarantined by what almost appears to almost be targeted strike of Covid-19.” He later tweeted, “There are no coincidences. Zero. None. Hard stop.” Deanna Lorraine, who ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, also picked up the theme of a “targeted strike” in her tweet, “Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?” And Omar Navarro, a Republican politician in California, developed the theme: “1.RBG dies. 2. Trump announces he will nominate new justice before election. 3. Pelosi makes “Arrow in our quivers comment to stop him.” Week later Trump, his top aide, his campaign manager, two Senators all come down with COVID 5. Schumer immediately requests to delay nomination.” He added, “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”

    • leon

      When you’ve made politics into out-and-out warfare, of course you are going to see every setback as enemy action.

    • Drake

      I find the timing, the trace back to Cleveland, and the fact that only Republicans were infected all very suspicious. Since nobody can get within a hundred feet of the President without a covid test, something weird happened.

      • Gustave Lytton

        A) tests aren’t a magic forcefield. They’re a backward looking diagnostic tool.

        B) lack of defense in depth

        C) lack of following whatever protocols were dreamed up due to familiarity, inconvenience, or good old fashioned laziness and complacency.

      • Drake

        B) It was a road-trip to the Cleveland clinic for the debate, so some of that defense was entrusted to the Cleveland Clinic and the organizers.

        C) I find that one hard to believe when away from the White House. And still weird that none of the organizers or Dems got it.

  50. Rebel Scum

    Heh…

    James Woods
    @RealJamesWoods

    At least one of these creatures is making sense… (hint: the pretty one)

  51. ttyrant

    I went to mass at the local Catholic church yesterday morning for the first time since I’d moved down here a few months ago (half-rural half-suburban southern Minnesota). The priest’s homily was a 20-minute rumination on the environment and climate change, utilizing a specific writing from Pope Francis (On the Common Good, IIRC) as well as a few quotes from previous popes. He ended the homily by — I kid you not — pulling out a reusable grocery bag and telling us we ought to use fewer plastic bags and own fewer cars.

    Now I’m thinking whether it’s worth my time to put together my frustrations and shoot an e-mail to the church. As a kid who grew up Catholic but fell away during my high school, college and post-graduate years, I’d think I’m exactly the audience they’d want to be trying to bring in, and a sermon like that is rather off-putting. They’re clearly struggling attendance wise — I think they maybe have two masses on Sunday. Even considering the fact that they were blocking off every other row for social distancing, attendance was sparse. As a side note, the priest appeared to be wearing tennis shoes that were perhaps ten years old. If you can’t even dress like the occasion matters, how do you expect me to buy in?

    • Drake

      Sounds like your Catholic church, just like my Presbyterian church has been skin-masked. I haven’t shown up in person yet and probably won’t for a long time. We have an interim minister right now who is really into social justice. I like the convenience of being able to turn off the live feed when he annoys me.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Now I’m thinking whether it’s worth my time to put together my frustrations and shoot an e-mail to the church.

      I would. Don’t rant and rave, but lay out in dispassionate detail why you find it so off-putting.

    • creech

      Plastic bags sequester carbon don’t they? Ask the priest why he’s against carbon sequestration?

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      I’m not Catholic, but my wife is, so I sometimes went to church with her. That stuff wouldn’t fly in her church, especially when they get the guest priest from Africa.

  52. DEG

    ‘Morning Banjos.

    The new closures, set to take effect as soon as next week, come just a few months after the company began reopening its locations amid the coronavirus pandemic earlier this summer. Cineworld operates 128 venues in the U.K. and Ireland in addition to Regal’s 546 theaters in the U.S. consisting of 7,211 screens.

    Who could possibly have foreseen that centrally planning the economy would lead to businesses failing?

    Non-essential businesses in the zip codes would be shut down, as would on-site learning at their public and private schools and indoor and outdoor restaurant dining, under the plan proposed Sunday by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Gov. Andrew Cuomo still has to sign off on the proposed lockdown.

    Bezirksleiter de Blasio can go fuck himself. Gauleiter Cuomo can go fuck himself too.

    • robc

      My daughter has been back in school since mid-August despite SC being still high at the start of that period, and still high compared to NY.

      SC public schools did delay, but I think they have reopened too.

  53. robc

    The polling in the link, showing Trump winning must have this as their electoral map, as best I can figure, based on result and states mentioned:

    https://www.270towin.com/maps/2WR7O

    • leon

      I’d be floored if Trump could sweep PA, MI, WI, FL, and NC

      • robc

        That result is as close to a “blowout” as is possible this year. But if Trump wins MN, its all over.

      • kinnath

        I pointed to an article last week where the Dem Party was targeting the building trades, but Trump was still polling equal to Biden.

        If Trump pulls roughly 50% of blue collar labor, it will be the closest we can get to a blowout without CA and NY.

      • Hyperion

        I haven’t changed my mind on this one since Biden got the nod. Trump will get more electoral votes than in the last election.

      • Apples and Knives

        He did last time.

      • Rebel Scum

        And VA…

      • Hyperion

        I wouldn’t. He did it last time.

    • kinnath

      We drove to the suburbs of Milwaukee and back yesterday. Rural Wisconsin — Trump signs 5 to 1 against Biden signs.

    • DEG

      I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump flipped NH.

      Clinton won NH by margin of fraud, in other words not that much.

      Not only do I see a lot more enthusiasm for Trump, Republicans are going door to door in NH and holding lots of in-person events. The state Democrat Party prohibited its candidates, employees, and volunteers from door-to-door canvassing. Instead, the Democrats are using Zoom and mailings. I read somewhere the national Democrat Party allowed door-to-door canvassing, but the state party in NH has not. From what I’ve heard, NH Democrats are complying with the state party’s directives.

      NH voters, especially independents, like meeting candidates.

      • DEG

        Also: Bernie Sanders was first in the NH Presidential primary, with Joe Biden being dead last.

    • kbolino

      From the link:

      This isn’t a popularity contest™

      Yeah, but only because it’s an unpopularity contest instead.

    • leon

      The Corona has taken over his mind, and is trying to get people to vote for him.

      PROOF THAT EVIL REPUBLICANS ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE CORONAVIRUS!

    • Hyperion

      Yes, please, someone take the Hat’s phone and bag of cocaine again.

      VA doesn’t matter. They’ve already said that they’re giving the VA electoral vote to whoever wins the popular vote, and they already know who that is.

      In the event Trump wins the popular vote, they’ll just give it to Biden.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        They’ve already said that they’re giving the VA electoral vote to whoever wins the popular vote, and they already know who that is.

        Most of those laws are triggered by some plurality/majority of states passing the same law. Even then, the constitutionality is dubious at best.

      • Hyperion

        “Even then, the constitutionality is dubious at best.”

        I seriously doubt that will constrain the VA democrats. Yes, it will probably be overturned at the SCOTUS, but they will still attempt it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Of all the shit they’ve pulled, this is the most egregious.

        They’re straight up disenfranchising their own state’s voters for national party politics. Lousy motherfuckers ought to be strung up.

      • Hyperion

        If they keep it up, the country will have no choice other than split apart. Except your aforementioned solution. Can we get some tar and feathers down here to go with that?

      • kbolino

        Ah, but they’re only fucking over some of the voters. And what better summary of modern American democracy can there be than “you got slightly less than the slightly less than enough we got, so fuck you”.

        My biggest gripe with NPV is the lack of majority requirement. The reason you need to “270 to win” is that a majority is required, otherwise it goes to the House who vote under special rules to decide the President. I don’t think the EC with the current state borders is some major win for representation, but at the same time giving somebody who gets less than 50% the election automatically seems to be no less disenfranchising than giving it to the EV but not PV winner.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘Yes, it will probably be overturned at the SCOTUS,’ — Hyperion

        Promise?

        Donation not taxation.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A doesn’t matter. They’ve already said that they’re giving the VA electoral vote to whoever wins the popular vote, and they already know who that is.

        What? How did I miss this? When did they pass that bill?

      • Hyperion

        “The compact goes into effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have joined the compact.”

        Of course, this will never happen since the majority of states do not want to be disenfranchised from national elections. The dems will ignore this and try to do it anyway.

      • Hyperion

        Yes, you missed it. At least the VA House passed it. Anyway, they don’t need no Stankin bill! Our democracy is at stake here!

      • Rebel Scum

        I don’t think that enough states have done this in order to take effect, not that it would be found to be constitutional anyway.

      • Hyperion

        I think it’s constitutional only if a majority of states do it.

      • kbolino

        Technically, that majority is 38, and they need to do it via constitutional convention.

        But that requires having judges who enforce the Constitution as written, which is as we’ve seen harder than finding 9 unicorns.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Like constitutional matters to those sons of bitches.

      • Hyperion

        Old paper like a hundred years old in language no one reads anymore. Not relevant to today’s postmodern on the right side of history times.

        Any more questions?

    • Hyperion

      There are other women out there, Tater. Just sayin.

  54. Not Adahn

    Lol. EVERYONE MUST PANIC ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!!!

    Got my cooftest results and I am terribly deficient in viral RNA. However, the entire back page was a warning on how having a negative test in no way means I don’t have the ‘vid and could die at any moment from this horrible disease.

    • Rebel Scum

      Mask minstrel theater is in full force at the office today because someone tested positive* for the commie-cough over the weekend.

      *as if that means anything

    • Hyperion

      We must all be herded to the testing facilities every day, for safety. Will we leave again on this day? Who knows, not me. Disappeared for safety? Who doesn’t support disappeared for safety? Only people who want people to die! Good they got disappeared!

    • Hyperion

      Are their polls oversampling Labour Party voters? They learned it from us?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Tory voters support a 10pm curfew but would compromise with a 9:30pm one as the opening offer, and accept an 8pm cutoff.

      • kbolino

        They learned it from us?

        More like the other way around.

        The Tories are like the Republicans, just progressives going the speed limit, but they have a higher speed limit.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Oops. That was supposed to be “This tweet from Trump’s warroom calling out Minnesoda jerks is not calling me out”

      • AlexinCT

        Suuuuurrrreeeeee…

    • Not Adahn

      Art Deco is the absolute tits.

    • R C Dean

      Gorgeous.

      The base model is a 1934 BMW R7 and this exclusive model is a limited edition of just ten units. The price tag sits at $250,000 as of Apr 13, 2020.

      I’m impressed he found ten 1934 BMW R7s he could build with.

    • AlexinCT

      She is mumbling under that face wrap that she shoved that whole thing up her ass?

    • Hyperion

      That is an eggplant, sir! Get your mind out of the gutter!

  55. Hyperion

    My Gunnersaurus!

    Postmodern rules of sports: Must not offend, must not be fun.

    • AlexinCT

      Dinosaurs complained about cultural appropriation? Or was that just that cranky turtle from the stupid Comcast commercials that did this?

      • Hyperion

        “Dinosaurs complained about cultural appropriation?”

        Of course not. As always, retarded white progs did it for them.

    • Fatty Bolger

      That is troubling. But the real trouble with Arsenal is that they always try to walk it in.

    • Hyperion

      This is getting really weird.

  56. R C Dean

    I’m actually optimistic. We have a bunch of high-profile people who caught the ‘Vid (no surprise, as it runs through networks and they are all part of a network). They will be fine, and with any luck the contrast between the hysterical shrieking and the fact that nobody died (or even really needed to be hospitalized ) will help some people step outside the narrative.