Winston’s Mom does links

by | Oct 9, 2020 | Daily Links | 546 comments

…spastic wise ass that gave himself tennis elbow trying to rub one out.

Here, have some links.

 

NY Times hot on the case of a 29 year old hockey player that died of the commie virus.  And what was his pre-existing condition you ask?

His favorite breakfast cereal was oxycodone.

Doomsday camps are a business opportunity for me.

A fun argument to let Huawei operate in the US:

To which some will say that there’s no evidence Huawei has the better technology. Ok, but if Huawei’s technology is vastly overrated, why all the hand wringing about Huawei? That there’s so much is a fairly pregnant signal that the technology is not only the best, but also that the Chinese corporation isn’t nearly as close to or controlled by the Chinese state as politicians and pundits want us to believe. We know this because conservatives have long made the correct point that heavily subsidized and politicized businesses are weakened by the subsidies and politics precisely because they blind them to the very market signals that drive progress.

If Huawei is in the pocket of the Chicom government, if governments are terrible at picking market winners, its stands to reason Huawei makes a shit product.  Shit products don’t last long in the market because their shit.  What’s the problem now, you’re being watched?  YOUR ALREADY BEING WATCHED.

I am old enough to remember some asshat asking this question.

Sure, try it again.  Let’s see what happens, morons.  Now thst I look at it more, it makes sense if Pence has to participate in the process to plead the 25th.  If Pence is stuck in DC, it means neither he or Trump are campaigning…or its just a straight power grab.

 

I’m done.  I need a cigarette.

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Winston's Mom

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546 Comments

  1. Chipwooder

    Is a what?

    • Rhywun

      Now that is how you ignore the post.

      • Chipwooder

        Anything worth doing is worth doing right

      • limey

        At this point is Winston’s mom still worth doing? Seems like the cost-benefit analysis is pretty straightforward on that one, even with double rubber.

      • Bobarian LMD

        You say that like she’s gonna give you a choice.

  2. Count Potato

    “His favorite breakfast cereal was oxycodone”

    Also, xanax, apparently.

    • Just a thought not a sermon

      The Washington Post does this too, although they seem to have given it up lately. All through May, June, and July they would run a front-page story every day about somebody between age 10 and 40 who had died of COVID. Invariably, if you would read like 12 paragraphs into the article, you would discover they had some serious pre-existing condition that made them extremely vulnerable to any sort of opportunistic disease.

      • AlexinCT

        Hey, they had a narrative to support man. Can’t blame them for that, can you?

        And while many point out that putting COVID on death certs let them collect something like $36K per body, encouraged the medical community to label everything a Kung Flu death, I think the media reporting ignored that too to sell the dnc trope (and destroy the economic advantage they wanted to remove from Trump-Putin).

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The NYT did issue a correction:

      Correction: Sept. 17, 2020
      An earlier version of this obituary misstated the day Amburgey died. It was Aug. 29, not Aug. 30.

  3. invisible finger

    “tennis elbow trying to rub one out.”

    Penis elbow?

    • Ted S.

      I figured she posted that just to piss me off.

      • Ted S.

        Gah, that was supposed to be under JATNAS’s comment.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Your elbow messed up your click?

  4. Just a thought not a sermon

    “YOUR ALREADY BEING WATCHED.”

    My what is already being watched?

  5. UnCivilServant

    If Huawei is in the pocket of the Chicom government, if governments are terrible at picking market winners, its stands to reason Huawei makes a shit product. Shit products don’t last long in the market because their shit.

    You’ve never worked with government procurement, have you. A lowest bidder mandate means they keep buying the shit product because people who make worthwhile products can’t bid down as far. No one who makes the decision has any accountability for the problems it causes, and in the end they’ve spent more money on the shit products because they keep needing replacement, but are always the lowest bidder.

    I don’t know the ratio of government elecommunications to quasi-government telecommunications or the way non-government telecommunications providers procure, but Huawei could gorge itself on tax dollars and gets hooks in all over the place without once improving its products.

    It’s the whole reason Unisys isn’t out of business yet.

    • Nephilium

      Unisys isn’t out of business yet.

      Really? I thought they got acquired and rolled into one of the fulfillment/distribution groups.

      /wanders off to search the toobz.

      Well shit. I was wrong, they do appear to still be independent.

      • UnCivilServant

        New York is stupidly committed to some pretty awful Unisys offerings. One of our biggest recurring headaches comes from them.

      • AlexinCT

        Why are you so keen on denying some people their ability to put caviar & champagne on their family’s table from some kickbacks huh, man?

      • juris imprudent

        That 36-bit architecture is a bitch to move off of.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, that isn’t actually our biggest headache. But they had started the process of getting off the 2200 twenty years before I joined twelve years ago… and they’re still a few applications short of completion.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah, I can understand why the low bid standard was started but it’s been a disaster in practice. The cheapest thing for sale out there is usually junk no matter what it is.

      • AlexinCT

        Not if the vender is selling a quality product cheap and making the loss up on volume!

        /morons

      • Bobarian LMD

        The challenge in government procurement is to then write your specifications well enough that the unacceptable products get precluded.

        But usually your procurement guys are no where near enough of an expert on the requirements and your requirements experts know nothing about the procurement process.

        Mix in some leadership who read an article on the subject once and slept at a Holiday Inn Express, and you get shit.

    • Winston's Mom

      That was a logical, thought provoking, well reasoned response. And I would address it but based on your inability to figure out your cooling rack dilemma has made me conclude you are either 12 or a serial killer and this is actually your antipsychotic meds talking.

      Go home kid.

  6. Count Potato

    “”Fortitude Ranch is a survival community equipped to survive any type of disaster and long-term loss of law and order, managed by full-time staff. Fortitude Ranch is affordable (about $1,000/person annually) because of large numbers of members and economies of scale. Fortitude Ranch is especially attractive to join because it doubles as a recreation and vacation facility as well as a survival retreat. Members can vacation, hunt, fish and recreate at our forest and mountain locations in good times, and shelter at Fortitude Ranch to survive a collapse,” the company’s website said.”

    I wonder what you get for that $1000?

    • UnCivilServant

      timeshare points in a recreation facility.

    • Tejicano

      If I were running such an operation each purchaser would get a list of 100 items (with minimum quantities listed) and be advised to bring at least 30 of those items if they intend to exercise their option to stay. Storage for those items would be provided.

      • UnCivilServant

        Then you get the potluck problem where most of the participants bring the easiest items and no one brings the good stuff.

      • Tejicano

        It might have to be weighted in such a way that thing’s like 1,000 round cases of 5.56X45mm are items 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 on the list. So they get more credit for covering the really necessary items.

      • robc

        Put a point value on each item, say 10 pts initially, so that would be 1000 pts total across 100 items. You have to bring in 300 pts. Whenever someone shows up, the point value of the items they bring drop and the items they dont bring rise, but keeping 1000 pts total. Thus, it encourages the later showing up people to bring the unbrought items.

      • robc

        Note: I have apparently played too many games of Brass or Power Grid.

      • Tulip

        Which can be solved the same way you solve the potluck problem – even house numbers bring salad or main, odd bring desserts, etc. Not too hard to come up with a variation.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Numbers? Fuck Off Slaver!

      • AlexinCT

        I will bring the rubbers and lube!

      • Festus' Mustache

        I always had a hunch that that it was you, McCaffey.

      • AlexinCT

        HEY!

        These are essentials. Society would implode without that stuff!

      • robc

        Without rubbers society would explode, not implode.

      • AlexinCT

        Population would explode.. society would then implode due to lack of resources and shitlordry…

    • Festus' Mustache

      Hopefully some handmaidens.

      • Bobarian LMD

        ^^Mr. Coney Barrett

  7. UnCivilServant

    On an unrelated note, a while back, I bought brand new baking sheets (made in the usa), cooling racks (made in the usa), and a silpat (made in… France), but I haven’t removed them from the box because I don’t want to get them dirty. This prevents me from using them, which makes having bought them pointless, but I still can’t bring myself to unbox and use them, because that would get them dirty…

    • Just a thought not a sermon

      A friend’s mom when I was growing up had this same attitude with the furniture in her house. I always wondered what the point was of couches, chairs, etc. you couldn’t sit on.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m trying to force myself to open the box and bake some pierogis.

        I even have parchment paper to keep the food from directly touching the pan…

      • Nephilium

        But national pierogi day was yesterday.

        And… baking pierogi? If you’re going from raw, they need the boil, but then it’s always been a pan fry for me (traditionally with butter and onions, I prefer ghee).

      • UnCivilServant

        They’re frozen. In a box.

      • Nephilium

        Defrost in the fridge overnight, pan fry in fat of your choice. Get them nice and browned on the outside which adds a bit of texture.

        I figured you were in the pierogi belt, no nearby shops or churches selling grandma’s handmade pierogi? Hell, our butcher shops all sell homemade pierogi.

      • UnCivilServant

        No such thing around here.

        And no, I am not postponing my breakfast to tomorrow.

      • Festus' Mustache

        If youse guys don’t fry them with bacon and onion youse are dead to me.

      • UnCivilServant

        I ran out of bacon and used the last onion last night.

      • Festus' Mustache

        No worries, I’ve been known to just chuck em in bowl with margarine and seasoning salt and bake in the oven until barely palatable. Drunk cook does as drunk cook do.

      • Not Adahn

        No such thing around here.

        I suspect that’s not true.

        I have no idea where such a place would be, but judging from my coworkers and the frequency with which pierogies and kielbasa are on the cafeteria menu there is a large enough market to support such a thing.

        Unfortunately, my last overtly Polish tech left so I can’t ask her where to get the good stuff.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Your nearest Ukeranian Orthodox church will sell them round about their weird Easter. The best pierogies.

      • Not Adahn

        And the Mexican Catholic churches sell delicious tamales before Christmas.

      • pan fried wylie

        I am not postponing my breakfast to tomorrow.

        …sell them round about their weird Easter.

        …sell delicious tamales before Christmas.

        When you want breakfast today, Glibs have plenty of meal suggestions for two months from now.

      • Not Adahn

        When you want breakfast today, Glibs have plenty of meal suggestions for two months from now.

        The best time to plan for breakfast is last year.

      • Count Potato

        I’ve done the pan fry with butter and onions, although boiling is way easier.

      • Nephilium

        You boil them first then pan fry them. Most of the ones you purchase at the store have already been boiled, and just need the pan frying.

      • Count Potato

        “You boil them first then pan fry them.”

        I do sometimes, but boiling is way less time and effort.

      • Festus' Mustache

        You want them crispy. I can’t even with you people!

      • Count Potato

        Just think of them as Polish ravioli.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Or Polish “potstickers.”

        That’s what *I* call “ditchdigger food.” In the Before Times™, when people weren’t afraid of their own shadow, Edmonton had a specialty restaurant that was nothing but pyrogys and other dumplings. That place was heaven. Probably permanently shut down now . . .

    • Pine_Tree

      Call it “seasoned” instead of dirty. We’ve had the same few Silpats in heavy baking use for like 15 years. Use the heck out of them.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, I opened the box. And the silpat packaging has an image of the eiffel tower on it. I think it’s a bit much, I already knew it was a product of france

      • UnCivilServant

        No. It’s grayscale, and just a step above clip art.

      • UnCivilServant

        The tower is just on the packaging. I don’t believe there are any markings on the pad itself.

      • Sensei

        I had JVC stereo receiver in the late 1980s that lit up like a Christmas tree. All from a backlit orange LED. With the lights out and nothing but the receiver on you could almost read by it.

        We referred to it at “Tokyo at Night”.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Sounds like a shroom magnet.

    • Agent Cooper

      You should open the Howard Hughes Bakery.

      • UnCivilServant

        Can’t find the right tissue box footwear.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning President Donald Trump’s fitness to serve, announcing legislation Thursday that would create a commission to allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove the president from executive duties.

    Congressional
    Option to
    Unseat the
    President act?

    • Tejicano

      There really should be some consequences for puling such a stunt. I don’t care if you love, hate, or ambivalent about Trump, nobody should be allowed to sidetrack the government for such a blatant political move.

      • Festus' Mustache

        It’s a shameless display of realpolitik. When I used to watch that show called Shameless, I always thought that Fiona Gallagher was the baddy and Frank was the protagonist. Then they got woke and I gave up.

      • Count Potato

        I think they were all bad in some way. The first few seasons were very entertaining, then it turned to crap, like every other show on Showtime.

      • Festus' Mustache

        ^^^ See True Blood, Dexter etc. The original British version of Shameless had the same problem. Oz was interesting for about a minute.

      • Not Adahn

        Brit series are easier to sustain because an entire season is only four hour long.

      • Rebel Scum

        The first few seasons were very entertaining, then it turned to crap, like every other show on Showtime.

        Word. I used to watch it as well. Then I suddenly lost interest.

      • Homple

        The Democrats are really worried that they can’t get Biden elected.

      • Overt

        No, they are just making sure. Trump isn’t doing great. But they let off the pedal in 2016. This time they are going to magdump every dirty trick they have, reload, and go again.

      • Count Potato

        This “Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office Act” could also be used to get rid of Biden.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Isn’t the 25th a function of the cabinet and VP?

      • UnCivilServant

        There is a line in section 4 that goes “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide,”

        But… changing the law that designates the body eligable to declare the president unfit requires, well, passing a law. And Nancy’s in no position to do that right now.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That is the one upside, they aren’t passing any asnine legislation while they are chasing thier tail with this nonsense.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Does anyone know how the body of law that is supposed to accompany the 25th currently reads?

        To me it looks like it starts in the executive.

      • CPRM

        I can help. It reads, “Orange Man Bad! Make Dem President!!!111!1!1!!!!1!”. I hope that helps you understand this vital part of out Democracy(TM).

      • leon

        It requires the Vice President, that much is in the amendment itself. So this will have no legs.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Well better this than moving forward on the Watermelon New Deal.

  9. robc

    Baseball birthdays: After yesterdays lackluster entires, today features two pre-WW2 HoFers — Joe Sewell and Rube Marquard. Meh, neither really deserve it, especially Rube. Brian Downing, who no one* considers a HoFer, falls in between them in WAR.

    *In 1998, his first and only year on the HoF ballot, he received 2 votes, .04% of the total. He actually has more WAR than Jim Rice, who got 42% of the vote that year and was eventually elected. Rice had a **much** better peak.

    • mrfamous

      Downing was rumored to be one of the early steroids adopters. What is known is that he went from pudgy as a younger player to jacked in his thirties.

      • Gdragon

        There weren’t a lot of players lifting weights and bulking up back then but my understanding was that Brian committed himself fully to it and blossomed. I’m not saying he definitely didn’t take steroids as well but I don’t think it’s anywhere close to a given.

    • Chipwooder

      Of the Boston outfield of the ’70s, Rice has the lowest career WAR, and you don’t see anyone lobbying for Dwight Evans or Fred Lynn to be enshrined.

      • robc

        I have heard arguments for Evans. But that was 25 years ago.

      • Gdragon

        Now that I think about it I think I’d be OK with drawing the line so that Evans is the best outfielder (or in the general top tier of all positions) who is not in the Hall. There’s already more than one guy in who is worse the Dwight so obviously this is going forward, I’m not suggesting that we throw anyone’s plaque out.

    • Agent Cooper

      BUT DAT BATTING STANCE, YO.

  10. robc

    I am better off than 4 years ago, but much like when that question has been asked before, that has approximately 0% to do with who is president.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Where will you be under President Kamala? It’s death by a thousand cuts and you know they are coming for your 2nd Amendment first.

      • Just a thought not a sermon

        And your 401K second.

      • robc

        Agreed, I can be much worse.

        Despite her weird BLM fetish, I would be even better off under President Jo.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Saucy!

      • Festus' Mustache

        Oversharing here but I did an older woman when I was about 22 or so. She was younger than I am now but it weren’t half bad. Made for strange interactions later on.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      The one impact that the president has had (that comes to mind) was the tax bill. That freed up quite a bit of cash.

      • robc

        I can’t tell, because I was paying zero taxes, Trump style for 2016-18, that I dont know what the tax bill did to me. Same for KY changing to a flat 5%. By the time I was actually paying it, I was leaving the state.

    • Nephilium

      Financially, I’m more stable. But 4 years ago I could go to a bar, restaurant, concert, sporting event, etc.. I don’t blame the president for that being taken away. I blame my piece of shit Governor.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If Biden wins you’ll be able to blame the President for that too.

      • Rhywun

        He and what army are going to shut down the country?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That remains to be seen but he wants to give it a shot. If you’re unfortunate enough to live in the wrong place they’ll just unleash the cops, in other areas they can withhold federal funds until the local pols fold and most of them would.

      • AlexinCT

        Not the Chicomm asshoes bioengineering a virus and then having some guy sell the monkeys they tested them on at a wet markey?

      • Nephilium

        There’s been (according to the state of Ohio stats) 4,674 deaths from COVID in Ohio (4,983 “probable”).

        I’ve known more people who have committed and attempted suicide then have tested positive for COVID, let alone died from it. Going back to 2017 CDC stats, COVID ranks above diabetes and below Alzheimer’s as a cause of death.

        DeWine is asshoe.

      • pan fried wylie

        Jeez, Alzheimer’s kills more people than diabetes?

    • Agent Cooper

      The most money I have ever made I made this year. Weird.

  11. Festus' Mustache

    John Tamny is gaping asshoe!

  12. Just a thought not a sermon

    131) Not trying to humblebrag with today’s Thought Not Sermon! Just something I’ve been wondering about, and it always seems like the Glibertarians know everything, collectively…

    Okay, so I’ve lifted weights regularly since 2002, and off-and-on going all the way back to high school. Several years ago I discovered the Weightlifting Strength Standards website and check it from time to time to figure out how I rate. In most exercises, I’m in between the intermediate and advanced categories for my age (45), but mostly closer to intermediate.

    Only I just figured out, I may have been using it wrong all this time. It seems the Strength Standards on the main page are based on your one-rep maximum. But for my exercises, I always do 6-10 reps. If you go to the strength calculator on the site, it gives you how much you should be able to lift one time for each exercise, based on your number of reps. Going by this calculator, my one-rep maxes should put me at well above advanced, and in some cases close to elite-level, for my weightlifting.

    But I don’t feel “elite-level” in my weightlifting, and I don’t think I could do the one-rep maxes. I feel like my true maximum is just a little past my actual lifts, but I happen to be able to do those several times.

    So, is the one-rep max calculator bullshit or what? Or something else? Here are my hypotheses:

    1. One-rep max is simply a different way of training. I’ve trained my body to do more reps, and if I wanted to train for a heavier one-rep max, I’d have to change my whole approach. My actual lifts are pretty close to my true limits, and the one-rep max calculator isn’t relevant for me.

    2. The one-rep max calculator is designed to convince weightlifters with fragile egos that they’re a lot stronger than they actually are, and its output is meaningless. My actual lifts are pretty close to my true limits.

    3. The one-rep max calculator is an accurate tool, and I’m actually a lot stronger than I think I am. I could go out today, or perhaps with a couple weeks training, go to my weightbench and achieve the one-rep maxes. (But if this is true, shouldn’t I look a lot more body-builder-ish?)

    I’m leaning towards hypothesis #1, with a bit of #2 mixed in. But I could be wrong! Thoughts?

    • robc

      Football players are strong, but don’t necessarily like like bodybuilders. Two different things (with some overlap).

    • Tundra

      It’s not bullshit, per se, but very few people ever do a true 1 rep max, the exception being someone in a competition. The 1RM calculation is helpful for planning your programming, i.e work sets at X percent of calculated 1RM.

      Don’t overthink it. Increase the weight and you’ll get stronger.

      Do you have a program?

      • Just a thought not a sermon

        No program. I just do my lifts and try to add a rep each time. When I get to ten reps, I increase the weight by 1/2 pound (I use magnetic micro weights), and fall back to six or seven reps. I do separate upper body and lower body days. Once a year (maybe sooner, if I pull a muscle or something) I take a couple weeks off and set everything back 10-15 percent.

        With this method, I’ve very gradually managed to get increases in my lifts over time. “The only way to get there fast is to get there slow.” My only real setback was five years ago, when a major shoulder injury caused me to have to start over with my upper body. (When I was able to start lifting again, I literally had to do bench presses with 10-pound weights in each hand).

      • Tundra

        Gotcha. I like having a blueprint. Personally, I use Wendler’s 5/3/1. It works well for me.

        Listen to what Drake linked down there. Rippetoe has some really good info on reps.

      • Just a thought not a sermon

        “Don’t overthink it.”

        I’m not sure that’s the JATNAS way.

    • straffinrun

      The advice you’re about to gather would be a lot more persuasive if we never had those zoom things.

    • Drake

      I’ve done the Rippetoe routine for five reps. Sometimes when I move up I can only do 2 or 3 reps, but I don’t go higher until I can do 5 correctly.

      • Tundra

        I love Rip.

      • Drake

        His podcast today – goes off on his white privilege.

      • Tundra

        That’s my Saturday morning walking podcast. Today is Part of the Problem.

    • AlexinCT

      Nice humble brag while trying not to humblebrag, brah…

      On that note, I found I had the same issue you have, not just related to my health/lifting capabilities for my age (56), but also on the site that tracks sekshual performance…

      Imma beast…

    • pan fried wylie

      “So, I spent 50years incorrectly measuring my strength, turns out, I’m a super hero.”

      ^^That’s you. That’s what you sound like.

  13. Rebel Scum

    Winston’s Mom does links

    She also does the kinks. *rim-shot*

    Thanks, I’ll be here all week.

    • Tejicano

      Well, links is another way of saying a bunch of sausages, one after another, in a line…

      • AlexinCT

        Who is playing the pizza delivery guy that shows up and then hides behind a plant and says he likes to watch?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Winston.

        Ewww.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Twenty bucks is twenty bucks. Costs extra for Kosher links.

      • Not Adahn

        I thought that (((they))) got a discount?

    • Winston's Mom

      rim-shot

      That costs extra.

  14. Festus' Mustache

    Poor old Nancy. When she says “Just walk away!” doesn’t have the same gravitas.

    • leon

      She’s no everclear

      • Festus' Mustache

        Obscure! Thanks!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Not if you listen to Sirius 60s channel. Song predates Michael McKean’s brief membership in the band.

      • Agent Cooper

        This song is not obscure. It’s a classic of that time period. As soon as I saw the words above (not Left Banke but walk away, the song popped into my head. It was released years before I was born.

      • Bobarian LMD
  15. Rebel Scum

    Doomsday Camps Set To “Activate” Due To Risk Of Election Violence

    That’s what DeBolshevik has been up to with the NY jews.

  16. Pine_Tree

    I’m in Georgia, which has done a halfway-decent job of ignoring much of the covid craziness, and as a result is very nearly done with it, based on the state’s own (well done, actually) charts. There are obviously some nuts here whose personal lock-downs were too extreme, so they haven’t participated in the herd immunity and will drag it out. Basically everybody knows a few people who’ve been “positive” in one way or another, knowing 1 or 2 deaths also.

    Anyway, except for the very earliest week or two, in all cases of which I’m personally aware, the hospitalizations were ALL of folks with other conditions. And peoples’ commentaries on deaths are invariably like “We had one older lady in our office who caught it and passed away. She had diabetes and several other complications.”

    (Rant starts here) I could get it tomorrow myself. Both of my parents are extremely frail, though with no chronic conditions, and are surely in a high-risk group. But good grief, it’s like people have forgotten that life is uniformly fatal, and that all the folks we know who are old and with diabetes (for example) and other things would have already passed away if this were our grandparents’ time. It sounds heartless to normies, but it’s just true. If it weren’t this, it’d be the next flu, or something. People have a ridiculously naive underexpectation regarding mortality.

    • Just a thought not a sermon

      Yeah, I think COVID is really just showing this fallacy that has taken hold that modern life is completely safe, and anything bad that ever happens must be somebody’s fault. Up until now, it’s mostly come out in how we treat our kids (bicycle helmets, ridiculous no-fun but safe playgrounds, etc.), but now we’re turning the societal neurosis on ourselves.

      • Pine_Tree

        Yeah I’ve decided to be like the cool kids and have a trigger word – mine’s “safety”.

      • UnCivilServant

        Funny, the safety is supposed to prevent triggering.

        Maybe you should see a gunsmith.

    • straffinrun

      It’s just two weeks, uh, I mean, two years of your life on this rock. Suck it up so grandma can have 2 more months.

      • pistoffnick

        “Two weeks to flatten the curve”

        *looks at calendar*

      • Rebel Scum

        What pisses me off is the moving of the goalposts since then. The original premise arguably made sense since it was a relatively unknown disease.

        That said, I’d argue against it given that it is a respiratory illness in the coronavirus category, which is generally understood. And we have not behaved this way for any other respiratory illness outbreak in my lifetime.

    • Rebel Scum

      a few people who’ve been “positive”

      I try to stay positive but the tyrants of the world keep making that difficult.

    • Just a thought not a sermon

      Not possible, Drake. There’s basically no such thing as voter fraud.

      • Just a thought not a sermon

        Hadn’t seen that, thank you. And that’s taking place in Texas, where voter fraud actually has a chance of being investigated and prosecuted. Can you imagine how widespread the voter scams could be in California, where there’s little chance of anybody ever caring?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Voter scams in California’s aren’t needed.

      • DrOtto

        Strange, no mention of party affiliation.

      • Rebel Scum

        Voter fraud is a myth…

    • robc

      If your voting methodology cant get 6-sigma (ugh) approved, you shouldnt use it.

      Not sure any current method meets that, but some are closer than others.

  17. Rebel Scum

    A fun argument to let Huawei operate in the US

    They are operating in Britain. The Tories are faux patriots.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Yeah, they got Brexit done and then proceeded to completely shit the bed.

  18. Tundra

    Good morning, lovely mother of WInston!

    Thanks for the depressing lynx. Holy shit what a fucked up world we’ve created.

    “A physical defenseman, he loved hockey oxy and xanax. He died of the novel coronavirus stupidity.”

    Fixed it for the NYT.

    I listened to a podcast the other day where the guy discussed the genesis of many big tech companies. Not surprisingly, the Stanford/DoD partnership is over-represented. I think the surveillance train has sailed. Other than getting a flip phone (which still provides plenty of data), I’m not sure what to even do anymore. Maybe my relative insignificance will finally pay off!

    Man, they just keep throwing the shit at Two-Scoops. And yes, it’s a straight up desperate power grab. Their internal polling must be fucking terrible. Here in the PRM, our fuckwit governor is calling a special session again on Monday to keep the state of emergency active. Both branches of the legislature need to agree to slap him down, but the Dems have the house so that won’t happen. Don’t you love the feeling of powerlessness?

    Bah. You know what? Let’s have a great day just to spite the motherfuckers!

    • leon

      It’s an odd move by Pelosi. My gut reaction is that doing this would sink prospects, like impeachment, because it’s a coup 30 days out from the election. But since I’ve been wrong about everything, I expect it to strengthen the Dem standing.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        It isn’t so odd. It energizes the Dem base, keeps Donald responding to her instead of campaigning and let’s the media focus on Orangemanbad instead of anything coming out from the Durham probe/declassified documents out of Justice (should anything materialize).

    • Winston's Mom

      Thanks for the depressing lynx.

      Don’t you mean mourning lynx?

      • Tundra

        I’m already on Swissy’s shit list.

  19. straffinrun

    Winston’s Mom is well versed in facial recognition.

    • Swiss Servator

      Winston’s Mom is well versed in facial recognition.

      Fixed.

      • Festus' Mustache

        “I never met a face I didn’t like.”

      • straffinrun

        …because they are always face down in a pillow?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Paper bags. I was cool before the trendies ruined it for everyone else.

  20. Count Potato

    “To which some will say that there’s no evidence Huawei has the better technology. Ok, but if Huawei’s technology is vastly overrated, why all the hand wringing about Huawei? That there’s so much is a fairly pregnant signal that the technology is not only the best”

    No, it isn’t.

    “but also that the Chinese corporation isn’t nearly as close to or controlled by the Chinese state as politicians and pundits want us to believe.”

    That doesn’t follow either.

    “We know this because conservatives have long made the correct point that heavily subsidized and politicized businesses are weakened by the subsidies and politics precisely because they blind them to the very market signals that drive progress.”

    Weak companies can undersell their competition through subsidy.

    Regardless, Huwei could have “better technology” and be chock full of spyware.

    • Festus' Mustache

      It all comes down to something that should be appended to the Iron Laws – Don’t trust China, China is Asshoe!

  21. Rebel Scum

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning President Donald Trump’s fitness to serve, announcing legislation Thursday that would create a commission to allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove the president from executive duties.

    I don’t think that is how 25A works.

    • leon

      Yeah I think the cabinet has to initiate it.

      So it’s political posturing, but I see no upside benefit of doing it for the Dems. Male Donald’s supporters more fervent and disgust the undecided moderates.

      • Rebel Scum

        it’s political posturing

        DNC internal polling may not be so good since they are running with this narrative.

      • Breet Pharara

        Don’t know about that. Could just be something to gum up the works so ACB can’t get confirmed before election.

      • Drake

        That was my thought – no way do they pull this kind of nonsense if they think they are cruising to an easy victory.

    • Breet Pharara

      Clear violation of the separation of powers. Congress has a devise to use for the check of removing a president, impeachment. That’s it. If the executive branch wants to remove the president that’s within their power, but Congress cannot do it this way.

      • Tulip

        Since when have they cared?

      • leon

        1789?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Had dinne3r with some normies last night; my sister, her husband, their son and his wife.

    We’re fucked. Joe Biden will win easily and restore the nation to sanity. I’m not sure why that even matters, because the plague is so contagious and deadly nobody will survive. It’s apparently all they think about. Wholesale death and debilitation are the wages of sin Trump’s Amerikkka.

    I’m going to spend all my money on flying lessons and online chemistry classes.

    • straffinrun

      “How many would have died if you were president and isn’t that too many?” Why not ask that?

    • leon

      There are a lot of people who think the antifa violence will stop if they elect Biden. And they are probably right.

      • straffinrun

        So a right wing militia member, an Antifa dude and a Bernie supporter walk into a bar that was closed by Whitmer…

      • Tundra

        They are probably wrong. Those fucks want to change everything, not just put a couple of corporatists at the helm.

      • straffinrun

        If you’d stop being racist, which you can’t, they wouldn’t have to do this.

      • B.P.

        ^Yup.

      • leon

        When Biden takes power some things change:

        1. Antifa lots of funding
        2. It no longer is just an idea
        3. No Media gasps at when Biden sends in the tanks to smash what is going on in Portland.

        The government can easily squash antifa, it’s politicalt been beneficial to not do so.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t see any of these things happening if Biden wins. The riots aren’t happening to hurt Trump… it’s an advantage Trump has been hammering. It’s why there’s a media blackout on what’s really going on in Portland and you have to go through independent sources like Andy Ngo to get the truth of have bad it is. Even then, Andy has been attacked several times for trying to show it.

        The riots have nothing to do with Trump, Biden, or the election. I’m not sure what the exact end game is, but you have a large group of youngish, disaffected individuals being trained in violent confrontation, squad tactics, and supply chains. Catch and release to rinse and repeat training. As someone pointed out, I think Evil Sheldon, one of the biggest advantages to winning a fight or engagement is actually having been in numerous fights or engagements before.

        It’s a training program, pure and simple. Maybe they are envisioned to serve as the backbone of the new citizen police force the progs are begging to install, in a similar flavor of what we saw happen just a few years ago in Venezuela.

      • leon

        I’m not talking about the source. I’m saying that once they have served their purpose to the establishment, their will be no tears shed when Biden hunts them down and destroys them. They may not be beholden to the establishment, but they are so much weaker that when Biden comes to power he can easily destroy them. The media tolerates them because they have a narrative to spin, and if they had to recognize the violent core, then they would be giving trump a huge win. So they are ignored and tolerated until Biden wins and they have power again.

        A lot of people confuse me for saying that Antifa == Biden. No they don’t, But Antifa couldn’t last during a Biden admin, like they can under Trump because then it helps the narrative that Trump is just a big dictator.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Yes, but we’re very much differing on “their purpose to the establishment”. I don’t mean to misinterpret, but it sounds like you’re saying their purpose is to swing the election to Biden.

        I’m saying their purpose has nothing to do with the election. In fact, they are actively harming Biden’s chances of election and helping Trump with the “Law and Order” theme. This why there is a media blackout. If they helped Biden, it would be 24/7 news coverage of the graphic details Andy shows.

        As others have pointed out, Antifa could be wiped out now by the Dem mayors and governors. They don’t need Biden to win to do this. Since these riots aren’t helping Biden but the Democrats are still protecting Antifa regardless, there must be another reason besides the election and no reason to think Biden would act differently then the Dem mayors and governors.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I think part of it is that the Dem politicians, except for the hardcore machine ones, are somewhat to largely sympathetic and demoralized (in the Bezmenov sense). They don’t have a principled stance to separate themselves from the more extremist elements.

      • invisible finger

        I think SSD’s take is more sensible. The only thing that might happen if Biden won is that the local prosecutor might actually decide to prosecute a few of the idiots instead of letting them go and then the bullshit would wind down naturally. But the prosecutor could do that now or could have months ago. The motivations of the assholes in the streets are completely different from the motivations of the office holders.

      • leon

        I see SSD’s point. I think my point was closer to: Trump can’t do anything about it without being called a tyrant. The office Holders in Oregon and Portland seem to be okay with this, i’ll agree. But their is or was a benefit that they got to make trump look like a dictator if he tried to squash it.

        Their is also a cost right not to doing something about the riots, which is that it forces them to acknowledge that BLM isn’t just “Peaceful Protests”.

        In short, i stand by the fact that a Biden Admin could, and would squash these riots without any implications of Tyranny.

      • B.P.

        Y’all are both right. Antifa is a problem for the Dem party right now, but taking notice of this right now helps those on the right who have been trying to get the public to notice what the hell is going on in the streets. So they must stick to the “peaceful protests for justice and to end racism” narrative. A Biden administration will try to quietly curb stomp Antifa. And that’s where the real action will be: What happens when the mainstream of the Dem party tries to curb its left wing (you know, the place where all the energy is)? Intra-party/movement war.

      • Count Potato

        “And they are probably right.”

        Because Portland is so Republican?

      • leon

        What’s that have to do with it?

      • Count Potato

        Portland’s government is way more left than Biden, and that didn’t stop them.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yeah, just give the bully your lunch money and he’ll leave you alone…

    • Breet Pharara

      As much as people here make fun of how the MSM is nothing but propaganda now, the sad fact is you have to put in some effort and go outside the mainstream to get the counter-narrative. Normies hear all the news channels saying the same thing and think if everyone is saying it, it must be true. Trump is Hitler who genetically modified the virus in a lab to kill as many American as he could, especially blacks and gays, who he hates.

      • Tulip

        I don’t know. I actually wear my “socialism kills” t-shirt to Wegman’s in Northern Virginia and get only positive comments

      • Count Potato

        The purge of social media is the worst thing that’s happened these last four years.

      • leon

        Unless they think they have the election in the bag and this is about stopping confirmation of ACB.

  23. Count Potato

    “He gave a free-wheeling interview to Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo and sent out a flurry of tweets, as Pelosi suggested Trump may be mentally compromised.”

    Because he’s never done that before now?

    • Drake

      He really was calm and soothing as he beat her like a baby seal.

    • AlexinCT

      Funny how these strong women want it both ways huh? Guys are not allowed to mansplain cause that hurts the delicate flowers, but these delicate flowers want you to believe they can get down in the mud to actually deal with the nightmarish shit related to running things in a dirty world…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Once you realize it’s all political posturing to gain advantage it makes sense.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Here’s the correct takeaway from the debate:

      https://twitter.com/SchoolPsychMsB/status/1314226810914299907

      A lot of white women this morning think they’re Sen. Harris in the situation we saw last night when actually we’re Susan Page. Failing to hold white men accountable for their actions & failing to use what little institutional power & privilege we have to level the playing field.

      • Rebel Scum

        “Thank you, Susan, I appreciate the leading and loaded question.”

        ZOMG MANSPLAINING.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That’s the take I’d expect them to advance when they know they lost the debate and they do know that. Of course they’re going to push the mansplaining and white men are inherently bad narrative.

    • Festus' Mustache

      There is a mole here.

    • Drake

      Yes – Huawei is China.

    • AlexinCT

      I hope they get fucking sued and forced to make a lot of entities/people a multi millionaire.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I already hate Yelp. That’s not going to improve my attitude towards them.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Can’t businesses pay them to “clean up” their Yelp pages? It seems like a simple protection racket to me.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It is. They’ve been sued before because Yelp employees were writing bad reviews of businesses and then contacting those businesses to “assist” them with their profiles for a fee.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now that I think about it, Yelp is probably losing paying clients (restaurants and bars) hand over fist because of the closures.

        This would be a way for them to try to get new income streams. Fuck them sideways with a rusty pitchfork.

    • WTF

      Every bar that has an American flag up will be reported as racist. What could possibly go wrong?

      • pan fried wylie

        Selling fried chicken? Racist. Not-selling fried chicken? Racist.

      • pan fried wylie

        Also, fried chicken.

  24. Mojeaux the Magnificent

    Good morning, Glibs! Hi, Winston’s Mom. How is it you got up so early or have you not gone to bed yet?

    Here I am in a parking lot waiting for XX to have her driving lesson. I was opposed to paying someone to teach her how to drive, but man, it’s made the world of difference. Good use of $$$. And 2 hours to myself where it’s quiet and I don’t have to wear a mask.

    • AlexinCT

      Good morning, Glibs! Hi, Winston’s Mom. How is it you got up so early or have you not gone to bed yet?

      Sleeping interferes with her profit making efforts…

      • AlexinCT

        And I want to mention that I heard Winston’s mom had a vagina implanted on her hip, cause she wanted to make some extra money on the side..

    • EvilSheldon

      A little competent professional instruction can really go a long way.

      And no, Winston’s Mom, we’re not talking about you…

      • Winston's Mom

        You think I can’t drive a stick? I’m insulted.

      • AlexinCT

        Euphemism?

    • robc

      My Mom tried to teach me to drive. It was a complete disaster. My Dad then taught me.

      “You just cut off that car when you merged, you should pay more attention.” That actually happened. my Mom would have been screaming at me.

      • ron73440

        My wife tried to teach our first kid to drive, but freaked out over every little thing.

        I took over without her in the car and it made a world of difference.

        The secret is to be a quiet as possible and let them figure it out in a parking lot and then back roads.

      • Mojeaux the Magnificent

        My dad taught me to drive. He was a screamer. I screamed back. Got the job done, though.

        I taught my youngest brother how to drive a stick because he wasn’t going to have my dad screaming at him. My next-youngest brother refused to learn at all until he was going on 18 and had no plans to subject himself to my dad’s screaming, so my dad asked his bestie to teach him.

        That was pretty much our household dynamic. Dad screamed at me, I screamed back, my brothers stayed out of the way and didn’t engage my dad.

        The one time my next-youngest brother was forced to engage, my dad moved the goalposts so I was brought into the fight. I recused myself but my dad kept after me until I engaged. Then my brother ducked out. Such a drama queen, always having to have a fight and I was the one who’d give it to him. *sigh*

    • PieInTheSky

      I was opposed to paying someone to teach her how to drive – here that is not an option… you need to learn from a licensed driving school

    • Festus' Mustache

      My Dad gave one lesson. One. Then he ponied up for driving school. I was a bad student and he was a terrible teacher.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Are we brothers? Dad gave me one lesson, told me to pull over and give him the keys. Said once I get my license, learn yourself.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    As much as people here make fun of how the MSM is nothing but propaganda now, the sad fact is you have to put in some effort and go outside the mainstream to get the counter-narrative. Normies hear all the news channels saying the same thing and think if everyone is saying it, it must be true. Trump is Hitler who genetically modified the virus in a lab to kill as many American as he could, especially blacks and gays, who he hates.

    I think this is pretty much true. In the rare circumstances where I allow myself to be in the room when the PBS or BBC (They’re unbiased!) news is on, I snort derisively and roll my eyes while my brother nods his head like a good Party member. And when Goldstein Trump comes on, the hate flows.

    • B.P.

      To be fair, I can’t really listen to Trump either.

    • AlexinCT

      Not if the democrats can avoid it and blame it on bad orange man…

    • AlexinCT

      That’s how you properly say thank you..

  26. Hyperion

    “His favorite breakfast cereal was oxycodone.”

    88 years ago, the NYT. My how times have not changed.

    “In 1932, Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, eleven of which were published in June 1931. He was criticized for his subsequent denial, and thereby exacerbation of widespread famine (1932–1933) in the USSR, most particularly the famine in Ukraine. Years later, there continue to be calls to revoke his Pulitzer.”

  27. Rebel Scum

    Does anyone know what this geriatric leftist hack is talking about?

    Carville said, “You’re really starting to see separation with these Republican candidates from Trump. All along, people say when are they going to say something? Look, he wants to arrest Barack Obama. You know what that’s going to do to Lindsey Graham? Do you know what that will mean, African-American turnout and South Carolina? You know what that’s going to do for African-American turnout in Georgia or North Carolina? Donald Trump is not trying to win this race. He really isn’t. I have no idea who would give him money because the guy is just going all over the place on the debate, all over the place on the stimulus.”

    He continued, “I think Speaker Pelosi has a point, that’s something really, really wrong with a politician who’s running for an election who’s not trying to win. And then you have this thing in Michigan. The last suburban woman leaving the Democratic party, please turn out the lights. Because we’re at that stage right now, I mean, I couldn’t imagine anything going worse than they’ve gone. This whole thing is just — we say down here, goat roguing, it really is.”

    • Donation Not Taxation

      Best guess: Clintons’ ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ saying ‘Bad Trump!” because President Donald J. Trump not taking his (Democrat) unsolicited advice how win re-election

      Donation not taxation.

      • Donation Not Taxation

        ‘Does anyone know what this geriatric leftist hack is talking about?’ — Rebel Scum

        Best guess: Clintons’ ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ saying ‘Bad Trump!” because President Donald J. Trump not taking his (Democrat) unsolicited advice how win re-election

        Donation not taxation.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Carville is saying “Donation not taxation”? That doesn’t sound like him.

      • Count Potato

        It’s like dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park.

    • Hyperion

      WTF? I thought they were a 100% sure bet for the WH and Congress after the election? Why are they bothering with desperation shit like this, again? Is something wrong with the polls?

    • B.P.

      My candidate isn’t out of his mind, yours is!

  28. Count Potato

    “‘These politicians keep on robbing us’: The chilling social media posts and videos of Trump-loving militiamen who ‘planned to kidnap Michigan’s governor and incite a civil war’

    Many of the 13 boasted on social media of their support for Donald Trump, or anarchist beliefs”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8821499/The-chilling-social-media-posts-videos-Trump-loving-13-militia.html

    That’s a a big “or”. The only social media stuff I’ve seen so far is that they were “anarcho-communists”.

    Except for Pete Musico, the alleged co-founder of the Wolverine Watchmen militia, who arrested and charged with domestic terrorism, but I don’t know what he actually did.

    • EvilSheldon

      Y’all must come from some soft, sheltered places if you find any of that “chilling.”

      What I’m seeing is a bunch of guys, of pretty average intelligence and below-average executive function, who nonetheless understand how they are being lied to and mistreated by the people in power, and who tried to do something about it. Pardon the run-on.

    • Tejicano

      ‘I’m telling you, they are coming for you; coming for your freedom, coming for your religion, and they are not going to stop, period,’ another warned

      Hmm, and how many times have you heard exactly this directly from any number of people with a (D) after their name? But stating this on a chat forum makes one a terrorist???

      • B.P.

        Put y’all back in chains!

    • Hyperion

      “they were “anarcho-communists”

      Those are Trump supporters? I think they’re supporting the wrong party.

      • Count Potato

        Apparently, it was an “anarcho-communist” group that didn’t support Trump, and a militia group that did. So if left and right extremists are willing to team up to get rid of a governor, that doesn’t say much for her.

      • Hyperion

        She didn’t support antifa riots?

        I mean it’s not hard to understand why everyone else hates her.

    • Agent Cooper

      Is Anti-government organizing a bad thing?

      Remember, Patrick Henry was an anti-government organizer.

  29. Rebel Scum

    My name is Biden and I can’t stop lyin’.

    “The FBI arrested a group of militiamen who had a plan to go in and to kidnap the governor of Michigan. You’ll see it in the news tonight, the governor of Michigan. Remember those guys with the assault rifles standing in her driveway? And the president is saying things in my debate with him, like ‘To the Proud Boys and all white supremacists group, stand down, but stand ready.’ This is serious stuff,” Biden said.

    He went on to argue that “the words of a president matter.”

    “They can cause a nation to have the market rise or fall, go to war or bring peace, but they can also breathe oxygen into those who are filled with hate and danger, and I just think it’s got to stop. The president has to realize the words he utters matter,” the Democrat argued.

    • leon

      I know the media is out there with a narrative, so i don’t know why i still get upset when this is so easily counterd with the fact that Biden has refused to denounce Antifa, simply calling it an IDEA, when they have been at the root of much more violence in the last 6 months than some stupid idiots with a plan to “kidnap” a governor.

      • WTF

        The timing of this “plot” (likely instigated by the FBI field agent) is awfully convenient, isn’t it?

      • leon

        Convinent or not, it is quite absurd that they won’t tie Antifa to biden (Harris staffers have bailed them out, and Harris told them to keep going) but instantly a hairbrained scheme that had no legs is “The scariest thing, a harbinger of the right wing terror we live under”.

    • WTF

      Let’s count the lies, shall we?
      1. There is no evidence the proud Boys are white supremacists
      2. There is no indication the arrested “militia men” are Trump supporters
      3. Trump never said the Proud Boys should “stand ready”
      4. ah, fuck it, the truth doesn’t matter

      • Count Potato

        “2. There is no indication the arrested “militia men” are Trump supporters”

        At least one of them was, but arrested doesn’t mean guilty.

      • WTF

        One out of how many? And what about the anarchist commie? This shit has nothing to do with Trump.

      • Count Potato

        Well, it’s certainly not his fault, regardless.

      • Idle Hands

        I fell much better after I realized number 4. The truth never mattered and they could care less about it. The conservatives that are still trying to point out media hypocrisy at this point are embarrassing and infantile.

      • Tejicano

        1. There is no evidence the proud Boys are white supremacists

        In fact, a couple representatives of the Proud Boys have held a joint public statement with BLM representatives to publicly denounce white supremacy.

      • CPRM

        That’s just what white supremacists would do!

      • Hyperion

        At least one of them is Tulpa.

    • Idle Hands

      I like how wanting to abduct the governor of Michigan is considered an “extremist” position. I have a feeling their are a line of people who have urges to do far worse. Of course violence is never the answer and the gov is so cool so I can’t even begin to understand that anti cool mindset.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We need more of that.

    • Agent Cooper

      Anyone have a screen shot?

  30. Certified Public Asshat

    Monday, October 12, 2020 all city offices and facilities will be closed for business in recognition of the Columbus Day holiday.— PHLCouncil (@PHLCouncil) October 8, 2020

    Ah yes, not too above it all to still take the day off.

  31. AlexinCT

    My bet is Biden & Harris are at the top of this list (along with the Bushes, the Clintons, and the Obamas), where the top tells you those most likely to suck Chicomm dick, while bad orange man is at the bottom. Would not be surprised to find most of our political class members and a lot of our credentialed elite globalist expert class, also at the top.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Biden and Harris are in the CCP’s pockets. We can probably kiss Taiwan goodbye too if they win, I’ve never seen such obsequiousness towards a hostile foreign government out in the open.

    • Hyperion

      Biden has a campaign ad on the TV saying how he’s going to bring back jobs to the US from China (hahhaha). It’s almost like he’s parroting Trump talking points line for line.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nobody cares about your brain and you can wear a wig. You’re good to go.

      • Tejicano

        “Nobody cares about your brain ”

        It’s not like she was really using it properly anyway.

    • straffinrun

      So she’s morphing into Joe?

    • Hyperion

      Let’s hope she doesn’t smoke any weed.

      • AlexinCT

        Drugs gonna fall out of her ass?

  32. Rebel Scum

    Don’t let the Pinko Pox control you.

    Trump said, “I think I’m going to try doing a rally on Saturday night if we can — if we have enough time to put it together. But we want to do a rally probably in Florida on Saturday night. I might come back and do one in Pennsylvania in — the following night. And it’s incredible what’s going on. I feel so good.”

    • Hyperion

      He’s trolling the media. I’m not sure it’s even worth trolling them anymore. They troll themselves. TMITE.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      HE’S GOING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED ALL FOR HIS OWN VANITY!!!!

  33. l0b0t

    Good morning everyone. Kids are off to their 1 day per week of real school, so I’m about to start some hardcore chorin’. After a couple months of no vacancies, I scored a storage unit at the facility nearby so I can start moving all my junk. The television news seems to be full of scare stories about the NAZI hordes who about to pounce upon all of the nation’s state governors.

    • straffinrun

      My kid is going six days a week to make up for the month or so they were closed. The teacher came in and yelled at her and her friend for swapping masks. “Oh, sorry Sensei” and they switched them back.

      • Sensei

        Wasn’t me!

    • RBS

      We put the 8 year old in private school a couple of weeks ago so now he is in school 5 days a week. HCS did not deliver on any of the promises they made to parents and now are about to go all virtual because their in person policy is tied to whatever numbers DHEC spits out. Remarkably, a lot of teachers are still simultaneously complaining and patting themselves on the back. I hope the whole thing fucking dies this school year.

  34. PieInTheSky

    No Daniel, all we’re asking for is that US agricultural corporations who want to sell meat in our supermarkets and school canteens comply with the same standards which British farmers have to meet. That’s better to my mind than putting our trust in non-existent US regulation.

    https://twitter.com/EmilyThornberry/status/1314213956743880710

    Good news for US farmers and food processors. They must be relived they don’t have to waste any time or money complying with regulations. Strange though… governments tend to like regulation, such a significant sector escaping with no regulation is very strange indeed.

    • UnCivilServant

      Who is this ignorant person who believes US Agriculture is unregulated?

      • PieInTheSky

        well Europeans are by definition not ignorant. they just know many things that are not true

      • leon

        You forget the Law of Government Regulation. If X country regulation > Y country regulation then Y country regulation = 0.

      • WTF

        Yeah, Europeans love to talk about how parochial and uninformed Americans are, but they tend to be shockingly ignorant about the US and Americans.

      • Nephilium

        What do you mean? They know that we only drive because there’s no train system. That’s why people in Maine need to plan a weekend trip to the Grand Canyon by car.

        It’s also why I can see Canada from my house, I mean there’s just a lake between Canada and Ohio.

      • Idle Hands

        Europeans can keep sucking uncircumcised dick(nttiawwt) and mind their own business.

    • l0b0t

      Holy Mackerel! That nation needs a Stuart restoration..

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      This is about motivating his base to vote but most Rush listeners would be happy to crawl over broken glass to vote for him anyway.

  35. PieInTheSky

    Card game between the tallest, fattest and shortest men in Europe, 1913

    Card game between the tallest, fattest and shortest men in Europe, 1913

      • Tejicano

        Funny that the tallest guy in Europe feels the need to wear a hat that’s at least another 10 inches taller than the top of his head.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t be silly, that’s a skullcap – he has an oddly shaped skull.

      • pan fried wylie

        It’s not an odd shape, that’s just what Winston’s Mom’s pussy pops em out like.

  36. DrOtto

    Remember when there was at least the mention of the Green Party Candidate in an election cycle?

  37. Count Potato

    “Thank you. I heard from sources Zucker told employees they are not to discuss at all a word about what took place in 2016. They are not allowed to bring up the criminal plot to take down trump.”

    https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1314547550737793024

    • EvilSheldon

      I vaguely dislike Scott Adams, but I have to admit, every once in a while he really hits the bullseye.

      • Idle Hands

        he’s fucking annoying. But your analysis is correct.

  38. PieInTheSky

    [thread] When our opponents talk about socialism, they either talk about it as though it is some sort of utopian, fantasy idea that can never happen or a dangerous alternative to what we have right now. I just don’t connect with that view at all

    My view of socialism is as a political expression of love for one another – a system based on our natural drive to love one another. The truth is, for so many millions of people in the UK & elsewhere in the world this capitalist system is hard, scary & uncertain.

    https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1314547550737793024

    I don’t think these people appreciate capitalism enough, it has after all created a system in which a complete moron can broadcast their thoughts to the world.

    • leon

      My view of socialism is as a political expression of love for one another – a system based on our natural drive to love one another. The truth is, for so many millions of people in the UK & elsewhere in the world this capitalist system is hard, scary & uncertain.

      Life is hard, scary and uncertain. I don’t need the Government, the institution of war, to teach me how to love my fellow man. Thanks.

      • WTF

        Sounds like the Ministry of Love….

    • EvilSheldon

      Shut Up, Hippie.

    • Count Potato

      Wrong link.

      • AlexinCT

        So socialism is a pipe dream? Cause this lady might want to pretend it is utopian all she wants, reality is that at best it is dystopian, and otherwise just the most destructive and murderous ideology ever to plague humanity.

      • Idle Hands

        god sometimes I really wish these people would just get what they are asking for.

      • UnCivilServant

        If and only if innocent people aren’t caught up in it.

      • Idle Hands

        How do we define innocents? This person is clearly an uninformed brainwashed naive moron. That could count as “innocent”.

      • UnCivilServant

        People who don’t advocate for or support socialism, thus not warrenting the punishment, but happen to be in geographic proximity.

      • Agent Cooper

        No one better harp on Pol Pot. That boy did so much more with less its ridiculous. Stalin was a fucking piker compared to my man Pot. No wearing glasses or you get the plastic bag treatment! What a stone cold motherf-er.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      My view of socialism is as a political expression of love for one another – a system based on our natural drive to love one another.

      Love at the point of a gun is called forcible rape.

      • Pine_Tree

        It’s envy and theft. Period.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Socialism is about not accepting suffering, pain, exploitation, embarrassment, malnourishment, monotony, dissatisfaction, loneliness, injustice, fear & premature death as an inevitability

        Obviously, if you don’t accept socialism, you accept these things. How can you argue otherwise?

        Apparently under socialist systems, you have aright to not be embarrassed or lonely.

        Never mind socialism’s complete inability to deliver on any of those.

      • Count Potato

        I’m already embarrassed for her.

    • Rebel Scum

      My view of socialism is

      Take your platitudes and fuck the hell off.

  39. UnCivilServant

    Why do I have such a strong reaction to any sound which can be mistaken for the pitter-patter of little mouse feet? like when I didn’t realize it’s started to reain? Or when a box is settling into the crumpled paper packing material I’d taken out of it when unpacking, causing a crinkling noise?

    I mean there’s been no mouse sign for months, but these noises put me on edge.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      You’ve been trained to react. I do the same with anything resembling the sound of kids or dogs vomiting. I’m a very heavy sleeper but the sound of a dog or a kid starting heave will snap me awake immediately.

      • Nephilium

        Most disturbing to me was when I had a computer in my room, and would wake up during any power outage when the fans stopped whirring.

    • Tulip

      I have the same reaction. Mice are just gross. I also react to the dog whining in the middle of the night. I am instantly awake to get her outside. I will never forgive neighbor that fed her a lot of cheese while trying to teach her to shake. And yes, I should’ve been paying more attention. I paid for it.

    • PieInTheSky

      Lost again. I never win any prizes.

    • WTF

      Well why give it someone who has actually done more for peace in the Middle East than anyone in recent history?

      • AlexinCT

        Obama got his because he went on to start wars and drone kill people, so he did accomplish shit.

    • Count Potato

      Oh, I just found out Trump was nominated for the 2021 prize. This is the 2020 prize.

      • pan fried wylie

        I’m woozy.

    • Agent Cooper

      Never heard of them, and that’s a good thing. Actually a worthy recipient.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Driving a stake through the heart of SCIENCE

    “This is not just ineptitude, it’s sabotage,” says Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University in New York City, who has modelled the evolution of the pandemic and how earlier interventions might have saved lives in the United States. “He has sabotaged efforts to keep people safe.”

    ——-

    As he seeks re-election on 3 November, Trump’s actions in the face of COVID-19 are just one example of the damage he has inflicted on science and its institutions over the past four years, with repercussions for lives and livelihoods. The president and his appointees have also back-pedalled on efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, weakened rules limiting pollution and diminished the role of science at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Across many agencies, his administration has undermined scientific integrity by suppressing or distorting evidence to support political decisions, say policy experts.

    “I’ve never seen such an orchestrated war on the environment or science,” says Christine Todd Whitman, who headed the EPA under former Republican president George W. Bush.

    Pontificating hysterics predict end of world.

    Get thee to a fainting couch.

    • Drake

      Now I have to listen to Beastie Boys.

    • WTF

      undermined scientific integrity by suppressing or distorting evidence to support political decisions

      That’s some tasty progjection, there.

      • pan fried wylie

        For kicks, we aimed it at the moon to prove that the image would still focus at that distance.

        No one on the team expected the moon to explode. Our sincerest apologies.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      His name is Shaman? Really?

      • pan fried wylie

        Yeah, but it’s pronounced like Michael Jackson.

      • pan fried wylie

        *like MJ would pronounce it. Not pronounced like “Michael Jackson”.

  41. PieInTheSky

    I don’t usually betray my love of whisky but I bought some rum just for some variety. It’s not bad really…

    • UnCivilServant

      Can you be more specific? What type of rum? What brand?

      • PieInTheSky

        do you care? you hate rum anyways…

        cubaney 21 yo

      • UnCivilServant

        Only aged rum. They go and ruin a perfectly good alcohol by sticking it in barrels.

        My preferred variety is spiced rum. I need to open the haitian white rum I’ve had for some time and see what that tastes like.

      • PieInTheSky

        I don;t own white rum. I should get a bottle for potential cocktails which I will never make.

      • l0b0t

        I’m trying to stop giggling about the stereotype of your bland pallet, preferring spiced rum. Seriously though, I’m curious as to your reason for disregarding aged rums? While I certainly choose juice of the barley (or corn, or rye) first, I’m growing to appreciate the mellow complexity of aged rums.

      • UnCivilServant

        Because I can’t stand the wood flavor you get in aged rum, or whiskey.

      • pan fried wylie

        Popsicle sticks.

      • Not Adahn

        You like Captain Morgan to go with your well-done steak?

      • pan fried wylie

        Well Done Cap’n

        1oz Captain Morgan
        Dash Heinz 57

    • EvilSheldon

      Thank you, Pie! I’ve been waiting my entire life for an excuse to post this video.

      https://youtu.be/Qsl6YbE_as0

    • Florida Man

      Plantation has some really could rum from Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica.

      • PieInTheSky

        I think I now own 3 bottles of rum. One is appleton which I bought in case I ever want to make rum cocktails. One is the cubaney 21. And one is Presidente 19yo

      • Florida Man

        I thought Appleton was terrible, but they have so many variations I may have just bought their worst selection. Everything I bought from plantation is good enough to drink neat. Diplimatico and brugal 1888 are both very good.

      • PieInTheSky

        I got the Appleton on discount for under 100 lei which was ok for a potential cocktail rum. I did not yet try it neat.

    • RBS

      I’m having a hard time figuring out which face is the most punchable.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I wonder what the burn victim’s story is. Probably not a tour in Iraq.

      • Tejicano

        Molotov cocktail design class?

    • Drake

      Just an idea – a really bad idea.

    • leon

      Why are you talking about an Idea, when there are dangerous right wing bandits out there?

    • Idle Hands

      So the FBI has infiltrated every soveriegn citizen, white nationalist and militia seperatist group yet somehow can’t find one agent to monitor this clown group that goes around lighting shit on fire, assaulting people and in some cases murdering people for the past 6 months?

      • leon

        Because it’s just an idea, not an organization!

      • Idle Hands

        so is white supremacy.

      • Gustave Lytton

        infiltratedsetup, organized, funded, and instigated

      • CPRM

        So the FBI has infiltrated every soveriegn citizen, white nationalist and militia seperatist group

        TBH, the same agent did all that on a long weekend, and now they have all 20 of them in custody.

      • Florida Man

        One is a threat to the government and one is a threat to the people. Are you surprised the government picked itself over you?

    • B.P.

      Zoom call from hell.

  42. CPRM

    YOUR ALREADY BEING WATCHED.

    Yep, even I The Watcher am being watched. Stop off in my shed parking lot whacking!

    • pan fried wylie

      Stop, lot off, parking in, wait, no…

  43. Gustave Lytton

    Muh ballots!

    https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/10/08/rejected-mail-ballots-projected-major-factor-2020-election/3576714001/

    While absentee balloting is asserted to cause higher rates of rejected ballots, somehow most western states will have lower rates than they did previously including California by quite a lot. This makes no sense. And even less sense that Oregon’s rate would suddenly drop in half when it’s been fraud by mail for over twenty years now.

    • leon

      Well you see when you have a flood of ballots come in, its easier to just let them go on rather than actually check for validity.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        They claim that they will match signatures, but I don’t see how they can check millions of signatures in a short time with any accuracy, so yeah, they will let it all through.

    • Drake

      Pennsylvania and Michigan are going to be circuses next month. They will make the Florida 2000 fiasco look calm and well-organized.

  44. Count Potato

    Good thread here:

    “So much of the most impactful Trump-era “reporting” has been proven fraudulent — Cambridge Analytica, Alfa Bank & the Steele Dossier are just the latest — but media outlets don’t want to know because they profited greatly, sold books, & showered themselves with Pulitzers for it….”

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1314539674170515457

    • Idle Hands

      Nearly all of it has been proven either untrue or was the exact actions of the forces working against trump without fail.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Greenwald is an honest leftist.

      They hate him for it.

    • CPRM

      Cambridge Analytica, Alfa Bank & the Steele Dossier are just the latest

      Those stories are like 3 years old, that’s like 50 years in the Trump News Cycle.

      • leon

        I don’t even know what Alfa Bank is, and i bet you 100 Satoshis (BCH) that the “man on the street” doesn’t even know what any of those are. Trump covering up his death is what is big right now.

      • CPRM

        Trump covering up his death is what is big right now.

        So you’re saying The Hair is in the driver’s seat? Fuck it, I’m voting Trump if that’s the case.

    • kbolino

      On the one hand, the best way to run a soft coup is to put out so much smoke that everyone assumes there must be fire.

      On the other hand, none of them are smart enough for that, and it’s all just been purely emotion-driven, grabbing everything that might stick and amplifying it to no end.

      TMITE but they’re not particularly bright or skilled, either.

      • Hyperion

        But the public education wing of the left have been doing their job for at least 100 years, so they don’t have to be bright or skilled.

  45. PieInTheSky

    I grilled a steak on which i put salt pepper garlic thyme cumin coriander paprika and I think it is too much. less is more sometimes.

    • Sean

      Yeah, I can’t even with this post.

    • CPRM

      Maybe a comma would have helped.

      • UnCivilServant

        Once he got past salt and pepper it was already overboard.

      • Nephilium

        Garlic and butter don’t hurt either.

      • PieInTheSky

        I basically put most things I had in the kitchen as an experiment. The only things I had and did not add were turmeric and cayenne pepper

      • PieInTheSky

        I also had a lemon in the fridge I suppose I could have added zest…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Cumin is one of those spices that have a narrow usage in receipes that can mask the B.O.-esque odor of it.

      • Hyperion

        Cumin is Chili.

      • Ownbestenemy

        …used in chili you mean? Cause cumin is not chili

      • Hyperion

        Chili is not Chili without cumin. So, cumin is chili.

      • l0b0t

        I make a delicious “Cuban Chicken” that I learned from one of my restaurant jobs. Marinate the cuts of your choice overnight in buttermilk, garlic, and cumin. Then, bread and fry in the manner of your choosing; I like about 1/2 breadcrumbs/Parmesan cheese for this. Serve over yellow rice; I like to pair it with fried tomatoes as well.

    • PieInTheSky

      1 inch top sirloin steak s&p 4 minutes total flip every minute to get good grill marks / letterkenny

    • l0b0t

      Perhaps take everything other than the salt & pepper and make a nice herbed butter to finish the meat with at table?

      • PieInTheSky

        if it was fresh herbs maybe but this was all dry pre-ground stuff…

    • Hyperion

      Cumin on steak, seems weird to me.

      • pan fried wylie

        I cum after I eat my steak, but that’s just how well I make it.

      • PieInTheSky

        look it was right there on a shelf

      • Ownbestenemy

        A fetish for everyone I suppose.

        Oh…cumin. Nevermind

    • pan fried wylie

      “pepper garlic thyme cumin coriander paprika” all likely to burn on the grill.

      • PieInTheSky

        yes some did not in the end give much flavor

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s all about the SPG (salt, pepper, garlic).

      • pan fried wylie

        Rebel ‘Ray’

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Uh-oh, sounds like they need to rescind the win and give it to someone else or maybe just outlaw the Nobel Committee and cancel the awards.

  46. leon

    CK3 Story:

    Am i the asshole for imprisoning and disinheriting my son because he slept with my wife?

    • PieInTheSky

      were you faithful to your wife at the time?

      • leon

        Yes, i was actually playing a “Rightous, God fearing” character. He was a reaction to his quite evil Father.

    • UnCivilServant

      There are two CK3 answers to that – You overreacted, or Why didn’t you execute him?

      • leon

        And become a Kin Slayer? No thanks.

      • UnCivilServant

        What? You didn’t form a custom religion of murder-cannibals where having kin as the main course at a public feast wouldn’t be seen as out of line?

    • Florida Man

      Is your wife his mother? If so execute the abomination. If not, see if he wants to tag team next time.

      • leon

        Yes she was his mother. My character is forgiving, so i’m going to keep him in prison, but i thought disinheriting was a sufficiently bad punishment.

        I guess i should have noticed something was up with my wife when i caught her father (the KING!) trying to sneak into her bedroom.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think the real problem is that wife.

      • Florida Man

        Yeah, sounds like time to clean house and marry a rival kingdom’s daughter.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh, and important detail – was the wife in question the son’s mother? And what was the difference in age?

      • CPRM

        Jasper crimony, a government agent making this into a porn discussion! The fix is in fellas!

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s a forgiveness matrix which requires this information.

      • leon

        Yes, they are about 25 years apart. (shes in her late 40 and he is 18)

      • UnCivilServant

        Executions. Executions all around.

        Then you can have a mental break from stress and convert to a dead faith.

      • Drake

        Sometimes you need a fresh start.

  47. B.P.

    I found this story on a local news site this morning from Scripps, under the headline shown in the url.

    https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/president-trump-reacts-to-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer

    The story includes Biden’s and Whitmer’s reaction to Trump’s tweet on the matter, but doesn’t include…. Trump’s tweet.

    Also, did you know that Trump tweeted “Liberate Michigan” several months ago, which caused hateful militia members to plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan?

    • CPRM

      Well, The Boys season 2 taught me, and the rest of the gullible viewers, that Liberty is code for Nazi. So of course. Also, took 2 seasons but they finally revealed Queen Maeve’s super power, ‘Deus Ex Machina!’.

      • Idle Hands

        no spoilers asshole.

      • CPRM

        If that cryptic spoils it for you, I think you know the story better than I.

      • Idle Hands

        I’m just so annoyed by the Nazi turn. Could have just been subtle and been corporate facists ala disney but no have to go full bore. I think there have been more media with nazi antagonists the last 4 years than in anytime in us history even while we were actually killing them.

      • pan fried wylie

        “no spoilers asshole. that’s MY job.”

      • Idle Hands

        exactly. Also the aryan tone of homelander was kind of there from the begining I kind of figured it was just going to be a subtle nod and wink along but noone can have a subtle tone or be clever or not just hit you over the head repeatedly with the messaging.

      • pan fried wylie

        the aryan tone of homelander was kind of there from the begining

        He’s SOOOOO blonde.

      • pan fried wylie

        Like, it hurts my eyes, blonde.

      • kbolino

        I think there have been more media with nazi antagonists the last 4 years than in anytime in us history even while we were actually killing them.

        It’s the fixed point of evil for popular morality. Everything has been reduced to equation with Nazism. It requires no creativity, thoughtfulness, or empathy to be able to write about it. I think the (current) golden age of television is now fully spent; sure, every television show to make it past one season went up its own asshole eventually, but now they’ve got no character depth, either.

  48. Idle Hands

    https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1314255557402873856

    I don’t know who needs to hear this but just imagine the reaction if it would have been discovered that anyone connected to Black Lives Matter was plotting to kidnap a United States Governor.

    • Idle Hands

      In all honesty I’d start respecting their organization a bit more as they are actually beginning to focus on goals that can actually be achieved as opposed to being race baiting grifters looking to shake down corporate donors and weaponizing the system against people who have nothing to do with their alleged grievances.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We already know what happens when people connected to BLM assassinate cops in Dallas and loot and burn cities.

      • Idle Hands

        those guys had nothing to do with the movement scruffy, besides it’s just an idea not an organization.

    • leon

      I mean, you’d hear nothing about it, and what you would hear is about how it is actually all white supremacists that have infiltrated.

    • EvilSheldon

      Imagine the reaction if a bunch of neo-nazis were burning and looting stores and residences – oh wait, in the giant consensual hallucination that makes up Jemele Hill’s reality, that’s already happening…

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I guess Ted Wheeler is just a mayor.

    • Count Potato

      The comments are retarded.

      Listen, if academia, entertainment, big tech, and most of the government, is on your side, you are not the resistance.

      • Tejicano

        Hell, if the governor, the mayor, and law enforcement are on your side you definitely are NOT the resistance.

  49. Rebel Scum

    Speaking of destroying norms…

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced legislation to create a commission that would allow Congress to oust a president from office, using the 25th Amendment, a day after she accused President Trump of being “in an altered state” from his coronavirus treatment.

    “This is not about President Trump,” Pelosi said Friday. “He will face the judgment of the voters. But he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents.”

    Pelosi had previewed the new legislation on Thursday, telling reporters that she would be “talking about the 25th Amendment” on Friday — which allows for the vice president to become acting president if it is determined that the president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

    This is not how laws work in relation to the constitution, you cunte. There is a constitutional method for the legislature to remove a sitting president and this ain’t it.

    • leon

      “This is not about President Trump,” Pelosi said Friday. “He will face the judgment of the voters. But he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents.”

      I’m pretty sure thats not what you said yesterday. walking that back i see?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It grabbed some of the headlines after a bad debate performance from Harris so mission accomplished. Maybe they’re thinking about preparing the field for ditching Biden in the future as well.

      • Tejicano

        I’m pretty sure that 25A was baked into their choice of Biden in the first place.

      • Count Potato

        This.

    • Hyperion

      I’m pretty sure ‘don’t agree with us and won’t do what we say’ is enough reason! /the left

    • kbolino

      Amendment XXV, Section 4 (emphasis mine):

      Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide

      It is definitely constitutional for Congress to create a commission under the 25th Amendment. Of course, that requires both houses of Congress to pass it and the President to sign it.

      That’s not to say it’s a good idea.

      • robc

        Do they really want a President Pence that bad?

      • Hyperion

        No problem, then they just remove Pence.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hence the stories about his “pink eye” and corona’rona

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That is how I read it too. However they can go through their show trial and all that has to happen is for Mike Pence to lean in close to the microphone and say, “No.”

      • kbolino

        Yeah, they do seem to miss that part about the VP always being involved.

      • leon

        Yeah. Though pelosi may be right. This isn’t about Trump. It’s about getting President Kamala. Cause Harris would pull that trigger faster than you could say “So Help Me God”

      • Tejicano

        “Harris would pull that trigger faster than you could say “So Help Me God””

        Jerry Miculek would be impressed!

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      They tried that already, didn’t stick. This just the next spoonful of spaghetti they are desparately flinging at the wall.

  50. Sensei

    I’m taking today off and was watching YouTube. Bad English on Asian clothing isn’t a new thing, but I swear this one was by somebody playing an inside joke.

    What woman doesn’t want “milkfed” across her chest when wearing fashionable clothing?

    https://youtu.be/R-2QTQHO07g

    • Hyperion

      What’s it supposed to say?

      • Sensei

        Probably just that. I’m at a loss otherwise.

      • UnCivilServant

        It may just be a dirty mind, but I seem to recall a number of references to milk consumption leading to a more ample busom in japanese media. So it makes perfect sense as a meta reference.

      • Sensei

        Riddle solved!

      • Hyperion

        Well, you know, it’s Japan, so there’s no way I’m going to figure it out on my own.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Aren’t they lactose intolerant?

      • Sensei

        More common in Asians, but not all.

        Funny enough I have several Chinese friends that are, but not my Japanese friends.

    • Tejicano

      I once noticed a lady standing next to me on the train who was wearing a dress which had a small, white repeated pattern on a black background. The white pattern, all the same size and evenly spaced, was the word “FUCK”.

      • Hyperion

        Classy

      • Hyperion

        I saw Portlandians in my neighborhood yesterday. It’s the one true sign of the apocalypse.

      • Sensei

        The far less permanent version of a bad kanji tattoo.

    • Count Potato

      YouTube is being way more obnoxious lately.

    • AlexinCT

      When do they start doing the wild thing so she can get to making that whiney moan all them ladies do over there?

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      When I lived in Eastern Europe in the 90s there was a shirt being sold that said “Vulture. Nowadays it’s your style.”

      Another one was for some kind of Dry Oods (sic) Company.

  51. Count Potato

    What’s the best browser for a crappy Android phone?

    • kbolino

      That depends on how crappy it is. I’ve used Firefox for Android for a while, plus uBlock Origin, and it works fine for me.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Turn off automatic updates and go track down a Firefox version below 79 if you’re gonna do Firefox on Android. They done fucked it up.

        The answer is that I’ve not found a great browser on Android. Either there are performance issues, they don’t support add-ons, they hoover up your data, or they eat battery.

      • kbolino

        I strongly recommend against running a browser with no security updates on your phone. It’s trivial to compromise most important accounts (bank, credit card, etc.) if you can compromise a cell phone.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m using the DuckDuckGo browser. It’s pretty solid.

      • Hyperion

        I use it on my PC. But I haven’t tried installing Monocle on it, so I’m still using Chrome for Glibs to get that stuff.

    • Hyperion

      It’s CAB (crappy android browser). I use Google since it’s already installed and I only use a browser on my phone if it’s an emergency, like the power is off and I need to report it.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t think it’s Google, but I can’t seem to find the name of the browser installed on it now. The icon looks like the Earth.

      • Hyperion

        I think Chrome is the default Browser for Android. Sorry I said Googe, duh.

      • Hyperion

        I think Chrome is the default browser for Android. Sorry, I said Google, duh, I of course meant Chrome.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t think it’s Chrome. It’s also weird I can’t find where it says what it is.

      • Hyperion

        Probably Samsung installed that on my phone.

        Go to Setings, Apps, Defaults and it will tell you what it is on your phone.

    • pan fried wylie

      I used chrome on my phone once to look up the ph# for the power company to report an outage.

  52. robc

    I got an attack ad in my mail yesterday. Apparently the GOP challenger (its a very close race, the Dem won last time because Mark Sanford was his opponent, so yeah) is a Fair Tax proponent. I have issues with the Fair Tax, but this ad so misrepresented her position that I have to vote for her. I was going to anyway, the LP doesnt have a candidate in the race. But good God, this ad was awful.

    I had to figure out from the distortions that it was talking about the Fair Tax. He could have run a legitimate attack ad against the Fair Tax, I don’t like it, but this wasn’t it.

  53. RAHeinlein

    HBO Max is showing a special benefit for “When We All Vote” on October 15 – apparently a new episode of “The West Wing” with original cast. Of course, special appearances by Michael Obama, Bill Clinton, Lin-Manuel Miranda and a host of other liberals.

    • Hyperion

      Of course they mean vote, not vote for Democrats.

    • kbolino

      Government by masturbatory fantasy.

    • Idle Hands

      I’m so over woke. It pervades everything, I really don’t understand how so many people enjoy and just lap up out and out boring corporate propaganda.

      • Tundra

        They don’t enjoy it. It’s a tool that the corporatists use to keep the dipshits in check. No one wants to become a lamp post decoration.

    • leon

      Look at the make believe world, where all the make believe actors play make believe and then look down their noses at you for voting against their interests.

    • pan fried wylie

      eh, “Vote Trump for Teh Lolz” could still be acceptable. Guessing that’s not what the linky is though…

      • Ownbestenemy

        I believe it is. I didnt really read it.

      • Hyperion

        The democrat party is destroying CA.

        Correction: has destroyed.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well the page doesn’t exist…so I am going to say no.

      • Hyperion

        I don’t think that link will work if you don’t have the Twatter.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      “Now buy my record!”

    • Hyperion

      Just reminds me once again that the real threat to civilization is if SF starts writing children’s books as well.

  54. PieInTheSky

    UN Women
    @UN_Women
    ·
    Oct 8
    Let’s interrupt the gender bias instead of the women who are speaking.

    We can all help stop the cycle of manterruption by recognizing it, calling it out, and stopping an interrupter in his (or her) tracks.

    https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1314227817987690496

    William Costello
    @CostelloWilliam
    Replying to
    @UN_Women
    ‘Manterruption’ sounds like a childish slang word for ejaculation.

    • Hyperion

      “manterruption”

      Thanks, I’m stealing that.

      And look, Marianne is there, how cute.

    • leon

      Its not influence of foreign powers when the comment on our election in a way that goes after a specific candidate and helps another who failed. But if Putin says he prefers trump over biden it’s the end of democracy.

      • pan fried wylie

        “I could work with Biden, his Soviet Platform have many supporter in Mother Russia, yes, good friends.”
        -Putin

        “Thanks Hon, *smooches*”
        -The Hair

    • Drake

      Am I supposed to treat women equally or like delicate flowers?

      • PieInTheSky

        as your rightful masters

    • R C Dean

      They can have manterruption if I get bitcherruption.

      • pan fried wylie

        Manterruption/Bitchterception

    • kbolino

      Of all the modern trends, the childish analogies are the most annoying. “Let’s interrupt the gender bias”, “teach men not to rape”, “doctors should be able to prescribe housing”, etc. The world does not work like that, and the devil is very much in the details.

  55. Count Potato

    “A member of the militia group contacted the FBI at the first mention of kidnapping Whitmer—which was well before the LIBERATE MICHIGAN tweet—and the plot was monitored by law enforcement the entire time.”

    https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1314584329599807490

    • leon

      Look Robby, be a good beltway libertarian and shutup.

    • l0b0t

      Left unsaid is the part where the person who first floated the idea of the kidnapping was a FedGov agent.

      • Hyperion

        Doesn’t fit the narrative.

    • Hyperion

      Mike Lee
      @SenMikeLee

      Oct 8
      Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.

      That’s pretty good, Mikey.

      • leon

        I’m proud of my only senator.

    • Hyperion

      Robby is trying to protect Trump.

    • Count Potato

      “Amy Cooter, a Vanderbilt sociologist who studies militias, believes Trump’s call on people to stand up to their governors has factored into the actions of militia types in general, but she tells Reason she couldn’t say for sure whether it had an impact on this particular group.

      According to the affidavit, militiamen believed Whitmer and other state governors who had implemented strict lockdowns were violating the U.S. Bill of Rights and should be tried as traitors. This talk alarmed at least one member of the militia, who then contacted law enforcement to warn them. This is an interesting but unsurprising fact of the case, says Cooter.

      “In usual times, about 90 percent of militia groups are what we call constitutionalists, meaning they are law abiding, they see themselves as working with law enforcement, while still being prepared and watching for signs of overreach,” she says. “It is quite typical that groups in that category see it as their job to watch out for extremists.”

      From there on, the FBI monitored all aspects of the conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer. The group’s efforts to procure gear and weapons were conducted with law enforcement’s active involvement. There was never any chance that the conspirators could pull off their crime, and Whitmer was in no real danger.

      Even so, the governor clearly sees the arrest of the six men as a good opportunity to excoriate Trump, whom she deemed “complicit” in their crimes. “Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry,” she said. “When our leaders speak, their words matter.””

      https://reason.com/2020/10/09/gretchen-whitmer-donald-trump-kidnap-rhetoric-militia-conspiracy/

      • Hyperion

        “Amy Cooter, a Vanderbilt sociologist”

        Now tell us about antifa, blm and Harris/Biden, Cooter.

      • R C Dean

        Cooter

        *snicker*

      • kbolino

        Just because they hate Whitmer doesn’t mean they’re “hate groups”.

  56. Count Potato

    “Miley Cyrus just added to the lineup for Monday night’s RBG event with Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Pelosi and more.”

    https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/1314581265362886662

    A slew of celebrities and politicians will join a virtual event on Monday to celebrate the life and legacy of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and urge that her dying wish — that her vacant seat by filled by a new president — be honored.

    The night’s lineup of speeches and performances will include Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Kristen Bell, Beanie Feldstein and Elizabeth Banks alongside political figures like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kristen Gillibrand, Gloria Steinem and others.”

    https://people.com/politics/miley-cyrus-hilary-clinton-more-to-headline-virtual-rbg-event/

    OFFS!!!!

    • Hyperion

      “RBG event with Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Pelosi”

      I think I might pass on that.

    • R C Dean

      “her vacant seat by filled by a new president”

      This was not a wish that her seat be filled by whoever wins in November.

      This is a wish that it be left vacant for 4 years if Trump wins. Because if Trump wins, he’s not a new President.

      • leon

        Come hell or high water, the Dems will make sure Trump is not president come Jan 21 2021

      • Hyperion

        They can try.