Saturday Morning Links of Whatever

by | Nov 14, 2020 | Daily Links | 260 comments

It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks. Slavers are running in overdrive and people are starting to get fucking tired of being run by slavers. Thanksgiving is under a legal cloud and turkeys everywhere are rejoicing. The clown show in DC continues, and it’s both destructive and entertaining. I can’t decide whether to shit or wind my wristwatch. So… whatever.

Administrative Notice: Please get your Thanksgiving recipes submitted! We don’t want to make SP cry.

Birthdays today include a steamy guy; a guy who always looked good in a uniform; a guy who made me what I am today; one of the American Holy Trinity; another great American artist, with much emphasis on “American”; a guy who would be fully at home in the modern Democrat Party; a woman who could rock an eyepatch and you wouldn’t know it; a guy who was only a wee bit crazy; a truly influential guy who became a less influential gal; one of my personal heroes and a damn nice guy who has disappointed me a bit; a horse-faced moron who is giving his mom a reason to not die; one of Team Red’s many sexist racist homophobic politicians; and a moray eel attached to Obama’s anus.

Time for the news!

 

It’s always the Number 2 guy. We seem to settle for mediocrity.

 

…and then he killed another 10,000 nursing home residents.

 

Why, this appears to be SugarFree’s day.

 

Spikes the ball and takes a victory lap.

 

Panic Porn Punishes Pussies.

 

We have our own deBlasio here.

 

Old Guy Music this week is a something a bit tragic and introspective, verging on depressing, but fuck, what a great song. And it really shows off how terrific Matt’s voice is.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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

260 Comments

  1. mrfamous

    From the Tempe article:

    “We understand freedom of religion but…”

    Narrator’s voice: they didn’t understand freedom of religion

    • Old Man With Candy

      What I found interesting is that the article didn’t really call out specific Tempe politicians like Mayor Woods.

      • mrfamous

        I also like how he refers to it as “a slap in the face.” Talk about telling on yourself. Yes, it’s all about _you_, not about people wanting to live their lives.

      • blackjack

        Meh, our renegade preacher plans on starting a prison ministry after the jail him. That’s Martha Stewart level badassed, right there!

    • rhywun

      We have our own deBlasio here.

      I guess Tempe is lacking in (((these guys))) to round up. Do we have a symbol for Xtians?

      • Suthenboy

        +++Them+++ ?

      • rhywun

        Appropriate.

      • hayeksplosives

        † ?

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Also appropriate, considering that for a lot of people, Christianity’s a mere cultural footnote now.

    • Bill Door

      I’m surprised that there isn’t an army of lawyers chomping at the bit to take in these slam dunk potential court cases. It seems like a no brainier way to hit the big bucks.

  2. blackjack

    they didn’t understand freedom of religion

    Fixed it for you.

    • hayeksplosives

      Sure they do. Freedom is a carrot that government officials use to motivate proper behavior.

      If you dance to the bureaucrats’ tune, you are awarded a piece of freedom, with conditions. And you should be thankful to government for the freedom nugget, not to Hod or to Nature or any of that “natural state of man” claptrap.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        This is probably the best description of the modern authoritarian view of freedom that I’ve ever seen.

  3. blackjack

    Hey, don’t people get in shitload of trouble for comparing Valerie Jarrett to animals?

    • Old Man With Candy

      OK, how about if I call her a cunt? Is that better? Or does that imply pussy, which is an animal?

      This is all very confusing.

      • blackjack

        Dunno for sure, but DO NOT MENTION the animal she actually resembles.

      • blackjack

        For the record, this does not look anything like VJ.

      • leon

        A snake?

  4. rhywun

    And it really shows off how terrific Matt’s voice is.

    I don’t know that cat but the mention of J Mascis got me to click. Good stuff.

    • l0b0t

      #metoo He went from GG Allin And The Murder Junkies to Dinosaur Jr. to this? Love me some Mascis. Thanks for the tune OMWC, it was depressing but well done.

  5. Count Potato

    “Trump rains on Ivanka’s NYC parade: First daughter struts down Park Avenue as she returns to $4m pad in bid to reclaim socialite status – which will be even harder after her father threatened to withhold vaccine from New Yorkers ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8947815/Ivanka-returns-NYC-time-father-lost-election.html

    “‘He should be ashamed of himself’: Cuomo slams ‘bully’ Trump for threatening to withhold vaccine from New York until governor admits it’s safe and says real reason president is angry is criminal probes”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8947683/Donald-Trump-breaks-days-silence-White-House-claim-wave-COVID-testing.html

    So this is the new “good people on both sides”??

    • Suthenboy

      Apparently so. Bald faced lie verifiable on video, but hey, who needs evidence?

    • leon

      So did Cuomo not say that he was going to withhold the vaccine from New Yorkers until he decreed they could have it?

      • hayeksplosives

        It sounds like the government held a gun to a guy’s head with one hand while offering to negotiate on your behalf with the other hand.

        Or like the government breaking your leg then trying to claim moral high ground for tending your wounds.

    • rhywun

      I guess Cuomo’s refusal of a vaccine unless Joe hands it out has been memory-holed.

    • Homple

      If it’s in the news, it’s likely an outright lie or at least a lie by omission of half the facts.

      As it is in this case. Cuomo said he would refuse the vaccine in his state because he didn’t trust Trump. Trump said, fine, I’ll send the vaccine when you approve of it.

      Remember, we will most likely end up with Kamala Harris as President and might have Andrew Cuomo as Attorney General.

      • leon

        Cuomo as AG. And y’all think I’m crazy that they will do political prosecutions of Trump Admin people. We know what they did when Trump was in power.

      • rhywun

        If Cuomo goes to Washington, it’s almost impossible to believe that there is someone even worse waiting in the wings to take his place in Albany but that’s how it always goes here so I wonder who it is.

      • Gdragon

        “Anthony Weiner has cleaned up his act I hear” is the funny response but sadly he’s probably a better choice than what will actually happen.

    • juris imprudent

      You mean it turns out populism doesn’t have a libertarian bent? Where is my shocked face?

    • rhywun

      I guess Congress had nothing to do with that.

      • Suthenboy

        Now you are getting it.

    • kbolino

      Cause and effect, how does it work?

      The Tea Party didn’t “give rise” to Donald Trump, any more than Occupy Wall Street “gave rise” to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

      Donald Trump and the Tea Party are both expressions of frustration but they’re not coming from the exact same place. The former, ultimately, was more successful than the latter, because he spoke to multiple kinds of frustration.

      There has not been a Congressional majority willing to even think about cutting spending since 1999. The Tea Party never achieved all that much electoral success, and so they were ignored. Some of them went on to support Trump, but they have received absolutely no home at all among either Democrats or mainstream Republicans, so that fact is hardly surprising.

      Yet Trump would have gone nowhere with the support of Tea Party types alone; if they were solely or primarily responsible for his success, then they would have been able to achieve legislative success as well.

  6. Suthenboy

    *puts constitution on desk, spins it around and stabs finger on “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

    ” Pay special attention to ‘Congress shall make no law….prohibiting….the right of the people to peaceably assemble.
    They can assemble for religious, economic or personal reasons. You see your honor, they don’t have the power to do this”

    Judge – “They. have been granted emergency powers by law, so yeah, they can.”

    “Ok, so your are saying the legislature made a law that they are specifically forbidden to make and that is why they get to do what they want? What are you? A fourteen year old sociopath? Did you go to law school?..Yeah? At this ‘school’ did they have any books? Yeah? Did you read any of them? Ahhh, now I am being cited for contempt because I am seeking to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Imagine that.”

    America needs more assholes in the citizenry and fewer in government.

    • Sean

      *clicks like button*

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The gov of Oregon just announced Oregon law enforcement would have the authority to arrest everyone at household gatherings of more than six people from two households. We’ve gone far beyond this being even a semblance of covid control.

      Per CP’s link above, I think the Koch’s are misguided for placing out of control gov spending as their number one priority. There much more pressing dangers to liberty already here and knocking doors down. I’ve no doubt people like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would agree.

      • Raven Nation

        This is not going to end well. I fear there’s going to be gun play sometime over thanksgiving.

      • Tundra

        “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

      • blackjack

        No, no, Portlandia is protesting FOR yet more of this bullshit. They’d like to see some seriously populated camps go up.

      • hayeksplosives

        Is this to compensate for the fact that no one invited him to parties in childhood/ teen years because he was ab insufferable douche even back then?

      • kbolino

        Per CP’s link above, I think the Koch’s are misguided for placing out of control gov spending as their number one priority.

        I disagree strongly. The unenumerated fourth branch of our government lives off of that money. The degree to which we have been taxed to buy our own chains and masters should not be underestimated.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Of course but perspective is needed. When you have a cancer patient dying of a gunshot wound, you don’t triage systemic oncology treatment over stopping the hemorrhaging. Triage the immediate priorities (2nd A infringements, tyrannical lockdowns, etc) and then go over after the gov overspending.

        I hardly think Solzhenitsyn gave a shit how much the gov was spending while his friends and family were being carted off and lined up. When everything is a priority then nothing is a priority.

      • UnCivilServant

        Can you remove the tumor while you’re in there taking out the bullet?

    • Nephilium

      After our county health director said that you shouldn’t celebrate Thanksgiving with people outside your house, I had to tell the girlfriend it was an illegal order.

      /avoids talking about his feelings ’cause he doesn’t want to get put on more lists.

      • UnCivilServant

        What’s one more list at this point?

    • Animal

      Oh, I am so going to use that argument.

    • Animal

      Suthenboy, mind if I use your example for a blog post?

    • hayeksplosives

      We stole this election fair and square. No backsies !!

    • blackjack

      Fucking dumbasses, he has to get denied in state court to go to the big league ( where he has friends).

      • Suthenboy

        They are dumbasses alright, and given Trumps record of kicking their asses I would not be surprised if he comes out on top in this. I am not hopeful but every time they think they have him cornered he got his teeth in their nut sack.

      • blackjack

        Agree. It’s 2020, the year of wall to wall big lies. Anything could happen here. Nothing is going to happen in a PA state court. Diana Ross’s band is going to decide this.

      • Sean

        I’m still not tired of winning.

  7. Suthenboy

    I dont know how many saw this last night but if you didn’t it is more than worth your time to hear what Jason Whitlock had to say. It is not possible to hit a nail on the head harder than this. It is short, take two minutes to watch it.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/jason_whitlock_brilliantly_explains_how_white_liberals_keep_blacks_subordinate_and_dependent_on_democrats.html

    We all know who the racists are. I wish I could find a transcript.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Why am I reminded of the term “barefoot and pregnant”?

      • rhywun

        I think you mean Barefoot and Pregnant.

  8. Jerms

    At my daughters soccer game and was told by the coach and ref that i need to put on a mask out here in an open field or else our team will forfeit the game. Now im watching from my car and can barely see. Soccer sucks anyway so whatever.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Is that legal per the rules of whichever org governs youth soccer?

      • Jerms

        No idea. I dont know who makes that decision and finding out isnt worth causing the girls to forfeit.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        They pulled the same shit on us. It lasted 2 weeks before everybody was maskless and not social distancing.

        I about pulled my daughter out of soccer, but she’s not old enough to understand disassociating on principle. She would’ve thought she was being punished.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        We’ve done our best to keep masks off our kids as much as possible. I think they’ve only had to wear them once for an appointment at the eye doctor. I’m worried about the long-term damage this constant culture of fear may cause, especially when reinforced with mask delusions.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        meant in reference to being good on this: It lasted 2 weeks before everybody was maskless and not social distancing.

    • Grumbletarian

      “Well I’m actually here to support the other team, so make them forfeit.”

  9. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Verging on depressing?!? No, my friend, that is full-on depressing.

    But what a beautiful song! With one of my favorite guitarists accompanying.

    So thanks for that.

    Have a wonderful Saturday, people. Refuse to submit to the negativity!

  10. The Late P Brooks

    “We are in a life-or-death situation, and if we don’t act right now, we cannot preserve the lives, we can’t keep saving lives, and we will absolutely crush our current health care system and infrastructure,” Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico said in imposing a two-week stay-at-home order.

    I’m going to make you live forever if it kills you.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Every day is life or death. ‘Twas ever thus.

      A sixth-grader could grasp the precept behind the fable of the glazier and the tailor.

    • leon

      I was wrong about then giving up on covid lockdowns once Biden won…

      They just like their power that have abrogated to themselves.

      • rhywun

        I wasn’t. I knew it was going to ramp up. We haven’t seen anything yet.

      • Suthenboy

        Biden promised a nationwide lockdown if the experts advised it. His possibly soon to be expert is already advocating for it.

        I dont know how far they can take this but I still think there is a scary chance of it coming to blows.

      • Atanarjuat

        The best part is Biden just tweeted the national lockdown will last 4-6 weeks. If you thought the one that had a hard 15 day limit was fun, wait until you see the one with a vague end date.

    • Spartacus

      I’ve been saying for a couple of weeks that the current surge will peak right around Thanksgiving and then decline, just based on the timeline of previous ones. This will be just right for the authoritarians to take credit for their lockdowns saving the world, despite the fact that the curve will be basically the same in areas that don’t have lockdowns.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      What is the turnout among eligible black voters? Maybe apathy plays a large part.

    • blackjack

      Yeah, it’s right there in the law, laid out in black and white. Oh…

    • Suthenboy

      Worst AG in the country.

    • rhywun

      Now do voter ID.

      Racist.

      What do I win?

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Some economists say the crisis has been falsely portrayed as a choice between the economy and public health. Instead, they argue that the economy cannot recover until the virus is brought under control and people are confident enough to go shopping, eat at restaurants and do other things again.

    Some Economists say the darnedest things.

    • leon

      Funny that the economy was looking up by, you know, letting people go back to work and their lives.

      • blackjack

        They need max damage now, so the wimpy recovery can be claimed as a huge win for Kamala. It worked ( in their minds, anyway) for Obama. Nobodies gonna notice the difference between the cheeto economy and the brain dead/cop sucker economies, except for what the nightly news tells them.

      • Suthenboy

        I have a vague memory of Pelosi explaining that we should believe the D’s word on the economy over their bank statements.
        Something to do with crumbs, or was a different one?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Someone I know thinks Trump voters are morons. I guess even a moron can see that his paychecks are higher and (if applicable) his tax burden lower.

    • hayeksplosives

      Public good. Public health.

      Bullshit. The largest group I’m willing to treat as a collective is my nuclear family.

      I owe the “public health” nothing beyond not polluting public resources with proven toxic substances.

      • Trigger Hippie

        No, no. The onerous is the rest of humanity to make sure you stay safe and healthy. Geez lady, do you not know how to narcissistic?

      • juris imprudent

        If I was actually sick, I would be willing to stay home, both for my own sake and for “public health”. I am not sick and therefore not subject to any regulation pursuant to public health – unless our federal and state constitutions have been struck down and we are now a fundamentally authoritarian state.

  12. Scruffy Nerfherder

    There’s rumors going around that the US Army seized Dominion’s servers in Germany. Sounds a little far-fetched to me.

    Additionally, Sydney Powell, who by all accounts appears to be a very straight shooter, is now claiming that Dominion’s very first customer was Hugo Chavez.

    • blackjack

      Dunno, but this is mildly interesting.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Argh, have they not heard of full justification?

    • Drake

      I want 2020 to wrap up like a Robert Ludlum novel.

    • Count Potato

      “There’s rumors going around that the US Army seized Dominion’s servers in Germany. Sounds a little far-fetched to me.”

      #metoo

      But why is Scytl storing U.S. election results in Frankfurt in the first place?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Given the average German’s penchant for accuracy in reporting, I think I’d rather have them run our elections than Americans.

      • Count Potato

        Scytl is based in Barcelona. No one has any idea who is running what.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Amazon Web Services was one thing suggested.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Great. Now FOX links make my computer go into lockdown.

    *puts FOX on “do not click” list with Twatter, NYT and WaPo*

    And that MIRACLE vaccine (the one with the minor logistical hurdle of needing to be kept at -100 degrees until injection) will only cure people in rich white countries, so it should be banned.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      The Watch TV link works fine for me on iPhone but site is buggy, and yes, eff it.

    • rhywun

      FOX links make my computer go into lockdown

      Same here, for weeks.

    • blackjack

      Right! Next you’ll tell me it’s easy to get heroin and cell phones in maximum security prisons.

  14. hayeksplosives

    I stayed up late last night to finish my inputs into my employees’ annual performance reviews.

    I hate this time of year. It’s tough to summarize a person’s year of accomplishments, along with addressing their potential, into an HR computer form.

    I know this will be part of their record and could affect future prospects and promotions, so I put a lot of thought and writing skill into each one.

    Glad it’s behind me (until time to allocate bonuses and raises, but that is fun and easy after this ranking part is done) for another year.

    One worry though: one of my flock hadn’t done his self assessment by Wednesday so I called and talked to him live about the need for the self assessments to be done by Thursday.

    Still nothing from him. I had planned a good score for him, have some emails from others about what a good job he’s doing, but for him to drop the ball on this has me concerned.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      As a manager, I despised review time. We were supposed to evaluate our employees against goals that had been set a year earlier and abandoned within a quarter because of upper management decisions over which they had no control. Then they’re supposed to set goals for the next year knowing full well that it’s a meaningless exercise.

      • rhywun

        As a not-manager, I *hate* this shit. Worst time of the year. I finally figured out I’m never going to get more or less than “meets expectations” down the line, so that’s what I put. I’m hoping I was (re)hired late enough this year to skip the next one.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Reviews are counter-productive in tech industries that move at a fast pace. I think at one point I had about 5 bosses that were setting my department’s priorities. It was my job to juggle that craziness. My actual boss understood that and pretty much ignored my review/goal setting exercise every year since he could tell HR to stuff it. I wasn’t high enough up the foodchain to do so for my employees.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Reviews are counter-productive in tech industries that move at a fast pace.

        Some companies, including a lot of tech from what I’ve read, are moving away from annual reviews to streamlined quarterly check ins. Gets accomplishments down while fresh, gives a chance to address ball drops without waiting a year, and can readjust goals closer to realtime needs. This is what I use for my team.

      • R C Dean

        My annual reviews last about 5 minutes. Max.

        “I got nothing you haven’t already heard. You?”

        “No, we’re good.”

        *clicks “review complete” on HR software*

    • PieInTheSky

      Self assesment is what commie dictatorships ask of people.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This. The department was profitable or it was not. You got shit done or you did not.

    • blackjack

      You’re a good person. My supe is a fucking prick. I got mine last week and it was 2.5 out of 5 all the way across. I filed a complaint against him last year and he got in serious trouble for some fucked up shit he did to me. Now, he’s going bare minimum not negative to avoid retaliation charges. I’m probably the number two best in the shop, but I don’t get to see anyone else’s eval. I just know this supe has been out to get me from the minute I got there. He transferred from LAPD, which probably explains the whole mess.

      • PieInTheSky

        Can you like get rid of him discreetly

      • blackjack

        I am Sicilian and a biker, but I’m not THAT kind of Sicilian or THAT kind of biker.

        Seriously, government work is totally different. Petty rivalries and politics rule the day. There’s not even a mild attempt at objectivity. My only hope is to either transfer or promote to eventually become his boss and get me revenge that way. Something about dog/fleas or fire/burns.

      • hayeksplosives

        Can you do an optional “my360” sort of deal where you can get feedback anonymously from peers, direct reports, manager, etc, apart from the PAR process?

        That way you have a record not from your prick boss about your actual performance.

      • blackjack

        I’m considering talking to his boss. He’s a cool guy and will listen. It’s not really all that important, unless you get a negative 2.0 or less. It’s just shitty because I should be 4 ish in most categories and everyone there knows it. Imma just sign it and wait for the hiring freeze to end and get the hell out of there, I think. I do have the option to dispute it. Just don’t know if that helps or hurts. Other dept.s are reluctant to hire complainers, unless they know the details. Rather just have a medium eval than a bad jacket.

    • Not an Economist

      I am on the other end of this. I had to write up my self-assessment and this is a task I know I don’t like and don’t think is in my skill set (short, concise, and bragging are things I don’t do well). I spent a lot of time on it. My boss IM’d me and told me he was disappointed in my write-up, especially since I spent so much time on it. Of course, he also said no one else in my group did a good job either.

      I liked it better when all we had to do was come up with a bulletized list of what we did that year.

  15. Count Potato

    “In her new comments addressing why she called 911 on her Lyft driver over an open window, anti-police Portland city council member @JoAnnPDX
    says she was in fear of “white supremacists” who drive “big trucks.”

    “It was my responsibility to make sure I got home safe, and I did everything I could to get home safe,” Hardesty said. “When you’re living in a city where white supremacists are proudly riding around in their big trucks, their flags, and you’re a black person and somebody wants to put you on the side of the road at night, not gonna happen.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-city-commissioner-blames-lyft-incident-on-white-supremacists

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1327506230118473728

    Typical, just typical.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Everything short of hiring a driver a/o bodyguard.

    • Count Potato

      The Post Millennial website seems broken.

    • blackjack

      When you define “white supremacists” as anyone who’s not a commie, your paranoia level must go way the fuck up!

      • Q Continuum

        These are people who are likely already mentally ill. Instead of getting the help they need and trying to live a productive life, they embrace a Satanic ideology and try to drag everyone down with them.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        This is the plain consequence of making victimhood into social currency.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This. Over and over and over.

        I’ve been saying this for about three decades now.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It would be laughable if you didn’t know that a lot of people just accept her raving bullshit as fact.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, normally I would say “stop now before you embarrass yourself” but those rules have gone out the window.

    • Suthenboy

      At this point they can turn the city to ashes and I would just shrug and say ‘Good riddance’.

    • EvilSheldon

      Progressives tend to fetishize their various mental illnesses, but that doesn’t mean that most of them are not legitimately mentally ill.

      • Suthenboy

        About ten years ago I looked up a couple of dozen personal blogs of the then prominent feminists and progressives. Every single one of them proudly announced their particular mental illness, the majority being bi-polar. I did this because someone in the discussion at TOS remarked that their ravings seemed insane.

        Yep. I dare you to find a sane one.
        Same goes for the Antifa, BLM and super-prog college students.

      • kbolino

        I think we have gone too far destigmatizing some things. It sounds good on paper, nobody should be afraid to seek help yadda yadda, but human nature being what it is, stigma doesn’t go away it just shifts targets, and we end up with, as you describe, a bunch of paranoid deranged unmedicated, or more often overmedicated, lunatics running the asylum. And I think, much like many other psychological phenomena, many kinds of mental disorders do not arise or evolve extrinsically from a person’s actions or surroundings. People can get crazier because “the help they need” is sometimes really somebody telling them to call them fuck down or go out and do something other than spend all day inside their own heads, instead of indulging their neuroses and prescribing more pills. That people nowadays tend to seek out online “communities” of the similarly crazy and receive comfort for their problems instead of solutions for them doesn’t help, either.

      • kbolino

        call them fuck down = calm the fuck down

      • Count Potato

        ” That people nowadays tend to seek out online “communities” of the similarly crazy”

        That was around half of Tumblr.

    • DEG

      #1 – nice view

      #2, #26, #32 – I recommend these IChive galleries

      There’s something about #4 that I like.

      I think #14 is going to kill someone.

      #22. More please.

      #33 needs a better fitting bra.

      #35 is cute.

      #38 is the RealDoll.

      #39 looks mischievous.

      I’d recommend #41’s iChive gallery but there is a face diaper picture in there.

      #52 is also a RealDoll.

      I like #53.

      Now it’s time to go clean up some leaves. Not a euphemism. I’ll be outside working all day.

  16. Q Continuum

    “We are in a life-or-death situation, and if we don’t act right now, we cannot preserve the lives, we can’t keep saving lives, and we will absolutely crush our current health care system and infrastructure”

    We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

    NB: In case you weren’t paying attention, humans are not immortal.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “It was my responsibility to make sure I got home safe, and I did everything I could to get home safe,” Hardesty said. “When you’re living in a city where white supremacists are proudly riding around in their big trucks, their flags, and you’re a black person and somebody wants to put you on the side of the road at night, not gonna happen.””

    Bless her heart.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Those “white supremacists” in big trucks would be more likely to get her home safely than the Antifa mobs on their mopeds.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Thanks, I needed that laugh.

    • Sean

      ?

    • Chipwooder

      Heh….Alex really seemed like just a solid dude all around

  18. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Glibs.

    I slept in today by almost as much as I normally get to sleep.

    • Gender Traitor

      Morning, UCS.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think I’ve figured out something to add to Svetlana’s character. I knew her personality and backstory, and was brainstorming hobbies and passtimes because she has a lot of time on her hands. So I figured whatever she did she’s had a lot of practice, so she might be very good. I asked ‘what if she was a painter?’ This actually solves the question of the portrait of Dug hanging in the Explorer House in Kord the younger’s stories. Dug isn’t the sort of narcissist who would commission and keep a portrait of himself, but he would sit to be painted by his girlfriend if it made her happy, and would hang onto the portrait if she gave it to him. There are a couple of ways it could end up in the school, but none of them are a major stretch.

      • Gender Traitor

        I like it! A bit more daring an accomplishment for a lady of her station than, say, music or needlework.

      • Ted S.

        I think I’ve figured out something to add to Svetlana’s character.

        Bewbs?

    • Sean

      Mornin

      • UnCivilServant

        How are things in your neck of the woods?

      • Sean

        Sunny, cool, and calm. Gonna go food shopping shortly.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      She hates that I have a few beers some nights. I’m not an alcoholic but have seven or eight pints three or four nights a week, after hard days at work.

      Uh-huh…

      • Nephilium

        Yeah. But I’m going to guess by the URL and the term pints, that he’s talking about British session beers, which are generally less then 4% ABV.

    • Spartacus

      Best line: “She hates that I have a few beers some nights. I’m not an alcoholic but have seven or eight pints three or four nights a week, after hard days at work.”

      • Spartacus

        Damn you Scruffy and your nimble fingers!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Robot Fraternity Brother: Bender, are you sure this is a short cut?

    Bender: Not as sure as I was an hour ago.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    NB: In case you weren’t paying attention, humans are not immortal.

    NOBODY GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE.

  21. Count Potato

    “If things are getting this bad in New York, which has been a responsible actor on covid, think about what states like North and South Dakota, Florida or Texas are in for…”

    https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1327313836853108737

    facepalm.jpg

    • Spartacus

      Well, as for Florida, our latest 7 day average is about 5500 cases/day, which is double a month ago, but still only about half of July. And the death rate is still trending downward.

    • Q Continuum

      She wasn’t just dropped on her head as a child, she must have had a lead-lined crib.

      • Spartacus

        It’s pure solipsism: “responsible actor” = whatever we are doing here in New York.

      • leon

        Nice new word, i think I’ll use it in the future, as it explains so much thinking throughout life.

    • rhywun

      this bad

      ?

      I wonder how many asymptomatic people got tired of testing theater and stopped taking them.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      All those subways, elevators and cramped apartment buildings in the Dakotas sure are going to make it worse.

  22. DEG

    “That’s been his M.O.,” Cuomo said. “Everything is personal with this president. There can’t be a disagreement on principle, and he retaliates. He uses the government as a retaliatory tool. That’s what he does.”

    That is some rich projection.

    Following an announcement this week that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in trials, Uğur Şahin — the 55-year-old CEO of BioNTech — on Thursday told the UK Guardian that it’s a sure thing.

    Why am I getting a Theranos vibe?

    “We are in a life-or-death situation, and if we don’t act right now, we cannot preserve the lives, we can’t keep saving lives, and we will absolutely crush our current health care system and infrastructure,” Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico said in imposing a two-week stay-at-home order.

    Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ordered a two-week “freeze” starting Wednesday, under which all businesses will be required to close their offices to the public and mandate work-from-home “to the greatest extent possible.”

    Fuck off slavers.

    The City of Tempe is now looking to crack down on the flouting of the rules. In a statement, the city said, “Event organizers did not request or receive city permission to hold the event. The City of Tempe will cite them and pursue cost recovery for city services rendered.”

    Fuck off slaver.

    • Tulip

      So, has anyone asked blm to pay?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I want 2020 to wrap up like a Robert Ludlum novel.

    I’m rooting for the Philip K Dick hunter/killer teddy bears.

    *I think I remember that correctly

  24. Count Potato

    Does anyone know where I can download the Alex Jones & Micheal Malice thing? YouTube took it down.

    • PieInTheSky

      I dont think escort opinions are relevant to the question

  25. Rebel Scum

    I just want to point out that I have called the presidential race for my cat. So, you know, it’s over. He is currently occupying the office of the president-elect, aka the window looking out from my home office. I know this is difficult for some to accept, that a cat will have his paw on the special button in the oval office that he will convert to delivering mice as opposed to diet coke, but it is what it is. I mean, who doesn’t vote for a cat? That he outperformed several previous candidates, 120-130 percent, in several precincts is of no concern. We need to take this chance to heal and unify as a nation under our new feline overlord.

    • The Gunslinger

      Has your cat named a Chief of Staff?

      • rhywun

        I’ve heard good things about possible Attorney General Whiskers.

    • Q Continuum

      I’m sure he’d do a better job than the swamp creatures that occupy it now.

      But not as good as this top-quality pussy.

      https://imgur.com/a/r13a8bR

  26. The Gunslinger

    I heard on a radio ad this week that OSHA is going to start doing random business visits to check for covid-19 guideline compliance in Michigan. Watch out for Gretchen’s SS Shock Troops if you have the misfortune of being employed in Michigan.

    • UnCivilServant

      Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up.

      • Sean

        I’m lazy. The business nearby has excavating equipment though.

    • Nephilium

      Meh. Ohio has granted the authority to the department of worker’s compensation to shut down retail shops if they aren’t enforcing the masks rules.

      • l0b0t

        I KNEW IT! While everyone else was worried about FEMA and black helicopters, I always suspected Secret President was operating under cover of the Department of Worker’s Compensation.

      • Gender Traitor

        They’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts just to protect YOU, a Worker of the World!

      • Nephilium

        It’s because DeWine is made of much better clay then us poor mortals.

    • The Last American Hero

      Only if your business caters to those icky red-state types.

  27. Rebel Scum

    “Cuomo says Trump is ‘incompetent’ and ‘irrelevant’ after vaccine threat”

    Who levied what threat? Methinks Politico is lying.

    • Q Continuum

      Prediction: soyboys don’t try to start any shit with that group beyond words.

    • Count Potato

      It’s funny the Proud Boys wear black and yellow, which are the meme colors for anarchist.

      • LJW

        But Antifa aren’t really anarchists. They’re a mix of fascists and commies.

      • Count Potato

        Yes, antifa are commies, but the Proud Boys aren’t anarchists either.

  28. Rebel Scum

    “We seem to settle for mediocrity.”

    Idk how many of them we need to kill to stop them. But I can’t imagine them sustaining while leadership is being knocked off on a weekly basis.

    Ps. Bring the troops home.

    • Old Man With Candy

      One of my friends observed that this is like the 9th time we’ve killed the Number 2 guy. “Do you think at the interview for Al Qaeda #2 they ask the applicant where they see themselves in five years?”

      • Rebel Scum

        where they see themselves in five years

        Splattered on a cave wall*.

        One of my dad’s friends is/was a defense contractor and he has suggested that we have, um, interesting weapons that can be and are sometimes deployed.

  29. PieInTheSky

    “low-status individuals are more likely to use jargon compared to high-status individuals…authors from lower-status schools used more jargon in the form of linguistic complexity in their dissertations compared to authors from higher-status schools”

    https://mobile.twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1327551954558529536

    • Q Continuum

      “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”

    • UnCivilServant

      School ‘status’ is not a measure of the value of the education, so this is an irrelevant statistic.

      • PieInTheSky

        It is relevant to the status of the graduate in society

    • Suthenboy

      Looks like projection to me.

      I see no study on one’s ability to understand concepts or ability to finely distinguish between concepts that are superficially similar but quite different.
      What is glaringly obvious to me is that the wokesters are unable to do either. When someone starts using overly pretentious language it usually means they dont know what they are talking about. Not always, but usually.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    It’s pure solipsism: “responsible actor” = whatever we are doing here in New York.

    Solipsism, onanism, whatever.

  31. Rebel Scum

    “Oregon, New Mexico order lockdowns as other states resist”

    Some people value freedom.

  32. Rebel Scum

    “Tempe plans to cite organizer of large Christian concert”

    For? (I can’t be bothered to read)

    • UnCivilServant

      The crime of being Christian.

      Oh, and not kowtowing.

      • hayeksplosives

        NOTHING BEFORE THE STATE.

      • rhywun

        Oh, tosh. You can still practice your religion at home, alone.

        /I’m sure this is their actual response.

      • Rebel Scum

        That’s what I figured.

  33. l0b0t

    You can tell it’s Diwali because Jamaica and Forest Hills, Queens are jumpin’. Most of the heavily Sikh section of Forest Hills has roads cordoned off and busy crowds setting up for tonight’s light/fireworks shows. Delicious Indian candy is in my immediate future.

    • hayeksplosives

      Ooo! Sounds heavenly.

      I should look for Diwali events being defiantly carried out here in San Diego.

      • R C Dean

        Tasty!

    • rhywun

      Delicious Indian candy

      ?

      Does not compute from the samples I’ve tried.

      • UnCivilServant

        I tried to give the benefit of the doubt that the stuff the consultants bring back after trips to India is nobody’s first choice to eat.

        ‘Tried’ being the key word.

      • Nephilium

        Mango lassi.

      • UnCivilServant

        Unless they do something to the mango flavor it’s not going to be better than mediocre.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Pen-and-phone it in

    President-elect Joe Biden won the presidency in large part because he promised to be the anti-Trump on policy, temperament, tone and just about everything else. But two men who helped run the Obama White House are urging him to follow President Trump’s example in a specific way: by unapologetically leaning on executive actions to implement key policies.

    The advice from former Obama chiefs of staff Rahm Emanuel and Denis McDonough comes as Biden prepares to enter office with an agenda potentially stalled by a closely divided Congress: a much smaller House majority than expected and a 50-50 Senate, at best.

    “There is — as President Trump himself has demonstrated with the consent, quite obvious consent of Republicans in Congress – an enormous amount of leeway for the president to institute executive action on things like immigration and energy and climate policy,” said McDonough, who served as chief of staff for much of Obama’s second term.

    He won’t even have to leave the White House.

    • hayeksplosives

      “Weekend at Joe’s”

    • Rebel Scum

      We are going to get new wars that media and Democrats (I repeat myself) can ignore. How long before Doddering Joe gets a peace prize?

      • Atanarjuat

        Most of the wars during the Obama-Biden years were done by bombers and flying death robots and funneling weapons to foreign radicals. They’ve learned that people have less patience for boots on the ground. Expect more of the former.

  35. hayeksplosives

    My sister said in frustration “I am SO done with politics!”

    I said “That’s too bad. You might be done with government, but government is not done with you.”

    • mrfamous

      Yep. I can be done with politics all I want, when they close down the gyms for a third time it won’t matter how much I wish to ignore politics.

      I’m guessing most people would like to be left alone to their own devices. But it appears very few people would also like to extend that courtesy to others. My misanthropy grows daily.

  36. Count Potato

    “Erykah Badu tests positive for COVID-19 in left nostril, negative in right

    “No symptoms. Was tested for COVID. Same machine. Left nostril positive . Right nostril negative. Maybe they need to call Swiss Beats so they can do a versus between them. Funny thing is , Dr. ONLY reported the positive result. What the fack is goin on here. Rapid Test. $$$$ smh.

    — ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) November 13, 2020″”

    https://pagesix.com/2020/11/14/erykah-badu-tests-positive-for-covid-19-in-left-nostril-negative-in-right/

    SCIENCE!!

    • hayeksplosives

      See below hagiography on Kamala and the triumph of knowledge over ignorance.

      “We called dibs on SCIENCE! Proof not needed anymore; it’s our turn now.”

  37. hayeksplosives

    Barf.

    LA Times is turning Commie-law Harris’ presumptive coronation into a an echo of the Hindu story of good triumphing over evil.

    https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-14/california-hindus-diwali-festival-kamala-harris-biden

    In California’s Indian American community, supporters of the Democratic presidential ticket see special meaning this year in a holiday that celebrates the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness and the defeat of ignorance through knowledge

    Uh, they haven’t been chatting with the Indians in my circles. Quelle surprise.

    • Suthenboy

      If Trump somehow manages to win this the tears over the last loss will look like a light sprinkle compared to a zero visibility hurricane.

    • Rebel Scum

      My dad has an Indian customer that is full MAGA. And he is an immigrant. Can’t imagine the new arrivals supporting leftists/Democrats.

    • Atanarjuat

      That’s weird, because a FB “friend” just called me racist for saying she is Indian, not black. (The black guy I was replying to said “I agree with Lucas, it’s a different culture even though they also have dark skin”).

      • KSuellington

        You could say she is an Aryan, maybe she’d feel better about that.

      • kbolino

        Black is by far the predominant identity in Jamaica, and the vast majority of the population have some degree of African descent. So she’s really both (and possibly others besides, like Amerindian).

      • Suthenboy

        Scroll up to my link to the Jason Whitlock interview and send your friend a link to that. It will be amusing to see how they respond.

        *my guess: they refuse to watch

      • KSuellington

        Thanks Suth, enjoyed that video. It was spot frigging on.

    • blackjack

      Kamala has literally already “put you all back in chains.”

  38. Suthenboy

    Re: DEG

    “Why am I getting a Theranos vibe?”

    Because they are barely not saying it?

    “We are in an age of pandemics. Man will have to learn to live in harmony with nature.” – Fruitloop Faucci

    I am suspicious of the vaccine. I would have used ‘spider to the fly’, but Theranos works. Now where is my damned tin foil?

    • blackjack

      I don’t want to drink the covid coolaid myself, but I’m pretty sure I’ll have to because of work.

      • blackjack

        Sorry, get injected with the covid coolaid.

    • Rebel Scum

      Showing you his true colors.

    • PieInTheSky

      No it is not. Chamelons dont chamge color that fast and it is not really to blend in

      • Suthenboy

        …and they dont have that wide of a range of colors…two or three is about it. Consider their environment. Why would they evolve the ability to be purple or chartreuse? Various shades of green and brown are all the local ones can manage. That is all they need.

    • R C Dean

      Apparently not.

    • Suthenboy

      Pour on and use the back of a spoon to spread around. I have a lot of experience with that and it works fine.

      • Gustave Lytton

        ^^ me too when I don’t feel like washing the silicone brush

  39. Rebel Scum

    Release the Kraken!

    That’s what I say when I take my pants off.

    • The Gunslinger

      I have it on good authority that the size of the kraken is not that important.

    • The Gunslinger

      Not my Christmas. My Christmas comes even without ribbons. It comes without tags. It comes without packages, boxes or bags.

      • UnCivilServant

        My Christmas season somes without rhyme or reason.

  40. KSuellington

    So my last job of the week yesterday as I decided not to work today was a goth hippie guy in his 50’s with a beat up old Honda outside with faded Free Leonard Peltier, Amnesty International and Dennis Kucinich for Congress and the like plastered all over the back. He answered the door without a mask, the first customer I’ve had in weeks to do so and gave me a hearty handshake since he remembered me from the last time his landlord had me do work at the property. We ended up having a great conversation about the total bullshit of the COVID hysteria. By the end he was confiding to me in a low voice that he had cast his first vote for a Repub in his life last week for the Trumpster. He works at a “metaphysical store” whatever that is, and told me that he had done a few tarot card readings and Trump is definitely going to win. So take it from Midwestern transplant goth hippie dude that Trump is a lock. It struck me that I am now in the small minority of people here, including this guy and the homeless guy that lives down the street in his van that haven’t bought into the virus panic. At least I have my wife on my side as well. I feared that we would only be getting an increase in the government authoritarianism and it looks like that is happening.

    • UnCivilServant

      I like signs of sanity, especially in the strangest places.

      • KSuellington

        Yeah, it put a smile on my face at the end of a hard week.

  41. But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

    Tyler Cowen writes at Marginal Revolution: “What will the transitional vaccine path look like?”

    Lemme help you with that, Ty, baby.

    It’ll continue to look like it’s looked like so far: an excellent, opportune excuse for modern Western democracies to continue down their totalizing path whilst solving the problem of how to become ever-more-authoritarian even as they continue to maintain the fiction of freedom by wrapping themselves in the paper-thin veneer of democracy. I can hardly wait for them to discover the next “bad” flu season.

    Same old shit, different disease.

  42. Festus' Mustache Needs To Calm His Tits

    The blessing of God’s great light reveals much, come the Morn… Found a piece of 1×4 stuck in the impellor. Used a giant screwdriver and a hammer to dislodge it. Runs fine now. If only I had those dark, stupid, stolen hours back I’d live for an extra day.

    • Gender Traitor

      Impellor – superhero or supervillain?

  43. The Late P Brooks

    “What will the transitional vaccine path look like?”

    HELL, next exit.