Winston’s Mom Does the Links

by | Feb 3, 2021 | Daily Links | 362 comments

So you all have a Glibfest but don’t invite me?  You all think I won’t behave?  I see how it is.  Not that I’d go or anything.  I work weekends afterall.  Now for some links.

Fact Check the Fact Check:  of course team cuck supports Q…It pisses off team cunt!

Interesting parlor trick of adjusting the proposed $15/hr minimum wage to the state median income to reflect its relative impact on the state’s labor market.  Puerto Rico could effectively be $68/hr.

The sincere fear in her eyes is as hilarious as her enormous mouth.

I hate everyone involved in this.  LeBron James, the heckling broad, the NBA, the City of Atlanta, and maybe even USA Today.

Good news everyone!  Popehat either found his pills, or temporarily stopped being a fucking retard!

I think SFUSD is right, if they continue to use acronyms like SFUSD, they will implicitly support white supremacy.   They should change their name to the Skid Mark Factory.

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

362 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    MY PIPES NEED CLEANING WINSTON’S MOM!

  2. Nephilium

    How do you feel about this heckling fan? Looks like LeBron isn’t really liked in several places now.

    • AlexinCT

      Who likes that douche? He may be a talented ball player, but has the charisma of cheese dicks sucking hobo.

    • Winston's Mom

      The City of Cleveland earned their two points in my book when they burned his jerseys in effigy after he left for Miami.

      It brings their total to two points.

      • Nephilium

        For a window of time, there were armed police guarding the huge billboard with LeBron’s picture on it right outside the stadium. Of course, those same fans lapped up his shit when he came back to Cleveland.

  3. Ownbestenemy

    Alright…classroom is laid back. No masks. Now I can learn

    • AlexinCT

      Repeat after us:

      “Orange man bad!”

      “Biden is a dream.”

      “There are no election regularities!”

      “Free speech doesn’t protect bad speech!”

      You learnin’ yet?

      • Rat on a train

        mmm, mmm, mmm, Joseph Robinette Biden

    • Sean

      I’m calling Fauci.

    • westernsloper

      Nice knowing ya super spreader.

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “Are acronyms a symptom of white supremacy culture?”

    BLM and NAACP hardest hit

    • Swiss Servator

      So you are saying this FUBAR is BS?

      • Winston's Mom

        If it is, what does that make BOHICA?

      • AlexinCT

        A joyful employment opportunity for ya?

      • Rat on a train

        BS is FUBAR

    • Tejicano

      Yeah, DILLIGAF…

    • pistoffnick

      FOAD

      • Not Adahn

        IYKWIMAIKTYD.

    • Nephilium

      No love for the SPLC?

      • UnCivilServant

        I hate those slander merchants and extortionists.

      • Nephilium

        Hey, there was one surprising name in the list:

        NATION OF ISLAM
        4 chapters
        GENERAL HATE
        CLEVELAND, TOLEDO, DAYTON, AKRON

        Then there’s the usual types of names:

        CHRIST OR CHAOS
        RADICAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM
        WEST CHESTER

      • UnCivilServant

        “Radical Traditional”? There’s a heaping helping of bullshit right there.

        Until they found a militant order and go Deus Vult on the Nation of Islam, I’m not buying it.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I saw Christ or Chaos open for Ministry back in ’92.

      • juris imprudent

        The modern version of the JBS you mean?

  5. Count Potato

    “People don’t want to hear anything against Trump. Actually, the more he stays out of the media, the more that he becomes this martyr, this looming figure over the GOP.”

    As it turns out, he really is a real estate genius — living rent-free in millions of heads.

    • Festus

      ^^^ Nice!

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      It’s almost like the media can’t function without their object of the 2 minute hate.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    maybe even USA Today.

    MAYBE?

    • rhywun

      Right?!

  7. Festus

    Regarding the image above – why is the dude riding his donkey sidesaddle and what’s the deal with him ripping his wallet out? Never mind. I get it.

    • Festus

      *Seinfeld Voice* “Could that lamp BE any more phallic?”

  8. Cy

    Stacy’s mom is hotter!

    There I said it!

    • Festus

      If I was the kid in that video Stacy’s Mom wouldn’t have registered.

      • Festus

        Wait. That sounded sorta wrong. When I was that age 14 year old girls were more interesting to me than their Moms. They were Moms and everyone has a Mom.

      • AlexinCT

        That did sound wrong indeed, but you corrected before the crowd came down on you the way Jay tells people Silent Bob is all about the cock…..

      • Festus

        I’m a little “gun-shy” of late.

      • Cy

        Kind of early to have the shovel out Festus.

      • Festus

        Real men use snow blowers.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that an euphemism playing on Winston’s mom’s profession?

    • Winston's Mom

      You shut your whore mouth

  9. The Late P Brooks

    National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Mike Berg told Breitbart News in a statement Tuesday the DCCC continues to spend money on “ineffective” ads while lying about Republicans and their military service.

    “These ads will be as ineffective as the $345 million the DCCC lit on fire the last cycle,” Berg said. “But it’s still important to note that the DCCC is blatantly lying about members who have condemned QAnon, and that they are smearing multiple veterans to score political points.”

    Based on the media hogwash people unquestioningly swallow hook line and balls. I’d say the ad campaign will be a rousing success.

    • Festus

      He’d get my vote just for saying that.

    • Rat on a train

      He’s given blanket permission, but I bet his security detail would take you down if you tried.

  10. westernsloper

    SFUSD doesn’t stand for Shut the Fuck Up Stupid Dick?

    • Rat on a train

      Shut the Fuck Up and Sit Down

    • Jarflax

      Socialist Fanatics Undermining Schools and Decency.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode.

      It’s a public school system though, so they don’t know how to spell.

  11. AlexinCT

    I want Jussie Smollet (french actor) to give us a rundown on the likelihood that this charade isn’t pure bullshit staged to help the authoritarians keep the lemmings walking off the cliff.

    • westernsloper

      I know it’s bullshit because I know for a fact Anderson Cooper eats babies.

      • Festus

        *looks up from chowing on drum-stick* Huhmrph?

      • Not Adahn

        Spermatozooa aren’t technically babies.

      • Festus

        Half-Babies you murderer!

      • Plisade

        Bravo!

    • rhywun

      It’s hilarious that CNN and friends are wasting so much time on this bullshit. Bit ridiculous that Congress is holding struggle sessions to demand members deny allegiance to it, though. GOPers made a mistake even participating in that charade.

      • AlexinCT

        Remember that those GOPers are also part of the same political credentialed elite class, and that while some of them saw the light because the bad orange man’s charades showed how many people were aware the political establishment was not just corrupt, but downright inept, and agreed with him, they are swamp creatures by nature and wanted to go back to business as usual: they fuck us over and get rich selling us out.

      • Plisade

        So I’ve got some super smart acquaintances buying into the Covid panic, and I’ve got some super smart acquaintances buying into the QAnon THE PLAN. Thank goodness for the (relative) sanity that is Glibs.

  12. Tundra

    Good morning, Winston’s Mom!

    It’s always nice to see you. And I really dig the artwork. I love pulp fiction covers. I think I’ll see if I can find some for my office walls.

    Anyway, some fun lynx today. i actually watched the basketball one and yes, I hate everyone involved. That chick absolutely could not be less attractive.

    No music, though. What’s up with you and Swissy?

    No worries. I’ve got it covered.

    Have a great day!

    • Festus

      LOVE that tune! My Bro owned the live album. Thanks for that Squeeze tune the other morning. I’d never heard it before and I was like “What the Hell?”

      • Festus

        Odds on the male model being dead of Hutchin’s Disease within the decade?

      • Tundra

        Lol!

        Pretty good rendition of the song, though.

      • pistoffnick

        y my pp hard?

  13. Festus

    LeBron James is Asshoe. Pictures at 11.

    • Cy

      Until he dies, then there’ll be murals up everywhere and the history revisionists and fact checkers will fire up their laptops.

  14. Rebel Scum

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) falsely attacked several House Republicans in a series of ads launched Tuesday, claiming that the House GOP members backed the QAnon conspiracy theory

    I’m sure Snopes will be around to fact check this.

    • Rat on a train

      Although the statement is technically true, we want it to be false. So we rate it mostly false.

    • Tejicano

      Oh you know they must be.

      I guess they’re busy totaling up all legitimate, major irregularities from the 2020 election.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Puerto Rico’s Effective Minimum Wage Would Be $68/Hour Under Biden Plan

    Someone is getting a big raise!

    • Rat on a train

      That isn’t fair. They need to adjust the rates by jurisdiction so everyone gets a $68/hour minimum wage.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Analysis

    “We are lost,” a Fox News insider remarked to me recently, and there are lots of data points to back up the assertion.
    Nielsen numbers for the month of January were released on Tuesday, and Fox ranked third in the three-horse cable news race for the first time since 2001. Furthermore, CNN was the No. 1 channel across all of cable.

    Think about it this way: January was one of the biggest months of political news in a generation, yet Fox couldn’t capitalize. Instead of competing by promoting correspondents and putting news coverage front and center, the network prioritized ever more outrageous, ever more extreme opinion. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” essentially expanded to “Tucker Carlson Day and Night.”

    ——-

    Certainly, there are many reasons for these trendlines. The Fox base’s frustration in the election outcome is one. The availability of Newsmax as a Fox alternative is another. The scrambled politics of this moment, with President Biden visibly trying to work with Republicans, is yet another.

    The public’s demand for news is another big reason. Between the pandemic, the transition of power, and the insurrection, many people want reporting ahead of pontificating, and CNN is built for that. Fox is not. (Just count the number of CNN bureaus versus Fox.) Fox is actively avoiding the news when producers believe bluster will rate better — on Tuesday night, for example, CNN and MSNBC showed the US Capitol ceremony for police officer Brian Sicknick while Fox stuck with Sean Hannity’s screech fest. Laura Ingraham only briefly showed the ceremony when Biden visited the Capitol to pay his respects…

    Who better than CNN to pontificate about the declining fortunes of Faux News? If anybody knows about being completely dependent on their coverage of Trump to drive viewership, they should.

    They’re straight news, all the way.

    • Idle Hands

      Fox really fucked up with the election call. A ton of boomers all switched to OAN or Newsmax after that. I know my grandparents did.

      • AlexinCT

        I don’t think they fucked up so much as they had their Disney/CCP marching orders…

      • Breet Pharara

        The establishment Republicans always hated Trump and they saw the election as a chance to drive that knife they’d been holding for 4 years into his back. Barr, McConnell, Fox news, Lindsey Graham all went after Trump hard. Unfortunately for them, they underestimated Trump’s support and overestimated their power at controlling the narrative. It cost them 2 Senate seats, a huge chunk of their Fox audience and there will probably be some interesting primaries next election season.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’d say it also cost Them a currently unknown percentage of their base. I’d say we’ll see how much at the next election, but I don’t trust the election results, so I have no clue how much of the GOP base has become disengaged and/or independent.

      • AlexinCT

        Stalin was not kidding when he reminded his people that the only thing that counted was who was counting the votes…

        Our election system isn’t broken either: it is precisely what the people that would abuse it need and want it to be so they can make sure the fucking unwashed masses don’t get away with winning an election they thought they had rigged for the establishment candidate. When all the establishment candidates are pure shit (Both Obama and Clinton were really so toxic that they made Nixon look like a saint), they figured using some guy they could present as worse would make it go their way. Then the SOB goes and wins by getting more voted than the margin of their rigging! And he almost did it again a second time. This time however they were ready for it, and a quick overnight halt let them right the ship.

        They are not going to let that happen again, so they need things to remain opaque and full of holes…

      • Idle Hands

        Idk how Trump still has like 95% support from registered republicans, his coattails gained seats in the house and the republicans refusal to print money cost them a senate majority nothing trump did. Turns out establishment republicans did a ton of wishcasting and it’s going to end up with a ton of qanon people in office after the mid terms. Those retards need to “cope” as the kids are saying.

    • rhywun

      people want reporting ahead of pontificating, and CNN is built for that

      ??

    • Count Potato

      “many people want reporting ahead of pontificating, and CNN is built for that”

      Like LeBron is built for horse racing.

    • Chipwooder

      President Biden visibly trying to work with Republicans

      hahaahahaha….not sure how I missed that the first time I read through it. Go on, pull the other one.

  17. Idle Hands

    Popehat is singularly awful person.

    • Not Adahn

      Yup.

      It is to my shame that I didn’t originally notice how hateful he was because he was being hateful towards people I disliked.

      Surely someone here knows the name of the philopsophy is that is “one’s morality is determined by who one hates. The more hateful you are towards bad people and the more evil the object of your hate is, the more righteous you are.” ‘Cause that’s Ken’s.

      • Festus

        No, that’s Karens. We are all a little bit of Karen/Ken.

    • Charlie Suet

      That and he’s typical of a certain breed of lawyer*. He’s spent a large chunk of his adult life being called in like a shaman and “winning” arguments against people by being pedantic and captious. Goes to some people’s heads.

      * No offence to any lawyers here living or dead, who are the exceptions.

  18. Trigger Hippie

    ‘“I hate that they’re so distrustful,” Palmeri lamented.’

    Of course, actually being trustworthy is right out. Just accept the piss on your leg as rain and get back in line.

    • Festus

      Just pretend that it’s coming from your own bladder.

    • Idle Hands

      no. I have yet to see an official definitively say.

      • AlexinCT

        They want people to keep believing he was beat to death.. It is obvious if this particular narrative had legs, the statists would be milking it in order to push totalitarian things they hanker for now that the rabble has gotten uppity, and not keeping quiet about the facts like they are doing.

        We are seriously being played by these scumbags…

    • Winston's Mom

      Wasn’t it a fire extinguisher to the face?

      • Idle Hands

        no official has confirmed that story on the record.

      • Idle Hands

        he stroked out after leaving the capital and going back to the barracks. Now maybe he suffered injuries at the riot there were def capital police assaulted in places but I have yet to see anyone official say exactly what “injuries” he suffered. So I’m chalking it up same as the Maga chuds who all suffered heart attacks.

      • Not Adahn

        And all of the “fire extinguisher injury” stories indicate that it was thrown, not swung.

      • AlexinCT

        I heard fire extinguisher, pipes and heavy sticks (think flag poles), and so on…

        They stopped short of claiming it was the butt of a rifle or automatic military style evil weapon of doom that totes should be banned, cause they couldn’t find anyone with a real weapon in the crowd and would have had to use clearly fake footage to peddle that.

      • Festus

        Donald Trump used the Force to choke him out. We’ve all seen the footage, Hater!

    • DrOtto

      Not strange at all. When cops are killed, they put very few resources into it and rarely catch the killer if they ever even find out how he was killed in the first place./s. I’m going with friendly fire.

      • Festus

        I’m going with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer but hey, why not do a Sweepstakes dealio?

    • Tejicano

      I haven’t really been paying attention… have they charged anybody for his murder?

      • AlexinCT

        Donald Trump, ya fool!

        /statist

      • Cy

        Yes. 1/2 the US population has been found guilty, declared terrorists and had all of their rights stripped.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Officer Pavlik Morozov.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Do we even know how he died

      Covid

      or who caused it?

      Trump

  19. AlexinCT

    I don’t know if you saw it, but AOC put out a video clarifying why she felt so scared and threatened by the unwashed deplorables that broke into the capitol: Here ya go….

      • AlexinCT

        It’s all for show. These people totes get that so many of the morons that follow them are all about emotions and not bright enough to see they are being buttfucking lied to.

      • Count Potato

        “AOC’s office *is not even in the capitol building*

        yep she is in the Cannon House Office Building across the street from the capitol”

      • Idle Hands

        Having been to both it’s like a stone’s throw away. But as far as I know no protesters actually entered the building she was in.

      • Rebel Scum

        So she is the David Hogg of capitol riots.

      • Festus

        Well, she did mourn about an empty parking lot. Make of that what you will.

  20. Idle Hands

    Good news guys, kids in cages just no more kids in cages on tv.

    https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/1356724733023313920

    NEW: The Biden admin is reopening an overflow facility in Texas for unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border. It comes amid an increase in apprehensions + reduced capacity limits at other facilities due to Covid-19.

    Same but different.

    • rhywun

      I’m sure AOC is booking her flight down there as we speak. ?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Is there is another empty parking lot to make her have the sads?

      • Festus

        God Damn you!

      • robc

        Ditto, I was about to make that joke!

  21. Rebel Scum

    The sincere fear in her eyes is as hilarious

    Maybe you should not simply dismiss and ridicule half the voting population.

    “A lot of people said they aren’t really Republicans, that, like, they’re for Trump. That’s it,” Tara Palmeri warned during a Friday appearance on MSNBC. “I think the base is getting stronger, truly. I think an impeachment would make him even more powerful — a conviction, is what I mean.”

    “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I think a lot of people are just pissed off at DC.

      • Idle Hands

        yep. I sincerely hope we get a demagogue who legit is talking about jailing the lockdown pols and buerecrats in 2024. They installed a permanent fence around the capital for a reason. There are going to be some really pissed off people who are soon discover there is no going back to their old jobs ever even if we return to some semblance of normal in the summer and fall of next year.

      • Idle Hands

        *this

      • Festus

        I don’t hold out much hope seeing the compliance around us. A soft “Grey Market” and everyone wearing the brand seems more likely. “What about my Kids?” says every sane person.

      • Idle Hands

        I don’t have much hope at all. Rare are the people who saw this bullshit for what it was at the beginning. Rarer still is someone who will admit they were wrong publicly or even privately. Noone want’s to admit they were hoodwinked and sold a bill of goods and totes bought in out of sheer cowardice. Mix that in with the people who like how things are, made money off of how things are or are legitimately broken from fear and stress and it’s seems like an insurmountable task of going back to normal anytime in the near future.

      • The Other Kevin

        The biggest Trump supporters I know are union guys who always vote Dem. There are important reasons people voted for him, but it’s always waved off as “white supremacy”. As long as those issues aren’t addressed, people will get more and more pissed off.

      • Idle Hands

        More specifically black union guys.

    • DEG

      I guess I should have read the comments first.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Stop talking about Kamaula, you racists

    Vice President Kamala Harris has spent her first two weeks in office working with the president on coronavirus relief, consulting with the head of the World Health Organization and talking with the prime minister of Canada.

    It’s her interview with a local news station in West Virginia, though, that’s getting more attention — and not in a good way.

    ——-

    The flap was an early signal of some of the issues Harris faces as she settles in and seeks to define her position within the White House.

    “Harris has a challenge in figuring out what is her role, what’s her specialty in this White House,” said longtime Democratic strategist Joel Payne.

    Harris also misspoke on some details in her West Virginia interview, referring to “abandoned land mines” instead of “abandoned mine lands” in coal country.

    White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Harris and her West Virginia remarks twice during Monday’s briefing, and offered little insight into how the interview came about, saying only that “our focus is communicating with the American people” about the coronavirus aid bill.

    ——-

    Harris’ chief of staff during her time as California attorney general, Nathan Barankin, predicted her ability to connect with others would make her a compelling surrogate for Biden if she’s able to engage with the public.

    “This is a constant, in every briefing or interaction you have with Kamala Harris about policy decisions. And that is, how does this affect real people?” he said.

    Payne, who is Black, said that while Harris’ history-making position as the first Black and South Asian woman to serve as vice president offers her new opportunities, it may also present complications.

    “There are challenges seen and unseen for the first Black woman in this position to quarrel with. She will constantly have to ask herself the question: Would a previous vice president be critiqued in this way?” he said.

    Can’t we all just get along? Now shut up and vote the way we tell you. That’s what DEMOCRACY means.

    • Rat on a train

      There are also abandoned land mines in Libya. We should help reclaim them.

    • Idle Hands

      Harris might be the dumbest political liability elevated to a prominent spotlight of political relevance since Biden was VP. And it could be argued Biden was VP solely as a bullet proof vest for Obama. Which I guess is what Kamala is. Actually pretty shrewd they picked the one person who can make Biden look like a smooth approachable and relatable guy.

    • Rebel Scum

      her ability to connect with others would make her a compelling surrogate for Biden if she’s able to engage with the public.

      She definitely comes off as likeable with that nasally tone, cackle and generally fake personality.

    • Festus

      Jesus fucking Christ on crackers… If I could have fucked my way to the top I’d be King of the World by age 23. I chose. Badly.

  23. Rebel Scum

    First the San Francisco School Board decided to rename 44 schools because they are named after people with ties to racism or slavery. Now the Arts Department has taken a bold move by changing its name, “VAPA” because they say, “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.”

    Everything western/decent/useful/etc. is white-supremacy. Now let us reverse this scourge of human progress, comrade.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Politico reporter Tara Palmeri explained that after visiting Wyoming, she found the political reality on the ground totally contradicts the assumption in Washington D.C. that Trump’s power has diminished.

    Washington Elite Media Consensus suffers from Head-in-Ass disease?

    No shit, Shirley.

    • Rat on a train

      Like 2017. Brave people venture out of their urban bubbles into the uncivilized wasteland. The say they want to understand the unwashed. They really want to find stories that reinforce their sense of superiority.

      • Nephilium

        /points at the New Yorker who found that Cleveland couldn’t love her story I linked yesterday

    • R C Dean

      Another Rednecks in the Mist adventure.

    • Idle Hands

      How are the republicans so uniquely bad at politics? Tell these people to fuck off and talk about all the lives they ruined with their fucking lockdowns and executive orders they just passed. Last I check this dumb bitch didn’t take rice bowls away overnight from thousands of hard working pipe welders and frackers children.

      • rhywun

        It’s almost like they don’t actually care about those things.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We now have an Imperial Roman Congress where Augustus calls the shots while they maintain their sinecures and flit away their time on meaningless bullshit while their power is willfully given away. It’s been going that way for a while but it’s undeniable now.

      • Rat on a train

        Where’s my circus? A traditional one. Not that artsy Cirque du Soleil.

      • Festus

        Kancho!

      • Idle Hands

        The stakes seemed so much lower and the horse race more fun before they torched my business model and business with their covid bullshit.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    It’s white privilege, all the way down.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Why?

    The body of United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick arrived at the Capitol late Tuesday evening. His body will lay in honor inside the Capitol rotunda. Officer Sicknick was one of five who died on Jan. 6 when a riot broke out at the Capitol.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What, do they have Lenin’s mortician handling the body? That was almost a month ago.

      • AlexinCT

        Panem et Circens…

    • rhywun
  27. The Late P Brooks

    If I recall correctly, the Capitol Martyr’s family released a statement the day after he died attempting to depoliticize his death, and saying they did not want to release the details of cause-of-death. I found that interesting. Not as interesting as the Democrats and their media steno pool parading his corpse around like one of those out-of-control al quaeda funeral processions where they get the guy out of his coffin and dance him around in the street, but close.

    If the feds get around to charging somebody with murdering him, we’ll find out what killed him. Probably. Maybe.

    • AlexinCT

      Not as interesting as the Democrats and their media steno pool parading his corpse around like one of those out-of-control al quaeda funeral processions where they get the guy out of his coffin and dance him around in the street, but close.

      What’s the over & under on this happening when we are forced to play “Weekend at Biden’s”?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He suffered a stroke (or maybe a brain bleed, not sure) later that day while doing paperwork. Was it related, who knows but don’t let an advantageous corpse go to waste.

    • Festus

      I’m surprised they didn’t do that African Gif wherein the dudes dance with the casket. Poor dude, but really, TMITE?

    • Rebel Scum

      attempting to depoliticize his death, and saying they did not want to release the details of cause-of-death.

      This only politicized it.

  28. robc

    Baseball birthdays: #1 is Fred Lynn. ROY and MVP in 1975, although 1979 was his best year. I didn’t realize he actually spent less than half his career (7 years out of 16) in Boston.

    Not in the HoF, doesn’t quite have the numbers IMO (60 WAR), but he wouldn’t be entirely out of place. There are lesser players in the Hall, but there are better ones not in too.

    • robc

      50 WAR, not 60.

    • Chipwooder

      He was gone from Boston by the time I started watching baseball so, when I think of Fred Lynn, I think of the Angels.

    • robc

      Top 10 players by Career WAR not in Hall, with rationale:

      1. Barry Bonds 162.8 Steroids
      2. Roger Clemens 139.2 Steroids
      3. Alex Rodriguez 117.5 Steroids
      4. Albert Pujols 100.7 Active
      5. Adrian Beltre 93.6 Not yet eligible
      6. Pete Rose 79.7 Gambler
      7. Curt Schilling 79.5 71.1% – will get to 75% soon
      8. Jim McCormick 76.2 Retired in 1887
      9. Bill Dahlen 75.3 Retired in 1911
      10. Lou Whitaker 75.1 Criminal incompetence on the part of the voters. He got 2.9% of the vote his first and last year on the ballot.

      • Idle Hands

        Curt Schilling isn’t going to get in till his last year out of spite.

      • robc

        He has 6 more years. I figure his politics wont matter 4 years from now. Unless he runs for President.

      • Gdragon

        I thought they lowered it to 10 years on the ballot (which would give him one more year rather than six)?

      • robc

        Did they? I thought it was still 15. Give me a minute to check…you are correct, they changed it in 2014. Anyone already at 10+ years was grandfathered in, but Schilling wasn’t there yet, so he only has 1 more year.

        I think he gets it.

      • robc

        Hall of Fame trivia question because rules have changed over time: Who was the last player to play in the majors after having received a HOF vote?

      • Ted S.

        Minnie Minoso?

      • robc

        Very good guess.

        Minoso received a vote in 1969 and then played in 1976 and 1980.

        Alas, you are wrong.

        Jose Rijo retired in 1995, received 1 vote in 2001, and then came out of retirement to play in 2001 and 2002, including 31 games in 2002.

        He was back on the ballot in 2008 but received zero votes.

      • Gdragon

        Minnie Minoso? That was a while ago I suppose, am I forgetting someone?

      • Gdragon

        Sorry, I hadn’t refreshed the page. I knew there had to be someone else.

    • Drake

      Fred Lynn was my brother’s favorite player because they are lefties. I wanted to hit like Jim Rice and field like Dwight Evans, neither happened. But that was great outfield for a few years. If Rice hadn’t gotten hurt in ’75 they might have won the Series, and Lynn may not have won both awards.

      • Festus

        I wanted to be Gary Carter but I may have outlived him.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Palmeri then described the political disconnect between Middle America and Washington D.C., where many people believed election was stolen, that COVID was a scam, and that the Capitol riot was spearheaded by Antifa agitators.

    “I hate that they’re so distrustful,” Palmeri lamented. “It feels like another world but that’s what’s on the ground and I don’t think that we can ignore it and I’m really happy that I went out there and saw it because I think that there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country.”

    You know what makes people “distrustful”?

    When they know you don’t respect them, and you refuse to just leave them the fuck alone. And when you lie to them.

  30. Count Potato

    “NYT: Cuomo “all but declared war” on health experts in COVID-19 crisis

    Some experts, anyway — in large part determined, the New York Times suggests, by how politically useful they were to Andrew Cuomo. After a series of high-profile departures in state health agencies and an angry retort by Cuomo at a press conference on Friday, the NYT reports that Cuomo has “all but declared war” on the agencies fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a series of autocratic decisions to override the plans set up for months in vaccinations, resulting in a terrible start to the rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Cuomo suddenly has stopped being a media celebrity and more of a target:”

    https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/02/01/nyt-cuomo-declared-war-health-experts-covid-19-crisis/

    • Festus

      He doesn’t even deserve a lonely death in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m sorry but unless these “critics” have an Emmy, they’re really not in a position to be spreading fake news against Caesar.

      • Rat on a train

        At least get one of the EGOT before you criticize.

    • Swiss Servator

      The only reason I can think of for the NYT turning on Governor Emmy is that they want him out and the NY AG in his chair.

      • juris imprudent

        You do have to think about the future.

      • Festus

        First BIPOC Governor of NY does have a certain ring to it.

      • Rat on a train

        Only one person can be the wokest.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    What, do they have Lenin’s mortician handling the body? That was almost a month ago.

    Quality taxidermy doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time.

    • Not Adahn

      That is SF-worthy.

      • Festus

        I think they might be one and the same but SF tones it down some for the twitteratti.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Failing news networks will be bailed out by fedgov in the name of fairness and impartiality, just you watch.

      • Festus

        All of the alternative sites have been nudged aside. Why not?

  32. juris imprudent

    Well I know I’m not supposed to hit a woman, but I may have to make an exception.

    The other day, Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor at the Washington Post, one of the largest and most prestigious newspapers in the world, reasoned that “if America were another country, we would be talking about how post-Civil War America is still in desperate need of a U.N.-sponsored Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) program for white supremacists and segregationists.”

    That’s someone just begging to be punched in the face.

    • Idle Hands

      lmao These people always think they’ll behind the butt of the gun as opposed to the barrel.

      • UnCivilServant

        Only if it’s being smashed into their face at the time.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s actually true though: We hold other nations to contrived standards we’re unwilling to or incapable of holding ourselves to. The lesson here is not to let in the UN, it’s to keep our noses out of (most) everywhere else.

    • mrfamous

      Her name sounds familiar, but I don’t remember the last idiotic thing she said.

    • Drake

      I know I’m not supposed to hit a woman

      Sexist!

      • Not Adahn

        When I took judo in college, everyone competed with everyone. It was always irritating to wrestle women, because you didn’t want to treat them badly, but they just wouldn’t give up, so you’d have to apply more and more pressure to force a submission out of them.

        I’m certain there’s some sort of socialization/war of the sexes lesson to be learned here.

      • Festus

        Same but it was tennis. She’d always get pissed at an ace but never understood that that was how you get better.

    • Homple

      Oh, we’re on the way to living in the DDR if the current trend isn’t reversed.

    • Rebel Scum

      segregationists

      Well, someone does need to do something about college campus leftists.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor at the Washington Post, one of the largest and most prestigious newspapers in the world

    That’s like pissing on H L Mencken’s grave.

  34. Idle Hands

    “People don’t want to hear anything against Trump. Actually, the more he stays out of the media, the more that he becomes this martyr, this looming figure over the GOP.”

    Palmeri then described the political disconnect between Middle America and Washington D.C., where many people believed election was stolen, that COVID was a scam, and that the Capitol riot was spearheaded by Antifa agitators.

    “I hate that they’re so distrustful,” Palmeri lamented. “It feels like another world but that’s what’s on the ground and I don’t think that we can ignore it and I’m really happy that I went out there and saw it because I think that there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country.”

    They are all far more closer to the truth, more intelligent and better informed than Palmeri is.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I hate that they’re so distrustful

      Now why the fuck would that be? I wonder.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    East River.

    In his new cement galoshes.

    • pistoffnick

      “…galoshes…”

      THERE’S a word I haven’t heard in a long time. Are you my Grandma? Grandpa just called them “rubbers”.

  36. Chipwooder

    I must say, the blather from the swamp creatures about “We have to do what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan to root out these wreckers and saboteurs!” is amusing. Apparently, they find our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan to be successful?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I don’t think they’d fight with one arm tied behind their back here or wouldn’t intend to anyway. On the other hand a large proportion of the non politicized military,meaning colonel and various equivalents below, would balk to the point of desertion or rebellion. Regardless, it’d be a giant and better armed Balkans like mess.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Wishful. Frame it the right way, give it the aura of legitimacy, and the bulk will go along with it. Other than a couple of pissful shitty living conditions and ingratitude stories, how many units refused to deploy to the DC sham?

      • juris imprudent

        Nope, the ranks will split down the middle. A few are true believers and there is no small number of doggedly go-alongs, not to mention the healthy number of flat-out opportunists – they will all line up for the power side. The balance will be appalled and rebel. The former will have most of the brass, particluarly above O-5, the latter will have the muscle.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Again, wishful thinking. Smear on legitimacy and the bulk will go along with it. Just like they have with prior military usage against fellow Americans, and like cops or any bureaucratized organization does. This idea that the E4 Mafia will save America is as delusional as the core of Qanon.

      • juris imprudent

        Who said anyone was going to save America? There will be a fight contested by both sides. There is no one side with overwhelming force. That is indeed a foolish fantasy – which of course would explain it’s popularity in various circles.

      • Drake

        I can’t see E-4’s from Texas and Tennessee patrolling neighborhoods in… Texas or Tennessee and shooting gun owners. Just not going to happen.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Of course not. They will be happy to provide security against armed insurrection and protect their community, when it’s framed that way with lawful orders from their lawful chain of command.

        The Bonus Army, Kent State, and Esequiel Hernandez laugh at the idea of Americans won’t fire on “their own”. Ashlee Babbit, for that matter too.

        Being Hugh Thompson is harder than it looks.

    • Festus

      Raytheon and General Dynamics seem to like it just fine.

  37. Idle Hands

    The Marjorie Taylor Greene censor, criticism and chin scratching by the usual crowd of rock throwers and controlled opposition has me steaming. Good to know we’ve solved every problem.

    • mrfamous

      She’s clearly batshit, but that’s incidental. We’ve got plenty of batshit in Congress. This little sideshow is a reminder of just what would happen if someone from ‘our’ side wound up in Congress: they’d howl and scream until Dave Smith, or Vermin Supreme or whomever was thrown out and replaced with a ‘respectable’ person.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Violation of nebulous terms of service or hate speech?

      • juris imprudent

        FB apparently employs no human you can ever interact with for ‘customer’ service. I guess that makes sense when you are the product and not the customer.

  38. westernsloper

    Piss off the Progs and the media will actually report on you.

    Sounds like an excessive reimbursement. Now do Hickenlooper.

    She paid out more than $22,000 to herself from campaign account; sum far surpasses predecessor’s reimbursements/blockquote>

    Poor comparison. Her predecessor, Scott Tipton, never left his house. Not sure he ever left DC.

    • westernsloper

      oops.

    • KromulentKristen

      The other day my dad suggested that I get a “nice condo in Denver”. I laughed & told him to get bent. But in a nice daughterly way.

      • Nephilium

        Thought of you when this article popped up in my newsfeed.

      • KromulentKristen

        Niiiiice

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Purge the bourgeois compromisers

    Progressives are targeting moderate Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) as liberals express frustration with the pair over their reluctance to scrapping the filibuster and opposition to other demands from the left.

    Saikat Chakrabarti, Corbin Trent and Zack Exley, all of whom played a role in launching now-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) campaign in 2018, founded No Excuses PAC to try to find primary challengers for Manchin and Sinema.

    “In 2018, we helped elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress and launched the Green New Deal. Now we are launching a new campaign to replace conservative Democrats in the Senate who stand in the way of progress. It’s called No Excuses, and we need your help immediately to run ads telling Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema that they will be primaried and replaced in 2024 if they join with Republicans to shrink their own party’s pandemic, climate, and economic plans,” they wrote in an email to supporters.

    Make peace with the counterrevolutionaries? The Long Knives will come for you.

    • Chipwooder

      Because a far left prog totally has a good chance of beating a Republican in West Virginia. Some damned fine strategery there! I wish them lots of luck….seriously. Go ahead and knock off Joe Manchin for us.

      • juris imprudent

        Just when you think the Republicans have cornered the market on stupidity – the left shows they won’t give up so easily.

    • R C Dean

      Sinema is a conservative Dem? If she’s conservative, then the Dems really are mostly (far) left.

      • Chipwooder

        Compared to the AOC crew, she is, I guess.

      • Festus

        She’s sorta hot and wears the hooker boots. “Festus is willing!’

  40. Rebel Scum

    Let’s have a conversation on the second amendment… you racist, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, inbred bigot.

    Guns have become a hot button issue. Guns divide us. It’s become difficult to have calm conversations about guns. It may be even harder to have productive conversations about our Second Amendment.

    The Second Amendment may not be as noble as we like to think. Are we ready to recognize it was included, at least in part, to satisfy southern states, where plantation owners wanted protection from slave revolts? This doesn’t sound as noble as protecting oneself from tyranny. Do we care that this sacred amendment is stained by the blood of slaves?

    Today’s gun conversations are colored by fear — fear of infringement of our Second Amendment rights, fear of others with guns, fear of people with different values and ethnicities.

    More and more, we assume we need guns. As Iowa lawmakers got back to work, a three-member House panel proposed a gun rights amendment be added to the Iowa Constitution. This amendment states, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be a fundamental individual right. Any and all restrictions of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.”

    The amendment could end up dismantling Iowa’s existing background checks, concealed carry regulations and permits to purchase. Is this what is best for Iowa?

    Do we really think all gun laws are useless infringements? Do we want those convicted of domestic abuse to have guns? Do we want our teenagers who are depressed to have guns? How do we justify anyone needing a semi-automatic assault weapon or an assault rifle?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “semi-automatic assault weapon or an assault rifle”

      That’s funny, it shows that this person actually grasps the distinction but is willing to use the loaded label for transparent political propaganda.

      • juris imprudent

        I would challenge her to define either one without using the color black as part of the definition.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Today’s gun conversations are colored by fear — fear of infringement of our Second Amendment rights, fear of others with guns, fear of people with different values and ethnicities.

      Well, the last two is your own progjection and the first one is what you’re actually trying to do, so….

      • Rat on a train

        Why do people believe us when we tell them we hate them and want to take things away from them?

      • juris imprudent

        We’re only doing it for your own good!

    • Rat on a train

      The 2A fight is old. The 1A is not the biggest threat to utopia.

      • Rat on a train

        s/not/now/

    • Chipwooder

      Do we really think all gun laws are useless infringements?

      Absolutely. Next?

      • Not Adahn

        What does utility have to do with infringement?

    • kinnath

      It’s Iowa City. Core of the People’s Republic of Johnson County. Who gives a fuck what this nitwit has to say?

    • kbolino

      Today’s gun conversations are colored by fear

      That’s really fucking rich coming from the people who stand atop the corpses after every “mass shooting”.

    • Cannoli

      OFFS, the 2nd Amendment was not a concession to the slave states by the free states. They all wanted to protect the right to keep and bear arms, particularly since disarming the colonists was one of the major abuses committed by the British.

      Gun control was part of Jim Crow.

      • UnCivilServant

        The trigger for the battles of Lexington and Concord was an attempt to confiscate the colonial armories.

        It’s almost as if they ignore history.

      • kinnath

        They actually don’t know history.

        They only know whatever horseshit is being shared by their friends through social media.

      • juris imprudent

        Gun control was part of Jim Crow.

        Which is now a Republican legacy donchaknow? Democrats had NOTHING to do with it.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The stakes seemed so much lower and the horse race more fun before they torched my business model and business with their covid bullshit.

    Ouch.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Today’s gun conversations are colored by fear — fear of infringement of our Second Amendment rights, fear of others with guns, fear of people with different values and ethnicities.

    I cannot help it if you’re so weakminded as to fear me for no reason. I and my guns are no threat to anyone who is not a threat to me.

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s that last part – they are a threat to you, and at some level they know it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        ^Yep

    • Rat on a train

      Your guns are like pitbulls. They may seem friendly now, but can turn on you, your family or strangers at any moment.

  43. Festus

    Is BEAM about? I need to thank him profusely for that nosebleed advice yesterday. Otrivin stopped two of them right in their tracks. How have I lived with this for so long when such a simple solution was right there? Of course now I’ll become addicted and grow another nose on the top of my pate but well worth it!

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Your guns are like pitbulls. They may seem friendly now, but can turn on you, your family or strangers at any moment.

    Now that I think about it, they don’t like it when you stop rubbing their bellies.

    • Festus

      Housecats would have been a better example but what do I know? I’m not a one of them highly credentialed jermolists.

    • limey

      And isn’t it funny how you never hear about all those pitbulls who never so much as bite anyone?

  45. Festus

    SFUSD meeting – Wannafud?

  46. UnCivilServant

    Hrmm… One of our servers has been up since January 4th 2017. It gave us no trouble until recently.

    Clearly Trump is good for server stability.

    /snark.

    • UnCivilServant

      Yes, I know it’s absurd. I’ve been trying to get the application team to get off the box since well before then, as these old boxes are just security bombs waiting to go off.

      • Nephilium

        One group I’m supporting is on several applications that are so far past end of life, the companies that released them won’t even accept payment to continue support.

      • UnCivilServant

        Do they at least admit they used to sell it? We have some where the well-known vendor has denied they even exist.

      • Nephilium

        Yes, and they still sell it. Just new versions that are supported.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      January 4th 2017

      Obviously Trump is taking credit for Obama’s server stability. Trump’s server instability policies are only now starting to have an effect.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    In a sane world, the Democrats accusing Former President Cartoon Villain of election interference would at least pause before attempting to cancel a duly elected Representative.

    Haha. We now return to our regularly scheduled insanity.

  48. DEG

    The women in the painting is well drawn.

    The ad claims the members’ two votes against former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment amounts to support for QAnon.

    They’re going to hurt themselves with that stretch. Pop a muscle or something like that.

    So it’s no surprise that the District of Columbia, with one of the highest median household incomes in the country, already has a minimum wage of $15/hour. (Some states have passed a $15 minimum wage but D.C.’s is the only one currently in effect.)

    So DC mandates a $15/hr minimum wage? What would wages be without such a law?

    “A lot of people said they aren’t really Republicans, that, like, they’re for Trump. That’s it,” Tara Palmeri warned during a Friday appearance on MSNBC. “I think the base is getting stronger, truly. I think an impeachment would make him even more powerful — a conviction, is what I mean.”

    If you strike me down….

    Of course, none of this would have happened if the Hawks had opted to not sell courtside seats during a pandemic.

    “During a pandemic”. Go fuck yourselves.

    That’s good advice from Popehat on the “fire in a crowded theater” bullshit.

    First the San Francisco School Board decided to rename 44 schools because they are named after people with ties to racism or slavery. Now the Arts Department has taken a bold move by changing its name, “VAPA” because they say, “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.”

    Go fuck yourselves.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Please Playboy, I’m not paying you to talk. Just show me your tits.

      • Festus

        Tits are back at Playboy? j/k

    • kbolino

      Betteridge’s Law definitely applies here

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Another life cut tragically short by the snifflecooties

    “Captain Tom,” the 100-year-old World War II veteran who raised millions for the U.K.’s National Health Service last year, died on Tuesday, just days after he tested positive for Covid-19, his family confirmed.

    In a statement, his daughters Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said they were able to spend the last hours of his life with him, reminiscing about their childhood.

    “We shared laughter and tears together,” Ingram-Moore said, adding that 2020 was “nothing short of remarkable” for her father.

    Lock down the pubs! Close the schools! Barricade the malls!

    *I’m surprised they allowed the family access. Foochy must be fuming.

    • limey

      Were having a national year of silence in his memory.

  50. Not Adahn

    One of the many things I love about this job is the junk e-mail advertisements for Mad Scientist gear.

    Dear Cell Master,

    A CO2 incubator is a haven for your cells, providing optimal atmospheric conditions. Inconsistent cell growth can result from changes in growth conditions, leading to unreproducible results. Ensure temperature homogeneity and fast recovery times with CellXpert® CO2 incubators.

    • UnCivilServant

      Are you making mutant plants? I thought you were in the microchip biz.

      • limey

        Silicon-based life?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        That’s Q’s bailiwick.

      • juris imprudent

        *springs to a standing ovation*

      • Not Adahn

        Advertisers aren’t terribly bright.

        And a lot of analytical equipment (GC, IC, HPLC) are used across many fields. In fact this is probably a Bayes failure — the semiconductor inductry is much smaller than biotech, so the odds that a particular piece of (non-elemental analysis/solid state) gear is sold to a bio end user is pretty high.

        But we do actually do some ridiculously minor biological work — screening the water plant for bacterial growth, that sort of thing.

      • UnCivilServant

        I get it – you just don’t want to talk about your work in cytocybernetics!

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Are you making mutant plants? I thought you were in the microchip biz.

    Supercomputing monkey brains are all the rage. Get with the times.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted about Moore’s passing, saying: “In the face of this country’s deepest post war crisis, he united us all, he cheered us all up, and he embodied the triumph of the human spirit.”

    Good gravy.

  53. Nephilium

    As I’m stuck on a support call (for an issue that’s been ongoing for months, with passing the issue back between two vendors), I thought I would share something that may be of interest to some of those here. Local brewery has a beer called Love You, Bye! and they have decided they’re celebrating Love You, Bye! Day on February 14th. They’ve put together a four course menu (recipes provided in the link).

    Full disclosure, I know the head brewer and am a shareholder in the brewery.

    /polishes monocle, puts it back in

    The head brewer even named a beer after the girlfriend at the previous brewery he worked at.

  54. DEG

    NH Democrats call for Rep. Baldasaro to be disciplined for not wearing a mask

    Democrats are calling for the speaker of the New Hampshire House to discipline a state representative who traveled out of state and then chaired a committee hearing in-person last week without a mask.

    Last week, state Rep. Al Baldasaro, R-Londonderry, chaired the House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee meeting in-person without a mask immediately after returning from a trip to Florida.

    As a state representative, Baldasaro is considered an essential worker and did not need to quarantine. But rules did require him to be wearing some kind of personal protective equipment, and the House speaker’s office eventually intervened to get him to wear a face shield.

  55. Dr. Fronkensteen

    From the min wage article.

    Pushing a single uniform standard on a diverse group may be what governments do best but its cruel consequences are so predictable, so well documented, it’s overly-generous to call them “unintended.”

    Hmmm, I wonder if that could be turned into some kind of proverb or something.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      If lawmakers are truly stupid, which they are, it can still be called unintended.

      • kbolino

        They may not have the necessary background to understand the full impact of the laws they are passing, but that doesn’t excuse them from ignoring those who do.

  56. leon

    Remeber that Heroine scientist who stood up to De Santis.

    Here is a good article about the Truth of the situation:

    https://humanevents.com/2021/02/02/the-florida-covid-19-whistleblower-saga-is-a-big-lie/

    NPR describes Jones as a “top scientist” leading Florida’s pandemic response. In fact, Jones has held three jobs in her field; all three have ended in her being terminated and criminally charged. She has a Master’s in geography from Louisiana State University, where she worked until she was fired. She was arrested in 2016 while, reportedly, trespassing on campus and attempting to steal computer equipment from her former workplace. She then lectured at Florida State University (FSU) and began researching tropical storms for a dissertation, but never earned a Ph.D. as she was suspended and fired in 2018 after her former student accused her of sexual cyberharassment. Before her termination from the DoH, she was a geographic information systems manager, overseeing the COVID-19 web portal.

    • Chipwooder

      How the hell did she keep getting hired??

      • Swiss Servator

        No can ask about criminal history.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Because a lot of previous employers will only confirm that the person worked there but not discuss job performance or reasons for leaving. They don’t want to get sued.

      • AlexinCT

        She is a friend of the credentialed elite class… for now

      • juris imprudent

        Some people become very good at interviewing when they get a lot of practice doing so. That and she ticked some useful boxes.

      • Not Adahn

        Probably the same way we hired a guy that killed four people.

    • Festus

      Ten beers in wood?

      • Festus

        That’s hardy Canadian beer, not that swill that you gays call beer!

  57. Dr. Fronkensteen

    From the Politico article.

    Actually, the more he stays out of the media, the more that he becomes this martyr,

    You know how you can prevent him from becoming a martyr. Ignore him and don’t make him into one.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Too late…

  58. Not Adahn

    My Blue/Gamer gun shop has had one of these in the case for years:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ_PiJHe0Q4

    Can’t justify spending gun money on anything but bang pills for the foreseeable future, but the way that the guy’s face lights up when he shoots it makes me really want one.

  59. Gustave Lytton

    Saw the late comment about the pillow guy at the end of the late night post. Good lord, Major Marco singing Raymond Shaw’s praises is more believable and less stilted than the Newsmax anchor.

    • Count Potato

      BREAKING: Gustave Lytton Sued By Dominion

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dominion is the kindest, gentlest, most caring electronic voting software company I have ever known.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Also, the election is totally above board.

        #Resist

      • Nephilium

        And in the end Gustave realized that he loved Dominion.

  60. leon

    https://twitter.com/EWoodhouse7/status/1356422467296845824

    Taking a quick pause from my break (in Florida) to agree wholeheartedly that @GovRonDeSantis
    ’s way IS THE WAY. His state is open, people are working, businesses are full, & kids are in school.

    If you can move to The Sunshine State, DO IT.

    I’d like to broadcast this to All Californians. So that they go to Florida, rather than stop in my state during there Diaspora.

    • Spartacus

      NO, GODDAMMIT!!!
      This place is an infestation-ridden hellhole. The living envy the dead.
      DON’T COME DOWN HERE!!!

  61. The Late P Brooks

    Turning up the heat on the pressure cooker

    The House of Representatives has officially created a new rule that will fine any member for failing to complete security screening prior to entering the House floor.
    With the passing of this rule Tuesday evening, members who fail to comply with security screenings will be fined $5,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for a second offense. These fines would be deducted directly from members’ salaries by the chief administrative officer.
    When metal detectors were installed outside of the House floor January 12 for all members and staffers to walk through, many lawmakers aired their frustrations. Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who filmed a campaign advertisement vowing to carry her handgun around Capitol Hill prior to arriving in Washington, was also involved in a standoff with Capitol Police while trying to get on the floor when the metal detectors were newly installed. Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland tried to take a concealed firearm on the House floor.
    On Tuesday evening, lawmakers appeared compliant with the new security measures and went through the metal detectors before entering the House floor. The vote was 216-210 in favor of the new rule.

    Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat who’s chairman of the Rules Committee, said on the House floor Tuesday why it was important for members to abide by the metal detectors.
    “These metal detectors are manned by the same police officers who saved our lives during the insurrection while risking their own,” McGovern said. “Some members on the other side have disrespected these Capitol Police officers, verbally abused them, pushed them aside and disregarded their orders — all to avoid this basic safety measure. That is no way to treat our heroes.”

    A giant “fuck you” to the people who are ostensibly your colleagues and equal partners in the operation of the government.

    I can’t wait to see how this plays out. How long ’til a brawl breaks out?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Undetectable wooden canes! Ghost canes!

    • one true athena

      Gun Free zone always work right?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Forget the metal detectors. They should install mental detectors.

      • juris imprudent

        And permanently deny the House a quorum?

    • Not Adahn

      Step 1: Put an airsoft replica in your open cary holster. Put jacket over both.
      Step 2: Enter House chamber through the metal detector, remove jacket.
      Step 3: Profit!

  62. The Late P Brooks

    The other day my dad suggested that I get a “nice condo in Denver”. I laughed & told him to get bent. But in a nice daughterly way.

    Last week, just for laughs, I looked at some stuff on Zillow in places like Craig, Colorado, and Grand junction; western slope. But then I remembered what a commie shithole Colorado has become. The morons who used to only be able to shit in their own nests (looking at you, Boulder) have now extended their evil grasp to the entire state.

    And Craig was where I woke up to a -42 degree temperature. Never mind.

  63. Jarflax

    Did Monocle and Eyepiece go away? The link gives me a no posts found response.

    • Nephilium

      I believe those posts got moved into the archives.

    • pistoffnick

      Interesting read, Cy. I knew about the Japanese-American internment camps and the war resister internment camps. I had no idea we had that many Germans in camps on American soil.

  64. The Late P Brooks

    The fine also attempts to address the growing concerns from members who feel unsafe at the Capitol in the wake of the violent insurrection and those who since the attack have wanted to beef up their security due to a fear of other members.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters last week that while she is committed to addressing the concerns of her colleagues over security, that effort is hampered because “the enemy is within the House of Representatives,” referencing the rhetoric and behavior of some Republican members of Congress.

    Pelosi released a statement Tuesday night following passage of the rule.

    “It is beyond comprehension why any Member would refuse to adhere to these simple, commonsense steps to keep this body safe,” Pelosi stated. “It is sad that we have been forced to move forward with a rule change imposing fines on those who refuse to abide by these protections, but the People’s House must and will be safe, so that we can honor our responsibility to do the People’s work.”

    It’s a MADHOUSE!

    What a bunch of pathetic retards.

    • Gustave Lytton

      So the capitol is now the People’s Temple? Is Flavoraid on the cafeteria menu, yet?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Even lawyers get to skip screening at county courthouses.

  65. KromulentKristen

    Me, every fucking day: “You need to tag your country name in the English version of the web page before creating the translations, otherwise they won’t show up in your news feed”

    Customer: “Why aren’t my translations showing up in the Albanian news feed?”

    ?

    • KromulentKristen

      I’m not going to reply to her right away so I can calm the snark level down a bit.

    • KromulentKristen

      So now I’m going to have to re-create all this content in 3 languages.

  66. Rebel Scum

    IGN
    @IGN

    J.K. Rowling’s transphobic rhetoric is forcing Harry Potter fans to wrestle with the series they love and its creator’s prejudice. https://bit.ly/2La4RAr

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is not happening.

    • Nephilium

      I actually believe it may be happening. Some of the younger generation truly believes that if something is said that offends someone, it’s appropriate to purge it, and potentially anything else said/written by that person.

    • Urthona

      Is she really even “transphobic” or did she just suggest like a reasonable person children shouldn’t get sex changes or play sports as the other sex?

      • kinnath

        She basically said that people are defined by the genitals they are born with (or she expressed support for someone that said that).

        Thus, she must be burned at the stake.

      • Jarflax

        Tomato Tomahto. When you are accused of a made up thing does it really matter what definition of the made up thing they use?

      • Not Adahn

        For a certain definition of “transphobic,” yes.

        She said that she was a woman and was a bit peeved that a dude who put on a dress last week would tell her that she was womyning wrong.

      • juris imprudent

        She needed to roll her eyes about being transplained.

    • kbolino

      Anyone remember when IGN wasn’t trash?

      Rowling’s “rhetoric” amounts to “don’t give your questioning kids puberty blockers or irreversible surgery because they might regret it and your job as a parent is to protect your kids”

      This gets labeled transphobic by trans activists (many of whom are cisgenered “allies”)

      Others repeat the accusation but don’t offer the evidence behind it or the context of Rowling’s remarks

      Before too long, it becomes accepted wisdom that Rowling is a transphobe and now the only question is why aren’t you canceling her too

      Try to question it or walk back to the rationale and you too must be a transphobic bigot

      Meanwhile a bunch of actual trans people and their opinions get ignored because they’re not on the plantation

    • PieInTheSky

      this depends on weather you agree or not with K. Nimietz that twitter is the real world.

      • UnCivilServant

        Twitter is completely disconnected from the real world.

      • PieInTheSky

        Mr. Niemietz disagrees and I sort of see his point

      • UnCivilServant

        At platform where almost no one is, and which censors reality?

        Who is this nobody I’ve never heard of?

  67. The Late P Brooks

    We’re saved!

    The National Park Service mask requirement for all employees and visitors was announced by the Department of Interior in a news release Tuesday afternoon.
    “Getting outside and enjoying our public lands is essential to improving mental and physical health, but we all need to work together to recreate responsibly,” said NPS Office of Public Health Director Captain Sara Newman, in the release.

    Circling the drain…

  68. The Late P Brooks

    In 2023, after the Republicans take back control of the House and Senate (stop laughing), the Leadership should make a rule requiring all legislators and select staff to be armed at all times while on Capitol grounds.

    For their own safety and the defense of the sacred temple of DEMOCRACY.

    • kinnath

      $10k fine every time you are caught without a sidearm.

      • Gustave Lytton

        As long as there’s no fine exception to those Congress critters disarmed by the Lautenberg Amendment or similar.

  69. UnCivilServant

    Hrmm…

    Total Warhammer 3 has been announced. I’ve been waiting for it for years, but CA has been not that great for several non-Warhammer titles of late. I’m also not seeing any mention of the chaos dwarfs. Where are my mesopotamian slavers?

    And they’re included Cathay along with extra china-pandering that turns me off.

    • KromulentKristen

      PTSD: triggered

      • KromulentKristen

        My most recent ex was a board & strategy gamer. He played Warhammer a lot. In competition.

        And he was a total whoreslutbitch.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t judge us all by the actions of that guy.

        But I’m sorry that the mention reminds you of bad time.

      • KromulentKristen

        LOL – it ain’t that serious. It was a couple years ago, so I’m quite well over it and have definitely moved on.

        Also, he did introduce me to Settlers of Cataan, which IFL.

      • Jarflax

        You use of the word Settlers reminds me of the suffering of the Indiangenous peoples and their suffering! Triggered

      • Nephilium

        Stick with the people who play WarMachine/Hordes, they’re much better people.

        /haven’t played in years

      • KromulentKristen

        Whoreslutbitch played all of those

      • UnCivilServant

        Are those games even still on the market? I haven’t seen a trace of them in years

  70. KSuellington

    Speaking of LeBron, isn’t it interesting that no one ever got caught for the alleged racist graffiti that was supposedly tagged on his property? Not a single video or photo released of the alleged perp or the actual graffiti? Even though you would think there would be multiple cameras on the front gate of his property, from both his estate and the ones next to him.

  71. DEG

    If Chafed is out there, on last night’s Fourscore store Chafed expressed interest in one of the women in Q’s Chive post. I found her.

  72. The Late P Brooks

    Whoopsie

    Scientists estimate that somewhere between 70% and 85% of people need to be immune from the coronavirus before the disease will wane through a process known as herd immunity. Both natural immunity and vaccines can play a role in achieving that goal. But getting there won’t be easy.

    “The idea of herd immunity is that after enough people have been infected or vaccinated the virus will start to subside on its own because there’s just not enough susceptible people left to infect,” says Lauren Ancel Meyers, a University of Texas professor who directs its COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.

    How did this get past the NPR/CDC fact checkers censors?

    • Jarflax

      Because Biden was annointed President and it is now time to walk back the economic warfare so in 22 the evil ones can claim to have saved us from Trump.

    • KromulentKristen

      Was it 1 or 2 days after inauguration that the WHO reversed its conclusions about hydroxychloroquine?

      • Tundra

        It was the same fucking day.

    • kbolino

      “70 to 85%”

      Where have I heard this before?

  73. But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

    Hey Festus!

    Saw your message re: Otrivin further up. Glad I could help! I’ve been using the stuff for almost fifty years, and only when I need it. Sometimes you get slight rebound congestion for overusing it and then stopping for awhile, but I’ve never found it to be a big deal.

    After the Otrivin kicks in, I sometimes wait about 15 minutes and then flush my nose out with NeilMed Sinus Rinse (little packets — you can get a box of ’em at Costco for cheap) mixed with bottled water or distilled water. Helps to get rid of the blood-clot-plug thingie that occasionally develops and feels like someone shoved a rock up your nose and then lined your nasal passage with cement.

    • Festus

      Thamks again, Friend! Stopped two gushers dead. I’ll try to be careful.

  74. The Late P Brooks

    But then-

    Another big question is what to make of the people who have already been infected. Jeffrey Shaman, at Columbia University, estimates that figure at 105 million. That’s about 32% of the U.S. population. If those previously exposed people are still immune, that’s a big step toward reaching herd immunity.

    Dr. Kari Nadeau at Stanford University says she thinks those people, at least for a time, will be immune and “can be added to the herd immunity number.”

    But Dr. Stanley Perlman, a microbiologist and immunologist who studies coronaviruses at the University of Iowa, isn’t ready to make a blanket statement.

    “People who have severe disease are probably better protected from being reinfected,” he says. So those people, along with those who have been vaccinated, probably are still immune, one year into the pandemic.

    “But what we don’t know is someone who had asymptomatic infection or very very mild infection, how long would their immunity last,” he says.

    That’s an important point because a large fraction of the 105 million people thought to have been infected apparently had very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Most don’t know they picked up the virus, so they never asked to get tested. About 25 million cases have been identified through testing.

    Jumping Jeeziss on an anodized chinesium pogo stick.

    Maybe. Just maybe! Those people who had mild or nonexistent symptoms had a sufficiently robust immune system that they were able to fend off the cooties unaided.

    Nah, that can’t be right. There’s no starring role for the Foochys and Osterholms of the world in that scenario.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      [A] large fraction of the 105 million people thought to have been infected apparently had very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Most don’t know they picked up the virus, so they never asked to get tested. About 25 million cases have been identified through testing.

      A virus where “a large fraction” of those who’ve had it (I.e., most people who’ve caught it) need a test to even know they have it?

      Some fucking disease this is.

      One can only hope that the gamble the left has made over blowing this thing up to beyond epic proportions, destroying our economy and doing everything possible to undermine our entire system of government all in a bid to get rid of the Bad Orange Man blows the fuck up, right in their face.

  75. PieInTheSky

    I fixed my youtube comments. cleared cookies.

    • UnCivilServant

      I thought you’d gotten to a glorious state free from the youtube comments section.

      Why would you go back to that shithole?

    • Festus

      How many times do you need to read “u r a faag?”

  76. Festus

    Alright. I’m out. Judi is toying with veganism. Pray for Festus.