Monday Morning Links

by | Mar 8, 2021 | Daily Links | 460 comments

It’s back.

Apparently the NBA All-Star Game And Kamalafest was last night…couldn’t give a shit. The wheels have come off on Merseyside. ManUre tightened the top of the table. And baseball spring training is clipping right along, sometimes with fans even. And that’s sports.

Oscar-worthy

Birthdays of note are pirate lady Anne Bonny, boob job pioneer Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, SC justice and jackass Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, magazine founder Elmer Keith, actor Alan Hale Jr, infielder Dick Allen, HOFer Jim Rice, acting great James Van Der Beek, wide receiver Hines Ward, and tattoo aficionado Kat Von D.

That’s it.Now on to…the links!

Gonna get messy

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! That is going to be an absolute mess. Especially once the names and addresses of jurors get leaked…which I am certain will happen.

Well, this is a bummer, albeit an expected one. But hey, college men accused of wrongdoing at least enjoyed due process for a couple years, right?

Hey dickhead, read Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution. Of course they don’t give a shit. Especially when, according to Biden, minorities are not smart enough to get on the internet. And team blue must have their votes.

It’s a hard-knock life for us! These two are the best scammers in the world. I gotta respect the con. Although I don’t respect any man who is that emasculated, so I guess that means I respect her.  I may need to rethink this.

Coming soon in a Biden world

Looks like Biden is hoping to bring segregation back in style. Pretty soon, they’ll set up separate seating areas on buses by race. And maybe separate eating areas in cafeterias. Then we’ll start seeing some progress in this country. ::SMDH::

Ooh, I know where this isn’t as prevalent: in places where kids are actually back in school because the teachers unions aren’t holding them hostage.

This is what happens when your school sucks at sports. At real schools, these things only happen after championships or victories over rivals. Which is why Ann Arbor is so safe on weekend nights.

I can assure you this list isn’t even close to accurate. But if it makes people feel good, so be it.

Let’s start the day off rocking. Hope you enjoy it.

Now get out there and have a great one, friends!

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460 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Especially once the names and addresses of jurors get leaked…which I am certain will happen.”

    I thought it already happened?

    • sloopyinca

      Some self-identified BLM group has said they’ll release them as soon as they’re selected, but that process is just getting under way.

  2. Count Potato

    I have no idea what all this Megan Markle stuff is about, but it’s everywhere.

    • Festus

      Brought over from the dead thread – After the Ohpra interview #Abolishthe monarchy is trending on Twitter in Canada. Yes, people are this stupid.

      • sloopyinca

        Well, I agree with their end goal though not their reasoning.

      • Festus

        Well yeah but I really don’t like the method. End it on Republican grounds, not “woke” bullshit. Q.E. is a pretty cool Lady.

      • Rebel Scum

        And she will never die. Which is probably why Harry and Markle are all butthurt.

      • Rat on a train

        Meghan is pissed she will not be queen. Harry is sixth in line and will fall further with each birth in William’s line.

      • Mojeaux

        How on heaven’s green earth could she have thought she’d EVER be queen?

      • UnCivilServant

        She hasn’t struck me as someone well versed in royal details.

      • CPRM

        We can only hope she is regicidal, it would stop that shit and make for a good Lifetime movie.

      • R C Dean

        Maybe thought she could woke them into it, by saying if they didn’t make her (barely) POC ass queen it would mean they are all white supremacists?

      • Mojeaux

        She hasn’t struck me as someone well versed in royal details.

        Now that you say that, I can see it.

      • KromulentKristen

        She hasn’t struck me as someone well versed in royal details.

        Well, she did literally say in the Oprah interview that she didn’t do any research on Royal life before jumping in, so…

      • Mojeaux

        Well, she did literally say in the Oprah interview that she didn’t do any research on Royal life before jumping in, so…

        Apparently she doesn’t know how to use the innert00bs because rules on being a royal practically assault you.

      • CPRM

        Wait, wasn’t she on Royal Pains? Actors who don’t do background work are shameful! I lived as a hat for 15 years before I portrayed one!

      • l0b0t

        Apparently she doesn’t know how to use the innert00bs because rules on being a royal practically assault you.

        Yep! There’s an instructional television show and everything.

      • Rat on a train

        She is also upset because Archie is only entitled to be an earl not a prince, which has been standard protocol for 100 years.

        The children of William and Kate get a royal title. Why don’t mine? It must be racism.

    • Animal

      The correct response to anything involving these two grifters is “who gives a shit?”

      • straffinrun

        Meghan is Falstaff without the fun.

      • Festus

        More like Iago.

      • straffinrun

        Let’s hope it turns out like Titus Andronicus.

      • Festus

        Those poor kids!

      • Rebel Scum

        I liked her in ‘Suits’. . .

      • juris imprudent

        If there was ever an appropriate time to shame someone for being interested in a thing.

      • Ted S.

        Meghan and Harry are both white trash.

    • rhywun

      Megs pulled herself and Harry out of the Family because they were going to reject her baby of color.

      There, now you’re caught up.

      And if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

  3. Festus

    Prince Harry was an attack helicopter pilot that used to dress as a Nazi for Halloween. That’s some sort of magic cootchie.

    • I. B. McGinty

      I’m sure he borrowed the Nazi uniform from one of his relatives.

      • Festus

        Probably found it in a dusty toy box up in the servants quarters.

    • Homple

      Andrew us what you get from 25 generations of inbreeding.

    • limey

      Prince Harry was an attack helicopter

      I like the way the line breaks work out when viewing this on my phone.

  4. straffinrun

    Prosecutors and defense attorneys can also move to dismiss prospective jurors without cause using what’s called a peremptory challenge. Chauvin’s team has 15 of these challenges and the prosecution has nine

    I think Chauvin’s team is gonna need about 350 million more.

    • sloopyinca

      He should opt for a bench trial. Finding a jury that won’t be biased or intimidated by the mob is going to be impossible.

      • straffinrun

        If you think that guy is gonna get a fair trail either way, don’t hold your breath.

      • sloopyinca

        I think his best bet is a bench trial. I also think he’s guilty and deserves to spend life in prison, based on the evidence I’ve seen so far.
        That whole situation still smells fishy to me: The working at a bar together, the other cops standing idly as he kneels on his neck. Etc.

      • straffinrun

        Sure looked like a clear case of brutality to me. But, that is why you need a fair trial and anyone pointing that out will be called a Nazi.

      • Mad Scientist

        Nazi!

      • Festus

        Ugh, what about the Judge, though? He might be one of Soros’ creatures. IANAL but all it takes is one recalcitrant juror to hang, right?

      • sloopyinca

        They’ll just dismiss that juror and seat another until they get the result they want.

    • Festus

      They’d just be labelled “Chauvinists” and be dismissed out of hand.

      • Festus

        Heh

      • TARDis

        Congrats, Festus. That was like one of the fastest narrowed gazes evah.

  5. straffinrun

    ‘The world knows where we are. It’s not safe. It’s not secure.

    It sucks not to be the king.

    • sloopyinca

      The only reason the world knows where you are is because you keep paying your publicity firm.

      • Festus

        I keep using Google and it’s free!

      • straffinrun

        If that is what’s happening, he needs a new firm. People locked in their houses and losing their jobs while this asswipe is bitching about not getting his silver spoon. It really is crazy.

      • sloopyinca

        Why would he need a new firm? Based on what I see in news outlets this morning, they’re doing an incredible job selling their sob story to the masses.

      • straffinrun

        If the masses buy this, it’s hard for me to argue against COVID.

      • Swiss Servator

        The people that buy this are the ones that buy the wimmenz mags at the grocery store check out and watch the View.

      • Festus

        Bat Boy FTW!

    • hayeksplosives

      Haz is under the impression that he is more than a minor Royal.

      He is completely irrelevant. When QE kicks it, we get a few years of King Charles (he’s in his 70s), then it will be King William, then his son George or one of his other kids.

      Harry is no longer relevant to the line of succession the second Kate had her second child.

      Meghan married Harry to further her career as a social media influencer. Harry married her to prove how woke he is.

      The End.

      • Not Adahn

        Harry married her to prove how woke he is.

        I prefer the “Magic Pussy” theory.

        I WANT TO BELIEVE!

      • Mojeaux

        Me too.

      • CPRM

        On looks alone, I get the choice. On things beyond, seems like he caught him a crazy. But, fuck royalty, so I would not be sad if he is suffering from his choice.

      • Agent Cooper

        She’s a meh for me, even in the looks dept.

  6. Count Potato

    “”Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted,” Mr. Biden said in prepared remarks at the Martin & Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast on Sunday, according to the White House. ”

    so stunning much brave

    • Lord Humungus

      The fix is in forever… well until the “revolution” or mass upheaval. Whatevs.

    • straffinrun

      Every tautology is tautologically true.

    • sloopyinca

      “Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted,” Mr. Biden said in prepared remarks

      Uh, that’s the case. They just need to register and vote according to state law…which is clearly the way it’s supposed to be if you read Art 1 Sec 4 of the constitution, dickhead.

      • Mad Scientist

        The whole point of that sort of language is to make it sound as if the opposing party is preventing eligible voters from voting and having their votes counted.

      • rhywun

        See: “food deserts”, “living wage”, “_______ justice”, ad infinitum. It’s all gaslighting horseshit from that crowd.

      • juris imprudent

        + Ein große Lüge

      • Festus

        You think that Puddin Cup has ever given that dusty old tome more than cursory glance in his lifetime? Come on, Man…

    • Agent Cooper

      “Martin & Coretta Scott King”

      Those Republicans?

  7. Lord Humungus

    Well the Biden Presidency has been one load of stupidity after another. My shocked face is so worn out that I can’t even…

    Of course I knew it was going to be bad post-Trump but not this bad. The Dems are going for broke here, betting everything for their power.

    But, like mos things, nothing quite works out quite like you wished.

    • rhywun

      It’s clear that they see the writing on the wall for the mid-terms.

    • Festus

      “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the nose.” (Some obscure scholar) Please let it be so!

  8. Mad Scientist

    He remains “emotionally miserable,” said the woman, who asked not to be named. “He’s in therapy, he’s taking medication. This has never been true before.”

    He’s probably the first teenager in history to get depressed.

    • Festus

      Hot Topic entrepreneur’s ear’s perk!

      • Tres Cool

        Hot Topic

        *I hate that I dont mind that song. Must be the beat.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    A US Dept. of Ed spokesman, in a statement said, “OCR [Office of Civil Rights] does not comment on specific facts and circumstances related to open cases. OCR can confirm, however, that on Nov. 25, 2019, it previously opened an investigation of a complaint on the basis of race against the Evanston/Skokie School District (IL) for possible violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.”

    The spokesman added, “The Biden-Harris Administration has put equity at the heart of its agenda and has committed to taking bold action to fight racism and discrimination, as described in the executive orders on Advancing Racial Equity and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation. This commitment relates directly to OCR’s mission of ensuring nondiscriminatory access to education for all students through the vigorous enforcement of the civil rights laws.”

    The teacher-complainant said of the suspension of recommended actions in her discrimination case, “I am concerned with staff and student safety due to the Department of Education Title VI violation findings.”

    Maybe I’m just slower than usual, this morning, but I don’t have a fucking clue about who did what to whom, or when it might have happened, after reading that mishmash.

    • sloopyinca

      The school was segregating based on race. Which, apparently, is what the left wants. The Trump DOJ said is was a civil rights violation and the Biden admin stayed that decision and will plow forward with separating students and faculty based on skin color…for their own benefit.

      • Homple

        “They’re more comfortable among their own kind”.

      • leon

        They take want to test the theory that sperate but equal is still the law if they can prove that it will be a “good equal”

      • Swiss Servator

        We will make sure they have equal facilities and opportunities!

      • Festus

        I thought that all this bullshit was hashed out the year that I was born. Anyone here remember the Pepsi Generation? I do. It was kinda cool.

      • sloopyinca

        Pepsi is shit. Coke is where it’s at.

      • leon

        Hmm Be less white… Segregation coming back..

        I guess it checks out.

  10. Lord Humungus

    Walking the dogs, I have to go up a hill where there is very nice little mid-century house that often has a newer Mercedes S class in the driveway. And a BLM sign in the yard.

    There is a little banner in the window that says (from memory): “No one wins unless everyone wins”.

    I wonder when he is going to sell his car and house to help out the poorz.

    • Festus

      Cuck.

    • Sean

      That sign won’t save him when the mob comes for him too.

      • R C Dean

        Might as well have a sign that says “Soft Target”.

    • Plisade

      A more honest sign would read, “No one wins if everyone wins. And we don’t want anyone to win, cuz then a white person might win.”

  11. straffinrun

    Here’s an abbreviated list of businesses and restaurants still requiring customers to wear masks:

    713 Tattoo & Piercings

    Can I get a Fauci tramp stamp, please?

    • Fourscore

      You already have a Fauci Tromp Stomp. Well, maybe not you, straff, but almost all the rest of us

  12. rhywun

    The new segregation really blows my mind. I can’t believe this is where we are now.

    • Lord Humungus

      America 4.0 (5.0?), now back with segregation and (online) public lynchings.

    • Agent Cooper

      “The New Segregation”

      New book by Glenn Loury or John McWhorter?

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’ll have to look for it, but the real tally was that more people died from riding motorcycles to and from than from Covid contact at Sturgis.

      • blackjack

        I know they are saying that 360,000 or so people attended. Massively high infection rate is what they’re asserting. Same basic principle used in the vote counts for Biden.

    • sloopyinca

      Why do you hate science?

    • juris imprudent

      It is a number between a few and a whole lot.

    • Plinker762

      Filed under “My ass, things pulled from it”

    • Rat on a train

      Sorry. 260,000,000.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That was Biden gun deaths.

    • R C Dean

      You can only get to that number with “knock-on” infections.

      You only get knock-on infections if masking and social distancing don’t work.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Muh MANDATE

    Ever since their narrow, Trump-assisted double win in the U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, national Democrats — and progressives in particular — have been drunk on power they don’t have.

    Rather than taking a sober, realistic view, the progressive left has swooned over reports of their “total control” in Washington.

    ——-

    What holds together Democratic voters is not progressive ideology; it’s hatred for Trump. According to the Republican-oriented polling firm Echelon Insights, Democratic voters rate danger from “Trump supporters” as a concern (82 percent) second only to the coronavirus (87 percent).

    Yet, progressives like Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) bluster about like the aftermath of the defeat of Alf Landon by Franklin Roosevelt. With every demand and threat against insufficiently “woke” Democratic office holders, the progressives increase the chances Biden will push too far to the left or that Manchin (or other Democrats) will either switch parties or go independent.

    Pay no heed, Democrats, ram that uber-progressive shit through on straight party line votes, with Kamala the Judicious casting the deciding vote.

    Surveys repeatedly show Americans love to see Peter robbed to pay Paul. Until they finally start to see the true consequences.

    • rhywun

      Democratic voters are suffering from mass hysteria as China, Russia, et al. laugh themselves stupid at us.

    • juris imprudent

      Those idiots in DC also fail to take note of how poorly their party – the proggie wing in particular – did out in the hinterlands. They will find out that matters.

      • Festus

        Republicans might not like me much but they sure as shit don’t wish me dead. I’m a middle-aged white guy with quasi-libertarian beliefs. From the noises they are making , the Dems would like to disappear people like me.

    • Rat on a train

      Americans love to see Peter robbed to pay Paul, until they realize they are Peter.

      “Of course, I want people to have health care; I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”

      • Festus

        Shit. I worked in the building trades as a supplier back in 2007-8. Holy Shit. I was mostly out of work for nearly three years. Munch on that for your tale of woe. I’ll never get to retire.

  14. Count Potato

    “WASHINGTON—Russian intelligence agencies have mounted a campaign to undermine confidence in Pfizer Inc.’s and other Western vaccines, using online publications that in recent months have questioned the vaccines’ development and safety, U.S. officials said.

    An official with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which monitors foreign disinformation efforts, identified four publications that he said have served as fronts for Russian intelligence.

    The websites played up the vaccines’ risk of side effects, questioned their efficacy, and said the U.S. had rushed the Pfizer vaccine through the approval process, among other false or misleading claims.

    Though the outlets’ readership is small, U.S. officials say they inject false narratives that can be amplified by other Russian and international media. ”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-disinformation-campaign-aims-to-undermine-confidence-in-pfizer-other-covid-19-vaccines-u-s-officials-say-11615129200

    RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!!

    • juris imprudent

      Booga! Booga! Booga!

  15. leon

    Hey glibs, hope things are going well for yall. I’ve cut myself off from most politics for the last month or so, but wanted to drop in and say hey.

    I miss y’all, but life has been so much better since not giving any shit about politics.

    • straffinrun

      I’ve cooled it myself. Saw Sloop had a post up and wanted to chime in.

    • Mad Scientist

      You’re not missing anything.

      • Sean

        It’ll be a surprise when he’s being loaded into a train bound for the re-education camps.

    • sloopyinca

      You can still not give a shit and spend time with us. I’d say that’s true about 1/3 of the people here. Hopefully more.

      • TARDis

        I’m trying to not give a damn…. Not working for me.

        Good tune, though. Sexually aggressive chubbies FTW!

      • Tundra

        Whether I give a shit or not, politics appears to really give a shit about me.

        I find it easier to contemplate among this horde of misanthropes.

      • Not Adahn

        Yo!

      • KromulentKristen

        IDGAF aboot politics and rarely address the deeper issues we discuss here. Please come back & I’ll talk to you about anything but politics.

      • leon

        Thanks, My problem is that i’m like an addict. I know it’s bad for me, but i can’t help myself. I’m coming back today to see if i can handle it. we’ll see.

        Hows work?

      • KromulentKristen

        Busy AF…but I won’t go into detail 😉

        I’m waiting for one of my favorite Youtubers to upload her Monday video. She’s a young’un who hasn’t watched very many movies, so she watches “classics” from 1994ish and earlier. She’s adorable, and she loves Mel Brooks.

      • leon

        How long are her videos. I might give it a Try.

        Wife and i have been watching “Jomboy and Jake Videos”, where the two hosts watch old timey game show episodes and react to them. It’s been pretty fun.

      • KromulentKristen

        About 20ish minutes…let me find one for you to get started

      • Chipwooder

        I do GAF about politics, but I’ve become pretty fatalistic about it. It’s out of my control and my beliefs are never going to be popular, so I don’t do much more than mockery and griping. Besides, I’m not nearly as well-read or eloquent on political theory as others here, so I shy away from deeper conversations.

    • leon

      Nice save

    • rhywun

      LOL

    • Sean

      *applause*

    • Count Potato

      Still not on Wendy’s level. Or Spanish KFC, if you like Salvador Dali fried chicken.

    • Rebel Scum

      Nice.

  16. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloopy!

    And thanks for the lynx.

    That is going to be an absolute mess.

    It already is. City Hall and the Government Center surrounded by fences and barbed wire. It’s crazy and I feel bad for the businesses still down there.

    PowerLine did a decent article on the situation.

    The recommendations to the businesses is telling. At least this time the government fucks aren’t even pretending there will be help. So fucked up.

    That is a great song from a fantastic album. Perfect for a Monday morning.

    Have a great day, peeps!

    • Festus

      You too, Friend!

    • Count Potato

      “In other words, your shop or restaurant may be burned down. It seems a bit ironic: the FBI keeps trying to tell us that any day now, QAnon (or somebody on the right) is going to stage an “armed insurrection” in Washington. Of course nothing of the sort has happened, or will. But buildings have been burned down, businesses have been looted, people have been shot and killed and many other people’s lives have been devastated. Just not by conservatives.”

      TMITE

      • Rat on a train

        The dark cloud of fascism is always descending on the Republicans but landing on the Democrats.

  17. Lord Humungus

    Shameless Plug: I have a new video out – about a local ghost called the “Ada Witch”.

    EF did narration while I struggled with filming and editing.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcKxfWR_UFI

    We plan to make this a series about local murders, supernatural (I’m not a believer), and other odd stories from the Midwest. Hopefully it will get better with time as my camera, editing, and script writing skills improve.

    • Festus

      Checked for later. Thanks!

    • Swiss Servator

      The Americans with Disabilities Act is killin’ folks now?

      *dives out window*

      • Rat on a train

        No. It’s the programming language. Trying to get it to compile will drive you to suicide.

    • Festus

      Watched it. Nice work, especially the music.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    “Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted,” Mr. Biden said in prepared remarks

    Asking them to show their eligibility is racism.

    TRUST THEM

    • straffinrun

      I’m game. No one should eligibility for that nonsense.

  19. robc

    The wheels have come off on Merseyside.

    Actually, its going pretty good. A win of Chelsea today moves into the top 4.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’m rooting for draw.

      • robc

        A draw has Chelsea in 4th on pts, but Everton ahead on pts per game.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It benefits the team in 6th.

      • robc

        Yeah, early on despite their struggles, I was still convinced they were 2nd best team in league. It still may be true, I was just wrong about who was #1.

      • juris imprudent

        Spurts?

    • rhywun

      I’ve completely dropped out of soccer this year. Hockey, too. Just don’t give a shit.

      • Swiss Servator

        I might continue to follow the Blackhawks, you know… IF THEY DON’T HAVE TO KEEP PLAYING TAMPA @#$%ing BAY EVRY DAY.

      • rhywun

        Rangers are complete shit this year. That does make it easier to ignore. Plus, it’s not like this season counts anyway.

    • robc

      But on the other side of the park, my favorite was before the game Klopp saying it would take a “masterwork of coaching” to turn the season around. Ego much? You were in first place on Christmas, getting back to 4th wouldn’t require much other that showing up.

      • rhywun

        They lost to fucking Fulton. It’s going to take an Act of God to turn those dopes around.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Hey they lost to Burnley and Brighton at home too.

      • rhywun

        Saw a graphic – I think they’ve lost like six or eight straight at home. *sigh*

      • robc

        Fulton, as in Atlanta? Did they get promoted?

        (For those not getting it, he typoed Fulham).

      • rhywun

        Guh. I always do that in my head.

    • rhywun

      “You have decreases in cases and deaths when you wear masks, and you have increases in cases and deaths when you have in-person restaurant dining.”

      I guess we’re going with “flat-out lies” now.

      • Sean

        I’ll have the fajitas with some covid on the side.

      • juris imprudent

        The reductions in growth rates varied from half a percentage point to nearly 2 percentage points. That may sound small,

        because they are small. In fact, an honest scientist would likely call that statistically insignificant. But we aren’t interested in honest science in the halls of power.

    • Rebel Scum

      People being near each other spreads a cold?

      0_o

  20. Festus

    Van Der Beek was a pretty good sport in that sit-com with the two hotties a few years ago. He will never live down that GIF, though.

    • l0b0t

      Yes, yes he was. That wonderful show was created by the former showrunner from Family Guy and it made me fall head-over-heels for Jack Ritter’s daughter (the titular ‘B’).

  21. Lord Humungus

    I saw this video yesterday: “What Happened To Our Villains?”

    long story short, Disney, etc, can’t show a woman – Feminism! – losing to anyone in a fight, even in the beginning, so bad guys have become comically inept.

    see Rey in the new Star Wars series, or Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, etc

    • Lord Humungus

      Bonus for the angry Scottish narrator.

      • leon

        He does some good movie critiques, and isn’t even always negative.

      • Rat on a train

        His main point is spot on. It is boring if the protagonist isn’t challenged. Yes, you fought. It was the equivalent of watching Usain Bolt race a toddler.

      • Chipwooder

        Are there any Scots who aren’t angry?

      • juris imprudent

        I might have said Billy Connolly – but even his comedy is pretty angry.

      • Not Adahn

        The ones passed out?

      • Hank

        I’ll just put my reply through my Sensitivity Filter and hope it gets through:

        ______ _____ ____ ____ ____ sheep.

    • one true athena

      It was hilarious in Rise of Skywalker when Kylo beats Rey’s ass and then, cuz we can’t have that, she stabs him to death when he’s unarmed and sensing Leia’s death. Because heroes shoud definitely stab helpless people. God that movie is so bad.

      • CPRM

        1. She didn’t ‘stab him to death’, he was in the next movie.
        2. Were not your expectations subverted?
        3. I gave up on Disney Wars in the first scene of The Force Awakens when Kylo Wren had force powers stronger than anything Palpatine or Vader had ever exhibited, even in the terrible prequel retcons. (Pretty much the opposite of when I stopped giving a shit about the prequels when Yoda used a light saber and then strained to levitate some metal even though ‘size matters not’)

      • one true athena

        The third movie on the Death Star. When she proved her heroism by stabbing an unarmed man. You know, what Luke refused to do.because blood is evil or some shit.

        The first movie they nerfed KYlo by having him bleeding out.

        And say what you want about last jedi, at least Rey was a character in it, rather than JJ abrams self insert wank material.

      • leon

        That’s because Luke was too weak to destroy evil when he had the opportunity. We need strong women like Rey to eradicate evil.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Every gender, real or imagined

    President Biden will mark International Women’s Day on Monday by signing two executive orders geared toward promoting gender equity, both in the United States and around the world.

    According to an administration official speaking on background, the goal of the orders is “restoring America as a champion for gender equity and equality.”

    The first executive order will establish a Gender Policy Council within the White House, reformulating an office from the Obama administration that was later disbanded by former President Donald Trump, and giving it more clout.

    Under former President Barack Obama, the office was called the White House Council on Women and Girls. The name change to the Gender Policy Council is intentional, the administration official said, “to reflect the fact that gender discrimination can happen to people of all genders.”

    Take that, Trump!

    • Hank

      Israel has such an office, it’s called the Council for Jews of Both Sexes, and Hermaphrodites.

    • straffinrun

      LOL. Yeah, those guys are undefeatable.

    • Lord Humungus

      Those beady little eyes.

      • Tundra

        Drugged to the gills.

    • leon

      That is a lot worse than I thought it would be. You almost feel bad that his wife is doing this to him.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Revenge for all of that hair sniffing.

      • Rebel Scum

        I almost feel bad for him. Then I remember that he is a shitstain politician that spent decades grifting and causing chaos and destruction around the world. Fuck him.

    • Count Potato

      And people thought Trump’s tweets were incoherent.

    • Swiss Servator

      Maybe the teleprompter hiccuped?

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s just a stutter.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What was that? We are so fucked…..

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      He’s almost completely adapted to the Aricept™ injections. The back-room Dems could lace his puddin’ cups with the stuff and it won’t help. They’re gonna 25A his ass by summer at this rate. And then it’s years of that tiresome twat Kamala.

      Fuck me.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Plus I note that I’ve been assigned a pseudo-random avatar.

        ???

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Ahh, that’s better.

  23. robc

    Baseball birthday missed: Carl Furillo.

  24. Lord Humungus

    Yay Pollz:

    Exclusive: Stark divide on race, policing emerges since George Floyd’s death, USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll shows

    Exclusive: Stark divide on race, policing emerges since George Floyd’s death, USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll shows
    Susan Page
    Sarah Elbeshbishi
    Mabinty Quarshie
    USA TODAY

    Americans’ trust in the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen and their faith in local law enforcement has risen since protests demanding social justice swept the nation last year, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll.

    The debate over the intersection of racism and policing will be in the spotlight again as jury selection opens Monday in the Minneapolis trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, which sparked nationwide marches last year.

    The survey finds complicated and shifting views about Chauvin’s actions and broader questions of race. On many issues, there is a chasm in the perspective between Black people and white people.
    Protesters shut down southbound Interstate 35 on May 30, 2020, in Austin, Texas, after the death of George Floyd in police custody.

    Last June, 60% in a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll described Floyd’s death as murder; that percentage has now dropped by double digits to 36%. Uncertainty has grown about how to characterize the incident, caught on video, when Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck and ignored his protests that he couldn’t breathe. Last year, 4% said they didn’t know how to describe it; that number has climbed to 17%.

    Last June, amid accusations of systemic racism in law enforcement, 60% of Americans expressed trust in the Black Lives Matter movement to promote justice and equal treatment of people, compared with 56% who trusted local police to do that.

    Now, however, attitudes have shifted significantly. Trust in Black Lives Matter has fallen to 50%; trust in local police and law enforcement has risen to 69%.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      They had a chance for police accountability reform after the Floyd killing. But they threw away everything for reasons.

      • leon

        The Floyd Riots are a prime case of catching the Tiger by the tail. There was a narrative, the Dems wanted to make sure they could be the only side on team “GOOD”, so when the protests got a little out of hand they opted to try to paint all opposition to the violence as racists who hate blacks. I think they realized it was worse than what they thought, but what could they do. They had no control over the situation, but couldn’t admit they were wrong, because that would mean the racists they just denounced were right. So they pretended it wasn’t happening.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep. I remember for about 24 hours on Facebook, everyone was shocked and I thought, finally, we had enough people seeing that we need some accountability. Then it was like someone flipped a switch, and everyone got their TEAM marching orders.

      • R C Dean

        But they threw away everything for reasons.

        Those reasons being

        (a) Grift
        (b) Political Power
        (c) Destruction of social fabric

    • Hank

      So last year the public started out being less racist, but grew increasingly racist as the months progressed?

      Could the “protests demanding social justice,” or “nationwide marches,” have had anything to do with this?

    • rhywun

      I’m sure USA Today informed their respondents that BLM is in reality a Marxist front group when polling their “trust” in it.

  25. straffinrun

    My daughter heard what I heard in this commercial that came on tonight while watching TV.. My wife thinks we’re crazy. I won’t poison the pool, but do you hear something unusual in the middle of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6_dL2IITfs

    • Count Potato

      The part where she sings in English?

      • straffinrun

        Yes. Meh, I’ll just say it. Sounds like she says “I’ll kill you all my life.”

      • ScoobaSteve

        I hear “I will give you all my love”

      • Bobarian LMD

        Me too.

      • Agent Cooper

        The dress is black and blue.

      • Plinker762

        I hear that too.

        Oh, you mean when the song is playing.

    • leon

      I’ve never felt so directly pushed to buy a product.

    • Plisade

      I hear some kind of faint backwards masked something. But I did party a lot this weekend :/

  26. Pope Jimbo

    I’m sure this is ass-drug territory, but I have to post this link and ask if this isn’t appropriating (((their))) culture?

    Main site is here if you want to advance order one.

    • Count Potato

      Only mouth breathers will buy that.

      • Rat on a train

        But not Neanderthals.

      • Animal

        President Biden(‘s handlers) better not be dissing our Neandertal cousins. They were intelligent, capable people who survived at least 200,000 years in some of the harshest environments imaginable. Groper Joe, by comparison, is a cheap hack and a grifter who wouldn’t have lasted ten minutes in Ice Age Europe.

      • Gustave Lytton

        In an earlier age, Geico’s cavemen would respond to Joe’s slur.

      • Rat on a train

        I am part Neanderthal. More the 1024th.

    • Gdragon

      That just ruined the image and the style that I’m used to, I should have stopped what I was doing ?

      • B.P.

        Damn it.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      That’s going to leave some funny tan lines.

  27. Lord Humungus

    More polling:

    via Powerline

    “Do you think Antifa is a domestic terrorist group or not a domestic terrorist group?”

    Terrorist group: 71%; Not a terrorist group: 29%.

    “Do you think that the events at the U.S. Capitol are being used by politicians to suppress legitimate political movements or do you think there is no such suppression of legitimate movements?

    Being used to suppress legitimate movements: 64%; Not being used to suppress: 36%

    “Do you think the riots are being used as an excuse to silence political voices on the right or is the reaction to them a legitimate response to the violence?”

    Being used to silence the right: 59%; Legitimate response, 41%.

    methinks the Democrats are riding a dying horse. Not that it will stop their stupidity.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      They have managed to delude themselves into thinking that a narrow presidential win* and losing seats in the house means that they have people, writ large, behind them. The progressives are even worse despite getting electoral spankings on a regular basis they represent the will of the electorate. Bernie got screwed but he also did not get the votes.

    • Mad Scientist

      Surveys conducted by people who with a bias aren’t good for anything. I’d take this one with a giant grain of salt.

  28. Tundra

    Another failed WHO whitewash of China’s COVID guilt

    It’s beyond astonishing that the WHO tried to get away with such games again. The agency has been echoing the Chinese Communist Party’s lies from the pandemic’s start.

    China still got some propaganda value from this farce: headlines blaring the WHO investigators’ finding that it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab and more likely that the virus originated outside of China and spread to Wuhan via frozen-food packaging.

    An easy way to discover the truth is to pay close attention to what you aren’t allowed to talk about. This fucking virus escaped from a lab where they were doing “gain of function” research.

    Blah.

    Better WHO.

    Ah, yes. Much better.

    • juris imprudent

      Was expecting this WHO.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ is the best Who song, it is known.

    • Count Potato

      “the virus originated outside of China and spread to Wuhan via frozen-food packaging”

      Yeah, sure.

  29. Rebel Scum

    That is going to be an absolute mess.

    Especially when he is exonerated.

    • juris imprudent

      Or even found guilty of the lowest charge.

    • Swiss Servator

      Just play that film, and he is toast. Keep remarking at each minute mark…and was it necessary for the defendant to continue to kneel on his neck?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’ll be convicted of a lesser charge, manslaughter or some similar.

      • Rebel Scum

        I don’t see how they could get anything other than that. Murder 1 is a complete farce here. (didn’t they also charge the other two guy who just happened to be present with that?)

    • R C Dean

      I am astonished that they are holding this trial in Minneapolis. It should absolutely be moved to a different venue.

      The fact that it hasn’t been tells me the fix is in.

      When he does get convicted, I’m thinking there’s even odds or better there will still be riots. “Police brutality” was never anything but a pretext for rioting anyway, and it won’t be hard to find another one. Unless he is dragged out of court and gets two to the back of the head on the courthouse steps, the mob will have its pretext.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe if the authorities offered to burn him at the stake, that would satiate the lust of the mob for fire and destruction?

      • Mojeaux

        No.

      • R C Dean

        Of course not. The mob also lusts for big-screen TVs, designer duds, and shiny new cell phones.

  30. Rebel Scum

    President Biden is directing the Education Department to review a controversial regulation governing how colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual assault, with an eye toward unraveling a new system put into place by former education secretary Betsy DeVos.

    Which I assume means no more due process carried out by the legitimate entities of the government that are not the universities.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It means that if you’re a guy that’s been accused you’re fucked.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Great.

        I was just starting to feel a little bit better about sending my sons to college in a few years. I’m sure whatever shitshow Biden’s people will come up with, but whatever it is, it’s bound to be even worse than Obama’s shitshow.

      • rhywun

        It must be dawning on more than just me that Biden’s not really running the show. It’s the ever more-leftist flunkies around him who are running it.

        Unless we are expected to swallow the idea that Joe’s been biden his time all these years under Obama and then out in the wilderness and finally now he can install the socialist paradise he’s been dreaming about since forever.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    Well, it won’t belong before Ozy, Fourscore and Swissy won’t be able to strut around in their dress uniforms. Nope, they won’t dare once they get a load of the fruit salad bar on the chest of the kid in the National Guard.

    “In recognition of their service as part of the security mission at the U.S. Capitol and other facilities in Washington, D.C., before, during and after the 59th Presidential Inauguration, the District of Columbia National Guard plans to present all Soldiers and Airmen who took part in the mission one or both of the following decorations: the District of Columbia National Guard Presidential Inauguration Support Ribbon and/or the District of Columbia Emergency Service Ribbon,” Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Carver, spokesman for the Virginia Air National Guard and director of Joint Task Force-DC Joint Information Center, said in a statement. “Both ribbons are District-level decorations. Plans for their presentation are not yet final. Other federal decorations are also being considered.”

    Once you pile on additional awards for the 3/4 (and upcoming 3/20) insurrections, those guys won’t even have enough room on their tunics for any more medals.

    • Sean

      Wait, wut?

      • rhywun

        Just another part of the Dems’ gaslighting campaign against the American people.

    • juris imprudent

      It will only be legit if it is the size of Flava Flav’s clock.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge is already an authorized decoration.

      • Swiss Servator

        Schützenschnur fur alles!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Jawohl!

        *clicks heels together*

      • juris imprudent

        Presumably because they will never be expected to win another decoration in their term of service?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Just like this, it’s only authorized for wear when serving the unit where it was earned.

      • R C Dean

        Whoa. I read that as Flava Flav’s cock.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Their chests will look like one of those Soviet WWII generals before this is all over.

    • Swiss Servator

      That will end up a mark of derision and mockery.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I can just picture the poor PFC who hasn’t earned any other medal yet stewing over the decision about whether to put the medal on or not. He knows how pathetic it is, but dammit! I want something on my chest.

    • Not Adahn

      Please telle me tha the ribbon is black, white and red.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Rainbow striped

      • Not Adahn

        Like Mork’s suspenders?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        We already have that.

    • creech

      Not half as bad as the sheriffs in every podunk county strutting around with four star general insignia on their epaulets.

    • Plisade

      And when I’m elected president I’ll require a crying emoji device be affixed to that ribbon.

  32. Rebel Scum

    President Biden took unilateral action Sunday focused on voting rights and using the tools of the federal government to boost access for Americans to voter registration services.

    It seems to me that voting regs are a state issue.

    “Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted,”

    Indeed. But the states get to decide eligibility.

    “If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide. Let the people vote.”

    Or you can hide in a basement when you should be campaigning and still miraculously win in a totally above board and in no way compromised election. ///honkhonk

    • R C Dean

      Let the people vote.

      Any old people. Alive, dead, citizens, illegals, real, imaginary.

      For great inclusion!

  33. Rebel Scum

    Prince Harry says he was forced to flee Canada and make a lucrative deals with Netflix and Spotify to ‘pay for security’ after being CUT OFF by royals

    Cry me a river.

    • Swiss Servator

      Welcome to the entire rest of humanity…protect yourself, earn a living.

      • juris imprudent

        Get the fuck over yourself too.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m pretty sure helicopter pilots can earn a decent living.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Only if he takes her for a short sightseeing tour first.

    • rhywun

      I wonder if he’s sick of her shit yet.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The rest of the world is!

      • Sean

        She inspires my gf to yell at the tv whenever they show her.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Looks like Biden is hoping to bring segregation back in style.

    He IS a Democrat. And if you don’t support it you ain’t black.

    • straffinrun

      Nobody asking what comes after Cuomo?

      • juris imprudent
      • robc

        Who is the Lt Gov?

      • rhywun

        Nobody in New York ever knows who the Lt. Gov. is. I certainly don’t have a clue.

      • robc

        Kathy Hochul.

      • leon

        I’m much more in the “this is the NY AG making a Move than Kamala doing Battlespace Prep.”. And the NY AG does not seem like she would be any less corrupt than Cuomo.

      • Chipwooder

        Yessir. The first shot across Cuomo’s bow was the AG’s report that nailed him for lying about the nursing homes. Coming from the office of a very far left AG, that was the signal to the rest of the Dem-media complex that it was permissible to stop propping him up and start releasing all of the damaging information. I said from then that my guess was that she was maneuvering for his job.

      • Not Adahn

        Eh, she hasn’t subpoenaed Cuomo’s tax records, bank records, and other finaincial documents for the last X number of years yet, which is a SCOTUS-approved power of the NY AG.

      • Swiss Servator

        That is the traditional stepping stone office to the Gov’s chair. If you have to off the current occupant…well, ask Client 9 how that works.

  35. Rebel Scum

    Student mental health struggles intensify as high schools remain closed year into pandemic

    But we have to keep the teachers at home, not working, sitting on their lazy asses claiming to be afraid of catching a cold for the sake of the children.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Pay no attention to that corporatism behind the curtain

    Bernie Sanders, Josh Hawley and Amazon don’t often find themselves on the same side of an issue.

    But years of stagnant wages that have failed to keep up with living costs and the political realignment spurred by Donald Trump are bringing together more than just Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont; Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri; and Amazon, one of America’s biggest businesses.

    The politics of the minimum wage have been scrambled, dividing the business community and making strange bedfellows out of populists on the right and the left.

    ——-

    Amazon, which raised its starting wage to $15 an hour, is trying to lead the charge, and it is actively lobbying Congress, having taken out full-page ads in The New York Times supporting the Raise the Wage Act. Target and Best Buy have also set their lowest wages at $15 an hour, while Walmart set its minimum at $11 and Costco’s just jumped to $16.

    “We’ve seen the positive impact this has had on our employees, their families, and their communities,” Amazon said in a blog post.

    Everything not prohibited must be made mandatory.

    If it’s so goddam awesome, what’s the problem? Why does it need to be coerced?

    I’m sure I don’t know.

    • leon

      And yet i’m the crazy one for saying Bernie and Hawley only rate below Elizabeth Warren, in being complete paragons of American Fascism.

    • juris imprudent

      Maybe someone should remind them that ol’ Henry Ford paid so well in part to keep out unionization.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Of course Amazon will advocate for a high minimum, it’ll fuck their competitors.

  37. leon

    RE: The Royals in Exile. I’m surprised the Cannucs/ and Aussies haven’t dumped the Royal Family in the past already. I mean they never visit, don’t make a palace in those countries they are supposedly the royalty over. And it is just got to be annoying for the lefty Cannucs who like to pretend how “Democratic they are” compared to the US that they are still a Monarchy.

    • Swiss Servator

      It carries a lot more cache to be a member of the Queen’s Bar and to be The Royal Bank of Canada, etc.

      • leon

        Thats a fair point. Without the Royals, everyone would see that Canada is just Backwoods America. They wouldn’t get to play both sides of the world, acting like they weren’t provincials like us Americans, but also not snooty like the Europeans.

        For heavens sake, they might even have to drop the nice act.

  38. Pope Jimbo

    In case any of you want to play, “Are you smarter than a Minneapolis jury pool yahoo?”, here is a link to the jury selection questionnaire.

    To be fair, a lot of it looks pretty similar to one I filled out when I got selected as a juror a few years back.

    • leon

      The thing too is that this is guaranteed to have the outcome where you are going to get people who have an objective (Free the cop or Fuck the Police) to lie, and the regular people who might be more openminded, but afraid of what happens afterward, to intentionally try to get out of duty.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I said it before but the questionnaire should be a reverse filter. Only people who fill out the document with answers that are an obvious attempt to get out of being on the jury should be considered. The True Believers who lied about how impartial they are should all be DQ’ed.

      • Pope Jimbo

        For example, I’d totes make sure Brooksy was on the jury. I wouldn’t be put off by him stapling a new piece of paper onto the back of the questionnaire with one question quoted and his answer to it.

        That is the kind of crazy this trial needs.

      • leon

        The one time i went through Voir Dire, i felt bad because i actually was interested in participating as a juror, but was trying to be honest too, and the questions they have pretty much disqualify me from ever being a juror (Have you ever been a victim of a robbery, Do you know anyone who has been sent to prison).

        One question i thought was out of line was from the judge (“Do you own a Gun”), the case was a firearms case. Still id say over half the jurors raised their hands, there wasn’t a way that they were going to get a jury without some gun owners on it.

      • R C Dean

        I’ve been through it twice. Incredibly, I was not knocked out during the questioning in spite of admitting to being a lawyer. One was a grand jury, one was a cartel welfare fraud case. The grand jury was too much of my time, so I cried and whined like a bitch and they let me off. The cartel case, I wanted to sit on, but they took the top 14 jurors by assigned number, and I was something like number 16.

      • robc

        Twice also. First time was no big deal, no one eliminated but I “lost” the random draw to be on the jury.

        Second one, half way thru the voir dire, I looked around the room and said it myself, “Oh shit, I am on this jury.” I made sure I was foreman and ran an efficient jury room. We went to jury on Friday morning and my bachelor party was that night.

        They took our lunch orders, then we started and reached a verdict before the lunch arrived. We were delayed because court was at lunch too. When we went back after lunch for sentencing, it took us about 5 minutes.

        I would say 20 minutes for verdict, 5 minutes for sentencing.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        On the federal civil trial my wife was in, we purposefully wanted lawyers.
        Well, not lawyers specifically, but we had a type of juror we were going for, and lawyers were definitely on the list.

        We wanted:

        1) Female.
        2) Educated and/or highly successful in their field.
        3) Typical machismo men of heavily-Hispanic SoFl.

        It was a civil theft case where her brother stole a large amount of money from my wife.

        We had 2 lawyers on the 8 person panel. 6 of them were women.

        We wanted educated women because we knew one of his arguments was the old world “I’m the head of the family and so I control the money” argument. We knew modern women wouldn’t put up with that shit.

        We wanted women who were educated/successful because we needed them to not balk at the money. Although not Bill Gates large, the numbers were large enough. What we didn’t want was to have jurors just look at the proceeding as 2 spoiled brats fighting over an inheritance.

        We wanted machismo men because if there’s one thing machismo men believe over taking care of their women (however that definition is actualiced in individual cases), is that weak men who are little bitches don’t deserve shit and aren’t to be trusted.

        And it worked. The decision was ultra-quick (less than 2 hours from dismissal to the jury room to the verdict being read out in our favor).

    • Pope Jimbo

      BTW, if you are a potential juror coming into this situation I’m sure you would have no problem staying completely impartial.

      I’m sure all those fences and barricades are just there to make sure the Proud Boys and Qanon don’t try to take over, inaugurate Trump and make Minneapolis the new Capitol.

      • R C Dean

        *forwards comment to 8chan*

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Weeding out people who haven’t heard about this case is the equivalent of selecting for pathological liars.

    • robc

      I would probably be fine until this question:

      What is your primary source of news?

      Answer: glibertarians.com

    • leon

      Police in this country treat whites and blacks equally.

      I mean, what can you possibly answer to this question that would not indicate to one side or the other that you are biased. Even having “No Opinion” is considered wrong by one side.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I couldn’t find the answer in a 10 second DDG search, but I wonder if those questionnaires are considered public documents. So even if you don’t get picked your answers might find a way to totally fuck your life over.

      • Swiss Servator

        Yes, they do. You are the subjects, and they are the rulers.

      • R C Dean

        “Mostly, but not always.”

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Welcome to the entire rest of humanity…protect yourself, earn a living.

    The world needs ditchdiggers, too.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Several Houston businesses will still require customers to wear masks even after Gov. Greg Abbott announced the end of Texas’ mandate.

    So Texans know witch businesses to avoid.

  41. Certified Public Asshat

    Bill Maher & Charlamagne Tha God Argue About Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations On HBO’s ‘Real Time’

    Charlamagne again brought up his main point which was that Reade’s allegations, regardless of whether they believe her on not, were “more serious” than Cuomo’s and yet “I didn’t hear people asking him to resign or drop out of the race.”

    The panel then began to speak about allegations that other women have made about Biden’s inappropriate touching, which Maher persisted was a “different issue.”

    “That’s when he was sniffing their hair,” Maher told Charlamagne. “The first allegation was just … it wasn’t even a MeToo, even though it was interpreted that way in the press. It was just he was just trying to do an old-man thing.”

    “Hey man, harassment is harassment,” said Charlamagne. “No, it’s not,” argued Maher.

    “I don’t think we can tell women the difference between sniffing hair and saying something inappropriate because I think sniffing hair is just as inappropriate as saying something,” Charlamagne said.

    Maher then took his Biden defense a step further, explaining that the Democrat was “just trying to show [Lucy Flores] encouragement.”

    Maher with a great mental gymnastics routine.

    • leon

      Would you respect Maher more or less if he just came out and said “Look, we couldn’t take on Tara Reade claim, because Biden was the best shot at getting rid of Trump, and if that means letting this slide, then so be it?”

      Because i don’t think i would. So what can Maher say that would be good in this situation. He can’t admit to that, so he has to try to play Gymnastics.

      Its in situations like this that i like to reference the Bourne series “Look what they make you give”.

      • Chipwooder

        I would respect him more than I do now, at least. He’s taking a scummy position either way, but in your scenario he’s at least being honest about it.

        It’s the same with the Never Trump crew who spent the better part of a year talking about what a swell guy Biden is. I know those people know what a sack of shit Biden has always been. Just say “Yes, he sucks, but I hate Trump enough that I’m willing to back this sack of shit to replace him”. I won’t agree with you, but I won’t think you’re a baldfaced liar either.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Nobody asking what comes after Cuomo?

    “Be careful what you wish for” is white supremacy.

  43. KromulentKristen

    I’m hearing on the Tweeters that Croatia is a COVID haven of sanity.

    * adds to retirement list *

    • KromulentKristen

      (also, Croatia is the only country in the region that is rich and stable enough not to have a USAID mission)

      • PieInTheSky

        how exactly do you define the region cause slovenia is next to croatia and richer

      • Swiss Servator

        Slovenia isn’t “Balkan” enough. It is practically Austria!

      • KromulentKristen

        OK they don’t have a USAID mission either. But Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, and North Macedonia do.

      • PieInTheSky

        What about Montenegro?

      • KromulentKristen

        They did, but they’re not active anymore.

    • Pope Jimbo

      My luck would have me getting jumped late at night leaving a bar and having the armed guy ask me: You a Croat, Bosnian or Serb?

      With a sigh of relief, I’d say “None of the above, I’m a Minnesodan!”

      Then the guy with the gun would say “Damn, that must make me the luckiest Packer Backer in the world”

      • CPRM

        Speaking of, I hear Kyle Rudolph is on the market now. First viking I actually wouldn’t mine if he signed in Green Bay since Robert Smith (although we had Levens back then) or Kleinsasser (although we had William Henderson at the time)

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      We’ve considered getting a place there since we kind of speak the language. Beautiful country, and hopefully they are done with their civil wars. But there was that one time looking for lodging where the owner of the house berated me and my friends when he found out we were Americans wondering why we didn’t come to bomb the Serbs. We decided to stay elsewhere.

  44. The Other Kevin

    “Prince Harry says he was forced to flee Canada and make a lucrative deals with Netflix and Spotify to ‘pay for security’ after being CUT OFF by royals”

    I’m happy nobody is forcing me to make those kind of lucrative deals. Sounds terrible. Nosiree, I’ll keep my 8 to 5 desk job, thank you very much.

    • KromulentKristen

      It was clear from Jump Street that she was never going to give up being a Hollyweirdo.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      And those poor dears are banished to the wilds of Montecito. The horror. One can’t possibly find good spotted dick anywhere near there.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    “Hey man, harassment is harassment,” said Charlamagne. “No, it’s not,” argued Maher.

    Shut up. It’s different when our creeper does it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      HR: Larry, we need to talk to you about some of your comments to the women who work here.

      Larry: What are you talking about? All I said was that their hair smelled nice

      HR: Yeah. You’re a midget Larry….

    • leon

      Hey man, harassment is harassment,” said Charlamagne. “No, it’s not,” argued Maher

      The sad thing is that if you asked me, i’d agree with Maher in that harrasment can vary. Right. Telling a woman co-worker she looks pretty every day, can be a form of harrasment, but i’d say is not as bad as making suggestive jokes about her. But i feel compeled to push Maher to live in the bed he has been a part of making. This is the world you like, so live in it, and be called out on it.

      Besdies, ASAIK, the things Biden were accused of reached actual Sexual Assault allegations, not just harassment.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Absolutely agree that there is a continuum when it comes to harassment. There is also a continuum when it comes to the credibility of the accusers.

        Tara Reade always seemed a bit iffy to me when it came to credibility. I’m OK with Dems defending Biden by pointing that out. But then they need to be consistent and agree that Kavanaugh gets the same benefit of the doubt.

        The idea that any woman making an accusation against a man is above reproach and cannot be questioned was one of the stupidest things that came out of the PoundMeToo movement.

  46. KromulentKristen

    My favorite airplane show is back on air at Heathrow after UK lockdown #3, electric boogalee. I watched for 5 minutes, and there wasn’t a single aircraft movement. At Heathrow. Sad.

  47. Pope Jimbo

    Minneapolis business owners get a good return on their tax dollars.

    Minneapolis sends out a letter to downtown businesses telling them to

    Businesses and property owners may choose to take additional actions in preparation or during the trial. We recommend you consider overall emergency preparedness plans. Ready.gov has samples plans for businesses that can give you a sense of the questions to consider. During this time period you may also want to consider:
    • Adding physical security measures, such as boarding or permanent security gates
    • Checking in with your insurance company and make sure your policy is up to date
    • Uploading electronic copies of important documents and records to an online cloud service (for example: Dropbox, Google Drive) and/or bring physical copies to an off-site location
    • Continuing to build connections with your neighbors and sharing contact information so that it’s ready if you need it
    • If you want additional security personnel and choose to go with a security company, please fully protect yourself and property by only hiring licensed security personnel. These are the people with will carry their own insurance and have training.

    • Tejicano

      Whycome I no see “stock up on rice, Kimchee, and AK magazines”?

      • Tres Cool

        Ladders, in case you dont have roof access.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      What happens if their insurance policy isn’t up to date. Do you think the insurance company will issue a new policy now?

  48. The Late P Brooks

    RACISTS

    Swiss voters approved a proposition Sunday banning facial coverings in public. Niqabs and burqas, worn by almost no one even among the country’s Muslim population, will be banned outside of religious institutions. The new law doesn’t apply to facial coverings for health reasons.

    Switzerland will join several European countries that have implemented a ban on facial coverings, including France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria.

    The new legislation was brought to the ballot through a people’s initiative launched by the nation’s right-wing Egerkingen Committee, the same group that led the charge to ban minarets over a decade ago, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reported. In 2017, the group presented over 100,000 signatures to the government and demanded the issue be brought to a national vote.

    The Swiss government opposed the nationwide initiative as excessive and argued such bans should be decided by individual regions, two of which already have a “burqa ban” in place.

    The ban barely passed a majority vote, with 51.2% of the Swiss voting in support of the proposal. Only six of the country’s cantons, similar to states, voted against the proposition, according to the SBC.

    Those crazy Swiss. At least we still have Placebo Kabuki.

    And NPR zeroes in on the tenuousness of a razor thin majority. They do when they disapprove of the outcome, anyway.

    Is “zeroes in” racist? It’s so hard to know, anymore.

    • leon

      Swiss voters approved a proposition Sunday banning facial coverings in public. Niqabs and burqas, worn by almost no one even among the country’s Muslim population, will be banned outside of religious institutions. The new law doesn’t apply to facial coverings for health reasons.

      Switzerland will join several European countries that have implemented a ban on facial coverings, including France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria.

      I’m opposed to this shit, because it is oppressive, and evil. And it amazes me that NPR will probably run a piece right after this one discussing why Americans have such a big “Racist” problem, as opposed to the enlightened Europeans.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I didn’t see this sort of thing spreading beyond France. But here we are.

      • CPRM

        I am against it being a law, but think hiding your face should be against the cultural norms. But, now it’s COVID world, so WTF do I know?

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Ready.gov has samples plans for businesses that can give you a sense of the questions to consider. During this time period you may also want to consider:

    I don’t see “Arm yourself” on that list. Weird.

  50. Old Man With Candy

    “They killed Nephilium!”

    “YOU BASTARDS!”

    • Nephilium

      Nah. I’m not dead. Just a bit bruised, battered, and embarrassed. Didn’t help that I had some work to get done yesterday, and headed over to my parents’ house for my dad’s birthday.

      • Old Man With Candy

        We figured you were dragging your way through dinner yesterday. How did it go?

      • Nephilium

        It went well. Mom went and got the shots, dad is avoiding them. No masks being worn in the house. My sister didn’t bring up anything about them or the lockdowns. Nephews both grew about a foot since the last time I saw them (they’re both taller then the girlfriend now) and should be starting in person school again today.

      • Old Man With Candy

        they’re both taller then the girlfriend now

        Low bar. She’s even shorter than Banjos, I think.

      • Mojeaux

        So, what happened Saturday? I tried to come in after work but nobody let me in.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Very high BACs. Next time that happens, text SP, she’s usually on pretty late and can verbally prod whichever drunk is hosting.

      • Mojeaux

        Ah, okay, thanks.

      • Tres Cool

        I happen to be off tonight, in case anyone is hosting a “start of the week, vampiric, conference Zoom”

      • Mojeaux

        Sunday and Monday nights are my only nights off from Night Gig, so no go for me.

      • Mojeaux

        I had a really awesome medical story to tell too.

      • Old Man With Candy

        If it involves playing doctor, I’m sure everyone will want to hear about it.

      • Mojeaux

        No. It wasn’t degloving, circumcision, or blowing half your body off with fireworks, but it was right up there in the hall of fame.

  51. juris imprudent

    Interesting interview by Taibbi.

    In other words, Gurri’s book doesn’t just point and blame, in the manner of most recent political non-fiction. He asks both the justifiably angry public and those working in hated elite institutions to look inward. Voters, while they should demand fairness and strike out against corruption, may also need to readjust expectations for government, and resist nihilistic solutions. Meanwhile, institutions like the news media need to recognize that a recent history of blunders — not just whoppers like the WMD mess, but constant worship at the altar of “experts” like Alan Greenspan, who in crises later prove to be clueless — have cost them dearly.

    • Chipwooder

      Gurri: First, I hold that Trump was a symptom — an effect rather than a cause.

      Bada-bing. The media establishment has studiously ignored this fact for many years now because it’s inconvenient for them. While there are of course a number of people who are devotees of Trump the man, the bulk of his support stemmed from his role as a symbolic rejection of the traditional political order. Since that rejection is also an indictment of the media establishment as well as the political establishment, they really don’t want to admit it.

      • juris imprudent

        This is Taibbi in first person discussing covering Trump in Iowa in ’16 (subscriber article):

        Later, I sat in the park discussing Trump’s stubborn grasp on the lead with another reporter, an Iowan. “It’s amazing,” he said, shaking his head. “We’re beating the shit out of the guy, and he just won’t die.” He compared it to a nightmare, where you stab an attacking monster over and over, and nothing happens.

        Taibbi still has enough journalist blood in him to have the MSM reaction, but he’s been honest enough about getting beyond that prejudice/ignorance.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I’m reading Taibbi’s book Hate Inc. now. I kind of wish I hadn’t started, since I had thought of him as an honest lib, but in the book he repeats the Charlottesville hoax, decries the superficiality of the media yet still engages in name calling, and thinks that in the old days the media was not biased. I guess he’s more honest than most, but he still has his blind spots. Given that he’s a lefty I probably should have expected to disagree with a lot of what he writes.

  52. PieInTheSky

    Well a month after telling restaurants they can reopen in Bucharest they no closed it again and reintroduced the restriction again going outside of your home between 23:00 and 5:00 unless you have a good reason. Although some are pushing to get that down to 22:00. Cinemas and theaters are also closed again. Bucharest passed the dreaded 3 new cases people per 1000 for the last fortnight.

    The gyms are still open though.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am generally not around for glibfit but whenever I read it Monday morning I am always amused at the concept of paying what seems to be 1250 Lei for a skipping rope “bundle”

      • Tejicano

        I will admit that at first blush I was thinking something similar. But after reading through it and thinking about it I could see myself ordering a set too. It would be very easy to take along on trips to keep my fitness going where there are few/no other options.

      • PieInTheSky

        I am sure cheaper weighted skipping ropes are out there. Also crossrope has very aggressive marketing which makes me believe it is quite overpriced, it is a pattern in fitness.

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, there could be cheaper options. I would probably search a bit before ordering – but I wouldn’t feel ripped off if that was the best package for the range of weights available.

  53. Pope Jimbo

    I missed this letter from King Walz where he lays out his criteria for ending his emergency powers.

    Before he can lay down his heavy burden, he will need the legislature to pass laws codifying all of his emergency decrees. Because that is democracy I guess.

    With a light now at the end of the tunnel, I encourage you to begin the work of enacting into law the core provisions of the emergency response that have been keeping Minnesotans safe. This will be needed to facilitate the the wind-down of the peace time emergency and related emergency executive orders at a time when the pandemic presents a less significant and rapidly evolving challenge to Minnesota.

    • Swiss Servator

      The Senate has voted you Dictator Perpetuus!”

      • bacon-magic

        I am the SENATE!

  54. Not Adahn

    Tee Hee.

    Some merry pranksters have started a new gender, “super straight,” and are going all in — flag, colors, symbols, the works. And they’re replying to all naysayers with pitch-perfect copies of the counterarguments.

    Wherever your favorite culturewar products are sold.

  55. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, institutions like the news media need to recognize that a recent history of blunders — not just whoppers like the WMD mess, but constant worship at the altar of “experts” like Alan Greenspan, who in crises later prove to be clueless — have cost them dearly.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

  56. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I’ll give Google credit. Getting off of their services is not that easy.

    *resumes fucking around with email servers because that’s really the highest and best use of my time… NOT*

    • R C Dean

      Its actually impossible unless you don’t use the internet. They have salted the web with so many scripts that most websites don’t even function if you block Google scripts.

  57. CPRM

    I just watched Coming 2 America. It has it’s moments. I’m not a reactionary, so even though some of the messages in the film have been stuffed down our throats, it fit the story, so meh. But no mention of the evils of hereditary rule, just who should be counted as eligible for it gets it a downgrade on a philosophical front. Over her entire career Leslie Jones has had only one character, and it is an annoying one, no different here.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      My name is Stinky
      And I’m the best
      All the DJs want
      To squeeze my breasts
      *beatboxing*

      I’ll watch it then, was kind of afraid it’d ruin the first one for me.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I watched the initial trailer and thought it really had promise, then watched the long trailer on Amazon and realized it wasn’t going to live up to my expectations.

      • CPRM

        I had no expectations beyond, ‘I’m drunk, an Eddie Murphey movie on a service I already pay for, why not’. To be sure, some of the best moments were in the trailers, but except the Dolomite movie this may be the best Eddie Murphey movie in near 20 years. Sure, some of the best moments were call backs to other characters and the plot is pretty much just a reversal of the first film, but it’s better than ‘A Thousand Words’ or ‘Daddy Day Care’…

      • Tres Cool

        “Bowfinger” is highly underrated

      • CPRM

        Bowfinger was 99, so that falls within my parameters of good Eddy Murphey.

  58. Count Potato

    “When Google employees complained to human resources about racism or sexism at work, they were advised to seek mental health care or go on a medical leave

    Sources described how Google HR made them feel like they were the problem.”

    https://twitter.com/aprilaser/status/1368586607117234180

    • PieInTheSky

      was this actual racism/sexism or pretend?

      • Old Man With Candy

        From reading the story, what you have is an employee who has a make-work job with no value added to the company, an attitude, and an inability to get along with anyone. But it’s not her fault, it’s all those other people.

      • PieInTheSky

        Cruz, who is Mexican American and prefers to be identified by the pronouns they/them, – honestly I kind of stopped here

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Urge Cruz to take medical leave and tend to their mental health before moving to a new role in the company. Cruz went on medical leave, and hoped to take the company up on its offer for a new position, they said. But Cruz was turned down from every role they applied for, so they were forced to quit.

        Gah, it hurts to read.

      • R C Dean

        Cruz, who is Mexican American

        If that description is going to be used at all, it should be used for dual citizens.

      • R C Dean

        Tough to say. Were they complaining about anti-white racism? Because I could absolutely see Google telling people complaining about that they are mentally ill.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Do that where I work, and the answer is a smile and, “The gate is there and you’re not locked in.”

      • Chipwooder

        As it should be everywhere

      • Old Man With Candy

        Cherry on the sundae: we’re encouraged to carry and the boss runs shooting classes for the female employees.

      • CPRM

        “shooting classes”, sure (;

      • Tres Cool

        Carry what? Carry a tune? Carry on ? Carry over ? Carrie Fisher? Harry Carey ?

      • Sean

        Drugs.

        They’re drug mules.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Official pronouncement in a company-wide email from the CEO in response to an employee question:

        “(Company name) is a concealed carry and open carry facility.” Some impressive guns and knives are on parade here.

      • Not Adahn

        Not “carry me back to ol’ Virginee,” that would be racist.

    • leon

      isn’t the purpose of HR to make everyone hate their life at the company.

    • Not Adahn

      In her six years at Google, Curley said she never received a raise or promotion, which depends on managers’ input. She was assigned nine different managers during her tenure, two of whom she reported to human resources for allegedly mistreating her and her team, a majority of whom were Black women. Each time, Curley says she was told that Google had investigated the complaints and found nothing wrong.

      If everyone you meet is an asshole…

  59. Lord Humungus

    EF and I recently decided to cut down on the drinking of spirits, switching to a 15-pack of beer for the weekend.

    I’m a pretty big fan of Founder’s but their Solid Gold beer tastes like, well, Molson or Labatts, or any other generic weak-kneed lager. Time to break out the Black Label!

    It certainly reduced my urge to drink alcohol.

    • R C Dean

      I’ve decided I need to cut out the nightcap. I tried cutting it down, but then started topping it off. Which likely resulted in more booze than when I decided to cut back.

      Starting tonight, no mas.

      Pray for me.

      • Raven Nation

        I went from a nightcap to an end-of-working-day drink around 6pm. Did wonders for my sleep patterns.

  60. SP

    You will notice I have removed the “updated” custom avatar plugin and installed a different solution.

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    • UnCivilServant

      All’s good. Thanks for the attention.

    • egould310

      “ Sorry for the inconvenience.“

      Don’t even sweat it, SP. I’m amazed that you keep the site running so well. You got mad skills! And I’m truly thankful for all your effort and for the awesome site you built.

      • egould310

        And my avatar changed back to Pete Shelley. Today is a good day.

      • rhywun

        Mine’s not changing again. You guy’s gave me shit over it.

      • rhywun

        D’ammit!

      • SP

        The previous plugin created a different file directory and naming convention for avatars. This solution uses different WP avatar functions which are pulling the avatars from a different database table.

      • CPRM

        So only those of us who are secure in our self identification as a pair of Aviator sunglasses are immune? Sounds #Science to me.

    • KromulentKristen

      Thanks for the work, SP!

      Good opportunity to change mine again

      • juris imprudent

        muwhahahaha

    • Mojeaux

      Thanks, SP!

      It’s AMAZING how much I’ve come to depend on the avatars to tell me who’s talking.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s easier to recognize an image that to sift the text.

      • Mojeaux

        Yep. Now I need to go back to monkey brain.

    • Tundra

      I missed this avatar!

      Thanks for everything, SP!

    • bacon-magic

      You rock.

    • DEG

      Thanks SP!

    • Gender Traitor

      Thanks a bunch, SP!

      Ah! So THIS is the avatar it reverted to! I can live with this happily at least until I can get home to my laptop. I don’t foresee TOO many complaints.

      • Mojeaux

        You’re just drawn that way.

  61. Ownbestenemy

    Thank god for engineers that developed the TCAS system. When humans are dicking around bored because they have little traffic to deal with that is when the sky was almost raining down aircraft parts.

    • Nephilium

      OBE:

      For Viva, the girlfriend and I usually fly in the Wednesday before, and leave the Tuesday after. As it currently stands, that’s September 8th through the 14th. If you’re going to try to make it to the event, I believe they’ve got a limited amount of tickets on sale now. If you just want to check out a single day, the Car Show day is the one to get a ticket for. That’s where the headliners are playing, as well as a large amount of vendors.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ::Thumbs Up:: Okay we were thinking of doing the whole show weekend, still not sure yet though. The four-day package isn’t a bad price.

      • CPRM

        Meh, if nothing else meet at the Fat Burger on the strip and go out and then go get some yarder Margaritas.

      • Nephilium

        Yeah. To get into any of the bars or the vendor rooms at the Orleans you need a wristband. I’m mildly concerned that they don’t have any bands listed for this year yet, but I’ve not been disappointed in past years.

        I’m also going to guess there’s going to be a lot less overseas visitors to Viva this year as well.

  62. The Late P Brooks

    Murder! Mayhem!

    About 50 people were vaccinated Saturday at a site in south Florida despite not being eligible, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesperson.
    It all began when “some individuals” arrived at a vaccination site in Florida City, about 40 miles south of Miami, and told staff they were health care workers, FEMA spokesperson Marty Bahamonde told CNN on Sunday.
    Staff asked them for proof of their status, but “they were unable to validate that they were health care workers,” Bahamonde said.

    “So the staff, trusting them and taking their word for it instead of turning them away, they gave them the vaccine,” Bahamonde said. “Those people then went out and told their friends, ‘Hey, I went in and just said this and got a free vaccine.’ And more and more people started to come in and then the word got out that people were getting vaccine who didn’t meet the governor’s criteria.”

    Obviously, de Santis wants everybody to die.

    Also, TRUMP.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re having no questions asked vac clinics in my area too. As long as the people who want one can receive one who cares?

      • R C Dean

        Our motto is “An arm is an arm.” Of course, we comply with Gov. Ducey’s (Idiot-AZ) mandates. We had a pop-up clinic in a poor Hispanic neighborhood. The priorities were healthcare, over 75, pubsec, and Native American. So when people would show up who didn’t qualify, we’d repeat “Native American” and ask them again (and again) if they were sure they didn’t qualify. Some took the hint, some didn’t.

    • CPRM

      about 40 miles south of Miami

      Cuba?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        As a native born Miamian, I too questioned this.

        It’s less than 30 miles by the shortest (though likely slowest) route.

        As the bird travels would be well under that.

        But in no fucking universe is Florida City 40 miles south of Miami.

      • UnCivilServant

        Here’s what happened – Someone went to google maps and asked for directions from miami to florida city. They got center to center distances of 38.7 miles by the default route.

      • UnCivilServant

        *the default route includes some driving west before turning south, and is not direct.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That’s High Quality Journalism-ing, ain’t it?

    • Chipwooder

      “Those people”? Who are “those people”???

      • R C Dean

        You know, them.

      • Rat on a train

        Robert Downey Jr?

  63. The Late P Brooks

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    Don’t be sorry. Some of us couldn’t website our way out of a bowl of banana pudding.

    • Tres Cool

      Biden ?

  64. The Late P Brooks

    I’m a pretty big fan of Founder’s but their Solid Gold beer tastes like, well, Molson or Labatts, or any other generic weak-kneed lager. Time to break out the Black Label!</em.

    I haven't seen it lately (also haven't looked), but I like Guinness Blonde, now and then. It might be a bit less weak at the knees.

  65. The Late P Brooks

    As long as the people who want one can receive one who cares?

    What sort of monster would ask a question like that?

    What about teh victim bingo?

  66. The Late P Brooks

    But Cruz was turned down from every role they applied for, so they were forced to quit.

    “Sorry, I’ve got more than enough dead weight around here already. You take it.”

    • CPRM

      Needs some hot sauce, but otherwise edible.

      • PieInTheSky

        there was some blackout sriracha in there

      • CPRM

        If the hot sauce doesn’t change the color of the entire dish, you haven’t added enough.

      • UnCivilServant

        “It turned teal.”

        “Okay, that might be a bit much.”

      • CPRM

        Is teal considered a green or a blue?

  67. The Late P Brooks

    So when people would show up who didn’t qualify, we’d repeat “Native American” and ask them again (and again) if they were sure they didn’t qualify. Some took the hint, some didn’t.

    “As a matter of fact, I WAS born here.”

    • R C Dean

      “Herd immunity don’t care.”

  68. Tundra

    The most recent Darkhorse Podcast is quite good.

    Loose the Seuss.

    They are pretty honest lefties who are strong critics of the woke bullshit. She gets on my nerves sometimes, but they are solid thinkers.

    Recommended.

    • PieInTheSky

      “They are pretty honest lefties” “they are solid thinkers” does not compute…

      strong critics of the woke bullshit – I assume because it distracts from old fashioned socialism

      • Tundra

        If that’s easier for you, roll with it.

        I enjoy their work. I haven’t been listening long, but they are actual scientists who are comfortable calling out the anti-science shit being shoved down our collective throats.

      • PieInTheSky

        I am familiar with Brett’s work he has a net footprint

  69. juris imprudent

    Speaking of wokeness and herd immunity – intersecting even!

    There are tens of millions of Americans who either have been stung, or turned off, by McCarthyite wokeness (and thus have anti-wokeness antibodies). More have been vaccinated from its latest virulent strains by their own values of judging people as individuals, not as racial or gender collectives. So lots of Americans have developed peremptory defenses against it. The result is that daily there are ever-fewer who are susceptible to the woke pandemic. And it will thus begin to fade out—even as the virus desperately seeks to mutate and go after more institutions.

  70. Richard

    Avatar test

    • juris imprudent

      Nixon?!?

    • Rat on a train

      Did my avatar fail? Virtual learning hasn’t been effective.

    • rhywun

      Americans might be more obsessed with the royals than Englanders at this point.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        IIRC, Americans have always been oddly obsessed with the royals. Many’s a time during my life when I’d be watching some Canadian legacy media report over a royal visit to the ‘States and detect the puzzled tone of everyone in the story when noting the reactions of the Americans to the visit. During those times, the Americans were more Canadian than the Canadians.

      • Rat on a train

        Americans are obsessed with celebrities.