Sunday Morning Pewless Links

by | Mar 21, 2021 | Daily Links | 173 comments

Trick question, though- it starts at night. (((We)))’re wily and always looking for material to take money off ignorant goyim in bar bets. 71% of them, at least.

Birthdays today include a guy who wrote some songs in between massive amounts of fucking; a guy whose work was truly transformative; a guy who completely trolled us on his last name; a guy whose life’s work turned out to be folly; a guy who was John Wayne long before there was a John Wayne; the Adolf Eichmann of grapes; Q’s spirit animal; a guy who has had sex with horses; a woman who has had sex with… god knows what; and a guy who totally didn’t get where he is because of his parents, nossir.

 

SWARM! SWARM! SWARM!

 

Give them a little more time, they’ll get it.

 

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

 

Legacy of the Trump Era. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

 

OK, Shmuley, if you need some, buy some. Don’t ask us to pay.

 

I am not often sympathetic to Germans. This time I am.

 

Who could ever imagine our betters enriching themselves through their political power?

 

Old Guy Music is from a young fella I’ve featured before. Punk? Folk? Indie rock? Fuck, I have no idea.

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Old Man With Candy

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173 Comments

  1. Surly Knott

    Ahhh, Bach.

    • Tejicano

      I hadn’t known until recently that Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor had been a lost work – either not published in his lifetime or forgotten until generations later in 1833. It’s hard to imagine a work which is so well known today was all but unknown for so long.

      • Surly Knott

        Very little of Bach’s work was published during his lifetime. He was better known as a performer than as a composer.

      • Tejicano

        “a guy who wrote some songs in between massive amounts of fucking; ”

        “He was better known as a performer than as a composer.”

        Ahem…

    • Tres Cool

      +1 Radar O’Reilly

    • Aloysious

      We’re Bach in the saddle again…

      /hums Aerosmith.

      To be honest, I feel a little sacrilegious. Blasphemous, even.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Rice, who served as the president of her author and speaking business SERice LLC, earned roughly $620,000 from various corporate and academic speaking engagements in the past year, and $250,000 from book royalties, with her total income from the past year amounting to between $2 million and $6.7 million.

    Raw talent, guts and business savvy.

    Whycome you hates American Dream?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It seems Professional Liar is a burgeoning career field.

      • juris imprudent

        Although highly compensated, it is still a niche occupation – principally centered in one geographic area.

      • Ted S.

        I don’t know; there are lawyers throughout the country….

  3. The Late P Brooks

    “These White House officials are experienced government leaders whose past private sector experience is part of a broad and diverse skill set they bring to government service,” a White House spokesperson told ABC News in a statement. “They have returned to government because of their deep commitment to public service, their desire to help bring our nation out of this time of crisis, and their strong belief that government can work for the American people.”

    Wheeeeeeee!

    • Ted S.

      Now do Betsy DeVos.

    • rhywun

      Careful, don’t want to spin yourself dizzy.

    • Grummun

      private sector experience

      They never fucking “worked” in the private sector. When they were in the public sector, they peddled influence; then the teams changed and they had to leave, so they monetized their contacts in the permanent bureaucracy to peddle influence indirectly; now the teams have changed again, so they can go back to peddling influence directly.

      • Chafed

        So much this.

  4. Flawgic

    “SERice LLC”

    Surely, she didn’t build that!

  5. The Late P Brooks

    I’ll huff! And I’ll Puff!

    “A street alliance among right-wing paramilitary forces, law enforcement and demagogic politicians has been a hallmark of fascism for a century, so the involvement of multiple law enforcement officers from across the country in waging the Jan. 6th insurrection against the Capitol and the Congress is a warning sign of danger for our democracy,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told USA TODAY. “Off-duty cops beating up on-duty cops to overthrow an election is a nightmare scenario for America.”

    The Capitol insurrection, where 140 police officers were injured and three later died, featured numerous examples of violent extremism and white supremacy. Rioters carried Confederate flags and nooses, and wore shirts saying the deaths of six million Jews during the Holocaust weren’t enough. Amid the crowd, law enforcement officers reveled in social media posts about how they “attacked the government,” according to court documents.

    ——-

    Concerns about white nationalists infiltrating police departments have percolated for years. A 2006 FBI report warned that “white supremacist presence among law enforcement personnel is a concern due to the access they may possess to restricted areas vulnerable to sabotage and to elected officials or protected persons, whom they could see as potential targets for violence,” as happened at the Capitol.

    “Their presence in law enforcement impedes official responses to right-wing terrorism, places loyal officers in peril, and exposes vulnerable communities to lawless violence by white supremacists dressed in blue,” said Raskin, who has investigated the infiltration of white supremacists in law enforcement as chairman of a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee.

    Just like Nazi Germany.

    Don’t those cops know their duty is to unfailingly enforce the political policies of the Democratic Party?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      And they keep calling us a Democracy, Fools,

    • juris imprudent

      That is the problem with oath keepers – they are keeping the wrong oath.

    • cavalier973

      “…, and wore shirts saying the deaths of six million Jews during the Holocaust weren’t enough.”

      So…they acknowledge the Holocaust was not a hoax, or what?

  6. rhywun

    Ask a Jew™:

    My company, in addition to Labor Day and Yom Kippur, is giving us six unnamed paid holidays in September that we did not get last year. All are Tuesdays and Wednesdays: the 7th, 8th, 21st, 22nd, 28th, and 29th.

    My question is: What are (((you guys))) up to?

    • Sean

      Holy hell.

      /Totally jealous

      • Don escaped Cancun

        the work load doesn’t go down

        you just don’t hafta show at the office those days

      • rhywun

        I don’t have to show at the office on any day.

    • Gender Traitor

      Heck, we only just got Columbus Day a few years ago, and now I wonder when we’re going to lose it.

    • Rat on a train

      I worked for a Jewish-owned company (Mezuzah at every office door). They gave us all federal holidays. By the time the company was sold to Gentiles, it was converted to 10 extra days of PTO to use as you like. Either way was easier than dealing with whose holidays were observed.

  7. Chipping Pioneer

    a guy who has had sex with horses

    That took me a minute. I thought I had missed some scandal.

    • Ted S.

      I figured it was Peter Shaffer’s birthday.

      • Flawgic

        I was thinking John McAfee.

      • limey

        Kenneth Pinyan?

      • Suthenboy

        I thought McAfee had a whale fetish.

      • Flawgic

        Horses are a gateway animal to whales.

  8. Chipping Pioneer

    Hate crime? I think that guy’s problem is that he really likes Asian women.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Hmmm… “dating” is the a word that my phone suggested right after typing “Asian”.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Dating Asian women. That seems pretty normal.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        I thought that it was fetishizing them and therefore racist. I can’t keep up.

      • Chafed

        Let’s check with Straffinrun.

      • Hyperion

        Only about half of my American co-workers and friends are married to one.

        There’s your racism proof right there.

      • Tejicano

        Probably the biggest vector for hate against Asians comes from white women (feminists in particular) who feel threatened by the sight of a white dude with an Asian chick.

        Of course not all white women feel this but there are enough to make it a thing.

      • Rat on a train

        You are required to rotate through other races or you are racists against them.

    • Drake

      I don’t watch enough mainstream media to have seen the current narrative. While picking up food the other night the TV news reader was breathlessly describing the wave of anti-Asian hate crimes. I lol’ed and wondered if they have now outsourced their news writing staff to communist China.

      • Suthenboy

        You have to wonder?

  9. rhywun

    Amid this backdrop, authorities have had to grapple with throngs of college students and young people who have flocked to the warm shores of Miami Beach.

    Oh noes! ?

    Do better, Florida.

    • Chafed

      That’s never happened before and certainly not this time of year.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Some of them might be having unprotected sex too!

      • Gender Traitor

        You mean without wearing masks?

      • Chafed

        This gal gets it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Only sailors and prostitutesAsians and allergy suffers wear condomsmasks, baby!”

        /Austin Powers defrosted in 2021

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      This one bothers me.

      Florida has been fully open for months, with the exception of Miami-Dade county which had a curfew. It was just lifted within the past week or so.

      Now they come out and announce a new curfew on a section of South Beach. This would NEVER have happened before covid, and now it’s response #1.

      We’re fucked. Expect every outbreak of flu, or any excuse they find convenient, to be met with mandatory business closures or other restrictions from on high that NEVER would have even been considered.

      • Hyperion

        Any new virus or new strain of an existing virus will be declared a pandemic from now on.

        The next vaccine will be a chip with location tracking. We tried to tell you plebes to behave and you just can’t.

        When that vaccine fails to get you into line, we’ll need a new chip and that one will be updatable remotely so we can change the rules on the fly, for your own good.

  10. juris imprudent

    Goldberg’s mother was Steinberger – and she was Episcopalian?

  11. Ted S.

    a guy whose work was truly transformative

    Is Hendrik Lorentz chopped liver?

  12. The Late P Brooks

    CNN explains it

    What’s a filibuster? Democrats may finally ax a relic of our racist past

    You’re going to start to hear a lot more about Democrats’ efforts to end the filibuster in the US Senate. If successful, it’ll be an important move supported by good-government advocates as well as political progressives who want to defrost the levers of government and make them work in a big way instead of in increments.

    The short version of the story is that Democrats want to reinterpret Senate rules so they can use just 50 votes to pass things like their voting rights bill or the massive infrastructure package that President Joe Biden is expected to introduce.

    More than a hundred years in the making, the effort will be fraught with histrionic warnings about the tyranny of majority rule.

    The US Chamber of Commerce kicked things off Friday, with Executive Vice President Neil Bradley telling CNN Business reporter Matt Egan that ending the filibuster “would fundamentally destroy the stability of the American legal and policy apparatus.”

    Why? It would amplify the yo-yo nature of today’s Washington, with each successive Congress undoing whatever the previous one had done, Bradley claimed.

    The Senate was designed to work on supermajority votes in order to generate compromise. Instead the system has created paralysis. This is a world where three-fifths is the only meaningful majority, “debate” is code for delay and party loyalty has overtaken the greater good.

    Anything which impedes the progressive agenda is nothing less than the subversion of DEMOCRACY!

    Racism, plain and simple.

    • rhywun

      defrost the levers of government and make them work in a big way

      This is considered a “good thing” at CNN. *shudder*

      The fun part is that the same writer will probably be assigned to write the exact opposite argument in two years after the GOP takes over again. “We must slow the advance of racisty fascism argle bargle…”

    • Raven Nation

      He’s their political analysis guy so the whole column is just objective analysis, right?

      He did acknowledge that the Dems went nuclear first but they had to because of gop obstruction.

      He also has this hand wavy statement:

      “Cloture was adopted around World War I as a check on filibusters, when a few senators held up efforts by President Woodrow Wilson during the war in Europe”

      I’d love to know the details on that one.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The GOP obstructed them so much they didn’t even have a chance to red the bill they were voting on.

      • juris imprudent

        The Senate website has a dead link to the 1917 rule change. Fortunately wiki hasn’t been memory holed on it (yet).

        How dare some Senators defy President Wilson’s war-boner. What a primitive political system we had back then!

    • Don escaped Cancun

      yawn . . . who cares: there ain’t no filibuster in any document that binds me to the rest of these bozos

      win the Senate and enjoy, and if you can’t do that, shut your bitch ass up

      our problems are the broken philosophies, the unworkable economics, the control- and rent-seeking of our neighbors, not the mechanics of one house of the federal legislature

      • juris imprudent

        the control- and rent-seeking of our neighbors

        ding-ding-ding

      • The Last American Hero

        I cares about the road to serfdom vs. the freeway to serfdom.

      • juris imprudent

        pssst – high speed rail

      • ruodberht

        Or win and not have the votes counted. Either way, really! I can’t possibly see how it would affect me!

    • Flawgic

      “…good-government advocates…”

      Government for whose good?

    • JMBOO

      Well, it is either racism or COVOID anymore. Sometimes both.

  13. rhywun

    Belaboring the obvious.

    In Berlin, protesters — described by the Berlin Spectator as right-wing extremists — clashed with police after they ordered them to abide by COVID-19 rules to wear masks and social distance, leading to several arrests.

    • juris imprudent

      International white-nationalism.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Just when you thought we were out of the woods

    The pandemic’s end is in sight — but right now, the US is in a critical spot.
    A highly contagious — and potentially more deadly — coronavirus variant is spreading across the US, threatening to send infection numbers spiking once again. Meanwhile, the number of vaccines administered across the country is growing, as officials work to get as many shots into arms as possible in hopes of soon being able to suppress the spread of the virus.
    It’s a “neck and neck” race between the two, one expert says.

    “This is crunch time,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN on Saturday. “This is going to be our most difficult period right now in terms of seeing who wins out.”

    With less than a quarter of all Americans having received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine — and only about 13% fully vaccinated — doubling down on safety measures now is what could help curb another surge, experts have repeatedly stressed.

    “If we can hang on another month, another six weeks, that’s going to make a huge difference,” Hotez added.
    Instead, air travel is hitting pandemic-era records, with TSA screening more than 1.4 million people at airports Friday — the biggest day for air travel more than a year.

    Spring break crowds are swelling, with Miami Beach officials declaring a state of emergency Saturday in response to crowds the mayor says have been “more than we can handle.”

    And at least a dozen governors — and multiple local leaders — have eased restrictions this month, while several have done away with mask mandates completely.

    Madness! Suicide!

    Lock it all down.

    • mrfamous

      “If we can hang on another month, another six weeks…”

      Considering we’re on week 54 of “two weeks to flatten the curve” you’ll excuse us if we don’t believe you.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        If we can hang on another month, another six weeks…

        Fuck off.

      • Rat on a train

        It needs to continue at least through November 2022.

    • Sean

      Blow the bridges! Close the borders!

      Oh wait…

      • juris imprudent

        No, it’s lock-down everything BUT the border!

      • juris imprudent

        Speaking to that, has anyone checked to see if Dalmia is working for the Biden admin?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Get back to me when they mandate not wearing a mask.

      • rhywun

        But… but… aSyMPtoMaTIc sPReAd!

        Seriously, they will use any excuse to demand that you bend to their will.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    a few senators held up efforts by President Woodrow Wilson during the war in Europe

    Those traitorous bastards!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The President’s word should acted on without question, it is known.

  16. Don escaped Cancun

    “a guy who was John Wayne”

    John Wayne wasn’t John Wayne, the badass from Texas and war hero. He was Marion Robert Morrison from Iowa (NTTAWWI), who strutted in uniform on screen after flouncing about USC and went on to somehow avoid all these very important wars he believed in. He is the great American: the poseur.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘John Wayne wasn’t John Wayne’

      John Wayne spent his life pretending to be Ted Williams.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    The world we’ve made

    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was harassed by a “Karen” at the gym for refusing to wear a mask on the treadmill.

    “I was on the treadmill the other day and some Karen goes and tells the people ‘he’s on a treadmill and he’s running without a mask,’” Paul sneered during an interview with Tucker Carlson Friday. “Is this the world we’re going to live in, where everyone is reporting everyone and the Gestapo is going to come arrest you?”

    Paul used the appearance to also attack Anthony Fauci, now serving as President Biden’s chief medical advisor. Paul accused the doctor of lying about the risks about immune populations spreading the disease in order to promote mask compliance overall.

    “There are no news reports and no scientific studies saying that after vaccination that there is some sort of widespread contagion that people vaccinated are spreading the disease,” Paul said. “What Fauci won’t tell you is that he’s telling you a noble lie. He’s lying to you because he doesn’t think we’re smart enough to make decisions. His fear is if the vaccinated quit wearing the mask, the unvaccinated will say what the hell I’m not wearing a mask either.”

    Like a large number of his colleagues and officials in Washington, Rand Paul is a coronavirus survivor, contracting it back in April 2020.

    Resistance is futile.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Shouldn’t “survivor’ be used for deadlier stuff? Ebola survivor is OK but I don’t know if coronavirus survivor cuts the mustard.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Deadlier stuff? There’s nothing deadlier than coronavirus with it’s 99.9968% mortality rate.

        Oh nevermind, that’s backwards. 99.9968% is the survival rate among the unvaccinated gen pop in the J&J trial.

      • JMBOO

        But CORONAVOID cured like 99.996% of all other viruses. Because there can be only one…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Laundromat, Big sign, no masks, Wesco for Beer, No masks, Disc Golf course? Fuck You, no Mask!
      that’s todays agenda,
      This is one Giant LIE! and you can hear it in people when they speak, like everyone just gave in and gave up,
      I Will Not Comply.

    • rhywun

      the unvaccinated will say what the hell I’m not wearing a mask either

      Get out of my head.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Shouldn’t “survivor’ be used for deadlier stuff? Ebola survivor is OK but I don’t know if coronavirus survivor cuts the mustard.

    Are you kidding? If you even know someone who had it, you’re a survivor, and deserving of special treatment and benefits.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      The Shit Killed my Wife, where’s my special status?
      Fuck that Shit…..

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      When we’re all victims. who will be the victimizers?

      • Ted S.

        The government, of course.

      • Tejicano

        It’s not like they really want to you know. But somebody’s got to do it.

      • JMBOO

        White Supremacists.

    • Gender Traitor

      having performed in Gerard Alessandrini’s Spamilton, a parody of Hamilton

      Would pay to see, unlike the original.

    • TARDis

      YT CC substituted nicked for licked. Heh.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      She’s funny, but I’m creeped out by the dirty hipsters in the background.

    • juris imprudent

      It’s Sunday – who’s at work?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Party of fiscal responsibility justice

    By some estimates, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans manage to avoid paying about a quarter-trillion dollars of owed taxes every single year. Now, new government data show that audits of the super-rich and large corporations have hit a new low, leaving billions of dollars of uncollected taxes at precisely a moment when lawmakers say new revenue is needed to fund infrastructure and climate investments.

    In response, two progressive Democratic lawmakers have authored legislation cracking down on tax evasion.

    The new Internal Revenue Service figures compiled by Syracuse University researchers show that in the last eight years, there has been a 72 percent drop in the number of audits of those making more than $1 million. In all, 98 percent of those making more than $1 million did not face an audit last year.

    ——-

    Amid this decline in scrutiny of the rich, a letter to the Biden administration from 88 progressive groups pointed out: “Since 2011, audit rates for millionaires, who are disproportionately white, have dropped more than twice as much as for taxpayers claiming the (Earned Income Tax Credit), who are disproportionately people of color. Audit coverage is now the heaviest in many low-income majority-Black counties.”

    ——-

    “At a time when Americans face growing economic inequality and financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS is letting billions of dollars in tax revenue slip through its fingers,” wrote Syracuse researchers. “As public attention focuses on how the country can restore faith in our democratic institutions, one area that should not be overlooked is how the nation can better ensure that our income tax laws are fairly and effectively administered.”

    Fucking rich people, how we hates them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      When you create about eighty percent of your money out of thin air why bother with taxes at all on anyone? This is nothing but punitive bullshit aimed at productive members of society.

    • The Gunslinger

      Except people that win hundreds of millions of dollars playing powerball. We celebrate their hard work and sacrifice.

    • rhywun

      Now do all the ‘vid “relief” fraud, you fucking hack.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So you’re saying we should be auditing those who are net payers more than those who are net collectors.

      Sure, makes sense.

    • TARDis

      In response, two progressive Democratic lawmakers have authored legislation cracking down on tax evasion.

      Translation: Middle & Upper Middle Class, bend over. Here comes the government cock.

      I have been told more than once by CPAs the IRS prefers softer targets because the rich and wealthy have armies of lawyers. The battle is just not worth it. Better to shakedown a pilot or surgeon, or a small business person I guess.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    A July 2020 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that increasing funding for IRS enforcement by $40 billion would boost revenues by more than $100 billion over the next decade. New York University tax law professor Chye-Ching Huang has noted that in 2013, the Treasury Department estimated “that each additional dollar dedicated to IRS enforcement results in directly recouping about $6 in taxes owed.”

    According to my model, we can’t afford NOT to throw money at this.

    • juris imprudent

      The math does not check out.

    • rhywun

      Cha-ching!

      *ducks*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The fuckers haven’t even gotten to my 2019 return yet. It’s been four months.

      I imagine a large portion of the problem is that IRS employees are WFH right now and don’t really give a shit about doing their jobs.

      Throwing more money at the problem isn’t going to fix the workforce if they can’t fire them for not working.

      • rhywun

        I read somewhere tax day is moving to May 17.

  21. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Thanks for all the lynx.

    The Germany article hit all the right notes: “right-wing extremists”, heavy handed cops and this beauty:

    The rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine was halted across Europe over reports of blood clotting, but vaccination campaigns resumed Thursday after regulators found the benefits outweigh the risks.

    Oh, “regulators” say it’s safe? Well, that’s ok then.

    No thanks. I’ll take my chances with the bug.

    • Gender Traitor

      “Side effects may include stroke, but YOU DON’T HAVE TO ASK YOUR DOCTOR!! THIS VACCINE IS RIGHT FOR YOU!!!”

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        The BEAM vaccine is always right for you. {waggles eyebrows}

  22. The Late P Brooks

    regulators found the benefits outweigh the risks.

    They claim to have made an attempt to quantify risks and rewards?

    Talk about burying the lede…

    • Tejicano

      The benefits for them are worth the risks to you.

  23. db

    Bach wrote two Toccatas and Fugues in D Minor. The Dorian (BWV 538) is the better of the two, by far, in my opinion.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Today, in “There is no inflation, but sometimes you might get a little less for your dollar” news…

    I bought some toilet paper at the grocery store, recently. I pulled a roll out of the package a while ago, and I couldn’t help noticing it’s about 3/4″ narrower than the Costco roll. Huh.

    • Gender Traitor

      Yup. Noticed that some months back when I started saving the empty tubes to use as spools for yarn. Very clever (read: “sneaky.”)

  25. The Late P Brooks

    First bluebird of spring!

    • juris imprudent

      Saw crocuses and even some daffodils yesterday.

  26. Tundra

    LOL.

    Greenwald.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Sign of the Times:

    The headline story on Meet the Press is immigration, instead of the plague.

    Trump’s dastardly demolition of American immigration policy is to blame.

    Comrade Just Plain Folks will fix it, though. Give him time, and wait patiently.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Right wing infiltrators in American law enforcement, coming up.

    • juris imprudent

      It would explain the systemic racism; but that leaves the problem of why only LE should have guns.

      • Ozymandias

        I think I’ve finally ciphered a way this makes sense:

        Dems continue and complete their purge of both the military and police ranks to have NO MORE WHITE SUPREMACY!!!!
        …And then the only people who have guns are party loyalists.
        That’s the long-term play.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    “Voting rights” is today’s talking point.

    What does that mean? Whatever it takes.

    • rhywun

      It means the right of Democrats to helpfully collect your ballots and turn them in for you.

    • juris imprudent

      “Bring out yer dead!”

      • TARDis

        You’re they’re not fooling anyone!

  30. Gustave Lytton

    So far this week, I’ve received emails from an airline and a museum decrying a wave of Asian violence and hate crimes. Tell me again there’s no conspiracy at work.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The wokesters on staff are ever so eager to jump on board with the outrage du jour.

    • Tundra

      I’m starting to think that the post-election numbers were pretty bad for the Dems. Gotta rein in those pesky independent thinking Asians.

      • rhywun

        Maybe. I think it’s easier to just read this as a distraction from all the brewing scandals.

      • The Hyperbole

        This, and weren’t they pushing this Asian hate crime spike all last summer. Sure they’ve dialed it up since the shooting but I think its mostly standard prog woke identity pandering concern trolling or whatever you’d call it, not some deep dem vote fortification operation.

      • zwak

        I had a conversation with my brother in Oregon, last night. Besides the usual family matters, he brought up a call he received from a ‘friend.’ The friend wanted to check on my brother and the family amidst rising violence toward Asian Americans. While my brother appreciated the gesture, he told his friend that it wasn’t necessary. The friend said he had been concerned about all the anti-Asian violence ever since Trump and the “China” virus rhetoric.

        The friend knows my brother is a staunch conservative, so my brother got irritated. He asked the dude, what’s Trump got to do with the Georgia shootings and where was his phone call last year? The friend said he didn’t get what my brother was getting at. My brother replied that there were over 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian violence last year, yet you didn’t check on us. The friend said he didn’t know. My brother said, of course not—because no one besides us Asians cared. But now that you see a perp is a white male from the South, you start to care. You have to make this about YOU making a political statement rather than really caring about us, the Asian Americans.

        My brother is correct. How can we trust and believe your sentiments when you didn’t care last year when we pleaded for assistance? The district attorneys in the Bay area and NYC acted blind to our plight. The national mainstream media didn’t lend us their ear nor their voice because the narrative didn’t fit.

        But, now, you care.

        https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-white-liberals-asians-arent-your-pawns/

    • PieInTheSky

      Asians are a violent lot

  31. The Late P Brooks

    So far this week, I’ve received emails from an airline and a museum decrying a wave of Asian violence and hate crimes. Tell me again there’s no conspiracy at work.

    Pervasive anti-Asian racism is as plain as the nose on your face. Common sense and reality are not a conspiracy.

    • PieInTheSky

      plain as the nose on your face – this is antisemitic

    • Hyperion

      I’ve received emails from a most trusted anonymous source, so there you go. The investigators in the case and even the FBI are saying there is no evidence of racism in the case.

      Who am I going to believe? Better ask CNN.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Now they are talking about democratic “give and take”.

    Not mentioned: why the government should inject itself into every aspect of life.

    You want to get people to stop treating politics as some sort of life or death struggle? Stop making politics a life or death struggle.

    • PieInTheSky

      why the government should inject itself into every aspect of life. – because for the collectivist every aspect of life is for the people to decide not for the individual

  33. Gustave Lytton

    Popped up in my feed

    https://youtu.be/_l60cAz-PIc

    I was skeptical at first glance, but he’s exactly what is largely missing. A badge and a gun doesn’t make him a cop, nor does arresting people. Lots of concern trolls in the comments, their problem is he could get overpowered and his gun taken taken away (while ignoring that already happens to cops in the prime of their life and if you’re ending up in that sort of struggle, you’ve already lost your advantage even if you win) while ignoring the real issue of the mental faculties of a 91 year old (which in this case, still appear sharper than many younger cops).

  34. PieInTheSky

    This mikkeller bar in bucharest is fucking expensive. 4 us bucks for 200 ml of beer. Also this is the first time i saw imperial new england ipa as a style

  35. juris imprudent

    Fairly interesting read over at NR.

    Finally, in his Afghanistan analysis, while Bing correctly points out that our military could never transform Afghanistan, he is wrong to argue that we should remain indefinitely in the country to avoid damaging our reputation. Many who fought in this 20-year war already believe our reputation is damaged and want us to leave before it is damaged further. Sunk-costs logic should not apply here.

    How bad will it be if we agree to leave on May 1, as Trump agreed to, and the Taliban takes over, especially for women? When I visited Afghanistan in 2011, I asked a Taliban official how they would treat women if or when they took over. He told me not to worry — that they would not treat them any worse than our allies, the Saudis.

    • PieInTheSky

      Women under islam are empowered unlike in the corrupt west

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      “Sunk-costs logic” should never apply, but that’s just my White Privilege MBA training talking, so I guess we can ignore it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’ve always viewed “sunk-costs” through the lens of gambling: Never throw good money after bad.

        Fuck a sunk cost.

        It’s like those people who refuse to get out of a terrible relationship because they already spent so much time together. Cut your losses, GTFO.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        It’s a “logic” that is all-too-often used in business as well, and it’s led to many a ruin. ”Cut your losses” is a smart tactic virtually everywhere.

  36. Hyperion

    “Biden is on his heels amid a migrant surge at Mexico border”

    No worries, he’s going to fix it by getting into a nuclear war with Russia and China.

  37. PieInTheSky

    Taiwan was engulfed in “salmon chaos” (鮭魚之亂) this week as more than 300 people legally changed their names to “salmon” (鮭魚) to take advantage of a promotion at a Taiwanese sushi chain.

    A thread.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1373281874013999111

    • Rat on a train

      He can fuck right off for the last paragraph:

      Also worth mentioning the reason Taiwanese can go out to all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants and cause “salmon chaos” is because the government was super organized, everyone wore masks, and the pandemic was defeated early on, with Taiwan basically virus free for the past year.

  38. Hyperion

    “Israel needs the B-52 and MOP in order to deter Iran – opinion”

    This is in no way related to the fact that the US Military Industrial Complex needs to sell those planes.

    Look over there, pandemic!

    Look over here, border crisis!

    Look over that way, Cuomo is raping all de wiminz folk!

    Look over that other way, bad orange man!

    Look over right here, right wing extremists!

    Not necessarily in that order, but what planes?

    • Not an Economist

      B-52s haven’t been made in over 60 years. I think there might be some in the boneyard but it would be horrendously expensive to bring them back from the boneyard.

      • Plinker762

        Pretty sure except for some static display and museum planes, the non-operational ones had their tails chopped off for SALT.

  39. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Local authorities are also investigating whether the attacks meet the standard for hate crimes under Georgia’s law, passed last year. It allows additional penalties to be imposed for certain offenses when motivated by a victim’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender or disability.

    Let’s DEFINITELY focus on a crime we have to search for in lieu of the ones we can prove, and that he’s openly admitted to.

    Murder isn’t enough. We need to show HATE so we can keep up the White Supremacy motif going strong.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Peggy Noonan truly has her finger on the pulse of America.

    As long as she can find somebody willing to say what she so desperately wants to hear, she’ll have a place as a Meet the Press analyst.

  41. Hyperion

    “I am not often sympathetic to Germans. This time I am.”

    No worries, Merkel is going to fix it by importing a few million more 3rd world folks into the mix.

  42. Hyperion

    “Obama-era officials return to White House worth millions”

    Billions by the time they leave again. Feature, not bug.

  43. KromulentKristen

    Now it’s time to watch Baumgartner Restoration and Cecilia Blomdahl. See ya later!

  44. Muzzled Woodchipper

    We will have, I believe, by next month enough of those beds to take care of these children who have no place to go[.]

    I can think of at least 1 place they can go.

  45. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Experts consider such protests super-spreader events, citing two protests in November leading to a sharp increase in cases across Germany, according to ZEW economic institute in Mannheim.

    Now do the Mostly Peaceful Protests™️.

    • rhywun

      “Sharp increase in cases of love, tolerance, and understanding.”

      • Rat on a train

        peace intensified

  46. Muzzled Woodchipper

    “These White House officials are experienced government leaders whose past private sector experience is part of a broad and diverse skill set they bring to government service,” a White House spokesperson told ABC News in a statement. “They have returned to government because of their deep commitment to public service, their desire to help bring our nation out of this time of crisis, and their strong belief that government can work for the American people.”

    Yeah. It has nothing to do with peddling influence. It’s their experience and deep commitment to public service. That’s it.

  47. Q Continuum

    RE: Immigration.

    “Somehow, they didn’t see it coming.”

    Oh they saw it coming and it’s going exactly as planned. What they didn’t see was just how unpopular it really is; so much so that even DemOp propaganda outlets like the AP have to comment on it. That and the amazing hypocrisy of allowing COVID+ illegals into the country while simultaneously prohibiting legitimate international travel. No worries though, once they nuke the filibuster they can legalize everyone and change the racist immigration system once and for all.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Excellent!

    • DEG

      Nice!

  48. DEG

    The city of Miami Beach on Saturday declared a state of emergency over spring break crowds that have descended on the popular South Florida destination.

    Fuck off.

    I’m going to get lost in the Russ Meyer wiki entry.

  49. JMBOO

    Holy smokes!!! I know the guy in Old Man Music personnally. He did a show at my house. Cool as fuck. Ole!!!

    • Old Man With Candy

      Totally jelly. I love Newski’s stuff. When we lived near WI, we wanted to get him for a house concert, but moved away before we could pull that off.

  50. westernsloper

    I love it when the old man drops music links that aren’t jazz.?