Tonio’s Haphazard Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Jul 15, 2021 | Daily Links | 349 comments

 

“Homosexuality is ‘evil’ and ‘for whites,’” and your tax dollars are (maybe) subsidizing conversion therapy overseas. Also, papists! (via Washington Blade, the original source appears to be a petition farm). Money is, of course, fungible. Maybe instead of money we should be shipping them medical supplies, medicines, etc (SLDs apply, of course).

There, are you happy, MSNBC? Two Florida men arrested under new FL anti-riot laws for protesting for Cuban democracy in St Pete.

Knock me over with a feather boa. Cuban Head Commie admits there might be problems, but US still to blame, also “delinquents, “unsatisfied people” and “young people.” BLM agrees, praises regime.

Amazon employees quit, protest over sales of “anti-LGBTQ” book, which in reality appears to be only critical of letting little girls transition. Nobody is being forced to buy this book. This book is not subsidized with taxpayer dollars. Amazon carries plenty of pro-alphabet material of all types.

Il Papa no longer ill, and back at work. Still commie, though.

Gays (or maybe Furries) coming for your children, part two. This was posted in the comments this morning by Pie, but bears repeating. Because this is how you generate a backlash and undo years of hard work. This is how you play into the hand of the actual homophobes. And while drag queen story hour is nowhere near on this level of provocation it’s still pointless at best.

And now for something completely different. (Safe for work musical link)

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

349 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Every First has its thorn.
    Just like every night has its dawn
    Just like every seconder sings a sad sad song
    Every First has its thorn

    • blackjack

      Those lyrics are like poison.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Keep that up it will be No More Mister Nice guy from Swiss.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Seek ye not to first
      For the Good Book sayeth thus:
      The first shall be last

    • Rat on a train

      Those are prickles not thorns.

  2. Sean

    Yowza, indeed.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Maybe the hip belt helps with the strain of lordosis.

  3. Count Potato

    “BLM agrees, praises regime.”

    Awful, but predictable.

    • Winston

      Who would thunk a bunch of commies are in fact commies?

      • The Other Kevin

        Commies, and terrible people. But I guess that’s redundant.

      • Winston

        Jo jorgenson says otherwise.

  4. Winston

    Cuba is making some concessions. Is that a sign of weakness?

    • Bobarian LMD

      It means that it wasn’t real communism.

      But they’ll get it right next time.

  5. Count Potato

    Doesn’t Amazon have around 800K employees? I don’t think two is going to make much of a dent.

    • Tonio

      If two people did it… but if three people did it then it would start a movement – the Amazon anti-anti-trans movement.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The resignations come after a complaint posted to the company’s internal message board in April drew the support of over 467 Amazon corporate employees, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. As of last year, the company employed over 1.3 million people worldwide and is the second-largest employer in the U.S.

      Crippling.

      • Spartacus

        “over 467 Amazon corporate employees”

        So it was 468? Why the oddly precise lower bound?

      • Ghostpatzer

        It’s Amazon, and 467 is a PRIME number. Duh.

      • TARDis

        So they will get access to a vast selection of mostly shitty and uninteresting entertainment?

      • ignoreLander

        It’s Amazon, and 467 is a PRIME number. Duh.

        Golf clap

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, pet peeve of mine (and also of Invisible Furry Hand). Should be “drew the support of over 450…”

      • R C Dean

        Let’s hope that prompted the delivery of over 467 termination notices.

  6. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Nice guns.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Looks like they may have been 3D printed… in silicon.

    • blackjack

      Well, that’s rotten.

    • invisible finger

      Fascesbook

    • Animal

      Fuck.

      Off.

      Slaver.

    • Endless Mike

      Ahhhh! I get it now.

      “Hate fuck” – I never understood it before…

    • l0b0t

      That awful woman is the one Obama was staring at so lecherously that Michelle gave him the stink-eye at Mandela’s funeral.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        She looked much better in the still photo, IIRC.

      • ignoreLander

        She must have had a hot Norse dude sitting next to her if Obama was staring.

  7. waffles

    In 2014 I was a furry for a weekend in Pittsburgh. I wouldn’t recommend it.

    • Not Adahn

      Pittsburgh. I wouldn’t recommend it.

      A common sentiment.

    • Tonio

      Oh, my. Article?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Pictures, hopefully.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yeah, you can’t just leave that one hanging’.

        *pause*

    • Tulip

      That sounds like a story. Please tell.

    • LJW

      This might help Trump win his lawsuit.

      • Winston

        And which judge will rule in his favor?

      • LJW

        Didn’t he file suit in Florida? Might have a chance.

    • waffles

      At some point we need to admit that these private entities are state actors. We’ll see how long their lawyers can kick this down the road.

      • blackjack

        Yes, probably the point where they were granted special immunity and then congress ordered them to censor us or face consequences from the government. And, they underscored all of that by doing exactly what the government wanted of them. Maybe at that point?

      • Bobarian LMD

        And I’m the optimist.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If they’re taking direction on censorship from the government then they are absolutely in violation of the 1st Amendment. I don’t even think Roberts could squirm his way out from under that one. The problem will be showing harm and getting standing.

    • R C Dean

      Glenn Greenwald’s take. TW: Twitter.

      The Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as “problematic” so that Facebook can remove them.

      This is the union of corporate and state power — one of the classic hallmarks of fascism — that the people who spent 5 years babbling about fascism support.

      He’s just getting warmed up.

      • TARDis

        As I’ve said before, USSR communism failed. China is not communist, it’s fascist. That’s the proper model for tyranny. Our republic has stage 4 cancer. Accept it.

      • leon

        From the replies:

        “I want medical and health misinformation flagged, just as FDA flags tainted medicine and food.

        Online misinformation has real world harm , just as physical products and foods”

        I find that the people who make excuses for tyranny take to tact’s, depending on the situation. First (this one here) is to ignore any potential problem and act like this is only happening in very specific cases.

        The second is to do the opposite and claim that the government does rights violation to everyone (even if it is actually targeted) by linking unrelated incidents and generalizing.

        Sadly these work together by first giving there government the power to abuse, and then justifying it because they abuse everyone.

      • R C Dean

        justifying it because they abuse everyone

        Pretty much what the cosmos said when “bake the cake” first got going.

      • robc

        First response references “yelling fire in a theatre”, good God, what is wrong with America?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We fell asleep at the wheel and plummeted off a cliff called technocracy, catching rocks called “The New Deal”, “The Great Society”, and “Obamacare” on the way down.

  8. Count Potato

    “This was posted in the comments this morning by Pie, but bears repeating.”

    I posted it on on July 12, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    • Tonio

      My apologies. Thanks.

      • Tonio

        Dammit. Thanks.

        Thursday afternoon links are cursed.

      • Count Potato

        I think that meme is just stupid, for the same reason hat tips are likely to fail.

        I rarely ever read the comments on midday posts.

      • Sean

        I wasn’t even gonna say anything until you posted.

        I couldn’t resist a neener neener. 🙂

      • Tonio

        Nobody can resist a neener neener.

      • Mojeaux

        These euphemisms…

  9. Animal

    I have the sudden urge to go to the range.

    • Not Adahn

      I need to. Got the CZ back from the gunsmith today and need to confirm function before the match this weekend. I didn’t realize how much I missed that gun until I had it back.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’ve been feeling the urge to get my SPR out of the safe and shoot some 600-yard groups…

    • blackjack

      Those were just experimental, they hadn’t received full authorizations yet.

      • rhywun

        *snort*

    • Not Adahn

      On the one hand, benzene causes cancer. On the other hand, I know septugenarians who literally used it to wash their glassware in organic lab who are still alive (and mostly cancer free).

      • blackjack

        On the one hand, benzene causes cancer. On the other hand

        …I knew kids who sniffed it in high school for a thrill and they’re still alive.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What does it smell like? I’ve always wondered. Like ditto-master ink as shown in Fast Times, or what?

      • blackjack

        Victory, I imagine.

      • Animal

        No, that’s napalm. Benzene smells like a negotiated cease-fire.

      • Ozymandias

        Completely under-rated comment.
        Threadwinner, IMO.
        I’m still chuckling at that one.
        *Robert Duvall would approve with a nod.*

      • Gustave Lytton

        Napalm also sticks to kids.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Reading between the lines, the concentrations are so far below anything even vaguely hazardous that there’s no actual issue. The issue is the lawyers who soaked J&J for the talc shit.

    • Sensei

      Only in CA.

  10. invisible finger

    Nice guns.

  11. Not Adahn

    “Homosexuality is ‘evil’ and ‘for whites,’”

    Yup. And since race is currently ascendant, you white ‘mos need to take your parade and go away until you can be more BIPOC.

    • Not Adahn

      In Dec. 2020, Pride 4 The People, Trans Resistance, Boston Black Pride and other LGBTQ+ organizations called for a boycott of Boston Pride and the Boston Pride Parade until community demands were met. One of those demands was the resignation of the current Boston Pride board and the elimination of bylaws that former volunteers said gave the board unfair and undemocratic control of the organization. To date, 26 LGBTQ+ organizations have joined the boycott.

      Twenty-six. It’s so unfair that some gender/sexuality/interest combos are forced to share an organization.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Twenty-six? One for every letter. So everybody?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Cyrillic alphabet has 36(?) letters – room for expansion. Russian collusion FTW!

      • grrizzly

        The Russian alphabet has 33 letters.

      • Ghostpatzer

        спаси́бо

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks. Last time I sat in a Russian class was 1973.

      • grrizzly

        You started learning Russian before I did.

      • Rat on a train

        Only after the Bolsheviks eliminated some capitalist letters. And don’t forget their near exile of the hard sign.

        Maybe after they finish their takeover here, they can reform English.

      • Tonio

        Twenny-six, including the Mass Commission on LGBT youth.

        Would you guys hate me if I accepted a position as a member of the Virginia Bear Commission?

      • Tulip

        No. We would hope you would troll the he’ll out of them. We would even make suggestions. ?

      • Gadfly

        I’m still rooting for you to become official spokesman for all the gays so you can tour the world accepting apologies from woke governments atoning for past wrongs.

      • rhywun

        Pikers. Surely they can slice & dice themselves into more than a measly twenty-six squabbling pigeonholes.

      • Nephilium

        No one needs 26 LGBTQ+ organizations.

      • R C Dean

        the board unfair and undemocratic control of the organization

        That’s kind of inherent in what boards are, and do, you know.

      • leon

        It’s unfair, and undemocratic, because they don’t have control of it.

  12. Count Potato

    “White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday finally condemned communism as a ‘failed ideology’ as Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Democrats piled the pressure on President Joe Biden to do more to help the people of Cuba during their brutal lock down.

    ‘Communism is a failed ideology, and we certainly believe that it has failed the people of Cuba,’ she said at her press briefing. ‘They deserve freedom.’

    The White House had given a more measured response to the protests that took place over food shortages and power outages. Psaki originally refused to condemn the communist regime amid the state crackdown on demonstrations and instead blamed ‘government mismanagement’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9792133/Jen-Psaki-finally-condemns-communism.html

    • rhywun

      Ouch, that had to hurt.

  13. Winston

    The People’s Daily is “private company”.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      All I know about her is “Sk8r Boi”, and I couldn’t recite a single note or syllable.

      • leon

        Ironic huh?

        I thought she was dead?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Ironic? That was Alanis, the other emo canadian girl.

        I remember my daughter being into Avril in HS for a few weeks in HS.

      • Ownbestenemy
      • leon

        Doh!

        All those Canadians sound the same

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        My grandma got me an Avril CD for Christmas one year. It’s probably still at my dad’s house in the bottom of some box.

    • blackjack

      She looks like most of the typical second or third string chicks around here. And she can’t skate to save her life.

    • rhywun

      I applaud her for rescuing the homeless.

    • creech

      I’ve no idea who these homeless folks are. The chick has decent boobs so maybe we glibs could chip in to buy her some decent shorts and give her a job in a monocle factory?

      • zwak

        So, $20, same as Uptown Girl?

      • blackjack

        Livin’ in her uptown world!

  14. l0b0t

    (Squeals) I LOVE those clean-cut young people of Hooray For Everything Lurgan. Also, the thunderstorm effect was fantastic AND it startled my cat awake so he is giving a serious stink-eye at the nearest speaker.

    • Tonio

      Glad you like. It’s a tribute to improvised sound effects.

      One of the kids looks exactly like one of my cousins did at that age.

  15. leon

    But I was assured BLMisnt a Marxist organization.

    Also will the military change its stance on BLM not being political now that they are praising hostile powers, or will Gen Milley lecture Congress on how great Cuba is?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This is a hilarious development and should be used relentlessly by everyone to end this BLM commie bullshit.

    • blackjack

      I think it’s important that all soldiers read about how great the Cuban regime is. Hell, we study other assholes too, amirite? Wait, that was that other woke fucking military asshole. Fuck them all.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s Portland. They need a cowcatcher on front to split the crowds in the street.

    • leon

      his whining reaction of “who do I report this too” is the right mix of powerless beta male, and snitchery.

      • Mojeaux

        Well, HE won’t be in any romance novel anytime soon.

      • leon

        Not even as a 3rd tier villan who is a cousin of the protagonist, trying to ruin everything by throwing in with the primary and secondary villains?

        Funny though. This guy sucks so bad that he’s neither the hero not the villain in his own story.

      • blackjack

        He certainly isn’t a pickup artist.

      • TARDis

        Well, what about a beta male pron novel?

      • UnCivilServant

        Talk about a niche. Who’s fantasy would that fulfill?

      • zwak

        Another untapped market.

      • Mojeaux

        It happens. In fact, that is a niche market. However, the guy in the tweet would not qualify for the position of beta male.

      • R C Dean

        Pedant alert:

        Beta males are the ones vying to be the alpha. They do a lot of posturing, fighting, etc. Sort of the stereotypical macho behaviors.

        The ones who have no hope of ever being the alpha are gammas, etc. down the Greek alphabet. The people called “beta males” are really low-T no-hopers who can’t even be beta males.

      • Sensei

        I can see him as a uke conquest by the truck owner in Japanese BL with no issues…

    • EvilSheldon

      I never thought I’d say this, but I’m glad that this dude put his pronouns in his bio. Because I was legit wondering…

    • Brochettaward

      People who drive pickups tend to be assholes. And the guy driving that one is undoubtedly an asshole. It’s assholes all the way through that article.

      • Animal

        Excuse me?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Mel Brooks wrote that bit better.

      • R C Dean

        Well, people tend to be assholes, so . . . .

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    At least two Amazon employees have resigned in recent weeks to protest the company’s decision to continue to sell a book they say frames young people who identify as transgender as mentally ill.

    TWO! TWO OF THEM!

    • leon

      It’s the equivalent of when reporters take 10 angry tweets to try to claim that “many people were upset”.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      A plurality!

    • The Other Kevin

      Hopefully all the victims of the violence will be out of the hospital soon.

    • Spartacus

      Violent? Somebody has forgotten the meaning of words. Good thing they aren’t involved in writing in any way.

    • leon

      Y’all need to forget about your patriarchal Western colonial definitions of violence. It oppressed those who experience violence in other ways, and disenfranchises those who speak truth to power in ways that break the tranquil-binary hegemony.

    • PBRstreetgang

      Words are weapons
      Sharper than knives

      • Ted S.

        I’ve never wondered how the other half dies.

    • creech

      They are right; Cuba isn’t “real communism.” The Commie leadership failed to carry their kulak and wrecker liquidation sufficiently far to ensure that only real communists remained. As long as one challenger remains alive, one cannot have “real communism.”

  17. The Late P Brooks

    At least two Amazon employees have resigned in recent weeks to protest the company’s decision to continue to sell a book they say frames young people who identify as transgender as mentally ill.

    Think of all the Amazon employees who wanted to but didn’t. Thousands of them.

    • leon

      “Finally! #FidelCastro is a legend, revolutionary and freedom fighter for the people of the African diaspora #HastaLaVictoria”

      Wasn’t this guy friends with Che?

    • Count Potato

      “Afro-Cuban lives don’t matter to the shameful leaders of Black Lives Matter

      Now I have the answer to the question I’ve been asking for months.

      Why doesn’t the Black Lives Matter movement care that Afro Cubans are being beaten, arrested, and jailed — and after Sunday’s historic protests in Cuba, also killed — for the “crime” of demanding the basic human right to free expression?

      How can a movement supposedly dedicated to seeking justice turn a blind eye to what’s going on in Cuba, as if those batons, choke holds, and bullets weren’t used on Black people?

      The regrettable, shameful answer came Wednesday night on the organization’s official Instagram page: Because the organization’s leadership stands solidly behind Cuba’s oppressive, white-led Communist regime.

      Simply put, Black Cuban lives don’t matter to BLM….”

      https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article252801738.html

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Makes me want to declare myself a Cuban and move to Miami.

    • EvilSheldon

      It doesn’t take many tankie memes for me to start thinking, “Maybe death squads aren’t such a bad idea after all…”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The alternative certainly seems worse at times.

  18. Timeloose

    Tonio you know your audience based on the pictures in this post.

    Portapotty fire from Austin city limits festival and a big boobed shooter.

    Well done.

  19. Sean

    From the dead thread:

    @ Toxteth – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095662/

    @Mojeaux – I enjoyed that movie I linked with Pierce, if you haven’t seen it, you should check it out.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Thanks! Was just about to ask.

    • Mojeaux

      Oh, I will. 😉

    • limey

      Pierce? You mean Lawnmower Man? Good movie (shut up, Rhy). Very recommend.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Governments are getting a whole lot of mileage with this virus. If courts uphold (or deny standing) for anyone who challenges the Executive Department working with Socials and even phone carriers to allow them to censor content, then I believe we will see it when it comes to other things. Elections? Better keep that on the straight and narrow government line. Texted a buddy about a new ammo sale? Hmm, we should probably not let that text go through. Made an off-color joke? Nope, racism is a health crisis.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ‘s OK, I remember letters, and faxes.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Heh, funny thought…Dems are for privatizing the USPS to catch those who subvert their means of censorship misinformation dealing.

  21. Pope Jimbo

    Remember when Minnesoda decided that Asian carp was totes offensive and needed to change to something better like “invasive carp”? NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

    Song Qian, a University of Toledo environmental sciences professor who teamed with Kocovsky on the article, said carp is a valued protein source in many Asian nations. It’s a good-luck symbol in his native China.

    “If you say it’s invasive, bad and needs to be eradicated, even though it’s because of miscommunication, that’s why there’s talk about cultural insensitivity,” Qian said.

    It’s most accurate to refer to the fish species individually, he said, acknowledging a collective name is sometimes convenient. The challenge now is finding the right one.

    The article also contains a lot of laughable content on how they are putting together a PR campaign to make carp a preferred food fish here in the US.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      make carp a preferred food fish here in the US

      *gag*

      MYOFB!

      • l0b0t

        People already eat tilapia, carp can’t be any more disgusting than a fish that dines exclusively on feces.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Hey, for eating ass, they actually taste quite good. The couple times I’ve had carp, I’ve found it mediocre at very best. Not a good tasting fish.

      • Count Potato

        Pretty sure tilapia mostly eat plants.

      • R C Dean

        Now catfish are bottom feeders.

        And is one of the most delicious fresh-water fish.

        I don’t care what my food eats.

      • Gadfly

        I don’t care what my food eats.

        Case in point: pigs turn trash into bacon.

      • Timeloose

        Carp are trash fish. Too many bones.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Carp are a major food fish in Europe and Asia because they are one of the only species left there.

        They can survive in very polluted water and can withstand food shortages and all sorts of other things. There was a Wisconsin DNR study way back in the ’90s that basically said that by the time you killed the carp off, everything else would be dead. One of their experiments showed that carp could lose 70% of their body weight to starvation and survive. Easily added weight back when food was reintroduced.

        Carp are all that are left in the rivers of Europe and Asia, that is why they are eaten. I’m sure if those people had panfish, walleyes and northerns they would sneer at carp too.

      • pistoffnick

        I have had some really good smoked carp.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Preparing Carp: An olde Minnesoda recipe.

        1. Place a 3-5 lb scored carp onto a cedar plank.

        2. Soak liberally with lemon-butter and a vinaigrette.

        3. Garnish around the fish with onions, garlic, and rolled strips of bacon. A liberal dose of bourbon across the cook… for flavor.

        4. Place in a hot smoker at 225 degrees using mesquite wood chips. A little more bourbon for the cook.

        5. Slow cook for 6-8 hours until you’re are really hungry, and most of the bourbon is gone.

        6. Carefully remove the carp from the cedar plank and bury it where the dog can’t get to it and eat the cedar plank.

      • blackjack

        7. scrape the whole mess into the trash and cook up a nice steak.

      • Pope Jimbo

        According to my wife, it is common for pregnant women in Korea to eat raw carp. The idea is that the carp will make the baby strong with round eyes.

        I learned of this when she was pregnant with our first kid and wanted me to go catch her some carp from the Mighty Mississippi. I told her no way. The carp from there would make our kid come out with no chin and whiskers.

    • Tonio

      So, you’re saying there’s lots of carping about the fish name…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Don’t be koi, just come out with what you think.

      • R C Dean

        Y’all are just fishing for a narrowed gaze.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They’re just dangling a bit of swiss on the line to see if they can get a bite.

      • blackjack

        You should’ve seen the pun that got away!

      • Animal

        You’re gonna get yourself in a pickerel.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My first thought was Holy Mackeral! But Pope has already chimed in and wasn’t as impressed with my fish tale.

      • Fourscore

        Golden

    • Shpip

      All the Department of Natural Resources has to do is teach folks the joy of noodling, only targeting the invasive species instead of catfish.

      Carp Diem!

  22. Pope Jimbo

    So, it is terrible, terrible, terrible to try to convert the gay kids, but totes OK to give them lots of hormones and surgery to mangle the fun bits they were born with?

    • leon

      The argument is that by not allowing kids to “transition” you are actually just like the conversion therapy people because you are trying to change them into something they are not.

      • EvilSheldon

        They’re consistent in their inconsistency, anyway…

    • Tonio

      The difference is, of course, that I required no meds, surgery, or modifications to ‘become’ gay. I just kind of did that gay thing. And it didn’t stop me from trying the other, later.

      Now, I (thankfully) can’t get inside the head of someone who feels she is in the wrong body. That must be horrible. But it’s a decision with life-long consequences. And we’ve also seen proggie nutjob mothers claiming that their infants or toddlers are gay or trans. Granted, your sexual preference may be well established by your toddler years, but toddlers say a lot of shit and I’m not about to start giving one life-altering treatments because he swears there’s an elephant in the back yard.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        My 4 year old said that she wanted to marry me when she grows up. The sicko leftists probably think I’m oppressing her incestkin preferences by telling her no.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Not a big enough dowry?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Paging Dr. Freud…”

        -some Robin Williams movie

      • Pope Jimbo

        Hmmmm, I’m trying to decide how badly I worded my original comment.

        I don’t think conversion therapy is anything that anyone should be doing. I don’t think it works, I’m pretty sure it is bad for the kid. I also think that there is no need for a law to ban it. Social shaming should do the job nicely. Social pressure did a great job of making all of us decide that being gay was OK.

        Mostly I was trying to point out that it is silly to ban a stupid “therapy” that doesn’t do anything, while having no issue with kids (and their parents) deciding that it is OK to really fuck with a kid’s body in very permanent ways.

        Do No Harm would be a good motto for the anti-gays and the trans people.

      • EvilSheldon

        I have always struggled with the idea that my sexual preference is immutably carved in my DNA (let me tell you – it ain’t), but my gender identity can change with the seasons.

        Perhaps I need to educate myself on intersectional feminism or something…

  23. The Other Kevin

    My neighbor just showed up at my door with a chunk of pork belly so I can make my own bacon. Best neighborhood ever.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That reminds me, I am down to my last 3 lbs of smoked bacon.

    • Shpip

      I started curing and smoking my own bacon a few years ago.

      It was one of my rasher decisions.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        >:-)

      • Ghostpatzer

        What you did there, has been seen.

      • Sean

        ? boo

    • Tulip

      That is a good neighbor

  24. Winston

    I hope we realize what is going on, right? Criminalize all dissent by claiming it is either “misinformation”, “viilent” or “hateful”.

    Just like the Commies:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way

    On 26 August 1989, a pronouncement from the Central Committee of the Communist Party was read during the opening 19 minutes of Vremya, the main evening news program on Soviet television.[41] It was a sternly worded warning about growing “nationalist, extremist groups” which advanced “anti-socialist and anti-Soviet” agendas.[42] The announcement claimed that these groups discriminated against ethnic minorities and terrorised those still loyal to Soviet ideals.[42] Local authorities were openly criticised for their failure to stop these activists.[32] The Baltic Way was referred to as a “nationalist hysteria.” According to the pronouncement, such developments would lead to an “abyss” and “catastrophic” consequences.[27]

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Why are crackers so fragile?

    The American Rescue Plan included loan forgiveness for Minnesota farmers of color. Then a group of white farmers sued.

    Local proggie writer is very upset that Biden’s racist set aside for black farmers is being challenged in court. The reasoning seems to be that a long time ago there was a lot of racism and the govt didn’t give money and assistance to one set of farmers because of the color of their skin. Now, to make up for that evil, the government is not going to give money and assistance to one set of farmers because of the color of their skin.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      It was racist when they did it because they were evil racists. It’s not racist when we do it because we are good prog-fascists.

      Cause comes after effect in prog-fascist-land

      • leon

        Ironically, it was most likely the previous progs who implemented such racist policies.

    • creech

      See, and few of us believed there was actual systemic racism going on. Here’s yet another governmental program that treats people difference based on skin color.

  26. Not an Economist

    Punk — sort of — (Foo Fighters Including Pat Sdisco playing disco. Not a bad cover.

  27. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Hello, fuckers

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Hey, fish!

    • Tulip

      Fuck off tulpa

    • westernsloper

      What Tulip said.

    • Mojeaux

      Fresh meat!!!

  28. Gustave Lytton

    Stupid emergency alerts. “Police emergency” “shelter in place” for something 8 blocks away.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s a standoff with a barricaded man that’s been going on for nearly 6 hours.

      • leon

        Heh. I once nearly walked through the middle of a police standoff. I’m a bit unobservant and didn’t realize what was going on ahead of me, until I saw all the neighbors out filming with their phones.

  29. zwak

    The only thing I can think in re: Monkey Dildo Assman (and this includes DQ story hour) is the left is so, so far up its own ass on so many of these things. They have eliminated all means of listening to the rest of the world/country and do not realize that they are no longer winning friends and influencing people.

    This is pretty sad, as I think it will unravel a lot of hard and worthwhile work.

    And you can see a lot of the same thing with the battle going on over CRT, which will give the suburbs to the R’s as it, in effect, tells the Karens that their little Karenettes are racists. And you cannot go against mother Karen, ’cause if you do…

    • R C Dean

      I’m curious as to what “hard and worthwhile work” will be unravelled by leftists alienating normal people.

      You sound like you are opposed to parents fighting to keep CRT out of their schools, but I find that hard to believe.

      • leon

        I think he’s saying things like acceptance of homosexuality.

      • R C Dean

        Makes sense. The pendulum swings, the backlash overshoots.

      • R C Dean

        Meant to add: I don’t think we’re anywhere near that yet. But the world does tend to work that way, and bayonetting the survivors of a culture war battle is being normalized.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s what I would assume, the backlash is really going to go back.

      • zwak

        Oh, am definitely not opposed to parents fighting to keep racist crap like CRT out of schools. I am simply noting where most of the Karens live, and what really motivates them, namely attacking their children.

        But to keep it in perspective, most small towns are having none of this and we already know where the conservative line is. And, at the same time, where the line is in the urban centers of the US, notwithstanding the fucked over black families who are fighting this shit. But the real battle for it is, as with most things, in the suburbs. And this has activated the Karens to no end, as nothing is allowed to fuck with their kids. You can’t call them little racists, you can’t bully them, and you sure as shit can’t keep the mothers, the Karens I am referring to, off the school boards.

        We are now seeing the awesome power of a fully operational Karenstation.

      • zwak

        Ha! That is too funny.

    • rhywun

      It’s a clue that the left is in burn the whole thing down mode and doesn’t believe most of the things it claims to.

    • leon

      Another instance of quasi private institutions removing basic rights at the demands of the government.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well that’s enraging.

  30. Animal

    I was tempted by this, but the original sights are missing and it has an aftermarket butt pad, so it doesn’t trip my “collector” switch. But if anyone’s looking for a sweet .30-06, this is a good one.

  31. Count Potato

    “Cuba does NOT have “communism”. Anyone with just a basic understanding of what communism is knows this (so why make such a ludicrous assertion?). The people do NOT collectively own and control the means of production. An elite owns and controls them. Cuba has state capitalism.”

    https://twitter.com/OfficialSPGB/status/1415647437256077318

    Your mom has state capitalism.

    • R C Dean

      I believe the state does own most of the economy of Cuba, as per Communsim. The state is controlled by an elite, as per “mid-stage” Communism.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Somehow it never makes it past that stage. Can’t quite figure out why, but they’ll definitely get it right one of these days.

    • leon

      I’d say it’s not even a joke anymore, but it never was.

      I’d say Cuba is the second state in my lifetime to go from “fantastic communism” to “not real socialism”. I’d add the USSR in, but I think that had already started before i was born.

    • Brochettaward

      That is dictionary wording. People will have more free time in a socialist society. The average week will then be around 10 hours (or less).

      That damn inefficient capitalism.

      • leon

        And seas will be lemonade and chickens will fly into our mouths

      • Tulip

        Fan of Fourier? Sugar cane will be grown in the temperate Sahara

    • Penguin

      Funny how it always, always, always works out like that. It’s almost as if the repeating pattern should tell ‘Socialists’ something.

      The way it tells something to people with IQ’s higher than room temperature.

  32. grrizzly

    Put your muzzles back on.

    Los Angeles County is re-implementing a mandate requiring residents to wear masks while indoors, regardless of vaccination status as the county continues to see an increase in COVID-19 transmission, county health officials said Thursday.

    The county previously only recommended mask-wearing indoors.

    When will LA County’s new mask mandate take effect?
    The new mandate will take effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday.

    • EvilSheldon

      No.

      Thanks for stopping by! Door’s to your left.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Brilliant. I’m sure that everyone in a tavern at 11:59 PM on Saturday night will quietly don a mask when asked to do so. Should be some interesting footage.

      • Fourscore

        I spent a number of evenings at “Dudley’s by the Sea”, ’58. All college kids and me. Good times

    • blackjack

      Fucking rat fuckers!!! They can drag me to jail, I ain’t wearing the fucking thing. My supermarket just changed the sign to masks recommended for the unvaxxed, signalling that I can ditch the fucking feedbag. I will be taken away in handcuffs before I’ll wear the fucking thing in public again. FUCK THESE motherfuckers.

      • blackjack

        I’m ready, when’s the protest? I got 10 days of quarantine, so I can go every fucking day.

      • blackjack

        My wife pacing and telling me that we need a massive crowd to do a “sit in” sans masks. It’s refreshing that she’s angry at the government this time.

  33. Gender Traitor

    OT – got a little good news last night: The HS class reunion that was postponed last July on account o’ the ‘VID and that I thought was going to be THIS month has actually been postponed until NEXT July. So one more year to lose weight, get a better job, write that novel, paint my masterpiece…

    • Brochettaward

      High school reunions are only good as opportunities to exact revenge on your enemies.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      My somethingeth reunion would have been last year as well. The one 10 years ago, I went to the reunion for a high school I didn’t even go to (I would’ve gone there if we hadn’t moved just after 8th grade). After seeing pics from the reunion of the H.S. I did go to, I’m happy with the choice I made.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Lucky you. We had a 50th scheduled last year (which I planned to attend), postponed to this year because OMG virus. I politely responded “no” to the first two two invitations to the “51st”. The third, insistent reminder came last night. I do not think I’ll be hearing from them again; my HS classmates are for the most part exactly what you would expect from suburban NJ. I do not miss them.

    • Animal

      I thought about going to my fiftieth high school reunion in a few more years, but then I remembered that I don’t give a crap about any of those people except for the couple I’m still in touch with.

      My Mom hosted her fiftieth high school reunion at their place in Allamakee County. At the reunion, there were six attendees; they were all that were still alive.

      Mom graduated high school in 1944; there were eight boys and four girls in her class, including Mom. By one year after their graduation four of the eight boys were dead. Two in the Pacific, two in Europe. The war was really hard on small towns.

      • Fourscore

        We had a high school meet up 2 weeks ago. 7 widow ladies, 5 couples, the 66th. We don’t call them reunions anymore, few out of towners can attend. Now it’s in the afternoon for lunch, only saw 1 partaking of the nectar of the gods and she wasn’t driving. Class of about 85.
        Still fun.

      • blackjack

        Class of ’85? That’s a few years after I dropped out. No wonder you’re healing like a teenager!

      • Fourscore

        Class of ’55, 85 grads

      • blackjack

        Got it! I’m really glad you’re recuperating nicely, too.

    • blackjack

      I thought about going to mine, just to flout being the only one who actually reformed, but I don’t care that much. Besides, I’m a little bit scared of my former classmates.

    • Animal

      To call Robert Reich a fucking idiot is a grave disservice to fucking idiots everywhere. As Rowan Atkinson once said, “he is the kind of man people emigrate to avoid.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There’s a reason why he is considered an oracle of the gods over at DU.

      • blackjack

        Because he yells at people’s shin bones like mini-me?

      • Hyperion

        Agree, he’s in the same category as Max Boot and John Brennan. Give them all a one way ticket to Pluto.

    • limey

      Billionaires taking airplane rides isn’t a sign of progress. It’s a sign of grotesque inequality that allows a select few to travel great distances while the rest of humanity suffers.

      Billionaires enjoying exotic fruits and spices like bananas and cinnamon isn’t a sign of progress. It’s a sign of grotesque inequality that allows a select few to sample rare culinary delights while the rest of humanity suffers.

      There’s like a billion of these.

    • Penguin

      Be fair, at least he has thrown off his racial tendencies. Lord of the Rings would have you believe all dwarves are only interested in getting rich.

    • Sensei

      But it’s ok to take money from everyone and have government pick who goes to space.

      Got it.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      He’s just mad because they won’t make a suit that will fit him.

      • Fourscore

        “can’t” make a suit that will fit him

        Sir, try over in aisle 5, smaller sizes for the growing up young man

    • Ghostpatzer

      That is a winner.

    • westernsloper

      That got a snicker or two.

  34. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Mark Cavendish will win his 35th stage in Paris on Sunday. You heard it here first.

    • blackjack

      Last time I went to Knott’s Berry farm, the rides were dilapidated and rusty. I was at the top of the sudden drop ride and looked over my shoulder. One of the bolts was rusted so bad, the head was missing altogether. Did you know, you can see the Hollywood sign from up there? It’s about 60 miles away!

      • blackjack

        Well, 35, according the “Do evil” company’s map.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Just raise the prices on those rides. The extra thrill of actually risking disaster ought to command a premium over lame safe rides. In the same vein, “reality” shows would be far more entertaining if people incapable of finding food actually starved, for example.

      • Sean

        I was there once before it closed. ?

    • whahappan

      My senior class trip was to Great Adventure in 1987 (dating myself I know.) We went on Lightning Loops, one of the first looping roller coasters early in the day. A few hours later somebody fell out at the top of the loop and died. Of course they didn’t broadcast it to the park, but inevitably the word spread and we found out. We just went on whatever other rides we wanted to until it was time to go.

  35. Certified Public Asshat

    Red Sox/Yankees Game Postponed Due To Yankees’ COVID-19 Outbreak

    The Yankees as a whole have passed the league’s mandated 85% vaccination rate , though Cashman said that only “most” of the six players had received vaccines.

    So one guy wasn’t…?

    Most importantly, Cashman indicated that the cases appear to be asymptomatic, saying “As of right now, everybody is ok.”

    Am I allowed to ask questions…

    • Ghostpatzer

      God, I love progress. Used to be you had to actually be sick and provide a doctor’s note to be excused from work. This is so much better.

      • Sensei

        Now all you need is some soda and a COVID test

      • blackjack

        Tell me! I get ten days off, paid by supplemental sick pay to quarantine after I just returned from FLA. I didn’t realize it or I would have left off one day of VC I only included for recoup time. It’s covered anyway.

      • rhywun

        I’m wondering how long is left before I’m Ubering to NJ to pick up my workstation and cart it back home again. Oh wait, it won’t be safe to leave the house so I guess some essential worker ? will have to mail it to me (again).

    • rhywun

      Judge is indeed the Yankees All-Star in question

      Banish the foul, unclean heathen! And then lock up the city; hell, the state. Just to be safe. ??

      • Ghostpatzer

        Do you plan on leaving first 🙂

      • rhywun

        I don’t go anywhere anyway. WTF do I care.

  36. Certified Public Asshat

    Child Tax Credit check in! ???????Who’s gotten their CTC?today? How is it going to help you out?— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 15, 2021

    I’ll probably speculate with bitcoin.

    • Tulip

      Please reply that to her.

    • blackjack

      The only check we actually got was Trump’s, 1200 for me, 1200 for my wife and 600 for my kid. Biden and Newsom both shafted us. Now they want to pretend that an early refund is a windfall. Fuck these people.

      • Hyperion

        Hey, that was their money and they were generous to let you keep a little.

    • Ted S.

      Wait a second. She’s got children, and has an income under the threshold to get the welfare payment?

  37. Tulip

    Today I picked the first tomato of the season. Tonight I eat the first BLT of the season. Crispy bacon, home made oatmeal bread -toasted to perfection, a perfect, vine ripened tomato, fresh garden romaine, and Duke’s mayonnaise.

    Yum.

    • B.P.

      I could eat a BLT every day.

      • Mojeaux

        I rather like BBBs. Bacon, bacon, bacon on buttered toast with mayo. Ain’t nobody need no lettuce and tomato.

    • Fourscore

      You know how to hurt an old guy, Tulip. We’re still a few weeks out. Missus F bought a tomato at the store a few weeks ago, waste of money, bacon and bread.

    • Tulip

      I ate it leaning over the sink, like God intended

      • Count Potato

        HAWT!!

    • Hyperion

      Jealous. This is the first year in about 30 years that I have not grown tomatoes. Because I thought we were moving in the spring, but the housing market went completely insane and I lost the will to get in a bidding war with 30 all cash offers on every house we could find.

    • juris imprudent

      Yep, I just picked the first grape tomatoes – amazed that they were ripe already.

    • TARDis

      Today must be BLT day. That’s what we had this evening. My son insisted we eat the giant slicer tomato from the garden tonight.

      Paired with a delicious watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew salad.

      Homemade oatmeal bread sounds delicious.

      • Gadfly

        Today must be BLT day.

        BLT just seems like a good summer meal.

  38. Gadfly

    From that inappropriate library story:

    Although the library has now apologised for the costumes they initially said, ‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it,’ on social media earlier in the day.

    Something makes me doubt the sincerity of their apology.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That is truly fucked up.

  39. Mojeaux

    I am proofreading the biggest bowl of word salad I have ever had the misfortune to have to read, outside of education theory textbooks. (OCR didn’t do too well with the scan of the book.) The topic is poverty in underdeveloped nations. It was written in 1985. At that time, apparently, our world overpopulation problem was going to be solved by imminent thermonuclear war.

    So cute.

    • blackjack

      Ah, the mid eighties! Commies were still the enemy, dolphins needed protecting and pit bulls were a menace. Porn was still not cool with the man, and people only just started smoking their cocaine. I miss those days. Overpopulation was a huge thing, but not as much as the seventies. Back then, we were about to run out of everything and freeze to death.

      • Sean

        Bring back neon fashion!

      • blackjack

        Neon nights? Guess we had us a high time or two!

      • blackjack

        BTW, ARS is planning a show nearby, well the shell of them remaining anyway. Starting to look like the Fuhrer, fake doctor bitch is trying to to a stop to all of that. Fucking bitch.

    • Hyperion

      “I am proofreading the biggest bowl of word salad I have ever had the misfortune to have to read”

      When did you start editing for the NYT?

      • Mojeaux

        Right?!

    • westernsloper

      At that time, apparently, our world overpopulation problem was going to be solved by imminent thermonuclear war.

      No shit. We fucked that up and it didn’t happen but there is still time!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Paging Mr. Lizard…

    • blackjack

      Well, that broad looks like a Panzer just ate a group of Sherman’s.

      • Hyperion

        She looks like an evil commie marionette from a horror film.

    • Hyperion

      2 decrepit commies in a pea pod. *barf*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s funny because it’s true. Kohl was a big boy.

    • blackjack

      That’s Nunez, with a capital Q, thanks.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *holds breath*

    • limey

      I like Devin Nunes, as far as one can “like” a politician, but he stood firm in the face of so much horrible, godawful torrential garbage when many of his peers would have, and did just crumble.

      • Hyperion

        I like him too, but he’s full of shit up to his eyeballs on this one.

      • limey

        Agreed. No way that report ever sees the light of day.

      • blackjack

        LOL, they’re gonna put Nunes in jail for investigating the wrong people. It’s OK, he seems tough enough to make it.

      • Hyperion

        He’s the toughest congress critter in Cali. He could get on the 5 and take it all he way… never mind, I have to stop doing that, lol.

      • blackjack

        No, his district is up the 99, of course you gotta take the 5 to get to Grapevine where the 99 turn off is, so there’s that. Man, I gotta stop too!

    • cyto

      He might believe it. But I just cannot figure out how everyone in Washington doesn’t know what we know, that Barr and Durham were burying anything that would be embarrassing to the agency.

      There is enough that has been publicly disclosed to probably put both Obama and Biden in jail, not just impeach them and toss them out of office, but put them all in jail. Yet they couldn’t find enough evidence to even mildly derail the career of a government lawyer who falsified documents in order to obtain an illegal surveillance warrant against a US citizen using a secret court designed only for surveilling foreign communications?

      I mean, if you can’t even put that guy in jail, and you are a federal prosecutor? I guarantee they could put anyone of us in jail for the rest of our lives given a week in the level of resources they put into this one. Yet not one single person even got outed for their role by the attorney general’s investigations.

      Cover up. I don’t see how they don’t see it.

  40. westernsloper

    The protests in the island nation have sparked an outpouring of support in Florida,…..

    As well as CO. Well at least in this house. CUBA LIBRE! Thanks for the links Tonio!

    • blackjack

      I got to honk and thumb’s up the protesters in Daytona. Meanwhile, they are protesting for communism back home in Cali.

    • Hyperion

      Looks like them White Hispanic extremists in FL and CO are going to get in trouble for their radical extremism.

  41. cyto

    I don’t know what the national media is doing, but down here in South Florida they are covering the assassination of the Haitian president quite heavily.

    Apparently the US government thinks a Florida security company was involved.

    Here’s where it gets weird. Today they had a photograph of a meeting at the security company that they released to the media. Several people are circled and the media tells us how nefarious these people are.

    I don’t know exactly what’s happening, but this sounds very strange to me. Why are they putting out a photograph of a meeting at a security company with circles and arrows? Why are they perp-walking a bunch of Colombian nationals that used to contract for the US government?

    A few years ago I might have raised an eyebrow, but moved on without thinking about it much. But after what they did with the fake Russia story? And after everything we’ve seen in the last few weeks about how much of the media is actually affiliated with the CIA?

    It seems very odd. Odd in the “we need a fall guy” sort of way.

    Suddenly our government is talking about how much they are cooperating with the government of Haiti to bring people to justice. 5 minutes ago, weren’t we talking about how corrupt that government is? Aren’t we questioning the very legitimacy of that government since they had canceled elections?

    • Hyperion

      “I don’t know what the national media is doing”

      Lying

      • TARDis

        Well, duh! It’s their damn job.

      • cyto

        Worse…. Many of them are telling the truth.

        That is what has really been scaring me of late. People keep saying things that are absolutely farcical, bit they seem to sincerely believe it.

        Like the guy standing in front of a burning building talking about how everything is “mostly peaceful”. I think most of them are just completely make able and will believe whatever they are told to believe… Just like Orwell wrote about double-think.

        It is easier to see with some of the crazier Q stuff, but the left is way more batshit crazy with their ability to turn on a dime and not see a contradiction
        .
        Today there were lots of stories about anti-vax republicans killing us all. The exact same person who told me they would not take a vaccine 12 months ago is now telling me that the Republicans are crazy and antiscience because they question vaccines. They have no recollection that this ever occurred.

        It is really scary. Like lunch mobs scary. Or people in ovens scary.

        Violently disagreeing over policy, I understand. Blindly believing multiple contradictory stories entirely designed to demonize political opponents as inhuman and ethical to assault or kill? That is harder to swallow.

        But I cannot argue with reality. We are surrounded by people who would believe that Glibertairians planned to overthrow the government and would happily see us all hunted down and torn assunder by the mob.

      • Ted S.

        I hate lunch mobs.

    • blackjack

      His wife just wanted a divorce!

    • westernsloper

      I got ten bucks they check and see if any of them have lego sets of downtown Port-au-Prince. I also do not count out the CIA from murdering anybody. I am not up on Haitian politics and cronyism lately and have not been following this story, but did the Pres slight the Clintons in anyway? Mis-use some money that should have gone to their clan?

  42. DrOtto

    And that monkey’s name? Bi-curious Geogre. And now you know the rest of the story.

    • DrOtto

      George, dammit

    • Hyperion

      Well, since you can’t get to space, I won’t be talking to you. If I wanted to get to space, I’d talk to Musk.