Monday Morning Links

by | Sep 13, 2021 | Daily Links | 361 comments

At least I had good seats for the pain.

Go ahead and lob your abuse my way. I can take it. Kerry Coombs has to go, though. Otherwise this could be a long season in Columbus. UT-Austin football is very much not back (as usual). And neither is USC. But at least the Steelers won (yes, I’m part of the dreaded/hated Buckeyes/Steelers fan network). Joker ran out of gas and got trucked.  Romania England has a new Grand Slam women’s champ. Lewis Hamilton almost got his head taken off…and Verstappen inexplicably gets penalized for Russia. Liverpool boat-raced Leeds but Harvey Elliott got his foot put on backwards (literally). And that’s sports.

Seems legit

Big birthdays today are novelist Daniel Defoe, (what passes for a) war hero (in Canada) Laura Secord, ballistics scientist Andrew Noble, US Army doc Walter Reed, fudgepacker Milton Hershey, general Blackjack John Pershing, the less-famous Austrian painter Arnold Schoenberg, actress Claudette Colbert, author Roald Dahl, white musician Ray Charles, “The Velvet Fog” Mel Torme, actor Richard Kiel, pitcher Rick Wise, Governor Blackface, hard rocker Dave Mustaine, outfielder Bernie Williams, spin-bowler extraordinaire Shane Warne, singer Fiona Apple, baseball player Rickie Weeks, and kraut soccer player Thomas Muller.

Right. Now it’s time for…the links!

Nobody cares.

You can always just…not buy them. I mean, come on. Isn’t most fashion derivative?  And anybody who’s buying these doesn’t give two rips about people getting offended. Because anybody buying $1200 sweatpants is in a “fuck your feelings” income bracket.

Yeah, sure. Because mudslides never happened before. Not to mention the natural landscape being upset  and inadequate retaining walls being erected couldn’t possibly be the cause of this. It has to be global warming.

Science. Or something.

Cool, cool. Well, I say that until I find out this was most-likely funded with my tax dollars.

The media are pulling out all the stops in California. I doubt it will have as much impact on the recall as who gets to count the ballots and how absentee/mail-in ballots are collected though.

Authoritarian bureaucrat supports authoritarian measure. Film at 11.

He should definitely apologize. She’s no lady.

LOL, good luck. Not only is this an unconstitutional taking, its completely retarded.

These people are right to rethink their move. In fact, I think they should all go back to California immediately. It’s really for the best.

The clown giveth. And the clown taketh away. To be honest, I didn’t even know this was a thing.

Here’s a lovely song. Hope you enjoy it.

And I hope you enjoy your Monday, dear friends.

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361 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    “…and then the magician woke up from his coma, and said TAH-DAH!”

    whaddup doh’ ?

    tOSU better get their d-line together

  2. waffles

    That is one wide kimmer. These days I really hate people saying “be safe”. “Be Safe” always feels like an attempt to control me. Instead I would rather people say “be healthy”. Fuck safety. Safety is ruining the West.

    • sloopyinca

      Or “have a nice day” works just fine.

      • waffles

        That triggers my “don’t tell me what to do” ever so slightly more than “be healthy”. If I want to have a shitty day, I will. And I will do it in good health. Cheers!

      • AlexinCT

        Fuck off, Tulpa?

      • waffles

        That makes me smile though. I wish people IRL said goodbye like that.

      • Surly Knott

        “Have a nice day.”
        “Thanks, I have other plans.”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “Be careful” is a good one, the danger is always there, deal with it.

    • Tres Cool

      Since DoorDash frequents this Palatial 2X-Wide, I tell the drivers (or any delivery person) as they walk away “be safe”.

      Then again, they venture into questionable places. Like up the street and around the block where GT lives.

    • Animal

      Why not just “Good-bye?” Whatever happened to “Good-bye?”

      And while we’re at it, what the hell is up with people responding to “thank you” with “no problem”? Especially in a service environment. A waitress brings me my sandwich, I say “thank you,” as I was raised to have manners, and she says “no problem!” Well I should hope it’s no problem, it’s your damn job! What ever happened to “you’re welcome”?

      Get off my lawn!

      • waffles

        I say “no problem” and I hate it. I am actively trying to train myself out of it.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

        When I was in the service industry I trained myself to say “thank you” to the customer for their business and yeah, it’s jarring now because none of them do that any more.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Me: “Well, good night.”

    • Agent Cooper

      “Fuck off” is my go-to.

  3. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Sweatpants are cultural appropriation?

    Even I’m confused now, and I’ve exposed myself to all kinds of derp.

    • rhywun

      Sloopy opens the week with already the stupidest story we will read this week – I hope.

      • AlexinCT

        You must have forgotten how stupid in general the majority of people seem to have become….

      • Fourscore

        I only hope they don’t show up on HSN or QVC. Mrs F…

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        There is no peak derp.

    • Lord Humungus

      I like overpriced clothing as much as a gay man at Macy’s, but even $1200 for sweatpants is a bridge to far.

    • Gadfly

      It’s sweat pants with fake boxer liners to look like you are sagging your pants when you are not. A stupid product, almost as dumb as the fury of the cultural segregationists upset that this is somehow “culture” that is being “appropriated”.

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder
    • Tres Cool
      • hayeksplosives

        ?❤️

      • AlexinCT

        Is he one of the ones that ladies claim was incredibly well endowed, or am I confusing him with someone else from that era in the entertainment industry???

      • Tres Cool

        Based on rumors/legend, you’re likely thinking of either me or Milton Berle. But I can neither confirm nor deny what Mel Torme is packin’.

      • AlexinCT

        The ladies call me Tripod brotha…

    • SDF-7

      He’s forever associated with Night Court for me.

      • Sean

        Yes.

      • SDF-7

        Didn’t watch the clip — because that’s high on my list of “Movies I actually own, have never watched but really should watch at some point”. I just never seem to be in the mood for that one, though I should be. Not like I don’t like 80’s spoofy movies after all….

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I can watch that movie over and over. IMHO, it’s the best of the Zucker and Abrahams films.

      • robc

        Something is wrong with you.

        It is good, but no where near their best.

      • rhywun

        Seinfeld for me.

  5. Tres Cool

    “A Change.org petition calling for the return of chicken wraps called Snack Wrap is making its rounds again after a rep put down a rumor that the healthy item would be making a comeback soon.”

    Look, Fat- I miss BK’s “Enormous Omlette Sandwich” when I ate such things. I’d slather mayo on it and salt the shit outta those hash-brown round doodads they have for potatoes. But you didn’t see me crying and running to make a shitty petition because I was inconvenienced.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The snack wraps are inferior anyway to the true King of McDonald’s mediocre forgotten items: the chicken fajita.

    • Festus

      I still cry almost real tears over the lack of Wendy’s Bacon Mushroom melt. For a limited time my eye! The Baconator is not the same!

      • Bobarian LMD

        The Hardee’s Buffalo Chicken Burger.

        No chicken, but all the Frank’s and Bleu Cheese.

        Probably 1500 calories and almost breath-takingly spicy.

    • Agent Cooper

      I still miss Salad Shakers.

  6. AlexinCT

    You can always just…not buy them. I mean, come on. Isn’t most fashion derivative?

    Fuck we are doomed. We are focused on fucking first world problems when real problems -like the fact that the people in charge are a fucking evil crime syndicate – gets ignored…

    • R.J.

      I know! Hasn’t anyone seen Zoolander? It’s speaking truth!

      • AlexinCT

        MUGATU IS EBIL!

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Because the news has been so relentlessly horrible, have some video of two people having a good time being silly and excellent.

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

    • Festus

      Yup. Dancin girls are the best girls!

    • DEG

      I might turn into a Westie as the only swing dances that I know of within an hour of me that are normal are… West Coast Swing dancers run by Free Staters.

      I can go down to PA, and am this weekend, for Lindy Hop, but it would be nice to have something closer.

  8. trshmnstr the terrible

    That Texas migration article. Woof! Talk about entitled Californians! “We’re gonna move there, and we fully expect you to change to match our social preferences.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We needs our abortions!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The companies providing free out-of-state abortions deserve to have all their pro-life workers walk off the job. That crosses so many lines.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now that I’ve actually RTFA, that’s just fucked up in so many ways.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Why would a tech worker need an abortion?

      • waffles

        Bragging rights?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Somebody’s floppy got inserted into a bootable hard drive?

    • Tres Cool

      “On Sept. 3, just two days after Texas banned abortions, Vivek Bhaskaran, the chief executive of an Austin-based online survey software company, quickly assembled the handful of female employees that are based in the city.”
      From https://www.eyes4research.com/blog/interview-series/vivek-bhaskaran/

      “Led by his love for adventure, Vivek is a global nomad. While born in India, Vivek spent his early collegiate years in Russia, becoming proficient in the language. He then transferred to Brigham Young University in Utah, where he developed a passion for Mormonism. From there, he moved to Seattle, working as a systems architect until founding QuestionPro.”

      I bet he’s fun to party with.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If he’s in the church, he’s liable to get excommunicated over that stunt.

      • hayeksplosives

        Just like Good Catholic Nancy Pelosi.

        Oh wait…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pfffttttt… the Catholics gave up on moral policing of their members a looooong time ago.

      • AlexinCT

        When they started taking “donations” to forgive sins?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        “he developed a passion for”

        aka, never bothered to join the church because he’s SBNR.

      • Agent Cooper

        OUTER DARKNESS!

      • Certified Public Asshat

        the handful of female employees

        Hmm, how woke is he…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Five bucks says he’s a serial harasser at a minimum.

      • AlexinCT

        “You ladies don’t have to worry about putting out at the company parties, cause we now pay to take you out of state for your abortions!”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I can remember when taking her across the state line for an abortion was a seedy act at best.

    • R.J.

      ^This. Please take your cancerous California morals with you when departing the Lone Star State.

      • WTF

        It baffles me that people leave a state because the policies they voted for made it unlivable, and then vote for the same stupid policies in the state they just moved to.

      • AlexinCT

        It is absolutely not unbelievable to me since I saw it happen in Connecticut when a whole bunch of pissed Massholes moved here after they ruined that state (that’s where the name Taxetchusetts came from) and then did it to those of us living here. Most of them never connect that it is their liberal policies that cause the high costs of living and problems, and many that do don’t care, cause they figure other people should also be miserable.

      • Grumbletarian

        Much the same in NH. Leftists are political locust swarms.

      • Festus

        Joe Biden claims to be a devout Catholic. Square that fuckin circle.

      • robc

        Up thru the early 90s, Louisville was represented in the US House by Ron (Romano) Mazzoli.

        He was economically, pretty far left wing, even for a Democrat. Large social policies was one of his three big issues. The other two being anti-death penalty and anti-abortion.

        He was, unlike Biden, legitimately a devout Catholic.

      • DEG

        I have a vague memory that one of PA’s past US Senators, I think a Casey, was the same way on abortion. Anti-abortion because he was Catholic.

        The DNC wanted him to speak at an event, and then quickly yanked the invitation when the usual suspects made noise about his anti-abortion stances.

      • Tres Cool

        So much “Live Free or Die”

      • R C Dean

        They appear to have gone for the second option.

  9. AlexinCT

    Yeah, sure. Because mudslides never happened before. Not to mention the natural landscape being upset and inadequate retaining walls being erected couldn’t possibly be the cause of this. It has to be global warming.

    Ain’t it funny that to leftists every single thing is caused by systemic racism or climate change, both of which require the same solution, which they translate to mean that the serfs have to give government more power and lose more freedoms & money?

  10. hayeksplosives

    Good lord.

    That passes for news??

    Check, please. I’m done.

    • sloopyinca

      I’m still in my “try to keep it light” mode.

      • hayeksplosives

        I am itchy to leave California.

        A naturally beautiful state, rich with mineral and agricultural blessings. Just ruined by statist assholes.

        I’m going to walk away in slow mo donning sunglasses. Can’t throw a match behind my back or it might destroy what is left though.

      • UnCivilServant

        A slo-mo walk out of california would take foooorrrreeeeevvvvveeerrrr.

        I mean you don’t even reach a mile per hour doing that.

      • sloopyinca

        What if you just walked a hundred yards of so right at the border? Would that take forever?

        -pedant

      • hayeksplosives

        That’s what I am planning .

        Slo mo walk away from the last Tesla supercharger site.

        Now to choose the theme music…

      • Translucent Chum

        Theme from the original Incredible Hulk TV show, of course.

      • R C Dean

        Hotel California?

  11. Rebel Scum

    Fashion designer called out for cultural appropriation over its $1,190 pants

    This seams like a stupid thing to be concerned about.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Swiss will be along to button this down shortly.

      • SDF-7

        So we’re going to just hem and haw until he does? Seams like quite a waist….

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah, he won’t let this one fly.

    • Tres Cool

      Staring a thread about that ? I bet it wears out.

      • sloopyinca

        Oh man, I’m getting a stitch in my side I’m laughing so hard at these replies.

    • Swiss Servator

      *MASS NARROWED GAZE*

      • Fourscore

        Swissy, give ’em all a belt

    • mindyourbusiness

      You gotta figure Swissy won’t hem and haw about this.

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      You stiched up that joke.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Mudslide on scenic Colorado highway tests limits of aging infrastructure in era of climate change

    *eye twitches*

    • SDF-7

      To be fair (to be sure?) it is an era of climate change. As has every moment since the dust coalesced into this planet, after all….. I don’t believe we’ll ever achieve geostasis regardless of how much the cultists demand we all pray to their CO2 gods.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        If we stabilize we shall freeze, silly humans!

  13. AlexinCT

    LOL, good luck. Not only is this an unconstitutional taking, its completely retarded.

    How do they plan to enforce this? Or will it be judged in absentia for an unknown individual, and then wtf happens?

    Maybe if they give them a level of murders where the state will turn a blind eye this will solve the problem? If you can say stealing less than $950 in one swoop means you didn’t commit a crime, saying if you have shot less than 2 to 5 people in one incident, it didn’t happen? The state can then claim less people were shot (YAY!) and the polls can pretend they solved the problem!

    • R.J.

      Genius. I expect this to become reality soon.

  14. Rebel Scum

    “for achievements that first make people laugh then make them think.”

    It made me slightly irritated and think that you are grifting assholes.

  15. SDF-7

    Not only is this an unconstitutional taking, its completely retarded.

    So your usual government policy these days, you’re saying?

  16. UnCivilServant

    I’m going to be glad to get out of left coast time. Waking up to find the lynx already underway is no way to start the morning.

  17. Scruffy Nerfherder

    In a rather unusual move, Kroger is announcing that food inflation is inbound.

    • AlexinCT

      Everywhere I have been shopping has been doing that “announcing” shit when I look at the bill and compare it to what I paid even a couple of weeks ago… And when you compare it to your expenses for last year, the increases seem really to stand out…

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Our food budget that was doing okay, even without us planning particularly well, as recently as 6 months ago is now not enough even with tight pre-planning. A “good deal” on basic ground beef at Sam’s the other day was $3.49/lb.

  18. Rebel Scum

    “Newsom has always had it by the numbers, and he knows that,” said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California and an expert in voters and the electorate.

    Indeed, the numbers of drug addicts paid to ballot harvest should help out. Plus the fact that his main opponent is an infamous Black white-supremacist.

      • Festus

        Yep. Won’t be any shennanigans up here next week. All is well!

      • Rat on a train

        Our system shows you have already voted in this precinct and five others.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Keep up the good work”?

  19. PieInTheSky

    You can always just…not buy them. I mean, come on. Isn’t most fashion derivative? And anybody who’s buying these doesn’t give two rips about people getting offended. Because anybody buying $1200 sweatpants is in a “fuck your feelings” income bracket.

    I never understood this part of fashion. Even if you have all the money. Why the fuck throw it away on sweatpants? I get you want to status signal buit there are more classy ways to do that. I get a nice suit, some really nice shoes/boots, a nice leather jacked a fancy watch. But fucking sweatpants? This screams of more money than class/sense to me

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I can’t even imagine how nice $100 sweatpants would have to be to justify the price.

      • AlexinCT

        They better have a hot women in them…

      • Festus

        Really! Like 20 bucks. They’re fucking sweats.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Would they succeed in hiding an inconvenient erection?

        Asking for a friend.

    • PieInTheSky

      Also off course there is no such damn thing as cultural appropriation.

    • rhywun

      Dressing like a hoodlum has been an aspiration of many Americans for decades. I don’t get it, either – but there it is.

      • AlexinCT

        Are these the people that get really pissed when they are acting out and living large & in charge in their “Look at me I am a bad ass/criminal” fantasies, and then get confused for criminals by authorities and other citizens? I told my kid when he was young that while it shouldn’t be so, acting like something, will make other people think you are that something. For good AND BAD…

      • waffles

        People really do tend to take things at face value, for better and for worse. If I was black you know I’d rock some glasses, a bowtie, and a Walther PPK.

      • AlexinCT

        To pull that off you would need to drink Gin Martinis (NOT FUCKING VODKA, CAUSE THAT IS FOR PUSSIES) that are stirred and not shaken…

      • Not Adahn

        NOI likes PPKs?

      • Tres Cool

        +2 Fruits of Islam

    • PieInTheSky

      “Summerfield, Maryland” “That’s sewage,” – bringing the real Washington feel to the spectators?

    • AlexinCT

      Fuck them all. That’s what they deserve for bowing under and letting shitbags make them change the teams name.

      • Agent Cooper

        Well, the team is a nationally-recognized shitshow.

  20. Rebel Scum

    “I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be vaccinated,” the White House chief medical adviser said in an interview with theSkimm podcast, The Hill reported.

    I would support a requirement that this cunte has to do the Truffle Shuffle at the beginning of every interview.

    • Tulip

      So how many cases have been traced to airline flights?

      • AlexinCT
    • SDF-7

      I know it is preaching to the choir here but this is most definitely how I feel and I wish more people would read this and accept (what I feel) is obvious reality.

      The bizarre idea folks have these days that reality changes based on how you describe it or because you want it to really, really hard continues to astound me. Product of just being spoiled? Lying to themselves or others? I can never wrap my head around it — because the universe so obviously doesn’t care about your description or your feelings…. I know, probably just back to the “Hard times make hard men, hard men make good times, good times make soft men, soft men make hard times” cycle.

      • AlexinCT

        The bizarre idea folks have these days that reality changes based on how you describe it or because you want it to really, really hard continues to astound me.

        Having read the shit that post modernism and marxism produced, it doesn’t surprise me one fucking bit. These cults are completely based on not just ignoring reality, but on punishing people until they confirm to a vision of reality that is impossible. Shit, these cults all demanded the end of old time religion, promised man – through government of all means – could & should create heaven on earth (who the fuck wants to live a good and moderate life just to find out there is no afterlife and they never busted a nut and partied hard, huh?), then delivered hell for the idiots that went along, but people keep asking for more. If anything, this alone should prove to you how many people struggle with reality in the first place.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The bizarre idea folks have these days that reality changes based on how you describe it or because you want it to really, really hard continues to astound me. Product of just being spoiled? Lying to themselves or others?

        It’s all purposely taught to small children so they internalize postmodern relativism.
        1) “You can be/do anything you want if you just try”
        2) “How do you feel about the reading for today?”
        3) “Self esteem is very important”
        4) “Kids are founts of innocent wisdom”
        5) “Its not what you say as much as how you say it”

      • AlexinCT

        I remember getting a ton of pushback from one of my kid’s teachers when I pointed out to her that real self-esteem doesn’t come from being told how awesome you are, but from accomplishing difficult things. She told me that failure, especially in a competitive society, robbed people of their self esteem. I pointed out working hard to achieves something is actually how you get the self esteem (and while winning helps, losing is where I learned the most important life lessons from, actually). She disagreed and told me she always felt like a failure until she realized she was special. Man was she not happy when I pointed out that based on her explanation she might need to see a doctor and get some mental health help…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        “She disagreed and told me she always felt like a failure until she realized she was special.”

        Got some news for you lady…

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup, you hit the difference between self-esteem and confidence. Confidence is resilient, tested, and lifelong. Self-esteem is fickle, foundationless, and ephemeral.

        I don’t want my kids to have self-esteem. I want them to have confidence.

      • Agent Cooper

        I once lost a Little League Baseball game 45-0. Now, looking back on it, it was f-ing hilarious.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

        I like to say “Step in front of a moving bus and then tell me how everything is subjective.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just not in Texas, because you can’t get an abortion anymore.

      • Surly Knott

        1, 4, & 5 were commonplace as early as the early 50s, and probably much earlier than that.

      • R C Dean

        6) Perception is reality

        Gets my vote for the worst.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called Senator Joe Manchin ‘patronizing’ for referring to her as a ‘young lady’ as the two Democrats spar over his objections to the party’s massive spending bill.

    “Aw sorry, toots. Now get in the kitchen and make me a sammich.”

    • UnCivilServant

      So she’s an old hag?

      I haz confusion.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Shrill harpy might be more fitting?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t want to slander harpies.

    • WTF

      “She’s no lady.”

    • Q Continuum

      Does “dumb bitch” work better?

  22. Rebel Scum

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she’ll introduce on Monday an ordinance that would allow the city to file lawsuits to go after gang members’ assets, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

    I thought paying criminals not to criminal was the new hotness.

  23. Q Continuum

    “The gray Balenciaga sweatpants, which feature what looks like the top of a pair of boxers peeking out from the waistband”

    I can’t decide which is stupider: this or the racist rock.

    • PieInTheSky

      less is more

    • Plisade

      That warms my heart. Thank you.

  24. robc

    Baseball birthdays: I havent read sloopy yet, so probably some repeats. Today is a deep list of the Hall of Pretty Good.

    Eddie Rommel, Bernie Williams, Rick Wise, Thornton Lee, Dutch Ruether, Rick Dempsey, Denny Neagle.

    Now to go read the links. I bet sloopy didn’t get Dutch on his list.

    • Jerms

      Bernie baseball. My all-time favorite player.

  25. Q Continuum

    “Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon was built decades before global warming was top of mind.”

    Fuck. Off.

    “Evidence that the mudslide was caused by climate change is ‘overwhelming,'”

    These people are supposed to be smart? I guess I need to stop worrying and love the new Lysenkoism.

    • Atanarjuat

      before agw, landslides never occurred on mountains

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The assertions are definitely overwhelming.

    • Rebel Scum

      Evidence that the mudslide was caused by climate change is ‘overwhelming

      If only saying it would make it so.

    • Raven Nation

      Just so you know how the argument goes: there were several large-scale forest fires in the hills around the canyon which destroyed most of the vegetation. Then there were several heavy rainfalls which triggered the mudslides. Since (increasing) forest fires and/or unusual heavy rains are caused by climate change, the mudslide was caused by climate change.

    • Atanarjuat

      definitely don’t do a search for “Lindsay Graham ladybugs”

      • Tonio

        Oh, my.

    • Tonio

      It would be best to stop so you can concentrate on your marriage. […]

      My support pack Solving Erection Problems explains self-help techniques.

      […]

      Just talking about this should help him begin to understand that changes are needed. My support pack Relationship MOT will help him see how.

      Sounds like advice-columnist Dee Dee is jealous of that phat £140 per hour. Two plugs (!) for her products in three paragraphs. She also didn’t mention sexual surrogates (prostitutes with the veneer of offering “therapy”).

    • Translucent Chum

      Fred Garvin disagrees.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Unity/healing/etc.

    Co-host Gayle King said, “Madam Secretary, we have a new home here on Times Square. As thrilled as I am to be here, I admit I’m a little nervous sometimes. I’m looking around more than I normally do. I think a lot of Americans are concerned about a threat risk here in the United States because of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Do you share those concerns?”

    Clinton said, “I think you always have to be vigilant, Gayle, and certainly that unfortunately comes with living in the world as we know it today. But actually, I am more concerned about internal threats. We always have to be aware of, and protect against, external threats. But what really is tearing our country apart and threatening our democracy is what we saw on January 6th. And I unfortunately have seen so much of that kind of continuing divisiveness and hatred and ideological attitudes about our democracy, about each other.”

    “C’mon, Joe. I don’t want to die, Joe. I told my wife I’d be home Sunday. But you’re gonna have to shoot me, Joe. But then two and half blocks get destroyed, Joe.” – The ‘internal threat’ of FBI ops..

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Madam Secretary”

      God, I hate the new nobility.

      • Ownbestenemy

        September 12
        Jennifer Rubin – https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1437219753924481024

        Something is missing from that poll…just can’t figure out what it is…

        September 13
        Jennifer Rubin – “It isn’t a vaccine mandate”

        TMITE gonna TMITE

      • Ownbestenemy

        Errr…..whoops threaded this fantastically

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Rubin is a filthy human being.

    • WTF

      “Madam Secretary”? What the fuck is Hillary secretary of?
      We don’t have titles of nobility here.

  27. Mojeaux

    So today is Mr Mojeaux’s and my 19th wedding anniversary. Best internet find ever.

    • AlexinCT

      Happy Anniversary!

    • UnCivilServant

      Congrats.

      Did you share the story behind the last part of that statement before?

      • Mojeaux

        I have, as a matter of fact. However, I can’t share it again because I have to go to class right now, I’m on my phone, and by the time I can share it it will be time for afternoon links.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh well, I’ll pester you some other day, since I’ll be driving most of today anyway.

    • PieInTheSky

      Congratulations for not stabbing one another in 19 years. Let’s hope the same goes for the next 19

    • Tonio

      W00t! Happy Anniversary.

    • TARDis

      Late to the dead thread, but congrats!

    • DEG

      Happy Anniversary!

  28. AlexinCT

    Hey, so the story of that sleeping drug using hobo caught with hundreds of mail-in ballots in his car in the state of Commiefornia has all but disappeared from the news. So am I just being paranoid and silly to assume the reason for that was that the media found out all the ballots were filled out to stop the recall and keep Newsom, and the people that labeled Larry Elder to be a real life Clayton Bigsby?

    • Urthona

      There’s was never much detail on the story or what it meant.

      You can print out your own ballot at home in California and mail it in in a standard envelope. Maybe he just printed up thousands.

      In theory with these printed ballots they’re then supposed to verify the voter manually. Which is a terrible idea and prone to all sorts of bias and corruption.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        You can print out your own ballot at home in California and mail it in in a standard envelope.

        !!!

      • Urthona

        Yes.

        You know I’m told there’s no hard evidence of any cheating though, so no worries!

        In fact there’d be no way to ever get any!

      • rhywun

        Feature, not bug.

    • Rebel Scum

      What’s a little election fortification among friends?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “accidentally”

    • AlexinCT

      Yeah, sure… accidentaly..

      Bitch own the fact you like being a cum dumpster!

    • Gustave Lytton

      “Slept”

      Also, even with lube, 50 men? Cmon.

      • Tonio

        ^This

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I think the assumption that all of them got PIV is unwarranted.

    • waffles

      Sensationalist garbage. Some women love being degraded. It’s unfortunate.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      But she looks so innocent.

    • PieInTheSky

      The OnlyFans model, who also shares content on Instagram – so yeah probably a former pornstar

    • Rat on a train

      It’s alright. She is tested every 14 days for STDs.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Was she wearing a mask though?

    • Urthona

      Cool story. Doubt it really even happened.

      • PieInTheSky

        Look just pay her onlyfans simp her online and maybe she will fuck you

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Kazumi Squirts (not her real name)

        Don’t be so sure.

  29. Rebel Scum

    I’m so glad we defeated that fascist Drumpfler.

    Top security officials in Congress are expected to reinstall fencing around the Capitol and authorize the use of deadly force ahead of a planned rally by far-right Trump supporters next weekend demanding the release of rioters arrested in connection with the 6 January insurrection.

    The officials, however, had no plans so far to request the national guard, and were not pushing for such a request, principally because the threat assessment did not warrant their deployment, according to sources familiar with the matter.

    The Justice for J6 rally on 18 September is being organized by the Trump operative Matt Braynard and his organization Look Ahead America. It is being held to demand that the justice department drop charges against nearly 600 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack which the group calls “non-violent protesters”, despite widespread violence and five deaths during the insurrection.

    It looks like someone is intent only on guarding the deep state narrative. Stay classy, The Guardian.

    • rhywun

      I wonder how many Trumpaloes they will get away with murdering this time.

      • WTF

        As many as they want. The DOJ won’t interfere and the media will run interference for them.

    • Gustave Lytton

      authorize the use of deadly force ahead of a planned rally

      Wow.

      • WTF

        They’re telling you that they will kill you for protesting.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yep. They want blood.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Everything about that article is obscene. They’re demanding that those being held be let out of solitary and/or given a trial.

      They’ve effectively suspended habeas corpus.

      • WTF

        Likely using the Patriot Act as the “legal” basis.

      • Rat on a train

        Well, they came one woman short of overthrowing the government and installing a theocracy. That officer deserves a statue.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I would find humor in it if they killed one of their own agents by accident.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s beyond stupid.

      I wouldn’t vote to convict if one of the female competitors shanked the nutjob in the locker room.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Holy shit, the pic of that dude before is hilarious. I wouldn’t want to fight that mofo, I can tell you that.

    • PieInTheSky

      . I don’t know why a biowoman would ever step in the ring – to show she is a strong woman who can defeat anyone

      I find the whole trans sports thing very entertaining so hope it goes on

    • Certified Public Asshat

      End trans genocide

      *scrolls through article looking at the photos, has a thought*

      Oww.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If they keep this up, they might actually get the genocide they’ve been claiming exists.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The fact that he had to include a pre-transition pic really isn’t helping his point https://t.co/OKpnvj2F0n— Vaush (@VaushV) September 12, 2021

      “Libertarian socialist”

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      I am waiting for some Division-III level basketball player to ‘identify’ as a woman and make it into the WNBA and go Wilt Chamberlain on them every game.

  30. Not Adahn

    Other research that earned a 2021 Ig Nobel includes a study that linked the obesity of a country’s politicians to its level of corruption and another that tested whether humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face.

    Hmmm. I thought they were for collecting vaginal secretions to advertise a males desirability to other females. Like a wedding ring.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Did we evolve beards or did we evolve hairlessness in other places?

      • Not Adahn
  31. PieInTheSky

    I fucking hate Quantus QRC

    • Not Adahn

      How often do you fly to Australia?

      • PieInTheSky

        One cannot fly to Australia silly it is a closed system. In a few generations people will not remember Australia exists.

      • SDF-7

        Boromir: “One does not simply *fly* into Melbourne…”

  32. Festus

    I can’t take it no more! Off to eat something and good day, Glibs!

    • PieInTheSky

      A vegetable salad or something healthful I hope

      • Tres Cool

        His system is completely polluted by Canadian beer and just being Canadian. He requires Tim Horton’s and plenty of back bacon to bring his levels back up. Or Im afraid we may lose him.

        /considers watching Letterkenny or Slapshot

  33. DrOtto

    Sagging pants are prison culture appropriated to the streets. In prison, if you were a “punk” you would sag your pants to let a potential suitor know you were open for business.

    • Tres Cool

      In prison, stores didnt always have the size you require. Gang members or punks with huge waistbands became ?? ??????. So that sloppy look became the hallmark of that lifestyle.

    • mock-star

      It is from prison culture, but its from the fact that the pants you are issued in prison rarely fit as they do not come in sizes measured by waist inches but just by generic measurements, i.e. M, L, XL, XXL.

  34. CPRM

    If I recall, the snack wraps were added to the menu when McDonald’s bought Chipotle, as a way to integrate the menu to price down the Chipotle supplies. Now that they don’t own Chipotle anymore (I don’t think) there is no need for it from a logistics standpoint. Although, I guess they still use the tortillas for the brefast burrito.

    I’m still pissed KFC got rid of their Twister wraps because of some stupid girl in Australia.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wait, they got AUS$8M merely by claiming they shared the same item, had no proof of actually purchasing the item, and by innuendo about fast foods’ poor practices?

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s the anti-Lindy Chamberlain.

      • WTF

        Well, they really needed the money to care for the kid, and KFC has a lot of money, so they should pay (seems to be the judge’s rationale).

      • Gustave Lytton

        They especially needed money when dad quit his job.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We crossed that bridge in the US a long time ago.

  35. PieInTheSky

    My allergy hit me bad this year and it is unfair. I never had any allergies until I was 33. I should have been scot-free. It is stupid to develop allergies in your 30s.

    I probably should get some allergy pills. Stupid Ragweed who the fuck needs it.

    • waffles

      That is stupid to develop allergies in your 30s, my condolences.

    • AlexinCT

      Lots of people develop allergies in late life, and you should remember allergies come from an overactive immune response, which might not be a bad thing unless your immune response goes so nuts that it attacks your own organs….

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yep

    • hayeksplosives

      What in the shit….?

      /shudders

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

    • MikeS

      I’m scared.

    • Urthona

      hawt

    • Urthona

      I shudder to imagine what that voice is like.

    • CPRM

      Why does it look 12 years old?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They factored in her intelligence with his voice?

    • Rebel Scum

      Hawt.

  36. PieInTheSky

    Why is there a food emergency in Sri Lanka?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-58485674

    my guess is hoarders and wreckers but let us see

    “On 30 August, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced strict controls on the supply of essential goods.” – this always prevents shortage, strange it didn’t this time

    “The government said this was needed to prevent traders hoarding food items and control inflation.” – off course…

    “The emergency regulations allow the government to provide food items and other essentials at fixed prices by buying up stock from traders. In regard to shortages, the country’s finance ministry told the BBC in a statement that these were “artificial”.” – he is right it is artificial as in created by someone, but who?

    “In April, the government banned imports of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides, to encourage organic farming. ” – this should get food supplies back on track

    “Prof Sabine Zikeli, of the Centre for Organic Farming at the University of Hohenheim in Germany, says a rapid transition to organic could threaten a country’s food security. “You can’t simply change these conventional cropping systems, you need transition periods,” she says. “In organic farming, the normal transition period to adapt….about three years or even longer, depending on the country.” ” – western corporate propaganda

      • EvilSheldon

        Cambodia waves hello!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The European organic nutjobs don’t really care if people starve in third world countries.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Who’s this “we”? I like insanity, it keeps me on my toes,

      • waffles

        I was insane before this all started. I went through great lengths to get my sanity back and now the rest of the world won’t cooperate. It’s just not fair!

    • Rebel Scum

      Tell that to the voices.

      • waffles

        Thrice before bed!

  37. AlexinCT

    What could go wrong with this? At this point these people in allegiance with the deep state are making it clear they intend to fight to keep their hold on power, the people of the country and their wishes for representation and accountability by the elite, be damned.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No surprises there. They started it under Obama, they intend to finish it now.

  38. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “ IRS chief tells Elizabeth Warren: More transparent bank data can fight tax evasion”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/irs-chief-tells-elizabeth-warren-bank-data-can-help-fight-tax-evasion.html

    “While the specific disclosure requirements would ultimately be hammered out by the Treasury Department, they could inform the IRS about the size and frequency of deposits and withdrawals from those accounts.” I heard some guy batting around a six hundred dollar withdrawal/deposit limit for reportability. Talk about a privacy violation at the very least.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah..if this happens, it hits my wife’s business.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I heard some guy batting around a six hundred dollar withdrawal/deposit limit for reportability.

      Yeah, that guy was Joe Biden. It was in an administration proposal for Treasury policies and initiatives.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s insanity…they’ll know when you buy a TV, hire a plumber, etc. and how in the hell are smaller regional banks and credit unions, who have comparatively fewer resources, going to handle that?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They won’t.

        They’ll get absorbed by the big banks, which most assuredly is part of the intent.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ll add to that.

        The only way out of this now is a collapse of the dollar, and with it the United States. The federal government is accelerating its stranglehold on all institutions in an attempt to solidify its position ahead of that moment. Expect the crackdowns and intrusions to ramp up over the next few years because they aren’t wholly stupid. They see the writing on the wall as well, and are hoping they can authoritarian their way out of the problem.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Dangerous shit a-brewin.

    • AlexinCT

      This is one of the many things that the new deep state plans to use against its political enemies….

      • robc

        It is also why they are anti-cash in general.

    • Rat on a train

      six hundred dollar withdrawal/deposit limit
      $600+ is reported. $600- is structuring.

      • waffles

        That’s crazy limiting. My biggest beef with these laws is that they always end up being used to bully political opponents while connected criminals never seem to worry about them.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        That’s a lot of data. One Costco trip, evidently.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The IRS is very efficient at the moment and needs more things to do.

    • Not Adahn

      Lizzy Warren takes orders from Chief.

    • CPRM

      I may have new pass time. I might just spend my days off constantly transferring $600 between all my accounts.

  39. The Other Kevin

    Update from COVID quarantine. My sense of smell continues to return. I still have slight sinus issues but I’m sure those are really allergies this time. Mrs. TOK is still short of breath and coughing, but is getting up and doing things. Youngest TOK has no symptoms and is mostly hiding in her room. She’s extremely bored and impatient, but that’s her normally.

    Everyone we had been in contact with is healthy and many have had a negative test. The one exception is our 2 year old nephew, who just got positive results from a test he took last week. His only symptom was a runny nose for one day last week. I’m finding out that kids are extremely good at fighting COVID. I’ve heard many instances of kids feeling sick for less than a day.

    • AlexinCT

      I read an article the other day where someone was pointing out that China might have decided to control its demographic problem caused by the imbalance the “One Child” policy caused and the massive aging of their society with this virus, which is why kids do real well but most adults, and especially the ones with comorbidities that can cause the system money, end up pushing up daisies. If any entity would be evil enough to do something like this it would be the CCP, with help from our elite mandarinate…

    • Ownbestenemy

      That is good! Here is to continued health

    • Translucent Chum

      Sounds like our family. I had a dry, very annoying cough for a few days, teen daughter lost sense of taste for a few days, wife and teen son no symptoms at all.

      • The Other Kevin

        As more people catch the virus and more people get vaccinated, we’re going to see more and more cases with few symptoms. And that proposes a dilemma… with mild symptoms, do people still subject themselves to a test and possibly 10 days of quarantine, or do they just pretend like it didn’t happen?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pretend it didn’t happen. Take normal time off like you would the flu or cold, monitor and come back to work when recovered. Unless of course your employer demands a negative test after calling out sick.

    • DEG

      This is good to hear.

  40. trshmnstr the terrible

    Ron Paul nails it, like usual:

    Sept 13 – Nothing upset the Washington Beltway elites more than when in a 2007 presidential debate I pointed out the truth about the 9/11 attacks: they attacked us because we’ve been in the Middle East, sanctioning and bombing the civilian population, for decades. The 9/11 attackers were not motivated to commit suicide terrorism on the Twin Towers and Pentagon because they dislike our freedoms, as then-President Bush claimed. That was a self-serving lie.

    They hated – and hate – us because we kill them for no reason. Day after day. Year after year. Right up until just a few days ago, when President Biden slaughtered Zemari Ahmadi and nine members of his family – including seven children – in Afghanistan. The Administration bragged about taking out a top ISIS target. But they lied. Ahmadi was just an aid worker, working for a California-based organization, bringing water to suffering Afghan village residents.

    This horror has been repeated thousands of times, over and over, for decades. Does Washington believe these people are subhuman? That they somehow don’t care about their relatives being killed? That they don’t react as we would react if a foreign power slaughtered our families?

    Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously suggested in an interview that killing half a million Iraqi children with sanctions designed to remove Saddam Hussein from power was “worth it.” It was an admission that the lives of innocents mean nothing to the Washington elite, even as they paint their murderous interventions as some kind of “humanitarian liberation.” The slogan of the US foreign policy establishment really should be, “No Lives Matter.”

    The Washington foreign policy elites – Republicans and Democrats – are deeply corrupt and act contrary to US national interests. They pretend that decades of indiscriminate bombing overseas are beneficial to the victims and keep us safer as well. That is how they are able, year after year, to convince Congress to hand over a trillion dollars – money taken directly and indirectly from average Americans. They use fear and lies for their own profit. And they call themselves patriots.

    The Washington establishment lied to us because they did not want us to stop for a second and try to understand the motive for the 9/11 attacks. Police detectives are not apologists for killers when they try to look for a motive for the crime. But the Washington elite did not want us to think about why people might be motivated to suicide attack. That might endanger their 100-year gravy train.

    What was the real message of 9/11 to Americans? Give up your freedoms for the false promise of security. It’s OK for the government to spy on all of us. It’s OK for the TSA to abuse us for the “privilege” of traveling in our own country. We must continue to bomb people overseas. Don’t worry it’s only temporary.

    So, twenty years on what have we learned from 9/11? Absolutely nothing. And we all know what the philosopher George Santayana said about those incapable of learning from history. I desperately hope that somehow the United States will adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy, which would actually protect us from another attack. I truly wish Americans would demand that their leaders learn from history. The only way to make us safe is to end the reign of the Washington killing machine.

    • Rat on a train

      So, twenty years on what have we learned from 9/11?
      That authoritarians can use fear to take away liberty?

      • Tres Cool

        “9/11 was some shit….be we need to be masked up! And vaccinated so even with the vaccine you still need a mask! Cause icky people will get you sick with the thing you got vaccinated for! C’mon man- its for our kids!”

  41. Rebel Scum

    Cultural enrichment.

    The 26-year-old man from Somalia was arrested on Saturday evening after wounding five with a knife. He will face charges of attempted murder, assault, and attempted robbery.

    One of his victims was a six-year-old boy, who was stabbed in the throat while travelling on a bus with his mother, according to the Il Mattino newspaper.

    After the Somali man was asked to provide a ticket for the bus in Rimini by two female workers, the attacker pulled out a knife, stabbing the employees before fleeing. Before being detained by police, he was able to attack a further three people, ANSA reported.

    Five people, including the young boy, were injured in the attack. Luckily none of the injuries appears to be life-threatening.

    The attacker is believed to have been in Italy for the past few months and has applied for refugee status — after failing to gain the status in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands after first entering the European Union in 2015.

    I’d say his chances now have been markedly slashed.

    • Tres Cool

      There’s no point to these puns. He cut a kid- he has no edge.

    • AlexinCT

      Considering how fucking stupid the Euro mandarinate has become, I wouldn’t be surprised they now make him a citizen AND send him to jail to live a cushy life for a few years…

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        send him to jail to live a cushy life for a few years…

        Norway’s max security prison is unreal. Allowance to use at onsite grocery store with Ben & Jerry’s, sound stage for recording music, etc. for murderers and rapists.

      • Tres Cool

        Id like a citation to that.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Norway episode of Season 3 of Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons on Netflix.

        Grain of salt and all that for how things are portrayed, but gives a decent picture unless the documentary is being produced on a set in LA.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Sure hope that reduces violence.

    • TARDis

      Rimini? My dad was stationed there, a long time ago when I was a preteen. Guess that place has gone downhill too.

  42. Toxteth O'Grady

    Hey NA, my dog gets trazodone at night. I could take one or two then report back.

    • Tres Cool

      Go to bed early, chase it with double-deuce (weight adjusted), and sleep well.
      Just because Bill Cosby is out doesn’t mean he wont be there….

      • Aloysious

        “Early to bed, and early to rise

        makes a man or woman

        miss out on the night life”

        /Morphine

    • Not Adahn

      Just curious — she doesn’t seem to be loopy or unhappy when on them. Just ten days to go before she can get back to the dog park. It’s very sad, she keeps going over to the car so we can visit there.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh, I thought you were asking for human use. 50 mg for everyday use for a 25 lb. dog, to double if necessary (so far, not).

      • Not Adahn

        It was more of wondering if it was an unpleasant drug to be on, or a fun one. Obviously, if it was too much fun they wouldn’t prescribe it, but some drugs suck to be on.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Mostly soporific, I take it. Originally an ineffective antidepressant.

    • Rat on a train

      Not obvious how this serves American taxpayers.
      Taxpayers are supposed to pay the bill, not enjoy the benefits.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “Mach-E has been much stronger than we expected, so we’ve totally run out of stock,” Farley told reporters at the introduction of the electric F-150 Lightning pickup May 19. “Mach-E is going global as we speak, but in the U.S.” the wait for a Mach-E “is months.”

      The global computer-chip shortage hobbling the auto industry played a role in the Mach-E surpassing the traditional Mustang. Farley said the company is prioritizing its newest models, such as the Mach-E and the Bronco SUV, as its distributes its scarce supply of semiconductor modules. Ford’s Flat Rock, Michigan, factory <strong<built no gas Mustangs last month, according to the production data

      Demand is strong when there’s no alternative!

      • Gustave Lytton

        So are my tags when I don’t properly enclose them.

      • Sensei

        Demand is “strong” for just about any popular vehicle now with the semiconductor shortage.

        You have to admire the PT Barnum like nature of Musk as he spins the shortage of vehicle radar modules into a win.

        Transitioning to Tesla Vision

    • Ownbestenemy

      “but not at the IRS, where they’re still hard at it freezing the savings accounts of January insurrectionists’ nine-year-old grandkids.” That…sigh.

      Good read.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I remember when third world dictatorships would seize the assets of family and associates of targets so they’d be unable to mount a defense at show trials.

  43. PieInTheSky

    “We found that two thirds (409/620) of all brain measures showed a significant sex difference (36% larger in males, 29% larger in females), once total cerebral measure was properly adjusted.” (N = 40,028)

    https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1436844892664188929

    The patriarchy is altering female brains

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’d like for her to define her terms, “debate” and “discourse.”

      I’m guessing “discourse” includes beating you about the head while screaming at you.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Dumbass on internet sewer says dumbass things befitting the internet sewer.

      *shock of shocks*

      • PieInTheSky

        has blue check. is important. you peasant not even blue check. know place.

  44. Rebel Scum

    I am just glad we are toning down the rhetoric and practicing some good, old fashioned unity.

    In perhaps the most important words spoken in his political career, Bush in his remarks at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 drew a straight line between the 9/11 terrorists and the 1/6 terrorists. “We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders but from violence that gathers within,” he said. “There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.” He added, “It is our continuing duty to confront them.” Bush’s words were an indictment not only of the violent MAGA insurrectionists but also, implicitly, of his party that coddles them and the leader whom the 1/6 terrorists wanted to install by force. …

    The violent insurrectionists carried symbols of the Confederacy (the traitors whose rebellion resulted in more than 600,000 American deaths) in the Capitol, where they trashed the citadel of democracy and tried to hunt down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Capitol, of course, was the suspected target of Flight 93; the heroes on board that plane spared the lawmakers and others who worked there from the fate of occupants of the twin towers and the Pentagon. The 1/6 terrorists breached the building the 9/11 terrorists could not. Both the 9/11 terrorists and the domestic 1/6 terrorists sought to destroy our democracy in service to a crazed ideology of intolerance.

    The Washington Post is a an organization of cuntes that lie for the deep state, Washington Post confirms.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Thus confirming what we knew all along, Bush is a raging asshole that only cares about power.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Having been rehabilitated by virtue of no longer being current opponent, he’s now the elder statesman and must be obeyed, you fucking deplorables.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It is remarkable how he really doesn’t care how he was portrayed at the time. It’s almost like they’re actors playing a role to keep the masses occupied while they accumulate power.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You mean like how he moved to Dallas when he left the White House instead of living on his ranch full time?

      • AlexinCT

        If you needed more proof that there isn’t much difference between team blue or team red elitist douches, this guy and the treatment he now gets in the media and from the left’s globalists (see also other cuntes like McCain and Romney that used to be literally Hitler before the left could finally coopt their shite), shoudl make it obvious to you…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I think Gore would have been worse, sadly. How much worse and if at all better, IDK.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      TMITE is operating in the old paradigm where they can shame the right by saying outrageous, deeply offensive, uncivil things without a mote of self-awareness or shame. They haven’t yet realized that their credibility is shot and all of this bullshit is simply fueling the simmering, barely hidden rage of those who feel like the rug has been yanked out from under them by the prog-fascists.

  45. PieInTheSky

    Hard science facts:
    T-RexThere were enough Tyrannosaurus Rexes in history (2.5 billion) to eat every human ever born (113 billion) in less than a year (a T-Rex eats two people a day).
    SpiderBut the 29M tons of spiders on earth TODAY would take 10 years to eat everyone who ever lived.

    https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1436122929406873602

    • Gustave Lytton

      If a 21″ Weber grill can cook a steak in 8 minutes, allowing another 10 minutes for scraping the grill and adding charcoal, how long would it take to cook all of T-Rex T-bones?

      • CPRM

        Wish bone, they were big birds with teeth.

  46. CPRM

    My furnace is running. My thermostat is set at 60. Guess I really need to make sure to order fuel oil tomorrow, I don’t think there is much in the tank. I was going to order it on my days off last week, but I got busy not doing that.

    • PieInTheSky

      My furnace is running -you should run after it?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        You said what we were all thinking.

      • CPRM

        I didn’t say the Fridge was running. That’s the only appliance I could catch.

      • Sean

        You’ve got a PM.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s cause it holds you beer, and THAT’S what will motivate you to chase it, amirite?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I would have to retain Swiss to sue the fridge for theft if that is the case.

  47. hayeksplosives

    (almost) everything I was taught as a child/teen/college student is wrong.

    It’s a tough truth to come to grips with.

    But I’m a happy captain of my own ship now, so y’all have a nice day too.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      (almost) everything I was taught as a child/teen/college student is wrong.

      The wife and I were talking about this yesterday. It’s almost like we’ve needed to be unplugged from the Matrix. Homeschooling is a good example. I remember the initial conversation as being along the lines of definitely will not because it’s really weird but let’s at least put it on the table. As we worked through the deprogramming of homeschool = wrong, we now couldn’t imagine not homeschooling. A less extreme version happened with CCWing everywhere and keeping a long gun nearby. Things we have been brought up believing are wrong (from a societal viewpoint) are now second-nature to us.

      My 6 year old daughter is one of the happiest and most confident kids I’ve seen. Her peers are constantly worried about their image, but she is oblivious to social hierarchy and still waves to animals. She went through our gun safe with me yesterday, comfortably holding each boating accident, and talking about it’s purpose (hunting/self-defense). If I can’t give her anything else, she at least won’t have to unlearn all the shit that we had to.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We’re two years behind y’all, but on the same path. Wife was very much anti-homeschool when we first met (she was homeschooled and didn’t get enough social interaction), but I was adamant against public school. Now she’s resolute on homeschooling Kindergarten and 1st grade and then evaluating from there. We like the preschool she’s in (3 days/week for 5 hours/day), but their K program is 5 days for 8 hours, and that’s absurd for 5 year olds. We want to be the primary influences in her life, not her teacher (even though her teacher would be more or less aligned with our worldview anyway).

        I’ve been gleaning various priorities and methods for homeschool curricula, and two aspects I find important, even from an early age, are the ability to communicate to others confidently and the ability to write well. The 3 Rs, theology, and some element of public speaking/interaction.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Oh, I forgot. 4 year old loves helping me load mags with bullets. She’s particularly fond of loading .22LR because “they look like people”.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Don’t make her load Barreta 92F mags without gloves or a speed loader, that’s child abuse.

      • Rat on a train

        Here’s some money. Go get daddy some ammunition and beer.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The vilification of home-schooled children was absolutely evil but makes sense on why they did/do it. You might have independent, critical thinkers that don’t bow to the State as being their cultural drivers. You might have a child that can analyze our past and see what we wanted to do, where we screwed up, what we have done since to correct and what we can do in the future.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have no regrets in my life but I would take a different path with the teens if given a do-over. I know when my wife and I got married and for half-a-second contemplated having a baby together, that would have been the path we take easily. There are so many groups now, religious and secular, that help build the social aspects that children need and that to meet the state’s standards is ridiculously easy, you have ample time to engage in so many other aspects of education.

        My kids are probably not going the college route and have been trying to get into some of the extra classes like cooking, robotics, etc, but since the state misallocates its monies, there are either no classes or one for a grade they aren’t in.

  48. wdalasio

    It is remarkable how he really doesn’t care how he was portrayed at the time.

    Yeah. In a sense, though, what I don’t understand is why some bit of self-respect doesn’t choke them. It would be one thing to just pull whatever strings you pull from the quiet of your home. But, to publicly play buddy-buddy with the very bastards who spit all over you would just stick in my craw. And even playing buddy-buddy with them doesn’t play out. The official White House photo of that presidential memorial omitted Bush, in favor of a partisan photo op.

    • Plisade

      Blue v Red is an act, a diversion, to keep us from realizing that the momentum of the deep state is what needs to be stopped.

  49. Ownbestenemy

    Seriously has to be the worst messaging of all time, might even give the WMDs in Iraq debacle a run for its money in terms of sheer stupidity. It is more dangerous though because it turns its citizens against each other, eyeing everyone with suspicion…are they dirty? What if they sneeze?! Protect me!!!

    Kamala Harris
    @KamalaHarris
    United States government official
    By vaccinating the unvaccinated, increasing our testing and masking, and protecting the vaccinated, we can end this pandemic. That’s exactly what we are committed to doing.

    • Plisade

      And here I thought the vaccine protects the vaccinated. /shrugs

      • waffles

        No, only the vaccine passport has protective values.

  50. rhywun

    Joker ran out of gas and got trucked.

    I didn’t watch but am pleased with the result. We would never have heard the end of it about that insufferable prick if he had won.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Czar is incorrect?

      • kbolino

        The word in Russian is царь. The ц can be transliterated to Latin script in a number of ways. The “ts” transliteration is close to the pronunciation in Russian. It also gets transliterated as “c” or “cz” but the former is pronounced wrong and the latter is not a native letter combination in English.

        Of course, there’s still no way to convey the pronunciation of ь at the end, though sometimes it’s transliterated as an apostrophe (e.g. tsar’ instead of tsar) though that is just confusing to (read: ignored by) anyone who doesn’t know Russian phonetics.

      • Rat on a train

        The ь isn’t pronounced. It softens the pronunciation of the preceding consonant.