Monday Morning Links

by | Nov 8, 2021 | Daily Links | 501 comments

Getting closer to the championship

The Browns thumped the Bengals, the Titans brought the Rams back down to earth, the Cardinals used a bunch of backups to beat the 49ers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars stunned the Bills. Across the pond, Liverpool fell to West Ham and ManUre got shellacked by their crosstown rivals and that’s got to be the end of Ole.  And lastly, Kyle Larson returned from a lengthy suspension for saying one stupid thing online to win NASCAR’s biggest championship while Max Verstappen increased his lead over Hamilton to 19 points with 4 races remaining in the Formula 1 World Championship.  I hope he hangs on to win it.

Classic Vlad!

Big birthdays today include Romanian prince Vlad The Impaler, astronomer Edmond Halley, author Bram Stoker, board game maker Milton Bradley, psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach, baseball player Bucky Harris, author Margaret Mitchell, computer scientist Jack Kilby, football coach Bobby Bowden, ELO’s Roy Wood, pitcher John Denny, outfielder Dwight Smith, infielder Jeff Blauser, chef and TV asshole Gordon Ramsey, actresses Parker Posey and Gretchen Mol, and bad boob job victim Tara Reid.

Right-o, now on to…the links!

Musk from the top rope!

Hold on though, because before I get into the real links I want to share the best twitter reply I’ve seen in some time. Enjoy.

This shit gets weirder by the minute. All I know is that there were several massive failures and the promoter and venue operator are going to be completely fucked when its all said and done.

And every single bit of the backlash is deserved. Selling propaganda to children is disgusting.

Let’s hope the other 39 were still working out the details of their suits. Because if this passes muster, there’s literally nothing the government can’t control through executive action.

Well, maybe not 39. There’s at least one that that’s gone completely insane with their authoritarianism. Unreal.

Stock photo

Here’s a (bonus!) link with a happy ending. Well done, old man. Of course the sad part of the story is that it’s damn near impossible for most people in that city to be in a position to protect themselves like this retired firefighter was.

At least he’s making progress. He could have shit himself again.

If you have any friends that say the government has nothing to do with gas prices, show them this. Because when the government can simply close a private business’s operations at will, then they have a direct impact on the price of whatever those companies are bringing to market.  Also, is this entire administration fucking insane?

Travel into the US is getting back to normal, sort of. Of course you could have simply walked in at any time if you can wade across the Rio Grande.

I hope it continues indefinitely. Or at least until the number of votes cast are released before a single vote is counted. For starters.

Good. I hope they win. And I hope Texas steps out of the dark ages and legalizes weed in general. Too much money is wasted “fighting” it.

Here’s a freaking great song for you. Enjoy it.

And enjoy the start of an amazing week, dear friends!

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501 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  2. Count Potato

    “Romanian prince Vlad The Impaler, author Bram Stoker”

    That seems like too much of a coincidence.

    • Not Adahn

      Indeed.

  3. PieInTheSky

    Big birthdays today include Romanian prince Vlad The Impaler – I doubt his day of birth is recorded. Where do you get this from?

    • Sensei

      Likely one of the many “on this day” sites on the internet that aren’t exactly known for thoroughly vetting the information they contain so that they may serve you advertisements.

    • AlexinCT

      Nobody remembers his actual birthdate, but we all know that he never was laid to rest, right Pie?

      • Suthenboy

        I think they opened what was widely accepted as his grave a while back.
        It was empty.

      • AlexinCT

        Was Geraldo involved with that caper? I remember something like that….

    • Count Potato

      He doesn’t invite you to his birthday parties?

    • limey

      In which case, happy un-birthday, Vlad!

      /Lewis Carroll

  4. Yusef drives a Kia

    Oh Heavens! I’ve Lost me Mind again!

    • PieInTheSky

      where did you last see it?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      /sleepwalking in paradise………..

  5. PieInTheSky

    I hope it continues indefinitely. Or at least until the number of votes cast are released before a single vote is counted. For starters. – just need a bit of extra fortifying is all

  6. Certified Public Asshat

    Whether or not the world’s wealthiest man pays any taxes at all shouldn’t depend on the results of a Twitter poll. It’s time for the Billionaires Income Tax. https://t.co/KFHw3VZ45H— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) November 6, 2021

    Twitter poll said Musk should sell, so Wyden is against voting and revenue.

    • Michael Malaise

      Billionaires Income Tax.

      “My income is $88,500 for 2021. “

  7. Rat on a train

    For Gross, the relief came from knowing he and his co-owner don’t have to unilaterally decide whether to verify their customers are vaccinated.

    I am the bad guy, but don’t want you to think I’m the bad guy. Now I can just say I am following orders.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Cowardly twat

    • Chafed

      Yes

  8. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I like Elon more and more. Irreverent contrarians – wood.

    • Sensei

      As do I. That said this was a slick way for him to sell and make a point about unrealized gains. My belief is that he wanted to sell and figured this way he could avoid some of the pushback that comes when a founder sells.

      That said the number of people he has thrown under the bus during his rise isn’t insignificant. He is a Steve Jobs level of asshole. I respect theck out of him, but I’m pretty sure I don’t like him.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        His thing where he said he would give the UN $6 billion if they could account for exactly how that $$ would be spent was * chef’s kiss *

  9. AlexinCT

    Hold on though, because before I get into the real links I want to share the best twitter reply I’ve seen in some time.

    This isn’t how you social media? I mean, if I did this shit, I would use a picture of me busting a nut…

  10. The Late P Brooks

    I get into the real links I want to share

    What in the fuck is any of that supposed to mean? Twitter is nothing but retarded gibberish.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Selling propaganda to children is disgusting.

    Did the Hitler Youth have comic books?

    • Festus

      My buddy and I got stuck in the entrance to a concert back in 1979. It was pretty bad. No one died but lots of people hit the ground. Super hot, very humid and the venue fucked up large.

  12. AlexinCT

    If you have any friends that say the government has nothing to do with gas prices, show them this. Because when the government can simply close a private business’s operations at will, then they have a direct impact on the price of whatever those companies are bringing to market.

    They want the poors unable to move around amd dependent on them.

    Also, is this entire administration fucking insane?”

    They are actually just evil and stupid, a combination that usually ends in serious disaster.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      One could argue (and I’m sure a few PhD dissertations have) that as mobility of populations increased, archaic and inequitable systems (such as feudalism) decreased.

      Not too long ago, the Saudis decided to “allow” women to drive by themselves. I’m hoping that bears fruit for Saudi women at some point. Freedom of movement is freedom.

    • Tonio

      Electric cars for the haves, government-provided mass transit for the have-nots.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

        Serfs should know their place and know their betters…

  13. Certified Public Asshat

    Check out this investment return

    Also, the infrastructure proposal relies on generating $56 billion in economic growth resulting from a 33% return on investment on the long-term projects, according to the summary.

    Spend $1.2 trillion, make $56 billion, earn 33% return.

    • AlexinCT

      Woke math…

    • Suthenboy

      The connected and powerful, just like Obama did with his stimulus, are going to steal the fuck out of that.

  14. Old Man With Candy

    I’ll go OT first.

    One of my odder homeless encounters this morning. I was walking from our hotel (we’re in ABQ) to a nearby Circle K to get coffee. The neighborhood is a bit sketchy and we’re nowhere near sunrise. Passed a bus stop and there’s a homeless guy with the requisite garbage bags, bicycles, and mutt. He says, “Hey buddy, got a light?”

    I replied, “No, I don’t sorry.” and kept walking.

    He yelled, “Hey, buddy, you look like you’re headin’ into the Circle K. If I give you some money, will you get me a lighter?”

    “Sure.” He hands me a fistful of coins.

    I bought the lighter and my coffee using my credit card. Walked out, handed him the lighter and all of his coins back. “Dude, this was on me. You gave me a story, and that’s worth more than the three bucks.”

    • Sensei

      Interesting. I’m guessing they wouldn’t let him in the Circle K.

      • AlexinCT

        He might pee or shit in the elevator?

      • SDF-7

        Elevator? What kind of multi-level convenience stores do they run in Connecticut, anyway?

      • AlexinCT

        Not a Circle K… Thought it was some kind of Hotel lobby store..

      • SDF-7

        Strange things would then be afoot in said Circle K.

      • Old Man With Candy

        He had a dog. Not allowed in.

    • AlexinCT

      Did he then get into his beamer and drive off? There was this one homeless guy that hung on a corner in Hartford torturing people with what he believed was harmonica play that would then go over to his beamer and drive off at the end of the day that had a whole following of people that respected his grift…

      • Rat on a train

        Somebody should call for help. If only they hadn’t removed the phone booth outside the store.

      • Rat on a train

        That was weird. I was typing something different at the time.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s what she said..

      • Rat on a train

        We had a guy like that who panhandled at an intersection near a strip mall. He hid his nice car by parking it in the alley behind the building.

    • SDF-7

      Very nice. And since you’re in ABQ, all I can say is that at least it wasn’t a box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Dude! GTFO! out of state plates makes you a target, Run!

    • UnCivilServant

      Wait, lighters are up to three dollars?

      • Old Man With Candy

        In C-stores, sure. I bought him a name brand.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have no idea what ABQ is but sounds kinky

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Bugs Bunny frequently makes wrong turns in ABQ

      • Not Adahn

        “He Will Not Divide Us” season 2 was set there.

      • PieInTheSky

        When I was watching cartoons as a kid I always thought Cucamonga must be a funny fake name but it is actually a place.

      • Not Adahn

        If you ever visit Oklahoma, you can see Pushmataha, Pottawatomi, and Gotebo.

      • juris imprudent

        Even stranger, that’s the town I grew up in.

      • l0b0t

        Walla Walla, WA
        Lake Titicaca
        Climax, GA (home of a yearly Rattlesnake Roundup)

      • Jerms

        Coxackie

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        When I used to vacation in VT, I would snap a pic of the Coxsackie exit on the way up, every time. I’m a 12-year-old boy, apparently

      • Rat on a train

        Bumpass, VA

      • Jerms

        Mianus Ct

      • Homple

        Fertile, Minnesota is about a half-hour’s drive from Climax, Minnesota.

      • Surly Knott

        Hell, MI, is near Climax, MI.

      • Lord Humungus

        First one, then the other.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Covert, MI
        Climax, MI

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Fucking, Austria

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Horny Bar, Slovakia

      • mindyourbusiness

        Devil’s Elbow, MO
        Knew a gal from there

      • SDF-7

        Since I mangled the link before, let’s try again to answer Pie…

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        ABQ is just before BBQ.

    • Festus

      Eeeeew! You touched the coins?

  15. Not Adahn

    computer scientist Jack Kilby

    He’s more famous for his comic books.

    • Surly Knott

      Only in Asia.

      • Chafed

        Lol

  16. Lackadaisical

    Regarding the dept of labor decision to allow woke investing:

    rhywun on November 8, 2021 at 5:50 am
    I don’t have a problem with this as long as I can still choose the real funds. Let woke people short themselves – it will be funny.”

    Yeah, but you know progs, anything allowed is mandatory. Soon you’ll have no choice at your work but to invest in the wokest stocks available. We’re past helicopter stage which means the cancer has gone terminal.

    • Sensei

      You all are forgetting the amount of funds that are in defined benefit and public pensions.

      This is intended to allow other states and private pensions the ability to do what CalPERS has done for decades.

  17. Suthenboy

    “Also, is this entire administration fucking insane?”

    That depends on your definition of insane. Totalitarian shitbirds are always and everywhere the same, right out of a cookie cutter. Marxism was specially concocted to accommodate totalitarianism.

    Trump: lowest unemployment in history, lowered taxes, companies coming back to the US, energy independence.

    One year into Biden: 100 million Americans not working, wants taxes over 50% in every state, companies leaving again, we have to beg the Saudi’s and Russians for oil.

    I guess we are having a run of bad luck. Yeah, that is what it is.
    The disruption of the supply chain and shortages are deliberate and calculated. I am even starting to hear people talk about rationing food. Goddamned commie shitbirds, always and everywhere the same. This lot is trying to recreate the USSR here in the US. Scoff if you want while you enjoy your gruel.
    Congratulations to every dumbass that voted Biden because OMB.

    Hint: No one gives a fuck what you think of Trump personally. Shit in one hand and put your feelings in the other. Which one carries more weight?
    You don’t vote for people, you vote for policies.

    • AlexinCT

      Trump: lowest unemployment in history, lowered taxes, companies coming back to the US, energy independence.

      BUT MEAN TWEETS AND CONSTANT PICKING ON THE MORONS IN THE DNC PROPAGANDA APPARATUS MASQUERADFING AS MEDIA!

      /idiots

    • UnCivilServant

      The US is a net exporter of food. We might not be able to get winter fruits, but there is no reason we should be talking rationing.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        No we shouldn’t but bear in mind that Ukraine was the breadbasket of Russia.

      • UnCivilServant

        there is no reason they should have had a famine either.

      • Suthenboy

        Yeah? Just wait…

      • Aloysious

        If Newsome and the fuckheads writing regulations in California can negatively affect the supply chain with regard to the ports and transportation, and the Biden Admin. successfully closes pipelines thereby raising fuel prices, that will negatively affect over the road trucking. Hello fuel surcharges at the very least.

        I’m not a doom and gloom type, I hope I’m not black pilled, but there is a lot of room for these … creatures… to foul things up.

        That being said, forewarned is forearmed. We’ll keep each other alert.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I’ve been watching the Port of Miami webcam to see if there’s an uptick in cargo traffic. I wish places like Savannah and Charleston and Tampa also had webcams.

      • Urthona

        i think people are confused here that the supply chain is causing inflation when it’s mostly the other way around.

        Mostly because it’s the Biden admin narrative.

        People are buying so much stuff narrative is correct but misleading.

        Nominal wages have increased meaning people *think* they can have more shit and purchase it. Productivity is the same or lower.

        Inflation causes these kind of issues. Eventually prices for things will get high enough that this will solve itself. yay.

      • Animal

        We’re already seeing a decrease in availability of fruits and veggies up here in the Great Land.

    • waffles

      This post really hits hard. The contrast is so extreme that it feels like the current admin is fucking up on purpose. Maybe they really just are two distinct sets of policies where one works and the other does not.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    We are apparently preparing for a surge of vaccinated foreign travellers, whatever that means.

    Anything to keep the plebs alarmed and clamoring, I guess.

  19. PieInTheSky

    ‘Life is hard for beautiful people:’ I’m so hot, people think I’m fake

    https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/sexy-model-says-life-is-harder-for-beautiful-people/

    A Slovakian model who is regularly attacked by “jealous” online trolls says life is “harder for beautiful people.”

    Veronika Rajek, 25, boasts 1.1 million followers on Instagram, where she frequently posts sizzling snaps of herself busting out of bikinis.

    But the blonde — who is now based in Vienna, Austria — says her account is constantly being deleted because users believe she is “too pretty” to actually be real.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Find a rich guy to marry before your looks hit the wall.

    • CPRM

      Maybe that necklace has something to do with it.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        There’s a necklace?

        Yes now I (((see)) it.

  20. Festus

    Gretchen Mol. SPROING! Not really my type but what the heck…

    • AlexinCT

      It’s a sign of a civilization that has reached the point where God or Gaia need to throw a big rock at the planet and reset life to keep the rest of the universe from being contaminated with massive stupidity…

    • Not Adahn

      They’ve really become an irrelevant brand after their “United colors of Ass” series.

      • PieInTheSky

        I never bought the brand because for some reason the clothes never fit me well… I tried when I was skinnier, tried when I was fatter, always looked off

      • AlexinCT

        Was the problem hat you couldn’t see your reflection in the mirror?

      • Festus

        He probably has the same problem that I have. Built like an ape. Wide shoulders, long arms and a short torso.

      • l0b0t

        I really miss their Colours cologne.

  21. AlexinCT

    We are officially a banana republic now.

    Think this through. They have the FBI, the fed investigative entity in charge of going after criminals, harassing’s and raiding enemies of the state – using the excuse of looking for a stolen diary of the moron in charge’s daughter they refuse to admit is hers because of the crazy shit written in it – because…..

    Totes legit and cheered on by people that are pro crime syndicate control.

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, I used to think SOF would be our Praetorian Guard, but looks like the FBI has beat them to the punch.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Meanwhile, zero investigation into the published tax returns of the last president. Something that is a bit closer to a federal nexus.

      • Homple

        I think you’re right when you say “last president”.

  22. Count Potato

    “Authorities are investigating a case of tampered Halloween candy after a Florida girl cut her mouth on a razor blade that was inside her chocolate bar.

    The girl, 8, had been eating a 100 Grand mini chocolate bar on Friday that she had gotten while she was trick-or-treating in the Panther Trace neighborhood in Riverview.

    The girl’s mother in the Tampa suburb said that her daughter had cut her mouth on an Exacto blade, a crafting tool, that she later found inside the candy.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10176469/8-year-old-Florida-girl-cuts-mouth-blade-piece-Halloween-candy.html

    I don’t believe you.

    • AlexinCT

      Sounds like mom has plans to get her own big Halloween related score.. (law suit & settlement!)

    • Not Adahn

      Munchausen by proxy.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Munchausen

    • Suthenboy

      Yep, bullshit.

    • Festus

      When I was a wee lad 50 years ago the same lie seemed fresh at the time.

      • juris imprudent

        The classics never age.

    • Tres Cool

      Do they even still make 100,000 Dollar bars?
      I thought those went out with the Zero bar.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        They’re called 100 Grand. I prefer the old name

      • Tres Cool

        In order of candy-bar supremacy:

        1) Snickers
        2) Twix
        3) whatchamacallit

        /change my mind

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        1) Payday
        2) KitKat
        3) Take 5

      • l0b0t

        1) Holiday Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (the tree, pumkin, and rabbit shapes have a higher peanut butter to chocolate ratio)
        2) Payday
        3) Peanut Butter Twix (I’m unsure if these are still around)
        Honorable mention – KitKat, particularly the new novelty flavors like espresso and green apple.

      • Mojeaux

        1) Skittles with lime (fuck you, green apple)
        2) Bit o’ Honey
        3) Payday

        Honorable mentions only because they don’t come in candy-bar format:

        1) Fruit Tootsie Rolls
        2) Maple nut goodies

      • l0b0t

        I forgot all about Bit o’ Honey; those are quite yummy.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        LOVE fruit tootsie rolls!

      • Mojeaux

        Fruit Tootsie Rolls are my favorite, followed very closely by Bit o’ Honey.

        I don’t eat Skittles anymore because green apple.

        Maple nut goodies > Payday.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Don’t tell anyone, but I’m not a huge fan of maple. I pretty much only like it in syrup form on my pancakes or french toast. I do like maple hard candies occasionally.

        They’re gonna withdraw my Vermonter card.

      • waffles

        1) Caramello
        2) A fresh Necco Skybar
        3) Butterfinger

      • Gustave Lytton

        3a) Nestle Butterfinger
        3b) Ferrero’s improved recipe Butterfinger

      • ElspethFlashman

        Lord H and I once did a long road trip – discussing only candy bars.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    So many people died that morgues reached capacity and refrigerated trucks were brought in to handle the overflow. That stark scene played out as coronavirus vaccines arrived and California and Los Angeles moved aggressively to inoculate people.

    ——-

    To guard against anything resembling the January carnage, the LA City Council voted 11-2 last month for the ordinance that requires people 12 and older to be fully vaccinated to enter indoor public spaces including sports arenas, museums, spas, indoor city facilities and other locations.

    Yeah, okay. According to my model, half the population of Greater Los Angeles will be dead by spring if we don’t do this.

    Sounds legit.

    • ElspethFlashman

      So where’s the downside ?

      • Not Adahn

        You don’t get to pick which half.

    • juris imprudent

      That’s about as dumbass as dumbass gets.

      • Count Potato

        Isn’t that illegal?

      • sssbobbyr

        That is racist!

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, when you do something patently illegal, that’s dumbass.

    • AlexinCT

      That’s EXACTLY how I have it done at home…

      Except I use hawt nekked women from that part of the world that sing about being “SO HORNEY” that they would love me long time…

    • ignoreLander

      Wonder if they could fit a few more ingredients in there.

  24. trshmnstr the terrible

    Psalm of the day.

    It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever; and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever; he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

    Psalm 136:23‭-‬26

    • Festus

      I don’t get you God-botherers. I want to but I just can’t.

      • Ozymandias

        It’s called Faith, dear Festus. And Like Law and Medicine, it takes “practice” to grow and learn in it.
        Start with meditation if that’s a better way of conceiving of it. I mean that sincerely – start a daily meditation practice of 15 minutes.
        Then spend a little time reading something completely foreign about Faith so that you’re not tricked by your Ego by words you’ve come to have a distaste for.
        Highly recommend the Upanishads, or Eckhart Tolle, even. Just start a “practice” of Faith and see what happens.
        Your mustard seed might grow.
        Much love, Brother Festus.

      • Lord Humungus

        I’ve been an atheist for some 40 years now… and religious people, unless they get in my face about it, don’t bother me at all.

        I have two uncles who are ministers, and another one who was a principal at a Christian school. So yeah, it’s been part of most of my life.

    • slumbrew

      Interestingly (or not), a variant on that is a regular part of the Passover Haggadah my MIL uses.

  25. Count Potato

    “Antifa derails conservative group Super Happy Fun America’s protest against masks and vaccine mandates: Riot cops break up fights on Boston Common as scenes turn ugly

    A right-wing group’s protest against COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates turned into a nasty feud with Antifa counter-demonstrators whose rallying cry was to ‘tell the Capitol Rioters to Get Out of Boston.’

    The high noon COVID protest at Boston Common on Sunday was organized by a group called Super Happy Fun America, which describes itself as ‘a right of center civil rights organization focusing on defending the Constitution, opposing gender madness and defeating cultural Marxism.’

    However, anti-fascist demonstrators that included ‘Green Monster Antifa’ – a play on the famous left field wall at Fenway Park – and ‘Solidarity Against Hate – Boston,’ announced on Twitter they would be showing up to the event in order to ‘Tell the Capitol Rioters to Get Out of Boston.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10175625/Boston-Police-detain-demonstrator-van-drove-police-barricades.html

    Anarchists for more government.

    • Ozymandias

      Ahhh, so I see the fedgov’s brownshirts are out ensuring there’s no dissent.
      Wonderful.

      • Q Continuum

        Because protesting involuntary medical procedures from the government is “anti-fascist”.

        I’m so glad words don’t mean anything anymore.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Antifa simply wants to instigate violence. For some reason, they think that a total breakdown of civil norms will benefit them and bring on the commie utopia.

        The reality is that most of them will end up face down in a ditch.

      • SDF-7

        Yep — they don’t realize that they’d be the brownshirts in more ways than one if they succeed. No totalitarian regime wants mobs running around thinking *they’re* the enforcers.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Brownshirts? More like Redshirts.

      • Q Continuum

        TBH, I think most of them don’t really have an ideology at all. They’re thugs with no life who just want to fight or they’re unemployed failures who’ll do anything for a paycheck and Soros is happy to provide it.

      • DEG

        But only in certain parts of the country. I’ve never heard of them showing up at anti-mandate rallies in NH or other similar activities.

    • WTF

      Thereby removing any doubt about Antifa being the Dem’s paramilitary arm.

      • AlexinCT

        We fight fascism (cause we are marxist thug assholes)! Except when that fascism is real and perpetuated by the political party we believe will give us marxism someday!

        /douches

    • Festus

      “Super Happy Fun America” is pretty fucking funny, though.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        They don’t want you to sue them, so “legal” name change.

    • limey

      Notice how they don’t put “anti-fascist” in quotes. They really must be fighting the good fight against real fascism I guess.

    • wdalasio

      Antifa has been defended as simply opposition to fascism, since that’s in their name. I think we can now definitively say that Antifa and anyone who supports them is diametrically opposed to a super, happy, fun, America.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        There are times when you need to pick up on the enemy’s strongest tactic, giving themselves innocuous-sounding names, and using it to your advantage.

  26. Q Continuum

    “Little research has been done about birds’ getting Covid-19, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says “chickens and ducks do not seem to become infected or spread the infection based on results from studies.””

    That’s some high quality sea lioning there Lou.

    This is what happens when “journalists” learn their craft on Twitter from brainless Communist hacks.

  27. Count Potato

    “New York City woman whose parked car was rammed by another vehicle was shot in the leg during a gunfight between rival tow truck companies fighting to get her business.

    Susy Delgado, 48, says she is thankful to be alive after getting shot through her thigh on Saturday night in Queens after two truck companies showed up looking to hook up her badly damaged car that was smashed into by a speeding Range Rover.

    Delgado told the New York Daily News she called the police for help but the tow companies showed up first, probably by listening to police scanners.

    Delgado says once the tow truck workers arrived they got into a heated argument over who would get to tow her car when one of them pulled out a gun and fired at his competitor, striking the 48-year-old instead.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10176407/Woman-car-trouble-wound-getting-shot-crossfire-rival-tow-truck-companies.html

    WTF?

    • AlexinCT

      Dog eat dog world and she was wearing Milkbone underwear?

    • Tres Cool

      “Delgado expressed her distain for guns, saying ‘Why are people carrying guns? ‘Whoever invented guns, that’s the worst invention ever.'”

      Give her a lifetime NRA membership for the lulz.

      • rhywun

        Let’s not direct our anger at the mobbed up tow truck outfits, oh no.

      • l0b0t

        IKR… I’ve been visiting collision repair shops a lot over the past few days. Describing many of them as shady is being charitable.

      • ignoreLander

        her distain for guns?

        I’ll chalk the retardation up to the Daily Mail being a foreign paper. They didn’t have anything to do with the development of the English language, right?

    • EvilSheldon

      Apparently we are getting the cyberpunk dystopia we deserve. Just without the cool body mods and interactive VR porn…

      • waffles

        People in cyberpunk dystopias never remark that they live in a cyberpunk dystopia.

      • waffles

        Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, and Dolph Lundgren

        How have I never heard of this?

      • slumbrew

        Because it sucks?

        A bastardized version of a short story by William Gibson.

      • Nephilium

        A Scanner Darkly remains my favorite Gibson adaptation, with Total Recall (the 1990 version) being a close second.

      • Nephilium

        Fuck…

        /gets more caffeine.

        Both were PKD adaptations, not Gibson…

        /hangs head in shame

      • kinnath

        I remember that it was a bad version of Gibson’s story, but mildly amusing in its own right.

      • R C Dean

        A Scanner Darkly and Total Recall (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale) were written by Philip K. Dick.

      • EvilSheldon

        And Henry Rollins playing a doctor, of all the fucking things. Yes, it sucked, but it sucked in an oddly endearing way…

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean new ideas risk being cancelled. It is so much easier to woke skinsuit old property

    • Michael Malaise

      Went and saw The French Dispatch last night. Fun and weird, but not near Wes Anderson’s best. I always wonder how he’s able to just keep cranking out his own weird shit without a ton of studio interference.

  28. PieInTheSky

    Too many cishet people I’ve dated only understand my queerness through the reductive definition of being attracted to multiple genders, rather than as a daily struggle for liberatory existence rooted in disrupting archaic norms, structures, and violence that is heteronormativity.

    By queering relationships, I don’t just mean that I exist as a queer person in whatever partnership arrangement I’m in. I also mean that I am actively and intentionally resisting heteronormative expectations and dynamics that force me to suffocate in different boxes.

    I don’t and can’t speak for every queer person but this is what being queer means to me. In partnerships, esp with cishet men, it’s challenging to queer relatiationships or to feel truly, wholly loved when the way I want/need to exist is experienced as an existential threat.

    Living fully into my queerness inside a partnership requires conditions where I/we can continuously defy existing boundaries guided by heterosexism, homophobia, misogyny, etc., conditions that allow us to imagine and practice far more freeing, expansive, and radical ways to love.

    https://twitter.com/mjmichellekim/status/1450941931723231237

    preach sister

    • UnCivilServant

      Stop whining that we’re not paying you any attention.

      • Mojeaux

        UCS wins the internet.

    • SDF-7

      Pie — as a general comment, you really should use the blockquote tag or something. There’s a hell of a mental lurch when I read some of your posts and then at the very very end realize you’re quoting lunacy (as opposed to your last prey being on LSD or something…).

      As to what you’re quoting — I think most people really don’t care who or what you’re attracted to as long as it involves consenting adults. Stop pushing your psychological issues on everyone else.

    • Suthenboy

      “… violence that is heteronormativity.”

      It’s violence. Violence I tells ya’.

      What a bunch of gibberish.

      • Festus

        Heterosexual sex is rape. Andrea Dworkin said so!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Please don’t say that name again. It triggers my PTSD.

      • juris imprudent

        Show us on the doll where she touched you, it’s okay, you’re safe.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My visual cortex goes into epileptic spasms.

      • juris imprudent

        Ah, you hallucinate that you are in bed with her. Yeah, that’s bad.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So incredibly self-absorbed

    • Not Adahn

      force me to suffocate in different boxes.

      So… breath play. Got it.

    • WTF

      So happy that the internet and social media have given the mentally ill such a large platform to spew their insanity and seek attention.

    • PieInTheSky

      “Too many statist people I know only understand my ancapness through the reductive definition of being attracted to zero taxation, rather than as a daily struggle for liberatory existence rooted in disrupting archaic norms, structures, and violence that is statism.”

      https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1457703953081176065

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nicely done

      • Michael Malaise

        My reply was “I love it when she talks dirty.”

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Fair share! Fair share!

    Musk was awarded options in 2012 as part of a compensation plan. Because he doesn’t take a salary or cash bonus, his wealth comes from stock awards and the gains in Tesla’s share price. The 2012 award was for 22.8 million shares at a strike price of $6.24 per share. Tesla shares closed at $1,222.09 on Friday, meaning his gain on the shares totals just under $28 billion.

    The company has also recently disclosed that Musk has taken out loans using his shares as collateral, and with the sales, Musk may want to repay some of those loan obligations.

    As Tesla noted in its third-quarter Securities and Exchange Commission 10-Q filing this year: “If the price of our common stock were to decline substantially, Mr. Musk may be forced by one or more of the banking institutions to sell shares of Tesla common stock to satisfy his loan obligations if he could not do so through other means. Any such sales could cause the price of our common stock to decline further.”

    The options expire in August of next year. Yet in order to exercise them, Musk has to pay the income tax on the gain. Since the options are taxed as an employee benefit or compensation, they will be taxed at top ordinary-income levels, or 37% plus the 3.8% net investment tax. He will also have to pay the 13.3% top tax rate in California since the options were granted and mostly earned while he was a California tax resident.

    Combined, the state and federal tax rate will be 54.1%. So the total tax bill on his options, at the current price, would be $15 billion.

    If he sells a chunk of stock that large, the price might go down. It’s a ploy to deprive the government of its rightful share!

    • AlexinCT

      The words “Fair share”, to me, are like the invocation by child molesters when they ask “Hey little [put your preferred freak here], want some candy?”: it reeks of some kind of nasty shit following for the idiot that falls for the trigger.

    • Q Continuum

      something something destroy the village to save it something

    • juris imprudent

      Because he doesn’t take a salary or cash bonus, his wealth comes from stock awards and the gains in Tesla’s share price.

      JFC that is shitty reporting. One thing is income, another thing is wealth; it is painful how this was munged together.

      • AlexinCT

        The munging is by design. Confused people will go along with the crime syndicates call of making people that were successful pay their “fair share” in wealth as well (by pretending it is income). They are hard at work justifying taxing people on unrealized gains and getting access to any and all transactions you make so they can maximize their ability to take money you think is yours but they are sure belongs to them, for a reason…

      • juris imprudent

        I really don’t like people that insist on anti-thinking.

  30. AlexinCT

    Pimp’n ain’t easy, but it’s necessary

    If you needed to know how much they hate us and want to replace us with people that will let them do whatever evil shit they want, this is a big chunk of providing that proof.

    • Drake

      Emerald Robinson went and looked up Moderna’s vaccine patent then reported on the ingredients.

      This got her suspended from Newsmax, and they immediately announced a vaccine mandate for all their employees. She must have really touched a third-rail for a pretend conservative outfit to so thoroughly expose themselves.

      At least one Newsmax host is refusing to participate in the mandate bs.

      • Drake

        Wasn’t supposed to be a reply…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Didn’t they reverse it or was that just trotting out an exec. that could show a resistance?

        Oh no they are against/for it..

        Newsmax has no vaccine mandate nor do we require it for employment.

        We have informed our staff of the upcoming federal rule.

        At the same time we have notified staff we will create an easy opt-out for any employee who does not want to be vaccinated.

        You are complying with a portion of the rule, which….yeah

      • Not Adahn

        What is Luciferase?
        How a firefly enzyme that glows might herald the end of the world

        1) I fully support any company’s right to fire someone for eschatological fruitbattery.
        2) Once you realize TMITE, it’s hard to take a media cite even when it’s referring to media’s actions.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    By queering relationships, I don’t just mean that I exist as a queer person in whatever partnership arrangement I’m in. I also mean that I am actively and intentionally resisting heteronormative expectations and dynamics that force me to suffocate in different boxes.

    Looks like you queered the deal.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m trying to be amused by this whagarble, but it really just makes me sad.

      • juris imprudent

        Mental illness is the new mentally healthy.

  32. Q Continuum

    Y U NO HERD IMMYOONUHTEE

    “80% of eligible residents now have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and 71% of those eligible are fully vaccinated, according to public health officials.”

    Blue America likes being told what to do, no matter about what, and Blue politicians love telling people what to do: I think the answer really is that simple. COVID is the best opportunity they’ve ever had to act out their kink.

    • Jerms

      Thats perfect.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    In anticipation of the new rules, the studio last month started encouraging its regular customers to submit their vaccine cards online so they don’t have to show them at the start of every class. Gross and Stone said it would be heartbreaking to turn away anyone.

    “You know, the City Council decided, the mayor signed it, and we we have no choice but to comply with the law,” Gross said, adding that the possibility of being punished for violating the law “would be hugely detrimental” to a yoga business that is barely surviving after being shut down for the bulk of the pandemic.

    Show me the way, Great White Father. I am your humble obedient servant.

    • Q Continuum

      “we have no choice but to comply with the law”

      Sure you do. You can flout the law until they shut you down and/or start conducting underground classes. Alternatively, you can close your business, move to a free state and start over; much like some of (((us))) did when the Nazis started shutting down businesses in the ’30s.

    • rhywun

      Nope. You’re not going to fight the madness? I’m not giving you any business.

  34. Sensei

    I’m told there are shortages of various things in stores. Fortunately not for important things.

    Bugatti Created A $170 Heated Razor With Gillette

    The GilletteLabs | Bugatti Special Edition Heated Razor is a five-blade razor with a first-of-its-kind stainless steel warming bar. The warming bar is an electric heating element designed to provide “a noticeably more comfortable shave and sensorial experience.”

    • Q Continuum

      Narrator: Try using this to shave your girlfriend’s bush as foreplay.

      • Tres Cool

        I grew up in the 80s. I prefer bush, so long as its not a boston fern-esque topiary.

      • ignoreLander

        Narrator: Never forget Gillette’s ad calling you a “toxic male” for the equipment you were born with, and tell you you need to “be better”.

        I don’t care if they come up with a razor that tickles my prostate and whispers in my ear, they can kiss my ass.

  35. Q Continuum

    “Instead of handing his things over, the elderly man pulled out a gun and shot the robber in the head and chest, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.”

    That’s almost as arousing at the FLBP girls… almost.

  36. Drake

    The smooth election in New Jersey. Smoothly reelected an unpopular governor with a middle-of-the-night vote dump in Bergen County.

    • Q Continuum

      Fortified.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Have they managed to fuck the truck driver out of his new career yet?

      • Sensei

        They are doing their best to find more votes as well as comb through everything the poor guy said on social media.

        So – not yet – but they are trying.

      • AlexinCT

        Have they considered recycling the Russia Collusion racket yet? The guy looks like he was recruited by the KGB and likes to pay hookers to piss on beds prominent Jersey pols banged hookers and little kids in!

    • AlexinCT

      After the 2020 fortification efforts, I would have thought team red would have realized that the old strategy of just hoping they had enough votes to avoid the margin of error that triggered cheating by team blue, was out the window. To win you have to fucking trounce them so ugly that they can’t pretend the late votes they always find are anything but cheating (see Virginia).

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I assume Team Red is in on it. Not all of Team Red, but I imagine the state GOP in deep blue states is just as much a part of Team Blue as any of the state-level Democrats.

        Or at least controlled enough in these areas that Team Red knows to keep their mouth shut or else the graft spigots will shut off.

      • creech

        You are talking about the Philly GOP, no doubt about it.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    You can flout the law until they shut you down and/or start conducting underground classes. Alternatively, you can close your business, move to a free state and start over; much like some of (((us))) did when the Nazis started shutting down businesses in the ’30s.

    That would be tantamount to accepting the heresy of self-ownership. Are you crazy?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I don’t think I would be standing quite so close to that action.

    • Drake

      The hick Maine accent is the best part.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I really hate Michael Rapaport’s politics, but his video narrations are fucking hilarious

  38. Rebel Scum

    Big Bird’s seemingly innocuous — and obviously fictional — announcement Saturday that he has been vaccinated against Covid-19 caused a stir online, as Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas accused the yellow anthropomorphic bird of tweeting “government propaganda.”

    It’s just conservative superstition. No need to worry about the fact that kids do no need to be subject to a fake vaccine for an illness that they are not susceptible to.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Just as long as we focus on what’s truly important

    The case for Brainard: She’s an actual economist and actual Democrat, and is more aligned with Biden on a range of fiscal, monetary and regulatory issues.

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has called Powell — to his face — a “dangerous man.” It’s unclear if the White House wants to go to war with her over the Fed.
    Brainard has advocated for the Fed to do more about climate change and has hinted that big changes are coming.
    Democratic presidents deserve to pick their Fed chairs, and shouldn’t be bullied to keep a Republican holdover. Just because Presidents Clinton and Obama reappointed Republicans doesn’t mean Biden must do the same.
    While current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was the first woman to serve as Fed chair, and Brainard wouldn’t be a “first,” the White House still puts a big premium on gender diversity.

    Let the motherfucker burn, just as long as we have a female fire chief.

    I’m becoming a trifle concerned about President Poopypants’ obsession with valuing gender over competence.

    • ron73440

      Why it matters: The head of the U.S. central bank is vested with vast powers that determine how quickly to heat — or cool — the economy.

      Aren’t they running out of heat?

      Interest rates can’t go much lower, and at this point will printing more money help?

      I know with this crowd we know this, but shouldn’t it be getting obvious to those who don’t really pay attention?

    • Rebel Scum

      Democratic presidents deserve to pick their Fed chairs

      And it must be someone palatable to the requisite legislative body to confirm. It’s almost like the government has separate branches with separate authority or something.

  40. AlexinCT

    I find a lot of comfort that the morons that just got their asses handed to them because of their stupid woke cult’s efforts to drive us over the cliff of the last years resulting in a political shellacking of epic proportions, always respond by thinking that the problem was they didn’t fucking go even dumber/crazier than they originally had. Of course, the problem is that everyone that disagrees with their stupid shit is an evil fucker. Not that they are evils stupid people doing evil stupid shit, and people are realizing that despite the efforts to obfuscate that reality…

  41. Rebel Scum

    Because if this passes muster, there’s literally nothing the government can’t control through executive action.

    You peasants just need to do what you are told.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Proof of vax required as strict mandate takes effect in LA
    Starting Monday, anyone going to a shopping mall, theater, gym or nail salon in Los Angeles must verify they are vaccinated

    Eventually people need to learn that this all goes away if you simply do not comply.

    • waffles

      I wonder if we are capable of learning this. There are people who are still going all in on blaming all current issues with the unvaccinated. Crazy, I know.

  43. waffles

    It’s Monday and the last remaining cold symptom is a splitting sinus headache. I feel cursed. At least the only NFL I watched yesterday was the last quarter of the Eagles-Chargers game. Watching the birds lose is great. I feel blessed.

    • creech

      Prepare to be blessed every week.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, I should have called in sick today with the last remnants of my cold.

      One of our waste sump pumps has blown, along with the secondary and tertiary backups, AND half of the control panel.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fun.

        What kind of lovely stuff goes into a chip foundry sump?

      • Not Adahn

        This particular one is aqueous non-fluoride containing waste. I don’t have a count as to the number of different waste systems we (this site) have, but we (this particular lab) has three. Fortunately our fluoride-containing aqueous waste sump is functioning since that the one we are most in need of.

      • Not Adahn

        And the tornado vacs are throwing breakers. Who signed off on the electrical in this lab?

    • R.J.

      Still suffering through myself. Glad you are doing better. I lost a whole weekend to stupid illness.

  44. Rebel Scum

    Here’s a (bonus!) link with a happy ending. Well done, old man.

    I do not think we should be encouraging Biden’s perverse proclivities.

    77-year-old man with a concealed carry license shoots and kills robber in Chicago, police say

    If only the license was not necessary.

    • waffles

      I wonder what the supreme court will do on this front.

  45. robc

    Has no one learned from The Who and Hillsborough?

    • Ozymandias

      Or the Stones and “Gimme Shelter” at Altamont?
      (Maybe next time Travis Scott can use some ‘vets with patches’ to do security.)

  46. l0b0t

    So the body shop I’m going with was not only recommended by my retried mechanic, they have a logo that sealed the deal; I want one of their t-shirts.

    https://www.bryansauto.us/

    • Sean

      Nice.

  47. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    Enjoy it.

    I absolutely did. Thanks for that one!

  48. Rebel Scum

    President Biden let out a long, loud fart while speaking with the Duchess of Cornwall at the COP26 summit.

    Camilla Parker Bowles “hasn’t stopped talking about” the 78-year-old’s “long fart,” it has been reported.

    I guess the impact is lingering.

    • AlexinCT

      MISINFORMATION!

      My guess is that he sharted. No way that was just a fart…

    • Ownbestenemy

      So maybe Poopie Pants wasn’t just a load of crap

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Well, that Depends.

    • l0b0t

      I’m glad dignity and class have been restored the White House and no one will have to suffer the agony and literal violence of mean Tweets.

      • ignoreLander

        Me too, so glad the Adults Are Back in Charge.™

        Doing stuff, like, you know, farting in Royals’ faces in a worldwide setting.

        Sharting on the Pope.

    • sssbobbyr

      +1 cranberry

  49. Ownbestenemy

    Internal DOT message: As the official timekeeper of the nation, use this annual ritual to make it a point and check your smoke detectors.

    Also, time apparently falls under the DOT.

    • AlexinCT

      Since it is a function of space curvature, it makes sense you would put it with the DOT. How else can you properly institute a tax on time?

      • limey

        There are no unrealized gains in the fourth dimension.

  50. sssbobbyr

    Rittenhouse trial about to start day five. Watching on Rekieta Law. Should have the guy with the gun that tried to shoot Kyle on the stand today.

    • l0b0t

      I’m bouncing back and forth between Rekieta and Nate the Lawyer who is covering the Armahd Aubrey trial.

      • sssbobbyr

        Premier’s capacity to drink 10 hrs a day five days a week on camera has been impressive..

      • sssbobbyr

        Rekieta’s. Spell check is stupid.

    • Gustave Lytton

      You mean the guy who should be on trial for attempted murder, riot, and conspiracy?

      • sssbobbyr

        Gross coats

  51. The Late P Brooks

    More jibberjabber

    Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said on Sunday the U.S. is “close” to the final phase of the coronavirus pandemic.

    “I think that we’re close to the end of the pandemic phase of this virus, and we’re going to enter a more endemic phase and as things improve, cases may pick up,” Gottlieb said during “Face the Nation” on CBS.

    The former FDA official said that while COVID-19 cases may start to trend upward again “that doesn’t mean that we’re entering into another wave of infection.”

    He told “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan that he believed the spike in causes caused by the delta variant was the final wave, pointing to two key factors necessary in order to shift from a pandemic to an endemic, where Americans learn how to live with the virus, like the flu.

    “We’ve always said that two of the events that would demarcate the end of this pandemic was being able to vaccinate our children. We’re now able to do that down to age five,” Gottlieb said.

    “And also having a widely available or orally accessible drug that could treat coronavirus at home to prevent people from being hospitalized or dying. And we now have two of those potential pills, one from Pfizer and one from Merck, and there will be more behind that,” he continued.

    I’m pretty sure the overwhelming majority of those “infected” already do not require hospitalization, and do not die.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    I’m glad dignity and class have been restored the White House and no one will have to suffer the agony and literal violence of mean Tweets.

    The grownups are in charge!

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I hope it continues through March, because my lefty friend is visiting with her family and is terrified of COVID. She said they plan on using Metro for downtown trips (they’re staying at Courthouse). I already warned her they’re running trains every 20 minutes during rush hour and she FREAKED THE FUCK OUT.

    • rhywun

      To be fair, it’s not like this technology is tried and true yet anywhere.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    Did Camilla immediately send the chair out to be reupholstered, or just burned?

    • limey

      Bowles Bemused by Biden Bowels Blast

      • Not Adahn

        I had no idea you wrote for the Daily Mail.

      • limey

        I have met a couple of Mail writers over the years. They didn’t speak highly of their employer. It sounded pretty boring to me, but then I’d be happy to churn out copy for most of their sections, as long as they didn’t require me to post any particularly onerous “journalisms”, especially with a byline, because when the Mail lays a turd, it usually lays a big one.

  54. Lord Humungus

    Meanwhile in Belgium:

    https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/bavaria-update-exploding-cases-and/comment/3539231

    Hello from Flanders, Belgium. Very comparable situation here. 92,3% of people older than 18 yrs have been vaccinated. 96,1% of population older than 65. And yet, cases are up 11%, hospitalisations 25% (ICU beds 40% up), deaths 14%.

    https://covid-19.sciensano.be/sites/default/files/Covid19/Meest%20recente%20update.pdf

    2 hospital doctors from Antwerp and Turnhout have literally admitted on regional television

    that the majority of patients are now fully vaccinated. The ICU in the Antwerp hospitals is completely filled with vaccinated people.

    But of course there is no change of direction. I will be very surprised if we do not enter into a sort of lockdown / extension of our version of the corona passport to companies.

    • Ozymandias

      Wait until people wake up that the jab is not a vaccine – not under any reasonable definition of the term – and it simply imitates the harm (the LF) of one portion of a virus that was never actually sequenced.
      I suspect that when they talk about all of these ‘infections’ in ‘the vaccinated’ there may well be some portion of people considered “infected” who are simply showing all of the signs and symptoms of the virus because they’ve been injected with a biologic that mimics the harm-causing portion of the virus. I don’t think this shot “helps” the immune system. These shots are an attempted (and failed) “bio-hack” that “logically” should work, but as Holmes once trenchantly observed about the Law, “the Life of the law has been experience, not Logic.” I suspect that is even more true of the biological sciences.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think the pharmas and their regulators decided to take a calculated risk on this technology with Fauci’s exuberant support. They had to know it was a gamble, but they are unwilling to accept the cost of failure so they’re fighting tooth and nail to remove the control groups.

        It truly is crony capitalism in its worst form.

  55. Rebel Scum

    Biden is considering shutting down ANOTHER oil pipeline despite soaring energy prices: Republicans demand Michigan’s Line 5 be kept open to avoid a further rise in energy bills this winter

    I, for one, love paying $4 a gallon for premium even though it was sub $3 a year ago.

    In seriousness, I cannot imagine that I would be doing anything other than what the current regime is doing if I was not actively attempting to bring about the social and economic destruction of the country. ///BuildBackBetter ///GreatReset ///AlexJonesWasRight

    • Ownbestenemy

      Almost gives a ‘now or never’ to their actions. Ram it through and it becomes part of the leviathan. If the worst they get is some mean tweets and comments online they know any resistance is not coming.

      I think they switched to a short con knowing 2022/24 might be lost.

  56. ron73440

    For anyone who cares, on Saturday, the wife’s Corolla had a bad alternator.

    Pissed me off because I installed that one 3 1/2 years ago.

    It had a lifetime warranty and AutoZone gave me a replacement with no hassles once they tested it.

    Took about and hour and a half to pull it out and put the new one on.

    • l0b0t

      That’s awesome Ron. I always love hearing good auto repair news.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Bad it failed so soon, good you got good customer service and were able to get some brownie points

    • Mojeaux

      I’ve never had an alternator last beyond 2 or 3 years. To me, it’s just a regular, expected repair.

      • ron73440

        I’ve never had an alternator last beyond 2 or 3 years. To me, it’s just a regular, expected repair.

        Really? This is the first time I’ve had to do a repeat.

        Every other alternator I’ve installed has lasted until I got rid of the vehicle and I keep cars forever.

      • Tundra

        I’ve never done one. And I’ve had a lot of cars.

      • ron73440

        I’ve done a few, but I usually buy cars with around 100K on the meter.

        Only exception was the wife’s ’09 corolla, bought that new and it now has 260K.

      • Tundra

        It’s sheer luck. I’ve bought many with high miles – and fixed a LOT of shit – just never the alternator.

        Watch, now I’ll have one puke this week.

      • ron73440

        Watch, now I’ll have one puke this week.

        Probably.

      • Lord Humungus

        I had the stock original alternator fail on my ’86 Monte Carlo SS. It was actually “half working”; producing half-the needed voltage.

        Rebuilt replacement was something like $50. Oh I miss the 90s 😉

      • ron73440

        86 Monte Carlo SS

        I always liked those cars. Especially the black with red trim.

      • Lord Humungus

        Mine, sadly, was white with the red stripes.

        I pulled out the original 180hp 305 and put in a 370hp 355 with a roller cam. Transmission was replaced with a 2500 stall.

        And redid the entire interior with new seats, molding, etc.

        One of those cars I wish I had kept but we moved to a better neighborhood with a much smaller garage.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ve done quite a few.

        Side mounted Toyotas are a bit of a pain in the ass.

    • PieInTheSky

      They should blame climate change and refuse the replacement.

    • limey

      Get in the zone!

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Biden is considering shutting down ANOTHER oil pipeline despite soaring energy prices: Republicans demand Michigan’s Line 5 be kept open to avoid a further rise in energy bills this winter

    I saw something about this yesterday, but strangely enough, they neglected to provide any reason for shutting it down.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      IIRC the argument is over safety standards. At least, that’s what the left is claiming it’s about.

      • AlexinCT

        Look into what company is making a killing transporting that oil using trains, which is likely less safe, and you will understand what the real fucking reason for this shit is.

    • R C Dean

      *spins the Wheel O’ Policy*

      Because its racist.

  58. Rebel Scum

    Unlike the 2020 presidential election, there were no claims of widespread fraud, ballots emerging mysteriously in the dark of night or compromised voting machines changing results.

    NJ says “hi”. And I suspect VA was too much of a landslide to fortify.

    Election experts say even a smooth election cycle this year is unlikely to curb the distrust that has built up over the last year within a segment of the public.

    It might have something to do with the lack of interest in investigating people’s concerns while calling them terrorist/insurrectionist/etc for expressing concern in the election process.

    • wdalasio

      And I suspect VA was too much of a landslide to fortify.

      Nah. They outsourced printing the fake ballots to a shop in China. The ballots are sitting on a ship in California.

    • ignoreLander

      Look, we allowed you plebes to have a quasi-fair election this time, and now we don’t expect to ever hear a peep from you again!

  59. Lord Humungus

    I’ve been playing Fallout 4 – for the very first time – since it was available for a low, low price of $5. That and my PC can barely handle anything new. A game like Planetfall 2 is so laggy with all the players on line that, even with the lowest graphics settings, it’s like playing with PTSD.

    Anyhoo, Fallout 4 has much better playing mechanics than the old Skyrim but boy does the story line kind of suck. To the point where I was skipping over a lot of the dialogue.

    I joined the Minutemen, destroyed the Institution, and… uh now I’m wandering around doing small side missions.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Get some mods and make it RPG Sims. Yeah story line wasn’t strong

      • Nephilium

        But there’s rumblings of a New Vegas 2 being in development! The potential for another good Fallout game exists!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Have you played that fan based mod for it? Based in Portland I think? Pretty well done

      • Nephilium

        I have not. But I’ll also stand by that Fallout 2 was the best game of the series (at least once they patched out the game breaking bugs).

      • UnCivilServant

        I got as far as killing the molerat king, had to blow up a wall to get out, planted dynamite, wondered if I set the fuse, wandered back just in time to find out, that I had, discovered my last save was just outside Arroyo, decided the village died because the Chosen One was a dumbass who blew himself up in a molerat tunnel.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Never played early Fallouts. However, one thing Bethesda does is allow mods to make their games better than their top paid coders could. Glad they open their API up for that.

      • UnCivilServant

        They have to, the modders fix their bugs.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The first New Vegas is one of my favorite games. It’s been years, but I still think about it whenever I hear a Dean Martin song.

    • Sean

      Got it last year for $15 (GOTY edition).

      Most bang for my money ever.

      Love it. Still haven’t finished off the institute.

      Did you find the secret room in the bottom of Fallon’s?

      Watch Skooledzone videos on cool tricks for settlement building.

      • LCDR_Fish

        So pissed off. Fallout 4 is my worst RPG experience since the original Morrowind (which was a great game but had insanely awful memory crash bugs for a while).

        I loaded the GOTY on my XBone – and put about 26 hours in – when I started getting hard crash bugs every 5 minutes.

        Removed ALL the extra content, fully uninstalled – restarted – put about 20+ hrs in with some different quest directions – hard crash bugs every 5 minutes.

        Probably never gonna finish this game unless I get a decent PC in the next couple of years. Very disappointing.

    • Gadfly

      I joined the Minutemen, destroyed the Institution, and… uh now I’m wandering around doing small side missions.

      Dealing with the Institute is the finale of the game, so you’ve only got side missions left. But if everything is on sale, I’d recommend picking up the Far Harbor DLC. As I recall (although it’s been a while) it had a good story-line.

  60. Rebel Scum

    No man left behind.

    The Biden regime announced last week they stranded THOUSANDS of Americans in Afghanistan when they departed the country based on their arbitrary timeline. The US turned the country over to the Taliban terrorists and armed with billions of dollars of US weapons.

    Of course, the Biden regime lied for weeks saying only 100 Americans were left stranded in the country when they withdrew troops and closed all US offices in the country. They knew this was a lie at the time. They did it anyway.

    Now the Biden regime is warning Americans in Ethiopia they are on their own if the civil war escalates.

    I’m just glad the adults are back in charge.

    • Lord Humungus

      Anyone remember when people used to tie yellow ribbons around the ol’ oak tree for the hostages in Iran?

      And there was a failed rescue mission? Well except for Ross Perot and company.

      Things have changed a lot since then.

    • R C Dean

      The State Department believes as many as 14,000 U.S. legal permanent residents remain in Afghanistan,

      Sorry, but I don’t count non-citizens as Americans. even if they are allowed to live here.

      Which should in no way discount the monumental, crushing failure of State, the Pentagon, and the President.

    • PieInTheSky

      I remember the immigrant in rural Switzerland who got refused permanent residency cause she started a campaign to ban cowbells as they stress out the cows.

  61. PieInTheSky

    “Wtf is up with immigrants who come to silicon valley, get rich, and suddenly decide that America needs less taxes, education, and social support?

    You came here under a system. It made you rich. Now you dislike it.

    It’s bullshit. Go home.

    https://twitter.com/MJB_SF/status/1457403198289809410

    No one should ever advocate improvements to the system. And I am sure the US welfare state was integral in people making money in silicon valley

    • R C Dean

      Well, when they came here, taxes may well have been lower. I have no doubt welfare payments were lower. As to “less education”, is anybody actually pushing for that?

      • PieInTheSky

        If you do not support forever increase in the money the state spends on education you hate education. Bastiat made that point 100 years ago, read a book.

    • Sensei

      This always amazes me. They come to the US, benefit the US and often the world..

      But this is apparently problematic.

      OTH, these same folk have no issues with immigrants who come here collect government checks and use social services.

    • juris imprudent

      An American Titana McGrath?

    • ignoreLander

      “Wtf is up with immigrants who come to silicon valley, get rich, and suddenly decide that America needs less taxes, education, and social support?

      Probably the same thing that’s up with leftists who flee California and Washington State because of unbearable taxation and stifling authoritarianism, and go to states like Texas, Florida and Idaho. Then they decide those free states need more taxes, more thorough indoctrination, and greater entitlements.

      It sucks when it’s your oxen getting gored, doesn’t it? We think you’re bullshit. Go home.

  62. Ownbestenemy

    ‘If any employees have ANY of the billion symptoms of Covid they must stay home’

    Headache? Stay home. Known allergies? Stay home. Small tummy ache? Stay home. The fear my agency pushes is absolutely insane.

    • waffles

      I work in the private sector, they expect results. I have all these symptoms, can’t stay home. Also, I’m completely fine.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I have allergies and if I stayed home every time my nose was a little runny I’d be out literally a third of the time. Not doable…

      • Ownbestenemy

        And it wouldn’t just be a day with us…it would be 10 days…paid. I hear tales from the underground of massive abuse of that….

  63. PieInTheSky

    In Dutchland they are having a who knows what number wave of the covid despite almost 90% vaccination rate and I wonder how long this can be blamed on the unvaccinated. Now they too are talking 3d shot but since most vaccinations are barely 6 months old, having a booster shot every 6 months of a vaccine is insane. Even yearly for me, like the flu, is yeah… no.

    • Lord Humungus

      Related substack post about Bavaria:

      According to the latest RKI report, 60.5% of symptomatic cases from 4 to 25 October in the 60+ crowd were fully vaccinated, as were 44.9% of hospitalisations. Vaccines, it is clear, increase transmission, and then slowly withdraw their protection against severe outcomes. The August waves in Israel and the southern United States have foretold our future well, so far.

      The 7-day case incidence, broken down by federal states, confirms that ICU admissions – a lagging indicator – will continue to rise over the next several weeks, whatever anybody does.

      https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/bavaria-update-exploding-cases-and

      As usual, it would be nice to know the age breakdown etc to get a clearer picture of what exactly is going on.

      • Sensei

        Not going to happen. You’ll note this looks awful, but despite some keyword searches and heavy skimming I can’t find sample sizes or the data was “adjusted” for things like age and comorbidities. The article just says it was “adjusted”.

        SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021

        Associations at each month were estimated from contrasts using product terms for vaccination status by time in Cox proportional hazards models,

        Not being a health sciences guy I was like WTF is a Cox proportional hazard model? Yet another quick Google and I learn it is a linear regression. Oh, the fun I’ve had with saying anything I damn well wanted with multiple regression models. At this point I don’t trust the anti-vaccine science any more than I trust the pro vaccine science.

      • Sensei

        Oops amazing what happens when you look at something in the morning instead of late last night.

        n = 780,225

      • Gustave Lytton

        At this point I don’t trust the anti-vaccine science any more than I trust the pro vaccine science.

        You can expand this to pretty much everything covid related at this point. No one is interested in determining if their opinion beliefs are correct or not, but proving themselves right. Koolaid all around.

      • R C Dean

        The Two Questions* apply to everything.

        *(1) Who wants me to believe this?
        (2) Why do they want me to believe it?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I think it’s important to avoid false equivalency between the groups. The burden of proof on efficacy and safety falls squarely on those introducing a new vaccine.

        The default position for any pharmaceutical is that it’s not safe or effective until proven otherwise.

      • Ozymandias

        Ding! Ding! Ding!
        This point has been completely obfuscated and destroyed.
        That’s what happens when the FDA is owned by pharma, however. Completely turned the founding principle of the agency on its head.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s important to point out that this is a worse situation than the FDA never existing in the first place. In an unregulated market, caveat emptor rules the day. People are conditioned to scrutinize because there is no safety process in place. In the current situation, people are like lambs being led to the slaughter. They believe there is a safety process in place and make their health decisions based on that belief. The actual safety process is irreparably compromised and doesn’t actually improve the safety of the products on the market. As a result, there is a strong potential for massive harm to people caught unaware, even more harm than if the FDA had vaporized last October and the vaccines were brought to market without any regulatory oversight.

      • Ozymandias

        100% agree, trashy. I’d rather the three letter agencies all fucking died tomorrow – the entirety – and I mean, the entirety, of the nanny-state apparatus.
        They’ve turned me into an AnCap, those fuckers. Born to a long-line of old-school Team Blue types, I grew up, joined the military and became a Republican, met the anthrax vax bullshit, slowly began my journey to libertarianism, and now I’m firmly in the “burn it all to the fucking ground” camp. Fuck it.

    • rhywun

      They’re talking 4th shot here.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just drop the numbers and call it boosters forever.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That might be a little too on the nose even for the die hards….

  64. Rebel Scum

    Honk honk.

    U.S. Navy names military ship after gay rights leader Harvey Milk and it’s christened by a transgender veteran.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Is the USS Jim Jones next?

      • rhywun

        Yeah, wasn’t he intimately connected to that shit? ISTR the hagiography amassed around him over the years is full of invention.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yes. The hagiography of Harvey Milk has been an extremely successful propaganda campaign.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Here I am stuck in the middle.

    • Tundra

      Christ. I honestly thought that was satire.

      Jesse Kelly contends that we are going to lose a major war. Shit like this makes me think he might be right.

      • rhywun

        This is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

        Purging the military of wrongthinkers is the real concern. And it seems like that’s going full-steam ahead.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Maybe, our two most likely nearpeer adversaries don’t play this nonsense, that’s for sure.

      • juris imprudent

        We might well have lost WWII if not for George C. Marshall. He culled the senior officer ranks at the outset of the war – cleared out a bunch of dead wood. You take Marshall out of being Chief of Staff of the Army, and we might well have repeated Kasserine Pass over and over – right back to how Lincoln bitched about the Union generals.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What did he do exactly that warrants naming a military ship after him? The SS Bull Halsey must have been taken already.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He outed a few other politically inconvenient gays and got killed by a former staffer for it?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Snitches shouldn’t get ships named after them.

      • Gustave Lytton

        How about former naval officers with other than honorable discharges?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Coworker. Dan white was former elected Supervisor (SF Board of Supervisor) like Milk. Wiki decapitalizes the S to make it look like White was a minor city employee. Also a Democrat.

      • Urthona

        Unlike what the movie suggests, he probably wasn’t gay. Just pissed off that he was politically betrayed but that asshole Milk.

      • R C Dean

        What did he do exactly that warrants naming a military ship after him?

        An enthusiastic practioner of the naval tradition “rum, sodomy, and the lash”?

      • juris imprudent

        – the rum and lash

      • R C Dean

        Assumes facts not in evidence.

      • juris imprudent

        OK so it should’ve been posed as a question.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Great Churchill quote and great album.

      • Tundra

        Raped a minor, I guess.

        Not sure what that has to do with fighting, but there you go.

    • Sean

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      I’m ok if China sinks that ship

      Heh.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Fast Oiler, not warship…but yes, I guarantee the ribbing will be fabulous. (In the old days it’d be over the Bridge to Bridge between ships…these days that’ll probably get you relieved immediately), but still plenty on the ships.

  65. PieInTheSky

    Beaconization—or equipping bicycles and pedestrians with transponder beacons that can be spotted automatically by sensor-equipped cars—has been given the official seal of approval in the U.S., reveals a tucked away part of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the House of Representatives on November 5.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2021/11/06/bidens-12-trillion-infrastructure-bill-hastens-beacon-wearing-for-bicyclists-and-pedestrians-to-enable-detection-by-connected-cars/

    Oh just put the damn chips in already

    • Ozymandias

      What do you think the vaccines are?

      • PieInTheSky

        lol

      • PieInTheSky

        yeah cov vaccines are not chips. They may want to do some specialized molecules in the future but I doubt they are ready. and still I would not call those microchips. Some sort of chemical tags sure. But not chips, at least in my concept. Also quoting the Bible makes me lose interest in such articles. Which is a shame really.

    • rhywun

      “That’s a no for me, dawg.”

      • Lackadaisical

        Look at this guy, he thinks they’re will be a choice.

  66. Rebel Scum

    The jab got rid of one nuisance.

    Gavin Newsom took his booster shot 11 days ago. He has since canceled all of his scheduled appearances and has not been seen in public since then.

    • Ozymandias

      It’s going to keep happening, too. I wonder how many leftist public figures will have to drop dead from some clot-shot related problem before we’ll see some movement?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I wonder how many threats are going on behind the scenes.

        There has to be some extreme pressure bearing down on the troops to keep them in line.

      • Urthona

        My guess is very few. While I object wholeheartedly to it being mandated, It’s probably not all that dangerous either.

      • Ozymandias

        Urthona, I believe you are incorrect about that. I won’t post here so I don’t ruin an article I have pending on this subject, but you might want to look at this site tracking the VAERS data for the clot-shots – as compared to all other vaccines in the 30 years of tracking VAERS data.

      • Urthona

        I mean. Sorry, but while it may not be worth it for you, overall scores of politicians, actors, athletes, media are not all going to start dropping dead tomorrow. In fact they already would have if they were going to.

      • Ozymandias

        Ahh. So the media hasn’t reported enough deaths for it to matter yet. Got it.
        You didn’t actually read those numbers on that site.
        Myocarditis has a 5 year mortality rate of 50%. It’s 20% in the first year.

      • grrizzly

        I hope you’re wrong and a massive die-off of the vaccinated is around the corner. There’s nothing else to hope for.

      • limey

        Pretty much all my family and friends are “vaccinated”, with most now boostered I’d guess, and if not now, soon. I can’t get behind this hoping it all goes terribly wrong just to prove a point. The stakes are too high. I don’t want things to get darker.

      • juris imprudent

        My wife is considering boostering, but she listens to why I won’t.

      • kinnath

        Me, my wife, my parents, my siblings, my daughter. All had reasons to get the vaccine last spring. Thanks for wishing us well.

      • Urthona

        i find myself in the group of people who are against vaccine mandates but think that more than half of America probably isn’t gonna die soon.

      • kinnath

        I am adamantly opposed to the mandate.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Gee thanks.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We’ve gone through this with grrizzly before….sigh

      • grrizzly

        Starting from today the US no longer admits unvaccinated foreign travelers. It’s spun as opening up the US after almost 2 years of the pandemic but I see it as depriving people from international travel unless they subject themselves to an experimental medical procedure. Many other countries in the world have already introduced similar restrictions on travel. Others will probably follow suit. Do you think this regime will ever end unless it becomes obvious that the vaccines are a horrible risk?

        Millions of Americans are in the process of losing their jobs and abandoning their decade-long careers because they refuse to get vaccinated. It is absolutely immoral. Where are the vaccinated Americans defending the rights of the unvaxxed? Posting comments in obscure internet corners?

        Also unlike the rest of the public vaccinated Glibs cannot claim they they didn’t know about the vaccine risks.

      • R C Dean

        I got vaccinated in January, when the risks (and efficacy) were still largely unknown. Which is on me, of course. Because of the way the vaccines were rushed, most of the people who got vaccinated did so before there was any data on risks and efficacy.

        Most people who got vaccinated did so before June, and took on an unknown risk, which is not the same as knowing about the vaccine risks. Knowing what I know now, would I have sacrificed my job to avoid the jab? I don’t know, but it would have been a closer call at minimum.

      • Lord Humungus

        I would have to go back in the internet time machine but I recall the vaccines being sold as a “get the jab, return to normal”.

        I thought, like many others, it would be something like an old school Measles vaxx, giving immunity from the disease. I knew it was an mRNA type but didn’t know what that meant other than “new technology”.

        And then the first reports of heart issues – J&J came out – and I decided against getting “vaxxed” since, given my health, the risk was low enough.

        I’m just glad that I’m working for myself now and don’t have HR breathing down my neck asking for my vaccination status; since I was the sort of guy who refused to get the company “health check ups” or participate in their “healthy living” programs (which consisted of eating shit loads of sugar via fruit).

      • ron73440

        So you’re saying you got the Trump vaccine, so you trusted it, but now that it has changed to the Biden vaccine you no longer trust it?

        Racist!

      • Ownbestenemy

        My views: I have a <5% chance of contracting it, a <.1% of being hospitalized and a <1% chance of being severely ill.

        Why would I inject myself with something that has a potential to induce a side effect because there are so many unknowns or purposefully hidden unknowns?

        I don't really know my chance of contracting it, but I have adjusted my life to minimize anyway without wholly changing my life.

    • Urthona

      Sorry but we can’t be so lucky.

      He’s absolutely fine.

    • Sensei

      He will pop up like Kim Jong-un.

    • Drake

      I’m at the point of cynicism where I assume most of the elite are unvaxxed and just got a saline injection. Maybe the really dumb ones got the actual vaccine – or they gave him a real one by mistake.

      • rhywun

        Something fishy like that is going on. I don’t believe for a second that the 100% of elites who claim they got the stab are being honest.

      • grrizzly

        Just like we find it hard to believe that the elites got vaxxed, the progs couldn’t believe that Trump took a course of hydroxy/zinc last year. They knew that the side effects of HCQ were awful and it was ineffective against covid. It was one of the few moments when I got a feeling that they felt bad for Trump.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t believe for a second that the 100% of elites who claim they got the stab are being honest.

        I vaguely recall someone pointing out that Fauci was photographed getting the vax in one arm, and a few days later pointed at the other arm to say it was just a little sore, or somesuch. Didn’t bother to verify.

      • ron73440

        U saw it, my wife had told me and I said it might have been a cell phone, sometimes the image is reversed, but then she showed me and it was on a news show, he patted the wrong arm.

        Found it!

      • ron73440

        I saw it, not U

      • Urthona

        that would be hilarious

    • R C Dean

      Also, case of 9mm for $328.

      I believe Norma is the civilian side of RUAG, which makes ammo for the Swiss military.

      • Sean

        I’ve looked at their site before. Feels sketchy.

        Anyone here order from them before?

      • R C Dean

        Me. I’ve bought their RUAG green-tip 5.56, and their Norma “white box” 9mm. All good.

      • Sean

        🙂

      • kinnath

        I have received several thousand rounds of 9mm and 5.56 from them.

        The only issue is that the system computes wildly different shipping charges every time I go there. Although, I think it got better.

      • R C Dean

        I’ve never had to pay shipping on high-volume orders. And are there any other kind?

      • kinnath

        Ammo Shop Online was charging Fed Ex ground when I was buying last spring to early summer. They were shipping out of S Carolina or somwhere on the southeast coast. So shipping was much higher than SG AMMO out of NE or MO or wherever they are.

        I was buying 1 or 2 cases at a time. Is that “high volume”?

      • UnCivilServant

        I didn’t realize the price had gotten so bad that you had to buy individual cartridge cases.

      • kinnath

        Good enough for Don Knotts.

      • R C Dean

        A case is high volume in my book.

        SG Ammo is in Oklahoma, I believe. Snagged 1500 rounds of German mil surplus 5.56 from them a couple weeks ago (Front Sight and some other ranges don’t allow green-tip).

    • Not Adahn

      Neither of those will ship to NY 🙁

    • PutridMeat

      Harder time finding ‘bulk’ (for some value of the word bulk 30-06). Now that my friend with the boat has 2 rifles in 30-06, I^H^H^H he should replenish his stock so he can get some range time and still have enough in reserve.

  67. DEG

    “Government propaganda…for your 5 year old!” Cruz tweeted.

    How about abolish PBS instead of bitching about it?

    The lawsuit, filed in the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, argues that the authority to compel vaccinations rests with the states, not the federal government.

    Yeah, I get it, that’s constitutional, but I don’t see how it is any better. Compelling vaccination is wrong, full stop.

    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who tested positive for the coronavirus last week while attending the United Nations climate change conference in Scotland, said the mandate will encourage more people to get shots and make businesses safer for employees and customers.

    Go fuck yourself.

    An elderly man with a concealed carry license shot and killed a robber in Chicago on Saturday afternoon, police said.

    Good.

    • Gustave Lytton

      What Gaia needs is a la mayor jetting halfway across the world to save her.

      Jesus H. There’s no mask left to pull off.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Why I asked yesterday cause I know that is what some states will pivot to.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Constitutional under Jacobsen, which itself is a shitshow of a FYTW ruling of unlimited state power. And the justification for Buck v. Bell.

      Three generations of imbecilic judges and constitutional scholars is enough.

      • Ozymandias

        Jacobson has two roles in the Big Lie: First, they intentionally keep calling these experimental biologics “vaccines,” which they are not. That was intentional word-twisting meant get the public’s mind into the “Jacobson” rubric. So many judges and lawyers have already fallen for it. These shots are NOT vaccines and Jacobson leaned heavily on the “accepted science” of (real) vaccines… in 1905. The word vaccine itself comes from the word for cow (vacca) because of the inventor’s use of cowpox as a prophylactic stimulus of the immune system. I’m pretty certain the Supreme Court in 1905 didn’t anticipate mRNA shots that alter your DNA by mimicking the lethal factor in a genetically modified virus that mutates constantly. That’s Big Lie No.1 using “vaccine” for the clot-shots over and over and over and over. Big Lie (pt. deux) is claiming that Jacobson is still good law in light of everything that has happened subsequently, including the Nuremburg Doctor’s trials and the codification of informed consent into US law. Jacobson’s “revival” has been another part of the Big Lie that’s been accepted by repetition with zero legal history or analysis to support it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Jacobsen wasn’t good law on the day the opinion was issued.

      • Ozymandias

        Agree to Agree!

  68. Rebel Scum

    I don’t call them “Profa” for nothing.

    Fighting erupted at the Boston Common between far-left/antifa & anti-vaccine mandate protesters. Antifa called for comrades to shut down the rally, saying opposition to government Covid-19 mandates is fascist & white supremacist.

    Clown. World.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Anything to move the cause forward

    • Ozymandias

      RS – I adopted your term awhile back because I had the same reaction. Imagine a group dedicated to being “anti-fascist” that is wholly in lockstep with the most authoritarian actions of the existing government.
      “Thees werd… I don’t think eet means what…”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Profa beats the Plausibly Deniable Neolib Shocktroop Organization at least.

      • Ozymandias

        Those descriptive trademarks never hold up. 😉

    • juris imprudent

      Reminds me of Elbridge Gerry’s quip about Federalists – they had stolen the term and really should have been called Ratifiers (of the Constitution); then those who were opposed to replacing the AoC would’ve been anti-rats.

  69. Rat on a train

    A Stafford woman was unable to swim away from justice during an early morning disturbance on Barge Lane.

    Nageotte was aware of the active paperwork and when she learned deputies were on the way, she disappeared into the night. Barge Lane backs up to Aquia Creek, so deputies believed they had a natural barrier to keep her corralled.

    Nageotte was ordered to get out of the water and she initially refused, knowing she was headed for jail.

    Deputies explained the risk of hypothermia to Nageotte and she finally doggy paddled to a dock and was placed in custody.

    If she had been in the Potomac, she would have been out of their jurisdiction.

    • PieInTheSky

      This is America. We stand for freedom of choice. – since when?

  70. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Anyone near Greenville SC want to be my date for an excellent meal at 17 Restaurant in Travelers Rest sometime in the next 2 weeks? My treat.

    TBH I just want the charcuterie plate but I can’t eat it all myself plus a main course. I’m just using you for your stomach.

    I had probably the best meal of my life there, so do consider it.

    • PieInTheSky

      It’s a trap of some sorts

      • Rat on a train

        A fed planning a dine-and-dash?

    • limey

      Doggy bag? Or take your Covidian friend and watch her try to maneuvre the fork past her mask?

  71. Ozymandias

    *You people* (should Glibs have their own set of brackets? Like ({(We Glibs)})? have poked me, I have to post this video by Dr. David Martin.
    Just watch the first 5 minutes if you want to go down the rabbit hole. This was all planned.
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/tRrJ3gzmvMt8/

    • juris imprudent

      A PhD calling himself doctor loses 10 credibility points before he even opens his mouth. A Business Admin PhD talking about science and conspiracies gets shut the fuck down immediately.

    • PutridMeat

      Not ready to go down that rabbit hole just yet. Are humans capable of intentional malevolence? Absolutely. They are also very good at recognizing patterns and imposing order on systems that are not ordered in any meaningful sense. My sense is COVID-19 was generated an leaked from the the lab. Fauci and large swaths of our government are responsible for it and profiting handsomely off the vaccine scam. Many levels of Karen are taking advantage of the opportunity to fly their latent – and not so latent – authoritarian flag. Many levels of petty bureaucratic authoritarians are taking advantage of the opportunity for fly their authoritarian and grifter flag. All of that banality and malevolence can seem organized when seen through the lens of human pattern recognition. But planned from the beginning? To me, highly unlikely. Mistakes and intentional grifting going back years, creation of institutions to foster and facilitate grifting that can now be taken advantage of? Certainly, I think that’s the reality. Some Dr. Schwab^H^H^H Evil cat stroking plot from the beginning, I don’t think so.

      That said, if strong consistent evidence mounts/accumulates/comes to light, I’m absolutely believe that those who fancy themselves the elite are capable of wanting to do that, so….

      • Lord Humungus

        You know who else was accused of intentional malevolence…

      • Ozymandias

        I saw it myself at least as far back as 1999. The problem I believe is in treating this with an excluded middle – like the only two possibilities are “Incidental Opportunism” vs. “Planned Bond Villain Malevolence.” You do appreciate that it might be better conceived of as a spectrum, rather than binary choices, yes? Now add in that Fauci has been at the same government job in infectious diseases for over 30 years. So it’s not possible that one guy highly placed in a bureaucracy and his friends are doing something that is shitty and intentionally shitty because it benefits them? No – that’s simply too much to believe??
        I don’t have time right now to lay it all out, but check upthread for the document that I put there in reply to JI. Then read the timeline of significant events related to SARS research in that document. Couple that with my own experiences with the DoD’s “Joint Biologic Project 2020” (back in 1999) an you think that this is “just” coming up now? Bro, Covid-19 is the fruit from a tree that was planted back in the Gulf War, back when the FDA used to actually fight the DoD and work against its interests. No longer.
        Bioterrorism got launched under Clinton and it is an absolute statist-corporatist wet fucking dream. Nope. Sorry – none of this is “coincidence.” Finding long-term patterns is hard for most people on any subject because very few things hold our interests for decades to be able to have the historical understanding and watch the manipulation of events over time. It’s not like this is our “job”… but it is for Anthony Fauci and the people in his circle, like Peter Daszak.

      • PutridMeat

        To clarify – I absolutely believe Fauci and Daszak and many others at NIH/CDS revolving door to pharma, have been doing shitty things intentionally for many years. There’s no doubt about that. They’ve been pursuing GoF research and intentionally lying about it. There’s potentially even a, known to them, bio-weapons aspect to it. But it can/is? be driven by the egomaniacal personality of the self styled elites like Fauci; he has a complex and has wanted his whole life to be the guy who saved humanity or had some huge impact. And I think that, coupled with a sense of how smart they are that nothing bad could ever happen, has likely driven a lot of his and his colleagues behavior. My only objection is that Fauci has been sitting around for 20 years thinking “I need to fund GoF research so that we can develop a ‘deadly’ disease and release it on humanity and thereby implement all these authoritarian practices an implement the Great Reset”. Will people, including him, take advantage of the situation and do just that? Yes. Was it planned? I don’t think so. He and his colleagues have been pursuing their own meglomania, hubris, and greed and it’s bitten them in the ass and they moved frantically to cover up their part in it.

        I will read the linked document. After writing some code so I can pretend I did something useful today….

  72. Lord Humungus

    EF and I had two nights of kiddo-free time. Which meant that we went out to eat on Friday, drank too much, toked too much, and then woke up the next day hungover.

    Only to drive to Lansing to go thrifting. And then we celebrated a neighbor’s birthday by… surprise! – drinking too much whiskey and smoking weed. And played some great Euchre.

    So I woke up really hung over, worked out, and, in the afternoon, had a friend over to listen to some records.

    • Ozymandias

      I fucking love Euchre. I got addicted to that game one summer in high school by my three (((friends))). 16 year old me was so into it that I evidently ruined it for them because it’s all I wanted to play.
      So much fun w/ good players.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Euchre was our mainstay on mids at the radar site. I love love it.

      • ron73440

        In arty it was always Spades.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Spades and Hearts made it in rotation from time to time. Also a variation of Slap Jack/War but anyone walking by can slap in on a pair. Made for long stretches of games

    • Lord Humungus

      There is an app called “Trickster Euchre” that lets you play online with friends.

      During the lockdowns, we would zoom with our (lefty) neighbors and play euchre, making sure that our partners were not our spouses. It was great fun.

      • slumbrew

        making sure that our partners were not our spouses

        They should just rename that app to Key Party.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just don’t go with family

      • Lord Humungus

        Well if you were the same room – wacka chicka wah – then it would be easier to cheat 😉

        ahem.

    • EvilSheldon

      Euchre is one of the few card games that I get better at, the more I drink.

    • Tundra

      Isn’t that what you would expect? In August people in the South are chilling inside – where the infections occur. Weather cools off, people go back outside.

  73. l0b0t

    Why aren’t Kyles lawyers objecting to all this speculation and hearsay? On the plus side, DerpTube’s CC keeps writing Gaige Grosskreutz as “Gaige Gross Crotch.”

  74. juris imprudent

    COVID almost killed me, because I’m a fat fuck!

    Complicating his coronavirus infection, Fisher suffered from suspected bacterial pneumonia and asbestosis, according to his wife Christina Fisher. During the darkest days of Ben Fisher’s hospitalization, nurses had trouble proning him, or turning him on his stomach to help distribute oxygen throughout his lungs.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The only protection we have is the vaccine. Or…it’s the only one they are allowing us to have…you decide.

    • ron73440

      “I wasn’t doing my part. I wasn’t wearing a mask. I wasn’t concerned about it,” he said. “It’s definitely changed my mind now that I’m living with the result.”

      stripped 80 pounds off his stout 6-foot-4 frame

      That whole article hurt my brain.

      Physicians, however, told him that researchers had worked on similar vaccines for years.

      While Ben Fisher emphasized that getting vaccinated should be a personal choice, he recognized shots as safe and effective. Before transferring to Saint Luke’s, Ben Fisher received his first vaccine dose and noticed no side effects.

      But at least the sinner has repented.

      WTF would you get a “vaccine” for a disease you just recovered from?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Because we are still being lied to that it is a vaccine and not a glorified therapeutic? Just gotta adjust the definition of what a vaccine is and isn’t and presto!

      • Tundra

        I’ll bet his Vitamin D levels were undetectable. How long are we gonna pretend that “healthy” people succumb to this?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Kid had what appears to be normal cold (sniffles) so he got a dose of zinc, D and B12 and sent to school.

    • Rat on a train

      Complicating his coronavirus infection, Fisher suffered from suspected bacterial pneumonia and asbestosis
      Why didn’t they tell me Covid could lead to asbestosis? I would have rushed out for the jab had I known.

    • Drake

      Sounds like he got zero treatment until they put his fat ass on the vent.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So…a normal covid patient tossed into a hospital. Me thinks there is an issue with the immediate venting…

  75. B.P.

    “Travel into the US is getting back to normal, sort of.”

    This morning a local news channel told me that there are exemptions from needing to be vaccinated to enter the U.S., including coming from a country with limited access to the vaccine. Because, you know, science and deadly pandemic and stuff.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What would the US be without our luxurious lanes of exemptions we can drive through?

    • Rat on a train

      Covid is a rich man’s disease.

    • juris imprudent

      Is this the update to an arrow to the knee?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bravo for the decade old pop culture bring back. /not snark

  76. The Late P Brooks

    Because, you know, science and deadly pandemic and stuff.

    Something something FIERCE URGENCY.

  77. Mojeaux

    Move-in cleanup continues apace at Chez Mojeaux. Hired trash haulers to come take away a YUUUUUUGE pile of trash and junk including a nonworking fridge (a failed flip). We can park a car in our garage now, albeit not two. However, the stuff around the perimeter of the garage needs sorted, so after that we can bring back the stuff in our storage unit.

    I will say, I have never been so happy about my nonhoarding tendencies as I have been with this move. Lots of stuff, but also manageable.

    I’m still missing my embroidery bag. I think that’s gone forever. ?

    • ron73440

      Did you get your truck sorted out yet?

      • Mojeaux

        Nope. Haven’t heard from them yet today.