Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – [violins tuning up]

by | Dec 8, 2021 | Daily Links | 193 comments

Watching her choke up and sob is far more grotesque than anything I’ve ever written.

Here’s a snippet of her grandiosity:

“I’ve met women who were born before women had the right to vote. They’ve been waiting 100 years for tonight. I’ve met little boys and girls who didn’t understand why a woman has never been president before. Now they know, and the world knows that in America, every boy and every girl can grow up to be whatever they dream, even president of the United States. This is a victory for all Americans, men and women, boys and girls. Because as our country has proven once again when there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit. Now we must not rest until every remaining ceiling is shattered, every standing barrier is broken, and every single American can live up to her or his God-given potential.”

You rejected the Messiah, America. May you be most damned among nations.


 

Sanna Marin: Finland’s PM sorry for clubbing after Covid contact

Baby girl… you go ahead and do whatever you want.


 

Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Jussie Smollett: ‘We can never believe police’

A Black Lives Matter leader said Tuesday that the movement will continue to support Jussie Smollett regardless of the outcome of his trial, which she described as a “white supremacist charade.”

Melina Abdullah, a former California State University professor and police abolitionist who co-founded BLM Los Angeles, said Smollett — who is accused of faking a racist, homophobic hate crime against himself — “has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom.”

“As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community. Because we got us,” Abdullah said in a statement on the website for the BLM movement’s national arm, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

“So let’s be clear: we love everybody in our community. It’s not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade, it’s about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives,” said Abdullah, who is currently director of BLM Grassroots, a “Defund the Police” group.

“In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth,” she continued. “Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.”

Justice for Juicy!


 

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193 Comments

  1. Yusef the Unclean

    “In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth,” she continued. “Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.”
    Oh Go Fuck Yourself!

    • Suthenboy

      Grifters and race hustlers will always be with us.

  2. The Other Kevin

    “Watching her choke up and sob is far more grotesque than anything I’ve ever written.”
    You are far too modest.

    “Baby girl… you go ahead and do whatever you want.”
    Her accent is probably fantastic too.

    • Rat on a train
    • The Other Kevin

      Sigh.

      • Chafed

        ^^^ This guy gets it. ^^^

    • Bobarian LMD

      Far more grotesque, but just as entertaining.

  3. juris imprudent

    What or who did Finland’s PM club?

    • Gender Traitor

      Are they far enough north to have those cute little baby harp seals?

      • Ted S.

        I think you’re looking for this.

      • Nephilium

        I was expecting Crazy Ernie.

      • SandMan

        I was wondering the same thing!

    • Rat on a train

      Is that a Zoomer replacement for bang?

    • Tonio

      Baby seals?

      • Gender Traitor

        ::flexes nimble fingers::

      • EvilSheldon

        “How ’bout you just fix the car and leave my private life out of it?”

  4. Shpip

    “Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.”

    That’s some authentic frontier campus gibberish, right there.

    And if the po-po had no respect for Jussie’s life, why did they spend any time investigating his faked beatdown?

    • juris imprudent

      Yup, he would’ve been a lot better off without a police response at all.

  5. Rebel Scum

    Baby girl… you go ahead and do whatever you want.

    Hell, I might even let her Finnish.

    • The Other Kevin

      Norway you’re getting away with that one.

      • Shpip

        Swiss will be along soon with the Swede-ist narrowed gaze you’ve ever seen.

      • Pope Jimbo

        He won’t igNordic such a bad pun.

      • juris imprudent

        But he might have to take a Lapp or two warming up.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is rain dear.

    • Mojeaux

      You’re going to have to Sweden the pot before you’ll get anything from her.

    • juris imprudent

      You have to let her finish, she ain’t rushin’.

      • Rat on a train

        ain’t Russian

    • Ghostpatzer

      Not bad, but she can’t hold a candle to the paraffins I saw in Helsinki; two heads are better than one.

      • Rebel Scum

        Not a good likeness of her. She’s Nordic, not East Asian.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      If European, dont go Russian her is she’s trying to Finnish.

  6. Shpip

    Now they know, and the world knows that in America, every boy and every girl can grow up to be whatever they dream, even president of the United States.

    Turns out, all you have to do is marry a popular politician and coast along on his last name. Unfortunately, the Senate is as far as you’ll go (right, Mrs. Dole?).

    But in the spirit of breaking barriers real or imagined, I’ll get in front of the parade now.

    Casey DeSantis 2040!

    • Pope Jimbo

      There is also the high road. You know where you blow a married guy who is a party insider. He’ll get your political career going. After that, you just keep getting elected because you have the right private bits that are the right color.

      Totes classier.

  7. Penguin

    As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community.

    As abolitionists, maybe you should go to fucking Libya, where they’re trading slaves today – and yes, some of them are sub-Saharan African descent. That is, unless everything you’ve squealed about is a complete grift.

    Marin: Finland’s PM sorry for clubbing after Covid contact

    When I saw ‘Finland’ my first thought was that she went to Lapland and clubbed seals. Didn’t know what COVID had to do with it.

    Seeing Hilary, my first reaction was the visceral disgust I’d feel on seeing an animal corpse being eaten by maggots, which I realized was unfair. Maggots provide a necessary service for the ecosystem.

    • Mojeaux

      Maggots are used in legit medical procedures, too.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        But enough about the quack doctors.

      • Penguin

        Yeah, Necrotic skin doesn’t get rid of itself.

      • Mojeaux

        Right?!

  8. Rebel Scum

    “In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth,”

    There is no equal treatment under the law in an “abolitionist society” (whatever that is…)?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      No, because “abolitionist” is a synonym for “anti-racist”, which means discriminating against whites until the aggrieved feel that they are no longer being oppressed.

      • juris imprudent

        Do they ever actually give up being oppressed? Isn’t the whole point to be in perpetual grievance?

  9. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    It’s so unjust that it’s a crime to stage fake hate crimes for fame and political advantage.

  10. Pope Jimbo

    Hmmm……

    Minnesoda’s state bean counters claim that we will have a $7.75B surplus in this budget.

    The story is over the fight between tax cuts and “investments”. Absolutely no mention is made about maybe “giving it all back”. I miss Jesse.

    Especially galling are all the people crowing about the surplus. You assholes fucked up and took more money than you needed. And even worse when you pretend that it was your stewardship of the Rona crisis and not the Feds throwing billions of money around.

    As might be expected, Gov. Tim Walz was in a good mood at an event announcing the surplus. “This is what responsible policies look like,” the DFL governor said. “This is what happens when you invest in people.”

    And he said the notion that he had to decide between protecting public health and protecting the economy early in the pandemic was a false choice. “It’s now been proven that that was a fallacy,” he said. “We could do both and come out stronger than we were before.”

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Keep their money? Next you’ll be saying the masses should have rights and be allowed to choose people to represent them.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Current budget is around $52B.

        What will happen is we will start all sorts of new programs/departments. This will raise costs to $60B ongoing. Then when the money spigot dries up, there will be all sorts of sob stories about having to cut back to $58B.

        I wish someone would have asked King Walz if he still wants his $0.20/gal gas tax. He’s been agitating for that since he was elected. Only the GOP controlled Senate has stopped him.

  11. juris imprudent

    Barca are 4 goals in less than a half hour from being out of CL and into Europa.

    • grrizzly

      There are no fans in the stands in Munich. Again.

      • rhywun

        They’ll lick this virus yet!

    • juris imprudent

      Now all we need is the Atalanta-Valencia result. That may become the new Cal score.

  12. TARDis

    Dear Finnish Men,

    You ain’t getting to fuck her. What exactly do you think her leader qualities are?

    Idiots.
    Glad they only have 5.5 million sheeple.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Once Russia is done with Ukraine, they might come knocking on Finlands door.

  13. DEG

    Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.

    Sanna Marin went on a night out in Helsinki on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive.

    She was initially told she did not need to isolate because she had been fully vaccinated, but later missed a text that advised her to do so.

    Normally I’d say if she wasn’t sick there’s not problem, but being vaccinated she might be an asymptomatic spreader. Eh, fuck it. I can’t get worked up over this.

    • Swiss Servator

      Just making them play by their own stupid rules.

      If it were me, I would shrug and she could move on.

      • DEG

        Just making them play by their own stupid rules.

        I should have read the rest of the article where they talk about “guidelines”.

    • Ted S.

      The thing to be worked up over is the “rules for thee, but not for me” aspect. Politicians like Marin need to be pointed out as the morally wicked hypocrites that they are, and that should be the first thing brought up about such politicians until they become pariahs.

      • R C Dean

        Well , I am kinda hoping she’s morally wicked, to tell the truth.

        Those eyes. . . .

  14. Rebel Scum

    Witchdoctor Faucsim #1

    CNN’s Kate Bouldon talks Fauci into agreeing the definition of being “fully vaccinated” should be updated to mean having had a booster: “My own personal opinion, Kate, is what you said is correct. It’s going to be a matter of when, not if.”

    I, for one, am shocked.

    Witchdoctor Faucsim #2

    Fauci on NYC: “Quite frankly, you have to [mandate vaccinations] when you’re in the middle of what we call a historic experience of the worst pandemic of a respiratory disease in the last hundred years. We have to put the communal responsibility ahead of individual preferences.

    1) With a statistically 100% recovery rate for young, generally healthy people, especially with the treatments available (i.e. those things that make the emergency use authorization for the fauxccine invalid and illegal)

    2) Die in ditch, commie cunte.

    • The Other Kevin

      This guy gets way too gleeful when it comes to bossing people around.

      • Tres Cool

        I remember when that asshole was trying to convince people you could get AIDS from a toilet seat.
        He ruined bareback secks for a lot of people in the 90s.
        He should be cruicified, and just before death revived, slowly fed into a chipper. Then the pieces collected and burned; ashes buried.
        And the entire area salted.

      • Grummun

        ashes buried with quicklime

    • rhywun

      worst pandemic of a respiratory disease in the last hundred years

      Calling bullshit but we’ll never know because the real numbers are totally lost.

  15. Pope Jimbo

    I’m starting to like our county Sheriff.

    Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson is suspected of driving while under the influence of alcohol when he crashed a vehicle early Wednesday in western Minnesota, state authorities said.

    The rollover wreck occurred about 2:30 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 about 5 miles east of Alexandria, where Hutchinson was attending the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association conference.

    I’m shocked! SHOCKED! that there was drinking going on a LEO conference. (Drunkest group of people that ever stayed at the Holiday Inn I worked in as a kid was the state Fire Fighter’s convention. I bet I filled up at least 30 bathtubs for them to keep beer in).

    * This Sheriff is still 100x better than the old one.

    • MikeS

      I’m assuming the FF convention was full of small town volunteer fire fighters?

      • Spudalicious

        Firefighters can put that shit away. I remember a wedding reception for a coworker. I had to scramble and find three kegs, because the beer on hand was gone before the bride and groom got there.

    • l0b0t

      The most NYC thing I think I’ve ever witnessed was on St. Patrick’s Day in 2008. We were having lunch in Little Italy when a limousine screeches to a stop near the intersection. Several, obviously inebriated, FDNY guys piled out (with their dress blues in various states of disarray) and charged the 2 NYPD officers standing on the corner. New York’s Bravest administered a thorough thrashing to New York’s Finest, then bundled themselves back into their limo and sped away.

  16. Pope Jimbo

    How much more proof you you people need before you admit that Amazon is a monster?! They have a study!!!

    Emali Pettey, 21, worked at the Shakopee fulfillment center for about a year, but left over the summer after she hurt her back while moving heavy pallets with damaged products.

    “I rarely got help,” Pettey said. “I can count on one hand the times that people helped me with pulling.”

    Amazon gave her time off after a doctor recommended it, she said. But afterward, the company pulled her from the schedule while Pettey waited to see what would happen to her workers’ compensation claim.

    When you force a star employee like Ms. Pettey to resign you must be doing something wrong.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I suspect she wasn’t ever up to it for long. ?

    • The Hyperbole

      “I can count on one hand the times that people helped me with pulling.”

      Someone’s been reading my mail.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Cali gotta Cali.

    BREAKING: California unveils plan to become an abortion “sanctuary” if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The proposal would include paying for travel, lodging and procedures for people from other states who want to have an abortion.

    It is almost like a reversal of Roe v. Wade would make abortion a state issue.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      It should, but I could see the Republicans in Congress trying to pass some anti-abortion (it affects interstate trade) law and to hell with federalism.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The proposal would include paying for travel, lodging and procedures for people from other states who want to have an abortion.

      Ghouls

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Death cult

    • Certified Public Asshat

      This will not backfire in any way.

    • MikeS

      Abortion tourism. Every abortion gets a free gate pass to Disneyland!

      Fucking monsters.

    • Nephilium

      You know what… I could probably identify as a pregnant woman for a free vacation.

      Oh… it’s to California.

      Never mind.

    • rhywun

      Take abortion out of it and it’s still reprehensible.

  18. Pope Jimbo

    I’m sorta pro-choice, but it seems really dumb to offer young girls from the Midwest a free ticket to CA to get an abortion. Just saying that a non-zero number of them might actually get pregnant in order to qualify.

    And who would be paying for that? Newsome can’t seriously be proposing that taxpayers foot the bill?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda, that was supposed to be a reply to Rebelsy.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah — I’m pretty sure given the other crap he wants taxpayers to foot the bill for that’s exactly what he has in mind.

    • juris imprudent

      Newsome can’t seriously be proposing that taxpayers foot the bill?

      You think he thinks the tax cattle serve any other purpose?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I never thought I’d say this, but …

        “forcing tax payers to fund abortion junkets from other states is even dumber than paying the illegals $450K”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      But money won’t be a problem for state-funded abortion services for patients from other states. California’s coffers have soared throughout the pandemic, fueling a record budget surplus this year. Next year, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts California will have a surplus of about $31 billion.

      A literal paradise can afford to abort everyone in the nation.

      • rhywun

        surplus of about $31 billion

        How much is that in pre-2020 dollars?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Speaking of paradise….

        They could take all the fetuses and dry them out on their solar panels. I can’t decide what would be funnier/more tasteless use of them after that:

        1) a new line of Sun Dried Stem Cells

        or

        2) Use CGI and make them sing and shill for big Corps. The CA Fetuses.

  19. Certified Public Asshat

    *searches to see if Finland has a vaccine passport*

    Lol, of course they do.

  20. grrizzly

    Poll:

    Eighty-two percent of Democrats are willing to wear face coverings indoors at all times due to fears of contracting the omicron coronavirus variant, a Tuesday Axios-Ipsos poll revealed.

    Overall, 62 percent of Americans are willing to wear a mask indoors at all times, while just 38 percent of Republicans are willing to do so.

    The poll also asked if airlines should mandate passengers be vaccinated to fly. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said yes.

    • Sean

      *facepalm*

    • Pope Jimbo

      You can walk the Branch Covidians through the facts and they still advocate that we punish the unclean.

      1) The vax doesn’t prevent you from getting the Rona. Charitably you can say it reduces the severity of symptoms.
      2) Vaxxed can get and spread the Rona to others.

      So spreaders on a plane can be either vaxxed or unvaxxed. Vaxxed may not die at the same rate as unvaxxed when they contract the Rona on the plane.

      • Sean

        Charitably you can say it reduces the severity of symptoms.

        I’m not willing to concede that point anymore. They’re lying about everything else, why not that?

      • Suthenboy

        ^This^
        They haven’t told the truth about anything yet, why would they start now?

      • R C Dean

        Based on my anecdotal view (one large hospital), I think it does help with severity. Tucson Is about 50 – 60% vaxxed. 10% or so of our patients are vaxxed.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Swallows black pill. This is never going to end. Even if there are no human cases, some zoo animal will get it and that will mean we’ll have to lock down again.

    • Ownbestenemy

      For a variant we don’t even have knowledge of yet…we are so smart

    • rhywun

      Propaganda works, volume MCMLXXVIII

    • Ted S.

      Nobody’s stopping them from wearing a mask.

      What they really want is to force everybody else to be as miserable as them.

  21. Tres Cool

    Clearly Im feverish, cause I was typing away in the ded thread. But I took a nap earlier, didnt feel great. Woke with aches and a 101.6º temperature.

    PITY ME!

    • Sean

      OMICRON!!!!!!!!

      *sprays Lysol everywhere*

      • Tres Cool

        + Trump told me to drink the Lysol for CoVid salvation

      • TARDis

        Side effects include: Speaking in tongues, nausea, projectile vomiting, multi-orifice bleeding, flatulence, ability to mimic Obama perfectly, and accidental summoning of the one true SMOD.

      • Tres Cool

        “…and accidental summoning of the one true SMOD.”

        Oh, I love you guys but Ill do it on purpose if I can.

    • Nephilium

      On the other side, girlfriend is no longer coughing, so as of tomorrow she’ll be able to leave the house.

      I may get a brief moment of peace and quiet.

      • Tres Cool

        I took Tres Ver. 2.0 to school this morning. So, being responsible, I alerted baby-mama to my elevated temperature.
        That miserable cunte is ready to have me slammed into an ICU, ventilated, and quarantined.
        Not that she over-states CoVID- she’s reasonable. She just wants to see me in pain.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        “Does covid require a large gauge catheter? No? Can we make an exception?”

      • R C Dean

        “So, being responsible, I alerted baby-mama to my elevated temperature.”

        Why the hell would you do that?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Temporarily Tres Warm, eh?

    • Timeloose

      “Welcome to the party pal!”

      I had a 101.5 fever for 4 days with a neg test result. Felt great minus a sinus congestion and goop. Positive test 6 days after the fever. Ow I’m feeling poor from coughing up stuff, but not bad otherwise.

      I’ll be allowed back at work Monday.

  22. Pope Jimbo

    Stop the lies and disinformation!!!!!

    Tell the truth: Trump said drink bleach. Didn’t say shit about Lysol.

    • Tres Cool

      One part Clorox, one part Lysol. Add a splash of Propofol.
      The perfect Kevorkian.

      • The Other Kevin

        Don’t forget a horse deworming pill washed down with a glass of fish tank cleaner.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I thought that was an Agnes Gooch.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Merck is rolling out Sodium Hypomerckite, safer and more effective than ordinary bleach. Available only by prescription.

      • Tres Cool

        “Ask your doctor if Ivermercktin is right for you”.

  23. rhywun

    They’ve been waiting 100 years for tonight.

    How sexist of you.

  24. rhywun

    Justice for Juicy!

    I love BLM attaching themselves to this lunacy. Maybe it will help the world open its eyes to their charade.

    • Suthenboy

      Don’t hold your breath. The sides are chosen. No one is going to swap over to either side.
      The amount of lunacy and horseshit people are willing to swallow is stunning.

    • Sean

      You must be new around here.

    • Tres Cool

      Thgll’ll 3x doge daere anyone

  25. grrizzly

    The Atlantic asks the question we all want to know: “Is it safe to hang out with the unboosted?”

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sheesh, That’s like saying the Italians or Irish are white.

      • rhywun

        That’s hilarious. These schools have been trying to pump up their numbers of “underrepresented” for decades and have nothing to show for it. It’s almost like the problem, such as it is, starts well before college years.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        See Prop. 209 (CA, 1996) and the panicked alumni magazine articles hence.

  26. Tundra

    Last week: TMITE reports that the Clinton Foundation donations drying up.

    This week: Wife of pedo rapist out shilling. Look bitch, NO ONE CARES!

    Do us a favor and go drink yourself into oblivion.

    Great song. I’ll bet the Finnish vixen would dig it, too!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in… 60 years.”

  27. Mustang

    Is there a format for an article where we just ask a question of people? I know there’s the forum. I met a sheriff’s deputy who also claims to be libertarian. It was like talking to myself. I like the idea of local law enforcement being elected by the people they serve. What are the feelings about sheriff’s departments?

    • kinnath

      SP puts out a “poll” post every now and then.

      Ask a question, start a dialog.

      • MikeS

        And they always get a quite a big response. She’s good at asking questions everyone wants to answer.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      That would be cool. I forget where you are, and I am certainly not qualified to answer your question.

    • Yusef the Unclean

      start with an idea, and write some gibberish about it, then ask the question, I’ sure you’ll get plenty of answers,

    • The Hyperbole

      Find an old timey radio episode of Gunsmoke that addresses your question and write up a recap, make sure to point out that Marshall Dillon is an authoritarian asshat but leave it to the commentariat to hash out what it all means.

  28. Ed Wuncler

    COVID Bullshit:

    So my daughter’s daycare quarantined the whole 2 year old class for the next 10 days because a kid in her class tested positive for COVID. My wife is on maternity leave so that’s good but I had to tell HR and now my ass can’t come into the office for 10 days. I like going into the office because it’s 10 minutes (by car) from my house and I’m more productive there. I’m gonna be stuck in a house with a 2 month old and a 2 year old full of unlimited energy.

    • kinnath

      It’s never too early to start drinking.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      It’s not unlimited. Kids energy comes from stealing it from their parents.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Insanity is hereditary: I get it from my kids”

      • Ed Wuncler

        +1

    • Pope Jimbo

      Thinks back to times Mrs. Holiness had just had a kid…..

      I think the 2 kids are the least of your worries.

      • Ed Wuncler

        I’m betting that my wife’s (who is generally an easy going person) bitchiness will increase ten fold.

    • rhywun

      Get a negative brain-swab result?

      • Ed Wuncler

        They want us to get her and ourselves a COVID test and I’m nearly tempted to tell them to pound sand.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Er, what constitutes a Covid test to them? Nasal rape, or spit-at-home?

      • rhywun

        Unless you’re bringing the kid into the office, yeah tell them she’s none of their business.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        If it makes you feel any better, none of the Covid tests I took last month were the brain ticklers they used to use.

    • Sean

      “Had to tell HR”

      But why?

      • Ed Wuncler

        My wife kept on bugging me and was like…you know that your HR would want to know. I suspect she did this so I could stay home and help her.

      • Sean

        LOL. She set your ass up.

    • R C Dean

      “I had to tell HR”

      Why? And “just following orders [policy]” is not an adequate response.

      • R C Dean

        Never mind. “I was henpecked into submission” is an adequate response.

  29. rhywun

    LOL now that all the Medicare commercials have vanished, it’s all “Cancel your debt!” and “Cash cards”.

    Good grief.

    • Count Potato

      I’m seeing lots of HIV drugs and car repair insurance.

      • rhywun

        And life insurance.

      • rhywun

        And JibJab. OMG kill me.

    • Penguin

      Really? I still see Joe Namath on late night ST reruns.

    • Tundra

      The 1992 song became the most successful single ever released…

      Wut.

      I mean, it was a good song, but this was way better.

      Also pretty much anything off Soup. Poor Shannon.

  30. Count Potato

    “New Zealand is banning young people from ever being allowed to buy cigarettes in a rolling program to make the entire country smoke-free by 2025.

    No-one under the age of 14 will ever be allowed to buy cigarettes in their lifetime in a desperate bid to eradicate smoking from the country.

    Each year an additional age group will be added to the ban list until it’s illegal for the entire nation under NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern’s radical plan.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10290201/New-Zealand-BANS-smoking-Young-people-NEVER-buy-cigarettes-nation-goes-smoke-free.html

    CWAC

    • Sean

      Ban sugar next. I dare you.

    • Ed Wuncler

      What an authoritarian asshole and shame on the New Zealand voters for allowing this this shit to happen.

      • Tres Cool

        They only import tobacco- they dont grow it.
        NZ doesnt have the benefit US growers do of a guaranteed price.

    • MikeS

      As fucked up as this is, I contend it’s less fucked up than the tax-the-hell-out-of-you plan the US and so many other countries do. If it’s so dangerous that the tax needs to be $8/pack to help people stop, then grow a pair and ban them already.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Australia and New Zealand would be more free if they let the Imperial Japanese conquer them back 80 years ago.

      We need to just call the Commies of the World, Commies and move on.

    • Tres Cool

      I just took 7 beers, melatonin, Zinc, and D3.
      If I show it will be when you’re in bed.

      You’re totes awesome tho’
      /tsk tsk tsk

    • db

      Eastern? I’m on Arizona time today

  31. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I was not aware of this until today. The FDA knew about the myriad vaccine side effects and was expecting increases in reporting. They documented it two months before the vaccines were implemented.

    https://informedchoicewa.org/news/fda-slide-16-table-2-everything-being-reported-to-vaers/

    These were side effects that came up during clinical trials.

    No fucking wonder they’re stalling on the release of the trial data.

    • Penguin

      I like how, on the list, “Deaths” is just another bullet point.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There’s some other data coming out from Pfizer’s application.

        It seems they knew that the recently vaccinated shed spike proteins. They consisted it a violation of protocol if one of the trial subjects spent time in a closed space with a pregnant woman. It required monitoring of the mother and baby afterwards.

      • Count Potato

        How does someone shed a protein?

      • Tundra

        PornHub.

  32. Count Potato

    “Homeless NYC arsonist who torched Fox News’ giant 50ft Christmas tree could be back on streets within HOURS because judge can’t set bail under 2020 criminal justice reforms

    The 49-year-old ‘arsonist’ arrested for setting fire to the Fox News 50-foot Christmas tree could be back on the street in hours because of the city’s lenient bail reforms.

    Craig Tamanaha, who is described as homeless and ’emotionally disturbed’, faces six misdemeanor charges for torching the tree and under the 2020 criminal justice reforms that means judges are advised to release the accused.

    Arson is only constituted as a felony in New York if the perpetrator harms or attempts to harm a person or if the act is considered a hate crime.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10287863/Police-arrest-man-Christmas-tree-outside-News-Corporations-Midtown-headquarters-set-ablaze.html

    WTF???

    • rhywun

      Remember when the notion of a “hate crime” was considered laughable? I mean, by everyone.

      • Tres Cool

        The way I look at it, every crime is hate crime.
        I mean, you’re not doing it out of love, amirite?

      • R C Dean

        STEVE SMITH LOVE EVERYONE. AND BY LOVE, MEAN . . .

    • one true athena

      It’d be funny if they set him free and he goes and torches the Rockefeller Center tree next. “What? You said it was okay!”

      • MikeS

        NBC News: Well, yeah, but that was Fox’s tree. This tree is important!

      • rhywun

        <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/one-arrest-after-christmas-tree-set-on-fire-outside-news-corp-building-in-nyc/&quot; title="

        Police are also probing whether Tamanaha tried to pull the same stunt on the towering Norway Spruce in Rockefeller Center, according to cops.

        ” target=”_blank”>

        Police are also probing whether Tamanaha tried to pull the same stunt on the towering Norway Spruce in Rockefeller Center, according to cops.

        Not sure if that means anything.

      • rhywun
    • Count Potato

      I just don’t see how setting fires in a crowded city isn’t a felony.

      • rhywun

        It was a mostly-peaceful arson.