Wednesday Morning Links

by | Dec 22, 2021 | Daily Links | 361 comments

NHL doing what they do.

Only three more days for Christmas, but Santa came early for the Rams, as a couple of breaks and a bad call helped seal their needed win against the Seahawks. They’re now tied with the floundering Cardinals. And the Eagles topped the Redskins to help their once-dismal playoff chances. The NHL, which is allegedly 100% vaccinated, has shut down amid a covid outbreak. A soccer coach offers some words of wisdom. Which is quite ballsy in this day and age, I have to admit. The League Cup quarterfinals wrap up today with three matches. I guess that matters, though not to many of the top clubs.  And that’s it for sports.

A much simpler time for rappers

Secretary of State Frank Kellogg was born on this day. The peacenik shares it with Italian master composer Giacomo Puccini, baseball catcher/manager/owner Connie Mack, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, actress Barbara Billingsley, NASCAR great David Pearson, pitching great Steve Carlton, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, infielder Steve Garvey, rockers Maurice and Robin Gibb, outfielder Lonnie Smith, insanity-stopper Susan Powter, rapper Luther Campbell, actor Ralph Fiennes, senator (and potential serial killer?) Ted Cruz, and hockey great Kirk Maltby.

Right, now on to…the links!

I’m curious to see if this is just the beginning. I’d also like to see a lot of sunlight shone on people in these private universities that are working for two (or more) masters.And I don’t mean China exclusively. I mean the US government just as much as the Chinese.

“They’re coming to kill us!” -CDC

Uh……………GOOD! You know, because none of this shit poses a risk to all but a scant few children. And the potential risks they pose to them are either unknown or likely outweigh the risks of the virus itself.  But you keep pushing to pump them full of shit they don’t need, ABC. You bunch of malevolent fucks.

Payback time, Elon. And be prepared for more to come.  They’re not gonna let you get away with shit-talking them. And they have the guns.

Cool idea!

This is becoming quite the trend. Not sure what message it’s sending. In all likelihood its merely confirming everyone’s biases.

Strange I only find this at the NY Post. I’d have expected CNN to make it a too story. You know, since they’re so intimately involved with the principals. Strangely, it’s missing from their website entirely.

Michigan, you continue to suck. Some things never change (even if you managed to win one football game of consequence for the first time in a decade).

This is a brilliant idea. You know, since vaccinated people are immune to everything (except catching or transmitting the virus). Fucking retards.

Wow. This is the ballsiest Op-Ed I’ve seen in some time. Mind you, it’s complete bullshit. And it basically says “the shit we have done isn’t working so we need to do it harder and it’ll work”. It’s ballsy though. Especially since he’s facing recall and telling the residents they’re stupid if they think his policies are at fault for anything.

I’m convinced that everyone involved in this incident is an asshole. You don’t drive around someone and then poach the parking space they were waiting on.  And when someone does that to you, you don’t pull a gun on them. Pretty simple.

More Christmas music for you! And something else from the same band that’s a little more traditional. Enjoy them both.

End enjoy this Wednesday as we get closer and closer to the big day!

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361 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    They’re all working for the government in the universities.

    • sloopyinca

      Yep. And 1/3 of them are moonlighting for a foreign government as well. IMO, both are wrong.

      • juris imprudent

        Those universities are preparing students for the future, when everyone will be a govt drone.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Long-term safety for all people requires more of us than simply reacting to crime. We must work to reduce crime. Investments in the social safety net — providing safety for all — goes far. Affordable housing, quality education, access to health care and addiction services can provide the stability that empirical evidence has shown actually deters criminal activity.

    Strangely, the right to self-defense and the defense of one’s property is not in his list.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “Some men, you just can’t reach.
      So you get what we had here last week — which is the way he wants it.
      Well, he gets it.
      And I don’t like it anymore than you men.”

      Some people just like the lifestyle and good luck with the addiction services and the education stuff. An iron fist isn’t the answer but neither is the velvet glove.

    • rhywun

      Of course, not all crimes are crimes of desperation.

      You don’t say.

      Look, commie. You’re responsible for this. Nut up or go the fuck away.

    • EvilSheldon

      Many people, especially people on the left, have this very childish idea that criminals are all Jean Valjean, stealing bread to feed their starving children.

      • Festus

        That only means that they have never rubbed shoulders with real criminals. I used to dip my toe in those waters and what I saw turned me away from that lifestyle forever. How many of them have actually done time?

      • Nephilium

        Look man, some of them were in flyover country for weeks. It was totally like prison.

      • Plisade

        “You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
        From a suburban family and you never really had to work
        And now you tell me that we’ve got to get back
        To the struggling masses, whoever they are

        You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
        Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
        What the hell do you know about suffering and pain you dumb fuck?”

      • EvilSheldon

        I fucking love Bad Religion.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        It’s trickle-down Rousseau. State of Nature bullshit.

    • Rebel Scum

      Defending oneself and one’s property is white-supreme terrorism, obvs.

    • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

      Part of the problem is they have made the perfect the enemy of the good. If you believe in housing for the homeless, then sitting around waiting for there to be enough one-rooms (with desks!) will take forever, meanwhile, the number of favelas in CA, OR, WA is growing exponentially as they keep offering free money to anyone who self-id’s as homeless, drug-addicted, trans, whatever. I firmly believe people should be able to do whatever they want, but that doesn’t mean I want to pay for it, nor that the idiotic solutions they propose will make things better.

      If people break the law, sooner or later the people affected by that lawlessness will act. It will start simply with things like recalls, but if it keeps going, it will lead to vigilanteism, or, worse, Republicans.

  3. R C Dean

    We had a BMW driver (asshole, check) get cut off in a parking lot (asshole, check). And of course people had to video it on their damn phones (assholes, check).

    Yup, everyone involved is an asshole.

    • sloopyinca

      Hey, my daughter drives a BMW.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t think that rule of thumb applies to females.

      • sloopyinca

        Everybody involved in the story was a female though. So I’m gonna assume it was a blanket statement and take offense.
        Also, he’s mostly accurate.

      • R C Dean

        *reconsiders*

        So does my boss (a chick) and my second (also a chick). So we’ll call it a mixed bag.

      • juris imprudent

        It is a fair default assumption though.

      • Pope Jimbo

        He was just being hyperbolic.

        Everyone knows that the only car that is 100% driven by assholes is the Dodge Durango.

      • Rebel Scum

        My mom drives a BMW. She is, let’s say, a spirited driver. But she is not asshoe.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Well, the old joke is…

      What is the difference between a porcupine and a BMW?

      The porcupine has pricks on the outside.

    • DrOtto

      Anybody who camps out in a parking lot waiting for someone to load their groceries and leave in order to get a good spot deserves all the ill they get coming to them. The fact she didn’t have her blinker on to indicate she was being a rude cunt, makes her even cuntier. The fact the other car had time to pull around her and take said spot suggests she should have wrapped up her game of Angry Birds and parked in the friggin’ spot already. The woman who “stole” her spot may be an asshole, but she’s my kind of asshole.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think women – in general – are the ones who camp out waiting for a close spot. I know my wife does that if I’m not around to instruct her on the correct way to behave.

        I keep trying to show her that you can park 20 yards away and easily walk the extra distance and be in the store before the waiting person.

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    You don’t use a gun in parking disputes, you use a flamethrower.

    • Not Adahn

      If it involved a Bimmer or a Mercedes, do you use a flammenwerfer?

      • sloopyinca

        And if it involves an Audi, you just ignore them because there’s a 50/50 chance the car broke down as they pulled in.

      • DrOtto

        I took my S4 out for a drive Sunday. Didn’t break down, but something’s coming loose underneath. You ain’t kidding.

      • Rebel Scum

        Same for the BMW and Mercedes, really. That’s why I stick with Jap cars,

      • hayeksplosives

        But of course!

        Whenever I used to wonder if my previous job was pointless, I reminded myself that somewhere in Germany, some poor schlub was installing turn signals in a BMW. That helped my perspective of purpose.

      • Fourscore

        I laughed, thinking back at my government days

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was waiting for that.

  5. Ownbestenemy

    I’m convinced we are seeing a panicked roll out of vaccine passports as a last ditch effort to not lose the fence sitters that went along to get along.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That would be a miscalculation, those are mostly people that just want to be left alone and a vaccine passport is the opposite of that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe, maybe not. The fence sitters are wondering right about now “I did what you asked, it’s not working, what am I gonna get out of this?”

        Government answers with special citizen status.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        You get to freely travel around Chicago is not a good incentive.

      • Ownbestenemy

        For the poor….yeah it is.

      • Swiss Servator

        I shan’t be going into the city to visit Hagen’s Fishmarket, Paulina Meat Market, Metropolitan Brewing, Empirical Brewing or Begyle Brewing until “papers please” goes away.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve shifted my local consumption away from Great Lakes Brewing (proof of vaccination or negative test for all events), Collision Bend (temperature checks done on several days for visitors), Fat Head’s (still keeping up dividers at the bars cutting down seats), and shifted to more open places. In fact the girlfriend and I will be going to one for New Year’s Eve (brewery had the misfortune of opening on 2/29/2020).

      • DEG

        Nashua just reinstated its mask ordinance.

        I won’t spend money at any place in Nashua insisting I wear a mask.

      • DEG

        I know of a Democrat or two that is tired of the Covid bullshit.

        I suspect there are more out there.

    • WTF

      They are really desperate to get rid of the Phase III control group. I wonder why?

      • whiz

        I thought they already had, or maybe that was just Phase II?

      • Ozymandias

        The entire current Phase III trial is likely invalid for FDA purposes. There is no “controlled” clinical trial if there is no control. There’s a lawsuit waiting to happen in that alone – I certainly intend to present evidence on that if/when we get to a full hearing to show FDA’s abuse of discretion. It’s a legal requirement in their own statutes. They’re on camera saying that it was necessary and then just ignoring people – scientists – who brought it up after Pfizer unblinded the placebo group and allowed them to take the shot. It’s all documented in the British Medical Journal in a series of articles and letters.
        The FDA has completely abandoned even the pretense of being about preventing unlicensed pharmaceuticals and biologics from being introduced to the public. Now they’re doing everything they can to justify and even mandate the use of unlicensed pharmaceuticals and biologics without liability to the manufacturers. It’s insanity.

      • WTF

        Phase III is to assess long-term efficacy and safety. It was never done for ‘Vid shots. So the entire population are basically the test subjects, but for some reason they really want to eliminate the control group (unvaxxed population).

      • Gender Traitor

        They want everyone to be in the controlled group.

  6. robc

    Funny parking lot incident from last weekend. I saw a space but there was a car coming the other way that clearly, to me, had first dibs on it.

    He gestured to me with a clear “this is mine”, I gestured back with ” go ahead”, and he then drove off. Apparently our sign language differed.

  7. limey

    I once accidentally took a space some lady was waiting to go into but then she moved off and parked a little way away. I immediately realised what I had done and ran over to apologize. She seemed like it wasn’t a big deal to her. I think I got lucky there. Genuine stupid mistake on my part.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I usually park way far away just to avoid the assholes.

      My wife will wait five minutes for a spot which drives me nuts.

      • Nephilium

        The girlfriend will by nature park near the entrances to stores. I (especially if there’s going to be a large/heavy purchase) will park near the exits. There’s probably some bullshit paper there about future planning that could be written.

      • Not Adahn

        I park away at work so that I always have the same space and don’t need to remember where I parked.

      • sloopyinca

        I’ll drive through one lane and if I see a spot I’ll park in it. If not, I’ll go up the next lane and park on the first available spot even if it’s at the end of the row. At that point, I figure I tried my luck on getting close and it wasn’t meant to be.

      • Mojeaux

        There’s probably some bullshit paper there about future planning that could be written.

        I’m sure there are plenty of studies that advise to do it the way some stores do it now, entrance on one side and exit on another, forcing you to walk the width of the store and see the merchandise. Lowe’s drives me batshit insane.

      • Drake

        Me too – I usually head straight to the far corner of the lot and enjoy a stroll before entering the store or restaurant.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We aim for the spot that is at a greater distance when we go out to eat. After dining, we take a longer route to the car as to give us a small stroll.

      • Drake

        Also avoiding likely kill zones and ambush spots.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Never take the same route or park in the same spot.

      • Fourscore

        Good advice. Easy exercise. I started doing that when my truck was new, now both the truck and I are not so new, one stills looks better than the other.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I claim it as romance. She claims it’s us getting old. It could very well be both.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This, as long as it is not pouring I am just going to walk 10 extra seconds to get inside.

      • Tulip

        I just take the first possible spot. I’m not driving around and around a parking lot.

      • DrOtto

        ^ this – avoid the assholes and door dings. God forbid I get a little more walking in as well.

      • Rebel Scum

        I prefer not to park near other people, myself. But I had to wait for ten minutes for a space at Short Pump Town Center a week or so ago. There were literally no other spots.

      • Urthona

        What I do as well.

  8. rhywun

    I’m curious to see if this is just the beginning.

    Narrator: This is just the beginning.

    Wuhan… where have I heard that name before…?

    China is pretty open about getting its hooks in American universities. And nothing else happened.

    • Spartacus

      According to the feds:

      China funding research in the U.S. = BAD
      U.S. funding research in China = GOOD

  9. Sensei

    Payback time, Elon. And be prepared for more to come. They’re not gonna let you get away with shit-talking them. And they have the guns.

    He’s been playing this game for a long time. Meanwhile the feature they are in a twitter about requires a conscious choice from the driver.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “requires a conscious choice from the driver”…

      So right up the alley in terms of how our government views its citizens subjects

    • sloopyinca

      So does smoking cigarettes or taking a Purdue-made opiate.
      Did that stop the feds?

      • Fourscore

        But, but some people need extra discouragement. We’re here to help…

  10. Sensei

    Reyes’ account alleges a BMW SUV was blocking the lane with no turn signal on, so Reyes drove past it and parked in an available space.

    Well that part is hard to disagree with.

  11. Not Adahn

    he’s facing recall and telling the residents they’re stupid if they think his policies are at fault for anything.

    NPR had CA’s DA on to confirm that not only did their legalization of shoplifting have nothing at all to do with anything, but that it didn’t even apply since they’d aggregate the value of the stolen goods which would take it over the $950 threshold.

    They instead informed the listeners that it’s those filthy internet sellers at fault. If those sellers would just do their due diligence, then the SFPD could catch the crooks.

    The interview was classic:

    NPR: “You say that these are organized theft rings. What evidence do you have for this?”

    CADA: “We know that these are organized theft rings [rant about tech companies enabling thefts containing no evidence of organized theft rings omitted]”

  12. Not Adahn

    The pizza making guy had “Last Christmas” playing. Without any apparent sense of irony.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Eh? Evidently I’m anemic too.

    • Michael Malaise

      It could be worse. It could be Paul (and Linda) McCartney or Mariah Carey.

  13. Not Adahn

    Dennis left and then briefly returned to her car to retrieve a semi-automatic handgun with a mounted laser sight

    Ewww. Mall ninja.

    • R C Dean

      Suing the dumb shot who cut you off is an asshole move, even if they did wave a gun around after you

    • R C Dean

      Misthread. *shrugs*

      The flashlight on the Last Argument of Dean also has a laser. I didn’t get it because of the laser, but it’s a semi-common feature on weapon lights these days.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^I have a laser sight on my carry gun. My travel long gun has a flashlight/laser. Not sure what the hate is for them.

      • juris imprudent

        You could blind your victim as well as shoot them?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Probably, the flashlight is like the sun coming out at night. Recommend the Streamlight TLR-8 if anyone is in the market.

      • juris imprudent

        Hey, unrelated note – we close on Monday on the property down your way.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        What county?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Hey that’s great. Welcome to the free part of VA. We’ll have to meet for a drink once your settled.

      • juris imprudent

        Replying to both – Carroll County. Get-away place for now (cottage-like), longer term option will be to build a more suitable house & barn for permanent residence.

      • EvilSheldon

        No hate, but laser sights generally ain’t real useful outside a handful of cases.

      • db

        I’ve never cared for them, and never shot better with one versus without. I’ve only tried a small number of them, on others’ guns, but I don’t see the benefit in them. I think they’re a distraction.

      • Sean

        I only have three pistols equipped with them. Two of which came with them from the factory.

      • EvilSheldon

        A laser, either visible or IR, is a critical accessory for shooting at night with NODs. Like I said, pretty specific.

        Other than that, I’m faster and more accurate with irons or a slide-mounted red dot.

      • mock-star

        I love the crimson trace grips on my S&W snubnose. Those sights are tiny! On my shield, Im ambivalent to the laser. Everything else that I have is laser free.

      • R C Dean

        My issue with lasers is, with a proper sight picture, you shouldn’t even see the laser dot if its zeroed.

      • Animal

        I think 98.6% of the lasers sold out there are sold because of the “Ooh, cool!” factor. Mrs. Animal has lasers on her LCP and her Glock 43, and while she mentions the possible intimidation factor, I think it’s mostly because she just likes them.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Odds the laser was zeroed?

      • EvilSheldon

        Lol.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      But was it fully semi-automatic?

    • pistoffnick

      “…a semi-automatic handgun with a mounted laser sight…”

      Some of us have bad eyes, OK?

  14. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Heh, Easy Money parking scene featuring Rodney Dangerfield and Joe Pesci:

    https://youtu.be/R2tLjfhC28o

    Still funny after all these years.

    • DrOtto

      Running late for a test day back in college I found a Mustang taking 2 spots in the lot. I did a similar move with my big old Bonneville. I then parked somewhere else, proud of the fact I had opened up 2 spots for someone else. Never saw that Mustang taking 2 spots again either.

  15. hayeksplosives

    I am not surprised the govt is targeting Musk. He has been vocal against Build Back Bolshevik and against big government in general.

    I’m still buying more TSLA stock today.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      At least sign language lady is earning her keep (I assume anyway, maybe she was saying what the hell’s this guy talking about).

  16. Ownbestenemy

    Apparently 5am is my vacation wake up time. Quiet house, up of coffee and Glibs. Could be worse I suppose

    • Fourscore

      Get an early jump on your vacation, OBE. Now you’ll a longer day to enjoy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Trying and succeeding.

    • db

      Sick

      • db

        But I agree with Fourscore. I try to get up early on vacation days to maximize my opportunity.

  17. Festus

    Here’s me trying to find food that I like to eat in a vegan prepper house-hold. https://youtu.be/Y2lLLPzBlEU All that I wanted was one can of vegetable soup. Turns out that we have cases and cases of mushroom and tomato. Shteed? More stheed?

      • rhywun

        ?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Look, I am food curious and adventurous. However, I have to have a lone drawn somewhere and this, this is that line.

        Still would eat it if it was put down in front of me though.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Ditch the olives and replace the waffles (waffles? WTF?) with toast and I’m game.

      • db

        I’d eat that. Not often, but it looks filling enough.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good old plain white rice mixed with cream of mushroom isn’t half bad. I could exist off that for a while.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Does the “Trader Joe to Canada” service still exist? Do you like Eastern European / ME food? Jars and cans and packets abound. I snarfed down a can of what Mr. Joe calls “Eggplant, Tomatoes, and Onions” in one sitting. Bonuses: low-carb and pull-tab.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Er, in your local ethnic market/s.

      • Nephilium

        Unfortunately, Pirate Joe’s closed a couple years back.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Aw heck, I thought maybe that was stayed. But my other advice rests.

  18. Rebel Scum

    With pediatric COVID cases surging, millions of children remain unvaccinated

    Parents should literally be having convid parties. Just keep little Jimmy away from grandma for a few weeks after.

    But you keep pushing to pump them full of shit they don’t need

    We have to satisfy the lefts new best friend, big pharma.

    • juris imprudent

      We have to satisfy the lefts new best friend, big pharma.

      Now truly, that is a mystery of the ages.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It wasn’t great for my 10 year old and 7 year old (like the flu!), but they are both completely fine now. The 3 year old slept for a day and was recovered within 36 hours.

  19. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Mrs. Frankelson and I queued up a halfway decent movie on Netflix (I know) that you lot may like, The Highwaymen. It is about a couple of ex-Texas Rangers that are chasing after Bonnie and Clyde. Woody Harelson and Kevin Costner are playing the Rangers, they do the laconic aging lawmen from a different era pretty well. I liked that they did not romanticize Bonnie and Clyde in the slightest. They got very little screen time and what time they were onscreen was not flattering at all. It is ‘based on real events’ and Harelson and Costner’s characters were real people, but I have no idea how true to history the film is. Celebrity criminals have never been of any particular interest to me. Anyhow, ’tis a decent watch.

    • R C Dean

      Good flick. They did the final shootout/execution of Bonnie and Clyde in the exact spot it happened IRL.

      Plus, if Costner’s visit to the gun store doesn’t give you a chubby, seek help.

      • KSuellington

        Absolutely, it was well done and the gun shop visit was def a highlight.

      • Animal

        Plus, if Costner’s visit to the gun store doesn’t give you a chubby, seek help.

        Can confirm. That was my #1 takeaway from that movie – turned to Mrs. Animal and said, “I want to go that gun store!”

  20. Rebel Scum

    U.S auto safety regulators said Wednesday they have opened a formal safety investigation into 580,000 Tesla vehicles sold since 2017 over the automaker’s decision to allow games to be played on the front center touchscreen.

    Of course. Elon should stay on the offensive, rhetorically speaking.

  21. juris imprudent

    What could possibly go wrong?

    The vaccine’s human trials took longer than expected, he said, because the lab needed to test the vaccine on subjects who had neither been vaccinated nor previously infected with COVID.

    • Ownbestenemy

      To be human is to be vaccinated.

      • Festus

        Oh Dr. Fauchi! Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm

    • Plisade

      “Well, if you’re going to reprogram human genetic material, you need a delivery system, and nothing works better than virus. It’s like a suitcase.”

      —The Bourne Legacy

    • Nephilium

      And I’m sure they used strict controls to make sure they weren’t using people who had COVID previously.

      “Have you had the ‘vid?”

      “NO SIR!”

      “Approved.”

    • Rebel Scum

      The experimentation is ongoing. The “vaccinated” are the test subjects.

    • Ownbestenemy

      All I can think about is the scene in Evolution on the experimental vaccine the army created and its side effects.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Forgot link

    • R C Dean

      The vaccine’s human trials took longer than expected

      Bullshit. The trials were effectively terminated very early, when they unblinded the trial and made the vax available to the control group. This has been a giant open-air observational study, rotten with uncontrolled variables, every since.

      • juris imprudent

        Different trial.

      • R C Dean

        Have there been any double-blind trials since those were unblinded early?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Now that you mention it, not that I’ve heard. /scratches chin

      • PutridMeat

        I believe the statement is referring to the Walter Reed “SUPER VACCINE” that’s apparently been developed. Their human trials took longer because of the prevalence of Pfzer/Moderna/JJ vaccination and those who already have had it in the population. Don’t see the details of the Walter Reed vaccine study, whether was double blind or not, etc. but that line above is not referring to the previous trials.

  22. db

    I don’t understand people who will drive around a parking lot looking for the closest spot they can find when it would take them less time to walk from a farther spot.

    If you’re truly disabled and can’t walk easily, there are already a bunch of empty spaces reserved for you. So, it can’t be that.

    • Festus

      I drive a truck. I always park away from others to avoid fender-dingers. Those are expensive.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Representative Barbara Lee has tested positive for COVID-19, she tweeted Tuesday. The California congresswoman said she is fully vaccinated and received a booster dose and is experiencing “cold-like symptoms.”

    “I know it could have been much worse had I not been vaccinated,” the 75-year-old Democrat wrote. “I’m so grateful for the miraculous work of vaccines & urge everyone to get vaccinated & boosted!”

    Someone is living the meme.

    • Plisade

      “I know it could have been much worse had I not been vaccinated…”

      No, no you don’t.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “…Napoleon.”

      • Plisade

        I may be missing your reference, but it lead me to this new-to-me tidbit…

        “Napoleon encouraged the population to get immunized, although he never proclaimed it mandatory. In May 1811, the Emperor ordered Henri-Marie Husson, one of the chief physicians of France, to vaccinate his son shortly after his birth. The well-publicized event intended to show an example to the French people. Aside from Napoleon, vaccination enjoyed the strong support of other top officials, including Lucien Bonaparte, and Maurice de Talleyrand. In 1800, the government organized the Comité central de vaccine, consisting of medical and administrative personnel, to combat smallpox nationwide. It opened a vaccination hospital in Paris, and by 1803 corresponded with 676 doctors in nearly 500 towns. Provincial comités were established and physicians began immunization under the supervision of Department officiers de santé, who ordered hospices, charity institutions, and lycées to vaccinate all individuals. The clergy helped too, presenting vaccination as “a precious gift of God.” In 1804 Napoleon introduced vaccination for army recruits. In 1809, the government published the first vaccination decree, allocating a vaccination budget. In 1810 the central Comité began publishing a monthly Bulletin sur la vaccine. The diffusion of Jenner’s vaccination procedure in France had noticeable positive effects on infant and child mortality. In the last five years of the Empire, one out of two newborns was vaccinated in half the departments, and the number of smallpox cases declined to about one-quarter of the pre-revolutionary number.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Heh. J’en savais pas anything about that. Just “Like anyone can even know that, Napoleon.” Good find, though.

        “J’espère bien qu’il ne c’est pas le smallpox!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15JOd75uG8 (Paging Ted)

      • R C Dean

        Well, it could have been worse. Or not. Nobody can possibly know.

    • Michael Malaise

      ” “I’m so grateful for the miraculous work of TRUMP & urge everyone to get vaccinated & boosted!”

  24. Scruffy Nerfherder

    SJWednesday: How To Say You’re Living In A Reality That No Longer Exists

    As a result, Christians – whether they’re observant or not – benefit from privilege in a similar ways that people of other dominant groups do.

    They don’t have to constantly defend their identities, nor are they expected to fight for their rights to practice their religion. Similarly, they can enjoy social mobility and expect to live free from violence and discrimination directed at them as a result of their faith.

    And despite the fact that fewer and fewer people are calling themselves Christians, 71% of Americans still identify as members of this religion. That’s a pretty big percent of the population, so it isn’t really surprising that being Christian is often seen as the norm.

    I know a little bit about this. Though as a white, middle class, cisgender woman, partnered with a man, I have definitely benefited from various forms of privilege, as a Jewish person, I have been made an outsider by the Christian privilege front.

    • Tulip

      I only look like a privileged person! I’m a victim too!

    • Ghostpatzer

      I know a little bit about this. Though as a white, middle class, cisgender woman, partnered with a man, I have definitely benefited from various forms of privilege, as a Jewish person, I have been made an outsider by the Christian privilege front.

      That there is some authentic SJW gibberish. Christian privilege front? I blame Climate Change.

      • R C Dean

        They don’t have to constantly defend their identities, nor are they expected to fight for their rights to practice their religion.

        In what country would this be? Because it is certainly not the United States, where churches were actually closed last year and Christians are not allowed to run their businesses in accordance with their faith if a nonbeliever objects.

      • Michael Malaise

        WE ARE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE FRONT AND WE ARE HERE TO GENTLY ROCK YOU!

    • rhywun

      Christian Privilege Front was the name of my last band.

      • Pope Jimbo

        SPLITTERS!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “as a white, middle class, cisgender woman, partnered with a man, I have definitely benefited from various forms of privilege”
      Go fuck yourself.

    • db

      But what about the Privileged Front of Christians?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Heretics, damned splitters

      • rhywun

        Their ten-cent titanium tax doesn’t go too far enough.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. Missed this one.

      • juris imprudent

        But I’m with the Christian Front of Privilege.

  25. Rebel Scum

    Public school district in Michigan offers a ’21-day equity challenge’ that includes ‘white privilege checklists’ and culminates with a call to ‘join a BLM or affiliated protest’ – and a list of ‘microaggressions to avoid,’ including calling America ‘the land of opportunity’

    Parents should be rioting over this marxist, discriminatory, racist horseshit.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Defund the schools

      • R C Dean

        “We are willing to compromise by merely defunding government schools. If you accept this offer, we will forego sending all government school teachers to re-education camps, and making pyramids of the skulls of government school administrators.
        Pour encourager les autres.

  26. Rebel Scum

    “New steps must be taken to protect the health and wellbeing of our residents,” Lightfoot said.

    “This public health order requiring proof of vaccination to visit certain indoor public places is a necessary measure to ensure we can continue to enjoy our city’s many amenities as we enter the new year.”

    I would just refrain from going into the city at all. Good luck, Chicago businesses.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Following the example of the eminent Bill DeBlasio? This is why Chicago is called the Second City.

    • invisible finger

      Do I need to show proof of vaxx before I loot a store on Michigan Avenue? Asking for a friend.

  27. Rebel Scum

    these types of thefts with multiple people running into a store and grabbing items are not new — reports of similar crimes go back years. They happened during the Trump administration

    Because the feds control local law enforcement…

    Organized retail theft is not a problem that can be addressed solely by law enforcement solutions — which come after a crime has been committed.

    Indeed. Allow me to solve it in two seconds: “If you loot we gonna shoot.”

    Ventilate the looters and the looting stops immediately.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I don’t know what you guys are going on about. Right thinkers all agree that moar compassion is what is needed

      Our Boy Mayor and new police chief have scolded us for thinking that car jackers should be locked up.

      “Nobody here is suggesting that we’re just going to arrest our way out of this problem, but if we fail to couple compassion with accountability — and that goes from the courts to the prosecutors, to police, to politicians — we are resigning ourselves to failed outcomes,” he said.

      Huffman, who will take over as interim chief next month, said police needed to study the data behind their list of repeat arrestees “in each individual set of circumstances and identify what those meaningful interventions are going to be.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      I am also amused that DA guy tries to gaslight us with the claim that this shit has been going on since time immemorial. “Look Indians looting wagon trains was really the same as these flash mobs. Just the oppressed trying to get back what was stolen from them in the first place”

      Sure is strange that these crime waves have cropped up now. Since the causes of it – according to you – have been present forever. How unlucky can a guy be? Get elected as DA just as the symptoms finally erupt. It just isn’t fair.

    • R C Dean

      They happened during the Trump administration

      Did they happen before Marxist prosecutors took office?

    • Yusef had a Wife

      I guess Boston’s off my places to visit list.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Apparently you may still visit parks and supermarkets…

      • Ghostpatzer

        For now… During the first wave in spring 2020, the county parks here were shut down.

    • The Other Kevin

      Serious question: Why is all of this happening at the same time?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nobody on the Left wants to be seen as the one that didn’t do enough.

        Seriously, they see one city doing it and they figure they better get on the purity train before they get judged as insufficiently faithful. It’s a purity spiral.

      • Ghostpatzer

        they better get on the purity poverty train

      • Sean

        Big pharma collusion.

      • Swiss Servator

        Hurrying to get the boot in before the ‘vid is no longer a threat…the latest version is going to confer immunity to damn near everyone, and they want the control and the credit. See also the “I got it, but my vax saved me!” claims.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I waxed above that it is a political move to the fence-sitters that reluctantly took the jab, found out it does jack-shit and now want to know what they get in return for their obedience. Government is all too willing to create a new class of subjects.

    • PieInTheSky

      well I hope they close down the Celtics

  28. Festus

    Cuntes Cuntes Cuntes! Our Province is shut down again over a sniffle. I’m feeling badly, folks, don’t mean to harsh anyone’s vibe. It’s like reading a horror novel and being afraid to turn the next page because you know something really bad is waiting there. Who saw this coming even three years ago? They aim to break society and it’s the most evil thing that has happened to the developed world in 70 years. It’s a pity that we have to live through it but I feel worse for the little ones that will know nothing better. I’ll be dead soon enough, what about those babes that I saw in the clinic? Tears now, tears tomorrow and tears forever!

  29. Festus

    I gotta sign out. Apparently it falls to me to pick up parts that should have been delivered weeks ago. Hope you guys have a better one than I will!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      C ya, F. Come back for Festy-vus tomorrow!

  30. Rebel Scum

    Along these lines…

    Biden is going along and then, all of a sudden, he starts swaying and yelling at the clouds….then ends his answer by saying “I’m not supposed to be having this press conference right now.”

    That’s on top of coughing earlier. The President of the United States is…not well.

    …I saw some of his recent commencement address. It was literally “angry old man yelling at the clouds”. And, of course, he peddled all the same lies about anything conceivably “right-wing” or allegedly related to Trump. Though he was barely able to articulate them. So that’s something. But I didn’t understand why a commencement address should have anything to do with party politics. Just give a banal platitude filled speech and call it a day.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They are throwing around the term asymptomatic regarding Biden but then saying negative COVID test for him.

      They are shifting a narrative right now.

      I bet that everyone will be asymptomatic, regardless of any illness, until otherwise tested positive.

    • R C Dean

      I’m guessing the second beer was the first beer drunk socially.

      First beer, cautiously sipped: “Hey, this is awesome!”

      Second beer: “Yo, Ogg, come check this out!”

      • Ownbestenemy

        And rape soon after AMIRITE?

  31. The Other Kevin

    Last night we went to dinner with some friends and their kids. We happened to run into another one of our friends at the pizza place and he joined us. Halfway through the evening I realized there were eight people at the table, and I was the only one who had been vaccinated. It gave me a tiny bit of hope. Keep the faith, Glibs, you’re not alone.

    • PieInTheSky

      I just looked over my shoulder and I am alone. Is anyone in my house???

      • Rebel Scum

        Not unless you invited them in.

      • PieInTheSky

        you can believe that if it helps you sleep at night

      • Swiss Servator

        *peeks out from closet*

        Nope, nobody here!

  32. Rebel Scum

    Like the Jews, Austrians do not do irony.

    The Austrian government is hiring people to “hunt down vaccine refusers,” according to a report published by Blick. …

    The burden for enforcing the fines unjabbed Austrians will have to pay as part of their punishment will fall to their employers, necessitating a new army of ‘inspectors’ to ensure that process is running smoothly.

    The city of Linz, which is home to 200,000 inhabitants, has a relatively low vaccination rate of 63 per cent.

    In response, “Linz now wants to hire people who are supposed to hunt down vaccine refusers,” reports Swiss news outlet Blick.

    The role of the inspectors will be to check on “whether those who do not get vaccinated really pay for it.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      he burden for enforcing the fines unjabbed Austrians will have to pay as part of their punishment will fall to their employers, necessitating a new army of ‘inspectors’ to ensure that process is running smoothly.

      I think there’s a term for that kind of collusion between corporations and the state.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I wonder what the rent is for an attic hiding space?

      Or do you just take a cut of any royalties for published diaries written by teenage girls you let hide there?

      *If I was a teenage girl who needed to hide, I would be very worried if the person offering to shelter me had a lot of CNN swag laying around the house.

    • rhywun

      Stop giving the world ideas, Austria. ?

  33. Rebel Scum

    I don’t have a link but I am listening to something and Trudy just said outright that “We are attacking your fundamental rights…we are using a majority to override the fundamental rights of a minority.”

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ?! ? ?

      Where are the sheepdogs?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        And as I walk on
        Through troubled times
        My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
        So where are the strong
        And who are the trusted?
        And where is the harmony?
        Sweet harmony

        Nick or Declan version, your choice.

      • Yusef had a Wife

        Declan

      • Not Adahn

        Sheepdogs do not protect sheep. They protect their master’s property. When it’s time for the slaughter, the sheepdogs will happily bring them to it. v

  34. The Late P Brooks

    I just looked over my shoulder and I am alone. Is anyone in my house???

    Don’t go in the attic.

    You have been warned.

    • PieInTheSky

      i have been both in the attic and the basement today

      • Sean

        Is your apartment the whole floor?

      • PieInTheSky

        yes

      • R C Dean

        Glib CONFIRMED

      • Plisade

        At the same time?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    But I didn’t understand why a commencement address should have anything to do with party politics. Just give a banal platitude filled speech and call it a day

    Biden can’t very well say, “Go forth into the world. Find happiness. seek greatness.”

  36. Brochettaward

    Welcome to the First, we got fun and games
    We got everything you want, honey, we know the seconds
    We are the people that can find whatever you may need
    If you got the First, honey, we got your disease

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Broche is endemic by this point.

      • juris imprudent

        What difference, at this point, does it make?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        …does HE make?

  37. PieInTheSky

    I like how in corporate speak things going well are strengths and things going bad are opportunities

    • Pope Jimbo

      And complete wastes of money are investments

      • Fourscore

        My investments are a complete waste of money so on average I’m still broke

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Don’t give up the ship!

    Still, medical experts agree that the higher transmissibility of the virus poses a severe threat to health care systems even if symptoms are milder, because the sheer volume of infections will likely lead to more people needing hospital care.

    The World Health Organization has warned that omicron infections are doubling every 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, and the variant has now been detected in at least 89 countries.

    Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, told CNBC via email on Tuesday that even if omicron does prove to be “milder” than other strains, the potential caseload could double or triple the number of people needing hospitalization in the U.K., where the virus is currently rampant — with particular risk to the unvaccinated.

    ——-

    “If you have been vaccinated, if you have had an infection before, you have got some protection, particularly against severe disease, and that means that omicron in reality looks milder. It looks like a milder infection because of the immunity that we have built up, not because the virus is particularly different in terms of its natural innate severity,” he said.

    Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkeys.

    • Rebel Scum

      even if symptoms are milder, because the sheer volume of infections will likely lead to more people needing hospital care.

      Look at me! I’m Logic-ing!

    • Pope Jimbo

      A PSA running here in Minnesoda has a “doctor” telling everyone that getting kids the vax is totes the right thing to do “because the antibodies from the vax are better and last longer than those you get from being infected”.

    • R C Dean

      Still, medical experts agree that the higher transmissibility of the virus poses a severe threat to health care systems even if symptoms are milder, because the sheer volume of infections will likely lead to more people needing hospital care.

      Just ignore the data to date that high levels of TEH OMICRON are associated with flat to declining hospitalizations for the ‘Vid.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Come hell or high water, they will torture those statistics to say otherwise. The omicron is going to be their final leap at putting down the silly notion of rights and freedom.

      • Nephilium

        Local news has been awash in stories that the hospitals are running out of room and cancelling elective procedures again.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Gonna give the Dems a propaganda win on this one.

      • rhywun

        Guv Kathy already ordered it here. I hope she’s proud of herself.

      • R C Dean

        Our ‘Vid census is less than half, maybe as low as one-third, what it was during the worst of the pandemic last winter. Our ‘Vid census is probably a little higher than during a bad flu season, at this point.

        We are also out of beds; we have a very unusual number of people who need hospital care for something other than the ‘Vid.

  39. Scruffy Nerfherder

    From my Facederp feed…

    This is a graduate of Johns Hopkins being unironic.

    So, when can I get a second booster?

    Another Hopkins graduate being unironic…

    If you had an mRNA vaccine, you can get a booster 6 months after your 2nd dose. If you had J&J, you are eligible for a booster 2 months after you got your jab.
    Schedule now, one month ago there were walk-in appointments in my area. We have a kid home from college and it looks like there is a 3-4 week wait for appointments.

    I really want to ask the question “You want another one because it’s working so well?”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      More unironic comments from the same thread.

      Screw boosters, I want a continuous IV of vaccine

      I asked a similar question months ago. What’s to keep you from going back again and again (at least to different places)? I doubt they are checking some centralized registry to count how many doses you’ve gotten, plus I don’t think they’re worried about “over vaxxers,” but am I wrong?

      This is what we’re up against. People are out of their damned minds.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Sunk cost theory?

        Has “IV” ever looked up gullible in the dictionary?

      • Nephilium

        Just wait for someone to swap out their blood for vaccine. They’ll never die of the ‘vid!

      • Q Continuum

        “What’s to keep you from going back again and again (at least to different places)?”

        Ummmm…nothing? You go right ahead and do that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Too bad there isn’t some protocol to prevent this.

        If there was, a black market would pop up that would allow the scaredy cats to get the vax cards of the deniers. Then they could get their booster-booster-booster shots and the deniers would have a legit vax card to turn into HR. Win-Win!

      • Ownbestenemy

        The Human Race is lost.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A large portion of it at least.

      • Rebel Scum

        Interestingly that is the idea, according to the WEF.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Idiots gonna idiot…

      • Rebel Scum

        That’s…insane…

        But feel free to Darwin yourselves out of existence.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        A triple vaxxed friend just got covid. He has the same exact symptoms my unvaxxed ass had.

    • Count Potato

      “there is a 3-4 week wait for appointments”

      I don’t believe that.

      • Translucent Chum

        It’s bullshit. You can walk into a 7-11 (I kid) and get a shot for free*.

      • kbolino

        Early in the year the government was intentionally subsidizing overproduction of the doses. Many places were throwing out more than they administered each day. I’d be willing to believe the government has cut back the subsidy and the production levels are now below demand. It’s not like there are purely market forces at work. The entire vaccine rollout has been centrally planned from day one.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Altmann, the immunology professor at Imperial College London, warned against taking the current data at hand as reason to relinquish caution.

    A crucial vulnerability, he and other professionals stress, remains the unvaccinated. Hospitalizations will be skewed towards the portion of the population who are unvaccinated or have had only one vaccine dose.

    Looking at the U.K. specifically, he said: “At a time when NHS (National Health Service) are A) massively depleted by omicron and B) massively stretched and fatigued after two thankless years on the frontline, this would be untenable,” he said, adding that there were “no green shoots yet.”

    Two thankless years on the front line. Are we talking about actual patient care staff, or the evil self-aggrandizing fucks like you who pontificate and lie from their top floor offices?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      How about clinics and hospitals only for the unvaxxed? I like the odds (mine, anyway).

      Gah, this is like something out of Jezebel (paging Ted again; suffice to say that mid-19C yellow fever figures into the climax).

      • Pope Jimbo

        The unclean hospitals will also refuse to treat vaxxed people with heart problems. I mean, why waste resources on those bastards who were so selfish and didn’t think about the costs of themselves getting a shot that they knew could cause severe heart problems.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I like how you think. Come sit by me.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I don’t know. Last time you had me sit in your lap, you must have had something in your pocket that was hard and made it very uncomfortable.

        And then you didn’t even get me on Fredo’s show like you promised! Some big shot producer you are.

      • Ted S.

        Go ahead and wear that red dress.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      How’s the bairn, Q?

      • Q Continuum

        She’s got lots of presents under the tree, I’m looking forward to watching her go medieval on the wrapping paper and play with that all day instead of the toys :). She’s indefatigable and (with a spotter) managed to climb all the way from the basement to the top floor. Still working on 100% unassisted walking but babbling sounds more like real talking everyday.

      • Pope Jimbo

        but babbling sounds more like real talking everyday

        You have to stop letting her watch Biden’s pressers on CNN. She’ll never learn to communicate clearly if you don’t turn that shit off.

      • Q Continuum

        C’mon man!

      • Ownbestenemy

        If first words are not “Listen here Fat!” we will all be disappointed.

      • R C Dean

        babbling sounds more like real talking everyday

        Maybe cut back on the bourbon in her formula?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Those awkward years
        Have hurried by
        Why did they fly away?
        Why is it, Sir
        Children grow up to be people one day? ?

    • PieInTheSky

      i no longer see numbers on this but there is a short haired chick with white bikini looking smoking

      • Fatty Bolger

        i no longer see numbers

        All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.

  41. juris imprudent

    Friend shared this with me. Perhaps twitter has a near-equal to Iowahawk.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Most of the weed I get comes from Cali. It is either grown illegally in the emerald triangle or sold out of the back of a dispensary because going by the books is just too goddamn expensive. The ability to make selling pot for profit a futile enterprise truly is a miracle of modern government.

      FFS.

      • robodruid

        more likely shipped in from Oklahoma.
        Supposedly we are growing to much of the stuff, state does not seem to care.
        never thought i would see this.

  42. KSuellington

    In regards to the parking space thing last year I was in a parking lot for a hiking trail and some guy was pulled over next to the trail entrance where the bathroom was in the no parking zone with his car running. I circled around the lot past him and down the rows of cars. As I got to the furthest point away in that lot I thought about going to the overflow lot below it where there were some spaces. Just then I saw a couple get in their car in front of me and so I put on my turn signal. About a minute later as they were pulling back dude who was waiting at the entrance had pulled behind me and was honking. What the fuck is that guy on about, I thought. If someone is wanting for someone specific there is no way in hell I would ever swoop in. This guy was at least seventy yards away from the spot I just pulled into. As we got out of the car he yelled at me that I stole his spot. I told him he wasn’t anywhere near the spot, but evidently he thought he somehow had the first rights to any spot that opened up in the parking lot. Seeing as he had an island prison colony accent I helpfully told him that in America things didn’t work that way. He wasn’t pleased at my helpful tip.

  43. DEG

    Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel has warned against starting “a hunt for non-vaccinated people” as English football battles to continue its schedule over Christmas with COVID-19 cases rising in the United Kingdom.

    How long until he is unpersoned?

    Dr. Charles Lieber, 62, the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was found guilty of two counts of making false statements to federal authorities, two counts of making and subscribing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts with the Internal Revenue Service.

    I’m conflicted. A part of me says, “Meh, Harvard Professor, don’t care”, and the other part says, “These crimes shouldn’t exist in a free society.”

    Experts suggest a confluence of factors is likely driving the country’s case rate up amid the surge of the omicron variant, most notably the millions of Americans who remain unvaccinated.

    Go fuck yourselves.

    This functionality, referred to as “Passenger Play,” “may distract the driver and increase the risk of a crash,” the agency said.

    I wonder if this reasoning will be applied to touch screens in general. Heh. Of course not. This is politically motivated.

    “I know it could have been much worse had I not been vaccinated,” the 75-year-old Democrat wrote. “I’m so grateful for the miraculous work of vaccines & urge everyone to get vaccinated & boosted!”

    Stockholm Syndrome or stupid?

    Why not both?

    Chicago became the latest big city on Tuesday to announce a vaccine mandate for any public place that serves food and drinks, including bars, restaurants, sports stadiums, entertainment venues, and more.

    Fuck off slavers.

    Achieving long-lasting public safety means we must think about these crimes differently. If we truly care about preventing these crimes — as well as others — we must implement the systemic changes needed to make a real difference.

    Prediction: This won’t involve repealing gun control and changing laws in favor of self-defense.

    /reads article

    I’m right. Good thing that limb didn’t break when I went far out on it.

    Reyes’ report states that on Wednesday, November 24, she drove to the Annaville Corpus Christi grocery store to buy food for Thanksgiving dinner with two friends and her 6-month old daughter in tow. Upon arrival, Rossie Dennis, 60, allegedly pointed a gun at the car and threatened to shoot Reyes over a parking space.

    At the Oaks Gun Show last Saturday, the parking lot was insanely busy. People were parking in the grass. No one pulled a gun on anyone over a parking spot.

    • Q Continuum

      “‘I know it could have been much worse had I not been vaccinated,’ the 75-year-old Democrat wrote. ‘I’m so grateful for the miraculous work of vaccines & urge everyone to get vaccinated & boosted!’

      Stockholm Syndrome or stupid?”

      Those Pfizer kickbacks ain’t gonna just show up on their own y’know.

    • R C Dean

      any public place that serves food and drinks

      The Safeways around here serve coffee (and maybe pastries). They even have a sitting area near their coffee shop.

      Of course, every Whole Foods serves food. Its their biggest margin, and gets ample square footage.

      I can’t think of a convenience store that doesn’t sell breakfast and lunch.

      If they’re serious, this means the Unclean are banned from grocery stores and convenience stores.

      • rhywun

        But not Unclean who bring in the big bucks, like sports figures.

      • Sean

        Oh, they’re serious.

    • Tundra

      Just…wow.

      Thanks for that?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Liked it, but there is a bit of NSFW stuff at 3:12 mark.

      • Translucent Chum

        Confirmed. But 2:12.

  44. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I was just climbing out of the stress & sadness from the Afghanistan disaster when I see an email asking to delete one of our colleagues from our social media accounts because she got called into the Belarusian police for a “friendly conversation”.

    • rhywun

      I have coworkers in Belarus. I hope they don’t disappear.

    • EvilSheldon

      Fuck.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Screw boosters, I want a continuous IV of vaccine

    You had that, but you traded it away for the false sense of security offered up by the snake oil drummers.

    So sad, too bad.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    If first words are not “Listen here Fat!” we will all be disappointed.

    It should be, “What’s my cut?”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Two big titties and a microphone?

      • Q Continuum

        Got the big titties covered, but I’m not sure she needs a microphone. She got Dad’s voice.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      DEIDRE SAYS: If you are depressed and/or grieving, your husband coming home early from the party wouldn’t have done much to lighten your mood.

      Damn, Deidre is on his side.

      Which I guess makes sense, she’s so suicidal* she found time to write to a newspaper.

      *I’m pretending it’s real.

  47. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    I would think that Tesla could pretty easily disable that feature. But yes, it’s payback time.

    Elon was interviewed by the Babylon Bee dudes. I downloaded but haven’t listened yet. Anyone listen to it?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Question is…did our secret BB lurker interview him!? I need to go listen to it.

    • Sensei

      Tesla can disable that feature in about 72 hours as it roles updates across its fleet of cars.

      At one point owners could refuse updates, but I believe that Tesla can (surprise) force updates now.

    • DEG

      I’ve started watching it. I have it going in the background as I try to do stuff at work (and comment here), so I’m not paying full attention. What I have noted is interesting. He spent a lot of time talking about his finances and how they aren’t at all what people think.

    • KSuellington

      Bitch needs to get back on the blow.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s not batshit crazy at all.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Achieving long-lasting public safety means we must think about these crimes differently. If we truly care about preventing these crimes — as well as others — we must implement the systemic changes needed to make a real difference.

    Pluto teevee has been running OxFam ads practically nonstop. The “message” (over and above Gimme Yo Munnies) is “Capitalism has wrecked civilization, and must be destroyed!”

  49. Count Potato

    “Fauci says ‘inflammatory’ statements made about him by RFK Jr and Fox News star Jessie Watters are ‘accelerating’ death threats against him and his family”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10336175/Fauci-slams-RFK-Jr-Jesse-Watters-inflammatory-statements.html

    “Fauci says White House is considering shortening 10-day isolation period for fully-vaccinated people who test positive for COVID so people with mild or no symptoms can return to work”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10336253/Fauci-says-White-House-considering-shortening-10-day-isolation-period-fully-vaccinated-people.html

    I have not become SCIENCE, destroyer of worlds, but I’m pretty sure people with mild symptoms are contagious.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Perhaps your opining that JW should be fired had something to do with it.

      • juris imprudent

        Fauci confused himself with Trump?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Fauci is so heroic!

      He’s willing to sacrifice his entire family in order to keep his hands firmly on the reins of power and control. That is some real dedication.

    • R C Dean

      “Fauci says White House is considering shortening 10-day isolation period for fully-vaccinated people who test positive for COVID so people with mild or no symptoms can return to work”

      Note the disconnect between “fully-vaccinated” and “people with mild or no symptoms”.

    • DEG

      ‘accelerating’ death threats against him and his family

      Boo-hoo.

    • PutridMeat

      It’s shit like this – ‘fully vaccinated’ (for the time being) sick people have a shortened isolation period – that makes me lose faith in humanity. WHY?!?! Makes no god-damn sense. How can anybody with a rudimentary brain stem look at a statement like that and think “Well that makes sense! Sounds like pure Fauci, I mean sounds like pure Science!”.

      It’s similar to an entity I deal with fairly regularly, who have gone out of their frickin’ minds throughout this situation. When they started letting people back on premises (in very limited numbers), they would not allow personal face masks, you were issued a new one at the door that you were required to wear. About 3 months ago, the relaxed that and now you still had to wear a face mask, but could wear your own. With “rising cases”, they’ve re-instituted the previous policy – issue a mask, you cannot wear your own. SO WHY THE FUCK WERE YOU REQUIRING MASKING FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS?!?!?! You’ve just admitted that your policy of the last 3 months (allowed to wear your own face mask) was pointless. If now your personal face mask is not good enough/doesn’t work, it didn’t work for the last 3 months either. So why in the hell were you requiring something, that by your own action, you are stating was useless? Even if you believe the fallacy of mask effectiveness, this makes no sense whatsoever.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        You sound a lot like Adam Carolla, PM.

      • PutridMeat

        Not sure if good thing.

        I once had a 1988 Corolla. Damn nice car.

    • Q Continuum

      MUH DETH THRETZ!

      Hey Dr. Dipshit, you have been *desperate* to whore yourself out and stay in the spotlight. You wanted to be a celebrity and you get everything that comes along with it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You just know that the administration would love it if someone offed him. It would remove a problem and create a martyr that they could utilize.

      • Fourscore

        Dear Dr F, if you wanna run with the big dogs you gotta earn to piss in the tall weeds.

    • kbolino

      He can’t be demoted, fired, voted out, recalled, impeached, or otherwise removed in a normal manner, so what exactly does he expect?

      The bureaucracy has grown too brazen. The reason the bureaucrats are supposed to work without constant media attention is because they have no accountability to the people. The game becomes a little too obvious when one of them usurps even the appearance of political authority.

      Democracy is when none of the votes matter.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s PROGRESSIVE democracy!

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I think that’s what they mean by “Our Democracy”.

  50. Count Potato

    “The University of Utah says its Racist and Bias Incident Response Team is investigating separate reports, one of allegations of men dressed like the KKK trying to recruit in dorms and another of feces being smeared on the door of a black student’s room.

    The reports were brought forth in October but drew attention Sunday night after a student questioned on Instagram why they had not been addressed, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

    The Instagram post, which could no longer be verified online, stated: ‘University of Utah Students walked through residence halls in KKK uniforms & smeared poop on a Black student’s door.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10334973/University-Utah-investigates-claims-KKK-group-campus-trying-recruit-students.html

    Literally shit that didn’t happen.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Young adults in college acting stupid…news we can use.

    • R C Dean

      Oh, I wouldn’t be surprised if at least the shit-smearing happened.

      I’ll bet my own money it was done by a woke racist, not a white supremacist racist.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I really need to invest more money into the false flag industry.

      • Ted S.

        Or a fetishist.

    • Drake

      We’re da white women at?

    • kbolino

      Racist and Bias Incident Response Team

      The existence of one of these pretty much guarantees the occurrence of such “incidents”. Gotta justify those phoney-baloney jobs.

  51. KSuellington

    “Chicago became the latest big city on Tuesday to announce a vaccine mandate for any public place that serves food and drinks, including bars, restaurants, sports stadiums, entertainment venues, and more.“

    Do these vax mandates have an end? It seems to me they are either permanent or semi permanent. I have avoided going to bars and restaurants here in the city since they implemented the fucking thing in SF a few months back. At least the counties next door haven’t done so yet. I got the damn shots back in April but have zero intention of getting any booster bullshit and I think it’s only a matter of time before I am once again considered unclean. I generally have been an optimist in life but I see no end to the panic.

    • Sean

      I think it’s only a matter of time before I am once again considered unclean.

      Count on it.

      I generally have been an optimist in life but I see no end to the panic.

      There will be pockets of insanity for years, mostly in Dem held strongholds.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    He spent a lot of time talking about his finances and how they aren’t at all what people think.

    I’m sure Musk has plenty of walking-around money, but I suspect most of his wealth is tied up in the businesses and not really accessible in the way people like Elizabeth Warren would like the rabble to think.

    No swimming pool, no gold doubloons.

    • Q Continuum

      You mean to tell me Warren is a mendacious cunt/clueless idiot/pandering political prostitute? Say it ain’t so!

  53. Yusef had a Wife

    Just started the BB Elon interview, i think he’s a lurker

    • Count Potato

      I still say it’s Morgan. We’re glibertarians, not glibservatives.

  54. Sean
  55. The Late P Brooks

    The gods are not constrained by your puny human “logic”.

    Believe and OBEY. That is what is required of you.

  56. The Late P Brooks

    He can’t be demoted, fired, voted out, recalled, impeached, or otherwise removed in a normal manner, so what exactly does he expect?

    I don’t actually want this to happen, not least because of the iron-booted response it would provoke, but-

    I can’t help thinking about the grim satisfaction I would derive from the shrieking, anguished press corpse coverage of Foochy’s smouldering explosive-ripped limo in his driveway some morning.

    • kbolino

      Fauci would have to piss off the FBI somehow for that to happen.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      No, That would lead to the mask and vac forever bill being passed in his honor.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Here’s the tribute Rick Nielsen deserves.

    I had completely forgotten about that song.

    *two “okay” signs*

  58. Count Potato

    “To put it simply, if you have been living vaccine-free, your time is up. If you wish to live life as w/the ease to do the things you love, you must be vax’d.

    This health order may pose an inconvenience to the unvaccinated, and in fact it is inconvenient by design.”

    https://twitter.com/chicagosmayor/status/1473382110576594948

    CWAA

    • rhywun

      If by “inconvenient”, they mean “petty, vindictive, and unscientific”.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ll translate…

      “Please stop paying attention to my blatant failure as mayor in almost every respect and center your hatred on this outgroup.”

      • Not Adahn

        I didn’t recognize Arafat after he shaved his beard.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Meaning I can’t go into my gym. Meaning I’ll be less healthy because I’m not exercising. Meaning I’ll be more susceptible to a negative covid result if I get it again.
      Thanks Mayor. Now please Fuck off Slaver.