¡Martes por la tarde! ¡Enlaces mexicanos!

by | Feb 1, 2022 | Daily Links | 296 comments

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Ottawa or bust

Not my plug.

How about a few links?

The CDC says Mexico is unsafe for travel.  Which is funny because the state department has been saying the same thing for years for some reason. Perhaps the EPA will chime in next?

Mexico is officially in a recession, which means the US is probably achieved the distinction six months ago. They just redefined “recession”.

A delightful op-ed making the case the recently elected communists in Central America are no threat to US interests because they’re aligned with Team Brandon policies…unlike those other communists.

Secondly, many of the progressives riding this anti-incumbent tsunami are pragmatic centrists who disfavor the timeworn, anti-imperialist rhetoric that burns bridges between the United States and its neighbors. The region’s most influential leftist, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has taken only two foreign trips as president, both to the United States. In Argentina, allies of President Alberto Fernández refer warmly to the U.S. president as “Juan Domingo Biden,” after the founder of Peronism, Juan Domingo Perón

[…]

In many ways, the region’s social democrats are natural allies of Washington. Their platforms sound remarkably similar to U.S. President Joe Biden’s priorities: expanding access to social services, more equitable taxation, women’s rights, climate leadership, and multilateralism in foreign affairs. For the United States, opportunities abound for building issue-by-issue coalitions.

You heard it from Foreign Policy magazine, Brandon is a communist…or a fascist since Perón was a fascist depending on who you asked.

Sure, elect a communist, and then complain about other communists.

This is the most 2022 headline I’ve seen this year.

Meh. Why not Rammstein?

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296 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    VP Harris attends inauguration of Honduras’ first female president

    Por que?

    • Raven Nation

      “go to weddings and funerals” Harry Truman.

      May as well add foreign inaugurations.

    • Bobarian LMD

      To prove she’s been to the border?

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    In regards to Latin American leftists, why should we disdain what we seek to emulate?

  3. Rat on a train

    If you intend to click none of the links below, at least click this one. Then share it.
    Let’s Go Brandeau!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Shared.

  4. Shpip

    Xiomara Castro, the first woman to win the presidency, who the U.S. is banking on to help stem corruption

    NARRATOR: She won’t stem corruption

    and get to the root causes of migration

    NARRATOR: Honduras is poor, the U.S. isn’t. Greener pastures… same as it ever was.

    • The Other Kevin

      Maybe Harris will convince Honduras to build a wall to keep people in.

      • Count Potato

        Her name is Castro. She’s already thought of it.

    • Fatty Bolger

      They’re banking on a socialist to stop the root causes of migration? That’s hilarious.

  5. limey

    Q Continuum
    Q Continuum on February 1, 2022 at 2:49 pm
    No offense to self-proclaimed beer snobs but 120 Minute IPA is Satan’s cumshot.

    Is that supposed to be a good thing? It sounds like a bad thing.

    /prude

    climate leadership

    The combine two random words game.

    • Translucent Chum

      I mentioned that you need to buy 120 and then bury it in the yard for a year before you drink it.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Is that supposed to be a good thing? It sounds like a bad thing.

      Only if you are comfortable with doing it for two hours,

    • Q Continuum

      Bad thing. Very bad thing.

      • PutridMeat

        A boob man with suspect taste in beer. There’s probably no correlation, but still…

      • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

        If he was an ass-man he would probably have a shitty taste in beer.

    • TARDis

      Q already did it.

      Cum Shot.

  6. Tonio

    expanding access to social services, more equitable taxation, women’s rights, climate leadership

    IOW, higher taxes, higher taxes, higher taxes and diminuation of 1A, 2A, and 4A rights, higher taxes and diminished property rights and consumer choice.

    • Penguin

      You forgot to mention the higher taxes.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Right, the taxes.

      • Penguin

        The finger thing means the taxes!

    • Raven Nation

      Speaking of taxes. The NZ government is going to build a $1billion dollar light-rail system in Auckland. One of the ways they’re going to pay for it is to levy “contributions” from businesses that benefit “substantially” for the line. So, if you don’t want the line running near your business, tough shit and, oh, we may tax you for it as well.

      • Bobarian LMD

        May? Ha!

  7. DEG

    After more than six months in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s lower-risk Level 3 travel category, Mexico moved into “very high” risk Level 4 on Monday along with 11 other destinations.

    Fuck the CDC.

    A string of victories for progressives in Latin America has generated some anxiety in Washington, stoking fears of depleting U.S. power and rising Chinese influence. Since 2018, left-of-center candidates have won presidential elections in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru, and leftists lead in the polls in this year’s campaigns in Brazil and Colombia.

    It would be premature for Washington to sound the alarm, however.

    They’re birds of a feather. Washington won’t sound the alarm.

    Freedom Convoys in Australia

  8. db

    OK, so I threw some money at Tom Woods. Hope it’s well spent.

    It’s not starting out well for me–first live presentation is on Friday. I’m skiing Friday.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Tom Woods might be the only guy in the ancap/libertarian circles that I am confident will not spend your money on hookers and blow.

      • Lackadaisical

        So he’s just wasting it all?!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He likes to eat out a lot.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes. At Golden Corral.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Buffets are a true libertarian experience.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Buffets without sneeze-guards are a true libertarian experience.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Oops that was supposed to be bold, not strike-thru.

        You get the idea.

      • Mojeaux

        Oops that was supposed to be bold, not strike-thru.

        It works.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        In fact, the strikethrough tag should just be renamed the “Streisand Effect” tag.

      • Lackadaisical

        More like a tragedy of the commons.

      • Gadfly

        Not at all.

        When you spend my money on hookers and blow, that’s money wasted.

        When I spend my money on hookers and blow, that’s money well spent.

      • Spudalicious

        Milton Friedman nods from beyond the grave.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I was contemplating diving into the Woods thing, but with mexican’s insight, I will spend my money more wisely.

    • JG43

      I was going to ask you or Trashy, how much is “half-off tuition”?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bout $300

      • Ownbestenemy

        Also, that is the 6mo tuition rate I believe.

      • db

        For 6 months. Which isn’t really half off, if you do the math.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You are going to die on that hill aren’t you?

      • db

        nah, I’m just being pedantic

      • Penguin

        You are technically correct. The best kind of correct!

      • Bobarian LMD

        The only kind of correct!

      • Bobarian LMD

        $40, same as downtown

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s $40 now? Way to go Brandon!

      • juris imprudent

        Living wage! Living wage!

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Feckin’ inflation, I remember when it was only $20

    • Jerms

      I went for the $297 too.

  9. Shpip

    After more than six months in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s lower-risk Level 3 travel category, Mexico moved into “very high” risk Level 4 on Monday

    What if I’m just going there to drink margaritas and take a kickboxing class?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Trust me, you don’t want to do that in that order.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Just to demonstrate that human nature hasn’t changed, we had assumed that we improved ourselves, that we were collectively better than those who came before us. But we were wrong.

    And how clever such an ambition makes people! For let’s admire the skilful counterfeiting with which people here imitate the trademarks of virtue, even its resounding tinkle, the golden sound of virtue. They’ve now taken a lease on virtue entirely for themselves, these weak and hopeless invalids—there’s no doubt about that. “We alone are the good men, the just men”—that’s how they speak: “We alone are the homines bonae voluntatis [men of good will].” They wander around among us like personifications of reproach, like warnings to us, as if health, success, strength, pride, and a feeling of power were inherently depraved things, for which people must atone some day, atone bitterly. How they thirst to be hangmen! Among them there are plenty of people disguised as judges seeking revenge. They always have the word “Justice” in their mouths, like poisonous saliva, with their mouths always pursed, constantly ready to spit at anything which does not look discontented and goes on its way in good spirits. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    • Gustave Lytton

      Winston hijacked Scruffy’s account.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I made a barter agreement of sorts with his mom.

    • Gadfly

      Not surprising, but well put. Thanks for sharing.

  11. Rebel Scum

    And just like that, he cucked out.

    “Over the past several days, I have heard the pain and outrage of so many at Georgetown Law, and particularly from our Black female students, staff, alumni, and faculty,” Bill Treanor, the dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, said in a statement.

    “Ilya Shapiro’s tweets are antithetical to the work that we do here every day to build inclusion, belonging, and respect for diversity,” Treanor added.

    In a now-deleted tweet, Shapiro had suggested that Biden nominate Sri Srinivasan, the Indian-born chief judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court:

    Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. Even has identity politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American. But alas doesn’t fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get lesser black woman. Thank heaven for small favors?

    After receiving backlash for his tweets, Shapiro deleted them, writing, “I apologize. I meant no offense, but it was an inartful tweet. I have taken it down.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let them eat their own.

      • Raven Nation

        Shapiro is a CATO-affiliated scholar.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Like I said.

      • Raven Nation

        Heh.

      • grrizzly

        Last week Instapundit tried to clarify that this was Ilya Shapiro not Ilya Somin. One of them is a complete cuck (Somin), the other one is supposed to be better. Not sure I should make an effort distinguishing them.

    • KSuellington

      I think the message from the Biden admin is that no Asians need apply. If Team Elephant was wise they’d make campaign ads targeted to Asians and Hispanics about how they were specifically excluded from consideration due to being the wrong race or ethnicity.

    • rhywun

      L
      O
      L

      To be fair, you can’t win here no matter what you say so best to keep one’s trap shut.

  12. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    People on Twitter were trying to say that there were only a couple hundred truckers in the convoy. in that video looks like there are a lot more.

  13. DEG

    Rebel News is crowdfunding for lawyers for the truckers blocking the border crossing at Coutts, Alberta.

    I just got a phone call from the truckers at the Alberta-Montana border crossing.

    SWAT teams have sealed off the men and set up police checkpoints around the town. It’s a stand-off.

    The truckers put me on a speaker phone — I spoke with their council and they told me they need our help.

    They know we crowdfund lawyers to help people just like them. People who are being punished by the lockdowns and by vaccine mandates. People who can’t afford to hire lawyers on their own.

    They asked me if we could help them right now. And I said, “of course”. I promised them we’d crowdfund a lawyer to fight any tickets or charges they face, no matter how large they may get.

  14. Penguin

    She (Kamala Harris) congratulated Castro over her “democratic election.”

    “How’d you do that? It was too much for me.”

    • Penguin

      Sorry – “too much foe me us.”

  15. Rebel Scum

    Someone say something about convid vaxes for babies?

    A new report states that the Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration is pushing Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech to request emergency-use authorization for a vaccine for children as young as six months.

    “Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech, the manufacturers of the vaccine, are expected to submit to the Food and Drug Administration as early as Tuesday a request for emergency-use authorization for the vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old, which would make it the first vaccine available for that age group. Older children already can receive the shot,” The Washington Post reported, adding, “The FDA urged the companies to submit the application so that regulators could begin reviewing the two-shot data, according to the knowledgeable individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.”

    Pfizer spokeswoman Jerica Pitts stated, “At this time, we have not filed a submission and we’re continuing to collect and analyze data from both two and three doses in our younger age cohort.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      In other words, the FDA is getting political pressure from the administration.

      So much pressure that it’s moving too fast for Pfizer to cook the data.

      They hate you and want you dead.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Who are the desperate people that offer up their children for a disease that potentially won’t affect them for another 60 years?

      • Sean

        Cultists.

      • Lackadaisical

        And for which the vaccine will have zero efficacy by then.

      • Sean

        It’s got zero efficacy now.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My teen son, who I think is getting pressure from his girlfriend was asking for me to take him and get his vaccine. We have always made it their choice with their ability to explain what research they have sought and found and have they developed their own opinion on it. One piece of fact I presented him was the 453 COVID positive confirmed cases just in the Western states in the FAA facilities that are all ‘fully vaccinated’. I then show him the 4 unvaccinated probable cases we have. The government doesn’t even care if you don’t test or anything if you are unvaccinated, they are going to assume you are positive.

        He sorta kinda got it after that.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s a tough one. Teenage me might not have been able to resist the temptress.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This is true….no sex unless vaccinated is an easier line to cross than no pay unless vaccinated.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I might it put it to him this way.

        “Ask her if she’s going to stick by you if you get myocarditis and can’t get it up anymore.”

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Son, how much is she putting out?

      • Bobarian LMD

        That’s the only math that matters in this equation.

      • Q Continuum

        Teenagers will do *anything* to get laid.

        Anything.

      • The Other Kevin

        See, it’s an emergency because Pfizer needs to get their hooks into that pipeline of cash before their competitors do.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pfizer wants on the childhood vaccine schedule and the permanent liability protection it comes with.

      • The Other Kevin

        Makes sense. Right now based on the data they should be re-evaluating the vaccines to determine if they should even keep making them. But instead we get a full-court press because if they don’t lock this in now, 6 months to a year from now things are going to look very different.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The public health emergency can’t last forever. When that ends, so does their current protection.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In fact, this may be a signal that the Biden admin wants to end it, but won’t or can’t until they’ve made sure all their cronies are properly covered so they don’t blow the whistle on the corruption.

      • ron73440

        based on the data they should be re-evaluating the vaccines

        I remember reading when this stupidity was still over the horizon, that we have never made a successful vaccine for a respiratory corona virus.

        Seems like if they were concerned with data, they would have admitted this from day 1.

      • Gadfly

        Panicked people. It’s the same impulse that led people to offer up their (much older) children to be enslaved to fight the governments’ wars back when we had a draft.

    • Necron 99

      Myocarditis in babies, totes normal.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s just transitory inflammation.

      • Penguin

        +1

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Kids have always had strokes.

    • Lackadaisical

      Why is he letting the current NY governor off the hook? She belongs in F or worse too.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just sowing the seeds of insurrection. Bury them!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Do it and you’ll reap the whirlwind.

      • Shpip

        You’d have to think that there are some government plants among the group.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        “We all know that there’s a lot of unacceptable bullshit on the farm.” – Justin Trudeau

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Right? Some of them just collect checks from the government in this country to NOT grow corn.

    • Sean

      Beautiful.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1488631849798807553

      #Breaking: Just in – I just got confirmation that French farmers will mobilize and be joining the truckers and head towards #Brussels by the end of the week. I also got a email from a traffic expert in #Belgium, that there could be a total gridlock of the capital of #Europe.

      Fucking frogs and canuckistanis are outdoing us.

      • EvilSheldon

        The frogs and cannucks have been beaten a lot harder than we have.

      • Spudalicious

        French farmers don’t fuck around.

      • Gadfly

        Fucking frogs and canuckistanis are outdoing us.

        I will point out that the “us”, if you are American, includes a whole bunch of people living in states that don’t give them any reason to protest. And I have heard rumors that the truckers who have to do business in the lock-down states are considering following suit.

    • The Other Kevin

      More fringe elements.

    • Gadfly

      I have also seen reports that the tow truck drivers who would be contracted to remove the convoy trucks from Ottawa are reporting that they have COVID and so cannot, by the government’s own rules, go to work.

      • Count Potato

        LOLOLOLOL

  16. Raven Nation

    Holy crap! I’m sitting in an admin meeting at my school and one of the senior academic offices just said that they blamed the federal government for increasing the cost of tuition because of the student loan program. Never thought I would hear that. Of course, my guess is their solution would be “free” college.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s like Bernie, able to identify the problem but offers solutions that make it worse.

      • Rebel Scum

        Dat’s a GOOD thing!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The 49-year-old

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If he dropped, that would put a Republican governor in charge of the selection.

      PLEASE DEMS, KEEP VACCINATING

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Wait no, New Mexico, not Arizona.

        All you desert people look alike to me.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s Tusken not desert people.

      • Lackadaisical

        Might want to double check that.

      • Ted S.

        Who would that be?

    • Lackadaisical

      Weird, I just learned the governor has the same last name.

    • Fourscore

      He and Biden will have something in common to talk about

  17. Rebel Scum

    No need to sugarcoat it.

    The Hershey Company has begun firing office workers who did not get vaccinated against COVID-19. On the way out the door, Hershey is asking employees to sign a nine-page confidentiality and release agreement that would remove their rights to sue the company or talk about their experience.

    Although their signature comes with a “special separation payment,” many have not signed the agreement and won’t get the money. Employees say the payment was determined by an algorithm and for some, amounted to just over two months’ pay.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      On the way out the door, Hershey is asking employees to sign a nine-page confidentiality and release agreement that would remove their rights to sue the company or talk about their experience.

      Fuck off

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im sorry, you are firing me, you can fuck right off and I will talk to anyone and everyone. Unless you are paying me my future potential earnings in severance.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That seems like the lawyers are pissed the company is moving forward with it and they are doing their best to CYA the assets when people start to sue them to the ground.

    • db

      Nine pages? hahahahah, if they need 9 pages, they probably can’t enforce it. Two months’ salary isn’t nothing, but if you’re making a principled stand to lose your job over a mandate, I’d hope you have at least that much saved up in your contingency fund.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Meanwhile, several people were told that the pope is vaccinated, and that he says the greatest gift you can give your community is to be vaccinated as well.

      All religious people like that pope guy, right?

      • Ted S.

        And a disproportionate number of his employees are kiddie-diddlers, too.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Hershey’s, the official candy company of child predators.

    • Gustave Lytton

      T-mobile is planning to fire unvaxxed employees as well.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The business group is ahead of the rest of it.

        Methinks they have some federal contract they’re trying to protect or win.

      • rhywun

        This is the new “We Drug-Test All Associates Here” virtue signaling.

      • grrizzly

        Some local businesses have “We’re vaccinated” signs since last summer.

      • db

        hmmm, might be time to find a new carrier. Are AT&T and Verison doing the same?

      • Lackadaisical

        Att is.

      • Ownbestenemy

        But only their corporate, non public facing employees

    • Certified Public Asshat

      While office workers must be vaccinated or face dismissal, employees working in food production and Chocolate World, the company’s retail outlet stores, are encouraged but not required to get the vaccination.

      Come on Hershey, do you believe in compulsory covid vaccinations or not?

      • Rat on a train

        There is no compulsion. You can voluntarily vaccinate or you can quit.

      • rhywun

        And form your own chocolate factory.

      • Penguin
      • Nephilium

        So the office workers with no contact with the public, must vax.

        The public workers, or those handling product to go out in the world, no vax.

        Makes complete sense…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Gee, given that they know who they’d lose, you don’t think this could be selective self termination by any chance?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Oompah-Loompahs are naturally immune.

        Or just expendable.

      • slumbrew

        I wonder if the latter groups are unionized.

      • Gadfly

        The latter groups are probably more resistant, more essential, and harder to replace given the worker shortage.

  18. rhywun

    Their platforms sound remarkably similar to U.S. President Joe Biden’s priorities

    So… bullshit platitudes and grifting?

    • Ted S.

      Dementia-addled nonsense.

  19. KSuellington

    Took the fam to Mexico again last year and may do so again this year as I love the East Cape so very much. The one big negative was that Presidementia put in that testing requirement to be allowed back in the land of the free. Even in the small town we stayed near it was super simple, but it still is an added stress that if one of us fails it or pops a false positive all of a sudden the trip would take a bad turn at the end. We are just about to cancel a trip to Hawaii due to their fucked up Vid hysteria. We may be spending our vacation dollar in free Florida.

    • Shpip

      BTW, if you decide on the Florida option, give Crystal River a good hard look. Snorkeling with manatees is something everyone should do once in their lifetimes, and the inshore fishing in the area is outstanding. Nearby Weeki Wachee (a venerable Florida tourist attraction that’s now a state park) is worth an afternoon, too. Waterfront houses in the area can be had for around $200 / night.

      • ron73440

        Snorkeling with manatees

        *Lights Tres Cool Signal*

      • Mojeaux

        *chuckle*

      • KSuellington

        Thanks Shpip! Appreciate the helpful tips about it. We will makenitnthere sooner or later as it checks a lot of boxes for us (including fishing for me!) I may be emailing you if we decide to do it in April. At this point I can’t go to Hawaii with the crap they just pulled.

      • creech

        If you are looking for the manatees, find out when they are usually there. I stopped at Crystal River in March one year and the ranger said all the manatees had already left for the season.

      • grrizzly

        Yep. Manatees don’t stay in that place all year.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Just curious, what’s the issue with Hawaii? Is it that you are not “up to date”, or is it the cost of the tests? When we got our tests to go to Tahiti, they were free of charge. To us anyway. Well, free to us directly, anyway.

      • ron73440

        what’s the issue with Hawaii?

        My boss went to Hawaii on business and took his wife.

        She was unjabbed, but took a test at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Hawaii said that didn’t meet their criteria for a negative test, because the Naval Hospital wasn’t on the approved list. Therefore she was not allowed to leave the room.

        The hotel wouldn’t give them a room key and every time he left, they checked the camera to make sure she wasn’t in the car.

        Fuck those Nazi assholes.

      • Count Potato

        OFFS!!!

      • KSuellington

        Both the wife and I are now considered unclean in Hawaii as they just changed the rule to require a booster. So we can’t eat inside a restaurant. Also they want all five of us to get tested before we leave and it has to be through their “trusted partner” which costs 118 each. They also want some kind of tracking app installed on your smartphone. I can’t even.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Is it the AlohaSafe Alert App? Is it required? It looks to me like it’s voluntary.

        For our testing we used City Health, which was free to us. I think the insurance companies still have to pick up the tab. It looks like they have a site in SF.

        My wife wants to go to Hawaii this year, but since we were just on a tropical island I’m not in a hurry to go to another one. There are other places I’d rather go. We are also unclean, or “not up to date” in Newspeak.

      • KSuellington

        Id have to see if our insurance would reimburse us for the test cost. It wasn’t even about the money so much as the general feeling that we would be traveling to a place that doesn’t want travelers and going from a COVID hysterical place to a more hysterical place. We bought the tickets embaça in October when they were very cheap, luckily they are refundable.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        You might want to consider Tahiti. Our flights were pretty cheap. Testing requirements are about the same as Hawaii. We needed a negative test 3 days prior to leaving. They test again on arrival at their expense. We needed another test on the way back to satisfy the US, but the test was only $15. One family with us had kids who weren’t vaccinated. The kids had to take an extra test a few days after arrival, but it was cheap. No app to download. People did wear masks indoors, but I went along, because when in Rome. Nobody had that look of fear when walking by someone who was unmasked. I’m sure you know the look.

      • KSuellington

        I see that look almost everyday Jaime. I will absolutely get over to there, probably just wait till after the Vid hysteria subsides.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Looks like the truckers at the border crossing are about to get the Mounties boot.

    • Drake

      As discussed in last thread, they can’t back down unless they want to end up like our Jan 6 “insurrectionists”.

    • DEG

      Second blockade set up

      CTV News’ Bill Fortier reported that, as some vehicles from the initial blockade left the area, passenger vehicles and what appeared to be farm vehicles started to arrive and create a secondary blockade. Reporters and cameras observing the situation were moved further back from the area.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Excellent.

      • The Hyperbole

        Circling the capital and honking/refusing to deliver goods is one thing (that I fully support), shutting down roads is another, it wasn’t cool when BLM did it, it ain’t cool now.

      • Sean

        Looks like it was the cops blocking the road. Just sayin.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “You are correct, sir!”  /end Ed McMahon mode

      • The Hyperbole

        Is this two different things? I thought the truckers were blocking the border, and as Degs post seems to imply the cops were breaking that up and now the farmers are helping the trucker keep the border blocked. I admit its confusing, why would one set up a barricade to stop a blockade? but I’m 8 Strohs and 1 Laphroaig in so I may not be thinking clearly.

      • Spudalicious

        Sigh. The Canucks have become more American than Americans.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL

    • Sean

      Lulz

  21. Mojeaux

    Okay, well, I just took the plunge on training for a career change. That down payment, tho… *grimaces*

    • Nephilium

      Best of luck to you Mojeaux.

    • Count Potato

      Lion tamer?

      • Mojeaux

        See reply to Brooksie down below.

    • DEG

      Good luck!

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Truck driver?

    • Sean

      Exciting! Good luck.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    On the way out the door, Hershey is asking employees to sign a nine-page confidentiality and release agreement that would remove their rights to sue the company or talk about their experience.

    Some of those people should have a meet-up with Tucker Carlson in the parking lot.

    • slumbrew

      I don’t think some twitter randos constitute the entirety of Patriots fandom.

      Nobody I know is upset about that. He already said his goodbyes.

      • Drake

        This, He had a great run. I assume he’ll have a Pats jersey in the HOF.

      • Count Potato

        I still remember the river of tears after they went 18 – 1

      • Drake

        The Browns made the playoffs? Ever?

      • Nephilium

        Just last year (for the first time in a long time). The beating of the Stillers was glorious. You can still find framed pictures of Big Ben crying on the sidelines after the loss.

        We then lost in a close game to the Chiefs.

      • The Hyperbole

        Because they cheated!

      • Brochettaward

        Browns fans…insanely bitter that they passed on Ben still some 18 years later.

      • The Hyperbole

        Tell me you don’t know who Bernie Kosar is without telling me you don’t know who Bernie Kosar is.

    • Urthona

      Isn’t he the loser who gave the Giants two super bowl victories?

  23. Count Potato

    “The Times appears to be looking into whether embassy personnel did any special favors on behalf of business officials, including the president’s son and Bobulinski. Joe Biden was serving as vice president for two of the years the emails cover, 2015-2016.

    Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets initially scoffed at a New York Post report about a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden that indicated he had introduced Ukrainian energy company executives to his father while he was vice president.

    They were silent when DailyMail.com obtained information from the laptop revealing that Hunter Biden used the ‘N-word’ repeatedly in text messages and may have accidentally overpaid a prostitute $25,000 from an account linked to his dad.

    Twitter blocked users from sharing the New York Post report at the time it was first reported, as the social media platform had written it off as misinformation

    Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian real estate tycoon later convicted of bribery in 2016.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10465363/New-York-Times-SUES-State-Department-Hunter-Biden-records-emails.html

    No wonder they hired him. He’s so good with money.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      “may have accidentally overpaid a prostitute $25,000”

      How do they know she was overpaid? Maybe she really was that good.

      • Count Potato

        It’s Hunter Biden. Maybe it was hazard pay.

      • Ghostpatzer

        How do they no she was overpaid?

        They found a wire transfer for $25,020.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I guess he doesn’t want to work again.

    • Gustave Lytton

      So a bit low percentage wise for an antebellum plantation?

    • Rebel Scum

      managed like a plantation

      Playing football at the highest level and getting paid millions for it is just like slavery.

      racist hiring policies

      Blacks are way overrepresented…

      • Ted S.

        There are people trying to defend the Packers’ disastrous ST coach who got fired today and inject race I to the conversation.

        Mo Drayton wasn’t just a mess in the playoff game; it’s been historically bad all season.

    • Urthona

      Some of his accusations are pretty hilarious and juicy.

      One is straight out of the tv show Ballers.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Okay, well, I just took the plunge on training for a career change. That down payment, tho… *grimaces*

    Welding school?

    • Mojeaux

      No, but now that you’ve said that I’m second-guessing myself.

      Medical coding. Transcription is on life support, nobody has any money to self-publish (at least, not at my rates), and my books don’t sell. So it’s time. Also, I am bored.

      • Nephilium

        Here I was hoping for money laundering. Ozark has taught me that it’s real common down there. 🙂

      • Mojeaux

        Always believe everything you see on the teevee.

      • Nephilium

        /starts working faster on computer stuff by having two people work on the same keyboard.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Maybe you could combine careers? Should be some best-seller material in the transcriptions. Properly fictionalized, of course.

        I suspect you will succeed at whatever you do. Competing with today’s workforce isn’t that difficult.

      • Mojeaux

        Competing with today’s workforce isn’t that difficult.

        That is what I am counting on! Also, I think the current workforce is aging out. Me, I’ll never be able to retire, but I’m not sure I’d want to, either. It’s like leaving money on the floor.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Also, I think the current workforce is aging out.

        Hey! Age is just a social construct. I identify as a 20-year-old (trapped in a 68-year-old body).

      • TARDis

        Thanks for reminding me, Mo. Mrs. T had bought a bunch of study guides ($$$) to take some medical coding test. She was worried about her gravy train derailing. I just asked her if it was still on. She sheepishly said yes. ?

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Medical coding.

        So you are going to…dons sunglasses…learn to code?!

      • Mojeaux

        It took way too long for the Gliberati to make that joke.

  25. Count Potato

    “Moment ‘highly erratic’ ex-UCLA philosophy lecturer, 31, is arrested by SWAT teams in Colorado for threatening to commit mass shooting: Cops found ‘alarmingly violent’ 800 page manifesto and suspect tried to buy a gun in November but was denied

    Harris uploaded 300 videos to YouTube before his account was taken down. It’s unclear if he deleted it or if YouTube did”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10463245/Former-UCLA-lecturer-threatens-philosophy-department-mass-shooting-email.html

    It’s clear Big Tech will want to bury this as fast as they can.

    • Penguin

      Interesting that they don’t get into a discussion of the politics of his manifesto.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In which case you can be assured he’s a communist.

        If it were anything but they’d be pointing and shrieking.

      • Count Potato

        Well, a right-wing black guy wouldn’t fit the narrative either.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In all honesty, it sounds like undiagnosed schizophrenia to me.

        He’s the right age for it.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Huh. We’re getting some interesting candidates here. If a truck driver can unseat Sweeney, anything’s possible.

    • rhywun

      Love all the infighting over race and sex. It doesn’t get any more American than that.

  26. Shpip

    Since today is Vietnamese New Year, I’ve been trying all day to get the Bosslady to show me her uncovered busoms.

    You know… tit for Tết.

    • Sean

      Boooo ?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      You could just go to a Vietnamese coffee shop. They often have interesting floor shows. And they all have narrow gazes.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “tit for Tết.”

      That is truly offensive.

      • Sean

        *sends up a flare for Swiss*

      • Gadfly

        *golf clap*

    • EvilSheldon

      Drone, cops with rifles, spike strips, and they still fuck up by the numbers. The lesson here is that millions for gear while cutting back on training is a false economy.

      ETA: I don’t really give a fuck if the cops learn this lesson, but I hope that everyone else does…

  27. Aloysious

    Thanks for that trucker link, MS. A bright spot in an otherwise retarded landscape

    Also, Trudy is a fuckhead.

  28. Dr. Fronkensteen

    At what point does the Canadian Parliament file a Motion of no Confidence?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Meaningless, since the NDP (the Dippers) are essentially in bed with the Liberals, not to mention the Parti Quebecois. As long as those two get to wet their beaks, they’ll vote with the Liberals all. day. long.

    • grrizzly

      There’s infighting in the opposition party.

      Erin O’Toole’s leadership will be put to a vote of Conservative MPs Wednesday after months of infighting severely weakened his hold over the party.

      Multiple Conservative sources confirmed Monday evening that 35 MPs – roughly 30 per cent of the Conservatives’ 119-strong caucus – signed a petition requesting a caucus vote on O’Toole’s continued leadership.

  29. Brochettaward

    Just a small town Firster….living in a seconder world

    • Shpip

      In 1950, the population of Detroit was 1.85 million. Now, it’s about 670,000.

      This is what happens when you let people take the midnight train going anywhere.

      • whiz

        So they stopped believing?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    No one left behind

    Every new surge of the coronavirus sends the family into chaos, escalating the parents’ fears that their boys might get infected. They are forced to limit all but essential social contact. Doctors have warned that the incredibly rare neurological disease (there are fewer than 30 known cases worldwide) puts the boys at higher risk — and their parents now dread a future riddled with variants.

    ——-

    Even after the omicron surge ends, COVID-19 will still be with us, and learning to live with it will be a challenge for everyone.

    But that challenge will be especially difficult for the roughly 7 million immunocompromised Americans who remain especially vulnerable and will have to keep their guard up much higher than the rest of us.

    Among them is Sassy Outwater-Wright. Her 39-year-old body is also very fragile. Right when COVID-19 hit in the spring of 2020, the Berkeley, Calif., resident started feeling an agonizing pain in her head and face. Doctors discovered a very aggressive soft-tissue cancer creeping toward her brain. Radiation and chemotherapy treatment wiped out her white blood cells and therefore her immune system.

    Leaving the house, let alone taking an Uber to and from the hospital for screenings and checkups, was and still is terrifying for her. Public transportation is still out of the question.

    Outwater-Wright has fought cancer her entire life. When she was a baby, a rare cancer attacked her eyes, leaving her blind.

    Not everybody makes it. But don’t let that stop you from trying to enslave the entire population in an attempt to prolong your feeble misery.

    • Penguin

      Nice shirt. I hope it isn’t made in China.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    “My superhero name is Tumor Killer Girl,” she says. “I just went through my 100th surgery in November.”

    Terrified of germs, but covered with tattoos.

    Fuck you. I hope you fall down an open manhole.

  32. B.P.

    This is an Associated Press headline that’s been on a local news website all day:

    “Long COVID: Why does it happen? Who does it normally effect?”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Is that like Long Pork? I heard that it was tasty in BBQ sauce.

    • Q Continuum

      NARRATOR: Long Covid is not real.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Wong has been pushing for additional funds to pay for more delivery services to administer boosters and get masks and test kits to people who can’t leave their homes. She is also advocating for stricter vaccine mandates, extended paid sick leave and free personal protective equipment for home health care workers and employees of long-term care facilities.

    Wong says it’s hard to see small glimmers of access — like online events, priority shopping hours, curbside pickup and even flexible work schedules — slowly receding. It’s exhausting, she says, defending one’s very existence at a time when being immunocompromised has never been more terrifying.

    Hurry up and die, you fucking parasite.

    • Gustave Lytton

      free personal protective equipment for home health care workers and employees of long-term care facilities

      Uh, unless it’s an accepted trade practice and baked into the wages, why wouldn’t your employer provide necessary specialized equipment or tools like ppe?

  34. Gadfly

    If you intend to click none of the links below, at least click this one. Then share it.

    I find it ironic that one of Trudeau’s insults were that they are a minority, when he literally leads a minority government that got the second most popular votes in the last election. His party has the support of only a third of the voters, yet he’s claiming to speak for all Canada.

    • Raven Nation

      I loved *sarc* the “unacceptable views” line. Justin, you’re not supposed to say things like that out loud.

      • Gadfly

        Yeah, he’s definitely showing a lot of hubris for a man who has fled his own capital.

    • Drake

      A leader who flees the capital during a crises has abdicated.

      • Gadfly

        A parliament of truckers would probably be an improvement over their current parliament.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        That’s only for third world countries whose leaders have billions stashed outside the country.

  35. Brochettaward

    You have all failed me. Perhaps for the last time?

    • Urthona

      Not sure what to make of that.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        At a minimum it seems to confirm that those under 25 are at no risk.

      • Urthona

        They ought to project what it would’ve looked like in 2022 following the original trend. Because clearly the number of deaths is going up each year and should.

    • Gadfly

      Those 2021 numbers are in line with the 2020 numbers from the CDC that I did an article about. Anomalous increase in deaths in the younger age ranges that was not attributed to COVID. I suspect that the pandemic restrictions led to self-destructive behavior in a lot of people. The article you linked raises the issue of potential vaccine side effects, supported by the increase in deaths due to circulatory disease, which could indeed be a contributing factor, but the fact that the increase in deaths started in March 2020 (well before the vaccines were available but right when the lock-downs started) indicates to me that the main culprit is the change in social behavior.

      • Urthona

        Yeah that’s what I was thinking. If anything it was worse in 2020.

        Possibly more attributable to lockdowns and social insanity.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    American apologist

    The outburst was seen as so out of character for Canada that one U.S. scientist felt compelled to apologize for what he portrayed as America’s influence.

    “Canada gave us kindness, tolerance, poutine and hockey, and in turn we exported this awful fake health freedom movement linked to far right extremism that caused so much senseless loss of life in America and now might do the same there,” tweeted Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious-disease specialist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. “Our apologies.”

    Cancel AmeriKKKa!

    • Sean

      L O fucking L

    • Ownbestenemy

      Fake health freedom. Rip that mask off of your deep desire to cradle to grave tyranny. Fuck off.

    • Brochettaward

      If far right extremist views in things like freedom cost lives, it should be real easy to show that with some actual data. You should of course be able to prove that the restrictive policies of blue states had a positive impact and that if more widely implemented, would have saved all these lives. It should be easy and indisputable.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Fuckin’ Associated Press. What a useless pile of steaming, putrescent goat tripe.

      • Brochettaward

        Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastika

      • Brochettaward

        The numbers they’ve put together don’t look all that fringe to me. And I find it odd that I’ve yet to actually see a picture of all these swastikas making their way about.

      • Ownbestenemy

        One person with the flag. Others showed thr memorial and there was no damage at all.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        There was precisely *one* swastika flag, carried by a guy who was masked. But of course, all the tens of thousands of truckers in Ottawa were *totally* represented by and responsible for the swastika flag.

        And then there’s all the other alleged activities (like desecrating the Terry Fox memorial) that have absolutely zero proof that they even happened.

        Y’know, ’cause that’s what *truckers* do.

      • Brochettaward

        Well, I mean, it’s obvious to everyone that fascists are anti-mandates.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s Aboot, get with the program!

      • Brochettaward

        Shut the fuck up, Yusef.

      • R.J.

        There is only so many subversive plants to go around. As a reporter, You have to wait until the subversive agents call you for that photo op. Otherwise it’s like finding a needle in a haystack.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Hotez has been full bore on the mandates.

      If he thinks he’s seen the worst we have to offer, I suggest he try to give my kids the clot shot. I’ll show him the worst.

    • EvilSheldon

      Peter Hotez is a scumbag even by the minimal standards of the public health industry.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

    • KSuellington

      Fake health freedom. Yeah, I definitely do not see packs of 3-4 year olds being led out of their daycare centers on walks everyday with fucking masks on their faces because of people like that health fuck.

    • straffinrun

      How to Noble Savage a Canuck.

  37. Brochettaward

    I think I’m going to have to ditch Brave. There’s some sort of obnoxious glitch where when I scroll, the screen often splits horizontally. Especially common on pages with videos or that are media intensive. Doesn’t happen on Edge or anywhere outside Brave.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s a first.

      • Brochettaward

        No First has ever been a problem. You people completely misuse the word. It’s like taking The Great Firster’s name in vain.

    • R.J.

      You mean where a giant self-playing video covers half the screen? That happens far too often. I have that occur with Safari too.

      • Brochettaward

        No. The screen splits and if you keep scrolling, will split repeatedly and you can’t click on anything or do anything. You have to keep scrolling past to break it. It’ll be like the screen split 12 times all of the top taskbar. Hard to explain.

        There’s certain videos I just can’t watch because it does this.