145 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Buddy you’re a boy make a big noise
    Playin’ in the street gonna be a big man some day
    You got mud on yo’ face
    You big disgrace
    Kickin’ your can all over the place
    Singin’

    We will we will First you
    We will we will First you

    Buddy you’re a young man hard man
    Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
    You got blood on yo’ face
    You big disgrace
    Wavin’ your banner all over the place

    We will we will First you
    Sing it out!
    We will we will First you

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Unexpected

    Hassett was part of a trio of former White House economists, including Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Obama CEA chair Jason Furman, who warned early in Biden’s term that inflation was afoot, when the government was more concerned with Covid. They parsed different data but arrived at the same conclusions: Trillions in stimulus spending being plowed back into the economy when companies couldn’t produce enough of what consumers wanted would drive prices higher.

    You can’t expect Janet Yellin and her merry band of wonks to see that coming.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Trillions in stimulus spending being plowed back into the economy when companies couldn’t produce enough of what consumers wanted printed

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        To paraphrase the great Remy, when all you have is a printer, every problem looks like a ream.

  3. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I spend an inordinate amount of time building houses in The Sims 3

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t play video games. Video games are a waste of time. Nothing productive is actually accomplished. All that time spent gaming could be used for so much more, to include, but not limited to, Firsting. But who am I kidding? Firsting is the best thing to do.

      I’m going to bet you haven’t even Firsted once today. A First a day helps prevent cancer. Do it.

  4. trshmnstr the terrible

    “Just because some developers want something in a game doesn’t always mean they can get it there, or that it should be, and players should never have been expecting spit-balled ideas to become definite features.”

    I smell a leadership vacuum.

    • Nephilium

      Well, it is a space sim. Vacuum should be expected.

      There have been lots of promises, and a stunning amount of money they’ve taken in for that game.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I don’t know much about it even though I’ve been hearing about it for a decade now. At this point it looks like the only thing keeping it together is a terminal case of sunken cost fallacy.

      • Nephilium

        Here’s an article from last year talking about the various controversies that the project has been involved in.

      • Compelled Speechless

        You have to slip in the ol’ “toxic work environment” claim. Of course they never give a single actual example. Just the generic accusations of using slurs and racism. Games journalism has been pimping games industry unionization so hard for so long I just roll my eyes into the back of my head as soon as this gets brought up. To be fair, this developer does seem to be dysfunctional on a level all their own.

      • Nephilium

        The video game industry may be one of the largest industry with no unions involved at all. No wonder they want to get their hooks into it.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    On virtual discussions in early spring, White House officials acknowledged the possibility of inflation wrought by stimulus and infrastructure spending, but the risk was dismissed by officials citing the political popularity of the policies and the desire to add more fuel to the economic recovery, according to three people involved in or briefed on discussions.

    ——-

    A Treasury spokesperson said Yellen believes the legislation backed by the president was sound economic policy that engendered a faster recovery than expected with less financial pain.

    “Secretary Yellen would be the first to say there is more to be done and Treasury continues to work each day to foster a strong and equitable recovery,” the spokesperson added.

    Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead!

    • ron73440

      Yellen believes the legislation backed by the president was sound economic policy

      Isn’t that proof of incompetence, and shouldn’t it be grounds for immediate dismissal?

      • Compelled Speechless

        Sound economic policy in this case is defined as “policy that gives the federal government complete control of all currency and eventually all land and means of production.” Viewed through that lens, she is correct. The devil is in the details.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Everyone equitably destitute

        Except top.men and selfless public servants

      • Compelled Speechless

        I haven’t checked in on it in about 35 years, but it seems to be going swimmingly for the Soviets.

      • slumbrew

        They need their dachas to unwind, after toiling hard to look after us.

      • juris imprudent

        Every govt drone alive, look up at Ron, blink uncomprehendingly, and go back to grazing.

    • B.P.

      “…but the risk was dismissed by officials citing the political popularity of the policies…”

      Nah, that can’t happen. People like the policies!

      That’s some damn good experting.

    • Rebel Scum

      the possibility of inflation wrought by stimulus and infrastructure spending

      “Possibility.”

      quitable recovery

      Equitably leave me the hell alone. And cut spending.

  6. Nephilium

    I’m very thankful I never bought into the Star Citizen debacle. At this point, my longest outstanding Kickstarter is the Space Venture game (with the original Two Guys from Andromeda – Space Quest). Expected delivery February 2013, last update November 2021, basically saying that the game was still going to come out, they triple promise this time. The comments have devolved into people writing up serials, fictions, rants, and random white knights protecting the devs who are just a little bit behind schedule.

    • Swiss Servator

      Just a wee bit late, eh?

      • Translucent Chum

        It’s like waiting for a George R.R. Martin book.

      • Lackadaisical

        Or Patrick rothfuss.

    • DEG

      Two Guys from Andromeda – Space Quest

      I really liked the Space Quest games. Shame this new venture is probably never going to happen.

  7. Count Potato

    “n other words, vaccines can protect individuals because they can reduce the likelihood of hospitalization or death from COVID, but they do little to slow or stop transmission. This makes vaccines primarily a matter of personal health, not public health.”

    Honestly, I’m not so sure about the first part.

    • kinnath

      The initial results showed that the vaccine helped to stop the virus from killing those most vulnerable (the old with co-morbidities).

      They then rendered the vaccine useless by trying to vaccinate everyone and accelerating the mutation of the virus.

      Snatching defeat from the jaws of a small victory.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Mutation rate is a function of viral replication. It’s errors created from that replication that are not corrected. Vaccines may affect which strains are selected and pressure, but they do not accelerate mutation unless it either increases viral production, increases duration, or alters the replication errors.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m pretty sure that the first part is full of shit actually.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      The original Pfizer and Moderna trials did not test for the first part. No idea if it’s been done since.

      • Compelled Speechless

        They should hire the people that did the mask efficacy trials that started after the pandemic. Those people seem to get “the correct” results.

    • slumbrew

      Are we going to pretend that she doesn’t get outsized attention because she’s a DC 8?

      • Urthona

        The only attention she gets is people laughing at her, though, right?

        I may be in different social circles.

      • EvilSheldon

        AoC is about a DC 3.5.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        She’s a Politician 8, as Sheldon said, she’s a DC 3.5. DC is chock-a-block with beautiful young women. Most of them are libs, tho.

      • slumbrew

        You are correct – politician 8.

        Apologies to the DC glib-broads 😉

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Didn’t she let it slip that she “auditioned” to be a candidate? Does anyone think that her looks didn’t play a role in that audition?

    • Rebel Scum

      Where is he wrong?

    • Homple

      Beautiful? No. Not ugly. .3 Standard Deviation above average.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The article fails to comment on what this does to his prospects for the presidency in 2024? I’m guessing they’re worse, but I don’t know unless they tell me.

    • Rebel Scum

      BUSTA!

    • The Other Kevin

      He might be able to pull that off, as long as he doesn’t hire any journalists.

    • Sensei

      I’ll echo RC Dean’s comment from the AM, why isn’t the woman he had the relationship fired as well?

      “Rules are for the little guys” – Boris Johnson

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m pretty sure it’s Zucker’s little guy that the one responsible for him getting punished.

    • Chafed

      This could get interesting. Malone has a long, successful investing career. He also has deep pockets. He may go rip out every root and branch he considers a problem.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    The initial results showed that the vaccine helped to stop the virus from killing those most vulnerable (the old with co-morbidities).

    back whenever that was, I reckoned I would just step out of line. I’m not morbidly obese, not diabetic, not immunocompromised, not suffering from cardiovascular disease. Let the (more) at risk population get it first. But. As the calls for wholesale vaccination became more and more strident and political… When it became glaringly obvious that they were explicitly trying to eliminate the control group…

    Not gonna happen.

    • kinnath

      kinnath’s plan circa March 2021

      – Vaccinate the old/at-risk population

      – Send all the kiddies to school to spread it around (super-duper-chicken-pox-parties)

      – Make HCQ/Zinc/Zpak readily available to anyone that catches COVID.

      This would have been over by late summer 2021.

      • Rebel Scum

        The intent was and is for the convid tyranny to never go away.

      • Sean

        There’s no money in that.

      • robc

        That was also a good plan in March of 2020. Except the vaccine part.

  9. UnCivilServant

    “I feel bad catching Pokémon in Legends: Arceus”

    I don’t. I have a good deal of fun. Even if there’s more data needed to fill each ‘dex entry, it’s still appropriate. Don’t know why the player character had to drop out of a time/space portal from modern day though. That reminds me, I gotta fill in the entries for the last few starter area species.

  10. The Other Kevin

    I’m more excited about watching my one sport from China now that I’ve seen this.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Wallace is from Franklin Lakes? Right in my backyard, dropped off kleinpatzer there many times before he grew a set of wheels. Me must watch this.

      • The Other Kevin

        I knew it was somewhere in NJ. The guy person from the couple you met was Jack’s teacher in middle school. Jack is a great guy, always smiling, and impressively big and tall when you see him up close.

      • Ghostpatzer

        That’s right, he told me he taught at Flakes (what my son and his friends call that burg). It’s a very exclusive town (median income > @150K). Lacks public sewers IIRC, most homes have a septic tank.

  11. DEG

    Regrettably, yet predictably, the COVID state failed, and its mad experiment caused grave damage to society and science. Many European countries are finally accepting this reality, at least tacitly. But as for the Biden administration, it’s still unclear whether they understand the crux of the problem.

    The Brandon Administration won’t ever understand it, even as everything collapses around them.

    Hollow Knight – Dung Defender – With Lyrics by Man on the Internet

    I read that as “Hollow Knight – Dong Defender”

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “Critics tear into ‘misogynist’ radio host Adam Carolla for suggesting no one would listen to ‘beautiful’ AOC if she was ‘fat and in her 60s’”

    I won’t listen to her now.

    What does that make me?

    • slumbrew

      As I understand it, it means you just want to date her.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Sensible? Just kidding, you’re a Nazi!

  13. DEG

    Canadian military cautioned against showing support for trucker protest

    An email leaked to Rebel News Friday morning, sent by Lt. Jennifer MacCosham, the public affairs officer of 8 Wing, the Royal Canadian Air Force base in Trenton, Ontario, to members of the air force threatens disciplinary action and possible firing for anyone publicly supportive of the convoy protests taking place all across Canada in opposition to COVID-19 restrictions:

  14. DEG

    Saskatchewan trucker protest spin-off

    Ottawa was all abuzz over this past weekend, especially on Saturday, January 29.

    As always, Rebel News had boots on the ground, getting some fantastic coverage of the very peaceful and jubilant events in our nation’s capital.

    While all of that was taking place, several protests and “mini-convoys” were occurring nation-wide! Whether in rural regions or cities, thousands of people gathered all over the country to share in the festivities and have their voices heard.

    Saskatchewan was no exception!

    Although I was unable to cover the protest, I was able to obtain some footage on the ground from people who attended.

  15. Nephilium

    The weekend is upon us, if you’ve got power (and may be buried in snow), feel free to join the Zoom/Happy Hour/Nerd discussions that will be kicked off at 20:00 Eastern.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I always wanted Bang a Gong (Power Station version) as my “first dance” song at my wedding.

      • Tulip

        I always wanted “Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong

      • Sensei

        That was us. +1

      • Nephilium

        Here you go.

        Probably not the version you were thinking of though.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        We used Van Morrison’s “Someone Like You.”

        Still brings a tear to my jaundiced eye.

      • Gender Traitor

        Noice! ?

      • Compelled Speechless

        Best horn section in the biz!

      • Chafed

        I was expecting He-Man.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Miller High Life tonight

      We’re buried in rain because DC

  16. DEG

    Ottawa police promise crackdown

    City officials have promised to “expand and harden the demonstration red zone,” referring to the Freedom Convoyas a dangerous, well-funded occupation.

    In a series of tweets sent Friday morning, Ottawa police indicate they will be implementing a “surge and contain” strategy in neighbourhoods.

  17. DEG

    NH State Rep that voted against scrapping teen driving school mandate owns a driving school

    State Rep. Karel Crawford (R-Moultonborough) is adamantly opposed to a bill that would allow New Hampshire teens to get their driver’s license without spending hundreds of dollars attending driving school. And, she insists, her “no” vote in committee this week had nothing whatsoever to do with her occupation:

    She owns a driving school.

    “This isn’t about me, or my Red Hill Driving School, this is about an industry,” Crawford told NHJournal.

    However, the main sponsor of HB 1208, Rep. Tim Lang, R-Sanbornton, said he is considering filing an ethics complaint against Crawford.

    “There is an ethics challenge that can be filed here, and there have been conversations about that,” Lang said.

    Crawford, along with the majority on the New Hampshire House Transportation Committee, voted against Lang’s bill that would allow people under age 18 to get a driver’s license without going to a certified driving school. Instead, the bill “authorizes a waiver of the driver education requirement if a father, mother, guardian, or other responsible adult provides equivalent classroom instruction and behind-the-wheel training.”

    Crawford did not make a public disclosure at this week’s committee hearing that she has a financial interest in keeping the professional driver’s education mandate. However, she said she makes that disclosure on all her official paperwork.

  18. DEG

    Don’t call Chris Sununu “John Kasich”

    Gov. Chris Sununu is happy to debate his support for Education Freedom Accounts, his push to get communities to build more affordable housing, and his problems with the congressional maps drawn by the House GOP majority.

    Just don’t call him “John Kasich.”

    The New Hampshire Republican has been making news of late by criticizing members of his own party, in particular former President Donald Trump. He has said Republicans in the U.S. Senate are “just as bad” as their Democratic counterparts — a comment quoted by President Joe Biden in his most recent press conference to push the blame for his legislative failures on the GOP.

    He has criticized Trump’s suggestion criminals who participated in the January 6 Capitol riot should be pardoned, and he called Trump “misinformed” when he repeatedly claimed (without evidence) New Hampshire’s 2020 election results were in doubt.

    But when asked if he is moving into the “John McCain, John Kasich” lane of GOP politics — “The Republican who runs on the fact that he hates Republicans” — Sununu says absolutely not.

    Later in the article:

    A few days earlier, he met with Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman. Asked if he was burnishing his foreign-policy credentials in advance of a 2024 presidential bid, Sununu just laughed.

    Lately, based on some of Sununu’s media appearances and other activity, I’ve been thinking that he will be the GOP Establishment’s pick for President in 2024.

    A related story:

    On the Howie Carr radio show Wednesday, Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski said his old boss has given him a new job: Get rid of Gov. Chris Sununu.

    “When we spoke earlier in the day, you told me that [President Trump] assigned you a couple of duties and one is in your home state of New Hampshire,” Carr said to Lewandowski. “What’s your assignment for President Trump in New Hampshire?”

    “The president is very unhappy with the chief executive officer of the state of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu,” Lewandowski replied. “And Sununu, in the president’s estimation, is someone who’s never been loyal to him. And the president said it would be really great if somebody would run against Chris Sununu.”

    Lewandowski said Trump has given him two jobs in the Granite State.

    “One is making sure we’ve got a great candidate in U.S. Senate race who can beat Maggie Hassan, another failed, hack, Washington, DC politician who never delivered. And the second is potentially finding someone to run against Chris Sununu, to make sure they understand that the ‘America First’ agenda is more than just a saying. It’s actually about putting people first and listening to what constituents have to say,” Lewandowski said.

    “So the president wants to get rid of Chris Sununu as the governor of New Hampshire,” Carr replied.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The problems with trying to be a middle of the road politician is that the middle of the road is the best place to get squished by the cars coming both ways.

    • Penguin

      Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski said his old boss has given him a new job: Get rid of Gov. Chris Sununu.

      Whenever I think Trump is utterly worthless, he does something to redeem himself.

  19. The Other Kevin

    I may be a bit scarce in the next week. I’m traveling with Mrs. TOK to the Dominican Republic to celebrate our anniversary. I hear it’s friendly to the unvaxxed and unboostered. I’ll let you all know how it goes.

    I do have a few articles in my head, just didn’t have time to work on them, and I want to be around when they go up.

    • DEG

      Have a good trip! Happy Anniversary!

    • Nephilium

      Travel safe, and have fun.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Take pictures and share them.

      Its on the list of places I want to visit before I shuffle off.

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s a good idea, I will do that. This is the first time we’ve gotten passports for a trip, so it’s a new kind of adventure for us.

      • Penguin

        Enjoy, TOK

      • PutridMeat

        Take pictures and share them.

        But not of the, ah, anniversary activities.

        Unless, you know, the spirit moves you and you feel obligated….

    • Count Potato

      Happy Anniversary!

  20. DEG

    One last link for my link dump:

    In 2014, Carolus Löfroos went to war. It was not the war he expected to be fighting.

    Following the Russian invasion of Crimea in February 2014, fighting has alternately raged and simmered across the Donbas region of Ukraine. The country lies between the nations which comprise much of NATO and the EU on one side, and the reawakening Russian bear on the other. Geopolitical pressures and realpolitik have long defined Europe’s policies toward the former Soviet state. Western military aid to Ukraine continues to be constrained by these considerations.

    Nonetheless, since the beginning of the conflict, foreign volunteers have fought for Ukraine. Some were motivated by ideology, others by the thrill of combat. Most saw Russian aggression as something to be opposed vigorously and early. In this contemporary tale of adventure and misadventure, boredom and terror, Carolus Löfroos lays bare the reality of modern warfare at the frontiers of Great Power competition.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Beautiful. Interesting how the other, slower, skiers gave way when this guy (?) bore down on them. That was some serious velocity.

    • The Hyperbole

      Man, I miss skiing. The good news is apparently if I ever get back out there I’ll be the most graceful MFer on the hill. Did everyone forget how to ski? All I saw were a bunch of limp armed slumpers*, I mean I get that it’s just a cruising run but have some pride people.

      *oh and the one rental racer always love that.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I just blame it on the snowboarders. And the yoots. The yoots are definitely involved.

      • slumbrew

        Damn kids.

      • The Hyperbole

        I blame parabolic skis.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I’m watching the video, and I can remember that split second of weightlessness as you pull up to make a turn. Love that feeling.

  21. Ghostpatzer

    From the FEE article on the COVID State:

    Many US Army soldiers will be left with a bitter choice, just like Katharina Teufel-Lieli, an Austrian musician who is one of tens of thousands in that country who have joined demonstrations to resist making the COVID vaccine compulsory.

    Austrians face fines up to $4,100 if they don’t comply with the government’s order, but Teufel-Lieli says she’ll not bow to the pressure.

    $4,100? The devil, you say!

  22. Rebel Scum

    Because of course…

    A Virginia judge has temporarily blocked Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s mask-optional order for students in schools, siding with seven school boards that sued over the governor’s policy.

    Youngkin’s Executive Order 2 aims to give parents the option to send their children into the classroom without a mask. The seven schools boards, Richmond Public Schools among them, filed the lawsuit in Arlington Circuit Court on Jan. 24, the day Youngkin’s order went into effect. …

    “Having addressed all aspects of whether a temporary restraining order should issue, the Court concludes that the School Boards’ Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order with regard to optional masking of children should be granted,” Arlington Circuit Court Judge Louise DiMatteo wrote in the ruling.

    Multiple school boards have voted to lift their division’s mask mandates in the wake of Youngkin’s order. Judge DiMatteo does not reinstate mask rules for those districts, but instead prevents parents from following Youngkin’s order and sending their children to school without a mask despite its policy.

    Youngkin’s spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said the state intends to appeal the decision, called the ruling “just the first step in the judicial process.”

    “Freedom is slavery.”

    • Ghostpatzer

      “Having addressed all aspects of whether a temporary restraining order should issue, the Court concludes that the School Boards’ Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order with regard to optional masking of children should be granted,” Arlington Circuit Court Judge Louise DiMatteo wrote in the ruling.

      If she is related to this guy, Youngkin had better watch his back.

  23. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Viva Frei will be live in Ottawa again in 20 minutes. So many people recognize him and stop to talk to him, it makes things interesting

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etj3VZwf6hc

    • l0b0t

      He is the only derptube law-talkin’ guy I can listen to with any regularity. His Sunday night show with Robert Barnes was a weekly treat. Barnes’ bombastic hucksterism was nicely tempered by Frei’s Canadian wholesomeness.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Barnes’ bombastic hucksterism

        This is why I watch Viva’s solo videos only. Barnes has the aura of someone who didn’t get laid til 30 and read all the PUA literature he could.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “The mating ritual of the freedom trucks..”

      ?

    • robc

      Jesus, and I thought Bush’s 2008 jump was bad.

      I mean, it was, but, gah!

      • robc

        Obama did start ramping it down, if slowly, which Trump continued, more rapidly, until 2020.

    • Chafed

      My eyes! My eyes! Make it stop!

  24. l0b0t

    That Home Alone set is purty. LEGO sets, particularly unopened sets, have a crazy collector market. That $250 MSRP set will likely be discontinued in 18 – 24 months and priced around $700 – $1000 in 5 years.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Groundbreaking

    Team Penske will make history at the Los Angeles Coliseum this weekend when it becomes the first NASCAR team to use an all-electric truck to get its car to the track.

    The No. 2 Ford set to be driven by rookie Austin Cindric in the exhibition Busch Light Clash was loaded Thursday into a trailer at Penske Truck Leasing in Ontario to be pulled by Freightliner’s eCascadia tractor roughly 50 miles to the Coliseum. It marks the first time in NASCAR history an electric truck will be used by a team at an official venue.

    Both the truck and Cindric’s car for The Clash are painted in a matching blue schemes that highlight the eCascadia.

    ——-

    A fully-charged eCascadia can drive roughly 250 miles. The one headed to the Coliseum was charged in Ontario and will be able to make the round trip up and back Interstate 10 without a stop at a charging station.

    You hope.

    • Rebel Scum

      The slow suicide of NASCAR continues apace.

    • B.P.

      Why leave Ontario? That’s where all the cool trucks are.

      A rival team should put its car on the back of a flat wagon and hook up a team of Clydesdales.

      • Chafed

        I’ll chip in if their drive throws beer bottles out the window.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      How does STEVE SMITH feel about this eCascadia?

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH LIKE E CAR. THEM RUN OUT JUICE, STEVE SMITH OFFER JUICE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE SMITH MEAN….

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Penske saw the event as an opportunity to highlight the push toward electric vehicles and said Thursday that swapping its diesel-fueled Freightliner for the weekend for the eCascadia will save about 17 gallons of gas. Team Penske estimated the same trip done five days a week would save 83 gallons of diesel per week, 4,333 gallons per year. Using the current average Southern California gas price of $4.99 per gallon, the annual fuel savings would be about $21,623.

    Now do total cost of ownership.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    How does STEVE SMITH feel about this eCascadia?

    It’s a plug-in.

  28. Gustave Lytton

    Fun with state bureaucracy. Get a voicemail that the person is teleworking 4 days a week so send an email unless it’s Monday. How about forwarding your phone to one you can answer or, heaven forbid, using a soft phone or voip phone that rings where you are?

    This wasn’t even calling the person directly, just the option off phone menu for a general group. Apparently there’s only one person handling these calls and no one else can answer the group line.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Also explains why the letter I was responding to wasn’t postmarked until 2 weeks after the date of the letter and didn’t receive it for over another week but that doesn’t extend the 60 day window at all.

    • rhywun

      I hate to break it to one person in there, but NYC has given preference to “minority” businesses for decades. I don’t know about any of that other stuff and I’d rather read a story than fart around with Twitvids.

      • Count Potato

        What do you think if a NYC mayor got caught saying some racial slur for black people?

      • rhywun

        As in, what would happen? I think we know.

        I’m sure the NY Post, and no one else, will be all over this if it’s accurate.

    • rhywun

      What am I, chopped liver?

      /Gavin

  29. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Apparently GoFundMe has essentially (for all practical purposes) stolen the money meant for the Freedom Convoy and is deciding where it should actually go; Tim Pool has issued a call for everyone who has donated to file a chargeback with their credit card companies, which will cost GFM around $10-$15/chargeback to process:

    https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1489749467028934658

    • Mojeaux

      Fuckers.