Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Hungry Like The Wolf

by | Feb 9, 2022 | Daily Links | 308 comments

I told y’all and I told y’all and no one wanted to listen…

AND…

Bristol University Launches Gender Pronoun Guide With ‘Catgender’ And ‘Emojiself’ Options

A pronoun guide intended to educate Bristol University staff on gender inclusion has divided opinion due to references to ‘catgender’ and ‘emojiself’.

The university published this guide with links to sources stating that some people may identify as felines and others could use ‘emojiself pronouns’, which refers to the use of emojis to express a pronoun, which can be gender neutral.

According to the LGBTA Wiki the guide linked out to, “someone who is catgender may use nya/nyan pronouns”. Nya/nyan means “meow” in Japanese. Catgender is also described as someone who “strongly identifies” with cats or other felines or “experiences delusions relating to being a cat or other feline”.

Reactions to this guide have ranged from confused to outraged, with some referring to it as “beyond satire” and “embarrassing”.

Trans campaigner Debbie Hayton has sarcastically tweeted that she’ll be using “eye roll” and “angry” emojis for her ‘emojiself’ pronouns. She also told The Telegraph: “It brings the whole concept of being a transsexual and transitioning in society into disrepute, we didn’t ask for this,” she said. “Pronouns are there to describe what we see and what we know.”

Kinda feels like they are trying to gaslight you, does it?

Whatevs. As long as I don’t have to clean the litter box, shine on.


This would be a beautiful own goal.

North Carolina elections board says it has power to disqualify Rep. Cawthorn from running over January 6

The North Carolina State Board of Elections said on Monday that it has the power to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection over his role in the January 6 insurrection — an open legal question at the center of liberal-backed efforts to disqualify him from future office.

The bipartisan election board made the assertion in a court filing in a case Cawthorn brought against the board, hoping to shut down the constitutional challenge to his candidacy.

Liberal activists filed the challenge to his candidacy last month. Their argument revolves around the little-used “disqualification clause” of the US Constitution, which was ratified after the Civil War to prevent Confederate officials and those who supported “insurrection” from returning to office.

Cawthorn, who has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6, filed a federal lawsuit last week to shut down the challenge. The elections board, in its court filing, said his lawsuit is premature and should be dismissed. The board also said it has the power to disqualify candidates based on constitutional considerations, not just based on state laws.

“States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges,” the board wrote. “The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”


My Time as a Human Dairy Cow

Seriously, stop with this transanimal nonsense.


Gentlemen, and those ladies dressed as one, I give you the adversarial press at its finest:

Jen Psaki Can’t Win

What I’ve come to realize is that restraint may be precisely why she became a sensation. The comparative lack of performativity, the emphasis on competence and completeness and even a certain blandness, was incredibly welcome to many Americans exhausted by Trumpian invective. But many observers didn’t just want a return to normalcy—they wanted a more full-throated rejection of the recent past. This created an environment where Psaki’s occasional sarcasm—she does have a dry wit and uses it well—was received with enthusiasm that was disproportionate to the intensity of the encounter described. “It’s pretty rich, isn’t it?” she said recently while highlighting the irony of Republican politicians complaining about not getting enough from the infrastructure bill they voted against. But PSAKI DESTROYS TED CRUZ!—to take another example of an incident hailed as a #PsakiBomb—doesn’t perfectly reflect what happened when Psaki was recently asked about right-wing objections to Biden considering Black female candidates for the Supreme Court. She simply read Cruz’s remarks praising Trump for nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a white woman, and noted the hypocrisy. It was an able and not particularly dramatic parry (augmented by a somewhat more pointed “I am blissfully not a spokesperson for Sen. Cruz”) that got narrated as an annihilation. That doesn’t reflect Psaki so much as it does the acrid environment in which news items get packaged.

Defense and praise, defense and praise, really digging into the meat of how wrongthinkful it is to criticize Strawberry.

Is it paying off her student loans? Does her mother know she works as a fluffer? Is she proud of her daughter?


 

UPDATE: Fuck off, Adidas. It’s like they culled images from the OnlyFans sites that have made a negative amount of money.

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308 Comments

  1. R.J.

    Good links. “My Time as a Human Dairy Cow” sadly had no photos.

    • db

      I think SF outsources that to Q

    • SugarFree

      I think the noise of it would be more upsetting. Mechanical suckling.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ole, the hired hand at a dairy farm, was amazed by the new mechanical milking machine. After a couple days, he couldn’t resist and stuck his dick into the contraption.

        It was awesome but then he realized that the suction was so great that he couldn’t get it off his member. Finally the farmer came out and found him. After yelling at him for a bit he got a doctor to see if he could figure a way to get the machine off Ole’s dick.

        The doc said I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that this won’t hurt you in any way. The bad news is that the suction won’t turn off until it has collected a gallon of fluid.

    • EvilSheldon

      Can you just imagine the sagging, distended flesh?

      • Fourscore

        600 lb people on TV shows have an audience. We would like to believe other people are like ourselves but maybe we are on the fringes of Standard Deviations.

    • rhywun

      I remember when this premise was a gross-out Piers Anthony short story.

    • Chafed

      Q will provide.

  2. db

    Hey wassup Glibs

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m calming down from an annoying day, but not much else.

  3. kinnath

    I am Guided by Vices.

  4. Shpip

    Their argument revolves around the little-used “disqualification clause” of the US Constitution, which was ratified after the Civil War to prevent Confederate officials and those who supported “insurrection” from returning to office.

    And when the Repubs take over, they can use the same clause to bar anyone who justified the BLM riots from holding elective office.

    Me today, you tomorrow.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Short sighted doesn’t even begin to describe the current crop of clowns occupying congress. When the shoe is on the other foot, we’ll get hundreds of think pieces from propaganda outlets about how fascistic the practice is, all completely devoid of self-awareness.

      • kinnath

        They don’t believe there will be an other foot.

        They will control who can run.

        They will control how can vote.

        They will control who counts the vote.

        They don’t expect to ever lose again.

      • Compelled Speechless

        For a while I suspected that they might be able to pull it off. Watching them stumble over themselves backing the Twink in the North (SF deserves and award for that) against the truckers and trying to get Rogan kicked off Spotify as if that would even make a dent in his influence is finally giving me a little bit of faith that they just simply aren’t going to win. They are pussies and no one takes them seriously anymore. Power only exists if there’s a majority perception that you have it. They’re really starting to lose it on that front.

      • Homple

        Even if the Ds lose, the GOP will never respond in kind.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I wish the GOP would have the stones to do that.

      Unfortunately they will be too scared of The Cathedral calling them mean names if they try. So they will roll over.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      To be fair, one group wants to destroy America and go after anyone trying to actually defend America and its Constitution. The Republicans MIGHT want to prevent those traitors from serving in govt positions so they can do it again.

      The GOP was wrong about the war on drugs and using govt to enforce some social rules but Democrat Party and the Republican Party are not alike.

      With that being said, destroying the Democrat Party once and for all the weakening the GOP is a workable strategy.

  5. db

    So many tormented souls out there…

    • kinnath

      So many parents that failed their children.

      • EvilSheldon

        So many people who don’t have the courage of their perversions.

      • Fourscore

        So many people have strange behavior that borders or includes mental derangement

  6. Rebel Scum

    ‘catgender’

    I assume if I identify as this it gives me free reign to kneed/scratch the furniture, tear through the house in random spurts of crazy, lick myself in public, sleep in the hamper and wake people up at 3am so I can be fed.

    • Tonio

      [golf clap] for perfect description of the feline condition.

    • Compelled Speechless

      When all this self identifying non-sense started, I tried to think up the most over-the-top slippery slope scenarios I could about where this would lead. I must not be very creative, because I stopped well before I reached “catgender”.

      • db

        Yeah, who ever suspected it would actually go this far?

        I don’t think even Heinlein, with all his gender-swapping, partial normalization of incest, and other weirdnesses that he explored, would have considered some of this stuff reasonable enough to include in the “Crazy Years” headlines.

      • SugarFree

        Years ago, at the beginning of X-TREME SPORTS DO THE DEW! era, I said eventually people would be strapping phonebooks to themselves and shooting each other, the sport aspect based on distance and thinness of the book. A few years ago, my friend sent me a youtube video of people doing it with the subject: “Fuck you.”

      • db

        Love it.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Just wait for the designer DNA shots to mingle [insert animal here] genes with your own.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We’ll get the otherkin/animalsexual types doing it, as will the crazy cat ladies who want whiskers to “live on forever inside of me”

      • UnCivilServant

        At least Splicers are serious.

        Just don’t make me cover their medical bills for the complications after the fact.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m kinda surprised that it was Batman who did it already.

      • Nephilium

        It’s been done in both Transmetropolitan (with alien DNA – Transients), as well as Batman Beyond (with animal DNA – Splicers).

        It’s Always Sunny also made jokes about it with Maureen transitioning to a cat.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Fun fact I just learned. Maureen is Ivan Reitman’s daughter. Her cat transitioning was one of their best bits.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Until Dennis killed Maureen. Or did he?

      • kinnath
      • Chafed

        Would.

      • Homple

        Meh. She’s no Julie Newmar.

      • EvilSheldon

        Go on…

      • SugarFree

        I got a co-worker so wound-up she screamed “‘CAT’ IS NOT A GENDER!”

      • Compelled Speechless

        Sooooo she’s not a postmodernist I take it? Sounds like a Nazi then.

      • SugarFree

        Just a step too far right now. Give her a year and four HBO shows.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Which shows?
        *Glances at HBO Max current slate*
        Nevermind.

      • Rebel Scum

        CAT’ IS NOT A GENDER!

        Not with that catitude.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I always thought of it as more of a feline than a catitude.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Look, it’s not a catastrophe, calm down,

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Yeah, don’t be such a pussy.

      • Fourscore

        Please, no littering

      • C. Anacreon

        You don’t get a cat butt, instead you get a Cat Ass Trophy.

      • Chafed

        You work with other people?

      • SugarFree

        Just because you can’t love me doesn’t mean no one else can.

    • Rat on a train

      Round up all the catgenders for spaying and neutering.

  7. trshmnstr the terrible

    I deadthreaded this link over in the butt wiping conversation, but here’s some inspiration music for SF’s article he promised Hype next week. Link

  8. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Here’s my Emojiself: ?

    • db

      You shitlord, how do you get away with excluding we who use only emoticons!

    • Rat on a train

      Shouldn’t that be (?/?/?) or such?

      • db

        (?/?/?)

      • Rat on a train

        nice

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Its safe. Its Shakira.

  9. Rebel Scum

    over his role in the January 6 insurrection

    Seems to me that one have to prove that such a thing even happened.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Which happened? His participation or an insurrection? Either way, I don’t like their chances.

      • hayeksplosives

        It was a protest in which some participants, by no means all, committed some vandalism.

        Labeling it an insurrection is ludicrous. They weren’t even armed. Acting like it’s some kind of Fort Sumter isn’t going to stand up in a real court; just the breathless congressional hearings.

    • Pine_Tree

      The use of the term “insurrection” by the Cathedral was not an accident, ever.

      It was very specifically used from the very beginning for just exactly this purpose. Period. Being able to do this is why they used the word the whole time.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I definitely get it. They’re going to have some real consequences to their language games eventually. Insurrection is a broken window and people wandering halls, white supremacy is people “acting nice”. They are taking away their own ability to speak precisely or have nuance. I’d say it’s hyperbolic, but it’s far more malicious than that, it’s designed. I just don’t understand how people that are so shortsighted manage to gather so much power and influence.

      • rhywun

        Orwell described this process in great detail and we’re watching it take place before our eyes.

      • hayeksplosives

        They’re counting on the masses being too lazy to read beyond a headline or listen beyond a sound bite.

        And it’s working for them.

        Remember, we Glibs are not a representative slice of the country.

      • Compelled Speechless

        True and I live in a pretty darn red state (that’s being overrun by discontented blue staters). But I really get the feeling that COVID regimes failures is opening up the eyes of even some of the most firm establishment leaders. My dad is the very definition of a Boomer-con who’s been gobbling up all the fear mongering. I mean triple masking in the airport. We were just talking a couple of weeks ago and he finally conceded to me that the it’s become obvious that the “experts don’t really know anything. Between this, realizations that the cops will gleefully side with those who sign there checks and do their bidding and the demonstrable total collapse of legacy media due to apathy, I believe the masses are not the lock they were even six months ago.

      • Compelled Speechless

        should say *firm establishment followers

  10. Tonio

    “the emphasis on competence and completeness and even a certain blandness”

    “Competence.” LOL

    She has the dead eyes of a lizard person.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Circle back, circle back…

      That hagiography is on par with the love letter to Rachel Maddow years ago.

    • rhywun

      And the endless stream of lies aren’t any more convincing than they were from any previous inhabitant of that position.

      • Chafed

        Ari Fleischer nods approvingly.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Her interviews are anodyne and factual.

      Nauseating.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Either way you look at it, Psaki has played a starring role in the administration, exceeding even the vice president’s.

        Can you imagine someone who is able to outshine VP Harris?

      • Spudalicious

        I’ve got some gum on my shoe…

      • Compelled Speechless

        Imagine being the “elites” that consider Harris an impressive person……especially the ones that didn’t get a hummer from her.

      • Lackadaisical

        Strawberry for president.

  11. Fourscore

    I like Psaki, I think she’s doing a great job by ignoring or obfuscating every question. If she tried to answer honestly she wouldn’t last a day. By pretending everything is rosy and the reporters are too dense to understand Biden appears in control of the presidency. That’s what she was hired to do.

    • db

      Yep. You have to consider how the job description reads and how her boss rates her progress toward assigned goals.

      Clearly, telling the truth and being honest are not part of the criteria.

      • Raven Nation

        There’s always the possibility she believes everything she says.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Press secretary is literally the national head of propaganda for each president. Her job is to disseminate the narrative no matter who foolish, dishonest or cunty she looks. By that measure, she is quite good.

      • db

        To be fair, that’s pretty standard for chief of communications for just about any private business as well.

      • db

        With the exception of course that private businessess that obviously screw and lie to their customers frequently lose customers and market share, whereas the government coerces “participation” and taxes you anyway.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Well, you see, Glen has an ‘R’ next to his name, so…

    When @GlennYoungkin lifted Virginia’s mask mandate for public schools, liberal pundits slammed the decision.

    Now that Democrats are following suit, repealing mask mandates is “driven by science” and a sign the country is “trying to get back to normal.”

    • db

      It’s really a wonderful thing that Science can turn on such a dime these days…it used to be that “in Science, progress is made one funeral at a time”…

      • KSuellington

        Sciencing is much quicker these days.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That was back in the days of yore when science was driven by the scientific method and data. Politicians discovered it becomes exponentially faster if it’s driven by whatever they need at the moment.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Senate passed a measure removing mask mandates in schools today. It’s over now.

      Loudoun County School Board is toast.

      • Chafed

        Let’s hope so.

      • Rat on a train

        Teachers will quit I tell you!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We can only hope.

    • Pope Jimbo

      This is the exact same cascade effect as when we saw the Dem governors impose lockdowns. They are all following the herd. None of them wants to be the last Dem to do whatever it is that they are doing.

      • Swiss Servator

        Our Lard-ass despot will be last one standing.

        “CHICAGO (CBS)–Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday said he plans to lift the state’s indoor mask mandate for most places at the end of the month, citing plummeting infection and hospitalization rates in Illinois. But he said he would keep his mask mandate for Illinois schools in place for weeks longer than that.”

        SCIENCING THE SHIT OUT IT!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe his plan is to be so loathsome and unpopular he is voted out before he has a chance to be convicted on corruption charges and go to prison?

        That would be a change for your govs.

  13. Count Potato

    “UPDATE: Fuck off, Adidas. It’s like they culled images from the OnlyFans sites that have made a negative amount of money.”

    ???

    • Gender Traitor

      Yeah, I was kinda wondering about that myself, but I was afraid if I asked I’d out myself as not having clicked all the links. ?

    • SugarFree

      They posted a collage of topless women for Twitter about sportsbras. All the “models” are pretty rough. I didn’t link to it or repost for obvious reasons.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Reading your weekly columns would lead be to believe that it takes more than a little bit to make you blush. I’ll take your word for it on the models.

      • SugarFree

        They are… very diverse.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Like…..on the same girl? I require at least some symmetry.

      • db

        Evenly spaced at 120 degrees on the longitudinal axis?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Too much for you, SF? Will. not. click.

      • SugarFree

        Not gross, just a little too Dove ad for my tastes.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Dove ad

        Too bad. I have fond memories of a lass who was the face of Ivory Snow.

    • Rebel Scum

      Mozart?

    • Spudalicious

      Harvey Keitel?

    • Compelled Speechless

      Professor Lupin?

    • J. Frank Parnell
    • Chafed

      Michael J. Fox?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Some people in the Twilight movies?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Not that I ever saw them. I’m just repeating what I heard.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Someone just outed themselves as a member of Team Jacob.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Sam the Sham?

    • Rat on a train

      Robert Weston Smith?

    • C. Anacreon

      Mr. Blitzer?

    • Loveconstitution1789

      The pesky Austrian? And I dont mean Arnold.

    • Raven Nation

      Meanwhile on the other side of the world…https://www.rnz.co.nz/

      Doctor warns protest could become superspreader; PM tells protestors it’s time to “move on.”

      • Raven Nation

        They seem to think those who oppose them are children. Opponents don’t understand the grave issues society faces but they need to be allowed a little bit of time to throw a tantrum. Then the adults need to step in and slap them down.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

        The arrogance is overwhelming. These people sniff their own farts and think “how wonderful.”

  14. J. Frank Parnell

    Because “Latinx” apparently wasn’t dumb enough, I present: Filipinx/a/o

    • rhywun

      I’m tempted to review the previous 41 volumes and 1 issue of this complete and utter gibberish.

    • Rat on a train

      Fuck them. It is pinoy/pinay.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They probably could not have picked a culture less likely to accept that bs.

      • hayeksplosives

        One of my former coworkers was a lady from Guam with a MSc in mechanical engineering and a PhD in electrical engineering.

        She was usually very quiet and didn’t make waves. One day I remarked about the difficulty in keeping up with what was “offensive” to the younger generations and what would be next.

        She said “Literally no one outside the United States cares about these things.” She laughed at the knots we tie ourselves into to accommodate this stuff in companies.

        (Yes I know Guam is in the United States but it is a very different culture)

  15. Tundra

    UPDATE: Fuck off, Adidas. It’s like they culled images from the OnlyFans sites that have made a negative amount of money.

    Come on, they put fatties on the cover of VS. You cab’t have Q worthy titties on a mass market site. Adidas has to trot out the sad titties. The saggy titties. The titties that really would rather stay covered up. It’s in the Social Contract.

    Headfake on the (excellent) song. That was on the Hold On Hope EP, I believe. Isolation Drills is also amazing – not in a small part because of Chasing Heather Crazy.

    • SugarFree

      Yeah, the youtuber fucked that one up.

      The mindblowing thing for me is that “A Crick Uphill” was a song culled from the album? WTF? It’s a deleted scene, as it were.

      • Tundra

        Yes, I think it absolutely would have fit on the album. But Bob works in mysterious ways.

    • limey

      the sad titties

      I saw them open for Bette Midler once.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I think you mean they came out from behind the curtain just ahead of her.

      • limey

        FUCK OFF TULPA!

      • Tundra

        LOL!

  16. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Girls: get you a man that says “there are no such thing as bad titties”

    • Compelled Speechless

      Let me test that theory for you. Picture Barbara Boxer naked. Your move….

      • Chafed

        There are no bad titties, only bad people.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I just can’t bring myself to agree with this. Maybe I’m not old enough to have let my standards droop to the proper level.

      • limey

        What a flop. I am udderly disappointed.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Show me that man, and I will show you a man who has never experienced the awesomeness of German tourists on a nude beach.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or Danes in the Queens Garden.

      • R.J.

        That Adidas image gallery is exactly that. Pretty sure they made a mistake and included some old man moobs in there too.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Adidas showed me a bunch of bad titties on Twitter

  17. one true athena

    Bragging moment. Kiddo just texted me that his robotics team has qualified for the Cali state competition. Woot!

    • SugarFree

      Maybe he can work for Warty one day, building his spinning robot army.

    • Tonio

      Congratulations, OTA’s kid!

    • Sensei

      Congratulations!

      Here is some appropriate music.

    • Sean

      Nice.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Congrats, kid!!

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Cool!

    • db

      Hey that’s great! congratulations to your spawn.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Good work, congrats!

    • EvilSheldon

      Cool! Congratulations, mini-Athena.

    • Mojeaux

      Excellent!!!!!!

    • Warty

      Fuck yeah

      If he likes it, it’s a good business to get into, and we always like to hire kids who competed in robotics competitions.

      • Chafed

        How are things at Skynet?

      • hayeksplosives

        Warty is right about the experience. Hiring managers love to see FIRST robotics participation, whether as a student or a mentor.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Nerd. Uh, I mean congratulations.

    • wdalasio

      Congratulations!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Congrats to the young man!

    • DEG

      Excellent!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Awesome!

    • ron73440

      Cool, maybe we’ll see him on BattleBots one day.

    • Tundra

      Fuckin’ A.

      Good job, boyo!

    • Count Potato

      Congrats!

      I hear Omni Consumer Products is hiring.

    • hayeksplosives

      Congratulations, and good luck at State!

  18. db

    So, Cawthorn has also introduced a proposed Constitutional Amendment instituting term limits on both the House and Senate.

    I’m all for term limits, but they don’t have much chance of functioning as designed unless we also:

    1. Eliminate all union representation/collective bargaining for government employees at all levels
    2. Remove voting rights from all government employees and their spouses and dependent children, if applicable, for the period of their term in office plus five years.
    3. Require mandatory retirement from government service for all bureaucrats after, say, 15 years. Exceptions probably should be made for military officers above the rank of O-5 or so.

    • Plisade

      4. Severely curtail congress’ time in session.

    • one true athena

      Yeah it seems to me that term limits only entrench lobbying and bureaucrats. But then again, they already are so maybe getting rid of ancient politicians is still a net benefit.

      • rhywun

        Definitely. The biggest problem are the lifers like Pelosi who grow immensely powerful over the decades. Get rid of them and all the lobbying in the world isn’t going to matter so much.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      California has term limits. I can’t say that it works very well, and I don’t think your conditions would help them work better, though on their own, they are ok.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the downside to term limits here in NYC is that every new batch is more crazy far-left than the last one.

    • Unreconstructed

      My plan would be 2) Remove voting rights from anyone that is not a net taxpayer. Thus all government employees, welfare dependent sorts, etc. If you don’t have skin in the game, you don’t get to call the plays.

      • The Hyperbole

        Nope, if you are making rules that I ‘have’ to live under then I get a say*

        I don’t even know how you determine what a net ‘tax payer” are you counting sales tax and the cost imposed on people by regulations as payments ? what exactly counts as a taking? welfare payments? working for the feds? your profession being highly regulated and protected by the government?

        *If I want it, personally I feel voting only encourages the assholes so this really doesn’t effect me as a non-voter but I hate this particular argument.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Or we can all just admit that democracy is a really really bad idea that creates nothing but perverse incentives and thousands of micro – would be dictators. I don’t care what system you use to pick the assholes in charge. They’re going to be bad. The bad ones are the only ones drawn to power. It’s a paradox.

        The only thing I care about is that we have a contract that tells them what they can and can’t do (let’s call it a constitution) and it’s enforceable – violently – if breached.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Give the US senate back to state control.

    • Count Potato

      “2. Remove voting rights from all government employees and their spouses and dependent children, if applicable, for the period of their term in office plus five years.”

      That seems a bit much.

      • Swiss Servator

        “Corruption of the Blood”

    • rhywun

      Some Upper East Side drug and grocery store workers have highlighted how powerless they are to stop shameless shoplifters who target their establishments daily

      As long as I can remember it has always been policy to for any workers who are not security in such places to ignore shoplifters and there is a very good reason for it – they are often violent psychopaths.

    • Chafed

      Holy shit! Al Sharpton is calling him out. Things must be dire.

  19. Rebel Scum

    She did so well with the American border situation.

    The White House announced Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would travel to Europe as the crisis in Ukraine continues to escalate.

    Harris will travel to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference, as European leaders weigh increased tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin continues weighing a decision whether or not to further invade Ukraine as he continues building up troops along at the border.

    Sabrina Singh, the vice president’s deputy press secretary, said Harris’ visit would “demonstrate our ironclad commitment to our NATO Allies” and “underscore our commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

    • Chafed

      NATO will be dissolved by the end of the meeting. Alternatively, there will once again be an East Germany.

    • SugarFree

      The Russians killing her would be the biggest gift to Joe Biden since the DNC bought him those creepy fucking teeth.

      • rhywun

        lol

        Yeah those choppers ain’t right.

      • Necron 99

        She’s all that is keeping him alive.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Yup. We’re going to war.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I don’t think so. Allegedly she’s going old school and pulling out everything she learned working under Jerry Brown. If there’s one thing we know she’s good at….

      • mexican sharpshooter

        …Excellent

      • kbolino

        She’s like a 1 by Ukrainian/Russian standards, though.

      • Compelled Speechless

        What, they don’t have light switches, drapes or paper bags in Russia?

    • Ghostpatzer

      The White House announced Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would travel to Europe as the crisis in Ukraine continues to escalate

      Why is everyone so pessimistic? Moscow is in Europe, and may be on Kamala’s itinerary. Putin might be swayed by the Willie Brown treatment. That’s what you call diplomacy.

    • hayeksplosives

      Germany has already signaled pretty hard that they don’t want to piss off Russia and lose their natural gas, especially since they foolishly shut down their own Nuke plants.

      I don’t know why the Dems think Kamala going over there is going to solve anything.

      Too bad Condi sullied her name forever by getting bound up in that GW Bush Iraq invasion debacle. She actually knows a lot about Russia and how / when to deal with them, including when to leave them alone.

      The took parts of Georgia, they annexed Crimea; nobody batted an eye. Now they are possibly going to shave a slice off Eastern Ukraine but are more likely just rattling sabers. But Biden and Harris are determined to provoke an actual hot war.

      Unbelievable.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Not just any hot war. A hot war with a nuclear armed country. You don’t have to like Trump to realize that he’s actually a small fraction as dangerous as these fuckwits and the Neo-Cons that jumped over to their side.

  20. trshmnstr the terrible

    Palmetto has a pretty good deal* on steel case 7.62 commie. I just picked up a few hundred rounds.

    *relative to market

    • EvilSheldon

      The Romanian stuff?

      • mock-star

        Klimovsk, so actual Russian

  21. Pope Jimbo

    Tell us how you really feel.

    Major media figure shits all over Minneapolis and it couldn’t be funnier. They even brought him back the next day to explain why he called Minneapolis a “hell hole” with the potential to get worse and he doubled down.

    Vineeta Sawker, who hosts WCCO Radio’s morning show, challenged Max about his comments, asking him how calling downtown a hellhole helps the people trying to make things better.

    “I’ll tell you exactly how I’m helping. I don’t want people to think it’s safe to come down and be by themselves on a Saturday night,” Max said. “I don’t want people to experience some of the stuff that I’ve experienced over the last few years.”

    “There’s nothing you can get downtown that you can’t get somewhere else in a safer environment,” he added.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “There’s nothing you can get downtown that you can’t get somewhere else in a safer environment”

      As long as you’re not on a budget. Twenty bucks ain’t what it used to be. Goddamn inflation.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’m sure Minnesota still has truck stops though…

      • Pope Jimbo

        The suburb Tundra and I live in has a rest stop on the freeway just before you get into the Metro Proper.

        It is notorious because it used to be a big meeting place for random gay sex (so Tundra told me). Then they build a McMansion development behind the rest stop. Suburban moms were not happy to look out their back windows and see lots of hot man on man action in the bushes behind the rest stop.

        They made a huge stink about it and cops cracked down on it.

        Now Tundra has moved away. Causation or correlation, you decide.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        So when are you moving?

      • Pope Jimbo

        My beard wife insists we stay here.

        Besides those old timers were totes stuck up and would totes body shame a guy… or so I was told.

      • Tundra

        And after they cracked down on the whole gay sex thing it became quite the spot for drug deals. A couple dudes got shot, though, so I think it’s just a plain old rest stop now.

        Sad.

  22. wdalasio

    They will control who can run.

    They will control how can vote.

    They will control who counts the vote.

    Yeah, well, there’s a funny thing about running a country like a third world banana republic. You wind up with people voicing their dissatisfaction like they do in third world banana republics.

    • kinnath

      I fear that is the only path now

  23. Shpip

    In the rare “Government does something that won’t raise your blood pressure” story, the Minnesota Department of Transportation asks residents to name their new snowplows in a grand contest.

    This year’s winners here.

    I think my favorite is The Big Leplowski.

    • robc

      “Drugs Fell Out of My Ass” should have been the winner.

    • Sensei

      After that you can have this luger instead.

    • Tundra

      Awesome!

      I definitely have biggest luger potential!

    • db

      Just got to watch that, it’s excellent

  24. mexican sharpshooter

    The North Carolina State Board of Elections said on Monday that it has the power to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection

    Such ableists. They should be ashamed for making fun of a guy in a wheelchair..

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Everyone say adios to PO’d Nick. He’ll be dead by next Monday because the mayor is lifting the mask mandate this Saturday.

    Failure to comply with the emergency declaration carried the possibility of a misdemeanor charge, but a spokesperson for the Duluth Police Department told WDIO News on Wednesday that she was not aware of any such charges being filed.

    Larson said the city did receive some complaints at an email address the city had set up to receive concerns, which prompted the city to have conversations with some businesses.

    Larson had imposed the requirement through an emergency declaration in response to rising COVID-19 cases as the Omicron variant spread. She issued the declaration after the city council was unable to reach a unanimous agreement on issuing its own mask mandate, instead passing a resolution making it clear the mayor had the power to make the move on her own.

    Why are people so bent out of shape about these mandates? The govt just wants to have “conversations” with us. Also, such brave and stunning leadership from the city council.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Not many have been complying with her mandate anyway.

      • Pope Jimbo

        So you must be suffering from carpal tunnel from having to write so many emails to her snitch line?

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      I still have to wear the muzzle of shame at work though. Company requires the unclean to wear them.

    • Rat on a train

      The govt just wants to have “conversations” with us.
      We still haven’t finished our conversation on racism.

      • Compelled Speechless

        There is no “finished” with that conversation. It will never stop being useful to grifters.

  26. DEG

    Liberal activists filed the challenge to his candidacy last month. Their argument revolves around the little-used “disqualification clause” of the US Constitution, which was ratified after the Civil War to prevent Confederate officials and those who supported “insurrection” from returning to office.

    Cawthorn, who has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6, filed a federal lawsuit last week to shut down the challenge.

    It’s clown world, so he’ll lose the lawsuit.

    What I’ve come to realize is that restraint may be precisely why she became a sensation. The comparative lack of performativity, the emphasis on competence and completeness and even a certain blandness, was incredibly welcome to many Americans exhausted by Trumpian invective.

    Oh fuck off.

    • ron73440

      Cawthorn, who has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6, filed a federal lawsuit last week to shut down the challenge.

      It’s clown world, so he’ll lose the lawsuit.

      We all know the facts of the case don’t matter, just the politics of the judge.

      Banana Republic, here we come!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Since it will be some judge in Hawaii who rules in this NC case, let’s call it a Pineapple Republic.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Or at least Bananx Republic. (Only a shitlord would assume the gender of that fruit)

      • limey

        Bananx Republic

        Stealing that.

      • hayeksplosives

        Didn’t there used to be some professional integrity among judges that tended to make them rule on the side of law instead of their personal politics, even if they didn’t care for the outcome?

        Is it worse now, or am I just seeing it more?

      • kbolino

        They were better at hiding it before, that’s all.

      • Compelled Speechless

        ?. And it ain’t just judges.

      • limey

        Although it kind of is just judges in terms of making rulings on matters of law. I see an absence of rulings being made like “you cannot hold these people indefinitely without trial”, for instance.

      • ron73440

        They stopped pretending they care about our opinions.

      • limey

        The Hyperbole from the top rope.

  27. robc

    I failed to see either Muffaletta or Hot Brown in the top sandwiches discussion. Pathetic.

    To be fair, the Hot Brown gets an asterisk due to open-facedness and needing to be eaten with knife and fork.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That’s just Shit on a Shingle, still tasty,

      • robc

        I don’t think SoaS has Mornay sauce.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’d happily take a helping of ’83 de Mornay.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You mean De Hornay? cause Yeah!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’m much more of a mid-to-late 90s Mornay man, myself. Yowza, she aged well through the 90s.

      • Compelled Speechless

        She definitely did, but circa “Risky Business” she was something else.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I normally hate confrontation, but I respectfully disagree, unless “something else” means “not yet fully-ripened into awesome womanhood.”

        Early 80s de Mornay was kinda bland, like so many “cute” girls I met in that period; mid-to-late 90s de Mornay was sensational, the kind of woman I would’ve gladly made a fool of myself in public for.

  28. ron73440

    The Psaki article reminds me of the Rolling Stone’s fawning profile of Trudeau that I made the mistake of looking up earlier.

      • kbolino

        The only difference between 2012 and 2022 is that nowadays all the news is glorified fanfiction.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Sugarfree, was this your doing? Jezebel didn’t pickup on the satire?

      • SugarFree

        Sadly, no.

      • ron73440

        OK, that’s worse on every level.

      • EvilSheldon

        Oh man, you had to dig that out of the depths of my memory…

  29. Pope Jimbo

    So when does Rick Wilson lead the Lincoln Project Brigade to Canada to fight the fascists?

    I’m sure that some lucky young Canadian lads will be brought home as war brides.

    • kbolino

      If Rick Wilson marched through rural Canada, he’d become the war bride.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I knew Canucks were deplorable degenerates, but willing to put a ring on Rick Wilson? Worse than I thought possible.

      • kbolino

        I assume Letterkenny is a documentary.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        For some parts of eastern Ontario, sure.

      • limey

        Onterrible?

  30. Fatty Bolger

    The North Carolina State Board of Elections said on Monday that it has the power to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection over his role in the January 6 insurrection — an open legal question at the center of liberal-backed efforts to disqualify him from future office.

    It’s not an open legal question at all. Congress could do it. The state cannot.

    • hayeksplosives

      How the hell does the “State Board of Electors” get to decide something like that, anyway?

      It seems his lawsuit was completely appropriate.

      • Raven Nation

        Constitution gives states a lot of latitude in making election rules.

  31. Fatty Bolger

    I’d expect a British Columbia wolf to have less of a pot belly.

    • Rat on a train

      Should be easier to hunt.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Also better eatin’!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Oops

    • Don escaped Texas

      Fannin was a dope.

      I pray for anyone living in a county named in his honor.

  32. Dr. Fronkensteen

    The company I work for ended testing requirements. Everyone regardless of status still needs to wear the mask if they’re away from their work station.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      vaccinecontrolgroup.com

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Dammit!
        Vaxcontrolgroup.com
        Much better

  33. KSuellington

    Surprisingly enough the mask mandate is going to end here next week. The state one was set to end the 15th of Feb, but I figured the city one would stay for a while longer. Now the vax mandates and school masking needs to go.

    • Raven Nation

      Meanwhile, here in red-state flyover country, our county health director has extended an indoor mask mandate. The state is suing her and the enforcement of it is shaky at best.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      You people really think the Party of slavery is going to end Kungflu slavery without something replacing it?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    I have been out driving around listening to music on a sunny afternoon.

    It felt good to get out of my burrow.

  35. l0b0t

    Has anyone here ever used a sous vide on a ribeye? I have really cut that i want to eat but I fear my normal method, super hot cast iron skillet for 2 1/2 minutes per side will not be long enough to cook the interior and leaving it on long enough to cook the interior would result in more crust than I want.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Yep, it was delicious.

      I did the sous vide to screaming 30 second sear method.

      • Tundra

        This.

        Works great.

    • db

      I have. The recipe book that came with my sous vide cooker had a procedure for strip steak: 2:20 at 129degF for rare, adjust temp up for different doneness. I did the same for a ribeye and it seemed like it needed a little more time or a little more temperature to render the fat better before searing–otherwise you spend too much time in the skillet and overcook the meat.

    • The Hyperbole

      After the 2 ½ minutes per side, finish it in a 400° oven smothered in onions mushrooms and peppers, check every five /ten minutes, until you get the internal temp or (if you go by the press method) feel you want, The high heat will keep cooking it but the veggies will keep the crust from going too far. Oil the and season the veggies when you first put them in the pan.

    • SandMan

      I’m confused, why do you want to cook the interior?

    • EvilSheldon

      Never used a sous vide, but I reverse-sear ribeyes all the time with excellent results. You need an instant-read thermometer. Bring the meat up to 115ºF in a 200ºF oven, then finish in a crazy hot cast-iron skillet (with a little butter) for 30 seconds on a side. Works like a charm.

      • Tundra

        This is how I grill mine.

        Buy a good thermometer.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Look for the union libel

    Francois Laporte, the president of Teamsters Canada, said in a statement that the union represented more than 55,000 professional drivers, including 15,000 long-haul drivers, 90% of whom are vaccinated.
    “The so-called ‘freedom convoy’ and the despicable display of hate lead by the political Right and shamefully encouraged by elected conservative politicians does not reflect the values of Teamsters Canada, nor the vast majority of our members, and in fact has served to delegitimize the real concerns of most truck drivers today,” he said in a statement.

    Fuck off, you government asslicker. You and the teachers and the sky waitresses and the nurses and all the other self-promoting parasites.

  37. limey

    It felt good to get out of my burrow.

    If you go back in is it six more weeks of winter?

  38. EvilSheldon

    So, popping back to the morning thread – would anyone be interested in an East Coast Glibs meetup at the NY State USPSA Championships in August? I know there are some gun gaymers up in here other than myself, Not Adhan, and db. It looks like the match director is allowing group signups, and it’s cheap for a Level 2 match. Any takers?

    • Not Adahn

      Yo.

      • EvilSheldon

        Sorry, I keep misspelling your handle.

        So I saw that the match is being shot at Rochester-Brooks? Back in like 2007, I shot the NY State Practical Rifle Championships at that same club. Imagine running around upstate New York with an AR-15, a stack of 30-rounders, and a 100-round Beta C-Mag…

      • Not Adahn

        I just moved up here in 2011. Never been to Rochester.

        I sent an email to my club’s USPSA director asking if we’re sending a squad but haven’t heard back.

        They don’t need staff, so I’ll have to pay alas.

      • rhywun

        Looked up the club. Rush is a fancy-pants exurb. Nice area.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Game, set and MATCH!

    Francois Laporte, the president of Teamsters Canada, said in a statement that the union represented more than 55,000 professional drivers, including 15,000 long-haul drivers, 90% of whom are vaccinated.
    “The so-called ‘freedom convoy’ and the despicable display of hate lead by the political Right and shamefully encouraged by elected conservative politicians does not reflect the values of Teamsters Canada, nor the vast majority of our members, and in fact has served to delegitimize the real concerns of most truck drivers today,” he said in a statement.

    Looking at the picture, the guy looks like climbing a flight of stairs would have killed him.

    But go ahead and lecture us from on high, CNN. Pluck at our heartstrings. Shame us.

    • rhywun

      Did he regret being a libertarian on his death bed too?

    • Not Adahn

      Do Teamsters in Canada have the same reputation as in the US? I know it has “International” in the name, but is it the same union?

    • Q Continuum

      “does not reflect the values of Teamsters Canada”

      Clearly not considering the fact that organized labor hasn’t reflected the values of its members in decades.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    More sunshine

  41. Q Continuum

    “It brings the whole concept of being a transsexual and transitioning in society into disrepute”

    You’re doing a fine job of that without any help sweetheart.

    “we didn’t ask for this”

    Yes you did.