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As we brace for the Snowpocalypse here (an actual amount of snow that would make a Swiss person sneer in derision, but the local news needs something to freak out about) I will still provide you with high quality, something quality, some links. Please do engage in your usual fun and hijinks in the comments.
- Big Bidnez staying away from Super Bowl ads.
- The DEDDLI NEW STRAYNZ collides with SCIENCE, B**CHES!
- Speaking of DEATH ILLNESS 2021… Messican Prez has it. No word if he caught it from weed or buttsechs.
- SACRILEGE! Or rank protectionism, if you RTA.
Budweiser, like Coke and Pepsi, to pass on Super Bowl 2021 commercials
Bud doesn’t make you wiser.
But Chipotle has announced they’re doing a Super Bowl ad. Our long national nightmare of people going to get another beer, grab some snacks, or take a piss is finally over.
Wait, Chipotle is still drizzling out ads?
I guess.
I was assuming this ad
Well, their ads seem to come in spurts.
“Food with integrity”? More like food with bacteria.
I see where you’re running with this.
It’s because they will never, ever top this spot – https://youtu.be/UGp_1MOeOjc
See THAT’S how you do unity.
Ooh! Ooh! I knew (briefly) the man who came up with that (and many other) Bud ad slogan and wrote the lyrics to that jingle! (If he’d lived a little longer, I’d have been related to him.) ::puffs out chest as if she has a right to be proud of this::
It was one of the last – maybe THE last campaign he did for Bud after decades in charge of their advertising account. He decided he really had said it all.
$55,000,000 per ad?!
Yes, although what you can do is submit an outrageous Super Bowl ad that they will reject, then get free press about your rejected ad.
That’s easy. Just put “Trump” in there somewhere.
I saw it as $5.5M on other sites.
Does anyone know which vaccine is the best? I’ve read some things it depends on age.
If you live in Vegas, just ask your Vet.
Probably the one you can get. Most places I have seen don’t allow you a choice while supplies and distribution are still limiting availability.
That should change soon though.
^This. Also, the Pfizer vaccine requires storage and transport at -70F (uncommon equipment for most pharmacies), the Moderna at -30F.
I opted for Moderna, because they seem to have more experience with mRNA research.
Like Mengele had more experience with tissue grafting?
modeRNA?
Thanks for the info.
I got the organic, free-range vaccine – no side effects for me, but I’ve heard about some doozies from other people…
The one you don’t take.
What makes you say that?
Because I’m not taking no fucking poke of an experimental vaccine that hasn’t been through trials. This thing could take years to completely fuck you up because no one knows about any potential long term side effects.
My thinking is the vaccine is potentially more deadly that the virus, maybe a lot more.
But if you want to take it, it’s your decision. I’m not really worried about the vid, I’ve probably already had it.
Uh, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been through all the usual trials. They were run concurrently instead of sequentially. I actually know people who worked on one of them.
Take or not just as you please, either way, but don’t say they haven’t been through trials, because they have.
As the spousal unit and I have discussed, we’re so far down the totem pole that they’ll be giving Martians the vaccine(s) around the same time that we’re up for ’em, so we’ll have at least six months to a year of watching what happens to others who get the shot.
The one thing that none of these vaccines have been through is long-term observation of adverse side-effects, because they simply couldn’t be. That’s why we’re philosophical about ’em, ’cause we’ll have a decent lead time to do the assessment of long-term (or at least medium-term) risk ourselves.
That’s accurate, of course. And, when they’re first approved for first use, no vaccine or drug is.
The process is onerous enough as it is – companies like Pfizer and Moderna routinely have billions tied up in R&D of a new compound, biosimilar or vaccine before they ever see market.
Again: These vaccines went through the normal process. The primary difference Warp Speed made is that it allowed concurrent, rather than sequential, trials, and jumped the vaccines to the front of FDA’s review queue.
And, when they’re first approved for first use, no vaccine or drug is.
I’m not sure that’s right, especially for vaccines. The trials are set up as long-term studies, and the patients are followed for years (that’s true of the ‘Vid vaccine trials). My understanding is that most vaccines stay in the trial period for years. I think, but don’t know, that’s so long-term effects have a chance to show themselves. I believe most vaccines aren’t released until there has been some opportunity to identify long-term side effects.
More to the point, I’m not sure there’s ever been a vaccine developed in such a short time that was also destined to be injected into a substantial portion of the entire human race within a year of its introduction. That’s a real Hail Mary move, and if it fucks up, it fucks up bigly — instead of a few thousand “oh, crap” moments, we could have tens of millions of ’em.
Someone who posts here claims to have been a participant in one of the trials, even. And he was still alive and in sound mind (as much as anyone who posts here is).
The long-term effects of lipid nanoparticals they use as a transport mechanism for the mRNA vaccines are… murky. As in, not 100% clear whether they can or will cross the blood-brain barrier in significant quantities. It’d be a nightmare if a huge number of people end up with ALS-like or MS-like symptoms down the road.
This is a good read, especially the comments:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/01/11/rna-vaccines-and-their-lipids
non-tinfoil-hat concerns are raised. Sample:
I’d be much more comfortable with one of the more conventional vaccines coming down the pipe.
That’s my nightmare scenario — a year from now, a few percent of the people who get one of the mRNA vaccines come down with either of ALS or MS, leaving Western medical systems dealing with millions of people becoming progressively more disabled and requiring significant resources to help.
“Great Reset,” indeed.
There are several more conventional vaccines available now or soon. Including the Russian one, Sputnik V.
“There are several more conventional vaccines available now or soon. Including the Russian one, Sputnik V.”
Why am I supposed to take that?
Given, any conventional vaccine has to be long term more safe.
But there’s this:
My wife had her flu vaccine about a week ago. Two days later she became very ill. It scared me, I was about ready to take her to the emergency room a few days ago. And me? Never taken a flu shot in my life, yet, I did not get sick.
No, they have not. Nothing makes it through any clinical trials that quickly. That is not how it’s done. I work for a every well known medical research institution. You may want to rethink that.
Alcohol, in the right dosage, is 100 percent effective against sobriety.
It’s at least 300% effective, I’m convinced.
If you are under 65 why would you consider the vaccine? You have damn near a better chance of drawing a winning power ball ticket than being killed by this virus. (I will let you spectrum inhabiting pedants deconstruct that last sentence)
GME closed at 76.76. Up 18% from friday, Down $60 from this morning.
And that will be my last GME update until it breaks above 150 or below 10 or something hilarious happens.
It’s all fun until someone rolls a 7.
Uproar in Switzerland after Swiss dairy bids to make cheese from German milk
I can nazi this ending well.
The hole thing is ridiculous.
They’re whipped into a frothy rage over it.
You’ve all milked this about as far as it can go.
Maybe even a furor?
Why do you think I preemptively narrowed my gaze?
You know us too well.
Because you’re just that Gouda.
It doesn’t have the same impact.
Cool your tilsets.
I thought Switzerland was all free markets and stuff. Guess they need to read up on their Milch Friedman.
It’s just a misunderstanding. The Swiss asked for some milk from the kruats and now they are expecting 9 milks to show up.
I think it’s a Brie-lliant idea.
If we can’t get any cheddar than this with our puns, we might have to put ourselves out to pasture
I would agree with you, but I don’t know jack.
I curd try again.
Let me whey in…this whole thread bleu me away.
Now you’re just Rushan in.
You all are a bunch of muensters.
It’s better to ask permission than Parmesan.
AGH “…ask forgiveness…”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+munsters&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos
Ummmm…gorgonzola?
I got nothin’.
They are sounding the alarm. Give them a horn so they have something to Teuton.
I ricola the Swiss know their cheese.
It’s a Von Trapp!
Coca-Cola, which has featured endearing polar bears in past years’ Super Bowl commercials, said it will not run ads during this year’s CBS broadcast.
What’s the point of watching Super Bowl then?
To see Brady set the record for most Super Bowl losses?
Hey-o!
Tommy is as dreamy as ever.
What kind of last name is Economy?
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2021/01/25/recall-gavin-2020-media-spokesman-randy-economy-bites-back-at-the-los-angeles-timess-hit-piece-n316382
Wait, “Randy Economy” _isn’t_ a pseudonym?
https://recallgavin2020.com/meet-the-team/
That’s amazing.
Yeah I had to read it, research the guy, and finally said…huh, that is his name.
“Economy Demands Newsom’s Resignation”
That works on multiple levels.
Way out west there was this fella… fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Randy Economy.
Now this here story I’m about to unfold took place back in the early ’20s – just about the time of our conflict with Newsome and the ‘vid. I only mention it because sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a hero, ’cause, what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man. And I’m talkin’ about the Economy here. Sometimes, there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s the Economy, in California. But sometimes there’s a man, sometimes, there’s a man. Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But… aw, hell. I’ve done introduced him enough.
Yeah, baby!
*eyeroll*
Anyways, that story has a much more important item on the sidebar: Elizabeth Hurley goes topless under furry coat while posing in the snow
Hurley made a deal with the Devil. That’s the only possible explanation.
That was my thought as well. Phenomenal.
Well..she was the devil at one point in time…
Elizabeth Hurley is the devil.
When I saw that movie, all I could think was “Forget that other chick, shack up with the Devil”
Curly Bill
Bedazzled was a documentary.
Meh. Somebody, somewhere is trolling for tranny hookers because he’s sick of her, right now.
Now that’s one I never understood. Dude could have had any chick he wanted.
No accounting for taste.
Didn’t Eddie Murphy get caught doing the same thing?
Yep
I thought she was the Devil?
Not a particularly good movie, but I’ll watch it anytime for obvious reasons.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I guess I should have read the comments before commenting.
Yeah, I’m not buying these corporations’ piety at all.
More like, they don’t see the value of throwing all that money out the window this year, for some reason….
I’m thinking there’s a decent chance that cancel culture has gotten to them.
You can either say something that’s Woke and piss off a bunch of people, or you can risk saying something that will piss off the SJW community, who will then do everything possible from boycotts to burning down bottling plants. And the wrench in the cog is that you have no idea what will piss off the SJW assholes. They will find anything and exploit it, and you have no idea what that will be.
So it’s just safer to think that a company like coke, that everyone on the planet already knows, won’t benefit by placing a SB add, and primarily risks damage, because their ability to speak has been compromised.
“Terrifying moment pack of men chase 26-year-old through New York’s Chinatown at 11.30am after he gets off bus from Atlanta before beating, robbing and stripping him NAKED”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9184899/A-dozen-people-beat-strip-rob-man-New-Yorks-Chinatown-broad-daylight.html
Funny, they don’t look Chinese.
Would you look at all those white supremacists.
Hey, they were identifying as white!
Forget it, it’s Chinatown.
I like the Equality hoodie on of the attackers was wearing.
I noticed that too.
“Biden revives Trump-blocked plan to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9185771/Joe-Bidens-Treasury-reviving-plan-Harriet-Tubman-20-bill.html
Gun pic or GTFO.
I know Trump was a Jackson fan, but he really missed an opportunity to troll by fast-tracking the Tubman bill using that “come-with-me-if-you-want-to-live” pic of her packing heat.
?
Sure, that was debunked years ago but we have a narrative to plug.
Narrative are forever. That is the way.
“EXCLUSIVE: Inside the ‘whites only’ church sowing discord in a small Minnesota town after a ‘hate group’ quietly purchased and adorned the place of worship with Nazi symbols to ‘honor’ their Northern European ancestors”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9115263/Inside-whites-church-small-Minnesota-town.html
So that’s how Jimbo is Pope? Well, at least he’s not a communist.
Isn’t that the set of one of those Kingsman movies?
Wow, they look scary!
Look at the blonde with the bull horn.
OK, so what do they actually believe?
They’re a white only group which claims to practice old Norse/Germanic paganism, and believes in forming a strong community of their own racial group. So kind of like the Nation of Islam, except I don’t think their leader rubs shoulders with anyone in Congress.
This is why I am careful what tattoos of my heritage I get. Co-opted symbols or not, a dishonest media will conflate.
I didn’t see any Nazi symbols.
You have to look at some of them with unfocused eyes, like with those 3D paintings from 25 years ago.
What are you talking about? They’re all white.
They use runes. Nazis use runes.
Fin.
You did not see them?
They seem nice…
For many the specter of white supremacy’s insidious spread was made suddenly and horrifically real on January 6, when Trump supporters stormed Washington DC’s Capitol. Some carried rifles; some stalked the Senate floor with fistfuls of flex-cuffs; one brought 11 Molotov cocktails.
*rolls eyes*
Trump supporters stormed Washington DC’s Capitol. Some carried rifles
I haven’t seen any pics of protestors carrying rifles inside the Capitol.
one brought 11 Molotov cocktails
What, in little airline bottles?
I haven’t seen any pics of fire at that protest, either.
Some did light journalists’ equipment on fire outside the Capitol, but that was about it.
[golf clap]
Does seem like an odd number, though.
I read an article about the molotov cocktails guy (he also had guns). While it is awfully suspicious to bring such weapons, as I don’t think area of effect weapons such as grenades can be legitimately used for self-defense, he did leave all the molotovs and most (all?) of his weapons in his truck, so it’s not like someone was stalking the capitol with grenades.
some
stalkedwalked on the Senate floor with fistfuls of flex-cuffs [which they had picked up off the ground, after police had dropped the flex-cuffs]Doesn’t sound quite so dramatic in context.
I only saw one stalking, er, walking with a handful of flexicuffs.
The entire “there were catch and kill teams!” hysterics is based entirely on that dude having some flex-cuffs, AFAICT. The fact he picked them up off the ground would seem to indicate this wasn’t some grand plan, but what do I know.
The only people armed I saw in any picture or video from the day were cops.
Buffalo Guy’s flag was mounted on a spear. The rest were armed with hate and white supremacy.
And the only person who shot anyone was a cop.
Just walked past our break room and President Biden is actually holding a briefing…was too busy to stop and listen…but sounded like he was jumbling his words again.
It’s probably the same one Kristen had to suffer through this morning.
You saw it, too? I had it muted, but I had the advantage of being on my sofa on my own computer.
Budweiser is the latest corporation to back out of advertising during this year’s broadcast, choosing instead to join a public awareness campaign for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Thirty-second ad spots for the Super Bowl reportedly go for about $55 million a piece. Budweiser will instead route some of that money to the Ad Council’s efforts to raise public awareness about the vaccine, as well as a 90-second COVID-themed “film” called “Bigger Picture” narrated by actress Rashida Jones. It will air digitally leading up to the Super Bowl, which airs on Feb. 7, 2021 on CBS.
Hanging swastika banners from the roof of corporate HQ to appease the mask Nazis. Such brave.
“90-second COVID-themed “film” called “Bigger Picture” narrated by actress Rashida Jones.”
Yeah, that’ll be good.
Maybe that’s why we haven’t heard from Pie recently.
Bear Chases Skier Down Mountain in Viral Video
You shouldn’t torment him like that,
A backpack is basically a picnic basket with a delay factor.
Yabba, dabba, do.
The bear went over the mountain
The bear went over the mountain
The bear went over the mountain
To chase those who did ski…..
Budweiser is the latest corporation to back out of advertising during this year’s broadcast, choosing instead to join a public awareness campaign for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fuck. But there are good things in the world. From the sidebar.
Moderna, which already has its vaccine being distributed in the United States, said new studies conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases showed its two-dose vaccine should protect against the mutated strains, but may require another booster to protect against the South African strain.
“Should protect”?
Lopez Obrador’s strategy has focused on increasing hospital capacity over testing and contact tracing. Instead of lockdowns, Mexico has used a tiered system of restrictions from state to state to limit the impact on the economy.
That sounds fairly sane.
At one time, at least, those restrictions included “you can’t leave your state”.
Ah.
So not all that sane.
“REVEALED: Dr. Fauci is the highest paid employee in the federal government with a $417,608-a-year salary and in 2019 he made more than Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9185497/Fauci-highest-paid-federal-government-official-417-000-year-salary.html
Either supply and demand doesn’t apply to government spending, or there is a huge shortage over-credentialed assholes no one knows about.
Too bad this quote wasn’t at the top and not buried way into the article:
‘Matthew, no, I got zero! I am a government worker. I have a government salary.’ – Fauci
This seems to be a developing narrative. I think someone posted last night about WaPo and perhaps NYT publishing stories on Fauci going after him for his lies about masks early in the pandemic. It’s possible his 15 minutes are up and there’s some insider in Biden’s admin pushing a narrative. Of course, I could be completely wrong but it seems odd that these stories are coming out after almost 12 months of unadulterated praise.
CNN published that “anonymous sources in the administration lament Trump left no plan” and then Fauci came out and said ‘what? there was a plan, we’re following it”.
And after that, I think his days got numbered. The Biden Comms people are still trying to push the “plan, what plan” narrative and he’s inconvenient. I expect him pushed out in a week.
And reading this over, I realize I’ve turned into those people who read Pravda “between the lines” .
because that’s where we are now.
That makes sense. And Fauci is unlikely to say there was no plan, since I think he was one of the contributors to it.
Over half-a-mil Canadian? Eff me, our own Prime Minister doesn’t make that kind of dosh (not that he should, but that’s a different gripe…).
No wonder the lying little gnome’s never retired.
Walls work.
As Virginia awaits the resolution of legal challenges that have delayed the removal of the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, workers from the Department of General Services will install a fence to prepare for the statue’s removal.
In a statement, DGS said they will install fencing today around the Lee monument grounds to “ensure the safety of visitors and workers as part of DGS’s plan to prepare the site for the removal of the Lee statue.”
I can’t wait to see what it is replaced with.
A PRC-style statue of Gov Northam and Mayor Stoney standing together, saluting the people. Northam has his hand on Stoney’s bottom and Stoney has a bulge.
Hopefully something better than that awful Arthur Ashe statue. I have zero problem with honoring Ashe. I have a big problem with doing it by having a really bad statue that looks like he’s about to beat a bunch of children with his tennis racket while throwing books at them.
For you non-Central VA Glibs
^This.
I love that the kids’ hands are raised defensively.
Unless he was known in life for oft raising his hands while he spoke, that is an odd choice for a statue. I think they were trying to do too much. An action shot of him playing tennis, or even taking the same general concept but have him handing the racket and books to the kids, would be better.
“She is a multi-millionaire at age 19, but Billie Eilish is still learning how to spend her money.
The singing sensation revealed she recently paid $35 for cereal – but didn’t realize until after the fact just how expensive the purchase actually was.
‘I don’t know what things cost because I’ve never been an adult before,’ she told March issue of Vanity Fair. ‘And, you know, I grew up with no money.’
‘It’s a really weird position I’m in. I feel kind of stupid because I’m like, I don’t know how much Froot Loops are. I tried to order one box of Froot Loops and I was like, Oh yeah, sure. It’s $35. I didn’t know that that’s expensive.’
Billie Eilish reveals she paid $35 for CEREAL (but did not realize she had actually bought 70 boxes until later): ‘I didn’t know that that’s expensive’
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She is a multi-millionaire at age 19, but Billie Eilish is still learning how to spend her money.
The singing sensation revealed she recently paid $35 for cereal – but didn’t realize until after the fact just how expensive the purchase actually was.
‘I don’t know what things cost because I’ve never been an adult before,’ she told March issue of Vanity Fair. ‘And, you know, I grew up with no money.’
‘I didn’t know that that’s expensive’: Billie Eilish revealed she spent $35 for cereal during an interview with the March issue of Vanity Fair
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‘I didn’t know that that’s expensive’: Billie Eilish revealed she spent $35 for cereal during an interview with the March issue of Vanity Fair
‘It’s a really weird position I’m in. I feel kind of stupid because I’m like, I don’t know how much Froot Loops are. I tried to order one box of Froot Loops and I was like, Oh yeah, sure. It’s $35. I didn’t know that that’s expensive.’
Turns out Billie had accidentally ordered 70 small boxes of Froot Loops cereal, further illustrating the high cost.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9184987/Billie-Eilish-reveals-paid-35-CEREAL-didnt-realize-bought-70-boxes-later.html
Fifty cents a box sounds like a good deal.
Woops! Feel free to edit that.
That sounds like 50¢ for a single-serving, food service style box.
Is that the lumpy chick with green hair?
I find it hard to believe that someone who grew up with no money didn’t know that $35 is a lot for cereal. Poor and middle class people tend to cart their young kids to the grocery store when they have to go shopping, and it’s no mystery what things cost when the prices are right there. Not to mention that there tend to be frequent discussions of what can be afforded when money is short.
I find it hard to believe no one edited my comment.
For many the specter of white supremacy’s insidious spread was made suddenly and horrifically real on January 6, when Trump supporters stormed Washington DC’s Capitol. Some carried rifles; some stalked the Senate floor with fistfuls of flex-cuffs; one brought 11 Molotov cocktails.
Something something of the drama queens, for the drama queens and by the drama queens.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9184821/Demi-Rose-showcases-toned-curves-frilly-pink-bikini-shares-stunning-throwback-snaps.html
Nope. Chunky crucifix necklace.
Unity, healing, etc.
“The whole world is laughing at the United States of America, the so-called cradle of democracy,” he said in a virtual acceptance speech that was recorded on January 6, shortly after the riot on Capitol Hill, accordting to the Hollywood Reporter.
“We’re at a crossroads now, and everybody please be safe. This is not a game. These people got guns with ammunition,” the filmmaker warned. “I hope to God that I’m wrong, but people are gonna get killed behind this bullshit. This president, President Agent Orange [Donald Trump], will go down in history with the likes of Hitler. These guys — all his boys — they’re going down on the wrong side of history.”
The world is laughing because we let a senile retard steal the election. Then, we let him piss off literally everyone in his first few days in office. They will laugh even harder when he gets ousted and the true Nazi, Kamala gets installed. It would all be really funny, if it were not going to screw over the whole world.
Then, we let him piss off literally everyone in his first few days in office
Well, not everyone. Putin, Pooh Bear, and the Iranian mullahs are pretty happy.
And in fairness his donor class is too. He is giving the people who bought him what they paid him for.
The world is laughing because they’re nasty little xenophobes who hate American culture.
*clears throat*
Go fuck yourself.
Interesting read here:
https://www.robrhinehart.com/books-not-sold-by-amazon/
Bullshit
Ya think? It was published in 1948 and is not out of copyright. Find the copyright holder and get them to put out a reprint and ebook. Or else, you know, get it from Gutenberg.
Not strange at all. Draco clearly is on the ball.
I could go on.
Amazon is notorious for randomly pulling books because somebody didn’t like something about it, although I am largely only familiar with this in erotica. They do, can, have, and will continue to refuse to sell certain titles. I am not defending Amazon.
This article is not well done or thought out.
and then the instant counterpoint from an actual expert!
very, thanks for that link
“Biden lifts transgender military ban”
None of THOSE people voted for you-know-who.
I’m sure plenty of them did.
I can finally max the PT test!
Xi and Putin have more cocktails parties, continues laughing their asses off.
The entire US military will be made up of obese pink and blue haired Xes who cannot even do one girl pushup, in less than 4 years.
When I think of Joe Biden I think of life, vigor and newness.
The new President and first lady settled in at the White House this weekend, and did so with extended Biden family members.
“The residence has life in it again,” a White House source told CNN of the energy inside. “It’s the honeymoon period where everything feels new.”
Don’t forget about all those fresh ideas!
The weirdest fucking thing is the Joe Biden Is So Cool and Relatable propaganda effort. I mean, seriously, Clinton and Obama I get how both are very fun guys in their own way even if you disagree with them. But Joe Biden is a turd. He’s the kind of guy who gets his jaw jacked in real life, except hes spent 50 fucking years in a job where taking a swing gets you a federal case, so hes been able to run his fucking mouth without consequences.
Yeah, this one has been a major puzzler to me throughout his anointing early last year as “the guy” – 12 months ago he was a doddering mushbrain, a joke, gropey joe, sniffing children’s hair.
how people actually bought into him being cool just staggers me.
I don’t know what you are on about. The emperor is wearing very fine clothes. Very fine, indeed.
You don’t get a 50 year career in politics without acting like a career politician.
Clinton and Obama I get how both are very fun guys in their own way
Clinton, yeah.
Obama? Not seeing it.
Agreed. Obama strikes me as a pompous douche.
I had a client who worked closely with Clinton and she gushed at me one day that he could make anyone feel like they were the most important person in the world.
Obama seems like a dead bore.
From what I know about Bill Clinton, he’d be a fun guy to have a few beers with. He’s intelligent, charming, charismatic, engaging, likes to check out the babes. As long as we could avoid politics, he’d probably be a fun guy to hang out with.
Obama? No way. He’d be a crashing bore. He’s not all that bright, and he’d talk about himself the whole time. The guy’s a malignant narcissist and practically a walking definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Bill Clinton would be the fun guy to sit next to at the party. He’d know all the dirty jokes, do the accent impressions. You just wouldn’t want him sitting next to your wife, ‘specially if you had to sit next to Hillary.
So very apt – https://youtu.be/_OlMOyVOq9Q
Same. Biden has been a punchline for almost the entirety of his career. His own ticket mate tried to talk him out of running because “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up”. He’s always given off a creepy-uncle vibe with the hair sniffing and weirdly handsy way he is with young women and girls. He is an awful public speaker. And now he clearly has deteriorating mental faculties.
Yet the media has gone whole-hog on “Joe’s such a cool guy, and super competent too!” Look, I understand why a lot of people hate Trump, but just admit that you supported Biden for that reason. Don’t try to sell me a ridiculous bill of goods about how awesome you suddenly find Biden.
When you have to tell people you’re in charge, you aren’t. When the media has to tell people you’re cool…
Based Josh Hawley.
Hawley’s letter to the Senate Democrats who filed the ethics complaint against him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) included:
The idea that one Senator who disagrees with another Senator can therefore have that Senator punished, sanctioned, censured, or removed is utterly antithetical to our democracy and the very idea of open, lawful debate. This line of thinking is, however, sadly consistent with the new woke-mob mentality that you should cancel anyone who disagrees with your views. Your baseless allegations are in that sense unfortunately typical of today’s leftwing cancel culture, a culture that tramples on the democratic traditions that left and right once defended together.
“can therefore have that Senator punished, sanctioned, censured, or removed”
Hey, it works on Twitter.
Enjoy
Something a bit different.
Vintage ukulele
Some of you may think this story from Oklahoma doesn’t bode well for STEVE SMITH.
I prefer to think that BIG CRYPTID has successfully lobbied the OK govt to start a program that brings new firearms and love toys to the woods for STEVE SMITH.
Just for the record, how much would an audio recording of an NPR host being
rapedloved by STEVE SMITH be worth? I can just hear those soft, low tones of Marra Liasson saying “no, no, no not the backdoor.”Has SP been leaking my treatments and pitches again?
I can’t even remember who recommended it now. But my wife and I watched the first episode of season 1 and started on the 2nd episode last night.
Whoa, it’s sort of whacked. First thing I noticed is that the daughter is a bitch face shrew of a cunte. I mean if you really want to make an unlikeable character, it’s hard to top that.
I’m talking about Yellowstone of course, might have been nice to mention that in the post.
I heard it was a Sons of Anarchy knock-off, and I honestly couldn’t stomach SoA.
Aw, I watched SoA until it got utterly ridiculous, and even then I kept watching it through the finale because “well, I’ve watched it this long, I’m going to see how it ends, dammit”
Yellowstone got utterly ridiculous in the first episode. Don’t watch it if you won’t want to realize it’s a film and a lot of parts of it are, well, utterly not like reality.
I stuck it out. It’s terrible and awful and really good at the same time. Kurt Sutter without Shawn Ryan to temper the crazy. I think overall The Shield was better. Everyone always compares The Shield to The Wire but they’re missing the point. Sons of Anarchy is the natural comparison. The red-headed Sutter stepchild of Shawn Ryan’s masterpiece.
The shield was good TV. SOA was mildly cool, because they had some motorcycle people involved and some motorcycles involved. Motorcycles are cool.
SOA, like a lot of the TV-MA type shows, just went on too long. You’ve got a few of the better creative types now understanding the thing to do is to get a quality show going, have an actual vision for how it starts, grows, builds, climaxes, and ends and then can sell the network on the value of doing it that way.
There’s too many shows where guys start with 4 good seasons worth of content, but then the show blows up and it meanders into 7 seasons of bloated mess. Breaking Bad and The Wire I can watch over and over because they’re tight, coherent stories.
Others, like Goliath, morph into a bloated mess by season 3.
“SOA, like a lot of the TV-MA type shows, just went on too long.”
See also Burn Notice
Well, a bike club that does international arms deals, is pretty fucking funny. Usually, the feds are so far up their asses, a petty meth deal gets everyone involved life in prison. See Danny’s story. A local outlaw that everyone here knows. I would have voted for him, but he didn’t show up on the ballot. Been hearing wild tales of him and his family for decades. Character, that guy.
See I thought the issue with Burn Notice was that it started to kind of be something it wasn’t. I watched Burn Notice, and I still flip on the first few seasons before they added Jesse, as a fun show to put on while I play on my phone or clean the house or fold clothes.
Every plot is the same: There’s someone who needs help, Mike is planning a scheme, Sam is funny but capable, Fi is sexy/scary in equal measure, there’s some PG 13 violence, swashs are buckled, derrings are dooed, theres plenty of Miami girls walking around in the background, lots of B roll of cool architecture or sandy beaches. It’s just pure fun.
Later on they really starting leaning into the Multi Episode Big Bad thing, when the whole point of it was the Monster of The Week that didn’t engage the brain too hard.
Re: Viking “it started to kind of be something it wasn’t.”
Yes and no IMHO. The show began with the big picture of Weston being burned and that thread carried through almost every episode. For me the problem began once he was “restored.” At that point the Big Bad BECAME the MOW. It lost a lot of the tongue-in-cheek humor. I remembering someone noting that they dispensed with the screen-shot subtitles which were also hilarious.
They probably should have ended it after S4. That said, I did think the series finale was a good way of wrapping up all the storylines.
I watched a bit of SoA, but gave up because it seemed silly because of cable network censorship rules.
After getting used to various other TV series showing naked people (especially gratuitous nudity), watching a SoA scene at a clubhouse after a big party and all the girls are in their grundies seemed silly.
I think they did show nekkid girls, for brief moments, in the later seasons.
So the opposite of Black Sails?
The first few seasons it was like there was a shot clock. Every 10 minutes or so they’d have to cut to some bar or brothel where they could justify having a gaggle of naked women.
By the end it was no nudity and all woke bullshit.
Thank you for saving me from that.
Fun fact, a fan of MINE went to a con and got a pic of Zach McGowan with my pirate book. He said he’d read it, but you know how that goes.
It would have been a far better show if they ditched the series long arcs and concentrated on one or two episode stories. They had good actors and characters and it was generally well done (aside from the overuse of six minute White Buffalo melancholy song outros). The Hellboy/Jaxs/leela Macbeth rehashing got tedious very fast.
MacBeth?
I thought it was a Hamlet retelling. Or did they segue from Hamlet to MacBeth?
Hamlet.
I giggled when they drowned Ophelia.
And then Gertrude stabbed her in the head with an icepick.
You are correct, I get can’t keep all those Dickens books straight.
Wouldn’t know because I haven’t watched SoA. I rarely watch TV. I tried the Expanse, and I sort of like it, but haven’t even made it through the first episode of season 1.
Wife and I are still meh on Yellowstone. It’s interesting enough to finish the 2nd episode and see how it goes. The landscapes and artwork got me through the first episode. Wife is a Costner fan and she’s still like meh.
I’ve been watching a program called Beforeigners that Tulip recommended. It’s a Norwegian police procedural with a pretty wild twist. Excellent show.
I watched the first episode of Occupied based on a rec here – I dug it and will continue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied
I have a couple of friends who just love Jo Nesbø’s work. I haven’t read him yet, mostly because it’s not my preferred genre. I left thrillers behind after a Patricia Cornwell jag.
I like Nesbo’s Harry Hole series. By the end they were getting a bit tired, but still liked them enough.
I couldn’t even get half way through his book “MacBeth” though.
Beforeigners became a favorite of SP’s and mine. H/T to the Flower Chick.
There’s going to be a season 2, too! I had to stop reading articles because spoilers and I’m not finished yet.
You’ve got to get a few episodes in on “The Expanse” before you really get sucked in – not a perfect show, but the best science fiction show I have seen in a long time.
I’ve always been meaning to watch that because the hot redhead Celtic princess from Brittania is in it.
No idea who that is. Pretty much everyone I know in the show so far is Costner, the ranch dad who owns like half a million acres, the witchy bitchy daughter, the sons, and Chief Big Casino Pompous Fuckface.
Almost everyone in it are truly unlikeable to some degree or another.
Kelly Reilly
GAH! Do not watch Yellowstone, or that will FOREVER BE RUINED for you! You’ve been warned!
Duly noted. I’ll not have my fantasies of my wild warrior princess ruined!
I’m only watching this if there really is a character called Chief Big Casino Pompous Fuckface.
There is. Given, I made that name up, but the effect is still the same.
Thomas Rainwater: Thank you for such a visceral reminder
of what it’s like to be oppressed.
John Dutton: Ah, cut the shit, Tom.You’re a Harvard MBA who interned for the PR firm that represented the
American Petroleum Institute. You never missed a meal in your fat life.
lol
With a pedigree like that, you want me to hate the guy? He’s practically one of our homies!
A/K/A Ronald Drumpf!
So I was 100% on board with that, but then a couple episodes you see why she is that way and then you just feel sorry for her.
Fuck, I wanted to to be standing on that stump her brother blew up.
Little House on the Prairie?
Since Bezos has gone over to the dark side, I am beginning to enjoy articles like this one more and more.
It is a sob story from a refuge woman who came to the US with no education, no skills and got a job at the Amazon warehouse in Minnesoda. She goes on and on about how horrible it was that they worked her so hard. Especially since she had no English skills and no other work history to prepare her for the job.
I noticed that she never mentions what she was making at the Amazon warehouse. Last I heard the rate was between $18-22/hour. Not bad for someone who just go to the US 3 months earlier and had no skills.
Have you seen the one where he’s opposing mail-in ballots for employees wanting to unionize?
Smeagol really nails the hypocrisy of the left with that one.
Yeah, it is funny that when it comes to his stuff, Bezos isn’t going to tolerate any shady mail in ballots.
It really is sad to see Amazon go down the bad path. Their cloud infrastructure and services have been a real boon to a lot of people. I remember the bad old days of our start ups and trying to come up with money to buy hardware to develop on. It would have been so much nicer to simply use VM’s and other services.
But yeah, I now am giggling when he is getting pounded by the shit birds on the Left.
Their service is becoming unbearably bad.
Yesterday then even topped their own previous level of shittyness.
I got an order and as usual they took a photo of the delivery to go with the order.
The problem is, the photo was for a different order, which was in fact left downstairs, with half the order missing.
Their customer service employees seem to be embarrassed now. I can’t even imagine the number of complaints they deal with on a daily basis.
To be fair, lots of people think you don’t have to work to get money in America.
and in many cases, they’re not wrong either!
Some of those people would be right.
Well, politicians and bureaucrats have pretty much proven that beyond a reasonable doubt.
But possibly even a better career, crack baby mum.
So what’s her fucking point? Did she believe that she was entitled to an office 9-5 job where she gets paid 50k+ a year? If it’s that terrible, I’m pretty sure someone from her refugee camp would be more than willing to take her place.
And a ten-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills where she would live with rich husband who look just like Señor Hasselhoff. America just give you these things.
Dude, you are supposed to be uplifted at a story of her perfectly assimilating into US culture.
She came here a refugee and was able to learn how to be a victim and thus rise to the top of American society. Those dumb bunnies back in the refugee camp are so deluded that they want to stop being victims.
Nailed it.
Why did you have to be so accurate in that description?
Now I’m depressed.
Uh oh, looks like the canceldouches are coming for Styx, the good one not the rock group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v5mvmFM-TI
Styx the rock group is the good one ?
Hey! I saw Foreigner, Kansas, Bad Company and Styx at one of the last shows at the Gibson amphitheater. Styx was clearly the winner. This was 2012 or so. Styx looked pretty much as they did in the eighties. The others? Not so much.
?
Best Bad Company song
This one drove me wild.
Most of what I follow on you tube is non-political, and the political stuff I follow is not really up to the minute culture war rancor clickbait, but more philosophical in nature. Having said that, the first of all the channels I follow to give it the proverbial “so long, saddlebags!” and up sticks for Rumble is a non-political channel and I guess they just showed their hand and tossed away most of their audience for a principle that was irrelevant given the nature of their channel. I got the rumble app and it’s nor great.
Speaking of shows- I watched episode 1 of Neverland, last night. I’ll watch another one. We’ll see if it holds my interest.
Also, speaking of shows, I recommend “Flack.” We were amused. A lot. To the point of snurking food. Unfortunately it’s an Amazon thingie.
Amused enough to feel like making love?
I started watching the Netflix Nightstalker series. It isn’t bad or great. It seems OK. A little too much love for the cops in my opinion, but not so bad it is unwatchable.
The problem is that Tiller Russell is supposed to be releasing a documentary on the Silk Road in February and I hope that doesn’t do as much copsucking.
Uffda. Minnesoda will now be 100% carbon free by 2040 (instead of 2050).
Why doesn’t King Walz use his dials and dictatorial powers to simply decide we will be carbon free by 2023? Why fuck around and let Gaia get raped by evil capitalists and climate deniers? Surely he can simply issue a proclamation doing away with those pesky laws of thermodynamics (probably invented by dead white men) and we’ll instantly be flooded with clean energy.
Well if this were true, why would the govt have to get involved at all. If clean energy was actually lower cost, why wouldn’t the utilities switch over voluntarily? Are they being run by depraved people who love polluting? Or is it maybe like the gender pay gap and not entirely true?
the price of clean energy, including wind, solar and battery storage, has fallen dramatically
Pretty sure that’s bullshit. Wind energy costs pretty much what it always has, windmills being windmills. Solar is getting better, but its still nowhere near as cost-efficient (unsubsidized) as ye olde fossil fuels. There are marginal improvements in battery tech, but no breakthrough that makes very large storage capacity anything but pretty effing expensive.
Who dares doubt the word of a Director at a Non-Profit?
Do you not know that people working for non-profits are as pure as the driven snow and would never tell a lie or stretch figures to make a point? These people work for no profit so what motivation would they have for not telling the whole truth?
I generally consider non-profits to be stupid, evil, or both now.
Gotta love the lumping in of “battery storage” in there, as though storing coal/oil/gas generated electricity in a battery transforms it into clean energy.
Batteries are incredibly clean and environmentally friendly, this is known.
How in heck does one remove all the carbon from an entire state? That’s beyond ridiculous.
“Yep, the diamonds too, throw em in the bag….”
I suppose Minnesota is 90% snow, which is just hydrogen and oxygen. It might be easier than other states.
I am pretty sure humans are carbon-based and emit greenhouse gasses. Sounds like a real solution presented.
I’d like to see some volunteers for fart-capture technology.
So how many new nuclear plants will Minnesota be licensing?
“The owner of the Washington Post has officially stated that mail-in ballot elections have serious and systemic flaws”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1353150994838917121
Check out the warning Twitter put on it.
“Hey techie, smarty pants followers of mine! Do you think what happened with my trump photo scandal being such an international overblown outrage could have been because of this “GamerGate” thing I’m just learning about? ”
https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1353383846109036547
OFFS!!
No, Kathy, it’s because you’re an asshole. Simple.
No, you fucking dumbshit, who has never played a game in your entire life, unless it’s Farmville or My Little Pony. Gamersgate is about a bunch of lameass Feminazis trying to ruin what’s left of fun in life, like gaming. Piss the fuck off.
BTW, the biggest selling games now, like AC Valhalla and CP 2077, are more full of toxic masculinity that ever before, because that’s what sells, even to female gamers. Enjoy, losers.
I think it would only be fair to do a scientific test where some B-lister holds up the severed head of Biden on Twitter. Then compare and contrast.
I’m sure Kathy Griffin would be the first to defend the person doing this.
*To be sure, the experiment would only be of Biden’s head. Holding up Kamala’s head is beyond the pale. Real Dr. Frankenstein ethics violation for sure.
That would be insurrection and sedition.
And here in Indianapolis, it looks like some real nastiness has occurred.
‘”Arrest made in Indianapolis mass shooting that left 5 people, including pregnant mother, dead
Police say this “does not appear to be a random act.”‘
More details need to come. We shall see. It’s a weird story so far. At 4am a kid called the police about the shooting and the dead. This kid was arrested (info not coming out yet cuz of age) but he ALSO had gunshot wounds, but is in the hospital and expected to survive. He was well enough to call the police, so I guess it can’t be *that* bad.
The kid killed 5 people then wounded himself and then called the police? Or they arrested someone else, who is also underage? I’m confused but info is just moving around and I am done rereading for now.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/people-including-pregnant-woman-killed-indianapolis-mass-shooting/story?id=75459364
I bet it was the fetus in the pregnant woman who did the shooting. Everyone knows how easy it is to get a gun in America. The kid was probably radicalized by the grunge music it listened to. Everyone knows you can hear Satan if you play the album In Utero backwards.
I expect Biden to issue an EO mandating that all guns are banned AND mandatory abortions to stop these grunge predators.
Especially Indiana.
/Chicago
I hear Indiana guns killed another 5 last night because social injustice, and stuff.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1353766523664531459
If whales are real how come John McAfee didn’t fuck one? CHECKMATE LIBTARDS!!
Oh, goody. ”Birdwatch.” I’m sure that’ll
put Twitter’s imprimatur onstop misinformation just like *that*.Someone should start a competitor called “Streisand.” Dumbasses.
“Birdwatch”, starring David Hasselhoff.
With just as many tits.
What you did there has been watched.
Mo’s link to the guy writing about Satanism books on Amazon reminded me of this story from Australia about a hospital recognizing Satanism as a legitimate religion for its chapel and other religious services. They’re making a point about religious freedom etc., but there is some pretty funny trolling going on in the application. At one point the group’s spiritual leader declared, “Also, I can imagine there may be Christians who are facing death and may wish to turn to Satanism in their last moments. We need to give them every opportunity to turn to the Dark Lord. That’s very important work.”
So… fucking… racist.
You cannot get into hell on works alone. Jesus may drag you into heaven so as not to let his mercy go to waste.
That sounds more like the Jesus of my faith – http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/classic/classictales/WWS1.html
Jason Riley’s Thomas Sowell documentary film is out and available to watch on the Free To Choose Network youtube channel.
RE: TV shows, I’m watching Counterpart. I find it interesting in alt-Berlin, where a plague raged so badly that cigarettes, pigs, and handshaking are banned, and not reporting being sick is a crime, the STILL thought shutting down. everything wa too wacky an unrealistic.
I’m also trying to figure out how if the plague wiped out 0.5% of the world’s population that Belin is 80% depopulated. Nice baby-dyke breasts though.
It’s an enjoyable show. Wish they had continued it.
What service?
Amazon I think. I watched it awhile back. Not to spoil too much, but I was fascinated by the ability of the lead actor, acting as the lead, his counterpart, his counterpart acting as him, and he acting as his counterpart. Four different characters that were similar, but unique. That was some badass acting.
Beloved commenter Pie In The Sky turned me on to Tim Dillon and for that I will be forever grateful.
https://youtu.be/TMLaUkJd4ds
BTW, speaking of Pie, where is Pie? Have not seen our Romanian friend in a while.
He’s MIA, sadly.
He’s on a break, apparently.
January detox includes Glibs?
Hopefully not in the Romanian gulag. Although, if he is, I volunteer to bunk with him when it’s my turn. STFU, Broketard, I’ll punch you in the face.
Per Swiss, he is taking an internet break.
Why? It seems pretty safe to watch the destruction of the USA from there.
Understandable – I took a mini one and mostly just read the DFZ books for a week or so.
Doctor Fuckin’ Zeuss?
Detroit Free Zone
Books Mojo recommended
https://www.goodreads.com/series/246588-dfz
I enjoyed them greatly.
Ah yes, thanks.
I believe his exact words were “Mind your own business you nosy buggers”
He’s being chased by a bear.
I missed this. Look out for them Okies, STEVE!
$25k bounty to trap Steve and bring him in?
We’re going to need a volunteer to be the RAPEBAIT.
I nominate Brochettaward.
After all, he always wants to be first . . .
China says, “I know you are, but what am I?”
“Now claims”? I remember them claiming it six or eight months ago.
You know Chinese claims. An hour later you have to claim it again.
*gorf crap *
The auroras are looking very strong tonight, but it’s cloudy in Churchill ?
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
Cloudy evening here, too. Normally, we can see aurorae from our location.
Normally we can see areolae from our location.
https://archive.li/OVkVa
FIFY.
Last Sunday’s Oglaf (NSFW) was for you.
RE: The Chive gallery:
I really want to like #1 (also appears as #48) but she has a face diaper picture in her iChive gallery.
#3 is Ashley Tervort
#9 – A bikini barista?
Good iChive galleries – #11 (also appears as #52), 18, 46 (also appears in #57)
Google image search says #15 is pornstar Maria Antonella, who also goes under LaSirena69.
#19 has face diaper pictures in her iChive gallery. Blech.
#31 is inviting.
#58 looks unhappy.
I saw the most beautiful aurora a couple nights ago on the Churchill webcam. It came slithering across the screen and was dancing like crazy. Tonighht is supposed to be even stronger, but alas.
This one seems strong.
After pissing off most everyone else, now Biden’s gonna piss off the deaf too!
WHAT?
But, wait! There’s more! Apparently, Ole’ Joe is set-tripping!
OFFS. The derp-of-the-year competition is off and running.
Too bad there is no technology as standard part of a TV that would enable a person to read the dialogue on the screen.
Why oh why won’t engineers develop such a technology?
But if he going to go down this road then he needs to hire the man used for Obama in South Africa.
O YEAH WHAT ABOUT ALL THE DEAFS IN ATTENDANCE H8ER
Stunning and brave.
She seems well informed!