We’re just… inconsistent here at Glibertarians Central. Brett goes in and out, Sloopy is irregular, Banjos disappears for days at a time… it’s a fucking mess. You just can’t rely on habit and the comfort of the familiar. And if you really want to be taken out of your comfort zone, I suddenly show up on the Sabbath with weird-ass music, clunky snark, and a sense of style and composition that should make you wonder how I convinced SP to marry me.
An auspicious batch of birthdays today include a guy known for his signature achievement; the pride of the Mormon church; a true space man who cut the Gordan knot; a guy who banged Marie Curie; a guy whose work aldered the course of chemistry; the guy who enshrined the “limp dick” rule into law; a guitarist who did OK with two fingers; a true genius of TV comedy; an argument for term limits; and one of my academic grandparents.
Let’s get to the news.
Kicking the can down the road.
Too little too late. Learn from a skilled troll.
What the fuck is wrong with Jews?
Pass the popcorn, this will be hilarious.
Let’s see which of our commenters is missing.
I’m sorry for your loss, but I hope you get creamed for attorneys’ fees and sanctioned.
FLASH UPDATE: 2021 is looking up!
Old Guy Music is a favorite of my teen years. And it’ll get you moving in the morning.
Thank y’all that turnt up last night! I think we had something like 24 or 25 of y’all ambulance-chasers & ambulance-stealers.
It was a really fun time. I’m still paying for it.
Love your hot-pink mixer.
I should borrow my mom’s so it doesn’t seize, but don’t know what low-carb things I could do with the original three attachments.
(whipped cream, obviously)
That’s Tulip’s – it’s very pretty! I commented on it as soon as I walked into the kitchen!
Do what I do and feed the neighbors
That would require interacting with the neighbors on a more regular basis. Besides, this is the kind of neighborhood where if you give someone a gift of food, you’ll get three times as much back. I would just wind up a fatter man by the end of it.
At my last job, I did usually do up a dessert or something for the potlucks.
Sorry I missed it but family time.
I wanna join in sometime, how much does an invite cost?!
Several hours’ sleep and your immortal soul.
^^This
I can’t really afford to lose that much sleep tho
(but srsly, just look for a comment in the PM linx on Friday and/or Saturday)
If I’m hosting, this link will get you in. The link is also posted in the Friday/Saturday PM links on days I’m hosting, and I start it up at 20:00 Eastern. If someone else is hosting, there will be a different link, which will also usually be posted in the PM links of the day of the meeting.
All are welcome, even Tulpa.
I thought we’d all agreed it was Tulpae?
Thanks!
It was great, as always. The Zooms always serve as a reminder of what a remarkable group of people I’ve fallen in with.
Sorry I missed it. Real life interference kept me away…
Besides the cookies, the Biden’s also passed out some covid.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/bidens-covid-cluster-hundreds-national-guard-troops-d-c-test-positive-quarantine-deployment-inaugural/
I’m confused. Is she not DOCTOR Jill Biden when she’s giving out her cookies?
I haven’t read the article, because why would I when I can spout from a position of ignorance, but assuming they were all tested as part of the deployment, if you throw a PCR test at 10000 healthy people, you’re going to get 100’s of ‘false’ positives.
Doesn’t matter.
BIDEN TRIED TO KILL SOLDIERS WITH COVID!
Get with the program.
Side note, gf’s job no longer allows saliva testing for covid. Only pcr, because “they’re more accurate. ”
Her boss is a fucking nutter.
At what cycles? Wasn’t the PCR deprecated recently?
And more importantly, can she easily get another job? Don’t answer if you don’t care to.
She would take a major hit to her paycheck in leaving. She’s not at that point yet.
I don’t know the answers to your other questions.
Come on man! If Trump had listened to SCIENCE, as Biden would have, the virus would have been eradicated world wide by March of last year. So anybody who gets sick with COVID is totally Trumps fault.
— What do you guys think, I’m thinking of applying for a news job.
They were more concerned with testing them for WrongThink than for COVID.
Ya gotta prioritize the seriousness of the issues you’re dealing with, right?
I don’t buy panic!doom! from them any more than from the MSM.
Psh… Covid numbers don’t matter anymore! The Dems have SCIENCE! Jill Biden showed up with cookies and spread xer SCIENCE! They have defeated the orange dragon and rightfully restored the will of the PEOPLE through SCIENCE!
A Supreme AND a picker? Renaissance man!
(Please feel free to render this comment nonsensical. Most of my comments are.)
Django Unlinked?
I’d complain… but you get what you pay for. Frankly the service around here is great considering the bill!
One of these days I dream of being financially stable enough to dump a hefty bag of coins into the coffee every now and then. I think it would be counted as “funding terrorism” by the time that happens.
*COFFER
Fucking cuntocorrect
I’m not that much of an asshole.
I figured you really meant to drop it into the covfefe.
We libertytarians love money so much that we infuse our hot brown beverages with it.
RE: the Flash Update, he believed in reincarnation. His last words were, “We’ll be right back.”
I’d listen to King on third shift on RKO out of Miami. Young me thought he had the best show on radio, but I just liked listening to people talk about issues, I don’t really remember if he was great or anything. After that, every step of his career seems weirder, a slow death spiral of selling out.
I was surprised to hear about King – what happened to his phylactery?
Someone found and destroyed it.
The administration is going full tilt at issuing orders even into the weekend. The Imperial Presidency is back bitches.
As long as he knows his pen from his phone.
I see as of this morning Planned Parenthood got their federal funding back.
Unity and healing, bruh.
Do try and keep up.
What the fuck is wrong with Jews?
What the fuck isn’t?
SP always blames me for turning her into an antisemite.
What is that thing on the woman’s forehead?
A GoPro?
It’s tfillin. A weird Pharisaical ritual performed by Jewish men every morning. There’s two of them, and an elaborate ceremony with the way the leather straps are draped and wound.
Here’s an explanation and a massive dose of what rabbis have done to Judaism.
You learn something new every day.
I really can’t criticize as my ancestors thought snakehandling was a biblically sound practice.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E03/729828
I didn’t know this was a real thing until well after this aired.
Oh it’s real.
Between that and the Pentecostal speaking in tongues epileptic fits, it gets very weird.
Looks like a wall buffer for a glory hole.
I dare not say.
LOL… IIRC, Lenny Bruce had a bit about the Catholic vice-cops always arresting the rabbi because they thought he was tying off to use the junk.
Bellingham! AH ha ha ha ha!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-citys-mayor-rushed-to-safety-after-homeless-advocate-rioters-storm-city-hall
I grew up really close to there. There are literally 30 communes within 20 miles. Pretty cool places too. Some real ‘free thinkers!’ Also, they do a lot of drugs.
I don’t see the word “sacred” or “Holy” in any reference to the city hall. How strange… Maybe the FBI will be along shortly to investigate. I’ll wait…
I used to work out there for the BP Cherry Point refinery, and an aluminum smelter that I think belongs to ALOCA now. I had many a drunken night in the Holiday Inn Express on Meridian.
Larry King dies aged 87
His future wife has a sad.
Standing fucking ovation!
It was covid, wasn’t it?
He was 87. Heartburn and a nasty shart could’ve killed him.
And he’s looked like an 87 year old for the last 40 years.
I guess his head finally sunk down into his ribcage.
That would put it way below the belt. Could you see his face if you in unzipped his fly?
Of course it was covid, you covid denier!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mostpopularpresidentever
I know very few people who are on board with the new administration.
However, those that are on board are emotional to the point of being off-putting or even a little bit frightening.
As long as they’re frank about it.
(I wish I were kidding.)
Another affront to the Canucks!
DOCTOR Jill Biden plagiarize our politicians!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/goodwill-gesture-no-cakewalk-for-bernier/article695669/
I’m bowing out and eating some decidedly not kosher salad. I wish the best to each and every one of you Glibs. I hold you all in high esteem.
Godspeed–!
Look fat, cornpop, pony soldier, you know the thing, c’mon man.
SALUTE THE MARINES
That was hilariously awful.
I’m planning to link it on my FB feed just to see what FB does to it, fact-check wise.
Not sure what source I should link…
Oops meant as a reply to My regarding most popular president evah.
Oy veh. My =Cy
I’m curious why this is still a thing?
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-jojo-siwa-comes-out-as-gay-20210123-fs46yqo2fzbjjlwsakueai7poa-story.html
Is there taboo anywhere about being gay anymore? In th 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.. I get it. It was a big deal. That was 30 years ago. I think Elton John and Freddy Mercury pretty much put that to rest.
Coming out is a substitute for being interesting or talented. It’s also a useful deflection.
PFFFT! L/G is so last century! Tranny/nonbinary or GTFO!
I think it cheapens the reality of suppression that some people actually feel when celebrities wear it like a fashion style.
Perhaps it’s something for which one would have to be a public figure, or aspire to.
When one of my buddies came out to me about thirty years ago, my response was along the lines of “Ok and? … Let’s go get a beer.”
Heck, I’d say it’s 180 degrees out from that – is there anywhere that being gay wouldn’t be a positive?
Iran?
I was talking about in the 21st century, not the 12th.
If you’re a jerk and also gay, you wIll be called a fag behind your back. Like if you were a jerk and overweight or red-haired, you’d be a fattie or a ginger.
But if you’re not a jerk. you won’t have your personal characteristics used as insults against you.
OFFS.
I recognize the letters and a few of the combinations of same as words. I can’t parse the rest; it’s just gibberish.
There may be a couple places where it’s still taboo.
/looks at the Middle East
Being gay is still a no-no in much of the Black world. So, that might make a difference. It’s not like the evil Whites, who look at it with hungry eyes.
That blonde girl is pissed because Lego is for boys!
I credit my loved of engineering partially to having had unfettered access to piles of legos as a kid.
I was confused wHezn the truth came a out zenith pink legos and girly play sets “for here.” I thought, “But legos are already for everybody.”
“The truth” etc was just supposed to be “when they came out with”
Just fat-fingered it.
My attitude about this has changed drastically over the years. With the once hated licensed sets (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Angry Birds, etc.), I’ve grown to really appreciate how much money they generate for The Lego Group and how that translates into more of the obscure, lower-selling sets that I love (trains, Creator city buildings, Mindstorms robotic kits, etc.) As for the girl Lego, it’s cringey as can be, and the Friends/Elves/DC Superhero Girls line of minifigures are awful and incompatible with other minifigures, they have introduced wonderful new color pallets that would likely have never existed otherwise.
An example of things I like – Medieval Blacksmith Shop https://www.brothers-brick.com/2021/01/21/lego-ideas-21325-medieval-blacksmith-the-black-falcons-return-to-lego-castle-review/
I think there are some fantastic Lego creations out there. This is one of my recent favorites https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/jumpei-mitsui-great-wave-lego/
(the agency I work for just announced a partnership with Lego that the Trumpies put together LOL)
Moderately no political and interesting:
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/carcass-giant-blue-whale-brought-surface-study-67241944
Good morning, Old Man!
Congrats on the weed stores.
Holy shit was that Django Reinhardt bio a good one! Definitely read that one, peeps!
I hope y’all have a great Saturday.
Meanwhile, in local news:
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/police-man-wrapped-in-trash-bags-robs-retail-store-in-bucks/article_e5c2e2e6-5d1b-11eb-8318-1345b1f41b74.html
“The bagged bandit forced a clerk into a bathroom, and demanded cigarettes and cash.”
With the Megamillions/Powerball lottery thing going on right now, I was thinking when I bought my ticket, this is a rare time where these idiots might actually score it big account of the cash purchases of lottery tickets.
Vanilla scented. Nice touch. That just made me wonder why Hefty doesn’t scent their trash bags like Gwyneth Paltrows snatch.
*hurk*
I read that as “previous grafts”.
RE Music: hats off to any group that can do minutes of simulated fart noises and pass it off as music.
I don’t think I could handle the pressure.
Jill Biden told the group that her late son, Beau, was a Delaware Army National Guard member who spent a year deployed in Iraq in 2008-09. Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46.
Bless her heart.
Did all of those NG troopers sign a loyalty oath before being allowed within 500 yards of Doktor J?
It’s all about her.
—–THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM AN INMATE AT THE HARRIS COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY—–
I didn’t steal the ambulance. I just borrowed it to get me some shit-ass fast food.
Taco Bell?
I prefer ass-casual.
NPR’s Scott Simon is now doing a segment on wrong think and criticizing the evil networks and publications who make fun of the chosen. JFC
Amazon wants to help distribute vaccines https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/23/amazon-covid-vaccine-distribution-461525
In Amazon’s letter to Biden, head of global operations Dave Clark said the company’s scale “allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19.” The
company, Clark wrote, is “prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts.”
Nil?
The path in the Senate to convict Donald Trump is extremely slim, with a growing number of Republicans expressing confidence that the party will acquit the former President on a charge that he incited the deadly insurrection aimed at stopping President Joe Biden’s electoral win.
After Democratic leaders announced they would kick off the process to begin the impeachment trial on Monday, Republicans grew sharply critical about the proceedings — and made clear that they saw virtually no chance that at least 17 Republicans would join with 50 Democrats to convict Trump and also bar him from ever running from office again.
In interviews with more than a dozen GOP senators, the consensus was clear: Most Republicans are likely to acquit Trump, and only a handful are truly at risk of flipping to convict the former President — unless more evidence emerges or the political dynamics within their party dramatically change. Yet Republicans are also signaling that as more time has passed since the riot, some of the emotions of the day have cooled and they’re ready to move on.
“The chances of getting a conviction are virtually nil,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican.
“I don’t know what the vote will be but I think the chance of two-thirds is nil,” said Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and member of his party’s leadership who called the Democratic push to begin the trial “vindictive.”
It couldn’t have anything to do with the Ruler-by-Decree-in-Chief’s flagrant disregard for legislative input, could it?
“Deadly Insurrection”
Fucking clowns…
They hung six people on the gallows they erected!
I hope this draws out and takes up more time, energy, and interest from the PTB in DC. The less time and energy they spend on shyte that will affect me, the better.
The Dems need time to prepare for releasing the Kraken.
*Karen
In the meantime, the Biden administration will issue about three hundred more executive orders.
Yep, but that’s democracy in action. Not like OMB’s EOs, which were nasty authoritarian edicts. Even the ones that said “follow the law of the US as written by the legislature” were actually Fuhrerdiktats.
And subject to be enjoined by district court judges in HI.
Sorry for not joining calls and my ccomments were on dead threads but:
– KK and Tulip: Love the Mother Sauces thing. Making Eggs Benedict tomorrow!
– Neph: Happy to find that as a 30-year drunk with experience on both sides of the bar, there are still things I can learn.
Gin, and bourbon on hand.
Martinez? Martinez? Three Martinezes!
Glad to help. As I said in the thread, I’ve never worked professionally as a bartender. I’m just an enthusiastic amateur, who enjoys doing deep dives into my hobbies. I look forward to your critique of the article on the three key ratios for drinks.
“From listening to the dynamic — and everything to this point — it’s going to be tough to get even a handful,” said Sen. Mike Braun, an Indiana Republican, referring to possible GOP defectors. “I think so many are getting confused by the fact that we’re doing this – and everybody has views that it’s kind of a constitutional concern.”
Holding a Senate impeachment trial for a man who holds no office? Why would that present any Constitutional concerns to the Truth and Reconciliation tribunal?
They’re only racistly stealing the thunder from Tish James and other state AG’s and their totally not politically-motivated prosecutions.
Do better, the senate.
C’mon, man!
Chinese military aircraft enter Taiwanese air space. It’s probably nothing.
I guess we will soon get to see just how far China Joe has sold out our strategic allies in the Pacific – maybe sooner than later.
Taiwan had Stop the Steal rallies.
They certainly didn’t see this coming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/world/asia/wuhan-china-coronavirus.html
“The Chinese Communist Party has been singularly successful at stifling infections and vaulting Wuhan back to life faster than any foreign counterparts. But China, too, is singularly powerful at controlling remembrance of disasters, erasing troublesome facts and omitting critical questions from its official narrative.”
Holy cognitive dissonance batman!
“But China, too, is singularly powerful at controlling remembrance of disasters, erasing troublesome facts and omitting critical questions from its official narrative.”
More powerful than the New York Times?
Love the racisty URL.
“It makes no sense whatsoever that a president — or any official — could commit a heinous crime against our country and then be permitted to resign so as to avoid accountability and a vote to disbar them from future office,” Schumer said Friday.
Yes, Moobs, let the hate flow through you. Leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that you are the party of bitter, petty, vindictive assholes.
Yet it still happened. And then Nixon returned to political office in the next election.
It seems to me that any official committing heinous crimes against the country can’t escape accountability to law enforcement. Is Schumer implying that impeachment is somehow worse than actual jail time? If Trump has committed “heinous crimes”, arrest his ass and put him on trial. Let’s see how that plays out.
Yeah don’t we have multiple different FBI agents and US AGs on the record that the STORMING OF DEMOCRACY’S SACRED COOCH was preplanned?
I know they are good at double think, but you have to pick one: either nefarious white supremacist extremists organized on Teh Dark Webbzzzzz planned to KIDNAP AND MURDER OUR HOLY POLITICIANS (but didn’t bring guns) or a crowd of stupid redneck hicks who only obey the orders of the Cheeto Fuhereur were whipped up into a frenzy by his calls to “Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
That’s for the voters to decide, now isn’t it?
“The Chinese Communist Party has been singularly successful at stifling infections and vaulting Wuhan back to life faster than any foreign counterparts. But China, too, is singularly powerful at controlling remembrance of disasters, erasing troublesome facts and omitting critical questions from its official narrative.”
They have decided to take my advice and cull infected members of the herd, just like cattle with hoof and mouth?
Well done, CCP.
To be fair, if the news broke that the CCP had actually started killing infected people to stop the spread, it would be shocking but not *that shocking.*
CCP is the greatest scourge of evil on the Earth today. And yet NYT runs articles covering for them. Sad state of affairs.
You know who else has a birthday today?
THIS GUY!
Yep, same day as John MOSES Browning. Designer of one good pistol (GP), one good Shotgun (37), and one good rifle (8).
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy bday!
Happy day of birth!
Happy birthday and many returns of the day! ????
Tragic, unavoidable, sad. If only we knew whom to blame.
A bag of Doritos, that’s all Princess wanted.
Her mom calls her Princess, but her real name is Lindsey. She’s 17 and lives with her mom, Sandra, a nurse, outside of Atlanta. On May 17, 2020, a Sunday, Lindsey decided she didn’t want breakfast; she wanted Doritos. So she left home and walked to Family Dollar, taking her pants off on the way, while her mom followed on the phone with police.
Lindsey has autism (NPR isn’t using last names to protect her privacy). It can be hard for her to communicate and navigate social situations. She thrives on routine, and gets special help at school. Or got help, before the coronavirus pandemic closed schools and forced tens of millions of children home. Sandra says that’s when their living hell started.
“It’s like her brain was wired,” she says. “She’d just put on her jacket, and she’s out the door. And I’m chasing her.”
On May 17, Sandra chased her all the way to Family Dollar. Hours later, Lindsey was in jail.
Lindsey is one of almost 3 million children in the U.S. who have been diagnosed with a serious emotional or behavioral health condition. When the pandemic forced schools and doctors’ offices closed last spring, it also cut children off from the trained teachers and therapists who understand their needs.
As a result, many, like Lindsey, spiraled into emergency rooms and even police custody. Federal data show a nationwide surge of kids in mental health crisis during the pandemic — a surge that’s further taxing an already overstretched safety net.
You wanted to keep her safe, didn’t you, NPR?
Love the framing on the headline: “Pandemic causes mental health crisis.”
the illegal government lockdowns have nothing to do with anything, you see. It’s simply a natural consequence of the spread of an infectious disease that is keeping our youth from accessing services they need.
*the face you make when you change the pin on your iphone and somehow it got screwed up and now you’re locked out*
Hey it happens to our elite DOJ lawyers. Muellers team managed to do that two dozen times on their department phones. Gosh, what fumble fingers they are.
I suppose the difference being that I can restore my phone even though I’m not legally obligated to preserve a record.
Silicone Saturday welcomes your motorboating.
https://archive.li/jCPUs
*Tits out-masked-up*
SMDH
Roughly 6% of U.S. children, ages 6 through 17, are living with serious emotional or behavioral difficulties, including children with autism, severe anxiety, depression and trauma-related mental health conditions.
Many of these children depend on schools for access to vital therapies. When schools and doctors’ offices stopped providing in-person services last spring, kids were untethered from the people and supports they’d come to rely on.
“The lack of in-person services is really detrimental,” says Dr. Susan Duffy, a pediatrician and professor of emergency medicine at Brown University. “So school-based services are one, but also in-person services in general are disrupted [by the pandemic].”
The whole system is really grinding to a halt at a time when we have unprecedented need.
Leaving aside the question of why the schools have double-deckered mental health services into their portfolio, how does the “abandonment” of that ~6% compare to the risk of death or serious complications from the snifflecooties? Just for fun, let’s contemplate the creation of mental health crises in children who previously had none.
When I picked up my teen from school yesterday she was smiling like an idiot. She had gotten a fellow classmate’s phone number. I know it wasn’t the number that really mattered, it was the build up to asking someone for something with the chance of rejection and the relief that followed from not having to face it.
She started back at physical school earlier this month. She’s been A LOT happier and a bit more level headed. This “pandemic” is going to cost us a lot, at least one generation.
One of my direct reports, a brilliant man who is somehow a liberal, went on a pretty good pacing back and forth rant in my office last wEek about what the closures, especially of schools, are doing to his kids and all other kids in the nation.
I was gratified to hear him repeat back to me a few of the seeds of libertarianism that I have dropped now and then.
I’ll make a libertarian of him yet!
(I don’t normally talk politics at work, but he brings it up now and then. I respectfully listen, but I will make my counter arguments when appropriate.)
XY is now on the hybrid schedule instead of all virtual and doing much better also.
I wish mine were. Nevada is following California and our teachers unions are all claiming murder if they have to do their jobs.
It’s a damn mess here and two kids that have a love of learning are getting a great lesson on how the government and teachers that ‘care about the children’ really operate.
Our teachers seem to be eager to get back into the classroom, but I may have missed any news that said otherwise.
In a way, this has been a blessing for us, school-wise. XX is a senior and she was dreading being in the same school with XY because of his behavior (“XX, is XY your brother?”) and especially riding the bus with him. We managed to get them on alternating schedules so that they’re never at school or on the bus at the same time. If we couldn’t have done that, he would have had to be virtual and it would have been a disaster like the first semester. I really did not want XX’s senior year to be even harder than school has been for her.
In any case, things are going well (so far as I know) (a shoe might drop, for all I know). Graduation ceremonies have been scheduled, so they’re intending to walk.
In other news, it’s hard to believe my little girl is graduating from high school. Wow. Just…wow.
My kids have been in (private) school since August.
They’re definitely doing better than they did with nearly 6 straight months off at the beginning of lockdown, but the rules and protocols are taxing and ever-present. They’re stifling, and my oldest son describes the school like one would imagine the birth factories in BNW. Every move is watched, and beware being within 6’ of your classmates, lest you incur the wrath. Don’t even think about trying to move you mask to get a decent breath of air.
I had to pull my oldest out recently and go to virtual for a couple weeks (all students can freely float back and forth) because he was having Covid Theater Burnout.
This is the part that kills me. Several people in my family are in education, and in the past, have been wonderful resources in terms of pointing me in the right direction when my or my kids mental health was an issue. Now, these same people are telling me I should not let them go outside for fear of the cooties. They don’t give a damn about my kids mental health, and this BS has shown that. And I will never forgive any of them. I sincerely hope my children are not adversely affected by this.
is going to cost us a lot, at least one generation
We need to suspend future generations to find out what’s going on.
And there it is-
To help families like Sandra’s and Marjorie’s, advocates say all levels of government need to invest in creating a mental health system that’s accessible to anyone who needs it.
But given that many states have seen their revenues drop due to the pandemic, there’s a concern services will instead get cut — at a time when the need has never been greater.
Help us, Joe! Get out the Magic Checkbook, and heal your subjects. Ease their pain.
I reject the formulation of “caused by the Coronavirus” and I correct people verbally with “you mean, caused by the overreaction to coronavirus.”
I am not a grammar Nazi pedant, but I refuse to participate in the mass delusion and I want others to reflect on what’s really hurting the nation: the virus or what’s being done to us in its name.
I do the same.
The narrative that CV is what caused society to close, rather than mass government closures, is sheer propaganda.
So I take my laundry across the street to the laundromat, giving a finger to the “mask up” sign in the elevator, and as I’m about to head to the supermarket I realize I forgot my fucking reusable bags.
I want my country back.
I thought reusable grocery bags were soopur-spreddurz…?
Depends, what day of the week is it?
Grocery diapers?
Local stores up here are only allowing reusable grocery bags at self service lanes.
I dunno but the law here seems to have morphed from “5 cents for our paper bag” to “whatever the establishment wants to charge for whatever kind of bag they have on hand that isn’t the old kind of plastic bags but can happily be thicker plastic bags because why not”.
My local liquor jobber will throw on a $0.05 fee and bag your blottles up in the same old plastic bags they’ve always used; unless you show them your own bag before they start scanning. Two doors down, my grocery went all paper (fee) or reusable back in early 2020 as required by NYC law (SCIENCE!) but switched back to plastic in April because virus. In November, we went back to paper; but a cheaper, thinner paper with handles that break upon contact with human flesh. The parking lot pick-up and home delivery groceries however, are packed into single use plastic, so I’ve been using those as I know where they are kept.
I haven’t seen a bag fee less than 25 cents. I’ve already been burned by that a couple times.
“I want my country back.”
Pretty sure it’s gone, and not coming back.
Oh, and it took less than 24 hours for some Karen to draw a smiley face on it and thank Big Brother for watching over them.
Ward of the State
Around the time President Donald Trump arrived at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, Wednesday afternoon, he became former President Trump, a private citizen. But that doesn’t mean he can just hop in his car and go wherever he wants. Actually, he’s not allowed to drive on public property. It’s just one of many rules former presidents must follow thanks to the Former Presidents Act which was passed in 1958.
Before the act was passed, former presidents were pretty much on their own. Take George Washington for example. He enjoyed a post-presidency life of distilling whiskey at his Mount Vernon Estate.
Does Trump even have a driver’s license?
I doubt Trump has driven a vehicle in a very long time.
“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines”
President Joe Biden benefited from a record-breaking amount of donations from anonymous donors to outside groups backing him, meaning the public will never have a full accounting of who helped him win the White House.
Biden’s winning campaign was backed by $145 million in so-called dark money donations, a type of fundraising Democrats have decried for years. Those fundraising streams augmented Biden’s $1.5 billion haul, in itself a record for a challenger to an incumbent president.
That amount of dark money dwarfs the $28.4 million spent on behalf of his rival, former President Donald Trump. And it tops the previous record of $113 million in anonymous donations backing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
Democrats have said they want to ban dark money as uniquely corrupting, since it allows supporters to quietly back a candidate without scrutiny. Yet in their effort to defeat Trump in 2020, they embraced it.
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Guy Cecil, the chairman of Priorities USA, was unapologetic. “We weren’t going to unilaterally disarm against Trump and the right- wing forces that enabled him,” he said in a statement.
We used it to rescue democracy.
Take that, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!
It’s almost as if they don’t have any principles!!!
Only $145 million? That’s only like 1 quarter of operating expenses at the Kennedy Center for Arts! That’s chump change to China Joe. hell, when he takes out loans, it’s in the Billions.
Pointing out hypocrisy is pointless now. If the right wants political power again they need to embrace it (more so). “That’s not what we’re all about” leads to “I can’t believe we lost” pretty quickly.
We had to burn the village to save it.
Pathetic part is it shows how many pimps and whores need to get a payout in that party to get judges to bend and loosen election laws.
Today, allow me to provide your daily Fuck You Mike DeWine. The curfew that was supposed to expire today got extended for another week yesterday. Now he’s talking about maybe allowing us plebes to be out until 23:00 instead of just 22:00, but only if we behave and stop getting ‘vid.
When I picked up my teen from school yesterday she was smiling like an idiot. She had gotten a fellow classmate’s phone number.
Nice. Good for her.
I want my country back.
No refunds, no returns.
Count your change before leaving the window.
If one were to watch a ski race from Austria tonight, what would one drink for the occasion?
Absinthe
I lost a night on the East coast to a drop shot of absinthe in Red Bull. No memories of what happened after that.
My coworker who was traveling with me (and equally drunk) got footage on his cell phone of me using a tissue to clean off the mass of spider webs and egg sacs that were befouling the crotch of a majestic bronze statue of Lafayette outside on our walk to the hotel. I was perched on the pedestal with the great man as I dusted off his balls, proclaiming that such a friend to the American Revolution deserved better than to have his crotch neglected in a public square.
That footage may or may not still exist.
Well, this needs to be the next Glibs Zoom cold open
We all have to do our part.
Vienna lager?
Distilled water and grain alcohol
Grüner Veltliner?
Champagne.
To get buzzed? A couple of coffee/cream/baileys. Maybe ad a dash of Kahlua.
To get thoroughly buzzed? Some grasshoppers and coors light.
I want others to reflect on what’s really hurting the nation: the virus or what’s being done to us in its name.
But there are no costs associated with lockdowns; only unlimited benefits.
The limousine liberals actually believe this. They have their ways of continuing to enjoy life’s luxuries (looking at you, Gavin Newsom) and are only mildly inconvenienced by having to wear a mask for show at photo ops.
They honestly don’t know what all the anti-lockdown fuss is all about.
When you live on an estate with a swimming pool and a tennis court, private tutors for your kids and the ability to take a private jet to your property in Montana then the lockdown ain’t so bad. It’s a bit different of course for the families living in a one bedroom apartment with kids crawling up the walls that I get to visit to do work in.
1.2 million signatures on the official recall for Guv Greaseball. I have a dozen signatures to turn in and have gotten another half dozen to sign it on their own.
I’ve signed too. I’d have it on my desk at work if I weren’t in a managerial position.
The state GOP mailed me a blank one at home, so I’m carrying it in my purse in case the topic comes up.
In my little isolated neighborhood, the Montenegrin owners of the convenience market have collected signatures from a ton of residents. They don’t push it, it’s just there on the countertop for anyone interested.
They were huge Trump supporters. They thought he was crass and not ideal but exactly what the country needed. Them damn immigrants votin’ for Trump!!
What’s the name of the private French school in SF? The one that advertised on NPR,while the city fucked up the school system?
I had a friend who taught at a couple different schools there, and hightailed when her monster was born. She would never shut up about her master’s inEDU from Cal, and the PEDAGOGY 1!!11!
French American school I believe.
This whole shutdown shit has very obviously fucked over the lower classes the most, with proggies being the group most likely to push it. These are the same people that love to talk about their neighborhood small businesses and that do everything possible to block chain stores and restaurants here. Isn’t it nice when your stated intentions can have disastrous results and never get called out on it (aside from some icky wrong thinkers that are likely just Trump cultists anyway).
Jeffrey Tucker had a graph the other day showing that the only cohort of people who’s lives improved in 2020 were the postgrad degree holders making 100k. They reported greater physical and mental health. Everyone else, not so much.
Can confirm. My coworkers and the people in my industry are trying to make themselves into victims, but “finding au pairs is so hard right now” is laughable as a victimhood statement. (literally had to sit through that conversation the other day…. same cunte who reported me to the chief diversity officer as a joke)
OFFS
I don’t think I could hold my tongue in that situation.
When does a babysitter become an “au pair”? Is it dependent on the income (and/or pretentiousness) of the employer?
It’s a live-in immigrant babysitter.
A babysitter watches your kids for you, an au pair raises them for you.
I thought au pairs were the imported hot ones that the husband shags.
“I thought au pairs were the imported hot ones that the husband shags.”
A few years back when I was a summer camp counselor, there was a very good looking couple with three kids that had au pairs every summer. I’m not saying they did this with every au pair, but one summer I was out with friends and I saw this couple and their au pair, no kids in tow, and they were very friendly, both husband and wife. Nothing incredibly overt, but they were squeezed into one side of a booth together hip to hip with enough PDA to give the game away.
How… unfortunate
Fauci gushes over Maddow
Ewwwwww.
As long as I don’t have to watch her gushing over him. Not firing that shrimp, even as just a stick in the eye to his enemies, is just another one of those sweet Trumpian promises that were unkept.
Unfortunate but entirely predictable. We all knew his character.
“YouTube scrubs thousands of dislikes from Joe Biden videos on official White House channel”
https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-scrubs-thousands-of-dislikes-from-joe-biden-videos-on-official-white-house-channel/
“I’ve been wanting to come on your show for months and months,” Fauci confessed to the liberal star. “You’ve been asking me to come on your show for months and months and it’s just gotten blocked! I mean, let’s call it what it is! It just got blocked because they didn’t like the way you handle things and they didn’t want me on.”
“I mean, it was so clear when [they] sent it down, ‘Why would you want to go on Rachel Maddow’s show?’ Well, because I like her and she’s really good. ‘It doesn’t make any difference. Don’t do it,’” Fauci continued to a chuckling Maddow.
Fauci went on to tell Maddow he doesn’t think she is “going to see” efforts by the Biden administration to hold him back from speaking to the press and that she’ll see “a lot of transparency” from the new leadership in Washington.
Get off the stage, you senile quack. Your fifteen minutes are up.
So Fauci likes Maddow.
Birds of a feather….
He’s praying for new plagues to befall mankind so that he can stay relevant.
He’s a fucking hyena, thriving on death and misery.
I hope he’s remembered by history as our generation’s Mengele
If not prohibited by law, you can bet he would’ve carried out a lot of human experiments by now.
For SCIENCE!!
I question as to whether he’s that curious. Human experimentation might take him out of the limelight for a few seconds.
Plus he’s gotten to conduct massive experiments in insane levels of central (“public health”) planning
“because I like her and she’s really good”
She’s a damned idiot who hasn’t been right about anything. And she’s malicious.
The way she so doggedly pushed the Russia nonsense she’s either a moron true believer or a flat out grifter and I’d go with the latter, she knows on which side her bread is buttered.
If one were to watch a ski race from Austria tonight, what would one drink for the occasion?
Hot chocolate and schnapps.
It’s a damn mess here and two kids that have a love of learning are getting a great lesson on how the government and teachers that ‘care about the children’ really operate.
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY.
Power and control are important, too.
Child welfare? That’s at the bottom of the last page of the contract: “unless or until it inconveniences the union or its members.”
It’s very obvious that the CA teachers unions do not want to have to go back to work. That’s why they’re making stupid demands like adding toilet seat lids to all school restrooms, decreasing class size, no cafeteria service, etc. before allowing the sainted teachers back into the valleys of death that are the school system.
Supposedly in the name of Vid safety.
I hope he’s remembered by history as our generation’s Mengele
Mengele knew what he was doing. In more ways than one.
Oh, and it took less than 24 hours for some Karen to draw a smiley face on it and thank Big Brother for watching over them.
“May the Holy Placebo bless you and keep you safe.”
Looks like sgammo has just removed .223, 5.56, and 9mm completely from their website. Just gone and not even an option to see what’s out of stock. Bulkammo has steel Russian .223 going for 90 cents/rd. Crazy times.
I saw that.
Target Sport USA has American Eagle 9mm in stock. At 1 dollar per round.
Oops. That’s sportsman outdoors. Target sport has nada.
I finally got some 9mm, but I am still coming up short on hollow tips for my .38 special.
I am toying with the notion of applying for a FFL03 in CA.
Not sure if worth the hassle.
“A Large US Military Convoy Rolled Into Syria On 1st Day Of Biden Presidency”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-us-convoy-rolled-syria-1st-day-biden-presidency
Story by the Syrian Arab News Agency so yeah biased but not good.
I’m feeling the peace already.
For laughs the Nobel committee should grant Biden his award now.
We had to find an emergency dentist. This place is shady in we are open on Saturday so deal with it kind of way
Guilty until proven innocent
Kyle Rittenhouse’s bond agreement has been modified after prosecutors said he flashed white-power signs while posing for photos at a southeastern Wisconsin bar, WTMJ, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee reported.
Rittenhouse, a now 18-year-old from suburban Antioch, is charged with killing two people and wounding a third in unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake last summer.
Rittenhouse was seen drinking at a bar in the city of Mount Pleasant, about 25 miles south of Milwaukee, after he pleaded not guilty to homicide and other charges resulting from the Aug. 25 shooting.
Rittenhouse, who is white, is free on $2 million bond. After his Jan. 5 arraignment, Rittenhouse, his mother and several other adults went to Pudgy’s Pub, where he was seen drinking beer, according to prosecutors. Although the drinking age is 21, Rittenhouse could legally drink alcohol in Wisconsin because he was with his mother.
The bond agreement didn’t restrict Rittenhouse from entering a bar, drinking alcohol or interacting with known members of white supremacist groups.
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On Jan. 22, the following details of the modified bond were released:
Rittenhouse cannot possess nor consume alcoholic beverages.
Rittenhouse shall not knowingly have contact with any person or group known to “harm, threaten, harass or menace others on the basis of their race, beliefs on the subject of religion, color, national origin, or gender.”
Rittenhouse cannot possess firearms.
How odd- they make no mention of what specifically constitutes a “white power” sign. A two-finger peace sign? An “okay” hand sign? A thumbs-up sign? A stand-on-the-table-with-right-arm-upraised sign?
And- nothing says “white power vigilante” like a white guy killing another white guy in self defense.
“Rittenhouse, who is white”
Go fuck yourself.
Ah, go easy on the journalist. He/she/it is writing for an audience of microcephalous morons who can’t figure these things out for themselves.
They’ll be plenty of time for that in prison.
We do not live in a free country anymore, and everyone should be acting accordingly.
Hahnenkamm men’s downhill was postponed until tomorrow. Dammit.
Well, this needs to be the next Glibs Zoom cold open
I’m sure this joke has already been made but whenever I read about Glibs Zoom my mind immediately goeshere
Lol….I accidentally unmuted on the ‘some dude jacking off’….in the dentists waiting room
/tents fingers
Excellent.
No lies detected
H/T Tom Woods
https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1352629893734019072
Will people/sheeple notice this? Or will it just be people who have pushed backed for damn near a year now?
Motherfuckers. The lot of them.
People will not notice. They will just thank Zod that Orangeman is no longer menacing society with his draconian anti-.Covid measures now that the benevolent Biden administration is in.
Larry King was pretty progressive, I believe, but at least he respected opposing viewpoints and gave one an opportunity to air them. The late Karl Hess and I were on King’s radio show for an hour c.1990. King wasn’t on-board with our libertarian beliefs, but he listened without the constant interruptions and raised voices that today’s interviewers – left and right – seem to think makes for a good radio or tv show. RIP, Larry King.
I agree, I don’t quite get the Larry King hate and love or hate him the guy was an icon. RIP.
On the topic of old school lefty interviewers, I always enjoyed Phil Donohue talking to Ayn Rand. He listened to her and challenged her, but ultimately, I think ol’ Phil was out of his depth. He was speaking to an ex-Soviet citizen who spent her entire life living & thinking about individualism.
Phil was out of his depth when standing in a damp puddle.
Donohue with Milton Friedman was the same.
https://martinkronicle.com/milton-friedman-where-are-these-angels/