Saturday Morning Wino Links

by | May 9, 2026 | Daily Links, Wine | 214 comments

With our wine license in hand and a deep stock of delicious bottles behind the bar, we’re ready for old ladies getting sloshed and starting bar fights. My list has stereotypical female pleasers like Prosecco and pink Champagne. Prime remains a steadfast dry red wine drinker, but she’s the furthest thing from being stereotypical. I mean, look at her choice of boyfriend.

Birthdays today include the true BLM guy; the guy who invented Wendy’s; the guy who invented the plate job; the original Indiana Jones; one of my very favorite kids’ book writers; a woman who couldn’t release a record because the center hole kept healing up; one of my homeboys from when liberals were actually against wars; my academic grandfather; a piece of shit who was… a piece of shit; and one of my top three fantasies as a kid who surprisingly was no dummy.

Links will dummy us up, though.

Love taps.

At some point, you run out of slogans.

Assuming the US Supreme Court doesn’t take this on, expect the big screaming to be about packing the court. He who controls the spice district lines controls the universe elections.

With so much attention paid to Team useless and trivial mind games, we mustn’t forget the important areas of policy where the Teams agree. And that is wiping their asses with the Bill of Rights.

Note the barely disguised disgust at the idea that great progress in science is best accomplished in the private sector.

The Left’s embrace of Jew-hate enshittifies everything.

They don’t send their best.

Dirty secret: Napa is one of the least interesting wine areas in California. But it’s the Las Vegas of the wine world.

I’m generally anti-capital punishment (not trusting the State to get it right), but cases like this…

Our new version of debtors’ prison. Having personally dealt with the State on these issues, I also don’t trust them to get this right, either.

Southern Mamdani.

There are musical musical performers who have clever and interesting patter. Sierra Ferrell is not one of them. So ignore the stupid vapid intro because what follows is some stellar singing. The Old Guy is not normally amused by goofy outfits, but this one is the exception.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

214 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    we’re ready for old ladies getting sloshed and starting bar fights.

    And we’re ready for the viral videos.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Put me down for $10 on YES prior to Memorial Day

      • Gender Traitor

        $20 on Mothers’ Day.

      • Ted S.

        Same as downtown?

        (Is there a downtown in Alfred?)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I think the café IS the downtown.

  2. juris imprudent

    I mean, look at her choice of boyfriend.

    Really need to hear her say that, preferably in Frau Blucher’s voice.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      She probably thought you were (((the guy))) from yesterday’s thread.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Neigh.

  3. juris imprudent

    Napa link is duplicate of the preceding.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, two neurodivergent queers is one neurodivergent queer too many.

      • Ted S.

        One neurodivergent queer is one neurodivergent queer too many.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Fixed, gracias!

      • Ted S.

        “Less bad”, not “less worse”.

  4. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    The Original Indiana Jones

    Happy birthday, Roy Chapman Andrews!

  5. Ted S.

    the guy who invented the plate job

    Happy birthday Alfred Wegener!

  6. Ownbestenemy

    Pretty sure its fake but still funny.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, the link is fake…

      • juris imprudent

        I’d love to see the grounds of their appeal to SCotUS – never mind our state constitution, we demand unlimited and eternal power, NOW!

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It’s the Supremacy Clause, JI.

        The Dems always have supremacy!

  7. Ted S.

    a woman who couldn’t release a record because the center hole kept healing up

    Happy birthday Wendy Carlos!

  8. Ted S.

    one of my very favorite kids’ book writers

    Happy birthday H.P. Lovecraft!

    • Chafed

      😂

  9. juris imprudent

    Virginia’s AG is now fantasizing about elevating himself above the SCoVA.

    • The Last American Hero

      If they don’t do what he wants he’ll start vocalizing his fantasies about killing them.

  10. Ownbestenemy

    US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support, AP learns

    This isn’t new. State Depatment revoked/suspended my passport when I owed more than 10k in arrears during my troubles.

  11. juris imprudent

    Southern Mamdani.

    Not enough free stuff for that comparison.

    • Threedoor

      To be fair they shrank government and eliminated an unnecessary department.

      A town under 1000 dose
      Not need a police department.

  12. Ted S.

    BTW, OMWC, I don’t know if you saw my posting this in the Stoic thread yesterday afternoon.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      It’s (((that guy))) from yesterday’s thread!

      • Ted S.

        So you clicked on my link, but apparently didn’t read my comment saying I posted it yesterday. :-p

    • Ownbestenemy

      Here I thought my ability to turn my tongue upside down in both directions to be special.

      • Gender Traitor

        But can you do the “U” thing with it?

        (Asking for a friend, of course…)

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep, but the real talent is my niece who can do that clam shell thing with it. Stupid human tricks are fun

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      You trying to give the Old Man a tongue bath, Teds?

    • Aloysious

      I’m sure a cunning linguist like OMWC knows the importance of a proper warm up routine before dispensing a vigorous tongue lashing.

      That being said, I need all the help I can get, so I’m taking copious notes.

  13. Shpip

    This, however, was not the full extent of controversy in Venter’s career. He would probably not have denied himself that he was driven by ambition and ego, and he could be rude, aggressive and opinionated.

    Yeah, you never see that in the public sector or academia.

    All the same, he seems now like an entrepreneur from a happier time, when billionaire tech leaders were keen to work alongside scientists to create productive knowledge

    Like what Elon is doing for rocketry, right?

    • Chafed

      That doesn’t sound like every national politician.

      • Sensei

        At least 4 times a year somebody feels compelled to step in front a train and delay me for hours.

        I don’t understand the desire to off yourself and fuck over 1,000s of people.

      • juris imprudent

        “Pay attention to MEEEEeeeee”.

      • Threedoor

        Send their family the bill.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        If you are offing yourself, I don’t think other peoples convience are on the top of your head.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        He (I assume) probably had no family to speak of.

    • Fourscore

      You would think it would be difficult not to see a plane on the runway, closing in on you.

      It’s kind of like one of the first things we teach our kids when crossing a street.

    • Threedoor

      Sucked to be that guy.

      • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

        Props to the pilot and crew for getting the passengers off safely.

      • Threedoor

        One time my dad gave his great aunt a flight in his 182. She asked him what the big fan on the front of the plane was for, “it keeps the pilot cool, if it stops he gets hot in a hurry.”

      • Sensei

        whoosh!

    • Ownbestenemy

      We are taught young that when citizens mess up, it is your fault. When government messes up it is also, your fault.

      • Nephilium

        The IRS has that weaponized. They don’t have to give you correct answers to questions, but you’re responsible if you make a mistake.

    • juris imprudent

      Hardaway said PennDOT told her the issue involved a driving examiner and possible fraud.

      Trying so hard to not tell us anything about those involved.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Learing Center graduate

      • DrOtto

        Most likely graduating learing center candidates that should probably be sent back for more training.

    • DEG

      The agency declined our request for an on-camera interview.

      Of course.

  14. juris imprudent

    In case you find yourself in need of an emetic.

    “It is a work in progress governing. There is no having ‘made it.’ Success is not a place or definition, it’s a direction,” Newsom said, “and so that’s a word I think all of us should be associated with.”

    • (((Jarflax

      Translation: At no point will we have successfully overcome the evil inherent in western civilization. Your children, and your children’s children on unto the end of time shall be punished for the iniquity of out performing the cannibals and savages.

      I had been hopeful that I would not live to see the hell of a new Civil War, but I think it is pretty much here already and going to move from low intensity to open fighting any day now. This summer is going to be bad.

      • Threedoor

        I don’t have plates.

    • Threedoor

      Jungle primaries and mail in voting

      WCPGW?

      • Chafed

        According to the Dems, two Republicans competing for governor in the election.

    • Threedoor

      With the price of paint jobs now that’s probably not a bad deal.

  15. Sensei

    Intercept with the best Orwellian headline.

    The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well they know their readership is stupid so their headlines reflect it.

      • Sensei

        REM keeps playing in my head.

      • Aloysious

        Sensai: Shiny Happy People Holding Hands?

    • juris imprudent

      Caught a clip that the most likely successor to white Dem Steve Cohen in TN is a black woman Republican. So much fail!

      • Nephilium

        Not a real black person, nor a real woman, at least not running as a Republican.

      • Chafed

        I’ve heard the same thing. The Left can’t understand it.

    • rhywun

      something something content character something

      Some old dead white guy?

  16. Shpip

    An act of political hygiene

    Northern states run by Democrats can draw utterly predatory district maps, gerrymandered to the hilt as a means of oppressing their Republican voters, but Southern states run by Republicans haven’t been free to do likewise — because of the ancient sins of… Democrats. The effect being that Democrats have been able to insist on representation in states where the majority of the population is utterly offended by them.

    • Sensei

      On point says this gerrymandered NJ resident.

    • JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

      I wonder what will keep me from driving to Reno to pick up a water heater.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Johnny Cash running amok with a gun?

  17. Common Tater

    Did we ever hear about Smokey the tard?

  18. Q Continuum

    “queer, neurodivergent writer, advocate, and mindfulness meditation teacher”

    Queer = I’m heterosexual but that’s boring so I wanna be part of the special team
    Neurodivergent = I don’t have autism, I’m just annoying as fuck and want a get-out-of-jail-free card for acting like a POS

    • Nephilium

      I’m just annoying as fuck and want a get-out-of-jail-free card for acting like a POS

      You can just say progressive.

      • Chafed

        It does save time.

    • DrOtto

      I thought queer was a female hetero with a butch haircut and a cuck husband?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      queer, neurodivergent writer, advocate, and mindfulness meditation teacher

      Just put the fries in the bag, please.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “Black coffee, missy.”

  19. Common Tater

    “A maniac repeat offender released from a psych ward after just an hour allegedly shoved an elderly man to his death down Manhattan subway steps in an unprovoked attack Thursday night — with an outraged poilce source blasting the killing as a “complete collapse” of City Hall’s approach to mental health.

    Rhamell Burke — a 32-year-old serial troublemaker who has been arrested four times since February — mysteriously walked free from Bellevue Hospital about an hour after cops cuffed him and checked him in as an “emotionally disturbed person” around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police.

    The violent brute was released around 4:40 p.m. — and launched his fatal attack on 76-year-old stranger Ross Falzone, who worked as a teacher, at a Chelsea subway station about five hours later, while still sporting his hospital bracelet.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/maniac-just-released-from-psych-ward-fatally-pushes-elderly-man-down-nyc-subway-steps-cops/

    This needs to stop. I don’t care how “racist” it is.

    • Nephilium

      It will stop, one way or another. I for one am not looking forward to an increase in vigilantism.

      How bad is it when Arkham Asylum has a better track record of holding dangerous psychopaths than most progressive cities.

      • Common Tater

        ” I for one am not looking forward to an increase in vigilantism.”

        I’m not expecting one from unarmed citizens.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        The mob has plenty of arms.

    • The Last American Hero

      New Yorkers did the math and decided this was collateral damage in building their socialist utopia. Enjoy the bed you made.

      • Chafed

        Sad but true.

    • Threedoor

      Seems like Times Square would be an appropriate place for the scaffold.

    • rhywun

      The mishandling of the criminally insane is hardly restricted to NYC. It’s a national problem and has been for decades.

  20. Q Continuum

    Silicone Saturday babes to warm your diseased soul.

    https://archive.is/G3EyE

    The one with the Donkey Kong dress could be a future ex-Mrs. Q just based on her wardrobe choice.

    • DEG

      Not a bad choice.

    • SandMan

      Nice collection.

  21. Evan from Evansville

    Howdy, howdy. Time to go into the Pickup Dept. Last week, they were kinda too busy and I got sent to “Returns,” which was the best day of paid labor in my life. (I wonder if that’ll return?) Trying to get back into grocery picking, but I’m not worried, regardless.

    Should be an interesting one. Upward and atom, folk. Have a pleasant Sat out or in. Cubs now have won 20 of 23. That’s mighty pleasant.

  22. Common Tater

    “The Wisconsin stepmother from hell accused of abusing her 35-pound 14-year-old daughter by depriving her of food and water has entered a no-contest plea in the twisted case.

    Melissa Goodman, 52, now faces up to 46 years in prison if she’s handed the maximum sentence for charges of chronic neglect causing great bodily harm, chronic neglect causing emotional damage and false imprisonment.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/us-news/stepmom-from-hell-enters-plea-could-spend-the-rest-of-her-life-behind-bars/

    The evil stepmother looks like she weighs 400 lbs.

    • PutridMeat

      An image released by the federal government on Friday showed what appears to be an eight point star flying through the air.

      I guess the NY Post has never heard of a point spread function.

      • Gender Traitor

        I think I’ve heard of that, but I don’t really understand how these online sports betting sites work./deliberately obtuse

      • Threedoor

        Looked like the female end of a refueling probe to me.

    • rhywun

      The NYP is a like a pig in shit with all the UFO articles lately. I just ignore all of them like all the celebrity junk and the constant “I’m a doctor and this is why…..” crap.

  23. Common Tater

    “A “looksmaxxing” influencer was arrested for allegedly stashing loads of child porn on his phone Wednesday, while claiming to investigators he wanted to “try something new,” according to Florida authorities and reports.

    Mason Hull’s then-girlfriend found the cache of stomach-turning images of teen girls — with some as young as 8 years old — while scrolling through his phone on April 30, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox 13 Tampa Bay.

    The scorned lover dug through Hull’s Telegram messages while he was asleep because she believed the 18-year-old social media influencer was cheating on her, the affidavit said.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/looksmaxxing-influencer-caught-with-kiddie-porn-by-girlfriend-who-suspected-him-of-cheating/

    Mistakes were made.

    • Chafed

      🤮

  24. Evan from Evansville

    Oooh! Being sent up front to talk to Pickup dept head… W/o saying anything, this may work out well for me.

  25. Common Tater

    “Sarah Ferguson was also found to have lied about the length of her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. From the spring of 2011 she had shunned him publicly but in private called him ‘a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family’.

    Emails showed the truth of her relationship with the paedophile: they had been much closer than she had ever admitted; he had bankrolled her for 15 years; she and her daughters had been among the first people to see Epstein after his release from prison….

    A former employee at P Diddy’s Bad Boy Records said the rapper was obsessed with the Royal Family, bragged about ‘slamming’ Sarah and once said ‘he could not wait until Fergie’s daughters come of age’.

    This is confirmed by another associate of the singer who says Diddy, real name Sean Combs, first met Sarah Ferguson in New York in 2002 at a party thrown by Ghislaine Maxwell and that their ‘secret friends with benefits’ relationship began in 2004 and lasted for years.”

    https://archive.is/vLSb3

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/royals/article-15801997/sarah-ferguson-secret-friends-benefits-p-diddy.html

    Everyone in this story is despicable.

  26. Common Tater

    “Sydney Sweeney has shocked Euphoria viewers once again, but this time it’s not over her nude scenes.

    The actress, 28, has earned praise for her acting skills after a preview of Sunday’s episode of the HBO Max show was released on Friday.

    Although the scene features Sweeney’s signature cleavage on full display, it’s her ability to perform a monologue from William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra that has blown fans away.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15803219/sydney-sweeney-cassie-shakespeare-euphoria.html

    You can’t miss with good material.

    • Q Continuum

      Good material like DEM TITTAYS amirite?

    • Threedoor

      Being fit or morbidly obese can hid them for quite a while.

      Hope the kid isnt messed up from her drinking.

  27. R.J.

    What is everyone doing this morning? i am finally getting a haircut after months, then installing a light and tightening some chair legs. After that, relaxation.

    • Common Tater

      I’m generally procrastinating.

    • Threedoor

      I mowed the lawn yesterday but didn’t weed eat it cause I’m too bruised from a fall last week.

      Going to clean the battery posts on the worktruck and hope I found the power draw, I think my dash camera which I installed just two months ago is trying to connect to my phone all the time and pulling the batteries down. Then I’m headed to work this afternoon. Five hour drive for about ten hours of work. I hate jobs like that.

    • Ted S.

      Watching a movie.

    • slumbrew

      Grabbing stuff from the tailor, then replacing the batteries in a UPS, then hopping on the peloton at some point. That’s about it. Lazy Saturday.

      • Threedoor

        A tailor.
        That’s fancy.
        I wish I lived closer to an army base so I could find a little old Korean woman to mend all of my Carhartts on the cheep. That and the PX is nice.

      • slumbrew

        Good ones are hard to find, which is why I gotta schlep downtown.

        Losing weight has a downside – my 2 good suits are so big now they can’t be adjusted, so I got a cheap(er) one just in case (funerals, really – anything else, I’d have some lead time)

    • Aloysious

      Three euphemisms in one sentence. Sir, you are setting the bar quite high.

      To answer your query, coffee, garden, brunch, wurk.

      When you have your feet up, use your patriarchal privilege and ask for blueberry pancakes. With bacon.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Not this AM, but I am supposed to go to a comedy show tonight.

      No idea who is on the bill, but these are usually fun.

    • Chafed

      You have hair?

    • Tres Cool

      I’m leaving tomorrow for NJ. I was asked if I would help another office thats short-staffed. I said yes w/o reading the fine print.
      Last night I learned that Im the only person on site to help the manufacturer tune their combustion gas turbine.
      When I told one of the other managers about my travel itinerary, the response I got was “roundtrip tickets? You should have gotten 1-way”
      I still havent gotten the address of the facility.

      Next week is going to be a shit show.

      • Sensei

        Where in NJ?

  28. rhywun

    we mustn’t forget the important areas of policy where the Teams agree. And that is wiping their asses with the Bill of Rights.

    That old thing? Most of the provisions therein were just suggestions, right?

    • Q Continuum

      Excerpts:

      “Instead of actually looking at themselves and going to therapy, these men are turning to platforms [and thinking] ‘No, I’m right … Those women are wrong.’”
      – Checks out, I’ve been told for decades that women are infallible uber(wo)menschen.

      “Across their practices, experts are also seeing men wanting relationships with more traditional gender roles[…]”They prefer someone at home, not putting their career first,” divorce attorney Ankit Kapoor told The Post.”
      – Men wanting things in a partnership is White supremacy and totally different from women wanting men to have equal or higher education and income.

      “As a newly self-described libertarian who favored individual freedom and limited government intervention”
      – I KNEW IT! IT WUZ THOSE DAMN LIBERTARIANS WHO DONE IT!

      Seems like these marriages fizzled out due to mismatched expectations and inability to adapt or compromise; because that never, ever happened before the internet.

    • Threedoor

      Childless women reaching the end of their fertility confused as to why their husbands are unsatisfied with them.

    • Common Tater

      You mean “wouldn’t”?

      • Q Continuum

        Oops. Yeah. “Wouldn’t”.

    • Common Tater

      “She alleges that during this time, he also began investing more in his appearance — buying grooming kits, styling his hair, dieting and running.”

      Oh, no!

    • JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

      It’s like they’ve never listened to Joe Rogan.

  29. Threedoor

    Are any of you guys an accredited investor?

    I want to get into Space X before the IPO but I’m not sure how long the process takes, probably should have done it two months ago when I hit two of the benchmarks.

    • Q Continuum

      The Anduril IPO will be even better.

    • Chafed

      How did you find someone willing to sell their shares?

      • Threedoor

        I’m not accredited
        So I don’t think I can even look at this point.

        If I had any I certainly wouldn’t be selling. But people are weird.

      • (((Jarflax

        I have never been asked to prove I am accredited. It’s always just a check box so the offeror is covered

      • (((Jarflax

        It’s not a credential if that is what you are asking. It’s a factual question about your assets/income

  30. rhywun

    In these books, Gaza is not a subject but a stage.

    The author gives no indication of ever having set foot in Gaza or in Israel, and when he talks about witnessing events, the recurring phrase is “I watch footage.”

    It is no longer a surprise to me that the most prominent graffito greeting travelers passing east through downtown on the State Highway upon which I live, right next to the giant letters reading “BLACK LIVES MATTER”, is another, fresher set of giant letters a little further along reading “FREE GAZA”. And yeah, I doubt the Gaza fans here have any closer knowledge of the place than they do about the few “black lives” to be found around here.

    I wonder if the owners of the new apartments going up right there are going to keep it, in solidarity with the radical leftists that rule this miserable place.

    • DEG

      the recurring phrase is “I watch footage.”

      I never read the article you’re quoting as I’m tired of Middle East shenanigans. I’ve noted this phrase is popular across the political spectrum.

      • rhywun

        It’s TL;DR so in cases like that I tap out when I hit a juicy quote I can bitch about.

        He goes into some detail about that author’s book and it’s quite a hoot. A marvel of narcissistic idiocy and self-indulgent whining. The gist seems to be entire shelves are lined with award-winning garbage like that.

    • Chafed

      My guess is the owners want a return on their investment.

    • Threedoor

      Stages should be level with no debris for the actors to trip and birth themselves on.

      I suggest firing up the D9s and leveling all of Gaza for them.

  31. Common Tater

    “The darker thread to all this is that many Americans feel they can’t speak freely anymore. There are obvious parallels to the assassination of right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, a mouthpiece for smarmy bigotry if there ever was one. Kirk’s death was a shocking and inexcusable act of violence, in spite of the hate he advocated, but it was precisely his bile-spewing that prompted so many to shrug, express zero condolences or even celebrate his death, perhaps because they felt that at least it meant an end to his ceaseless disparagement of anyone not a straight white male.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/05/08/when-it-finally-happens-the-weaponization-of-euphemism-in-magas-shadow/

    That’s some bubble.

    • Common Tater

      “Lest anyone assume this euphemistic tendency is only coming from the left, that’s mostly the case because MAGA thought-leaders, if you can call them that, are often more overt about calls for violence.”

      LOLOLOL

    • (((Jarflax

      Being called out for advocating murder is the real violence! Murder is just the karmic balance for making leftists sad.

      • Nephilium

        They’re defending themselves with violence against words, because wrong words are violence.

    • rhywun

      I doubt I would have hung out with the guy but from the few quotes I heard after his assassination, I didn’t get “hate” out of it.

      The “hate” flowing from Salon writers and Salon readers, OTOH, is very obvious and they are quite serious about it.

      • Chafed

        Rhywun gets it.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The hate is axiomatic, due to his not advocating for hard-left policies, and, indeed, wanting to roll many of them back.

        It is no different than the racism of the recent SCOTUS decision re Voting Rights.

        All of which to say that the hard-left is so convinced of their righteousness that anything else is the work of the devil.

    • Sean

      Yowza.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Can one have negative levels of self awareness?

  32. The Late P Brooks

    “FREE GAZA”

    You get what you pay for.

  33. rhywun

    “I apologize for the way I expressed myself, and I mean that sincerely. The American flag represents the sacrifices of veterans and military families, and the promise that drew immigrants like me to this country,” said Mata. “I should have honored that more carefully in my remarks, and I did not. I have deep respect for everyone who has served under that flag.”

    Never apologize.

    Especially when it is so transparently fake. No, let the hate flow. It’s clearly more thuthful.

    • Chafed

      Even the Somalis hate The Guardian.

    • rhywun

      From the wrong tribe or something?

      • Chafed

        Not enough welfare fraud, I assume.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Slavery

    “Let Memphis secede from the state of Tennessee,” state Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D) said, according to reporting from The Tennessean. “Let my people go. I’m deada‑‑ serious. If you’re constantly beating on us, let us out.”

    Parkinson, who represents part of Shelby County, which includes Memphis, told the Memphis-based outlet WMC-TV that the redistricting was “no longer simply about maps.”

    “This is about whether Memphis, a majority-Black economic engine for this state, is expected to continue contributing billions in tax revenue, culture, labor and commerce while being systematically stripped of political power,” he added.

    Parasites. That’s what white people are.

    • Nephilium

      Yes, because Memphis was a well run metropolis last time I was there.

      • slumbrew

        Highest murder rate in the country

        “We’re #1! We’re #1!”

    • rhywun

      “my people”

      Who’s going to tell him that his Party doesn’t actually give two shits about “his people”?

    • DEG

      Memphis as economic engine for Tennessee? Hmm…..

      • Nephilium

        Well, there’s FedEx, and FedEx, and there’s also… ummm… FedEx.

      • Ted S.

        There’s also Graceland.

    • Chafed

      Billions in culture? Ok

    • Threedoor

      Let the entire county join Mississippi.

      Idaho will take the eastern half of Oregon and Washington east of the snake and Palouse rivers as well.

  35. rhywun

    I’m generally anti-capital punishment (not trusting the State to get it right)

    Yeah, that is the only thing I have against it. Sadly, it’s a pretty big objection.

    My only concern is preventing criminals from preying on the innocent and unfortunately there is no better way.

    • Nephilium

      I say bring back outlawing. Remove them from the legal system entirely. Strip away all of their legal protections.

    • Threedoor

      I had some trepidations about it in the distant past but with the amount of tracking data, footage, and genetics I’m thoroughly convinced that many factors of ten more need to be sentenced to death and actually put down.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Viva la Revolucion!

    “They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Presidents come and go … elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever.”

    Ocasio-Cortez told Axelrod that she tailors her political ambitions to “meet the moment.”

    “Conditions change radically all the time, so I make my response less to an attachment to some positional, like title or position, and working backwards from there, but I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying, ‘What move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday?’” she said on Friday.

    Totally not a narcissistic sociopath. Just a dedicated public servant trying to make life better for working families.

    • rhywun

      single-payer healthcare is forever

      Is that a threat?

      • Chafed

        More of a financial time bomb.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Canada says “what, me worry?”

    • Gustave Lytton

      “When the revolution comes, I’m be Queen Sandy. Meanwhile, I’ll lie about my true aims and goals.”

      So like every commie?

    • Threedoor

      No.
      No.
      Also, no.

      • Fourscore

        Used car price.

        Need to have another one for a parts car, “Something is going to break down”

  37. The Late P Brooks

    More AOC meditations

    On a podcast, Ocasio-Cortez declared with all the certainty of a freshman in a Smith College political science course that the notion of a self-made billionaire is simply a fantasy, because “you just can’t earn” a billion dollars. It is only the latest in a series of socialist fables that are being dressed up as economic facts.

    The difference is that this fable, if told often enough, could become true.

    In suggesting that true billionaires are a capitalist myth, Ocasio-Cortez is suggesting that people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos really did not earn their wealth and, therefore, it is really not their money.

    “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned,” she said. “You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.”

    Cheats and chiselers, they are. Vampires, enslaving the people and sucking their life’s blood.

    • rhywun

      I heard some of the that. Her host was in complete, enthusiastic agreement with every sentence.

      Has that dumb broad ever faced any serious pushback to her commie ravings…?

      • Chafed

        Not once because she never appears in a setting in which she would get any. She won’t even go on Bill Maher’s show.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        She’s a fucking ivy educated bartender.

        Respect her intellectual prowess.

      • Ted S.

        Boston University isn’t an Ivy, last I checked.

      • Fourscore

        It’s laughable if she thinks anything she does is what anyone would pay for.

        I use Jeff B’s services often, willingly pay for it. I try to avoid Sandy’s services whenever I can.

    • Threedoor

      I pray I live long enough to see corporate armies fixing this sort of problem.

      • Chafed

        If Elon can put some lasers on his rockets…..

      • Threedoor

        You could hover one over a large area and destroy it. Or simply be kinetic.

  38. Sean

    Strip steaks were $6.99/lb this week. 😁

    • Threedoor

      My wife made strip tacos the last two days.

      Delicious.

      • Chafed

        Sounds sexy.

      • Threedoor

        It was.
        And filling.
        Home made tortillas too. She continues to out do herself.

        She was a good investment.

        $36 at the Christian county KY courthouse.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    These are not, however, a time for economics or history. It is the time of fables. Ocasio-Cortez has thrived in the land of socialist unicorns. She can even attend the ultra-rich Met Gala wearing an expensive “Eat-the-Rich” gown.

    Like her dress, it is fashionable to deny that billionaires created their wealth. It is your money for the taking. The result is that billionaires and even millionaires in states like New York may go the way of unicorns, fanciful creatures that once thrived in a land of jobs and growth.

    What would happen if people began questioning whether the government “deserves” to capture the wealth of the people?

  40. Gustave Lytton

    Holy crap, I did not know that Charlie McCarthy was Candace Bergen’s step brother.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    You can’t earn a billion dollars, you can only print it.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Holy crap, I did not know that Charlie McCarthy was Candace Bergen’s step brother.

    And Mortimer Snerd.