Huge Wednesday PM Wartylinks

by | Oct 19, 2022 | Daily Links | 235 comments

Good news, everyone! The weather is cold and awful, we won’t see the sun again for months, and soon the deep freezes will punish your lungs for every breath you take and remind you unceasingly of the chill of the grave which beckons you with outstretched arms. So what fresh horrors has this obese world of ours produced for us today?

 

You after eating blodbrod once

Viking blood bread! You will make this, you will eat this. You will grow strong, you will cease to be weak.

 

Like you have enough self-respect to not drink this

The chain has announced the release of Arby’s Smoked Bourbon. The chain collaborated with Brain Brew, a distillery in Ohio, to craft a bourbon that is given the same treatment as Arby’s Smoked Brisket sandwich and Country-Style Rib sandwich from Sadler’s Smokehouse in Texas.

Troth Stitial finally bites God-Emperor Trump in his magnificent fleshy ass

But, here is why Trump may have just blown his best chance at getting out of this suit. On Truth Social (Trump’s social media site that often contains everything but the truth) he recently denied that he’d raped Carroll and reiterated the statements that are at the heart of this case. But here’s the problem for him: He is no longer the president. So he no longer has the protection of the Westfall Act.

Russian refugees, being subhuman Russian scum, will ruin any country they infest, and they’re probably racist too

“Can you imagine a country like ours, which already has a strong Russian ‘fifth column,’ accepting another 40,000 or 50,000 Russian men?” he asks. “Men who wouldn’t support democratic regimes, who wouldn’t be grateful to the Czech Republic as a democratic country, who would stay within their nationalist positions? This would be a risk to our internal security.”

 

HOW STRANGE

Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is spending decades in prison on sex trafficking charges, alleged that a fellow inmate plotted to kill her in her sleep.

There was a woman who made a threat to act in a plan to murder me as I was sleeping. That is real. That happened,” Maxwell told filmmaker Daphne Barak, according to The Sun tabloid, in reference to her earlier jail term at the Metropolitan Detention Center after her July 2020 arrest. She did not provide details about the incident.

 

Please construct a definition of political prisoner that does not fit this man, show your work pls

A pro-life activist from Pittsburgh could face up to 11 years in prison after a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted him for blocking access to a D.C. abortion clinic.

Herb Geraghty, 25, is charged with conspiracy against rights and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act offenses after he participated in an October 2020 “pro-life block and lock rescue” of the Washington Surgi-Clinic.

Geraghty is the 10th blockade participant to face federal charges related to the protest, which was livestreamed on Facebook.

 

Paywalled, but the important part is free: I wholeheartedly endorse this product or service

In March 2020, a maritime shipping advisory panel offered a simple suggestion to the government: Charge all past and current members of two libertarian think tanks with treason.

 

For today’s music, steppe barbarians will regale us with a song of great power. You will listen, you will eat blood bread, you will drink fermented mare’s milk, you will grow strong, you will father many sons.

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235 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “The weather is cold and awful”

    Actually, it’s quite nice.

    • Nephilium

      Freeze warnings in place here in the great land of CLE. Dark, cloudy, rainy, and windy. Thankfully, I’ve got a pork based beer dinner to go to tonight.

      • Count Potato

        Pork-based beer?

      • SDF-7

        Swine brew.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Nice.

      • Nephilium

        Four course dinner, with each food element having pig involved, and a beer paired with each course. There may be a bacon infused beer in store, but I’m not aware of any that the brewery has on tap now.

      • R.J.

        It’s already gone. I clicked the link because, of course I would.

      • Tonio

        Links were made to be clicked.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah, 83F isn’t cold this side of Hades typically.

      I look forward to when the weather is cold, at least it is different.

    • Tundra

      74 and sunny.

  2. Count Potato

    I never drink whiskey.

    • SDF-7

      Of course not — potato vodka for the Count. The tater equivalent of “I do not drink…. wine.”

    • Ted S.

      You drink a whiskey drink, you drink a vodka drink,….

  3. Count Potato

    “Carroll accused Trump in 2019 of raping her in the dressing room of New York’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump then accused Carroll of “totally lying” while trying to sell a book, adding: “She’s not my type.” Trump’s denial prompted Carroll to launch her lawsuit accusing Trump of defaming her.”

    Is it defaming her if he didn’t rape her? Shouldn’t he counter sue?

    • Sean

      Everything is stupid. Adjust your plans accordingly, I have.

      • Count Potato

        Apparently, everything is also treason.

      • SDF-7

        Sung to you-damned-well-know-what:

        Everything is treason!
        Everything’s a coup when you’re on the red team!
        Everything is treason!
        Locking up all our opponents is the dream!

    • Count Potato

      ““a BRAND NEW statement REPEATING all the earlier defamatory statements, but since you’re no longer POTUS, you NO LONGER HAVE THAT DEFENSE you’ve been pushing for years that you made the statements while you were president!!!””

      Such calm professional writing.

    • SDF-7

      “I am so totally his type!”

      • Drake

        I’ve seen her pictures. She’s not anyone’s type.

      • Sean

        *clicks like button*

      • Tonio

        Hell hath no fury like…

      • Bobarian LMD

        A rock troll scorned?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      As I recall, she’s a total nutjob.

      • juris imprudent

        Crazy without the hawt?

  4. Pat

    Like you have enough self-respect to not drink this

    Not a fan of Arby’s, but “smoked” and “bourbon” is more than sufficient for me to try a glass.

    • Nephilium

      Going to the website for the company making the bourbon for Arby’s, I found this neat little thing.

      I don’t think I can convince the girlfriend I need that in the basement bar.

      • Nephilium

        Oh… I wasn’t going to try the Arby’s bourbon, I was looking to see what other horrors they may have unleashed upon the public.

      • R.J.

        I would have bought it and tried it on the Zoom.

      • Pat

        I was looking to see what other horrors they may have unleashed upon the public.

        I wanted to give this a shot, but couldn’t find it locally.

      • Nephilium

        Watershed distilling here in Ohio does a Bourbon Barrel Aged Gin that’s quite good. Works in more applications then I would have thought.

      • Pat

        I’m a huge fan of both gin and Bourbon, so it’s intriguing. Maybe the next time I make it into Las Vegas to a liquor store with a wider selection…

      • Bobarian LMD

        Your Guests Receive:
        TASTING NOTES on what their bourbon tastes like.

        Sounds like something someone in skinny jeans and a pork-pie hat with contrasting neck-beard needs in their basement.

      • Nephilium

        I only meet one of those three criteria.

      • EvilSheldon

        I think that you owe it to yourself to try…

      • Nephilium

        I can see all sorts of applications!

        /starts considering the minimum number of bottles I would need for a cocktail machine

    • R.J.

      My guess is it would either be mediocre, or god-awful tooth-brushing bad.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Not for nothing, but smoked bourbon sounds like something I’d enjoy.

      • R.J.

        It is quite good. Locally here I can get it in some bars.

  5. SDF-7

    Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is spending decades in prison on sex trafficking charges, alleged that a fellow inmate plotted to kill her in her sleep.

    Amazing that sex trafficking young girls to a pedo ring is frowned upon, even in prison. Whouda thunk it….

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Maxwell did not attempt to kill herself.

    • Tonio

      Apparently, it is also possible to order hits on inmates if one has the right contacts and cash. Even if they won’t benefit personally, inmates have ppl on the outside they might want taken care of.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sex trafficking without any apparent clients too..

    • Brochettaward

      I know it’s impolite to ask, but how many of Epstein’s girls were held against their will? He was somehow, for reasons that no can seem to explain, a billionaire who let them live it up as long as they performed sexual favors on old, but other powerful and rich men.

      I’m not saying she’s a good guy, or that he was. Or that anyone who visited the island to sleep with them was. Or that it shouldn’t be illegal when we are talking about 15 year old girls. But that’s the aspect of this story that no one ever really talks about.

  6. Pat

    Troth Stitial finally bites God-Emperor Trump in his magnificent fleshy ass

    They’ve got him now. The walls are closing in.

    Although it would actually be pretty cool if this case set the sort of precedent where you could conceivably sue for defamation as a public figure again, since it’s nigh impossible under the actual malice standard.

  7. Shiny Nerfherder

    Men who wouldn’t support democratic regimes

    I love the usage of regime in this case. It sounds so “authoritative.”

    • grrizzly

      Anger is also being fed by a lack of trust in mainstream media and politicians — something that Pavel believes is partly attributable to malign Russian influence.

      Politicians in our client states don’t deviate from the script.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        In my experience, much of the script was tested in those markets first.

      • Brochettaward

        It’s amazing how powerful and influential Russia and Putin really are.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Putin killed my dog.

      • straffinrun

        “ The Czech government has taken a tough stance on the war in Ukraine”

        Sorry, but if that’s the case, tough s**t. You play war games, you get the consequences.

  8. Pat

    Paywalled

    Didn’t work on this particular article, but 12ft can get past a lot of them.

    • Tundra

      Sites must have figured 12ft out. It hasn’t been working as well lately. It used to make WSJ its bitch.

      • Tonio

        Yeah, I’ve never gotten it to work, unfortunately.

  9. Tundra

    SING ALONG!

    Ӧлӧр болзо, ӧлӧрим,
    Ӧскӧн jерим бербезим.
    Барар болзо, барарым,
    Баскан jерим бербезим.
    Ӱйеликке jуртаган
    Ӱргӱлjи кару jерибис.
    Тамырланып ӧскӱрген
    Таш шибеелӱ тӧрӧлис.
    Сӱксӱре тӱшкен сӱмерлер
    Сӱнебисти корыган.
    Ак санаалу алыптар
    Алтайы учун тартышкан.
    Jалканчыган немелер
    Jаҥга чыгар, билерим.
    Ӧчӧп, ӧштӧп келерин
    Ӧй ӧткӱре кӧрӧрим.
    Ырjайып, сӱмелӱ каткырып,
    Ырызын ол табар ба?
    Ӱзӱт кеберин jажырып,
    Улусты мекелеп чыгар ба?
    Эки jӱстӱ немениҥ
    Эп-сӱмезин билбезим.
    Базынза да, кайдалык,
    Бажым бӧкӧйтип келбезим!
    Ӧлӧр болзом, ӧлӧрим,
    Ӧскӧн jерим бербезим.
    Агару Алтай jеримде
    Айса ӱргӱлjи jӱрерим!

    • SDF-7

      You’re not my supervisor!

      And I probably could just about sing along as with this.

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t know the alphabet.

      • grrizzly

        My guess that the singer speaks Russian all the time except when he sings these songs.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s not Russian.

      • Rat on a train

        Google says Kyrgyz.

      • Tundra

        The Altai Republic is one of Russia’s ethnic republics, primarily representing the indigenous Altai people, a Turkic ethnic group that form 35% of the Republic’s population, while ethnic Russians form a majority at 57%, and with minority populations of Kazakhs, other Central Asian ethnicities, and Germans. The official languages of the Altai Republic are Russian and Altai. Kazakh is official in areas of compact settlement of its speakers.[10]

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it looks Turkic with all the vowel harmony going on there.

      • Rat on a train

        Altai isn’t listed as an option. Google probably identified Kyrgyz since it is a related Kipchak language.

  10. Rat on a train

    Charge all past and present members of the Cato and Mercatus Institutes with treason. The President inform the Heritage Institute that he will personally disavow them if they continue to advocate against the Jones Act.

    We didn’t make the list. Probably because we have wood chippers.

  11. Drake

    Blood bread is generally considered verboten for Christians – although there has been lots of contention over interpreting The Jerusalem Council in Acts 15.

    • Pat

      I think the prohibition there is sensible since it’s part of the Noahide law, predating the Mosaic law, and therefore could conceivably be construed as applicable to non-Jews. Paul making Timothy get circumcised despite preaching that it was unnecessary and refusing to allow Titus to be circumcised was fairly retarded though (yes, I understand the justification being that Timothy’s mother was Jewish and he was accompanying Paul among Jews; it’s still retarded).

      • Tonio

        What is this Naugahyde law of which you speak?

      • Tundra

        +1 Barcalounger

      • Pat

        What do you think God rested upon on the 7th day?

      • Bobarian LMD

        The Nauga is ugly, but his hide is beautiful.

      • UnCivilServant

        wot? Was there a habit of routine foreskin checks he had to pass?

    • The Other Kevin

      Is it just bread? My Orthodox Catholic grandparents used to eat blood sausage.

      • Drake

        Interpretation varies between denominations.

      • Rat on a train

        I’ve eaten dinuguan.

      • Pat

        It’s blood in general, as well as meat that’s been strangled:

        Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.

        However, the context was fusionism between the gentile and Jewish converts. There being virtually no Jewish Christians anymore, it would be very unlikely to become a source of tension in the modern church. That having been said, it’s still there in the Noahide laws and therefore could be construed as applicable across the board.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        No Jewish Christians? Not so fast!

        https://jewsforjesus.org/

  12. Pat

    Damn squirrels…

    Oct. 19 (UPI) — A power outage that affected 1,953 customers in Oregon was blamed on a single culprit: a squirrel.

    Portland General Electric said 1,953 customers in East Salem lost power about 10:42 a.m. Tuesday and the power was restored at 12:07 p.m.

    PGE said a squirrel was to blame for the outage, but the specifics of the animal’s actions were unclear.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The server squirrels have escaped. We’re doomed.

      I blame Reason and its experiments in gain of function of server squirrels.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

      • Bobarian LMD

        YOU FUCKED WITH SQUIRRELS MORTY!

    • Rat on a train

      A squirrel once took out power at the NSA shutting it down for a couple days.

      • Tundra

        God’s work. We can only pray for an army of them.

      • Tundra

        LOL!

        “Run a 199 on a possible Doolittle.”

      • hayeksplosives

        That is good stuff. I thought I had seen all episodes of Rick and Morty, but apparently I have some more work to do!

  13. Drake

    Russian revanchism – we took in the Trotskyites and now they run our foreign policy.

  14. Count Potato

    “Digital auction house eBay banned Jeffrey Dahmer costumes amid public uproar over glorifying the late serial killer.

    The commerce site announced the scrubbing of the costumes Wednesday, after seeing increased interest in Dahmer-inspired getups since the release of Netflix’s ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ last month.

    The drama has since surged to become the streaming service’s second most popular series of all time, but has been criticized for glamourizing the notorious murderer who killed and ate 17 men in Ohio and Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991.

    Concerning the rationale behind their decision, eBay brass said in a statement that the costumes – which included glasses, wigs, and shirts meant to capture the likeness of Dahmer – went against its terms of service.

    The official policy staffers were referring to, listed on their site, asserts that there’s no space for ‘items closely associated with or that benefit violent felons, their acts, or crime scenes within the past 100 years.’

    Selling such items, the company said, even as a costume, goes against eBay’s user agreement – despite the fact the sales cannot benefit Dahmer, who was beaten to death in prison in 1994.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11333263/Simone-Biles-SLAMS-Jeffrey-Dahmer-Halloween-costumes.html

    What a lame stupid policy.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Why do you need a costume to be a serial killer? They look just like the rest of us.

      • R.J.

        Yep. That was the go to excuse when you don’t have time to dress up for Halloween.
        “What are you supposed to be?”
        “A serial killer.”

      • SDF-7

        I suppose it is Wednesday, so quite an appropriate quote.

    • R.J.

      She may not keep a wifi router in the bedroom, but I bet her phone is in a pocket next to her crotch all day, and on her bedtable when she sleeps. Far stronger source of radiation.

    • The Other Kevin

      But she is against canola oil…

    • Nephilium

      white part of a bell pepper

      You mean the seeds?

      • UnCivilServant

        I think they mean the pithy part between the seeds.

      • SDF-7

        British link — so yeah, they’re always taking the pith.

      • juris imprudent

        I thought they made them into helmets?

      • Aloysious

        (•_•)

      • Tonio

        You people are rocking it today.

      • Tundra

        What do you mean “you people?”

        (the classics never really get old)

    • Pat

      What do you bet me she wears a FitBit to bed and keeps her cell phone next to her pillow.

    • Tundra

      Meh, she’s right about some of it.

      Cosmetics are full of nasties, especially sunscreens and lotions. And it’s probably best to get the phones, etc. out of your bedroom, but more for sleep hygiene than 5G horrors.

      However, no way I’m eating the fibrous shit from bell peppers.

      • Nephilium

        Sunscreen is better then second degree sunburn…

      • Tundra

        Honestly, you need to just get sun protective clothing.

        You do not want sunscreen, dude.

      • Nephilium

        Not really an option on a long ride. Each of my bikes now has a tube of sport strength sunscreen in the saddle bag.

    • Warty

      Canola oil is poison.

      • The Other Kevin

        It has been banned from our house since we saw one of those “how it’s made” shows featuring how Canola oil is processed. There’s chemical bleaching and stuff. No thanks.

      • MikeS

        There’s chemical bleaching and stuff.

        White granulated sugar, too.

      • Pat

        Of all the people I’d have expected to be OK with something derived from rapeseed…

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s an excellent source of bio-diesel.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Ah, yes, Biodiesel. Turning 300K mile engines into 30K engines by DIY junk science.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The Canadian part or the low acid?

      • Tundra

        The processing and fat ratios.

        Just use coconut, olive oil and animal fats.

    • Bobarian LMD

      It’s the DailyFail, all that matters is that she’s a photogenic piece of cheesecake.

  15. Shpip

    Re: Arby’s smoked bourbon

    There’s a small distillery in Virginia that’s been doing an apple- and cherry-smoked rye whiskey for years. I pick up a couple of bottles every time I go to Danville. But then, I’m an Islay scotch guy, so it fits my palate perfectly.

    • slumbrew

      I thought I had it, but ‘not available in Mass’.

      Some other ‘copper’-named booze, I guess.

    • Tonio

      Thanks for the recco. I’m out of rye and will pick up a bottle next time I visit the state monopoly booze store.

      Also, my condolences that you have to visit Danville, a town noteworthy only because of its inclusion in lyrics of a song from the hippie times.

      • MikeS

        Also the hometown of Mojo Nixon.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        He don’t work here.

      • SDF-7

        It seems your store could use some fixin’.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        She said, Well no, we only have him iced.

      • EvilSheldon

        Damn you and your nimble fingers (or whatever.)

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Also, my condolences that you have to visit Danville, a town noteworthy only because of its inclusion in lyrics of a song from the hippie times.

        Well, Danville does also have a high murder rate going for it. I thought it was highest in the state, but looks tied with Richmond.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Danville? Do you mean Williamsburg?

      • Shpip

        When they move the circuit to Williamsburg, then I’ll go there. Until then, though…

    • Don escaped Texas

      Islay

      exactly

      The thing about whiskey is culture. I could mix up a batch of additives that would turn an ordinary barrel of 40% ethanol into “Scotch” by just adding a few drops, but what would be the point of that? I could “age” whiskey by ramping up the surface-area-to-unit-mass ratio of the the wood and char until it would taste 14 years old in a few weeks, but what fun is that? The point of Scotch is to pay $80 for a fifth of a gallon that has been produced by ridiculous process and revel in the tradition, effort, and craft.

      NewWife drinks vodka. I don’t get it: might as well be dosing USP grade reagents.

      • juris imprudent

        You should’ve heard Swiss go on about the Japanese whiskey.

      • Ted S.

        For relaxing time, make it Suntory time?

      • Swiss Servator

        *squints suspiciously*

        Fuji is perfect…just happens to be soulless, heartless….the Platonic ideal of whisky.

      • grrizzly

        I’m incapable of distinguishing a 18 yo scotch from a 12 yo one. I think I tried it with Shieldaig.

      • Ted S.

        The 18yo Scotch has gone through puberty; the 12yo hasn’t.

      • Swiss Servator

        “I could mix up a batch of additives that would turn an ordinary barrel of 40% ethanol into “Scotch” by just adding a few drops, but what would be the point of that? I could “age” whiskey by ramping up the surface-area-to-unit-mass ratio of the the wood and char until it would taste 14 years old in a few weeks, but what fun is that? ”

        Sure you could! You just have foregone a massive income out of a sense of…?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      They’ve certainly had the time, the budget, and the lack of scrutiny to develop the techniques.

      They still can’t control the economy though. And they’re arrogant.

    • Brochettaward

      I mean, are they, really?

      I don’t think the DOD’s troll farms are any more influential than Putin’s, which is to say…not very. But we probably spend much more money on it. The propagandists in this country mainly benefit from the fact a sizeable portion of the populace still goes along with the mainstream narrative, whatever it may be, out of team loyalties that have been developed since birth.

      The fact is, they’ve completely lost about half the country at this point in time. I’m not naïve enough to think that that part of the country couldn’t be brought back on board and faith in the institutions largely restored with the election of one generic GOP toadstool, but the people in charge don’t seem like they are very interested in allowing even that to happen anytime soon.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        They’re wholly dependent on a functioning economy and comfortable Americans.

        Take that away and the carefully crafted narratives start to fall away. Just look at the Jan 6th show trials, nobody except the most demented partisans care.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Oratorical magic

    President Biden on Wednesday rejected criticism that his latest release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was politically motivated as the White House aims to bring down gas prices with just a few weeks until the midterm elections.

    “It’s not politically motivated at all,” Biden told reporters after announcing plans to release another 15 million barrels of fuel from the country’s reserves.

    “It’s motivated to make sure I continue to push on what I’ve been pushing on, and that’s making sure there’s enough oil that’s being pumped by the companies so that we have the ability to be able to produce enough gas that we need here at home, and at the same time keep moving in a direction of providing for alternative energy,” he continued.

    Oh.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    The president also outlined plans to refill the reserve by buying more oil once prices fall to $70 a barrel. And he reiterated the need for oil companies to pass savings onto consumers at a time when major refiners and producers are seeing massive profits.

    When do we think that will happen?

    • SDF-7

      Depends on how cold New England and Europe get this winter and if the wood chippers are broken out to help, I would expect.

      • Nephilium

        Local news has already reported about a regional propane company going out of business.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      He’s going to put us in a situation where we have to refill the reserve at extremely high cost. Trump wanted to buy low and sell high, so of course the Dems do the opposite.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I’m going out on a limb and say we have zero chance of seeing 70 dollar oil as long as Joe is in the White house.

    • Sean

      Yup.

      • Tundra

        Remember that the Short-fingered Vulgarian wanted to restock at $20, but congress said nah.

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s because those oil companies were making so much profit selling at $20.

      • MikeS

        Corporate handout!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    “You should be using these record-breaking profits to increase production and refining. Invest in America for the American people. Bring down the price you charge at the pump to reflect what you pay for the product,” Biden said.

    Gaslighting on stilts.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Joe, you keep telling them that you are going to end their business. Why would they invest?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Hush, you!

    • Rat on a train

      Dear Disney,
      You don’t have to do anything more to keep me away.

      • Pat

        I have very pleasant memories of Disney parks as a kid and young adolesecent, but even when I stopped back in on a birthday junket to SoCal when I was 19 the place just wasn’t what it used to be. Even if I had kids, I’d never go back.

      • Tundra

        I dodged the bullet. My wife always wanted to take the kids, but we took them to mountains, deserts and oceans instead.

      • R.J.

        I went this past year. First to Disney, then Universal. Night and day difference. I don’t think I would go back to Disney.

      • Pat

        Our first SoCal vacation I was 4 years old and didn’t quite grasp that the 10 foot tall King Kong head, 30 foot rubber shark, and simulated earth quake on the Universal Stuidios tram ride weren’t actually real. I owe every patron on 3 or 4 of the tram cars a drink some day.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’ve been going since I was a kid, and my wife and our kids have gone a lot. We had some great times. But I agree, it’s just too expensive and the quality has been going down for decades now. I’ve lost interest.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        I went as a kid, and loved it (surprise.) I went back, like you, at 19 (college girlfriends parents paid) and it just seemed… threadbare.

      • Rat on a train

        I grew up in Orange County. Disneyland trips were frequent but it has become too expensive. My last annual pass from 1996 was only $99. That doesn’t get you a single day now.

      • cavalier973

        We went for the first time back in 1992. It was amazing—we went to the MK, EC, and “Disney MGM studios”.

        At the latter park, my brother and I were in the “Hollywood and Vine” area, in a group of guests, watching Disney performers play a card game. Three of the players were flagrantly cheating the fourth guy. A guy dressed like a burglar raced by, followed by a Keystone Cop. My brother hollered at the cop.
        “What?!” shouts the cop.
        “I think they’re cheating that guy,” my brother says.
        The cop saunters over to the table. “What’s going on here?” he asks. The cheaters act embarrassed and guilty. “Are you cheating this guy without giving me my cut, again?”
        “Oh, right!” And, they hand him some of the money, and he walked off.

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        I went again in 2004. It had been turned into a Disney Store, with rides.

    • Sean

      It’s Japan. Fuck em. I don’t care.

      • rhywun

        It’s Disney so I don’t care. Never gave a crap about their stuff at any age.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        That was good. Saw this video beneath as a recommended watch. Completely unrelated but well done. I didn’t realize the Bee made videos too.

        Californians Move to Texas | Episode 2: The Cookout
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MOy6Z_UP7c&t

      • MikeS

        Part 1 of that is pretty funny, as well.

  20. DEG

    “There was a woman who made a threat to act in a plan to murder me as I was sleeping. That is real. That happened,” Maxwell told filmmaker Daphne Barak, according to The Sun tabloid, in reference to her earlier jail term at the Metropolitan Detention Center after her July 2020 arrest. She did not provide details about the incident.

    Hillary Clinton isn’t in jail.

    • Tundra

      Yet.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        They could put Chelsea in jail, but they can’t stop her from breaking out.

  21. juris imprudent

    Alright, who here did this?

    We want to arm you with the knowledge you need so next time you happen upon a Libertarian, you can DESTROY him. We’re assuming it’s a “him.” Female libertarians are entirely fictional.

    • R.J.

      Heh. I noticed an article appeared about “chainsaw man” at Babylon Bee right after Sensei posted about it.

      • Hyperion

        They definitely spying on us.

    • Hyperion

      I would say it was one of us, but I spotted a fatal flaw.

      Owned! Pwned!

      Also, nothing about orphans, not even one mention.

  22. juris imprudent

    No shit!

    San Francisco proves it can waste money better than the Pentagon!

    • rhywun

      “While this isn’t the cheapest way to build, it reflects San Francisco’s values.”

      Says it all, I guess.

  23. DEG

    BEES!

    A Massachusetts woman is facing multiple assault and battery charges for allegedly releasing a swarm of bees on a group of sheriff’s deputies, some of them allergic to bee stings, as they tried to serve an eviction notice, authorities said.

      • R.J.

        She just needs to say they are her emotional support bees. All charges would be dropped.

    • The Other Kevin

      The bees flew away with your link!

      • Pope Jimbo

        He bumbled the link.

      • Aloysious

        Ouch. That stung.

      • Fourscore

        You keep droning on that or you’re pollen my leg

    • Pat

      Was Nic Cage spotted anywhere in the area?

  24. UnCivilServant

    No, the order has not been delivered, you stupid computer.

    • Pat

      Perhaps it’s been delivered, just not to you…

      • UnCivilServant

        Either that, or undelivered, or stolen from the porch.

    • SDF-7

      Careful, the Computer is your friend — you sound awfully subversive, Citizen.

      • UnCivilServant

        *reconfigures treason database*

        I am root.

    • rhywun

      What is it good for?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I’m guessing it will eventually be annual boosters just like the flu.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      No surprises there.

      Bring it on, bitches. I will die on this hill.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Tomorrow’s the big vote. This was the warmup.

        The next one will add it to the childhood vaccine schedule, making it mandatory in a number of states.

        A part of me hopes they do it because it will break the system.

      • Tundra

        I think so. Compliance numbers so far for the little ones is almost non-existent. They went too far with this – particularly when they admitted that no real testing has been done.

      • Urthona

        Oh man. This is not gonna turn out well.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        A part of me hopes they do it because it will break the system.

        I’m not as optimistic. They’ll do it and the system won’t break. We’re firmly sliding down the path into a dystopia.

      • Urthona

        I think some people will refuse the vaccinations and then then be unable to go to public school and this will cause some amusing chaos and hysteria.

        Sure most will comply… but not all.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Most won’t comply at this point. Vaccine uptake is falling daily and the type of resistance they face now is not the mild kind.

        People are pissed.

      • Urthona

        I think most won’t *want* to, but many will because it’s just the easiest path to maintain their lifestyles.

        But — I hope — enough will refuse that it buttresses the exodus from public schools and school choice even more (which is already winning).

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Oh, there will be plenty who do.

        I encountered a quad-vaxxed true believer in the wild today who proclaimed that he got over a horrible case of COVID a couple of weeks ago, but he was so glad he was protected. He just felt so lethargic now.

        It was all I could do to not tell him to update his will.

      • Brochettaward

        I think covid shots for their 6 year olds is a real deal breaker for a lot of parents, even ones in the big blue cities. They couldn’t even get much buy in for the shots for kids when people cared about the pandemic. Selling it now?

        This is great for school choice advocates.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        And the parents will be jailed. Possibly CPS involved. Most everyone else will quickly fall into line. I think there will be a some cases of non-compliance, but nowhere close to breaking the system. And it should be broken over this. But serious resistance to the point of bringing this shit down sailed when Americans accepted Covid mask mandates, lockdowns, etc. I’ll change my mind once serious food and energy shortages are on the table.

        Forcing this on my children is a red line for me. But I’ll choose to withdraw my family from the system rather than stay to fight it. I already chose withdrawal 6 or so years ago with forced immunizations as one of the key reasons. I suspect most who are willing to violently resist over this will make the similar decision to withdraw from the system instead. A few will choose to fight and take an honor guard down with them. The vast majority of Americans will ultimately just line their children up like cattle.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        When I say break the system, I mean lay the foundation for its demise. It won’t happen immediately, there are too many sheep.

        But the sheep are being killed off and the surviving remnant will not be as compliant.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Gotcha. I agree on that.

        It will be interesting to see if certain states do anything in response. Something like sanctuary states for immunizations.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        The medial system won’t break. The education system won’t break.

        But voluntary participation in their systems of control will plummet and that will ultimately be their undoing.

      • Hyperion

        Meh, that ain’t nuthin. Wait until the Ebola hits. What even happened to Monkey Pox?

    • Pope Jimbo

      How long did it take for all of them to use the hand sanitizer in the hall? That is the metric that really counts.

    • Urthona

      The passive shooter situation is even more terrifying.

      You’d be tempted to think everything’s ok because you haven’t heard a shot in awhile, but turns out he was just chillaxing for a bit.

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Whelp, Mrs. Holiness is mad at me and just called me “mean”.

    My sin? I ran a politician off my property. I was just getting home from a run and the local GOP guy running for state rep had just finished talking to my wife. They got along pretty well, so when he saw me coming up, he thought I would also be happy to talk to him.

    I simply told him to “get the fuck off my property and never come back”. My wife thought that was hostile and mean. I don’t know why. Maybe she didn’t understand that me standing there and glaring at him until he skedaddled was because I cared about him and wanted to be sure he made it out of the driveway safely.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Jeez, couldn’t you have just said Go Fuck Yourself, kicked him in the nuts and walked away?
      It works….

    • Sean

      Yeah, but does he get your vote?

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t be silly, Jimbo isn’t allowed to vote.

    • Urthona

      That does seem kinda mean.

    • Fourscore

      He thought you were his ex wife, maybe?

    • Gender Traitor

      It’s just for moments such as this that you should always carry with you a couple of copies of The Watchtower.

    • Urthona

      Right after we do that, we can make sure every house gets a dragon and some magic beans.

      • Count Potato

        No, those things are literally impossible.

  26. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Warty thinks chicks can be fathers. How woke!!

    you will father many sons

  27. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I just realized that the National League is using the DH. The world really is going to hell.

    • Don escaped Texas

      ^^^ this ^^^

      why worry ’bout blood foods when there are pressing signs of the apocalypse

      • Gender Traitor

        When they switch to metal bats, THAT will be the true harbinger of the End Times.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Metal bats? I can’t even.

      • Don escaped Texas

        like I was saying about Scotch: it’s the tradition and natural tensions that make it any fun at all

        lingerie is more arousing than nudity
        craft is more fun the raw power
        natural risks brew the most attractive tensions

        there was a time in football when there was very little scoring, but that was too much punting; the proper game should end 17-20…that’s balance
        a baseball game should be 4-1, the roster should be 25, and the DH shouldn’t be allowed to save a manager from needing to plan his substitutions carefully
        there’s just nothing more clear cut than boxing or horse racing: form and speed and power in balance, pace and risk balanced…or not!

        all people want to see anymore are home runs and big NASCAR wrecks; thinking and craft are no longer in demand

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      I just realized that the National League is using the DH

      Yup. That’s when I gave up on MLB.

      Don’t care about hockey, don’t care about basketball. If I’ve bored enough I will put on a football game with the sound muted.

      Never was a big sports fan but done with them now.

    • DEG

      With inflation that’s what? A line or three?

    • juris imprudent

      Cops always have the best drugs.

  28. Tonio

    Webdom (FBOH) has setup a self-hosting Glibs HumpDay Zoom that auto-starts at 20:00 Eastern time, and continues until the last Glib is standing.

    This is a robo-Zoom, so you’re on your own for tech support and moderation. If you have problems joining you may have to login to the Zoom app thingy on your device.