Monday Afternoon Absent Links

by | Nov 21, 2022 | Daily Links | 201 comments

THAT WHICH IS IGNORED!

Lynx?

 

I have to slam these links together, because I am going to get an ultrasound on my remaining kidney. My insanely defensive doc wants a look. I think that guarantees I am fine.

Here are some fairly hasty links (and curse any of you who preempted me!)

I am sure all of you will have earned this…

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

201 Comments

  1. Sean

    All kidneying aside, I hope you’re OK, Swiss.

    • SDF-7

      Nice to lead off with a joke there, old bean.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It takes some stones to do that.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Let he without sin…

      • Bobarian LMD

        Can’t we just get along, Brothers and Cyst-ers?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Urine trouble now

      • Ted S.

        At which point a stone came from the crowd, striking the sinner quite dead.

        An exasperated Jesus replied, “Mother….”

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t think he’s got the capacity to filter this out.

    • Count Potato

      Let’s not piss him off.

      • SDF-7

        Well he already gave us the preemptive gaze — so it isn’t like there’s some other organ of displeasure looming in our horizons.

      • juris imprudent

        We don’t want him madder than the bladder.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        organ of displeasure

        The nipples of our discontent

      • juris imprudent

        The best album name ever.

      • SDF-7

        Followed by their Christmas album: Glass Cutters ?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        organ of displeasure

        I don’t have one of those. Wot’s it like?

      • PutridMeat

        Lots of barbs and sharp pointy teeth?

      • slumbrew
    • Sensei

      Renally?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Let he who is without sin pass the first stone.

      • Shpip

        All right, people. ‘Neph with the organ jokes. They’re all pretty offal.

  2. SDF-7

    Hopefully your kidney scan goes better than the voice hearing tumor lady from this morning’s discussion, Swiss. Be well.

    Also — meta-comment… did anything come from the request for a non-Paypal option for donating to the Server Squirrel Feed Fund earlier? I cancelled Paypal after the TOS issue, and would rather not deal with them in any form. Hell, I’ll happily mail y’all a check if you give me an address to do it… but surely there are better options these days.

    • pistoffnick

      I second this emotion…

    • juris imprudent

      Or is there a Zelle option?

    • Aloysious

      Thirdly

    • rhywun

      I used Paypal and then took a shower.

      • R.J.

        Me too. And I made sure they didn’t keep my card info.

    • grrizzly

      I only use PayPal when PayPal pays me.

    • Chafed

      Feel better Swiss. I hope everything is okay with your kidney.

  3. Count Potato

    “Valdez refused and sped off, running a traffic light and “nearly colliding with officers and other vehicles,” officials said.”

    Criminal mastermind.

    • Count Potato

      “Valdez is scheduled to be sentenced in January 2023, and faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.”

      That seems a bit harsh.

    • SDF-7

      Squirrel monkey hiding in bush of coffee, squirrel monkey switch to beer.
      Crazy lady just rams through checkpoint, slamming through every gear…

      Apologies to JoCo, of course.

  4. Shpip

    COP27 ended Sunday morning after a long night of negotiations with an agreement to create a global fund for “loss and damage” that will provide financial assistance to poor nations struck by climate disaster. While the fund was welcomed by countries of the Global South who suffer most from the effects of climate change, controversial decisions were left until next year, including who should pay into it.

    In other words, no one’s going to pay for it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The consensus among the well-connected is frighteningly in sync though. I was listening to an interview with Meghan O’Sullivan and Jason Bordoff, both of whom are fixtures in DC and the Ivies, and they are absolutely operating with absolute certainty that the IPCC is correct. Never mind that the IPCC has never been correct about a damn thing.

      I couldn’t finish the interview. The near total ignorance of our complete reliance on fossil fuels for everything was mind-boggling. They truly think that we can just throw money, force, and bodies at the problem until it solves itself. And they made it clear that countries that don’t go along are a “global security risk.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Our episode today focuses on energy geopolitics and the immense challenges inherent in trying to balance national security concerns with international climate objectives. As Meghan and Jason have both argued, moving to a net-zero global economy will require an unprecedented level of global cooperation. It will also lead to conflict along the way and inevitably produce winners and losers. While government investment and private sector innovation is crucial to managing this transition, conscious steps need to be taken in order to mitigate the geopolitical risks that this change will create, of which the war in Ukraine is only the latest example.

        https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/energy-geopolitics-meghan-osullivan-jason-bordoff/

        These people are insane, insanely incompetent, and insanely hubristic.

      • rhywun

        insanely incompetent

        And dangerously delusional.

      • Lackadaisical

        “It will also lead to conflict along the way and inevitably produce winners and losers.”

        Sometimes the expected results really are intended.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It will also lead to conflict along the way and inevitably produce winners and losers Morlocks and Eloi.

        This is how you get cannibals. By destroying the world economy.

      • B.P.

        “…of which the war in Ukraine is only the latest example.”

        If we squint hard enough, we can make anything fit the preferred narrative.

      • Lackadaisical

        These climate people are naturals at it.

        Rain? Climate change. Drought? Climate change. Etc.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        It slices, it dices, it juliennes!

      • Q Continuum

        Just dumbass human shit.

        Humans = trash.

    • rhywun

      suffer most from the effects of climate change

      *cough* Bullshit.

      In other words, no one’s going to pay for it.

      Including the world’s biggest polluter by far, who is not even being asked to pay into it.

      Guess who is.

      • Lackadaisical

        We all know they just want our sweet sweet greenbacks.

        Not a single third world country really believes this stuff, but they’d be dumb to pass on a chance to get in on the graft.

      • Shpip

        Including the world’s biggest polluter by far, who is not even being asked to pay into it.

        Guess who is.

        As we’ve been told time and again, “Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.” Because even in shitholes, money and power will find each other.

        And if you’re the head of an NGO that can skim 90% off the top with no accountability (other than kicking ten percent to the big guy), so much the better. Double bonus if you can signal your virtue while attending a conference in Cap d’Antibes.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘Because even in shitholes, money and power will find each other.’

        Even? I’d say especially there. In fact a shit hole can almost be defined by the extent to which power and money go together. That’s why DC being the richest area of the country for the first time ever is so troubling.

    • Lackadaisical

      That was good, tempted to send it to my in the tank for the left sister in law…

      • Tundra

        She won’t watch it.

        Although hearing her justifications would be entertaining.

  5. hayeksplosives

    Thanks for the quickie links.

    I got a message that my new prescription glasses are in, so I’m gonna take a work break and go pick ‘em up!!

    Hoping that the literal improved vision will be accompanied by metaphorical improved “vision”.

    Thanks to all you glibbies who’ve let me vent and lean on you lately.

    • R.J.

      I am glad you didn’t go dark. Vent anytime, and know at least I keep you in my thoughts. Friends are an important safety net when times get weird.

      • slumbrew

        Hear, hear!

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘Canada’s national intelligence agency did not find the protests posed a threat to Canada’s security.’

      What kind of spy agency are they running there?

      I’m sure the FBI would have gone asking with it. Dangerous criminals that the truckers clearly were.

      • Lackadaisical

        Gone along with it.*

    • R.J.

      His real master, Xi, told him off. Now the wolves can circle.

      • R.J.

        Not a Xi fan either but I enjoyed his scolding.

      • PutridMeat

        Interesting take from these guys starting about 27 minutes in. Even if you don’t want to sit through them breaking it down, at least watch for about two minutes starting at 16:15. I’m still giggling.

  6. Sean

    https://gizmodo.com/beyond-meat-meat-alternative-fake-meat-1849809161

    Now with extra bacteria!

    Documents given to Bloomberg reportedly show that 11 of 56 product tests from June 2021 through June 2022 contained Listeria, a harmful bacteria that can be found in meat products. The more recent instance of Listeria was discovered in May this year, and two other unnamed former employees confirmed the bacterial product infections with Bloomberg. Listeria should be destroyed when food is cooked, according to The Food and Drug Administration, though eating raw food with Listeria could result in food poisoning.

    • Count Potato

      “a harmful bacteria that can be found in meat products”

      LOL

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, when literally talking about a fake meat product. Absolutely no agenda, now eat the bugs, damnit!

      • R.J.

        Helps you poop! It’s a weight loss program.

    • rhywun

      It is a mystery.

    • SDF-7

      I’ll take “… because we’re past the midterms and Biden looks too weak to run in 2024 anyway for $400, Alex.”

      • R C Dean

        I’ll take “… because we’re past the midterms and Very Important People don’t want Biden looks too weak to run in 2024 anyway for $400, Alex.”

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I would’ve taken that for $1,000, myself.

    • rhywun

      Asshole.

      Your stupid fucking shirt isn’t going to convert the minds of an entire country to your views. Some might even take unkindly to your patronizing smugness.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s not about getting Qatar to change, it’s about making himself the story.

      • slumbrew

        Patronizing smugness is Wahl’s stock in trade.

      • juris imprudent

        Trying to become the next Keith?

      • SDF-7

        What, he’s known for wahling and gnashing of teeth or something?

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Well, his wahling is white.

        And it is an Ahab nation.

      • R.J.

        it’ll get him killed.

    • SDF-7

      Did anyone not know the fundamental Islamic worlds’ positions on this stuff? I mean, if you’re going to throw a little crying hissy fit over not being able to virtue signal with stuff they (claim to) find abhorrent… then you should have just boycotted the venue in the first place and stayed home, jackasses. If no teams want to go — their bribing the organization (which is what I think happened… can’t be arsed to care) wouldn’t matter.

      They’re going to be lucky if Qatar doesn’t decide to enforce some local laws on their asses ala Russia and that WNBA idiot. So sorry… no sympathy here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        These international sports committees think they can sway a country by giving them the opportunity to host.

        I think they used migrant labor at like $200/month to build the stadiums too.

        Qatar rightly as a nation said fuck off

      • rhywun

        Probably the dirtiest WC ever.

        We heard all kinds of stuff about the corruption of the Russia WC. I doubt we’ll hear a thing about this one.

      • Lackadaisical

        Eh, they’re entitled to their own views and all, but let’s not stray from the fact that this is a government that is suppressing free speech.

        Now, yes, they all should have boycotted instead of trying to have their cake and eat it too. Since it’s so important to these folks, instead a threat of a yellow card and all the rainbows are put away. Ridiculous.

      • R C Dean

        I find I have plenty of contempt for all involved. The thuggish theocrats, the preening virtue-signalling “journalist” (or whatever he is supposed to be), FIFA, all of them. What a putrescent pile of fail they all are.

      • slumbrew

        ^^^ This. ^^^

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Yep.

      • Spartacus

        It doesn’t actually *say* anything. It’s just a soccer ball with concentric rainbow colors around the ball. Are they going to tell everyone to close their eyes if a real rainbow appears?
        I have no idea who Grant Wahl is, but I don’t think he is the asshole here.

        Frankly, I’m more upset that they cancelled beer sales at the last minute, except for one area. I’m sure that InBev (or whoever paid for sponsorship) was really happy about that one.

        This whole thing is just more proof–as if any were needed–that FIFA is an anachronism, corrupt to the core, and the sooner it dies the better.

      • B.P.

        I envision lots of Brits flying a long way only to find all of the beer tents empty.

      • Spartacus

        Truly a recipe for peace in the public square.

      • rhywun

        Oh, it’s assholes all the way down.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Balls to the Wahl for gay rights?

      • Fourscore

        Walz kind of ties things together, like a mask

  7. DEG

    I am going to get an ultrasound on my remaining kidney.

    Swiss, best wishes.

    The latest wave is testing China’s resolve to stick to adjustments it has made to its zero-COVID policy, which calls for cities to be more targeted in their clampdown measures and steer away from widespread lockdowns and testing that have strangled the economy and frustrated residents.

    They can’t lose face, so Zero Covid must continue. Plus, it’s nice cover for getting rid of dissidents which I’m certain they’re doing.

    • Rat on a train

      I am going to get an ultrasound on my remaining kidney.
      I hope it’s a boy.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I can’t believe Swiss is following the CCP’s One Kidney program.

    • rhywun

      The only thing I am certain about with that place is that the CCP is lying. Doesn’t matter what the question is.

  8. Lackadaisical

    “I have to slam these links together, because I am going to get an ultrasound on my remaining kidney. ”

    Stay healthy brother. Good luck on the tests.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Tell them to turn the dial up to 11.

      Hope all goes well.

      • SDF-7

        “Ya see… most clinics, they just have ultrasounds and they just go up to 10, yeah? But this one… this one is HYPER-SONIC… it goes all the way to 11!”

  9. SDF-7

    I’m just wondering if (based on the picture text) Swiss is one of the last holdouts with https://lynx.browser.org/

    Talk about old-school!

    • robc

      lynx has its uses.

      I havent used it in 15 years or so, but there are cases for it.

    • slumbrew

      I still fire up Links now and then.

      • slumbrew

        Just pointed it at this site – it does a decent job.

        https://ibb.co/hWPnHGn

        (that’s set to delete in 24h)

      • SDF-7

        Sweet…

      • nw

        I use links as (among other things) an html to text conversion
        tool. I have a need to store email in a database, and a
        text version where none is supplied is useful for feeding into
        the full text search engine.

        I also use it as an html mime type reader for email so I can read the
        html crap people mistakenly think is email.

        So, not exactly in daily use, but still a regular part of my toolset.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I used to use Lynx all the time when I was on site at a client with nothing to do. You can read the news and it looks like you are working is someeone walks by.

    • rhywun

      W00t party like it’s 2002!

  10. R.J.

    I can’t help you with your kidney. But I can submit posts like crazy. Two in the hopper, one for Tonio to review in addition to my normal output. Keep that kidney healthy. Or send me the donor information and don’t ask questions…

    • Sensei

      If any of those with publishing power see this – I’ve also got one that can be published whenever needed.

    • Mojeaux

      I’m just keeping that leprotic Friday night slot warm.

      • Tundra

        Hawt.

      • Mojeaux

        Indeed.

    • Count Potato

      It looks like you put They Live up for 6 PM not 7 PM?

      • R.J.

        Huh. Not me. But I can roll with it. I understand the excitement.

      • R.J.

        It’s set at 6:55, CST time. All is well.

    • Ted S.

      Two in the hopper, one for Tonio

      That’s a shocker.

    • Ownbestenemy

      No they know shit…they know what will get them more money

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      All I need to know is that they’re completely untrustworthy.

    • SDF-7

      I will continue to happily subscribe to the One True Philosophy: “Eat well, live right… die anyway.”

      • R C Dean

        Years ago, I saw a cookbook titled “Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man”.

      • R.J.

        *Gives thumbs up and eats burrito

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘The study, on 24,000 Americans, was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the government body dedicated to medical and scientific research’

      Well, at least we know we can trust this research, the NIH would never lie to us.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    In approximately one hour, according to the program guide, The Flim Flam Man is going to be on the over the air movies channel, and I am going to watch it I have not seen it in a very long time.

  12. Pope Jimbo

    I’M A VICTIM OF TRICKNOLOGY!!!

    Long piece on how Somalis are being “victimized” by racists who force them to buy houses using a contract for deed because their faith doesn’t allow them to use loans with interest.

    The truck driver bought his home according to Banken’s script: On the day of the sale, Banken’s company purchased the house using a conventional mortgage and then sold it to the trucker at a markup. The trucker and his wife put 10 percent down and agreed to monthly installments that were more than triple what they had been paying in rent.

    The trucker said he believed that, if he worked longer hours and his wife got a job, they could swing the monthly payment, as well as make an additional $50,000 payment at the end of each year. But almost as soon as the family moved in, inflation hit the trucker’s bottom line. The cost of diesel went up and the loads he was carrying got smaller, making the monthly payments a struggle. After the trucker read the terms of his contract again, he realized his debt was even steeper; he wouldn’t be able to pay off the contract.

    There are a lot of “But in Somalia they don’t read contracts, they just trust people to tell them what is in it” type of rationalizations, but it comes down to people biting off way more than they can chew.

    I’m sure the end game is to add a ton more regulations to contract for deeds.

    • robc

      Ummm…how is a downpayment plus monthly installments different than a loan with interest?

      If you mark it up so the interest is built in, it doesn’t count somehow?

      This sounds like a loan with interest and no pre-payment allowed.

      • SDF-7

        Yes, apparently if you’re paying someone else a fixed and promised amount that just so happens to be at or above the amortized cost of the mortgage, it is just a payment plan of a fixed price, no interest between those parties.

        Considering some of the stuff the Catholic Church finagled itself into saying was right in the Middle Ages, that’s pretty small potatoes.

        I’m sure several (((folks))) here can point out similar “Do you really think that fools God?” techniques (like… automated oven timers for cooking on the Sabbath… *you* aren’t cooking… the machine you set up just happens to be cooking, right).

      • slumbrew

        *shabbos goy waves hi*

      • Spartacus

        In medieval times they used to get around it by the lender holding (part of) the lendee’s land as collateral, and siphoning off all the income from the land until the loan was repaid. You see, having profitable use of property doesn’t count as interest! And I’m sure that Islamic law has similar workarounds; maybe the contract for deed is a standard tactic to avoid running afoul of usury laws.

        Also, frankly, I don’t believe that Somalis are stupid enough to not read contracts.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Legatt said he typically attends closings to answer buyers’ questions and tries to make sure the contracts are in his buyers’ best interest. But, he said, he generally doesn’t have a uniform process for screening buyers and doesn’t verify buyers’ incomes with documentation like paystubs, which is standard practice when getting a mortgage from a bank.

        I think that might be a problem.

      • Spartacus

        Sounds like we need to create a vast new Federal Bureau tasked with making up shit drafting regulations to oversee these transactions

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Its all sematics, or in this case, Somaltics.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Don’t forget to send taxpayer money to NGOs to give financial advice to Somalis.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think we got that covered already. The NGO’s named in just this story:

        •Isuroon, a nonprofit that advocates for Somali women
        •Central Minnesota Community Empowerment Organization, a nonprofit serving the Somali community in St. Cloud
        •Sakan Community Resource, a nonprofit that provides financial counseling and homebuying classes to the Muslim immigrant community
        •Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid
        •Legal Services Advocacy Project, the policy advocacy arm of Legal Aid in Minnesota
        •Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, a nonprofit community organization in St. Paul

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Wow. We need to start a Glib R. Tarian Foundation to get on the gravy train.

        Although I suspect a Glib R. Tarian Home for Wayward Girls with OMWC as President is what we’d end up with.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well you could also have Tonio’s Home for Troubled Lads and the two schools could hold dances together.

      • R.J.

        Clearly I am not reading up far enough.

      • Michael Malaise

        How about the Glib R. Tarian Sovereign Home for Wayward Firearms?

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        How about the Glib R. Tarian Sovereign Home for Wayward College Girls?

  13. B.P.

    Remember those stories from a few years ago about the two women of color who charge guilt-ridden white women 5 or 10 grand to show up at dinner parties to tell everyone how racist they are? Apparently the new person at the local news channel doesn’t, so she writes a story about it…

    https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/race2dinner-denver-talk-racism/73-4722f09b-c34d-4123-896a-a22777fde1ca

    ““It’s a country founded on the genocide of indigenous people, the genocide and enslavement of African people and then it is a rinse-and-repeat cycle of hate, hate, hate more hate,” Rao said.”

    The parents of the woman quoted here emigrated to the U.S. from the harmonious melting pot of India. She ran for Congress a few years ago. Also, her husband reportedly runs a hedge fund.

    “Rao replied, “All white women are ‘Karens.’””

    Etc., etc.

    • Drake

      Do you at least get a good soul food meal catered with the abuse package?

      • Count Potato

        No.

    • Pope Jimbo

      “How many people at this table, you nice white people, would happily switch places with a Black person in this society?” Jackson asked.

      Heads began to shake in the negative.

      I’d trade places with MJ. Tons of money and beloved by everyone.

      • R.J.

        I have an idea! How many of us would Jesse Jackson trade places with? Let’s see… I was homeless for a long time… Had to work four jobs at one point… Destroyed my arches parking cars for money, lost all my belongings repeatedly, and just now at the age of 50-56, I have a short window of stability. You want that, Jesse? I still have stomach issues from starvation twenty years later.

      • Q Continuum

        Shut up whitey, you’re still more privileged than Obama and Lebron.

      • R C Dean

        I wouldn’t switch places with pretty much anybody, to tell you the truth. Its taken a long time, but my ass finally wore a groove into my couch that fits just right.

      • slumbrew

        It really ties the room together.

      • rhywun

        That’s so stupid I’m not even going to dignify it with several obvious retorts that come to mind.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It’s so terrible, and yet half the world wants to move here. 🤔

      • rhywun

        Even the purveyors of the bullshit don’t believe it.

        That’s been obvious for a very long time.

    • wdalasio

      I have trouble getting too worked up by this one. I mean, a woman willing to shell out five or ten grand to get insulted and dressed down over dinner is probably an entitled white girl who deserves to shell out five or ten grand to get insulted and dressed down over dinner. The only problem I can see is that they vote. And are willing to shell out my money to get me insulted and dressed down.

      • R.J.

        We need to get in on this racket.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’d be happy to belittle the ever loving fuck out of her for a mere fraction of that. Fifty bucks and pick up the tab on the gasmoney should do it.

      • Fourscore

        My wife does that to me for free. Even throws in an extra “Whitey” at the end

  14. Drake

    Turkey blew up a bunch of our “allies” / terrorists in the proxy war we’re sponsoring in Syria.
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/21/hbgp-n21.html

    I really wish Trump could have stopped this kind of crap. Now the Biden bunch have somehow united Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iran in their hatred of us and pushed them into an economic alliance with Russia.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You should listen to, or try to listen to, the podcast I linked above.

      The people in charge are completely blind to reality. They’re buying into their own bullshit now.

      • Drake

        I’ll tune in after the gym.

      • juris imprudent

        They’re buying into their own bullshit now.

        Now? The last 40 fucking years more likely.

    • R.J.

      RegardIng the Karens paying $5,000 to be told of their white privilege: I propose a business opportunity whereby Q dresses down Karens about their breast size and general level of fitness for $5,000 a person. A portion of which goes to the Glib foundation. We can include dinner cooked by our various talented chefs.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Well that’s disturbing. I’m going to a wedding a couple hours from there next Spring. Maybe I should wear my Bad Idea Jeans that I had in Haiti.

    • R.J.

      I didn’t do it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yeah, uh… me neither!

      • R.J.

        Every body knows hands and feet are not good to eat.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      Does that make this guy the Brazilian version of Biden?

    • Hyperion

      Paywalled, what does it say?

      • R.J.

        I got the jist from the title and suggested cockney urine.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The gas is lighted.

      • Hyperion

        Hey, as the biggest protector of the worlds’ largest legalized drug cartels, they are only trying to keep us safe. If Pfizer cannot make their next trillion, we’re all doing to die.

    • Count Potato

      Fuck the FDA in the ass with a rusty chainsaw lubricated with tobasco sauce.

  15. Hyperion

    And then?

    I mean, I dunno, maybe prosecute them?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Election’s over, case is moot. Now shut up you election denier or we’ll cancel your bank account.

      • Hyperion

        “election denier”

        Indeed. Climate denier as well. And I have more than 7 weeks worth of canned food in my house. Hope to see you in the camps.

    • juris imprudent

      So he lost to Masters (endorse by Trump) for the Republican Senate nomination and threw shade at Lake. He can’t be called one of theirs.

  16. Hyperion

    I think I am witnessing the beginning of the end of civilization. My wife were in Walgreens tonight, standing in line to pick up a couple of scripts. By the time we got to the counter, it had already been 30 minutes. By that time, the line was to the front door and people were getting angry. A lady yelling at them because she was in line for 90 minutes for a script the website told her was ready for pickup. We never even go down unless something is ready. We were there 1 hour and 15 minutes. This is not a one time thing. It has been like this and getting worse for months.

    What is happening is that the left have broken the system in every way with the lockdowns and destruction of the economy. We are closing in fast on complete chaos and a state of total dysfunction. It is going to get very ugly. And you cannot even vote them out now, they just count the mail-in ballots until they win. We are so totally fucked.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yes, our current best hope is a bug-eyed autistic guy who markets self-igniting automobiles and wants to put a chip in your brain. Things ain’t looking great.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The latest mail in ballot change here is to permanently accept ballots that were postmarked on Election Day but not received up to XX days later. Oh, and if the postal mailing indicator is damage or missing, it has to be accepted as if mailed on time too. 🤦‍♂️

    • B.P.

      Some people are really going to miss convenience, a functioning labor market, and goods being available for purchase. They’ll twist their minds until they rationalize it away. Folks who don’t hang out on twitter all day in favor of having lives are going to be pissed off. The Washington Post had better have their top headline writers working overtime on how all of this is actually a good thing while, in contradictory fashion, blaming it on some class enemy.

      • Hyperion

        They’ve already got their best boogiemen in line. We’re getting another special prosecutor for Trump in the never ending investigation and then there is Russia. So we need to throw billions of more $$$$$ at Ukraine before everyone finds out the real extent of Biden’s corruption there and we find out that Covid actually originated from one of those bio labs in Ukraine.

    • Fourscore

      I have mine mailed out and charged to my credit card in small town America. They even pay the postage.

    • Mojeaux

      But why?

      • Hyperion

        I was going to say the same thing. Why did we deserve that? Have we been bad?

      • R.J.

        Had too many martinis. Couldn’t stop myself from posting.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I want those lying cunts to hang.

      They betrayed every principle of ethics and morality and people died for it. They can’t even be bothered to apologize, they’re just deflecting.

    • Hyperion

      The entire medical industry here in the USA is totally fucked up at this point. It stopped being about healthcare a long time ago.

    • rhywun

      I can’t wait for them to trot out “I was just following orders”.

  17. Count Potato

    The cop announcing the victims of that gay club shooting listed their pronouns.

    So I’m thinking the rainbow flag should have a big backwards “R” on it.

    • juris imprudent

      a big backwards “R”

      Maybe a bent-over “R”?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Local lefty mayor far away issued a statement on the nightclub shooting. Crickets for the local man murdered on a public bus Saturday morning.

      • Drake

        Crickets for the four white hero kids murdered in Idaho.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Backwards R sounds like Russian interference.