¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jan 17, 2023 | Daily Links | 217 comments

Long weekend.  Had to do the single dad thing due to an out of state soccer tournament.  I’m happier its back to normal, which strikes me as odd.

Links?  Sure, let’s do it.

 

The “3 Amigos” summit resulted in next to nothing mentioned by the corporate press.  Don’t worry, they are implementing all the bullshit you think they are:

The leaders are determined to fortify our region’s security, prosperity, sustainability and inclusiveness through commitments across six pillars: 1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; 4) migration and development; 5) health; and 6) regional security.

Lovely bias by omission from the press.

¿Se prohibe fumar?  ¡Aydamos Fumador!

Trial begins on an Mexican official extradited to the US.  Which sucks, because he’s going to a US minimum security resort.

They’re taking our jobs!! In related news, download the Border App, today!

I’m confused.  They did something…reasonable?

Looks like the Brazilian J6 witch hunt is underway.

 

Seems like a G&R type of day.  Why not?

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217 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; ”

    One of those is not like the others.

    • R.J.

      “Eliminating” goes in front of “competitiveness.” Omission from the article.

      • Count Potato

        I should have guessed that, since they are also reducing health and regional security.

    • Tonio

      Assuming they mean competitiveness with China, and other non-NA blocs. Good luck achieving that competitiveness while hobbling business and the economy with DEI and green nonsense.

      • Count Potato

        Many parts of China are wasteland due to mining. As of yet, no news of kung fu battles in a huge dome.

      • Lackadaisical

        I would watch that remake.

      • R.J.

        He got me looking for some kung fu already.

      • Shirley Knott

        Kung Fu Hustle is fun,

    • rhywun

      That list – and the order of the items in it – is certainly instructive.

      The only conclusion to draw is: Bend over.

  2. Count Potato

    “Which sucks, because he’s going to a US minimum security resort.”

    Nah, he can have his own personal underground train. Which creates jobs.

  3. Shpip

    1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; 4) migration and development; 5) health; and 6) regional security.

    We should set up a game of buzzword Bingo for that one.

  4. Count Potato

    “Puerto Rico announced Sunday that it plans to privatize electricity generation, a first for a U.S. territory facing chronic power outages as it struggles to rebuild a crumbling electric grid.

    The move marks the beginning of the end for Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority, a behemoth long accused of corruption, mismanagement and inefficiency that holds some $9 billion in public debt — the largest of any government agency.”

    Yes, that actually does sound reasonable.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Cynical me says it’s a way to offload the debt and discharge it through an eventual bankruptcy.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I assumed the bureaucrats in charge were were somehow on the take with the private financing.

      • Nephilium

        That’s my assumption as well, it’ll get “privatized” to a crony, who will milk it for cash. Then, when it fails, people can point to it to show that “privatization doesn’t work!”

  5. juris imprudent

    Is that some kind of privilege, assuming dirt-poor migrants from Central America have smartphones to run the app?

    • Tonio

      Don’t give them any ideas, JI. Next step is giving potential migrants Bidenphones and free wireless.

      • Count Potato

        The Bidenphone won’t be able to remember your password.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Password? You expect the Bidenphone to have privacy features

      • Sean

        Sure.

        It hides all the government spyware very well.

      • Count Potato

        Tough room.

      • rhywun

        It would not surprise me at all if we were already doing that.

        I mean, why not? We’re giving them free rides across the country, free health care, and free education.

  6. Count Potato

    “They’re taking our jobs!! ”

    It’s actually more of case of taking our housing. Everyone wants to blame homelessness on drugs and mental illness, but not over-regulation and illegal immigration.

  7. Shpip

    The app, called CBP One, is available in English and Spanish and will allow migrants in Central and Northern Mexico who upload biographical information and a photo to request an appointment at one of eight ports in Texas, Arizona and California, according to a fact sheet.

    Not available in Creole? This is obviously racist against Haitians.

    /some NGO drone, probably

    • Tonio

      Don’t forget Nahuatl (1.7 million native speakers, mostly in Central Mexico) and other indigenous languages.

      • Shpip

        How do you say “Your husband is a polar bear, skinny” in Maya or Mixtec?

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Chu ‘usban eees pular oso, chalupa!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Now I want a chalupa

  8. juris imprudent

    They did something…reasonable?

    What makes you think that isn’t some cronyism?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Hence my confusion. This has to be a scam.

    • Michael Malaise

      If it works, I’ll allow it.

  9. Aloysious

    “They’re taking our jobs!! ”

    Please, by all that’s sacred and holy, please stop watching The Rings of Power. It’s really not worth it.

    • Lackadaisical

      Someone is watching it?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Hate watching is a thing.

      • Lackadaisical

        I like Tolkien too much to do that to myself.

        I watched a few episodes. Pretending it wasn’t even about middle earth helped, and since nothing was accurate anyway works okay. Still the storyline and characters blow too much to enjoy it.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I only made it 20 minutes into the first episode to see if it really was as bad as I thought. That was 18 more than I needed. It’s than Velma, which I only made it 3 minutes into. It wouldn’t have even been that long if I hadn’t dropped the remote between the couch cushions.

      • R.J.

        There was a great story about the new Thelma series being a conservative psy op, because it was so bad. I probably saw it here and am repeating old info.

      • Brochettaward

        I floated the theory that it was the product of someone who is kind of not all that woke trying to sell herself as that in order to make a buck. You really can’t do shit in Hollywood if you aren’t on the diversity is the best train and being Indian really doesn’t get you that far.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I saw that article in Forbes. Hilarious. The opening monologue is literally the wokest thing I have ever heard. It doesn’t occur to them that their ideology is so ridiculous that it’s impossible to distinguish from a parody of itself. If only they were capable of self-reflection.

      • juris imprudent

        The reviews convinced me to avoid it.

      • The Hyperbole

        I enjoyed it, but then again I’m not a nerd and don’t have Tolkien lore memorized so many of the things that bothered most people I didn’t even notice.

      • Brochettaward

        You don’t have to have Tolkien lore memorized to notice that the show is poorly written, predictable from the outset, generally cardboard characters, a protagonist who was laughably unlikable, and that it looked awfully cheap very often despite its massive budget. That’s before we even get into anything to do with race swapping races or the stereotypical girl power bullshit that permeated every aspect of the show.

        The entire plot centered around elves who had been guarding a territory for millennia not noticing large gangs of orcs building massive tunnels all throughout it. And the cringy Galadriel jumping off a boat in the middle of nowhere and deciding to swim thousands of miles back to shore only to run into not-Sauron who was played by an actor who couldn’t even remotely pull off the ridiculous plot twist of him being Sauron.

        And even if you had just watched the movies, you would know how twisted the lore actually is.

      • juris imprudent

        Or gawds forbid they tackle the actual crux of the human condition that Sauron exploits to seduce the Numenoreans – mortality.

      • The Hyperbole

        I guess I’m lucky in that I don’t notice any of that stuff either.

      • juris imprudent

        OK, what exactly did you like about it?

      • The Hyperbole

        Good question, I guess the storyline keep me interested enough to want to find out what happened to the characters, so I kept watching it. And as much as I noticed I thought it was filmed well (shot well, good effect, etc) I don’t really analyze my casual entertainment that deeply. Books I take more notice of but I think that’s because I’m actively engaged with them, where TV/movies are mostly passive activities for me.

      • Brochettaward

        Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.

  10. Rebel Scum

    The Supreme Court also accuses Mr Torres of omission – failure to act – in his role as the capital’s security chief.

    I swear I have seen this movie.

    • Drake

      Except their Supreme Court is more like our Ninth District or the California Supreme Court.

      • Tonio

        You mean the federal Ninth Circuit? While they have traditionally been the most leftist of the federal circuits, other circuits, including the traditionally conservative Fourth, are close behind.

    • R.J.

      Jesus. How do people end up like that?
      Also my assumption is now single.

    • Drake

      Yikes

    • SDF-7

      Way to make the demon monkey toy behind you look like the element of stability in the room.

      • Lackadaisical

        😂

        It is scary… Like and follow for part three of this horror story?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Five bucks says she orgasmed when the school told her no.

      I’M GONNA POST THIS SHIT AND GET SOME VICTIM CRED

  11. Rebel Scum

    This dishonest, fat fuck is still talking?

    NYT’s Sulzberger: Disinformation is “the most existential” challenge we’re grappling with as a society

    Rep. @sethmoulton: Europeans are “way ahead of us” on regulating “disinformation.”

    “When I use the internet in Europe and I get all the warnings about cookies and whatnot. That actually makes me feel safer.”

    You Euros love being sheep.

    NYT’s Sulzberger on Trump invoking “fake news,” “enemy of the people”: The same happened in “Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia”

    State press is free press?

    • The Other Kevin

      Remember in Nazi Germany when the government allowed people to say what they wanted, even if it went against the party in power? It was terrifying.

    • R.J.

      So… accepting cookies and banning speech are not the same thing? Disingenuous cunt or fucking moron? Both?

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ve said for years that you couldn’t come up with a better useful idiot lapdog for the elite if you grew one from scratch in a lab. Kim Jong Un wishes he could find a newscaster that would spout whatever bullshit he could dream up with half as much sincerity and conviction.

      • Nephilium

        Go ahead and ask the rep to define a “cookie” as it relates to web browsing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The name of the porn star they are watching?

      • R.J.

        He doesn’t eat cookies, they make him fat. He prefers those fat-free Little Debbie cakes Klaus gives him.

    • Lackadaisical

      Notice that feeling safer is the highest value here.

      What a pussy.

      • Brochettaward

        If you aren’t careful, wrongthink could pop right out of the screen and rape you.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Really? Is there some kind of chant you have to do? What does this wrongthink look like? Does he have powerful arms and a defined, well manicured upper torso? How long are we talking? Asking for a friend…

    • Brochettaward

      I remember the glorious before times of 2000 when it was at least superficially agreed upon that people could say things you disagree with and that we had learned the harms of appointing arbiters of speech from human history. It was at least publicly agreed that censoring unpopular views was dangerous.

      • Rebel Scum

        “I may not agree with what you are saying but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” became “If you offend me I want you censored.”

      • Compelled Speechless

        Which became “they wouldn’t have needed to send him to that work camp if he had just thought about Xer’s feelings.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hard times create strong men
        strong men create good times
        good times create weak men
        and weak men create hard times <—–We are here

      • Compelled Speechless

        There’s a pill that will get us back to hard men in no time.

      • DrOtto

        I remember when female genital mutilation was frowned upon.

      • cyto

        I remember when the Libertarian magazine Reason used to defend free speech…..

    • rhywun

      Who’s going to explain “cookies” to this genius?

  12. Lackadaisical

    Putridmeat: the placement of the wall makes me think it wasn’t structural, usually you wouldn’t put a support between members in a truss, should be at one of the joints, if it was needed.

    Of course, it could have been in a weird spot to get the right kitchen size. Kind of strange.

    • PutridMeat

      Yes, a bit weird. That wall continues down the length of the rest of the house and delineates the main hallway, so that’s why it’s set back 1.5 feet from the centerline. To me, seems they should have just vaulted the whole thing? Maybe they ordered trusses for the full house and it was cheaper to just take one half rather than build 4 or 5 dedicated trusses of the correct size to line up with the wall? I don’t know, I’m just hoping my roof stays where it’s supposed to!

      • Fourscore

        You’ll be OK. I think the trusses were full length and the dropped ceiling was done for cosmetic reasons but also to have a wall behind the kitchen to hang the cabinets on. Next HH take a walk through my house, no plans, no blue prints. A few mistakes/errors but 30 years later here we are.

        Life goes on

    • Sean

      Ugh. Where’s my trigger warning?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        🏹

        Close as I can get with these stupid woke emojis

      • Lackadaisical

        Not this gay thing? 🔫

      • R.J.

        🤷‍♂️ This?
        👨‍🎤How about this?

    • Lackadaisical

      Can’t see anything actually happen, though the report makes it sound like that.

    • Michael Malaise

      It’s okay everyone, this happened back in May 2020. We shouldn’t worry about it because it will never happen again.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I say we let cooler heads prevail and wait until the body cam footage and her toxicology report are released. JUST KIDDING!!!!! Let’s wrack up a few billion in property damage, murder some counter protestors and see how many blocks of Portland we can take over! Give mostly-peace a chance.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The rolling away shows the compassion that doctor heroes have

  13. The Other Kevin

    Ugh. Mrs. TOK just started roller derby again after retiring for a few years. Now she just saw online that the team’s rules are if you’re unvaccinated, or don’t want to disclose your vaccination status, you have to wear a mask to practice. She’s just going to pretend she didn’t see that.

    It’s common knowledge vaccines do nothing to stop transmission, yet there are still those who cling to that superstition. Seems strange to me.

    • Sean

      It’s common knowledge vaccines or masks do nothing to stop transmission

      FTFY

      • Drake

        Canadian Health Care – there you go.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Weird. Catching covid is safer than roller derby.

      • The Other Kevin

        Probably. Not so much in deaths, but definitely in injuries.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Not true. If you get injured playing roller derby and you test positive for COVID at the hospital, the injuries are counted as “because of COVID.”

  14. Rebel Scum

    Apparently not.

    A DACA recipient had this to say to Minnesota lawmakers last week: “We are voting.”

    “We are voting. Our people are voting. If you don’t pass this bill, people are going to vote you all out,” Angelico Bello, who said she is a DACA recipient, told the House Transportation Committee Jan. 10.

    DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which is an Obama-era rule that protects its recipients from deportation for renewable, two-year periods.

    “Deferred action does not provide lawful status,” according to the United States government. Only U.S. citizens can vote in Minnesota.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Deport those assholes.

    • Ownbestenemy

      If anything that sounds like a direct threat to the supposed constitutional mandate of a republican form of government.

      • Compelled Speechless

        What the fuck are you talking about? Obviously we’re a democracy. As in an bureaucratic dictatorship under single party rule of the democrats. Obviously you weren’t paying attention in civics class.

      • cyto

        I thought we were an anarcho-capitalist commune…

      • juris imprudent

        DUH MOCRACY!!!

    • Lackadaisical

      The best part of his presidency was the bantz.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now that made me laugh.

    • Sean

      <==

  15. Tundra

    Why not?

    Indeed. What a fun video.I can’t even imagine how insane that tour must have been.

    I always thought Izzy had an understated cool vibe.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Its terrible Axel is 300 pounds of ego.

      • Tundra

        Lol.

        Yeah, I’ve never read or heard anyone say he was a pleasure to work with.

        He and Vince Neil sure haven’t aged well.

      • Count Potato

        There is a possibility drugs may have been involved.

      • juris imprudent

        Wonder how many kilos of coke they went through?

    • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

      Izzy is like the original bassist from Janes Addiction. They were pretty much what drove the sound, and when they went, it was over.

      • Penguin

        If there’s a pole planted in your back…

        With Flea on trumpet. Great stuff.

      • Seguin

        Same thing with the Pixies and the Toadies. The bassist leaves, and then the sound just gets kind of hollow.

  16. Lackadaisical

    Cigarette pack dude would be a millionaire in new York.

    That’s like wearing eggs these days.

  17. Rebel Scum

    You cuntes hold yourselves in a very high regard.

    DAVOS WATCH: USA climate envoy John Kerry claims that the WEF globalists are the “select group of human beings” touched by something at some point in their lives that caused them to have a savior complex

    He calls the experience “extra terrestrial” #wef23

    • The Other Kevin

      They all seem touched in the head, so I’d agree there.

    • Brochettaward

      John Kerry, of course, includes himself in that group.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Narcissistic psychopath

      Please Vlad, for the love all that is holy, drop a nuke on Davos this week.

      • The Other Kevin

        Beat me to it. Narcissists, every one of them.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sounds similar to my high school year book that broke out a section of the senior class called “The Smart Kids” that had GPAs of 4.0.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m going to read that as confirmation that they are in fact alien lizard people.

  18. Sensei

    The fatal crash occurred on Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, in March 2016 when Huang’s Model X, operating under Autopilot, swerved into a highway crash attenuator at more than 70 mph. Tesla blamed Huang for the crash, claiming he was not paying attention. But according to the National Transportation Safety Board, Huang had repeatedly complained to friends and family about his car’s propensity to swerve at that particular crash barrier in the past. The National Transportation Safety Board had harsh words for Tesla, CalTrans, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, all of which shared blame for the death, it said in 2020.

    So naturally that’s where you pay no attention and we’re likely looking at your phone.

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/tesla-staged-2016-self-driving-demo-says-senior-autopilot-engineer/

    Tesla has also had quite the run of empty self driving promises.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sounds like Tesla successfully darwinned someone.

    • Seguin

      Repeatedly complained that the autopilot was trying to kill him.

      Trusts autopilot anyway.

      Yup, Darwinned.

  19. Count Potato

    “SEIZED IN TEXAS: TSA agents at the San Antonio International Airport discovered this 84 mm caliber weapon in checked luggage! Agents say it was undeclared, as required when traveling with firearms or weapons.”

    https://twitter.com/kwtx/status/1615090270038642689

    I guess you could hit someone with it.

    • Sensei

      It was deactivated too. Although more dangerous than miniature plastic pistols and pop tarts.

      • Sensei

        Thanks!

        It was checked.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Though like anything, I’m sure that the actual file federal register wording doesn’t matter that much when it’s ultimately up to the TSA to make the call to allow something or not (and delay or prevent you from flying).

    • The Other Kevin

      An assault bazooka, complete with the thing that goes up.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Narrator: Meanwhile someone with an actual firearm got on a plane while they were doing the photo op.

    • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

      What is that, a Carl Gustov?

  20. Rebel Scum

    84 mm caliber weapon

    A what?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Demilitarized recoilless rifle. The weapon part is from the TSA regs.

      • R.J.

        *ahem

        LOOK LIKE COCK RING FOR YOUNG RAPESQUATCH.

    • The Other Kevin

      We’ll all be hooked on his report.

    • Rebel Scum

      This is disgusting. As a journalist, I’m flying out to Davos to do some on-the-ground reporting on this.

      The trick is to do first hand research.

      • juris imprudent

        Hope he’s wearing the appropriate gloves for that.

    • Count Potato

      Stupid server won’t let me link the article.

    • rhywun

      My god, a blank slate to work with. The globalists are going to turn it into utopia.

      • juris imprudent

        Even better than Madagascar!

      • Sensei

        This thinking is why I come here,

    • juris imprudent

      I really want Klaus to slip up and say lebensraum.

    • Compelled Speechless

      This seems directly related to the story posted above about high dollar prostitutes descending on the gathering.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “Deferred action does not provide lawful status,” according to the United States government. Only U.S. citizens can vote in Minnesota.

    There is no such thing as voter fraud.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    DAVOS WATCH: USA climate envoy John Kerry claims that the WEF globalists are the “select group of human beings” touched by something at some point in their lives that caused them to have a savior complex

    That dolt Kerry thinks savior complex is a beneficial trait? I can’t say I’m surprised.

    • juris imprudent

      The least you could do is be a little more grateful for his messianic beneficence.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Lurch? A Messiah?

  23. Raven Nation

    “Looks like the Brazilian J6 witch hunt is underway.”

    It’s America’s gift to global statists. Australia’s SBS wonders if “it could happen here”: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/could-a-us-style-insurrection-happen-here/fr7mk1b5n

    Promo line: “A week after Capitol Hill-style riots in Brazil – there are calls for a crackdown on Australian politicians spreading election conspiracies. The push comes with a warning: it could happen here.”

    • rhywun

      I’m sure whatever the FBI is called there can figure out how to whip up a J6 of their own.

  24. Rebel Scum

    True but not how you mean.

    “Those of us who understand that Donald Trump is a fraud and a liar are grasping tightly to those differences, and I get it. I get it that what Donald Trump did is totally different than what Joe Biden did. But as a prosecutor, I will tell you, we need to have a sober moment because when a jury is trying to figure out whether someone should be held criminally responsible, that’s going to be in their head. Let’s not kid ourselves here. The easiest case for the special counsel prosecutor to make against Donald Trump were the documents at Mar-a-Lago before this. Now it is no longer as easy. It is probably very difficult because the whataboutism is going to be rampant in that jury room. I think it’s important for us to recognize it may not be fair, it may not be right, but that’s the reality of where we are.”

    • Brochettaward

      I’m pretty sure if we were to read the applicable laws they would potentially charge Trump with, they’d be just as applicable to Biden. Because the law isn’t going to say shit about the amount of classified material (won’t even differentiate based on classification), I guarantee it doesn’t care about intent (nor has that ever mattered when going after peons for mishandling of classified materials), and not handing them over when asked isn’t an aspect of the crime…especially for a former president.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You think they will levy the Espionage Act upon Biden? If it is a way to get him to step aside maybe, otherwise its going to be what it has been forever, a fine and a don’t do that.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m just talking about the actual letter of the law for those engaging in special pleading. We already saw with Hillary how they handle one of their own. It’s “no reasonable prosecutor.”

      • SDF-7

        I think we’ve also seen enough of the J6 and Trump admin trials to realize “No DC jury”. That’s what’s extra horrendous about the two tier justice system – they’ve got the jury pool to make it work. Logic, reason or the actual laws be damned.

      • cyto

        Don’t forget the judges. Remember Judge Sullivan?

        DOJ “we framed this guy, so we want to drop the charges”

        Sullivan “Screw that! I am appointing a special prosecutor to go after him for pleading guilty in your frame up!!”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Sullivan is a very special piece of shit who went out of his way to render an unjust verdict.

        Makes me think he was fucking dead boys and got caught.

      • cyto

        I am so completely black pilled right now, I am noticing a huge increase in references to “keep and bear arms” alongside “go against the US Military (including our president…again) and a heavy push for new gun control as a recognition that they will have pushed it beyond the ballot box before too long.

      • juris imprudent

        No I don’t think they will. It’s a big reach for Trump and they aren’t close to closing that deal.

      • Rebel Scum

        I guarantee it doesn’t care about intent (nor has that ever mattered when going after peons

        Her Shrillness could not be reached for comment.

    • Ownbestenemy

      whataboutism – only applicable when we want it to be.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of weapons seized at the airport-

    Dd anybody else see the story about the guy who got busted for having a disassembled pistol tucked in peanut butter jars in his luggage?

    At what point is a weapon not a weapon? It;s certainly no threat to anybody in that condition.

    I have wondered if having a disassembled pistol counts as “parts” and if that would relieve you of getting hassled on the road. Sounds like a no.

    • SDF-7

      No, but if you post it I’m sure we can all read it in a jif.

      • Count Potato

        Damn skippy.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Australia’s SBS wonders if “it could happen here”

    We can hope.

    Who am I kidding? “Consent of the governed” is as dead as the dodo.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Please Vlad, for the love all that is holy, drop a nuke on Davos this week.

    Neutron bomb, please. No need to ruin a perfectly nice resort town.

    • Chafed

      Good plan.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Unless they’re like cockroaches. No, it’s worth losing a resort town to fry them.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Ask, and ye shall receive

    A Rhode Island man was arrested last week after TSA agents discovered parts of a disassembled semi-automatic handgun disguised within two jars of peanut butter in his luggage, according to a news release from the TSA.
    The agency said a checked bag containing the peanut butter jars triggered an alarm in an X-ray unit at JFK airport on December 22. Closer inspection revealed the gun parts, wrapped in plastic and “jammed” into two jars of what appear to be Jif brand peanut butter. The gun’s magazine was loaded with bullets, according to the TSA.
    “The gun parts were artfully concealed in two smooth creamy jars of peanut butter, but there was certainly nothing smooth about the way the man went about trying to smuggle his gun,” said John Essig, TSA’s federal security director for JFK Airport, in the release. “Our officers are good at their jobs and are focused on their mission — especially during the busy holiday travel period.”
    Port Authority Police confiscated the handgun parts and arrested the man, according to the TSA.

    Port Authority. Why did it have to be the Port Authority?

    • SDF-7

      Ugh… leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer ^W Essig!

      He shouldn’t have left the shells in, now he’s firmly in a jam.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Haha, “in a jif”.

  30. Chafed

    Look at you and your exceptional taste in music, MS.

    • Ted S.

      Almost as good as Ted S.’s taste in music.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Conspiracy theorists assemble

    George Soros’ absence from the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland has prompted questions and fresh conspiracy theories about the event.

    The billionaire financier tweeted on January 10 that his absence was “due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict,” adding that he planned to deliver a speech in Munich on February 16—a full calendar month after the WEF annual meeting began.

    His non-attendance—alongside inaccurate claims that the WEF’s founder, Klaus Schwab, was also not attending his own conference—has fuelled unfounded speculation on social media that Soros’ absence was premeditated to avoid a catastrophic event.

    “Is something going down?” Lavern Spicer, a Republican candidate in Florida, wondered on Twitter. “Something is brewing…” wrote James Bradley, a GOP candidate in California.

    Soros’ wealth, his Jewish background and the volume of his political and philanthropic donations have made him a prime target for conspiracy theories, many of which center around him being part of a global cabal that seeks to create a new world order.

    Pay no attention to his stated goals or his actual behavior.

    • Brochettaward

      He decided to fly down to Guatemala to get first dibs on the children in the latest caravan one of his NGO’s was organizing to invade the North.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Of course. Soros and Klaus are stealing the plot from the most recent bond movie. Attract all the most powerful people in the world to a decedent party with drugs and prostitutes and have a “terrorist” strike, eliminating all competition. After that, it becomes Highlander. There can be only one…….

    • rhywun

      He has a conflict with one of his skin-stretching appointments.

      his Jewish background

      Go fuck yourself, Newsweek.

    • Rebel Scum

      new world order

      Because none of these cuntes have ever used this exact term before.

      • Nephilium
    • Ownbestenemy

      And we can’t even determine what a boy or girl is

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Through his Open Society Foundations, grant-giving organisations, Soros has distributed $32 billion, and was the largest individual donor in the 2022 midterms, having earlier donated vast sums to Democrat presidential bids. His role as a generous benefactor to many causes has spurred theories that he uses his wealth to influence global affairs.

    Pay no attention to that man behind the checkbook!

    Wheeee!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Speaking of psychopaths…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m sure he gives his money out with no strings attached whatsoever you cynical fuck.

    • R.J.

      Well that’s a turn-about.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Russians are going to be pressed until they annex the whole country if the west keeps it up. There won’t even be a rump state left to join.

      • Brochettaward

        Putin will die any day now from that cancer we’ve been hearing about, and then all of those anti-war Russian moderates who are perfectly fine with Ukraine being part of NATO will rise up and take over the country now that bad bald man is dead and put a stop to the war. NATO expansion will live happily ever after.

      • Rebel Scum

        Yup.

    • Count Potato

      Did they just add a “y” to his name?

      I’m going to double all the vowels in my name so it sounds like someone singing metal.

      • R.J.

        Or just add a “Y” to your name.
        “Count Potatoy”
        “UnCivilServanty”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think it’s the official NPR spelling.

      • R.J.

        NPRSKY

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dude…

        NPRSKYY

        Stop embarrassing me with your uncultured orthographyy.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Truth shall set you free!
      (from your job)

  33. The Late P Brooks

    We’re all inflation fighters now

    The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Tuesday her institution was drafting a new law targeting the region’s green industries, hoping to make Europe the home of clean tech and innovation.

    “We will put forward a new Net-Zero Industry Act … The aim will be to focus investment on strategic projects along the entire supply chain. We will especially look at how to simplify and fast-track permitting for new clean tech production sites,” she said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

    “We need to create a regulatory environment that allows us to scale up fast and to create conducive conditions for sectors crucial to reaching net zero. This includes wind, heat pumps, solar, clean hydrogen, storage and others.”

    The announcement comes just months after the U.S. launched its own Inflation Reduction Act. The sweeping U.S. legislation, which was approved by U.S. lawmakers in August and includes a record $369 billion in spending on climate and energy policies, has received some angry responses among the 27 EU nations. The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, has previously said there are “serious concerns” about the design of the financial incentives in the package.

    Damn the torpedoes, full sail ahead.

    • rhywun

      It’s “clean” when all the dirty stuff is hidden away in China.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Stripped of her best years

    • Ownbestenemy

      I need to not scroll so fast. I read Titty Tuesday Chinks

  34. Ownbestenemy

    It’s tallow making night. I swear grocery stores are leaving more fat on ‘trimmed’ cuts to get a few ounces of weight on the sale

  35. Ownbestenemy

    This is how you continue to instill trust in institutions!

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-considered-but-rejected-role-in-biden-documents-search-11673991364

    “The Justice Department considered having FBI agents monitor a search by President Biden’s lawyers for classified documents at his homes but decided against it, both to avoid complicating later stages of the investigation and because Mr. Biden’s attorneys had quickly turned over a first batch and were cooperating, according to people familiar with the matter. “

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s why when Trump’s lawyers were cooperating they sent a SWAT team with CNN in tow.

      No, wait…

    • Gustave Lytton

      considered having FBI agents monitor a search

      That’s how the FBI conducts raids, right? They let the target determine what evidence to hand over and at best the FBI monitors that.

  36. juris imprudent

    I’d love to see Trump humiliated, but really – how can you ever humiliate someone with absolutely no sense of shame?

    “Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017 — he was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers. Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win,” Trump said in November.

    • Brochettaward

      “There’s great disloyalty is the world of politics, and that’s a sign of disloyalty,” he said. “Because nobody — as you know better than anybody because you do such a great job — nobody has ever done more for right-to-life than Donald Trump.”

      This statement is true. Decades of Republican bullshit on the issue, and it was Trump – a 90’s era Democrat who had probably forced many a young women into an abortion she was uneasy about – who ended the federal “right” to an abortion. It was that prick Bush The Lesser’s pick Roberts who would have blocked the thing if he could have. Maybe Bush had gotten on his personal phone to Jesus and relayed something to Roberts.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That one stings the GOPe the most.

      • juris imprudent

        Abortion isn’t the most important issue to me. Someone who deludes himself about his greatness – a lot like Biden, except a little more coherent – isn’t ever going to be someone I trust, let alone be loyal to. Trump fucks people over and expects loyalty – that is total narcissism.

      • Brochettaward

        It was the most important thing to a shit ton of Evangelicals, at least officially.

      • juris imprudent

        And they still aren’t saving every baby’s soul.

      • cyto

        You just figured out that Trump is a narcissist?

        Hell, even Google autocorrect knows that… I typed “Trump is a na…” And google picked the right word.

      • cyto

        Also, narcissism is not the useful way to understand Trump. He is much more simple than that.

        Trump is game theory Tit for Tatwith occasional defections. This is the most effective overall strategy, and it is what he uses. It is also what most of Hollywood uses.

        You complement me and I complement you. Back and forth… Until you diss me. Then, scorched earth. Every Hollywood producer. Every agent. And Trump.

        He always opens with obsequious praise. He expects the same in return.

        It is like a New Jersey dude saying hi! They push you in the chest and threaten “The fuck you looking at?”. You reply with a shove back and a sharp comeback and you are cool.

        It is meaningless, but it says “we are playing the game”.

        Witness, a minor incident:. Trump and Penn Gillette (who also plays tit for tat)

        Penn always said nice things about trump after doing the apprentice. Guarded, but still nice enough. Trump always praised Penn glowingly. “The best. Great show. Fantastic. “.

        Then pennis asked about Trump for president. Penn can’t hold his water any more, so he says no way he would vote for Trump.

        Trump immediately turns on Penn… “I hear their show is ..not good. He is low quality. They probably are going to close down.. I hear they are doing poorly. That is what I am told.. I haven’t seen it.”.

        Penn returns fire with equal venom. They play the same game.

        That is Trump. In life. In politics. In diplomacy.

        He is very easy to understand in these terms. He will do a deal with anyone, the devil included. And he will go scorched earth if crossed. He will also take any advantage he has.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Great, rape dolphins with frikkin laser beams, just what we need.

    • cyto

      If we don’t have a drone that outperforms dolphins both in absolute terms and on total cost, we have an incompetent procurement system.

      40 years ago this was a thing. But now?