Saturday evening links

by | Jul 8, 2023 | Daily Links | 161 comments

I can neither confirm, nor deny that this is OMWC clean shaven.

Idaho looked at the calendar and realized it’s July. We appear to be making up for lost time with the heat, but that’s what that sweet, sweet AC is for.

 

Let’s Link!

 

“I’m sorry sir, we only do that to private citizens.”

 

The check’s in the mail, I’ll pull out etc., etc…

 

And their Minions.

 

Every firefighters worst nightmare is running out of air and dying in a fire. RIP, gentleman.

 

Poor things are just misunderstood.

 

Rolling Stone loves them some child sex trafficking.

 

“Hey, y’all!”

 

Okey doke. That’s enough drivel for a Saturday evening. Snark away!

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

161 Comments

  1. Negroni Please

    I mean Sound of Freedom does sound fucking retarded….

    Does that make me a lefty groomer?

    • Q Continuum

      Saying the movie sounds shitty makes you normal. Saying the subject matter itself and the concept of rescuing sex-trafficked children is only appealing gap-toothed hicks and QAnon lunatics (as most of the commie outlets seem to be doing) makes you a groomer and a pedo apologist.

      • Negroni Please

        I did like how the media has been running a human trafficking panic campaign for years and now they call people who believe it Qanon lunatics

      • creech

        Strange, isn’t it. For the last few years, the progs at church have been holding breathless meetings about sex trafficking. As I recall, they started out blaming Trump and his administration for callous disregard of the youth.

  2. Q Continuum

    Every firefighters Everyone’s worst nightmare is running out of air and dying in a fire.”

    Firemen just have a much higher probability of actually doing so.

    • UnCivilServant

      Nightmare, yes. Worst, no.

      • Negroni Please

        Ok the fire first melts your 40K army into an indistinguishable mass of plastic

      • UnCivilServant

        Look, just because I rate a few other fates as worse doesn’t mean I make light of that one.

      • Chafed

        Legit lol.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah — I don’t really have nightmares in practice… but I’m pretty sure I can come up with a list much much worse than that.

    • Spudalicious

      It ratchets to the top of the list the first time you’re in a fire breathing air from a tank.

      • Aloysious

        SCBA’s (or whatever they’re called these days) take a lot of getting used to. Respect to anybody that can wear one and not feel claustrophobic.

    • Don escaped Texas

      there was nothing on that boat worth dying for: surround it and drownd it and call your insurance agent

    • Gustave Lytton

      How about just selling off sections of federal land again?

      • Chafed

        How will Trump grift off of that?

  3. Q Continuum

    “Ukrainian NATO membership would help foster peace”

    It absolutely will. He’s just skipping over the part where WWIII is guaranteed to occur and humanity gets nuked back to the Stone Age. After that, the world will be really, really peaceful.

    • Negroni Please

      Ok fine. You sold me on the plan.

      • Sean

        *waves tiny Ukraine flag*

    • creech

      You think either Putin or Biden would say “Fuck it. Who cares about mutually assured destruction” and press the button first?

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Putin doesn’t strike me as having vanilla jello for brains, so…

      • Q Continuum

        Unfortunately I could see either one of them doing it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If the Russian State was in existential danger Putin absolutely would do it although I think he also wants to avoid it at almost all costs. Biden and his cast of idjits might just stumble us into it by accident.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Former Minister of Truth haz a sad

    It’s an unprecedented ruling that First Amendment scholars and disinformation researchers largely characterized as alarming and unwarranted.

    For NINA JANKOWICZ, it also represented something else: the inevitable next step in a concerted effort to weaken defenses against the conspiracy theories and misinformation campaigns that could run rampant over the next year.

    “It is an attempt to quash any counter-disinformation efforts ahead of the 2024 election,” Jankowicz, a well-known expert on disinformation and extremism, told West Wing Playbook. “That seems very clear to me now.”

    ——-

    “There were these crazy accusations being made that had no basis in reality,” Jankowicz said. “But still, the administration crumpled. They ceded that territory.”

    The episode emboldened a movement on the right that she argued is using disinformation to undermine trust in government. This current case follows similar contours. Even if it fails, Doughty’s opinion alone will damage anti-disinformation efforts, Jankowicz said.

    The ruling validated a novel legal strategy likely to be replicated in the future. More immediately, it’ll have a chilling effect on government and academia, ensuring that officials and researchers think twice before trying to counter those spreading conspiracies and false information, she said.

    “It’s going to scare civil servants who are working on these issues from, frankly, doing their jobs,” Jankowicz said. Noting that Doughty specifically named individuals in his order, she added: “It might come with great personal danger, as I’ve seen in my case.”

    What complete and utter bullshit. Nor allowing government to actively promote censorship is not the same as putting a gag order on government employees or prohibiting the agencies they work for from putting their message into public spaces.

    • Q Continuum

      “expert on disinformation”

      What, exactly, are the qualifications for this? Being an unapologetic partisan propagandist?

      • Chafed

        I believe in the manual it says, and I quote, it takes one to know one.

    • rhywun

      You know America is lost when anyone takes that shit seriously. She would have been laughed off stage in the 80s or 90s.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Was she even out of college then?

        The Mary Poppins of Propaganda!

    • The Other Kevin

      She needs to go away.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      She’s a truly awful person.

  5. rhywun

    This is exactly wrong – as usual – and could very well lead us to war with Russia, something no one should want.

    “And?”

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Now we know who had a rough childhood.

      /goes and cried tears of loneliness into the corner.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    “If we’re going to push back against these forces … it’s going to have to be something that we do really overtly, transparently, and we’re going to have to dig our heels in about it,” Jankowicz said.

    This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?

    • SDF-7

      At least “she” gave decent advice: “Perhaps he’s just not interested in you… you have done everything but put out a ‘Everyone welcome, hop on board!’ sign, after all.”

      I would have phrased it more like “Perhaps he can smell the batshit crazy wafting off of you and knows better than to go near you.”

      And you do have to wonder about those Forever Chemical / “Teflon is killing testosterone production!” articles with the plethora of articles like this…

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Chief Disinformation Officer.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Idaho looked at the calendar and realized it’s July. We appear to be making up for lost time with the heat, but that’s what that sweet, sweet AC is for.

    The planet is burning up! Hottest week ever in the history of the universe!

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      So stupid. It was warm here in the valley, but not that warm.

      Wait, it’s summer. It always gets warm.

  9. Q Continuum

    From the pro-pedo article:

    “To know thousands of adults will absorb… this vigilante fever dream, and come away thinking themselves better informed on a hidden civilizational crisis… well, it’s profoundly depressing. Worse still, they’ll want to spread the word.”

    Struggling to understand how this is a bad thing… You are a true ideological zombie if you’re so committed to THE MESSAGE that you can say raising awareness of child sex slavery is a bad thing. These are evil, broken people.

    • Mojeaux

      It is worse to agree with your enemy than keep to your own narrative about [topic].

      Christians and radical feminists have found themselves allied against the trans movement. They don’t like it, but their interest in stopping kids’ HRT and chopping things off, and keeping men out of women’s spaces trumps that for these two segments.

      Not sure why it can’t be that way for sex trafficking.

      • rhywun

        It is amazing where their hatred of Christianity takes the left these days.

        I fancied myself an atheist in my youth but I don’t think I could have gone anywhere near where Rolling Stone and The Guardian are going with this shit.

      • milo

        It’s amazing to me that they forgive another Abrahamic religion that espouses the same views towards pedophilia. And to be honest; homosexuality. Why is Christianity singled out?
        I’ve always been live and let live. If you find love in this world…good for you. As long as you are both human…both of the age of consent…and are non-violent to one another. Happy trails.

      • Mojeaux

        They forgive the Abrahamic religion that will kill you for looking at it crosswise. Methinks there’s correlation there.

      • milo

        Damn skippy, MoJo.

  10. The Other Kevin

    The official phrase for that movie is “Q Anon adjacent“. It’s repeated everywhere. So do they just copy off each other’s homework, or does the CIA send them all an email?

    • Q Continuum

      It’s journolist/group think. Remember in high school with the “cool kids” would all adopt some expression/fashion/quirk at the same time? It doesn’t have to be orchestrated, it just happens due to social proximity and contagion.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Stop trying to make “QAnon Adjacent” happen.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I thought it was the same article posted in different places.

      • Tundra

        If the headlines are all the same, it’s not news – it’s advertising.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    The official phrase for that movie is “Q Anon adjacent“. It’s repeated everywhere. So do they just copy off each other’s homework, or does the CIA send them all an email?

    I think it’s more like a group class assignment on google docs.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Seeing that court case in Missour, I would say it was a well placed call by the CIA.

      The phone call is coming from INSIDE THE BUILDING!!

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Just for you, Teds. Pomme “Göttingen”.

      • rhywun
    • rhywun

      I was just watching Emergency!

      Never saw this side of her before. 👍

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, I totally forgot about Emergency. I bought this album a looooooong time ago: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJcjde6QrB38Wr2l3d51_j4r6dTnrKEuU

        I thought I found her on one of those compilation CDs* retailers sell, like Hallmark and Victoria’s Secret** and Pottery Barn. Well, it wasn’t that one, but this was a Pottery Barn CD that also introduced me to Morphine. (Martini Lounge) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRuDH834izy_sJxeQ7NCtaks86fxGAGP

        *I’ve found a lot of good music on retailer CDs.

        **The Victoria’s Secret was actually a cassette from 1987 or something, and had Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) on it and I totally fell in love with it, which sparked off a bucket list crush on Spain and my dad*** was all, “You want to go to Spain just from some song?” “Yep.” “Pffftt. Whatever.”

        ***Dad who fancied himself a fine music connoisseur after one standard humanities music appreciation class.

      • rhywun

        Emergency! is great. It is weird that she partnered with Bobby Troup in both careers.

      • Ted S.

        They were married for 40 years, which would probably explain it.

      • KSuellington

        You have great musical taste Mo. I love Morphine, still bummed I didn’t go see them at Zwak’s family named joint in SF back in the day. Hard to pick a fav from them, but this one is so excellent. RIP Mark Sandman.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CUT9m3fGqM

      • KSuellington

        Ohh, don’t know that one, it’ll go on the stereo when the kids shut down their movie.

      • Gender Traitor

        I know my family had one of those Firestone Christmas albums when I was a kid, but I can’t remember which one. I’d say it had a white or very light colored cover. Looking at some of the track lists, they’re all such standards I can’t be sure I’m not familiar with the songs from other albums.

        Was there one of those Firestone albums with Babs singing Ave Maria? (No, I’m not kidding.)

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t know about Babs singing “Ave Maria,” but I don’t really like the song at all. The only one I’ve heard that I kinda sorta like okay is Jewel. https://youtu.be/ijV1e_5ts6E

        Now, I have never ever heard a Firestone Christmas album, but I love this, https://youtu.be/j9hR4Gg6b9w and it has to be better than that.

      • Gender Traitor

        My high school choir once did an apparently oft-performed mashup of “Ave Maria” and “I Believe,” which I thought actually worked quite well.

        Sure as hell couldn’t do that in a public school now.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Another fan of Morphine here. Thanks to Ian Rankin.

    • The Gunslinger

      I used to try to keep telemarketers on the line for several minutes until finally making it clear I was just playing with them. Pissed some of them off big time. They would threaten to do vile things to my mom. Unfortunately I think they bumped my number up on the computer list because I used to get dozens of calls per day until I got a new number. Now I never get any telemarketers calling.

      • creech

        I got one of those “Hi, Grandpa, I’m in trouble, send money for bail” calls a month or so ago.
        I asked “grandson” to please put on the officer in charge. Guy comes on and re-iterates that it will take $2,000 to make the problem go away. I said, “I’m a bit shook up by this. Let me have my son-in-law call you to try to straighten it all out.” “I’d rather you take care of it, sir,” said the scammer. I then said, “No, he’s better at these things, he’s the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Peoria.” I can’t imagine why the guy quickly hung up.

    • rhywun

      That’s awesome for people like me who could never do that themselves but wish they could.

  12. Don escaped Texas

    is it anything special to run this site in dark mode?

    • R.J.

      I use either night mode (mobile, mac) or an extension called Night Eye in Brave to enable a dark mode.

  13. Tundra

    Evening, Spud.

    Spent a couple hours up a mountain today, so took a break from the retardation.

    Terrible about the firefighters, though. Tough fucking job.

    Autonomous cars are retarded, so the cone thing is hilarious. The Jetsons isn’t gonna happen, people. AI is gonna skip right past discernment to armageddon.

    Talked to several people who saw the flick and they were shocked. Once again, being an outlier completely skews perception. But hey, I’m sure a wide open border will be fine.

    What’s everyone doing tonight?

    • R.J.

      Swam all day with the daughter. Made cookies. Having a vodka martini now.

      • Tundra

        Shaken, not stirred?

    • rhywun

      the cone thing is hilarious

      Yeah, I approve. Leave the pets alone.

    • The Other Kevin

      Finally replaced the resin in my water softener. Much easier than expected, and it works great. Watching Manifest with the Mrs. tonight.

      • Tundra

        Manfest sounds a little gay

      • Chafed

        It’s destiny.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Chilling with my afternoon coffee. Wife is napping, so keeping it quiet.

    • Aloysious

      Working.

      However, dinner tonight is going to be bacon-dogs with homemade coleslaw. And beer.

      • R.J.

        That is an excellent reward for working Saturday.

      • Tundra

        This.

        Cheers, Al!

      • Ted S.

        Beer is never an excellent reward. :-p
        I’m having gin on the rocks and apple pie a la mode.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        I like a good gin on the rocks. It is very nice in both hot weather and cold.

    • juris imprudent

      I’ve been disconnected for 3 days, guess the world hasn’t ended.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Cleaning up the yard, spreading bark dust, giving the finger to the state forestry retards, getting groceries, and dinner with the missus.

    • milo

      Hi, Tundra. Thought I would bring this forward from a previous thread since you asked. Sorry if it’s not of interest.
      In regards to essential tremors, I tried all the usual meds. Anti-convulsants, beta blockers, combos of all of those. Nothing has really worked.
      Focused ultrasound has been approved by the FDA and has shown some promise. It is expensive and not covered by most insurance.
      Alcohol is the one thing that affects this neurological disorder across the board. Don’t believe me, look it up. A few shots and I can perform brain surgery. At least my hands can do so. Alcoholism is pretty prevalent among people with essential tremors.
      I have avoided that trap so far. I have to admit that if I have to fill out some paperwork for something, I will take a snort or two.

    • Grumbletarian

      Do they make popcorn flavored ice cream?

      • Ted S.

        Corn Pop flavored. They suck up 6o President Dementia.

      • Ted S.

        “To”, not “6o”. As you can tell, I’m on my tablet.

      • cyto

        See…. Standing up for free speech and putting your own ass on the line, good. Virtue signaling about giving all of America to the remaining native American descendants… Uh, stupid.

    • creech

      If all the land is going to be returned to those claiming to be descendants of the Indigenous People, then who is going to pay the reparations to the blacks? Wouldn’t it be ironic if the only American citizens with any wealth to tax away for reparations are those who had the least to do with slavery.

  14. cyto

    Sometimes, very rarely, someone gets a chance to use their existing talents to become something greater, to lift the world in a way that transcends their niche and becomes not just great. But heroic. One such someone was the lead singer of a moderately successful pop rock group called the Boomtown Rats.

    At the peak of their success, a huge famine struck Ethiopia, starving thousands to death. It was horrific. So rather than do nothing, Bob Geldof used his musical talent and his connections to put together a supergroup and write a song as a fundraiser. The group Band Aid hoped to raise some 70 thousand British pounds with their song Do You Think They Know It’s Christmas? $24 million later, the famine was still raging. Feeling the call to do something great, he conceived Live Aid, a 2 continent live concert to become the largest and most complicated live televised performance in history. Another $300 million or so later, and a hero was anointed.

    Rumors were circulating that the Beatles and Led Zeppelin might be getting back together to perform. Alas, Paul McCartney performed without his remaining band mates and Julian Lennon, and Led Zeppelin played but were terrible.

    But it is still remembered for Freddie Mercury’s iconic performance, which is probably why those of you who were not around at the time know of it.

    But Bob Geldof also had his moment. Amid all of the stress and pressure of running this huge event and raise enough money to make it worthwhile, he gave a performance of I Don’t Like Mondays that absolutely killed.

    https://youtu.be/FcZW0GFLSdw

    Enjoy

    • Tundra

      Thank you. I’ve watched so many clips of that show. Musicians are often douches but they can make shit happen.

    • Ted S.

      Mengistu used the food aid as a weapon against the Eritreans.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        This is what I remember.

    • rhywun

      Always liked that song but remain a bigger fan of Midge Ure.

      • cyto

        But other than Thin Lizzie, Ultravox, co-writing the greatest fundraising song ever, organizing several of the largest charity events ever and an extensive solo career, what has he ever done???

      • rhywun

        Visage

      • rhywun

        Without clicking, can confirm that is where my brain always goes in this context.

      • Chafed

        I’m assuming it’s Sam Kinison and I’ll be laughing hysterically.

  15. rhywun

    Apropos of nothing… Paris Hilton’s newish commercial for Hilton is aborbs.

    She seems less trashy than she used to, somehow.

    • Mojeaux

      Saw a clip of her on a Brit TV interview show, and she admitted that was never her real voice and she was playing a part the whole time. Troll level 9000. Instant respect.

      • cyto

        Yeah, it was clear that she was never a stupid as she pretended to be. Neither is Kim Kardashian.

        I just don’t understand how that had the revelation “if I make a crappy sex tape and leak it and act like a bimbo I will become a gozillionaire.”. That is quite a leap. I think the success rate on that was zero, pre Paris Hilton.

  16. Tundra

    Thank you. I’ve watched so many clips of that show. Musicians are often douches but they can make shit happen.

    • Tundra

      Lol. Creative squirrels

  17. cyto

    The whole thing was a shit-show. The entire famine was a failure of governance as much as it was a consequence of drought.

    But that doesn’t diminish what Geldof did. You can see the weight of all of the lives he feels responsible for saving on his face in that clip.

    The southern half of Ethiopia actually had a surplus of food during the 1984 famine.

    An Ethiopian woman studying in America understood that information and infrastructure was the root of the problems in Ethiopia. Eleni Gabre-Madhin realized that her native country lacked basic markets that the first and second world countries relied on. Commodities markets with futures contracts that allow farmers to get market signals as to what they should be planting.

    So she went home to a corrupt country where women are just not allowed to do such things, and created a commodities exchange to compete with the government monopoly. It was a bumpy road, fraut with setbacks and outright failures. And definite threats to life and liberty from the powerful. But her efforts changed things, and there has not been a repeat of the famine, in part because of her work.

    The documentary on her ECX is excellent, for an economics class anyway. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, a hero you never heard of.

    • milo

      You can’t diminish what Geldof did. It was never anything to begin with.
      He may have believed in what he was doing, but that was on him. Most sapient primates saw through it pretty quickly back then.

    • Chafed

      I have never heard of her or her story. Thanks for sharing it.

  18. Shpip

    I don’t watch a ton of MLB, but I gotta admit, this was pretty cool to see.

    The type of thing you might see in Little League or even high school ball, but in the majors? Well… I’ll be damned.

    • cyto

      I have seen that play many times in our local pony league.. never turn your back on the runner on third when the ball is live.

      At the Durham Bulls I saw Carl Yastrzemski’s son involved in a 2 error “inside the park home run” on a can of corn pop fly when he tripped over a sprinkler head backing up to make the catch. The runner advanced to second, where the outfielder backing up the play had him dead to rights if he hadn’t thrown the ball into the 3rd base dugout… So the runner took off for third and turned for home as the ball caromed off a pole and towards the outfield. He didn’t see the outfielder running over where the ball came right to him. Two side hops to load up for an easy out throw, he launches a laser beam at a 45 degree angle over the stands and into the parking lot.

      “A” ball is awesome.

      • Raven Nation

        Got to go to a kind of minor-league Australian football match yesterday. Small town club: if there’s space, you can park your car at the boundary and watch:

        https://imgur.com/a/frJS1Vl

      • cyto

        Do they have actual telephone poles, or do they just use the lamp posts?

        Also, isn’t the field oval?

      • Raven Nation

        Yep, oval field

      • cyto

        You inspired me to watch the highlights of the Bulldogs and Magpies. After falling behind by 40, the magpies went on an 80-7 run… Then the Bulldogs came back to make a game of it, but lost in the end.

        That is one crazy sport.

      • rhywun

        Go Pies!

        The premiership has not been a cakewalk in recent decades.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, I hate to say it, but they look awfully good this year.

    • creech

      Ah, baseball. Phillies win 23 of 31 games and still fall a couple more games behind the division leading Braves.

  19. cyto

    Ok, movies….

    I watched Keanu Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still.

    I follows an old trope of “aliens visit and evil government won’t listen to reason as military attacks”, which makes sense since I suppose the original is one of the originators of the trope.

    But that wasn’t really my issue.

    The film begins with scientists tracking an object moving through the outer solar system. Its speed and trajectory demonstrate that it has extrasolar origins. It is moving at a significant chunk of light speed. And it changes course towards earth, set to impact in Manhattan.

    Preparing for a devastating impact, governments are mobilized. But the object stops and hovers over central park.

    After which the military does the attack thing as our heroine tries to get them to work for peace.

    And here is the thing that completely bumped me out of the film…..

    This thing was going fast enough to end life on earth… And it has the power on board to completely stop.

    All the firepower on earth could not stop these creatures. Yet not one scientist ever makes that observation out loud. These guys fire sidewinder missiles at a mystery orb that just expended more energy than all of humanity combined in all of history in just a few seconds (and without leaving a giant melted spot on the planet, which is a trick). Sheesh.

    • Chafed

      I’m with you. I will suspend disbelief but not if I have to park my brain at the door.

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t know if this would really be far fetched for our top men at this point. What gets passed off as expert opinion these days is pretty sad. There is no integrity and it’s all about feeding a political narrative.

      I guess how the scientists and experts of the world react depends on who is in the White House and in control. They’ll be oppositional if the guy has a R next to his name, and propagandists for the regime if its a D. It really is that simple. So, you have to ask yourself, what would Joe Biden do if that thing was hurling towards Earth and then like 90% of the clowns who call themselves scientists would agree and clap like trained selas.

  20. Brochettaward

    The disclosures from Mr. Kelly, made under penalty of perjury, demonstrate the extent of Mr. Trump’s interest in harnessing the law enforcement and investigative powers of the federal government to target his perceived enemies. In the aftermath of Richard M. Nixon’s presidency, Congress made it illegal for a president to “directly or indirectly” order an I.R.S. investigation or audit.

    It’s amazing how quickly the left can connect the dots on corruption when it isn’t their guy in office. Obama? Biden? Nothing more to see. And I’m pretty sure this would be all they would need to debunk such a claim from the right if they even deigned it worth it to report on the matter:

    The I.R.S.’s inspector general found last year that Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe had been randomly selected for the audits, though the inspector general’s report acknowledged some deviations from the I.R.S.’s rigorous rules for random selection when the agency made final selections of the returns that would be audited.

    Mr. Kelly’s assertions were disclosed on Thursday in a statement that was filed in connection with lawsuits brought by Peter Strzok, who was the lead agent in the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation, and Lisa Page, a former lawyer in the bureau, against the Justice Department for violating their privacy rights when the Trump administration made public text messages between them.

    There’s something missing from this paragraph. I’m not quite sure what it is, but some detail…

    And what government official has an expectation of privacy on a government provided device?

    • cyto

      Well, given that we know that Obama ordered Comey to frame Flynn for crimes he did not commit, and every one of those weasels crowed about it and demanded Flynn’s scalp, I would say we know our answer.

      Obama used the IRS to broadly target all conservative political nonprofits…..and nothing else happened.

      This was very public and widely known. They didn’t even bother pretending to care,and the criminal coverup was never even investigated. “Oh, dang! All of the emails are gone from the server, there are no backups, and everyone accidentally destroyed their hard drives. Ooopsie!!

      Please.

      These people are so corrupt.

    • Gustave Lytton

      That smirking little shit has no shame.

    • cyto

      Also… The gall of complaining about the texts… After repeatedly leaking lies about Trump to the press. Really impressive.

  21. MikeS

    Just had Totino’s pizza rolls warmed in an air fryer for the first time. Relatively divine.

    • Gender Traitor

      Relative to…eating them still frozen?

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Batchelor style!

      • cyto

        Probably microwave.

        I did reheated hash browns in the air fryer tonight. Also a revelation. Crispy and delicious instead of soggy and “I ain’t wasting food, but I ain’t happy about it.”

    • Brochettaward

      You disgust me.

      Not because of the pizza rolls or anything. Just in general.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You are a dick dude,

      • Brochettaward

        I hope MikeS is crying into his pizza rolls right now. So distraught he can’t even finish them as they get cold and sad.

    • cyto

      I have teens.

      Great value brand Pizza rolls also good for less ,,(usually,).

      Also, hot pockets are much better in the air fryer than in that little paper-metal sleeve in the microwave.

      Also also….buy your favorite carry out pizza when on sale, freeze, and reheat in air fryer. Nice!

      We tried the Costco pizza last time. Great value for money, crust is a little bready… But it does well in the air fryer. And cheap cheap cheap if you buy the whole pie. We get pepperoni and add onions and jalapeno slices when reheating. The boy loves it. (Then again. We also do kittle Caesars, pizza hut, poppa johns… Apparently we are not picky)

      • Chafed

        How big is your airfryer that it fits a Costco pizza?

      • cyto

        2 slices at a time.

        But yeah, those pies are huge.

  22. Brochettaward

    Lucas Films trotted out Harrison Ford’s corpse one more time. This time to thank the fans on social media in a pathetic, scripted moment that he probably wasn’t even contractually obligated to do.

    This is the studio that’s part of a company that’s spent the last half decade attacking their fans as racists and menaces for daring to offer criticism. Now that it’s all finally fully blown up, now we are thankful to you…the fans.

    • Ted S.

      Did you actually watch Ford’s appearance, or just spend 20 hours watching other people’s videos about the appearance?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It doesn’t help that the analysis is more interesting than the films they’re pumping out and the people doing it are more relatable than the surly actors they’re propping up.

    • Not Adahn

      Maybe there’s a new theory being passed along in ad exec’s DMs?

  23. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam

    yo whats goody yo

    Headed to the airport!

    • Don escaped Texas

      quiet in Memphis *

      * assumes my truck wasn’t stolen last night

      • Sean

        I have an alibi.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Stinky, NA, homey (bon voyage!) and DeT!

      Much more pleasant at Tranq Base today – yesterday was overcast and rainy, and I was finally driven inside by lightning. Today it’s sunny and lovely! (Good news, as we have an afternoon baseball game today.)

      • Sean

        😉☕