At first it was Save the Books, until we needed kindling and then fire itself. No fuel, no engines, the running gear was too heavy to be useful as a wagon, and bicycles fared worse so travois was used.
No drugs, alcohol gone, too many mouths and not enough food, and the water was contaminated with chemicals and filth.
We all knew, the survivors that is, that we too were another step in the death of the world. The coast was a blackened scar, so those who could journeyed east, hoping to see the daylight, if it yet existed.
What was a desert was transformed into a dim twilight of warm salty rain, to stand in it was to invite the quickening, so tarps were a prized possession.
The once dry rivers and gullies were strewn with debris from the constant torrents, and we spent many moons traversing around them. Then we saw our prize, the Colorado River laid out before us.
We had heard that on the other side folks were picking up the pieces, kind of farming, mycopia thrives in nuclear winter, who knew? But they had clean water and food, and a warm safe place to survive. We hoped to share in this but first, The River.
Back when I was young the river was a snake amongst the green grass of croplands, all well tended and things worked well.
Now it was a giant grey marshland of cold north winds and sleet, 3 days crossing if we made it at all and there were signs of poachers, so we loaded precious shot for our hammers.
Whatever happened we may never know. Radio silence, no reliable power sources, was it us or the entire planet? A nuclear war? Aliens?
We still dont know. Our tribe will move east through the misty marshes and hope for the other side.
Bobbo, 169877
2027
Bannon is out there simping for Trump. I’m accused of being a Musk simp. I’ll take the guy who is making nominal attempts to cut spending and dismantling the bureaucracy.
1. Trump’s Treasure Secretary wants to come at Musk because he didn’t have 1 trillion in cuts in 5 months? Get the fuck out of here.
2. I’m tired of hearing that there’s no proof that anyone received fraudulent payments from social security. We have 12.3 million documented accounts that were 120 years or older in that database. Were they all fraud? Who knows. But it’s been widely admitted (and nothing done about it) that there were hundreds of billions in fraudulent social security payments well before Musk. This was coming form the GAO. Not some crackpot partisan outlet.
How do you prove there’s no fraud if you can’t verify the identities of the people actually receiving social security payments? Musk wanted everyone receiving payments to verify their identities in person. Is that feasible? Probably not, but that’s what the fraudsters count on. There’s no political will in congress to solve these things.
Is Musk some altruistic savior? Fuck no. Is he a hypocrite who let the Pentagon off the hook? Yes. But he’s the best we’re going to get.
Your should write a post about that and submit it.
Objection: irrelevant.
There is undoubtedly just as much fraud at the SSA as in every other government agency.
But yes, SS is sacrosanct so there is no way anyone is going to investigate. Because grandma.
Just delay the SS checks and see what happens. Anyone that doesn’t complain is cut off. Anyone that complains has to show up in person and re-verify.
They’d cry bloody murder if you did that. Musk wanted everyone to have to verify their identity to continue receiving benefits and they acted like he was going to destroy social security.
Of course, you can probably tell who is benefiting from the corruption by who in power is crying loudest.
But I’m going to keep banging my little drum on this. I think it’s about more than money. I think we may even be seeing the base of their voting fraud scheme.
12.3 million people removed from the roles and no one is complaining? Where are these people? None were receiving checks? All of it stinks to me.
Nothing’s shocking.
I heard the Republican Senator from PA today saying “Too many people are dependent on Medicaid” or something very close to that. Not a mention of pays for it. We’re very close to Socialized Medicine.
VA medicine is socialized already.
Medicaid should be for children only and that’s being generous. That’s a safety net.
This shit where a Juan and Maria who just crossed the desert or got off the boat are given free healthcare and SNAP while they work off the books and given $50 to spend on free shit otherwise every month needs to stop.
There’s blatant fraud involved in OTCH benefits. You have people with 10 different cards with 10 different zip codes that they don’t even know getting hundreds of dollars of free shit every month that they don’t need. People with cards for people who are elderly but buying baby wipes. It’s disgusting.
Bingo.
They gotta go, and their enablers as well.
Broche, why are any of us listening to your antisocial ass? Are we masochists? You are one of the few people I know of for whom ad hominem isn’t a fallacy. I see your name and I know the lorem ipsum that follows isn’t worth reading. Maybe it was once and occasionally, but why bother? What are you trying to accomplish? You proud?
Yea, I’m so sorry that I posted something off topic on Yusef’s literary masterpiece here, Toxteth. It isn’t like Yusef is a guy who runs around calling people the n word on here when he’s in the mood or who has shit on other people’s posts (what, was it a month ago he took a shot at Adahn’s articles for no fucking reason?). You and Yusef can both kindly go fuck off.
If you aren’t interested in what I type, scroll past it because nothing stops anyone from commenting on Yusef’s drivel if they so choose.
Duly noted.
Thirty-minute rule.
I won’t expect you at the country club. Maybe in the alley, if they have one.
People like you would turn posting on this site into a fucking chore. Nights are a deadzone because some asshole randomly decides that we need to stay “on topic” even when said topic is obviously fucking nonsense. No offense to anyone who wants to read it or faun over it (or even *gasp* criticize it!), but I don’t work 10 hours a day to come home and quietly praise Yusef of all fucking people.
I’m here to bullshit with people who are generally likeminded and have interesting takes on things. I posted something I find interesting. And as has been pointed out to nitwits such as yourself time and time again, people are perfectly free to scroll past it and post whatever they want.
People can in fact post as many times as they want! It’s as if they could comment on my nonsense or not, and then continue to add a comment on Yusef’s story.
But what happens in reality is that no one ends up posting much of anything at night because people like you jackasses want to enforce some nonsensical etiquette on what is mostly a message board.
And final note – far better writers who contribute around here than Yusef are just fine with people going off topic or at least politely shut the hell up about it. Mojeaux and even UCS post shit people actually want to read.
Maybe I’ll be respectful to Yusef when he tries to actually be respectful to others besides when he’s white knighting for you, Toxteth.
I don’t find Bro antisocial in the least.
So, okay, he “violated” the 30-minute “rule.” What he said was intelligent and sparked conversation, and when he’s not Firsting (which, okay, I admit, I think it’s funny), he’s got incredible insights, logic, and common sense. He ALSO is very supportive whenever he sees that a Glib needs it. This happens usually quite late at night when nobody’s around to see it.
Anyhoo. All I can say is that after I spent years supporting and cheering on Yusef, reading his stuff and complimenting him, being kind and coming to his defense, then he up and out of the blue tells me to fuck off for something I did not say, I’m not anymore.
Moj, I like you, so I shall include you out.
“Someone is wrong on the internet!” More fool me.
And Moj, I don’t know to which you refer, honestly.
Refer to … ? I don’t understand the reference.
As far as I’m concerned, Bro is like cilantro. Some people love it, some people don’t, and there ain’t much in-between.
What I DO know is I have seen him be very kind to people who seem to be hurting and reach out via Glibs. Good, detailed advice, and lots of caring.
Moj, he can be that way.
There are Gs who are like that all the time; why not concentrate on them?
Forum if I don’t fall asleep.
That’s more loaded than a baked potato at a steakhouse. Hard pass.
I don’t know what this means.
Musk is a baggy eyed drug addict and probably a white supremacist and a simp, at least according to my news sources. Therefore, everything he says including that water is wet is wrong.
It’s amusing that “drug addict” is the least bothersome of all the accusations the left has been hurling at him.
Over promise and under deliver makes a shit sandwich.
Musk is guilty of that as is Trump (time and time again). But the reality isn’t that DOGE is failing because it under-delivered. It’s because there’s no real backing behind the scenes.
Trump used Musk to help get elected and threw him a bone is the sense I get. I’m still not 100% sure on what Musk was aiming for with all this. He was fine letting Musk tear shit up because it fit his general theme, but when push comes to shove Trump is going to do the same dumb shit Trump has always done and kowtow to the GOP establishment who has no stomach for any of this.
Musk was a 180-day promise or some shit, nothing more. His role was to draw attention to the colossal waste and fraud and, well, I think it succeeded among those of us who were willing to pay attention. It was never going to succeed with the left, who are such full-throated defenders of waste and fraud.
Sure, but the opposition was there all along. And Trump was and is fickle and lacks any ideological principles (other than a sense of professional showmanship and either a deep actual love of this country, or a sense that it’s required for the position, something many/most politicians don’t even pretend at anymore).
Trump doesn’t intend to cut the budget, he intends to convince his base that he is slashing the budget. Two separate things.
“I won’t touch SS or Medi-whatever” was a clue.
I luv dystopias so I enjoyed this slice of our future.
Thanks, I like em as well, will make more.
First they destroyed the value of green paper…
Nice little short story, Yusef. Thanks.
Thank you
Jesus. I didn’t realize California was that bad.
lol New York is not far behind.
What’s Walz? He’s not gonna let MN lag behind.
It’s cute watching prissy MN playact at being corrupt-woke when NY has been doing this shit for decades.
Newsome, Hockul, Whitmer, Pritzker and Walz all want to be the Dem candidate, next go around. Tough decision trying to pick the least bad.
The amusing thing is that Hochul was Cuomo’s Western NY pick, supposedly to balance out the power which is otherwise always NYC based and yet she is just as bad as anyone coming out that fever swamp.
“Tampon Tim” Walz is the Internet Tuff Guy personified. He wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a street fight. He hasn’t done ANY real world shit in his life. Thinks he knows what is best for you.
Fuck him. I’m sick of that guy.
“Howard Dean shrieked.”
The rest of the country has so little respect for CA, and after watching the de facto capital burn with nothing to show for it, no respect for Newsome. He is dead in the water.
I agree & I have to think the country is dodging a huge bullet otherwise.
Just hope Tony Evers doesn’t enter the chat. We’ve spared most of his shit because both houses are R, but now that the State Supreme Court is majority D, they’ll find ways around that.
California, rest in peace.
Oh, it’s a big state. I voted for Jeffersonville!
Being caught speechless? (Newsom / Bass) Priceless!
It’s my Saturday and Genesis of the Daleks is on.
Tom had Very English Teeth
He’s still alive and kicking at 91. ❣️
It’s well established that dental health and national health are inversely related. Must be the fluoride.
Dang, I assumed he had left us already.
He was always my Doctor.
#minetoo
Although I could do without the Pluto commercials for the “Kids’ Choice Awards” celebrating “Bad Bunny” and “Post Malone”. AYFKM?
Pertwee’s my doc, but Baker looks amazing spry for his 90’s.
Life sucks. Well-liked sidekick Harry Sullivan died at 42. And the dude had authored a bunch of fan-fic Who novels, too. More than I have accomplished at 56, hmph.
Obligatory repeat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNp2tqMbdCg
Dammit: better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4
Adorbs.
I was supposed to return to work today after more than a year on disability but I actually don’t start until Wednesday. I am not sure of the reason that today and tomorrow are paid holidays but I have my (((suspicions))).
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/609663/jewish/What-Is-Shavuot.htm
Enjoy some dairy.
Nice. Yeah, we get a lot this stuff off. I rather like my employer. 💕
lol I’m watching this and thinking that today’s Left would have no problem with Science! deciding who lives and who dies.
It’s an obvious play on Nazism but did they have any idea how relevant it would be so many decades later?
So many writers that thought they were just writing trashy pulp were so much better than the award winning novelists and screenwriters at actually making something meaningful and enjoyable.
🫡
I’m watching ‘Mickey 17’ and I’m not one to usually call out ‘plot holes’, as usually that is just people who need to be spoonfed everything not understanding a gap a the narrative. BUT, the whole premise is he dies all the time, and how does it feel to die; however the narrative establishes that his memory upload isn’t constant, he has to be hooked up to the machine for regular memory uploads, so his death memories would only be recorded while he was connected to the machine, which was only shown happening once out of 17 times, yet he says ‘I always feel scared’.
I guess if you’re gonna keep cloning some expendable dude it might as well be someone pretty.
Y’all comment anytime, its a night post, thats fine, but please dont be a dick to people people.
Hear, hear.
I don’t remember seeing it quite so nasty as tonight.
WTF, people?
Certain folks dont like my little stories and try to poke, no worries, glad you liked it.
While I don’t particularly like you or your stories/posts, there was absolutely nothing personal about my post. I would have put it in just about any topic because that was what was on my mind.
If people choose to take it personally, that’s on them.
SP created the 30 minute rule, sorry to make you waste your time.
Rules for thee?
At least its original material
Broche, you are professionally unpleasant, and occasionally reasonable. I seem to be the first person brave enough to call it out, for whatever in hell that’s worth.
Just remember the Hat’s mantra, calm tits. (Enter Q with an entirely different oeuvre)
I love when someone starts shit and plays the victim.
Take the professional victimhood bullshit elsewhere.
I always like you, Rhy.
I am professionally pleasant.
No, they were tolerant of you.
Broche, I am sick up with and fed up on you. Congratulations. Whatever useless mischief you’ve tried to accomplish, you’ve made your fat ass known, like Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
Drama don’t need have no place here on Glib’s farm. We’s all just headless cickens feedin’ on the corn left by that farmer in the sky. Don’t make that old song true. Calm tits.
Am Audi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0aF9kSLpeY
Nowt against you, CP. Thank you and I do take your point. /curtseys
& Tox, to steal a meme from Moj, I flurv your new avatar.
I just watched that for the zillionth time again the other day.
Ally Sheedy is 1000X Molly Ringwald
The notable thing for me is how completely, utterly, unrealistic those John Hughes movies were. They were *nothing* like my experience in HS during the same time, whatsoever.
In fact, I didn’t watch any of his movies until in college, in the early 90s. Still amusing AF.
My HS was pretty chilled. Just trying to get through it, I guess.
Middle school seems to have been hell for everyone.
I was a nerd with jock friends. And a lot of the jocks were nerds anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Peanut butter and butterscotch chip cookies are the bomb.
Sadly, they do not pair well with beer.
Brown liquor would work.
Wait till you’re 18 beers in, then EVERYTHING pairs with beer, and you will consume it as fast as you can. #beermunchies
Mmmm…beer and vomit..
One time the chicken nuggets came up almost whole, and I had to dredge them from the sink, #LivingTheHighLife
18 beers would probably put me in the hospital.
But I’m enjoying a couple Negronis plus a few vodka highballs tonight.
A good stout maybe? The cookies sound wonderful
I miss chewing shit.
I have to wait a few more weeks to get fit for dentures but holy shit, my mom who never had real teeth in my life was a fan of corn on the cob so I have to figure I can eat real food again some day, right?
My dad got all his teeth pulled, his MS meds were causing them to decay. The VA said they’d give him implants, then after the teeth were pulled they were all ‘No, that program doesn’t exist anymore.’ So they gave him dentures, but they didn’t fit them properly. Socialist medical care at its finest.
Anyway, since it was so uncomfortable to wear the dentures he chose not to. So we blended all his food. He wanted a Whopper, blended, sounded batshit, but we did it. He said it was the best Whopper he ever had. Mileage may very.
Mr. Rhy: You don’t need teeth for this one, just a spoon. A high quality canned corn works in a pinch. High in the carbs, so a green salad is a must for me.
My beer ggogles are defective.
https://www.goodfoodmakesmehappy.com/recipes/2015/7/10/corn-parfait
My grandma did put her teeth in for corn on the cob, and it worked fine, she didn’t get them from the VA.
I might not be eligible for implants given my condition which seems to be placing importance on jaw-bone shit.
Anyway, I was offered pureed food in the hospital a couple months ago after they realized I didn’t have any fucking teeth anymore and wow… some of it was tolerable and some of it wasn’t.
Pro-tip: don’t eat pureed corn.
Aloysious:
It’s the closest I’ve even come to vomiting at hospital food.
Sorry if this has been remarked upon already:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Californias_Trilogy
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The Three Californias Trilogy (also known as the Wild Shore Triptych and the Orange County Trilogy) is a book by Kim Stanley Robinson, which depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California.
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I read the hippy one in Peace Corps. Those folks love that Captain Planet nonsense.
I know the name but I have not read him. Should I?
I’ve tried several times and have never been able to finish one of his books.
While I’m at it, not a fan of Orson Scott Bean, either.
I seem to be the one person here who’s not much of a fan of that genre at all.
I just got an email from Agile Cyborg,
Another 3 days of hiding in tree tops and there they just Begun
The saints that forgot us and now on the run, Enchant, the very end. Go zoo, forget. The ancient gods are fated to be delivered by them.
In ancient times gods forget them yet they remember all that they came before them. This is an unknown chant toward a future of what¿ we dont know
A goddess wash upon dark light, not seeing the original truth of the things that Adriana realize all is black all is, isn’t it
is all done.
It is fitting that none of this makes sense to you and that shall be the end of it all. Thanks for playing.
Haha!
This is true & I am OK with that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me too, cheers!
Sasquatch is my daddy and he’s going to protect, me!Half man, half machine,On the cover of a magazine,Bigfoot is my father and he’s got to protect, me!These lyrics don’t make sense,Think i’ve found the evidence,That yeti is my papa and he wants to protect, me!
Have you dabbled with the Negroni variants? I.e., sub the gin for bourbon (boulevardier), rye (old pal, sorta), vodka (negroski), mezcal, etc?
I particularly like boulevardiers and mezcal Negronis.
Aimed at rhywun, but missed.
I have tried some variants but not so adventurous in recent years if only for health reasons. Fuck, it’s been a couple years since I’ve had some Negronis.
I love a boulevardier made with a good quality Bourbon. Haven’t had any of that for quite a while though since most of my money has been devoted to some home repairs. Once I pay off a few things, maybe I’ll treat myself to some. I’ve been contenting myself with Sobieski vodka and New Amsterdam gin – nothing to write home about, but good enough when you want to relax on the couch after a week of day job plus almost all other time being spent on other jobs around the house.
Mr. Belvedere. [Link missing since Uke died]
So, last night I got cock-blocked by my aunt calling me because she couldn’t get a pill bottle open. First time in over a decade that my game spitting was on point and I get that call. Fucking hell.
I think I’ve seen that Seinfeld episode.
Took me 1 second to open the bottle once I got there, then another 20 minutes listening to her complain. Now I won’t get a chance to talk to this gal for another 3 days. My life sucks because I’m a good guy.
Watching a Honda tech do car repairs. And I don’t even own a Honda.
https://youtu.be/CBGgiQ3rUps
Broche, you have been a troll for so long that I don’t even pay attention to your good points anymore. I am told that some are there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvJkfCxYNnw
🍆 💦
I never thought I’d have to unleash Dave Coulier on here.
Jesus… heinous.
How Rood!
Sorry, both. Rhy, I have always liked you and foresee such a future.
Just sick of him, and didn’t mean to create drama. I sent off embossed stationery last week. /curtseys
Sorry to draft you both. Gentle noogies all round.
Save the books
https://youtu.be/oLoNGRVeC7Y
All the books were written by Stacey Abrams anyway.
*deliberately smashes glasses on concrete*
Morning all.
Abrams is literate? Now I know you are making stuff up.
W T F ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68691987
Limeys have truly lost it. And soon will end up with here as well.
Even most of the Islamic countries don’t bend their military over backwards to accommodate Islamists and, rest assured, zealots that won’t shave for a job are mostly just that. Airstrip One has really gone into the toilet.
I fell asleep with the tv on last night. I wake up to the news. Apparently the leftist propagandists are turning themselves into pretzels trying to paint the islamist shouting ‘Free Palestine’ while burning Jews as not a terrorist. I guess if they can get people to go along with their assertion that some women have peckers, why not?
OFFS. They are at it again. We dont know what he was up to, motive unknown arglebarglebloop.
Here is what is going on. It was the very definition of an act of terrorism. Couple that with the agitators and disruptors, rioters, shooters etc and any organization engaging in the free Palestine spread the intifada crap will be designated a terrorist organization. How many elected officials and Harvard professors might be lumped in with that, because that is who is behind it? They are shitting bricks now I bet. Those officials and professors are in fact engaging in terrorism. I will leave y’all to decide how directly or indirectly they are doing that.
“I hate to advocate alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
Someone wake me up in two hours.
Aaaaand there it is. Just overheard on the news – democrats that supported open borders have blood on their hands and support terrorism.
Sean is late.
Site ate my post. 😡🤬
Sure, Jan. :-p
I’m not late. Sup Glibs?
🤪☀️☕️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Z5Pc8cRM
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Teh Hype, Suthen, and homey!
Morning.
My neck hurts. More specifically, the right trapezius above the shoulder hurts.
Bonus track!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNEdxZURTaI
👯🎶🎶
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/canadian-wildfires-could-send-haze-smoke-toward-lehigh-valley/article_fa9abcc7-f235-474f-8c49-bef13c75e07c.html
We should bomb them.
https://pagesix.com/2025/06/02/style/heidi-klum-rings-in-52nd-birthday-with-stunning-bikini-photo-shoot/
52?!?!
😳
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/public-brawl-bill-large-crowds-new-jersey/4199507/
Racist!
It’s how they build community and unity!
Are the “youths” up to trouble again?
You mean “yutes”.
Big issue at the NJ shore.
It can be directly tied back to the Commie Cough and failure to enforce any existing laws on teens. Suddenly, it’s now a problem…
suh’ fam
whats goody
Morning TC, et al.
Sad trombone…
How Moderna Went From Pandemic Hero to Vaccine Victim
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/trump-moderna-vaccine-struggle-a43b66fe?st=sWZV4q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Moderna’s share price, which peaked in 2021 at $484, has dropped to prepandemic levels of about $25.
Warped speed!
I know, I know! They sold poison for short term gain and got caught.
How are they victims?
Woo hoo!
After five months of administrative bullshit re: secure offsite communications, I finally get to swap out a control computer then this Luxemburger (Luxemborgian?) calls the home office for the robot settings. This is expected to take three days. ‘Cause Euros.
Luxemburgisch.
Or Lëtzebuergesch.
Also: Does someone who watches network TV want to tell me if “inside Edition” is a relevant infotainment tabloid? I remember them being a trashier “Dateline.”
Anyway, apparently they did a story* about the P320 maiming our heroic heroes in blue. I wonder if SIG will still be there when Area 7 rolls around.
*in this story things never change — their “expert” was claiming that the trigger was too sensitive and needed to be heavier for safety.
There are names I have not heard in a log time.
Are they still on the air?
Well let’s not forget this bit of pork!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sig-sauer-immunity-bill-clears-225200735.html
When employ the most voters you do, bending legislatures to your will easy is.
Interesting analogy. I’m meh on the rest of the piece.
When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536, the monks thought the danger came from Henry, but the underlying problem was Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. Similarly, although today the immediate threat comes from the Trump administration, academic institutions are fragile because knowledge is now available through the internet and artificial intelligence. For balanced inquiry, even academics increasingly look outside their universities.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dont-just-fix-higher-education-reconstitute-it-b14a4eb2?st=tmwV2W&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m sorry, w0t?
The primary vocation of Monks was not as self-appointed tyrants of ‘truth’, that was reserved for Rome.