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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…

236 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “In fact, they shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to multiple members of the Ku Klux Klan.”

    Really?

    • Rat on a train

      Supply was low so they subsidized.

      • juris imprudent

        But, but, but Say’s Law!!!

    • Not Adahn

      Seems trivially true. They were paying informants. Informants were members of those orgs, so…

      • UnCivilServant

        Are there any members of those organizations who are not glowies?

      • (((Jarflax

        There is one retarded kid who someone brought along and forgot about, but his Mom always packs cookies and he is willing to share so the glowies keep bringing him along.

      • WTF

        So NA chooses to believe the bullshit excuse they gave? Or maybe it’s just typical knee-jerk devil’s advocate performance.

      • Not Adahn

        I have no idea WTF you’re talking about WTF. Who is giving what excuse? The accusations are about banking reg vios which without knowing the specifics seems like an easy place to find/invent violations (it’s structuring!) and the accusation that SPLC gave money to badpeople (defining badpeople by being a member of badgroup) is literally what the SPLC is claiming they were doing.

      • WTF

        Who is giving what excuse?

        “Oh, we weren’t paying agitators to agitate so we could raise money and keep our grift going, we were paying confidential informants, yeah, that’s the ticket. Even though we are not an agency that can use CIs to build a criminal case. It’s an obvious load of horseshit.

      • Not Adahn

        To be clear:

        -CT wonders if the accusations of the SPLC giving money to the various Klans are true.

        -I respond that they are trivially true, based on what the SPLC says they are doing.

        And from this, you think I’m believing some as-yet-unmentioned SPLC excuse, even though I literally said that the SPLC’s statements make the accusations true?

        WTF WTF. Go relieve your hate-boner in a ficus.

      • Ted S.

        NA: I think WTF is saying you’re believing the FBI’s excuse.

        You two need to get a room together.

      • Not Adahn

        Dafuq does the FBI have to do with this? Is this a new thing that the FBI was funneling money into the Morris Dees Lifestyle Enhancement Fund? That would be an allegation I have not yet heard.

      • juris imprudent

        You mean the FBI isn’t one of the SPLC’s donors?

      • Not Adahn

        Why would they need to be? Between the wealthy lefties and the Obama era “we’re going to fine you $BIGNUM for these violations we’re declaring you guilty of OR you can pay $0.0001BIGNUM to one of these “charities” on this list here and we’ll dismiss everything,” I’m sure the FBI would rather retain that money to bid against the USSS for Colombian hookers.

      • (((Jarflax

        I’m sure the FBI would rather retain that money to bid against the USSS for Colombian hookers.

        The beauty of baseline budgeting and CRs is that there is never a need to make hard choices like this! Spend and you shall receive more next year!

      • WTF

        Go relieve your hate-boner in a ficus.

        I didn’t insult you, but you come off with this? I guess I hit a nerve.
        GFY, asshole.

      • Not Adahn

        Putting words in someone’s mouth isn’t an insult to you? Yeah, your opinion is totally going to invalidate my sense of self-worth.

        You do have a nice avatar pic though. Pity about everything else.

      • WTF

        Putting words in someone’s mouth isn’t an insult to you?

        Keep lying to justify your assholery. Since you can’t seem to conduct a civil discussion in good faith, I will now stop engaging with you.

      • Not Adahn

        Flounce off you lying sack of shit.

        This started by you coming hot (again) about something you were projecting (again) and accusing me of

        believe the bullshit excuse they gave? Or maybe it’s just typical knee-jerk devil’s advocate performance.

        This was of course pants-on-head retarded. And had (and has!) nothing to do whatsoever with anything actually written on the screen.

        And when I called you on it instead of admitting that you were completely misrepresenting anything at all that had been written, you clutched your pearls and declared yourself the victim on a terrible insult.

        So yeah. You’re a liar. And an unrepentantly self-righteous twatty one at that.

        Please. Flounce off. Forever.

      • Ted S.

        Normally I tend to agree with you, NA, but you already drove Ozymandias off the site and now you won’t shut up about trying to drive another Glib off the site?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Gentlemen: War Room, etc.

      • Not Adahn

        I have never tried to, nor actually driven someone off. The few posters I would have liked to (especially that little clique that drove off most of the OG Glibs) are still here-ish. I don’t think that’s actually possible to do (as opposed to someone already spiraling using their current bête noire as an excuse).

        I am not going to speculate as to what went wrong with Ozy, nor if it is related to a similar pattern we’ve seen with Tucker Carlson/Ken White/Radley Balko/etc.

    • Common Tater

      “You can see the breakdown of the amounts the SPLC gave out to the various extremist groups below:”

      No you can’t, because you just linked to X like a lazy bum.

      • (((Jarflax

        Oooh we have a potato fight brewing!

      • juris imprudent

        Someone’s going to get the starch knocked out of them?

      • Gdragon

        Everyone will have their eyes on it

      • Evan from Evansville

        Tuber real, they both have it coming. They’ll be fine, thick-skinned chaps.

      • DrOtto

        That would be a peeling, especially if someone got the chip knocked off their shoulder.

    • Common Tater

      “In fact, that TPUSA case study was so obviously tending toward encouraging violence that the FBI last October cut ties with the SPLC over it.”

      Why did they have ties in the first place? I knew the SPLC was complete horseshit, and I’m not a bunch of professional investigators.

      • (((Jarflax

        It was complete horseshit that provided accusations against conservatives on demand. Sort of an all purpose confidential informant if you wanted a warrant to go after political enemies. Why wouldn’t the secret police have ties to them?

      • rhywun

        You and I knew that but they have been held in the highest regard by government morons for decades.

      • Not Adahn

        Because a private organization can violate your civil rights and not get the evidence so obtained tossed out of court, unlike the FBI.

  2. Common Tater

    I’m starting to think that all these fights over Virginia (remember Bloomberg trying to increase gun control) are because it’s so close to DC.

    • rhywun

      I wonder if the GOP can push out 5 Dems somewhere. Will they do it, or “take the high road” in response to the dirty tricks?

      • SDF-7

        I think Indiana gave the likely answer to your question.

      • juris imprudent

        That would be the most amusing result – that the Republicans turn out better in the election and pick up seats. But I’m not expecting that.

      • Threedoor

        Hopefully secession.

        But we’re collectively all cowards b

    • Common Tater

      “”Democrats countered that the redrawing of the maps was a necessary step to balance partisan gerrymandering already implemented by Republicans in other states at Trump’s urging.”

      Literally it’s different when we do it?

      • rhywun

        It’s right there in the name – the “Fair Map”. Disenfranchising 40% of your residents is “fair”, isn’t it?

      • Ownbestenemy

        That logic makes no sense. So naturally its a politicians response

      • juris imprudent

        “And we will never do it again.” [pinky swear]

    • The Last American Hero

      Where was the Stupid Party on this? You willingly, permanently sacrifice about 4 House seats in a close house without a fight?

    • EvilSheldon

      You think?

      Non-military federal government employees are overwhelming Dems. This is known. And NoVA is the largest concentration of non-military government employees in the known universe.

      • Common Tater

        Yet, I keep bring up neutron bombs, and none of you will subscribe to my newsletter!

      • Threedoor

        The military ones are Dems too.

        Support is the majority of the military and they are Dems.

        The airforce and navy are Dems.

      • EvilSheldon

        Not as overwhelmingly though. Although most of the military folks I engage with these days are CA or at least CA-adjacent.

  3. Not Adahn

    he moguls known as Sloopjo are expanding their empire today.

    Do they have a name picked out for the new kid yet?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Another kid? I thought they were buying another house…

      • Rat on a train

        More orphans for the mines?

      • SDF-7

        If it is kid or car, they could just go with Portia.

    • Threedoor

      Nice.

      I want a couple more.

      May have to get them in the market though.

  4. Common Tater

    “The scandal centers on Chefilus-McCormick being indicted for allegedly stealing a $5 million overpayment from a FEMA-funded COVID vaccination staffing contract.”

    These things are becoming as much as a non-story as Brazilian influencer dies.

    • rhywun

      If we’re lucky she’ll bring down some of her colleagues with her just for spite. Most of them are crooked and you know they all know the score on each other.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Ya know. If political corruption is as rampant as well all believe (throughout history), it seems hard to *not* know folk also in the Game. (Gotta kinda have an entry point, yeah?)

        If the Game focused on taking *me* out? And not all the other fucks I know are dirty? I’d take ’em out for spite. But what of my Golden Parachute? Uh. Out of said spite, I’d make a new career by ratting out all those fucks. Accrue valuable info over time, cuz ya know Team Leaders are doing it to everyone else.

        That’d be fun. (Dear Preet /Feds: I have zero information on Hilary.)

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      How you holding up, or should I ask?

  5. rhywun

    Texas Can Require Display of Ten Commandments in Classrooms

    *insert Picard not this shit again image*

    Let’s start religious wars in the classroom. Smooth move, socons.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Pick your poison – dedicated prayer rooms for a specific religion or a display.

      • rhywun

        Call to prayer five times a day.

        WhyTF they wanna open up this can of worms is beyond me. They can’t help themselves, I guess.

      • juris imprudent

        The power of Jesus compels them.

      • EvilSheldon

        Because SoCons are really big on graven images?

        It’s the same kind of performative engagement farming as drag queen story hours*, just farming a different crop, and with the same political power-seeking on top.

        If the SoCons were really so worried about our increasingly atheistic culture, maybe they should focus more on taking back their churches and making them suck less? Maybe?

        * – just for the LOLs, I’d love to promote a drag queen story hour at a local library, then dress up as Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire and read bible stories to the kids.

      • juris imprudent

        ES you’d need to partner with someone doing Dana Carvey’s Church Lady.

    • Rat on a train

      They should display the Code of Federal Regulation in the classroom. Let the kids see what they have to live under.

      • (((Jarflax

        Where will you put the students if you put the CFR in the classrooms?

      • WTF

        I would settle for the bill of rights.

      • EvilSheldon

        You can’t be posting violent right-wing propaganda in schools? Think of all the impressionable minds you might damage!

        No, not the children. Won’t you think of the teachers?!?

    • Threedoor

      Trying to go back to the founding principles without removing two centuries of additional government first.

  6. Shpip

    The scandal centers on Chefilus-McCormick being indicted for allegedly stealing a $5 million overpayment from a FEMA-funded COVID vaccination staffing contract.

    I’ll remind the Glibertariat that the former congresswoman was the successor to Alcee Hastings, so corruption is part of a long tradition to the seat she won.

    She’s also the first Haitian-American in Congress, which means that her fraudulent schemes would have all the sophistication of a Somali Learing Center.

    • (((Jarflax

      so corruption is part of a long tradition to the seat she won

      This is common to pretty much every hard blue urban machine district.

  7. rhywun

    The Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act

    OFFS! I appreciate the sentiment but really? Don’t be an authoritarian dick about it.

    • Not Adahn

      By the way, congratulations on your 100% perfect usage of “bless your heart” yesterday. I know Southerners that fuck it up.

      • rhywun

        And I’ve never been south of Pennsylvania.

      • Not Adahn

        Far too many people are told it’s an insult which (while it can be) is absolutely subordinate to its indication of excessive optimism/naivete.

      • EvilSheldon

        “Bless your heart, ’cause your head ain’t no good…”

    • WTF

      Might as well call it the Bill of Attainder Act.

  8. Rat on a train

    My wife brought up moving to another state for the first time.

    • juris imprudent

      We own down in the surviving Republican enclave. I think everything west of the Blue Ridge Parkway needs to shift to West Virginia.

      • Threedoor

        Borders are not sacrosanct.

  9. Shpip

    The story was first reported by The Washington Post, citing Mexican officials who said the car skidded off the road, plunged down a ravine and exploded.

    I think I saw that clip in about fifty different 80s action movies.

    My guess would’ve been a Reaper drone operator who was a little quick on the trigger.

  10. Common Tater

    “Kash Patel’s lawsuit against the Atlantic has already backfired, big time.

    Had the FBI director just put out a statement denouncing the magazine’s piece on him, the controversy would have vanished in two days.

    But by filing the $250 million suit against what he calls a “defamatory hit piece,” he turned it into a top story on cable news, especially MS NOW, with constant coverage all day Monday, most of it unfavorable.

    In other words, Patel shined a white-hot spotlight on accusations of excessive drinking and disappearances to a vastly larger audience than would have heard about them.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/why-kash-patel-broadcast-alleged-drinking-issues-world-despite-denials-suing-atlantic

    I wonder if he’s sari.

    • Not Adahn

      He had to be a big shot.

    • rhywun

      Had the FBI director just put out a statement denouncing the magazine’s piece on him, the controversy would have vanished in two days.

      Bullshit. The leftist media was gonna push it hard regardless.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep, they (media even more so than Dems IMO) want as many heads to roll in spectacular fashion to hammer a ‘disfunctional’ administration for mid-terms.

      • DrOtto

        OBE – there’s a distinction between the Dems and the media?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Yes, and they’d also argue that it must be true because he isn’t suing.

      • The Other Kevin

        They’d just repeat it until their followers took it as common knowledge that it was true. Just like “fine people”.

    • Gender Traitor

      “MS NOW” and “vastly larger audience” don’t make sense together.

      • Not Adahn

        The link is from Fox tho.

    • Ted S.

      Not with that captioning.

      Thankfully the video is only 43 seconds.

      • Common Tater

        I think they do that so people can watch stuff on their phone with the sound off.

      • rhywun

        I *hate* that shit and TV commercials are doing it now, too.

        The TikTok generation is ruining everything.

      • Common Tater

        Standing in line, being in a waiting room, etc. with some half-deaf asshole watching videos on speakerphone is also annoying.

      • Ted S.

        How about traditional less obtrusive captions at the bottom that one can choose to turn on/off?

        It’s what I do when I watch foreign-language videos.

      • Threedoor

        Ted for the win.

        Videos with bad subtitles the cover the image that you can’t turn off are snoring as hell.

        Autoplay video bad.
        Audio off as default bad.
        Closed captions on as default bad.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        snoring?

    • Evan from Evansville

      I rather like Russel Brand. He’s talented and funny. Weirdo life, maybe, but many do. *raises hand*

      I especially enjoy how he’s smarter than one would think. He’s got much “Fuck You” spirit in ‘im, and good for him.

      • Drake

        Was watching his interview with Tucker last night. I like him, but he’s exhausting after a while. I wonder when he breathes.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I still wonder how we even made it out of the caves at this point

      • Common Tater

        We left after the walls got covered in penis graffiti?

      • Drake

        Invented better stuff to attract chicks and get laid.

      • Threedoor

        Drake gets it.
        Transportation and its equipment have been massive tools of sexual selection for all of human history.

    • EvilSheldon

      I have it on good authority that female soldiers draw just as many dicks in porta-shitters as the male soldiers do.

  11. Common Tater

    “”Sam,” a 22-year-old orthopedic surgeon in training, told Wired that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school — and trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation.

    He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for advice and decided to create a “hot girl” crafted specifically for the “MAGA/conservative niche,” after the software told him that “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” according to Wired.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/top-maga-influencer-emily-hart-revealed-to-be-ai-created-by-a-guy-in-india/

    Those pictures look very realistic for AI.

    • Shpip

      “Sam,” a 22-year-old orthopedic surgeon in training, told Wired that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school — and trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation.

      Sorry. Best we can do is an NHS posting in Liverpool.

      • rhywun

        Maybe MSNBDNC will snap him up.

    • rhywun

      He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said.

      They are so much smarter than dumb MAGA tards.

      Interesting that he’s using a fake name and not showing himself. I wouldn’t hire the asshole.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Cause the multitude of both Repub/Dems over the past couple of years that have fallen for AI slop only breaks one way. If you fell for it, you must be a secret MAGA.

    • Threedoor

      I hate crap memes like those.

      They are right about the boomer set speeding that garbage.

  12. Common Tater

    “A Texas cop was removed from her position over her offensive and racist remarks in a now-viral social media video.

    The Houston Police Department relieved Officer Ashley Gonzalez of duty pending an internal investigation into the alleged racist rant targeting “black people” posted on social media, Click2Houston reported on Tuesday.

    Gonzalez is accused of making multiple racial remarks in the social media post, proclaiming she “hates black people” and threatening to arrest any “black person” if they were at a call she was dispatched to, according to the clip shared by Grizzy’s Hood News.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/us-news/houston-police-officer-ashley-gonzalez-relieved-of-duty-after-racist-rant/

    She’s an idiot if she posted it herself.

  13. Evan from Evansville

    Yoyo yo, y’all. Just finished the “Conventions” (punctuation, ‘understandability’) part of Qualifying Assessment #2, as I nailed “Purpose /Organization” and “Development/ Elaboration” bits. They have an odd standard for this shit. All on a 0, 1 or 2 scale.

    Well. I’ve been doing more workout mornings (bunk activity, notwithstanding) and have noticed remarkable, positive shifts in the day when doing such. (Amphetamine salts also help!) The rest of the day should be quite calm and cakey.

    Do well today. Don’t let ass-grabbers getcha down. (Well. That may also be a positive development. I wish more ass-grabbers lived near me. Well. The young ‘n cute kind. I imagine Bavarian Witch ass-grabbers are fairly popular, but me no wanty.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Need a NSFW tag for the last line….

      • (((Jarflax

        It do be like that.

    • rhywun

      Holy crap that is funny

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I would barely be willing to attend one if you paid me $2,900.

      • (((Jarflax

        Hey the silk dress shirt he’s wearing in that picture is in fact blue and has a collar, so…

      • rhywun

        Everyone has known that act is fake for… how many decades now?

        I don’t pity any idiots throwing away their money on that ass.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Troubadour…just because you have access to a thesaurus, doesn’t mean you should use it especially when it doesn’t fit the subject.

    • The Other Kevin

      He knows his audience.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s as close to blue collar as that audience would ever want to get.

  14. Evan from Evansville

    Best English tshirt in Korea: Middle school student came in with a blue shirt, white outline of Virginia’s state lines. Dad’s from Abingdon, VA. But this kids shirt replaced the slogan with “Vagina Is for Lovers.”

    I lost it for a long, long time. Had to leave the room for a bit. Informed other teachers to be alert. Damn, that was solid side-splitter.

    • Not Adahn

      Was the kid in on the joke?

      • Evan from Evansville

        Absolutely not. It was like PacSun joke-shirts, but most importantly!! The shirt was in ENGLISH!!

        All sorts of madcappery, many examples you’ve seen, of bad or misinformed translations gone awry. It’s also a reason all KPop (I assume JPop as well, pretty much *requires* at least a small English verse or phrase. English is hot. They also require(d?) a bit of an ‘urban’ flavor as well.

      • Not Adahn

        I hope the kid wasn’t too embarrassed then. Are Korean kids easily embarrassed? I kind of got the impression they were.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Ha! I didn’t reveal shit to ’em. Had my laugh in the hall and went back in to continue as usual. The ‘hidden’ joke within the class made it much funnier. I let the other ex-pat teachers know about it, though.

        Korean kids are frightfully unsure of themselves. Imagine normal puberty in the 2010s (or ever), then put the kids in a Respect Culture where grades are *the* most important thing for kids. (Along w their other 3-4 non-English academies they had to go to.)

        Their conformity is frightening, where individuality isn’t ‘allowed.’ See also: Highest suicide rate in the developed world. Kinda ‘duh,’ sadly.

    • Pope Jimbo

      It wasn’t a t-shirt, but my favorite Korean/English thing was a sign in Itaewon (Seoul shopping district) store window that said

      Welcome American Brothers
      (Even Jungle Brothers)
      (Even Though Sometimes You Steal)

      Everyone took a lot of pics of that sign with our dark green Marine buddies. No one took offense because it was obvious that despite the terrible wording, the shop owner was actually trying to be inclusive.

      It was a lot like the 2A debates in the barracks. The dark green Marines were arguing that the line about stealing was about all the American Brothers. The bit about Jungle Bros wasn’t directly tied to the stealing. The light greens scoffed at that and said it was what it was.

      • Pope Jimbo

        This was in the back of every taxi when Mrs. Holiness and I were in Korea to get married back in ’92. This was a plastic sleeve that held a bunch of forms that passengers could fill out.

        The forms were to complain about a driver if there was any discomfort during the course of their trip.

        All the Americans in town for the wedding LOVED these signs. I might also have told Miss Soon To Be Mrs. Holiness that I would not be afraid to fill one out if I had to.

      • Threedoor

        Too funny.

  15. Common Tater

    “Tucker Carlson and his brother Buckley floated the wild claim that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are homosexuals on a recent podcast.

    While discussing Clinton, Buckley asked if the 2026 Democratic presidential nominee was ‘still with her girlfriend, who’s married to George Soros’s son.’

    Huma Abedin, Clinton’s ex-chief of staff and vice chairman of the 2016 presidential campaign, is the wife of Alex Soros, the son of the billionaire left-wing donor.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/media/article-15752347/Tucker-Carlson-Hillary-Clinton-Huma-Abedin.html

    SugarFree is Tucker’s brother?

    • R C Dean

      the 2026 Democratic presidential nominee

      *cocks head quizzically*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its the Fail, you expected something coherent?

    • rhywun

      Hasn’t Barry more or less admitted it already?

    • rhywun

      “Buckley”

      JFC that family is WASPy.

    • Threedoor

      Wild claim?
      That’s at least a decade old now.

  16. Common Tater

    “Has Hollywood turned its back on Sydney Sweeney? Star’s cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 is axed after American Eagle controversy and ‘infancy roleplay’ on Euphoria”

    https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15752315/Sydney-Sweeney-cut-Devil-Wears-Prada-2.html

    https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15754511/Hollywood-Sydney-Sweeney-cameo-Devil-Wears-Prada-2-axed-American-Eagle-controversy-roleplay-Euphoria.html

    Why do you hate America?

    • Grumbletarian

      “American Eagle controversy”

      There isn’t a ‘rolling eyes’ emoticon big enough.

  17. (((Jarflax

    On the Virginia redistricting. I kind of wonder if they may not have over reached with this map, not in the sense of it being a blatant political move, that part is obvious, but in the sense that Virginia is not a 65:35 State it’s a 51-55:45-49 State and going for a 10:1 split means the 10 districts can’t be all that safe.

    • R C Dean

      I think the problem they have is the referendum authorizes redistricting to make it more fair. The map they want to adopt doesn’t qualify.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The yes votes are about team and team only.

      • juris imprudent

        Consider who they elected as AG.

    • RAHeinlein

      All things considered – the vote was very close. And considering mail-in voting, other shenanigans, and the Dem machine putting this in motion with their base well before voting, the gap is even narrower than I would have expected.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Dont forget the totally not putting the finger on scale wording of the issue.

    • juris imprudent

      There is still the chance that the VA SC tanks the whole effort. I wouldn’t say it is much of a chance, but it is non-zero, maybe.

    • The Last American Hero

      That is why 5 of the districts all start bottled up in NOVA.

      • juris imprudent

        But they can’t be solidly Democratic – just D-leaning. It should be possible to win at least some of them, if not most, but it will take a serious effort.

      • EvilSheldon

        I think that you’re underestimating just how D-leaning northern VA (Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun) is.

      • juris imprudent

        They have to be spreading those votes pretty thin.

    • Threedoor

      What was the vote?
      As usual the article author dropped that important information.

  18. Common Tater

    “The Purple One’s descent into opioid addiction was also remarkably average. The long version could only have happened to Prince — he fell from an on-stage bathtub from which he planned to sing “Purple Rain” — but what came after was routine. A doctor prescribed him pain pills that are incredibly addictive, a cure that does nothing to address the underlying cause of chronic pain.

    “Most insurance … won’t pay for anything but a pill,” University of Cincinnati professor Judith Feinberg told the BBC in 2017. “The best thing is physical therapy, but no one will pay for that. So doctors get very ready to pull out the prescription pad.””

    https://www.salon.com/2026/04/21/prince-could-only-have-died-in-america/

    Because Prince couldn’t afford physical therapy?

    • R C Dean

      Well, insurance will pay for PT. In fact, current rules require opioids be used only as a last resort.

      The problem with PT is people won’t do it.

    • rhywun

      No one will pay for physical therapy? Nonsense.

    • rhywun

      *sees headline*

      OFFS never change, Salon.

      PS. I was on some opioid for a couple months last year. I don’t see how anyone can take that shit longer. Let’s just say the side effects are pretty awful.

    • Threedoor

      BS.

      Also.

      Hydrocodone should be OTC.

      • Common Tater

        Everything besides antibiotics should be OTC, but no TV advertising.

      • rhywun

        no TV advertising

        Oh no. No more Blue Chew commercials? How will I ever cope.

  19. Shpip

    Just a flash in the pan

    Terrifying moment small plane ploughs into power lines

    No word yet if the pilot was an Indian trying to scare away a monkey.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Van Buys Boulevard

      As someone who grew uo in Cali, I am struggling to find that street.

      Community activist, Roberto Brannagan…“This accident is an example of why this is not the place to have an airport,” he said.

      “We can’t just continue to live like this until we have something worse and worse happening.”

      Ah, just happened to be around for an interview or do reporters have these people in their phones ready to give ridiculous quotes?

      Never mind that airport was there since 1946…

      • Not Adahn

        I’m pretty sure I told this story about how my nosy neighbor was trying to get my gun club shut down and she literally said “they say they were here first, but this is a neighborhood now.”

    • Threedoor

      “Community activist, Roberto Brannagan, told NBC 4 incidents like these were why residents want the airport closed in the “highly ubanized” location.”

      GFYS

      • Ownbestenemy

        I wouldn’t even double-take if they ran with that.

      • Not Adahn

        Obviously! Pollutants are heavier than air, so they increase in concentration the lower in the air column you are! Plus the whole square/cube issue means the same amount of pollutant has more of an effect on their wee, delicate, still-undeveloped lungs!

      • Threedoor

        We learned from
        Covid that you can take your mask off when you sit down because the air lower is safer.

        Now I’m very confused.

      • UnCivilServant

        3door – that’s the difference between viruses and pollution. Viruses fly higher.

    • rhywun

      And if there is anything proven beyond a shadow of a doubt over the last few years, it’s the infallibility of experts.

  20. Shpip

    Bigly if true

    A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

    Probably could’ve been eradicated decades ago if Africans would (a) wear shoes and (b) install modern water infrastructure. But, y’know… Africa.

    • UnCivilServant

      You dare expect the unfortunate oppressed peoples of color to give up their traditional lifeways in favor of hygene and improved standards of living?

    • Not Adahn

      Why are you disrupting the natural ecosystem and driving a species into extinction??

      *sobs into patchouli-scented hemp handkerchief*

      • UnCivilServant

        Because it’s a disgusting parasitical worm.

      • Ownbestenemy

        AKA, the average American voter?

      • Fourscore

        Jimmy Carter was all over that. Had he been re-elected he’d have moved Guinea and isolated it into extinction.

        /Fourscore remembers

  21. Evan from Evansville

    Pie’s got some ‘spainin’ to do:
    “BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A priceless golden helmet dating back 2,500 years was returned to Romania on Tuesday after the national heirloom was stolen from a Dutch museum where it was on loan last year.

    The ornate Cotofenesti helmet and three golden bracelets — some of Romania’s most revered national treasures from the Dacia civilization — were taken from the Drents Museum in January 2025 in a raid which shocked the art world and devastated Romanian authorities.”
    https://apnews.com/article/romania-netherlands-museum-golden-helmet-94d78095bc410a3dd69d8bc0c490d0ff

  22. The Other Kevin

    Tuley’s take on SPLC: https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/22/the-southern-poverty-law-center-indictment-can-public-interest-groups-run-alleged-black-bag-jobs-and-confidential-informants/

    At issue is whether the Center’s secret operations to enlist and pay informers constituted fraud of its donors.

    “F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance and C. served as an F for the SPLC for more than 20 years. F-9’s activities included fundraising for the National Alliance. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-9 more than $1,000,000.00. In 2014, F-9 entered the headquarters of a violent extremist group and stole 25 boxes of their documents. F-9 coordinated payment for the copying of the materials with a high-level SPLC employee who had knowledge the documents had been stolen. The original stolen materials were returned to the violent extremist group in a second illegal entry by F-9.”

    So this is not a clear cut case in either direction, and whatever happens will set some precedent.

    • Not Adahn

      IIRC, cops can’t hire private organizations to get around 4A.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Flock laughs

      • juris imprudent

        But they can buy that data, which is only proprietary, not private!

  23. Shpip

    We discussed this stock in the AM Lynx sometime last week. Here’s an update:

    What happened: GE Vernova (GEV) stock jumped 8% on Wednesday morning, on pace to extend its year-to-date rally of more than 50%.

    Why the stock is moving: The company’s quarterly results beat analyst expectations, and the gas turbine maker raised its outlook for several of its metrics.

    The article is a little outdated. GEV is now up 13.5% for the day.

    I bought 230 shares back in December. Now I wish I’d picked up 2300.

    • Threedoor

      I have 4.
      It split off from regular GE a few years ago. Never bought more.

      Avis went wild. I sold Monday at 500. Hit 800 today. Whoops. At least I’m up a ton from when I bought.

  24. Common Tater

    “While it won’t come as news to most that, compared with women, men litter more, recycle less, and leave a bigger carbon footprint There’s something more extreme than simple thoughtlessness causing young men, in a form of anti-environmental protest known as “rolling coal”, to modify the diesel engines on their pickup trucks to deliberately belch large amounts of grey-black exhaust, and then run Priuses and bicyclists off the road….

    What connects the dots here is something more unhinged and tangled: a hyper-aggressive, oil-soaked version of toxic masculinity known as “petro-masculinity”. And it’s crucial to understanding why we as a society are failing to rally behind a shared ecological vision.

    Coined by political scientist Cara Daggett in a 2018 paper, “petro-masculinity” describes a pernicious fusion between fossil fuel use, climate change denial, and defense of authoritarian white patriarchal masculinity. Noting how fossil fuel extraction and consumption are coded “masculine”, while environmentalism and green technology are coded soft, weak and “feminine”; it tracks how insecure men are increasingly leaning in to a petro-masculine identity in order to assert traditional masculine authority in the face of climate change, threats to traditional extractive industries, and changing social norms.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/masculinity-gender-climate-crisis

    Pictured is known oil baron Andrew Tate.

      • Not Adahn

        As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans.

        I forgive you all your Nietzschean derp for bringing us this gloriously entertaining derp.

      • Common Tater

        “As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work—will we be able to confront the Anthropocene’s energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled.”

        I can’t wait for her slam poetry jam about James Watt and the Labor Theory of Value.

      • (((Jarflax

        Newton used his knowledge of the Qabala to impose the laws of Thermodynamics on the previously unconstrained Universe of Colour.

      • rhywun

        transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work

        Fuck off, commie.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If it wasn’t for the development of mechanical energy (of which fossil fuels are a huge part), slavery would still be the norm.

        As soon as engines became better than human power, slavery was no longer needed.

        You don’t need millions of slaves to build your pyramid when you have huge bulldozers and cranes.

      • rhywun

        We laugh at this idiocy but unfortunately, a lot of very smaaahht people take this garbage seriously.

      • juris imprudent

        Full professor at Virginia Tech.

      • Common Tater

        Can we get another shooting?

    • Not Adahn

      This is why Axe is made from petroleum products, right?

    • Common Tater

      “Using a range of approaches from Earth Day sermons to religious pamphlet-style comic books, the effort suggests that “God made it obvious where He wants us to get our energy from”: not from the poisonous hell-fire below, but from the sun and wind in the heavenly skies above. Once seen, this allegory is hard to unsee. And if moral and cosmological alignment with God now has more pull than some perceived threat to their masculinity from “feminine” renewables, then some men might shift.”

      WTF am I reading?

      • UnCivilServant

        “The Devil can cite scripture for his own purposes.”

      • rhywun

        The lunatic ravings of a broken mind.

        Love the side quotes from various good-guy betas. JFC who reads this crap?!

    • Threedoor

      I want to pour gasoline on these people.

  25. Nephilium

    In local news:

    ‘Horrific’: Ex-employee says Guardians’ food vendor tolerated discrimination:

    During her time at Sportservice, the plaintiff said her fellow kitchen workers asked her if she put spells on people or if Haitians eat rodents, cats and lizards. They accused her of worshipping the devil and called Haitians “savages,” according to the complaint.

    Since the article doesn’t mention, I have a guess as to the ethnicity of the “fellow kitchen workers”.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    By now, I’m sure that the story about Ilhan Omar not being a millionaire anymore is clearly in the drugs/ass phase.

    What I’d like any fucking journalo to do is track down the accounting firm (firms?) and get them on the record for this fiasco.

    Seems to me that screwing up this badly would be a huge black eye for any firm. I’d also bet that Omar is too cheap to pay them off for their silence. She’s the kind of arrogant dolt that would think that they should clam up out of loyalty to her.

    At least name the accounting firm in the stories. Warn other potential clients away from them.

    * Also, if I was the IRS I’d be auditing all their clients. If they did such crappy work for Omar, I bet they were equally incompetent for other clients (and I wonder if those other clients are equally shady).

    • rhywun

      I think it’s more likely that she is lying – because she is an inveterate liar – and the amended disclosure is a bit a fraud that nobody will investigate because reasons.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Still get the new auditors who came up with the amended disclosure all about it.

        Name them. If it is the same group, have them explain it themselves, not take Omar’s explanation about it. You know, go to the primary source and get the straight scoop.

      • UnCivilServant

        They don’t exist Jimbo.

        She’s just lying.

      • rhywun

        All of that probably makes her more popular with her idiot voters.

    • Common Tater

      “An amended filing reviewed by The Wall Street Journal showed Omar and her husband’s assets between $18,004 and $95,000 — much less than her earlier disclosure, which estimated their assets to be valued between $6 million and $30 million.”

      So between one number and five times as much?

      • Threedoor

        How can you have that few in assets and make a minimum of $200k a year?

      • UnCivilServant

        A cocaine and gambling habit?

        But no, she’s a liar.

    • Common Tater

      “Across the world, groups of activists, teachers and psychologists are tackling one of the world’s most daunting problems — human-caused climate change — with laughter, dancing, hugs and most especially joy.”

      Engineering is too masculine.

    • Not Adahn

      This is an annual story in Albany.

      Also, NY “harvests” the largest amount of black bears in the country. Oddly enough, I never see any locally-sourced ushankas in the markets.

      • R.J.

        Well that’s a shame. You would think if there was a harvest there would be all kinds of neat stuff.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A ushanka bearly keeps your ears warm.

      • R.J.

        You could buy actual bear claws to shred BBQ pork.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Hang in there, baby!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sure. Way to flaunt his 4 paw privilege! Won’t anyone think of the 3-legged bears?

      A young black bear dubbed Stubby, who had its front right leg amputated, is back in the wild.
       
      The bear, spotted out of hibernation too early in Pequot Lakes, underwent surgery in late February when a doctor found a bullet in his leg. Recovery from the amputation took longer than expected, but recently the bear climbed a tree, to the surprise of animal rescue workers. They knew he could make it on his own.

      Italics mine. Does that make any sense to the rest of you? They were surprised at something they knew it could do?

      Also, I’d love to know how much we spent on this. Fucking bears are nearly as numerous as squirrels and white tails. Will Fourscore be happy when tax dollars paid to have one more bear to rob his hives?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    They accused her of worshipping the devil and called Haitians “savages,” according to the complaint.

    Haitians, savages?

    • rhywun

      My second thought after “none of this happened” was “it was some friendly ribbing the kind of which happens in any close group and everyone knew that” which she decided to weaponize later.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    The article is a little outdated. GEV is now up 13.5% for the day.

    I bought 230 shares back in December. Now I wish I’d picked up 2300.

    My dead money GE! Moldering away in my portfolio for literally decades, and now it’s actually worth something?

    Once again, procrastination and inattention pay off.

    • Threedoor

      I wish I had paid less attention to Avis last weak.

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