ZARDOZ TUESDAY AFTERNOON LINKS

A PROPER COSTUME

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE FLORIDA CHOSEN ONE IS STUCK IN THE LAND OF THE ICE AND THE SNOW. ZARDOZ HAS USED HIS MIGHTY POWERS TO APPEAR, AND TO DO THE LINKS IN THE AFTERNOON! I AM SURE THE CHOSEN ONES ARE SUITABLY IMPRESSED. THEREFOR, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

  • ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE THIS ESCALATES! PERHAPS A SMALL SCALE NUCLEAR EXCHANGE?! THAT WOULD RESULT IN A LEGENDARY CLEANSING OF BRUTALS.
  • PAGING SEA SMITH. MR. SEA SMITH, PLEASE PICK UP THE RED COURTESY PHONE. WAIT…PERHAPS HE ALREADY IS THERE, AND IT IS HE, NOT THE “WIND” CAUSING THIS.
  • ZARDOZ SUSPECTS THE “LUCKY CHARM” WAS NOT SO LUCKY. PERHAPS IT WAS LUCKY FOR THE BOMB MAKER?
  • AGREED. AS THE PENIS IS EVIL, THE RECORDINGS OF SUCH SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED!

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Comments

295 responses to “ZARDOZ TUESDAY AFTERNOON LINKS”

  1. Old Man With Candy

    Really, who wants to see Kraft’s dick anyway?

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Everybody has a price.

    2. Bobarian LMD

      You aren’t curious to see “Little Tommy”?

    3. Tundra

      Kraft himself?

    4. Rule 34 implies somebody does.

    5. J. Frank Parnell

      Dick? I thought its first name was Oscar.

    6. Count Potato

      That sounds cheesy.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Yeah, but it’s not real cheese.

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          It self-identifies as cheese and that makes it real cheese, shitlord.

          1. Spudalicious

            So Velveeta and American Cheese are cheese?

          2. Jarflax

            Their pronouns are bleh and blah

    7. bacon-magic

      Heard it can fit 6 rings on it.

  2. Juvenile Bluster

    The Chapo Trap House bunch is turning on AOC because she made a post that wasn’t fully deferential to Maduro and Venezuela.

    That makes me smile.

    1. SugarFree

      Those idiots make 80K a month cranking out that drivel.

      1. Chipwooder

        I’m sure they give it all back to the people, though, because all good comrades know that profits are wrong.

        1. pan fried wylie

          With rent this damn high? Shirley you jest.

    2. Spartacus

      We need to make a secret deal with Cuba to withdraw their support.
      The only reason Maduro is still afloat is because of his cuban bodyguards and the “advisors” embedded everywhere.

      I bet that, for the right price, Cuba would quietly bring home their people, and once they are gone the regime won’t last a week.

  3. Bobarian LMD

    FAKE NEWS — SEA SMITH NEVER PREVENT DOCKING. SEA SMITH CAUSE DOCKING.

  4. LJW

    Ocasio-Cortez blasts GOP senator for quoting Mussolini

    Another reason why you should never post on Twitter. The mainstream media will misrepresent your post and morons like AOC will believe it.

    1. commodious spittoon

      She has a head full of cupcake batter.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Unfortunately, she’s preaching to people with heads full of confectioners’ sugar. God, what a stupid time to be alive.

      2. Negroni Please

        Damn it. Now I want cupcakes.

        1. pan fried wylie

          “…all they hear is ‘cupcakes’, and they ALL want cupcakes.”

          1. Spudalicious

            Hey?!? Where’s my cupcake?

  5. The Other Kevin

    The photo in that last link shows the outside of the massage place, and it lists “Table Shower” as a service. Do I even want to know what that is?

    1. LJW

      There might be a description in the Trump dossier.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        But who wants the facial treatment? It’s vegan.

        /Blame HM

    2. Tres Cool

      Sounds german for some reason….

  6. mexican sharpshooter

    •ZARDOZ SUSPECTS THE “LUCKY CHARM” WAS NOT SO LUCKY. PERHAPS IT WAS LUCKY FOR THE BOMB MAKER?

    They’re always after me lucky charms.

    1. Old Man With Candy

      C’mon, they ARE magically delicious.

    2. Bobarian LMD

      Magically delicious?

      1. Old Man With Candy

        Too slow.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Did you even click his link?

          1. Old Man With Candy

            Don’t dismiss my lived experience.

          2. mexican sharpshooter

            Did you even click his link?

            C’mon, we all knew what it was.

    3. Tundra

      Great scene.

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ah, the only movie with a Tom Arnold appearance worth seeing.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        How dare you. True Lies is the best action movie of the 1990s.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          Whoops, I forgot about that one. You are correct, that was a good movie, although I’d go with Terminator 2 being the best 90s action flick.

          1. Negroni Please

            No. Literally ever Jean Claude Van Damme movie is the greatest 90’s action flick.

            Except for Bloodsport because it is the greatest 80’s action flick.

          2. Chipwooder

            Does Heat count as an action movie? Because if it does, that’s my vote.

          3. Negroni Please

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(1972_film)

            that’s an…interesting choice…

          4. Tundra

            Ronin is a pretty goddamn good movie.

          5. mexican sharpshooter

            No. Heat is an awesome 10 minute gunfight surrounded by 3 hours of Al Pacino fellating himself.

            Hooooaaaaaah

          6. Chipwooder

            Nah, he’s only gently fondling himself in that one, which is why it works. It’s nowhere near Devil’s Advocate territory.

            Ronin is a good choice.

        2. Ayn Random Variation

          Fake news. Demolition Man is the answer.

        3. Evan from Evansville

          [Upon hearing that Jamie Lee Curtis is cheating on Arnold]

          “Same thing happened to me with wife number two, remember? I had no idea nothing was going on. I come home, and the house is empty. I mean, completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?”

          Best movie ever. And also True Lies/Wayne’s World-era Tia Carrere is very much in the running for Most Beautiful Woman Possible. She and Monica Bellucci make the finals….and I’d love to be able to devise the challenges needed to separate them at the podium.

          …I can be very, very creative.

      2. mexican sharpshooter

        Not even McHale Navy? Cmon man.

  7. Drake

    The wind going through northern NJ on Sunday night was pretty wild. I woke up on several occasions wondering if my windows were going to hold together.

  8. PAGING SEA SMITH. MR. SEA SMITH, PLEASE PICK UP THE RED COURTESY PHONE.

    Speaking of high winds, they were originally going to put a docking mast for dirigibles atop the Empire State Building, but high winds put the kibosh on that.

    1. Gadfly

      Technically they did build the mast (the spire on the top of the building), they just only used it for this purpose once before realizing it was a bad idea.

      1. pan fried wylie

        “Cmon, who wouldn’t relish the opportunity to (dis)embark an unstable balloon a hundred stories above the pavement? Bunch a killjoys…”

  9. grrizzly

    LOL. Woman accused of knocking off man’s MAGA hat in Falmouth taken into ICE custody.

    A woman who was charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery after she was caught on camera accosting a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat at a Falmouth restaurant has been taken into ICE custody after officials determined she was in the U.S. illegally.

    1. Chipwooder

      I love a storybook ending.

      1. Sean

        #metoo

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      Life lesson: Never commit two crimes at once.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        What fun is a DUI if you’re not driving on the wrong side of the road?

        1. Jarflax

          Is that more or less fun than the DUI three way with Asian hookers that ends up crashed in the ditch?

          1. Sean

            Try to not crash while getting road head.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      Seriously. Where do they come off doing that?

      They’re not even a fricken citizen.

      1. Not Adahn

        In the car, police found 17 empty Corona cans and one empty Modelo can. When moving the 7-year-old to an ambulance, EMTs noticed something protruding from under her sweatshirt. Prosecutors said it was a full can of Modelo beer.

        See, this is the kind of attention to detail that is far too often absent in modern journalism.

    4. Endless Mike

      I’ve forgotten – what type of prizes are available for the playing of the stupid games?

      1. A supply of Lee press-on nails and Rice-a-Roni?

  10. J. Frank Parnell

    Today in Poe’s Law:

    As a new comedian working the circuit, I’m appalled at disgusting ‘jokes’ creeping back into the industry
    I thought it was Titania McGrath or Godfrey Elfwick, but apparently it isn’t…

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen

      Speaking as a person of colour in an irredeemably racist culture, I’m sick of being accused of hypersensitivity by straight white men who are blind to their own privilege. What makes them believe that comedy should just be for them?

      That’s as far as I read. I think I read too much.

      1. Yeah, that was where I tapped out, too.

        1. robc

          Tritto.

      2. Chipwooder

        How does their existence mean “comedy should just be for them”? Tell whatever jokes you want. That’s the entire point. Their jokes don’t mean you can’t tell whatever jokes you want, you simpering pussy.

      3. Gadfly

        You should’ve kept going, it gets better:

        At a university gig in Cardiff I once saw a comedian wrap a towel around his head, make faux-Arabic noises, and claim that he was preparing for a BBC internship. I believe in freedom of speech, but I am also adult enough to recognise that this freedom does not extend to making public events unsafe for vulnerable members of society.

        The battle for equality will not be won by activists alone. We all need to play our part. Sometimes this will mean risking the accusation of being a “prude” or a “killjoy”, but this is surely a price worth paying.

        LOL

        1. Chipwooder

          “unsafe”

          “I was lucky to escape with my life – he was telling JOKES!!!!”

        2. Dr. Fronkensteen

          “this freedom does not extend to making public events unsafe for vulnerable members of society.”

          He’d be right if he was saying the radical Muslims will blow up the place if the comedian kept that up and thereby making it unsafe for the people there.

      4. kinnath

        Great comedy is transgressive.

        SJWs beg to be transgressed.

        1. Spudalicious

          I’m a transgressphobic.

    2. Chipwooder

      Modern England is a fucking worthless place.

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Comedians who try to get other comedians prosecuted for hate speech violations are truly the lowest of the low.

      1. Chipwooder

        And they are invariably unfunny. I watched a bit of that ridiculously overhyped Nanette bullshit. It’s not funny. Like, not even a chuckle.

    4. Playa Manhattan

      I hate to be the one to tell that guy, but he’s not a comedian and he never will be.

    5. Count Potato

      ““Alt-right comedy” might sound like an oxymoron, but the immense popularity of internet “sh*tposters” such as PewDiePie and Sargon of Akkad has persuaded some comedians that there is money to be made from belittling social justice.”

      How the fuck are either of those people alt-right? Never mind that “social justice” is deserving of ridicule. Don’t want to be ridiculed? Then stop being ridiculous.

      1. Chipwooder

        And they aren’t comedians either for that matter.

        1. Count Potato

          PewDiePie is sort of a comedian.

          1. Chipwooder

            Maybe you could consider him a humorist, but not a comedian I don’t think. Someone like, say, PJ O’Rourke writes funny stuff, but he doesn’t get up on a stage and tell jokes.

          2. Count Potato

            That’s what I meant. PewDiePie makes comedy, but he’s not a stand-up comic.

      2. Pan Zagloba

        How the fuck are either of those people alt-right?

        They are not. Note that cleverly xe never called Sargon “alt-right”. Xe just connected him to alt-right in your mind without doing anything slanderous or technically inaccurate.

    6. Fatty Bolger

      “New comedian”? Can somebody please explain to this guy that comedians are supposed to be funny?

    7. Endless Mike

      Hey, unintentionally funny is still funny! 7/10. Needs more fart jokes.

    8. Rufus the Monocled

      ‘Reduced anxiety’ comedy? JFC.

      “…Speaking as a person of colour in an irredeemably racist culture,”

      There you go. Never apologize. They already packed it in. It’s settled: Racist!

      “I’m sick of being accused of hypersensitivity by straight white men who are blind to their own privilege. What makes them believe that comedy should just be for them?”

      How about shutting the fuck up and changing the channel?

      Dipshit.

      Now go be funny. I doubt you can even if you tried.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        “irredeemably”

        So why should anyone bother?

    9. The Bearded Hobbit

      “They all laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. Well they’re not laughing now!”

      Or

      “You’re a comedian? Don’t make me laugh”

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Call it off.

    Game shooting is a niche but passionately pursued pastime in Britain, with leading shoots charging tens of thousands of pounds for a weekend. The industry also attracts wealthy foreign visitors to England and Scotland for the game seasons.

    Yet about 40 percent of the pheasants and nine in every 10 of the partridges shot in Britain are imported, nearly all from France, where exporters specialise in breeds that are popular in Britain, such as ring-neck pheasants and red-legged partridges.

    The birds are exported between March and June as eggs or day-old chicks and reared on British farms or on country estates before being released to the wild for shooting when the season opens: Sept. 1 for partridge and Oct. 1 for pheasant.

    ———–

    The UK Game Farmers’ Association (GFA) hopes that chicks will be allowed to be “fast-tracked” through border arrangements. But French exporters who have made such requests said the French farm ministry has not yet approved them.

    The number of game bird chicks available in the UK next season would eventually depend on transport conditions, British game officials say.

    “Laws on both sides of the Channel will rightly prevent any transport movements that have an adverse impact on animal welfare,” a GFA spokesman said.

    Customs inspections will delay the shipments, they say. I’m not sure why those chicks would be unable to survive for a few extra hours. It’s not like they need to be bottle fed. And, of course, the irony of worrying about “animal cruelty” in the case of birds specifically imported to be shot (at) can’t go unnoticed.

    Just one more reason to oppose Brexit. Or, a business opportunity for English hatcheries.

    1. Spudalicious

      That’s just what I thought. Brexit creates jobs and a niche market. France loses money because the EU is a dick.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    She has a head full of cupcake batter.

    Too substantial. I’d say meringue.

    1. Ayn Random Variation

      She’s pretty representative of a typical NYC millennial. She just happens to be in the public eye. The stuff she vomits up can be heard on any bus or bar or break room.

  13. J. Frank Parnell

    Everyone Who’s Never Read A History Book Shocked As Socialist Turns Into Authoritarian At First Whiff Of Power

    “Wow, a socialist who was elected on her promises to work ‘for the people’ is suddenly telling everyone she’s in charge and they have to listen to her? That’s really weird,” said one man in Portland who dropped his world history class in high school. “I would have thought socialists never suddenly transform into power-hungry maniacs as soon as they get their first high from telling people what to do.”

    “It’s just, I’ve never heard of that happening in the past, say, 100 years or so,” he added before he had to return to his Starbucks shift, wrapping his work apron around his hammer and sickle T-shirt.

    1. Spartacus

      I knew that had to be Babylon Bee because (i) it’s satire and (ii) it’s actually funny.

      1. robc

        My first guess used to be The Onion. Now it is the Bee.

    2. Fatty Bolger

      Excellent

    3. Ayn Random Variation

      Instead of the hammer and sickle, their new symbol should be a pen and a phone.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      My grandma’s advice to me about dating girls in college:

      Bring them home and dunk them in the pool. If they’re wearing makeup at the pool, they have something to hide.

      1. Tonio

        Tell Granny that they now have this thing called waterproof makeup. I saw some bankrat yoots once push their girl into a Class 4 rapid once. We (kayakers) were anticipating an obligatory and nasty rescue. Surprisingly she made it through and bobbed up with overstuffed bikini and makeup intact. The bitching out she gave the yoots was a thing of beauty to behold. We cheered her on.

    2. The Other Kevin

      It seems like she’s been on that Thailand holiday for a long time. Or she goes once a week.

      1. Count Potato

        It’s better than spending February in England.

    3. Bobarian LMD

      That is a billboard for butt-enhancement surgery.

    4. Spudalicious

      I WANT EVERYONE TO TAKE NOTE THAT IT IS COUNT POTATO, NOT SPUD, WHO POSTS THESE PICTURES.

      Of course her pal helped with the sunscreen. There’s too much ass there for one person to cover the whole thing.

      1. prolefeed

        She has a nice ass now. Her asian friend might age better.

    5. Evan from Evansville

      So….just so I’m clear….she doles out sexual favors to photogs or Daily Mail floozies in order to stay in the ‘public’ eye? That’s how all of these things work, and how they will always work, yeah?

      She actually looks lovely in that first picture. Less accentuating thicc.

      Someone here said something once along the lines of “Any position that has a huge demand and requires few skills other than being photogenic, the final decision for the post is always made on the casting couch.”

      I have no problem with a person using their assets and strengths to further their careers. It’s how everyone else does it. What’s the difference?

  14. Playa Manhattan

    If India and Pakistan cause a nuclear winter, does that mean we can stop worrying about global warming?

    1. Negroni Please

      Do you want anthropogenic climate change? Cuz that’s how you get anthopogenic climate change.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      I’ve been getting robocalls from the county for a month about attending a town hall on school safety with the School Board. It was just as big a clusterfuck as I figured it would be:

      https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-ne-town-hall-safety-taravella-20190225-story.html

      tl;dr: The school board did nothing wrong in the run up to and following the Parkland shooting. If you think they did, you’re racist.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        *shoots self*

      2. Chipwooder

        So it was a pep rally, basically.

      3. Count Potato

        “Several black churches brought buses to take people to the meeting.”

        Why? What does black have to with it?

        1. Juvenile Bluster

          Runcie is the first black superintendent of Broward County schools. That’s pretty much why.

          Also why there was no outcry when Sheriff Israel was suspended and replaced with the county’s first black Sheriff (and why not? It worked in Blazing Saddles!) (ok but seriously, I’m not saying there should’ve been outcry, because nobody deserves to be shitcanned more than Sheriff Israel)

      4. Count Potato

        “When one woman complained about the controversial Promise program and accused the district of missing warning signs about the Stoneman Douglas killer, a Runcie supporter shouted out, “Oh come on! Get the politics out of it!””

        Good luck with that.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Well, I hate to tell you this, but that’s not actually what we do.

    An illuminating moment of the Federal Reserve’s first town hall-style meeting with community development leaders in Dallas on Monday came near the end of the session.

    An audience member wondered whether the U.S. central bank might provide funds for a bus service to ferry workers across town to a cluster of higher-paying jobs.

    Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan said he often talked with his Fed colleagues about such “structural issues” like inadequate transportation that shackle the U.S. economy.

    Do these discussions “turn into dollars?” the questioner asked.

    The answer: Well, no.

    There are no stupid questions. Just stupid people asking them.

  16. Count Potato

    “‘I have a dream that these award shows will not be male and female’: Lady Gaga calls for the Oscars to be non-gender specific”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6744603/I-hope-awards-not-male-female-Lady-Gaga-calls-Oscars-non-gender.html

    She has a point. It’s acting, not athletics.

    1. Negroni Please

      I have a dream that these award show will not fucking exist.

      1. LJW

        But but then the elitists who play pretend for a living won’t have a way to quench their unending thirst for attention, plus they need the platform to social signal.

      2. Certified Public Asshat

        I know it's hard for the general public to understand why we have all these awards shows, but try to understand that we don't get much recognition nor enjoy many perks, and we are pretty poorly compensated. So please bear with us.— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) February 25, 2019

        1. Tundra

          I’ll go get the Solarcaine.

        2. LJW

          That’s awesome. Clearly his comment flew over the heads of multiple people.

          Best response:

          “TH_S _S S_RC_SM”

          Would you like to buy a vowel?

          1. Certified Public Asshat

            His twitter feed is a close second to Iowahawk, IMO.

          2. Chipwooder

            Can’t leave McAfee off that list

          3. Ayn Random Variation

            Haha. I just found out I’m 2 years away from being able to join a Senior bowling league.
            That really hurt for a second

          4. whiz

            Hey, embrace it like I do. I am a senior discount whore.

          5. Ayn Random Variation

            N_gger

          6. Jarflax

            Kiss it. apologize, kiss it.

      3. Drake

        They don’t at my house.

    2. Chipwooder

      Fine by me, but I suspect her brethren might not like halving the number of acting awards handed out.

    3. LJW

      I think they should do awards for all 63 genders. Then the Oscars could be a week long event!

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Fabulous!!!!!

      2. Chipwooder

        And the nominees for Best Performance by an Otherkin in a Supporting Role, the nominees are….

    4. The first time there’s a minority of bevulvaed nominees, the REEEEEEEING is going to be epic.

      (The Grammys went through that last year.)

      1. Tonio

        “Bevulvaed” is my new favorite word.

    5. Fourscore

      Best performance by a non-binding – non-gender specific caricature plant award?

  17. Titty Tuesday bounces on!

    http://archive.is/Z9HR7

    These ladies’ guns are good.

    1. Chipwooder

      71 looks like a dude

      1. prolefeed

        19 has great … hair …

      2. Spudalicious

        Whoa! I thought 4 had a package. I’m partial to 7.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Do we have any for real (pen/ink/paper) artists in our motley band of malcontents?

    I had an idea, earlier, which I cannot bring to fruition, so I offer it freely and without let or hindrance to anyone who can.

    I want to see a drawing, in the style of a late 19th century editorial cartoon, with plenty of labels, of a team of men in harness, pulling a wagon being ridden in by the usual Democratic Socialist suspects. Gulag Barbie, of course should be prominently featured, whip in hand.

    Caption (one man speaking to another): “Well, I guess the yoke’s on us.”

    *Yoke clearly labelled, “Democratic Socialism”

    1. Peter Bagge to the white courtesy phone….

    1. PBRstreetgang

      White privilege, duh.

    2. Drake

      What suspect?

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Alleged suspect.

    3. Fatty Bolger

      They’re still having his award plaque made and want it to be a surprise.

  19. Certified Public Asshat

    AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans

    DON’T BELIEVE ME? Take Ocasio-Cortez’s signature issue: the Green New Deal. Former George W. Bush speechwriter — and torture advocate — Marc Thiessen claims that the Green New Deal will “make the Democrats unelectable in 2020.” The Economist agrees: “The bold plan could make the party unelectable in conservative-leaning states.” The Green New Deal “will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here and tell them,” a testy Diane Feinstein, the senior and supposedly “moderate” Democratic senator from California, told a bunch of kids in a viral video.

    But here is the reality: The Green New Deal is extremely popular and has massive bipartisan support. A recent survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University found that a whopping 81 percent of voters said they either “strongly support” (40 percent) or “somewhat support” (41 percent) the Green New Deal, including 64 percent of Republicans (and even 57 percent of conservative Republicans).

    We’re all living in a centrist world now.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Arab/Muslim seem to take to socialism. Up here, many join socialist and left-wing parties.

    2. LJW

      I read the comments now I can’t go back.Leftists love to bring Hitler up a lot. And they unsurprisingly don’t know a lot about the guy. They think they do, but they don’t.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        They’re projecting and don’t realize it. That’s the frightening part.

    3. Juvenile Bluster

      If Bernie and AOC are the “moderate middle”, what the fuck is the left?

    4. Tonio

      Sure, whatever. “Somewhat support” means they like the sound of it or perhaps some features of it but their support may change in the face of competing, moderate proposals or debate which exposes the batshit-crazy nature of the thing.

      1. Ayn Random Variation

        Survey question:
        Measures should be taken to ensure that everyone receives a Living Wage, free child care, free health care, affordable housing, and a comprehensive, sustainable, common sense, gender neutral green future.

        Check One:
        I Agree
        I somewhat agree
        I’m a Racist.

        1. Jarflax

          Does the SMOD count as a ‘measure’?

        2. J. Frank Parnell

          Probably not that specific, more like:

          The Earth – home to cute children, kitties, and puppies – should be saved rather than destroyed.

          * Strongly agree
          * Somewhat agree
          * I’m a racist Nazi who wants to kill children, kitties, and puppies.

    5. Fatty Bolger

      Ah, yes. Exactly how Obamacare had massive public support. You just had to squint correctly while reading the polls.

    6. Ayn Random Variation

      Nobody I know voted for Nixon

  20. Count Potato

    “Across the U.S. transgender athletes are breaking barriers in high school, college, and pro sports and being embraced by teammates and fans. But resentments can still flare when transgender women start winning and dominating their sport.”

    https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1100318577427705856

    “Trans athletes make great gains, yet resentment still flares
    “As soon as they start winning, that’s when the vitriol comes out about how they’re really still a man.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-athletes-make-great-gains-yet-resentment-still-flares-n975646

    1. PBRstreetgang

      And by “breaking barriers” I mean “crossing the finish line ahead of all the girls”.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      While the trend in the U.S. clearly has been toward more inclusion for transgender athletes, USA Powerlifting has incurred recent criticism for sticking by its policy of banning trans women from its competitions. The organization contends that regardless of testosterone levels, transgender women competitors generally have significant advantages in regard to bone density and muscle mass.

      “These traits, even with reduced levels of testosterone do not go away,” the organization said. “While MTF [male-to-female] may be weaker and less muscle than they once were, the biological benefits given them at birth still remain over that of a female.”

      It beggars belief that there are people that deny this as being true.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Yet you’re a science-denying Neanderthal if you suggest that spending anywhere in the ballpark of $100 trillion on climate change prevention is unwise.

        (Especially unwise when the costs of climate change at the hundred year mark, at least that I recall, are only 3-4% global GDP. Has anyone worked out what the cost of burning $93 trillion dollars over the next ten years would be in 2100 dollars?)

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Burning that many dollars is gonna cause some warming.

        2. pan fried wylie

          Trick Question, as the dollar will cease to exist by 2037.

        3. Jarflax

          Has anyone worked out what the cost of burning $93 trillion dollars over the next ten years would be in 2100 dollars?)

          I believe it works out to all of them. If they pass the green new deal there will not be a United States in 2100, unless it is a new nation forged from the ashes of this one.

      2. Certified Public Asshat

        Per google, it looks like women have just recently been breaking into the 600s for wr deadlift.

        1. Tundra

          A buddy of mine pulled over 600lbs at age 68.

    3. The Other Kevin

      Forget about all that hard work and sacrifice you made to get to the top of your sport. You have a chance to show how woke you are!

    4. Chipwooder

      Hey, remember when a random local U15 team in England beat the Australian national women’s team 7-0? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

      Or when a low-ranked man who was described as “a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager” strolled onto a court after playing a round of golf and downing a few beers and smoked each of the Williams sisters 6-1 and 6-2?

      1. robc

        US HS boys teams regularly smoked the US women’s national team by double digits.

      2. Karsten Braasch for the win.

    5. robc

      Simple fix: drop Mens/Boys/Womens/Girls titles and switch to XX and XY as the event titles. Transgender, whatever, we don’t care, we won’t title it a men’s event, we will title it a “contains a Y chromosome” event (that instead of XY to handle the odd case of XXY).

      1. Count Potato

        That doesn’t work either because FTM (XX) will have the advantage of being on testosterone.

        The other thing is, based on casual observation, is that bona fide MTF are rarely interested is sports. Someone’s brain was so female it was necessary to transition, but then she is going to take up competitive power lifting?

        1. Rhywun

          Yes, and the entire world of competitive sports must be rearranged in order to celebrate it.

        2. J. Frank Parnell

          Yeah, too lazy to look it up, but there’s some high school FTM wrestler in Texas (I think?) who’s wrestling as a female and dominating the sport.

          1. Juvenile Bluster

            That one I have a little more sympathy for, because they *want* to wrestle against boys, but the state says no.

          2. Viking1865

            Yeah TX law is “you compete based on what your birth certificate says” and CT is “you compete based on what you identify as”. So the TX wrestler wants to wrestle the guys but is barred due to that law, whereas these two in CT are biologically male, as far as I can tell, competing in girls events with all the huge advantages that entails.

    6. LJW

      The 2 girls who didn’t make state because they were forced to race against 2 biological males have every right to hold resentment. They are missing out on college scout exposure and possible scholarships. Funny how the policies of the left tend to hurt their biggest voting block the most.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Equality!

        Terrible for them.

      2. Ayn Random Variation

        School vouchers for the win

    7. Chipwooder

      How about we have an exhibition match between, say, the Oak Hill Academy boys basketball team and the WNBA All-Stars? Since, y’know, there are no inherent athletic advantages to being biologically male.

      1. robc

        I had an ongoing “bet” (as it would never happen) about the results of Oak Hill boys vs UConn women.

        The best women jump shooters would never* get a shot off unblocked.

        *not literally true, but close enough.

        1. Juvenile Bluster

          The USWNT might be able to keep it within 20 against the Oak Hill boys if they can hit their shots well (they no can dunk, but good fundamentals).

          Oak Hill would beat the UConn womens’ team by 50. At least.

        2. Chipwooder

          It would be like watching Kentucky against Southeastern Bumblefuck State.

          1. LJW

            Hey I got my degree from Southeastern Bumblefuck State!

          2. Chipwooder

            So you’re a Fighting Room Fresheners fan?

            An old Dave Barry joke. Still works today.

      2. PBRstreetgang

        Obviously, wouldn’t even be close.
        I was a mediocre HS player and I was better than everyone on U.Va women’s team except eventual Hall of Famer Dawn Staley. And as incredible as she was, she’d have been no better than D-III men’s role player.

        1. Chipwooder

          And that was back when UVA women’s ball was really good, playing in three straight Final Fours.

        2. Rufus the Monocled

          OH DEAR ME THE TOXIC MASCULINITY ON THIS THREAD!

          Seriously. I stand by that if I were to recall the boys and train for a week we’d beat any women’s soccer team.

          I’ll be damned if any chick will take the ball off me and if they do, I’ll slide tackle so hard to get it back.

  21. Juvenile Bluster

    Jacob Wohl has been banned from Twitter (not for his views, but for running multiple accounts and manipulating replies/reports/etc.)

    There isn’t a tiny enough violin in the world.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Wasn’t that dude looking at jail time?
      What happened to that?

  22. Count Potato

    “The Mind-Reading Style In American Journalism
    And why it’s bad”

    https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-mind-reading-style-in-american

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen

      You’re engaged in a thought crime right now.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      Why did you just say that you want to engage in a genocide of all minorities? You asshole.

  23. Count Potato

    “Not supporting communism is racist. It was simply a matter of time before this happened.”

    https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1100066495919460352

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen

      Communist countries didn’t have exploitation?

      1. tarran

        The government’s anti black discrimination and savage repression of former slaves is not racist, while people who oppose that government’s repressive policies are racist.

        Good to know.

    2. Chipwooder

      “@human_leetch”…..well, at least xe’s refreshingly up front about that.

      “”Y’all are ignoring Cuba, the DPRK”…..yes, shame on us, we’re overlooking those two smashing success stories.

    3. LJW

      I think that’s a parody account.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen

        Could be. Hard to tell sometimes.

    4. Spudalicious

      Parody account. Scroll down a ways.

    1. LJW

      Once again, not sure if that’s a parody.

    2. Chipwooder

      Neither the hero we want nor the hero we need.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        The hero we deserve… because we suck.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Infantile schlock

  24. Count Potato

    “This is the thing I don’t get, we have seen this happen throughout history (China, DPRK etc) and it has never ever ended well and everyone, EVERYONE, left AND right, ends up fucked, except for the ruling class. I honestly cannot fathom why people are supporting this stuff.”

    https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1100467994214522883

    1. Count Potato

      “It’s the old classic. 1. Give the people an enemy to hate. 2. Use immoral tactics on the enemy. 3. People think the immoral tactics are okay and argue in favour of them, because it’s being used on an enemy they hate. 4. Immoral tactics are now the norm and seen as justifiable.”

      https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1100465065751384065

  25. Chipwooder

    Apparently Disney was mad that the “Want to See” score for Captain Marvel at Rotten Tomatoes was in the toilet, so RT……completely eliminated the score entirely for all movies. That’ll turn things around for sure.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      That was because the idiot Larson was out proclaiming it was a feminist movie and that she wanted more non-white-male interviewers on her promotion tour.

      She awakened the 4chan army.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        A particularly stupid move on the heels of the Star Wars debacle.

      2. Chipwooder

        Gee, it’s almost as if young men comprise a large chunk of the audience for comic book movies.

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          Yeah, well, young men are the ones most in need of a 2-hour lecture on feminism.

      3. Pan Zagloba

        Mouse is not retarded, They have ridiculously tight contracts (as one does, when one hires Robert Downey Jr) and I don’t think she went off-script. Note that she had an “interview” with Fox which was basically two people script reading the marketing course correction.

        Don’t blame idiot for reading what the corporate wants, that’s the job. Blame the corporate for writing it.

        1. commodious spittoon

          Do they think “corporate victim of teh patriarchy” is going to fly again after Ghostbusters?

          1. Pan Zagloba

            Which “they”? People who sent her out in the first place didn’t expect they’d have to order a Fox idiot to do damage control in the first place. Those “they” are perfectly happy to hang any failure on her, and, Mouse willing, replace her with Monica Rambeau Captain Marvel in the next movie.

        2. Scruffy Nerfherder

          In that case, it just says that Disney expects the movie to bomb. They’re both engaging in a little guerrilla marketing and priming the “blame the white misogynist” argument.

          1. Pan Zagloba

            Disney tried to replicate the Black Panther marketing, where they reached out to the people who normally don’t watch Marvel movies and were richly rewarded (compare the domestic/foreign box office breakdown of that movie to, say, Guardians of the Galaxy or Iron Man movies). So they figured, hey, let’s run the same thing but for wahmans!

            Problem is that Larsen is not as charismatic as the BP cast, nor is the Captain Marvel an important, liked or respected character, nor was she given a tryout in a well-received MCU movie before she was sent off to blather. Her copy was poorly written, and the trailers didn’t prime the general audience to receive her positively, quite the contrary. Not to mention that Wonder Woman came out two years ago to huge acclaim, so her “first WAHMAN HERO!” looks like stolen valor.

  26. Chafed

    Glibs, I’m in the middle of a very contentious mediation. I want to remind everyone NEVER STICK IT IN CRAZY!

    1. Old Man With Candy

      I’m paying alimony for life because of that. So no reminder needed.

      1. Fourscore

        I got out lucky when my ex died voluntarily. I wish someone of you would have alerted me to NEVER STICK IT IN CRAZY thing. How was a country boy like me so supposed to know?

        1. Chafed

          I’m here to help the younger FourScores reading this.

          1. Fourscore

            You are a good man, Chafed. For all those unmarried Glibs, gender of choice, pay heed to Chafed when he speaks

          2. prolefeed

            The problem with Not Sticking It In Crazy is that sometimes the crazy is only realized after much damage is done.

      2. Chipwooder

        Got divorced in Florida?

      3. Count Potato

        You shouldn’t have to pay alimony after you are re-married.

    2. I knew a bat-shit crazy hot girl in college – goth and tattooed (before tattoos were a thing), she also did some modeling on the side.

      Totally fucking messed in the head but that body… was something marvelous to behold. I stuck it in crazy and I was proud of it! I even thought of marrying her,

      And then – as the weeks went on – I noticed the scars where she had cut herself… the episode where she chased – for a good half mile – a raven from tree to tree… the time she pointed a gun at different cars as I drove her somewhere… the Diamanda Galas albums… how she wanted me to hit her (I refused).

      Eventually I broke it off: “I can’t give you the help that you need”

      and, as she left my apartment, I said: “Enjoy that white trash life of yours.”

      And she kicked the door and I never heard from her again – thank Big JuJu.

      1. pan fried wylie

        before tattoos were a thing

        “Lord Humungus
        Graduated 5,823BC”

      2. Count Potato

        So you are saying she liked it in the butt?

  27. Damn I’m sick of all this pro-commie and socialist shit.

    Wolverines!!!

    1. Tundra

      At our age? More like ” Boys! Avenge me! Avenge me!”

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dammit, you’re depressing me now….

      2. I can still march and and fight if need be. I’m not _that_ old. Just put me in the ahem “reserve” battalion

        1. or the “human shield” category.

          or, to quote Woody Allen, “In the event of war, I’m a hostage.”

        2. mexican sharpshooter

          *pokes at Lord Humungus*

          You want to shoot up an armored column?

          1. ah don’t mind me – too much wine and a bad day

      3. Scruffy Nerfherder

        “Avenge me pajama boy!”

      4. Chipwooder

        I’m gonna be Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner, myself.

  28. Scruffy Nerfherder
  29. Count Potato

    “I keep hearing about how biological men don’t have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019… So watch me DESTROY the British Women’s deadlift record without trying. P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don’t be a bigot.”

    https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1100348562041462784

      1. Tundra

        Just took the UK women’s bench press record too…

        For reps. ?

        Strong, stunning and brave.

  30. Count Potato

    “Why I’m Suing Twitter
    written by Meghan Murphy

    This is a response to “Who Controls the Platform?“—a multi-part Quillette series authored by social-media insiders. Submissions related to this series may be directed to pitch@quillette.com.

    Progressives who claim that “reality has a liberal bias” may be correct on certain issues. But problems emerge when the facts don’t co-operate with the liberal narrative. We saw an example recently, when it emerged that actor Jussie Smollett had been formally charged with making up a hoax hate-crime involving MAGA-hat-wearing men assaulting him with bleach, a noose and racist, homophobic epithets. As Quillette’s Andy Ngo noted, Smollett’s original claim attracted an outpouring of performative sympathy from an all-star cast of liberal grandees. But when it turned out the attack never happened, most of those same commentators kept mum. A similar pattern played out with the boys from Covington Catholic High School caught on video at the Lincoln Memorial: Too often, observers seize on a fashionable narrative and either reject or ignore evidence that falsifies it—because what counts for them is less about the actual truth of a claim, and more about how much on-brand social-media value is associated with boosting it. Call it doublethink or virtue-signaling. But whatever label you choose, the phenomenon has real effects on public policy—as my own experience shows.

    Earlier this year, lawyers acting on my behalf filed a legal complaint against Twitter in California. The social media behemoth has been suspending accounts, not because users break Twitter rules, but because they break rank. Despite repeated claims that the platform exists as a space for free speech, and the company’s professed public commitment to refrain from banning users for ideological reasons, Twitter is now doing just that. Those who fail to adhere to the company’s preferred politics are picked off, with no accountability to speak of.”

    https://quillette.com/2019/02/26/why-im-suing-twitter/

    What’s that Voltaire quote? Anyway, Meghan Murphy is a complete jackass, but she shouldn’t be suspended for expressing her jackass opinions.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Disptcg from the “weather is not climate” team

    On Monday, the British Met Office recorded the U.K.’s warmest winter day on record. In Chile, January temperatures in the capital city of Santiago beat the previous record by a full degree Celsius. Globally, the last five years were collectively the world’s warmest ever. Ever.

    The world is losing the race to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

    Ask the people in Truckee how that global warming thing is coming along. Or the folks in Butte, where they just declared a school snow day for the first time in more than thirty years.

    But they don’t count.

    1. juris imprudent

      It’s easy to break records for hottest weather, when you are busy changing the history of observations to read cooler (supporting the warming narrative).

    2. Rhywun

      Ever.

      OK, then.

      1. Count Potato

        *swats foot-long dragonfly*

  32. The Late P Brooks

    should be “Dispatch”

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I liked it better the other way

  33. Count Potato

    I have no idea who this is:

    https://twitter.com/LizKatzOfficial

    1. juris imprudent

      Ahem, whatever did happen to our resident Lizard overlord?

      1. Sean

        ? Oh my.

        1. Yeah, and my brilliant smut got pulled by Amazon, but THAT didn’t. And yes, my smut was, in fact, fucking brilliant.

          1. Count Potato

            Why did they pull your smut?

          2. Apparently someone complained that it violated their terms of service/community standards. Whatever that is.

          3. Count Potato

            That doesn’t make much sense. Amazon sells all kinds of adult books.

          4. No, it doesn’t but they act on complaints. They don’t verify anything.

          5. Pan Zagloba

            Challenge it and they might return it.

            After Castalia House catalogue got completely purged from Amazon, they managed to get it up again, and they are as disliked over there as anyone this side of Richard Spencer.

          6. I did challenge it, but the irony is that the sequel (it was a series, albeit incomplete) was left alone. But who wants to read a book 2 when there is no book 1?

            That said, I pulled it off the web completely. It’s freaking brilliant, but it would tarnish my Moriah Jovan brand if it ever got out that the smut’s pen name was me.

            Also, current SJW environment makes it “problematic” enough I’d be afraid it could be tracked back to me.

        2. Sean

          I…uh…sorry?

          *slowly backs out of thread*

          1. LOL Sorry. Didn’t mean to take that out on you.

      2. Count Potato

        Wow, the author looks like she’s been busy.

  34. Count Potato

    “‘No Allegations of Human Trafficking’ and ‘Women Could’ve Walked Out’ In Florida Massage-Parlor Prostitution Stings
    Authorities are walking back big claims about an international human-trafficking ring involving Patriots owner Robert Kraft.”

    https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/25/florida-massage-parlor-sex-stings

    TW: TOS

    1. Rhywun

      Why did it require repeat intimate undercover visits and building misdemeanor prostitution charges against all sorts of random men before these “heroes” decided to intervene?

      That’s a tough nut to crack.

  35. Speaking of Toxic Masculinity – from Animal’s post earlier – the “Cold Pursuit” flick starring Liam Neeson out now is more than worth catching in the theater. Don’t even worry about the trailer, it doesn’t capture the humor and angles the flick uses at all – it’s vastly more/better than “Taken in the Snow”.

    Funny, violent, extremely politically incorrect and painfully honest with men and fatherhood. Highly recommended! Catch it before it disappears.

    1. Pan Zagloba

      OT but thanks for the They Shall Not Grow Old recommendation!

      1. No worries. It’s still playing locally too.

    2. straffinrun

      Loved Darkman so much that I never miss any of his films. Thanks, I’ll check it out, though the title does make it sound like he made another “I’m an angry father and you hurt my family!” movie.

      1. It is much more along the lines of “average” (if large) older guy with no “special skills” goes on revenge spree. The kind of thing where a guy gets out of breath choking a guy out and has to take a breather before finishing.

        1. So speaking of Everyman, try this book: Fat Vampire.

          1. Rhywun

            Oooh I like a lot of him and his buddies Platt and I forget the other one’s books. Too bad they crank out so many ideas they sometimes forget to continue other series in progress.

          2. “Fat Vampire: Tastes Like Chicken” was all I needed to one-click on it immediately.

    3. whiz

      I concur on “Cold Pursuit.” I was expecting just another man-goes-after-killer-of-his-loved-one movie, but it was so much better.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Authorities are walking back big claims about an international human-trafficking ring involving Patriots owner Robert Kraft.”

    Totally unexpected.

  37. Spudalicious

    Gulden Draak Ale aged in Calvados barrels is deelish. That is all.

    1. Do the bottles look different? What should I be looking for?

      1. Spudalicious

        It’s hard to read, but it says “Calvados Barrel Aged” above the name and “Ale aged in Calvados barrels” in smaller font at the bottom of the label.

        1. deadhead

          I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m guessing it looks like this.

          I really enjoyed their previous barrel aged offering, so I’m looking forward to this one. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

  38. Evan from Evansville

    Yikes.

    Mom and dad have been doing counseling for a while now. My dad has asperger’s and it messed up their relationship and they’re working on it. As a favor to mom, the brother and I talked to the therapist with her. New (to me) building; new person to talk to in a professional setting, (kinda ironic, coming from me and my lifestyle, don’tcha think?) me having to talk about that things that I normally don’t talk about….pretty much all things that will send my anxiety through the room.

    Internally freaking out the whole time. I’m not sure if anyone noticed my voice breaking a bit, but I certainly did and that only leads further down the panic hole. Afterwards went out to eat with the fam and just couldn’t get my brain back to normal levels.

    Finally back at home. One more errand to run before I pour myself a stiff drink and decompress. Dad is sick and mom has a big day tomorrow so I anticipate that they’ll go to bed early. Then I’m sparking a fat bowl and in the privacy I should recover fairly quickly.

    A First World Problem day, to be sure, but it’s gonna feel good to back into a normal headspace.

    1. commodious spittoon

      This is a constant struggle. Especially the voice thing. Feels like I’m getting reedy and quieter. (Except for meeting up with deadhead and Hobbit and his wife a few weeks ago. That was comfortable.)

      I was asked last night by an instructor to help present material we’ve developed during the program for the dog and pony show the dean puts on for area employers. This was out of nowhere and ratcheted up my stress, but weirdly, I’ll have an easier time giving the presentation than I did discussing it with the guy.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Something that helps sometimes: Fisherman’s Friend lozenges. I had it recommended by a singer for throat warmup.