All right kiddos, kiddas and kiddxs. I’ll be visiting exotic and tropical Scotland for almost a fortnight, so SP has tapped me to fill in for Brett while I still have a computer to do it from (at work at least, bricked my BIOS on my personal laptop like a chump last night). I almost pulled all of the articles from BBC Alba so you could all practice The Gaelic for a bit.
- The erotic games of monarchs seem like a blast: Thai king strips consort of titles for ‘disloyalty’
- And you thought you were mad about the latest public transit fare hike: Chile protests: Cost of living protests take deadly toll
- Is Trudeau’s hair-game no longer on point? We now take you to mexican sharpshooter for glorious hair news: Canada election: Canadians head to the polls in tight race
- I’m certainly glad President Trump is finally bringing our troops home from the Middle East: US troops leaving Syria will go to Iraq, says Pentagon chief
And we’ll even pull from the BBC Radio 1 Live covers for today’s music.
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325 responses to “Monday Afternoon Links”
mitt Romney has a burner Twitter apparently, and its exactly how you would expect it to be.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=383880
He’s such a jackass and I’m glad he lost. Obama term 2 was preferable to him in retrospect.
“Douche” is the word you’re looking for.
He should have used “Guy LeDouche”
+1 MXC
Jeez, it’s not going to get above 14 degrees your entire trip to Scotland? That’s like Fargo weather, and it’s not even Halloween yet!
That’s gonna cause some shrinkage under those kilts
IKR?
My wife used to have a boss who is Scottish. Very interesting guy – on the one hand, he was the biggest metrosexual dandy I’ve ever seen, always dressed like a GQ model and very fussy about his hair. On the other hand, he was also one of the biggest male chauvinists I’ve ever seen with very retrograde opinions about women, very anti-PC, drives a Mustang GT like a maniac.
Something about countries that use the metric system and counties that have been to the moon belongs here.
And wee Scots don’t need help with that, that’s for sure.
Almost a quarter of my luggage is my coat. I’m trying to decide what to leave behind so I can pack whisky to bring back for The Boyfriend.
How much can you bring back? I suppose the prices are much better over there.
It’s probably not actually that much cheaper. I was just watching a documentary on Amazon Prime (Scotch: A Golden Dream – pretty good, i’d probably recommend it), and the distillery owners were complaining because you can buy the same whiskey at a liquor store in other countries for 40 pounds less than what they can sell it for in the actual distillery store on-site! I think he said the taxes in Scotland are something like over 70% on scotch. Pretty amazing
There is no limit to how much alcohol you can bring back under Federal law. You might have to pay a tax if you bring back more than a liter. Large amounts might raise suspicions that you trying to import alcohol for a business, which requires a license. Customs is required to enforce the alcohol laws of the state that you are entering or, if you are pre-clearing Customs in a foreign country, will enter.
On many occasions I’ve brought with me more than a liter of alcohol into the US. My record is eight liters which was a mix of spirits, beer, wine, cider, and mead. Customs has never levy a tax on me, though once I thought the Customs official considered doing it. Customs has also never brought up the laws of the state I was entering. Your experiences might be different.
Leave the coat. The whisky will keep you warm enough.
When I travel abroad, I try to find what shipping costs are and just plan on making a stop at the local Fedex to send back the goodies I can’t fit. If prices are too high, then… it’s time to ditch some clothes on the way back!
He’ll only need that coat while he’s there. Ditch it and make room for more whisky!
Hit a thrift shop and get yourself a used coat, with the plan to ditch it, per Mad Scientist
The erotic games of monarchs seem like a blast: Thai king strips consort of titles for ‘disloyalty’
The queens we use would not excite you.
Maybe not but the ex consorts do
The Queens looked to be rather on the pleasant side as well.
Sounds to me like they’re being disloyal by getting old.
This king? The one in a crop top?
https://tattoodo-mobile-app.imgix.net/images/news_uploads/legacy/0/148939.jpg
Jesse really likes BBC.
What you did there…
*hides shocked face*
Well, we’ve got bases there, it would be a waste to not use them!
And getting them out of direct fire range isn’t a bad thing, either.
Trump’s Decision To Host Next G7 Summit At Chuck E. Cheese Draws Criticism
Democrats quickly called for impeachment over the controversial move, while Republicans praised Trump’s “4D chess maneuver” of forcing Democrats to condemn a beloved American institution like Chuck E. Cheese.
“This is a brilliant move from the master strategist,” said one OANN anchor. “Dems will now have to condemn pizza, video games, and beer.”
“The do-nothing Democrats want to get rid of Chuck E. Cheese. Sad!” Trump tweeted. “It’s the only place left where a kid can be a kid!” Trump also pointed out that you can order the pizza and then sneak over to the salad bar to grab unlimited ranch dressing for your dip. “You just grab it,” he said. “The employees are too busy pulling kids off the stage with the animatronic band for them to notice.”
He should have it catered by Chik-Fil-A.
How I wish it was true.
At least your laptop died when you were at home. Mine refused to start up on the first day of a foreign trip.
Oof. That’s particularly inconvenient.
Or convenient, if you’re standing in customs waiting for an electronics inspection.
*Pours bottle of water on laptop*
Uhh, boating accident?
That’s what I would expect but I got lucky and managed to do a lot just on my phone and kindle.
Whycome are skoolz be broke?
White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren said on Monday that if elected she would roughly quadruple federal funding for public schools and incentivize states to adopt funding approaches that more equitably fund lower-income schools.
Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts who is now a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination along with former Vice President Joe Biden, wrote in a post on the website Medium that her plan would result in the federal government investing an additional $450 billion in elementary and secondary schools over the next decade.
“Our current approach to school funding at the federal, state, and local level underfunds our schools and results in many students from low-income backgrounds receiving less funding,” Warren wrote. “My plan makes a historic new federal investment in public schools – and pushes both the federal government and state governments to dedicate more resources to the schools and students that need them most.”
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Warren would also impose transparency requirements on privately operated public charter schools and end federal funding for the creation of new charter schools, saying the Federal Charter School Program is an “abject failure,” with many schools under investigation by regulators. She would ban for-profit charter schools outright and direct the Internal Revenue Service to investigate nonprofit charters that are run by for-profit entities or operate with the assistance of for-profit service providers.
It’s about time somebody thought of spending more money on teh schools.
Federal funding and its attendant requirements are the ginormous and fucktastical endrun around the Tenth Amendment. A Supreme Court that had some balls would strike it down in toto.
Moe Wanachuk had her pegged
This isn’t art, this is sex!
I have a cow orker that looks and sounds just like him.
Brad Sullivan was a great character actor.
There seems to be one of those guys issued for every hockey team in existence, starting in PeeWees, IIRC…
And there’s usually several per team by high school.
You make me sick when you speak Morris
or operate with the assistance of for-profit service providers
IOW, no Acme Janitorial Services, no ARA Foodservice…
We all know the goal is to slowly regulate charters out of existence. Everything here points to complete federal control over the schools.
This. The great savior Reagan really screwed the pooch when he didn’t get rid of the DoEd like he promised.
But the current administration has disheartened and disrupted them to a great degree. Not enough, but a start.
Back when Devos was appointed I had a leftist acquaintance who is a schoolteacher. I made a joke about leftist/Democrat “concerns” about Devos. She said “People in the education community are concerned because we think she is unqualified”. I responded “People in the education community need to compose a cogent argument as to why she is unqualified”. I didn’t get a response.
I think most teachers are unqualified. Primarily because the schools of education are little more than Marxist indoctrination camps.
Sounds like they’re perfectly qualified, then.
Updated for increased accuracy.
Here’s the problem I have with totalitarian shits like Warren. They bear no consequences when their imposition of their will on others produces failure. Other people’s lives will be made significantly worse by stopping charter schools (what she’s after). Maybe, just maybe, that could be justified if it produced favorable results. But, these sorts of things don’t produce favorable results. Everybody knows the consequence of her policies will be more money for the teachers’ unions, poor kids trapped in failing public schools, a bunch of money transferred to “educational consultants”, and a public education system that continues to suck even more every day. And what will happen to Elizabeth Warren, if she were to get elected and impose this? Nothing.
Honestly, I wish I could wave a magic wand and impose a rule that, any time the government passes a new law or rule, the rule’s opponents get to dictate a set of consequences for failure.
You’ll have to define failure first. Pols work by the rule that if they can come up with a single anecdotal success, the overall program was worth it and it just needs more funding.
I was thinking of defining failure as part of dictating the consequences of failure.
I’d rather the candidate make a promise: “I’ll drown myself in the Potomac if my Medicare for All proposal costs more than $XXXbillion like my top.men and top.women project.”
that is excellent
would ban for-profit charter schools outright and direct the Internal Revenue Service to investigate nonprofit charters that are run by for-profit entities or operate with the assistance of for-profit service providers.
And people call Trump fascist. . .
That’s because they don’t have a clue as to what the term means.
/Mission Accomplished – NEA
My school district gets $400/pupil in Ohio. Other districts get around $5k per student. Shut up, Warren.
Americans Now Need at Least $500,000 a Year to Enter Top 1%
The income needed to exit the bottom 99% of U.S. taxpayers hit $515,371 in 2017, according to Internal Revenue Service data released this week. That’s up 7.2% from a year earlier, even after adjusting for inflation.
Since 2011, when Occupy Wall Street protesters rallied under the slogan “We are the 99%,” the income threshold for the top 1% is up an inflation-adjusted 33%. That outpaces all other groups except for those that are even wealthier.
Millionaires and billionaires.
Well, thanks to inflation, being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be (if we’re talking assets, not income). A lot of older upper middle class people are millionaires.
This. My math says that a $2.5M nest egg at my retirement age is gonna be comfortable but not lavish, assuming we pay off the mortgage.
I’ll happily take just $250K a year.
…the income threshold for the top 1% is up an inflation-adjusted 33%.
But also:
The median taxpayer, at the 50th percentile, has seen income rise 20% since 2011.
As someone once said, a rising tide lifts all boats.
BUT THEY ARE GETTING RICHER FASTER!!!!
bricked my BIOS on my personal laptop like a chump last night
Sorry.
Even after the king’s marriage to Queen Suthida, Sineenart was a regular guest at royal events.
It’s good to be the king.
Did a quick search on the Thai royalty stuff and the pictures of the way they literally prostrate themselves before the king is stomach turning. Do any of the European royals still demand that kind of nonsense I wonder?
Just the underage chicks.
/Andrew
Boom! Scruffy from the top rope!
You can thank the CIA for that. King Chulalongkorn banned such prostrations in the late 19th Century in an effort to Westernize, and it wasn’t brought back until the 50s when the CIA propped-up King Bhumibol, who was seen as weak, with a personality cult in an effort to combat the influence of a nascent Thai Communist Party. This eventually lead to the Thammasat University massacre.
If you’ve ever wanted to see a young boy pissing on a corpse, click this link.
Not clicking that because I have no desire to see anything like that, but another picture from the massacre was the album cover for the Dead Kennedys’ Holiday in Cambodia single.
*clicks link assuming it’s a euphemism*
Uffda. Humans are assholes.
I’m pretty sure that kid grew up to be one of the asshole taxi drivers I had to deal with.
No. Bow or curtsy when formally presented is about as bad as it gets.
Did Obama ever meet the guy? He was excellent at the genuflect.
Scaramucci: I’m delusional.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci predicted President Donald Trump would not be the nominee of the Republican party for the 2020 presidential election.
Scaramucci said, “President Trump will not be the nominee come November. He’ll be either out of office or make a declaration that he’s not running for re-election. Now you’re going to have an open system in terms of who’s going to be that nominee.”
He added, “Two months from now, there’ll be an impeachment inquiry. He’ll be the third person to be impeached. Then you’re also seeing cracks in the foundation of the Republican establishment which generally dislike the guy. They’ll say good things about him right now because his supposed approval ratings in the Republican party are high. But I think those are superficial numbers.”
So you’re saying the walls are closing in.
He’s signaling his interest in a commentator job.
He made it from bullshit to obvious truth in the same paragraph.
Do these people actually believe the shit they’re spouting?
If you just watch 5 minutes of Trump at one of his rallies, you can plainly see how much fun he is having.
First off, Trump won’t be impeached. Secondly, what happened to everyone worrying that Trump won’t leave office if he loses reelection? The same guy who’s gonna refuse to leave the white house is also going to drop out of the race after his first term? Delusional is right
First off, Trump won’t be impeached.
He certainly won’t be removed, but at this point I give impeachment 1 chance in 3.
Oh yes, that’s what I meant, thanks for the clarification. He won’t be successfully impeached
One prediction market has it at 72%. The implied odds at Bovada are 53%.
Considering the “impeachment process” now consists of nothing more than press conferences and ordinary committee hearings, and is not authorized by a single vote at either the House or committee level, its fair to say that the Democrats haven’t even started anything, much less identified a crime that he may have committed that they are going to investigate.
I think Pelosi is looking at his polling, seeing that nothing they have done so far has made a dent, and is very reluctant to roll the dice with a full-blown formal impeachment process, especially since (mixed metaphor alert) she is currently looking at a hand that might get to one pair if her next draw goes well. This is where the polarization of the country bites the Dems in the ass – impeachment doesn’t poll well at all in swing demographics and districts. It might be just the thing to turn a close election into a wave election, and not in their favor.
Here’s another way to look at it – if this thing was a real winner for them, would they be holding these meetings in secret? Since when do congresscritters forsake the opportunity to grandstand for the cameras in public meetings??
The Democrats are ‘building a case,’ you see. Once they have enough ironclad evidence that he’s broken whatever laws they claim he’s broken this week, and believe me they will, they’ll present it to the GOP who will have no choice but to convict.
/progderp
I have rather enjoyed Scaramucci’s rapid evolution from Trump lackey to Brave Resistor. That in no way seems craven and opportunistic!
Just a few months ago he was on Lance Armstrong’s podcast, and I swear he was positive towards Trump. I need to go back and listen again to make sure I heard correctly.
Mammary Monday. Slightly early, but I have a meeting so I ask indulgence from TPTB.
https://tinyurl.com/y2r2wb4n
Also: excuse the direct link, archive is still f-ed up.
What’s the over/under on how many are libertarian? I go with 0.5.
Well, they’re women, so I’ll take the under.
3 might not be libertarian, but her tits are.
Asylum Orderlies Return Hillary Clinton To Padded Cell Disguised As Oval Office
According to sources close to Hillary Clinton, the failed presidential candidate was gently returned to her padded cell disguised as the Oval Office over the weekend.
After the failed presidential candidate had escaped from the premises again and accused thousands of people of being Russian agents, orderlies were finally able to catch her and guide her back to her cell. She had escaped through the ventilation ducts, apparently, and quickly gave deranged interviews in which she seemed not to understand that she hadn’t won the 2016 election. She also found a smartphone and tweeted troubling things, causing asylum personnel to put out a call for her safe return.
I loves me some Bee.
I still think this one is better.
“Remember kids – Better dead than red!” – Hillary, 2019
The Bee needs it’s own cable channel.
#8!
https://www.elitereaders.com/pork-fat-most-nutritious-foods/
10. Snapper, 69
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It’s like she’s Howlin’ Mad, Hillary.
Uh…huh-huh.
+1 and they was right!
Is that when the people go out and hang the parliament from lampposts?
Sadly, no. It’s a stupid system which doesn’t have a first past the post vote on who will become prime minister leaving the people without a government but the bureaucracy keeps chugging along because you really don’t need legislators to run a government.
Everything here points to complete federal control over the schools.
Top down. One size fits all.
The Ministry of Truth will decide what the children need to know in order to become good citizens and Party members.
I thought the Party members children went to a separate school system.
Inner party/Outer party
HOW EVIL IS THE LEFT? THIS EVIL
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/how-evil-is-the-left-this-evil.php
My favorite bit is the violent authoritarians chanting, “Nazi scum off our streets!”
They are gonna have to try hard to beat the two white punkass punks getting in the faces and harassing two black cops with their spittle flecked hysterical screams of “You are white supremacists!”
Those people showed amazing restraint. If someone put me in a choke hold, I would be fighting back no matter how outnumbered I was.
If someone tried to put me in a choke hold, they would end up with significant damage.
Anybody seen the movie “The Reliant”? It’s coming here later this week. A brief description: Economic collapse causes widespread rioting and social unrest, leaving a lovesick 19-year-old girl struggling to care for her siblings in a stretch of woods bordered by lawless anarchy, wondering why a good God would let this happen.
I’ve never seen such disparate ratings on IMDB before.
So that’s what Pornhub looks like if you have mypatriotsupply.com in your browser history. I’ve always wondered!
That’s an eclectic cast. Eric Roberts, Kevin Sorbo, and…Brian Bosworth?
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that 93.2% of the respondents haven’t actually seen it.
The writer explains it:
Have a great trip, Jesse.
Yes, enjoy the trip Jesse!
And the tip!
No “side-trip to the Isle of Man” jokes yet. I is disappoint.
Have a good trip, Jesse.
The Isle of Man used to not be very friendly to gays:
Until homosexuality was decriminalised in 1992, two men caught having sex with each other in the Isle of Man faced life in prison.
Because there is no gay sex in prison?
+1 I’ve fucked tougher men than you in prison.
No, Kathleen! He wants to go to Cardon Wall!
(I’m sure that caption is wrong, but I can’t quite figure what he’s actually saying)
+1
BEN SHAPIRO absolutely DEFENDS family from BETO with SECOND AMENDMENT
LOL
86? My weather station is showing 90. Will swim later.
81 in Bullhead, Ha!
Bloomberg editorial board is concerned
The world’s finance ministers and central-bank governors gathered this past weekend in Washington and looked out at a global economy badly in need of treatment. Most say they understand the dangers, but that seems open to question. With the facts in plain sight and the need for policy changes all too apparent, they’ve shown little sense of urgency, and even less sign of action. Prodded by an unhinged U.S. administration, the world could be stumbling into the next global recession.
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Something something Trump’s fault, Brexit bad
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Given the will, all of these problems are fixable. Some, to be sure, could be solved at a stroke. The risks posed by Trump’s trade wars, for instance, would evaporate if he merely refrained from stirring pointless conflict. Others are much more complex. Reducing fragility requires smarter regulation, to recognize the risks that arise from constantly evolving financial systems. Reviving macroeconomic policy in a world of persistently low interest rates demands fresh thinking on both monetary and fiscal fronts. Answers will be found and are starting to emerge, but governments should step up the pace.
These questions can’t wait any longer. The world economy is at a dangerous juncture, and stands desperately in need of wiser and more effective leadership. Until it gets some, the risks are unlikely to subside.
Needs moar negative interest rates and government stimulus.
Have no fear.
Bring back Bretton Woods.
Fuck off, slavers.
Also, is it really fair to call them “Trump’s trade wars”? In my view they’ve been going on for decades, really.
https://twitter.com/students4tulsi/status/1185711436196208640
Missed it by this much.
I love the old Hillary fake southern accent.
This is nice…
https://kdvr.com/2019/10/21/veteran-in-hospice-gets-to-see-his-beloved-dog-one-last-time/
“Chile protests: Cost of living protests take deadly toll”
On the bright side the cost of dying has gone down
that was Cheap…..
Hi jesse!
Man, I’m jealous. Edinburgh is one of the best places I’ve ever been. Will you get a chance to head north at all?
That’s the plan. We’re spending one night in Edinburgh, then going up and around and spending a few days in Edinburgh on the way out.
Check out Sheeps Heid Inn for good meals at fair prices.
But is it still? I wonder.
That’s where I honeymooned BTW.
“On average, people who menstruate spend an estimated $150 million a year just on the sales tax for tampons and pads.
Now, there’s a push to outlaw the so-called “tampon tax” across the U.S.”
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1185685574239379456
BREAKING: Women Pay Sales Tax
We need government issued tampons.
Sounds rough.
Maybe we can outlaw sales tax on all hygiene products on a nongenderfavored basis. I’d be all for that but I’d rather see that stuff exempted rather than outlawed.
So $1/person?
ManUngendered person. Let’s just give it back to them on a 1040. “Do you menstruate, if so, subtract $2 from line 46c”How much sales tax do men spend on condoms?
I din’t know…I normally just got them for free at the student health center.
People who menstruate…
ALWAYS SANITARY PRODUCTS ACCUSED OF ERASING BIOLOGY AFTER VENUS SYMBOL REMOVED FROM PACKAGING
That was a reply to count potato
OFFS!
I just want to know when the Feminazi vs Trans bitch fight is going to become a shooting war.
Something something idiocracy
“Amazing: This Mind-Reader Can Instantly Guess People’s Pronouns With 99.9% Accuracy”
https://babylonbee.com/news/amazing-this-mind-reader-can-instantly-guess-peoples-pronouns-with-999-accuracy
So you periodically bleed from your vagina and this need feminine hygiene products but are a dude.
Riiiiiiight…
Just get an endometrial ablation, “dude.” I did mine for medical reasons and recommend it to any woman/trans man (eyeroll) who is done with childbirth but doesn’t want a hysterectomy yet.
I’m now envisioning a schism between the OG trans crowd – who I doubt have any problem with the “venus” symbol – and the hip new “non-binary” crowd. Those are the ones fueling this particular bit of madness.
It seems inevitable.
As someone pointed out re: the cyclist winning women’s competitions, feminists are going to first have to admit that women and men are different, and that it’s ok.
The British are now beyond parody
Well, at least that tomato is safe from being sliced.
“I’m going to see Hillary Clinton today.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1185613329315717120
Hasn’t he suffered enough?
Again with the Stacy Abrams nonsense, eh? This from the people who scream about how Trump won’t accept losing an election.
I’m back from vacation. Did I miss anything big?
Quick review of halloween horror nights Hollywood vs Orlando. Hollywood had better makeup/actors. Orlando has better scare zones. Howl-o-scream was darker and the scare actors have more freedom. Overall had a great time at all three, minus the smoke inhalation in LA.
You visited LA without meeting us!?
The last glibetarians meet-up?
https://twitter.com/CasanovaVal666/status/1186369443162738690
Seems about right.
That’s absurd. None of us are 6’5″.
I can think of one exception…
Bullshit! I am too 6.5″! Honest to…oh, 6 foot, 5 inch. Yeah, no.
Sorry. My wife is paranoid about meeting interwebz strangers, plus we we’re spending time with her family.
You won’t sneak away from your wife to meet strangers from the internet? I thought you were cool, man.
You were grossly misinformed
That sounds about right.
You were 1.5 miles from my house. I have sparky fake chainsaws too!
You were gone?
Why are Canadians so racist?
Because not everyone can be French?
https://twitter.com/branded_sports/status/1185609464004726789
Would?
Would?
Yes I’d like a beer with a side of E. coli, please.
Stupid idiots better not vote for Trudeau.
I love that cover of T Swift’s Riptide. Here’s another riptide cover I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ocz-fLSpI
Spoiler: Trudeau is only the third worst leader of a party in the current contest.
These are indeed confusing times when Matt Taibbi columns are making making sense:
I hear Cocaine Mitch is a lot more fun at parties.
Someone linked to a guest post about Mexico on Claire Berlinski’s blog this morning and I was jumping around reading some of her stuff, because I remember liking some of her pieces from a while back.
It’s all Russia fever dreams stuff. I mean, I get it. Russia is not our friend. But to hear her tell it, Putin has basically hacked every Western democracy in order to elect world leaders that he can move around like chess pieces.
I read that, pretty much a failed state, maybe we should invaded them?
Brelinski was good once but the shtick got old, Neocon Jewess,
Anti-semite! Putin got to you, bruh. Sad!
Her reporting from Turkey was excellent, and also painful, because fuck me if I didn’t recognize exactly the things she was describing. Too bad she had to leave.
OK, I just went and checked out her stuff. FFS. What a bunch of paranoid illogical bullshit.
I had the same experience. I haven’t read anything by her, and remembered reading some of her stuff in the past, so I poked around her site and….hoo boy. Everything is Russia. Putin is a diabolical genius who controls everything. If you’re not willing to fight wars against Russia, China, Turkey, Iran (ostensibly all at the same time), then democracy is doomed. Brexit is evil because it’s what Putin wants. Everything in the media that she doesn’t like is Russian propaganda. We need more WAR WAR WAR WAR.
It was like reading a more erudite Louise Mensch.
That one really had me falling out of my chair. Brexit is just a scam the appeals to people who mourn for a lost empire. Submit to Brussels or else get ready to be trampled by Russia.
JFC.
The worst part of all of this is how all such obvious bullshit – sure, the Russians would love to “hack our democracy” but the are obviously totally incapable of doing so.
People talk about “history will judge us harshly” – history will laugh at us for being so gullible. Ruskies! Hackign Our Demcracy!
“but they are obviously totally incapable of doing so.”
That’s an interesting point. Cato has spent a lot of time telling everyone that Russia should not be considered a threat because they are incapable of launching an attack against the US (true). BUT, they are also capable of controlling the results of American elections (false).
Yes, different analysts but I think the point has some validity.
For so much success in his plans of world domination Dr. Evil sure doesn’t seem to be profiting very much.
If a M2F transperson competes as a female and wins, and the win results in some sort of financial reward, can they be arrested for fraud?
Five years ago, yes. Today? You’re a bigot.
The energy source of the future is only
2015 years away!Only 3 years after the world ends!
Womp, womp.
Missed it by That. Much….
Ha! Good catch!
I might have pulled a muscle laughing at this one. Especially the graphic.
https://babylonbee.com/news/asylum-orderlies-return-hillary-clinton-to-padded-cell-disguised-as-oval-office
Did cocaine fall out when you pulled the muscle?
She has to shoot herself in the nuts first, and hers are just figurative balls.
Well, if they are anything like her…
You know what? Nevermind.
They’ve been hitting her hard ever since her “Gabbard is a Russian asset” craziness. It’s delightful.
I know we are lucky enough to have some level-headed male glibs of the homosexual variety here, which offers opportunities for us to talk to and hear from rational LGBT folks as we cishetero Shitlords and Shitladies navigate unexplored linguistic and cultural territory.
Do we happen to have any biologically female lesbians?
Not asking for a friend. Or for me. Just wondering if such a unicorn exists.
I was wondering the same thing. Not that it’s any of our goddamn business, of course.
ISTR someone is transitioning/had transitioned as well.
I have often been mistakenly assumed to be a lesbian ever since college, presumably because I wasn’t a “girly” girl. I was never in any way offended by that.
In early 90s Oklahoma, girls wore scrunchies in their hair, multiple silver heart necklaces at once (barf), and other silly excesses. They also seemed to suffer from a neck ailment that caused their heads to flop to one side as they spoke to guys in a valley-girl-meets-question-mark-voice fashion.
Ewww.
Even my current husband figured I was a lesbian when I walked into his bar wearing cowboy boots, jeans, and an Army camo jacket. He thought I was the hottest lesbian he’d ever met, but still.
“In early 90s Oklahoma, girls wore scrunchies in their hair, multiple silver heart necklaces at once (barf), and other silly excesses.”
See also- VSCO girl
/sksksksk
/andIoop
VSCO girl?
Oh no…
::backs away slowly::
Behold
Holy crap.
Who on the planet finds that attractive??
TBF, I believe the first girl is mocking them. I haven’t watched the others.
I just find it funny as hell but as I said at one point, I don’t have to deal with it in person.
Save the ???!
Who on the planet finds that attractive??
Um, which planet?
I think we drove that person off. I remember too.
It was their daughter/son…maybe vice versa. Yes, I believe we they no longer participate. Good guy. I wish I could remember his handle.
Hm… someone mentioned that here recently. No idea who it was.
No, I was remembering an actual trans-person. But TBH, I don’t remember if it was here or TOS.
TOS, for sure. The handle started with E, I think. That’s all I can recall.
Alex in CT identifies as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.*
(*Have used that same line)
If I am not mistaken (quite likely) there’s a couple bi, but no lesbians?
I thought we had at least one lesbian. I don’t remember who because I don’t really keep track.
You had one job!
Mythical Libertarian Woman I believe.
She’s one I had in mind. I don’t want to say the other in case my sketchy memory is being, well, sketchy.
I saw on my channel guide that Woke Charmed is airing new episodes. I hope she keeps giving her reviews, they were a guilty pleasure of mine.
I looooved those. I don’t blame her for taking a sabbatical. They must have about melted her brain.
Tempted to watch one myself, but I figure MLW is made of sterner stuff than I. My face would probably melt halfway through.
Isn’t MLW bi?
I hope it gets cheaper, Supply, meet demand,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/10/21/aurora-cannabis-is-dumping-its-pot-which-may-be-a-sign-its-all-over/#164af8d65775
Aren’t pot prices being kept artificially high through regulation and taxes?
Off topic, that guy’s writing style really bugs me. It’s like a classic direct marketing sales letter. I kept waiting to see what he was selling… and bam, there it is at the end. “Here’s a link to my sales funnel!”
“Aren’t pot prices being kept artificially high through regulation and taxes?”
Yes, they are. The black market and it’s mysterious ways that only a small few can understand.
I still get mine on the cheap, it’s good to have far-reaching connections. 😉
Damn dusty house!
Further pics on the Book of Faces
B.P. beat you to it.
That’s what I get for actually working vs. keeping up with this place all day.
Get your priorities in order!
I was just thinking about the last time I saw my mentor/friend/father-figure before he died…we went to a gun show together. I think I need to go to the range and pop off a few for him.
KK!!!
We’ve missed you!!!
^ this is a known fact ^
Hello Ms. Splosives!!
How-do!
Any cool air shows lately?? I missed Miramar like an idiot.
I was supposed to go with a colleague & family to Andrews in the spring for family day (he’s retired Army), but I got bumped for his in-laws! Da noive!
We took the toddler to Oceana this year. She lasted through the F-18 demo, but we left before the Thunderbirds because we didn’t have earplugs for her.
Yeah, that’s a lotta noise for the tiny ears
When my grandpa died a few years ago, I felt like I needed to go manually dig a few post holes in the ground so that i could properly remember him.
Not a bad idea, really.
Another WWII series is on the way from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
I’ve been hearing rumors of a Master’s of the Series for several years. They finally announce it and no one will be able to watch it. So disappointing.
Apple exclusive? What a waste.
Gym’s stupid effing billing service- card on file expired, new card activated with same card number. Billing service doesn’t subscribe to an update service, just runs card on billing date, rejects (of course), and immediately charges a service fee.
That’s mean. I’ve had to update my expiration dates on various websites but I’ve never been charged a fee because of it.
Their logic is if it fails, it’s a service fee.
I love this way too much
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1185669990000873472
Reminds me of Brian on Family Guy at the restaurant yelling at a baby “WAAH! WAAH! How does THAT FEEL?!!”
LOL…I normally always root for the animals in “animals vs. people” videos, but I gotta go with the human on this one.
“I just wanted to enjoy my Eggs Over Myhamy in peace.”
What about the SugarFree dildos?
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1186343331447607297
So, they’re keto friendly?
(Not clicking link)
Frippery!
(paging Mojeaux)
I suppose I should know this, living where I do, but when does the World Series start?
Hi everyone! Just popping in with a quick update – Home from the hospital so at least one fire is out. Still have lots of diagnostics and at least one surgery in the near future and feel pretty damn weak. I probably won’t be snarking much because of lifestyle choices that have been thrust upon me (No beer and no ciggies make Festus something, something…) but I’ll try to get healthy as soon as I can so I can rejoin you merry bunch.
Hey! Get better soon, for fuck’s sake!
Thanks for the update! Best wishes for a swift recovery. And condolences on the no beer thing. Yikes!
Keep on truckin’, Festus!
Best wishes festus. I wish you a speed(ier) recovery.
Get well soon!
Holy crap, I guess I hadn’t heard.
Get healthy!
We need all the (glib)ertarians we can get!!
Get better, man! It’s too many beers and cigs for just us, we need you!
Thumbs up and well wishes to you!
We’ll be here when you’re here or at least someone will be here. Good to know you’re out of the spa, you’ll enjoy the no smokes when you get used to it, takes a few days/weeks/months.
Glad you are back
Best wishes! Stick to the restrictions man, we want you around to comment for a long time.
Take care of yourself, man.
Glad you’re on the mend. ✊
Get better Festus!
Best wishes!
Ok, missed this. Whatever happened, I hope you’re better.
No beer?…no ciggies?…sounds disgustingly healthy. Get well so you can stop that! Seriously, get well soon.
Bryan Cranston turning into Walter White.
Wouldn’t it be easier for him to just shave his head…?
Sure, but he might have had something else going on that he needed hair for. Or maybe there wasn’t a lot of filming required for his part, and he didn’t want to have to grow it back.
Look at you making sense.
I wonder if he shaved it when it was his full-time job. But I shave mine willingly so it’s hard to envision not doing it….
The SBQ business is sour ar the moment. My plant is laying off 1/4 of work force. This is the first layoff since the government fueled financial crash of 2008/2009. My business is tied directly to automotive sales.
That said, tariffs do not increase domestic production of base manufacturing commodities. That is all.
That sucks, man. We went through layoffs at my place back when oil crashed. It’s tough watching some of those people lose their jobs. I assume you (being a hot shot supervisor now) are safe-ish?
I’m good. No danger. It sucks anyway.
Shit, man.
Layoffs are soul-sucking even if your job survives it.
Nostrovya! ::clink::
Sorry.
We now take you to mexican sharpshooter for glorious hair news:
I am shocked. SHOCKED I say you brought me into this.
Did I tell you guys that Adam Schiff was on my flight from DC to Greenville a few weeks ago? My dad wouldn’t let me yell anything at him from the car as we drove by him waiting for his ride.
Was he in 1st class?
It was an all-economy setup. If there was 1st class, I would have been in it!
You’ve got a good dad KK.
There’s a local city councilor , who when not being actively evil like the rest, is a senile POS. I see her at the fish market (and of course everyone loves her) or driving her car around (single occupant, of course) and I just want to use one of those straws she banned. In a non drinking manner.
Evidence (that’s not me taking an obsequious pic with the MFer)
You should have reported him for picking up an unattended bag.
I was wondering what he was doing in Greenville. It didn’t look “official”, as he had no one with him and sat on a curb bench waiting for a ride. That’s very outside DC protocol (a Congress creature would never wait for transpo in DC!!)
Ughhhh….I watched the full Antifa video posted upthread. Becoming increasingly cynical and bitching here usually keeps my BP at a constant but watching stuff like that triggers a fight or flight (mostly fight) response in me physiologically. I guess it’s seeing naked aggression go unanswered and uninterrupted and knowing they have an entire wing of our political establishment and media running interference for them. Mobs suck, these would be the same people screaming “Crucify Him!!” or “Burn the Witch!!!” in another era.
In a fair fight, they’d be crushed like bugs. I take solace in the fact that they live their lives in that whacky B.S. It’s probably not punishment enough, but it’s something.
It can not end well. Some are going to get hurt or worse.
My fear is they’ll mob someone with a CCP or someone with a CCP will intercede as they are trying to beat someone to death and it will go down in the media as “Crazed gunman opens fire on peaceful protesters at anti-nazi rally” and it will further push the envelope.
It will be the next Trayvon Martin incident.
I think you might just be right.
That is the point, to keep puffing on the sparks until they burst into flame.
I made the mistake of watching Remy’s awesome “What Are the Chances?” Video about the IRS Lois Lerner scandal.
Two blunders I made:
1) I forgot the song was a bit catchy.
2) it is infuriating that they got away with this, courtesy of the media.
It’s like they were plain taunting people who love rule of law, daring us to cross them.
Sickening.
This was a few minutes ago, looking for a laugh to cheer me up.
Bad idea.
Nothing that happened under chocolate jesus will EVER be prosecuted, or even see the light of day in the mainstream press. It would cause race riots and it’s unfortunate that our entire justice system has to be held hostage by ignorant voters and true believers.
You saw his Twitter one, I hope? Next to Arlington: The Rap, it’s my favorite!
Lois Learner simultaneously pleading the 5th Amendment and insisting she did nothing wrong was bafflingly brazen. Luckily the media saw no inconsistency with it because #scandalfreepresident and Joe six-packs’ attention span is down to about 20 seconds.
Joe six-pack is no longer watching the news. He is sitting at home getting bitter, which is why Trump is President. We are about one episode away from blood in the streets. These mobs blocking roads and jumping people over politics are beyond despicable but if shots end up fired it could turn into something way worse in a heartbeat.
Agreed. It will not end well. I have ever sought one of these events out but from here on out I am very deliberately going to make sure I give them a wide berth.
Well gang, I’m back on the weed again.
Bring in the Mexicans and prepare the orgy pit for buttsex.
Let’s make TOS proud!
As long as you don’t go overboard on the White liquor you’ll be ok
I have a security clearance, sir! *shoves sour patch kids into mouth*
I’m glad I didn’t invest those fantasy lottery winnings into Chilean real estate right about now. Guess it’ll be New Zealand now (the snow in Chile is waaaay better than NZ, though)
*fist-bumps Cacc*
Wiki wiki
I’m back. I assume no-one missed me. In fact, I’d be disappointed in y’all if anyone actually did.
I’ll have to write up my travels for the last 25 days. They’ve been . . . interesting.
waving emoji
Thanks, KK!
By the by, the spousal unit and I, jet-lagged though we be by the Italian sun, will be watching the Canadian federal election results this evening with booze and popcorn a-plenty.
I just hope that weasel Trudeau goes down like an intern on Bill Clinton.
Oh hell, that’s tonight?! I already have hockey and football to let run in the background.
Don’t worry. It’s of no consequence to the rest of the planet. Unless of course the result triggers Western (read: Alberta, Saskatchewan, possibly Manitoba) separatism big-time. Then things might get a bit sticky.
NEW THREAD ALERT!!
A new sheet is up, a new sheet is up!