Saturday night links for snarking

Actual photo from under MikeS’s bed.

 

OMWC was bitching this morning over following two articles, far superior to his. Oh yeah? Try finding links after two days of his morning link vomit.

 

I was going to make a joke about Joohs polluting the moon, but then I came across this line, “In fact, Spivack isn’t even the first to leave DNA on the moon. This honor belongs to the Apollo astronauts, who left nearly 100 bags of human feces on the lunar surface before they returned to Earth.” Is it me? Or is this somehow authentically American?

 

#105 on the Clinton hit list?

 

Totes nothing to see here. Just take your iodine and move along.

 

Totally not a shit hole country.

 

Promoting a movie where rich libs are hunting “deplorables”, while at the same time calling for gun control seems like a bad marketing move to me.

 

This is for you Jeffrey. Burn in hell, pedo.

 

Comments

372 responses to “Saturday night links for snarking”

  1. Gender Traitor

    Universal has decided to scrap the release of The Hunt — an R-rated satire in which elites hunt “deplorables” for sport

    …and send it straight to video so the “elites” and wannabe-elites can pleasure themselves to it in the privacy of their own gun-free zone homes.

    Also, first???

    1. Gender Traitor

      Your first first is always so special! ***SNIFF!!!***

      1. Tres Cool

        You’ll never forget it…..now ask for the Ass-slap GIF

        1. Gender Traitor

          There’s an Ass-slap GIF?!? I want it! I’ve been waiting for it all my life! (Oops! Play it cool!) Ummm…that would be nice. Thanks!

        2. Chafed

          Oh yeah. Highly recommended.

      2. Winston’s Mom

        Yeah. Special…For you maybe,

    2. Rebel Scum

      I watched the trailer and I didn’t get the “liberal elites toying with and offing conservatives for fun with the conservatives being the ‘bad guys’ somehow” thing that people are upset about. If anything, the people captured to be hunted finding a way to shoot themselves out of the situation makes them the heroes of the story while the elites are the villains. At least that’s how it struck me

      1. Spudalicious

        That’s how the movie goes but we’re on an outrage kick right now and everybody seems to be playing.

        1. Jarflax

          Fuck you you mendacious shitlord! No one is playing!!!1!11!L;l

          1. commodious spittoon

            Also, IT’S NOT A GAME!!!

          2. Spudalicious

            I love this place.

          3. Jarflax

            OMG, so problematic. How can you say you love anything in the age of Orangemanbad! Don’t you understand that LITERALLY millions of Transgendered black Inuit are being placed in death camps!@!#$%

    3. Urthona

      Yeah this actually sounds funny to me.

  2. mexican sharpshooter

    Totally not a shit hole country.

    Who thought it was Florida? You’re all guilty.

  3. mikey

    Once again I get a “last”. Let me try this again
    So, your local constabulary get a Red Flag notice. Which bascially says “Go cofiscate the guns of this mentally untable person who might start killing people.”
    The Cops:

    A. Send Officer Friendly to knock on the door and politeley show his court order and ask for the firearms.
    B. Dress the whole force up in their Seal Team 6 cosplay costumes, smash down the door, toss a flashbang at the nearest bady’s crib, shoot the dogs and anyone who doesn’t immediately obey the conflicting commands being shouted.

    Over/under on how many type B invasion before they kill somone at the wrong address.

    1. leon

      0. They kill someone on the way.

      1. Plinker762

        Already has happened

    2. Grumbletarian

      They’ll also make sure their body cameras are malfunctioning first.

  4. Crusty Juggler

    If there is one thing the country can’t tolerate it’s a badassed Betty Gilpin fighting the rich libs.

  5. leon

    “FBI launches an investigation after billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide by hanging himself in prison a day after lawsuit by his ‘sex slave’ was unsealed and named a host of his powerful friends including Prince Andrew ”

    Was he really a billionaire tho?
    Did he really kill himself tho?

    1. Slammer

      And was whoever was in that cell really Epstein?

      That was probably his clone

      1. Rhywun

        This and more… on the next “In Search Of…”

        1. Tres Cool

          -1 Leonard Nimoy

          (God, I loved that show as a kid)

          1. Rhywun

            Nice nostalgia. That looks like something I could knock out in about an hour with the software that came with my OS.

          2. Jarflax

            I loved the one about some pirate treasure (I think Oak Island) that was supposedly protected by these hyper elaborate traps and flooded caves. 8-10 year old me was all in on that stuff! and Kolchak: The Nightstalker! best tv show ever.

    2. Crusty Juggler

      If I was the FBI I’d be checking which private planes left the New York tri-state area and went to South America.

      My guess: Epstein is in Argentina, smashing Hilter’s twelve-year old great-great-great granddaughter and planning his plastic surgery as we speak.

      1. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

        How can I sign up for your newsletter?

        1. Crusty Juggler

          By sending me $69, a self-addressed stamped envelope, and a pair of spent panties.

          1. Spudalicious

            Do you take two party, post dated, out of state checks? The spent panties may not quite live up to your expectations…

          2. Don’t you mean a self-abused, stomped envelope?

      2. Jarflax

        Nah he was pimping her to JFK, but Elvis swooped in and shot him.

  6. leon

    Is that tanker accident another one of those where the thieves started smoking while siphoning?

  7. Crusty Juggler

    Six hospitalized in Illinois with vaping-related breathing problems

    Vape pen explodes in UK man’s car, causes third-degree burns: ‘It felt like I was being burnt alive’

    Goodbye, vaping!

    1. LJW

      It’s amazing all these things start to happen after people start their crusade to end vaping.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        It’s all over. We need to ban:
        – vaping
        -violent video games
        – assault weapons
        – cigarettes
        – unfettered internet/social media access

        Then, and only then, we will be safe.

        1. whiz

          You forgot:

          – Republicans

          1. Crusty Juggler

            I’d be okay with no Republicans tbh

        2. Tres Cool

          Dont forget rock & roll music with satanic, backwards-masked, verses, instructing teens to kill themselves

        3. Plinker762

          Ban humans. Then Earth will be a paradise with a never changing ecology.

          1. Raven Nation

            +1 Rainbow 6

          2. TARDIS

            Damn, that sounds familiar. Has it been so long?

          3. Raven Nation

            21 years according to Amazon.

    2. Rhywun

      Hello, tobacco!

      1. Crusty Juggler

        Michael Bloomberg sasses Elizabeth Warren for digs on the 1 percent

        DES MOINES, IOWA – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he sassed Sen. Elizabeth Warren for making the super rich her political punching bag.

        “If my company wouldn’t be successful, we wouldn’t be here today,” Bloomberg said he told Warren backstage at an Everytown for Gun Safety event in Des Moines Saturday. “So enough with this stuff.”

        Billionaire Bloomberg founded Everytown and largely pays its bills. He used that role Saturday to take the stage alongside almost every Democratic presidential hopeful to give a speech targeting President Trump.

        Can we ban Iowa? That place must be a nightmare during this election stuff. At least in New York the douchebags don’t stand out too much, but…my God…let’s invade Iowa.

        1. Crusty Juggler

          I blame the site for the improper threading and not my incompetence.

          HEY WEBMASTER QUIT MAKING MISTAKES!

          1. Crusty Juggler

            Oh, you’re the webmaster? Get it together, or I will make your life miserable by strategically sharing well-lit nudes within my comments.

            Ball is in your court.

          2. What if you’re already making my life miserable?

          3. Crusty Juggler

            I do tend to have that affect on women, so it makes sense.

          4. Spudalicious

            Cat butt him! Cat butt him!

          5. I do not cat butt.

          6. Sensei

            Ughh, SP – I forgot about more than two links kicking on moderation. Can you kick my comment out? Thx!

          7. Heroic Mulatto

            I agree with Crusty.

          8. Spudalicious

            So when someone steps over the line, we should use a picture of your butt to send the warning?

            Seems logical.

        2. Rebel Scum

          “So enough with this stuff.”

          Broken clocks…so credit where credit is due.

          Everytown for Gun Safety event

          Also, kindly fuck off.

        3. whiz

          Iowa is indeed a nightmare in the run-up to presidential nominations. My wife is a local elected official and gets inundated with requests to go to so-and-so’s meet-and-greet (she’s at Tulsi Gabbard’s right now).

  8. LJW

    So that’s how it happened

    http://imgur.com/gallery/WjWRUS0

  9. Old Man With Candy

    OMWC was bitching this morning over following two articles, far superior to his.

    One article, and a running series of flirty comments. But that might be a bit complex for a potato brain who inhaled too much smoke.

    1. Spudalicious

      I haven’t any…oh, different smoke.

    2. Tres Cool

      Happy Tisha B’av !

  10. Crusty Juggler

    Inside the illicit fetish parties held at this elite Chelsea penthouse

    On a recent Thursday night, a group of men — most of them married — gathered in a hotel room to pay women $20 a song for X-rated lap dances. A week earlier, partiers wearing masks met at the same spot for orgies and live sex shows. Just 24 hours after that, a faction of foot fetishists showed up for an evening of toe worship.

    All of these private, illicit soirees are held in the same presidential suite, at the luxe Dream Downtown hotel in Chelsea.

    I hope they have a good cleaning crew.

    he elite sex club reportedly counts Gwyneth Paltrow and Bill Maher among its fans. An annual VIP membership costs $75,000, and male members pay between $1,500 to $1,875 to attend individual parties that, The Post has previously reported, sometimes turn into orgies. (Women attend for free.)

    “Plus,” the Snctm attendee said of the parties held at the Dream’s room 734, “people have tons of sex in the hot tub.”

    But, according to an inside source familiar with the “super down-low” operations of various local hotels, including the Dream, “[the hoteliers] definitely don’t want the public knowing about it. A large portion of the [tourist] clientele might not want to rent a room that had a huge swingers’ party the night before.”

    Tons.

    1. Tres Cool

      “women attend for free”

      So much for that wage disparity.

      1. whiz

        “Money for nothing and chicks for free.” –, no, wait, that’s backwards.

    2. TARDIS

      At first glance, I thought Chelsea Clinton.

      *gags*

      1. Sensei

        Me too. She lives in a multimillion dollar condo in NYC about two blocks from my office near Madison Square Park and Kips Bay.

        1. Chafed

          She earned it.

  11. whiz

    The U of Missouri-Columbia proves once again that <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/hillsdale-lawsuit-mizzou-violated-donor-intent-by-not-teaching-free-market-economics/"it really is a horrible place.

    Disclaimer: I went to the U of Missouri-Rolla (now called Missouri U of Science and Technology), and never did like them.

      1. whiz

        Oh, the first one worked despite looking funky.

        1. BakedPenguin

          Suggest they change it to “U of Missouri-Venezuela”

          1. whiz

            Hah, their policy makers do have something in common.

    1. Did you have to go to MUST?

      1. whiz

        Well, I went before it was MUST, but no, didn’t have to, but I had a nice state scholarship and that was the best option for someone interested in science and math. No complaints. it prepared me well enough for grad school, although the M-to-F ratio was something like 8.6:1 when I first went there.

      2. Jarflax

        It’s the place for a horny Republican.

        1. [narrows gaze]

  12. Fourscore

    Sandie/Sandy has been to the moon? He/she makes the rounds, who would have thought? The Tesla guy, right, it was his idea since he knows how being first is important to the Glibs and sponsored Sandy/Sandie

  13. MikeS

    Thanks Spud. Now tonight I’ll do that thing where you run fast and jump into bed form as far away to avoid the monster under the bed.

    I’m gonna need more whiskey.

    1. Just send in an orphan first. If xe survives, send your wife in to clear the room with a gat. Then you can enter.

      Unless the orphan and wife are in cahoots with the evil clown….

      1. MikeS

        Unless the orphan and wife are in cahoots with the evil clown….

        *cold shiver runs down back*

    2. Fourscore

      ” I’ll do that thing where you run fast and jump into bed”

      Why would you be concerned about Spud’s night time habits? I’m not too surprised though.

    3. Spudalicious

      I had to use the photos I uploaded last week, or they go bad.

  14. MikeS

    Your music selection wanted some company.

          1. MikeS

            Ugh. It should be.

          2. So you’re not guilty of love?

          3. Chafed

            How does so much hate fit in one man Ted’S?

          4. I’m on the top of the world looking
            Down on creation
            And the only explanation I can find
            Is the hate that I’ve found
            Ever since you’ve been around
            Your hate put me on the top of the world….

    1. Sensei

      I throw you two more of which the pairing is quite odd.

      Black Clover Opening

      And surprised he did this as well – Fruits Basket (2019) Full ED

      Second one is an anime based on a shoujo manga and similar to the singer I also read it.

      I actually wind up reading and watching a fair amount of shoujo because the dialogue is generally very day to day conversational. Plus some of the stories are actually quite interesting.

      1. Sensei

        How about a groovy version.

      1. Sensei

        Boo!

  15. BakedPenguin

    OT: (If you can be on a links page) – I’m watching the Bucs v. Steelers on a local CW affiliate, and they keep running commercials for their new Batwoman show, and Jeebus, it looks shitty as hell. The les-tastic lead actress gives some money to a homeless woman and a nearby bar bouncer tells her it’s a bad idea because it will encourage them. So Batmuffdiver goes back and gives the woman a gold watch, and walks away with a smirk, because she showed that MAN.

    Much woke. Many brave.

    1. Raven Nation

      OT to your OT: North Melbourne scored a TOTAL of 14 points yesterday (although they only lost by 55). And the GWS Giants only managed 29 points and lost by 56. But those were small margins of victory as it was a weekend of hidings: Essendon kicked their first goal after 20 seconds but then Footscray kicked 21 consecutive goals (137-33) and the Lions beat the Suns by 91.

      1. BakedPenguin

        Wow. A 104 point loss isn’t close to being in record territory, but it’s still pretty bad. The Roos had a good run a while back, but earlier in the season, they showed how badly they could suck, so playing the best defensive team, it’s not totally shocking they’d set a scoring low for the season. Also, thank Buddha for the Suns. They’re the only thing keeping the Demons out of last place.

        Be interesting to see if Carlton can stop Richmond later (tomorrow?).

        1. Raven Nation

          Yeah, record low score is 0.1.1 by St. Kilda in 1899 (incidentally, there are 3 scores of 2, and 2 scores of 3 for a total of 6 scores of 3 or lower. St. Kilda has 5 of them).

          Post-1919 (“modern” era), lowest score is 6 (1 goal) points by Fitzroy in 1953 (lost by 60). In 1961, Richmond scored 8 points without kicking a goal (lost by 83).

          Biggest margin: Fitzroy 238 v Melbourne 48 (190 points) in 1979.

          And, no, Carlton has no chance against Richmond. This year.

      2. Rhywun

        Footscray kicked 21 consecutive goals

        Jeebus. I did catch Pies getting some of their groove back.

        Saints later – first time this year Fox has bothered to show them. I wonder how they’re doing……. Oh.

    2. Tres Cool

      However, Yvonne Craig as Batgirl (that was also the green slave girl in Star Trek TOS) YUM

      1. BakedPenguin

        For anyone who cares, here’s the new hatchet-faced Batwoman.

        Frankly, the sexuality of real people, let alone fictional ones, is irrelevant in judging them as human beings. However, I am really, really sick of the intersectionality bullshit the “intellegensia” and media are trying to shove down everyone’s throat. I’m becoming a reactionary, with a visceral hatred of all of their propaganda.

        1. Drake

          #metoo

          I tuning out of the chick superhero and spy movies.

      1. Raven Nation

        Not an expert, but I don’t think Batgirl = Batwoman.

        1. MikeS

          I assume you are correct, but that really isn’t the point.

          1. MikeS

            lol. Indeed.

      2. Tres Cool

        I no idea that either Batgirl or Robin were paid employees

        1. Chafed

          Yeah, the Federal government missing the plot isn’t surprising.

  16. Crusty Juggler

    Biden Says He Was Vice President During Parkland Shooting

    Joe Biden on the Second Amendment: No amendment is ‘absolute’

    Oh boy. Who gets the next push: Team Cop, Team Wigwam, or Team Gay Pete? I’m big on Team Tulsi, but she is an attractive woman, a war vet, and a Russian plant, so she’s out.

    1. BakedPenguin

      Joe Biden on the Second Amendment: No amendment is ‘absolute’

      ‘When asked to elaborate on this, Biden said “when Barry and I were in charge, we considered “no cruel or unusual punishment” as just a suggestion. I mean, what if they were dicks?”

      1. hayeksplosives

        That use of “can’t yell FIRE! in a crowded theater” as an analogy to why we also need exceptions to the 2nd Amendment just drives me crazy.

        If you yell Fire in a crowded theater, then you are guilty and can be punished, but the government doesn’t cut everyone’s vocal cords to make SURE don’t yell it. Similarly, we should make murder illegal, not ban guns.

        Oh wait. Murder is already illegal in most states…

        1. whiz

          *Eagerly awaits list of states where murder is legal*

          1. hayeksplosives

            New York, Arkansas, and Illinois, if you know the right people.

        2. Gustave Lytton

          Let’s not forget that the shouting fire in a crowded theater was used by OWH to rule against someone speaking out against conscriptionenslavement.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

          1. And haven’t subsequent decisions overturned that ruling?

          2. juris imprudent

            Oddly, never directly overturned, but modified enough to be effectively overturned.

            What is truly lasting is that OWH, the great Progressive justice, was speaking justification to power to keep the riff-raff in line. Nothing warms my heart like a contemporary moron quoting him.

    2. MikeS

      “Folks, don’t apologize at all about the Second Amendment,” Biden advised, explaining how the amendment allows for limitations on who can own a weapon and what type. “These guys will tell you, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Give me a break.

      “Can you go out and buy a flamethrower? Can you go out and buy an F-15?” he added. “If you want to protect yourself against the federal government, you’re going to need at least an F-15.”

      Wait, I thought I needed nuclear capability to stand up the the FedGov? I only need an F-15?

      Also, fuck off and die, Uncle Joe.

      1. Plinker762

        Uhm, you can buy an unregulated flamethrower.

      2. Akira

        “If you want to protect yourself against the federal government, you’re going to need at least an F-15.”

        Dunno about that, Joe. There seem to be a number of occasions throughout history where ragtag groups of rebels gave the US military a very hard time with Soviet-era rifles and improvised explosives.

        1. Plinker762

          They have to come out of the tank sometime

          1. hayeksplosives

            Tell Biden you just want the howitzer so you can fire warning shots straight in the air.

          2. Spudalicious

            What an awesome visual. A house on the next block exploded a few second later.

          3. Jarflax

            The neighbors get so pissy when they find me in their back yard with a ranging rod.

          4. Rhywun

            You really should keep your pants on.

            Oh, “ranging”. Never mind.

          5. Jarflax

            all the attractive neighbors moved away 🙁

      3. Rebel Scum

        Give me a break.

        I can’t help but despise this line of reasoning. It is the suggestion that because you can’t reasonably operate a particular weapon system that the government can, you should have every chance removed, i.e. not allowing private ownership of modern tech bearable arms. The colonies in rebellion did not have a navy to match the British, which would be the modern equivalent situation. But we know how the war turned out.

        1. So, the fucked up thing about that line of reasoning, besides that it’s been proven time and again to be wrong, is that as you change the scale it justifies all sorts of terrible things. Along that same line of reasoning, if someone can commit a crime against you, well, tough shit. It’s basically, “Look kid, you’re small, and this bully is huge, so he’s taking your lunch money, and you should just shut up and give it to him because you can’t beat him in a fight.”

          And also, it absolutely bears repeating that even today wars are won by people on the ground with firearms. Tanks are rad, jets are cool, missiles are the tits, but at the end of the day you have to have “boots on the ground” as the saying goes in order to occupy territory and defeat an enemy. And in a scenario where the federal government goes to war against American citizens–assuming there isn’t an immediate mutiny and ensuing coup, which is an awfully big assumption–occupying soldiers immediately find themselves in an even more difficult situation than Afghanistan or Iraq, because now the enemy can literally be anyone among your friends and neighbors and you won’t even know until it’s too late. It’s not like you can just keep an eye on the guys with the beards who don’t speak English, now *you’re* the obvious target and you don’t know whether that group of civilians walking down the street are going to try to kill you when your back is turned or not.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            TS Fehrenbach In 1963:

            In July, 1950, one news commentator rather plaintively remarked that warfare had not changed so much, after all. For some reason, ground troops still seemed to be necessary, in spite of the atom bomb. And oddly and unfortunately, to this gentleman, man still seemed to be an important ingredient in battle. Troops were still getting killed, in pain and fury and dust and filth. What happened to the widely-heralded pushbutton warfare where skilled, immaculate technicians who never suffered the misery and ignominy of basic training blew each other to kingdom come like gentlemen?
            In this unconsciously plaintive cry lies the buried a great deal of the truth why the United States was almost defeated.
            Nothing had happened to pushbutton warfare; its emergence was at hand. Horrible weapons that could destroy every city on Earth were at hand—at too many hands. But, pushbutton warfare meant Armageddon, and Armageddon, hopefully, will never be an end of national policy.
            Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men in the mud.

        2. Fourscore

          something, something, Viet Nam, something….

      4. Isn’t an F-15 an air superiority fighter? As in, lacking bombs? So, pretty much as long as I don’t jump really high, I’m probably not in any significant danger from an F-15? God damn Joe Biden is no smarter than he needs to be.

        1. cyto

          No, the F-15 is a multi-use fighter bomber. There are various configurations, but it is both an aerial combat vehicle (these days primarily as a supersonic long-range weapons deployment platform) and a ground strike fighter.

          The strike variant, from the wiki:

          F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter[4] derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The F-15E was designed in the 1980s for long-range, high-speed interdiction without relying on escort or electronic-warfare aircraft. United States Air Force (USAF)

    3. westernsloper

      no amendment is in fact absolute,” Biden told the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund’s Presidential Gun Sense Forum Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

      EGSAFPGSF is the worlds worst acronym. It sounds like a Muppet.

    4. Akira

      Joe Biden on the Second Amendment: No amendment is ‘absolute’

      OK, so what exactly is the complaint if some neoconservatives want to crack down on Muslims because of terror attacks? Why is the Second Amendment flexible but the First Amendment is absolute?

      1. cyto

        This nonsense where the courts interpret the law to mean things that are clearly contrary to plain english really bothers me. The entire point of writing the laws down is so that you have a system of law and not of men. But then we go and destroy all of that with this interpretation.

        In the case of the second amendment, it says “shall not be infringed”. The language doesn’t have any “unless..” clauses.

        Therefore, any armaments are OK under federal law. Any arms at all.

        That may be a stupid policy, but that is what the law says. And jurist who votes otherwise should be removed from the bench. Don’t like the policy, then we have a process for amending the constitution.

        1. Ozymandias

          But it’s not stupid policy, it’s stupid people who don’t understand fuck-all about war or weapons of war. The reason everyone doesn’t have an atomic bomb isn’t because here’s a law against it; it’s because if I gave Biden and every single on of his asshole friends from now until the end of time to build an atomic bomb it would never fucking happen. Never. As in, not ever. The idea that the law against atomic bombs is what is keeping people from making nuclear weapons is, itself, weapons grade stupidity. Entire countries dedicate all of their treasure to it (and have for some time) and can’t make it happen, but really, it’s “the laws” that are protecting us. That is retarded argument number one (I already dealt with the second stupidest piece of gun-grabbing nonsense the other day in links).

          The US Constitution specifically allows ‘letters of marque.’ For those that don’t know, it’s a piece of paper that changes an act of piracy on the high seas, which would be punishable by an undoubtedly gruesome death, into a legitimate act under the Law of War. Letters of Marque allow – even encourage – colonists/civilians to take ships of war from the British/enemies. So, yes, the US Constitution contemplated civilians having ships, with cannons. The same thing is true of civilians who own vintage planes. Have we had a bunch of gun runs or bombings on civilian towns? Hunh. I wonder why not?

          These people are morons and their moron reasoning needs to be repeatedly destroyed because assholes like Biden get to say idiot stuff and get away with it because the press is (a) also that fucking stupid, and (b) happy to provide cover for said moron because they hate those icky guns and the icky people that own them in those icky places outside of urban metropolises.

          Fuck these idiots. They understand nothing about war, weapons of war, and the underlying realities of it. The problem is that the Founders did and couldn’t capture all of the surrounding understanding in a document. They (mistakenly) thought “shall NOT BE INFRINGED” or “Congress shall make NO LAW” would be clear enough. They never counted on Progressives taking over the language and the rest of the morons going right along with it.

    5. Crusty Juggler

      The Wolverines didn’t need F-15’s to win the war against the Soviets and Cubans, did they Joe?

      1. AlmightyJB

        They probably shouldn’t assume every F15 pilot would be on their side. I trust soldiers more than I trust cops. Also, in war, weapons can be captured. Sure I don’t have a tank…yet.

        1. Francisco d’Anconia

          They probably shouldn’t assume every F15 pilot would be on their side.

          THIS

          I seriously doubt the US military would take up arms against the citizenry, under most conceivable scenarios. Particularly when the citizens rise against a government for overstepping their constitutional authority.

      2. AlmightyJB

        You also don’t have to necessarily defeat the military to defeat the government.

        1. Rhywun

          *takes notes*

    6. Rebel Scum

      “The Second Amendment — no amendment is in fact absolute,”

      Yes it is. It is absolutely the law of the land but the government violates its own charter on a daily basis.

      1. cyto

        “Shall not be infringed” seems just about as absolute as you can possibly get.

        and as you say – the fact that we’ve decided to violate the law doesn’t mean that the Second Amendment doesn’t say what it says.

    7. Tejicano

      ” tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots”

      I guess one man’s patriot is another man’s tyrant..

  17. Crusty Juggler

    Colin Quinn’s Red State Blue State is now streaming on Netflix. I enjoyed it, and you may too!

    1. Chafed

      Go on.

  18. westernsloper

    Is it me? Or is this somehow authentically American?

    Depends on how big the bags were.

  19. hayeksplosives

    Re: the link on the Epstein suicide investigation.

    There was a time when reading that the FBI was investigating an event inspired confidence in me that the truth would come out.

    Since Comey and all that, not so much now.

    1. LJW

      They’ll find that Epstein didn’t know suicide was illegal so they will not pursue charges.

      1. Spudalicious

        They will decide he didn’t want to commit suicide, it was just auto-erotic asphyxiation. No crime.

        1. hayeksplosives

          Or jus quit talking about it, like the Vegas shooting.

          Still baffles me how fast that went dark.

          1. Spudalicious

            He was an FBI asset, or he really covered his tracks that well.

    2. Plinker762

      I find it interesting how the left and right have switched positions on the government. Except when it comes to cops, they both love them some blue dick.

      1. Rebel Scum

        Idk, apparently Mr. Mika (Joe Scarborough) and Krugnuts are skeptical about the suicide.

        1. cyto

          The interesting bit here is the partisan blind spots and historical illiteracy involved. Those on the left, Like AOC and Krugman, have seen pictures of Trump with Epstein, so they think that Trump is the big fish to catch here.

          They have no recollection that we already had a bite at this apple several years ago, and word was that Bill Clinton had flown with Epstein to his island 18 times. It was dismissed by the left as a kooky right wing conspiracy. This probably helped Epstein skate the last time through. Once Bill Clinton got connected to it, all of the “Lolita Express” allegations got lumped into the “that is a nutty right wing conspiracy” bucket.

          Interesting how that got memory holed. You don’t see anyone bringing that up, even though “Lolita Express” was a widely known term and stories of famous people being involved were very common.

          But you don’t hear any of that in lefty-land. Just Trump

          Which totally explains how they are skeptical of something that folks around here were calling the minute he got arrested. Several of us joked that the Clintons would have him killed before he could talk the second he was arrested. We were joking – but this certainly doesn’t make it seem like the funny ha-ha kind of joke. Especially since they are saying that he claimed the first “suicide attempt” was an attack and attempted murder.

          1. Jarflax

            There are crazy conspiracy theories, but the sudden death rate of people who are dangerous or embarrassing to powerful people has been high since we first decided to have powerful people.

    3. juris imprudent

      Really – since Comey? You need to go read up on the Church Commission and how gawdawful the bureau was in the Hoover era. If anything, Comey is just reversion to form.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Where America gone?!

    What happens to a country that is an idea, when that idea turns ugly?

    Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the United States has been the leader of the free world economically, militarily, but also — as communism and fascism fell by the wayside — as an idea…

    But this has been a difficult month. Well, a difficult year. Actually, scratch that too: everything since November 2016 has been discombobulating. I recall watching American expats, Europeans, Lebanese aghast in Beirut when Donald Trump won. It seemed to them like the wheels were coming off civilization. But surely, they could not forever, as the idea of the United States was designed to be tamper-proof?

    Yet this is what the American people wanted — the electoral college at least. Trump’s rise reflected what Europe was already doing to itself: a reaction to rampant globalization, to an era of migration and economic freedoms no generation had seen before. But America was supposed to know better — to lead us forward, not backward, to know the way.
    Winston Churchill said you could always count on the Americans to do the right thing once they had tried everything else. Now, it’s not clear who would know what the right thing is when it happens. Twitter, other social networks and websites mean it would be under assault by automated bots, the moment it put its head above the parapet.
    When it comes to racism it’s not just America, it’s everywhere. Europe has been having its own ugly dance with it. Brexit is a form of xenophobia masked behind dislike at European trade regulations few voters know much about. And it was championed by a man who once said women in full-face veils looked like letter boxes. He is now Britain’s prime minister. Germany has the Alternative for Deutschland. Italy has Matteo Salvini.

    But America has taken it a step further. Burning lanterns, protestors being run over with cars, dog-whistles in mainstream politics. It is strange to live in a time when the then prime minister of the UK, Theresa May, had to publicly admonish the US president for racist comments, like President Trump’s tweet that four congresswomen should “go back” where they came from. And to have the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, stand in “solidarity” with those targeted women.
    We watch the downward spiral helpless, trying not to be dragged in. America’s ugly obsession with guns and mass shootings blended this month predictably with the far extremes of anti-immigrant sentiment. But the rest of the world is used to American intransigence after killings like that in El Paso — to seeing Americans bafflingly discuss cracking down on websites and mental health issues, and not the glaringly obvious problem of battlefield weapons (with magazines used in Dayton unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a warzone) being available to teenagers.

    It is extremely hard to understand the American obsession with the gun, unless you are an American obsessed with the gun. Those Americans who believe in their right to bear arms look in revulsion at foreigners who think a person’s right to safety is more important. The outside world just doesn’t get it. And even places like Serbia — just behind the US and Yemen in terms of legal gun ownership with a whopping 39 guns per hundred people (the US has 120) — manage to have very low murder rates. 1.39 murders per hundred thousand people compared to the US’ 5.35 in 2016. America seems a violent and angry place, and it didn’t even have a civil war just over 20 years ago.

    That’s all I could get through. Being this person must be a miserable existence. But what do I know. We are all dead because of net neutrality or something. Also, false dichotomy is false.

    1. Akira

      Yet this is what the American people wanted — the electoral college at least.

      I’m sick of this whining about “muh popular vote” because Republicans occasionally win because of it.

      The electoral college exists so that you have to appeal to a wide cross-section of Americans, not just win over a few major population centers while telling everyone in “flyover country” to go fuck themselves. If people in low-population states were just lorded over by the urban elites, there probably would have been secession by now.

    2. hayeksplosives

      I thought the world ended on Dec 31, 1999 because of the Y2K bug.

      1. How are you feeling?

        1. hayeksplosives

          Pretty miserable, but hopefully on the mend. Finally found a chair I can remain in more than 2 minutes.

          Going to have my EEG Monday. Wish me luck!!

          1. AlmightyJB

            Good luck! Hope your recovery starts to speed up!

          2. DEG

            Good luck!

      2. Raven Nation
    3. Who is this person and is his or her legal guardian aware that he or she has access to the Internet?

    1. Chafed

      Damn your nimble fingers.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Bill Maher: Deplorable p.o.s.

    “We have survived many recessions. We can’t survive another Donald Trump term,” Maher said during a panel discussion on Friday’s episode of Real Time.

    Conservative guest panelist and noted critic of Trump Tom Nichols suggested that although the economy seemed healthy, things could change because of the president’s actions with international tariffs.

    “I’m not wishing for a recession,” he said.

    “Well, you should wish for a recession,” Maher said, interrupting Nichols. “’Cause that will definitely get him unelected.”

    “But Bill, you don’t really want a recession,” guest Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director for Trump, said.

    “I really do,” Maher stated firmly. “We have survived many recessions. We can’t survive another Donald Trump term.” The studio audience erupted with applause at Maher’s suggestion.

    1. Rhywun

      I’ll give Maher credit for voicing the most outrageous things that are in every liberal’s head.

      1. TARDIS

        Is my historical memory module failing? I seem to have a notion that there was time that asshat hammered both lefties and righties about equally. Sometime prior to Shrub taking the throne, maybe?

        1. Rhywun

          Yeah, I think Bush II broke his brain. Used to watch his show until I couldn’t take it anymore some time in the early 00’s.

        2. Spudalicious

          He still hammers lefties on occasion. When he started taking himself seriously, all the funny fell off.

          1. BakedPenguin

            Jimmy Dore is one of the few leftists I can (occasionally) listen to any more. He can still be funny, and he’s not just TEAM TEAM!! 100% of the time. His videos on the Harris v. Gabbard dust up – and the reaction to it – were quite amusing.

    2. Urthona

      Well there’s gonna be one eventually. May as well take out the bad man.

  22. Chafed

    You tell Epstein to burn in hell but didn’t go with this?

    https://youtu.be/_atqPcXvcr0

    For shame Spud. For shame.

    1. Sensei

      Haven’t hear that in years!

    2. MikeS

      Never trust a fucking clown.

    3. Spudalicious

      Pee Wee Herman? You go sit in the corner and think about what you did.

      1. Jarflax

        is this the corner of an adult theater?

        1. Chafed

          Did Epstein own it?

        2. Spudalicious

          Fred Willard is waiting for you.

    4. You’re probably all going to hate me for posting this Hell song

      1. BakedPenguin

        I know challenging Ted S. in a “worst themed song contest” is a dangerous game, but I still have to submit this.

        1. westernsloper

          Ya, you win.

          1. BakedPenguin

            It was unfair on my part, his song was just “easy listening 70’s-80’s country”, not really a worst song. Mine definitely was a worst song entry.

      2. westernsloper

        Not anymore than I did for all your other music links.

      3. Sensei

        Did not expect this video along with this soundtrack.

        https://youtu.be/A_kBusfU_VE

        East Brunswick, NJ

        1. Chafed

          Should we recognize those… gentlemen?

          1. Rhywun

            Looks like “random fans”.

      4. Chafed

        See my comment above.

  23. Chipping Pioneer

    It’s true. Tang totally gives you the shirts.

    1. westernsloper

      Did you have to send shipping and handling?

      1. Chipping Pioneer

        LOL

        *shits

    1. OMFG, you went to a concert with naked people and got high once when you were a kid, I got it! Jesus!

      1. cyto

        Or rather, you heard about a concert that other people roughly your age went to. It wasn’t that big of a festival.

    2. Jarflax

      BUT Woodtock was much brave, very hero! I mean it rained. and the acid was bad. and a couple dumbasses got hypothermia by combining the two.

    3. mikey

      Woodstock is like Ted Willams’ last game – all two million Massholes that were at Fenway that day still talk about it.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I think he captured their insufferableness quite well.

    2. Rhywun

      “Smash the system.”

      I think I’ve heard this one before.

    3. Every little world-saver, and the big ones, too, are stars in their own private movie.

      That’s about the best way I’ve seen that put.

    4. Rex Murphy delivers another gem

      I always liked his father Rex Morgan M.D.

    1. MikeS

      The good old days.

      1. Jarflax

        is there a sequel “Fishing with a Combine”?

        1. Raven Nation
          1. cyto

            prior art

            “you gonna sit there and argue, or fish?”

        2. MikeS

          “Weeding Your Garden With A 12 Gauge”

    2. Tres Cool

      “and then the guy lights the dynamite and says, “are you gonna talk or are you gonna fish?””

      1. cyto

        For those too young or too not-southern to know who Jerry Clower is, his back catalog is well worth a diversion down a YouTube rat hole.

        Particularly of interest to those around here would be his not quite so comical screed on “why Johnny can’t read” from the 70’s.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrYvNb5cl0

    3. Gustave Lytton

      If it interests you, as it surely will, and if you are progressive and ambitious, write for a copy of our “Handbook of Explosives for Farmers, Planters, and Ranchers,” which will be sent free of charge and which tells just how to use “Red Cross” Dynamite safely and easily, and make it the greatest aid to profitable farming.

  24. Oh, man, I’m bummed and kinda pissed. I just noticed a big ol’ chunk of wood chipped off the stock of my Mosin. No idea how it happened because it’s been sitting in a gun cabinet for months. I can sand it down and finish it, but I’m more worried about how it happened and how to have it not happen again.

    1. Jarflax

      When the infantryman in front of you got mowed down and it dropped. You were just so happy to finally get a weapon that you didn’t notice

      1. Is it more or less authentic for it to look like it fell down a flight of stairs?

        It stinks, though, because it’s in otherwise pristine condition. I don’t think it was ever fired. Well shit.

        1. Jarflax

          Can you find another stock?

          1. Definitely, but I’ll try to sand it down and refinish it and see how it looks. Mosins are common as muck, but this one was still in the cosmoline when I got it. I’m sure I could find a replacement stock, but it might not come to that. My real concern is I’m genuinely at a loss as to how it happened, which makes me nervous about my other old guns in that cabinet.

          2. Count Potato

            It’s not like some mega-buck Italian shotgun. Mass-produced inexpensive military rifles didn’t use the best wood.

        2. Count Potato

          A Mosin-Nagant that was never fired?

          1. Yeah, it looks brand new, other than the bit chipped off. The barrel looks absolutely immaculate. Either it was never issued, or it was babied.

          2. DEG

            Depending on the date of manufacture and where it was manufactured/rebuilt, that’s possible.

            I have a 91/38 that is in near pristine shape.

      2. DEG

        This.

    2. DEG

      Don’t sand it. That will kill its value.

    3. Plinker762

      Just say it was chipped from bashing Natsee skulls

  25. Count Potato

    “Universal Cancels ‘The Hunt’ Release

    Universal Pictures has canceled the release of its upcoming thriller “The Hunt.” The film was previously set to hit theaters Sept. 27.

    “While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film, ” a spokesperson for Universal said in a statement. “We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.”

    Insiders tell Variety that the studio came to the decision alongside “The Hunt” filmmakers. They also said it was a tough decision for the company, but studio leadership ultimately determined that the film could wait.

    Previously, Universal put a temporary halt on marketing for the film following a series of mass shootings. In the film’s few marketing materials that did air, stars such as Betty Gilpin and Ike Barinholtz could be seen brandishing assault rifles and pistols while taking on a group of would-be hunters.

    Other cast members included Hilary Swank, Emma Roberts, Ethan Suplee and Justin Hartley. Jason Blum is producing for Blumhouse Productions alongside Damon Lindelof under his White Rabbit flag, and Craig Zobel directed.”

    https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-hunt-canceled-universal-betty-gilpin-hilary-swank-emma-roberts-1203298774/

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      I suspect all if this is just a publicity play for the straight to streaming release of what the studio realizes is a terrible movie.

    2. Spudalicious

      Sounds familiar.

      1. Did they tell the producer that Donald Trump was impeached?

      2. Chafed

        I heard it was canceled when a guy shot himself in the nuts and a baggie of drugs fell out of his ass.

  26. LJW

    NEIGHBORS FIGHT LOSING BATTLE AGAINST 5G TOWER RIGHT NEXT TO DENVER HOME

    If you’re worried about that you better turn off your WiFi and Bluetooth devices. Actually turn off your electricity because that kicks out electromagnetic radiation too. Granite countertops? They’re radioactive. Radon is probably coming out of your basement. Don’t forget the formaldehyde in your flooring. House looks old too, probably some lead paint and asbestos…

    1. Jarflax

      Not to mention that their is a giant fusion reactor with NO coolant or shielding right out in the sky, that is responsible for something like 99.99% of the radiation linked deaths of people and wildlife, and no one is doing anything about it.

      1. LJW

        Sweet mother of God! How do we stop it?

      2. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Holy shit!

      3. Plinker762

        Better nuke it from orbit just to be sure. Oh, wait a minute.

      4. BakedPenguin

        Don’t let’s get started. I could go on all day about hydric acid. Do you know they have found this industrial chemical in over 95% of polluted water systems across the globe?

    2. westernsloper

      “Yes, they’re exposed to signals, it worries me,” Mayo said.

      Tin foil hats, get them tin foil hats. It is what I use.

      Also, asking the geekdom that is the Glibertariat, is there any truth to the scare mongering about 5G being the big Chinese boogie man pushed by some on right wing hate radio? I don’t remember who I have heard spout it but they implied it was very not secure since the chinaman’s developed it.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        I think there’s some concerns/protectionism about Chinese equipment manufacturers such as Huawei, but haven’t heard about the standard itself being a problem.

        1. hayeksplosives

          “Kill switches” and back doors in integrated circuits are real things.

          1. Rhywun

            And they’re pretty open about wanting to “bury us”, too. I’m sure somebody’s paying attention even while the media go on with their Russia hysterics.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            And unsurprising if your physical manufacturing is in PRC.

      2. I’ve heard rumors that Huawei is the furthest along in the tech development, but it’s an open standard, and anybody can build a device to it.

        1. MikeS

          Russian Chinese bot confirmed.

    3. dorvinion

      The other day I happened to come across a 5G claim that really took the cake

      5G transmitters because, of the short range they need to use a lot of power, about 300,000 Watts for every base station.

      The guy really believed they are gonna put transmitters on every other street corner that consume as much electricity as 200-300 houses.

      1. Jarflax

        well if they actually get the power that high we may actually need to worry about ill effects from the radiation, so it could help with that set of conspiracies

        1. dorvinion

          Certainly

          Though I’m pretty sure that the nearly million dollar daily electric bill for every street corner means no worry that we won’t be microwaved.

  27. Count Potato

    “His death came less than three weeks after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the federal prison in Lower Manhattan, with marks on his neck that appeared to be self-inflicted, sources told ABC News. He was placed on suicide watch following the July 23 incident, but was not on suicide watch at the time of his death. ”

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/jeffrey-epstein-accused-sex-trafficker-dies-suicide-officials/story?id=64881684

    “ABC is claiming that Epstein had been removed from suicide watch before he “hanged himself.””

    https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1160238908120154118

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      There you go, let a suicidal guy you want dead off suicide watch and he’ll handle it himself.

    2. LJW

      Is the New York prison system run by this guy?

      https://youtu.be/9knToyK-wUs?t=20s

  28. The Bearded Hobbit

    OK folks, I’m just a backwoods hick in a non-important state. Can someone please explain to me:

    1) The Russians stole the election. How exactly did this happen? As far as I know, voting machines are not connected to the Internet (and therefore Russia) and could not be tampered with, so what was the mechanism?

    2) Trump = teh Hitler. The vibe that I got from my poker-playing friends was a reaction that Herself was not elected. OK, aside from the initial reaction, what is the argument? I can grok the “he’s president instead of Her” but what is the basic fear? What is it about Trump that drives people batshit insane?

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      1) It didn’t happen but don’t bother arguing with those who believe it did because they won’t listen to reason.

      2) They were just as insane when Bush II was in office but they quited down during the Obama years so the contrast is jarring.

    2. hayeksplosives

      I think it’s a combination of:

      1) the fact that they had already said Romney was pute evil so they had to go to real extremes with Trump

      And

      2) they are shocked and horrified that Trump appealed to blue collar voters, even union guys. Dems didn’t expect to ever lose middle class whites no matter how much they banked on identity politics. They are scared.

    3. LJW

      The Russians hacked the election so well they calculated a way to give Hillary the popular vote but the presidency to Trump

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      I have a better question. Who would wear this shirt unironically?

      1. Tres Cool

        Irony would be if he was buying concrete.

      2. AlmightyJB

        A drywaller.

      3. LJW

        I’m all for the 2nd amendment, but idiots like this don’t help the cause.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Forklift Operators are more concerned about the 1st.

          1. Tres Cool

            See also: 2 union skilled trades

      4. That’s an extraordinarily specific demographic on that shirt.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          There’s even one for us!

      5. Gustave Lytton

        Almost makes me long for the days of the Big Johnson T-shirt’s.

        1. MikeS

          Big Johnson Bar and Casino:

          “Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.”

        2. Heroic Mulatto

          Those were the days!

      6. MikeS

        Better question; why is his ass eating his pants?

    5. AlmightyJB

      The Russians exposed internal DNC emails that showed they were rigging the Democrat primary for Hillary and against Bernie. By providing the American people with this information it rigged the election for Trump. This is what they actually believe.

      1. grrizzly

        If the Russians had done what the “right-thinking” people claim happened, then the Americans should have thanked the Russians and personally President Putin and sent a modern version of the Statue of Liberty to Russia just like the French did back in the day.

    6. kbolino

      What is it about Trump that drives people batshit insane?

      Some thoughts:

      1. The arc of history was bending in their direction. Trump is a repudiation (however temporary) of what is supposed to be an immutable truth.
      2. Trump doesn’t give a fuck. There are rules and he doesn’t follow them.
      3. A generation that came of age under Obama’s Camelot has no other reference reference point and thinks everything else must be fascism.

  29. grrizzly

    Have a look at the talking points urgently given to left-wing on-line activists with respect to Epstein.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/10/far-left-panic-over-epsteins-suicide-shareblue-dispatches-urgent-talking-points-for-on-line-activists/

    I loved Do#5: As always, ROLCON.

    “ROLCON” refers to role playing as a conservative.

    1. Rhywun

      “Make it all about Trump.”

      “But, Trump had nothing to do–”

      *Donald Sutherland SCREEE!*

    2. AlmightyJB

      They’re despicable

    1. Tres Cool

      You know as well as I do that nearly everyone in that part of the (419) is insane. That’s why I often say that Toledo is Kentucky’s northernmost city.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Oh I do know. Suburb of Detroit.

    2. Rhywun

      The only thing that retard accomplished is ensuring that Her Highness will never, ever shut up about how much “danger” she’s in. Thanks a lot, asshole.

      1. Jarflax

        How does “X should be shot” constitute a threat against x? Saying “I will shoot x” is a threat, expressing the idea that the shooting of x is desirable or proper is not a threat. It is stating an opinion. Also what is the “illegal” ammunition? 7 rounds of what, original 5.7?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Ask Preet

        2. +1 woodchipper

        3. Gustave Lytton

          7 rounds of whatever the FBI is currently issuing to their field agents

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Not much of a credible threat. Looks like they used it as a pretext to use the other charges to fuck with him.

      illegally stockpiling ammunition

      FBI agents raided Ireland’s house on Thursday and found seven rounds of illegal ammunition<

      Right…

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        According to a linked article they found 7 rounds of ammunition in total.

        “USCP and ATF agents searched Ireland’s residence at 234 Kosciusko St. on Aug. 8. He was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant in Florida. A search revealed three rounds of .32-caliber ammunition and four rounds of .45-caliber ammunition.”

        I guess a felon having any ammo is stockpiling?

        1. CPRM

          an outstanding warrant in Florida

          Speaking of which, whatever happened to that hack movie (I won’t call it a film) maker Hillary tried to hang Benghazi on that they arrested for ‘tax evasion’ in Florida?

          1. Stinky Wizzleteats

            They used the false charge to fabricate a real one.

            According to Wikipedia “On 27 September 2012, U.S. federal authorities stated that Nakoula had been arrested in Los Angeles and charged with violating terms of his probation. Prosecutors stated that the violations included making false statements regarding his role in the film and his use of the alias “Sam Bacile”” to which he pleaded guilty.

          2. Jarflax

            This whole false statement as crime thing is really infuriating to me. If you are not under oath, it is your right to lie. You want to charge someone with a crime of lying, warn them of the consequences, and of their right not to speak, then put them under oath. And by the way, if the ‘lie’ is a denial of guilt of another crime? You can’t charge them!

          3. CPRM

            All politicians should be under oath at any public event not in the chambers of the houses.

          4. Stinky Wizzleteats

            “As of 2015 he was living at a homeless shelter and working part time at a pizza parlor.” What a depressing outcome.

          5. CPRM

            He deserves it! He killed all those people at Benghazi!

        2. Jarflax

          If the amount of ammo you have doesn’t fill a magazine it cannot, by any stretch of language, be called stockpiling.

  30. Count Potato

    https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1159534722655096832

    I blame the negroes and their debil music.

    1. Tres Cool

      + reefer addicts

    2. AlmightyJB

      And the devil laughs. Yes…yes I do.

    3. AlmightyJB

      What’s so funny is you can tell that she thinks she is so clever as she is pitching this tripe.

    4. Jarflax

      I suspect she is correct about the symbolism. I suspect Monster did in fact deliberately include symbols selected to scare the church lady. See also virtually every skate company, metal band, video game developer, and all other companies marketing to males between 14 and 30. Hey lady, if you want this to stop, shut up. They do it because scaring you is great marketing.

      1. LJW

        The company was originally founded by Hubert Hansen in 1935. Renamed to Monster in 2012. Hubert and Hansen both have 6 letters. I don’t know his middle name but I’m going to guess it was Damian, which has 6 letters. 666 confirmed!

        1. Jarflax

          Hubert Hansen… HH… 88… OMG Trump is a Nazi!

    5. MikeS

      I made it about 6 comments into the replies and my eyes started bleeding.

    6. KSuellington

      What company has posted the largest gain in stock market history? It has gone up almost 70,000% in the past two decades.

      Yup, Monster.

  31. Chipping Pioneer

    Glibertarians.com and my banks are the only sites for which I don’t delete the cookies.

    Also Google Travel. Discovered that today, and it might be useful.

    1. MikeS

      Are you saying that you did it all for the cookie?

      1. BakedPenguin

        Gives a whole new meaning to “limp bizkit”

  32. Gustave Lytton

    https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1160184184947781632

    Someone is trying to end up with two self inflicted gunshots to the back of their political career

    1. LJW

      What determines something being labeled domestic terrorism?

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Can the perpetrator be labeled a white supremacist?

      2. Jarflax

        It being performed by a white supremacist, or reasonable facsimile?

      3. MikeS

        Wypipo

      4. Stinky Wizzleteats

        This is the graphic they’re getting this from I believe:

        https://www.scribd.com/document/421231343/Domestic-Terrorism-in-2018-pdf#from_embed

        It mentions individuals involved in 32 domestic terror incidents and the relationships they had with one another. It doesn’t say it represents all the domestic terror attackers from 2018 though.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          On further inspection, they very narrowly defined domestic terrorism. It’s almost like they wanted to end up with a certain result.

  33. CPRM

    (((They))) Tard(egrat)ed up the moon!

    1. Jarflax

      Goddamn it this explains why I never got the sea monkeys I ordered from that comic book back in 1978!

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Well, that, and the fact that the inventor of sea monkeys was a neo-Nazi.

        A Jewish neo-Nazi.

        1. Jarflax

          That is hilarious.

        2. CPRM

          So you’re saying Jewish neo-Nazi Sea Monkeys have a moon base; I smell a reboot!

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            America never had talent.

          2. Jarflax

            Oh yeah? I refute it thus

          3. Spudalicious

            Validated my first link.

  34. CPRM

    Dish Network, giving you Google spying whether you asked for it or not. I mean, all they’ll hear from me are some really loud farts, but any of you more seditious speaking folks, appears Dish Network wants you to drop them.

    1. westernsloper

      Well it is called the Hopper so loud farts are appropriate.

  35. Tulip

    I’ve been watching “The Booth at the End”. I like it.

    1. MikeS

      Spoiler alert: He kills Lincoln

      1. CPRM

        But, other than that, how was the play?

      2. CPRM

        I have read My American Cousin, and it was a laugh riot.

  36. DEG

    Rostam added that the explosion took place during the testing of an “isotope power source”.

    This wouldn’t have happened to Tom Swift.

    People getting killed in explosions while stealing fuel from incapacitated tankers are fairly frequent in East Africa, though the Saturday explosion is among the deadliest in Tanzania. Those stealing the fuel usually sell it to motorists for cheap.

    Hmm… I wonder if the petrol tax has anything to do with why stealing fuel and reselling it makes sense. 752 Shillings per liter is US $27.14 per gallon by my math.

  37. DEG

    I like Dogfish Head’s Espirit Malade better than Calvados.

  38. straffinrun

    Beta test for a Glib’s crossword. If you don’t like it, IGAF, but if you do…

    https://i.ibb.co/0yQDyDN/o-FLi-A1565491789.jpg

    1. CPRM

      the scrawled numbers give it a nice, “he was such a nice young man, I never imagined he could do something so sick and depraved” vibe.

      1. straffinrun

        It was either use text or just scrawl it. I figure scratching it out gave it a rustic look.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Dammit. I’m no good at crosswords and I’m stuck about 1/4 in.

      1. straffinrun

        Huh. I thought it would be too easy. That’s why I’m Beta testing it. BTW, has Rafa been around? Left at my friend’s bar at midnight. He wanted to stay and he’s an adult, so I went home. It’s kind of a crazy place. Hope he made it back all right.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I don’t think I’ve seen him, but haven’t necessarily noticed.

          1. straffinrun

            He’s scheduled to fly out today, so he’s probably quite busy. When Timeloose came out, we did an all nighter. Timeloose can drink me under the table, so that was fine. Not so sure about Rafa, though.

        2. Jarflax

          Missing a clue for 17 down.

          1. straffinrun

            Damn. Thanks. Make your own. The answer is “Peach”.

          2. Jarflax

            you also need a down clue for the 3 block column after 17 down. But so far I like it.

          3. Jarflax

            oops and also a 3 block down clue after 19 down. I think there are crossword maker apps that could assist.

          4. straffinrun

            Made it on my phone, so it’s slapdash. I’ll check out the maker apps later. Thanks for the feedback.

    3. MikeS

      So far, I like it. Got somewhere around a third of it done. Tomorrow, when there is less alcohol in my system, I’ll see if I can fill in some blanks.

    4. Rhywun

      I fucking suck at crosswords – I don’t think sideways. I know 12 Down, that’s it.

    5. leon

      That’s tough.

      4 down is clearly “woman” though.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Women, maybe?

        1. Jarflax

          Dildo (or at least that fits with the related clue and the 3rd letter is an L)

          1. Jarflax

            Im stuck on 13 and 14 across (well and other parts but if I get those I can likely solve the rest)

          2. straffinrun

            Think “Swedish car maker”

  39. I’ve been making my living room guest ready, and the damn thing is unrecognizable already.

    1. Note to self – do not use the couch as shelving in the future.

    2. straffinrun

      Installed the cameras and ropes?

      1. commodious spittoon

        Hand sanitizer dispenser. Automatic.

        Auto

        matic.

  40. Rhywun

    LOLOL

    “Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time,” a rep for Cyrus told People. “Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers. They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart. Please respect their process and privacy.”

    How heartwarming.

    1. Chafed

      If there was any doubt, we now know where she is on the hot/crazy spectrum.

      1. hayeksplosives

        Holy Hannah Montana

        Batshit and probably a vector for many STDs

        1. cyto

          Yeah, and now you’ve been warned. So for the next dude, it’s on you…


          “We’re redefining, to be f–king frank, what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship,” she told the magazine. “A big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person.”

          So this one is a wild weekend, not a relationship.

        2. Sir Digby (PBUH)

          #GuanoLove

    2. Sir Digby (PBUH)

      Oh, Miley—be sure and put your public sexual identity at the top of your priority list. That’s the ticket to a successful relationship.

      /poor bastard never had a chance.

  41. cyto

    Wanna throw some gasoline on a fire…. start up the propaganda machine…

    Here’s The Daily Beast on Epstein:


    Jeffrey Epstein is dead, and the world has ideas about how and why.

    What makes more sense? An evil man facing a lifetime behind bars taking the coward’s way out, or something darker?

    World-class political assassin Hillary Clinton could have performed a flawless HALO parachute jump onto the roof of the Manhattan Correctional Center, rappelled down the elevator shaft, infiltrated Epstein’s cell, killed him, and made a perfect getaway with her helmet of blonde hair perfectly in place and not a single stain on her tactical pantsuit.

    1. cyto

      Clinton people are starting to pop up all over the place saying that Russian Bots are to blame for spreading rumors about Clinton and Epstein.

  42. Sir Digby (PBUH)

    God, it’s like a ghost town around here! Like, who died and lef—::reads links::

    Oh. Huh. Well, who’s got a funny pro-2A link, then?

    1. Festus

      I’m here but I have my joyous double-shift Sunday today. Can’t hang out to snark.