This time, we can’t blame it on Brett going on a bender. It’s possible, mind you, but not necessarily so. I’ll fill in the breach, though, despite being in so much of a flustered rush, I haven’t been able to spend any time here for a couple days. Mostly good (other than the draining Mom-care)- I’m in my third round of interviews at two different companies. So maybe, just maybe, I might soon be employed again. That will call for a bottle of our finest Champagne, which is pretty fine Champagne. But we’re not there yet… And my apologies for breaking the Japanese string today.
Birthdays are here, though, including the baseball player with one of the greatest names ever; a great cartoonist whose kindness to my father before Dad’s death will never be forgotten in my family; a quiet kinda guy, kept to himself, nice to all the neighborhood kids; and the great carpenter Ralph Monroe.
News, yeah.
“See, it’s easy. First, you kill 20 or 30 million of your citizens…”
Minnesoda Nice. The comments are as expected, but possibly accurate.
I usually don’t put up parody links, but this one was too funny. Poor Snopes, they’re in a battle of wits and unarmed.
Ahh, Chicago. You really do have the best politicians.
Pakistan rewrites the laws of physics.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Speaking of which, the insanity, it burns!
Old Guy Music is a song from my youth that, when Steve Miller stole it, he didn’t even bother filing off the serial number.
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The new Math!
Howdy!
First?
New math says, NO!
*snort*
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
I really enjoyed that one as well.
Left a reply to you on the previous thread.
I wonder if Snopes is going to fact-check the BB’s story.
“Heroic Mulatto hardest hit.”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
https://www.instagram.com/myfriendpaige/
Third!
Or fourth.
Or fifth, according to Joe.
??
All I have to say is Never, Ever Give Up Your Guns.
Ever.
Actually relevant for once.
Local band
https://youtu.be/w4p42GfN638
I remember the stories out of Bosnia where snipers would set up with a view of any water source and pick off anyone including women who tried to get water.
“For similar reasons, a good calibre of handgun is the 9mm. And a good style of 9mm semi-auto handgun is the Glock. Again, why? Because it is very frequently carried by police and other minions of the state, because being able to use the same calibre of ammo and the same magazines, or pick up a weapon from a battlefield to continue fighting is potentially going to save your life. These are serious considerations, and you don’t want to be unarmed. Ever.”
I still hate those things.
They’re ugly and their triggers suck but they work and are a great value.
They are not my go to, but I still own several.
I keep my 22 nearby at home with a light on it. Hard to argue with 15 rounds of .40.
I hate Glocks. But if I needed to pick one up off the street and use it, I could.
I honestly don’t get the Glock hate. They shoot just fine for me — and I’m a CZ gun hipster.
I hate trigger safeties with the heat of a 1,000 suns.
I don’t like shooting them at all. I also have a CZ which is so much easier and more comfortable to shoot well. And no less reliable than a Flock.
I fired a lot of pistols from the rental cabinet at the range before settling on 1911s. I found the Springfield XD9 and S&W M&P9 to be very nice pistols with decent triggers and good accuracy. So I am not totally biased against striker-fired pistols.
But everything about the Glock sucks with the trigger and the sights being about the worst on any pistol I shot.
I hate Glocks
I enjoy shooting other pistols more, but I think Glock is the solid EDC choice. I’m certainly open: Is there any alternative that is as safe?
Has this Bill Kristol smackdown made the rounds.
It’s on point as a response.
https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1168578402032521219
I hate Bill Kristol. He’s an opportunist piece of shit.
Years ago I just viewed him as a typical neocon. Now with full blown TDS we get to truly see him for what he is.
Oh even before TDS he was whoring himself out to whichever party would support his forever wars. Bush doesn’t want to attack Iran? Maybe I’ll move to the Democrats camp.
So, who’s the biggest Neocon dirtbag of all time? John McCain? Hillary? Bill Kristol? Max Boot?
Boot wins for the name alone.
I’d argue McCain did the most damage.
I hate them all.
“I’d argue McCain did the most damage.”
I’d actually give the win to Hillary for her intentional destabilization of the ME during her tenure as SOS, not that McCain didn’t have his grubby paws all over that as well.
McCain’s torpedoing of Obamacare repeal makes him near the top of my list.
Communism is a human software virus based on greed, envy and a conviction that Darwinian violence is the sole arbiter of how human societies are regulated. Like all such economically illiterate and morally depraved creeds, they fail.
They always fail; hence, it must spread to the next victim-host to be devoured, driven into the stone-age and stack piles of corpses.
Rinse and repeat.
*applause*
Yes… that was … beautiful …
Seconded
Also, China didn’t “solve poverty”. By American standards, 90% of the country is in poverty. My sister did a school semester in Shanghai. Her host family was two doctors. They lived in a one bedroom apartment. Once a month they had enough money to visit their favorite restaurant — KFC. One time the power went out in half the city for a week and it was winter.
It depends on your definition of poverty.
And the real reason China makes all our shit is just because they are the lowest bidder. Of the country’s with enough manufacturing, that’s where human life has the least value.
You never hear the Chinese government complaining about how much poverty they have, do you? Case closed.
I had a professor at Memphis State (who was involved in the Tianamen Square protests) who was pro-democracy who openly said that one of the problems any government in China has is what to do about the rural population.
According to him the farmers in the country were so poor and lived in such horrible conditions that if they were given freedom they would stream into the cities to take any job because it was better than farming by hand. The problem is that if you allowed that, the cities would become hell holes too. But there was so much poverty in the country there was no way you could deliver goods and services to them fast enough to stop the swarm.
He said that the poverty in the country is never quantified by any government reports so it goes unnoticed by outsiders. Everyone in the Chinese government knows about it though.
That was back in the early ’90s. No idea how much that might have changed since then.
I was in Guangzhou in the middle 00s. I saw crews of a couple dozen women stooped over using hand shears to cut the grass in the median on the highway. This is how they kept people in the cities “employed”.
Definitely still a thing to have lots and lots of manual gardeners (in the medians, traffic islands, etc.)
I visited a China coastal city for my work in 2012, and saw a number of people “employed” to keep the streets clean.
He fails to mention it was capitalism and free trade that brought so many out of poverty. It doesn’t take much to show improvement when you start out sucking that bad.
“Also, China didn’t “solve poverty”. By American standards, 90% of the country is in poverty.”
^this^
Re the mouse and whataburger. They continued to work with it roaming around?!?!
Not surprised a bit. Having worked on IoT projects in restaurants a lot, I am not surprised by anything. Kitchens are filthy places and most people working there really don’t care.
I’d bet you that if there wasn’t a manager there, they just kept frying in there because no one would voluntarily clean that up. If you did, you would be the low man on the totem pole and get all the shit jobs thereafter.
So. Why do we eat in these places then?
Mice droppings are no joke.
Because you don’t know for sure what shenanigans are going on there. You just hope that the place you are eating isn’t like the place you worked at as a kid.
Mic droppings often are, however.
/punches Mike S. in the stomach.
*Muppet punches are like getting hit with a feather.
Mice droppings? I thought those were poppy seeds.
Sanders is a despicable jerk off.
Walmart Discontinues Auto Part Sales To Prevent Car Accidents
In a bold move intended to curb the thousands of deaths from vehicles each and every day, Walmart has decided to stop selling auto parts, sources confirmed Tuesday.
According to shocking reports, people have purchased car parts at Walmart and then those cars have been involved in accidents, proving a direct correlation between selling auto parts and causing deaths.
“We can no longer be complicit in an industry that kills over 3,000 people a day,” said a spokesperson for Walmart. “Every time we sell a muffler, steering wheel cover, or flame decal, we are potentially causing the death of a person, and we cannot support that any longer.”
“It’s clear that bad drivers and poor road conditions don’t cause vehicular deaths—cars do.”
Walmart executives said they are beating themselves with a stick to atone for the deaths they’ve already caused.
“Our consciences will only be clean when we’ve been mercilessly beaten once for each of the millions of deaths that have been caused by automobiles since Walmart began selling auto parts,” said one executive before solemnly beginning to beat himself with a baseball bat.
They are on fire.
“a great cartoonist whose kindness to my father before Dad’s death will never be forgotten in my family”
OMWC, you really should expand on these stories.
I always liked Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois. Just plain fun cartoons.
They’re honestly not that interesting and although I don’t go out of my way to keep my IRL identity a deep secret, making it too easy to directly find might be a bridge too far, especially while I’m in job-hunt mode.
It might be a good idea not to take the van.
Gotcha.
keep my IRL identity a deep secret
Are you trying to tell me that when you and SP met Leap and I in Minneapolis, that really wasn’t you sitting at the table? You just hired some homeless bum to stand in for you? And the bum had a wire and would simply relay your responses?
That explains how you were able to steal my bike!
Or maybe that was really you in the Wonder Dog suit? Which makes Leap’s red rocket antics even more disturbing.
It’s turtles all the way down!
If you have a chance, though, get a copy of “Backstage At The Strips,” an absolutely delightful and hilarious book. It inspired my dad (who was an extremely talented artist with some regular cartoon gigs) to meet Walker, and indeed he did. And Walker started putting the word out to his contacts that my dad should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, his untimely death happened before any of that came to fruition.
Ah. The backstory I was looking for. Cool.
You mention cartoonists a lot and I always wondered how does he know so many details about the art form?
There you go.
Speaking of random backstories – this was a fun read (although apparently OOP now): https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Mizzou-Life-Beyond-Comics/dp/1500102164/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=columbia+missouri+milt+caniff&qid=1567544207&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0
Too bad it was so racist.
I remember that
I laughed.
So, the Post wants to take the position that reason and civility no longer have a place in our society and are just racist attempts to stop progress. I don’t think they’ve thought that one sufficiently through. This doesn’t end well for anybody. But, I think it’s fair to say that the folks at the Post just might not be too keen on the other side dropping those values.
Another thing they’ve take to saying (and I have no idea what to classify such people anymore so I’ll just stick to asswipes or progs) is you shouldn’t mock people.
Mocking is seen as unacceptable. Which, I suppose means they hate satire.
They simply want to shut down speech.
Mocking is seen as unacceptable.
Except they never miss a chance to mock people, even if incompetently. It’s only them who are supposed to be above mockery. The bottom line, and their intellectuals say it, is that their entire game is power. They aim to rule over others. And things like reason, civility or satire, are checks on that power.
You want to see what they want? Take a look at China during the Cultural Revolution. The only thing stopping them from it is a lack of full social sanction. And they’re doing everything in their power to attain that.
Question is….are they making any headway?
Well, they seem to be getting it from elite institutions. Like every other time in history, they delude themselves that they’ll remain the mob’s masters and the mob’s wrath will only be turned against their enemies. The question I ponder is whether those elite institutions have lost enough credibility with the general public that they can no longer bring them to power.
I’m guessing no.
It takes a while before people do so. Think mainstream media. NYT and WaPo are still seen as ‘objective’ and ‘responsible’ journalism.
The average person isn’t going to look into Sarah Jeong’s hiring and even if they do they’ll just accept it as ‘the Times know what they’re doing’. That’s how much ‘credibility currency’ they have.
They’ll even tolerate the plagiarists, racists and the like who have been outed.
It’s strange. Happiness is corporate media?
Then, ultimately, we’re all screwed. It’ll get very bad until it falls in on itself because it’s unsustainable.
Rusty Kuntz is a better name.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kuntzru01.shtml
The best mix of funny name and team played for might be this
Dick Pole!
I’m surprised this name hasn’t been posted, I’m not sure there will ever be a dirtier one
Howdy, Old Man!
I hope you get to crack that bottle soon!
Love that video – Paul Rodgers is clearly an amazing singer, but I still like that song better than anything Bad Co. ever did. It brings to mind another gem from that era.
In a Rush documentary, they talked about how part of the reason they kicked out the original drummer was Alex and Geddy wanted to be more like Yes and he wanted to be more like Bad Company.
Too bad they kicked him out.
I guess that’s why I can’t tell the difference between Yes and Rush (I dislike both).
I am big fans of both, but they aren’t that similar. I mean, yeah, they are both prog rock, but they are at kinda different ends of the prog spectrum.
Agree. Tom Sawyer was probably the closet Rush got to Yes.
Since I never liked either one, I never learned to differentiate.
If you don’t care about listening to beautiful melodies with some of the best musicians on the planet backing it up then Rush is a lot better band than Yes.
“Yes and Rush (I dislike both).”
**Writes kinnath’s name in the naughty ledger**
**mutters”There is no accounting for some people’s bad taste”
;^)
Too bad they didn’t keep the drummer and instead replace Geddy with someone who could sing.
I guess they made the right decision seeing how much of a giant cult band they are.
But not a fan of prog rock like Yes. I don’t mind it and even own quite a few prog records. I suppose it also explains why though I enjoy some of Rush’s music (and thought they were fabulous live) I never took to them like I may other groups.
Great stuff though. Love the climax to ‘Necromancer’.
Teenage wasteland by the who, identical
Baba O’Riley
They made a choice.
Saw Bad Company without Rodgers years ago and the guy who replaced him was actually really good. I was amazed at how many yutes were at that show.
Did they feel like making love?
My wife did after the show:)
Get a load of shooting star over there.
As G-d is my witness, when were were still just playing strip clubs and the like, we saw a stripper dance to that. Oh, how we all laughed!
I think it’s amazing Rodgers can still belt it out. What’s he like 100 or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MzJrEhmRLM
“China is a country that is moving, unfortunately, in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions,” Sanders said. “But what we have to say about China in fairness to China and its leadership is, if I’m not mistaken, they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization. So they’ve done a lot of things for their people.”
Yes, they are “moving” that way. It is definitely a recent development… Never mind that collectivism such as socialism/communism require authoritarianism.
The Great Leap Forward was a wonderful thing. Who’s against leaping forward?
Lemmings?
Yeah, TIananmen Square happened in 89 but you know ,China is only now regrettably moving in an authoritarian direction.
I was on a tour in China in 88. They took us to a “modern village’ to show off how well China was combating poverty. It was the creepiest place of pure propaganda I’ve ever visited. Granted, I’m sure the villagers there were, in fact, better off there, than in Random Rice Farming Village in the hinterland, but it was also basically the Village from The Prisoner. You could sense that everyone there was being forced to perform for us, especially the people whose homes we were “invited” to share, and their behavior was monitored. Its impact on us was probably the exact opposite of what was intended, since we didn’t leave the village thinking “wow communism is great for farming villages” but more “wow communism is super creepy”.
https://boingboing.net/2014/07/08/north-koreas-creepy-fake-civ.html
You can mock Bernie. But, he just said what all the presidential candidates already think. You’re more likely to find praise for China than any kind of criticism among American elites.
Uffda. Shots fired at the Great Minnesoda Get Together might be just the thing to get pols to finally pass gun control laws. You don’t fuck with THE State Fair.
“Here is the @WalmartInc press release making the announcement about discontinuing ammunition sales. The CEO’s description of ammunition and firearms is bizarrely incoherent. Great to know they put zero effort into learning about the products they sell.”
https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1168944158360424451
“McMillon to Associates: Our Next Steps in Response to the Tragedies in El Paso and Southaven
We’ve been giving a lot of thought to our sale of firearms and ammunition. We’ve previously made decisions to stop selling handguns or military-style rifles such as the AR-15, to raise the age limit to purchase a firearm or ammunition to 21, to require a “green light” on a background check while federal law only requires the absence of a “red light,” to videotape the point of sale for firearms and to only allow certain trained associates to sell firearms.
Today, we’re sharing the decisions we’ve made that go further:
After selling through our current inventory commitments, we will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber that, while commonly used in some hunting rifles, can also be used in large capacity clips on military-style weapons;
We will sell through and discontinue handgun ammunition; and
We will discontinue handgun sales in Alaska, marking our complete exit from handguns.
We know these decisions will inconvenience some of our customers, and we hope they will understand. As a company, we experienced two horrific events in one week, and we will never be the same. Our remaining assortment will be even more focused on the needs of hunting and sport shooting enthusiasts. It will include long barrel deer rifles and shotguns, much of the ammunition they require, as well as hunting and sporting accessories and apparel. We believe these actions will reduce our market share of ammunition from around 20% to a range of approximately 6 to 9%. We believe it will likely drift toward the lower end of that range, over time, given the combination of these changes.”
https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2019/09/03/mcmillon-to-associates-our-next-steps-in-response-to-the-tragedies-in-el-paso-and-southaven
Walmart really doesn’t like its customer base, do they?
LOL
If this was about anything more than signaling, they would immediately cease all sales of all weapons and ammunition.
Fuckheads.
But great news for Fleet Farm!
Uffda. That does suck. I like our Walmart for a lot of things (I’ve never bought ammo from them). Now I feel like I need to stop shopping there.
Fun fact: It is much, much, much easier to buy a deer tag at Walmart than it is at Fleet Farm. Last year the bitch at FF tried to tell me that it was against the law for me to buy a license for my kid (because he was over 18). She did it because she was sick of manning the customer service desk and didn’t want to help anyone. Went next door to Walmart and there was no line and the old codger working in sporting goods and I had a nice chat about his deer camp while I bought all the tags I wanted.
Fleet Farm never even responded to the email I sent them telling them what a pos they had working at their store.
They got sold. It’s no longer Mills. My kid said the changes have not been very positive.
I buy most of my ammo there, though.
Still the cheapest, most convenient groceries for me (80% or so)…fresh fruit from Harris Teeters.
Stuff like this always sucks…but for convenience/affordability, not always a lot of options.
Went into Field and Stream last week while waiting for a movie – picked up a couple boxes of ammo and some targets before I actually made the connection that they were part of Dicks. May still go back because the location is convenient, but with online stuff, I’ll probably be able to get more that way anyways – no accessories on hand for my pistol, so not much use there.
I would hate to be the sporting goods buyers. 9mm was a top 20 item. Huge volume with good margin. That’s going to hurt.
I wish I had kept up with former coworkers to ask how they felt about it. I was the odd one out on the teams I worked with at the home office. I didn’t have my concealed carry license.
Some of the cheap ammo I’ve bought online has been in an overbox stamped “Walmart.”
I wonder if there’s going to be a temporary drop in prices online as the manufacturers need to find new buyers.
From an economic standpoint, Walmart getting out of the gun market is probably a good thing. That 20% of the ammunition market share will be picked up by Brownells and LuckyGunner and SGAmmo, all of whom sell ammunition at comparable prices, with much better selection and service, and who are actually part of the gun culture.
From a sociopolitical standpoint, I hate it when the antis claim a scalp. It just makes them that much harder to shut down in the future. But at the same time, the ‘Hells yeah borther!’ segment of Facebook and Twitter is already plenty spun up, and they’re not shy about boycotting shit they don’t like. Whether it makes a difference in the long run, that’s anyone’s guess.
Sounds like you got it OMWC. Finally the girls of AZ will get at least a small break. Good luck, hope you get enough of a raise to keep SP in bubble gum and ice cream.
It’s definitely not definite. Company A is here in the area and does less interesting work, but I got past a phone interview with the president, and will do on-site interviews shortly. Company B would require a move, is well outside of where I have direct professional experience, and I still have to get past the president to get an on-site interview. It’s a dream job, but lots of hurdles ahead.
I always wanted to say in response to ‘where do you see yourself in five years?’ with ‘in bed with your wife?’
Or.
I flipped that around in a job interview I had, which landed me where I am today. Near the end of the interview, I was asked if I had any questions and for some reason the folloring reply popped into my head. “Where do you want to be five years from now and how can I help you get there?”
I’m stealing that.
Do was asked that when interviewing right out of grad school. I said that I was at a cross road and could imagine several futures and that as I was interviewing I was evaluating those options. In other words, I said, in a nice way, that I thought the question was stupid. I still got multiple offers.
A friend was in a job interview that had the standard, “So, tell us a little about yourself.”
Friend said that in his mind the only thing he could come up with was, “I was born a poor, black child.”
Well, I’m sure it will all work out well in the end. I know that shit is stressful in the meantime though.
Hopefully things move a little quicker for you. I had my last interview 10 days ago, was promised an answer by the end of last week, and today the recruiter said he’d check with the manager to see if they have a decision. They did want some examples of my work last week, which probably means they are interested, but also interested in someone else too. All this waiting sucks.
Best wishes.
Thanks, all. As a new product development guy, my easy answer to the “Where do you see yourself in five years?” question is, “In the job you hired me for, but now your company is twice as big.”
Yours is better.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Castro looks like an extra in a movie with an asylum scene. The one who just laughs at whatever is going on because they’re that spazzed out.
Wang looks like he just found out he failed the Blood Test.
https://thething.fandom.com/wiki/Blood_Test_Thing
the rest of us are still pre-occupied with the video of Flume eating his girlfriend’s ass, or at least sticking his nose in it, while on a stage at the event.
No need to be pre-occupied. If watching videos like that interest you, I’m certain you can find a lot of them on Pornhub.
Late update to the Tear gas and liquid nitrogen twitter that disappeared: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1168895531260743680
Hey LT. This came up on my Google feed today.
https://www.ammoland.com/2019/09/gun-deals-psa-pa15-m4-carbine-556-classic-ar-15-rifle/
Thanks, but I think I’ll stick with the ones at classicfirearms.com once I get my FFL filed this weekend in Richmond – really want the classic iron sights.
Cool!
his twitter feed is a big pile of dumb.
I was just waiting for them to go there. Didn’t take lone. Now, start scolding those pesky Hong Kong protesters, Grandpa Gulag.
My personal high moment in life was coming up with Grandpa Gulag at Reason.
That was supposed to be a reply to Bernie’s China comment.
“Heroic Mulatto hardest hit.”
“Mojeaux hardest hit.”
Does this mean we’re getting our family friendly status back?
“Bloomberg’s Ben Penn just slimed a government employee for his hilarious joke at Paul Nehlen’s expense
A Labor Department official has resigned following supposed “revelations” he published anti-Semitic messages on his Facebook page three years ago. The former official published no such thing.
The story is a fabrication, concocted entirely by a Bloomberg News reporter who is either maliciously dishonest or exceptionally obtuse. Any intelligent person could tell right away that the Facebook posts were not anti-Semitic at all. They were, in fact, meant to mock the anti-Semitic views of fringe right-wingers who hate former Speaker Paul Ryan.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg News published a report titled, “Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface.” Ah, yes. “Surface.” The three-year-old remarks, which have been deleted, merely dropped into the reporter’s lap.
The report, authored by journalist Ben Penn, claims conservative attorney Leif Olson trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes on his Facebook page in 2016. But then one reads what Olson wrote that year, and it becomes clear the Bloomberg News article provides a grotesque and dishonest misrepresentation of what happened….
Olson has resigned from his post at the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division following Penn’s inquires to White House officials. That is really a shame.
The Bloomberg News journalist, who did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment, defended his article Tuesday, saying in a note on Twitter, “This is the latest in a series of mishaps under the Trump administration personnel vetting system.” He added, “What makes this one remarkable is that Olson’s Facebook page was public to his non-friends. Any cursory screening of his social media accounts could’ve uncovered the anti-Semitism.”
Between this bogus Bloomberg News article and the Washington Post op-ed accusing J.D. Vance of being a white nationalist, I am beginning to think they don’t teach reading comprehension in journalism school anymore.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bloombergs-ben-penn-just-slimed-a-government-employee-for-his-hilarious-joke-at-paul-nehlens-expense
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1168956876047994881
And this is why I’m looking forward to the efforts to dig up dirt on media figures with relish.
“My fellow journalist @jpodhoretz is DMing me that I’m a “miserable prick” and a “repugnant child.” All over this piece:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-labor-aide-quits-after-anti-semitic-facebook-posts-surface ”
https://twitter.com/benjaminpenn/status/1168888701939851269
But you are, Blanche, you *are* a miserable prick!
“Benjamin Penn: I didn’t say it was anti-Semitism. I just sent the screenshot asking for a comment.
Also Benjamin Penn: It was definitely anti-Semitism.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1168886673989603330
“Fact check: you are a miserable prick and a repugnant child. Learn to spin a cardboard sign outside a mattress store.”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1168892826844897286
Never ever apologize.
Nothing to see here, just another supposedly evenhandled “journalist” running with a story that was almost certainly delivered to him by Media Matters or some other similar leftist agitprop outfit.
Gee, why do people hate the media?
WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE DUDE’S NAME IS “BEN PENN”? WHEN DID CARTOON NETWORK CHARACTERS BECOME REAL?
I’m surprised that Google, Twitter, and Facebook have not teamed up yet in an attempt to ‘buy the internet’. You know, to save us from all the hate speech.
They tried. It was call “Net Neutrality”.
Well, it does appear quite urgent that they save us from that Bablyon Bee menace. Because you know, that there stuff, that is ‘Deep Fake’. Sort of like the ‘Dark Web’. And all that is the same as ‘hate speech’. I mean no one has a URL for it or knows how you get to it, or how it’s done, or how to define it, or exactly what it is. But we must be saved from it.
“Congratulations to “online disinformation” alarmists who gave implicit approval to this new Pentagon initiative to “detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society””
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1168929767875317761
“U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to U.S. security that the Defense Department is launching a project to repel “large-scale, automated disinformation attacks,” as the top Republican in Congress blocks efforts to protect the integrity of elections.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants custom software that can unearth fakes hidden among more than 500,000 stories, photos, video and audio clips. If successful, the system after four years of trials may expand to detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-31/u-s-unleashes-military-to-fight-fake-news-disinformation
“U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation”
They should just go back to fighting climate change. Because there is no amount of non-work the citizens cannot be taxed to pay for.
But what if taxes and the kind(s) of borrowing to be repaid by taxes were illegal?
Illegal taxes, LOL, you made a funny! Best study your FYTW clause of the Constitution, the most important part.
Here is some more ‘funny.’ The big ideas:
If you like your government program, you can keep your government program, so long as the funding for it in voluntary.
If you like your nanny state and its victimless punishable offenses, you can keep your nanny state, but participation is voluntary. You can fly the airline which requires all its passengers to be screened by TSA or fly a competitor that does not. Your entity other than household (church, business, and so on) can apply or not for certification from the EPA as eco-friendly and have to act accordingly to keep its certification.
Offenses with identifiable victims are no so voluntary. Whether or not they should all be handled as civil cases by arbitration and/or mediation or some as criminal is negotiable.
There will be a governmental court to backstop the arbitration and mediation, but standing has to do with whether or not the parties to the arbitration and mediation and the arbitrators and mediators acted in good faith; whether or not the process failed to begin because they were unreasonable about agreeing to arbitrator and/or mediator; and other that sort of thing.
We know these decisions will inconvenience some of our customers, and we hope they will understand. As a company, we experienced two horrific events in one week, and we will never be the same.
Unless/until somebody goes into a Walmart and takes a gun out of the showcase, loads it, and starts shooting the other shoppers with it, I will maintain the store inventory has fuck-all to do with “gun safety” and “active shooter” events.
How in the fuck does this accomplish anything?
*Other than possibly cutting the legs out from under the
shareholder activistsgrandstanding anitgunner assholes who show up at the annual meeting with media in tow.They’ll just pick something new to grandstand about. Capitulating to them is the best way to lose.
Exactly. As I note above, they’re about power. Giving them what they want won’t do anything but prove to them that you can be had. Because they aren’t in it about the guns. The guns are a pretext. Now, they’ll find a new pretext and demand even more.
WalMart does realize that this isn’t going to help them set-up shop in cities, right? They realize that their customer base remains largely rural?
Their share price is in for a rude awakening
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz over the latest burst of gun violence in the city, claiming Monday that Chicago’s decades-long crime problem is actually the fault of Republican-run states like Indiana – because they don’t have “commonsense gun legislation” in place.
You say “commonsense” but I hear “unconstitutional. And guns don’t pull their own triggers.
“Republican-run states like Indiana”
Just when you think you’ve been joking about something all this time, they go there for real.
Yep, it’s all due to us backwards Republican hicks, with our low taxes and balanced budget and whatnot.
Sure is strange that Houston has less stringent gun control than Chicago with a comparable population (except they’re still growing), yet nowhere near the same murder rate
Well look how far Houston is from Indiana, deploranazi!
Houston hat tip:
https://athenagunclub.com/
My son bought his pistol there.
Great pistol show-room. Decent range with dozens of pieces for rent-and-run.
“and the great carpenter Ralph Monroe.”
Monroe “brothers,” Ralph is a male name, dressed as a male carpenter, by-birth female. Transsexual lesbian, not tomboy.
sanders-china-has-done-more-to-solve-poverty-than-any-country-in-the-history-of-civilization
Option 1: How do you tell when an elected politician is lying? The politician’s lips are moving.
Option 2: He actually believes it.
Do either option lead to President Bernie Sanders being preferable to President Donald Trump?
This assumes President OMWC is not an option.
minnesota-state-fair-shooting-car-crash-4-injured
Better than 4 dead?
biden-claims-that-225-snopes-rates-mostly-true
walmart-discontinues-sale-of-auto-parts-to-prevent-car-accidents
It is babylonbee.com, so fake news.
edm-djs-respond-to-video-of-flume-eating-ass-at-burning-man/
No tasteful, suitable for public, comment
heres-a-language-bot-just-doing-its-best-to-write-filth
The human brain contains finite numbers of neurons, glia, and so on. What happens when computers with human-level computational complexity are manufactured?
chicago-mayor-clashes-with-cruz
Do you expect Alyssa Milano to fight a social media war with Ted Cruz by herself?
have-nuclear-bombs-as-small-as-150-250-grams-says-pakistan-minister
Even assuming that would work, what’s the explosive yield? It’s past 14 August this year, so let’s see what one can do on 31 Dec 2019 during a fireworks display. Will anyone even notice?
video-shows-rodent-leaping-into-deep-fryer-at-whataburger
If true: Rodent should not have been in kitchen to get to the deep fryer. In a libertarian society, people would be free to choose whether or not to partake of the establishment until they are persuaded that the situation is corrected. If the establishment has been certified by a governmental or nongovernmental entity, the establishment’s certification would be in jeopardy and would have to choose between decertification and taking appropriate remedial action.
conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too
WaPo and “conservatives say.” Not even bothering with that link.
“Old Guy Music is a song from my youth”
1970? That is less than 50 years ago. OMWC was young then?
1992-bosnian-holocaust-survivor-warns-america-never-give-their-guns
Consider Donation Not Taxation warned.
“Here is the @WalmartInc press release making the announcement about discontinuing ammunition sales. The CEO’s description of ammunition and firearms is bizarrely incoherent. Great to know they put zero effort into learning about the products they sell.”
https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1168944158360424451
https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2019/09/03/mcmillon-to-associates-our-next-steps-in-response-to-the-tragedies-in-el-paso-and-southaven
Whether or not he knows that stuff is probably irrelevant to whether or not he keeps his job.
bloombergs-ben-penn-just-slimed-a-government-employee-for-his-hilarious-joke-at-paul-nehlens-expense
Reminds me of the recent story and retraction about Russian co-signers on one or more Trump loan(s). Are these outliers or are we starting an age where the ‘respectable’ media does not even pretend that they are trying to be factual?
Thanks, Ken.
?
Apparently “?” was not clear enough. Would someone please explain this subthread? What does “Thanks, Ken.” mean in this context?
They are asking what frequency you listen to.
They are asking what frequency you listen to.
The squirrels, that is.
Dan Rather = Count Potato = a squirrel. Got it. Thanks, Not Adahn.
Take a gander over to TOS and look for a commenter named “Ken Schultz”. He is well known for his walls of text posts.
Thanks, The Bearded Hobbit. IMHO, the above is not a TOS Ken Schultz style post. It came in at less than 300 words.
You’re on to something…
Heh.
“CBS News Correspondent Mireya Villarreal on the Odessa assailant: “He had been calling the police and the FBI *for years* leaving these incoherent messages””
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1168916399550607360
Look, the proper response to the Odessa shooting is that everyone fired from his job will frog-marched from the premises and put into “protective custody” until professional therapists convince a judge that he or she is not a danger to the community.
This guy was loony toons. Getting fired had nothing to do with it.
If Walmart is planning to alter their business model based on an internal decision-making process, they are free to do so. Target doesn’t sell guns or ammo; it’s a business decision. If they begin to lobby for gun control like Dick’s, that will piss me off.
I’ll bet those greedy bastards at Walmart are still selling pool chemicals, encouraging you to let your 3 year old drown in the backyard.
In addition to not knowing if Walmart will lobby anti-2A, also do not know if (there is precedent for this, such as Walmart and Duck Dynasty merchandise) this is temporary for the virtue signaling and will quietly reintroduce the inventory later.
It wouldn’t surprise me. This sounds like a decision coming from the largely foreign executive level. It has a 36 hour attention span.
“It wouldn’t surprise me” either.
Nerds!
Keep our name out of your mouth
Ms. Lightfoot, the only time your city’s name enters my mouth is as a warning. Or a punchline.
“You shut your filthy whore mouth, Indiana!”
Imagine being the mayor of a City whose recent budget deficit represents 18% of your total revenues; where the murder rate is comparable to a third world country, and where you are expected to lose close to ten percent of your population in the next census and you think you have the “high ground” to lecture others.
Where do these people get their balls?
all your data is correct
but her reasoning is reversed because the target audience is home, not away; she couldn’t care less what we think, and why should she
so the goal is to detract from these problems by assigning responsibility to others because everyone being responsible for themselves isn’t a suitable system . . . so say the losers
Lightfoot is the first “yuppie mayor”. Her and Preckwinkle essentially split the yuppie areas of the City during the first run and then she won in the runoff because voters outside of the rich gated communities couldn’t stomach Preckwinkle.
Chicago went from the City of Broad Shoulders to the City of Skinny Wrists and Men With Infinity Scarves in a matter of roughly twenty years.
This is also key to understanding Putin.
Americans always think everything is about themselves.
“where the murder rate is comparable to a third world country, and where you are expected to lose close to ten percent of your population in the next census”
I’d guess Baltimore, but 10% population loss would be more like the next 12 months.
Or when you want to watch a fun musical?
Or when you watch team sports?
Or when you sing along to Sinatra?
Or when you have a craving for some Malort?
Or when you want some delicious doughy pizza?
Or when you want a hot dog with tomatoes and a pickle?
Or when you watch The Fugitive?
You forgot Old Style and Italian Beef
https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1167900642242727936
You may be “woke”, but are you “woke” enough to go on a vacation to Morocco and then lecture a man at a market about how he is a bad person for keeping chickens in a cage?
I think I finally understand what this “privilege” thing is all about. Seems like it’s the privilege of woke whites to lecture down to everyone else.
Anyways, this has a happy ending, as this woman’s antics have enraged Moroccans who want her deported. Her life is probably endanger now and I find that to be hilarious.
So cultural relativism isn’t a thing anymore? Or it’s only a thing that’s used against the “wrong” people?
If you read The New Yorker you would understand why this woman is “brave” and the man selling the chickens in a market is actually “privileged”.
I find gentry liberalism to be hilarious. Primarily because it is completely devoid of self-awareness.
That’s extra special.
With sauce….
My wife got robbed right in broad daylight in Morocco, by an airline employee. And no one did anything SHITHOLE.
But, chickens, Hyperion- there were fucking chickens in cages. I don’t understand what you are not grasping about this woman’s great moral convictions?
SHE. IS. BRAVE.
It’s like the people who were lecturing poor Africans about the hunter killing a lion who had a name. I forget what network the interview was on, but it didn’t go as script. The guy says ‘It was a lion? A lion ate 2 of my friends, the only good lion is a dead on’. First world problems.
Christ, what an asshole.
I find gentry liberalism to be hilarious. Primarily because it is completely devoid of self-awareness.
It’s not racist to give black people a helping hand. It’s racist to think they are capable of standing on their own two feet.
“Completely Tone Deaf”: How Venice Became the F-You Film Festival
Legends
I mean duh and/or hello.
What the fuck? I love those filthy Italians now
No kidding. They expected Italians to care about MeToo? Freddo, please.
I was informed that “Fredo” is offensive name for Italians. That’s why my local Italian restaurant sells “Pasta al-‘n-word’”
Janine Jackowski is much more attractive that I would have thought.
So, the editors decided to publish Tejicano’s article while I was at work.
Like their prohibition on me doing the links, this is more evidence for my complaint filed with the Office for Civil Rights.
cry more lib!
SHUT THE FUCK UP, CRUSTY!
賛成です。
私は応援していますよ。
^This guy gets it^
Scene: Glib HQ, sometime in 2018
Unnamed Shadowy Cabal Member: Oh wow, Mr. Mulatto, we’d be HONORED to have you do links for us. Our only stipulation is that “Links” can’t mean 16 hours of twerk videos followed by 15 seconds of teenagers fucking a fish while laughing hysterically. Other than that please use, Glibs as a canvas.
HM: […] *receiver clicks*
USCM: Hello? Mr. Mulatto? I think we may have been disconnected. *calls back*
THE SUBSCRIBER YOU ARE TRYING TO REACH HAS BLOCKED THIS NUMBER
/fin
so what is the proper amount of twerking?
/ laughing uncontrollably
Lies.
I wanted to upload the snake video.
Snake Plissken rules!
My (22f) fiance (25m) want his father to check my hymen tomorrow night before I get married. https://buff.ly/2LbMybn
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
“His father told him it was a good idea for him to check first”
The math checks out. I’d tell her to do it, and then sell the video to Pr0nHub
The people who built this country smoked ciggies, so why aren’t you following their lead?
Answer, libs!
I mean….yes?
Founder of conversion therapy organization comes out as gay and apologizes
Who say that one coming?
Pretty sure it’s a repeat of something similar happening 10-15 years ago – don’t remember the org at the time.
In the future, we will all assert that we’re gay in order to avoid being un-personed. That was literally Kevin Spacey’s first response when he was accused of pedophilia for a reason
It has happened every few years as these organizations have crumbled. You’re *probably* thinking of John Paulk of Exodus International. The current story is a guy who was running a group cobbled together from the ashes of Exodus International when it folded in 2013.
Or maybe Ted “I bought the meth from the rentboy, but I threw it away” Haggard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard
I am still struggling to wrap my brain around the idea that there is no Gay Gene.
At least tell me there’s a Gay Larry or a Gay Stanley.
I can assure you there is at least one Gay Gene.
Inside the elite, detail-obsessed world of the people who judge the Oscars of classic cars
Overweight white men in Navy blazers run this country, and God-willing that won’t change.
I like the golf course,
I WILL BE BOYCOTTING WAL-MART BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT AMERICA AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT! I HAVE RIGHTS!
Quit yelling, it looks bad on you
BUT I AM ANGRY!
Dood. You’re running around naked with a backpack strapped to you. Just how angry can you be?
If this is temporary for the virtue signaling, will you un-boycott Walmart if they quietly reintroduce merchandise along the lines of wht the CEO is now saying Walmart will stop selling once they run out of their current inventory?
I just broke my Buck 870, the Locke sheared from the frame, So I picked up a cheap knife for 5 bucks while mine is repaired, thanks Walmart!
Sounds like a Paine in the ass.
It’s a Bastiat when that happens.
I Kant believe some of the pun threads that start here.
I Sartre can.
Hong Kong protesters do not use social media to coordinate their demonstrations or communicate with one another.
I think that’s probably the most damning indictment of social media companies
No one really wants to go to re-education camp.
The Uighurs would agree,
Reeducation camp can’t be all that different from undergraduate course work. Maybe less sex and drugs, but I imagine the course work is nearly identical
But the Uighurs get Free! Reeducation,
See?
“Free reeducation”
You mean like public schools? I could see that
And no one has to pay for it.
Looks like Dorian is finally moving again, at least a little. Some of the outer bands have come through central Florida (it’s raining outside now.) Hi Dorian, you can leave now.
Rain? That stuff that falls from the sky? I saw it once,……
Most dangerous, unprecedented, monstrous, behemoth, earth killing, civilization ending, apocalypse inducing, final end of all storm, since the last one?
On a scale of 1 to 10 how completely dead are you?
Hyp – to be fair, it did kind of mess up the Bahamas. But yeah, that one.
Urthona – about a 4. Again, being fair, that’s where I was before I’d heard of it.
Yusef: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAgUICswZuY
Every criticism of Chappelle’s stand-up special can basically be summed up in a single sentence: “mind your place, boy”.
But, they’re not racist. Just our betters
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dave_chappelle_sticks_and_stones
The people have spoken.
Wow. Talk about getting ‘ratioed’.
They are so busy telling us what we should think and it just doesn’t work. It makes me feel optimistic about democracy, actually.
Applying the may or may not rule to Pakistan’s physics breakthrough:
I determine this is partly true. Whatever the size of Pakistan’s micro-, err, bomb, it is unquestionably true that it may, in fact, not hit and destroy a targeted area.
“Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad as saying”
Oh, yea, that guy? I totally believe whatever he is saying!
I’m sure I’m going to buy something online tonight that is gong to arrive at my door and I’m going to be like ‘WTF is that?’. Chilean Sea Bass or X series i9, who the hell knows. It’s an adventure.
Pakistani mini nukes?
Well I’m only going to buy things that actually exist.
Or, y’know, work.
It turns out my Daughter has Netflix, after my wife finishes an episode of mindhunter, it’s Chappelle and Sticks and Stones, yippee!
We have it too. Maybe I should watch the Chappelle thing, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be disappointed that it will be way too PC and boring. /guy who was alive when real comedy existed
Have a Coke and a smile and shut the fuck up,
Like that?
I saw it last night, Yufus.
7/10
Watching it right now. Never to be accused of not trying.
Well, he right off has a point about Bourdain. I told my wife that several times, that dude has the world’s best job. How do I get paid to fly around the world, eat food, and get fucked up on alcohol and drugs? WTF?
Yep, the dude is totally fucked. He’s going to be banned from all media an probably Metooed and in jail in less than a year.
Mmmmm, I dunno . . .
The Mythbusters had a pretty sweet gig, too.
WAIT! I’ve got it!
“Coming this Fall! A Discovery Channel/Food Network co-production! The Mythbusting Foodie!”
I need to pitch this tout de suite.
8 Upcoming Remakes/Sequels We’re Excited For (7 That We’re Dreading)
Why? I normally roll my eyes and avoid such things, but…why?
Hollywood is dead.,,,..
And it’s corpse is really stopped rotting.
ridiculous and arguably problematic movie
Fuck you, you micro-penised, soy-soaked, virtue-signaling, pathetic excuse for a human being.
Sometimes you hear a song and think “I want to do coke.”
You need a song for that? Well, here’s one.
I Love the Cocaine
I’m surprised that song it not on SiriusXM Yacht Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPT27XyY1U
That is wondeful. Yeah, I know I’m one sick puppy.
“It’s absolutely mindless. It’s no violation of the Second Amendment.” Joe Biden says about making illegal “magazines that can hold multiple bullets.”
mediaite.com/election-2020/joe-biden-suggests-banning-firearms-with-magazines-that-hold-multiple-bullets/
Time to start Glibertarians for Biden 2020?
I can see that from this group
I hate that people are calling this one a gaffe. Come on. That’s his actual real life knowledge.
So, after you fire the first shot in the air off your balcony, you eject the magazine, load in another bullet, and are ready for action?
You’d better be a good shot and hope the warning startled the guy enough he runs away.
ALL gun control laws are a violation of the Constitution. Shall not be infringed, Senile needle dick twat.
I will never vote democrat for any national election.
IOW, you don’t support communism, there is really no other way to see it today.
I have never voted for a Democrat ever and never will. If I think the Republican sucks (which many tend to do) I vote 3rd party or just skip it.
I have voted Dem for one person in a U.S. congressional race, a conservative Dem in Missouri 40 years ago. I left the state and don’t know what happened to him, he probably switched to R at some point (or retired).
“If I think the Republican sucks (which many tend to do) I vote 3rd party or just skip it.”
Same. We have some really shitty republicans here in Ohio. I think that might be a nationwide trend though. Just go to the bar instead.
https://twitter.com/LezBuck/status/1168147691823648770
David Lynch is making nature films?
“All 2020 Democrats want to ban “assault weapons.”
They say it over and over again.
Ban assault weapons.
They fundraise off it.
They make t-shirts and bumper stickers.
But can any of they actually define what an “assault weapon” is?
We asked @tpusa.
Wow:”
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1168988636857196552
“WATCH: Democrat Presidential Candidates Asked To Define ‘Assault Weapon’”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51340/watch-democrat-presidential-candidates-asked-ryan-saavedra
Go ahead. Pass all the unconstitutional laws you want to. The new thriving black market will thank you. Retards.
the crack squad of fact-checkers at Snopes quickly got to work on Biden’s incredulous claim
I have never seen incredulous used that way, and I don’t like it.
Yeah I’m gonna have to throw a flag on that use of incredulous.
Wiktionary calls that usage obsolete and nonstandard, whatever that means, for whatever is worth. I’d use incredible.
It’s hard to argue that The New Yorker’s target demographic isn’t the functionally retarded. I don’t mean that as a sleight toward those with mental challenges whom are typically smart enough to not read The New Yorker
Just in general or are you referring to one specific article?
So it felt frustrating: When I read Weiss, when I listened to Shapiro, when I watched Peterson or read the supposedly heterodox online magazine Quillette, what was I reminded of?
That you hate Tulsi, can’t recognize a Jew and need to clean your room?
They remind me of The Night of Broken Glass.
LOLOLOL
Let me guess, Nazis.
AFAIK, the problem is the conflating of three principles about how to update 230. Guessing that R C Dean agrees with exactly one of the three.
Telephone service providers (TSPs) need to be immunized from being sued about what their customers say/type/whatever using their service. In exchange, the TSPs do not censor/moderate/whatever the content of the data traffic. Also the high tech analogs of this principle.
Tech companies’ terms of service are not laws passed by Congress, so 1A does not apply to them. Tech companies have a responsibility to protect the public by censoring/moderating/whatever fake news/hate speech/wrongthink/whatever.
Current market leaders are to be protected from upstarts somehow taking away their market share by government intervention.
AFAIK, according to Milton Freidman, there are two causes of inflation. One is the wage-price-productivity spiral (when productivity is constant, this spiral becomes the wage-price spiral). The other is rate of change of money supply exceeding rate of change of products and services to be bought by money. Think Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams when making leaves money made everyone money-rich, but how expensive peanuts were, so they were not stuff-rich.
AFAIK, modern monetary theory (MMT) claims that the link to inflation does not apply to spreadsheet money.
AFAIK, the core of modern monetary theory (MMT) is that the preferred economic policy is massive government spending, massive government deficits, and the purchase of government promissory paper (or paperless equivalent) using this spreadsheet money.
You know what we need a ban on? Statists.
https://humanevents.com/2019/08/26/josh-hawley-is-right-about-social-media-addiction/
That’s too much bullshit to unpack.
“the SMART Act would require companies automatically limit the time users can spend on a platform across all devices to 30 minutes a day: the so-called “30-minute limit.” Users would be able to change the limits, but they would have to do so every month.”
Assholes
It’s for our own good. Thx Big Brother!
Has this been vetted by the CDC first?
Should we wear our underwear on the outside of our clothes when we are on social media?
“I don’t want to use social media too much, so I’m limiting myself to 30 min”
“Good for you.”
“Uh, I also want you to limit yourself to 30 min”
“No thanks, I’m good:”
“Let me rephrase: I’m going to pass a law that says you are limited to 30 min.”
“Let ME rephrase: Fuck off, slaver.”
Tundra, thanks for the Andrew Schultz recommendation. I’m really enjoying him.
I’d love to take credit but I got the recommendation from HM and Crusty.
Glad you like him. I also find him very intelligent and funny. He knows the joyless fucks will be coming for his scalp, but he seems somehow prepared.
The China fighting poverty claim from Sanders is awfully close to a Babylon Bee piece on Sanders going to lecture Hong Kong activists and tell them how good they have it as they are beaten by cops.
The Sanders comments coupled with OMwC’s lead-in reminds me of a tale (myth?) of Vlad the Impaler. He brought all the poor and lame into his great dining hall and gave them a feast. He then asked if they wished never to be poor or hungry again.
Of course they cheered “Yes!” So he left the building, had his soldiers lock the doors, and burned the place to the ground.
No more poor and hungry.
“Hong Kong activists and tell them how good they have it as they are beaten by cops.”
As I just recently predicted, they are soo going there. Just give them a few days.
New thread!!
thanks
we should do this more regularly
I’m often late to the party so I keep an eye out for that top arrow appearing when I refresh.