Quick Hits

Peter Schweizer, author of the new exposee Red-Handed about the Ruling Class's conspiracy with Red China against their own countrymen: China "absolutely" has kompromat on the Biden Organized Crime Family.

Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said Tuesday on FNC's "Hannity" that China, Russia, and the Ukraine "absolutely" have compromising intelligence on the family of President Joe Biden.
Schweizer, the author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, said, "What we discovered is that some $31 million were provided to the Biden family by five individuals in China."
He continued, "Those individuals all have ties to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. So what has been a story about corruption and cronyism increasingly is a story about spying, espionage, and national security."
Schweizer added, "This demands investigation. This is not just about politicians getting money from their office."
Hannity asked, "This dossier on Hunter, and they knew he was a drug addict. He liked to hire working women of that night. We will say it that way. Do you believe in all likelihood the odds are very high, China, Russia, Ukraine, and a lot of these countries have the Biden family compromised?"
Schweizer said, "Oh, absolutely, there's no question. Look, if the Chinese ministry for state security is trying to engage in elite capture as they call it with the Bidens and $31 million has been provided, they would review it as a catastrophic intelligence failure if they did not achieve leverage on the Biden family. That is what makes this so troubling and requires investigation because if we don't, the president is going to be basing decisions on his family financial interests and the fact that Beijing has leverage over his family."

Boston patient who has been waiting patiently for a heart transplant and was next on the list to get one removed from the queue because he's unvaccinated.

A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.
DJ Ferguson’s family say he was first on the list to receive the transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital -- but he is no longer eligible because of his vaccination status, CBS Boston reported.

We're going to kill you now -- for your health, you understand.

Another attempt to rehabilitate future Justice Kamala Harris from Politico: the reason Kamala Harris is failing is that she's not into DC gossip and networking, she's just too focused on "the work" to play the game.

Sitting among some of the most influential Black women in America last month, Vice President Kamala Harris confessed to a stifling sensation that had fallen over her while in office. She was struggling to escape the D.C. bubble, Harris confided to the group, which had gathered in person and virtually for the private audience, according to multiple attendees.
Harris has grumbled at times about the customs of a town where she remains a relative newcomer. She is prone to lament the Beltway's obsession with familiarity, the routine groupthink of its thought leaders; and the intense interest in collecting scraps of palace intrigue, according to more than a dozen aides and people familiar with her conversations. She's repeatedly instructed her aides to stay focused on the work. At the same time, she's allowed that her instinct to ignore the superficial elements of politics has created more work for her team, which is forced to operate aggressively in that world.

Her aides, meanwhile, complain that Harris refuses to read the briefing materials they prepare for her, resulting in her Failing to Position Herself for Success.

But no, Kamala claims it's because she's too focused on The Work and somehow this creates more work for her staff -- forcing them to focus on The Work rather than The Gossip and The Intrigue plus The Work creates more work for them than just The Work.

Which is absolutely stupid, but what do you expect from Kamala? She is herself stupid?

Via Sister Toldjah, with more.

Rob Henderson
@robkhenderson
"Generation X is, by almost any barometer, the least significant of the canonical demographics. Yet one accolade can be applied with conviction: Among the generations that have yet to go extinct, Generation X remains the least annoying."
[-- Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

A drug addict brought his attack dog to the library. When a security guard tried to revive the overdosing addict, the addict's attack dog attacked him. As Michael Shellenberger says, there will be no consequences -- San Francisco exists to be a place for sex criminals, muggers, addicts, and street-shitters to live their lives to the full while citizens cower in their homes.

A Mask Nazi professor at the University of Oklahoma won't let student who secured a mask exemption show up for class -- and also won't allow him attend class by zoom, either, which he says is only for people who have covid.

So the student is in a class the professor won't allow him to attend, and is therefore doomed to fail. The Mask Nazi professor gloats and says, good, if you really believe in your mask-free principles, you should be willing to pay for it.

Noted Conservative Conservatively Conservating Conservatism does what he usually does these days, which is plot how he can get leftwing Democrats elected:

NFL playoffs: #1 seeds lose on field goals as time expires, set up by interception and blocked punt.
Republicans, favored in 2022, can be beaten by alert play capitalizing on their mistakes. Never Trumpers can intercept passes and block punts. Can Democrats kick the field goals?
-- Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 23, 2022

Oh and look what that other top True Conservative is up to!

David French’s podcast advertisements are advocating for “racial equity.”

You trust this guy to fight CRT? pic.twitter.com/kfNI08WdsB
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) January 24, 2022

In New York, a cop was killed by another SUV, says Maskless Karen:

So weird. “A shot from an illegal gun.” https://t.co/LKSLEc5CEv
— Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) January 23, 2022

.@RichardGrenell: "The reality is that the leaders of Russia and China and a whole bunch of other places smell weakness."@Logan_Ratick pic.twitter.com/g7sR5PdggK
— Newsmax (@newsmax) January 22, 2022

New DeSantis ad mocks Fauci. pic.twitter.com/JxTjRfNr0o
— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) January 21, 2022

SUPERCUT!

Journalism in the Covid Era pic.twitter.com/i8xwRGoA1J
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 26, 2022

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Comments

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1 First!!!

Posted by: Greyman27 at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (RKLPC)

2 Not first!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (wAnMi)

3 And now content...

Posted by: Greyman27 at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (RKLPC)

4 First monkey!

Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (786Ro)

5 Puppies are a real handicap when typing. In your lap, chewing your arms.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (wAnMi)

6 Sponge!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (CKevK)

7 top 10.

and thank god that 3 hour meeting is over...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:18 PM (8D42x)

8 Liked that song "Making Plans for Brandon"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 04:18 PM (63Dwl)

9 Bill Kristol has never watched an NFL game. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2022 04:18 PM (786Ro)

10 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

11 Bill Kristol is a waste of oxygen.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at January 26, 2022 04:19 PM (hV9ir)

12 A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.

What's a dying man's incentive to not seek vengeance in the crudest terms under the circumstances? And do you really want to set up a system of rules where those incentives might not be up to snuff?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2022 04:19 PM (3YVs3)

13 GOPe doing anything for the guy that the Boston Hospital is about to murder? No?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

14 Wouldn't it be a hoot if it turns out that Kamala Harris is a functional illiterate?

Affirmative Action!

Posted by: Been Timed-out at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (smVBh)

15 I still don't get exactly what dirty laundry any country or group could have over Biden. Just the stuff we already know is more than enough to have anyone else locked up for life. Exactly how bad can it be?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (YIVH2)

16 My employer just sent an email about 'Rona testing through February. They say it's random, but that you might get the email more than once. "We ask that you not call or email to complain about being chosen for testing."

HA! That tells me that people *have* been calling and writing to complain about this craziness! About time!

I'm going to keep my head down and see if they notice I haven't been to their testing deal since last September. Fuggers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (txdEq)

17 Do you think that Hochul or any of these retards comprehend that when you've got literal open borders, there's no stopping "illegal guns" when they're coming by the truckload, unimpeded?

Yeah, do public service announcements reminding gang bangers to buy their guns at a proper firearms dealer, and do all the paperwork. Low capacity magazines are for your safety!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (wAnMi)

18 So, Cyberpunk 2077 is pretty awesome.

Though the "crowds" outside are kind of a joke, even on the PS5. Running down the road I passed five NPCs, all literally the same. And they were the only NPCs I ran past.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

19 He continued, "Those individuals all have ties to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. So what has been a story about corruption and cronyism increasingly is a story about spying, espionage, and national security."
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Surprising no one. The outright purchase of major political figures in adversarial countries is going to have intelligence components. Hell, they even sent a honeypot to work on Swallwell and he's, at best, a medium shot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (DU+/6)

20 What's a dying man's incentive to not seek vengeance in the crudest terms under the circumstances?

That would make for one heck of a self defense claim.

And were I on the jury I'd agree with it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

21 "Generation X is, by almost any barometer, the least significant of the canonical demographics. Yet one accolade can be applied with conviction: Among the generations that have yet to go extinct, Generation X remains the least annoying."

... yeah, as a Gen X I cannot disagree with any of this.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:21 PM (KZzsI)

22 I saw Canonical Demographics open for Tragically Hip at the Saddledome in '95.

Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2022 04:21 PM (786Ro)

23 Pete's 'Clinton Cash' book ( and graphic novel if you like pictures) are good. And damning. Or should be if we lived in a just country.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:21 PM (XvPQV)

24 Harris has grumbled at times about the customs of a town where she remains a relative newcomer. She is prone to lament the Beltway's obsession with familiarity, the routine groupthink of its thought leaders; and the intense interest in collecting scraps of palace intrigue, according to more than a dozen aides and people familiar with her conversations. ...
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Forgive me if I call bullshit on this. Not on her saying it - that may have happened - but on her believing a word of it. Groupthink and palace intrigue is the sum total of her entire lamentable career.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:22 PM (DU+/6)

25 Biden may be basing political decisions on his ties to China???

At this point, shouldn't we just name the three people in government who don't have ties to China just to save time?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 26, 2022 04:22 PM (KbCG3)

26 Generation X is, by almost any barometer, the least significant of the canonical demographics. Yet one accolade can be applied with conviction: Among the generations that have yet to go extinct, Generation X remains the least annoying."

... yeah, as a Gen X I cannot disagree with any of this.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:21

This is correct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2022 04:22 PM (HMrx6)

27 Eh, Klosterman can fuck off. We caught on to the bullshit and acted accordingly.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 04:22 PM (II3Gr)

28 "Generation X is, by almost any barometer, the least significant of the canonical demographics....Generation X remains the least annoying."

----

Klosterman lives!

yes, we are the last cool generation. Also, our parents fucking hated us and replaced us with about 40-60 million new Americans.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (ZZK0E)

29 Can Klammato be Breyers replacement. I don't feel no ways tared.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (todmg)

30 The Ho wouldn't know what work was if she tripped over it

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (2JoB8)

31 Wait, a woman who sucked her boss' dick is complaining that she's just not interested enough in workplace politics? Huh.

Posted by: Sobek at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (RennT)

32 You're telling me that China has kompromat on Hunter Biden?

Golly, if anyone ever saw photographic proof that Hunter like to smoke crack and fuck hookers, Joe's career would be OVER. I mean that would be IT. Joe would have to resign.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (08WmE)

33 A Mask Nazi professor at the University of Oklahoma won't let student who secured a mask exemption show up for class -- and also won't allow him attend class by zoom, either, which he says is only for people who have covid.

Wow, times have changed. When I went to college, the professors didn't give a damn if you showed up or not, it was on you to be mature and intelligent about the thing, not them to babysit you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (KZzsI)

34 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

35 The heart transplant patient taken off the list because he's not vaccinated? I don't have words. I really don't. My blood is boiling.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (nxdel)

36 And frankly....I'm on the dog's side.

I hope they didn't shoot him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (XvPQV)

37 NFL analogies show how absolutely in-touch this man is with the common people. What's next, Seinfeld metaphors?

Posted by: ... at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (fGZok)

38 A Mask Nazi professor at the University of Oklahoma won't let student who secured a mask exemption show up for class -- and also won't allow him attend class by zoom, either, which he says is only for people who have covid.

So the student is in a class the professor won't allow him to attend, and is therefore doomed to fail. The Mask Nazi professor gloats and says, good, if you really believe in your mask-free principles, you should be willing to pay for it.
++++
Sounds like a blatant failure on the "reasonable accommodation" front. Drop his class and then sue him and the school. Fuck 'em. Make 'em pay a nice juicy settlement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (DU+/6)

39 At this point, shouldn't we just name the three people in government who don't have ties to China just to save time?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

That many?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (uXonU)

40 A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.

If the right people were involved, the Medical Director and Chief Counsel of the hospital would find themselves the most recent donors of badly needed hearts.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (mD/uy)

41 What Chinese "kompromat" could possibly be worse than what we already know about the Biden?
He drowns kittens in the White House bath tub?
I mean, come on...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (jTmQV)

42 And now content...
Posted by: Greyman27 at January 26, 2022 04:17 PM (RKLPC)

should have kipped the content. the heart patient is rage stroke inducing. God forgive me, but i hope everyone who reviewed and signed off on that decisions dies before the patient...

and i *LOVE* this bit re: cum-ala "..she's too focused on The Work." don't they always pull this crap? it's how you know their shit is going sideways, they're too smart or too focused, or too etc. to do what they are actually supposed to be doing...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (8D42x)

43
Wouldn't a heart patient be a good candidate for complications from an experimental vaccine?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (RNCSI)

44 Lethal aid to Ukraine? The fuck does that even mean?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (II3Gr)

45 Why Kamalama Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It

Posted by: wth at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (v0R5T)

46 Seven Chinese Brothers > five individuals in China

Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (786Ro)

47 meanwhile you talk to a boomer parent about how they fucked up the country through massive replacement demographics, they say "IDK, the folks at the retirement home all look like what I remember growing up with"

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (ZZK0E)

48 When Republicans get caught off guard this election season and lose to scrappy young Democrats, will they claim to have been "in the pool"...?

Posted by: Bill Kristol, Man of the People at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (fGZok)

49 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

This is incorrect.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (HMrx6)

50 Not that it makes a difference to the story itself, but the law student at the U of Ok is not a "he", but a "she". Their first name is Alyssa.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (dprVF)

51 For a while, perhaps still, Hunter Biden had his own channel on Pronhub where he smoked crack and had sex with presumed chinese spies.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (ESjRY)

52 No one gives a shit about the Bidens and their payoffs. We could have a 4K video of Joe and Hunter running an Eiffel Tower on Beau's widow while Xi Jinping throws 500-Euro banknotes at them and we would be told that it was fake, that it was Russian propoganda.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (08WmE)

53 >>> She's repeatedly instructed her aides to stay focused on the work.

Sounds like a bad boss.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (vJjm2)

54 I'm beginning to get annoyed with these Branch Covidians.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (ZZK0E)

55 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)
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Only in the extremes. Gen X and the Millennials both belong mostly to the boomers. GenX belong to some of the Silents and some Millennials belong to the older Xers, but for there is tremendous overlap. I am a Millennial and my oldest brother is an Xer, and this is not uncommon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (DU+/6)

56 A Mask Nazi professor at the University of Oklahoma won't let student who secured a mask exemption show up for class -- and also won't allow him attend class by zoom, either, which he says is only for people who have covid.

So the student is in a class the professor won't allow him to attend, and is therefore doomed to fail. The Mask Nazi professor gloats and says, good, if you really believe in your mask-free principles, you should be willing to pay for it.
++++
Sounds like a blatant failure on the "reasonable accommodation" front. Drop his class and then sue him and the school. Fuck 'em. Make 'em pay a nice juicy settlement.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

i propose a different, more effective solution. just beat the coon dog shit out of the lefty professor.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (IJES/)

57 Wow, times have changed. When I went to college, the professors didn't give a damn if you showed up or not, it was on you to be mature and intelligent about the thing, not them to babysit you.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It's now all about power. This professor sounds like he spent plenty of time stuffed in a locker.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (uXonU)

58 Will Democrats be Jay-Z to Republicans' Tupac?

Posted by: Bill Kristol, Man of the People at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (fGZok)

59 I think, statistically, zoomers are the spawn of the replacement wave.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (ZZK0E)

60
I can't imagine a good doctor saying hey your heart is junk, so let's inject you with an experimental "vaccine" from a virus with a extremely high survival rate.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (RNCSI)

61 The only upside of Commie Lay going on the Court would be that Supreme Court justices rarely appear on television, so there's a good chance we'd never have to hear that hideous cackle again.

Someone on a previous thread suggested Tank Abrams. If that happens, I hope they don't sit her and the Wise Latina on the same side of the bench, lest the bench become a seesaw. I'd hate to see Thomas launched into space due to Abrams and Sotomayor both sitting down at the same time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (bW8dp)

62 What's a dying man's incentive to not seek vengeance in the crudest terms under the circumstances?

That would make for one heck of a self defense claim.

And were I on the jury I'd agree with it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

What are they going to do? Give him a death sentence?

Posted by: Neil Young at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (SH2Zi)

63 ...resulting in her Failing to Position Herself for Success.

An extra "L" works here as well: "Flailing to Position Herself for Success".

Posted by: Bert G at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (fHydr)

64 Willowed:
||Cernovich @Cernovich; 14h
Neil Young deleted the letter. As it turns out, he sold most of the rights to his music. He had no right to demand Spotify remove "his" music. He is maybe a victim of elder abuse. There needs to be a conservator appointed. Who really wrote that letter?

Cernovich @Cernovich; 14h
"Do not play my music that I sold the rights to."

Hahah this is incredible, and it's a testament to the fake news ecosystem that this HIGHLY RELEVANT fact about Neil Young's music wasn't omitted from coverage.||

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (UHVv4)

65 i propose a different, more effective solution. just beat the coon dog shit out of the lefty professor.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (IJES/)
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I never said that was the *only* approach...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (DU+/6)

66 If I was running Ukraine I'd be asking Brandon for a refund.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (ZLI7S)

67 55 Only in the extremes. Gen X and the Millennials both belong mostly to the boomers. GenX belong to some of the Silents and some Millennials belong to the older Xers, but for there is tremendous overlap. I am a Millennial and my oldest brother is an Xer, and this is not uncommon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (DU+/6)

=========

Millennials of the Horde!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

68 I need to be free to consider focusing on my briefing documents, when I feel inspired, and I'm not tired, of doing what I do, everyday, in every way, and that's what I'm going to keep doing, for the people.

*suppresses cackle.*

Posted by: Cumala at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (RaNzC)

69 You know this is never going to end until we absolutely crush the liberal and especially the sad never trumpers- right?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (VpIIl)

70 GOPe doing anything for the guy that the Boston Hospital is about to murder? No?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

I mentioned a day or two back I've had arguments with my medical friends about this. They truly believe that this is ok - because that person is allowing themselves to be at risk, which makes another recipient a better choice. They can't be putting a heart/liver/kidney into somebody who dies in a month or two.

Then the dirty little bit comes out - if the hospitals did do this, they'd lose all the beautiful federal funding.

THIS is why our medical care and government should be on opposite sides of the room. This would most certainly not have been the case 50 years ago. Back when the CDC was asking nicely that people get vaccinated for polio and diphtheria.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (wAnMi)

71 It's no fun being an illegal hand held gun.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (63Dwl)

72 A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.

OK let me explain this from the Hospital's viewpoint. They aren't cackling and rubbing their hands together in corrupt agreement with mask tyrants. They are wrong, but not out of evil, just a misconception.

If you are going for a surgery of any kind, particularly one as risky and dangerous as this, you have to meet certain basic health requirements and protection. You have to be vaccinated against horrible crap you might catch as a result or during the surgery, for example. You have to be under a certain weight and within certain health parameters or you might just up and die on the table.

So the hospital administration (and likely surgeon) have decided that the extreme health risk might make the patient very susceptible to the Wuhan Flu, given the virus-and germ soup that Hospitals are. They are demanding he get the shot that is meant to reduce his chances of a severe reaction should he catch the crud while recovering.

The flaw in this is the certainty that this does reliably reduce symptoms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (KZzsI)

73 At least the Fourth Reich donated some pointy helmets to the Ukraine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (todmg)

74 Whatever lib billionaire is funding Bill Kristol has to be doing it out of spite to his parents at this point to make sure Billy is such a disaster that the family name is shamed for generations to come.

Posted by: Bete at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (Ojki1)

75 one parent is a silent gen and one is a boomer, and my silent gen parent liked to pretend he was a greatest gen and actually experienced FDR's great depression instead of being about 0 years old then.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (ZZK0E)

76 Bill Kristol watches the NFL for the tight ends of the football teams. He watches them very closely.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (Rl7KJ)

77 A "Modest" Syllogism:
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Healthcare is a right as a human being.
Unvaxxed should be denied healthcare.

∴ The unvaxxed must be considered not human.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (XHhHI)

78 Lethal aid to Ukraine? The fuck does that even mean?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (II3Gr)

What Trump was doing, when he was to be starting WWIII again.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (SH2Zi)

79 15 I still don't get exactly what dirty laundry any country or group could have over Biden. Just the stuff we already know is more than enough to have anyone else locked up for life. Exactly how bad can it be?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (YIVH2)

Considering we have politicians that made up their Vietnam service or Indian heritage still serving proudly in the hallowed halls of Congress, I agree. What the hell could they have that would make these assholes abandon this jerkoff? Proof the election was stolen? They wouldn't bat an eye at that.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (KbCG3)

80 What are they going to do? Give him a death sentence?

Already did!

And remember, the shot is so safe and effective that we have to threaten people with death to get it. Which...makes us feel funny in our no no squares.

Posted by: Your NAZI elites at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (ESjRY)

81 You know this is never going to end until we absolutely crush the liberal and especially the sad never trumpers- right?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (VpIIl)

From your lips to God's ears, man...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (XvPQV)

82 >>>Generation X remains the least annoying

Because we don't give enough fucks to be annoying about anything.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (xPl2J)

83 21 yeah, as a Gen X I cannot disagree with any of this.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:21 PM (KZzsI)

Ditto.

And a thought I didn't get in on the last thread...
The 2022 budget deficit is estimated at $1.873 trillion. That's the difference between $4.174 trillion in revenue and $6.011 trillion in spending. As mentioned, if you exclude all the mandatory spending on entitlements/interest and the defense spending, all of the rest of Fed Gov spending is $963B (and that includes Dept of VA spending).
So, anyone who wants to ever balance the budget by "cutting fed salary" or "cutting this one program" is never serious.
Serious is tackling the mandatory spending. So, we won't, but we'll have a lot of theatrics getting there.
Continue till we inflate drastically, kill the sick and old, or declare bankruptcy and ruin most of the middle and upper middle class...

Posted by: Nova local at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (exHjb)

84 "...resulting in her Failing to Position Herself for Success."

this is a scandal if it turns out that Kamala is a white man

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (ZZK0E)

85 still don't get exactly what dirty laundry any country or group could have over Biden. Just the stuff we already know is more than enough to have anyone else locked up for life. Exactly how bad can it be?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:20 PM (YIVH2)

video evidence and reenactments?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (8D42x)

86 That B&W Hospital story about the heart transplant is murder, plain and simple.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (0TVNF)

87 re: Man being removed from transplant list because of vaccination

One thing that has stayed with me from the Rittenhouse trial is a formulation Rekeita used at the time to describe what the left saw as Rittenhouse's choices. That when he was cornered, attacked on all sides with people trying to grab his gun, hit him with a skateboard or shoot him. Instead of shooting to defend himself, he was supposed to die now.

That is their plan for everyone who is not of a favored class. Your property vandalized? Tough. You property stolen. Tough. Your life in danger? Vaya Con Dios, Muchacho.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (f4mjo)

88 But no, Kamala claims it's because she's too focused on The Work...

Problem is Kamalala's concept of work is bj's and bj's don't accomplish as much, politically, as the do in California.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (6Ae0r)

89 Bill Kristol blocking a punt is a funny image. Can his fat ass even leave the ground?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (UuD2k)

90
But no, Kamala claims it's because she's too focused on The Work

This is 100% True.

Kamala's ordered 100 crates of zucchini and bananas each to practice on for passing the Senate vote.

And, or so I've heard, 20 crates of Jack Tacos.

This gal is Ser. Eee. Us.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (OMayC)

91 Willowed(of course)
In the last couple of days England, Ireland, The Netherlands and now Denmark have cancelled all Covid mandates.
Tourist season starting soon.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (Y+l9t)

92 If the right people were involved, the Medical Director and Chief Counsel of the hospital would find themselves the most recent donors of badly needed hearts.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM

No. Their pictures would be on milk cartons.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (EughT)

93 That video of the dude bumping into the same wall as the born on years (70, 80, 90, 00) pop up was spot on.

Also, AC/DC!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (LQjWA)

94 I like the DeSantis ad. It did well despite not calling for helicopter rides.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (DU+/6)

95 86 That B&W Hospital story about the heart transplant is murder, plain and simple.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (0TVNF)

Exactly and it is so obviously so, you could not get people just 20 years ago to believe it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (f4mjo)

96 It's no fun being an illegal hand held gun.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (63Dwl)

It works.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (SH2Zi)

97 NFL analogies show how absolutely in-touch this man is with the common people. What's next, Seinfeld metaphors?
Posted by: ... at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (fGZok)

Dallas

and Falcon's Crest when he feel brash...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (8D42x)

98 85

video evidence and reenactments?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (8D42x)

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Ex-spooks would go on MSNBC, CNN, and Twitter and announce that it's Russian disinformation, that it's a deepfake. And that would be the end of the story.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (08WmE)

99
OK let me explain this from the Hospital's viewpoint.
...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Don't you get sick of playing Ed "In Fairness" Morrissey?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (RNCSI)

100 Oklahoma must be a lousy law school. Professor Mask-or-else hasn't published a serious article in about ten years, near as I can figure. He's just a lazy, no-account little Nazi with an expensive education.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (VMY76)

101 That is one thing I've wondered about; if the vaxx is hazardous in similar amount due to comorbidities then if you have those comorbidites it is just as dangerous to get the vaxx as it is to wait and get the virus. At least with the virus you may not get it or only get a milder version.

That's always been my bottom line last resort reason for not getting it. is they both contain the spike the most lethal part of the virus. They both tend to be worse for people with comorbidities of a certain kind, They both attack the immune system itself and leave it weaker, They both attack the respiratory system and the circulatory system both at risk in those that have those comorbidities.

Frankly I'll take my chances with the virus. I've got myself pretty much on a solo quarantine regimen and that's better than what many others have cause they're out and about at work and in public for long periods of time.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (cGAjs)

102 37 NFL analogies show how absolutely in-touch this man is with the common people. What's next, Seinfeld metaphors?
Posted by: ... at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (fGZok)

Hey, I made one of those in the last thread.

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (KbCG3)

103 I mean, if Kristol shows up in a restaurant, someone should stick a dinner fork in his chest and light him on fire with the chaffing dish fuel, so he very visibly runs out of the restaurant with an eating utensil in his chest, and immolating like Hellfire.

Then this ends.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (VpIIl)

104 My mom and dad were young greatest gen: grew up during the depression. My two oldest brothers were boomers, the next on the edge, depending on who you ask, and I'm Gen X.

Like Comic Book "ages" its largely a matter of personal interpretation and guesswork when each generation ends or begins, but most of the kids of Gen X are millennials or zoomers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (KZzsI)

105 I mentioned a day or two back I've had arguments with my medical friends about this.

Do they understand what happened to the "good medical people" that were just following the science in the 40s in central Europe?

Or if you want to take a lighter issue with them, show them this. https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (ESjRY)

106 Ordered the Schweitzer book today. Will be reading the book even though in Post -Constitutional America a Democrat need not fear justice for crimes against Republicans and other taxpayers.

For Dems: Rape, pillage plunder, sedition, treason--have at it.
The one prosecutable crime: bucking The Party Narrative.

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (FCPbW)

107 > Problem is Kamalala's concept of work is bj's and bj's don't accomplish as much, politically, as the do in California.

Plus absolutely no one wants a bj from her nowadays.

She hit the wall hard about 15 years ago, and doesn't have the intelligence, wit, or human warmth to make up for it.

The hideous plastic surgery did not help. It never does.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (bW8dp)

108 Is it me, or does that Newsmax fellow that is interviewing Grenell have bags under his bags under his eyes?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (qma9m)

109 34 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

I'm early Gen X and my parents were mid-30's Silent Generation. I didn't pick up no stinking hippy values.

My attempt to pass my parents' values on to my own early 20's kids? Not completely futile.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (dfRN6)

110 >>That B&W Hospital story about the heart transplant is murder, plain and simple.

He's not the only one. I saw an interview with a woman from a different part of the country, midwest maybe, who is also being denied a transplant because she isn't vaccinated.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (ZLI7S)

111 Prediction: Eventually, all mandates will be cancelled everywhere - except for New Zealand and US public schools.

Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (786Ro)

112 "...resulting in her Failing to Position Herself for Success."

this is a scandal if it turns out that Kamala is a white man

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (ZZK0E)

KH: And that little white boy was me.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (SH2Zi)

113 Afternoon all

Been a long day already

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (aIp5x)

114 Don't you get sick of playing Ed "In Fairness" Morrissey?/i]

I'm not trying to defend the hospital, I just ran out of Pixy-allowed characters to continue. I was simply trying to explain the hospital's viewpoint here: why they are making this call.

As I stated, I think its wrong and mistaken.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (KZzsI)

115 "This demands investigation. "

Great. More reports , committees, special investigators... which will get to the bottom of it and punish those involved in #Two Weeks. Yawn.

Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (PTDkx)

116 You know what this means, right?

Pretend like Republicans sweep Congress. They use this scandal to impeach Emperor Brandon who resigns, and Kamal-toe Harris becomes the first Woman President of Color.

A white man will have finally set her up for success!

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (9R7Qn)

117 N.Z.'s Kamala laughs about suicides...

Laurence Fox @LozzaFox; Jan 25
It takes a special kind of psychopath to smirk whilst talking about people committing suicide.

https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/
1486056173870665735

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (UHVv4)

118 It is time for to do what we have been doing, work. And that time is every day, showing up for work. Every day it is time for us to work.

Posted by: Kamalama at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

119 Wouldn't a heart patient be a good candidate for complications from an experimental vaccine?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

It would be interesting to hear from a cardiovascular surgeon about complication rates of heart transplants in vaxxed vs non-vaxxed donors and recipients.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (WFMLs)

120 That heart transplant story makes me sick in a way that is indescribable. Yes, this is America now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (sVtYq)

121 Hahah this is incredible, and it's a testament to the fake news ecosystem that this HIGHLY RELEVANT fact about Neil Young's music wasn't omitted from coverage.||
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM (UHVv4)

I had only remembered he'd sold the rights because he spazzed out about not being able to do any remasters himself (he used to be an analog freak).

As I said further upstream, I hope the publisher sues the living shit out of him for damages. I'm sure it's not a spectacular intake from Spotify, but it IS something, if monetized over the next 20 or so years.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (wAnMi)

122 Can ICE fly a pair of 18 year old female Brazillian illegals over to my place? I shall.employ them.as gardeners.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (n/szn)

123 video evidence and reenactments?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (8D42x)
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We've become so numb to the absolute depravity of the Elite that we simply can't react as "normal" people would in "normal" times. What can we do? We know they'll get away with it unless they have pissed off someone higher up the chain that might be affected by their actions (see Jeffrey Epstein). Those are the only consequences they fear.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (YIVH2)

124 I'm beginning to get annoyed with these Branch Covidians.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 26, 2022 04:25 PM (ZZK0E)

Sorry, I've been there since 2 weeks to flatten the curve, it doesn't go away.

Posted by: WeBoned! at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (8k7U7)

125 Sad but revealing as to the mindset of the medical provider class. My doctor is a founding member.

Posted by: 7man at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (qwO6y)

126 Unvaxxed don't get transplants. They need to save the organs for all the ones that were damaged by the vaccines.

Posted by: Roy at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (Ti+Tv)

127 We're going to kill you now -- for your health, you understand.

We put up with that from the British, too.

For a while.

Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (kOpft)

128 But no, Kamala claims it's because she's too focused on The Work and somehow this creates more work for her staff
---
She's just interviewing for a job, huh?

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (XHhHI)

129 Hmm....

Maybe Garland can "come out" as a black female.

I mean, what could the Dems say, right? What with Talcum X, Rachel Dal-whatever, and the zillions of trannies on their team...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (bW8dp)

130 Wouldn't a heart patient be a good candidate for complications from an experimental vaccine?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

It would be interesting to hear from a cardiovascular surgeon about complication rates of heart transplants in vaxxed vs non-vaxxed donors and recipients.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (WFMLs)

Especially a drug that seems to cause myocarditis in a large portion of patients.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (wAnMi)

131 If Biden's handlers had any presence of mind they'd nominate a trans black gay obese "female" named Karen.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (cGAjs)

132 Like Comic Book "ages" its largely a matter of personal interpretation and guesswork when each generation ends or begins, but most of the kids of Gen X are millennials or zoomers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (KZzsI)
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Yeah, a lot of the X kids are Z. The sort of typical breakdown on it is:
1945-1965: Boomers
1965-1980 (or 1985): X
1980 (or 1985) - 2000 (or 2005): Millennial
2000 (or 2005) - 2020 (or present): Z

It's a patchwork. But older Boomers were making Xers and older Millennials and younger Boomers were making Millennials and older Xers were making younger Millennials and Zoomers, and some Millennials made Zoomers as well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (DU+/6)

133 video evidence and reenactments?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM (8D42x)

I bet if you put that stuff on PronHub it would get prosecuted.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (II3Gr)

134 but most of the kids of Gen X are millennials or zoomers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (KZzsI)

Nah, Gen X are almost normal.
Let's hear it for the Zippers!

Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (6Ae0r)

135 They're giving away free N95 masks and test kits here. You can't get near the places where they are doing the giveaways, and traffic is stopped.

These people are all sick. They want this to go on forever.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (VpIIl)

136 Wouldn't a heart patient be a good candidate for complications from an experimental vaccine?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales
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Suppose they give him the vaccine and perform the surgery. Everything goes fine at first, but then the vaccine booster (which he'll need, of course) causes a reaction in his new heart. What does he do? What recourse does he have? It's not at all implausible.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (YIVH2)

137 Bill Kristol blocking a punt is a funny image. Can his fat ass even leave the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (UuD2k)
........

He would pop every one of his shirt buttons.

Posted by: wth at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

138 Also, WSJ says it's true about Neil Young and Spotify: t.ly/6hNH

They paid Rogan $100M, and Young's songs get make, what, $0.0021 per stream? How many people with shitty taste in music want to listen to his nasally trash?

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (9R7Qn)

139 Who Shot J.R.? Donald Trump!

Posted by: Bill Kristol, Man of the People at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (LCUUO)

140 Criticizing the VP is not who we are. I look forward to voting for whomever is nominated for the Court. But you can bet I'll have some vaguely worded tough-sounding but actually meaningless questions to ask the candidate that I can discuss later that evening on Hannity.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (I4hmj)

141 That heart transplant story makes me sick in a way that is indescribable. Yes, this is America now.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (sVtYq)
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Either the left can't say that healthcare is a right, or it can't say that it always observes that right, or it's saying that the unvaxxed aren't human.

Which is weird, because *we* didn't have our DNA altered.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (XHhHI)

142 OK let me explain this from the Hospital's viewpoint.

Even if you are right, I think your explanation is a big "so what?" From the patient's perspective, the hospital has sentenced him to death. And most ordinary observers who are on the vax-facism train are going to see it the same way. "I have a good reason for you to die" is not going to cut it for those people.

But I don't think you are right. The medical profession is becoming quite politicized, from med school onward. The last 3 years should have provided sufficient proof that medical decisions are no longer apolitical. If you believe otherwise, we probably should drop it, as we cannot hope to have any kind of productive discussion.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (3YVs3)

143 But no, Kamala claims it's because she's too focused on The Work and somehow this creates more work for her staff
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She's just interviewing for a job, huh?
Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (XHhHI)

My biggest flaw?

I care too much, AND I work too hard, mainly because I care too much about my work.

Posted by: LASue at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (Ed8Zd)

144 I am surprised the left is pushing for a black woman as Breyer's replacement and not some transgender, pansexual woke person.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (hV9ir)

145 >>>A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.

No punishment is too severe for these f*ckers.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (bhRsz)

146 So apparently the name has been changed to hypocrite oath. We can spend millions on some scumbag's healthcare who did heinous things to an innocent person. But not someone who refused an experimental jab.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (GwxCX)

147 The flaw in this is the certainty that this does reliably reduce symptoms.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:27 PM (KZzsI)

It's the same flaw their requirement to get the flu shot has, but that's been required forever...it's a suck situation, but one going for decades. You've got to get practically every vaccine there is, live a "clean" life, and be a good "will live" bet to have any shot at an organ (unless you can pay to play like Steve Jobs did).

Posted by: Nova local at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (exHjb)

148 My parents were born in 1909 and 1916. What generation were they, Greatest? They were certainly adults by WWII.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (txdEq)

149 Can ICE fly a pair of 18 year old female Brazillian illegals over to my place? I shall.employ them.as gardeners.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (n/szn)

Sowing oats?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (SH2Zi)

150 Daily Daddario:

https://tinyurl.com/3zpvm72v

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

151 How many people with shitty taste in music want to listen to his nasally trash?
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (9R7Qn)

His audience is primarily aging hippies desperately trying to hold on to the "good old days" of their youth.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (II3Gr)

152
Let me put it this way:

Isn't it Fucking Stupid we don't have a Case-By-Case basis for who should get the "vaccine?"

Instead we have supposed doctors and hospitals and "experts" recommending a Blanket Policy for literally everyone to get Pfizer's vaccine.

Does that make sense??
No, that doesn't make any fuckingsensewhatsoever.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (RNCSI)

153 They paid Rogan $100M, and Young's songs get make, what, $0.0021 per stream? How many people with shitty taste in music want to listen to his nasally trash?
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (9R7Qn)
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Old man, a look at my life
I just shit the bed.

Posted by: Neil Notsoyoung at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (XHhHI)

154 Frankly I'll take my chances with the virus.

*Everyone* will be exposed to the virus at some point, and it is a fact that the clot shot does *not* stop you from getting COVID. Whether or not it makes COVID slightly less virulent is an open question.

But based on that there is no reason to get it, because yes as you point out, you either get the spike proteins once, when you get COVID, or every three months when you get your booster...in addition to when you get COVID.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (ESjRY)

155 That Boston transplant patient should rip the heart out of whomever made that decision. If they have one..

Problem solved.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (VpIIl)

156 Nah, Gen X are almost normal.
Let's hear it for the Zippers!
Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (6Ae0r)
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Gen X was the last normal/sane generation. Mine (the Millennials) are almost uniformly leftist and the next one (Z) is incredibly polarized and revolutionary, at least so far (though only the leading edge of the Zoomers are adults or close to adulthood yet).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (DU+/6)

157 Healthcare is a right as a human being.
Unvaxxed should be denied healthcare.

The unvaxxed must be considered not human.

Posted by: Axeman

Then I can't be held to human's law when I chain the doors shut and burn down the hospital.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (uXonU)

158 Yeah, a lot of the X kids are Z. The sort of typical breakdown on it is:
1945-1965: Boomers
1965-1980 (or 1985): X
1980 (or 1985) - 2000 (or 2005): Millennial
2000 (or 2005) - 2020 (or present): Z

It's a patchwork. But older Boomers were making Xers and older Millennials and younger Boomers were making Millennials and older Xers were making younger Millennials and Zoomers, and some Millennials made Zoomers as well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Boomer who skipped a generation, daughter is Z.

Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (8erNz)

159 > personal interpretation and guesswork when each generation ends or begins

The whole idea of "generations" is pretty fuckwitted, when you think about it. It's not a binary thing ... like everyone born before 197x wore bellbottomed pants and everyone born in 197x+1 didn't.

Yeah, there are large trends in society over time, but the "generations" crap is a really poor way of looking at it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (bW8dp)

160 Kirstol blocks punts by using his gravitational field to redirect the trajectory.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (F4b8f)

161 137 Bill Kristol blocking a punt is a funny image. Can his fat ass even leave the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Use him as a step stool.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (6Ae0r)

162 To be fair, Biden just managed to find that elusive way to better himself. Unlike Dan who is still searching.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (DB16e)

163 In a place of honor, prominent on the mantle of David French's home, is his Bible he edited himself.

Posted by: Well at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (JunCY)

164 My parents were born in 1909 and 1916. What generation were they, Greatest? They were certainly adults by WWII.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:36 PM (txdEq)
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They'd be in their thirties during the War, so *probably* in the Greatest, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (DU+/6)

165 Hochul's idiocy reminds me of when Hillary was talking about the evils of guns in the home and how a toddler could get ahold of a gun. That set off a hysterical thread at the HQ about "Toddlers with Guns!!".

"Hand over the juice box or you get it between the eyes!"

Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (BPMYo)

166 you know, some of us were saying a few weeks ago about pushing Kamala out by sending her to the Sup Ct. Still ridiculous, but now maybe 20 percent less so. More likely they will push her into a seat on a lower court and find someone who will later be more electable.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (Ynyl9)

167 Unvaxxed don't get transplants. They need to save the organs for all the ones that were damaged by the vaccines.

Posted by: Roy at January 26, 2022 04:33 PM (Ti+Tv)

Unvaxxed don't provide donations. Simple. Don't want to muck up the works with non-human organs now, right?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (SH2Zi)

168 Is that hospital denying cancer treatment to those who have decided the vax isn't for them?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (sVtYq)

169 You know what is GenXers do? Work, pay taxes and go about or lives. And also watch boomers and millennials make asses of themselves and laugh heartily.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (0yhi+)

170 91 Willowed(of course)
In the last couple of days England, Ireland, The Netherlands and now Denmark have cancelled all Covid mandates.
Tourist season starting soon.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (Y+l9t)

All?

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (vJjm2)

171 "His audience is primarily aging hippies desperately trying to hold on to the "good old days" of their youth."

i.e. getting laid by all the loose commie broads...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (jTmQV)

172 He would pop every one of his shirt buttons.

Posted by: wth at January 26, 2022 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

This is going back a few years but there used to be a cartoon series and one of the characters was a obese mexican buy who was always popping his buttons.

And one of the chickens in the yard would try to eat it.

Smokey Stover or lil Abner?

Posted by: jakee308 at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (cGAjs)

173 But no, Kamala claims it's because she's too focused on The Work...

Problem is Kamalala's concept of work is bj's and bj's don't accomplish as much, politically, as the do in California.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:29 PM (6Ae0r)

... As they did in California a decade ago. Woman has got some serious miles on those kneepads.

Posted by: rd at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (Z32m1)

174 Kristol is admitting that the purpose of nevertrump is not to elect moderate GOP, it is to disrupt GOP elections in favor of DEMS.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (F4b8f)

175

The whole idea of "generations" is pretty fuckwitted, ...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (bW8dp)
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Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (6Ae0r)

176 So apparently the name has been changed to hypocrite oath. We can spend millions on some scumbag's healthcare who did heinous things to an innocent person. But not someone who refused an experimental jab.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 26, 2022 04:35 PM (GwxCX)
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If they're in prison for gutting somebody (or let out despite that they did) and they got vaxxed, they are human and failing their right to healthcare is inexcusable--because *who* gets to pick and choose!

Posted by: Neil Notsoyoung at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (XHhHI)

177 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
___

My dad did three tours in 'Nam.

My parents may be many things, but hippies they're not.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (RU4sa)

178 Our government is a facade or forgery. Our country a memory. Best get ready.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (oWBc3)

179 I mean, if Kristol shows up in a restaurant, someone should stick a dinner fork in his chest and light him on fire with the chaffing dish fuel, so he very visibly runs out of the restaurant with an eating utensil in his chest, and immolating like Hellfire.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:30 PM (VpIIl)

You talk real purdy.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (wAnMi)

180 174 Kristol is admitting that the purpose of nevertrump is not to elect moderate GOP, it is to disrupt GOP elections in favor of DEMS.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 04:38 PM (F4b8f)

==========

Was this not obvious six years ago?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

181 There was a huge political issue in Boston 20 years ago or so.

A career hooker with AIDS needed a lung (?) transplant. And the state was on the hook to pay for it, because Boston.

This went back and forth as to whether the state really had to pay for surgery for someone that was just going to die from AIDS anyway, and the left which runs MA, of course, decided yes.

And yet here we are where the same people can deny you a transplant because you won't take their dangerous gene therapy.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (ESjRY)

182 >>>OK let me explain this from the Hospital's viewpoint. They aren't cackling and rubbing their hands together in corrupt agreement with mask tyrants. They are wrong, but not out of evil, just a misconception.

The hospital doesn't get to have a "viewpoint." They know damn well what the survival rate on this virus is, and they have to know the clotting and heart inflammation risks associated with the vaccine. They have decided, for all intents and purposes, to kill this man because he won't get the jab, and as far as I'm concerned, their lives are forfeit.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (bhRsz)

183 Unvaxxed don't provide donations. Simple. Don't want to muck up the works with non-human organs now, right?
Posted by: flounder

They can't afford Pureblood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (uXonU)

184 And in my experience there are two kinds of Millennials: the True Millennials and the Sort-of Millennials.

The older Millennials who are the younger kids of older parents who had older siblings (Gen X older sibs) are way more normal than the Millenials who are the oldest sibling or only child.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (DU+/6)

185 Does anyone know the mortician who does Hochul's makeup?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (VpIIl)

186 Nothing will come of the Biden Corruption to the eternal detriment of our Republic.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (gmo/4)

187 .it's a suck situation, but one going for decades. You've got to get practically every vaccine there is, live a "clean" life, and be a good "will live" bet to have any shot at an organ (unless you can pay to play like Steve Jobs did).

Yeah, the worst example for me is Mickey Mantle. Yeah I agree he was a legend and who doesn't like the Mick but.. the dude was old and in terrible shape, but got kicked to the front of the line to get a liver transplant after pickling his with a life of booze because Mickey Mantle and a pile of cash.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (KZzsI)

188 It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (a5d7/)

189 181 There was a huge political issue in Boston 20 years ago or so.

A career hooker with AIDS needed a lung (?) transplant. And the state was on the hook to pay for it, because Boston.

This went back and forth as to whether the state really had to pay for surgery for someone that was just going to die from AIDS anyway, and the left which runs MA, of course, decided yes.

And yet here we are where the same people can deny you a transplant because you won't take their dangerous gene therapy.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (ESjRY)

Let's bring it to present day and safe needle injection sites. One of the reasons I wanted out of Mass so bad.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (KbCG3)

190 I wonder if the guy who got a pig heart was vaccinated?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (63Dwl)

191 Can ICE fly a pair of 18 year old female Brazillian illegals over to my place? I shall.employ them.as gardeners.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 26, 2022 04:32 PM (n/szn)

Like to keep a tight, clean yard, do ya?

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (wBpKf)

192 GenXers are generally parents of GenZ not of millennials.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (0yhi+)

193 George Will now supports state sponsored suicide.

https://tinyurl.com/tsm6mnuw

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (GYllL)

194
It's not just this stupid vaccine bullshit.
Everything today is on a Blanket basis -- either you do this or else. Either you do believe this or else.

We no longer do anything Case-By-Case like, you know, sensible people.

We have to sit on a jury and judge everyone the same, based on skin color, no matter the facts in the case! We can't judge each case on its own independent merits or facts.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (RNCSI)

195 My Dad did two tours for nothing in 'nam, guessing he would say the hippies were right. We have been had folks.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (oWBc3)

196 Does anybody remember 20th-century "liberals" and the constant refrain of "Who gets to choose?"

On almost any issue: "who gets to choose?" With the unstated assumption that of course, they do.

Now, they are just more explicit that they get to choose. And you're against democracy or something if you don't let them choose.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (XHhHI)

197 A career hooker with AIDS

Isn't this the point at which you put the flashing light on her head?

Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (8erNz)

198 The Kirstol tweet reads like it was edited by a Bangladeshi intern, who replaced the initial references to penalty kicks and red cards

Posted by: Well at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (JunCY)

199 The whole idea of "generations" is pretty fuckwitted, ...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (bW8dp)
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It was largely a creation of the huge disruption caused by the War. Few kids were born and then a whole lot of them were born when it was all over. It created a clear generational definition, which is unusual. That's why there's so much overlap and less consistency in the post-Boomer "generations." We're getting back to normal. You could probably argue that the Boomers are the only "generation" (as defined in this manner) that actually existed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (DU+/6)

200 Miguel Estrada was nominated by Bush 2 to an Appeals Court judgeship. The Senate at the time was controlled by the GOPe. The nomination failed, after a two year fight. Democrat obstinance was led by Chuckles Schumer.

https://tinyurl.com/2p84wp62

(sorry about the XiNN link, but it was lifted from LegalInsurrection and it actually does a decent job explaining what happened)

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (VMY76)

201 George Will now supports state sponsored suicide.

https://tinyurl.com/tsm6mnuw

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (GYllL)
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He's godless. There is no purpose for the godless.

It just takes time for it to trickle down.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (XHhHI)

202 This roller-blading blonde in short shorts and a bikini top doesn't know which "generation" she is, but she digs some elements of the 90s style:
https://is.gd/ccEVs1

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (DU+/6)

203 you know, some of us were saying a few weeks ago about pushing Kamala out by sending her to the Sup Ct. Still ridiculous, but now maybe 20 percent less so. More likely they will push her into a seat on a lower court and find someone who will later be more electable.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 26, 2022 04:37 PM (Ynyl9)

As soon as they announce her new sinecure? Republicans need to nominate Donald Trump as VP.

Yeah, It won't go anywhere, or will it?

Posted by: rd at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (Z32m1)

204 GenXers are generally parents of GenZ not of millennials.
___

My kids are 33 and 29.
I'm 53.

Do the math.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (RU4sa)

205 The whole idea of "generations" is pretty fuckwitted

It is, because its oversimplified to the point of being kindergarden science. But there is something to it. In 1980 there was a sudden change in kids in school. They went from being mangy hippies and Disco rejects to Alex Keaton overnight. Suddenly they dressed well, were more respectful, didn't take as many drugs, and were overall solid citizens. That was basically the first shift over from Boomer to X.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (KZzsI)

206 The reality is that the leaders of Russia and China and a whole bunch of other places smell weakness

--

And full Depends

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (nscF9)

207 looks like Spotify is a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan

Posted by: REDACTED at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (us2H3)

208 This roller-blading blonde in short shorts and a bikini top doesn't know which "generation" she is, but she digs some elements of the 90s style:
https://is.gd/ccEVs1
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (DU+/6)

Dibs!
I call dibs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (XvPQV)

209 It's the same flaw their requirement to get the flu shot has, but that's been required forever...it's a suck situation, but one going for decades.

If they require a flu shot for surgery, that's madness. But even if they do, it's nothing like requiring a Covid shot. Flu vaccines have been around since, what, the 1940s? And they are not mandatory in most contexts. So we have a lot of data at our disposal to compare outcomes between those with and without a flu vaccination as well as side effects. The Covid vaccine has been around for, what, less than a year, has manifestly underperformed, and has data so unreliable at this point that no one really knows what the its long-term safety will look like. The medical profession has lost all perspective. It seems rather proud of that fact.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (3YVs3)

210 "You talk real purdy.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (wAnMi) "

Being sick is making me cranky.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (VpIIl)

211 China didn't just know Hunter was a drug addict, they made him one. They dragged Hunter to Opium dens. China made Hunter a drug addict so he would act as their agent.
Weird how the FBI knew this and didn't prosecute it.

Posted by: william ferrin at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (DT67g)

212 My folks are boomers and they pretty freely admit that their cohort fucked things up but good. Not that it's divine revelation or anything but I find it interesting.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (II3Gr)

213 202 This roller-blading blonde in short shorts and a bikini top doesn't know which "generation" she is, but she digs some elements of the 90s style:
https://is.gd/ccEVs1
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (DU+/6)

=========

Yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

214 My folks are boomers and they pretty freely admit that their cohort fucked things up but good. Not that it's divine revelation or anything but I find it interesting.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (II3Gr)
++++
Ditto

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (DU+/6)

215 204

Do you not know the definition of generally? Most 29 year olds today do not have 53 year old parents. More like 63.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (0yhi+)

216 Dibs!
I call dibs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:43 PM (XvPQV)

Dammit!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (II3Gr)

217 A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.

The decisions are not made by robots or AI. People make the decision to kill your loved one. People with names, and families of their own.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (yQpMk)

218 And in my experience there are two kinds of Millennials: the True Millennials and the Sort-of Millennials.

The older Millennials who are the younger kids of older parents who had older siblings (Gen X older sibs) are way more normal than the Millenials who are the oldest sibling or only child.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (DU+/6)

Shorter: Generalization generally suck. And people can be assholes at any age.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (SH2Zi)

219 George Will now supports state sponsored suicide.

https://tinyurl.com/tsm6mnuw
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (GYllL)

He can feel free to demonstrate how it works, personally.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (XvPQV)

220 >>>Generation X remains the least annoying

Because we don't give enough fucks to be annoying about anything.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 26, 2022 04:28 PM

That's because we were cynics by age 11.

Posted by: Bert G at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (fHydr)

221 187 .it's a suck situation, but one going for decades. You've got to get practically every vaccine there is, live a "clean" life, and be a good "will live" bet to have any shot at an organ (unless you can pay to play like Steve Jobs did).

Yeah, the worst example for me is Mickey Mantle. Yeah I agree he was a legend and who doesn't like the Mick but.. the dude was old and in terrible shape, but got kicked to the front of the line to get a liver transplant after pickling his with a life of booze because Mickey Mantle and a pile of cash.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (KZzsI)

Yup - I've accepted with my cancer I have no shot at a space in line for a random donor, so if my eventual treatments ever wreck my kidneys or liver, I've told my spouse to keep his organs in shape, b/c he's the only way I'd get one...

Posted by: Nova local at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (exHjb)

222 This roller-blading blonde in short shorts and a bikini top doesn't know which "generation" she is, but she digs some elements of the 90s style:
https://is.gd/ccEVs1

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (DU+/6)

I would like the opportunity to eventually tire of her bullshit after she has thoroughly tired me out over several years, sexually.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (gmo/4)

223 The hospital doesn't get to have a "viewpoint." They know damn well what the survival rate on this virus is, and they have to know the clotting and heart inflammation risks associated with the vaccine. They have decided, for all intents and purposes, to kill this man because he won't get the jab, and as far as I'm concerned, their lives are forfeit.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2022 04:39 PM (bhRsz)

Sadly, it's a matter of survival. If they do this, they lose their funding and go belly up. This is the governments doing, although of course many are in agreement with it. At this point - it's all numbers. We're all just numbers. Unless of course you're a senator or have a few million to throw around. Then you're a valued patient.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (wAnMi)

224 This roller-blading blonde in short shorts and a bikini top doesn't know which "generation" she is, but she digs some elements of the 90s style

swear she let a big truck grease her hip

https://youtu.be/W16Szy__gBY

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (KZzsI)

225 Though the "crowds" outside are kind of a joke, even on the PS5. Running down the road I passed five NPCs, all literally the same. And they were the only NPCs I ran past.
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On PC with a high end graphics card those crowds are massive and diverse. You can't move without bumping into people.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (5p7BC)

226 192 GenXers are generally parents of GenZ not of millennials.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (0yhi+)

I'm GenX and my kids are millennials.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (9mPbX)

227 Generalization generally suck. And people can be assholes at any age.
___

So true.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (RU4sa)

228 44 Lethal aid to Ukraine? The fuck does that even mean?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:24 PM (II3Gr)

Means the Russians will score a bunch of U.S. weapons if they invade Ukraine.

Posted by: Javems at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (AmoqO)

229 "The medical profession is becoming quite politicized, from med school onward. The last 3 years should have provided sufficient proof that medical decisions are no longer apolitical.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls"

Absolutely. For proof of this look at all the BS about diversity and inequality and climate in health care (and covid) that dominate the literature . Go check out the current issue of New England Journal of Medicine for a preview of where the profession is headed. Same as practically every other major institution.

Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (PTDkx)

230 Tony Blair is still angry about Brexit.

The Left remembers everything and learns nothing.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (44ww/)

231 ~~Shorter: Generalization~~ People generally suck. And people can be assholes at any age.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (SH2Zi)

FTFY

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (II3Gr)

232 Generations became a distinction with the "Generation gap". The "boomers" were the first generation to be aware of itself by the press following the trends of the boomers.

Then the boomers became parents and we had to call the kids rebelling from them something else. The boomers are perfectly positioned as a massive bulge in population going through adolescence at a time where major media was emerging and running out of strict news and turned to the look-at-me young people.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (XHhHI)

233 Hey CaliGirl.

Remember, having kids in your 30s is the norm now.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (RU4sa)

234 225 Though the "crowds" outside are kind of a joke, even on the PS5. Running down the road I passed five NPCs, all literally the same. And they were the only NPCs I ran past.
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On PC with a high end graphics card those crowds are massive and diverse. You can't move without bumping into people.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (5p7BC)

========

So I've heard. I bought the PS4 copy because rumors abound that the big PS5 update is coming soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

235 "The decisions are not made by robots or AI. People make the decision to kill your loved one. People with names, and families of their own.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (yQpMk) "

People who should be hung on sharp poles that slowly impale them, lining the highways into their town of residence.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (VpIIl)

236 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

my parents are Silent Gen. my sister (spit) and i are both Boomers as is Smash, my wife. Junior-ette is a Zoomer, but she sure as hell is a different spotted leopard from the rest of her peers.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 04:46 PM (IJES/)

237 And some pointy German helmets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (todmg)

238 Blanket laws: My dad had a great explanation why regional laws need to trump federal laws. "Steal a mans horse in New York, you've stolen his recreation, steal a mans horse in Montana, you've stolen his life."

Posted by: Some Rat at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (r1z5A)

239 You could probably argue that the Boomers are the only "generation" (as defined in this manner) that actually existed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (DU+/6)
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And the last generation not defined by marketers.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (6Ae0r)

240 You could probably argue that the Boomers are the only "generation" (as defined in this manner) that actually existed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:41 PM (DU+/6)
~~~~~

Agreed. I can't keep them straight anyway.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (0TVNF)

241 Cracker - I Hate My Generation:
https://youtu.be/XOsNsOhyG8I?t=2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (DU+/6)

242 >>Weird how the FBI knew this and didn't prosecute it.

It's not just foreign intelligence agencies that have incriminating intel on the Bidens.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (ZLI7S)

243 Miguel Estrada was nominated by Bush 2 to an Appeals Court judgeship. The Senate at the time was controlled by the GOPe. The nomination failed, after a two year fight. Democrat obstinance was led by Chuckles Schumer.

Literally, the first partisan filibuster of a Federal Judge ever.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (yQpMk)

244 The unvaccianted guy being denied the heart transplant should fill out donor forms for all of his other organs, to be donated on his death. See if they'll take them, him being unvaccinated and all.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (vJjm2)

245 Smiling Jack and the character was Fat Stuff a chinaman.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 26, 2022 04:47 PM (cGAjs)

246 What would be your Playlist of singers who overdosed in drowned in their own vomit.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (8SY6X)

247 That's because we were cynics by age 11.
Posted by: Bert G at January 26, 2022 04:45 PM (fHydr)

That's about right.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (II3Gr)

248 forgot to add, my brother is Gen X, and he fits that stereotype to a T.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (IJES/)

249 In 1980 there was a sudden change in kids in school. They went from being mangy hippies and Disco rejects to Alex Keaton overnight. Suddenly they dressed well, were more respectful, didn't take as many drugs, and were overall solid citizens. That was basically the first shift over from Boomer to X.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022

***
TV Guide did a piece on it back in about 1980 -- the preppies and their prep-speak, clothes preferences, etc. It was supposed to be funny, but I'll bet it had a lot of truth to it. These would have been the kids born after 1962 or so, very very late Boomers or early Gen X. (Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 was one of 'em.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (txdEq)

250 That would be a cute meme. An illegal gun walking the streets of NYC looking for someone to shoot

Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (CYnTg)

251 Ace, did the Weekly Standard drive you over the edge with pirate bling and murdering prose?

If so, I'm a good driver, we should carpool.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (TwUy6)

252 My peeps are mid 40s to early 50s. Not one of them has a kid out of HS. GenX has GenZ or younger kids. Millennials have late boomer parents. Generally speaking with obvious exceptions.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (0yhi+)

253 forgot to add, my brother is Gen X, and he fits that stereotype to a T.
Posted by: BifBewalski
___

So what is the stereotypical Gen X?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (RU4sa)

254 I remember when David Crosby was quickly approved and received a liver transplant paid for by Phil Collins. Crosby bashed his liver for decades and then jumped the line due to his celebrity and cold, hard cash.

I feel so sorry for this man in Boston and his family.

Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (BPMYo)

255 This is the governments doing,

And as I've been saying, our government is a bigger threat that Russia and whatever they want to do in Ukraine.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2022 04:48 PM (ESjRY)

256 Odds on eventually someone that is denied a lifesaving transplant due to their injection status going nuclear with a scary black machine gun with a 1,000 round clip and a thing that goes up?

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (DB16e)

257 My dad had a great explanation why regional laws need to trump federal laws.

Great way to put it. And the more local, the better handle on their area that the lawmakers and law enforcement have. Some guy gets drunk and shoots up a stop sign in Scio, Oregon and he's just due for some time in the drunk tank. Do it in Manhattan and you're a genuine menace and need real jail time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

258 Great way to put it. And the more local, the better handle on their area that the lawmakers and law enforcement have. Some guy gets drunk and shoots up a stop sign in Scio, Oregon and he's just due for some time in the drunk tank. Do it in Manhattan and you're a genuine menace and need real jail time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (KZzsI)
++++
Why, it's almost like subsidiarity might be a good idea....

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (DU+/6)

259 I learned pretty early that people in positions of authority were more often than not rotten shits.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (II3Gr)

260 Gen X was raised by hippies and then made Millenials, right?

Gen X is largely from Boomers who had kids in their 20s. Millennials are largely from feminist Boomers who had kids in their 30s/early 40s because muh career. Gen Z are mostly Gen X's kids.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 26, 2022 04:50 PM (ZGrMX)

261 My kids are 33 and 29.
I'm 53.

Do the math.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:42 PM (RU4sa)
=============
Math? Is math allowed here?

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at January 26, 2022 04:50 PM (VMY76)

262 If you are sick enough to need a heart transplant, the chances of you dying from covid are high enough that it outweighs any risk from the vaccine.

There were people who the vaccine should have been directed at and that guy is one of them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 04:50 PM (F4b8f)

263 Levin had an excellent interview of Schweizer Sun night. American Thinker had a piece by Thomas Lifson on it Jan 24.

Ace, this might be a good update to the post.

Here is a link:
https://tinyurl.com/bddkfwxw

Posted by: groovy girl at January 26, 2022 04:50 PM (ybC9u)

264 I remember when David Crosby was quickly approved and received a liver transplant paid for by Phil Collins. Crosby bashed his liver for decades and then jumped the line due to his celebrity and cold, hard cash.

I feel so sorry for this man in Boston and his family.
Posted by: Cheri

Read somewhere one of the old rockefellers is like on his fifth heart.

Posted by: Some Rat at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (r1z5A)

265 He's not the only one. I saw an interview with a woman from a different part of the country, midwest maybe, who is also being denied a transplant because she isn't vaccinated.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2022 04:31 PM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

Saw that too. I think it was a kidney.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (0TVNF)

266 My kids are 33 and 29.
I'm 53.

Do the math.
Posted by: SMH

Two. You had sex twice.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (F4b8f)

267 Hochul needs far less Botox and much more eyelid lift surgery.

Posted by: Piper at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (FXYsU)

268 So having kids in your early 20s is out of high school.

Got it.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (RU4sa)

269 219 George Will now supports state sponsored suicide.

https://tinyurl.com/tsm6mnuw
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 26, 2022 04:40 PM (GYllL)

He can feel free to demonstrate how it works, personally.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM (XvPQV)

I can't think of any other member of the conservative pundit class who's fallen farther in my eyes. Back in the 80's, I used to hang on his every word. (Yes, I'm ashamed now.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (dfRN6)

270 Kristol must have overheard his wife's bull discussing the latest game with his gardener.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (W3VUu)

271 I learned pretty early that people in positions of authority were more often than not rotten shits.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (II3Gr)

Ya find out what kind of person someone is by giving them power.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (XvPQV)

272 Kids.
What are they good for?
Absolutely nothing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 04:52 PM (UuD2k)

273 256 Odds on eventually someone that is denied a lifesaving transplant due to their injection status going nuclear with a scary black machine gun with a 1,000 round clip and a thing that goes up?
Posted by: Fool Otto at January 26, 2022 04:49 PM (DB16e)

Someone and his family.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 04:52 PM (vJjm2)

274 My kids are 33 and 29.
I'm 53.

Do the math.
Posted by: SMH
---
The Barrel has been called.

Posted by: Random Moron at January 26, 2022 04:52 PM (XHhHI)

275 I just made that Gooey Butter Cake from Tami's recipe. It's not done baking yet, but it smells amazing.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 04:52 PM (0TVNF)

276 268 So having kids in your early 20s is out of high school.

Got it.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (RU4sa)

Well, unless you got held back a few years, yeah.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (II3Gr)

277

That Hochul c*nt really is evil looking.

SHe looks like Mok from Rock and Rule, the old cartoon. Right out of central casting.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (XnbJC)

278 I just made that Gooey Butter Cake from Tami's recipe. It's not done baking yet, but it smells amazing.

Is that in the Horde cookbook?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (ZGrMX)

279 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "

Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)

280 2 more cops just shot in Ferguson, MO.

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (+ya+t)

281 Heya Insom.

lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (RU4sa)

282 He can feel free to demonstrate how it works, personally.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at January 26, 2022 04:44 PM

Arrogant wordy cvun t George Will would need 14 headstones to explain his death.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (GwxCX)

283
So what is the stereotypical Gen X?
Posted by: SMH

someone posted earlier that they are cynics by age 11, work, pay taxes, and keep their heads down while boomers and millenials are fighting amongst themselves.

i added some and extrapolated a bit, but that's how i see gen x.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (IJES/)

284 SMH, it means you will be a youngish grandma and able to enjoy doing lots of stuff with your grandkids. That's quite a blessing.

Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (6Je/Q)

285 279 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)

No backsies!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (UuD2k)

286 It's amazing to see the Hippocratic oath become the Hippocratic suggestion.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (W3VUu)

287 266 My kids are 33 and 29.
I'm 53.

Do the math.
Posted by: SMH

Two. You had sex twice.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 04:51 PM (F4b8f)

Yeah, I had twins... so only once for moi?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (oHd/0)

288 It's not done baking yet, but it smells amazing.

Let us know how gooey it is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (KZzsI)

289 2 more cops just shot in Ferguson, MO.
Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2022

***
People still live and work there by choice?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (txdEq)

290 233 Hey CaliGirl.

Remember, having kids in your 30s is the norm now.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26,

I know, I was younger than a lot of the other mothers at school. It makes me nervous when the girls wait until everything is "perfect". It will never be perfect and I'd be broken hearted if they were unable to have kids. They don't listen.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (9mPbX)

291 Levin had an excellent interview of Schweizer Sun night. American Thinker had a piece by Thomas Lifson on it Jan 24.
Posted by: groovy girl at January 26, 2022 04:50 PM (ybC9u)
~~~~~

Schweizer's books are excellent, but not safe for the hypertensive.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (0TVNF)

292 And some pointy German helmets.
-----------------------------------
The Pickelhaube.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (UHVv4)

293 someone posted earlier that they are cynics by age 11, work, pay taxes, and keep their heads down while boomers and millenials are fighting amongst themselves.

I added some and extrapolated a bit, but that's how i see gen x.
Posted by: BifBewalski
___

lol, okay.

fair enough.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (RU4sa)

294 286 It's amazing to see the Hippocratic oath become the Hippocratic suggestion.
Posted by: Azathoth at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (W3VUu)

Out Hippocratic Oath!

New Hotness? Hypocritic Oath!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (oHd/0)

295 Kids.
What are they good for?
Absolutely nothing.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

My father watching us kiddos doing some nonsense walking away muttering, "I shoulda raised pigs."

Posted by: Some Rat at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (r1z5A)

296 281 Heya Insom.

lol
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (RU4sa)

Hi SMH!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (II3Gr)

297 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
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"No backsies!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

298 And some pointy German helmets.
-----------------------------------
The Pickelhaube.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (UHVv4)
---
Any spears?

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (XHhHI)

299 I dunno. Go down to the Arlington Section that houses Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Look at the dates. There sure are a lot of "millennials" there...

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (VpIIl)

300 >>2 more cops just shot in Ferguson, MO.

It's going to be next to impossible to get good people to be cops.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (ZLI7S)

301 Yeah, I had twins... so only once for moi?
Posted by: Romeo13

I thought you were a dude.
Huh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (W2Pud)

302 My mom always used to say that " better to raise pigs" LOL

Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (CYnTg)

303 I can't imagine a good doctor saying hey your heart is junk, so let's inject you with an experimental "vaccine" from a virus with a extremely high survival rate.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:26 PM

Operative word "good". The Nazis found a lot of "good" doctors, didn't they?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (RkC6l)

304 So the student is in a class the professor won't allow him to attend, and is therefore doomed to fail. The Mask Nazi professor gloats and says, good, if you really believe in your mask-free principles, you should be willing to pay for it.

**

And vice versa.

Speaking of, I'm really surprised we haven't seen horrible, horrible things happen to the people in power like this person. Very surprised. It really speaks highly of how f*cking awesome white supremacy - sorry - Western Civilization truly is.

But it won't last. It can't.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (/6kZi)

305 Help.

I'm living in the 7th dimension of hell. I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

306 Mind like a blown gasket.

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BIDEN: "When I went to Dearborn, driving that, eh, you know, uh, was up there, uh...I don't know, man."

Video: https://bit.ly/3AylCua

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (FVME7)

307 If you can't get the right drugs, sucide is the only option. Goverment will guide you because your options were disappeared.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (TwUy6)

308 "Generation X is, by almost any barometer, the least significant of the canonical demographics. Yet one accolade can be applied with conviction: Among the generations that have yet to go extinct, Generation X remains the least annoying."

Fuck you Klosterman clusterfucker.

DOB 1969

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (M+Lyo)

309 It will never be perfect and I'd be broken-hearted if they were unable to have kids. They don't listen.
Posted by: CaliGirl
___

The odds of my eldest having kids is pretty slim at this point, due to her health issues.
Yes, it is heartbreaking.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (RU4sa)

310 297 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
---
"No backsies!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

So they - what - murdered her?

Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (6Je/Q)

311 306 He was going to say he drove big rigs....

Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (CYnTg)

312 Never Trumpers can intercept passes and block punts.

--------

That's the #NeverTrump Prime Directive for the use of their asses.

"Personal foul, illegal use of ass ... 15-year-old boy, first down!"

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (pKDUC)

313 My mom always used to say that " better to raise pigs" LOL
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022

***
We don't rent pigs. Lookit the sign!

Posted by: Gus McCrae at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (txdEq)

314 I know, I was younger than a lot of the other mothers at school. It makes me nervous when the girls wait until everything is "perfect". It will never be perfect and I'd be broken hearted if they were unable to have kids. They don't listen.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (9mPbX)

Met a 37 year old GRANDMOTHER awhile back. Had a child at 18, and her daughter had just had a child at 19.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (oHd/0)

315 Could somebody tell me who the fucking Vice President is, because I'm not believing the prostitute with the gigglytits demeanor.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (6liew)

316 Mickey Mantle got a liver after he killed his with alcohol.

Posted by: torabora at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (WnpTB)

317 It's going to be next to impossible to get good people to be cops.
__

Or join the military.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (RU4sa)

318 And some pointy German helmets.
-----------------------------------
The Pickelhaube.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (UHVv4)

Are they made with dill and garlic?

Posted by: spindrift at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (h5TKJ)

319 If SNL wanted to do a funny skit they could bring back "Deep Thoughts" and just quote Joe or Kamaltoe.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (DB16e)

320 Any spears?
Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM

Brittney?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (GwxCX)

321 >>Or join the military.

True.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (ZLI7S)

322 279 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
====================
Well, the anesthesiologist cancelled a tennis match to be there and got a little pissed off.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (VMY76)

323 Could somebody tell me who the fucking Vice President is, because I'm not believing the prostitute with the gigglytits demeanor.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (6liew)
++++
Same as the president: an unaccountable politburo too busy fighting each other and maneuvering for position and building their own parallel empires to make an attempt at effective governance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (DU+/6)

324
Christopher Taylor, no offense.
You know I dig you, bro.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 04:59 PM (RNCSI)

325 Or join the military.

If you know what gender you are, you can't join now. Our next big defeat is going to be hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 26, 2022 04:59 PM (ZGrMX)

326 316 Mickey Mantle got a liver after he killed his with alcohol.
Posted by: torabora at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (WnpTB)

Rich and connected people get significantly better health care then even upper middle class. Even in commie countries.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 04:59 PM (UuD2k)

327 310 The paperwork would have been brutal if we didn't
Belgian Bureacrat

Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:59 PM (CYnTg)

328
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 26, 2022 04:59 PM (DUIap)

329 317 It's going to be next to impossible to get good people to be cops.
__

Or join the military.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (RU4sa)

Serious question. As exmil, would you join up now?

Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (6Je/Q)

330 I'm living in the 7th dimension of hell. I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

Hell, I may move back to Denver so my 32 year old Son can live with me Rent Free. He is FINALLY getting stable, but can't save money to buy a house because rents are 'too damn high' (as a politician once said).

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (oHd/0)

331 Any of you watch those scripted doctor shows where there's always that one doctor who plays by his own rules in spite of the consequences? My wife loves those shows. They always do something about treating an illegal or the uninsured. And it's always the right thing to do.

Any episodes featuring these doctors treating the unvaxxed as, you know, normal people?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (KbCG3)

332 From The Bee:
"Ukraine invites Kyle Rittenhouse to border"

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (lGrs1)

333
Uh oh, it looks like biden's "stutter" is back.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (RNCSI)

334 Rich and connected people get significantly better health care then even upper middle class. Even in commie countries.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 04:59 PM (UuD2k)

Especially in commie countries.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (II3Gr)

335 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
---
"No backsies!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

"You're not fooling anyone."

Posted by: Belgium at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (SH2Zi)

336 Oh, and that druggy that passed out in the library fapping to porn and his pitbull attacked the guy who tried to save his ass?

Yeah, that was a "service" animal. That whole thing got completely out of hand a few years ago, and doctors were handing out letters like crazy to allow people to get service permits for their animals. PTSD! It used to be they had to pass certain criteria - like actually be trained. It's a nationwide problem. But here in CA it's extra special - because you don't even need to have a certification! You just say it's a service animal, and it's illegal to ask for proof. Nope, that would be rayciss. Just like asking for ID (except vaccine passports of course). So this guy goes to the library to fap to porn (SF libraries are prohibited from blocking porn sites), brought his attack dog, and passed out. That dog could have gone after a kid, this was pretty lucky all the way around.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (wAnMi)

337 297 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
---
"No backsies!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

So they - what - murdered her?
Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM

I am picturing the cart from Monty Python. (but i'm not dead!) Oh well, you'll be stone cold dead in a minute. Wack!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (GwxCX)

338 314 I know, I was younger than a lot of the other mothers at school. It makes me nervous when the girls wait until everything is "perfect". It will never be perfect and I'd be broken hearted if they were unable to have kids. They don't listen.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Wise words.

Posted by: 7man at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (qwO6y)

339 Serious question. As exmil, would you join up now?
Posted by: kraken
____

BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!

No.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (RU4sa)

340 Apparently pickel means pointy in German.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (todmg)

341 310 297 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
---
"No backsies!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

So they - what - murdered her?
Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (6Je/Q)

---------

She'd be alive today if she had refused the jab ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (pKDUC)

342 Mickey Mantle got a liver after he killed his with alcohol.
Posted by: torabora

Which gave me hope.

Posted by: Some Rat at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (r1z5A)

343 283
So what is the stereotypical Gen X?
Posted by: SMH

someone posted earlier that they are cynics by age 11, work, pay taxes, and keep their heads down while boomers and millenials are fighting amongst themselves.

i added some and extrapolated a bit, but that's how i see gen x.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (IJES/)

Yeah, that's about right...that explains my fed gov budget posts! I'd add that no one listens to us anyway, so the cynicism is both wide and deep...

Posted by: Nova local at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (exHjb)

344 Same as the president: an unaccountable politburo too busy fighting each other and maneuvering for position and building their own parallel empires to make an attempt at effective governance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2022 04:58 PM (DU+/6)
---
We have:
President DNC
Speaker DNC

And probably:
Vice President DNC
Senate Majority Leader DNC

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (XHhHI)

345 So the student is in a class the professor won't allow him to attend, and is therefore doomed to fail. The Mask Nazi professor gloats and says, good, if you really believe in your mask-free principles, you should be willing to pay for it.
___________

The law professor is just being an azzhole. Hope the student files a complaint against him with the school's administration. These petty tyrants who love abusing their power need to be called to account for their idiocy.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (k4dH2)

346

Brats in battalions were ruling the streets
Sayin' generation landslide closed the gap between them

And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

347 310 297 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
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"No backsies!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

So they - what - murdered her?
Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (6Je/Q)

Yes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (z5Vrg)

348 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (CYnTg)
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"No backsies!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

Too late, we've already done the paperwork.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (ZSK0i)

349 >>> Is that in the Horde cookbook?
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Not sure, but I'll check. Someone found her original post with the recipe and re-posted it here last week.

Stand by for recipe...

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (0TVNF)

350 If you are sick enough to need a heart transplant, the chances of you dying from covid are high enough that it outweighs any risk from the vaccine.
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What are the odds of catching WuFlu? And then dying of it??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (UHVv4)

351 I'm living in the 7th dimension of hell. I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

Ouch. I think we can expect to see a lot more of this, with housing prices and consumer inflation continuing to skyrocket.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (II3Gr)

352 348
Too late, we've already done the paperwork.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 26, 2022 05:01 PM (ZSK0i)

==========

That is a line that could have come from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (LvTSG)

353 kraken,

I refused to re-up when Jugears was elected, and there was a recession going on.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (RU4sa)

354 Tami's Gooey Butter Cake

1 box yellow cake mix
2 eggs
1 stick butter, melted
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1 box (16 oz.) powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 large cream cheese (8 oz.)

Preheat oven to350°F.
Mix the cake mix, 2 eggs and butter together and press into 11 x 13 pan. Then mix the sugar, eggs and cream cheese together and pour over cake batter. Bake for 35 minutes. Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (0TVNF)

355 "BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!

No.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (RU4sa) "

I just spit my coffee.

But you would miss all that great food.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (VpIIl)

356 The nursing home that is the top public escalon of Washington DC Democrats is probably the perfect cover and the least hindrance for the DNC/politburo.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (XHhHI)

357 SF Library spokesperson said, "An attack of this nature has never before occurred at the Library."

LOLGF! https://tinyurl.com/mwvmejmr

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Librarians across social media are joining the call to address racism, and many are demanding an end to police violence against African Americans in libraries. Our next guest says that most librarians do everything they can not to call the police. Stacy Collins is a university librarian in Boston. Thanks so much for being with us.

STACY COLLINS: Thanks so much for having me.

Posted by: Guvnah at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (LVsi4)

358 It will never be perfect and I'd be broken hearted if they were unable to have kids.

Yeah this bothers me a lot. Women or young married couples putting kids off til later when they are 'ready'. Dude. You will never be READY as you plan on, you'll just be older and more tired.

Christopher Taylor, no offense.

No problem bro, it concerns me that I might be annoying people with my reactions. Its just my first response to most things: why did they do this and what are they thinking, do they have a point? I suspect people find that annoying.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (KZzsI)

359
That is a line that could have come from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM

which is, by definition, a Christmas movie

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (DUIap)

360 The SF, heart transplant, and law school stories all have me wondering how long before normies start turning to violence. I know the movie Falling Down wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual, but what choice to you leave someone you've pulled off a transplant list and condemned to die?

Posted by: Xander Crews at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (MpOGS)

361 It will never be perfect and I'd be broken hearted if they were unable to have kids. They don't listen.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (9mPbX)

Met a 37 year old GRANDMOTHER awhile back. Had a child at 18, and her daughter had just had a child at 19.
Posted by: Romeo13

Smash has fun with gen x parents that assume she is Junior-ette's grandmother. Junior-ette of course pretends she doesn't know the damned boomer acting out like an ass at the gen x mom.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (IJES/)

362 Wasn't there a scandal a few years ago with one of the major SoCal medical centers involving organ transplants and wealthy Chinese nationals jumping the line?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (YFAIE)

363 The Right To Bear Memes
@grandoldmemes

https://tinyurl.com/mtek7r3u

Posted by: redridinghood at January 26, 2022 05:03 PM (NpAcC)

364 That is a line that could have come from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (LvTSG)
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Unless you had a Z8422-6.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (XHhHI)

365 I wish I'd had kids in my early/mid 20s instead of late 20s/early 30s. Also, I realized recently that while we weren't planning to have a third anyway, the door is definitely closing now as I'm almost 40. (not closed...but closing)

I'm staring at the TSP site trying to convince myself to move some of my money to the G fund. I've got less than 8% in the G fund right now, which is on purpose bc it's over 20 years before I'll use it.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (8548M)

366 Cream of fichus soup (WITH carrots) Mmmmm.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (GwxCX)

367 364 That is a line that could have come from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (LvTSG)
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Unless you had a Z8422-6.
Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (XHhHI)

=========

Now look what you've done!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (LvTSG)

368 321 >>Or join the military.

True.

****

Just about everyone I've talked to either in or related to someone in the Marine corps or the Army is getting out as soon as they can. I know some old veterans who are telling every male in their family to stay away from the military now.

On the plus side, in the dystopian future we've got coming, it's going to be pretty sweet being a partisan guerilla fighter considering your opposition is going to be Corporal Brandon and Private First Class Cersei.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (W3VUu)

369 The whole "generations" thing is a plot to divide the country even more than it is. Don't buy into it. Don't play their game.

It's really sad to see it here.

Posted by: Flyover, what with eyeballs rollin' in 2022 at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (Rbu5d)

370 People still live and work there by choice?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:54 PM (txdEq)

It's bewildering, isn't it.

Posted by: East St. Louis at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (ItDAh)

371 Met a 37 year old GRANDMOTHER awhile back. Had a child at 18, and her daughter had just had a child at 19.

**

I suspect that's pretty routine in the projects.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (/6kZi)

372 I'm living in the 7th dimension of hell. I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.
___

Oof, my condolences.

We (hub and I), do what we can financially to help out our eldest down in Texas.
The youngest in MO gets helped out by her in-laws.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (RU4sa)

373 Tami's Gooey Butter Cake

If I were a more crass individual I would make a joke here about a nickname her husband uses.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 05:05 PM (KZzsI)

374 In my case, I had my daughter at age 34 and my son at age 36. Feminism had nothing to do with it. I was on active duty, traveled the world, and at my last duty station met a guy, married and shortly after got pregnant. I was never looking for marriage or kids. God had other plans. Thank God!

When pregnant with my son at 36, a lot of "Karens" were telling me to get an amniocentisis. When I asked my OB_GYN about it, she asked me "What if it comes back that your baby has Downs or some other problem. What will you do?" I answered "I will have my child, and love him for the rest of my life". No amnio.

Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2022 05:05 PM (BPMYo)

375 My mom was a grandmother at 38

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 26, 2022 05:05 PM (M+Lyo)

376 Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 05:00 PM (wAnMi)

I half jokingly asked my long time family Doctor if he would write me the docs so I could have an 'emotional Support' GUN... because without it, my anxiety levels were much higher going out in public.

He stopped... and looked thoughtful for a few seconds.... and said 'you know, that's an interesting idea'.

Never got back to me on it, and now he retired....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 05:05 PM (oHd/0)

377 I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

Get snacks at night after you go to bed....naked. Same thing with drinks of water. And maybe even breakfast.

It's your house...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (Q9lwr)

378 a - I recall reading years ago that Mickey Mantle came from a family with a hereditary disease that killed most of the males before they reached forty, so Mickey figured 'what do I have to lose?'

b - also recall hearing on the Stern radio show years ago that Papa John Philips (I think it was him) got a liver transplant after years of drinking and was not too long after seen drinking a wine cooler.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (Ynyl9)

379 I suspect that's pretty routine in the projects.

In the projects that's known as a "late bloomer"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (KZzsI)

380 2 more cops just shot in Ferguson, MO.
Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2022 04:53 PM (+ya+t)

Anything left to burn down?

Seriously, if true? Turn out 2,000 NG tonight. Have them help the protesters by blocking streets for marches, hand out water, offer first aid. All while being an everpresent looming presence. Keep it peaceful using an overwhelming force.

Posted by: rd at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (Z32m1)

381 But you would miss all that great food.
Posted by: Marcus T
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I've had my fill of T-rats and MREs.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (RU4sa)

382 When pregnant with my son at 36, a lot of "Karens" were telling me to get an amniocentisis. When I asked my OB_GYN about it, she asked me "What if it comes back that your baby has Downs or some other problem. What will you do?" I answered "I will have my child, and love him for the rest of my life". No amnio.
Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2022 05:05 PM (BPMYo)

Don't you understand that children are just accessories and should be discarded or eliminated when inconvenient?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (z5Vrg)

383 I know, I was younger than a lot of the other mothers at school. It makes me nervous when the girls wait until everything is "perfect". It will never be perfect and I'd be broken hearted if they were unable to have kids. They don't listen.

Unfortunately there's a combination of wanting to ride the cock carousel, putting career and self-actuation or whatever the fuck ahead of everything else, believing they can "have it all," believing that it's not a big deal to wait until near-middle-age to have kids (just freeze some eggs!), and believing they should never "settle" for anything less than an Albert Schweizer/Brad Pitt/Warren Buffet/John Holmes chimera bearing the best traits of each.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (II3Gr)

384 Seems like buzzion got snubbed on the Absent Friends list.

How does he feel about that?

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (XHhHI)

385 Ha ha Neil Young can shove Southern Man up his geriatric Canadian ass. Spotify cancelled him.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (KiBMU)

386
Met a 37 year old GRANDMOTHER awhile back. Had a child at 18, and her daughter had just had a child at 19.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 04:57 PM (oHd/0)

That's the way it used to be. My grandmother was a grandmother at 40 and then she had an oopsie baby. My uncle and sister went to high school together.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (9mPbX)

387 350 If you are sick enough to need a heart transplant, the chances of you dying from covid are high enough that it outweighs any risk from the vaccine.
____________

According to the studies, transplant patients who get infected with covid have a 20-30% chance of dying from it.

That means they have a 70-80% chance of surviving covid if they get infected.

We have no idea what the long-term consequences of the vaccines will be. It may turn out that transplant patients have 0% of surviving the vaccines long term.

So who should get to make the call about which risk to take with the transplant patient's life? The transplant patient, the government, or some hospital or medical insurance company or UNOS bureaucrat?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (k4dH2)

388 "Mr. Trump. The 45th POTUS"
Trump says "And 47th"
https://tinyurl.com/zemzmcnd

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (DB16e)

389 Remember pre-existing conditions?
Boy did that goalpost go by the wayside

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (2JoB8)

390 When a recipe calls for egg(s) what size egg do they mean?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (63Dwl)

391 My brother-in-law moved back in with my mother-in-law at the start of the pandemic response when he lost his sous-chef job.

He day traded online for the next year, riding the drive upwards until that stopped a few months ago. He works at a corporate chain joint now, constant double shifts because he's actually good in the kitchen.

Still lives in his mom's house, in the room he lived in from the time he was about 5.

I just cannot imagine that existence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

392 From a medical perspective, having kids in your 20's makes a lot more sense. Plus, it's a lot easier to work when your kids are old enough to look after themselves for a day. I don't think feminists thought that through very well.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (Y5qcH)

393 371 Met a 37 year old GRANDMOTHER awhile back. Had a child at 18, and her daughter had just had a child at 19.

**

I suspect that's pretty routine in the projects.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (/6kZi)

Also a plot line in The 40 Y.O. Virgin.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (dfRN6)

394 The only sense I could make out of that Biden video was that he went to Dearborn for a hummer.

Posted by: Dogbert at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (Z9HSN)

395 I also remember seeing some of a Congressional hearing, must have been in the late 1960s or early '70s, a Black guy saying he got his first grandchild at 27.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (Ynyl9)

396 I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.

**

If they haven't offered to pay you, you're going to have to bring it up, especially in the Biden Our Time Economy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (/6kZi)

397 We seem to have an abundance of stupidity in our nation's leadership. Hopefully, November will be an indication of the US wanting to unfuck itself from this madness.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (BOJAx)

398 381 But you would miss all that great food.
Posted by: Marcus T
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I've had my fill of T-rats and MREs.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (RU4sa)

Big sellers on Amazon right now.

Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 05:09 PM (6Je/Q)

399 New DeSantis ad mocks Fauci.

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That was well done, but of course Faucissus makes an hourly fool (and full) of himself -- the poster child for Self-Mockery (that'd be a great name for a band, especially one that opens for others periodically).

The ultimate in Zero Credibility in our new Zero-Trust dystopia ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at January 26, 2022 05:09 PM (pKDUC)

400 Big sellers on Amazon right now.
Posted by: kraken
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Pass.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:09 PM (RU4sa)

401
Bill Kristol has never watched an NFL game. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2022 04:18 PM (786Ro)

Or worked a job requiring manual labor

Or worked outside of politics

Or most damning for a pundit and supposed intellectual, written a book on his own. His bibliography is embarrassing, check it out.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (n+4am)

402 379 I suspect that's pretty routine in the projects.

In the projects that's known as a "late bloomer"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2022 05:06 PM (KZzsI)

Yeah, she was what the uppers would have called 'White Trash'. Defiantly from the wrong side of the tracks.

But she figured it out, and had a good Job and marriage now... so... they can stick it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (oHd/0)

403 Has Neil Young spoken up about cops being targeted and assassinated?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (/6kZi)

404 People still live and work there by choice?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 0
*
It's bewildering, isn't it.
Posted by: East St. Louis at January 26, 2022

***
Don't leave me out, bruh!

Posted by: New Orleans East at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (txdEq)

405 Ha ha Neil Young can shove Southern Man up his geriatric Canadian ass. Spotify cancelled him.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (KiBMU)
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His early tiff with Lynyrd Skynyrd shows you just how far back Neil's Karenity goes back.

Not to mention his mid-concert, on-stage fistfights with Crosby that broke the group up.

Kinda forms a pattern.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (XHhHI)

406 comes back that your baby has Downs or some other problem. What will you do?" I answered "I will have my child, and love him for the rest of my life". No amnio.
Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2022 05:05 PM (BPMYo)

I meant no offense to you. I'm talking about young girls that are married and want children but their house isn't big enough or some other unrealistic bar they are setting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (9mPbX)

407 The rondesantis dot com website has some fun merch. I am in no way associated or affiliated with the Office of the Governor of the State of Florida, other than by voting for him.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (II3Gr)

408 When a recipe calls for egg(s) what size egg do they mean?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (63Dwl)

Ostrich.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (mdaT8)

409 >>wanting to ride the cock carousel

Maybe my standards are too high, but of all the men I've met in my life, there are maybe 5 total I might have been willing to sleep with under the right circumstances (which includes marriage). Even if we assume time travel to eliminate age differences, I don't think it's even a dozen.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (8548M)

410 Lesson learned from the attack dog video:
1)Let the owner OD.
2)Instead of Narcan, they should be carrying TranQ guns.

3)Once committed to the fight, Pitbulls are like the Terminator.

Posted by: Drug Addicts Are Committing Slow Suicide Anyway at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (fUm2i)

411 407 The rondesantis dot com website has some fun merch. I am in no way associated or affiliated with the Office of the Governor of the State of Florida, other than by voting for him.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (II3Gr)

=======

I believe that makes you an insurrectionist ineligible for life in the new Soviet States of America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (LvTSG)

412 409 >>wanting to ride the cock carousel

Maybe my standards are too high, but of all the men I've met in my life, there are maybe 5 total I might have been willing to sleep with under the right circumstances (which includes marriage). Even if we assume time travel to eliminate age differences, I don't think it's even a dozen.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (8548M)

Clearly you aren't empowered enough.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (z5Vrg)

413 didn't someone here a few years ago say that down south it was pretty normal to start having children before turning 20? Can't recall who wrote it.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (Ynyl9)

414 How can we have children now?!? I can't currently afford a nanny and iPads and iPhones for kids.

Posted by: Millenials at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (3YVs3)

415 Remember pre-existing conditions?
Boy did that goalpost go by the wayside
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:07 PM (2JoB

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Everything libs/progs say has an expiration date and a void condition--never expressed.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (XHhHI)

416 Still lives in his mom's house, in the room he lived in from the time he was about 5.

I just cannot imagine that existence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

Sam here my BIL got kicked of college. Repairs Icee machines now, lives at home and watches Disney movies with his Mom. He is 36

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (M+Lyo)

417 There's a lot of things Billy Kristol hasn't done.

Being right is one of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (BFigT)

418 Still lives in his mom's house, in the room he lived in from the time he was about 5.

I just cannot imagine that existence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

Hmmm, moved back in to take care of Mom 10 years ago. I inherited the house I was taken to when I was born... but at least now I've got the big bedroom.

Sometimes, ya do what ya gotz to do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (oHd/0)

419 The only sense I could make out of that Biden video was that he went to Dearborn for a hummer.
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From an 18-wheeler driver??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (UHVv4)

420 I believe that makes you an insurrectionist ineligible for life in the new Soviet States of America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM (LvTSG)

Sheeeit, I was one well before that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (II3Gr)

421 When a recipe calls for egg(s) what size egg do they mean?
~~~~~

Usually large.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (0TVNF)

422 I'm living in the 7th dimension of hell. I'm 65 and my two kids are 41 and 33 and they both moved back in with the wife and me.

Don't get me wrong, I love my boys and I was trying to be lighthearted. You do what you can for family in trouble. That's life.

Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2022 05:13 PM (gmo/4)

423 385 Ha ha Neil Young can shove Southern Man up his geriatric Canadian ass. Spotify cancelled him.
____________

Spotify makes millions of dollars off Rogan. Think they were making millions off Neil Young's music? LOL

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 26, 2022 05:13 PM (k4dH2)

424 Sadly, it's a matter of survival. If they do this, they lose their funding and go belly up. This is the governments doing, although of course many are in agreement with it. At this point - it's all numbers. We're all just numbers. Unless of course you're a senator or have a few million to throw around. Then you're a valued patient.

Posted by: clutch cargo

It is for short term survival only because they are burning their bridges long term. Like the teachers that won't teach, they are cutting their own throats because a few rich fat cats won't be able to support such an educational or medical system and eventually politics will make those schools and teachers along with doctors and hospitals sucking off the govt teat very vulnerable.

Posted by: whig at January 26, 2022 05:13 PM (Iq9dF)

425 "The reality is that the leaders of Russia and China and a whole bunch of other places smell weakness."

After all I've done for Fang-Fang, that's what they're calling it?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA and Cuck-CCP) at January 26, 2022 05:13 PM (a3Q+t)

426 390 When a recipe calls for egg(s) what size egg do they mean?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (63Dwl)

I use large.

Posted by: Nova local at January 26, 2022 05:13 PM (exHjb)

427 Palin covided.
Betcha she will be fine.

Posted by: torabora at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (WnpTB)

428 Met a 37 year old GRANDMOTHER awhile back. Had a child at 18, and her daughter had just had a child at 19.
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I suspect that's pretty routine in the projects.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 26, 2022 05:04 PM (/6kZi)
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Used to be Normal life for a lot of people of all races. Get a good (often union) job out of high school, marry your high school sweetheart, start pumping out 3-4 kids. Some other options were family farm, family business. Some people pushed it off a whole 4 years until they finished college.

We lost a lot with all the corporatism and government regs and rules crushing small business.

Posted by: rd at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (Z32m1)

429 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (arJlL)

430 Heya JT.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (RU4sa)

431 We lost a lot with all the corporatism and government regs and rules crushing small business.
Posted by: rd at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (Z32m1)

Globalism and offshoring too.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (II3Gr)

432 Archer, I feel your pain. We've had son move back with us twice and daughter twice. Son is finally on his own, daughter is still here.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (nxdel)

433 Palin covided.
Betcha she will be fine.

Posted by: torabora at January 26, 2022 05:14 PM (WnpTB)
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She gave Covid to New York because she was eating without a mask.

Not enough sophistication.

Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (XHhHI)

434 Jewells!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (RU4sa)

435 390:

Large eggs for recipes, unless otherwise noted.

Posted by: Flyover, what with eyeballs rollin' in 2022 at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (Rbu5d)

436 David French practices racial equity by employing the Falwells former pool boy.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (/VWLE)

437 Hiya SMH !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (arJlL)

438 The "American Dream" turned out to be a bill of goods for a lot of people.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (II3Gr)

439 nood teachers

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (8D42x)

440 Old recipes used medium eggs. Cause large eggs are a modern thing.

Posted by: Been Timed-out at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (smVBh)

441 436 David French practices racial equity by employing the Falwells former pool boy.
Posted by: Mishdog at January 26, 2022 05:15 PM (/VWLE)

Is he Mrs. French's bull too?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 26, 2022 05:16 PM (II3Gr)

442 413 didn't someone here a few years ago say that down south it was pretty normal to start having children before turning 20? Can't recall who wrote it.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 26, 2022 05:11 PM

My momma was born in Shenandoah Valley, Va. in early 40's. She was married at 16 and having babies by 18. She went back and finished high school when I was old enough to start school.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 26, 2022 05:16 PM (DB16e)

443 Still get my eggs from local farm. 2 bucks a dozen. Nice big brown eggs.

Posted by: kraken at January 26, 2022 05:16 PM (6Je/Q)

444 So who should get to make the call about which risk to take with the transplant patient's life? The transplant patient, the government, or some hospital or medical insurance company or UNOS bureaucrat?

Definitely not patients, after informed consent, given or withheld, after a discussion of the benefits and risks with their physicians. I mean, why practice actual medicine?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2022 05:16 PM (3YVs3)

445
Get snacks at night after you go to bed....naked. Same thing with drinks of water. And maybe even breakfast.
It's your house...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

now that thought process right there is why 'fat dude on an ottoman' gets selected.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 26, 2022 05:17 PM (IJES/)

446 That is a line that could have come from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:02 PM (LvTSG)

Close enough. I was thinking of the transplant sketch in "The Meaning of Life".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 26, 2022 05:17 PM (ZSK0i)

447 I am convinced Fauci will spend a eternity in Hell

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:17 PM (2JoB8)

448 From the Fauci supercut..."service to seven presidents".

Maybe old David Gergen and he should get a room.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 26, 2022 05:17 PM (dq4fo)

449 I fathered twins at age 55. It worked out fine. Good kids in college now. Maybe I was just lucky?

Posted by: mnw at January 26, 2022 05:18 PM (NLIak)

450
Not to mention his mid-concert, on-stage fistfights with Crosby that broke the group up.

Kinda forms a pattern.
Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2022 05:10 PM (XHhHI)

To be fair, it's kind of a toss-up between Young and Crosby as to who is the biggest cockbag deserving of a good smackdown with a rebar bludgeon.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2022 05:18 PM (n+4am)

451

nood teachers

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 26, 2022 05:19 PM (I0oQ0)

452 The drooling over that rat bastard set me off

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:19 PM (2JoB8)

453 I meant no offense to you. I'm talking about young girls that are married and want children but their house isn't big enough or some other unrealistic bar they are setting.
Posted by: CaliGirl

No offense taken and I agree with you. I've met more than a few of these types.

Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2022 05:19 PM (BPMYo)

454 423 385 Ha ha Neil Young can shove Southern Man up his geriatric Canadian ass. Spotify cancelled him.
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Spotify makes millions of dollars off Rogan. Think they were making millions off Neil Young's music? LOL
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 26, 2022 05:13 PM (k4dH2)

Neil Young was a prima donna that pulled his music off Spotify before over "Sound Quality Issues." He probably thought Wokeness Uber Alles would prevail with folks at Spotify. I think the management at Spotify like fat bonuses and continued employment more.

Posted by: rd at January 26, 2022 05:19 PM (Z32m1)

455 . . . Still lives in his mom's house, in the room he lived in from the time he was about 5.

I just cannot imagine that existence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022

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If we'd had a house and I'd had my own room when I was young, I might not have been so eager to get out on my own. And there have been times in my adult life when, if Mom had had a house and had still been alive, I might have been tempted to use my old bedroom as a refuge. Guess it was a good thing I didn't have such a bolthole.

Of course, if she'd had a house, I might have inherited it. That would have changed the game considerably.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 05:20 PM (txdEq)

456 I seem to recall a case in Belgium where a depressed woman scheduled euthanasia then changed her mind and they were like " nah, too late "
Posted by: steevy

She was an Indian suicider.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 26, 2022 05:20 PM (FVME7)

457 Wouldn't be opposed to seeing some nood teachers

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:21 PM (2JoB8)

458 NFL playoffs: #1 seeds lose on field goals as time expires, set up by interception and blocked punt.

I know the NFL is as popular as ass cancer around here, but the absolute disgrace of last weekend was the way the KC-Buffalo game ended. The *only* football fans that were satisfied with that ending were within the confines of KJansas City itself. For the rest of us, we watched an absolute historic, heavyweight slugfest for the ages only to see it essentially decided by a coin flip. Yay, they called "tails" like a fucking BOSS, man

Fans were left holding our dicks. It was one of the greatest goddam playoff games ever fucking played and then ended with an absolute whiff (again, for all but KC fans.)

If any good comes out of it, it's that the outrage and egg-on-the-NFL's-face has led the NFL to consider changing the OT rules so both teams get a possession.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 26, 2022 05:23 PM (njfCw)

459 I just cannot imagine that existence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 26, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

Hmmm, moved back in to take care of Mom 10 years ago. I inherited the house I was taken to when I was born... but at least now I've got the big bedroom.

Sometimes, ya do what ya gotz to do.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2022 05:12 PM (oHd/0)

I was out of the house at 18, owned 10 years later. I moved back in with my mom when I left the $%^& ex, but I owned the house she was living in - and wound up caring for her for a few years as her dementia worsened. But I can't imagine moving back in with my P&M for any reason as long as I was able bodied. A van down by the river would work.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 26, 2022 05:23 PM (wAnMi)

460 So if V.P. Harris is nominated to serve on the Supreme Court, does she get to vote on her own confirmation if the Senate is tied 50:50? And if the GOP goes all-in and confirms her, what happens when there's no tie-break vote in the Senate anymore to confirm a new V.P.? Or any other Executive Cabinet-level appointee?

Posted by: RonF at January 26, 2022 06:14 PM (TzAHL)

461 When my kid graduated from college we let him come home. But he had to get ANY JOB HE COULD and pay rent and still obey our rules (which we relaxed some, if he's old enough to drink he can drink in the house for example). He worked at an electronics store selling computers and such until he got a professional job. We gave him another month or so to build up the bank account, but he needed no urging, he was out the door as soon as he could.

Posted by: RonF at January 26, 2022 06:18 PM (TzAHL)

462 Donating money to politicians is pissing into the ocean.

However, there is a way to make your donation speak...loudly! Registered for life!!

i think this flyer spells it pretty darn good
https://h2rodeo.com/kds-flyer

Sweat for your bread => W2.
invest/consult=> 1099-misc.
Welfare/SNAP/etc =>NO 1099-GOV

Political donations of $10.99 will live forever!!!

Posted by: SenatorMark4 at January 26, 2022 06:19 PM (DlT2q)

463 Bill Kristol: Maybe if we do ALL the rest of the work for the ENTIRE game; perhaps the DNC could just kick some field goals?

Good idea Bill; but two things won't work here.
1) The DNC is so imcompentent they can't kick field goals either; but you're correct they also shouldn't play as they're terrible.
2) YOU are also terrible and have no chance at carrying the day for the DNC. You're as bad as (if not worse than) the DNC and you ALSO couldn't even kick field goals.

Embrace the Suck?
It's really all you have on the left. Which is your side now.
Own it. And the massive loss you deserve.

Posted by: ertdfg at January 26, 2022 07:43 PM (I388C)

464 In the last couple of days England, Ireland, The Netherlands and now Denmark have cancelled all Covid mandates.
Tourist season starting soon.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice
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Hahahahahaha.
It's January.
The pushback against Covid tyranny has been greater in these countries than the US and their elites are less fascistic than the US elite.

Posted by: bjorn bjornson at January 27, 2022 06:58 AM (YHZ1m)

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