THE MORNING RANT: Prohibition II Is Drawing Nearer, This Time Globally, and Brought to You By the Usual Cast of “Experts”

At the peak of Covid hysteria in 2020 I wrote a piece (“The Response to Covid Has Set the Stage for a New Prohibition”) predicting that the globalist ruling class would eventually set their sights on alcohol. Public heath and survival of the planet would be found incompatible with alcohol production and consumption.

It’s happening.

The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”

As I recall, the W.H.O.’s experts were deeply involved in pushing Covid sharia, with great success.

WHO - No Safe Level of Alcohol Consumption.JPG

Up in Canada, the government of Justin Trudeau has already decided that the ideal amount of alcohol consumption is “none,” and that if you must drink, then two drinks per week should be your limit. Having watched his administration smother such basic freedoms as worship, assembly, transportation, and banking, prohibition of alcohol would be just another day in the week for Trudeau.

What's Behind Canada's Drastic New Alcohol Guidance [BBC – 01/18/2023]

In Canada, it should be Dry January all year round, according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach.

"The main message from this new guidance is that any amount of alcohol is not good for your health," said Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario and a member of the expert panel that developed the guidelines. "And if you drink, less is better."

Since 2020, globalists have become even more emboldened in the ways they seek to make life miserable for the non-elite. If they’ll ban meat and fossil fuels, they’ll have no problem banning the use of grain for the production of beer and spirits.

Here is some of what I wrote back in 2020:

Get ready folks. It may not be in 2021 or even 2022, but when Prohibition II comes barreling at us, it will come fast, and a majority of people will quickly and willingly submit. Remember, we went from zero to Covid-sharia in a matter of weeks.
If epidemiologists and the CDC were to recommend prohibition, who could say no? If Anthony Fauci stated that prohibition would reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths per year, it would be a “scientific fact” that prohibition is necessary. When he said the entire economy must be shut down, it was taken as the word of God. What difference if he or one of his successors simply declares that wineries, breweries and distilleries must be shut down due to the public health crisis?
There are more than 10,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per year – including 200 children. Employing the PHD-level modeling used by Dr. Fauci, this could be reduced to zero with prohibition. Only a monster would choose a glass of wine over 200 children’s lives, right? With a couple of executive orders from our mayors and governors, no child will ever die again in a drunk driving accident. Covid experts taught me that this is logical.
As we learned from Covid emergency orders, if the CDC / epidemiologists were to recommend prohibition, no law would even need to be passed. Prohibition is no further away than an “emergency” executive order from your elected officials. Would Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo suspend all alcohol production and sales if there was a left-wing and media drumbeat to do so? In a heartbeat. Look at how they shut down all bars, schools, and restaurants.
But wasn’t prohibition already tried unsuccessfully? Remember, “true prohibition” has never been tried. If you get the whole world on board, then hooch can’t get smuggled in from outside the US. And the whole world climbed on board the Covid shutdown. Is global prohibition possible? Think of what is being asked for in the global warming accords - Europeans (as well as our own Democrats) are in favor of banning all forms of electricity production that make our current standard of living possible. Making the masses give up alcohol is a minor sacrifice compared to what has already been endorsed.
There is every reason to believe that teetotaling will become just as virtuous as mask wearing. And frankly, for the large majority of folks who aren’t dependent on alcohol, giving it up is less of a burden than wearing a sweaty, steamy mask all day. Smokers were once a majority of Americans. Now they are outcasts. Drinkers may soon find themselves similarly shamed.
The mob can be motivated quickly when it has a new crusade. Do you remember how fast your leftist friends went from casually using plastic straws to declaring that plastic straws are environmental bio-hazards that will destroy all life on earth if they aren’t outlawed immediately? That passion can be steered toward alcohol.
And speaking of the environment, all that acreage devoted to barley farming and vineyards– which doesn’t even feed people – is a waste of resources, right? When you add in the fertilizers, pesticides, and draining of underground aquifers – your alcohol habit is literally killing the planet. Or so you’ll soon be hearing.
Let’s not forget how racist alcohol consumption is. Your single malt whiskeys and IPAs are white privilege. Also, selling cheap rotgut to minorities is exploitation. Only a racist could oppose prohibition.
When alcohol is declared a public health crisis, Americans will just submit to prohibition rather than be seen as bad citizens. Corporations will jump on the bandwagon if that is where the SJW-train they are riding takes them. Abstinence will actually seem appropriate since any pleasures in life are now frowned upon in “these unprecedented times.”
Don’t misunderstand, I strongly oppose prohibition. But don’t be surprised when it is quickly imposed on a populace softened by Covid-compliance and obedient submission to “experts.”

Since I wrote that piece, the war on simple human comforts has intensified. Europeans have started banning fertilizer and waging war on agriculture, bug-eating for protein is being mainstreamed in the media, car bans are being implemented in “15 minute cities,” gas stoves and furnaces are being banned, and so much more.

Prohibition is inevitable, and our “expert” class is already advancing it. Cheers!

*****

Songs of the Season

Mother’s Day is this weekend!

How about we celebrate with Merle Haggard performing “Mama Tried” to his own mother?

Blessings to all you mothers out there among the horde.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Ya ain't touchin' my booze, bitches......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

3
'Sup?!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2023 11:01 AM (pNxlR)

4 Yeah, the temperance movement worked so well in the 1920's, they decided to bring it back for the 2020's.

Posted by: Moki at May 12, 2023 11:02 AM (JrN/x)

5 This is timely. Just up the road is a place called Bootleggers.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2023 11:02 AM (anj39)

6 Nah. They can try prohibition but most people won't submit. Alcohol is too pleasurable.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 12, 2023 11:02 AM (woEnU)

7 Keep banning tobacco and booze, because they're bad for you.

Decriminalize weed, cocaine, meth, and hallucinagins, because...science!

Posted by: Liberal Logic at May 12, 2023 11:02 AM (JCZqz)

8 It's funny how they're coming up with all these things for "your health" and to "help you live longer" all while they're trying to murder you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

9 In Canada, it should be Dry January all year round, according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach.
"The main message from this new guidance is that any amount of alcohol is not good for your health," said Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario and a member of the expert panel that developed the guidelines. "And if you drink, less is better."

Now do homeless winos. You know. The ones who didn't contract covid.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:03 AM (ous9O)

10 For years we were told how Europeans were superior to us because they had no age restrictions on alcohol and they drank wine with meals. Is that all over now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2023 11:03 AM (63Dwl)

11 Fine. Ban it in Section 8 housing.

Posted by: Tony Snark - Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 12, 2023 11:03 AM (pQ2gM)

12 Hey, guys. Little tip. From a guy who's been there.

Don't do that.

Posted by: George Washington at May 12, 2023 11:03 AM (/EuRN)

13 Since I wrote that piece, the war on simple human comforts has intensified. Europeans have started banning fertilizer and waging war on agriculture, bug-eating for protein is being mainstreamed in the media, car bans are being implemented in “15 minute cities,” gas stoves and furnaces are being banned, and so much more.

Damn. So...maybe second look at the Putin city with Western Nation refugees after all...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (JCZqz)

14 You can tell they care because of how hard they're working to rid this world of fentanyl and its producers, while at the same time banning safe-needle injection sites and dispensaries.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (KbCG3)

15 Like Bishop Sheen said about Marx: all cross, no Christ.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (glGDV)

16 How about the World Health Organization just shuts the fuck up!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (17s+e)

17 It can't work because alcohol is just too damn easy to make.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (/EuRN)

18 Oh, I thought that it was only women such as the evil and surely bound for hell- creature-Carrie Nation who supported prohibition./s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (Keyt1)

19 Molson labe.

Or Ron Rico labe in my case.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (HBgbp)

20 Allah approves of this

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (OalnH)

21 The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”
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The long history of human civilization indicates otherwise. In fact, the most successful civilizations are built out of drinking cultures. There is a reason for that, and it has everything to do with health.

If these idiots would cast their minds back to, say, the entirely of human history prior to about 1800, they would learn that alcohol kept us alive. Alcohol is clean, and safe to drink. That is fairly important when you live with animals, especially in urban environments - and if you're from a successful civilization that was able to exploit animals, you did.

Now in the modern world with excellent sanitation and where animals don't live with us in our cities and so we're not drinking their shit, it is no longer a survival benefit to be able to have alcohol. Is alcohol bad for you? Yes. Are those downsides better than unchecked disease? Absolutely. Does that matter in today's world? Not so much. Is the WHO the master of my life? Fuck no.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (DU+/6)

22 If I were human I believe my response would be "go to hell."... If I were human.

Posted by: Captain Spock at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (N3zMI)

23 It can't work because alcohol is just too damn easy to make.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Why are you buying so much copper tubing, prole?"

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (jzzG8)

24 Canada Dry - its funny.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (NsE9F)

25 You ban booze and ugly people will NEVER get laid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

26 It’s that simple, you have two choices. Jesus or the devil.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (glGDV)

27 And if the WHO is saying that even a small amount of ethanol can cause cancer, it's probably because someone somewhere just found out that small amounts of ethanol help prevent and even reverse cancer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (/EuRN)

28 Alcohol Banned in US Again!

Women and children hardest hit!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (FCbAQ)

29 "The main message from this new guidance is that any amount of alcohol is not good for your health," said Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario and a member of the expert panel that developed the guidelines. "And if you drink, less is better."
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Sure. Okay. Let's assume this is true. It might be - some of the medicinal benefits of wine in particular notwithstanding.

Who the hell are *you* to make decisions for me? My body, my choice. Fuckers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (DU+/6)

30 "Why are you buying so much copper tubing, prole?"
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (jzzG

"Who said i'm buying it?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (/EuRN)

31 Very islamic of WHO and Turdeau.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (17s+e)

32 A distillery in every garage!

Fuel for the illegal ethanol ICE in your vehicle and moonshine for the hillbillies in the trailerpark!

Don't forget to tell the revenuers to "go fuck themselves!"

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (KVGVf)

33 Prohibition is inevitable, and our “expert” class is already advancing it. Cheers!
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Which will work as well as the war on drugs has. And that is very well indeed.

It doesn't reduce drug use, but sure justifies a massive police state.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (DU+/6)

34 Which will work as well as the war on drugs has. And that is very well indeed.

It doesn't reduce drug use, but sure justifies a massive police state.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (DU+/6)

Fucking hell. They're gonna start putting fentanyl into the Bud Light now, aren't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (/EuRN)

35 "Who said i'm buying it?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Visa and your bank."

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (jzzG8)

36 Ya know, there are some lessons in history that speak to this.

Outlawing liquor in the US in the 1920s strengthened crime families. That is the real purpose here. Our government is a criminal enterprise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (u82oZ)

37 Since this is WHO, are the ChiComs gonna give up Liquor?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (NsE9F)

38 Ya, that's what we need again. A bunch of gangsters shooting each other in the streets over who controls the black market booze.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (qhbCT)

39 This evening, I shall make a pitcher of Gimlets and dwell on this.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (xlag0)

40 Catholics use wine as part of the Eucharist.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (N5C4b)

41 Even in Orwell's dystopian world of 1984 you got your daily fix of gin.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (17s+e)

42 Beyond "just" the sadism if destroying even minor enjoyments is a bigger issue with getting rid of alcohol (often in favor of marijuana). Last time I checked, weed doesn't do anything to make water safer to drink. TPTB are setting us up for *real* pandemics if they get their way and crowd everyone into the cities.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (nC+QA)

43 Nice. Merle was a legend.

Though, Ace prefers Garth Brooks.

Posted by: garrett at May 12, 2023 11:08 AM (7oh2Z)

44 34 Which will work as well as the war on drugs has. And that is very well indeed.

It doesn't reduce drug use, but sure justifies a massive police state.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (DU+/6)

Fucking hell. They're gonna start putting fentanyl into the Bud Light now, aren't they?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:07 AM (/EuRN)

"Well, there's a reason Bud Light's sales have cratered. It's nothing we did, our drinkers just keep dying off." - CEO

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

45 There are more than 10,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per year – including 200 children. Employing the PHD-level modeling used by Dr. Fauci, this could be reduced to zero with prohibition.

*The Valentines Day Massacre has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (ous9O)

46 It must be that the grifters make more money off big pharm than off beer/wine/distilled-spirits.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (pKn0k)

47 Say Goodbye to your Buffalo Trace, Horde.

At least you've still got weed.

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (UnA8+)

48 The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”

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Can you make alcohol from fermented crickets? Asking for yet another Austrian megalomaniac ...

Looks like the cartels want eliminate competition for their feral government-enabled fentanyl sales and graves.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (2oHWb)

49 Should I go short on Night Train and MD?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (N5C4b)

50 I'm going to the club I belong to this afternoon. When I hoist my first Stella ( I know ) I will say this one's for you Fauci, kindly go fuck yourself with a pineapple sideways using Buffalo wing sauce as lube

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (eFaiq)

51 Alcohol is clean, and safe to drink. That is fairly important when you live with animals, especially in urban environments - and if you're from a successful civilization that was able to exploit animals, you did.

-

Having traveled extensively in the third world, alcohol is the only safe drink, outside of coffee that is boiled, and indeed is medicinal in some cases.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)

52 I love getting health advice from the beautiful at any size, lop your junk off crowd.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (KFhLj)

53 What heat source are you planning to use for your distillery? Gas and liquid fuels banned, electricity closely metered, and infrared drones seeking out coal or wood fires...you going with the solar rig on this?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (jYCXf)

54 Wear a mask! Wear two masks!!

Posted by: The supposed experts at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (DhOHl)

55 Also, they're going after alcohol and coffee at the same time?! Can only hope the mental gymnastics required to square that causes people to take notice.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (nC+QA)

56 There’s always Listerine, I guess.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (HBgbp)

57 The Prohibition, let's begin
The Prohibition, look out sin
We have a mission
to convert the Jews (Jew ja Jew ja Jew ja Jews)
We're gonna teach them wrong from right
We're gonna help them see the light
And make an offer that they can't refuse (that the Jews just can't refuse)

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (BRHaw)

58
Damn. So...maybe second look at the Putin city with Western Nation refugees after all...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Goin' to Putin City
Putin City here I come
They got some crazy little Babuskas there
And I'm a gonna get me one

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (63Dwl)

59 I'm a recovering alcoholic and even I think this is bullshit.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (OgrpQ)

60 Of course weed is recommended .

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (FO8S3)

61 The long history of human civilization indicates otherwise. In fact, the most successful civilizations are built out of drinking cultures. There is a reason for that, and it has everything to do with health.

Sure...if growing populations, wealth for the masses, increased life expectancy, and conquest of your neighbors are considered "successful".

We have other metrics...

Posted by: WEF at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (JCZqz)

62 We're going to eradicate this virus!

Posted by: CDC Dumbfucks at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (ZqJGw)

63 "If these idiots would cast their minds back to, say, the entirely of human history prior to about 1800 . . ."

But they don't believe in learning from the past. The past is nothing but dead oppressive white men. There is only the present.

Throw away all your traditions and embrace the New Utopia. We're starting over from scratch, and this time we'll get it right!

Posted by: Redbrook at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (+4vmm)

64 There is no safe level of communism.

Posted by: Sandy OCrazyHo-Tittycaca at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (bW8dp)

65 It can't work because alcohol is just too damn easy to make.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Why are you buying so much copper tubing, prole?"
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (jzzG

***

Is it too late to buy one of those "fruit juice processors?"

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (anj39)

66 There are more than 10,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per year – including 200 children. Employing the PHD-level modeling used by Dr. Fauci, this could be reduced to zero with prohibition.
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And they will probably say this. And it will be yet another example of the great signal that you need to run - or fight - when it comes to public policy. You can call it Mannix's Law of Public Policy Debate if you'd like:
Zero and 100 are unachievable. If anyone proposes policy goals of zero or 100, they are tyrants.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (DU+/6)

67 Should I go short on Night Train and MD?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:09 AM (N5C4b)

I'd go long on violin cases and Thompson .45's.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (FCbAQ)

68 ......advocating for zero alcohol consumption.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Hillary Clinton, hardest hit.

Posted by: scampydog at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (2bFN5)

69 ... you can probably ferment hemp. Take all the foliage and stems after they've taken the buds, grind it all up, mash it and sparge it, ferment it, rack it, bottle it....

Could be good. Could taste like someone's first foray into Korean Natural Farming....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (/EuRN)

70 53 What heat source are you planning to use for your distillery? Gas and liquid fuels banned, electricity closely metered, and infrared drones seeking out coal or wood fires...you going with the solar rig on this?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (jYCXf)

hobos and tramps

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (BRHaw)

71 54 Wear a mask! Wear two masks!!

Posted by: The supposed experts at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (DhOHl)

And for the love of God, please stick to big box stores and always walk in accordance with the aisle direction stickers!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (KbCG3)

72 Like Bishop Sheen said about Marx: all cross, no Christ.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

I routinely play his old TV shows. His advice never gets old.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (qoGsy)

73 For the record I don't believe they became more emboldened with COOF, I believe COOF and its response were specifically designed to allow them to begin acting the way they always intended.

There's a big difference IMO.

But it's only MO.

For me it's about knowing and understanding the enemy. Also knowing and understand what is really happening so we can comprehend and therefore respond effectively to future events.

I recognized COOF and its response immediately as the agent of "change" it was intended to be. And warned about it here.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (jJx+x)

74 A distillery in every garage!

Grape juice or apple juice, yeast & sugar.
Honey, water & yeast.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (ous9O)

75 Also, they're going after alcohol and coffee at the same time?! Can only hope the mental gymnastics required to square that causes people to take notice.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (nC+QA)
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They must *really* hate the Irish.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (DU+/6)

76 KILL ALL UTILITARIANS

Posted by: garrett at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (7oh2Z)

77 What do you tell a Karen that is advocating for prohibition and has two black eyes?

Nothing she been told twice already.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (17s+e)

78 Alcohol is clean, and safe to drink. That is fairly important when you live with animals, especially in urban environments - and if you're from a successful civilization that was able to exploit animals, you did.
--

(Almost the entire African content runs away crying)

Posted by: Tony Snark - Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (pQ2gM)

79 In future Soviet West, vodka ban YOU!

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (2oHWb)

80 Alcohol is bad for you.

Posted by: Your local weed store at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (DhOHl)

81 But they don't believe in learning from the past. The past is nothing but dead oppressive white men. There is only the present.

Throw away all your traditions and embrace the New Utopia. We're starting over from scratch, and this time we'll get it right!
Posted by: Redbrook at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (+4vmm)
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History began 10 years ago. At the earliest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (DU+/6)

82 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:05 AM (DU+/6)

Should have known you'd beat me to that point.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (nC+QA)

83 There’s always Listerine, I guess.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (HBgbp)

When I was in Marine Boot Camp the DI busted two recruits in the whiskey locker getting drunk on Listerine.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (OgrpQ)

84 Is Canada the New Soviet Union?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (pVWRI)

85 Congress is full of raging alcoholics so this would have no chance of passing into law.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (N5C4b)

86 I'd go long on violin cases and Thompson .45's.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (FCbAQ)

half the people runs from banks when guy walks in with violin case thinking it is a thompson

the other half run thinking its a violin

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (BRHaw)

87 Any parent who has ever lost a sippy cup of OJ under the back seat and found it a week later knows that there is no way to totally get rid of alcohol.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (Xsfn6)

88 When God is whatever they say it is, the rules will change every day.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (jJx+x)

89 Wear a mask! Wear two masks!!

Posted by: The supposed experts at May 12, 2023 11:10 AM (DhOHl)

And for the love of God, please stick to big box stores and always walk in accordance with the aisle direction stickers!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

We have a very large assortment of masks with mirrors at the mask kiosk for trying on masks to see how they look.
--Target

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (ous9O)

90 How about the World Health Organization just shuts the fuck up!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Take off and nuke them from orbit, just to be sure.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal Hicks at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (tjZg/)

91 How about the World Health Organization just shuts the fuck up!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:04 AM (17s+e)

Newsletter?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (s12c9)

92 I recognized COOF and its response immediately as the agent of "change" it was intended to be. And warned about it here.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (jJx+x)
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I agree but it was the ease that people willing gave up all their God given rights to the totalitarians of the left that gave them the go ahead to proceed to make our new dystopia.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (17s+e)

93 27 And if the WHO is saying that even a small amount of ethanol can cause cancer, it's probably because someone somewhere just found out that small amounts of ethanol help prevent and even reverse cancer.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 11:06 AM (/EuRN)

EXACTLY!!! if it has ANY benefit to health or humanity, WHO ( WEF) HATES it!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J. Trump is our duly elected president at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (l0Cy4)

94 But they will hand out free needles to heron addicts.

Posted by: Javems at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (AmoqO)

95 I recognized COOF and its response immediately as the agent of "change" it was intended to be. And warned about it here.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (jJx+x)

Trump was building an economic revival and it had to be squelched. There's too much for the ruling crowd to lose when people have money.

And it's no coincidence that the dems just happened to have a voting scheme in place that would directly benefit from something that allowed them to keep people locked down.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (KbCG3)

96 I can't wait to see the WHO's prohibition proposals. The carve-outs will be hilarious. We can't be punishing Napa Valley and the elite restaurants that cater to our wine-soaked elite.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (DU+/6)

97 It can't work because alcohol is just too damn easy to make.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Why are you buying so much copper tubing, prole?"
Posted by: weft-cut loop

Fruit, sugar and some heat = alcohol.

It can be a bit rough but it works.

Not that I'd know anything about that..

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (qoGsy)

98 Keep hooch safe, legal and rare.

Posted by: The next big thing at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (DhOHl)

99 Homer Simpson: Alcohol, the cause of and solution to most of man's problems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (eFaiq)

100 On the plus side, if *anything* can get the wine moms to turn against the establishment power structure, this might be it...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (DU+/6)

101 Is Canada the New Soviet Union?
Posted by: Nevergiveup

As Pat Buchanan once so cogently called it.... Soviet Canukistan

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (tjZg/)

102 >>I agree but it was the ease that people willing gave up all their God given rights to the totalitarians of the left that gave them the go ahead to proceed to make our new dystopia.

They are good loyalists.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (N5C4b)

103 Congress is full of raging alcoholics so this would have no chance of passing into law.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (N5C4b)

*ahem*

You may have missed the entire point of having "Elites"
and "Peasants"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (s12c9)

104
When I was in Marine Boot Camp the DI busted two recruits in the whiskey locker getting drunk on Listerine.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (OgrpQ)

Watched an episode of Intervention where a dude was downing hand sanitizer by the gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

105 A friend is playing NukeMap.
Asks if anyone has an address for the WHO?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (anj39)

106 I read somewhere that the expression "the real McCoy" was a Prohibition Era reference to a bootlegger who sailed in rum from the Bahamas to somewhere off the East Coast and was known for the high quality of his offering.

Posted by: Captain Spock at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (N3zMI)

107 66 Zero and 100 are unachievable. If anyone proposes policy goals of zero or 100, they are tyrants.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (DU+/6)

If they want Zero or 100, give them .357

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (UnA8+)

108 half the people runs from banks when guy walks in with violin case thinking it is a thompson

the other half run thinking its a violin
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (BRHaw)

You forgot the part where you say you'll be here all week, try the waitress and tip the veal.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (FCbAQ)

109 You will own nothing and be very unhappy!

Posted by: Global Totalitarians at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (17s+e)

110 But they don't believe in learning from the past. The past is nothing but dead oppressive white men. There is only the present.

Throw away all your traditions and embrace the New Utopia. We're starting over from scratch, and this time we'll get it right!
Posted by: Redbrook at May 12, 2023 11:11 AM (+4vmm)

If I recall the children were taken from their parents (implies they were killed) to start the new civilization.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (BRHaw)

111 94 Heron addicts have no egrets.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (HBgbp)

112 Virginia makes wine. Napa makes auto parts.

Posted by: Great bumper sticker at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (DhOHl)

113 Dang it! Off, Spock sock!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (N3zMI)

114 Jesus disagrees with WHO.

WWJD

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (FO8S3)

115 100 On the plus side, if *anything* can get the wine moms to turn against the establishment power structure, this might be it...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (DU+/6)

"I'm literally shaking," will take on a whole new context without that pinot gris running through their veins.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (KbCG3)

116 The oldest known piece of writing is a beer recipe from ancient Sumer.

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (SYTee)

117 >>>What heat source are you planning to use for your distillery? Gas and liquid fuels banned, electricity closely metered, and infrared drones seeking out coal or wood fires...you going with the solar rig on this?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

>I shall use the tears of the damned and downtrodden! I shall split water for hydrogen and oxygen and rocket fuel. We shall overcome!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (KVGVf)

118 No alcohol or smoking but hard drugs. Strange position.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (eYoxG)

119 You forgot the part where you say you'll be here all week, try the waitress and tip the veal.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (FCbAQ)

I always promise the waitress just the tip!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (BRHaw)

120 Reflux still FTW !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBHIc6LwH6o

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (N5C4b)

121 That's just more ethanol for your cars!

Posted by: Senators Grassley and Ernst at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (JCZqz)

122 114 Jesus disagrees with WHO.

WWJD
Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (FO8S3)

WWJBD

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (BRHaw)

123 What heat source are you planning to use for your distillery? Gas and liquid fuels banned, electricity closely metered, and infrared drones seeking out coal or wood fires...you going with the solar rig on this?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

>I shall use the tears of the damned and downtrodden! I shall split water for hydrogen and oxygen and rocket fuel. We shall overcome!
Posted by: Dr. Bone

If I slice trans men thin enough, I should get one good run per tranny.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (ous9O)

124 Consumption of oxygen contributes to slow death.

Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

125 No alcohol or smoking but hard drugs. Strange position.

Just don't use natural gas to cook your meth, MISTER.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (s12c9)

126 The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”

Yet another Antichrist Organization.

"Stop drinking only water and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illness" St. Paul's recommendation to Timothy. (1 Timothy 5:23)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2023 11:18 AM (YXHzG)

127 "I'm literally shaking," will take on a whole new context without that pinot gris running through their veins.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:17 AM (KbCG3)

What do you mean I can't buy a gallon of Cardbordeaux?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (OgrpQ)

128 The two most potent carcinogens are oxygen and sunlight. So I suppose we should live underground and hold our breath. I'll need a couple of glasses of wine before I try that.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (Nmmyc)

129 And if the WHO is saying that even a small amount of ethanol can cause cancer...
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Fine. Get that shit out of my gasoline.

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (AaSd4)

130 Many recommendations are being set to zero so that you either do or don't do some sinful behavior.

The information will then be used to prioritize services like healthcare.

Posted by: MJ at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (zwDuR)

131 SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (UlRld)

132 There are many things to worry about. This isn't one of them. Never gonna happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (eOEVl)

133 Didn't Biden just sign over our Constitution to the WHO? Or is he just still working on that.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (17s+e)

134 I don't think people understand that we already have a social credit score.

It's not as literal as the Chinese but data is constantly collected and will be used to determine your worth in the very near future.

Posted by: MJ at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (zwDuR)

135 I bet Listerine would give you a very nasty hangover.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (HBgbp)

136 Many recommendations are being set to zero so that you either do or don't do some sinful behavior.

The information will then be used to prioritize services like healthcare.
Posted by: MJ at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (zwDuR)
++++
This is very, very likely. This is also one of the reasons why I am so cash-heavy. I have never in my life used a credit card or a check to purchase *any* vice product. Alcohol, tobacco, fast food, etc.

I have been paranoid about this for some time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (DU+/6)

137 SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?
Posted by: nurse ratched

It's like a rainbow.....

Posted by: Drunken Mick Jagger at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (tjZg/)

138 Canada is such a joke. I can't wait to move out of here later this summer. Coming back to the US, such as it is. Finally.

Alcohol is bad, but it's perfectly fine to have as many dispensaries as there are Tim Hortons and Starbucks, and for people to live their lives drenched in THC. There are a number of people living near me who are always high - they never come down.

Smoking stank-ass weed without a filter can't possibly be worse than a few glasses of wine, though.

It's idiocy all the way down. Maybe some of the hockey goons will fight for their beer, but most seem to be bigger on weed now.

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (z7sfH)

139 If Chicago banned blaks and Hispanics the shootings would drop by 90%

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (3Or4S)

140 Virginia makes wine. Napa makes auto parts.
Posted by: Great bumper sticker at May 12, 2023

Chateau O'brian in Markham VA.
OMG!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (anj39)

141 I don't drink very much at all and wouldn't even notice if alcohol would disappear but this is the most idiotic thing that's been proposed other than changing to a bug diet.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (FO8S3)

142 Just imagine the global poverty we will experience if the left gets their way on cars alone.

Repair shops go away. Auto mods mostly go away. The aftermarket industry drops dramatically. Most auto racing goes away. MotorTrend TV and any auto related programming disappears.

An entire industry just goes away.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Jesus disagrees with WHO.

Cop pulls you over. Asks what's in the jug. You say water.

Cop smells it, declares it wine.

"Praise God! Jesus did it again!"

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (ous9O)

144 Tobacco and alcohol... go after those and you'll get your war.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

145 I agree but it was the ease that people willing gave up all their God given rights to the totalitarians of the left that gave them the go ahead to proceed to make our new dystopia.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 12, 2023 11:14 AM (17s+e)

To be clear I don't disagree. But fear is powerful, as is social pressure, as is the Voice of Authority. Plus I believed at the time certain techniques were specifically deployed that were known to be effective at controlling and motivating mass populations.

How does a criminal get someone to go with them to a "second location" where they will undoubtedly be alone, tortured and killed? At best? Fear.

At the start, people were somewhat rational to believe a Chinese Lab Virus was shit to be frightended of. Worse, the media and local officials were used to shame and silence any dissent or alternate opinions, in the name of Science and Morality, leaving many to hear only the message of the man with the gun forcing everyone into the van. From there it was pure incrementalism, a ratchet only turning in one direction.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (jJx+x)

146
It's like a rainbow.....
Posted by: Drunken Mick Jagger at May 12, 2023 11:20 AM (tjZg/)

#MakeTheRainbowGodsPromiseAgain

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

147 Was the Bus Light caper a PSY-OP?

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (OUiUM)

148 Many recommendations are being set to zero so that you either do or don't do some sinful behavior.

The information will then be used to prioritize services like healthcare.
Posted by: MJ at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (zwDuR)

Exactly. And they won't even see you in the first place if your politics aren't correct.

Die, fucker, die.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ZqJGw)

149 This is very, very likely. This is also one of the reasons why I am so cash-heavy. I have never in my life used a credit card or a check to purchase *any* vice product. Alcohol, tobacco, fast food, etc.

I have been paranoid about this for some time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Ditto ammunition. I will never again buy ammo on line, and will only buy it with cash. They are watching you, and that sort of data will never go away.
We do not live in a free country anymore.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (tjZg/)

150 We're America's largest national park!

Posted by: The People's Republic of Canadaia at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (DhOHl)

151 Great write up , Buck. I’m a teetotaler myself so one might think I don’t care… but I do. These totalitarians dressed up as busybody so-gooders drive me nuts. They tyrants. The fewer laws and rules the better

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (lRx88)

152
Can we just get rid of wine snobs?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (MoZTd)

153 Something something cold dead fingers.

Posted by: 496 at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (bwl/U)

154 What heat source are you planning to use for your distillery? Gas and liquid fuels banned, electricity closely metered, and infrared drones seeking out coal or wood fires...you going with the solar rig on this?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

I suppose you could use a solar oven? Seriously, though...you can make wine with just sugar (raw, fruit, honey) and yeast, so that part's simple. For free distillation...you can jack it in the winter, or in a freezer/deep freeze.

Yes...apple jack is hard cider, repeatedly frozen, and the ice (water) removed to distill it to a higher proof. The process is called "jacking", so let's get the jokes and puns rolling!

Posted by: Resourceful Moron at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (JCZqz)

155 Alcohol was needed for many processes. People would buy the alcohol and drink it for a buzz.

So our most beloved wonderful and kind Big Govt de-natured (poisoned) alcohol.

Killing and maiming with
Mercury salts.
Benzene.
Cadmium.
Zinc.
Ether.
Chloroform.
Carbolic acid.
Acetone.
Iodine.
Brucine (similar to strychnine).
Formaldehyde (the major content of embalming fluid).
Methyl alcohol (wood alcohol).

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (BRHaw)

156 Beer is proof that God likes us and wants us to be happy.

--Friar Tuck

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ous9O)

157 An entire industry just goes away.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
It does, but that's probably the least of it. The entire global economy is geared to depend on transportation. Transportation is one of the three pillars of modern civilization:
1. Sanitation
2. Refrigeration
3. Transportation

They're trying to cut down the third pillar as such and they're working on cutting down all three through energy policy (all three are heavily energy-dependent, and requires great gobs of power to work at all).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (DU+/6)

158 It's been proven time and time again that alcohol in moderation is good for you. ESPECIALLY wine.

Again, this has NOTHING to do with science and EVERYTHING to do with control.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Not prohibition. But maybe we all can take a break from brewing and distilling?

Posted by: Annheuser Bush at May 12, 2023 11:23 AM (L0Wv+)

160 Would Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo suspend all alcohol production

I believe that Gavin owns a piece of a winery.

Fortunately, a lot of rich, powerful people own wineries (it's the official hobby business of wealthy people), so exemptions will be made.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:23 AM (2tUFv)

161 History began 10 years ago. At the earliest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:12 AM (DU+/6)

-------

Since the installation of Uncle Joe in 2021, every year is Year Zero, citizen!

/Wifey chimes in "Especially for him." [Yeah, every day for him is Year Zero ...]

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:23 AM (2oHWb)

162 You know what's great for your health? Faggotry and gender affirming surgery.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 11:23 AM (FVME7)

163 They've been partnering with the CCP to make fentanyl an alcohol substitute.

They're devils.

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:23 AM (OUiUM)

164 Tobacco and alcohol... go after those and you'll get your war.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

True.
But a COPD drunk is as good a soldier as an AK wielding chimp, so they may take their chances.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (FCbAQ)

165 The Bus Light Caper ran off Broadway for about three years in the late 90s.

Posted by: Getting mileage out of typos at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (DhOHl)

166 Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (FO8S3)

As with gas stoves it is a display of power. It doesn't matter how stupid it is, they are reminding everyone of their place in the New Domain.

We exist at their mercy and whim. That is the message and its fucking powerful.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (jJx+x)

167 162 Is there some sort of difference now?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (aGGj6)

168 Beer is proof that God likes us and wants us to be happy.

--Friar Tuck
Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ous9O)

My mom had a tapestry hanging on her wall that had 2 monks on it holding signs. One said "Drink is thine enemy" and the other "Love thine enemy."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Is Canada the New Soviet Union?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (pVWRI))

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The New Cuba.

Chip off the old block and all that IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (2oHWb)

170 We have many 'wineries' around here. None of them produce the wine they only have bottles with some clever labels on them in their tasting rooms. It's probably some Mexican piss wine they charge big dollars for. The parking lots are packed every weekend.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (N5C4b)

171 Getting a as from WHO here
There is no save levof alcohol consumption

So now I am taking it drink all you want, it won't harm you

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (YJwc5)

172 If Apple Jacks are hard cider, what is Kaboom?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (HBgbp)

173 What will Hillary and Nancy drink? They'll die of thirst!

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (OUiUM)

174 Congress is full of raging alcoholics so this would have no chance of passing into law.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (N5C4b)

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John Boehner would have nothing to cry into.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (2oHWb)

175 --Friar Tuck

-
Dylan Mulvaney's new nom de pervert?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)

176 But a COPD drunk is as good a soldier as an AK wielding chimp, so they may take their chances.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:24 AM (FCbAQ

COPD yes. Drunk? Not necessarily. A lot of ancient armies were sauced before they went into battle.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (FO8S3)

177 History begins on the day you are born.

Posted by: Naive people everywhere at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (DhOHl)

178 My mom had a tapestry hanging on her wall that had 2 monks on it holding signs. One said "Drink is thine enemy" and the other "Love thine enemy."
Posted by: Sponge

Righteous.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (ous9O)

179 Tobacco and alcohol... go after those and you'll get your war.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

At one time I thought locking everyone in their homes and closing their churches and forbidding songs that praise the Lord, while encouraging angry violent hate animal mobs to gather closely in the streets and chant loudly, would lead to "war".

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (jJx+x)

180 Dylan Mulvaney's new nom de pervert?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)

tff

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (BRHaw)

181 If Apple Jacks are hard cider, what is Kaboom?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (HBgbp)

Explosive diarrhea.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

182 Here it's micro brews a couple in every town.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (YJwc5)

183 Coincidentally, fermentation releases carbon dioxide, which as we all know is destroying the climate. They don't give a shit about health effects of alcohol (or gas stoves causing asthma) They are climate fanatics and will kill us all to save the planet.

Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (cUYo/)

184 Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.

This is being trumpeted as proof that hard drugs are better for you than alcohol.

Of course, most of the alcohol abusers die after decades of alcohol abuse, and hard drugs can kill you in a matter of months.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (2tUFv)

185 A friend is playing NukeMap.
Asks if anyone has an address for the WHO?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2023 11:16 AM (anj39)

You're going to need more than one "weapon".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (ZSK0i)

186
Righteous.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (ous9O)

I have it, but haven't hung it anywhere as of yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

187 we're Americas toque eh

Posted by: Canada at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (flINI)

188 Congress is full of raging alcoholics so this would have no chance of passing into law.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:13 AM (N5C4b)

Just like they plan on not having access to gas stoves and broilers once they are banned.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (jJx+x)

189 177 History begins on the day you are born.
Posted by: Naive people everywhere at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (DhOHl)

And the day you win the war

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (BRHaw)

190 If they make Hillary the poster child for the evils of drink, this could have legs.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (anj39)

191 The Woke are just the Puritan impulse in drag. They have the same underlying motive, the supposition that they are morally superior, and the arrogance to believe that they can force their morality on the rest of the world.

And of course, the hypocrisy to dodge out of that morality whenever it's personally inconvenient.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (MIb2C)

192 I agree that they'll do look downs but it won't be alcohol that they try to eliminate.

They'll go all in on GoreBull Warmening(tm) and try to eliminate all of our freedom of movement and anything fun to try to "Save The Islands From Sinking!"

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (K9Eal)

193 This busty bikini blonde in the pool like the occasional stiff drink and vows to help destroy anyone who seeks to outlaw it:
https://is.gd/7kvkEq

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (DU+/6)

194 Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.

I'd call that a start.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (2tUFv)

I assume 90% of all those deaths are of the homeless.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (FO8S3)

196 The "elites" expect to weather things just fine; they expect that their preferred serfs will continue to toil for them, protect them from the likes of me, and provide them with the finer things the world has to offer.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (z0DEK)

197 Former Marine who works for the government in a tech field.

My alcohol consumption keeps people alive. Guess what taking it away would do?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (4olE8)

198 My mom had a tapestry hanging on her wall that had 2 monks on it holding signs. One said "Drink is thine enemy" and the other "Love thine enemy."

Posted by: Sponge

I want one.

Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (AwYPR)

199 https://is.gd/7kvkEq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (DU+/6)

"I will make you feel it in your toes, and when you wake up in the morning, all of your stuff will be gone."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

200 If Apple Jacks are hard cider, what is Kaboom?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:25 AM (HBgbp

Everclear.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (ous9O)

201 Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.

This is being trumpeted as proof that hard drugs are better for you than alcohol.

Of course, most of the alcohol abusers die after decades of alcohol abuse, and hard drugs can kill you in a matter of months.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (2tUFv)
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I don't know - but I'd place a large bet - that the number of alcoholics vastly outnumbers the number of hard drug addicts. What's the relative death rate? I'd bet that it ain't so rosy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (DU+/6)

202 Casa de Doof will become a speakeasy if necessary!

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (yUjc0)

203 Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 11:21 AM (jJx+x)

Along with personal fear TPTB also leaned heavily on peoples' genuine desire to do the right thing and not cause problems for others. Businesses were used as hostages to get shoppers to mask. It was a sickening display of Will to Power on the part of minor officials everywhere.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (nC+QA)

204 I think the part that bothers me the most about all the nannies and fun-hating scolds is that each and every one of their claims about the public health and safety benefits are lies.

Where is the massive reduction in drunk driving accidents after open container was outlawed?
Or from going to .10 from .12?

Oh right--gotta keep the screws to the public and not admit it's all a lie for more power, so drop it to .08 now to inflate the arrest numbers.

And the Republican Party is rotten through with pinch-faced scolds who can't wait to pass more laws for your good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (PNU5k)

205 They're going to go after the amount of cans you get in a 12 pack. You will only be able to get mine cans.

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (OUiUM)

206 >>Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.

Good. The problem with Oregon is the people.

Posted by: garrett at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (7oh2Z)

207 You have to have starch/carbs to ferment.
Unless they can stop all starch (rice/wheat/sugar) production they can't stop fermentation.

You can make weak drinks from sugar, distillation can be done by freezing for you in the frozen north.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:29 AM (pKn0k)

208 She won't drown.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 12, 2023 11:29 AM (DhOHl)

209 Didn't the USSR try to ban alcohol at one point?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 12, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

210 Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.

This is being trumpeted as proof that hard drugs are better for you than alcohol.

Of course, most of the alcohol abusers die after decades of alcohol abuse, and hard drugs can kill you in a matter of months.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Now do the homeless.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:29 AM (ous9O)

211 I saw the Heron Addicts open for Flock of Seagulls at The Cavern in '82.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (2oHWb)

212 183 Coincidentally, fermentation releases carbon dioxide, which as we all know is destroying the climate. They don't give a shit about health effects of alcohol (or gas stoves causing asthma) They are climate fanatics and will kill us all to save the planet.
Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (cUYo/)

They already believe that killing us all (except for a chosen few) is the only way.

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (UnA8+)

213 193 This busty bikini blonde in the pool like the occasional stiff drink and vows to help destroy anyone who seeks to outlaw it:
https://is.gd/7kvkEq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM

Damn...that picture, and this weird thread, have me thinking of alternative ways to make ayrag, traditional Mongolian fermented mare's milk booze...

Posted by: Resourceful, perv moron at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (JCZqz)

214 We have many 'wineries' around here. None of them produce the wine they only have bottles with some clever labels on them in their tasting rooms.

A friend of mine and I ate dinner once at a "winery" in Pahrump, Nevada. They had a few vines outside for show, and we asked one of the workers: "C'mon - you can't grow grapes commercially in this climate". He admitted that all the grapes that the winery used were imported from California's Central Valley.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (2tUFv)

215 The worse the better.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (aD39U)

216 They're going to go after the amount of cans you get in a 12 pack. You will only be able to get mine cans.
Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (OUiUM)
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They sort of do this in PA (or they did, last time I was there about 15 years ago). You can only buy up to a 12-pack at the state store. If you want more than that, you have to have a different transaction. I walked up with two 12s (well, a single 24 that they cut in half and taped across because of course they did) and the clerk wouldn't sell them to me. I had to buy one, then leave the store and put it in the car, and then come back and perform another transaction to get the second one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (DU+/6)

217 Good news, everyone! Our tax dollars are buying cell phones for our uninvited guests!

https://bit.ly/42Kp4Pg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FVME7)

218 You right ball nuts are crazy. We don't want to ban alcohol . Just another conspiracy theory by you crazies.

Posted by: NY Organization to Ban Gas Stoves at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FO8S3)

219 I can't wait to see the WHO's prohibition proposals. The carve-outs will be hilarious. We can't be punishing Napa Valley and the elite restaurants that cater to our wine-soaked elite.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:15 AM (DU+/6)

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The Newsom and Pelosi families will be demanding reparations!

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (2oHWb)

220 They tried to shut down the gubmint run liquor stores during Coof as non-essential, then back-pedaled on that within 24 hours.

The winos still lined up outside all of them, same as they do every morning.

rumor has it that there were a lot of DT-related amberlamps calls over that 2 day period

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (z7sfH)

221 I saw the Heron Addicts open for Flock of Seagulls at The Cavern in '82.
Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (2oHWb)

They are an EMU band, right??

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (yUjc0)

222 I saw the Heron Addicts open for Flock of Seagulls at The Cavern in '82.
Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:30 AM (2oHWb)

They like to fuck birds.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (XGZoL)

223 30-40 years ago Nyquil was 40% alcohol and I could get a buzz on with just a few ounces. Now, it's 10% and I need two bottles to have any fun. Gummint is ruining my fun!

Posted by: Rum Dum at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (Nn3xT)

224 191 The Woke are just the Puritan impulse in drag. They have the same underlying motive, the supposition that they are morally superior, and the arrogance to believe that they can force their morality on the rest of the world.
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Add the Crazy Quaker, What Would Jesus Do?, to the mix and you have the Tyranny of the Yankee Religious Polemic. Its gets a lot of people killed, regularly. Yankees are smarter, purer and saintly. Just ask them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (NsE9F)

225 You have to have starch/carbs to ferment.
Unless they can stop all starch (rice/wheat/sugar) production they can't stop fermentation.

You can make weak drinks from sugar, distillation can be done by freezing for you in the frozen north.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Honey - yeast - water = mead

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (ous9O)

226 As part of our prepping, Mrs. B and I have several bottles of booze that we can use for barter in the burning times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (HBgbp)

227 Now do the homeless.

Also, hard drugs can kill you in ways other than overdoses.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (2tUFv)

228 Ben Franklin supposed to have said
Beer is proof God loves us

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (YJwc5)

229 https://is.gd/7kvkEq

Likes the occasional stiff...
Or something about upgrading that necklace to pearls...

So many prurient choices.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM (FCbAQ)

230 Home made wine is stoopid-easy to make. Fractional freezing ups the fun level.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 12, 2023 11:32 AM (3Or4S)

231 So what will replace Purple Drank?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 12, 2023 11:32 AM (NsE9F)

232 The Woke are just the Puritan impulse in drag.

Banning things that people like is the point.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)

233 204 And the Republican Party is rotten through with pinch-faced scolds who can't wait to pass more laws for your good.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 11:28 AM (PNU5k)

GOPe : "We thought you WANTED Fire-and-Brimstone!"

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:32 AM (UnA8+)

234
Didn't the USSR try to ban alcohol at one point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 12, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

Nicholas II tried to during World War I and Gorbachev tried it in the '80s. Both attempts were catastrophic failures.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2023 11:32 AM (MoZTd)

235 Bugs are low in carbs. It's going to be tough to make bug beer ?

Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (tA1/w)

236 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM

That top is under tremendous pressure

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (eNlPi)

237 Just wait until you see useless in action when someone, anyone in Congress starts yapping about a full repeal of the Patriot Act and its various bureaus AND a 5 year complete moratorium on immigration AND a completed wall AND a pony (what the hell might as well ask big)

Looking at bigK and blueshirtyellowtieguy. bigK does not have the nads to use his only power (it's a purse or man-sachel) and Brennan testified under some super secret arrangement. Oh and Ted was orating like crazy at the border.

U-who ss-less.

Posted by: micky at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (3byMq)

238 25.8% of people aged 18 and older reported binge drinking in the past month. Binge drinking was reported by 29.7% of men and 22.2% of women in this age group. Furthermore, 6.3% of adults (8.3% men and 4.5% women) reported that they were heavy alcohol users in the past month.

By 1770, Americans consumed alcohol routinely with every meal. Many people began the day with an ‘eye opener’ and closed it with a nightcap. People of all ages drank, including toddlers, who finished off the heavily sugared portion at the bottom of a parent’s mug of rum toddy. Each person consumed about three and a half gallons of alcohol per year.

About 50% higher than todays average.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (BRHaw)

239 226 As part of our prepping, Mrs. B and I have several bottles of booze that we can use for barter in the burning times.
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I think they call this Scotch. Good for re-gifting. Never trade Bourbon.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (NsE9F)

240 Irony in that Candian Army guys probably killed my liver during military ops. Those dudes can do it right.

Posted by: dingbat at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (RLXm2)

241 The Oligarchs want complete control, over every part of life. Nothing you like is except from their desire to own.

Embrace the outlaw life, be cyberpunk. Buy ammo, food, water, books...and booze.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (xcxpd)

242 I thought Newsom said we all needed to get hammered from time to time?

C'mon Vlad. Break the globalists.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (ZLI7S)

243 193 This busty bikini blonde in the pool like the occasional stiff drink and vows to help destroy anyone who seeks to outlaw it:
https://is.gd/7kvkEq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM

I prefer slightly more realistically proportioned brunettes, but your blonde is pretty easy on the eyes as well.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7jrann

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (JCZqz)

244 https://is.gd/7kvkEq

Hah . When I pulled it up it only showed the cute face and I had to scroll down . Holy crap. It made me LOL.

Posted by: NY Organization to Ban Gas Stoves at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (FO8S3)

245 Now do the homeless.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:29 AM (ous9O)

Not with your dick.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (FCbAQ)

246 and congrats to Sponge!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (xcxpd)

247 25.8% of people aged 18 and older reported binge drinking in the past month. Binge drinking was reported by 29.7% of men and 22.2% of women in this age group. Furthermore, 6.3% of adults (8.3% men and 4.5% women) reported that they were heavy alcohol users in the past month. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (BRHaw)
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How much is a "binge" and how much is "heavy?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (DU+/6)

248 Hey, Hadrian, did you see the borzoi in today’s art?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (HBgbp)

249 Looks like the WHO doesn't understand Bread and Circuses.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (i6HOK)

250 Irony in that Candian Army guys probably killed my liver during military ops. Those dudes can do it right.
Posted by: dingbat at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (RLXm2)

Aussies. Fucking lunatics.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (XGZoL)

251 242 C'mon Vlad. Break the globalists.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (ZLI7S)

He won't do that until all the English-speaking nations are destroyed first.

Only then will all the globalists get their polonium tea.

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

252 I prefer slightly more realistically proportioned brunettes, but your blonde is pretty easy on the eyes as well.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7jrann
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (JCZqz)
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I read the sock. I didn't put it together. A rare miss on my part. I suppose I deserve what I got.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (DU+/6)

253 Off Leftist fascist sock

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (FO8S3)

254 Candian army guys: Mike & Ike.

Posted by: Love the typos at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (DhOHl)

255 I prefer slightly more realistically proportioned brunettes, but your blonde is pretty easy on the eyes as well.

You...will pay.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)

256 50% of all murders involve alcohol.

so let's get drunk and go to Davos.

Posted by: x at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (ZBPE2)

257 Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.
This is being trumpeted as proof that hard drugs are better for you than alcohol.
Posted by: The ARC of History

Cut off the supply of Narcan and then get back to us.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (pKn0k)

258 Weed is the new bread. The circuses are the same as they have been, just piped directly into the mind-control devices in our homes.

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (z7sfH)

259 "I will make you feel it in your toes, and when you wake up in the morning, all of your stuff will be gone."

Posted by: Sponge

Probably a kidney as well.

Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (cUYo/)

260 How much is a "binge" and how much is "heavy?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (DU+/6)

I think binge is 5 or more at a session whatever that means

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (BRHaw)

261 223 30-40 years ago Nyquil was 40% alcohol and I could get a buzz on with just a few ounces. Now, it's 10% and I need two bottles to have any fun. Gummint is ruining my fun!
Posted by: Rum Dum at May 12, 2023 11:31 AM

Same here! Except the original White Hispanic dude ruined my fun.

Posted by: Trayvon Martin at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (JCZqz)

262 What's hilarious is that the very same people promoting this are all in on drugs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (0hOvj)

263 I drink only to excess.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (aD39U)

264 It's not uncommon for me to go 2-3 years between drinks; I just don't care to do it. I have shit to do and can't be bothered to. I also have zero respect for losers who get nothing done because they're swilling shit beer 6 hours a day.

But I'm 110% behind anyone who wants to burn this motherfucker down if they try this.

Posted by: somedood at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (+GzRQ)

265 During Prohibition the bitches in the Federal government the forbidden laced booze with methanol. It killed or blinded hundreds and was trumpeted by the presstitutes as a reason not to drink.
During Washington's presidency he sent men to shoot American's who wouldn't pay tax on booze production.
Government has not been our friend.

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (OUiUM)

266 By 1770, Americans consumed alcohol routinely with every meal. Many people began the day with an ‘eye opener’ and closed it with a nightcap. People of all ages drank, including toddlers, who finished off the heavily sugared portion at the bottom of a parent’s mug of rum toddy. Each person consumed about three and a half gallons of alcohol per year.

About 50% higher than todays average.
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This is true. Consider that most all of them were involved with heavy labor and needed a lot of calories and pain reliever to make it through the day. They also enjoyed lard cuz fat is really important, too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (NsE9F)

267
Hey, Hadrian, did you see the borzoi in today’s art?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (HBgbp)

Yes, thanks. Not only dog, but Borzoi, therefore great art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (MoZTd)

268 https://tinyurl.com/yc7jrann

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 12, 2023 11:34 AM (JCZqz)

You should be beaten...severely...w/a wet noodle.

Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (AwYPR)

269 How much is a "binge" and how much is "heavy?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (DU+/6)

Binge is all at once and heavy is all over a week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

270 I get no kick from champagne
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (BRHaw)

271 Even in Orwell's 1984 the tyrants knew alcohol was necessary.

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (SYTee)

272 Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (BRHaw)

Their sample group must have been college campuses.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (FO8S3)

273
You should be beaten...severely...w/a wet noodle.
Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (AwYPR)

The nick is the kink. The link is the disease.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

274 Let me tell the story
I can tell it all
About the whipoorwill
That hauled illegal alcohol

Ballad of Thunder Road, best rendition by Robert Mitchum himself

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (lz5hY)

275 259 "I will make you feel it in your toes, and when you wake up in the morning, all of your stuff will be gone."

Posted by: Sponge

Probably a kidney as well.
Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (cUYo/)

She's way too hot for that.

It's more like, "I will get you spend all your money in an attempt to take me home. If I allow it, I'll put in minimal effort, and when you wake up in the morning, all of your stuff will be gone."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (KbCG3)

276 250 Irony in that Candian Army guys probably killed my liver during military ops. Those dudes can do it right.
Posted by: dingbat at May 12, 2023 11:33 AM (RLXm2)

Aussies. Fucking lunatics.
===
Can't forget the Kiwis

Posted by: dingbat at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (RLXm2)

277 265 During Prohibition the bitches in the Federal government the forbidden laced booze with methanol. It killed or blinded hundreds and was trumpeted by the presstitutes as a reason not to drink.
During Washington's presidency he sent men to shoot American's who wouldn't pay tax on booze production.
Government has not been our friend.
Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (OUiUM)

toro see above list of poisons

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (BRHaw)

278 How about we celebrate with Merle Haggard performing “Mama Tried” to his own mother?

There have been a lot of songs about other people, songs about theoretical situations or just making up a story. But this one is 100% autobiographical.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (0hOvj)

279 254 Candian army guys: Mike & Ike.
Posted by: Love the typos at May 12, 2023 11:35 AM (DhOHl)

Terrance and Phillip

Posted by: Oh Canada at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (FEapg)

280 Obviously to me taking away a Russian vodka is like trying to keep him from breathing.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (YJwc5)

281 >>He won't do that until all the English-speaking nations are destroyed first.

>>Only then will all the globalists get their polonium tea.

Ironically, Vlad needs thriving western economies to buy his oil and gas, basically the only thing his country produces. And he sure as hell doesn't want this tranny idiocy spreading into his country.

There hasn't bee a reason to fight with Russia since the fall of the wall other than we westerners need boogeymen to feed our military industrial complex.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (ZLI7S)

282 I think binge is 5 or more at a session whatever that means
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (BRHaw)
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By that standard, I might be a binge drinker. I don't drink much. A bottle of whiskey will last me a good, long time. But I do really like whiskey and drinking 3+ fingers over the course of an evening on a weekend isn't all that unusual. That *might* be in the neighborhood of five shots. Probably not quite. I dunno because I don't measure it that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (DU+/6)

283 Back in the day, people made alcohol as a way to store their excess grain.

Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:39 AM (AwYPR)

284 Many recommendations are being set to zero so that you either do or don't do some sinful behavior.

The information will then be used to prioritize services like healthcare.

Posted by: MJ at May 12, 2023 11:19 AM (zwDuR)

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"Your social sin credit score has fallen below zero, citizen. Your CBDC account has been reset to zero. You will starve to death in no less than seven weeks. Have a nice day."

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:39 AM (2oHWb)

285
I think binge is 5 or more at a session whatever that means
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (BRHaw)

That right there is the argument for those comically large glasses of beer at Octoberfest.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 12, 2023 11:39 AM (FCbAQ)

286 Texas Buses More Illegal Immigrants To Kamala Harrris’ DC House, Admin Calls It “Sad And Tragic Day”

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Poor baby!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 11:39 AM (FVME7)

287 HBO had a pretty good series about the Prohibition era and the resultant illegal booze trade. Boardwalk Empire. Definitely worth checking out.

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 11:39 AM (yUjc0)

288 There hasn't bee a reason to fight with Russia since the fall of the wall other than we westerners need boogeymen to feed our military industrial complex.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (ZLI7S)

Russia is also, arguably, the last serious Christian redoubt.

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 12, 2023 11:39 AM (z7sfH)

289 271 Even in Orwell's 1984 the tyrants knew alcohol was necessary.
Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (SYTee)

The 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act, [23 U.S.C. § 158], requires that States prohibit persons under 21 years of age from purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages as a condition of receiving State highway funds. A Federal regulation that interprets the Act excludes from the definition of "public possession,"

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (BRHaw)

290 As part of our prepping, Mrs. B and I have several bottles of booze that we can use for barter in the burning times.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Buy 190 proof Everclear. It can be "stepped on" numerous times to get down to 80 proof.

It also can be used to sterilize hands, wounds and instruments.
Rubbing alcohol can't be used for wounds.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (ous9O)

291 Meanwhile Medical Mary Jane and Medical Meth and Medical Krokodil are all a-okay.

You empowered Utopian Puritans Never-Trump are the fucking norms restored yet?

Posted by: sven at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (X0I7i)

292 Well, I am forever fighting invasive wild grape in my garden, so even if they do cut us off, I'll always have a supply for homemade.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (N3zMI)

293 I mean alcohol is actually poison and is damaging used in excess, you really are better off not binge drinking or getting blasted. But that's your problem, not mine -- just don't expect me to pay for your destroyed body if you're stupid about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (0hOvj)

294 You should be beaten...severely...w/a wet noodle.
Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (AwYPR)

It WAS a trap.
And I fell for it.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (ufFY8)

295 A social drinker in any military qualifies as an alcoholic in the rest of the world.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (pKn0k)

296 281 There hasn't bee a reason to fight with Russia since the fall of the wall other than we westerners need boogeymen to feed our military industrial complex.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (ZLI7S)

It's not about us fighting with him.

It's about him killing for the fun of it, because he can, and he's the big man who'll actually kill people because Real Men Kill.

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (UnA8+)

297 Candy is dandy, but...

Posted by: You know the rest at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (DhOHl)

298 Six people die of alcohol abuse a day in Oregon, and three people die of overdoses.
This is being trumpeted as proof that hard drugs are better for you than alcohol.
Posted by: The ARC of History

Cut off the supply of Narcan and then get back to us.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM

They are passing narcan out in Junior and High schools in Kentucky and other States. Heard two reports recently of kids in 8th grade in the DFW metroplex having to be revived with narcan at school.

If narcan was removed from the picture I expect deaths from drug OD's would increase by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (ncXxy)

299 Back in the day, people made alcohol as a way to store their excess grain.
Posted by: BignJames

Also, to purify water.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (ous9O)

300 On the bright side

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD)
60.96 -0.47 (-0.77%)
As of 11:40AM EDT. Market open.

Fox Corporation (FOXA)
30.29 -0.38 (-1.24%)
As of 11:40AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (aD39U)

301 There is no safe level of tyranny.

Posted by: The risk of losing freedom increases even with a small amount of authoritarianism at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FEapg)

302 So a standard ration of alcohol was a gil. sp

Thats was 3 shots at about 100 proof or more.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:42 AM (BRHaw)

303 Every druggie hobo on the streets should be given five pounds of fentanyl. If you want to do drugs then fucking A do them all at once. Hobo issue would clear up pretty quick.

Posted by: NCKate at May 12, 2023 11:42 AM (d5Qya)

304 294 You should be beaten...severely...w/a wet noodle.
Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2023 11:37 AM (AwYPR)

It WAS a trap. And I fell for it.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM

I like to throw a Lena Dunham dedication trap out once a month or so to keep everyone on their toes. It never disappoints.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 12, 2023 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

305 >>Russia is also, arguably, the last serious Christian redoubt.

In 2012 Obama was lecturing Romney about his archaic foreign policy centered on Russia being our biggest foe and telling Vlad he would have more flexibility after the election.

Now he's the greatest threat to the civilized world ever. It's all a game.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:42 AM (ZLI7S)

306 Candy is dandy, but...
Posted by: You know the rest

Candy is dandy
Wine is fine
But liquor is quicker

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:42 AM (ous9O)

307 By that standard, I might be a binge drinker. I don't drink much. A bottle of whiskey will last me a good, long time. But I do really like whiskey and drinking 3+ fingers over the course of an evening on a weekend isn't all that unusual. That *might* be in the neighborhood of five shots. Probably not quite. I dunno because I don't measure it that way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (DU+/6)

Your use of "fingers" for a unit of measurement for whiskey tells me that we can be friends.

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 11:42 AM (yUjc0)

308 There hasn't bee a reason to fight with Russia since the fall of the wall other than we westerners need boogeymen to feed our military industrial complex.

Basically. The USSR was a hostile force attempting to destroy us and conquer the world under an evil, destructive philosophy. It wasn't awful enough to justify war, but definitely to oppose.

Now? Russia is basically run by the mob but tell me they're worse than our present government. Explain to me how Putin is worse than Biden.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:43 AM (0hOvj)

309 261 223 Heh. Nyquil. First unsupervised PX call in ITR at Camp Geiger, late 60s, a few of The Brothers decided they needed a Nyquil buzz and got some. And got pretty loaded on it. And the troop handlers fell us out on the company street at 0330 with full 782 gear for a leisurely stroll to some range that should have been off the map.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 12, 2023 11:43 AM (lz5hY)

310 The long history of human civilization indicates otherwise. In fact, the most successful civilizations are built out of drinking cultures. There is a reason for that, and it has everything to do with health.

With parasites in the water perhaps, but in the book "Innovation and its Enemies" by Juma, a chapter devoted to the enemy of coffee has a lot to do with coffee shops and draft houses being places where the commoners would gather, not so much to drink, but to talk. And having a number of discontented men of action talking over their government problems over alcohol or over the stimulant coffee led to threats against the tyrant.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2023 11:43 AM (YXHzG)

311 2&3 During the early communist period in Russia, when Lenin would send his goons out into the countryside to confiscate grain for the starving cities, the peasants would just turn their grain into samogon, or moonshine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 12, 2023 11:43 AM (HBgbp)

312 requires that States prohibit persons under 21 years of age from purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages as a condition of receiving State highway funds. A Federal regulation that interprets the Act excludes from the definition of "public possession,"
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (BRHaw)

So...when we don't have cars or need highways, we can lower the age!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 12, 2023 11:43 AM (ufFY8)

313 297 Candy is dandy, but...
Posted by: You know the rest at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM

dick is sick? (With late 80s/early 90s emphasis)

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (JCZqz)

314 Nah. They can try prohibition but most people won't submit. Alcohol is too pleasurable.
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 12, 2023 11:02 AM (woEnU)

That's what I thought about force-closing small businesses for a year. And schools. And mandatory masks to buy food/essentials. And forced testing/vaccines for university students with NO risk from COVID.

But here we are.

Posted by: DaisyB at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (AbL8c)

315 I don't even drink, but this is a way to get me to start again.

Tell me I can't, MF'ers, and I'll refill my empties with napalm and a rag.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (wNDOJ)

316 I think binge is 5 or more at a session whatever that means
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:36 AM (BRHaw)
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By that standard, I might be a binge drinker. I don't drink much. A bottle of whiskey will last me a good, long time. But I do really like whiskey and drinking 3+ fingers over the course of an evening on a weekend isn't all that unusual. That *might* be in the neighborhood of five shots. Probably not quite. I dunno because I don't measure it that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM

The VA doctor told me 3 or more drinks in a 24 hour period is binge drinking. I told her I am not going to tell you how much I drink.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (ncXxy)

317 We've been through this. The 18th Amendment was part and parcel of a plague and rash of amendments.

If every amendment after # 14 were repealed we would have more freedom.

Posted by: CRAY-ZEE. Jean Carroll at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (LaNzR)

318 With parasites in the water perhaps, but in the book "Innovation and its Enemies" by Juma, a chapter devoted to the enemy of coffee has a lot to do with coffee shops and draft houses being places where the commoners would gather, not so much to drink, but to talk. And having a number of discontented men of action talking over their government problems over alcohol or over the stimulant coffee led to threats against the tyrant.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Uncle Sam's Misqguided Children and the Tun Tavern.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (ous9O)

319 Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (UnA8+)

Not that I agree with that philosophy but don't we do that?

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (FO8S3)

320 With parasites in the water perhaps, but in the book "Innovation and its Enemies" by Juma, a chapter devoted to the enemy of coffee has a lot to do with coffee shops and draft houses being places where the commoners would gather, not so much to drink, but to talk. And having a number of discontented men of action talking over their government problems over alcohol or over the stimulant coffee led to threats against the tyrant.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2023 11:43 AM (YXHzG)
+++++
Oh yes. Alcohol has a practical purpose (sanitation) and so does coffee (energy and focus) but both also have at least equally-important social aspects. They are both social lubricants and encourage socializing. That is absolutely a reason for all this talk about prohibition.

You will not socialize or have outside of *large* groups (ball games, movies, amusement parks, etc.) in government-approved ways.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (DU+/6)

321 Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:40 AM (UnA8+)

Not that I agree with that philosophy but don't we do that?
Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (FO8S3)

Shh. He's rolling. They always project.

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (z7sfH)

322 My doctor told me 'one glass a day'... he didn't specify the size of the glass.
(old beer brewing joke)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (pKn0k)

323 A while back, I was breathalyzed after two beers for pissing on the side of the freeway by an airport. Cop said, "if you get back in your vehicle, I'll arrest you."

He gave me a ride to the nearest truckstop/motel/casino and I thanked him and shook his hand with the hand I just used to shake my junk.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (KVGVf)

324 Why can't we just let bygones be bygones and trust the science?

Fvcking retarded,
WHO

Posted by: Marooned at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (kt8QE)

325 If narcan was removed from the picture I expect deaths from drug OD's would increase by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (ncXxy)

Sadly, this would go far in making the issue a "self-correcting phenomenon".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (ufFY8)

326 By that standard, I might be a binge drinker. I don't drink much. A bottle of whiskey will last me a good, long time. But I do really like whiskey and drinking 3+ fingers over the course of an evening on a weekend isn't all that unusual. That *might* be in the neighborhood of five shots. Probably not quite. I dunno because I don't measure it that way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:38 AM (DU+/6)

Do you do that WC Fields *slides the fingers up glass* two fingers please trip?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:46 AM (BRHaw)

327 Ben Franklin supposed to have said
Beer is proof God loves us
Posted by: Skip

WDS got me a fridge magnet that says that.

Posted by: Infidel at May 12, 2023 11:46 AM (kHtnd)

328 The only wars the US has won was when we were a bunch of drunks.

Revolutionary? Lots of daily drinking back then.
Civil? Took a drunk to get it won.
WWI and WWII? Three martini lunches.

Now? Our generals can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman-- and that's not cause they are drunk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 11:46 AM (PNU5k)

329 As a recovered alcoholic. This message is bull shit.

Just because I can't handle alcohol, doesn't mean no one else shouldn't be prohibited.

Fucking scolds.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 11:46 AM (gmo/4)

330 Plague and Rash of Amendments ran off Broadway for about six months in 1987. It wasn't bad.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at May 12, 2023 11:47 AM (DhOHl)

331 Double negative, great I can't type when I'm incensed.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 11:47 AM (gmo/4)

332 Fox Corporation (FOXA)
30.29 -0.38 (-1.24%)
As of 11:40AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 11:41 AM (aD39U)

-------

Soros should buy Fox.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (2oHWb)

333 Also today is 'Boozy Friday' so will be having my bourbon ration today.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

334 317 We've been through this. The 18th Amendment was part and parcel of a plague and rash of amendments.

If every amendment after # 14 were repealed we would have more freedom.
Posted by: CRAY-ZEE. Jean Carroll at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (LaNzR

Now do the 10th!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (BRHaw)

335 As a recovered alcoholic. This message is bull shit.

Just because I can't handle alcohol, doesn't mean no one else shouldn't be prohibited.

Fucking scolds.
Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 11:46 AM (gmo/4)
++++
That isn't what this is, I don't think. That is definitely part of what's going on with gun control - they don't trust themselves with guns, and project that onto everyone and everything.

But this is different. This is just about removing pleasures (and social opportunities and mechanisms, as Reuben Hick pointed out) from the proles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (DU+/6)

336 >>It's not about us fighting with him.

It's 100% about fighting with him which is why we picked the fight.

Vlad made Ukraine a red line. We ran a coup in 2014 and took down a leader friendly to Russia and replaced him with a puppet we could control. Vlad took Crimea pretty much the next day. Ever wonder why Obama did nothing then?

And then Joey shit pants started hinting he was going to invite Ukraine into NATO which everyone knew would provoke Putin. And it did.

If a bear bites your head off after you keep poking it with a stick don't blame the bear.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (ZLI7S)

337 Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (KVGVf)

So you really weren't thanking him. I don't understand that.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (FO8S3)

338 Allowing Chinese Fentanyl in is the rough equivalent of the Government's poisoning of booze, just outsourced. I am acquainted with two youngsters who thought they were getting other drugs, and ended up dying from Fentanyl cut product.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 11:49 AM (aD39U)

339 Oh yes. Alcohol has a practical purpose (sanitation) and so does coffee (energy and focus) but both also have at least equally-important social aspects. They are both social lubricants and encourage socializing. That is absolutely a reason for all this talk about prohibition.
--
Why do you think bars were a particular focus of the Covid lockdown orders?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 11:49 AM (PNU5k)

340 As a recovered alcoholic. This message is bull shit.

Just because I can't handle alcohol, doesn't mean no one else shouldn't be prohibited.

Fucking scolds.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 11:46 AM (gmo/4)

----------

2012: You will be made to bake the cake.
2022: You will be made to take the jab.
2032: You will be made to slake the Zylon B.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:49 AM (2oHWb)

341 Also today is 'Boozy Friday' so will be having my bourbon ration today.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

Even better, because it has been raised from 6oz to 4oz, comrade!

Posted by: Winston at May 12, 2023 11:50 AM (ufFY8)

342 Actually, a second prohibition would require a Constitutional Amendment. The 21st Amendment that repealed prohibition specifically states that the regulation of alcohol shall be governed by local governments.

It's why alcohol regulation (bans on Sunday sales, chain stores, govt. stores only can sell hard alcohol...) are all over the place.

Posted by: A Reasonable Man at May 12, 2023 11:50 AM (VglFK)

343 Oh, and the way the world is going, I just might have to take up drinking again......

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 11:50 AM (gmo/4)

344 Fwiw, I think RUS is run by high ranking members of the Military and SVF and GRU.

Putin was the man chosen to be the focal point.

The mobsters were de-fanged as the first step in the program.

RUS is run much like the US at this point. However, the leaders of RUS seem non-insane and competent.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 11:50 AM (jZ2+M)

345 Left: Let's ban wine and beer

Also left: let's decriminalize meth and heroin

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (OalnH)

346 Oh yes. Alcohol has a practical purpose (sanitation) and so does coffee (energy and focus) but both also have at least equally-important social aspects. They are both social lubricants and encourage socializing. That is absolutely a reason for all this talk about prohibition.
--
Why do you think bars were a particular focus of the Covid lockdown orders?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 11:49 AM (PNU5k)

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Isolation is one of the psychological weapons of cults.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (2oHWb)

347 You can get baked every day though, provided you buy your weed from a government sanctioned and taxed pot shop.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (8yM+6)

348 2032: You will be made to slake the Zylon B.
Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:49 AM (2oHWb)

Sean Connery

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (BRHaw)

349 The VA doctor told me 3 or more drinks in a 24 hour period is binge drinking. I told her I am not going to tell you how much I drink.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Delete explitives. The next time they ask you should ask for Evidence Based Practice that supports the assertion.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (pKn0k)

350 319 Not that I agree with that philosophy but don't we do that?
Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:44 AM (FO8S3)

There seems to be a line of thought that if you think Person X is shit, you must like Person Y instead.

When typically they're all horrible.

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (UnA8+)

351 RUS is run much like the US at this point. However, the leaders of RUS seem non-insane and competent.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 11:50 AM (jZ2+M)

It's almost like they care about their own country.

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (z7sfH)

352 My Dad was a heavy drinker, alcoholic more than likely until one day he just announced he quit. Dad was born in Finland, notorious for alcohol consumption, and a baker (one of those trades where drinking becomes more than a hobby) but he just quit. Then the doctor gave him the real long face. "How long has it been since you quit drinking?" And Dad replied, 8, maybe 9 years. And the family doc said "You might want to consider starting again". Mom said he said no, he would find something else to do.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (lz5hY)

353 You will not socialize or have outside of *large* groups (ball games, movies, amusement parks, etc.) in government-approved ways.

Ergo why social distancing and isolation were key features of the C19 coup d'etat

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (YXHzG)

354 Didn't they drink a lot on Mad Men?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (63Dwl)

355 Alcohol will be prohibited, but exemptions will be available, for a price.

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (SYTee)

356 ... And then Joey shit pants started hinting he was going to invite Ukraine into NATO which everyone knew would provoke Putin. And it did. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (ZLI7S)
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I think it was two-fold. Putin had two "red lines." First was "no more eastward expansion of NATO." He enforced that one in Georgia at the tail end of the Bush 43 administration.

After our first color revolution in Ukraine, he added the second: no more color revolutions in what I consider to be my sphere of influence. We did the second one in Ukraine, and he took Crimea as a consequence.

In 2021, we violated both red lines. There was what appears to be a failed color revolution in Kazakhstan (Russia invaded to suppress it) and at the same time, Lloyd Austin started publicly speaking about NATO's "open door policy" with regard to Ukraine. Both, in the space of a couple of months.

Whether Putin is entitled to carve out a sphere of influence is somewhat beside the point. He thinks he is, and he defined the terms of what he found unacceptable in that sphere. We violated both of those terms. It was absolutely a provocation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (DU+/6)

357 The 14th needs to be rewritten and probably broken up into multiple ones. The wording is extremely problematic. The 20th is just clarifying and making sure the constitution is clear, because it was a somewhat amusing lack of clarity on the succession of presidency.

The 22nd and 25th amendments are good too, preventing imperial presidencies. The 24th eliminates poll taxes which was necessary because dumbasses in states were trying to prevent blacks from voting by requiring payment.

I like the 27th amendment but it was the wrong approach. Instead of making congress only get a raise in the next congress, they should have denied congress the ability to raise their own wages. How is that ever going to not pass?? If you cannot get 51% of a body to not vote its self a raise, you have discovered a body of saints.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (0hOvj)

358 342 Actually, a second prohibition would require a Constitutional Amendment. The 21st Amendment that repealed prohibition specifically states that the regulation of alcohol shall be governed by local governments.

It's why alcohol regulation (bans on Sunday sales, chain stores, govt. stores only can sell hard alcohol...) are all over the place.
Posted by: A Reasonable Man at May 12, 2023 11:50 AM (VglFK)

Then is the 1984 law illegal? I thinks so!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (BRHaw)

359 339 Oh yes. Alcohol has a practical purpose (sanitation) and so does coffee (energy and focus) but both also have at least equally-important social aspects. They are both social lubricants and encourage socializing. That is absolutely a reason for all this talk about prohibition.
--
Why do you think bars were a particular focus of the Covid lockdown orders?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 11:49 AM (PNU5k)

And why in PA the _very first thing_ The Tommunist did was announce all the liquor stores were indefinitely Shut Down.

Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (UnA8+)

360 1 step forward, 10 steps back -

Elon Musk reportedly in talks to hire World Economic Forum executive to replace him as Twitter CEO

Yaccarino has been an executive chair at the globalist WEF since January 2019. “Yaccarino is the Chairman of the WEF’s Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the WEF’s Media, Entertainment, and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee,” her LinkedIn profile states.

The media executive has been a staunch advocate of the largely ineffective and dangerous COVID-19 shots.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (fs1hN)

361 308 Now? Russia is basically run by the mob but tell me they're worse than our present government. Explain to me how Putin is worse than Biden.

in putin's russia, you invade neighbor. in biden's america, neighbor invades you.

Posted by: anachronda at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (I38CQ)

362 Salt is bad!
Bacon is bad!
Cholesterol is bad!
Wine is bad!
Coffee is bad!
Caffeine is bad!
Beer is bad!
Protein is bad!
Pesticides are bad!
...and on and on and on.

Brought to you by the folks who demand you be injected with damaging yet ineffective vaccines, insist a man is a woman if he feels pretty, and push for drug legalization "cuz it ain't hurtin' nobody."

Posted by: red speck at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (Ny/Va)

363 I'm sure the alcohol ban will not affect Democrat voting blocks. They'll be given a special pass that none of the rest of us will have.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (p+1gI)

364 You cannot drive.
You cannot own a detached single family home.
You cannot own a gas stove.
You cannot own an air conditioner.
You cannot take long showers.
You cannot drink alcohol.

ALL FOR YOUR SAFETY AND TO SAVE THE ERF!!

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (OalnH)

365 Isolation is one of the psychological weapons of cults.
Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (2oHWb)
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Yup.

Now stay home. Stay safe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:54 AM (DU+/6)

366 >>>Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 11:45 AM (KVGVf)

So you really weren't thanking him. I don't understand that.

Posted by: polynikes

>There is nothing to understand. It's absurdity. It's presumed folly. It's about an authority out of his jurisdiction. Sometimes you just roll with the shit.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 11:54 AM (KVGVf)

367 That isn't what this is, I don't think. That is definitely part of what's going on with gun control - they don't trust themselves with guns, and project that onto everyone and everything.

But this is different. This is just about removing pleasures (and social opportunities and mechanisms, as Reuben Hick pointed out) from the proles.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (DU+/6)

It's denial of resources all the way down.

And inserting CIA agents at the top of booze companies is a big part of it.

As is establishing the regularity of business doing harmful anti-economic things like not advertising on Tucker....

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 11:54 AM (jZ2+M)

368 There seems to be a line of thought that if you think Person X is shit, you must like Person Y instead.

When typically they're all horrible.
Posted by: XTC at May 12, 2023 11:51 AM (UnA8+)

That's a line of thought because it's mostly true. If you don't want people to think that's your line of thought you should say so when you make such comments.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 11:55 AM (FO8S3)

369 1 step forward, 10 steps back -

Elon Musk reportedly in talks to hire World Economic Forum executive to replace him as Twitter CEO

Yaccarino has been an executive chair at the globalist WEF since January 2019. “Yaccarino is the Chairman of the WEF’s Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the WEF’s Media, Entertainment, and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee,” her LinkedIn profile states.

The media executive has been a staunch advocate of the largely ineffective and dangerous COVID-19 shots.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (fs1hN)

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There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. Tucker hardest hit …

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 11:55 AM (2oHWb)

370 And then Joey shit pants started hinting he was going to invite Ukraine into NATO which everyone knew would provoke Putin. And it did.

Which is just jackassery.

What is the purpose of NATO? TO protect nations from Soviet Russian aggression and invasion.

What is Putin's reaction to Ukraine being offered NATO protection? TO DO EXACTLY WHAT NATO IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT. He just proved the purpose and value of NATO by invading Ukraine.

I mean, its like saying "that dog might bite, what if I kept you safe from being bitten?" then the dog bites to keep you from protecting that person.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:55 AM (0hOvj)

371 And don't eat eggs either.

Posted by: The supposed experts at May 12, 2023 11:55 AM (DhOHl)

372 Prohibition gave us the Kennedy's..........

That's all they're looking for. Another way to make royalty.

It's all about power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

373
ALL FOR YOUR SAFETY AND TO SAVE THE ERF!!
Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (OalnH)

All while they're importing new ways to kill you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

374 So we should ban alcohol because it has some trivial risk of cancer...

But legalize pot which is a major carcinogen AND a mutagen?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2023 11:56 AM (lc5cP)

375 Soros should buy Fox.
Posted by: ShainS

What makes you think he isn't a majority share holder in Blackrock, State Street, Price, and Vanguard?

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 11:56 AM (jzzG8)

376 What is Putin's reaction to Ukraine being offered NATO protection? TO DO EXACTLY WHAT NATO IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT. He just proved the purpose and value of NATO by invading Ukraine.

He exposed the liability that is NATO.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 11:56 AM (aD39U)

377 Also today is 'Boozy Friday' so will be having my bourbon ration today.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 12, 2023 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

I'll have bourbon rations for more than just myself

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (yUjc0)

378 Catching up from the ONT would alcohol improve the old man fondue or just increase the odds of injuries?

Posted by: DaveA at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (FhXTo)

379 The VA doctor told me 3 or more drinks in a 24 hour period is binge drinking.

That's idiotic. Having a beer with each meal is not a sign of trouble. Having three beers in an hour, maybe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (0hOvj)

380 Yaccarino has been an executive chair at the globalist WEF since January 2019. “Yaccarino is the Chairman of the WEF’s Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the WEF’s Media, Entertainment, and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee,” her LinkedIn profile states.

The media executive has been a staunch advocate of the largely ineffective and dangerous COVID-19 shots.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (fs1hN)

But Musk is for free speech and Tucker will broadcast uncensored.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

381 SPuds Mulvaney the trans dog would be a great comeback for Butt Light

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (BRHaw)

382 Elon Musk reportedly in talks to hire World Economic Forum executive to replace him as Twitter CEO ...
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (fs1hN)
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1. This is a rumor and it won't happen
2. It will happen, and Musk will rein her in or fire her if she steps off the path and tries to return to Twitter 1.0
2. Musk is no longer - or never actually was - what he says he is, and Twitter 2.0 was an elaborate game for some other purpose

I guess we'll find out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (DU+/6)

383 They can have my bourbon when they pry it from my cold dead hand.....

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at May 12, 2023 11:58 AM (e/Osv)

384 Whether Putin is entitled to carve out a sphere of influence is somewhat beside the point. He thinks he is, and he defined the terms of what he found unacceptable in that sphere. We violated both of those terms. It was absolutely a provocation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:52 AM (DU+/6)

I think it is more prosaic. The RUS General Staff was running the numbers on Industrial Warfare with US/NATO and the results showed RUS would win.

They're Russians after all.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 11:58 AM (jZ2+M)

385 RUS is run much like the US at this point. However, the leaders of RUS seem non-insane and competent.
Posted by: Thesokorus
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That is debatable. Russia is an autocracy and has massive systematic corruption problems as a result. Similar to most of that area of the world. Ukraine beats them in corruption but that is probably due to the weaker state control over its oligarchs.

So, in an autocracy, you are less likely to get idiotic social movements because their leaders are promptly arrested and put in jail. But, you are likely to get massive corruption throughout government and if you dare to speak out about it, you end up in jail or worse too.

Always best to fix your own home rather than looking at someone else's fixer-upper.

Posted by: whig at May 12, 2023 11:58 AM (L6NDr)

386 I'll have bourbon rations for more than just myself
Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (yUjc0)

overheard at my watering hole

hey bud want a shot of titos

no

then Ill have his

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2023 11:58 AM (BRHaw)

387 >>In 2021, we violated both red lines. There was what appears to be a failed color revolution in Kazakhstan (Russia invaded to suppress it) and at the same time, Lloyd Austin started publicly speaking about NATO's "open door policy" with regard to Ukraine. Both, in the space of a couple of months.

>>Whether Putin is entitled to carve out a sphere of influence is somewhat beside the point. He thinks he is, and he defined the terms of what he found unacceptable in that sphere. We violated both of those terms. It was absolutely a provocation.

I agree with most everything you said and have been saying it for over a year now. Couple of additions, at the 2008 Bucharest NATO summit Bush announced that we were considering Georgia and Ukraine for NATO membership. He was specific. And then Putin answered by invading Georgia.

As to Kazakhstan it was a color revolution and not only did Putin stop it he came out and said in plain language he would not allow any new color revolutions in former Soviet states.

Putin can be a thug and we can be guilty of horrible foreign policy that helped caused this mess at the same time.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:59 AM (ZLI7S)

388 He exposed the liability that is NATO.

I think NATO should have been dissolved as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed. Its entire stated purpose was negated. But... that wasn't its actual purpose. The real purpose of NATO is to:

1) put strategic bases in Europe
2) put money in the pockets of politicians and big businesses
3) allow European nations to spend what would have been on defense into idiotic socialist programs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:59 AM (0hOvj)

389 You never trust a musk.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 12, 2023 11:59 AM (N5C4b)

390 I think it is more prosaic. The RUS General Staff was running the numbers on Industrial Warfare with US/NATO and the results showed RUS would win.

They're Russians after all.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 11:58 AM (jZ2+M)
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Maybe. But absent a provocation, I doubt it would have happened. But the cash pouring in thanks to Biden's energy policy in combination with those provocations probably made it a lot more likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:59 AM (DU+/6)

391 >>> 370 And then Joey shit pants started hinting he was going to invite Ukraine into NATO which everyone knew would provoke Putin. And it did.

Which is just jackassery.

What is the purpose of NATO? TO protect nations from Soviet Russian aggression and invasion.

What is Putin's reaction to Ukraine being offered NATO protection? TO DO EXACTLY WHAT NATO IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT. He just proved the purpose and value of NATO by invading Ukraine.

I mean, its like saying "that dog might bite, what if I kept you safe from being bitten?" then the dog bites to keep you from protecting that person.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 11:55 AM (0hOvj)

Are you aware the Soviet Union hasn't been a thing for over 30 years? Do you know what the Monroe Doctrine is? Do you believe certain countries can't be trusted simply because of their ethnicity or whatever categorization you're using? Do you really think we're protecting Ukraine, or more to the point, its citizens?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (llON8)

392 I'm sure the alcohol ban will not affect Democrat voting blocks. They'll be given a special pass that none of the rest of us will have.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2023 11:53 AM (p+1gI)

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Imagine after Prohibition II the cartel black markets & rum-running -- along with the past, present, and ongoing child, sex, gang, and drug trafficking -- flooding into the U.S. alongside the millions of future ~~illegal aliens~~ Democrat voters across the non-existent southern border.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (2oHWb)

393 The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”

This is kind of a relief, because now I know that the opposite is true.

Posted by: t-bird at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (ptElO)

394 What is the purpose of NATO? TO protect nations from Soviet Russian aggression and invasion.
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Bullshit desk jobs for officers to paper their promotion files.
It's nothing but a jobs program to keep us in perpetual wars so they can collect medals.

Don't believe me? Point out all the great accomplishments and military achievements of NATO.

"Oh No! The Bear is going to take over the world! Give us billions and billions forever!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (PNU5k)

395 Putin can be a thug and we can be guilty of horrible foreign policy that helped caused this mess at the same time.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2023 11:59 AM (ZLI7S)
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Yup.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (DU+/6)

396 We violated both of those terms. It was absolutely a provocation.

... I understand what you're trying to say, but I think that the world cannot be held hostage by a nation's paranoia and stupidity. That he VIEWED it as a provocation does not mean that it was reasonably and objectively so. If Putin wants to snowflake out does not mean that it was a reasonable response.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (0hOvj)

397 When blah happens it will REALLY be war is a mind trap.

Posted by: ... at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (i7w5R)

398 ++++
1. This is a rumor and it won't happen
2. It will happen, and Musk will rein her in or fire her if she steps off the path and tries to return to Twitter 1.0
2. Musk is no longer - or never actually was - what he says he is, and Twitter 2.0 was an elaborate game for some other purpose

I guess we'll find out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:57 AM (DU+/6)

I thought Musk has already commented that this is the path, 2.0 is staying and freedom reigns.

I pick door 3.

It's always an op. There are no conservative billionaires.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

399 So, in an autocracy, you are less likely to get idiotic social movements because their leaders are promptly arrested and put in jail. But, you are likely to get massive corruption throughout government and if you dare to speak out about it, you end up in jail or worse too.

Posted by: whig

Please to explain how this is different from the US right now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (pKn0k)

400 Noodlernenos...

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (jzzG8)

401 They can have my bourbon when they pry it from my cold dead hand.....

-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at May 12, 2023 11:58 AM (e/Osv)

*nods and sits down next to SLV*

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (yUjc0)

402 3 beers in an hour is a mild buzz.

Unless it is 13% double IPA quintuple hopped chili maple syrup New England Sour Ale Cask Fermented bs

Idk if you are a 105lb female maybe three is drunk

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (jZ2+M)

403 Never trust the dude named after a scent.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

404 Nood

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 12, 2023 12:02 PM (JMAcK)

405
*nods and sits down next to SLV*
Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2023 12:01 PM (yUjc0)

*enters*

*fistbumps table occupants*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2023 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

406 Bullshit desk jobs for officers to paper their promotion files.

That's what it ultimately became and maybe was always meant to be, but the stated reason for NATO's existence was to protect countries from Russian aggression and invasion. Then Russia proved the point by invading.

The entire "oh, we did it, we made this happen" is nonsensical. We didn't make jack happen. Putin made it happen because he's as paranoid as most Russians and just wanted a chunk of Ukraine and to cow it into submission and Soviet-like satellite status.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 12:03 PM (0hOvj)

407 Maybe. But absent a provocation, I doubt it would have happened. But the cash pouring in thanks to Biden's energy policy in combination with those provocations probably made it a lot more likely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:59 AM (DU+/6)

The 1990s was the provocation. That is what the Russians have been saying all along.

The neocons are explicitly trying to end Russian existence. And have been since the 1990s.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 12:04 PM (jZ2+M)

408 ... I understand what you're trying to say, but I think that the world cannot be held hostage by a nation's paranoia and stupidity. That he VIEWED it as a provocation does not mean that it was reasonably and objectively so. If Putin wants to snowflake out does not mean that it was a reasonable response.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (0hOvj)
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There, I actually do disagree with you. Major powers have different privileges than smaller powers. Major powers *always* carve out buffer zones and set terms at the regional level. We did it with the Monroe Doctrine. We still do. Russia does. China does. India does.

Is it fair to the smaller countries? No. Is it the political reality when you're near - but not part of - a major power? Yes. It always has been. If Putin is not entitled to declare that the interests of Russia extend to some degree over his neighbors, then neither are we. The Monroe Doctrine and our long history of military engagement in Latin America is just as indefensible.

It ain't nice, and it ain't fair. But it is the way it works for minor states in the neighborhood of a major one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 12:04 PM (DU+/6)

409 Is this because people stopped drinking Bud Lite?

Posted by: Ben Sears at May 12, 2023 12:05 PM (Qpf3u)

410 What makes you think he isn't a majority share holder in Blackrock, State Street, Price, and Vanguard?

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 11:56 AM (jzzG

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Good point.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 12:05 PM (2oHWb)

411 Some of y'all know I'm not much of a drinker and certainly not much of a cusser but these tyrants have shown me the necessity of the phrase, "Fuck off!"

Posted by: Emmie at May 12, 2023 12:06 PM (Emce2)

412 This busty bikini blonde in the pool like the occasional stiff drink and vows to help destroy anyone who seeks to outlaw it:
https://is.gd/7kvkEq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2023 11:27 AM (DU+/6)

She'll have breast reduction surgery before she's 30.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 12, 2023 12:06 PM (BdMk6)

413 ... I understand what you're trying to say, but I think that the world cannot be held hostage by a nation's paranoia and stupidity. That he VIEWED it as a provocation does not mean that it was reasonably and objectively so. If Putin wants to snowflake out does not mean that it was a reasonable response.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 12:00 PM (0hOvj)

No offense. But this is naive. The 1990s showed the US intended the end of the historical existence of RUS.

We openly state this as our goal.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 12:07 PM (jZ2+M)

414 "Your single malt whiskeys and IPAs are white privilege."

But your forties are OK.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at May 12, 2023 12:08 PM (kvDvI)

415 I would like to note that wine is one of the elements of the Lord's Supper. If alcohol is bad, there's no reason for tyrants not to forbid this religious observance.

Posted by: Emmie at May 12, 2023 12:08 PM (Emce2)

416 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 12:03 PM (0hOvj)

Overthrowing a Russian friendly government, outlawing the Russian language, bombing ethnic Russians in Donbas and threatening to join with your global opponent who fielded bio plants in Ukraine sounds like a reasonable cause for invasion even for a non thug leader.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2023 12:10 PM (FO8S3)

417 Take the alcohol, follow the $$$ & control over adult lives. Also, as cannabis becomes widely legal internationally, pressure on banking services wane.

Canada: The Cannabis Act creates a strict legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis across Canada. The Act aims to (allegedly) accomplish 3 goals: keep cannabis out of the hands of youth, keep profits out of the pockets of criminals, protect public health and safety by allowing adults access to legal cannabis.

Safer than alcohol? IDK. Probably not, but it seems as an unknown for now, even given potential for lung, fetal & psychotic illness issues.

Restricting/removing alcohol lessens liver, colon, neck, head cancers; alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, chronic pancreatitis; cardiac disease, stroke; weakened immune systems in some people; fetal alcohol syndrome, and more. Money saved > if not pocketed, then into other federally controlled healthcare programs.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at May 12, 2023 12:16 PM (GshMh)

418 See guys! INBEV and Transheiser Busch is just doing their part. Suicide ful steam ahead!

Posted by: Esperman at May 12, 2023 12:19 PM (nNH2y)

419 Even the Soviets were smart enough not to ban alcohol.

But the good news is that the path to great wealth under a Prohibition regime is already well-established. So get those back-woods stills, stock cars, and rum-runner boats ready to go.

Posted by: Cybernetic at May 12, 2023 12:32 PM (xawZJ)

420 You're going to need more than one "weapon".
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 12, 2023 11:26 AM (ZSK0i)

Ohio class boomer, MIRVs

Posted by: Fox2! at May 12, 2023 12:36 PM (Kqwxo)

421 Who would say no ? EVERYONE would fucking say no - are you shitting me ?

They said no a century ago when nobody could really make it on their own easily and people DIED drinking poison.

There is no legitimate, enforceable way they're going to do away with booze. Not if they want to keep their heads, anyhow

Posted by: deadrody at May 12, 2023 12:37 PM (kYmXc)

422 She'll have breast reduction surgery before she's 30.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 12, 2023 12:06 PM (BdMk6)

Her back will thank her.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 12, 2023 12:39 PM (Kqwxo)

423 Nevermind that they've already set the precedent that they'd need a constitutional amendment to bring it back. There is an absolute zero change of that happening.

Posted by: deadrody at May 12, 2023 12:39 PM (kYmXc)

424 Ben Franklin supposed to have said
Beer is proof God loves us
Posted by: Skip

God Damn It To Hell, Franklin said that about WINE.
Is this some kind of moron contest, year after year?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 12, 2023 12:48 PM (jYCXf)

425 I don't support a new prohibition, but alcohol IS really, really bad for you.

Posted by: Syracuse1989 at May 12, 2023 12:58 PM (exm8+)

426 The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”

This is part of the reason I am not in favor of boycotting Bud Light. I know why people are doing it... to try to make Anheuser Busch stop promoting gender dysphoria. But I see the boycott as the wrong strategy. What the Marxist Left is doing is injecting corporations and institutions with a virus. The woke mind virus. The way to defeat that is to eliminate the virus, not the host (corporation/institution).

But the Right is killing the host... to the utter delight of the Marxist Left. Because the Marxist Left does not care about any of the corporations or institutions they are destroying, with the help of the Right. The Marxist Left targeted the corporations/institutions specifically to destroy them. Either by taking them over with the woke mind virus and using them for propaganda or allowing them to be destroyed through lack of support from American customers.

When a patient gets cancer, you don't kill the patient. You kill the cancer and treat/save the patient. Same applies with the woke mind virus infection.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 12, 2023 02:32 PM (Do5/p)

427 I notice on google, when I look up a med, almost all of them now say "interactions with alcohol."

Posted by: PJ at May 12, 2023 03:12 PM (G1dq6)

428 Get America Out of the United Nations get the United Nations out of America and move the who rotten lot to Moscow

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (wGqjj)

429 WHO "How can we mind your business today?"

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