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About those ‘inspired’ dudes…

Many people are saying!…

Canadian Alexis Cossette-Trudel, who is suspended from Facebook and Twitter for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, had a message he wanted to send from Canada to France.

The “Freedom convoy” protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that were starting to block transport links in Canada were striking a blow for freedom and French people should take note, he said in Quebec-accented French…

Five days later, a French “Freedom convoy” – with some people waving Canadian flags – defied a police ban to enter the French capital and snarled traffic around the Arc de Triomphe. The police deployed tear gas and made more than 50 arrests.

Reuters has found some of the loudest online voices coordinating France’s convoy have direct links with Cossette-Trudel and other Canadians, revealing a network of connections between “anti-vaxx” and right-wing groups in the two countries…

Cossett-Trudel told Reuters half of his viewership comes from France.

He operates in large part via Radio Quebec, a Francophone platform whose main editorial priority is opposing COVID-19 related restrictions and the vaccine, which he sees as part of “a power grab by the establishment”.

Suspended from mainstream social media, he now broadcasts via other platforms such as VKontakte, Odyssee, and Gettr favoured by people like Cossette-Trudel who have been removed from YouTube. Across the three platforms he has a total of more than 100,000 followers…

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  1. 1.

    Betty Cracker

    What pandemic restrictions?

    ETA: Seriously, I think they missed the boat on this one. People in Florida have been acting like the pandemic is over for more than a year now. The vast majority of schools are open, and those that were closed were only shuttered because too many teachers and staff were sick, not because of a mandate. My understanding is that states that had strong mask requirements, etc., have been dialing that back. Are these assholes going to pretend it’s March 2020? Maybe they should go protest at Trump’s tacky-ass estate — he was POTUS then.

  3. 3.

    Mike R

    If it weren’t for hypocrisy the right wing would have no ideology except, gimme, gimme, I want it, that is mine. Well also bow down to your rulers, by devine right peasants.

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk

    Some of the US convoy channels I’ve been monitoring have taken a turn towards paranoia, and there’s a lot of discussion tonight about the convoy being a trap and/or getting infiltrated by the CIA or antifa. I saw multiple comments saying “it’s glowing.”

    Some of the commenters are encouraging the convoy to stay away from DC, and some are encouraging truck drivers to just park their trucks and stop making deliveries instead of joining the convoy. Others are posting pics of trucks, claiming the convoy has already started.

    10:17 PM · Feb 22, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

  9. 9.

    delk

    He’s protesting because Scranton named a street after Biden and he wants “legal recourse” for Ashli Babbit.

  10. 10.

    Chief Oshkosh

    Toss these mooks in the local hoosegow. If the local sheriff won’t do it, then get the California highway patrol to do it. And impound their rigs and auction them off.

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  14. 14.

    VeniceRiley

    Well my stupid AF (retired fire capt. and paramedic) antiva rwnj brother in fam group chat told my sister, who took mom to the ER for bloody runny poops, to ask the doc for Ivermectin once this issue is sorted out. I had a problem with that. So he called me sanctimonious and political while mom is in the ER. He has just enough medical knowledge to sound credible. I hate his guts now. I suppose that really started when he insisted Scalia was assassinated. Completely around the bend now. Will likely ruin all five of his children.

  18. 18.

    Peale

    “Just want life to go back to normal” says the asshole who is going to force workers to stay home and schools to close when teachers and students can’t get to school.

  19. 19.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Betty Cracker: It might almost be better for them that there aren’t many real pandemic restrictions in place. They can rage about a fantasy enemy they imagine doing something terrible somewhere far away rather than dealing with something real that some people might be in favor of.

  20. 20.

    Betty

    As if the French need anyone to encourage them to demonstrate. Too funny. They have been raising a raucus in Guadeloupe for months over vaccines and whatever.

  21. 21.

    MisterForkbeard

    @VeniceRiley: Ugh. That’s nuts, it really is.

    Yet another study showed that Ivermectin has no effect on Covid. One of the few pro-ivermectin studies was found to have its data fabricated. This thing does not work on covid

    It’s a great antiparasitic! It’s a wonder drug for that. But like all drugs, you don’t take it when it won’t help you.

  22. 22.

    Peale

    As for me, I’m pretty much ready to turn the page on COVID, although now I feel like participating in counter protests to keep mask mandates in place. If I go to the store and throw a tantrum when people aren’t masking up do you think I can get to become a famous Karen and get an interview in the Times by someone who wants to try to understand me? Maybe I can become briefly famous for sitting on my sofa and not dying of some disease that I’ve been vaxxed against for 2 years now. That should be worth some subReddit.  I think what these assholes really fear is that we won’t make them famous for being stupid assholes much longer.

    I’m going on a hunger strike until gay marriage is legal in my home state and won’t stop until I can legally marry my partner. Or maybe I’ll stage a sit in until women have the right to vote.

  24. 24.

    Ohio Mom

    I know it has already been said but yes, the DC beltway is already congested to the point of standstill. If anything, the truckers may find themselves frustrated because there is nothing for them to accomplish. If they can manage to merge on all in one group. They may be underestimating how aggressive DC drivers are.

    Also, props for the ADL for researching who gave money to both Jan 6th and the Canadian convoy but isn’t that what the FBI should be doing? (I joke).

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    jokes on him. The beltway already comes to a standstill at least twice a day

    Supposedly there was going to be a Truck Convoy blocking the Super Bowl, and the same joke was made, that given LA traffic on a normal day, nobody would notice.

    No trucker protesters actually showed up anywhere in the vicinity of the stadium. And by “vicinity”, I mean pretty much the entirety of LA County.

  27. 27.

    dmsilev

    @Peale:

    Woman Desperately Seeking Excuse To Assault Retail Workers Now That Mask Mandate Lifted

    ALBANY, NY—Staring down the store’s staff as she wracked her brain, local woman Monica Hadwin was reportedly desperately seeking an excuse to assault retail workers Tuesday now that the state’s mask mandate had been lifted. “I walked in without a mask and all I got was a ‘Hi, how are you today?’—what the hell am I supposed to do with that?” said Hadwin, who flexed her hands achingly as she surveyed the shop’s maskless staff and customers, longing for the perceived slight that would allow her to justify lunging across a counter to claw at a teenager’s face. “I guess no one offered me a free sample when I walked in, I could run with that. Or I could step out of the dressing room in a new outfit and then start screaming if nobody compliments me? No, that’s stupid. Even a ‘Masks Recommended’ sign or a bottle of hand sanitizer would be enough, but Jesus Christ. They just have to make this difficult.” At press time, Hadwin perked up immediately upon overhearing a worker speaking Spanish.

  30. 30.

    Betsy

    I’m just here to say that these guys use vehicles because they can’t organize a real protest. As all city planners know, motor vehicles occupy 100 times as much space as an actual human being, and have a presence totally disproportionate to actual human activity.  Ten vehicles at a stoplight constitute “traffic congestion,” but ten bikes in a bike lane is

    That’s why Trumpers have their so-called protests using motor boats, big pick up trucks, semi trucks and so on.

    It accomplishes two things: the protest look a couple of orders of magnitude larger than they really are, for example just 100 pick up trucks looks like an enormous intimidating parade, but compare that to 100 people picketing on the street which would look relatively puny say compared to the women’s march or anything real.

    The other effect is that you can use motor vehicle to block up space. In effect it’s as good as a tank if no one’s firing at you, which is no risk if you’re white.

  33. 33.

    CaseyL

    In my fantasies,  a few mortar rounds takes care of the truck convoy “protests.”  Except, I guess that’s what they want, an excuse to go even more armed militia than they are already.

    FFS.These people.  Why didn’t Covid get them all?

  34. 34.

    MisterDancer

    Serious Content Warning for Transphobia-as-Law: https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1496511396154163201

    If you hare a “duty to report” in Texas, Texas is officially saying that you have to report trans youth to family and protective services or risk losing your job.

    This is a continuation and escalation from what was discussed in comments, yesterday. It’s Texas’ corrupt government playing out, at best, George Wallace-style playbooks with Trans people and their families, using them as “proof” they are doing something about children and deserve power. Lest we “fail” our children, the old bug-a-boo.

    And they don’t need the Legislature to implement any of this, just to, as they have done, rubber-stamp any laws to make it worse for Trans kids in the state. The “duty to report” part is the implementation of direct consequences for already-overworked health care workers, on top of the Trans people and their families who are the key targets, and at by far the most risk.

    I’m going to try to have more to say on this, but first I need a shower to wash off the stench of Jim Crow from all this shit.

  37. 37.

    West of the Rockies

    Someone here yesterday mentioned that the three people running for Michigan AG all want Griswold repealed.  Is that really and truly a winning idea for the broad Republican base?  I mean, maybe 27% of them, but I think they’d end up shedding voters like a Covid+ Republican shedding the virus at a Ted Nugent concert in an Oklahoma Golden Corral.

  38. 38.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Another Scott: I think Orwell needs updating from this current nonsense

    The past was arable. The past never had been cultivated. Brawndo was always the thirst mutilator. Electrolytes were always what plants craved.

    Even then, Brave New World is likely more applicable this stuff since it’s about a future totalitarian state that drugs it’s population out of their minds and then distracts them with stupid pronographic movies.

  39. 39.

    mrmoshpotato

    U.S. truckers from California, inspired by their Canadian counterparts, are forming a cross-country convoy bound for Washington, D.C.

    Helping the economy by unnecessarily buying fucktons of fuel.  Good on ya, whiny ass titty babies.

    Oh, and en route to DC, there most likely will be towns where you shouldn’t be fucknut jagoffs.  (Like all of them.)

    Good luck.

  40. 40.

    ian

    @Ksmiami: I hope you never serve on a jury pool.  Your sense of how law works is terrible.  There is a charging, trial, and sentencing stage in between your A and C plotline.  Unless were just doing the ‘lock her up’ thing now, but in reverse.

  42. 42.

    mr perfect

    @MisterForkbeard: My understanding is if you take 150 times the recommended dose of Ivermectin it is effective on Covid-19.  Mind you, ten times the normal dose makes you comatose.  With the intelligence of the Anti-Vaxxers, would anyone notice the difference?

  43. 43.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Probably says a lot about Bob Bolus business that he has the time to fart around with political causes considering the need for shipping the past decade. Almost like he’s got such a bad reputation that he has no customers.

  45. 45.

    MisterDancer

    @West of the Rockies: Is that really and truly a winning idea for the broad Republican base?

    Most of the base have no idea what Griswold repeal would mean, nor would they care enough to check. Right-wing media will be happy to tell them some lie, like that it’s liberal overreach around one’s right to say what you want, or even some BS about women’s control over their bodies (watch they try to make it about “choice” in some twisted way.)

    And they’ll swallow it en masse. They might lose a few on the edges, but right now it takes a massive fuck-up (like the church situation w/Trump) for Republicans to see serious defections.

    Those who do know will be ecstatic, of course. This is what a lot of the Evangelicals have been praying for, for decades. They are desperate to roll back the wide availability of women-controlled contraception (they could care less about condoms, or even vasectomies) so that “loose” women can be properly shamed and put in their place.

    That creates another group of easily-exploitable people that these asshats can abuse to stay in power and/or feel a sense of power-over, when so many of the rank-and-file are in fact powerless in many ways.

  47. 47.

    mr perfect

    You in America will love this.  Many of my fellow Canadians while travelling abroad display a crest or some symbol of the Canadian flag somewhere on their apparel as to not be mistaken as American for fear of anti-American insults/treatment by locals, you know the “Yankee go home” syndrome.  Mr. Cossette-Trudel went out of his way to make certain the Canadian flag will now be despised in France.  What a guy!

  49. 49.

    Ksmiami

     

    @ian: out of control propaganda has got us to this place; the only way to rein it in is to get the psychos into legal hot water. I’m tired of the 1st amendment being used to bludgeon democracy…

  51. 51.

    UncleEbeneezer

    As I mentioned yesterday, book bans and other attempts to whitewash history, are VERY unpopular.  Dems need to hang this shit around the neck of EVERY Republican.  We can also celebrate progress that has been made while still acknowledging how much remains to be done (the style of framing Obama used successfully):

    A new CBS News poll offers data that should prod Democrats into rethinking these culture-war battles. It finds that surprisingly large majorities oppose banning books on history or race — and importantly, this is partly because teaching about our racial past makes students more understanding of others’ historical experiences.

    The poll finds that 83 percent of Americans say books should never be banned for criticizing U.S. history; 85 percent oppose banning them for airing ideas you disagree with; and 87 percent oppose banning them for discussing race or depicting slavery.

    What’s more, 76 percent of Americans say schools should be allowed to teach ideas and historical events that “might make some students uncomfortable.” And 68 percent say such teachings make people more understanding of what others went through, while 58 percent believe racism is still a serious problem today.

    Finally, 66 percent say public schools either teach too little about the history of Black Americans (42 percent) or teach the right amount (24 percent). Yet 59 percent say we’ve made “a lot of real progress getting rid of racial discrimination” since the 1960s.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    @VeniceRiley: Tell his Trump-humping dumb ass to stop calling your mom a horse!

    Seriously, I’m sorry you have to put up with this crap.  I’m sorry for anyone who has to deal with a nutjob antivaxxer family member.

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    @Peale:

    “Just want life to go back to normal” says the asshole who is going to force workers to stay home and schools to close when teachers and students can’t get to school.

    Wanting life to go back to normal means wanting service workers to go back to working in person while the person complaining continues to work remotely.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    Only outcome will be giving a temporary bump to revenue at Stuckey’s.

    //

    And that’s a good thing! The CEO of Stuckey’s is a former Democratic member of the GA House of Representatives, a committed environmentalist, a smart lawyer, and a business executive who is both competent and imaginative. (Disclaimer: I worked with her during her political days. She’s also a helluva nice person.)

    Don’t tell the truckers.

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    @VeniceRiley:

    Condolences on your brother. One of the small silver linings of the pandemic is that my own RWNJ brother didn’t turn out to be an anti-vaxer. He got his shots through the V.A. with a quickness. His fallback complaints  continue to be “Biden is unfit” and high gas prices (because Biden). The fact that he drives a gigantic Ford pickup (F-250 or maybe even F-350—it’s new, I haven’t seen it) is irrelevant, I assure you.

  66. 66.

    Gin & Tonic

    As I’ve been saying…

    Estonia’s President has a dig at UK & US for shutting embassies in Kyiv because of Russia threat. Estonia, like rest of EU, has kept its mission open. Asked why, @AlarKaris said “My opinion is that ambassadors & embassies should stay on the frontline in these kind of situations”
    — Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) February 22, 2022

  67. 67.

    Keith P.

    Remember when the GOP was in favor of running over protestors who are blocking traffic? The salad days, as they say…

  68. 68.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Peale: 

    I’m going on a hunger strike until gay marriage is legal in my home state and won’t stop until I can legally marry my partner.

    Well, just wait a few years and you might actually have to do that.

  71. 71.

    Leto

    @UncleEbeneezer: the overwhelming urge I have to take every dipshit right wing book I see in my bookstore and light them on fire… I saw a piece a long while ago discussing the fact with the decline of the humanities (specifically history), that instead of having properly researched books discussing their topic that we now have the rise of the celebrity book masquerading as “fact”. Basically everything that the Fox universe pukes out as “historical”. Also the O’Reilly “Killing” series.

  72. 72.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Today was the first day super liberal pro-vaccine Montgomery County MD had no indoor mask mandate.  It was also the day I go to the grocery store and the pharmacy.  I saw EVERYONE wearing a mask despite the lifting and removal of store signs regarding the indoor mask mandate.  And MoCo has a fully vaccinated rate of 85.2% for all residents.

  73. 73.

    The Dangerman

    Yeah. They threatened the Super Bowl then went gutless and didn’t show up. All talk and I’m thinking those big trucks are all compensation for some of their other shortcomings.

  74. 74.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Leto:

    I saw a piece a long while ago discussing the fact with the decline of the humanities (specifically history), that instead of having properly researched books discussing their topic that we now have the rise of the celebrity book masquerading as “fact”. Basically everything that the Fox universe pukes out as “historical”. Also the O’Reilly “Killing” series. 

    Why hasn’t BillO been arrested and charged after writing book-long confessions of his murders?

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    @zhena gogolia:

    Thanks. I was wondering if I needed to explain “Indian bead belt” but then realized I didn’t know how I would explain it. ? Also left out bubble-gum cigars and candy cigarettes. Good times.

  80. 80.

    VeniceRiley

    @Steeplejack: I just told my antiva network cabling contractor that we are past peak oil, and he should buy a new electric truck and join the future. 0-60 in like, 4 seconds and gas is zero. He said he may have to since Biden is president.  There’s no saving these crazy af white men. They are all around the bend and permanent citizens of crazytown.

  81. 81.

    trollhattan

    U.S. truckers from California, inspired by their Canadian counterparts, are forming a cross-country convoy bound for Washington, D.C.

    Yay, can I help you pack for the trip? Don’t come back soon, you hear?

  83. 83.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Gin & Tonic:

    True. But since that dark day, it’s all been twos and threes.
    :-)
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  84. 84.

    trollhattan

    @mrmoshpotato: He should flip the script and call the next one “If I Did It.”

    We’re all on the same page WRT a string of unfortunate interns are writing all those books, yeah?

  87. 87.

    Bill in Section 147

    @delk: Wouldn’t that be applicable if there was a Trump Blvd. She died during his reign of error. Biden wasn’t President at the time.

    Oh right. Conservatives blame Biden for everything the happened in 2020 and Obama is to blame for all of 2008 and most of 2017.

  89. 89.

    Another Scott

    @The Dangerman: It’s a replay of the Teabagger “protests” and TFG’s empty lectern.  They make big promises of giant national protests, or big news at a speech, get breathless coverage, and don’t bother to show up (except for a few hapless retirees), or turn it into rant #15023 about Killary and butter emails, or turn it into an infomercial about TFG-brand bison pâté.

    Protests on the left are very lucky if they get coverage the day of the event.  Protests on the right get weeks of buildup…

    Why do the actual work of showing up if you get 95% of the benefit, and continue to control the narrative, for free??

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  94. 94.

    Betsy

    @Betsy: I got interrupted in the middle of making an edit to the comment, which was to say:

    “Ten cars at a traffic light is intolerable traffic congestion, whereas ten bikes moving  through a bike lane in the same amount of time is often claimed by anti-cycling motorists to be an ‘empty bike lane’ that ‘no one uses.’ ”

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    @Leto: Let us now show all our shocked faces.

    Guessing one of the unstated responses to Vlad’s shenanigans is unleashing a torrent of cyber attacks on various assets in mother Russia, which they may choose not to mention, lest they appear weak in the cybers.

    It’s a complicated game.

  101. 101.

    Peale

    @Leto: Honestly, I wish he’d retaliate by knocking out the internet for and cable 2 months. I’d miss you guys, but I think ending the “information age” for a few weeks would not be returning to the “stone age.”

  104. 104.

    Yarrow

    Speaking of grifters, anyone following the Phil Mickelson mess? In case you don’t follow golf he’s one of the best known and highest paid golfers. He’s involved in an attempt by the Saudis to form a breakaway league. In a conversation with Brian Alan Shipnuck who is writing a biography of him, Mickelson said this, which he now claims was off the record:

    “They’re scary motherf—–s to get involved with,” he said. “We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.”

    Or in other words, money, money money. There’s more involving media rights and so forth. He’s totally fine getting involved with the Saudis because as a top professional golfer he’s just not rich enough.

    As a result of all this his longtime sponsor KPMG has dropped him and he’s “taking some time away” from golf. Pretty much no other professional golfers have supported him or this breakaway league project. Rory McIlroy, another top golfer had this to say:

    “I don’t want to kick someone while he’s down obviously, but I thought [Mickelson’s comments] were naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant,” McIlroy said. “A lot of words to describe that interaction he had with Shipnuck. It was just very surprising and disappointing. Sad.”

    I know it’s golf and not trucker protests or Russia/Ukraine but it’s another grifter suffering the consequences of his own words and actions. Good riddance.

  106. 106.

    trollhattan

    @Yarrow:

    I recall that MFer bitching and moaning about California taxes and how he was going to leave and boy, won’t we all be sorry. At which point I was “Phil who?”

    Golfers, man, worthless fleshbags.

  108. 108.

    Yarrow

    @trollhattan: Yeah. He’s a total whiner when he’s not as rich as he thinks he should be. This editorial about the debacle begins well and just keeps on going.

    Legend has it that Marcus Licinius Crassus of Rome was killed by the mutineering men he’d led into a failed battle, who poured molten gold down their leader’s throat in mockery of his thirst for wealth. Philip Alfred Mickelson of Rancho Santa Fe, on the other hand, was merely deserted by his bootless troops as the cause in which he had conscripted them slipped away. As for the symbolic choking on needless greed, he served and swallowed that ruinous cocktail himself.

  109. 109.

    Geminid

    @NotMax: Ir sounds like this cyber attack is the largest in scale so far. The Ukrainian military called up their reserves this morning, and the government is calling for Ukrainians in Russia to return home. Not that very many will be able to if they wanted. Reporting is that there are at least 2 million Ukrainian nationals in Russia.

  110. 110.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @VeniceRiley:

    There’s no saving these crazy af white men. They are all around the bend and permanent citizens of crazytown.

    Let us know when you meet/know one talking about Hunter Biden to 8 year olds at a kid’s sporting event. That’s my bro! (I know y’all jealous).

  111. 111.

    VeniceRiley

    @Sure Lurkalot:  Let us know when you meet/know one talking about Hunter Biden to 8 year olds at a kid’s sporting event. That’s my bro! (I know y’all jealous).

     

    E P I C!

  112. 112.

    wizened_guy

    As a resident of DC, I’m not sure anyone would even notice someone snarling traffic on the Beltway. Around here, we call that Wednesday.

  115. 115.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Just One More Canuck:

    Your own version of the TImbit Taliban? Would that be the Dunkin Donuts Dumbasses?

    I guess so, but we don’t have Dunkin’ Donuts on every block.

    (Yes, Jim Gaffigan let the world in on that dirty little secret.)

  116. 116.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    My Fogbow buddies assure me that one of the organizers of the DC Convoy is the infamous “Birther Princess” Micky something.  She was one of Orly Taitz’s perennial plaintiffs.  She could sign a verification page faster than you can imagine.  Once things get sticky though she is out of there like a rat out of a drainpipe.  I suggested once while they were all screaming “Discovery!” that counsel for Obama should actually agree to discovery because the first time Orly and her plaintiffs got served with a set of 50 interrogatories and request for admissions they would literally shit their pants and start screaming “privacy!”. Would have been fun though.

  117. 117.

    Just One More Canuck

    @mrmoshpotato: On every block would be a wild understatement. My wife and I once stopped at a mall in Hamilton – she just ran in to get something and I stayed in the car. From where I was sitting, I could see four Tim Horton’s stores, and there was probably another one inside the mall

  118. 118.

    Jerzy Russian

    @Yarrow:   I have followed this somewhat.   I makes millions of dollars per year playing golf, owing to the existence of the PGA.  My conclusion is that Mickelson is sorely in need of Shutting The Fuck Up Lessons.  I offer such services (for a modest fee), should he wish it.

  119. 119.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Yarrow:

    Rory McIlroy, another top golfer had this to say: 

    “I don’t want to kick someone while he’s down obviously, but I thought [Mickelson’s comments] were naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant,” McIlroy said. “A lot of words to describe that interaction he had with Shipnuck. It was just very surprising and disappointing. Sad.”

    Oh damn.  Mickelson’s in the poorhouse now apparently. ?

  123. 123.

    Gin & Tonic

    @mrmoshpotato:

    but we don’t have Dunkin’ Donuts on every block.

    Tell me you don’t live in New England without telling me you don’t live in New England.

  124. 124.

    trollhattan

    @Sure Lurkalot:

    Sports parents, yeah, salt of the earth.

    Marysville police officers on Tuesday morning arrested a Yuba County father accused of leaving threatening messages containing racial and homophobic slurs for coaches because he was upset over his child’s position in a game.

    Todd Andrew Tyler, 53, of Browns Valley was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats, hate speech involving threats and carrying a concealed gun in a vehicle, the Marysville Police Department announced in a news release. Shortly before 7:30 a.m., officers pulled over Tyler near Highway 20 at East 22nd Street in Marysville. Tyler was taken into custody without incident.

    Police said officers searched Tyler’s vehicle and found a .45 caliber handgun with two loaded ammunition magazines in the center console. On Sunday, two coaches working for Marysville Joint Unified School District reported the alleged crimes to police. Tyler had left several threatening messages for both coaches on their phones, according to the Police Department.

    Police said Tyler appeared to be upset with the coaches about his child’s position in a game. Officers did not say what kind of sport the child played.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article258651593.html#storylink=cpy

    Two first names can be a sign of trouble, three is almost a guarantee. That’s just science.

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    Eunicecycle

    @trollhattan: Some parents are the worst at their child’s sporting events. I saw a mother get thrown out of a Little League game, in case you’d like to think it was only fathers.

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    trollhattan

    @Eunicecycle:

    Fourteen years on the “front lines” so I know you’re not making that up.

    Comp league soccer was the worst I encountered, and featured parents of opposing teams threatening our players in the parking lot. Lovely people.

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    Shana

    I do not understand how they think they’re going to bring a 64 mile beltway to a standstill. If a bunch of trucks just stop at a certain point drivers will just get off take surface streets to the next entrance and get back on. Or do they think they’ll be able to coordinate at the on and off ramps and just stop there? This has an underpants gnomes air to it.

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    J R in WV

    @CaseyL: ​
     

    Why didn’t Covid get them all?

    Be patient, Covid is still working on it~!!~ Every time public health efforts work to diminish the plague, people insist those public health efforts cease, and the virus takes off again.

    Is the current cycle the third or the forth outbreak?

    How many cycles of public health measures working, being stopped, and the virus taking back off will it take for people to understand these public health measures need to be in place for far longer periods than we have been willing to give them so far?

    Impatience is killing people, we’re going to pass a million dead Americans very soon now, and no signs of this thing stopping as long as the small minority continues to believe that it is a hoax and resisting masks and vaccines.

    Frankly, I think everyone SHOULD have a right to refuse vaccination — I also believe those folks should be forced to stay quarantined at home until they get a full course of vaccinations.

    Food delivery by the National Guard, VFD, Churches, etc once a week according to public health directions. And if you get caught outside your assigned quarantine residence, you immediately get transferred to a camp in the high desert out west with real fences and armed guards. Fuck around and find out, assholes!!!

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    JaneE

    Right wingers love to say that people are afraid to go out because of POC, immigrants, gays, and Muslims who are (robbing, raping, murdering, harassing, offending, rioting – pick one or more).  I am pretty sure that there are some who are afraid to go out because they believe that those things are true.  And the thing to do to be safe is to buy a gun.  OTOH, it is an affront to freedom to tell people they need to get a vaccine and wear a mask to keep from catching a disease that has killed over 900,000 people so far.

    If it were up to me the national guard would be armed with bazookas and any MAGA marked semi blocking traffic would be a target.

  131. 131.

    Bill Arnold

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Some of the US convoy channels I’ve been monitoring have taken a turn towards paranoia, and there’s a lot of discussion tonight about the convoy being a trap and/or getting infiltrated by the CIA or antifa. I saw multiple comments saying “it’s glowing.”

    We all know what to do. :-)
    Those who feel guilty about stoking paranoia, well, argue insincerely that the paranoia might be unjustified. Wedges into fault lines.

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