Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
China “Accidentally” uses Covid anal swab tests on US Diplomats
In January we mentioned that China began using anal swab Covid tests on school children, claiming they were more accurate than the nasal swab method.
China also requires the intrusive (by about 2-3 inches) tests on certain travelers coming into the country.
Recently, a group of US diplomats and their family members reported that they were subjected to the anal swabs.
In response, China at first claimed that the tests were given in error. But later they backtracked and denied that they had ever required anal swabs for US diplomats.
But the diplomats weren’t aren’t dropping the issue, and they’ve appealed to the US State Department— which has already said it is committed to preserving the “dignity” of US diplomats and their families.
Wonderful! So we can all agree that the test is totally undignified. But if that’s the case, why is “dignity” only reserved for government officials?
Sounds like this is another case of rules for thee, and not for me.
Click here to read the full story.
Coca-Cola Trains Employees to “Be Less White”
Coca-Cola decided it’s employees needed some reeducation on diversity and inclusion, so the company required employees to take a Linked-In course on the subject.
Part of that course involved a lesson from the author of White Fragility, called “Confronting Racism.” It instructed employees to be “less white, less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant, and more humble.”
Coca-Cola said that this particular lesson was not part of its required course, it simply appeared on the same Linked-In module on diversity training. Employees dispute this claim.
Regardless, this was a course that plenty of companies apparently thought was entirely appropriate to push on employees in the workplace.
Linked-In is removing the “Confronting Racism” course from its diversity curriculum after the backlash.
Click here to read the full story.
Muppet Show hit with offensive content warning
Disney recently began adding offensive content labels to certain old shows and movies available on its online streaming platforms.
Disney decided that instead of completely censoring content, it would instead warn viewers in advance.
Now that offensive content warning has been placed on The Muppet Show.
Apparently the classic children’s show featuring puppets like Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy “includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.”
As Disney explains, “Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.”
The warning does not specify exactly what is offensive about the Muppets, so we are left to guess.
Click here to read the full story.
“Being offensive is an offence” UK police tell community
Police in the UK recently unveiled a billboard that read , “Being offensive is an offence,” as part of a campaign to encourage more people to report hate crimes.
After a backlash, police clarified that, no, technically just being offensive isn’t illegal.
But in reality, the definition of a hate crime is so loose, that it includes, “verbal and written online abuse.”
That’s probably why there were over 105,000 “hate crimes” in England and Wales last year.
Click here to read the full story.
Man offered Covid vaccine because doctors thought he was 6 cm tall
An apparently healthy British man was confused when the UK’s socialized healthcare system offered him a priority Covid vaccine meant for sick people.
Turns out, doctors has his height listed as 6cm, which gave him a body mass index of 28,000 (40 is considered morbidly obese). Apparently no one thought that was strange.
But, sure, we should probably give the government bureaucracy more control over our healthcare.
Click here to read the full story.
Joe Biden: China’s genocide against its own people just “different norms”
For more than five years, the Chinese Communist Party has imprisoned more than 1 million people in internment camps. Their crime? Being born in China as a member of the minority Uighur ethnic group.
The aim of Chinese President Xi Jinping (aka Winnie the Pooh) is to reeducate these heinous criminals until he can be sure of their loyalty to China’s national ideology.
Anyone with more than two braincells can see that this is active, evil oppression. Yet even the wokest of the woke out there turn a blind eye.
In the credits of its recent live action film Mulan, for example, Disney thanked the Chinese government for all of its wonderful support, despite having filmed the movie in the same province as the Uighur prison camps.
So… according to Disney’s woke logic, Muppets = bad, but Chinese ethnocide = good.
More alarmingly, in a CNN town hall meeting last week, President Biden was asked if he brought the issue up in a recent conversation he had with Winnie the Pooh.
While initially he made some vague comment that “we must speak up for human rights,” he then went on to justify China’s oppression as an attempted to become “unified at home”.
He continued, saying “I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uighers. . . culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow.”
An astonished Anderson Cooper asked the question again to Joe Biden, asking him to clarify his comments, upon which Biden deflected, stating merely that it’s a complicated issue and he shouldn’t try to explain it.
Click here to watch the video.
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As I always say, my butt is the place where man’s never set foot. As for the American politicians, they must be used too have their butt swabbed by the elites.
You’ve never been checked by a doctor?
Nope… I never been sick so I don’t go see doctors. The few times I had to was because of my disability, I have a titanium plate in my left wrist and missing part of my ulna. So he didn’t have to probe my butt for that.
I refuse to believe there’s such a thing as an ulna. Never heard of it. Don’t believe in it. Go sell that malarkey someplace else.
Take your foot out of your keyboard and learn something:
https://www.britannica.com/science/ulna
Lighten up, Georges (that’s the opposite of “Be less White” DYK.)
Iska fergot to use the “//Sarc//” designator.
Being fairly new posting on TBP, I do not know when some of you are joking or not.
I’ve been lurking at TBP for years, and still can’t be sure who’s joking and when.
It’s safe to assume that I’m joking at any given time, including the times when I’m flaming somebody’s ass halfway off.
There is a picture of an cut of ulna
https://vk.com/albums448259779?z=photo448259779_457239097%2Falbum448259779_00
See, Iska, see; that’s what happens at TBP when yer ferget to use the “//Sarc//”
More so, I had to look up for that pic in my external hard drive. Luckily if my wrist is kaput, my brain isn’t. Prolly all those meds I never took because I’m not sick.
Wait a minute. That sounds like it could be that little dangly thing that hangs down in the back of your throat.
I worked in chemical plants, we had routine physicals to check our blood levels etc. and included the finger wave. The local country doctor we had to go to looked like the actor Fred Gwyne (Herman Munster). I’m 6′ 4″ the doctor was taller than me. I will state the obvious, his fingers were larger than the average man’s unfortunately.
Did he usually put his hand on the patients’ shoulders? Did any of the patients become alarmed when they noticed that he had both hands on their shoulder?
And I never had an enema either
Could be something to consider, dontcha think?
Depends on the provider.
Thanks but no thanks
Actually they are too busy kissing the elites arses…Maybe that will given them a chance to do an anal swab on them.
I hate when they accidentally stick swabs up the butts of US diplomats. Don’t y’all hate when that happens?
Not me, Ed. (fully aware of the sarcasm dripping from Ed’s words) I would actually hope that the Chinese expand the program of anal swabbing to the entire Biden Administration. It sounds like a great program, and would be good for public morale here in the United States. Not to mention the level of safety we might achieve if they did it often.
Fuckin’ A. As long as they’re swabbing the Bidens on purpose.
China accidentally swabs American politicians …. and discover that they are even more full of shit than thought possible.
So true
As a person who served at U.S. embassies in several countries, the idea that a foreign official would even suggest subjecting a U.S. diplomat to something like this is – or should be – absurd. I do not know what to think. Either some U.S. officials were so incredibly weak and spineless as to submit to this (along with family members) or this is made up. If it is true, I hope the Chinese gave them “anal swabs” good and hard. Any American, much less a U.S. diplomat, who would allow such a thing deserves it in spades.
As a diplomat (and that includes embassy employees not strictly on the diplomatic list) you NEVER allow a foreign official to molest you. This is especially true in hostile countries, like Russia or China. You immediately contact the embassy and the ambassador or his staff take it from there, period. Of course, in civilized countries you obey the laws like anybody else but in any case any encounters with local officials violating your diplomatic immunity are reported. You may have stand there for two or three hours until somebody intervenes, but you do not lower your trousers for an anal swab.
There is another possibility. In places like Russia or China, the local officials will occasionally assault or abuse U.S. or other foreign diplomats. These are not spur of the moment incidents. They are generally planned and ordered from the highest level. They are sparking a serious diplomatic incident and they know it. They do it for a clear political purpose, to send a message. For example in Russia if a U.S. diplomat is caught spying the local security service, the FSB, may talk real ugly to you for a few hours before they are forced to release you.
There are rumors that the Chinese have beaten up several U.S. officials over the past couple of years. I do not doubt it. This sort of thing is usually covered up for various reasons. it is possible that the Chinese forcibly inflicted these anal swabs on some poor slobs from the U.S. embassy. If this was the case the U.S. reaction should have been immediate and drastic. Closing the embassy, suspending all Chinese visas to the U.S. and sending the ChiCom ambassador home drastic. If Biden has failed to do this in such a situation, our foreign relations are in the hands of total incompetents who do not understand how the real world works. But of course we know that……
No one will be going up the Hershey highway on me…I can assure you of that.
Annal Schwab
Well he is an asshole.
Stooping lows is one thing , but they really touched bottom here
OK. Now I’m trying to find a groan emoji to post for that one.
Fucken pussies. Straight up pussies. They allowed some fucken chink to do that to their no-no area means they either wanted it or were too fucken scared to tell them to eat their ass instead of poke it.
If those our are diplomats, then it truly is game over for the U.S. The day an American willfully lets someone, in China no less, poke their asshole with anything is proof positive that we are, as a national government, the biggest fucken wussies on the planet. Try doing that to a chink official or a Russian dip. Good luck with that.
Although, there are probably quite a few of them that would probably go for a good ass pounding.
ZFG, out.
P.S. If’n you aint tongue punching Scarlett Johanson’s fart box then all else is a hard pass.