OK, I have always admitted to being pretty geeky- I mean, shit, I even had a ham radio license when I was a kid- but with our current house guest, it’s dialed up to 11. Well, to be more precise, 10.955, since there’s a little travel at the end of the control. Looks like I’ll have to get out the toolkit and disassemble the optical rotary encoder to fix that last little bit or I’ll never be able to relax… In the meantime, let’s do our usual birthdays and news links, then it’s back to the lab.
Birthdays include a guy who taught us that absolute power corrupts absolutely; the true spiritual father of all of us; a loser loser loser; the pride of Baltimore (and there’s a story involving Spud there, but perhaps it will be told another time); a dude who was, like, totally spherical; a guy who came to dinner, but nowhere else; someone who famously blew Leonard Cohen; the owner of the most famous tits in American history; and SP’s favorite artist (ducking for cover as the rusty tin can lids come flying).
Now news.
Shut the fuck up, Donnie. And everyone else.
This is the kind of thing that gives me hope for the next generation.
Well, this was a bit of a fizzle. And judging from the photos, clearly not a good place to pick up chicks.
My mother always said that there’s only two kinds of people in the world: Jews and antisemites. I always knew that Siri was an antisemite. And she proved it.
If Rashida Tlaib is your idea of “hot,” then Syria may be paradise for you.
When the menu says “No MSG,” that’s racist. This message sponsored by Ajinomoto.
Speaking of racist, never ask an “activist” to move. Because that’s also racist.
Biden proudly displays the onion on his belt.
Old Guy Music today is the first song we played yesterday when we got our digital room correction software to work properly. OK, we’re geeks, but shit, it’s really a fine piece of work- the song, that is- and I have to admit, it shook the house once we got the volume cranked a bit.
For SP, Ted, DBLEagele and myself.
Relevant
Based on a picture His Holiness posted a while back, I was expecting larger women in that video.
When the menu says “No MSG,” that’s racist. This message sponsored by Ajinomoto.
I don’t want any Madison Square Garden in my food.
That entire, ridiculous article about how racist it is to not eat MSG, and no mention that MSG as an ingredient was invented in 1908 and probably not widely used before the 50’s.
But racism is behind the (silly) notion that it causes headaches and palpitations.
Other things with people saying that they cause similar undefined symptoms, unsupported by evidence: Nitrates, red wine, aged cheese, nuts, citrus fruit, caffeine, artificial sweeteners (any), preservatives (any), High Fructose Corn Syrup, chocolate, dried fruits, dried meats, etc.
The list is very, very long.
What a crazy article. They seemed to view a NY City Chinese restaurateur being run out of business because she promised Asian food that was light and not oily – because that’s racist. And then went on to say that Chinese food is only viewed as heavy and oily because of the crappy Americanized version we have here, which we only have because Americans were too racist to eat the real stuff. You follow all of that? Yeah… neither did I. In any event, it is a good thing that the mob ran her out of business, because she’s not Chinese, and people who are not-Asian shouldn’t be allowed to make food inspired by Asian cuisine.
Only Asian people should be allowed to cook and eat Asian people food.
Only White people should be allowed to cook and eat White people food.
Only Black people should be allowed to cook and eat Black people food.
&c.
Why do you hate diversity and tolerance?
Exactly…
This cultural appropriation thing is one area where the progressives really show their racist roots.
One area? Their whole schtick is racism. Real racism, though, not imaginary.
Well… Other than eugenics, cultural appropriation, enforced public schools, encouraging abortions in minority and poor communities, race based quotas…..
I make it a point to call this out every time my local rag runs an article about some chef who grew up in __________, and now opens a restaurant fusing together his grandma’s traditional _____________ with influences from ___________ and __________.
My usual comment is something like “So is cultural appropriation OK now?”
That may just be the worst Old Guy Music ever, congratulations.
I’m looking forward to giving it a listen. Can’t believe I’m saying this, but so far the only song off that album I’ve heard is Fear Inoculum.
You can find the whole album on YouTube. In my opinion, the first half of the album is not great but it picks up. It also makes me think that Maynard Keenan (vocals) is the least talented member of the band
Worse than the Old Guy Music suggestions I’ve made?
Here’s some chocolate Old Guy Music.
This, on the other hand, would have been a good choice for birthday Old Guy Music.
DON’T TALK SHIT ABOUT TOOL.
Warty turned me on to them. He’s a huge fan. You do not want to piss off Warty.
I like Tool, that song both sucks and blows however.
So it’s pressure neutral.
Yeah, it doesn’t sound like a Tool song. I assume that’s a sort of intro and the real music begins later?
Nah it’s right smack in the middle of the album. Each song on that album is long enough to have its own several minute intro. My personal recommendations from that album are 7empest, Pneuma, and Culling Voices.
They are in that category of bands that I should love, but are just OK. And I can’t figure out why.
I figured it out. They are like Alternative Dave Matthews Band, which really isn’t a band but a very talented Rhythm section with a sub par singer.
For me it’s that their songs are interchangeable, now I haven’t done a deep dive into their discography (and the song above seems to demonstrate that maybe they do have more than one sound), so I’m only talking about their airplayed songs. And yes lots, if not all, bands have a ‘Sound’, but some are much more singular than others. Tool, Boston, Jimmy Buffet, Santana (especially the long insturmental jams) You heard one song you’ve heard them all.
Crisis actors at the wiminz march.
In an interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said companies should be responsible for libel on their platforms. The former vice president focused his ire on Facebook Inc., the largest social-media company, and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg.
Section 230, a provision of the Communications Decency Act passed in 1996, “should be revoked, immediately,” Biden said.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
Nice job, tech companies. You guys have been so woke and promoted all these proggies… and now look where you are. Stuck between the lion and the tiger.
230 is fine as intended. Glibertarians shouldn’t be responsible for my posts. And neither should facebook.
But what Facebook should be responsible for is the editorial decisions they do make. So if they are going to be editors…. then they should be responsible. But they want it both ways. They want to be exempt and still exercise editorial control – keeping my messages hidden while pushing Amanda Mercotte to the front. Which is the exact type of thing that the same internet titans were calling evil back in the 90’s and early aughts.
‘…the true spiritual father of all of us;…’
I’ll be damned. Actually guessed correctly before hovering over that link.
I wonder how the New York Times editorial board feels about getting the Backpage treatment.
I just skimmed over the comments from the night shift. What’s happening to straffinrun? Is he about to spend the night in some Japanese train depot?
It’s a surprise. No spoilers.
For Florida folks, there is an interesting rocket launch set for no earlier than 9am. SpaceX will be doing their inflight abort test of their crew Dragon.
Interesting, because the booster should break apart and explode once the capsule leaves at max Q. So if you are anywhere along the Florida coast, have a look east this morning and see if you can spot it.
Coverage can be found here:
https://spaceflightnow.com/
Weather is still sketchy…. so they have moved it back to 10am.
Flat-Earthers on the other side of the Atlantic, or on the west coast, should be able to view the launch with a powerful telescope. Globe-dwellers will not be able to see due to the curvature of the Earth.
I think they have to use a p900. It has the power to bring things back over the horizon…. which is only due to refraction.
It’s optical witchcraft.
Apparently we are the only idiots here who have ventured down that particular rabbit hole.
‘our fave low-tech workaround was shared by a user who found out his campus only had 12 wheel boots to go around and bought and illegally parked 12 scrapyard cars that could be “sacrificed” so everyone else could park however they wanted.’
American Hero.
That was my favo(u)rite.
None of that extra vowel nonsense, you damn Limey. 😉
It is faeirly redundant.
I am gonna go ahead and call that one a FOAF. That was fake news before there was fake news.
The kids are alright.
The controversy sparked a broader discussion on the racially-driven lines drawn around which foods are “clean” and “sophisticated.” Why, for instance, is Italian or French cuisine — both foreign to the US — seen as high-class fine dining, while Chinese or Thai food is still often regarded as quick, cheap, and low quality?
Some also pointed out that “ethnic” foods — a controversy in itself, because what is “ethnic” anyway? — hold stories that have been erased or unacknowledged completely. For many, “Americanized” Chinese food was born from desperation and adapted for American tastes — a way for immigrant families to survive in a society that demanded assimilation. To have that food, and its history of immigrant struggle, dismissed as “icky” or “oily” felt like a slap in the face for many in the Asian American community.
So triggering.
Now I want some crispy duck and lo mein.
Racist
Mmm,..not Chinese obviously, but last week I stumbled across a surprisingly good Pho restuarant tucked in a shitty strip mall not too far from my home. Just might have to hit it up before the foosball starts…
Yeah, why in the world would a cuisine that was popularized by New York City takeout establishments be regarded as quick, cheap and low quality?
The Thai place we go to is really fancy and quite expensive… and delicious. My favorite Vietnamese restaurant is a hole in the wall in Atlanta. The Cusisine is fancy. And cheap. It is fantastic. Don’t know if they are still there – this is a 20 year old recommendation – but if you are in the area, Bien Thuy is worth a try. Everything on the menu is fantastic.
Funny how none of this was an issue for any of the participants until the last few years.
“while Chinese or Thai food is still often regarded as quick, cheap, and low quality?”
This is the dumbest take of all.
https://www.fazolis.com/
or …
https://www.yelp.com/biz/hwa-yuan-new-york-2?osq=Upscale+Chinese+Restaurants
It’s also the birthday of the tennis player who killed a linesman.
More info here
Wow I had idea about that incident. His name pops up frequently enough even today you’d think they mention it. They seem to enjoy mentioning other dirt.
“You know what causes Chinese restaurant syndrome?” he added as he walked through the streets of Sichuan. “Racism.”
Is there nothing in America immune from racialist sensationalism?
So is racism to blame for all the other false claims made about food additives? I think it’s more snobbery than anything else.
“We want decency brought to the White House, and we are a nation to be respected and not be about hatred,” said Therese Moran-Conlon, of Eldersburg, Maryland, who braved the wintry weather in Washington to protest with her husband, Mike. “It’s historic.”
It was the first appearance at the D.C. march for the 56-year-old psychotherapist who attended a “small but very powerful” march in Annapolis, Maryland, last year. She called the march “a fight against good and evil.”
Lazy middle-class intellectuals spend their free time LARPing as 60’s activists, a nation yawns.
The pictures of the event look exactly like you think they do.
Life is not worth living if you dont have imaginary dragons to slay.
Look in a mirror.
There’s that phrase again.
Beeble ploop bewicha marploba.
Jesus Christ.
I asked about it on a Morning Links a couple months back.
On the article where I read it (Quora, I think) I replied something like “I’ll take ‘oxymorons’ for $500, Alex.”
Libertarian authoritarianism! Authoritarian libertarianismism! Majoritarian librarianism!
“The rules are there for a reason. We spend the lion’s share of every day yammering. The least we can do in order to respect this process is abide by the requirement that we sit there and keep our mouths shut,” Schatz said.
This is a strangely truthful statement from a politician.
As it turns out, to take off the Barnacle, all you need to do is run your vehicle’s windshield defroster for 15 minutes, and then use a credit card or similar thin piece of plastic to release the suction cup around the edge. Presto! You’re free from fees.
I’m certain the University knows who you are, so they can go after you for the fees, but I like that the device is so easy to defeat. I was amused by all the attempts described in the article to throw sand in the gears of parking enforcement at the University.
If the University was truly private, I’d take a different tack.
Organizers had expected less than 10,000 in D.C. for this year’s “Women Rising” march — about a tenth of the 100,000 or so who turned out last year on an equally snowy and windy day, and a fraction of the 500,000 who jammed the street in 2017.
Heh. They can still go fuck themselves.
When Siri is asked about a public figure, the answer is usually extracted from the person’s Wikipedia page.
Oh boy.
“To this day, the myth around MSG is ingrained in America’s consciousness, with Asian food and culture still receiving unfair blame,” said the company in its campaign website. “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome isn’t just scientifically false — it’s xenophobic.”
I remember the first time I heard someone ask for no MSG in a restaurant. It was a Chinese restaurant. It was 1999 or 2000. I thought to myself, “What the fuck is wrong with this person?” and then went back to ignoring the person.
In an interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said companies should be responsible for libel on their platforms. The former vice president focused his ire on Facebook Inc., the largest social-media company, and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg.
Backdoor Net Neutrality?
Old Guy music today is fucking weird.
That’s because it’s the backing track to an actual song. I think they charge extra if you want to hear the whole thing.
“…We want decency brought to the White House, and we are a nation to be respected and not be about hatred,” said Therese Moran-Conlon, of Eldersburg, Maryland, who braved the wintry weather in Washington to protest with her husband, Mike. “It’s historic.”
Mike. Grow a pair.
“One, we are in an election year,” said Carmen Perez, an original co-chair of the Women’s March. “Two, we are in potential war conversations, with the fact the U.S. has struck another country.”
No, they didn’t ‘strike another country, Carmie’.
Like you give a shit. Where was the march for Libya when your boy, your pal, you god Obama actually struck another country’s leader in Libya?
Probably picking your nose.
“In Sarasota, Susie Sherwood fought the wind coming off the Gulf Coast as she held a sign reading, “Let’s leave this world a better place for children.”
“We’ve been doing this since 2016,” she said, “and are not giving up.”
Because everyone knows the world was a great place for children BEFORE 2016.
Talk about diverse and mixed messages from ‘wages’ to ‘rape’ to climate change to women’s reproductive rights. Wow. Trump really is an existential threat!
Yeah, now did that Libya thing work out anyway?
Not good as the shores of Italy show. The Mediterranean is still paying the price for that move. I still don’t know why Obilary did that.
Italy had a deal in place with Ghaddafy whereby they’d send goods and services to Libya at various friendly deals in exchange for him keeping migrants under lock and key.
When they offed him the flood gates opened and are still flowing. And German NGOs are willingly playing an errand’s fool in the process.
I know some Hilary cronies tried to cash in on aid scams and whatnot immediately after. Maybe that’s why.
There was a rumour it was to do a favor for the French. Which wouldn’t surprise me if the French ask the Americans to do them a favor while shielding themselves from the criticism.
The question was rhetorical. Open air slave markets, every depravity imaginable including cannibalism, Isis on the rise there….Jesus. And they wanted to prosecute Bush over Iraq. In a sane world Obama and Hillary would be in prison for what they did.
Not a peep out of the left. Even today there is nearly a news blackout on Libya. It is rather telling about their priorities.
Perhaps, but there was practical and real ramifications.
Hey… Did you notice that code pink is back? Because orange man killed 1 Iranian.
Yeeps, really? It’s so recent you’d think some journalism would be happening. It’s troubling that dictators in some cases made the world better.
Decency brought to the Whitehouse, you know, like we had with Obumbles.
Fuckin’ moran.
This is the frustrating part. The narrative has been solidified on that front. Ask the average, apolitical, neutral person (and especially people outside the USA) and that’s the belief and perception.
That his administration was all class, decency and unity.
It’s sickening.
Yep, and he spent his entire tenure doing as many nasty, spiteful things as he could.
In a time when legions of pathogens are developing immunity to antibiotics why would anyone take various STD’s off of the list of reasons people with The Hong Kong Cooties cant immigrate to the US? Other than giving a double middle finger to Americans, why would anyone do that? The only explanation even given was FYTW.
He did countless things like that and worse.
Class, decency and unity. Right.
He gets a pass on many things. One inconsequential one that torqued me off is the affected folksy accent. Nowhere in his background should such an accent exist
+1 “Imma get me a beer!”
The MSG thing is no joke. Apparently I have bad reactions to it. When I experienced it I had no idea that was even a thing. I thought I was getting sick from some other unknown cause. I complained about it and the people I was eating with informed me after the fact, so no, it is not just in my head and I am the least racist cracker on the planet.
I find it interesting all of a sudden science matters to them (because racism) but GMO not so much.
My wife is allergic to MSG. Is she racist?
Everyone’s a dips hit cumquat these days.
Then I found this in the sidebar about Ramsay and cultural appropriation.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/gordon-ramsey-asian-restaurant-cultural-appropriation-intl-scli/index.html
Soooo, if I get the gist right. Only Asians can cook Asian food at a restaurant? Isn’t that, well, racist itself?
Only Italians can make pizza? Only Jamaicans can make Jamaican Patties? Only Greeks can make souvlaki? Only Mexicans can make a burrito?
My buddy is Czech. A French pastry chef. And makes a solid risotto. What would these assholes think of that?
What the fuck is wrong with people?
And these Chefs piling into this stupidity are like woke comedians who call for censorship.
Everyone’s an asshole.
Aren’t people who claim cultural appropriation basically cultural chauvinists?
Has anyone explained how cultural appropriation is anything but good? I happen to like it and engage in it at every opportunity. Hey, if some other culture has something that works or food that is delicious I am going to take it and improve on it if I can. Dont like that? Tough shit.
Here’s a celebrity chef:
“More
If it tastes good or bad depends on what you like/enjoy…but to COMMERCIALIZE a genre with misrepresenting Asian culture with his whitewashed marketing is not doing a large part of world populace any advancement in understanding each other more in a more inclusive world!
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i feel for Italian’s food heritage too
world wide exploited
but the reason i think is called globalism”
Exactly.
Chen is being a cunt.
Pizza isn’t Italian. Geez, they dont even have pineapples in Italy.
My daughter’s guilty pleasure. Always says, ‘sorry daddy’ when she sends a pic of whenever she eats pineapple pizza with friends’. Another time when she and friend ordered pizza she came and hugged me mockingly and said, ‘sorry daddy’.
Lol.
She go to the box and she feel shame.
Only Mexicans can make all food has been my experience.
You haven’t been to my house.
Oh, wait. Crab cakes. For some mysterious reason I cant make a damned crab cake to save my life. I can make anything….except a crab cake.
Have you tried adding Zatarain’s Liquid Crab Boil?
On occasion, yes. Who told you about Zatarain’s?
I heard about it on some Trumpservative website that claims to be libertarian.
Reason?
No doubt. My house makes some great stuff as well. I’m speaking of most restaurants. Italian, Japanese, Chinese, all seem to have a lot of Mexicans in the kitchen.
There used to be a cajun restaurant in Natchitoches, Louisiana owned by a Chinaman and staffed by Mexicans.
The food was pretty good.
I’m not surprised. Louisiana has a lot of cultures running through it.
My mother can make any cuisine.
I’m pretty good too.
And they don’t do Italian well.
Fun aside: Spud and I went up against an Italian chef in Italy in a risotto contest. The American Jew and Irishman kicked his ass.
So… I made an Indonesian curry last night. We had huevos rancheros for breakfast. I am a horrible racist.
I can eat food with MSG in it, but my stomach has issues with a lot of it. I try to keep it at a minimum.
It makes me dizzy to the point where I can hardly keep from falling down. One time thing? I dunno, I never wanted to take a chance to find out.
Suthen: if you can eat (ferinstance) significant quantities of aged Parmesan, it’s unlikely you have an MSG allergy, since aged cheeses like Parmesan, Gouda etc. contain lots of naturally-occurring MSG. I’ve heard it said more than once: “How come no one ever complains about Italian restaurant syndrome?” If you’re a fan of anchovies, they have lots of naturally-occurring MSG in ’em too.
Doesn’t it make people thirsty too?
Thing is a lot of people have no reaction to MSG but still want it banned. Whoever makes food though should be able to label it however
And a lot think they have a reaction and they don’t. There are like in most things allergies, but like gluten for msg most of them are immaginary
There is a world of difference between being Allergic and sensitive. I’m sensitive to many foods, but I’m not allergic to them.
sensitivity you can just walk it off.
As I’ve put it before:
With a bad food sensitivity, you might spend all night on the toilet.
With a bad food allergy, you will spend all night in the ER.
The road goes on forever, the slander never ends
The impeachment of President Donald Trump is center stage, but when the last vote in the Senate trial is cast, it won’t mark an end to the investigations looming over the President and his company, the Trump Organization.
Investigators in New York and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives have several inquiries that will continue well into the presidential campaign. Their focus touches an area that Trump has long tried to shield from scrutiny: his finances.
The shit flinging howler monkeys will continue to fling shit at the wall for as long as it takes. One of these days, some of it might stick.
nah. It wont stick because there is nothing for it to stick to.
The more they go after this the more their credibility erodes with all but the most moronic useful idiots.
I would assume anyone involved in NYC real estate has some, umm, questionable business transactions in their past.
No doubt. But somehow, years of non-stop digging by New York’s top law enforcement agency—who surely have better things to do—have failed to uncover anything.
Even if he doesn’t, his tax returns are probably so complicated they will be able to find something to spin, like writing off losses.
Some people really are allergic to peanuts. But mostly, it’s just an excuse to be racist because some black guy invented them.
[golf clap]
A black guy invented Thai cuisine?
Probably somewhere in his 105 recipes.
Cool link bro
His economic and political ideology has often been identified as libertarian socialism and mutualism.
Who said what, now?
It’s from Lysander Spooner’s wiki page. I followed the link to the libertarian socialism page but it is too early to decipher that stuff plus I haven’t started drinking yet.
There is nothing to decipher. The label literally means Freedom is Slavery.
The difference bwtween a libertarian socialist and an authoritarian socialist is 3 weeks in power
^This^
Spooner had a love/hate relationship with the concept of trading one’s labor for wages.
Another little tidbit from that CNN thing about Public Enemy Number One’s finances:
Deutsche Bank, which has loaned more than $300 million to the Trump Organization according to Trump’s financial disclosures and other public filings, is one of the only large global banks that would do business with the family.
The obvious implication being that if everybody doesn’t finance you, nobody should. Because…
*shrugs*
Shady Orange Man is shady.
Just seeing that you do a lot of business with one group does not mean it’s three only one that will…
I was working on a $50 million deal last week Publicly traded company. One large US bank was getting out of their loan deal for reasons. A private bank was eager to pick up the business. One bank at a time is not unusual.
The liberal hacks at CNN don’t know how finance works. They’ll find out soon enough, though. When they file for Chapter 11 bk.
I noticed that they don’t get the difference between “loan” and “lend”.
The Democrat-led House Intelligence, Financial Services and Oversight Committees kicked off investigations into Trump and his finances early last year as special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election was wrapping up.
Lawmakers have said their inquiry is broad and is looking at everything from the President’s financial interests with foreign governments to whether anti-money laundering laws or federal ethics laws need to be tightened.
This is utterly horrifying. If the United States Government can engage in this sort of endless, limitless “investigation” of the President, no citizen is safe.
“Lawmakers have said their inquiry is broad ”
It’s called goin’ fishin’
“no citizen is safe”
There is no way to rule innocent men P.
He’s guilty of something. They’ll find it, some day.
How about some new Marshall Crenshaw instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdLcvSvowdQ
Morning, Glibbies.
It’s snowy mornings like that that having the only driveway on the cul-de-sac sucks.
If I don’t comment again today, I’m in the hospital after having a heart attack shoveling snow.
If you just wait a bit it will all melt.
Yes, and then it will refreeze.
This is some strategic shoveling – I don’t need the car today or tomorrow, but if I don’t shovel, it will be entombed in ice.
I’ve been ignoring cardio, so this will be a good test.
*dials 911 for slumbrew*
Just hit 91, for now
take a baby aspirin and go slow
I was talking about spring. Yes, it will refreeze next winter.
There is no Spring in New England. There is just More Winter Alongside Mud, then Something That Passes For Summer, then Autumn, then Winter again.
Shoveling complete, barely broke a sweat.
Scruffy, you can put the phone down, but thanks.
(I was exaggerating the cardio thing – I’m not in _that_ bad shape)
This is the frustrating part. The narrative has been solidified on that front. Ask the average, apolitical, neutral person (and especially people outside the USA) and that’s the belief and perception.
That his administration was all class, decency and unity.
Truly, the Obama Years will go down in history as a Golden Age.
Followed by the Golden Shower Age.
Democrats should just make it easier and make it a criminal act to be someone they don’t like.
I thought that is exactly what they are doing.
the pride of Baltimore (and there’s a story involving Spud there, but perhaps it will be told another time)
Or perhaps, with any luck, nevermore.
I always found John Waters fascinating: his views and framing lure me into giving things a chance that I otherwise would dismiss out of hand at first blush
I don’t like all of his movies, but I really like some of them. I will always give his movies a watch.
He’s an entertaining guy as well. Saw him last year, and will be seeing him again in a couple months.
Nice. That looks like a pile of fun.
This year will be the fifth year going to Viva. Second year John Waters has hosted the burlesque showcase. Next year we may switch it up and go to Punk Rock Bowling instead. It happens over a holiday weekend, and is in downtown instead of an off strip resort.
I’m getting sick of people who do party invites only on FB.
It’s lazy and inconsiderate. (unless they know that literally every invitee is active on FB)
Yes
Great choice for song. That’s a really underrated track on that album and I don’t even really like drum solos
Th autumn and winter have been warm enough i to almost convince me of global qarming
best birthdays and links ever: I spent an hour down that rabbithole
wherein I learned that Prussia is Preußen; anyone else EVER heard that with an umlaut? I feel like a total dumbass now and wonder to how many others my pronunciation had signaled my dumbassery
Pedantic lurker – eu = oy, no umlaut. Ue = u with umlaut. Or, so I’ve heard.
The difference bwtween a libertarian socialist and an authoritarian socialist is 3 weeks in power
Ouch.
MSG put me in the hospital with a 9-day migraine (I don’t get headaches) that sparked an unnecessary spinal tap, from which they drew blood nicked my spine so they had to keep me for meningitis even though they knew it was from the nick. Tried to keep me on my back for 4 or 6 hours or whatever but I had to pee and I was going to get to tjat toilet come hell or high water. At that moment, it was the promised land.
I am at church. At 830 am. This is the 3rd day in a row I’ve had to get up early after having stayed up till 200 am to work.
So. Chinese food. I just formatted a book (mostly in Chinese) about the Chinese woman who came to the United States and promptly set up shop and started the transformation of Chinese cuisine to the American palate.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/944708
Does it count if the Chinese appropriated their culture FOR us?
I was at church at 8:15 having not got to sleep until about 3:45
You win.
Woo-hoo!
What do I win?
I still haven’t gone to church after going to bed at 11:30…. Where do I place?
A Snopes headline from teh googlenooze:
Did a Missouri Bill Propose Imprisoning Librarians?
Haha, false. They want to imprison libertarians.
This is a good reminder of my favorite quote about Irish politics. Jackie Healy-Rae was asked about the differences between the two biggest Irish parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, which seemingly have little ideological daylight between them, to which he responded
https://twitter.com/TylerDinucci/status/1218701110610808832
False. It is the People’s Front of Judea.
My understanding is that the differences between the two go back to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1922 and have nothing to do with traditional left-right divides in other political cultures.
The Internet of Beefs
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
“What exactly do you mean by that, and what plans do you have for dealing with this “problem” person, should you become president?” the Times didn’t ask.
Maybe he can team up with Grandpa Gulag’s re-education crew.
Well Zuckerberg has fallen out of favor, so this isn’t chilling.
Zuckerberg has fans?
Apparently, he wants to start by repealing the First Amendment.
He wants to start by removing his bad press.
It would be funny if he then got nailed over saying the truck driver was drunk.
Oh that would be delightful.
I’m glad he finally has a solution for the Zuckerberg problem.
I hope it’s a final one.
But the New York Times has never ever printed something they knew to be false, right, Joe?
Shorter version: “People who disagree with my narrative need to be censored by the intellectuals who have done so well so far.” Biden is nothing but a half senile, corrupt old bastard.
I guess my esophagus is racist because MSG laden food gives me heartburn like a mofo.
placebo
Not according to reflux.org but they’re a well known bunch of white separatists so they might be a bit biased.
pracebo
Slutty Sunday is very disappointed that there has been no snow here in almost 10 days.
http://archive.li/AocWK
Just Say No to Snow.
I lingered a bit at #3. Too many of the rest look like RealDolls.
Ha! That’s Count Potatoes’ Muse! RealDoll indeed…
Most do indeed look like they came out of a shipping crate.
A RealDoll is has the capability to shut up every now and then.
And requires only a single financial outlay.
True, true (to both of you).
I am resigned to
humanityWestern Civilization shrinking away to nothing as sex dolls become more realistic.As long as the SJWs keep on about consent and rape culture and smart men stay away from real women, yeah.
That’s my thinking.
It’s only the public fora that are less available. You can’t risk asking your secretary out any more, but in that’s stead have arisen discreet, worldwide platforms for finding exactly what you want. There are binders of women online, and it’s easy to find someone who wants the same things.
I’ll bet over half the relationships since 2010 enjoyed by folk on this board started online.
Well, to avoid, boredom you’re going to want to swap out heads and vaginas every so often…or so I’ve heard.
You just swap them with other owners.
*squick*
Pay no attention to the socialism behind the curtain
The red-hot controversy between Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is threatening to reshape the Democratic primary — perhaps to the disadvantage of both.
“Strategically speaking, it’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever seen,” said one Democratic strategist who asked for anonymity to speak candidly. “There is only one winner out of this battle: It’s Joe Biden.”
The core issue is whether Sanders told Warren during a private December 2018 conversation that a woman could not be elected president. She says he did. He emphatically denies it.
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Warren’s partisans, who naturally believe her version of the conversation, say Sanders harbors sexist views — a particularly explosive charge given the ill feeling that lingers from his 2016 campaign against eventual nominee Hillary Clinton.
Sanders’s supporters say Warren has smeared him, which they say is indicative of a broader disingenuousness on her part. Some now respond to any tweet from her with snake emojis.
Whatever you do, don’t ask them how the perpetual motion machine works.
“There is only one winner out of this battle: It’s Joe Biden.”
Feature, not bug, at least from their perspective. Bernie or Lizzy have no chance of beating Trump. Biden is the only guy with a realistic shot.
I am convinced they do not want to win, which is out of character for Dems, but there it is.
I have a better chance of beating Trump than Biden. Imagine the Biden/Trump debates.
You are correct, just anger him to the point where one of his eyes fills up with blood and that’d be it plus he has obvious dementia.
She says he did. He emphatically denies it. – believe women
Sanders’s supporters say Warren has smeared him, which they say is indicative of a broader disingenuousness on her part. – damn misogynist Bernie bros
The whole thing was engineered by her with an assist from CNN. It has the stink of DNC-approved-candidate all over it.
The question during the debate was so shameful that even the DNC-approved audience laughed at it.
Yep, and the way the mod asked that question showed laughably blatant bias but, Bernie, being Bernie, was too much of a wuss to stick up for himself over it. Even disregarding his policies, he’s too spineless to be president.
I like MSG. I actually have a shaker of it in my pantry for various dishes. It’s never given me problems.
check your privilege? i got nothing
I tried that stuff, think it was a Goya product. (Not just Chinamen!)
It tasted weird to me so I tossed it.
I ordered mine from the Spice House. My go to for spices since Penzey’s decided to go all woke in all of their e-mails.
Penzey’s went woke? What the hell? It’s just spices, people!
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/10/09/penzeys-spices-backs-donald-trump-impeachment-92-000-facebook-ad/3920828002/
Wow.
That’s so stupid it makes my head hurt. I think I’ll take a Percodan and go back to bed.
“no one honest is denying the parallels”
“I dont know anyone that voted for Nixon”
Actually this is even worse….what parallels? What the fuck are they talking about?
It’s projection.
what parallels?
It’s just turbocharged identity politics: no evidence required.
There’s plenty of that to go around. Even here, there are good guys on both sides who do the same thing and I just let it go because I understand their shorthand: history is replete with dire examples of what can easily be extrapolated from the intellectual shortcomings of Mr X’s posture.
I try to not use it because I don’t want to encourage energetic mindlessness; at some point, I’d like one or two hours a day without these kinds of empty tirades. I like to address issues one by one on the merits instead of constantly scrimmaging against Team Y and their fellow travelers or else we’ll all end up like Occasion Z. When I catch myself falling into lazy characterizations, I’m always embarrassed.
From one of the last e-mails I received from them before unsubscribing and writing them off:
From two years ago yesterday (1/18/18)
Holy crap. That guy needs to seek help before he drives his business into the group.
Or ground, even.
FWIW, Penzey’s sales are up overall, presumably they’re the spice of choice for the politically correct.
My wife abandoned them a couple of years over that crap.
They’re the MSNBC of the spice world.
Shit. I really want “git woke, go broke” to be real.
We have a local spice and tea joint that’s been around since the 20s. I go there for almost everything.
When Boris Yeltsin visited American and saw the variety of goods in the Supermarkets, he questioned socialism.
When Muhammad Ali visited the Soviet Union and saw there were no homeless people, he questioned capitalism.
I guess it is a matter of taste which is more important.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1218254209709010944
And when George Foreman say a hamburger he ate it. No idea what difference any of it makes.
Being homeless was a crime in the Soviet Union. Fortunately, I hear they were pretty lenient on criminals.
I dont recall ever hearing that before and I am gonna call bullshit. The one quote I know is accurate is Ali when he returned from his pilgrimage and a visit to Africa. When asked what he thought the said (I saw the footage of him saying it) “Thank God my grandaddy was on that boat”.
I think Ali’s appreciation of America, despite its shortcomings, was fairly profound.
“America is the worst country, except for all of the others.” – Samuel Clemens
Or maybe all systems have their positives and their negatives and you can’t look at just one thing to make an informed opinion about the whole. Communist nations might not have homelessness but the average quality of life blows.
They have no homeless people in prisons either.
Plus they have free healthcare!!
/Leftists
In local news, OBJ gets a mild reprieve:
Report: Security guard will not press charges against OBJ
I’m wondering when locker rooms became open to people other than the competitors and the media. WTF was he even doing in there?
Dropping passes and making a scene (as he usually does)?
Yeah, “getting in front of a camera” was my guess.
Having upgraded the trigger and replaced the shitty plastic guide rod with a stainless one, I can now comfortably say that the S&W SD9VE is just as good, if not better, than a Glock 19 but about $200 cheaper.
I fondled one of those at a gun store years ago but didn’t bite. A lot of people bitch about the trigger but it felt like a perfectly decent cheap gun to me.
The factory trigger is ok. Apex sells a kit to drop it from 8-9 pounds to 5-6. It makes a difference.
I thought the trigger was a little stiff but it was smooth unlike a Glock’s sproingy trigger which I hate. I’m still going to pick up a 19 with my tax refund but that’s only because they’re so easy to find parts for and there are much better pistols out there for the money.
Slate headline:
Why Are Militia Groups Descending on Virginia?
Not “Are Militia Groups Descending on Virginia?”
Because we all know there hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Nazis and similar anti-government white supremacist murder cultists flooding into the state. The slaughter will be unimagineable.
“The slaughter will be unimaginable”
Fake news. No one left to murder as the tax cuts already killed everyone.
Net neutrality was the first cull.
Even NPR is backing off. This morning they said there would be thousands of “marchers” and that “government officials are worried there may be extremists.”
Descending? Nazi paratroopers. Noice.
Nazis were staunch private gun rights advocates.
Natch.
Watching the NFL Network’s pregame coverage, seeing the fans in the background, and all I can think is: “God, I hate the X-Factor guy.”
You’re schtick was played out fifteen years ago, dude.
Since Iowa is a cock-us, don’t the delegates get doled out proportionally? Basically, Bernie, Lizzy and Biden are going to be more-or-less tied afterward regardless of the few percentage points here and there?
Rules are anyone who gets more than 15% will get some share of pledged electors
NPR had a
story onlove in for Mayor Pete this morning on my drive back from town. And another ? for walmart grocery pickup.The democratic caucus process is complicated. The attendees will split into “groups”. Any group that doesn’t have enough people to be “viable” has to split up and the people need to join another group.
Jimmy Carter became president after coming in 2nd to “Uncommitted “.
The general view is there are “three tickets” coming out of Iowa. Anyone that doesn’t place in the top three in Iowa and then do as well or better in NH is dead meat.
The whole thing was engineered by her with an assist from CNN. It has the stink of DNC-approved-candidate all over it.
Never mind that. Did you hear Senator McSally ducked out of an interview by slinging a totally pre-planned slur on that nice reporter who was just asking questions America desperately needs answers to?
The truth hurts.
Writerly types or anyone actually. How do you avoid this kind of thing,
“He later impugns the guy for doing his job and lets him know he’d rather just shoot him.”
All the Hes and his’s and hims seem confusing to me but when I add proper names it sounds clunky.
Also this is from an article I’m considering submitting and if anyone would be willing to give 1200 words a quick proofread that’d be cool.
You can’t avoid it in most instances. You have to make it as clear as you can in some way, but ultimately you have to trust the reader.
Try doing gay sex scenes. What a land mine of “he”s and “him”s and “his”es.
Needz moar cunte
Pretty much always true.
I do not like gay romance. I can read bi 3somes, but I do not get what is attractive for a straight white woman to like reading two men getting it on without a woman in the mix.
Then again, much of it is an alpha and a chick with a dick.
Things that would be screamed about in m/f romance (*ahem* actual rape *ahem*) is totally cool with male-on-male. The hypocrisy of SJWs squeeing over it and defending it nauseate me. For wjatever reason, this is seen as more enlightened.
And quite often, women are portrayed as the evil villain, or at the very least as having cooties.
So not my favorite.
Logical consistency is not part of SJW theory.
Ann Rice had a whole pseudonym based around dudes banging (with an occasional cunte in the mix.) I did notice that her female characters never took it in the butt, only her dudes.
A.N. Roquelaire (sp).
It was equal parts cunte and cod and yes the women also took it up the bum.
What makes you think I haven’t tried doing gay se….oh you mean writing one.
And thanks for the advice.
If you need an extra set of eyeballs, send it on over. moriah at moriahjovan.com
Of course, you’ll do exactly what I say not to. ?
I’ll take you up on that, would you want a word file or just paste it in the body of the email?
Word. I’ll just copy and paste into Word anyway.
Sent, turns out I don’t have word, it’s a wordpad file, if that doesn’t work I can probably send it in another format.
WordPad is fine, thanks.
Still at church. Will be later today.
Must make funnel cakes and taquitos and watch football.
No hurry, I appreciate you giving it the one over, thanks again.
Change the gender of the characters.
It’s not fiction. I don’t have that kind of control.
Sounds pretty narrow-minded to me…
Maintain the subject and object relationship throughout the sentence and it will remain clear enough to the reader (if not sufficient for a court of law).
I can probably do a proof read. TPTB can supply my email.
I think your pronouns are ok there- it’s more a problem when they spread over multiple sentences.
I think I understand who’s who the way it is. “Guy #1 impugns Guy #2 for doing Guy #2’s job and Guy #1 lets Guy #2 know Guy #1 would rather just shoot Guy #2.” Do I have that right?
Yeah that’s it, I guess it’s not as bad as it sounded to me (after reading it five times or so in a row)
FIFY
Replace with names. It’s Bill and Vince, right?
Matt and Fenton, but you were really close.
Is it a retelling of this classic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU
Hilarious, the filmer’s little chuckle at the end is great.
Bill and Ted.
Bogus.
Be excellent to each other.
Replace with Dude 1 and Dude 2. Or Thing 1 and Thing 2 if you want to be PC.
Seriously though, I don’t know whose job is being done, the first guy’s or the second guy’s.
I can see that as the one point of confusion. It may be clearer in context.
Are there any other descriptors you could use? Occupation? “The officer later impugns the store manager for just doing his job and later lets the manager know he’d rather just shoot him.”
OMWC doesn’t always listen to Tool, but when he does, so does Tucson.
If you don’t love Dolly Parton, you’re not an American.
I thought that she was already dead.
Not dead, but California did have her decommissioned.
It’s fun and cute watching OMWC geek out.
Rotherham police chief: we ignored sex abuse of children
Race fears stopped us acting, victim’s father told
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/police-chief-we-ignored-sex-abuse-of-children-hgrhc358v
They’re scared little pussies.
You don’t need a cop to tell you that, it’s been obvious for years.
Better rearrest Tommy R. just to be safe.
But they’re really sorry and will improve their processes and procedures to make sure you don’t find out next time.
At semi-risk of doxxing myself, I have a friend who works in school in the area which has a large number of muslim students. He has been called an “infidel” and “devil”, among other racial and cultural terms, and told he should die, by kids as young as 11. Of course they get it from the parents. This isn’t all of them but it’s a significant minority. AFAIK he’s fairly popular with students in general, so I’d hate to think what happens to the unpopular teachers.
Sounds like my kids’ Catholic school.
YOU’RE GOING TO HELL is a part and parcel of the curriculum.
Time to send in Sandra Bullock or Michelle Pfeiffer.
+1 Michelle Pfeiffer all day long.
Thousands of women get work done to have lips like hers.
I ordered Gwenneth Paltrow’s candle and made me some wax lips.
and now you have fish breath
It puts the lotion on it’s skin.
My mom tells stories of her childhood in NYC where she was in a heavily Jewish area that had a Catholic school in it. An almost daily occurrence was on her way walking to her school the Catholic bus would drive by and all the Italian kids would hurl insults at the Jewish kids and the Jewish kids would reply “Inky-Dinky-Doo, Jesus was a Jew,” and shit like that.
Know what really bugs me about this? That in all those years, not ONE father went after any of the perpetrators, never mind a bunch of fathers getting together to eliminate them.
There are ways to do it without getting caught. A well executed plan would have wiped them out.
And don’t tell me none of you would go for justice and vengeance no matter the price.
Britain has lost the plot.
I think the kids were next to abandoned already. The parents speaking up now is offensive. Where were they? Talking about their poor baby that they left to the wolves is a bit rich.
I was going to say. This assumes the fathers are a.) known and b.) give a shit.
Well that occurred to me after I hit POST.
Yeah, the one that was OD’ed to death was picked up and dropped off at some children’s “home”. ISTR a lot of that.
They deliberately targeted girls from broken families and such.
Look, the important thing here is that all the police got home safely.
They are throwing people in prison for telling jokes. Yes, the cops are spineless but I tend to lay this at the feet of the commie politicians there rather than the cops.
When a nation turns a blind eye to the organized rape of hundreds of children in favor of prevailing opinion, that nation is fucked.
Line up the people participating in the gangs, the top cops and the pols who facilitated it and shoot them in the face on national TV. I bet that shit comes to a screeching halt.
Mobocracy works perfectly well, as long as the right mob is in charge
Despite the rhetoric about gun confiscation and governmental overreach, most of the measures proposed by Democrats are widely supported by Virginians.
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Legislators are worried, but continue their work. The Virginia Senate passed gun safety measures on Thursday: one to restore the state’s previous one-handgun-a-month rule, another empowering local governments to ban guns in public buildings, parks and at permitted events like political protests, and the third requiring background checks for all gun sales. The House, after years of attempts, was finally able to engineer a prohibition to ban firearms in the Capitol and in the House gallery, joining many other southern legislatures that have adopted such measures. The other House Democratic initiatives will be heard in subcommittee late next week and, given the energy around gun safety measures evidenced in the last election, many will likely pass.
January 20 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the Capitol, and it is typically the time when many school children come to see how government operates. Not so this year. Instead, Capitol Square will likely be filled with loud and angry gun advocates claiming that their rights are about ready to be severely compromised by the Virginia General Assembly. State officials are determined to prevent a replay of Charlottesville; whether protesters will cooperate remains to be determined.
Rights are created and granted by the government, based on the (perceived) whim of the majority.
EVERYTHING NOT MANDATORY IS PROHIBITED.
The attendees need to make sure they have plenty of cameras running, the government actually wants an incident to occur and that’s plain to see.
What was the justification for a state of emergency? That a lot of people were going to protest? How is that not chilling? Where are our brave journalists decrying tyranny?
Busy cheering it on.
Yes. People who believe their rights are being severely compromised tend to be loud and angry. People who believe in the 2nd Amendment might want to do this on a day honoring someone who carried a gun in self-defense to protect himself from those trying to kill him for the “crime” of asserting his basic human dignity and the suffered the further indignity of the government repealing his right to concealed carry.
Not that Millennial Progs would know any of this, of course. All these events occurred before Year Zero, which began on what was formerly known as 1/20/2009.
It is just a matter of time before MLK is fully unpersoned
Give it 20 years and there will be calls for MLK day to be changed because it is racist by celebrating a “white approved” black figure.
“Despite the rhetoric about gun confiscation and governmental overreach, most of the measures proposed by Democrats are widely supported by Virginians.”
Bullshit.
“gun safety measures”
Liar.
Squeezing balls and groping granny’s funbags is the price we pay, but this is over the line for the TSA.
Yeah it’s over the top but I suspect this person enjoys being in the spotlight whatever it takes.
This
You’d think she was the reincarnation of Samson.
Just check out her Twitter wall. Activist.
Does it matter?
The TSA has made flying into something that resembles visiting hours at a Supermax prison crossed with the movie Brazil. I don’t give a shit that the TSA agent was having “fun”. Nothing about that process is “fun” for me. That fucker should not be having “fun” That piece of shit should not be “enjoying her job”. That bitch is a tax parasite in a bullshit make-work (union!) job that, like most LEO adjunct jobs, the Republicans cynically set up among the lower middle class as a counterweight to Democrat big labor.
I’d love for this to take down the TSA. You gotta admit, though, that this is one of the lesser offenses the TSA does everyday.
I see it as part and parcel of the dehumanization that occurs hourly.
The mask just slipped down too far this time.
People are rarely moved by the genuine atrocities. As long as you place apologia for it in schools and call it mainstream it will be ok.
I don’t blame you. It certainly is dehumanizing.
I paid their extortion specifically to minimize my contact with those fuckers and their rape scanner. Now I just toss my phone in my bag and walk through the metal detector. Usually less than 10 seconds of actual contact with the jackoffs.
Private charity I think we can all get behind.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/internet/kaylen-ward-and-the-rise-of-viral-charity-porn
Steel practice was cancelled this morning because of “too much snow” and “too cold.” What a bunch of pussies.
USMCA food continues with my creperie offering a crepe bretogne filled with chili (and topped with couple of poached eggs). The chili was as you might expect for here, but it was yummy on a cold snowy day, and egg yolks are awesome for dipping fries into.
Now off to the lumber yard.
Would
I think I’ll make crepes this morning
Funnel cake for me today.
“egg yolks are awesome for dipping fries into.”
What kind of monster are you?
The real Sagat.
Guile could sweep his foot every time.
Replaying my entire teens and 20’s in my head at this moment, I have deduced that you are correct.
Getup, stand up, stand up for your rights
Oh, wait. Never mind.
The train was moving, but she was not.
NAACP attorney Sherrilyn Ifill was asked to get up and move from her seat on an Amtrak train Friday night, she announced in a tweet. Ifill said a junior conductor told her there were ”other people coming who she wants to give this seat.”
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After calling out Amtrak several times on Twitter, Ifill received an official apology from the company Saturday.
While Ifill, president and director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, passed on the obvious Rosa Parks comparison herself, several followers made it for her.
She did say that she’d be willing to give up her seat for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
I regret that I have but one seat to give… Such brave.
*IF she had gotten up, drugs would mostly likely have fallen out of her ass.
LOL, nice touch.
“I regret that I have but one seat to give”
. Really? I can free up three….
:Manspreading intensifies:
What was the justification for a state of emergency? That a lot of people were going to protest? How is that not chilling? Where are our brave journalists decrying tyranny?
Get out of here with your hate speech, hater.
Gotta love these Sunday morning OMWC links. Always get sent down the wiki rabbit-hole with my AM tea.
Good morning, Old Man!
Thanks for getting up early to assemble the lynx!
Geekery is awesome. I was just sorting fly-tying materials the other day. That is geeky.
Didn’t I read recently that some joyless fuckheads want to ban HAM radio? I can’t find the article at the moment. When I was a kid, our neighbor had a setup, complete with the massive antenna. My brother and I thought it was so fucking cool to be able to listen to people half a world away. So naturally we should ban it.
Have a great day y’all! Go ‘Niners!
Range Day With Mark
A Martini-Henry pistol makes an appearance.
What the hell was that? Shooting clays with an auto rifle and they missed?
My son could hit 3 out of 5 with a 22 revolver when he was 12 years old.
Unsupported automatic fire, particularly with lightweight platforms like those, isn’t all that accurate. Particularly if you’re not used to the climb.
This is actually the first time I’ve seen someone state the obvious. Abuse of power isn’t an actual fucking crime.
So the Republican strategy is to give the best audio clips for Dem reelection? Sounds about right.
Really? I’ve heard that defense since day one, it’s even been bandied about here multiple times by the resident Trumpsters.
It’s incredibly weak seeing as abuse of power has been one of the most common things for people to be impeached for.
If the argument is that what Trump did and what the Dems are doing is just politics then make that argument. But this is just saying “the president is aloud to be a tyrant as long as he doesn’t break any big laws”