No sports, really. Baseball season is still up in the air and the big soccer matches are over the weekend. There’s a little bit of public shaming going on, but none worth mentioning as far as I’m concerned. Monday will be a full update, I assure you.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal was born on this day. He shares it with royalty-wrecker Wallis Simpson, comedic legend Moe Howard, baseball god Lou Gehrig, actor Louis Jourdan, dragster Shirley Muldowney, human rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi, novelist Salman Rushdie, Heart’s Ann Wilson, singer/dancer and power-drinker Paula Abdul, The British version of “The Hair” Boris Johnson, and all-around great kid Justice Forall Sloopy Juneteenth Spicer.
That’s a quality list as far as I’m concerned. But we have to move on to…the links!
We don’t deserve him.
Trump tweets a satirical meme and twitter flips out. Of course they do. If they hadn’t, the left would have lost their shit even more. I wonder if the same standard will be applied to those on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Well, I don’t really wonder that, since there have been plenty of chances and they’ve never seemed willing to apply the standard equally. Oh, and in case you wanted to watch and have a chuckle, here it is.
I guess the police are capable of doing actual police work from time to time. Hey dummy, you wear all black and cover your tats when you decide to burn shit up. That’s like Rioting 101-level stuff. Enjoy prison.
I knew this was coming next. And I would fully expect it to continue until they’re forcibly stopped. Which I also fully expect as the next stage of this soft rebellion gets started in earnest.
“Now where did I leave that handle of vodka?”
Nancy Pelosi has solved racism! Oh wait, no she didn’t. In fact, she had no idea the people whose portraits she was removing even did anything racist until it was pointed out to her a few days before. So she’s just signaling to the people who want history erased that she’s on their side.
This guy is a would-be tyrant. The sooner he’s ushered out of the spotlight, the better. Fuck him and his little edicts.
Get a load of this stupid asshole. Hey buddy, they’re not trespassing until you ask them to leave and they refuse. Also, you’re stupid. And an asshole.
“Old man Lightfoot?!?!”
Get a load of this stupid asshole (part 2). Get over yourself. Not everything is racist. Also, you’re stupid. And an asshole.
You’re free to not go if you don’t feel safe. Problem solved.
Ooh, look. Another boogeyman. See, this is the real danger, people. It’s not the people looting, rioting, and ripping down statues. It’s that elusive boogaloo movement that will be the real threat. Not the people who are literally trying to destroy America right this minute. Lol, sure thing.
Ending the week strong. Enjoy.
Now go have a great day and an even better weekend, friends!
I don’t know Rick…
126) So there’ve been some demonstrations in the fairly wealthy town where I live, the city (not county!) of Fairfax, VA. I drive by and roll my eyes when I see the 98% white, college-age kids with their dumb signs. How brave! They’re against police brutality! What an incredibly courageous stance, to support something that nearly every single person in the United States supports!
Except…the demonstrations seem to be working? I mean, maybe not due to the demos in my town specifically, but collectively…? Municipalities are actually taking steps to renegotiate police contracts, prohibit chokeholds, maybe there’s even movement in eliminating sovereign immunity at the national level. Most surprising to me, it’s moving form a black-white thing to structural reforms that will actually improve police behavior for everybody.
But maybe that’s what demonstrations actually are. I mean, I’ve always associated them with hippies or riots or fringe groups against capitalism or whatever. The demonstrations I’ve seen in my life were mostly garbage like the anti-globalization riots in Seattle in 2000, the ridiculous anti-Trump women’s marches in 2016, the completely insincere anti-Iraq war demonstrations during the Bush administration that disappeared when Obama was elected though the war kept going, etc.
But maybe, when they work, it’s because they’re actually showing those in power that a majority of citizens really feel strongly about something? Of course, “everybody’s against police brutality” in the abstract, if you ask them at a dinner party. But the demonstrations, with their fairly widespread participation from lots of demographic groups, are showing local and national governments this is an issue people truly care about, and what to see change, in a way that may not show up in voting patterns or polls. To tell the truth, they’re changing the way I consider mass demonstrations—it seems they can be more than empty symbolism, but actual tools for change.
Is it just me or I haven’t seen this in a while…
It’s all political theater. Nothing will change. Sorry.
^^^THIS^^^
You seem to be missing the rioting and looting in your analysis. Sure, police reform is great and we need a hell of a lot more of it. But these cretins are also ripping down statues, torching businesses, looting stores, and blaming every single thing on white people who never enslaved a person in their life.
Those bars, restaurants, and locally owned businesses were totally enslaving their workers. If they didn’t hire them, and force them to work, then the workers wouldn’t be able to have a place to live, water to drink, food to eat, or drugs for recreation.
I’m not trying to defend the looting or pulling down statues. I don’t think it’s the same people (mostly) though. The college kids in my town didn’t go out and loot stores afterwards. And is that what city councils are responding to, the looting and rioting? I don’t think so. I think they’re noticing that a wide cross-section of society is supporting the demonstrations, and that’s what they’re responding to.
I think they’re responding to the rioters and looters. Because large gatherings of people have been calling for an end to excessive force and killings by police for some time now and nothing got done in those instances.
That’s a sad statement on the state of our politics, isn’t it?
“calling for an end to excessive force and killings by police for some time now and nothing got done in those instances.”
There have not been protests- peaceful or violent of these magnitudes in decades. And there was rioting and looting in the other ones.
But, let’s say you are right that the only way to get city councils and state governments to change is for their citizens to burn local businesses to the ground, or see similar cities burnt to the ground. What are those people then to do? I have no desire to see looting and rioting- but by your own logic, that is the only way to affect change.
There’s another way to enact change beyond pressuring legislators to do it: the courts.
If the courts gave a flying fuck about equal protection, they’d end QI and would prevent cops from being able to negotiate extra-legal protections for when they break the law.
We have had decades of QI being tested in the courts to no avail.
Much like gay marriage, I don’t think you are going to see the courts step in until a plurality of the country similarly gives a shit. Which brings us back to the protests (and Riots).
^^^^ This. Courts are swayed as much by public opinion as the legislatures are. They aren’t coldly deciding the law.
I should add, that there is another possibility, that for once the issues are so clear to a majority of people that they are willing to overlook the bad actors in order to achieve some real change. That has certainly been my story. I don’t agree at all with looters and riots. But I find the never ending drip drip drip of police brutality to be even worse.
It’s a bunch of virtue signalers rolling over to show their bellies in the hope the alligator eats them last.
How brave – also stunning.
Of course, “everybody’s against police brutality” in the abstract, if you ask them at a dinner party – I don;t go to dinner parties that often stop othering me
Except…the demonstrations seem to be working – I will reserve my optimism for later
These people are cultural maoists. They don’t actually want police reform. Talk to any one of them and within a couple of words they’ll be talking about the revolution.
The scary thing is they are already running things as I would bet dollar to donuts they already work for the federal gov in some capacity.
If not revolution, then at least the systematic oppression of capitalism.
Nothing will change because the retards- surprise – are misdiagnosing the problem and demanding one side be scapegoated.
Plus the fact there’s some astroturfing in there.
I think what will happen is public opinion will close ranks with the blue.
Shit, I’m no cop lover but sizing up the situation and considering the trade-offs, I’m leaning blue because that shit I’ve seen. Pass.
Reforms are needed for sure but it doesn’t begin and end with police. It’s a cultural, social and political problem. Not just a law enforcement one.
Don’t be ridiculous; Obama talked about ending wars all the time. Plus, he had a Nobel Peace Prize!
/sarcasm, but not too far off
I guess the police are capable of doing actual police work from time to time. Hey dummy, you wear all black and cover your tats when you decide to burn shit up. That’s like Rioting 101-level stuff. Enjoy prison. – why spend money on tats to cover em up? Anyway if you believe in some thing do it proudly. Or not.
I need to re-read Lord of the Flies.
why?
Or you could just watch it on the news.
??
Feel like the little red book is more prescient.
A Twitter spokesperson said Thursday night, “This Tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context.”
And by more you mean less. (if I hazard a guess, haven’t seen the video.)
And now I see that you linked it (because why would it be in the cnn article?), *sensible chuckle*.
CNN Communications
@CNNPR
Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
CNN did cover this story – exactly as it happened. Just as we reported your positions on race (and poll numbers). We’ll continue working with facts rather than tweeting fake videos that exploit innocent children. We invite you to do the same. Be better.
Yeah, sure. Fuck off. (and take a joke)
Say what? I don’t recall any platform positions on “race”. Oh, they mean “we read your mind”.
That’s why they are noble and edumacated reporters and you just an unwashed idiot to them for not just lapping up whatever pap they peddle at ya, Rhywun…
“Be better.” Add that to the list of things people say that make me want to hit them.
+1 reliable source
That’s pretty much #1 on the list for me.
CNN – “Be better.”
Me – Considering the source, I’ll give that comment all the consideration it deserves.
What’s funny is, the video shows the original version right after the joke. And that gets the “fake” tag.
Maybe in light of this, we can finally officially rename Washington State to Shitsville.
I knew this was coming next. And I would fully expect it to continue until they’re forcibly stopped. Which I also fully expect as the next stage of this soft rebellion gets started in earnest. – Burn it all down! Tear everything up! Build a new world from scratch. That always works out.
After we burn it down, just remember not to salt the ashes.
“George Washington statue toppled by protesters in Portland, Oregon”
Yeah, and Columbus statues are coming down too.
I had to laugh when I read about the dude in Richmond who defaced the Arthur Ashe statue. I mean, I don’t agree with it. What’d Arthur Ashe ever do to anyone? But it’s funny.
Maybe we should just give up on statues in America altogether. I don’t think we’re mature enough to handle them.
Islam is right about graven images!
Technically, he didn’t deface the statue but rather the granite plinth on which the statue rests.
I still have suspicions that may have been a false flag operation.
I hadn’t considered that. But it would be right up Antifa’s (or other leftists) alley.
The Arthur Ashe statue should get pulled down too, because it’s an ugly piece of shit that is a disgrace to Arthur Ashe. It looks like he’s hitting those kids with the racket. Always been an eyesore. Put up a decent looking one for crissakes.
And put it prominently in front of the Arthur Ashe Center where it belongs.
Would especially make sense now that Boulevard has been renamed for him.
“Maybe we should just give up on statues in America altogether. I don’t think we’re mature enough to handle them.”
But, if government doesn’t build statues, who will?
I had a FB friend post about being Half-Italian and thinking Columbus was a shit head whose memory should just die.
I replied “As if you would’ve behaved so enlightened in 1489. Think about it.” Do these people not know that there will be people 100-200 years from now that will cast aspersions on them from on high?
Ann gets all the cake!
A Twitter spokesperson said Thursday night, “This Tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context.”
I like when they put the dunce cap on voluntarily. Wear it proudly, Twatterati!
So there is some evidence.
The mendacity of that article is breathtaking. “Largely peaceful protests”. Not even attempting to link the Boogaloo Bois with the actual rioting and violence, just an attempt on a Forest Service building.
I’m somewhat dialed in the New Right types, but not very deeply. I’ve never heard anyone call themselves a “Boogaloo Boi”. Did the media make that up so it would sound like an organization (which Antifa certainly isn’t)?
More than likely it was a /pol/ meme and the fucking retards in the media blew it up, like they do with every fucking /pol/ meme.
OK.
/r/weekendgunnit
This. It’s probably even a fed operation to try to get people to commit violent crimes.
Sorry, but it takes very little violence before your protest isn’t peaceful any more. It’s like, you can add a teaspoon of sugar or a pile of shit, and you have a pile of shit, and if you add a teaspoon of shit to a pile of sugar, you wind up with a pile of shit.
“A far-right extremist movement born on social media and fueled by anti-government rhetoric has emerged as a real-world threat in recent weeks, with federal authorities accusing some of its adherents of allegedly working to spark violence at largely peaceful protests roiling the nation.”
– fueled by anti-government rhetoric –
– a real-world threat –
– working to spark violence –
– largely peaceful protests –
Yeah….I think that is enough projection and mendacity to last me all day. Who in fuck do these propagandists think they are winning over?
One of my neighbors. ?
^
Has sad for all.
OTOH, when you trespass on posted private property you might consider apologizing and getting the fuck out instead of threatening the property owner with your own weapons and calling the local constabulary to cart him off on account of racism. It’s odd how our dismantled and defunded police departments can’t seem to figure out to control people looting and burning down the inner cities, but can easily find the time to arrest people for brandishing.
We have no idea what happened. “They pulled into a cup-de-sac. ” Ok….that sounds like they got off of the Main Street and were probably sitting in the circle at the end parked close together conferring on their route. That is a street, not private property. Ace reporter does not tell us where they were sitting. In the street? On the guys lawn? On the sidewalk? Who knows?
What started the confrontation? We dont know, the story is too vague. It doesnt really say it just jumps to ‘he pointed a rifle at them’. Maybe he went out to give them directions and they got nervous cuz ‘white guy’. Maybe he is a dangerous nut and got nervous because ‘black guys’. Maybe it had nothing to do with race. We dont know because the reporter didnt say but did. clearly have a conclusion we were supposed to draw.
Welcome to post-racial America.
True. According to the article, rifle man was going berzerker on account of they passed his posted private property signs. Not every trespassing case needs to end with guns drawn, of course, but it’s still retarded the shit we end up prioritizing as A) police issues and B) national news stories.
I missed them threatening him. Is that in the video somewhere and I missed it? All I can see is him pointing a gun at four people who are parked on a street and saying “I’m gonna take you out first” to one of them.
I don’t know if the guy did it because they’re Black. But I do know he’s a fucking idiot.
Also, how are Spotsylvania police supposed to arrest people in inner cities? It’s not exactly their jurisdiction.
My script blocker blocked the video AND I misread this line:
As “We’re armed…”
So… shame on me.
“which they noted were mostly peaceful.”
Notice how they have to tack this on no matter how much of a non-sequitur it is? It’s like a reflex.
If they were “mostly peaceful” isn’t that just another way of saying they were “partially violent”? 1A guarantees peaceful protest; if it’s “partially violent” it ain’t a legit protest, it’s unrest/rioting.
Not, generally speaking, unruly…
Mostly peaceful… Every piece of plywood up in that picture is on the storefront of a looted business.
But that plywood is making space for Black female artists to create beautiful murals.
How long till they oppose the removal of those murals on somebody else’s property?
Isn’t that already the law of the land? ISTR a NYC landlord getting fined for removing murals on his property.
That was more of a contract dispute, if you’re referring to that incident in Long Island City.
I don’t remember exactly where it was. It was NOT that situation where the landlord cut out a section of his building that Banksy tagged.
Oh, and yesterday I did in fact misspell les canicules. I suffered through one in Quebec City. When it gets over 90 degrees in a place that has convinced itself that there’s no need for air conditioning (especially when they’re on the banks of a big fuck-off river) things suck bigly. One day is was 93 degrees and raining.
That’s happening here too.
Completely. Unrelated.
John Wayne Gacy was also peaceful most of the time. He spent very little time mudering people relative to the time he spent entertaining kids as Pogo or Patches.
You left out the “legitimate business owner” part. Also a member of of a Fraternal Org. and friend of Democrat interests. See? He’s a Good Guy. Even has his photo with Rose Carter hanging on the wall! Why, that jovial fellow wouldn’t harm a fly! He’s a clown! Clowns are nice!
“Notice how they have to tack this on no matter how much of a non-sequitur it is? It’s like a reflex.”
If it was true, they wouldn’t have to incant it over and over. Magic spells attempting to warp reality.
Notice that no one is saying
“which was attended almost exclusively by people wearing clothing”
“which was largely attended by human beings”
“which occurred on the surface of the planet earth”
lolperfect
Not “far-left” though.
Cloud cuckoo Land. Even the lefties at work aren’t spouting gibberish anymore. They finally allowed the plant to run the floor fans again. I suppose that not having people keel over from heat-stroke is a little more important than protecting us from the ghost flu.
“with little evidence”
I’d be interested to see what they consider “evidence” considering the graffiti is all Communist and the rioters specifically identify themselves as Leftist.
Hey all that graffiti could have been done by some right-winger to make the protesters look bad.
Hey Sloop, judging (not judging) by your music choices this week I need to know your rebellious older Sister. Just sayin’ 🙂
She’s not in any way rebellious. She’s a great sister and I love her dearly. But rebellious isn’t a word I’d use to describe the most recent 30 years of her life.
Just twisting your tail a little, Sloop. You know me by now.
Yeah, I know. I’m just playing along.
Sloopy hates Canadians. Tread carefully.
It is just residual dis-like for all things Up North.
Former rugby league and union favourite Martin Offiah has welcomed the Rugby Football Union’s decision to review the use of the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – but does not want it banned.
The RFU said more needs to be done to “grow awareness” and that many are not aware of the song’s links with slavery.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/53096584
Also
So “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, celebrating the Underground Railway, written AFTER the Civil War by a freed slave, made popular by the African American Fisk Jubilee Singers, sung at many black funerals and civil rights demonstrations, honoured by Congress, now to be banned.
https://twitter.com/TrevorPTweets/status/1273850191611863041
The last people that tried to ban that song were the fucking Nazis. These bastards ought to let that sink in.
Nazi. Communist. Potato. Potatoe.
Watching Squawk – a group called “Ethical Ventures” asks CEO’s/Execs to sign a pledge toward “racial equality” including the following:
Donate to organizations that protect voter rights, pressure states to ensure early voting, reevaluate political donations (they specifically talked about “important issues” like climate change, voting, gun control), other police reform, and diversity initiatives.
A bunch of unpleasant far-left activists are going to make some good money off all this. Most of them white and from prominent families.
Biden’s war chest must be overflowing.
Some wrapped the statue’s head in an American flag and lit the flag on fire.
Their numbers grew over the next hour until there were enough people to pull it down. They quickly scattered.
Stay classy.
Such a righteous act that they scattered like cockroaches.
So, can Juneteenth replace MLK Jr Day as a national holiday now? We don’t need a holiday in mid-January when no one wants to do anything. We do need another summer holiday.
Plus, it celebrates freedom rather than an assassination.
Also, while I’m dreaming, can somebody inform the newspapers that Juneteenth does NOT commemorate the end of slavery in America, as that didn’t happen in 1865?
I am amazed at how quickly the new bogus “facts” about the holiday are being rolled out nationwide.
It’s also amazing how fast things happen in NYS government when Cuomo wants it to happen. It tool all of a few hours to decide and promulgate a new state holiday, the SAFE act (spit) took less than a day to pass, but of course it’s waaaaay to soon to declare that bail reform needs to be redone.
Pfffftttttt….. look at you, valuing work over black lives.
In VA they just replaced it with Lee Jackson day which is hilarious because my monthly sales and use taxes are due today. Can’t wait to pay for another municipality/state employee for their day off after their little spring vacation.
Originally that state holiday was just Lee-Jackson Day. Later on they changed it to Lee-King-Jackson day, but that angered some people. Then they split it into two holidays Lee-Jackson Day and MLK Day; that ensured state employees a four-day weekend every February. I believe they are going to eliminate Lee-Jackson day altogether.
Yes, they are, to the great sorrow of state workers who won’t get the 4 day weekend anymore.
Meh. It commemorates a local event, not a national one. I’d be happy with a Frederick Douglass day or a Lysander Spooner day if we’re going to celebrate a negro and/or an abolitionist.
We all hate Columbus now but we sure love the day off (well not me, but those who do get the day off).
Crispus Attucks Day!
I’d have to work it anyway. Up here the push is on for “Aboriginal Day”. Double time? I’m in. Pisses me off that they stole the Summer Solstice for their own ends, though.
Donate to organizations that protect voter rights, pressure states to ensure early voting, reevaluate political donations (they specifically talked about “important issues” like climate change, voting, gun control), other police reform, and diversity initiatives.
As a shareholder, I’d rather see them put the money in a pile and burn it.
I’d rather watch them eat it, one stripper-slimed bill at a time but that’s just me…
Hawt.
Right?
Friday Funbags goes balls deep.
http://archive.li/JPyOu
1 and done.
But also 15. And 19. And 82. And 93.
#8 and why do I keep chasing that car?
62 has been floating around the internet forever. 15 years or so, at least
More “non-violent” Antifa.
It’s encouraging to me to notice how many mainstream conservatives are waking up to the fact that none of this is about race or standardized rules. None of these people can be shamed because they aren’t hypocrites. It’s all about literal destruction of values and western thought by any means necessary.
^Gets it^
So she’s just signaling to the people who want history erased that she’s on their side.
Since yours is paywalled. Bitch is getting rid of Democrat Speakers portraits for some reason.
On Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal from the Capitol Building of four portraits of former Democratic House speakers who had ties to the Confederacy. Robert Hunter of Virginia, James Orr of South Carolina, Howell Cobb and Charles Crisp of Georgia. The removal of the portraits is the latest meaningless gesture from the speaker and Democrats following the death of George Floyd.
Pelosi sent a letter to House Clerk Cheryl Johnson ordering the removal of the four portraits in observance of Juneteenth, an unofficial holiday commemorating the Republican’s emancipation of the last slaves in the Confederacy.
“There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy,” Pelosi proclaimed.
This is the problem with leftists being idol worshipers. Just because you have a portrait or a statue of someone doesn’t mean you honor/lionize them. In the case of a statue it is a recognition of a prominent person in history, which the statue can be used as a conversation starter that can help one learn from history. In the case of these portraits it seems to me to simply be a record of House speakers.
But that was, like, before the parties switched and stuff.*
*for some quality lulz, ask someone on the far left when that switch took place and then ask them why they still love FDR since he’d be a republican by their calculations
Q: Is there a Zoomie tonight? I find I’ve begun to really look forward to it.
OK Zoomer
#Metoo.
And can it be accessed by an unfrozen caveman with a phone?
There is dial in information if you just want to call in (IIRC). If you’d like I can post that as well.
I was planning on setting one up for tonight. I can’t do it tomorrow night, as I’ve got to work.
A ‘Zoomie,’ will there be boogaloo? I’ve got a couple of Hawaiian shirts in the closet!
hawt
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/11897949/caught-wife-in-bed-friend-asked-me-to-leave/
Great illustration to that story
I’m sure that do not look like that.
It’s never the women you actually want to see get it on who actually get it on.
There was an incident years ago when two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders got arrested for getting it on in a public bathroom.
Incidentally, that sort of thing has always baffled me. I cant think of anyplace I’d less like to have sex than a disgusting public bathroom.
Ah, here’s the incident. Quite a schnoz on the ones, but she’s a cheerleader so I assume she has a terrific body.
Enthusiasm can make up for a lot.
“Give me a P!”
I have 2 friends who once copulated in a porta-potty at Jazz Fest. They will never live that down. The lady’s bandmates even wrote a song about it.
At some point ‘Bros before hoes’ stops being a thing.
I assume when next we read about this couple, it will be because she parked a car on his head, and then claimed to be the victim because he didn’t leave when she told him to.
There’s even a hidden gem in the response: “Being bisexual does not excuse cheating – or risking her family’s health with the virus – but obviously it can lead to some hard choices.”
How many storied in the Sun like that lately? It is just British suck-porn, isn’t it?
Fuck you, spellcheck.
cuck-porn
The Maoization of America continues apace as the mother of that Atlanta cop was fired from her job. Blood guilt – it’s FANtastic!
I swear these last few weeks are driving me over the edge and then I take a step back and realize it’s not that insane after all, at least where I am. People are nicer, nobody wears the ribbon and we just go about on our day-to-day.
Step-mother, even.
You’re shitting me.
Nope, not shitting you
I won’t be crying when someone torches their offices.
I won’t be crying when she sues the ever-loving fuck out of them.
Seems the left has adopted the North Korean practice of punishing 3 generations for the political crimes of any individual.. Welcome to the fundamentally changed America they have been telling us about…
“A source familiar with the matter…”
No fucking way. The news reported that?
I just hope sins of the father liability cases don’t get to the SC any time soon. Because I’d wager Roberts will side with the progressives and say it’s a-ok.
We were talking yesterday afternoon about Portland’s order that cops and firefighters must kneel for 8 minutes today and the weekend. I’m sure shitbag Roberts world be ok with that as well.
firefighters must kneel for 8 minutes
I’m good with a letter in my file and three days off without pay
True story: I had a terrible time in the 1990 recession, losing three crappy jobs. I reluctantly took a position with the city that was attached to FD: I reported to a captain, not a dumb or bad guy. At some point, FirstWife and I wanted to go do whatever for a long weekend, so I asked for a Monday off without pay; denied: no such provision. Groan/Not surprised/Whatever. A week later captain’s gossiping over the free doughnuts and laughing about some turnout getting suspended at engine house X.
Me: what for?
Captain: he punched out his lieutenant after some disagreement . . . got three days.
Me: humphf, you know I only wanted one day and wasn’t even going to punch you
How can they order the police and firemen to do anything beyond their job duties? Especially since everything they have to do is clearly outlined in their respective CBAs?
Simple. Make it part of their job duties.
I doubt every task is spelled out in their contract.
Also: how can a government agency demand that anyone engage in forced (political) speech?
I would be fascinated to see the negotations with the union to make it part of their job duties.
Get a load of this stupid asshole.
Asshole, and antirely unhelpful since the msm will run with this as a typical example of (white) gun-owning Trump voters. Fucking ‘tard.
Good morning, Sloopy!
More importantly, happy birthday to your little girl!
Wow, a solid collection of retardation in today’s lynx – nicely done.
Trump’s midget needs to go. And Walz’s monkey Osterholm while we’re at it. Didn’t Elon shoot a car into deep space? Makes a guy wonder…
I’m tired of these little Taliban motherfuckers. I didn’t really think about the damn statues at all before, but now I want more of them. I mean, no one dragged down that fucking Lenin statue in Seattle.
I do wish the Boogaloo idiots would stop with the tactical shit. I think it would be much more intimidating if they looked like the guy who does your taxes.
That is my favorite Pretenders song off my favorite Pretenders album. Talk about hitting on all cylinders!
I hope you all have a kick-ass day!
Here’s another song that should get you moving.
I guess I know what album to listen to at the gym today.
I bet if we got together and toppled the Lenin statue, we’d be prosecuted as harshly as the state could manage.
Sadly, it’s on private property – so yeah.
Sorry, the Alt-Right already have a trademark on “office professional” and the Proud Boys have claimed “casual Friday.”
I DO wish they’d go full-bore on appropriating rainbow iconography.
This is the problem with leftists being idol worshipers. Just because you have a portrait or a statue of someone doesn’t mean you honor/lionize them. In the case of a statue it is a recognition of a prominent person in history, which the statue can be used as a conversation starter that can help one learn from history. In the case of these portraits it seems to me to simply be a record of House speakers.
Context is racist.
Hey Suthen! I was trying to catch your ear earlier. You might enjoy this, or not. Local girl. https://youtu.be/7Ar-YEWX5_A
Sorry Festus. I was up to. my eyeballs in the. kitchen. I am learning to make soufflé’s today. Bacon, potato, Gruyere Cheese with a touch of basil and black pepper.
It is in the oven now….keeping my fingers crossed.
Music…not bad. Thank you.
Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy shines rapper Lecrae’s shoes after saying white people should show ‘shame’ for racism
Fuck off asshole. I haven’t done anything personally and I refuse to accept the principle of blood guilt.
I don’t feel shame for things I didn’t do. Fuck you, Dan.
The CEO said roughly a dozen Chick-Fil-A restaurants had been vandalized in the last week
So you bend the knee? Well, Chick-fil-a is good, but not that good. I’ll take my business elsewhere for the time being.
I refuse to accept the principle of blood guilt.
Word.
I’ll take my business elsewhere
I was told to eat the sandwich
You’re supposed to shove the sandwich into the dead mouths of your victims.
Refusing to accept your Blood Guilt is your White Privilege talking.
I think I see your problem.
What a steaming pile of horseshit.
Do better, Chick-Fil-A.
Fuck off with that collective guilt bullshit.
Said yesterday, he can atone for his racism by opening on Sundays.
Eat shit Dan.
Now I have to ban that too?
Very troubling these struggle sessions when CEO’s get involved.
Even if you do it to ‘get people off your back’ that’s not enough for them.
This is why you need to say FUCK OFF and metaphorically aim for the head. Or else the Zombies keep coming at you.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/17/corporate-americas-strategy-of-mob-appeasement-will-destroy-it-just-as-it-always-has/
Eat a bag of dicks, Dan.
Dude is just mouthing the words to try and keep his stores from burning down. It wont work. That company’s values are the epitome of what the left hates.
I feel bad for him.
It wont work
Which is why he should have told them to fuck off.
A far-right extremist movement born on social media and fueled by anti-government rhetoric has emerged as a real-world threat in recent weeks, with federal authorities accusing some of its adherents of allegedly working to spark violence at largely peaceful protests roiling the nation.
Yeah, sure.
At a time when President Donald Trump and other top U.S. officials have claimed – with little evidence – that leftist groups were fomenting violence
Pay no attention to the BLM and Antifa riots/looting/vandalism, and leftists vandalizing/toppling statues on a daily basis.
If that’s the tack law enforcement’s going to take it really is time to break up the country, this one story notwithstanding.
And appropriating with violence 6 city blocks in Seattle and declaring it an autonomous zone, extorting business owners, ordering a curfew on residents, threatening people with guns.
Sounds mostly peaceful to me.
These fucking shitweasels are no different than all the commies that ever came before them. They are barely worth the bullets it would take. Pure scum.
Supposedly there is video of Raz passing out ARs to his minions. No idea if he filled out 4473s on all of those or not.
Fauci’s talking shit about air conditioning now? I don’t care if it’s spreading Ebola, I’m not giving it up.
But that plywood is making space for Black female artists to create beautiful murals.
And just wait ’til the business/building owners find out they are prohibited from removing that precious artwork. Because history.
Re that girl torching a cop car. “Authorities said in some of the photos she was seen wearing what appeared to be fire retardant gloves.”
Heh. Retard. Did she wear a retard hat too?
Will Seth Rogan and Steve Carrell bail her out? So stunning. So brave those two.
I’m glad law enforcement caught someone but man, they’ve let way too many of these rioters of the hook it seems. She’s far from the only one.
The topping of Jefferson and Washington.
You know….Americans shouldn’t stand for this.
I hope they quietly go back up when things settle.
This isn’t going to settle. It’s been going on for weeks now.
Probably because it’s an election year and definitely because elected officials refuse to do so.
The common thread: Democrats in democrat places.
Stop. Voting. Democrat.
Yes. Democrats in positions of power are doing everything they can to exacerbate the situation.
“Individuals who committed treason against the United States of America and led our nation into its most painful and bloody war to preserve the institution of slavery are not patriots and should not be afforded such a rare honor in this sacred space,” Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, said on Thursday in a speech on the Senate floor. “The continued presence of these statues in the halls of Congress is an affront not just to black Americans, but to the very ideals we as a nation proclaim, that we are a place of liberty and justice for all.”
He’s such a stupid twat this shit head. I would love to know the back ground of this piece of shit. I’m sure wherever he was he didn’t do squat for the black community he served. He’s just a little divisive bitch.
Pelosi is just a beyond the pale idiot.
Again, once the GOP gains back the House, but the damn portraits back up and stand up to these bullies. Erasing history isn’t the answer.
it’s close
I remember when Booker was Reasons’s favorite Democrat because he would make positive noises about school choice.
“I AM SPAR-TA-CUSS!”, that’s bright, yeah..
Reason are a bunch of naifs.
Eh, this was back when Obama was going to end the Drug War and the overseas wars. It was a different time.
I was cussing that commie fuck before he was running for president. He was instrumental in the horrible gun laws in Illiinois and specifically went after the right of self defense.
Fuck the reason idiots.
The thinking with Obama was that he would do shitty things like gun control and socialized medicine, but he would also do good things like bring the troops home and at least legalize weed.
Then he did zero good things.
Suder-man is a paid lobbyist for google.
One positive thing about all this is that I now have today off for Juneteenth.
I hope you’ll spend it appropriately – self-flagellation while weeping apologies to every black person whose path you cross.
Hey, at least he’s glibbing on his day off, unlike some people government employees…
Amy Klobuchar drops out of Biden VP contention
And yet Kamala Harris, whose record is far, far worse than Klobuchar’s, is still seen as a leading candidate for some reason.
If she is the candidate, the Republicans are going to bring up that record. Big time. I don’t give a shit that the only reason she got into politics in the first place was because of who she was fucking. She was awful as San Francisco DA. She fought against marijuana law reform. She argued that California shouldn’t have to abide by federal mandates to reduce their prison population because it would rob the state of slave labor. She allowed the perjury scandal among Orange County DAs to go on and fought against reopening cases. She prosecuted Backpage, and then after the courts threw it out and warned her not to bring it back up she brought it back up. She’s among the worst.
But bringing any of that up is racist.
And she prosecuted poor people when their kids skipped school.
Oh, no. SHE never personally did that. It’s just that prosecutors under her charge did it. Totally different!
She is a terrible person and a terrible pick for Biden. I really think she burned that bridge in the first Dem debate when she swung at Biden, calling him a racist. And then even further when she said she believed Tara Reade (before the more serious accusations came out)
“And yet Kamala Harris, whose record is far, far worse than Klobuchar’s, is still seen as a leading candidate for some reason.”
It all comes down to melanin. If she was a bitchy white lady with a penchant for putting poor folks in jail she wouldn’t have even made it to the shortlist.
Well, that’s just nit-picking, isn’t it?
Hehe that’s not the it works, but I won’t begrudge you what you need to say to make yourself feel better Amy.
That and the fact the idea a ‘moderate’ even had a chance is laughable. The DNC is clearly choosing a woke path. If her career as a local prosecutor came into the spotlight, then how can Harris who is often touted as the frontrunner escape scrutiny herself?
Either they’re tone deaf and misreading the pulse of the American people and voter, or their internal polling is telling them this is the way to go and are being something we may be missing as a path to power.
That they’re banking on TDS being so bad this is the best calculus to go with.
Ugh. She was the least of the worst. Except maybe Gillibrand.
Fauci really needs to just shut up. No really. He’s doing damage now.
He says AC’s are unknown spreaders as we head straight into summer? It’s been 95 degrees here. That’s all we need is for people to not turn the AC on because of fear of getting coronavirus.
Think of how much of a retard you have to be to say that.
Better a million old people die from the heat than one healthy 25 year old leave the house without complying with some government edict or other.
Boy, they are just determined to kill off the elderly one way or another.
I had a coworker who already didn’t want to turn on the AC at the beginning of this panic because of the COVID. In an apartment building, when it was over 90 outside.
You know what else is an unknown spreader?
Tannerite?
Crunchy Peanut Butter?
The stepmother of Garrett Rolfe (the cop who shot the guy with the taser) was fired from her job – for being the stepmother of Garrett Rolfe.
My wife and I saw this last night – the wife underwrite that kind of insurance and was amazed. They are going to get sued hopefully into bankruptcy. I hope the destruction of Equity Prime Mortgage might be a warning because the alternative is that people start shooting each other for this kind of abuse.
Any good employment lawyer should be chomping at the bit to take that case.
Arbitrator: “Lol, fuck you”
County court: “Lol, fuck you”
Appellate court: “Lol, fuck you”
SCOTUS: “Lol, fuck certiori”
(I’m not an employment lawyer) I don’t think that she’d have a case. It’s disgusting, but she’s not being fired for being part of a protected class and she’s an at-will employee, so she can be fired for this.
My wife has seen a lot of employers get sued for far less egregious firings than this. Unless they have a stack of documentation on her poor performance, they will be paying a lot.
And they’ll want to pay to get it out of the news and away from a Georgia jury.
But you live in NJ, right? Is that an at-will employment state?
Aren’t they all?
Georgia is a Implied Contract Exemption state so they are suppose to show “just cause”.
Isn’t the rule of thumb even for at will that it’s OK to fire for a good reason and it’s OK to fire for no reason but to fire for a bad reason is a no-no?
I lack any legal credientials, but I believe it’s a bad idea to go on twitter and say that the person you just fired was a wrongthinker that was creating a hostile work environment and was doing bad things at work.
We’re forbidden from mentioning anything about the circumstances of a person’s dismissal.
Now that seems like a more likely Avenue for a lawsuit. It’s one thing to terminate employment. It’s something else to try to ruin their reputation in the most public way possible.
Its generally bad form professionally, and a lot of states, even if at-will, have rules against such behaviour.
Utah for example, when someone calls for a reference you can only say if you would or would not hire them. Nothing else, you can’t talk about why or why not. (The creation of industry blacklists is actually forbidden in the constitution).
I’m an employer, and I believe my employment lawyer would rub their hands together in gleeful anticipation of all the billable hours they would collect on if I did that.
Being a stepmother means she is female…which according to Gorsuch makes this sex discrimination.
We have a bona fide legal scholar in our midst!
I am fully capable of being as dumb as a Supreme Court Justice.
Gorsuch: would you have fired his step-mother if she was a man?
Lawyer: but his step-mother can’t be a man.
Gorsuch: right, so you fired her based on her sex.
Lawyer: wait, what?
Thomas: ::snoring::
Lawyer: somebody wake him up!
Kagan: ::incoherent gibberish::
Roberts: we need to get this under control! I find for whoever would vilify me if I decided the other way. Case closed! ::bangs gavel::
Interestingly, Thomas has been asking questions during their hearings during lockdown, because the questions are in a more organized format instead of a free-for-all.
She’ll have a case. If you don’t fire someone for cause, you’re ok. When you fire them for cause, it better be a legal cause.
They fucked up if they told her they were letting her go for any reason whatsoever. If they same in and said “it’s just not working out. We’re letting you go for no particular reason whatsoever” they’d be fine.*
*although internal emails would be subject to discovery in a civil case and if anybody at all mentioned firing her for what her step-son did, they’d be back to being fucked again.
This
My policy when I let someone go is to either have a very well-documented legal case or no reason whatsoever. Anything in-between will get me sued.
Told her? They told the world via Twitter that she supposedly violated an unspecified policy and caused a hostile work environment
I just saw that press release from late last night. What a colossally stupid thing to do.
“We inadvertently found that she’d created a hostile environment for some employees” is basically saying “a few people made shit up about stuff in the past and we immediately let her go”.
There’s no way they don’t have a conflict resolution policy or a corrective action plan in place that would have at least provided her with a hearing. I’m willing to bet they violated a bunch of policies in how they handled this. And to be honest, I bet they thought it would gain them street cred with the griefers that would more than offset whatever financial penalty they’re facing.
Companies that large calculate all major decisions like this. My guess is they know they’re gonna lose a lawsuit. They just think the price is worth it. Also, they’re scum.
I honestly can’t believe I’m saying this, but part of me hopes that their building gets burned down and the cops laugh when they demand an investigation
Does it even have to be that. She probably defended her son in the workplace and that made people uncomfortable so they fired her.
She probably defended her son in the workplace and that made people uncomfortable so they fired her.
That’s what they’re going to say is the hostile environment. And like I said above, I’m sure they have a progressive discipline policy and a conflict resolution policy. No way they went through those steps and found that a firing for someone saying “my son is a good guy and not a murderer” was justified.
Firings first first offenses are typically reserved for direct physical threats or sexual coercion.
If you think the cops laying off was bad before? When my mother is a possible target for something I do? Hell, I don’t know how I’d react, but it wouldn’t be good for the people threatening my family.
WOW. This whole mess since Floyd is turning critical.
They demand people ‘speak out’ now. Silence is complicit. You have cumquats like Ibrhim Kendri demanding people ‘transform’ themselves. They’re no longer interested in what you say but what you THINK. People getting fired for not being woke or saying wrong think. And now they’re going after family members.
How is this not a purge, struggle session and witch hunt again?
https://twitter.com/Equity_Prime/status/1273817345979559936
Critical Mass.
treyinathens
@treyinathens
Replying to
@Equity_Prime
When you rebrand, consider Ratio Mortgage Lending as a name.
What, we aren’t defending at-will employment now? We are surprised that CEOs, educated at America’s best universities, are spineless shit-heels?
I’m all for at-will.
But if they can hang me for an employment violation, I’m not going to cry when they hang those assholes.
If we allow it to be a one-way street, we get what we deserve. The last few years should be evidence enough of that.
Liberal values of tolerance, free speech, coexistence, and agreeing to disagree are not just governmental principles, they are cultural ones. Politics is downstream from culture.
I mean hell, look how concerned we are on this site about being doxxed. Do you think leftwing people worry about being doxxed on Democratic Underground? Of course not. They are the protected class.
They probably worry about getting doxxed by their own tovarisch for deviation from the party line, though.
And they should worry about that – constantly.
I’m over it tbqh. This company is going to fire this woman and also character assassinate her in public so she can’t work anywhere else and suffer no consequences for it on account of the entirety of the business culture is on their side. A similarly situated mortgage initiator that fired an employee for taking the week off to participate in rioting would have all of their contracts pulled and never be able to offload another mortgage to a national bank again. Yay markets. I can feel the freedom washing over me like the shit from the end of a sewage pipe.
The corporation is a tool of the state. It acts as tax collector, and it is more and more acting as the enforcer of a leftwing social agenda. There’s a revolving door of leadership between government and corporate worlds. They’re dependent on government bailouts and easy credit.
Dagny Taggart is a fictional character.
One can defend at-will employment and also excoriate an employer who fires someone for being related to a possible criminal.
It’s also possible to trash the company (like I am) for firing someone in a way that violates their company policies and want them held financially accountable for doing so. She went to work for them with the understanding that she would be offered protections and dispute resolution in accordance with their written policies. They’ve obviously violated that. And she’s due compensation.
This isn’t about at-will employment. This is about a company violating their policies when terminating somebody. You want to fire anybody for any reason at any time? Then don’t write a policy manual and then violate it.
With the Twitter thing it can also be about slander and libel. SLD on both, but this one’s pretty egregious on a non-public-figure.
I’m fine with at-will employment. Much as I am sympathetic to this woman, and fear for getting fired at my own job for reasons having nothing to do with my performance, that is how at-will works. I can quit at anytime just as I can be fired at anytime.
What I am not fine with is the government taking everything over. We are already well down that road. Every major corporation is not adopting leftist positions just because it’s fashionable, they’re adopting leftist positions because that’s what their owners want. Their owners are retirement funds and those retirement funds are heavily entwined with government employee pensions and those pensions wouldn’t be behemoths without funding from tax dollars. We are being bought and sold with our own money that was coercively extracted.
Wait a minute. An employer is not allowed, in many jurisdictions, to ask a potential employee if he/she has a criminal record. But the employer can fire someone who is somehow related to another person who is alleged to have committed criminal acts?
Take a gander at what Equity Prime posted.
I see a lot of fodder for litigation and discovery there. Making those factual claims in public was really stupid. They are now anchored to having to defend them, plus there’s at least a colorable defamation claim, as well. If she lawyers up, they are going to go on a deposition and document production rampage through leadership and HR. And if/when it comes out that it all boils down to “She was a killer cop’s stepmother”, they . . . are. . . fucked.
I certainly hope, for the sake of all people represented by lawyers, that there are no lawyers stupid enough to put that up on the record.
It’s like you’ve never met any lawyers.
It won’t be the Equity Prime lawyers who put that up on the record. It will be somebody at Equity Prime, either in writing or under oath.
I do hope the company fights a lawsuit to the bitter end. I want to see what actually went on before they fired her.
I thought I saw this on here, but maybe not.
Both Will Wilkinson and Suder-Man are taking googlebux.
OBEY
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered all Californians to wear face coverings while in public or high-risk settings, including when shopping, taking public transit or seeking medical care, after growing concerns that an increase in coronavirus cases has been caused by residents failing to voluntarily take that precaution.
Newsom’s order came a week after Orange County rescinded a requirement for residents to wear masks and as other counties across California were debating whether to join local jurisdictions that had mandated face coverings.
“Simply put, we are seeing too many people with faces uncovered — putting at risk the real progress we have made in fighting the disease,” Newsom said in a statement. “California’s strategy to restart the economy and get people back to work will only be successful if people act safely and follow health recommendations. That means wearing a face covering, washing your hands and practicing physical distancing.”
Our crypto-Stalinist new normal. Rule by decree.
it’s democracy: the right of the majority to get whatever they want good and hard
It stopped being funny in March, Don. Going into July it frightens me a bit. I think I just tinkled a little…
How will he enforce it? I understand that one only need run away from any cop who approaches you and tries to give you a summons.
Is there a good source for graphs showing rolling 7 day average of hospitalizations and deaths by state? I suppose I could grab the data myself and create my own graph, but I’d rather be lazy if someone else has already done it. Google has brought back a few states with the daily numbers of deaths, but mostly I get a shit ton of “cases by state” graphs, which I don’t really care about.
yes
I like you Don! You’re bad people!
Liar
coffee hasn’t kicked in: did I miss something?
* rereads, still doesn’t get it *
yes
/psst
Don’s yes is a link to:
https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
oh!
thankees: a Colossus bestriding our communications gap
* bows and doffs hat *
Oops! I’ll admit, I’m an idiot.
And doubly an idiot at that, because I’ve been to this site a few times and didn’t see that there was a dropdown for death info and not just case info.
Thanks, Don and Nephilium!
Not a problem at all. Links can be tough to see with the default layout.
(I’m not an employment lawyer) I don’t think that she’d have a case. It’s disgusting, but she’s not being fired for being part of a protected class and she’s an at-will employee, so she can be fired for this.
Freedom of association is perfectly acceptable, so long as you only choose to disassociate yourself from those deemed odious by the right people.
Dave Smith made the point that he was talking with Nick Gillespie and Thaddeus Russel about libertarianism, and how they had complaints that libertarianism from the right hasn’t stood up to racism enough. Later in the conversation they were talking about how to them libertarianism is being able to let your freak flag fly and live and let live, as long as you’re not harming anyone. He said that he didn’t think about it till later, but he wonders what they would say to someone who’s “Freak Flag” was “I want to be a racist, and only live with people like me”.
Gillespie is content to let the assholes on the right get stomped on because they’re icky and expressing support for them might limit his career opportunities.
Those assholes on the left deserve our protection though.
“but he wonders what they would say to someone who’s “Freak Flag” was “I want to be a racist, and only live with people like me”.
Maybe he could drive out to the nicer parts of Fairfax and Loudon and ask all the GS-10,11, and 12s.
“…libertarianism is being able to let your freak flag fly…”
Uh…no, that’s not it. It is self-ownership. There is no reason for ‘freak flags’ to enter into the conversation. Why would he even bring that up instead of property rights?
I am reminded of the Ant and the Grasshopper. Fuck around flying whatever flag you want but when winter gets here dont come around here with your hand out.
Most of Reason staff are just proggie-lite.
Yeah, that whole freak flag thing isn’t wrong, its just completely ancillary/incidental.
But count on Gillespie to treat it as central to libertarianism.
People often confuse libertinism and libertarianism, but for a magazine called Reason to do it…
Gretchen Whitmer to Laid Off Healthcare Worker: ‘Can I Buy Ya a Hot Dog?’
The party of the working man, compassion, fairness…
Just fucking clueless…
How did she get elected?
People are stupid. It is known
Flint’s water supply.
The tone deaf arrogance is astonishing. I’m sorry I’m using corona to advance my career and to hurt Trump by locking down leading to you losing your job. ‘Please accept this hot-dog as a symbol of my empathy to you. Now get the fuck out of the way of my photo-op’.
“…The governor said the stop was part of her “Work with Whitmer” series, according to WDIV.
“I wanted to get in and work alongside people that are showing up and doing it safely so people know we’re open for business. You can come in and enjoy this phenomenal food and do so safely,” she said.”
What business would allow her onto their premises? I would tell her to go fuck herself.
The symbolism is clear, and it aint about empathy.
Eat a dick ?
About that fish tank cleaner drinking, Trump loving woman who definitely didn’t use it to kill her husband who she hated…
Incidentally, that mortgage company that fired the cop’s mom? I suspect that, were their offices to be vandalized or set on fire, the cops aren’t going to be terribly energetic about investigating ot.
Curious decision…
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) signed an executive order instituting a 10 p.m. curfew for the area around the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, where the president’s rally is set to take place.
“As part of our preparations for President Trump’s Rally this Saturday, we are working on making the area secure for everyone’s safety,” the Tulsa Police Department said in a statement posted to social media late Thursday.
“In an effort to start clearing the area, Mayor GT Bynum has signed Executive Order 2020-11 which places a curfew for the area in the map,” the statement continued.
The curfew went into effect at 10 p.m. and will remain in effect until 6 a.m. Saturday.
“After the rally there is a continued curfew from Saturday, June 20, 2020 until 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 21, 2020,” the police department explained.
“As Mayor, I have received information from the Tulsa Police Department and other law enforcement agencies that shows that individuals from organized groups who have been involved in destructive or violent behavior in other states are planning to travel to the City of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally,” the order states.
Then maybe you should concentrate on dealing with the criminals and protect a legal gathering.
Man, those Boogaloo Bois get around.
A sucker’s born every minute?
“Trump tweets a satirical meme and twitter flips out.”
Twitter labeled it “manipulated media”.
I wish I lived in western PA so I could vote for this guy.
That is a quality campaign advert.
I’m in his district. Lamb has been a disaster.
And the only reason I’m in his district is that my old district was gerrymandered away by the state Superme Court to basically delete a conservative seat and roll it into a safe Dem seat. Combining the rural areas of Beaver County with the suburban highly populated liberal areas of western Allegheny County was a cynical political move.
Someone really digs the Dollar Shave Club ad.
Didn’t see the Dollar Sean Club tag at the bottom of the video.
A how-to for vandals
It hasn’t been a great past few weeks for statues.
From Bristol, England to Birmingham, Alabama, people all over the world have been grappling with the legacy of racism by tossing their grappling hooks around the heads of problematic monuments.
Should you happen to find yourself near a statue that you decide you no longer like, we asked scientists for the best, safest ways to bring it to the ground without anyone getting hurt—except, of course, for the inanimate racist who’s been dead for a century anyway.
⚠️This article is being presented only to describe the physics and mechanics of removing statues, in light of national attention being drawn to the removal of Confederate monuments and statues. Popular Mechanics is not encouraging anyone to remove any statues. There is a risk of injury whenever you try to remove or destroy a statue, even if you were to apply information presented in this article.
Populist Mechanics.
That smug-ass pseudodisclaimer at the end makes me want to see the author get his face pounded into a bloody pulp.
I wonder if that’ll hold up if the next guy that gets brained by a Robert E Lee statue happens to be an avid Popular Mechanics reader.
A lot of people need to get their faces pummelled into a bloody pulp these days.
Our wealth is killing us by enabling idiots like this to gain in credibility and be able to live off of our largesse while remaining non-productive. And the sad part is a lot of it is an illusion created by the central bank. I’m beginning to think that we might need an economic collapse to clear out the dead weight.
From Bristol, England to Birmingham, Alabama
from Birmingham to Birmingham
from Leeds to Leeds also works, about the same distance
One more reason to never read popular mechanics ever again.
Fuck it. It’s getting worserer. I need some sleep. Hope today turns better than yesterday, Friends. One nut-punch after another. Personal shit is very, very bad. Like all of your appliances kaffing at the same time bad. Ah well, from dust we come and to dust we return.
Sorry to hear that, my mustachioed friend. Share details sometime if you feel up to it.
I might have drugs falling out of my ass, but have you all seen this BS.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/researchers-around-world-prepare-shutdownstem-and-strike-black-lives
How have legitimate science and engineering programs allowed this kind of nonsense into their headspace.
“Nord hopes tomorrow will help catalyze change. “I imagine a future where there is representation, retention, and recruitment of black physicists in academia,” he says. “Representation means there are lots of us around. I’m not just talking about black men. I’m talking about genderqueer, trans, women—all of us, we’re there. I imagine a future where we stay there, and we also work in leadership levels.”
Who is stopping you. Do great work, get published, and become a leader in your field, no one cares what you look like or who you have sex with.
I only want want the best minds to rise to the top of the hard sciences regardless of skin color and anything other than that impedes science and the advances that result from it. Screw these people.
Your social justice bridge didn’t collapse because of physics. It was because you didn’t anti-racist hard enough.
At this rate, China is going to win as we tear ourselves apart.
I just want to live long enough to Nelson laugh at a group of whining credentialed leftists wallowing in their shared misery. I’ll then politely offer to put them out of their said misery.
Well, that is their plan.
I for one can not wait for the great breakthroughs sure to come from black-science, queer-science and trans-science; all hail the fall of patriarchal white-supremacist “science”!
I don’t know man. It was Yakub’s science that lead to the White Man and all the other evils of the world.
#WeWasKangz
I have no issue with affinity or support groups for science and engineers. They help each other and create networks for future collaboration. This is more like seeking to promote groups of scientists over others. We don’t need the SJW majors on the other side of campus and their “XXX Studies” programs creating policy.
Those SJW majors are waging all-out war on engineering departments because those departments are hotbeds of logic and reason.
I have no issue with affinity or support groups for science and engineers.
In these uncertain times, I have qualms about identity-based “support” groups.
legitimate science and engineering programs
After an excellent primary and secondary liberal education, I was classically trained in engineering and have some of state-sanctioned paperwork.
ugh: fumble fingers
But I don’t think that’s the way of the future for China or those who would battle China. I think you’ll see narrower bands of technical acumen, and the training will become corporate instead of civic. I love knowing a bit of everything and the whys and wherefores, but I don’t really need much of that in manufacturing: I can train someone in most of the skills I need in a year of my spare time so long as they’ve mastered chemistry, physics, and differential calculus. Give me a true high school graduate and twelve months; I don’t need two years of composition or any philosophy or psychology or any of the other grand well-rounding that I have and enjoy.
I’d expect there to evolve private credentialing (testing) in STEM attributes to rise followed by companies developing more staff on their own after hiring from such pools. A BS just to run an operation or to execute in a narrow technical range seems silly.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/05/military-draft/394133/ that as long as you couch it in terms of Patriotisim, and fairness, Pro-slavery is still a position that is regarded as ok to hold.
Nothing says being fair to the volunteers like doing the exact opposite of what they want, then having them work with convicted criminals rather than people who freely joined. Fair!
Also blame the wars on the american voters. It’s totally their fault. don’t look at the politicians, and definitely don’t look at the entrenched bureaucracy. Just note that in the last two presidential elections, where the incumbent wasn’t running, Americans voted for the guy who paid the most lip service to being anti-wars.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/05/military-draft/394133/
Actual link^
The American people are not antiwar, but they are anti waste. The country, when it comes to war, is fundamentally Jacksonian: get in, win it as quickly as possible, and then come home. The government is either Wilsonian or Madisonian. Mostly Wilsonian. But they know on the campaign trail to signal the Jacksonian notes.
But Jacksonian wars end in two, three, four years. That’s only two, three, four years of graft. That won’t do for the People Who Matter. They need time to climb the ranks of the bureaucracy, to pin on stars, to get elected to higher offices…and then to leave government service and go to work in the “private” sector where salaries are uncapped. 20 year wars are excellent for that.
The last Jacksonian war (WW2) led directly to the modern system of perpetual Wilsonianism. The military-industrial complex was founded by the people who prosecuted that war and their hangers-on. War is power, whether it ends quickly or lasts for generations.
Well, where AM I supposed to shop? Meant both rhetorically and earnestly. https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/06/11/corporate-donations-to-social-justice/
Smith & Wesson?
If they are smart they will. If things keep going like they are S&W will end up making a mint.
The Chinese don’t cotton to this nonsense much. Maybe try Alibaba.
Half of those companies don’t have any profits right now.
Yet we’ll be bailing them out with tax dollars or back-window loans from the Fed when they need more money.
Uncle Ted had it right.
Oh man, the National African-American Communist Party is making bank off this crisi-tunity.
It gets harder and harder to spend money at businesses I want to support.
Our wealth is killing us by enabling idiots like this to gain in credibility and be able to live off of our largesse while remaining non-productive. And the sad part is a lot of it is an illusion created by the central bank. I’m beginning to think that we might need an economic collapse to clear out the dead weight.
This morning on Bloomberg there was some guy talking about the number of companies who don’t even generate enough revenue for debt service, but the central bankers keep them shambling along with free money.
Eventually, there has to be a giant crash, and it will be ugly ugly ugly.
The second stock market drop during the Great Depression was an 80% reduction in value.
We’re headed straight for it.
All will be well – we have an endless supply of greater fools (thanks to our colleges and universities).
So i’ve seen the “Lasted Longer than the Confederacy” meme go around, which i have not really grasped. I don’t get what the point is. But i do think it is interesting that a cop in mineapolis murders a guy in 2020 and it is the fault of a brief country 150 years ago.
brief country
spontaneous order !
I still think I’m not doing it right
The Confederacy lasted longer than any other thing the US government has waged war on. The US government went to Berlin in a shorter time than it took them to get to Richmond.
Other than Poverty, Drugs, Terror, the Taliban, ISIS…
The US government is not waging war on the Taliban. They’re play acting for the purposes of enriching the national security industry.
Lincoln deliberately destroyed the food stocks of an agrarian society, destroyed major cities, and deliberately maneuvered the enemy into huge battles of attrition.
Hell, look at how the US suppressed the Philippines, or the Indian Wars. That’s waging war.
Lee was a better general than Hitler.
Longstreet wanted to dig a trench across virginia and fight a defensive war.
Lee was still fighting Napoleonic strategies while Longstreet had moved on to WWI.
Longstreet was wrong, because the South did not have the population, the industrial capacity, or the naval power to win a long war. Lee was right, because he knew that if he could win a major victory and force the Republicans out of office, he could get a peace treaty. He couldn’t pull it off, but it was the correct strategy for the situation.
Yeah. But It wasn’t Longstreet who ordered Picket to march up that hill….
If Stuart had done his job on the first day, they would have won that battle. Just like if whatever nameless staff officer had maintained operational security, the Antietam Campaign would have turned out differently.
The Confederate Army was doomed for the same reasons their forefathers were in the English Civil War. They were dilettantes and dandies and dashing horsemen, playing at war, and they never developed the professionalism that the Union or their Roundhead forefathers did.
Lincoln went through a variety of incompetents, but at the end he had serious men of war in command. The South was still looking for men of the right social standing and decorum to command. Gentlemen. Lee happened to combined competence with aristocratic standing, but he was very rare.
Right. Longstreet was tactically correct but strategically wrong.
Taliban has a sad.
Well…on that note, Grant could have reached Richmond sooner than he did. That wasn’t this strategy, though. He wasn’t terribly concerned with taking territory the way his predecessors were. His goal was to corner Lee’s army and destroy it. He had a quote that was something to the effect of “The only way to defeat the Confederacy is to kill its army”
Well he was forced to by the geography of Virginia. There’s not really a way to use an indirect approach between DC and Richmond. He gets unfairly denigrated in the popular mind as a plodding butcher who smashed the wall, but that was the nature of the terrain. The rivers running across Virginia make it impossible to really get a war of movement going, and you can’t go through the Valley or repeat the Peninsula Campaign without exposing your capital.
Grant in the West was a marching fiend. His Vicksburg campaign he only killed 3,000 CSA, but he captured 30,000 by the time it was all wrapped up. If they had sent Sherman east to command the Army of the Potomac, than Grant would have executed March to the Sea in the same fashion Sherman did and Sherman would be thought of as an unimaginative butcher who couldn’t do anything but toss Irish draftees at the ANV.
If Butler had done his job in June 1864, Richmond and the CSA would have fallen sooner.
If Johnston had been able to re-organize after First Manassas, he could have taken DC in July 1861.
If Beauregard had simply gone around the Hornet’s Nest, both Sherman and Grant would have been out of the war in April 1862.
Johnston can rot in hell. Along with Buchanan
Eh it’s just meant to mock the flag humpers, in this case the ones who worship the confederate flag.
Special K is out.
Klobuchar said, “I have never, as you probably know, on many, many shows, since I endorsed the vice president on that joyful night in Dallas, I’ve never commented on this process at all. But let me tell you this, after what I’ve seen in my state, what I’ve seen across the country, this is a historic moment and America must seize on this moment. And I truly believe, as I actually told the vice president last night, when I called him, that I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket. And there are so many incredibly qualified women, but if you want to heal this nation, right now, my party, yes, but our nation, this is sure a hell of a way to do it. And that’s just what I think after being through this in my state.”
Because skin pigment is what matters…besides I got enough racial ‘healing’ under Barry’s admin.
she punted, much like in a football game
“I’m keeping my powder dry until 2024.”
1) I just read Robert’s DACA decision. That may be the single worst-reasoned decision I’ve read from the supreme court, and I’ve read RBG’s shitty decisions.
2) Thomas is about 3 decisions away from just straight up calling Roberts a bitch.
3) I am working in the office next week. I’m very excited. I need to wear work clothing again. I’m less excited.
4A) I found a solo narrative RPG called Ironsworn and really want to play it. But I don’t want to sit at my home computer desk and type out any more shit on my own time because that’s what I’ve been doing for a living for the last couple of months.
4B) I’ve had a setting in my head for years that this game would be perfect for. it involves 1) a meteor strike in Europe that knocks the industrial revolution out before it gets started, 2) the Lutheran church in Europe responding by becoming more hierarchical and moving into to fill the gaps left by failing secular authority 3) The Catholics and Lutherans getting into an arms race by (re)founding knightly chapter houses (Catholics are upset because #2 is supposed to be their jam), and 4) A splinter group of (pc player) knights called the Brotherhood of Letters, which is an order of (former) Methodist knights devoted to Enlightenment, Science!, and an egalitarian version of Christianity influenced by the Levelers. But not pacifism, there we be swords and shit.
4C) This system is perfect for this setting. Maybe even better. The author wrote the game to be about people who believe, deeply, in a spiritual order. But you can tell the author himself doesn’t believe in anything, and there are wild gaps due to the authors blind spots.
It doesn’t matter what side of the “law” you are on. This decision sets the precedent for an uncontested dictatorship in the oval office. It should never be harder to reverse an executive order rather than implementing one.
Something Something Korematsu
I meant the sitting court, not through history. The progressive era has some truly awful logic in the decisions, like Buck vs Bell and Korematsu.
I was just thinking about how the Executive has been empowered as dictator for a long time. Korematsu is still the law of the land IIRC.
Also so is “Seperate but Equal”. I was surprised when i found out that Brown v Board didn’t overturn that, just stated that the situation wasn’t equal. Seemed like a weird way to handle it.
Huh that’s interesting. Because I was taught in school that Brown v Board overturned Plessy vs Ferguson.
So separate but equal is still valid, but it has to be equal?
That is my understanding. The ruling effectively nullified it because it said that there was no way that it could be equal in this case, but technically yes, Separate but equal still stands, its just harder to show that things are equal.
Roberts bravely found Kormatsu overturned in “the court of history” but not, you know, the courts of the United States. Fucking coward.
Brown did overturn Plessy
“Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment — even though the physical facilities and other “tangible” factors of white and Negro schools may be equal. Pp. 486-496.”
and
“(d) Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other “tangible” factors may be equal. Pp. 493-494.
(e) The “separate but equal” doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, has no place in the field of public education. P. 495.”
There is a conspiracy theory out there that it didn’t really do it. It is about as accurate as Wesley Snipes views on tax law.
Well look I’m no Lawyer, i’m just a simple back
woodsdesert country coder. It’s just what i had heard.A Leap-
My understanding has always been that they did not facially over-turn Plessy, they side-stepped it. There is no reference to Harlan’s dissent (which was the correct position).
The APA has replaced the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
THIS
It’s insane. Roberts has made the executive into a king.
I dropped a wicked Roberts this morning. It took five flushes to shift the damn thing.
You should not denigrate your excrement thus. It does represent something that you digested, that nourished you, to your benefit.
The Chief Justice isn’t even roughage.
4D) Also Newton was right about all the angels and alchemy and shit like that, so expect a magic level similar to REH’s Conan stories
I’ve just installed VPN on my desktop. Google blocked a sign-in attempt to one of my gmail accounts through MS Outlook. I confirmed that it was me with Google. But I still get login errors and Outlook doesn’t get emails. Never really tried to use VPN outside of China–this looks unacceptable.
Google just doing it’s part to help china make sure no one is free.
Turn off VPN, log in with a browser, turn on VPN, continue browsing your email in browser.
It appears to the servers that they are getting a new login request from a new geographic area from which you’ve never signed in. If you sign in for 4 years from New Jersey, then you are (apparently) logging in from Kazakhstan. That looks to the server like a black hat in Kazakhstan is trying to improperly access your account.
https://twitter.com/canadagraphs/status/1273770577312968704
The context of who he is attacking makes this funny. But realizing that he doesn’t know who Michael Malice is, and think he could be some rando at Grocery Store and still deserves to starve is revealing.
Yea, it’s funny how Leftists insist that your employer basically has the power to completely destroy your life and possibly end it by firing you since you would lose your income and health insurance… But they have no problem doing that to someone who said something that offended them. Homelessness and starvation are appropriate punishments for WrongThink.
How did this not get posted yet?
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/entertainment-news/will-tiger-king-star-carole-baskins-missing-husband-don-lewis-was-forged-sheriff-says/531-b723b0c5-d03d-495e-b6d3-4b4f55479445
On yesterday’s kerfuffle over Facebook removing the Trump campaign ad that used the Antifa red triangle symbol (appopriated from the Nazi concentration camp badge for commies):
I wonder if Facebook has removed any Antifa posts using or showing the red triangle?
Context. It’s different when you take a symbol of oppression as a means of pride, versus when someone attacks you using that symbol
Ah. Mindreading. Got it.
Antifa, since their inception, have been the useful idiot foot soldiers for commies who want to tear down a society. They are also the ones who get rounded up and shot first. Have you seen any of those morons? All they can do is scream unintelligibly, start fires, assault and murder people. If successful, whatever new order emerges (probably indistinguishable from the USSR) will have to get rid of those people. You cant build anything or have an even marginal functional society with them around. They will continue to do exactly what they are doing now because it is all they are.
Whatever new order emerges will never be pure enough for the fanatics. That’s why the fanatics have to go when the revolution is over. That may well be the marker that the revolution is, in fact, over.
*sigh*
No… “not working properly” is not a specific problem description. Putting the same thing for 5 people kind of shows it’s not specific.
/work rant off
My rule of customer service email (regardless of role): you will only get an answer to 1 question, and if it’s too complicated you won’t get a useful answer, so ask 1 question and keep it simple.
The specific problem description was a request from her boss, not from me.
https://twitter.com/wartyhugeman/status/1273751588616749058
Warty is always getting the Malice RT.
What a fucking moron. If its pro-Nazi to show the red triangle, then Antifa must also be pro-Nazi, right? Or is hateful to point out that Antifa is using a Nazi symbol?
Everybody knows Antifa doesn’t exist, and even if they did they’d be doing all the right things, anyway.
We’ve talked over the Rayshard Brooks shooting pretty thoroughly, but I thought there might be room for one more take.
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/the-rayshard-brooks-shooting
I’ve taken some classes (entangled gunfighting, small knife, austere and emergency medicine) from Greg, and have always been impressed with his intelligence and insight. The TLDR conclusion Greg came to was basically, ‘Not handled well, but probably a reasonable use of force.’
The entire thing is worth a read.
The reasonableness entirely depends on what time point you use to start your analysis.
A) Brooks was communicative and civil, acknowledged that he was not safe to drive and wanted to walk away
B) Cops have a choice between 1) citation and allowing the (identity known) suspect to walk away and 2) pulling out handcuffs, initiating an escalation in force
C) Cop ops for escalation of force, pulls out handcuffs (no risk of death or GBH at this point)
D) Brooks escalated force (fists and then less-lethal weapon, risk of death or GBH for the first time)
E) Cops escalate force (lethal weapon)
If you start at point D), yeah, probably a close case. If you start at A), its 100% on the cops in my view. They are supposed to be trained in deescalation and supposed to seek the protection of the rights of third parties (such as the right to travel without undue danger of drunk drivers). Breaking out handcuffs escalated the situation and did not protect any third party rights.
Greg’s analysis talks about this particular point.
I hadn’t known (but am not remotely surprised) that most police departments are obligated by policy to make an arrest in suspected drunk driving cases, no matter the circumstances. I don’t agree with that policy, but I can’t exactly put it on the individual cops.
Oh, and thanks mucho, Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Fucking Karens ruin everything…
I wasn’t aware of that, and am interested in learning more about it. If that’s the case, then my B) would change, and its on the policy makers not the individual officers.
I’m also not sure that a cop doing something that they are empowered by law to do (deciding to arrest) would count for legal purposes as the initiation or escalation of force.
My understanding is that its an escalation of force, but one that’s authorized. I had thought that it was authorized but not required, ie discretionary, but ES above suggests otherwise.
Could you imagine the legal liability that would fall on the cops if they knowingly let an impaired person run away from the scene and potentially into dangerous traffic?
Thanks to JB’s article yesterday, I know the correct answer is zero liability.
Thanks. Very thoughtful.
The one piece I would question is:
You have a violent fleeing felon in possession of Taser, which is a weapon capable of causing death or serious injury. If it was a gun or a knife, no problem. Probably not much question if it was a bat or club. I’m not sure why a Taser wouldn’t meet the standard.
Most police departments, including the one in question, do not consider a Taser to be a lethal weapon, instead placing it between harsh language and pepper spray on the force continuum. This is stupid, IMO.