Their next meeting will be interesting
Drew Brees is being cancelled. MLB is doing their best to end up not having a season. UFC keeps growing in popularity because they are holding events. And they’re still playing soccer in Germany without any problems. And that’s sports.
Nice cape, buddy.
King George III, the dumbass who refused to listen to reason, was born on this day. His Majesty, HA!, shares it with…pretty much nobody at all. Seriously, I couldn’t find any other big names. Man, that poor guy has the spotlight all on himself. Oh well, them’s the breaks.
I better make up for the weak sports and birthday content with a solid set of…the links!
Governor Blackface McKlansman is going to tear down history. The mayor is expected to follow this up by continuing the demolition. Because erasing history is a good thing, I am being told. Well, fuck all those black-owned (and the rest of the) businesses in The Fan who benefit from tourists coming in to see the statues and then stopping to shop or have lunch.They’re just gonna have to make up for it some other way.
New York Times staffers are revolting. While always a true statement, it takes on new context today. But giving the Taliban and Vladimir Putin the same space was A-OK with them.
Hong Kong bans insulting the Chinese National Anthem. I’m sure that’ll solve everything, CCP. ::SMDH::
Muderers Row
The other three cops who participated in George Floyd’s murder were finally charged. And Chauvin’s were bumped up a notch. And now the ME’s autopsy is saying he had a heart attack and also had The Corona.
California: “Why the hell didn’t we think of this?!?!” Well done, Florida Man. Well done.
What, you feel defenseless in that concrete jungle? We’ve been saying this for years, dumbass.
Here’s a solution: you can all quit. Seriously, your department is most likely the worst in the country. So…shut the fuck up.
James Mattis: Patron Saint Of Blowing Shit Up To No Purpose
Here comes “Chaos”. Does he have a book coming out, or does he just miss the bright lights? Who knows.
Yeah, I’m thinking this wasn’t part of the protests. Or even the looting. Something like this is planned otherwise they’d be popping up all over town as their new “owners” get scared and dump them.
This song comes with a trigger warning!!! At least if Kurt Eichenwald is here. Which I doubt. So the rest of you can enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
COVID RELATED!
/called it
Which of course means every single protest death was attributable to COVID, right?
COVID, white supremacy, and fascism. You can’t leave out the other two reasons.
Q.E.D.
Whar my ass-slap?
That is the best “FIRST” GIF.
If I had three wishes, I’d probably blow one of them on making MarioKart a real sport.
That is a limited use, only-up-for-a-bit, gif.
Fuckin’ tease…
Diversity… even in police brutality. Minneapolis has truly reached progtopia.
Somebody on Twitter said this was their usual tactic of letting the cop walk by overcharging him so he couldn’t be found guilty of the higher standard. Bad idea if so, there will be worse riots when he is set free. But I’m not even a lay person on legal matters. Any truth to it?
Considering it is AG, Uber proggie Ellison who bumped things up – kind of hard to say they want the guy off…
Yeah, but also, not sure if it was made with the most sober mindset.
Ellison wants to Dr. Mudd this guy. I don’t think he’s bright enough to see the big picture.
^^^THIS^^^
Ellison is doing this shit to gain street cred, and when the guy walks because this whole thing is botched, he will blame it on… wait for it….
White supremacists in the jury?
He’s maintaining the third degree charge, and adding a second degree charge. The main difference is third degree -> you murdered him and that’s bad, second degree -> you murdered him while committing another felony other than drive by or violation of a restraining order or maybe something else.
So the question is, what other felony is he going to be charged with? I expect it will be something like a violation of the MN human rights law, but we’ll see.
There’s no point in even making the pretense of a trial at this point. Not that this guy doesn’t richly deserve whatever is coming to him, but no jury in the world is going to fail to convict him so that they can be doxxed and have their homes burned to the ground with their kids inside. It would be simpler and just as fair to hand him over to the mob directly.
“if so, there will be worse riots when he is set free.”
That’s planned for right before the elections. Gotta do 100% mail in ballots because it’s not safe to go outside. We’re finally going to get the glorious new utopia!
In California we outsource our white racism. It’s also organic and artisanal.
Please don’t say it’s served with kale because that shit is inedible without sauteed garlic, salt and a shit-ton of butter and bacon bits.
Unless it’s baby kale, it’s inedible period, no matter what you put on it. It’s the texture, I’d rather chew on a piece of fucking rope.
Nice music link!
Yup.
It’s easy to forget that just a short 4 years ago Vladimir Putin was on par with austere religious scholars, and not the geopolitical Cthulu we know today.
The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back.
“geopolitical Cthulu”
Best opening act I ever saw.
You had to wear ponchos in the first five rows but the mosh pit was fantastic! Then they went commercial and started making money…
I always check baseball-reference.com when you say birthdays are lacking.
Wow, you aren’t kidding. By WAR, today’s winner is Darin Erstad. Tony Pena is number 2, I guess he didn’t get a boost in WAR for his revolutionary sitting position.
Roz Russell and Bruce Dern are apparently chopped liver.
I hope she stays. 3 generations of imbeciles are enough.
Isn’t she preggo? It’s hard to tell, but I think she said recently she’s expecting a child.
In the story she said she was six months along. Is she married?
Yep. The article says she is six months pregnant.
I, for one, welcome our new McCain overlords.
It was weird, back when I tortured myself with the 5th Column Podcast to hear Welch and Moynihan remotely kiss her ass, I guess because they’re friends with her husband Ben Domenech of the Federalist. She is an inane screeching howler monkey devoid of original thought.
“She is an inane screeching howler monkey devoid of original thought.”
Like father, like daughter? Oh wait, he had a thought, one, let’s ban something!
He also liked bombing things.
That just lowers my opinion of Welch and Moynihan even more. Their whole schtick was purportedly speaking an alternative viewpoint devoid of the normal politics.
It seems the only one out there willing to take them all on is Tucker Carlson. Dude has his “I HATE EVERYONE” hat on lately.
Kmele is the voice of reason.
Hell, Miami ain’t got nothin’ on Austin.
Linkfail
Hmmm, let’s try again.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7CDfQkP9DV67YaNq6
Kinky!
Open up and say “AAAAHHHHHH!”…
Joe Walsh is insanely underrated. Which is impressive when you are in the HoF.
Part of the underrated bit, is he is only there with The Eagles.
Yeah, his America’s most wanted gig should’ve at least gotten mentioned!
*narrows gaze*
When I was in high school, I had a friend whose dad used to regale us with stories of all the concerts he’d been to in the 70s (Sabbath multiple times, Yes and ELP, etc.). He claimed the James Gang was the best band he ever saw.
Joe Walsh’s uncle was my prof for the undergraduate Aristotle course. A tall, borderline cadaverous chain smoker, he was occasionally seen wandering the halls chanting Ancient Greek war hymns under his breath. Wonderful man, excellent teacher.
I saw him solo at the Lakewood Amphitheatre* in Atlanta in the early 90s. Great show. He was co-headlining a festival with The Marshall Tucker Band.
I could see his guitar tech just off-stage from my seat. Joe had two identical guitars for each song, and while Joe was playing the tech was tuning the other…they switched out multiple times during a song, as apparently Joe could tell when his guitar got even slightly out of tune. No one in the audience could tell, it was freakin outdoors.
*chrome doesnt like that spelling, but that is how Lakewood spells it.
He’s also one of the few rockers to have a sense of humor. I’ve heard people say they don’t like “Life’s Been Good” because it just goes on and on. I’ve made the point that the song is about a self-indulgent rock star with no sense of his own ridiculousness, and the self-indulgent length of the song is part of the joke.
The funny thing about Life’s Been Good is that the things he talks about actually happened – he did have a Maserati and did lose his license for speeding, for example.
It’s 8 minutes. That is standard length for your typical prog band.
Stairway is also about that.
I’d believe it after seeing this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_4iQDYDVNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ1liTI–tA
With Barnstorm, after the James Gang.
Hell yeah, that one’s bad ass!
When The Eagles came to Montreal years ago, he stole the show.
Me and buddy were walking around the Bell Centre that night and a scalper approached us and we figured what the heck for 30 bucks!
Great show and Walsh was on fire.
His role with the Eagles was to be the guy without any drama and to kick ass.
I went to see the Eagles in Tokyo dome – mostly ’cause my wife wanted to go. For what I remember of the group and other solos they might as well have just propped up a CD player and plugged it into the sound system. But Joe Walsh’s performance I will never forget.
That is kind of why he was hired — technically he was hired by the Eagles, he never was a full fledged member. They wanted to inject personality on stage, before Joe the Eagles didn’t do much beyond stand and play music. And they wanted to rock harder than they did before.
I hate the Eagles, man.
Joe Walsh is cool, though.
Gab’s CEO, bringing the truth to my inbox. I don’t use my account there, but heck if I don’t respect the CEO.
Well said.
Has Brees been red pilled?
And Aaron Rodgers is an asshole.
You can’t voice an opinion anymore. And sports is just a cess pool of stupidity. From the writers all the way down to the athletes. Insufferable, ignorant and illiberal beyond belief.
I can’t digest listening to piece of shits like Lebron pile on fellow athletes but cower before China. He’s probably and possibly the worst of the bunch.
Movies and sports culture. Fuck it all. At my age? Don’t need it or care.
Liverpool kneeling. Get outta here.
And the most aggravating part of all this?
What those cops did on its surface repulsed just about everyone. They were fired and charged. There was no need to explode like this.
“Movies and sports culture.”
You can call it entertainment, but it’s still a part of capitalism. Something the far left want to destroy. All the dummies in sports and entertainment should know that they get their backs against the wall first, but apparently, not enough brain cells going on with those folk to realize it.
For now they’re safe but the fact they make so much money will eventually draw attention to them.
They’re useful idiots in the long game. Lebron is too stupid to see that because he’s a fucken retard. Go suck China dick you unprincipled moron.
Ingraham may be a bit of a docuhe but she was right….go bounce your balls because you don’t have real ones.
“Ingraham may be a bit of a docuhe but she was right….go bounce your balls because you don’t have real ones.”
LOL
It is sad that sports should carry so much weight in our society, but if Brees said fuck it, I quit because of this BLM shit, he’d break BLM in LA and the surrounding region when the Saints go 3-13 next year without him.
Saints fans of all colors would look at the BLM activists and tell them to be out of town before they get beaten.
Brees has now given the standard-issue groveling apology, so that’s not going to happen.
Pussy. Why can’t these pathetic assholes learn that to apologize to the left is only to be seen as weak by them and will only prompt more aggressive attacks. Stand up and be a fucking man!
Could never have imagined a world where someone is pressured to apologize for defending the fact that he stands for the national anthem.
Arrhghghghghghgh!!!
FUCK. DOESN’T ANYONE STAND BY THEIR OWN CONVICTIONS ANYMORE?
WHY IS EVERYONE A COWARD?
For the love of God. Drew. Don’t you see you were just bullied?
For ONCE I’d like for someone to just say, ‘Fuck. You. I said it. Deal with it.’ What can possibly happen to Brees after a couple of stupid tweets from a couple of assholes like Sherman and his flaming nostrils?
“Sherman’s and his flaming nostrils” — band name or circus act?
The left have been actively destroying sports for the past few yeas with impunity. That’s why we had half full football stadiums last year. It’s only going to get worse. They make everything not only no longer fun or enjoyable, but best to be avoided altogether. They only want to take over sports for one reason, to destroy it like they do with everything.
What we need is……….
MOAR Bob Costas lectures during games! Remember when he went on that long rant about gun violence and people realized how fun it was to mix politics and sports and came back in droves?
Well, I’m there. I was a sports junkie but no more. I don’t need that aggravation in my life.
Being lectured by people like Nick Wright?
Please.
This is your standard playbook. They want growth growth growth. So they try appealing to soccer moms and leftists. And when that leads to alienating the traditional fans, they always can try going to europe or china, so who needs 60 million deplorables anyway?
The only even remotely trying to mitigate this is the coroner. He definitely had his “Cover up for the cops” glasses on. Otherwise, there’s nobody anywhere saying this was anything less that appalling. Rodney King’s riot started immediately after he was acquitted.
YES! This is what is needed!
Not bad.
I have no problems with a person choosing not to have anything to do with someone spouting opinions that person doesn’t like, but that’s not what the hordes are doing. They’re trying to destroy anyone that holds an opinion the horde doesn’t like.
I think I’m going to check it out, just to see what’s going on with the site. Never saw it before, heard of it, but never actually visited. So what’s their share of social media? I’m guessing less than .01%, maybe less? Or to put it in another way, how many people read things posted there compared to derpbook and twatter? Maybe 1 out of 100,000? IOW, no one sees it, so they can’t make a difference.
There has to be a way to break the left’s monopoly on media, including social media, and education, or the country is lost. It’s just that simple. But there seems to be no way to do it and no one with money to do it, even trying.
The left doesn’t have a real monopoly on this stuff, any more than Yahoo had a monopoly on search engines.
I always try to remind people that when I was a young adult, all the “cool kids” were fretting about the monopoly that Blockbuster had on video. They had so much control over distribution that they could demand a “Blockbuster Cut” of movies to meet their Family Values agenda. Government intervention was the only thing that could fix that. This was circa 95. By 2004, ten years later, Blockbuster was already riding off into the sunset.
The best thing you can do is to be patient. If you hate these leftist controlled platforms, go to sites like Gab. Work hard to evangelize. Gab is only 14% funded right now by pro subscriptions. Is it worth it to help out?
The worst thing is people (not necessarily you) waiting for a White Knight like the government to come in and save them from having to be a first mover. People shouldn’t wait for that white knight- they should move. (Especially since, as soon as government “saves” us, these sites WILL be permanent monopolies.)
I remember when it was Wal-Mart that was going to take over. Then Google. Then Apple. Then Amazon.
And I mean that certainly didn’t happen…
Google has taken over as far as search engines are concerned. I use BING, but you know, those guys are just as far left, it’s just that it’s a better search engine. But Google is basically a monopoly. Just like Youtube (also far left) is a monopoly on internet streaming, just like facebook (far left) and twitter (far left) are a monopoly on social media. Amazon (also far left) is not a monopoly of online sales, but they’re close. And on education, there’s no contest, it’s all so far left that they can’t eve see Stalin and Mao from their porch.
Focusing on search and streaming as if they were separate businesses is a bit of a misdirection in the first place. Google is in the business of selling advertising through an automated bid/ask network, which enjoys greater than 80% market share and has for over a decade. Facebook is the only internet advertising network that is even close to competitive, as they sop up almost the entirely of the remaining 20% market share. That’s why it’s so hard to crack their markets. Not because they are such fantastic search engines and streaming sites and social networks. Those are a dime a dozen. Social media, video streaming, and search indices are not the products on offer.
And Google’s biggest accomplishment so far is to push everyone and their brother to install an ad blocker because that shit is so invasive and detrimental to the end user experience.
” facebook (far left) and twitter (far left) are a monopoly on social media.”
If you think that Twitter and Facebook are a monopoly on social media, then you are falling into the exact same trap as I was discussing. My kids, and all of their friends spend exactly 0 minutes a week on either of those platforms. From tiktok to instagram to whatever, they are always looking for a new social media buzz.
Google has about 87% market share, which has been slowly trending down from their high of 91% in 2010. Right now they are likely to hold significant market share for the future, but so what? THey are not a monopoly. You can go to Bing if you want. You can go to duckduckgo if you want.
Youtube is in an even more precarious position – they missed the boat on live streaming, and now facebook, twitch and mixer are eating their lunch there. There are a ton of alternatives now. People were saying the same thing about Microsoft Office 10 years ago. There were many choices back then, but everyone insisted it was a monopoly. 10 years later, they have lost significant market share to Google.
Again, I don’t disagree that there are a bunch of market leaders and that they are overwhelmingly liberal. But they are not monopolies. They are dominant today, but they may not be in 10 – 15 years.
Nitpicking over monopoly vs oligopoly sort of misses the forest for the trees. There has probably never been a literal monopoly in the entirety of recorded human history. Nevertheless, no one is in any serious competitive position as it regards Google and Facebook when it comes to their actual product offering, which is ads and individual data. Both of those companies know substantially more about you than a credit rating agency does, and own the infrastructure to sift it. They’ll sell you back the unused portion of that infrastructure, but certainly not to slit their own throat. You’re talking about market players that are consolidating more, obtaining more market power, when they are 15, 20, 25 years into their business. To return to your Blockbuster example, Blockbuster was liquidated right around its 30th anniversary and had lost substantially all of its market power at least 5 years prior to that. I will have my balls amputated and eat them if Google is being liquidated on its 30th anniversary in 8 years. They could burn capital at 10x their current rate and still be solvent in 8 years. Blockbuster was never in that kind of position. Neither was AOL, or Yahoo, or Pets.com or any of the first wave of dot bombs.
In addition, the choices you reference here are mostly illusory. If you don’t ideologically play ball with what is becoming an increasingly radical left wing social agenda, you can expect to be blacklisted in a coordinated way by most or all of the players in this oligopoly to the extent that you will not be able to operate your business unless you raise sufficient capital to vertically integrate everything from your domain registrar to your cloud host, to your ad network, to your business and accounting services. It puts you at a nearly insurmountable disadvantage against competition that is allowed to access those services without restriction. Gab is a great example of this in action. They are on their third domain registrar, which if I recall correctly is located in Russia. They were hosting on Microsoft Azure and were threatened with the termination of their account if they did not remove a message posted by one of their users (so much for section 230 protecting us from the scourge of being held accountable for user-generated content). Needless to say they are not allowed on Google or Facebook’s ad networks. Which means they can neither purchase ads through those platforms, nor run ads from those platforms on their site. On Bing and Google the leading results if you search for Gab are references from SPLC, Wikipedia, Washington Post, and other media outlets castigating it as a white supremacist platform (while there are white supremacists on the platform, it is not in any way a platform FOR white supremacists; they simply have nowhere else to go).
So yes, you may just be able to go to another website that looks a lot like Twitter, where you can shit out little 200 character nuggets of wisdom. But it will have all of the same content controls. Or you may be able to go stream digital video from somebody other than YouTube… with all of the same content controls. Because as soon as somebody fails to keep up with the Joneses on policing their content, they can say goodbye to the infrastructure they need to operate, and the capital markets they need to grow. This is a very fucking bad situation, and it’s not analogous to the ’90s web. It just isn’t.
You keep insisting this is true. Amazon is a 25 year old company. Google is a 22 year old company. Facebook is a 16 year old company. Twitter is a 14 year old company. Netflix is a 22 year old company. These companies are increasing their market share, market power, and profits at this stage, to the point of consolidating most competition out of business. it didn’t take a quarter century for market magic to bust up AOL and Yahoo. This ain’t your daddy’s web 1.0.
And since you’re undoubtedly getting all set to accuse me of being a shill for Big Regulator, let me reiterate for the billionth time that I’m not in favor of nationalizing FAANG/Big Tech. The market just isn’t going to solve this particular issue, since the market created it in the first place. Unfortunately, free market advocates pretty much fucking suck at free markets, and neo-Marxists are really really good at them.
YOU’RE A SHILL FOR BIG REGULATORE! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
:insert body snatcher gif:
” These companies are increasing their market share, market power, and profits at this stage, to the point of consolidating most competition out of business.”
This is demonstrably untrue. Some of those companies are doing better, but Google is off of their high market share. Twitter has NEVER been a dominant social media platform numbers wise. The only reason it is in this conversation (there is no T in FAANG) is because it is largely used by people like Trump and the press. More people use REDDIT than twitter, for crying out loud.
Netflix has been losing market share for the past decade, and that has only accelerated in the last 3 years. Facebook has been losing market share to various competitors for years as well. YouTube has maintained its lead in user generated videos, but they COMPLETELY lost the market for Live Streaming. Twitch took that, and they are under pressure from Mixer.
I am not saying these aren’t leading platforms. What I am saying is that they have not been perpetually increasing market share. Most of those have been holding steady or losing share. I also will admit that they have structural advantages that increase the barrier of entry from competitors.
“The market just isn’t going to solve this particular issue, since the market created it in the first place. ”
Again, this is completely untrue. Do you want to know why Alphabet continues to be dominant? Sarbanes Oxley. After 2001, companies like YouTube and Android Inc could not access growth capital in the public market and so they sold out. The same happened to WhatsApp, Twitch, Instagram, and others.
While a few companies made it through the capital drought of 2000 – 2015 to go public, the vast majority were hoovered up by the large companies because that was the only valid exit strategy for their investors. That isn’t a problem created by the market. It was a problem created by the government.
You’re splitting hairs in an incredibly obtuse way here. “Google has fallen all the way from 90% market share to 84% market share” is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the fierce forces of market competition chipping away at yesteryear’s behemoths in favor of the light, agile disruptors. Especially when we consider that they lost that share almost exclusively to Facebook, whose market share in web ads has been relatively stable accounting for fluctuations in daily average users. The market power of “Big Tech” has been more durable than probably any other oligopolistic industry in American history. This ain’t normal.
Partly true, but vastly overstated I think. SarBox has been priced into every IPO and VC round since it was passed. Tesla has eaten enough capital building a shitbox that nobody wants to drive even with 20% of the purchase price subsidized by the feds to launch 500 different social, search, and video sites. Access to capital is more difficult than it used to be, but it’s not the primary reason why the market positions of the dominant players are so durable. There’s a huge benefit of incumbency in an industry where data collection is the primary business model, because anyone trying to compete has a lot of ground to make up. And if – zod forbid – your business model is predicated on protecting user data, woe to you – you have no competitive offering. You’re mistaking customers for products if you think DuckDuckGo’s model can compete with Google’s. Sending untargeted ads into cyberspace to disappear into a void of a couple million privacy-conscious users with adblock is not a good value proposition for advertisers who can go elsewhere and target their ads to the 2,000 dyslexic midget transsexual Hispanic vegan nursing mothers in the country. That’s what the market can’t fix. Eventually – in the range of 20+ years – Google might just fuck itself up enough to give away its market to somebody else, but it will be somebody as bad or worse. Building the entire modern economy on labor price arbitrage and surveillance-based real-time advertising and consumer manipulation is not something we’re going to come back from.
^this^
Google, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, a total monopoly on the internet.
So for sites like Gab, pretty soon Twitter will just send their armies of lobbyists and lawyers to start writing legislation and the democrats will eat it up and anyone who previously had any chance of competing with those guys, will be out of business.
More likely than that is that they’ll languish with a small user base and no ability to sell ads until they burn out their capital and fold. It’s easy to starve them of users and ad revenue when you have Microsoft threatening to pull their Azure account if they don’t censor content, the 3 largest domain registrars threatening to pull their domain, none of the major internet ad networks allowing their ads to be run on their site, and the largest search engine burying their site on page 4 of their index after 125 links to the blog network they operate all circle jerking each other about how Gab is a white supremacist website.
Let’s be clear here, I don’t want the government involved, unless they are going to use anti-trust to break up some of these behemoth businesses. That won’t happen, because the government instead of protecting us from monopolies, became the enabler of it. This is crony capitalism, not free market enterprise.
What I want to happen is for the free market and free thinkers to start competing with these far left companies. But it seems too far gone for that to be possible.
So what’s your solution? Just wait until googletwitteryoutube have so much power that they can write legislation. We just wait and join Gab and it will start happening? I’m far from against helping fund such effort, and I might, but it’s a lost cause, because the aforementioned entity has too much power.
Not knowing much about gab, I googled it. The results brought this description from wikipedia right up front:
“Gab is an English-language social media website known for its far-right userbase. The site has been widely described as a “safe haven” for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right. The site was launched in 2017 and claimed to have almost 1,000,000 registered user accounts by July 2019.”
In other words, “Hey you. Twitter’s competition is racist. You might not want to be associated with that, as you know how unpopular racism is.”
“Governor Blackface McKlansman is going to tear down history. ”
The WaPo had a quote by a protestor in Richmond saying something like, “And they said these protests wouldn’t change anything!”
Yeah, great, dumbass. Protesting against police violence and all you get is a statue taken down that has nothing to do with the problem.
Fuck. Yes, this rioting will move things in the wrong direction.
Somewhere in central FL there’s a flagpole in private land, but visible from a busy road, with a giant rebel flag. Somebody with money should do the same with the Lee statue.
He’ll have four more to put there once the mayor gets the other four torn down in a few weeks.
It’s just outside Tampa, near the I75–I4 interchange. You can see it for miles around.
There are also giant confederate flags on private land in Virginia next to I-95 in Stafford and I-64 in Louisa.
There’s a house I drive by on my way to the range that has two flagpoles. On one they fly the US flag over a Gasden. The other flies a rebel.
The lovable and genteel general William Tecumseh Sherman would certainly have stood in solidarity against police brutality.
+1 burning Atlanta
Well, yeah! Now everything will be all better. Thanks Damnatio memoriae!
Damnatio memoriae!
Worst. Hogwarts. Spell. Ever.
Like someone said in the open thread last night, next step is them demanding to exhume all Confederate graves from Hollywood Cemetary.
Already happening. Madison WI removed the markers from the graves of Confederate POWs.
So, we’re back to the hieratic politics of ancient Egypt. Chisel off the names of the heretics! No memento shall remain!
How to mummify a civilization.
I’m not even American but I weep for this because I am a history buff. I can’t. I just can’t.
Funny you mentioned that Surrly, but I asked one of the libtard I work with that advocates for this shit how it feels to be using the same tactics some of the most repressive and evil entities (Taliban, al Queda, CCP, Stalin/Mao/Andsofotth) use to make sure things they disapprove of disappear. At least they are not yet blowing up the statues like the Taliban or al Queda did in the ME to ancient wonders they considered to be heresy to Allah….
Those who cannot remember history …
Next thing you know, these morons will be bulldozing Monticello. They seem to have a lot in common with ISIS. They’re too fucking stupid to know this doesn’t stop until it is stopped. It’s not about black lives matter or anything like that, it’s about destroying capitalism. So what’s next after they get to tear down every monument or historical site created before 1856? Didn’t they already try to go after Columbus? What’s next?
I’m sure once all the Confederate statues are gone they will tear down all the FDR statues.
Oh wait…..that’s different.
It’s not “Japanese Lives Matter”
They seem to have a lot in common with ISIS.
Yup.
next step is them demanding to exhume all Confederate graves from Hollywood Cemetary.
Under a false premise. Circumstances of the war were far more complicated than “muh slavery”. The average confederate soldier (and 90% of the population) was not a slave-owner and was likely in economic competition with the rich landowners that were. Makes one wonder what the average soldier was fighting for.
So we got a message from the corporate president addressing ‘the civil unrest’. He urged people to reach out to family and friends or the EAP. Said we need to be vigilant of our personal safety and no one should doubt the companies commitment to treating all employees with equity and dignity. That was it. Pretty good compared to some I’ve seen.
CEO sent out an e-mail two days ago about it, and it got forwarded out to everyone again yesterday by another C-level and EVP. So I had to ignore it twice.
So xe basically told everyone to continue to not be cuntes. Like 99% of everyone. Little steps…
Your CEO is encouraging you to reach out to Enough About Palin?
Cool!
*squints suspiciously*
Ours did a similar.
I’d like to ask why she felt the need to say anything at all, but I’d also like to keep my job.
“everybody is doing it.”
I got an e-mail from my steel and aluminum supplier. They are located over 12 miles from the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis. I don’t care what your politics are. I want metals at a reasonable price and in a reasonable time.
In fact, now that you sent this explaining your progressive credibility, I might be tempted to find a different supplier.
After SJW Preening from my CEO, Business Unit COO, and CTO, my boss had a managers meeting, where he did the best balancing act possible. One of the other managers piped up to say that in this crazy world, it was nice to be able to focus on work where we have a modicum of control. At that point the SJWs just went nuts. They explained how upset they were that someone would focus on work while the world was on fire. One of them assured us he would bravely go out and protest, but people in his house couldn’t risk COVID. But he was super supportive of his friends out rio- er protesting. And by the way, it was super stressful that he couldn’t support them.
FFS. I get that when dealing with rank and file employees, sometimes you have to deal with the BS of personal lives. But the whole idea of being a manager is that you can be a representative of the company. When 90% of your manager meetings is social signaling and feelz about everything EXCEPT providing value to our customers, you know that the next generation is in trouble.
Will every organization I’ve ever done business with send out a ‘civil unrest’ response notice just like they did for the panicdemic? “Hey, I records show you bought something from us 10 years ago. We want to let you know how we are responding to the current crisis.”
True story from 30 years ago. In my dorm, the study room for the floor was directly across the hall from a friend’s room. When he would see me in there, he would put on Walsh’s Country Fair at low volume until I got pissed off. “TURN IT UP OR TURN IT OFF!”
“Hong Kong bans insulting the Chinese National Anthem. ”
“The legislation was approved after pro-democracy opposition lawmakers tried to disrupt the vote…Debate over the legislative was later suspended after pro-democracy lawmakers staged a protest…Raising a sign that said “A murderous regime stinks for ten thousand years,” lawmaker Ray Chan walked to the front with the pot hidden inside a Chinese paper lantern…When the meeting resumed, pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui again splashed some liquid at the front of the meeting room and was escorted out. ”
Man, you have to admire the balls the HK democracy activists have. Chinese internal security is about to have complete access and control in your city, and you’re still spitting in their faces.
It makes it all the more galling that American leftists act like martyrs for voicing opinions that will bring them no negative repercussions at all.
Those HK activists are risking death. I hope they get the freedom they’re fighting for, or come here and start a freedom-loving expat community.
Governor Blackface McKlansman is going to tear down history.
Was going to post about this. Apparently the problem black people in Richmond have is monuments to historically significant, dead, white guys, not the city being run nearly uninterrupted by Democrats for more than a century.
No, we can’t use these as conversation starters for discussions of the good, the bad, and the ugly of historical figures. We have to erase history instead of learning from it (at the cost of mere millions that I am sure the city/state can afford…).
I like to refer to him (well, as much as I like to refer to him all) as Governor Soul Man.
I bet there’s people lining up in Powhatan and Goochland who are willing to erect a private statue park for them. And their pockets are deep enough.
Hopefully they won’t be destroyed, but I’m not optimistic.
Monumental song choice, Sloop! I haven’t heard that in twenty years. Righteous! * drunkenly holds left foot in the air*
I don’t know what came next in your YT feed, but for me, it was this.
Ha! I’ve been a fan for forty years! Still listen to this about every week – https://youtu.be/XJKZL1EKpdY?list=PLZ7djDm0scT8pRRYrMBhSiUGKFHEpTGsQ
Mornin’ Sloop. Just wanted to say while you’re probably still about and maybe see this that I wish you and Banjos all the best and hope very much she’s alright. I’ve not been hugely active on glibs recently, mostly catching the tail end of things when a post goes up so I’ve been playing catch up with what’s happening but I’d read about Banjos’ dad and wanted to say that sucks and yous guys are the best, etc.
Thank you. She’s headed back to PHX tomorrow for a couple days for the church memorial that got delayed because of The Corona. She’s still processing everything and it’s gonna be a tough slog.
I’ve never really been at a loss for words (I think that’s common knowledge, lol), but the outpouring of love and well-wishes here and from the other founders has made me speechless. Thanks to everyone for helping soften the blow a little bit. It’s meant a lot more than I can express.
You founders did a very good thing. I can’t count the number of times that this site and the community have stepped up to the plate. Sorry for Banjos and your loss. You are good people and we love you from afar. Raise those babies right and we might right this ship eventually. Godspeed, Sloopy!
Dang straight — I lurk too much to say it often, but thanks again to all the founders. And continued best wishes to Sloop and Banjos. My wife already had to go through the like — and I know my time is coming sooner than I’d like.
As far as raising the little girls — are you asking him to teach the children quietly for someday sons and daughters will rise up and fight where we sat still?
Seconded.
I don’t really know what exactly happened as I only frequent the morning links, but I think I can piece it mostly together and would like to extend belated sympathies and well-wishes.
The move would be an extraordinary victory for civil rights activists, whose calls for the removal of that monument and others in this former capital of the Confederacy have been resisted for years.
Hmm…. I’ll say nope.
I hear the Rizzo statue came down in Philly. Funny. If I remember correctly, he was the guy that broke the segregation in the Philly police department and hired shit-tons of blacks into the department.
Numerous Times employees denounced Mr Cotton’s piece on Twitter and said “running this puts black people in danger”. Many said the paper’s own black staff would be at increased risk as a result of the article.
Fuck those black business owners that want to keep their businesses.
Hong Kong’s legislature approved a contentious bill Thursday that makes it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem.
China is asshole.
“George Floyd’s death is the symptom of a disease,” Walz said. “We will not wake up one day and have the disease of systemic racism cured for us. This is on each of us to solve together, and we have hard work ahead.”
It’s not about race.
“She isn’t even in the city! She’s in Virginia at a family home because she wanted to be in a place she could keep guns.”
McCain’s personal rep told us “it’s absolutely untrue” that McCain left the city for her guns.
Guns are a fine reason to want to leave NYC.
“My hope is that they will come back,” Lightfoot said. As for other businesses, “I got a resounding, `Mayor, this is our city. This is our home’ from a lot of other retailers. And I would hope that Walmart will follow suit.”
If they’re smart, they’ll leave the city.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote in a statement published by the Atlantic.
I thought Mattis had functioning brain cells. Didn’t he pay attention during the Obama years?
It became public that Trump wants to end occupation of Afghanistan again. Why else do you think Mattis came out of the woodwork?
Mattis sees himself as the Ike on a Team Blue ticket.
I see him as an Ike* as well.
*When we were really little, and someone would leave a turd in the toilet and forget to flush, my grandfather would scream “who left an Ike floating in the can?!”
HA! My Grandpa called them “Turdeau’s”
My Vietnam veteran f-i-l is partial to calling them “Fondas” – “I’ll be back in a minute, gotta take a wicked Fonda”
Re: Obama and division.
I was thinking about this the other day and it seems to me that a lot has to with narrative. That is, the narrative around Obama is that he was a healing uniting figure.! Therefore, it was people who opposed him who were divisive.
And vice versa for Bush, Trump.
And since the narrative is never wrong….
If Obama was such a uniter, how the hell did Trump get elected? It’s fair to say that Trump has hardened the divisions, but he sure as hell didn’t cause them in the first place. As they say, he’s a symptom, not a cause.
He’s inarticulate and boorish but he pisses the right people off. Some on these boards have chided me for that attitude but all I can say to that is “Loading…”
Democrats have the united, all together now, total buy in and support of 51%, Republicans have narrow, divided, razor thin, close election wins of 51%.
Narrative response:
“Barack Obama made tremendous progress in uniting our wounded nation in the aftermath of the divisive Bush presidency. Unfortunately, there are still a significant number of people who refuse the legitimacy of a black president and who do not want to do the right thing for the country (these are the people Hilary Clinton rightly described as “deplorables”). Sadly, the Republican party allowed a divisive figure to win their nomination and he exploited the minority of people who refused Obama’s healing overtures for partisan political purposes.”
Of course, there’s also a conservative narrative, but that’s about how it’s done.
Because the United States is irredeemably racist to its very core and purpose. Don’t you read the New York Times?
Well, fuck all those black-owned (and the rest of the) businesses in The Fan who benefit from tourists coming in to see the statues and then stopping to shop or have lunch.
Supposedly visiting historical things in Richmond account for 15-20% of $800 miilion (?) in tourism revenue. I am sure it won’t be missed.*
*I am not sure how this was derived or what all the parameters are, just something I heard recently that warrants further investigation.
To be fair, everything I know of that tom cotton fella makes me think he is a repulsive little shithead.
To be fair, you are commenting on this site. We are all repulsive little shit-heads!
So in local Cleveland news, there’s already a lawsuit about the riot/protest curfews. It looks like there’s also some battle lines being drawn between the mayor/police and downtown business owners.
Took ’em 1 day. The 3 month long corona lockdown on the other hand…
It’s bananas out there. This is what happens when you let 50 years of progressive narration run supreme.
You end up exactly with this chaos.
We no longer even share basic values of law and order, decency, rule of law – stuff like that.
I do see this as a civlil-culture war. And lemme tell ya, we’re losing. Big time.
I wonder about this. Obviously lack of rule of law is harmful for society. But France, especially Paris, has a revolutionary tradition–protestors there seem to come out at the drop of a hat. And that’s probably cost them some economic growth over the years, but it’s not like France is a third-world country or anything. Is it possible to just sort of co-exist with an element like this in society more or less indefinitely? Like, just treat the occasional riots as kind of like an occasionally recurring national disaster, like a hurricane or something?
Sure. So long as you don’t live in the cities that get torched and looted on a regular basis.
I suppose we can. I do tend to view them as fleas that can be treated with some medicine.
Maybe it’s healthy in some way?
But the problem is the policies and actions that come from it. ie erasing of culture and history, curbing of free speech etc.
At some point, you have to ‘cancel it’. It’s nice to battle them in the halls and market of ideas, but the left rules the game in academia and other places. Media constantly siding against people (ie for the violent rioters and against protestors wanting to re-open) is a symptom of a wider and deeper problem, no?
France is an interesting case to study because their government is essentially as dysfunctional as ours, maybe more so. It is very rare that somebody who wants the U.S. to be more like “Europe” will use France as an example.
We have lost, because no one wants to talk about the real problem, but the one that is easy to brow beat people with.
But don’t be mistaken, the riots are unpopular.
No sark, but what do you think is the real problem, Leon?
Police brutality, over criminalization, and police power. The biggest thing i see in the main media is how we as Americans need to have a discussion about Racism and how we all are racists and that all of us are at fault. Fuck you, this ain’t 1920, and i am not going to cow tow to you. Because no one wants to have the discussion, libertarians are stuck chasing for scraps from whichever team will pay lip service to our ideas, all the while spouting ideas wholly anathema to our ideals.
Libertarians are stuck playing the game which they’ve set up all the rules for. Of course they can’t win.
Very true. Not much of a choice. Sometimes i just get in “Fuck you i aint playing” mode.
I’ve been in that mode for 25 years. It’s the most liberating thing you can do.
I tried to tow a cow once. Didn’t work because he had hooves instead of wheels.
What do you do with a quadriplegic puppy?
Take him out for a drag.
What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs on your front porch?
Matt.
Is that an Ottoman name?
If they hadn’t put the blacksmiths all out of business, then one of them would have already shoe’d those cows with wheels! First they came for the buggy whip factory! Rage against the machine, down with capitalism… wait, was that sort of contradictory? Never mind, muh narrative!
*raises hand*
People?
People set themselves up for losing by taking a defensive position and holding out as long as they could. The plan should’ve been to expand liberty as far as possible: end public schooling, eliminate the Fed, reduce all govt red tape, eliminate the IRS etc. Erosion is a real force, but people weren’t about to go to war with govt when they took a piece at a time. It was a good run while it lasted. *Shrug*
We no longer even share basic values of law and order, decency, rule of law – stuff like that
Exactly
Also the reason our LCC should be MEX instead of PRC
We have not lost yet, just another battle is all. The war is still going and will for as long as we are around. Individualism will eventually win…our own sense of self is too ingrained in us to become a collective.
For most people, none of this matters. They still will go on with their lives. Like after Rodney King, etc. 98% of the country basically went back to work and life.
Academia, Media, and Entertainment are all reliably left-wing. However, the growth of technology has allowed alternatives to emerge and thrive.
Here’s what saddens me about the destruction of the statues and memorials. Many men died and many of them died and not because they wanted to preserve slavery. I really do not see this as an obviously political issue, and so it’s a dad example of nuance being thrown out for political points.
Particularly from the mainstream libertarian front. Plenty of think pieces talking about how we must abhor everything about the South of the civil war.
My kids hate it when I use a dad example.
The supremacy of the central state over its constituent governments is libertarian as fuuuuuuuuck.
Tarring secession with the brush of racism is an absolutely integral strategy in the long run. They know that, at some point, Texas is gonna say “fuck it, we’re out”. Probably when the next Democrat POTUS decides to wage a jihad on oil and/or guns. They will secede, and generations of “secession is exactly the same thing as supporting slavery” indoctrination will bear fruit.
See also nullification. Even though Nullification was never used to support slavery, and even done for the opposite, anytime you say “hey the states don’t have to put up with unconstiutional laws”, you’ll get Dr. Poli Sci Professor come and say “we fought a civil war over this, and we learned that the federal government is supreme”*.
* Actual think an actual poli sci prof told me. Fuck Legalism, Might Makes right!
Brainwashing is a hell of a thing. Got in a very intense argument with a prog over nullification. Talked about how nullification was used in the North to fight the federal tyranny of the Fugitive Slave Act. Dude refused to believe me. I pulled up sources, and he still refused to believe.
Progressivism is a religion, not an ideology.
A lot of the progressive’s practical playbook, the self-criticism, ‘Let’s have a conversation about how awful you are,’ comes right out of the destructive religious cults of the ’70s and ’80s.
You also see that stuff in rehab programs.
The purpose is always the same – get the victim to become complicit in the destruction of his own personality, so it can be replaced with something more pliable.
Well said.
Now try to explain the 3/5 Compromise!
I actually did that once. It only took five minutes, and I had to draw a picture, but I did explain it.
Politicians politicking for power is what it came down to.
?
This is what I go through every time I try to tell a “progressive” that American healthcare is not in fact a radical laissez-faire system and that the government does many things to interfere with the market forces that would normally keep prices at a sane level.
I can talk all day about the economic logic of how it fucked things up to push everyone onto this third party payer system, and they won’t even disagree. They’ll actually admit that maybe some rollbacks of certain policies would be beneficial… But the next time we talk, it’s like that whole exchange never happened. They’re right back to square one: “Free market healthcare doesn’t work; we should just be like Sweden and tap into the magical pot of free healthcare at the end of the rainbow, it’s a human right, blah blah blah…”
Political Science majors are generally mal-educated malevolent morons. It’s not about the law and/or philosophy. It’s about desired outcomes and means.
“secession is exactly the same thing as supporting slavery”
Even the colonies seceded to preserve slavery. It is known. ///1619project
“we fought a civil war over this, and we learned that the federal government is supreme”
Only people who want to be slaves to the government think this. Nothing in the federal founding charter does it say that it can legally prevent the states from leaving that which they voluntarily joined.
I have little sympathy for the Confederate monuments. They’re typically on taxpayer land, being maintained with taxpayer money. Blacks have good reason to find that offensive as hell as much as I find a taxpayer monument to Lenin.
Snapchat stops promoting Trump’s account due to his tweets
That is campaign ammo…
“We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice”
Trump isn’t doing that, the media is doing that by twisting and distorting whatever Trump says.
+1 fine people on both sides,
but the nazis and white supremacists should be condemned totallyOh noes!
Reporting from Bucharest, this week were zero protests against systemic Racism in the US. Very much lacking in solidarity I would say.
Most of the “protests” are things like this and this, which tell you it is far more about political assholery by those that would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven (burn the country down if they are not in charge and abusing power).
I saw there were some in Poland and it didn’t last too long.
The online climate is rapidly reaching a climate that would have pleased Stalin. “Comrade, I couldn’t help but notice that you have not been enthusiastic enough in supporting Black Lives Matters! Wouldn’t want anyone to think you’re a racist, now would you?”
Good lord. Just got off the phone with this guy that just. would. not. spit. it. out. All he wanted was some plan sheets for a road improvement project we are working on because he owns a few adjacent properties. A 2 minute conversation took 20 minutes.
Yeah, I got someone where I work who does the same. I have to interrupt them and say, “what is it that you’re asking me?”
Well, I mean what if he would have uttered wrongthink and you report him to the gestapo?
Swedish newspaper Expressen has discovered that Sweden cheated on PISA school tests by removing immigrants (foreign-born and Swedish-born) from the sample.
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1268300701156831232
Heh – good accidental admission that they haven’t done their genepool any favors lately.
The fact that they want to keep these things hidden tells you more about it than if they had actually just come out with it now, doesn’t it?
Oh, do tell the genetic component of school tests and Swedish authorities sweeping people who weren’t educated in their system and/or don’t know the language under the results rug.
Which gene controls that?
immigrants (foreign-born and Swedish-born)
Oh, Ruth Westheimer turns 92 today.
Haganah sniper Ruth Westheimer, that is.
I remember furtively listening to her radio show late at night on my clock radio when I was a kid. When there was no internet, a 12 year old had to resort to whatever he could to get titillation regarding sex.
Saw her being interviewed in person last year. Hilarious!
Mattis can fuck off. You can’t make General these days without swallowing a lot of PC bullshit – but he really believes that crap, which is why Trump rightly gave him the boot.
Didn’t Mattis get canned (resigned actually but you know) when he challenged Trump’s assessment of how long troops need to remain in Syria, with Trump being in favor of a reduced footprint or a pullout and Mattis opposed? I suspect he bears a considerable grudge that he let get the better of him.
Yes.
Gotta say as well that Mattis’ reputation should have been knocked down a peg or two by the fact that he was suckered by Elizabeth Holmes. Anyone who swallowed that fraud really should be taking a time out for a while.
Mattis left because Trump didn’t want more war….
^^^
I was really wanting to like him, but in the end he disappointed. Went along with the pro-war and the PC crowds.
Yup.
I want Flynn acquitted and for Trump to bring him on as NSA or Chief of Staff.
Just to see heads rolling and exploding.
For me it is more about seeing some of the high level Obama admin people making license plates or getting it good in PYITA prison…
Now that’s really dreaming big.
I dare not hope for so much.
Kill your heros.
the pro-war and the PC crowds
It is interesting the amount of overlap that exists between those two groups (some might even say, to the point of being just one group).
Hong Kong bans insulting the Chinese National Anthem.
*Kapernick kneels in protest* //jk He wouldn’t have the balls.
Or any inclination.
It’s probably just me, but somehow protests against police brutality ring hollow from a man who celebrates Fidel Castro.
Kaepernick and other athletes are COWARDS. Miseducated and over compensated is not a good combo.
There. I said it. Come at me.
For a lot of them, I just wonder how they’re going to like the pay of professional activist, compared to a big sports contract, after they finish helping the left destroy their industry? Oh, sure some of them will be news anchors on CNN, but for most of them, I mean the peons making a few hundred thousand measly bucks, I see soup lines in their future.
I guess the new commietopia will have sports. They just may be disappointed when instead of multi-million dollar contracts, for some food stamps, dear leader tells them to perform or else they get the stick to the feet.
Oh noes! Uncle Sugar might not come through with $$$$ for rebuilding!
Minneapolis says that they will need at a minimum $55M to rebuild after the riots. The story is all about how FEMA $$$ are not usually available for riots. And chances are slim that Congress can pass a funding bill for this. State leaders say they are willing to try to add rebuilding to the stalled bonding bill, but that was stuck during the regular session because the GOP already thought that it had too much pork. Adding $55M to it will be a tough sell.
I know there are a lot of innocent people in the areas that will be fucked by this, but I really hope they tell Mpls that you broke it, you bought it. Let the residents give the rioters the stink eye for the next 10 years while the area gets slowly rebuilt.
I will come out to Minneapolis to fucking riot, loot, and rape if they make tax payers pay for your mayor and governor being fucking giant cunts and letting this shit happen, dude.
Minneapolis will issue a bond and the Fed will buy it. I am not kidding.
This is a huge development in the bond markets and indicates that there’s not a really a limit to how far the Fed will go to backstop anyone and everyone, except the ever-fucked taxpayers and savers.
If i’m rading this correctly… This is the exact same thing the Fed did with the US Treasury. The Fed is essentially letting states print their own money.
You are rading this correctly.
My awful spelling aside. I wonder if any of the Balanced Budget states could challenge this as a violation of the laws around states issuing currency.
New York Times staffers are revolting.
I hear Vice and the Atlantic are hiring.
Sen. Cruz: Rosenstein Like Sgt. Schultz in ‘Hogan’s Heroes’: ‘I See Nothing, I Hear Nothing’
John Banner was one of (((them)) I may have to change my avatar back if I can figure out the new system
Several people from that show were (((them))), IIRC. Weren’t LeBeau’s parents killed in a concentration camp?
That I don’t know, but I do know Werner Klemperer was Jewish and his family fled Germany in the 1930s.
Clary himself survived Buchenwald.
Banner enlisted in the USAAF in 1942 although he served as a supply sergeant.
Both of them lost a large number of family members in the Holocaust.
You don’t have to use Gravatar, if that’s what you mean. I never have.
I like the (((General Burkhalter))) avatar.
I always like Burkhalter because he would call Klink a moron right to his face and wasn’t intimidated by the Gestapo asshole. But he was still kind of a bozo,
Exactly. Burkhalter was the best the Luftwaffe could produce. And even he was incompetent.
This is just this cabal’s latest reboot of this shit with the “I didn’t know this was going on” bullshit. After all their criminality didn’t result in the coup, they now are trying to mitigate the damage. This cunt was part of the coup cabal. They shouldn’t be allowed to claim ignorance was behind what they did. It is frighting how quickly the people that were part of this have simply decided to plead incompetence, since that is less horrible than being downright criminal. They should NOT be let off because they now claim incompetence.
Apparently Brees just got his mind right.
Brees must be buzzing.
He didn’t say anything bad and I hope he doesn’t apologize.
He’s being bullied by the usual suspects.
Sorry Rufus: http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29265750/drew-brees-completely-missed-mark-comments-flag
I see ESPN and won’t click.
I won’t. I can’t!
He said he thinks of his war veteran grandparents and freedom/opportunity/etc. (the normal otherwise patriotic stuff) when he see the flag so he refuses to protest it during the anthem at games. IOW a pretty standard position that will resonate with the average American. But that is wrongthink according to the regressive left. I hope he stands his ground and doesn’t apologize to those fascists.
Don’t worry. His opposition still gets to favorably compare Antifa to U.S. soldiers fighting the Germans in WW II.
And now the ME’s autopsy is saying he had a heart attack and also had The Corona*.
Complicates matters but he still should not have been pinned like that, especially after passing out.
And I said days ago that we’d have another covid death statistic.
He’ll be convicted of manslaughter I think although I’d rather see a murder conviction.
Is that going to be an option, or is Ellison going wildly overcharge him in order get another riot a year from now.
It seems like it would be but IANAL. A good defense attorney can make hay with that information though, especially in combination with him being intoxicated/high.
I think that they will be convicted no matter what in the first trial.
My gut tells me that Ellison and Co. will manipulate the process so badly that their convictions will be set aside on appeal and there will be a do-over. Hopefully they don’t get Brother Keith on that retrial and they get a good conviction of Chauvin.
The positive CV test was in early April. Of course, I’m sure he’ll still be added to the totals. If for no other reason than to have a non-long term care facility death. They’ve managed to get the total down from 83% to 81% so any help is welcome.
Do Uigher Lives Matter? Just asking, since the NBA doesn’t seem to think so.
It is actually racist to have any formulation of that other than “black lives matter”.
And here I was agreeing with Martin O’malley that “all lives matter”.
How many LeBron James jerseys have Uighers bought? That’s what I thought, fuck those guys!
These people are all despicable to me. They protest the shit that is easy and doesn’t cost them money. I will be impressed when they buck the CCP money and actually call out those murdering criminals.
I can’t imagine taking a fucking knee to these degenerates. The blood boils even thinking about them asking for it.
You would have to beat me down, then break my legs to keep me down.
There’s no way I’m bending the knee for anyone unless they have a literal gun to my head.
You must repent for the sins of your ancestors, honky!
Speaking of athletes, when Daryl Morey said something in support of Honk Kong, Lebron James was upset because it affected the financial prospects of athletes. Now Lebron is a great protestor of government violence. What a piece of shit. But a billionaire nonetheless so it is working for him.
Precisely. No one else from the NBA, not a single fucking one of them, dared to say anything that might offend China. Fuck each and every one of them. Steve Kerr is going to lecture me about state violence but continue to get richer because there are a lot of Chinese fans???
I wish basketball was an enjoyable sport so that i could stop watching to spite them.
The winner of the riots is… the same guy who won the coronavirus – Jeff Bezos
Oh no how do these big corporations end up so big. Let us close more small businesses, maybe it helps.
Meghan McCain left NYC for Virginia because she wanted guns
Sooner or later she will have to leave VA for the same reason.
Doubt it. She’s part of the nomenklatura. We’ve got another 40 years of John McCain’s funeral to sit through.
Lol. Does she really think that they’d do her any good?
And we’re suppose to choose between these two.
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1268455857433374722
That is as succinct a summation of America 2020 as you’ll ever see. The takeaway is we’re doomed.
hOw CaN yOU eVeN thINk thAt tHey aRe tHe SaMe? leSSer oF tWo eVIlS!!!
How to make sure people stay 6ft away from you at all times.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1268390607766130688
We did it Patrick! We saved the city!
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1268390246179377156
It’s funny cuz both are puppets
https://twitter.com/TABYTCHI/status/1268326821931692033
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote in a statement published by the Atlantic.
Barack Obama could not be reached for comment.
And stfu. I get that Trump is not exactly eloquent, but if you actually listen he distinguishes good actors from bad actors. Or are you on the side of looters/rioters/Antifa/etc.?
It’s worth throwing up again. Mattis is a deep-state swamp denizen just like the rest.
Make it more illegal Rand!
Interesting. Really curious what that one man did to get all 99 other votes in the senate to not matter.
He refused to allow fast track passage by unanimous consent. There was a similar bill that passed the Senate, but:
“The measure was quickly referred to the House, where it stalled for over a year. Rather than take up the Senate-approved bill, the House opted for Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush’s competing but similar bill titled the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. … That created some consternation over in the Senate, where Scott noted the title change would create delays.”
He said, we’re gonna debate it before we vote. That’s only “blocking” if you think the bill is so awesome that it needs to sail through without discussion under unanimous consent.
Hey, forcing people to support and argue for their virtue-signaling is racist.
I’ve been pissing off my lefty acquaintances on Facebook lately by asking questions when they post some stupid copypasta that is making the rounds. They don’t take it well when they have to actually think and clarify.
That’s why I like this place. Nobody gets a pass. (Except SP, for obvious, rusty reasons)
Make it more illegal Rand!
That is is already illegal makes one question what else is in the bill.
More thoughtcrime
The bill is here.
It makes lynching a civil rights violation. OMG! That’ll stop em! I mean, murder charges, no one is afraid of facing them; but no one wants to break civil rights laws!
And and they gets in some signaling as well:
One of the things going around twitter is that all sorts of game and media companies change their logo to something rainbowy except in Russia or the middle east or anywhere their empty social signaling would cost them something. Anyone know if that is true? One cannot trust what one sees on the interwebz.
Lol seems so
https://twitter.com/bethesda_fr?lang=en
https://twitter.com/bethesda_ru?lang=en
No Nork Bethesda?
Kinda like when Netflix talked about not filming in Georgia because of the Heartbeat Bill, even though they had been filming in places like Ireland that have a similar law but also in places with positively dismal human rights records like China?
Here’s an interesting thought I just read somewhere else: if the left wants to defund/abolish police departments, who do they think is going to enforce their beloved gun-grabbing?
Revolutionary tribunals?
In socialism there would be no guns and no crime. No need for enforcement. All crime is caused by capitalism.
They will solve that zen koan once they resolve the “all protesters are white supremacists, celebrities are cool because they contributed to legal funds for rioters” paradox.
The progressive mind is amazing in its ability to contort itself into seemingly impossible positions.
Jimbo you gettin my emails from yesterday?
Just replied.
The lefts plan to “abolish” police departments is really a plan to “make them beholden to leftist politics”.
That’s one way to get a reactionary movement really rolling in the USA.
Be careful what you ask for.
The new federal police force they’re going to push for?
I told ya that this anti-racist cops push was going to lead that to that…
I realize this is not what they want, but private police forces is an interesting concept.
There are at least 2 of those in the immediate area here. Any rioters or looters will likely get their heads smashed in in short order.
Whatever their modern equivalent of the NKVD is.
“if the left wants to defund/abolish police departments, who do they think is going to enforce their beloved gun-grabbing?”
But you see, they aren’t there to abolish Police. Or Police Unions. Or Gun Grabbing Police and their Unions. THEY ARE ABOLISHING RACISM.
This is perfectly, logically coherent.
They’re also going to be in for a rude awakening if they try the defund strategy. Sure, you can shutter police stations, sell patrol cars, and lay all the cops off. But the only sacrosanct contract in this entire country is the one between a public sector employee and his post-employment compensation package. You can’t (completely) defund the police, but you can end up paying for policing without getting any.
America seems like it is in a revolutionary fervor despite Trump still being in power. Very odd. How bad will it get once he leaves office?
Warren will be the effective president and Gulag Barbie and here ilk will be running wild in the shadows. Just ponder that, and there’s your answer.
Since he will almost certainly be replaced by a leftist Democrat, the revolutionary fervor in the streets will mysteriously evaporate overnight.
Yeah, I’m thinking this wasn’t part of the protests.
I thought Nicholas Cage preferred old mustangs names ‘Eleanor’.
Bruchettaward:
“Why does it feel like the violent ‘protests’ of 2015 and 2016 have been completely memory-holed? Like, do people even remember where BLM started?”
Read that as 2016 MLB was memory-holed.
No, it wasn’t. We won. It took 7 games. But we won. Cleveland, ya fought hard. Great work,. But you lost. To us. Keep your head up.
Baseball without fans in the seats is the most depressing thing. I’m here. I’ll watch. I’ll love. Especially to win again.
Nobody remembers the Dallas shooter.
“No, no… it wasn’t a shooter, it was a white supremacist with a car, and I don’t think ‘Dah-luss’ is how you pronounce Charlottesville. I assume that’s what you’re talking about.”
The racist black guy who killed 5 cops? Nah. Didn’t happen.
Seriously I live in Dallas and nobody remembers it.
John Allen Muhammed?
I grew up in Dallas (well, half Dallas, half California) and I went there for Thanksgiving 2016, a few months after it happened. Took my kids and nieces and nephews downtown to see some sights. We ended up my the Kennedy memorial and I said to my niece, who was a teenager at the time and lived there, “So this is about where the police got shot, right?” She looked at me like I was crazy. “Police got shot?”
The media were not that interested in prolonging the story.
And on a related note, someone around here (Little Rock) once made a comment like, “Can you imagine what it would be like if a terrorist attack ever happened here?” I replied, “Don’t have to imagine, we’ve had one.” No one remembers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_recruiting_office_shooting
/sigh
You tried to give us that game seven, but we just couldn’t close the deal.
We tried. You played hard. So it goes.
Best played WS ever? I’m (not really) sorry for you.
That was a struggle. Both sides. Played hard. I can’t give more respect. But that was ours.
We ran out of pitching with injuries, etc.
If Kipnis (or Santana?) hits that one fair, it’s a different drought ending.
Oh and that kneeling and apologize for your white privilege crap will be soon be made mandatory, at least unofficially, so better do it before you get fired, doxxed and turned into an international pariah. Well at least it will involve Chinese tech and no actual government so all is good.
I’ll live in a fucking dumpster before I do any of that bullshit.
At least you can smoke your government rationed weed bought from a government store using the social credit made with Chinese tech.
The answer to this is the same as always. Fight on your feet or suck dick on your knees. *NTTAWWT in some circs
Now I have to listen to Five Finger Death Punch and do my half-assed home workout before I blow a blood a vessel.
Meet the Monster – It’s hard not to be a menace to society when half the population is happy n their knees.
and
Death Before Dishonor – I’d rather die than live down on my knees.
These guys must be prescient – they wrote the theme songs of the civil war in 2007.
‘Professor Lockdown’ Ferguson, UK’s Covid-19 czar, admits crippling restrictions MADE NO DIFFERENCE
Now the Northeast states are starting a n incredibly long, drawn out, and painful process of “re-opening”. It will involve dramatic acts of safety theater and generally piss me off every day. They also plan to fuck up the schools beyond repair in the autumn.
They also plan to fuck up the schools beyond repair in the autumn.
That’s actually the only benefit I see in all of this.
I wonder if they are going to allow private schools to operate normally next semester? I couldn’t imagine trying to work while dealing with the bullshit the public schools are talking about next fall.
DeWine is planning on schools reopening in the Fall. My local school district has announced they’re working on a distance learning program for those who are still worried about COVID going forward.
My tax dollars at waste.
SEND US FED BAILOUT!
Not the most accurate source, but probably true.
“‘Professor Lockdown’ Ferguson, UK’s Covid-19 czar, admits crippling restrictions MADE NO DIFFERENCE”
Sure it did. It got us one step closer to getting rid of the orange dictator and ushering in the new golden age or ‘real’ socialism.
Nation’s Racists Repent After Reading Statement On Equality From Hidden Valley Ranch
Government Jealous Of Rioters’ Speed, Efficiency In Destroying Local Businesses
Babylon Bee is the news outlet we need.
It seems to be more accurate and logical than the competition…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQrtVNW3OPk
Another explainer of the most recent happenings with Judge Sulivan vs American Justice System. In the latest, the Judge explains himself by refusing to acknowledge anything relating to why the Government asked for a dismissal (the crime turned out not to be a crime), so yeah. And all that he says is “well i need to look into their motion to dismiss”. Something he could have done when the government made the motion.
Another lawyer i heard, said that Judge sulivan is dumb as a box of rocks and that he’s super dependent on his clerks, and so that is probably why he had to hire a lawyer to explain himself.
Sullivan fucked himself hard. I’m not a lawyer and I can see that as plain as day. I don’t get it.
Ostensibly, his Clerks fucked him hard.
This is totally how Che would handle it.
https://twitter.com/celebratequal/status/1268052630292566017
Does she think she’s going to be executed?
She is worried that some bull dyke or tranny will tattoo her ass once they claim her as their property..
LARPing GTA sucks when you get caught…
Woke white girls are the worst
Honestly, just give me an enemy that I can respect on the smallest of levels.
No shit. Perfectly willing to instigate the opening of society’s wounds, totally unprepared for the outcome.
I watch this reply and laughed every time.
https://twitter.com/Yoder_Esqq/status/1268532092008366081
Well played.
Uffda.
Isn’t getting arrested the entire point of civil disobedience?
You are demonstrating that you are willing to be arrested because you feel so strongly about some injustice. So why are you upset when you achieve your goal. Did she think that the cops would be handing out participation medals?
What was up with that? She a known member of antifa and was doing something besides just sitting there peacefully, at some point? I find it hard to believe they arrested her if she wasn’t up to something. Sorry, I know the cops can be bastards, but they’re still not going to arrest anyone for just sitting there. You’d have to be a CNN viewer to believe that.
One of our future congresswomen.
At least nothing will ever get done again, because when they’re called in to vote, they’ll cry and say it’s oppression to change out of their jammies and go do manual labor like that.
Gah! Signing off. It was just getting more interesting, too… Work needs sweat. See you guys tomorrow. Stay safe and shoot a looter for me if you can.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1268355778173378561
I posted this on the late night links but I think it should be repeated…
So I sign into work and see head guy has sent out a massive email. First 2 sentences = Black Lives Matter. Say their names.
I find this annoying enough, but then I plod through, and see if he’ll say anything about the looting. He did. He is offended by people calling this “riots”. Property can be replaced, not lives……
And now the virtue signaling is filling my email box.
If I said All Individuals matter and there is no excuse for attacking other people and their property I would surely be fired. I’m also thinking he’d be singing another tune if it was him who had rioters and looters running down his street.
There really is no escape
Property can be replaced, not lives…… – burn the office down and ask for a raise
Lol.
Don’t worry it is a private company.
Make a Twitter account claiming its him. Take a picture of his car, license plate visible. Post it on the Twitter with something like that “If you thugs would stop stealing and start working, you could own a sick ride like this.”
See how kumbaya he is the next day.
If you wanted to be subversive, you could reply with a list of names, starting with people like Philando Castile, and then moving on to Duncan Lemp, etc. See if anyone throws a tizzy that you said names of white people in there.
Thank you all for replying. I am really in a sick place between this and rona hysteria.
I am supposed to shut up and take it all but that is getting increasingly difficult.
I really like Leon’s suggestion. Subversive but how could they fire me for it.
Thank you sir for your email. Here is a list if names I would like to share.
Subversive but how could they fire me for it.
I’m certain they could figure out a way.
Having said that, I also like leon’s suggestion.
Good luck to you. Hang in there.
Now, I really must get to work (YES RUFUS I WORK!).
I’m in the same boat (see up thread). I have spent 15 years at this company trying to stay low and ignore the constant liberal bullshit. But now it is getting to the point where you can’t get by just keeping your mouth shut. If you aren’t in apoplectic rage nodding with them while they go on their rant, then they look askance at you. It is becoming extremely worrying.
Fortunately I work for a state university. So I know exactly what’s going to be in the e-mails and can delete without reading.
except riots have already killed numerous innocent people so…
Barry helping the cause.
Moreover, it’s important for us to understand which levels of government have the biggest impact on our criminal justice system and police practices. When we think about politics, a lot of us focus only on the presidency and the federal government. And yes, we should be fighting to make sure that we have a president, a Congress, a U.S. Justice Department, and a federal judiciary that actually recognize the ongoing, corrosive role that racism plays in our society and want to do something about it. But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels.
It’s mayors and county executives that appoint most police chiefs and negotiate collective bargaining agreements with police unions. It’s district attorneys and state’s attorneys that decide whether or not to investigate and ultimately charge those involved in police misconduct. Those are all elected positions. In some places, police review boards with the power to monitor police conduct are elected as well. Unfortunately, voter turnout in these local races is usually pitifully low, especially among young people — which makes no sense given the direct impact these offices have on social justice issues, not to mention the fact that who wins and who loses those seats is often determined by just a few thousand, or even a few hundred, votes.
So the bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both. We have to mobilize to raise awareness, and we have to organize and cast our ballots to make sure that we elect candidates who will act on reform.
Why didn’t he make that real change when he was in office?
Need to elect more woke Democrats who will take your guns and enforce disease epidemics and punish white supremacists or at least allow the mob to do so.
Yeah, places like Minneapolis have been dominated by Republicans for far too long now.
They had a Republican mayor for one day in the 70s. His influence still lingers. The last actual mayor that was GOP was 1957-61. In 2017, the Socialist Alternative got more votes than the GOP and Libertarian Party combined.
I have California Democrat cousins. They blame Ronald Reagan, seriously, for problems with California. Governor Reagan, not President Reagan. They literally blame him for things that he did between 45 and 53 years ago.
I had somebody blame Reagan for the Drug war yesterday. I said we’ve had 30 years of laws passed since then and 16 years of Dem presidents since then. Why hasn’t anyone done something about it?
The response was some mess about trickle down economics.
I know someone on Baltimore city council. He posted a few months ago that maybe it was time to consider that the election process in Baltimore is really about the Democratic primary and what that means for the city.
It was everything I could do to not respond with “It’s taken you a few decades to realize that?”
Every major city is this country is a one-party monolith. Somehow all the problems in those cities are the fault of the other party that holds zero power in any of those cities. Nice scam they have running.
Well Chicago replaced it with the Jungle primary which is basically skipping the actual election and making the Democratic primary the literal actual election…
Well he finally speaks some truth.
Yeah that’s always kind of been my thing, fundamentally, with most of these police brutality situations. Yes, its a nationwide issue with how cops are funded, trained, and protected. But at the end of the day, the reason Minneapolis or Baltimore or NYC has an abusive PD is because you fucking sheep keep voting for the same fucking party, over and over and over and over again.
Manchester, NH woman accepts plea deal in false report case
A Manchester woman has agreed to a plea deal after being charged with filing a false police report in which she claimed she was drugged during an off-campus fraternity event at the University of New Hampshire.
Olivia LeClerc, 20, has agreed to undergo mental health counseling and complete 40 hours of community service, according to Durham Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelley.
LeClerc was accused of presenting police a forged drug test that showed she had benzodiazepines in her system. According to an investigation, no one at the Kappa Sigma social held during the last week of February drank beverages containing the drug.
Haha no harm done. Silly girls xDD
She should face the same penalties as would have been given to anyone convicted of giving it to her.
A little bit ago I posted a few links to local cops arresting civilian militias that spontaneously organized to keep their shit from being burned down, promptly leading to their shit being burned down. I found a story of a militia that wasn’t arrested. See if you can spot the difference.
(For context, Lake Street is the ‘vibrant immigrant community’ where right-thinking people can go to get their cruelty-free vegan fusion tacos. North Minneapolis the most-violent-in-normal-times, highest concentration of black american-born citizens in the state and the only hipster thing about it is that they were putting up plywood over windows before it was cool.)
cops arresting civilian militias that spontaneously organized to keep their shit from being burned down, promptly leading to their shit being burned down.
“To protect and serve”
They’re playing a dangerous game. Once people start to believe that the government doesn’t have their back in any sense, they will form a real reactionary movement. That’s when things get really ugly.
The parallels to Weimar get stronger with each passing day.
Only racists want to defend themselves
I like to point out that in 1932 the Germans had a choice between the Nazis, Communists or a rightist military regime. In hindsight the last may have been the best but still all three Options were not optimal. I fear the US is nearing a similar choice at this point…
By “they” (the ones playing the game) you mean the police/power structure, or the people with AR’s keeping their supermarket from burning down?
I’m referring to the State.
I applaud black business owners and residents getting out there and protecting their property and lives. I’m left to wonder why white owners aren’t afforded the same right.
Case white supremacy and systemic racism?
So you agree there is a racial component to the policing?
I can pretty much guarantee that the orders from top-down were to prevent any possibility of further optics involving a white person killing a black man, no matter the scenario.
How did a place like Minneapolis end up with such a high black population?
For the most part, it didn’t. We lower per-captia black population than the national average. But all the minority groups in this state are concentrated in the twin cities. Get 50 miles out of the cities, and the minority percentage drop like a rock.
I’ve probably told this story before, but…..way back when I was in avionics school in the Marines, a friend of mine was a girl from a small Minnesota town. We had a 4 day weekend (a 96 in military parlance), so a group of us decided to take a trip from Pensacola to New Orleans. When we got off the interstate and started cruising around the streets in NO, her eyes were bugging out of her head: “Oh my gosh, I’ve never seen so many black people before!”
When the progs told us we were delusional to think those kinds of weapons would protect us and our property in times of civil breakdown I guess this is what they were talking about.
Let’s see it we can crowd source a “step three” for this.
Put that on a t-shirt and show it to the Karens when they complain about you not wearing a mask.
How many days until Big Tech and the MSM openly start suppressing all dissenting views? I mean they are the DemOp but make it official that they are no longer airing any “white supremacist” views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKDcz69EbE
John Boyega Delivers Rousing Protest Speech: If I Don’t ‘Have a Career After This, F*ck That’
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/john-boyega-speech-black-lives-matter-protest-1202235112/amp/
What fucking bullshit. As if his career will be affected by ultra right wing Hollywood. Stunning and brave. Such risk.
I have no idea who that is
Hes in the new Star Wars.
Being associated with those turds is the real reason why he shouldn’t have a career.
Seriously, though, the only way to become a pariah in Hollywood is to deviate from leftist politics. Even being a child rapist is no barrier, as Polanski demonstrated. The idea that any actor would be torpedoing his career this way is much funnier than any comedy to come out in a long time.
That’s the scary thing about the Left, to me. They have this persecution complex, even as they have seized total control of the institutions. You’ve got multi millionaires living in Malibu waging cultural war against middle class white people who’s idea of luxury is WalMart ribeye once a week, and they think they’re speaking truth to power, that they’re just like MLK or some shit.
Something something systemic racism something something.
You know this will lead to no kidding actual white genocide, right?
It won’t. Somebody might get the incredibly stupid idea to try it.
But the reaction would be extremely bad for minorities and everyone else in this country.
Yep.
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1268169436118294528
no it’s going to lead to people voting for someone worse and more tyrannical than trump. Most people look at this stuff with abject horror regardless of what they say publicly. This is fucking cultist weird shit.
But somebody might disagree with them and that would be traumatic.
This so fucking much.
I think we’ve underrated how important religion is to form a cohesive bedrock to our society. The tenents of christianity are mostly worthwhile and promote a strong foundation in society which encourages mutual respect and a work ethic with the promise of the delivery in the afterlife. Whatever the fuck this is encourages an entitlement and victim-hood complex of which there is no repentance available for the majority of believers and no central tenent beyond I’m not responsible for my problems you are and I need money.
This vision of persecution and selfrighteousness is downright dangerous and a productive of not having real problems. We are a victim of our own success. It appears a sizable minority/majority of human beings need stress and real problems, we must need to have fight or flight or a struggle for our lives to have meaning. That’s the only thing I can think of for why these fucking people invent a narrative of a total societal reformation when we live in objectively the one of richest and affluent societies ever created not that we don’t have our problems and these people cant have it.
Our county hasn’t had a new Covid death since April 2nd (39 total piling up in the streets). The total infected have continued to increase but a decreasing rate. It’s almost like they changed the way they’re counting Covid deaths. Maybe the conspiracy theorists are right and the Democrats used the virus in a coordinated effort to attempt to take back the white house.
My county hasn’t had a single death at all, but that didn’t stop them from keeping a concert from happening because of the rona.
Bar Owner Who Shot Protester After He Was Attacked Will Face Grand Jury After All
Sir, do you have a license to defend yourself?
I’m reasonably certain that you don’t need a carry permit to carry on your own property.
But, ya know, Nebraska…
*checks cc license*
*puts renewal appointment on calendar*
I don’t understand how it can be illegal to carry a gun on your own property without a concealed carry license.
Me neither. Virginia gun laws explicitly state that you can. I can’t imagine Nebraska would be more restrictive.
So Mob rule was okay when it gets those cops in Minneapolis charged but not this guy?
One more reason to not avoid jury duty. You never know what kind of case you may draw and how you may make a difference in upholding individual rights.
Got a couple of texts from my white friends asking me: How can we help be part of the solution…or some shit like that. My response has been, “Treat everyone like individuals and hold politicians whether they are Democrats or Republican, feet to the fire if they take any money or receive and endorsement from the FOP.”
Crickets.
Probably because they don’t know what the FOP is.
Clearly, they’re all Dapper Dan men – they don’t WANT Fop!
With all of the whitey self-flagellation going on these days, a quote from Ferris Bueller (of all things) keeps coming to mind: “You can’t respect someone who kisses your ass. It just doesn’t work that way.”
“Uh yeah I was thinking more like……a hashtag I could use. Like a really good hashtag.”
Free use policy for black guys from here on out. You’ve both earned it.
That’s hard work. They mean how can they signal their virtue NOW
Should have said “give me $500”
That’s what they were looking for.
and also had The Corona
Wait! Our government statistical experts have been assuring me that the appropriate way to count the death of someone with the Coronavirus is as a Coronavirus death. That means Floyd wasn’t murdered by the cop. He died of Coronavirus. Those protesters, looters and rioters must sure feel silly now!
Karl Manke says he won’t be bullied
A handful of customers milled about the lobby and sat in chairs within sight of the barber chair where Manke has continued to cut hair despite a governor’s order closing all salons and a Court of Appeals ruling last week ordering a Shiawassee County Circuit Court judge to issue a preliminary injunction forcing him to close his doors.
Manke said he’s consider closing if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer resigned.
“I have a right to work,” Manke said Wednesday. “Either Jesus comes, they cut my hands off or she resigns, one or the other.”
David A. Kallman, Manke’s attorney, previously said no preliminary injunction can be issued against his client until the Supreme Court decides whether it will accept his case.
The Michigan Attorney General’s Office filed a motion June 2 on behalf of the state Department of Health and Human Services to hold Manke, 77, in contempt of court.
I like his style.
“Either Jesus comes, they cut my hands off or she resigns, one or the other.”
Karl Manke for President.
I’m wondering are libertarians okay with Chauvin and co getting publically lynched or them being convicted by a jury in fear of mob violence?
And if they do think so will be a one off that will not be abused?
Oh and would anti-death penalty libertarians make an exception for them?
Look. I’m one of the most ideal idealists there is. And i understand that 1) there is no justice in this world. 2) the system we have isn’t perfect.
However, what you are talking about is pre-judging a verdict that hasn’t even passed yet. not quite the eye to justice you are presenting it to be.
I would have been okay with a passing civilian putting a bullet between his eyes to save his victim. I reserve public lynchings for politicians.
Yeah I still can’t watch the whole fucking video. So much time for that worthless POS to reconsider his actions, so much time for just one of those fucking cops to let his conscience speak to him and say “Uh Derek, you’re strangling a handcuffed prisoner, WTF are you doing.”
Shit, I saw a clip of two cops tackling a looter the other day. Hes struggling, one cop gets weight on his shoulder blades, and pops his knee up on his neck. The second cop leans down to cuff him, and immediately grabs the other cops knee and moves it off his neck, then cuffs him. That was in an actual tense adrenaline fueled situation. Middle of a riot, foot chase, hard arrest, and he still manages to keep his cool and hold his partner accountable and professional.
I heard one of the four did reproach Chauvin, and that at least two were assisting by sitting on his legs, but I don’t know because I don’t plan to watch it, nor the Dorn video.
The Dorn video is, in its own way, just as heartbreaking to me. I might be reading too much into it, but it struck me how the cultural context is different, but the human impulse is the same. The guy filming it is speaking to Dorn. The phrase he keeps repeating is “Hang on OG. Stay with me OG” Obviously in AAVE, but the sentiment is the same as a soldier speaking to a wounded comrade. Hang in there. It will be all right.
But he’s a product of his environment. A soldier, or a Boy Scout, would have put the phone down and applied direct pressure to the wound. He would have treated for shock. But hes not a solider or a Boy Scout just a black kid, in America. Public housing, public schools. He’s a product of an environment deliberately designed to keep his community exactly where it is. He can be a rapper, he can be an athlete. He can caper and dance for woke white people, make them feel hip and multicultural. But he’s not permitted to rise from that, and I’m past the point of giving the people running these institutions a pass for their supposed good intentions.
I just listened to the latest EconTalk, and it was about charter schools in New Orleans. The guest was white progressive woman and she was throwing some blame at charters for not instantly reversing a century of public schoolings damage. Like, that’s the fundamental dishonesty of these people. If a handful of charter schools can’t produce 80% college matriculation rates in New Orleans, then clearly they’re not the answer and we need to keep investing in Our Public Schools.
I can’t listen to econtalk or tyler cowen after their original joint podcast about the Covid lockdowns back in march. There respective positions on it made me more enraged than I’ve been about pretty much anything. Especially since they should know better and do know better.
My old sergeant from the Marines posted this, and it rang pretty damned true to me.
If the military policed our streets, we’d have less brutality and less people killed by them than the cops, there’s zero doubt in my mind. I know a guy who did four tours in Iraq, and somehow drew the hot spots each time. He cannot fucking stand cops, he said the worst fucking soldiers in his unit were the civilian cops. They singlehandedly fucked up the entire COIN program, repeatedly. Would treat valuable local allies like they were fucking squeegee guys. This dude controls a handful of villages along the AQ infiltration routes, he has ~250 guns hes willing to use to advance American interests, and the cops in the unit wanted to brace him like he was a corner dealer. Bark orders at him and shit.
He was a sergeant at the end, and on that last tour he had a PFC who was such an absolute fuckup with weapons that he emptied his chamber and told him he could only load with the explicit instruction to do so. Dude was on his local PD’s SWAT team.
I remembering hearing the same thing, that the worst hotheads in Iraq were reservists who were cops in civilian life.
I’ve had the same question for years.
I heard ex-military were screwing up the police force* (in one of many podcasts I listened to yesterday).
*¿Porqué no los dos?
Tucker Carlson had a bit about the “it is genocide” narrative last night. He went through all of the cases from the WaPo database from last year where an unarmed black person was killed by police. Some of them are familiar to those here.
Of the 10, 6 were cases where the police were being physically assaulted at the time. None of those were charged.
Of the other 4, two were charged.
One of those was the case where a neighbor called the non-emergency police number to report activity at a neighbor’s home – and the police were checking around the house, causing the homeowner to get their gun and look out the window. Bodycam showed that the officer fired through the window in less than a second. He’s been charged. But that’s not racism. That’s a screw up that got someone killed.
One of the “physically assaulted” ones was the one where two deputies approached a guy in a car on a warrant. The guy tried to back out and get away – catching one of the deputies in the open rear door. As he put the car in drive and drove away, the deputy opened fire, killing him. Not charged.
Those were familiar to me. Neither could properly be termed “racist”.
But the overall point – 10 total cases, only 4 that didn’t involve assaulting the armed police officer, and of those 4, half of the officers were charged with a crime.
No new COVID-19 cases from Lake of the Ozarks crowds, Missouri health director says
Oh no the fear and panic mongering media is wrong again!
Are you not disillusioned enough yet? Well, we’re just getting started on the summer of love. Just remember that as fucking stupid as shit has been so far, it’s guaranteed to get worse.
Stop sober-posting!
Dick
– John S. Hall
That’s the guy from King Missile isn’t it?
Sure is
NH GOP publicly critical of the Clown Prince
New Hampshire’s GOP National Committeeman Chris Ager has asked Gov. Chris Sununu to end the shutdown of state businesses that began March 16, reminding him that “the future of the Granite State relies on our collective success.”
Ager handily defeated Sununu’s choice for committeeman, incumbent Steve Duprey, at the NHGOP annual meeting in January.
In a letter to Sununu obtained by NHJournal, Ager — writing in his capacity as Hillsborough County Republican Committee chairman and on official HCRC letterhead — urges Sununu “to re-open all aspects of our New Hampshire society and business, limiting activity on a rare exception basis only.”
We cannot live in fear. That’s not the Live Free or Die way,” Ager wrote.
Well, it seems the choice has been made.
A friend of mine who is a Miami cop sent this to me this morning. An old video, but I was surprised that I had not heard it. Pretty stout from the chief.
Scruffy Nerfherder, could you explain to me a bit about the reactionary movement that may arise from this? Is it the Alt-Right or the NatPops? Do you think they are more likely to gain power then a Communist one? If so why? Aren’t you the one who thinks this because Scott Horton fears it?
I don’t know who Scott Horton is.
And I’m talking about suburban sheriffs, gun-owners in the countryside, people who consider themselves outside of this current national “showdown” between thousands of antifa and a couple hundred basement dwelling Nazis. The vast majority of the USA is sitting back and watching while the cities tear themselves apart. But when they feel really truly threatened, they will not remain silent or inactive.
Horton’s the ancap head honcho at antiwar.com
I confused Scruffy with Bob Boberson who in the Jewsday Tuesday talked about Horton’s fear of reactionary right wing movement.
Sorry, must have mixing you up with someone else!
What makes you think that?
I’ve been hearing a lot about how the right has the guns. Nothing seems to have happened…yet.
Maybe the lockdowns and this rioting is making a difference.
I have seen, and posted, rightwingers who talk about the New Civil War so I wonder how widespread this believe is among the Deplorables is.
The ones calling for the Boogaloo are not the ones that matter. They’re a small minority of loudmouths.
I’m talking about the ones that will vote for security and reassurance from anyone who offers it to them when they get scared. Because that’s what people do.
yep this will backfire badly. these people have no idea the can of worms they’ve opened up with scared white folks. Many people are going to sit quietly and vote anonymously. Some people are even going to signal they are with it and vote the opposite it’s what usually happens. Would not at all be surprised if elected officials seeking office won on giving more power to municipal police orgs when the dust settles here.
Nothing has happened at this point because the violence has been contained to the cities.
Not SN, but
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Pepes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombra_Negra
and any number of Irish paramilitaries.
If any NJ glibs were wondering how the state is going to fund itself – the answer, as always, is that they will stomp on property owners.
“the only alternative to a statewide property tax would be a massive sales tax hike.” Can’t share the burden – target those evil landholders.
A rude awakening for me living in NJ when my property taxes doubled in five years.
Here is a glimpse of the nightmare NJ is planning for September. Unless the state absolutely mandates it, I bet most districts give it up by Halloween.
So now my leftie acquaintances are pushing the Sesame St racism townhall pandering.
It led me to wonder, what is the current viewership of Sesame St now that they’ve been bought by HBO? Are inner-city kids actually watching it, or is almost exclusively suburbia now?
That led me to this article, which is almost too much of a confirmation bias on leftist mentality for me to believe.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/sesame-street-and-the-achievement-gap/401255/
Oh, good lord….
plus… serious question…
Who do you think is more likely to have access to Sesame Street and cable TV? Poor, inner-city black kids? Or poor, rural white kids? What do you think the cable TV penetration rate is in Compton vs Appalachia?
My question is what about those kids in the ghettos that are traumatized by all of the rioting, arson, and looting?
I have no idea what Appalachia is like these days, but 25 years ago when I went on a high school public service project to Wise County VA, I think the houses were more likely to have no running water than cable TV.
Jeez, I wonder if that was Neil Peart’s inspiration for The Trees.
Those were the people who read Harrison Bergeron and drew the wrong conclusion.
I saw a serious essay recently suggesting just that.
“Yet the problem remains. Sesame Street was made to give poorer children a leg up, but by virtue of being a popular TV show, it’s helped richer children too.”
OFFS!
Apologies if we have already gawked at this one:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1268077455668965376
Nice.
Collective blood guilt is always a good look.
My cop buddy from above said that one of his black officers joked after watching that video that he could have walked through that crowd with his johnson out offering them a chance to prove their sincerity and he’d have had them crawling on their knees to take a turn.
Friend just posted this comment, he wins the internet for the day
“If you wanna hate someone in 2020, don’t forget the Astros.”
We’d need baseball to start up for that…
Off to my first dentist visit in 19 years. Pray for l0b0t.
I will pray to St. Appollonia for you. (Not really, but all best wishes just the same.)
The anticipation will have been worse than the appointment, I guarantee it. Good luck.
Best wishes.
https://twitter.com/levance_/status/1268079843004026880?s=21
I’ve seen pics like this before, but I’ll admit I don’t get what they mean by justice here. It certainly doesn’t reflect my understanding of the word.
It’s all bullshit.
On the “what are we forgetting during this mess”‘ note…
Anyone remember General Flynn and Judge Sullivan?
What’s happening there? I have only seen one review of Sullivan’s (attorney’s) response, and it wasn’t exactly a glowing review. I have seen several headlines from CNN et. al. that seem to indicate that they think Sullivan proved that Trump/Barr has completely corrupted justice and destroyed the rule of law…. but I didn’t succumb to the draw of click-bait.
I also listened to this guy’s take, because Youtube suggested it. Dude is the most “New Jersey” Cannuck I’ve ever seen.
Beware of my sampling bias, but every lawyer i have heard says that this is unheard of and a farce. On Judge Sullivan’s side.
Peak virtue signaling?
“She wanted to do a little video for her Facebook friends too. This was aimed at all her Christian friends that are now fighting with her to protect their white fragility. The rooster in the Bible represents repentance for those who are wondering :3”
It always comes back to white Christians – they really are the embodiment of evil.
white fragility
Whites are fragile and also evil oppressors?
I think I’ve realized what my problem is, and why even here is making me angry.
I’m a fuckton more worried about the government’s response to the riots than I am the riots themselves. The rioters fucking suck. Destroying private property is inexcusable. But in the end they’re just a few morons. The government response to this has the potential to destroy our civil liberties forever. And it ain’t the left that’s at the forefront of making sure those liberties are destroyed (mostly because they’re not the ones in power right now).
You should be more worried about the government will do.
Because what’s going to happen is that government will ascribe to itself even more power and authority (and that shithead Roberts will abet it). Then the stakes will be even higher for control, therefore the battles for it, political and physical, will get more intense.
Weimar baby….
“mostly because they’re not the ones in power right now”
Oh come the fuck on dude. I know what I learned in grade school civics class, but if you think the Left is ever out of power in the federal, state, and local governments, I don’t know what to tell you.
They don’t control education either.
And it ain’t the left that’s at the forefront of making sure those liberties are destroyed
Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there, Bob. Do you really think that the mob getting its way does no harm to civil liberties? If you want to say it’s bad news for liberty on all sides, I can agree with that, but to me you’re a bit too close to the “Oh, it’s only property and they’re insured anyway” line of thinking here.
The property owners are most likely insured against the loss of their building. It may take a while but they will mostly get back what they lost (minus many months of rent likely). The owners of the businesses will go bankrupt. All their merchandise is likely not insured. I’m sure all those brand new Dodges will not be covered because somewhere in that seventy page contract there is a clause that voids insurance in the case of civil unrest.
The property owners are most likely insured against the loss of their building.
Its not just personal property insurance policies that have exclusions for civil unrest.
I’m a fuckton more worried about the government’s response to the riots than I am the riots themselves.
Rioting requires a government response, and will get one, one way or the other. The response will be either this government stops the rioting, or it is replaced with one that does. Perhaps by installing the government the mob demands (and how will that work out for civil liberties?) or by installing one that will crack down.
The way I see it, the riots are the threat to civil liberties, both directly and indirectly. The government is just the vector for the indirect threat.
BTW, JB, I’m glad you’re providing a dissenting viewpoint. It can get a bit of an echo chamber here sometimes. I know anxiety is an ongoing issue for you and I honestly hope the discussion here isn’t a contributor to it.
Ditto on all three counts.
It is, as much as I try to let it not be. One of the reasons I disappear for periods of time is that I get anxious over peoples’ reactions to me. I’ve been talking to many of y’all, from The Agitator to Reason to here, for over a decade. It’s one of my favorite groups on the internet and I don’t want to lose it. But at the same time I feel like there’s stuff I have to say.
You are not even close to being a toxic person on these forums. I think calling it like you see it is important. I’ve often been surprised by when i take what i think will be a different position, to find a few more commenters who agree with me.
And I’m glad you’re saying it. This is a better forum when you’re participating, even when we disagree.
Besides, disagreement with each other is a core value of libertarians! As Don Barzini says, “After all, we are not Communists” haha
robc’s 2 rules of libertarianism, once again:
1. Everyone agrees with libertarians about something.
2. No two libertarians agree about anything.
No stay and keep speaking your mind. I also speak my mind and can be overdramatic too!
Bruh… For probably at least 3/4 of the founders of this site I’ve been the turd in the proverbial punch bowl for over a decade and they still haven’t thrown me out. Don’t worry about it.
I once had the nerve to say car purchasing is irrational.
*hides under desk*
JB, if you are over on TOS, then you are doing gods work. I continue to hold out hope that the comment sections there can be saved from the crazies. I try not to descend into angry rants, but I am not perfect. Unfortunately pretty much every comment over there takes the tone of myself on one of my bad, cranky days.
It was such a blessing to finally get through the approval-gate so that I could post here. It is so much better to have a place for constructive, if heated, conversation rather than the dumpster fire of Reason.
It really is a disaster, basically just Hihn vs, shreek vs. Mary vs. Mike vs. John, only with multiple people playing each of those roles, at full volume, day after day after day.
I’ll echo that.
Ideas that have not faced the crucible are weak ideas.
(I’ll point you in the direction of all of SJW academia for an argumentum ad absurdum example)
I’m not sure if the fear is that Trump will use the army and it destroy him in November leaving Biden a good precedent to use it.
Or that it will re-elect him and he will use it in is second term or that his successors will.
Or that he will cancel the elections.
Or that the army will refuse which could cause a coup or a Communist revolution and/or a rightwing revolt by the trumpsters
Or the crackdown could cause a coup or a Communist revolution and/or a rightwing revolt by the trumpsters
This is the most intelligent analysis yet.
Yes
The riots are decreasing in intensity anyway. I predict the military being called in was just a threat (a longstanding presidential tradition).
I’m more worried about what political bullshit fallout there will be that threatens my rights.
Some of the rightwing types think that this will flare up again soon but who knows…
Nothing is worse for a society’s stability than putting millions of young people out of work, and we have governments across our great land that just did all that intentionally.
If Chauvin isn’t convicted, I feel pretty certain there will be more.
Keith Ellison sure took a bold step to ensure that there would be no murder conviction yesterday.
There will certainly be more, regardless.
Rioters aren’t being arrested and charged seriously en masse. If they are arrested, the vast majority are being charged with misdemeanors, and many are being turned right back out on the streets. The networks behind the riots are completely untouched. The same machine that is always looking for a pretext is still there, from the funders and organizers to the useful idiots. There will be another pretext. If Trump wins, that will be a pretext. There will be more riots.
The lefties are turning up the social pressure to get people to vote against Trump.
Expect more shaming, more excommunication, etc… in the months up to the election. It’s full on cult personality deconstruction from here on out.
What changed in 92 during the King riots, though? As near as I can tell, once people had blown off steam, it all just kind of petered out. There was no massive crack down was there? All I remember was a year or two of people getting arrested afterwords as police went through news footage.
I think i can agree with you. My only thought is that what is that your right to property is a civil liberty and the left is pretty much at the forefront of “You don’t have a right to defend it, and even complaining about it makes you a bad person”. This isn’t a left/right issue as much as it’s a left right power struggle.
I think it’s a left/right issue in that they both have “solutions” and both are bad. The left’s solution is to more or less make it intolerable or illegal to defend your own property. The right’s solution is … well, you’ve seen what Trump (and people like Cotton) have said. Nobody is actually doing anything that will matter for solving this problem long term, except for Amash bringing up a bill abolishing QI (and even that by itself won’t be enough).
And this is going to happen again in the future because in a couple of weeks we’ll clean up from the riots, a few attempts at real reforms will be shot down, and we’ll be right where we were again.
Minus some more rights protections.
Yeah i totally agree with you. This situation is completely fucked and us libertarians are left either picking a team that we think will pay more lip service to our ideas, while destroying other parts of our ideals, or fucking taking our ball and not playing. I for one am pretty tired of it, and part of why i refuse to vote R or D for the election.
Fuckin Biden and Trump, it won’t matter, because it will be the same damn awful situation.
Don’t make your inner peace dependent on what they do in DC.
Expressed that way, I agree with you. There seems to be a whole lot of blather from both sides and almost no one addressing concrete steps to actually solve anything.
I’m pretty worried about the increase it the leftist Kulturkampf which has made enormous strides in the last few days.
Personally I think Trump is too weak and the Deep State hates him too much to unleash the army but maybe I’m dumb.
And I have talking about for years my fears that the only ones willing to stand up to these commies will be a rightist movement that will likely be pretty bad.
And this awful lockdown shit makes things extra worse.
I just can’t really muster much of a chub for either getting pelted with gas canisters and pepper balls by national guardsmen patrolling suburban neighborhoods while I sit on my porch , or for LARPist/Leninist fuckwits destroying the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people. After 4 months and counting of house arrest, I’m also not particularly concerned about some black bloc shit stain losing an eye to a rubber bullet while cleaning out the local jeweler. My ideal resolution to this set of circumstances would be for the rioting pieces of subhuman shit to get bulldozed into a streak of red pavement lube, and then for Tim McVeigh Junior to celebrate the anniversary by blowing up the capitol.
Hit something hard, I don’t want to limp away from this piece of shit
I’m a fuckton more worried about the government’s response to the riots than I am the riots themselves. The rioters fucking suck. Destroying private property is inexcusable. But in the end they’re just a few morons. The government response to this has the potential to destroy our civil liberties forever.
Look, if a relatively minimal event like the riots is enough for the government “to destroy our civil liberties forever” than those liberties were an illusion in the first place. Nothing is getting destroyed because they never existed. The government is just dropping it mask.
That’s why I didn’t get the cause/effect laments from some when the riots first started that they would ruin any hope of police reform. Police reform never had a chance no matter would have happened. The government does as it wishes and any hope that we can effect or cause change is like throwing sand in the ocean.
Well we have seen some reforms aleady and they are shit: taking down more Confederate monuments and blabber about systemic racism and white supremacy.
You can easily apply this to the coronavirus as well.
Those aren’t reforms. That’s the noose tightening around America’s neck.
And yes, that’s dead on about coronavirus. This whole lockdown episode showed the government, down the lowliest county healthy inspector, can rule with a totalitarian iron first with zero repercussions. Civil liberties were an illusion.
Doesn’t mean we all agree and nod our heads. Just means we know we can have opposing views and people will actually listen, maybe even think about it. A place like this is a rare occurrence in today’s world.
I said it the other day, I don’t see how we get out of 2020 without getting fucked. Luckily, Trump did what Trump does and used the threat of Insurrection Act as bluster or arguing from a position of strength. It was never aimed at the rioters, protesters, or even his base I think. He directed it towards the Governors in my opinion and it gives him sound bites for future campaign videos.
I don’t want to see the military used at all, however, the states must end lawlessness or risk full capitulation as a legitimate seat of power.
What is special about this place is that it is a self-selected subgroup of a self-selected group. First, we peeled off from the rest of society and went to talk about nutty ideas of freedom.
Then, being tired of endless partisan trolls and irrational TDS that made a slew of anti-Trump people spend an inordinate amount of time explaining why the latest TDS attack on Trump was stupid, a second parting of the ways occured (after a particular precipitating event drove modern-day mini founding fathers to action).
So now you have a group that agrees on civility, no trolls, liberty and don’t be too stupid with your argument. And that’s about it.
Because one thing all libertarians have in common… they know that everyone else isn’t a true libertarian.
The problem is that the “government” is an abstraction. It’s just people. Where the mob is such a threat is that if their line of thinking becomes the dominant one, well that’s precisely the “government” we’re eventually gonna get. Because the government is just the people, and if the people predominantly want to crush dissent and restrict certain civil liberties, then that’s precisely the government we’ll get.
This
A government of limited powers is a delicate illusion that once shattered is very hard to put back together.
Exactly.
The whole point of forming a government as we did was to provide a structure for the power and limits on the looting.
Prior to the US, most governments were “strong men” who declared themselves king and extracted tribute. I would assume that city-states evolved from the organized crime cartels in order to limit the conflict between rivals.
All we added was a veneer of legitimacy via democracy and limitations on the scope of the plunder and abuse by penning a constitution. The constitution, being only paper, is only as effective as the people require it to be.
Happy news time!
The pork and cheese delivery service is working out great. The farmer ximself is delivering directly to my house bringing quite tasty cheese and very tasty porkchops like so:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_20200525_193911-scaled.jpg
They’re heritage breed forest-raised acorn finished blah blah blah, and I don’t know if it’s realy the specially raised pigs that are why they’re so damn good or if it’s because I’m sousviding prior to searing them because they’re to thick to cook directly, but they are some tasty treif.
The farmer is a FtM with a cult of wimmenfolk xey’ve got working for free. So I know someone willing to take aging orphans off my hands.
meat is murder and cheese is sexual assault
I’m also getting a veal cutlet this week, which I guess would be pedophilia.
That looks beautiful. Very nice marbling.
One looked exactly like a porterhouse steak, but it was already in the sous vide.
Mmmmmmm porkcops and cheese.
Their bacon is always sold out.
https://moxie-box.com/collections/all-products/products/whey-fed-bacon
Nice
Pork and cheese? This is America, you speak American.
That car dealership in San Leandro is owned by a relative of one of my favorite customers. The guy is likely going to lose everything he had over this. On Monday I went by the rental building that he owns to change the locks on one of the units. The woman who was in the unit had killed herself because of the shutdown. She had no family here and was in her 60’s and retired and used her free time to volunteer for various causes. After two and a half months of sitting alone in her apartment she had enough and wrote a letter to her friend that if she didn’t call by the Wednesday before to contact the police and my landlord buddy to open the unit. The guy is generally one of the happiest people I meet in my day, but is as far from a softie as you get. He looked like he was about to cry the whole time I was there on Monday.
Just the sacrifices we must make for progress and safety.
. The guy is likely going to lose everything he had over this – he was insured property does not matter racism etc… No matter the lives destroyed. Tow the lion and prog harder.
?
So many wasted lives just because they couldn’t help themselves and politicized a virus.
Fuck. Sorry.
That’s horrible.
That really sucks. Sorry to hear.
Thanks guys.
I haven’t forgotten your mention of her. What a shame about her tunnel vision. Her Englishness might have contributed to her depression. (Granted, I don’t know what the general mood is like in SF or in her neighborhood.)
The unseen seems to exponentially outweigh the seen.
I don’t think we would have put up with this house-arrest crap in the 20C; we didn’t have the technological workarounds (read: kludges).
(And of course my condolences to your clients.)
Client.
Thanks T. Yeah, from the beginning of this I’ve been thinking about the unseen. I read Bastiat a decade or so back and it had a profound effect on the way I consider things. I knew that shutting things down for anything longer than a couple weeks would lead to many more deaths that were not counted. The groupthink is strong here. I got in an argument with another regular customer’s son a few weeks back because I referred to what was going on as a “panic”. He did not like that one bit and next thing I was getting accused of being a denier and Trumpalo. Despite that, there are plenty of people here who see exactly what is going on and are plenty pissed off by it.
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
🙁
Well that’s downright miserable. I hate this lockdown so much. I’m sick of it all. Rationalized away by cowards with a complete absence of honesty, reason, humanity. Thank goodness for glibs.
And Toby Young!
Am so disappointed by Boris. He wants to proceed with HS2 and even worse, the Green New Deal? At least his HK proposal shows fortitude.
PS. You aren’t shagging any non-housemates, are you? (That is of course a joke and rhetorical Q. Ugh, you thought Python’s tax on “thingy” was ridiculous…)
Pretend that this is where I link Bernie giving a speech about how it is the rich who have looted america for the last 40 years.
More happy news:
Guess who’s got two thumbs and has their local gun range re-opening? Now if I can just remember which part makes the gun go bang…
On a related note, since I’d been a subsriber with them for a year, Target Sports USA sent me a box of some crappy 9mm (CCI Blazer Brass) along with various promotional swag and a couple of mag pouches. However, it did all arrive packed in an ammo can, so that’s useful.
Hey man, those fifty rounds of practice ammo might be the ones that make the difference!
I really go back and forth on Target Sports. I’m still holding a grudge from when they fucked up an order and refused to make it right. But man, sometimes they just have the best deals around…
They are (almost) the only people who will deliver directly to my home in NY. And I love the prices/selection/free shipping.
Reminds me. I need to call on my shortage. No response from email. Worst case is I initiate a chargeback for the missing items.
Chicago peeps: Know of any beer shops with good selections that deliver? Want to get my brother something for his marriage (was supposed to be in August, but he postponed it due to the virus, now getting married via Zoom and then we’ll be having an actual in-person celebration in April).
(he lives in River North, if that matters)
Binny’s is delivering via Instacart.
Gauleiter Wolf lifts cower-in-place; however, many restrictions will remain in place.
The stay-at-home order that has governed life in Pennsylvania since early March will expire at day’s end Thursday as the entire state moves into the yellow and green reopening phases, Gov. Tom Wolf said.
But Wolf said he will renew the 90-day disaster declaration that was set to expire along with the stay-at-home order.
Google is watching me.
Just got an email with a map of all the places I visited last month. I definitely turned off some google tracking service several years ago after I had seen all the trips made years earlier–very creepy. I don’t recall turning it back on. This email looks like intimidation–it clearly shows that I traveled many times to a neighboring state last month without quarantining myself for 14 days after each trip.
If those are trips to NH… the Clown Prince never required outsiders to quarantine when they came into the state, he only asked that they do so. There were also many exceptions (like short day trips).
Mass. requires (perhaps urges) a quarantine after out-of-state travel. I don’t know the details because I never intended to comply. Yes, that was NH. I’m pretty sure I made more trips to NH in May than in any previous month and I used to travel to NH to ski every weekend.
Oh right.
I ignored the MA quarantine on a few occasions.
Google is notorious to turn those services back on after updates to an app or your phone without your permission (well maybe not without, probably in some TOS that we never read)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ23kosLFec
? ?
That is creepy.
On a lighter note, does the right to shoot looters extend to going after that damn squirrel with a squirt gun if he tries to get at my bird feeder?
I don’t think there is a right to shoot looters that’s going to wind up going your way in court. In some places if they are looting your house you may have some leeway.
My wife has suggested squirt guns with a chlorine/water mix.
Get a redtail hawk.
The only thing that worked for me. And it worked like a champ. Once those hawks moved in… no more squirrels, no more chipmunks eating all my flower bulbs… nice!
Then the damned woodpecker moved in and started destroying my chimney.
A few big rat snakes would work, too.
Have you overlooked the trebuchet option?
i thought there were special anti squirrel birdfeeders. Anyway birds are scroungers
BRIAN: Uh, well, the birds, then.
EDDIE: What birds?
BRIAN: Any birds.
EDDIE: Why?
BRIAN: Well, have they got jobs?
ARTHUR: Who?
BRIAN: The birds.
EDDIE: Have the birds got jobs?!
FRANK: What’s the matter with him?
ARTHUR: He says the birds are scrounging.
BRIAN: Oh, uhh, no, the point is the birds. They do all right. Don’t they?
FRANK: Well, good luck to ’em.
EDDIE: Yeah. They’re very pretty.
Squirrels are damned smart. They can defeat just about anything. It took them a while to solve the lever-arm closing thing. They ended up learning to hang from the side and reach around, scattering the seed on the ground with a paw. Then they went to go eat it.
They used a similar strategy for the one suspended between two trees on a line. It was too far to jump to. Protected by a disk that meant they couldn’t climb down the line. So they learned to just jump at it, grabbing the line. That would get it swinging… then they could jump an hit the feeder, making it swing more and knocking the seed out. Eventually they’d either catch on and sit there emptying it, or they’d whack it enough to empty it.
Those things are amazing. Evil, destructive and amazing.
happy KillDozer Day
Notes found by investigators after the incident indicated that the primary motivation for the bulldozer rampage was his plan to stop the concrete plant from being built near his shop. These notes indicated that he held grudges over the zoning approval. “I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable”, he wrote. “Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
Happy day!
Well today I have achieved very little and yet somehow seem to have made a mess doing it. I don’t understand how the mess side (M) of the mess to achievement (A) ratio is basically constant. M has a fixed minimum value below which it cannot drop, even when A≤0. However, whenever A≥0, M rises exponentially in proportion to any increase in A.
I don’t know how to express that as a formula. I suppose I would need some data about the exponential rate of growth of M in relation to increase in A.
I’m pretending I know egghead math stuff. Is it working?
Did you get day drunk… again? That may be it
I wish! I haven’t been day drunk since VE Day, and that just meant I was sober again by the evening and more or less just fed up.
Besides the pedantic quibble that boldface is typically only used for vectors while those are scalar quantities… what you want is a piecewise function, where M is a function of A and M(A) = M₀ if A ≤ 0 and M(A) = M₀exp(kA) if A > 0. You then need some data points to solve for (or estimate) M₀ and k.
/responding seriously to a likely unserious post
exp is the exponential function (i.e. exp(x) = e^x) but shouldn’t have been italicized… oh well
“Ellen DeGeneres deletes tweet referring to ‘people of color’ after receiving backlash for not referring to ‘black people'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8386409/Ellen-DeGeneres-receiving-backlash-deleted-tweet-using-term-people-color.html
Nothing will ever be good enough for these assholes.
Solution is just stop using Twitter….but they never will, see Trump
“The lesson is, don’t ever try.”
How the fuck can you keep up with the shifting rules?
This new religion is more complicated than Old Testament Judaism. And these new priests suck balls.
I think that’s the point of their being a “vanguard” element – you can never keep up and so the “constant revolution!” makes sure that noone, ultimately, is woke enough or oppressed enough, or whatever. Nice one, Trotsky.
So when will the woke thermidor happen? At some point a bunch of SJWs will crush the cancel culture to prevent themselves from being canceled.
They don’t even have cool hats.
Ellen DeGeneres is so mean.
She tried to create this fun loving persona, but my wife has a story of a friend that has a Make-A-Wish to meet her. The kid who wanted to meet her was given 10 minutes, no more than that and her handlers were all assholes.
I saw someone phrase it as black people of color (BPOC) the other day. I can’t keep up with all of the rules and acronyms.
It’s the BPOCalypse out there I tells ya.
Is it BAME in the UK?
That’s the point. It’s not about not being offensive. It’s about knowing who is in and who is out.
It’s the basis of all etiquette, really. The arcane rules of upper crust society (bewildering array of cutlery at table settings, for example) were devised to allow a person to quickly identify who wasn’t really our class, dear.
Good point
I still think that as the new religion, this is the priesthood interpreting the sacred texts as they receive enlightenment from above. The entire point is to keep you coming to them for guidance, maintaining their utility and control.
How else is someone with a grievance studies degree going to be of worth in society?
I’ve seen BIPOC for black and indigenous people of color. I guess the Injuns don’t rate for this one.
No, that’s what I saw. Except there was no “and” so I’ve been scratching my head about black people being indigenous to North America. It contradicts their 1619 or whatever narrative.
I guess it would be simpler to just say everybody but whites, but I guess they like to keep the POC status of Hispanics, Asians, Jews ambiguous depending on the situation.
or as KSuellington beat me to.
What would an Indian really know about a history of being oppressed? They don’t even trust the Federal Government like a good leftist should.
There is a lot of stuff going on that is worriesome.
1. Civil Liberties being disrupted. Several Localities have supsended public gatherings (thanks corona) despite no current rioting (see: SLC)
2. The War rhetoric being mainstreamed. Before last week, someone talking about a Civil War, was either a crazy nut job, or a person talking figuritavely about the culture/political war. Now it is becoming more accepted to start saying we are in a shoot-em-up war.
3. The Increased racialism of our society. Tribes are being drawn, and it isn’t good.
Now for the good news.
2, 3 seem to be limited to small groups of radicals
Wait…..what? When did that reverse itself?
You can’t play unless you’ve confirmed the acceptable terminology du jour (which has no single official source.) https://www.bookwormroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Bloom-County-Colored-People.jpg
Nineteen-freakin’-eighty-eight.
That was after Jesse Jackson had gone from “colored” to “black” to “afro-american” to “Black” and then “African-American”… People of color was the next in line. All in about a 20 year span.
At that point you have to believe it was all part of the game. Just keep being professionally aggrieved.
As far as I understand the leftist idiocy, “people of color” refers to everyone who is not white. Asians get lumped in with the color side with convenient and tossed over to the white side when convenient. Much like the Chapelle Show skit with the racial draft. In my opinion that phrase is one of the most reprehensible that the left has managed to get into common usage. Dividing humanity into two groups is fucking evil.
Something, something, where do Jews fit in all of this…
Same as Asians, only more extreme. Either the most oppressed ever, or the root of all evil. Just depends on which version fits the narrative.
Agreed. I use “colored people” just to annoy and , if asked why, say I only recognize one race, the Human race. And if the NAACP doesn’t feel the need to change, then why should I?
Nono, whiteness is evil. That’s why you can use PoC to refer to those uninfected by that white filthiness.
Whiteness, like any form of normaility is anathema. Everyone must be the victim and oppressor of everone else. There can be no commonality between pople other than obdience to the God-state.
Haven’t we rounded back to “colored people” or is the NAACP name still racist?
My wife has the worst luck during the Ronaocoplyse. About half her orders aren’t being delivered. They ship and then linger in a location. I told her to call the company and tell them the item is most likely stolen.
She ordered something 2 weeks ago and it has been listed as handed off to carrier in Compton. Someone stole your box. Its that plain and simple if there as been no scans since.
That box is…..straight outta Compton.
*puts on sunglasses*
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH *Miami skyline*
https://www.fox29.com/news/police-investigating-atm-explosion-at-restaurant-in-logan
Philly is the next Detroit
Fucking Amish should stay in Lancaster County where they belong!
Bombs aren’t violence, apparently.
Somebody called him the n-word, so he’s responding the only way he can.
https://twitter.com/lt_freedom/status/1268313174639611909
Sad.
It just occurred to me that leftists are exactly like the aliens from Independence day.
They travel light years across the galaxy but use your own satellites against you for communication and coordination?
They have impenetrable energy shields that can be disabled by a primitive society using a basic programming language without any knowledge of their systems, architecture, language or protocols?
They have a giant machine that is capable of delivering a blast large enough to destroy a city and simultaneously tough enough to be located directly over that blast … but fragile enough to be completely destroyed by a missile designed to disable a fragile aluminum flying machine made of aluminum?
They can design systems and warships that can fly from space to the earth’s surface and back again, have energy weapons of enormous power… but don’t have targeting systems capable of hitting a fighter jet?
They do not want to live in peace and want you to die…
“WELCOME TO EARTH”
*forearm shiver to the skull*
Oh….
If that’s what they wanted then they should have just stayed in orbit and killed everyone from space.
This poor kid ……turned into a cheap prop by a vile mother
People, particularly white women, are desperate for acceptance and approval by others. They use their children to further their personal social goals with no regard for the damage to the children. It’s the same mentality that puts little girls in beauty contests, has parents transition their pre-pubescent children, etc…
It’s fucking sick and should be shunned.
She definitely lacks good mom privilege.