Sports? Yeah, no sports.
Priestly and the rest of the original cast (four of which didn’t appear in a ton of episodes, including the two Walsh’s who the entire show was premised on, and who were promptly forgotten once they left). Also, those bastards on Hulu removed the series finale from the streaming service so people can’t even know how the fucking show ends even though they spent weeks watching it all the fucking way through. FUUUUCK!
Writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on this day. That cheery guy shares it with legendary cartoonist Jack Kirby, baseball player and manager Lou Piniella, pitcher Ron Guidry, actor Luis Guzman, Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei, singer Shania Twain, hockey superstar Pierre Turgeon, 90210 actor (until he left the show and the rest of the cast inexplicably didn’t talk about his character at all even though Steve Sanders and a few rotating characters lived in the Walsh house through the entire remainder of the series. And they did the same to Brenda when she left after Season 4, although they traded up with Tiffani Amber Thiessen on that deal.) Jason Priestly, actor Jack Black, singer LeAnne Rimes, and that’s pretty much it.
That wasn’t a very good list. Oh well, on to…the links!
Abe exasperated by the bulldog-faced German leader
Shinzo Abe is stepping down as Japanese Prime Minister due to health reasons. Wow, dude had been there for some time and seemed like a relatively good trading partner for the US.
Donald Trump ripped into Joe Biden as he accepted the GOP nomination for President. It was past Biden’s bedtime, so no reaction yet.
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. “You don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn” says the California government, bemoaning people trying to save their own homes.
Rand Paul was attacked by protesters as he left the RNC event at the White House. I’m sure that’ll generate some chuckles and more applauding of his psychopathic neighbor by leftists. Glad he’s ok.
Well, this guy’s business is probably gonna get burned down now. After all, he’s a “vigilante” according to a lot of talking heads.
Rittenhouse being violently assaulted
The charges keep piling up for Kyle Rittenhouse. I’m curious to see how that circus plays out.
It’s business as usual at Chicago Public Schools. I, for one, will not be wearing a shocked face today.
LOL, good luck with this movement. He’s the most-watched talking head on TV by a good margin. You people are wasting your time.
Texas is getting closer to being back to normal. Not that the restrictions should have been there in the first place, but this is definitely a move in the right direction.
I know I’ve never played this one. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Now get out there and have a great day and an even better weekend, friends!
mornin’
They are going in despite California’s firefighting agency repeatedly warning people that it’s not safe and actually illegal to go into evacuated areas, and they can hinder official efforts to stop the flames. The former head of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the effort near a cluster of wildfires around the city of Santa Cruz is larger and more organized than he recalls in previous blazes.
“People are frustrated with the lack of resources available. People are always going to try to sneak back in, but it sounds like this is growing to a new level,” said Ken Pimlott, who retired as director of the Cal Fire in 2018. “I haven’t seen people re-engage to this scale, particularly with the level of organization.”
Maybe they have stopped believing in Big Nanny, and realize they are going to act on their own behalf.
I think the theme this week is people in blue states and cities have learned their governments can’t or won’t protect them. Not from wildfires, not from crime, not from rioters. The lesson people are drawing is move someplace sane or take steps to defend your person and property.
I hope you’re right. I’m afraid the lesson they learned is “the 1% aren’t paying their fair share to fund vital social services.”
“yeah, fund those vital service to save my $1.5mil home…oh shit, I’M A 1%, DAMMIT, I mean, the 0.01% need to pay their fair share!!!”
For some reason, I keep getting text messages from the Ohio Democrats asking if I’m going to support Biden. If I have the time, I’ll engage them. Last time I got asked what was deciding my vote, I responded with: “Portland, Kenosha, Cleveland, Seattle, 401k, criminal justice, school choice… should I keep going?”
The response was that Biden wants to set up a national police oversight commission, and enure that every policy department implements reforms.
They think they still have a chance on the police reform angle would be my take away.
It doesn’t help that for every good reform idea they have, there’s a half dozen like “no bail”, “ignore pissing on the sidewalk”, and “let’s bump up the threshold for theft to a thousand dollars”.
This is one of those libertarian blind spots. The vast majority of the people in this country do not have a problem with the cops arresting criminals. They don’t have a problem with cops “bending the rules” to “get the bad guys.” Personally, I blame TV shows for this.
It’s really only libertarians who actually want real criminal justice reform. Progs want to empty the prisons of criminals and fill them with deplorables.
“national police oversight commission” sounds like another “let’s throw billions of dollars at police departments to ignore local problems and focus on some national fetish.”
I guess the strategy is if you’re under the age of 50 you’ve only been duped by this shit once or twice so you don’t remember and have no knowledge of the dozens of times they’ve done the exact same shit which has led to the current shit show.
Yeah…. they seem like weasel words for throw money at the cities that are currently burning without any goals for real change.
/still under 50.
Everything the modern Left does revolves around no show jobs for their actual supporters: over-educated useless drones. It’s not about the poor, the poor are the excuse to set up new bureaucracies and new government funded nonprofits.
Back of the envelope math:
17.6 trillion is the yearly American income. That’s 3.5 trillion in federal revenue at a 20% flat tax rate.
There’s 130 million households in the US. You could give the 50 million poorest households 40,000 dollars in cash, per year, and it would cost 2 trillion dollars. Just run it all through the tax code, straight cash payments to the poor, and fire all the government drones. That leaves you another 1.5 trillion for general government, infrastructure, and defense. Plenty of money.
I think this has more to do with the general restlessness people are feeling after being cooped up. Northern California was one of the first lockdown areas, and one of the most drastic. I talk with people up there from work, and they are full on believers in the COVID nonsense, but underneath that loyalty, they are going batshit insane.
Maybe they have stopped believing in Big Nanny, and realize they are going to act on their own behalf.
In that part of the state in particular? Bwahahahahhaha
‘Mornin!
HEY YUFUS!
I pulled another overnight, and its TALL CANS for breakfast.
I got up at 3 for an early call, then off to play a tournament, then it’s Tall Cans! for breakfast,
Cheers!
Rand Paul sure seems to attract a lot of personalized hostility from leftists. Maybe he should consider getting a bodyguard.
Ken White has gone into spittle-flecked rages about him on more than one occasion.
That’s because Ken White is a raging asshole.
It’s sad. Popehat used to be one of my daily go-tos.
That speaks more about Ken than it does Rand.
Why was Paul wearing a mask? He has already had the WuFlu and recovered?
Opticsman!
It’s spelled optician.
What’s crazy about it is that Paul is opposed to the war on drugs, excessive penalties for victimless crimes and is the one to introduce legislation to ban no knock raids nationally. It really shows you how deranged these people are that they aren’t even aware of their allies in reducing police brutality.
I have a leftist but generally reasonable friend who told me he hates Rand. All i can make of it is that Rand is willing to work with Trump.
He’s against spending Moar if you simply try to borrow it. That is unacceptable.
I think they hate the ‘fro.
Rand is in favor of freedom – makes him the opposite and sworn enemy of the commies. And that’s all these people are regardless of their excuse du jour for forming a mob.
Nail. Head.
I have had a similar conversation. The issue is his stance on Abortion. I quickly pointed out that he’s against it in only two ways, personally, and via state sponsorship. I then proceeded to explain how he’s the only senator to have the balls to stand up to the endless drone wars, incessant spying on American citizens, and what has become an international drug war.
I literally saw the wheels begin to turn in his brain for a split second, then he blinked and said, “I don’t care how good he is on other things, if he’s against planned parenthood, he’s a racist…”
It really shows you how deranged these people are that they aren’t even aware of their allies in reducing police brutality.
I would wager the majority in that mob do not even know who Rand is they just knew he left the white house so deserved to be beaten.
Yeah, I think for most the hatred is as simple as the media tell them to hate him.
Yup. This is what I wanted to say. Rand should be a guy that they should be working with.
What probably infuriates them the most is that Rand is smart enough to sway Trump on a few issues. I have no proof, but Rand has played Trump the way that the Dems should have. Flatter the shit out of him while whispering about how smart everyone would think he was if he stayed out of Syria, or worked on criminal justice reform.
Not that those would have been the things the Dems whispered in Trump’s ear.
One of the things about Rand (and this might be a defense of Jo Jorgensen) is that he talks way different than his dad about stuff, and at times sounds little different than a garden variety Republican, much to libertarians’ dismay. But as best as I can tell, he votes almost exactly like his dad: the holdout vote against the “anti lynching” bill is a prime example.
the problem with Jo Jorgensen and the libertarian party’s strategy in general is in my opinion there is far more room to capture disaffected right wingers and if left wingers are going to vote third party they are going to vote green. I think the libertarian party is much more of the leftist class, bubble and mindset and it’s costing them from ever achieving any kind of national movement which at this point seems to me is the point because they do everything they can to chase away and drive out the right wing perspective.
They won’t work with a guy that will balk at their end goal of turning us into serfs of their new marxist utopia.
Someone yelled Brionna Taylor at him during the attack. Fierce moral urgency means not having to know anything: https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/sen-rand-paul-introduces-justice-breonna-taylor-act
Ahem. You are supposed to Say Her Name, not write some law that tries to fix the root problem.
You know, I almost think they’d be disappointed in actually fixing the problem. They wouldn’t have anything to protest about, and what is it that gives their lives meaning?
They’d find something else, which is why fixing the root problem won’t end the protests. They are self-sustaining at this point, and are the best hope for the Republicans to reclaim the House and build a majority in the Senate.
Like all leftist causes they dont give a fuck about thier stated cause
Full on communism is all they want and they barely bother hiding it
It’s because Rand keeps talking about all the icky freedomy stuff. If he’d stop with the hate speech…
Speaking from the White House South Lawn despite criticism he was using the executive residence as a political prop
He’s the current president* and Dems want everyone on lockdown because of the commie-cough. Where the hell else should he do it?
*And I’d prefer the president travel as little as possible anyway.
Rand Paul was attacked by protesters as he left the RNC event at the White House.
When is he going to learn to pack heat? I has disappoint.
That’s a no-no in DC. Also, pretty sure that would not be the situation in which one should pull out their pistol. Besides, those beefy DC Police/SS cops should earn their keep.
Not for sitting congressmen and senators.
And DC is technically a shall-issue CCW city, although the hoops that you have to jump through are truly nonsensical.
Someone had a series of articles about that, how you have to to the FFL through exactly one (1) guy.
That’s just for purchase if you’re a DC resident. You do have to register whatever gun you carry, which is another good reason to have a spare piece.
https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw_reciprocity_map/dc-gun-laws/
Rand Paul was attacked by protesters as he left the RNC event at the White House.
Remember this?
I figured your list covered the baseball birthdays well, and I was right (but I did still check). In his prime, you can’t get much better than Guidry. He isn’t an HoFer, but when Koufax appears in your similarity score list, you have to consider it. Koufax is 8th. The top of the list is a list of very good non-hof pitchers.
Lots of them active so could still get there. Ron’s career was just too short. Koufax’s career was 2 years shorter and clearly superior. But it is still an impressive comparison.
“Writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on this day. That cheery guy shares it with legendary cartoonist Jack Kirby
That wasn’t a very good list. ”
I was a German major in college, and Goethe was huge. He’s basically the Shakespeare of German language literature. Despite the reputation he’s gotten from the Sorrows of Young Werther, I don’t think he’s all that depressing either–he was a pretty upbeat, romantic guy. He just wrote the one kind of depressing book that happened to be a huge hit.
Fun (?) fact about Goethe: starting when he was a teen-ager, he decided he would write a poem every day. And he did, until the end of his life.
Also, Jack Kirby was huge. You could have stopped the birthday list with those two guys and it would have been a great birthday day.
His version of Faust is definitive.
Plus Kamala Harris has nothing on him when it comes to people mispronouncing his name. There’s a street in Chicago named after him that no one pronounces correctly.
‘That’s the joke’.
Goethe concluding his one and only joke in his life.
Father: Wolfgang. That was some sheepish shit in there. “Because he wanted to get to the other side…’ Why don’t you learn the alboka?
Goethe: But Papa. I want to make people laugh! Though there seems to be some issue with my timing.
Father (slaps Goethe): You’re no Timmy Eulenspiegel!
Goethe: Ok. but did you hear about the German who….
Father (narrows gaze). Do you want me to drop you off at Kirchlengern Forest?
Goethe (quietly lowers head): No.
And he never smiled again.
I’m going through the trump speech now looking for audio, he introduced some border patrol agents, and one of them appeared to give a NAZI SALUTE! Or he was waving to someone, but I’m guessing you’ll be hearing about it.
I am already getting a feeling that the way the dnc operatives with bylines are presenting his speech has very little to do with what it was. They need to make him the boogie man to keep the plantation members directed in the right direction. And they need to make it look like the guy has no plan after the entire dnc clown show was about them not being the bad orange man, because admitting they plan to double down on the destructive changes Obama started and this time completely rigging the game in their favor as they transform us into another Venezuela, was not a great seller.
and one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, court records show.
We all saw the guy raising a gun to Kyle’s head when Kyle shot him in the arm, right?
and with possessing a dangerous weapon as a minor.
I guess carrying guns for sport, including hunting, are now off limits for persons under the age of 18.
The precedent that could be set with this is making David Hogg shoot his load.
“and with possessing a dangerous weapon as a minor.”
This can’t be a real law, can it?
In a sane/constitutional world, no. But I am cynical and not surprised.
I carried a rifle and shotgun all over WI from when I was 12 years old. Should I turn myself in?
#MeToo.
Got my first shotgun around 10 years old and we lived in the country. Not a good year for the rabbits and other critters that raided our vegetable garden.
Yeah, I still vividly remember when I held up the first rabbit I brought home to my mom to make for dinner when I was 11 years old. I have done a lot in my life, but I’m not certain I have had a more accomplished feeling. Life changing, really.
I shot my first flying grouse at 12 YO. I ran back 1/4 mile to show my Mom. When my dad and brother came in from deer hunting I had a story to tell.
/Proud Kid
When I was in 5th grade, I got to start going on hunting trips with my dad and his buddies out west for grouse, hungarian partridge (huns), pheasants and ducks.
I was the camp boy and had to do a bunch of the scut work, but it was all worth it to be included with the guys. I learned a lot about life on those trips.
And yeah, I was pretty puffed up with myself when I made a nice shot. I bet there was a lot of snickering about my fat head by the other men in the camp that night, but I never noticed.
Got my first rifle when I was 10 as a bday gift, and I did not know a single boy my age who didn’t have one.
By federal law, he is a member of the unorganized militia. Since when can a state disarm a member of the federal militia?
Since when do leftists care about nuances of republican government?
I think the DA is just trying to placate the mob. There is no way those charges stand.
A few will, starting with illegal possession of a firearm.
I don’t see him going down for the shootings, though. And for the rest, I don’t know if they can try him as an adult.
It will be interesting to see if they try him in Kenosha, or the judge/DA sends it to a different venue.
Heh. Maybe Trump could federalize the Wisconsin NG to suppress the insurrection styling itself the Kenosha County District Attorney’s office.
Ladydoom has had decent luck arguing a similar situation where a girl is being raped.
If they have access to a rifle is that wrong? That they can’t use the family shotgun?
Open season on minors!
Due to my 3:45 AM sleep mode malfunction, I’m pretty well caught up on the news. The news important to the Bloombergers, anyway. How can we force the plebs to wear masks when they see Trump and his criminal gang cavorting on the White House lawn with no masks or social distancing? Impeach him for hypocrisy. Trump says we will descend into chaos and and social disorder if Biden is elected, but there is chaos and social disorder right now, while TRUMP’S THE PRESIDENT. It will all go away when we exorcise him from our tortured national psyche. Gotcha, mofo!
ps- the Vice President of the United States is Mike Pence, you nattering dimwits.
I would love to be cavorting (again). Those were the days…
Seriously, if the country is willing to elect democrats after all the absolute insanity we have seen out of them, especially with them backing lawlessness, rioting, and looting for months now, we’re done as a republic. We right now have a house that will pass anything, would have a president who will sign anything. The only piece missing is the senate. If they get that too, we’re fucked.
They’re not. I think the main reason Republicans are saying relatively little is that this is the best shot they have at a big win. All they have to is roll the footage and say “This is what a Democrat win will look like. Do you want four years of this?”
Great song. I remember when they had their mid ’80s comeback and asking someone what they had been doing since ‘Knights in White Satin.’ It was pointed out to me how many other great songs they had. I was like, “Oh yeah, those are all Moody Blues songs? I love those songs.” In my defense, I was 13.
“Donald Trump ripped into Joe Biden as he accepted the GOP nomination for President. It was past Biden’s bedtime, so no reaction yet.”
Here’s an observation from monitoring my Facebook feed: Some of my progressive friends watched the DNC, all of my progressive friends watched the RNC.
My conservative friends mostly posted fishing memes and youtube music links so it’s hard to measure their viewing habits. I’d bet fewer watched the RNC than the progressives and none of them watched a minute of the DNC.
I myself watched a little of Trump’s speech and that was the total of my convention viewing.
At some point as a teen-ager, I had the Moody Blues greatest hits tape. I was pretty impressed because they actually bothered to add little acoustic guitar passages or ocean noise, etc., to link the various songs so it flowed as one long musical piece with no breaks between the songs. Seemed like a real effort to reward fans, rather than just slapping a bunch of singles on an album to make some extra cash.
I love TMB as well, but they are the definition of pretentious rock band.
I’ve gotten comfortable with my enjoyment of really pretentious rock music.
*fires up Two-Minute Warning*
Yep, I’ve got no problem with that at all.
maybe that explains why Abbacchio was written to be pretty pretentious, hmm
Nights in White Satin.
Knights in white cotton? OMG
I never was a lyrics (or apparently title) guy.
But come to think of it, that does make a lot more sense than a British rock band singing a song about the KKK.
My son loved that song (the whole Moody Blues greatest hits album, actually) when he was 10 or so. Wore himself out on it.
He often plays my collection of 80s music, especially the one-hit wonders (which he doesn’t know were one-hit wonders).
For Forsberg and his fellow downtown business owners, the boards are up, the National Guard is in place, and he feels confident.
“I think anybody would be out of their minds to come down here and try to do anything,” Forsberg said.
I thought denial was in Egypt.
He seems to think rioter/looters are NOT out of their minds.
129) I know a lot of people who don’t seem to feel well much of the time. Not major ailments, just a lot of people who chronically suffer from low-level dietary, allergic, or other minor medical problems. Lethargy, poor sleep, acid reflux, etc. seem to be pretty common. And these people usually have lifestyles that are at least superficially healthy—not much junk food, regular exercise. But it’s not translating into feeling good.
Is this the natural state of humans, that some large number of us are just sort of low-level sick all the time? Not from any specific disease, but just in general? It occurred to me, maybe it’s a problem especially prevalent in America, because our diet and genetics are especially likely not to be matched.
Take a resident of a village in, say, Sicily. Your ancestors have lived there for centuries, and everybody in the village is pretty similar genetically. Over time, your village has developed a diet with foods and cooking methods that suit your genetics. If something makes lots of people in the village sick, it falls out of use. If something makes people feel good, they keep eating it.
But in America, an immigrant from that Sicilian village marries, let’s say, a Scotsman, and they live in a highly ethnically-mixed neighborhood. Now you’re mixing up all kinds of genotypes and culinary traditions. And it’s delicious! But that subtle balance of diet and genetics no longer exists. Your red wine and pasta mix with your spouse’s beer and oats, which combine with the tequila and tacos you get at the Mexican restaurant down the street, and the sake and raw fish at the Japanese restaurant around the corner, and so on.
And so now you’re eating a lot of food that’s not really suited to your genes. Types and amounts and mixtures of dairy, alcohol, fish, grains, etc., that you would never have been exposed to back in your village in Sicily or Scotland or wherever. And although these foods may be perfectly healthy on their own terms, they’re not providing you the ideal nutrient load, or energy supply, or delivery system for your body, the way your native diet would have.
And the result is lots of people who kind of don’t feel well much of the time, for reasons they can’t really pinpoint and that medicine can’t solve. Does this make sense?
Lol, a Sicilian marrying a Scotsman?
Obligatory Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL4c9gCRSKY
What I figured, but I wouldn’t have minded this instead.
I’m disappointed in both of you.
The Sicilian Scene (NSFW – Language)
Hey, we’re catches!
If true, I’ll take the minor ailments. My life wouldn’t be worth living without Mexican food, Indian food, etc… Especially if it meant living the rest of my life on a British Isles diet.
Meat pies, cheddar, stilton, beer, fish & chips, Yorkshire pudding with gravy…
How are Brits skinnier than Americans?
Because their teeth are so unhealthy they eat less?
If those were my options I would eat less too.
(but I do like Stilton and beer)
I’m pretty sure that even vegans love gravy. What happened to you?
They can’t afford cars?
I think that’s a fair point to ponder.
A friend of mine posited that the “sickly kid” way back in the day may have just had food allergies, e.g., gluten or dairy. I’ve wondered about that ever since, especially since I know that when I eat low-carb, everything about my body and mental health gets better, and when I eat sugar, everything gets worse.
Yep, I’m done. And so convenient, to have that choice taken out of one’s hands!
It’s just until racism is eradicated. Any day now.
Has USL joined the woke brigade? I haven’t checked if they are even playing right now.
Looks like all of Wednesday’s matches were played, unlike MLS. I have a Riverhounds game on my schedule this evening. It appears to still be on so I may check it out.
Is there any place not on espn+ that I can find USL games? I don’t see anything on Richmond’s website that suggests they are doing the woke thing. Might want to check out upcoming games.
Maybe the league’s website? I dunno, I use ESPN+.
My subscription lapsed when I got a new bank card and forgot to update the billing info. Their recent awokening has left me not inclined to renew it.
Yep, I’m done.
It appears to still be on so I may check it out.
You folded quickly.
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I want to hear one of these talking heads explain how burning car dealerships promotes justice of any description, racial or otherwise.
Reparations. Everybody gets nothing, just as the Universe intended.
Paging Mr. Heinlein, Mr. Heinlein to the courtesy phone.
It is like you haven’t even climate changed dude.
What good will racial utopia be if the planet is on fire? Cars are teh debbil!
It’s “Cash for Clunkers” minus the cash
I don’t wanna pay ten thousand more when my Tacoma kaffs ( hopefully not soon, just rolled over 100,000 miles this month). I kept shit vehicles running for thirty five years but if something goes catastrophically wrong with one of the new ones you may as well send it to the crusher and re-up for another five year payment plan. Fuck that mealy-mouthed Obama and fuck the horse he rode in on.
Unless you are beating the shit out of it, it should be good for another 100,000 miles.
Crowder got someone there who defended it live saying “they sell lemons”
Wow! You seem to know a shit-load about that show. Secret subscription to Tiger Beat in Sloop’s past? In all honesty, Sloopy, I’m just trying to be funny. If I crossed a line yesterday just know that it was meant in jest and yes, young Shelly Long was very hot…
I don’t even want to talk about 90210 right now, I’m so pissed off.
I don’t know what line you could have crossed, Festus. Aside from the line of good taste, of course. At first I was willing to write it off as the bizarre sexual proclivities and attractions of a Canadian. But even your lone countryman on here at the time disavowed you. Do now I don’t know what to think aside from the fact that there’s weird sexual kinks all over the place. Some dudes want to wear diapers. Some people pay hookers to shit on their chest. And some freaks think Shelly Long was hotter than Barbara Bach.
You do you, friend. You do you.
I hope you realize I’m just fucking with you and I take no offense whatsoever to anything you may have said that you think might have seriously offended me.
All in jest but yesterday’s morning threads seemed a little testy and I wanted to clarify. Thanks for responding. Everyone here that knows me well is aware of my bumptious proclivities. Drunken guy will drunk.
My goal was to merely feign indignation to get a laugh. I guess I failed.
*ahem*
Kristie Alley > Shelly Long
I would have thought that modern Kirstie Alley would be right up your… alley.
Too petite. She needs to lose the diet and embrace some Wendy’s and/or Pizza Hut.
It hotness at peak? Yes. As Sam’s foil? No.
In the original Tom Selleck movie about the rogue robots with Gene Simmons she actually showed tittays. Every version that I’ve seen since then has that scene scrubbed. She was a looker!
Let me enact your labor (labour):
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7053429/kirstie-alleys-topless-sex-scene-celebrity-big-brother-controversy-house/
I was sure it was the scanner scene.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson received immediate backlash on Twitter after saying Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the shootings of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., “decided to maintain order when no one else would.”
“Are we really surprised this looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would? Everyone can see what was happening in Kenosha. It was getting crazier by the hour,” Carlson said on his show.
I don’t see the problem with this statement. People act like a 17 y.o. is far divorced from an adult when upon his next b-day he can be conscripted to carry a weapon for his country.
The wrong person said the right thing. That’s all you need to know, Comrade.
I was kind of disappointed at Tucker’s milquetoast statements about the whole thing. Is the rest of the media going to go with a narrative that directly contradicts what we can see with out own eyes on multiple videos.
That kid is going to be a rockstar with the right.
I like you Kid! You’ve got Moxey! I hate Moxey.
Fuck streaming.
It’s the moment bar owners have been looking forward to: The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is making it easier for them to reopen under current COVID-19 restrictions.
How nice of them (and would the bartender in the pic). I, for one, try to keep my BAC up so as to avoid catching the Covid. I figure alcohol kills it.
Abbot is a coward. The only politician who really comes off as good in this is Kristi Noem.
Shania Twain was hotter than Hades about 25 years ago and is still not bad. She’s got that Gillian Anderson thing happening wherein they trade long legs for youthful energy.
https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/08/maryland-coronavirus-update-august-27/
Lmao the branch covidians are losing the narrative. It was inevitable and it took longer than I thought but the polls are starting to catch up to their dumbassery. This is going to be remembered as the most monumentally stupid thing we’ve ever undertaken as a nation by the majority of people by November.
They are breaking.
They’ll roll out these instant tests to try to fan the flames but it will be too little to late people won’t give a fuck anymore.
I don’t know, Prohibition is still at the top of the list for me.
This was far more nationally and globally destructive. It’s impoverished millions possibly billions, going to lead to mass disease and famine on an unprecedented scale. Fuck in this nation it has caused spikes in murder that haven’t been seen in about a decade in places and out and out insurrection and mass unrest. The stress and depression this has caused has taken years off peoples lives.
The famine will be breathtaking. I’ve brought it up to some of the idiot BCs in my life and they stand there gaping. Idiots.
I hate to ascribe the word evil to people I know, but fuck it. If you support this insanity, you are fucking evil.
This is going to be remembered
No, no it won’t. Just look into this light here.
I was talking to a guy at our secret speak-easy gym last night. Back in March/April he, his wife, and his mother all had covid. Sick for a week or so then better. His young kids never had any symptoms. Recently the whole family was tested for the covid anti-bodies. All the adults tested positive, all the kids tested negative. His doctor told him not to worry – said kids shake off the virus so easily they don’t even bother retaining the antibodies for long.
Why would a doctor think someone would worry about their kids NOT being sick? Or is the doctor thinking people will worry that the tests are shit?
The guy was worried that his kids were vulnerable going back to school since they didn’t test positive for the antibodies. The doctor waved that concern away as kids are 99.9% immune to the commie cough. Puts all the back-to-school bullshit in perspective.
So when will the shithead who tried to murder him be arrested?
When nobody is looking?
*checks party affiliation of governor, mayor, and DA*
Never.
Another high-profile example of Jim Snow – one set of rules for me, another for thee.
Nation’s Cats Endorse Trump In Hopes Americans Will Go Back To Work And Leave Them Alone
That was our little doge in May. “No Mas!”
From the Paul article:
‘Video taken from the streets surrounding the White House showed multiple altercations. At least one showed protesters scuffling with police – throwing punches and pushing officers as they drew batons in response.
Other videos appeared to show activists stopping an RNC bus and trying to get on board the vehicle, while other guests who left on foot were sworn at and had offensive hand gestures made at them.
One showed a white-haired man being punched in the back of the head and later knocked to the ground by a mob of activists who also threw water over him.
Meanwhile RNC committeeman Chris Ager and his wife were repeatedly abused by a balaclava-wearing protester who threatened to ‘f*** you up’ as they tried to get into the doors of their hotel.’
Winning hearts and minds, one assault at a time.
“Hey Hanz, Do you ever stop to think “are we the baddies?””
“With uniforms THIS spiffy? Never.”
*raises what’s left of colon in semi-solidarity*
Sorry.
Nah, I’m fine. From what I understand colitis is chronic. I had a different colon issue that has been resolved. ??
I hope this doesn’t start a thread where Abe is the butt of our jokes.
Aren’t you just fanny ing the flames? There’s no end to the punning here.
Remember the people who were for this shutdown and mask bullshit the hardest because in a couple of months there won’t be anyone making an admission of ever being on that side anymore.
This is way more on point than your last comment about it.
While they’ll never admit to being wrong the polling will show the vast majority is ready to move on with a vengeance.
You know, Governors in states who maintain a lockdown posture and refuse to deal with rioters really should be taken away in hand cuffs if you ask me.
A complete, monumental failure to protect and respect citizens.
I can’t imagine being a business owner in Minnesota or Oregon or Washington. Would make anyone ‘battle-weary’ indeed. Fighting off bureaucrats and cops enforcing protocols and protecting your business from looters is a fight on two fronts. It pisses me off just typing that.
And that Whitmore and Cuomo….wow.
Andrew Cuomo is a mass murderer.
That Andrew Cuomo is a real jerk!
Norm Macdonald is an (inter)national treasure.
They are shortsigted retards. They’ve raped their economies and torpedoed any prospects they have at a political future. Press will only be able to run cover for them for so long.
Horatius is always a good read, and this morning seemed particularly good time to re-read it.
Got my imagination flowing when I got to “dandled”.
I’m more in a Julius Caesar mood:
Mark Hamill
@HamillHimself
Popular joke in Europe:
Question: What borders on stupidity?
Answer: Canada and Mexico
You didn’t have the spine to prevent Darth Disney from destroying the only beloved character you ever played that anyone knows about. Fuck off.
I don’t know he was better than Jared Leto at playing the Joker.
And “Corvette Summer” was a cinematic masterpiece.
Poor Annie Potts. Man, she was flat-chested.
As lovely as Shelley Long!
Yeah, pretty much.
Which means Festus has new material for his spank bank.
Heh. I had a thing for Annie Potts! I’ve revealed too much!
Oh, I dunno.
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/322851867036235378/
Alright Shelly Long is one thing, but disparaging young Annie Potts is just wrong.
Yeah, but only geeks will call Hamill the best Joker. Of course, he did have the best Batman to play against.
I’m going to go with Batfleck as the best Batman. I don’t care if I sound like a fucking hipster he’s basically Conroy’s Batman come to life it was amazing. Yes the movies were garbage but he was one of the very few parts in the plus column.
It occurred to me the other day that every single Batman-maker since Keaton has gone out of his way to cast someone everybody hates and can’t possibly visualize as Batman–until he turns in a solid performance.
Wait, what? Mr. Mom?
Wait, what? Iceman?
Wait, what? That guy from Facts of Life?
Wait, what? Brochettaward?
Wait, what? The guy from Gigli?
Wait, what? The sparkly vampire?
Yeah, so the track record on picking Batmans is good, but they take a chance every single time.
Ehhh… Clooney is not well remembered as a Batman.
“What’s your superpower?”
“I’m rich.”
Great line, but that’s the writers, not the actor.
This is true. We should also acknowledge Batman is also not to difficult to play depth wise. He’s an emotionally stunted masked vigilante, who for half the movie is an arrogant out of touch douchebag and the other half is a crazed masked vigilante who kicks people’s ass. That first part basically describes every actor the second part describes how they view themselves. It’s a role they were all born to play.
The Joker we deserved…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZDv0YpELUc
Batfleck is supposed to be in the Flash movie now. The problem is that the DCEU has been garbage for the most part. Shazam was fun, Wonder Woman was decent,
The CW series have been alright, with Legends of Tomorrow being the best (after the first season).
He said the joke is popular in Europe.
He didn’t say HE thought the joke was funny.
/devilsadvocate
America’s horrifying descent into madness: right wing vigilantism
The killings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, represent an alarming escalation of the fight over police violence that has consumed the country this summer: It wasn’t an agent of the state who shot two Americans dead this week. Instead, an American man turned his weapon on other civilians during a protest—and law enforcement let him walk right by them and out of town. Police and political leaders have failed for years to take the actions necessary to prevent this kind of violence. Without serious, sustained intervention, more bloodshed could soon follow.
Late Tuesday night, a young white man with an AR-15-style rifle slung over his shoulder sprinted down a darkened street. He had, according to the narrative later pieced together from cellphone footage, just shot a person in the head and left them to bleed out in the parking lot of a car dealership. As he ran, a scattered group of people gave chase, and he fired at them, hitting at least one. A bystander called out to the police stationed at the end of the block: “Hey, dude right here shot them!” Yet the officers did nothing. When the shooter reached the squad cars, his arms raised in surrender, they let him pass.
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Civilians taking up arms during periods of social unrest is a familiar phenomenon in America: During the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, for example, armed citizens defended their stores from looting and vandalism. But 30 years ago, the very nature of vigilantism was different: Americans didn’t have such easy access to the military-grade weapons that are now prevalent in this country. The Los Angelenos guarding their businesses brandished pistols, not AR-15s. This kind of firepower necessarily means that the potential for mass injury and death is much greater. One-third of American adults own a gun, and 43 percent of adults in Wisconsin have a gun in their home, according to a recent estimate from the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit policy think tank. (It is legal for an adult to carry firearms openly in public places in Wisconsin.)
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If there is little change, including in the Trump administration’s rhetoric, the country should expect many more instances of far-right vigilantism to accompany protests and other public events in the future, experts told me. Pete Simi, a sociology professor at Chapman University who studies extremist groups, warned that violence could—and likely will—extend beyond Election Day. If the president and his allies don’t turn the temperature down, far-right groups may feel even more emboldened during a second Trump term. And if Joe Biden defeats Trump in November, “a segment of [Trump’s] base will view this as grounds for no other choice but to revolt and revolt violently,” Simi told me. In either scenario, it will be up to local law enforcement to decide whether to prevent violence.
In video footage taken before the shooting began on Tuesday night, Rittenhouse and a few other men carrying weapons and wearing tactical vests strapped to their chest can be seen gathered in the darkness near a cluster of armored police vehicles. One officer, coming in fuzzy over a loudspeaker, orders protesters to disperse. At the same time, another officer tosses water bottles to Rittenhouse and his compatriots. “We appreciate you guys,” he says. “We really do.”
If the police don’t crack down on these lynch mobs preying on peaceful protesters acting in good conscience, there will be trouble.
The way the media is trying to paint this is as violence suddenly breaking out, and the cops need to do something about the vigilantism of right wingers is absolutely orwellian. You are asking us to just ignore the last 90 days of riots and violence and pretend that it all started two nights ago. Go fuck off.
It’s insane. And people buy it.
Some, maybe. Anyone the least bit interested can watch the videos and concluded they are being lied to – and the kid is being railroaded.
Talking to normal guys at the gym last night, they all see the lies, hypocrisy, two-tiered justice system.
My mom is convinced he planned on Killing minorities.
Yeah.
He did a terrible job at that.
What does she think of the minorities and whites who lit people’s business’s on fire and assaulting people the previous two days? They are just chimps incapable of rational thought?
That’s the voice of the unheard
not as many as they’d like. Which is why the narrative is starting to shift and they are starting to tentatively condemn rioters. They let this go on for too long people lost interest and all they see is assholes at this point.
Like windmills, people don’t mind until it’s in their back yard.
It’s become clear that the MSM is now a pure propaganda arm of the DNC to the point of being farcical. In 100% seriousness, it’s arguable as to whether the American MSM or Baghdad Bob is the more outlandish news source.
The CNN image of “Fiery but Mostly Peaceful” is what drove the comparison with Baghdad Bob for me.
When I first saw an image of that I was sure it was a Bee article. Damn, if it wasn’t real. How anyone can believe anything CNN says at this point is beyond me.
#metoo
As usual, The Bee. [what, are those some drugs falling toward my heels?]
It’s been clear since at least Walter Cronkite.
They’ve been waiting for this moment the entire time. It was the point of the riots. They wanted rightwingers, police or the national guard to start shooting these arsonists and rioters for the story. It’s why they’ve been supportive of the mostly peaceful protests since the jump, it’s why they are even covering some of the mayhem with the clear gas-lighting. The media is a fucking ingrown hair on the taint of america.
They wanted Brownshirts shooting innocent protestors or bashing heads. But what they got was a kid fighting for his life against 3 felons on video.
It’s already backfiring spectacularly. If they had any credibility left to lose, they’d be losing it now.
You can see how much resistance there is on the right to flip the violence switch.
The left has the dial up to 5-7
“But 30 years ago, the very nature of vigilantism was different: Americans didn’t have such easy access to the military-grade weapons that are now prevalent in this country. ”
I believe this is completely incorrect.
The anger that the left has at a kid defending himself is, i think, a part of impotence. Stay mad.
Seems to me a civilian could buy a 1903 Springfield or an M1917 Enfield in the 1920s. Mail-order, even. Military-grade weapons. State of the art.
Hell, in 1963, you could buy a Carcano rifle AND a telescopic sight for 20 bucks.
The bromides of a young idiot?
30 years ago I bought an HK91 legally in Massachusetts. I haven’t shot it in 15 years because it’s banned by name in MA and NJ.
Wednesday I was in the gunshop and they had a PTR91 on the self. An exact replica of my rifle with a slightly different handguard. Legal in NJ because it has a different name and a gunsmith swapped the flash-suppressor for a muzzle break. I swear this state is just fucking with me – I need to get out soon.
Vigilantes – hunt down criminals. Initiate violence.
Rittenhouse – ran from criminals. Defended his life.
It is. Military-style weapons are exactly as available now as they have been for the past fifty years.
The difference is that military-style weapons are much more popular now than they have been in the past, due to cultural shifts in the gun community.
When I was a kid, there used to be ads in magazines for mail-order surplus M-1 carbines, Garands, and Mausers.
represent an alarming escalation of the fight over police violence
It had zero to do with police violence.
^^^^THIS^^^^
These fuckers managed to completely derail that effort/opportunity….
The lionization of Huber has begun in earnest. I’m already seeing hagiographies to a sweet, loving skater who just happens to have an arrest record of charges including battery and domestic abuse.
I’m willing to ignore his past, but if he had been riding his board rather than trying to assault an armed man with it, he would still be alive today. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
His prior record is irrelevant to the case at hand.
I just find it interesting how the left (and sometimes the right) love to turn an asshole into a hero because they fucked up and got killed.
Well they don’t have much to work with. I mean, it’s not like many ‘upstanding’ citizens are out burning and looting late at night for a moral cause.
Not completely irrelevant.
He loved beating people – he died doing what he loved.
His prior record is irrelevant to the case at hand.
But leftists seem to lionize all of the worst people.
They also ignore the sweet, loving way he tried to brain Rittenhouse with his skateboard, while Rittenhouse was on the ground.
I don’t purport to know what was going thru Huber’s brain at that moment, but what an epicly stupid decision that was.
Same thing as all these people trying to block vehicles.
“Submit to my will. You don’t matter”
Soon enough, it would be his elbow.
He was probably operating entirely on spinal column at the time.
It’s like they live in some alternate reality.
Or more likely, they’re just gaslighting.
They’ve succeeded in making sure that a large portion of the electorate will not even consider listening to alternate sources of news.
With the right, you’re typically subjected to the alternate whether you want it or not. There are those who won’t watch anything other than Fox, but even Fox is closer to the center than MSNBC and CNN.
There just aren’t that many people who only get their news from Breitbart.
Fox is getting skinsuited ever since they succeeded in ditching Ailes.
Good morning, Sloopy!
In the Minneapolis article, the news pukes refer to it as ‘unrest’. Fuck that. Time for live ammo.
I’m not in a good place about all this. The leadership in our state has fucked up so thoroughly on pretty much every front. These fuckers inherited a state that, while definitely imperfect, at least hummed along just fine. And they turned us into fucking Portland. Not sure what punishment is appropriate but I’ll consider many options.
Bah.
Maybe some Moody Blues will help…
Happy Friday, bitches.
I’m really happy that the riots only went for a couple days here in Ohio. I think the business owners showing up at every subsequent “peaceful protest” armed and ready to defend their businesses helped tamp that down. Of course, there were millions of dollars in damage done over those couple of days, and some places aren’t planning on being open for another couple months still.
In case you thought it was uniquely weird these days, Goethe nailed it long ago:
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Xenu done it. Amirite?
“do these body thetans make my ass look big?”
Happy to oblige.
*haughty sniff*
Should have read to the end. Well, sloop’s is a favorite, too.
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1299192364389539840
Imagine being someone who prides themselves as being someone who looks at data and having this opinion.
She’s mentally ill about COVID. Never liked her much before, but now I pity her – it broke something about her brain. I think a lot of people were functioning hypochondriacs and the virus just broke the “functioning” part by fanning their fear.
The funny part is she’s wearing a valved mask in her photo. That’s a no-no and it endangers others.
Yeah in fairness this broke a ton of people who I don’t know if they’ll ever totally come back. in fairness they’d probably have become agoraphobic in their later years this just expedited the process.
That reminds me of an intensely agoraphobic woman I dated a few years ago. Nice person, and genuinely just had a problem she couldn’t help. I hope she’s doing all right with these assholes telling everyone the sky is falling (and a few people will believe because their mental state is vulnerable to that).
I’ve seen my funny sarcastic former creative partner become paralyzed in fear over Covid. He voted for GayJay in 2012 and 2016. Now he’ll probably vote for Biden.
Meet Minnesoda’s Health Commissioner.
She fought reopening of churches because they would sing and she was super convinced that that was the easiest way to get the Rona
At the beginning of this whole panicdemic there was a story about a bunch of people in a church choir getting the Rona and it was assumed that they got it at practice and from there on it was Gospel that singing is bad, bad, bad.
Something something DA something something woodchipper
https://www.wsj.com/articles/five-months-without-a-kiss-parents-plead-to-visit-children-11598522401
The level of inhumanity and malevolent evil it takes to have and enforce policies like this is hard to put into words.
The people who put these policies are the ones cast as “Caring about people”.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
Teenagers need to kiss their first love
Grandmas need to hold that little one
Everyone needs to say goodbye to Grandpa when the time comes
I don’t see politicians/bureaucrats in the equation
I don’t see politicians/bureaucrats in the equation
Anarchist! Barbarian!!
And now they’ve turned their malevolence on children.
First, they fail to isolate the elderly (because retard) and now they crush their soul (which is just as bad) to protect them.
It seems like all the wrong people seem to be in positions of power and decision making.
Lamp posts are too good for some people.
Gibbeting is in order, I’d say.
For Derpy and Rhwrun, I think this arrangement works really well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzRO5qYbuNo
Some days I don’t hate the internet.
LOL that’s fantastic
The opening line in that Reuters article: “A defiant President Donald Trump…”
How was he defiant?
Look, he’s a big ol meanie.
Idk. He gave the same speech in messaging/themes as almost every other speech. “Rah rah ‘Murica” and all that. That said, “defiance” is an American tradition.
Defiant is the reason most people are voting for him. The leftists really are deranged.
He will not do what other enemies of the dnc have always done and let them lie about him without impunity. The fucker keeps resisting their attempts to delegitimize and destroy him. Why won’t he just bend over and take it in the ass like all the other rethuglicans?
He doesn’t take the knee. I don’t like much about him but that is his one saving grace. I like a Guy with a “Fuck You” attitude when he’s dealing with cuntes.
A vote for Trump is a vote for national suicide!
President Donald Trump’s demagogic convention speech played out before a spectacular but norm-crushing White House backdrop in a potential super spreader viral event.
It explained why Democrats warn he must be driven from power at all costs — and why he may win a second term anyway.
After a GOP gathering that amounted to one of the most sustained displays of propagandizing in the modern history of Western democracy, Trump painted an apocalyptic vision of a nation on the cusp of a takeover by “violent anarchists” who would exploit a “weak” Joe Biden to destroy America. He claimed that Democrats view this country as a “depraved” and “wicked” country that must be punished for its “sins.”
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Trump’s crowd of 2,000 people on the South Lawn, few wearing masks and sitting close together, was an extraordinary scene during a pandemic that has brought America to its knees — but it exemplified Trump’s willingness to spin a false alternative reality for political gain.
Amazingly, he accused Biden of ignoring science — and falsely said that his opponent wanted to shut down the whole country — after flouting his own public health experts in a denial-laden and disastrous response to the pandemic.
The pictures from the crowded White House lawn made a mockery of Trump’s late conversion to the mask-wearing that scientists say is the best current way of fighting a pandemic that has killed 180,000 Americans.
Propaganda. Alternate reality. Anti-SCIENCE!
Bingo!
super spreader viral event
So isn’t it a good thing that Trump and all his supporters are now going to get the Rona and die? I assume it will only be Trump supporters getting it because they are so icky that no decent American would be within the proverbial 10′ pole of them.
Or is the Rona not really that dangerous? Or maybe Trump supporters aren’t as evil and shunned as you would hope?
Which is it young fella?
‘best current way’.
Totes science.
That’s a WHITE HOUSE REPORTER!?/!
Oh. CNN. Never mind.
Fake News.
But while such initiatives are the building blocks of Trump’s coalition, his appeal has always been more visceral — especially among voters whose anger and emotional connection to the outsider businessman and reality star forms a bond that even a mismanaged pandemic cannot sever.
Yep, all the anger and emotion is coming from Trump’s side. That’s why the protesters keep burning stuff down. It’s not arson, they’re just lighting beacons of hope in Trump’s dark and angry America.
I love how they keep saying he mismanaged the pandemic without ever giving specifics. It just must be so!
The Dems are just butthurt over the fact that Americans are back to dying at their typical rate rather than the escalated rate.
Mark me down as in favor of leftists committing suicide.
I “think” CNN has “just” about “lost” its “mind”.
Hey Ladies! I bet he’s available.
Man cuts off ears and keeps them in jar after paying £6k to make head look like skull
No woman is going to want a man that doesn’t listen to her.
/Throws vegetables at screen.
This take is so wrong. That’s exactly what they mostly want otherwise they’d have nothing to fill the day with complaining about.
You also couldn’t go anywhere with him because he can’t wear a mask
Tailor made for the woman who doesn’t hold her liquor.
People Gather Around a Window
This would be funny if it was happening in a different city and I could laugh at someone else’s misfortune at having such a corrupt newspaper.
So a too long while back, I asked some furniture advice round these parts and in the end, after a months and various problems, I have living room bar furniture.
One of the pieces is too tall and I think not very stable so I should probably anchor it to the wall.
Overall I went for everything wood, no veneer not just wood doors or such. I am reasonably happy with that decision. I like the look of the wood, seems fairly hard/resistant and I like the way the fiber looks. The color/stain how you call it is a bit darker than I expected but it seems to have taken well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IIcFuLeCiMj69khbySM37jZxEa-2gMDd/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IRUkF3shc7uEjMdBHVtUdFF2kJyy534V/view?usp=drivesdk
*points to avatar*
Nice, congrats!
Very nice!!
I would add a small wine rack to the left of the table and fill in that void a bit (maybe even a plant). Otherwise, the furniture itself looks well made and will look great when fully stocked especially with a nice decanter on that table. Also, consider adding a piece of art or a mirror above the table and between the shelves. Lastly, think about lighting. I don’t like track lighting at all, but a warm light illuminating the space, particularly where the drinks are to be made, would look great. I would probably take a flashlight (or have a helper) from a ladder and shine from various locations and angles until you achieved the desired illumination. This all assumes you do not rent and have the wherewithal to forgo an electrician.
Just my $.02. Looks great regardless!
lighting is on the to do list for the house but baby steps.
wine rack – no I keep my wine in my wine cooler not on a rack in the living room.
So those assholes from the NHL don’t know or care about how much they have hurt thousands of pubs and bars with their latest shennanigans? Just imagine being a tavern owner and ordering a passel of food for a Thursday night crowd and suddenly the game is postponed until Saturday or Sunday. That seafood ain’t gonna eat itself. Those poor fuckers are operating on the thinnest of margins to start with.
That’s what insurance is for
I had to look up what you meant. The silver lining of my team going out in the first round is that I can now ignore the NHL without internal conflict.
Back to CNN:
But the Republican event was undeniably effective. The testimonies of regular Americans — from lobstermen to farmers and small business owners — made a far more effective stab at weaponizing the economy than Democrats managed. And the words of individual Americans were in many cases more convincing than Trump at advancing his arguments.
In the most moving moment of Thursday’s program, Ann Dorn told the terrible story of the death of her husband Dave, a retired policeman who helped protect a friend’s pawn shop during riots in St. Louis.
“We cannot live amid devastation and chaos,” she said.
I think they might be just a little bit worried.
Goddammit, people won’t listen to OUR propaganda! How dare those bastards have more effective narratives than us. This is AN OUTRAGE.
The rubes are only being swayed by the White House in the background! Otherwise they’d surely be flocking to our banner.
These fucking serfs don’t know what is best for them! That’s why we need stronger top men making incessantly changing insane rules to force on them so they learn to obey their masters! Fucking people should know when they have been conquered…..
This is why the overseers need whips – you just can’t count on persuasion or even intimidation with some of the proles.
Biden was given a speech to read the other day coming out against the rioting & looting, after months of silence, because the polls now show Americans have turned negative against the dnc sponsored & financed effort to destroy blue cities and hold the productive there hostage to their marxist leaders.
Don Lemon said that particular quiet thing out loud recently.
Cats out though. Dems thought they could handle it. But it’s long gone.
That plus the regular infighting on the ever more woke crowd doesn’t end well for the Dems.
I believe that they turned on one of their experts back when the peaceful rioting, looting, and destruction started for warning they would lose control or go too far, and that that support for destruction would backfire. They told him to fuck off because they were top men and could control it. Now they see it has punched them in the nuts, and they are desperately trying to rewrite history. In a week or two they will be telling us – and do it with a straight face, just like they now tell us it was bad orange man and not them that mocked the Wuhan Flu – that they always were against the rioting & looting while Trumps action/inaction was fueling it, and act all indignant when called out on it…
Biden already tried that didn’t he? Madr a comment that it wasn’t his platform to defund police it was Trump’s.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-trump-seeks-to-defund-the-police-through-proposed-cuts
They should be.
I watched some of the RNC last night. We joke about “muh narrative”, but the truth is people respond to a good story. And as slick and cheesy as it was, the RNC’s story of “America is great and we need to fight this violence the Democrats are bringing you” is going to beat “Trump is bad! America is bad! You’re bad! And what violence?” any day. I would expect a real bounce in the polls after this week.
Every night they light fires someone doesn’t vote for Biden.
“Every time a Target burns an undecided voter votes for that funny looking Orange Man.”
As I have said in just about every election starting with 2004, the candidate who runs on a message will beat the candidate who runs against the other guy. Good, bad, indifferent, having a message matters.
It reminds of the mid-eighties to be honest except the enemy isn’t the Soviet Union this time, the phone call is coming from inside the house.
Totes science.
They have DATA! That’s what they say.
Looks like some peaceful protesters were stopped…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/kenosha-police-find-helmets-gas-masks-more-in-out-of-state-vehicles-arrest-9/ar-BB18rulL
False flag
“However, a group out of Seattle that was founded to provide free food to protesters and activists, RiotKitchen206, claims it was their members who were arrested and that they were in Kenosha only to serve meals to people at the demonstrations.”
With a name like RiotKitchen206, you know they’re all about spreading good vibes.
Yes, the entire foundation of Hidin’ Biden’s campaign is based on a lie.
while they did change train images to boat images, pass.
I have reached the conclusion that a significant amount of people simply cannot reason. I reached this long time ago but recently it was reinforced.
That’s how I feel, I told my buddy the other day that I always thought I was a cynical person and now I realize I was a naive little bambi.
Ha! Me too! I used to be a card-carrying Socialist! My Mom paid the membership fee.
I would modify that somewhat to say that a significant amount of people cannot reason in certain areas.
Most people can’t think of things in a nonbinary way. It’s either good or bad, trade offs are hard. I’d say we are all guilty of this in some respects. lol.
Yeah, I agree with that.
What I was getting at is that most people have an irrational (or perhaps arational would be a better term) of their lives but in most respects they think fairly clearly and logically. For example, we have friends who both have long experience of business and self-employment. Very successful, very smart. They’ve raised two great kids. They’re fantastic with personal finances, basically saved my wife’s church from going out of business through a combination of giving, working with others, and business deals. They’re well read, very smart, and able to engage in intellectual discussions on all manner of things.
Both of them also believe that then riots were engineered by Trump as a “wag the dog” episode to help him get re-elected. They also argue that, in so doing, Trump is behaving exactly like Bashar Assad, and Trump is copying Assad’s tactics.
Most people can reason, but most of the system is hell-bent on keeping them from doing so.
well if you can reason the system cant do shit against it
What I mean to say is that for most people the capability is there, but it was never developed or encouraged.
It isn’t that they can’t reason, at least for most. It is just too much effort. Humans are cognitively lazy, and once we have a pattern locked into our heads, it is just cheaper/easier to repeatedly refer to it than to modify or replace it.
Isn’t that the goal of newspeak? Expect now instead of War is Peace, etc., we have Protests are Riots, Science is Emotion, Violence is Mostly Peaceful, Skin Color is Character, etc.
I think they have the capacity to reason. However, they have been conditioned to weight certain principles above others. Equality being the most basic fundamental human right. Liberty is seen as the antithesis to equality and equality is above reproach. Therefore, when encountering someone who espouses the value of liberty as a true driver of equality, they cannot reason past their assumption, or known fact, that liberty breeds capitalism and capitalism breeds inequality. At which point all debate is halted because those espousing liberty are espousing inequality and that is not to be dignified.
WTF is an “empath” and why do I suddenly see people all over social media claiming to be one?
When a human and a Betazoid love each other very much, they engage in a special kind of hug…
It’s basically Bill Clinton’s “I feel your pain” bullshit taken to an absurd level.
Empathy are people that “feel” what you feel but don’t know you do? The opposite of people that use reason and logic.
An empath is someone who gets to screech at you on Twitter with impunity.
They have to use the word ’empath’ because ‘narcissistic brat’ is too long.
It’s the latest attempt at elevating feelings over logic and reason.
Right up there with emotional intelligence.
People who are supposedly hyper-sensitive to emotions. Just the latest pseudoscientific fad, I would guess. Like people claiming to be psychic, healing crystals, etc.
It’s an excuse to be a drama queen and demand you pay attention to their feelings.
I’ll add 24-year old “life coaches” who are unemployed comm/psych majors that live with their parents
Grief counselors, ’cause they have a Master’s degree
Took a plane trip for first time since the Vid nonsense started. Nearly empty parking lots – we thought at first the off airport lot was out of business, it was so deserted – even after the airport closed all their outdoor lots.
No lines at TSA.
Warnings about how airline would check your temp, and had to not have a fever as a condition of flying. Then no temperatures taken.
Warnings about social distancing everywhere – then jammed into seats on the plane with no spacing, nearly a full flight.
Masks required everywhere, and the fucking flight attendants repeatedly telling me to pull it up over my nose, which led to several hours of feeling like I was suffocating.
Not flying again after this trip unless the mask bullshit goes away, which if Biden wins I suspect will be never. Once they start doing it, rulers never quit violating your civil rights until you punish them hard for doing that. They enjoy the power trip too much.
I’m flying next week. Hoping your flight attendants were just COVID Nazis, maybe mine will turn a blind eye. I know its a federal crime to disobey them. God what a fucking stupid idea that was.
I last flew in 1998.
I first ran across a demand to pull a mask over my nose just one week ago. Since then, it’s happened about ten times.
Switching to bayonetting the survivors mode, apparently, now that they’ve established the principal and got most of the sheep obeying. Or obaaaaa-ying. Since sheep.
I have done quite a bit of flying since the Kung Flu lockdowns started, and I have to admit not dealing with too much TSA madness and near empty airports & planes has been kind of a bonus. I put up with having to wear my N95 filtered mask for this convenience.
We’ll see how it goes when the lawsuits start, Pretty sure we’ll end up getting a blanket liability shield(which the republicans wanted federally day 1) when the pols realize how much they are on the hook for. The democrats laying in front of the liability shield during the first round of stimulus was the most under reported and probably one of the most nefarious stand they’ve taken.
I flew a couple times. No temp taken at airport, most people keep a drink or snack near by to keep their masks off from what I saw.
On the plane (Southwest) were only 30 passengers and as human nature always does, sat in the first 30 rows.
I especially like the pricing. It wasn’t ever changing and I can budget for it because the ticket was the same price two weeks ago as it is today.
As a heads up for those who care. I won’t be around this evening to host, so someone else is going to need to step up.
Sorry for the OT, get back to your regular snarking and commenting.
So someone else needs to cut the feed when I either fall down or pass out? That’s not cricket!
I’ll do it. Sorry we won’t see you tonight.
I may be able to join still. I’ve got some people coming over to sit, shoot the shit, and drink.
What is the meeting invite URL? I might be able to join and snark you beotchez!
Ill post it in the afternoon links.
And please do join us
Is looting insurance a thing? it should be…
Anyway most of the US has no looting or much protests right? I an starting to think the media is too focused on a few cities, both sides of it
Also where is Laura at?
Looks like Memphis.
And yes, most of the US is not being looted or hosting riots.
The riots in Kenosha were more alarming in some ways than the previous ones. It is one of those middle / working class midsized cities that could be anywhere in the U.S. Not a well-known liberal enclave like Portland, Seattle, or Chicago.
I think looting insurance is roof Koreans.
how much for a brace of em?
No. It’s effectively excluded from most insurance policies.
act of god?
I don’t know how you build actuarial tables on Rioting of Looting Barabarians
Basically. Force majeure, which typically covers civil disorder, is excluded.
Force majeure – I saw that at Sala Palatului
I bet most insurance of the commercial type will not only be more expensive, but require special riders to deal with this shit, costing business owners even more money to insure in the soon to come future. But it is all victimless crimes, yo….
Coming soon from Team Blue
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-markets-financial-institutions-and-fiscal-service/federal-insurance-office/terrorism-risk-insurance-program
Only this time the “temporary” program covers civil unrest.
I liked you better when you were making jokes about Hot Pockets.
The guy can occasionally be funny, but like all these leftists that need to virtue signal, he can’t get why people don’t accept his gospel as the truth. After all, he knows best… he is a comedian! And he believes the good think peddled by Hollywood. Why don’t you rubes?
This is why I am still a fan of Dana Carvey…guy roasted Daddy Bush and did it well and we laughed. One of the few comedians that dared poke fun at Lightbringer also.
When on point, Will Farrel knocked baby Bush out of the park.
Chevy Chase rocked Ford also.
They are in such unique positions to make people laugh while roasting someone and then they devolve into ranting on their Twitter Echo Chamber
share a good joke of his with the class
Is Waffle House bit is good.
https://youtu.be/v02mT37pm_8
Waffle House? Not relatable outside Hicksville US (google tells me it is in NY state)
He is entitled to his opinion. Turn it into jokes…that what you do for a living. Hell I bet if they are good jokes, you would even see the Trumptards laugh. Ranting never is going to change anyone’s opinion on this and he knows it by jabbing at virtue signalling and pretending he doesn’t care.
Hey fuck you Chad. In case you didn’t notice 180,000 people have died and the country is being run by a con man who’s trying to convince half the country that the suburbs are about to be set on fire (a lie)
Yeah, Chad! Get your facts straight! We’re only burning the cities, idiot!
This would have probably played better before the mostly peaceful protests in Kenosha. Unless Kenosha is no longer a suburb…
I wouldn’t call downtown Kenosha a “suburb”.
“to those of you who think Im destroying my career wake up. if trump gets elected, the economy will never come back.”
Krugman!
Gaffigan is sometimes funny. His shtick is inoffensive. I guess he felt like he needed to turn up the edginess a little bit.
So they are not just “house negroes”?
Henderson said that the McCloskeys “set the tone for the week. You had, sort of, in and out African Americans. People like Ben Carson, people like Ja’Ron Smith, to be there to say, Donald Trump’s great. He’s not a racist. Almost all of the black people had to testify and be Donald Trump’s black friend, tonight, and throughout, I think, this whole convention. And we’ll see what that does for white moderates, what it does for African Americans too.”
The Kentucky AG apparently won by 16 points last year, the former AG a Dem just barely beat the sitting GOP Governor.
This is a great example of how they start with a narrative, and then twist the facts to fit that narrative. If there were no black speakers, that would be proof that Trump is racist. But there were a lot of black speakers, which is proof that Trump is racist.
Saying you have friends that are black is no defense of racisim. In fact it proves it. The only sure way to not be racist is to support the platform of the Democratic party
The only sure way to not be racist is to
supportpush the platform of the Democratic party so far to the left that Mao would blush.FTFY
https://www.dailywire.com/news/herschel-walker-i-lost-some-friends-due-to-trump-support
There are so many valid things to criticize about Trump, but racism and homophobia aren’t.
The DNC is just pissed because their political ancestors bought and paid for the blood ancestors of most black Americans and they don’t want their property getting any funny ideas about voting for somebody else.
Jared Kushner was on Squawk yesterday and said (paraphrasing) – NBA players are fortunate to make enough to take the night off…without consequences.
I’m just glad to see (from several of the comments here and yesterday) that I’m not the only one who has trouble differentiating between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Wait…they are differnt places?
Mineconsigian.
which one has the hot chicks again?
Neither.
The hot chicks are in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina.
I don’t see how that is possible. Maybe under 25 or something, otherwise I assume southern cuisine makes them all fat
There’s sortof a club for that. It’s called “The Southeastern Conference”.
I think all of the original Southern Conference qualifies – the SEC and the ACC both split off from it. And the smaller remnants that remain still meet any reasonable standard.
Founders in 1921: Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Mississippi St, Tennessee, Virginia, Clemson, North Carolina, NC St, Maryland, Washington & Lee, Virginia Tech.
Added in 1922: Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, Tulane, Vanderbilt, South Carolina.
1923: Sewanee
1924: VMI**
1926: Duke
Then in 1933, the SEC split off, so any after that is a latecomer.
**Doesnt count – no chicks at the time.
The ** applies to my alma mater too, as we didn’t admit women until 1952.
Relative to the others up there, I think we still rate an asterisk or two. Compared to everybody who’s NOT on your list, though, yeah, we’re still easily above-average.
The other exception would be University of New Jersey-Durham.
Cold and then mosquitopocalypse for 3 months. But one has cheeseheads while the other has Vikings, I mean until they killed off the foozball with woke magic.
Whiskeysoda
You can easily walk from the eastern edge of the Twin Cities to the Wisconsin border.
I spent two winters in Wisconsin and have never been in Minnesota and I still don’t know the difference.
What is Aleppo?
Once you get north of Atlanta, it’s pretty much all Canada from there.
https://twitter.com/nieto_phillip/status/1299207662043828224
At some point you just stop, look that shrieking bitch in the eye and say
“Honey, you’re not mad at me, you’re mad at your dad.”
Makes you want to champion their cause, huh?
It’s always the young white harpies.
Arrived at car rental place at 10 pm. Reserved a little RAV4-ish SUV. All they had left were huge V8 powered vehicles, with running boards so you could climb up. Crewcab full size pickups. A Suburban. Nissan Armadas. I took an Armada.
Mrs Prolefeed: “It’s filthy.” (She’s got OCD. Clean fteak.)
Me: “It’s late. I don’t have a preference. Find a clean enough vehicle and I’ll drive it.”
All of them were too dirty. One had been a weed mobile by previous occupants, from the ganja reek.
Drove off in the Armada, with a maintenance light turning on.
Back to rental lot today. Sigh.
Reserved a little RAV4-ish SUV. All they had left were huge V8 powered vehicles – so they know how to take a reservation but they don’t know how to hold a reservation?
CommaLa says the riots are not going to stop ever.
I predict she’s wrong.
I think even Colbert was a little taken aback by that one.
Because he understands she just literally cut a Trump ad. He’s kicking himself for not jumping in and cutting her off. You don’t even have to edit it. Just play that clip over a montage of burning buildings, looting, and breaking glass.
The look on his face is priceless. It’s almost like a tacit admission he’s realizing he might be on the bad guys side.
“are we the baddies?” part 2.
So, their plan for winning is saying ‘elect us and the riots will never stop. Oh, and we’re going to take your guns and defund the police’. Is anyone paying attention to this shit? We can only hope so.
Thats why those types of clips get memory-holed and never see the light of day except on “lying” or “right-wing” sites.
Under the old GOP, yes. The controlled opposition GOP, yes. The “lose gracefully and give a great concession speech GOP”, yes. The Washington Generals GOP, yes.
Trump’s GOP not so much.
I can only translate that to mean; “Look, when we picked Biden as our candidate it should have been obvious to you all that we have no expectation to win this time. We’re just going to phone this one in, OK?”
I hate to read too much into it, but her affect and her reference to it as a “movement” sure make her look like a supporter.
And what is it with the Dems’ adamant refusal to do the minimum to get decent production values? My iPad has a better camera than whatever she is using. At least it’s not the up the nose angle, but criminey.
She obviously didn’t get the memo that the riots are all Trump’s doing as he encourages civil violence to better his chances in November.
Lo-fi, man. All the hep cats are doing it.
“They’re not gonna let up, and they SHOULD not, and WE should not.”
Uhhhh, what? That’s an… INTERESTING campaign strategy.
The democrats laying in front of the liability shield during the first round of stimulus was the most under reported and probably one of the most nefarious stand they’ve taken.
But we can’t let kkkorporations get away with murder!
Unfortunately, the government has an impenetrable liability shield. I’d love to see state and local governments hobbled by protracted litigation over the economic damage they have done.
When conservatives talk about how much they hate communism, you can usually replace the word “communism” with “equality” and get closer to what they really mean.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1299138784701808640
well equality can only be achieved with massive violence to reach equal misery, so yes?
Well, yeah?
Equality is bullshit. Human beings are inherently unequal, as individuals and as populations, and every historical attempt to make them equal has ended in famines and gulags and mass graves.
The only equality I care about is equality before the law, which is not at all the same thing.
I think the real test of a true* libertarian vs the BLH type is that while both like the concept of liberty and equality, the former will take liberty every time if you can only get one, while the latter will sell out liberty.
*there can be only one!
Public.School.
That’s how we got here.
This is true because they normally confuse equalitarianism with communism, like Marx and Lenin didn’t dunk all over that.
Wtf? It’s like leftists always have to come up with new words for “equality” because the don’t actually believe in “equality*”.
*Equality under the law being the only way we can aim to be equal.
Fascist logic: Destroying property to stop murder is wrong. Murdering to protect property is right.
https://twitter.com/nick_w_estes/status/1298748919006994432
Anyone referring to property damage as “violence” is a fascist.
And yes, I meant *private* property. So all you clowns coming in here with sob stories about homeless people getting their tents destroyed can go jump.
Here’s a handy little graphic that might help.
https://twitter.com/jvgraz/status/1299216301378826241
“Socialist Rifle Association”
Well, that’s …. I don’t know wtf that is, must be parody.
rifles are personal property doncha know
Sorry, comrade, we’ve eliminated personal property to achieve equality. You rifle is belong to us. If you wish you use our rifle, please fill out the proper forms to get your rifle stamp. Sorry we’re backlogged right now, please try again at a later time.
There. Is. No. Difference. Between. Personal. And. Private. Property.
Just pretend I’m clapping my hands between words like a moron there…
Usually, they pull out the private != personal property bullshit when talking about large companies. Nobody “owns” all of those machines in the Tesla factory so if the workers appropriate them, it’s just class consciousness argle-bargle proletarian revolution yadda yadda anarcho-syndicalist commune.
But this doesn’t really work for small businesses. Much of this “private, not personal” property is effectively personally owned by an individual, family, or partnership and the loss of it is essentially taking the means of their own production away from them.
the fruits of your labor
Since when do commies believe in such things?
In theory, that is the entire point of communism. Everybody likes to work, they want to work for the good of all, but they’re being denied the fruits of their labor by the capitalists (capitalist = owner of capital here), which forces them to work against each other. Throw in some selective reading of history and hatred of the (fellow) bourgeoisie, who straddle the line between proletariat and capitalists, and you get warmed-over Marxism.
The thing is, though, the rioters are by and large not representative of the proletariat. They are, at best, members of the lumpenproletariat, i.e. the proles who are averse to class consciousness, or to strip away the bullshit, people with few skills and little work ethic who don’t have workers’ camaraderie but may be useful as shit-stirrers. In an established communist society, they would be sent to reeducation for reform, and if they still had a shitty work ethic or still wanted to stir up shit, they’d face the rough end of communism (forced labor, gulag, execution). A recalcitrant lumpenprole is no different from a kulak as far as “real communism” is concerned.
But to your Internet Marxist, who is almost always bougie even if they pretend otherwise (just because you work at Starbucks or Safeway doesn’t mean you’re a prole), all of this can be downplayed or even ignored. The rioters are useless on a factory floor, and so don’t have a place in the world to come, but they are very useful today for the destruction they can cause being used to indict capitalism.
These types already stretched the word “fascist” so far that I am not even surprised by this.
I do question how destroying property, particularly that of people that have nothing to do with alleged murder, can stop murder.
There’s no such thing as a self-made billionaire. To amass more wealth than you could possibly spend in a lifetime, you need the work of other people.
https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1299244909992517637
Shocking insight
I am always baffled by the idiots that pretend the billionaire got rich from slave labor. What? He/she didn’t pay the other people that worked for him/her? Were they forced to work for him/her?
These types always feel it is unfair that the person taking the financial risk gets to profit the most from it.
Say what you will of jack dorsey, his ability to create an app that somehow attracts all the worse morons in the world is impressive
I will applaud when his app strikes them all dead.
https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1299333282052665344
This is a city with severe lockdown restrictions who won’t allow sports to have fans, concerts, schools to open or people to leave their homes without masks sanctioning this activity. Its fucking blood boiling.
What the fuck is “The Commitment March” supposed to be about?
Commitment to The Cause, comrade! Now get in line, and stop asking questions!
That’s black (lower case) Friday t Walmart, right?
I’m tapping out. Best wishes to the rest of you! I’m done like dinner.
If a man who buys a big gun is compensating for a small dick is a woman compensating for no dick? dick envy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjz2oKT4y0&app=desktop
Also where does this chick stand on the crazy scale?
Just shy of stick it in crazy
There’s a three gun competitor, I forget her name, but she is absolutely fun sized. She has an extended tube on her 12 gauge, and when she rests the butt on the ground the tube comes up to the middle of her face.
Lena Miculek? She’s pretty tall.
The extended tube on my A5 comes up nearly to my collarbone with the butt on the ground, and I’m 6-1. 3Gun shotguns are ridiculous (and that’s part of the fun…)
One of the women that shoots at my club is tiny. Two weeks ago there were targets below a high port that was higher than her armpit, I was sorry for the contortions she had to do.
Yeah, for those kind of ports, there should be a step-stool available for the the smaller folks. That’s actually not sarcasm.
Now on the other hand, I shot the Area 8 sectional last week with one of Steve Smith’s brethren. And there were some low ports that his 6-8 self had trouble folding himself into. It’s tough all over, I guess.
HAWT…
Would definitely – if I decided to dump her, would flee the country for a while.
Are people really eating Ramen while driving ?
https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1299022887106629633
In university I was in a friend car while he was driving, talking on the phone and eating ice cream. He held the phone hands free between shoulder and tilted head and kept the ice cream in one hand and the other hand on the wheel. He would take the hand of the wheel for short periods of time to eat a spoon of ice cream. The problem was shifting gears as cars in Romania back then were not usually autoimatics.
“Thanks, I’ll walk.”
Daewoo Matiz
Look at this beast of a vehicle
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSwEum8u8BWjfUJ4Ir_JFH0jv7bXpcZRZ7o1t8iAVBZFw&usqp=CAU&ec=45695923
That’s the “Chevy Spark” in North America.
Not sure how you pull that off without getting the broth everywhere.
well if Denis Reynolds could eat cereal while driving I assume ramen is possible
One of the best episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJtxMnvY3_4
I saw a truck driver in Japan eating ramen noodles out of a ceramic bowel resting on the steering wheel with chopsticks. This was while we were on a major highway in traffic going 40-50 mph.
Now that makes sense! See that put the bowl much closer to your mouth.
(This from the society that thinks we in the US are nuts for eating food while walking,)
eating ramen noodles out of a ceramic bowel
Somehow not surprised.
Teenage Scruffy would eat a cheeseburger, fries, and soda while driving a stick shift in traffic.
Of course, I was a little dumber then.
https://www.fox29.com/news/man-critical-after-argument-over-social-distancing-leads-to-shooting-at-wawa-in-juniata
Another covid victim.
I don’t miss Philadelphia…
Don’t tell me I can’t get my Sizzli on!
My wife keeps telling me those pork-roll sandwiches are bad for you.
This probable cause statement is horseshit.
A second person who was later identified as Anthony Huber approaches the defendant who is still on the ground, on his back. Huber has a skateboard in his right hand. When Huber reaches the defendant it appears that he is reaching for the defendant’s gun with his left hand as the skateboard makes contact with the defendant’s left shoulder. Huber appears to be trying to pull the gun away from the defendant. The defendant rolls towards his left side and as Huber appears to be trying to grab the gun the gun is pointed at Huber’s body.
The defendant then fires one round which can be heard on the video. Huber staggers away, taking several steps, then collapses to the ground. Huber subsequently died from this gunshot wound. After shooting Huber, the defendant moves to a seated position and points his gun at a third male, later identified as Gaige Grosskreutz, who had begun to approach the defendant.
When the defendant shot Huber, Grosskreutz freezes and ducks and takes a step back. Grosskreutz puts his hands in the air. Grosskreutz then moves towards the defendant who aims his gun at Grosskreutz and shoots him, firing 1 shot. Grosskreutz was shot in the right arm. Grosskreutz appears to be holding a handgun in his right hand when he was shot. Grosskreutz then runs southbound away from the defendant screaming for a medic and the defendant gets up and starts walking northbound. The defendant turns around facing southbound while walking backwards northbound with his firearm in a ready position, pointed towards the people in the roadway.
If defense counsel isn’t already drafting the change of venue request, I’d be surprised. A nice exurban/rural courthouse on the other side of the state would be ideal.
Anywhere upstate is an acquittal and a party with the jurors in the nearest bar afterwards. If his parents come along, he can drink too!
See, I think Kenosha is exactly where he should be tried.
Will this level of bs even make it past a grand jury? I know that’s a low bar for the prosecutor to clear, but this is just fiction.
“Ham Sandwich”
Would any of it be presented to the grand jury?
Jesus. What complete horseshit. First a magical skateboard somehow “makes contact” all on its own. And then a magical gun magically appears in the supposed victim’s hand.
Like saying that Mike Tyson’s fist “made contact” with Micheal Spinks. Then Spinks fell asleep.
More like, inexplicably, Holyfield’s ear was found in Tyson’s mouth.
Holyfield’s ear just appeared in his mouth, too. How did it get there? It’s a mystery.
Does Wisconsin have the felony murder charge, where if someone dies due to you committing a felony, you get a murder charge? I would like to see a grand jury go rogue and indict the other people assaulting Rittenhouse for the murder of Huber and Grooskreutz.
Yes, Wisconsin does have that charge, it can add on up to 15 years to the sentence.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/940/I/03
Don’t give them ideas.
Jesus Christ
In looking at the video, it doesn’t appear that Huber was swinging the board to inflict damage.
That said, if you think a person with a semi-automatic rifle is an actual threat, it’s a really bad decision to try to disarm them using only a skateboard for defense. Particularly when the mob is swarming over the guy and he’s panicked.
When somebody is swinging a makeshift club at my head, I’m entitled assume they intend to inflict damage.
Rittenhouse’s perception from the ground will certainly be different. I’m just saying that the characterization in the quoted paragraph is not incorrect.
Now the part about Grosskreutz is just plain old bullshit.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298501182382473216
Of course, “makes contact with” would also accurately describe splitting someone’s skull with a makeshift club.
Technically correct? Sure. Misleading? You bet.
Skater boi was off balance when he swung. I think that’s the only reason he didn’t make hard contact. I find it highly unlikely that you ever swing a makeshift club at someone’s head without intending to inflict damage.
I’ll have to watch again, I think there is a way it could be construed that he was trying to use it as a shield/implement to block the gun.
He hits Rittenhouse on the left shoulder, while the gun is on the ground in Rittenhouse’s right hand. I just don’t see it.
There’s another angle where you see Huber drop the skateboard, break stride and turn to pick it up again. To me, that’s clear evidence that he wanted to have the skateboard in his hand, to use it as a club.
The fact that we’re having to go to slow mo tells me that the self-defense claim is going to be well supported. You don’t have to be a mind reader to have a viable self-defense claim.
How would they know that? They learned nothing in school. Their parents taught them nothing of the real world. They think this is all a cool virtual reality video game and the media are ensuring them they can do anything they want and nothing bad will happen.
Fire Fauci now or November 4th?
Dr. Fauci Snubs President Trump – Reinstates Grant with Company Connected to China Coronavirus – After Trump Demanded an End to the Contract in April
Now, and into the sun.
I’m really tired of saying this. But Trump’s worst fault is the people he selects to surround himself with. Fauci has never been anything other that a WHO puppet chicom stooge plant. Why else would CNN hail him as America’s beloved doctor? *barf*
The problem is not Trump, but the fact that he is limited to asshats that are members of the deep state. It is going to be near impossible to find people with minimal qualifications and knowledge of the fucking Leviathan’s innerworkings that Can hit the ground running, so Trump is always at risk that whomever he chooses will end up at some point or another reflexively going with the deep state flow.
I certainly hope that in his second term he moves most if not all of these agencies in DC to small towns in rural America to dissuade the existing credentialed class of DC swamp rats from staying there. This would be the best way to kill Panem’s existence IMO. DC is the problem.
Yep. The Butthurt when BLM got moved to Grand Junction was awesome.
Right wing vigilantism is spoiling Portland’s Summer of Love
Over the last three months in Portland, mass protests against police violence and racism gradually gave way to nightly often violent standoffs between a core of pro-Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist protesters and law enforcement.
But in the past week the city has fallen back into a pattern of more politically polarized street violence which has marked the city throughout the Trump era, with broadly leftwing and anti-fascist activists sometimes facing off against far-right groups.
Last weekend a rightwing “Say no to Marxism in America” rally saw serious, widespread violence. Much of it came from rally attendees – who included members of far-right groups like the Proud Boys – and was directed not only at leftist counter-protesters, but also reporters.
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Amy Herzfeld-Copple, the deputy director of Portland-based progressive non-profit, the Western States Center, wrote in an email that: “Portland police allowed alt-right and paramilitary groups to sow chaos and deploy violence against the community with apparent impunity.”
She added: “There’s a real risk that protests for racial justice and police reform will be subsumed by alt-right mayhem if city leadership doesn’t change its approach.”
Pay no attention to the pyromaniacs behind the curtain.
Pay no attention to the pyromaniacs behind the curtain.
*brb*
boom, a shitty meme made on my phone!
So now antifa is an alt-right and paramilitary group?
There’s no consistency. The rioters are all alt-right white supremacists, until somebody arrests or shoots them, and then they magically turn into noble nonviolent peaceful protesters of peace and nonviolence who peacefully and nonviolently were protesting.
This isn’t the street violence we wanted!
“Right wing vigilantism is spoiling Portland’s Summer of Love”
Good, keep it up until the job is finished.
Damn.
3-Year-Old Clinging to Unicorn Float Is Rescued From Sea in Greece
Captain had to get a passenger/car ferry out to her and let the crew reach her without capsizing her “boat”.
Damn adults spoil all the fun! Couldn’t the see the boy was off an an Odyssey to slay the Kraken and bring back the head of Medusa?
The defendant turns around facing southbound while walking backwards northbound with his firearm in a ready position, pointed towards the people in the roadway.
Why would he do that?
Where is video of this bike being thrown?
To borrow a phrase from the woke set: protesters, educate yourselves!
Oh Robby, you poor naive fool.
Robby is incorrect. The cop used the bike to block protesters — he pushed on one, the guy pushed back hard on the bike and knocked the cop into Paul.
Somebody here will get excited about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgonBJvVgsw
THUNDER!
Old white dude or young vapid white dude? Voters know their votes on any issue will be identical.
The Kennedy dynasty may be well and truly over
Nice, trshmnster.