How I have missed the tastes of Italy…
This may not be the freshest link, but potatoes are good for a while, right?
Good news for for the locals ’round these parts! Uh oh… Maybe too local? Well, whatever. We’re going on Tuesday.
Cold shit on a Friday.
Oh, nooooooo… This is so saaaaad… I see we also have radically differing opinions about what being “broke” means.
Behold. Every time I read something like this, it just cracks me up. So stunning, so brave.
If you’re still here after that, you’ve earned something nice!
I. Am. First.
I don’t really get the motivation to be hated by a group of people who are already hated by the greater society, but if it gives you pleasure I wish you well.
To be the most hated among the most hated is the same as being the first among the hated. It all makes sense.
STEVE SMITH SAVE YOU FOR LAST.
REMEMBER WHEN STEVE SMITH SAID RAPE YOU LAST? STEVE SMITH LIED.
FIRST SHALL BE LAST! RAPE TWO TIMES FOR DOUBLE PLEASURE!
“I am so great! I am so great! Everybody loves me, I am so great!”
*continues pounding frying pan with wooden spoon*
The Ice Cube tale shows just what happens when you step off the plantation. Kanye may be crazy but he gave a path for many in the industry to just walk away and have your own mind or at least, like Ice Cube is doing, fight for your own and don’t depend on any particular party to do it for you.
I am not listening to a 30 minute rant on twitter. Someone want to give me Ice Cube’s sins in a nutshell?
Not long ago Trump announced a “platinum plan” for black people. Enterprise zones, money for trade schools, stuff like that. Turns out Ice Cube has been working with Trump on that.
Ahhhhh. Yeah I can see that. The rat bastards are scared to death Trump’s plan may turn out to be a success.
But he’s the raciest racist of racism!
He was looking for support for his cause…reached out to both Biden and Trump…Biden pulled a “after the election we will help” and Trumps people said…we got your back.
Cube mildly praised the president and then has been labeled an uncle tom.
Biden pulled a “after the election we will help”
That seems to be becoming his favorite policy position.
The old ‘You have to pass it to find out what’s in it’
One would have to have rocks in their head to vote dem
Oh and since all that, CNN decided it worked out so well for Twitter and Facbook to censor, that they cancelled his interview.
Dollars over doughnuts he ends up on Fox within a week…a channel people actually watch.
Worked for Obama with marijuana descheduling – twice even.
True…true.
“Biden pulled a “after the election we will help”
Well, you have to admit, democrats have been pulling that one off for at least 50 years and it seems to show no signs it will stop working any time soon.
I watched Ice Cube’s 7-minute video. Points: 1) Blacks need to focus on black people and no one else. 2) The system is fucked and blacks are fucked by the system. 3) Neither party does anything for blacks. 4) Blacks need to push both parties to deliver. 5) Republicans have put 500 billion on the table for back communities. 6) Democrats are still offering nothing. 7) Blacks need to continue to talk to republicans.
The blacks looking out for blacks part: Just dont get all uppity when whites look out for whites.
We should be nation states at this point.
I think that there is a long tradition of various immigrant groups doing that. Koreans are big on that sort of thing. I could drop my wife off in any city in the US and within a month she’d be networked with hundreds of other Koreans there and would know where to go to get anything she wants.
Nothing wrong with establishing ties with a group of people for mutual aid. Even if it is based on skin color. Or sex. Or anything. Better to create those ties on your own than to wait for government to give you a handout.
I was being overly glib with that.
That doesn’t work for Russians. They hate each other abroad.
I think this is a big reason why Larry Hogan is governor of MD. His wife is Korean. The capital seat of Howard County (one of the richest counties in the USA) has a huge Korean community. They own a lot of businesses there and all of them probably voted for Hogan.
Mormons already do the white people looking after their own.
So under Trump, black people are up for sale again?
“I’ll have them voting democrat for the next two hundred years”
You left out a w**d.
Yep, the question is – how many do you get for $500B.
Look, one step at a time, first we have to get them back in chains, like Biden assured us republicans would do. Only then we can start up the market again.
Not sure what we’re going to do with the wiminz since those are going back into chains too. My fear is that the buyer will keep bringing them back for a refund.
*facepalm*
Or you could shitcan your group identity and act like a person with inalienable rights living in the United States.
Yeah Cubes finer points aren’t for freedom or to make it better, but he is learning what the Dems truly think of him.
Ehhh. He’s getting there. I’m not gonna kick the dude in the teeth for not being there already.
lrn2libertarian always judge every action against hypothetical purity totally disconnected from any practical consideration. Increasing liberty is not the goal, demonstarting your hipster cred is the goal. It is shocking that we aren’t taken seriously.
What’s the over/under on any substantial part of the black community having the same realization?
There was a time most black people were Republicans, so I guess they could switch back. Unlike libertarians there are actually enough to get some concessions from the GOP. Criminal justice reform, drug decriminalization, business deregulation, but I’m not optimistic.
10% swing changes a lot in the final tally.
Hell even if its a 5% bump for Teump and a 5% stay at home, it is impactful.
I can’t walk in a black man’s shies but if a politician said “you ain’t white” if I didnt vote republican, I would either stay home or stick it in their eye and vote the other guy.
Right.
Still hustling race.
But he has at least come to the conclusion that the Dem Party is not his friend.
I got the impression the “blacks for blacks” was somewhat about pushing back on the Dems all-POC; all-gender; all the time shtick. Blacks need to focus on making blacks better then we can welcome others in.
I remember Herman Cain telling a story from his childhood. He saw a nice car and his father told him “Dont envy what others have, work hard to get your own.”
I have never heard a successful black man say “I am black”.
That is how you make your life better. That is how you achieve success. Belonging to a group identity is doom.
Better yourself and be your own man.
Agreed
Overall, I found his 7-minute spiel disappointing.
They point I agreed with is his conclusion that black people’s faith in the Dem party is wasted.
Hopedully he realizes that faith in any “party” will get you STEVE SMITH everytime.
Black men have been pushed way down the intersectional victim stack, so yeah, you might see black men in particular look at what they can get from Repubs that they aren’t getting from Dems.
He’s crazy as fuck.
Rank order your preference for President:
Ice Cube
Trump
BidenHarrisbeen like that forever, sadly.
if you leave the DNC, black you shall no longer be
Harvey is a giver and they gave him 23 years for it. What kind of world do we live in?
And he’s looking for a $2million dollar bail. So not all that broke.
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II.
Aaaaannnd, I’m out.
After calling Mitt Romney “literally Hitler” they had to go somewhere. But does their amp go higher than 11?
But does their amp go higher than 11?
If Trump wins, we’ll find out.
Editorials like that are meant for one thing…rope any team blue members that were trying to slide off the bench and hop on the other team before the coach realizes what has happened.
There’s another message. If you’re a virtue signaling democrat and you don’t get your ass up and vote for Biden, you’re no better than Hitler. You can’t just be for the dems. You have to be actively anti-republican. Or you will be shunned by the people you rely on for your self-esteem.
Hate on Trump all you want, scribes. But, after four years of trying to nullify an election, stop saying you’re doing so in the name of democracy.
You don’t get it: they have to destroy democracy in order to save it. It’s truly a noble cause.
We’re a democracy? Huh.
TW: New Yorker.
I wonder if it hurts to be this stupid.
About the only threat to American democracy in WWII was FDR’s wartime measures, as near as I can recall. Neither the Germans nor the Japanese were the remotest threat to actually conquer the US.
Democrats not being in power truly is a national crisis.
They simply want to bring to the nation the skill and careful governance they exhibit in Illinois, California, New York and New Jersey!
I was afraid you were going to forget NJ. Thank you for being thorough.
It really is a slice of paradise.
The slice taken off the assend of the taint? After a bout of diarrhea.
The Fact-Free COVID Dystopia | Thomas E. Woods. Jr.
*hearty ovation*
Tom Woods hits it out of the park!
“If there was ever a use for the phrase ‘get bent!’ this is it.”
I prefer, “Fuck off, slaver.”
Taking the music link in the other direction… Witchcraft.
More witchcraft
Better witchcraft mildly NSFW
my kind of witchraft
I went and grabbed dark sunglasses and a cigarette just to listen to that. Almost like strollin into the Dresden in Hollywood in the 90s.
I miss the smell of Smokey diners and pool halls. Florida has been smoke free for forever so it’s probably just a form of childhood nostalgia. I’ve been tempted to buy a pack of smokes for old times sake, but my wife would freak out.
I love me some Gabor Szabo. Truly a gifted guitarist who died too young.
This album that kept popping up on YouTube – and made me a fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0XWmEbiMQ
Wow. New rabbit hole to venture down. I dazed out for a minute or two listening to that. Probably goes well with your devil grass
Very nice. Thanks for the link.
I’m looking forward to doing some shooting this weekend. Weather should be nice, range is open, and I still have a little ammo left.
After the Tim Herron class last weekend, I’m now 100% behind the pistol red dot concept. Not quite so sure about the Glock, though. Glocks are so ubiquitous that everyone should be able to shoot one reasonably well, but man, my 2011s and CZ Shadow are so much easier to hit with…
Not long ago I was standing in my yard and was suddenly startled by the neighbor’s dog. It saw me (I occasionally sneak treats to her) and she came barreling at me as fast as she could run. Within half of a second I heard pounding feet directly behind me that sounded like a person, drew my J-frame SW, spun around at had it pointed directly at her head, nearly touching her. It happened so fast I didnt have time to mentally process any of it. It was almost like watching someone else do it. Poor doggie pissed herself.
I thought “Huh. I still have it”.
Practice, practice, practice and then….practice more.
I’m looking forward to doing some shooting this weekend. Weather should be nice, range is open, and I still have a little ammo left.
I’m taking the wife Sat and dad on Sun. It’s looking like a great weekend for it. Have plenty of target ammo left and am hoping the backordered case of 5.56 I locked in months ago at $400 will actually ship in a couple weeks.
Not a red dot, but I picked up a Reactor 5 laser sight for my Springfield XDS and have been enjoying it. Can’t find a decent holster that’s compatible with the instant on activation though.
Aliengear cloak 3.5
That’s actually what I use now (sans sight). Not sure if they are compatible with the instant-on feature. I guess it doesn’t matter though, the other holsters are crap so will probably go with Aliengear regardless.
They make one compatible with the magnet built in.
Yep, your right. Thank you. I’m not sure how I missed that.
Time to order some more holsters.
Got the Trijicon on the Para-Ordnance finally, Me likee. Been practicing mounting/dry fire – there’s a learning curve, no question – unlike iron sights you don’t have any cues as to whether you’re high/low/left/right. But once you find the dot – suh-weet. Eventually I’ll get my muscle memory dialed in. Trying to find time to get to the range with it.
I think I’m going to have to get a custom holster for it, though. Not sure if a standard-issue 1911 holster with the cutout for the sight will work on a Para, although it seems like it should. Open carry, because trying to conceal it is like trying to conceal an erection at a high school dance.
One of the things that I really like about the Holosun 507 is the 32MOA circle dot reticle. It’s easy and extremely fast to pick up, while still being precise enough for small targets at long distance.
Over three days of shooting, I missed picking up the dot only a handful of times, usually when shooting very aggressively on a close target (like 0.8x seconds from the holster to first shot) where it’s pretty much, “look for brown cardboard through the window and slam the trigger twice.”
But, I also have a pretty good index already, from years of shooting irons. It helps. But it’s well accepted that shooting a dot will often make you a better irons shooter.
I also have a pretty good index already, from years of shooting irons.
Pretty sure you have a crapload more range time in than I do. Even the little bit of practice I’ve been able to get in has been helpful. Very interesting to me that I tend to mount low and to the left.
I may drag Mrs. Dean down to the store to see what she thinks of the HoloSun. I think I mentioned before it was a very close second choice for me, and her bedside Sig (her wedding present, BTW) would be a good platform for a red dot.
Yeah, I do shoot quite a bit. There’s nothing like being an obsessive nerd for developing skills. Napoleon Dynamite was basically about my life.
Which SIG?
P228, I believe. New in 1997.
I will probably hit the range Sunday morning, when it’s usually nice and quiet at our gun club. I have a new revolver; a 4″ Smith K-22, made in 1957. I want to put it through it’s paces.
But the best new piece I haven’t received yet. That’s gonna be my grouse/ptarmigan gun.
Purty
Tasty.
noice
Oh, that is nice! I am debating between an over under vs. double…wondering how the accuracy compares.
As has now become a sacrosanct part of the weekends, I’ve now scheduled a recurring Zoom/Virtual Happy Hour/whatever. This means the link and codes should work forevermore going forward.
MeetingID: 811 9759 2540
Passcode: 870861
If anyone would like to step up as an alternate host, please feel free to reach out to me at my handle at the company that dropped Do No Evil as a motto. I believe you have to have a paid account to be an alternate host, but I’m not 100% on that.
I’ll kick it off tonight at 20:00 Eastern. Tomorrow, I’ll be out of pocket, so someone else will need to step up.
Hm.
Thanks Neph. I am already drunk so you may regret this one. Not that I don’t assume you all regret every happy hour when I show up. To paraphrase Straff, ‘Oh great slopers here now we get, FUCK, COCK, FUCKEN FUCK FER FUCKS SAKE!’
I am trying to work on my social interaction skills and I think these happy hours are helping. I used to swear a lot more.
Game over, man
Joe Biden’s town hall on ABC averaged 14.1 million viewers on Thursday night, easily surpassing the Nielsen ratings for President Trump’s town hall on NBC. That alone was a result virtually no one in the TV business expected. And that’s not even the most surprising part.
The Trump town hall was simulcast by two of NBC’s cable channels, MSNBC and CNBC, but even when those channels are included in the total, Biden — on only one network — still prevailed.
The Trump town hall averaged 10.6 million viewers on the NBC broadcast network. On MSNBC, Trump reached 1.74 million viewers, and on CNBC, about 671,000 viewers. So Trump’s gross audience across the three channels was 13.1 million, about one million fewer than Biden’s audience on ABC alone.
Get the transition team in there and start ordering new curtains for the Oval Office. The people have spoken.
Joe Biden. The man of the People!
I think the takeaway is approximately 375 million Americans had something better to do.
Most accurate assessment of last night.
/pedant on
Well, akshually, there are only 330M Americans total, so only 300M had something better to do.
/pedant off – maybe
So you don’t count Canadians as Americans?!?! I can’t even.
In the same way that the Hat is not Trump, so too is America’s Hat not America. But I can see why there would be confusion, in both cases.
I thought we hit 400 already. I’m just ahead of the game a little.
“All told, Trump came out on top with the most viewers online and on TV combined — with 17.8 million views versus Biden’s 16.8 million.”
Fact Check:
Fuck you
/ Poltifact
Nah now they get to claim “twitter didnt report or share this so its not true” narrative now.
Fact Check:
NUH UH!
/Snopes
I personally watched Crowder’s livestream of it. I don’t think there’s anything comparable for the Biden camp.
TV? What’s that?
Well, it’s probably nice for Biden to have a rally where people actually show up (if only virtually).
The town halls also didn’t reach as many people as the debates (not surprisingly), so I don’t know how big of an impact they will have relatively.
Biden TH + Trump TH = 27M
VP Debate = 57M
1st Pres Debate = 73M
The people have spoken
Those are the 14.1 million psychos so filled with hate and rage, Biden could rape multiple 8 year old on his front lawn, and they would still vote for Democrat.
Some of which were right-leaning journalists looking for gaffes to make fun of, and most of which were left-leaning journalists looking for gaffes to excuse.
wow
***
A bird said to have the aerodynamic build of a “jet fighter” has been tracked flying more than 12,000km (7,500 miles) from Alaska to New Zealand, setting a new world record for avian non-stop flight.
The bar-tailed godwit set off from south-west Alaska on 16 September and arrived in a bay near Auckland 11 days later, having flown at speeds of up to 55mph.
The male bird, known as 4BBRW in reference to the blue, blue, red and white rings fitted on its legs, also had a 5gm satellite tag harnessed on its lower back to allow scientists to track its progress. It was one of four to leave together from the Alaskan mudflats where they had been feeding on clams and worms for two months.
***
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/13/jet-fighter-godwit-breaks-world-record-for-non-stop-bird-flight
But does it grip the coconut by its husk?
Thanks for the kind words on the article. Got a couple comments in after work, then had to grocery shop and make two batches of Curry. One mild for the wife, and a hot one for me! Turned out pretty decent.
Now to eat and off to Friday night lights! (Just on the chain crew tonight. sad face)
After Thursday night’s Nielsen data showed the opposite, Biden campaign national press secretary TJ Ducklo tweeted, “Turns out more people last night were interested in watching a leader with a clear plan to get this pandemic under control and Americans back to work, than the same combative, chaotic liar whose incompetence got us into this mess — regardless of how many channels he was on.”
We’ll hide in our basements until it gets bored and goes away.
Shutting down the whole country and a nationwide mask mandate is a clear plan to get the pandemic under control and get us all back to work.
Who knew?
And JOBS! Don’t forget all the jobs that will somehow create.
Green jobs. You don’t hate the earth, do you?
Except for the places which shut down because no one was coming.
The government isn’t the only entity that drove the society into the state of mass psychosis. Plenty of private actors have greatly contributed to it.
Biden plan: Get Biden elected. All of the panic-stokers shut up. Everyone shrugs their shoulders and moves on with life.
I mean, you kinda have to admit it’s a solid plan.
A bird said to have the aerodynamic build of a “jet fighter”
It can barely keep itself airborne?
As STEVE SMITH will attest, it’s just a matter of having enough thrust.
I loved that song and this was a great version. Thanks, Riven.
Dre nada! I love me some big band
Child prodigy
Caroline Giuliani, the daughter of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, is urging Americans to “end this nightmare” by voting for Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris.
In a piece for Vanity Fair published Thursday, she called on voters to end Trump’s “reign of terror” and “elect a compassionate and decent president.”
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“If being the daughter of a polarizing mayor who became the president’s personal bulldog has taught me anything, it is that corruption starts with ‘yes-men’ and women, the cronies who create an echo chamber of lies and subservience to maintain their proximity to power,” Caroline Giuliani wrote. “We’ve seen this ad nauseam with Trump and his cadre of high-level sycophants (the ones who weren’t convicted, anyway).”
She accused Trump “and his enablers” of using the presidency to “stoke the injustice that already permeated our society,” slammed his policies rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community, and criticized his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Giuliani praised Biden for picking Harris as his running mate and argued that the former vice president would be capable of bipartisanship and incorporating progressive views. She also touted Biden’s proposals to combat climate change and warned that “it is clear that our planet cannot survive four more years of this administration’s environmental assault.”
QED
When families disagree, You should listen to the people who think like me.
One of the better reign of terrors I’ve been through. My income went up as did my housing value. Curse you, Trump!
That Is her problem. You should be living in the mud so Gaia might thrive.
So another coordinated attack between “independent” outlets…that reads like the linked piece up top.
There goes Trump, splitting up yet another family.
Is JournoList still a thing? “End this nightmare” is something I’ve heard more than once. That Samantha Bee person on cable tv has a series of commercials with that theme. There seems to be very little original thought on the left.
I guess if you’ve spent 4 years obsessing about Trump it probably seems like a nightmare, but for the rest of us who are just living our lives it doesn’t seem so bad. I keep thinking of some LGBT friends on FB who were “literally afraid for their lives” after the last election. Last I checked they were still alive and well.
And probably better off. He has a few liberal streaks in him and one is he doesn’t care about your sexual conquests. He might play up to the base about marriage, but nothing I have seen has even come close to their irrational fears of him rounding up da gayz.
He was waving rainbow flags at his rallies when Biden and Obama were still anti-gay marriage.
Everything with the left is the opposite of reality. In the end it is only about power and they have an insatiable appetite for it. For the useful idiot base it is about envy and self-loathing.
What i love is that Trump is a horrible person because he’s lived the hollywood lifestyle of womanizing and sleeping around, and simultaneously Pence is a prude and evil man who wants to ensalve women from being promiscuous.
In a piece for Vanity Fair published Thursday, she called on voters to end Trump’s “reign of terror” and “elect a compassionate and decent president.”
So, not Joe Biden, then. Who on the ballot is compassionate and decent?
Jo?
She’s still in the “naive until proven evil” bucket for me.
Also known as “useful idiots”?
Reign of terror. No way rhetoric like that is an indication that a Biden/radical left win will be the biggest disaster in history.
Nobody has ever heard of her or even knew or cared that Giuliani had a daughter but suddenly this is “news”.
Was Giulliani really “polarizing” as mayor? Because he seemed pretty damn popular outside the leftist rags that trashed him.
Perhaps. I only caught the last couple years of his reign and among the smart set that I belonged to, he was the expected “literally worse than Hitler”. I think it was Piss Christ that sealed the deal. But it never amounted to anything like the inchoate rage we see from those types today against similar politicians – like Trump.
I think that to the extent he was “popular”, it was because the city greatly improved over his two terms – how much he had to do with that is an open question.
I got two new bags of weed to try out.
I just tried a small hit of White Rhino and so far I’m liking. A pretty classic “Indica” body buzz and feeling of relaxation. Blending with a stiff G&T also helps.
The name of the other one, Alien Cookies intimidates me so I’ll wait until an afternoon to try it out. 21% THC level but, according to my experienced toker friend, it is more Indica in feel then one would think.
I prefer lying rhino.
https://youtu.be/DEfAmZKOMrg
My daily is Cherry Bomb. Indicas put me right out and sativas make me just a bit anxious; hybrid all day long.
Do you listen to this while partaking? I have to live vicariously when it comes to this.
I would have guessed this.
I do often sing-mumble, “Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch… **suspicious bubbling noises**”
That’s pretty much where I am, Riven. At the right time, the sativa buzz or the indica stone can be what I want, but mostly I like the hybrid mellow.
Yeah, I am generally looking for something to mellow my already high-strung ass out. But I am a notoriously sleepy bitch, so I can’t get too mellowed out or I’ll just nap. My first world problems.
*sigh*
I would like to try some stuff, but I’m not in the correct state for that.
Alien Cookies was rather nice, IIRC. There has been a bit of a surfeit here in NYC the last couple months; I have 5 different flower strains (Sunday Driver, Capstone, Purple Punch, Sour D, and a locally grown flavor whose name escapes me) right now. The Purple Punch is VERY intense; the best I’ve had in a spell.
I’ve flown JetBlue Mint dozens of times in the last four years. For your meal, you’re supposed to pick 3 tapas-style dishes out of 5 on the menu. Until today I always got what I ordered. You just tell a FA what you want and that’s that. It worked fine as late as this August for me. But today they asked passengers to mark their choices on the menu with a pen. You would think that would make the selection process easier. No! I got chicken instead of beef! Even when the human interaction can be minimized and an indirect ordering method looks superior, it just doesn’t work.
A special hello to Michiganders, I’ll be flying over you any minute now.
Genocide
The president of the State University of New York at Oneonta abruptly resigned after the school experienced the worst coronavirus outbreak at a public university in the state.
SUNY- Oneonta on Thursday reported 712 coronavirus cases since the start of the fall semester in August, and it is currently conducting classes remotely.
The school said in a statement that university President Barbara Jean Morris has resigned to “pursue other opportunities.” Dennis Craig, who had been acting president of SUNY-Purchase, will be temporarily stepping in until a permanent president is found.
The Oneonta campus announced on Sept. 3 that it was transitioning to fully-remote learning after nearly 400 students tested positive for the coronavirus after several parties were thrown. The outbreak forced the state to send a virus control crew to the university to keep the spread from reaching the rest of the city, according to The New York Times.
Students began posting on social media about being taken out of dorm rooms in the middle of the night by men in hazmat suits. The posts went viral, angering staff members, parents and town residents.
Hazmat suits.
Bring in the earth movers and bucket loaders, for the mass grave.
If I were back in college, and some HAZMAT-suited asshole tried to drag me out of my dorm room in the middle of the night, they would have eaten a chair leg. If they were lucky.
My college years coincided with peak X-Files. Yeah. I would have been resisting. But only enough to get Scully’s attention.
Odds are I would have jumped out the window.
Shit is getting weird yo.
Usually it’s the students leading their teachers and parents to the camps. What a topsy-turvy time we live in!
Number of cases = Jack F. Shit
Goddammit. Jump up, wave your arms and yell “booga! booga! booga!” and crowds scream and scatter in panic.
When I was in grade school I had to do a little one-person play in front of the class on a historical event, and I did Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight. As Lindbergh was supposedly landing, I announced, “first, in English: welcome Charles Lindbergh!” Then, I said, “Now, in French!” And I jumped up, waved my arms and yelled “booga! booga! booga!”
I don’t think the teacher thought it was very historically accurate.
Well, they weren’t using earth movers to dig a mass grave in this movie scene, but I’ll be damned if some of the rioters aren’t wearing masks and other PPE…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABBQw6Ffbb8
Not mentioned:
Number of students and staff hospitalized or dead.
My goodness… the NYT doesn’t like Trump?!
*falls off chair*
the NYT doesn’t like Trump?!
It’s not PERSONAL.
The just want what’s best for the nation.
Oh spare me the bullshit. You mendacious assholes freak out over everything.
I would say it was done eagerly, enthusiastically, joyfully even. But certainly not lightly.
Define lightly. They impeached him over the amount of butter he puts on his toast.
*Did anyone ever say what the impeachable offense was?
He abused the powers of his office for his own personal political gain.
Now do Biden.
He abused the powers of his office for his own personal political gain.
Shit. I meant to strike out Political and add monetary. Imagine that’s what happened.
Fuck the NYT!
Scruffy Stone Update:
Apparently the stone broke up a few days ago and the discomfort/pain I was feeling was inflammation in the ureter. But because I never caught it and it had not been seen on the previous x-ray, they performed the cystoscopy anyway.
Upside: No stent required
Downside: Just got violated by a robotic tentacle for no reason.
Percocet kicking in now. Mild upside to that.
There’s always a good reason to be violated by a tentacle.
See, I was thinking there’s never a good reason to be violated by a robotic tentacle.
But you do you, Mad Scientist.
Technically, it’s the robotic tentacle that’s doing him.
This guy gets it.
Downside: Just got violated by a robotic tentacle for no reason.
Please, do not be alarmed. We are about to engage… The Nozzle.
DAMN YOU! I was just searching for that video!
“the stone broke up a few days ago”
Good news ! Scruffy’s on the mend! A few more days and it’ll all be a memory you can haul out and regale the boys at the bar. You’ll have them laughing and laughing yourself.
Good that it’s over.
I have been thinking a lot about where I diverge from Team L because I do value liberty over other considerations, and the Trumpalos here infuriate me, there are at least 3 posters here that make me consider voting for Biden, just to spite, but I find myself hostile to Jo (and previously to Gary) and I don’t really embrace pragmatism over substance. I have come to the conclusion that flawed as he is, and I think he is awful, I’d rather see Trump as President than Jo. Not he has a chance and she doesn’t so I will vote for him to forestal Biden. Genuinely I think we are better off with him than her. The #BlackLivesMatter tweet was a deal breaker for me. BLM is not a misdirected attempt to fix flaws in our policing, it is an attempt to implement on a policing level the same crap Obama implemented in schools where we punish crime at a rate matching demographics or not at all. Newsflash, black men commit more crimes than white men who commit more crimes than black women, who commit more crimes than asian men, etc. etc. Justice occurs on the individual level not the racial level. Trump is a populist asshole. If I got to pick outrPresident he would not be in the running, but I’d rather see him in office than Biden or Jo. Biden is a crook who would be set aside for a would be dictator. Jo is an idiot who thinks the left is misguided but well meaning.
We are on the brink of a civiil war here and we cannot have an academic idiot who believes the left is wrong but well meaning in office. They are not well meaning; they are the enemy.
Many of those on the left against the draft were “misguided but well meaning.” I didn’t rule out working with the well-meaning ones just because some were commie-lovers.
I didn’t rule out working with the well-meaning ones just because some were commie-lovers.
I think one difference is the left had no chance of taking over and setting up a one-party state in the ’60s. They very much do now.
Its one thing to ally with someone on a single issue where you agree, where that alliance won’t really have any further ramifications. Its another entirely to support them in their attempt to, what’s the phrase? Oh yeah, radically transform America by any means necessary.
And I won’t even work with them on single issues, not any more. The bayoneting of survivors after the gay marriage decision (I agreed with the gay activists goal, but absolutely not with using the courts to achieve it) should be a lesson we don’t forget.
^^ This. Even when I agree with them on the stated position on the issue, I find that their arguments are consistently terrible and usually made in bad faith.
The bayoneting of survivors after the gay marriage decision (I agreed with the gay activists goal, but absolutely not with using the courts to achieve it) should be a lesson we don’t forget.
This. 1000 times this
Your vote is your vote. Dont let someone else’s opinion decide it for you.
” I do value liberty over other considerations”
Then vote for maximum liberty even if it is not perfect. Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I will say this: If the gun grabbers get their way we will have zero liberty.
Name names.
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I’m sure I’m so milquetoast, I don’t infuriate anyone here.
We all know you are one of them, Sean.
And the TDS is strong among a few others. As if posters on this site need to scream Orange Man Bad after every statement that weighs Trump as a lesser evil than Biden.
Biden isn’t really the problem. He is an old fashioned crooked pol. As long as he is getting paid I dont think he gives a shit one way or the other about policy. It is the ideologies behind him that will be pulling the strings that are the problem. They are straight-up communists.
Biden isn’t the problem because there is no way in hell he would serve out the full term – so a vote for Biden is absolutely going to put Harris in the presidency.
You annoy me because you seem more focussed on being a dick than anything else, Hyperion and Alex annoy me because evrything they post sounds like they are trying to persuade us to vote Trump and they treat his flaws like they work for his campaign. Suthen I disagree with sometimes but think is sincere. grizzly I think is too obsessive about masks but comes from a sincere place. named enough for you?
Good enough
The Bro is a proud non-voter and advocates the same for everyone.
*sigh*
Not even an honorable mention.
?
I only listed people who piss me off sometimes. Sorry, you don’t.
People from the right I mean.
You gotta up your game, Sean!
Sean, you’re still the best. Maybe my weight will never dip below 150 but I’ve been staying around 150-151 for months now. I tried the keto diet multiple times but this time was the most successful. Down more than 20 pounds since January.
Also, I’ve got an honorable mention.
Sean isn’t First. I’m First. It’s right there in Jarflax’s post.
Congratulations!
It gets even easier to stay keto as time goes by. Plus, it is more main stream now and grocery stores now carry some decent keto products.
Sean, I’ve been meaning to tell you that Halo Top now has some keto flavors, apparently to compete with Rebel. I tried White Chocolate Macadamia Nut and Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge. Despite those intriguing flavors, they both sucked, terrible taste, texture and aftertaste. Rebel isn’t so bad. I will stick with them for now, especially Cherry Chip and Triple Chocolate, those are both awesome.
Good to know.
How bout I put you on my Enemies List?
Would that make you happy? My list is way better than Canc’ed’s list because mine includes eternal damnation and a reserved spot in the Sixth Circle of Hell with the heretics.
My list is pretty exclusive too. Hardly anyone is allowed on it. Tundra is the only one frequent person on it, but even he is mostly missing from it.
Nah, that wouldn’t be right. I prefer to earn my accomplishments.
You are spurning my good will gesture!?!?
That is it. YOU ARE ON THE LIST NOW!
https://memecrunch.com/meme/1DFU9/thats-better/image.jpg?w=552&c=1
I voluntarily submit to be acknowledged as being on the Trump Train.
That said, I have criticisms of the guy and I lay them out sometimes.
I’m just trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
Trump train is fine. Trump apologia here where he is not under attack is where I get annoyed
Way less problematic than being on the Kavanaugh Train
The difference is that the Kavanaugh Train rides you. . .
Enthusiasm!…?
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1317210354146004995
Enthusiasm.
This is the conundrum. The greatest risk to the republic right now is the unaccountability and politicization of the administrative state.
Obama brought Chicago to DC and the agencies hopped on board. If Biden wins, there will be no accountability for any of them and the blatant corruption in foreign policy will continue unabated. Right now, nothing else matters.
That is not to say they will be held to proper account even if Trump wins, but there’s zero chance if he doesn’t.
Dude, what? Aren’t there people out there more worthy of your fury than a couple of people on a message board who lurv someone you don’t?
I was wondering that too. This year has been overly stressful apparently.
No shit.
Mrs. Suthenboy: “You have been crabby as hell lately.”
Me: “It’s 2020”
I see you’re new to the internet.
LOL
I don’t think Trump would be anybody’s choice for an ideal President. Sure, I’d much rather have a much less impulsive, more dignified, and more statesmanlike uniter than what we got. I’m sick of the constant vitriol and hyperbole and Trump does everything he can to keep it going.
But the enemy of my enemy is my friend and right now his opposition has been taken over by bright looking, articulate, well mannered aspiring tyrants that model the racial politics that were in vogue in the progressive era 100 years ago coupled with an understanding of economics that would have fit right into 1920s Russia, but with a new and fresh coat of paint to make them palatable for today. There’s really nothing about the Democratic party platform that has anything to do with promoting individual liberty, rather it has everything to do with centralizing power and exerting control over people in the name of fairness, justice, or whatever other flimsy rationale that makes a convenient smokescreen. I disagree that they aren’t well meaning. It’s the fact that they’re so damn well meaning that makes them incredibly dangerous.
The Libertarians seem completely uninterested in being a real third party, as in having policy positions that are distinctly different than the two mainstream choices. Jo seems by all accounts to be a nice person who unfortunately has no interest in denouncing the latest Trojan horse for authoritarianism, “anti-racism” and instead seems to be very excited about promoting it.
So yeah, I’m left with Trump by default. It would probably be a lot of fun to hang out with the guy, but he’s not my first choice as president. But he’s much better for a libertarian than anyone else on the ballot.
Every election is ‘left with X by default’. DC is a snake pit. Who gets in a snake pit? Snakes, that’s who.
^Pretty much this, nice summary…
Trump is a street fighter. That’s his appeal. I don’t want any “dignified” pinky out tea sippers. They don’t get shit done. They won’t tell you to fuck off when you clearly deserve it.
We need to end this career politician bullshit. They’re not in it for us, they’re in it for themselves.
As I have said before – I dont hire people to go to DC and compromise/work together/get things done, I hire them to go kick commie ass.
My idea of getting things done is to do away with about 3/4 of the federal registry.
I remember T Carlson pointing out once that the salary of a congressman is about 175K, yet in no time at all they all become multi-millionaires.
Trump was the only one running in 2016 that voters trusted to call Hillary a crook and take the fight to her. All the other GOP candidates would have kept to the traditional playbook and lost.
Trump was the only one who could have beaten Hillary.
I was sure that Trump would be a one term president because the Dems would nominate some reasonable candidate and Trump would lose. I never expected the Dems to go so badly off the rails.
The main reason I will vote for Trump (and any other GOP creature) is because the Dems really need a good spanking. Hopefully if there is a shy majority out there and the Dems get crushed they will regroup and think about how badly their embrace of socialism, racial politics and rioting has gone.
I’m sick of the constant vitriol and hyperbole and Trump does everything he can to keep it going.
Not sure I agree with this. To my eye, the constant vitriol and hyperbole sources mostly from the left. The traditional response is to smile and take it, like W and Romney. That did nothing to reduce it. Does Trump responding in kind escalate it? Eh, probably. Shooting someone in self-defense is also an escalation. But I don’t see Trump as the root cause, and I don’t see any response other than giving some back as being pretty worthless. I wish his style of responding wasn’t, well, what it is. But bitching about his style is the NeverTrumpers gig, and I consider them as bad or worse than the left in some ways.
Its like Israel and the Palestinians. Israel does some things I wish they wouldn’t, but until the Palesitinians get rid of their violent sociopaths, nothing Israel does is going to reduce conflict with them.
The thing I do like about Trump (and there isn’t much) is that he is disrupting the status quo, particularly in foreign policy. I’d be happy if someone else would do it, but since they won’t, I think the country needs 4 more years.
Hating Trump is understandable. Preferring the authoritarian left is… incomprehensible.
I cosign almost all of this. I did vote Trump, but not without trepidation. Dude is a moderate populist without a shred of principle. There’s no way I’d be voting at all if we had kept the status quo from 4 years ago. However, the rest of the world has gone so insane that I feel compelled to vote for the one guy out there not virtue signalling for crazy people stuff.
Maybe I’ll regret it, maybe I won’t. All I know is that the left is damn scary right now and the party playing the compromise position between the mercantilists and the Stalinists isnt giving me much hope for avoiding the ire of the Stalinists.
I’m pretty close to Suthen on this one.
I voted yesterday: for mayhem. Without regard to the individual or party, I voted for the outcome I think would most hobble government. For the most part, it was wasted effort other than to register dissatisfaction: no competitive races were involved, so I was free to behave as childishly as I wished. I respect that many do not have the luxury of playing so fast and loose with this season’s decision.
I have long suspected Trump is toast, and so we will soon be united in hating most of Mr Biden’s efforts. Then we can go from “when is the LP going to get serious about its platform, candidates, and goals” to “what flavor bedfellows are required to build a tolerable GOP coalition.” I’ll spend that time re-reading “Why I am not a Conservative.”
I, for one, am skeptical that we will be concerned with building a GOP coalition after the Dems take control and start ramming through the Green New Deal, gun confiscation, wide open borders and a fast track to voting, and misc. electoral “reform”. A one party state under Harris administration for 10 years will make the Obama admin shenanigans look like child’s play.
Their models, I believe, are CA and VA. Why wouldn’t they be?
I pray you are correct: that President will have a solidly blue Senate, and gridlock might set a new record high.
You pray Biden is elected and has a solidly blue senate? I must be misunderstanding you, because that is pretty near my go out to the woods and start shooting people point.
Sounds like Don voted for Trump. But if not, don’t forget to wear a mask in the woods.
I’m not wearing one flying over Colorado.
“FBI Investigating Whether Hunter Biden Emails, Photos Were Part Of “Russian Influence Operation””
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-investigating-whether-hunter-biden-emails-photos-were-part-russian-influence#comment_stream
The FBI must be dismantled (then again it’s anonymous sources and the AP so maybe they need to be dismantled).
Whatever one’s opinion of Gulliani I am fairly certain that if he had not given the files to the NYP the FBI would have buried the Biden story 1000 feet deep under the floor of the Marianas trench.
Yes, the FBI should be dismantled.
Yes, the FBI would have buried this info and it would have never seen the light of day. As for Gulliani, he’s a sleazeball hatchetman but I’m not going to judge the information received by the messenger who gives it if it seems to be valid.
It’s appropriate that they should investigate the validity of the emails. However, if the Steele dossier was sufficient to start an investigation against Trump and his staff, this is far, far more sufficient to open investigation against the entirety of the Biden family and anyone that was associated with setting policy towards the Ukraine.
It is appropriate to investigate the veracity of the information but the framing of “Russian influence operation” has obvious political implications.
And there’s zero evidence to support such an investigation. But announcing it publicly will make it easier for right thinkers to stick their heads in the sand.
Its hilariously unlikely.
Far, far less likely than
(1) Hunter was an essential cog in a Biden family influence peddling operation
(2) Hunter was stupid enough to save emails re such operation on his computer
(3) Hunter was stupid enough to save a bunch of incriminating/embarrasing photos on his computer
(4) Hunter was stupid enough to take that computer, unencrypted and unwiped, for repair
(5) Hunter was stupid enough to forget to pick it up again.
I read the “Russian influence operation” as a rerun of their successful Hillary distraction. It lets them elide that everything on there is absolutely true (assuming it is), and shift the story to the Russians. It has the additional virtue of being unfalsifiable.
Oh, and yeah, the FBI needs to be bulldozed. DC could use another nice park, and a plaque stating that it used to be the home of the defunct FBI would be nice, pour encourageur les autres.
“Hunter was stupid enough to forget to pick it up again.”
I haven’t heard anyone suggest that there was no forgetting. His father is a sociopath that tormented his children and grandchildren and used them to his own benefit. Hunter didnt dive into a life of booze and dope for no reason.
The one email about his family not respecting him and Pop taking half his money or income or whatever he meant made me feel bad for the guy. Doesn’t make him not a sleazeball but damn.
Cry for help?
Alternatively, Hunter is the Trumpest Trumper since Trump came to Trumptown, and gave the Trump campaign one last gasp of air before it goes under.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1317229434198515712
Seattle pd body cam footage of the burning 2×4 incident.
Wonder what his thought is towards macing is and if the proper response is lead to the head…
Yeah, well his brothers should be in prison then.
It sounds likely that they are.
That wasn’t just a burning 2×4, it was wrapped with flaming rags. Could easily have killed the cop from 3rd degree burns if it caught his clothes on fire.
Easily meets the “imminent danger of serious bodily harm” test.
Throw that at me, and you’ll get shot.
Clearly you don’t know the new use of force guidelines.
A. Not a 2×4.
B. When I go out I hope the phrase “brandishing a flaming piece of lumber” is in the official transcript.
C. Roll your window up when approaching a man brandishing a flaming piece of lumber.
A. Now I feel shame for using expedient language. ?
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/wisconsin-prosecutors-drop-charges-against-first-shooter-in-order-to-prosecute-kyle-rittenhouse/
WTF?
Justice is a rigged game, it is known.
Was he the “peaceful protestor” screaming the N word at KR and kicking him while he was down, or was that one of the other stunning and brave and peaceful protesters?
Some other guy in the area who fired his handgun up in the air I believe, not that guy who was one of the people who ended up getting themselves shot.
It was some other peaceful protester peacefully firing a mostly peaceful handgun.
Yeah, they can’t prosecute him for what is unquestionably a crime caught on tape without handing Rittenhouse a win on self-defense for the first shooting.
Parisian teacher beheaded by austere Islamic peaceful protester?
Import savages and guess what you get.
Meanwhile in science:
Penis Bones Could Be Scooping Out The Sperm of Competitors in Some Animals
Leave me out of this.
on the veracity of the Biden computer: The FBI had the computer since December, long before they knew he would be the dem candidate. The chances of it being fake is zero.
The only people that believe that still believe the piss hookers story and will never be convinced otherwise. This is all about reinforcing a nonsense political narrative, that Trump is Putin’s chosen boy, not the truth. As you say, how would the Russians have even known Biden would end up the nominee? They aren’t omniscient after all.
Good Lord. I just looked up who the prosecutor in Kenosha, WI is and the stories…..
That place is a complete horror show and I dont just mean the riots.
Got my “known traveler” ID.
* wildly runs through security with wine bottles and shampoo *
See ya, suckas!
(FYI I still can’t carry large liquids, but at least I don’t have to take my shoes off)
Not having to take electronics out is the big advantage to the Fancy People Line in my opinion. Also a simple metal detector instead of the Rapiscan.
My other pro-traveler tip is that you can buy a bunch of TSA approved 3oz bottles at Walmart and then fill them up with whatever you want. I’d fill up 4 or 5 of them with Jameson and go through with no problems.
I guess terrorists are unable to pour their explosive liquids out of multiple bottles.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/president-donald-trump-sends-signed-maga-hat-15-year-old-utah-student-bullied-assaulted-supporting/
????
“ McElhaney said that the girl in the red shirt is going to be charged with a felony and the other will be facing either a misdemeanor or felony, it is still unclear. Both of the girls were also in tenth grade.”
Seems a bit much, expulsion would be sufficient. Also, good on Trump here.
Eh, charge ’em both to scare the shit out of them, and then drop it for some community service deal. Charges on juvenile records mean pretty much nothing.
Thats why taking kids out back and whopping them for a couple of minutes should have never left our culture.
I’m more appalled at the female privilege on display. Complete awareness that they can use physical violence against, but that any reciprocity would make them the victim.
I dont understand people’s propensity for violence against ‘the other’. Fucking idiot herd animals.
All of my life I have kept my hands to myself. I dont put them on other people or other people’s property.
I had to undergo a background check some years ago. The cop who ran me punched me in three times. He was in disbelief that I had never been arrested.
“You really have never been arrested?”
Me – “Arrested for what?”
“I dont know, I have just never seen anyone with zero criminal record. There is nothing here. Just your name, address and social.”
Me – “I do have a criminal record. Kid missed the school bus one morning about 15 years ago, then I got in a hurry and forgot to put my seat belt on taking him to school.”
Never been arrested here either…at most my record has 2 moving violations and an accident in which a police report was filed.
When Jim Carey was funny.. “stop breaking the law asshole!”
#methree
The secret is not getting caught. I’ve heard.
Me neither, although I came close once – as in, “Hey, how about you have a seat in the back of the cop car while we sort this out”, but then they decided they had better things to do so they let me go.
I’ve had to appear in court a few times, and had some dodgy encounters with police looking to arrest someone, but never arrested.
My wife calls that “white privilege”.
2 more 3lb slabs of pork belly in the ice box curing away. These are a wet cure with no Prague powder. Some cowboy reciepe I found online.
This is something else.
Wow, WTF?
“But it wasn’t AOC who was mixed up. The savvy politician” – WUT?
“I share with the majority of American Jews’ disgust toward Trump and Trumpism, which has normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society.”
The first step in getting to the bottom of an issue is to call at least half the American voters, bigots. Been hanging out at TOS?
Guy then goes on to describe what liberalism is, and he pretty much to a tee describes classical liberalism. Then fails to separate out progressives from classical liberals. Fails to associate the name progressives with communism, then says the new wokeness is the true threat to liberalism, which he seems to be really confused about.
He’s right that the new left is full on batshit crazy. But liberalism is not what they are a threat to. They are a threat to all of us, even the bigoted Trumptards.
Actually I think Bari Weiss is a she.