Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is!
Pelosi is completely batshit crazy.
They’re out of their fucking minds.
Biden vows to take down a major civil rights organization.
US Attorney opens federal excessive force investigation into Ashli Babbitt’s death.
MI legislature will continue inquiry into election irregularities.
Maricopa County GOP censures Cindy McCain.
Despite having some of the nation’s strictest lock downs, CA has record 695 virus deaths in a day.
Let me know when the Boog starts. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
They’ll find a new prosecutor and/or a new crime. Such an affront will not be allowed to stand.
They plan to go after the wife, since the only one ruled on was the husband…
Examples will be made..
She had her finger on the trigger of a firearm that could not fire. Dumb but it’s all about the optics.
It’s about punishing the people that dare stand up to the mandarinate class… Even its own members that do so accidentally. If I recall correctly the McCloskeys were not Trumpalos until this shit happened to them…
Rich lawyers that voted Dem.
Nancy “and your little dog, too!” Pelosi.
Look, Ms. West was the only known surviving relative of the late Ms. East, and Dorothea had no claim to Ms. East’s property. Don’t insult the Wicked Witch sisters by comarisons with Pelosi.
“Cindy McCain has acknowledged suffering a three-year addiction to pain medicine from 1989 to 1992 and stealing pills from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a charity that she founded to assist developing countries, The Arizona Republic reported.”
Nice angle to prop-up your addiction.
Also, from the sidebar of that article:
Rep. James Clyburn says rioters at Capitol showed up at his unmarked office
“My question is, how did they know where that office was?” he said during an interview that aired on MSNBC.”
Shouldn’t the offices be open to the public?
Besides, given the crap he’s said, I have to assume he’s lying until and unless proven otherwise.
Given his status as a VIP POC, I find his title of “whip” triggering.
I propose they change it to “majority crop”
Majority buttock stinger.
“Major Buttock Stinger reporting for duty, SIR!”
Was it a regualr office in a normal corridor without a nameplate? Or was it hidden in the bottom of a locked cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign saying “beware of the leopard?”
It was probably a fancy office in a normal corridor.
+1 Douglas Adams
/RIP
I really object to that kind of dirt-digging. A three year pain-med addiction from the 80s? Even with the associated grift, I think that’s a bad road to down. I have no sympathy for Cindy McCain, but on principle, I do not agree with the method.
That’s the quality of our society and political frame these days. Only the idiots on the left could possibly think that they had an exclusive hold on cancel culture.
Fuck her. She’s one of the chief moaners of “We are more civil and rational and wholesome and moral than Orange Man”.
Cindy McCain, I will remind everyone, was sleeping with John McCain while he was married to his first wife Carol. Why did McCain divorce Carol? Well, she had a terrible car accident when he was a POW, and became crippled, and due to her immobility, rather chunky. John McCain deserves better than a fat cripple on his arm, hes John McCain after all. Marriage vows? Psshhh, morality and ones sworn word mean nothing when you are John McCain.
Whenever anyone is walking around boasting of his or her towering moral rectitude, start digging because I’m sure there’s something salacious if not outright criminal in their path.
Still a dumb move by the GOP. Who cares what Cindy McCain says?
This
DEVELOPING: Democrats in both the House and Senate are planning to draft legislation to classify MAGA rallies as “domestic terrorist activity” and require the FBI, DOJ & DHS to take steps to prevent such “domestic terrorism.” Sen. Durbin is leading effort along with Rep Schneider
The crazy fuckers want to provoke a reaction from the other crazy fuckers. They cannot possibly not understand that. This shit is going to get much worse, much faster. Dammit.
Change.org sent out an e-mail recently pimping a petition to have the Proud Boys labeled a terrorist organization.
Well, words don’t mean anything anymore, so…
What should the “other crazy fuckers” do? I suppose if they keep working when government opens the economy, paying taxes and obeying the laws it will be fine for them in the long run.
I’m speaking of those people who are psychologically on the edge already. Pelosi et al appear to be trying to create a lone gunman scenario. Hell, I wouldn’t even be surprised if she would welcome an attempt on Biden because it would provide the excuse they desperately want.
If the dipshits who invaded the Capitol Building are enough rationale to do what they’re doing now. Imagine what they’re going to do when they have a real one.
This could spiral out of control very quickly, and that’s not good for anyone except those at the levers of power.
I’ve got the feeling the spin out has already started. With the tech companies purges, I would not be surprised if there wasn’t some nutjob attack at one of their offices/data farms before the midterm elections. It could come from either side, right wing nutjob (who thinks they need to be punished for censorship) or left wing nutjob (who thinks they aren’t censoring hard enough).
I’m exorcising myself from online services I can’t trust as we speak (google). I think they’ve only just started and I don’t want to be at their whim.
” I wouldn’t even be surprised if she would welcome an attempt on Biden ”
“Attempt on”? Hell, I expect she would welcome his assassination to get a POC in office (totally controlled by the (D) party) without all the tedious 25th amendment details. It also would give them a footing to cast down any wrong-thinking extremists who dog-whistle any kind of opposition.
Yeah, that POC is just as amenable to the establishment as Biden, and will have massive political will if that event did take place. win/win from their perspective.
Just look at today’s links. The Democrats and government apparatchiks are spiraling out of control.
That’s who’s out of control.
No no no if we just get the kids quieted down and make sure dinner is on the table right when he comes home then he won’t smack us this time.
A sadly appropriate analogy.
They certainly appear to be, but I think it’s more self-righteousness and cultural tone-deafness.
The progressives really seem to believe that if they demoralize their enemies enough, they’ll fall into line. And they’re probably right for the most part, but most is not all…
who could have seen the left taking an obscene level of power using a overblown Reichstag like moment, after watching and celebrating far worse things happen over the summer.
Does this mean the Jugalos are off the list?
*cracks open celebratory Faygo*
Sounds too much like Trumpalos, so maybe not?
Ummm, no? Juggalos are overwhelmingly white and thus terrorists. And th hatchetman iconography proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are violent terrorists.
And having “gatherings of the Juggalos” and “Juggalo coursts” proves that they are white separatists and soverign citizens treasonously attempting to set up their own country.
You need to get out more. Most Jugglos cover >25% of their face in black makeup… oh wait, that’s not helping
As some here have said, the actions of the Dems are indistinguishable from actions they would have taken if all the “conspiracy theories” are true.
WTF are they up to?!
There is no secret agenda here – they have a chance to put the boot on their opponents, and so they are doing it.
The mandarinate wants to destroy Trump and make him ineligible to ever challenge them again, all while punishing his allies and supporters so people will think hard and long about ever going along with something like this no matter how destructive the mandarin class’ policies are to them. My guess is that the CCP which is helping them do this – or at a minimum cheering them on – hopes this backfires and breaks the US, cause that will let them quickly catch up from the lost time of the last 4 years…
My son asked me if these people really wanted a civil war, and I am now starting to feel that they want to avoid one by crushing their political enemies, which will guarantee a civil war.
My son asked me if these people really wanted a civil war, and I am now starting to feel that they want to avoid one by crushing their political enemies
I think it’s more foundational than that. They’re not introspective enough to see what they’re doing.
They’re processing through cognitive dissonance in the only way they know how… by lashing out at the source.
They’ve been so convinced since 2004 or so that the left was in ascendancy and they were seeing the death throes of the right. Tea Party was easily co-opted by the establishment. Obama was a 2 termer. The woke social justice stuff went mainstream. They had the media, the education system, the bureaucracy, and the non-profit sector. Just install herself in office and the socialist utopia is here.
Trump didnt just delay their utopian fever dreams. He shattered their entire understanding of the American people. The idea that so many people are turned on by a person who makes his hay trashing them set them back three decades.
That’s where the anger comes from. Since they can’t skipp hand-in-hand with the American people across the socialist threshold, they’re gonna do it by gunpoint. Those fucking deplorables deserve nothing better.
“I think it’s more foundational than that. They’re not introspective enough to see what they’re doing.”
I suspect that they think that they know exactly what they are doing. In fact, they want just a little bit more “resistance” so they can have more propaganda material before they fuck us all over under the guise of saving our democracy. Of course, they will be surprised when it all goes to shit.
There are of course already perfectly adequate laws to deal with political violence. This kind of proposal will die on the 1st Amdt and expose the proponents as nakedly and utterly fascist. I suppose can you fear SCotUS failing to deal with that, and then, yes the alternative will be really ugly.
They know that.
I believe that they intend to provoke a violent reaction which they will use as an excuse to consolidate control with the full support of the media and tech.
I can’t believe they’re so dumb as to think there won’t be a reaction, therefore they want it.
And it won’t make it to SCOTUS before something really bad happens.
I actually believe they can be that dumb, and think that the sheep will just go along with it. I’m not even 100% sure they are wrong – and that’s the part that scares me.
Same. I thought that people would be fed up with the mask bullshit by now. Instead, around here, people are now wearing them around outside. Compliance is near 100%. No one cares.
I do believe the sheep will go along with it and are that dumb. However, I believe those at the top are cynical opportunists and know exactly what they’re doing.
It is probably a mix, the Pelosi wing are cynical as all hell. The Sqood wing are true believers, except for maybe Omar, she seems to be using her oppression points to amass power. The Bernie types are squarely in the useful idiot category. I dunno, just a SWAG though.
Serious question… why do you think they need an excuse?
And I ask that because I think we’re well past that point. The media and Big Tech have already come out in full support and declared war on anyone not aligned with the Left. There is nothing the Dems propose that they won’t already support now.
Political will. Moderates will go along with their plans if they’re in response to an event that shuts off logic in favor of panicked emotion. Otherwise they’d have to make a convincing case for it.
You expect wishy-washy people worried about the cancel culture people coming after them to make a principled stand? That’s charming..
I suspect most people will just go along to avoid getting fucked over, and then by the time they realize how bad things have gotten, it will be too late…
Because even with media and tech, they need to scare the shit out of people in the middle and reduce the opposition to a “manageable” size while motivating their followers to fully excommunicate any wrongthinkers if not commit actual violence against them.
This is explicitly designed to drive a wedge between the sides. They’re going to make reconciliation of any sort impossible. That is intentional.
Divide and conquer…. It’s called that for a reason…
I know I’m a bad person, but I don’t think that if someone started arsoning Alphabet’s data centers that I would have a negative emotional reaction to it.
I wouldn’t care even if someone started full-on Project Mayhem style blowing up buildings.
I would. Innocent people would die, property destroyed, etc.
I am sticking to my principles.
Hence why I specified “emotional” reaction.
In Project Mayhem, though, the buildings were empty, so allow me my movie fantasy of explosions that hurt no one.
You should know that datacenters have very good fire suppression systems. Someone would have to sabotage that first. That would mean gaining entry to the structure. And a lot of the stuff in there just doesn’t burn, you’d be relying on the plastic as the main fuel.
What you want is water damage, not fire.
Unfortunately they use dry fire suppression techniques. And if they were smart, there wouldn’t be any overhead water lines.
Explosives it is then.
You might want to qualify that statement in the current environment. Just saying.
I was referring to how you would do it in Minecraft, of course.
*squints suspiciously*
You sound like you watch a particular lawyer.
The only lawyers that should be listened to less than lawyers on Youtube are lawyers on Twitter.
I never said anything about YouTube.
You’ve just incriminated yourself enough to be convicted in an 80’s mystery TV show
I did that the first time I posted here.
“I suppose can you fear SCotUS failing to deal with that”
Yeah just like SCOTUS struck down the plainly unconstitutional Obamacare.
The judges are of the same social class as the bureaucrats and legislators. They will not overturn a reasonable moderate common sense domestic terror bill. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Democracy is at stake.
Yeah, this is clearly an attempt at provocation.
“They’re out of their fucking minds.”
No they are not. After the Nazi’s burned down the Reichstag and blamed the other side for it (kind of like 7 months of violent and destructive riots being promoted as peaceful protesters and the people behind it not just being protected from any legal consequences, but the party now taking the WH bailing them out every night so they could go back to doing more, to help them steal an election, then look for the right to do anything close to that – or maybe even help that happen – and declare them terrorists), they immediately used it to do all sorts of evil shit that basically solidified their power. What we are seeing is the Rahm Emanuel quote “Don’t let any crisis go to waste” in action, and they plan to make sure everyone knows that the mandarinate will never again let anyone challenge its grip on power.
Same playbook – Nazis, Bolsheviks, and the rest – ban opposition as soon as you have power.
Look for gun legislation soon too.
Luckily I do not own any such instruments. Just some fishing rods/reels with several lures. . .
I’ve been getting the feeling that many Glibs view people as being generally like themselves but others are just misguided or take actions based on faulty information. The continual Covid stories rebutting why the mandates make no sense are a perfect example of this… as if the tyrannical lockdowns and mask mandates have any relationship to Covid. But other people are not like us. The Left’s desire is total control and dominion. Their actions are entirely rational and consistent with their stated beliefs.
The Left is doing exactly as they desire. It’s not a reaction to Trump, Trump supporters, or Covid. It’s not a conspiracy theory when someone does exactly what they say they’re going to do.
I think you’re falling into your own trap just a bit. People are not rationally coming to their worldviews. They do so emotionally, and rationalize where required. We’re not immune to that here either. Granted, this place is better than most on that point.
Perhaps but maybe I misstated my thoughts. I’m not suggesting that people come rationally to their worldviews but rather that actions we perceive as irrational according to our worldview can be entirely rational when viewed through a different lens.
the people deluding themselves that this wouldn’t have happened if they didn’t enter the capital on the 6th are fucking delusional if it wasn’t this it was going to be something else anyone with a pulse who follows politics saw this ban hammer coming a mile away.
As with so much, the further deplatforming of non-leftists was just waiting on a pretext. They’ve been deplatforming wrongthinkers for years. This is just a further turn of the ratchet.
You’re not wrong in general, though there really is legitimate dispute as to whether or not the Nazis actually set the fire or simply capitalized on it when Van der Lubbe set it. It’s not like the Communist Party of the time was above such a thing. If I had to guess it was the latter and the Nazis simply “never let a crisis go to waste.” This was a bad guys vs bad guys dispute.
Not that it matters, either way the Nazis got what they wanted.
“Van der Lubbe set it.”
I thought there was forensic evidence of multiple fires and that Van der Lubbe was not a very bright man who could’ve easily been taken advantage of but I could be wrong.
not a very bright man who could’ve easily been taken advantage of
So you’re saying an FBI undercover/CI was involved?
“You’re not wrong in general, though there really is legitimate dispute as to whether or not the Nazis actually set the fire or simply capitalized on it when Van der Lubbe set it.”
According to the investigations and research I remember reading about, there where multiple fires, started in 10 or more different spots all at once, which makes the case that Van der Lubbe was the only player, a nonstarter. If I also recall correctly, the sham trials involved several other accused, including a bunch of communists – from both the 3rd largest German political party and foreigners – that were dragged in, and tried for the burning. Only these commies ended up running circles around Goebbels and other lawyers, which left Van der Lubbe to take it in the ass.
Stalin seized power by killing one of his political allies and fomenting unrest, I could see something like that happening here as well.
I had rather she would have done what most of these big charity types do, which is to defraud people an use the money to pay for their lavish lifestyles through insane compensation plans that eat up75-95% of donations. Or better yet, she should have done a Clinton Foundation. That’s how you crime syndicate well.
This was a response to Tres Cool’s post, but somehow it ended Brooksied.
Have you seen her refrigerator? She’s doing just fine.
I do like Tom Petty.
You wreck me, baby
Despite having some of the nation’s strictest lock downs, CA has record 695 virus deaths in a day.
If only those freedom-obsessed libertarian white supremacists in California would wear their masks as they have been instructed, there would be no deaths.
NYC had over a thousand deaths a day during peak ‘vid with a fraction of the population.
I don’t wanna hear it from CA.
How many people a day normally die in NYC?
Just going from the U.S. death rate per thousand, it should be around 180 or so.
If only most of the country wasn’t in terrible shape physically. But, no. It must be the lack of masks.
But there’s been 375k deaths!
Which according to the IFR, means that every single person in Amrerica has already gotten it, and tens of thousands have gotten it TWICE already.
Which further proves that herd immunidy cannot exist from natural exposure and only those pharma companies that make the biggest campaign donations can save us!
If you were married to John McCain, you’d need a little something to take away the pain.
She owned a Bud distributorship. That wasn’t enough?
I guess canoe-sex doesn’t have the same ability as the pills did.
Biden as part of his gun control policy has pledged to institute such policies as the broad regulation of semiautomatic weapons
Finally the mask mandate will do some good.
‘Cause, like, semi-automatic technology is really cutting edge high-tech from about 1893. Nothing like it out there.
Don’t bother talking sense, it doesn’t matter.
Bro, despite the explicit use of the term “arms”, the founders clearly were referring to muskets and other 18th century technology only. Your rights are subject to technological advance, obviously.
The fact that they did not specifly “firearms” means that only human-powered weapons like swords, whiffle bats and grapefruit spoons are protected.
I have my foam sword and 4 ounces of conditioner. I’m ready to storm the gates.
I am convinced that no-nothing anti-gun folks thinks semiautomatic guns are “worse” than automatic due to the extra two syllables in front.
Anchorwomen especially like to stretch out the pronunciation for maximum dramatic effect: “The gunman opened fire with a se-mi-au-to-ma-tic rifle!”
I’m working on a new series for Monday morning posts. Might be relevant.
I wish I could stay a little more optimistic about the state of affairs right now, but I’m seeing damn little to be optimistic about. The only real hope I have is that drooling, senile old Joe and his shrieking harpy of a VP, along with their fellow travelers in Congress, overstep so badly that there is an overwhelming backlash in 2022 and 2024.
But there’s better than even odds that they’ll manage to California the whole country and rig things so that they never lose control again.
We’re trying to get organized to get all our crap moved and this house sold as quickly as possible. Rural Alaska will be, I reckon, as good a place as any to wait out whatever shit comes next.
They are going to squeeze as hard as they can and that will cause them to lose control even quicker. I see a boom in all sorts of black and gray market/off the grid solutions to come.
“I see a boom in all sorts of black and gray market/off the grid solutions to come.”
I sure hope so.
The entire country has become Shia Laboef’s flag and we are all 4 chan now.
^ Nice! We are so few, though.
The flag hunters, and the podium movers, and the desk-feet-uponers show a joy that is lacking in the spittle-flecked rage of those that consider themselves my moral betters.
^This. Be careful fighting monsters…
All markets will be black markets unless you have your shopping permit and your proof of vaccination card with you.
Dominion says hi.
Who said anything about voting.
There will be no more elections, just coup and counter coup until attrition eliminates one side or the other.
The winner will be picked in advance by the mandarinate class, and the serfs will be allowed to go through the sham of supposedly voting so they can keep thinking they actually have a say in things…
I am waiting and hoping as hard as I can for a job I interviewed for last week – some travel but I can live virtually anywhere in the country where I can get to an airport.
That’s been me these last fifteen years or so. Denver has a good airport, but so does Anchorage. And by mid-summer we’ll be well situated to pull in our horns if need be.
What about your kids? Are they planning to move up there?
Two are in a small town in eastern Iowa, and should be OK – it’s farm country populated by a lot of heavily armed rednecks, and last fall the place was covered in Trump flags. The other two are staying in Denver for the moment, but will be prepared to bail quickly to either Iowa or Alaska if necessary.
Awesome. Where would your top choices to live be?
TN, SC, WV, or maybe KS. My wife would still insist on being reasonably close to shopping and services. She also does not want brutal winters so SD would be a tough sell.
KS is quite blue, thanks to one county (possibly 3) in the state.
“But there’s better than even odds that they’ll manage to California the whole country and rig things so that they never lose control again.”
It was a bit of an excuse to use the punchline but I joked last week to someone that “California Dreamin” is a domestic policy plan now and not just an old song by The Parents and the Parents. I wasn’t entirely joking.
Does this mean the Jugalos are off the list?
Nice try, clownface. Domestic Terrorism is a big tent. The biggest. There’s plenty of room for you.
NYC had over a thousand deaths a day during peak ‘vid with a fraction of the population.
I don’t wanna hear it from CA.
That’s the spirit.
“UP YOUR GAME, OR GET OFF THE FIELD!”
Whitesupremadomestiterroristicexpellidocious.
Dude, you are on fire!
Pelosi is completely batshit crazy.
She kindof committed actual sedition but no one wants to talk about that.
/waits for the requisite 30 minutes
As I read through last nights thread, I appreciate all the well wishing for the Browns. The game was a true joy to watch. Go Browns! Go Bills! (Sorry Mojeaux).
Now to harsh the mood, from the local news:
When can we plan an end-of-the-pandemic party? Experts say July 4 is not looking good
Two weeks… to flatten the…
They meant to say decades instead of weeks. Just an oversight.
So how much sweeter was that game because it was an ass-kicking of the Steelers in Pittsburgh?
After the 2 point game to close out the season, and the thrashing we took earlier in the season… I can’t put it into words.
My voice is a bit scratchy today from all of the cheering. The running jokes through the night were sad Ben, and humming Ben’s new theme song.
After all of the facts they kept putting up all night about how the Browns were going to lose, there’s one fact that’s important right now. Baker Mayfield is undefeated in the playoffs.
Well, Mr Mojeaux bet on the Browns to win (KC sports knew where the prevailing winds were blowing), and I was rooting for you because I love an underdog.
I apologize in advance for beating you this coming Sunday.
At least the game on Sunday is at a reasonable time, so the girlfriend and I will be watching it at the local bar.
Looks like we’ll get some of our defense back for the game against you on Sunday. Let’s go for a clean game, with no injuries. Go Browns! Americas New Team!
“Two weeks… to flatten the…”
Even at the time I knew we were all suckers to believe that.
Just the tip
As a Steelers fan, I’m very happy for you and all my Cleveland friends. I lived there for close to a decade and I know what you all have gone through.
I’m also glad the Steelers lost, because that org has needed a swift kick in the pants for some time. Kind of like the Eagles with Andy Reid, something needs to change for a lot of folks there.
?It’s just another Mammary Monday?
https://archive.li/uiOuL
TW: Face diapers on #12 and #14
I almost clicked on it for Belinda’s boobs but then realized it was a trap.
The point of the gibbet is to keep the public reminded of the wages of sin against the State. Letting Trump shamble off into the night would be a waste of a good scarecrow.
^^^THIS^^^
Examples must be made to discourage this from ever happening again…
The serfs should know their place.
Feels like ’38 Germany
Just need to start making people wear identifiers on their jackets. Or maybe a red hat.
I’m going with ’18 Russia since a lot of the aggression in ’38 Germany was also directed outward to other nations. ’18 Russia was all about mopping up internally.
Now love for Rwanda?
You pro Tutsi or Hutu?
I’m pro-Tulsi on non-economic matters, and never saw the point of getting a Hulu subscription.
I’m pro which ever side gives me the bigger machete.
Papier mâchéte?
Paper cuts are the worst
I just ordered some machetes!
And the opposition is stuffing children to use them as soldiers, so Rwanda fits.
“Stuffing children” should be “drugging children”
Stupid spellcheck.
I think on of the more probable outcomes, if we continue on the trajectory that the left seems to be committed to, is that we end up looking like Northern Ireland did during The Troubles. Parallel societies, businesses that will only one side or the other, rampant terrorism etc. God help you if you walked into the wrong pub wearing orange or green.
I am waiting and hoping as hard as I can for a job I interviewed for last week – some travel but I can live virtually anywhere in the country where I can get to an airport.
Sweet. Fingers crossed.
Democrats in both the House and Senate are planning to draft legislation to classify MAGA rallies as “domestic terrorist activity” and require the FBI, DOJ & DHS to take steps to prevent such “domestic terrorism.” Sen. Durbin is leading effort along with Rep Schneider
The first amendment is not a suicide compact.
I remember a libertarian group called Society for Individual Liberty had a poster, about 50 years back, that showed the Bill of Rights with a large red “Void Where Prohibited by Law” stamp over it. Talk about forecasting the future.
“DEVELOPING: Democrats in both the House and Senate are planning to draft legislation to classify MAGA rallies as “domestic terrorist activity” and require the FBI, DOJ & DHS to take steps to prevent such “domestic terrorism.” Sen. Durbin is leading effort along with Rep Schneider”
“Democrats”
Jesus just get it over with and ban all political parties but the Donks. We all know your preferred governmental model is the CCP so stop beating around the bush.
False consciousness makes a comeback.
https://twitter.com/ErinBrockovich/status/1348376202478833665
Marianne Williamson
@marwilliamson
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Part of the problem is the manyfascists in America today don’t realize they’re fascists. They don’t seem know the meaning of the word, and a deranged leader has told them they’re not fascists – they’re #patriots.
@ErinBrockovich
I know many people who would be offended and shocked to learn how racist they are
You know what… I agree that many fascists don’t realize they’re fascist. Of course, I think Marianne and I would disagree as to which group of people those are.
Heh. She really, really knows what others don’t know about themselves.
It’s definitely not the party which is in bed with, ideologically aligned with, doing business with, and colluding with all of the largest corporations in the nation. They’re not the fascists.
manyfascists in America today don’t realize they’re fascists.
Indeed. They style themselves “Democrats”.
That Cindy McCain thing is stupid, mean-spirited and wrong. Sure she’s a capital “C” cunte but she’s older than God. Smells bad.
If they were to use the same tactics against Pelosi I would have no problem with that, mind you.
How do you know how Cindy McCain smells?
He follows @VPBiden on Twitter?
“Smello-rama”
Your perseverance and immeasurable courage continue to inspire me and millions of others. I pledge to continue to work with you — and with survivors, families, and advocates across the country — to defeat the NRA and end our epidemic of gun violence.
Luckily for 2A supporters, the NRA is not even really a thing anymore as far as advocacy goes. Go ahead and concentrate on them while GOA/SAF/etc do the actual advocacy and legal work.
Stock up on mags.
“Stock up on mags.”
Hell, stock up on ammo.
Steel case .223 up to 0.88/round. If you haven’t already been stocking up for the past 4 years, you’re pretty hosed at this point.
You can get some brass case at the low low price of 80 cents per round at PALMETTO. ?
I got knee deep in 30’06 in links back when it was $0.11 a round. Some of the 7.62X51 I paid about $0.15 for.
Yeah, but the 6.8X43mm wasn’t cheap.
SA .308 FTW. Should have bought a pallet back in those days.
This is fucking crazy – I can no longer make it through 30 seconds of even my local news before the propaganda becomes too much.
I pickup the new shotgun today. Figured it was time as time seems to be winding down.
After Trump won, all his supporters spent the next month drinking liberal tears on YouTube. Notice what the left does when they win. They aren’t sitting there having a laugh.
To be fair, the Dems have been acting this way for four years, they just lacked the ability to do anything about it.
I’d make a bad criminal / politician. After I got away with stealing a national election, I’d be acting all calm and low key trying not to draw any attention to myself.
Cool!
Details??? (Brand, model, etc…)
1301 Comp Pro
I was moving around investment money to pay for the two new AC units our damn house needs before spring. Said “screw it” and moved around some more money.
BOOO!!!
Burn those laws and whoever wrote them.
The plug can be removed easily.
Does not change my opinion.
This – the plug is for hunting. It is a 5+1 gun in the U.S. which is fins because the semi-auto shotgun limit in NJ is 6.
The day I leave this state, one of the widely available extension tubes goes on.
NYSAFE act restricts tube-magazines on semi-auto shotguns to 7 rounds.
I assume that it’s still better for gaming purposes to go semi-auto. I am not much of a shotgunner. I should start doing that on weekends when the pistol sports aren’t happening.
That’s kind of my plan. 12-guage birdshot is widely available and relatively cheap and the local club does skeet.
Some people are drinking it all in and reveling in how clever they were to believe the lying of the last 4 years, because it all came to pass just as they hoped it would…
And they will get really pissed when you ask them if they are not terrorists themselves for voting for the people that spent 7 months legitimizing rioting and killing the political enemies of the left…
Because that was different!
Got into a convo with someone about that and essentially used the same argument you’re making.
The response was that the violence from the left was “self-defense” because the “Nazis” are trying to take over so any action against them is justified. That type of thinking is how genocides start.
When we do it it is fighting Nazis. When you do it it is domestic terrorism!
That’s the media propaganda 24/7 when the similarity is brought up at any point. And the team blue people eat it up, pat themselves on the back because they are on the “right” side, feel their fragile dogma is again vindicated, and go along because life is now good. These will be the people most surprised when they come for them as well after they have purged all the opposition and decide they need to clean house internally…
Antifa was marching around NYC in riot gear last weekend.
But muh Drumpf insurrection at the capitol…
Baseball birthdays are fun today: At the top we have two mediocre HoFers, Max Carey and Elmer Flick. The next 3 aren’t in the Hall, but they are worthy on name alone: Silver King, Schoolboy Rowe, and General Crowder.
You have to get to #8 to find someone born after WW2. Not a great day for modern players.
Those last 3 sound like 2nd tier regional wrestler names. I think they all wrestled against Jerry Lawler in Memphis.
Also, all 3 were pitchers. King and Crowder were pretty good hitters for being pitchers, both finished their careers just below the Mendoza line, at .198 and .194 respectively. Rowe, on the other hand, hit .263 for his career. He had a .710 career OBP+SLG. Not ruthian, but pretty damn impressive.
Thanks for the links, Banjos! You’re a trooper.
2nded.
Looks like CZ is buying Colt (needs to be translated). Get them out of CT and start making CZs in the U.S. along with better rifles?
Points to some open fields down the street here in TX
Colt, like Remington, continues to be a mystery to me. I don’t know how you take an iconic brand with a product that pretty much sells itself and fail to be profitable.
Leveraging themselves in order to chase “moar profits”, I’m sure.
Can’t be happy to make a decent cut doing one thing well. Always have to be chasing the buck.
1. Make crappy products
2. Cozy up to left-wing politicians
3. Have a CEO who openly talks in favor of gun control
4. Stay in Hartford, CT
Supposedly you’re supposed to pronounce all of “zbrojovka,” but on videos, I only hear “zbrovka.” I can hear the elided/swallowed syllables in French and Japanese, but Czech eludes me.
Any of our Slavic language speakers want to let me know if I’m crazy or if that middle syllable is lterally gone?
Where is Pie these days? Did we get too crazy for him?
I wouldn’t blame him.
I’m in the market for a CZ pistol. And I am finally able/willing to pay for it.
Don’t overlook the Italian copies. Tanfoglio made a number of decent knock offs in other calibers. Many of them are inexpensive but worth more than you might expect.
Yessir! Happy owner of a Tanfoglio CZ clone here. Great pistol and it cost relative peanuts. Paid $350 for it.
Literally everybody loves their CZ.
In in the market for reasonably priced ammo to feed my CZ pistol.
This is weird.
Like, I seriously can’t imagine why CZ would want a dead company with zero useful infrastructure and a shitload of debt. The name? It’s not worth much…
Do they really have zero useful infrastructure? CZ was expanding their KC factory, so maybe they’re just shortcutting the facilities and workforce?
I suspect that Colt has negative infrastructure – that is, getting them set up to run a profitable line of guns would require more investment than simply starting a new factory from the foundation up.
Last I read about this, on the old and much-missed WeaponsMan blog, Colt was stuck with a huge quantity of one-off special machines that can’t be repurposed, and have little value except as scrap.
Use the name and location to get in on military contracts like Sig? I can imagine a cross between the M16 and their Bren being presented to compete against other piston guns in Army trials.
*snort*
Good on them.
It says they are in negotiations and expect to have a deal by the end of Ledna. I don’t know what month that is, because Czech has weird names for months.
There are none so guilty as those who will not join the howling mob
Though impeachment cannot be completed in time to protect us from an unstable president in the dying days of his presidency, it is still important. We should impeach Trump to purge the stain of what he has done.
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There are many people calling for unity and healing. And the best way to begin the healing and promote unity is by officially condemning this behavior, in Congress, by a sweeping bipartisan majority.
There will be, no doubt, some who attempt to defend what the president has done, to justify it, to rationalize it. I will save the Senate’s resident constitutional scholar, Ted Cruz, a lot of time and trouble: There is no possible reading of the Constitution where inciting a mob to attack Congress and then refusing to call it off is acceptable presidential behavior. If we cannot impeach a president for reveling in naked violence directed at another branch of government, what can a president be impeached for?
Those who call for unity and forgiveness are naught but traitors, themselves. To the guillotine with them! Spare no one.
Fuck their “unity and healing”. I will never unify with scum like them.
What about scum like me?
Horned helmet…..you’re ok by me
“inciting a mob to attack Congress and then refusing to call it off”
lolwut
Whatever you smarmy little propagandist. You may be able to influence weak-minded morons by repeating the Big Lie, but I still have control of my faculties and can see through you.
The irony is that it is leftist pushing several Big Lies. Progjection is all they know.
Such a stain can only be removed by washing with the blood of
The Lambthe infidel.We should impeach Trump to purge the stain of what he has done.
Which is?
There is no possible reading of the Constitution where inciting a mob to attack Congress and then refusing to call it off is acceptable presidential behavior.
Good thing that didn’t happen.
And the best way to begin the healing and promote unity is by
officially condemning this behavior, in Congress, by a sweeping bipartisan majoritydefrauding 70 million people out of their votes, trying to get them fired from their jobs, calling them Nazis, and rooting out any place where they are expressing their opinions online.Exactly. They are treating this in a way that you can only conclude that they want violence.
US Attorney opens federal excessive force investigation into Ashli Babbitt’s death
I’d say a bullet through the neck is excessive in this situation.
Bill Barr can be the cops defense attorney like he did for Lon Horiuchi.
St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner Can’t Prosecute Gun-Wielding Mark McCloskey, Judge Affirms
And she should be charged with tampering with evidence.
Re Ashley Babbitt Shooter investigation:
“Totality of the circumstances, yo!”
There’s no way in hell anyone’s going to get even the slightest censure for that
“placed on paid leave”
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to the rest of you lovely freaks!
I am watching an absolutely gorgeous sunrise right now.
So I’ve got that going for me.
RIP Tom Petty. Dude was solid.
Have a great day, peeps!
Ole Witchy-Poo will get her gnarled talons on that Magic Flute if it’s the last thing she does!
despite growing pressure to abandon further scrutiny of the 2020 presidential election results amid fallout from the recent Capitol riot.
We can’t investigate the election because there was unrest associated with the election?
“Young people who vape are ‘three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers in the future'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9133889/Health-Young-people-vape-three-times-likely-daily-cigarette-smokers.html
I got to get one of these crystal balls.
smoking is so much cooler than vaping.
No shit. Current drug users more likely to be future drug users. Huh. Who would have thunk it?
Superior Tom Petty tune – https://youtu.be/aowSGxim_O8
More superior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLpZWNyM0I&list=LLZ5qQi1cw1mwkod0ipohYEg&index=1960
Must disagree. I’m not a big fan, though.
That is my favorite of his. I also like “Rebels” —
Even before my father’s fathers
They called us all rebels
Burned our cornfields
And left our cities leveled
I can still see the eyes
Of those blue bellied devils
When I’m walking round tonight
Through the concrete and metal
Note: My ancestors in the war were blue bellied devils.
Festus is wrong and robc is right!
I saw Petty live about 2 months before he passed and he played You Got Lucky — said they hadn’t played it in 22 years.
You see the problem with getting all spun up about something on Twitter?
Jan 16, 2020. This is something from last year, just glossed up a little in the tweet. Doesn’t make it really any less stupid, but just shows this isn’t something all that new.
The difference being that they will have the political capability to go after it now unless there are defections. We step ever closer to the brink.
The difference is that now it has a chance to be enacted. Both sides (muh Antifa, muh Proud Boys) have been pushing for it for a while and I fear a grand bargain.
HAHAHAHA – look at this guy talking about both sides. Must be some kinda right-wing lunatic, there is only one side that exists and is to blame!
I wonder how much Biden’s EPA will charge for a permit to necklace a political criminal. I suppose there will be a sliding scale, depending on the notoriety of the subject and the heinousness of his crimes.
*there will have to be a special gender category created for persons who own a vagina but identify as Republikkkins (or- shudder… libertarians). No true womyn of sensibility would ever do that, and so must definitionally fall elsewhere on the gender spectrum.
Ethnic Russians who were born in the Baltic states had no citizenship when the Soviet Union broke up. They were humans without a nationality. I knew a few in grad school. Very sad; they had to get UN passports because they were citizens of no country.
As a MLW, I’ll be either a libertarian without a gender or a woman without a party.
Colt, like Remington, continues to be a mystery to me. I don’t know how you take an iconic brand with a product that pretty much sells itself and fail to be profitable.
Debt. Debt, and management consultants.
Pretty much that. Colt brought in a bunch of outside management, and they stripped the place.
Capital intensive industry that also requires skilled labor – not exactly our business environment, is it?
There will be no more elections, just coup and counter coup until attrition eliminates one side or the other.
You live in a state that has had one-party rule for how long? And I’m pretty sure they still run elections, and sometimes, one or two are even competitive.
Trying to keep my tits calm but then i wake up to see this on my local news station.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox23.com/news/politics/arnold-schwarzenegger-compares-us-capitol-mob-nazis/6BJ5SXLHBAVZGWC62VD2OSZTU4/%3foutputType=amp
You’d think a guy whose father actually WAS a Nazi might be a bit more circumspect about throwing the word around.
Is it good or bad to be compared to Nazis by an old Austrian?
That’s what happens when you marry a Kennedy
The Kennedys, like sheep are a reservoir for syphillis?
Get to Hoppe’s Choppa.
He has just reversed the roles of the culprits, and memory holed the last 7 months, to blame the people he wants as being the Nazis. Remember that this guy IS a card carrying member of the mandarinate class and a Trump hater (meaning he hates the people that are in the way of his globalist plans because they are fucking his profit over). I also want to point out/remind him that the Reichstag burning was blamed on the enemy of the Nazis…
Arnold was in some good movies but he’s a failure as a governor and as a political thinker. Anyone who goes looking for pearls of wisdom in his intellectual vomitus is a chump anyway.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol to the Nazis and called President Donald Trump a failed leader who “will go down in history as the worst president ever.”
Fuck off, Ahnold.
Just silly. But I even had Republican friends share this video.
Do you think Arnold will run in the 2021 recall election?
Nah.
Totally.
He won’t be back.
“CAPITOL RIOT ARREST UPDATE:
*Larry Rendell Brock, a Texas man who was photographed in tactical gear on the Senate floor, surrenders to the FBI.
*His ex-wife turned him in after seeing photos of riot.”
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348600100214497283
So not the best marriage?
Probably why she is the ex?
Don’t stick it in lefties.
Someone should remind Donnie Trump Junior of the fact that his girlfriend is Gavin Newsom’s ex.
Eww.
There’s been a couple stories in the local news about a school teacher who was believed to be at the capital kerfuffle. One of the latest headlines was that she’s now being investigated by the FBI.
I would. Innocent people would die, property destroyed, etc.
I am sticking to my principles.
“Somebody git a rope!”
I seem to remember saying “Hey i don’t like Antifa too, but calling them domestic terrorists could really back fire on the right real quick”.
Don’t want to say “I Told You So”…. But i’m going to let this ride. The Left will push this and have minimal success with it, because they have bitten off more than they can chew. However if and when we get a GOP controlled government and we see ANTIFA riots, the left will suddenly feel the wrath of this, and i think antifa will be much less sympathetic in the genpop mind.
Trump’s calls to designate them as a ‘domestic terror group’ were right met with ‘you can’t do that’, which was the proper retort and should be today. They have to change the law and the law they will change. You should say “I told you so…”, because it is going to be a sweeping, wide cast net that will scoop up even the most benign “Trump” supporters.
We will see how the “fact-checkers” are handling the calls to expel sitting congresspersons and the calls for labeling MAGA as domestic terrorist; I suspect silent and as we have learned, silence is violence in this day in age.
Trump’s calls to designate them as a ‘domestic terror group’ were right met with ‘you can’t do that’, which was the proper retort and should be today.
Not clear why antifa shouldn’t be designated as a domestic terror group, myself.
because they have bitten off more than they can chew
I’m seeing a lot of this, and it feels more like wishful thinking than a confident prediction.
I’m not seeing the rumblings of backlash that I’d expect from the unimpacted moderates if the left had gone too far. No, I’m seeing them egg it on, if anything. The moderates have been weaponized against those anti-mask, pro-viokence MAGA assholes.
That is the feeling and sentiment I am seeing in my area. Even the non-political types are jumping on board and cheering it on.
“Abortion is violence”
https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1347295510382604288
“This is violent rhetoric.
It is objectively false and meant to incite others to commit crimes against clinics, patients, and health care providers.
This is what domestic terrorism looks like.”
https://twitter.com/LeahNTorres/status/1347331638863212544
OFFS!!
Actual physical force is not violence, but words are.
Back to the jackass in USA Toady:
Even if the president avoided conviction, however, the effort to impeach him would be worthwhile. If there are those in Congress who believe mob violence is a legitimate form of political expression and think that the president’s behavior is acceptable, even laudable, let us identify them now. Our democracy is not safe in their hands.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy released a statement Friday claiming, “Impeaching the President with just 12 days left in his term will only divide our country more.” He may be right. If so, let’s divide the sheep from the goats. Anyone who endorses the attack on the Capitol and President Trump’s role in it is a future minion of autocracy.
If this division actually exists in American society, if the value of democracy is now in question, the country is already divided and pretending it is not will simply make the eventual reckoning that much worse.
Biblical vengeance is what’s needed. The country can heal, but only after the amputation of the gangrenous unbelievers.
So, team blue is gonna start out Biden’s term with a big old failure when Trump ends up serving out his term. They really can’t help themselves.
If there are those in Congress who believe mob violence is a legitimate form of political expression
Several Democrats supported/encouraged the months long, violent riots of BLM/Antifa.
They have wrapped those in the American Flag with the constant propaganda and BLM/Antifa knows that. Why else would they do a march through NYC in their battle gear?
https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1348637811931566087
This is getting silly.
He was in Drew Carey and Top Gear episodes – don’t forget those.
I don’t think that’s true.
A bunch of people in the replies say it’s a joke.
How does one crossdress esoterically?
“Getting”?
Looks like someone is joking. But I would not be surprised if he was Orwelled out of existence.
This weekend we held my youngest kid’s 16th birthday party at the local armory. About 40 people came (. Zero masks. It felt normal. And wonderful. That’s the worst thing about this, now I’m some sort of outlaw for doing the things in life that make it worth living.
Back in 2016 I had friends on Facebook “literally afraid for their lives” because they were gay and they thought Trump supporters would assault them. There was proof that would happen. It was all drummed up by the media. Now I feel the same way, but…. it’s different. We have people on the left threatening people in their own words.
The assault on free speech scares the hell out of me. It’s happening faster than I thought it would. Now it’s the Internet and protests, but it won’t be long before you hear a knock at the door if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person. The left, of course, is completely short sighted as always. All their important causes (ending slavery, civil rights, women voting, gay rights, even disabled rights) were considered dangerous ideas at one time, and talking about them would be considered hate speech.
My one hope is that the left shits the bed again. They tend to overreach (the slimmest majority = a mandate!), and not remember that the pendulum always swings back, so the powers they claim now will most certainly be wielded against them some time in the future.
Awesome! Middle child is turning 16 here in a week or so.
I go back and forth over the course of the day. I have the gnawing fear, but I also know how incompetent they are as well.
“All their important causes (ending slavery, civil rights, women voting, gay rights, even disabled rights) were considered dangerous ideas at one time, and talking about them would be considered hate speech.”
I’ve been saying this for a very long time.
You and anyone else who’s studied the constitution for more that 5 minutes. That was the whole point of the 1st amendment, but you know that and so does everyone else here.
But I thought I was special!
Back in 2016 I seem to recall Trump waving the “Fag Flag” back and forth at a rally?
My gay brother voted for Trump. So did his partner. Twice.
My gay brother happens to be a small business owner who couldn’t stand some of what Obama did.
I think Democrats are stuck without a true human rights cause anymore. All their social justice garbage is nonsense unsupported by fact, and secretly a large group of Americans knows it.
Alright. Do we just start burrowing deeper? Seems as though “wrong-think” is a real crime now. They are calling for a “cleansing”. I’m lost for words.
OK but that statement from the GOP about Cindy McCain is almost as bad as she is.
One can always count on the GOP to shoot itself in the foot.
I wonder what the impetus was. Is she positioning behind the scenes to run for office?
I think the AZ Repub party is in the process of purging the McCain/Flake “moderates” and going MAGA/populist.
Or this could just be tit-for-tat, as she has said some things about Trump and Trump supporters which were pretty much straight “deplorable and irredeemable”.
Don’t really know, don’t really care.
This is deliberate, though, right? Like, there’s a reason someone issued such an….outdated statement? Not just some tock dwelling rube at the top of the GOP in AZ’s largest county who thinks “gay marriage” is still a hill to die on?
*rock dwelling
Um, but once again, what the hell is with the “hereditary title” crap again? Cindy McCain is _no one._ She used to be married to a Senator and presidential candidate. Now she’s just a private citizen. Why the hell does what she have to say about anything matter?
Are we never as a species gonna get over this aristocracy shit?
The fact that the MSM courts her ought to tell you all you need to know.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1348292928591032325
Good thread, but don’t read the comments.
Trump tried to have the VP killed this week and you’re mad about Facebook
0_o
I’d invite any Glibs to come up here and wait out the storm in my basement except we don’t have one.
I’m not falling for that trick, Festus….again.
I’m not seeing the rumblings of backlash that I’d expect from the unimpacted moderates if the left had gone too far. No, I’m seeing them egg it on, if anything. The moderates have been weaponized against those anti-mask, pro-viokence MAGA assholes.
they are being shown what sort of treatment those on the wrong side of history can expect.
So, Jacobins. This ends well.
I want to know why The Capitol is more precious than your neighborhood Target.
Or your neighborhood dumpster.
The Target provides more benefit to the country.
The elites “work” there. That’s why the Democrats encouraged the riots this summer. It diverted from the true source of their anger.
Propagandist are apt in recognizing imagery
The wild disproportionate reactions are just an excuse to seize ever more power.
How long ’til we get completely un-ironic calls for the reincarnation of the House Un-American Activities Committee?
There are several un-American activities taking place in the House (and Senate).
I wonder what the impetus was. Is she positioning behind the scenes to run for office?
Cindy McCain endorsed Joe Biden.
The lefties (the more experienced ones) know that the Bill of Rights is tough to overcome in a Supreme Court case.
That’s why they’re going to make sure that they won’t use passage of new laws to overtly ban free speech or firearms.
They are instead going to wield the newly consolidated power of the social media/entertainment/technology complex to achieve the same effect.
You are free to speak! The government didn’t censor you; Facebook, Twitter, Amazon are private companies and can refuse you service if they like.
And you can own firearms, but they have to remain locked up and unloaded. You can purchase ammo for use at the gun range, but you can’t leave the range with any unused ammo.
They will sue gun manufacturers and dealers for wrongful death, bankrupting them and prompting others to voluntarily shut up shop and quit the business. See, the government isn’t interfering with your right to own and train on firearms. There are just some commonsense gun regulations and the rest is private companies making decisions in their own interest.
I never realized until just now also how much I was addicted to these products. I don’t use Twitter, but I am finding myself half-assedly trying to click to Facebook on my phone (which I deleted).
And Amazon I really have no choice. I am stuck with it. My wife loves it and we own a bunch of movies on it.
I think I can make casual decisions to go elsewhere. Like on hosting our new product, I may just not use Amazon. But drop in the bucket.
I have an Apple phone. There is no alternative. If anything, Google is worse than Apple.
..
Twitter I think is the most vulnerable. I saw their stock plummeted today. Nevertheless, I see conservatives just continue right along using it.
Amazon and Apple have me pretty tightly in their grip too.
Amazon also still has plenty of libertarian fare, like Free to Choose media (original Milton Friedman series, Johan Nordberg’s libertarian videos)) Walter Williams etc.
If they ever retroactively cut off access to Mark Steyn books I’ve purchased, that will make it time for a messy Amazon divorce.
That is the conundrum, isn’t it? As long as that is where the marketplace of ideas is, the decision is to cede the field or engage and support the enemy.
And you can own firearms, but they have to remain locked up and unloaded. You can purchase ammo for use at the gun range, but you can’t leave the range with any unused ammo.
I would take this a little further. Only government ranges will be allowed (no private ownership). Additionally, your firearm must be stored at the range and is only allowed to be used for target shooting at that range.
I heard this proposal from a VP at my old company when I was forced to sit silently during his and others anti firearm tirade. He said it’s all square with the 2nd A because you still have the right to own firearms and can bear them at the range. This is the approach they’ll take.
For these ideas, they’ll have to pack the supreme court first.
But it’s never been more of a possibility.
Ugh.
It is their wet dream and nothing more. Fucking FDR lost support when he proposed it, and the current crop can’t afford to lose any.
Maybe I’m just a pessimist but I disagree. I’m assuming we’ll have at least 11 Supreme Court justices at some point in 2022.
It’s only right. They have to unpack the court.
Why wouldn’t they? Didn’t they learn from Obamacare to plow forward, no matter how unpopular something is? So some of their pols lose their seats – what difference does that make? Once these things are done, they will not be undone.
There are people in the Democratic Party that want to retain their offices. They won’t just fall on the sword to please the fuckwads.
They get set up with cushy Admin jobs at prestigious universities, living off Government backed Student loans that can’t be defaulted on.
That might’ve been the old game, but no one can count on that now.
“That might’ve been the old game, but no one can count on that now.”
Yeah the Biden Regime is totally gonna be cutting all the various ways Deplorable and Corporate tax dollars flow to leftwing cronies.
The reason the Left always wins is when the voters boot them out of office they always have a soft landing.
First step is to expand the list of attributes that get a gun defined as a “firearm” under the NFA.
Back in 1934, they knew they couldn’t outright ban the possession of machineguns and short barrelled rifles, so they used the taxation power to make an end run around it. Back then, the $200 transfer tax was extremely prohibitive. It isn’t as much of a barrier today, so look for the transfer tax to be increased tenfold.
The time it takes to get a tax stamp approved and returned is measured in many months now, so there’s a de facto major waiting period, and they do a full FBI background check with fingerprints, so that’s covered. Then you have the NFRTR, which is a registry, and finally, you have to ask permission to move them across state lines, which takes days to weeks to obtain.
The framework is already in place, it’s a simple matter of a minor act of congress to add semiautos to the Title II.
True. The govt wields power more effectively through lobbyists than law in many cases.
So I see Parler has been taken down.
Gab has its own servers, IIRC.
Yeah, they were kicked off their existing servers a couple of years ago and purchased their own as a result. Parler was on Amazon’s which was fucking dumb and their privileges were pulled. They’re either currently shifting servers or setting up their own. Give it a week.
I dunno, we will see how my city handles Parler. The people here are “ashamed” it is a company based here.
Gab been so slow it’s not really functional for the past few days. They already went through the deplatforming and rebuilding phase. I assume it’s volume and probably malicious attacks.
It’s volume. Their growth is unprecedented.
Supposedly their traffic has increased tremendously since all this started.
They are trying to find a new server. It will be a few days.
“Just make your own bank!”
“Just raise your own army”
I’ve heard it said (by some professionals who would know) that you could take over a country like Iraq with 300 Marines if you just got out of their way.
But I guess that means I would have to find 299 more like me…
Possibly. If you fought a WWII Pacific-style war of annihilation, they’d do quite well.
A country accustomed to strongman rule, who even then suffered frequent uprisings from tribal groups unaffiliated with the ruling party?
Yeeeah, no.
Is there a valid Sherman case to made by Parler? Amazon isn’t in the direct competition of a social media platform. Google technically isn’t either.
They should try.
But he who has the best lawyers…
I think so. Collusion among Apple, Google and Facebook to take down a competitor of Facebook is probably an anti-trust violation. Not an expert, though.
And, of course, Biden’s FTC wouldn’t touch it with STEVE SMITH’s pole.
It was awkward that the states are suing for anti-trust and the prime example of it is the thing they want to suppress.
I’m gonna be perfectly honest. Parler sucks.
It’s just not any good. I wish it were.
Greenwald is saying none of the people arrested last week were active users on parler. They were active users on…Facebook.
“Are you or have you ever been a member of the Republican party?”
They even publish political donor lists, don’t they?
AOC called for proscription lists _before_ the capitol riot. But she’s not anyone important.
They are trying to find a new server. It will be a few days.
Paging Elon Musk…
^^^
I can’t honestly believe I see people I used to respect say the unguided capital tour was far worse than the summer of love. It’s like a different reality.
Because government is their religion, they believe their holy shrine has been violated.
You can bet the Jews didn’t take kindly to Jesus’ antics in the Temple.
I bet there were lots of Jews that were celebrating it.
Its got the normies riled up so the pols have to talk about it as the worst and most unprecedented thing evah. (Don’t look at the actual, unironic commie that Clinton pardoned, that bombed the capital in the 80’s and is now on the board of one of the BLM charities).
Puerto Rican separatists and ted kennedy have also defiled the capital.
To be fair, Ted Kennedy defiled nearly everything he had anything to do with.
Goddamn. I wish that I felt a little more positive before bed time. At any rate, have fun, Glibbies, Imma hit the hay.
Okay, I know the general sentiment in these parts is that Anti-Trust law is generally bad. But what do you think about going after the Amazon/Twatter/FB/Google Complex for anti-competitive behavior, they are clearly colluding with each other to squeeze out competition (e.g. Parlor) even if we are charitable and assume that the ideological rationale the have put forth, the net effect is the same. (I know that under the incoming regime this stands very little chance of getting any traction.)
I tend to shy away from it, but if there ever was a clear case to be made for it, Silicon Valley’s behavior is it.
I am of the opinion that it’s generally bad, but man do things look stuck right now.
It worked with ebooks. I would link it but I am on my phone.
Anti-trust law is bad specifically because it _won’t_ be used against Amazon et al. That’s why it’s such horseshit. From day one it’s been a cudgel to use against industries that run afoul of folks in the federal government. Amazon et al are doing the federal government’s bidding. Why would they be pursued?
Good point. Unfortunately that ship has sailed and is now well over the horizon.
But it is being pursued – that’s kinda the irony. Sure, not for THIS particular principle, but oops, there it is.
But what do you think about going after the Amazon/Twatter/FB/Google Complex for anti-competitive behavior, they are clearly colluding with each other to squeeze out competition
Who’s going to be doing that? The good guys in the DOJ? Big Tech are quasi-government agencies at this point. Nobody is gonna Ma Bell them while they’re making hay by bashing wrongthinkers’ heads.
I was thinking of it as more of a thought experiment. I know that the odds of it happening are infinitesimally small.
The Bell anti-trust action is no more perfect example of the fundamental flaw of anti-trust law.
I was a bit too young to remember anything about the Bell breakup.
Wikipedia…BRB
It’s an issue but I currently more concerned about the totalitarian lockdowns that don’t seem to be ever going away than the totalitarian nature of cancel culture. I ultimately think the platforming issue will solve itself. giving the current crop of people in charge antitrust powers seems like it would be disastrous in the optimistic scenario.
They are actively silencing people that, “spread misinformation contrary to local and WHO health guidance.” It is all a part of the same thread.
Also, protestors put on a no-fly list prior to trial? Is that constitutional?
Honestly, no-fly lists themselves are unconstitutional.
Supposed to be a private no-fly list, not the governments. But sounds like discrimination to me.
That’s one of the many problems with that list, no conviction for anything is required and you can be on it for all sorts of nebulous reasons.
I seem to remember a 5 year-old that ended up on the list because he shared or had a similar name to someone else on the list. I think it was on TOS, back when they talked about something other that Trump was the worst.
*other than how Trump is the worst.
I are does Engrish goodly.
Doubre-prus good
While I’m not on a no-fly list, I am on a list for extra review when entering the country. Not because of anything I’ve done, but because my first and last name are the same as someone who is on a list. Middle name is different, date of birth is different. But anytime coming through immigration I get shunted over into the line with the non-citizens.
Only reason I even know this is because a couple trips ago the immigration officer actually looked up what was causing the problems. He noticed I was entering on an official passport (the brown passports given to fed civilian employees who travel outside the US on government business) and wondered why I was being singled out for scrutiny. Even he made comments about how bad the system was and the ridiculous reasons people are put on it.
Nah, they’re fine.
No-cake-baking lists are unconstitutional.
Back in 2016 I seem to recall Trump waving the “Fag Flag” back and forth at a rally?
It was just a ruse to draw them out of concealment, so they could be machine-gunned en masse.
Where exactly will I find that pile of martyred bodies?
Dig under the net neutrality ones. When you find glitter and heels, you’re there.
How to get fired if you are a public school teacher.
“Because of the emotion and controversy stirred by the events of January 6, 2021, the teacher has been temporarily relieved of his teaching duties until the School District can complete a formal investigation of his involvement,” reads a statement from Allentown School District Superintendent Thomas Parker.
You can now be relieved of duty because people are emotional.
“Yesterday’s events have added to the confusion and uncertainty our students are experiencing during this unprecedented time,” Thomas continued. “To that end, we are reminding our staff to think carefully about what they share online and how it could affect their students and fellow community members. While we all have the right to express ourselves, it is important to do so respectfully. We ask the same of our students and families.”
The superintendent said the district remains committed to meeting “the academic, social, and emotional needs” of students.
“Thank you for your support in creating a safe, equitable, and inclusive environment for students to raise questions and develop a diversity of perspectives about our community, our nation, and the world in which we live,” Thomas added.
Shorter administration:
“don’t be not a progressive”
shorterer administration: assume Donald Sutherland pose and screech
If she committed no crime in DC, she should have a lawsuit at the ready.
Sorry. I misgendered the teacher. A woman would never do something so treacherous.
If that’s the whole of the story with a good lawyer and a little persistence that guy will clean up.
“Yesterday’s events have added to the confusion and uncertainty our students are experiencing during this unprecedented time,” Thomas continued.”
Or your could open up schools and let kids feel like things are a little more normal …
I suspected the people in DC, just like the other protesters over the past year, didn’t have real jobs.
But what do you think about going after the Amazon/Twatter/FB/Google Complex for anti-competitive behavior, they are clearly colluding with each other to squeeze out competition (e.g. Parlor) even if we are charitable and assume that the ideological rationale the have put forth, the net effect is the same. (I know that under the incoming regime this stands very little chance of getting any traction.)
At this point, I come at it from the standpoint they are working hand in glove with the government, via regulation.
Saying, “They are private companies, and may ban whomever they wish” is laughable.
PGA votes to move PGA Championship from Trump golf course
We’re aggressively pursuing peak derp at this point. I’m assuming the International Spades Association will be voting soon to no longer refer to spades as “trump cards.”
Deplorables don’t golf. Also, that article uses “insurrection” again. Sigh.
“Spades?????”
RRRRRACIST!!1!1!!
It’s criminal to enforce immigration laws that have been around since the 90s.
During a press conference on January 8, Biden committed to having the Justice Department open an investigation into Trump officials who carried out the Zero Tolerance policy through which adult border crossers entered separate custody from the children they arrived at the southern border with.
The practice, as Breitbart News noted, has been employed since before 2001, though the Trump administration ended the effort in June 2018.
“I’ll commit that our Justice Department, our investigative arms, will make judgments about who is responsible … and whether or not the conduct is criminal across the board,” Biden said. “But as I said yesterday, I am not going to tell the Justice Department who they should prosecute and who they should not.”
“There will be a thorough, thorough investigation of who is responsible and whether or not their responsibility is criminal, and if that is the [conclusion], the Attorney General will make that judgment,” Biden continued.
This was going on FOR EIGHT YEARS WHILE YOU WERE VICE PRESIDENT, you blithering fucking idiot
The beauty of it is – the retarded seals called Democrats will all applaud wildly.
They just cannot help themselves. The level of hubris is astounding. They seem to honestly think that there will be no backlash to using the courts to openly go after their political enemies. We bitch about Americans being politically apathetic and how that helps the ruling class. They seem to intentionally be activating as many people as possible.
They’re going to have prosecute Bush II, Obama, and Trump officials then. Maybe Biden will be the first Pres to convict and pardon himself.
Logically? Yes. Politically, nope, they (the media and politicians) have effectively and successfully portrayed that the all policies they do not like started in 2017 or 1669 or whenever there BS project says. Nothing in between, no wrongs were done, except during the last 4 years.
No they wont. Why would there be any consistency? Biden has signaled his will to rule with a boot and achieve Unity through expulsion of the other.
The superintendent said the district remains committed to meeting “the academic, social, and emotional needs” of students.
Baseless claims. Without evidence.
whose excited for the news cycles arguing that the democrats shouldn’t even allow the republicans to have a single committee seat because they are dangerous insurrectionists.
Has that been floated? I wouldn’t be surprised. They (leftists) have lost their damned minds.
not yet but they are so predictable at this point. I almost guarantee vox has or will have an article suggesting this.
Yes. I think a Dem Rep pushed a resolution to remove those who opposed Biden’s ascendancy and questioned the vote.
With regard to the Impeachment Farce (Electric Boogaloo), is Trump’s right to discovery going to honored?
If not, what, are we now denying due process to protect us from totalitarian autocracy?
Yes.
Impeachment isn’t a criminal proceeding, it is a political one – to remove an official from a position of public trust. No one goes directly to jail as a result of an impeachment – they just don’t collect their govt paycheck anymore.
Not only that, what exactly is supposed to be discoverable? I don’t exactly recall, but I don’t think people accused of crimes at the time of the drafting had wide-ranging discovery powers…
“A truly extraordinary situation.
The lab working on SARS-like viruses in Wuhan has deleted 300 papers.
It previously deleted a database of 20,000 samples of bats, rats and viruses.
And WHO investigation team is still not allowed into the country.”
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1348549780717383680
That’s not at all suspicious.
In a sane timeline, the U.S. would organizing and leading international punitive sanctions against China.
In a sane timeline, we never would’ve helped institute that damn lab in the first place.
It’s not ok to be white.
“If we look at the Chief Officer group of this constabulary, we are half female and have all sorts of other diverse characteristics – but we are all white,” said Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney.
“I’m really aware of that and so I’m doing what I can to mitigate in the short term and I have a very detailed plan, which also national policing has as well, to try and shift that balance,” she vowed.
“It’s not OK that we look like we do across UK policing and I know my colleagues and I are all determined to shift that.”
Determined, as long as it doesn’t cost themselves their position or future prospects.
When the Chancellor of Germany thinks you are being too much of a nazi…
“German Chancellor Angela #Merkel believes the decision by social media giants to permanently suspend Donald Trump’s accounts is ‘problematic’ because freedom of opinion should not be determined by online platform bosses, her spokesman said Monday ”
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1348653394588794887
That is a surprisingly based take. Of course she, demonstrably, thinks that the government should be in charge of such things.
are we now denying due process to protect us from totalitarian autocracy?
We cannot afford to pollute our vengeance with rationality.
“Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived
Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99.9 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this tranche of data, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed the raw video includes GPS coordinates, which point to the locations of users when the videos were filmed.”
https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466
https://twitter.com/datnofact/status/1348615865839865856
This it totally righteous and not at all illegal. Unlike reading anything posted on wikileaks.
Ignore all of those deepfake nazi propaganda photos showing the violent insurrectionist assassins having fun and goofing off. They’re all a “raging collection of grievances”
We must not believe this narrative that people are upset with the system – CNN
Yeah, I think that this was basically memery on a colossal scale. A few interns are going to be inconvenienced and that is about it. Not that it was a good thing, by and large, but it pales in comparison to the terrorism perpetrated at the capital (by mostly leftist).
Truth, reconciliation, healing.
Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
The Russians created chaos in the 2016 election by flooding our social media networks with misinformation and racial division. If this coup attempt isn’t dealt with harshly, America’s enemies will know they can weaponize white people to do their bidding without consequence.
Look it’s miss get rid of the facist racist lynchmob cops arguing for said cops to lynch the people she dislikes.
Wouldn’t a proper coup attempt target the White House after Biden is in office? I mean, seriously.
Propaganda – and the State has figured out a way for its people to utilize it for them.
White People are the white people of White people
ILLEGAL JEWS!!!</a<
Wait a minute here. I have been assured by our honest and noble media, for at least a decade now, longer actually, that is it not acceptable to call people 'illegal'. So… what changed here all of the sudden?
Then we get word from that same honest media that protests are SUPER SPREADER EVENTS! But, I was ensured all summer long that protests are not super spreader events.
Is a pattern emerging here? What ever could it mean?
F’d up link still works.
Fixing anyway.
ILLEGAL JEWS!!!
Wait a minute here. I have been assured by our honest and noble media, for at least a decade now, longer actually, that is it not acceptable to call people ‘illegal’. So… what changed here all of the sudden?
Then we get word from that same honest media that protests are SUPER SPREADER EVENTS! But, I was ensured all summer long that protests are not super spreader events.
Is a pattern emerging here? What ever could it mean?</a<
Wait a minute here. I have been assured by our honest and noble media, for at least a decade now, longer actually, that is it not acceptable to call people 'illegal'. So… what changed here all of the sudden?
Then we get word from that same honest media that protests are SUPER SPREADER EVENTS! But, I was ensured all summer long that protests are not super spreader events.
Is a pattern emerging here? What ever could it mean?"
Wait a minute here. I have been assured by our honest and noble media, for at least a decade now, longer actually, that is it not acceptable to call people 'illegal'. So… what changed here all of the sudden?
Then we get word from that same honest media that protests are SUPER SPREADER EVENTS! But, I was ensured all summer long that protests are not super spreader events.
Is a pattern emerging here? What ever could it mean?"
Wait a minute here. I have been assured by our honest and noble media, for at least a decade now, longer actually, that is it not acceptable to call people 'illegal'. So… what changed here all of the sudden?
Then we get word from that same honest media that protests are SUPER SPREADER EVENTS! But, I was ensured all summer long that protests are not super spreader events.
Is a pattern emerging here? What ever could it mean?
Fixed Twice!!! I give up…
One Step forward, two steps back
Mornin Banjos
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to Democrat colleagues, that the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution Monday calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
She better move fast, the QAnon fanfic says she’ll be arrested today.
Biden as part of his gun control policy has pledged to institute such policies as the broad regulation of semiautomatic weapons as well as the repeal of legislation that protects gun manufacturers from being sued if their products are used illegally.
Buy ’em now.
Washington DC-based US Attorney Michael Sherwin has announced that his office has opened a formal investigation into the death of Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter and Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a police officer during the violence at the Capitol on Wednesday.
One of two things will happen. “Procedures were followed” or if the investigation goes somewhere, Biden will fire the US Attorney.
The decision upholds Judge Thomas Clark II’s ruling from December that removed Gardner and her office from prosecuting the case after emails from Gardner showed she used the case for fundraising, according to KY3.
Good.
“I have spoken with [House Oversight Committee] Chair Matt Hall,” Rendon, a Republican, told Just the News. “It is his goal to continue the oversight hearing on the election.”
A little late, but OK.
The Republican Party in Arizona’s largest county voted Saturday to censure the widow of the late Sen. John McCain after she endorsed Democrat Joe Biden. The state GOP is planning a similar vote later this month.
Heh.
On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced new “guidance” for people in California who have the nerve to want to wander around their free country. CDPH wants Californians to stay within 120 miles of their residences except for “essential” travel. They also demand those gross “non-essential” travelers don’t come at all, but if they must, then they should quarantine for 10 days. Everyone traveling for anything should also quarantine for 10 days upon return to California.
Pimpin’
Tom Petty is a good music choice.
Unprecedented in two hundred years!
*checks notes*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_States_Senate_bombing
It gets better!
Yabut. See. That was different.
It was commies?
That was one misguided person who set a bomb, this was a large group of rabid domestic terrorists who invaded our sacrosanct Capitol Building with murder on their minds. It’s not even remotely comparable.
Or some other similar nonsense.
“Explosive but mostly peaceful bombing”
– CNN
In less profound stakes, I reviewed what I can make for dinner and realized I have to use up some of the stuff that’s been sitting in my freezer for a while. I found a small quantity of duck and a small quantity of bison. As in together there’s enough for a meal. I decided using Medieval logic that, since it swims, duck is close enough to a fish for surf and turf. While I’ll be putting herb butter and mushrooms into the pan, I’m going to try to render out as much of the duck fat as I can into that butter mixture, and baste the bison in it when that meat gets a turn, then add some flour to turn whatever’s left in the pan into a sauce (some liquid too if it’s needed to deglaze) and I get my choice of canned veggies to add to it.
Of course, right now I’ve got another damn meeting.
“…duck…bison…”
Put it,
Put it,
Put it on a pizza with some goat cheese and pineapple
Extra points if you add an anchovy
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with [the Bush] administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.” – Herself Clinton
That didn’t hold up well now did it as she cheers madly on the purging.
Pandering twat gonna pander.
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with [the Bush] administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.” – Herself Clinton
DISSENT IS NOT TREASON
until it is.
The Capitol Was STORMED! – Everything You Need To Know
Banks are suspending political donations to elected officials that contested the election (some are suspending all donations, others are evaluating):
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/goldman-punish-gop-leaders-who-challenged-election-jpmorgan-and-citi-suspend-all
“MUH MONEY IN POLITICS!”
Maybe I’m being naive here but how the hell does THAT stand up in court??
Because you don’t have standing to sue, it’s too early, and too late to file.
“Private companies” can do what they like.
Get used to seeing that phrase being deployed as they eat away at your rights.
Is the Pickrick going to reopen?
But that is different somehow.
Freedom of Association exists, as long as it doesn’t involve you trying to practice your religious beliefs, but just you trying to push political beliefs.
So you can legitimately be forced to “bake that cake”, but also be de-banked because you put up a fit.
And apparently for doing something completely legal and constitutional.
Did I misread something there? Are the banks saying they can’t bank with them anymore or is it “we aren’t lobbying you anymore”?
I had to do a re-read, but i think you are right. It sounded like they were going to block any donations to these politicians.
If they, the banks, want to stop giving money, have at it. Now if it is “we are going to process the contributions for other entities” then yes, bad bad.
Why wouldn’t it? They are signalling that they won’t contribute anymore that is it.
Why would it be an issue for the courts is what I mean to say. Are we saying now that these entities must contribute money to a campaign?
I think there’s confusion here. Some think this means that nobody can donate to a political campaign via those banks. Rather, they’re simply stopping their own political contributions to those campaigns.
^^^ This. I thought it was blocking customers from donating, not them refraining from donating at all.
This should actually be a badge of honor for these congressmen to wear. “The Big Banks refuse to donate to me because i go after them and their flunkies in power”
As much as I like the idea of businesses not paying tribute to politicians, the rationale is particularly disturbing. None of these companies publicly stated they’d cut off those pushing #Resistance and Not My President for the past four years. All the same, I hope they keep digging. Unless there’s an Enabling Act, sooner or later the Rs will be back in power and theses companies will reap the whirlwind.
Yes, that is what I was trying to get at. My only concerns would be if they A: Bar their employees from donating to who ever they wish and B: They stop processing donations from other entities.
Otherwise, their money, their speech, do what you want.
Well damn, that is it, sorry about spreading fake news fellas.
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/stripe-bans-processing-donald-trump-s-fundraising-payments
How about this then?
OK, I misunderstood then.
Don’t apologize, what you think was happening IS actually happening. See my link above.
They are payment processors refusing to process payments to Trump.
I don’t like where things are going.
Turley with a decent article.
FTA:
“Democrats would gut not only the impeachment standard but free speech, all in a mad rush to remove Trump just days before the end of his term.”
“Thus, Congress is about to seek the impeachment of a president for a speech that is protected under the First Amendment. It would create precedent for the impeachment of any president who can be blamed for the violent acts of others after the use of reckless or inflammatory language.”
I think their attack is two pronged and free speech is the real target riding on the back of Trump.
OBE with the link SF‘ed.
flap jacks.
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/01/11/how-a-snap-impeachment-can-shatter-our-constitutional-balance/
The constitutional balance was shattered a long time ago, but we didn’t notice any damage at all until 2016. The wreckage is now obvious.
It reminds me of advice to hikers: When you realize you’re lost, you’ve already been lost for quite a while.
This is a truth. Espeically if you are like me, and really want to believe you are not lost, so you keep going down, even after you start getting the feeling that you might be lost.
I just want to take a look at the Progressives a la AOC, and Bernie Sanders. If any leftist friend of yours points to them, point out that AOC and Sanders have Zero problem with monopolized tech. They totally were and are in the tank for Joe Biden, the man that Big Tech installed into office. Joe Biden is the Big Tech and Big Bank Stooge. And the progressives have zero ground to stand on when they try to attack them.
As if proggies have consistent standards.
There only standard is whatever will help them amass more power.
Another stark contradiction between “progressive” words vs. principles is that they question and criticize every corporation out there except media corporations. In fact, they seem to long for the days when you could only get news from a small handful of major networks.
Ya know, I realized sometime ago that a goodly portion of the ‘Free Speech’ agitation in the 60’s and 70’s was them arguing for
communiststo have free speech, they didn’t want it for anyone that did not share their worldview.Tagging fail. Ignore the strike through.
I’ve come to realize the same thing about the “anti-war” left. For the most part it had nothing to do with war, and everything to do with that the war was against communism.
#McCarthyDidNothingWrong
j/k, kinda.
McCarthy is kinda like the Antebellum South – may have had a point, but was fundamentally crippled by [lack-of-character/slavery].
Not just that. As soon as Bush was out as President, the anti-war left disappeared. The odd thing is, they didn’t come back during Trump’s term.
In fact, Team Blue became decidedly pro-war when Trump was trying to extricate us from various overseas shitholes.
8 Years of fellatio to the Droner in Chief murdered the left wing “anti-war” part of the DNC. They might have been able to attempt a recovvery (sans any legitimacy) but the DNC fell in love with the Neo-Cons and opened their doors to them. So yeah left wing anti-war had no credibility, but now it is just dead.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
I wonder if the anti-war types went away or if the press wouldn’t dare put a camera in front of them while Chocolate Jesus was in office. As a result so it just fizzled out on its own.
So yeah left wing anti-war had no credibility, but now it is just dead.
Kind of like believers in small govt and the Republican Party.
Yes.
My brother has a saying. Back in the day people would say you can’t legislate morality. What they meant was *you* can’t legislate morality.
I think there are probably some generational changes going on. A lot of the free speech activists in the 1960s & 1970s were really for free speech across the board. The generation that came through the universities in the 1980s and 1990s not so much. Some of that, I think, is due to their original thought process. That is, our ideas are superior. Once we’re allowed free speech, our ideas will triumph naturally. When their ideas didn’t triumph, it became, “dumb people believe evil ideas so it’s time to suppress evil ideas.”
“Thus, Congress is about to seek the impeachment of a president for a speech that is protected under the First Amendment. It would create precedent for the impeachment of any president who can be blamed for the violent acts of others after the use of reckless or inflammatory language.”
Contradicting the Progressive Narrative is hate speech, and an incitement to political assassination.
I just listened to Rubin’s interview with Tulsi. Other than the rockin’ bod, I’m not getting the love. She seems like a nice person, but not particularly insightful or philosophically compelling.
Of course which simply means she will join the LP…
She seems like a nice person, but not particularly insightful or philosophically compelling.
That makes her better than 99.875% of the poliicos of any stripe.
She’s one of the few on the left that lives in reality. Sane people praise her like a starving man will think a saltine is the best thing he’s ever eaten.
A very apt analogy.
Compared to her competition, “not particularly insightful or philosophically compelling” is a pretty good thing. She is the left wing version of Sarah Palin or Kristi Noem.
30 years ago, she would have been a run-of-the-mill Democrat.
Her father was a run-of-the-mill Republican who party switched and was still hated by the Ds.
“Sun readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits.”
SunGlibertarian readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits.Biden is going to put “Willam Burns” as CIA director. Do we know anything about this guy?
The guy from the Simpsons?
We was instrumental in making sure that pallet of cash ended up on a dark runway in Iran I believe.
Goody.
Or Major Burns?
“Do we know anything about this guy?”
Swamp creature
That really goes for any DCI, you can’t not be one and get that job. More so than any of the other political appointments, IMO.
Jordan Peterson interviewed Matthew McConaughey this week. It was a fantastic departure from the doom and gloom.
Highly recommended.
Thanks Tundra…good background while I toil away in my government job 😉
It was good. McConaughey was much more thoughtful than I expected. I thought he was a bit more in woo-woo land than he seemed in that interview. The contrast between the very expressive McConaughey and the consummate stoic that is Jordan Peterson struck me as a little amusing.
McConaughey cancelled in 3 … 2 …
From my CEO:
“we have looked, but didn’t find anybody from our company at the insurrection, so thankfully we didn’t have to do anything. I would think that everybody in the US would want to contribute to our PAC given what’s going on.
“Insurrection,” you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Nice. Two subtly veiled threats. Much succinct.
Our CEO’s message – “Hate has no home at [company name].” I’m not even sure what it means.
unless it’s hate for the wrong sorts of peopel
Holy shit.
Get out now.
just curious, but did your CEO encourage activity in the protests this summer?
We had a fucking expungement program set up in our legal department for the rioters.
It’s so bad. So, so bad.
Jesus. And you just recently took that job, right?
I swear to god, when I get done with my degree this spring, I’m going to start looking into buying a gas station in the middle of nowhere, something like that. Anything far away from leftists and the dimwitted suburbanites mindless parroting them.
I’ve been here for almost 4 years. They’ve always been open about their leaning left, but it has gotten much worse over the last 18 months.
What I’m hearing from friends and others in the industry is that it’s not a company problem, but an industry problem.
Well, after reading the comments here this morning, just sign me up for the mark of the beast. I’ve got a family to think of and I’m even thinking about pulling my books for some unanticipated reader who gets her panties in a wad and gets me canceled (to mean, my bank accounts frozen).
Color me fearful. I’m still thinking about sticking my head in the sand for the next four years. That’s the only reason the Obama administration was bearable to me. Plus, I wasn’t on social media most of that time. I was too busy trying to make the mortgage.
Bread and circuses, baby. Bread and circuses.
Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. We’re in the prepare for the worst phase right now at casa trashy. I’m prepping to be canned, given that they’ve just signaled at my company that they’re gonna can us if we show sympathy to the right.
It’s gonna get rocky.
My company, thankfully, has a clause in the company handbook that states that social media and political activities outside of work hours will not be used as grounds for termination. How committed to that they are remains to be seen.
Why would you be hit, have you ever talked counter to the narrative?
Only to a few people, and only in a very careful way.
I have had incidents in the past (being informally reported to the former chief diversity officer as a joke, being asked to do illegal things as part of a company sanctioned pro bono program), so I’ve taken a stand where I’m not comfortable doing company sanctioned pro bono except for limited exceptions.
However, my resume has my student membership in FedSoc on it, and I’ve circulated some practice relevant FedSoc conference calls where relevant. It wouldn’t be too hard to peg me as a wrongthinker if they did a purge.
I wrote for a College Republican newspaper (now defunct) in college and I’m fearful that one day some jerkoff will find the articles we all wrote and try to get us all fired. It’s paranoia and unlikely to happen but there are some mentally disturbed and vindictive people out there who wants to eliminate wrongthink.
I get that fairly similar, I suppose my advantage is an allergy to social media, so not easy to find unless I want them to find me.
Just remember heil with the rest of the crowd, none of us are notable.
My social media politics post election of Trump is silence. I was a #NeverTrump-er and “I voted for the pothead”, but once Trump was elected, I said next to nothing because what was there to say? He won.
I am on record at FB saying that Trump and Hillary were equally evil, which a couple of people took exception to, but otherwise went unnoticed.
My first three books have libertarian politics and they are dated (e.g., “August, 2004” in the chapterhead). I was updating them and taking out the dates until last week happened, and then I got seriously cold feet.
Anything I do NOT say bad about Trump is a black mark against me and I can’t make a political book timeless against the backdrop of Trump.
It’s scary as fuck. I work in corporate accounting so our department isn’t as infested with the woke shit, but HR is filled with SJW’s. I’ve started to go through my social media accounts and deleting any political shit that I’ve posted in the past because all it takes is one or two vindictive people to call my job do whatever they can to get me shit canned. We’re in the motherfucking looking glass and there’s nothing good about where we are headed.
My only social media is here.
I de-facebooked, de-twittered, and de-googled two years ago. And it was more out of privacy considerations than fears of being canceled but that’s looking like a pretty good decision today.
I like having it because it keeps me in the loop with my family in Mississippi but other than that, I don’t see any value in social media anymore. I haven’t really posted anything about politics in a while because I know it could be used against me.
Related.
They’re not wearing masks.
If you’ve got the stomach for reading Leftests infighting, this one has a great punchline (the lniked tweet).
TW;DR is this
HumanistReport goes off on how Trump is a Fascist baddie, this other guy points out that Joe Biden is promising a “war on domestic terror” and that this does not sound good, and is fascistic. There is a bit in back and forth and then you get this:
In other words “I dont get your definition of fascism, it isn’t “That guy i don’t like is a baddie”?”
https://twitter.com/HumanistReport/status/1348119136270913538
When did Trump invite anything against marginalized communities?
They just have a template for their enemies, and reality doesn’t enter into it.
Good lord. Incite. Autocorrect and I are not getting along today.
The libertarian case for impeachment by Gene Healy
The Case for Finally Unsubscribing to ReasonTV
I just posted a screen on this over at the original site. It’s really dumb. but you kind of got to stay for the end to really get the full impact of how dumb. The ending line is perhaps the dumbest thing ever published it reason. I mean, it would have to be a tie with a lot of other stupid things, but it’s really, really dumb.
Screed. Thanks for the autocorrect, but I got this.
I went there for the first time in ages to check it out. Looks like there’s more scam bots than actual commenters now.
Well, we did take the one commenter away…
Article of impeachment released and predictably as flimsy as fuck, not that it matters:
“House Dems Introduce Article Of Impeachment Against Trump, Have The Necessary Votes”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-dems-reportedly-have-votes-impeach-president-trump#comment-stream
But do they have 16 GOP senators to remove? No.
But Pelosi is a serious politician doing serious work! Definitely not about doing theater.
The goal is to get as many members of the House and Senate as possible on record as defending Trump, then mercilessly hammer and deplatform them.
This.
And defund them, as the banks are doing. It’s all coordinated, of course, but behind closed enough doors that our uncurious press just ignores the conspiracy.
Or it’s to keep the narrative off the election results and the problems with them.
Where are the recall votes for Pelosi, Sandy, et many alia who incited the summer riots?