For some of us older folks, there was a weird familiarity to the goings-on in DC this week. When I was a teenager, and starting to worry about the draft, word came around that there was going to be a big demonstration in DC with the idea of over-running the government and shutting it down to protest the Vietnam war. Now, besides the onions on our belts, we liberals (and I very much was one) were anti-war and felt that the government was essentially a gang of murderous oppressive thugs. Of course, today, liberals demonstrate over not getting enough forcibly-extracted money transferred to them rather than about the killings of hundreds of thousands in the Middle East, but this was a simpler time.
DC was only about 45 minutes away, so what the hell, we piled into a van and headed down for the fun. And what a freakshow it was. Hundreds of thousands of people clogged the streets and attacked the fences surrounding various government buildings. And of course, thousands of armed government thugs, soldiers, cops, and National Guardsmen showed up to quell the demonstrations using violence and gas. Over 10,000 people were herded into cages, given no food, water, or place to piss and shit, then tear-gassed when they tried to push the fences over. I was in a cage near RFK Stadium and got my first ever whiff of gas.
It was glorious. And the folks who love to suppress demonstrations, kill free speech, and continue pointless wars are now cheered on by liberals. It’s weird to see so-called liberals, leftists, and Progressives do a perfect Richard Nixon impression, but that’s the world we live in.
Birthdays today are a relatively dull lot, but there’s a few gems, including a guy who inspired Asimov’s only decent series of novels; the worst president of my lifetime; a pretty goddam excellent drummer; a second rate quarterback; the prototypical beatnik; a vastly overrated folk singer; a reasonably decent guitarist; and the actor who absolutely stole Burn After Reading.
News, such as it is, follows.
Can someone remind me which was the Stupid Party? Yeah, both of them.
And where would we be without Old Guy Music? Nowhere, that’s where. And this fits the theme and the mood.
Wait, now it’s up to five deaths in the seditious mob?
Maybe tomorrow we can get it up to 6 or 7…
Have they been tested for COVID? Hey, remember COVID?
I laughed
One shot by the cops, 2 had health issues, some (probably) antifa/blm infiltrator bashed a cops head in. Idk about the 5th.
But one thing for sure is that they were all convid deaths as well.
(P.s. they have to inflate the numbers as much as possible because muh narrative.)
I couldn’t even sit through a broadcast of the local news this morning.
The media blitz is just too much for me.
The other night when the local tv news was covering the storming of the castle, their “political” reporter was talking about the allegations that there was voter fraud, and he used the word baseless at least a dozen times in his two minute segment. He actually used it three times, in various forms, in a single sentence.
All it sounded like to me was propaganda. I’ve pretty much stopped watching the news. I’m completely off social media. And I generally limit the people I talk to to those who don’t want to talk about politics. It’s really sad what has happened to this country during the great wokening…
This AP article uses at least 3 editorializing adjectives. Revolting. https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/san-diego-woman-fatally-shot-at-capitol-echoed-trump-on-social-media/
AP has been a garbage dump for a few years now. Now you know why your local media is a garbage dump, too.
Yeah, I wasn’t crying when their equipment was destroyed. Felt bad for the equipment though.
At least they got out a thesaurus – the report I watched was something along the lines of “Trump baselessly attacked the election results, restating baseless claims of fraud, which of course, are baseless.”
“All it sounded like to me was propaganda. I’ve pretty much stopped watching the news. I’m completely off social media. And I generally limit the people I talk to to those who don’t want to talk about politics. It’s really sad what has happened to this country during the great wokening…”
Funny enough, I don’t find it sad at all. This has been ratcheting up in various frog-boiling forms for basically my entire lifetime. It’s refreshing to see it so out in the open. I can’t help what other idiots do and if they want to chow down on a steaming bowl of shit, it’s no skin off my nose. It just alerts me to steer clear of it.
^^
I remember doing a project on media bias in high school, and surprising people with the results (agenda was driven by the AP across all networks, everybody but FoxNews tended to have the same sentiment about the issues of the day). That was 2005, and I’ve been on the TMITE train since well before that (thanks mom, for listening to Rush Limbaugh every day throughout my childhood).
It’s nice to see people finally treat the media with the scorn they deserve. Now let’s do the same with opinion polling, social science papers, and Big Non-Profit.
The problem is that the idiots that believe the lies and propaganda now actively think they should go along with the actions of the mandarinate class to squelch freedoms, especially of speech or of self protection. After 7 months of democrats not just encouraging riots, looting, and people targeting and killing law enforcement types execution style, but paying to get the criminals doing this shit out every night so they could repeat the cycle, all being whitewashed, they now talk about insurrection and terrorism. And the fucking morons that watch believe them. I had not one but three of these morons now tell me I was crazy for pointing out that the dnc – and especially Harris – not only went on TV to make excuses for these rioters, but paid their bails and worked to make sure the authorities couldn’t use any laws to stop the rioting (they even went so far as to fuck over the people trying to protect themselves from the riots). Countless people were killed – directly by the rioters and the anarchists – but all of it was down played or even hidden. It was 24/7 excuses about “mostly peaceful” protests as we watched things burn down, and silence on Trump supporters or LEOs being gunned down in cold blood.
Now there seems to have been some kind of operation to get exactly the result they did at the capitol, and it is 24/7 language of incitement. One person was killed by the LEOs, and one other person was killed by someone with a fire extinguisher (and I will not be surprised this was done by some agitprop agent), while 3 others died of heart problems (that’s the latest report), but it is all being presented as terrorism – right wing kind – and the demands to silence the resisters and disarm them are in high gear.
As I point out to the people believing this shit: this reminds me of the whole Nazi Reichstag’s burning thing. It feels manufactured so the mandarinate can resort to absolutely unconstitutional and undemocratic shit, while pretending to do it to save our democracy of all things, and quell the resistance movement that almost cost them their grip on power. People willing to not just lie for 4 years about a Russia collusion hoax, but willing to fake an impeachment and then pretend they were the ones defending democracy, would have no problem using a system rife with loopholes, unable to allow accurate and decent audits of any kind, and with a complacent media willing to carry water for them, to steal an election or resort to the banana republic tactics to keep the people from knowing.
You want to know why I am absolutely certain this election was stolen? They could do it and after telling us for 4 years they were fighting Hitler, because the guy they accused of being Hitler was an existential threat to their hold on power and plans for their futures, they did everything in their power to misinform people and then create even bigger loopholes for the cheating to happen, then pretended it was all in the name of making every vote count. The fact that they are afraid to actually do any investigation – of any kind – and instead have resorted to just pretending there was no fraud and accusing those asking for some investigation of of spurious and suspicious things as being idiots because their claims were already debunked (telling another lie and pretending you actually investigated when you did nothing of the sort, isn’t debunking anything, but in this day and age where the mandarinate can change the meaning of things overnight, who knows) is telling. The quickest way to shut up conspiracy theorists is to do a thorough and open investigation that would collapse their bullshit. Instead all we have gotten is kabuki theatre, insults, and attempts to silence people. That’s what banana republic tyrants are forced to do to give themselves the veneer of legitimacy. Of course, our mandarinate, after burning down the country to get rid of Trump, in the process exposing themselves for the crooks they are, now must resort to this to do damage control. The sad thing is that so many people willingly comply.
There are exactly 5.56 reasons why I am not going to participate in this Great
ResetTyranny.*adds 5.56 and 7.62*
Gah, too much work for a joke.
It’s .50
So 50 BMG, 50 AE, 500 Wyoming, etc.
That the part that is getting to me—half the country is buying what theyre selling. Yes the last few years shined a light on the media, but not everyone has seen the light.
I am starting to realize that if after the last four years of an orchestrated campaign of lying by the media you still take them seriously, it isn’t because you want facts and truth, but simply validation of your cultish beliefs. As I have repeatedly pointed out: if you still believe anything that the people that spent 4 years lying about Russia collusion – knowingly – are peddling, then you really are not that interested in truth or facts, but just in validation to keep your faith.
Yeah, the top story on the local news last night was “Viewers wrote in to complain we didn’t do a bit piece on Rep. Stefanik, so here it is”.
NPR had the DA (from Albany?) on to DECLARE as SCIENTIFIC FACT that this was a COUP attempt and the TRAITORS need to be PROSECUTED.
Because you see, some of the protestors had zip ties which is UNCONVERTIBLE PROOF that they were trying to TAKE HOSTAGES.
I may be underselling the emoting and performative righteous rage going on.
All it sounded like to me was propaganda.
Because it is. They are pissing on you while looking you directly in the eye and saying that it is raining. The allegations of election fraud are “baseless” as long as you ignore the hundreds of sworn statements and other evidence, circumstantial/statistical or otherwise, of election fraud.
The word “baseless” is so insulting.
When one side you don’t agree with expresses a point of view, it’s “baseless.” When you do it, it’s “essential those voices be heard.”
I wonder how fucking dumb people that still take a bunch of assholes that knowingly lied for years about Russian collusion seriously. Maybe I am the one that is crazy for thinking that if I had been buttfucking played that hard, I would never again trust these people to even report on the weather.
American Pravda.
Its like there was a memo sent out to every single news reporter and writer-“make sure you get the word baseless in there”
The journolist never went away. These people are dnc operatives with bylines, and the dnc gets its marching orders from Beijing.
RE: Capitol rioters.
“Thugs” – sure, maybe
“Antisemites” – lolwut
Pretty rich coming from the guy who’s vowed to start shipping pallets of cash back to Iran so they can continue building nukes to wipe Israel off the map.
If the establishment class feels they have to smear the protestors with unfounded accusations, it must be because they have a somewhat sympathetic cause. There was a guy photographed with a Confederate battle flag so that’s all you need. Although I’m pretty much at the point with that flag that offensive comedians are with words they aren’t allowed by the cancel mob to say.
No, there were some full on Nazis in the crowd – my wife pinged on them pretty quickly. Some shirts and signs with messages basically saying the Holocaust didn’t go far enough.
But it few and far between. But the liberals will use those idiots to tarnish the entire group.
“No, there were some full on Nazis in the crowd”
Who knows who they were? Remember the progressives who brought stuffed toy monkeys to Tea Party protests.
There were 100K people in attendance, of course there were some of the fringe right there. We have our kooks too you know.
“it must be because they have a somewhat sympathetic cause”
Yep. And banning Trump right now was about the stupidest possible thing they could do because it turns him into a martyr. You don’t ban someone because they’re weak and you’re strong. Even relative midwits realize that doing so makes Biden (and by extension SocMed as a whole) look insanely weak and impotent.
That pretty much answers my question below. Yes, you are right that it demonstrates fear. And Trump (who is already talking about creating his own platform) is going to have some fucking big rallies soon. Hopefully those let off some steam before the maga types get even more rowdy.
Kick the dog, kick the dog, kick the dog
The dog bites
Call it a mad dog
Shoot the dog
This is perfect.
Stolen from Curtis Yarvin but yeah.
Exactly this.
I’m guessing any random collection of hundreds or thousands of individuals (what are those?) will contain plenty of “thugs”. We saw ample evidence of this over the summer.
to wipe Israel off the map
Or Saudi Arabia, or Turkey, or…
I suspect also to defend themselves from the aggression our govt routinely shows toward them.
Sorry, it may be a personal thing, but I can’t be so glib about giving billions to a regime that thinks Hitler’s design was great but just needed better implementation.
I didn’t say we should give them money, or uranium, or anything.
If I was a sovereign country threatened by a great power, I’d damn sure want something to dissuade them. Nuclear arms control is the international version of gun control, with us playing the part of the chief of police deciding if you are allowed or not.
MAD is crazy, but it works. I am generally pro Israel, and they have no chance of peacefully coexisting with Iran. But if I was Iran, with American bases on either side of me, I’d want nukes too. I’m not saying, ala some of the nuttier RonPaul!!!!! fans of last decade, that if the US pulled back the Iranians would suddenly be nice secular peaceful people. But the nuclear program is a completely rational response to American policy.
North Korea is by far the most insane and ruthless regime on the planet, but they have nukes so they get to keep doing their crazy shit. Iraq got invaded when they refused to play ball with the Global Order’s inspections and such, Libya did what they were told and still got regime changed so Clinton could look tough before her election attempt. It’s completely rational for the Iranian regime to seek a nuclear deterrent so they don’t end up raped to death like Ghaddafi was.
“But if I was Iran, with American bases on either side of me, I’d want nukes too.”
If the people running that country were semi-logical actors, I would agree. I think Kim in North Korea wants the nukes because it needs them to keep his power. I think Pakistan needs them because in a full scale conventional war with India, they would get wiped off the face of the earth. But the Iranian leadership doesn’t want these to protect its hold on power (they have that well under control) or to stave off any enemy from attacking it just out of the blue. They want it because they see nukes – at at a minimum – as a shield to protect them from retaliation (against them personally) for increased aggressive military and terrorist actions to destabilize and take over their neighbors, and more importantly because these fuckers want to blow up Israel to start the end times shit they believe in.
It’s not coincidental that most Arab nations are abandoning their old and long held position that Israel had to go – for the Palestinians in public, but really done so they could keep their own populations from distracted and avoid them getting tired with their leadership’s ineptness resulting in some ugly resistance to them – and now allying with them. That’s because they are not stupid enough to think Iran is rational and can be reasoned with.
Can someone remind me which was the Stupid Party? Yeah, both of them
I’m really loving all the healing and unity the Democrats are bringing. I’m not sure what they would do differently if they were trying to inflame tensions.
There is a reason why there is an ammo shortage.
Or steal an election.
If the government has a right to your phone’s passcode, then couldn’t they argue for the right to basically anything you keep secure with a code or lock?
Yes.
The 4th Amendment doesn’t say anything about iPhones. Therefore, no privacy.
tEh SeKuNd AmEnDmUnT oNlY pRoTeKtZ mUsKeTz!!
That’s exactly what the 4th Amdt does – without a warrant, the govt cannot accessed your locked possessions. With a warrant, you have no protection.
I think it’s more of a 5th amendment issue, the right to remain silent means they can’t compel you to tell them your passcodes or combinations.
+1
Isn’t the reason for that is they want to search without a warrant. It would seem the warrant should compel unlocking a device just as much as unlocking the door to your house, etc. The alternative is they force entry, and if you have a booby-trap that destroys evidence, you’ve committed another crime.
With a warrant, both Google and Apple have said they’ll work with law enforcement to unlock devices.
*looks up SP’s de-googling article*
My personal guide:
Step 1: Protonmail
Step 2: DuckDuckGo with Bing as an alternative
Step 3: Use a dumb phone for Christ’s sake; if you simply can’t live without a phone that has a map and a few apps, go on Ebay and get an early ’10s Blackberry running BB10. If you’re so inclined, you can even sideload Android apps on it
Step 4: Use 9.9.9.9 as your nameserver instead of 8.8.8.8
Anything more than that requires a lot of work at blocking their ad services.
I think finishing the transition to ProtonMail is priority 1. I’m already exclusively on DDG.
The fact is that my Android phone isnt going anywhere (but I’m amenable to loading on a different OS), and my wife’s iPhone is going nowhere (she’s not amenable to any tinkering). With that in mind, I have to limit my de-googling to the obvious steps.
I have a raspberry pi board coming so I can set up a pihole and start shutting off some of the gratuitous tracking that happens.
That plus building in a whole network VPN and setting the phones to default all the traffic through the home network is about as much as I can do without angering the home boss.
“The alternative is they force entry”
Thought experiment: you have an impenetrable door into your house that can only be opened by forcing you to speak when it’s been explicitly established that you have a right to remain silent. Your door isn’t destroying evidence, it’s just preventing entry. IANAL, but in my mind situations like that should (ostensibly) go in favor of the accused.
Not that I have any faith whatsoever that SCOTUS will rule that way.
Say instead an exceedingly well hidden and secure room. You are under no obligation to reveal it’s existence, but if the entry is booby-trapped – you will have committed a crime if it gets tripped.
Further, they can’t get a warrant because every search of a cell phone is a fishing expedition – they can’t describe what evidence they expect to find.
^ no self-incrimination.
DC police arrested more than five times as many people at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer than they did during the day of insurrection at the Capitol
Isn’t a summer of protests kind of an apples to oranges comparison with a day of protests if you’re counting stuff? Oh, it’s CNN. Gotta go with the That’s Racist* angle.
I work with a bunch of lefties. It’s kind of fascinating how propaganda works so effectively. All of them believe that there was a strict crackdown on BLM activity, and it was only because they are black.
*Anyone else remember a TOS commenter called Calidissident? He was generally thoughtful and well read, but on the subject of race only ever expressed the thought That’s Racist. It was like TDS almost.
It’s weird to see so-called liberals, leftists, and Progressives do a perfect Richard Nixon impression, but that’s the world we live in.
Nixon was their spirit animal. He laid the groundwork for the things which have put them where they are today.
No kidding. Nixon was nearly as bad as FDR in terms of growing government.
But I have been assured that FDR is America’s greatest president and Nixon is a stain on our glorious nation.
+1 EPA
+2 Wage and price controls
Obama did the illegal and criminal things using the power of the three letter agencies and a weaponized bureaucracy things Nixon dreamed of being able to do. And they spent all their energy covering for him and trying to convince people his administration was a transparent and scandal free one by memory-holing abuse after abuse. They then spent 4 years giving amongst numerous other operations to destabilize the elected guy on lending credence to a Russia hoax that was started as a means to lend the veneer of legitimacy to a spying operation on political enemies, which they hoped would allow them to find some legal loophole that would let them do a coup. When that all failed, they stole an election. To keep it stolen and to make sure the abuses they have planned for us don’t face challenges of legitimacy, they are no basically forcibly targeting the people they feel could use the same shit they did for 4 years to silence and then destroy them.
The fact that they are deplatforming people and actually censoring alternative media is the dead giveaway. If they were confident that they were legit, none of this would be needed. But they used scorched earth politics to undermine and get rid of the bad orange man, and now they are forced to kill off the witnesses to the campaign of indiscriminate burning they used.
Hey, OMWC, I really appreciated getting that perspective.
Also — remember Occupy ? They were going to shut things down too – and that was perfectly OK with the left.
Part of the Wikipedia article on the May 1971 protests:
The ACLU pursued a class action suit on behalf of thousands of detained protesters and ultimately the federal courts, recognizing the illegal nature of the arrests, ordered the government to pay a settlement to those arrested, making them some of the only citizens in US history to receive financial compensation for violation of the constitutional rights of free assembly and due process.[11]
Where is the ACLU now ?
*Looks around*
Here. It would be mightily lovely if they were trying to figure out how to fight this.
All I hear is, “It’s capitalism. Twitter can run its business as it sees fit.”
From socialists.
They’re ok with the Trump ban. They’re just worried that there’s nothing in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening to “marginalized voices.”
This whole situation is just too damn funny. I’m practically giddy at how stupid the SocMed giants and media are. No matter how hard I try, I just can’t get mad over this because I think it’s such a monumentally stupid and hilarious move.
You lost EmRat for Christ’s sake!
https://twitter.com/emrata/status/1347247385152405504
Though it does give me a tiny bit more respect for her as more than tits on a stick.
https://archive.li/q01Dg/332348ac99d6a944feaa8b9aaea250a163d0c704.jpg
NSFW.
Yes, it’s interesting to note that a celebrity who seems to fit neatly into the mold of the rest of them said something thoughtful and aware of the bigger picture.
How do you think it was a stupid move on Twitter’s part? They would be guaranteeing their irrelevance, but Google and Apple are busy banning the Parler app. With Biden in office, they can solidify their monopoly status.
Yes, it’s stupid in the sense that are creating a pressure cooker in Trump supporters. But I think they’re winning the war at the moment. Censorship will become culturally acceptable and government mandated (“only those determined by their social credit score to not have incited violence online may apply for this job”). Please give me hope otherwise.
It’s also stupid because it wasn’t because Trump broke the rules.
I finally got around to reading Twitter’s justification:
Twitter pointed to two posts from the president on Friday that led to his ban. The first read, “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
em>The second post read: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
*squints to see the violence*
It’s easy to marginalize actual Nazis when there are so few of them. 75 (?) million people voted for Trump and that’s not counting non-voters who are sympathetic to the cause of rejecting censorship. So you have a group of people roughly the population of France and you say creating a pressure cooker of them as though that’s a minor thing. You can’t just defenestrate them from the economy. And if you do, there’s enough of them that they’ll just form their own. That path leads to some kind of bimodal “separate but equal” kind of arrangement which I could personally live with.
And yes, I suppose that there is always the possibility of outright civil war. Everyone here reminds me of that constantly. Well, that’s what it’s going to take if they really want to CLEANSE the ickies from the country because there’s just too damn many for them to all be shadowbanned.
And finally, being banned from SocMed is not a punishment, it’s a gift. It’s a corrosive and evil force on one’s mind (present company excluded of course 🙂 ).
I’m reading Gulag Archipelago right now, so all I’m seeing is doom and gloom on the horizon (it could happen here!!!). That doesn’t help.
“(it could happen here!!!)”
Sure it could. Any number of terrible things could also happen that are a lot more likely; getting in a fatal car wreck on the way to work, getting inoperable cancer… I’d say you’re probably a lot more likely to die in a random mass shooting than in a Gulag (and we all know how low the probabilities of that are). I don’t lose sleep over that stuff for the same reason I won’t lose sleep over establishment of concentration camps for Deplorables: there’s nothing I can do about it and if it does happen I’ll deal with it as it comes. No amount of worrying and/or driving myself crazy will change it. All that does is lower the quality of my life in the present, which is really the only guarantee any of us have.
Not trying to be dismissive, just trying to put things into the perspective in which I see them.
It IS happening here…
Since when would people confident in what they are doing being right, moral, and legal, feel obligated to not just silence but punish those that oppose them for just doing that (opposing them)?
If this election had been legit, these people would not feel compelled to ban people pointing out it wasn’t in order to silence them. They would have instead done a thorough investigation to debunk the conspiracists and made them look like morons if they continued to espouse the stolen thing. You cock block your enemy by letting him talk the crazy shit he wants to say, using fact & logic to disprove their point, then ridicule them for continuing to stick to the nonsense. Letting them spout inane and silly things IS the most powerful weapon for those with the facts. You resort to silencing the enemy and skipping the step about using facts & logic to prove the enemy’s accusations as false ang go straight for the ridiculing part, when what they say is true and can’t be debunked.
Note that what we see now was a given. After 4 years of the desperate left constantly trying to deligitimize orange man’s election to protect Obama’s legacy and their grip on power, the punch bowl is no longer just polluted by the occasional aerosolized urine drop, but nothing but piss and shit. If you delegitimize the system with absurd claims that a $100k facebook meme campaign resulted in an election being stolen, and that the guy that won was a Russia agent, then proceed to run a bought and paid for crime syndicate boss that is a Chinese agent (while of all things suppressing the stories that show that), you have to know that it will be turned on you.
That’s why they have had to resort to tyrannical anti first (and will follow it up with anti-2nd) shit like we see now. The only way to keep the sheep that still believe the country isn’t a banana republic and go back to business as usual, is to fuck over the dissenters and prevent them from having a means to red pill more of the morons that have so far just been drinking the koolaid.
Foreword by Jordan Peterson? (see 10/18 and 10/25 podcasts)
That’s the one I’m reading.
Just sayin’.
Wisdom right there….
When you know the sheep can fight back, you are far less likely to abuse them willy-nilly. Also far less likely with getting away with abusing them because the fact they might fight back will make it harder to do the coverup.
I tried to sign up for Parler just because FYTW and it wouldn’t let me in. I had no plans on commenting or even visiting the site but wanted to give them an extra click. No dice.
Huh. I just created one with almost no problem. (On my laptop, not trying to use an app.) For some reason, it was not letting me continue without a mobile phone number, so I entered a single digit and was on my way. I had already deactivated my virtually-unused Twitter account last night.
Anyone know if Glibs has a Parler presence yet? Also, anyone using Gab?
“Anyone know if Glibs has a Parler presence yet”
I do not, but someone (not me) should volunteer to set one up.
I thought Parler had some honeypot issues with the personal data they required you to input (unless that’s just a “bluecheck” equivalent verification)?
All I had to put in was an e-dress and the name I wanted to use, but I wasn’t trying for any kind of “badge.”
They want your ssn and mother’s maiden name for your verification.
Oh, HELL to the no! I’m already a bit perferned by the fact that my profile says “6 Following,” but I can only see four of them.
Seriously? GTFO.
Also your first born.
OK 😛
All I see is email and “mobile number”. They ain’t getting that out of me, either.
Crazy. Im on it and follow a handful of people. As of now im still getting notifications when people post.
The servers have been up and down a lot over the last few days. Apparently they are seeing an explosion of new signups and general traffic. I wonder why?
I’m on there as @AnimalAK.
I will continue to lurk
I can’t type unless I peck
some kind of goddamned beetle spit a blistering agent on my right hand. creepy little bastard
I don’t see good times ahead. the leftist shitbirds are trying to start a civil war and enough morons and cheats just handed them near total power
But will they start a civil war, or is the right sufficiently demoralized and still comfortable enough to just roll over and take it? I see the left getting away with whatever they want to do, the point of no return is long past.
I’m also wondering if this frog is boiled yet. The litmus test will come when they t the next round of assaults on the 2nd amendment. Depending on how far and fast that goes we might see some action there.
The issue is that with the modern tools of technological oppression, at whatever point violent resistance starts it involves killing soft handed bureaucrats or legislators. It won’t be a grinning SS man in your front yard yelling “Throw your weapons out the door!!!” and you say “FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS MOTHERFUCKER!!!” and open up on him. It’s not some grim faced commissar with blood dripping from his hands.
No, it will be a Gun Violence Prevention Fee levied on all gunowners through tax witholding. You gonna walk into the HR office at work and blow open the skull of the dumpy lady who made you cookies last week because she got the same kind of form letter from the state that a child support garnishment comes on? John Roberts will write 5-4 that its a tax and thus not an infringement on your rights and everyone from your HR lady to the governor are just following the law, as passed by the legislature and approved by Our Nations Highest Court.
Last year the VCDL turned out en masse, waving flags and signs and banners, and lots of them even came armed. But the Democrats still passed most of their gun bans, and all the groups with names like Patriot and Eagle and Tea Party and Minuteman grumbled and cursed and went back to work the next day.
Speaking of…
There was something about VCDL getting booted off of Facebook, but the source wasn’t impeachable. I don’t have facebook to check to see if it’s true or not.
I can see them, but it’s a weird-looking page
Molly Tuttle is pretty damn groovy, though! Sorry about the hand, Suthen. God knows when you touch yourself at night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blister_beetle
little fuckers
Louisiana, America’s Australia.
Yikes.
That is another reason I prefer to live in an area with relatively fewer critters* out to get me.
*Excluding humans, I guess
I’ve spent half of my life in Louisiana woods
every time I think I’ve seen it all I see a plant or a critter I’ve never seen before
I can’t believe there are bugs in Louisiana.
Sorry, about your hand 🙁
I assume Zuckerberg’s private security forces are on high alert, and manning the battlements of his silicon valley compound.
Wait, now it’s up to five deaths in the seditious mob?
Soon they will be measuring deaths in multiples of Piper Cub crashes.
Explaining why Trump had been blocked for at least two weeks, Zuckerberg said he was worried the president aimed to use his time left in the White House to undermine the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on Jan. 20.
A true patriot. A man who knows what’s best for the nation. Savior of Democracy.
Give that man a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Ballgag.
Yeah, just like they blocked Obama for undermining the transition of power to Trump.
Or, and I’m just spitballing here, he’s cowed by the braying of the leftists who demand it or maybe he just agrees with them. Meh, we all knew he was a twat anyway.
He definitely agrees with them. Having seen the murals of leftism just outside his office door, there’s no way he’d allow that in his company if he wasn’t a true believer.
How could Bart Starr not become a pro athlete? It’s like Storm Davis. Some kids get all the luck.
His Alabama frat brothers did their best to stop that from happening.
The first three Super Bowls were won by Bama QB
Starr was Tom Brady 50 years prior. Late round pick with above average talent, great leader, great coach, good to great surrounding cast.
“DC police made far more arrests at the height of Black Lives Matter protests than during the Capitol clash”
I think the Capitol Hill thing caught them by surprise for some reason and there just weren’t enough cops around. They really do want a race war, don’t they?
https://youtu.be/8hpPuFnq85A
LOL, you’ll never guess who is responsible for the GOP’s failures.
Water off a cuck’s back. We should be used to being blamed for everything.
“GOP’s libertarian-oriented donor class deigned to look at its more populist voting base.”
I can’t understand how those words can be strung in that order without popping off the screen.
The only quasi libertarians I’m aware of are the Kochs. Except for immigration and trade the populist base is fairly libertarian (whatever the hell that means when it comes to policy, it’s nuanced) when it comes to guns, free speech, war, and a host of other issues.
are the Koch
sSingular now you might recall. Wonder who the left will turn into a bogeyman when he’s gone.
They’re quite good at conjuring bogeymen so they’ll find someone.
You can tell a lot about someone by their reaction to the protest. Establishment voices are unsurprisingly saying things like “a holy site was desecrated”. Reason and the LP leadership are pretty apoplectic about it. Meanwhile people like Tom Woods are out there saying “um, that was in no way a coup or insurrection”.
The couple of articles that I read over at Reason on this were fucking pathetic state fellating garbage that would have been at home at WaPo with people calling those pushing back in the comments traitors. It was a goddamn dumpster fire over there.
It’s TOS, I’m not sure why you expect anything better.
arrogance and ignorance
they never see it coming
“how did the war start?”
A – “gradually, then suddenly”
“um, that was in no way a coup or insurrection”.
It wasn’t but words don’t mean anything anymore.
Can’t we all just get along? It’s easy. Just do as you’re told, and you won’t get hurt.
Put the
moneyfreedom in the bag, and hand it over.As I’ve said before, every Democrat calling for “unity” sounds to me like a cop screaming “stop resisting”.
Meanwhile people like Tom Woods are out there saying “um, that was in no way a coup or insurrection”.
No kidding. Get back to me when there are Congressmen and Senators hanging from lampposts along Pennsylvania Avenue.
They propagandize for the same reasons toasters make toast; it’s all they’re wired to do.
No one had a gun, no congresscritters were beaten or even spat on, nothing was set on fire, after a short time they left after pissing on the carpet and stealing a computer or two-yeah definitely not an insurrection but this outrage is mostly fake anyway and is the excuse they’ve been waiting years for. They know it wasn’t an insurrection.
Of course they’re lying and of course their outrage is fake. It’s what they do; they’ve been doing it nonstop for 4 years. Everyone who was going to realize that already realizes it and anyone who still believes them will always believe them.
I think they hate Trump so much because they recognize their own temper tantrums in him.
^This is the most relevant fallout
Every leftist fever dream is going to be floated in the next couple weeks, and they will likely have enough time to achieve most of it.
Possible, but I doubt it. I suspect they won’t even get budgets and appropriations done on time. This country won’t accept a hard lurch left, and if they do that, the mid-terms in ’22 will be a massacre that makes the Obama mid-term losses look tame. There are Democrats who realize those consequences, but the noisy little faction on the left will sacrifice the whole party to their own ego and insanity.
I know you don’t buy into the election fraud angle but, if you’re wrong, elections are facades now although it’s a bit harder to cheat in the House.
We will see in 2 years, won’t we.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act is going to be on the top of their agenda. I think it will include universal registration, universal mail in voting, and I wouldn’t put it past them to lower the voting age a couple years. It will also include billions in fuding for “non partisan” GOTV groups. The next election will have high school government teachers spent September and October in rigorous current events discussions culminating in Fill Out Your Ballot Day.
This just occurred to me.
Donald Trump could have been our 21st century Nixon, if the Democrats had not spent every waking moment calling him names and delegitimizing his Presidency. He wants to be loved, and there is no telling what sort of horrific bargains he might have made if the Democrats had offered up an olive branch and tried to work with him.
He didn’t sit a the right table in the cafeteria. Ew!
Yeah that’s a really interesting path to consider. One of the handful of honest lefty reporters out there, Michael Tracy, just posted a quick list of times Trump caved to the establishment. If they were stroking his ego, it would have been far more.
Nice call-back! Someone else reads the fucking comments here.
Why would the Democrats be against infrastructure spending?
Maybe their intent was to smother that kind of populist movement in the crib, by crippling his administration?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9128069/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-poses-storm-Ibiza-sunset.html
Nope. Sensational physique in a tiny pair of thong bikini bottoms.
Have some melodramatic simpering
When the crowd that Trump whipped up on the Ellipse marched up the National Mall with his blessing and encouragement, they became a mob assaulting and invading the Capitol.
The Capitol is the closest thing to a national civic temple we have or would ever want in America. People who have been there once remember the awe they felt. People who go there nearly every day can still have that feeling.
That was why we were sickened by the real-time video and endlessly repeated images of desecration and terror on Wednesday — images we will live with for the rest of our lives.
In substance, the mob’s aim was to stop the orderly, bipartisan process of electing a president. Serious as that was, what gave it the force to shock and change minds was the spectacle of it happening where it did.
Americans were sickened, and they shared that feeling across a wider spectrum of the nation’s political sentiment than at any time since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“National civic temple”
Blow it out your ass, grandma.
As I’ve posted in 20 different places, they violated the holy chamber where the sainted lawmakers arm terrorists, aid in genocide, and start illegal wars.
Yet Jimmy Carter is still loved and highly regarded, even though he pardoned three people who shot five congressmen in that Holy Chamber in 1954.
When govt is your god, of course the Capitol is the holiest of holies. That just tells me how fucking deranged you are about govt.
SF’ed
“Boeing 737 jet with 62 people onboard crashes after ‘falling 10,000ft’ following takeoff from Indonesia and VANISHING off radar – as rescuers find debris in the ocean”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9129007/Boeing-737-passenger-jet-VANISHES-sea-falling-10-000ft.html
This is Pence’s fault for not invoking 25A
COVID deaths.
VANISHED!!!
As things are wont to do when they fall below the radar’s coverage.
Yeesh, when even Mark Dice isn’t cracking jokes you know things are pretty bad, according to him they are agitating to pull Parler and Gab’s domain registration and that will of course branch out to other sites as well:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/xv_YgT5ihIQ/
I’m surprised he’s still on YouTube but I suspect he’ll be purged shortly along with everybody else that is even mildly interesting.
Some agorist guy (I don’t know, it’s some obscure flavor of libertarian) tried and rated a whole shitload of social media sites. I think his favorite was PocketNet but had good and bad things to say about many others. Mostly bad about Parler and Gab.
https://www.agoristnexus.com/facebook-is-failbook-here-are-some-alternatives/
Hey, that’s a neat site. Thanks, and I think agorist basically refers to self-sufficiency. I’m not one but they do have some good points.
Agorist is referring to markets; which is kinda funny because they function (most effectively and efficiently) under Anglo-American cultural norms. So not really universal.
Ah, OK, my bad.
“Does the US have its own mutant super strain of COVID? Dr Birx warned White House American coronavirus could be ‘50% more transmissible’ after winter cases surge to double rate of spring – but CDC says there’s no evidence”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128217/Dr-Birx-secretly-warned-new-mutant-strain-COVID-home-grown-US.html
I guess that settles it then.
People are packed inside together inside more during winter, no superstrain required although that doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t exist. How the hell is it that I, a guy with no medical or public health degree, can see that and that mouth breather (who defies her own rules BTW) can’t?
My understanding is that coronaviruses always mutate to become more transmissible but less harmful. Take your fear-mongering and shove it up your ass.
They are playing on people’s ignorance of the distinction between “transmissable” and “virulent”. Intentionally, whenever they don’t address both. An honest public health apparatchik would say “More transmissible, less virulent”. A truly exceptional apparatchik would also say “As is typical, since viruses tend to mutate to be more transmissible and less virulent, as this is a more successful survival/evolutionary niche.”
Simpering, take two, maybe.
its not trumpism
the idiots misread every bit of it
Silicone Saturday sez Tits Ahoy!
https://archive.li/GxSVh
Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to. Meeeee.
I don’t care.
Nice.
Now go get laid.
Ha yeah right. I’m 50 now
Perfect.
Now go give your lady (dood? realdoll?) 50 spankings for being such a bad girl on your birthday.
This man gets it!
You got $20, don’t you?
Here’s a little fun fact for you. There is only 1 person on the planet I have gone all the way with and I’m married to her.
You share this day with my ex-FIL. Happy birthday and hope you’re only half the bastard he was!
Thanks
? ? ?
If I’d known I’d have got you a ?.
Thanks. It’s the thought that counts.☺️
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday ??
Happy Birthday!
STEVE SMITH GIVE YOU BIG PRESENT. MEET ME IN WOODS.
Hmmm. Might be my only chance to get a little action today. I’ll let you know.
“Conservative social media platform Parler is suspended by Google for posts ‘inciting violence’ and Apple gives it 24 hours to improve moderation – as head of policy says it’s being ‘singled out’ and warns the business is on the brink ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128295/Google-suspends-Parler-social-networking-app-Play-Store-Apple-gives-24-hour-warning.html
“Twitter plays whack-a-mole with Donald Trump as it deletes his tweets sent from other people’s accounts after he was banned – as he uses @POTUS to say he might build his own platform and warn Twitter is in cahoots with ‘Radical Left'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128103/Twitter-PERMANENTLY-bans-President-Trump.html
It’s pointless to point it out because violence isn’t what this is about, it’s political repression, but go to Twitter and you can see calls for violence every minute of every day.
“Twitter plays whack-a-mole with Donald Trump as it deletes his tweets sent from other people’s accounts after he was banned – as he uses @POTUS to say he might build his own platform and warn Twitter is in cahoots with ‘Radical Left’”
Thus persuading anyone who’s persuadable that he’s right.
See how stupid they were to do this? It’s Trump during the first debate all over again. If he had just shut up, Biden would have trampled all over his own dick but instead he made Biden look like a victim. If Twitter just let Trump keep acting like a buffoon, they could send in the troops to ridicule him into submission. Now he’s a martyr.
Trump said a while back that they attack me because they hate you or something to that effect and I suspect he was right on that point and without him there the ire will be redirected at us. Hopefully their efforts to screw everyone who’s to the right of Lenin will be sloppily implemented but you won’t escape it just because you’re not a Trumper, that’s not enough.
It’s not enough to be passively not pro-Trump. We must be actively anti-Trump.
^^^ This. I cannot say one word of “Uh, except he didn’t actually say that” without getting screamed at and called anentitled asshole. Well she didn’t call ME that, because I didn’t say anything.
I don’t think people have been able to piece together the central Idea of my Twitter account, I’ve gotten random non-glib followers who seem to be convinced I’m ant-Trump, and some who seem convinced I’m pro-Trump. Id call that good writing.
Now he’s a martyr
he’s fired, only six hillbillies care about him; think Princeton’s gonna allow his library? then death, then, in four years, high schoolers won’t remember him
Mr Trump is useful for keeping small brains busy whilst the adults visit: look kids . . . dad filled an old tractor tire in the back yard with sand . . . go play!
Donald Trump is a ratty bumper sticker on a Hyundai I’ll snicker at ten years from now
If you don’t see the larger implications of what’s going on right now you’re a shortsighted sucker Don, this is much bigger than Trump.
it can be a big deal (I doubt it)
and Trump the individual still be a big ZERO
Trump’s an idiot who was only slightly better than than the alternatives but why are you here trying to antagonize people which is what you’re doing.
Who? I don’t think I even know who you’re talking about
sorry ’bout your tender feelings and your hero
You are a sweetheart…
luuk, dewd, this shit makes no sense; snap out of it
THIS GUY I DON’T EVEN LOVE YOU SHOULDN’T MAKE FUN OF HIM AND THE TOOTHLESS FUCKS WHO ADORE HIM
is easily the worst argument ever
BTW: no one will remember Limbaugh in about ten minutes as well
Don, I read your first post as sarcasm.
Now I’m reading them as you needing to be medicated. Your hateboner has lasted more that four hours. Go jerk off looking at yourself in the mirror and moaning “I am the only objective, logical person here.”
Well, we do love our Trump here, it is known.
I mean, he’s a big David French fan. David French who is currently applauding censorship because “muh free markets”.
An individual who is a big ZERO can still be a good pretext for a purge of everybody to the right of Nancy Pelosi.
Doesn’t mean the purge is no big deal.
Thus persuading anyone who’s persuadable that he’s right.
They don’t care. They believe they have who they need inside their bubble to accomplish their goals. I’m not sure they are wrong.
I work with these people; they absolutely believe Trump incited a riot which killed 5 people inside the Capitol as part of an attempted coup. I smile and nod because they aren’t reachable at all.
“Conservative” platform?
suspended by Google for posts ‘inciting violence’ and Apple gives it 24 hours to improve moderation
Now do Twitter and Facebook for the antifa and radical Muslim sites.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHno.
every Democrat calling for “unity” sounds to me like a cop screaming “stop resisting”.
Yes. Accompanied by the distinctive sound of billy club on skull.
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/01/war-without-end-forever-and-ever-amen.html
I love this place and the people commenting but –
https://youtu.be/kzoN-CvH0qU
Poor Festus takes his pleasures sadly.
Keeping watching Looney Tunes might help your mood.
Any escape is a good escape. It’s not like I’m withering away in a gulag, yet.
And this https://youtu.be/NoSVnc-7eTk
Do you get many American channels? Bugs reruns on MeTV (ABC sub-channel) Saturday mornings, 9-10.
Gotta buy up the classic Looney Tunes Gold collections (DVD) or platinum (blu-ray) for all the unedited, un-pc originals. Also look up the great remasters of the full “Private Snafu” collection on blu-ray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRZUxeLRgk
Or here, in public domain: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Private+SNAFU%22
Yes, but we’ve been talking about about hard copy media – https://www.amazon.com/Private-Snafu-Golden-Classics-Blu-ray/dp/B018611N1E/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=private+snafu&qid=1610207170&sr=8-1
there are two kinds of people
1. people who look within themselves for satisfaction
2. people who look to others for satisfaction
I know what kind of man I am, I dont need anyone else to tell me that
you are also the first kind. you know what kind of man you are
keep your chin up.
here is a bit of joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJY4asP8lT4
Suthen FTW.
and beauty
cheer up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEqQ5QcYCo
you don’t even need sound on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Irz4Gy8vk
I enjoy their music and of course the scenery isn’t bad either.
So you are saying you were a domestic terrorist that threatened America’s sacred hall of democracy.
Was this event considered sacrilegious by the press?
https://mobile.twitter.com/KaylieEHanson/status/1045428938368077826
Kaylie Hanson Long
@KaylieEHanson
.
@NARAL
members flooded the elevators and lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building today, standing in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and survivors everywhere. #StopKavanaugh #believesurvivors #kavanaughhearings
That was heroic as was the attacking of the Seattle fed courthouse (or was it Portland, I’ve lost track), the occupation of the Wisconsin Statehouse back when Walker was in there, and anything similar the left does really.
Excellent perspective, OMWC.
its not trumpism
the idiots misread every bit of it
CULT OF TRUMP
None of this would be happening if President Cartoon Villain had not cast his unholy spell upon the goodly and innocent yeomen of this great land. He turned them against all that is best in the American Ideal.
Oh, woe! Pray for America’s soul. Pray, damn you, or be cast out with the other heretics and traitors.
The best way to save people is to make sure they ONLY hear what we want them to!
DC police made far more arrests at the height of Black Lives Matter protests than during the Capitol clash
Perhaps because they set the city ablaze. And don’t give me that shit. The FBI set up a division to track down a bunch of LARPers.
“I felt he was very self-important and very arrogant,” Lopez Obrador said. Speaking at a regular news briefing, he argued it was a “bad sign” that private companies could “censor” opinion.
“A court of censorship like the Inquisition to manage public opinion,” he said. “This is really serious.”
Why, yes. Yes it is.
“They should be treated as a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, antisemites*,” Biden said.
Truth, reconciliation, healing. We must come together as one (but fuck your grievances), comrade.
*wtf? It’s like they just throw words around (including “insurrection/sedition/terrorist/etc”) to support a narrative, actual observable reality be damned.
Can someone remind me which was the Stupid Party?
I am not convinced they are stupid. They are mendacious cuntes that appear to be doing everything they can to ensure that tensions are not quelled.
Practically all team red capos are part of the mandarinate and just as bought & paid for by the CCP as the democrats.
The ruling class* believes they have the whip hand, and can win any conflict with the normies. They want conflict because they think they can win. They don’t want tensions quelled. They want more of what happened at the Capitol. The Reichstag fire is an excellent historical analogy, with the sides flipped. Its not the establishment being booted by populists. Its the populists being crushed by the establishment.
*This week has shown its not really the “left”. Its all of them.
That should lead to a fair trial. Just as when Trump or Obama or on and on stick their dicks into the pie in the past.
Supposed to be a reply to rebel
Is Your iPhone Passcode Off Limits to the Law? Supreme Court Ruling Sought
I have android. And I am not putting the code in for any
state thugslaw enforcement without a warrant.If they can demand your pass and you don’t give it to them that’ll be a crime in and of itself.
One reason I don’t use facial recognition to open my devices. There is absolutely no question they can point the camera at your face.
I have an alibi.
Take ownership of the joint and rename it “The Alibi”.
Good morning, Old Man!
Or is it?
I don’t think the idiots censoring, silencing and calling for cleansing have a firm grasp on how people who are backed into a corner will react.
I hope they find out, good and hard.
Nice song, though!
Let’s have a great day just to spite the motherfuckers!
“WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/?comments=1
Zuck is asshoe!
“dumb fucks”
Wtf is a WhatsApp?
FaceTime for those of us who don’t have iPhones. I use it to video chat with family. Now I’ve downloaded Signal to give it a try instead. Hopefully I can get family to transition, too.
Good luck, I have been very unsuccessful. My family and friends like being spied on.
Thankfully I only need to convince 5 people, and already convinced my dad. Wife will be ambivalent until I tell her that I’m sticking it to Zuck, and then she’ll be on board. Mom won’t care either way. Brothers will move if parents move.
Assuming it doesn’t suck, we should be migrated by the end of the weekend.
It’s a good app, IMO. My wife and mom moved to it, but that was it.
An encrypted messaging service I think that Zuck suckered a lot of people into by guaranteeing privacy and then changed the terms.
Dunno if it’s encrypted, but I just downloaded viber for use in work coordination. Don’t know much about it though.
DoD banned Zoom, but we can use MS Teams for meeting.
Not sure why we don’t hear much about skype any more unless there’s a bandwidth issue for large meetings.
I use WhatsApp to talk to my mum in Australia. No charge.
Jumping Jeezis on an all terrain pogo stick
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. About 1,200 people in Los Angeles County who were alive when last Saturday’s newsletter was sent out are now dead because of COVID-19. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
A violent insurrection was put down at the U.S. Capitol this week. I can’t think of anything to add that would make the gravity of this plain fact more obvious, but since some of the very Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results and fed the presidential fantasy that incited this deadly revolt now want us all to move on, I suppose I should give writing persuasively about the need for Congress to act the old college try.
Donald Trump should not be president right now. That was true long before Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters invaded the Capitol as Congress was performing its constitutional duty to count electoral votes and certify Joe Biden’s victory, and it was just as true on any other day that Trump has been in public life. But the national emergency posed by Trump’s continuing occupation of the presidency has never been greater. Nor has the need for Congress to set a precedent, where none currently exists, for when a commander in chief incites a rebellion.
The only question is how to go about legally disempowering him. Noting that the president once bragged about how big his “nuclear button” was, former U.S. attorney Harry Litman writes approvingly of impeaching Trump a second time but doubts even now that enough Republicans in the Senate would vote to convict. What happens after Jan. 20 is another matter, Litman rights, and the federal government may want to pursue criminal charges of rebellion or insurrection against the soon-to-be ex-president.
It’s like a competition to see who can write the most turgid, overwrought anguished “analysis”.
“pursue criminal charges of rebellion or insurrection against the soon-to-be ex-president.”
Jefferson tried that against V.P. Aaron Burr. It didn’t work.
Aaron Burr, while a man, was not orange and bad. But I do wonder how the president can incite rebellion against the government of which he is the chief executive.
Nothing says “incitement” like “keep it peaceful, go home now”.
Judge Sullivan is probably giving the clerk and chief judge of the DC Circuit blow jobs right now to get the Trump case assigned to him.
Let’s have a great day just to spite the motherfuckers!
Something something best revenge.
*scans football games this weekend*
Oh, wait. There’s no football this weekend.
#ByeWeek
I did a stupid thing. In support of a logical voice on FB, I posted the ACLU’s statement about Trump’s banning. I didn’t post my opinion, just the ACLU opinion. Aaaaannnnd I got jumped on by a “libertarian” friend.
*sigh*
I’m on Gab but I don’t use it. Same moniker as Twitter, @MoriahJovan. I’m on Parler, but it is intermittently down because of the influx. Also @MoriahJovan.
Daaaaaa Bears
Don’t forget Football Team!
But seriously I would have changed the name to the Washington Savages in order to drive the point home that I don’t care for people’s woke bullshit.
here is another to kill Fetus’ blues
this chick is extraordinary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poT7WxkE2Pw
“here is another to kill Fetus’ blues”
I am gonna assume that was a typo of some kind…
I’m one handed
Two syllable name ending in a “s” gets the trailing possessive apostrophe is what Mrs. Aufdembrink taught me.
you took the word of someone named aufdembrink?
im typing with one finger on one hand after being molested by a freak of nature
cut me a little slack on the pedant front
https://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html
William Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946). The Elements of Style. 1918.
II. ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE
Form the possessive singular of nouns with ‘s.
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,
Charles’s friend
Burns’s poems
the witch’s malice
I’m sticking to one old rule for everything. The advantages of other rules elude me: consistency is the very essence of clarity.
I posted the ACLU’s statement about Trump’s banning.
What did they say? “IT’S ABOUT TIME!”?
“We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions — especially when political realities make those decisions easier,” said Kate Ruane, ACLU senior legislative counsel, in a statement. “President Trump can turn to his press team or Fox News to communicate with the public, but others — like the many Black, Brown, and LGBTQ activists who have been censored by social media companies — will not have that luxury.”
“the many Black, Brown, and LGBTQ activists who have been censored by social media companies”
and those would be…..?
Farrakhan and the Ayatola are still legit posters….
The ones that went against the leftist agenda?
So.. Milo and the walkaway crowd?
Yeup, those ones.
Yeah, that got a chuckle out of me.
“Free speech is only a thing that good people should have”
-ACLU, Niskainen, Associated Press, NPR, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Radley Balko, Ken White, Shika Dalmia…
Gillespie did an interview with Ira Glasser over at TOS. Glasser is not happy with the ACLU’s current stand on free speech.
Tee hee… Let’s see what the founder of the ACLU, Roger Nash Baldwin*, had to say about free speech.
https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/blog/baldwin.pdf
*Baldwin was Counsel for the Communist Party of The USA and IIRC, the ACLU began life as the Party’s legal defense outfit.
OMWC – I bought a frankenstein Eico ST70 integrated that has been converted by a local hack into a basic amplifier using 5881s. At least they went to the trouble of replacing the front plate with a plain black square one.
The classic Mullard type circuit, tube rectification, fixed bias (with a bias balance pot too). I’m rebuilding it with a better power supply, converting it to 6AR6s instead of 5881s, and generally just doing stupid things with it. The output iron is pretty hefty, larger than a Dyna 70. Freed or Chicago? Dunno.
+1 red plate
Have fun.
6AR6- interesting choice.
I still have a shitload of the “super” 6BG6 (actually rebottled and rebased 7027A) looking for us to move to a cooler place where the amp heat output is a positive thing.
“President Trump can turn to his press team or Fox News to communicate with the public, but others — like the many Black, Brown, and LGBTQ activists who have been censored by social media companies — will not have that luxury.”
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Whatever works, dude. The specificity might be odious, but they’re not wrong
The specificity makes it mendacious and misleading, if not technically wrong. The erasure of white people and non-leftists continues without objection. Color me (heh) vastly unimpressed.
You won’t be seeing this on CNN: PATRIOTS STOP ANTIFA (IN DISGUISE) FROM BREAKING WINDOWS AT DC CAPITOL
There’s no doubt at this point that there were some leftists (maybe not full-blown antifa) salted into the crowd. Doesn’t matter. The Narrative is set.
If they pay, I hope its in crumpled up $1 and $2 bills.
pennies
With stripper glitter stuck to all of them.
Whatever works, dude. The specificity might be odious, but they’re not wrong
Something tells me the ACLU’s “concern” is strictly message-specific; they couldn’t give a fuck less about us. If our little island of broken toys were to be blown off the map, nobody at the ACLU would bother to return our calls.
It is. Just like the model chick who spoke out against banning the president, it wasnt about the banning, she just knows the concept of “you today, me tomorrow” and she is afraid her pet projects of left wing agitators might also get swept up.
Where were the attack dogs? Where were the water cannons? Why was there no grapeshot ready and waiting, to quell the rabid insurrectionists?
The reckoning of American police entered a new chapter this week with the televised spectacle of federal security agents overrun by a mob of armed far-right extremists storming the Capitol.
On its face, the siege was a failure of planning: The U.S. Capitol Police, who deal with all sorts of protests and demonstrations year-round, did not seem to anticipate the threat posed by thousands of people who, at the urging of President Donald Trump — and after sharing their plans online — converged on the Capitol to protest his election loss. Although some officers fought with them — one rioter was shot to death and one officer later died of injuries — others took selfies and appeared to offer no resistance, allowing dozens of rioters to leave without being arrested.
The relatively lenient handling of the invaders was deeply troubling to many Americans whose views of Wednesday’s mayhem were influenced by their reaction to the anti-police protests that roiled the country over the summer. The attack on the Capitol may end up deepening the divisions between those who want police power diminished and those who warn of lawlessness, underscoring the need for police to repair their relationships with their communities.
The propaganda mill grinds steadily away.
Which government entity controls the Capitol Police, appoints the Chief, sets their rules of engagement, provides equipment and training, etc. etc.? Is it the U.S. House of Representatives? I don’t know, but I do recall vaguely that the Democrat Party has controlled the House for several years now.
The mayor, I’d assume. And Dems have had a lock on that office for quite awhile now.
IIRC, it’s the HoR. So, Nancy.
There is now sufficient evidence showing that people were let in. This lying cunte is a liar and a cunte.
relatively lenient handling of the invaders
They should have cornered senators in elevators over the prospect of objectively false rape allegations and the possibility that a scotus justice might possibly not endorse the concept of killing the unborn up to, during and after birth.
The writer thought, huh, maybe the events over the summer might have some bearing on all this but I will just whisk it away as if it was just anti-police protests and not give any context to it…and the people will cheer.
The writer thought, huh, maybe the events over the summer might have some bearing on all this but I will just whisk it away as if it was just anti-police protests and not give any context to it…and the people will cheer.
“The relatively lenient handling of the invaders”
They shot an unarmed woman to death. How is using live rounds “relatively lenient”?
Wrongthinkers are never punished enough. Rightthinkers are always oppressed.
Yeah when they were making claims “we get rubber bullets” my response was “I bet she wished that too”.
To be fair, near point blank to the neck with a rubber bullet probably wouldn’t have changed the outcome all that much.
Were they armed? I can’t stomach any of the media reports on this.
It is actually bad for my health. Makes my blood pressure rise.
No.
Yeah somehow simultaneously they were a radical seething mob of armed right wing extremists that somehow exchanged 1 dead for 1 killed and as far as I can tell not a single shot was fired by this armed mob.
Its like they’re mistaking the rattle for the venom.
Some of them hat pipes and other objects they used to hit with! These are dangerous terrorists and we now MUST ban all guns because of them…
The thing I hate the most about the Capitol Adventure is that politicians – politicians – are succeeding at garnering sympathy. Politicians!!
Only with the help of the greatest propaganda machine on earth though. At least that is my hope.
You could sat that again.
say*, even.
Yeah getting the double-replies right now. I blame Trashy
*muahahaha*
Seriously though, I’ve heard a few people complain about double posting with Eyepiece. I’ll take a look at the code and see what’s going on.
What browser are you using, and what OS?
Firefox 84.0.2 (64-bit), Win10. Disabled for now. Visually after I hit post, it almost looks like it posts, then an immediate refresh and post again.
Ah, yep. Go into the hamburger menu on Eyepiece and deselect “Avoid Page Refresh”
I need to push an update to remove that feature. It worked-ish prior to the latest upgrades that SP did, but now it’s a bit hinkey.
Also, should both monocle and monocle eyepiece be enabled or uninstall one?
You can do both, they’re just redundant at this point. Eyepiece is the one I actively develop. Monocle is in “if you like your monocle, you can keep your monocle” mode.
(to be clear, Eyepiece is the stuff on the sidebar. Monocle is the stuff on the bottom. Most everything else is common to both)
Yeah getting the double-replies right now. I blame Trashy
You did that on purpose, didn’t you.
Who? Meeeeeee? Seriously I don’t blame Trashy, the plugin is awesome and I already have the shakes seeing twitter links not crossed out.
? OBE’s got squirrels, OBE got squirrels ?
Yeah well…*runs away crying*
Only with the help of the greatest propaganda machine on earth though. At least that is my hope.
They get no sympathy from me.
But of course, they are good at manipulation. (liars, connivers, manipulators…)
Only from people whose sympathy they already had.
I don’t know from whom; besides people who already worship the State.
“Today’s Great Read: Many people want a baby during the pandemic, but there’s a problem: Sperm banks are struggling to keep up with demand. Some prospective parents are turning to unregulated Facebook groups to find donors.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1347588944532275208
the old fashioned in-out isn’t a thing anymore?
Men are icky or possibly this is a story on a very small section of the population that cannot have kids the natural way?
Well you can die trying, or at least practice.
I also think there are people who take it as a task, rather than like you said, just do it and don’t think about the outcome. That is how I got two little rugrats too soon 🙂
LH, nobody wants a rape baby.
This is why got made infidelity.
God made*
/sad trombone
wut
To Black activists, civil rights advocates and many Democrats — including President-elect Joe Biden — the police response reflected law enforcement’s long history of giving white people passes for behavior that would result in beatings or death if done by people of color. Some pointed to the brutal treatment of many Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across the country after the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — including the forced removal of peaceful protesters near the White House to make way for a Trump photo-op — and the more measured response to groups of white people who protested Covid-19 lockdown orders. Revelations that Wednesday’s rioters included military veterans and police officers have exacerbated feelings of disparate treatment.
And to law enforcement officials, researchers and consultants who are trying to help American police change, the Capitol fiasco was a stark reminder that police still have a ways to go to adapt to a new era of protests.
And they continue to be breathtakingly unselfaware. Instead of asking themselves whether they should stop and consider the effects of their trampling of rights (the rights of people of any color or creed), they want to work on the tactics of suppression.
And-
Brutal treatment of BLM protestors? My admittedly faulty recollection involves an awful lot of “hands off, stand down” on the part of local police forces.
involves an awful lot of “hands off, stand down” on the part of local police forces.
And fires dancing merrily in police cars, police stations and private businesses across the land.
Including DC.
police killing of George Floyd
Fentanyl Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. I see we are still lying about that situation.
They tried all summer to goad a mass law enforcement response. Even though their trap didn’t work, they’re still going with the original plan to scream about how much more brutal the BLM stuff was.
I remember them literally kneeling down in front of them.
“Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath
From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian “solutions” are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.”
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dangers-in-67f
Because he, unlike our fellow citizens, actually looks at history and what comes about.
“There are other, more important historical lessons to draw not only from the 9/11 attack but subsequent terrorism on U.S. soil. One is the importance of resisting the coercive framework that demands everyone choose one of two extremes: that the incident is either (a) insignificant or even justifiable, or (b) is an earth-shattering, radically transformative event that demands radical, transformative state responses.
This reductive, binary framework is anti-intellectual and dangerous. One can condemn a particular act while resisting the attempt to inflate the dangers it poses. One can acknowledge the very real existence of a threat while also warning of the harms, often far greater, from proposed solutions. One can reject maximalist, inflammatory rhetoric about an attack (a War of Civilizations, an attempted coup, an insurrection, sedition) without being fairly accused of indifference toward or sympathy for the attackers.”
That’s all just crazy talk.
How dare he apply any form of logical analysis to this situation? It demands SWIFT ACTION or the HIGHEST CALIBER.
It’s exactly the same as with the Coronavirus. While it is a serious problem, the harms caused by government responses are far worse.
The Establishment always wants this “one or the other” dynamic on any issue. We see it with climate change as well.
Another example is the Pizzagate thing, which the Left believes to this day was 100% made up. The verifiable truth is that they’re using “pizza” in ways that make absolutely zero sense if it literally means pizza. Maybe it’s marijuana, maybe it’s prostitutes, maybe it’s illegal campaign cash – who knows. The corporate media never asked what it actually was or even acknowledged the existence of the suspicious emails. They simply picked the craziest viewpoint they could find (“it’s a child trafficking conspiracy”) and debunked that, then pretended that the entire thing was nothing at all.
Greenwald’s a good guy who’ll be pilloried yet again by the people who are supposedly on his side. If the more of the left was like him they’d be much more palatable.
I am thinking he made the right move at the right moment to leave Intercept. He already saw that anything that wasn’t lock-step in the narrative was going to be blacklisted.
The alarming convergence of the professional, media, academic, techh, and cultural elites into one big giant blob that thinks, acts, and speaks in unison is more than a little alarming. I saw multiple blue checkmarked professional journalists cheering the Twitter bans yesterday.
Liberalism is dead, its all proggies now, and proggies don’t value freedom of speech or freedom of thought.
being the optimist that I am I keep expecting him to get red-pilled
I like him the way he is, much of his credibility (perceived anyway) when he criticizes the left is due to him being one of them.
the old fashioned in-out isn’t a thing anymore?
Are you crazy? And expose yourself to an infinitesimal risk of dying from the plague?
More censorship:
https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1347704585582948352
some janqui let me know: was Giuliani always an idiot? are all janqui lawyers idiots? just Trump lawyers?
there’s so much incompetence, I can’t figure out which variable dominates the equation
“yukyuk Rudy dumb so its awesome smart tech people censored him”
cannot be replied to, retweeted or liked due to risk of violence.
I am sure you will be interested to learn that censorship damages my calm.
This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.
Keep going, assholes.
Here is the referenced video for anyone that wants it: https://www.bitchute.com/video/8Cn3legmWK0X/
“It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.”
https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1347064818944118784
CWAA
She’s actually correct there.
It’s that she’s gloating about it.
I am watching that 6-part fictional Romanian Cold War era cop show. It was made in 2017.
It has fun pretending to be pro-commie, anti-Western propaganda. But watching it last night, it was less funny because the propaganda stuff the show exaggerates for a joke is now pretty recognizable as what the left are trying to do in 2021.
Pretty much everything Blue Thunder railed against in 1983, is now commonplace. Sigh…
last movie I saw at a drive-in
This is some solid-gold horseshit from Twitter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErQBsxFW8AA9EK7.jpg
About 15 years ago, when I was in college, I would argue with young proggies and they would always insist that any kind of rightwing position on anything was coded racism or bigotry.
Well, now those people are in charge of tech companies and running the HR departments all over the country. When you say “freedom of speech” they actually hear “racism” because the only speech that is being banned is racist speech.
I’m pretty numb to being called racist.
For me, it started when I was president of the Young Republicans club in High School. I worked with the Young Democrats to have joint meetings where we could debate and then grill and play frisbee.
I advocated that the best way to end racism is to stop framing everything in terms of race. Don’t put checkboxes for ethnicity on govt forms. Don’t put the race of a child on its birth certificate; we’re all mutts anyway. No affirmative action, no distinction whatsoever.
So my “stop obsessing about race and using it as a wedge” position was immediately labeled racist. Every time my picture was put up on the lobby bulletin board (where the school put up news clippings of students), someone drew a swastika on my forehead.
So I guess I should have advocated racist policies in order to avoid being called a racist.
Job #1, its my days off. Job #2 (wife’s business) is about to start. Oil changes, general tune-ups of the generators, fix a crack in her washing tub
Phrasing?
Liberalism is dead, its all proggies now, and proggies don’t value freedom of speech or freedom of thought.
It’s a tacit admission of the precariousness of the foundation of their intellectual beliefs, that they are terrified of being contradicted.
A few years ago, one of the Koch foundations wanted to fund an academic research program at Montana State, and the “MSU community” went apeshit over the prospect of delicate impressionable student minds being completely contaminated by the merest whiff of market economics. Not once did I see anybody say, “Sure, why not? We can compete on the merits.”
tacit admission of the precariousness of the foundation of their intellectual beliefs
absolutely
“Update: the Pentagon says the Justice Department is in charge. The Justice Department has said nothing.
Clearly and unsurprisingly, the administration confronted mostly peaceful protests by Black Lives Matter with a thousandfold more concerted and heavier response.”
https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1346923586620157952
I can’t tell if these people know they are lying.
Lets see if this fact check will hold up…
Regardless, BLM and antifa aren’t the same thing, and whatever Trump may have tried, that “thousandfold more concerted and heavier response” never happened.
BLM and antifa aren’t the same thing
Technically, two different Marxist organizations.
In practice, over time BLM “protests” became the justification for antifa riots.
In my mind, a distinction without a difference.
They have different histories and ideologies.
Neither of them were confronted by the Trump administration in any serious way.
I would agree that they offer two different flavors of Marxism, with antifa being more old-school class warfare, and BLM being more “critical race theory” identitarianism.
They both seem pretty comfortable being joined at the hip. Front organizations for a common cause generally are.
This same exact split existed in Weimar Germany. There were the traditional marxians in the lower echelons and the identitarians in academia.
I’m hoping to avoid politics and just enjoy football playoffs today, but it’s 2021 and Roger Goodell is an ass kisser, sooooo…probably won’t be that lucky.
Just for fun, I looked up the draft years of all the starting QBs of the playoff teams. They are grouped by game this weekend.
Colts Philip Rivers 2004
Bills Josh Allen 2018
Rams Jared Goff 2016
Seahawks Russell Wilson 2012
Buccaneers Tom Brady 2000
Redskins Alex Smith 2005
Ravens Lamar Jackson 2018
Titans Ryan Tannehill 2012
Bears Mitch Trubisky 2017
Saints Drew Brees 2001
Browns Baker Mayfield 2018
Steelers Ben Rothlesberger 2004
BYE WEEK
Packers Aaron Rodgers 2005
Chiefs Patrick Mahomes 2017
We got some “old” guys in there, most of whom have a Super Bowl win. Philip Rivers and Alex Smith are the exceptions there. (I’m impressed Alex is playing at all after his horrific fracture and subsequent fight with necrotizing fasciitis.)
Cool story – but I’ll argue all day that worst President (so far) in either of ours lives was Johnson. He bumbled into the war in Vietnam, mismanaged it from the start, ignored every piece of advise from the Joint Chiefs, and left Nixon with a mess.
I’m no fan of Nixon, but he did get us out.
I’d say that fuckwit Obama gave Johnson a pretty good run for his money
Obama has no legacy: can’t tell he was president. Another zero of the Trump style: nothing achieved; undone the day he left office and laughed at.
Johnson: you are still dealing with him. He counts. He was bad in a way these other clowns could only dream of.
Not if his end goal was to please military contractors…some other guy that had been in that same house a few years before said something about this, but I can’t recall…
I agree. And please remember, next time the Boomers are up for a bashing, is that NONE of them ever voted for LBJ.
fix a crack in her washing tub
Don’t neglect the agitator.
Look in the mirror, you old, dried up witch.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/08/pelosi-trump-deranged-unhinged-dangerous-and-should-be-prosecuted/
“…he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him.”
that being? no one ever specifies
He has failed to denounce white-suptemacy every hour on the hour. And something about a riot he incited even though he didn’t.
Yeah, I haven’t listened to his speech beforehand yet, but you know I will, to see if there is an audio nugget, and I’ll be surprised if there is anything there like they are claiming, given they’ve lied about everything he said for the last 4 years. (reminder, I don’t like him)
Sends young men to kill foreigners, that’s fine.
Some people pile into the capital building to desecrate that sacred temple, she’s well and truly dandered up.
Her attempt to induce the Joint Chiefs to actively sideline the sitting President is pretty much the definition of sedition. She should be getting the blindfold and last cigarette.
In the 50s, Puerto Rican Nationalists came into the the Capitol Building, while congress was in session, and fired shots. In the 60s the Weather Underground blew up a bomb in the Capitol Building.
I don’t agree with the actions taken by the protestors this week, but the worst thing that happened to Gov folks was what? Nancy’s podium got stolen? I hate everybody involved on all sides.
But, a cow-orker started a conversation asking about if I believed in Demonic Possession, and after I gave my response he responded with, well we know Evil exists, we saw what happened at the Capitol. I hate everyone equally, all the time.
Also, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs_building_takeover
“Why is it so important that I agree with you on this?”
“For reference, here is Twitter’s April 3 2020 letter to @SenTedCruz saying they don’t ban any accounts of government officials, even when American law requires them to do so (!), because it’s in the public interest to read the tweets of those officials.”
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1347727120278163465
So, when do we have our Year of the Five Emperors? Because nothing would surprise me at this point.
So according to Parler’s response to Apple and Google, they have always banned the organization of violence on their platform.
I thought they were fer Frea Speash!
I’ve just realized that 2020 was the first year since 2005 that I didn’t visit Canada even once. Usually I travelled there multiple times per year.
Aha! A Rushun Canuck Spy!
Don’t bother to act surprised
Hamstrung by the bureaucracy surrounding the deployment of soldiers within the national capital, it took 90 minutes to approve Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for more troops, much of that time consumed by phone calls with the mayor and others to determine exactly what forces to send and how they were to be equipped, according to the defense official and a timeline of the evening released by the office of Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on Friday.
The cretinous nabobs of news, who have spent the last four years braying specious claims about Trump’s authoritarianism, are in agony because Mayor Bowser could not get tanks into the streets of the District of Columbia rapidly enough to crush the Trumpist Terror.
Her attempt to induce the Joint Chiefs to actively sideline the sitting President is pretty much the definition of sedition. She should be getting the blindfold and last cigarette.
Something something highest form of patriotism.
blind loyalty?
He’s not wrong
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=voog3O0xlKY
Read OMWC’s description of what leftists were like then and now. She was nodding along to the first half, then got upset at the description of what leftists protest for now.
Mrs. P: It’s different now because you don’t see body bags on MSM.
Me: So the opposition to war then was about the conscription, not the endless wars. And who runs the MSM? Leftists. So the lack of anti-war messaging is the deliberate choice of … leftists.
A minute later, she switched to questioning OMWC ever being a leftist.