Faded
No sports today, aside from an extremely drunk Tom Brady causing a bunch of joyless people to lose their shit yesterday. Good for him.
Please clap, lol.
If you were born on this day, you share it with Confederate (and in case cancel culture trolls are lurking, me noting this is in no way an endorsement of slavery or secession) Vice President Alexander Stephens, inventor Thomas Edison, nuclear physicist Leo Szilard, boxing champ Max Baer, novelist Sidney Sheldon, the lovely Eva Gabor, comedic great Leslie Nielsen, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, auto and Moto racing legend John Surtees, the late, great Burt Reynolds, dull-ass loser Jeb Bush, singer Sheryl Crow, white trash politician Sarah Palin, sexy Jennifer Anniston, pro surfer Kelly Slater, self-promoting genius Alex Jones, and singer Brandy.
That’s a diverse list. Now on to…the links!
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
This was the highlight of my evening yesterday. Yeah, I’m a simple man. But it was still a classic. Especially when Jen Rubin chimed in like a dumbass.
Well this is an incredibly bizarre story. I don’t see how there’s any liability here. But juries are comprised of mostly stupid people, so we’ll have to wait and see. But my guess is it’ll be settled before trial.
Here’s a nice propaganda piece compliments of NBC. I wish the author’s dad had used double condoms. Because the story is so bereft of actual scientific evidence supporting his claim, it’s ridiculous.
Get a load of this piece of shit. Man, I hate pedos more than anything. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
I’m sure everybody was curious how this story would end. Actually, the story is nowhere close to ending. I’m sure she’ll do the talk show circuit and continue her grift.
This is fucked up. I find the prosecutors statement that “the public has a right to know where he lives” especially abhorrent since the dude has only had his life threatened about a million times and he is considered innocent until proven guilty.
Porn king
Congratulations, protesters. You did it! Well, as long as “it” was putting all of the employees out of work. You bunch of assholes.
A publishing icon has passed. He actually did a lot for the First Amendment. And put out some tasteful photography as well.
This is for Banjos. But I hope the rest of you enjoy it as well.
Now go have a great day, dear friends!
FIGHT DA MAN!
Daman didn’t do notin to me.
That’s why you fight em!
“and in case cancel culture trolls are lurking, me noting this is in no way an endorsement of slavery ”
Pretty sure we are all cancelled just by visiting here.
“Here’s a nice propaganda piece compliments of NBC.”
I bet you sticking your head in a plastic bag and wrapping a cord around your neck will be even better…
Look fats, the best scienticians in the government have been looking into this for centuries now. Two masks good, one mask bad.
I bet three masks is double plus good. So lets go for the real thing and put people’s heads in garbage bags and wrap a cord around their necks till it cuts off their circulation…
6 feet of masks is best
Just stop breathing, that would be for the best.
Yep….
[Edit fairy swishes by, sprinkles glitter.]
I owe you…
Again.
“the public has a right to know where he lives”
WTF???
Listen, shitlord, if you think the mob shouldn’t have access to a defendant before trial, then you’re obviously a racist.
-that asshole
If there was any doubt that the prosecution was wholly politicized, it should be gone now.
They want him killed and are facilitating such. It’s that simple.
^This. They don’t realize that will make him a martyr.
So…incitement to violence…
It is not an incitement to violence if you do violence against Nazis!
/progtards
They also have a right to know where his extended family lives, employment locations, where he banks, …
Where does Ricky Schroeder live? The public has a right to know that as well, amirite?
Has he sold his beach house in Malibu? I recall he sold his ranch in Topanga.
And if he bid on anything seized during drug arrests.
If this weren’t the case, we wouldn’t have had the superb film The Oxbow Incident. If great art means breaking a few eggs, so be it.
Masks operate far upstream of these treatments. To save the most lives in a pandemic, the imperative is to prevent the most infections.
Aaaaand done.
That dead kid played the internet all wrong. I actually made 730,000. I just gotta wire a bunch of money to Nigeria to get it freed up.
What was Brady’s payday for winning the SB? I might get a little tipsy, too.
Since he doesn’t drink, I imagine that is how he is after one drink.
Even slackjawed rubes know that’s a Shakespeare quote and everybody knows Faulkner’s overrated so why would that call him to mind? I did enjoy Animal Farm though, great book…definitely his best work.
Faulkner sucks. Every time I’ve tried to read his work, I get an overwhelming urge to slash my wrists. Mainly because of gems like this:
“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”
Yep.
What the fuck does that even mean?
/started, but never finished The Sound and The Fury, the one book I saved from being burned at my great grandparents’ house.
Faulkner correctly predicted the tremendous oversupply of literature majors in the American college system and wrote material specifically designed to keep them busy.
The first quarter is stream of consciousness told from the pov of a mentally disabled man. Gotta power thru to get to the incest with the slutty sister.
Faulkner is awesome.
I appreciate his work far more after living down in Memphis.
Is the hate for Faulkner because his works contain the Snopes? You do realize the execrable web site is named after them, not the other way around?
Awesomely turgid, I’ll give you that.
I couldn’t resist going farther, and now I’m deeply sorry.
One day it will be a fun challenge for nerds like me to try to estimate whether masks saved more lives than vaccines.
I don’t think “nerd” is the word you’re looking for. “Psycho” is more appropriate.
I’d also accept “authoritarian bootlicker”.
What do the models say?
“Not in the eyes”?
[golf clap]
“Fun challenge”
In other words, this entire exercise in obliterating people’s livelihoods is an entertaining diversion for public health experts.
Another fun challenge, if the lockdown saved more lives then it killed.
Make sure to include increase in opioid use, suicides, starvation due to supply chain disruption, cratering of preventative care such as cancer screenings, ect. ect.
From the last thread:
I have a membership at the local range that is a 10 minute drive from my house. As such, I go in for 30-45 minute increments once, or sometimes twice, per week. I shoot through 50 rounds of 9mm (~$25) and 39 rounds of 40S&W (~$20) plus the amortized range membership (~$8). Once I shoot through those rounds, I’m done. Occasionally, I may load up an extra mag or two, but that’s rare.
I’d shoot twice as much if ammo were half the price, including shooting though some 223 and 308. As it is right now, I don’t like the vacuum pop sound from my wallet each time I put a rifle round downrange. It’s enough of a sacrifice to budget roughly $200/month for shooting.
Commie steel case calibers aren’t stupid priced right now. More expensive yes, but not $1+ per.
Just saying.
Wish I could find something like that near me. Didn’t really factor into housing location this time around – job, etc was more important.
When things reopen it may be easier to find something, but I’m pretty sure I get to choose between NoVA and driving to my usual place in/around Richmond – at least an hour either way….
As I’ve noted before…the big draw is buying enough land to have plenty of space for whatever I want to shoot.
I used to shoot 100 rounds/day at the range across the street from my house. Monday nights 30 rounds at a bullseye match. On weekends I’d shoot ~150 rounds at a Kayderosserras match, 75-100 rounds at a USPSA match and/or ~90 rounds at a SCSA match.
My round count has fallen off a cliff since the lockdown, primarily because the few people who will ship to me are out of stock.
When nicer weather rolls around, you’re welcome to come down again and we can shoot stuff. I’ll supply the ammo.
What’s worse is the guy organzing the SCSA this winter has inexplicably come down with a case of the wussies and keeps cancelling matches because of the “cold.” WE SHOT STEEL ALL LAST WINTER!
“I have a membership at the local range that is a 10 minute drive from my house.”
I’m rarely jealous of anyone, but I’m a little bit jealous of you. My range is 90 minutes from my house, and I get there once a week.
Mine’s about 15 minutes away. I’m not there enough. /frowny face.
It’s all outdoor though.
Feature, not a bug. Indoor ranges are a necessary evil.
Yup. This is a fairly nice indoor range, but it’s not particularly well equipped to shoot rifles. For example, the 100 yard range is dark and only has a light at 50 yards and a light at 100 yards. Want to shoot any other distance? Good luck seeing anything.
Yeah, I need to avoid them whenever possible because of my fragile hearing. Even if I double-bag my ears, its still better outdoors.
Indoor ranges are fantastic when you’re down to eight hours of daylight in the (sub-freezinbg) winter. Plus target retrievers are pretty boss.
I regret not being a member of the Calgary Shooting Centre when I lived in Calgary — it was literally a leisurely ten-minute saunter from my house (or a two-minute drive; Canadian firearms law being what it is, walking anywhere with a firearm, particularly in [say] a backpack or bag [“concealed weapon,” doncha know] would’ve probably ended with my ass in jail).
Amongst other things, it used a high-tech filtration system to recirculate indoor air during the winter; my range in the Lower Rainland simply did fresh-air-exchange with the outside during the winter, which meant the range air could be +2° Celsius (+36° Fahrenheit) and clammy. Hated that.
I live about 3 miles from a range. Unfortunately it is a private range that is difficult to join. I am surprised at how few public ranges exist here. Fortunately I can go to friends and relatives that have enough land that I can shoot in their yard.
I’m going to miss having my own outdoor range right on the property. It’s a 15 minute walk or ~3 min by dirt bike.
From something I saw browsing the thread of yestreen:
Were they made of copper?
The pedo Doctor’s pink bow-tie is on point! Anyone seen Straff around?
And he’s got the pedo-smile. *shudder*
And here it comes:
Ashish Goyal and Bryan Mayer in my research group designed a mathematical model that demonstrated that if the percentage of people wearing masks increased by just 25 percent and the effectiveness of masks improved by the same amount, it would easily push the reproductive number below 1, meaning cases would decrease rather than double every week.
According to my model, when I release this anvil at the top of the Tower of Pisa, it will go up. Please stand on that red X below me as I test my model’s predictive success.
That’s quite a stolen base there.
Considering how many people are currently wearing masks, the other half is a stolen base, too.
I have seen one person in the last month not wearing a mask in a grocery store/walmart/etc type setting.
I have seen zero people wearing masks when bringing their kids to the neighborhood playground.
Look, sure the CDC accidently did a study last summer where 85% of the people who got the Rona said that they always or often wore a mask.
But that doesn’t mean that masks are ineffective. You are looking at it all wrong. You need to wear a mask to protect ME!
Ashish Goyal and Bryan Mayer in my research group designed a mathematical model
Are they showing their work or are we supposed to just accept it at face value? Because anybody can come up with a mathematical model that comes up with the results they desire. It’s when others who may be skeptical test the model to determine whether it’s accurate or not.
These fucking assholes have obliterated the scientific method.
The global warmening bullshit destroyed the scientific method long ago. This is just icing on the cake.
CONCENSUS YOU FUCKING HERETIC!
You can’t have consensus with a con.
/kicks rock
*without
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SCIENCE EVEN BRAH???
Did they previously work at the CBO? “If we assume increasing taxes doesn’t reduce activity and government spending has a multiplier greater than 1, then …”
“meaning cases would decrease rather than double every week.”
Cases have been going down for weeks. If your model shows them doubling every week, time to trade in for a new one.
Something must be wrong with the data!
I’m gonna guess they haven’t accounted for the change in behavior more masking would involve.
If a person felt sick in the dark days before 2020, they’d do this crazy nutso thing called “not going to work”. They’d feel sick for a couple days, get better, and transmit to roughly no one.
Now, if I wear the talismask, I CANNOT TRANSMIT TO ANYONE. I and all around me are invincible. Soooo…you’ll see (you probably are seeing right now) sick-as-shit people going out for groceries, mingling on public transportation, whatever – because the mask will keep everyone safe.
If masking is ubiquitous, transmission might well INCREASE.
Give me my grant for this trivial piece of reasoning.
if the percentage of people wearing masks increased by just 25 percent
Hmmmm….
Here is a fun math challenge for the “nerds” who love SCIENCE. If 90% of the people are already wearing masks how much more govt grant money would it take you to come up with a plan so that 115% of the rubes are wearing masks?
Math Mistake Alert: Though your conclusion is correct, the guy is a tard, your math is bad (along with his).
If mask wearing increased by 25%, not if mask wearing increased by 25 percentage points.
But even still, the math won’t work based on the phrasing. If mask wearing increased by 25%, and we already have 90% compliance, mask wearing would be at 112.5%.
What I think the author would be getting at if his head weren’t so far up his own ass is if 25% of those NOT wearing masks would wear them….
Which is also stupid, because it would bring the total up a whole 2.5 percentage points to a whopping 92.5% from 90%, which is basically a rounding error. An extra 2.5 per 100 people, when 90 of 100 are already wearing them, wouldn’t accomplish shit, much less completely reverse the course of passing the virus from positive to negative territory.
This guy can eat a dick.
Masks are a fucking sham. If they worked, they wouldn’t be pushing at this “2 or 3 masks are necessary if were *really* serious” bullshit.
Can you say a liberal liberal arts major is a moron when you get shit like this? Maybe she didn’t know it was Macbeth cause they should be canceling that honkey Shakespeare for stealing his ideas from other honkeys like Homer or Caligula.
I do wonder whether drugs fell out of her ass. Maybe they came out as links.
She calls that an apology? For insulting a POC’s intellect? Grovel you worthless bitch – struggle with your abject presumption of privilege.
I bet you she fucking hated having to apologize after she ended up being the one left looking dumb. After all, to people like her they are the smart ones (because of what they believe in, and not because they actually know or produce value of any kind), and the unwashed rubes are all fucking dimwits for not believing the marxist tropes.
Re: Andrea Mitchell: these people are emotionally incapable of extracting Donald Trump from their brains. They continue to worship him with their sacrificial offerings of public stupidity.
U rite purty.
He lives rent-free in their heads…
The tragedy has drawn attention to the potential dangers of the free-trading boom that Robinhood and its gamified platform have helped set off.
Allowing the plebs to trade is deadly. We have to stop them for their own good.
No Wall Street trader has ever offed themselves after losing a shit-ton of money.
Fuck the hell off with “suicide is a reason to ban random things” argument.
I’m fine with it. I know quite a few people have committed suicide due to the lockdown, so let’s ban that.
“FBI reviews new video in hunt for suspects in Capitol cop Brian Sicknick’s death – but HOW he died after the riot remains a mystery amid rumors he had reaction to bear spray
The FBI and federal prosecutors are reportedly reviewing new video that could help bring charges in the death of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, but more than a month after he died, much remains mysterious about the case.
Investigators are using the new video evidence to narrow down a handful of suspects who might have played a role in Sicknick’s death, as well as determine what caused his death, CNN reported on Wednesday.
More than a month after the January 6 riot, an autopsy revealing the cause and manner of Sicknick’s death has yet to be released. Earlier reports that he was beaten with a fire extinguisher were false, sources tell CNN and multiple other outlets.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9248059/Investigators-review-new-video-hunt-suspects-Capitol-cop-Brian-Sicknicks-death.html
They turned him into a newt, only this time he didn’t get better.
Anyway, it is known that he died a hero’s death because his body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
Right?
And then was quickly cremated.
Officer Pavlik Morozov, indeed.
“Earlier reports that he was beaten with a fire extinguisher were false, sources tell CNN and multiple other outlets.”
Welp, there it is, finally. But they know that this narrative is already fixed in the minds of the public and that whatever milquetoast non-retractions they bury at the bottom of page six will be ignored.
Yup. Actually had this exact conversation yesterday with someone that told me he knew for a fact that the Trumpsters beat the poor man to death with that fire extinguisher. He dismissed the reports that people now admit they are full of shit for making that claim as propaganda.. His psyche needs this guy to be murdered by Trumpsters so he can validate his general irrational hatred towards the bad orange guy and the racists that follow him…
I haz a confuze – if they don’t know his cause of death, how can they be looking for suspects?
They know it, we don’t.
When they find the right suspect, they’ll produce the right cause of death.
but HOW he died after the riot remains a mystery
Not to the coroner.
who might have played a role
One can only imagine how loosely this will be interpreted.
Yeah, that’s the best part.
I thought he died years ago for some reason nut RIP Larry Flynt.
*pours our Campari*
^^^ This was noted!
It’s not your first time?
In entertaining to me local news, Ohio has started putting up billboards in large cities across the country trying to entice businesses to move here. Some of these have caused progressive Ohioans to become upset (since they’re paying taxes while CoRPoRaTioNS aren’t). Some of them strike me as pretty clever:
You can have 90% of Austin – I do know a couple people that are real liberals living in that progressive hell-hole.
That’s quite a stolen base there.
Not to mention the base they stole when they claimed there is room for a 25% increase in “mask usage” whatever that means. Even here, mask usage is about 99% in the grocery store. I don’t go much of anyplace else. Yesterday when I drove past the gas station there were people wearing masks as they pumped gas, for fuck’s sake.
I was going to point out that a 25% increase in effectiveness from 0 would still be 0.
I wear it when I’m required to, no further. Fuck these people wearing them outside and especially the ones that are driving alone.
I went to NoVa this week, an office building in suburban Fairfax County. I believe I was the only person outside not wearing a mask. Parking lot, ATM, walking down the street for lunch. Everyone else was masked up. Even some while in their cars.
Doesn’t shock me in the slightest. Out in western Loudoun and Prince William, the masking was less than 100%, but that area the cultural threshold between the DC metropolitan zone and the state of Virginia. Fairfax is well entrenched in the DC culture.
Everyone in food service washes their hands, how did fecal material end in the food?
“Right-wing Mandalorian star Gina Carano is fired from the series over ‘abhorrent’ Instagram post comparing Nazi murders of Jews to ‘hating someone for their political views’
Actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano has been fired from the cast of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, following online outrage over a social media post that likened the murder of Jews during the Holocaust to the current U.S. political climate.
A spokesperson for Lucasfilm said in a statement on Wednesday that Carano is not currently employed by the production company with ‘no plans for her to be in the future.’
‘Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable,’ the statement read.
Talent agency UTA has also dropped Carano as a client following the controversy, according to Variety.
Carano fell under heavy criticism after she posted on Instagram Stories that ‘Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…. even by children.’
The post continued: ‘Because history is edited, most people today don´t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9248331/Mandalorian-star-Gina-Carano-fired-series-Instagram-post.html
I’m not seeing how that is “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities”.
She has her own opinions. Not acceptable.
Wasn’t she some icon of Wammen Power just a couple of milliseconds ago? Holy shit they are moving fast.
They’ve been after her since she refused to put her pronouns in her bio. The claim was that made her transphobic and the twitter retards have been trying to get her fired since.
She was talking about dehumanization of the other and of course they’re willfully dense and take it in the worst possible light. Fuck Lucasfilm and Disney who inadvertently proved her right.
She could come to my place and I’d make it all better. Of course she’d have to get past Judi which would make the whole situation extra special exciting.
+1 kiddie pool filled with jello
But it’s perfectly OK when CNN gumflappers do it.
I mean that is something generally stupid to say.
If everyone was fired for saying stupid shit literally no one would have a job.
Can you elucidate why it’s a generally stupid thing to say? Admittedly I’m only going off excerpts here rather than source material. But on it’s face, it’s an eminently sensible thing to say. The first step is identifying, restricting, dehumanizing, and eventually imprisonment or worse. Her take on the parallels seem correct to me. Now of course it doesn’t mean it will go that far again, but the principles certainly seem parallel to me.
enh. Maybe SW is referring to the Mob rather than the performer. I like to give a little leeway to comments on this site especially those from people that I know and respect.
Was referring to Pie’s statement that it was a “generally stupid thing to say” – I think he was referring to the performer’s statement?
But maybe he’s (Pie) referring the to statement from Lucasfilm? Not clear to me – the that’s what he thinks is stupid, I’m there. If it’s the performers statement, I’d truly like clarification of why he thinks so. Not an attack AT ALL!
Was it really stupid? The left spent 4+ years calling people white supremacists and Nazis. She just said, maybe you’re the ones acting like Nazis. And boom, cancelled.
See above.
Mirrors are deadly weapons when placed in front of progressives.
Are you comparing your political opponents to Vampires or Dorian Grey? Whose your employer?
Because history is edited, most people today don´t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?’ ”
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO POINT THAT OUT!!
That is why they canceled her… She exposed them for the fucking evil shits they are…
The fucking assholes doing this shit don’t cancel people that get it wrong: you cancel those that make them look bad by showing what they are doing for the horrible shit it is.
Germany didn’t prohibit Jews from emigrating until after Germany invaded Poland. The Wansee Conference on the Final Solution was held in 1942. They were evil bastards, but they also knew they couldn’t implement their plans within the first 100 days. They had to build the culture that permitted the atrocities.
It’s different because the people we hate are bad people who should be hated. Duh.
Well, they are subhuman.
I actually do think there is a difference, mainly in that a Jew being Jewish doesn’t harm me in any way. Even the economic conspiracy theories about Jews have a really simple (read: NOT final) solution… Don’t do business with people you think are manipulating you.
The same can’t be said for political camps. I hate everything the left stands for because it is almost all an attempt to force the perversion of good into evil onto my family. I can’t disassociate from them. I can’t buy liberty from a different government. I either resist them or I subvert them.
Are these people serious? Are they suggesting it’s fire-able to compare current political events to Nazi germany or the Holocaust? Because if so I have some names of tv anchors, stars and television shows at the networks they own doing just that. The list is long.
Things changed on January 20th. Do I need to forward the newest update to the “Acceptable Speech Primer”?
Those posts were all extremely mild.
Fuck those commies.
Covid masks save lives. The CDC says double-masking may save more.
No, they do not. Again, see the legal disclaimer. There is a reason for that.
Re Mitchell. I don’t I ever saw so many liberals factually correct in one setting..
Andrea Mitchell – “When you try to sound educated and you trip over the Jarts mat…”
“The tragedy has drawn attention to the potential dangers of the free-trading boom that Robinhood and its gamified platform have helped set off.”
Umm, his suicide hasn’t drawn attention to anything because, let’s face it, he’s just a regular kid who killed himself. Nice way to make it seem like only trained and licensed stock traders should be using the stock market.
Well after all only trained and licensed professionals should be carrying guns. Despite the system racism and patriarchy in the police and military. Motte meet bailey.
“Israeli secret agents spent months smuggling a high-tech machine gun into Iran in tiny pieces to kill the regime’s top nuclear scientist, it was revealed last night.
The remote-controlled weapon fired 13 high-accuracy rounds into Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 62, known as the ‘father’ of Iran’s illegal atomic programme, as he was driven from the capital Tehran to his country residence last year.
The gun was so accurate that the scientist’s wife, who was sitting just inches from him, emerged entirely unscathed from the attack.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9247837/Israel-killed-Irans-nuclear-scientist-remote-control-machine-gun-report-claims.html
Impressive
if it was not in his anus why is it even news
So she continued pushing her politics long after they gave her a politics-free mask and told her to stop doing that, buddy.
I think I know who the asshole is here.
putting all of the employees out of work – ehm ending their exploitation
Did they previously work at the CBO? “If we assume increasing taxes doesn’t reduce activity and government spending has a multiplier greater than 1, then …”
Assume a can opener.
No sports? Ummm…there was an insane Everton-Hotspurs FA Cup match.
Baseball birthdays bored me today. 3 okay players not worth mentioning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYtU1H6oUXI
*sobs*
Reading the Toffeeweb live forum afterwards was awesome.
The whining at 0-1 was insane. And again at 3-3.
Siggy was responsible for 6 goals. 1 scored, 3 assists, and he lost his man on 2 TH goals off of corners.
The penalty was bullshit though.
Pretty weak. But there was a missed one later on that should have been given, so it is a wash.
The headline from the CDC double masking study:
“Double masking is more effective”
The details:
“We used mannequins, so don’t apply any of this to real life. Also children don’t count. Neither do bearded men. Basically just throw all this out.”
https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1359589469473681408
As I cannot grow a proper beard I think the government should decree mandatory shaving. Back in the days of old nick the police could pick up people on the street to shave and cut their hair as, somewhat ironically, filthy hippies were not good for building the Socialist Dream
NEVER!
Filthy, commie, hippie
Why did that immediately make me picture John Lennon ?
A pediatrician at Stanford Children’s Hospital has been arrested after trying to arrange a date with police officers who were posing as an underage girl, and sending them explicit photos.
I still don’t see how this type of thing is not entrapment.
It is, that being said I wouldn’t want that guy babysitting my kids.
Of course. And this is a tricky issue*. And it didn’t say what age they were pretending to be. Are we talking 17** on the cusp of 18 or 12, because there is a difference.
*Up for consideration, while in my teens I met a girl that I could’ve swore was in her lower 20’s that was actually 14. In college I met a girl while out with friends who could’ve passed for 15 but was in her 20s. I found out because I commented to a friend on the apparently underaged girl drinking at a bar. It was odd.
**Not to say you should not still adhere to the legal age of consent.
I have always wondered if you could claim an undercover-cop fetish and get off. “I knew it was a cop pretending to be a young girl, that turns me on.”
Heh. Thats thinking outside the box.
Due to my (pre-CoVID) line of work, there’s a lot of travel involved. I knew a guy that would routinely take a company vehicle to a bar, and get hammered. Being smart enough to not risk driving, instead of a taxi or car service, he’d call a tow-truck. He’d get a lift, and his truck would be at the hotel when he managed to wake up. Things like that never even occurred to me.
I really get off spanking it while thinking some dumb cop thinks he is getting me instead!
One episode of the League had the slimy lawyer guy using an auto club for the same purpose to get his car home from the bar (which of course ended badly as most things in that show do).
We get a nastygram from AAA if we use the service too much in a calendar year.
BTW, @Festus, I wouldn’t go without AAA.
Wouldn’t it be CAA for those in the frozen north?
And essentially he hit is mileage limit for the year, got a flat, called the Auto Club, who billed him for as much as they could (while taking loops around the block, the character’s persona is the slimy lawyer).
I was absolutely certain Canada had its own version.
I did not read the part where he’d hit his mileage limit–sorry, Festus!
Mojeaux:
Sorry I wasn’t clearer. I was referring to the character in the show and how things ended poorly for him. As a reference to the nastygram from AAA.
Oh goodness. I didn’t read your post clearly enough (read: slowly enough, with my lips moving).
Well, not much help to a Canadian, eh?
Do Canadians call it Eh Eh Eh (triple Eh!)?
It is, but good luck to convincing suburban moms that.
One of the many reasons Swalwell was a ridiculous choice for impeachment manager.
He’s talking about threats to officials.. but when Susan Collins and her staff got violent rape threats during the Kavanaugh confirmation he tweeted “boo hoo” and “where are you sleeping?”
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1359592840729423878
And here I though the Democrats do not make light of threats of sexual violence
Never mind that he was fucking a Chinese spy.
This is precisely why he is back in charge…
They want to rub it in our face.
Yes, he is owned by the CCP and was part of the psyops false flag Russia Collusion shit, and we have proof some Chinese chick was playing him like a fiddle, but we put him back in charge cause our CCP masters WANT you to know they are the real winners in this last election….
Susan Collins is obviously not a real woman.
Swalwell is the real-deal POS in the House. I can’t think of another one with his specific combination of amorality and loathsomeness.
and flatulence
Awww, c’mon. Omar? Tlaib? Mr. Hanky?
Schiff is a very strong contender. If we had an honest press, he would still be getting grilled about his bald-faced lies that he had personally seen airtight evidence that Trump was guilty of conspiring with the Russians.
I’d say they are tied. But Schiff has been there longer and lies as easy as he breathes, and without repercussion.
You make a good case.
MSPs back criminalising hate speech at the dinner table
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19077579.msps-back-criminalising-hate-speech-dinner-table/
How the ever loving fuck did Scotland of all places end up so low. Shame they make such good whisky.
As they say, every Scotsman worth a shit emigrated a long time ago, leaving the people who are running it now.
“the public has a right to know where he lives”
And he is presumably unarmed as he awaits trial. I’m sure this would be fine and work out perfectly well.
One of the conditions of bail is you must post to twitter changes to your location within 15 minutes of departure and arrival.
TJ Swimwear Paraíso Fashion Fair Resort 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LpUDvRdcqE
I’d buy that for a dollar!
The suit or the ladies?
I’m not seeing how that is “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities”.
It makes Germans look like assholes.
NTTAWWT
FTA- “For a while, Stout kept what had led to her departure from the highly acclaimed 24-year-old restaurant — which has served esteemed guests including Lady Gaga and some ‘Bachelor’ contestants — ”
I must have a different definition of “esteemed”.
Glitter vs. Non-Glitter.
Did Captain Mask provide ONE piece of evidence to support his argument?
Mathematical models and assumptions are NOT evidence.
Scientific method to these people:
1. Develop model
2. Enter bullshit data into model to get desired result
3. Restrict people’s rights based on those findings
1. Determine desired result
2. Create model that provides desired result
3. Publish desired result while hiding algorithms and data
1. Spew bullshit you claim comes from a model.
2. …
3. Profit.
4. Call anyone who questions model a Nazi.
“My model says my model is correct.”
Having read your conclusions, I concur.
Ancient shell horn can still play a tune after 18,000 years
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/kids/science-tech/ancient-shell-horn-can-still-play-a-tune-after-18-000-years/ar-BB1dAHqO
Speaking of the assault on reason (not them)-
I heard something this morning about Comrade Biden’s executive order(s) regarding gender. Apparently ol’ Joe, most female friendly chief exec ever, cancelled teh womynz.
If you don’t have a dick, you’re not really a womyn, I guess.
I saw a Twatter thread yesterday saying you’re transphobic if you’d refuse to suck a trans person’s dick (because it’s obviously a woman’s sexual organ you bigot) and I don’t think they were kidding. The world’s gone fucking crazy.
This shit won’t last. The technocracy is a solution in search of a problem and this is the best it can do these days.
The music choice made me gag.
I mean, good song and all, but you dedicating it to Banjos is just sickenly sweet. Gah.
Dr. Schiffer:
https://www.fredhutch.org/en/faculty-lab-directory/schiffer-joshua.html
Meanwhile Coronaphobia is real:
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/coronaphobia-covid-anxiety-disorder
The Girl & The Fig is temporarily closing after receiving threats and backlash over former employee Kimi Stout’s allegation of being pressured to quit for wearing a Black Lives Matter mask to work, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
President John Toulze told The Chronicle that he ultimately made the decision to shut down after seeing plans for a protest outside the restaurant circulate on social media, citing concerns over the staff’s safety.
Meh. Earning a living is for figs.
But seriously I don’t see the problem with not wanting employees to where political statements, particularly in that type of industry. No sense alienating customers.
wear*, even.
*gets coffee*
The country is about one step away from all businesses posting signs that say “We don’t serve Right Wingers” or “We don’t serve Left Wingers.”
Unconstitutional I guess, but you know how that goes.
A huge database of studies (and articles) on masks and lockdowns:
https://masklockdowndata.squarespace.com
Scientific method to these people:
1. Develop model
2. Enter bullshit data into model to get desired result
3. Restrict people’s rights based on those findings
You skipped a step:
1a) determine desired conclusion of “research”
“YouTuber David Dobrik’s new $9.5M house has Hawaiian Punch fountain ”
https://nypost.com/2021/02/10/david-dobriks-9-5m-house-has-hawaiian-punch-fountain/
I have no idea who that is.
I sense the jealousy of a fellow nightshade.
I’m not jealous, it’s just surprising.
Was trying to make a joke but ended up making a hash of it.
It did come across half baked.
Came in early to do some work. Have been sitting on hold to get a maintenance release and it’s now after. Let’s see if it will slide or I get to do this again tomorrow. Plus side, reading Glibs and listening to the motley collection of hold music.
Our QA tester made a huge deal in meetings yesterday about how late he had stayed to test and he did it all for us devs. We owed him for his dedication.
After the meeting the devs privately told him that he better shut his trap or we would mention to management that our dev/testing servers are automatically shut down at 6pm and we know he doesn’t have permission to run the job to start them back up.
He sputtered and then sheepishly left the meeting.
You should have just put a camera over his desk to catch him wanking after hours. That would give you real leverage.
Nice! I’ve caught one or two bullshitters (besides myself, of course). Just file it away in my mental George Marshal black book and make future judgements.
A couple weeks back, I got a text from a coworker that another all hat no cattle coworker was trying to steal credit for the user scripts I put together to make working with our database less painful.
I had to laugh. Being out on leave, the drama of it was rather attenuated for me. I had just rushed out a piece of software to avoid the same guy taking credit for it when I was on leave, so he decided to target my other recent contribution. *shrug*
The guy can only get away with it for so long before the department head is made aware. He’s about the only person not acutely aware of this guy’s reputation at this point.
I just don’t understand people like that. Wouldn’t it be less effort and stress to just learn the skills you claim you have and actually do the work you say you do?
They already know how to bullshit/steal/whatever, learning actual skills would be additional work.
One of my first managers was a brilliant programmer. The team he led (that I was on) wrote technical scripts and programs to support developers. LIke your scripts, just stuff to make things easier.
I learned early on that if I was thinking about modifying a tool he had written I should go ask him about it first. He was notorious for adding “undocumented” features in his tools. They were useful things that he didn’t have the time to fully test, or were for functions that would work 80% of the time but not always.
So he’d write a feature to help himself out, but knew if he told others about it, people would then expect him to fully support the feature and “improve” it. So he just kept his lips zipped. If he liked you and you asked him about it, he’d tell you about the feature with the caveat that you couldn’t ask him about it later.
At first, I thought it was crazy to do that. As I wrote more tools myself and got wrapped around the axle by users who wanted everything, I began to see the genius of his approach.
Funny how the weird quirks you see when first starting out turn out to be flashes of genius later in life.
Woo hoo! Lucked out. Didn’t notice or didn’t care what the clock said, done and out.
Gorilla glue girl: I want to hope this pandemic restores natural selection on some level.
Well this isn’t good. Judi’s car died on the highway last night, some sort of electrical problem. It’s now parked at a convenience store 15 miles away and the temperature is 31 below American. Don’t know if it is the belt, alternator or battery. She managed to get Daughter#3 and hubby to come and help. I was working so I don’t generally carry my phone. The car is a year off warranty, of course, so it’s going to fall to me to repair. Towing bill is going to be pretty ugly and I’m sure the parts are pretty dear. Looks like we’ll be sharing the Tacoma for the next while. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck. She was so afraid of getting side-swiped on the highway that she actually exited the vehicle and stood behind it. I feel such a failure right now.
Buck up little camper. Shit breaks. And shit always breaks at the most inconvenient time (freezing cold, just out of warranty). You’ll get her sorted.
We got more snow last night, and when I just peeked out, I saw my 73 year old neighbor shoveling his drive. Mine is a treacherous mess of slop and ice, having not seen a shovel due to my schedule/laziness. I should tend to it, but Jugsy is only home for the weekend, and I have a 4WD.
I should have been more stringent on the maintenance schedule but she’s like a firefly and I never hear about a problem until it’s too late. I have no idea what the actual problem is. Still working six nights a week.
I get it. ex Mrs Tres Cool had a geo tracker that was a great vehicle, but loved to eat front brakes for some reason. I’d hear about the problem when I actually heard the problem- she’d pull in and it sounded like someone was cutting keys on a grinder. Id just plan on pads and rotors- no sense in even trying to turn them.
My comment about the neighbor is that I also feel mildly failure-esque, cause that old poop is out there pushing snow, and Im in here with beer.
In the words of a great Canadian, “Im pullin’ for ya. We’re all in this together.”
*While effeminate, the Chevy/Geo/Suzuki Tracker-Vitara is one of the best 4WD made. Change my mind.
The last time I did the pad rotor replacement on the rear I had to back the E Brake off manually. The car was only 6 years old. “Just keep driving, Just keep driving…”
While effeminate, the Chevy/Geo/Suzuki Tracker-Vitara is one of the best 4WD made. Change my mind.
I hear they love to eat front brakes.
Pish. $50 and 90 minutes to replace pads/rotors. Like working on a tonka truck.
My cummins chews up water pumps for some unknown reason. $30 at NAPA and I can change it in 15 minutes. I see it as a small price to pay.
Sorry that happened, Festus. I feel like I didn’t keep up my end when that sort of thing happens, too. At least, you guys had Daughter #3 & hubby. Reminds me of the recent resilience article here and having multiple levels of defense to deal with such situations.
Yep. Made me feel very vulnerable. That article struck a chord with me as well. I can fix it but who has the parts and what will they cost? *starts filling 5 gallon jugs of water*
Sorry, meant that D#3 is part of that levels of defense and you do have it covered, despite the feelings.
I got it.
If it died while rolling it’s likely alternator and nothing preventative would have stopped it. It could also be a bad belt, but they usually don’t just break, another accessory such as an idler pulley or water pump fail and take the belt with it, in which case the belt was a symptom, not cause. So again, don’t beat yourself up too bad over it.
Bane of my existence, but better than a broken belt.
Several things it could be. If it “just died” abruptly, that sounds like an open on the battery ground or a blown fuse. If it is battery or alternator, a new battery will get the car started and running long enough to get it a good distance, which might be cheaper than a tow. Jump starting will get it going too, but not as far.
To diagnose; Check battery voltage. If above 12 volts Key on- no lights, radio, or anything, probably bad connection at the battery. If lights and radio work but won’t run, ignition issue, Spark, fuel, air, or timing problem.
If battery below 12 volts, you have a battery charging issue. Could be battery, alternator, or belt that you mentioned.
Thanks, Tulpa! I mean that sincerely. I know this shit but I’m out of practice. We’ve been skating on warranty for a few years so my skills have become a little rusty. And Fuck Off Tulpa!
Yes, Yes, Fuck you too!
I haven’t had a car under warranty in…ever? I’ve seen all these problems, bad alternator, bad battery, bad battery connection, and ignition problems. I’m not a trained mechanic, but I have done just about every major repair on a car including rebuilding an engine. It’s amazing what you can learn on the interwebz. Good luck.
If the battery is dead, but the alternator is good, a jump start will work as long as you don’t turn it off.
Ugh. All the stuff that I tried to leave behind. Not wealthy enough for new ones so I can look forward to reliving my third decade.
Oh, hello! Welcome!
Sorry.
Re The girl and the fig restaurant. Be happy. Here in Quebec the incompetent criminals – easily the top in North America at the moment. Yes, probably worse than Cuomo) have kept dine-in restaurants closed since OCTOBER 1.
Montreal is BUT a city of cafes and restaurants.
Quebec has lost 200 000 jobs. But the fuckhead in charge is so disconnected from reality he bragged about some shitty deal he made in Northern Quebec creating…..300 jobs.
Yeh good job there Francois you fucken clown.
“Les aristocrates à la lanterne
Ah, The Northern Cree… Fucking over the Province for the last 50 years!
OPEN THE BORDERS YOU FUCKING FUCKS!
I visited Quebec City last year just before the Rona hit. In fact, we were in the airport in Toronto when we heard of the first US cases.
I hoped that I could return to that beautiful city, but I’m not sure if the places, particularly restaurants, and people that made it a treat will still be there.
*looks at stock market*
But the economy’s doing great!
/sarc
Good morning, Sloop!
I hope the auction biz is kicking ass.
I really got nothing, except I love that song and I’m glad you have a bestie like Banjos.
Peace!
I’m not gonna lie, the auction biz really is kicking ass. I sold $1,721,750 worth of equipment in my first sale of the year last week. And to me, that’s just mind-boggling.
This year is starting off even better than last year. And April is already shaping up to be another whopper of a sale. Life is good.
Buyer’s remorse.
An organization of feminists filed a petition Monday with the Biden Department of Education, requesting the department make a rule to change Title IX regulations to ensure the rights of women and girls are preserved in all education activities, including sports.
Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) has condemned President Joe Biden’s executive order that removes any legal recognition of the two sexes and eliminates crucial protections for women in the federal government and beyond.
The TERFs are pissed off.
TERFs are about to figure out that cis white women are just above cis white gay men on the oppression totem pole.
*sad trombone*
Does this end with allowed steroid use?
Some orgs have already made an exception for hormone dosing if you claim to be transitioning.
Thanks, Rebel. I needed a little mocking chuckle this morning!
*looks at stock market*
But the economy’s doing great!
If you actually look, the stock market’s “rise” is being carried on a very small number of backs.
But you won’t hear about that on the “business” channels. They’re too busy praising the noble efforts of the Federal Reserve Bank and licking Comrade Biden’s ass.
Unity/healing/etc.
The essay, which MSNBC opinion columnist Hayes Brown published, titled “Trump probably won’t speak at his impeachment trial. That may be a good thing,” refers to an earlier op-ed published by the Washington Post last month in which Post foreign affairs columnist Ishaan Tharoor compared the January 6 Capitol riot with the infamous 1923 “Beer Hall Putsch” — a failed government takeover on the part of Hitler and the Nazis.
“Part of the reason that comparison rings true is what happened after the putsch’s failure — and the history here is what has me most concerned about the idea of putting Trump on the witness stand,” the author writes.
Describing Hitler’s “stunning performance throughout the trial,” the author claims that “the listening public had thought the ideas he’d rattled off in his diatribes sounded pretty good” and that the international media was also impressed, effectively “boosting Hitler’s standing” from a “nobody” to an admirable figure able to reach the masses.
The “riot” was actually the Reichstag Fire, not the Beer Hall Putsch.
So you are saying she’s a Nazi.
Gina Carano, one of the stars of Disney’s popular The Mandalorian hasn’t been shy about her conservative politics. Many (myself included) believe that’s why Disney’s Lucasfilm fired her – although Lucasfilm falsely insinuating that she was fired for being anti-Semitic.
Back in August, Gina Carano, who once was an MMA fighter (which may explain her courage), stood against the woke BLM mob trying to get all Americans to bow before it. She did that by retweeting the famous photo of August Landmesser, who, in 1936, was the only man in a mob of Nazis refusing to give the Nazi salute:
…
While Soros is anti-Jewish and anti-Israel, leftists try to paint anyone who criticizes his vile value system as “anti-Semitic.” Given Carano’s unwillingness to toe the woke party line, it seemed likely that she’d challenged Soros, earning the label “anti-Semitic.”
I’d guessed wrong. What Carano did was to repost someone else’s Instagram statement:
Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views.
*minor quibble*
“the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews”
They didn’t need much encouragement, anti-Semitism was nothing new.
As a question of history, though, it’s interesting because Germany was in most ways the country in which Jews had been the most successful at integrating into society. If you could go back in time to the dawn of the 20th century and told a scholar that a European country would, in just a few decades, attempt to eradicate the Jewish people, he likely would have assumed you were talking about France, where virulent anti-Semitism was quite common.
I think The Netherlands was the most successful?
Maybe. It’s not quite a cut and dried thing. The point is that Germany was not notably hostile to Jews by the standards of turn of the century Europe.
It’s been a long time since I read The “Nazi Seizure of Power.”
Might be worthwhile.
I think one of the saddest spectacles was the Jewish veterans of WWI wearing their medals from their service in the German Army. Not because of the insanity of the Nazi true believers, but because of the acceptance of that by the German masses.
I went to an exhibition at the Tate Britain a few years ago on post-WW1 art. The German bit of it included quite a lot of anti-capitalist stuff. Obviously the curators didn’t note this, but the membrane between it and the sort of Der Sturmer stuff that wasn’t in the exhibition was paper thin.
Lots of people found it very easy to jump from believing that there was a privileged class of people who had done well out of the war through ways they didn’t understand to believing those people were Jews.
Of course many Poles seem to have blamed all Jewish people for communism on the grounds that some of those who had supported the Soviets’ invasion happened to be Jewish.
Being blamed for both capitalism and communism just illustrates the stupidity of collectivisation.
Several late 19th-century German philosophers espoused anti-semitism.
The defense of T.S. Eliot was “he wasn’t an anti-semite, at least no more than everyone else.”
Don’t misconstrue what I’m saying – of course there was anti-Semitism in Germany. It was common everywhere in those days. What I’m saying is that it was less pervasive in Germany than elsewhere on the continent at the time, and that German Jews had become more integrated as Germans than their brethren in other European countries. Nothing like the Dreyfus Affair happened in Germany, for example.
They blame Trump, is my bet…
From the last thread; There’s a lot to object to in THE Hyperbole’s take on Iron Maiden. They were certainly derivative – what music isn’t? – but added a lot of originality, talent, and influence to the mix as well. But the tired trope of “Dungeons and Dragons herp-a-derp” is just tedious and reflects a significant ignorance of the topic you’re pontificating on. Can you point to a single D & D themed song? There may be (not a fanboy, I’m more Rush, Opeth, Metallica, NIghtwish, Fates Warning – they were truly IM clones for the first 2 albums before finding their own voice, there’s some derivative for you) but I’m not aware. History, sure (The Trooper, Alexander the Great, Aces High, Where Eagles Dare – OK movies on the last), Poetry/literature, (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, To Tame a Land, Phantom of the Opera), general ideas (Still Life, Hallowed be Thy Name), on and on. I’m just not seeing any wizards and demons and magic and unicorns in their work. It’s just such an overused tired and hyperbolic trope to criticize music that’s perceived as complex.
And that’s today’s episode of “That Really Grinds My Gears”.
I didnt read it, mostly because Hyperbole is an asshole that buys all the Claussen pickles. But taken on the veneer, I think I know what he was getting at. I submit 2 shitty D&D related songs (yes, I know its not IM specific, but I dont know what was going on in music at that time) :
Savatage
And as much as it pains me, Uriah Heep
Heh. Owned two Uriah Heep albums as a teen!
That first predates D&D (and LOTR), its an Edvard Grieg reference.
The bass player was good but they never moved me even though I was dead center in their sights as a fan. Graduated high school in 1982. Bruce Dickinson is probably the most interesting man in the world but the music is meh.
^^^This.
I SHOULD have liked IM, but I did not.
It was a stupid comment. If you want to say you don’t like Iron Maiden, that’s fine. You’re wrong but, hey, everyone has the freedom to be wrong. There is nothing “D&D themed” about them, though. Yes, lots of history and war themed songs, some general good and evil stuff, some ancient mythology, basic good vs evil themes…..but nothing that can be derided as Dungeons and Dragons.
Arguing about late70’s/early 80’s metal is what keeps me coming back for more of the Glibs.
Why would Dungeons & Dragons thematic elements be a cause for derision?
The odd part is he seemed to be pro-Led Zepplin who literally did have LOTRO lyrics.
I’m not going to read this, it’s too long and about Iron Maiden. All that needs to be said is they suck.
I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find their cassette tape.
“I Miss the Thrill of Trump
Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial.
Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.
I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room….
Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/i-miss-thrill-trump/617993/
I cannot possibly roll my eyes far enough for this steaming pile.
Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial.
And that’s already nothing but a dusty memory.
France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.”
An accusation for which absolutely no one was willing to go on the record, while many people went on the record to say it never happened. That’s some damn fine journOlisming there.
And even if it were true, questioning the value of American deaths for twenty years of Iraq and Afghanistan is nowhere near as troubling as actually allowing that meat grinder to continue to run.
The screaming dumbshit doesn’t realize how he just indicted the press for eight years of tonguing Obama’s ass.
He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France.
Uh, by the time they hit the beaches, they pretty fucking well knew what they were in for. Very few were on the college plan to begin with. The uglier truth is that far from being a volunteer army of
peoplemen signing up, most were enslaved by Roosevelt and Congress, starting a year before Pearl Harbor. I hope Gen Hershey and Hitler are giving each other back rubs right now.even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting.
You’re all proven liars who are willing to sell your integrity like an aging whore just to score political points. Why the hell should “outlet after outlet” confirming the story mean anything to me? You have no credibility. Your profession is a joke.
“outlet after outlet confirmed” by using the exact same anonymous sources.
Not even, it was a self-referencing circle jerk – this was reported by WaPo, which in turn was reported by NYT, which led to more reporting – all based on the initial report, not any actual investigative journalism at the subsequent reporting outlets.
“in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas.”
HOLY HOT HELL.
A lot of those young men were probably scared blind.
I bet there is room on David Hogg’s pillow company board for the Gorilla Glue girl.
Yeah, his board’s building of a company has gotta be like putting the HR department in charge of R&D at Sig Sauer.
He’s not building anything but street cred among progressives, and fleecing them of money.
He’s a 1st class grifter.
Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France.
Wheeeeeee!
What a monumentally retarded thing to say.
Just look at the guy
That’s… not surprising.
Christ, what a dumbfuck. As an Army veteran, Id gladly give that guy a ruck, an M4, and a ticket to the mideast. And tell him “go spread some democracy. Keep your head down.”
Combat nothing – that guy wouldn’t survive a single boots and utes fartlek run.
My aged ankles heartily agree
Holy shit that is stupid.
Only people that have not served or been shot at would say stuff this idiotic… They equate what you would feel with how they feel when playing Call of Duty or some other video game…
These days, relatively few Americans have served and the country seems fine with leaders who will put kids in harm’s way without having served themselves. For example, there were 11 U.S. presidents who served as Generals, up through Benj. Harrison. Since then, only Eisenhower was a general. Others (JFK, LBJ, Nixon, etc.) served but not as high ranks). Then four of our last five presidents have not served in the military at all.
Wasn’t Bush Sr the last one to serve?
I guess I should make that *really* serve, as in active duty. Jr’s service…
W served. Also worth noting – runners up McCain and Kerry both served. McCain was a straight up warmonger and Kerry had no problem supporting wars if it was politically popular.
Yeah, I’m gonna put an asterisk on W. Weekend warrior ain’t quite the same thing.
Plus coming late to that party even. Gore managed a few months in VN as a reporter, until his tour was cut short. ‘Course his father had no influence
Postwar, every president was a veteran until Clinton. Granted, LBJ’s service consisted of snooping around the Pacific on behalf of FDR and Reagan made training films for the Army, but the rest of them served in combat, or at least in operational rather than administrative roles.
I stopped playing original CoD because I came to the realization that men actually did what I was doing for fun for real. I felt strange.
He set his pen to full semi-automatic.
Nobody storming Omaha beach would describe it as thrilling. Trust me I’ve talked to at least one and watched various documentaries about it. I guess it would be accurate to describe it as “thrilling” but probably wouldn’t be the first or 100th adjective used by them to describe it.
Is pissing in/shitting your pants or throwing up thrilling?
“War is like riding a roller coaster”
/effeminate soyboy journalist
look at the guy
That’s the face of a commando, if ever I saw one.
+ GET TO THE CHOPPAH! ARRRRGGGHHHH!
comparing that soy boy to a 20 year old kansas boy in 1944 is an even bigger leap than anything out of Gina Carrones mouth. Whose his employer I feel such comparisons are harmful and abhorrent and he should be terminated immediately.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/02/10/georgia-sen-warnock-under-investigation-for-voter-registration-misconduct/
Fetch me my fainting couch.
And nothing ever happened! Sleepy-time, little ones, Mommy will leave the door open just a little.
“How a leading anti-Trump group ignored a crisis in its ranks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Last June, the Lincoln Project was on a high.
Led by several prominent former Republican consultants, its slickly produced ads attacking President Donald Trump made it perhaps the best known of the so-called Never Trump organizations. The group tried to claim a higher moral ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP. Money flowed in by the tens of millions of dollars from donors eager to help…
Since its creation, the Lincoln Project has raised $90 million. But only about a third of the money, roughly $27 million, directly paid for advertisements that aired on broadcast and cable, or appeared online, during the 2020 campaign, according to an analysis of campaign finance disclosures and data from the ad tracking firm Kantar/CMAG.
That leaves tens of millions of dollars that went toward expenses like production costs, overhead — and exorbitant consulting fees collected by members of the group. ”
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-b14be5f06588b8f1d78125d4141394cb
“Weaver from the Lincoln Project ran a children’s boutique?!?!?!”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1359857800596381700
Trump is gone, your services are no longer needed. Goodbye.
Oh, even better, now the Dems who set them up can use them as a giant – look at how repulsive the Republicans are – punching bag.
Useful idiots indeed.
It was a fleecing operation from the beginning. They’ve outlived their usefulness now.
It’s -21 deg F outside and my coworkers keep opening the hangar door for long periods of time.
It’s BRISK, baby.
“hey buddy stop doing that”
Only another week of this, Nick>
120+ Prominent GOP Members Plotting Creation of New Political Party
Bye – I have some suggestions for your new party name.
Haaaaahahahhahahahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaha
“Principled conservatism” from that crew??!?
Haaaaahahahahahahahahaaaaaahahahahahaha
Members of the globalist cabal and totally owned by the CCP is more likely what these fucks are…
A substantial number of Republicans are reportedly in talks to create a new political party due to their frustration with the aftermath of the Trump Presidency.
The third party in question would be built on “center-right” positions and could be labeled ‘The Integrity Party’ or ‘The Center Right Party.’
“Integrity”, LOL…And the other one is just stupid. I guess there is no need for the Trump wing, which is the overwhelming majority (of voters anyway) to create a new party then.
Nothing says “integrity” like having Egg McMuffin, the guy who never paid off his campaign debts.
Maybe the consultants that renamed the Redskins can help with that as well?
I have already come up with the name “Washington Savages”, but my intention is to give a middle finger to morons that think “Redskins” is racist.
I favor “Washington Bandits” with the IRS logo on their helmets.
Egg McMuffin’s involved, so you know this is super serious!
Maybe they can get Max Boot to return to the fold.
And David French!
Why don’t they just join the Democrat Caucus? Oh wait because they couldn’t get elected doing that. What a bunch of unprincipled pussies.
Because the Democrats would laugh at them and tell them to go fuck themselves.
Speaking of Swallowswell…
One of the many reasons Swalwell was a ridiculous choice for impeachment manager.
He’s talking about threats to officials.. but when Susan Collins and her staff got violent rape threats during the Kavanaugh confirmation he tweeted “boo hoo” and “where are you sleeping?” …
The Collins team got suspicious substances in the mail, hangers, junior staffers threatened with rape and violence, and her home doxxed.
Eric Swalwell said “boo hoo, where do you sleep.”
Well, it doesn’t count, because — unlike AOC — Collins has never claimed to be a victim of sexual assault. Unless your ass has been pinched, it is impossible to understand how “harrowing” life can be.
Um, it’s “unless your ass has been pinched and he didn’t call you back the next day”.
I have used that “storming Omaha Beach” analogy many times, but always and only in scornful derision. I never imagined any of those pathetic nitwits could be so completely and pathetically un-self-aware as to use it seriously.
What a world we live in.
Part of the healing, truth and reconciliation that we can expect.
With the U.S. Senate split 50-50, the chances of gun control legislation passing through the normal legislative process are slim at best. Unfortunately, there are a couple of legislative tricks that anti-gun Senators could use to get around the fact that 60 senators are needed to close off debate and approve bills.
In a newly released interview conducted by the Las Vegas Sun in January of 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden said he planned on using “must pass” legislation as a vehicle for his gun ban; attaching it as an amendment to a budget authorization bill, for instance.
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, on the other hand, tells the Michael Bloomberg-funded anti-gun news outlet The Trace that he believes another parliamentary procedure could help shepherd gun control legislation through the Senate.
Did they consider using reconciliation for the impeachment trial?
I’d like to think the Supremes would shoot that down post haste but my faith in the courts as it stands right now is essentially zero. Then again, if you’re for the country splintering you’d hope they’ll take this approach for such an important and divisive issue.
Eh this is a difficult one. You only get one budget reconciliation per year, the Dems have to be completely united on gun control measures (something that failed under Obama), you establish a precedent that will be easily abused by Republicans, and you have to pass a watered down bill the Republican leaning courts won’t take down.
it seems wishful.
What parliamentary procedure the Senate adopts or uses is not a Constitutional issue. SCOTUS won’t touch it, even if the Senate adopts a rule 51-50 saying the filibuster doesn’t apply to gun control bills. Hell, the Senate can ditch the filibuster altogether if it wants.
I mean the gun bill itself.
As constituted, there’s a chance they might strike some of it, I suppose.
As packed by the time the bill gets there? No chance.
what do you mean?
Court packing
They’re going to use their budget reconciliation for a gun law that will just be ruled unconstitutional anyway?
Eh. I doubt it.
An old gem from Manchin.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., is a member of the National Rifle Association and is one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate.
But even Manchin is ready and willing to have a discussion about new gun control legislation in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left over 20 people dead. He says there’s no place for assault weapons in any hunting activity.
“I don’t know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an
assaultscary, black rifle,” Manchin said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.Then you don’t know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena.
Budget reconciliation has never been used to pass a gun measure before, so it would set a precedent if Democrats go this route.
What happened to “Muh politicul normz!”?
A substantial number of Republicans are reportedly in talks to create a new political party due to their frustration with the aftermath of the Trump Presidency.
Kick the voters out. You’re much too good for them.
https://fenixammo.com/collections/training-ammo/products/9mm-147gr-fmj
In stock right now, if you were looking to spend money.
And sold out now.
So many people are alive because it’s not actually possible to kill them via telepathy.
Brace yourselves for highly concentrated, super-strength derp, hot off the press.
Up is down, north is south, white is bad, and ass is mouth
Here they are, the Jacobins, corporate America let them in
Change the names, erase the past, build a power meant to last
Change the words, and rob the speech
Of those who call out what they see
Ain’t no room for heretics
But isn’t it time to heal and fix
The chasm in the culture wars?
On reflection, that hastily-composed verse is a bit shit, but oh well. It’s not like I was ever going to purchase Derpney+ anyway.
I liked it, Friend Limey.
Welp. I logged onto Fenix Ammo before the 8:00 9mm drop, refreshed the page until it showed I could order, put 1,000 rounds in my cart, checked out as fast as I could, and . . . they were sold out. I managed to get 500 rounds, so I’ve got that going for me. With a pretty minimalist practice schedule, that last me and Mrs. Dean six months.
Paid too much, but the shortage isn’t ending any time soon, prices aren’t coming down any time soon, and I think the odds new gun control laws making it (much) worse get passed before any of that happens.
Too bad we can’t pull an Odessa Project and take a C5 to Tula.
Apparently the company that owns the Tula plant is going through a reorg.
Maybe the Magtech plant in Brazil? Their 77-grain match 556 is some of the best I’ve ever used…
I’ll admit I thought about ordering some of that 147g before I posted the link. I held strong though.
Cheapest on AmmoSeek now is 67¢/round for brass 9mm. Makes me wish I had bought thousands of rounds instead of hundreds when I bought last at 48¢
I bough 2k rounds direct from Federal at about 45¢ last spring/summer. I remember feeling mildly outraged at paying $450 for a case instead of $404 for two cases from SGAMMO that I was used to paying.
Now I am just buying 308 Win when I see it for just a buck a piece.
Need some tracers? https://www.theamericanmarksman.com/Bullets-1st-7.62-M62-Tracer-142-GR-FMJ-125-CT.html
?
Judi has gone vegan. We have so much food in the fridge that it wouldn’t close properly just now. We’ll never eat half of it. I’m a skinny fellow, I don’t eat much. 2020 is catching up with me.
How can Canadians be vegan? Six months out of the year it’s impossible to grow plants.
This. I’m pretty sure they have to hunt seals and whales and shit.
More meat for me.
Somehow I missed out on 9mm 115gr in the 3 minutes between the sale starting and me getting to checkout with fenix. ;p Did manage to get 250 rds of 147 gr.
Also went ahead and ordered 500 rds of 7.62×39 from miwall.com – not the cheapest price, I can’t quite afford the bulk discount for 1000 rds from some other places. Also went with the “not all steel jacketed version” – so hopefully I can use it at my local range – should be non-magnetic.
I scored some of their 124gr 9mm, because it matches the weight on their defense ammo. We’re . . . OK for defense ammo, and I didn’t want to waste precious seconds clicking around to order it after my first order got bounced at 8:02.
Crazy times. The bigger of my locals now has a sign on the door saying 1 box of ammo, period, per customer per day. Their ammo cabinet is now being half-used for holsters. I’m pretty sure the smaller one I drop in on keeps some in the back for regulars, but I really don’t qualify as a regular so I’m not asking.
Mrs. Dean is my window into the zeitgeist of normal(ish) people. She is fired up to go shooting, get a good holster, etc. Hell, she’s even talking about getting another gun or two. She wants a shotgun, which for a lefty will be a challenge. A chiropractor she does business with has gone all in on shooting, to the point of making multiple trips to Front Sight with his wife and kids (apparently, there’s good money in chiropracting). If that’s where people’s heads are at, Allah help us all.
Man…I don’t know why this one keeps escaping me. (Maybe because it doesn’t normally show up with google maps searches – or at least not before).
Gonna have to join this one tout suite.
https://quanticoshootingclub.com/
(Remember using those ranges when I was an army reservist in ’08-09 – since Belvoir had no outdoor range. We’d have these civvies waiting behind us to shoot on Saturday morning).
My wife is starting to come around. She went from skittish about guns to “you do you” to “maybe I’ll join you one of these times”.
Oops, premature posting.
I was gonna say that she’ll fall for it as soon as she goes, because she’s a competitive person and won’t like not being able to put the holes on the bullseye.
Start her off at 3 yards, with targets that have 6″ bullseyes.
And lots of positive reinforcements.
“You were almost on the paper”
You need my Gateway Drug.
An M&P15-22 with a TBAC silencer, 3# trigger, red dot, and a couple of steel targets. It’s irresistible.
While I’m not under any illusions that a civil war or (actual) insurrection would be cool in any way… I do find it hilarious that there would be fewer guns in civilian hands if the Democrats simply did nothing. Every single time they open their mouths, the rate of new gun purchases triples or quadruples, especially the guns that are arbitrarily classified as “assault weapons”. And on a completely unrelated note, 3D printer technology is getting better and cheaper all the time. Just throwing that out there.
The NSSF estimates that we had around seven million first-time gun buyers join the culture in 2020. Based on what I’m seeing at the gun shops and the ranges, I believe them.
That, by the way, is a big part of the ammo shortage. Multiply, “Let me have a couple of boxes of ammo, too,” by seven million, and you get a bunch of empty shelves…
The CEO at Federal Ammo put out a video to convince people they were manufacturing ammo as fast as they can and they weren’t holding any back.
He mentioned “7 million new gun owners times 100 rounds equals 700 million in new demand” as being a big part of the problem right now.
Bacon update. The maple/honey bacon topped with pepper flakes is awesome. The spiced bacon has a small hint of juniper and thyme but not overwhelming.
Both were hot smoked to 150 or 140 maybe with apple wood.
The other item I made was pastrami from a brisket flat I had. That has some good flavor to it. That was smoked with apple/mesquite
I really need to check and see if one of my local butcher shops sells pork bellies.
Sometimes the Chinese / Asian grocery stores have pork belly at a reasonable price.
My local butcher wants waaaaaay more than I am willing to pay for pork belly.
I look at it this way…if the price/lb is under what store bought bacon costs I will buy it.
I think last 9lb slab I got was $2.50/lb. That is way cheap and I know what it is going into it.
The problem is having large amounts of bacon on hand are not compatible with me trying to drop weight. 🙂
I’m also spoiled by the vendors up at the West Side market, several of which stock over a dozen flavors of bacon (some of which are seasonal). They also sell (or used to sell) end pieces on the cheap.
Me too, I’m really interested in making bacon once my smoker is no longer covered in snow.
My coffee maker died this morning. It wasn’t even all that old. What a bummer. Now I’m going to have to go spend another 17 bucks.
I only get the dumbest manual-on-off-switch model I can find. If you’re buying disposable, go cheap. I might go with something other than Mr Coffee, this time. They’re slipping. They used to last ten years.
Go old fashioned.
Sure, as long as you have a free domestic engineer (wife) to operate that thing. Did I say free? Ha, I made a funny!
There seems to be a lot of coffee machine death going on. Covid?
My Bunn is dying as well. It leaks and coffee grounds get into the water tank. I know what the problem is, but there’s no way to get to it to fix it. There’s a rubber washer that controls the water flow after you close the lid back after pouring water in, that is worn out. But you can’t remove anything to get to it, so it’s basically ready for the trash heap.
Not sure what I’m going to get to replace it, yet.
I can recommend this, if you’ve got the scratch. We’ve had ours for 12(?) years, maybe more? Works just like the day we got it. We’ve had to replace the bit that holds the coffee grounds – the little closable valve at the bottom wore out – but that’s it.
Oh so *you’re* the guy on TOS who got me looking at those. I never pulled the trigger, but had it in my shopping cart a few times.
OK for you billionaire one percenters. But for we commoners, we’d have to mortgage our homes and go to stand on street corners, and I’m too old for the latter.
JK. I might do that. That’s only 2x the price of my now deceased Bunn. And the bonus of you being able to fix it when it broke.
French press?
I love things like that that will never crap out on you (assuming you buy a decent one). My all-metal French press has been going strong for years.
I also have a Moka pot because I love a strong cup of espresso now and then. You do have to buy new rubber gaskets now and then, but you can get a lifetime’s worth for 20 bucks. I bought a giant Moka pot so that I can make several batches of coffee and store it in a pitcher in the fridge, then just mix a bit of it with boiling water to make an Americano every morning. It’s the convenience of instant coffee with an excellent taste.
Seconded.
Here you guys go again talking about manual labor…
I got a Cuisin Art at goodwill a couple years ago. Makes coffee faster and better than any other drip coffee maker I’ve used. But i’d never pay the retail cost for one.
Hey, y’all, goan be a giant luuuvvvvv fest!
LUV SHACK BABY!
I am sure his master (Xi) told him he could tell the media he brought this up so the dnc operatives with bylines would have something to make it less obvious that Biden was Xi’s bitch.
The actual conversation was probably most focused on how the CCP handles the Uighurs, so that Joe knows what to to with the Trump voters. The ones with nice hair should fare a little better.
Just when you thought this guy really isn’t as dumb as they say…
Not a democratic bone!
Duhhhhhh!!!! He’s a fucking communist, you dimwit! You don’t even know what your own master is?! Of course you guys have twisted the term democracy so hard that you wouldn’t know.
Democracy means rule by the party that calls itself Democratic, duh!
Sounds about right.
“@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner,” Mitchell tweeted.
She is morally correct, which is more important than being factually correct. And she can go fuck herself.
“He shouldn’t have been allowed to trade these complicated options in the first place. He had no training, no income, no qualifications, to make those sophisticated trades,” Dan said
Oh fuck. Let me guess, there oughtta be a law?
/reads rest of article
OK, I see no pushing for new laws.
Masks have saved far more lives than any other biomedical intervention for Covid-19.
No. Go fuck yourself.
A pediatrician at Stanford Children’s Hospital has been arrested after trying to arrange a date with police officers who were posing as an underage girl, and sending them explicit photos.
So there was no kid involved. OK.
Tessica Brown, the Louisiana woman whose use of Gorilla Glue in her hair made national headlines, has undergone a surgical procedure in Beverly Hills to remove the offending gunk, according to reports.
Wow. I saw some talk of someone putting Gorilla Glue in his/her hair, but I didn’t think it was real. I thought it was a joke.
The prosecutors’ filings highlighted the controversy that erupted last month after Rittenhouse went to a southern Wisconsin bar immediately after his online arraignment hearing in a T-shirt reading “Free as (expletive)” and flashed hand signs appropriated by white supremacist groups.
Go fuck yourself.
“Oh fuck. Let me guess, there oughtta be a law?”
People should not be allowed to make decisions for themselves because they’re not qualified. Instead, government should make all decisions for us, because they’re not people and they’re all knowing, perfect, and all benevolent.
“Tessica Brown, the Louisiana woman whose use of Gorilla Glue in her hair made national headlines, has undergone a surgical procedure in Beverly Hills to remove the offending gunk, according to reports.”
There should have been a warning on the bottle telling people not to put it on their hair. Because how else could she know? I see a giant lawsuit coming.
This has already been argued because there are products known as hair glues.
There is no goddamn way a hair produck for Black hair would be called “gorilla” glue.
Systematic racism. It’s the glue that holds society together.
Defensive warning labels for stupid shit are at a point that you get a manual of them with every product. My favorite warning is for food and medicine warning not to consume if you are allergic to the food/medicine.
I bought a cymbal stand once that had a “Do not play drums during earthquake” warning, among others.
The annual contest is still going: https://www.lawsuitfairness.org/wacky-warning-label-contest. Get your entries in by April 15.
appropriated by
So aren’t the appropriaters the bad guys? Or do we now blame all of Mexico for Taco Bell?
There already is a law/regulation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
Part of the stock market rigging.
I’m trying to figure out what “surgical procedure” was needed to cut her hair off.
clippers?
Is there a tattoo or dotted line or something?
The point was to NOT cut her hair off and get the glue out of her hair.
He used a cocktail of chemicals to get it out.
Yep. Mentioned in the article. It cost a lot of money.
I didn’t RTA, but I’m just hoping that taxpayers got to foot the bill. It sounds like something medicaid should cover.
This will not go anywhere…
Is that the new Dap?
“Oh dear Andrea, this tweet is a Scottish tragedy,” Washington Post correspondent Annie Gowen reacted.
“Faulkner wrote the book ‘The Sound and the Fury.’ But the phrase comes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: ‘It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’ The whole passage is beautiful,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof gently corrected Mitchell.
Oh that is tasty!
‘It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Thanks for making Cruz’s remarks about the impeachment trial even more on point, Nick. Seriously.
Im glad he used it because that was the verse I was required to recite in high school and it stuck with me as my favorite description of us humans upon this planet.
re my comment above which elicited several replies “I mean that is something generally stupid to say.”
You cannot compare trump supporters now to Jews in Europe in the 30s. Yes there was a whole bunch of hateful rhetoric from the left, but it is no where near he same thing. the jews were a much smaller much more distinct minority, having a background of hundreds of years of hate, including killings expulsions and more. It is not the same ballpark with being called a nazi on twitter. Even calls for imprisonment. it is not at ll the same
I think it was mostly a hyperbole from the actress and should not have been fired for it, but it was kinda stupid imo
I definitely see your point on the scale of the reference. But, I believe the point trying to be made about dehumanizing people through the ‘us v them’ is valid.
Do you have a more apt comparison?
Even if you can find one, because of everyone’s seeming lack of knowledge of history, would anywhere near the amount of people be able to draw a similar conclusion?
Do you have a more apt comparison? – the US has a history of dehumanizing opponents since the 1790s
So the US is a country run by human beings. Noted.
Nazi comparisons should be restricted to WWII discussions and maybe compare and contrast with other totalitarian regimes but her underlying point, the otherization of groups of people prior to bad actions being perpetrated against them, stands on its own merit. If for no other reason, people should avoid the Nazi comparisons for practical reasons like not getting fired from their jobs for example.
The Hutus and the Tutsis or the demonization of the Kulaks would be more apt but people, probably her included, don’t know what the hell those are and social media isn’t amenable to history lessons.
otherization – is that a real word?
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
But comparisons to nazis are reasonable?
You’re claiming that MMA is fake?
MMA is fake – chicks can’t fight
But comparisons to nazis are reasonable – not at all. but one imbecilic holocaust comparison does not make another valid. The left nazi thing is worse probably. But they hold the upper hand in the culture war
Psaki it to me.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed support for Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s decision to remove the national anthem from the team’s home games because they “feel [the anthem] doesn’t represent them.”
During the Wednesday press briefing, Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the Biden administration’s stance on Cuban’s decision. While the press secretary acknowledged that President Joe Biden is “proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem,” she also said he would support the Mavericks for calling out the frequent times when “we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals.”
“He’d also say that, of course, that part of pride in our country means recognizing moments where we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals, which is often, and at times what people are speaking to when they take action at sporting events,” Psaki said. “And it means respecting the right of people, granted to them in the Constitution to peacefully protest. That’s why he ran for president in the first place, and that’s what he’s focused on doing every day.”
Beijing Biden ran for president because he cares about the Constitutional rights of citizens. There you have it.
To people like Biden, human rights are like a Bonsai tree–needing careful and continuous attention and pruning to ensure they are preserved in their beautiful state.
What the fuck is Xi thinking when he is sitting there with Biden?
“Holy fuck, we spent billions on this guy? If he drools on that chair I’m going to be so pissed”
Honestly, most elected leaders are fairly cunning. Even the supposedly dumb ones. Biden is going to be abused by world leaders even more than Obama was.
That’s it. I’m done, that’s it, that’s all, that’s everything! Judi is going to see what ails her Nissan. I’m featuring a Grand. Needs moar back-up plan. Sunny ways, Glibs!
Keep the shiny side up, my friend. I just….shoveled. Now its beer o’clock
The revolution consumes its young.
Cooke over at NR just termed the Carano kerfuffle a case of Calvinball. I love that, and will refer to all future cancel-culture stupidity as a red card under the rules of Calvinball. That said, can I possibly care less that the most insipid writer of the progressive-sphere just got taken down a peg?
He used a cocktail of chemicals to get it out.
Acetone and automatic transmission fluid should do the trick.