Hey look, it’s 2021.
You guys are the bestest, but there’s no way I’m getting up in the middle of the night to do fresh links. So these are from last night. Something tells me they’ll be very similar to today’s and tomorrow’s headlines.
If you lost money on this one, you need to quit gambling.
If Parler ever makes it back, it will be a Borg platform.
They won’t be happy until an 18 year old is squashed to dust, just to send a message.
Congratulations to whichever Glib this is.
Remote outdoor location, plenty of sun and wind to kill the Rona…let’s shut it down.
Just in case you missed your coffee and need a pick me up, this should do it.
Get out there and earn, Glibbies!
I like that morning greeting you linked the pic from last night with.. She can give me the finger anytime she wants to…
I am talking about the ape..
*looks at photo*
Tela Tequila still making poor choices in the dating department?
Only if it’s a Nazi chimp/ape.
Why isn’t it Friday yet?
Where’s my frigging TARDIS?
I blame Trump.
He also probably updated the Firefox settings that let me hover over a link to see the URL.
“Congratulations to whichever Glib this is.”
Glibs would have ass to face transplants…
Just saying..
Just as a hat would suffice.
While i do feel sorry for Kyle, they should have recognized he would be a target.
I bet something is out of context.
The response of the DA was astonishing. Fought having his address under seal, claiming that there was no specific threat. Clearly designed to intimidate. The do stuff under seal all the time for the thinnest of reasons, or no reason at all. But this guy who clearly moved to avoid harassment? Nope.
Yeah. There’s no way he doesn’t end up dead, or doing life dropping soap until he’s completely destroyed. They won’t rest until that happens.
I suspect it will be revealed to be a USPS “error” (ie, deep state shenanigans).
Prosecutors wrote in their filing Wednesday that Rittenhouse “demonstrated his carefree attitude by going to a bar immediately after his arraignment on Jan. 5, 2021, and drinking 3 beers in the company of known ‘Proud Boys’ while flashing white supremacist signs and wearing a ‘Free as (expletive) shirt.”
Was it the OK symbol?
And what the fuck? This screams as an attempt to taint the jury pool. Isn’t there something fucking way wrong with prosecutors doing this?
“known ‘Proud Boys'”
FFS.
It’s straight-up political harassment.
Good to see fluff pieces about the president are back on the menu
Joe is going to need a lot of fluffing.
All the fluffing in the world won’t get him to rise to the occasion.
He did steal the erection though!
That’s one way to accurately define the media: dnc fluffers..
Unlike Lee Dorsey
When we came out of the iron mine pit we would have red skin. (Can I say that?)
Music from long, long ago, good choice, Spud.
There will not be a need for a crib in the White House, unless that’s the money stash for Hunter.
We have gone full Soviet…. and the media is cheering.
The Secretary of Defense just ordered a 60 day pause in military activities to address “extremism” within the military ranks.
We are literally doing the 3rd world military purges.
No pause in the occupation of Washington DC though.
The Spirit of the Bayonet is no longer “TOO KILL!” Gonna need testosterone reduction therapy.
After extremism, they’ll tackle toxic masculinity.
I thought Corcoran took that part of “The Powers of the Earth” too far. From a standpoint of realism, it makes no sense at all to bring disabled soldiers into a combat situation.
Also, if he was hoping at all to achieve much sympathy for the ideas he espouses in the series from people who aren’t already fellow travelers, I think his focus on that topic from the very beginning of the book set up a situation where people would simply quit reading, or approach the rest of the ideas in the book with extreme skepticism.
I bet this is an order that came directly from the CCP…
The nation is being destroyed from within by people that have basically decided to destroy sanity, logic, and things that actually work…
I’m sort of looking forward to the upcoming dystopia.
#BringBacon&Bourbon
They are *literally* calling for a Ministry of Truth. One guy wants a Truth Commission and a Reality Tzar…. like he read Orwell and said “nah, doesn’t go far enough..”
At least tsar is an appropriate title.
I think they should go with Commissar… It’s more apropos since it brings together the words “Commie” and Czar”….
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar.
I miss my funky friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfFDTPPlaM ?
https://youtu.be/zU-SjCV9dWw?
A few years ago this would have been really upsetting. Now I find the idea of the military being tuned into a completely ineffective woke asylum comforting.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a “stand down” of the entire US military over the next 60 days in order for commanders to address “extremism” in its ranks.
“Extreme” is a relative term.
“address extremism” as in he wants more of a particular type?
The requirement now is obedience and allegiance to the state: not to the constitution and the people….
And people are not freaking out at all…
Will they be required to take the Führereid?
Hmm… a bunch of trained, disgruntled and now unemployed military members released into the “new normal” of very few job prospects.
That should end well. /sarc * 6.02 * 10^23
A=HA! It’s OBJ! We found the mole!
Its not me, I don’t have the chemistry around here to pull that off.
6.24 x 10^18 would be more current
I guess some people read books like “1984” and “Brave New World”, and thought they were “How to” manuals when I see shit like this…
I mean, can you do anything that says “We need to silence the people pointing out we are a bunch of corrupt and inept criminal fucks, but we will be damned if the rabble believes they can take the power or wealth away from us, EVAH!!” more than shit like this?
Matt Welsh over at TOS had the same idiotic take…. that the argument against this is that eventually it won’t be someone you agree with who is in charge.
While this is true… it entirely misses the point. You can forcefully argue against this from first principles. No need to resort to utilitarian arguments about future risks.
Besides, these people believe they are playing the endgame. They see that they are close to closing out all opposition. They have the means of disseminating information nearly wrapped up, and they have gone full propaganda across all media… and it is working. They have the court system nearly wrapped up …. take a look at the Flynn case if you doubt it. The court of appeals was nakedly partisan, making no attempts to hide it. They may have a lock on the election system with their push to make mail in balloting with no verification the new normal. And in controlling the enforcement mechanisms completely, they can prevent any future perversion of this to benefit the enemy.
They are playing out the endgame, hunting down the opposition and purging them. Proclaiming “you don’t know, they might be in charge of these agencies one day” is really not all that persuasive. Do you really think that argument would have dissuaded Stalin, or Hitler.. or Putin? Yeah… it is a silly argument made by unserious people who have been lead to water but decided to decline the drink.
“Matt Welsh over at TOS had the same idiotic take…. that the argument against this is that eventually it won’t be someone you agree with who is in charge.”
The ruling class counts on the useful idiots that think that supporting their agenda somehow gives them a pass. The useful idiots forget that everyone of these “people’s revolutions” started with the killing of or sending to camps of the enemy in wave one, which they all cheered on, and then was followed by never ending waves of true believers and useful idiots that got in the way of the power machine.
Cheney easily survives push to strip her of her House GOP leadership position
Wyoming’s lone House member received backing from GOP leader Kevin McCarthy
One would think that Wyoming could do better than a Cheney.
” push to strip her”
Things seen…
Guess they like them swamp critters wasting tax dollars and killin’ brown people.
Give them a couple years.
This is how strong the establishment is.
When I was a kid I used to laugh at people who compared Government to organized crime. But now that I have been around the block, it is quite obvious that a constitutional government is merely a mechanism to give organized crime some legitimacy in exchange for some semblance of constraints. If anyone doubted it, simply look at this last year. Biden openly pimping out his position for cash paid via family members – fine. A Cheney who is reasonably aligned with the democrat party is defended and protected by the republican establishment.
The whole thing is a con to funnel money to politically connected people and corporations.
Except for one thing. The people of Wyoming did elect and re-elect her. They had the choice to send someone else. This is what the people choose.
I wonder how much choice they had. What pressures did the establishment exert to prevent conservative rivals from running?
We will see next primary. I suspect that if she doesn’t get her act together, she will get ousted.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/02/cheneys-republican-party-is-no-more/
The latest I say is she has low approval and is polling 30 behind a challenger.
+1
The veneer of “the people voted for it” has finally worn away. From terrible election processes to strong-arm establishment tactics (which have been around forever obviously) the Information Age has at least laid bare the fallacy to those with some intellectual curiosity.
What GREAT conservatives do you think are out there?
Personally, I think mostly pathological personalities go into politics; sure, there are exceptions but they are exactly that – exceptions.
I don’t hold with the belief that some populist uprising is going to save the country, because the fucking populace is part of the reason we are where we are. The oxygen content here is getting pretty damn thin when it comes to realizing this isn’t all a grand conspiracy of dark forces arrayed against the great body of good people. No, those good people are all willing to go along, just like good cops (that tolerate the bad). Williamson had that bit about ‘we are all Jacobins’ – because the radical opposition to the left is just as radical as the left; much like Wiemar Germany where the Nazis and Communists were cut from the same cloth. I don’t belong to a political party because there isn’t one to represent me, and I understand exactly where that leaves me.
I submit jumping to the conspiracy theorist claim is arguing in bad faith. It’s become a hard stop for me.
Dicks out for Harambe?
Always.
The GOP is either now a more populist party (for good or bad) now or it’s not. That’s the question.
I don’t know Wyoming, but I see where cyto is coming from based on what I know of NH.
The Sununu clan owns the NH Republican leadership. Nothing comes out of or from the NH Republican leadership that the Sununu clan opposes. The Sununus are either in support of it or they don’t care.
There are some insurgents trying to break the hold of the Sununu clan on the NH Republican party leadership. They face an uphill battle.
The LPNH is worthless, so don’t look there for an alternative.
One add on: Folks might mention all the Republicans in the State House who oppose Sununu.
The NH Republican Party is generally not involved with State House races. Candidates for State House are generally left to their own devices. The State Senate, Executive Council, Federal offices, and Governor are different.
When I was a kid I used to laugh at people who compared Government to organized crime.
Don’t insult mobsters by comparing them with the Government. Mobsters are honest about themselves.
Also, they offer better protection and better rates.
I’ve been hoping that the recent election shenanigans would shine a light on how broken the election apparatus really is in this country. The people of Wyoming have two choices: a Democrat or Liz Cheney. The choice of a Republican named “not Liz Cheney” doesn’t exist. They might claim it exists through primaries and what have you, but once you’re in charge, the first order of business is to make sure you remain in charge.
A good piece of evidence involves “third party” votes in presidential elections. Third parties consistently poll WAY above what they eventually get, because they do not control the election apparatus anywhere in the country. They are unable to rig the system in their favor in whatever precincts they control, because they don’t control any of them.
It’s a sham. Liz Cheney is a senator from Wyoming because the GOP wants her there, not because the people of Wyoming want her there.
Yep, exactly the shit I’m talking about. You aren’t involved in Republican politics to make a difference, so you all you really are doing is talking out your ass about them.
Yes JI. Fortunately you are here to explain all the srs bzns and how you are making a real difference in the world, unlike all the rest of us trivial time-wasting fundamentally unserious peons.
I don’t make a fucking difference in this world. I barely make any in the communities I have actual involvement with. What I don’t like here is how much we end up behaving just like every other group of normal, lazy humans. And yes, I will call that shit out as I see it. Whether anyone gives a damn is entirely up to them.
I am sure that she has earned the good graces of the left and will be treated civilly when she does actually conservative things, as unlikely as that is. /more sarc
Everything I do gohn be funky like Lee Dorsey
“On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote. “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement.”
So they are going to capitulate to the left.
Speaking of capitulating to the left, I suspect that the VA GOP, being completely feckless, is going to forego a primary and select a gubernatorial candidate that will lose gracefully to Terry McCunteface.
[Edited] Of course they are NOT going to have a primary. Because they know that (Va Senator) Amanda Chase (Trumpist faction) would win. She is quite the activist, but is also an uncompromising conservative.
Parler goes under by being a Twitter/FB clone.
Beer.
Beer is good. And stuff!
Nearby suburb is supposed to be having a new brewery finally open this spring. They had planned to open last year… and postponed it for obvious reasons. I expect someone to protest against the name shortly (Immigrant Son).
I’m trigger by the face diaper picture that leads the story.
He’s currently awaiting trial for the shooting deaths of two men who were
protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake.attacking him….Prosecutors wrote in their filing Wednesday that Rittenhouse “demonstrated his carefree attitude by going to a bar immediately after his arraignment on Jan. 5, 2021, and drinking 3 beers in the company of known ‘Proud Boys’ while flashing white supremacist signs and wearing a ‘Free as (expletive) shirt.”
*rolls eyes*
I hope this kid gets a better lawyer. The state is trying to fuck him for political reasons.
Filed in court. OK symbol is “white supremacist signs”.
Dude should risk disbarment over making such easily debunked claims. Instead he will be pushed upward in the progressive pantheon.
They know this sort of demagoguery gets a pass, which is why they do it. They also don’t care that it is precisely the fact that this shows there is a massive double standard that keeps escalating things and will eventually result in a clash, because they really believe they can force the rabble to just bend the fucking knee.
Tucker Carlson just had a rant on this topic – the rewriting of history in real time to control the past … which controls the future.
He brought out the example of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dude assassinated the president. He was an avowed communist who defected to the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war. He returned to the US and took up communist causes. He met with KGB officials shortly before shooting Kennedy.
The press reported the assassination as being the result of conservative anti-communists. The Soviet Union actually blamed Barry Goldwater….. And today the fact that Oswald was a communist of the far left has been largely forgotten. Most of today’s “woke” would probably peg him as a right wing extremist if pressed.
This is the world we live in. This is the tactic of the left. Tell the big lie. Tell it often. Pretend that it is fact, and eventually people will forget that it is a lie.
Look at congresswoman Giffords. Everyone knows that she was shot because Sarah Palin drew a target symbol around her district, and some right wing extremist took her violent rhetoric to heart and shot her. (the fact that he was a left-wing extremist who was romantically obsessed with Giffords notwithstanding.)
“The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing social media posts for signs of potential fraud in frenzied trading of GameStop and other companies’ shares, according to a new report
The SEC’s examination of online posts is being done in tandem with a review of trading data to assess whether such posts were part of a manipulative effort to drive up share prices, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The ‘meme stock’ rally fueled by the Reddit forum WallStreetBets inflated stock prices for a number of previously downtrodden companies, including GameStop, which skyrocketed 1,600 percent in January before wiping out 70 percent of its value this week.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9220999/SEC-investigators-hunt-posts-social-media-looking-signs-fraud-GameStop-frenzy.html
It’s different when the little people do it.
Yeah, all they did was counter stock shorting…all perfectly legal by the rules as they’re laid out. As for the high roller dickheads that got caught flat footed and lost their shirts, screw them.
Seriously. The entire point of the movement was to counter the hedge fund guys who short the stock of companies and then use the financial press and other tools to depress the stock and destroy the company. So a CNBC reporter telling me that “Traders are shorting Tesla on reports that they are having trouble with production of their Model S and sales are predicted to decline in the next quarter” is just fine and dandy, when it was the shorts who “leaked” that story to CNBC… but some guy on reddit saying “Hey, buy this stock so we can keep the value high and screw over all these naked shorts” is somehow “manipulation”?
These people are just open with their corruption.
““The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing social media posts for signs of potential fraud in frenzied trading of GameStop and other companies’ shares, according to a new report”
Anyone doubting that in the age of made up news and demands for truth commissars to make sure the fucking annoying rabble doesn’t question the authority of the credentialed oligarchy, that they will find this proof? Even if it doesn’t exist or is what THEY get to do all the time?
“Wyoming’s lone House member received backing from GOP leader Kevin McCarthy”
GOP delenda est, with prejudice. The expected outcome, sure, but they do manage to prove time and again that they fucking suck.
We got Trump because so many people started realizing that despite their rhetoric, team red statists were just democrats that had not yet abandoned the need to pretend they see us all as serfs.
Thot Thursday is takin’ over.
https://archive.li/rVSnF
#13 looks very fake
This bunch seems to have extreme photoshop edits
“LAPD cops and helicopters swarm Marilyn Manson’s Hollywood home over ‘concerns for his safety’ after 11 women accused him of abuse – but ex-wife Dita Von Teese insists he never mistreated her
LAPD cops swarmed Marilyn Manson’s Hollywood Hills home over concerns for his safety Wednesday night, as at least 11 women have now come forward and accused the rocker of abuse.
Four police cruisers and an LAPD helicopter were dispatched to Manson’s home around 6.00pm to perform a ‘welfare check’ on the 52-year-old after a concerned friend couldn’t get in touch with him, reported TMZ.
Police later told DailyMail.com they were able to make contact with someone and found there was ‘no evidence of any trouble whatsoever’ at the property. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9222223/LAPD-swarm-Marilyn-Mansons-home-following-calls-disturbing-incident-abuse-allegations.html
Any word from Rose McGowan?
Multi-millionaire music stars fuck groupies. It’s in the contract that you sign at the crossroads, just like no brown M&MS.
And no toy robots. (Iggy Pop, IIRC)
Bidens reveal hopes, fears, and marriage tips in first White House interview
Hopefully he also discussed his socks and Metamucil schedule.
C’mon man!
Did he show off his refrigerator full of pudding?
Boxers briefs…or Depends?
What about his tips for raising sons?
hookers and blow?
https://youtu.be/aVQhKRTVBk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjvPudHZ6Ow
Oh, Kristi.
Tuesday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) discussed her thoughts on why she has been targeted by the media, which she attributed to an impulse from the media and her political opponents to “control people.”
“I really think it’s about control,” she said to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. “They have used for the last year fear to control people. And in South Dakota, we just took a very different path. We knew the science told us we couldn’t stop the virus. We could slow it down and protect people who might be vulnerable and make sure we had enough hospital capacity to take care of those who would need it. But that we were going to do it together and allow people to be flexible to take care of their families and still put food on the table.”
Bunk, there, now.
+a Gagillion she rides horses…
I’m working diligently to get my wife to move to SD. Minnesota is a lost cause and has been for decades. It’s essentially Cali/NY lite.
“She wasn’t even in the building! AOC is accused of exaggerating her ‘near-death’ Capitol riot experience as it’s revealed the office where she cowered was down the street and UNTOUCHED – as #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett trends on Twitter!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9221269/AOC-hits-Republicans-claiming-never-Capitol.html
BELIEVE HER, YOU CAD!!
There was sniper fire or something.
Note the repetition of the “cop killed by fire extinguisher” claim.
Officer Pavlik Morozov
Don’t expect the truth from The Daily Mail. If they give it to you it was entirely by accident kind of like WaPo.
Even NPR has backed off of it. This mornings phrasing was all passive voice “that left five people dead.”
Even CNN of all places reported that there were no signs of blunt trauma.
Gun Glibs, does anyone respectable make a sling attachment point like this?
https://smile.amazon.com/TACFUN-Tactical-Adapter-Attachment-Picatinny/dp/B00RSXDSQU
Not sure. Have you checked Brownell’s and Midway?
https://www.brownells.com/search/index.htm?k=picatinny+sling&ksubmit=y
https://www.midwayusa.com/s?userSearchQuery=picatinny+sling&userItemsPerPage=48
https://magpul.com/rsa-rail-sling-attachment.html?mp_global_color=undefined
Probably a few more options if you go with a QD mount.
I was trying to avoid QD. The RSA is an option, but the Chinese POS at Amazon looks more streamlined and I was hoping to find a quality version.
I’m using BFG Uloop, but it won’t fit through my handguards, cuz the barrel is too tight to the handguards.
Pro tip for the Magpul RSA – mount it on the side of your handguard, loop facing up. It’s more out of the way like that.
Or you could do what I do, and use a double loop of paracord as your sling mounting point. It’s simple, quiet, and dirty cheap.
Seems to me people need to seriously just get off Facebook and Twitter.
And I am not liking on bit the direction Canada and USA are taking. Worse part? I don’t think it can change course without an actual civil war.
Just the fact and idea someone proposes a ‘Reality czar’ fills me with despair for the future. A healthy society does NOT even think of this. But they have influence.. Laugh at AOC, and laugh we must, but that lunatic – and she is a legit lunatic – is WINNING.
Ask yourself this, if Rand Paul and AOC ran head to head. Who would win?
Looks like Ron De Sanctis is emerging as the man to lead the GOP.
Based off of the vitriol and outright lies aimed in his direction by the media and the democrat establishment, I’d say your assessment of DiSantis is shared by the democrats.
And since he is “meh” and competent, the attacks must be double-plus-insane!
“Seems to me people need to seriously just get off Facebook and Twitter.”
Never did faceplant, and I only read and ever dwindling list of some Twitter people without ever registering myself, and these days I think I really made the right choice.
I haven’t closed my FB account, but I haven’t been on it for about 3 weeks now due to encouragement from my fellow Glibs. I don’t miss it.
Delete. You will never miss it.
Close it. As long as it’s open, they get to claim you as an “active user” for advertising purposes. It’s like flicking single grains of salt at an elephant and hoping to take it down, but we have to start somewhere….
I left in October (account still open). I don’t miss it a bit.
I haven’t closed mine, but I’ve greatly curtailed use in the last few weeks.
I need it for communications. The adult baseball league I help run uses FB, and that’s part of my job.
Ugh.
I signed up and logged of permanently in 2011, despite my family all pestering me to get back on it.
However, my brother is now posting puppy pictures (including mine) there, so I’m really tempted…
The main thing that made me drop it like a hot potato was the way it instaneously infiltrated all of my browsers and email programs. Is there some way I can isolate FB before putting it back on one of my machines?
I joined to stay in touch with relatives. Too many were microbloggers. I don’t care what you got at Chipotle for lunch. Now I just ask my sister how everyone is doing.
The Proud Boys are apparently an official “Hate Group” now. Double Secret Probation or active ruining of the lives and livelihood of anyone even tangentially connected to them? I’ll pick the latter. Gavin is gonna have to deplane to Moscow.
Good morning, everyone!
Has the country collapsed yet?
I think that happened 12 years ago. Maybe 20. We are just listening to the death rattle.
This – there was no single moment when the Roman Republic or Empire collapsed. It was a long process.
I think we have more in common with the specific fall of Byzantium. While the place is under attack, the top men were stuck in a room discussing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Our top men are smarter because they have a whole slew of insane things they are peddling, all at once, to confound the situation.
Jimbo’s bike is still missing.
It’s snowing pretty good today – he’d need a fat tire anyway.
Was that what you were riding in the parks?
SHHHHHHH!!!!!
He’s P.W. Herman?
Baseball birthdays are abysmal but kinda fun:
Top 2 are recent players, Doug Fister and Dan Plesac, neither broke 20 career WAR. After that is a hall of fame name in Possum Whitted and then the “great” Germany Schaefer, who only had 8.9 WAR across 15 seasons but was responsible for rule changes — maybe. Although it wasn’t changed until about 10 years after his retirement he is generally the inspiration for the “no making mockery of the game” rule, by doing things like stealing 1st base from 2nd.
5.09(b)(10) states that a player is out if “After he has acquired legal possession of a base, he runs the bases in reverse order for the purpose of confusing the defense or making a travesty of the game. The umpire shall immediately call ‘Time’ and declare the runner out”
So other purposes are still allowed? I’m friends with the guy at first. We talk between pitches.
The legit reasons are something like you advance to 2nd, the runner on 2nd tries to advance to 3rd, but gets caught in a rundown and goes back to 2nd, so now it is okay for you to go back to 1st.
The classic counter-example (where players didn’t go back properly) that I will now have to look up to get right, is the player who tripled into a triple play. Three players ended up on 3rd base at the same time.
I did get it wrong, Babe Herman doubled into a double play. The play happened on my negative 43rd birthday. From wikipedia:
In the seventh inning of a game on August 15, 1926, against the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field, Herman tried to stretch a double off the right field wall into a triple with one out and the bases loaded. Chick Fewster, who had been on first base, advanced to third base – which was already occupied by Dazzy Vance, who had started on second base but became caught in a rundown between third and home and was dashing back to third. All three men ended up on third base, with Herman not having watched the play in front of him. The Braves’ third baseman, Eddie Taylor, tagged all three just to be sure of getting as many outs as possible. The slow-footed Vance had been a major contributor to the situation, but according to the rules, because he was the lead runner and not forced to advance, he was entitled to third base, so umpire Beans Reardon called Herman and Fewster out. Thus, Herman “doubled into a double play,” although Hank DeBerry also scored the game’s winning run on the play before the daffiness started. Herman later complained that no one remembered that he drove in the winning run on the play. The incident led to the popular joke:
“The Dodgers have three men on base!”
“Oh, yeah? Which base?”
So why would that lead to a Dodgers joke?
“The Dodgas belong in Brooklyn, I should know, I’m from there! Sports Teams are owned by tha fans, like me, now by capitalist fat cats! That’s why, as my first orda of action as the President of…tha…US of Cuba? I don’t know, I get confused. I mean why is it called Almond Milk? Who milks the almonds?…Oh yeah, I’m orderin tha Dodgas to move back to Brooklyn. Then, yeah I’ll do that otha socialist shit I talk about…”
-Bernie Sander’s 2024 Inauguration speech.
Hey, Bernie. Do the Yankees have to return to Baltimore?
Only during the “beer Inning” which is all of them. (played a lot of rec ball)
Cant wait for the season to start. First time i can remember that Yankees didnt improve their team during the offseason.
Jays loaded up in the off season. I’ll pay some attention to the scores but I don’t actively follow pro sports anymore for some strange reason.
Yeah they look good—need pitching tho
Y’all take care of Springer, the man is a gem and there’s nothing more fun than yelling Springer Dinger when he smashes one out of the park. I’m gonna miss him. Just glad y’all didn’t get Brantley, too.
“He’s currently awaiting trial for the shooting deaths of two men who were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake.”
Oh fucking hell. Really? Is this what we call “reporting” now?
Nope.
Straight up propaganda, bordering on fiction.
Poisoning the jury pool.
Oh oh oh ohohohoh! It gets better!!!! From the same article: “He has claimed he acted in self-defense.”
Gosh-freaking-dang, I wish I would find that “reporter” and pat her on the head…. This is one of the most “yes massa” articles I’ve read since the VIOLENT CAPITAL INVASION™
If only the events had been captured on video.
Under the heading of “protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake”
https://youtu.be/PuBmgjkWXt8
Nate the Lawyer breaks down the evidence that is publicly available to put these “protests” in proper context.
Presentation of evidence begins at about 20 minutes.
Started watching Nate’s take on it, will need to finish this afternoon. But man, there’s no accounting for ‘truth’ in these times, is there?
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki is called out on Biden’s failure to reach out to pro-life Americans
It should not be any trouble. I am told that Joe is a
religious freak Catholic like Amy Barrettdevout, practicing Catholic who is austere and scholarly.You know how much those Catholics like forcing people to pay for abortions.
UNITY™!!!! Don’t you feel it?
Unity™ = we can spend 4 years smearing and demonizing anyone we don’t agree with but when we win(?) an election, you need to play nice.
Alexandria Ocasio Smollet???
Hopefully we will soon have a Reality Czar to inform us that her lived experience is the actual accepted version of the truth.
Another version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAzAucMOE0s&ab_channel=RickRogan
The footage is cool.
Comparison I have not seen: The number of prosecutions around the capital hill riot and the number of prosecutions during BLM riots.
There were many BLM riots that resulted in thousands of times more property damage and injury than the capital riot in a single event. Most resulted in zero prosecutions, even when people were captured on camera smashing windows, looting stores and then burning them down.
There have been some 150 prosecutions to date… presumably covering just about every single person who set foot on the Capital Building even if they were just walking around. How many BLM riots does it take to add up to 150 prosecutions? How many millions in property damage?
Also, they are now claiming 5 dead in “deadly white supremacist insurrection terrorist attack”.
One shot by police. Unarmed, but attempting to enter a door that was being barred by police.
One police officer… hit in the head. Returned to his office and hours later collapsed at his desk. Not sure if the autopsy proves that he died as a result of the blow to the head or not.
One lady trampled in the crowd.
And … this one is the big one…. two police officers committed suicide weeks later.
So… one lady directly killed by the actions of rioters… but not in an assault, but rather an accident of large crowds acting recklessly. One lady killed by police under circumstances that would have seen the officer charged with murder had this been a BLM riot (do not bother arguing this point… we have more than one example from this summer to prove exactly this point). One officer who may have died as a result of injuries received at the hands of rioters. And two presumably entirely unrelated suicides.
The official death toll now stands at an entirely fictional 5.
#TheBigLie
Also, as far as I know that prosecution of the St Louis couple is ongoing despite the fact that the prosecutor literally committed a crime by tampering with evidence (the pistol that was inoperable was made operable by said prosecutor…). There is no law.
Cyto bringing the fire today. Your posts are making me want to strangle people.
Oh, great. Now Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer are going to accuse me of attempted murder…
The fact that they aren’t trumpeting that poor guy’s autopsy to the high heavens serves as likely confirmation of the extinguisher to the noggin being inconclusive to their purposes at best.
One police officer… hit in the head.
Probably not, actually, if the recent report on the autopsy is to be believed. If he was hit in the head, it apparently was not the reason he died. According to that report, they are trying to find footage of him being pepper sprayed or maced, and not having any luck. If that’s actually the cause of death, there is a non-zero chance it was blue-on-blue.
As I hinted at, I found their account totally suspicious.
There are certain times where you don’t know what actually happened… but you do know that you are being lied to. This felt like one of those times. I equivocate because a dude is dead and I don’t know a single thing about it. But the media story they rushed out with was certainly made up at the time, even if it turns out to be true.
Whether through malice or simply the rush of the moment, they didn’t have an accurate story before attempting to set the narrative. Like “hands up don’t shoot”, which turned out to be false, or Blake being an innocent bystander who broke up a fight between two women and was unarmed when shot for no reason at all by racist police (not a word of that is true), this attempt to set a narrative immediately tells me they are lying – even when they accidentally hit on something that is actually true.
Local news had big headlines about arrests after the riots in Cleveland. The much smaller story and buried several months later was that most of the charges were dropped, and the people “mostly peaceful protestors” were released.
Prosecutors all over the country announced their official policy was not to prosecute people for crimes related to BLM protests.
Neat.
FOR THE FIRST 20 YEARS of his life, Wu Tseng-dong lived in a war zone. Growing up on Kinmen Island, a small Taiwanese territory four miles off the coast of mainland China, bombs were a constant threat. “It was terrifying. We were always panic-stricken,” Wu says. “We had to scout out places to hide when the bombs dropped. A big tree is good because it can block the impact, but the best place to hide was inside a gutter.”
For much of the 20th century, Kinmen was a battleground. A Cold War flashpoint between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China, or Taiwan, the People’s Liberation Army shelled the tiny island of Kinmen repeatedly. Beginning on August 23, 1958, when Wu was barely a year old, roughly 479,500 bombs were dropped by mainland China on Kinmen over the span of 44 days, an event later called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. “The only time they stopped bombing was during meal times,” Wu says, noting how his mother would seize those moments of quiet to run out of their bunker and into the fields to harvest sweet potatoes to eat before the shelling resumed.
The intensity of the bombing eventually abated, though the mainland continued to bombard Kinmen every other day until 1978. “Some of those bombs would explode into many pieces,” Wu says, holding up a piece of shrapnel from an old artillery shell. “Back then we didn’t have machines to cut the bomb into little pieces, so we would collect these fragmented pieces and make knives with them.”
Heh…
Scotty doesn’t know
@litanyagnstfear
So beautiful to see
#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett
I did her on his birthday…..
Matt Damon’s best moments on screen (Team America does not count of course).
My favorite Lee Dorsey. It’s on my hype playlist: https://youtu.be/XvMOUbD6YGk (pretty sure someone here suggested it)
Found my RV!
https://youtu.be/QYisbim247k
But what does the inside look like?!
Did you see the AirStream with the built-in office? Spendy, especially when you price in the vehicle to haul it, but suh-weet.
I did! Thanks! (Neph beat you to it by several hours, I should say TBF)
Curses!
*shakes virtual fist impotently at Neph*
When we go to the Barrett-Jackson auction in Phoenix, there’s a big AirStream demo, with a bunch of their models you can walk through. Seriously tempting, especially when there’s several restomodded old Dodge Power Wagons to haul them just around the corner.
/buffs fingernails
/doffs top hat to R C Dean
Nice!
KK, unless you really, really, REALLY like pulling trailers, backing up trailers, and all the other assorted trailering BS, I would recommend getting a smallish RV and just driving that around. Put a bike rack on the back with either a bicycle or a moped and you would be good to go.
Oh, and Home Depot used to let RVers park overnight in their lots, so keep that in mind.
Come on, man! I doubt this is anything but pretend concern.
The international globalist movement that our leadership class belongs to knows that a global world government with the U.S. model of freedom the U.S. Constitution advocates for would be a serious threat to their plans for a hereditary credentialed oligarchy. They prefer the CCP model, where the ruling class tells the serfs what to belief, makes them happy with scraps from their high table, and then pass power to their offspring, which is why they want China to become the lone super power.
Get that clear, and all the crazy becomes understandable.
So an inherited authoritarian oligarchic corruptocracy with a built in skim? I thought we had that already.
*insert David Rockefeller here*
Go ahead and share this with your favorite proggies:
THE UNTOLD STORY: JOE BIDEN PUSHED RONALD REAGAN TO RAMP UP INCARCERATION — NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
I love inconvenient truths. And who is this ‘Strom’ guy Joe seemed so fond of?
Is The Intercept an “acceptable source” for progs? You know how important credentials over facts are to them.
Does it go along with the current narrative? If not, then it’s not an acceptable source.
That Russian stooge Greenwood used to work there so they’re by definition untrustworthy to the left. Then again, he resigned because they suppressed his inconvenient Biden article so maybe they were redeemed in their eyes.
Yeah, we’ll see if this means they were insufficient in their purges or not.
Me: Why am I hungry? I made lunch.
*goes into kitchen, sees lunch still sitting on plate*
Me: That would explain it.
That’s me with drinks. Then my ice is melted by the time I remember.
I forgot to bring my coffee flask. I didn’t realize how extreme my addicti9on was until I tried to make it past 9:00 having only consumed my morning pint o’ java.
This whole thread is retarded
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1357062150322352131
It’s not so much retarded as it’s a steaming pile of bullshit. A meathead like Joe Rogan could reduce their lame arguments (really pronouncements but whatever) to rubble in five minutes.
FACT ONE: Trans girls are girls.
Uh…no, they are not.
FACT TWO: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.
This is only true if it is a trans male playing male sports (because it is a female at a disadvantage to males…).
FACT THREE: Including trans athletes will benefit everyone.
False. Including biological males in female sports is to the detriment of biological females.
FACT FOUR: Trans people belong on the same teams as other students.
*sigh*
“This is only true if it is a trans male playing male sports (because it is a female at a disadvantage to males…).”
That’s debatable if they are juiced on testosterone.
Didn’t work out for the 1976 GDR swim team. They crushed the women’s records (at the time; they’ve since been surpassed) but still fell far short of the men’s records.
And IIRC, one of them was so far around the bend (facial, body hair etc.) that she went trans, she was halfway there anyway.
I doubt a female can juice herself up enough to compete with most males.
Just like we are already pretty certain that a male cannot juice himself down to compete fairly with most females.
This is only true if it is a trans male playing male sports (because it is a female at a disadvantage to males…).
That problem is currently being ignored because, for whatever reason, it’s deemed more important to get transwomen into ciswomen’s sports. But I can only imagine what comes after. Do we get a Handicapper General to ensure cismen can’t outcompete transmen? How does the narrative get built? I’m sure cismale privilege will be a part of the “explanation” for their advantage, but then what?
I dunno but I’m running out of popcorn here watching the shifting victim stack play havoc with the left’s various bases.
Clear and present existential threat
Today Washington is staring at something like a new dawn – the start of the post-Trump era – and Republicans don’t know which side of the war they’re on. Are they with the United States or with the insurrectionists?
The early answers are catastrophically weak in a world where the threats are not distant or abstract. This is not a risk posed to American officials halfway around the world, or a potential threat that might one day materialize in a foreign capital.
This is a clear and present danger for the very members of Congress who must now decide between protecting their own careers or protecting the lives of the people working down the hall. With the second impeachment trial of Donald J Trump starting next week, there’s no escaping the moment of decision for at least 50 Republican senators: are you with the United States or not?
In every single other working environment, this would not be a hard choice. Given the chance to save your own job or save the lives of your co-workers – even the ones you dislike – the vast majority of decent people would save lives.
Just listen to the first-hand accounts of representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Katie Porter. Ocasio-Cortez gave a chilling account of hiding in her office bathroom to save her life as insurrectionists stormed the Capitol last month.
It’s Bosnia on stilts out there. Slaughter in the town square. The politics of grapeshot.
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
If forced to choose . . . .
The “with us or against us” crowd needs to be careful. They might get what they are wishing for.
I’m not with them but I am against you.
I dunno, I feel like ‘Sedition Caucus’ has a rather nice ring to it…
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
There has been some talk about why the National Guard is still in DC. I’m seeing it now – they think the Trump trial is going to get ugly. But after that, I can see it becoming the “new normal”.
DC has been morphing into a “Green Zone” since Clinton, when they shut down Penn Ave in front of the WH. It’s been creeping since then.
The lockdown of the mall during the inauguration was the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
Nowadays even 4th of July is fenced off, with security entrances, etc.
I remember one year we sat on the lawn by Tommy Jeff’s Memorial and drank wine coolers all night. Another year we sat on the hill by Georgie W’s Monument with ~100,000 other people, and passed a spliff amongst our group.
That kind of fun-having is verboten now.
Yes ☹️
There is a reason the fences are being made permanent.
The People’s buildings can only be entered by the high priests.
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx…
Are they with the United States or with the insurrectionists?
What insurrectionists? I’m on the side of the US and against leftist/commie/Marxist usurpers.
Ocasio-Cortez gave a chilling account of hiding in her office bathroom to save her life as insurrectionists stormed the Capitol last month.
I’m sure this will make for a good fiction novella.
https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1357304503486275584
WTF??
Circle the wagons! Save the overly dramatic retard!
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/02/man-accused-of-yelling-racist-slurs-at-black-portland-police-officer-faces-bias-crime-allegation.html
Yes, the officer was in fear of serious physical injury so much so that his fellow officers told the man to walk away (without arresting him) and only arrested him after he returned. And they arrested him without incident or serious physical injury somehow.
I hate everyone involved.
Being a douchebag and speaking accordingly isn’t a crime or shouldn’t be anyway.
Felonious butt-hurt.
Awesome tune Spud, I love me some Lee Dorsey. Here he is doing a sweet ass funk cover of Allen Toussaint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKpucBPlUFw
Hey!
Há! Nice one, I think that was me that recommended that when you once asked for something upbeat, glad you enjoyed. I’m a huge classic soul and funk fan. If you liked that you’ll enjoy this fun one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tubBiXf7E0
I absolutely LOVE the lyrics to “Everything I Do” – it’s, like, lit’rally me. I’m normally into pop, but anything with a vibe that says “Go Gurl” will get a listen.
Thanks for the recco!
Sweet! Glad it made the playlist.
I had no idea you were a Bryan Adams fan.
Now that song is the opposite of who I am!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornilov_affair
Sounds a little too familiar.
It is long past time to admit the blindingly obvious: the Republican party has been hijacked by fascist extremists. It is now a far-right organization in league with neo-Nazis who have made it painfully clear they want to overthrow democracy and seize power, using violence if necessary.
Every decision the so-called leaders make at this point defines which side they are on: the United States as we know it, or the white supremacist mob.
Yeah, okay. Take your meds.
That’s some mighty fine progjection right there.
“8/ One unarmed protester attempted to jump through a broken window and was shot by a Capitol Hill Police Officer who was also a BLM member. The officer warned the protester that he would shoot her if she climbed through the window. He is not being charged.”
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1357006237272072196
Totality of the circs, yo. I mean, we all knew this was going to be the case.
“Good shot.”
Regardless of that officer’s political sympathies, somoene claiming xe was a “BLM member ” immediately makes me discount them.
If it turns out Officer Mcbangbang had access to the BLM bank account(s) I’ll admit I was wrong.
BLM doesn’t even have access to the money they collect. It gets funneled by Act Blue.
Oh they get a nice cut.
“The officer warned the protester that he would shoot her if she climbed through the window.”
I’ve seen the video and I dispute this piece of information. It may be unclear from the video (lots of noise and voices), but I don’t believe there was much of a warning.
I’d rather have Victory Gin, or a bump in my chocolate ration
The Biden White House is considering sending masks directly to American households, according to three people familiar with the discussions, an action the Trump administration explored but scrapped.
The Covid-19 Response Team is evaluating the logistics of mailing out millions of face coverings, but no decision has been made, and the proposal hasn’t yet reached President Joe Biden for final approval, a White House official said.
The idea has been raised in several meetings among Biden’s top health experts in recent days, particularly as Biden continues to urge Americans to use masks as a primary defense against the spread of the coronavirus.
Biden has asked all Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his term, and he has signed several executive actions that mandate wearing face coverings on federal property and aboard public transit, moves President Donald Trump never enacted.
A once-great nation, writhing in its last agonizing death throes? Or perhaps preparing to expel the accumulated toxins of superstitious ignorance?
That’s how they’ll save the USPS!
The only question I have is, when the smoke from mask burning parties blocks out the sun, will it result in global cooling, or just provide a handy beacon for the round-up crews to find protesters?
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1357340950616371201
So Space Hat is now the Hat? Or is the Hat now Space Hat? Like pirate ghosts, and ghost pirates, never really got how the grammar of possession works.
SPACE!
Barn door, meet horse.
(TW: Faux Nooz autoplay)
I mean, better late than never, I suppose.
FWIW, I think the states should eliminate ballot harvesting, cut early voting periods down to three days or so, get rid of same-day registration, ban motor-voter registration, and (I can’t believe I’m writing this) follow Florida’s lead when it comes to mail-in ballots.
Of course, the usual suspects will screech “Muh voter suppreshun!” Ignore them.
Does it really matter what lawmakers do when SCOTUS refuses to smack down non legislative officers making changes to the laws at whim?
Too fucking late.
And we’ll see what they actually do. I have the feeling this is more kabuki. And I wouldn’t be surprised to see the federal courts rule that restricting vote by mail in any way is a Constitutional violation of some kind.
In Minnesoda our Sec of State actively engaged with NOW to get them to sue the state over the super restrictive ballot stuff (not really super restrictive). Then when NOW filed the suit he instantly caved and gave into their demands and removed witness requirements and other pesky restrictions.
Now he goes around feigning outrage when questioned about it.
Legislators are mostly OK with him usurping their power to set election law.
That’s the same shit that the various state environmental departments do–they collude with the more extreme environmental NGOs–the departments say they can’t do something, the NGOs sue, then the dept. says they have no choice but to do the thing.
It does not. The only way for them to win again is to play the game–run their own ballot harvesting ops on the edge of legality.
Agreed, but my proposal for “mail-in” ballots requires that they be picked up in person following presentation of photo ID. Not sure what FL requires. I would like to see some form of chain of custody confirmation for mail-in ballots that doesn’t require disclosure of the voter’s name, as well. The confirmation should be on the ballot, not on a separate envelope or other item.
And everybody has to renew their voter registration every, say, 4 years. I’m willing to allow that to be done without requiring an in-person appearance and presentation of photo ID, but that would be preferable.
Well, they got rid of Trump, but now let’s make changes so our fellow GOPers can actually get elected.
I wonder what sort of patriotic message will be imprinted on those free masks.
“I live to serve the Collective” would be good.
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
OBEY
Need some bubblegum?
Do we get a pair of sunglasses with it?
My coworker was late this morning. Yesterday his wife got her first Covid vaccine. Last night she got an ambulance ride to the emergency room and 3 epi-pen injections. He said they didn’t get home until 3 am.
Yikes.
Everything I’ve seen so far would indicate that the vaccines pose a far greater risk to my health than the covid virus.
Not when the True Believers come burn down your house for doubting the vaccine.
While vaccine distribution continues to scale up, face coverings are likely to be here to stay. Top doctors predict that Americans will need to wear them until the U.S. reaches herd immunity and possibly longer.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Wednesday that the Biden administration is even weighing whether people should double-mask. He indicated that it will wait for science to guide its recommendations, but he said the key is to wear at least one.
“If you’re talking about a physical barrier and as the CDC recommends, you want at least two layers within the mask as a physical barrier, and you feel maybe more of a physical barrier would be better, there’s nothing wrong with people wearing two masks,” Fauci said. “I often myself wear two masks.
Possibly longer
Nothing wrong with wearing two masks. Doktor Mumbo Jumbo does it. Why don’t you?
SCIENCE!
Masks with low efficiency serve primarily as a barrier to relatively large globules of mucus and spit and an unfiltered plastic barrier or the like would serve the intended purpose even better. If they go the two mask route it’ll just turn the absurdity up to 11.
He also often himself wears zero masks. At baseball games, for instance.
That’s fine, though. Just as the virus knows to come out at night, knows when you are recklessly standing in a bar instead of safely sitting in a restaurant, knows if your gathering is right-wing or left-wing, it knows you are safe if you have a water bottle in your hand.
This guy gets it
Too me that event sealed the deal that he was one of the worst people in washington dc. The fact there were people celebrating this man who basically made it impossible for people to attend that event for going and throwing out the first pitch was such a fucking indictment on humanity and a huge black pill. I just don’t understand how anyone could possibly look at that and come away with any other take besides Fauci is one of the worst and least self-aware people on the planet.
One part of me wants them to mandate double masking because I think that it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. People will figure out that this is a scam and will push back.
Then the other part of me laughs and says “suuuuuuuuuuuure”
I’ve seen people in public willingly double masking already. I doubt that there will be any more pushback then there is against the regular masking.
face coverings are likely to be here to stay
Not for me.
Wait I thought he folded on the double masks saying he basically made it up. Did he flip again back to it?
Top doctors predict that Americans will need to wear them until the U.S. reaches herd immunity and possibly longer.
What possibly could require people to wear masks if you reached herd immunity…..
OBEY!
and (I can’t believe I’m writing this) follow Florida’s lead when it comes to mail-in ballots.
Burn them?
Well, whaddaya know? . I guess winter decided to come down our chimney after all.
We’ve got a winter storm warning for the next few days.
Speaking of portable living and working spaces…
I like these. A lot.
Swoopy.
That would be fun.
I strongly suspect one would need a complete, frame-off restoration, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87r0CPQbFds
11 long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus
*cue Omega Man music*
I can picture that thing screeching around narrow curves in the Badlands while being pursued by wasteland raiders.
And the shag carpet on the dash, I can picture that too.
it probably has a cigarette lighter as well.
*gasps*
the only reason I still hold onto my 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe is because it still has that feature.
I don’t know if they still make them, but there used to be a 5 1/4″ insert you could install in an empty drive bay in a computer that had both a cigarette lighter (same style as the old car ones) and a pop-out cup holder.
Wasn’t that in “stripes”?
There will be no return to normal until Minnesoda’s Dr. Doom Osterholm has his chance to strut upon the stage and show that runt Fauci how panic pr0n is done.
Osterholm tells Minnesoda lawmakers the worst is yet to come!
Can anyone point me to a link for a good discussion/facts regarding the claims that Harris refused release of prisoners to use them for prison labor? Were there any cases where people had fully served their sentences and were not released?
Here is some link filled reporting.
https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
One part of me wants them to mandate double masking because I think that it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. People will figure out that this is a scam and will push back.
As I said the other day:
They’re telling you to wear an n95 mask, but with a fashion accessory mask to cover it up, so people won’t think you’re crazy.
Guess what, Shirley. That won’t help.
Cue W C Fields:
“Yeah, I’m drunk; and you’re crazy. Tomorrow I’ll be sober, and you’ll be crazy for the rest of your life.”
Good Night Glibs! The winnowing of poor old Festus continues apace. I shall return.
*gives Benny Hill salute*
Paid $2.45 at the pump this morning.
THANKS SLEEPY JOE.
Uffda. All these articles on the dire peril America is in because of Domestic Terrorists. How we need to unify.
Does anyone remember “consent of the governed”? Sure seems like that concept has been memory holed.
I’d make a small suggestion that if your governance has outraged such a huge portion of the population, you may not have real “consent”. And shouldn’t it really be enthusiastic consent?
But that’s the point. Separate, marginalize, and make it appear as if the large group of objectors is really only a minority of extremists. Then attack the extremists. It’s all about divide and conquer. Nothing new in the big party playbook in this country, it’s just that now they’re being a bit more ambitious.
In a secret ballot vote by the entire House Republican Conference, only 61 members voted to strip Cheney of her leadership role, with 145 supporting her.
61 aren’t members of the controlled opposition. I guess that is better than none.
They amputated both of DiMeo’s hands, replacing them mid-forearm and connecting nerves, blood vessels and 21 tendons with hair-thin sutures. They also transplanted a full face, including the forehead, eyebrows, nose, eyelids, lips, both ears and underlying facial bones.
“The possibility of us being successful based on the track record looked slim,” said Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who led the medical team of more than 140 people. “It’s not that someone has done this many times before and we have a kind of a schedule, a recipe to follow.”
So far, DiMeo has not shown any signs of rejecting his new face or hands, said Rodriguez, who revealed details of the transplant Wednesday.
This is really neat. There are good things in the world.
“Independently of the will of our local authorities to keep St. Barts open, the French government has just decided to put in place new preventive measures against COVID-19 variants,” Nils Dufau, the president of the Tourism Board, said in a statement.
You could… declare independence.
Asked about ethics rules regarding family and friends, Biden appeared to get in a dig at the Trump administration. “We’re going to run this like the Obama-Biden administration,” he said. “No one in our family and extended family is going to be involved in any government undertaking or foreign policy. And nobody has an office in this place.”
Heh. Hunter Biden says hi!
““Independently of the will of our local authorities to keep St. Barts open, the French government has just decided to put in place new preventive measures against COVID-19 variants,” Nils Dufau, the president of the Tourism Board, said in a statement.”
I am not quite sure why St. Barts still needs France around.
Does anyone remember “consent of the governed”? Sure seems like that concept has been memory holed.
Big Brother loves you. Love him back.
Or else.
He will sick STEVE SMITH on you to show you the real hard core love?
Except for one thing. The people of Wyoming did elect and re-elect her. They had the choice to send someone else. This is what the people choose.
True. But, the GOP Establishment are the ones who decided she should be some sort of Congressional leader. And let’s not kid ourselves. She was handed it. No way in hell someone whose last name wasn’t Cheney would be given a senior party leadership position in the House at the beginning of her second term. Especially one who made it a point of regularly allying with their opponents and targeting other Republicans (Massie) for primary challenges. And even more one who hasn’t shown crap for talent as a fundraiser (I think she ranked somewhere in the 140s in terms of Congressional fundraisers).
Cheney got this role as some sort of family tribute on the part of a clueless out-of-touch GOP leadership that wants to bring about some sort of Restoration of the neocons. And that’s a policy nobody outside of a few D.C. insiders has shown much interest in bringing back. She’s a retread who’s never even earned the status of a tread. This shows me that the GOP will waste its opportunity for a comeback in 2022. And my bet is Cheney will be at the forefront of that failure. And there will be no consequences for it.
No argument with that. The GOP is a worthless political party, just as are the Democrats.
Looks Like Canada has declared the Proud Boys a “Terrorist Org”.
“The Capitol riot agent provocateur posted an Antifa training video promoting his website where he sells armor and weapons. The Biden administration is concerned about peaceful Trump supporters while insurgents like John are arming the left.”
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1357357001035112456
Meanwhile, in the NYT, they’re saying we should re-think this “pull out of Afghanistan” idea.
Because that would be a Bad Thing.
Yeah, Biden has this whole “Land war in Asia” thing sniffed out.
OMG! Why is the NYT promoting WHITE SUMPREMACY in Afghanistan?
Wait I thought he folded on the double masks saying he basically made it up. Did he flip again back to it?
I did not see the fold, but they do this three card monte thing with these idiotic pronouncements where the
dealermedia swirls and twirls the talking points around in front of the mesmerized rubes for a day or two, until attribution to a vast faceless mob of “experts” is all that’s left.“Everybody says this is what we need to do.”
The narrative is quicker than the eye.
Agent Cooper brought up something. “Either the GOP is a populist party now, or it isn’t.”
I have always wondered about these labels. “Progressive”. They are for … progress? Populists… are for.. popularity?
As I have listened to people arguing for a populist movement, I have come to have some understanding of a working definition of populism…. at least what it seems to be to me, if not anyone else.
It appears that Populist movements arise when the state goes too far. As the establishment, mainstream guys take more and more power and wealth for the government and those connected to the government, resentment grows… until finally there is a populist revolt, correcting the excesses of the state, reigning in these excesses.
If that is what it is all about, we are at the precipice of a populist revolt, and Trump was clearly the tip of the spear, an opening shot and the reaction to the state, not the cause.
Because the democrats are not just continuing the path that led to this moment, but doubling and tripling down, ratchetting up the pressure. They are trying to strangle all opposition, which only makes the populist revolt more likely.
The Republicans are trying desperately to forestall this too, with McConnell asserting control from Trump and Trump supporters, re-establishing control by establishment types like himself and Cheney.
Where does this lead? It certainly looks like there will either be a total victory by the new Soviets in the DNC, or there will be a massive upheaval, either remaking the republican party as a populist opposition or the birth of a 3rd party with the destruction of one or both of the 2 main parties.
The thing I find odd is that Team BlueTM has completely given up on midwest working-class support for college activist wokism. The blue-collar types were their bread and butter for as long as I can remember. I am not sure what the strategy is there, presuming there is one.
I think populist movements tend to arise when the elites substantively fail. And it’s fair to say that the elites have failed pretty dramatically over the last couple of decades. I think the big left/right divide amongst populists is exactly which elites have failed. Honestly, I’d say it’s pretty much across the board. There’s not a field of endeavor – business, government, academia, culture – where the leadership of that field could be genuinely be considered an example of true achievement. For the most part, they’re no longer even much claiming competence as their claim, but simply credentialism and authority.
I agree, we have constructed a society where a significant portion of the over-educated have proven to be so colossally incompetent that it is plain to even the most casual observer. What amounts to the Left’s populists correctly identify a number of things that are wrong, it is just that their solution is to destroy the whole system.
Identifying what’s wrong is how you get the voters on your side. Destroying the whole system is how you get the voters out of your way.
There is nothing sacrosanct about the existing parties – other than their own desire to maintain their existence in the competition for power.
Populism may destabilize one or both, but new elites will step in in place of the old ones.
Anybody remember when Nixon went down to the Lincoln Memorial, practically alone, and talked to the hippies?
Nixon, Sanchez, the senior White House doctor Walter Robert Tkach and Secret Service agents then drove to the memorial in a presidential limousine, with Nixon later recalling that he had “never seen the Secret Service quite so petrified with apprehension”. Upon arrival Nixon and Sanchez walked up the steps to the statue of the seated Lincoln with Nixon pointing out the carved inscriptions of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and his Gettysburg Address.[2] White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs Egil Krogh was also present.[3]
Some students had recognised Nixon by now and, although surprised by his advent, walked up to him and shook his hand. Nixon said that the students “were not unfriendly” to him, but “seemed somewhat overawed”. Nixon learnt that several of them attended Syracuse University, and spoke of the university’s football team. Commenting later to journalists, the Syracuse University students felt that “most of what he was saying was absurd … Here we had come from a university that’s completely uptight, on strike, and when we told him where we were from, he talked about the football team.”[2]
Let’s see that feckless senile idjit Biden wander into the lions’ den for an honest inquisitive chat.
There probably isn’t a suitable pool of Proud Boys or militia-types (or whatever makes up the opposition these days) hanging around a DC greenway for Biden to break bread with.
Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
I will be honest and say it’s getting really scary to serve with people with guns, who dehumanize and target you.
I fear that with no accountability, no recourse and calls to “move on” will turn this toxic environment into a deadly situation.
By all means, please resign.
She’s just mad because the GOP have called her out as the target for the Tit-For-Tat. If the Dems remove Margjoriy Grenie whats her name, then they should expect ACO and Illhan Omar to be shown the door. It is time for some Dems to buck Pelosi et al who just want this to spiral into worse and worse. But who knows.
I think Pelosi (other than being great in Arrested Development) is cynically mouthing the leftist words because that is the way the wind is blowing. I don’t she is as much of a corporatist as anyone in congress.
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I don’tshe is as much of a corporatist as anyone in congress.Read your history, Omar. Perhaps it is your party Congress should fear. In 1850, a DEMOCRAT pro-slavery senator pulled his pistol on Sen. Benton. In 1856, a DEMOCRAT pro-slavery congressman beat Sen. Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor. In 1859, a DEMOCRAT pro-slavery congressman started a fist fight with an anti-slavery Penna. congressman; the pro-slavery DEMOCRAT Vice President of the U.S., joined in, and they rolled down the Capitol steps flailing at each other.
:sighs wistfully: If only congressmen faught eachother still…
Good thread here how AOC is even more full of shit than I thought:
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1357362594881949700
I’d still make that mistake…I’m old and lonely.
Yeah, you reach a certain age and the bar gets really low… and the “never in crazy” warning really holds no threat any more, since relationship is off the table.
The thing I find odd is that Team BlueTM has completely given up on midwest working-class support for college activist wokism. The blue-collar types were their bread and butter for as long as I can remember. I am not sure what the strategy is there, presuming there is one.
I think the working class voter is in a much better position to believe what s/he sees with his own eyes. Reality is the best teacher. The college activist wokesters who shuffle papers in some bureaucracy (vast or otherwise) are better able to retain the nonsensical pablum they were spoon fed in high school and college.
That is true. It seems like a deliberate shift, though. I wonder what is driving it. There are way more votes in the working class than there are in the church of woke.
Labour in the UK has done the same thing (although their shift is a bit more nakedly communist than ours).
Working class dems were always about how the Unions could help them score better bread for working low skill jobs. Low skill jobs in manufacture now pay better than high skill jobs in other areas in the midwest, union or not, because the pool of candidates was convinced to follow credentialism over learning a skill.
Related to today’s music link.
Populism may destabilize one or both, but new elites will step in in place of the old ones.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to jump in front of a
parademob and claim to be its leader.One of the lesser known facts of history is that Julius Ceaser and Octavias were the leaders of the “populares” faction in Rome.
Hey, it worked out for one of them…