Dang, they still let me write these things? I thought by now they’d have disabled my access. Anyhow, I’m pinch hitting for SP who is taking care of family. I won’t do as well, but I’ll do well enough.
I assume when the defendant is named in the suit filing we’ll finally know who shot Ashli Babbitt.
Sometimes the book title writes itself.
Urge to kill… rising
This can only be settled by a strip-off between the two nations hottest women. These two need not apply.
Here’s a little cheesecake for the our large contingent of pro-Asian gents. SFW
yo fam
whaddup ?
*shrug*
It’s raining, I guess.
Replacing a fence post.
Not only is the price of lumber retarded, screws are incredibly valuable. Screw hording ammo, I’m stocking up on hardware.
Why is the price of lumber retarded?
I need to renovate the laundry room.
1/2″ cdx is $65/sheet right now. For example.
Which is nuts, but why? Off the top my head that seems triple the price of year ago.
4 times as much.
There was an article about this on the morning links: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/lumber-prices-skyrocket-nearly-250-percent-impacts-local-suppliers-and-buyers/
In addition, I don’t think Biden has rescinded Trump’s tariffs on wood imports from Canada.
In a spirit of bipartisan camaraderie, no doubt.
BI-PARTISAN CAMARADERIE HARDER ON ASS THAN STEVE SMITH.
. . . I don’t think Biden has rescinded Trump’s tariffs on wood imports from Canada.
Not that it matters much — 96-inch 2″x4″ #2 grade spruce studs were $2.11 CDN a year ago at my local Home Depot. Now they’re $8.85/each. Fargin’ government asshole response to the ‘Vid’s to blame:
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/2-inch-x-4-inch-x-8-ft-spf-dimensional-lumber/1000112108
As I understand it, demand is up and supply is down, because of covid related gov. fuckery.
I wonder how much of it is driven by the Biden $pendathon Gibs-tacular. (Biden missed his calling he would be perfect for used car commercials, before his mind turned to mush, that is)
Replacing a fence post
What was the application process like? Do you regret now not taking a STEM major? Or was all the nookie and drinking in your English major worth having to reset your career goals?
Finally, was the old fence post just retiring? Or are you a scab who undercut him on salary?
I did it all for the nookie.
There; I said It.
Searching for MOENTROL parts.
“”That is the million dollar question,” Palumbo, who also serves as The Dan Bongino Show’s “resident fact checker,” told Fox News this week. “I haven’t entirely made up my mind, but probably de Blasio.”
I agree, de Blasio is a giant retard. Cuomo is more crooked than stupid.
Some kid that writes that neatly but can’t spell worth shit really should be taken out back and beat with a rubber hose.
+1 becum
“Beaten”, not “beat”.
If you’re going to criticize other people’s English….
Go suck an egg through a tailpipe and call me daddy Ted.
Yeah caught that as I hit reply. I have an excuse, I am day drinking.
Or you can go with – OBE criticized their spelling, not their grammar.
Yeah caught that as I hit reply
I think we’re calling that ‘Slumbrewing it’ – since that’s my move.
Oh yeah, totally slumbrewed it
Good grammar and spelling is white supremacy.
…and a privilege…
So no beat on the brat?
It’s the phonics spelling they teach early on. My kids spell horribly to this day. It drives me crazy
Fuck all of you spelling snots.
I’m terrible at spelling. One of the best things in my life is when all the words I misspell because I transpose a few letters (or just am dumb and mangle it) get the red squiggly marks so I know I messed up again.
Man make a snarky comment and people get all uppity.
No hard feelings. I forgive you for being a racist, sexist, spellingist monster.
Technically, *I* was the spellingist monster.
Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family plans to sue the US Capitol Police and the yet-to-be-named officer who fatally shot her during the riot on Jan. 6, according to an attorney representing the family.
“You have no standing and she was a capitol insurrectionist MAGA terrorist.” Dismissed.
Can’t wait for the stories about how this sheds light on the dark underbelly of the insurrection movement.
Year, 2042; Supreme Court Opinion 13-6. “After decades long investigations into the most disastrous attack on American soil, Jan 6, 2021, it is concluded that it was no more than a dust up. We rule the death of Ashli Babbitt manslaughter, however, given that the incident in 2021 was nothing more than a mild riot, we rule this point moot”
Babbit was a Bad Person so she deserved it.
Not bad, but sadly sucked into a world of conspiracy theories.
Which is weird. I enjoy a good conspiracy theory. I enjoy reading what the crazier parts of our society think. I just never would be so invested into it like some people get.
9-11 was an inside job, the moon landing was real, Hitler is still alive and all of the airline industry, including GA, ground crews, airports, etc are in on the chemtrails.
We had a whole module on servicing chemtrail equipment in A&P school. At least that’s what my powerplant instructor jokingly called it. He would use “chemtrail” as a mental placeholder when he was searching for a word.
Anatomy and Physiology?
Anal and Parenting?
The study of Alcoholic Penguins. It’s very specialized.
I love conspiracy theories, too. For fun.
Been years since I read the Robert Anton Wilson books, but they are a fun read.
Holy Blood Holy Grail was a masterpiece of stuff that sounded profound, if you didn’t look at it too closely.
That’s exactly where I am.
If you haven’t read Tim Powers, you might like him. Anubis Gates is probably my favorite.
I’ll have to check them out.
Who is that guy who wrote the novels kind of based on Holy Blood Holy Grail? The ones that got made into Tom Hanks movies? Dan something. The guy is not a particularly good writer.
Dan Brown. I’m not a fan.
“no one should be sad when a nazi dies.”
“These two need not apply.” Natalia looks like she should be included in this contest of yours.
Canadian fascism.
Here’s what’s happening: As you know, the police visited Art’s church on Holy Saturday and he cast them out, not allowing them to disrupt services. That video went viral. Well, even after that video embarrassed not only Alberta Health Services, but also the Calgary Police Service on an international scale, they came back. They’re out to show Art who’s boss.
Remember when Art told the police to come back with a warrant? Well, they did. A secret warrant — obtained in secret, using secret evidence.
Watch the full report where we break it down.
To summarize: we’ve got a secret hearing and a secret warrant containing secret allegations against a pastor in Calgary, Alberta. And if that pastor doesn’t allow a health inspector to disrupt the sanctity of his church service, he will be taken before a judge — using any force necessary — and tossed in jail for contempt.
Looks like our little brothers up North have learned valuable lessons from us.
Secret warrants for something not national security, not mob violence (ie, no risk of witness intimidation). Totes legit, much transparent.
So, they’ve been on double-secret probation?
If Canada becomes a totalitarian hellhole, where will all the elites threaten to go to if they don’t get their way come election time?
Canada?
Zing!
What are you talking about? It will be a totalitarian hellhole with all the right thinking. Feature, not a bug.
Maybe a few will go to Cuba instead for the weather, but most will trade cold for not having to learn a new language.
Totally not a banana republic.
“Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?
Is having a child an act of environmental vandalism or an investment in the future? Is it possible to live an ecologically responsible life while adding yet another person to our overstretched planet? Can I get away with it if I just never learn to drive, never get a dog and keep wearing the same three pairs of jeans for the rest of my life?
For the scientifically-engaged person, there are few questions more troubling when looking at the current climate emergency than that of having a baby. Whether your body throbs to reproduce, you passively believe that it is on the cards for you one day, or you actively seek to remain child-free, the declining health of the planet cannot help but factor in your thinking. Before I got pregnant, I worried feverishly about the strain on the earth’s resources that another Western child would add. The food he ate, the nappies he wore, the electricity he would use; before he’d even started sitting up, my child would have already contributed far more to climate change than his counterpart in, say, Kerala or South Sudan. But I also worried about the sort of world that I would bring my child into – where we have perhaps just another 60 harvests left before our overworked soil gives out and we are running out of fresh water. Could I really have a baby, knowing that by the time he was my father’s age, he may be living on a dry and barren earth?”
https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/having-a-child-sustainable
No, but I thinking this person still shouldn’t.
This person and all their like-minded friends should heed this advice.
I know its overdone but… Nikki?
This ‘person’ needs to stick their head in a bucket of ice water. And leave it there.
Idiocracy was a story sent from the future.
They got their marching orders. “SHIFT FROM COVID TO CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT USE THE SAME TONE AND LANGUAGE”
The trial balloons were not shot down, so why not.
Look, it is 2021. It is ok to really like ass sex. You don’t need to come up with some convoluted excuse to only do butt stuff. You don’t really care about saving the planet and there is only one way to be sure that no child conceived, so lube up.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1914/11/the-mailed-fist-and-its-prophet/306393/
Koch rid Germany of typhoid fever by penning up the population of whole villages and condemning whole watersheds. It was ruthless, it was unpopular, it broke down and made a mock of a host of ‘inalienable’ rights—but it worked.
If Mencken was alive today would he be a lockdowner, masker, social distancer and vaccine passporter? I mean he loved to Follow The Science and these things are opposed by the yokels and Southerners he loved to rail against.
Hahaha, November 1914 – now THAT is auspicious timing to publish something pro German. Also if he’s talking Robert Koch, there is no mention of him working on typhus, but instead on cholera, anthrax and tuberculosis.
Part of the TOP MEN approved science back then was phrenology and eugenics.
“Sin City! Fox 5 Vegas morning news anchor is forced into on-air apology after arrest for passing out drunk and naked in her Audi at 730am”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9525827/Fox-5-Las-Vegas-news-anchor-arrested-naked-reeking-alcohol-Audi.html
would?
AHAHAHA! Read that today looking through local news. She isn’t sweet and is fake as all hell; though that does seem to be your type.
It’s Vegas. I’d expect nothing less.
Bubble headed bleach-blonde.
Passed-out, drunk, naked, in your car @ 0730?
C’mon man- who of us hasnt done that ?
It wasn’t my car, but point taken.
That seems like a good career booster in Vegas.
“ Feven Kiflegiorgis”?
Now they’re just fucking with us.
Nice rack.
“How can calling Tim Scott “Uncle Tim” be racist when he just told everyone this isn’t a racist country?”
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1387640652599635969
Bunch of clapping seals in the replies.
That is the new way. When called out, take the goal posts, throw them on the moon and pretend it is the observer that is racist not the actor.
And they don’t even realize that they’re admitting they’re the racists.
“We’re totes justified in calling him ‘Uncle Tim’ because he said the U.S. isn’t racist, when clearly it is, since me and all my progress friends just observed a public act of racism when we all called him ‘Uncle Tim’, which is clearly a racist slur.”
The twitt algorithm led me from yours to this. I don’t have words. Well, I do but I will spare you.
Fuck. messed up the link somehow…….https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/1387571317122142209
Just a myth huh? Seems like “Antifa” just took it up a notch.
“You already have blood on your hands Ted [Wheeler]. Resign now or next time it may be your own.” That’s about as over threat to kill a politician as you’ll ever see. I’m sure the FBI will get right on this.
FBI cannot be reached, they are too busy chasing ghosts of the worst attack in American history!
Hats off to Antifa. They are at least out in the streets protesting.
I doubt they’d let Wheeler send goons with a secret warrant from a secret court to arrest a antifa pastor just for defying Wheeler’s orders.
https://twitter.com/LeslieMac/status/1387604782425198594
Yeah, totally not racist.
I get their point, clearly America is a racist country, otherwise why would we keep hearing it on the news?
She can’t be racist. She has pronouns in her bio.
Who can reply?
People @LeslieMac follows or mentioned can reply.
Ratio avoidance factor of 10.
Kill your pets for Gaia.
Weighing the environmental impacts of pets, one expert suggested reducing the rate of dog and cat ownership in favor of other animals.
In The Highlight, find other measures dog- and cat-lovers can take to reduce their pets’ carbon footprint:
Just when you think politics has worked its way into every aspect of your life, they find something new.
Relevant.
I have more photos of kids. That’s how a school advertises itself.
Child abuse. The masking of kids angers me to a point I did not think I had in me. And I am pretty much an asshole about everything.
Remember the rat poison mom from Sixth Sense? An entire generation took her to be the hero of that scene.
“The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism”
https://www.foodandwine.com/vegetables/the-difference-between-yams-and-sweet-potatoes-is-structural-racism
And i can now say that whatever your logic is, its wrong.
They’re just doing mad-libs at this point.
Next up:
The Homophobic Origins of Clam Chowder
Why Loaded Baked Potatoes are a Sign of White Supremacy
The Essential Transphobia of the Corn Dog
Enjoy Curly Fries? You’re Probably a Fascist
Oh fuck off
Somebody has never tried to count the various names of a typical fish before.
“Do we enshrine the orthodoxy of the latest theories on race, sex and gender? Do we empower the woke clerisy, the army of blue-check Twitterati and HR managers who can destroy careers and lives in a matter of minutes over the smallest of ideological infractions, and whose judgments are subject to no reasoned appeal and no code of canon law? Do we live under their new blasphemy laws, ostensibly designed to prohibit ‘hate speech’?
“Or do we choose the more forgiving, perhaps old-fashioned orthodoxy that sustained western culture for the better part of two millennia? The Judeo-Christian values and institutions that venerated natural reason, that by their discipline tamed the big and small would-be tyrants of Europe, reminding them that there exists a higher power than theirs? You don’t need to be religious to think that, on balance, this world view has put us in pretty good stead so far — and is worth keeping now.”
https://spectator.us/topic/tyranny-inevitable-consequence-liberalism/
You can say that again.
“Do we enshrine the orthodoxy of the latest theories on race, sex and gender? Do we empower the woke clerisy, the army of blue-check Twitterati and HR managers who can destroy careers and lives in a matter of minutes over the smallest of ideological infractions, and whose judgments are subject to no reasoned appeal and no code of canon law? Do we live under their new blasphemy laws, ostensibly designed to prohibit ‘hate speech’?
“Or do we choose the more forgiving, perhaps old-fashioned orthodoxy that sustained western culture for the better part of two millennia? The Judeo-Christian values and institutions that venerated natural reason, that by their discipline tamed the big and small would-be tyrants of Europe, reminding them that there exists a higher power than theirs? You don’t need to be religious to think that, on balance, this world view has put us in pretty good stead so far — and is worth keeping now.”
https://spectator.us/topic/tyranny-inevitable-consequence-liberalism/
I don’t know, but apparently squirrels think it’s an important question.
The squirrels and Winston.
It’s a popular topic I guess.
The squirrels and Winston.
It’s a popular topic I guess.
testing
[Edit Fairy considers fixing, but comedic potential of inaction outweighs benefits]
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“Feminism’s legacy sees college women embracing more diverse sexuality
Most adults identify themselves as heterosexual, meaning they report being attracted to, and engaging in sex with, only members of the other sex. However, women ages 18 to 29 are increasingly rejecting exclusive heterosexuality and describing their sexual orientation in other ways. These changes in women’s sexuality are not mirrored by their male peers….
In the early 1980s, lesbian feminist Adrienne Rich argued that what she called “compulsory heterosexuality” was the primary cause of gender inequality. She said that because social pressures and threats of violence – as well as actual violence – force heterosexuality on women, that made women dependent on and subservient to men in all areas of life, including gender roles and sexual expression.
Our research indicates that one outcome of more than a century of feminist activism and progress may be women’s increasing resistance to compulsory heterosexuality and its consequences. As a result, more women under 30 are moving away from exclusive heterosexuality than men in the same age group.”
https://theconversation.com/feminisms-legacy-sees-college-women-embracing-more-diverse-sexuality-159023
These people never heard of a LUG?
I didn’t realize PornHub had articles.
Imagine some rabid right-wing crank in 1970 saying that feminists would be encouraging women to be lesbians and saying women ought to be able to marry other women.
You realize how absolutely crazy such a thing would have sounded?
They just love the faddishness of it. Twenty something women are nothing if not vapid and narcissistic these days.
Just these days? Twentysomethings are known for their vapidity. See, also – metrosexual males.
Well…. you have a point
As a result, more women under 30 are moving away from exclusive heterosexuality than men in the same age group.
Or pretending to, at least.
???
When that clock kicks in, they’ll come hunting for the first guy they can hector into marriage and kids before middle age sets in and they get bored.
I swear that the women of today are probably worse than men were in the sixties.
2000 called and wants its hot topic back.
2000? Lesbian Chic started in the mid to late ’80s.
I see maybe a several percentage-point change in sexual preference exclusivity among women over those years… in the midst of a sea change in attitudes in which closeted homosexuality is quaint and openness is not only celebrated, but sine qua non for social advancement in many fields if you’re not black or disabled… and during a moral panic about embracing transexuality which would, I’d think, make even the most fiercely heterosexual woman embrace bisexual tendencies, at least for the sake of answering a pollster’s questions. And for all that, they can only point to a, what, seven percent increase weighted heavily toward “mostly the other sex” respondents?HOT!
Headline:
Biden wants to raise $1.5 trillion by taxing the rich. Here’s how
I think it’s reasonable to assume we can increase taxes by $500,000,000 per each on the three thousand richest Americans.
https://spectator.us/topic/tyranny-inevitable-consequence-liberalism/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Look around you: when was the last time you felt like you lived in a pluralistic, tolerant society? Does the Free World feel free? Four centuries or so since it was launched, has the liberal project delivered on its promise to make men and women free, by toppling all the old authorities? Or has the downfall of authority left us more vulnerable to more insidious and subtle forms of coercion, by woke demagogues, employers and advertisers?
Look around you: does our marketplace of ideas resemble anything like that promised by the bewigged liberals of the late-18th and 19th centuries? Does truth prevail over its cacophony of nonsense? Set aside the teaching of Genesis, whatever happened to the basic teachings of biology and genetics about the immutability of sex? (Don’t ask Richard Dawkins, just cancelled by the American Humanist Association for daring to question gender ideology.)
Look around you: do today’s eye-watering wealth and power inequalities suggest that liberalism has done away with social hierarchies? Or has it rather empowered an especially selfish class of owners and managers, their rapaciousness made all the more galling by their woke and ‘meritocratic’ pretensions?
It won’t do for the ‘classical’ liberal to insist that these phenomena are gross distortions of some aboriginal version of his ideology. After a while, he begins to sound like the Trotskyist circa 1936 who, as evidence mounted of show trials, camps and NKVD torture, insisted that none of these crimes could be laid at the feet of ‘original’ Marxism.
At some point, the liberal has to admit that the powdered-wig version of his ideology contained in it the seeds of its woke, repressive variety: that enshrining individual autonomy and choice as the highest goods of human life would eventually create the conditions for a kind of private tyranny, precisely what the common-good tradition of classical and Christian thought had always warned about and sought to restrain.
The past, in a realistic frame, is a mix of light and dark. Remove the rosy glasses of liberalism, however, and it is the present that looks more dark than enlightened.
His crack about sounding like “Not real communism” is disturbing true though. Our curent totalitarian moment is being pushed by the “liberal world order” and self described liberals. Not to mention the cosmopolitan internationalist urbanites are pushing for it as well. Even the “liberals” who oppose this for the most part are either hoping for TOP MEN to swoop in and save us or are saying not to worry because History in our side.
Squints. This… This looks familiar.
Is it rooting to be the new drugs falling out of ones ass?
Curse you Hank :p
“ that enshrining individual autonomy and choice as the highest goods of human life would eventually create the conditions for a kind of private tyranny”
Oh yeah, our current crop of oppressors are totally enabled by our individual autonomy and choice.
What a load of horseshit.
Jim, you slanderous cunte.
“How about Tucker Carlson, who in the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict showed us all what’s under the hood,” Acosta said. “Under the hood…” Get it? A Klan hood. He’s calling Tucker Carlson a Klansman. How can Tucker be a Klansman? He’s a Republican. Everyone knows the KKK is a long-time Democratic institution.
“Tucker Carlson’s anger was not about the actions of a police officer who murdered a man, but about the guilty verdict,” Acosta continues. “Or, as Carlson, Fox’s chief white power correspondent, described the decision, ‘Please don’t hurt us.’ Now you can call this an act or a schtick, but these big, race-baiting lies have been spreading like a cancer on the far-right.”
You know…. I might have to reconsider my position on dueling. I wouldn’t mind if little shits like Acosta were forced to eat humble pie or face down death from an indignant Carleson.
Carson shoots with Hickok45. I’ll bet in him.
Jim Acosta beats off to videos of Jim Acosta beating off.
Interlocking concentric circle jerking
Mobius Strip Jerking, since there is only one side doing everything.
Middle out
Probably my favorite episode of that whole series. It was genius.
It’s a gem. Judge talked about how they wrote an entire season just to culminate in an incredibly convoluted dick joke.
You’re gay for my code – you’re code gay
Makes me think of X-Files. Second season they wrote an entire episode surounding Satanism and witchcraft, because one of the writers had an idea of having a guy get eaten by snake.
Double A is also a funny bit they do.
“D2F”
I laughed out loud because that’s exactly the variable name I would have given it.
Genius
“I think you should be able to become a billionaire or a millionaire,” Biden told Congress Wednesday night in a speech outlining his agenda. “But pay your fair share.”
The richest 1% of taxpayers, who have an average income of $2.2 million, would shoulder the burden of the tax hike, according to an analysis published by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy.
Two-thirds of this group would see their taxes increase, by an average $159,000 a year, according to the analysis.
Of course, the proposal faces headwinds in Congress. Passage isn’t guaranteed and parts of the plan may change.
Headwinds.
Them fellers at MSNBC Business Channel sure are smart.
We’re all going to be billionaires shortly.
It’s a genius plan.
1. Pass tax on billionaires.
2. Inflate currency until everyone is a billionaire.
3. Profit!
Non-indexed AMT approves.
$159k to someone making 2.2 million could cause a lot of damage.
If he got his wish on tax hikes and none of the rich people did anything to avoid the increases, would the extra revenue even cover the $1.9T Covid relief bill? Or the Infrastructure Bill?
“These heartbreaking photos capture kids’ lives under lockdown”
I have younger kids and can’t but help wonder what damage this idiocy has caused. They haven’t seen their daycare teachers faces in over a year. All because some asshat wants people to think the government is protecting them.
Let’s see if Hank has posted this:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-liberals
That question has bothered many students of revolutionary movements. Revolutions never succeed without the support of wealthy, liberal, educated society. Yet revolutionaries seldom conceal that their success entails the seizure of all wealth, the suppression of dissenting opinion, and the murder of class enemies. Lenin, after all, was by no means the only bloodthirsty Russian radical. In 1907, Ivan Pavlov—not the Nobel prize–winning scientist, but one of the brightest theoreticians of the especially violent Maximalists—published The Purification of Mankind, which divided humanity into ethical races. In this analysis, exploiters, vaguely and broadly identified, constituted a race, “morally inferior to our animal predecessors,” which must be exterminated, children and all, by the morally superior race, whose best members were the terrorists themselves. Remarkably enough, this program evoked no indignation, among other Maximalists or even among other socialists, however moderate. Another prominent Maximalist, M. A. Engel’gardt, argued for a red terror that would kill at least twelve million people. As if anticipating the Khmer Rouge, one anarchist group sought to establish equality by killing all educated people.
Lenin also advocating abolished. Thank goodness Soviet Russia had no cops.
*abolishing police*
Investments account for more than 40% of income for taxpayers who make at least $1 million a year, according to a Tax Foundation analysis. The other sources (business income and wages) account for respectively smaller portions.
By comparison, Americans who make less than $50,000 a year get around 5% of their income from investments. Wages account for more than 80%.
“It will make people think a little harder when they decide they want to sell and reallocate toward some other opportunity because of that tax bite,” Watson said.
Why would we want people to be able to invest in new products and ideas? That’s just stupid.
Dems: ‘If America Isn’t Racist, How Do You Explain These White Hoods We’re Wearing?’
‘Who Are You? Where Are My Pills?’ Says Biden In Dynamic Speech Echoing All Of America’s Concerns
The Bee gives zero fucks.
Can’t be satire when your first sentence is actually truth:
“After Senator Tim Scott said America is no longer a racist country, Democrats scrambled to prove him wrong.”
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2021/04/29/breaking-biden-official-confirms-plans-to-ban-fried-chicken-and-grape-drink-n371319
Red State trying to get in on the action also.
One thing that never made sense to me is the idea that things constantly evolve and change yet the same basic ideas will never change. You know everyone will still belive in ancient inalienable rights, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, free trade, free markets, etc. The New York Times Editorial Board will always believe in the things I agree with. No one will ever embrace Communism, etc.
Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family plans to sue the US Capitol Police and the yet-to-be-named officer who fatally shot her during the riot on Jan. 6, according to an attorney representing the family.
At least they called her a rioter instead of an insurrectionist.
I think we won’t see the officer’s name, but I’m prepared to be proven wrong.
I tapped out of the article on lockdowns affecting kids in the UK.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0F0WI2XMAYV4tQ.jpg
LOLOLOL
I’m glad someone did this, because that is all socialism/equity/marxism is about. It can’t create, so it cuts everyone down into “equality”.
Though now i’m thinking of one where it talks about “Socialism” and it has all of them being executed and pushed into a pit grave.
Its AF Branco. Whoever posted it to twitter cut off where he signed it.
Why did the pipsqueak kid get his big box taken away? I get bringing everyone down to size, but where did the big boxes go and why are these dumb asses staring at a fence once they can no longer see the game? and what kind of freak has arms that reach down to their knees? And backwards baseball caps? what is this the 90’s.
Now that is how you contrarian.
“I have introduced the “Second Amendment For Every Registrable Voter Act” (SAFER Voter Act). It repeals the federal law that prevents voting-age adults, 18 to 20, from purchasing a handgun from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL).”
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1387801269104951297
Sassy
Not Radical enough!! Make Gun Ownership a requirment to be able to vote! Government Provided Guns for all!
Better yet, everyone gets a gun when they get their drivers license. The Motor Shooter Act.
I think the DMV is probably one place guns should be forbidden. I’d feel safer on on an airplane.
Heck, one could read that exact meaning into “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state” a lot more easily than one can read into it “only the government gets to have guns”
I have had people tell me the key phrase is “well regulated” because that means government regulated. My response is that over regulated is not the same as well regulated. Government does nothing “well”.
Sweet
Atlanta PD has figured out how to prevent murders.
https://www.ajc.com/news/think-before-you-shoot-atlanta-police-turn-to-social-media-as-gun-violence-surges/BWMSPUX2SRHIDGGNXADB6JFYBM/
Not gonna click. I cringed my spine out just reading the link.
“REVEALED: Feds ‘had secret backup plan to ARREST Derek Chauvin in court for police brutality if he was cleared of killing George Floyd
Secret Department of Justice plans to arrest Derek Chauvin in court had he been cleared of murdering George Floyd have been revealed.
Multiple sources told the Star Tribune federal prosecutors were ready to move in and charge the white ex-cop on federal counts moments after a not guilty verdict on charges of second and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter, or in the event of a mistrial.
Department of Justice prosecutors now also plan to bring civil rights violations charges – akin to hate crimes – of police brutality against Chauvin and the three other cops on duty with him when Floyd was killed in May 2020.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9523465/Feds-backup-plan-ARREST-Derek-Chauvin-court-cleared-killing-George-Floyd.html
Didn’t they already do this after Rodney King?
Nice to now double jeopardy was destroyed to save us from racist cops.
I find this interesting, not because i think Chauvain deserves to be free, but as an instructive experience to show what can happen to you if you are deemed, not only expendable, but dangerous and in need of destruction, by the powers that be.
This. I make no proclamation as to the guilt or innocence of Chauvin, but this is show trial-adjacent at the bare minimum.
The whole situation was used as a display, from the moment someone hit record to the verdict. Glorax 9’s TV shows are becoming predictable.
He sucked and the show trials will not go overboard.
Yes, although I don’t think they considered Chauvin dangerous. More like bread and circuses or throwing a steak to your guard dog (Antifa/BLM).
I don’t buy that Antifa/BLM is a tiger that they’ve got by the tail. The groups are well funded and funding comes with control. If Antifa/BLM ever turn on the Dems, it’s because those funding it decide it’s time and provide the orders to do so.
The Dems have already shown that the cities are expendable. I doubt the threat of burning down Minneapolis factored anywhere among the shotcallers at the Federal level.
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You can find Tom Woods interview with one of the organizer here.
Didn’t you see the no soliciting sign on the door? Now get off my lawn!
Will look at it. Thanks
I kicked in some money.
I’ll spread the link around to the Reopen groups I’m involved with.
“pro-Asian gents”
The dance was vulgar and pornographic? So, pretty much on the level of Biden Promises
NH Laurie List reform clears Senate
Police reform advocates are halfway home in their goal of passing a state law that will make public the names of an estimated 270 police officers in the state with credibility problems.
The more challenging “half” for this reform effort likely lies ahead.
The State Senate’s 24-0 vote Thursday of this delicately-crafted compromise (HB 471) sends the bill to the House of Representatives where it’s expected to get more scrutiny.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, credited leaders of the news media, law enforcement, civil libertarians and minority community advocates with the private talks that came up with this proposal senators adopted verbatim with little debate.
Londonderry
There goes the IRA vote.
They would be down in Massachusetts anyway.
Good lines and information when people throw “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” at you
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/04/29/this-guy-is-a-law-school-graduate-david-harsanyi-drops-biden-in-fact-filled-thread-for-claiming-you-cant-yell-fire-in-a-crowded-theater/
Does Harsanyi still write for Reason?
No clue. However, I usually revert to a more snarky answer that says “You are right, I cannot yell fire in a theater and I want to die like all the Nazis in Inglorious Basterds.”
Last post at TOS, June, 2019. Looks like he’s at National Review now.
He did write for The Federalist and some columns were picked up on Reason.
He is property of National Review now. Which helps NR be more interesting.
Hitchens on “fire in a crowded theater:”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDap-K6GmL0
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/no-escape-from-hong-kong-11619650575
the civilizing effects of free trade!
So much for them all moving to the UK.
Hong Kong fooey.
Gotta to love the irony that Hong Kong became a bastion of Freedom thanks to Western Imperialism and this freedom was lost thanks to free trade, the exact opposite of libertarian theory.
Or, you know, the Chinese Communist Party.
Free Trade was supposed to destroy the CCP not empower them. Xi was supposed to be afraid of Lebron not the opposite.
By joining the W.T.O., China is not simply agreeing to import more of our products; it is agreeing to import one of democracy’s most cherished values: economic freedom. The more China liberalizes its economy, the more fully it will liberate the potential of its people — their initiative, their imagination, their remarkable spirit of enterprise. And when individuals have the power, not just to dream but to realize their dreams, they will demand a greater say.
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The people of Hong Kong agree. I recently received a letter from Martin Lee, the leader of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, who has spent a lifetime struggling for free elections and free expression for his people. He wrote to me that this agreement, and I want to quote it, “This agreement,” and I quote, “represents the best long-term hope for China to become a member of good standing in the international community. We fear that should ratification fail, any hope of political and legal reform process would also recede.” Martin Lee wants us to vote in favor of P.N.T.R. Most evangelicals who have missions in China also want China in the W.T.O. They know it will encourage freedom of thought and more contacts with the outside world.
https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Full_Text_of_Clintons_Speech_on_China_Trade_Bi.htm
Forgot link
Quoth old Uncle Milt, “economic freedom is a necessary but not sufficient condition for political freedom”
I’d say much of this is due to an overly simplistic look at English and Dutch history and ignoring how the authoritarian regimes in Taiwan and South Korea were supported by the US in the first place…
The CCP fought the US to a standstill in 1952 with conscript cannon fodder straight after fighting their own civil war. They put down the Tiananmen Square proto-revolution while a dozen other communist states fell from less. They basically forced Thatcher to hand over Hong Kong (ditto the Portuguese and Macao). To say they’ve been “empowered” implies they were weaker before. When was that?
I say empower since they are now one of the largest economies in the world and have enormous influence in international instutions and with large corporations which wasn’t the case in the past.
I mean the old James Bond movies said that Mao was behind Goldfinger, Blofeld and Scaramanga but new ones wouldn’t dare suggest that today. No way that a movie like Red Corner could get made today.
It’s my biggest gripe with a piece of libertarian dogma: while I remain a staunch free-trader, the libertarian dogma that such trade inevitably liberalizes unfree countries has been destroyed by the ascent of China. Instead of trade with China liberalizing their country, it has instead appeared to de-liberalize ours instead. Indeed our aggressive COVID reaction was done after our authorities saw what they “accomplished” in China.
This needs to be answered by libertarians going forward. I believe it can be done, but the boilerplate answer of the past appears to have been falsified, and the arguments of tariff supporters has been strengthened.
I have no answer and had not even thought of that question but it is a damn good one.
…………*thinks*. Maybe most people just want to be controlled and we are ruled by assholes. It is safer and you have someone to blame when the non compliers don’t comply. I am not sure how tarrifs fit in that other than I wonder what Trumps bickering with Canada had on US lumber prices right now. I am too lazy to delve into that so I have no idea other than they are higher than some Glibs on a Zoom happy hour.
I think it was answered above in a quote decades old.
Free trade is necessary, but not enough. You need free trade and _______.
I’m guessing this is the usual budget brinksmanship. I’m a bit hopeful that the GOP will be smart enough to hold the line. This is the year that you can actually beat up on teachers and school districts and win votes. Too many parents are steaming at schools right now for the usual “FOR THE CHILDREN” bull to work.
Here’s a crazy idea. Maybe last year when there were less students was the time to lay off teachers? (Or better yet, all the administrators you could find). Isn’t that quote sort of an admission that a lot of teachers were getting paid for doing nothing since the Rona hit?
the GOP will be smart
Oh dear…
Please. School districts are drowning in Fedbucks. And the Dems are about to throw billions more at them. This is bullshit posturing.
If they had laid off teachers kids would be back in school by now, as the rest of them would be afraid for their jobs.
I expect the same people that howled when Trump floated the whole “domestic terrorist” line to also howl at this….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-doj-actively-considering-domestic-terrorism-law-target-white-nationalists
Who am I kidding, they will cheer it.
Who commits more violence? antifa or white power organizations?
Well one is just an idea…so…
Yeah, you can take a long running start and fuck right off.
That was the line that I picked up on. You want more power and more money, that is all.
JANUARY.6TH.WAS.NOT.A.RIOT.
They farted in Nancy’s chair! Farted!
Farted you say? OK then it’s settled. We better put up miles of razor wire around the “People’s House”. Oh, and have full time armed military personnel on hand to patrol too, just in case.
What was it then? People smashing things, storming barriers, and fighting cops. Sounds like a riot to me.
I think riot is as appropriate here as it is for similar events. More severe events have just been called “protests” though.
What it definitely wasn’t was “insurrection”.
Agreed, and the people that call those other things “mostly peaceful protests’ get lampooned for it (at least on this site). Perhaps ignoreLander was being sarcastic, I’ve seen enough “they were welcomed in with open arms and did nothing more than take an unguided tour” gaslighting around here that I may be a little quick to go all contrarian. Bullshit is bullshit regardless of who’s slinging it.
A seriously rockin’ party.
Hooliganism, it was hooliganism. No arson, other than some memery (Speakers podium, etc.) very little was looted. ManU fans probably do worse every game. If you want to call it a riot sure I guess that works but I think you are stretching the definition.
Comparatively, it pales to the 100+ days of mostly peaceful riots in Portland and in metropolitan areas around the country. Which is kind of the point, the contrast between the coverage of a bunch of idiots doing a panty raid on the capital and city blocks burning down is rather striking.
I am not saying what happened on the sixth was a good thing, but it wasn’t the threat to our democracy that team blue claims it was.
I contend it was freedom fighting against a fascist government.
I’ve said it before, If these people were the insurrectionists that the left makes them out to be I’d have a hell of a lot more respect for them. They weren’t, they were larpers, they made no demands, they stood no ground, they ran home and hid their shame as soon as they got their temper tantrum out of their system. They have more in common with the BLM crows than they want to admit. Neither actually care about their putative cause but it’s a good excuse to act like an asshole for a few hours.
Honestly I think they just walked into the capital because it was open and they were on vacation.
That may excuse the buffalo guy, but there were people smashing windows and beating cops with flagpoles. The poor woman that got killed wasn’t just taking a leisurely stroll through those hallowed hallways, she was crawling through a broken window to get around a barricaded doorway that men with guns were trying to hold shut. This wasn’t an insurrection nor was it a Sunday afternoon in the park, why people want to chose one or the other baffles me.
I mostly agree with your take, I do however dislike the justification of downplaying 1/6 because the Media™ downplayed the BLM riots. “I’m going to be a douchebag because the people on the other side are douchebags” isn’t a good look in my opinion.
What is being downplayed? That protestors got out of hand at a government building? Given that absolute propaganda, that is now backed by the POTUS that this was some grand movement against the legitimacy of the US Government, I say downplay all day long.
Compared to every night in Portland attacking the federal courthouse with firebombs, etc – or a lot of other federal facilities – if it wasn’t for double standards, the left would have none.
That there was no violence whatsoever, that the worse thing that happened was someone put their feet on Nancy’s desk, etc, etc. That is downplaying what happened, Yes it wasn’t an insurrection or the greatest threat to democracy since Pontius Pilot invaded Yorktown, but you know that.
https://unherd.com/2021/04/has-china-rescued-the-west/
Now that hegemony is under threat, Western capitalism will be forced to remake itself in a statist mould to survive. The neomedievalising tendencies of the 1990s onwards already seem to be fading into history, at least for the advanced Western economies whose states are still just strong enough to rebuild themselves for one last great effort. It is not a moment too soon: the looming climate crisis, advancing across the horizon, surely heralds an era of full state mobilisation in the service of human survival.
Yet it took China’s rise, filtered through the great shock of the pandemic, for our leaders to fall back in love with the state, and for that all critics of neoliberalism should be thankful. War makes states, as Charles Tilly observed, and we can now argue that great power competition also remakes them. The death of the state was announced too early; the dawning age of Western state capitalism has only just begun.
I think the real problem is we are extremely rich, entitled, and bored.
We are not struggling to compete against China, who mainly makes all our shit because human life has no value there.
Working through a backlog of older books from my collection during slow periods at work. Picked up some LeGuin titles years ago – thought I’d read them…but this was definitely my first time reading “Lathe of Heaven”. Holy Cow – talk about exposing the dangers of “top men”. Great read.
You can definitely see why this one is low-balled on her wiki page. Less than 200 pages – check it out.
Found a pdf here if anyone is interested.
Well, she’s dead now.
Loved that since I was little – right around when the 1980 movie came out.
That was a freakin’ AWESOME movie. Shows what you can do with a shoestring budget, if you’re good enough.
Oh, and I’ve always thought that The Lathe of Heaven would be a TOTALLY KICK-ASS NAME for a terrorist/freedom fighter organization. Nothing gets the State’s panties in a twist more than the idea that some violent, counter-cultural movement might be religiously motivated.
https://twitter.com/MissyModell/status/1377795246474547203
I have to admit, she’s probably attractive to deaf people.
So you’re saying you’d give her a jab?
What’s with the weird granny panties?
Rule 34 suggests some people like that.
Those are french cut, and she’s also wearing a belt.
You know who else made a French cut?
Robespierre?
Well I’m convinced.
Only if they can’t read. I almost barfed from the subtitles even with the sound off.
I front-ended 25 hours of my workweek on Monday and Tuesday, so now I have a three-day weekend.
HEY, EVERYBODY! WE’RE ALL GONNA GET
LAIDDRUNKIt’s because all those positive cases in Illinois are coming over the border from Indiana.
They are being smuggled in with the guns.
https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Full_Text_of_Clintons_Speech_on_China_Trade_Bi.htm
That Bill Clinton speech has aged like fine wine, right?
In fits and starts, for the first time, China may become a society where people get ahead based on what they know rather than who they know. Chinese firms more and more are realizing that unless they treat employees with respect, they will lose out in the competition for top talent. The process will only accelerate as China joins the W.T.O., and we should encourage it because it will lift standards for Chinese workers, and their expectations.
There’s something even more revolutionary at work here. By lowering the barriers that protect state-owned industries, China is speeding a process that is removing government from vast areas of people’s lives. In the past, virtually every Chinese citizen woke up in an apartment or a house owned by the government, went to work in a factory or a farm run by the government, and read newspapers published by the government. State-run workplaces also operated the schools where they sent their children, the clinics where they received health care, the stores where they bought food. That system was a big source of the Communist Party’s power.
Now people are leaving those firms, and when China joins the W.T.O., they will leave them faster. The Chinese government no longer will be everyone’s employer, landlord, shopkeeper and nanny all rolled into one. It will have fewer instruments, therefore, with which to control people’s lives. And that may lead to very profound change.
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Now there’s no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. (Chuckles.) Good luck! (Laughter.) That’s sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall. (Laughter.) But I would argue to you that their effort to do that just proves how real these changes are and how much they threaten the status quo. It’s not an argument for slowing down the effort to bring China into the world, it’s an argument for accelerating that effort. In the knowledge economy, economic innovation and political empowerment, whether anyone likes it or not, will inevitably go hand in hand.
It’s not an argument for slowing down the effort to bring China into the world, it’s an argument for accelerating that effort.
Unfortunately, we’re seeing the parts of China brought into the world we’d really rather not have.
I would’ve agreed with him back then.
That’s my point. Most libertarians did agree with Clinton on this but are at a loss to explain why this failed and so try to pretend this wasn’t stupid or how Milton Friedman didn’t say that economic freedom will lead to political freedom.
Yes we’ve already discussed this multiple times, you and I. I definitely thought economic freedom would lead to political freedom.
If the CCP didn’t have an ideological safe harbor here in the West among totalitarian-minded progressives, people like Thomas Friedman who relish authoritarian control for the sake of policy preferences, would things be different?
But maybe that’s a further indictment of Western freeish economics, we can’t convince our most lavishly coddled citizens not to pine for fascists.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars…
Instead of making China more like the West the West is becoming more like China. Woops.
Fuck.
Well you have to admit we did get a lot of those weird action movies where Chinese martial artists seem to be able to soar through the air for some reason.
Let’s call it even.
That’s just how they travel. They soar through the air.
Maybe that’s the maglev trains.
Crap, JRE is no longer on youtube.
I’m midway through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY, so some of it is.
I’m trying to find the one with dave smith.
Exclusive to Spotify now, innit?
Not sure for how much longer, if they’re bent on catering to their least productive, most obstreperous entitled summer interns.
Fleetingly available on youtube, sometimes just the the audio rip, sometimes bad video rip. But usually disappears within a few hours or a day or so. If you happen to catch the window when it’s up… I’ve downloaded maybe 40-50% of the exclusive to spotify episodes from youtube (including the Dave Smith one) by just checking periodically – search for e.g. “Joe Rogan 1640”, and you might find the full episode ephemerally, within a day or two of the original air date.
From what I can gather of the main reasons China hasn’t democratized is that the wealthy urbanites fear the poor who outnumber them so they don’t want democracy. Whatever the CCP’s faults they did made them rich and intend to keep them rich and will hopefully make them even richer so they support them.
Oh and this is exactly happening in the West. The deplorable’s hate the rich urbanites so Democracy is bad. The Deep State will protect them. After all if the CCP can do it then why can’t we?
The wealthy Chinese urbanites who are not part of the CCP are little more than extras in the story. It is the CCP members who have all the power and control. Wealth in China is controlled by the CCP – the higher echelons of its members are either managing the large companies or are gathering kickbacks from them. There are millions of small/medium sized businesses in China but after a certain point your business will not grow without connections to the CCP. You can either reach out to find a connection to help your business to get it to grow, or you can be successful while ignoring your lack of CCP connections, but if you do that at some point they will reach out to you.
GI Pat
Gastrointestinal Pat sounds interesting.
Stealing from one of the funnier bits of SNL. BB gots some balls.
I hope the dead chic’s family rapes (financially) the cop who shot her. Fuck that guy.
Fuck that guy.
x10
He should commit suicide by sucking a .357 round out of a revolver with a trigger assist. I’ll Paypal $500 to this group to be dispersed to the glibnation for a libation of your choice(s) if he does. Chickenshit Motherfucker.
She was nuts, but that was manslaughter by cowardice.
I am not that smart, especially when commenting here or out my ass stuff on twitter, but I was pondering that the Derek Chauvin case might have ended qualified immunity. This case might go to the wrong team vs right team. But I think that case may have shifted the scales of justice.
Derek Chauvin case might have ended qualified immunity
We can hope, but it will be a long road. If it just affects the trigger happy cowards and not the prosecutors and judges, we’re still fucked.
I’m still stuck on the fact that we’re meant to mourn the desecration of Congress while celebrating burning out buildings and terrorizing residents of whatever’s the hotspot of the week.
Firebomb some guy’s life-savings sports bar in Oregon, or loot a shoe store in Missouri, who cares. They probably had it coming. Carry off Pelosi’s God-given podium? TRAITORS.
Asinine.
No no, didn’t you see the article that everyday Americans aren’t affected by BLM/Antifa protests?
Asinine is on point.
Yeah, it’s a shame those are the only two options, too bad we can’t be angry with both, and even maybe feel stronger about one or the other but still on the whole wish neither happened, Oh well I guess its love one and hate the other or nothing. One must pick sides after all, mustn’t one.
railgun
Please, it’d be a tungsten rod de-orbited to your location.
“Untracked space rock”, totally deniable.
*le sigh* wrong post