A 4½-Year-Old’s Honest Review of the Sesame Street Vaccine Town Hall
“Is all of this show going to be like this, with the persons talking like this?” J., age 4½, asks, gesturing toward the screen.
On our television, Sanjay Gupta and Erica Hill are hanging out in Zoom-style boxes, interviewing a rotating series of guests for their Sesame Street/CNN town hall on COVID vaccines for kids. J. started out jazzed up and laughing, happy that I was allowing her to watch Sesame Street, a show she loves, at an unusual time of day. We get some Street regulars like Elmo, Bert, and Ernie; some real-life kids who submitted taped questions for the panel; and some scientists and doctors, like Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and the researcher who helped design the Moderna COVID vaccine, Kizzmekia Corbett.* But 10 minutes into the half-hour show, J. wants to fast-forward and see if things would stay Zoom-y for the duration. Denied this petition (“Remember? I have to watch this for work?”), she goes to the floor and, scattering crumbs from a piece of toast, attends to her train set, glancing at the screen whenever it’s a puppet’s turn to talk.
This town hall, which aired on CNN over the weekend, prompted a rote, exhausted culture-war skirmish. People like Ted Cruz got really mad that Big Bird was “pushing” vaccines on kids. “What’s the treatment for myocarditis in birds?” snarked Mike Cernovich, while everyone on the other side valiantly, yet uselessly, replied with: information about the safety of children’s COVID vaccines; images from past vaccine campaigns that had enlisted popular children’s media to “sell” the polio and MMR vaccines (and the very idea of germs); and links to articles about Sesame Street’s roots as a radical experiment aimed at Black kids. This argument is going to happen, and happen, and happen, until we are tweeting links about Dr. Seuss’ actual IRL politics in between manually pollinating soybeans for 12-hour shifts in exchange for rations of water, and it doesn’t seem much worthy of comment.
Besides, anyone tweeting about the town hall was not in its target audience. But I had one of those actual preschool humans in my own home, and I wanted to know: Would this special actually do anything for her? Rather than fighting over whether it’s just propaganda, my question was: Would it be effective propaganda? I’m always wary of educational media for kids, always wondering whether the show, museum exhibit, or book is actually for the children, or instead for the adults, who feel better after watching the kid reluctantly consume something so virtuous. Curious, I decided to conduct my own focus group of one.
All that’s missing is “Mommy why did the worst President ever personally murder all those COVID-19 patients?”
I’d call it lazy, but it’s somehow more trite and earnest than that.
While the furor over Rep. Paul Gosar tweeting a violent anime clip of himself slaying New York lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden continues to rage, many people are missing the fascist subtext of the clip Gosar posted.
Written as a cautionary tale about the ills of war, “Attack on Titan” was first released in manga form in 2009. Its premise involves a teenager, Eren Yeager, who joins a division of the military called the Survey Corps. Venturing beyond concentric walls within which they believe themselves to be imprisoned, Yeager and the Survey Corps slay titans – monstrous beings that eat humans.
The anime’s dark undertones of Nazism and allusions to the Holocaust become apparent in later arcs when it’s revealed that the subhuman “mindless titans” – the monsters on which AOC’s and Biden’s faces were superimposed – were originally humans, too.
Gasp. Maybe investigate the Fart Heard All Around The Camilla than this non-story.
Adapting The Wheel of Time for TV Is an Epic All Its Own
io9: The fundamental premise of the Wheel of Time is based so much on binary genders, with the all-female Aes Sedai, the male Dragons, the gendered sides of the One Power. How are you updating that for 2021, when gender identity and gender equity are so important?
Judkins: I think what’s exciting about [the Wheel of Time TV series] and what was exciting about [the books] in the ‘90s is that they opened up a conversation about gender and how gender is represented in all of these different cultures within the world of Wheel of Time. Because it’s not just one way you see a lot of different representations of gender, you see things that are more binary and less binary. I think that we have to lean into that in the show and continue to explore what gender means for these characters in as fresh of a context today as Robert Jordan was working in in the ‘90s. He was pushing the envelope a lot for the genre at the time and I think we need to do the same today.
io9: What are some ways that you’ll be doing that on the show?
Judkins: I think—well, I can’t tell you all of them, but in the books, there’s an idea that if you’re born as a man in one life, you’d be born as a man in the next life in the show. We’re not doing that. We’re approaching it as you are a soul and you move through different bodies through whatever life that you’re in. So that’s one. It’s a very fundamental change actually to make to the book series, and it has a lot of ripple effects, and we’ll continue to do things like that I think are more reflective of what hopefully Robert Jordan would be writing if he was writing today.
Make the show appeal to the people that probably won’t watch it anyway. Yay.
I don’t want any more of the books I like to be adapted. Leave them alone. By the dark gods, imagine how badly these idiots could fuck up Snow Crash or Neal Asher?
One of the many samples from the song is taken from 1971’s The Ruling Class, a delightful oddity where Peter O’Toole is convinced that he is Jesus, and the rest of his family plots to institutionalize him and steal his inheritance. In one of the various plots, they bring in an asylum inmate who also believes he is Jesus in order for them to battle for who is the real Son of God. The new Jesus proclaims “I AM THE HIGH-VOLTAGE MESSIAH!” and starts throwing imaginary lightning bolts.
All kids want for Christmas is a jab.
Related. My daughter has declared Thanksgiving cancelled because she can’t wait for Christmas.
Related.
I turned on the TV this morning to get the weather forecast and the tease at the top of the hour was for a bunch of kids of single-digit age who were broken by their parents considering how eager they were to get the vaccine.
(Not that local TV news portrayed the kids as broken, of course.)
All I want for Christmas is my two vax shots, my three vax shots… my four vax shots…
This gave me a thought for a meme, if only I was capable. Have Bid Bird giving his spiel on the kids getting the jab, then have the Count saying “One jabs…. Two Jabs…. Three jabs” then an ellipse — then the last panel he’s saying “437 jabs!”
Surely someone has already thought of that one, right?
I’ve seen one but it ends with the kid dead instead.
“The new Jesus proclaims “I AM THE HIGH-VOLTAGE MESSIAH!” and starts throwing imaginary lightning bolts.”
So Tuesday at a Florida Walmart?
Will confirm with brettl.
When I was a resident back in the late 80s I worked on an inpatient psych ward where there were also two patients who believed they were Jesus. One day the charge nurse thought it might be “therapeutic” to make these two roommates.
Not long afterwards, we heard a great commotion and sounds of a fistfight. We rushed to the patients’ room, in time to see one of the guys on top of the other, pounding fists at him and shouting, “who’s Jesus now, motherfucker?!”
“who’s Jesus now, motherfucker?!”
That would be me.
Duh.
“Tyrone”, D.C. Cab. I gather this is far from an unusual delusion.
I worked in a mental hospital for a decade. Over the years three or four patients thought I was Jesus. I have no idea why, but it came in handy a few times when patients became perturbed and violent.
When I was married to my first wife, her (asshole) father informed me that I was the son of the devil.
So I called the Old Man. “Why didn’t you tell me? We could be making big money on the talk show circuit!”
His reply: “Well, they say the Devil always assumes a pleasing form. I thought you’d figure it out on your own.”
Damn, our fathers were cut from the same cloth.
Fucking industrial disease.
The first song of the Dire Straits I was familiar with. Great song and the first thing I thought of when I read this.
Anybody want to fill me in if the the original “The Wheel of Time” was worth reading?
Also, not a subscriber toe Apple TV+. Anybody have any opinions on “Foundation”?
“Foundation” is almost as cool as “The Morning Show”, but not nearly as good as “Ted Lasso”.
That is, it’s the third best show on a streaming service with three good shows.
I haven’t decided if I want to watch Foundation or not. The books didn’t do much for me and “guiding humanity through a new dark ages” is so spot-on for Democrat self-wank it is sticky-sweet.
Friend of mine compared the Apple version to Star Trek in its Top,Men. utopism.
Foundation is about math geeks fighting a doomed arrogant despotic dictatorship that is on the verge of taking down the rest of humanity with it. The math geeks sort of predict the future by aggregating the behavior of trillions of people, but the choices of outlier individuals can’t be predicted and muck up the illusion of control over events.
Not really seeing a Democratic wankfest outta that plot, especially since the plot was written about half a century ago, and “arrogant experts being confident but wrong” rather undercuts The Narrative TM.
YMMV
I dunno man. Krugman loves that set of books precisely because of the nerd saviors.
I don’t remember anything about an arrogant despot.
But the entire premise of the series is that not just the economy, but all of society can be controlled by Top Men using SCIENCE!
Even the mule is defeated by Top Men SCIENCEing a gold pussy trap and his aberrations erased.
Later books show the folly of libertarianism by proving it’s only possible if you’re the only person on a planet.
And then it ends with Gaia-worship being the only thing that can save the species.
I thought the first book was very good. Then there were about 20 more books in what was supposed to be a trilogy before the author croaked and Brandon Sanderson brought it in for a landing,
I only made it through because my library had the electronic audio-books available while I was commuting a lot.
So like Dune?
Started off great and after that book after book each getting progressively worse.
Not quite that steep a decline. It leveled off after a while.
It lost steam after Lord of Chaos.
I read the series except for the prequels.
It has a few moments that I liked, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Read book one and then the last book only. Skip all in between.
I thought some of the books more centered around the friends who’s names I can’t remember, were kind of enjoyable.
Fixed.
The first couple books were good, then the author realized that he could keep milking it forever and wrote a bunch of lackluster to terrible books. Then the author died, the estate tapped someone to come in and wrap up about 8 books worth of hanging plot threads and stalled storylines. It took him 3 books to do that.
^This^
Could have been a very good series, but the author kept spinning off more and more plot threads in each book instead of wrapping them up.
A couple of the books were almost unreadable. Most were OK but frustrating because of the wandering plot lines.
It was also fairly silly in ways. There were at least three different ways that were used to let characters travel vast distances quickly. Each time a new way was invented was because the author got lazy and didn’t feel like dealing with the drawbacks of the previous transit schemes. So he had some character “invent” a new one.
The Terry Gookind school of plotting
This, “I need my hero do something that no one else can do/or has ever done , how can I justify this?…. hmmm….Oh I got it.. I’ll just make him to ‘really ,really’ want to do it, that should work.”
Forget the books and the new TV series. If you want entertainment go find some of the fan podcasts. Listen to those loons who revere Robert Jordan and all the books.
I went on a jag last winter listening to new podcasts while ice fishing. I ran across those WOT podcasts and laughed and rolled my eyes.
There is no way in hell I could keep my cool with this cunte prosecutor. I would not hesitate to treat him with every bit the amount of contempt and derision that he is treating Kyle with and then some.
Curious, I decided to conduct my own focus group of one.
Leave the kids alone.
“Kyle Rittenhouse judge eviscerates prosecutor for bringing banned information before the jury: Defense demands he declare a mistrial that could see Kenosha shooter walk FREE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10187239/Kyle-Rittenhouse-takes-stand-testify-defense.html
I was in meetings most of the afternoon. Did seem him ask why Kyle brought his rifle with him while running to put out a fire.
Kyle looked at him like the retard he is. Was he supposed to just leave it with the mob?
I was hoping for some response like “leaving it there would have been massively irresponsible”
He did say he didn’t want it to be stolen.
I watched the entire exchange. Apparently the prosecutor can’t understand why millions of Americans carry firearms during everyday life if they aren’t intending to either kill on sight at the slightest pretense or enter a warzone.
This is the most purposely mendacious prosecution I’ve seen.
Though to be fair, the prosecutor has gotten Rittenhouse to admit that he lied to at least three times during the events that evening. Wether through panic to keep more people from attacking him or malice, I don’t read minds…
Prosecutor is asking why he shot the guy who is using only “one foot” to bash his face in while armed with a skateboard he used to hit him in the head with twice…JFC.
Now he’s arguing that since a handgun isn’t as lethal as an AR-15 despite the guy killed having one in his hand and not three feet from the guy he’s been chasing he’s no longer a threat. This is fucking absurd.
“Why didn’t you stop and help the people who just tried to murder you?”
The answer to that is entirely too simple. “It wasn’t safe for me to remain there”
I’m just getting to that part.
“Wtf else am I supposed to do with it considering the circumstances, you dishonest cunte?” – Me
TMITE
Defense needs to get to Kyle and say “deterrent”, “buddy system”, and “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” over and over and over again.
Mr Prosecutor, do you have insurance?
I think Kyle is being a bit too passive, and defense counsel is sitting on their hands rather than objecting.
There are a lot of questions where he’s clearly confused as to what the pros is getting at. He needs to spin it around and say “I’m not sure what you’re asking me here”.
There are a lot of questions about what he thought was happening somewhere else that he should respond to with “would you like me to speculate on that?”
Pros is trying to trap him in the “you were expecting a fight and that’s why you brought a gun” trap. He needs to make clear that the potential existed for things to go sideways in an instant (like they did) and he was hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst.
I find this gripping and nerve wracking. I’m really worried for this kid.
Kyle did put on a puzzled look and said, “I don’t understand the question.” at one point. Might’ve been during the shoot-em-up video game line of questioning.
There was another one when going through the shooting events.
When they came back from recess, he said the word “deter”, he said “I don’t know what you’re asking”. 2 out of 3 isn’t bad.
On the livestream I’m watching, there were comments in the chat that someone is posting to twitter from the courtroom. This person says the jury was checked out during the cross examination.
The lawyer panel on the livestream thinks this is good.
We’ll find out soon enough.
Now they are looking at pixelated zoomed in video and trying to imagine what’s happening.
“By the dark gods, imagine how badly these idiots could fuck up Snow Crash”
Snow Crash could make a good movie. Some of his other books would be way too long.
But when Y.T. is cast as a 36-year-old black woman and Raven is a non-binary cuck with a climate change bomb in a Prius, you’ll change your tune.
And you know L. Bob would be a weak-ass Trump analog.
Well, it could also make a terrible movie.
I’d just like to see a decently filmed version of Y.T. breaking out of the Federal Building.
I don’t know if we have that level of technology yet.
I want the opening chapter.
It needs to be James Bond like, in that the opening credits don’t roll until after the car is in the pool.
The opening chapter is one of the most engaging first chapters of any novel, ever.
So of course a movie would screw it up.
I think a more real issue is that we would have to make it Raven’s and Hiro’s grandfathers that got nuked in Japan. To make the timeline work.
I want an HBO series of my books.
Don’t you mean Hallmark?
/ducks, runs, hides
Thank you, that was the joke I was wanting to make, but couldnt figure out the right network to use.
Dude, Hallmark movies are made of awesome.
Also not nearly as much sex as in my books.
For the 4.5 years I lived in British Columbia’s Lower Rainland™, I estimated that, to a first approximation, 99.999999999999999% of all Hallmark TV shows and/or movies were made there, and the ones that weren’t probably had their B-roll shot there anyways.
Given that it was British California, I’m sure they could roll into some PG-rated sex romps without so much as batting an eye, as long as they could find the audience for ’em.
That reminds me. Did your folks ever get to Italy?
I figured without a map they probably ended up
lost and unemployed in greenland.
Naw, I’m not writing right now. This book is going to be bleak and I’m not up for it.
That was confusing, now my head hurts.
The anime clip that GOP Rep. Paul Gosar edited to show himself slaying AOC has even darker undertones than you may have thought
It’s just a fucking metaphor.
Vogon Poetry
You know, that’s how I felt while watching Silent but Deadly this weekend.
I finally found the clip. It’s pretty stupid, and he probably should not have made it. First, it’s not a good idea to portray yourself killing your political opponents, even in a cartoon, and B) it gives AOC more victimhood points.
Do you know who else liked to compare certain people to other things?
George Orwell?
I’d say you can replace it with Tom and Jerry or Wiley E. Coyote and the Roadrunner so the Boomers can understand it too, but honestly the problem is not the meme itself or the medium, it’s that everyone complaining about it is an NPC who just downloads new talking points every day.
Prediction: Binger’s expert contradicts Binger’s bullshit explanation of how a digital photograph on a screen being ‘pinched and zoomed’ introduces artifacts that cannot be represented as what the image actually is. Or they straight up lie to the court. With this case, who the hell knows.
While the furor over Rep. Paul Gosar tweeting a violent anime clip of himself slaying New York lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden continues to rage, many people are missing the fascist subtext of the clip Gosar posted.
What’s that saying about a dog-whistle?
Shit. Executive Council flip-flops
After rejecting millions of dollars to help increase New Hampshire’s vaccination rate, the Executive Council on Wednesday reversed course and approved $22 million for the effort, along with a nonbinding resolution that condemns vaccine mandates.
Last month, the Republican-led council, a five-member panel that approves state contracts, rejected $27 million in federal vaccination funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over concerns that language in the grants would have bound the state to follow federal directives and mandates related to COVID-19.
The language the Republicans opposed has appeared in other contracts they approved, and both Republican Gov. Chris Sununu and Attorney General John Formella said it does not in any way impede the state’s sovereignty.
What’s that thing my Mom used to tell me I was doing…. “Talking out of both sides of my mouth”?
“The Taliban easily conquered Afghanistan because corrupt officials INVENTED ‘ghost soldiers’ so they could pocket their wages – and most of their 300,000-strong army did not EXIST”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10187973/The-Taliban-easily-conquered-Afghanistan-300-000-strong-army-did-not-EXIST.html
Totally not a corrupt shithole.
It seems a competent intelligence agency would have known that.
Is “competent intelligence agency ” like jumbo shrimp?
It’s right up there with “military intelligence.”
Yes, because the military has never figured anything out, at any level, Battalion on up. I know I used to just wander into minefields, never knew who was in any place I went, etc. By God, that one bores me to death.
And we have 17 or so, agencies, and not one of them is competent?
18, the Space Force has one.
They get a pass on this one.
Nope.
You assume they wanted to know that.
The US wanted to sell how successful it was at building the Afghan army. That truth would have been inconvenient.
Led by Pavel Chichikov, I presume.
That’s just fucking perfect. I mean really, hat’s off to the gift. I’m impressed.
[Insert IQ Bell Curve Meme]
Low: I’d take the money and run
Middle: If we give them the right amount of money, they’ll build a government just like ours
High: They’re just gonna take the money and run
They have had people, even normally good ones, in steal-the-shit-out-of-everything mode since 1976. Who knows when the next set of baddies is going to show up and take your stuff and kill your people?
A shame they couldn’t have stayed a short reach monarchy.
They might be a monarchy again someday, but the King will likely come from the Taliban.
They have their own factions and divisions – no chance one of them would be acknowledged as “King”. That asshole nephew, throwing out Zahir Shah was a terrible thing.
Great H&H as well as afternoon links. I look forward to SF Wednesday.
By the way great musical selection. I always liken them to what happens when disco and Industrial had a baby who was then was raised by a dominatrix.
I miss the brief period of sampling movies in industrial dance songs.
“Jesus had days like this.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjBPIbJMzY&ab_channel=ThermalDetonatorTV
It was a great time in music. Copyrights were violated in most Industrial and hip-hop songs. Ministry sampled the crap out of Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Omega Man, 1984, etc. It was and is still something of an art, but it costs too much today. The great songs used the sample as a instrument or vocalist, instead of the song to rap over like later 90’s hip hop (puffy I’m looking at you).
Front 242 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCsKpokX2p8
Don’t leave out the great Luther Campbell and their filthy but good Kinks rip off:
https://youtu.be/kdzcQAmkULs
OK, on partial relisten maybe good is an overstatement but I have heard worse.
Relevant
Still one of my favorite bands from that era.
I loved to dance the fuck out of this one. I’d probably break a hip before the eight-minute mark today.
things like that I think are more reflective of what hopefully Robert Jordan would be writing if he was writing today
Oh, like stabbing you repeatedly and digging your eyes out of your skull?
You forgot the braid tugging.
“This town hall, which aired on CNN over the weekend, prompted a rote, exhausted culture-war skirmish.”
The hot new thing is to pretend that right wingers are the ones who initiated the culture war, now that the left needs to play a little defense.
“This argument is going to happen, and happen, and happen, until we are tweeting links about Dr. Seuss’ actual IRL politics in between manually pollinating soybeans for 12-hour shifts in exchange for rations of water, and it doesn’t seem much worthy of comment.”
I think this was an attempt at pointed comedy. Also, attention grownup adolescent trapped in a clickbait factory job: Don’t dump text/twitter acronyms in your published articles.
Word.
Republicans could win 60 House seats and 10 Senate seats in the midterms – and it’ll mean nothing as long as worthless Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are in leadership roles.
OK, and who would you support in their places? The whole damn party is pretty feckless. It’s just that is a better alternative than the other party.
Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.
That is what I get for adding commentary.
Nice idea, you see if either of them want those jobs? Or do you think they’d really be TopMan effective?
Rand Paul and Thomas Massie?
Of course, in a world that it was even possible for theme to be elected leaders would be one in which I wouldn’t have to worry about them being elected leaders.
The Turtle and the wannabe country club slicked up golf pro looking guy do both stink on ice, that’s for sure.
Attack on Titan is dumb and awesome. I only watched it because shitlibs said it would turn me into a right wing extremist. Streisand effect I suppose. Turns out it’s pretty mild, nothing crazy, kind of dumb. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sick anime intro
Don’t worry they are on it! (Kodansha is the publisher and owns the rights.)
Kadokawa President Apologizes for “Pro-Censorship” Remarks
Never mind. I mixed up Kadokawa and Kodansha. They are two of the largest anime/manga publishers.
As repentance, he will take a 20% pay cut for three months between August and October.
Based. It’s so hard to imagine this happening anywhere outside Japan.
But in return the BoD will protect his ass for anything short of getting caught with a dead hooker.
Man, I haven’t heard those guys forever. Thanks, SF!
(Although that video caused a seizure.)
Where have I seen this before
I think the new answer is, “When we collectively muster up the will to convince backward hicks living in places far from us to get vaccinated.”
The real new answer is when there are no more cases of an endemic respiratory virus.
Oh yeah, that. I forgot we’re to the “no one anywhere can ever get sick” phase of this whole thing.
Joe saves Christmas.
I know folks are concerned about getting what they need for the upcoming holidays. That’s why I spent the afternoon on the phone with the CEOs of America’s largest retailers. Here’s what we talked about
/looks at all the e-mails talking about Black Friday from the past two weeks.
I’m sure those CEO’s will get right down to the ports to help unload cargo!
Yeah, the problem is not at the stores, at least not at this point.
The worst part is that they think this actually helps.
Translation: “I have no respect for the fans or the work, so I’ll just shit all over them to fit in with the fucked up times we live in.”
Further translation: “I didn’t bother to read the books”.
Listening to the latest Darkhorse. Heather is losing her mind over vaccinating little kids. It’s been interesting watching both of them get red pilled.
In response to your comment about the neighbor, it is sad. It didn’t have to be that way.
My wife and I came to the conclusion that she being an only child and never having kids of her own had a lot to do with her behavior. She could have made the most out of her final years, but it appears she wants to wallow in her self-pity.
That’s no way to live. Life seems to provide plenty of challenges without being a negative pain in the ass.
It’s a good one to put in the rear view mirror.
It slipped my mind this morning to insist on adding A Very Important B-Day to the list until it was way too late, so I’ll add it here.
Happy B-day Teufel Hunden.
It’s also the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. At least we got a decent beer out of that.
And a song.
I want a Deepness in the Sky limited series.
It should have 3 different directors: One for the humans, one for the spiders, one for the flashbacks.
The spider portion should be some sort of cgi/animation type thing, UNTIL the reveal, then they are realistic and the human director takes over that portion.
That would be fucking awesome. I’m actually re-reading Deepness right now.
I am sure it would be totally screwed up, even if they went for my idea of doing the Spiders a some sort of animation.
The Emergents would be heroes, of course, because Focus is totally something that would be supported.
“Catholic bishop who quit church for ‘Satanic’ love is selling pig semen now”
https://nypost.com/2021/11/10/bishop-who-quit-church-for-erotic-love-exports-pig-semen
Not this shit again.
Uffda. This story about an unvaccinated doctor isn’t very Minnesoda Nice at all. In fact, they come dang close to saying that the world is better off without him.
Paragraphs later (probably on the insistence by MPR’s lawyers) is this small paragraph:
Oooh, now do the people that pushed the vaccines and then checked out with the Chinese Lung Butter Disease because there are plenty of them. Anyone dying with this thing is sad regardless of their beliefs but our society’s simple humanity is gone.
Cuntes.
There are a lot of crazy quotes in that story from other doctors and professors bemoaning doctors who won’t tow the lion.
The lack of self awareness from these docs is pretty amazing.
Yeah, imagine that. I wonder if she has considered the reverse case. People can go online and find medical professionals who align with their political viewpoints on mask mandates or child vaccination mandates too. As in docs who insist on vaccinating every kid despite there being no real upside and a potentially huge downside.
They’re just following the science you Neanderthal. Now excuse me while I research the incontrovertible hazards of GMO vegetables.
Most doctors are really good at memorization, not as good at problem solving.
No offense to our illustrious doctors here like Anacreon.
I’m a little bent about some recent interactions with docs who couldn’t think their way out of a room with one door.
But don’t you dare question them!
The good ones are worth cherishing similar to any other profession, however.
Yes. If you find one, do everything you can keep them.
My goal is to never go to a mainstream doc ever again.
I can’t read state propaganda like that without popping a blood vessel.
That story really surprised me with the outright naked hatred of the guy.
MPR didn’t do anything to even attempt to play it straight. Just a bunch of hate for him and his natural medicine ways.
When in the past they would have loved “natural medicine” as it opposed Evil Big Pharma.
Is self-defense legal or no?
Depends
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
this case is insane, I have never loathed a prosecutor so much in my life.
I have limited experience. Are they all such contemptuous fucktards? This guy seems like a particularly awful human being.
50/50.
Glib attorneys here may have a different opinion. I come from a legal family so I have lots of attorney family friends – private practice, corporate, judges, prosecutors and the like.
About right – same as most folks, but with a smattering more of higher office seekers.
That would be self defense for Biden’s pants.
It sends the wrong message, but it’s about to be profitable.
Pwnd.
The Loudoun County School Board meeting erupted into shouting on Tuesday night after parents confronted members of the school board after the parent group Fight for Schools filed more than 2,000 signatures to remove the board chair.
“By the way, Denise, Brenda, Ian, Atoosa, we are well over 100% of required signatures for the petitions,” Megan Jenkins said during the public comment period. “So I’m not going to encourage any of you to resign because when you are recalled and removed from office, it will be much more satisfying. See you in court.”
Jenkins had been referring to Board Chair Brenda Sheridan (Sterling District), Board Vice-Chair Atoosa Reaser (Algonkian District), Ian Serotkin (Blue Ridge District) and Denise Corbo, the at-large member. Ian Prior, a father and executive director at Fight for Schools, previously told Fox News that his organization had compiled all the signatures to mount legal challenges to each of those four board members, although he filed the petition to oust Sheridan on Tuesday.
“So I’m not going to encourage any of you to resign because when you are recalled and removed from office, it will be much more satisfying. See you in court.”
LOL.
Man, these Loudoun County School Board meetings are lit. Some 22-year-old, fresh-out-of-J-school drip didn’t know what a goldmine it would be when he/she was assigned the school board beat at the local fishwrap.
LOL. Sweeney finally conceded to the truck driver.
That had to hurt.
That’s a nice little cap to the day, huh?
Too sweet.
Sweeney’s campaign should’ve been: “Send my worthless ass back to the Senate. This country actually NEEDS truck drivers right now.”
Hey, I know job opening.
Is NJ legislator part time? He could keep the trucking job.
I’m surprised those thousands of votes waiting to be counted in Essex County or wherever didn’t take him over the top. Oh, it was bullshit? Huh.
That district does not include Essex County. However, it is New Jersey…
OT – How a 12-Year-Old From New Jersey Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster Ever
Although I’m betting you knew this story.
That is impressive.
At 7 years old, he was the youngest national expert
I peaked at a USCF rating of 1928, just short of expert (2000). And I was considerably older than that. Sheesh.
What, he found three additional queens in the trash outside the competition?
Sargon of Akkad’s outfit discusses the weird COP26 giant animated doll someone was talking about last night:
https://youtu.be/0kGKgojxmZs
Yep, it’s not just us that thinks it’s fucking weird.
Perhaps some of our Glib craftsmxn should create a Little Glibby so we can get in on the traveling circus.
An animated STEVE SMITH complete with functional *ahem* appendages would be neat.
Climate change is reducing STEVE SMITH habitat causing him to move his activities to more urban areas turning him into CITY SMITH, a smooth, sophisticated rapesquatch.
I think that has already been done:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/11/watch-rainbow-monkey-dildo-story-hour-at-london-library/
We’d need some of our talented authors to create a backstory for Little Glibby. Maybe how climate change is making it difficult to feed so many orphans in the basement.
Best not to leave that backstory to SugarFree.
Well, I got my retro pay. 42% tax on just the retro 🙁
That’s just gross.
It all evens out at the end of the year, no?
Oh, sorry:
*clears throat*
Taxation is theft!
(but my point stands)
I doubt it.
I believe that is net.
I was fishing for a pun thread. No one bit.
You’ll never lure me in with these pun threads.
I’m hooked.
Damn your nimble fingers, that was my line!
Reel it in, man.
I guess you’re off the hook, then.
*narrows gaze*
It’s your fair share, rich guy.
Wording on the memo acknowledging I have requested (in this case, an employee of mine) a religious exemption
“On or about [date], you submitted a religious accommodation request to me [your manager] seeking an exception to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate due to a sincerely held religious belief, observance or practice. ”
It doesn’t copy over, but they bold and put “religious belief, observance or practice.” in red. Still waiting on my 7-
deadly sinsreligious affirmation questions though.Prove you have a religious objection to receiving the vaccine.
What? Like, by not receiving the vaccine.
Yeah… I’d think being willing to be fired is pretty damned good evidence of a deeply held belief.
Schrödinger’s Vaccine:
If you’re so morally objected to the vaccine that you’re willing to get fired for it, then I guess you have a true objection. In order to prove that objection, we’re going to have to go ahead and fire you so that you can prove that you shouldn’t be fire because you have a moral objection.
You aren’t wrong. I have highlighted that we do not ask for what medication, procedures, etc an employee has or is getting done unless that employee is requesting an accommodation. Now it is turned around.
I don’t understand why they are asking followup questions. It’s pretty clear that the EEOC has stated that 1. Employers should ask a minimum of questions and 2. It’s inadvisable to try to determine how strongly held the beliefs are and that any belief rises to the level of “religious” protection.
Why the EEOC’s guidance isn’t at the crux of these arguments is beyond me. It seems people are ignoring one of the biggest things in their corner on this.
^^^^ thisssssssssssssssssssssss
I don’t either and yes cause of this place I will fire back on those grounds. Also, if it ends up getting denied I will file an EEO complaint. I will draw this out along with others.
Once I get the questions I will surely share them
I should probably write an article when I get the time, but my strategy is to compare any question sheet to the list of no-no topics in the EEOC guidance, cite to the guidance on that topic, and then cite to the guidance on retaliation and burdensome processes.
I tossed up so far dates and said sudden policy changes in the covid forum. Cause I have a feeling it will be relevant.
Someone should tell the cunte prosecutor that a person is not unarmed if he grabs your gun.
Now he is pretending that Kyle was not retreating with people chasing and threatening him.
This line of questioning is total bullshit. If you are being pursued, you give a warning, and the pursuit continues to the point the pursuer is grabbing the rifle, he has forfeited his right to live.
“Mr. Rosenbaum has never said anything at all about wanting your gun — you never heard him say anything about that, correct?”
So he’s running after a person with a rifle and tries to grab it, but unless he said, “Excuse me sir, I’m gonna take your gun!” he didn’t intend to take the gun. That makes zero sense.
Throw idiotic bullshit against the wall and hope something sticks is the apparent strategy now.
I think you’re supposed to get enthusiastic, ongoing, affirmative consent when grabbing someone’s rifle.
“You understand how dangerous it is to point a gun at someone, correct?”
Do YOU understand how dangerous it is to pose a a threat to a person armed with a rifle?
This. The kid had a rifle. It wasn’t a concealed .38. Who the hell charges after someone who has a rifle and isn’t looking for serious trouble? Was he chasing after him so they could have a nice chat?
Ability, opportunity, jeopardy. There’s nothing in there about what the assailant is armed with.
And yes, someone who continues to approach you after you have told them clearly and firmly to get away, is not someone who means you well. If they still come after you while you’re pointing a rifle at them, well…
They haven’t wrapped up the trial for the day? Isn’t it happy hour in Wisconsin?
+1 Old Fashioned.
Brandy Old Fashioned.
Really.
YouTube to eliminate the dislike function:
https://youtu.be/Td3atvYF08Y
Hey, if only likes are shown that means no one actually doesn’t like it, right?
https://m.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/11/08/florida-will-consider-removing-itself-from-osha-banning-employer-vaccine-mandates-in-special-legislative-session
A state can remove itself from OSHA? HOLY SHIT.
If DeSantis fucking does this, I’ll fill my yard with his Presidential signs in 2024.
This really is the most outstanding thing DeSantis has come up with yet.
Tom Woods was talking about earlier this week. A state telling the Feds to keep their money and leave them alone is the best thing yet to come out of this entire debacle.
We all know the Feds won’t take this laying down though but it’s still good to be able to tell the Feds to fuck themselves and keep their money.
Federal funding is almost the entirety of DC’s power now. Take that away and they have much less to coerce states with.
You can’t refuse our money, or the conditions that come with it!!!
Translation: You can’t refuse your own money that we forcibly confiscated and dole back out in the way that most helps us keep our grift going into perpetuity!!!
David French will be writing “A Conservative Case for Forcing States to Receive Federal Funding” before too long.
Less facetiously, I can easily see the Feds making the argument that Federal funding is necessary to protect civil rights, so thanks to yet more invisible ink in the Fourteenth Amendment, a bad state cannot refuse the funds, and thus cannot refuse the strings that are attached to the funds. Prior jurisprudence saying the Feds can attach strings to the money because the states didn’t have to accept it will not be revisited.
That’s actually demented enough that I can see them making that argument.
Why did you give them the idea?
I wish I could wield that kind of influence over them.
That would be a giant middle finger to DC. Simply marvelous!
It hits directly at the endrun around the Constitution that is federal funding.
They can do it if they forego federal funds and (I think) create their own version of OSHA within the state.
I’m almost certain they already have a regulatory apparatus. Federal OSHA doesn’t actually do much other than rule making. The states handle the enforcement.
Looked it up – seems like states from the 2 ends of the spectrum have their own OSHA.
https://www.oshamanual.com/compliance101/article/which-states-have-unique-state-osha-plans
Hell to the yes. Drop the drinking age to 18 while you’re at it.
What about the age limit for laxatives?
I feel much better now and I think I lost at least half a Couric. Highly recommend if planned better.
Larry Bell is retiring and selling to Lion, which means Bell’s and New Belgium will be part of the same company.
That was not supposed to be a reply, but it was reasonably on topic.
New Holland is now the largest independent craft brewery in Michigan.
Good, they make an awesome Dragon’s milk Stout,
Sounds racist.
^
Got there in far fewer words than me.
DeSantis is no Massie or Paul, but if he became the 24 nominee and the standard bearer of Team Red that would be absolutely fan-frigging-tastic. He actually is taking on some of the fights that need to happen. Unlike Trump, if elected I imagine he would have far greater focus and success in doing so.
If Trump and DeSantis both run, who will the media hate-report more? Trumpehitler, or Governor DeMurder?
If DeSantis won, you know that there will be articles about how Trump wasn’t that bad compared to DeSantis. That’s the great thing about being on the Left, you can change the narrative when it suits your needs.
Yep.
Sure, and Hillary was the worse thing ever…until Biden. It’s not a left/right thing it’s imprinted on our DNA, we want to be historically important, imagine if it ‘s all just a big con, who want’s to live that life. My outrage is important god dammit!
Maybe you can point to some articles from right wing sources lamenting that a moderate like Obama were running for the 2020 presidency instead of Biden. I’ll wait.
Yeah, but would housewives hate DeSantis as much?
I like it, but Trump is still too popular.
It all hinges on TDog. If he runs then he will likely get the nomination and who knows what happens. I could easily see another loss to whoever the Dems manage to put up. If he runs then DeSantis likely doesn’t. Barring some strange circumstances DeSantis would win big, even with the expected fortification.
Don’t count on lightning striking twice. All of the contenders have had 4 years to learn and… oh hell, that’s right, we’re talking about Republicans.
I could see him getting some begrudging soccer mom support because he’ll stand by his wife as she battles her breast cancer. There will still be plenty of soulless land whales that won’t care no matter what he does, but I have to think some of the many wine moms who are ruled solely by their emotions will look upon that favorably.
If you think TDS was something, imagine how DC would behave if states started cutting their water off. I think we would be looking at a hot civil war.
It won’t go hot. While the most powerful state governors still wield more direct executive authority over their states than the President does over the U.S., every state more or less follows the same model of governance: term limits, no spoils system, judiciary has final say, National Guard instead of militia, no meaningful state border or concept of state citizenship, nonprofits/megacorps/academia/bureaucracy are all backdoored by (inter)national establishment, no sovereignty over currency, etc.
A lot would have to change in the power dynamic for secession to be seriously viable.
It all boils down to the control of the currency.
It is the most potent weapon in the system’s arsenal. Not that long ago, Biden said “The U.S. always pays its bills.” It may have just been empty words off a teleprompter read by a senile puppet, but there is more truth in there I think than most realize. “Soft power” can be defined simply as “buying that which can be bought.”
Ahem, just under half of the states do have state militias
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force
Yes, but none of them are anywhere near as well funded, staffed, or equipped as their state’s NG.
Crack into Ass Wednesday!
https://archive.md/CaqWb
Just had a brisket taco with chipotle BBQ sauce & fried jalapenos. Yuuuummmm
I fried chicken livers and French fries. Yum.
I am full as a tick. I can hardly move.
Correctly cooked fried chicken livers are the food of the Gods.
^This guy gets it^
Meh, sort of.
And by “correctly cooked” you mean “turned into a forcemeat and cooked with French country herbs until it’s an awesome paté,” right? (Just ignore the gun at your head and you’ll do fine.)
/Homer Simpson drooling sounds
Chipotle sauce is an abomination fit only for hipsters and the lactose intolerant,
I’m lactose intolerant.
STOP OTHERING ME
uhhhh…..TexMex? Mexican? Tamales (Injun…feather not dot)?
I didnt know it was a hipster thing.
It’s a completely American concoction, aboot as authentic as a Chalupa,
So we introduced the technique of smoking foods to those heart-cutting savages?
That makes it taste even better.
Yes authentically American and delicious.
Oh? Did you taste the taco? When were you in Travelers Rest?
… I want a witty reply to be here…
I had a chipotle cream sauce on chicken breast in the Yucatan a few years ago that was as sublime as any French treatment I’ve ever had, and I’m of French extraction, goddammit. It ain’t just hipster shit.
Damn, that sounds good. I made a chicken poblano casserole a couple of weeks ago.
It’s Wednesday, I don’t work tomorrow. Let’s zoom! Starts at 8pm Eastern.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84844021642?pwd=QXloYlRQK3I1UHdDN2NvRkNvLzg1dz09
I am off tomorrow too. Might pop in for a bit. Thankee, Tulip.
PA Court tosses school mask order
An order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wednesday by a state court that said she lacked the authority.
Commonwealth Court sided 4-1 with the ranking Republican in the state Senate and others who sued to challenge the masking order that took effect in early September as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The judges said Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s mandate did not comply with the state’s laws about reviewing and approving regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.
Commonwealth appealed and the mandate remains in place until a higher court rules. So, you lawyerscum out there, why did Trump rules get stayed and not allowed to remain in effect because of one Hawaiian judge, but Wolf mandate gets stayed but gets to be left in place until another court also rules?
Dude
Article F
Section Y
Sub-Section T
Clause W
The fact the question needs to be asked belies the answer.
You need the next higher court to weigh in. Nobody in the 9th was going to overrule HI judge.
And genial “up yours” for the ‘lawyerscum’.
Urgh.
Jeez, just watched the vid of Rittenhouse breaking down. That was tough to watch. Anyone who says he was faking is nuts.
Psychopaths believe everyone else is faking emotions just like they have to.
Everyone seems to judge others by comparing them to themselves. Projection for the un-selfaware is as common as pig tracks.
Is this better than hockey hair?
https://hairfreezingcontest.com/
Nope.
But still pretty cool!
Who else remembers Shoot Me Up Elmo?
Seems the Bee does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl_BfOIXkaA
For reference, from the early days of the intertoobs
https://funkatron.com/bert/img/elmobox2.gif
Fucking genius.
“Surgeon General Rebuts Matthew McConaughey Over Vaccinating Kids; Warns Americans Not To Share’Misleading Memes’ About COVID”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/surgeon-general-rebuts-matthew-mcconaughey-over-vaccinating-kids-warns-americans-not-share
Lord have mercy, what bizarre lab did they grow that motherfucker in and I ain’t talking about Matthew?
Define “remarkably” with numbers weirdo – then compare it to “danger” covid poses to children.
“Remarkably”, “marginally”, “not”…what’s the difference?
In discussions I’ve had, prodding has revealed that nobody really believes the children are at serious risk. It’s all about stopping the spread, but since the vaccine doesn’t really do that, vaccinating the kids makes no sense. It really does just seem to be a religious ritual at this point.
If your religion calls for child sacrifice.
Considering vaccine mandates are now underwater in the polls, it’s hard to imagine vaccine mandates for children are all that popular anyway.
Especially in Tejas.
Warns Americans not to disagree with him or the official narrative? Or else what, Sunshine?
See above about money and its use by those in power. They want us broke and submissive but they’ll take their time to turn the ratchet.
Or else you’ll be fired if you get too mouthy or don’t get with the program. Not exactly concentration camps just yet but not good regardless.
Wife and I are both financially independent and retired. There is not a damned thing they can do to me. I am sure they hate that, but fuck ’em.
I feel badly for people who do have a sword hanging over their heads.
They can render your savings useless through rampant inflation…..
They are doing that anyway. It is not like I get the dangerous, ineffective shot and they will quit.
We have a healthy cushion that we can sustain for a good while but yeah, still hangs over our heads.
I bet next bout of homelessness due to fired/quit unclean will be “they chose that lifestyle!”
Like him, dislike him, or indifferent; Matthew McConaughey had political aspirations that they’re trying to screw him out of for a fairly minor divergence in thought. That government officials are willing to go after a popular someone for something like that doesn’t bode well for the future. The mask is off as they say. That said, I’m certain he’ll land on his feet just fine.
The case fatality rate for folks under 30 in Florida is 0.0%.
Gonna be really hard for a vaccination campaign to do less harm than the virus in that group.
Well that is the problem…they need it higher, thus the forced vaccine…. /tinfoil2019truth2021
It’s was never about your kids, it’s ostensibly about your kids killing grandma and grandpa.
I’m just amazed that I live in the timeline that has the Surgeon General responding to MM’s personal opinion.
… Honk, Honk!!!
It shows you how much of a threat they perceive him to be.
Even the smallest threat they are snapping at.
Straight out of the little red book.
….this doesn’t help persuade me to turn away from my initial “Honk, Honk!!!” reaction..
Super delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeiMxCbvBQ
I have been making these for years. I cant think of one occasion when there were leftovers.
I didnt watch the whole video but it is very similar to mine both recipe and technique. I dont know if she puts cilantro in it or not but I bet you can guess if I do.
Worth every minute of effort.
Oh, and I use a pressure cooker, not a crock pot.
Holy mothereffing crap those look delicious. Wonder if there’s any way to make them keto? I think the only sticking point would be whatever shell she’s using.
True Mexican food is greatly under appreciated in the US. What we think of as Mexican is actually TexMex. TexMex incorporates many elements of Mexican, obviously, but it it still quite different.
Trying to make a delicious recipe into a square peg to fit a round hole is always a mistake. I have a relative that does that all of the time and the results are always nearly inedible. A corn tortilla or two now and then wont hurt you. Make sure you fry in corn oil to maximize the corn flavor.
When you soak a carb in lipids, in this case corn tortilla in corn oil, it renders the carb much more difficult to digest and whatever you are able to digest digests much more slowly.
That chick is American but her parents are from Mexico. She gives recipes from her family going back generations. Look her channel up. She is one of my favorite YT cooks. Try her Tamale pie and chicken enchiladas…traditional Mexican and freakin’ delicious.
Truth is, now that I’m tracking it, I’m seeing I’m not getting anywhere near the 20 carbs a day that’s supposed to be my limit. My understanding is that keto or not you I actually need more than I’m getting. These looks like a great way to get there….
My mouth started watering just watching the video…until she got to the cilantro….then I imagined it away and started watering again despite being stuffed full of fried chicken livers.
Ugh. 14 year old just came in crying because she’s afraid I’m going to be mad when she fails her Spanish exam on Friday.
Me: Perhaps if you had taken my suggestion to study with other kids and practice, this wouldn’t have been a problem.
Her: But I’m not good at Spanish.
Me: That’s the point. You practice and you get better. You have to get over your embarrassment in order to improve.
Her: I just can’t find the motivation.
Me: Then you’re going to fail. So make up your mind as to which is less appealing to you, failing or being embarrassed about using imperfect Spanish with others.
*el sigh*
Ah that conversation I have had many a times.
Sounds familiar.
Boy “has everything done”. Next day… Flags a quiz.
“I studied all night!!”
Uh… I was there all night. You didn’t study for 5 minutes.
The post covid adjustment is tough for that one.
Knowing that you are speaking badly is a hard hurdle to get over.
I can see why a 14 year is going to struggle with that, but it is part of learning and growing up.
/s Guy who just had his Japanese lesson and got his ass kicked.
Oh, I understand completely. I just can’t sympathize with her and give her tacit approval to continue avoiding what she needs to do.
Mrs. Suthenboy: “You need to quit procrastinating”
Suthenboy: “I am going to. I am just waiting for the right time.”
Smart move though, to prepare you beforehand, so you’re not blindsided. My experience was parents tend to get madder that way then if I warned them it was coming.
Eh, I knew it was coming. I was just waiting for her to admit it.
Than.
As you can see, one of the classes I might or might not have needed to prep them for, was English.
Project Veritas releases its first NYT deposition tape.
Looks pretty milquetoast to me.
Most of the Veritas ‘bombshells’ when revealed turn out to be anti-climactic.
Yeah, they’re the kings of overhyping a series of releases that have a combined 90 seconds of interesting stuff.
Hey DEG,
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/quakertown-condemns-bush-house-hotel-evicts-residents/article_f0d0b450-423b-11ec-9681-a7343a0476af.html
Not really surprised.
Wow. I recognize the building but don’t really know the place.
Always had a bad rep since I’ve been here.
I wonder what some relatives of mine have to say about it. Those relatives know Quakertown and northern Bucks County better than I do.
“It’s never been about” kicking out the poors, but we’re going to kick out the poors. Don’t worry, we’ll “take care of them”.
There was a clone of that in shreveport. When you have a hundred or so formerly homeless and mentally ill living in a building like that it turns into a pestilence infested sewer in no time flat.
Shreveport had to do that same thing. May as well burn it and start from scratch.
So, the hotel owner backed the wrong politicians in the recent election?
Some interview said the WoT show was going to be a feminist power fantasy, and they were making sure to have more wang on screen than cunte.
All day leadership at work “Thank you veterans…blah blah blah”. I had to bite my tongue before I spouted off “except you unclean fuckers, get a new job”
While we are having wish lists for books we love being made into movies, I want Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet done right. Four-season mini series. One for each book. And maybe a fifth to do American Tabloid. But only if they get the ending right.
LA Confidential was fucking great. You want to change it?
Venomous sharks? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/venomous-sharks-found-in-london-s-thames-river/ar-AAQxSMU?ocid=msedgntp
Old news — we’ve had those in the Potomac for generations.
Yep. About like a catfish. Poisonous spines used for defense. I think we have catfish here bigger than that thing.
The catfish doesnt make its own poison except in its skin, some of which, along with some nasty bugs get on the spines. A poke from one of those and the pain and swelling will persist for a week or so. First thing I do before cleaning one is use some dykes to snip off the spines.
You have a supply of lesbians just to clean catfish? 😉
Those are politicians.
Thought I’d watch a couple minutes of the Rittenhouse trial live before going to bed last night. Turned into me watching for 2 hours. *Sleepy today*. Binger actually claimed that Rittenhouse waited to tell his story so he could tailor it to fit the witness testimonies. That’s idiotic and would mean the 5th means absolutely nothing. Also, Kyle’s mom’s expression throughout the day is so genuinely sad that the jury must have felt it。
The theory is that the defense didn’t object (when they should have a lot) because they might be reading the jury on his testimony. Still, you hire an attorney to protect you and even if you are a strong witness or holding your own, you don’t know the law and that is why you hire an attorney to keep the other lawyer in check.
Binger also tried to bring in evidence that he couldn’t, tried to do the whole “pinch and zoom” on a digital screen to prove something.
Supposedly this is the style of the primary defense attorney. Even so, when your client is looking over to you after the 8th time the same question is being asked, maybe stand your fat ass up and say “objection, asked and answered”
Yeah, I saw the judge chew him out for that second one. It looked like it was so blatantly wrong that the judge was shocked at first. The more he grasped what happened, the more pissed off he got.
The minute that fucker violated Rittenhouse’s 5th Amendment, it should have been ‘shut it down!’ But I believe in that right we hold.
I’ll admit it: I really enjoyed watching the judge yell at Binger.
Binger’s face went a juicy red color。
So question: During closing arguments, if it actually gets there, can the defense bring those moments up? “The State purposefully violated my client’s 5th Amendment rights, he followed Miranda, remained silent, and only now did he decide to speak to you, a jury of his peers, and the State wants to punish him for doing so”.
I don’t think the prosecution trying to imply that remaining silent is an indicator of guilt proves Rittenhouse is innocent, but I’d definitely say something like “Members of the jury, the prosecution began this trial with the stated intent of proving my client’s guilt. instead, their witnesses have affirmed under oath that my client did not fire his weapon until his life was in imminent danger.”
DA Douchebag got slapped hard by the judge for that one. I actually with that judge would unleash hell on the dude, but I guess that’s how he’s a dispassionate arbiter and I’m not.
You motherfuckers. *deletes rest of comment*
Yeah, I’ve been doing an awful lot of that lately.