Thursday Afternoon Links of Government Hate

by | May 12, 2022 | Daily Links | 210 comments

I was previously unaware of this wonderful cover of your music of links-reading.

 

 

THEY HATE YOU AND WANT YOU UNDER THEIR THUMB: House Judiciary Committee Republicans claimed in a letter on Wednesday that the FBI conducted investigations into Americans based on allegations that they threatened local school boards, citing whistleblowers from the agency. The deep state doesn’t care about CRT, or about local school boards, but they are more than happy to spy on Americans and put them on threat lists for daring to question or challenge the state.

 

THEY HATE YOU AND WANT YOU COLD, HUNGRY, and UNABLE TO TRAVEL: Biden administration cancels Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Because that’s exactly what you do when gas prices are soaring, grocery prices are up and supermarket shelves are increasingly bare, and infant formula is in short supply. But that’s okay because we’re headed towards a bright, solar-powered future where nobody will have to work and everyone will enjoy an above-average standard of living. What they can’t do (yet) via outright travel bans they can partially do by making travel expensive. Bonus self-serving link to my recent paranoid rant about this.

 

THEY HATE INFANTS and WANT THEM TO GO HUNGRY: “They are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border,” said Republican Rep. Kat Cammack in one of two online postings yesterday. “Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula,” she added, holding a photo of empty shelves where the formula would be. Immigrant babies need to eat, too, but one suspects a majority were being breast fed and that the mothers did not stop lactating at the border. Also, TSA once again proves that they are completely worthless and totally evil at a time when formula is in short supply.

 

THEY HATED INDIANS and SYSTEMATICALLY TORTURED THEM: Native American children were renamed, told not to use Indigenous languages and had their hair cut at 408 boarding schools in the United States that forced assimilation in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Department of Interior says. Apparently this went on through 1969 and presumably some of the victims and perpetrators are still alive. Society will continue to pay the moral price for this for generations to come.

 

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210 Comments

  1. Rat on a train

    Native American children were renamed
    Commander? Guardian?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Team Member

    • Plisade

      Two Progs Fucking

      • pistoffnick

        Solid!

      • Chafed

        There are some things I won’t watch.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    A Pinellas County woman accused of driving under the influence performed “multiple ballet and Irish folk dance moves” during a roadside field sobriety test, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

    Lush of the Dance

    • Rat on a train

      Irish dancing is actually proof you are drunk.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m in for twenty bucks.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *grabs boom box and a forty*

        You’re on.

      • Tundra

        I’m in.

      • Compelled Speechless

        So we’re just going to pool our money and then go family style on her? Not quite how I imagined meeting some of you. I think we need to draw some ground rules about crossing swords and eye contact.

      • Rat on a train

        I just paying for the drunken dancing.

      • Tundra

        Yeah. CS, what kind of sick mind do you have, anyway?

      • Compelled Speechless

        I thought that post summed it up pretty well. Glad I didn’t bring up my idea to make a human centipede while we were at it. Then you guys would really think I’m a perv.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Family style? I have questions….

      • EvilSheldon

        Joining in a gangbang isn’t perverted.

        Calling it ‘family style’ is perverted.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I feel like the act is worse than the name, but agree to disagree I guess. I’m getting the vibe that people are having second thoughts about this whole thing.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Wait. I thought you guys were going to pony up for a Drunk Scruffy Dancefest…

      • nw

        Only if we can go family style.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Thanks NW. I figured someone around here would be down. Buncha prudes….. If it’s just two of us, we can always just do the ol’ Eiffel tower.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Faith and begorrah, I canna’ help but like the lass. For the wee price of a pint of Guinness she’d be a fine time.

  3. DEG

    Apparently this went on through 1969 and presumably some of the victims and perpetrators are still alive.

    Unlike reparations for blacks, here is a case for reparations.

    Single, male, hetero Glibs – for the low, low price of $650 you can bail out this lovely and talented young woman.

    /reads article
    Hmm…..

    • Brawndo

      re: reparations. Agreed. Also why I don’t mind that the government paid the Japanese Americans that had been forced into concentration camps during WW2. Although I would prefer it never happened in the first place.

    • Tonio

      While I would prefer the term settlement, rather than reparations, yes, the still-living victims deserve compensation.

      And the still-living perpetrators deserve some sort of punishment though I’m not sure what laws they violated. This is one of those annoying moral problems like what does one do with an 87-yo former Nazi concentration camp worker who is dying of cancer.

      • Chafed

        Provide the same level of care and comfort as the people forced into the concentration camp.

      • DrOtto

        So plague them with the NHS in England?

      • DEG

        I was thinking of the Penn and Teller “Bullshit!” episode where reparations came up. I can’t remember which episode it was. They brought up the US government compensating Japanese-Americans that had been interned during the Second World War. “People who harmed are actually alive.”

      • DEG

        Yes. It was probably that one. I forgot that they had a specific episode on reparations. I was thinking the episode was on some other racially charged topic and reparations came up.

      • R.J.

        Yes, that is correct. That was horrible, as is internment of Indian children. And there are survivors who deserve reparations, preferably paid with government salaries as opposed to taxpayers.

      • Mustang

        I’m not so sure about punishing people retroactively for something that wasn’t a crime at the time. Was it wrong? Sure. Not comfortable with prosecuting thenlm though.

        No reparations. Sorry. I had no involvement and do not owe them a dime of tax money.

      • Chafed

        I agree about no criminal charges if it wasn’t a crime at the time. As for the reparations, if this was government ordered/mandated/directed conduct then I think we are all on the hook for what was done.

      • Mustang

        You can use that same argument for every lawsuit the government has to pay out. It’d be better to hold the individuals responsible for their behavior and make them pay, but as we agreed it wasn’t a crime at the time. Sorry, no reparations then.

      • DEG

        How about we abolish the BIA, fire all of its employees?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        You can use that same argument for every lawsuit the government has to pay out.

        I mean some lawsuits that the government has to pay out are justified though, right? It’s not an illogical train of thought.

        I think one straightforward example is the release of an innocent person after 20 or 30 years of incarceration. I don’t see how we can’t give that person reparations from taxpayers for the decades of life that was stolen from them. And if the prosecution acted above aboard, there may not even be an at fault party to pin the blame on. But even if the prosecution acted criminally in withholding evidence, they are not going to to have sufficient funds for reparation.

        The reparations/settlement/compensation is a grey area. I’m unconformable with a uniform yes or no rather than evaluating each instance on its merits.

      • R.J.

        Agreed that you should not retroactively punish for a crime. Also should not take from taxpayers. I was thinking take from government employees’ budgets should their office have participated in the internment.

      • Mustang

        Those budgets are taxpayer funded though…

      • R.J.

        True. I don’t have all the answers.

      • R.J.

        But yanking someone’s budget and handing it to Indians sounds better than requesting more taxes.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m with you. If we have to live with government, the first step is to make to government learn to live it’s own consequences. Making bureaucrats worry that their department may not have enough to pay them if they screw up to much is still a step in the right direction.

      • kbolino

        The recognized tribes are already getting lots of money and privileges through the BIA, not coincidentally the most corrupt government agency there is. Either expel the reservations as independent states or fully annex them. The current situation is absurd and the entire affair has been a degenerating series of ever more byzantine iterations of White Man’s Burden since the 1820s.

      • Threedoor

        Yep. US citizens as of 1925.

        Get rid of the treaties.

      • Tonio

        “Deserve” in a moral sense. No, I do not support retroactively criminalizing things.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        How about we take away the right to name sports team after native groups, and maybe give them casino’s?

    • Chafed

      I think she is on the right side of the crazy/hot divide.

    • R.J.

      *Sound of DEG opening wallet

      • DEG

        I like the ambiguity here given the talk of reparations above.

      • R.J.

        Heh. Long day. I lack context.

    • CPRM

      Unlike reparations for blacks, here is a case for reparations.

      I have…reservations.

      As for the drunk lady, I think I found my soulmate.

    • Threedoor

      They get to skip on sales tax and state income tax on the rez. I wish I was as privileged.

      No reparations for super citizens.

  4. grrizzly

    A preliminary breath test confirmed the liquid was alcohol, the arrest report added.

    An officer sniffed it?

    • Bobarian LMD

      Drank it.

      • Chafed

        That explains the next sentence about the breathalyzer results.

      • R.J.

        … Then discovered it was pee. To save face, it was stated as alcohol.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Both things could be true.

    • SDF-7

      You’ve heard of letting your wine breathe, right? Same principle, apparently….

  5. Shpip

    Native American children were renamed, told not to use Indigenous languages and had their hair cut at 408 boarding schools in the United States that forced assimilation in the 19th and 20th centuries

    To be fair (to be faaaaaaaaair), this was common in the westernized world at the time, including in the US, Canada, Australia, and presumably New Zealand and the English-speaking parts of sub-Saharan Africa. We consider this to be horrifying now, but it was the height of enlightened thought back then.

    Teach ’em the white man’s ways. After all, it beats killing them.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Looks at Americanized last name…where is my 2 dollars?!

    • DEG

      this was common in the westernized world at the time

      That doesn’t matter to the usual suspects, unless they want to beat on other Westernized countries. The USA is uniquely, systemically racist in their minds.

    • Tonio

      Yes, and Canada has made a decent effort at coming to terms with this, although the Catholic church which operated many of the schools is not cooperating.

      • kbolino

        Canada has made a decent effort at coming to terms with this

        I must beg to differ.

        The Canadian establishment perpetuated a blood libel against Christianity. They claimed there was a mass grave full of hundreds of bodies, purportedly all indigenous children. When the “mass grave” was dug up, not a single body was found. Dozens of churches were torched, many of which had no connection to the nexus of offensive practices which allegedly led to the mass-grave-that-wasn’t. It’s not quite Spanish Civil War redux, but it’s also hard not to see it as the low-energy contemporary equivalent of the Spanish republican atrocities against Christians.

    • Tundra

      Obesity, addiction and a lack of longevity.

      Yep, we taught em all we know!

  6. Gustave Lytton

    THEY HATED INDIANS and SYSTEMATICALLY TORTURED THEM

    Wait, this isn’t about the open air museums ran by racist pseudo governments that persists today?

    • Tonio

      Thanks, DEG. I’m sure the guys will find Naomi Wolf quite watchable. They still need video production help, though.

      • Sean

        Naomi Wu is way more watchable. Just sayin.

      • R.J.

        Yeah boy, that is some old iPhone with a greasy lens kind of production. And this coming from a man who watches movies that look like they were shot through a screen door. Also Naomi needs some portrait mode going on! Yow! Landscape isn’t showing me enough!

      • DEG

        Also Naomi needs some portrait mode going on! Yow! Landscape isn’t showing me enough!

        Google Image Search is your friend.

      • Tonio

        Melissa using vertical video, and the downlighting emphasizes her nose. Both need uniform backdrops. The footage within the state house is underlit on all their videos but that may be due to state govt limitations on video lighting (which shouldn’t exist anymore because of LED lights and sensitive cameras).

      • R.J.

        It’s ALMOST… But not quite as bad as my Zoom video lighting.

      • DEG

        You could have mine.

        No camera so black screen of just my name.

    • Bobarian LMD

      She’s got a friend, you know.

      From a link on that page. It’s a BOGO sale.

      • Chafed

        I…uh… am confused by what she wants.

      • Bobarian LMD

        To check off her bucket list, obviously.

      • Chafed

        Because surviving an encounter with the police is as thrilling as riding a rollercoaster?

      • SDF-7

        Could be more thrilling. Roller coasters aren’t usually life or death experiences, after all.

      • Bobarian LMD

        What do you think the odds are that she’s already checked off #23 — Threesome with an Irish Dancing Drunk and the kindly Glib who bailed them both out?

  7. Gustave Lytton

    There are still a handful of BIA operated boarding schools and regular schools. I doubt this is really about addressing past injustices and more about enriching individuals, tribes, and others by transferring those and the funding over to tribal authorities.

    • The Other Kevin

      They’d be fools to show up. They’ll be asked a bunch of gotcha questions, and the answers will be used as proof that they’re unfit to hold office.

    • Chafed

      No way that will backfire after the next election.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I think by this point the D’s already know it is going to be a bloodbath come Nov. and that the tables will turn rather sharply. My guess is they are trying to get some punches in beforehand.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I don’t even get how this “investigation” is still going. What is left to investigate? If you think you have a case to make some criminal trials happen (they don’t), get on with it. What an obvious political farce. Of course they can’t go after any R’s for their real crimes related to corruption, because they’re all doing the same exact things and we can’t derail the gravy train.

    • SDF-7

      I don’t remember my obscure “rules we write for ourselves” logic today — but isn’t there something about congress-critters not being able to subpoena each other for actions taken in office? To prevent just this sort of political witch hunt and all?

      Or am I confusing reality with what exists in other countries or should exist here…..

      • Rat on a train

        Article 1 Section 6 Clause 1

        They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

      • kbolino

        Obvious out there with “Breach of the Peace”, and of course they’ve also leveled the charge of “Treason” though that is a lot less likely to stick

  8. The Other Kevin

    I’m a bit skeptical about the baby formula thing. It’s too “on the nose” and easy to fake. However, I can list a dozen such things over the past few months that turned out to be true.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What part you skeptical about? The shortage? Sending to border facilities? Or that the admin is doing it on purpose?

      • Mojeaux

        I can believe all of it. Easily.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yes I can see that we probably had some contract to deliver X pallets to border facilities, I can see the FDA botching its shuttering of the plant and I can see the administration sitting on their hands cause it creates another wedge issue.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah — ICE or whomever having back orders from their existing contracts to supply migrants and not produce more humanitarian concerns like the whole “cages” mess I can easily see. No one thinking that the optics of keeping those shipments going with PPP’s Open Border policy combined with shortages in the domestic market is not a big mental leap.

    • Sean

      Stop by a store and peek for yourself.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Or just search Amazon. Looks bare there.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Costco is out too online.

    • Tonio

      That’s reasonable. I linked to the Washington Examiner because I assumed that they had fact-checked the congresswoman, as newspapers would have done in the old days.

      I also know that as late as March that US relief orgs were sending domestic infant formula to Ukraine. We can’t import formula, because FDA, but those orgs could have purchased non-US formula outside the US and had it delivered to Ukraine.

    • Fatty Bolger

      I believe it’s all true, except when Strawberry says the FDA is “working around the clock” to fix the shortage. Sure, Jen.

      • R.J.

        “Now every person crossing the border illegally will have to bring a box of formula with them.”

      • db

        I mean, that might be the most effective solution we have to supply chain issues in this country at this point. Open the border to all comers as long as they bring in a can of baby formula, a ton of steel, or a box of microchips.

      • R.J.

        It’s the ‘Bring Something or Stay in Mexico’ policy!

  9. Not an Economist

    Then: Biden administration cancels oil and gas leases.

    Now: Biden cancels oil and gas leases because no one will bid on them.

    Cause and effect?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well if you were afraid the government would yank the lease out from under you, would you spend the money to develop it?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Nah, they’re just lying.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Were the lease offers posted in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’?

      • SDF-7

        They were definitely (because the Gulf ones that were yanked specifically mention court cases on the topic) being revisited to “better consider impact on climate change” — so doubtless were either coming with a “give XXX% of all revenue to these graft chains to ‘offset’ the carbon” or were being deemed “impractical” because the impact was deemed “too great” or something. Strangled in the crib with plentiful red tape…..

      • Tonio

        +1 Douglas Adams

  10. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    A number of Indians up near the Canadian border took on the same last name as I have. I’ve even been asked a number of times if I’m Indian even though, or maybe because, I’m almost as pale as Elizabeth Warren. I should look into getting me some reparations.

  11. Mustang

    Re: the oil and gas lease. Article says it was cancelled for “lack of interest” and had been cancelled for the same reason in 2007, 2008, and 2011. It could very well be that nobody’s interested in the land, so why not cancel the lease?

    It probably is a bullshit eco-weenie move, but I refuse to let my initial reaction be outrage.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Fair point, but regulatory uncertainty will likely decrease interest in the leases.

  12. Ownbestenemy

    I should also be able to demand that England pay me for forcing a last name based on occupation from the 1500s? Stealing our identity and replacing it with one that the State deemed us to be?

    • Rat on a train

      I want my name pronounced in the original Saxon.

    • Tonio

      Unless you’re a lot older than you appear, no. In the same sense that I can’t demand that random Italians reimburse me for the Roman occupation of Britain before even I was born.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You just enjoy pissing in my Wheaties don’t you

  13. Ownbestenemy

    Imagine all the MAP MtF’s that are chomping at the bit to sign up to be a wet nurse in this great time of need.

    • Sean

      Ewwwwwww.

  14. grrizzly

    I went to a bank branch in Cambridge for the first time since summer 2020. And like nothing has changed. All employees were still muzzled. All customers, at least those intending to interact with bank employees, were masked too. There’s no local or state mandate. The last mandate was lifted months ago.

    • Sean

      Ewwwwwww.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I am okay with people that want to continue, just don’t force it on me and allow me to dictate the level of protection I feel myself and family need.

      • grrizzly

        In general, I agree. However, it still serves as an indication that the public will comply with and enforce any new mandate.

      • kbolino

        I will not be satisfied until wearing a mask in public is a felony again and everyone in any position of authority who perpetuated forced masking be locked in the stocks from 9 AM to 5 PM daily. There should be paid hecklers who throw rotten vegetables at them. They should be forced to read every line of every email they’ve ever sent or received repeatedly until hoarse.

        I don’t care about the “principle” of the thing, I don’t care about “civil liberties”, they deserve to get what they did repaid to them tenfold.

      • Tundra

        ^^This^^

        There must be a reckoning.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        What I want to do to the vax pushers is 100x what I want to do to the mask pushers.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • TARDis

        ??

      • kbolino

        They just passed a law with lots of ceremony outlawing at the national level what the vax-pushers deserve.

        I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

      • TARDis

        There should be paid hecklers who throw rotten vegetables at them.
        Just have a cart of old food nearby so anyone walking by can chuck stuff at them.

      • Surly Knott

        I knew I liked you.

    • Chafed

      Nothing changes in the People’s Republic of Cambridge until The Right People say they should.

  15. Shpip

    The Tampa Bay news station missed a few opportunities, there.

    “A Madeira Beach woman’s reaction to a DUI investigation left police reeling. But before she knew it, the jig was up.”

    The cops will surely be on their toes for more like her.

    • Shpip

      She’s lucky no one was kilt.

      • Ownbestenemy

        A pun to your own pun? You’re Ceili-ng me here.

      • Tundra

        Swissy’s gonna be reel pissed.

      • Bobarian LMD

        You think this is gonna clog up the works?

      • Ownbestenemy

        A steely druidic gaze would be fitting

      • The Other Kevin

        He just upstaged himself.

  16. Shpip

    In a separate Florida Woman incident, a lady wrassler looks to have earned herself a multi-year trip to Lowell.

    • R.J.

      I call B.S. Cannot possibly be real.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Yeah. I’m going to call this one a Smollett. To over-the-top to be believable. Kindergartners can barely read. Everything they’re assigned makes it to the parents.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        If this shit goes on much longer, the Jack Spirko method is going to end up being used by a pissed off parent or two. Teacher disappears in the middle of the night. Excavator digs hole. Teacher goes in hole. Excavator fills hole. Excavator pats ground flat.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        My wife always brings up pigs when I mention the 15 acres of woods behind the house.

        She bought her piglets yesterday.

      • UnCivilServant

        Is there anything to keep them on the property?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Surprisingly yes. I have spent a ridiculous amount of money stretching a field fencing almost across the entire 30 acres of property. I still have a small section of ~900 feet left and it’s done.

        I’d want to put in another fence for an actual pig pen in the woods, but I added the field fence in the woods as backup security in case the dogs or a cow broke through the pasture fence.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Awesome! I’ve seen lots of interesting videos from Justin Rhodes and others on using pigs to pasture wooded areas.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t know that these will be pastured in the woods. She mentions the pigs as an alternative to digging a hole out there.

        I am interested in pasturing pigs those in the woods. I’m not sure how well the typical meat breeds do, but maybe if I can get a hold of an Iberican and raise that on acorns and walnuts.

      • Threedoor

        Dig and fill lots of holes. Put animals in them. Just to make them waste a lot of time digging up roadkill.

  17. grrizzly

    eugyppius: Ukraine and Western Geopolitical Mythology

    The politics of this war are the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. It is very strange indeed to be called a right-wing extremist in Germany for having pro-Russian sympathies. It is even stranger, for someone who is periodically accused of being a Nazi – despite totally disavowing National Socialism – to read editorials in mainstream newspapers insisting that the Azov battalion are not actually Neo-Nazis, even though this is what they claim to be. In the early days of the war, at the height of pro-Ukraine hysteria, a major German retailer was even caught selling the Azov flag in their online shop, complete with the Sonnenrad and the Wolfsangel. All of this confirms my long-running thesis, that the empire is firmly post-political. It employs political forms purely as a matter of expedience; its only real principles are expansion, assimilation and atomised consumerism.

    • Tundra

      Thanks.

      This is fucking madness.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Western governments have figured out the propaganda game pretty well. They’ve helped foster an educational system that primes the masses for their two minutes of hate and other manipulations.

      • kbolino

        The primary lesson they’ve taken from 1984 is that the Party and Big Brother was too obvious and, as centralized instruments, too vulnerable. A distributed arrangement, in which most of the conspirators aren’t even aware they’re conspiring, is more resilient.

  18. Ted S.

    For those who want a different sort of music link, Eurovision is this weekend, and this is the conceptual fail that is Serbia’s entry.

    You can read more about it in English.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I mean, that might be the most effective solution we have to supply chain issues in this country at this point. Open the border to all comers as long as they bring in a can of baby formula, a ton of steel, or a box of microchips.

    Oddly enough, I just watched Mad Max Thunderdome last night.

    “Got nothin’ to barter? You no get inna Bartertown.”

  20. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Single, male, hetero Glibs – for the low, low price of $650 you can bail out this lovely and talented young woman.

    I stand by what I said last night

    • Ted S.

      You said you were so sober you could do an Irish jig?

    • DEG

      If you said we have standards, then I will take offense.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    A number of Indians up near the Canadian border took on the same last name as I have.

    I had no idea Silverheels was that common.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I have to admit, when your last name is Twodogsfucking, it was bound to happen.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    I stand by what I said last night

    Men are pigs?

    • Tulip

      That was probably me (every zoom).

      • TARDis

        Well, you’re not wrong.

      • Tundra

        Was there some question?

      • Compelled Speechless

        And you said that before some low life brought up “family style” about that drunken dancer.

    • R.J.

      Mentally we didn’t progress past 5 years? That’s what Bethannica said at least.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    White supremacy in blackface

    Surging Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-gay statements. In many tweets, Barnette also spread the false conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim.

    In one speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate against Muslims and compared rejecting Islam to “… rejecting Hitler’s or Stalin’s worldviews.” In comments on her radio show, she said accepting homosexuality would lead to the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One post she wrote called a transgender person “deformed” and “demonic.”

    ——-

    “You are not a racist if you reject Islam, or if you reject Muslims, because they are not a race of people. They are a particular view. They are people that have a particular view of the world, and we have a right to discriminate against worldviews,” she said. “We discriminated against Hitler’s Nazi Germany view of the world, right? That was a worldview. That’s how he saw the world around him. And we discriminated against it. We rejected it. We rejected Stalin’s view … of the world, right? Because that’s a particular view of the world that we don’t agree with.”
    “We have the right to discriminate against worldviews because all views are not morally equal,” she added. “All views are not equal. So we have the right to reject it. And let me just say offhand, I reject how Muslims see the world.”

    Crazy, Ma’am.

    • TARDis

      I don’t know anything about her, but I trust no one. Could she be a Trojan horse to draw out the real right-wing extremists to be slaughtered? The kind who are dumb enough to ignore her melanin for their cause. Trust no one.

  24. grrizzly

    Rand Paul stalls quick Senate OK of $40 billion Ukraine package

    Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul defied leaders of both parties and single-handedly prevented rapid Senate approval Thursday of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia’s three-month old invasion.

    Paul, a libertarian who often opposes U.S. intervention abroad, said he wanted language inserted into the bill, without a vote, that would have an inspector general scrutinize the new spending. He has a long history of demanding last-minute changes by holding up or threatening to delay bills on the brink of passage, including measures dealing with lynching, the defense budget and providing health care to the Sept. 11 attack first responders.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just when I think Rand has gone native, he always surprises me.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’ve gone up and down with him too. Ultimately I’ve decided he just knows he has to pick his battles. I’m glad this is one he’s picked.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Rand’s alright, especially on war.

    • Rat on a train

      Why is one person allowed to stop the will of the people!?!

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Barnette surged in recent polls in the upcoming Pennsylvania Republican US Senate primary, putting her in a dead heat between Donald Trump-endorsed former TV star Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund manager David McCormick. The Pennsylvania Senate seat is one of the one of the best pickup opportunities for Democrats this November, and Barnette’s sudden, rapid rise is causing worry among Trump allies.

    They claim, without explanation or evidence.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Dr Oz… why they’re pushing him so hard then…

    • creech

      The Dem candidate will probably be John Fetterman, a socialist through and through. But Barnett doing well, and backed by conservative groups, is obviously Fake News as we all
      know conservatives are white supremacists and would never back a black woman.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      When I think of pickup opportunities, the US Senate is the last place on my mind.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul defied leaders of both parties and single-handedly prevented rapid Senate approval Thursday of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia’s three-month old invasion.

    He should make the Democrats read the entire text of the Bill on the Senate floor.

    • TARDis

      Tits sank. 🙁

  27. Drake

    That paranoid rant wasn’t all that paranoid.

    We are living in a timeline where every conspiracy theory is proven true.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Single, male, hetero Glibs – for the low, low price of $650 you can bail out this lovely and talented young woman.

    Only if she promises to behave

    • rhywun

      ??

      There are a few on that album.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s going to leave a mark.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It just rubs out.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      There’s nothing more fun than eating pussy through a layer of Saran Wrap shaped like a pair of panties. If you need that maybe don’t put your mouth on it.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Infected Genitals opened for the Dead Kennedys when they played at my high school.

  29. one true athena

    Bravo for Rand Paul for sticking it to the MIC. 40 billion dollars and you can’t agree to auditing where it’s going? screw you, critters, you deserve your dreams of massive kickbacks crushed. Not to mention all the GOP that voted for this monstrosity owe him a debt for saving their Nov hide.

    quordle ugh. There are too many words with that ending on top left.

    5 7
    8 9

    • Compelled Speechless

      Right? After the whole Afghan “ghost army” debacle, Congress has all the justification it needs to audit every penny of the military budget. We really are ruled by some evil, incompetent assholes.

    • TARDis

      Target fixation again. Nothing on the LR until round six.
      Daily Quordle 108
      5️⃣3️⃣
      7️⃣9️⃣
      quordle.com
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      • Raven Nation

        Daily Quordle 108
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  30. Gustave Lytton

    Watched a guy drive into a pay lot, put a fine envelope under the wiper blade, and walk off. Genius.

    • TARDis

      Must be old school. They do license plates here.

  31. Raven Nation

    Well, yes, there is some subjectivity to soccer refereeing, but I’m not sure what Arteta was whining about.

  32. MikeS

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Tough Day’ Edition)
    #108

    Champs
    Not Adahn 18
    Ownbestenemy 18

    Bobarian LMD 20
    Grumbletarian 20
    kinnath 21
    grrizzly 22
    Rat on a train 22
    The Hyperbole 22
    SDF-7 23
    rhywun 24
    TARDis 24
    Ted S. 24
    Sean 25
    Tundra 25
    MikeS 26
    trshmnstr the terrible 26
    whiz 26
    l0b0t 27
    Raven Nation 27
    The Other Kevin 27
    one true athena 29
    Tulip 29

    Chumps
    Ozymandias 117
    Grosspatzer 119
    Grummun 119
    db 122

    It was a pretty ugly day. 38.5 average score. Tundra-line split was a pathetic 8/18. Four players busted. Uffda.

    The Scrabble score was 35. Not the highest, but up there.

    • TARDis

      What is the Scrabble score?

      • MikeS

        It’s a total of what the four words would score in Scrabble. Someone (Not Adahn?) proposed it as a possible metric to measure the difficulty of each day’s words.

      • The Hyperbole

        The total value of the letters in the solution if they were valued as scrabble tiles are. It was postulated that less common letters (thus a higher Scrabble score) would make the Quordle harder, this does not seem to be the case.

  33. Evan from Evansville

    Folk here? Lady is VERY angry with me. Our friend’s cat was being a loud cunt last night. I TOUCHED HER WITH MY FOOT. I did not kick her. I brush and pet her with more vigor. Lady thinks I kicked her friend’s cat with violent abandon. I did not. She is pretty baked-in-stone about this. Tonight is another one for the hotel across the street. God, that cat was being a cunte. She’s quiet now! She was purring minutes afterwards, resting under the bed, where she tends to nap.

    But apparently I’m an animal abuser now. She’s going to tell her friend and I’m going to have to deal with that anger, despite me literally just gently brushing the cat away with my toe and a firm “Be quiet.”

    • Not Adahn

      The fact that you’re still in Korea indicates that you may have some sort of brain damage.

  34. Not Adahn

    Daily Quordle 109
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