I’ve decided that, following my DIE training last week, I would declare my femininity. As part of my solidarity with people assigned at birth as female, my rather bulbous middle will now identify as a baby inside a uterus. After all, I didn’t get my period last month. It explains the vomiting more satisfactorily than does the excessive alcohol intake.
Oh, and now that I’m a female, I am coming out of the closet and proudly announcing that I am a lesbian. Damn, I’m stunning and brave.
Other proud announcements are birthdays, and we have a slew of them today, including the inventor of the Orange Julius; a guy who let his Anglophilia get the best of him; the pioneer of my favorite art form; a guy who has worn out the quotation machines; the guy who basically invented American movie comedy; a guy who paved the way for Ernest Borgnine; the guy who paved the way for westernsloper; Daddy who would give you the car; a grifter who ended up being outgrifted by a true master; a lovely bonnie lass; a guy with whom I have a weird family connection; a woman who made NPR what it is today; and the best living advertisement for edibles.
We’d better do links before I pee myself my water breaks.
Taking away women’s rights to bare arms.
“It’s not trolling, it’s RACISM.”
When will we finally be rid of this family?
“This individual has certainly been sheltered.”
This is how I felt about Cathy Rigby.
Putting aside the question of, “Why would anyone go back there???” I am amused at CNN’s phrase, “a regime often criticized as theocratic and dictatorial.” (emphasis mine)
Old Guy Music is a happy, bouncy, creepy song about serial killing.
Morning, Glibs.
In Re the FEMA translators – I think it’s more a matter of fraud than anything else.
– I need you to translate this.
– I don’t know Yup’ik.
– Just provide what Google translate returns.
Your husband is a polar bear, skinny
Obesity must be endemic.
WRT Kennedy.
Isn’t he the victim here since he has expressed doubt about the COVID vax?
I have had to rethink lots of things since 2016,
He’s basically accusing the media of forming a cartel, and one that is particularly subservient to the government.
I’m done with the “It’s a private company” bs. They’re not anymore since they work hand in hand with the agencies and they’re actively killing people by stifling dissent.
RFK may be just slightly off mark here, but I don’t care.
It was always bs. No private company can do what they want.
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Fascism won.
I’m with you. He’s been right an awful lot.
But RFK Jr. Is on our side this time!
“When will we be rid of this family?” When they jointly announce they have evidence sufficient to jail Hillary and are about to publish it.
“a lovely bonnie lass”
Skinny, but uniquely pretty.
Skinny is good
I was the thing in the 70’s.
it is good you were the thing
Thank’s you, Ted
How? You don’t even have hands.
Weak. Go full ciswoman, dude.
dick picks either way
As the carrier of The First That Shall Change Everything and a impregnated person, I find this post offensive.
Amoebic reproduction isn’t pregnancy.
Your speciesist bigotry is not welcome here.
But it is welcome chez moi.
My people have dealt with persecution since time immemorial.
““These government contracting translators have certainly taken advantage of the system, and they have had a profound impact, in my opinion, on vulnerable communities,” said Sweeney, whose great-grandfather, Roy Ahmaogak, invented the Inupiaq alphabet more than a half-century ago.
She said his intention was to create the characters so “our people would learn to read and write to transition from an oral history to a more tangible written history.””
So we have commenters older than that alphabet.
“Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska. Children learn Yup’ik as their first language in 17 of those villages. There are about 3,000 Inupiaq speakers across northern Alaska, according to the language center.”
It’s vulnerable communities and white knights all the way down.
Including me.
Theology of Middle-Earth
Review: ‘Tolkien Dogmatics’ by Austin M. Freeman
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/tolkien-dogmatics/
Sammy Watkins – right message, one of the worst people to deliver it. Guy was a notorious malingerer.
*glances at Sammy Watkins-autographed ball in the Chiefs case*
Husband agrees.
100% this. Sammy, you shouldn’t even be in the playoffs.
a guy who paved the way for Ernest Borgnine; – how do you know all these obscure actors
Obscure??? Oh right, you’re holed up in Eastern Slobovia.
it’s Slobozia
I never heard of him either.
You people are strange.
You’ve never bore witness to all the 80’s glory that is Airwolf?
Well, I rarely never.
The Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch, The Poseidon Adventure, Escape From New York, Gattaca
Bit part in R.E.D.
Shit, I forgot he was the star of McHale’s Navy.
Bad Day at Black Rock. Great great film (Spencer Tracy completely anticipated Jonathan Banks), Borgnine was an excellent bad guy.
Marty. He merely got as Best Actor Oscar.
Oh, and ffs, Sponge Bob.
I think he was talking about Bill Bendix, who was great in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat”.
He’ll always be Chester A Riley to me.
I know who Ernest Borgnine was, but I never heard of William Bendix.
Heck, I’ve even heard of the “guy who paved the way” for EB. Honestly, though, my dad had multiple “coffee table books” about old movies, so I think I have more knowledge of old movies from reading books about old movies than from actually watching old movies.
He was an actor that got pigeonholed playing winey only men.
“It’s still pandering, right?”
As a native speaker of Gibberish, I demand that all government documents be produced in Gibberish. … What’s that, you say?
Apparently there’s a regulation that FEMA documents have to be translated into local languages so that everyone can get in on the grift.
Mrs. Spartacus has been trying to get me to file for FEMA money after Hurricane Ian. Other than the blue tarp (which actually comes from the Army Corp of Engineers), I have steadfastly refused to do so, simply because we don’t need the money. I have insurance, and we can cover the deductibles and other costs without missing any meals. Aside from general principles, I know that the pot of money is finite, and the people who had their homes flooded out despite being built on stilts surely need it more than I do.
The latest local story about government largesse is that the county has been fining people who have been tearing out their rotten drywall for “remodeling without a permit”. Oddly enough, this has mostly been happening in lower income neighborhoods.
I’ll eat my hat if those people don’t already speak English too.
They probably do. I have a soft spot for preserving dying languages, although it shouldn’t be done with government funds, and especially not with government bureaucrats.
#metoo
This is just rank politics – power plays, narcissism, the aforementioned grift, etc.
It amazes me that some people will go learn Klingon, (and I say that as someone who’s a fairly big fan of most of the shows) or Dothraki. I mean learning Romansch has at least some real world value.
I know, people get to choose what they value.
And I have the right to criticize their values.
Klingon and High Valyrian are offered by Duolingo.
I’d go for Irish if I wanted something even less useful than French.
Go for it. Irish is wonderfully bizarre by European standards.
Watkins has that team spirit, Glibs style.
You’d think a guy who has missed half his career due to injury would be a little more sympathetic.
I like it. I raise you Haute Tropique
He’s a tard, but I think I’m on his side on this one.
Or the only non-tard in the family for a long time?
I was thinking more along the lines of “Blind dog who finally stumbled on a bone.”
“Emma Roberts set to star and executive produce new Hulu series Second Wife as she re-teams with showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11634431/Emma-Roberts-set-star-executive-produce-new-Hulu-series-Second-Wife.html
Sounds like it will bomb.
I predict fallout from this thread.
Fall Out
Nuke it from orbit.
But it will mushroom to other projects.
This will be a dud, it has no potential.
“Two Illinois EMS workers are charged with murder after patient, 35, died when they strapped him FACE-DOWN on stretcher for ambulance ride to the hospital
His cause of death was compressional and positional asphyxia ‘due to prone face-down restraint on a paramedic transportation cot/stretcher by tightened straps across the back and lower body in the setting of lethargy and underlying chronic alcoholism,’ Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said at Tuesday’s press conference.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11634487/Two-paramedics-charged-murder-placing-Earl-L-Moore-Jr-face-stretcher.html
There are reasons to package someone face down, but this doesn’t sound like one of them.
Would it be called for if they had reason to believe he might vomit and aspirate? Even so, sounds as if they strapped him a wee bit too snugly.
“Would it be called for if they had reason to believe he might vomit and aspirate?”
That would be a reason not to have him face down.
First-degree murder? Like the EMTs were discussing their plan to kill this guy by putting him in the gurney wrong on the way to the scene? Sounds like crazy overcharging, no fucking way they get that. Maybe, MAYBE involuntary manslaughter.
I agree, and that could work against the prosecution. If I was the defense atty., I wouldn’t fight the charge, rather go into court reminding the jury what the requirements are for 1st degree murder.
Oops. Two different thoughts there. My agreement is not necessary for it to possibly work against the prosecution.
I have problems with charging medics, nurses, and doctors with murder for mistakes while the government’s men enjoy qualified immunity for nearly all fuck-ups they make on the job.
And the assholes gave them $1 million bonds as if these are hardened criminals who are a threat to the community.
In the interests of clarity and honesty it really ought to be unqualified immunity.
Shakira diss track breaks Latin YouTube viewing records
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64267366
“A song by Shakira about her ex-partner Gerard Pique cheating on her has broken YouTube records.
Shakira, 45, separated from former Barcelona footballer Pique, 35, in 2022 after more than 10 years together.
She says she is “worth two 22-year-olds” and compares the relationship to swapping “a Ferrari for a [Renault] Twingo” and a “Rolex for a Casio” in Spanish. ”
Patrice never told her that pussy ages like bread, not like wine
He probably has three or more 22-year-olds now. Sorry, Shakira.
Hey now, I like my Casio.
I loved my Timex basic analog. They had only hour, minute, and second. Inexpensive, rugged and long lasting.
Yeah, I bought my Casio when i did my open water SCUBA certification in 1987. It has gone through three batteries and numerous wristbands since then but it still runs great. Even after opening and closing the back many times it’s still waterproof, although I don’t know if it would still hold up at depth. Haven’t been diving in many years.
Missouri House adopts new dress code for women requiring covering of arms
They were tired of hearing women complain that the thermostat was set too low.
*golf clap*
Silicone Saturday don’t want no scrubs.
https://archive.ph/AyDs3
Kudos for opening the gallery with a busty ginger.
Her instagram page.
Oh, and I found a gallery of her which includes nudes. She’s a real redhead, but those breasts are implants.
Aussie porn star Angela White is #6.
commies can’t meme
https://twitter.com/t34jojo/status/1614139757931671552
Memes require a sense of humor.
I’m also really curious how many actual Cambodians the person who made that has actually encountered.
Five but they were actually Laotian.
I tapped out at the first sentence.
The legislation was proposed by Rep. Ann Kelley (R) and was met with firm opposition from Democrats.
Missouri state Rep. Raychel Proudie (D) called the motion “ridiculous” while speaking on the House floor, adding, “We are fighting — again — on a woman’s right to choose something and this time is how she covers herself,” according to Heartland Signal.
“Do you know what it feels like to have a bunch of men in this room looking at your top trying to decide whether it’s appropriate or not?” state Rep. Ashley Aune (D) said on the state House floor, according to Heartland Signal, before going on to criticize the motion further as “ridiculous.”
American Taliban!
It’s a stupid thing to waste time on. That being said, I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that men aren’t allowed to have their arms exposed either and probably haven’t been for years and years.
Or ever. This stuff probably dates back to beginning and is kept around with all kinds of other ceremonial guff but now it’s a big deal because grrl power.
Yeah, if a man showed up in a wife beater, I’m pretty sure there’d be consequences for his career.
Should’ve given her a Cleveland Steamer.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20971476/most-vanilla-lover-she-has-ever/
By vanilla she means she normally does black guys.
Velma is… extremely not good.
It reads like a right-wing YouTuber’s clumsy understanding of what a “diverse” show is.
Which, given that its showrunner is Mindy Kaling, who has faced criticism for transphobia and once described herself as “way conservative”, kind of makes sense
https://twitter.com/BadWritingTakes/status/1613650778161389598
You could make an adult oriented Scooby-Doo parody. It’s been toyed with plenty of times. I don’t know if there is really enough there to justify a series over a sketch or two, but I could see the idea of it.
They just figured let’s gender and race swap people and change their sexual orientations and go with the most basic woke tropes possible.
And they cut out Scooby because any version of the dog would have been more interesting than the 2D cardboard cut-out human characters.
Wait, wut?!
I’m going to need a citation for the “way conservative” comment. Because that’s not even a little true.
It sucks, so therefore it must be conservative.
Don’t you logic bro?
She’s Indian, so she was probably talking about being socially conservative and even then only compared probably to the heathenistic lifestyle most of her peers in LA are living. She was accused of being a Republican by Salon because she made a joke that could have been construed as pro-gun rights, but which she defended as being based more on how easy it is to rush into marriage.
In most other respects, she has an upper middle class background coming from well-off parents and has no real life experience outside her comfortable little bubble of privilege.
She may have actually been kind of funny at one point, at least as part of a committee. She supposedly wrote 26 episodes of The Office.
A conservative made Velma gay, is definitely a take.
She may actually be big C conservative in some sense. She apparently or supposedly mulled over voting for W. She obviously would never admit to this publicly as it would ruin her street cred. She pushes it as being socially conservative favoring marriage and monogamy and traditional parenting. But she does seem to be pro-gun to some extent and has let that slip.
Her beliefs may explain why her attempt at going completely woke failed. It’s not just the typical inauthentic wokeness seen from corporations where those people actually believe their own empty platitudes, but coming from a complete pretender faking it. Audiences hating it was a given, but not even the critics will sign off on this. It takes a lot for the critics to admit a diverse product actually sucks.
Velma was always rumored to be gay even in the original but there’s very little evidence in her behavior in that series other than her appearance.
Creepy song, you say?
“Your husband is a polar bear, skinny,” another said.
And your mother smelled of elderberries?
Where is Swiss? I have a breaking news update…
Is it full of puns?
Like you wouldn’t believe
Well, it’s been an hour. Swiss is obviously either sleeping it off or on the lam to avoid paying Old Man child support. What’s your news??
There’s a man coming over later for some pie…
Cherry pie?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng
Always nice when someone wants to eat your pie.
“Do you know what it feels like to have a bunch of men in this room looking at your top trying to decide whether it’s appropriate or not?” state Rep. Ashley Aune (D) said on the state House floor, according to Heartland Signal, before going on to criticize the motion further as “ridiculous.”
She went to public school.
“Tomorrow he will go hunting very early, and will (bring) nothing,” read one passage. The translator randomly added the word “Alaska” in the middle of the sentence.
“Your husband is a polar bear, skinny,” another said.
I’m reminded of the sign language translator at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
With its own police having little experience in complex investigations, the court brought in assistance from outside government investigators, people familiar with the matter said.
Translation: The outside investigators are better at sandbagging an investigation.
I’m reminded of the sign language translator at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
deserves a link
I’m actually going to agree with the Dems on this one.
And the high school teachers who focused way, way too much on enforcing the female dress codes were creepy.
I went to Catholic school. They can get the fuck over it.
“Do you know what it feels like to have a bunch of men in this room looking at your top trying to decide whether it’s appropriate or not?”
But enough about my MAGA t-shirt…
Which is doubly funny when you consider the bill was introduced by what appears to be a woman.
Over/under on how long before we see a follow-up article about how she’s making $10,000/week on OnlyFans?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/husband-horny-cop-who-romped-28952559
I’m going with three weeks, and I’ll take the under.
oh come on there can’t be so many lame simps in the world i mean ewww gross
Also remarkable is complete absence of any mention of Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong’s designated successor who led China in interregnum before losing power struggle to Deng Xiaoping. Wipeout from public memory of Hua Guofeng is so complete, even the English-language author skipped him.
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/1614250123004887045
Can any of you tech-y types explain why, when I search for directions using DuckDuckGo and open up the standard map that appears, my laptop screen goes black for a moment, then goes back to normal?/First World problem
your laptop is busy sending data to Chinese secret police
Glitch in the matrix? NSA monitoring program?
This week’s Powerline fun.
Powerline wants me to turn on Javascript. It didn’t use to do that. They’ve been hacked.
My faves:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-7.06.53-PM.png
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/01/FmSMtqGX0AIuD6p.jpg
Good morning, Old Man!
Congrats on the pregnancy!
Fuck off.
No one is going to congratulate Spud too?
I’m going to start demanding all of my government forms in Gaelic, Frisian, Scots or whatever other heritage I feel like identifying with that day.
The cursed political compass
https://twitter.com/shadetreeisback/status/1614019231670243328
Of course they are
In the wake of a crippling computer system failure this week, aviation industry leaders are calling on Congress and the White House to better support and fund the Federal Aviation Administration’s efforts to modernize its outdated technology.
Aviation safety advocates and industry experts say there were warning signs long before Tuesday night’s NOTAM system failure that led the FAA to impose about a 90-minute nationwide ground stop of all aircraft departures Wednesday morning, causing thousands of flight delays and cancellations that continued throughout the day.
NOTAMs, or Notices to Air Missions, are messages that alert pilots of potential hazards along their flight routes from the time they push back from the gate until they arrive at their destination.
Nothing a few hundred billion can’t kick down the road.
She says she is “worth two 22-year-olds”
I had no idea Shakira might be a W C Fields aficionado.
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Bleh.
pathetic really
No, this is pathetic.
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Rant: LR is the third time in a row I got burned by our author’s apparent favor of a certain letter over others with similar or even greater frequency. 🤬
I can top that
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Daily Duotrigordle #318
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 06:36.73
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Holocaust!
It’s a stark image in 2023: Police in riot gear flooding a village, pulling people out of houses and tearing down structures to make way for the arrival of excavating machines to access the rich seam of coal beneath the ground.
Since Wednesday, as rain and winds lashed the tiny west German village of Lützerath, police have removed hundreds of activists. Some have been in Lützerath for more than two years, occupying the homes abandoned by former residents after they were evicted, most by 2017, to make way for the mine.
More than 1,000 police officers are involved in the eviction operation. Most of the buildings have now been cleared, but some activists remained in treehouses or huddled in a hole dug into the ground as of Friday, according to Aachen city police.
Protest organizers expect thousands more people to pour into the area on Saturday to demonstrate against its destruction, though they ultimately may not be able to access the village. After the eviction is complete, RWE plans to complete a 1.5-kilometer perimeter fence to snake around Lützerath, sealing off the village’s buildings, streets and sewers before they are demolished.
Standard disclaimer: eminent domain is evil. But I can’t help being somewhat amused by the green freakout, when I think we can all agree they wouldn’t make a peep if that village were cleared away to make room for a “renewable energy” project. Greta will be there, Old Man. Get your checkbook and hop a plane.
I’m actually surprised they haven’t found a way to get the coal out from below.
Climate flashpoint! Huge, jagged gouge in the landscape!
🙄
Those greenies are committing insurrection by violating government orders.
Old videogame guides: How to find the secret warp zone in Super Mario Bros.
New videogame guides:
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1614007728799719424
Patriarchy so crafty.
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1613962436587163653
It’s a deeply uncomfortable moment for the Greens and an unfathomable catastrophe for those who want to save the village.
“The pictures from Lützerath are of course painful, as we have always fought against the continued burning of coal,” said Lechtape, on behalf of the NRW Greens. “We know the importance of Lützerath as a symbol in the climate movement. However, this should not obscure what has been achieved,” he added.
The party’s discomfort may deepen on Saturday when a protest, organized by a coalition of climate groups, is expected to draw thousands of people to Lützerath – including Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg.
“It is now up to us to stop the wrecking balls and coal excavators. We will not make this eviction easy,” said Pauline Brünger from the climate group Fridays for Future.
I suggest you collectively hold your breath until you turn blue.
Now they don’t have to hold their breath; they can strip naked and sit outside until they turn blue.
Proposed by a woman
Its cuz uh duh menz.
And what is the men’s dress code? Are they allowed an array of choice or is it suit coats like was proposed for the women, you know, equality and such.
Fetterlump hit hardest.
Little do they know that the vibrator is actually coated with fentanyl.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/women-addicted-sex-toy-provides-28890041
Men who show that kind of interest in sex toys are typically labeled as creeps. Females and their dildos and vibrators are to be celebrated, though.
Legislators should all wear billowing floor length wizard robes, with coloring and insignia to denote party and rank. Then they could wear anything (or nothing) underneath.
I have one addition – they wear the logos of their sponsors, like NASCAR and Mexican soccer.
LOL I was just looking at Google Maps and there is now a business called “Cannabis Hub” in my apartment building.
Whelp, that’s convienient.
Until they get robbed….
It doesn’t say which apartment and their website (!) doesn’t even give an address (not surprisingly). Wonder how Google got it.
Dina Hamid, a recently evicted
activistSQUATTER with Lützerath Lebt, told CNN, “in the end, it’s not about the village, it’s about the coal staying in the ground and we’re going to fight for that as long as it takes.”As I read that, these “eco-activists” have been squatting in houses in this village for two years. The displaced rightful owners of those properties should be able to sue the pants off those individuals and organizations they claim to represent.
“Besides Kennedy, the plaintiffs include an organization he founded, Children’s Health Defense, right-wing news organizations that have promoted anti-vaccine theories and physicians who are prominent Covid and vaccine skeptics.”
This particular Kennedy has won some respect from me for not blindly following Party and apparently not giving a shit if his public airing of his opinions might lose him a future election.
Good on him.
Not sure he’s a lot more than a stopped clock.
His book “The Real Anthony Fauci” is probably the most comprehensive chronology of the corruption endemic to the NIH, CDC, FDA, etc. He clings to the Democratic Party of the 1970’s. I’m sure he’s bad on all sorts of things but he hates Foochi with the fire of 1000 suns and is excellent on the entirety of the COVAIS issue. His book is well worth reading.
*COVAIDS
Right about one thing in his life, wrong on everything else.
I mean, would… but she looks a lot older than 25.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-spent-49k-look-hot-28952497
There’s no reason a woman in her 20’s should be getting that much plastic surgery.
She looks like a 40 year old with some pretty good plastic surgery
Just say no to women with ugly, fat, bloated botox lips. Or whatever the hell it these broads are doing to themselves.
The Daily Star certainly has a different definition of “hot” for women than I do. Blargh!
A skeleton with balloons taped on front is not attractive.
Fifty grand in plastic surgery and she’s still and SEC 5 (I’d say “6”, but the tats knock her down a peg).
Good morning, Glibbies.
I’ve been looking forward to my trip to Seattle next week for some time. However, the main reason for my going was meeting up with a former colleague, although there are certainly other reasons I’m going.
But yesterday his 13 yo son suffered a nut allergy and had to be ER’d and all that that implies. So he might not be able to come to Seattle after all. Of course the kid’s needs trump all, but I will be disappointed if we can’t hook up in Washington,
Ouch. Hopefully the lad is back home quickly and your former co-worker can make it. But, as you say, the child is the priority.
Thanks.
He said the kid was happily snarfing down a cheeseburger last night after they did all the emergency stuff due to his unbelievable reddening all over and his rapidly dropping SpO2.
But the hospital kept him overnight so I assume my colleague is probably there now sorting the paperwork and waiting for that final discharge permission.
Braver than Dick Tracy
The quick thinking of Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman may have prevented a shootout at the doors of the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, a top Capitol Police official said Friday.
Inspector Thomas Loyd, testifying in the trial of five members of the Proud Boys leadership charged with seditious conspiracy, recalled the outnumbered Goodman’s effort to lure the first wave of rioters inside the Capitol to a position away from the doors of the Senate and toward a waiting line of Capitol Police officers.
In a famous video of the incident, Goodman lures the group of rioters — which included one of the Proud Boys defendants, Dominic Pezzola — up a staircase and away from the unguarded Senate doors. For a moment, one of the rioters, Douglas Jensen, considered veering away from Goodman and toward those doors. But he ultimately followed Goodman and ran into the line of police reinforcements.
“If those doors had been breached,” Loyd told jurors, “most likely there would’ve been gunfire at that point.”
Loyd was among the line of officers waiting for Goodman to lead the group to a safer position. He came face to face with Jensen — who is seen in famous Jan. 6 images wearing a QAnon sweatshirt while confronting Capitol Police. Jensen came right up to Loyd’s face, and directly behind him was Pezzola, who was still carrying a stolen police riot shield that he had used to smash two Capitol windows — igniting the breach of the building.
Stampede diverted! If he had been at the Alamo, Santa Ana would have surrendered.
Compared to the Capitol Police on January 6, those guys at Normandy were just like a bunch of Shriners driving clown cars in a parade.
Does anyone other than legacy media and a tiny slice of prog cult members give a flying fuck about any of this anymore?
No.
“shootout”
That implies two groups exchanging fire. “Shooting of unarmed civilians” isn’t quite as pithy, I’ll admit.
+1 Pelosi’s machine guns
Fingers pointed and people saying “pew-pew”.
Wait… if the rioters had reached the unguarded doors of an empty Senate chamber, they would’ve been mown down by gunfire — but they were lured towards dozens of heavily armed low-level bureaucrats who *didn’t* shoot them? I’m not sure how that works.
Loyd delivered a victim impact statement during Jensen’s sentencing in December, describing the horrors his officers endured.
“If Officer Goodman had not led the Defendant and the rest of the mob away from the Senate Lobby and an attempt was made to breach those doors, there would have been tremendous bloodshed,” Loyd wrote. “Several rioters would have been carried out of the building if not for the quick thinking of Officer Goodman. Many of my officers were not as lucky as the Defendant.”
Put a statue of him in the Capitol, for all to see and worship. He is our modern day George Washington.
“Many of my officers were not as lucky as the Defendant”
I guess in 50 or so years when people read the last obituary of the last Capitol Police officer on duty on Jan 6, 2021 to pass away, the massacre will be complete. Jan 6 will have killed every single one of them a la Little Bighorn.
We’re talking about thousands of casualties of January 6th on a long enough timeline.
They seem to have attributed every death among Capitol Police since as a casualty, so why the fuck not?
That implies two groups exchanging fire. “Shooting of unarmed civilians” isn’t quite as pithy, I’ll admit.
“Massacre” would be an appropriate term for a group of unarmed citizens gunned down by government agents.
+1 Waco “Siege”, “standoff” , “shootout”…..never described as a massacre by the Cathedral
Wounded Knee was a battle! /unreconstructed Army historian
“In a short time, DEI imperatives have spawned a growing bureaucracy that holds enormous power within universities. The ranks of DEI vice presidents, deans, and officers are ever-growing—Princeton has more than 70 administrators devoted to DEI; Ohio State has 132. They now take part in dictating things like hiring, promotion, tenure, and research funding.
More significantly, the concepts of DEI have become guiding principles in higher education, valued as equal to or even more important than the basic function of the university: the rigorous pursuit of truth. Summarizing its hiring practices, for example, UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering declared that “excellence in advancing equity and inclusion must be considered on par with excellence in research and teaching.” Likewise, in an article describing their “cultural change initiative,” several deans at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine declared: “There is no priority in medical education that is more important than addressing and eliminating racism and bias.””
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-dei-is-supplanting-truth-as-the
Long but worth reading.
Medicine that saves life is white supremacy.
Too depressing.
Good Lord.
BREAKING: The bronze sculpture called “The Embrace” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has just been unveiled on the Boston Common
Da Hell is that?
Something out of Aliens?
Something for white liberals to look at and say “It’s so deep.”
Wtf is that supposed to be??
And when will “brave girl” be installed opposite that monstrosity??
“raped girl” would be more appropriate opposite that scumbag.
Modern art really is just fucking awful.
Besides that, I thought MLK was out of fashion given his whole color blind approach to race relations.
Oh, come ON. You can’t really tell me Barnett Newman isn’t a visionary.
She’s ours – they can’t have her!
The replies are filled with 20-somethings demanding reparations
“ As part of my solidarity with people assigned at birth as female, my rather bulbous middle will now identify as a baby inside a uterus.”
People are almost always assigned gender at conception, not birth.
You are only what your govt documents say you are.