Girl power, my ass. I’m just kidding. This is absolutely a travesty and I feel sorry for the women being forced to participate in this nonsense. Two weeks from soccer. Four weeks from football. We’re almost there…almost there. Oh, and the Astros stopped their three game skid. Hooray. Now on to the links.
I hope they throw this guy in Gitmo. This has become a trend among leftist nut jobs. If you’ve got twitter, you can (probably) even see Sadbeard doing it in the DC area. I can’t because he blocked me for mocking him over it a couple years ago.
Speaking of Gitmo, there may be a few vacancies soon. I guess we’ll never know since the plea deal has so far been secret, as was the entire process. What a travesty. this should have been tried in an actual court at least a decade ago.
“The President and the White House played no role in this process,” the spokesperson said. “The President has directed his team to consult as appropriate with officials and lawyers at the Department of Defense on this matter.”
That’s just fucking great. Either they’re lying or they really have no idea what’s going on.
Wow, squatters rights in the UK are even worse than here. Why not just act like a King and kick the bum out? Jug-eared pussy.
That’s some fine police work there, Lou. I guess the new head of the SS and the FBI second in command can come back before the Senate and blame local cops again, even though this is literally the primary function of the feds that were on site.
What the fucking fuck? At this point, I think it’s safe to question what the hell our DHS and ICE are actually doing with the money they’re budgeted.
This story, which I’d already forgotten, gets more bizarre by the minute. I guess I’ll wait to see what the next chapter brings.
Good riddance. This shithead gave in to the mob during the Urban Meyer/Zach Smith fiasco (even though Meyer followed University policy to the letter) and gave in to every mob on those California campuses for the last 9 and a half months while Jewish students were harassed, bullied, and treated like second-class citizens.
Then we should expect mass firings and resignations, right? Yeah…riiiiiiight.
Let’s do some more one-hit wonders today. This was a catchy tune. It’s aged fairly well, in my opinion. The video has not. Both song and video have aged well here. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
We can find out the terms of the plea deal at the same time we get the Pfizer COVID vaccine data.
Get in line. I’m still waiting on the Fast & Furious document dump.
Or the JFK document dump
Roswell?
Vegas shooter videos and report?
I thought the primary function of the feds on site was to make sure the autismo had an unobstructed line of sight and sufficient time to get a shot on target. They don’t make ’em like LHO anymore.
I should have added “theoretically” to that, I suppose. But yes, what you said is looking more accurate by the day.
So, the people that swore they would get rid of Trump by any means tried to get rid of Trump?
Huh.
I’d like to see the SS explain why they skipped the morning meeting that day with local law enforcement. Seems inexcusable.
According to the see USSS head, the meeting took place earlier. But there are no recordings or minutes of the meeting available.
Considering that the presence of just one federal officer tends to mean he is in charge.
According to everyone else, the meeting took place without any feds.
Girl power, my ass. – the Italian is a bigot and should be banned from the Olympics.
This probably the only way this madness tapers off. A few public woman beatings might take the shine off the tranny fad.
This.
I wonder what the reception from Algerian officials would be like if he were fighting as a gay dude.
I advocate for Ms Khalif to be made to get in the ring and box the Italian men’s heavyweight boxer.
I’d settle for a man in “her” weight class.
also there was a pegging joke to be made in there and I missed it.
Never the pegger, always the peggy?
Gotta love how the Mail makes sure to include a bunch of social media glamour shots.
I still say, “Punch her in the nuts*!”
*I don’t know if the “transition” included snipping those off.
What transition? That’s a straight up dude.
Then we should expect mass firings and resignations, right? Yeah…riiiiiiight.
Oh, you silly billy.
I’ll never be on deBoer’s side politically, but he can I appreciate his slide into curmudgeon-hood.
I am such a curmudgeon I find FdB dreadfully dull and unoriginal.
Yeah, tapped out after a couple paragraphs – and the mourning the lack of mob rule in our system.
He’s definitely a latecomer to understanding the problem, but he’s phrased it in some original ways.
One of the problems with being pre-internet and then being part of the Eternal September/Usenet cohort is you’ve seen a whole hell of a lot that younger generations think they’re inventing.
I see VERY few original ideas. Even things like “motte and Bailey” are just renamed/popularized variants of well trod ground (Lewis Carrol wrote about it ffs). Probably the most egregious example is the whole “rationalist” crowd thinking that they’re the first people to learn about Bayes’ theorem.
“Nobody I know voted for Nixon!”
I thought your neighbor Michael voted for Nixon.
FDB knows a lot about mental illness, has done a fair amount of research on education, even though I don’t agree with his conclusions, and is a complete naïf about politics. But his biggest sin? He is a blow hard. Seriously, he needs to hire a ruthless editor, and knock about half of that to the trash heap.
I will admit, I do love the irony of a “communist” who makes his money solely due to the free market, and bought a house in the suburbs from the filthy lucre.
I have just one response to this.
So, for anyone who’d been following the USSS hearings, has the following question been asked:
Who gave the shoot/no shoot order and why are they not here to answer questions about it?
The chain of command disappeared along with the audio recordings of the radio chatter.
“We were merely advising”
I wonder if we will get a detailed timeline of who was doing what, when.
Given that it seems to be all hands on deck to memory hole the entire thing. I’m guessing that’d be a solid ‘no.’.
Kind of hard to have a detailed timeline when there are:
1. No minutes or recordings of the pre-rally briefings by USSS to state and local support units
2. No records of any comms used that day
3. No ability for Congress to question Fed employees under oath who were actually there.
The only people even willing to share info with Congress have been state and local police. And they’re doing so very delicately since the Feds are pressuring them to only cooperate with their official investigation.
They’re never going to let a single person there that day sit before a committee. It will exclusively be the higher ups in those chairs to act indignant when congresscritters demand people be fired for their incompetence (at best), and to deflect criticism as much as possible to the state and local police onsite.
Yep – which will just feed the assumption that it was a setup. Purposely left huge gaps in security so Crooks (and maybe others) could get off some shots. Then made sure he was good and dead.
I was driving all day Tuesday and caught most of the hearing on the radio. All the new head of USSS and the FBI guy did was blame state and local cops, saying that was their job and they failed. And every time someone questioned that narrative with statements from the state/local cops they said they’d have to get back to them.
They also said they’ve been completely transparent and that anybody who would question them is questioning the loyalty of law enforcement everywhere and they won’t even dignify that with a response.
Hell, they still haven’t even given Congress the names of the agents there that day or said who was in charge of the operation because it would interfere with their internal investigation. So of course it’s going to look like a giant coverup of…something.
And to me that “something” is looking more like a deliberate failure than it is incompetence. And they’re gonna go out of the way to lay the blame at the feet of local cops to cover their tracks.
It looks like a cover up because it is a cover up. The only question is whether they are covering up for incompetence on collusion.
Until Congress grows a testicle and starts putting pubsecs who refuse to cooperate in jail until they do, this won’t change.
Contempt and jail time is only for non-federal employees.
“…grows a testicle…”
So we are openly calling for Hitler’s return now!!!!???11!
I have a post drooping today but I may or may not be able to jin the comments much as I have an airplane trip to the land of decent-but-inferior whiskey.
You are going to Scotland?
Oh, wait, they don’t even make passable whiskey, just rancid gasoline.
I have been to Scotland beginning of July. Great Malt. Though I do remember there were some troglodytes on this site who had the audacity to suggest Irish is better than Scotch.
PieInTheSky:
There’s some entertaining history about the rivalry between Irish and Scotch whisk(e)y. Long story short, Irish distillers were proud, ignored a new technology, the Scotch snapped it up (as it was more efficient), Prohibition gutted the Irish distillery market (through loss of sales and lots of counterfeit product being passed off as Irish), Scotch whisky rose to prominence.
Irish whisky better than Scotch? Even I wouldn’t sink that low.
EvilSheldon:
Have you had any of the Midleton before? It’s my default top shelf that I always have on hand.
I have had the Midleton it is very good but not worth the money for my taste
Scotland would be whiskey.
I think he’s finally visiting Tennessee.
Neph – I have! My little brother gave me a bottle of Midleton’s for my birthday a few years ago. It was good, but I agree with Pie here – it’s not worth the ask.
My house whiskys these days are Tullamore DEW for Irish Coffee and Whisky Sours, Glenmorangie 12 La Santa for beginners, Lagavulin 16 Distillers Edition for Islay fans, and Glendronach 18 for close friends.
When my post droops, I reach for Cialis.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8iyasbJGo
You know you’re getting old when all the TV commercials are for dick pills and Medicare plans.
And they’re all talking directly to you.
How about incompetent collusion?
Urban Meyer is as honest and virtuous as Jim Harbaugh.
“It’s not wrong when we do it” isn’t just a political slogan.
Telling jokes in private can now land you in prison
We need mind reading technology so we can jail for bad thoughts.
England is truly a shithole. Too bad about the beer being so good.
Meh. US beer has surpassed European beer.
We need mind reading technology so we can jail for bad thoughts.
The sentence that launched ten thousand leftist boners.
lol I had a good laugh
I have to keep reminding myself that England is no longer the quaint land I used to see and read about when I was a kid.
Hell, most of Europe too.
The problem is, it’s still beer.
“We need mind reading technology…”
Easy enough to imagine this as Dr. Chip-in-the-brain Klaus von Evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUOB8MN4Kc
Ummm, it WASN’T in private! They were using the public internet!
I would have a much less severe reaction to punting them from their police jobs, much as I’d have no problem firing any LE who demonstrates scorn for the people they’re policing and/or the concept of rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17y2Eke4niU
What was a rapist and murderer doing in a private law enforcement messaging group, anyway?
Oh, he was a cop. Never mind. Carry on.
Shame as Illinois seems to have another opening for a psychotic cop who never should have been hired.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/us/sonya-massey-shooting-community-meeting-sheriff/index.html
Even the police union walked away after the usual initial protection.
East German joke.
Erich Honecker, last DDR ruler, is chatting with Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi.
Honecker: I have a hobby. I collect the jokes people tell about me.
Mielke: I have a hobby, too. I collect the people who tell the jokes.
Then we should probably jail the media for broadcasting a man beating up on a woman at the Olympics, all the while calling him a her.
I think that qualifies as contravening the standards of our society.
US and Russia carrying out massive prisoner swap that is expected to include Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/russia-us-prisoner-swap/index.html
Did anyone ever justify why USG considered WNBA chick “wrongfully imprisoned?” What’s the penalty for smuggling the same amount of drugs into the US?
Depends, will the person score any political points for or against your opponent?
Wouldn’t be classified as drug smuggling under US law. Not enough.
So I can bring drugs through customs without getting into trouble? I have extreme difficulty believing that.
You’ll be in trouble and perhaps sent back to your home country as a foreigner, but you won’t be imprisoned for smuggling.
The Italian boxer should have just kicked her opponent in the crotch to prove her point.
If you’re not going to win, get DQ’s with style!
For an example, see the Hemingway short story “Fifty Grand”.
Hey!
yeah. dq’ed either way.
She has no point either.
True. I can’t blame someone for not wanting to stick their neck out into a controversial subject, even if they were victimized by it.
It’s because she’s afraid to say the unsayable.
She can’t come right out and say fuck this bullshit. She’d be pilloried and perhaps even blackballed.
When she yelled “This is unjust” as she fell to her knees in the ring, is when she let everyone know where she’s at. The rest is what she is and isn’t allowed to say.
Maybe I’m missing something but why is bringing attention to the fact that cops and political officials routinely escape the rules the rest of us have to follow a “leftist trend”…?
Question of the day. Can the ((())) meme?
https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1818732797449687436
6/10.
3/10 poor job
I have some bits of general advice that I sometimes give out given the situation. One of the best is “Never defer to someone who has nothing to lose by being wrong.”
‘Having nothing to lose’ is the modus operandi of government. Worse, one does not defer to government because that is not an option given the tacit approval of enough people and the force granted by them to government. That is the root of every problem in today’s links. It isn’t so much that bad decisions were made, it is that no one will be held accountable for them.
I have to single out the sicko tranny boys in girls sports. That is not being done because of lack of accountability, poor judgement or. incompetence. That particular problem is pure malice. The point of critical theory is to destroy all institutions and more’s in our culture. To extinguish the candle of the enlightenment. Any institution, in this case organized women’s sports, that builds individual character is being deliberately destroyed and short of pitchforks and rope no one will be held to account.
See, I’m not so sure that this isn’t the logical outcome of the Enlightenment versus extinguishing it. There certainly is no precedence prior to the Enlightenment that suggests this is a plausible course for a society to go.
Well, if you ignore the March of Athens through the Aegean, the March of Rome through Europe, the various marches of Buddhism across Asia, the marches of Christianity across Europe, and then the world, maybe.
Yes, the parallels are not exact, but consider just Christmas and Easter vs the Biblical texts. Or Buddhism in the East.
Yes, the Enlightenment surely boosted technocracy-as-a-mode-of-being. But it is not unique in shaping culture considered against, e.g., religion. It’s just been far more successful at enabling human thriving. Perfect? Hardly.
But when you stand amidst the ashes of the Enlightenment, where, then, shall you turn?
I wasn’t arguing about it being unique in terms of shaping culture or as against religion – it does after all have it’s own belief system; which is why it is in conflict with Christianity (primarily though not exclusively).
The point is, we aren’t reverting back to some prior form – this is the Enlightenment perhaps unfolding as ab asurdum.
ad not ab
An article laying out your thoughts on this matter, the chains of logic involved, would be of value.
Fair enough. Some of my thinking is – the Enlightenment is not some thing frozen in amber (as seems to be a common interpretation), and the seeds of its own contradictions are bound to grow and reach fruition.
The essence of the enlightenment is embodied in the idea that individuals are ends in themselves, not means to an end. We, as individuals do not serve institutions. Those institutions are created to serve us. (Fuck JFK)
Individualism necessarily includes personal accountability for one’s actions. I would say that making people immune to the consequences of their actions is a hold over from barbarism where ‘justice’ meant might makes right.
Sewer maintenance at Wayne Manor:
https://x.com/TerrifyingAsfuk/status/1807380522550661325
That’s just batty.
Bats are cute unless they get bitey.
Supposedly it’s dangerous, but we used to pet hibernating bats when we’d go caving. They are amazingly soft.
Good way to catch rabies.
As a kid I killed many bats in my bedroom. They would wake me up, flying around, I kept a tennis racket beside the bed. It would take several swings but I’d eventually slam one into the wall. On some occasions there would be two or so. Old and poorly built houses have lots of places for them to want to hide.
Good way to catch rabies.
There was a recent minor crisis in Ohio. A group of summer campers (Boy Scouts? don’t recall) were exposed to bats and the local hospitals were scrambling, calling all around the state, to get enough doses of the rabies vaccine.
Bio 2001: mammalogy
I got sick of learning about bats and rats…that is 80% of the class.
Prof on bats – “Always assume every bat has rabies. The disease does not affect them and they pass it around like party favors when they are packed together squabbling over the best spot to roost. ”
I have no innate fear of bats…rabies is a different story. Get vaccinated and wear protective clothing.
“This Is What Democracy Looks Like”: Chavismo’s Next Phase
Professor Jodi Dean’s Reflections from Caracas
https://progressive.international/wire/2024-07-30-this-is-what-democracy-looks-like/en
Shortly before midnight on 28 July, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that — with 80 percent of the over 20 million votes counted — the trend was irreversible: Nicolás Maduro had been re-elected president of Venezuela.
According to the CNE, Maduro received 51.2 percent of the vote, while his primary opponent, the little-known Edmundo Gonzales, received 44.02 percent. With that result, it was clear that the Venezuelan majority chose to continue the project of Bolivarian socialism introduced by Hugo Chavez at the end of the nineties. Recognizing the economic turn-around of the last two years and proud of their achievements in building 5.1 million housing units, securing food sovereignty, and deepening communal democracy, Venezuelans re-elected Maduro for a third six-year term.
Nice
OK, you can’t blame X for that – you dug that up all on your own!
some one needs to bring some progressive thought to this place.
I appreciate it. Look at how the fraud was explained away. And people will buy that.
Someday you will have to write a post about what it is like to watch mankind fail over and over again through the centuries. Dictating it to Anne Rice is beneath you.
Blech I need a shower after reading a couple paragraphs of that.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
WRT assassination attempt…
Does Trump realize he was setup? How will that change his plans?
Anyone who looks at that pac-man shaped security zone that specifically excludes the high ground with a direct line of site to the speakers podium and doesn’t immediately suspect a setup is completely brain dead.
Put someone with sniper experience on the podium before the event, have him check out the sight lines, post guards/counter-snipers in the appropriate places. And then, bring another person up and have them re-check those observations.
Was this done? And if not, why not?
I’m much more OK with terrorists targeting Quantico than I am another World Trade Center incident. Bring your fight to those you have beef with and I’ll respect you more.
Greetings from my family cottage in North Nowhere Vermont:
https://www.ourherald.com/articles/on-the-road-to-camp-randolph/
https://www.ourherald.com/articles/a-visit-to-camp-randolph/
It’s my brother’s annual two week sojourn and I came up to overlap the stay of a favorite Aunt. My mother is also here.
So far the evenings have been the four of us on the cottage porch trying to cool down after the typical Summer heat and humidity. The cooling down process is assisted by refreshing drinks ending up (for my Aunt and me) with wee drams of the Water of Life. She brought a 1.75 liter bottle of Johnnie Walker Black and I brought a bottle of The Macallan 12 which at $100 is the most expensive bottle of liquor available in Vermont, at least at my small town’s tiny State liquor store.
I’ve been exercising my restraint. My mother is a died-in-the-wool Progressive Vermonter and my brother is, in my humble opinion, unaware that he’s confused. He hates Donald Trump and is contemptuous of the bearers of MAGA caps, which means he’s going to have to exercise some restraint himself this evening when we go to a County Fair demolition derby.
But he also hates the new stadium being constructed for the Buffalo Bills football team with the assistance of $1B of New York State money. He has not yet made the connection between his (political) team and what they do. I don’t think he ever will.
But the time I was most quiet was when the discussion turned to the Late Great Pandemic. The number of immunization shots was not mentioned because it didn’t need to be. They’re all fully up-to-date. But the number of test-positive infections was mentioned and was two or three per. I literally had nothing to say on either subject. I thought my silence was conspicuous but by that point we were all lubricated enough that I don’t think they noticed.
Funny enough all the people I know who had COVID had the most amount of shots.
After the first round of boosters, it seemed like anybody I talked to at the hospital where I worked who had a nasty case of COVID was fully boosted. Naturally, their thought was “Thank God I was boosted or it would have been even worse!”.
I had the original vaccination and I get it once a year.
Multiple kids in various activities.
But the vaccine is the only reason I’m not dead 6 times over and In thankful for that.
Too bad you couldn’t sell them on a COVID repelling rock.
To be fair, part of it is that they’re still testing.
Barely testing; now they just analyze wastewater. Seriously might as well crack some eggs in a bowl and divine this shit.
I meant the people getting multiple “infections” are the ones taking the rapid tests over and over.
The only time I took covid tests was when my dad was in the rehab facility for his hip fracture and it was required for visiting him.
Stadium stupidity tends to be very bi-partisan. Youngkin was all in on that in VA.
I have a hard time picturing Trump turning down an opportunity to build a stadium. A big, big, beautiful stadium.
With jobs, lots of good jobs for good people doing good things for good people.
They never do. This is The Problem.
The Republican team isn’t aware either.
Trump trying to buy old people’s votes by not taxing SS. Not a thought that the problem is SS.
If 35 T debt isn’t a problem how much is a problem?
Trump knows how to clean up unmanageable debt – bankruptcy!
The original Too Big To Fail.
which at $100 is the most expensive bottle of liquor available in Vermont, at least at my small town’s tiny State liquor store
😢
The VT Liquor Commissars are saving the people from the ruthless exploitation of expensive liquors! Only the commissars will suffer to indulge.
Note again the metacontext that of course it’s acceptable for lefties to insert politics everywhere and into anything, but not OK for non-leftists to do so.
Ray of sunshine!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ehg250/dirt_biker_hits_police_car_oc/
The IOC needs to be more transparent on the women’s boxing controversy. As far as I can tell, the original source of the “these 2 boxers are men” story is a statement by the head of the IBA. The statement does not specify which boxers, and several were disqualified during that event.
Here is an autotranslated version of the original story with the statement.
MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. The International Boxing Association (IBA) leadership has excluded athletes who tried to pass themselves off as women from the list of participants in the Women’s World Championship in India. This was announced to TASS on Saturday by the organization’s president Umar Kremlev.
The Women’s World Championships are taking place in New Delhi from March 15 to 26.
“Based on the results of DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to deceive their colleagues and pretended to be women. Based on the results of the tests, it was proven that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from the competition,” Kremlev said.
Several years ago there was an African runner with a similar controversy. She tested high for testosterone, but insisted that she was not taking testosterone.
There were insistances that she take a gender test.
I think it turned out that she was some form of intersex – with female parts but also internal testes? Not entirely sure about that.
The supporters of the Algerian boxer are claiming something similar. She has hyperandrony which results in high testosterone, but is a female from birth.
The lack of clear communication from officials on this is leading to some pretty nasty results. Either way, they should just say what is happening.
the x and y chromosome thing should be a pretty clear cutoff tough
But yes it’s worth noting that the boxer is not transgender and maybe our early nut kicking jokes done apply
Urthona:
Fine.
“I don’t know you! That’s my purse!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome
Of all the things they could’ve tried the transgender thing on, it’d be boxing. 🙄
Rugby would have been better
If you are waiting for the light rail in Minnesota and some crazy dude walks up to you with a knife and says “I want to slit your throat.”, you are required to retreat before you can defend yourself.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/state-supreme-court-establishes-duty-to-retreat-before-wielding-weapon-for-self-defense/
“Somebody scaring you isn’t worth killing over!”
Knife vs. machete? Light rail stations must be interesting places in Minnesoda.
Retreat all the way out of Minnesota.
This is what I was taught when I got my non-resident MN permit to carry 5+ years ago.
Was the court just saying “we really mean it”, because this should not be new.
No duty to lie back and think of Minnedsoda?
Is repositioning your stance to square yourself to the threat considered an attempted retreat? “Your honor, as I began to retreat, there was no other option”.
“People confronted with danger must try to find a way to safety before brandishing a weapon in preparation of self-defense,”
“I don’t have many options to find but I accidentally had a 357 in my pocket, your honor.”
Seriously though, there’s not a lot of ways for geezers to move to safety unless one uses the Bernie Goetz method.
It is just a repackaged notion of “Shouldn’t have been wearing a short skirt then”.
Is this what they mean by Minnesota nice?
Duty to retreat is horseshit. It may be, and often is, the smart thing to do, but the notion that you should always back away from a clear and present threat is taking the position that you have a moral obligation to cede power to an aggressor.
Yesterday I logged in to my bank account to pay my AmEx bill. I was denied access: outdated browser. To be honest, the only real surprise is that it took this long. I guess I’m going to have to fire up the Windows desktop machine which I have not used in about three years. First I have to review the procedure for blocking updates. Otherwise it will probably go on a prolonged update binge.
I blame Mojeaux.
What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024?
I spread my Missouri wherever I go.
I didn’t realize your ancient browser is why you cannot do threading.
If you’re going online, you probably want those updates. Unless you have your own up-to-date firewall and anti-virus stuff.
Why is Trump so obsessed by Harris’ racial provenance?
The questions for the coming days and weeks are more fraught. What will Trump – a leader of the racist “birther” conspiracy movement against former President Barack Obama and someone who saw “very fine people” among the neo-Nazis and White supremacists who marched on Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 – say or do if Harris maintains or even accelerates the momentum driving her candidacy.
Harris – the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother who was raised in Oakland and attended a historically Black university – would be the first woman, the first woman of color, the first Black woman and the first Indian American elected president if she triumphs in November.
Why can’t he see her purely in terms of her character and competence, instead of this weird fixation on meaningless superficial genetic characteristics?
Was he a ‘leader’ of the birther nonsense?
“very fine people” – well…I guess even if it has been proven and even your Golden Calf of Fact Checking had to admit it, sure, run it some more.
I am getting a very Bro vibe from all those firsts.
Truly a mistery
They were beautiful, these gorillas in the mistery.
I was on the fence about this, until I heard it this way: Democrats are all about identity politics, and she’s portraying herself as different things depending on her audience. That’s a fair criticism.
“Trump falsely claims Harris recently became black”
Headline from about 15 different news sources yesterday missing that he was joking about her racial opportunism.
Still, though, Trump has decided to wing each and every interview without preparation. This could be so much easier.
I think it hilarious that the Jamaican side of her family owned a plantation with slaves. The more they talk about her racial makeup, the worse it makes her look.
And in the clip I saw, he got some laughs out of it.
Yeah clearly was highlighting how she was Indian-American when campaigning for Senate and now is Indo-Jamacian-Southern-Mexican(Pretty sure she will throw that in at some point)-Jewish-Hmong
Also, I think it was a good move. To stereotype here a bit, but from the black people in my tiny circle, they are very in your face and don’t like no punk bitch.
a leader of the racist “birther” conspiracy movement
The movement started by the Clinton campaign?
The reason for Kamala’s current position is precisely her superficial genetic characteristics.
The writer agrees by calling her “the first woman of color, the first Black woman and the first Indian American elected president if she triumphs in November.”
Trump himself could not make it any clearer.
“Trump himself could not make it any clearer.”
Gonna have to strongly disagree with this statement.
All true but only certain people are allowed to talk about it.
Like everything else in American politics.
The thing is, the trick about identity politics is that identities are necessarily mutually exclusive. Your racial or ethnic identity’s purpose is to distinguish you from people who don’t have that identity. Saying she is both Indian and black is simply admitting that her claimed identities are actually superficial and opportunistic.
Poking away at her history of claiming the Indian identity is a good way of pointing out to black people that she ain’t one of them, and when she claims to be, she is trying to con them. “Geez, if you’re going to run on your racial identity, seems like you should pick a team, already” isn’t a bad way to point up the essential phoniness of Harris, which is her fundamental weakness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiDVeiG1zC0
On topic (and amusing).
I hope they throw this guy in Gitmo. This has become a trend among leftist nut jobs.
On the other hand, apparently king’s men are the main “victims” because they can ignore the license plate law with impunity.
I think Sensei said it best yesterday, I think. I am conflicted.
Screw you Government, do some old fashioned police work and you know, call the license plate in if you suspect the vehicle and/or passenger of something. Screw you Government for skirting laws. I guess I am not conflicted, my anger clearly has a target.
The candidate, addressing a historically Black sorority event in Houston hours after Trump comments on the panel, ticked off her usual talking points from the top. Then, with a wry smile, she pivoted to her highly anticipated rejoinder.
“This afternoon,” she said, pausing to let the buzz heighten, “Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists and it was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect. Let me just say, the American people deserve better.”
She continued, “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth. A leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.”
Moments later, Harris was back on message, warning of a “full-on attack on hard fought hard won fundamental freedoms and rights” by Trump-aligned Republicans, who have danced around questions but not uniformly rejected a federal abortion ban. (Trump has said the decision, per the 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, should be made by the states.)
He’ll put you back in chains.
We must be united and resolute in our hatred of Trump and all things MAGA.
Next thing you know she will be a poor little black girl on a school bus.
A bus that segregationists, like Joe Biden, protested against driving to a white school.
Harris supporters, led by a handful of potential running mates, praised the tone and content of her response.
“This guy (Trump) is a homophobe, a xenophobe, he’s a racist and misogynist. But here was just a perfect example of it for the American public to see,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told CNN’s Anderson Cooper late Wednesday. Harris “doesn’t need to take him on directly. The rest of us can see it for ourselves and we’re going to talk about it.”
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, one of the leading contenders to be her vice presidential pick, told reporters on Capitol Hill that Trump’s comments in Chicago were those ”of a desperate, scared old man who is, over the last week, especially, is having his butt kicked by an experienced prosecutor.”
“He’s done this before, he’s not going to change,” Kelly said of Trump. “Pretty obvious to me why he’s doing this.”
Her white knights will defend her to the death.
So the other day, there was a quote from the International Energy agency about air industry not meeting climate change goals and buried in the many things they should/could do was “demand reduction”. These fuckers are opening talking about rationing or restricted air travel to the right people.
(Why TF is there even a need for an international energy agency? Kill it now)
I think it hilarious that the Jamaican side of her family owned a plantation with slaves. The more they talk about her racial makeup, the worse it makes her look.
Just imagine the squeals of outrage if some white journalist AMBUSHES her with a question about that. I can’t wait.
Lead with “Are you proud of your family heritage on the Jamaican side?”
Is it POUNCED then AMBUSHED or vice-versa?
Guess what — everyone of us is descended from both slaves and slaveholders.
Good news, everyone!
Ukraine has received its first batch of long-awaited American-made F-16 fighter jets that will help the country fight back against Russia’s superior air power, according to news reports.
A top advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, said he would neither confirm nor deny Ukraine had received the F-16s. Other Ukrainian officials were similarly tight-lipped.
However, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on X, quote, “F-16s in Ukraine. Another impossible thing turned out to be totally possible.”
The tide will turn, Shirley. Victory is in our grasp.
Ahh, sorry Ukraine. All our F-16 spare parts are going to Israel because of the impending hot war with Iran.
I’m sure some scrapper will be happy finding the wreckage.
“Annnd, they’re gone”
Nyu York is saved!
Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine says it needs more than 100 of the US-made aircraft to effectively counter Russia, which has a well over 1,000 of its own fighter jets.
Sure, why not? It don’t cost nothin’.
First one was delivered this week. Odds on how long it will last? Ukrainian pilots just trained will probably be going up against ace Russky pilots.
Has anyone else seen this update to the Tehran kablooie?
https://archive.is/PNN3a
When bad things happen to good people.
Oh, so not a missile/drone after all?
More or less badass for Mossad to sneak in and plant bombs?
Of course, why would Mossad have an easier time than a rival Arab group?
More badass. How would they know 2 months in advance he’d be put in that guest house? Either that was decided ahead of time and they found out, or someone inside put him there. Or maybe he’d already been staying there?
My guess is that they knew it was a safe house and waited for a high value target to show up.
Wasn’t he banging his mistress there? So, yeah, I think it was set up well in advance so when he did show up, they could pull the trigger.
Makes you wonder how many other buildings in Tehran have been prepped in a similar way.
Hmm. Seems like a nice pretense to ramp up the war…
If Israel wanted peace, they wouldn’t have killed the two guys to negotiate it with this week.
Since literally every “peace plan” starts off with “Leave Hamas in power, give them everything they want to rebuild, then Israel gets some corpses back” why the fuck would they want that?
You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish.
I was dropping that Iran had every reason to off this guy on their own in their own guarded palace.
If Israel wanted peace, they wouldn’t have killed the two guys to negotiate it with this week.
If Israel wants peace the only way to get it is to kill all of Hamas’ leaders and completely destroy Hamas’ will to fight.
This was a good start.
Listen to the experts, you ignorant baboons
Vermont is flooding. Not just yesterday, two weeks ago and a year before that, but experts say the state could see catastrophic events like these for the foreseeable future.
Climate change is fueling stronger, more persistent storms and the state’s infrastructure is feeling the effects in villages along the Green Mountains’ rivers and streams, which carry a huge amount of water.
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Extreme flooding conditions like these are often the result of random, short-term natural weather patterns heightened by long-term, human-caused climate change.
With climate change, storms are forming in a warmer atmosphere, making extreme rainfall a more frequent reality. The additional warming that scientists predict is coming will only make it worse, with the Northeast U.S. among the regions vulnerable to heavier rains in the future.
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A study last year in the journal Climate Change found that extreme precipitation in the Northeast will increase 52% by the end of the century. One of the study’s authors, Jonathan Winter, an associate professor of geography at Dartmouth College, also took part in research that found there had been a 50% increase in extreme precipitation events from 1996 to 2014.
Angry gods must be placated. Sacrifices must be made.
So the authors are rushing to China to tell them to stop building so many coal plants, right?
This morning 90% of the Google News articles with the “Vermont” keyword were about flooding. The hype is going to make the state government spend tons of money litigating this:
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/08/nx-s1-4992065/a-law-in-vermont-makes-fossil-fuel-company-pay-for-damages-from-climate-change
I foresee it going to the Vermont Supreme Court which will rule that yes, in fact, the state does have the authority to fine/tax fossil fuel companies. Then I foresee the fossil fuel companies pulling out of the state when they appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free
Vermont has more than 7,000 miles (11,300 kilometers) of rivers amid rural roads that wind past sweeping vistas and treasured ski resorts. Its residents are scattered down dirt roads that run miles into the wilderness, many with streams flowing through their property to bigger rivers. Big mountains give way to deep valleys with rivers and streams throughout.
Vermont is a third world country. Send in the Peace Corps.
Maybe see if Canada wants it so the people there can have free healthcare?
WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free
Release of 32-year-old American from Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War
I’m happy that Gershkovich is free but “wrongly convicted” and “a false allegation of espionage” are a bit too much. The main job of the US media domestically is to disseminate the narrative concocted by the US intelligence community. But their foreign correspondent would never engage in investigative reporting that’s barely distinguishable from spying in a hostile country that the US is de facto at war.
Serious question. How many “credentialed” Russian journalists working for a major media outlet in Russia has the U.S. arrested?
By background I’m actually sympathetic to some of the stuff Russia has had to deal with, but by my readings in English this was straight up state sponsored extortion.
The closest comparison to Gershkovich is not a Russian journalist but Julian Assange whom the US and UK governments deprived of freedom for more than a decade. As for Gershkovich, here is some information about what he was reporting about.
I think it’s pretty much a certainty that the CIA was using Gershkovich as an asset. The Russians knew it, and the wanted their guys back so they grabbed ours to set up an exchange. This shit’s been going on for decades.
There is the rub. Guilty or not he was valuable as means to a prisoner exchange.
A spy or not? I don’t think we can completely rely on his “I’m not a spy” or the U.S. Government’s “He’s not a spy” narrative. Just because he is a legitimate “journalist”, we can’t assume he is telling the truth.
He may not be a member of the CIA, but I bet the CIA was using him as a convenient asset.
“Hateful customer leaves shocking tip for gay server at Kansas eatery: ‘That hurt me a lot’ ”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/us-news/hateful-customer-scrawls-gay-slur-on-receipt-at-kansas-eatery/
After one hoax after another, my immediate reaction is that this is fake.
Probably. All the incentives are there for particular “marginalized” groups to cash in their victim bucks.
Bur on the off chance that is is genuine it seems like a bad idea structure our society based on what assholes do.
“In MAGA country, Love wins fag!”
[blockquote]One of the customers declined to leave a tip, instead writing the word “f-g” on the tip line.[/blockquote]
Someone needs a fig leaf to cover their shame?