Thursday Afternoon Links – Witholding Exculpatory Evidence Edition

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Daily Links | 257 comments

Jacob Chansley (r) in the US Capitol on January 6 2021, with other tourists and a friendly, helpful Capitol Police officer (l, with chin mask).

 

QANON SHAMAN JACOB CHANSLEY RELEASED FROM PRISON, FEDS WITHELD EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE: But not completely free; he was moved to a halfway house. This is something, but nowhere near enough for Chansley and the other J6 tourists and protesters (yes, the thieves and vandals deserve appropriate punishment). And we all know nothing beyond a sternly worded letter will happen to the feds who witheld exculpatory evidence. The feds witheld exculpatory evidence. Keep saying that to yourself.

THE GOVERNOR, THE MOUSE, AND THE KING: Legal shenanigans are underway in Florida to try to keep Disney in control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District. In a particularly bizarre turn, Disney, more known for its embrace of all things princess, has developed an obsession with King Charles, III. That declaration is valid until “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England living as of the date of this declaration,” if it is deemed to violate rules against perpetuity, according to the document.

NASA, BOEING DELAY FIRST CREWED FLIGHT OF STARLINER CAPSULE UNTIL AT LEAST JULY: This column tries so very hard to not go full SpaceX fanboy, but at times like this it’s tough. Boeing, a legacy company which once did great things with spaceflight but has apparently forgotten how to build a crew capsule, versus SpaceX which gave us the reusable, self-landing booster and has accomplished nine crewed missions with their Crew Dragon capsule.

BIDEN ADMNISTRATION DECLARES WAR ON AIR CONDITIONERS: Now, in the latest episode of Team Biden’s “war on appliances,” the Energy Department has turned its attention to air conditioners, specifically room air conditioners of the sort used disproportionately by poor people, minorities and the elderly to keep cool in summer heat.

GIRL WITH MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING TAKES ON MUCH LARGER BULLY, DOMINATES: Your feel-good story of the day. Thirteen-year old Apolonia Nuncio had grown tired of being bullied at school and she had been dealing with the same girl for weeks.

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257 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Well, I for one, am shocked!

    • Count Potato

      Actually, I’m not at all shocked.

    • Count Potato

      (yes, the thieves and vandals deserve appropriate punishment)

      Although not much.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Anywhere else in the United States it would be an “up to X fine and/or X months imprisonment” and in the end you’d most likely get probation or community service if your record to that point was non-existent which I would assume was a large majority of these folks.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Punish the elected thieves and vandals first.

      • juris imprudent

        INSURRECTION talk!!!

      • Pat

        We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  2. Warty

    Nothing like a good “BJJ being used to beat up a bully” video.

    • Drake

      Being a bully in Brazil may not be a good lifestyle choice.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Horning in on OMWC territory…oh…Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

      • Pope Jimbo

        OMWC is an expert on (((Jitsu)))?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Something to do with 13 yo and BJs?

  3. Ownbestenemy

    13-year old…good job. One thing about the martial arts that kids did when they were young was taught how to stand up against a bully. Let them know to back off…they don’t, do what you have to.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I know I whooped at least 2 asses with this approach.

  4. Not Adahn

    Even though the technique was nice I applaud her more for not breaking her arm, she easily could of done it but choose not to.

    Is that true? I thought the reason kids fighting wasn’t as big of a deal as post-pubescents is they literally don’t have the muscle power to do enough damage.

    • Ownbestenemy

      With leverage and the right pressure at a certain point, I have little doubt that spitfire could have wrapped that arm around that girl’s own neck.

      • R C Dean

        I thought the two kicks to the face at the end were a nice touch. Kind of a “there’s more where that came from if you want it”.

    • EvilSheldon

      Striking, maybe. Jits? With an arm bar, she’s putting all the muscle of her hips and back onto the other girl’s elbow. She could have broken it without even trying.

      • robc

        When I was about 12 I was in a conversation with a same age girl judo competitor. She was talking about breaking an opponents arm. The conversation went something like, “I had her in the hold and she didn’t submit, so I had no choice.”

  5. SDF-7

    Moral of the story — we have to kill Charles and all his descendants. Only logical way forward.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Your terms are acceptable.

    • robc

      Nah, Charles can live, its only his descendants that effect the contract.

      • robc

        It does bring up the question…does Disney need to DNA test so they know which ones are actually his, if any?

  6. Rebel Scum

    Keep saying that to yourself.

    I will shout it from the rooftops!

    • SDF-7

      They do witness tampering right out in the open… why not hide evidence to boot.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’d like to know more details about that visit. How does Taibbi know they were IRS agents? Did he get their names? Did they show badges? Not sure if it’s better or worse if they are imposters, but I’d be interested to know. Also, if he got names, maybe someone could follow up to find out who sent them.

      • WTF

        I’m pretty sure they were IRS since the Biden administration hasn’t denied that they were and only refuses to comment.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Maybe, but I could see a legitimate statement of “We’re moving at the speed of government to investigate the situation” and then they find out they were not really IRS agents months from now.

      • WTF

        White House spokesman John Kirby referred reporters to the IRS when asked about the incident. Never even raised the question as to the possibility they might not have been IRS. And IRS refuses to comment.

      • Pope Jimbo

        They would comment, but unfortunately hundreds if not thousands of hard drives suddenly crashed over at the IRS and they are unable to write up a proper press release.

        Yeah, it would be nice if that agent was fired and they just went up the line firing everyone and making sure they lost their pensions too. If there is one thing that terrifies the Swamp it is losing their jobs and cushy pensions.

      • Fatty Bolger

        They left a note, he called them back.

        According to the report in the WSJ, the note left by IRS asked Taibbi to call them four days later – and when he did, an agent told him his tax returns from 2018 and 2021 had been rejected.

      • Fatty Bolger

        This part got cut off. It continues:

        They said the rejection was based upon identity theft concerns.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Thank you for letting me enact your labor.

    • R C Dean

      “The feds witheld exculpatory evidence.“

      Routinely. And with much pleasure, I am sure.

      It tells you all you need to know about the federal judiciary that the judge didn’t lose his mind, vacate the conviction, and impose whatever sanctions a judge can impose on all the prosecutors involved. Due process delenda est.

  7. Warty

    I can think of a cheaper solution

    In 2021, after the Colombian government was sued over its plan to sterilize or kill the animals, a federal court ruled that the hippos can be recognized as people or “interested persons” with legal rights in the U.S. But the order doesn’t carry any weight in Colombia where the hippos live, a legal expert said.</em

    The fuck?

    • SDF-7

      Just how much Columbian marching powder was that court on?

    • Not Adahn

      Aren’t herbivores generally tasty? And since they float around all the time, their muscles probably don’t get too tough.

      • Sean

        Hippo leather holsters.

      • Count Potato

        “And since they float around all the time, their muscles probably don’t get too tough.”

        I’ll try to explain that to the next alligator.

      • pistoffnick

        Aren’t herbivores generally tasty?

        Back in the 1800s there was a concerted effort to bring hippos to America to make up for a shortage of cattle.

        I don’t think they were aware how dangerous hippos are. Hippos kill more people than lions or tigers, or sharks.

    • juris imprudent

      Strange environmental move – protecting an invasive species.

    • Drake

      There was a Beverly Hillbillies episode where Granny thought a hippo was the biggest pig ever. She was planning to smoke the granddaddy of all hams. I would love to try a hippo ham.

      • Pope Jimbo

        All your’s buddy!

        Wait….

        Oh, you said hippo, not lizzo.

      • Drake

        My eyes!

      • Tres Cool

        Its close enough to bedtime. Ill be in my bunk.
        (she doesnt even have a proper FUPA. Thats more of a GUNT)

  8. Count Potato

    “Before that, the Energy Department had nixed Trump-era regulatory reforms designed to allow “quick” dishwashers, as well as similarly improved washers and dryers.”

    CWABOA

    • Michael Malaise

      Christ, what a Bank of America?

      Yeah, that fits.

    • Tonio

      Why does the US Dept of Energy even have the power to regulate that. Show me where it says in the Constitution that Congress has that power, let alone the power to delegate it willy-nilly to an executive branch agency.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We can thank the 95th Congress for that

      • Count Potato

        Why do we even have a US Dept of Energy?

      • Fourscore

        Now do Dept of Non-Education.

      • Warty

        Yes.

        But also: lol, the constitution, lmao

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If the Constitution was worded differently, its intent would be respected in Washington.

      • juris imprudent

        I wonder if the Founders are sitting up in some cosmic conference room wondering what the hell is wrong with us.

      • Pat

        This is a hot take of sorts, I guess, but given Jefferson’s militant atheism and hatred of tradition, whole-hearted support of the Jacobins and the revolutionary violence in France, and bourgeois radicalism, I suspect he’d probably be fairly pleased with how things turned out. Had he survived long enough he almost certainly would have been a Marxist.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        The university he built certainly went full commie.

      • Michael Malaise

        The Constitution has only guaranteed the government we have today.

      • Count Potato

        It can always be worse.

  9. SDF-7

    They point to climate change and the environment. But if those problems are bad enough to justify putting our most vulnerable citizens at risk during summer heat waves, I think we need to see that our most powerful citizens share in their sacrifice.

    Therefore, I have a proposal of my own: Ban air conditioning in Washington, DC.

    Frankly, I can’t argue with that. Of course we know, the whole point is to get the non-elite to live miserable, short brutish lives and preferably kill as many of us as they think needed to cull the herd.

    Assholes.

  10. Not Adahn

    Re: Reedy Creek,

    I have here a computer model demonstrating that with my plan, that area will generate more tax revenue than Disney does now. Under Kelo v. New London CT, you may seize the property via eminent domain and give it to me.

  11. juris imprudent

    The Mouse has some chutzpah.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Meant to cue that up the end that is relevant

      • juris imprudent

        ok, gaze upon my empire of joy was worth it

    • Pat

      Immodest Mouse?

  12. ruodberht

    Isn’t it rule against perpetuities? Not rules against perpetuity.

  13. Rebel Scum

    Oh deer.

    The wildlife winter kill in southcentral Wyoming is the worst anybody there can remember, some locals are saying.

    “It goes on for miles: dead animal after dead animal after dead animal,” state Sen. Larry Hicks, R-Baggs told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday. “The antelope are dying by the thousands. Starvation is an ugly thing.”

    Outfitter and pilot Bo Stacks said that at higher elevations, he’s seen even hardy bull elk struggling to survive.

    “Usually the elk are pretty tough and don’t have much die-off,” he told Cowboy State Daily. “There’s still 4 feet of snow on the high ridges. When I fly over, they don’t even look up because they’re so weak. They don’t even do anything.”

      • WTF

        Good thing snow is a thing of the past.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      You mean nature isn’t like a Disney movie?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Are we sure that all those dead antelope aren’t a result of immigrant rape gangs that have moved into Montana? Perverts don’t know they are supposed to just stick to sheep like the other cowboys.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        No antelope. Butt too high. Run too fast.

    • Fourscore

      The deer here are starting to get skinny. A lot of snow on the ground, more coming today and next week. They are eating jack pine needles when they can find them. Still a few weeks of snow cover, looks like.

      • Pope Jimbo

        We are just supposed to get rain here I think, but it is pretty close to snowing again. Hope you guys don’t get hit too hard.

      • Nephilium

        The deer here appear to be a bit thinner on the ground since there was a culling (run by the city) less than a block from my house.

        I fully expect them back to try to eat and destroy everything in my yard as things start growing.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Where is our common sense jiu jitsu control?

    • SDF-7

      What, is this Zerohenge now? Always about the (((jitsu)))…

      • Pat
      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Zerohenge? Is that like Stonehenge but invisible?

      • Mojeaux

        Jews built it.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Shapeshifting Jews?

      • Mojeaux

        Wandering ones.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I would have thought Zerohenge is a bunch of Japanese fighters flying in a mysterious circle.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Not just mysterious, but inscrutable.

      • Michael Malaise

        “There are no rocks, so you can just park anywhere.”

  15. Mojeaux

    I have an announcement to make.

    Go Chicken Go, a local chicken shack that sells gizzards and livers, are putting in a store by my house. I will no longer have to drag my ass across town to get gizzards. Also, XX teethed on gizzards.

    I. Am. Thrilled.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Fried gizzards and livers? Sign me up!

      • Mojeaux

        YES!!!!

        I don’t like livers, but I can chew on gizzards all day long. I actually pick the breading off.

      • Count Potato

        I like livers, but shouldn’t eat them. Chicken livers in a white sauce over linguine is great.

      • Pope Jimbo

        We can hang out Moe. I like livers, but am not a fan of gizzards. We used to pickle them. I could do a couple and then was done for the year.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve never had pickled gizzards. But speaking of pickled meat *snerk* these are awesome.

    • Tonio

      I’m happy for you. Really. [Makes note to self to never go out for carryout with MoJeaux.]

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, I have the most unsophisticated palate ever. 5-year-olds like more things than I do.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well I for one have stolen a few of your recipes. Its like transporting back to the 80s a latch-key kid waiting for mom to come home at 6pm to make a quick meal.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh yay! So happy someone finds them useful!

    • Raven Nation

      Awesome! I’ve not tried gizzards or liver, but there were a lot of nights toward the end of a week made up of grad school + part-time job that I would swing by the local GCG for their box of chicken. It was usually dinner + lunch the next day.

    • Nephilium

      The girlfriend has banned me from making dirty rice in the house now that she knows that chicken gizzards and livers are part of the recipe. I may try to do it once while she’s at work, and offer it to her when she gets home.

      Either she likes it, or my couch is pretty comfortable.

    • Tonio

      Ow, my nuts!

    • rhywun

      I read about that in recent weeks. They’re really just rubbing our noses in it at this point.

    • Rat on a train

      Please put it in Largo. They deserve each other.

      • Nephilium

        Why not save commute time and put it right in Guantanamo?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Is it because the wood chippers take up so much space? Because I’m sure that the doors are really just disguised chutes into a wood chipper. Right?

    • juris imprudent

      How about the WV/KY border instead? Surely McConnell and Manchin can make that happen.

  16. Mojeaux

    used disproportionately by poor people, minorities and the elderly

    Gonna get rid of all those icky people one way or another.

  17. Pat

    Why capitalism loves transgenderism

    I see more fascists have aligned with the ‘TERF’ cause. Only their disguise is even more cunning than usual. Now the biology-believing Brownshirts aren’t only dressing up as middle-aged women to try to throw everyone off the scent of the fascism that lurks beneath their talk of women’s rights. They’ve gone that extra step and camouflaged themselves as actual communists. Truly there is no end to the cynicism and intrigue of these far-right loons who believe people with penises are men, not women.

    This is the news that the Communist Party of Britain has come out against gender self-ID. The CPB is an offshoot of the Communist Party of Great Britain (deceased). It’s all very Life of Brian. Yet however eccentric and even Soviet-sympathising the nostalgic anoraks of the CPB might be, they’ve managed to think crystal clearly about self-ID and have decided that it clashes with ‘the sex-based rights of women’. Too right, comrades!

    It remains to be seen how the trans lobby and its noisy allies will square the existence of these commies for biology with their belief that everyone who says men are not women is basically Himmler. Posie Parker, JK Rowling, the mums and grans who gather in Hyde Park to politely request that fellas in dresses stay out of women-only spaces – all have been damned as ‘fascist-adjacent’ by woke bros. Alt-right pond-life once branded women’s rights campaigners ‘feminazis’; now Oxford-educated fake leftists call them ‘fascist-adjacent’. Same arse, different cheek.

    […]

    The CPB’s statement has broken the internet – well, that small portion of it that is interested in the internecine battles of the British left. The publication of our gender statement has ‘resulted in a million views and our website being zapped’, the CPB says. Time for new servers, comrades? It’s good that the CPB has made itself the communist cat among the identitarian pigeons, the fox of materialism in the chicken coop of postmodern bollocks. Because it just might give rise to a discussion, or at least some thought, on why the hell the modern left has aligned itself with something as irrational, illiberal, anti-women, anti-science and harmful to working-class families as the ideology of transgenderism.

    There’s a great line in the CPB’s statement, one that will really get the goat of London’s trustafarian trots who think spending twenty-five quid on Novara hoop earrings that say ‘Literally A Communist’ makes them Rosa Luxemburg. ‘Gender-identity ideology is well-suited to the needs of the capitalist class’, it says, ‘focussing as it does on individual as opposed to collective rights [and] enabling and supporting the super-exploitation of women’. Boom, there it is, the thing too rarely said – that capitalism loves transgenderism. That the boss class is absolutely fine with the creation of a new generation so obsessed with changing their bodies that they lack the time, energy and balls (literally, in some cases) to change the world.

    The CPB has thrown down the gauntlet to the post-class bourgeois left, the left that gets more excited about the right of men to piss in women’s toilets than it does about the right of millions of working-class voters to remove Britain from the clutches of that ultimate capitalist club, the European Union. It is forcing these LINOs (leftists in name only) to ask why they so often find themselves on the same side of the barricades as the neoliberal elites. Why they fly the same flag – that eyesore trans Pride flag – that every bank and hedge fund flies. Why they are as one with ‘big business’ when it comes to the importance of using people’s preferred pronouns. Why they are in full agreement with the armed wing of the state – the police, the army, the prison service – that a person with a dick can be a woman if he wants. The middle-class graduate left with their well-thumbed bell hooks books and their selfies at Marx’s grave can make fun of the CPB as much as they like, but at some point they’re going to have to answer the question it has raised: if transgenderism is progressive, why do the ruthless owners of the means of production love it so?

    • Mojeaux

      Gibberish.

      • juris imprudent

        Truly intersectional!

      • Not Adahn

        Radical Feminism and any other gender abolitionist philosophy is incompatible with transgenderism. This is nothing new.

      • Mojeaux

        I was accused of being a religion-based transphobe. I shot back, “No, I’m a TERF.” They didn’t know what to do with that. It’s easy to knock religion, but the minute you step out of an easy-to-dismiss label and into something less dismissable (I’m only a radical feminist when I need to shout my trans exclusionariness), people just don’t what to do other than scream “Radical feminist!” to which the answer is “And you’re NOT?! For shame!”

      • Count Potato

        “Radical Feminism and any other gender abolitionist philosophy”

        It isn’t. It’s mostly radical feminists who pushed gender. Christina Hoff Sommers called it “gender feminism”. Long before TERF was a word, trans-exclusion was called “gender essentialism”.

    • Count Potato

      “Alt-right pond-life once branded women’s rights campaigners ‘feminazis’; ”

      Wasn’t that Rush Limbaugh?

      • Brochettaward

        I’m failing to see the distinction you are trying to draw here.

      • Nephilium

        I believe so.

    • Tonio

      “Truly there is no end to the cynicism and intrigue of these far-right loons who believe people with penises are men, not women.”

      Today, I declare myself a far-right loon.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Lorena Bobbitt had a penis and I think we all agree that she was a woman.

      • Mojeaux

        She didn’t keep hers very long.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I heard that she threw it out the window of her getaway car as she was fleeing the scene.

        It ended up hitting the windshield of the truck that was behind her.

        The driver of the truck said he was completely freaked out about it. He’d asked his passenger if he had seen it too. “Yup. I gotta tell you I’ve never seen a bug with dick that big”

      • Mojeaux

        LOL

      • Nephilium
      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        +1 crotch grab

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I don’t know if Capitalism loves it, but there are certainly capitalists willing to sell products where there’s a demand. And in some cases they will even try to create the demand. But this seems at odds with the notion that capitalism is inherently racists, sexist, etc.

    • Rebel Scum

      Can’t tell if satire.

      Can’t tell anything actually.

      • Pat

        This is Brendan O’Neill of Spiked-Online. All of the hyperbolic rhetoric about how TERFs are far-right fascists is sarcasm mocking the modern left, who are now in the position of having to paint actual Marxists with the same brush.

      • Count Potato

        Not to mention that TERFs have always been very left-wing.

      • Compelled Speechless

        What’s good for the goose isn’t necessarily good for the lambs? It’s funny to watch them have to start to grapple with the fact that their rainbow coalition might actually have *gasp* competing interests. Yet another reason why two option “democracy” is retarded.

      • Count Potato

        It’s not satire. Although, I imagine it’s a confusing read for anyone not well-versed on the issue.

      • Fatty Bolger

        His style kind of reminds me of Mark Steyn, but a lot harder to understand.

      • Michael Malaise

        Does he also have a voice for print?

    • Nephilium

      Tapped out after the first sentence. I’m guessing “fascist” is being used in the new meaning here.

    • Not Adahn

      Same arse, different cheek.

      I am redistributing this, comrade.

  18. Count Potato

    “Gun control activists storm Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville after ‘Trans Shaman’ led occupation of Kentucky legislature – amid fears of left-wing uprising ahead of Saturday’s Trans Day of Vengeance”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11921273/Gun-control-activists-storm-Tennessee-State-Capitol-fears-left-wing-uprising-loom.html

    Perfectly normal headline is a perfectly normal world. Let’s shut everything down again and see what happens.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I like the sign held by a student while in a State House (protected by armed guards) that says they feel safer there than at school. Well…about that…

    • Rebel Scum

      Looks like some insurrection if we are going by leftist standards.

      Protect Kids Not Guns

      Use guns to protect kids.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Cradle to Operating Table to Grave care

      • juris imprudent

        They also no doubt believe that autonomy means dominating everyone else.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I expect tens of millions of dollars to be spent arresting a prosecuting every last insurrectionist within a half mile of this capital building. Hold them without charges for years if you feel like it. I expect hours and hours of congress’s time to be spent investigating how this coup was a conspiracy that was planned from the very top leadership of the Democratic party.

      Oh, they’re leftists? Have fun you crazy kids. If you break anything, I’m sure insurance will cover it.

    • Pat

      The NewsRadio episode where Phil Hartman’s character takes up a second career as a lame Mark Russell-inspired political satirist was funnier than the man that inspired it.

    • Fatty Bolger

      True, because I didn’t even know he existed. For me PBS existed solely for access to British mysteries like Poirot or Morse, and that only until streaming arrived.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hey! I own Daily Ray of Sunshine in perpetuity!!!!

      But Sonny looks like he is waiting for someone to come home so he can cher his love with them.

      • Fourscore

        Did you sub-lease to Tundra, he pulled the magic Daily Ray this morning.

      • Pope Jimbo

        He’s infringing down below too! He leaves Sunny Minnesoda and forgets how to be Nice.

    • B.P.

      Ah, a fellow northern breed owner. Sonny is definitely scanning the horizon for prey.

      • Ted S.

        LOL, that’s true.

    • Mojeaux

      and the decongestant medicine at the pharmacy is in a locked cabinet behind the counter.

      AND OTC epinephrine’s just GONE. Bastids.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Daily Mail headlines I swear are written by 12-year old boys

      • Count Potato

        on adderall

  19. The Late P Brooks

    That Spiked article is unreadable gibberish to me. I am not sufficiently steeped in the monkey house politics of the British to make out who is committing what atrocities against whom.

    • Pat

      Tl;dr: British commies came out against transgenderism on the grounds of biology and classical Marxist dialectical materialism, and the British left is predictably condemning them, only it’s hard to smear no-shit Marxists with the “fascist” or “far-right” label.

      • Tonio

        IOW, eating their own. Good.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Easier and I assume cheaper to take a boat to Mexico and walk north than try and smuggle through the ports.

      • Spudalicious

        They fly to Mexico City and head north.

    • Homple

      Only dependable way to get illegally into the USA is mosey across the Southern border. Foreigners who come in by air or ship get their passport checked, and their eyeballs fingerprinted. No documentation and they’re homeward bound. We hate people who can afford airfare.

      • robc

        I would think the Northern border would be easier.

        Lot less patrolling along the MT and ID borders, I would guess.

        And yes, this is a plot point in a Neil Stephenson novel. (REAMDE)

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Nancy Pelosi authorized a new headquarters for the FBI that is larger than the Pentagon.

    Wait, what?

    • Michael Malaise

      This wouldn’t be an issue if the Pentagon didn’t have that stupid hole in the middle.

    • R C Dean

      It was in the big spending bill they passed last year.

  21. Mojeaux

    I don’t enter many contests, but when I do… I win. Entered the #PayPalPaysBack contest the other day and just won $50.

  22. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I’ve been listening to the Martyr Made podcast about the People’s Temple thanks to someone here who recommended it. It’s amazing how similar today’s leftists are to the People’s Temple. I’m not saying I hope they go away in a mass suicide, but if it were to happen, oh well.

    • Bob Boberson

      Jim Jones was just taking Marxism to its logical conclusion.

    • rhywun

      And all the elected Democrats who got sucked into that vortex escaped unscathed and in most cases more powerful than ever.

      In some ways nothing has changed since the 70s.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      *shocked face*

    • Tonio

      I’m not sure what that object is but I’m sure it was threatening you and needed to be bitten and shook. GOOD DOGE!

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        It’s one of those plushie squirrel trees LOL

    • R C Dean

      I love that you’ve had the dog for a week and there are chew toys everywhere.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Oh yeah – he’s taken over

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of schoolyard bullies

    But more importantly, from the perspective of the global monetary system, the move may mark a significant development of the trend toward de-dollarization across the world, as countries are trying to trade in non-dollar currencies and seeking to diversify their foreign exchange reserves.

    With the Bretton Woods system and the petrodollar system, the dollar has evolved from a dominant payment, settlement and investment vehicle into a tool of political blackmail and coercion. By weaponizing its dollar hegemony, the US can not only arbitrarily impose unilateral sanctions on other countries, but can also harvest global wealth and export its own risks to the rest of the world through irresponsible monetary policies.

    What does Janet Yellin say?

    • R C Dean

      Spend it all, we’ll print more?

  24. Brochettaward

    Firsters are natural defenders of the weak and downtrodden. By Firsting, we create a natural hierarchy that cannot be questioned and in which the weak known their place intuitively because they are not First.

    • juris imprudent

      I almost scrolled right by this, so far down thread. Maybe I’ll have better luck next time.

      • Fourscore

        Sometimes you just get un-lucky

      • Aloysious

        He was the first after everyone else.

        Although, to be honest, at first I thought the post was about frosting. I like frosting.

    • Rat on a train

      voice assistant + AI + VR + blockchain = profit

      • Sensei

        Yup. It said Amazon’s Alexa blew through $10bn in that article.

      • Compelled Speechless

        To be fair, it is a slightly better plan than what the underpants gnomes came up with.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    This is Brendan O’Neill of Spiked-Online. All of the hyperbolic rhetoric about how TERFs are far-right fascists is sarcasm mocking the modern left, who are now in the position of having to paint actual Marxists with the same brush.

    He should devote less time and effort being too clever by half and leave the rhetorical trapeze artistry to Oscar Wilde.

    Of course I have to assume he knows his audience, and it ain’t me.

    • rhywun

      His straight writing is excellent.

      I don’t know what the hell that was.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Yeah, typically his writing is great and he’s one of my favorite podcast guests. I still have trouble reconciling his identification as an “anarcho-communist”. Trying to figure that out gives me nose bleeds.

      • juris imprudent

        He wants to be an ant.

  26. Tundra

    (l, with chin mask)

    Nice. I believe in hell and I hope our friends the Feds find out the hard way that they are mistaken.

    Your feel-good story of the day.

    Ah, another Ray of Sunshine. The fat fuck got hers, which is nice, but I really liked the face shots at the end.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    More on the decline of Amerca.

    Saudi Arabia’s finance minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan also said in January that his country is open to discussions about settling oil trade in currencies other than the US dollar.

    In addition to these de-dollarization signs, India and Russia have taken a major step toward non-dollar transactions, which may be an encouragement for countries that are considering the move. Indian customers have paid for most Russian oil in non-dollar currencies, including the United Arab Emirates dirham and more recently the Russian rouble, Reuters reported in March, citing multiple oil trading and banking sources. The transactions in the last three months total the equivalent of several hundred million dollars.

    Another important sign of the accelerated de-dollarization efforts is that countries including some of the US allies have reduced their holdings of US debt to diversify their foreign exchange reserves. The dollar weight in foreign exchange reserves has fallen to around 60 percent, a relatively low level over past decades, according to the IMF’s Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves data for the third quarter of 2022.

    While the fact that the dollar remains the most frequently used currency in the world will not change in the foreseeable future, the trend that more and more countries will consider and pilot trade in non-dollar currencies is also unchangeable. History tells us that the decline of hegemony often begins with its currency.

    Joe and Janet will whip those wogs back in line.

    • Mojeaux

      Currency is whatever 2 parties agree is valuable.

    • Pat

      The only reason our currency hegemony and the petrodollar have lasted this long is that we’re the tallest dwarf of central banking. That incentive is rapidly disappearing.

      • juris imprudent

        The real joke is – this is still the best option in the world. We don’t deserve to survive as a species.

    • Pope Jimbo

      That rule sounds like a croc of shit

    • Homple

      Baseball was not meant for an audience with the attention span of speedballing gerbils. But that’s what audiences are these days, so let’s copy bouncyball and add a shot clock. Not long before they get rid of pitchers and play tee ball.

  28. B.P.

    The Hill is reporting that Trump has been indicted in NY. I’m so glad we got the return to normalcy and civil society that we were promised.

    • Pat

      The clothes are walling in!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh so they head faked with the whole we will readdress next month. Process crime of the century!

    • WTF

      Our descent into banana republic shithole is accelerating.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am going to assume reasoning will be along the lines used during COVID “Yes it is illegal for the [insert governmental agency here] to do that to citizens, but it is dire times!”

      • Drake

        Accelerating like a Saturn rocket.

    • Rat on a train

      grow more bananas

    • cavalier973

      This totally won’t backfire in any way.

      • KSuellington

        Exactly. This is gonna be about as beneficial to the Dems as the Lewinsky circus was to the Repubs. I don’t think it benefits Trump’s run, but it will be a big drag on the Donkeys for the 24.

      • Count Potato

        Well, it got Clinton not to go out campaigning for Gore.

    • rhywun

      And I was just thinking that what the news has been missing lately is a circus shitshow to suck up all the air around it.

      Or,

      I wonder what they’re going to use this for cover this time.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The right would have done the same if Herself got this too…let’s not dance around that.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I have no illusions about my kink.

      • Brochettaward

        Hillary actually deserved to be indicted. Along with Bill.

      • Bob Boberson

        First a poor, oppressed tranny kills a bunch of christo-fascists and now this?

        They are gonna need to get their hands on some vitamin e

    • Raven Nation

      So, I understand the politics behind this, but what is the actual legal charge here. It seems like Trump was paying off a blackmailer: would that normally be a felony?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Supposedly a charge that the false business record for the NDA is predicated on another crime, which in NY would be a felony

      • Brochettaward

        The only potential underlying crime are federal campaign laws which the NY state has no jurisdiction over and which Trump has already been probed and cleared.

        And the entire law has a statute of limitations that has more than expired.

        There is no legal reasoning beyond bad orange man must be got. I know you are just trying to provide an explanation for the inexplicable.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Then will be interesting on how they go about releasing the indictment…which I would wager it will be held until after they get their fingerprints and mug shot, they are leaked and then so “oh darn, yeah totally bogus”

      • Raven Nation

        Well that’s, interesting…

      • juris imprudent

        The indictment, which remains under seal from The Hill.

  29. Tres Cool

    Mojeaux on March 30, 2023 at 4:23 pm
    She didn’t keep hers very long.

    Remember when she panicked and tossed the dick out the window? It actually hit the windshield of the car behind her.
    The guy driving that car looked at his wife and said, “Jesus! Did you see the cock on that bug?”

    /shows myself out
    Im going to bed.

    • cavalier973

      His wife’s name is Jesus?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well ya it was an attack on transgenderism not the killing of 6 people.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      That does it. I no longer think she’s just stupid. She’s also evil. That said, I suppose I prefer stupid and evil like Karine Abdul Jean Pierre van Damme to smart, smug and evil like Psaki.

      • rhywun

        She’s also evil.

        Was there ever any doubt?

      • Tundra

        My money was on retarded.

      • R.J.

        Stupid and evil is no way to go through life.

      • Bob Boberson

        Sam Hyde’s quote springs to my mind for some reason:

        “When we win, do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it’s funny”

    • cavalier973

      She cried out in pain as she struck her opponent

  30. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Will Trump have to claim this indictment as a defacto campaign contribution? Goddamn, this country is in trouble.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Oh, and good on buffalo guy-glad he’s out.

    • robodruid

      But don’t the democrats recognize this as well? Or do they think that Trump would be the easier to beat?
      Never Trumpers are called that for a reason…..

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’ll probably help the lardass prosecutor locally, I doubt there’s a plan any further than that.

      • Brochettaward

        Sure, he’s releasing violent career criminals back onto the streets in droves, but he indicted bad orange man and saved democracy.

      • rhywun

        Or, this.

      • rhywun

        He fulfilled a campaign promise and therefore will be reelected in a landslide so that he can complete his other goal of letting every violent criminal out of Rikers.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      If he doesn’t, he’ll just get indicted again.

      • R C Dean

        *indictment printer go brrrrr*

  31. Brochettaward

    You can’t indict a Firster because you can’t catch’em.

  32. Ownbestenemy

    Plot Twist! Buffalo Guy gave up information to get released so Trump can get indicted. Take that Babylon Bee!

    • rhywun

      The day we learn that is true is the day that the Bee should just surrender and close up shop.

  33. cavalier973

    Conspiracy theory take on the Trump indictment:

    “The first arrest will shock the world.”

    ~Q

    The problem is, Trump being arrested isn’t shocking, but rather expected.

  34. robodruid

    Remember the drone strike on the American citizen by Obama.
    Who has jurisdiction?

    • R.J.

      Yo’ Mama!

      • robodruid

        Serious question, cannot a republican DA make a claim of murder?

  35. Ted S.

    The replies to this are pretty good.

  36. juris imprudent

    According to the law school’s own calculation, tuition, living, and all other costs for this sort of education will total $105,000 a year. So, either someone’s parents will be paying or a law student will be going into horrendous debt in the staggering amount of $315,000 to attend a school that will teach those students to be the best Marxist agitators that money can buy.

    This may be the most ingenious plot ever hatched to destroy a law school! No ability to actually pass the bar and practice law, and massively in debt – what better way to cripple a young leftist?

  37. The Hyperbole

    Re – Exculpatory evidence, am I the only one that remembers seeing the pictures of Q-shaman peacefully walking around the capital days after the ‘insurrection’, and hearing the attorneys for the J6 mob complaining that they had tens of thousand hours of video to look over back in 2021?

    • R C Dean

      Nope. The mistake the lawyers made was not realizing the government would engage in a campaign of gross violations of due process and legal ethics by denying them access to the videos.