🇵🇸THE MINNESOTA 9 ARE FREE🇵🇸
Thank you so much to everybody who showed up to support us today! The MN 9 are now banned from campus for a full year as well as charged w misdemeanors for “trespassing” on the campus we pay for
Next up, DROP THE CHARGES!
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME! pic.twitter.com/R3GwjEGy8z— UMN SDS (@UMNSDS) April 23, 2024
One of the vital conundrums of our age is whether this dysgenic horde–so uniform in beliefs and looks–is this way because they simply couldn’t be any other way, trapped to conform to the shallowest of gene pools and foulest of received opinion or if it is just their worthless broken souls rising to the surface.
Physiognomy is destiny, it seems, and the proof keeps rearing its ugly fucking head.
(Fast Fun Fact: If you are expelled, your student loans become immediately due.)
In case you are wondering what to get SugarFree for his birthday…
Biden’s controversial ‘cannibalism’ remarks meet pushback in Papua New Guinea
US President Joe Biden’s apparent suggestion his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals during World War II has sparked uproar in Papua New Guinea, casting a shadow on US relations with the Pacific nation and meeting a firm response from its leader.
In contentious remarks made last week following a visit to a war memorial, Biden twice hinted that the US was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after his plane crashed near the island of New Guinea during the war “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region.
In a statement from his office Monday, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape conceded that Biden may have misspoken, but he pushed back against the characterization of cannibalism in the Pacific Island nation, which encompasses the eastern half of New Guinea and more than 600 nearby islands.
Biden says military unable to recover uncle’s remains during WWII because ‘there used to be a lot of cannibals’ in New Guinea
“President Biden’s remarks may have been a slip of the tongue; however, my country does not deserve to be labeled as such,” Marape said.While cannibalism was documented among remote tribes in the region in the mid-20th century, Papua New Guinea has struggled to shed stereotypes in more recent decades, and Biden’s comments were met with criticism inside the country.
Just a good old fashioned First.
Three Dog Night?
Is that thing made out of stone?
I think SF is subtly saying he wants head.
From the Minnesota Nine.
Sorry SF — I’m not giving you head. Even for your birthday.
You could always go smaller and stranger.
You missed the Golden Girls Hawaiian shirt?
https://www.geekitikis.com/collections/shop-apparel/products/the-golden-girls-mens-aloha-shirt
You think I want to identify as gay (‘member that link from TOS)?
This is much more my style.
[Link fixed]
Page not found? That would be your style.
A 404 Hawaiian would be sweet.
OMG, they have Muppet tiki mugs.
I think you need to have an island to display those properly.
“…no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
-John Dunne
In case you are wondering what to get SugarFree for his birthday…
Dude! Where’d you find a statue of my mother-in-law?
I may need that Tiki head for my yard. There’s a house a couple blocks down from me with some Tiki heads in their lawn. I should just knock on their door some day with a bowling shirt, a shaker full of Mai Tai’s, and a couple of glasses.
A list of some Easter Island Moai in America. Doesn’t have all of them by a stretch.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/83614
The Minnesota 9 should be their interpretive dance squad name.
There is a legitimate point to be made that they are being suspended merely because their message is controversial. Normally, the disruptive protests are more than tolerated by the left. They’re celebrated. How many times have we seen left wing mobs take over college campuses and disrupt operation?
That many influential progressives are Jews and supporters of Israel, to include donors to these campuses, is the real reason they are being suspended.
They are being suspended for acts that call for suspension. The non-enforcement of what, on college campuses, is considered non-controversial such acts, which are also supposed to result in suspensions, doesn’t make these suspensions less legitimate.
That’s like arguing that promptly jailing someone who burns down the home of someone politically powerful, when burning down a house in a ghetto gets slow walked thru the courts, means the cause of the arsonist’s incarceration is that they fucked around with the wrong person, rather than … the arson.
The suspension were legitimate. The refusal to suspend others who have done similar things is not legitimate.
This isn’t that hard.
How did he “misspeak?” The most benign explanation for his remarks is that the cannibalism merely made the search more difficult. The most obvious meaning is that the cannibals ate his uncle’s body.
One way or the other, he’s accusing your people of cannibalism and the media is running cover because it offends progressive sensibilities.
“…and the media is running cover because it offends progressive sensibilities.”
And it’s batshit insane, which is a bad look for a sitting president running for reelection.
Ah, one of my favorite Roxy songs. Danke!
I haven’t listened enough to them. I like each song I hear from them.
They changed considerably over time. It’s all but impossible to accept that For Your Pleasure and Avalon came from the same band. And it can’t all be chalked up to losing Brian Eno 😉
For Your Pleasure, Country Life, and Avalon comprise a good survey/overview.
One of my favorite WTF moments.
More Than This – Lost In Translation (Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson)
Whoa! New to me, thank you!
You’ve never seen the movie?
nope
You in know way have to care about anything Japan related to enjoy it. When I first watched it I had zero interest in Japan and hadn’t started to study the language.
It’s two strangers in a strange land who form a relationship.
The beauty of setting in Japan is how widely different it is from most other places.
Or “no way” sigh…
It’s a fantastic film.
Subtly funny. Shooting the Suntory ads are the best parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQnH450hPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjiQwh1p6M
Toxteth O’Grady
The fact that the Japanese were never subtitled and supposed to show Bob’s confusion was the perfect.
I believe the Japanese actors adlibbed the lines too at the director’s request. They are perfect as they really have lots of words, but little meaning.
The Japanese talk show was also awesome.
Fun fact, that movie was my wife’s and i’s first date.
Nope, me neither. Now requested through the local library. Looking forward to it!
Glibs has pointed me at a lot of movies I missed, for which I’m grateful.
Those fuckwad protesters have no idea what they are advocating for. They are not personally at risk from the things they are advocating against.
They combine stupidity and ignorance into trendy fashion.
Fuck them all.
Again, that’s no different than the typical leftie protest.
I mean, protesting to ensure children have access to puberty blockers and hormones and surgeries that butcher their bodies? That’s OK.
Again, that’s no different than the typical leftie protest.
Your point being?
The modern left is populated with stupid and ignorant people that believe that they should control the lives of everyone else. The difference with the pro-Palestine groups is that they are likely being infiltrated with actual terrorists. And that makes these protests more dangerous.
Where is their evidence thaw actual terrorists have infiltrated anything? That’s such a nebulous argument.
Dunno – do you think that a crowd unironically chanting to kill all the jews, and Americans too, has zero terrorists in their midst?
In NYC? No more or less than the food cart vendors that I frequent.
In NYC I would expect a crowd chanting “Kill the Jews” to have some immigrants in it who are more likely to be actually terrorist-affiliated than, say, a bunch of pasty white pudgos in the Midwest. The odds of a an actual Islamonutter are still probably pretty small, though. Your average food cart vendor, no particular reason to think they are terrorist-adjacent, mostly because they aren’t chanting terrorist slogans or expressing support for terrorists.
Yes? I think there is a pretty good chance the crowd is just filled with mouth breathers who will never act just like your average Klan rally is just a bunch of morons who will never act on anything.
Some pot bellies they’ve got for their young ages.
Double denim is holding Mao’s Red Book. 🙄
“Denim/Suede Secret Police”
<a href=“Title the visitor sees.”>Under Cover of the Canada!.
Damnit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJkfXeTs9Q
They should have protested in the fall. Before the Freshman 15.
Also, spring is when the sweaters and coats come off and everyone realizes how chunky they have gotten.
Looking at that group, I’m trying to figure out which gal each of the 3 beta dudes is trying to hit on. They are sure that getting arrested with them will totes let them score finally.
Wait, there were guys in that picture?
Denim looks like one, so four?
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao / You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow 🎶
I think a bad case of low-T is probably not compatible with chasing skirt.
Hamas will definitely fuck them before beheading them.
Fuck them all.
Ok, but please sterilize them first. I don’t want anymore of their genes in the pool.
any more? meh
Re: MN 9 / SDS / whatnot…. Truly peaceful protesting should not be a crime, true.
I strongly suspect how groups also touting the same “divest” “genocide” and the like mantras have been protesting — this either wasn’t peaceful or involved taking over spaces they shouldn’t be in — preventing others from working or trying to block freedom of movement for students / faculty. In which case, yes — misdemeanor trespassing and being barred from campus seems reasonable.
Since they can’t be arsed to link any history in their TwiX post and I can’t bring myself to care enough to DDG it… I can’t say one way or another. My gut says “useful-to-commies idiots got some little taste of what they should” and “SDS with their red banner is probably a bunch of commies as well”
Who knows……
I’ll shut up on this, but this has been a common theme of leftie protests on campus going back to the Obama years when everything was racist or sexist.
Administrators are like the parents of the unruly child who are suddenly embarrassed of what they’ve created. They’re punishing these idiots for something that they smiled and condoned for years.
That they’re reaping the whirlwind of idiocy they sowed? No argument.
That they should have slapped this sort of stupid “protest” down when it started? Also no argument.
Yeah, you have to wonder if they would be suspended for a year if they were protesting Ann Coulter talking on campus or something.
I’m withholding judgement until someone tells us exactly what they did. The media can’t hide some of the more “ambitious” protesting (flagpole in the eye, for example) but I am fairly certain they are violating all sorts of stuff – blocking entrances, harrassment, threats, etc.
The administrators would have zero problem indulging these too, but dirty proles and the nouveau riche donor class didn’t get a thorough enough indoctrination.
I don’t think the solution to failing to punish students for things they should be punished for, is to never punish them, ever.
More than half the comments so far are about the giant stone head.
Which is great — the moai, the merrier.
Well, the last time I tried for the rest of the statue they messed up the order and I just got several lower limbs. And I didn’t need my yard to become poly-knees-ian.
I love this place so much.
Such lovely touches, everyone adds. 🙂
Anyone know what they actually did?
They chose the wrong issue to act the fool on.
I don’t expect the media to be honest about it, so… no.
Urban camping
Also associating with a known negligent mother who is letting her daughter starve on the streets as an unhoused person:
Omar is the gift that keeps on giving
Ask her to define the difference between “peaceful protest” and “peaceably to assemble”. I’ll wait.
Assholes. Safe spaces when they want it, but protest and threaten others when they feel like it.
Ask her to define the difference between peaceful protest, and shooting jews.
I’ll wait alongside you.
Yes, that is definitely the purpose of the university system.
The purpose of the University is to train priests.
The problem is that they changed religions a while back.
Your First Amendment rights don’t involve setting up camp on somebody else’s property.
Words fail at what a disgusting POS she is.
putting your bodies on the line
Oh, fuck off. They spent a night in jail. Put them on a flight to Gaza and tell them they’re not coming home until Hamas wins.
your courage and bravery as a student body in putting your bodies on the line
They obviously don’t have any minds to put on the line.
I’m seeing that they are threatening and blocking Jewish students and faculty from classes.
Is that “SDS” what I think it is? If they were serious, they would be blowing buildings up, not “occupying” them.
Papua New Guinea
“Eat one missionary, and you’re labelled for life.”
Missionary cunnilingus is nice, but seated is better. IMHO.
While cannibalism was documented among remote tribes in the region in the mid-20th century, Papua New Guinea has struggled to shed stereotypes in more recent decades, and Biden’s comments were met with criticism inside the country.
Let’s face it. You get tired of eating fish every day.
I thought it was they usually ritually ate their dead enemies to gain their attributes. I doubt they just chowed down on some random white dude.
No telling what kind of attributes random white guys hold.
Well, it wasn’t large penis size.
Why is everyone laughing at me?
That is correct.
But what if he falls out of the sky? That’s gotta count for something.
Metaphysically speaking, I’m not sure it’s a sound strategy to gain the attributes of those who lose at combat.
Well, it depends on whether we accumulate attributes or replace attributes.
Maybe the losers had really great hair? That never gets all sticky-uppy when you get up in the morning?
There is no cannibalism in Papua New Guinea. Absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
PNG natives reminisce about first contact with white men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5rC7kDx3o
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The exact origin of the word Guinea is disputed. The English “Guinea” is derived from the Portuguese word “Guiné” which originated during the mid-15th century. The word Guinea was used to refer to the lands owned by the Guineus, which was a collective term for the African people who came from regions south of the Senegal River.
An alternative theory claims that the term Guinea is derived from Djenné, a city in modern-day Mali that was heavily important in the trans-Saharan trade from the 15th to 17th centuries. The Djenné period of dominance featured the use of the term “Genawah” which is the Arabized word for “Ghinawen”, meaning “blacks”.
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I lean towards the 2nd explanation.
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It is believed the Portuguese borrowed Guineus from the Berber term Ghinawen (sometimes Arabized as غِنَاوَة Guinauha or Genewah) meaning “the burnt people” (analogous to the Classical Greek Aithiops, “of the burned face”).[5] The Berber terms “aginaw” and “Akal n-Iguinawen”[6] mean “black” and “land of the blacks”, respectively.
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“heavily important in the trans-Saharan trade from the 15th to 17th centuries”
Which I believe heavily featured slaves.
I wonder what my HOA would think if I put a dozen of those heads around my house.
If they complain, direct them to talk to the head?
Put some shrunken heads alongside to reduce the number of complaints.
Good idea. Maybe build a wall out of poop squares, too, to show them I mean business.
https://news.yahoo.com/blood-soaked-royal-horses-escape-095759836.html
Five horses belonging to the Household Cavalry bolted through central London, causing chaos and injuries to pedestrians and servicemen.
I saw Blood Soaked Royal Horses at Riot Fest last year.
Needs some common sense equine control.
I’ve worn myself out almost breaking my deadblow hammer against the gas cylinder. Everything smells of WD-40. Nothing has budged.
I’m getting fed up with this chair. It’s broken but it won’t come apart so I can replace the broken parts.
These euphemisms.
..|. .|..
.🤦♂️
My “Broken” parts chair wasn’t even broken.
Remember pressurized gas cylinders don’t react well to the torch and MAP gas…
I don’t intend to use a torch inside my house.
Got any way to heat up the outside sleeve?
Besides a MAP torch.
Not really.
See, you haven’t asked anyone to hold your beer, while firing up an Oxy/Acetylene torch.
You aren’t real serious about this, are you?
I look forward to the State Department telling Papua New Guinea, “Pay no attention to what Biden said. He’s just a senile, confused old man.” It worked to prevent prosecution on the secret documents case.
Wonder why Hezbollah and Iran doing the usual and jumping straight into the Israel / Palestinian conflict? They see us as a dying empire and time is on their side. The are probably right.
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1782667957635617136
I doubt time is on Iran’s side, or at least not the theocracy’s.
Joined BRICS, good oil deals with China and arms deals with Russia. Hopefully some economic growth will mellow them out like they used to talk about at Reason all the time.
The trajectory of their military power is definitely up while ours is flat at best. They do owe Obama and the CIA a big thank you for landing a spy drone intact in Iran.
Well, at least you said The Word after business hours. Don’t do it again though, I’ll run out of martinis.
They’ve definitely got a civil unrest problem. They seem brutal enough to stay on top of it, though.
I wonder if Lowes will start selling Zardoz heads too.
*whips out Amex*
I received a replacement credit card. Name, number, and expiration moved to the back. No signature block.
(Fast Fun Fact: If you are expelled, your student loans become immediately due.)
Joe Biden has a plan for that.
There was probably more cannibalism in Leningrad during WW2 than in all of PNG.
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Indicative of Leningraders’ fears at the time, police would often threaten uncooperative suspects with imprisonment in a cell with cannibals.
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By December 1942, the NKVD had arrested 2,105 cannibals – dividing them into two legal categories: corpse-eating (трупоедства, trupoyedstvo) and person-eating (людоедства, lyudoyedstvo). The latter were usually shot while the former were sent to prison. The Soviet Criminal Code had no provision for cannibalism, so all convictions were carried out under Code Article 59–3, “special category banditry”.[92] Instances of person-eating were significantly lower than that of corpse-eating; of the 300 people arrested in April 1942 for cannibalism, only 44 were murderers.[93] 64% of cannibals were female, 44% were unemployed, 90% were illiterate or with only basic education, 15% were rooted inhabitants, and only 2% had any criminal records. More cases occurred in the outlying districts than in the city itself. Cannibals were often unsupported women with dependent children and no previous convictions, which allowed for a certain level of clemency in legal proceedings.[94]
Given the scope of mass starvation, cannibalism was relatively rare.[95] Far more common was murder for ration cards. In the first six months of 1942, Leningrad witnessed 1,216 such murders. At the same time, Leningrad was experiencing its highest mortality rate, as high as 100,000 people per month. Lisa Kirschenbaum notes that “[rates] of cannibalism provided an opportunity for emphasizing that the majority of Leningraders managed to maintain their cultural norms in the most unimaginable circumstances.”[95]
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I may be missing the point, but I’m scratching my head at the concept of unemployment in a besieged communist city. I’m sure there were plenty of trenches to dig.
And if they had too many, plenty of trenches to fill.
I thought communism encouraged eating the rich?
All joking aside, Leningrad was probably the ugliest part of WWII, while Stalingrad, AKA Die Hexenkessel, was the most vicious.
I’ll buy a giant stone head if and only if it is ZARDOZ.
There is a resin version of the human-sized mask.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/263226680276
Get you a red mankini to go with it and scare the neighbors.
Don’t tempt me. I don’t like my neighbors.
Children playing pretend. It used to be cowboys and indians, now the good guys and bad guys just have different names.
I’m sure those dedicated freedom fighters are prepared to put their sabbatical to good use by joining the liberation forces in Gaza. From the river to the sea, baby.
I showed my wife the pic of the moai.
She wondered if there was a way to get a couple personalized to resemble us, maybe put them by the pool.
“Whoa,” I told her, “Let’s not get a head of ourselves.”
When people show up for a party and question why you would buy something so silly, would you say “Dude we were stoned”?
Make sure you check your town’s local statues to make sure they’re legal.
West Papua Tribal War (Original Footage 1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI4uirwxx1Y
The clip is from a documentary called Dead Birds. I watched it in a college anthropology class in 2005.
Important point: Most primitive cultures practice ritual wars where the goal is to intimidate.
Cultures that have risen to dominance often have no such ritualized combat. They fight to kill and exterminate.
There may be a second GlibsCruise sometime in the future, but I can guarantee that it won’t be on this ship.
You know that you aren’t going to want to see most of the people on the boat with or without clothing.
Is it just me, or do the rest of you find the “pube guards” on naked buffets really awkward?
They don’t work anyway.
I thought the angel hair pasta tasted weird!
Even taking into account that nudists are a bit weird, that seems backwards.
Nice update on the house burglar/state senator in Minnesoda.
No real surprises. The DFL is not going to ask her to resign and lose their one vote edge. The only real news is that the burglar is now claiming that it was all a big misunderstanding. She was just there on a wellness check on an elderly relative.
A wellness check that included breaking in through a cellar window while wearing black clothes and a flashlight that had been modified to reduce/control light.
I read that and the prior article with the point of entry and the outfit.
Didn’t know about the James Bond flashlight.
That is crazy town. Not the best crazy town politician, but getting up there. It’s a democrat so all will be forgiven.
Especially because if she resigns, they won’t be able to keep ramrodding progressive laws through the legislature.
My hometown! The house was near the high school. A buddy and I used to drink underage in the nearby church parking lot (I’ve always had a religious bent).
I’ve instructed one of the Altar Boys who lives in town still to dig up the local gossip.
From the sounds of it, she was breaking in to her step mother’s house to steal the ashes of her father. In keeping with today’s cannibalism theme, maybe she was just looking for some seasoning for her food.
From an MPR article linked in the Powerline comments:
Mitchell’s father, Roderick, died in March of 2023. In late January, a judge signed off on a probate case that awarded 100 percent of Roderick Mitchell’s assets to his wife, Carol. They were estimated to be about $173,000 in value. Nicole Mitchell is listed in court documents as his only daughter.
Elected in 2022 to the Minnesota Senate, Mitchell is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve. She is also a former broadcast meteorologist for MPR News.
Wonder what this stunt is going to do for her military career?
Now, if it had been a James Bond Fleshlight, that would have been a first!
If the Republicans weren’t the Stupid Party, they’d say that every DFL candidate in the state supports burglary.
Dinty Moore should change the name of their beef stew to can o’bull.
NASA and Boeing can’t get an astronaut into low earth orbit, but we’ll be on the moon in 2026
TW – Top. Men.
NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit
Well, after we ran out of Nazi Rocket Scientists and the people they trained, things really went downhill.
OTH, I’m sure they figured out the exact mix of diversity that they want in the crews.
At some point in the near future DEI will DIE. I hope to not be one of the casualties.
Our company had its first ever DEI training today. The trainer was a bald black woman who had those super thick glasses that are supposed to make you look smart. She also showed up 10 minutes late to the training and then couldn’t figure out how to share her screen for another 10 minutes.
A colleague and I were wondering if you audited the ranks of DEI trainers/consultants would you find many old white guys? Or any white guys? I bet the demographic breakdown in that sector of the economy would show evidence of disparate impact.
Never share your “ authentic self “ with those assholes. Not that anyone here would be stupid enough to give them data points.
I saw one group rebrand it as edi
I’ve seen a B added in some places for Belonging, which would make it DEIB. I propose adding an L for Loving, so we can change the acronym to DEBIL.
Oh, well done.
I assume our resident Everton fan will enjoy posting tonight & tomorrow.
Klopp’s gonna have to slink out of town under cover of night. What a shit string of performances in recent weeks.
BBC commentators are saying LFC is done in the title race. They’re obviously outsiders, but I don’t think they’re done yet. And it looks the relegation spots are done to 3 out of 4 (although there are technically six teams which could still go down).
Feh. They’re done.
ARK Destroyed More Wealth Than Any Asset Manager Over the Previous Decade
What happens when you overweight the so called Magnificent 7.
Cathie Wood is on financial TV day in and day out talking up her book. This is what always happens.
The people who are always talking about how prisoners – even those with a life sentence – deserve a second chance are really mad because people with a lifetime ban on owning a gun can get it rescinded via the courts.
The guy who they use as a cautionary tale about the danger of restoring gun rights? Yeah, he was one of the people who failed to have his rights restored.
My dad used to rail about how his caseload (he was a probation officer) was stuffed with guys who had their gun rights revoked for misdemeanors. For example, anyone who is convicted of domestic abuse can’t own a gun. Lots of them plead down from a felony assault to a misdemeanor domestic charge and they didn’t realize it meant that they couldn’t go hunting anymore.
I’m not surprised that so many petitions are successful.
Think about how much more deadly he would have been if his gun had been legally purchased.
Typical gun-grabber deception (lie).
conflate people who are not dangerous having their gun rights restored with dangerous people whose petitions were denied and subsequently commit crimes with guns.
Gun grabbers lie. It’s what they do. I cannot remember a single argument they have made that was not calculated to deceive.
1. People who want you to be helpless do not want that for your own good.
2. Fuck you, you cant have my guns.
“Dont call us cannibals! We haven’t eaten anyone since the missionaries came.”
Yeah? Where are these missionaries?
“They aren’t here. We are waiting for more to come. They should be here any day now.” *licks lips*
Ok, we will stop calling you cannibals when you stop eating people.
“Protesting is not a crime!”
You are correct, it is not a crime but that isn’t what. you were doing, now is it?
So, this morning the question was asked:
“If voting made no difference, why are Democrats trying so fucking hard to keep Trump off the ballot?”
First, I didn’t say voting made no difference. I said we’re not voting our way out of this.*
Voting matters to Our Masters because it provides a veneer of legitimacy, a political opiate of the masses. Trump didn’t even muss the hair on the Ones Who Matter**; he merely annoyed the crap out of the front people in Congress and the media, who proceeded to use that to whip up even more opposition to Remnant America which supports Trump.
*What I mean by “this” is the current quasi-colonized situation of the country and its overbearing kleptocratic nanny/welfare state. As someone noted, lots of Americans love that overbearing nanny/welfare state, and if we could just completely change their minds about that, we could get rid of our colonizers, the kleptocrats and the nannies. I have to say, it’s hard to argue against the idea that a different country would have a different culture and government.
**Congress carried on exactly as before. So did the agencies.
So will the president. I think Trump will not even come close to being the fuck you he was first term. Some reminders:
1) He is all in for funding on the Ukraine war
2) He wanted to go take our guns and figure out the legalities later
3) He never pardoned Snowden or Assange
4) Could have legalized pot too, didn’t do it
5) Had a full cabinet full of RHINOs, will do it again.
He is just the tail end of the turd which started under the vile Bush dynasty. Say your prayers.
This one stings. Might as well stay home, then. I will not vote for more WWIII.
I had planned on not voting (unless the LP surprises me). Then I found out a former colleague of mine is running in a very local race where a handful of votes might make the difference. And they would be a good voice in that situation. So, I may drag myself to the polls to vote for them. And then maybe do a bunch of write-ins just for fun.
If you are going to vote for Trump, you need to recognize that he is a symbol And only a symbol.
That the establishment hates him so much just kind of reveals what a stranglehold they have on power and how much they truly detest even the smallest backlash to their exercise of it.
Krugman called out by someone other than Winston’s Mom.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/04/24/paul-krugman-strangely-silent-after-calls-to-revisit-2019-statement-on-brands-of-antisemitism-n2173257
Anit-Semitism on the right is a fart in the wind. As most observers of reality have realized, nearly all conservatives support Israel in the extreme.
But the anti-Semitism of the left is so real that the Democratic Party actually finds it a necessity to pander to them and to walk a tightrope on the issue.
One has real world consequences where the other can’t even create an actual ripple in American politics.
As someone noted, lots of Americans love that overbearing nanny/welfare state, and if we could just completely change their minds about that, we could get rid of our colonizers, the kleptocrats and the nannies.
Thank a teechur.
See my Vox link, wherever it is. The idea that the government might actually spend less, on anything, is too horrific to contemplate.
Discussions of cannibalism above:
I saw a video of unidentified East Asians butchering and eating a black dude. when asked what they thought of such a grotesque thing one of them answered in a very nonchalant way “Oh, it’s ok. They aren’t human.”
No ritual, no magical thinking, just eating meat.
Despite what the lying shithead pinkos here say this is the least racist country in the world.
Sometimes there is ritual and magical thinking associated with eating other humans, sometimes not.
The Wendigo is portrayed as part beast, part man and is ravenously hungry and emaciated. Draw your own conclusions….but before you do look at the geography of places where cannibalism has been practiced recently. New world deserts, new world jungles, various communist countries suffering famine etc.
My opinion, you eat the meat you have available.
Just remember to cook your long pork to 165 F. Humans have all kinds of gross diseases and parasites.
Not to mention kuru from prions. Used to pretty common in New Guinea.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
“While the Fore people stopped consuming human meat in the early 1960s, when it was first speculated to be…”
Suuuuuuure they did.
Reading this comment reminds me….no commenting after taking ambien. I forgot that rule last night.
Az House votes to kill the abortion law.
AvGeek: caught the Dreamlifter overhead en route to CHS from ANC ~FL360
https://ibb.co/VJsVtCL
My last trip, I flew first class from O’Hare to DFW on a 787 Dreamliner. That was a whole nuther level of first class. I was a pod creature.
I was about to say – how TF did you get a seat on a Dreamlifter?
I’ve never been on a Dreamliner. Would love to see that wing flex from in the cabin
I asked the attendant what this plane was doing on a domestic route, and she told be it continues international from DFW.
American? Used to use a MD-11 for that route.
I got upgraded to first class on a 747 from Newark to Lax once. That was nice. The ice cream sundae cart after the steak dinner was a nice touch.