The NFL Conference Championship games are set. The Redskins demolished the Lions to set up an all-NFC East final with the Eagles, and the Bills managed to hang on due to a dropped pass on a two point try by the Ravens and will face the Chiefs (and probably the officials, if the way the last game went) in the AFC championship next weekend. Should be a pair of good games. Across the pond, ManUre continued to suck, Man City is back to their old form, And Spuds can’t seem to get out of their own way. And down under, we’re a little over halfway there and are headed for a big QF match between Alvarez and Djokovic tomorrow. Or later today. Or whenever the hell Tuesday afternoon is down there. I can’t figure their times out. Last but not least, tonight is the big night in college football as the Buckeyes will take on the Fighting Irish to crown the first winner of the expanded playoffs. And yes, I’m on edge. Anyway, on to…the links!
We’ll see how it goes. But let’s be honest: whatever happens can’t possibly be as bad as the shitshow that’s ending in a few hours.
Here’s a thought: they can stay safely in the country they’ve gotten to. You know, since asylum means getting so somewhere outside your own country that’s safe. Call me crazy, but I always thought that’s how it was supposed to work.
Sanity is returning. Well, hopefully it is anyway. The crazies may not like this, but even most of the people on their side of the aisle are willing to want the madness to stop.
L O fucking L. I hope she gets the mental health care she needs. Or goes crazy. Either one works for me.
Actions have consequences. I’m sure these so-called experts knew that, right?
I need our resident legal minds to chime in here for me please. Why did the plaintiff accept a settlement after the jury found CNN liable and set the dollar amount and still had punitive damages they could have assigned? I suppose it could have been to head off a potential appeal, but I don’t know, which is why I asked for some legal eagles to give me their opinion.
Damn, Boston should have hired these guys years ago. They’s have probably brought the Big Dig in under budget and on time.
This is retarded. Parents should have the ability to opt their kids out of anything they want, especially unnecessary shit like story time.
Debarred? This fucking guy needs to be put under oath and probably prosecuted. You know, so he can explain how he got funded and who gave him the green light to do something that was illegal.
How the hell did she figure out the temperature? Also, if second degree burns are worth $2.8M, then sign me up to have a little hot sauce spilled on my thigh.
Such a lovely voice. I absolutely love this band. She’s done Ohio proud. I hope the Buckeyes do so tonight. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Monday MLK Day/Inauguration Day/CFP Championship game night, dear friends.
Give the Redskins fans a win. They need something to cheer them up after today.
Go Redskins!
Miley, Fauci, Cheney and the rest of the J6 Committee just got their pardons. All guilty as hell – should be forced to publicly admit their crimes since they no longer have 5th Amendment protection.
There’s some pension money the DOGE guys could save.
If I were them, I wouldn’t stand on that. The closest to a pre-emptive pardon was Nixon and he had faced impeachment.
I am of the opinion that you can’t pardon someone who hasn’t been convicted yet.
Ah, Nixon wasn’t and it was to foreclose that possibility. Of course I remember that it was considered somewhat controversial at the time.
But bask in the beauty of Biden relying on the Nixon precedent to do this.
I just love the precedent (not Fauci’s… that’s a whole different ball of “skirt the law to do illegal research, cause a pandemic… PROFIT!” wax).
The J6 Committee pardons seem to amount to — “Use the government to persecute and prosecute your political opponents, if it doesn’t work… pardon them all for anything possible on the way out the door!” That can’t be allowed to be the new rules — anyone with a brain is going to have to see that’s nailing the Banana Republic model into place. (Well… probably not the TikTok staff actually left pushing papers under PPP’s hand to “sign”… they just want to get their little wins.)
I don’t know what will work to fix it, though — would think it would take an amendment to clarify/truncate the pardoning powers… and that’s about as likely as a snowball in hell (and as with proposed Conventions — the crop of current pols could/would sneak in all kinds of shit if they actually try to update the Constitution… we’d end up with some shit like the EU’s or something).
It is astonishing. He all but declared them guilty of major crimes.
That is their legacy.
How can you pardon someone who has not been convicted of a crime, let alone accused in a court of law?
This, to me at least, is an admission of crimes committed. And, who signed this? Was it by robo-pen? If so, no dice.
Having a prosecutor challenge the validity of these pardons on the basis of Biden’s lack of competence would be a very interesting exercise. Even if he lost, the testimony on Biden’s level of functionality would be gold.
I would say that the pardons are null and void. That should be the precedent set here.
I want this to happen.
Not gonna happen, but would be amazing in some alternate reality.
If the pardons hold and they most likely will, these people should be put under oath and testify in a truth and reconciliation hearing as to everything that they’ve done.
“We must document the scope of the pardon – anything any everything must be openly and unhesitantly put on public record in full. Anything not testified to will not be covered.”
From a political perspective these pardons will hold. There really isn’t a serious criminal predicate to charge any of them with any thing. The real beauty is, they now and will forever more, be held to have actually done something criminal (and not just political).
Oh and of course lying to that truth and reconciliation hearing would not be covered by said pardon!
Biden and his team are the absolute scum of the earth. Here he is talking about how terrible pre-emptive pardons are 4 years ago,
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1881334756304118234
You think Biden actually had anything to do with this?
You think he even remembers saying that?
“We’ll see how it goes. But let’s be honest: whatever happens can’t possibly be as bad as the shitshow that’s ending in a few hours.”
And that is with the corruptocracy ding its best to make it as bad as possible.
…brought the Big Dig in under budget and on time.
Not the purpose of government under the Democratic Party. You don’t accomplish things, you just posture and throw money around. Good critique of the Dems – from the inside.
The reality is that socialist government exists solely to massively fleece those still productive under their boot, so that it allows the people in the bureaucracy to shave off massive amounts of lucre in return for nothing of value to those they are fleecing.
Well we have the more-socialist and less-socialist parties to choose from, so see, that makes all the difference!
I would prefer grandma to drive me over the cliff at 40 miles per hour over the fucking nutbags that strapped a V5 rocket to the station wagon and want to go at 25,000 miles per hour. For the simple reason that when it is happening slow, we have more time to decide to react with some real brutal force to them, instead of only getting momentum after the mountain of bodies is a mile high and the feudal lords have basically squandered everything of value.
Or, the 40 mph socialists are more likely to get a “boiling the frog” effect, and the 25,000 mph socialists more likely to trigger a backlash.
Every mature organization, including governments, exists to benefit itself and its members. Benefits are provided to third parties/the public solely to the extent that they promote the organization’s self-interest.
Yeah — not really saying much we haven’t said here.. but it does lay out the timing. When did government start going from “shit, but flashes of competent” to “complete shit”… why it was around the same time as PubSec unions were allowed and started gaining political power! What a coinky-dink!
I also love the premise that the Dems can pivot to pitching economic growth while sticking with their Green policies…. That would take an Olympic gymnast equivalent of pivot.
“Jobs and investment” has always been part of the greenie sales pitch.
Those Green policies are about as worthwhile as the anti-water improvements approach to California. Voters put up the money and the Dems and eco-nuts waste it.
Not to mention moving humanity to a different universe where the fundamental laws of reality don’t apply.
This guy is delusional. They can’t “moderate” their way out of the mess they have created for themselves. They sold their souls to the loudmouths currently in charge, ones who will turn on them at any sign of rejecting creeds of pronouns and Gaia.
Last comment on the comments to that — there’s a self-proclaimed Trumper in the comments saying something to the effect of “Great advice for the Dems… Hope they don’t take it. Last thing we want is a competent competitor!”
That’s so wrong it makes my teeth hurt. The last thing anyone on any side should want (especially in the US with our 2 party system) is a one party dominant state due to the inconsequence and/or incompetence of the other party. (California leaps to mind right now). We need the marketplace of ideas (so they challenge the dominant partys’ assumptions and we get actual debate) and we epecially need them competent at the Federal level — because that pendulum in our system always swings back eventually (even if the names change… people always, always get sick of the ruling coalition and will try something new). I want the JackAsses to shake off the pandering to the government leeches, recognize that Net Zero is a pipe dream the way they’re doing it, etc… I don’t want a permanent Stupid Wing ruling class.
Anyway, enough rambling… thanks for the link, JI — if it wasn’t obvious enough by now that I found it interesting enough to read and comment on.
Tough for a party committed to stupid (and Team Red has it’s own blind spots, just not as much at the core) to back off of that and commit to even just a little bit of sensibility.
The idea of net zero is the perfect summation of the greenie movement – pure magical thinking that is beyond reality used as a selling point for a scam to loot as much as possible both in money and power.
There is a reason that all the solutions ALWAYS are more marxism, we have to give up freedoms and self sufficiency, and money, while the problem only keeps getting worse (requiring us giving up more money and freedoms).
Alex describes the ratchet racket.
Yeah, no. That is how they define themselves.
Like the scorpion says, “That is my nature.”
Oh man, this is gonna be great.
The Dems, if they had any shame, would slink away and hide for a bit longer than “a while”, after all the damage they have done.
*digs in*
“It hasn’t. And even the party’s best thinkers, like Matt Yglesias…”
When Sad Beard is your “best thinker”, you know you have a problem.
Yeah, I almost spit coffee.
Yeah, well, who’s a good Republican thinker? I think party intellectual is an oxymoron.
Goldwater was pretty bright.
Jarflax, if you have to go back 50+ years, I think you’re proving JI’s point.
Oh I wasn’t disagreeing with him lol.
“Here’s a thought: they can stay safely in the country they’ve gotten to. You know, since asylum means getting so somewhere outside your own country that’s safe. Call me crazy, but I always thought that’s how it was supposed to work.”
This racket, where they walk through/past a half a dozen countries that are not oppressing their people, but countries that do not have a political party in power that will not try to buy these migrants’ loyalty through tax payer funded freebees, is a dead giveaway that the goal of these people, whom practically all have paid a fortune to some entity to help them get to the US, isn’t anything but getting free shit.
“L O fucking L. I hope she gets the mental health care she needs. Or goes crazy. Either one works for me.”
My bet is that she made bank after that shitshow, as the idiots that follow/watch her all sent her their money. I admire her snake oil salesmen skills. She is one heck of a grifter. Crazy as fuck, but class A+ grifter.
And the only political challenge she is at all vulnerable to in her district is a primary.
The most lunatic members of the legislature have a common factor: Poor urban districts where people are very transient and very few of them vote or care. Their constituencies are not invested in their districts. Make of that what. you will.
Not always.
Between her and tip over Hank I have to wonder if we’d be better off not letting Georgia have representatives.
The problem is that everytime concerns are raised, all you get from the Georgia delegation is that frankly… they don’t give a damn.
The rage just makes my face scarlet.
You never know, as with most influencers (which is mainly what AOC is, with the whole elected official thing being basically a brand extension) what is genuine and what is performative.
“This is retarded. Parents should have the ability to opt their kids out of anything they want, especially unnecessary shit like story time.”
How do you think the people that have taken over the lgbt movement and are using it now to demand kids be groomed would act if the other side told them that they wanted it to be made mandatory to teach the kids marxism was evil?
That should actually be mandatory… It’s called civics, history and ethics/philosophy.
If you can stand on 100 million dead bodies and proclaim how great your ideas are you’re seriously messed in the head.
This ×1000.
The complete abdication of any responsibility whatsoever for raising your own goddamn children is a mystery to me.
It’s tough when everyone wants to legally force you to do it a certain way, even if it goes against your wishes. Less and less of society is free and this has especially affected childhood.
I thought the case involved parents who are trying to take responsibility for raising their own goddamn children, and a school district (and now court) telling them to fuck off.
Give the state the authority to educate your children and be surprised that the state: a) does it poorly, and b) against your values? But that battle was lost long ago.
You make a flawed presupposition that a political or cultural battle lost is always lost and cannot be reversed.
“How the hell did she figure out the temperature? Also, if second degree burns are worth $2.8M, then sign me up to have a little hot sauce spilled on my thigh.”
As we joked back when this racket was about suing Mickey Ds for a dumb bitch spilling coffee: frivolous lawsuits brought in front of dumbass juries are the new American dream…
It was exactly those kind of lawsuits (and jury findings) that led to the immunization to liability of Big Pharma for [childhood] vaccines in 1986. Ain’t it grand how that has worked out.
Another perfect disaster. They made vaccines mandatory and the vaccine manufacturers immune. Perhaps that was not a good idea. One or the other, take your pick.
How about neither? Seriously.
I thought that too – but then you read about 3rd degree burns to the woman’s crotch, reconstructive surgery, etc – and the coffee being served at temps significantly unsafe temps (given the drivethrough environment and type of cups, etc)…and there are additional factors in that case that get blurred in the intervening years.
“Last but not least, tonight is the big night in college football as the Buckeyes will take on the Fighting Irish to crown the first winner of the expanded playoffs.”
Funny article in the WSJ on the angst of Michigan fans over this game. Not sure if paywalled.
“ The existential despair dredged up by this national championship pairing is strong enough to make some Wolverines fans wish for a third outcome.
“Most people would probably prefer a meteor,” said Ben Freedman, a die-hard fan raised by two Michigan professors in Ann Arbor.”
https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/ohio-state-notre-dame-national-title-game-college-football-michigan-b8b1e9c4?page=1
As an Ohioan, I’m not entirely sure that even winning a national championship will absolve the Buckeyes of their guilt and shame for losing to TTUN (That Team Up North.)
Michigan fans should relax, even if Ohio wins it a title in a season when they lost to Michigan does not count.
It will count, but it will have an asterisk.
Any Buckhole win should be represented by an asterisk.
(*)
Buckhole
::considers adding ZWAK to a list::
Yes, yes, Ohio State vs Notre Dame in a game with national meaning.
No doubt President Nixon will be out there for the coin toss.
I always thought all those midwestern football games had to be scheduled for noon, so their fans could catch a post-game nap before heading out for the early bird dinner specials.
So many people knew, but they still kept quiet…
Stray off the reservation and you won’t get invited to dinner again.
That’s another topic that raised my blood pressure (late last week? Over the weekend? Don’t recall).
Speaker of the House Johnson got <a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/18/scary-mike-johnson-recounts-meeting-with-joe-biden-shocks-with-tale-of-senility-and-subterfuge-n2184507stonewalled trying to meet with Biden for some national security issues, kept getting the run around by his staff. Finally got to meet with him, brought up LNG port shutdowns by EO — Biden didn’t know what the hell he was talking about (that the EO was issued, that he ever saw it, etc.). This was either late 2023 or early 2024, I think.. Supposedly he was stunned by how much Ole Simple Joe had gone down on the “Simple” part and that he wasn’t actually in charge and all.
And my thought immediately was — “And what precisely did you DO about it you useless waste of space?” I thought the Speaker could at least bring up if not start the 25th procedures. If he can’t — surely you could call out Harris and the Cabinet for not doing it… but no… go along to get along then cry “We all saw it!” after the fact. No idea why I keep thinking of this putz as a useless squish who caves everytime it matters…. nope, no idea at all.
Sigh…. at least the fucked up link works this time. Boy do I suck some mornings.
That story you linked should be top news, but the media buried it fast. It is absolute proof that Biden was not in charge of shit and that the country was run by evil fucking Obama people that used Biden’s sleaze as cover for doing some of the most evil shit you could imagine.
Kept quiet until after the fact, and if I heard that right, the Dumbo actually voted for Biden despite him being a senior crotchety old man 8 years ago. Way to go Bill. Really brave.
Reshape the institutions? I would use the word restore…if that is in fact what he plans to do. Vast improvement can be had with little effort if he has the spine. Revoking the security clearance of govt agents who worked for the democrat party instead of the American people is a good start. I heard that is near the top of the list.
Yes, merely enforcing the law as it is will stop the invasion. I would go farther but I am not president.
“Sanity is returning…”
I am not sure I would go that far, but it is a correction of course.
There is no fixing AOC. She is a commie idiot to the bone. She needs to go back to bartending and living on tips and restroom BJ’s.
As for the outrage over the price tag for getting people o ut of post-Biden Afghanistan….what price do they think he should have charged?
I imagine the border is riddled with tunnels. Get rid of them. Lidar/dynamite. It isn’t exactly a brain buster people.
Who are these parents that go along with this nonsense? “You must submit your children to abuse” says some govt slug. Who bends the knee to that? Maybe those people never needed to be parents to start with.
Yes prosecuted, but there is a long list of those. I think Biden has been busy pardoning all of the criminal cabal that was the dem administrations.
Tort law….the lottery….they are supposed to be two different things.
Why do corruptocracies always have to refer to their racket as democracy, and then claim others are undermining their democracy?
This seems to be the MO of the globalists as their movement starts to unravel…
Because it is effective propaganda? The only part of this that shocks me is that people are still shocked by political lies. Politicians tell self serving lies.
And it doesn’t appear to be working. Germany, France, England, Romania, Canada, etc, are ALL pushing the leftist iceberg away as quickly as they can (as opposed to “moving right” as the cabal likes to proclaim).
Well, we’ll see how that shakes out.
They’re trying — I’m not convinced that the existing power structure won’t just lock all the “far right populists” up because of national (trans-national for the EU?) security or some BS line. And then crack down hard on any discussions that they weren’t in the right. (ala UK current social media censorship, and why they want to bully Elon into letting them “police election interference and misinformation” etc.)
I agree with both of you. But that they’re selling the racket as democracy doesn’t seem to be working nonetheless.
Because it works.
Music for OMWC after yesterday’s football game.
***applause***
I guess it is notable that one of those two will be out by the end of the day. 👍
But it’s Week 2 which means almost anyone I care about is out. Though Paul vs Zverev looks interesting for the early show tonight.
“Why did the plaintiff accept a settlement”
To get the money now rather than in (several) years after appeals have run.
To avoid the risk of losing on appeal.
We don’t know how much the punitives would be or how much the settlement was, but it was almost certainly more than the compensatory damages awarded by the jury.
My wife was involved in a federal lawsuit over nearly 4 years with her shithead brother. The outcome was clear from the start, but he refused. Went all the way to a jury trial, much to the chagrin of the judge, in which he was found liable. But he still wouldn’t quit. He filed an appeal with the 2nd District. We finally settled 9 months later. We would have been perfectly fine with allowing the process to go through and receive the full judgment (plus attorneys fees), it was clear to anyone with even 1/2 a brain he was liable for theft, but we simply had run out of money to continue paying the lawyers. Between the 2 parties, nearly $400k had been spilt on lawyers fees for a trial that never should have happened.
Speaking of the legal case:
This is a private citizen suing CNN. His legal fees were probably close to half of that 5 mil, if not more. With a settlement, he could pay his legal fees, clear his name and get back to work and put this behind him. No doubt in my mind CNN would appeal, and he might not win enough to cover ever-expanding legal fees.
I’d like to hear Juris’ thoughts on that.
The legal fees were almost certainly contingency. I seriously doubt the plaintiff was forking up 5 figure amounts every month for years to pay the hourly bill.
Definitely not, but he was a businessman and he could see that mountain growing. Also the case kept him away from work and made him keep revisiting that trauma.
Trauma? They besmirched his name and reputation. That’s about as traumatic as a second-degree burn from an ounce of overly hot BBQ sauce.
Well, it was Texas BBQ sauce, so you have to add shame into it.
There was never any mountain of bills for the businessman to worry about. Contingency fees work in a couple of ways. Typically, the lawyer gets a percentage of the award. Occasionally, the lawyer gets paid a fee determined by the court to be reasonable for the work they put in.
Well, it was Texas BBQ sauce, so you have to add shame into it.
::adds ZWAK to the fucking list::
This is the flipside of the BBQ sauce case. It is altogether possible that the jury would’ve bankrupted CNN, of course ensuring appeals and likely reductions in the amount – all after who knows how many years. So tactically speaking, taking a settlement that more than secures your financial future and won’t be at risk – that’s pretty smart.
I think it is an interesting juxtaposition of these two (and the vaccine cases of the early eighties) and how we handle torts. I dare say we might not do it as well as the old Danelaw/weregild.
One funny thing that jumped out at me from that article is the fact that there are two David Axelrods in the world. And both are employed by CNN in some fashion.
What are the odds?
Clearly a glitch in the matrix, one was too many.
Note: Trump deportations will prioritize criminals and terrorists. Dems tear hair and rend garments because they are fellow travelers.
In the last week I have heard numerous people say they did not nor will ever vote Trump. I have not heard one person say they voted for Harris.
That is the current state of the pinkos.
I will never vote for Trump for POTUS …
The future Barron campaign has a sad… 😉
I would be against him too. I’m against all dynasties in politics of this country.
There should be presidential height limits.
–“I’m against all dynasties in politics of this country.”–
I have long believed that, at least on the federal level, that people should be barred from holding an office that a close relative previously held. Husband, wife, son, daughter, etc. I haven’t fleshed out exactly how far on the relative list to go. This (excrement) where one spouse held the office until death, then the other spouse took over, or son/daughter to over has got to stop. This is hereditary nobility.
I don’t exactly remember when we were introduced to “democracy” in school, maybe about 2nd grade, when we voted for president of our classroom. Of course, Bobby, whose mother always brought the best cookies (and most often) to share, won. Bobby was likeable in his own right and that’s all we knew about.
Years later it’s the promise of the best cookies and most likeable candidate that motivates the elections. Now though, we are the ones paying for the cookies
” the Chiefs (and probably the officials”
I’m feeling this way for sure. We will need to keep it so large a gap that the officials can’t throw them the game. That won’t be easy.
Kidnap Steve Spagnuolo?
So, Chiefs = Democrats, in that you have to get past the margin of cheating?
I can see that.
I mean, I can’t blame them for what the refs do, but yes.
Obviously they’re a great team.
Stealing a meme from Old Man yesterday, we beat them once already this year.
I hope I didn’t just jinx it.
This Chiefs season is full-on “I’d rather be lucky than good”. They have caught every break.
No fucking way!!!
My only surprise is that they didn’t come out wearing UN helmets to boot.
“But let’s be honest: whatever happens can’t possibly be as bad as the shitshow that’s ending in a few hours.”
I’m still concerned that Trump will be offed and what that means for the country.
I doubt that, or at least that there is a particularly elevated risk. There is a lot more resignation this time around. If this was a redux of ’16, DC would’ve already been burned to the ground (to prevent Trump from claiming it).
That doesn’t make sense to me Juris. He’s already had multiple attempts on him, why would the crazies stop now?
Do they think Vance is else than literal Hitler?
Meant to add: “there is a particularly elevated risk.”
There clearly is an elevated risk. He was almost shot and clearly the secret service ain’t what it used to be.
He barely had a SS presence in Butler – that was part of the problem. I wouldn’t even call it the B Team.
Nor do we know that that shooter was some hardcore partisan and not just some general nutcase (and yes, it can be difficult to distinguish the two). You do have to be insane of course to think that he couldn’t end the republic in his first term yet he will this time.
“You do have to be insane of course to think that he couldn’t end the republic in his first term yet he will this time.”
Sorry to say it be a certain portion of the rank and file Dems are crazy. Lots of them are on meds to manage their mental state. My nieces still think they’re going to end up in the gulag despite the fact nothing happened during the first term and are willing to end personal relationships over it.
I wish more than most this wasn’t the case, but very many people in this country have serious problems, maybe I’m just biased due to my little sample of it, but I don’t think the risk is average.
Add in that somehow the people running the secret service were so politicized they thought it okay to send the C team, at best, to protect the front runner in the election at a major out door campaign event and you can stay to see how the risk is not normal. Even if you think all this stuff will get fixed, it cannot be fixed overnight.
My nieces still think they’re going to end up in the gulag
Have you considered giving them Handmaid bonnets for Christmas?
Re: CNN story
“During the trial, CNN’s lawyers had contended the story’s reporting held up as fair and true under scrutiny. CNN correspondent Alexander Marquardt had presented viewers with a LinkedIn message from Young saying it would cost $75,000 to evacuate a vehicle with five or six passengers from Kabul to Pakistan. Young said he was hired by corporate sponsors, including Bloomberg and Audible, rather than individuals.
On the stand, Young acknowledged that he took a 65% profit margin from the fees he charged, and took inquiries from individuals. He also curtly and coarsely brushed off people inquiring about help who could not afford his fees.”
He wasn’t charging enough! I wouldn’t be caught dead messing around in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sorry.
So, he wouldn’t take money from people who couldn’t afford his fees? That’s hardly proof that he was profiteering from peoples’ suffering, you know.
Are you saying that CNN’s anchors wouldn’t risk their lives for free either?
If you are going to Bill Miller’s for anything but the fried chicken, you get what you deserve when it all goes wrong.
I agree. If I want fast food BBQ, it’s Rudy’s or nothing.
Having said that, I am still bristling at ZWAK’s scurrilous attack on Texas BBQ sauce in general. That’s akin to being a Marxist and possibly worthy of a helicopter ride once we secede and become our own republic once again.
I will give him an opportunity right here and now to recant his libel. Otherwise, I will not be able to help him in that glorious Texas future.
Sloopy, you are from CA, you already know were the best BBQ comes from.
Santa Maria style, FTW!
You can’t make up evil and stupid villains like these ones that real life has….
“HHS debarred and cut funding to both Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based nonprofit which researches pandemics.”
What are the odds that Daszak and EcoHealth haven’t already set up a new cutout that is or will get HHS funding?
Depends on if Fauci was his particular sugar daddy.
My wife said some unheard of team, “The Commanders” won a big game this weekend? I was unfamiliar with that team, does anyone know anything about that?
Nope, I hate these expansion teams.
Damn colonizers stealing the Natives’ team!
There were better names proposed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/oci6zp/gooooo_caucasians/#lightbox
Alright, coffee is all consumed, and as the saying might go – that snow ain’t gonna blow itself. [And I’d really prefer if that was a euphemism. Temp ain’t even out of the teens.]
You know now we’re hearing Charles De Mar in our heads… “Do you realize the street value of this…. STREET!?”
Today the temperatures will barely make it into the teens.
Predicted high is a -13, yep, Minus 13, was -30 at 7 AM
Warm at Chez Fourscore, though I’m running lots of wood trough the furnace.
Thermal effect of the windows will help a lot though, as the sun climbs
27* and sunny here.
Ravens lose. Hah hah.
I heard their quarterback was not pleased with their performance.
Young acknowledged that he took a 65% profit margin from the fees he charged
Pure profit, risk free. He should be hung for piracy.
His profit margin should have easily been double that. Crazy low price for your life.
Ah, yes. “The laptop is a Russian tool to interfere in our election!” is exactly the same as the very generic “Some countries want to do some things.”
There’s a whole host of people who deserve prison. Unfortunately, none of these fuckers will get any.
Yeah, professional obligation and all – that lawyer still deserves to be punched in the nose, hard.
Pure as the driven snow
Fauci responded to the preemptive pardon in a statement reported by CNN’s Jim Acosta.
“It feels good and I’m grateful to the president for doing it,” he told Acosta. “I have done nothing wrong. Certainly nothing criminal. No grounds at all.”
He was sent down from Heaven by God to save us. Nailing him to a cross would just be mean and show what a bunch of heathen ingrates we all are.
I’m sure he’ll decline this unnecessary pardon, right? Right?
If the House doesn’t convene a Truth and Reconciliation Committee and have the Speaker tell the Dems which party members he will permit them to seat, then I will have no confidence in this ever being resolved in a satisfactory manner.
You convene the committee and you compel testimony. You hold the hearings in a remote location outside of DC. And you actively prosecute every single person who refuses to testify in that location (Amarillo would be nice). If they do testify and try to exert their 5A rights, you prosecute them for obstruction. If they lie, you prosecute them for perjury. Simple as that.
I already have no confidence it will be resolved, the truth known, and guilt admitted. Far too many people, on both sides of the aisle, have far too much invested in this whole thing, and far too many people just want to walk away, here and around the world.
Sloopy:
100% agree. The best part of it would be that Fauci wouldn’t be able to lay off the high heat and would start swinging away.
He’d perjure himself in about 10 seconds. He wouldn’t be able to help himself.
A smart interviewer would just start asking: “So – remember you are under oath and subject to perjury – you agree you lied to Rand Paul during your testimony on {Day X}?”. He’d be helpless to stop himself from lying again.
Certainly nothing criminal.
Unethical, hey, but not criminal! I shit on Obama’s policy of not funding GoF research. I passed money to a hostile foreign government, through the proper non-profit cutout. I lied, repeatedly, about what our policy is or should be. What are you gonna do about it?
I heard their quarterback was not pleased with their performance.
You mean League MVP “Fumblefingers”?
Saw this headline at the NY Post (article is pay-blocked so I didn’t read nor will I link it)
“Hardly anything to separate Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson in MVP showdown thriller”
referring to last night’s game. Another coffee-spit moment.
Josh Allen was more of a running back than QB in that game, based on what I can ascertain via the stats
Well, except for Jackson turning it over twice, as compared to Allen’s two rushing touchdowns. Other than that, though, potayto – potahto.
Dayyyuum.
Party time!
YOU WILL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE COPPERS!!!
The cop is a complete and total retard.
No kidding. Who tries to PIT someone in that kind of traffic. He just barely didn’t cause a multiple fatality accident.
At first, I was, like, “is this in Britishland? They are driving on the wrong side of the road!”
Then, i noticed the backward writing, and realized that someone had caught video of a car chase in Looking Glass dimension.
Also, the Mar Egdod can move.
Kind of a shame, that after all that, the first police officer gets showed up by a second officer who cuts in front of him.
Big Ram Energy
I doubt you could pull that off in an Altima.
I don’t think those pardons really sully the reputations of anyone. They are spinning it as, “Trump is a dictator with an enemies list and he’s going to start with a name and look for a crime. Biden is just protecting those poor innocent people.” Rich in irony, yes, but the MSM will go with this. And anyone who does face any consequences will be painted a poor victim of a unhinged and vindictive Trump.
That’s why we need congressional hearings. Take the Trump DOJ out of the equation, unless of course they are forced to prosecute people for perjury, obstruction, or contempt of Congress.
I’m with you on this. Some of the hearings they had were uncovering things, but the Dems and the Biden admin were able to block them from really doing anything. That’s all gone. They have teeth now. It doesn’t matter if anyone goes to jail, they need to bring all of that out into the open. Even it’s just, “We found evidence of these crimes, these people would easily be found guilty, but we can’t go forward because Biden pardoned them.”
I don’t know what can be done to prevent this in the future, but step one would be to show the country what’s been going on.
Call them in to testify, grill the piss out of them because no fifth, prosecute for perjury and contempt of whatever along with obstruction or some shit as warranted.
Sad!
What they are explicitly saying is that anyone preemptively pardoned is guilty. What they are implicitly saying is that the justice system has been weaponized.
Why it’s like anyone would believe that our Dept of Justice would look at a person and determine what crime they had committed.
Dayyyuum
That was impressive.
So what did I miss is the inauguration fab-U-los?
It’s just starting, I think the swearing-in is in an hour and a half. (I’m not sure how many minutes that is in Metric).
I thought Trump and Foochy were buddies.
You’d sure think that from the way they made up the COVID Ruling Troika with Birx. Could slip a sheet of paper between any of them.
“Couldn’t”
Tirthankar Roy
@RoyHistory1
Oxfam joins the display of mindless illiteracy with which leftist activists discuss impact of the British Raj. In a report called “Takers not Makers”, they claim that imperialist Britain “extracted” 85 tr $ from India, adding for drama, “enough to carpet London with 50£ notes”.
https://x.com/RoyHistory1/status/1881257490496815239
Given England is broke anyway why not make it a gajillion
Getting rid of the Thuggees carried an 85 trillion charge. Also, bullfuckingshit.
Well, the British Raj lasted from 1858 to 1947. In 1850 the entire world GDP was $1.85TT. In 1950 it was $10TT. Very rough numbers, total world GDP over that century was around $500TT. And we’re supposed to believe that the Brits extracted around 17% of global GDP from India alone?
Huh. According to NOAA, current temp is -4. Expected to soar to 10 later.
still no winter in sight here.
A video game industry analyst has said that there is “hope,” in the games industry that GTA 6 could cost up to $100 so that other companies could raise their default prices as well.
https://x.com/VGC_News/status/1880983902564819361
Lol, nope.
I won’t be buying it. Rockstar has lost me as a customer permanently by locking me out of my GTA V and RDR2 copies on Steam. I have 2 social club accounts, one tied to an old inaccessible email and the inaccessible one is somehow permanently tied to my Steam account. Rockstar customer service will happily switch this just as soon as I access the email I have been unable to access since before I bought either game and provide them with proof I own the account. Proving I own the Steam account is not sufficient. Screenshots of the Steam transactions purchasing the games are not sufficient. And they closed my ticket out mid conversation.
Random note:
Let’s say a QB fumbles as he is being sacked. A defender scoops up the ball and sets sail for the end zone.
Scenario 1: Aforesaid QB stands openmouthed, wallowing in remorse and self-pity
Scenario 2: QB gives chase, with every indication of an intent to attempt to tackle the ball pilferer
Should these scenarios be treated as the same, if another defender comes along and flattens the QB?
If he’s sitting around being mopey, he deserves to be sacked again.
Well, defenders/blockers are not allowed to make contact with another player’s chin with the top of their helmet at speed, regardless of the other player’s position, so for the play you are thinking of, it was a missed penalty call.
Fumble occurs. Offense becomes defense. Anyone on the defense is subject to blocking.
The only question regards established rules for blocking someone away from the ball.
Of course, them was the rules in the before times. Only god fucking knows what the new rules are.
A turnover has always been a chance to flatten the QB because they are now a defender and don’t have any special protections.
Most QB’s know this and will flop or run away. Especially if they don’t have any chance to actually get a tackle.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5nrEHWOIJJVdy7LhtcVoWQQTcY_KFzH&si=Cgo0CV7OtvZ45Pki
The cars just arrived, after a harrowing police chase.
Lee Greenwood has just finished singing in the rotunda.
It’s be nice if they’d let him sing “Back in Black”, but I guess it doesn’t fit the mood.
I’m trying to figure out who the statues are. The guy on the right is Lincoln, on the left is Grant.
Who’s the tall blonde in white? She’s towering over people.
Brienne of Tarth
The top video is sans commentary.
The bottom video has a couple of chatty people describing everything.
They just called “attention” but no one is paying any
Everyone keeps looking up, as if none of them has seen a rotunda before.
They’re checking for snipers.
Everybody was told to “sit”.
Next, they will be told to “roll over” and “play dead”.
Michelle is a no-show.
Here’s the SCOTUS
Barron just bumped his head on the rotunda
Here comes Barron. Barely had time to shower after a marathon fuck session with half a dozen coeds.
They are playing “this land is my land, this land is your land” right now
There’s Zuckerberg
Applause for Pence and Quayle
The bottom video is a couple of seconds ahead of the top video
Obama just walked in
Was it just me, or did the announcer have trouble saying “Honorable” when he introduced him?
I’m a bit surprised that Trump didn’t insist on being introduced as the 45th President, and then allowed to go back behind the curtain so that he could be introduced as that 47th President.
Two scoops of ice cream!
They turned off the microphones when announcing Trump’s family.
Typical partisan media shenanigans
Whose coverage are you watching? I heard the intro of Tiffany and Barron on Fox.
The link at the top of my mini-thread, here
“For the Beauty of the Earth.” Nice!
Holy moly, but Barron is tall
I used to love ceremonial pomp like this, but, now, knowing who all these people really are, and what they’ve done, and what they say, I’m having trouble enjoying this.
I hate the human fascination with pomp.
Pompous is damn good word, and just a little under-utilized.
The pianist is good, but he can’t seem to stick with a song for more than a verse or two.
Right now it’s “Great is Thy Faithfulness”.
I wish that Biden had sniffed Kamala’s head, for old times’ sake.
Is that guy singing actual words,’or just meaningless syllables?
I guess the tenor gets a pass for not wearing a tie. 😄
When Trump walked in, there was a guy who had a tie about as long as Barron is tall.
For a second, I thought they had resurrected Billy Graham to pray at Trump’s inaugural.
But, it’s only Franklin.
Are we zooming for the inauguration?
What’s the link?
I’ll post it. Some of the lurkers actually want to get on
Zoom of Farewell to Biden…
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Nevermind. Zoom is keeping me from hearing anything.
I just got on, nobody is there.
Zoom of Farewell to Biden…
Gods I wish that had been a Youtube link of scenes from Animal House.
I was there and nobody was there!
Thank you sir, will you have another!
Now you’re talking, of something worth celebrating.
There are four of us on zoom, now
A Trumpian MLK Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/dB7O8
They’s have probably brought the Big Dig in under budget and on time.
The point of the Big Dig was to line contractor’s pockets. It was an astounding success.
DEG gets it.
I know one of those guys, he made (and later lost) a fortune providing landfill space for the Big Dig.
There’s always another election coming that will need donors.
Chiefs v Redskins
Bills.
What you did there, I saw it.
I NEED this matchup. NEED, I tell you.
I mean, of course.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/19/when_mike_johnson_knew_joe_biden_wasnt_in_charge_anymore.html
The country has been run by 25 year-old gender-goblin staffers for at least the past year.
The largest scandal ever in this country except it’s not a scandal because everyone knew. Oh well, at least they didn’t start a nuclear war.
The new guy hasn’t been sworn in yet, so it’s not too late…
19 more minutes GT, can you pull out the win?
I’m fully prepared to fulfill my obligation. 🙂
Anyone care to guess whether I have running water after 9 degrees overnight?
I guess it is at least walking briskly
(that’s 9 degrees American)
You can take the guess work out of it by turning the handle.
If you do have water run every faucet and flush, make sure each line is thawed.
I already know the answer 🙂
and let me guess, this is yet another case where knowledge brings only sadness.
“As for you, what you intended against me for evil, G-d intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this.”
– Genesis 50:20
I am 100% not on the “divine intervention brought Trump back to office” train (which is gross anyway, mixing religion and politics is mega-ick). However, I do find the timeless wisdom that can be found in the Book fascinating from time to time.
I speak of the stolen 2020 election, which is truly to blame for the catastrophe the Donks find themselves in right now. Had they not cheated and simply let Trump win, the second term would have been little different from the first and the pendulum would have naturally swung back to them continuing the dance of futility. Instead, however, they had a chance to implement an agenda based on faculty lounge wet dreams and, lo and behold, the public absolutely hates it. So their cheating backfired spectacularly and destroyed their brand in the meantime.
Does it mean that the Donks will never again have power? Of course not. Does it spell the end of terrible prog ideas? Negative. However, I do sense more lasting cultural shifts that would not have happened if Trump had won in 2020. I also think that the Donks will have to moderate at least some of their more insane positions.
Oops. Not supposed to be threaded, damn WordPress.
I think it backfired too. Trump is feistier and smarter this go around. And the GOP had a fairly strong legal game too at the elections. Let’s hope they learned some lessons there.
He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus
,em>He has already erased the old Republican Party, defeated the Democrats and created a dominant populist movement bigger than the old parties with the magical, distracting and ever-changing promise to “Make America Great Again.”
Most of the people dazzled by his media magic did not go to college. They generally live in small towns and rural areas and states. Polls show they feel left behind by a high-tech, global economy. And many of them fear, they tell the polls, they are being replaced by cheap foreign labor overseas while attention and preference is given to America’s rising percentage of racial minorities and immigrants.
They are locked into Trump as their hero on television, podcasts and echo chamber websites. They are told by Trump to ignore fact-checkers and news reporters as the “enemy of the people.”
Obediently, they turn their eyes from facts unfavorable to Trump, beginning with his two impeachments during the first term.
Damning with faint praise.
The stupid mouth breathing rednecks in flyover country believe Trump’s lies. Sounds just like that prog teammate of mine.
– Machiavellianism, the political theory of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), as presented in his best known work, Il Principe (1532; The Prince). The term Machiavellianism is also used more generally to characterize the view that politics is amoral and that ordinarily unscrupulous actions involving deceit, treachery, and violence are thus permissible as effective means of acquiring and maintaining political power. In a related sense, Machiavellian signifies egregiously immoral behaviour that serves one person or group’s self-interest rather than the greater good of a community or country. In psychology and personality theory, Machiavellianism refers to one element of the so-called “dark triad” of related negative personality traits—the other two being narcissism and psychopathy. – From Brittanica
https://www.britannica.com/science/Machiavellianism
It occurs to me that for most of my life I was stunningly naive about politics. It is very clear that the political field is rife with such people that have deliberately chosen and completely abandoned themselves to Machiavellianism.
I have also come to see much of the debating about the behavior of those people…debating about their motives, choices and actions….as stunningly naive.
It has become a bit tiresome seeing an obvious problem with an obvious solution while nearly everyone passionately muddies the waters in a frantic effort to keep that solution from being enacted.
This little rant was inspired by Muzzled Woodchipper’s story about his BIL.
And everything else I have seen in the news for the last 50 years.
this is why we need Real Socialism.
RE Suthen “…I was stunningly naive about politics…”
After voting for Reagan the first time I began to get more aware and realized it was a con game. Never again.
What is the alternative? Move to backwoods MN or LA and keep bees?
*Sigh*
I have never quite understood the libertarian idea of not voting because the game is a con. It doesn’t keep you from losing. It’s not a situation where the players get taken and non-players don’t. And while there are not good choices on offer there are at least choices that are worse than others. Why give up the small power you have in protest that you are denied a larger power?
It takes a Machiavellian personality to want the freaking job in the first place, of course ruthless and self-interested corrupted sacks of shit seek those positions. There are the occasional good ones but in the end they either become part of the system or Serpicod.
I don’t have time to wait for Coolidge #2.
Good ones? Depends on which war we’re in. In between shooting wars we have ‘cold wars’, vis-a-vis now.
Trump is busy already picking economic winners and losers.
I’d love to hear Lee Greenwood covering Alice Cooper’s “Elected”
You are watching the inauguration? I just suggested to Wife ‘Yakety Saxs’.
I was looking at the crowd wondering where Buffalo Shaman is. He should run in from a side door yelling and laughing pushing a wheelbarrow full of dynamite.
Sloop?
My kid knocked back 5 Skyline coneys yesterday in about 10 miinutes. And at 7º currently, its good weather for it.
Also, Skyline > Gold Star.
That is all.
you mean slop?
the stupid ceremony is taking too long. skip a bit brother.
I hope once this is all over Trump hops in the campaign garbage truck to lead the motorcade to McDonald’s. It’d show all the respect this nonsense deserves.
Somehow, Trump has convinced his faithful not to trust their eyes and to ignore evidence of assaults on police and the deaths of five people as a result of the assault. He claims none of his supporters had guns despite court evidence to the contrary.
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President Biden warned in his farewell address against the rise of a tech-industrial complex spreading disinformation. Biden said: “Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation. … The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”
Keep the gas lights burning.
I had a FB friend post that shit about them making the ultimate sacrifice. I replied – since it was suicide (for 5) does that make it self-sacrifice?
I also think that the Donks will have to moderate at least some of their more insane positions.
Not yet. They lost but they weren’t humiliated, and too many are ensconced in iron-clad D jurisdictions. Unless the Repubs are remarkably successful in the next two years, the Dems will flip the House.
Everyone talks as if there was some massive Republican victory in 2020. They have a razor-thin majority in both houses of Congress. Trump’s popular vote margin was a long, long way from a landslide. Even his electoral college victory wasn’t far from the norm, at all, in recent elections.
When they get done pouting, the Dems will realize they really don’t have to pick up much ground (or make many changes to do it) at all.
Every election we hear that the losing party is done for a generation. The country is close to evenly divided, with a slight edge toward the Ds. Trump won a close election against an obviously senile man and a woman who made Hillary look likable. Claiming the Ds are done is optimistic at best.
WTF? The markets are closed?
MLK day
It takes a Machiavellian personality to want the freaking job in the first place, of course ruthless and self-interested corrupted sacks of shit seek those positions.
I figured that out in high school. Anybody who actively wants those jobs should be disqualified from holding them.
MLK day
Huh.
It’s Martin Luther King day, Federal holiday
The local “news” kept saying that MLK was a big basketball fan. I don’t ever remember hearing that previously.
Is that something new?
Among his other last second pardons….Joe commuted Leonard Peltier’s sentence.
https://x.com/AP/status/1881384106019139704?t=6jqhTFgRtCLXfhRR_OBN5g&s=19
And Bidens entire family dating back to 2014…why is that date so significant?
i had a questionable trip to Amsterdam in 2014 maybe I need one of those things.
I have no problem with that, his case was pretty shady.
There better not be a peep out of the Left now if Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht.
“These public servants have served our nation with honor and distinction and do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions,” Biden said in a statement.
What this country needs is more heroes immune from responsibility and the consequences of their actions. They are so sewlfless and noble their actions cannot be questioned or analyzed.
So as not to step on Animal’s post, I’ll announce here that Jarflax has won a wager he and I made on November 29, 2020, regarding whether Biden would serve his full term. Per the terms of the bet, I now owe the Glibertarian Foundation $100.00. (Luckily, I just got a generous pay raise and a substantial – to me, anyway – semi-annual incentive!)
TPTB: Where has the “Donate” link gotten to? At last check, it looked as if I’d have to make two $50 donations. Alternately, can I donate directly through PayPal? (Ideally, with a credit card? I’ll happily tack on enough to cover any interchange fees.)
I need to leave shortly – TT has a med appointment, and we have lunch date after – but I’ll fulfill my obligation ASAP.
(Found the “Keep Us Going” link, which does, in fact, top out at $50.)
Can’t you just make two $50 donations then?
(Luckily, I just got a generous pay raise and a substantial – to me, anyway – semi-annual incentive!)
Lucky DOB!
I am making a matching donation, because while I won on the terms, Biden has not been the actual President at any point.
🙂👍
Did trump just say there were but two genders?
Yes. This is quite a list of middle fingers to the Dems.
Elections have consequences.
Daily Ray of Sunshine